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Dreamswap Critique Part 2: Turns out this isn't a Dreamswap but it's inspired by Dreamtale a bit, Ouija just had a bimbo moment.

Okay so while taking a refreshing shower after listening to one of my favorite video essays, I just found myself having an extremely ravenous need to rip another pair of designs apart with sadistic yet constructive glee. So this week’s victim– I mean subject, are these two goobers Faith and Frenzy, two characters who this time are based off of the Dreamtale brothers in some aspect but clearly are not the same people.

Look at these goobs. They goobin.

I must start with a self-correction, though. Before writing this rant I assumed Frenzy and Faith also came from some version of Dreamswap. Sarco had to correct me. They don’t have the same creator, it’s not even the same artstyle. That’s on me for assuming impulsively. (This has been a certified Ouija-Bimbo-Moment ™ )

Onebizzarekai created Dreamswap. Faith and Frenzy were created by Unu-Nunu, who is also the creator of Pale and Template, which are two really good designs. I highly suggest you check them out when you get the chance.

Starting with Faith, who is inspired by Dream, let’s begin with what he is wearing. It's zipped/buttoned up and shows him to be far more closed off as an individual. He is shielding his chest/heart from the world, and it could be viewed that he himself will not tell us what is on his mind.

Frenzy on the other hand has his coat open which shows he's humble and open with his emotions. With how tattered his clothes are, even going as far to have stitches around the rim of his hood, he looks like the type who either gets attacked a lot or looks to be someone who is not as well off as Faith. He wears his emotions on his sleeve and gets into a lot of danger though we don't know if that is willingly or unwillingly. If anything, if I had to pick one to trust in a life or death situation if I didn't know them, I'd pick Frenzy hands down because he looks to be the more open one, the more “Yup. I’ve seen this before…” one.

Faith, meanwhile, is far too clean, far too prestigious-looking. He comes across as a rich kid going on his first ever hike and would get pissed if a speck of dirt or a blade of grass got onto his cloak or stained said cloak. The only thing that would even give you “traveler vibes” is his living branch which is the most toned deaf choice I’ve ever seen – also if you’re wondering, yes this would apply to any Genshin character that happens to wear white. White is a wholly impractical color when it comes to designing a character that is supposed to be one that travels a lot.

White as a color is a sign of “purity” ; it's why every single angel ever painted has white wings. It’s why women have worn white dresses when they have a wedding, etc. White equates purity, but it is unfitting for a character that is meant to travel a lot, and therefore, be exposed to elements that will wreck whatever semblance of “purity” they began with. Travelling is synonymous with experience. Unless there is a narrative reason white is included anyway, the color does not mesh with this theme.

We also need to address another aspect of the stave, that being it's a living branch. It has leaves. Usually when using this type of concept for character design this signifies the character is tied to nature as a whole and most specifically plant life. This is why a lot of Grass Type Pokemon usually have leaves and flowers as legit parts of their biology.

But there is nothing about Faith that attributes to him being tied to nature.

To give an example, the champion Lillia is a nature spirit who has a flower growing out of her head, her hair and eyelashes are flower petals, she has a living branch she uses to collect dreams for the tree that is her mother-tree who is dying. The stave fits her with this information in mind, not Faith.

Not to mention it must be asked: Did Unu forget that the player can sweep the entirety of Undertale with a stick as a weapon, or are these characters supposed to be separated from the rules of this game? My criticism here would be rendered moot if the latter is true, but I’ve looked and found no confirmation on which it’s supposed to be, so I’m gonna keep talking anyway.

Dreamtale itself is meant to be separate from Undertale in so many aspects, but whatever Frenzy and Faith are supposed to be hasn’t been made clear.

Okay, time for a rant about Undertale in general and how the creator of these two characters either didn’t understand the story or message of the game itself or disregarded it for other reasons—

Undertale as a game is often talked about having a strong message of pacifism and genocide but there is a bigger message that is comically missed to such a point that I’m shocked that everyone missed it, even me, a fucking Pokemon fan. To spell it out I’m going to give you a direct quote from one of my favorite youtubers but I will not give you their name to spare them from being harassed more than they already are:

“Even when I came away with very positive feelings about something, people still needed to desperately cope and make up fiction to avoid accepting the idea that... a person with ADHD doesn't want to reread the same quippy banter 12 times in a row?  It's so fucking weird. People did that with Undertale as well. I've seen people get harassed because they refuse to play the Genocide run, by fans who think it's necessary for a complete experience. Even though the Genocide run is one long running commentary about how you're only doing this because of an avaricious drive for more content, never being satisfied with a good ending. Even when the game takes you by the hand and walks you out of it in the True ending, you still have this insatiable need to wring more content out of it.”

Do you know how weird it is to think that you want to go back and forth over and over and over again just to kill every single monster in the Underground as a sick way of getting more content? Why are you so voracious in the need to squeeze more content out of this game? You got the true ending. Why are you fucking doing this. The most popular boss – Sans – literally has an attack style straight out of fucking TouHou just to hammer it into your dense ass skulls that what you’re doing is beyond stupid and pointless.

Hell, Chara themself outright deletes the world and if you try to wring EVEN MORE CONTENT out of the game. You are forced to make a deal with them and then get the worst ending in the game, where it’s implied that you’ll be possessed by Chara who will still delete the fucking world but in a more sadistic manner just to spite you specifically.

I mean youtubers find it so tedious that they have to cut the video and try to avoid looking bored out of their mind. There is nothing interesting about it gameplay wise. Shiny Hunting in Pokemon is more interesting than the Genocide Run in Undertale because at least you have to battle or hatch eggs or both. You have something more to do there instead of the same exact process repeatedly.

The True Ending of Undertale is about a random scrappy small child falling into the Underground and happens to wind up freeing the Monsters and making friends. Literally the only two items Frisk has is a stick and a bandaid. They are legitimately a child. Why is a child going to go and commit a fucking genocide? It is literally just Alice in Wonderland but it's with monsters and the child is an orphan.

Committing genocide in Undertale is boring and the majority of the time you are using the fucking stick so the character that has a living branch as a stave is getting the fucking side eye from me because a stave does not communicate pacifism in the context of Undertale!

You can say “Oh, but Frenzy has knives and Chara is always depicted with a knife!”

Yeah. By the fandom. It is not in any way a canon feature.

The only reason why you are saying this is because of one little comment from them in the main game which can be simply summarized by “Finally! A real weapon!” because everything that they had as options before were all things a normal kid would play around with if you discount one thing.

You have a stick which is something any average kid would play outside with if they didn't have any toys or video games.

A toy knife comes with plastic cooking sets… for kids.

A book… ever heard of the children's section at a library?

A pair of boxing gloves which are only used for training and sports. Boxing is a sport. Some kids play sports.

A pair of ballet shoes which are self explanatory but if you need an explanation, there are these things called ballet classes. It's a type of dance that requires a pair of shoes that helps you stand on the tips of your toes and it takes years and years and years to perfect one’s practice of the dance. Many ballet students start as children.

A gun which logically has limited ammo in an irl sense and I've never seen it be actually used in game. If a kid had it before, whoever they got it from was one of the most irresponsible people on the planet or it’s a toy gun. Ever heard of the NERF brand? NERF or nothing?

A pan which likely was given to the Kindness child by Toriel, or that kid had it while camping or shopping with their parents before falling into the Underground.

And then the knife which you get at the end of the game.

Only two of them can be considered actual weapons and only one of them is given to you at the end of the game. And since Chara disregards the gun, that says a lot.

They are melee. And you give the pacifist rep a stick which can be used to slaughter a fucking Boss Monster? That’s certainly a jump. I wouldn’t call it thought out.

If you want a character to represent the pacifist runs, give them a defense item. Give them a shield. Or an invisibility cloak. Or a tennis racket to parry attacks like they’re tennis balls.

But to be honest, if you took out the pictures of Frenzy with the knives… I would've thought he was the pacifist more than Faith was.

But let’s get to his name, “Faith”.

Faith does NOT equate to Pacifism.

Faith doesn't equate Pacifism. Faith doesn't equate to a good person. Faith is not inherently a basis for morality or well-intended justice. Faith isn’t always used to support others. In our world right now, it is being used as a weapon to target, evict, and kill others by the American Republican party.

You can try to negate this with “Oh, but you see the character is secretly a self-centered asshole!”

Wow. Original. How magical. You really got me there. It's not like you just happened to also make him represent the Pacifist Timelines which actively requires you to be a good person and make good decisions to benefit the other characters to get the best endings. How ironic. It's not like everyone makes their characters be ironic because irony = cool which originates from Homestuck which is the greatest waste of time to ever exist and was never good to begin with.

The thing is, the word faith means “to follow something blindly”. You don't need evidence, you just need to believe. And what makes this design all the more Abrahamic religion-inspired is that the fact the character is meant to evoke the idea of a Shepherd, a figure that symbolizes protection and safety, a means of defense to the predators who hunger for the sheep he watches. The Shepherd, by design, is not supposed to be a pacifist if it means his sheep are in danger. He is justified to defend himself or his animals if they are under the threat of harm or death. Shepherds have to be prepared to fight, therefore, Shepherds are not pacifists.

This should not fly over your head. That's the entire idea of this character’s design but fails when it comes to the fact that he's supposed to be an Undertale OC inspired by Dream, or really, if not that, it was probably just the positivity vs negativity theme a fuckton of media have in general. And while positivity and negativity do obviously exist in stories including subjects of pacifism and genocide, those two opposites are not synonymous, nor do they inherently solve anything. Genocide is the worst thing one could do to entire populations of people (we’ve already been seeing that in Gaza, Sudan, etc.), and pacifism is just the life decision to never fight/avoid all fights. It is the belief that violence should never be used as a means to solve anything. Pacifism is not a means to stop genocide, and genocide is a means that kills everything out of systematic prejudice, even the pacifists that choose to do nothing for their own comfort.

Frisk was able to pacify every monster they met because monsters are not inherently violent, aggressive beings. They have a conscience. They are more accustomed to and prefer kindness and pacifism over violence and aggression. Pacifism works for Frisk because their temporary adversaries are open to change.

In genocide, the people perpetrating it all are already beyond reason and have been that way for a long, long time. Their minds are set on mass murdering thousands to millions of people. They do not want a change except the one only they will benefit from. Pacifism, especially from their victims and bystanders, makes them stronger. The only way to combat genocide is through direct rebellion and violence. Regardless, genocide is the obvious wrong. There is no debate.

Violence in and of itself is a tool. It can be used to subjugate others, or it could be used for defense.

The messages in comparison are simplified and muddled within the concepts of Faith and Frenzy, and the designs don’t do much to help with that. They don’t add or remove anything of value and all I get when I look at them are questions and observations with no answers or supportive context I have missed for rebuttal. I would like to like these characters, but outside the points I bring up in this rant they’re just… bland.

It’s entirely fixable if Unu ever wants to come back to them, they’re just not for me as they are.

Okay, that’s enough of Faith, let’s look at his counterpart.

I’m going to repeat myself but it’s okay because it will all make sense soon. He has his cloak messy and open, which is a universal character design sign of showing us that he is more humble and open with his emotions. With how tattered his clothes are, even going as far to have visible stitches around the rim of his hood, he looks like the type who either gets attacked a lot or looks to be someone who is not as well off as Faith. He wears his emotions on his sleeve and gets into a lot of danger, as shown with the bandages being evident of that, though we don't know if that is willingly or unwillingly. If anything, if I had to pick one to trust in a life or death situation if I didn't know them, I'd pick Frenzy hands down because he looks to be the more open one, the more “Yup. I’ve seen this before…” one.

It can be stated that he’s supposed to be the representation of the Genocide Runs, it falls flat on jump because of Frisk.

Thing is, it's evident that Frisk does not look very well off in the game.

For one thing their “defense item” was a bandaid and they fell from a great height into the Underground. A great enough height that it hid an entire civilization from the world with little to no problems. And they can outright choose to be adopted by Toriel showing that they are in fact an orphan, given you complete the game through a Pacifist route.

Look at Frenzy's design.

He looks like he steals food just to survive. He looks like he gets into fights often and is struggling to keep going just because of how his clothes are tattered and has visible patchwork on his hood. He has bandages on his body showing that he's either lost some fights or didn't get out of those fights unscathed, needed to avoid any infections and wrapped said wounds in bandages. His shirt is two sizes too big!

This tells me that the creator thinks that “Impoverished = Violent / Uncivilized” which is… certainly a choice. It’s incorrect and disgusting but I’m giving Unu the benefit of the doubt that this message was not intended.

The way Frenzy looks simply tells me that he is beyond unprivileged meanwhile Faith looks like he is some pompous rich kid who decided to go “slumming it with the poor” and thinks that the outfit he's wearing wouldn't look too fancy in comparison to those that are actually poor, only to find out that it's still fucking blatantly high end shit.

Wait a minute.

Hear me out for a second.

One of my favorite shows is Arcane. I've made it abundantly clear that I’m a League of Legends fan, but in Arcane we get a very similar dynamic that I just described. We get this with Caitlyn and Vi.

Someone once made a comment about how Cait and Vi’s relationship made no sense at all and how Cait constantly treated Vi like trash, using the moment when Vi decides to stop by a small restaurant in Zaun.

I pointed out that Cait is so privileged that she doesn't even have the awareness to think about things from Vi’s perspective and never fucking tries to. She didn't think of dressing like a Zaunite meanwhile Vi has the awareness to steal Cait some clothes instead of letting her go around dressed like an enforcer.

Vi points out to Cait that she cannot go around asking questions if she actually wants answers – meaning Cait needs to actually do things gently and subtly.

Vi states, “You go around thinking you'll get what you want, but you need to make people think you have what they want.”

But this scene is skipped over simply for the “you're hot, cupcake” line and that's it.

Cait is so privileged that she doesn't see the way she is treating Zaunites is wrong and it's so subtle because she isn't using the same language as the character Marcus (using “Trencher-Trash”, “Sump-Rats”, etc.). Hell, Cait went around poisoning Zaunites and viewed it as a necessity and good despite the fact that that same gas would kill her and normal Piltovans in SECONDS.

But what truly makes this all beyond evident is the way she and Vi dress in comparison to each other, specifically in the first 3 episodes of Arcane Season 1.

Vi wears very neutral tones, her pants and shirt look like they're two sizes too big for her, she has bandages, her shoes are very plain looking, and her vest is tiny and has a belt that looked like it was originally used for a much smaller and younger version of herself or maybe her baby sister.

Caitlyn, on the other hand…

She has a poofy top with gold trimmings, a purple skirt, white leggings, and Mary Jane's.

Which one of these two characters do you think comes from wealth?

It's Cait. If you guessed Vi, you’re either blind, stupid, or wasn’t aware of these design gimmicks.

So when I say Faith looks like a pompous rich kid in comparison to Frenzy and this doesn't fit with the messaging of Undertale as a whole because remember Faith = Pacifist Run, while Frenzy = Genocide Run, it doesn’t make sense. Or at least, any sense that would fall flat on its face.

Okay, back to Frenzy.

Looking at Frenzy and his name, it's okayish in the sense it's a very basic idea as a name, however it is failed by the design of the character. He doesn't look like he himself is the violent one, just someone who is used to being put in situations where he is forced to use violence.

I mean if he really is violent, why would he hide his weapons? Hiding the weapons communicates “I might need this later / I might need this in case of an emergency.”

If he is the violent one of the two then he should have the weapons out in the open. Have them litter him fully.

To use a more minor example, look at Hidan from Naruto.

He is always carrying his giant as hell scythe out in the open. If you see that out in public in the Naruto universe, that is a threat. That is where you see parents pulling their children close and worrying about whether or not they should run, preferably in the exact opposite direction.

Having such a big and blatantly dangerous weapon out in the open that just screams the word “violence is the only option” is better than the characters just hiding them. That is getting past the fact that the entirety of the Akatsuki is wearing the exact same cloak which has already been communicated as a violent group thanks to Itachi and Kisame. Hidan is just the most direct one about it.

Then we also have the fact that if Frenzy is the violent one, why not litter him with scars showing that not only is he violent but actively THRIVES in it? Naruto also has another character that actively shows this kind of idea with the other character from the Zombie Combo, that being Kakuzu.

He is stitched up like an overly loved doll that got shredded by a feral rabid cat. So when it's revealed that this guy was the one to fight the first Hokage and survived that ass beating it's not surprising because, LOOK AT HIM. That man persevered like a damn tank!

So with the fact that Frenzy has no scars and not openly showing his weapons, he does not scream violence. His design does not scream aggression. It does not scream obvious evil intent. He does not scream genocidal. He just looks like a kid that needs a mom to scoop him up and adopt him and get him some new clothes.

“BUT WAIT!” I hear you screaming. “You said that having the open vest was a bad thing for Frenzy but Hidan has his bare fucking chest out in the open! His tits are out in the open air! What about that, huh?”

Have you watched Naruto Shippuden? It’s okay if you didn’t, I’ll explain my thought process anyway.

Hidan doesn't hide his emotions. Hidan wears them openly and proudly. This is a fact. Either you get calm priest of Jashinism, or you get a manic sadomasochist who is going to laugh in your face, cussing you out and calling you more slurs than you could ever comprehend as he stabs himself through his heart after his weird jutsu is already linked to you causing you to die from that very wound without him actively stabbing you through the heart. And he's a thirst trap on top of that.

It's fitting for Hidan. We have all the behavior, backstory, and extra context to support his whole concept and role in his source.

It's not fitting for Frenzy, because Frenzy doesn’t have that. He wasn’t given that thought, at least not from what Unu has posted about him. The closest we’ve been given to “evil” from him is basic annoying asshole behavior and Faith’s basic reactions to his very existence.

Then we have the lack of shoes. Lack of shoes are a universal signal to a character that is down to earth or even someone who is connected to it.

Look at Toph Beiphong from Avatar the Last Airbender, she is so connected to the earth that she has seismic sense, able to see through the ground via vibrations in the earth itself and even when she's elderly, she can see everyone on the entire planet.

If you want another example, let's look at someone who represents the idea of frenzy better than Frenzy himself. Meet Briar from League of Legends.

Briar is a blood golem experiment in Noxus. The story with Briar is that she is a blood golem, she was created from pure magic to be a living weapon, but when the new ruler of Noxus captured her and had her locked away with her fellow golems, who were all starving from a lack of blood, she realized that she was bored as shit and wanted to try being more than a starving golem. She wanted to be a person.

For lack of a better word, she wants to be normal.

Even in her trailer, she outright kept calling a guy her friend and her “escape buddy”. She wants friends, she wants to be able to socialize and be a person, not a weapon or just a starving creature. In her voice lines she is trying to convince herself that she has control over her hunger and who she is. In her voice lines in the game she outright goes around asking other champions to share their blood.

This is all subtly shown via her lack of shoes, showing that she is trying to fully ground herself and be self aware. She is connected to the earth. A big part of her character is a symbolic rock. Her intentions and outlook of herself are solid and stable.

Yes, having practical footwear is important to travel but it can also communicate something else: a lack of resources.

With the high top boots that Faith has and having pure white clothes which is very typical for angelic characters and character designs it also communicates an abundance of resources.

Where Frenzy with his lack of shoes and simply relying on tattered clothes that looks like he has to sit down and patch up for hours on end, and wrap and rewrap his feet on bandages, he looks like he just escaped an abusive household, stole some clothes and bandages and has been running from the cops for years.

He looks more like he's a street rat like Aladdin rather than someone who is evil and dangerous.

Again, this tells me that the artist views people who are in poverty are evil just for being poor, where the rich are the good guys because they're rich. But there is no way of me knowing these were Unu’s intentions at all, because it’s very likely it’s the exact opposite and Unu wasn’t thinking about poverty at all. They could have been inspired by very, very ratty looking demons or something. I’m not a mind reader, I wouldn’t know.

But let’s look at Frenzy’s primary weapon.

Knives can be dangerous, don't get me wrong, but it's not a typical weapon. It's utility.

A knife is something you use for cooking, whittling, and sharpening and defense. It's not the first mode for attack.

Hell I even had to find multiple reasons for this particular item to be the main weapon for one character and an optional weapon for another.

Such as Edelweiss, it's supposed to be attached to his bayonet.

It's not the first line of attack, it's the last line of defense and survival.

If Frenzy is supposed to be the dangerous one, why use basic knives, why not kunai, or a sword, or a scythe, or ANYTHING ELSE?

And finally there is the color scheme. Faith’s is decent but again it still communicates wealth and purity and all that other superior garbage, and Frenzy's… Frenzy's color scheme is an overdone choice that anyone can see from a mile away and say “Oh, that's a villain. Neat.” that I want to scream.

I can hear Team Rocket calling to demand their color scheme back.

Black and red... Revolutionary.

It's been used by every single villain concept in popular media: Team Rocket, Jafar, Harley Quinn, EVERY SINGLE SITH CHARACTER IN STAR WARS. Seriously, I'm sick of it.

It's the most overused color scheme ever.

You can try to use that argument against me with Klezmer, but only his turtleneck is red and it's negated by everything else, especially his hood and cape which are gold.

I mean yes, Frenzy does have specs of gold and neutral tones like muted reds and gray, but it’s still over done.

Also I just looked at his and Faith's designs again at the time of writing… I didn’t notice the star and heart motifs on their cloaks.

So you give Faith the Save-Point star, and Frenzy the heart….

So you give Faith the tool the player uses to constantly RESET the timeline, while you give Frenzy the one symbol for love and human souls in the game…. Again, Frenzy is more linked to Frisk than he is to anything else.

Now… I know what you're going to inevitably say.

“Well Ouija, if designing Dreamtale-inspired characters is soooooo easy… then why don't you do it?!”

Well guess what…

I did.

Take that! [Evil laughter ensues.]

As an artist and writer I’ve always had a… unique way of going about my designs. For one, I tend to pick one aspect of something I like, run off in that direction and pick up things as I go along. I usually have a small idea in the back of my mind that is an itch I haven’t scratched. For this one it’s the idea of toxicity.

I literally wrote the word “Toxic” in the picture, so it should be blatantly obvious. I took note that the fandom loves doomed siblings and it shows. Toxic relationships are almost if not blatantly fetishized by the fandom to a horrifying degree, from incest to abusive siblings and outright abusive victim and trafficker ships like Killermare (gross), it’s almost unescapeable. I could hide all these ships from myself by blocking the tags, but let’s be real, not everyone is going to use them. Some clearly don’t give a flying fuck. So let me bitch, will ya?

I then took the idea that I used for my actual Dreamtale based AU, that being instead of a goopy goop monster for Nightmare, I go into a more ethereal direction.

Because I used Dreamswap as spiteful inspiration for this idea, I kept this Nightmare design as a solid skeleton, but gave him a gasmask and a smoking flask that gives off the idea that if he threw it at someone, you’d get nothing but smoke. I also had the idea that without the mask, his breathing would create green toxic smoke that would bring nothing but negativity to everything and everyone around him.

The idea obviously spawns from The Gray from Arcane/League of Legends, but it also comes from the idea of toxic fandoms and communities and other populations in general. Think of the harassment that the Jokublog has gotten on and off for about eight years now, or any transgender person who happens to exist happily, or any girl that dares to join a VC in an online game, or transfemmes if they exist in any proximity to a cisgender woman, or a transmasc if they breathe in lesbianism’s general direction, or a thirteen year old discovering they’re a therian and unfortunately TikTok caught wind of that, or— I’ll stop.

Talking to Sarco briefly about this idea, they brought up the idea that he has the mask to hide his identity, while I got the idea that because he represents the Negativity of the Positive/Negative dynamic, he just doesn’t care about other AUs and is so focused on getting his brother back, he just experiments on his magic and uses the other AUs as his lab rats.

I also went with Cybergoth as the main outfit style of choice. My reason being is because, again, that idea of “Toxic”, and the fact that Cybergoth is the most underutilized version of goth in all of media. I will admit that this design is very much half-assed. I didn’t put nearly as much effort as I would with my normal designs. But that’s mainly because I’m wholly uninterested in making a Dreamswap AU. I put in as little effort as I could but enough to at the very least make him interesting enough to myself and what I think might be at least intriguing to anyone that looks at him.

I needed to make this character look like he could play either role as villain or hero or even just being an agitating neutral party. He could be a hero in one perspective, or a villain in the other. I needed his design to also get people to ask “Who is he? What’s his story?” because that’s the entire idea of making a character. You make them designed enough to invoke that outside interest.

As for the color choice I chose black and a bright neon green. It’s my personal favorite color combination. I find that people use either purple or red as their stereotypical “poison” and “evil” color choices and adding black on top of it just triples down on those aspects, but for whatever reason a bright neon green screams “toxicity” to me. Maybe it’s how radiation is depicted as a bright green in media. I don’t know, but it’s something that I just like. I also gave him the cracked moon pendant to show that he is damaged in some way. But I also added the design of Dream’s circlet on the collar, as a way of showing him perhaps holding on to the past but isn’t willing to speak about it. It’s literally tethered to him.

But that’s enough of this design that took me maybe an hour and a half of my life I’m never going to get back…

To leave off this entire tangent, I’ll say something nice about Faith and Frenzy’s designs.

For one, I love the halo idea, it is such a unique take on the circlets, and shows their ties to the originals’ designs without rehashing it – if Unu happens to read this entire shitshow somehow, keep the halos, but maybe change Frenzy’s, the whole devil-horn idea isn’t really working on him.

Adding purple to Faith’s design was a nice choice, it adds this nice softness that would’ve been missing in the design without it.

I love how expressive the characters are in the ref sheets. Frenzy’s expressions in particular can get 500 Italian finger kisses from me. The top right corner image of him with the vines just gives nothing but cheeky-bastard energy and I’m all here for it.

At the end of the day, these are just my hot-takes and so long as I keep getting the message of “Just put effort into your designs even if it’s just a little” I did my job with this. If you have any comments or questions just either comment in the towel section or throw yourself into the ask box, one of us will respond.

Either way, keep drawing, put in effort… My carpal tunnel is trying to murder me.

-- Ouija

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The Omen of Sterling | PROLOGUE

Pairing : vampire!enha x fem!oc

Genre of this chapter : vampire, surprise visit! (almost ends up as a dinner though!)

POV : Jestel’s

Words count : 1.8k

WARNINGS : wanting to eat oc..., mentioned of blood, hunting, slight argument, heavy content and world building, the boys kinda patriotic here if you squint [eagle voice] KHAAAKKK (let me know if i miss anything)

Note : thank you for the excitement! never would i thought that the simple character introduction would have over than 150 notes... i am very thankful, thank you guys... it means so much to me (feel free to send ask if you have any confusion about the character or world building!)

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PROLOGUE: SURPRISE GUEST

“What is our feast for today?” Ricardo stares at the ceiling with boredom, waiting for dinner time, or hunting time—if I asked him to hunt today.

“What do you want to eat?” I asked all of them.

“Stray human.” Jasper answered easily.

“Well, unfortunately, they’re very rare. Almost never encountered, to be honest. They can only reach our kingdom if we brought them in, or they’re really really lost their way. It’s almost impossible to enter our borders.” Jusarlie sighed. Fake sigh.

“You’re learning how to breathe now?” Sarco laughed at Jusarlie’s attempt to fake breathing.

“I was bored, so I learnt how to do it.” Jusarlie answered sheepishly.

“It’s unnatural, try it again slowly.” Jasper guides him.

Jasper is a new member in our kingdom. He’s a new vampire that we found in the wood while we were doing a monthly patrol, we have no clue who turned him as one of our kind, so irresponsible of them. Jasper could’ve turned into a wild vampire and that’s not fun to handle. He was starving, lost his memory, and definitely very angry. Unfortunately for us, he is also very strong. It was a bit handy when we rescued him, but we named him Jasper afterward because it suits his face.

Well, he is now under our training. Good for my nation, since we’ve lost a lot of important people during the Red War, including both of my parents. So, to our advantage, Jasper is a really good start for us to build stronger soldiers.

Besides from the fact that he is a new vamp and his energy is over the limit, I’m pretty sure he’s already strong as a human. We’re all a little worn-out while training him, they always hand over Jasper to me and Hiael when they’re tired. With that strong gaze, I’m pretty sure he’s important to humankind. I wonder how they felt when Jasper disappeared.

“I want reindeer.” Saine finally speaks up.

“Reindeer sounds good.” Hiael nodded.

“We’re hunting after dusk.” I agreed with their request.

“Jestel, is that what I think it is?” Sarco stares down at the street, a bit far from us. I walked over to his spot and peeked at the big window.

There’s a human. Walking on the street like a lamb whose willingly walks into a wolf’s nest. Poor little baby.

“She smells unbelievably good. Is that normal? All humans smell like this?” Jasper asked.

To be honest, he’s not alone. My head is also spinning due to her smell. This is far from normal.

“I’ll pick up our dinner.” Saine looks so excited. He’s the best at deceiving people, no matter humans or vampires.

“Take me with you!” Ricardo is as excited.

“No, take me with you instead!” Even Jusarlie’s eyes are sparkling right now.

“Me!”

“No, you will instantly eat that human at the sight.” Jusarlie can totally read Ricardo’s behavior.

“Just because you love to read, doesn’t mean you can read my personality or behavior.” There you go, our youngest is kind of… bitter.

“Take note from your professor, will you? Read your books so that little undeveloped brain of yours could develop and work normally.” Jusarlie spat back. Oh, don’t worry, this is a normal fight in our house.

“Come again, Professor?” Ricardo scoffed.

“Maybe if YOU read your goddamn books, your little UNDEVELOPED brain could develop and work normally.”

“That’s enough, no one is coming with Saine.” I stopped their little argument.

They scoffed, totally annoyed at my choice. Saine nodded at me and quickly left to pick up our delicious dinner.

“Don’t give me those expressions. You’ll choose your favorite parts today.” I said without staring back at them who are giving me angry and sulky expressions.

Their eyes are sparkling again as they go back to excited mode. What a child.

The delicious, sweet, intoxicating, and irresistible smell is getting closer and closer as we wait in our living room. I saw Jasper was getting furious. Hiael is right next to him, ready to hold him down whenever needed.

“Hold it in, Jasper. Don’t let hunger wins over you.” I said to that poor new vamp. Must be hard for him to do that. He’s better than me, if I was a new vampire like him, I would’ve just run off to that human and sucks her dry. Huge respect for Jasper.

I can hear Saine opening the doors. Oh, we were so ready to strike until I saw Saine enter the house before the human does. It’s supposed to be the other way around. That’s odd. What happened? Does he not want to eat that human anymore?

I told everyone to hold their positions while I’m trying to reach Saine through our mind links.

Our dinner is clumsy enough to almost fall because her little foot tripped over our carpet. Luckily, Saine holds her steady, so she doesn’t bleed. Won’t be my fault if Jasper strikes at sight.

“Are you okay?” Saine giggles. Oh, interesting! I can’t contact him at all.

“All good, thank you.” She sounds a little nervous.

They entered the living room and the six of us were so ready to eat, but Saine quickly stopped us using mind links.

DO NOT, I SAY, DON’T YOU DARE! LET ME TALK TO JESTEL FIRST! Wow, he sounds very serious.

“Jestel, we need to talk.” Saine is smiling.

“About what?” I asked coldly.

“555.” He said the emergency code. How emergency is this?

“Alright,” I agreed. “Sarco, follow me. Ricardo and Hiael, you take care of Jasper. While Jusarlie… be polite to our guest.”

I hate you, Jusarlie said it through our mind links.

They followed my orders. Saine, Sarco, and I went upstairs to the closest working room for this emergency matter.

What could possibly happen?

“You’ve been acting odd. What is the matter?” I asked Saine.

“This letter will explain better than I do.” Saine gave me a letter. To my surprise, it was written in our ancient language. Old Krashovien.

I read the letter thoroughly with Sarco.

“She came with this letter?” I asked Saine again.

He nods quickly.

“I want to hear your opinions according to this matter.” I wait for them to speak up.

“Turn her to a vampire, duh? She’s the last Sterling. We need her.” Sarco, as usual, is a man of logic.

“No, no, no. Let’s train her first. Give her some free will, no?” Saine is a little opposed to that idea.

“The sooner the better, Saine. Human age so rapidly, we can’t lose a chance to have a Sterling for our nation.” Sarco frowned.

“Give her some time, Sarco, you heartless bastard. She just went through a lot.” Saine is showing his sympathy to her.

“Wake up, Saine. Just because she’s beautiful, don’t forgot the fact that she’s a Sterling, Saine. A fucking Sterling, she’s anything but a feeler. She’s far more heartless than I am.”

“It’s risky! Do you remember why Sterling left Krashoviel?” Saine still stands on his ground.

“She’s that child?” I joined the conversation again. Could it be?

“My father warned you, Jestel.” Saine said to me. “At least, let’s ask him first.”

“Fine. Let’s train her to our best, gain her trust, and finally turn her into a vampire. Done.” Sarco’s idea is still about turning her into one of our kind.

This is very confusing.

I called the others—except Jusarlie—to join us in our emergency meeting.

I looked at them with a heavy heart. “We’re haunting today. We will not eat our guest.”

“Oh, man!” Ricardo and Jasper are clearly annoyed.

“May I know why?” Hiael asked.

“Well,” I paused and showed them the letter. “Ricardo, translate it for us.”

“Dear, King/Queen on the throne of Sinflame. I, Tearle Sterling, gave this girl to your hand. She is my daughter, Iolana Sterling, the one that caused some trouble twenty-one years ago due to her sweet smell. By the time you read this, it means that all of Sterling is already gone and she’s the last one we have. Slevado and Axadel have been terrorized and tried to kidnap us a few times. Iolana is smart, she knows the basic history of Krashoviel. She speaks Old Krashovien. She is curious, keen to learn something new. She is also good at fighting with any kind of weapons, I teach her by myself. I left this girl to Krashoviel, you can do whatever you’d like to her. I’d rather have her end up as your feast than to be kidnapped and used as a weapon to tear Krashoviel apart. I miss my home. Sincerely, Tearle Sterling.”

“Who’s Sterling?” Jasper frowned.

“Unlock that at 3rd semester with Jusarlie.” Sarco giggled.

“They’re not some urban legend?” Ricardo is surprisingly dumb.

“Urban legend is crazy.” Hiael laughed at him. “One Sterling equals five Jestel.”

“Nice one, Hiael.” Jasper and the youngest laughed.

“He’s not joking.” Sarco’s serious face made their laughs disappear.

“Oh.” Jasper and Ricardo are kind of scared now.

“But she’s a human?” Jasper is still confused.

“Long story, ask Jusarlie later.” Sarco shook his head.

“So, we’re turning her into a new vamp? Who’s strong enough to be her host vamp? I’m not.” Hiael quickly retreats after his own question.

Every new vampire needs a host vamp. They need their host’s blood to be able to feel full. If not, they can be a little destructive and drink a lot of blood than a usual vampire. Just like Jasper. He needs five big bottles a day, while we only need two or three maximum, and no! It is not a small matter, they crave human blood almost all the time as well.

“Not me.” Ricardo shook his head too. “She smells so sweet it’s very sickening. Jusarlie is better than me.”

“He’s still talking with the girl?” Sarco asked curiously.

“They’re sitting next to each other!” Jasper couldn’t believe it too.

“We haven’t decided yet.” I answered honestly. “Her host vamp.”

“So… we’re going to train her first?” Hiael asked us confusedly.

“Yes.” Saine nodded. “We’ll see later, maybe she will also choose a host along the way.”

“It’s settled then.” I nod and stand up. “Hiael, Jasper, Ricardo, Sarco, you’re in charge of hunting. Fetch us a healthy delicious reindeer. Jasper, do you still remember how human food taste?”

“I don’t know?” Jasper is confused. Doesn’t matter, I’m pretty sure he still remembers.

“Great, you’re going to oversee the food. You can guide and order around our chefs and maids about the food for our special guest.”

Jasper nods hesitantly.

“Dismiss.” They obey my orders and quickly move to do as told. I went downstairs again with Saine.

“Apologize for making you wait.” I smile at our guest, Sarco is right. She’s beautiful. I offer my hand to shake hers, “Jestel Sinflame.”

“I should be the one who’s apologizing, Mr. Sinflame.” She smiles back at me, her eyes are smiling too. She shakes my hand, “Iolana Sterling.”

TO BE CONTINUED...

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[howlsofbloodhounds]

I know you already got an anon sometime ago saying the Deadpool and Wolverine fight in the car's got Colorkiller vibes and while I see that, I think that can coexist with Delta vs Stage 2 Killer as well using the "insecure Killer in Stage 2 fucks with Delta so he can distance him from Color" concepts for context.

Obviously Delta is Wolverine and Stage 2 would be in Deadpool's place.

The visual is fucking hilarious to me and I think the scene could use some sarcasm from Delta as well like "Oh yes, I have ALWAYS WANTED TO FIGHT YOU IN A HONDA ODYSSEY, KILLER, THANKS A LOT. Could never have done this WITHOUT YOU!"

-- Sarco

By this point Killer has fought everyone in that Honda civic. Cross, Dust, Color, Delta. Although it definitely would fit with either Color or Delta a lot more; Color in the early days, or Delta in the present.

Mostly because I doubt Killer would truly care enough about either Cross or Dust to provoke them into a fight except for amusement or some other purpose he gains from this—such as allowing himself to be their punching bag so they can feel better and therefore work better. (Dust would probably register as more of a threat then Cross would though 💀)

It may be like hate sex on their end, but for him this is a brief moment of entertainment or utility to maintain group functioning and before he forgets about it later and is unable to tell if it was actually real or not. (I guess you can say…Killer fights around. /ref)

And since everyone seems very insistent that the Honda civic is violent hot gay hate sex scene, hate sex would apply with Killer and Delta because bro does not give a shit about Cross or Dust enough to hate them as individuals.

Things they do might annoy or make him uncomfortable—because they both have potential to make him think of things he doesn’t want to think about (Papyrus, heart locket, scarf) or people he actually hates and fears (Chara)—but with Delta.

He hates Delta on a personal level. While Cross and Dust makes him think of the past, Delta makes him scared of the future. His future and the uncertainty of it, of how he could easily lose it. Have it taken and stolen from him.

Delta represents an obstacle and threat to his hope, Dust and Cross are reminders of his torment—which he is always compelled to either gain control over (in whatever form he thinks he has to) or avoid and ignore/ be indifferent towards.

They have beef. Thats his biggest rival. He’s gonna turn him into orange paste one day.

Anyway: I like the idea of Honda civic fight with Killer. Not because of the gay asf violence, but because I love Killer being a bitch. A masochistic bitch at that.

And also I love him being a manipulative little shit, purposely provoking someone into acting dehumanizing and abusive towards him—especially people like Delta. Especially if it means driving a wedge between Delta and Color.

[paleopinesofficial]

Two weeks with our new forever friend and the fun never stops in Paleo Pines!

Our Sarcosuchus buddy is bringing the personality AND the bouncy vibes with that dragonfly sparkle!

What color combo are YOU loving with your Sarco? Share your screenshots with us!

Befriend a Sarcosuchus in Paleo Pines!

[evi-anxiety]

Me with my pet Sarco: you're my baby!!! I love you so much!!!

Me with my pets Dodos: you're a weird fucker aren't you

[ask-codeearasure]

"The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference."

How about I kill you right now, man. How about I find your house and staple individual pieces of asparagus to your bedroom ceiling? What then? What if I found your mother's lawnmower and painted Garfield's face on it and that way he'd have finally eaten his veggies after fuckin... I don't know, 30 years? I don't know the Garfield lore but I am the one eating the lasagna in this house now. I am the one stealing caprisuns out of the secret compartment in your fridge. I am the one putting red cabbage in your spinach salads to help your liver. I am the only Dreamtale fan that thinks passive Nightmare and corrupted Nightmare being two completely different people is a genius idea and that your art is a perfect dedication to that concept.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH BANJO KAZOOIE SIR, WELCOME TO THE ETERNAL ABYSS

-- Sarco

THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE IS NOT HATE

IT IS INDIFFERENCE

also family portrait (aka bozo brothers)

[shrinksinsneakers]

Suicide Pods A Grim Symptom of Our Global Mental Health Crisis

Several individuals were arrested following the death of a 64-year-old American woman who used a controversial “suicide pod” in Switzerland. The device, known as Sarco, enables individuals to end their lives by releasing nitrogen gas, causing a painless death through oxygen deprivation. The incident occurred in the Schaffhausen canton near the Swiss-German border, supervised by a Swiss assisted suicide organization, The Last Resort

Authorities detained several people involved, including Florian Willet, the co-president of The Last Resort, a journalist, and others, on charges of inducing and aiding suicide. Although assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, the use of the Sarco pod has raised questions about its compliance with safety regulations and the legality of nitrogen use in this contex

If you or a loved one is suffering there is hope:

Help is available

Speak with someone today

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[greendragonette]

Ark Survival Evolved No Engrams Run, part 5

Days 9-10

Welcomed dawn with a no-monke-owned anxiety. Found one mega trashy, tamed it, and of course that's when more spawned around. All trash, still monke. Mated first female with a male, went for a supply crate, then a berry run for a future kid, and returned home to find sad remains of triplets. Tamed a second female, she and male have pretty colors, can't wait to move base and breed them.

Zyzio barely reached adulthood, took him for a murderous spin in the neighbourhood to prepare him for scorpy run. He runs almost as quick as my sprint, has fantastic stam, and leveled him HP and good chomp. Grabbed first monke, Izyda (Isis, might as keep naming them after gods), two stacks of rotting meat and went north.

All was peaceful before I reached Taming Eldorado, aka Jaws Outcrop. Suckers fought like drunkards for a last vodka. No scorpies. Killed everything in sight, picked some crystal for future use, and made rounds. Just before evening turned into nigth found and managed to tame (with difficulties of a noob) The Lowest Level(TM) scorpie female. Named her Trash. Figured it's a start and got her some kills to boost health. Spent the night on a verge of Jaw's beach, far from any more dangerous spawns. Slept on Zyzio, just in case.

Morning saw me knocking out a slightly better scorpie female. Barely better, so named Trash+. Pulmonos finally started spawning in numbers, found the highests and led to my camp. Killed better one by accident when they accosted anky, but couldn't tame two at the same time anyway, and a male survived. Success. Got ambushed in camp by an average minus female, and a sarco visited at the same time. Zyzio took care of it easily while scorpies had a 2v1. Trash fainted just before I could join. Did some questionable maneuvers before the newcomer got knocked out. After that tried to pull a better female, but it got perma-fixated on an argy, and the rest was trash.

Had enough, went back and took the overgrown shrimps with me. Went for a green drop on sands of the south-faced bay, spotted a sarco. Made a drive-by to see level. Highest level female. Escaped and left her alone for now, hope to find later when I have a good bred and tried pulmono.

For some reason, while tamed female is significantly lower level than male, she's almost as good in stam, and has better melee. Odd.

Left scorpies well-fed on an islet west of bay, my favourite base spot. It's far from everything, but it's flat, has bushes, trees, stone, water, there's an oil rock just off the coast, and the worst spawns are raptor and jellyfish. I'd rather head out for an adventure than find it knocking at my door and destroying the place, thank you very much.

With last light and on last legs reached the base. Despite my fears, all dinos are alive and still have some food. Did a quick stock, and I have so much chitin it's not funny anymore. I'd love to repair my chitin chestpiece, but need both smithy and forge for it, and sucks to be me when I can't even grind all this stuff into cementing paste, for of course it has no blueprint anymore. Seriously, I could've more than afforded to trade for the effin' maewing now.

Good loot-wise, I got lots of bows and arrows, a whooping ten tranq arrows, great deer saddle (I want try one for spelunking) and blueprints for a sickle and ghillie boots.

I'm moving base in the morning; will probably need to cull moschopses, but diplos are more than enough to carry my baggage and still zoom around.

There's trash bronto female near red obelisk; first thing after I get my dinos to new base, I'm knocking her out, and by the time I'll get a cooking pot I should have kibble for the sarco.

[ask-codeearasure]

STOP STEALING OTHER PEOPLE'S WORKS YOU COWARDS (and other disorganized ramblings)

Yeah, I'm starting this off aggressively, big whoop.

Hi.

The point is right there in the title. Yeah, I'm looking you in the eyes and telling you right the hell now, I want you, yes you, the one with the massive galaxy brain who thinks that you can make a better Dreamtale or Underswap, or whatever the fuck, to listen to me. Walk with me to this pier please. This fandom has a harassment problem, everyone and their grandmother's crusty white little dog knows that, but there is also a massive theft problem as well and half the time I see it's born out of hatred for creators dubbed "bad" for whatever reason. (I am not debating whether these reasons are justified or not, I know it varies on a case-by-case basis)

"But Ouija, why shouldn't I harrass that person and just credit the AU to the fandom?"

Because it's a genuinely shitty thing to do. It's literal theft. Unless the creator blatantly says their creation belongs to someone else now, what you're doing is theft and there is no good defense for that. Yes, even if the creator is an asshole. Yes, even if the creator isn't active in the fandom anymore. Plus, if you sell the impression that it is OKAY in this fandom to take things that aren't yours, things you DID NOT CREATE, you are going to teach others that that behavior is perfectly acceptable, and along the way, discourage other creators from sharing their work. You will actively participate in what makes this fandom look so monstrous to outside audiences. Congratulations, you have become the asshat you didn't have the awareness or foresight to think you would become. I hope you have enough sense to not want that outcome.

Stop that. Do something else, you have plenty of options here. Creating your own shit is the one I highly recommend.

Sometimes the best things are written out of spite and instead of pouring your energy into harassing some random middleschooler for drawing Rose Quartz just a little too thin for your liking -- fuck you by the way -- do better.

Let me give you an example.

I hate the fandom's spin-offs of Dreamtale and there are very few exceptions to this statement.

I said it.

I fucking hate them. Not gonna specify which ones, just know I absolutely despise most of them. I find that next to none of them have any real passion or love put into them, no effort or respect to the source material whatsoever. The vast majority of them were created to specifically target Joku, and there was no genuine drive in that project outside of that one thing, which is malicious intent. Congratulations, you have submitted yourself to uhealthily parasocial behavior. This is unfortunately a theme I see in quite a few fandom remakes of other AUs as well. You don't like the creator, therefore, you assume you can do "better" despite knowing jack shit about what they actually created. (I am not defending Joku by the way. I'm saying this behavior reflects badly on whoever does it and has done it within the past eight years.)

They're boring, and if not boring, absolutely horrific. A lot of the time, they're used to romanticize shit like incest, abuse, and other inherently harmful things that should NEVER be presented in a favorable light. This is NOT me saying it's a bad thing to want to make your own versions of AUs and put your own spins on them, that is not what I am saying at all, and I literally did the same fucking thing several times over. Just bear with me here, I am begging you.

I made my own variation of Dreamtale using a few concepts I liked and ran in the complete opposite directions of both the original version -- which is actually fascinating when I learned about it thanks to Sarco -- and the fandom's trashy as hell boring as shit versions of it that makes watching paint dry seem like a more entertaining spectacle. I did this not out of hate for Joku, someone I don't fucking know (nor should I personally care about), but out of fascination for the Dreamtales I did see and picked and chose what ideas I liked, then added a lot more ideas from other inspirations. This is not a new concept, just about everyone does this.

What I am saying is that instead of talking shit with no supporting evidence and doing your best to humiliate someone you don't like on the internet (which in this fandom are people you don't even FUCKING KNOW, nor have 90% of you been present for the actual issues in action, if there were any), apply that energy to your own projects. That is arguably the more productive and enjoyable thing to do.

Hell, Palworld was made to spite Nintendo for being boring pieces of corporate shit, and that piece of work turned out to be pretty fucking good. (Note that spite in this context is used as a creative drive, not malice)

American McGee's Alice was made using the concept of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland out of literal LOVE for the original story.

Ever After High was made out of the ORIGINAL FAIRY TALE STORIES that Disney twisted into being more kid friendly to various successful extents.

A lot of the AUs Sarco and I tore apart and rebuilt take small aspects from the originals and tweak them just enough that it makes a wave of difference, and we later expanded them to have MASSIVE differences. This isn't to flex or put others down. I am just sick and tired of seeing a bunch of people online (mostly people who left this fandom) saying "there's nothing good in the fandom anymore" and it makes me want to grab my giant ass Edgar Allen Poe collection and beat them over the head with it. ...Figuratively, I stress that part. I don't wanna go to jail. I'm frustrated, I know that's obvious. What I really want to do is encourage more creativity than the constant rehashing of the same shit repeatedly, and perhaps make it abundantly clear that shitty behavior is not something that should drive ANY community. I mean I'm not the boss of you, by all means create whatever you want, it would just be nice to see more variety than I do today, y'know? Give me more weird shit like Gastale and GZtale did, something that makes it stand out and has room for so much more character exploration and fascinating concepts. Hell, I would LOVE to see more OCs too! There should always be room for more of those. But perhaps you're already doing all that, and I just haven't seen it yet. I'm still re-learning how to navigate this fandom and all it has to offer, after several years of inactivity as a mere observer, and now as a creator.

If you want me to expand on all of this and also help with giving you all some concepts and even an example just ask. I'll happily type a mountain for you to help you all with expanding your creativity. -- Ouija

[ask-codeearasure]

Wow, it's almost as if children aren't fully developed people yet, so thinking of them as you would adults is, I don't know, fucking COUNTERPRODUCTIVE? It doesn't make any sense. The criteria doesn't fit either, never has.

Chara was an extremely troubled child adopted by parents that even though they tried their best and loved Chara very much, their care was not what they needed.

It is also very common for siblings to idolize each other, to LOOK UP TO one another. Asriel could have looked up to Chara for many reasons. They could have been an older sibling figure to him. They were also his best friend, perhaps his ONLY friend since they were the only friend of his we as the audience were told about.

Why the hell are there still people who don't bother to read into this shit? And specifically about a CHILD character too. There are better ways to make a villain for your fanfictions.

All of these misconceptions within fandom go to show me you don't understand Chara as a character at all and this is one of the reasons why the "Chara is the villain" theories have been questioned and rejected again and again and again.

Because they clearly are not a villain in Undertale. They were a fucked up child. Learn the damn difference.

-- Sarco

praying for the day people realize asriel saying "chara wasnt really the greatest person" is more in reference to his idolization of them and him finally admitting that he doesnt have to follow them blindly anymore, because even after they died, their beliefs still stuck with him. and not "yeah chara, my dead sibling (who is like 11 years old) that i miss a lot and clearly care for immensely despite everything? evil. i am explicitly saying that they are evil. and they only wanted to kill the dreemurrs and also everyone else. did you get that down? write that down. they are evil forever."

becajuse... chara is not evil... chara isnt even a bad person... asriel doesnt say they are a bad person!!!!! he says they "werent the greatest". guys im begging you to realize this.chara was a kid!!! who literally killed themselves because they wanted to free monsterkind!!!! come on!!!! it’s 2024 I thought we were past seeing people say chara is canonically evil and terrible and grrrrrr

[ily-sunghoon]

The Omen of Sterling | CHAPTER I

Pairing : vampire!enha x fem!oc (a lot of jungwon in this chapter)

Genre of this chapter : vampire, fluff if you squint

POV : Author’s

Words count : 4k

WARNINGS : food, mentioned of blood, curses, mentioned of menstrual cycle, sarco is mean and crazy but he's just silly! trust (lmk if i miss anything)

Note : thank you for your excitement, guys! i feel loved <3 feel free to ask if you have confusion about anything!

MASTERLIST

TAGLIST : @nshmrarki @capri-cuntz @millieinyourarea @strxwbloody (let me know if you want to be added)

CHAPTER I: BET

“Jusarlie Grieffang.” Jusarlie shakes the guest’ hand softly. Afraid to hurt her since it has been so long since he interacted with humans.

“Iolana Sterling.” Their guest smiles.

That last name was a jumpscare for Jusarlie, but he managed to put on a poker face.

“Hey, your name is familiar… are you a writer?” Iolana squints her eyes a little.

“Oh! Yes, I am. Do you like to read books?” Jusarlie’s eyes immediately lit up when Iolana mentioned that.

“I love books! I think the very first book that I read so willingly is one of your masterpieces. Mind Ruler? That was amazing and mind opening.” Iolana tries to recollect her memory.

If Jusarlie’s eyes were not sparkling before, they really sparkling now. His books reached outsiders! She is a Sterling, but still, this lifts his mood so much!

“Even your first book? I’m truly honored! Thank you for enjoying my works, Iolana!” Jusarlie giggles like a teenage girl in love.

“I’m the one who’s feeling very honored to meet you unexpectedly like this. You’re such an amazing writer. I love your brain.” Iolana totally adores Jusarlie’s books.

“Writing is just my hobby, I only do it when I have a spare time.” Jusarlie is still on cloud nine after what Iolana just said.

“Your lore is very amazing, what is your daily activity, then?” Iolana is still in awe.

“I’m a beginner professor at one of our schools here in Krashoviel.” Jusarlie smiles with his eyes too, his fangs are showing and they’re so perfect. Wow, good dental hygiene.

Iolana is not even hiding her jaw drop expression. “You’re the coolest in the world. There are no such things as beginner professor…”

“Iolana, stop… you’re complimenting me too much.” Jusarlie giggled.

“What is your favorite book, Jusarlie?” Iolana had no idea how Jusarlie loved that question so much.

“Finally, someone asked me my favorite book!” He looks so excited. “It’s Endless Cycle by Roberto Cairneye! It’s amazing.”

“Classics! I swear we have it in my father bookshelf, I regret the fact that I haven’t read it now.” Iolana sighed, real sigh, unlike Jusarlie’s.

“Hey, it’s fine. I can always give you a copy! Now, tell me your favorite book!” Jusarlie is beginning to feel interested in Iolana.

“It’s your masterpiece, Under the Solid Ground! I really love how you picture history perfectly with your words. I had such a wonderful time learning the basic history of Krashoviel with that amazing book.” Iolana is truly a loyal reader.

“Iolana, you made my day hundredfold better. Thank you so much for loving my works. Truly, I’m very grateful.” Jusarlie swore he will protect Iolana if the others still want to eat them.

“It’s the other way around, Jusarlie!” Iolana giggled.

“By the way, is your book lover dad the Tearle Sterling?” Jusarlie asked curiously.

“Yes, that’s right! He is my beloved father.” Iolana nodded.

“Ah, I knew it. He was my favorite teacher back then when he was still young.” Jusarlie admitted. “He was a legendary professor. I wanted to be one because of him.”

“Really?!” Iolana found this really interesting.

Time passes by as they’re talking, it doesn’t feel like a burden anymore to Jusarlie. Iolana is such an amazing person. She is far more brilliant than any other humans he had encountered before, he even dared to says that she’s probably the most brilliant person than any of the people in their kingdom. It’s like a fresh breath of air for a prisoner.

“Apologize for making you wait.” Jestel made them stop their conversation. He smiled at Iolana and offered his hand to shake hers, “Jestel Sinflame.”

“I should be the one who’s apologizing, Mr. Sinflame.” She smiles back at Jestel, her eyes are smiling too. She shakes his hand, “Iolana Sterling.”

“You can be casual here, just call me Jestel. I’m not that old.” Jestel is still smiling.

“You clearly have aging blindness, Uncle.” Jusarlie giggled.

“We’re in the same age, Nephew.” Jestel threatened Jusarlie. “Now go and see Saine to see what task you have to do.”

Jusarlie nods and doesn’t forget to say goodbye to Iolana, of course. He knew that they wouldn’t have to eat her today. He feels relieved. Iolana is a brilliant girl and she is very fun to talk to. It’s rare to find it these days, at least for him.

“Iolana,” Jestel suddenly brought Iolana’s attention back to him again.

“Yes, Mist—Jestel?” Iolana immediately responds.

“My deepest condolences for what happened to your family. Tearle Sterling was a legendary fighter.” Jestel pays some respect for Tearle.

Iolana smiles, she could feel the sincerity in Jestel’s voice. “Thank you, Jestel.”

“I’m so sorry for you. I know how it feels to lost a whole family… it feels so heart breaking, yet…”

“So fast… like a blink of an eye.” Iolana finishes Jestel’s perfectly.

“Exactly.” Jestel nodded. “Your father’s note… he said you’re a good fighter. Is that true?”

“He exaggerated that one.” Iolana giggled. “I can fight, but I won’t say I’m that good.”

“Based on what I remember, Tearle is never good at exaggerating things. I believe everything he said.” Jestel smiles.

“Alright, I give up.” Iolana chuckled softly.

“Let me walk you to your room.” They walk side by side, Jestel guides her through that big mansion of his.

“You have to acknowledge this,” Jestel paused for a second. “We’re going to give you our best facility, education, and training that you need.”

“Oh? I really didn’t expect that. I thought you were thinking about turning me into your dinner or something. Thank you so much, Jestel.” Iolana is very grateful. She was so ready for any kind of bad probability, but here she goes with the best one.

“You’re the last Sterling alive, Iolana. We wouldn’t risk witnessing the whole of Sterling go extinct. Sterling is very legendary for us.” Jestel admitted. “Did your father tell you what Sterling did during the wars?”

“He said Sterling are the doctors?” Iolana is a little unsure. They’ve been saying that Sterling is legendary, is doctor strong enough to be legendary? In the field where their patients mostly regenerated and heal so fast?

“That was after the war.” Jestel giggled after almost a decade not even caring to smile. “Sterling are our heartless fighters. Best of the best along with Phelanflame, Sarco’s family.”

Iolana listened very carefully.

“We only put them in the battlefield when the other are exhausted or the important people of our rivals show up in the battlefield.” Jestel continued. “They were vampire killers after all, even if they’re vampires themselves. We were on cloud nine when they decided to join our nation.”

“Wow, they’re a huge deal…” Iolana nods, beginning to understand why Jestel call her family legendary.

“We wouldn’t have won the last war without Sterling’s help. That’s why Slevado and Axadel tried their hardest to make your family turn their back on Krashoviel. Every nation wants Sterling on their side.”

“My father never told me about this… it’s not on the books neither…” Iolana is dumbfounded.

“Now you know, Iolana.” Jestel chuckled again. “How did you get here, by the way? It’s almost an impossible task for human.”

“Well, I know the borders are tough. I chose the west border. I used a big blanket and a rope to just… well, fly off the cliff! It’s the fastest way even though the risk is big.”

“Fly… to the gate?” Jestel is dumbfounded now. What an odd girl.

“Yes, I got nothing to lose. It was so therapeutic.” Iolana laughed at herself.

A sudden wind brush over Jestel and Iolana. It was Jusarlie who brought Iolana’s bags to her new room.

“Oh, sorry about that. Vampires have so many capabilities, I’m assuming you know about it.” Jestel continued to walk upstairs.

“Yes, I’m aware. I will train myself to get used to it, since my father barely use his power at home.” Iolana nods.

“By the way, your room is—oh, no. I apologize.” Jestel realized he made a mistake. “Your room is on the 3rd floor. I can move—”

“No, no, it’s okay! I could get a better view from the 3rd floor, right?” Iolana doesn’t want to burden Jestel.

“Are you sure?”

“Yes, I will love it.” Iolana smiles widely.

“As your wish, then.” Jestel finally nods.

“Although, I have one question…”

“And that would be?” Jestel tilts his head.

“My menstrual cycle.”

“What’s that?” Jestel is purely confused.

“I bleed naturally every month through my reproduction area. Would that be a problem?”

Fucking hell, Jestel is in shock.

“What do you mean? Like bleeding? Literal blood coming out of you? Does that hurt?” Jestel is worried.

“For me, no. For my mom, sometimes. Depends on the person. Yes, it’s literal blood, it lasts for about 5 days maximum for me.” Iolana explained.

“Well, that is a problem. You have a set schedule for it, right?” Jestel is worried sick. “I should give your room high-level security.”

“It usually ends on the full moon, so around five days before full moon?” Iolana is starting to worry now.

“Alright, I’ll figure something out.” Jestel nods. He holds the door handle, “Welcome to your new room.”

Iolana eyes wander over the whole room. It’s such a big room. The right side of the room is her bed, vanity, and some sofa. On the left side of the room is an open two-story, where the upstairs are full of books and underneath the area is her walk-in-closet and bathroom. There’s also some big windows and a balcony. She loves this room.

“Wow, this room is beautiful.” Iolana adores her room.

“Hi, Iolana! I left some books for you on your desk. I arranged everything except your clothes.” Jusarlie is so smiley.

“This room is clean, because the maids clean empty room once every three days. And I left some incense! It’s good for relaxation.” Saine also smiles at her.

“Thank you, guys! I love it!” Iolana is so thankful for the fact that they welcomed her nicely like this.

“Go get some rest, while we wait for dinner time. Tonight, I’ll take you for a personality test.” Jestel informed Iolana. “Jusarlie and Saine are living on the 3rd floor as well. Saine is right across from you and Jusarlie is next to you.”

“Thank you, Jestel. Thank you so much.”

“You deserve all the love, Iolana.”

Oh, really? All the love, Jusarlie and Saine hit Jestel with their mind links.

I’m being nice, Jestel replied in their mind links.

“Alright, let’s head out. Iolana needs to rest.” Jestel is ready to go and he’s already behind the door, but Jusarlie and Saine are not moving anytime soon.

“Five minutes.” Jusarlie told him.

“No, let her rest.”

“I want to join them.” Saine plead to Jestel.

“No, I need you to do your task. Jusarlie could stay.” Jestel threatened Saine. “Come on.”

“Bye, Iolana…” Saine looks sad.

“Bye-bye, Saine!” Iolana waves and smiles.

“Bye, Uncle Jestel!” Jusarlie mocked the annoyed Saine.

“I’m going to educate you about anything you need to know!” Jusarlie sits on the floor. Iolana follows him.

“How old is Jestel again?” Iolana asked curiously.

“Three hundreds this year.” Jusarlie answered excitedly. “And I’m two hundreds ninety-eight soon!”

“Wow, is it boring?” Iolana is curious. “To live for so long…”

“Sometimes? Unless there’s a war going on, they’re kind of fun.” Jusarlie nods.

They talked for a while until it was finally two hours before dinner time. Jusarlie excuses himself because Jasper called him through mind links.

—

“Where’s Jusarlie?” Hiael asked Saine.

“With Iolana. Ugh, he’s so annoying.”

“Still with Iolana?” Sarco laughs.

“Besides from her annoying smell and the fact that she is cute, what’s so special about her? Most of you just seems… in love?” Jasper is unsure.

“Not me,” Ricardo chuckled.

“Saine, Jusarlie, and Jestel.” Jasper specified.

“I’m not in love.” Jestel shook his head calmly.

“Give him a day or two.” Sarco laughs at Jestel’s confidence. They’re best friends, Sarco could read him like an open book. Jestel is in love for sure.

“Jusarlie is in love.” Jestel is sure about his feelings.

“Quit it. Let him be, it’s been long since he found a friend that he could talk to like that.” Hiael is wiser than them. “Who knows? Maybe she could bring the bubbly side of Jusarlie again.”

“Absolutely not. Let’s make a bet.” Ricardo laughed.

“I bet he will not change, and he will just be soft towards that girl. If I’m wrong, I’ll get you guys shoes fresh from Cynfael.” Sarco chuckled.

“I bet the old grumpy Jusarlie will be gone. If I’m wrong, I’ll teach the kids at Underwood Orphanage how to fight.” Hiael made the others shocked.

“Now this is getting serious!” Ricardo couldn’t believe Hiael. “I bet Jusarlie won’t change. It’s just temporary. If I’m proven wrong, I’ll look after the kids in Derrick Orphanage for a month.”

“Oh, wow!” Saine nods. “I bet he’ll change. I’ll teach the kids in Derrick Orphanage a table manner class for my bet.”

There are two main orphanages in Krashoviel and they are two different kinds for sure. Derrick Orphanage is where the crazy and naughty kids live. While Underwood Orphanage is full of insecure kids who are afraid of everything, they give up so easily.

“He will change. I’ll buy you guys new suits from Charson if it’s turn out to be wrong.” Jestel took his part in the bet too.

The others are surprised by that. If Jestel took a part in a bet, then it’s a serious bet indeed.

“He won’t change. You can order me around for three days if I’m wrong.” Jasper shrugged his shoulder.

“Have some manners, putting a bet over me? Where’s the morality?” Jusarlie appeared in an instant.

Ricardo tries to hug Jusarlie roughly and mess his hair up, but to their surprise, Jusarlie is still smiling and has no interest in being angry like he always did. Sarco is dumbfounded.

“Would you like to teach at Derrick Orphanage?” Jestel asked just to make sure it was real.

“Sure! Oh, and… Iolana said that children behave the way that behave based on their caretakers. You might want to investigate our main orphanages, Jestel. They’re our new generations, I wouldn’t want a mix of insecure kids and rebellious kids.” Jusarlie informed him.

“Oh, really? Thank you, I’ll investigate the caretakers.” Jestel nods.

“If possible, you have to ask to the children instead.” Jusarlie continued.

“What if the caretakers threatened them? It would be difficult.” Hiael speaks his mind.

“Sorry for suddenly catching up, you must ask them very smoothly. Children are naturally honest and innocent. It won’t be that hard to make them open up about their feelings. You can also watch their body language! It tells a lot.” Iolana appeared out of nowhere. She is already standing next to Jusarlie.

They’re all shocked. None of them felt her aura or even her sweet scent.

“How the hell did you do that?” Ricardo panicked.

“Do what?”

“Hiding your presence?” Jestel is as confused.

“Oh, easy! Just don’t make a sound and believe that you’re not actually there. Bad affirmations about yourself would help.” Iolana gladly shares how to do her thing.

“Why don’t you meet Hiael and Jasper? They’ve been eager to see you.” Jestel pushes Iolana softly towards Hiael and Jasper. “The others please follow me, we have to make sure our food is ready.”

“Yes, Jestel.” They headed out from that dining room to the closest office room they found.

“Hi, I’m Iolana.” Iolana smiles at Hiael and Jasper.

“Jasper.”

“Hiael Von Ruden, nice to meet you.” Hiael smiles slightly. “Sorry, Jasper is a new vampire. He hasn’t gotten used to human scent. So, if he’s being a little rude…”

“It’s totally fine. I hope you feel well about your transformation soon, Jasper.” Iolana is kind enough to say that.

Jasper smiles and nods at her. Her sweet scent is very annoying.

—

“What in the hell was that?” Jestel is furious.

“I fucking told you she’s the girl in the omen.” Saine chuckled.

“That was NOT normal.” Ricardo shook his head. “Her scent is very strong, she can’t just hit us with invisible aura like that.”

“She’s a Sterling, why are you so surprised by the fact that she can just make herself invisible?” Sarco giggled at their confusion.

“Because she smells like the most delicious food ever?” Ricardo is still confused. “I mean, okay! She’s in that legendary bloodline, but her scent!”

“Did you really don’t feel her presence?” Jestel asked Jusarlie again.

“I would’ve said hi immediately if I knew she was there.” Jusarlie admitted. Frustrated at Jestel’s weird panic moment.

“I wonder what she capable of in fight field.” Sarco is zoning out. Imagining how brutal she would fight him, or the other way? Maybe she has silent-killing skill?

“Jusarlie, Saine, let’s take her to Idris after dinner.” Jestel made up his mind.

“Uh, oh.” Sarco was a bit surprised when Jestel made his choice. He gets it if they’re scared of her, but taking her to Idris? The best wizard in town? That’s just comedic, they have Saine, Idris’s son, at home for a reason.

“Something is not right.” Jestel shook his head. “By the way, we have a problem. She has this menstrual cycle.”

“What is that?” Sarco is confused. “Menstru—what?”

“She basically bled through her private part every month for five days.” Jestel explained. “She said female humans have that.”

“Absolutely not.”

—

The talk with Hiael and Jasper only lasts for like fifteen minutes? They’re too reserved for Iolana. So, she made her excuse to go back to her room again. She chose to pick up a book from Jusarlie, the one that he said was his favorite. She reads it while waiting for dinner time.

Reaching page fity-two, Iolana heard a bell chime. Must be dinner time. She left her book open on her bed and walked out of her room. Just in time! Cause a moment later, Saine got out of his room too.

“Iolana!” Saine yelled in the corridor. “Wait up!”

“Hi, Saine!” Iolana gives him a sweet smile.

“Do you want a ride?” Saine offered.

“How do we do it?” She wanted to say yes, but she was confused.

“Excuse me,” Saine puts his hand on her waist. They instantly reached the dining room. Iolana has no idea of what just happened.

“For the love of Alexander Grieffang, what is wrong with yo—oh, hi!” Jusarlie’s sudden change of behavior shock Sarco to the core.

“Thank you, Saine. Hi, Jusarlie!” Iolana greets Jusarlie who said hi to her.

“Are you not feeling nauseous after he gave you that deathly ride?” Hiael is confused.

“Am I supposed to feel nauseous?” Iolana scratches the back of her head slowly.

“Does the effect not work on humans?” Jasper is also confused.

“Maybe not yet.” Sarco chuckled, mocking Saine.

“Or maybe she’s just stronger than you, losers.” Saine spat back.

“Even our handsome Jestel always feel nauseous if you gave him a ride.” Jusarlie reminds him of the fact that Jestel hates Saine’s little ride trip. “Humans should’ve felt the worst nauseous they ever had.”

All of a sudden, Sarco throws a vase at Iolana. Fortunately, she’s fast to catch it so it doesn’t break and make her bleed while Jasper is in the very same room with them.

“Or maybe she’s not an ordinary human, guys.” Sarco declared.

“Are you out of your fucking mind?” Jusarlie and Saine are visibly angry.

“I was just testing wave.” Sarco admitted.

“She could’ve bled and that is my favorite vase, Sarco.” Hiael reminded him.

“Are you alright?” Saine asked worriedly.

“As good as ever. I’m glad the vase didn’t break.” Iolana gave the vase gently to Hiael.

“Thank you, Beautiful. Pardon him, he’s a little sick in the head.” Hiael smiles gently to Iolana.

“For the love of Amadeus Cairneye, Iolana. We’re glad you’re okay.” Saine is worried. Iolana seriously could’ve died.

“Are you in love, Saine?” Sarco giggled.

“Get lost, Sarco.” Saine is still angry at him.

Just right on time, Jestel and Ricardo arrived in the dining room. Seeing angry Saine and Jusarlie, Jestel is curious about what just happened.

“You may sit.” Jestel asked them to sit on their chair at the dining table while he sits at the head of the table.

Sarco sits on the right side, Jusarlie on the left side. Iolana sits between Jusarlie and Ricardo. While the others are on Sarco’s side. Jasper is right across from Iolana, she tried to smile at him, but he quickly looked at the other way. She expected that.

They wait for the food to be served by the maids. Iolana feels this tense atmosphere when they serve the food. The maids are probably hating on her too, that’s alright! They’re just not used to living with humans, right?

“You may eat.” Jestel informed them and took the first bite. The others follow along except for Ricardo who’s still figuring out how to use knife and fork.

Iolana hits him softly on his leg with her own leg, and Ricardo looks at her in confusion. She slowly uses her own knife and fork, showing Ricardo how it’s done.

Sarco, Saine, and Hiael are observing that scene very carefully.

“What happened earlier?” Jestel asked them.

They turned their heads to Jestel, then to each other’s. Who’s going to tell him?

“Sarco threw Hiael’s favorite vase to Iolana. Luckily enough, Iolana caught it right on time.” Saine eyed Sarco sarcastically.

“I was just testing something.” Sarco admitted.

“You could’ve killed her. Apologize.” Jestel’s voice is calm but dominating. Iolana takes a mental note not to make him angry.

“I’m sorry, Iolana.” Sarco said half-heartedly.

“Be genuine.” Jusarlie scoffed.

“I’m sorry, Iolana.” Sarco did it wholeheartedly now.

“It’s okay, I feel relieved that the vase—”

“Go finish that sentence, I dare you.” Saine scolds Iolana. “You must be worried about yourself more than we do, Iolana. Seriously. You could’ve bled and died.”

“Sorry…” Iolana feels good. They care about her, but at the same time? Saine is scary.

“I haven’t properly introduced you to them, Iolana.” Jestel remembered his actual responsibility. “This is Sarco Phelanflame, the one who just went out of his mind and threw that vase at you.”

“Hi, Sterling.” Sarco smiles at her. Seems genuine? Iolana thinks he’s a bit odd.

“Right across you, that’s Jasper. Our new vampire. He joined eight months ago.” Jestel continues.

“Hi.” Jasper gave her the cold shoulder.

“That’s Hiael Von Ruden. He is our eldest.” Jestel continued again.

“Von Ruden? As in the Von Ruden?” Iolana was clearly surprised. Von Ruden is the royal bloodline of Slevado.

“I betrayed my nation.” Hiael explained shortly.

Iolana nods, showing that she understood now.

“And that’s our youngest, Ricardo. He’s twenty years old this year. How old are you, Iolana?” Jestel asked her curiously.

“Twenty-one this year.” Iolana answered while smiling at them.

“We’re about the same age, then.” Ricardo giggled.

Sarco couldn’t believe that. Even Ricardo is enchanted by Iolana’s charm now.

“I have a niece who usually sits next to Sarco. She is staying in the palace for a few days right now. I think you will get along with her, Iolana.” Jestel explained.

“Can’t wait to meet her.” Iolana chuckled nervously.

“I hope you feel at home, Iolana. Even though, it must be hard since we live under the same roof as this maniac.” Saine smiles at Iolana and then stares at Sarco like he wants to kill him.

“Won’t you forgive me, Saine?” Sarco fakes a sigh.

“Never.”

“Just scream whenever he’s being out of normal, we’ll be there in no time to save you from him.” Jusarlie makes sure Iolana felt safe.

“You make me sound like a creep.”

“Because you are.”

“You are creepier than me, Saine.”

“Pardon me?!”

They keep bickering with each other, Iolana loves this. She loves it when others get into an argument. That dinner unexpectedly feels warm for the first time in a hundred years.

TO BE CONTINUED...

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[howlsofbloodhounds]

This is my first time sending an ask on mobile so I got no idea which account of mine is being used or if I marked this anonymous, but here we go.

In case I need to clarify, this is Sarco. I'm gonna project on Color again.

Combining dragonkin Color and your P-DID Color headcanon, do you think he'd technically be called a hydra under these circumstances?

Hehe. I love that. Does that make the six souls (and possibly also Beta and XChara 👀) his hatchlings, and the rest of the chromatic crew his hoard or flock/clutch?

[paleopinesofficial]

How do you decide which dinos become plushies? They're all so cute that it must be a REALLY tough decision.

You have asked the perfect question. Get ready for an essay. It's not the main development team (who are in the project and making dinosaurs) who works on the plushies, it's our marketing team!

In the beginning we knew we wanted to start with Lucky because that just felt right- we'd released our demo and people had befriended a ton of different dinosaurs, but everyone starts with Lucky, so we thought our plushies should be no different!

When we knew we wanted to make more plushies, we did a community survey in discord to see which dinos (of the ones we'd already announced) they'd like to see as the next plushie- this gave us a good idea generally of the dinos people already liked. We knew we wanted the anky to be a more common/uncommon colour so more people would have their own on their ranch, and when we presented three options to our community, the carrot anky was by far the most popular!

We had another idea for what we wanted our NEXT plushie to be, but we also knew we would be releasing our Sarcosuchus at the end of May. Makeship reached out to see if we were interested in taking part in their pride campaign, so we knew that adding a pride colour to the Sarco and launching Marco around the same time would be great! (Plus, his shape was already so different to the other two we'd done, which felt like another win for us!)

The Lucky 2.0 campaign came around because a load of people had reached out since the game had launched to say they wanted a Lucky Plushie that they'd missed the first time round!

The Albino Styracosaurus was perfectly timed;  wanted to do a Styracosaurus early on, and our animator and marketing guru Yazz made a powerpoint presentation on why she wanted/didn't want a certain colour.

Fun development sidenote:when Paleo Pines was a greybox and Owynn was a stand in for our main character, Yazz actually found an Albino Styracosaurus! And when the original build came through of the valley, she was SUPER lucky and found TWO in the same herd. Fast forward to the main game, and what does she find? You guessed it, an albino Styracosaurus! It fits really well to Halloween, and so we loved the idea of adding the jack o lanterns in as accessories.

For the future? We went with community favourites and tried to find new and exciting poses for the dinosaurs as well as differently-shaped dinos. We want to make sure we're always offering people something new with every plushie we release! 

[ask-codeearasure]

The funniest one that comes to mind right now is I wish people got crazier with Error x Ink. I'm tired of the "they're rivals/enemies to lovers" for several reasons because it has been done so much.

Canonically Ink isn't Error's rival at all, it's fucking Core!Frisk. Error wants so badly to punt a monochrome child across the multiverse and that's legit an impossible goal. That's a tragically funny thing about Error I never see anyone talk about.

But back to Errink, they're fucking stupid. You could say their dynamic is queerplatonic but that would be reductive to what they think their relationship actually is. Because if they answered honestly, if they actually thought about it, I don't think they'd put a word on the content of their relationship. It's either too complex or they just don't care. I reason it that way because Ink is aro/ace and I headcanon Error to be unlabeled.

Ink kinda just knows they don't experience romantic and sexual attraction whereas Error, being an extremely unstable glitch and all, is too fucked in the head to understand attraction or really care for it. CQ said a piece on this too.

Error also gives me the vibe of he'd say "I love you" to Ink and Ink would gag, look at Error, see the shit-eating grin on his face, then sigh in relief. Because Error saying "I love you" is a red flag. Error knows this. Ink knows this. And Error will say it every once in a while just to fuck with them. He gets a different reaction every time due to their forgetfulness but it always has this air of repulsed concern nonetheless.

I got more but it's 2am. My brain isn't as productive at this hour.

-- Sarco

I'm gonna be stuck in a bus for several hours and I'm bored already so, guys, I wanna see all of your hottest UTMV takes.

Be it about a character/ship/AU whatever you want. (I have anon asks on always so have no fear of judgment).

[shrinksinsneakers]

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[atlasscrumpit]

Yandere MarcSteven

Warnings: Yandere, kidnapping, sedating, captivity, insane Marc

Steven felt sick, he felt so weak and drowsy.

"Mmm." He muttered trying to get out any words, but he was far too tired and weak.

"Shhh, it's okay. I've got you." Came a familiar voice as he looked up through his hazy eyes to see Marc.

"I'm sorry buddy, I had to sedate you." Marc whispered as Steven tried to move his arms bit his arms were restrained to something.

His mind finally cleared a little and he saw white surrounding him and looked down to see he was restrained to a wheelchair.

"Marc." He whispered feeling tears in his eyes as Marc leant forward and kissed his forehead.

"I've got you now baby, you never have to worry about anything ever again." Marc whispered holding onto Steven's face.

"W-What...what did you..." Steven slurred out as Marc ran his finger over Steven's face.

"Shhh, shhh my love. I know you're confused, I'm sorry I had to hurt you baby." Marc whispered undoing the restraints on Steven's arms and legs.

"It's lunch time buddy, I made your favourite." Marc said as he stood up and wheeled Steven through the room.

He stopped him at a table and placed a bowl of soup in front of him.

"You need to eat." Marc said sitting beside Steven and grabbing the spoon in the soup and holding it up to Steven.

"Where are we?" Steven whispered as Marc put the spoon back down.

"Inside our mind, in the psych ward. You remember it don't you?" Marc asked as Steven looked around, it looked exactly the same but there were no people, just him and Marc.

"You're not Marc." Steven growled as Marc's face darkened.

"You're delusional Steven. You're unwell, you need to realise I'm the only one you need." Marc said as Steven shook his head. He pushed away from the table and tried to stand up but ended up falling to his knees.

"Marc would never hurt me." Steven whispered as Marc knelt beside him and turned his face towards him.

"I didn't hurt you Steven. I had to sedate you so you would be safe." Marc replied pressing a kiss to Steven's temple.

"You'll understand soon my love, I promise." Marc whispered lifting Steven back up off the floor and placing him into the wheelchair.

He restrained his arms and legs again.

"See? The more you disobey the more I have to treat you like this." Marc whispered running his hand through Steven's hair.

"Marc, I don't understand why you're doing this." Steven muttered finally feeling like the sedation was wearing off.

"I know, I know you don't understand. And I wish I didn't have to do this. It's not your fault Steven, it's everyone else's fault. Everyone that hurt you or thought they could have you. It's their fault isn't it baby?" Marc said, Steven noticed how insane Marc looked now. His red eyes his dark under eyes.

"Marc you're scaring me." Steven whispered feeling a tear run down his face.

"No no no don't cry baby, no crying okay?" Marc whispered wiping Steven's tear away and looking at him in panic.

"Will you have the soup for me? Please?" Marc said as Steven looked at him and nodded.

Marc smiled and sat beside Steven and began to feed him.

"If you finish it I'll get rid of these restraints okay love." Marc said as Steven nodded, he just wanted to do what Marc said for the moment. When Marc was distracted he could break free and hopefully find Jake to help him.

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Steven was sat on the couch in front of the old TV as Tomb Buster played. Steven was rested against Marc and Marc's arm was securely around Steven in a possesive way.

The sedative had worn off completely by now and Steven's mind rushed with thoughts.

What had drawn Marc to this?

Did his mind finally snap?

Did Steven cause this?

Steven looked up to see Marc had fallen asleep on top of him. It was the perfect moment.

Steven slowly snuck out of Marc's arms and ran out the double swinging doors.

He tried to gain control of the body but it didn't work.

"Jake!" He called out running down the hallways. He heard a banging and opened a door to see a sarcophagus.

"Bingo." Steven muttered rushing in to the standing sarcophagus. With difficulty he pulled the lid off and it came crashing onto the floor, surely waking Marc up.

Jake rushed forward and wrapped Steven up in a hug.

"Mi amor." Jake whispered as Steven held onto him tightly.

"I don't know what's happening, I think Marc's gone mad. He hurt me and sedated me and h-he seems like he lost his mind." Steven stuttered out feeling tears in his eyes again.

"I know mi amor, he hit me and knocked me out. Then shoved me in there." Jake mumbled pulling away and looking over Steven with worry.

"We'll figure a way out of this." Jake said still holding onto Steven.

Suddenly the door opened and Jake grabbed Steven putting himself first and Steven behind him.

"I thought I could trust you Steven." Marc growled as Jake glared at him.

"Looks like my tactics aren't working."