#so much Letty

[scarnemo]

Scarlet "always cool" Koito

[llondonfog]

my baby, here on earth, showed me what my heart was worth

thank you so much to @tacc0yak1 for my commission, the best holiday present is our resident bat dad fussing and fretting over his human son!! ����

[suntails]

pietà

[r0semultiverse]

Hey Digital Extremes, why are you limiting our play style to only one romance? Thought this game was about player choice. Let us choose to have the gameplay option of polyamory! 💕

There should also be a platonic New Years night option too that involves no romance for those not comfortable with it!

[cikebabbler]

in tpw the person who wished for death the most is the only one who survived vs in babel the person who wants to cling to life the most is the only one who lives

[ailingwriter]

I would love to see a Touhou fangame that is like. Typical Touhou fare, but EVERY CHARACTER is just the first stage bosses. Not even 'the characters who are first stage bosses', no, it is just the characters who never got to be anything other than first stage bosses. That does mean Nazrin and Seiran don't get a shot thanks to Touhou 19 but that just leaves room for other characters. Like, I have IDEAS about this.

...Ah screw it I'm gonna babble about my ideas now.

Darkness has fallen over Gensokyo. The summer sun seems to be nowhere in sight, and people are wondering when it will end. So in other words, just a normal Tuesday at first.

But as time goes on, people realize that all the normal incident resolvers, and even some of the less consistent incident resolvers, are nowhere to be found, as if their light has also been sucked dry. And at the same time, the lack of sunlight brings with it a terrible chill...

In the state of panic that results from this, some unlikely heroes rise to the occasion to figure out what caused this Unnatural Draining Shadow.

Playable Cast:

"Well-Equipped Mermaid" Wakasagihime

Without light or heat, the lakes and rivers are in danger of freezing over! With the assistance of Kappas from upriver and the information granted by the Grassroots Youkai Network, Wakasagihime is hoping to catch the culprit by surprise by travelling along the waterways of Gensokyo. Will this odd strategy be able to wash over the culprit, or will she end up dead in the water when the time comes?

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"Withering Symbol of Plenty" Minoriko Aki

With the early chill brought on by the shadows, the very harvest itself is threatened, which is a bit of a problem for a harvest goddess like Minoriko. She has decided to work together with her sister Shizuha to end the incident and ensure autumn and the harvest will come. Will she last long enough to see her efforts bear fruit, or will they wither on the vine?

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"A Bug of Light Wriggling in the Dark" Wriggle Nightbug

Wriggle doesn't really mind the darkness, actually. As a firefly, she can create her own light whenever she wants. However, that same light has given her an opportunity. In her mind, if she can use her light to solve the incident, she'll be able to prove the importance of insects once and for all. Will her plan prove its brilliance, or will her meagre light end up being squashed?

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The Game Itself:

Stage 1: Foothills of Youkai Mountain.

Just because our heroines have a goal doesn't mean they have a direction. For one reason or another, they all end up at the Foothills of Youkai Mountain - Wakasagihime just got herself equipped, Minoriko was hoping to get some insight from other smaller gods, and Wriggle was just wandering about picking fights. In any case, they spot Mike Goutokuji skulking about. As a cat, she can see even in low light. After beating her up, they learn that she has nothing to do with the incident. However, she did overhear someone mentioning seeing a strange shadow near the entrance to Hell. With that lead in hand, the three head off to their next destination.

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Stage 2: Sai no Kawara

To get to hell, the three heroines each decide to go along the Sanzu river. On the way, they come across a local god, Eika Ebisu. Whether it's because they knocked over a stack of stones by accident (Wakasagihime), they want to get information from her (Minoriko), or just general combativeness (Wriggle), they end up coming to blows. When the dust settles, Eika reveals that there haven't been any shadows in the area after all. So, she reasons, if there are no shadows in new hell, then perhaps the entrance to Old Hell might have what the three are looking for. Oh boy...

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Stage 3: Fantastic Blowhole

Not long after taking the plunge into the earth, The heroines are accosted by Kisume, agitated beyond her normal aggression for unknown reasons. Not long after, they come across a similarly irritated Yamame Kurodani, of whom Wriggle is particularly terrified. Nevertheless, the chosen heroine pacifies the spider, Gensokyo-style. Yamame reveals that she spotted a ball of darkness just before the incident started, but was able to see a youkai in a black dress within. She also shows them the source of her irritation: a red ribbon, with the faint dregs of a powerful seal still emanating from it.

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Stage 4: Near the Human Village.

With the weather only getting colder and no direction, the heroine decides to go to the Human Village, both to warm up and to hopefully get a tip as to where to go next. However, they are waylaid by one of the other three protagonists. Wakasagihime assumes Wriggle caused the incident to get an advantage with her light, Minoriko sees Wakasagihime's mechanical equipment and assumes that she is launching an attack on the human village under the cover of darkness, and Wriggle... Just wants to fight Minoriko. After the fight, the protagonist wonders to herself if the ribbon that she's carrying is still increasing the aggression of those around her. However, she is interrupted from her musing by a sudden chill...

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Stage 5: Deep Mountains

The heroines follow the chill to its source, thinking it might lead them to the mysterious, black-dressed shadow. Instead, they come across Letty Whiterock, awoken early by the sunless chill. She would be happy to see the incident over and was waiting for it to get cold enough that she could solve it herself (or so she claims), but she doubts the heroine could be strong enough to defeat the true culprit. After all, she says, it was able to catch the usual incident solvers by surprise and consume a part of their light, with Letty removing what will they had left to make sure they didn't get themselves killed. Terrified but determined, the heroine defeats Letty who, impressed by their strength, directs them to the cause of the incident.

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Stage 6: Skies over Gensokyo

Finally, after fighting off Letty one more time to prove your mettle, your choice of heroine comes face to face with the true culprit.

"Awoken Youkai of the Night" Rumia EX.

Without the red ribbon acting as a seal on her power, Rumia has regained her full power as the embodiment of Gensokyo's night. However, the power is too much for her, and has driven her insane. She threatens to consume the heroine whole but, undaunted, she stands her ground and fights her off, at first intending to merely weaken her so that the seal could be reapplied. To the surprise of even the heroine however, they are fully able to pacify the mad night Youkai without even needing the seal. Lucky for them, as it had lost most of its power.

Having regained her right mind, Rumia agrees to lift the shadows and return the light of the normal incident resolvers, though she says it will take time.

Everything seems to have been solved, but there are still some questions. Why did the seal lose its power in the first place? And how were the heroines able to beat Rumia at the height of her power?

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Extra Stage: Fantastic Blowhole

With too many questions and no answer, the heroines decide to return to the scene of the crime. After fighting off Kisume, who is now at her normal levels of aggression, the heroines notice an immense power source close by. They follow it to find someone they could never have expected.

"Reborn Butterfly God" Eternity Larva

Having drained the powerful seal on Rumia as an accident, Eternity Larva has some steam to blow off. With all the normal opponents unavailable, she challenges the protagonist to a battle. Who will win?

Idk, it isn't a real game at the moment, and I have no clue how to make it one.

[weirdo09]

just watched fast x, all i have to say is

her 🫶🏽

[may-bonne]

as stupid as it sounds being obsessed with these dumb car movies for these last couple years has genuinely improved my life in every way. i think the takeaway is probably "everyone should have a creative outlet" and not "everyone should be obsessed with the fast & furious franchise" but the point still stands

[fan-kingdoms]

also hi everyone i just wanted to let y’all know that i apologize in advance for the person i am going to become post-wicked movie. you will know no rest. i will cry over cynthia erivo on command right now.

[glaiveprime]

Man I can’t get over how much the hex loves arthur. Despite everything they love him so much and would do so much for him

[llondonfog]

fratricida

much love and gratitude to @cheshanoneko-draws for allowing me to bastardize interpretation of their wonderful post <3

Lilia fought.

He expected nothing less from the venerable fae, and he would have even felt an awe befitting of his young years once upon a time for the chance to test the limitless hunger of his magic against the General in his prime. He might have even lost— the weight of tactical experience versus raw power and all that.

But this was no simple training duel, and Malleus was no longer bound by the glass chains of cultivated restraint and noble intentions. Lilia— the fae whom he had once dared to conspire deep within the lonely chambers of his heart as one he might call father— had lied to him. Had betrayed him.

He had betrayed them all.

And with that squalling, raging hellfire of an inferno inside of his ruined heart burnt to the blackest of cinder dust, neither Lilia-the-General nor Lilia-the-Laughing-Lying-Pleading-Father ever stood a chance against the might of his overblot-fueled control.

It wasn’t revenge that he was after, no. It was complete and utter devastation. There was only one way to right this tragic wrong, and that was to destroy every trace of the source from the start. And so, blind and deaf to the fae’s horrified and broken pleas as Lilia, clever Lilia, became all too quickly keen on just what Malleus was searching for as he tore apart the memories in his mind with a savage desperation, scattering snatches of laughter and dappled sunshine and the warmth of tiny hands to the ether— he found them. 

For a moment, he nearly hesitated. For a moment, he could nearly see a faint outline of the boy, curled up in his palms in a slumber so familiar that it nearly beckoned Malleus to wake him. An outline of a boy adored by the sun and cherished by the moon, a beloved child of both day and night, blessed beyond his means and measure.

A sin, one that should have never existed.

Here in the middle of a maelstrom brought to bear by the consequences of all those who had ever come before him, he tasted it at last— a madness, of the same kind that consumed the brilliant, dark star of his mother. In his ears, he can hear her voice, high and cold and cruel in her breathless satisfaction to see the curse she had brought forth into this world enact the vengeance she had been robbed of without dignity.

“My son will become king of this land, and his light will shine down upon our peoples as our North star… As for the humans, they shall fear him, they shall fear his light as the harbinger of their doom.”

And with one simple crush of Malleus’ snarled claws, as the warping memories writhed and shrieked and spilled as viscous as lamb’s blood betwixt his fingers, Lilia Vanrouge forgot that he ever had another son.

[suntails]

(mild gore)

fealty

[darkartistyt]

im a little deranged about greymail rn :3

(CW: PLvsPW spoilers and bright colors)

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

waking up means starting the day's long battle of fighting to stay conscious

[justaleafinthewind]

R.F. Kuang really just went for the throat with Babel huh. As she fucking should she put so much of the jumbled up aching mess that was in my chest into words it's insane

[jendoe]

tagged by my beloveds @florbelles and @phillipsgraves to use this meiker!

💄lola grant | 🍓 jen doe

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🍎 letty volans | 🔮 delphi baranova

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