#tssw

[intimidatingpuffinstudios]

I plan to give the MC the chance to start calling Morkai a pet name, and one of the options will be "princess" 🤣🤣🤣

[vannarile]

Quick warmup, featuring @intimidatingpuffinstudios ‘s most babygirl vampire💅

[kdelarenta]

may god bless the dinosaur that died to make the fossil fuel that was treated to become gasoline in the car that took @intimidatingpuffinstudios to the hospital to be born so that they could write one of my favorite IF dynamics of all time.

[rinriya]

The way I love how Morkai love MC… goosebumps

[jazzajazzjazz]

Manerkol and Fael for the lovely @miindli --thank you so much!

[marzipanladyart]

nsfw Fael and Manerkol comm for @miindli, thank you! (you can see my 18+ art on SubscribeStar!)

[lyannatropes]

Manerkol and Fael, commission for a kind client

[most-datable-datable-bracket]

ROUND 1 MATCH 33

(Daelynn art by @arrapso)

John propaganda:

“Sad beef jerky of a man with a sexy voice. He stabs a guy for being rude to you. He's cosplaying actual John Hancock. He's the town mayor that wants to leave and get shot at because he thinks he's getting too full of himself. He's also so, so sad and I need to hug him so bad.”

Daelynn propaganda:

“Daelynn is a flirty, hot and excitable RO from the Soul Stone Wars 1& 2, a text-based IF. She's an elf and very bold about what she wants, the opposite of a slow-burn. Joking and teasing, she sometimes annoys the other characters, and she has been known be sly on occasion. Don't let her cheerful nature fool you, she has secrets of her own. She can be romanced on her own (she's the MC's soulmate!!!) or she can be romanced in a poly with Morkai or Eledwyn.”

[seigl]

Beloved @felleyan got me into The Soul Stone War by @intimidatingpuffinstudios and I have not known peace since. So here's her MC and Mr Manny Man! 👹💖

My comeeshons are below if u want to peek

[galpalaven]

Can anyone who has played the Soul Stone Wars series give me a rundown of the MC backgrounds and options for MC because I am… I want to go in but I need an OC to go in and I can’t make it up on the fly fjdkdj

Also suggestions for romance route? I think the Villain sounds fun but idk lol

[looneylina]

just replayed soul stone war, and i was like "imma romance morkai this time" and got the worst ending imaginable, like just adding more salt to the wound on mokai's already bleeding scars. well done me. time to restart i guess

[intimidatingpuffinstudios]

Morkai reaction to an MC who likes to call him disgustingly cheesy things in public? "He's my sugar bear/my little lamb/my honey bun."

"Why, you little SHIT--!!"

First reaction is annoyed, embarrassed, flustered, tsundere like.

Eventually comes to accept it with a resigned sigh, but he starts to enjoy it once the shock wears off.

You will NEVER hear him admit that, however 🤣

[grapecaseschoices]

I discovered so many cool ifs thanks to your blog. I must say your taste in characters and stories is exquisite. Do you have a certain type of favourite ROs as in are there some romance tropes that you always go for? I'm a sucker for the emotionally unavailable ROs, so Orion and August have me in a chokehold rn. I'm honestly having so much infamous brainrot after reading that amazing demo. Do you prefer gender-selectable or gender-locked ROs? I personally don't mind either way as long as they're well written and portrayed. And you're so right we need more NB/Trans ROs for sure! Specially more that are POCs! <3

Oh, anon you don't know how much this makes me SMILE! Not so much about my tastes (though I'm smiling on that too, you flatterer :-P) but because of the IFs. I think Interactive Fiction is such a delightful medium with SUCH potential, and I love trying to stuff it into more people's faces.

Oh, man. I've actually been thinking of this -- because I once semi-jokingly said/had the thought that I always go for the characters of color [that's not TRUE, but I feel like I'm more inclined to give them a chance regardless of trope as long as I find the character intriguing enough] because I want to make sure they get love. So, I feel like I haven't really been looking at games/stories through tropes of late -- because IFs haven't yet reach a place where I'm afforded that? I don't know if I'm making sense.

BUT this question definitely took me back, lmao. And it is going to expose why TWC will always be on my neck, as well as that I am a LITTLE bit of a liar (because thinking on this made me realize though I may try and be broad with my interests to support characters of color, my subconious is a clown and likes what it likes werew lmao).

TL;DR I do love the stoic ones. I do love the ones that seem indifferent and/or cold or just So Serious and Don't Have Time For Your Tomfoolery but also have a sense of humor, a sense of justice/loyalty, and can get super soft/flustered for MC (but not just mc but their loved ones:

A du Mortain 🤡

Orion Quinn (Orion chuckling at Rowan's jokes privately? I knew he was the one for me BUT THAT SOLIDIFIED IT. I AM GONE FOR HIM)

August Pierce (letting themselves be suckered into things by their sister, being flustered by MC in a romance??)

Calderon (Andromeda Six)

Elliot (OFNA) - though I haven't gotten far in ofna.

D (atoc)

I love the soft and bright ones. Sometimes they're sarcastic (but to a point. There's a reason why I love the Scott McCalls more than the Stiles Stilinkis), they're mischevious. They don't need to have a dark past but I'm not against it. They're still KIND despite all they've gone through. Their hearts are just so BIG. And if you throw in a bit of friends to lovers? I'M THERE.

F Hauville.

Bash (a6)

I think Victoria might fit here, but more of a hardened shell version (which I wanted to add I feel this type has a lot of subcategories that I also enjoy). A more defiant version, a version who is less impulsive, more in control? idk what im saying. Which I'd also put Ayame from A6 here.

Skye Cortéz from Skin and Scales.

I feel Kiran from Unseelie will fit this.

Those are clear off the top of my head but there are other ones I like. I love characters that have poise but also are cunning (I think A from ATOC would fit here if you need an example; Sabir from the Exile, Straasa from TSSW, Leonie from Reaper's Bay .... that theyre all black is a coincidence -- one I JUST realized wqere lmao), I love childhood friends to lovers as I stated, I love enemies to reluctant allies to friends to lovers, I love second chance romances (or reunited friends that turn to romance). I'm blanking at personalties, right now. I'm sorry.

Oh, negl. Sometimes I go for the 'fuck everyone but you' Villain. I like it when the powerful "bad" guy (gn) is obssessed with MC. Like, not an RO but for an example Falk. Or an actual RO Manerkol from The Soul Stone Wars. Krios from Dying Stars.

Sometimes, but not always, I go for the hopelessly devoted and utterly loyal to MC bodyguard sort like Kai from Reaper's Bay. Devoted and protective does usually get my pitter patter - like John from Made Marian, but like I said not always. Especially if OVERPROTECTIVENESS can be a point of discussion between the pair (ie mc and the ro).

There are other stuff but i am blanking right now.

As for gender, I don't care generally -- but I do tend to shy away if there isn't an NB option when they're gender selectable, and if there isn't I want at LEAST ONE NB ro (more than one) that isn't gender selectable. I like it better tho when it's all gender selectable or like two are gender selectable and the rest are set genders but evenly so.

and yes that SPECIFICNESS -- you make a point I hadn't even thought of: DEFINITELY need more trans/nb options, PERIOD, but please writers and artists should consider having them of color as well!!

[kdelarenta]

thinking about how morkai was the first man that valkyrie felt safe around after what happened with bain...bye, no one talk to me.

[rinriya]

Good timing lololol

[miindli]

Aaaahhh this is amazing 😍😍😍 thank you so much, i love this 🖤🖤🖤

My mc Fael and Manerkol from the interactie fiction game The Soul Stone War by the amazing @intimidatingpuffinstudios

beautiful commission for @miindli