#devilish charm

[regency-monster-love]

Monstertober day 12: devilish charm

Male cambion/tiefling x female human | Regency era | SFW

“How glad I am that you did not come to Bath with your parents,” the captain told his dance partner as he took her hand and moved in a circle around her.

“Why should you be glad of that?” she asked.

“Because not many human parents would approve of their pretty little daughter dancing with a cambion male,” he replied, a slow smile stretching across his face to reveal the tips of his sharp teeth.

“Oh!” She glanced back over to where her friend and chaperone stood, who had brought her on this trip, but the woman was looking away. Surely it wasn’t improper for her to be dancing with a cambion if her chaperone had not objected when he asked for her hand. 

Even though cambion were wicked in the frightening novels she liked to read, she was fairly certain the authors had invented their darkest qualities. “But aren’t those simply myths that cambion are descended from demons and drink blood and whatnot?” she asked him. (She would not admit to herself that she would not terribly mind if the myths were actually true.)

Rich laughter rolled from his lips at her having the confidence to come right out and ask him such a thing! He found her candor amusing, but more than that, it was refreshing and quite charming. 

But she colored, so he checked his laughter. “Yes, those are myths. I am no demon,” he told her sincerely, with no mockery in his voice.

He leaned his head down close to hers as their bodies came together on the next step of the dance. “But I am devilishly charming, don’t you think?” he murmured with an arch smile.

His boast made her forget her embarrassment over what she had asked him, and a delighted smile bloomed on her face unbidden. She couldn’t deny that he was. It was precisely because he was a monster that she had been excited to first meet him, but once she had started to speak to him, she’d found she quite enjoyed his playfulness that skirted the edge of being improper but never quite crossed it.

His physical attractiveness added to his charm for her. She had always been partial to a smart red coat on an officer, and this officer not only had the coat but the dusky red skin, dark red horns, and rich red-black hair to match. And oh! he was so much taller than her! She had to tilt her head back quite far to be able to look into his violet eyes when they stood chest to chest, as they were now, in the dance. Something about him towering over her was very alluring.

She suddenly remembered he had called her “little.” And “pretty.” She’d forgotten it in her momentary distress over whether it was improper for her to dance with him. Now, recalling the compliment made her blush.

He noticed it. Oh, he did so like seeing that pale pink flush on her cheeks. “Mm, should I be impertinent and ask what it is that is making you blush?” he mused. The pink deepened and spread at that, and he smiled broadly at her.

He couldn’t help but think of what he could do to provoke an even deeper blush on even more of her skin.

“Don’t be afraid,” he assured her. “I’ll let you keep your secrets. It allows me to imagine the most pleasing option of what may be going through your mind, no matter how unlikely it is to be true—and I have a very good imagination.”

“That sounds like a trick to get me to correct your assumptions and reveal what I was actually thinking of,” she countered.

He laughed again. “Aren’t you a clever one! But I did not actually mean it as a trick. I’d much rather you not tell me, so I may keep the incorrect but pleasing thought in my head.”

“What if the truth is even better than whatever you are imagining?”

He gave her a wolfish smile. “I think it’s impossible that you’re thinking of something more pleasing than what I’m imagining right now.”

“You might be surprised. I read very shocking novels,” she admitted.

He arched an eyebrow at her. “Do you?” She was indeed proving to be a surprising girl, even more intriguing than he’d originally presumed. Yes, he was very glad to have taken this opportunity to dance with her, and he hoped to have the pleasure repeated.

His violet eyes gleamed, and he fixed her with a look dripping with his devilish charm. “Then I think we will have many interesting things to converse about, you and I.”

~ 😈🎩 ~

Inspired by Northanger Abbey, of course! I’ll be posting more Regency monster ficlets and snippets like this with the tag “my writing.”

[kdram-chjh]

Kdrama: Devilish Joy (2018)

“Dylanf•卡农（经典钢琴版)”

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[borgialucrezia]

CESARE BORGIA + dragging his brother around "You have a priest for a brother?."

[starrynightsxo]

"Cardan grins at me as though we've been great friends all our lives. I forgot how charming he can be--and how dangerous that is."

- Jude Duarte, The Cruel Prince

[axollungz]

devil + angel what will they get up to

[strawberryblondie-locks]

hello. i have come to the dai dark community with peace and moderate effort comics

[maridotnet]

rereading some @buggachat BEAU and this panel is SO fallen angel...adrien as the rebellious son cast from his father’s mansion in disgrace, looking back with resentment and longing towards people who were supposed to treat him with love...haha i’m having heretical thoughts again! 🙊

[q8qwertyuiop8p]

Help 😭

[grovekeepers]

robin <3 i'd love to hear about robins own, personal views on his sex and gender, please!

Thanks for the ask, Fray!! (answering it gives me something to do while i wait for the electricity to come back on!)

I'm putting this under a cut, because I've been typing for a while now and I feel like this'll be a long one. I will add that I'm briefly mentioning an eating disorder under the cut, in case you or anyone else wants to back out of reading that.

For the longest time Robin didn't really have any views on his sex or gender. He had a lot going on as a neurodivergent kid/teen due to poverty and, well, the repressed queerness; was just out there functioning/surviving somehow and was in general just pretty miserable all around, so any discomfort about his gender identity/expression was just part of a big heap of everyday sensory overload. There really wasn't time for him to focus on or take a closer look at himself much, and besides, he wouldn't have known the terms needed to put it into words.

He developed a bunch of unhealthy coping mechanisms about All Of That (drugs, sex, an eating disorder, ...) and really spiralled for a while until he met this man called Murdoc, who sort of became a mentor to him, and set him straight again.

And if Murdoc's one thing, it's perceptive.

So while Robin and him travelled together for a while, he provided him with the space he needed to just take a breather for once. Maybe express himself for once. And the option to talk about his feelings instead of having to bottle them up. And most importantly, since his wife Cynthia is a trans woman, he taught him the terms he needed to put all that dysphoria related turmoil he had going on into words.

So really, up until that point Robin hadn't thought about it much. Not thinking about it meant not having to deal with it, he was just hoping all those weird feelings, whatever they are, would go away one day. But of course they wouldn't have if he'd just continued to keep on going like that.

Now that he'd talked those feelings through with someone and then went on to change up his gender presentation, though, things got a hell of a lot easier. Murdoc used the right pronouns for him, called him by the name they'd chosen together (one of his favorite wildshapes to use to spy on people is an odd looking robin, and they both decided it's a nice fit), and after a while of that, Robin began to cook up medicine (cough, testosterone) that would change his body.

And all of a sudden he just felt GOOD about himself for once. His body wasn't just existing to carry him through the days anymore, instead he actively liked looking at it. His voice didn't hurt his ears anymore, it just sounded right. There was growth and hair in the right places and muscles where there used to be softness that he'd previously tried to get rid of by starving himself down to the bones.

See, and only then is when he started to really develop views on his gender and sex.

He is and always was, by all definitions of the word, a bisexual man, even when he was still blocking out the thought and just hoping for the dysphoria to go away on its own. Gender non-conforming (if he can wear them in a masculine way, he still wears many of his old clothes because he can't afford new ones for example, and he's insanely fond of jewelry, be that piercings, earrings, rings, bracelets, ankle bracelets, waist chains, etc) and somewhat gentler than other men he's gotten to know so far, sure, but really not all that different. Transitioning, to him, was like a lifeline he didn't know he needed extended to him, but now that he's gotten a hold of it, he wouldn't ever let it go.

Masculinity can be expressed in very many ways, and his way of expressing it is being forceful like rumbling thunder and strong like a centuries old oak that you can shelter underneath. He'll bear the brunt of the storm for you and keep you safe. And when it's over, and you open your eyes, rather than the lashing rain, you'll see the beauty of the sun's first rays shining through the greenest leaves you've ever seen, while their warmth caresses you.

(One thing I'll say (and it is really just more of a game-related issue) is that his in-game model looks pretty unchanged in terms of testosterone changes even after all the mods I installed to get him a little closer looking to himself. It does unfortunately have a lot of people jumping to the conclusion that he's some flavor of non-binary or futch/butch (and leaving comments that make ME dysphoric at the end of the day lmfao), when in reality, looking at him would not really differentiate him from a cis man and I'm simply limited by the game. There is no room to doubt his gender if going off "traditional" (binary) characteristics. He does bind his chest sometimes, and he usually wears his clothes in a way that covers/hides the shape of what's underneath. Funny enough, I am currently working on a painting of him and I'm kinda hyped about the absolute physical likeness I'm achieving with it, so I'm adding a little WIP!!)

[sunriseovergotham]

ty being in love with michael is so funny to me. cowboy so charming you cant NOT save him the first chance you get

[ittybittybumblebee]

Wheres that post thats like dogs dont know what naughty is and cats do, naaahhhhhhhh man , our dog knows what naughty is. She loves it . Shes the naughty queen

[milquetoad]

like ;

GULP !!

[merriclo]

talking to my sonic plushie abt zelda lore again

[murasaki-cha]

Which is funny because the women never mention any of that so why are you guys bringing that up? Why are you, as men, talking about another man's sexiness?

Not only are they losing the argument but they're also exposing themselves

Love whenever a woman defends Wei Wuxian and it forces every man in the vicinity to immediately rage about how they're only saying that because of his deviously handsomeness and incorrigible sexy charms . is that supposed to worsen his case or.

[s1nfu7h0r53f7y]

Two-part question for my fellow Lucifer fans: should we start calling ourselves “Lucsimps”, and if so do we go with this spelling or “Lucimps”?

[goldenteaset]

Easy (?) solution: Belial drags Cammy to a hot spring

I think I remember him saying that he likes those somewhere. Or I guess he likes hot stone spas, he mentioned that in a PASH interview I can look up for you if you're interested, I have the link saved somewhere for research purposes and then I just twisted that into him liking hot springs too because it makes sense to me

Then he spreads his wings underwater. At her insistence. To get them nice and clean

If the spring is sufficiently large, they'll fit for sure

Otherwise, them sitting in the bathroom and her tenderly sponging the wings down because they won't fit in the shower with them out is also a nice mental image

Also a friend of mine has decided that the part where the wings connect to his back should be especially sensitive

!!!! Potentially easy, yes! Maybe he wins tickets to one, in romance manga tradition… (Or in the aforementioned cave?)

I would love that, thank you! I only vaguely remember that interview, but I do remember the hot stones spa because I had to look up what it was. It stands to reason he’d enjoy hot springs in general, they’re both relaxing and a good excuse as any to seduce people/get them mellowed out enough to reveal something they shouldn’t. (And then this time he’s the one mellowing out of his comfort zone and showing Cammy his wings! Revenge!)

That is a nice mental image, I keep pondering it… =v= Cammy doing her best to touch him carefully despite his (languid, sleepy) attempts to convince her “I like it rough, mm, right there…” (And then she scolds him a bit, which he also likes, and—