#i really like how weirded out and awkward Felix gets when someone is enthusiastically nice to him

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Ferdlilix propaganda

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go higher! part 8

[good game]

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the ref’s sharp whistle signals the end of the game as hyunjin’s serve goes straight into the net right beside seungmin’s head. the younger boy turns to glare at hyunjin, who flashes an apologetic smile in return. you watch as the kq boys cheer quickly before both teams line up and shake hands (you don’t catch how jisung give’s san’s hand an extra hard squeeze and utters “good game” through gritted teeth).

as you hobble on your crutches back to the bench to talk to bambam and jaebeom about the game, you can’t help curiously listen as the boys talk amongst themselves.

“ahh sorry guys, i guess i’ll gotta work on my serve more,” hyunjin says in embarrassment, feeling badly that the loss was on his error.

“maybe if you spent more time in the gym before practice instead of showing up late you wouldn’t have missed it,” seungmin replies bitterly.

“hey guys, calm down. hyunjin it’s not your fault we lost, or anyone else’s for that matter, i mean we actually did better than usual!!” chan says to try and cheer everyone up.

“yeah, we actually got over 20 points in that last set!!” jeongin replies enthusiastically. besides the youngest’s positivity, chan’s met with some blank stares in response; hyunjin and seungmin stare daggers at each other, jisung’s distracted by the sight of san walking over to your side of the court, and minho walks off to stretch by himself. at least jeongin’s standing there with an excited smile, even though he sat on the bench the whole game.

“y/n!! it’s been a while!” your thoughts are interrupted by a boy walking over to you arms outstretched. before you can protest, san pulls you in for a hug.

“ew you’re so sweaty,” you protest and shove him off, but you still give him a smile; it’s nice to see your friend again.

“what, no “congrats on winning san!! you did great!” for me?” he teases.

“shes on our team, not yours,” a voice says from behind you and you turn to see jisung walking up to you. it’s weird to see normally goofy and loud jisung be so serious. the two boys stare unimpressedly at each other, and you nervously glance between them.

“ok well i gotta go get ready for the post game meeting, i’ll see you in the change room jisung. catch you later sannie!” you call, leaving the awkwardness to go tell the rest of the boys to meet in the change room. jisung gives one final look of disapproval at san before turning and walking away.

everyone’s making their way to the change room to talk about the game, the only person you still have to tell is minho. you spot him alone in the corner of the gym, blushing as he changes out of his jersey and back into a nice sweater. swallowing the butterflies, you walk up to him. i shouldn’t be this nervous, i’m literally just telling him about a team meeting and that’s it, you think to yourself.

minho looks up as he hears you approach on your crutches, giving you a small smile and a wave. your heart flutters a bit, and not paying attention, one of your crutches hits the ground at a weird angle and before you know it you’re sprawled out on the gym floor.

“y/n!! are you okay??” minho asks in concern as he rushes to help you up. jisung’s loud laugh echoes in the background, and you flip him off without looking, your cheeks burning in embarrassment.

“yeah i’m okay,” you mutter; you might have a couple bruises later but luckily you didn’t do anything weird to your ankle. you grab onto minho’s outstretched arm and he pulls you back into your feet—or, foot. you try to reach down to pick up your fallen crutches but it’s kinda hard to do so while balancing on one foot, and you teeter back and forth as you try to figure out the best way to get them. to your surprise, minho holds an arm out for you to balance on while he picks them up for you.

“um...thanks,” you say, voice small as you place the crutches under your armpits, wishing you weren’t so flustered. minho shrugs in response, and sits back down to pull off his shoes and knee pads. you stand there for a second in a mildly awkward silence, almost forgetting why you came over here in the first place.

“oh, uh, there’s a team meeting in the change room as soon as your ready so we can talk about the game and what to work on in practice,” you finally remember to say. minho looks up and gives you a smile and nods silently before going back to untying his laces. as you turn to leave, you let out a breath you didn’t realize you were holding in. you spot felix and hyunjin walking to the change room and you make your way to join them. they wave at your approach, felix excitedly babbling about his epic saves and “did you see when i dug up that super tall dude’s attack??” and you can’t help but giggle at his enthusiasm.

“i saw you talking to minho,” hyunjin says raising his thick eyebrows at you as felix gives a play-by-play of seemingly every single point in the game.

“yeah, i was just letting him know about the meeting,” you say, trying to appear nonchalant but your cheeks give yourself away. hyunjin smirks at you knowingly.

“don’t worry y/n, i won’t tell anyone. i mean i don’t really understand why you’d go for someone like minho over someone like me, but whatever floats your boat,” he teases. you roll your eyes at him.

“i don’t know what you’re talking about,” you deny. before hyunjin can say anything, you’ve reached the change room door, which felix opens for you. you almost look back to steal a glance at minho before entering, but think better of it with hyunjin right there. you hardly know minho anyways, it’s just a small crush because he’s good at volleyball and also super cute, right? you think to yourself. besides, it’s probably a bad idea to like someone on the team you’re helping coach anyways. you decide to yourself that maybe you should try and minimize the time you spend around minho so you wont have a chance to fall for him. yeah, that sounds like a good idea.

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a/n: aaah a written part!! i hope you guys liked it ;-; sorry i didn’t write any of the actual game, i just thought it might be like...way too confusing lol. also it’s not really important anyways. but yeah exciting times ehheeh lemme know what you guys are thinking so far!! 💖

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marbleverse sounds really cool! would you mind telling me about some of the characters? i'm very curious!

ABSOLUTELY!!!!!

im not gonna lie; there’s a looooooootta characters in marbleverse, just because of how big a project it is. so ill just?? talk about some of the ones in family portrait because those are the ones im working with the most right now!! and also because this particular cast includes some of the oldest characters ive ever made??? (like, I’ve been working with the founders for 8 years!!!! thats a long time to work with a character yall!!! i love them dearly!!!)

SO. there’s 47 members of the cirque du lune. i’m not gonna talk about all 47 of them. im gonna talk about a handful of the ones that might come up more frequently.

the cirque du lune was founded by the sun elf illusionist Felix Pathic and the aquatic elf contortionist Holly Darling. Both of em are trans, Holly’s the World’s Biggest Lesbian, Felix is pan. they have a looooong history together. if you were to ask Felix, Holly is more his family than either of his half siblings are. If you were to ask Holly, Felix is the only family she ever had. You’re gonna see a loooooooooootta them.

They met when they were both kids - Felix was a bit of a pickpocket when his dad Javier Pathic died and he ended up on the streets of New Haven. His dad was a fairly well known toxicologist and much much less known for dabbling in more illegal businesses. Felix says he accidentally poisoned himself. Whether or not that’s the truth is another matter, but that’s the story he gives and that’s the story he’s sticking with. Holly didn’t have a name at the time, but she ran away from home. Felix and the nameless elf got into a scuffle in the middle of a marketplace and she lost her temper, causing a bit of a magic flare up and causing her to literally begin to melt into a puddle of water, which ended up with both of them getting chased out of the marketplace by shop vendors and patrons who didn’t take too kindly to a pair of Waste-touched kids causing a ruckus and called the militia.

Felix helped the nameless elf get away (partially because he felt bad, but mostly because they both dont wanna get caught so why not truce to have that Not Happen so that it Does Not Happen) and the two ended up becoming friends through hiding in a dumpster in an alleyway. They start to talk a little bit. Felix has a flare for dramatics and had been trying to make money through using his illusion magic in a street performing routine. She has no plan, no idea how to move forward. Her main focus was cutting all ties from her family and the community she was raised in, and now? she has no fuckin clue my guy! So they just. Stuck together. Everything’s easier when you’ve got someone to watch your back, right?

anyways, they’ve been running the circus for over 150 years together. Felix technically has the title of ringleader because hes a sucker for The Drama and Holly would Really Rather Not, but without either of em? things would fall apart.

Dapple won’t come up too often in Family Portrait since a lot of the drabbles take place around the time that Naomh joined, and Daps left the circus a few years before then. She and her half-sibling Nico were two of the earliest members of the circus and really really good friends of Felix and Holly! Daps was only convinced to join when she found out that Benzene (a sport fighter) was Felix’s half sister. She’s a half elf and was a swordsman, cellist, and conductor with the circus. She ended up leaving when she was offered a position as a guardsman when the circus traveled to her hometown, which had been a dream of hers when she was a kid. There was a point in time when things between Felix and Daps got real awkward and everyone thought it was because they were fucking. Felix will neither confirm nor deny this, but Holly will if you ask her when she’s drunk enough. Holly will tell many stories about Dapple if you ask her under the right circumstances. Holly’s got dirt on everyone but she’s too nice to use it against folks.

Nico is Dap’s half sibling and they’re a biiiiiiiiiiig half orc. They’re a strongman and fire dancer and they’re just about the jolliest motherfucker you’ll ever meet. They say that they broke someone’s hand during a handshake once, but Nico will neither confirm nor deny. They’re really good with their hands! They helped design Felix’s prosthetic arm once he could afford one and are pretty crafty. They fucking adore knitting, man. They’re very enthusiastic about many things, and knitting is very much on that list. They plan on leaving the circus eventually to become a metalworker, but for now the circus is their home and family and they don’t wanna leave em behind!

Chervil is Felix’s little half sister. She’s a sun elf, she’s kinda sneaky, kinda suspicious. She’s a schemer, that one. She’s fond of pranks, but holds one hell of a grudge when she’s been caught in one. She’s the hypnotist and occasionally works with illusion magic! She grew up in the foster system after Javier died and Felix decided “fuck that noise”. As soon as Felix knew he was able to support her, Felix came back for her. Things haven’t been quite the same between them since; Chervil’s been a bit more distant, a bit more prickly. She instigates and he nitpicks and they argue. Kinda often. But everything works out alright in the end and maybe this is just how things are between them?

Kaitlyn is a jester-sort of actor who has a knack for juggling! She was brought in by her adopted older brother Vincent (a lycanthrope who works on set design and maintenance - he’s the son of a very very very good friend of Kaitlyn’s aunt Cassidy, who raised her alongside Vinny) after she was evicted from her home and had nowhere else to turn. She auditioned as a fortune teller and Felix nearly turned her away, but Holly was enamored by her performance and ended up persuading Felix to let her stay. He warmed up to her after after it turned out she had a thing for juggling and filled the role of a jester instead. She’s a satyr with a jackalope motif. ANYWAYS Kaitlyn’s a giant lesbian and she’s dating Holly. Things’re great with them.

Saru is one of the dancers. He’s a moon elf and kinda a distant cousin of Felix? It’s. It’s complicated. He was a pretty well known prostitute at one point and joined the circus mostly because Felix asked him to and because he thought it sounded fun. He’s kinda like everyone’s weird uncle. He’s delightful to write.

Tante Amaryllis is one of the acrobats, although sometimes she joins in with the dance troupe! She’s an elegant lady. Joined the circus shortly after escaping a reaaaaal bad relationship while pregnant. Ended up with identical twins, named Jasmine and Jasper. She’s been with the circus for like. Thiiiirty years, though? Don’t swear around her. She’ll have words to say if you do. 

Naomh is the circus’s youngest member! They’re a dancing violinist and joined when they were seven years old. They were taken into the circus after they were caught breaking into a tavern owned by a good friend of Felix who thought the circus would take better care of them than the foster care system would, as it isn’t very kind to most Waste-touched folk. They don’t talk much about their life before the circus, but they’ve mentioned having a twin brother who got separated from them.They haven’t had much luck finding him. The entire troupe has played a hand in raising them and the kid sees them as family. Felix fucking adores the kid. Everyone adores the kid. They’re a good kid.

There’s a bunch bunch bunch bunch more but. this is getting long. Saru will come up pretty often because he’s a delight to write for? And Tante Amaryllis and the twins Jasper and Jasmine, ESPECIALLY when Naomh is around but like. Yea. I could yell about a bunch more characters but. this is a lot. there’s technically 47, but only about a fourth of em will show up very often.

Felix, Holly, and Naomh will likely show up the most??? but who knows!! The first drabble for Family Portrait is about Felix and Naomh, though.