#rp: fleur-de-leap

[just-a-normal-crow]

"Well aren't you a pretty bird~?" I coo, pausing to admire the gorgeous black feathers, kneeling down a few paces away. Hopefully a safe distance if it isn't friendly, but close enough to interact if it is.

After a moment of quiet observation, I reach into my bag and pull out a bag of yarn scraps, taking some out. There's a plethora of colors and textures, some even having shiny threads woven through them. "Would you like some yarn? I'd offer you some more shiny objects, but I like collecting them too."

The crow takes a second to assess the situation. It hadn’t expected a random passerby to take notice, though judging from your offer of various yarn and fiber leavings, it quickly figures that it may have piqued your interest even before today.

It tilts its head curiously as it scans your handful of scraps. Programming dictates that it must take its leave—however, that same programming also dictates that ooooooooooh shiny!

Tentatively, the crow takes a few hops closer. It’s not all the way up close, opting to at least remain as far from your hand as possible while within reach of the yarn of your hand. Stretching out its neck to take a particularly glittery piece, it has its beak slowly open and wings spread slightly to balance itself.

[flamesque]

"Humor" for the childhood ask game?

Childhood Memories.

Humor.

What did the sea say to the beach? Nothing. It just waved.

[dawnbreakersgaze]

I can give you a few hints :P As far as I can remember, we've never spoken before now, and I'm not really doing much to hide who I am

Lmao Confetti?! Which confetti throwing delinquent put you up to that?!

And based on those VERY GENEROUS clues (thank you, I'm humbled) I'm going to guess fleur-de-leap? We haven't talked but I've definitely seen (I hope🤞🏼) 'you' around the Greysonposting a lot on here and the rp blog as a long time follower and it's always warmed my soul 🥹!

Hope I got that one right (if I didn't, I'm very ashamed and will throw myself into the valley lol)!

[fleur-de-leap]

Masterlist!

Here's a list of important links and stuff for quick access!

Blogs!

Main: @fleur-de-leap

Art: @painted-leap

Self-Ship Blog: @leap-loves

Obey Me Blog: @pact-with-faith

Writing Blog: @occasional-drabbles

Love and Deepspace OC RP blogs: @lily-of-the-linkon @walking-azalea

Important Links!

Ask Meme Tag: #send me one!

List of all of my OCs, organized by fandom, here!

Commission Info!!

[rsmrymnt-tea]

I've been a bit MIA on tumblr, but I am HERE for all of this Dola Satan sweetness!! All of the domesticity, the weight and importance of the small moments! The tenderness and vulnerability between them that is necessary but that they help each other with!!

Leap!! I’ve noticed you been gone but I know you’ve got a ton on your plate >.< Hope it’s all getting more manageable for you, at least…

So glad you find them sweet!! Which… y’know I shouldn’t be so surprised that you do considering our chats and RP lmfao but still!! Happy that what I’m going for comes across >.< There’s so much of them navigating loving and being in love that’s all up in my head and it’s super fun writing it out and seeing that people see? (and also just freeing. It’s like opening the dam to let some water out lol)

Really wanna put out more short bits about them and eventually DolaSolomon too. I talk about Dola so much that I feel like I gotta put out more of the stuff I write with her >.>

[flargablargaart]

I forgot to upload this last night. This is Mary Shelley, the main villain of the appropriately named ‘Mary Arc’ from an RP with @fleur-de-leap. 

[rsmrymnt-tea]

Hello? Your tags? What’s going on with Dola in that rp?

Honestly I think Dola and Duck would be a fascinating swap because Dola has a very different story and I’ve mostly kept Duck canon but filled in scenes/expanded on the consequences of certain actions.

So that rp was born out of me and @fleur-de-leap wanting our OCs to interact, and somehow we landed on Dolasach finding herself stuck in Faith’s (Leap’s OC) reality after an assignment given by the Sorcerer’s Society went wrong.

Me going on and on way, way longer than I probably should’ve under the cut >.<

So in the RP, she accidentally destroys a strange artifact she was tasked with retrieving for the Sorcerer’s Society (I’m working a ton of headcanons into this RP >.>;;) because of a mistake she made while disarming all the protective enchantments on it. Gets knocked out for a while, wakes up, then heads home in defeat already dreading the report she’ll have to give. Just this already has her emotionally in shambles because she doesn’t take failure well at all, and failure on this scale has her wanting to give up her immortality and die

So long, long story short, breaking that artifact sent Dola into a completely different reality that’s almost a century in the past as at the time of her arrival, it’s three months into the exchange program and currently they’re having the retreat. To play it safe, she and Barbatos agree that she can’t give anything away and upon meeting Faith she realizes that it puts her in a place that she held a massive grudge against her reality’s Diavolo and Barbatos for—she can’t say anything about what’ll happen once Belphie’s freed from the attic

Which like. Puts her in a crisis because Faith’s so painfully undeserving of that fate but she doesn’t want to risk having the family never be reunited either. Lots of guilt because she hates that she has to keep that a secret from the other exchange student and she’s on the same side as Diavolo and Barbatos in this, so there’s the forced hypocrisy and understanding of their side of the story

And the sheer fear of everyone hating her once that event does happen—logically she knows that they aren’t her family but the fact that they’re still the same people with the same voice, face, personality. She doesn’t want to experience that and have it ingrained in her mind forever.

There’s also just a lot she has to deal with emotionally? The way her ‘loved ones’ look at her like she’s a stranger because to these versions of them, she is—and the worst of it is seeing a Satan that doesn’t love her. She was already missing them, doubly missing him, but can’t go to him for comfort and affection that she would’ve if it were her Satan. And she’s needing comfort so bad but has no one to get any from

There’s also the fact that despite everyone’s willingness to help here, no one’s actually sure if she actually can go back home. Lucifer brought it up in their first meeting and honestly Dola’s just hanging onto the hope that if the artifact she broke could send her here than successfully retrieving it in this reality and figuring out how to use it could bring her home. Right?

It’s in this RP where I realize that Dola’s an overthinking anxious mess when she’s directionless, and the succession of Difficult Things has her breaking down a few times within the first week, even in front of Satan, Solomon, eventually even in front of Barbatos too

There’s several points, especially early on in the RP where Dola’s just… Consistently unsettled and uncomfortable. Going around the Devildom and having nostalgia be a source of suffering comes up often. Everything reminds her that she shouldn’t be here, everything reminds her that she’s here because of her own mistake and failure

The strongest reminder being the lack of any imprint of her existence on the HoL. It’s uncanny and unnerving to her, more than she’d ever expect it to

This is getting long but man writing this out I feel like I’m almost driving her towards breaking because I’ve written her to be so deeply insecure about her self-worth and what constitutes her being of any value, she’s just good at keeping it together because keeping it together helps stave the Thoughts off (or at least makes it more bearable)

So when she sees that the brothers are just so much happier so much earlier into the exchange program with Faith, it messes with her pretty bad. It makes her really question a ton of shit about herself, her impact on the brothers, and make her look back on the kind of person she was when she was younger.

She won’t ever say anything to Faith, but she’s quietly growing jealous of a lot of things about her, even just the simple fact that she’s close with the brothers and that they’re so happy with her. And Dola hates that she feels that way because literally nothing about any of it is Faith’s fault, and she’s just a naturally nice and sweet girl so of course that’ll reflect on her relationships with everyone—but that’s also what she’s jealous and a little resentful of and it’s so sdfhjdsk she hates that she’s like that especially when she’s a century old and knows better

I think I described the sum of what she’s experiencing as the existential crisis of seeing a world where you don’t exist doing better than when you’re around?

Then there’s like… the silent understanding that she and everyone bonding with her has that it’s going to end with her leaving because she can’t possibly stay… And it makes her relationship with that reality’s Satan more complicated

And speaking of relationships, at some point she realizes that she’s growing feelings for Solomon while she’s there because he’s become her main source of comfort and because they spend a ton of time together working on getting her home and it’s like… Making her even more troubled because it just makes it harder to work with him (this RP was set before I decided to have Sol in the relationship so she’s just struggling with like… Not doing anything, not while she can’t talk anything through with her Satan >.<)

Throughout the RP she learns to cope and relax some, finding some ways to keep herself from dwelling too much on the negatives of her situation so she’s not just suffering nonstop. But it is all just pushed to the back of her mind through distractions and sometimes just letting herself cry it out in her room >.<

The RP isn’t all bleak and there’s honestly a bunch of cute fluff in there (like her actually becoming fairly close with Barbatos and Diavolo, Barbatos letting her take in a cat, a second ’retreat’ but its in Purgatory Hall and just the exchange students, then there’s a planned bit where the castle cat gives birth to kittens under Barbatos’s bed :’>) but like… Can’t really deny that Dola’s Going Through It and is just getting by because she’s adequately distracted from those thoughts + feels that she’s making progress getting home through recreating and developing the spells she used to get to the artifact.

(I’m so sorry that that’s so long??? I don’t know how to shorten things + well… the whole thing is like 500k words and counting…)

AND my gosh it really would be interesting to have Duck and Dola swap because at the time of starting the above RP, I hadn’t fully settled on what I wanted Dola’s version of the story to be and now that I have, it’s very different from canon. Like huge differences would be like

Dynamics with everyone would be SO different, especially since Dola’s only dating Satan and Solomon. The rest of the brothers have no romantic feelings for her and she’s never even seen them as romantic options

Pact acquisition’s different and in different order too

Dola gets back to her original timeline and because of that the way Belphie and the Lilith reveal are handled differently

Some events make it into her canon, including the Angelic Demons one so that affects her relationship with Diavolo and Simeon + iirc Michael was there so she met him too?

She started on learn magic as soon as possible and got some fundamentals down by the end of the first semester

Met Thirteen shortly after going to her cave

Haven’t settled on what I wanna do for them but her Sorcerer trials are different from what’s in canon

Becomes immortal not too long after becoming an official sorcerer

S4 doesn’t even happen for her as far as I can tell with where we’re at right now. There’s just no way she’s going to return to RAD and accept a government position at the age of like… 25

All among other things, but those would be the major differences? He not being close with Mammon and gravitating towards Satan, Asmo, and Solomon instead changes things a lot…

[fleur-de-leap]

Blog(s) Update!

So in case anyone is interested, I figured it wouldn’t hurt for me to make a post listing all of my blogs and their ‘status’

@fleur-de-leap This is my Main Blog, where I reblog whatever interests me and sometimes but rarely make original posts. It’s generally pretty active. 

@painted-leap This is my Art Blog, which is self explanatory. I update it whenever I have art to post, which isn’t too often but it does happen. 

@tf-imagines This is a Transformers Imagines blog, but unfortunately it’s extremely inactive due to lack of motivation / interest. I’ll admit that I’m planning on finishing what requests I have that I can, and then closing the blog. I’d leave it of course for others to see in the future, but just archive it. 

@ask-team-cast This is an Ask / RP blog for 3 of my Transformers OC, Typecast, Sparkside, and Cityscape. The ask box is open!

[just-a-normal-crow]

It scrutinizes you for a little bit more before finally deciding that there isn’t a single thing dangerous about a handful of yarn scraps, and neither should it be worried about someone who has the mind to even offer it the scraps in the first place. A second glance to your face later it, it determines that you’re fine and that you do indeed pass the vibe check.

And also that its programming reaaaally wants that shiny fancy yarn.

It manages to snag about half of the little pile of yarn before quickly hopping away about a couple feet back. A pleased croaking emits from its closed throat and it tilts its head at you in acknowledgement, a gleeful sparkle in its eye.

Truthfully… It’s not really like it needs it. It doesn’t nest anywhere, and it has no need for most of the usual traditions that crow culture entails. But by the gods, it just really wanted the pretty yarn.

"Well aren't you a pretty bird~?" I coo, pausing to admire the gorgeous black feathers, kneeling down a few paces away. Hopefully a safe distance if it isn't friendly, but close enough to interact if it is.

After a moment of quiet observation, I reach into my bag and pull out a bag of yarn scraps, taking some out. There's a plethora of colors and textures, some even having shiny threads woven through them. "Would you like some yarn? I'd offer you some more shiny objects, but I like collecting them too."

The crow takes a second to assess the situation. It hadn’t expected a random passerby to take notice, though judging from your offer of various yarn and fiber leavings, it quickly figures that it may have piqued your interest even before today.

It tilts its head curiously as it scans your handful of scraps. Programming dictates that it must take its leave—however, that same programming also dictates that ooooooooooh shiny!

Tentatively, the crow takes a few hops closer. It’s not all the way up close, opting to at least remain as far from your hand as possible while within reach of the yarn of your hand. Stretching out its neck to take a particularly glittery piece, it has its beak slowly open and wings spread slightly to balance itself.