#clover’s ocs: delan

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Character Intro: Delan Strangeweiss

☆ nsfw after the drawing and cut ☆

summary: A vampire living deep in the woods to cope with an unusually high prey drive even among other vampires, Delan isn't well acquainted with the outside world. His lack of socialization outside of prowling on the outskirts of a nearby city to lure people back into the woods makes him especially adoring of a his partner.

This, however, is a double edged sword. Because he is so secluded, he’s prone to extreme obsession and jealousy. Once he’s got you, he’s not letting go. He’ll treat you like royalty, and he’ll defend you ferociously like a wolf to its kill.

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☆ he towers over you. just fucking looms ominously until one of you starts talking. when he found you, lost and deep enough in the woods for him to sense you from his home, you thought for sure that you were going to die. in fact, the only thing that saved you from meeting the same grisly fate as his usual victims is the fact that he’d stepped on a railroad spike while chasing you. he could have ripped it out himself, but he sort of froze on the spot when he saw that you weren’t running anymore— that you were actually coming closer. that small act of kindness sparked his infatuation with you. it also made it apparent to him that while you might not have had a full-on death wish, you wouldn’t survive for a second without him by your side, so he stole you away.

☆ this man treats you like a stuffed animal when you’re cuddling. if you’re laying down, he’s got his arms wrapped around you, holding you against his chest.

☆ seeing as he’s, y’know, a vampire, he couldn’t really cook human meals when you first met. you’ll have to make your own— eventually, after watching you, he tried to make something for you for breakfast and you woke up the the smell of smoke and burnt toast. After that, you taught him a couple of basic recipes and he’s not half-bad now! unfortunately, now that you’ve gotten him interested in cooking and he can’t eat what he cooks, you’ve become the go-to taste tester for a lot of eccentric dishes.

☆ he absolutely refuses to bite you when you start dating, no matter how much you ask. you’d seen firsthand that his prey drive is no joke, and with how absolutely in love he is with you, he is terrified of scaring you away or, god forbid, losing control and draining you. eventually, after a lot of discussion and a lot of reassurance that no, you weren’t going to run, and yes, you would stop him if it hurt too much, he experimented with giving you little love bites. he rarely breaks skin, though, and when he does, he’s hellbent on getting your permission first. if he does it on accident, he’ll apologize so profusely you’d think he’d have broken your leg or something, even though your wound only amounts to a little trickle of blood on your neck.

☆ Delan loves taking you out into the forest. during the daytime, he’ll take an umbrella to protect himself from the sunlight and show you the best places to hide to watch the animals go about their lives. you’d never seen so many animals up close like that. at night, he takes you stargazing. being so far away from the city and the lights that come with it means that you can see the stars in full. he mentions at some point that sometimes, very rarely, you can see shooting stars, and that every once in a while the moon changes color. when you show him that you can track meteorological events on your phone, he loses his fucking mind. now, he asks you to check the calendar all the time, and when an event was scheduled to happen, you grab your tent (also an insane tool to Delan, by the way) and the two of you lay together and watch the sky until you fall asleep. (though, sometimes you two aren’t focused on the event or sleeping, which he is completely fine with.)

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☆ you’re damn lucky he’s careful with you. when i say he could maim you without even breaking a sweat, that’s not hyperbole. there’s a reason vampires are regarded at apex predators, and he’ll remind you of that every time you get frustrated about him treating you like you’re made of glass. if he wasn’t so aware of his own strength or so scared of hurting you, you would never walk again.

☆ he might be soft with you, he might shower you with praise and affection, but he is mean in bed. he’ll make you cum with his mouth and his fingers over and over again without even getting undressed and your pleading for him to just fuck you already only encourages his sadistic kick. by the time he finally decides to give you want you’ve been begging for, you're so sensitive that you’re crying and trembling underneath him, which he'll tease you for. after all, you're the one who wanted this.

"what's wrong, pet? is it too sensitive here? oh, but i'd hate to neglect you after you begged so nicely~"

☆ he likes having you on a leash, either with a harness or collar depending on how mean he feels like being. the leash is a pretty decent length, but he'll pull you right to him without warning just to watch how flustered you get. he jokes that the reason he keeps you bound is that it's the only way to keep you tame, but you both know that if either of you needs taming, it's him.

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Hey I hope you're doing good and wanted to ask how would your ocs react to reader that sleeps with plushies? Who's more likely to get jealous or would they be jealous and then hug you in protest. I'm feeling soft sorry.

hey, thanks! i am doing well. and don’t apologize at all, i love doing soft asks! hope you enjoy, anon!

Monsters x Reader that sleeps with plushies (mostly sfw, mention of aftercare on Seth’s part, because of course.)

Seth absolutely adores and encourages it. he’s made a note of which ones are your favorites and piles them onto you as aftercare before rushing off to get you water and whatever else you might need.

Eden is neutral on them to start with but made the mistake of enchanting one in an attempt to show off his powers, but ended up summoning a trickster entity instead. the plush ran off into the woods but every so often when he takes his morning walks he has to run from an onslaught of pebbles and pinecones being thrown at him, so he’s now more than a little hesitant to look your other plushes in the eyes.

Galileo isn’t a fan. why would you need to hold a toy like that when your favorite experiment is right here? he’s 100% guilty of hiding them around the apartment, but he isn’t any good at it and you often find them within minutes.

Delan doesn’t outright protest it, but you know all too well by now that delan’s possessiveness doesn’t allow for exceptions. of course you can sleep with a plushie, but it just so happens that he always gets you in a position where your arms are wrapped around him— and only him.

Jonah is a little jealous but as long as you still let him cuddle you he accepts them. though, one night you had a bad dream and held him instead, which ended with you unable to fall asleep again because his tail wouldn’t stop swishing and thudding against the mattress.

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DELAN MY BELOVED <333

thank u for the food he's perfect and i love him dearly. ALSO I JUST CAME UP WITH ANOTHER QUESTION: do your ocs like having any pet names or nicknames (or honorifics if they're into that) they like to be called?

ABSVDHVF TY

it’s still batshit to me that people, like, are invested in my characters so im so excited about this

fair warning this is probably going to be unorganized and scattered because my brain is a tad bit fried.

NICKNAMES!!!!! (i did like. lil scenarios for how they’d tell you about these :))

SETH: [look. this is a demon with a power imbalance kink. i’m sorry in advance.]

“That’s ‘yes, sir,’ martyr. or ‘my lord.’ Are you forgetting our deal? The second that pretty little heart stops beating, I own you.”

EDEN:

“Oh! You…wanna give me a nickname? No, no, anything is fine! Though…could you maybe…not use any mean ones?”

GALILEO:

“What does this have to do with the experiment, doctor…? Don’t look at me like that, you know I’m teasing!”

“Just call me your love, the light of your life, your favorite specimen— it doesn’t matter.”

(also, nickname-wise, galileo is sometimes shortened to leo.)

DELAN:

“My sweet songbird, you can call me anything you’d like.”

“Though, I wonder if you have any specific ones in mind…after all, romance and language have both changed greatly in my time.”

JONAH:

“Could you…call me a good boy? Please?”

(should be noted here that if you ever call him that, his tail will wag fast enough to sound like a very tiny helecopter)

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Home is Where the Heart is

so fun fact I was already writing this for kinktober and then I got an ask requesting almost the exact story so i merged em!

Delan Strangeweiss x GN!Reader (minors dni)

warnings/summary: semi-nsfw, sub/dom dynamics, delan is a teasing bastard but y'all know that already, leashes and collars, implied animal death

Delan always had trouble when it came to you.

When he was alone, it was easy to let himself drift from his humanity, to take what he wanted without guilt, to leave trails of ghostly-pale corpses in his wake, and he was fine with that. He fed on unfortunate wanderers to live and lived only to feed, but that’s how it had always been. It wasn’t until he found you that he learned there was such a thing as a joyless existence— one lived in solitude. Maybe before, he wouldn’t have thought twice about collaring you, but now, he couldn’t risk giving you a reason to want to leave— not that you’d be able to if you tried, but it was best for both of you if you didn’t know that. 

In any case, he didn’t want to scare you off, so he posed the question carefully, even taking physical appearance into account by asking while you were up blowing off a candle and he was sitting on the couch rather than towering behind you.

“Angel,” he said, “I’d like to try something with you, and if you aren’t comfortable, you don’t need to do it, okay?”

With the candle’s flame now snuffed, no longer dangerous but no longer melting the sweet-smelling wax, you turned your head back to look at him. 

“Okay,” you said, meekly, your eyes full of life and of trust, everything that Delan had once been deprived of. If he could blush, his face would be bright red right now. 

“Alright, then,” he let out a shaky breath, and you couldn’t tell if he was trembling with anxiety or excitement, “stay here, I’ll go get something that’ll fit you.” He got up slowly, the same way one would move in the presence of a doe and her fawn, then quickly disappeared into the bedroom you two shared. A minute or so passed, your heart pounding at the simple fact that you didn’t know what your lover wanted to do to you. Your imagination had run so wild that the sight of a leash and collar made you breathe a sigh of relief. The vampire sat back down, gesturing for you to sit on the floor in front of him. You did as you were told, kneeling between his legs and presenting your neck to him. Ignoring your attempts to seduce him into a bite or two, Delan placed the collar around your neck and tightened it— almost too much, just enough to hug your throat without choking you— and clasped the leash to a ring in the middle, accompanied by a heart-shaped metal tag. You took a deep breath and immediately were hit with the unmistakable scent of wet dog fur and blood. Before you had the chance to question it, to ask where the leather around your neck came from, he tugged on the leash, pulling you up on your knees and leaning in, his lips so close to yours that you could almost taste the familiar slightly sweet blood that lingered on his tongue. Gently, he used his free hand to tilt your face up towards his.

“Your pulse is racing, songbird,” he remarked with a shuddering laugh that sent a cold, teasing breath over your skin. You parted your lips as he pulled you in and kissed you softly. Leaving another kiss just under your jaw, he guided your hand between his thighs, leaving your palm to feel his arousal. “You’re lucky I can control myself,” he muttered, “because all I want to do right now is tear you apart.”

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HELLO IM HERE TO SEND ASKS!!!

honestly i don't really know what i want to ask about them yet though so honestly just go buckwild and share some fun facts about as many as you want to

HIIII THANK YOU

okay so i’ve been, like, working a lot on Delan’s whole story and how he wound up, like…how he is.

Basically, Delan was a really fucking early settler. 1400s early. There was a little setup he and about fifty other people were being sent to, already inhabited by a very small group as a sort of test colony. Unfortunately, he got sick during the trip. deathly sick. this being the 1400s, medical care amounted, essentially, to praying and bloodletting, so his mysterious illness put an end to his life as a human being.

unfortunately for his fellow travelers, though, his “mysterious illness” was actually the very early stages of vampirism. the details are hazy, even Delan himself wouldn’t be able to tell you what happened on that boat after he woke up. a few years after the incident, he did find a journal from one of the original settlers detailing what she had seen when the boat finally arrived, off-course and two months late. she described a massacre, at the center of which was “surely nothing less than the Devil himself.”

but yeah! so basically he started his life in america by getting sick, taking a nap, having a hugeass meal, and terrorizing a teenager just by existing

another note: his isolation was never self-imposed, entirely. it’s kind of just that if there are living things surrounding his home, he devours anything and everything in his path. he’s not terrific at impulse control, which is pretty obvious when you take note that he was turned in the 1400s and still struggles heavily with his instincts around the reader in the year 2022.

soo yeah thats how *vaguely gestures at Delan* this happened. is there some serious angst potential? oh hell yeah. am i going to torture both y’all and Delan about that? ABSOLUTELY.

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Facts about my characters that might possibly cause you some psychic damage

Jonah: accidentally ate a milk bone once and in all honesty did not hate it

Seth: read the bible for the plot and got a boner when Jesus was crucified

Eden: found the warriors series on your bookshelf while you were away and made Val and several woodland creatures re-enact the battle of Bloodclan with him

Galileo: has mistaken his own tail for potential prey and bitten it on more than one occasion

Delan: is responsible for the disappearance of the Roanoke colony in the years between 1587 and 1590