#this is my first ever otome *and* horror game i ever got and i love it

[launa-moe-art]

was gonna make a big doodle collection for this game here but i gotta wait for my new computer charger to show up x0 have these in the meantime!

[ofoceansandtombsanew]

this might be weird to ask on a writing blog but do you have any manga recs?

yeah i got some recs! i'm gonna assume you mean less talked about titles rather than more well-known but quickfire popular recs i have are: chainsaw man, fullmetal alchemist, jjba, fruits basket, jjk and hell's paradise. but onto my other recs:

seinen

children of the sea**: a troubled teen named ruka embarks on the summer adventure of a lifetime after meeting two boys raised by dugongs at her dad's aquarium in the middle of a mysterious event taking place in the ocean.

the summer hikaru died: it's been months since yoshiki's childhood friend and secret crush, hikaru, went missing in the mountains for a week. hikaru's the same as usual, with his jokes and silly rambles and yet, yoshiki can't shake the feeling that whoever came back from that mountain, it wasn't hikaru. much to his horror, it wasn't. but rather than face reality and grief, yoshiki decides to play along with "hikaru's" act (body horror)

dorohedoro**: in a world where there are humans and magic users, humans have it rough being virtually treated as second class citizens. day after day, year after year, magic users come to the human realm to experiment on them with their magic. and after having his head turn into a caiman, kaiman, wants to get it back in blood and have his true form restored (body horror)

witch hat atelier*: in a world full of magic and witches, it's always been normal human girl coco's dream to be one. but after accidentally discovering a truth of this world and her mom getting caught up in the spell, coco becomes an apprentice of witch qifrey. (it was recently announced there's an anime in the works!)

skip & loafer**: desiring to become a government official to revitalize her hometown in the japanese countryside, iwakura mitsumi's first step to accomplish this goal is by going to a uni prep high school in tokyo. she's got a foolproof 10-step plan to boot! but of course, life hardly ever goes as plan, not even for a prodigy (mc's aunt has great trans rep)

jousei

sign of affection*: as someone deaf all her life, yuki has dealt with discrimination in both small and broad strokes. nor has she ever experienced romance. this all changes when she meets backpacker itsumi, a guy who goes to the same uni. just as he opens her world, she opens his

debu to love to ayamachi to***: after waking up in a hospital with no memories to her name, plus sized yumeko is told she is there after surviving a suicide attempt. the thing is, yumeko isn't sure why when she's just so beautiful! with a strong desire to live life to the fullest, yumeko decides to do everything the past her was to afraid to do. all the while it is revealed that her suicide attempt was more of an attempted murder... but who could have wanted to kill her?

my love story with yamada-kun at lv999**: nothing is worse than getting cheated on especially after akane invested a lot of time and energy into her shitty ex's gaming hobbies. but through gaming, not only does akane find herself healing, she managed to get herself a pretty cool boyfriend too

NANA**: 2 women, 2 different lives, 1 name shared. komatsu nana is quick to fall in love and after a series of less-than-lucky relationships, she finally has someone she thinks is the one. abandoned by her mother and her ex leaving her band, osaki nana hasn't had the easiest life. but on the same night, on the same train, these two women meet and their lives become deeply intertwined

shoujo

a condition called love*: when it comes to romance, hotaru's never experienced it besides stories of her friends relationships. but she soon finds herself about to experience the whirlwind of a lifetime when hananoi, the most popular boy in school, asks her to be his girlfriend

a bouquet for an ugly girl***: as her class' resident big girl, hana isn't expecting a blossoming spring in her high school career. and she's okay with that. she has everything she needsー otome games and gardening. but after her class' pretty boy catches her in the midst of changing the class flowers, their lives become a bit more intertwined

uruwashi no yoi no tsuki: yoi is quite popular at her school because of her neat short hair, beautiful face and overall princely appearance. in fact, it's gotten her dubbed 'prince' many times. but when the other prince of the school finally meets her, cupid's arrow quickly knocks him on his ass

shounen

frieren**: a manga that picks up after the journey has ended. the demon king has been defeated and the heroes have saved the day after 10 years of traveling together. 10 years? that's not even a 10th of elf mage frieren's life. but as her companions begin dying one by one of old age, she finds herself desiring to learn more about humans and the short yet impactful lives they still manage to have

dungeon meshi*: when a dungeon raid goes terribly wrong and laios' sister gets swallowed by a dragon, those that remain in his party decide to get it back in blood by saving laios' sister before she gets digested. in the mean time, there's nothing wrong with gordon ramsay-ing miscellaneous ingredients found in the dungeon along the way, right?

and if you like manhwa or would be down for some manhwa recs these are titles i don't see getting recommended enough

concubine walkthrough: a scifi & philosophical spin on the otome isekai genre that asks 'what is reality truly?', 'is your life any less real if you found out all your experiences were a simulation?' and 'what is reality to you?' where protagonist lee yona finds herself stuck in a VR edition of a game she only played once

a wicked tale of cinderella's stepmother: usually when someone wakes up in the body of a villainess, she's the same age as the protagonists. mildred, on the other hand, is stuck in the body of this story's cinderella's stepmother. with no husband and three daughters to take care of, there's only one thing she can really doー build up her daughters' sisterly bonds with one another and make sure they marry into good families (or that they can at least live lives they're happy with)

tricked into becoming the heroine's stepmother: at least mildred got the body of an important character, daisy on the other hand? she's in the body of an NPC you never even see in the story. bright side? this is a story she helped write and after meeting the presently six year old protagonist's father, she and father of the year decide to team up for the ultimate mission: making sure his daughter never meets any of the love interests

inso's law: ham dan-i is in a bit of a pickle when she wakes up and her new school uniform is completely different than the one her mom bought weeks ago. there's a drop dead gorgeous girl next door who claims to be her childhood best friend. even worse, like something straight out of a drama, there are four heavenly kings that rule her school. by the end of the day, dan-i has no other choice but to accept the fact........ her real life has somehow turned into a web novel. even worse, she's a side characterー the main character's best friend

webtoons

plum: in a world where fruit stacking is a major sport, little plum decides to be the very best like no one ever was and moves to the big city to compete in the fruit stacking games along with making some friends and rivals along the way

webtoons that are probably popular enough if they have hardcover copies at my local bookstore but i wanna talk about it anyway

cursed princess club: as the youngest princess of the pastel kingdom, gwendolyn loves her family. her protective papa, her oldest sister maria who often awakes to woodland creatures doing her hair. her older sister lorena who makes flowers bloom with her every step. and her younger brother jamie who's so pretty, he sparkles. and they adore her just as much. but things come to a very reality shattering halt when their father introduces maria, lorena and gwen to blaine, lance and frederick, the princes of the plaid kingdom and gwen overhears frederick call her ugly, something she's never heard in her entire life. somehow, gwen finds comfort in a club full of cursed princesses (and one prince) who teach her how to start loving herself again

key

*) receiving an anime adaptation

**) has an an anime series or movie

***) receiving an anime adaptation & contains a story with a plus-sized protagonist that doesn't involve weight loss

[tayas-words]

Seduce Me The Otome Head Canons edition!

I have a Geology Mid term tmr morning…am I studying? No, I’m writing out my headcanons about a game that’s about sex demons.

James

- Despite how dominant he is, there are very rare times where he lets himself be vulnerable with Mika. While they’re watching a movie sometimes he’ll lay his head on her lap and let her rub his scalp to help him relax.

- He likes action movies

- He really likes Halloween, he sees it as a way to be whatever he wanted to be, because of how he was forced to be the perfect prince for his father.

- in the demon world, James would find Damien after he managed to escape his father and sit in silence with him, allowing Damien to speak with him in his mind.

- He’s really good at sewing

- His first child is a boy which scares him, scared he’ll fuck up

Erik

- Really likes to read fantasy books

-really likes horror movies, he likes to laugh at how stupid people are in them

- enjoys things like fall festivals, he likes being able to walk around the stalls and smell all the cinnamon and Caramel apples

- everytime Mika would turn his flirting down he does the damsel in distress move where he puts his hand on his forehead and one on his heart and goes “oh how you wound me.”

- he knows how to play the flute really well

- one time he walked in on Mika having a sad day and she was watching old Barbie movies (he walked in on fashion fairytale) and it has become his guilty pleasure.

Sam

- EXTREMELY affectionate towards Mika when it’s either just the two of them or just around the mansion

- guilty pleasure is he actually likes rom-coms but will never admit it, only one that knows it is Damien

- he loves burgers BUT he won’t eat any vegetables on his burgers, only bacon cheese and mustard.

- car man, he knows how to fix cars and do oil changes and all that stuff

- when he gets anxious, he’ll take his chain off and put it on his finger and spin it around

- even though he’s really bad at it, he loves to dance with Mika. They’ll be in the kitchen and Sam will turn on some random music and they’ll start dancing

Matthew

- he has a love hate relationship with horror games, especially when he knows his brothers are home, they’ve all scared him while he was sitting in his and Damien’s room so he now locks the door

- he loves creating decorations for the house during Halloween and Christmas

- while him and James are both amazing in the kitchen (and I mean everywhere else too), Matthew is better with dessert than actual food foods

- his favourite thing to make Mika whenever she’s upset or something, is either some sort of cheesecake or apple crisp

- even tho he hates Simon Tabby, there’s a drawer in his dresser that has a little bed in it for him

- he loves cats

Damien (my favourite)

- once he’s comfortable with Mika, he’s not as quiet as he was before (especially when it comes to flirting)

- he becomes good at sewing

- he’s actually really good at painting and photography

- he is the BEST hider in hide and seek

- Halloween is the only time he ever let his demon form out (he still wore clothes dw)

- he got Mika to teach him the stuff she was learning at school (well got her to teach him from like grade primary up to her level)

[gauloiseblue]

OMG

HOLY SHIT

First of all, reincarnation stories are so *mwuah*

Second, I love the interactive/visual novel/otome game style.

The Endings are so delicious and just makes me want to bite and eat it 😏😏😏.

I love the fact that in true otome game/VN style, the endings all give us little bits and pieces of stuff that fit with each other giving us a nice picture that is still kind of incomplete.

Ending 1 is the meet cute with our hubby (who is definitely not going to kidnap us at the slightest inconvenience like how Megumi summons Mahoraga).

Ending 2 is the one where we get stuff about our childhood and how there's this thing that yadda yadda yadda... we had a friend... NINA, MY BABY IS ALIVE!!! Our former childhood friend wants to marry us awwwww... Someone held us hostage while biting us... Awww... What a nice conversation with one of the women who took care of us Oh look some guy in the shadows (I'm sure that's nothing). This one is actually the first I got.

Ending 3, the “Horror/Bad” Ending, is actually not that bad because technically, all endings are bad because he will always find us. We just get a big question called “What the fuck is going on?”. It's just bad/horror because we're scared :( Also biting kink~

Ending 4 is where we find a super sweet note about love and perseverance. This couple is so sweet and romantic. The woman knows that they haven't been together for so long but she already knows that she's going to be with this guy for the rest of her life aww so sweet. She also talks about how love should be built on patience and to never rush it. She also talks about how this will be her last secret awwwww... Super sweet with no horrifying implications whatsoever.

These endings work well on their own but as you read the other endings you get the answers for the questions you have from the other endings but also questions that not even reading all the endings can answer.

Does that man there's a Golden/True Ending or A Bonus Scene?

Also

NINAAAAAAAAA!!!

MY BABY

YOU MAY HAVE EXISTED FOR A BRIEF IN IOFAB BUT EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Also this fic reminds of one of your art that has König buying reader. Biting kink, my beloved. Something something he would sooner mangle your flesh before letting you go...

[Major spoilers under the cut]

I actually almost made that fic into a game, but I realized it's not worth the effort so I didn't make it XD

Actually, this is how I think of the endings;

Ending 1: Good Ending with a question mark

Ending 2: Bad Ending

Ending 3: Cautionary Ending

Ending 4: Secret Ending

I feel like if you get the first ending, there's a chance you'll live happily ever after with him, especially when you really love him and accept him as he is.

As for the second one, congrats on getting it for the first time XD This is actually my favorite ending, bc it can lead to a continuation.

For the 3rd ending, it's just an attempt to write horror. I always want to bring horror elements to König's fics, because his character does have that potential. Also, it's just an excuse for me to write about my kink so—

I feel like I had to talk about the 4th ending, because it lacks some basic explanations. We all can pretty much guess who's the husband, so I'll skip that part. She and König weren't always this miserable, and the letter was the evidence that they once were a happy couple. But somewhere along the line (the reincarnation), she strayed away from him, for whatever reason. Just as he disagreed with her, he did the opposite of what she'd do if he loved her less than a lover; forcing her to be one.

It's actually a story about irony, because the only way to bind your lover with you is to make them hate you. The reincarnated reader hated to be bitten, so he marked her with his teeth. She didn't like when he's impatient, so he took it to the extreme. But all his actions were rooted from love. He did it because he loved her, he did it because he wanted to be her—in this life or the next. Like, you can find so many ironies in the letters. But I won't point them out bc it's more fun to discover them yourself 😌

Fun fact, the thing about her last secret or whatever implies that König shamelessly read her diaries XD She couldn't keep her secret because he'd just find it and read it. It's also ironic that he always found her secrets—even in the most difficult places—but couldn't find her last secret, which is the letter. That's why the papers were hidden for years inside the music box, until the reincarnated reader discovered it again. Makes you wonder what could've happened if he read the letter. Maybe all these tragedies wouldn't happen.

I'll be honest, I like Nina a lot too. In my head she ran away with the reader in IOFAB, and they lived happily ever after. Like, she deserves so much happiness 😭

Oh, that artwork. Haha… it's just a study on anatomy I swear 💀

[jeschalynn]

hii

i followed you because of obey me but I've literally found the best ever visual novels from your reblogs. (eg 14dwy , a date with death, etc)

my life is literally yours 🙇🙇🙇/silly

would you mind sharing some of your favourite VNs ?

Regardless of if you decide to share or not , I hope you have a great day/night ^^ !

That's so nice of you to say! It's funny when people find their way here from my other blog and I feel bad because this really is just a random dumping ground of all my random interests with no cohesion whatsoever. XD

I got into the VN scene after I branched into otome games because I really like the darker content and yanderes have always appealed to me as a twisted sort of love story with the potential to have less-than-perfect endings. Granted, not all of the VNs I play are horror or yandere themed, but many of them are.

I'm going to list the ones I've played and enjoyed (listed in no particular order). I might also mention one or two that are no longer available or in development but that I liked anyway. Reminder: most of these are yandere or horror themed and are meant for adult audiences - check the content warnings on their individual game pages for more info!

14 Days With You (yandere)

John Doe+ (yandere/horror)

Invite Me In (yandere, demo)

Blooming Panic (one of the only non-yandere VNs on this list, I have replayed this SO MANY TIMES. I have three favs in this game, don't make me choooooose~)

Error 143 (Micah <3)

See Thru: Need A Friend? (yandere, OG demo - the dev is remaking it with updated graphics I think but I still love it omg)

A Cry for Help (yandere, short and sweet)

Restart Heart (yandere/dark content, multiple LIs)

My Dear Hatchet Man (yandere, demo)

Duality (yandere, two LIs, one of my favs! if you play this, I'm curious which LI you prefer >_>)

Favor - (yandere, demon-themed for starving OM fans)

Where Winter Crows Go (yandere, was previously F2P but it's now $5 to download, but it's also a complete game so I'd consider it worthwhile if it looks interesting to you)

Art Without Blood - (horror)

Darling Duality (yandere)

Please Don't Hate Christmas (yandere)

Gentle Fall (yandere, demo)

The Kid at the Back (yandere, multiple LIs, one of my favourites, I want Sol and Crowe to fight over me <3)

Special shoutout to Cannibal Sweetheart which was one of the first yandere VN demos I played/actively followed the fandom for, and I even wrote fanfic for it. I still think about it a lot and I hope the dev is doing well. <3

Interactive Fiction bonus recs, if you're interested in long-form games:

A Tale of Crowns

The Six That Thrive

[mylifeisinanotherreality]

oc-tober (shifting edition) day 9!

writing prompt – talking about my favourite "things"

i think i've already talked about my favourite things in my room for day 3, so i'll just take the opportunity to gush about my pets.

i have a dog, and 4 cats in my dr! i have a room dedicated to them with a door linked to my bedroom so they can sleep wherever they like. (i love them so much)

Rocco is a Doberman, and he's very friendly. He barks quite a lot, though he stops when i hold him, but continues after i let him go. He loves people, and loves to bother the cats – he wants them to play with him, but half the time the cats just side-eye him and leaves him alone. He's very protective too, and he tries to make sure everyone is safe (though i trip over him like most of the time – spider senses don't work on him)

Damian is a Bombay cat, and he has the typical gold/ copper eyes of one. He is probably the most grumpy cat out of all of them, but i love him anyways. One thing he loves to eat is chicken, so if i ever buy that home, he'd jump onto the table and stare at me till i feed him (which also means i have to feed everyone else). He lets me pet him though, and if you pet him for long enough, he drifts off to sleep.

Ebony is also a Bombay cat, and from the same litter as Damian. When I saw them, they were the only two left and i couldn't bear to separate them, so i adopted them both! She has green eyes, and is a lot nicer than her brother. She likes to keep to herself, though sometimes she'd just come over and demand pets and i can never say no to her.

Charlie is a Snow Bengal – he was originally bought by his previous owner who lived in the same apartment building but she ditched him in the lobby because the responsibility was too much. The options were to either put him down or send him to a shelter, but when my father told me about it (he owns the building), i offered to take him in. He was so skinny and peed everywhere at first, but eventually, he got used to it and i love him to bits. He's honestly really sweet, and loves food (he'd eat anything you give him), and it makes me so mad that he got ditched after the previous owner bought him just because he was "rare".

Maddie is probably the only cat that i've bought and she's a Ragdoll cat! My parents' friend's daughter was a breeder and since i was forced along to interact, i ended up just playing with the cats. Maddie's a sweetheart, she loves pets and food and is really friendly and relaxed. Apparently, there were a lot of people who wanted to come over to visit Maddie and see if they wanted to buy her, but i took the opportunity then and there to just bring her home with me <3

being a billionaire in my dr is extremely useful when it comes to taking care of all my pets. can you tell i love them? i love them.

normal prompt – answering basic q&a questions

"what are your hobbies?" – i love reading, writing, listening to music, watching movies, playing games and acting! it's pretty basic, i know, but it brings me joy.

"what are some of your favourite games?" – i like horror games, like the backrooms, poppy playtime, fnaf, etc., though i always end up flinching at jumpscares; interactive fiction and visual novels! also otome games, though they aren't my absolute favourites.

"do you have any siblings?" – i'm the youngest of five children so, yes. honestly, i respect my mother for popping out so many children 💀

"what's your favourite food?" – well, it's either herbal soup with rice (all the different chinese soups), or like, chicken chop with mushroom sauce. i like a lot of food, but i also dislike a lot of food.

"what's your dream job?" – well, obviously, i'd love to be an actress and i'm grateful that i have had the opportunities to act in some films, and have my own fashion magazine.

"are you a morning person or night owl?" – night owl, definitely. having to wake up early usually results in me being grumpy up until i shower/ eat breakfast. i also have more energy at night, being able to accomplish more things then.

wow this was a long post.

[non-fantasy]

Hello!! I saw your post about the game you're making - it sounded fascinating, and out of curiousity about a genre I don't know much about I got into a visual novel/dating sim related rabbit hole.

If you don't mind my asking, do you have any recommendations? VN or datesims or both! or any adjacents too.

(thank you, and good luck with the game!!)

YIPPEE!!!

i'm a huge fan of it gets so lonely here because it does a lot of cool things with the narration and multiple playthroughs. her tears were my light does similar things with the multiple playthrough thing and it was the first visual novel to really open my eyes to what the genre could be like! and because apparently today is horror yuri day i will add liar liar and liar liar 2. the artstyle is very cute! and there's blood!

for less horror yuri and more dating sim, i am currently completely obsessed with tokimeki memorial girls side 1-3, the dating sim/visual novel/stat-raising hybrid that inspired a lot of otome games—— and for good reason, too, because it's JUST THAT GOOD. i almost exploded something trying to play the fourth game but i will not let that stop me

in pure visual novel, i have to recommend heartbaked, it was one of those games i played in my free visual novel frenzy when i was younger and it really stuck with me! i still think about the radley ending.

i adore adore adore pacthesis games and i would love to direct you to my number one favourite and inspiration, number days sim date, because the intertwining of plot and romance and friendship was wonderful. xolga and mr toko is more point and click but check those out too

i love you was REALLY GOOD and i adored it. if you want proactive women and blushing boys this is the game for you! kill them with blushing right now

senpai please look at me was good!!! i love it! absolutely worth sticking around for all the bonuses! very short and sweet and you will love it

sweetest valentine is a game. in a genre called :). if you don't know what :) means don't worry about it!

play yuki 4p for lesbians and its sequel, scheme, for even more dumb lesbians. i am absolutely begging you to click those links because the names are too long for me to type out and i don't know if googling lesbians scheme will bring you to the masterpiece properly

hermes and gry is REALLY FUNNY but also one of those games that opened my mind to how complex the ren'py system could be. you made a map, a constantly-updated journal, an inventory, and the best damn ending ever? i was screaming when all my evil schemes came together. absolutely 10/10 worth it if the creator wants my liver i'd hand it over

hot coffee is SO SO SO good that i ended up reaching out to the creator just to praise it so much please play it please i'm on my knees please

speaking of games i am begging you to play

absolutely play i want to pursue the mean side character and my sweet zombie!!!! tsun is a great artist and the stories are good and you have to have to have to have to play okay!!! tsun is also making i just want to be single which is so so so cool the game of the year every year and it hasn't been released yet and you need to become. a fan okay because aro pride is right now

[snakedogge]

i got tagged by @analogboii (cracks knuckles)

list 5 topics you can talk about for an hour without prepping any material

true crime. not only do i have an internal catalogue of actual true crime cases that i contain encyclopedic knowledge of, but i also can sit and talk for a long time about how true crime as a 'community' affects peoples perception of these incredibly serious cases

TTRPGS/TTRPG design and worldbuilding. like its tangentially related to my work so sort of cheating, but god there are so many good TTRPGs out there and i am a huge DND 5E hater so I love to inform people hey! more and better options exist for the kind of game you want to run!!! stop playing fucking dungeons and dragons save yourself

the decline of overwatch. have literally written an essay just to get my own brain worms out about it. as someone who was very involved in the competitive OW scene and invested thousands of hours into it, i can quote my most hated jeff kaplan statements

josei manhwa and otome isekai as a whole. i will read every shitty comic that comes my way in this genre because i love watching reading trends shift in real-time. normally im the type of media enjoyer that really loves heavily nuanced, allegorical content that i can sit and analyze but i love my trashy manhwa so much i could talk about my favorite series for fucking ever (loosely applies to anime, i am a reader first and foremost)

indie horror games. i love horror games that are weird and explore weird concepts, but i also love horror games that just explore the mundane. though i will say one of the worst things thats ever happened to me is finding out chillas art games are made by two guys

i could also have gone off on like 40 tangents here but i reeled it in. not pictured are the weird world history topics i know a lot about from years doing speech and debate

hi mutuals. normally i admire you from afar by liking every single post i see from you but id love to read your answers to this sooooo tagging @tiadraws @kikouku @transportgasdace

[lunariamv]

about me :>

so i just realized i cant just be some random person posting stuff without much context..... so here we go

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hi, my name is lunaria, or luna ^^

˚✧ some grill that wants to be a artist, writer, and maybe like a lowkey game dev

˚✧ i consume a lot of media: video games, anime, yt, movies, tv shows, books, fanfics, etc

˚✧ i really love the impact media and stories have on the world and people, and there's a lot i love, but also there's a lot out there that frustrates me, or feels like it's missing something, so i wanna throw my hat into the ring and make my own content for me and other girls like me <3

˚✧ atm i write fanfics to practice writing and build an audience, and i draw fanart to improve art skill, also just so i have an art portfolio,,,, cuz if i just started posting games without much of a background i feel like ppl are gonna be like,, "who tf is this???" lol

⊹˚. game dev??? ⊹˚.

i'm really interested in making my own games, specifically rpg maker ones because rpg maker/rpg horror/indie horror is my fav genre (pewdiepie's misao gameplay was my first horror game ever <3); i just love retro horror style a lot

so i'm practicing pixel art and stuff and then later i want to learn some 日本語 so i can translate the games, and also learn to make music so i can go full toby fox lol

and then maybe later on if i got rlly ambitious and had a lot of money id make fancy otome games, manga, fancy horror games, and pERSONA FOR GIRLS

i have a lot of ideas for diff series and id love to share them all <3

⊹˚. my inspirations: ⊹˚.

˚✧ game wise: currently my inspirations are charon (of those yan charon games) and dsp (ik they go by a different name now but that's what i know them as, also its funny because the name reminds me of darksydephil HAHAHA); i like the retro pixel and slight horror themes and aesthetic of their games, but i dislike the writing, so i'm gonna make my own :D

also i like the idea of an oc multiverse like dsp's so i want that too

toby fox is also technically an inspiration too; i wanna learn music so i can make my own bangers with little references and leitmotifs for fun :>>>

˚✧ writing wise: i have a lot, but my main inspirations are mostly like writing in the anime-ish games; danganronpa, persona, ace attorney, yttd, kakegurui; psychological stuff where you gotta think about them, but they also have unique quirky characters and they interact with each other in creative ways

also horror and psychological, i like writing about scary stuff and characters with their complexities, and addressing the rlly messed up parts of humanity and society bc its spooky;; sometimes with a very dark nihilistic outlook bc i love angst, or sometimes with an optimistic one

((thats kinda why i like yan stories but more in the horror sense, like look at all the crazy scary stuff this person is doing lol))

but for characters in general, i like stuff with FEMCS <33333 persona 3 with ya girl kotone shiomi, danganronpa v3 with kaede, sara in your turn to die, genshin lumine, and that one part in ace attorney where we get to play as mia fey

that's also why i lowkey like the writing in romcom/chick flick movies, cuz its just unique characters and stories and usually has a female protag or a group of girls as the mcs

LIKE MISS CONGENIALITY, MEAN GIRLS, AND LEGALLY BLONDE I LOVE THOSE MOVIES SM AND I HAVE MILLIONS MORE EXAMPLES BUT WE'D BE HERE FOREVER

but aside from heavy and horror stories, i also like simple cute straightforward stories like older barbie movies XD (or winx, mlp, bratz, monster high…); they're just really wholesome and cute where ya girl goes on a magical adventure with quirky characters and learns good lessons like trust, courage, friendship, etc…

ITS MUSHY BUT I LOVE IT AAAAA

so my main theme is being a girl and doing stuff, bc girlbossing is fun

but ya know i like making hot guy characters too wwwww

⊹˚. my art/writing style ⊹˚.

i'd say in general its like a mix of asian themes with western; its like anime but with western elements in it

i'd also sometimes like to explore other cultures too, kinda like how jjba has varying characters bc that's cool;; but if i have characters with varying nationalities its because i want to, not bc a woke person held me at gunpoint

⊹˚. aesthetics ⊹˚.

i have a lot that i like, but here's my main favorites i guess that will be in my things

˚✧ cute + edgy; melanie martinez, lucy loone, yandere, ddlc;; basically anything where you juxtapose cutesy with scary horror -- its so fun and subversive

˚✧ femcel/female sigma/doomer girl/anti-egirl; LANA DEL REY LANA DEL REY bc i'm a sad girl

˚✧ retro things; 80s and 90s but mostly early 2000s stuff; early internet, old stuff, y2k, scene/emo, mcbling -- huge emphasis on mcbling, i love the girly hedonistic aspects of it -- ayesha erotica, panty and stocking, bad girls club;; that aesthetic i love it sm LETS DO OUR NAILS AND PARTY ^^^^^^

˚✧ internet horror stuffs -- indie horror, analog horror, internet mysteries, meta horror, local58, mandela catalogue, fnaf, creepypastas, liminal spaces

˚✧ then some internet guy stuff -- vaporwave, cyberpunk, blade runner, hotline miami, madness combat, carpenter brut, etc -- i'm tomboyish in this regard xd, i fangirl over guns and edgy sigma guys fighting

⊹˚. extra stuff about me (bc who tf r u >_>) ⊹˚.

writes a character bio

˚✧ name: luna

˚✧ some randy girl that likes to make stuff

˚✧ not rlly a weeb but i like asian culture a lot, japanese, chinese, korean, vietnamese, thai, laos, filipino (yes), etc

˚✧ sigma?? i think people should be rewarded based on talent and skill, rather than their identity. if i am successful, its because my work is good, not because i am a minority. i'm also learning to draw, write, make music, etc because i want to make content without having to rely on others for assets. why ask other people if i can do it myself? B)

˚✧ i like cute things and being girly, like dressing up and having stuffed animals and cute stationary everywhere :> if i have a chance to be extra and decorate something, i will take it in a heart beat

˚✧ i'm a stocking kin, i love sweets, cake specifically, and milk tea (im addicted to boba its horrible T-T)

˚✧ i like tea, i drink 2-3 cups a day :) oolong is my fav atm

˚✧ cat >>>>

˚✧ unhealthy attraction to fictional men… currently thirsting over tohru adachi 💀💀💀 LOL my friends are like "eww wtf is wrong with you???" i must be a raccoon because i really love garbage

☸ my links ☸

all my links are on caard, but here's an organized list of the main ones; my tumblr will be my main hub for stuff i guess; the degree of activity ranges ;-;

˚☸ art stuff

✧ newgrounds (i wanna be a newgrounds girl tbh)

✧ twitter

✧ insta

✧ tiktok

˚☸ writing stuff (fanfictions)

✧ quotev

✧ wattpad

✧ archive

˚☸ oc archive

✧ deviantart (bc im too lazy to code toyhouse atm)

also apologies if i dont respond to things fast enough, im shy

˚☸ dividers by cafekitsune

[kakujis]

that's true and that is the first time i've ever seen that in an otome game. i want to replay it again but when my memory become more fuzzy about the demo. it seem like the origins route make a specific change on one character then. tbh, it's a bit hard to imagine leander route with a horror twist esp if you get a bad ending.

do you mean their tumblr blog (?) if that's the case, there is more beind leander than meet the eye. any theories about him? i agreed, mhin's hair is something else and he's the only character with a beauty mark. that's true, leander seem to be prince charming irl.

ah yh, you would need some determination to deal with vere and you can't be short fuse otherwise he would win too many times lol. but i do wonder if his background will be a bit like beauty and the beast where he got cursed forever (he might had been a human before) for doing something awful.

her eyes are the perfect finishing touch! there's a saying that the eyes are windows to the soul and that perfectly describe sen. i feel like the studio paid extra attention to vere and ais introduction CG too. is vere your no.2 then?

i've agreed that ais is the buffest among them lol. honestly, from that scene, there is a little bit of a sign that ais might be able to turn into a yandere and i can def see that happening in his bad end.

well, ais can relate to the most to the mc because he is cursed and leander is the only one that can touch her so there's a big chance that might be either one of them. the only thing with leander, his one might be too much of a happy ending which would not fit the themes of the game so i feel like ais would be the winner.

leander is def the one that show the most emotions, his blushing and shy sprites lol. well, elyon seem to be rich in the game so he might be very selective and def condescending and i def feel like he will be one of those the rules are different depending on the person that he meet and i hate that shitty behaviour ;-;

that's cool! thanks, i might make some last minute add-on towards the end of the campaign. i also think it depends your merchandise contents too? like the standees would def need to be pack more securely so shipping likely to cost more and def where you live.

i checked the kickstarter page again and they added more goals between the animated opening and elyon being unlocked. it's the studio first game so it look like they want to add as much as they can to gain a fanbase for other potential future games.

i'm sorry but what's a dakimura? there was a tier where the pledger would be able to test run the game and give feedback to the developers but it's already sold out (must been one?) and it was at least 1k or more.

HAI NONNIE sorry im a cpl days late!! i wanted to answer on my computer!! also same! but i do like the mystery behind leander, they're all mysterious, but he seems like he's almost too good to be true you know? also yes their tumblr blog!!! i check it every so often and even have the character pages saved to reference from time to time!!!

as for vere, maybe! but i do remember the game hinting that both ais and vere came from the fog when it took over? at least that's what mhin implies! what i'm curious about is how he got to be chained by the senobium!! aaa ik this stuff will probs b answered in the full game release im just soo impatient. vere isn't my number 2 hehe, it's mhin! but based off my original ranking i was and still am suuper attracted to vere, he's soo pretty ugh. <333 i have tons of headcanons and stuffs i wanna post about touchstarved i just need to find the time to do it LOL. wbu? who do u like? (mb if u've already told me i hav such bad memory eeep!)

YES TOTES AGREE ON SEN! i genuinely love her chara design sm im salivating whenever i see her ehhehe. i really want another fem!LI but i'm happy we at least got sen! YANDERE AIS YANDERE AIS YANDERE AIS IM GONNA PASS TF OUT JKASFKJNDSFKLNSDKLFJSD <333 UR SO RIGHT OMFG... yew know, leander also gives me BIG yan vibes ngl. like i could totes see it with him as well!! especially with his whole "hates being ignored" bit.

ngl i really wanna see more of kuras, i'm kinda struggling to grasp his character. but i do need to play the other origins as well sooo. oh n before i furget, mhin uses they/them pronouns ^^

i too hate that type of behavior so i hope elyon isn't like that. but if he is i'll hope it's at least written well. there's some tropes i dislike but are written so well i can't get mad! also oo lemme know what u choose!! tbh i'm talking myself out of getting anymore merch HAHAHA even tho i really want it. did u see we're getting sen & elyon physical merch too?? UGHH SO EXCITING!!!

also a dakimura is basically a body pillow cover! i'm only posting this to flex the one i got cus i love this chara, but this is mine! also isaw!!! god id love to pledge that much money but daaang to anyone who can!

[pokilicious]

Pokemon - the first game I've ever played in my life was a emulated pokemon blue, I chose Squirtle first, but I'm a Bulbasaur stan now lol

Minecraft - I literally learned english through this game, I remember playing the mobile version with my friends in school during recess and we being really scared of the square zombies

My Candy Love - This otome game is still so important to me even though I think the story is very cliche and sometimes kinda cringe, still love it tho (also Nathaniel and Lysander for life babyy)

Five Nights at Freddy's - Literally the thing that really got me into art and horror, also got me really into eng speaking youtubers, which really helped my conversation skills

Sonic - There's two of them that I played but never finished: Sonic Saga for the PC and Sonic Unleashed for the Xbox 360, I remember playing SS during computer class after finishing my assignments and I played SU on my cousin's Xbox that he gave it to me, it was my favorite game on it along with Street Fighter IV

[rhyske]

the only horror game I've ever played was Alien Isolation and I got so scared I cried hahah. but yeah, I can watch some playthroughs on youtube because it feels like it's a bit more of a distance to it. sometimes even that is too scary for me and I just look up explained or theory videos haha. zombies, however, are something that I have little interest in, partly because of a phobia I struggled with for some years. a phobia of decaying things and zombies are kinda close to that! even playing Halo (which I love) has some zombie-ish elements and I just remember feeling really nauseous while playing those levels. 😅

yeah, Ikemen Sengoku was a mobile game, while monetization was egregious, I liked the concept with the story and the romance.

people should be able to enjoy what they want without shame IMO. My brother often makes fun of me for my hyper fixations so I've learned not to care what others think.

what are your top 5 otome games? ^^ 💜

Oh man I remember when Alien Isolation came out. I can't even imagine playing it. The stress alone would kill me! 😆 A lot of horror games have really interesting lore. Have you heard of Outlast? That was a wild one.

Oh no! D: That sucks you have a phobia like that, but it's also kinda a healthy one? At least you won't be exposing yourself to bad stuff, y'know? I used to have a lot of zombie dreams as a kid, and in almost every one I'd kill myself before the zombies could get to me. If I ever did face zombies in real life, I feel that phobia. I wouldn't want them anywhere near me.

I will never forget the utter terror and confusion the Flood had to little middle school me playing Halo for the first time.

Yeah mobile games are notorious for their absolutely terrible monetization practices, which does suck cause some have really good ideas.

I always get self aware of my hyper fixations. At the very least I try to not drown other people in it, since that has to get annoying for others. I'm glad you decided to not care 💕 Learning how to just let people be mean and not take it personally is such a life changer.

Oh gosh. Okay, uh. Code:Realize and Hakuoki I will always sing praises for. Hakuoki was my first ever otome, and was also the first officially localized Japanese otome to ever be brought to the west, so it has a very near and dear place in my heart. Code:Realize has the best MC I've ever seen in the genre. Her character development, the fact that she isn't some helpless girl and in fact saves herself and others is such a breath of fresh air. Her horologium is actually one of my tattoos! Code:Realize also has a great steampunk medieval London setting going too, and it actually was the first time I was introduced to steampunk!

Let's see... Aloners by @sonnet009games is a game I come back to at least every year. There's such a charm to it, and Trash is such a deep, fascinating character. The personality options are amazing, and Trash actually responds to those personalities. This is one of the few games where no choice except one very obvious one changes what ending you get, so there's no stress on choosing a "correct" option.

A more recent one that gripped my mind for weeks is Gilded Shadows by @steamberrystudio. New routes are still being released as free DLC, but my gods is the world building alone just absolutely fascinating. Like, I was that one meme of the guy in front of a wall trying to connect everything together 😆 Each route would add something to the lore and I'd be that other meme of the guy pointing. Each route too has such a distinct love interest, and the banter. The banter.

I have one more to finish the list. Hmmm... I dunno if I'll ever actually play this game again, but Cafe Enchanté is one I will absolutely never forget. It had such a sharp genre change that still to this day has me shaken. It makes you think it's all happy and light and it'll be like, a cute cafe slice of life with supernaturals involved but everything about that game is fucked up. Each love interest comes from a world that has something so intrinsically wrong with it, and piecing the overall mystery and history together blew my mind. Every new route I started had me anxious to see just how dark and messed up it was going to go, and I was never left disappointed. The final, unlockable route had me sobbing so hard that I had to put my Switch down for a little bit because I couldn't see past my tears.

This ended up being kinda more of a review of my top 5, like a "you should play these and this is why." Oops 😅

(adding on that Animal Lover is also really good and recently got a port for all consoles and is also one I highly enjoy)

[aztsha-at4am]

Hello and welcome!

Hey, what's up? Welcome to my tumblr page. I'm putting an introduction here in the small occasion that I just *might* post some of my written works. Highly unlikely after the embarrassment of wattpad, though T-T

Interests

TEARS OF THEMIS is my current obsession, I've been playing since it came out globally. My favourites are Luke and Marius, but I like Marius just a teensy bit more.

MYSTIC MESSENGER is something I've liked for a long while, I just can't seem to get rid of it LMAO Anyways, 707 >>>

OTHER OTOMES I ♡ INCLUDE...Dangerous Fellows, Mayday Memory (I love it so much) , Obey Me (I still can't decide on a favourite and it's been two years😭) , My Horse Prince , The Prison Boys (not an otome, still great tho) , and uhh that's all I remember so far LMAO

I love to go out, whether it be for a walk, trip to the mall, grocery shopping or even for a trip. Travelling is what I will always look forward to. I feel unproductive when just sitting in my room all day, doing almost nothing. I hate it👊

I LOVE, LIKE ABSOLUTELY ADORE Costco soup dumplings. They are so good, I could eat them for the rest of my LIFE if I had to.

Lightning round! ⚡️

I've watched ANIME for years! Current favourites are Fruits Basket 2019 and Spy x Family. I'm loving the manga for Toilet Bound right now, and I can never get enough of Hak from Yona of the Dawn.

KOREAN DRAMAS always got me kicking my legs, dramatic romances know how get to me! Current favourites include Doom At Your Service, Strong Woman DBS, and Meteor Garden 2018 (Yes I'm aware it's chinese but I still love all the drama that happened even if it was extremely unnecessary🤭) .

KPOP is my go to music genre, the groups I usually listen to are SEVENTEEN , TXT, BTS, RED VELVET, and STAYC.

I also like JPOP/VOCALOID , no favourite artists though! I love the songs Kagerou Daze, Additional Memory and Bug.

I love RHYTHM GAMES , they are my ride or die video game. I've played BanG Dream! , Project Sekai (both jpn and eng) , Osu, Cytoid (does anyone even know this?😭) and ofc, Piano Tiles.

I love playing Roblox Horror Games even if I tell my friend to go first, it's scary but the only kind of roblox game I find amusing (probably bc we're screaming while shitting our pants? /j )

I like ur mom

Might add more, cause there is way more things I like but I'll probably just do that if I ever post anything. Ure probs never gonna see this again so bye bye👋

Edit: This is extremely outdated, but updating it will take too long💀 So um. Yeah but if I'm being completely honest I think I might post on here..who knows🏃‍♀️🏃‍♀️

IF I ENDED UP posting some of my writing, then below should be my masterlist? If there isn't then nothing to see here!

[crowmero]

1. What was your first impression of the game? Is this the first Cybird game you've ever played?

My first impression is that I was not sure about playing this game because vampires are overrated in otome games and I already was more into another vampire otome game (Blood in Roses). I also remember some people was making light fun of the game because of the "we are dating fictional versions of real western historical figures".

When I downloaded the game and played the prologue, I didn't have a good impression of the game because I didn't like the MC's personality and because I was already playing IkeSen I though, I didn't want to play another Isekai of a MC traveling through time haha.

I think I started playing Midnight Cinderella around December 2018 and I started playing Ikemen Sengoku in May 2019 because I jumped to play Sasuke, so is not my first Cybird game.

2. Who was the character you liked most in the beginning, and is he still your fave?

Sebastian because I like his type of character, he is very smart, calm and composed and has gray hair, and he clearly was the human-best friend-NPC who helps MC during the story. I think he was an odd character and I picked him because I have a fixation with characters like that.

He is now in my growing pool of favorites.

3. How you picked your first route, and whose route was it? Was your favorite suitor available when you first started playing?

After making my Ikevamp account and playing the prologue/completing the mission board... I uninstalled the game haha, but because the phone I used to have didn't have enough storage (I wrote that in my ikevamp profile).

I picked Sebastian for my first route, I really waited for him all this years for the moment his route was out.

4. An unavailable route you're looking forward to:

Probably Drake and Galileo just out of curiosity (funny that both have white hair, I like white hair in guys).

5. A character you thought would be different than how he is:

Sebastian was full of surprises, he is actually not so kind haha, It was not fun to get flickered in the forehead and when he called us "uneducated" oh my god. The man was sure a mystery because he don't like opening to anyone, we learned his true name and about his life before time traveling. Also didn't expect that he got such a depressing back story and his current situation was very sad too.

I didn't expect Jean to be like a lost child. He clearly experienced the horrors of the war, but some part of him is very naive and pure-childlike, l didn't expect him to be like this. Didn't expect he was terrible at cooking or that he has a tiger pet (like Masamune... is always the guy with the eye patch).

6. Is there a suitor who you used to dislike, but eventually changed your opinion about?

I disliked Charles, but my opinion didn't changed, only got worse!.

Arthur used to make me a bit uncomfortable/nervous because... he looks like Armin from My Candy Love, both are very look alike in appearance and personality (makes me want to scream "Armin! what are you doing here? and why you're cosplaying as Arthur Conan Doyle?") but after playing some events with him, I can see that he really is as sassy as Armin but he has good feelings too and I like him a lot.

7. Do you remember your first story event?

Dearly Departed AU Story Event. This event was so funny on crack. MC was dead but she can't rest in peace so the guy in turn has to help her to reach heaven and at the end of every story she somehow has sex with the guy (I'm up for ghost sex, this shit is so gothic).

8. Have you ever spent money on the game? Have you tried the free diamonds offers?

Yes, I spent money. Only hurts when you spent money and you don't get what your want from the ranking. I also got some diamonds for making offers but is very tricky, I always have to fill a ticket to get my rewards.

9. Do you have a favorite avatar item? Is it a plushie or maybe a unique hairstyle?

I think I really like the wedding set I got in a event with a view to the sea and the vintage cafe set I got too because I loved the aesthetic.

10. Have you ever bought merch of your favorite ikevamp character?

No and it makes me sad. I have a damaged badge of Arthur that I want to repair and give to someone who could love him? and I also have one of Dazai that on a second thought, he looks really handsome there and after playing a bit, I got a better opinion of him so don't feel like letting him go.

11. Have you ever mistakingly spent your stamina not in the story event?

Yes, like three or four times, I was probably not paying attention of what I was doing.

12. What's the luckiest you've ever been when it comes to the gacha? What about your most unlucky memory?

My most lucky and unlucky memory is when I spent my tokens thinking it was Faust's rate up day... but instead I got a ton of Napoleon cards because... it was his rate up day. I got good cards, but not Faust.

13. The slowest you've ever completed a route vs the quickest:

Slowest: Napoleon haha, I started playing him one day before Sebastian's route launched and dropped him, and here I'm a year and a half later playing him. Second slowest was Sebastian because I dropped the game in May after chapter 10-11 because I was not feeling him and came back in November to finish.

Quickest: Faust, the reason why I got sucked into this game, I played his two endings back to back.

14. Do you use your 5 free chapter tickets daily?

When I'm actively playing yes!

15. A moment in a route that made you cry and a moment in a route that made you laugh:

Theo has hurt me the most in this game, I was sobbing while reading chapter 20. I was really affected by what happens in chapter 19, I had to step down from the game a bit. There is something really heartbreaking in a character that is so soft and yet he does the unthinkable.

Ironically, he is the character that has make me laugh the most, he is so much fun. For example, there is this part in chapter 22 I think where he hits the floor in anger and I never went from misery to laughing so fast (hitting things feels like such a bad boy toxic trait lol).

16. Who is your favorite pureblood vampire?

I think Leonardo without knowing much about him. I know I want to play his route because I like the premise. I like that he has this "Bad Boy" vibe but he also looks like a very chill character and he looks like so much fun.

17. Do you have a favorite CG? What about a favorite card?

Favorite CGs

Favorite cards

18. Any famous historical figures you wished were in ikevamp?

I think we need female routes! (they already did Jeanne D'Arc dirty erasing that she is a woman) even if I know doing that means this wouldn't be a otome game anymore.

I can only think in famous people like the Brontë sisters, Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone de Beauvoir, Mileva Maric, Marie Curie, Olympe de Gouges and Amelia Earhart.

I would like too Percy Shelley and John Keats. I don't feel thrilled with the men because the more I read about History, the more I know all the men are trash.

19. What card is currently on your home screen in the game?

I really like this cards because they come with a special melody 🎶

20. What do you think about the suitors' pets? Which one is your favorite?

I love the pets! and I think they always do us dirty when we only get only crumbs from interacting with the pets in the story since they never have a relevant role. This happens in all the Ikemen games and I think the pets deserve better!

I can't really pick a favorite, all the pets make me happy!

𝟒 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐈𝐤𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐦𝐩 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐚𝐠 𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐞!

Ikevamp EN launched on the 1st of July 2019 - maybe you were there since day one, or maybe you've only started playing recently: here's a little game to celebrate! You simply answer the questions and (optionally) tag the people whose answers you'd love to see next! Happy 4th anniversary to all ikevamp EN players! 🎉🎉🎉

*~if you feel like sharing, you can find the days in the mansion counter in your profile in the game and add it to your questions ~* Also, while reading other people's answers, mind that there might be spoilers!

What was your first impression of the game? Is this the first Cybird game you've ever played?

Who was the character you liked most in the beginning, and is he still your fave?

How you picked your first route, and whose route was it? Was your favorite suitor available when you first started playing?

An unavailable route you're looking forward to:

A character you thought would be different than how he is:

Is there a suitor who you used to dislike, but eventually changed your opinion about?

Do you remember your first story event?

Have you ever spent money on the game? Have you tried the free diamonds offers?

Do you have a favorite avatar item? Is it a plushie or maybe a unique hairstyle?

Have you ever bought merch of your favorite ikevamp character?

Have you ever mistakingly spent your stamina not in the story event?

What's the luckiest you've ever been when it comes to the gacha? What about your most unlucky memory?

The slowest you've ever completed a route vs the quickest:

Do you use your 5 free chapter tickets daily?

A moment in a route that made you cry and a moment in a route that made you laugh:

Who is your favorite pureblood vampire?

Do you have a favorite CG? What about a favorite card?

Any famous historical figures you wished were in ikevamp?

What card is currently on your home screen in the game?

What do you think about the suitors' pets? Which one is your favorite?

Have fun answering! 💕

[simplyotometrash]

Cuddling with the Demon Brothers

Brought to you by your local thirsty otome lover~

Under the cut as always, darlings!

Lucifer:

“Let me finish this real quick, MC.”

He’s a workaholic, what do you expect.

But he does keep to his word. Lucifer isn’t one to break that. Especially where you’re concerned.

You’re his soft spot after all!

Once work is finished, he does get into more comfortable clothing and settles in bed with you. 

He’s very much a big spoon if you’re spooning. 

Though sometimes he does like to let his guard down and let you hold him instead. It’s the only time he feels he can be vulnerable. 

Never cuddles on the couch because this is not an affair his brothers need to see. Your relationship is Not for them to gawk at.

Unless you ask him to cuddle on movie nights. He can’t turn you down no matter how much his pride is telling him to. 

The thought of you against his side while you watch a movie is too nice to turn down.

Honestly any excuse to hold you is one he will take when given the chance. 

Mammon:

“Of course ya wanna cuddle with THE Mammon!”

Baby boy is trying to hide behind that bravdo like always. It’s how he hides the fact his brothers’ words get to him.

But he won’t turn down his human. He craves your touch. 

After a while he stops the act and just launches into bed with or on top of you to cuddle before you can ever even ask.

Mammon is definitely touch starved. 

He needs positive touch in his life. He’s always getting beat up on by Lucifer or someone else because he does something stupid.

The Koala Cuddler

AKA

You’re not getting out of his arms because he’s now clinging to you like his life depends on it. 

He’s a little spoon. Lives for the little spoon when you two are spooning. And you are always spooning face to face. 

He feels so loved and it’s nice to feel guarded from everything beyond the door. He can breathe and be himself.

Pet! His! Hair!!!

This demon lives for head rubs! He nuzzles in closer to you and you see a gentle, genuine Mammon smile on his face. A smile only for your eyes to see.

Can and will cuddle with you anywhere in the house.

Leviathan:

“Not now, M- wHAT!? W-why would you wanna cuddle with an icky otaku like me!?”

Shut the fuck up and let me love you, Levi.

He needs a lot of time.

Levi can be pretty touch averse depending on his mood. So he isn’t always up for cuddles.

Ya gotta respect his space.

But if he says he’s down for cuddles, no matter how much he’s blushing or stuttering through his reply, he would die to cuddle with you. 

There are a few different cuddles with Levi and none of them involve being where his brothers can see.

He doesn’t want them to see you guys cuddling because he doesn’t want to be made fun of. He’s shy.

First way to cuddle your Levi: sitting in his lap while gaming. This can be both of you gaming or just him. 

If it’s both of you, sit between his legs and lean your back into his chest. He loves it.

If he’s the only one gaming then sit with your legs around his waist and your face in his neck. Guaranteed to make him blush but he really enjoys it. 

Sometimes he just enjoys they subtle one arm around each other, heads resting together kind of cuddling. Especially when watching anime or a movie.

Finally he loves cuddling in his tub. It’s so close and your limbs are either tangled together or you’re laying on him. He enjoys both.

Satan:

“Okay. Come over here.”

Usually he’s reading when you want to cuddle. So he either has you pressed into his side with an arm around you or you’re in his lap.

Bonus points because he will begin reading to you if you ask ^-^

Cuddles are a peaceful time when Satan is involved. 

He could hold you against him for hours if you wanted him to.

You help him feel calm and not feel so angry all the time. You’re like a buffer to all the things that piss him off.

I headcanon that Satan is the type to sleep slightly propped up on pillows, as he often falls asleep reading.

So he likes it when you two cuddle with you on your stomach and laying your head on his chest. 

Holding you to his chest is a favorite of his.

He can feel you breathing and feel your heart. Your warmth reminds him of fragility and beauty.

Probably could recite poems to you verbatim without needing a book out if you wanted to hear something.

He’s also a very private cuddler. 

Not because he’s embarrassed by it or doesn’t want to make it explicitly clear that you are his love.

No, he just wants to keep the peaceful time you two share for just the two of you. 

Plus out in the rest of the house he is liable to get pissed off by Lucifer’s very existence or Mammon doing something to get on his nerves. He hates for you to see him when he loses his temper.

He does not want to frighten you.

Asmodeus:

Finally time for my baby

Asmo is the Avatar of Lust. Yes. But it bears repeating that lust isn’t an inherently sexual thing. 

And this boy lusts for your very touch. 

Cuddles are one of his favorite things with you. He gets to touch you and hold you close and be engulfed in the scent of his favorite human.

Another versatile snuggle buddy. Who would he be if he wasn’t?

Sometimes he loves to just be the one holding you. Feeling like your guardian and protector. When he big spoons he will wrap a leg around yours as if shielding your body with his. 

He also likes to be the little spoon. 

Asmodeus is actually more insecure than anyone but you realizes and sometimes he just needs a chance to take a break. He needs to be reminded that he is also protected.

So when you hold him close and it feels like you are protecting him,he can let his hair down. He doesn’t have anything to hide. 

All spooning is face to face because he reuses to spoon if he can’t see your stunning face. He wants it to be the last thing he sees before his eyes fall shut. 

Also a big fan of being between your legs and resting against your chest and vice versa where you’re in the same position. 

But he especially likes being the one with his head on your chest.

Hearing your heartbeat is so nice. 

If you don’t run your fingers through his hair then you are cuddling with him all wrong.

He is soft baby and finds it soothing. 

He will cuddle with you everywhere that he can possibly hold you. Movies are fun because you have to conserve space for the others. Oh, how he loves movie nights.

Especially horror movie nights~

Beelzebub

Big boy will only cuddle with you one way in bed. No other ways.

You are laying on his chest. 

That is the only way he feels safe cuddling with you.

Sweet bean is just scare he could crush you in his sleep :(((

But honestly he loves you laying on his chest. He’s a big guy and you have so much room anyway.

You have your own living, breathing teddy bear.

And who needs a blanket when you have a Beel?

He also feels he can just protect you so easily in that position because his arms just engulf you with room to spare.

Now, I said that was the only way he’ll cuddle in bed.

On the couch or a chair?

You bet he’s got you in his lap!!! 

His arms are already around you and you’re either between his legs or just on his lap against his chest. 

No space is spared.

He likes to be able to put his chin on top of your head, too.

And this way you definitely don’t need a blanket. Beel has you covered with his copious amount of body heat.

Movie nights are nice. You have a seat and there’s plenty of space for everyone else. 

He does also like it when you’re in his lap facing him. He’s soft and likes to see your face.

Give him lots of kisses.

You falling asleep like that? Beel will guard you with his life while you nap. Also if he gets hungry he can pick you up so much easier like this. Your legs are already around his waist and he just needs one arm to keep you hoisted up. The other hand can grab snacks!

Belphegor:

The King of Cuddling.

As if there were any doubt.

You don’t even have to ask him for cuddles.

You will make it to the side of his bed, poised and ready to ask and suddenly a hand grabs your arm from his fortress of pillows and blankets and you’re being sucked in.

Don’t expect to move. 

Once Belphie is asleep, waking him is risky business. He won’t hurt you, god he would never, but he will be Very cranky.

you will be used as a body pillow. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

There’s no escaping his grasp either. You won’t be going anywhere until he wakes up.

Need to pee? You’re shit out of luck, bud. You’ll have to hold it.

But he’s the best at cuddling. He’s a full body cuddler and you’ll get the full experience.

Sometimes he may just roll over on top of you but only when you’re on your back. Somehow he just knows even in his sleep. He’ll never crush you.

He’s an expert at sleeping, he won’t hurt you while napping.

He does love it when you let him lay his head in your lap. And you run your fingers through his hair. It is so soothing.

But he especially wants to be held. He wants to be able to hear your heart beating in your chest.

It reminds him that this is the good timeline. You’re alive. 

And he’s going to keep it that way

Your heart beat is better than any lullaby.

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I wouldn't mind that post on VNs!

So I was gonna write three different lists, but then after writing the first part I realized this is very long and takes a while to write and nobody cares anyway so I’ll just post my recommended list only. Well, I mean, you asked, but I doubt you wanted all this lol. Thank you for giving me an excuse to talk about this stuff, though. Hope you enjoy my ramblings!

An explanation for what this list is: Sometimes I know a game isn't perfect in many aspects but I still had a genuinely good time playing it, hence why I'm recommending it. Also I should mention that I could talk for hours about some of these games so if anyone’s curious about more of my thoughts, let me know.

Alright, now that that's out of the way ...

How to Take Off Your Mask / How to Fool a Liar King / How to Sing to Open Your Heart (f/m): This is a trilogy of smaller, single-RO games where you can take one of two routes depending on how you act, and they’re all interconnected where you get to meet and interact with the previous games’ characters in the sequel games. I went into this expecting very little but what I got blew me away with how funny, charming and cute the games were. They don’t take themselves too seriously, at one point an angsty male character monologues deeply about some shit, and another one just slides into frame and starts mocking him. It was so fucking funny, holy shit. Also, a central theme is literally racism against catgirls? Which is monumentally stupid, and probably the games’ main flaw, especially in the final game where it pairs up a catgirl with a catgirl racist, but that one still ends with a literal bisexual queen literally making a man her malewife because she fell in love with his cooking, so like ... It speaks for itself. My favorite game of the three is the second one, where you get to play a punchy fake catgirl and romance a pink-haired prince. And honestly, all the female protags in these games are lovely and a breath of fresh air, and the male characters are fun and not abusive assholes either. There’s full Japanese voice acting, and two out of three female protags are literal catgirls who pepper in “nya” and “mya” into their dialogue, and it’s just treated as a quirk of their catgirl race. I AM NOT KIDDING. Yet somehow it never comes off as cringe, because it doesn’t take it self too seriously. These games are just cozy. That’s the only way I can describe them. Cozy and hilarious. Play them yesterday. Dream Daddy (m/m): Man tumblr did this game dirty. This is just a cute, wholesome daddy dating simulator with gorgeous art. Coming out on Top (m/m): So you know Dream Daddy? What if it was EXTREMELY, MAJORLY NSFW? Though I realize how bad the comparison really is, the only thing these games have in common is that they’re gay dating sims and don’t have an anime art style and oh, yeah, they’re both really well-written. Or at least, extremely funny. COOT (heh) is DDADDS’ horny older cousin, and I first encountered the game on a lesbian letsplayer’s YouTube channel. Yes I watched a lesbian play a gay porn game and it was GOOD. I was there for the cringe and fun and got surprised by how genuinely funny and sometimes actually touching the game was. I can’t give it my universal endorsement because it’s not a game for everyone, as I said, it’s extremely NSFW and the menu theme literally includes the singers screaming “SEX SEX” at the top of their lungs. There’s more to this game than the porn, but there’s just so much porn. It can be censored in the settings but it’s unavoidable. However, I still think it’s worth a look just because of how funny it is and how charming the characters are. If you don’t want to play it yourself, at least watch Anima’s playthrough of it. It hasn’t aged super well in some spots but I still go back to it every now and then. Akash: Path of the Five (f/m): This game markets itself as a more “professionally produced” western dating sim, and that’s accurate in some superficial aspects. The game is pretty poorly written, but it’s absolutely gorgeous and has really good English voice acting by actual professional voice actors. The premise is quite self-indulgent, but I genuinely respect that about it. You play as the only female elemental in a village with only men, and all five of your classmates want a piece of you. It’s clear the writers have put some thought into the lore and worldbuilding of this world, but barely any of it comes through in the actual writing and plot, which is basically just a vehicle for you to get together with your boy of choice. The ROs aren’t very well-developed either, and the plot is the same in every route with only minor variations depending on which guy you pick, up to the point where the protag has the same voice lines in some parts regardless of which guy she’s talking about. It also has one extra half-route that’s so bad and pointless I genuinely wonder why they wasted resources on making it instead of spending a bit more on the writing/adding some variations to the main plot. So why am I recommending this game? Well, it’s pretty, and it sounds nice. This game is a himbo, gorgeous but dumb as rocks. Enjoy it for what it is. I know I did. Get it when it’s on sale, I think if I hadn’t gotten it at half-price I would’ve felt a bit more cranky about it. Also Rocco is bae. Mystic Destinies: Serendipity of Aeons (f/m): Yes that’s the full title, no I don’t know what it means either. You may have noticed how most of the games so far I’ve enjoyed because they don’t take themselves too seriously? Well, this one does. It takes itself SO FUCKING SERIOUSLY. Like, way too seriously. It’s a little embarrassing at points because baby, you’re an urban fantasy dating sim. Calm down. But the game has gorgeous art and 3 out of 5 routes are very good. The last route, the one with your teacher, is both the most problematic yet somehow the one that breaks down the very concept of a dating sim within its own narrative (yes, this shit gets fucking META) and it got so wild at the end that 1) I still listen to the soundtrack for that route and 2) I still remember it to this day despite finishing it ages ago. My favorite route is Shou, he’s a sweetheart, but the mindfuck route is so buckwild that I think the game is worth playing just for that. There’s also a route that’s like a neo-noir mystery? I Do Not Know. This game is many, many things and it does them so sincerely and tries so hard, you can’t help but respect it. It doesn’t always stick the landing but man, just let this thing take your hand and wax poetic at you for a bit. Also get this one at a sale because it’s very expensive to get the full version. I got it for 9 bucks on itch.io and I felt that was a fair enough price, I’d say I wouldn’t have minded paying more for it because there’s a lot of content to enjoy and/or be baffled by. Arcade Spirits: This one’s a bit more weird from what I recall, and I honestly couldn’t tell you much about it, but I remember having a very good time with it and recommending it to a friend when she was going through some tough times and she said it made her feel better. I remember it making me feel better, as well. This is a VN about an arcade and the ROs are wonderfully diverse, with very real human conflicts that get explored in each of their routes. It can get quite existential and heavy at times, but in the end it’s a kindhearted game that I think everyone can enjoy. The main character was also, how you say, mood. It’s a game about getting possessed by a video game and then learning self-love. Ebon Light (f/m): This one’s free/name your own price on itch.io so go play it. It’s a weird plot where you play as a girl who ate an elven relic? And then the elves kidnap you because you’re the relic now. All the ROs are extremely pasty (like, literally white, as in literally the color white) dark-haired elves, except for one, who’s an extremely pasty blond elf, so ... diversity? I honestly don’t know what this game is aside from unique. I used to be a bit put off by the art style but now I think it contributes to the general atmosphere. It’s a weird game that technically doesn’t do anything groundbreaking but still left an impression of “huh. weird” in my mind and I think more people should play it. The ROs are all pretty generic dating sim archetypes but done well, with bonus points to Duliae who’s just a massive creep and I love him, and also Vadeyn who’s the only bitch in this house I respect. The worldbuilding is honestly a bit buckwild and I can’t give enough credit for how unique the elves’ culture is in this game. Definitely give it a go. Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds / Hakuoki: Edo Blossoms (f/m): These two are newer releases of an older Japanese visual novel. I wouldn’t call it a dating sim, it’s ... it’s more of a super depressing historical fantasy epic with some minor romance aspects awkwardly wedged in. It’s seriously some of the heaviest and most grimdark shit I’ve ever played in a VN/otome. I don’t understand why it’s a dating sim, it doesn’t read like one, it’s just historical fantasy based on real world events with characters based on real people, and they kill and they die and they grieve and they suffer. The games are literally about the downfall of the Shinsengumi, there’s no way of avoiding everything going to shit and you get to watch and be in the middle of it all as they struggle to stay alive and relevant in a world that doesn’t need them anymore. And there’s the protag in the middle of it all, being useless and submissive and bland just the way the usual otome protag is. I don’t think these games are necessarily fun, and the romance is certainly a lot more downplayed and deeply problematic just based on the age differences alone with some of the men, but the sheer amount of horror and sadness in these games make them stand out above its peers. It’s like watching a war movie. Since most of the characters are based on real people, they feel like real people instead of the usual otome archetypes, and they are so, SO flawed, it’s interesting to just watch them deal with the shit the world throws at them. It’s an Experience, and if you’re up for it, I think it’s worth the time. Cinderella Phenomenon (f/m): This game is free on Steam so go get it. You play as a really, genuinely shitty princess who gets cursed to be poor and forgotten and she has to help one of the ROs break his fairy tale curse so that she can learn about being a good person herself and return to her normal life. This game doesn’t look like much, but it has a genuinely well-written main character who’s actually at the center of each of the stories and in the overarching plot instead of just being around to make eyes at the real protagonists, aka the love interests. Aside from the main character, my favorite part of this game’s writing is how each route slowly but very smoothly expands upon the overarching intrigue. If you play them in a certain order, you get more and more info revealed to you that you didn’t see in other routes, gaps are filled in as you find out more about what actually happened and why, but every route also stands on its own as a full experience and none is more canon than the rest. There’s also some really heavy emotional parental abuse explored, which I found quite potent at times. The romances themselves were alright, I think Karma and Waltz were my faves.