#withered roses

[epicwingman]

Withered Roses: Light Bites - Announcement + Character Heights

Hey everybody! I hope you're all doing well :)! How to Bake a Loaf of Bread is going well and the next 2 chapters should be coming out in around 1-2 weeks. I've included a height chart of all the characters below. The only one to really grow is Anastacha but she won't grow over 160cm by the time Book 4 is finished. It goes in height order, so for example, Steven is taller than his father. Their character sheets will also include their height in feet and inches.

So, as it'll certainly take some time between chapter 3 and chapters 4, 5 and 6, what will there be in store for inbetween?

Exclusively on Wattpad for the time being (I'm planning on bringing this to Quotev and AO3, just gotta learn how best to go about it and I'm lazy lol), there will be some short stories in-between! This will be titled Withered Roses: Light Bites and will feature both canon and non-canon short stories to the AU! I'll also take suggestions as to what to turn into short stories. Some will be split into multiple parts, but these will be worked on from chapter 3's release and even continuing when I'm working on book 4! This is the type of content you can expect to see from these short stories:

Infection AU (multiple parts, non-canon)

What if the Doppelgangers were venomous and carried a contagious virus? One bite would slowly turn anybody into a corrupted being. The neighbors are aware of this and make sure to be careful with every step they make, but when Alf makes a small mistake, everybodies life is on the line. This is mostly inspired by the 2024 MLP infection AUs that had me hooked for 3 months.

80s AU (1-3 parts, non-canon)

Nightmares Meet The Living (2 parts, non-canon)

Chester's 2010s Experience (1 part, canon(?))

Nightmare Neighbors (1-2 parts, half-canon I guess???)

There will also be some more canon ones that I can't really talk about yet! I'm excited to write these to help tackle the writers block that I sometimes get. I guess I'd be up for sfw X reader? Like Francis gets feelings for the doorman and you're in the perspective of the doorman? It's something I've not written before but could dappel into. Oh, and I'm down to doing requested ships, even if they hate each other in Withered. I'm not that big into shipping but I'm not against ships. You wanna ship Steven and Izaack who, in my headcanon, can't stand each other? You go for it! In canon, neighbors don't even interact with each other so anything is possible! It'd be non-canon to Withered but I don't mind dappling into something like this. I wouldn't do every request, but feel free to request some short stories you might like to see! You'll also be credited for the idea too! With that, I'll be back soon to hopefully announce a release date for Chapters 2 and 3!

[m1ssnovember]

Melancholic poet academia

Drinking excessive amounts of black coffee to numb the hunger for anything but hearts solitary. Staining your hands with ink, overwhelmed either all the thoughts you have to turn into poems, afternoons in second hand book stores, multiple medias for writing, resides in the fictional world, reciting tragedies for pets or antiquities in your room. Pomegranates will be the closest you’ll ever come to a heart.

[jt1674]

[mindmusingss]

I wasn’t expecting a trip down memory lane while cleaning my closet, but there it was—withered rose petals pressed between the pages of an old book.

Once vibrant and alive, now they’re dry and lifeless. It reminded me that what's real and alive eventually fades away, no matter how beautiful! And yet, an artificial flower, lifeless and emotionless, lasts forever.

But what’s the point of forever if it doesn’t feel? Isn’t it the fleeting nature of life that makes it so beautiful?

- Bhavika

[helenedenothing]

Once, bright and full of life

Now, withered and full of decay

This is not about Roses

[honeybeebuddy]

the wither rose studio 🥀

the mounders / gem and the scotts

commission or tips :)

[moldyrainbowbutter]

[xkaru-karux]

wither roses, my beloveds 🌹

[emdiart]

no clue if this has been made before, i just needed to get it out of my system

[theoldkyokodied]

One wedding and three funerals

Background paintings under the cut

[epicwingman]

Withered Roses: How to Bake a Loaf of Bread - Character Ages

In the first book of Withered Roses, How to Bake a Loaf of Bread, not every neighbor would have moved in yet. Robertsky and the Cappuccins move in shortly. I surprisingly have an age for everybody at this point in the story considering I was originally going to write it with all the neighbors moved in (the youngest besides Anastacha is still Robertsky, he's 19).

It goes in order of youngest to oldest, so Nacha is 21 and Albertsky is 25. Alf, who will move in soon with his girlfriend, is the oldest at 61. (Mclooy is only retired at the age he is because he had a big boy job and I was too lazy to give him an occupation lmao, like mfs probably too old to be out training people so what do I give him, the title of a long hat connoisseur? Nah lmao Steven would never let him live that down.) There's a slight age gap between him and his girlfriend, but I'll say now that nothing bad will come from that. They just simply fell in love at a different time than most people would expect. Baring in mind this is a prequel, so my headcanon of their actual ages in-game are different to these.

Towards the final few chapters, there will be a bit of a skip and some characters will likely turn older, but I'll probably wait until the 2nd book before I update it. Maybe, who knows. I'm thinking I'll probably just do dumb memes of the characters inbetween chapters lmao when giving updates on chapters so it keeps things fresh rather than 'here is a large block of text to read :D'. As for the chapters, I'm getting out of some writers block so expect an actual better update on them soon!

[m1ssnovember]

Beautiful, barbarian bloodline

[sofy-tofy]

This is my life main dreamgoal btw

[saym0-0]

this is them. 2 me.

original under the cut vv

[pidgedee]

designed a few empires tarot cards for the battleship exchange! they were a lot of fun to draw, i loved doing the relaxed painterly sketches so much.

[your-local-crypt1d]

I had to do this with them

The og