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1, 3, 7, 21 for Dante and Afrem

1. Which of your OCs plans the matching Halloween costume? What do they and their partner(s) dress up as?

While both Dante and Afrem grew up in pretty religious families, Dante was more exposed to american halloween tradition, while Afrem’s family in Europe thought it was a disgraceful satanic thing. Afrem came to experience halloween only at 18-19 when he moved to the States. He was always too focused on either his studies or work to dress up or party, and he’s not much of a party animal anyway, but he always loved seeing the little kids dressed up to go trick or treating. It healed a part of his inner child, so he started stocking up on candy and decorating the front door of his apartment for the complex’s and neighbourhood’s kids. He’s known as “the weird, kind, long haired dude that always gives out a lot of candy”. When he gets together with Dante he does end up convincing him to dress up a little so they can greet kids together. Dante is really wmbarrassed ahout it at first, but eases up into it. He leaves the costume planning to Afrem because he knows he has the most fun with it and always picks out good choices. Most of the time they dress up as Gomez and Morticia. Sometimes they really play into their identities and Afrem dresses up as a the stereotypical vampire, and Dante as a stereotypical werewolf.

3. Would they get married if they could? If not, what's something they might do to show their commitment in a different way?

Afrem secretly daydreams about marriage. Getting with Dante unearths years of repressed romanticism because he finally starts healing from his trauma. Dante is secretly terrified of marriage, not because he doesn’t want to commit to Afrem. There’s nothing more he wants in life. But he was already married once (although with a woman as a closeted man, so you can kind of see why it couldn’t last for him…) and he is terrified of fucking up again. He knows he hurt his former wife and he does not want to do the same a second time. Still. Both of them secretly wish for marriage, and if they weren’t from species that hate each other, they would do that quite openly. Whether they get married or not, they will eventually get matching rings with each other’s blood inside the stones.

7. How fast did they get together once they realized their feelings? How long did it take for them to realize it?

They are so stupid and dense. It takes them such a long time to realize their feelings are mutual. Dante takes the most because he first can’t accept he likes a. his colleague b. a man c. someone younger. Then he can’t fathom Afrem would like HIM of all people. Just as they realize their feelings, they find out each other’s identity. Afrem hasn’t been turned into a vampire for long so he does not know about the ancienty animosity between werewolves and vampires. Dante knows and it breaks him further, so much that he initially distances himself from Afrem. Eventually, Afrem’s stubborness prevails, and Dante decides that he has hidden himself long enough. He always tried to fit into whatever role was pushed onto him, and never allowed himself to just *be*. Accepting his feelings for Afrem is the most rebellious and revolutionary thing he ever allowed himself to do in 40 years of life.

21. If they got a shared pet, what would they get and who would name it?

They would end up getting a cat. Dante only ever had one family cat when he was a kid, Afrem never got to have pets, and somehow they end up adopting a stray. Afrem loves animals in general, but he gets along with cats better because he finds them calmer and less overwhelming. Dante thinks Afrem is very much like a cat, so he finds the pet choice fitting. He lets Afrem name it, and the vampire would end up picking a name from either literature or a philosopher.

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Fun OC Cute Romance Questionnaire, just because!

Good morning to all - just felt a few questions pop in my brain for cute romance things for your OCs so decided to make my own post. I'm sure these are not new questions for many of you but they're fun either way. Feel free to ask for mine and reblog so I can ask about yours! <3 (This has been sitting in my drafts for NEARLY A YEAR - @thesixthplaneteer and I talked about this forever ago!) I tried to keep the questions on a more positive side but feel free to get deep with it!

Which of your OCs plans the matching Halloween costume? What do they and their partner(s) dress up as?

Who is the most openly sappy when it comes to expressing their affection? How do they go about showing the love in a public space?

Would they get married if they could? If not, what's something they might do to show their commitment in a different way?

What's a cute AU for them you like thinking about? Ex: Domestic living, ice cream shoppe, meet-cute at a train station, etc.

What's a smell they associate with their partner(s)?

Real talk, who fell in love first?

How fast did they get together once they realized their feelings? How long did it take for them to realize it?

What kind of space do you imagine for them if they're able to live together?

What's a song from their playlist? If you don't have a playlist just pick a song that makes you think of them!

What position in a dungeon-crawling party would they take up? This is important you never know!

What's the GOTCHA! factor they have that gets the other(s)? Feel free to tell us everyone's thing!

Who's the most structured with a million notes and calendars? Who's the free spirit who just does as they please?

Do they share a bed? Would they if they could?

Where did they go for their first unofficial date?

Where did they go for their first official date?

If they've had one, where did they have their first kiss?

Is their relationship more emotional and physical? In what ways do they express themselves to each other to show the love?

Quick! Their partner(s) birthday is today and they need to get a last minute gift because the actual present got delayed in shipping! What do they get and from where do they get it at?

Someone's having a bad day, how do they cheer them up?

What's their favorite shared meal?

If they got a shared pet, what would they get and who would name it?

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Character Icon commissions are open!

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"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"

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“it’s worse if you aren’t diagnosed” is crazy in the tags of a post about discrimination against disabled people in employment processes. having Disorder on your records will not save you even if it means that discrimination is Technically Illegal (do you have the resources available for a long legal battle? yeah me neither). having Disorder on your records does in fact make you incredibly vulnerable in many respects, including at the hands of employers. let go of the idea that diagnosis is a privilege and let go of the idea that diagnosis will protect you

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anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

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One day I’ll need to make a timeline of key events in Afrem and Efraim’s life. Like The Trauma, then Priest Death, Efraim’s first murder, Afrem moving to the states, Embrace, yada yada.

And imagine you and your twin being traumatized the same way by the same person but he reacts with like. Religious delusions and actual bloodlust which he has fun with. While you just get good ol PTSD. And get bloodlust from being turned into a vampire by a serial killer. So now you live with nightmares of your trauma, then guilt for being a vampire AND guilt of knowing your own twin is a killer. But also you dont feel too guilty about that because he technically kills shitty people. Yeah I’m not giving him a break. Sorry Afrem

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i remember when i was a child internet safety was like "if you even hint at the country you live in, you're gonna get kidnapped and murdered", and nowadays it is encouraged or even necessary to give corporations every single personal detail if you want to use anything because if they can't sell your information they cry so hard they throw up

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I am an “asleep or dead” kinda girlie myself

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Tag the VTM oc whose sire is dead

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has anyone noticed recently that it's expensive

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are you ever about to put on a movie but you realize you don't really want to watch The Movie, you want to be eight years old on a rainy saturday, and under your favorite butterfly blanket, and mom made hot chocolate and popcorn with extra butter, and you're watching The Movie for the first time ever? what are you supposed to do then

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Many of you I fear

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affirmations for writers: i know how to write. i have seen sentences before, and i know how to make one. i can identify up to several words and their meanings. i am not afraid of semicolons.