#gremlinshenanigans

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Hello! I have been told you have some cool characters I'd like to know more about, so would you share some information on Jaques, Kaleo and Humbert?

Hello to you!ヾ(•ω•`)o Sorry for the delay in answering, I checked Tumblr only today! And your ask is so precious, I'm so glad you're interested in some of my characters! ;u; I'll gladly tell you about them!~

It's a very quick sketch (and of unfinished redesigns, I'm currently reworking their aspects but mostly the clothes), but here they are how they appear in Humbert's story (so 1975/1980 circa, 10 or so years before Lance's story)!

Humbert DeRocca (or Umberto, he tends to use the "international name" when needed) is an Italian independent paranormal investigator, together with his wife Amanda and his best friend Jonatan. They are quite known in all of Italy at the time and a bit in Belgium thanks to Jacques (which I'll tell more in a moment!), and because of this they tend to travel a lot. While Amanda is an empath and Jonatan is an energy bender, Humbert is "just" a human, no special abilities nor powers, just an amazing memory and a big brain! In the trio you asked about he's the one with the greatest knowledge of magical creatures (he's often jokingly referred to as a walking encyclopedia), and during his story he becomes Kaleo's mentor!

Jacques and Kaleo Francœur are father and son, descendent of one of the great hunter families, so their names mean a lot. Jacques is one of Humbert's best friends, they've been knowing each other since they were kids, and an extremely well trained hunter specialized in stealth (which is much more useful than most give it credit for) and battle with the spear, while Kaleo is much less experienced (at the time of Humbert's story), but extremely good in ranged combat - he will eventually become one of the best aims in the world, and in Humbert's story already is extremely good! He stays with Humbert for a lot of time, learning both his knowledge and to actually... think a bit more before acting. He's really impulsive when young, which leads to some things. Spoilers. :3c When he gets to Lance's story, he's MUCH more mature - even more because by the time that arrives, he has a little daughter!

Humbert works primarily in Italy and Jacques in Belgium, where he was born, even though Jacques travels MUCH more (the Francœurs are known in all the world, and people ask for them specifically, while Humbert has a known name but it's more like, you know. The "neighborhood's problem solver", in a sense, and his knowledge is more precise about Italian creatures and mythology), and when Jacques needs someone who he can trust in delicate or big matters he calls for Humbert, which are the rare times he gets out of Italy for work (and most frequently in Belgium, reason why he is more known there than in other countries!).

I love them so much, they are some of my favourites between my own OCs (and Humbert is probably my absolute favourite), and I won't continue talking about them in this post only because it's already very long, haha! But for general information, this is it! If you're interested in something more specific, feel free to ask! I'll be so happy to answer more questions about them and any other OC! ;u;//

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Dunno if you saw, but a few more Talentless Nana chapters are out! 87 and 88

I have not yet I've been too busy to keep up with much of anything ;-; ill get to them eventually <3

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Oh, fun!

Little Soldiers by The Crane Wives

Icicles by The Scary Jokes

Something Wild by Lindsey Sterling

Take Me to War by The Crane Wives (GROWLS during songs, my beloved)

Cold is the Night by the Oh Hellos

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(making a new post for this tag game bc the post was already super long, hope that's okay lol)

when you see this, post 5 songs you actually listen to and tag 10 of your favorite followers/mutuals!! i was tagged by @kazs-scheming-face; thanks for tagging me! :)

Aurora Borealis - Lemon Demon

Out of My League - Fitz and the Tantrums

Killer Queen - Queen

Na Na Na - My Chemical Romance

The Steeple - Halestorm

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Possible new Talentless Nana chapter came out

ohhhh thank you i'll check it out soon!

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THEY ARE IN OUR WORLD? Is there any story for the monsters? Or is it like an alternate universe?

As for the characters, I may have latched onto Kaleo for a bit, so bear with me with the possible questions! ...that I don't know rn so! May I ask for something you love about all three of them, but haven't mentioned yet?

Once again sorry it took so long to answer! I barely checked Tumblr and hadn't got time to answer, but now I can! :D

And yes, they kind of are! Gea is based on our world, but where magic is fully a part of everyday life, with all the mythology and creatures tied to it. It developed in a very similar way our world did (it's somewhat mid to low fantasy, in that sense) but many things are different, and me and Gio are working a lot on them lately to fully understand how exactly different they are. :3c

And please, do ask anything you might wish to know! ❤ I'm only happy to talk about my characters, and seeing your interest makes me feel even more happy!! 🥺 Kaleo is one of my personal favourites, he grows up so much through the stories! Despite he has to also go through some... uhm, unpleasant things...

And something I love about all three of them, you say! :3c WELL... surely, about Humbert I love the way he feels emotions and doesn't hide them. He's the opposite of toxic masculinity in that, haha, when he feels something he usually feels it strongly and won't hold back, tears included. I think he's the character of mine who is less concerned about people seeing him cry, and I love that!

Of Jacques I love his easy attitude, he's someone that adapts easily to pretty much anything because he has no problem with it. Rarely you will hear him complain, in any situation he's able to at least appreciate the experience, if anything! And Kaleo follows Jacques' steps pretty well, but the thing I love the most about him is, I think, his willingness to listen. Since when he's young in Humbert's story he knows he has a lot to learn and is willing to listen, observe, and learn. He grows so much thanks to this, and quite ironically... it's when he stops doing that that he goes through the heaviest parts of his story. But that's for another time, and for the comics, when we'll draw them. <3

[slightly-gay-pogohammer]

commission for @gremlinshenanigans!! thank you!!

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Also @gremlinshenanigans ALWAYS double check all dialogue and item descriptions through Bloodborne retranslation document by Last Protagonist! There are some localization errors that can dramatically skew your perception of lore! The most infamous one are nonexistent "grooming" of Blood Saints, Gehrman's nonexistent "mania", Gehrman's nonexistent creepy comment on the Doll, localization giving Dores he/him pronouns when in original there is none, Ebrietas being translated as daughter of Cosmos when in Japanese original she is daughter of Stars (and bastard of the moon in internal files).... ok ok I think you get why this is important

Question! Do you have any recommendations on where to find Bloodborne lore? I started watching a video on the story I found, but I'm curious if there's any specific bloodborne lore places to look at?

the items in the game </3 it's a soulsborne thing really, you get most of the answers to the THOUSANDS of questions the game throws at you if you read the items description, so watching gameplays can be

hard orz

anyway iirc the wiki is actually pretty well made, but otherwise. hi :3c

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C,K,S and X for the fanfic ask game?

C: What character do you identify with most?

The answer may surprise you!

I'm not sure identify is the right word since I feel like I interact with characters more by examining them then by identifying with them, but Choso hits very close to home.

I'm the oldest child in my family. Me and my brother are so close I consider him my best friend and while me and my little sister aren't as close we still have a good relationship. Anime has a surprising lacking of like really good sibling relationships. For some reason a lot of sibling relationships are either sexualized, have one sibling being a parental figure to another or just plain antagonistic. I'm seriously starved for older siblings just caring for their younger siblings in a normal ass way and Choso hits pretty close to hitting that mark. He's dotting and protective and also acknowledges how scary it is to have to do everything first, how vulnerable that may make you feel, but the protection and guidance you can offer make you strong too. I liked Choso a lot before, but his fight with Naoya def sealed him among my fav jjk characters. (I was hoping to get more sibling stuff from Maki and Mai too cuz i thought their relationship was v interesting but, well...)

K: What's the angstiest idea you've ever come up with?

To be frank with you the angstiest idea i have for a fic is something thats deeply triggering to me and an exploration of that fear so I just...I'm not comfy talking about it, I'm not ready for it yet. I might never be. Let's say instead that my angstiest idea was soulmate au where they are destined to always end up killing each other.

S: Any fandom tropes you can't resist?

Hurt comfort is my bread and butter. My favorite way to write is to break a character open and see how they function when i throw them into increasingly distressing situations. I love angst the most, give me all that heart wrenching stuff!

X: A character you enjoy making suffer.

Whichever character in a fandom I happen to like the most hvghvh As I said my main way to enjoy a character is to break them into pieces and the more ammunition's characters personality / relations/ backstory gives, the more I'll like them and the more I'll write for them. Satoru is the unlucky winner of this ticket atm. Probably the character I liked and broke down most since Izaya from durarara. I liked other characters before him too, namely Hawks and Chuuya, but I wasn't super active writing vise when I was really into them so they mostly got away unscathed. Satoru wasn't so lucky

Fanfic asks

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Oh, what's seven days until the end?

Originally? A shitty song i wrote at like 3am about two people who had a falling out getting back together 7 days before the apocalypse

Currently? One shot about Satoru's seven days before Suguru went off the deep end

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OC PROMPTS YES! Not sure if I can ask for two in one, but Zan and Ghost and cat, and/or Jacks and lightning

No 5! Just sum funny lil dialog. I was gonna do both but then i had a busy day and ended up p tired and I won't be near my laptop for the next two days so just the first one it is. I might return to Jacks at some point

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“He’s going to kill me.”

“He’s not going to kill you.”

“He will, I can feel it, I can see it. I will wake up with my face chewed off, an ugly, unseemly death. I refuse to die ugly, Zan, I refuse!”

“None of us choose how we’ll die.”

“Quitters talk! You may find satisfaction in rotting, ugly death, but mark my words, mark my words, Zan!”

“I’m marking them.”

“If I don’t die with my eight hours of sleep and my make up on and my hair presentable, do not, I say do not, attempt to bury me because I will be back. I will be back Zan and that I can guarantee.”

Zan muttered something in Japanese which’s meaning Ghost couldn’t guess at but was pretty sure from the tone was a swear. He stopped painting the truly horrendous looking fish on the wall, who’s ugliness didn’t bomb Zan’s entire claim to being a serious artist only by the fact that Ghost was fairly sure it was supposed to be ugly. Fairly sure, maybe Zan was just truly horrible with fishes. Ghost had no idea how he intended to sleep with that monstrosity facing his bed.

“The cat won’t kill you.” He said firmly, running his fingers through the black fur of the cat in question.

Shikei looked at Ghost with eyes of a serial killer reincarnated in a body that could not hold cleavers. He was sitting still and tense next to Zan, purring like a lawnmower at every stroke without dropping the look of pure malice for even a second.

Ghost would have been offended if they didn’t know Shikei despised everything that breathed and wasn’t Zan. They were still a bit offended. They were the agreeable sort, if they did say so themselves, never did anything wrong to the damn cat, barely even looked at it. It was injustice on the highest scale.

They painted the last of their nails bright teal, flopping down on Zan’s bed to let them dry. One of these days they were going to ask Zan if he did any nail art, no reason not to take advantage.

“What does Shikei mean anyway?”

“Death penalty.”

Ghost snorted out a laugh but Zan just looked at them over his shoulder with that deathly serious stare of his.

“Oh my god you’re not kidding.”

“It’s a fine name.”

“It’s a fine name, I take it back, I take it back, if I was named death penalty, I would want to kill everyone too. It’s in name, in nature, roses and names and what not. You shouldn’t be allowed to name anything! Why, just why.”

“He was hit by a car.”

“So why not Roadkill.”

“Felt mean.”

“Did you actually consider it? Did you, Zan, did you, were you going to name your roadkill cat Roadkill, Zan!”

Zan sighed exasperatedly, rubbing his knuckles on top of Shikei’s head. “What would you have named him?”

Ghost hummed, looking at Shikei again, at his dark, hateful eyes that bore into Ghost’s soul, letting them know that if cats and people shared the same hell, Shikei would be first in line to sign up as his torturer.

“Yeah, no, you’re right. Death penalty fits fine.”

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Hello hello! For the ask thing, the thing that stuck with me from your writing is the scene from the first Chuuya fic (I cannot remember the name to save my life I have tried so many times) when Kyouya calls him to tell him Oda died and Dazai left. I still can't figure out why exactly that specific scene stuck so much that I can still remember it clearly, but it has.

That and the line from Cannibalisation of the Apex of Satoru saying  "Suguru, I’m all over the place and I won’t be able to be anywhere anymore!”. Also unsure why, but I love it (and it did make me want to cry)

Ahh thank you ;-; i love both that scene and that line dearly.

In the chuuya fic (dw i call it that too) i really wanted to make that scene feel suffocating, to get the right feelings across of getting that call you've been dreading forever, so I'm really happy when people say it stood out, its probs my fav scene from that fic too <3<3<3

And that line for CA was also fun to write because i think that's the first time Satoru is fully expressing how much it pained him to lose himself while everywhere he goes there are proofs of his existence he no longer has right to. The boys are in paaain

Thank you so much im so glad to hear those scenes had the intended emotional impact <3<3<3<3<3