#she’s talking about Vulpes

[alice-lupine]

I know he wasn’t a good person and I could tell he was really hurting and unhappy, but I didn’t want him to go.…does that make me bad?

Hey mobius?

How do you mourn someone?

@alice-lupine

Mourning… What a bittersweet symphony of the emotions. A complex equation of the heart you can never solve, only simplify. I suppose the best way would be to allow yourself to feel such emotions. Remember the good times. The bad ones as well, O, especially the bad ones. Eventually the time will come and you’ll be able to let go of your grief, and it will become a beautiful melody.

I hope that day comes for me soon.

[madspeed]

more keykid things!!!!!!!!!!!! The design's based on my original player character avatar i used when i was active on khux with a few swaps (mainly cause i had no idea there was a moogle headband lol)

[obnoxiousarcade]

Okay fine I'll talk about the new header girl. If you recognize her, yes, that's her. That's the beast! No I don't support the creator no I do not want to interact with fans of the series! She's here because she resonates with me purrsonality. I hate the fact she has a fandom I hate the creator I do not agree with any views presented in it. Yeah

[sl-vega]

Hi Vee, I would like to request a sick! gn reader with some of the genshin characters (Yae Miko, Wanderer, Albedo, and Kazuha) where reader can’t really talk all to well cause of said sickness. What sort of shenanigans would ensue as our dear reader tries to communicate. It’d also be really cool if the reader knew a bit of sign language and tried to communicate that way (your choice on whether the characters know it or don’t). Have a lovely morning/day/evening!

NOW I'M (LOVE)SICK

pairings: Yae Miko, Albedo, Wanderer, Kazuha x [GN!] Reader

genre: fluff, established relationship, headcanons/drabbles, canon compliant, sick! reader, reader knows sign language

synopsis: in which your s/o tries their best to make you feel better since you've fallen ill

CW: mild language, potentially ooc, vee doesn't know how to do headcanons so you have been warned

additional notes: lol perfect timing for this request cuz I'm actually sick rn // header credits: yae header by @/k1aya on pinterest, albedo header by @/kuno on pinterest, wanderer header by @/ggoldiz on pinterest, Kazuha header by @/detailuffy on pinterest

YAE MIKO-Divina Vulpes

miss girl would be babying you 100%

kinda acts more like your mom than your s/o in this case tbh

"I told you not to go adventuring in the rain!" but then she goes back to saying shit like "aww you poor thing~, let me get some soup for you"

yae would also tease you too, cuz yk, she's yae miko

since she's not human, I don't think she can get sick, well not any human diseases at least

she tries her best to be there for you though, probably reads a bunch of light novels from her publishing house to help you fall asleep

if you try to communicate via sign language to her, she probably just hushes you and grabs your hands so you stop frantically making hand signs

cuz she wants you to get your rest

I think she does know a little sign language, but she never really committed to learning it, she'd gladly start for you though

ALSO

i think she'd turn into her fox form and let you cuddle with her like she's a stuffed animal

totally not projecting rn

ALBEDO-Princeps Cretaceus

he'd def send sucrose over to check on you if he's busy, but once he's done with his work, he is SPRINTING over to check on you

✨he's a runner he's a track star✨

maybe it's just me but I feel like Albedo would be the type of boyfriend that worries over you a lot

when he does come over, he probably has lots of concoctions that are supposed to clear your throat, but they're probably made of...

less than delicious materials

and you aren't becoming your boyfriend's personal test subject no thank you, not today

since he has a little sister, he knows how to take care of you

probably has experience cuz klee would get super sick after running around in the rain for too long-

makes you chicken soup, and tea, the usual

if you try to communicate with him via sign language due to losing your voice, he'll probably have the same reaction as yae

just forces you to go back to sleep

he def knows sign language (mr. genius🙄) but he wants you to get better as soon as possible

klee also comes over at some point, probably tells you some crazy story about how she tried to blow up dawn winery with diona or smth-

her and Albedo also make some get well cards for you once you fall asleep as well <3

WANDERER-Peregrinus

this mf

if you've heard his voice lines you already know what this bastard would say to you

he'd call you weak and say shit like "a small illness has already rendered you helpless? how pathetic..."

THE FACT I CAN PERFECTLY HEAR HIM SAY THAT-

he's a puppet so he's never been sick cuz he can't get sick either

nahida would probably slap him and scold him and tell him to be nicer though

on the inside he's super concerned about you

lowkey, he's afraid of losing you

not that he'd ever admit it-

(tsundere scara for the win)

he's worried that you're going to end up like the child he used to live with, and that you'll become "powerless before your mortality" as he'd like to say

same as yae + albedo, if you'd try to communicate with him via sign language he'll tell you to sleep

(in a slightly aggressive way but he's scara what do you expect?)

i don't think he knows sign language at all tbh

he'll ask nahida about it and he'll probably start borrowing books from the akidemiya and practices in secret for you

he WILL ruin his sleep schedule for you but he'll probably just brush it off and be like: "meh, it was easy."

when in reality this mf has spent an AGONIZING amount of time just to try and impress you

he'll make you tea too, the bitter kind

the VERY bitter kind

oml this sounds like scara slander 😭 dw I actually really like him

KAEDEHARA KAZUHA-Acer Palmatum

like albedo, he'd be super worried about you

tells beidou that he needs to make sure you're okay before the crux leaves for it's next destination

brings you tea, soup, and writes cute little love poems for you while you rest in his lap

tells you stories about his travels while holding your hand and sappy stuff like that

kazuha is a top tier boyfriend fr fr

unlike the others, if you tried to communicate with him via sign language, he let you teach him certain phrases

i think he knows a little bit due to his travels so he's picked up on a bit of it

he thinks it's really cute of how you try to explain things to him since you can't speak so you probably alternate between the hand signs themselves and pen and paper

VERY attentive to you

"slow down love, we have all the time in the world."

[venjamin-kingdomhearts]

if Daybreak Town Keykids had Tumblr accounts. sure someone else has already made one of these but here’s my take

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hey so - your boyfriend? yeah wanted to let you know that he gave into the darkness of his heart and transformed. yeah, he’s a darkling now. no, sorry, he just wants to steal lux. but look, now he has those cute little elf boots!

#sorry about your boyfriend

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okay not to interrupt but which two leopardus members are roleplaying warrior cats in the notes of this post. i just wanna talk

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are you fucking tone deaf? there are actually kids in unions getting into fights over this shit. one of my old party members lost his heart to darkness over a petty lux dispute, and now you’re seriously pinning unions against each other? you’re part of the problem.

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you can talk to me when your union isn’t dead last in the leaderboards girlie 😘

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i hate you sand i hate you cannoned camels i hate you wily bandits i hate you desert sun i hate you abu i hate you cave of wonders i hate you agrabah

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going to meet master ava today!! i’m super nervous so wish me luck!!!

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ooooooooh she says she has something for me!!!! this is like a wish come true 😸😸😸💚💚💚

#its kinda dark in here tho

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GUYS you won’t believe what she gave me!!!

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why is there blood

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[toffee32]

they fixed each other...... heartwarming

Vulpes and my OC Courier Six family story! I don't know if I talked much about their story post-comic but basically Mila frees Vulpes and decides to help the Legion only in exchange of Vulpes' hand in marriage. Yes, she's that in love for that ugly evil man! And Vulpes hates it, but knows the sacrifices that must be made for the sake of the Legion. After winning the Second Battle of Hoover Dam, Caesar allows the marriage to finally happen and for them to more or less settle down. He warms up to it, and they have their cute little family, one son and two daughters! Life is quite mundane for them after that, and who knows, maybe Mila can exert some influence through her husband to protect herself and her daughters' safety and interests... Many things to think about!

[ashroomy]

Can't stop thinking about fnv ocs so I'm gonna ramble about them alllll

Jasper: He's my courier who's yes man aligned. He tries to be extremely upbeat and cheerful (think, useless ray of sunshine). He always tries to see the best in people's which means he's very good at getting scammed. If someone were to overcharge him for some medicine he would go "aw must have taken them so much time and effort to produce, and they're offering it to me, worth every cap :)" He also will see actual horrors unfolding and still try to see the good in a person. Like in Nipton seeing Vulpes. Whilst horrified at the crimes, he looks at him and goes "oh :( what made you this way. You can be better. I'm sorry they made you like this" despite the fact that the whole town is actively on fire. He believes in peace and diplomacy but can be a huge pushover. However he is extremely good at bandaging wounds. If he didn't get shot in the head and demand answers, he'd be a doctor.

August: My legion frumentarii who hates the legion! He got taken by the legion when his village was invaded. He's not violent by nature. But he knew that being peaceful would lead to his death. He did what he could to survive and discovered his knack for spying. Allowing him to become a frumentarii, he was pleased, hoping he wouldn't have to kill anymore. He was extremely devastated when he found out this wasn't always the case. A skilled actor. He uses this to his advantage, if he had his way, he would be performing on stage in many shows. Has a habit of taking notes on everything he sees. This has a tendency to wind up the other people around him.

Noah: Originally a joke character between me and a friend who became his own decently serious character. He works for the NCR designing propaganda for them. He likes being left alone and drawing hunched over. Has a strange relationship with the legion, as he knows he should despise them, but he has friends and family who are surviving in there. So he believes there must still be good people in there somewhere, despite the atrocities. In his propaganda, he will draw people who loosely resemble those who got taken by the legion so that on the off chance those people see the posters, they know he's still thinking of them.

Claire: Noah's older sister and dedicated NCR soldier. She takes extreme pride in serving the NCR and is passionate about following all orders to a T. She attacks most tasks with a frightening zeal and many are pleased she's on their side. Unlike her brother, she holds nothing but disgust for the legion for taking her family and friends, and vows to crush the legion to prevent anyone else going through the same fate as her loved ones. Every time there is a potential chance for a NCR and Legion clash. She is the first to volunteer to step in.

Ferox: My horrible horrible centurion, he holds the legion in high regards and vehemently believes in their ideals. Ruthless and bloodthirsty, he has little in the way of friends in the legion due to his offputting and intimidating air. He doesn't mind. As he believes that he is the most loyal person in the legion and everyone else is below him, he refuses to talk to anyone he believes is "lesser" than him. His violent nature and arrogance make him highly detested and feared in and out of the legion. From the same village as August, he fought hard to survive, but came to appreciate the legion over time, losing sight of how he even got there in the first place. Claire later defeats him. (Which is good because I hate him and he's only a character so I can practice writing awful people)

[delafiseaseses]

"I want you to witness the fate of the town of Nipton, to memorize every detail."

OK, Vulpes, how about a memorise a very particular detail. That you speak out of your arse when you claim "Each clutched his ticket, hoping it would set him free. Each did nothing, even when "loved ones" were dragged away to be killed." what's this then, Inculta?

[an ash pile and a dead wastelander next to a laser rifle]

[the Ash Pile's inventory contains a set of Legion Recruit Armour and a machete]

Looks to me like you didn't clean up the fight fully. I imagine that if we were to have arrived later what's left of your man woulda been sweeped up and the Wastelander would have a mine under him.

[another angle of the dead Wastelander, showing the Laser Rifle and a Lottery Ticket]

The man has a lotto ticket next to him as well. Which does raise some questions. Was he handed the ticket and then pulled out the Rifle? Did they leave it next to him to mock him? Was this actually some kind of trial by combat "prize"? If the last one, why is he dead inspite of killing a Legion Recruit?

We will never know, the dead can't talk and Vulpes has his story. I don't think this is how Vulpes wanted us to see this man or the Legion Ash Pile.

-

I do have some other observations. Do you notice that the 1st and 2nd place winners, Oliver Swanick and Boxcares, are both Powder Gangers. In fact, literally every non-Legion survivor of this event weren't Nipton Locals? They're literally all Powder Gangers. The two enslaved guys in 'Booted'. The crucified men?

[4 images vertically of crucified Powder Gangers]

Powder Gangers. All the survivors of Nipton were Powder Gangers. You may think "So what? The people of Nipton got unlucky." but you know what I think? I think this is too convienient.

Vulpes says "Nipton was a wicked place, debased and corrupt. It served all comers, so long as they paid. Profligate troops, Powder Gangers, men of the Legion such as myself - the people here didn't care. It was a town of whores. For a pittance, the town agreed to lead those it had sheltered into a trap. Only when I sprang it did they realize they were caught inside it, too." notice what he's doing there: he's claiming the entire town was in on him and Mayor Steyns plot. A claim like that, if true, could be used against Nipton in some people's minds.

One of the only other accounts of Nipton are Ghost's which are "Nipton wasn't the most friendly town, but..." and "Town was a shithole, asking to be burned. Just not by Legion. Nobody deserves that." which... no town is 'asking to be burned', Ghost. That second quote is part of her saying she had no friends in Nipton. I doubt she actually personally knew anyone in Nipton. Just the fact Steyn served Gangers and NCR and maybe she met someone unkind there once or somethin'.

And, yeah, Mayor Joseph B. Steyn was an arsehole. But y'wanna know somethin' about Steyn? He was New Californian, a Hubber, from The Hub. His prostitutes, Rosie and Sylvia, were probably from there or somewhere in New California too. And you know what he says happened in his terminal when he heard the plan? "I didn't have to think a moment about Mr. Fox's proposition before accepting it. All I have to do is convince the Powders to kidnap the NCR troops at night. When both groups are in town, the Legion boys will scoop everyone up. Ha!" he didn't consult the town about this plan beforehand. He also, rather constantly, displays a desire to leave Nipton and go back to California after exploiting Nipton as much as he could. That was Steyn's care for the town.

Only 1 Nipton Townsperson gets an account of anythin': Tony the Tinker. His single terminal entry shows him to be... a bit of a creep. But he explicitly is avoided by other people in town, especially women (also his Mister Gutseys got one of the Legion Recruits, which is funny).

But I've lost the point I was making. I don't think the fact all the Nipton townspeople are dead is a coincidence. Just like how I don't think that all the NCR just happened to be killed and left in Nipton Hotel is a coincidence.

I think the lotto was rigged.

Think about it, Boxcars even says that when Steyn's number came up they "burned him alive on a pile of tires." he never mentions anyone else getting that treatment.

Vulpes Inculta lied about the towns complicitness, at best there were fine with prostitution that played both sides of the Ganger-NCR conflict (the shopkeepers of the town gave Steyn 15% of their profits from trade with patrons of that service). Does Westside deserve to burn because of the Casa Madrid? Does Freeside because of the Atomic Wrangler? Fuck no.

But if a Nipton townsperson lived, they could share their story. We could see the truth. Nipton was a town, like any other. At worst their crime was electing Steyn (but we have no idea how their elections even worked).

1st prize, 2nd prize. That'd be a loose end, a story that could contradict the "Evil place that should be burned" narrative. The game was rigged from the start. Vulpes Inculta is a liar. Of course he is... he's a literal spymaster.

(also I highly doubt a woman was ever gonna be allowed to 'win' such a thing with Legion ideology)

So, let us remember the town of Nipton, as best as we can. Not as Vulpes saw it, or the NCR saw it, but as a place that had people in it we never got to know. Next time your in Nipton Town Hall, moving the bodies to avoid the landmines of this specifically set up scene by the Legion. Think about the Wastelanders, as they are called, and the part of the Wasteland they called home.

[obnoxiousarcade]

Chatrooms online chatrooms im litterallt shaking

[object-yaoi]

fnv companions as DOGS!!!

but only the base game ones!!! lol!!

arcade - borzoi (lanky, awkward, my fave companion and dog breed! lol)

boone - german shepherd (large and good protectors, also typically used in military/cop settings. and i can think of a couple different fictional "ex-cop" gsd's in talking dog movies)

veronica - newfoundland! (she's loyal and strong and newfoundlands are known for their very muscular builds- theyre typically used as rescue dogs!)

vulpes - white crust dog (my aunt had a crusty lil white dog like this and he was the DEVIL. vulpes is a lil crust dog) OR a yorkie. (vibes)

cass - blue heeler (farm dog!!!!!! just suits her imo)

lilly - pit bull terrier OR great dane (large, very loving)

raul (who i dont know much about, soz) - beagle ^^ (a "classic" dog breed- bc he's old :3)

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"What are you doing?! This is the only way we can fend ourselves against the bone demon!"

The Single-horned Rhinoceros King didn't think he'd see the day he'd point his bronze spear at his dear friend. Stubborn as ever was the snow leopard in front of him, completely misguided by that bone demon's promise.

"That girl has misled you, Leopard! The girl working for the spider sister is the bone demon!" He explained, trying to force some sense back to the leopard's head. "Puppeteering a child to remain undetected!"

"How would she even know about the shards, then?!" Leopard argued back, tail flicking in irritation at the utter nonsense his friend seemed to be spouting. "She was imprisoned before they were even created!"

"You severely underestimate her ability to gather crucial information by means of manipulating others." Warned the king, watching his volume at any chance of being eavesdropped in this dark forest, an entrance to a Vulpes evacuation center right behind him. "Much like what she's doing to you right now!"

"You're not making any sense here!" The leopard on the other hand had no such need of subtlety. Loud enough to be heard by one of the spider servants sent to keep an eye on him at the dead of night.

Goliath was never one for eavesdropping, not being one to listen to Syntax and Huntsman's arguments, nor the Queen when privately talking with the girl. But with what he was hearing right now...

Maybe he didn't know as much as Syntax. Maybe he didn't have the detective skills Huntsman had. Maybe he didn't know a lot, not even his own past. And certainly nothing about the girl.

The girl...

He shook his head. No, she only wanted what's best for the queen.

...Right?

"Leopard, I am warning you because you're my friend!" The Rhino King pleaded him to listen, blocking the leopard from the shard inside of the evacuation center. "This bone demon is many things! Dangerous things! And if there's one thing she is most infamous for..."

"It's her tendency to discard those she considers to be no longer of use."

The rest of the argument was a blur for Goliath. A ring in his ears that grew louder as that one sentence kept repeating in his head. He wanted to doubt. He wanted to swat it off. The air was cold, like the underground he was used to. But the more he thought, the more that chill felt unnatural...unwelcoming...

"That won't happen once I get that shard!"

Times like these is where he'd usually find himself trying not to think too deeply about it. It spared him the countless times of falling into a spiral of overthinking. It made him easily mistakable for the all-brawn, no-brain stereotype, but it was either that or being stuck a worrywart all of the time.

"That shard isn't going anywhere!"

No book will be enough to make him forget his worries this time.

The passiveness he accumulated from watching Syntax and Huntsman argued, bled into the situation he found himself. Stuck in a place where he wanted to just intervene, but unable to move and stop the rhino and the leopard.

"Well if you don't want to use the shard, what else do you have in mind that could keep us safe from her?!"

"I...I made a blood oath with one of the heroes." The Rhino King mentioned hesitantly. "The one you fought earlier."

"Hah...hahahah...You're joking, right?" Leopard looked at him in disbelief, the spots on his fur glowing a bright white . "You made a blood oath with the blue cub, and I'm the one being used?!"

"The bone demon is using the youngest spider sister into planning another attack! What other choice do I have?! Besides, the child couldn't possibly know what he's doing enough, to dabble in such practices! It shouldn't be hard to manipulate him into making an oversight."

The king continued to defend himself, both the still-attached horn and eyes illuminating a corrosive orange. "He vowed to give us one of the new artifacts in the museum! If we could get that, it will allow us to defend ourselves against the bone demon better than any shard!"

"That's enough. I don't want to fight you." Leopard only muttered, a shadow casted over his eyes, illuminated only by his glowing irises. "But I need you to move."

But the rhino refused, only looking at him with a silent plead to stop. "...I'm sorry."

"Rhino, what are you dOING?!-"

The leopard banged on the door that the rhino shut on him, now inside of the facility and locking him out. He could only press his forehead on the door, waiting for the banging to die down. But while doing so, felt a sinking feeling the minute he heard a voice. Being all it took for him to realize his error.

"So here's the deal. You get me an artifact that'll help me against little miss Ivory. In return, I give you an artifact that'll keep you safe from her and Queenie." a certain boy's voice repeated in his head. "So long as you don't use any of the knowledge I gave you to anyone else but yourself in the meantime, we'll be good as golden."

"Well, that's a shame."

He looked behind him to find said boy in blue, dangling the artifact he promised over his head. The king's other horn, glowing orange as a response to the close range its owner was in. "And I already came here with my end of the bargain."

"Sad too. If you just waited for me to give it, you could've warned your friend without screwing yourself over." Bell blew a single note from his moon flute, summoning a small water-jellyfish to swallow the shard. He sucked the jellyfish and the shard with it back into the flute, then stored the artifact back in his pocket. "Oh well..."

The contract that the Rhino King signed appeared, hovering over Bell's hand as the ink on the paper bled into the floor. The ink then fully stained the paper in black, before inky arms burst out. The Rhino King could only try to fight them off, slicing the arms with his bronze spear, only for the arms to reform. Inky arms dragged him by the legs, causing him to fall on the floor, more arms dragging him despite the claw marks he left on the ground.

"Rhino...?" Leopard's ears perked, pressing them further on the door as he heard his friends screams of struggle. "RHINO!" He kept banging on the door, doing all in his power to destroy the one thing the Rhino King originally closed to keep him away.

The last thing the king heard was the muffled banging, before the ink overtook him. The broken blood oath forced him to disperse into ink, sucking him into the contract. A dark ball of ink took the contract's place, before reshaping itself. It fell on Bell's hand, now as a black chess piece resembling the trapped king.

The lights flickered as the leopard finally destroyed the door, looking everywhere and seeing no signs of his friend, nor anything that could've taken him. Only his spots served as the source of light in this otherwise dark building. The door shut behind him, causing him to turn around. And yet, nothing. Lights flickered back on, revealing the boy at his previous spot.

"She got away..." He feign distraught, bruises from the earlier winter fight giving the illusion of struggle. "The Lady Bone Demon! S-she was here, she took him, she- I saw her, and I had to follow her, but then she-"

"WHERE DID SHE TAKE HIM?!" The snow leopard roared, fur completely frazzled. "That little brat, I'm gonna-" He grabbed the boy by the shoulders and shook him with panicking eyes. "Work with me cub, will ya?! What did that she-demon do?! Where is he?!"

Bell faked speechlessness, grabbing something from his pocket. The leopard widened his eyes as the boy opened his palm, revealing the severed horn, still glowing.

"No..." He stood back up, digging his claws into his scalp. "This isn't real. None of this is real, no! She didn't just- He's still alive! He has to be! He has to-" He turned around to look for the shard, or at least...where it was. "No, she didn't harvest him, did she?! I swear to Buddha, I'm gonna-"

"She's not gonna stop..." Bell weakly spoke. "She's not gonna stop with him, and she won't even stop with the Spider Queen..."

"I...I can't believe I'm doing this..." Leopard hesitantly muttered, before turning back to him. "You. Little cub. You a hero, right? What do we need to stop that demon?!"

The boy slowly looked up. "W-what...?"

"I know we fought, but that freak took my friend!" The leopard defended, feeling the need to, for his remaining pride. "I'll do anything! I just want the bone demon dead!"

Bell's eyes lit up, a smile tempting to interrupt his facade. He tilted his head slightly while lowering his glamour, revealing the magpie feather attached to one earpiece, while the disguised hard drive attached to the other remained hidden.

"Anything...?"

-Chapter 37: Black Pawns

[areyoudreaminof]

Future Rust and Future Dust: Chapter 3

Lucien and Jurian receive some news, while Elain and Vassa discuss the curse.

Lucien studied Elain as she plowed wet earth with her bare hands. Thin and weak sunshine had made a rare appearance in the human lands, and Elain wanted to rotate the soil on the winter potato crop she and Jurian had managed to grow and make room for carrots, radishes, and cabbage. Frustration was furrowed on her brow and her lip was set into a hard line. 

Lucien knew he’d hear an earful later about how rocky and dead the soil was. He’d heard it before. “ Worms refuse to live here! No beetles or anything! Just dead trees!” As one of his first gifts to his mate, he had given a few coppers to some local boys to procure worms and ladybugs for her. 

Elain had squealed with delight as he presented her a bucket of worms and a small makeshift terrarium of ladybugs. She dropped on her knees onto the small garden as she dug and carefully placed the worms into the dirt with her bare hands. Her lovely lavender dress turned brown and her curls were limp with sweat, but her smile was the most beautiful thing Lucien had ever seen. Her face was alight and joy danced in her eyes. It was then that Lucien knew he was starting to fall for Elain. 

It had surprised him more than he thought. Once they had agreed to get to know one another just as they were, it had been the easiest thing in the world. Beyond the pull of the mating bond, she was lively and funny. She had a way of making him comfortable, like he had known her all of his life. They had even gone up to Velaris for Solstice, as Elain made peace with her sisters, and Lucien finally felt welcome into that closed off Inner Circle. 

They had begun to talk seriously about accepting the bond these past few months. Elain had wanted to elope, but Lucien knew she would regret not having her sisters with her. They had settled on having a mating ceremony sometime in the spring. 

Lucien crossed the garden, carefully avoiding carefully sowed rows of crops and handed Elain a flask of tea. Elain gulped down the warm chamomile tea, as her shoulders dropped to exhaustion. Lucien noticed she was wearing the gloves he had gotten her for Solstice, the gloves he had assumed she had discarded. She only wore them in the winter, but she had worn them, nonetheless. 

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KH OC WEEK DAY 3 - CONNECTIONS - @khoc-week

If no one else, we have eachother.

The firsts don't have alot of connections outside of their foretellers and each others, sadly. They make it a point to be involved with their unions because of the respect they have for their foretellers, or simply because they have no other choice - but they aren't particularly close with any of them.

Kage and Saorise are close if only because their foretellers are. They argue often and don't get along as easily as Ira and Invi do - in the early days the two masters would have to break them up from having fights. But over time they at least learned to tolerate eachother's existence, and Saorise's singing voice is one of the few things that can instantly calm Kage down from one of his temper tantrums.

On the flip side, Cecil is close with the Leopardos first, Cassius. They were always somewhat close because Cassius was one of the few who didn't find Cecil's laziness to be annoying, but after Gula and Aced made their alliance, they started speaking more and became friends - even more so, they developed feelings for each other (based on rps between me and the person who made Cassius' character) However neither of them truly confessed their feelings before the keyblade war.

Cecil is also close with the Vulpes first, Nova, but I didn't have time to draw them together aldkfj- just know that Nova is probably the biggest troublemaker of the first as she acts like a thief, but Cecil and her get along because they don't get on her case about the thievery.

Outside of the firsts, I'd say that they respect Atlas and Wynter - my heartsmith kh ocs I've talked about previously. Of course, there's the Master of Masters who none of them can avoid (unfortunately), they have a strange relationship with Luxu, as he's the only one without a union and therefore no first to represent him. So the firsts are at a bit of a loss of how to deal with him, but Luxu always treated them well so they don't exactly have a bad relationship.

Disney character wise - Cecil got along great with Cinderella and the fairy godmother. And Saorise found Wonderland very entertaining and liked talking with the Cheshire Cat and Alice. However Kage tended to avoid interacting with locals in other worlds as much as possible because they would annoy him so much. Snow White always seemed to pity him from afar, though.

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Elita: After the situation downstairs, Kane headed back up top, time to get high as a kite ready for a sex marathon with Azura. As he was headed back upstairs he ran into Jure Vulpe, the master chemist who was running a steady supply of Bliss out of the club.

Jure: Kira seems to be having another one of her tantrums.

Kane: What about now?

Jure: I suspect it's about the new blonde downstairs, with the big ones. Mother says she’s to be a dancer. You should deal with Kira or I may have to. Maybe Yakob would… if she continues her path..

Kane: I’ll handle it, don’t worry. 

Jure: I’ve lived a long life, Kane. I’ve learned that living a good life requires preparation, alertness and just a touch of wariness extends the possibilities of staying that way. Perhaps you need to take a leaf out of my book. Solve this problem before Mother or Yakob finds out. She will be far less forgiving than me… and we both know how it would go if Yakob is sent to deal with her.

Elita: And quick as that, Jure walked off no doubt going to cook up more Bliss. Kane sighed and went through the door. 

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Kane: Hey, I just ran into Jure, um… he thinks you’re concerned about something?

Silence.

Kane: Uh, you lose your fucking voice or what?

Kira: My voice is fine, Kane… probably the only thing of me that is. Azura found Judith huh, and what’s gonna happen next?

Kane: We’re gonna clean her up and then unveil our new dancer. I think that missing eye and a patch is gonna be a big fuckin’ draw.

Kira: Oh gods… I knew it. I tell you, between the Moriarty’s, the cops, and the vampires in here, we’re gonna get ourselves killed over this place!

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Kane: That’s just the nerves talking. It’ll all be ok. Moriarty’s aren’t a problem. They send goons, we send the dancers and Yakob for a buffet lunch! All you gotta do is keep quiet.

Kira: Kane… that… You don’t get it do you?

Kane: No, and Kira I ain’t got time for this shit. I got a club to run and you’re here giving me bad vibes. What the fuck is the fucking problem?

Kira: Judith has a family, Kane! People who love her, and we have her here and you just want to use her to make more money. I don’t like Judith, never did, even before she became a vampire but this is wrong… so so wrong. 

Kane: If making money is wrong, then I’m the most wrong motherfucker on the planet right now.

Kira: I presume you have a plan for if Guy or Bob or one of our cousins finds out about this?

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Asking pretty please for info on your courier if you don't mind!!! Did you go with a specific build or play her a certain way?

Also any backstory you wish to share I will eat that right up, I just love the courier x coop fic you wrote!

YES OH GOSH YES SO

She goes by Lizzie Holliday or Doc Holliday and her tag skills are medicine, science, and speech. I generally play her as a well-meaning but chaotic field doctor who ends up wandering into Plot Situations.

Here's some [chef kiss] art of her by @jara257/@jaradraws for reference:

Some backstory is that her actual name is Adelita Espinosa and she was born in New Mexico. Her father was a traveling doctor and her mother was a scientist studying radiation mitigation in crops and irrigation. Her mother died of radiation poisoning when Lizzie was very young, so she doesn't remember her well. After that, she traveled with her father and learned all of her medical know-how from him.

After Dr. Espinosa died of natural causes, Lizzie moved on to find her place in the Wasteland. Kind of like a gap year. Maaaaybe she wanted to be a doctor? Or a scientist like her mom? But just like a gap year student, she needed an interim job to make ends meet and took the courier job. Cue FNV plot.

So Lizzie doesn't really think she has a head for politickin', but she ends up making decent choices in like a crapshoot way. Or like someone rolling a D20 and rolling very high every time, even when she doesn't want to. New Vegas ends up in her lap, and her whole decision to rule it is just because she thinks everyone else vying for it sucks. In her mind, she's just a placeholder for someone better at bureaucracy who doesn't suck. The only problem is that's, like, everybody. So she's still there.

And fun facts!

She's incredibly pansexual, and after her head wound, she's really leaned into a whole 'life is short, people are hot' lifestyle, except 'people' sometimes includes robots. And light switches.

She collects pencils because she runs out of them all the time.

Her favorite foods are snack cakes, cazador honey, and roasted pinyon nuts.

When she doesn't live in Vegas (which she tries not to), she's either in Goodsprings or wandering around with Raul.

After the events of FNV, she gets two pet nightstalkers named Gertie and Jose.

Her hobbies including playing guitar, sketching, embroidery (to practice her stitching work!), swimming, and practicing her golf swing. She doesn't understand how golf works and she doesn't want to, but there's something very fun about launching golf balls at unsuspecting fiends and Legion boys.

Her favorite weapon is Paciencia.

In her canon route, she's the one who botches Caesar's brain surgery. Whoops. :)

That said, she also canonically talks Lanius out of attacking and does the same to get Vulpes to leave (or does he?).

(She and Vulpes have a Thing. I never said she had a good sense of self-preservation.)

She takes her role as one of The Kings very seriously and has perfected her hip sway and 'uh-huuuuh's.

The most in love she's ever been is with Dr. 8 from Big MT.

Her dream fate is to get ghoulified so she and Raul can hang out forever and maybe she can go visit the REPCONN ghouls in space.

Realistically, she'd also like to live at Nellis with the Boomers until the end of her days. It sounds much more fun to her than ruling New Vegas.

She'd be so into Cooper Howard that it'd make her bonkers. She'd draw little hearts around his name in notebooks.

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Ship/Kiss challenge - Heinrix van Calox/Noelle von Valancius (dinner/date)

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Basically, it is a retelling and everything will be almost the same as it is seen in the game (I'll skip some dialogues to not repeat them and not make this short fanfic too big, Heinrixmansers know the scene anyway =) ) but filled with emotions my RT experienced during this evening. PS Jesus, I was torturing this piece of text since the end of April... -_-

The illustration for this scene by Vetus Vulpes

50. ...out of love 6. ...on a falling tear (if I understood it correctly)

A date, a real dinner date. Who would've thought the interrogator has this romantic note somewhere deep inside of him? But Noelle knew, she saw his "true nature" every time he was next to her in her quarters, when he was kissing her hand and looking gently into her eyes. Still it was a surprise, especially considering the tone Heinrix used to call for Lord Captain to the wardroom. He can be forgiven, he will learn.

Time was passing smoothly, the atmosphere in the room was filled with warmth. Noelle suggested a toast and raised her glass to clink it with Heinrix's. "To us".

Us? How long will this "us" last?

A thought pricked psyker's mind for a mere moment, but it was enough to be depicted on his face, to manifest it as an unease expression. Noelle noticed the change in his mood, she was always attentive to details, she always felt something is wrong with the one who is dear to her. One question after another, one attempt to evade after another, Heinrix tried to maneuver between words as a voidship maneuvers between enemies, but the harder he tryed to avoid difficult and painful topic the more fragile his defence became. He tried to explain, wanted Noelle to understand...

"Void. Take. You".

Words stroke him as hard as a heavy hammer strikes anvil, as thunder on a stormy day. The interrogater looked at the priestess: her head was lowered, it seemed like she wanted to not show her face but freezed on her chair, lips are slightly opened, they were... trembling. The young woman was staring at one point, then the moment after her eyes started to move nerviously. A wet line on her cheeck appeared running down from her sky blue eye.

"Noelle?"

"How... can I trust you...when you go... and say things like that?" - Lord Captain gathered all her might so she could start speaking, her voice was quite, she was talking slowly, making pauses when a lump was about to come to her throat. She was not angered, she was... heartbroken. She looked at Heinrix: raised eyebrows, a wet line crossed her other cheek, and another tear was runnig down from her eye, and another. - "You... don't even want to... try..."

"No... No. No! Not this! NO!" - terror shackled Heinrix heart. He got used to failing in regicide, he could accept failing his mission (it is frustrating indeed but every fail is a lesson, so you need to try hadred next time), but failing Noelle, hurting her, the one who he...

Lord Captain stood up from her chair, she lowered her gaze and was about to turn away, all her being desired to run away from this place, from him, but her feet could not move as if they were glued to the floor. Her heart, acking little heart, was protesting. Noelle was lost, she didn't know what to do, her mind was in a fog.

"No! Please! Don't! DON'T!" - terror intertwined with pain started screaming inside the interrogator's head. He leaped to his feet and in a blink of a moment he was standing right in front of Noelle; he grabbed her shoulders with trembling hands, his gaze was piercing her face.

"No, Noelle, wait! Don't say that! I didn't mean that... I..."

SAY IT, VAN CALOX! SAY IT, DAMN YOU!

"I love you!"

The time stopped.

"I love you, Noelle - never dought that, I beg you".

The words were pouring from Heinrix's lips, filled with passion, fear, explanation, honesty... and doubt. He pulled his beloved closer to him, Noelle put her head to the interrogator's chest listening to his heart which was on a brink to jump out of his chest right into her hands. Heinrix was talking and talking - such an unusual behaviour for a person whose job is to force someone else to speak; he was torn between duty which gave his life purpose, the only purpose, and what he really wanted, what he needed - happiness with the one who he loves...

"I love you".

... and the one who loves him back. The words spoken by this fragile yet stong young woman filled his soul with light and warmth Heinrix never experienced. Deep inside he wanted so badly to hear them but was so frightened at the same time.

"I rather spoiled the evening... didn't I?"

The psyker gently touched the priestess' chin and looked at her face; she tried to avert her eyes for she was afraid to cry more (because of stress mostly). Noelle blinked, and tears ran down on her pink cheeks.

"No, it's entirely my fault. I will do my best to make it up to you in private".

They left the wardroom and headed towards the lift to Lord Captain's quarters; Heinrix was holding Noelle's little hand, he felt her being nervous and too quile. When the mechanical doors closed behind their backs, the man picked up the priestess as if he was worried she may faint. The young woman was surprised with this gesture and wanted to protest, but then she put her head on the interrogator's chest - the sound of his heartbeat became an anchor, a rope she needed to hold on to, to not lose herself. Noelle closed her eyes and buried her face in Heinrix's neck, a tear ran down on her chick again and then another one, but young woman was not sure if those were tears of sadness - probably a mere residual effect of a strong experience she had several minutes ago.

The mechanic doors opened and the psyker confidently stepped into the room, walking through corridor and the main hall right into Lord Captain's boudoir. Heinrix sat on the edge of the bed and looked to his beloved: so small and vulnerable, so fragile yet strong and bright in spirit. His warm lips touched her cool wet cheek, they moved up to her eye repeating the way paved by tears as if he was trying to wipe off all the trails of pain caused by him. Heinrix was holding Noelle close in his arms, tightly and gently, guarding her yet being afraid she may dissapear the moment he releases her. An egoistic little thought, a stupid fear, but so what? This means he is alive, he is a human being and those are his true feelings.

"I will never make you cry again. Never", - Heinrix were repeating these words in his head while covering Noelle's face with kisses.