#too bad i forgot the template but im sure you can find it if you search hard enough!!! I believe in you!!

[bombontheevilcat]

[tempinksailblog]

Heres a prompt! Ink is dying and template has no clue on what's happening (ehehe im evil)

A Final Goodbye

“Ink, your eyes seem lighter than normal, what’s with that?” Template asks, tilting his head. Ink laughed it off lightly and shrugged.

“Must be running low, sorry. I’ll refill soon.” Ink answered, giving a weak smile to the other. Template thought about it for a moment, but smiled and headed up the stairs of their home.

“If you say so!” He shouts as he runs up. He was getting something from his room, and very excited about it. Template of course seemed to love everything about this house, that they did, and just Ink and him in general. He’s the happiest he’ll every be.

Yet, Ink knows it can’t stay that way forever. He coughed a bit, before heading to the downstairs bathroom with a hand over his mouth. The ink drinking skeleton groaned, before lifting up his shirt to reveal his cause of unwellness. Ink was clogged in his ribcage, somewhat leaking to trail down his ribs in some spots. It was so cluttered and thick, and it hurt so bad. It took up all he had, and was going to take him over one of these days, already leaking out his mouth when he coughed.

The more ink clogging his system, the more it hurt to move and breathe, coughing worse than both. The more it ached from just simply being awake. It was all because he was drinking emotions desperately to feel, and with no where for the ink to go, some got stuck and started clumping. He couldn’t use all of his ink up, it always stuck to him. Now he wishes he could sleep, but he can’t leave Template behind. That was unfair, the black skeleton would tell him that at least.

So he tried spending as much time as he could with Template. It hurt, but it was for him. Just as it always has been for a long time now. Template tried, and Ink admired that at least, unlike himself who… Really didn’t. He just found it admirable how Template tried to be better than what he found the worst, even if not morally the best always, he worked for it.

Ink loved that about him. It was interesting, and almost sporadic. He came to always be interested in finding how Template would handle a situation, eventually amazed by the other and finding themselves glued. Then they were together after a bit, and then they were living together, happily. Ink eventually realized what was wrong with him guzzling down ink to feel more, and then did the opposite, halving what he usually took.

Template had barely caught on, mostly bouncing around the house because he will always be excited about it and decorate it more somehow, mainly with art. Ink was good at faking his emotions at least anyways. The practice eventually allowed him to keep Template unknowing, even if it will hurt in the end when he is told, Ink felt it was best to allow him to just spend their days normal. He’ll make sure they’re the best days he can manage.

With that, he slipped down his shirt after strengthening his resolve, and took a sip of his vials before moving on. This is how it would be for a few more days, his expiration day expected to be some time next week. He had a plan for how he hoped to go, and hopefully it’ll help Template move on easier. Hopefully it’ll ease his partner’s mind.

Ink stood in front of the couch and played with a box in his jacket pocket, yes still using the pockets even when tied around, for it still worked with the way it was being tied around. Maybe not so much for fast paced things, but at home was a good place. Either way, Ink worked over the courage to call Template back down the stairs.

“Temp!” Ink called, looking up a bit and at the stairs. “ I got something for ya!” The skeleton cracked a small smile, heading Template running down as he called out that he was coming. Ink waited with patience, watching his lover hop infont of him and smile bright.

“What’s up?” He asks, hands behind his back as he bounces on his feet a bit happily. All of this excitement from the move in, which actually wasn’t too long ago, though the idea was.

“I have a question for you…” Ink starts, mumbling somewhat. He fidgets a bit more with the box in his hand, before pulling it out of his pocket and opening it up. It was then Template let out a loud gasp, louder than when they first met. “Will you perhaps marry me?”

Template’s answer was quick nodding of the head, tackling Ink into a hug to make him fall back on the couch, a yelled reply of “Yes!” Ink laughed, before coughing a bit and wiping his mouth. Template gave a small look of concern, but when Ink smiled it off so did he. Instead he pulled Ink into a surprise kiss, yet pulled away as quick as it happened.

The black skeleton seemed surprised before asking. “Why does your mouth taste funky?” Ink almost laughed at the question, that clear to Template with his widening smile.

“Sorry, did almost throw up earlier, must be that.” Ink chuckles anyways, to play it off, and Template smiled. “Let’s save mouth kisses for later.”

“Alright! If you say so!” Template giggles with, before offering his hand to the other. The ring slipped on nicely, making Template almost squeal from it. He was extremely excited, hugging Ink tight. “I love you!”

Ink chuckles at how excited and loud he was now being. “I love you too.”

· · ·

Ink was stuck in a coughing fit when he sat up from his bed, covering his mouth as he practically sprayed out ink. Maybe it was time for him? He didn’t know, but found himself walking around in look for Template. He found the other in his bed, doodling away in a sketchbook Ink had gave him once when he wanted to try drawing traditional like Ink.

The thought made him smile, but his next cough knocked both skeletons out of their thoughts. Template looked over with a blink, but then patted the bed next to him. Ink moved over to sit down, coughing a bit more. Template casted a worried glance at him.

“Are you sick?” Template asks, getting just a nod from Ink. Template pauses, but wraps an arm around him to bring him close. This might be a good time to say, or imply at least.

“I… Feel like I’m going to die soon…” Ink whispers, voice seeming to be dying somewhat. The skeleton closed his eyes slowly. Template almost took it as a joke, finding him only sick with something minor.

“You should be fine, Ink, I believe you’ll get better.” Template mumbles in encouragement. “Do you want to lay in my bed for a while?” Ink nods slowly, making Template smile a bit. “It will be nice to wake up tomorrow and see you first on the day of our wedding.” Ink smiled a bit.

That was tomorrow, wasn’t it? He totally forgot, even if they had done a while of planning for it. Ink didn’t know who Template decided to invite, but he guessed he’ll find out tomorrow. For now, Ink was slowly lulled to sleep by the sounds of pencil scratching on paper in the otherwise quiet house.

· · ·

It’s been a week since they got married, and Ink has been lasting longer than he expected. Maybe that was helped by him taking less of his vials. Occasionally, he just laid in bed blank with Template, which was allowed since it was a lazy day of theirs. They had a way to monitor if AUs were being attacked or not, so since things seemed calm, a break was allowed.

If anything, it would be used to make up for all the emotions used on their day long honeymoon they had. It was short, but a fun dance through AUs still. Ink sacrificed a bit, even after his expected expiration date, just for Template and so he can enjoy it.

Yet today, Ink was run down with a fever now. Template kept him in bed and helped him with anything Ink needed to do. One of the times Template gave him food in bed, Ink stopped him from leaving. As stressed as Template was getting over him because how long he’s been at least coughing, he felt the need to tell Template the truth.

“Temp, I, uh…” Ink coughed, watching Template grow in worry. “I gotta admit some thing…” Template nodded and listened as he sat on the edge of the bed, grabbing Ink’s hand.

“Say whatever you need to say, honey.” Template mumbled out in response. Ink closes his eyes, thinking, for a bit, before removing the blanket and lifting up his shirt. Template was instantly shocked, and Ink could tell when he opened his eyes.

The ink was even more clumped within Ink’s system, trying to go up his neck and arms, as well as even down his spine. It was getting worse, taking over more of his body progressively. Ink opened hhis eyes to his lover crying silently over it. “It’s been this way for a while with the more emotions I take… I dunno what it’ll do to me in the end… I just expect to… Ultimately die…”

Ink coughs a bit more as Template thinks of a response. “I’ll be here as long as I can manage, because I love you.” Ink smiles weakly and pulls Template’s head closer to his own, by a hand to the back of the other’s head, closing the gap for a kiss.

It wasn’t a long one, for Ink had to pull away to cough, but it felt like the start of a new routine. Ink would take less than a sip three times a day, even if Template told him to not to make his last time too long and painful, but Ink decided to do it for him. He was restricted to bed, but Template tried to make it as nice as possible. He would serve him food in bed, learning more cooking skills from Hakase, who taught him how to cook in the first place. He practically spoiled Ink.

Friends came to visit or Template allowed Ink to watch an AU of his choice when his friends visited, like Dream, Gin, Kin, Hakase, and even Pale, they would take care of him and try their best to help him. Yet it still didn’t work, nothing did. Not even a bath made it separate. It was a clump of empty creativity. Hakase couldn’t even find a way to rip out the gunk.

Dream and Pale always came together. At first Dream was worried the same would happen to Pale eventually, she Pale asked maybe too many questions. One time Dream was even found clinging to Pale most of the day, more than his usual help he was requested of emotional wise. Eventually Ink told Dream that they’ll find something by the time it may happen to Pale in order to just calm Dream down. It even calmed Pale a bit, since his question spree kind of scared him too.

By the end of the day, Template held Ink close and talked with him, about all kinds of things. It was the calmer part of Ink’s day, and Template’s rambles would lull him to sleep. Eventually Template would notice in the middle of a new topic that what Ink feel asleep on, and headed to bed himself right next to the other. Even if Template already rambled on a topic and forgot, it still put Ink to sleep each night.

Then Ink eventually lost his voice. The substance started to take over his throat, clear it was starting to die, and eventually it took over thr back of the inside of his skull. That’s what ultimately killed Ink’s voice.

Once they noticed his voice dying, he stafted to write his thoughts in his sketchbook. He wrote a love letter a day to Template, and if he ever wanted to contact anyone else, he would make a letter for them and send it through Template. Sometimes he expressed through drawing, but kept that in the sketchbook. At one point, Template just got him a notebook so he didn’t tear out most of the pages. Template kept the love letters in the nightstand, but made Ink keep his drawings for Template in his sketchbook.

Soon enough, Ink was on his final day. He was trembling badly, with friends surrounding him. Template had them over quickly when Ink could barely move. Dream and Pale had flowers ready and set them on the nightstand, while Hakase tried to ease any pain. That worked at least a bit, thankfully.

Ink would still let out wheezes, attempts that replaced his coughs, just bringing him obviously closer to his end. Template laid by his side and held his hand, feeling Ink squeeze it tight as he wiggles with the last of his strength. It was all he managed to have left, all he had managed to live with in his end. He wasn’t going to have a peaceful end, and that hurt Template more than anything. If passing away sooner meant less pain, he prefered it, so he decided to whisper living words to Ink. He whispered whatever came to mind.

He did it until he felt Ink’s body start to limp and his grip weakened. Template let out his tears he was holding back, waiting for the moment he would start to dust. It took a bit of time, but eventually Ink was starting to dust away. He probably fell out of conscious before actually dying. Template just silently cried, hugging himself. It wasn’t until Dream put a hand on his shoulder that he moved from that position, looking at the other as he wiped his eyes.

“We’ll be moving in soon, I hope you don’t mind, we just don’t want you to be alone…” Dream glances at Pale, who perks up from his otherwise sad state. That was pretty much the mood of the room, but Pale walked himself over to his guide. Template thinks on what Dream says as he watches Pale, before nodding slowly and giving a weak smile.

“I appreciate it.”

~ ~ ~

E in diwndudbdjbdd this took two days of me being a lazy crap but!!! Holy cow!! Well more than twice as long as my last two drabbles, but an idea I feel I can still add to with an aftermath of the effects, I just wanted to end it cause uhh its getting long lmao. Maybe ill write more on the idea if prompted?

Hope y'all angsty children liked this though, cause oof it was a fun ride to write, and a long one.

But oof I got like, 3 more ideas of things to write thanks to a friend, guess in doing that *wipes sweat away* úwù

~Mod Taco

[tumblunni]

Bunni continues to play monster rancher advance and get really fuckin attatched to this giant green rock friend and ITS JADE’S RETIREMENT IM SO FUCKIN SAD also the retirement of jade’s pupil also the retirement of bunni’s heart I JUST LOVE MY VIRTUAL BABIES SO MUCHHHH

* It seems the mystery item she gave me is something that adds a special ability to your monster! It was possibly a waste to give it to her when she’s about to retire, but at least now I know what these things do. MAybe she was trying to give to me so i could give it to the next monster? IM SORRY JADE MY DUMBNESS IS MAXIMUM But maybe item-added traits can pass down if you fuse a monster? I dunno, I’d rather make her a training coach so i dont have to say goodbye ever. ILU JADE ILU SO MUCH

* OH MAN IM SORRY JADE! this would have been really super useful to give to a baby monster, its basically a skill to pass down her best stat growths

* The code to get a Joker is FROMFREE (all in caps) Weird, i guess maybe these codes made more sense in japanese?

* AWW JADE I LOVE YOU TOO JADE THANK YOU JADE I’m so sory jade, you coulda won the whole game by yourself if i hadnt messed up your first year of training so badly... We were so close!! And you did so well even though you didnt like battling! I hope you enjoy retirement, oh god im getting so emotional She GAVE ME ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE ITEMS what are even THE ODDS of that happening immediately after she forgives my dumb mistaaaaaaaaake i love you jade please rest well i could never fuse you! stay forever, get lots of sleeps!

* Jade’s final rankings! She was rank S and just one away from beating the whole game, she just had to do the Big 4 tourney. I wonder if that was named the same as the Elite 4 in pokemon, in the japanese version? We had a lot of fun! I love her! Her favourite food was herbal medicine for some reason, and her stats were a ridiculous build of hyper defense and attack and not much else. She totally swept everyone! She had such critically bad accuracy that she barely ever hit, but when she did hit it was a one hit KO. And she had critically bad HP but so much defense that everyone only did 1 damage. She was the best at cheating the system, like the beautiful bab she is! I love her lots I kinda headcanon her having a very shy and kind personality, cos her randomized dislike was battling, and cos I messed up her training so badly that she lost so many times during that first year. I felt so bad thinking she’d probably blame herself, cos she’s such a sweetheart... I hope she enjoys retiring to be a teacher! She’s been so good at taking care of Aroma, Zest and me, I’m sure she’ll be good to the next baby monster!

* And here’s her stats as a trainer. There’s preset templates for what you can make them train, I picked attack and accuracy rather than attack and defense because there isnt a high stat accuracy trainer already and thats why it was so hard to train for Jade. I hope she can help the next generation have an easier start in life!

* A nice easter egg! If you enter the password Most, then you get... Most. The special white mocchi that was the bonus boss in monster rancher 2! It has pretty good starting stats too!

* Also, enter Tumblunn to get a Big Blue, which was my favourite villain from the anime. STILL CRYING FOR HIM

* PHEWWWWWW After like a hour of summoning and fusing everything, we finally have our next monster! You dont really pick up any stat boosts by fusing a bazillion base stat monsters, but it made her stats very equal in everything. And she’s got a huge pile of abilities resisting every element, lol!

Carole the Momo/Zan! I wanna maybe raise a Zan next time, they’re something that wasnt in MR2 as far as I know.

* Wow, I kinda got really absorbed in raising Carole and forgot to even write anything, oops... Things I can remember! She gave me a lot of items and asked questions a lot more often. And she seemed to perform really well in battles when it was set to auto, which is surprising cos usually the series sucks at auto battling. She trained with Jade like EVERY DAY, because I am a cheesy mushface massive heart person. So she became a fairly fragile superpowered fighter who absolutely excelled at accuracy, really following in Jade’s footsteps and doing what she dreamed of! And now already poor Carole is at retirement age too, and my wrist is FUCKING DYING from playing so much but I still cant stoppppp aaAAAAAA im gonna go eat some lunch and then get back to the next generation of cuddly mons i still feel really bereft that Carole’s time passed so fast, but knowing that monsters just retire instead of dying in this game makes it a lot less painful. I wanna try and fill up every single training course with a friend! I wanna keep raising them even after I beat the game! but probably it would be smarter to move on to playing Advance 2, cos it adds a bunch of new monsters including the Hares that I enjoy so much...

* ALSO! I have a lot of affection now for the Momo species! I hope they return in other games! They seem to be like the reincarnation of the old Kato species, just with all the Edgy stuff removed and replaced with regular cuteness. I mean, I should probably hate that, but tbh I like the design a lot better than the Katos. And its cool that they still keep the razor claws that extend out like eight metres from their fist! That was what clued me in to them being a Kato replacement, lol.

* ALSO i am really sad for Aroma and Zest and I WANT TO BE THEIR NEW PARENT NOW thier dad died :( and they mourn him on father’s day :( and then Carole helped them find their last heirloom to remember him by :( good carole, you always looking out for us! then carole retired literally RIGHT AFTER that :(

* An interesting random event happened where I was forced into a battle to stop a wild monster that stole the league secretary’s bag, and got rewarded with a password for it! KEEPSLY gives you a special black and gold Zuum!

* Carole is now a coach too... *sigh* too soon... The big 4 tourneys are so hard that I wasnt able to do them with her either, she just managed to reach the same rank as Jade with better stats. And now I’m gonna feel totally guilty every time I choose between which one I train with! I’m gonna just imagine they’re happy playing together in the retirement teacher place, ok. I LOVE THEM SO MUCH! I feel really bad that Carole retired a lot earlier and there wasnt much to talk about cos Jade already got all the first time clearance events for the ranks and stuff... AAAAAAA well i guess maybe I’ll just try a different stat build this time or something? I wonder if a speed heavy monster would be more effective againt those cheap final enemies... I mostly just care about having fun with beloved cuddlepets tho! And seeing more random plot events with the assistant charries ^_^