#hes usually a dryad but he got skin as a treat

[cnsystem]

sometimes men can be so pretty

[kiame-sama]

Woo spooky month! So if your ocs were monsters what kind do you think each one would be?

Walter:

- Walter is a vampire. He has access to blood-bags and all sorts of medical equipment. He can keep himself fed with the large amounts of blood he has access to, but he prefers the blood of his darling. Sure, it leaves them drained and tired, but he will always take care of them and it keeps the hospital reserves safe from his thirst. It's a win-win for everyone, darling. He promises to treat you gently after he drinks his fill.

(I'm so sad, the Picrew for Carlos got updated and his skin-tone option is gone along with the ears being 100% different)

- Carlos is a fae druid. He talks to animals on the regular and has more compassion for animals than he does for humans. Like usual fae creatures, he is tricky and can manipulate others with ease, often taking those he finds interest in. He adores his darling and will take them away the second he gets the chance, whisking them off to his own reality where he can cuddle and adore them for eternity.

Evan:

- 100% Demon. He is not a nice man and has lived a not very nice life. He has killed and will easily kill again, chasing what he likes and hunting down his darling like prey. The chase gets him excited and the act of catching you, regardless of how you scream, gets him very worked up.

Jackson:

- Angel through and through. Jackson is devoted and loyal, worshipful of his darling and the epitome of good intentions/love becoming corrupted with insane devotion. He will smite those who cross his darling and will damn anyone who tries to win his dearest away from him. He doesn't enjoy causing pain, but no amount of bloodshed will be too much so long as he does it for his darling.

Amira:

- Cat-demon. She is a more tame kind of demon, content to curl up on her darling's lap and cuddle. She can get territorial of her darling and will not hesitate to pounce and eviscerate those who may harm her darling if they show themselves to be a threat. She does have heats so be ready to satisfy her as needed.

Kaya:

- Kaya is a dryad and is a protector spirit of the forest. She is a shepherd of the woods and a guardian of the creatures within. The plants respond to her call, bending to her whim and helping her ensnare her darling. She will turn her darling into a fellow dryad and will protect her forest along with her darling mate by her side.

Julie:

- Julie is a dream demon, often taking the appearance of a sheep when entering the dreams of her victims. She has a tendency to play with her prey and met her darling by entering her darling's dreams. At first, she intended to do as she always had, but quickly decided her darling was not for eating, but was meant for mating instead. She won't ever let her darling wake again until her darling undergoes the full change into being a demon as well.

Hada:

- Siren. Hada is a siren and a damn good one too. Often using her voice to lure her prey so she can drown and devour them. She has a certain hate for humans given the extreme damage they have caused to the ocean, but her darling is exempt from that hate. Her darling was lured in like every other human, but she decided to keep her darling instead of eating them. She keeps them imprisoned beneath the waves in a cave den filled with an air-pocket and oxygen rich plants.

[pinkandgreenarepurpleandyellow]

Both interpretations, fuck it

Glam as the deity:

Handwaving the backstory I'm thinking the magical bit got stomped out a lot when he was a child by the strict rules and systemic absue in the household.

Chesnok is the first human (sorta) to give 'Glam' the room to be more himself.

He's not a deity in the traiditonal 'all-power, demanding worship' sense. More like a dryad or a spirit attached to something specific. In his case, I'd say it's either like the patron deity of outcasts-by-choice or a very new (and unaware of his abilities because the connection between him and it was so tenuous until recently) deity of glam rock/glam metal.

Major powers: Appearance shifts when he's in his natural elements (Hair floofing up, eyeshadow circles appearing even without makeup, mildly unnatural smile, etc), increased charisma and boosting of the energy around him (esp in concerts and performances), unintentionally causes artistic inspiration and becomes a brief muse to people for just a few seconds.

Full-scale appearance changes: Looks almost like he's actually glowing very slightly, with his eyes being significantly brighter than the rest of him. Hair moves on its own to the rhythm. Appears just a little too thin and moves in a way that's slightly unnatural, but not noteicable to people caught up in the adrenaline highs and the drinking.

Why Vicky: Felt near-instant connection. He genuinely thought she was a Valkyrie and to this day will occasionally hallucinate her with flaming wings and a giant sword. Her courage, strength, and bold attitude wow him and he has the feeling that even if she ever did find out about him not being human, she'd still treat him the same way. Her self-sufficiency, combined with her trust in him, also adds a level of certain security in knowing that she'd never hurt him on purpose, and would listen to him if he ever asked her to hit with a little less force or to not touch him when he needs his space.

Vicky as the deity:

Latest incarnation of a Victory pantheon's goddess of brutality. Takes every meaning of the word.

She grew up semi-aware of her powers and would get clearer insights during brawls, races, and other life-and-death competitions. To a lesser extent, gets the same feelings around heavy drum solos and adrenaline-fueled crowds of any kind.

She doesn't get worshipped a lot and wouldn't want to be, but the attention people give her during fights and competitions adds a small boost for her and vice-versa. Just being near her gives people a touch more adrenaline.

Major powers: Ok so obviously enhanced strength and durability, but also she can detect people's weaknesses and breaking points. Appearance shifts when she's risking her life in something (Hair and eyes glow, teeth become slightly bigger and sharper, etc), creates more tension in the atmosphere and usually results in chain of fights or brawls, can occasionally force people to realize either tier potential for violence or their hopelessness in it.

Full-scale appearance changes: Hair and eyes are fire, skin is unnaturally hot to the touch. Teeth become almost like fangs, distorting whatever faces she's making into something much more terrifying. Skin appears to be harder to the touch, almost like metal in density, and things like knees and elbows become sharper and have higher impact. At her peak, she can breathe fire and the flames surrounding her begin to look slightly like wings.

Why Glam: She didn't believe he was actually stupid enough to try and 'propose' to her that day. Then, after seeing him risk his life in the most insane ways to give her back the keys, she felt a new level of respect for the mortal who was willing to go so far for her. His love of rock and metal, as well as his acceptance of her as she is, is proof to her that there's still humans in this world that aren't fight-stupid but still fun to be around. Glam's kindness and permanently sunny demeanor are also attractive to her because it allows her to be more vulnerable and still know he'll stay.

Both of them as deities together:

Same backstories as above but they know about each other because they both sped up their healing while in the hospital and were very surprised that another person could do that.

The biggest issue they've got is the fact that Vicky, while still likely to live much longer than the average human, is still very mortal (eg 200-250 year lifespan max) and they don't know Glam's lifespan (new deities are a weird mix of all sorts of things).

They've decided to not overthink it, and live as they can while they can.

Do not piss off either of them. Both of them are scarier than the other.

The kids get a mix of everything in them. Dee gets the powers of observation, the added charisma, and the glowing eyes and Heavy gets his upbeatness and raw musical talent from Glam.

Although Dee doesn't realize it, his musical potential is inherited from Vicky, as is Heavy's. The catch is that Vicky's musical talents are that she can pick up rhythm and beat easily, but she can't refine it the way Glam can. She'll know all of the exact sounds from a song on the first try, but not the names of the notes or why one sounds more 'right' than the other besides a nagging instinct.

Heavy, having gotten both genes, can learn music quickly and effortlessly. Dee would have had more success if he'd chosen drums or had first listened to the song playing, felt the rhythm of movement associated with the song, and then tried playing, but he'd still learn a bit more at Vicky's pace and not Glam's or Heavy's.

The other big things the kids inherit from Vicky is the emotional intensity and the straightforward way of thinking, even as Dee masks his with Glam's charisma and formal phrasing.

Yes they have glowy eyes and yes it fucks up all of the family photos.

Vicky helped Glam explore his powers a lot when they were younger and he helped her refine and hone hers in exchange.

Their powers can cancel each other out at times. Glam's increased charisma when he's happy means a lot of interruptions for their dates, but Vicky's irritation at the interruptions usually leads to the people breaking out of their charisma-induced trances and now going off to bicker with each other somewhere else.

The 'deity of something or other who is very clearly not humanTM dating a perfectly human person who's just really weird' is a great trope and could easily go both ways for Glam and Vicky

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April Fool’s Day

April Fool's Day had always been Seth's time to shine. He got more and more creative with the pranks every year, from classics like toothpaste in the Oreos, to more ridiculous stuff like covering Dale's truck in post it notes. It had always been his favorite holiday. And this year—he had missed it.

"You did get to help save the world instead," Kendra said. She was busy bustling around the kitchen, putting together some cookies for Hugo to take to the dryads. "That's not too bad a tradeoff."

Seth didn't lift his head from the kitchen table and let out a groan. "I was in a dungeon at the time, Kenny. A freaking dungeon. We saved the world after April Fool's Day."

"It's been a month since then, and now you find it in you to get upset over that?" Kendra rapped him on the head with her wooden spoon, making Seth jump.

"I know! But there were so many other things going on, it's not like I had the time to think about it!" Seth squished his cheek on the table again. "It's kinda petty, yeah," he mumbled, "but I'm really sad I missed it."

Kendra stopped mixing the ingredients together for a moment and pondered. "You could always make it up," she suggested. "A new April Fool's Day, just a little bit late."

Seth looked up. "You really think everyone's just gonna go with that?"

Kendra shrugged, and a devilish smile crossed her cheeks. "If you're going to be running around pranking them, it's not like they're going to have a choice."

Seth shot up straight in his seat and banged his hands on the table. "Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh yes. Yes. Let's do this!"

He was about to run up the stairs when Kendra grabbed him by the back of his shirt. "You have to tell them first!"

"Oh yeah. Haha. I was going to do that."

It took some time and a lot of dragging Dale away from his work, but eventually the Sorenson siblings managed to gather a family meeting in the living room. Even with all the couches and chairs, there wasn't enough sitting space for all of them, leaving Kendra perched on the arm of Tanu's chair and Seth standing in the middle of the room.

"Okay, I have a super-duper important announcement to make!" Seth waved his arms to get everyone's attention, but between Stan and Ruth discussing preserve business and Tanu and Dale exchanging info on plants, it was near impossible. Even Elise, who usually noticed when Seth was talking, was half trying to complain to Tanu about something and half screaming into a pillow.

"Need a hand, angelito?" Vanessa asked. She was lounging on the couch, her feet kicked up on a sleeping Warren's lap.

"Yeah—please," Seth sighed, clearly exasperated. He had gotten better with patience, but he still needed work.

Vanessa put her fingers to her lips and gave a taxi cab whistle that would've put a New Yorker to shame. Next to her, Warren jerked awake.

"Okay!" Seth clapped his hands like an excited child, clearly ignoring everyone's confused looks. "So guess what I'm doing!"

Seth quickly bounced his idea for a make-up April Fool's Day.

"I'm gonna make it... this Thursday," he finished. "That gives me—and anyone else—tomorrow to prepare. Okay love you guys bye!"

Before Stan could tell him otherwise, Seth had bolted up the stairs.

There was a moment of silence before Warren sleepily leaned back again. "I'm not sure if he's joking or not, but if he springs a single prank on me, I will demolish him." Warren gave a grin. "I am the pranking god."

Vanessa snorted but didn't say anything.

—

Tanu had been having a strange day.

First it was everything in the fridge staring at him with googly eyes—that prank must've been for Dale or Ruth, since they were usually the first ones up in the mornings. Then it was waking up Vanessa, who had locked her door to keep Seth from pranking her and then slept through her many alarms. It took a lot of knocking and yelling through the door before Vanessa came stumbling out, glaring and bedhead and all. A half hour later, he and Dale had to head out to the cabin to figure out why Warren hadn't gotten up yet. Seth had tucked Warren's sheets in a way that Warren couldn't get up, and then doodled a little smiley face on Warren's forehead in pen. Apparently even the cabin wasn't safe.

Now, of course, there was this.

Tanu sighed and poked at the jello encasing his cell phone. Several other objects that had been left on his desk had been treated the same. Honestly, most surprising part was that Seth had the patience to pull this off.

Seth hadn't been seen all day, but Tanu had heard enough complaints to know he was probably shadewalking around, leaving behind nasty little tricks. Kendra, the only one who had gotten off prank-free, was lounging in the living room practicing her writing, and most of the others had either ditched the preserve for a little while or were just keeping out of Seth's way.

After a bit of digging, Tanu got out his cell phone. Seth had wrapped it in plastic wrap—that was nice, at least it meant none of his stuff was actually damaged.

7 missed calls from Vanessa. Fuc—fudge.

Tanu quickly dialed the number and put it on speakerphone. He and Vanessa had struck up an odd sort of friendship in the past month, mostly involving cooking and complaining to each other about life, preserve business, and Warren (that last one was mostly Vanessa). She had made it clear that she didn't appreciate being made to wait for too long without at least a notice on when the next free time to talk would be.

"Yo, Tanu!" Vanessa's voice crackled over the phone. "I called you like a half hour ago, where were you?"

"Uhh..." Tanu brushed a few remaining bits of jello off his phone screen. "I was a little caught up."

"Hm," Vanessa mused, "well, two things. Firstly, do you need anything from Walmart, because that's where I am right now. Secondly, Warren's on the line too, I had to patch you in, Tanu. Say hi, Warren."

"Hi!" Warren yelled. Tanu could hear his voice from both the phone and downstairs, along with Kendra yelling at him to be quiet, she was thinking.

Tanu laughed. "Hi Warren, and no, I don't need anything from Walmart. Can I ask—why Walmart? The one in our area stinks, even by Walmart standards."

"This is the only place I can get soap in bulk."

"That... sort of answers my question but not really."

"Vanessa's gunning for revenge on Seth," Warren explained. "She thought she'd get away with being not pranked, but yeah, right. He—"

"Let me explain!" Vanessa interrupted. "So I'm trying to take a shower, right? But when I get out, I don't feel clean. I had this like sticky feeling—like when you have gum or something. So I took another shower. No dice. I figured maybe it's just the shower near my room, so I used the one downstairs. Nada. So finally I unscrewed the shower head to figure it out, and Seth had put a fucking hard candy in there!"

"I'm sure you smell wonderful," Warren joked.

"I don't even smell like candy," Vanessa muttered bitterly. "My pride is hurt. I'm getting revenge."

"That's... a terrible prank for him to pull." Tanu finally managed to get his stapler out of the jello.

"You're distracted," Vanessa noted. "What're you doing?"

Tanu quickly explained the jello issue. Warren promptly burst into laughter.

"Dude! That's awful! Ness, I'm sorry, but I think Tanu has more of a right to complain," Warren choked out.

"Oh man, yeah. Is that why you weren't picking up? That's fair."

Tanu snorted. "Yeah. Warren, I know you're downstairs, get your butt up here and help me with this."

"Sure!... though I have a question for you."

Tanu hesitated. "Your tone worries me."

"It should! I'm helping Ness get revenge—no way in hell am I going to let Seth be the undisputed prank king. You want in?"

Tanu thought about Vanessa and her bulk pack of soap, then lightly poked his pencils, each of which had been individually encased in jello.

"I'm in."

—

Kendra had gotten off lucky with Seth—due to the fact that they shared a room, they had agreed not to prank each other this April Fool's Day. There was one upside about sharing a room with her brother.

She hadn't seen Seth all day, except for the one time in the morning when he popped out of the shadows and scared the living daylights out of her. He had just stopped by to say hello, apparently. And to tell her not to take a shower. Her skin care routine was going to go to hell, but she listened.

So now finding Seth laying down in front of the attic door, trying to poke his phone underneath it, wasn't too surprising. He looked completely focused on his task.

"Please tell me you aren't trying to prank me," Kendra said.

Seth jerked up and hit his fingers on the door. "Frick—ow!" He curled up and grabbed his fingers. "Ow... hi Kendra."

"Hi."

A beat of silence passed.

"Ugh." Seth propped himself up and shook his hand, tucking his phone back into his pocket. "No, I'm not trying to prank you. We made a promise."

"Good, because I'll beat you up if you do. Or I'll get Vanessa to. What are you doing?"

Seth grinned and rubbed his hands together like a mad scientist. "Well, sister dearest, I think Warren, Vanessa, and Tanu left a prank for me, and my phone camera can't see it."

"Really?" Kendra stooped down and tried to look under the door. "Everything looks normal. You sure?"

"Definitely." Seth starter ticking things off on his fingers as he talked. "Vanessa had a whole lot of stuff from the store, she and Warren were talking and giggling about something in a very prank-planning way, and Tanu had this huge bucket and refused to tell me what it was for. He's a bad liar. Kinda suspicious, if you ask me."

"Yeah, a little." Kendra lightly tapped the door, but luckily nothing happened.

"Plus, Warren just came out of our room saying he was just returning a couple of highlighters he borrowed from you. Did he borrow any highlighters?"

Kendra's head shot up. "He didn't."

"Aha!" Seth snapped his fingers. "I knew it."

"So now we can't go inside without falling into a prank," Kendra sighed. "That's great."

Seth sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck. "Sorry, I didn't think you'd end up facing that much. Pranking someone in their room in the middle of the day is hard. I didn't think anyone would try."

"It's okay, you can't know what everyone is going to do." Kendra sat down on the stairs, and Seth soon joined her.

There were several minutes of silence before Kendra spoke.

"I'm assuming you're planning something."

Seth blinked. "Yeah. How'd you know?"

"Your face gets this... look," Kendra waved her hands a bit in a failed attempt to illustrate her point.

"Hmm." Seth leaned forward on his knees. "I gotta work on that. But yeah, I'm thinking."

"...of?"

"How to get one of them to fall into their own trap." Seth tapped his chin. "Did you leave one of the windows unlocked?"

"Yeah. I always do. It's not like the fairies can get in, you know."

"Warren is downstairs, right?"

"He should be."

"I've got it!" Seth shot up, a smile on his face and his hands on his hips like a superhero.

"Oh no," Kendra said.

Seth grasped Kendra by the shoulders. "Do me a huge favor," he said. "Make sure Warren is closest to the stairs, and don't freak out too bad when I start yelling."

"I'm slightly worried."

"I'll see you in a few minutes!" Seth dashed down the stairs, his clothes already melting into the shadows.

There wasn't much else to do but find Warren, so that was what Kendra did. Warren was talking with Vanessa and Tanu in the living room, with the third looking slightly nervous and the other two looking excited.

Kendra crossed her arms. "I don't appreciate you guys setting up a prank in the attic," she said.

Warren leaned back. "Oh. Sorry Kens, we thought you were out!"

"Look on the bright side, you didn't fall into it," Vanessa said. "So... how is Seth?"

"He's... uh—"

Kendra was spared from answering when a piercing scream came from the attic. All of them jumped, and Kendra hadn't even processed what was going on before Warren had dashed past her.

"Oh." Vanessa had covered her mouth, eyes wide. "Maybe that was a little mean?"

"He might've gotten soap in his eye—" Tanu mumbled. "I told you guys we could've done something else!"

They were just moving towards the stairs when a crash sounded from upstairs. Vanessa and Tanu both froze.

"I think... I think that was the prank actually going off," Vanessa said.

Kendra giggled. "I'm pretty sure Seth climbed in through the window," she said. "He wanted you guys to fall into your own prank. Congrats."

"Ohh..." Tanu dropped his head as though he had a headache.

Warren was stumbling down the stairs, one of Dale's plastic buckets in his hands. Soap dripped down his face and soaked his clothes. His eyes were scrunched shut to keep the soap out.

"Vanessa," he said, clearly trying to keep his mouth as closed as possible, "please tell me you got no-tears soap."

Vanessa didn't even hesitate in taking out her phone and snapping a picture. "I'm using this for blackmail, darling."

"I love you too, honey." Warren rubbed his eyes, but succeeded in nothing.

Seth came trotting down the stairs, perfectly fine, a terrific grin from ear to ear. He struck a pose on the landing.

"I," he declared, "am the ultimate prank king!"

—

Later that night, Seth and Kendra were lazing around in the kitchen. Stan had effectively ended April Fool's Day after the soap incident, so Seth had ended up chilling out and doodling a bit in his notebook and Kendra had been baking again. The two of them had been sitting in comfortable silence for a while. Kendra was trying to make cookies from the leftover scratch, and Seth was close to nodding off.

"That was an adventure, I suppose," Kendra said.

Seth gave a sleepy nod. "Nothing compared to our bigger adventures, but still an adventure," he agreed.

"Vanessa's still pissed. Watch your back." Kendra grinned.

With a slight smirk, Seth gave a half wave of his hand, still not bothering to open his eyes. "I'll deal with that when that comes."

"Sure. Here." Kendra dropped a couple of cookies on the table in front of Seth, prompting him to finally crack open his eyes. "Those ones came out lumpy, so you can have them."

"Sweet, thanks!" Seth picked one up. "Why'd they come out lumpy?" he asked before shoving one into his mouth.

"Well, I'm not really sure..."

Seth's face scrunched up in disgust, and he heavily swallowed.

"...probably because I put salt in them instead of sugar! Ay! Gotcha!" Kendra whirled on Seth, shooting out Seth's signature finger guns.

"No fair!" Seth whacked his hands on the table, knocking the rest of the cookies onto the floor. "We promised no pranks on each other!"

"Consider it revenge for getting a prank set up in our room," Kendra said smugly. "Keep your title as prank king, but just know that I still got you."

Seth stuck out his tongue, but he didn't argue. "You're the worst."

"So are you, you rascal." Kendra scooped up a salt cookie and bounced it off her brother's head. "Happy April Fool's Day!"