#slightly altered her design too don't mind that

[guardianscry]

And she was hardly older then a child

[aphroditesmoon]

umm, you’re taking Gwen x reader? I have a request. Black cat reader who was best friends with Gwen and Peter but is the rival of Spider woman. Something or another happens and their identity’s get revealed

love it if we made it

gwen stacy x blackcat!reader (gn)

warnings: cursing, tiny angst, gwen's peter is alive here, reader has hair long enough to tie them (only description)

a/n: i rlly hope u like this!

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A robbery happened on a Tuesday, 6th July 3AM sharp. A robbery in a golden jewelry store. A minute after that, the Pandora store next to it.

No one cared about the robbery, of course. People were too busy talking about the anonymous donation worth more than 15000 the next day to three different centres in need of them.

Gwen Stacy's mind however, is still stuck at a particular difficult nemesis, the black cat. She's never failed to capture a villain like this, never took this long. But again and again, with time, the annoyingly quick and sneaky cat escapes from her grasps.

It was probably obvious that she wasn't too enthralled by any of the breaking news today, all of them critiquing the infamous Spider-Woman for being unable to get her webs on the villain. Her mind was so full and blurry with different kinds of thoughts that she didn't notice her own best friend walking into class and waving at her.

You took your spot next to Gwen, creaking your chair loudly to get her attention. When she finally flinches out of hee daydream and looks at you, she's met with a knowing smile. "Sleeping? Its not even the first period yet." She shook her head and forced a smile out. "No, just dreading AP maths." You laughed at that. Gwen was good at maths, and all the stupid numbers and figures that came with it, that couldn't have been the reason.

"Well, whatever it is, I need you took a little alive for this gift im about to-" "Gift?" Her eyes brighten up immediately. You grinned at her and pulled out the small paperbag, waving it in front of her.

Gwen, impatient she is, snatches it from you and gets to opening its ribbons open. "It's not even my birthday." She mumbles. "Good, now you can't ask me for anything on your birthday." You settled it, earning a mischievous smirk from her. She knows, you would've given her anything if she'd only asked.

You revel in her suprised expression as she pulls out the golden bracelet, it was a waving design, two long whirling gold around in a circle, with a small blue diamond placed in the middle. "You are insane." She says, glaring your way. "What? Can't treat my girl?" The both if you turn slightly pink with those words. You should've just said your welcome.  "The blue reminded me of you. A centerpiece around all the golden whirly shit." She lets out a small laugh, shaking her head. "I love it, thank you." You replied with a nod and your same small smile.

"This must've costed you a lot though,  couldn't you have bought me a two dollars friendship bracelet." She joked while putting the gift on her right wrist. "Oh don't worry, I stole it." You say with your usual tone.

Gwen almost backtracked when you said that, before hitting herself awake in her mind, forcing herself to leave the Spider-Woman alter ego aside for today.

You were making a joke because you didn't want her to feel bad, you always did. So she rolled her eyes before repacking the box and the paperbag to put them under her table. "You'd be a shit thief." She concluded. You furrow your brows. "Well then, at least I'd get to see Spider-Woman." You teased while wiggling your brows.

"I wonder how many people became really bad burglars and thieves just to get her autograph." The last of your sentence became muffled ariund the sounds of other students as your teacher finally arrive, but gwen who heard it all to well only smiled at the thought. 

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School finished two hours ago, and neither of you saw or heard from Peter the whole day. He was probably at the lab again, as he always was so you didn't really bother.  Gwen, on the other hand, wouldn't stop trying to get him to answer his phone.

She's pacing around the room with her phone speaker on while you're laying on her bed, messing with her giant flower shaped plushie while she loses her mind. "Maybe he left his phone at home." You reasoned. Gwen shool her head and kept trying.  "He always lose his damn phone."

You frowned at her and decided you were done waiting. "Gwen, its over 10pm, I need to get back home, my dad will be worried." You say before getting up and taking your jacket from her coat hanger. "When has your dad ever even noticed if you're gone." She snaps, phone thrown on her bed in frustration. 

Your eyes widen at the words and you scoff at her.  She opened her mouth to apologize, immediately getting cut off. "Look, I don't know what spider has crawled up your ass these days, but we both know Peter's always disappearing these days, he's probably fine, and I'm going home since you're so worried over your friend that isn't in front of you." You ended the conversating as soon as it started, not giving her a chance to respond, you left her room, banging the door.

Your house was a few blocks away from Gwen's. When you're sure no one's around, you climb up quickly inti your room by the window, hands fast, some help from your claws. Tossing your backpack onto your bed, you changed into your suit without wasting time.

Gwen was right about something, your dad has long since noticed if you ever even came home these days. You jumped back out of your window, swinging upwards onto the roof instead of the streets.

You hopped from building to building, taking your time while enjoying the view. The lights. They were beautiful tonight,  accompanied by the bright moon, staring down from above. Even the neon signs of Joe's Pizza seemed pleasant to look at in times like this. You wished you could've shared these kind of moments with Gwen, but you didn't want to think of her now.

You find a spot above a tall empty building, where the ciry lights seemed clearer, and the smell of trash and dog piss was further away. Pulling your hair up in a bun, you tied it over twice, fixing it so you'll be able to see better without your hair always on your face.

And what a fate, as you're tilting your head down whilst your hands fixes the hairtie, a robbery happens right in front of your eyes.

Your heart skipped a beat at the crime, until you remembered you were also a criminal of a sort. This was interesting to see. A crime done by someone other than the Black Cat, finally.

The pleasure was shortlasting though,  when you had realized who was getting robbed. It was Peter. The masked man pulled out his gun, aiming it to Peter's face when he tried to run. "Run, and I'll shoot." His voice a mumble from below.

You move to stand up, backing away from any visibility, tiptoeing until you've reached the end of the building and hopped off, landing on your feet.

When you walked over the building to stand behind the robber, Peter's eyes involuntary widen,  as if a warning towards another civillian. But you weren't a civilian,  and when he takes in tbe suit and the masks, he realized who you were.

The robber gets annoyed when his eyes weren't on him anymore. "What the hell are y-" he spuns around towards you, receiving a kick to his stomach, making him fall on his back on the blow. You smiled at the victory watching Peter look between you and the fallen robber in confusion.

It seemed your victory didn't last long when a sling if webs shot againts your face.

You wretched the sticky web out of your face, growling in disgust. "Robbing an innocent citizen? That's low, even for you kitty." The annoying voice spoke. Once you manage tu cut the webs off fully with your claws. Regaining your vision,  you sneer at the ghost-spider, standing in front of Peter, who's finding protection behind her. "Is being blind apart of being spider-woman? I didn't rob him, I saved him." The hero's eyes squint along with her mask. "You? Saving people?"

Your eyes actually widen in offense before looking towards Peter. "Tell her doofus! I literally kicked him for you."

Gwen swings her head back at him and he stutters in panic. "Wh-I mean, yeah, she did, technically...kick him." You fold your eyes and glare at her as she turns back at you.  "See?" The two of you lock eyes for a minute long before she finally speak. "Peter Parker-" She calls him.

Both you and Peter frown at the name dropping . "-go home. I'll deal with her." The boy doesn't hesitate, turning his back and running way.

You snorted at her words. Always a show off. "You'll deal with me? How?" She tilts her head. "Like this." When you saw herbhand moving up, you move faster than her, snatching up her wrists in a tight grip as you push her againts the wall. "I might not have any venom on me, but try that again spidey, and I'll make you'll feel these claws for days." You see her physically wince at the words.

"You think just because you saved one man, that erases the 166 crimes you've done?" She asks sarcastically. You pout and pretends to think.  "I think, I really don't give a fuck, but its nice of you to remember all of my crimes, definitely not weird and obsessive or anything." 

She tries to speak again but you shush her when your eyes bore into the bracelet on her wrist. Firstly, who is stupid enough to wear their jewelry outside of their suit? Its like they're begging to be robbed.  Secondly; "Where did you get that bracelet?"

Your nemesis lets out a 'huh?' You repeat yourself, sterner. "I bought it?" You scoff. "You couldn't have bought something I've robbed." She seems annoyed by your questions. Being accused of stealing by a thief is pretty hurtful. "I could've brought it before you robbed it, you know."

You hummed thoughtfully at her words before you spoke. "You could've, or-" Your grip on her loosens, "-We're both just really, really, stupid." Gwen cocks her head in confusion. "What the hell are y-" realization hit her then. "Oh my god, no."

"No? Are you sure, Gwen stacy?" She winced at the mention of her name. Her hands move towards your mask. "How did I never..." Her words trails off a second before loud voices of people coming your way was heard. You pull her back swiftly into an alley, putting yourself between her and the open space.

The both of you lean yourselves againts the wall, you feel her fingers slowly slips into yours and holds back a tired sigh.

Once the group of kids has passed the alley, you finally relaxed. Her hands try to pull aw

ay but you curl your own fists around it.

She spins you back to her and her free hand moves to graze over your mask. "I didn't want you or Peter to be involved like this." She murmed. Your own hand slids around her waste as you lean closer. "I don't think it's up to you, Gwen." She huffs. "You know what I mean." You say nothing, eye staring down at your intertwined fingers. 

"Are you still going to get me arrested, spidey?" You could feel her glare from inside the mask. "What? Because I'm your friend, it all changes now?" You honestly ask. "Because I love you, and I know you and your heart, is why it's all different now. You're not who I thought you were, you can't be,  the Black Cat I've thought of before was evil in my head, evil and cruel."

You say nothing, waiting for her to continue. "You're not evil, and you're not cruel." You raised a brow. "Then, what am I?"  She's hesitates. "You're, with me. And I'm not going to let them take you, not anymore, whoever your secret identity is." Your mouth remains shut at that.

  All the bad jokes and sarcastic comments dies on your throat.  But your stubornnes always wins, "You didn't really seem to care much about me this evening."

Gwen groans loudly. "Come on, we'll go back to my place, I won't even look at the ground on the way home to shown you how much I'm paying attention to you now." You snort, a smile escaping you despite your efforts to remain upset at her.

[fallenrain40]

dovewing <3 its listeninggg

very slightly altered my design for her here. removed some facial markings, I felt like they were too much. I also changed the ring on its tail to cream, and added dark spots on her back. I had mourning doves in mind,, don't think it's very obvious tho

[0oolookitsme]

Flower Goes Floral

Type- Fake Insta ;)

Verse- Model!Harry x Fashion Designer!Y/n

Warnings- None, just fluff <3

Description- Harry at the Brits, wearing an iconic dress suit, styled by none other than his girlfriend, Y/n.

A/n- I want to post slightly regularly this year, and because I'm busy writing a few other fics which I'm yet to finish, here's a small fake ig for y'all. Hope you like it! <3

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Y/Ig/n Harry Styles (aka my partner), wearing a custom Gucci Black Peplum Blazer and an oversized flower blazer. Both were designed and styled by me, yours one and only.

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HsFan1 I just KNOW that he was absolutely THRILLED to wear this

Masaba No lies I'd be smug too if I had designed this

↳Y/Ig/N There's no bigger fan of you than me. Thank you very much, this has altered my life.

HarryStyles Looking like a devil, aren't I?

↳HarryFan0 WHO PUT THAT IN HIS MIND ↳MitchRowland I beg your pardon, @HarryFan0. I had meant it as a joke.

Y/nFan1 Both of them ATE and left no crumbs.

Y/nFan2 Can we talk about how surreally she said 'aka my partner' in the brackets??

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HarryStyles Thank you for having me tonight, @/Brits. I had an amazing time wearing both of my outfits, styled by the icon, @Y/Ig/N.

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TaylorFan1 Alexa? Play Gorgeous by Taylor Swift.

Y/Ig/n Why, thank you, Darling.

ConanGray Please I'm ready to sell you my hair just collaborate with me too

↳Y/Ig/N What you want me to spoil the surprise, don't you? ↳ConanFan1 A Y/N AND CONAN COLLAB?!?!? WHY IS EVERYONE SLEEPING ON THIS OMFG I'M FREAKING OUT

KatyPerry Looking just like the charming man you always do

Y/nFan16 She really said watch my flower go floral

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Y/Ig/n Happy Valentine's Day, @HarryStyles. You truly are a devil in disguise.

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Lizzo *Heart-shaped eyes (towards the pizza)*

Y/nFan2 THEY MADE THAT CUP TOGETHER DO NO TELL ME OTHERWISE

Y/nFan5 lmaoo not her bashing him through his own comment

HarryStyles Happy Valentine's Day, lover

Y/nFan11 I love them sm it hurts ...but in like- a cool way ;)

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HarryStyles I have no idea what I would wear without you, @Y/Ig/n (and your lovely team too). Thank you for agreeing to go out for a glass of wine with me on that already industrious and bustling day. And oh, Happy Valentine's Day.

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Y/nforeva This woman never rests, does she?

GemmaStyles Exactly. Thank you for agreeing, @Y/Ig/N

Y/Ig/n Literally one of the best nights in my life.

↳HarryStyles I agree ;)

JamesCordon You two are disgustingly in love

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HarryY/nAlways Happy Valentine's Day to THE BEST COUPLE in the whole industry. (Y/n uploaded these on her ig stories with the caption 'Honey just put your sweet lips on my lips.' Exactly. A Hozier song. Goodbye.)

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Y/nFan3 She IS goofy, she just doesn't show that side of hers on the camera that often.

Anne Best Duo!

Y/nFan5 No way is gonna have a vase big enough to fit all those roses in but then again, she's THE @Y/Ig/N

HarryFan1 He is SO Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!!

YourMum These two never fail to make me smile. Just imagine the sunburn on their cheeks because they are so careless and in love.

↳Y/nforeva Y/n's mum literally loves them so much, it's ADORABLE

[ehlnofay]

a series of outfit concepts for Pax... I find clothing to be such an interesting part of character design and wanted to explore that more for her. especially since he's one of my more fashion-conscious characters. miscellaneous notes and extra doodles under the cut

the first four of these designs are worn in cyrodiil; the last two are from the shivering isles. I haven't done much brainstorming for cyrod fashion so that was something fun to explore - especially with the challenge of keeping to a similar-ish silhouette and with pax's tastes in mind. most inspiration was taken from byzantine fashion, with some influences from roman and celtic garb as well. there was also a fair bit of simply making shit up. (I also had quite a bit of fun fucking with the saturation and colour values a bit in editing: here's the initial image, minus the increased saturation and also with the finger tattoos on the wrong hand because I got left and right mixed up at first. oops.)

of all my characters, pax is one of the pickiest about how they dress; they don't like fashion at the expense of comfort but they don't like comfort at the expense of fashion, either. he likes bright colours and good quality fabric (ends up stealing and altering a lot of his clothes.) she tends not to wear things with very overt nibenese influences due to her own associations with that style of clothing + nibenese garb tends to have a lot of flowy extra fabric, which she doesn't like. I had a lot of fun trying to explore different ideas, colour palettes, and statement pieces while keeping to roughly similar-ish shapes; for each one I also included slightly different versions of Pax's endless repertoire of jewellery and ways to do their hair.

notes on specific designs: the third one incorporates more of how I picture nibenese fashion, the first one is a reimagining of an outfit i drew them in ages ago, and the second references a piece I wrote and haven't yet published, in which the blades get martin a lot of nice warm clothes, including a long blue tunic (seeing as cloud ruler temple is cold as shit and all he has is a ruined liturgical vestment and some cheap clothes pax stole him during their journey) and pax unceremoniously commandeers most of it. the last two outfits are mostly just self-indulgent - in the state he's in by the time they get to the shivering isles, pax isn't too fussed about appearances, but I wanted to explore what they would wear if they did give a shit. I tried to roughly keep similar elements to the rest of the outfits, with enough tweaks to make it clear that they are very much Of Another Place. I used red as a major tone and colour in both because pax fucking hates it :) (it's the colour of the deadlands, and the mythic dawn robes, and the amulet of kings.)

there were a few more specific things I would have liked to design - in particular a travelling outfit and some concepts for the really fancy garb they take on once they murder their way into a duchy - but those, as well as a breakdown of their armour, are things I would want to give more attention to detail to. so I will do all that separately sometime. however I did do an extra doodle, not included above, of their sleepwear; because it's extremely simple, and because I've never drawn her with her hair down and I really, really wanted to. (even if it's unrealistic; pax mostly sleeps with their hair still up in some finicky arrangement sewn tight enough in place to last for a week.)

[circular-time]

More The Power of the Doctor tidbits from LI Who panels before I forget.

Major spoilers to some of the big reveals in that story, so I'm gonna cut this, just in case.

The scenes with Ace and Tegan speaking to their hologram-Doctor were a bit complicated: their Doctor(s) weren't there on the day (and at any rate Syl couldn't have climbed up where Sophie was; that bit was a real cave),

Janet was stuck with a PA reading Peter's lines while she acted her heart out to a camera.

But Sophie asked if Barnaby Edwards could crawl out of the Dalek where he's usually ensconced and read Sylvester's lines. So he perched on a rock out of her line of sight and performed the scene with her, and with that she could "see" Sylvester in front of her. As you may know, I'm fond of Barnaby, as apparently is Sophie; so that made me go 🥺

Sophie drove to Cardiff from Birmingham to Cardiff the day Sylvester was recording his parts at his request to read HER lines, although she wasn't recording them. She did that, went back to the trailer, then said, "Hang on... I don't wanna go!" So she went back and asked if she could watch.

The director soon asked her— saying she certainly could refuse! — if she would mind reading some of the other parts. "Rather!" She wound up "Sitting on that rock, being all the Doctors, and Jodie would come in and do her bit!" She said Janet and (I think?) Jemma were there for part of the day as well, so it turned into a sort of Doctor Who convention, especially because a lot of the crew themselves were fans.

Oh right. When she and Janet FIRST arrived... first of all a lot of the crew was too young to have seen them, so they were surprised at the warm welcome. But also, they were invited to enter the TARDIS before anyone else. Because you really do enter it through that door. And so Janet and Sophie went in first and got to play with the console. "You could actually push the buttons!" "When you moved a control, it didn't break off in your hand!" Janet: "I had TARDIS Envy."

A fan asked Janet how Tegan survived the fall, saying that was the one thing she didn't understand in that special. Janet: "The one thing!?"

Sophie's husband knew, but her sons didn't. Except one asked why she was going to Cardiff SO MUCH to film Blu-Ray extras. "You really want me to tell you?" "No, I don't want to know!" The second son almost caught on: "Mom, why is Ace's jacket not in its usual place in your closet?" "I've loaned it to someone." (Not a lie, it was with the costume designer in Cardiff.)

Sophie keeps some bits of Dalek she busted plus the jacket. Also that gorgeous painting from Ghost Light, although she had to find a new frame since the BBC kept that, It's in her guest room, and people assume it's an ancestor!

Janet grumbled at Sophie wanting to be an action hero (she was hoping to rice s motorcycle since she missed out doing it on TV before but was thrilled at the parachute jump). Janet's knees were not happy with running up and down stairs (my arthritis had noticed that). They both had doubles, but Sophie insisted on doing everything; she was having far too much fun.

Both of them were positively gushing about Sacha Dhawan's acting and his Master being "utterly unhinged." A bit of a challenge for them, since they're used to acting with rehearsals, whereas now one just meets the other actors, may do a quick bit of blocking for the camera, then go, and you simply have to respond via improv with no idea what the other actors are planning.He altered his performance slightly every take, giving the director different things to play with.

As I mentioned in another post, Janet was worried because she hadn't acted in 35 years (with Big Finish they have scripts in front of them) and wasn't sure she could memorize. She flubbed the first line, let out "an Australian expletive" and Jodie said "I'm going to like you."

The director kept pushing Janet to make her initial confrontation with the Doctor more angry/cranky. Every time she did it, he'd say "more" and she'd ramp it up a notch. She was a little worried about it, but in the theater Tegan's cranky lines got laughter and applause, which relieved her, because she always thought Tegan was rather funny.

The companion group gathering was a joy. Katy sailed in with carrot cake. Originally there was supposed to be a laptop on the empty chair with some othet companions. Sophie liked fans' suggestion it was for Sarah Jane.

William Russell is really struggling with dementia. His daughter brought him, and the "family" of companions kind of looked after him. He got stuck apologizing over and over after spilling his drink, but John Bishop sat down with him and repeated his lines with him to help him through. (It sounds to me like there may have been another that was cut.)

Jodie didn't have any scenes that day, she just couldn't stay away. (there's a bts group photo with her.)

[bugs-in-situations]

It's kinda interesting to me that you kept the details of Vi running away as well as Hoaxe taking over the Wasp Kingdom. If you don't mind me asking, what other details would you include in this Vi As a Wasp situation? For example/to be more specific, would Bianca have a personality more like Vanessa or just be largely the same but as a Wasp/in a slightly different role? How would Jaune be altered? What about Ultimax or Jayde, would they be here? What about, say Malbee or Beena (since I assume the Wasp Kingdom still doesn't have a factory here) Also, how would other bugs react to Vi being from the kingdom that's attacking everyone (correct me if I'm wrong but I believe tensions were generally high with Wasps during Hoaxe's rule). Forgive me if this is too many questions, at any rate have a nice time!

well, uh, it was just supposed to be vi copy/pasted over to the wasp kingdom, and the rest of the bees stay where they are. i do have a wasp jaune design (in a notebook at home) but everyone else is just the same as normal? this makes chapter three kind of weird, since there isn't really any of the personal tension between vi and her family in that part, but there IS the tension of wasps and bees having beef with eachother in the past

and instead of a factory worker vi was a construction worker before she left. yes, there are other kids in the 13-15 year old range who are construction workers in the wasp kingdom. maybe that's why the infrastructure crumbles so badly during the hoaxe era

some people are Weird About It (a wasp being an explorer) but that kind of person tends to be Weirder about her teammates being 1. a kind of bug that everyone pretends isn't sapient and 2. a kind of bug that everyone thought was extinct

[throne-for-queens]

Megan does have a very flat belly and an 'artificial' hourglass shape she achieved through dieting, exercise and allegedly many surgeries like fat and ribs removal. Her lower abdomen, though, does look 'BLOATED' and I doubt it's just food.

It could be a bad angle, it could be hormonal linked either to her menstrual cycle or her thyroid. It could be bad posture. It could be another thing I have no idea about because I am no doctor. It could be all of the above combined. Or it could also be her uterus existing. Cis women will always have a slightly larger pelvis, another layer of fat cis men don't have and additional organs placed there (unless they have them removed).

Maybe we are just not used to see any belly pooch on her because of all the altered editorial pictures she takes and now that's all what we see because we are too focused on it.

In this total white look (the color can make you look 'larger') she looked AS bloated AS her Wella shirtless selfie she took two and a half months ago to sponsor some shampoo. And bare in mind that selfie might have portaired a even smaller belly, afterall that picture looked edited and she was posing for a flattering angle. If she was pregnant then, she would have gotten much bigger by now.

And yes, there's always a chance it could be a baby. In that case, good luck Kells with your 2nd baby moms. Just ask Brian for some tips, he's not stressing, at aaall 😅.

Lastly, the woman is 38. not saying she's too old for a baby, I am saying that at nearly 40, you don't get to have anymore the body you was rocking at 18.

These are all very good possibilities, and to add white does make you look bigger on camera. Couple that with a blurry picture, and her own physical design and I'd say she looks normal for a 38 year old woman. I know after a couple dinners and desert I could go toe to toe with the who looks pregnant competition myself 😂

[hazbinextgeneration]

Demon Bride Ch25 Don't Stir The Sleeping Bear

(DISCLAIMERS AND IMPORTANT INFO!!!: EVERYONE in this story is in their early 20s-30s! This story will contain mentions of past abuse and death! I'll be keeping it as SFW. Some backstories have been slightly altered for this particular story, and some characters cannonically dead or harmed is alive and well. I own nothing.

Credit to @flanelltees​ for the designs I based the demons off to look more demon-like with tails and pointed ears.

This story will be sfw, but there will be some blood, implied death, fighting, some gore mentioned, and a few other things that will be made aware by warnings. Pay attention to warnings at the top of any chapters just under the summery please.)

Once in the mountain villages it was a custom that once a year on the night of the new year's first moon, an unlucky young lady would be selected and left for the demons to become one of the unlucky few who married such a husband. In exchange for this offering the demons would protect the villages and leave the humans in peace. Until one day a powerful warrior drove the demons away freeing the humans of them. Now 2,000 years later, it's become a tradition that once a year, a new young lady would be picked and wait for her future husband to retrieve her from a shrine in the mountains. And now the lucky tradition would fall upon Y/n L/n. It would be her own turn to take on the tradition and not have to worry about demons. After all that part of the old tradition was just fake, made up by paranoid ancestors. Everyone knew demons didn't exist.

...Right?

(WARNINGS!!!: Karaku IS his own warning, some innuendos, reader getting blown out of the mansion and crash landing, Karaku's head nearly gets snapped off and his neck and nose broken, Urogi's head nearly gets snapped off too near the end, possible blood and gore, head being sliced off when Kaigaku appears.)

First Part Here:

Demon Bride Ch 1 Thus It Begins

(WARNINGS AND DISCLAIMERS!!! EVERYONE in this story is in their early 20s-30s! This story will contain mentions of past abuse and death! I'l

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(Thanks to EVERYONE who voted. It was hard to keep track of them all but I've counted every single vote on all platforms I posted the 'first kiss" poll and tallied up all the votes. Without further ado the votes are-

Kyogai in first place with 21 votes

Kaigaku in second place with 16 votes

And Gyutaro in third with 15 votes

Anymore votes commented after I counted them shall not be taken as I write the chapter. So get ready to smooch some demons.

If anyone else is curious about how many votes the others got-

Douma:14 votes

Sekido: 1 vote

Urogi: 0 votes

Aizetsu: 3 votes

Akaza: 9 votes 

Enmu: 1 vote

Kokushibo: 10 votes

Karaku: 3 votes

This will be deleted later and reuploaded along with the new chapter. Just wanted to share this updated.

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Precious moonlight serenity was shattered by the oncoming storm. Hundreds of tiny voices yelling at the unconscious mind to wake up and be aware of everything. It worked as purple flashed open to the world and watched the serenity be stained with the red paint of chaos and disorder. 

 "FIRE!! FIRE!! THE GARDEN IS ON FIRE!!"

A thousand footsteps approached like an army rising amongst the nightfall and chaos, thundering down every pathway possible and snapping awake the dazed Brain to it's fully awake state. The bed loosing it's warmth the moment discarded blankets were found. 

RUI WAS GONE

"Rui?!" You sat straight up with a jolt of panic pulsing through your veins and your stomach dropping at the sight of the missing boy. A quick scan of the mostly empty room showed no signs of him either. "RUI?!"

FIND HIM instincts screamed on some primal level you didn't understand. DANGER screamed another one despite things being quiet outside your door you could hear and feels thousand souls or more in fear. A sickening sin of someone dangerous creeping ever closer. You don't remember finding him so quickly. You just remembered a strange smell akin to that of the air just after it rained. One moment you were shoving the door open frightened, the next you were coddling a small figure in relief snatching him out of the arms of a much larger presence.

"Mother!" The small figure squirmed arms waving about. "You're crushing me!"

Kyogai blinked.....and slowly blinked again at what he had just witnessed.He heard the screams and gotten here via his back drum only to discover half his garden on fire according to a frightened servant. Of course he ordered them to pump the well for water quickly and does it. Next thing he knew, he nearly tripped over a cowering mass trying to hide in the same garden. It was the child. Because OF COURSE it would be. He had half a mind to ground the little larva from any contact with you after this. He just scooped up the squealing larva  in one hand holding him up to start scolding him after bringing him inside away from the dangers- Next thing he knew there was the frightening smell of narcissus flowers and a second later the child was...No he wasn't gone as he was still in front of him right now squirming and pouting in the grip of Y/n. But...How? When?! He still slowly blinked...before shaking his head. His mind must've been too preoccupied by the emergency at hand to notice her coming is all.

"Just what were you thinking running off like that?!" , You shouted holding out the boy in front of you with a scowl. Rui looked almost panicked back. "Do you know how worried I was when I saw you were gone?! Everyone's yelling about a fire and you're exploring the dark!"

"I-Im sorry. I couldn't sleep and went to walk."

"Well then next time wake me up wh-" You didn't have time to finish talking when about ten other demons came charging up the hallway giant buckets in their arms, and if Kyogai hadn't pulled you out of the way, you would've been run over by them all. Each and every one of them looked some kind of worried or scared as they rushed up towards the garden. Thick splashes of water hit the floor in trails as they went sending droplets everywhere. "....W-What's happening?!" 

Kyogai groaned as you snapped to him for answers. You looked so lost to him. "There's a fire in the garden. It's NOT a big emergency." He assured holding up a hand when your face gained a look of panic. "Lightning struck one of the plants and it spread out a bit. We'll have it contained soon-" A woman's high pitched shriek echoed down the halls making him snap up. "....Make that eventually." You flinched as he suddenly snapped back to you with a light scowl, no. Not you. Rui. "You! Stay. HERE!" He pointed a single claw at the child who blinked. "You almost got yourself killed out there! Any longer and you would've became a pile of ashes!!"

Rui only blinked before looking away. "It's not my fault lightning struck that tree!"

"Ugh! You must've done something! It's not even storming!" Kyogai facepalmed once more but didn't notice the way you slowly looked at him. A sudden thankfulness taking over you. "The both of you go near the front of the mansion! If it spreads then I'll have to put your safety fir-"

"You saved Rui?" Rui blinked as he was slowly slid down until his feet touched the floor, letting him give off a sigh of relief. Finally.  

Kyogai however paused as you took a step forward. "*ahem* W-W-Well I mean i-it was M-My duty a-as a h-h-high ranking-" He stopped as two soft hands reached up to grab his cheeks and pulled him down. "....m-member...U-Uh-"

OH GODS!! TOO CLOSE TOO CLOSE!! WHY WAS HE SUDDENLY A FOOT AWAY FROM HER FACE AND CLOSING IN?! WAIT WAIT WAIT!! WHY WAS SHE GETTING CLOSER?!CRAP-His heart was beating a mile a minute and his throat felt like someone was choking him as he found himself closer and clo- HE FROZE BODY RIGID. Something soft touched his lips. Something warm embraced his face. Something small was holding his head up. His eyes crossed down his nose and before he knew it it was gone. The contact was quick and only lasted a few seconds before it was gone but it felt like an eternity to him-

"MWAH!!" You gave Kyogai the quickest of thankful kisses before pulling away and again scooping Rui up happily in your arms to which he accepted this time but gave you a deadpanned look. 

"I thought you said you weren't trying to kiss him.''

"Just this once because I'm thankf-?!" You leapt back as even MORE hordes of demons ran past with sloshing buckets and Kyogai finally snapped out of his frozen phase when a giant slosh of cold water spilt out of one bucket and fell all over his right side.

"Let's go to the front." Rui said with a point to the hallway before you and you nodded.

You watched the many demons disappear around the corner and Kyogai scowling at his soaked form. Kyogai was strong. Surely he'd handle the fire. Right now your instincts screamed for Rui's safety. He was much more weak and fragile compared to everyone else around here. With more demons running past you turned and began jogging off in the direction Rui pointed. The movement catching the attention of Kyogai whom held out a quick arm to your retreating figure.

"Y-Y/n-"

"MY LORD!! THE FIRE'S SPREAD TO THE ENTIRE GARDEN!!"

"OH FUCK!!"

The panic really set in when you got closer to the entrance. Your brain fully turned off your auto pilot for finding Rui and finally let you understand the situation around you. 

ALL. HELL. HAD. R E A L L Y. BROKE. LOOSE.

A woman screamed somewhere as demons of all kinds ran around ina flurry of panic. You kept getting knocked around or tripped over nearly falling from either someone panicking and pushing you or from the giant amount of water sloshed everywhere. Your ears ring. Your body stings. Hands tightened around Rui who seemed to know where to go only silently pointing in many directions in the dark. You couldn't see. Blind to everyone and everything around you and that's what really scared you. You couldn't do anything for anyone in this condition. Only try to get out of the way and get Rui to safety.  Feet wobbled forward, onward. Until the world tumbled over and a second later you had found yourself falling through the world flung from your feet. Whirled around and around the wind tumbling around. Sounds muffling and whirling together thanks to the loud ringing in your ears, although you vaguely remembered a few screams, maybe a lot of cracks that sounded just like when Akaza punched through Kyogai's flooring, and then tumbling. 

Light as a feather you felt tumbling through the dark wind and sky. Time seemed endless for a short while. Had you fallen down a flight of stairs? Slipped out an open window? Maybe you were still fast asleep and this was all asleep?

But then why were you in such pain? 

You shrieked letting the air leaves your lungs and your eyes met white hot flashes of light as hellfire hot and poking you like fire hot you in many places as your body hit the ground and rolled and rolled until it could no more. Feeling burning pain in your ankle, left shoulder, head, neck, lower left back, middle toes on your right foot- Over and over until it stopped and in a slump you plummeted into the darkness and accepted your fate.

The abyss welcomed you into it's wicked embrace and allowed the warmth to be put out like a gentle light.

★★★★★★★★

"AHAHAHAHA!! Did you see the way all those little ants went flying?! I haven't been able to blow away a small crowd in a while! The farthest one went about twenty feet! Except for these two of course. I targeted them to go a lot farther.~"

"KARAKU, YOU ABSOLUTE IDIOT!! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO EXTRACT THE DAM BRAT WITHOUT DRAWING ATTENTION TO YOURSELF!!! NOW THE EVIDENCE OF US IS LITERALLY SPRAWLED ALL OVER THERE!!!"

"I-I-I have to agree with Sekido on this one. He made that distraction for a reason. Hmmm. T-The Master is going to be R-Really mad we tore apart one of his most vital assets."

"Oh lighten up you two. That old librarian can rebuild everything. Urogi's making sure the damage wasn't too serious if it makes you feel better.~ Bessiiiiides we have the kid he wants so badly don't we? That's WAY more important than any damage that can be rebuilt anyways. Plus...We have this beautiful thing here.~ Mmmmmmm.~ Father was right about her being beautiful.~ For a human." Something touched a soft cheek.

"I CAN'T BELIEVE HE ENGAGED US OFF TO A PATHETIC HUMAN!! LOOK AT HER!! THERE'S NOTHING TO EVEN MAKE HER STAND OUT FROM ANY OTHER PATHETIC HUMAN!!"

"Except her smell. Smell her, Sekido. She smells heavily of Aster flowers.~"

"I KNOW THAT!! I HATE THAT SICKLY SWEET SCENT!!"

"I-I don't think aster flowers smell that bad."

"STOP IT!! STOP IT!! GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY MOTHER!!"

Rui! That was Rui's voice. Slowly feeling started to return to your body and the first thing you felt was pain all over. Like you had rolled down the mountain and hit every single to rock no matter how small on the way down. It caused a hiss of pain to escape. You were vaguely aware of something touching your sore cheek poking a sharp digit over and over into it annoyingly. Before purple eyes snapped open in time to meet green ones attached to a smug face.It was attached to a long slightly wavy black hair, two horns sticking out of his forehead, and darkened skin. After tilting it's head at you it laughed again.

"Hahaha! Aw.~ Look at that.~," a new voice cooed and a claw pulled some of the hair away from your face. Your eyes slowly blinked registering that this man was closer now eyes half lidded. "She's waking up. Such pretty eyes.~ Precious little girl.~ Hello swee-"

 C R A C K!!!

One minute he was staring there smiling at her, the next he found his head snapped at an awkward angle with a snap of his neck. His hands awkwardly made grabs at his snapped back head before he fell over right on his ass and it it's place was a raised boot. ....You blinked. Foot immediately dropping at the sight. Whoa. Did you do that? It happened so fast you weren't even thinking - You squealed when the scrambling body grabbed your foot lightly and on instinct you shook it off before scrambling back and forcing yourself to stand on your own two feet with the help of a...tree? Your head snapped to the mighty plant.. Blinking your hand patted the rough bark a few times to actually make sure you were actually feeling what you were seeing, before looking up at the sky and along it's extended branches and leaves. All the way until you made your way back down and saw yourself inside the woods. With four other demons surrounding you. 

And three of them looked almost exactly alike. 

Three heads of long scruffy black hair, and horns on their foreheads greeted you and they all looked alike but different at the same time. There was the first one who you kicked on instinct.  He wore a dark green almost black pair of pants held up by a red belt around his waist, and had sort of green sashes thrown over his shoulders covered in white pom poms. He still stumbled a bit as one of the other demons helped him stand back up on his feet. The one who helped him stand was decked out in blue with a few white strips on his clothing and thick blue rope clung to his back, the thick rope held a long spear like weapon to the blue eyed demon's back as he gently held the green eyed one up.

"I told you to be careful," blue eyes said to the head bent backwards. "You probably scared her."

"What kind of kick was that for a human anyways?!," Green eyes shouted angry but im a nasally way as if he was pinching his nose as he talked. "She broke my nose and my neck!"

"Just shut up and get his head back on already!", A third voice shouted and you looked at it's source. It came from a third demon with red eyes and a deep angry scowl. He wore sandles of some sort and a red yukata except for one part which was patterned along his shoulder. In his hand he gripped a staff like weapon that jingled when he pointed it at the first two. "This is why we FOLLOW THE PLAN!!"

The blue eyed demon helped grab the green eyes's head and with a small grunt and sickening crack, green eyes's head was snapped back up and it looked as if you never even kicked him aside from the blood trickling from his nose which a hand immediately gripped.

"Uh. I'm going to feel that for a while. HOO!" Green eyes shook his head before smiling again. "Head rush!"

"Are you alright? Seeing you hurt saddens me."

Green eyes waved off blue eyes. "I'm fffiiiiiinnnee. But it's sweet our baby brother is so worried about us!~"

"I'm only younger by a few minutes!" 

"MOTHER!!" Time all froze as a teeny voice called out. Your eyes snapped over. There was Rui. Laying face down and clawing at the ground with a hiss  escaping his throat but the foot from the red eyed demon was too strong for him to escape. "Mother, help me!"

"RUI!!" You ran at him only to become encaged when a strong arm grabbed around your waist and pulled you against a burly chest, a second arm snapping up across your chest and right shoulder. Pulling you back and easily holding you back away from the struggling child. "RUI!!" PANIC busted through your veins when you couldn't reach him. Couldn't reach your child. Desperate hand grabbed at the arms pulling you back. "GIVE HIM BACK!! GET OFF HIM!!!"

A voice laughed from green eyes who held you tightly. "Sorry, Sweetums.~ We have higher orders. But while you're here, we might as well just take you a long.~" You pulled your head forward when you heard someone inhale deeply. "You really do smell nice.~"

"GET. OFF. ME!!" You struggled against his body which only made him laugh louder.

"We're going to have to bring her along now!! Morons!" Red eyes hissed jabbing his staff into the ground with a few jingles. "Hold her still! I'll just shock them both and we can sort out her later once we deliver the boy and meet back with Urogi!"

You had that sense again. The sense of danger being near and something about the jingling staff scared you. Struggling now you screamed. Not sure what behind you fueled it. Fear? Anger? Maybe frustration? Or perhaps it wasn't a scream at  all but a cry for help because unbeknownst to all of you someone did hear it. Someone nearby heard. Someone nearby knew who it was.

And thunder came to intervene the lightning to answer that distressed call. 

You continued screaming even as the staff was lifted and made to slam down and would've made contact with the ground if there wasn't a metal flash and a moment later the head of Red Eyes fell. The scowl open mouthed in a silent scream as it hit the ground with a thud, his body frozen mid jab, his head rolled a few times before completely stopping at the black boot of  some one who kicked the Red Eyed beheaded body over with one firm kick which Also fell with a sickening thud revealing another scowling angry demon. His voice hissing as blue-black eyes narrowed. Rui wheezed free of the foot painfully holding him down and crawled away from the body.

"What the hell are you bastards doing in my domain?!"

You eyes popped open. You recognized that pig's arse anywhere. "KAIGAKU!!"  The demon snapped it's gaze to you and immediately gained a face like he was slapped seeing you struggling in his grip. With each tug and pull you gave the grip never loosened. "HELP ME!!"

The demon stood there stunned for A second before immediately his reaction was what you expected. A deep growl and bared fangs. The long katana that scared you when you first saw it was already stained red with blood.  Red Eyes gave a curse when a black boot kicked his head away from the body crawling after it, before stepping forward.

"What the absolutely FUCK are you doing here?!"

"I'm running off with a potato farmer- IM BEING KIDNAPPED!! WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE I'M DOING?!," you shouted back to him angrily.

No one but green eyes noticed the wingbeats drawing closer overhead as Blue Eyes gave a gasp and scurried around you all in aid to his beheaded brother. The anger in Kaigaku's eyes just being met with amused green ones as the man holding you chuckled.

"The child, human, and now Lower Moon Two? How exciting! I haven't had this much fun since Sekido was stupid enough to challenge Akaza to a blood battle!"

"Shut up, Karaku!!," A voice shouted somewhere behind them to the far left. 

"GET YOUR DAM HANDS OFF OF HER!!!" The demon holding you still cooed as Kaigaku gave a sound between a dog bark and a demonic wail a sharp blade pointed at Green Eyes head.  "N O W!!"

 The man holding you hummed for a moment before clicking his tongue and shaking his head. "Nah. I have a better idea.~" 

You screamed as something grabbed you by the waist and with power behind those arms, up you went. Thrown up not very far into the air, you were only thrown up maybe five feet into the air, and something else grabbed you by the arms. Something big with a powerful wing beat and eagle like talons gripped you as you watched the figures below disappear between the trees. 

"Y/N!!"

The desperate voice of Kaigaku was drowned out by wingbeats and happy laughter as you struggled and kicked out. Stomach dropping the higher and farther you went. Looking up you were met with yellow eyes and a joyful smile.

"Haha! Karaku wasn't lying when he said you were cute! Look at how terrified your face is! Guess I'll be the one to call dibs first!"

"Put me down!" Your voice was drowned out by the wind.

"Nah. Sorry, Feather. But we have to deliver that brat to the higher ups, but don't worry." He smiled wider. "He won't be hurt...Too much.~ Ha ha ha!!" 

There was silence. Nothing but the wind but there was something else he felt. It was the body in his talons going limp. The hard and rigid like that of a rock. Then he felt muscles expanding, getting bigger, and his ears twitched when his excellent sense of hearing caught the sounds of bones creaking and popping. Then the arms where he gripped stop growing but they now felt more...strong and firm. Then there was something that almost made him stop. The unmistakable sounds of a demon giving a warning hiss.

"Now what has happened here?" He turned his head upside down. "Did yo-"

 C R A C K!! 

[pan-magi]

My Magi LGBTQIA+ Headcanons

Ok, I've been working on this list since January. I still probably forgot some. I haven't worked out all my SnB ones yet and about half the Rens. It takes me an inordinate amount of time to sort them out. The only ones I'm really set on are the aspec ones because I'm biased (that's me, I'm AA and proud).

All that to say I may update this list or do a second part. Most likely won't be for a while since I'd want to to add a good chunk before I commit more to the wild.

Also, if you disagree, that's cool. My list though~ I love hearing other people's hcs but I am not up to arguing over mine. I know you guys are chill but to ensure we are on the same page :)

(It's a reasonably long list so all of it is under the read more)

Leila and Sahsa: You can't tell me the manga didn't start off with a lesbian love story with a little shit child playing mediator.

Judar: He very gay.

Aladdin: Genderfluid. I just like the idea of him having everyone constantly guessing as a child of chaos. They're also vying to take that title from Judar. I also can't place who the kid will be interested in but none of his friends are around the same age.

Titus: Trans gay guy.

Yunan: Doesn't really have much attachment to gender. He wouldn't really describe it as a lack of gender yet won't turn down using agender. Gender neutrois also works. Uses any pronouns.

Scheherazade: Cupiosexual. She yearns for being able to have sexual attraction but it just never has occurred for her. After a few decades she had accepted it about herself. The most common form of attraction she feels is alterous attraction (often explained as the space between romantic and platonic attraction).

Hakuryuu: He has messy chemistry with everyone. Bi disaster through and through.

Morgiana: Ace and questioning. She hasn't figured it all out yet but her friends are there to support her. (hi, yes, this is me projecting weeee)

Alibaba: Bisexual and clueless. So if you ask, he won't be able to answer but he also picked up on Sinbad's natural ability to flirt with anybody without trying too hard.

Hakuei: Lesbian

Koumei: Bisexual. I mentioned with the art I made on my own blog that I designed Koumei around the bi colors without realizing it. Nothing in my mind has changed to refute that so that's what I'm still going with. I do think it fits him.

Sphintus: Gay. I can see him being biromantic as well, but mostly into guys.

Sinbad: Pansexual and greyromantic. I won't go into it again more here. He's the best most clueless and suave person ever.

Jafar: Homoromantic demisexual. He likes guys but also without any strong connection to go off of he doesn't really register how people can be attractive.

Drakon: Omnisexual. There's attraction to guys, women, and enbies, all slightly different to each other. Preference for women.

Mystras: Also very gay.

Pisti: Aegoromantic. She gets invested in other people's (mainly her friends') love lives, and loves love stories, but whenever she tries getting into a relationship it never sits right for her. She won't mind an intimate relationship though knows it won't be romantic (after a bit of denial). After my brain came up with this I started projecting like hell and I don't give a fuck XD.

Mu: Mspec of some variety. I don't think he will be bothered by either bi or pan. Queer will work just as well. He will be down for anyone, you know? Going off queer history circles I've seen conversations and jokes that no one in Ancient Rome is monosexual. Mu feels like the person it will apply to the most. I'm going with it.

I joked to myself that the majority on Alma Toran are mspec or aspec. With longer lifespans for humans, a good handful are aspec because of the lack of incentive to have kids or families quickly. I would have posted about it last year during my Alma Toran posting in October and during ace week, but alas. I'm now posting it here lol.

Anyway, my Alma Toran hcs:

Solomon: Demisexual. Hasn't spent time thinking about it because he didn't expect to marry so young. It doesn't bother him though, not that he could explain his sexuality well.

Setta: Aroace. All ice mages are aroace because I said so. (except Judar, dude can have as many guys as he wants)

Isnan: Gay

Falan: Bi. Growing up she didn't have the chance to explore her sexuality. She won't deny it if asked though is perfectly happy in her relationship.

Ugo: Bi and aceflux.

Paimon: Also bi. She flirts too much with Ugo not to be (though I do know some lesbians and non-interested in men peeps who flirt with guys for shits and giggles without much feeling. Poison Ivy being the main lesbian I think of for this).

Arba: Non-sam aro. I tried to figure out her sexuality and I know it's not ace, but it's still too wrapped up in being aromantic. Non-sam is the closest I could figure.

Tess: Demiboy. The idea just burrowed into my head and hasn't left so I'm going with it. He is fine with he/they pronouns, yet the only people allowed to get away with calling him little boy are his parents.

That's all I got. For the moment, at least. If I try to figure everyone out I won't get around to finishing this till pride next year. If ever >>. As I said, I may update the list or post a second part.

Remember to stay chill peeps! & Happy Pride!

[tarenitdown]

Okay, uh, multiple questions...

1. Favorite member of recreyo in general? How about to write?

2. Any stray au ideas?

3. Uuuh shoot those arent multiple- just say anything you want about them, even a hot take.

1- Den is my number one member, hands down. I actually found out about Recreyo through her, so I have a lot of bias considering she was one of my favorites during that whole animation story-time era of Youtube...

That being said, though, my favorite to write is still Christian. He just has the most lore to work with, and I really adore writing his dialogue, especially when he's interacting with Ivan. I doubt that that's surprising. xD

However, Kristine is growing on me a lot more as time goes on. In the past I hadn't exactly gotten her characterization down yet, so I found her a little difficult and messy, but I'm definitely starting to get a feel for it now.

2- Oh boy... too many. Although I'm trying to stay focused on the SPY AU, my mind wanders and I ended up with a slowly-developing Ghost AU.

TW: Animal Death

It'd center around Kristine as a (mostly) well-meaning urban explorer, who accidentally stumbles upon a trail of dead animals in the forest. Strangely enough, all of the animals are drained of their blood with barely any exterior wounds, and this is what gets Kristine's curiosity.

Following the path of death, Kristine finds an abandoned tower with boarded up doors and windows... it's eerie, but she takes out a camera and snaps photos of the tower from the outside. After all, she's not sure if she wants to go in quite yet.

But as she walks around, capturing the scenes of fallen trees and graffiti...

The air gets hot. It's like she can't breathe, tugging on her shirt collar.

She drops the camera when she sees a ghostly body floating in front of her. This is where she meets Christian, a boy who looks just about the same age as her, but his skin looks drippy. As though he was sweating, or almost melting.

He greets her cheerfully, if not a bit apprehensive. The two hit it off immediately, with Kristine listening to Christian's rambles of how he hated the scenery. She asks him about his ghost-situation, and he doesn't answer.

Instead, he calls out "Curt! Ivan!" and two more boys show up. They phase through the tower's walls.

Curt has tears running down his face, even though he doesn't appear necessarily sad. He's actually very polite, and tells Christian off for talking to a real person, with it being "dangerous."

Ivan's eyes are pitch black, but the main feature Kristine notices is actually how he's reflective- almost like glass. He doesn't seem to care at all about Christian and Curt's bickering, but he keeps his distance away from the explorer.

"How are you guys all.. dead? Er- ghosts-?" Again, Kristine asks. Nobody gives a solid answer, and Ivan only stammers stupid excuses.

Then, they all go silent. That's when Kristine turns around to see the last ghost: Den.

Just like the other three, Den has a slightly altered design. Her face is flushed, and she has to wipe her mouth every few minutes due to stray drool.

Kristine finds out that Den is the one who had been killing all the animals and draining them of their blood. She apparently has an endless thirst for blood, and she complains that Christian is only making it worse by being present.

Kristine: ..Oh, is.. is he doing that? That explains the temperature.

...And thats pretty much all I have right now. There's no real plot I have written beyond just characterizations. I had the vague idea of Chilly being an angry spirit and being the antagonist herself.

And for the deaths?

Christian died from burning alive (which is why he makes areas warmer/is melting),

Den died of dehydration after getting lost during a trip (she has a specific thirst for blood due to a small blame on others for her death),

Ivan got stabbed with glass (I don't know the backstory for this, it might change honestly),

..Curt doesn't remember his death at all. I imagine he died in his sleep because of unexplained illnesses or something.

Maybe I'll write a two-parter for this AU. I enjoy that it'd definitely take a more genuine approach to the group dynamic.

3- A hot take? Hmmm.. I imagine that this fandom isn't even big enough for takes to be controversial... but I'll say that Ivan and Den's dynamic often goes unexplored/forgotten about, despite how iconic it is.

And that's a shame, really. Ivan/Christian is my favorite duo dynamic, but it honestly parallels (and even takes after) Ivan/Den.

With the shared blame on Ivan for their own individual grudges (Barney's death, Shadypaws' endangerment/Den's framing in the AA case) it also opens up the door for a Den/Christian duo too.

A lot of people like to portray Den as someone villainous, but Ivan is the exact same. Their misdeeds are just in two different ways. Den is loud about it, while Ivan has more tact. Even ignoring their history, just the personalities are enough to get me so invested.

And don't get me started on how they both had incredible duos with Chilly. Because there it is again- another layer to the group dynamic that shifts relationships ever-so-slightly but still with so much impact.

It's so much more than just "Haha knife girl go brrr @ loser boy." As funny as it is, I really think that the two have a charming rivalry while still maintaining that level of "I might not like you all that much, but if you're all I've got, then I guess we're family."

(This was just a bunch of word vomit, I dunno if this is all readable... thank you for the ask.)

[repo-net]

dumping a bunch of my wrestling ocs here

Hello hello, it's me again. It hasn't been too long since my last post with my little wrestlingfic OCs, but I've got a good collection of them now and I thought now would be a good time to share them again. Don't worry, I won't drop their backstories and everything here and make this post any longer than it's already going to be, I'm just going to drop short descriptions of them and notes regarding their designs.

Stuff is under the cut.

Dexx

The protagonist of the story. A boy who traveled all the way from Kiribati on a boat, risking his life to reach the US and leaving behind his family and friends to fulfill his dream of becoming a professional wrestler. His passion for the sport burns harder than the sun, and his talent and willingness to improve backs up his cocky and crass attitude. Can cling to a grudge for a very, very long time - and has a crafty way with words and holding his own inside the ring.

Design Notes: In the second half of the story where most of it revolves around his character being corrupted with obsession of staying at the top with his championship title; he wants to change his hair color to signify a change in his character. He didn't want to alter his maroon hair though - liking it too much to do so, and decides he'll change his strand of black hair into white.

His gloves have 'Dexx' written on it. They were written by himself with a white marker. His shoes didn't originally have those laces, but he took a bunch of rope and tied it as seen in the photo for the simple reason that he saw someone wear shoes designed that way and he thought it looked cool.

Madelca

A girl with an unorthodox fighting style; preferring to use strikes with her fists for most of her arsenal, and even going as far as to wear boxing gloves inside a wrestling ring. Comes from a long bloodline of successful people across fields such as medicine, art, education, etc. Her bratty and rude personality hides a long and painful experience within her family; and a scarier and more obsessive version of her that she represses.

Design Notes: Underneath her boxing gloves hides the fact that she was born with only 4 fingers on each hand; and all her other fingers are slightly smaller than the average person's as well. Her left hand is also covered in old scars left by her scratching at it in hatred of the environment she had to grow up in. The boxing gloves check a lot of boxes for Madelca; allowing her to keep what she herself considers 'disgusting' away from people's sights, and helps deliver more impact and cover more range in her punches that she would normally be unable to achieve without them.

Her heterochronic eyes reflect the colors of the country's flag that she hails from - that being Belgium. She'd actually much rather have her hair down than styled in those pigtails, but her family didn't approve of the initial appearance she wanted to go with.

Naguib

Full of energy and a pep in his step. A boy who makes up for his smaller stature with his zeal in the ring, and always extremely supportive of those he considers his friends. Though his win-loss record may not be the most inspiring, he will never hesitate to be someone's biggest fan and hype them up before, during, and after a match, and it's easy for people to get attached to his endearing and genuine heart when they're around him.

Design Notes: His kneepads are themed and patterned with the Egyptian flag. His elbowpads have Arabic text written on them (on the left being 'fight', and the right being 'tenacity'). The 'scars' on his face aren't actually scars, but face paint that he had his friend draw on him because Naguib's friend had paint on his face as well, and he wanted some too because Naguib thought it was awesome. Some people take Naguib less seriously because of it, but he doesn't mind.

His shoes were given as a Christmas gift, by the same friend above. He is almost always seen wearing them whenever he goes outside ever since.

Valentina

A former model for magazines who initially joined the sport for money; but came around to realize that she really enjoyed beating people up and feeling superior. Her cutesy and flirtatious front buries the reality that she is a museum full of submission moves and limb-breaking attacks, with a sadistic streak that relishes in making her opponents squirm. Has a soft spot for science, and particularly enjoys chemistry.

Design Notes: She has two tattoos of roses; one on her back visible through the gap in her top, and one on her right shoulder. Doesn't wear shoes because she feels much more agile without them; complimenting her serpentine movements and speed.

There's a butterfly hairpin on the right side of her hair, which keeps the tail of hair she likes to slap opponents with from falling apart. Her collar has a red skull with three yellow flowers surrounding it from below.

Lucia

Pure from soul to bone, and the kindest person you'll ever meet, though a little naive. She is a walking ray of sunshine and positivity, always seeming to light up any room she enters. A favorite among the fans for her loveable character and underdog aura - but her body is unfit for wrestling and she wins matches through heart and will alone, enjoying the sport too much to quit, even if it's to her own detriment.

Design Notes: If it wasn't already obvious by the maple leaves on her outfit, she's from Canada.

Everything from her thin stature and the way she's dressed reflects her origins of becoming a wrestler; where her friends originally invited her to try out wrestling as a joke, but she was too enamored by the feeling of release and catharsis that she gets from wrestling, because for once in her life; it feels like she isn't being held down by her body's limitations. It's almost become an addiction that's fueled her since then.

Ying

The second-ranked wrestler in the world, with a near perfect record that's only suffered her single loss to the current champion of the company. A beautiful woman who is a master in close combat and martial arts, who takes pleasure in extending the torture weaker opponents have to endure against her by taking her slow time in finishing them off. Hard to get along with, and prideful in her appearance and capabilities.

Design Notes: Though the heels she wears may seem impractical (and realistically, they are), she's completely mastered being able to move around in them, and having them on only brings a second layer of pain to her kicks and stomps. When she gets caught in a pinch, she's likely to aim between her opponent's legs while the referee is distracted. Damn cheaters.

Although her name and the dress she wears gives it away, she is in fact from China. Her design took a lot of inspiration from Chun-Li, though that's likely apparent to see.

Reyna

Design Notes: Subtle, but she has a painted star on her chin. Her elbow pads have the color scheme and pattern of the Philippine flag, her country of origin (I promise I wasn't power-tripping when I made a Filipino of all people the main antagonist for the first half of the story, lol).

The peak of the mountain - she is the current champion with an undefeated record. Tallying a streak of opponents that she's mowed down in ways unprecedented within the sport's history. A complete package in the ring with power, speed, and technique, though her most terrifying strength is her seemingly undying resilience. Her cold and arrogant attitude is rooted from a long, harsh road of betrayal and distrust.

She has four tattoos in total - on the right side of her chest, her right shoulder, and left wrist; all of which are tailor-made with Filipino designs. The last one being on her back is a crown, fitting for her status as champion and her name (Reyna means 'queen' in English), and her lifeless eyes reflect how harsh and callous she's become ever since the incident with her last friend group.

Kali

A young girl brimming with potential; and having already proven it inside the ring with her stellar performances and adeptness in each aspect within it, possessing a wide variety of moves to pull out whether she's flying from the turnbuckles or stretching you on the mat. Generally emotionless and almost robotic, from personality to fighting style. She's being trained under Reyna's wing.

Design Notes: Underneath her eyepatch is a scar left behind by a rough surgery. Kali's only friend in high school was partially blind, and when she found out about this; she immediately made the offer to donate one of her own eyes to her friend, despite the fact it'd make her own life hell or maybe even end it. After years of reluctance from her friend, they'd eventually give in after some convincing. The process wasn't 100% smooth, and Kali has had an ugly scar and mark on her left eye since then.

Her hair looks like that because I was thinking about Nagisa when writing her backstory, and that's why she has those little dog ears.

Xealouz

The man who Dexx grew up watching, and his childhood idol. He is partially retired nowadays and has taken a backseat to wrestling inside the ring. He is the booker and chief operating officer of the company, and has already been established as a legend and hall of famer within the industry. Will take matters into his own hands if he really feels the need to, and can still go inside the ring despite being past his prime.

Design Notes: The suit he's seen wearing in the picture above is his regular, everyday outfit. You'll rarely ever see him in his wrestling gear. His dual-colored eyes are meant to symbolize how one part of him is his more mature, mentor side now that he's older, and the other half is his bloodthirsty, conqueror of worlds persona when he was still a feisty young up-and-comer. As for the gear itself - his elbow pads have red skulls over them, and the XZ on his trunks are referencing the starting and ending letters of his ring name, and the Latin on it's side reads the following:

Veni vidi vici: I came, I saw, I conquered

Oderint dum metuant: Let them hate, so long as they fear

A lot of his design in general is inspired from Triple H.

Height chart of everyone, as a neat little reference ^^

And that's the end of this post. Sorry about the length on that, I know it was a long read to go down on if you actually read through all of that. Regardless of whether you did or didn't, I appreciate you for reaching the end of this post anyways. Thanks again for reading! I promise I'll post an actual fic this week, ahah.

[jellycreamjammedart]

Hey there demons. It is I, ya boi

Prepare for more Killer In Purple 2 BTS from moi, this time about the next few early human characters after the very first kid NPC!

Part 2: THE FIRST FEW MODELS

Now, I've already talked about this little goober:

The very first model and my very first contribution to the game overall! But naturally, he was only the beginning.

Since the developer GFC wanted some diversity with characters, I agreed to make the lad from above into a pair by making a female version as well! And I sort of made that a pattern I'd follow: if I were to make more kid NPCs I'd make a pair at least, a boy and a girl.

The boy above, and the female version I was about to do, would be the first pair in the game!

Before jumping into designing a girl, some things I kept in mind: the boy above would be the base for the girl as well as for every future kid model; this way the developer would have to change little to nothing about rigging and animating the models, since the same methods could be applied to all with very minor changes if at all. This was to save time, as well as let GFC dedicate his time and focus on other aspects of the game.

Okay, yeah. But now, what is the girl supposed to look like?

This was surprising not hard to decide! See, in the lore of GFC's games, Cassidy (who possesses Golden Freddy,) is actually a boy-- like the name "Bonnie," "Cassidy" also is a name that works for both girls and boys.

That means the well known female Cassidy isn't part of this world. Which means I could "borrow" her looks.

So while the first boy is an improved version of the previous Blender model but also a reference to the FNAF 4 Crying Child, the girl would be a reference to female Cassidy.

So, an adorable little girl with black hair in pigtails was built!

Now things get a little tougher, however:

What outfit do I give her when building her body?

Now, she was a reference to female Cassidy, but she is just an NPC, with nothing to do with character, so I knew I didn't want to use yellow, purple or too much black in her clothes, lest it could confuse people.

At the end, I went for a mellow pink and blue aesthetic, designed in a way I think vaguely gave off 80's vibes:

(The solid green spots were to help GFC see where the different pieces connect, which he could easily color over once they served their purpose.)

And much like with the boy, later on GFC had figured out how to give the models different facial expressions, so I was tasked with making different heads with different expressions for both kids in the pair. Aside from the default neutral smile, GFC also wanted a scared face for when kids see the player with the knife out or witness a kill, and a dead expression for when the player ultimately points out their skill issue.

Since it was around the same time with the boy, I also went with different dead expressions for the girl, and let GFC pick the winning one, which wound up being the one with X'd out eyes.

And with that we have the first pair of kid NPCs in Killer In Purple 2! But if you've played the game, you know it isn't about just going around collecting kids like pokémon left and right, but also avoiding the eyes of another figure important to the game mechanics:

That's right! The PARENTS!

Much like the first boy, there was only a mother model made in Blender in the earlier versions of the game. I don't have any screenshots of the Blender mother, but the improved design would still be heavily inspired by it (brunette woman with a ponytail in a blue blouse.)

This is where I used the boy model not as a base, but as the starting point in building, as now I had to make an adult, therefore the model had to be taller and a bit larger.

The design was very 1:1 from the blender version, so there was not much sitting around thinking about it:

I altered the face from the child to make it seem older and more mature, namely slightly smaller eyes and a lighter smile, along a slightly different nose.

But as to keep every single spawning parent in the game from looking like an army of clones is coming to eat pizza at your business, I also used the newly made improved parent model as a base for another different designed parent.

I've seen many assume this to be a dad model. And they're not wrong! But my aim was to create an ambiguous-looking parent, with a design that could work for a dad as much as a mom. So if you think it's a dad, you're right! If you think it's a mom, you're also right! Heck, it could even pass as an older/adult sibling.

And with that we wrap up for today, tackling what made up the earlier version of Killer in Purple 2. Stay tuned as there's still a lot more fun little things to be tackled!

[lunas-otome-blog]

Luna's Review: Cupid Parasite

Official Summary:

What's love got to do with it? In this divine romantic comedy, play as Lynette Mirror, Cupid Corporation's top bridal advisor and none other than Celestia's Goddess of Love, Cupid! Determined to prove that love is more than bows and arrows, she meets her biggest challenge yet — the infamous Parasite 5.

But in finding love for the Parasite 5, will Cupid find love herself?

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Luna's Thoughts (Spoiler Free)

I needed a break between the stupendously long playthroughs of Jack Jeanne (review coming soon!) so I picked up Cupid Parasite for a more casual, less involved game.

In Cupid Parasite, the MC, who is literally the goddess Cupid, descends to earth as human alter-ego Lynette Mirror in order to stick it to her father and prove that human algorithms are better than forcing people to fall in love with her magical bow and arrow. She joins a dating agency and quickly becomes their top advisor. Due to her success, she's forced to take charge of five bachelors who are having trouble finding love because they suck.

I'll say it upfront. Cupid Parasite is very stupid. The plot is goofy and very loosely constructed. There is a roomba. The MC is a powerful demigod and her first move upon coming to Earth is to rent a shared apartment and get a bachelor's degree. The B-button produces a honk sound. These were the highlights for me, actually. I don't mind a stupid game as long as it spells that out upfront, and Cupid Parasite definitely does.

Where this game really stands out is where it embraces the stupid and allows itself to be fun and silly. But it suffers from inconsistency, leaving me unsure of what to think. Some routes are very serious and others are incredibly unserious.

It took me a really long time to warm up to this game for a few reasons. First, Cupid Parasite feels like it's aimed at a younger audience, as everyone in the game, including the protagonist, is immature or undeveloped in some way.

This game was also just way too sexy for me, and extremely heteronormative. The romance and ideas portrayed are very traditional. Lynette has some fairly antiquated views about love between men and women, ranging from boring to slightly offensive. A lot of it didn't sit right with me.

It was also a little difficult to get through the common route because I truly didn't like a single one of the dating options lol. I know the premise is that they're undatable but man...they are insufferable at the beginning.

The interface, while colorful and quirky, is too "busy" and thus difficult to navigate. It was a little laggy for me. The whole experience felt clunky and unpolished.

If you like flirty, silly and sexy otoges, you'll probably be really into Cupid Parasite. But unfortunately I am not the target audience for this game. There were certain aspects of each route I enjoyed, though, so find below my thoughts in the order in which I played each character.

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(Spoilers) Ryuki Route

I genuinely liked Ryuki's route, which was surprising to me because I really DID NOT like him in the common route lol. He warms up to Lynette right at the end of the common, and his affection grows from there. He's not a true tsundere, but he fulfills the "has trouble being honest" role in this game for the most part.

He's the youngest of the love interests at just 19 — not that age matters much when the PC is an immortal god— so I didn't feel too great about the sexy scenes with this barely legal kid lol. But they don't sleep together on the route, which I was grateful for.

Ryuki's driving force is in learning how to be a good designer, and Lynette is charmed by the attention he puts into his designs. It turns out he always wanted to design clothes for women, but nobody has allowed him to do that, so he's just lived with this repressed desire his whole life.

His interest in Lynette comes from how she treats him like a normal person, rather than flee from his rudeness or put him on a pedestal like most people, as well as how she's the first person to tell him he can do what he wants. Ryuki's attraction to her felt natural and the pace was good. When he realizes that you naturally find the person you're in love with more attractive, he freaks out in an adorable way.

Once he accepts that what he's feeling is love, his entire attitude changes, and he instantly becomes an attentive and kind partner. He was already warming up to Lynette, but the switch proves how much he was holding back on his base instincts to cherish her. Realizing he's in love gives him the freedom to do what he's always wanted, just as Lynette gave him the freedom to design women's clothing.

Proposing to Lynette instead of asking her out was silly, but he's 19, so I actually felt like it was in keeping with how a teenager would act with his first love.

Overall, I felt Ryuki's route was very successful. I hope Lynette reels him in a little, hehe.

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(Spoilers) Gill Route

Man this route sure was...something.

It's so hard for me to judge Gill, because every time the game gives you a reason to like him, they add in another reason to dislike him, too.

He's an insufferable sad sack in the common route. Then you start his route and realize he took such good care of Lynette at the beginning when she didn't know anything about the human world. Then you find out he literally stalked her in college and calls her his "baby bird." Then you find out he did technically ask her out (though she never got the letter) and thought he was formally rejected. Then you find out he took his job specifically to spend more time with her.

Toward the end of his route, he reveals he has a folder of pictures of her on his phone, taken secretly over the years, including some of her sleeping. This is treated as romantic and sweet, but as someone who has been stalked before, I can assure you it is not. It's creepy and frightening. And no, Gill is never told this behavior is not ok. The game actually treats it as not only acceptable but as demonstrative of how dedicated he is to Lynette. Gross.

Gill's route also had a lot of contrivances and some downright weird stuff, such as him being kicked out of his apartment due to rotting blue cheese, and a voice change app that exists to create a convenient misunderstanding. This is already a very silly game, but it felt like a few too many coincidences.

He also swoops in to save Lynette by literally building a transforming car and flying to the heavenly realm where she lives, culminating in a giant robot battle with Lynette's father, Mars. What.

This route gets really weird toward the end, and just goes on forever. Every time it seems to be coming to a good stopping point, there's yet another chapter or plot thread we must unravel.

You do get some fun background on Claris, and I did like Gill's backstory, including his family and interest in cars. But this route was too long, too weird and just thoroughly unromantic. Rather than give Gill an opportunity to learn from his mistakes, Gill is allowed to do whatever he wants and is praised for it. I did not like this route.

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(Spoilers) Shelby Route

After playing Gill's route with all its craziness, I was worried about Shelby's route, but it ended up being fine. There were some contrivances and pacing issues, but it was an okay story.

This whole route reads like a fanfiction. It's a fake relationship plot complete with mutual pining and a drunken confession that is forgotten the next day. I actually love these tropes so that wasn't an issue, but I would have liked it a lot more if it didn't drag on as long as it did.

Lynette is a complete moron in this route as she steamrolls past her boss's concerns and basically invites herself into his life as his fake wife. While she works hard to make Cupid Corporation a success, Shelby is taken by her positive attitude and dedication to spreading love. And when she's in danger, he immediately clears up the misunderstanding, even to his own detriment.

I think my biggest issue with this route is that there was no tension. When Shelby admits he was pretending to have a wife, we are immediately reassured that everything his fine. His employees are cool with it. Other CEOs are cool with it. The guy who forced him into the misunderstanding publicly announces everything is his fault. It was complete overkill.

And then later, when you finally get backstory as to why Shelby wants to be "SS" at everything, it's immediately resolved. We get a flashback to his middle school days and we find out a few kids made fun of him for not being the best at academics, and that there was a shitty rich kid who attracted everyone's attention and stole the girl he liked. So he decides that he will become the best at everything because that's all people care about, apparently. Idk, it was kind of a leap.

Then we go back to present day at his middle school reunion. (Really not sure why they didn't just go with high school reunion, which would be a lot more normal.) Everyone remembers Shelby as the cool kid, and he realizes he never needed to be great at everything for people to like him. Oh, and the shitty popular kid is all washed up now. Basically everything resolves super neatly, without Lynette being involved at all.

There is a scene where Shelby is able to shoot a gun with pinpoint accuracy at another guy's gun, shooting it out of the assailant's hand. Lynette is shocked that he can do this, at which point he just calmly says he's SS so of course he can do it, which was very funny. I do wish we got to see more of his "SS" skills though. Allegedly he has a lot of them, but we only get to see the gun and a little bit of cooking. There's also a very silly scene involving Lynette's father and a Roomba, which I enjoyed.

Ultimately, I think this route was a little too neat. I would have liked to see some more consequences for Shelby's lying, and I wanted Lynette to be more involved in him figuring out his own problems. But it wasn't too bad, and I love a good fake relationship trope.

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(Spoilers) Raul Route

Raul seemed to be the most airheaded out of the Parasite 5, so it was nice to get a peek into his head and learn via his thoughts that he does take acting seriously. I also enjoyed learning that he looks coldly on people who pretend to be interested in mythology to get close to him.

I had high hopes for this route toward the beginning, as Raul argues that there's nothing wrong with casual sex, and even offers to show Lynette that you can sleep with someone without it meaning anything, which she accepts and agrees with at first. I thought it was kinda cool. I'm ace, so the idea of casual sex is very spooky to me personally, but I understand that it's very normal for a lot of people. So it was kind of refreshing to see Lynette accept that sometimes it's ok to just have fun with someone without it being serious.

However, after she sleeps with him, she just bans him from casual sex in general, telling him that he'll never learn about love if he does it. She keeps insisting that it's better to have sex with someone you love. I'm not really fond of this holier-than-thou attitude.

Most of the route is generally fine, consisting of the pair enjoying their time together, with Raul trying to piece together why he enjoys spending time with Lynette and Lynette trying her best to ignore her own feelings.

However, like Gill's route, it just kept going on and on. There's a long scene with them getting stuck in ancient ruins that was entirely unnecessary, as it's just a plot device to get them to Celestia, and then a MASSIVE FUCKING PLOT TWIST that I actually thought was pretty interesting. But the plot twist should have been revealed halfway through the route, with the rest of the route being resolution, as opposed to just tossing it haphazardly at the end.

This was not my favorite route, but it at least made a little more sense than Gill's route so... 6/10 lol.

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(Spoilers) Allan Route

I was actually pleasantly surprised by Allan's route. I tend to dislike flirtatious characters, so I figured he'd be my least favorite. But that was all blown away pretty quickly as you realize he really is just putting on a persona in order to conduct his incubus activities.

Allan is a man with complex feelings. His confidence is largely for show to cover up his deep shame and feelings of disgust toward himself for being a demon in the first place. Lynette doesn't make it any easier for him by being a precious angel baby who isn't bothered by him at all. I thought their relationship was sweet, well-paced and actually pretty innocent at times.

While Cupid Parasite doesn't formally have a true ending, Allan's route felt like one. It honestly makes all the other routes seem shallow by comparison. I LOVED the description of Heaven as basically an angel incubator from which new gods are pulled. It was treated as sort of natural, but it's honestly pretty horrifying — in a good way.

There is certainly some of what I call "magic bullshit" in this route. What I mean by that is there are contrivances in how the magic system works in this universe that are clearly created for plot reasons, so they felt a bit forced.

There's also an absolutely giant time skip in the middle of the route that I felt could have been handled better simply by using different sprites, backgrounds, etc. I understand budgetary constraints, but to say that Lynette, after reincarnating as a human, would look exactly the same and also have the same name was lazy writing.

I'm also furious that we didn't get to see a demon version of Lynette or Claris. Claris I kind of get, because why bother drawing a whole new sprite just for one scene in the underworld, but the game actually dares to tell me Lynette has grown a tiny lil tail and I don't get to see it in a cg???? Unfair.

Overall, while I do think this route suffers from contrivances and some pacing issues, it was probably my favorite route of the game. Allan is a true baby muffin and it's heartbreaking knowing what he has to go through while the other routes are happening.

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(Spoilers) Secret Route

I won't name the love interest in this route just in case. But this is a route that explores what happens if the gods send Lynette down to Earth themselves, rather than her escaping. It starts off much the same as the regular game, minus a few small changes.

We FINALLY get an explanation for Lynette's divine beast companion Chii in this route, which I was grateful for. I felt like most scenes with Chii were largely a waste of time, so it's nice to know there was a deeper meaning to his presence. I didn't realize how big Chii was supposed to be until I saw him in a cg. I thought he was hedgehog sized lol.

While this route is treated as an alternate reality, it competes with Allan's route for a suitable true ending. Everyone plays a role. This is the route that showcases what I wanted the whole game to be — a fun mix of romance, silliness and serious plot. It was pretty well balanced and a good way to end the game. I just wish more of the game was like this route.

[accordingtopluto]

So, I just beat this cute little indie platformer by a developer called A Grumpy Fox called "Lunistice" that is SO good. It's a sweet little 3D platformer where you play as a tanuki named Hana as she travels through six worlds collecting crystal cranes and letter icons to unlock logs I am assuming are from her to her family as she makes her way to the Moon.

The controls are simple, but pretty tight. You got a jump, double jump, a tail whip, and a slow down button for your move set. Sounds simple, but is chained together beautifully to get you up to higher ground or to extend your jumps! By using your tail whip right as you come into contact with an enemy in mid-air, it extends you jump similar to the spin move from the Super Mario Galaxy games. Stringing this together with an extended double jump really lets you soar through the levels! However, that doesn't mean that the game is easy. It knows you have these moves and makes wonderful use of level design to test you in each of the stages with something new spicing things up to keep you on your toes... or would it be paws? Regardless, the fact that the game has such focus and healthy additions that test your skills over just adding random minigames that alter the game too much is a win for me.

One thing that will be a touch challenging is locating the four letter icons that spell Hana's name in each of the stages. If you are going for the real ending and final level on the Moon, you have to find every single icon in all previous stages and find the warping purple platforms leading to the log entries that act as secret exits prior to finishing the second level of the seventh world. Don't worry, though. No icons are in World 7. Plus, the game will keep whatever icons you've found collected if you revisit these stages later for clean-up and typically are found in slightly out of the way locations marked by narrower platforms, skyward platforms, water bubbles, etc. Any curious player will be able to find them on their second attempt max.

The final level is a really simple, but fun surprise that isn't super hard at all, but a fun little reward for those that read the logs and were dedicated enough to get there. I can't reveal too much for spoiler reasons, but it's a fun reward.

Now, this said, the game is pretty short. At max, with 100% completion in mind, the game is only about four or five hours long and each of the seven worlds (sans the last level) only have two levels each. However, the levels typically are about ten to twenty minutes long, depending on how often you die or are looking for items and hidden areas. And, the game is designed with replayability in mind, as it records your best times, how often you died, and how many of the level's collectibles were procured prior to completion. Think kinda like the 3D Sonic games after Sonic Adventure 2. Plus, it's SUPER affordable at only $5 to $6 US currency.

If I had any other issues with the game, I guess how little a threat the enemies are in this game is a bit odd. However, enemies aren't usually much more than obstacles in your way in 3D platformers anyhow, so it's excusable. One thing that might annoy some gamers is the lack of a direct story purpose for why Hana is on her journey to the Moon and the game's aforementioned length will certainly be a turn off for those looking for a meatier experience. Though, I think the depth of the levels and the logs more than make up for these issues.

For a budget indie title, it is such a polished ride. Definitely recommend Lunistice if you have any modern console or Steam, with the latter version not requiring strong hardware to run it. It's a short, fun ride I will be replaying over and over again for sure.

[monstermaster13]

TftW: Spicing Up Ethan Scary Spice TG. ~~~~ Sometimes in this world when you can't give you have to take and Ethan was one of the people that used that philosophy the most. Ethan Throllop was a con artist through and through and also a bit of a leech, a leech in the sense that due to not possessing any cds or video games of his own, he would ask others for their games and CDs and would never give them back once he borrowed them, the last time he did that it was Nathan and well…Nathan told him off, telling him he should't be mooching from people at all. This time however though he was trying to get a copy of a game that Sarah had called Mad Scientist, a game where you make your own monster, what he didn't know though that Sarah made it up and she had a surprise for him.

You see Sarah had fallen victim to a were-celebrity epidemic as of recent and she had been turning into Geri Halliwell/Ginger Spice on a regular basis but she kept it a secret from her friends and even from Ethan, that is until now when she confronted him in his garage, Ethan felt confident he would get the game he had asked for her for but she had other plans and those plans were rather spicy ones as she waltzed over to him. 'Ethan…it's time I told you the truth about what's going on', she spoke up.

"There's no Mad Scientist game is there…"

"Yes…but more than that. There's something I want to ask you…"

"And what is that?"

"I know you want a lot of games and that's way you con people into giving you theirs but still, do you know what I want?"

"No…I don't…"

"Do you know what I want? What I really really want?"

"Huh…why are you?"

"Quoting a Spice Girls song? Well..it's because…I am one."

"What?"

Sarah's appearance slowly morphed into that of Geri Halliwell as she also gained Geri's voice, her clothing slowly transforming into a Union Jack dress as she seductively walked around him, flirting with him and licking her lips..it was lie she now a huge crush on Ethan, but then she revealed that what she wanted, what she really wanted was for him to join her and to become a fellow Spice Girl. Ethan backed away as the red-headed spice girl danced around him and then kissed him, her kiss transferring a lot of energy into his body, he jolted back a few more times just in time to see the moon rising from behind the clouds.

He panicked as he felt his body slowly beginning to alter and contort, his slightly dirty skin was smoothening and softening as it darkened to an ebony brown color as his chest and torso slowly lengthened, slimming and also developing a bit of lean musculature, Geri chuckled a little bit as this was happening. His blue tank top slowly turning dark yellow and developing a leopard skin texture as his arms lengthened and his hands slowly shrank down in size, his fingernails lengthening, as Geri began to encourage him to embrace the transformation as she described it..she was basically spicing up his life by giving him the chance to join her. 'You can do it, show me the spice girl I know you are' she cheered him on.

'But i'm not a Spice Girl…i'm not..' He objected as his jeans gained the same pattern as his top and his stomach slimmed, his legs lengthening as his feet shrank down while his boots became platforms with animal-print designs on them and his hips inflated, his privates retracting and reforming into the womanish variant as his back arched. He felt a tingling sensation as two formations known as breasts slowly developed on his chest, his shoulders folded inward as he felt his hair with his hands…his hair which normally was a dirty blond was turning dark brownish and also lengthening, becoming frizzy and curly, his neckline lengthened as a tribal necklace materialized around it. His mind was already starting to alter as he was thinking about those songs…he couldn't help but dance and sing along to them, he was entranced by the songs and instinctively sang along to them. He was remembering the songs lyrics as well and their titles, 'Mama', 'Too Much', 'Wannabe', 'Who Do You Think You Are' 'Say You'll Be There' and more.

His eyebrows thinned as his eyes widened, eyelashes blossoming around them as white eye-makeup was applied around them and his features softened, his cheekbones sharpened as his lips plumped up and his teeth brightened, instinctively he stuck his tongue out as a piercing of sorts popped into place, his jawline softened as features slowly morphed and contorted themselves into those of an ebony songstress but not just any songstress but Mel B, as in Scary Spice as his voice altered and feminized, also becoming fierce and gruff sounding and gaining an English accent. Which suited his or her new appearance rather well, his or rather her personality shifted as well…becoming fierce and free-spirited but also spunky and more than a little bit flirty, becoming Scary's personality as his voice had become hers. Within a few seconds later, the new Mel B hugged Geri as the process completed itself, she was now and always would be…Melanie Brown, or 'Scary' as she was so often called. She made a roaring facial expression as Geri clapped and cheered her on.

Just then Stephanie and her boyfriend Thomas Sheppard were going for a jog and both Melanie and Geri got an idea, they brought Thomas and Stephanie over and bonded with them. Melanie B made her way over to Thomas and flirted with him, taking note of his football jersey and his signature colors…and that's when she put her devious plan into action, she seduced Thomas and kissed him just like Geri had done earlier, transferring her powers and aura into him and in addition to that transforming him into a fellow Spice Girl, and fittingly to go with his reputation for being a sports style he was transformed into Melanie Chisholm/Sporty Spice, even gaining Sporty's ponytail as well. It didn't take long for Sporty's personality to influence Thomas and take over him.

Geri hugged Stephanie and knowing that she was a model, that gave her the perfect idea. She transferred her energy into Stephanie's body along with aura, Stephanie's form and aura slowly melded with the aura and form of Victoria Beckham/Posh Spice as she transformed into her, and Posh's personality traits fused with Stephanie's, turning her completely into Victoria/Posh Spice. Victoria hurried over along with Mel C and they got another idea as they saw Paulie running by, Paulie was always the naive and innocent one and thus to them…he would make a perfect Emma and so that's what they did.

Melanie C tossed Paulie a stuffed koala and a massive bag with beanie babies inside, and while he he was hesitant at first, he had no problem ripping open the bag and hugging all the beanie babies. 'Aaaaw…look at them, they're all so adorable. Can I have them? Please?' He asked sweetly. 'Of course you can. They're all yours'. He grabbed the stuffed koala and hugged it, a feeling of warmth slowly influenced him as his appearance slowly altered into that of Emma Bunton, his voice also changing to match and his personality altered in the process, Emma/Baby's personality fused with his own one and took over, turning him into Emma completely. Emma hugged the koala and a few of the beanie babies as she looked over at Victoria, the two Mels, and Geri.

"Now we're all together again…what do you think we should do next?"

"Let's invite some of our friends over for a concert…"

"That's brilliant…let's get to it."

Geri decided to take charge of the operation and decided to set up the concert at the local concert hall that was just a few blocks away from Morgoth's supernatural store and they decided to pitch in and throw the concert, they invited all of their friends including Nathan and a few other companions of theirs as they set up their concert and prepared for it, not that they needed to of course since they were the Spice Girls and everything. The five girls watched as people parked outside the concert hall's main entrance and brought tickets for the show. Emma was the most excited of all, even more so than Mel C.

And thus with that the reunion had officially kicked off and the Spice Girls were back in action once again, proving that they were bigger and better than ever before and were taking names and kicking butt. Of course they were more than ecstatic to be performing together and entertaining new generations of fans, and spicing up everybody's lives in the process. As for what happened later, the Spice Girls paid a visit to Nathan and Melanie Sanders the koala-girl, Nathan was delighted and ecstatic to meet them since he was a huge fan of them and had always been part of the Spice fandom ever since the early 90's.

Remember, my friend..if you can't give, then sometimes you really shouldn't take. Not all of these type of people are bad, they just need a little bit of 'spice' in their life in more ways than one. Sometimes we all need someone to spice up up lives, even if we think that we don't, it never hurts to try. And it never hurts to find out who your inner Spice Girl is either. Everyone has an inner Spice Girl, and it doesn't hurt to discover who it is. I guess what they want, what they really want, what they really really want is more than a bit of zig-a-zig-ah.