#v; lost in the darkness

[blueheartedmayor]

"Im bored and lonely. So you get to deal with me." The seer says while putting a tea cup down, it has hot tea already?, and some cookies. "Sooooo how are you doing?" [ Kitty to Dante ; She wanted to bother him today ]

@wisteriagrcve

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The studio was busy today. There was a lot of excitement regarding the development of a documentary series. There were many faces running around, with differing levels of busyness.

But no. Kitty made it her mission to go into the office of the one person who was reading up on a civil law case ahead of an upcoming trial. It was unusual to see Dante with a more 'natural' hue to his skin, but it would be clear to Kitty that he was pushing himself by exerting energy to keep the facade up. Presumably, he was trying to get used to 'appearing normal' so he could successfully manage a full work day in the public eye.

Violet eyes lifted from the document to Kitty. A sigh followed this as he closed the document and placed it aside.

"I am sorry to hear you are both bored and lonely. Truly, it must be a very difficult time for you." Despite the deadpan response, he was making an effort to tidy the desk so Kitty had space to put her items down. "I have been busy, though I am sure some would say I am due a break." At least it was a day where he actually had energy to do things.

"How have you been keeping? Has your endeavour into videos panned out well for you?" It was like old times, in a way.

[dmbakura]

dear one

[hirak0s]

Hot Cocoa for your Thoughts? (cont'd from here) || @kuurosakiis || Ayame & Ichigo

"Ya looked chilly out here in the autumn air!" She blinked after watching his reaction, trying to make her intentions clear. That... usually worked with people who were recovering from an injury who just woke up.

"Hmm!?" She blinked at the mention of her brother. "Oh, yeh, he's my cap'n an' my brother. Twin, specifically, if ya'd believe it." It wasn't like she knew this man other than, well, he did save the Seireitei once or twice and then she heard of him from Shinji. So she knew of him, but not personally.

"Um, I'm Ayame Hirako…" She'd introduce herself before bowing gently.

[seawing-vibes]

Some images of my Tsu plush from Creep Cat Toy Co. !!! I love her lots one of my fav plushes <3 !! Her glow spots are glow-in-the-dark fabric ,, its super neat !

[widowshill]

My name is Victoria Winters. They whisper an old story again up in Collinsport, a tragedy rinsed and repeat: a husband that vanished from his bride, and a young woman interred up on the hill. If you ask the bridal-suite widow she will weave you a tale too fantastical to believe: she will tell you that the young man abandoned her into the past itself, into a former self, and another life. You’ll find that this is the closest thing to the truth for anyone looking for it, as even the sheriff –– try though he might to pin down yet another whiff of sin about the Collins estate ––  can unearth no trace of him. It is as if he never existed at all, even his name soaked in the oil of myth and packed away into aluminum. There are only the flowers over an old, old grave to tell; silent, knowing, nitrogen-glutted.

An au where instead of Jeff getting pulled back to the 18th century, Victoria kills him <3 Because you aren't really a Collins if your spouse doesn't disappear under mysterious circumstances and you have to cover up a killing or two! Second half of the comic text is from Black Sails XIV.

[shitpostingkats]

I know they're not gonna do it but please imagine we get to the xyz dimension and the refugees are getting aid from astrals and barians and everyone rightly flips out and Shay is like "What, do you guys not have aliens in your dimensions? :/"

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

Aventus Aretino: I think I'm having a mid-life crisis.

Artanis: You're, like, 15 years old.

Aventus: I MIGHT DIE AT 30.

[tenth-sentence]

"V for Vendetta" - Alan Moore and David Lloyd

[raenef]

[tafiir-dovahkiin]

Sometimes I wonder if this could fix me…

[smile-files]

kris - headcanons, theories, and analysis (a jumbled mess from yours truly)

kris has selective mutism and is semi-verbal: they have the capability of speech, but the extent to which they are willing and eager to speak at any given moment is highly dependent on their current mental state as well as the people around them. generally speaking, kris is not very talkative and infrequently starts or participates in conversation, even when in the presence of people they are comfortable with and when feeling fine; it is noted, though, that kris only ever actively wants to speak and is eager to do so in such situations -- when uncomfortable, kris will not speak unless direly necessary (and even then, their ability to speak is not guaranteed). also worthy of note is how unexpressive kris's face tends to be; they rarely wear anything other than a blank expression. exceptions only occur under extreme, catastrophic distress, or when around friends and family -- kris has been known to laugh, especially since they would like making mischief.

in kris's youth, they had close, warm relationships with their adoptive mother, toriel, their adoptive father, asgore, their adoptive brother, asriel, their next-door neighbor and friend, noelle, and, to a slightly lesser extent, noelle's sister, dess, and father, rudy. while still quiet most of the time, kris would actively want to speak to them on some occasions, and would often be happy to point out things to them (kris is a very observant person, noticing small details in their environment) and play games that had some minor speaking component (such as playing a video game in which comments are often exchanged between players). given their emotional proximity to kris, these individuals knew kris well enough to have a general sense of how they were feeling, even in moments when kris wasn't in the mindspace to speak; asriel and noelle could tell what kris was feeling better than anyone else, asriel especially understanding why kris felt what they did (noelle always knew what kris felt, but often didn't understand why they were feeling it and required an explanation kris wasn't able to provide), and so kris was very attached to them. however, this attachment was wrought with insecurity: asriel was growing up, soon to leave for college, and a well-beloved golden boy; noelle was always leagues better than kris in school, and a darling, endearing girl; kris couldn't help but fixate on asriel and noelle leaving them someday.

unfortunately, a cascade of events eventually pulled the majority of kris's loved ones away from them, including azzy and noelle. dess disappeared, splintering the relationship between kris's family, the dreemurrs, and noelle's family, the holidays; kris and noelle began to grow apart as their families lost touch; asgore was fired from his position as police chief, and toriel divorced him; finally, asriel went off to college. the only close connection kris maintained from their childhood was toriel -- and even if toriel never understood them quite as thoroughly as azzy or noelle, kris was still strongly attached to her and her ability to understand them at all, to the point that, in the absence of anyone else to connect with, kris became very clingy to her. kris has been massively lonely and depressed, fixated on the great time asriel must be having in college and how happy and beloved noelle seemed to be -- while they've been alone, with nobody to truly know how they feel when they're uncomfortable. oh, and how often kris is uncomfortable! basically friendless, constantly sleep-deprived, and harboring a hidden self-loathing stewing in their soul since their childhood… since asriel moved away, kris has been quieter than ever, unable to express the pain festering within. they were never that expressive, but that seemed to have come to a head, with kris becoming almost completely unresponsive to any emotional stimuli. kris seemed completely unfazed by susie's cruel bullying when she joined the class… however, her words seemed to strike a chord deep, deep within them, and they couldn't help but laugh.

since the player has taken control over kris's soul near the beginning of the game, however, kris's verbal "self"-expression has increased. the player can compel kris to speak -- not only in moments where kris would choose to speak themselves, in which the player just directs what it is they are to say (possibly contradicting what kris wants to say), but also in moments where kris would be uncomfortable and wouldn't even be willing to speak at all. the player seems to not have control over kris's facial expression, however -- so, despite having suppressed most show of emotion in recent months, kris now has the chance to take advantage of their ability to communicate their true feelings through their face, and might well seize it… though, why would kris not take the player's manipulation as another sign from above that they will never be understood? why even try? regardless what they think, though, a certain primal desire to be understood overrides any logic or loss of hope: like always, if disturbed enough, kris's face will show it; likewise, if something strikes their funny bone -- or if it strikes a chord deep, deep within them -- kris will laugh.

kris, no matter what, does not like being suppressed, and even if the player isn't hurting them (which can certainly, certainly happen), kris will have some negative opinion of them. they want to be loved and understood for who they truly are, more than anything else in the world, and the player, even if unintentionally, is actively undermining that. if we imagine some alternate timeline, where kris made friends with ralsei and susie all on their own, that friendship having formed at all would imply that kris believes that ralsei and susie either do or will love and understand kris for who they truly are; why would kris become friends with them otherwise? in this hypothetical, kris would learn that they aren't truly alone, and that there are always people to connect and relate to, if they believe they're capable of being understood -- that they don't have to wait forever for people like asriel. however, as the "friendship" kris has with ralsei and susie is entirely manufactured by the player and the game, it is little more than a distant dream. as we control kris's body and words, it's as if kris's self is watching what "they" do from within themselves, looking at the friendships "they" have and wishing they were truly theirs: it is dissociation, a feeling that these relationships aren't real.

at the same time, though, kris desires these relationships as they currently are, even in their apparently empty state, or wants to desire them; kris desires a world in which they aren't constantly craving understanding, in which closeness was taken for granted, in which they were open and talkative, in which, perhaps, they were a different person who isn't such a weird, quiet loser. this is what the player provides; this is what the dark world provides; this is what the game provides. the dark world is a game that kris is playing: it is doubtful that kris summoned the player to control them, but the player's control is what gives kris these relationships, and so, in some strange way, kris might desire the player as much as they hate the player. kris has never been good with people, but now they can be piloted by someone who, via the game (which, notably, is a path ralsei sets for us: the prophecy), follows a relatively stable path in which they must be good with people. chapter 1 always ends with kris being "friends" with ralsei and susie, with kris doing the "right thing", with kris being "happy". perhaps kris can come out of chapter 1, half-satisfied with having lived vicariously through themselves. chapter 2 is largely the same for basically every player, and would perhaps result in noelle genuinely, earnestly reconnecting with kris (kris themselves) through their adventure in the dark world; however, if the player tries hard enough to defy the game's path, they can force kris to do terrible things to people: to emotionally abuse noelle right as she was about to rekindle something with kris, manipulating her into killing someone. this, obviously, would f*ck kris up, the main reason for which need not even be spoken. but there is something more subtly tragic about it all: that the one genuine, non-vicarious, non-player relationship kris might foster through the game -- their faded friendship with noelle -- was forcibly dashed on the rocks with kris's own, puppeted hands. is that not horrible?

no matter what path the player makes kris take in either chapter, kris removes their soul each night (twice during chapter 2) and, shambling like a silent zombie, performs some impulsive, violent act with their knife -- cutting a pie, slashing toriel's car tires, or opening a dark fountain. worthy of note is that the soul the player controls is still kris's soul, and yet they are willing to literally remove their soul, the culmination of their being, to be free of us from a little while. in two of three cases, kris clearly returns the soul to their body; in the third at the end of chapter 2, they hold it up as their handmade dark fountain billows smoke, and it is ambiguous what they do with it. are they gazing at it in awe, or glaring at it in disgust? how much do they need the soul, and how much can they act without it? will they return it to their body? the player, the dark world, and the game are what allow kris to reconnect with noelle -- or break her. in the former case, kris might be opening a dark fountain in the hopes that perhaps more good will come out of this strange system of control at which they are centered; in the latter, they might be opening it to spite the player's attempts at closing dark fountains, in accordance to ralsei and the game's will. true, the path that leads kris to manipulate noelle is one that defies the game's central intent -- but the game still allowed it to happen, tantalizing the observant player with a secret route. or, in both cases, kris just might want to create a dark world where their mother is present, given that the dark world has either brought people closer to them, or left them completely alone…

[blueheartedmayor]

There's something off-putting about your death being 'celebrated', but such is the way things go when 'life' and 'death' are little more than assigned conditions rather than a certainty.

Dante had noticed the date, and the ones that followed. He didn't want to acknowledge it. There was nothing to 'celebrate', nor was there anything to 'mourn'.

Everything was... Hollow.

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Dante had been someone, once. A young man who had spent his whole life with strings tied around his wrists as he was pulled this way and that way by the upper class who only valued aspects of him.

It had taken him so long to cut the strings off and figure out who he ought to be. He could live independently, and make plans to move and start a new life the moment his term as mayor officially ended. He would not be tangled up in those strings again.

Freedom... such a simple concept, yet a true delicacy. Just as he was getting comfortable with it, everything that is being commemorated happened, and the strings became shackles.

Dante lost everything, and for what? What was the point of any of this? He's a ghost, trapped in a body that isn't his, confined to the world of the living whether he likes it or not.

Were those people happy? Were the stories and eternity to perform them worth it?

(Did he regret it? Probably not.)

...

Dante sighed. Maybe he needed a drink, for once. Maybe he should pay a friend a visit to try and clear his head for a little while.

[kharonion]

Sometimes, Kerry just lays in bed awake, long after Vikt has fallen asleep. Listens to those small hitches in steady breaths, the snores that can be a bit obnoxious. Shrinks into the warmth against his back, the strong hold he's captured in.

And he always has a smile on his face laying there because it's all a reminder that Vikt is, in fact, there.

[multimusewonderland]

@darkcacaocookieandfriends says: "You're shaking like a leaf!" (Schwarz to Dark Choco. Gonna do both my boys.)

Left Outside

"I don-" The prince swallowed hard as he stared at the floor with a tensed jaw, trying his best to quell the shaking. Was he cold or terrified? Both? "I don't know wh-what's wrong with me- Or wh-why I'm- I'm-"

He buried his fingers in his hair. His long (currently still slick with melted frost) hair, which hid... bandages? As soon as he brushed against them, his breath caught, and he placed a palm over what he remembered was a missing eye.

Everything crashed back in on Dark Choco at once. The sword, the curse, his failure, the two strangers who'd picked him up, his father—

"...Th-the sword. The one I had- had with me. Where is it?"

[chevvy-ryder]

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⚠️ READ: Please do not repost/reupload any of my art here or to any other platform, or I will be forced to do anything to get it annihilated.

Vanessa belongs to @gloryride. 💖 Ryder belongs to me. 🖤

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The last mirror selfy was the first pic I took out of all the previous sets I've posted. So it brought everything into rolling. I didn't feel content with using mirror selfie vp so I proceeded to take that story instead where Vanessa is taking a pic of Ry to get used to this phone posing stuff. I know the first and last pics should be mirrored but I'l just pretend the phone changed it after the pic was taken. :P I wanted to take pics in another spot (the one in pic 2n and 3rd) but it didn't work there either, so I just kept doing what I've always do: just simple portrait VP — only I started trying out the carrying pack. I think it's cute that Ry carryies Vanessa <3 I prented they had a mini shoot Vanessa booked, to take pics together all in pink! So that's what Ry's whole pink outfit was for in the first place. And to everyone's surprise Ry starts to feel better as well. He must have had some fun and probably ignored away that he's still wearing pink xD The last mirror selfie has captured him looking content enough now. I mean it is Vanessa he spent some time with! She's such a good company to have around! <3

[widowshill]

— But it's almost midnight. — Oh, that's the point! At the stroke of twelve, he turns into Dracula. C'mon, Vicki – he won't bite.

pose ref.