#demo slayer

[shino-mina-324]

Don’t Leave Me Too

Pairing: platonic!yandere! Muichiro x mother figure! reader

GN!

Summary: You care for him like a son and treated like so, but he was darker than you thought her was. How far will you get before he finds you after escaping the estate?

Warning: blood, kidnapping, clingy Muichiro, trauma, abandonment issues, etc

A/N: Believe it or not but this is actually my first time writing yandere! I don't think its entirely good but I'm pretty proud of it for my first try. I hope you all like it, please give me your feedback!

You stumbled through the snow, shivering at the stinging cold. How long have you been trapped in there? You couldn’t tell. Your feet felt like they were going to freeze off, after all you were barefoot. You didn’t have time to go grab shoes when your escape was right there.

How did you even get into this situation? You squeezed your eyes shut at the memories.

You had met him during a mission. You were assigned to work with a hashira in this mission, apparently strong enough to need a hashira and one other but not enough to require two hashira. You were nervous, so nervous. You didn’t want to embarrass yourself in front of a hashira! But then you saw him, a short boy with long hair. He looked no older than fourteen. It had always broke your heart how such young kids were becoming demon slayers and what they go through. But to see a fourteen year old having gone through that and train hard enough to become a hashira so quickly just made it worse.

You didn’t let that show though, either way he was still your superior. In the down moments when you weren’t actively working you'd talk to him in a kind motherly manner, not in a belittling way but in a sweet way. He would look at you with a tilted head and sometimes narrowed eyes, annoyed maybe, but wouldn’t say anything. But when working you would treat him like any other superior.

Then after the mission was over you decided to get some breakfast and invited him as well. He accepted but didn’t talk much. Then you went your separate ways. But then you got another mission with him, then another, and another. Every time you would treat him the same way. Once you even gave him a head pat, you didn’t do it on purpose. Your hand kinda moved before you could think about it.

“Don’t touch me.” He gave you the coldest glare you had ever felt. You felt immediate shame fill your body and soon excused yourself. You never tried that again after that. Always kept your distance too, in case of accidentally touching him while walking. He didn’t seem to notice, if anything he seemed more pleased.

Then he went on a mission somewhere else. Not unusual. But the next time you saw him he was… different. His eyes were more clear and when he saw you a smile immediately crossed his face and he ran towards you. He wrapped his arms around you and pulled you into a tight hug, his face in your neck. You tensed at the contact, not used to it coming from him.

“I’m sorry. I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry I treated you like that.” He kept repeating, talking into your neck. Slowly, cautiously, you wrapped your arms around him loosely. But that’s all. He melted into it further though, like it meant the world to him.

After that you would see each other a lot more often. For some reason every mission you had was with him. He would also stay quite close to you as well. There was one time when you two were just sitting around a table he had grabbed your hand and put it on his head. You were confused but he looked at you expectantly but when you didn’t do anything he frowned and pushed it on to his head a bit harder. You realized, and although very confused, starting to pat his head. He seemed content but grabbed you hand when you tried to pull away.

It was sweet. The relationship the two of you had now, like mother and son. But then it took a turn. He would barely let you fight the demons you fought. Always jumping in and killing them before you. It was sweet at first but then got frustrating. Then after that he insisted on being next to you everywhere, even when not on missions. But compared to other things, those were more innocent.

He started trying to take up all your time, always wanting to be around you. He would also seem standoffish and be flat out rude to your other friends. Soon for some odd reason they started to distance themselves. But he was always there to cheer you up, you realized too late that he was the reason why they got distant.

Then for some odd reason you started getting missions less and less. This confused you but you didn't question it much. Then one day Muichiro invited you over to his estate. This wasn't an odd thing as he had done that numerous times before. But at the end of the night he insisted you stay the night and after a little fighting you agreed. That's where you went wrong. He didn't let you leave the next day or the next. You got frustrated and decided to just leave. If he caught you on the way out then so bad you'd just force your way out, no big deal. Yeah, you were wrong. He caught you on the way out, as if he were guarding the door. He refused to move and when you forced your way past him he let you. You made it a total of five steps out the door before you felt something hit the back of your neck and you passed out. All you heard were Muichiro's six words.

"I can't lose you too, mom."

You shook your head harshly pushing away the memories. You were so stupid. He may be a child but he was a damn Hashira! You should never have gotten close to him, never invited him to meals, never talked to him about anything not work related, you were so damn stupid! You shook your head at those thoughts. It was too late now, all you can do is keep running.

You kept running down the path then stopped. No this was too dangerous, what if he started walking down the same path and saw you? You made a sharp turn and ran into the forest. It was more dangerous and the roots, twigs, and rocks hurt your feet but it was safer in its own way. You kept running, ignoring the pain, ignoring the wind, ignoring the noises, ignoring your tired muscles that screamed at you to rest, ignored everything. Even ignored the trail of blood you left that was created by your bleeding cut up feet.

You then stopped and jumped behind a tree, crouching. You could've sworn you heard footsteps. You waited in tense silence for a few seconds, listening for the footsteps but when none passed you started to stand back up. You froze again though when you heard them again. Along with a sickeningly familiar voice.

"Mom? Where are you? Come on, I know you're hurt, just come out." You fell back against the tree and stuck a hand against your mouth to quiet any noises. You looked down at yourself, trying to figure out why he said you were hurt when you saw your bleeding feet. Shit. It's been leaving a trail right to you. You couldn't move. If you stood on your feet it'd just leave a trail, but if you tried to crawl away it'd make too much noise and you'd be more noticeable. You're stuck.

Tears filled your eyes at the realization, what were you going to do? You couldn't go back to that estate, playing house. Forced to be affectionate and treat him like your child. You started hyperventilating, having a panic attack.

"Why are you crying?" You gasped and scrambled back on instinct, trying to create distance between you and the boy and appeared right nest to you. His eyebrows furrowed and he easily pulled you back. He held your face tightly with both hands, refusing to let go no matter how much you pulled your head back, he just kept it in place. "Don't cry, mama." He spoke softly but you kept gasping for breath and trying to pull away. He frowned. "This might hurt, sorry." Then you blacked out.

~

When you came to you were laying on something soft with a heaviness on your side and chest. You blinked and realized you were lying back in your futon at the Tokito estate. You moved your head to the side and saw Muichiro laying next to you, closely tucked to your side with his arm and head resting on your chest. He was also staring right at you.

"Your awake!" He smiled brightly at you but you could only feel a deepening pit in your stomach coming from the smile that once brought you so much joy in seeing. "Your feet were bleeding so I bandaged them up. You shouldn’t run off like that mom! Not even half an hour and you already got hurt, they could’ve gotten infected.” Muichiro said but his smile then faded and a cold look crossed his face. “Now on that topic, why’d you run, ma?” You shook slightly at his icy look but his words filled you with disgust. A sudden flash of confidence filled you.

“You know exactly why I ran, Tokito.” I glared at him harshly and pushed myself away from him, trying to create some distance. But I then stopped when I felt a restriction on my foot. He tied my foot to the ground with a rope. “What the hell, Tokito!” I yelled at him again.

“Stop calling me that." My blood froze when I met his eyes, they were void of any emotion and it was terrifying. "I told you to call me Muichiro." He pulled me in closer. "And you're not leaving. I'm not losing you too." His face then softened and he climbed on top of me, hugging me tightly and nuzzled his face into my neck like a baby kitten nuzzles into its mother.

"Don't leave me too, mom."

[kimetsu-no-yaiba-writings]

We need Dilf!Muzan headcannons now since you plotted that image in my head

Hehehe (ﾉ∀`♥) Of course! I love a DILF, especially dilf!Muzan~

And he lives in my head rent free! So i'm glad it's gotten into someone else's head or else i'd have burst!

Here's a little something with some DILF Muzan awhile back which was just me bouncing idea's around (￣∀￣.) - HERE

Also I'm more than happy to write this as a oneshot or mini series of something (＠＾▽＾＠.) cause the mental image is vivid on my brain and has me in a chokehold....

But anyway!

Dilf! Muzan Kibutsuji Headcanons:

Dilf!Muzan who accidentally bumps into you when shopping with his son and daughter, browsing the toy section with his kids babbling away in the trolley

Who's eyes shine as he talks to his kids, pointing gently to different toys and teddy bears and giving soft praise when they've picked without fuss - a mech that lights up and a helicopter with shootable missiles

All tall and broad

All pretty eyed with long black eyelashes

Sculptured brows and chiseled features

Dressed casually but still oozing with a certain charisma -

Black t-shirt hugging his form perfectly with grey tracky bottoms that sit tantalizing on his hips - throat becoming dry at the sight

His trolley knocks into yours and your heart skips a beat at his smooth silk voice apologizing for the brief moment of havoc

Who's hand is warm and larger than yours as he offers a handshake, nails as perfect as the rest of him

Taking in the feint blush across your cheeks and the stuttering breathe you take before introducing yourself

"And these two?" you ask with a soft grin "Who are these cuties?"

DILF! Muzan, who grins with a boyish charm, showing off canine and a set of dimples that make your heart stop

"These are my pride and joy," He says with a beaming smile "My daughter Chiyo and my son Kaito"

Chiyo (meaning 'a thousand generations') who's hair sits in beautiful inky waves down her back with eyes of soft pink, a gaze of childish wonder at the bright lights of the shop and shelves

Kaito (meaning 'Soaring over the ocean') with eyes of clear ruby and short wavy hair of ivory who blinks at you with a curiosity

You can't help but coo at them - "Aren't you adorable!" before turning to look at muzan with a smile

"You and your partner must be so proud of these two! I know I would be!" + "Ah, I'm single"

Que a silence that makes you want to die on the spot... Before your saved by his soft smile - "it's okay, it happens all the time"

You insist on making it up to him

Afterwards, each week you both meet each other - sometimes by accident sometimes on purpose - in the shop, following each other around and talking before parting ways after paying

Until one day he offers you a piece of paper, his gaze averted with a feint blush - "It's my number...." He murmurs "I thought we could go for coffee next week if your free"

A false bravado slipping onto his face as he turns to look you in the eyes, voice raising into a question "Thats if....if your alright with going out with dad of two?"

[env0]

Hashira Trick Training - 540 Spin Hook

[ayothepizzahere4]

So ummm me and pookie bookie cookie poobie oobie woobie made this au typa thing with TF2 and kny SOOO :333

He most likely made a fusion of the breathing styles sound and sun breathing to make explosion breathing cus of his WILD demo and chemistry skills :3

He's probably a tsuchinoto or a hinoto, uses a saber to fight because his trusty possessed sword isn't scarlet crimson JUSTICR FOR MY BRO POSSESED SWORD 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 probably fights mid rank demons (lower rank 4-higher rank 3)

Heavy DEFINITELY uses stone breathing he's very strong and efficient with his breathing style though it did take him a bit to learn :3

He's most likely a konoe due to his heavy steps and visibility to demons and uses a mono sword to fight (or maybe his OWN SCARLET IRON BULLET FILLED MACHINE GUN, KASHKA 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽)

LIGHTNING BREATHER LIGHTNING BREATHER OR MAYBE A MIX OF WIND AND LIGHTNING BREATHING?? LIKE JUST FOR THE SPEED Or most likely doesn't even use a breathing style because of how like stubborn he is

Definitely a mizunoe / Mizunoto because he's rude and just lets others do his job for him and just uses a plain katana or a scattergun (IF HE DOESN'T USE BREATHING STYLES)

Engineer probably uses a mixture of lightning and stone breathing because of how used he is to electric things like his robots (proud father <3) he's very speedy with his breathing style (he tries his best)

He's a tsuchinoto for his devotion to fighting and his unique way of fighting he uses a double sided axe (kinda like a scythe but the blades or bigger and the stick is smaller by like three inches)

Sniper probably uses serpent breathing because he's used to sniping and it's like the closet it is to that or something (even just piss breathing/j)

He uses this longer version of a machete because professionals have standards and fighting demons with short weapons is NOT professional. He's a kanoto because he doesn't train that much which leads to him fighting low rank demons to no rank demons

He can't breathe. Okay I'm joking if he did have a breathing style it would be mist breathing because of (NOT BECAUSE OF HIS SMOKING HABIT) but because of how he can just disappear out of nowhere with one of the forms

Uses a plain katana because he wants to have the best efficiency to protect others and fight demons at the same time he's a tsuchinoto :3 and he mainly just became a demon slayer because scout did and he does NOT know how to use swords

Pyro DEFINITELY uses sun breathing and admires how sparkly sound breathing is and wants to learn how to use sound and sun breathing at the same time

They were pretty disappointed when they found it they couldn't use their trusty flame thrower but learnt how to make do with a sword or an axe and they're probably rank mizunoe or kanoto

Soldier uses sound breathing because of how it reminds him of the fourth of July he's pretty reckless with his weapon and breathing style but it's okay because it's soldier :3

Rank konoe or mizinoto because of he's recklessness and uses a shaska (is that what they're called I forgir 😞😞😞) he Was DEVESTAED when he found it he couldnt use a shovel

Medic most likely uses blood/blood Sakura breathing OR insect breathing he just likes things that reminds him of work OFF of work so he decided to go with that

He's probably rank kanoto (they're all beginners so ERM yeah :3) despite him being pretty strong and smart in the field and uses a plain katana OR the weapon shinobou uses depending on what breathing style (I didn't fully decide yet :3)

ANYWAU I hope thats accurate and stuff lemme know if you wanna know what type rank and stuff they would be if they were demons :3

reblog and comment for me, my freakys

[uselessalexis165]

Voices I know in Monkie Kid (7)

[tenitoka]

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[pikichavez2022]

Witchtober 2023 Día 14: Bruja

[megiddo-ichi]

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[nebsisdead]

New demon slayer rewrite character created for one of the new arcs. Kaguya the Itako

[wolfowlferret]

both versions lol. im ngl adding blood was a very last minute thing. i also have no idea how to draw blood

[shino-mina-324]

The Thunder Hashira

Chapter 6

Warning: injuries, blood, hand demon

2k word count

Slowly over the next two days other people trickled in. They mostly kept to themselves, sometimes glaring our way when we got too loud. Soon enough we went into the forest. We had met and stuck together with a group of other kids. One boy, Murata, he seemed nice.

Sabito was the one that kept rushing forward to fight the demons which kinda irked me.

"Is everyone alright?" Sabito asked walking back over to the group. I nodded smiling at him. We then heard running noises and saw a demon running toward us. Sabito was a little ways away and I was closest, finally! I ran forward and grabbed my sword. I could hear Sabito yell and rush after me but I ignored him.

I grabbed the handle of my sword, and took in a deep total concentration breath.

"Thunder Breathing, First Form: Thunderclap and Flash!" I jumped toward the demon, pulling out my sword and swiftly chopped their head off. I landed a few feet behind them and then dropped the stance, restoring my sword to its sheath. I turned around and saw the demon turn to dust.

"Hey guys." I said walking back over with a wave.

"Are you ok?" Sabito said grabbing my shoulders.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I said confused. I mean I trained hard to get here too, why's he so worried over me? I stretched then looked around. "Should we camp out here for a while? To rest. It doesn't take forever to cross the forest and most of the group looks tired." I said and Sabito turned to examine the group then nodded.

"Yeah we'll camp out here for now, but not long." So everyone settled, some people asleep as there were people assigned to look out.

"Should someone go out to look for food?" Someone came up and asked. Sabito thought for a second but I shook my head.

"No, don't worry I have some. We shouldn't go off on our own though so we should just make it last." I took out a small case from my small bag that I was holding. I opened it up and sighed. It was only enough to last one person seven days cause I hadn't anticipated travelling in a group. I started to pull and break the food into small pieces. "I have enough for each of us to have one price now and another in a few days. But that's it." Everyone either nodded or made a noise of acknowledgement and then took their piece when I handed it to them. I then put it away.

"Aren't you going to eat your piece?" Giyuu asked walking up to me. I shook my head.

"I'm not very hungry, we should save it for later." He furrowed his brows in worry but went along with it. I sat down against a tree and sighed looking over the group. They were either resting or talking to each other. I heard a shift beside me and turned to see Murata sitting next to me.

"Hello." He smiled at me.

"Oh hi." We fell into an awkward silence. I fiddled with the end of my haori.

"I'm sorry."

"Huh?"

"It's just, I saw you sitting here by yourself and thought you might want someone to to sit with and I was just standing there and didn't know who to go to since everyone is either in their own groups, asleep, or hostile. I'm sorry." Murata then started to stand.

"It's fine." I said catching his hand. "You can sit here." He slowly nodded then sat back down and we fell into another silence.

"So uh what breathing style do you do?"

"Thunder breathing, you?"

"Water breathing." Another silence and then I pulled something out of my sleeve and waved it at him.

"Care for a game of cards?" He stared at me then blinked. His lips then tightened and he laughed a little. "What?" I asked, confused.

"Who brings a deck of cards to final selection?" He laughed and I huffed.

"Well just for that, I'm going to go ask Sabito and Giyuu if they want to play and leave you here to wallow in your loneliness." I said and started to stand.

"Wait—no! I'm sorry, I'll play. I didn't mean it like that!" He said grabbing my wrist. I then laughed too.

"I know, I was just kidding." I then shuffled the deck and divided the cards. I put the extra to the side and organised mine as he did the same. "Solitaire."

"Huh?" He looked up at me confused.

"For your question, I brought the deck cause I like to play solitaire sometimes."

"Oh cool, care to teach me some time?" He smiled at me.

"Yeah sure. Four?"

"Go fish." I sighed and picked up a card. We then went on to play the game while having little conversations throughout.

"Thank you."

"For what?"

"The food, you're very kind."

"Oh it's nothing." I waved my hand in dismissal.

"No really, I think it means a lot. The food really helps, without it we would all be very weak, not good to be weak when fighting demons."

"Yeah I guess you're right."

"Really." I looked up and Murata was looking at me with a serious look. "Thank you." I smile say him.

"You're welcome."

~

It's now been about six days since we began final selection. So far no one has died which is good. All we have to do is last today and then leave the forest in the morning and we all pass. I sighed and sat leaning against a tree. When I opened my eyes there was a small piece of onigiri in my face. I looked up and saw Giyuu.

"Don't think I didn't notice."

"Notice what?" I asked tilting my head.

"You haven't eaten. I didn't get it a few days ago but I do now. There was enough food for all of us except one person. You decided to make that person yourself. That's not good, you'll need your energy if you fight another demon. Plus it's your food, Himiko."

"I'm fine Giyuu, it's your ration." I waved him off.

"No. Eat it." We argued for a few more seconds but I then sighed and slowly took it.

"Fine, but only if I can fix your braid!" I said pointing this hair. He looked surprised and touched his hair, he didn't even realize he still had it in.

"Yeah ok." He sat down in front of me after I ate the piece of food. I undid the previous braid then combed my fingers through his hair again to get rid of the knots. It took a few minutes cause of the braid from earlier and how long we've been in this forest. I then picked out the prices of leaves and dirt then sectioned it off.

Sabito came over and sat next to us, watching me braid Giyuu's hair again. His eyes were wide and looked on like I was doing magic when it was just a basic braid. My cheeks heat up just slightly at his stare.

"Done." I say after tying up the braid with a small band I had in my bag. I smiled and patted Giyuu's shoulder. He smiled back. We then started to go into our own little conversations when my eyes landed on Sabito's mask. It was a white color with red-ish pink accents to it and had the same long pink scar as Sabito had on his cheek. I also noticed Giyuu had a similar one.

"Where'd you get your mask from?" I finally asked.

"Huh? Oh our master carved them for us! He gives them to each of his students when they go off to take the final selection. It's a warding mask." Sabito explained and smiled.

"That's cool." I say, he then tilts his head and a slow smile crossed his face. My face heated up at his expression, why was he looking at me like that?

"Wanna try it on?"

"Wha-what?" I asked shocked, why'd he offer something like that? He seemed very attached to the mask. "Y-you don't have to!" I honestly didn't know what to say.

"Here!" He had already grabbed me and pulled me closer by the time I figured out a protest. He pulled me close, barely an inch away and reached to tie the mask up to the side of my head. His brows were furrowed in concentration and I could feel his breath on my cheek when he got close to get a better look at the tie. He then pulled away. "There." He said and examined it. I then noticed his cheeks were also a bit pink.

I was about to say something when we heard a scream. We quickly looked over, at some point without either of us noticed Giyuu had wondered off and now he had been attacked by a demon that found us. We both rushed over at the same time, Sabito was faster and slayed the demon while I went to check on Giyuu.

"Here I have a med kit." I said taking it out but was stopped when Giyuu passed out in my arms. "Woah." I set him down on the ground and checked his head. I was about to start when we heard another yell from further in the forest. I handed the kit to Murata. "Can you look after him while we go check that out?" I asked following after where Sabito ran off before he could answer.

I ran after him but stopped frozen at the demon that I found. He was a large demon, green and basically a mountain. He was also made up of hands, just hands. I was frozen in fear. Sabito spotted me and ran toward me after breaking away from the demon. He stood in front of me.

"Run Himiko! Get out of here." He said holding his sword up to the demon. I took a deep breath then shook my head. I took out my own sword.

"No. I'm not leaving you." I said. He tried to protest but was interrupted by the demon.

"You girl." The demon said pointing at me. I looked to both my sides then pointed at myself. What did he want to say to me? "Yes you. You're one of Urokodaki's brats aren't you?"

"Who?" I asked tilting my head.

"That's my masters name." Sabito said.

"You are, aren't you, you have one of his little fox masks." He said and then I paled slightly, right I was still wearing Sabito's mask.

"That's my mask." Sabito said and clenched his sword harder. "And how do you know Urokodaki?" The demon laughed and what he said next made my blood run cold. He went into a detailed speech on how Urokodaki had captured and brought him here and how he hunts down and ears every one of his students that he sends here. He even described how he killed a few of them. My face had long gone white and blood cold. I started hyperventilating.

"Keep calm. It's never a good idea to start panicking while in a fight with the a demon."

Suddenly my masters voice filled my head as I remembered his words. I took a deep breath and calmed myself. I looked over to Sabito but he had no such luck. When I looked back to the demon I was met with a green hand coming straight at my face. I gasped and nearly screamed but then the arm dropped to the floor when Sabito chopped it off.

"Don't touch her." He then charged at the demon. I ran after him as he chopped every arm that came towards him until he reached close enough to cut its neck. I didn't stop running after him though and then he swung. The sword met flesh but instead of the sound of flesh being torn like we expected we were met with a shattering of metal as it was destroyed. My eyes went wide. I ran faster to meet him. A hand came out reaching for Sabito's head, to crush it in its fist.

"SABITO!!!"

A sickening crunch and blood curdling scream filled the forest.

[bltngames]

Browsing demos on Switch, and finding a Half-Life 1 mod remaster?

So I don't know how many of you remember this, but way back in the day, there was this mod called Vampire Slayer, for Half-Life 1. Browsing the demos on the Switch right now, I hit upon a game called "Vampire Slayer: Resurrection" and for a moment I'm obviously like, "No way that's the same game, right?"

As it turns out: Yes! It is! What???

I only ever played this for one night like fifteen years ago, but it left enough of an impression that I can still remember it by name and occasionally think about it. Vampire Slayer was, or I guess is, a team deathmatch mod where one team is the vampires and the other team is the slayers.

It's been forever, but to my memory, the vampires are just vampires. I think they function as a unified team. They're faster and significantly more agile than the slayers, almost being able to fly for how high they can jump and how fast they can run. The rub: they're melee only. Vampires can only attack by slashing with claws (and biting -- more on that in a sec).

Slayers on the other hand were a little more class-based -- I think you could choose from a four or five different loadouts, and they were mostly about ranged weapons. I remember there specifically being a priest, possibly with a sawed off shotgun and some kind of rosary attack? I remember somebody with a crossbow that launched wooden stakes, too.

The catch, of course, is that vampires can't really die. When a vampire loses all their HP, they appear to fall to the floor, dead. Then, a few seconds later, they... get back up again, just like in the movies. Unless -- and this is the important part -- a slayer can run in and stake the "dead" vampire before they get back up. That kills them for real.

As you can imagine, the character with the crossbow on the slayer side of things was a big deal, because they were the only slayer that more or less auto-staked a vampire instead of just knocking them down. But I also want to say that, much like headshots are important in other shooters, vampires must be staked in the heart in order to kill them, and nowhere else. This lead to interesting scenarios where panicked slayers rushed a downed vampire, missed the heart, and were torn to shreds for botching the stake.

This sounds like the game is balanced very heavily in favor of vampires, and to some degree, it is. I think ideally the balance tried to shake out that vampires were glass cannons and slayers were slow and tanky. I want to say vampires had a low HP cap, something like 75hp, and they didn't wear armor, whereas slayers could armor up like it was Counter-Strike. I also think slayers either had a healing class, healing items, or could find heals out in the map (or all three) whereas vampires could feed to regain health -- the rub being that vampires needed corpses to feed on.

I think a freshly-fed vampire would even get a temporary buff to speed or health, to top it all off. So there was incentive to lure slayers in to a trap where the team could safely feed and then launch a counter offensive once they were all juiced.

Mechanically, you can probably see why it stuck with me after all these years. It's a hell of an interesting idea for a multiplayer game.

I just wonder how much demand there is for it in 2023. I guess I should download that demo.

Honestly, I miss the days of Half-Life mods like this. Vampire Slayer, Zombie Panic, Science & Industry, Pirates Vikings & Knights, The Specialists, The Hidden, Zombie Master... we've lost a lot not having these weird, experimental ideas anymore, even if they weren't enough to support player bases forever. They were often cool as hell in the moment.

Godspeed, Vampire Slayer Resurrection.

Slayers on the other hand were a little more class-based -- I think you could choose from a four or five different loadouts, and they were mostly about ranged weapons. I remember there specifically being a priest, possibly with a sawed off shotgun and some kind of rosary attack? I remember somebody with a crossbow that launched wooden stakes, too.

The catch, of course, is that vampires can't really die. When a vampire loses all their HP, they appear to fall to the floor, dead. Then, a few seconds later, they… get back up again, just like in the movies. Unless -- and this is the important part -- a slayer can run in and stake the "dead" vampire before they get back up. That kills them for real.

As you can imagine, the character with the crossbow on the slayer side of things was a big deal, because they were the only slayer that more or less auto-staked a vampire instead of just knocking them down. But I also want to say that, much like headshots are important in other shooters, vampires must be staked in the heart in order to kill them, and nowhere else. This lead to interesting scenarios where panicked slayers rushed a downed vampire, missed the heart, and were torn to shreds for botching the stake.

This sounds like the game is balanced very heavily in favor of vampires, and to some degree, it is. I think ideally the balance tried to shake out that vampires were glass cannons and slayers were slow and tanky. I want to say vampires had a low HP cap, something like 75hp, and they didn't wear armor, whereas slayers could armor up like it was Counter-Strike. I also think slayers either had a healing class, healing items, or could find heals out in the map (or all three) whereas vampires could feed to regain health -- the rub being that vampires needed corpses to feed on.

I think a freshly-fed vampire would even get a temporary buff to speed or health, to top it all off. So there was incentive to lure slayers in to a trap where the team could safely feed and then launch a counter offensive once they were all juiced.

Mechanically, you can probably see why it stuck with me after all these years. It's a hell of an interesting idea for a multiplayer game.

I just wonder how much demand there is for it in 2023. I guess I should download that demo.

Honestly, I miss the days of Half-Life mods like this. Vampire Slayer, Zombie Panic, Science & Industry, Pirates Vikings & Knights, The Specialists, The Hidden, Zombie Master… we've lost a lot not having these weird, experimental ideas anymore, even if they weren't enough to support player bases forever. They were often cool as hell in the moment.

Godspeed, Vampire Slayer: The Resurrection. Or, uh, whatever it is vampires prefer for good luck.

[sodisco]

yeah im kind of a gamer

[mokoh]

Tanjiro and Rengoku

[kimetsu-no-yaiba-writings]

OH NO HE'S HOT (ﾉ∀`♥)

Tengen Uzui

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"Can a dodgeball cause concussion if you throw it at someone hard enough?" Blazkowicz totally didn't ask that because of a certain video game he decided to play when he took a break from demon hunting.