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justporo · 2 years ago

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Killing you softly

Astarion thinks it's a good idea to challenge himself - with not touching you while you have control over him. And what he gets from that are pleasures beyond what he could've imagined. (NSFW)

MASTERLIST | AO3

Author's Note: We interrupt the winter fluff for some dirty smut. That's right - it's still smut Sunday - I blame certain Discord servers for influencing me! It's been quite a while though since I wrote full on smut, so here you go... Also lets not talk about how this became so long - I have no self control anymore.

Pairing: Astarion/Fem!Tav (You) Warnings: explicit sexual content, talk of past trauma, bit of angst (if you squint), dom/sub dynamic, blood Wordcount: 5,8k ~~~

“Why would you want to do that? That sounds like absolute unfun, if you ask me”, you said to Astarion with furrowed brows.

The vampire was sitting on the edge of the bed while you were straddling his lap. Your hands were in his curls, your hips pressed to his in desperate need of feeling him as close as possible.

You had made that mistake again where you had leaned in for a kiss when you had been lounging in the living room together. Now you sat on the bed, eager to feel every inch of Astarion’s naked body against yours.

One could have asked when you would finally learn your lesson - but maybe this was a mistake you’d be happy to keep making.

Actually, you had planned to do a lot of other things. But it had ended how it so often did with Astarion: sweet kisses had become heated. His hand that had, at the start, only softly cupped your cheek had started to caress your jawline at first. Then his index finger had slowly wandered down your neck - along the line of your quickly heightening pulse - while his tongue had slipped in your mouth to make you forget everything but him.

And just like always it had worked wonderfully. You had easily fallen prey to his lure. Quickly the two of you had gotten up from where you had been comfortably sitting, tumbling up the stairs to your bedroom - to enjoy each other in the luxury of your gigantic bed.

The way there had taken you quite a while though. Especially since Astarion never seemed to be able to stop himself from pressing you against the nearest wall, making you moan helplessly while he pinned you there, enjoying how you writhed against his body. How you tried to wrap yourself around him fully while he felt the rising heat from your body. How he was ready to ignite you even more and then be consumed in the surely following inferno.

His hands had been wandering over your body - squeezing your butt, almost clawing down your back - while you had put one of your legs around his slender hips and with a groan had bucked your hips against him. You felt his growing arousal clearly. Clearly enough to make your lower stomach clench with need and throw your head back while you knew you must be soaking wet already.

You were truly amazed by how quickly that man could turn you into a mess with a few kisses, haughtily whispering into one of your pointy ears and letting his hands work his magic. It was almost like you had simply been made for him laying his hands upon you, your body welcoming him every time as if he’d been lost for an eternity and had only just returned - finding that you were still solely and truly his.

And all that was why you were even more surprised by his current proposition: with a somewhat cautious smile on his lips he had suggested to try and not touch you at all.

And that’s where you were at: Astarion still looking at you, rolling his tongue around his mouth while trying not to look too anxious and you were still taken aback by his unexpected proposal.

You leaned back a little while you were still straddling his hips - still on the edge of your bed. Your hands wandered from his hair down to his shoulders as you looked at him with a frown on your face, but didn’t know what to say.

“I’d like to challenge myself, darling, that’s all. Try new things - with you”, Astarion answered and angled his head while he looked at you. You saw the tinge of worry in his eyes now that you had voiced your concerns.

Your tongue darted out to wet your lips.

Something about this rubbed you the wrong way. But you couldn’t exactly put your finger on it.

“Challenge yourself”, you parrotted flatly.

The vampire awkwardly shuffled around awkwardly and with that made you wiggle around a little on his lap. He avoided your gaze for a few moments before his crimson eyes found yours again: “I trust you fully, my love.”

His eyes were so open then and there, warm orange light from the lamp of the nightstand shining in them, pronouncing their ruby colour even more. “I know you wouldn’t hurt me”, he continued and the meaning of all this slowly settled in for you.

“Astarion”, you whispered softly and cupped his cheek while his eyes kept shining in the dim light - your chest clenched uncomfortably. But before you could say anything else, the vampire spoke again.

“I would surrender myself to you, my heart, give you free reign”, he proposed to you. His voice was firm but you saw his throat work, realised that he was in fact scared. You kept looking at him, pressing your lips into a line, not sure what to say about this proposition - you didn’t particularly like the way he was acting all of a sudden. Way too coy, not at all like his usual cocky self.

In fact, you didn’t like it at all, because you feared it was giving you an unprompted glimpse of a former self of the vampire. A time when he’d probably been in this position - and not of his own volition.

Just the thought alone made you gulp.

And it was almost as if he’d heard your thoughts. Like flipping a switch his signature smirk came back on with full force. Obviously trying to reassure you that everything was just dandy.

“Darling, most people would be more than amazed by a chance like that with me”, Astarion murmured sassily and leaned back on his hands while he threw you a sultry glance with a cocked eyebrow.

But he didn’t need to try anymore, you finally had a feeling you knew what he was trying to achieve. You wanted to indulge him, but you wanted to make a difference. And a plan had already started to form in your mind.

A smile crept onto your face - Astarion might not know it yet but he was in for a treat, you’d make sure of that.

You looked at your vampire as he noticed that your demeanour had changed. A small and careful grin stole onto his lips in anticipation.

Then you arched your back and rolled your neck and head around to loosen the muscles there while your hands pressed harder onto his shoulders. Astarion gasped a little when your hips were pressed even more firmly to his crotch and his erection and your torso and breasts were lifted against his chest with the way you stretched your body. You savoured the feeling of your curves pressing against the sharper lines of him.

When your head came back around you moved to hold his face in your hands, you leaned in and pressed your lips to his - kissing him ever so softly. Strands of your reddish-brown hair fell over your shoulder and onto Astarion as you leaned into him harder while he was still bracing himself on his arms behind him.

When one of his hands was trying to sneak its way around your waist to pull you even closer to him, you grabbed it and pressed it firmly to the mattress. Astarion broke the kiss, one eyebrow twitched, his red eyes were immediately ablaze. You looked back at him, licking your lips and eyes darkening.

Before he could say something, you embraced all the courage you had - and went headfirst.

“Astarion, if we're going to do this”, you started while you were still holding down his hand, your other still cupping his cheek. The way he gazed at you ignited something within you. His lips were still slightly parted and a bit swollen from kissing. Your eyes dropped to them as you rolled your hips again, making the vampire groan.

Then you faltered a little, just short of second-guessing yourself.

“Astarion, if we're going to do this, this won't be about you giving up control because you trust me to overwrite past memories”, you explained and saw how just a tiny bit of hurt flashed through his eyes. His plan, whether fully intentional or not, had been found out.

You quickly continued to get your point across: “If we're going to do this, this will be about you and you getting what you deserve, without the need to perform anything, my love.”

You saw how Astarion's lips parted even more, a small gasp leaving them and his eyes widening. But you saw the excitement in them when your words sunk in.

“And if you want to stop, tell me. Immediately, please”, you pleaded with him and the vampire nodded quickly in confirmation.

Then you let go of his hand and leaned back on his lap a little while the vampire mirrored you, supporting himself with his hands. His gaze wandered all over you. The bulge in his pants was very obviously visible, his cock straining against the fabric.

You looked at his face again and saw how he smiled at you seductively although you had just sealed the deal that you were to be the one putting on a show for him.

“Hit me then, love”, he murmured and licked over his lips and teeth - you could see his fangs glint in the dim, warm light. “I'm ready”, he whispered in a low voice, looking at you from under his brows.

And for some reason that set something off in you. Suddenly you felt very sure about all of this - oh, you'd give him what he deserved.

With your free hand you grabbed his erection that was so prominently placed between your two bodies and squeezed it - hard -, stroking upwards as much as the constraining material of his clothing would allow. The vampire's mouth opened helplessly, a strained sound leaving his lips, his eyes rolling around wildly.

Oh, so maybe not so ready after all. His reaction immediately made you more eager while sending delicious jolts of lust to your loins and the tips of your breasts.

You cocked your head to one side with an innocent, sweet smile and arched your back - showing off your boobs that lined out nicely against your shirt. And while Astarion eyed them hungrily, knowing he would only taste them by your grace and with his erection still firmly in your grasp, you squeezed his cock again. Much harder this time and you pleasantly moaned with him when he groaned breathlessly.

Definitely not ready for what was coming.

Your hand on his face wandered to his chin and your thumb pressed onto his bottom lip, dragging it down a little. Astarion's pupils widened immediately while you kept pressing and squeezing his hardened length through his pants. You felt it twitch under your caress, so you worked him harder, stroking him slowly and forcefully while his moans grew hoarser and you hummed contentedly.

The vampire began to pant heavily while you kept it up, chest heaving, head falling back, causing his lip to slip from under your thumb.

You allowed it and let your hand wander down his throat, exploring the soft naked skin there with your fingertips. Then you let your hand linger at the bottom of his neck, fingers splayed and applying just a hint of pressure while Astarion repeatedly moaned and praised you under his breath for your nimbly working fingers.

After a while of stroking him you noticed that your breathing was almost as ragged as his. You were biting your lip and felt that this - feeling how much your touches affected him - already had you desperately aroused. Lust was swirling around in your whole body and pulsating powerfully, basically throbbing, between your legs.

Being in this position was more titillating for you than you might have ever anticipated. You found you loved watching the vampire slowly unravel under your touch - it made you feel powerful. Not only because you had him curse all the gods for how well you stroked his cock but also for trusting you enough to forsake all deities in the first place - leaving you as the sole goddess in his book.

You desperately needed Astarion to know that: how ethereal he made you feel.

Your hand at his throat wrapped around it carefully but determined, almost like claws now, but still gentle ones at that.

The vampire's head snapped up again and he watched you pleadingly as you pulled him back to you with a moan that bordered on a whimper, pupils so wide there was almost nothing left of his ruby irises. His face was a mirror of desire and the heedless lust you felt, his mouth wide open, tongue almost already lolling out and canines glinting in the warm light.

It was obvious that at this point, would you have asked him to get to his knees and slobber you up like a dog would his most favourite meal, he would have done so eagerly and without hesitation, probably even barking in the process.

You let go of his hardness and wrapped your other arm around him to press his body against yours by pulling him in, almost making him crash into you. Your hand was clawing down his back more now. And then you pressed your open mouth to his to reward him with a kiss, tongue immediately entering his mouth - leaving him no room for questions. You just were the answer.

He greeted you eagerly but you were the one in charge - it was what he wanted tonight. And you would keep it that way.

You kissed him hard, tongue swirling around his, and then dragging along his teeth, making him moan again while a single drop of blood was drawn from you. Your taste on his tongue only making the vampire more feral for what you could give him - if you would allow it.

Then you felt how his arms were trying to wrap around you once more. Probably just muscle memory but this wasn't what you had agreed upon. You broke the kiss and squeezed with the hand around his throat and rolled your hips again, spreading your legs wider - forcefully.

“Behave”, you whispered pointedly as you looked at each other, both breathing heavily.

“You know it's hard with you”, Astarion whispered back in a rough, deep tone.

You chuckled once and rolled your hips again, trying to straddle him even harder than before. “Oh, I know it's hard, love”, you replied because you couldn't resist and tightened the hold on his neck a little more. The vampire let out a pleased and almost unbelieving pant.

“You're taking this on so easily, darling”, Astarion whispered as you could feel his erection twitch even through both of your clothes. His eyes looked like liquid now, molten - lust, need and awe swirling in it. He hadn’t been lying when he had pledged to surrender himself to you.

Instead of replying you quickly moved and shoved him so he lost balance and fell backwards onto the bed. For a moment you just watched him: splayed out before you so willingly and eagerly. It was a sight to behold for sure. And from the look of it, it seemed from Astarion’s point of view it was as well. You were already sure this was altering something essential within the both of you.

The vampire was grinning teasingly at you when you couldn’t rip your eyes from him - and then he bucked his hips swiftly.

Caught utterly by surprise, you almost fell onto him, but caught yourself as you heard his haughty laughter. Even with his own proposition, he was still being sassy.

In response, you grabbed his wrists and then pressed them down on the mattress next to each side of his head while you leaned forward, supporting yourself on your elbows. You moved in as if you were going to kiss him and stopped just out of reach, moving your head from side from side as you gazed upon him. The pale elf eyed you back as he was being held captive by you. All this was a far cry from where you had started indulging in each other - he might’ve never been more with you than in this very moment.

Astarion was enjoying all of this so much already. He would enjoy it even more very soon.

“What did I tell you, you naughty vampire?”, you whispered so close to Astarion’s mouth, that your lips almost touched his.

The vampire went to reply something with a smug grin but you just used the opportunity to bite into his full bottom lip and drag on it with your teeth. Astarion’s words immediately caught in his throat and he grunted from the pleasurable pain.

You didn’t give him time to recover then. Since seemingly the only way to get him to cooperate was to positively overwhelm him.

You quickly moved in for another passionate kiss and just as Astarion was getting into it, you broke away again - leaving him to simply whimper and mourn the loss of your touch. You placed your hands on his shoulders, letting go of his wrists.

Arching your back once more and sitting up straight you dragged your hands from his shoulders down his torso, over the bulge in his pants and then up your own body. As you passed it you grabbed the hem of your shirt and dragged it upwards. The vampire meanwhile was too hypnotised by your wandering hands now to be sassy. You dragged your boobs up with your shirt, softly squishing them as you teasingly moved slower and slower the closer you came to taking off your shirt fully.

You held the two of you at this edge of tension for a moment. And when you finally let your breasts jig down, you heard the soft gasps from your partner while you pulled your shirt over your head.

You saw the yearning look on Astarion’s face as he realised again he wasn’t going to get to touch you, toy with your boobs, let his fingertips tease your already hardened nipples, tease the sensitive bud between your legs with his long, delicate fingers. But you surely would make up for that, maybe even treat him if he behaved from now on.

But just for the moment you demonstrated to him what he had forfeited: you grabbed your tits and firmly squeezed them while you let your head fall back with a lustful moan, then let a hand wander down over your stomach and dip beneath the waistline of your pants, stroking yourself for a few pleasurable moments. And when you looked at your vampire again, you saw how he watched you, biting his lip hard with one fang showing. Carnal hunger was consuming him more with every single one of your passing actions. And you delighted in it more than you had thought possible.

Then you put him out of his misery.

From his thighs you let your hands slide over his chiselled upper body dragging his shirt up in the process. And then you immediately followed the revealed skin with your mouth, eagerly kissing and licking up over Astarion’s smooth, pale skin.

He thanked you with continued gasps and moans that became more desperate the more time you took. Out of the corner of your eyes, you saw that his hands were clenching in the sheets, bunching them up since now they didn’t have your body to hold and caress. You could see how his knuckles had visibility turned white from all the force despite his already pale skin.

When you had almost pulled up his shirt entirely, you let your teeth graze over his skin too and especially paid attention to his collarbone with the tip of your tongue while you made a point to look your lover straight into the eyes. Broadly pressing your tongue in the dip at the bottom of his neck, you licked up the line of his throat that Astarion rewarded with a sharp intake of breath while he leaned his head back. A muscle ticked in his jaw.

Besides the lust and carnal need in them, his eyes were so open and vulnerable while being so full with anticipation and admiration as well. You realised he really did trust you fully - and you would do your best to honour that.

You made him shrug off his shirt and threw it after your own. Almost jumping onto his lap again, you dragged on his wrists so he would move up his torso. He quickly obeyed and lifted himself up, fire burning in his red eyes.

You grabbed hold of Astarion’s jaw again and looked him straight in the eye as you presented him with a gift: “You may touch me - until I tell you to stop.”

The vampire’s eyes widened happily. He needn’t be told twice. He wrapped his arms around you, dragged his fingers over your spine while the other immediately squeezed your butt and lifted you a little to drag you closer and make your core rub along his hard cock. His eyes rolled almost into the back of his skull as for the moment he was allowed to enjoy the sensation of caressing you again. You sighed and let him drag up your hips again, basically making you ride him despite the fact that you were both still clothed from the waist down.

You pressed your tits into his face and he immediately took the hint to suck on them sloppily, teasing the tips with his tongue and teeth, making you exhale sharply as you clawed into his shoulders to hold on. He was so eager to please now and to make the most out of the touches you had allowed.

“Indulge yourself, I beg of you”, you offered him in addition as you felt one of his canines tease the soft skin on your breasts. When you looked down at his face you saw how his gaze glinted predatorily at you and without breaking eye contact he sank his fangs into your flesh, drawing small tendrils of blood. You cried out and your nails dragged over his shoulder blades, almost drawing blood yourself.

He sucked on your breasts, tasting your blood while your whole body tensed from the cold, sharp pain scratching through your body and heightening your pleasure even further.

You allowed the vampire to enjoy himself freely for a few moments more before you withdrew yourself from him, telling him stop. With a bit of reluctance he let you go although frustration flashed over his face. But this was the price: you gave and you took away - but always with his pleasure in mind.

“Good boy”, you complimented his obedient behaviour and saw how he delighted in being praised. You quickly kneeled on the bed again, but only to give him another shove: “Now lay down!”

You watched to see if he would keep behaving and then slid down from the bed so you could first take off your pants and then immediately move onto his. You dragged them down Astarion’s slender hips, while the vampire scurried to help you free him of his constricting clothes. Such an eager little pup again now.

Then you took another moment to look at Astarion in all his glory. He was still only half laying on the bed, holding himself up on his elbows, one leg up and angled on the mattress. His hair was tousled profusely and you saw some soft red scratch marks that you had left on his shoulders - and of course Astarion’s hardened length showed you just how much he was enjoying all this. He looked up at you with slightly parted lips, more anticipation in his eyes and some of your blood still covering them until his tongue darted out to lick it away.

You bit your lip as you took him in for a moment longer. He mirrored you, his expression surely just as obviously showing his need for you.

Desperately, you were tempted to just jump right to the point where you would both lose yourself and drift up to the stars together. But you didn’t want to be quick about this. In fact, you wanted to take it as slow as you’d be able to, make Astarion slowly but surely lose his mind in the process.

So you better got back to work to make it happen.

The both of you were now already way too worked up to throw in playful banter - there were only gasps and heavy breathing and the thundering of your beating heart in your ears. You motioned Astarion to move up on the bed and as he moved backwards you immediately prowled after him on your hands and knees.

You saw how the pale elf’s eyes were filled - not with fear - but something that looked somewhat similar: impatient anticipation and admiring surprise. Seemingly both of you were pleasantly overwhelmed by how much each of you were enjoying yourself in this reversal of the roles.

Agonisingly slowly you climbed onto the bed while you kept looking at your vampire. Your hair fell over your shoulder, long, soft strands fanning out and covering part of your face as you were making your way up over your prey. And you didn’t stop until you were fully hovering above Astarion. The longest strands of your hair were lazily dragging over the vampire’s chest who looked at you in awe and admiration.

You looked at him, the perfect lines of his face and body and the warm and loving soul you knew lay beneath it all. Love overwhelmed you, filled every fibre of your being as you kept observing him. The person you’d give anything for in an instance.

And even more than that: you know he felt the same for you without a doubt. You saw it mirrored in those crimson eyes that held yours with such longing. And you knew it. Deep in your soul you both knew you belonged to each other. That this was more than just a carnal, material need, so much more.

And he deserved the world. But for tonight, you would start by trying to give him some pleasures that had been twisted and tainted for him for way too long.

“I love you, Astarion”, you whispered breathlessly and then went back to kissing him, shortly feeling a coppery tang on his lips and tongue from the blood he’d taken from you. You took your time now and thus made him slow down too while your hands wandered over his shoulders, chest, arms. The kiss became almost painfully slow, the way your tongues twirled around each other, savouring each other.

You dragged your mouth down his throat after that, caressing his skin messily and eagerly by kissing and sucking, pressing your upper body to his now, so your breasts were deliciously squished against his naked chest. Slowly, you made your way down his chiselled upper body, over his stomach, dragging your boobs over his soft skin, drawing muffled sounds of pleasure from him. All while your hands wandered down his arms until they reached his hands.

You entwined your fingers with his then - for this next part he might have need for at least something to hold onto. Lifting yourself up again you had almost reached your desired destination, kneeling now between his spread legs. His eyes did not leave yours for a moment as you lowered your lips to his erect cock and without further warning took him into your mouth.

You kept looking at him as you took him deeper. His hands clawed into yours and his back arched while you sucked on his dick and let your tongue swirl around it. Astarion’s eyes were filled with desperate need - the likes of which you had never seen with him. The vampire was really grasping onto all you offered and threw himself into the pleasures you blessed him with - headfirst.

And while you mainly focused on Astarion’s pleasure you felt how all this really did a number on you as well. Knowing how much pleasure you could give him heightened your own enjoyment immensely. You already knew that it wouldn’t take long once you would close in on that edge to jump off of.

You felt the tension in the pale elf’s body rise, felt how his grip on your hands became tighter when you took him to the hilt - the only moments when you had to take your gaze off his because subtle tears sprang to your eyes.

He kept whispering your name now - like a mantra, not sure if it was meant to save or doom him. His back arched harder, you felt that he was almost losing control.

But you weren’t done yet, you still had more steps in your plan. So, licking up his shaft a final time, you detangled your fingers from his.

As you moved up again you saw how his cock was glistening from your spit in the low light and you heard how he softly whimpered, caused by the sudden loss of your touch and the unbearable need for release.

But he didn’t need to wait long. You moved up until you were straddling him again and took his length into your hand, working him for a couple moments as you caught his gaze again. Obviously Astarion had a good idea of what your next step would be and had put his arms up over his head to brace himself against the headboard - or to give his hands something else to hold onto for this next part - since your hips wouldn’t be an option.

You positioned yourself over him and dragged the tip of his cock along the heat of your slick core. That alone caused Astarion to groan and buck his hips into your hand. His eyes rolled back so far you almost only saw the white in them now. The breathless grunts that left his mouth were so desperate now - almost begging you without words.

The muscles in his arms were tensing up so much, you could see clearly defined lines now. He looked at you, face contorted by lust. His brows were drawn together in a pleading expression. You could see it took him all of his remaining focus to utter his next words.

“You’re more than I could have ever hoped for”, he pressed out while his chest was rising and falling heavily. “More than I deserve.”

Breathlessly you shook your head, causing him to draw his brows together again - but now in confusion.

“I am exactly what you deserve, my love”, you whispered back as you positioned his hardened length at your core and took him fully in one swift movement.

And suddenly it was your moment to arch your back when electricity ran through your whole body while a loud moan enriched with his name left your lips. You delighted in the sensation of how he felt inside you.

And quite obviously so did Astarion when he cried out your name and let out another curse aimed at the gods that had forsaken him so long ago. In their stead you reigned supreme now.

You began to move, lifting yourself up a little and shifting your hips while you withdrew almost fully from him. Astarion supported you by angling his hips to give you more leverage. Immediately, you felt what you had feared: it wouldn’t take you long now. Then you let your hips slam down again, clenching your core, causing the both of you to inhale sharply.

You started moving continuously. But even though you tried to move in a slow and steady pace you quickly felt yourself lose control. Astarion’s body beneath you was tense as a bow string while his groans became louder and shaky in nature.

You lifted one arm over your head, drawing up your hair while the rhythm of your movements became quicker, harder. Your other hand went down to where your bodies met, working on your most sensitive part, putting in some small effort to push you along with your partner - to be ready to join him.

Astarion kept observing you and drank you in - all this at least as delicious as the blood he had tasted from you. He kept bracing himself while his body tensed more and more.

The way you rode him became almost savage while the vampire tried to steady you bringing the both of you right up to the side of the cliff - and then off it.

The moment Astarion came you saw how he lost himself - you watched his undoing. Unwillingly, his eyes went from yours to the heavens as he pressed out your name and his whole body arched towards you while you felt him twitch inside you.

And immediately after, you too felt how waves of electric pleasure overran you, making you quiver and shake, positively causing you to see stars and blur your vision.

Together you got fully lost in the moment.

And it wasn’t even all about the carnal urges you felt for each other right now but about the deep primal need not to be alone, to tangle together until your hearts, bodies and minds were indistinguishable from each other.

And you surely weren’t alone as you were both taken up to the stars rapidly and then only slowly, comfortably drifted down again.

You’d had to close your eyes in these final moments as pleasure overwhelmed you, but when you opened them now, you were met with the loving gaze of Astarion.

Both your bodies relaxed and you carefully climbed off him, only to sink onto his chest again. You were still breathing heavily and not fully capable of stringent thoughts when you suddenly felt the vampire’s arms around you.

“Thought no touching?”, you babbled breathlessly while you still felt the afterwaves of your high. But you welcomed his comforting, caring embrace and his careful caresses.

“I do not believe you have the power within you right now to fight me about it, darling”, Astarion whispered back, almost as breathless as you. He too was still coming down slowly from where you’d just been thrown. But he already had enough energy in him once more to grace you with his signature smirk again.

“Maybe… Maybe I’ve also had enough of this challenge for one night”, you answered and heard the vampire softly laugh in response while he squeezed you comfortingly and you felt relieved to be held again.

You wrapped your arms and legs around him, suddenly feeling the desperate need to just be close to him, to feel him skin on skin. Just to lay there. Until you would feel the boundaries between your bodies blur, not knowing where your body stopped and his began.

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penny00dreadful · 2 years ago

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So... some of you may have noticed my fics have come to a screeching halt the last couple of months which is not like me and I am here to explain myself.

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Fic list with blurbs below the cut, this will (roughly) be the order they're posted in:

Return of The King - COMPLETE

Steddie Vampire AU with a twist! Vampire Steve comes back after falling to the bats. There is two more chapters left and those chapters have been completed.

Comeuppance - COMPLETE

Dustin just wants Steve to be happy. So he tries to parent trap him with Nancy. Clearly they should be together. But Steve's heart doesn't even seem to be in it at all! How is he so bad at this? And Eddie is being less than helpful

Rookie Mistake - COMPLETE

My Steddie Established Relationship Spies AU oneshot that will have a multi-chapter prequel fic coming very soon after!

Eddie is "retired" and Steve has been injured on the job, so he's supposed to be taking it easy. How hard could a walk to the gas station be?

Before He Cheats - COMPLETE

Songfic! Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats

I literally have no excuse for this one. The rotted brainworms were behind the steering wheel with this one.

One evening, Eddie gets a call from some guy named Steve dropping the news on him that his boyfriend has been cheating on him. With this Steve person and Steve had no idea up until that day.

And Eddie rarely takes that shit lying down.

Steddievember Smut - COMPLETE

No Nut November is here! One can play however he wants. The other just has to wait for December to roll around. I have no other words to describe what this will be, it does what it says on the tin. I blame the STWG discord server. Currently we're looking at four little ficlets for this.

Cat and Mouse - COMPLETE

The Steddie Spies AU Prequel! How they got together and the extreme ups and downs their enemies/rivals to lovers journey goes through. I had so much fun with this one.

And They Were Roommates! - COMPLETE

omg they were roommates.

Steve and Eddie don't hate each other exactly. They just... tolerate each other. But one night Eddie doesn't come home for hours. Long after he's supposed to and it's not like Steve is worried or anything... he's just... concerned for a fellow human being... that's all.

Through The Valley - IN PROGRESS

Post-Apocalyptic AU. Eddie, Dustin and Nancy have a nice little community of survivors outside of Hawkins that they take care of, surviving day to day. Everyone's a little broken, missing the rest of their Party just hoping that one day they'll find each other again.

Devotion

Dungeons and Dragons AU. Steve is the golden boy of the small town of Hawkins. Harrington in name and now a Paladin with his very own oath to hunt down the Bard, the witch Eddie Munson and bring him back to justice under High Priest Henry Creel.

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draconicsparkle · 1 year ago

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So @snivyartjpeg shared their warmup doodles in the discord server of a kokolight vampire au. And I swear, as soon as I saw it, my brain instantly desired to make something based off of it. How could I not?

Not much to say on this honestly. I just wanted to write something fun based on the cute doodles! So enjoy!

Vampires existed. They lived and breathed in the same world as humans. That was an undeniable fact. Yakou knew this and accepted this.

But what he had not expected was for one of his own employees to be one.

His first clue had been a few bloody tissues left in the trash can. As far as he knew, no one had been having intense nosebleeds aside from possibly Desuhiko. But no clients had come to the agency and no… magazines were here. So the possibility of the disguise detective being the bleeder was minimal.

So at that point, he tried to subtly observe his employees a little more.

He instantly ruled Fubuki out as the one hiding their true status, as she couldn’t lie to save her life. Desuhiko was ruled out too, as he was not very good at convincing. So he surely wouldn’t have been able to talk someone into providing blood. And Yuma? Obviously not, as the small rookie detective couldn’t hurt a fly.

Which left two contenders. Halara and Vivia.

This was where the search got a little more difficult. Those two were incredibly guarded individuals, not letting much slip past their walls. They could keep secrets no problem, and their poker faces were solid.

But after some watching, Yakou thought he nailed it down.

Vivia Twilight.

It seemed obvious once he connected the dots. The man always appeared to be sleeping during the day, as vampires were typically nocturnal creatures. His skin was pale, like he didn’t have great blood circulation as vampires tended to suffer from. His ability to be incredibly stealthy when he needed to. And the constant insistence that he wanted to die someday. Perhaps a mindset he got from needing to drain people’s lifeblood to survive.

And in addition to figuring this out, he also discovered who Vivia must have been feeding off of. Yuma Kokohead.

The two of them had gotten close since they started working together. It was fairly common to see them next to each other, whether it be naps, talks, or eating regular food. So he was certainly easy to access as a food source. Yuma also was fairly agreeable and could be convinced easily. He always wore that navy blue scarf, concealing his neck and potentially hiding the bite marks.

It all fit in Yakou’s mind. Surely he had figured it out.

But he couldn’t put the thought to bed until he had concrete proof. So he devised a little scheme.

It had started with sending Halara, Fubuki and Desuhiko out to do some jobs. He also claimed that he had errands to run, so he gave instructions to the last two. “Stay here in the agency and keep watch over the place. If clients come in, entertain them until I return. Understood?”

Yuma nodded with a beaming smile. “We won’t let you down, Chief!” Vivia hummed his agreement from the fireplace.

“Okay then. I’ll be back in an hour,” he told them. Then he left the submarine.

To his credit, he did go do some errands to kill time. But he returned to the sub after half an hour. He knew that by giving them a time frame, they might try something while they believed themselves to be alone with no interruptions. So it was the best time to try and get his proof.

He carefully unlocked the hatch, descending into the hull and turning around. The lights had been turned off, but the sound of clothes rustling was audible. Vampires preferred darkness over light, so this was a good sign. But he needed more information. So he took some sneaky steps towards the room’s opening, until he was just barely hidden. Then he suddenly rounded the corner.

And what he found there had not been what he expected.

Oh, there was a vampire in his submarine alright, but the glowing red eyes and bloody fangs didn’t belong to who he had thought. Yuma’s eyes shone in the dark as they turned towards him while perched on Vivia’s lap. His tongue darted out to lap up a tiny trickle of blood that was dripping down his chin.

Meanwhile, Vivia had been sitting upright on the sofa, head tilted to the side and his neck exposed with several bite marks now on display with his coat off. The lazy detective opened his eyes upon feeling the vampire stop, then caught sight of the flabbergasted Yakou. “Oh, hey Chief,” he called out, acting as though nothing was wrong.

“Wha-? But… I thought… Yuma’s the vampire?!” he managed to exclaim, running a hand through his frazzled hair.

“Uh… sorry? I wasn’t really sure… how to tell you,” the rookie said with an embarrassed tone. “But it’s okay! Vivia helps me with my blood urges, so there’s nothing to fear!”

Yakou rubbed his temples, trying to not get overly upset that his theory had been the complete opposite. “It’s fine, it’s fine. If you got it under control, then I see no reason to worry.” He sighed, then reached for the light switch. “Turning on the lights now. Close your eyes.”

He waited until the red glow vanished from the room, then flipped the switch. He grabbed the grocery bag that he had left near the hatch and entered the room again, ready to discuss things with his employees.

But when he returned, Yuma had somehow vanished from sight. Only Vivia was in the room, busy with tying a dark bandage around his collection of bite marks. “Uh… where’s Yuma?” he asked, very confused on where the rookie had disappeared to.

Vivia smiled. “He gets sleepy after a meal. And… he insists on resting with me.”

Yakou was about to insist on a better explanation when he noticed a new shade of lilac on the taller detective’s hair. Walking closer revealed something quite endearing.

A small purple vampire bat with Yuma’s signature hair antenna was nestled into the green hair. He let out a yawn, then snapped his jaws closed and snuggled deeper into the locks. That, Yakou would admit, was adorable.

“I see. Well, I’ll leave you two to rest, I guess. I’ll try to be quiet,” he told them, then finishing the journey to the kitchen to put the groceries away. He did try to keep his promise, and worked as silently as possible.

Once everything was put away, he peeked into the lobby again. Vivia had retreated to the fireplace, the tiny bat still in his hair. Both looked dead to the world.

That was good, he supposed. Better to let them get some relaxation time while they could before the next big job. And the sight was enough to heal his wounded pride as a detective.

He turned his eyes away from the pair, settling down in his chair and opening the newspaper. Time to get back to business.

#master detective archives: rain code #rain code #fanfic #vampire au #yuma kokohead #vivia twilight #yakou furio #kokolight

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radioactivatedspider · 3 months ago

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Collision Course

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pairing: Dean Winchester x oc

genre; romantic action-adventure, urban fantasy

warnings; Violence & Injury, Strong Language, Enemies-to-Lovers Themes, Supernatural Themes

Summary: Dean Winchester and Courtney Vanderbilt start as rivals, constantly butting heads over their hunting methods. Their clashes are fiery, but when a dangerous hunt leaves Dean injured, Courtney steps in to save him.

560 words

The first time Dean Winchester met Courtney Vanderbilt, he knew she was trouble.

She was all sharp words and fire, standing across from him in a dimly lit bar, calling him reckless after he nearly got himself killed on a hunt. Dean had just stumbled in, bloodied and bruised, only to find this stranger telling him how he should’ve handled things differently.

“You think you’re untouchable,” she had snapped, arms crossed, blue eyes flashing with irritation. “But you’re just another hunter who’s gonna get himself killed if he keeps acting like he’s invincible.”

Dean had scoffed, tossing back a shot of whiskey. “And what are you, sweetheart? The hunting police?”

She had glared at him, unimpressed. “I clean up messes like yours.”

And just like that, a rivalry was born.

Every time their paths crossed, it was the same. Arguments, sarcasm, and heated debates about who was right, who was better, and who was going to get themselves killed first.

Dean couldn’t stand her. She was stubborn, cocky, and always had to have the last word. But damn if she wasn’t good at what she did. She was fast, smart, and had instincts that rivaled even his. She was also impossible to shake, constantly appearing on cases, getting in his way, making his life difficult.

“Stay out of this one, Vanderbilt,” he had warned her once after they’d both shown up to track the same wendigo.

She had smirked, flipping her black hair over her shoulder. “Make me, Winchester.”

And he had tried. God help him, he had tried.

But Courtney wasn’t someone who backed down, and Dean… Dean found himself drawn to the fight.

It was after a hunt gone wrong that everything changed.

They had been tracking a nest of vampires, and Dean—too damn reckless for his good—had gone in alone. By the time Courtney found him, he was barely standing, blood dripping from his temple, a vampire’s body slumped at his feet.

She had sighed, exasperated but worried. “You are such a dumbass.”

Dean, breathing heavily, grinned through the pain. “And yet, you’re here, saving my ass. Again.”

She rolled her eyes but stepped closer, pressing a cloth to his wound. “Somebody has to.”

For the first time, there was no snark, no tension—just quiet.

And when their eyes met, something shifted.

The next time they saw each other, everything felt different.

Dean still got under her skin, and Courtney still drove him insane, but there was something else lingering between them now. A charged silence. A glance that lasted too long. The way she touched his arm when she spoke, like she had forgotten she was supposed to hate him.

One night, after another argument that ended in a draw, he grabbed her wrist before she could storm off. “Why do you care so much?” he had asked, his voice lower than usual.

She had stared at him, lips parted, as if she wasn’t sure herself. And then, before either of them could overthink it, she had kissed him.

It was fast, messy, like neither of them wanted to admit what was happening—but it was real.

And when she pulled away, breathless, Dean had smirked. “Hate to break it to you, sweetheart, but I think you like me.”

Courtney laughed, shaking her head. “Shut up, Winchester.”

But she didn’t pull away when he kissed her again.

#dean winchester x oc #dean winchester x reader #dean x reader #dean winchester #x oc #x reader #supernatural x oc #supernatural x reader #supernatural

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aweirdoandhisfanfics · 1 year ago

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BSAV family AU. Part 0

I've had this idea some weeks ago, but then I found THIS IMAGE:

This is an official image that JD instagram account posted, and when I first saw it I SCREAMED.

I know this image probably its just another image that a corporate account posted, but it made really happy that my AU can become canon.

So I decided to make a quick rundown of my AU.

What is the BSAV family AU

As the title suggests, it's an AU where all the coaches from the "Beach, Summer And Vampires" season and some others are part from a single and big family, the members of this family are:

Felicia (the mother)

Vester (the uncle/father figure)

Lilith (aunt)

Sil (NPC from sacrifice, he is the uncle)

Alano (uncle)

Scarlet (Boss Witch and the daugther)

Scotty (son and protagonist)

Cthylla (family pet)

Jennifer and Agda (Don't Let Me Down coches, and the family neighbors)

But how all of them got united

Well, It all started with Felicia, she once made a deal with the eldritch god, Cthulhu, the deal was that she would receive power, but she would also have to take care of his daugther, Cthylla.

Years later, Felicia was trying to have kids, but no spells that she tried could make her pregnant, so she resorted for the last action that she could make to have kids, she kidnaped Vester and Lilith.

Years later, she finaly managed to get pregnant magicaly, which lead to Scarlet being born, some years later, Cthylla brought her a baby from Sun Horizon called Scotty, she couldn't find his parents, so she ended up adopting him.

Jennifer and Agda they just moved to the house next door.

But how did you get this idea?

Weeks ago, in a JD discord server comented this: "I hc that the NPC guy from Sacrifice is called Alistair (at the time I called him Alistair)"

Then a friend of mine sended this gif:

Becaus Alistair is similar to Alastor, then I responded "I'm imagining Vester and Felicia cheering Scotty up", and that's when this entire AU started to be created.

#Beach summer and vampires #just dance #family au #vampires #witches #found family #Felicia kidnaped two people and no one bats an eye #normal human in the middle of monsters

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arimiadev · 11 months ago

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July Updates – Writing Complete & 10k+ Plays

It’s the start of August so it’s time to look back at progress made in July, of which there were a lot!

Canvas Menagerie

First off and more importantly, the first draft for the entirety of Canvas Menagerie, my gay visual novel about actors, is complete!

Act 1 & 2 are already past the first draft with Act 1 currently receiving final touches from beta testing, and now Act 3 is joining them as being fully drafted.

The final wordcount on the documents is 153k words, though once it’s ported to Ren’Py this number will go down slightly, so more realistically the full game will be around 140k words with Act 2 being the shortest (but only slightly). Here’s a small snippet of a scene in Act 3 where Niko is wishing Ren off at the airport.

Niko “You’ve got your passport, right? And ID? And chargers? And medicine?” Ren “Who needs to make a checklist when I have you?” Niko “That’s the problem. You’re not going to have me for a few weeks.” Ren stops walking, making me almost run into him. He steps towards me, takes off one side of his mask, and kisses me. Niko “You’re going to be caught on camera.” Ren “What’s so bad about that?” I lean in and give him one more quick kiss. If I stay this close to him I won’t want to let him go. Niko “If you get lonely in your hotel room, you can call me.” Ren “Lonely? How do you know I won’t be out enjoying the nightlife? They have actual markets over there, you know.” Niko “That’d require you to care about getting out.” Ren “Everywhere I go I’m the life of the party. I’ll send you photos, don’t worry.” Niko “I’m sure I’ll see them online before you get the chance to.” Niko “Just…try not to push yourself too much.” Ren “You should worry about yourself. If I’m not here to kick you out of bed you’re going to keep skipping practice, aren’t you?” Niko “I didn’t skip, it just wasn’t in person!!” Ren “Trying to make yourself feel better now, huh?” I raise my hand in protest, but he puts his hand on my head. Ren “I’ll be back before you know it.”

Act 1 is their meet cute and working through their differences until they realize there’s a connection there. Act 2 is the beginning of their romantic relationship as a couple, slowly getting to know each other better and navigating their everyday lives as a new couple. Act 3 is their relationship growing and being tested to see if they truly understand the person they’re with and what baggage the other person has.

When I set out to make Canvas Menagerie, I knew that their growing feelings for each other (while unadmitted) was just the beginning of their story and the true meat of it was them navigating life together.

Aside from just writing, though, I also made substantial progress on scripting! I’m currently halfway through scripting Act 2 to get it ready for beta testers.

I’m hoping to wrap up scripting Act 2 by the end of August and sending it off to beta testers. If you’re interested in testing it, join our public Discord server! I’ll be sharing the beta testing info there as well as on our newsletter.

Last but not least for Canvas Menagerie, it’ll be in the upcoming Wholesome Games Steam Celebration on Steam next week!

Dahlia

In July, Dahlia hit 10k plays on itch.io! Thank you everyone who’s tried out my short little vampire visual novel. To celebrate, I drew a new artwork for the game.

I recorded a timelapse for this drawing.

youtube

Last but not least, it also received a French translation as well as an android port!

Now is a great time to check it out if you haven’t already—it’s short and free to play.

— Arimia

#visual novel #visual novels #my games #indie game dev #devlog #canvas menagerie #dahlia #Youtube

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just-a-silly-little-whumper · 1 year ago

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Tender

Masterpost | Read on Ao3

So the winner of yesterday's poll was not this piece but this piece was done so here you go! I wrote this for a weekly prompt for the Art Whumpers Anonymous Discord Server ("Does it hurt?"). Enjoy!

Nathan is good at taking care of injuries, both his own and others'.

Contains: Minor whump (typical childhood injuries), vampires, caretaking, complicated relationships

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“Does it hurt?”

Nathan keeps his voice pitched low as he kneels down in front of Christina. She looks up at him with wide, watery eyes and nods. The gash on her leg is long and jagged and oozing blood, but thankfully it doesn’t look deep.

“I bet.” He holds out a hand to her. “Let’s get you home. I’m sure some cherries will make you feel better while I clean you up, yeah?”

Her wobbly lip turns up into a bit of a smile as she nods again, this time more confident, and takes his hand. He rises to his feet in a fluid motion, pulling her up with a firm but gentle grip, and takes note of how she staggers and tries to take the weight off of her injured leg. The sight makes him frown. She’s getting a little bit big for it, but…

“Would you like me to carry you?”

Another nod, and Nathan crouches back down to gather Christina up into his arms. She’s heavy, but he doesn’t mind; it means she’s growing. After taking a moment to make sure his grip on her is secure, he starts the trek back up the hill and into town. Christina clings to him the entire time, quiet as ever, her eyes wandering across the landscape.

When they get home he goes straight to the kitchen. They still have some leftover candied cherries in the cupboard, and he makes up a small bowl for Christina before setting her on a chair. “Alright, let’s get you cleaned up.”

The cherries were the right call, he decides, as she barely winces when he starts wiping down her leg with a wet cloth. Her focus is instead entirely on the sweets. It gives him the chance to get the wound clean and confirm that it really is as mild as he first thought it was. She finishes her bowl just as he gets the bandaged wrapped around her leg and pinned in place.

“There,” he says, standing back up to look at her directly. “Feel better?”

“Yeah. All better.” Her smile is small but genuine, and fills him with warmth, the same way it does every time he sees it.

“Good.” He ruffles her hair, chuckling at her squeak of protest. “Now, do you want to help me with lunch?”

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“Does it hurt?”

The voice startled him, but Nathan didn’t show it, just kept winding the bandage around his hand as if Priya hadn’t just come out of nowhere. “I’m fine.”

And he was. His hand still burned from the magical backlash, but it was nothing he didn’t know how to deal with.

“Clearly.” Her voice was as unimpressed as his was. “And I see you have it handled.”

Bandage in place, he looked up at her with as charming of a grin as he could manage. “Yeah, well, I am a man of many talents.” He had to be to survive. It didn’t matter where those skills came from, or what he had to give up in the process.

“Hm.” She pushed off the wall. “Father has a new thrall. I’ll tell Renata to let you have the first claim to them. Some extra blood will help you heal.”

“Oh.” For a moment all he could do was blink at her. It almost seemed like a kind gesture. There was always a chance that it would come with strings attached, but there was no reason for him to turn it down. Not when Priya had a point. “Well, I certainly won’t say no. Maybe I’ll even leave some for you two.”

“Good.” Her voice was a bit softer. Not quite caring, but something close to it. He refused to feel anything at all about it. “I’ll see you at dinner.”

#Blood of the Coven #silly writes #Whump #whump writing #nathan park oc #priya tiwari oc #Christina Park oc #vampires #caretaking

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sunnydaleherald · 1 year ago

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The Sunnydale Herald Newsletter, Sunday, July 7th

Spike: “No pain! (He hits the demon again) I can hurt a demon!” He vamps out and starts to make up for all the violence he’s missed out on, having a great old time. Spike as the demon finally drops: “That’s right. I’m back. And I’m a BLOODY ANIMAL! Yeah!”

~~Doomed~~

[Drabbles & Short Fiction]

Turn the Car Around by veronyxk84 (Spike, PG-13)

Mutual Playtime by Skyson (Buffy/Giles, Explicit)

Sweet (Enough to Eat) by zombiesam (Buffy/Giles, Explicit)

Good Boy by Geliot99 (Buffy/Spike, R)

Thou, sun, art half as happy as we... by fortes775 (Buffy/Spike, R)

Turn the Car Around by VeroNyxK84 (Spike, PG-13)

[Chaptered Fiction]

Forgiveness Doesn't Come Easy, Ch. 33 by slaymesoftly (Buffy/Spike, R)

Stagnant Silence. . . - Chapter 1 by KingsAndCrowns (Giles/Ethan, T)

Truth and Consequences, Ch. 19 by JamesMFan (Buffy/Spike, R)

The Watcher, Ch. 18 by In Mortal (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Enemies to Ghost Hunters, Ch. 6-10 by ClowniestLivEver (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

The Balance, Ch. 6-10 by ClowniestLivEver (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Maclay Down, Ch. 12 by Soulburnt (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Fixer Uppers, Ch. 9 by Melme1325 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

The Devil's Trill, Chapter 22 by Murray (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

The Degradation of Duality [Series Part 2] Ch. 20-21 by Ragini (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Spiked, Ch. 6 by Maxine Eden (Buffy/Spike, Adult Only)

Arrive Before the Birds, Ch. 3 by EverythingElse (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Beer Bad, Spike Good, Chapter 2 by ClowniestLivEver (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

I'll Get You, My Pretty! Chapter 2 by CheekyKitten (Buffy/Spike, R)

No You Don't, Ch. 2 by Maldorana (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Not A Secret to Keep, Ch. 1 by DeamonQueen (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Shenanigans, Ch. 1 by flootzavut (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Never Bet Against the Slayer, Ch. 1 by JayeMaru (Buffy/Spike, PG-13)

Another Truce? Ch. 1 by To Be Hers (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Some lovely glorious nothing I did see... Ch. 1 by fortes775 (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Mysterious Influences, Ch. 1 by EnchantedWillow (Buffy/Spike, R)

About Last Night, Ch. 1 by ashcrashed (Buffy/Spike, R)

Magical Medieval Mystery Tour, Ch. 1 by bewildered (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

Double Vision, Ch. 1 by Saranac (Buffy/Spike, R)

Marriage, Mischief, and Miss Summers, Ch. 1 by Lady Emma (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

When Hecate Met Xander, Ch. 4 by Balder (Fimbulwinter crossover, Xander, FR18)

Adventures in TV Land, Ch. 1 by Cdog (multiple crossovers, Xander, FR21)

Rebirth: A Stargate Tale, Ch. 1 by Buffyworldbuilder (Stargate crossover, Buffy, FR13)

Forgiveness Doesn't Come Easy, Ch. 33 by Slaymesoftly (Buffy/Spike, R)

Love Lives Here, Ch. 83 by Passion4Spike (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

I Do! Ch. 31 by Dusty (Buffy/Spike, NC-17)

[Images, Audio & Video]

portrait practice of my favourite monster hunter by mistyintherivers (Buffy, worksafe)

Buffy tattoo designs by gothamstreetcat (worksafe)

Buffy Summers, Faith Lehane, and Spike miis with QR Codes by jar-of-jomodachi (worksafe)

[Reviews & Recaps]

I wish School Hard’s Sheila Martini had come back by coraniaid

Re: strongest and weakest writers on the Buffy staff? by coraniaid

[Recs & In Search Of]

The Buffy The Vampire Slayer Fanzine by Micaela Wilkinson recced by applesquire

[Community Announcements]

Anyone 18+ is welcome to join alexsrousseau's Discord server centered around the ship of Buffy/Giles

[Fandom Discussions]

what’s my line is... the damsel in distress angel foundational text - by all-seeing-ifer

found an article about Victorian slang and Spike should have kept using this stuff by aphony-cree

faith coma-dreaming of buffy as the snake in the garden by lesbianmarrow

faith being homophobic to tara by lesbianmarrow

...willow's role in the friend group is committing low-stakes cybercrimes by mistyheartrbs

the scoobies do not actually spend the summer after buffy has died believing she is in a hell dimension by moistvonlipwig

They should have brought up how Willow tried to end the world, instead of her killing Warren by there-are-many-ways-to-smile

Cordelia Chase from Buffy The Vampire Slayer: could lesbianism save her? by anon via couldlesbiansavethem

Who [in AtS] is made to be hated? hosted by Gothamstreetcat

Did anyone else hate Angel's true demon form? by foreseethefuture

Questions about Joyce's procedures by Tuxedo_Mark

Why do you think Drusilla nor Spike ever seem to use super-speed when fighting? by beeemkcl

Where is this [what is this set or sound stage]? by starving-my-neopets

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starrystellan · 2 years ago

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About Astarion and BG3

Content Warning :Mention of SA, Abuse I thankfully haven't seen much negative reactions about him on my socmed feeds, and I am grateful for that. But tonight I had an out of body experience when reading a random accusing Astarion, out of all characters in the game, to be a sexual harrasser, and my blood boiled.

I am a victim of psychological abuse, I still live with my abuser. And reading this makes me want to puke. THIS is exactly the type of victim-blaming shit victims have to go through every fucking day of their lives. I am beyond livid. It's one thing to not like a character, it's one thing to express your dislike, it's another to accuse said character of committing a crime he was a victim of in canon-lore, on a public discord server nonetheless.

And even worse, hearing it from friends, agreeing with said accusation. I am just sick in my stomach. Victims have nothing to justify, and especially not how they deal with their trauma. Yes, Astarion is a bastard at the start, yeah he tries to bite Tav. He's a fucking vampire !!!! Get over it. He's still an extremely complex character who suffered 200 years of abuse and I do think he's allowed the little treat of imagining spilling Cazador's guts on the ground once in a while.

Anyway. This was cathartic to write. If you read the whole thing, thank you for hearing me out screaming in the void. We love the soft vampire boyfriend.

#bg3 spoilers #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 astarion #astarion #baldur's gate 3 spoilers

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lunarcovehq · 2 years ago

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SWEET DREAMS - PLOT DROP #2

Sweet dreams are made of this, who am I to disagree? I travel the world and the seven seas. Everybody's looking for something. Some of them want to use you, some of them want to get used by you...

The show must go on, or does it? As the Ren Faire was coming to a close, the Lunar Covians took to the Pendulum Playhouse for the closing ceremony and for a performance of A Midsummer's Night Dream. The play, put on by Rohan Persaud and Bri Rivas, started off wonderfully, with intentional twists woven into the story to keep those who are familiar with the original production on their toes. Briar Reed tugged at the audience's heart strings with her portrayal of Hermia, while newcomers Rangi Hira (as Helena), Jonah Rivas (as Lysander), Julian Chandler (as Demetrius) and Linden Reed (as Puck) were pleasant surprises. The lovers, like in the original, all switch partners throughout the first act. Only rather than Titania (played by Dilan Selvi) falling in love with Bottom (played by Mateo Rivera), this production flipped the original narrative on its head, having Oberon (played by Rohan Persaud) fall in love with the man instead. But, the second act was another story...

As intermission came to an end, chaos rang through the crowd just as they were returning to their seats. First, a row of people were nearly plowed over. Soda, popcorn and M&Ms flew into the air as a blur in the form of one vampire, Theodore Moore ( @theodorexmoore ) tore past them, knocking down everything in his way. The Clan Advisor, Kadir Aksoy ( @moonsongchorus ) tried to follow after him, speeding into the playhouse as he shouted out to warn the Lunar Covians that Theo had stolen the Supreme's grimoire. But, before he could fully explain what was going on, his eyelids fell closed and his body hit the floor. Theodore Moore escaped through the back of the Playhouse with the grimoire in hand as, one by one, everyone in the audience and the stage, besides the fae, began to drop as well, until even the performers were passed out. It turns out that Billie Fitz, Anna Donnelly and Rangi Hira weren't the ones responsible for the Break-Ins after all. It had been Kyle all along with Theo stepping in to finish the job. But, the true culprits of the Break-Ins hardly matter now. Not when the entire town, outside of the fae, have entered a deep slumber where they will be forced to live out their worst nightmares...

REMINDERS

The Fae: While everyone else in town has fallen asleep, you remain awake. You are likely confused as to what has happened and can look to your Fae Queen, Beatriz Ramos for guidance. More information on this to come.

Everyone Else: You now find yourselves in a dreamscape. You don't currently have any recollection of how you got here (that part will come later) and you are unaware that you are dreaming. For you, these nightmares feel very real.

This is a Pairing Plot Drop. THE PAIRS WILL BE POSTED MOMENTARILY WITH MORE INFORMATION EXPLAINING HOW THESE DREAMSCAPES WILL WORK AS WELL AS THE FAE'S INVOLVEMENT IN THEM.

This part of the event is mandatory. We ask that you please participate in your pairing thread. Though you are more than welcome to continue any event threads from before this plot drop as well. Also, big plots should be discussed with the admins before playing them out, so if you have any big plots you want to do, please let us know.

You can choose to write your paired threads out on the dash or if you'd prefer to write it over discord (given the size of the pairings), you can let your admin team know and we can create a temporary discord channel in our discord server for your nightmare. We've also created OOC channels for every nightmare pairing so that you can chat and plot out your threads, like whether you'd like them to happen on the dash or on discord.

Also, please feel free to ask us any questions you may have. The dreamscapes do make this plot drop fairly complicated, so we'd be more than happy to explain in further detail over discord/through the main.

The tag for the event is lunarcoveevent7. Everything from pictures, outfits & threads etc. should be under this tag. Starters should have both the starter and event tag.

We are giving you all until Saturday 8/5 (our discord IC event) to start these nightmare threads. We ask that you please make these threads a priority, but if you haven't finished your thread by then, don't worry. You can still continue to write your threads after the next plot drop.

Also, please note: The only way out of the dreams is to overcome your fear/nightmare. Once you've faced your fear and it no longer scares you, you will wake up. Please notify your admins once your character has escaped your dream and we will provide you with further information as to how you can help those still trapped inside.

Last, but not least, we hope you have fun!

#lunarcoveevent7 #lunarcoveevent

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roshoes · 9 months ago

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Doing silly oc intros since I’m in multiple random rp server on discord!! Starting with one of the two hero’s vs villains servers!

¡! ❞*Rory’s oc introductions* ¡! ❞

‿** 𝕿𝖆𝖇𝖑𝖊 𝕺𝖋 𝕮𝖔𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖘** ‿

~ 𝙱𝚊𝚜𝚒𝚌 𝙸𝚗𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗

~ 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢

~ 𝙿𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚜/𝙵𝚕𝚊𝚠𝚜

˗ˏˋ 𝕭𝖆𝖘𝖎𝖈 𝖎𝖓𝖋𝖔𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓´ˎ˗

𝙽𝚊𝚖𝚎: 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝙷𝚊𝚠𝚔

𝙽𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚗𝚊𝚖𝚎: 𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚕

𝙰𝚐𝚎: 115 (15)

𝙱𝚒𝚛𝚝𝚑𝚍𝚊𝚢: 𝚜𝚎𝚙. 9

𝚆𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚢: 𝚟𝚊𝚖𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚎

𝙶𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛: 𝚠𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗

𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚜: 𝚜𝚑𝚎/𝚑𝚎𝚛

𝚂𝚎𝚡𝚞𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢: 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙 𝚞𝚗𝚕𝚊𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚎𝚍

˗ˏˋ𝕻𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖔𝖓𝖆𝖑𝖎𝖙𝖞 ´ˎ˗

𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚜: 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚜𝚠𝚎𝚎𝚝, 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 drink 𝙷𝚞𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚘𝚍, 𝚐𝚒𝚏𝚝 𝚐𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚛

𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚜: 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚜𝚑𝚢, 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚊𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚞𝚎𝚜, 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚢 𝚠𝚎𝚒𝚛𝚍, 𝚐𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚙𝚑𝚘𝚋𝚎 (𝚒 𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚕𝚕)

𝙽𝚎𝚞𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚕: 𝚘𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚠𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚔 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 (𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚎𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚌 𝚝𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛/𝚓), 𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚗𝚘 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚜𝚘 𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚜 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚜𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚊𝚍𝚞𝚕𝚝𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚘𝚑𝚘𝚘, 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚜 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚗 𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍, 𝚌𝚊𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚛𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚍 𝚊 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚍 𝚊 𝚏𝚘𝚡.

𝕻𝖔𝖜𝖊𝖗𝖘/𝖂𝖊𝖆𝖐𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖘𝖊𝖘

𝙿𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚜: 𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚛𝚘𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚢, 𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚎𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚏𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚒𝚖𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚊𝚕 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚖𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚊𝚐𝚎 (𝚜𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚍𝚒𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚕 𝚟𝚊𝚖𝚙 𝚠𝚊𝚢𝚜)

𝚆𝚎𝚊𝚔𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚎𝚜: 𝚜𝚞𝚗𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝 𝚘𝚋𝚟𝚒., 𝚐𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚒𝚌, 𝚜𝚊𝚕𝚝, 𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚛 (𝚑𝚎𝚛 𝚗𝚘𝚜𝚎 𝚛𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚛)

Her godfather/ guardian was the best friend of her parents. He is another one of my ocs who you will meet next. Her parents were killed by vampire haters and Harber (care taker) tried to stop the killers causing him to die too. He stayed on earth as a ghost.

Her villain Alias is purple haze

First outfit is her civilian outfit and the second is her villain costume.

#silly #rory cory #rowan rambles #my ocs #discord rp #oc rp #yippee #nerd #me core

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monstermaster13 · 10 months ago

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About the grooming rumors.

I am just going to clarify things up regarding the RP that got the 'grooming' accusations, it happened way before I started doing this show and I am going to just explain it in the best way I can, since I don't want to use any real Deviantartist names I am just going to call these characters Fictional RP Character 1 and 2, both of these characters know each-other really well, the latter instigated what was a fictional roleplay scenario, let's just say one of them is an ageless being but he has a condition that makes him older than mankind in a spiritual sense and the other is a character cursed to take on different identities, the former has multiple different appearances and the latter has an identity crisis in which their powers in which either change/act up or cause them to become someone else.

Keep in mind both of these characters are fictional so this is not real, the basic premise of the hypothetical RP is that the former is put under a curse that causes his normal monster powers to act up and for him to become the Hessian Horseman, who is a character said character loves very much, and it's a curse that is depicted as gruesome and as horrifyinly as possible with lots of blood and pain like an 80s horror movie, and he loses control of himself as this character and turns evil. It's simple as that.

So the second character tries to help him throughout it and tries to keep him from giving in to his inner undead maniac, and half-way through the storyarc of this adventure this guy disappears, leaving only the first character left but then another character comes in and helps him, and he forms an on and off and on again relationship with a character who is a vampire, she offers to take his humanity away and make him her lover because she loves his inner Walken/Hessian side, and she removes his humanity and makes him a cold undead killer like she is, he finds himself getting addicted to blood and the idea of preying on others and feeding on their blood, he encounters a character who forms a master/student relationship with him to help him with his problem.

Twist of fate happens when he ends up being corrupted by this one female vampire he was in a relationship with and she dies, only to come back as another species and to resent him, and then to reveal she was using him the entire time. She dies again and comes back and tries to kill him and his family, the other character uses his powers to coax him into turning evil, and he starts turning more and more monstrous and evil throughout, eventually..guess what, said second character that left came back. Said second character is horrified to see him as a villain, and he stalks after them, he doesn't do anything 'sexual' to them, he just tries to brainwash them and make them evil. Where the grooming accusations come from, I don't know, because I don't ever recall the first character being cruel to this character or even sexually abusive.

How this is supposedly grooming I don't know, yeah if it was with an adult character and a kid character I could understand that, but the second character in this hypothetical scenario may not even be someone of a younger demographic and may just have been stuck in the identity/form of a younger person, because remember in-universe the 'She-Hessian Spirit' is a spirit who can take over any person's body, so let's just saw the true form of this second character is actually something far from human, and is just the spirit's vessell until the 'She-Hessian' separates from the second character's body and becomes her own separate character. I got called out for it on both TF-IRL and I got kicked out of said subreddit before I could get defend myself and someone made a grooming rumor about me, the person who roleplayed as that character probably is only pretending that I groomed them to be 'woke' . A discord server I was not even apart in (the Amazing TF-Circus server) had a user named Koko call me a groomer as well, keep in mind I could not report them because I was not in that server.

The thing is does it matter how old these characters are, it would be concerning if it was a human younger than 20, yes but these hypothetical characters are ageless, they don't have specific ages. The second character is just a vessel for the 'She-Hessian' spirit in this universe to possess, and after that character dies or leaves, the 'She-Hessian' Spirit becomes her own entity. Keep in mind in this universe, the She-Hessian is a spirit, and whoever is taken by her is her vessel so she isn't using them for anything other than to carry out her plans, whether it be a male, female, trans or even nonbinary host she is sharing a body with.

These RPs are not in the slightest bit sexual, at least not from I can tell, there isn't anything in these RPs that is beyond a traditional R rating in terms of content, a lot of these types aren't like that, yes characters do swear, there are mentions of alcohol even though these characters clearly don't drink, there is violence but exaggerated violence so it isn't realistic, and there are dark jokes and a lot of blood and gore, but really you WILL see a lot worse on HBO or Cinemax or even in an Eli Roth movie.

I am just going to say these grooming accusations are bullshit, oh sure…this one gets the 'Me Too' treatment while actual groomers get away with their crimes on here without being reported? That's just mortifying. People, it's just a RP. RPs aren't real and will not hurt you, just because I like to roleplay about vampires doesn't mean I like drinking blood in real life, have you even tried doing that IRL? Blood is apparently poisonous in real life. And not to mention the germs you might get if you drank from someone else's blood especially if that person has been sick.

#monstermaster13 #personal explanation

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mysteryanimator · 3 months ago

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You know what i dont think ppl would read this properly BUT this mockup sketch was birthed from a ramble lol.

Here's to the very silly (turned somewhat /serious ???? idk) hypoethical what-if season 3 became a thing and there is the potential to have mizrak and olrox do it. This is all copy and pasted from a infodump I did in the Castlevania Creatives discord server, so its very informal and just me spouting out words

The tone Olrox talks about the sun, the past, nature etc is very interesting to me because there's a "Longing. Desire. Love" for it. Yet, he's a vampire, he cannot truly be amongst it anymore BUT HE REALLY TRIES SO HARD, like compared to drolta, ezerbet or just a lot of vampires in castlevania in general, you don't really see them amongst nature DURING DAYLIGHT iirc. Him being in the shadows during day time is the closest thing he's going to get to being in the warmth of the sun.

Which do you know how else you get warm ✨INTIMACY✨

Which also like plays into a major factor of how he tries so hard to be human, and seeks that warmth in human lovers and turns them into vampires hoping to retain it. While we don't know about Olrox's previous lover, Mizrak was straight up dying, so imagine just Olrox carrying him the entire way there and just feeling him getting colder. Digressing though from intimacy and i wont say anything too nsfw but the idea of nudity, the "act" of it just being very human and longing for warmth and connection. Like in nocturne specifically (i wont go into s3 castlevania but it is there), it is initally starts with "omg THEYRE NAKED?", the entire convo is laced with wanting that warmth of and connection but they both have work to do lmao. My head is just SPINNING with vamprisim exploring sexuality and connection so bad like you wouldnt believe. Like the foundations are THERE because Mizrak has his whole complicated relationship with sexuality AND YOU COMBINE THAT WITH OLROX'S COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP WITH SEXUALITY BUT FOR A WHOLE SET A DIFFERENT REASONS YET THEY BOTH COME BACK FOR THAT DESIRE TO CONNECT WITH PEOPLE? Again, this is so compelling to me, can you tell? I'm mentally front lines for if it ever EVER gets explored in a s3 because some really nice visual can be paired with it. Like since I already talked about like Olrox's yearning for nature and warmth, for like, 100% scenes would be censored BUT PLACING SOME NATURE STUFF OR SUN MOTIFS, OR LIKE JUST HAVING THE LIGHT cover stuff you can't show on netflix. So you can serve it as a nice technical reason for ratings BUT circle back for Olrox's need to look for things he's lost within human connection. Manifesting Season 3 mizrox going at it for the plot

Ok moving away from the intimacy talk so i can go more generally, this show definitely feels like vamprism seems to showcase how it can strip you from connections-- a very clear example being tera stripped from family ties (her palette is soooo cold now, like the warmer saturation of her skin and hair is GONE if we wanna talk about stripping warmth from her), and if we reallllllyyyy want to bring it back back, dracula, because he was cold before lisa, warm when lisa was there, then returned to being cold when lisa left.

Again apologises for any grammatical errors, mizrox intimacy scene has really decided to grab me by the skull for the past week

i also came out of watching wild robots yesterday so imaging the already preestablished purple and greens for olrox's colour association, YOU PUT THAT IN NIGHT MODE, then you shift that value into a more warm tone during the course of their one scene OR, you do that gradually over multiple scenes so you get gradual tone build up, to not only express that warmth olrox wants BUT it is so very feasible to push purple into a red tone because colour theory. Also red is mizrak's new colour association (that we know of)

anyways again, my insane moment here, i just think i would be cool because this is so out there, doubt this would ever happen BUT CONCEPT WISE, ITS COOL AND WOULD VERY MUCH LIKE TO EXECUTE SAID IDEA WHEN IM FREE HAHA (or… i might start chipping at it now… tempting its so tempting)

this is myst in the future uh I'm i don't think ill be executing it to its full capacity because it requires a lot more moving parts because if i want it to work the way i want to, it genuinely requires a whole season so i can do parallels and have it feel like it pays off. THOUGH I MAY BOARD IT COZ THE VISUAL IDEAS ARE FUN TO PLAY WITH AND THIS IS SUPPOSE TO BE NOT SERIOUS HAHAHA

okok to back up my point i wanted to bring up this layout because it was so pretty and i think about the cool parallels they could do because this is blue for richtette, and then having a purple ver for mizrox, parallels, parallels

(layout by kloysius!)

ok that's the end of that discord ramble, and we're jumping to present Mystery!

So as you can tell the mockup colour wise goes VERY DIFFERENTLY, if not, almost opposite direction from the colour inspo. I realised from the get-go the red/yellow made is feel REALLY WARM and even with the purple like shadows, which have an association with mystical, cool- it still feels really hot in a way you're being smothered under the sun. Which that felt like the best way to go about it, if the idea is to go grounded, human and very feely. This completely contrasts how vampires are usually perceived yes, however it is a very very interesting but compelling way to communicate wanting a connection because you're building on top of that trope.

Also, this mizrox scene can absolutely be tied towards all the very pre-established themes of love, along with running in tandem to richer and annette (just very different approaches of love), along with also running in tandem to tera, however, showing the absence of love.

Again this is very silly, I just needed to shake out the creative brain worms because all the characters and their interweaving stories compel me, and how that is achieved visually is so interesting to me. As stated, the threads ARE THERE, just whatever is decided to be pulled (if any please s3 plsplspslpsls) has to correspond with what happens before and after any mizrak olrox scenes AND how it's role plays in the much grander narrative of nocturne. Again, this is all in good fun and i like thinking of hypotheticals <33333

quick mockup for hypothetical mizrox scene

its a whole thing how vampirism strips them from being in the warmth of the sun so instead they try to find warmth by- (gets dragged away)

#mystery talks #very much just a ramble of thoughts #again very silly but they consume my brain and the idea jumped me #this is what happens when im unable to do anything creative for a while and then i just implode #again this is silly and for fun i don't think the people up there will be reading this #if they do uh hello i really enjoy your show :D #castlevania nocturne #olrox/mizrak

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shdwtouch · 1 year ago

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What was the first muse that you’ve written? & How do you create an OC? What are your steps for developing an OC?

oh goodness, the first muse I wrote on tumblr was an alternate universe clint barton ! but first muse is general ? I don't remember. but considering I was roleplaying on a forum before I came here... it was most likely some sort of original character ?

I didn't write a lot of canon characters, since threads were usually organized around a central plot or location with multiple people playing one or more character, all of which were usually created specifically for the thread. however, I do remember two relatively clearly. one was some sort of... mutant ? he had been experimented on in a lab alongside a bunch of other kids, which ended up escaping and were basically being hunted as fugitives. the other was a professor at a magic school a la x-men, but he was actually like... secretly undercover investigating the school because there was some shady stuff going down ? I'm sure I could still find them on my account... but oh, the cringe. I did. and yes, it was very cringey. also the first guy was a vampire, not a mutant. all in the distant year of... 2011. I was eleven years old lmao

as for how I create an original character ? it kinda just... happens. at least, in regards to original / fandomless characters. others are a product of the fandom I made them in. Shade was created because I really liked the lore of the shadow-cursed lands and wanted to make a character that was involved in it. my (currently fandomless) original character Kaey started out as an antivan crow oc in drag-n age. my oldest original character, Lorence J Harving, started out as a team fortress 2 oc ! then I have muses like Zhu Dai and Yew, which were inspired by mythology and folklore. Wyn started out as a random picrew design I made ! Indi and Caoimhe were made for roleplay groups that were abandoned. it really just depends on what the inspiration is ! so I don't really have a tried and true method for original character creation. but trust me, if I did I would be bottling and selling it XD not to blow my own vertubenflugen, but I know people have expressed interest and envy towards my creative process... and I genuinely wish I could offer advice other than embrace the process !

as for developing an original character ? again, it kinda depends. with Shade just being able to talk about her to others and see how she interacts with other characters has done wonders for her development ! Zhu Dai was embracing different mythologies, cultures, and religious ideologies. if the muse is there then things will come somewhat naturally, but muse can also be fickle and wishy-washy so. it can definitely take time ! but I honestly believe that some of the best development does happen in the cooperative process that is roleplay. yet, I have other methods. music plays a lot into my muse and development, as does the media and content I consume ! I take inspiration from a lot of different places !

but if we want to talk nitty gritty... I don't know. I tend to walk my developments around quite a bit, feeling them out to make sure they're what I really envision / want for the character. I change my mind a lot, go back and forth on things. and tend to write very cryptic late night notes in my personal Discord server that awake and lucid me must then decipher for optimal impact. uwu; but in general... yeah I have no idea. it happens. sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't. Kaey in particular has been victim to that indecision and, dare I say, overabundance in ideas. lets just say I can't kill my darlings. I cannot. but I also hate recycling ideas, so. make it make sense.

idk but here are my general steps / points I like to hit

character name [ex. shade]

what is their basic story ? [ex. a fugitive assassin doing their best to survive]

appearance [ex. long black hair, gray eyes, short]

cultural heritage / identity [ex. jewish + indian ]

notable features or characteristics [ex. spooky eyes, always wears a hood]

general personality, defined by arc / period in life, i.e. how has this characters personality, habits, etc developed and evolved through their story up to their current point ? (asking questions like why is my character like this now ? etc can help you figure out important points in their history that may have influenced their current state, basically providing a skeleton to work a timeline off of)

asking random questions. whats their favorite ice cream ? do they listen to podcasts, if so what kind ? do they celebrate holidays ? etc. (knowing basic details can help you paint a better understanding of your muse, and help you find their voice, especially in terms of decision making !)

important relationships, whether they be past or present, or even the optimal / wishlist relationships you would want to explore. (this can really help set a foundation for creating meaningful dynamics through roleplay !)

what does your character want ? what is their goal ? what is their optimal ending ? is their optimal ending what they want / expect ? if the character doesn't have a perceivable ending then consider how this journey impacts them ! do they have a turning point ? etc

alternate universes. ask all the "what ifs" you can think of, silly or not ! (even if you don't use these for rp, they can help you find your characters voice !)

turn them around and around in your head until you are either obsessed with them or sick / frustrated. if you are obsessed then you have succeeded in making an original character, congrats ! if you are sick / frustrated take a step back and come back to it later; go through the steps again, rework things as needed, but if you still end up frustrated... keep the things you like the most, discard anything that makes you go eh or nah, take a step back, then return with inspiration !

hope that helps ! ; w ;

EDIT: I have had a very long day so I don't know why I thought answering this now would be a good idea owo; but I just want to say... the gist of my approach to writing any character is this: we are all a tapestry of what we have experienced, the people we have met, etc and a good, dynamic character will reflect that. humans are also flawed and full of contradictions, so don't be afraid to embrace those !

but yeah. if you're ever stuck developing a character, figure out what about them ticks, then find out why it ticks. your character is really gruff, certainly they weren't born that way. did they have a rough home life ? were they in the military ? did they get their heart broken, did they watch a loved one die ? how has that impacted other aspects of their life and story ? have other traits / experiences interacted with this gruffness ? is this gruffness a product of an interaction between traits / experiences ? are they aware they are gruff ? do they care ? do they secretly wish like they could be less gruff ? do they need to be gruff ? what would it look like if they weren't ? I could literally go on and on listing questions that could lead to a thousand different tangents. point being: cause and effect. explore it. your character is a product of what they have been through, of their world. embrace it.

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