#insane Lenore is me in the future

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Lenore's phases and look through the comic (chronologically):

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Before the storm

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After the storm

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Trapped and insane

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Annabell lee

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Their last meeting

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The fire she set for her

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Leo

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Nevermore academy

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Dreamland

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Bonus

(Because I say so)

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[lyranix1201]

🗣️AJ(follower's, mutuals and random people). COM WATER!!!!

This art is a crossover between:

The game "Alice Madness Returns" (character clothes used: Alice liddell) and the webcomic called "Nevermore"(character used: Lenore).

And movie "Alice and wonderland"(character clothes used:Alice) and the webcomic "nevermore"(character used: Annabelle Lee).

Sometimes I love being an artist. I can literally combine random things together that have nothing to do with each other, just because i want to and because I can.(They do have some small things in common, but that's a hole other story, I don't even want to start)

I made many little mistakes. Many happy Accident, well drawing. (I ruined Lenore's nose, her head is to big, I hate the way the hands look, the atonamy is weird, the coloring looking weird, my alcool markers not working and slowly making me go insane and other little things). I don't really like how I drew Annabelle Lee hair and the color of it, doesn't really match her hair color. all of those little things were slowly sending me to orbit, but I'm going to ignore it all, for the sake of my own sanity. (I'm a perfectionist and a procrastinator. I literally avoided drawing Lenore's hand's for 4 day, because I didn't want to do it and because I knew that I would ruin it)

I will make more of those in the future, but now I have to finish packing my stuff, because on Saturday and Sunday I will travel.

Also in the future I want to make a digital version of one of the drawing.

When is that going to happen? When pigs start flying.

(It's probably never going to happen, but there is still a chance, so don't lose hope.)

[m1xieup]

spoliers for Nevermore episode 80!!!!!! (Read at your own risk)

Ok so first of all…. So much happened. I for one am filled with immeasurable joy due to this episode (though I am still awaiting Duke to come back from the wall). We got some character development, Lenore standing up for herself/her friends and refusing to be a pawn in this game, we got some actual Will content outside of Montresor, and possibly some new characters! All of this is incredibly exciting to me! Now I must warn you that I am a Will enjoyer and this post is mainly about my thoughts/theories about him, though I will say the development for everyone was great and I’m so excited to see how they evolve. I will tell you that even though I predicted they may go to Will, I still didn’t think it would happen-he is a side character after all, no matter how much I enjoy him. It was so nice to see him just being his silly self outside of Montrashsor. He seems like a sweet kid caught up in the wrong crowd. However my main reason for posting this is to discuss where he may go in the future.

this conflict is going to change the dynamic of both groups immensely. Lenore’s group may be more cautious and reserved, but I think Annabel’s may fracture. Prospero is loyal to her, but Ada her other devotee is now dating Monty, and may be more loyal to him. Morella won’t want to stay with Annabels group when she learns what they did to Duke, so she’ll probably leave. Monty may start shit with Annabel and may make a power play especially if he passes this off as her plan, and claims he could do better (this is assuming Duke is rescued which I sincerely hope he is). Ada would most likely support him, so Annabel needs to be really careful with how she does things going forward.

Ok so what about Will? He doesn’t really have a choice as far as he’s concerned Lenore could and would murder him so he has to help her. This puts him in a difficult place, as he technically would have betrayed his team by helping to free Duke. So I have a couple ideas about how his arc (which I think he’ll get one! Which makes me very happy ) could go

He stays with Annabel’s group and possibly faces punishment or harm for betraying them (you can’t tell me Monty would not be incredibly pissed at him, and he is not above hurting people that care for him)

he joins Lenore’s group (this is a little unlikely as Idk if they would accept him in after what he did to Duke even if Eulalie and Berenice seem to have some sympathy for him, however it would be very fun and in my opinion Will deserves better friends so it would make me happy)

he goes on his own (idk if he could make it on his own but it’s a possibility)

he dies/gets killed/is eliminated (this sort of goes with the previous but I also wouldn’t put Monty above murdering him if he felt Will betrayed him) [this would make me sad and I hope it doesn’t happen, near death is fine though I can handle angst]

He could join up with another group all together (this is somewhat based on my theory that the 3 guys we saw in the background are going to be somewhat important going forward) basically my theory is that he could join up with three guys we see as a 3rd party or in conjunction with one of the others. ((I also just think it’d be both hilarious and in character for Will to find someone else to latch onto and lackey for))

all in all a fantastic update! I’m so excited to learn more about/get a Will character arc, and I’m excited to see how he grows (change for the better, I believe in you!) I’m sooooo interested to see how these new faces interact with the others and to learn more about them as well. I am eating up Lenore’s arc, and I am so excited to see how this shift in dynamic with Annabel changes things! These are my general thoughts and opinions/theories! I’d love to hear yours fellow fast-passers (or those that read this when it come out fully)! Thank you for sticking with my insane ramblings (I’m so normal about Nevermore I swear) and have a wonderful day/night!

[sixty-silver-wishes]

YALL I found my old diary from when I was 13 and I was NOT prepared for how much it swings between “pretentious wannabe Romantic poet” and “cripplingly self-aware middle schooler”

So right away this is hardcore. Comes with a warning that my ghost will haunt whoever reads it after my death.

“The account of Ocean Waves [for some reason, I was convinced I would be published under that name lol] ^ otherwise known by a less appealing name, is enclosed. Please do not read until you are sure my name is carved into a headstone. If I am killed for the sole purpose of reading this, however far-fetched that may seem, I will hunt you down.”

Happy reading,

- Ocean.

P.S.- You can, however, read this with permission. Good luck with that. Also, if you do decide to kill me, I would prefer a peaceful death. And by the way, I would prefer even more if you didn’t try to kill me. Oh, and if this is read while I’m still alive, I will still hunt you down.”

Already, you can see the makings of a future historian in the works.

“In this somewhat girly journal [it was Disney Princess themed] is the somewhat boring account of a 13-year-old girl. I, Sophia [last name], also known as Ocean Waves, am recording things in here in hopes of future discovery. As I will not share this to [sic] the outside world, I hope this journal will be preserved so that future civilization may find out about my time. However, as a writer and an artist, my goal is to be noticed, not especially famous.”

I give some hilarious takes here:

“I also have artist’s block. I tried drawing a picture earlier; but I didn’t feel like finishing it. I wonder if I’ll ever draw with a passion again.”

(No, younger me, you were just undiagnosed with ADHD.)

Notably, I don’t think I was the Medieval history expert I thought I was at the time:

“I don’t wish to have a boyfriend, and at 13, I don’t think I’m ready to. In the dark ages, girls my age would have already been grandmothers. I think that’s revolting.”

I get very pretentious about my English classes, although I have to say, I still agree with my criticisms of the school system.

“This is my own personal thought, and I prefer it not to be read, as I think differently at night. I think the school system does not have a very good idea of what language arts should be like. We spend hours picking apart and dissecting poems, like they are carcasses and we vultures. Poems aren’t made to be dissected, they’re made to be felt. And all we write are expository essays. Of course this is important, but there’s no way to express how we feel. After all, who decided to put “art” in “language arts” when there is no art to it at all; just mindless examining? I’m sorry for my rant [not sure why I keep apologizing to my private diary], but that’s what journals are for. Until tomorrow,

- Ocean”

I also write about my own art with self-loathing that would put a sexually-repressed 17th century Puritan to shame. You can see me dot my “i” with circles now because I saw a Buzzfeed video once that said people who do that are creative. And I get very passionate about Edgar Allan Poe for some reason:

“I experimented with my new copic markers today, and everyone who saw my drawings seemed to like them. I’m disgraced to say that I had a sense of overwhelming pride, but I’m not used to people noticing my art too often. In first period (aka so called “Language Arts”), we read “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe. Most people in the class didn’t seem to appreciate it, but I did. It tore open the hearts of both the reader + the main character, exposing his grief + longing towards Lenore, who [sic] he can never see again, so much that the stoic raven drives him to insanity and later, death. And to think that Poe got barely any recognition in his time! I’m not expecting much publicity from my books, but I do hope I’ll be able to write gripping + chilling stories like Poe did, without his own troubles (…)”

… In summary, I think 13 year old me would be very happy to know that in the years since, I majored in English, still draw, still single, and own a Poe anthology I bought while visiting the museum dedicated to him in Virginia.

[containatrocity]

"And here I thought you were perfectly happy to drive me insane for the rest of my days with the teasing." He grins, the two of them returned to the boxes of books stacked on the bed after only a brief sidetrack, this time. "I didn't 'that's what she said' you, I 'that's what I said' you, which I think is different enough to be acceptable." He opens the flaps of the box closest to him, starting to pull books from inside and checking inner covers of the ones he knows Josie has a copy of already- a stack of books to send along to the library or sell off already forming beside him as he sets to tucking the rest on the shelves below Lenore, the cat reaching down to swat at his bun as he works. "hey-!" He huffs, glancing up to scrunch his nose at her. "That was rude. Our business partnership is still going, you know- I don't want you thinking you get to be a lazy housecat now that we have an actual house we're living in, alright?" He reaches up to scratch her chin, laughing as Josie continues to complain that he's teasing- and declaring that if he's going to make her wait, he's at least going to make it romantic.

"Oh no, I have to pick you up and carry you somewhere and show off how strong I am? Whatever will I do?" He rolls his eyes, stealing a kiss as he steals a stack of the books she's unpacked to place on the shelf. "It's kinda crazy, right? I mean... around this time last year we didn't even talk." She talks about how far he's come. He's taken aback by it sometimes, too. "I mean, I was in a bad way anyway, I was more drunk than I think I've ever been in my life in that plague doctor costume because I didn't think I could handle that many people." Confidence looked good on him, no matter how fleetingly it made itself known even now- he had miles to go, still ever-vigilant against his own delusional thinking getting worse- the locks on his future 'office' a stipulation he'd installed himself, rough nights were deadly in his case- he didn't want to bring that sort of thing knocking on the door of what certainly felt the closest he'd ever come to a happy ending. He had been right, at the very least- with two people and a little focus, the bookshelf was already nearly stocked. "See, what'd I tell you, we're-" The familiar chirp of his phone alarm points out that he's not eaten today- another ever-present reminder that he's only as 'better' as he's willing to follow the patterns he's laid out to ensure things don't fall out from beneath him. "And I think that's my phone giving you your out, because it's lunchtime." he laughs. "we'll deal with the rest of what's on the bed after, c'mon." He nods to the bedroom door, glancing up at Lenore. "Hold down the fort while we're away, alright boss?" She blinks slowly at him in response.

"You know exactly What to do with me" she said teasing him back easily. "The Doctors cleared me, can you blame me?" Laugh Left her lips. She had done her waiting. Behaved herself as much as Josie could around G. That didn't stop her from sitting in his lap or teasing him as her way of making him suffer while she recovered. It had been a fun game of cat and mouse but she was tired of chaising. She loved him with every fiber of her being and she wanted to show him that. Her hand moved up to his neck again and moving his chin to look at her. playful anger on her face "You did not just 'Thats what she said' me!" She shook her head "I don't think you're being very fair my love. If you can tease then I get to tease too" she pouted.

She was certain, there wasn't a tattoo on His Boyd that she hadn't kissed, touched, or admired. She could kiss his knuckle over and over again it would never be enough. She wanted to be with him skin to skin. It was like a part of her that she had been missing her whole life. He had been in town. This whole time. She wraps her arms around his neck humming softly into the kiss. Sending chill after chill through her body with every touch. Now he was just being unfair. He was torturing her even more. "you're not doing very good job of it Mr. Westfall" she says simply, eyes still closed softly, clinging to the feeling of his lips on hers "I think you like seeing me weak at the knees. You have come a long away from that boy I kissed in my living room last fall...." She teased him back "Fine, if I'm holding out like we're waiting to be married then You're carrying me back into this bedroom bridal style" she grumbled pulling away to go back to the boxes to sort through them with a smirk. "You're lucky I'm a hopeless romantic at heart."

[macgyvertape]

Castlevania kinda had a pacing problem

spoilers for all of Netflix’s Castlevania. I haven’t seen much analysis for the show on tumblr, im honestly curious if discussions I had with irl friends mirror what fandom talks about

tldr: Castlevania seems inconsistently paced from season to season, and within season as well, leads to a lot of characters motivations feeling unclear so characters repeatedly explain why they are doing something while they’re doing it

overview of the seasons:

S1 I know somewhat of a test for Netflix but it has good main trio character establishment and sets the scale of the conflict

s2: pretty complete emotional arc for most characters and resolves the plot of killing Dracula while setting up additional characters to continue the story. Isaac, Hector, Carmilla all established with the audience as characters whose story would continue

honestly I would bet this is the most popular season

S3: s2 did a bit of worldbuilding, but this season really fleshed out the world with both a wide range of locations and exploring the question of “what now, Dracula is dead but vampires and night creatures remain”.

There were basically 4 plot threads: 1) Sypha/Trevor investigating the cult & Saint Germain; 2) Hector & Carmilla (also introducing Lenore, Striga, Morana); 3) Isaac’s journey of revenge & self discovery; 4) Alucard sits around the castle and is betrayed.

overall characters roughly feel like they are in the same place if not worse. A big criticism I saw at the time, which hold up after rewatching this before s4 is nothing felt resolved for the main characters

I would say this season is where the pacing issues start to become apparent, juggling 4 plot threads that lack a central theme or even mutual character connection. If there was a central theme it would be “humans are awful to each other”. The Judge doing Hot Fuzz style murders, The Wizard in the tower, Sumi & Taka

S4: it starts with the same 4 plot threads, though upfront it is made clear that the plot theme is “people are trying to resurrect Dracula”, and the progression of the plot works to resolve unrelated plot threads until the main trio reunites for the boss fights. To me and my friends watching it was obvious that the show would reunite the main trio, the question was how and how far into the run time.

Season 4 is why I’m writing this essay, for the past 2 days I’ve been like, yeah that character sure explained their motives repeatedly maybe with some philosophical discussion, but it’s just such a weird place considering where they were in s3

Alucard’s arc:

Where he was left in season 3, it was after killing people he had trusted in self defense and impaling their corpses. It was clearly meant to parallel Dracula’s dislike of humanity. However overall his character lacked a proactive motivating force.

Honestly the most interesting thing I found in s3 was Alucard clearly misses Sypha and Trevor, however they don’t miss him or refer to him

One reason Sumi & Taka betray Alucard is for the secrets and power of Castlevania. After inviting the village including St Germain who Alucard was warned of into the Castle, Alucard makes 0 effort to secure anything, not even his personal childhood room. Guess he really learned nothing

Discussing St Germain, I think it’s funny that they had a several minute flashback sequence for his lost girlfriend (who doesn’t have a name or a voice actor), to remind the viewer of who he is, and to justify how he’s suddenly back and down for murder.

In s4 there is the call to help the village, and the walk back to the castle is a montage of Alucard opening up to Greta and becoming friendly literally overnight. He laughs off the impaling, and basically all of the darker things he went through in season 3, which has me asking what was the point of his season 3 arc then? 

Honestly writing this I realize the biggest parallel he has with Dracula is the call to action from a bold woman with a dramatic entrance speech which then leads to a romance

Isaac’s arc:

in s3, with all the other themes of “humanity sucks” I was always unsure if the townspeople were meant to appear irrational while attacking a larger force instead of letting him pass through an leave, or him not caring about how he’s provoking them is meant to show his insanity

ive seen the discussion elsewhere, curious about the Discourse here

is s4 Isaac has the whole monologue about how he now has agency but him gaining that agency was his s3 arc. In s4 he’s already at the point of accepting it. By the end of s4 he’s one of those who comes the furthest from his first character appearance to his last.

s4e5 where of Isaac attacking Carmilla in Isaac’s 2nd appearance had him resolving like 4 plot threads at once (Carmilla, Striga& Morana, Hector, and Isaac himself).

but i do wonder if Trevor, Sypha, or Alucard even know any of these people exist. I think not

I was honestly confused if I missed a scene from his dialogue about building something and what is inherent nature, to “My plan has evolved, my plan is now conquest” because he only conquests the one castle and the rest is left unclear

Upon rewatch the connection there is “killing [the wizard] felt just ... I liked that feeling”, so the show says that Isaac in the end attacked Carmilla for the sake of justice and not revenge.

Isaac in his last conversation expresses the theme of s4 “build something new on these old bones, where people can live for the future”

however, his arc honestly feel scenes were cut, and then dialogue was written around it. He’s the only living character who doesn’t show up in the epilogue and the sentient night creature “what if I could empty hell” dialogue was some of the most interesting worldbuilding. Night creatures with sentience and possibility of regaining memories!!!!

The Council of Sisters & Hector’s arc:

oh I’ve already seen s4 discourse about Lenore/Hector while searching for character analysis, a chunk of it seems to be rationalizing the absolute difference between how s3 ended with these characters and s4. It was extremely confusing for me and my friends; wondering if 1) was Hector showing more emotional intelligence than before and putting on a facade to cover up hatred? Nope 2) did more time pass than 6 weeks for there to be some kind stockholm syndrome? No, Hector seems fine to let Lenore kill herself

The slave control ring: played up in the climax of s3 and easily solved s4. s3 Lenore says if he tries to harm them, flee, or take it off it would cause crippling pain, in s4 Hector just easily cuts off his own finger.

for a control ring that they take time to show a version being on the Rebus, it doesn’t do much controlling of Hector

also guess the definition of “do harm” just refers to direct action

Lenore in s4: has no purpose in conquest, has that useless remarked on by multiple characters, is imprisoned, then kills herself after a genre aware philosophical discussion. This essay is long enough, but what the fuck happened to this character who ended s3 clearly physically and sexually abusive? Seriously this was one of the biggest writing changes to the point where she was treating Hector as an equal. Compare her last words in s3 “shh the real people [vampires] are talking”. The change in the relationship is actually something I would have taken being shown, or atleast told of what exactly caused this change other than the vague “you adopted him”

Striga&Morana get the best arc of the Council. 3 scenes: the tent argument, Daybreak armor fight & argument resolution, declaration of feelings and turning away. You could argue Castlevania is plot to be connective tissue between fight scenes, but for all the dialogue about human resistance in different seasons it was nice to see it. Overall the scenes were short but had a lot of showing what their relationship is not just telling,

unlike Carmilla. For as much hyping up as they did with her, and as much power as she had, she only appeared in 2 episodes and no other group except Isaac knew about her military conquest.

the map scene where she states her motive for conquest of wanting to take things from old men is the key example of how characterization became tell not show. How interesting was that monologue compared to the past seasons flashback to her murmuring the old vampire lord, or all her repeated insults of men/man-children that shows how she judges people??

That monologue had to carry the weight of justifying the Sisterhood bonds falling apart as well as why her motivation changed from building a human pen from Styria to Braila to world conquest. I think it did so poorly

Sypha & Trevor

really Sypha & Trevor have the main plot in the show. I checked and post season 1 the only episode they don’t appear in is s4e6, which is entirely devoted to the Isaac, Hector, and Council of Sisterhood arc. Their partnership and adventures are the main plot of the show.

Its easy to see what Trevor’s arc was over the show: coming to peace with the deaths of his family, taking up the mantle of being a Belmont, and starting a new family with Sypha.

With Sypha I actually had to scroll through tv tropes for what is her character arc, and I guess hers is disillusionment from adventure and life outside the speakers? My friends joke that Sypha’s magic is what the plot demands to look cool in a fight, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Tangent: the ending of their arc was easy to guess: as soon as Trevor went to fight the final boss alone I literally said “oh i bet Sypha’s pregnant, Trevor’s doing a heroic sacrifice, theyll use the unexplained magical dagger mcguffin, and 60/40 odds that he goes through an infinite corridor to outright come back vs just the implication he might come back”

I guess my final thought of the show, was overall the SUPER Final Boss got my by surprise. It was a good twist I enjoyed. Not that Death appeared, I had guessed that from the heavy foreshadowing, but I was surprised by who it was, because I had thought I thought the characters involved feeling shoehorned into the plot was just more bad writing. The Alchemist who put St Germain on the path or murder for no discernible motive for helping? Sure gotta move the plot along. New Dracula court member Varney who has a whole introduction with almost every character he meets and banter about his smell? Sure thats basically how all characters talk with a snarky and acerbic voice.

[natsukitakama]

What kind of boyfriends are they ? Cursed edition

Author note : Hello ! I hope you’re doing well ♡ I’m super happy to be able to post again, I still need to practice a little bit tell me what you think about this one. I plan to create another série “what kind of significant other are they” but for a lot of fandoms ♡. 

Warning : Some spoilers / Just me fangirling over my crush 

i do not own those gifs credit to the owners 

The weeping monk aka Lancelot 

Attentive : he tends to be quiet but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t notice. He used to analyze everything in order to catch fey or to fight properly and he uses this quality in your relationship. Meaning he will always know when you are down when you are angry or when you’re lying to him. 

Because he knows that he tries his best to act the proper way in order to help you going through what ever bother you. However despite his sensitive nature, he took him a long time and a lot of works to be able to express his feelings. He was raised to be a weapon to be a man, not some Childs who cried over. Be patient with him it’ll worth it. 

Collected : most of people believe that it’s a cursed  but with him it’s actually a good thing, because he is not very loud, fight are non-existent. 

Not because he doesn’t feel angry (he does) but he wasn’t raised to express his emotion or worst let them take the best of him. He is monk so he knows better than falling for wrath. It took a lot to actually make him angry. In the meantime, being quiet means he is pretty good listener and because of that he alway knows what to do when you’re about to start a fight : because he could remember what you say earlier etc. Since he is attentive when it came to you, it’s all benefit for you. 

Kind : there litteraly nothing he won’t do for you. Not kidding this little baby is touch-starved and he can’t help but thank every divinity fey or not for giving such a wonderful S/O as you are. 

He knows he can be harsh and sometimes he can hurt you with his words, he knows he isn’t very comfortable with physical affection. But he is trying. Because of that he will always take care of you as much as possible, and will always reminds you how much he loves you by small gesture. 

The first time you saw him running into you ready to kill every man and then taking you into a safe place. You knew he was in love and that he cared about you. Most of the time he manifests his love to you by small gesture, a little flower on your desk the next morning, your favorite hot drink, a book that you might be into. Anything who appears to be small gesture but means a lot for you. 

Protective : as I mentionned before, he won’t hesitate to kill anyone who might bother you. For him you far too precious for this world, you’re bringing him peace, your his heaven and there no way someone would take you away from him.

Besides no matter how hard you tried, he still believes that you need protection because the whole world is insane and you’re not ready for that. He also knows that he get a lot of ennemies because of what he did, so he has to be near just in case. No matter how hard you tried, he would always ask you to be careful (and would always have his eyes on you just to be sure). He is aware that betraying the church would give him a lot of ennemies who might try to take you away as an hostage. 

Jealous : he is a possessive man fight me on this. I can see him sending death glare at everyone who might look at you for too long. 

This jealousy came from différents things : First since he is a touch starved baby he wants all your attention on him, he doesn’t want someone to enjoy what he should be the one to experiment. Second he knows that you are out of his league, he doesn’t deserve you you’re a whole light while he is nothing but a shadow. He was blessed by your love for him and there no way he would share this. Third, I can picture him as a primal man, no matter how hard he works to be a monk a good believer, I’m pretty sure deep down there is an alpha.

The green knight Aka Gawain 

Emotional : he might be a strong soldier, one of the best fey’s protector this man is a huge teddy bear. I’m pretty sure he is always touching his S/O : taking their hands, hugs them, kiss them. It’s written on his face he is clingy fight me on this. 

In addition I believe he is pretty sensitive and might feel when something is wrong with you. Each time something happen he will always be here reminding you that he is here, nothing is going to happen, you’re going to be fine. He is pretty easy to read actually although he claims that he can keep secret and anything (which is true) he can’t lie to you. You just have a power on him, he get overwhelmed everytime you’re here. So if he is hiding something all you have to do is to look at him right into his eyes and he would give up. 

Protective : not a surprise. He probably lost his whole family and some of his friends as well so he won’t let something happen to you. 

He might be even difficult than Lancelot, because he can be pretty bossy (especially because he works a lot as a leader) , he will order you to stay at your place and to not leave until it’s very necessary (meaning someone is in your house and you need to run away otherwise it’s never necessary for him). He just can’t loose you, it will break him. Also he tends to be distracted because fo you, you just had this power on him.  

Loving : As I said before the man is clingy, but it’s more than : his eyes are screaming « I love Y/N ». He sweats love. I can’t explain he is vibing his love. 

That’s why he is always close to you, always holding your hand, always kissing you (his kiss my god deep and slow to appreciate every second of it the type to take your breath away). When this man loves he L O V E S. When you’re in private he tends to be pretty clumsy which tends to get well... deeper when you two get intimate. Even when you’re not around people can tell when is thinking about you (99% of the time honestly) I won’t be surprised he is the worship type. 

Romantic : I don’t know he just seems to be the kind of man of taking you into a wood walking together until finding a cute little spot with a river or something. Since he is a fey he feels pretty close to earth in general. He is always spoiling you with meaning gift, like a flower who is supposed to represent love, buying you the book you were always talking about.

Maybe this is just me, but I can totally see him doing those kind of things like dancing with you while looking tenderly at you, always showing you off, writing you letter or anything. He spoils you a lot, anytime he gets the chance to buy something he knows you put interest on he would buy without a second thought. Since he is a fey, he is closed to the nature so he might even craft you something like a flower crown or anything. 

Passionate : I told you when he loves he loves, meaning everything he will do to you, he will do it while being 100% focused on you. He wants to cherish you, praises you, makes you feel like you’re a goddes in every way. 

I said his kiss would take your breath away but so does his smile or his caress, he does with such an intensity. No man had treated you like this before. During intimate moment, he would always whisper sweet things into your ear, worship your body as if you were a divinity. At the end of your session you can’t feel unloved that’s absolutely impossible. 

Merlin 

Tease : that’s how he flirts that’s how he seduces that’s how he shows you he loves you. Although he never does this to be mean, he can’t help but giggle at seeing you being all red from embarrassment or because you’re angry at him. 

Most of the time it’s a cute teasing, but when he wants to fluster you he won’t hesitate to use his skilled tongue to tease the hell out of you until you’re practically begging at him for his attention. Of course he will oblige. It’s just so natural for him that he would do it without even realize that he was teasing you. Most of the time it’s all planned, so he can get your attention without asking you to (he is so proud I swear). 

Jealous : okay so Lancelot is jealous in the primal way but Merlin is on another level. He wants you to be his, he wants everyone to know that you’re taken and he won’t tolerate someone flirting with you or even staring at you. 

Unlike Lancelot, Merlin won’t bother sending death glare instead he will fight them : using his power to trick them or using his silver tongue to make them feel like there nothing. Remember that scene with Lenore ? Where her future husband was talking shit about her ? All he wanted was to throw him a spell. Best believe he would the same to anyone who might be to close to you. You belong to Merlin and only him, also don’t expect him to be kind when you two would be at home after the incident. 

Loving : we saw the way he was looking at Lenore, this man like Gawain vibes love. It’s just written on his face, sometimes it’s cursed cause he is alway afraid someone might use you against him. 

But 99% of the time it’s a blessing, Merlin during his long life has experimented every aspect of love sexual or not. So he knows how to please you, he knows how to caress you, how to kiss you, and he is sucker of your reaction each of them are a piece of heaven for him. He is not as passionate as the green knight but you best believe that every inch of your skin would feel loved (and he doesn’t need to have you under him to do that). He has his way to look at you, anyone even people who never meet him before would noticed how he is into you. 

Secretive : because he loves you and would die for you. He tends to keep a lot of things for himself not that he doesn’t trust you, but in his mind the less you know the better. It’s always a matter of what to do to protect Y/N.

So yeah he would have a secret but will never lie to you, that’s something he can’t do to you. Besides he doesn’t need that he get a pretty skilled tongue and knows what to do to bring another subject instead of answering your question. Since he tends to tease you a lot, all he has to do is to tease you so he would be able to change the subject. At some points you would notice his behavior but since he does that all the time you understood that he might keeps so secret between you two which make you sad. Maybe one day you’ll confront him about it ? 

Shy : believe it or not, but the man still feels some butterflies on his stomach every times he sees you. That’s what make him shy. Because he knows he is falling in love but love can be tricky or dangerous so he is a bit afraid besides he knows he gets some reputation. 

So yeah sometimes he is flustered when he hear you laughing or just sees you smile at him.  He takes him time to admit that he is into you but once he admits it, this shyness will leave for a more playful Merlin.  He was with a lot of people during his life, but he tends to got shy everytime you’re acting “innocent”. When you’re taking him on a walk enjoying any treasure that you got from nature, or just enjoying the simple. One day you were in a city, and some bards where playing around you couldn't help but take his hand to dance with him. That spontaneity never failed to make him feel like a teenager living is first love. 

[beevean]

preach it <3

NFCV is not fun to analyze because the writing just tells you everything. These people do nothing but talk! And sometimes fight! But mostly they talk! And say stuff they shouldn't know or shouldn't need to know! Just to do exposition! (related example, shout out to the flashback with Isaac and Dracula where Dracula asks Isaac to tell him about the time he saved him from brigants. dude? you already know this? why are you forcing him to tell you? bro????)

The only time i was remotely interested in reading subtext was with N!Hector and things like his love for dead animals, but that was because Ellis simply didn't care enough him so he left us the job to fill in the holes lol. In his case, he told us through other characters that we were meant to see him as a stupid manchild, just like he told us through N!Alucard that we were meant to see N!Trevor as the haha funny drunk penis man, instead of a tragic victim of persecution who was learning how to still do good as his family creed dictated.

So when the narrative gets me used to the fact that it will often sit me down and patiently hold my hand to tell me in big colorful letters what am I supposed to feel, I don't see lack of explicit information as nuance, but as "the writer didn't care enough".

(example: I still can't even begin to define what the hell N!Hector was feeling for Lenore by S4. Not because the writing was subtly conveying the complexity of being a victim of abuse. because dude stopped being a coherent character and they just made him say things for the sake of plot or Feelings™ :V)

And that's N!Isaac. He's so in your face that it's embarassing. He gets told! Twice! That he has changed! I get it! I'm not fucking stupid! If this asshole last episode was slaughtering people while laughing maniacally, and now he has wasted six weeks burying people, yes I can tell for myself that he has changed!

Imagine if Kojima in this panel:

made Isaac specify that he brought two swords because he wanted to have a fair fight with Hector. No, she doesn't say it! You see the two swords, and you conclude that he wanted a fair fight with his rival! And from that, you can deduce that pre-insanity Isaac was a honorable man despite his loyalty to Dracula!

Or imagine if she showed us this page:

And added some narration that said "Sadly, Isaac was no longer the rational, honorable man he used to be before the Curse got to him..." no shit i can see that!!

Sorry but I just. Ugh. I felt so insulted by this alleged profound writing so much better than the stupid games!

Oh and ofc his “change” is just him being like “eh whatever i want to touch grass now” yeah alright cool uhhhhh anything to say about the mountain of corpses you left behind you? no? kay. even hector in the mangas had the courtesy to feel bad about it. even in game dude almost lets himself die, I can see that he feels profound guilt!!

(as @hypermascbishounen pointed out, wanting to "better a flawed humanity" is still a villainous goal lol. But I didn't even get that impression. He only cares about his own agency and his own power and his own future. It's all about feeling good about himself.)

Anyway. Yes, sadly the mangas are semi-obscure and while they're more or less accessible nowadays, I can imagine that they were less so in 2005, especially PtR which was never translated. The same goes for the Japanese manual of CV3 that has all the lore of that game. But that doesn't mean they're not canon and they should be ignored: again, PtR was written by someone who personally worked on those characters, so it's safe to say her vision is canon and to be considered.

And even not considering it? Even just playing the game vanilla? Isaac is not just a flamboyant leather daddy lol. He implies that he suffered due to Hector's betrayal ("You stripped of my pride, my home"). He immediately calls Abel back as soon as Julia intervenes, instead of attacking Hector while he was distracted. Julia knows that Isaac respected Hector: how does she know that? Death mocks Isaac for his alleged inferiority, which can be seen as a hint in-game of his inferiority complex. He's also much smarter than you would imagine, able to play Hector like a fiddle while telling him nothing but the truth.

The plots in CV are fairly simple on the surface, and sure sometimes they waste some great ideas because the games are not very plot-driven. But they leave you enough room to imagine and interpret, and unlike NFCV, it feels rewarding. CoD doesn't scream in your face that Hector is a parallel to Dracula and that's why he nearly becomes his vessel: it lets you connect the dots with your own intelligence.

And that's one of the biggest tragedies of the show (that and the... well, everything): it could have expanded on elements that the games left in the background. Alucard's childhood. Lisa's personality beyond "Dracula's dead wife". Hector and Isaac's friendship before the betrayal. Julia. Instead its solution was to cut everything and actively worsen things (good god what did it do to Lisa and the relationship betweein the Forgemasters)

oh and n!isaac is little more than jihadist hector. y'all blorbos ain't that special. do not @ me because i'm right.

I'll be honest: going from the Sonic fandom, when fans frequently and eagerly mix up games and "adaptations" that are often Sonic in all but name and fight to see them as canon no matter how much they screw up the timeline or the characters, to people like this in the CV fandom that reject prequels written by people who worked on the main series (I'll let you pass the MF manga, but Prelude to Revenge was written by Ayami Kojima, who's pretty much the characters' co-creator, and sold as promo material along with the OST of the game), fills me with very confusing feelings.

Not that I trust the opinion of someone who apparently read the mangas and believes that "it still results in Isaac being a one note villain". lol. Kojima couldn't have been clearer about the tragedy of Isaac's loss of sanity, and even Kou Sasakura put a lot of emphasis on Isaac's inferiority complex that makes him obsessed with Hector. Just because Isaac is still his fabulous self by CoD doesn't mean they don't add a tridimensionality to his character.

(also even without his background Isaac is infinitely more entertaining than that whiny pretentious prick and i would have paid money to see him kill people with a smile on his face instead of waxing fake deep quotes about insanity <3)

[felinalain]

Castlevania s4: my thoughts (spoilers!)

So! Just like the other seasons, after watching this, here is my subjective “judgement”.

First, I’ll remind that I had loved s1 and s2, but I hated s3 because it took a hard left from source material without warning, was filled with un-necessary sexual violence, had boring filler characters, and was paced like a drunk trying to tell a joke. The only part I liked of it was Isaac, really.

Now on to the thing!

Going into this season while aware that it was no longer an adaptation, but more of an “inspired by” work, I had my expectation much much lower. Which allowed me to enjoy the story a lot more.

I really loved the ending, first of all. (aside from one big point and one small detail of it) Good endings like this are all too rare, and I really loved it. (the small detail is Greta hinted as Alucard love interest. Why not go OT3, Netflix?, Whyyyyy...)

The plot itself wasn’t bad, and much better paced than the previous season (not that hard to do though) even if not fully well paced.

I adored Isaac plot. The one deviation from original material that I loved without question. Don’t get me wrong, I still love original Isaac, the crazy fucker, but this Isaac... the character development, the emotional growth! *chef kiss*

Alucard too, on the matter of development, got a much better deal this season. (His face when Trevor and Sypha come out of nowhere to help him... so precious!) We got to see how his assault last season left him and the impact, which is important. You don’t show this kind of things without giving it a follow-up because otherwise it means there was no point to it other than shock value (I’m looking at Hector while writing this, yeah totally)

I was a bit surprised by their idea of making St Germain a villain, because originally he’s just... an observant? I mean, it kinda worked, but I wasn’t expecting it. I guess they needed a secondary villain and rather than maker a filler character for it, they picked one that existed.

His backstory was a bit boring in that it was very classic, but else it worked I guess.

I’m so fucking glad that Hector grew a little bit of a spine in this season. I truly hated how he was treated last season, and to hear it was because the show writer just didn’t like him... like, that’s just not professional. You don’t shit on a character just because you dislike them. That’s stupid. People rant against fan-fiction writers who do that, so I’m damn well going to rant against professional writers who do that. Which, again, glad to see him get a spine, BUT I didn’t like the whole “Lenore” plot and how it happened. Like, she abused him. She mentally (and physically) abused him. Made him a slave. He should have hated her, been angry... heck, he should have let Isaac kill her. That he didn’t.... yeah, I didn’t like how that was handled. At all.

But at least now she’s dead, he’s free, for good.

DEATH! OMG Death! And the final boss fight, straight out of Lamments! Epic!

I’m... a bit on the fence about the Dracula and Lisa ending. As in, I don’t know what to think of it? It’s nice and cute and happy, but also, it make any future adaptation harder, because... no insane Dracula to fight? Unless Dracula becomes a sort of title worn by the strongest badest fucker alive at the moment.... *shrug*

Anyway, a good end, a much much better season than the one before.

A solid 7/10 from me.

[humanlighthouse]

Opening Lines! :)

Rules: List the first lines of your last 8 stories (if you have less than 8, just list them all!). See if there are any patterns. Choose your favorite opening line. Then tag 10 authors!

 @jockvillagersonly @cross-d-a and @foxofninetales all tagged me in this and I am so grateful?? Thanks guys?? I love you all so much???

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I have so very few fics compared to some of you and some of these are OLD so be indulgent ToT first four are DMBJ, one is for the Untamed, one for Anne with an E, one for Blacklist, and one for Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Dinner Party (which you should all go watch right this instant btw). I’m also gonna cheat a little heavily and sometimes extend the definition of “first line” to first few lines aright :/

 1. (On fire from within) the moon in the lining of your skin [PangXie pwp/dick therapy 5+1, 2/6]

Among the many things Wu Xie was learning to grieve in advance Wushanju wasn’t the least, but losing his house didn’t leave him without a home.

 2. In the fell clutch of circumstance [PingXie fluff, oneshot]

Their first night alone in Wushanju saw the Iron Triangle drinking heavily, from relief and for future good luck. It was over, and hopefully never to happen again.

 3. And sleep my senses in forgetfulness [PingXie fluff and smut, complete]

Of course, there had been no warning. This was not how defense mechanisms worked after all.

 4. Feline, fearless, faithful and true [PingXie fluff and smut, complete]

“Tianzhen, why the fuck are you trying to shave that cat?”

 5. From a single seed the world was sown [SongXiao angst, eventual comfort but on hiatus]

Song Lan left Yi City with a slight bend to his gait, Shuanghua an unusual weight on his back. More than the shape of it, it was the sword’s stillness that made his body recoil, pulling left as if he could escape it somehow.

 6. A world where it's always June [AnnexGilbert, pure fluff, almost complete]

Gilbert had meant to come home for spring.

 7. One Crisis At A Time [Lizzington sex pollen AU, pure smut, oneshot]

Summer was hot, humid, and miserable in Washington.

 8. There are forces in the world and beyond the world [LenorexHG soulmate AU, hurt/comfort, complete]

Most people had their marks deciphered by their early twenties. It’s common knowledge that you’re more likely than not to have met your soulmate before you even come of age, but Lenore’s twenty-fifth birthday was inching closer with each passing day and yet for the life of her she couldn’t figure out what the signs meant.

 Patterns I Noticed: I cannot write opening lines for shit : ) at least not as a single sentence, I tend to write two opposing ones or a short opening paragraph followed by one punch line? One of my current wips starts with: 

“The man on the ground is unconscious, a sword clutched to his chest, devastatingly beautiful despite the state he's in, and Wu Xie has the sudden urge to kiss him awake. 

He doesn't.” 

which I think is fairly typical for me? so this opening lines game came for my ass lol

Things I’d Like To Work On: Writing more in general? I had so few fics to choose from that this was harder than I expected

My Favorites: Definitely number 4! It was my first fic for DMBJ and that one sentence is what the whole idea started from. Just… the insanity of it. I still love it so much. WX has Problems and we love him for this

 As usual I am The Worst at tagging people so feel free to drop into the game if you want to ( ˘⌣˘)♡(˘⌣˘ )