#Along with a lot of stuff I had on Erin and my other oc's

[theghostbunnie]

what's the worst camp camp fandom story you heard? or, what are some bad or wild ones?

You wanna see the longest lists of trigger warnings I've ever written? here we go

TW: ⚠️R*pe, S*lf H*rm, S*icide, Pregnancy, Violence, death, Gr*oming, Abuse, all mentions⚠️ hopefully I'm not forgetting anything

I was recently told a story about this person who was stuck in a ongoing roleplay(s) that just kept getting worse and worse. It involved Max, trans FTM teenager involved with Snake but he was abusive and they were constantly cheating on each other and Max had multiple children with him, Preston, had other partners even. Snake had children with Erin. Alot of it was Max facing alot of abuse and troubles, and physical bullying at school even while pregnant. There was always either a baby on the way or a newborn. David kicked Max out for being a teen parent, turned to alcoholism, Max was constantly going back to Snake, abandoning the kids. David being mad at Max despite doing the same thing. Gwen acted like David, accidentally crashed the car into a hospital with the main cast inside. Snake kidnapped a baby with no consequences. I was just appalled reading them telling me this.

Then there's like the typical "here's like 5 artists that got popular then called out for drawing werid shit of kids or doing werid shit to kids" heard a lot of those stories. Recently had to leave a server bc another one came out, jfc.

I don't have the attention span for fics but I've heard of some from other people that're like "Daniel 🍇 ing David but David is still in love with him," "Jasper 🍇ing David and Daniel comes and kills him and saves David" "Gwen abusing David and Daniel kills her and saves him" I group read a fic when Wattpad was getting streamed on a discord call and it mentioned Nikki Neil and Max all had cellphones and Max decided to run away bc his mom was kinda rude to him and made him do some chores and he's like "I can't take this anymore" and told his friends to runaway with him without actually telling them what they were doing and they weren't even missing for 24 hours and none of their parents called them but it hit the news and the news/even Max's father making a statement was like "yeah Max probably kidnapped those other kids" LIKE HE AIN'T TEN YEARS OLD AND MISSING HIMSELF 😭 the fic was probably written by someone very young along time ago so I don't wanna dig into it too hard but omg

Personal experiences I have are like, on Kik actually when I was first in this fandom my only exposure was basically a public chat on Kik and then later amino. Max fangirls had little to no boundaries with Max RPers and I had a problem saying no as a kid so it got me into some wacky adventures!!/neg

Like a problem we had in that GC was people coming in with their OCs and like the most openly triggering backstories ever speaking on them loudly and like making their OCs cut n stuff and a friend I had at the time literally blew a fuse and basically told them "you are RUINING my one safe space do you srsly have to bring that in the RP"

We had a Nerris RPer who would make her have full violent breakdowns and I don't even remember all the details but it got so bad and us being all young and stupid tried to handle it THROUGH RP IN CHARACTER TO AVOID DIRECT CONFLICT 😭 I remember Rping as Nerris' parents getting called to pick her up and take her back home bc she couldn't control herself. It made things worse.

This one person had an OC who was Daniel's and David's baby they found in a dumpster and throughout the course of that RP they kept ageing her up and she went from being a baby herself to being a teenage mom of two. I remember my friend rping as the social service worker who came and took her kids after I had Max call her in.

Same OC did the "storming off dramatically" thing and I tried to be nice and have Max follow her and they had her respond "turns around with a bow and arrow and shoots you directly in the eye and doesn't miss" and jasper and Gwen got their date interrupted to take Max to a hospital and recon that it ALMOST* got his eye bc he would've IMMEDIATELY DIED realistically.

On amino there was this one max fangirl RPer even my current friend now had a run-in with and at the time I had even heard stories about how she would go into group RPs and cause a stir.

Like wanting Max to date her and when he refused she killed herself and then started rping as her OCs brother and berating and harassing Max for "killing his sister"

She joined MY rp once and I panicked bc I always delt with things THROUGH my character or ignoring it. But this RP was a personality swap and Max was a really sweet kid and she always wanted to be right on his hip, trying to interact with him.

So I made him, (who was currently in the mess hall attic) fall through the ceiling and onto a table so I didn't have to talk to her OC

[lemonade-juley]

So I had a thought on Aevia's origins in my own stuff, namely about where exactly she originated from before dying and then being plucked from her world to become the Interceptor. Basically this is just a lore dump for my version of Aevia.

So I knew I wanted her to still have Pokemon in her own world, as part of her background is she wanted to become a Pokemon Researcher in her old life. She had a different name of course, and obviously she didn't look like Rejuv's Aevia then (since she takes Aevia's form as a host when she's brought to Aevium) The basic run down of her past life is that, nobody took her seriously and she was largely neglected by her family beyond basic necessities. She had no real friends, and was frequently bullied, causing her to turn to researching Pokemon and knowledge in whole (which, is actually of course similar to Erin's background). She frequently did her own research expeditions as a young teenager, and was honestly nearly as reckless than as she is in Rejuv's story. But one time during one of these, she gets careless, and gets trapped in a rock slide. She was never noted as missing, and no-one ever looked for her. Even the Pokemon passing her by. When she died, she became a forgotten soul, wandering endlessly and pointlessly, and were she not picked as Interceptor, would have faded away permanently. She's lost all actual memories of her past life, and takes Aevia's name and form for her own proudly, but the trauma of being forgotten and her lost self still reside deep down in her soul.

I want it to be that Aevia came from another universe of Pokemon, but more specifically, the Canon universe of Pokemon, one where Reborn or Aevium don't exist, not the lore and background that surrounds either region. While of course everything is largely the same as the Canon universe, this discrepancy still gives her confusion and curiosity as she's never heard or seen of these regions. At the early parts of the game's story she gets huge amounts of curiosity about Aevium forms, and compared to other character she's never so much as heard of Reborn, and knows only limited information about Aevium based on the false memories given to her when she's brought into the world properly to fit in.

Ultimately, her dreams of being a Pokemon Researcher never really fades even if she's not concious of that dream. While she does enjoy battling quite a lot, and thinks it would be pretty cool to be come as strong as the Champion or even stronger, it's ultimately a means to an end in her current goals of defeating Team Xen (and also potentially Vitus, she's keenly aware that she's not seen the last of him, and she's not confident on the motives of Spacea and Tempia). Her real passion still lies within learning more and researching Pokemon.

That passion can be seen in her interactions with wild Pokemon, her own team, and how she notes battles she watches between other trainers (funnily enough, Allyson, my Reborn OC, also studies Pokemon battles heavily, but for strategy and training purposes, rather than direct academic purposes). She takes lots of notes and owns a detailed journal on her personal notes and observations on Pokemon behaviors and other types of functions, something she uses in conjunction with her Pokedex to compare research and just ultimately learn as much as possible about Pokemon.

That's about the end of this big lore dump on her, but one last thing. I did mention in a Headcanon post a while back that, Aevia is not quite as close to Erin as she is with her other friends in the Sashila group. Obviously with what I've stated, they'd probably actually get along really well. Only reason I say they're not quite as close is just because as of v13, the two haven't had much opportunity to actually bond? Hell a decent chunk of Erin's relationship points are through things she hears from other characters, a missable brief interaction in East Gearen's library, or through scenes that don't involve the MC at all (I believe one of Erin and Kanon's conversations during the Diamond route give both of them relationship points). Anyways, they haven't quite had the same degree of interaction as Aevia/MC gets with other characters as frequently, so that's why.

[i-am-a-meat-popcicle]

I’m info dumping about my ocs because I’m excited and it’s around their birthdays (concept days?) anyway. They’re both a year old in oc years.

I’ve talked about them before but here they are again in a more cohesive post.

Old doodles included.

Dr. Aaron Durrand Ryder

Height: 5′9′’ 

A pretty fit guy, with green eyes and dark brown hair. I based his design on one of Axton’s heads and went “but more hairy and disheveled”. He bulks out after some time on Pandora, and gets even hairier. 

Favorite color: Yellow

Planet of Origin: Demophon

Likes: Science, motorcycles, poisoning bandits, and robots.

Dislikes: That asshole that touched his bike, the ocean, and animals with tentacles. (”An octopus has all those limbs and the suction cups have TEETH”)

I don’t draw him nearly as much as I should, but this is him. He’s a former Hyperion researcher specializing in cybernetic technology. 

By the time of borderlands 1 he’d be somewhere in his mid 40s.

He dies in his mid 30s

He’s devoted his life to the study of cybernetics and biotechnology, and develops an obsession with Eridian technology and guardians, which leads him to become a vault hunter on Pandora. 

At some point on his quest he becomes close acquaintances with Dr.Zed, Moxxi, Helena Pierce, and her husband; and he also picks up and adopts a child abandoned by bandits.

His primary motivation is knowledge when it comes to finding the Vault, and will do just about anything to obtain it.

As a father he’s very protective, and enthusiastic when it comes to teaching her. He’s also an excellent teacher.

Was friends with TK while working for Hyperion.

He’s aro/ace.

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Erin Durrand Ryder 

Status: [Alive] In borderlands 1, she’s 24 years old

Height: 5′4

Bl 1: At first glance she looks like she has the physique of a ballerina (which I cannot do much justice in my drawing), and she’s stronger than she looks. Mostly blonde hair with cherry blonde streaks. Perpetually greasy, but wavy when clean. Brown eyes. Has a crap ton of freckles and scars.

Bl 2: Her hair is cut short, and at some point she lost her arm. (even if I don’t really show it in some of my old drawings).

Bl 3: Her hair is long again, but there was an accident and half of it had to be shaved off. She thinks she looks cool anyway.

Favorite color: Blue

Planet of Origin: Pandora

Likes: Motorcycles, setting things on fire, biology, robots, and fishing

Dislikes: (as a child) Stalkers (trauma), (as a teenager) pastries (she had one bad experience with baking and it just ruined them for life), and (as an adult) guns (she gets over it).

She is my daughter and I love her, but I put her through so much hell it’s ridiculous.

Erin is the daughter of a bandit prostitute belonging to the Zaford clan. She and her mother attempted to leave once and managed to get away as far as the frozen wastes. But they were unfortunately captured by another group of bandits and thanks to their accents were sent back to the Zaford clan.

She accidentally burned down the bar when she was playing a knife throwing game in the back room while her mother was dealt with. Then she was fed to Stalkers and was soon rescued by Aaron.

Afterward she was raised by him, and to some degree, Zed; and got an outstanding education. Even lives a fairly easy life thanks to her adoptive fathers.

By Pandora standards she’s pretty lucky. 

She has adhd and has a tendency to self medicate with caffeine. Then has trouble sleeping and uses tranquilizers to fall asleep.

She’s a cocky little shit so she thinks that this won’t hurt her. (ha.)

She becomes friends with the first group of vault hunters, but becomes ultimately closest with Mordecai and Brick. 

She adopts a skag puppy at some point and later a stalker (though those ideas are on the verge of becoming scrapped because I have too much going on.)

There’s a little robot that she has that can be used as a small medical device to detect abnormalities in the body.

She has a better idea on how to make antibiotics from scratch than on what a poodle is. Seriously, she has no idea what those paws are around Brick’s neck for the longest time.

She’s a workaholic and prone to hyper focusing for long periods of time. 

Works at the clinic in New Haven for awhile before following the Vault hunters.

Quotes:

Idle: “huh, I remember being here as a kid... can’t remember it being this boring though.” | -humming “danny boy” just slightly off key- | [loud yelp] “Oh! oh it’s just a moth. Juuust a moth... [sigh]”

Critical hit/ killing a badass: “Talk about your headaches” | “Take two asprin and call me in the morning!”| “Ok, gross.”| “Huh, neat.” | [slow moan] “Dopamine...”

Vehicle: “I’m driving.”

Switch: “Who let you behind the wheel?”| “Switch. Now. Or else.”| OH HELL, CAN’T YOU STAY ON THE ROAD?”

Duel: “Don’t call me little girl.”| “If I win I get a kidney!” | “I hope you’re an organ donor!”

Win: “you’re lucky that you’re more useful alive than a corpse.”| “Ha! And you thought you’d win.”| “Oooohhh I’m not going to let you forget this for a long time.”

Loss: “That didn’t happen.”| “Not fair, I was distracted!”| “... ouch...”

Tie: “do over?”

Crippled: -short scream and a gasp-| “Not now!”| “Oh just you wait...”

Reviving an ally: “oh no no no no no no.” | “Don’t worry, I got you.” | “Wow, you’re so dramatic.”| “Stop screaming for a second and let me set your leg.”

Opening a chest: “ooooh gimme gimme gimme.”

[cosmidoodles]

camp camp oc building stuff

i’m currently going through some art block but i thought it’d be interesting if i gave more depth to the camp camp OCs i made for my high school au. Since I felt that they’re pretty one-noted from the introduction that I gave to them.

*lmao i’m gonna use proper punctuation for this*

Willow

Her first name is actually Rosanna while Willow is simply her middle name (that Max had actually come up with). The reason why she’s referred to as Willow is because Max didn’t like how similar his siblings names were and only called his little sister by her middle name, and it practically stuck with everyone.

Though David sometimes call Willow his “little rosebud”

Willow heavily looks up to her older brother and admires his adventurous spirit.

She looks up to Nikki for the same exact reasons, and Nikki does have a fondness for her because of how they have similar personalities.

Oh, she totally ships Max with Nikki and is convinced they’ll get married.

Rowan

Gwen and David debated on what his first name should be, Jasper or Louis. It wasn’t until Max had given his parents a new tree sapling in their backyard, a rowan tree sapling.

His middle name then ended up being Louis (which, if you haven’t seen it yet-- in this AU, Gwen’s dad dies before her pregnancy)

Like how Willow is more close to Nikki, Rowan formed a friendship with Neil. He is intrigued with all of the science experiments that Max talks about and Neil is more than happy to have Rowan as his “little apprentice”

He inherited his hoodie from Max, though it’s too big for him right now.

Meli

Her mother is a therapist-- she’s actually Nurf’s therapist. And her dad is a college professor. Both are constantly working and it didn’t help that she was awkward and reserved, so she had a lonely and boring childhood.

She then joined a lot of extra curricular activities to not only look good for college applications but to keep herself busy.

Her favorite activity is Theatre because of how that gives her an opportunity to hang out with Nurf and Preston. Though she does hate how rude the cast members can be towards her (this comes from my own experience since i used to do theatre, i was an actor but since i never had a huge role, i always helped out stage crew and let me say, actors can be so rude. at least the ones that i knew.)

Meli actually can sing well but she’s way too nervous to perform in front of others, so she sticks to what she knows. And I personally think her singing voice would sound similar to Clairo.

Her least favorite activity is Student Council-- mostly because of horrid leadership by both the teacher running it and Celine being very stubborn and aloof. She’s only in it in hopes of her voice having some sort of impact in the future.

Celine

First things first-- how the fuck does Jacob and Bonquisha have an 18-year-old daughter? Well, Jacob does. There’s no confirmed age for him, so I’d say that he’s 35 as of the AU. He and Celine’s biological mother,  were teen parents. Bonquisha is simply her step-mother.

Celine was in her mother’s custody (she got to see her dad on the weekends though) up until her mother died.

She is a lesbian. Though she’s not too open with her sexuality-- that’s not to say she has internalized homophobia, she’s not ashamed of her sexual identity by any means! The thing is that because of how she isolate herself, no one really knows her interests. Only her high-achieving ambition and unapproachable nature.

While also being in Student Council, also made room for being in the Broadcasters Club (which is connected to the School News Committee). Coincidentally, Max is in that club as well and they’re often put to work together, which is a recipe of disaster.

The only person she considers as an acquaintance is Hwan-- they only know each other because of how similar their schedules are and whenever there has to be partner work, they choose to work together.

She has a job! Celine works at the town’s local grocery store and she hates it, but it pays off. 

Liz

Similar to Meli, Liz lived in a lonely household. Her mom is a pilot while her father is in the air force. She was also an only child.

Luckily, she was able to make a handful of friends with her friendly and bubbly nature. In fact, she had befriended Colin during their youth.

But because of how she had no siblings, she dreams of having multiple children so they wouldn’t have to go through the same thing.

She only joined Marching Band to hang out with Colin and she quickly loved doing Color Guard.

Liz is a prodigy and in fact takes all advanced core classes. She has an interest for science-- chemistry to be specific. This passion of her did spark a one sided rivalry between her and Neil.

She doesn’t have a job because of how school takes up most of her time.

Despite her general positive attitude, Liz is constantly stressed with the life she’s given to herself. Especially with sending in college applications and moving on to the next stage of her life.

She likes to call Petrol, “Steph” or “Stephie.” While Petrol calls her “Lizzie” or “Liz Bug” during the rare occurrences he talks.

Liz is a talented singer and is in advanced choir along with Space Kid-- who is her closest friend in that choir. Also I think her voice would sound similar to Egg/My Life is a Yolk

Her Aunt is Charity (Cute Waitress) and is considerably close with her as Charity typically looked after Liz during her childhood whenever her parents were at work.

Colin

Colin is only raised by his mom after his dad unexpectedly them when he was only a child. Her mother works at Sleepy Peak’s Thrift Store.

As a kid, he often hung out with his mom and it was there were he discovered the majority of his interests. He played with the instruments there and dressed up in all of the clothes he thought looked “neat” and “groovy”

He started playing the saxophone because it was the only instrument that his mom allowed him to bring home (yes, she let him take it without paying for it... it was only played and used by Colin so it didn’t really harm anyone)

Colin can also play the piano and typically played with the one at Liz’s house when they became friends.

In middle school, Colin grew a crush on Liz but it didn’t last. He never told her about this past crush.

He realized that he was bisexual during Band Camp when he started getting flustered around a boy who was in the same section as him.

The only reason he decided to become the drum major was because no one else wanted to get that role.

Outside from his friendship with Liz, he’s well acquainted with Jermy (because of marching band) and sometimes hang out during school hours.

Colin is also friends with Erin since they have similar classes.

[ambersky-ocs]

Bored so. Random OC things cause I don't feel like actually writing

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Taylor is amazing cuddler. Lots of practice from past partners and her younger siblings. Learns quickly what people like and will do it when cuddling, especially if they've had a bad day

Also she very strong and makes whoever she's cuddling feel protected.

A lot of Dali don't like being touched between their wings, but Dani adores it, practically melting as soon as someone touches him there

Jeremiah's used to not talking while working, and has to get used to Dani and Taylor asking him questions about what he's working on. But he does love them taking an interest, and can usually focus. If he can't he'll ask them to write their questions down and ask later

Taylor's best relationship advice is "just fucking talk to each other" and if you have a crush it's "tell them about it, if they reject you move on"

She often ignores that second piece of advice if it concerns friends already in relationships and it takes awhile for her to finally get over herself and bring it up

Taylor's family is really close, and a lot of people wonder how a house of five can get along really really well. Occasionally it bumps up to eight(eventually nine then eleven) people living in one of their houses at a time

Max made the necklace Taylor always wears, and also made a few jackets that Taylor will wear if she's going out to a bar or something. Taylor doesn't wear the jackets in Tongyi mostly because it's too warm for them, but she does show them off to her friends in Tongyi.

The first dog Dani ever meets is Lucky, Leona's 5-year-old St. Bernard. Dani fell in love with the dog very quickly and Lucky gets really really excited whenever he sees Dani visit, will run to the young royal no matter what, he cannot be stopped-

Jeremiah may or may not have changed the programming of a Tempest bot named Benny. Benny's original programming wanted it to protect Tempest officials. Jeremiah tweaked some stuff to make Benny go 'rogue', attack the officials, and instead protect innocent targets

No one in Tempest ever found out it was Jeremiah

Leona originally kidnapped Keegan Francis so Marie could take out her anger on the bastard for the shit he put Marie through, but Marie instead asked Taylor if she could contact Vic and offer Keegan as a thank you for treating Taylor well.

Let's just say Vic agreed and Keegan was never seen again.

Dani and Jeremiah wonder how the hell Taylor managed to survive dating a cannibal, but agree it does have benefits. They also wonder how the fuck an entire forest cursed cannibals to be stuck in it but that gets answered later on. Ish.

Vic takes one look at Dani and Jeremiah before fixing Taylor with a "really? You're dating guys like this?" look. Cause to Vic the dudes look relatively normal and that's kinda the opposite of Taylor's type but then he learns about Angel and how they each have a piece of her soul and also that Jeremiah used to work at Tempest and that Dani is apparently not technically a human and Vic has an "ah" moment and understands completely

Evanna and any other rulers are all very confused as to how she has lived to be in her 50s.

Also when Evanna was pretty young and soon after she had been crowned queen she discovered her council members had a rather... Dirty way of going about things, using assassins to murder any opposing rulers in Sadia for the war behind Evanna's back. Evanna may or may not have convinced a group of dragons to kill them. No one really asks why she doesn't have a council anymore, no one really questions where the original council went either.

Briar, Erin, and Kord are all part of the "I adore my wife and kids" crowd. Good families with strong bonds. Nothing really happens to them 😅

Azzy and Dolan co-parent Nezu for a while before Dolan realizes Nezu could probably be parented better by Azzy. Azzy and Erin also really wanted to have a kid but neither could get pregnant exactly, and adoption centers aren't really a thing in Tongyi. So! Nezu was adopted by Azzy and Erin!

Evanna teaches Queen Fera's son how to use his abilities(the kid's an illusionist like Evanna. Evanna uses this to her advantage to not get murdered instantly in Sadia and also ends the war)

Queen Fera literally has no idea how illusions worked and accepted Evanna's offer to teach the kid because she didn't want her son to grow up being unable to use or control his abilities

Also since illusionists were more rare to be born, it wasn't like Fera could just find a teacher

The Sydney's play DnD together for family game night and use exclusively sign language (Spanish sign language usually, American sign language if Kord, Chloe, and Neva join them)

Dani and Jeremiah start learning sign language a bit after hanging around the Sydney family

Ollie gets really excited when one day Dani greets her and sparks up a conversation in ASL and she catches Jeremiah practicing some signs when he takes breaks from working on things

The boys also really love Ollie and bring her a ton of little things they think she might like. Marie drew the line when Dani offered to get her a custom knife from one of the best blacksmiths in all of Fahndali (she said he could get one but wait until Ollie was sixteen at least to actually give it to her)

Jayden is incredibly fascinated by Dali born as illusionists

Max learns about some traditional patterns or fabrics used in Tongyi, as well as other kingdoms, and surprises Dani with a jumpsuit combining the Capital's traditional style with Tongyi's. Dani wears it to any and all formal events

Upon learning that Jeremiah helped create Jayden's prosthetic leg, Jayden goes to ask him a bunch of questions. He's momentarily disappointed when Jeremiah says he can't answer a lot of them, but gets excited when Jeremiah calls up an old friend who can and puts her on the phone with Jayden

Dani's afraid of the dark. Taylor and Jeremiah don't really know about this for awhile until they all start sharing a room and Dani asks to keep the lamps on. He claims he really doesn't want to explain why so the two don't push but they do hold him that bit tighter as they all drift to sleep

[acabecca]

Almost // Klaus x OC

Notes: Don’t know I’m posting this to be honest. I wrote this aaaaages ago just because, but I’m missing Klaus and Briar a lot lately so I thought I’d post it even though it’s terrible. Banner by @siriussblackx

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did u see lucas? X

Yes. 

did u see his face? 

Yes, Megan, I saw his face. 

what the hell is going on b? 

Briar groaned loudly, staring up at the sky and shoving her phone into the pocket of her jeans. She had hoped by skipping the rest of her classes that she’d escape the questions her friends would no doubt have for her, but instead her phone was blowing up with messages - even from people she didn’t really speak to. 

She was positively going to kill Nik the next time she saw him. 

She was going to be extra witchy and mean with whatever spell she chose to for him. How dare he stick his nose in her life like that?! Everyone at school already thought she was weird, and now the guy who stood her up on their first date turns up covered in cuts and bruises, stutters out a terrified apology to her, and scurries away in obvious fear? Everyone was talking about her and about the hot, older guy who sometimes met her from school.

He wouldn’t be so ‘hot’ by the time she was done with him.  

Turning the corner leading onto her street, she scowled when she saw the familiar black car parked outside her house and she sped up, her hands balling into fists at her sides as she marched towards the front door. 

What was he even doing here? Erin was at college, her parents were at work, what was he doing creeping round her house?! 

She was going to set him on fire with her mind. 

Walking into her house, she slammed the front door behind her and threw her bag at the bottom of the stairs as she stomped up to her room. 

“NIK!” she yelled angrily. “Where the hell are you?!” she growled, pushing open the door to Erin’s bedroom (his usual hangout) only to find it empty. “Nik! I know you’re here, I saw your car! Get your ass out here, you creep!” 

“Is there a problem, Briar?” 

She jumped when she heard his voice behind her and she whirled round, her jaw clenched in anger and her hair whipping round her face as she glared at him. 

He had his usual crooked half-smile on his face, his hands stuffed into the pockets of the leather jacket that Briar had always found incredibly attractive on him- no. NO. She wasn’t going to think about that. She was angry. 

“Yes, there’s a problem, you dick!” she told him, reaching out and pushing at his chest, shoving him backwards. “What did you do to Lucas?!” she growled, moving to push him, but he reached forwards and grabbed hold of her wrists. 

“The boy who stood you up?” he asked in confusion, his head tilted to the side. “I didn’t do anything to him. He… tripped.” “He tripped?” “I… may have helped the trip along,” he waved a hand dismissively. “He deserved it. He hurt you.” 

Briar blinked at him in astonishment, pulling her wrists out of his grasp and shaking her head.  

“So your first instinct was to hurt him? Jesus Christ, Nik!” she cried. “That’s… That’s not what normal people do! What is wrong with you?” 

“I don’t understand,” Nik frowned. “He upset you, Briar. He made you cry. He’ll be perfectly fine, it’s a just a few cuts and bruises-” 

“He’s sixteen!” Briar interrupted. “He’s sixteen years old, Nik! Stuff like this happens! We’re teenagers, we screw up! God, you’re like- you’re like 25, he’s just a kid compared to you and you’ve- everyone already thinks that I’m- and now- now you’ve done this and they’re-” she stopped talking, her hands shaking as she tried to catch her breath. 

Nik reached out for her, but she jumped back and stared at him with wide eyes, pushing past him and darting into her bedroom. With a sigh and a roll of his eyes at the teen drama he couldn’t believe he’d gotten himself involved in (he was far too old and too important for this, if he didn’t already know he was going to need Briar’s help in future, he would have left), Nik turned round and followed her, easily pushing the door open when Briar tried to close it on him. 

“What’s the matter, Briar?” 

“Can you get out of my room please?” she asked quietly, refusing to look at him. “I’m mad at you, I don’t want to talk to you. Please just leave me alone.” 

Nik sighed, stepping inside her room and closing the door behind him. Briar took a step backwards away from him, her eyes narrowed. 

“What are you doing?” she asked. “Get out!” 

“Not until you tell me what’s bothering you,” he shook his head, and Briar crossed her arms over her chest defiantly. “You’re not some spoiled little teenager, Briar, so stop acting like you are and tell me what’s wrong. This isn’t about that boy. I’m sorry if you like him, but it wasn’t even that bad-” 

“It wasn’t even that bad?” Briar repeated, her mouth dropping open in shock. “Nik he’s got a black eye, his face is bruised, he’s covered in cuts and scrapes, he’s… He sounded so scared when he was apologising to me and everyone- they all knew it was because of me. They… They already think I’m a freak, Nik, and now it’s just- it’s just so much worse,” she admitted, her voice quiet. “You’ve made it so much worse,” she told him sadly, collapsing onto her bed and pulling her pillow into her lap as she avoided looking at him. 

He paused before taking a tentative step towards her and, sitting on the edge of her bed, he reached out and placed his hand on hers. 

“Talk to me, Briar.” 

“Why don’t boys like me?” she asked, her voice hoarse and her eyes watery. “I didn’t- I don’t even like Lucas that much. I didn’t even really want to go out with him but he’s the only one who’s ever really asked me.” 

“Well, then it sounds like he likes you.” 

“If he did, he certainly doesn’t now,” she shot him a glare, and he at least had the decency to look a little bit embarrassed. “I just… My friends, they’ve all had boyfriends and they’ve all-” Briar stopped, taking a deep breath. “Y’know, I’m not talking about this, not with you. It’s too embarrassing. I- I’ve got someone else I can talk to, someone who would understand a bit better I think,” she told him with a wince, her mind flashing to Ava. Although, she was certain Ava would do more than just rough Lucas up a little bit if she found out just exactly how upset Briar had been at being stood up - she was, after all, a vampire who was known for her somewhat reckless behaviour. Ava probably would have snapped his neck with a flick of her wrist and not even been sorry about it. 

“Okay,” Nik shrugged his shoulders. “Then am I forgiven?” 

“No,” she muttered, rolling her eyes.  

“Well then I’ll have to think of something else to win your forgiveness,” he told her, standing up and walking towards her door. 

“What’s wrong with me, Nik?” 

He stopped at her question, turning to face her curiously. “Well,” he started, making his way back over to her and sitting beside her again. “You trust people far too easily, you’re much too hard on yourself, you could do with a little more self-confidence, and you are extremely stubborn but other than that… There’s nothing wrong with you, Briar.” 

“Then how come boys don’t want to kiss me?” she asked in a whisper, biting down on her bottom lip as she looked up at him. “My friends, they’ve all had boyfriends and they’ve all had their first kiss and I just… I haven’t. And it’s not like I don’t like boys, because I do? I’ve liked a lot of boys, but none of them seem to like me back and-” 

“Briar listen to me,” Nik interrupted, placing his hand on her knee. “There is absolutely nothing wrong with you. Those boys, the boys at your school… You deserve better than that. You deserve better than some immature teenaged boy who stands you up on your first date. You deserve better than having your first kiss be with someone you don’t even really like and I can tell you now, if these boys don’t like you… There is something wrong with them. Briar, you are amazing. You’re young and yet you’re so powerful, you have so much faith in people, you care more than anyone I’ve ever known. You’re beautiful, Briar. You deserve more than what they can give you and if they can’t see that, then it’s their loss,” he told her, pausing slightly when he saw the blush on Briar’s cheeks. “They’re probably too intimidated by you. They know you can do so much better than them.” 

“Nik… Why did you go after Lucas?” 

He frowned, pulling his hand away from her leg. “I told you, Briar. He hurt you. I didn’t like seeing you upset.” 

“…So your first instinct was to hurt him back?” 

“Yes.” 

“Why?”

“I told you, he-” 

“Upset me, yeah I got that,” Briar interrupted, moving her pillow off her lap and sitting up on her knees. “But why were you so concerned about me?” 

“Because!” Nik shrugged his shoulders. “Because you… You were upset and crying and… And you didn’t deserve that. And because… because I care, Briar. About you, about your-” 

“You care about me?” she asked, smiling shyly. 

“Well,” Nik waved a hand. “Yes, about you… About Erin… About your whole family, really.” 

“Uh-huh,” Briar giggled quietly, poking at his nose. “All I’m hearing is that you care about me.” 

“Briar,” he growled, but he couldn’t say anything else as Briar leaned forward and pressed her lips against his. 

Nik froze, unsure of what to do or how to react and Briar clearly took that as a sign as she pulled away and covered her mouth with her hands, staring at him wide-eyed. 

“I’m so sorry,” she whispered, shaking her head. “Oh God, Nik I’m so sorry can we please just forget I did that? I’m so embarrassed, I’m- I can’t believe I- I’ve ruined it, haven’t I? You aren’t going to want to be my friend anymore are you? Nik please, I’m so sorry-” 

“Briar,” he interrupted, putting his hands on her shoulders to stop her from moving away from him. She stilled, her eyes still wide as she stopped talking. He watched her, his eyes darting down to her lips and one of his hands moving to cup her cheek. “Stop talking,” he told her, pulling her closer and kissing her again. 

He could tell she was nervous as she tentatively reached up to drape her arms over his shoulders, and he wrapped his other arm around her waist pull her closer until her knees bumped against his. 

A growl ripped from the back of his throat as he shifted on her bed and pulled her into his lap, her knees either side of his waist. He leaned backwards, pulling her down on top of him letting his hand creep up the back of her t-shirt. 

It was only when he heard her let out a quiet whimper that he realised just exactly what he was doing and who he was doing it with. He moved quickly, tearing his lips away from hers and pushing her off him. 

Briar practically crawled to the other end of her bed, putting as much distance between them as she possibly could as she touched her fingers to her lips and stared at him in bewilderment.  

Nik ran a hand through his hair and avoided her gaze. Sixteen. She was sixteen, she had no idea who - or what - he really was. It was painfully obvious to everyone, himself included, just how much Briar cared for him, and what does he do? Kisses her. He kisses the sixteen year old witch who he had been intent on using for her power. There she was, telling him her problems and why she was upset, and he had kissed her. He had taken advantage of her, of the situation and remarkably, he felt quite guilty about the whole thing. 

“Sooo…” Briar paused, drumming her fingers against her leg. “That… That was pretty good for a first kiss, I guess…?” she trailed off, and Nik was unable to stop himself from chuckling quietly as he looked up at her. “Was it… not good…?” 

“I’m far too old for you, love,” he told her. 

Briar looked down at her duvet. “But I like you,” she whispered. 

“I know,” he admitted. “I’m sorry, Briar. I shouldn’t have let that happen.” 

“But you did,” she looked up at him, her bottom lip trembling slightly. “You did let it happen, Nik. You encouraged it. You’re the one who- who kept pulling me closer and-”

“I know, and I shouldn’t have. I don’t know what came over me.” 

“I do,” Briar told him, her jaw set and her eyes narrowed. “You like me too. I know you do, or you wouldn’t have gone after Lucas the way you did. You wouldn’t have met me from school all those times when I was having trouble with those girls. You wouldn’t have come to my room to talk to me and make sure I was okay every single time Erin snapped at me or whenever Liam teases me or my parents yell at me. You wouldn’t have followed me in here today even when I was telling you to leave me alone. You wouldn’t have pushed me to tell you what was wrong. You wouldn’t pretend to be interested in whatever new tricks or spells I’ve learned, you wouldn’t spend hours watching me practice if you didn’t feel something. And- and that time you picked me up from my friends house, you wouldn’t- you were close to kissing me then and I know you were, Nik. Just admit it.” 

“I can’t,” he shook his head.  

“Why?” 

“It’s… It’s very complicated, Briar. You wouldn’t understand.” 

“Why, because I’m just a kid?” she snapped, standing up from her bed. 

“No, not at all,” Nik shook his head. “Because… Because everything about is so inherently good, Briar, and I’m… I’m not the person you think I am. Your faith in me is one of the things I love about you, and I can’t take that away from you. I won’t take that away from you. I need you to believe in me.” 

“I-I do believe in you,” she stuttered in confusion. “I’ll always believe in you, I don’t understand-” 

“Briar, honey, are you home from school already? Is Nik here?” 

Briar screwed her eyes shut at the sound of the voice drifting up the stairs as she heard the front door close. “Yeah, Mom!” she called back. “I had a free period so I came home!” 

“...And Nik?” 

“Yeah, he’s here!” she answered. “We’re just talking, I’ll be down in a second!” 

“I should leave,” Nik told her, brushing his hands against his jeans. 

“Please don’t-” 

“I have to leave, Briar,” he interrupted. “It’s not fair to either of us if I stay.” 

Looking down, Briar nodded her head and stepped to the side to let him past her. He paused as he opened her bedroom door and he turned back around, ducking his head down and placing a soft kiss on her cheek. 

“Just for the record, love, that was most definitely good,” he told her in a whisper, smiling when he saw the blush covering her cheeks. 

“Get out,” she scoffed, pushing him out of her room. “I’m… I’m going to see you again… Right?” 

“Of course you’re going to see me again, Briar.” 

“Promise?” Briar asked, biting down on her lip.

Nik smiled, reaching forward and giving her hand a squeeze. “I promise. You’re never getting rid of me, Briar Price.”

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Log Horizon: To Fade Away (OC story) - Chapter 1

Damon found himself regaining consciousness. When he opened his eyes though he saw something strange. A world so alien, yet so familiar. A world he had been exploring for the last year or so. A world… that wasn’t his room. He was in Theldesia.

“What in the blue blazes?”, he said while looking around. He looked towards his own body to examine it. First thing he noticed, he was considerably closer to the ground than he used to be, and his arms looked a lot stronger. He felt his chin and there was facial hair. Not that he didn’t have any before, but this was a lot more robust and went all the way around his mouth. “What the hell is going on”, he said as he was still looking around. When he let go of his chin, he suddenly saw an interface pop up, Elder Tale’s interface. “…Oh”, was his only reaction. He started going through the menus after trying to touch it and realizing that they are indeed menus, while he sat down on the ground.

“Ah, the log out button! Let’s do- of course it doesn’t work. What did I expect?”, he thought. He looked at the top right of the menus and saw his status screen. He looked at the picture and the name. He just let out a big sigh, since he realized what it meant. “I’ve become my Elder Tale character, huh? Welp, time to get used to being called Duran”, he thought. He navigated the menus further and eventually found his skills, which were the same as he last checked them out before the expansion launched, and he found his friends list. Gaia – Online, StarrySky – Online, Osburn – Offline. “Erin and Faye are here too? And Ren isn’t. It might’ve been only people that were online when the expansion dropped then, since I remember that Ren wasn’t and the other two were. Well, let’s get in touch with them”, he said as he clicked on Gaia.

Voice call started to try and grab a hold of her. Few seconds later: “D-Damon? Damon is that you?”, Gaia said. “Yeah, it is me. Hey”, he said back. “What… what is going on? Why are we in Akihabara? Why am I my Elder Tale character?”, she said with panic in her voice. “I don’t know. I’ve been trying to figure stuff out and more than ‘we are inside Elder Tale’ hasn’t been figured out”, he said trying to cheer her up a bit. It worked; she sounded a lot less panicked. “Where are you Damon? I’m just kind of walking around”, she asked. “I’m on top of a building. It actually isn’t too far from the building we took the screenshot”, he added. “Oh, I’ll go to that building then! I’ll see you in a bit”, she replied. “See you. I’ll contact Faye in the meantime”, he said as he hung up.

He clicked on StarrySky. Voice call started to try and reach her. She picked up and immediately: “WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING DAMON?!”, she yelled. “Ow, my ears”, he said. “I’m sorry, but I’m kind of FREAKING THE HELL OUT. What is happening?!”, she said back. “I don’t know. Wish I could tell you the answer, but I can’t. Anyway, Erin is also here in Akihabara”, he said. “She is? Is she okay?”, she asked. “She seems fine from as far I could tell over voice calls, but I won’t exactly know until I see her”, he replied. “Right, right. Got a place in mind to meet up?”, she asked him. “Yeah. Remember where we took the screenshot? We’ll meet up there. I told Erin to come there too”, he said. “Good, I’ll come right to there”, she said, and she hung up immediately. “Right, let’s get moving”, he said as he started walking towards the meet up place.

Immediately as he tried walking, the first issue for Duran reared its head. He fell on his face after walking a couple steps. “What the?”, he thought. “Why did that...? Oh… oh no”, he thought as he stood back up. “I’m much shorter than I used to be since I’m a Dwarf now. Dammit! Well, let me take this slowly but surely I guess…”, he thought as he continued walking towards the meet up place. He fell quite a few more times on the way there because he was not used to this body with a much shorter stature.

He had arrived by the place as the last of the three. He had quite the scratches on him, but nothing that wouldn’t heal by itself. “He- O-oh”, Faye said. “Hey there, you two”, he said back. “Right… gotta get used to your new look”, Faye said. “You are so cute Damon!”, Erin said while kneeling a bit to look closer at him. “Don’t… don’t call me cute”, he said. “But you are so cute, it is unfair! I have to be in these revealing clothes, and you get to be cute?!”, Erin responded. It was then when he truly noticed her outfit. It was unusual for Erin to be in such clothing. “R-right. Anyway, let’s talk. We need to come up with some sort of plan… or at least we have to think about what we want to do”, he said. They took place in front of the building, sitting on the ground.

D: So… well then, we are in Elder Tale it seems. E&F: You are being way too calm about this. D: Huh? F: Seriously, you accept that we are stuck inside a video game that easily?! E: Yeah… it is kind of weird and you aren’t freaking out at all? D: Well, no. F: WHY?! D: Because what is the point? E&F: Huh? D: Let’s be real here, whatever or whoever put us in here isn’t going to magically let us leave. While yeah, it is real strange that we are here, it is best to remain calm and not lose yourself over all this. F: I guess you do have a point there. E: But… but what about where we came from? You know, the real world? Aren’t you worried about there? D: Of course I am. I wanna go home just as much, but like I said just now, we aren’t going to get out of here that easily. If someone or something wants us here, we will keep being here for however long they want to keep us here. E: Hmm… F: Can’t say I can argue with that? D: Say… did either of you make your characters much different than your real-life bodies? F: No, not really. Different hair style, different hair color, different eye color, but aside from that I kept it fairly close to myself. Why? D: Well, with me being a Dwarf and all… I’ve obviously gotten shorter by quite a bit compared to my real-life self. F: Ooooh, right! D: Yeah, and so moving isn’t the easiest yet. I have to still get adjusted to the much shorter body of a Dwarf. Complete with me tripping a bunch. E: Yeah, I’ve noticed it too. F: Huh? E: I’m a bit taller in real-life and there are a bunch of smaller differences as well, so it is a bit weird getting adjusted to this body. D: What are those smaller differences? E: W-well… I’m a bit skinnier in here than in-real life and… u-uh… D: Hm? E: I-it’s a girl thing, don’t worry about it. F: Y-yeah, no, I totally get what you mean. Don’t worry about it, Damon, it isn’t that important. D: Fair enough. Though that gets me to another point: names. E: W-what do you mean? D: We are now in the game, right? No doubt you would’ve already seen the user interface at this point. F: Yeah, what about it? D: Well, on the user interface it doesn’t display our real names. It displays the names of our characters. Maybe it might be handier to call each other by that? E: Hmm… I can agree there. Though, hold on. (Grabs her notebook, a bottle of ink and a quill) D: What’s that for? E: I want both of you to write your real names in here, along with me, so we won’t forget that part of ourselves if we are stuck in here for a long time. F: Oooooh, that is smart Er- I mean, Gaia! D: Yeah, that’s a good idea! Good thinking! E: Hehe, thanks!

As they all wrote their names in the book, they started thinking about what next. “We probably wanna avoid combat for today”, Gaia brought up. Duran nodded in agreement. “Wait, why?”, Sky asked. “Well, you are the only one out of us three that can currently fight without any trouble, and that is assuming combat doesn’t work like how it did when this was a game”, Gaia said. “The two of us aren’t used to these bodies yet, so we could be killed because we could trip for example”, she added to that. “Right, you have a point there. But what then? What are we gonna do with the rest of today? You two probably noticed that the rest of the town is in complete disarray”, Sky responded. This left both Duran and Gaia thinking. “You’ve got a point there. Hmm… Actually, I wanna try something”, Duran said. “What is that?”, Gaia asked. Duran reached behind his back and pulled his sword out and held it in an aggressive stance towards Sky. “W-w-what the hell are you doing?!”, both Gaia and StarrySky asked. All Duran said was “Like I thought” when he saw a portal open in the sky. Out of the portal came a Royal Guard, ready to stop the aggression. Duran put his sword back in its sheath and just as quickly as he appeared, the Royal Guard disappeared. “That is what I wanted to try out. They are still here”, Duran said with a slight grin on his face.

“WHAT THE F**K IS WRONG WITH YOU?!”, Sky yelled as she slapped him quite hard. In fact, the slap was so hard that it actually knocked Duran off his feet and knocked him a few feet further. He lost 37 HP from it as well. “O-ouch…”, he said as he stood back up. He looked up in the sky to see if that triggered the Royal Guard again. Nothing. “Interesting”, he thought. He walked back. “What is wrong with me? I wanted to know if the Royal Guard still existed and on what would make them trigger to come here”, he said when he had walked back. “You could’ve just said so instead of just drawing your sword and pointing it to me!”, Sky yelled back. “Y-yeah, that was really uncalled for Dam- I mean, Duran!”, Gaia added in. “I could’ve and I probably should’ve, but regardless I wasn’t going to harm you. If anything, had we needed more testing, I was going to harm – or at least, got close to harming – myself. Your point stands though, I’m sorry”, he said. “Well, now we know. They activate when they think people are being aggressive”, Sky said. “Not entirely. It is specifically about aggression with whatever weapon you have. Magic also counts I’m assuming. When you slapped me just now, no Royal Guard”, Duran said. Both Gaia and Sky were shocked, but they realized he was right. “Huh, that’s true. Did you lose any HP from that by the way?”, Sky asked. “Yeah, around 30 or so. Nothing too bad”, he replied. “Oh! We can try out healing magic and buffing magic actually! Those won’t trigger the Guard!”, Gaia spoke up. “That’s very true actually”, Duran replied.

“Let me try!”, Gaia said as she stood up and looked through her magic spells. She had found the spell and grabbed her staff. “Healing Light!”, she shouted as she casted the spell. It healed Duran’s 37 HP back and it looked nice. The skill was mostly a white light around Gaia’s hand and the same color light around Duran’s body. It removed any visibly wounded spots and made it so that they didn’t hurt anymore. “You had to go through the menu, huh?”, Sky asked. Gaia nodded. “Seems… impractical”, Sky added. “Yeah, that wouldn’t be practical at all for combat. Hmmm… Let me try a skill”, Duran said. He grabbed his sword, making sure he was turned away from his friends. He scrolled through the skill menu as well. He clicked on the skill. “Aura of Hate!”, he shouted as he used the skill. He had his sword in front of him as he said that. The skill made a blue aura appeared around Duran and it radiated blue light in an area around him. Then both of those faded. “Huh, so that’s how it feels”, he said as he sheathed his sword. “Yeah, kind of a rush huh?”, Gaia asked. “Well, less that – though you are right – and more that in skills that used to have a longer animation when this was a game, you actually can’t move in the middle of them”, he replied. “Wait, so you couldn’t move your muscles when preforming that skill just now?”, Sky chimed in. “Yeah, it felt like the game took control over my body for a bit… strange”, he replied. “I wanna try something then”, Sky said. Duran stepped aside, standing over where Gaia was. Sky took out her two swords. However, unlike the other two, she didn’t go to the menu. She shouted, “Quick Step!”, and with a blur of motion she moved a couple meters forward.

“It is like I thought then”, Sky said when she was done with the skill. “What is?”, Gaia asked. “Duran mentioned that he wasn’t able to move when using the skill, right? Like the game was making him move?”, Sky asked. “Yeah, I did say that”, Duran said. “Well… to put it simply, you don’t wanna be using the menu for your skills. You can activate them without it by just doing the motion of the skill”, she said. Duran looked confused for a bit. He knew what he heard and what those words meant; he just wasn’t sure about the logistics behind it. “Hmmm… Let me try”, Gaia said. She raised her hand and a similar light appeared on her hand, though this time it was pale blue. She shouted out, “Cure!”, and the light surrounded Sky. The spell was finished casting. “That felt a lot better… wow”, Gaia remarked. Duran stood up and unsheathed his sword once more. Now he at least understood what Sky meant. “Do the motion and the skill will come out”, he mumbled at himself. He had his sword in front of him, pointing upward, then in a swift motion turned it and stabbed it into the ground as he said, “Hallowed Ground!” The ground around him lit up with white light and he felt that while in it, his body felt sturdier. “Now that… that is really cool!”, he said. “Told ya so!”, Sky shouted. He started laughing. “Now, come on! Pick up your sword and let’s go eat something! I’m starving honestly”, Sky said. He hadn’t realized that he hadn’t even picked up his sword yet. “Oh, right. Hold on, I’ll be right there”, he said. He picked up his sword, put it back in its sheath and walked over to the girls.

“So, apparently doing skills yourself doesn’t put you into animation lock”, Duran said. “Wait, really?”, Gaia asked. “Yeah. In the animation of Hallowed Ground when this was still a game, the character would put their weapon against the ground – in a sword’s case, literally stab it in – and then take the weapon and go back into their battle stance. That was at least if you let the whole animation play out. I, however, was able to leave my sword in the ground and move, right?”, he said. “Yeah, I even called out for you to grab your sword”, Sky said. “You did and that’s why I realized it. I didn’t automatically do it like the game’s animation would have made me”, he replied.

“Interesting. Anyway, let’s eat something!”, Sky said, very happily pulling out a peanut butter sandwich and a bottle of apple juice out of her magic bag. “Yeah, let’s!”, Gaia said, pulling out a ham and lettuce sandwich and a bottle of chocolate milk out of her own magic bag. Duran sat down next to them (they were sitting in a small circle) and pulled out a bottle of orange juice and a grilled cheese sandwich. “Enjoy your meal!”, the three of them said in unison and they each took a bite. The whole party looked at each other, making sure that they weren’t the only ones experiencing this. Duran was the first to swallow it down. “This… this is Hell”, he said as threw away the sandwich and started groveling. The other two had swallowed their food. Gaia continued eating, though she wasn’t enjoying her sandwich. “C’mon… it isn’t that bad”, Sky said to Duran. “Oh, but it is. A world where food is without taste might as well be Hell. What did I do to deserve this?! I’ve been as good as I can be, I’ve helped others when needed, I’ve been respectful to people!”, he said as he lamented this fate. Sky rolled her eyes and took another bite. Despite the taste not changing, this hit her harder. Duran stopped groveling and took a sip of his orange juice. No flavor there either. It was just water. This was significantly less disappointing than the food not having flavor, but it still felt weird. Gaia took a sip of her chocolate milk. She looked up, staring forward with completely zero emotion on her face. “A-are you okay, Gaia?”, Duran asked. “You are right. This place is Hell”, she responded. “Wait, what? You are agreeing with that nonsense?!”, Sky said. “This world makes it so chocolate milk doesn’t have flavor… Yes, I’m agreeing with Duran because what sick monster would do such a thing?!”, Gaia replied. “You two are acting so childish! This isn’t Hell. We will get through this, together. We will find a way to make food taste like it should and we will make a way to make chocolate milk taste like chocolate milk again!”, Sky said in the hopes of rallying the other two’s spirits. The other two were both groveling. “Come on you guys!”, Sky shouted. The rest of the day had passed. The trio decided to go to one of the inns for the night. The bar that inn had was about half full. They approached the innkeeper. “Hey there, what can I do for ya?”, he said. “H-hi, we would like three rooms please!”, Gaia responded. The innkeeper said, “That can be arranged. One room per person I assume?”. “Yup, you got that right”, Sky chimed in. Duran nodded. Gaia tilted her head slightly, looking at the innkeeper a bit confused. The innkeeper grabbed three keys and gave one to each. “Anything else I can do for ya?”, the innkeeper asked. “I think we’re good. Thanks a lot man”, Duran replied. “It’s no problem. Have a good night”, the innkeeper replied. “Y-you too, sir”, Gaia said. “Thank you kindly, miss”, the innkeeper said as they walked to their rooms. Gaia started thinking. “What’s on your mind?”, Sky asked. “It’s nothing, it’s nothing. Don’t worry about it”, Gaia said with a smile. Sky figured that Gaia wasn’t telling the truth, but she decided not to ask further for now. Duran was absentmindedly walking towards his room. When they got to their rooms, which were right beside each other, they each said good night and walked in. Duran sat on his bed and took his sword off his back. He also took out his graver that he used for his Sigilmancer subclass and started practicing. He first practiced a bunch of runes on different weapons and armor. A lot succeeded, but some failed. Notably the higher-level runes were tricky to put on lower leveled equipment, especially since it could destroy the original item. The problem with that stood in that higher-leveled runes were so much better than their lower-leveled counterparts. He grabbed his sword and scrolled through the menu to see what runes he could engrave on it. “Life steal rune, MP drain rune, Shield rune… While the effects are nice, rather would wait for a higher leveled version of any of the runes since the improvement is very high”, he mumbled to himself. He put his sword away and started trying to fall asleep.

Sleep didn’t come easy, as a sense of uneasiness filled him. He couldn’t get his mind off his sister. He wondered what she was doing and if she even would’ve noticed that he wasn’t home. He felt bad. He mostly wasted his days locked up in his room, playing video games. It was his favorite way to spend his free time, but that also meant he didn’t spend much time with her. “I really hope she is alright and if… no, when I’m able to get out of here, I’m going to go spend more time with her”, he again mumbled to himself. It was then he heard some voices. Specifically, the voices came from his right side which was Gaia’s room. “What the?”, he thought. He heard Sky and Gaia talking and giggling. He continued listening while half dozing off. He had fallen asleep until he heard a yelp. It was Gaia. He was about ready to get up and take a look, but then he heard them talk again. Shortly after, the door opened, and someone walked out of the room. Not too long after, the door opened again and like a second later, Duran heard knocking at his door. He stood up and at his door was Gaia, confirming in his mind that it was Sky who walked out first. Gaia looked embarrassed, something Duran hadn’t seen from her in a long time. “H-hey, can we talk for a bit Damon?”, she said. “Yeah, sure. Come on in”, he replied. She stepped in and he closed the door behind her, locking it.

She sat on his bed and he sat beside her. “So… what’s up? Did something happen?”, he said. Gaia was looking really embarrassed and barely knew where to look. Duran had noticed this. “Hey, are you okay? You look really bothered by something”, he said. “U-uh… y-yeah, I guess you could s-say that”, she replied. “So… what is going on? What has you this bothered?”, Duran said. “W-well… y-you see… uh… Promise to just listen for a bit a-and not judge?”, Gaia said. He nodded. “Okay, w-well… here goes nothing. So… uh… Faye and I have been friends for as long as we’ve known each other. We have been by each other’s side for forever. Of course, this obviously wasn’t the case when I had moved to Japan. We stayed in contact though, as you know. W-well… I might have sort of been developing something akin to a… c-crush on her. I… it seems that t-those feelings might be returned. Y-you would’ve probably heard it a bit, since the walls s-seem kind of thin. Well, she came to my room to talk for a bit. Just to catch up and stuff like that a-and eventually s-she ended up kissing me on the cheek. I-I was surprised and got embarrassed. She seemed to get embarrassed too and q-quickly left. Then I-I came to here and uh… y-yeah”, she said.

“W…wow. Alright then. Uh… Where to begin with that? Well, let’s start here: you think you have a crush on her? Just asking because you didn’t really sound sure about it”, he said. “I… y-yeah. I’m not a 100% s-sure, but t-this is the first time I felt so strongly about someone”, Gaia replied. “Alright. Well, can’t say I’m too shocked to hear that honestly. Anyway, I assume the yelp I heard was you then?”, he asked. She became more embarrassed and nodded her head. “Figures as much. Well, if you want my opinion… just talk to her”, he said. “Eh?!”, she let out. “Not like right now but talk to her about it. It’s obvious that you aren’t entirely… comfortable, for lack of a better word, with what happened. You are uncertain if those feelings are actually returned. Actually, you don’t even know if you have feelings for her to begin with. Give yourself some time to figure those feelings out as well. It’s been really long since you guys have seen each other face-to-face. Or, well, as close as this is face-to-face. Don’t rush things, especially since we are now in a semi-unknown world and I’m sure that isn’t helping to think things through calmly”, he said. “O-okay. Thank you, Damon. For both listening and your advice. I’ll head to my own room now”, she said as she stood up. “Not a problem. Have a good night Erin!”, Damon said as he also stood up and gave her a hug. She hugged him back, walked out of his room and into her own.

He laid back onto his bed. “Well, at least things will not be uninteresting for as long as we’re here. I wonder what tomorrow is gonna bring?”, he thought as he slowly fell asleep.

[wild-stdreams]

45 - 50 for hazel, 1-6 for matty and 30-35 for maisie?

Ah thank you love!! I’m gonna put this under the cut b/c it’s probably going to be long (hehhh)

HAZEL :: 

45. How do other people see them? Is it similar to how they see themselves?I think a lot of people see Haze as small and… fighty. And I would say that they’re 100% correct, and Haze is under no illusions about who she is in terms of her personality - but she has some major questions about who she is as a supernatural being and where she sits on the good to bad scale. 

46. Do they make a good first impression? Does their first impression reflect them accurately? How do they introduce themselves?She doesn’t always make a great first impression no, she’s got a bit of a resting bitch face that she obviously can’t really do much about cause she’s absolutely not prepared to put on a fake smile constantly just to please others. I’d say her first impression doesn’t reflect her 100% accurately, cause she is, in general, a nice/good person, but it also doesn’t portray her as someone she’s not - she can be stand off-ish and she’s not an overly friendly person, she’s just neutral really. A pretty basic introduction like “Hey, I’m Hazel” no more, no less. Not a big hugger, except for people she’s comfortable around. 47. How do they act in a formal occasion? What do they think of black tie wear? Do they enjoy fancy parties and love to chit chat or loathe the whole event?Awkward Awkward Awkward. Word vomit galore, saying things she absolutely did not mean to. I think she’d kick up a fuss about having to wear a fancy dress but secretly kinda love looking completely different for a while - but she’d never tell anyone that. Especially not Laurel who would have her in heels and skirts constantly if she had her way. 

48. Do they enjoy any parties? If so what kind? Do they organise the party or just turn up? How do they act? What if they didn’t want to go but were dragged along by a friend? Hazel enjoys a good house party as much as the next teenager. Not a lot of organisation would go into making the plans to attend a party, but if she were to throw one herself she could always count on Laurel to do the organising for her. Hazel’s pretty used to being dragged to parties by her cousin, and sometimes Matty. But there’s often not a lot of reluctance involved in this ‘dragging’ as such. 

49. What is their most valued object? Are they sentimental? Is there something they have to take everywhere with them?Probably anything that belonged to her dad really. She can be sentimental, yeah. She sleeps in her dad’s old shirts, and keeps a bottle of his cologne in her bedside cabinet. There isn’t anything she has to take everywhere with her though. 

50. If they could only take one bag of stuff somewhere with them: what would they pack? What do they consider their essentials?I actually already wrote this a little bit in a prompt that is actually most likely going to feature towards the end of Paroxysm… Essentials to Hazel are literally just the essentials - clothes, underwear, toiletries etc. And a phone, duh, she is a millennial. But going back to the last question, one of her dad’s shirts at least would be in there. 

MATTY ::

1. What’s their full name? Why was that chosen? Does it mean anything?Matilda Prescott (one of the few characters of mine who doesn’t actually have a middle name) I’m gonna go with why I chose it and not why her parents might have done - I’ve always loved the film Matilda, and my mum actually wanted to name me Matilda before I was born. It means “might/strength in battle” basically, and that’s exactly the kind of person Matty is - someone you can rely on when times are tough. I love really girly names that can be shortened to a boy-ish nickname like I have an OC called Cressida, who goes by Sid. 

2. Do they have any titles? How did they get them?Not officially, no… other than the standard Miss. She gets called Man-eater by Spencer when he’s being particularly annoying, because she’s a Succubus. 

3. Did they have a good childhood? What are fond memories they have of it? What’s a bad memory? For the most part, yes, Matty had a good childhood. Other than her parents divorce when she was twelve which would be the bad memory, but she came to view it as a good thing because she could see how much happier her parents were apart compared to them being miserable together. A good memory would be working with her dad and cousin in the workshop at Prescott Motors. 

4. What is their relationship with their parents? What’s a good and bad memory with them? Did they know both parents? I think I lowkey covered part of this in the other question buuuut to expand, Matty is closer to her father than her mother and when they split she’d spend the week with her dad and visit her mum on the weekends/the odd weeknight. Her mum has since remarried and had another daughter, who Matty babysits every other week or so. She loves her mum and half-sister, and gets along well with her step dad but no-one compares to her dad.

5. Do they have any siblings? What’s their names? What is their relationship with them? Has their relationship changed since they were kids to adults?Her half-sister is two and her name is Erin. Matty enjoys spending time with her but she’s lowkey glad she doesn’t have to live in the same house as her permanently - kids are exhausting.

6. What were they like at school? Did they enjoy it? Did they finish? What level of higher education did they reach? What subjects did they enjoy? Which did they hate?Matty is really smart, and has very good grades - except of course when Alderdale descends into chaos at which point all of the ~gang~’s grades slip due to being a little busy fighting off Abraham and Eris and their terrible awful plan etc… bit time consuming, y’know? She loves English, History and Chemistry. She’s not a big fan of Math(s)(that’s confusing cause Matty would call it math, but in the UK we call it maths). She’s only in high school still, but I can see her definitely going off to college. 

MAISIE ::

30. Do they exercise? Regularly? Or only when forced? What do they act like pre-work out and post-work out?Other than running around as a wolf… and gym class at school, not really. She’s not totally against it and does enough to keep fit, but she’s not majorly into exercising, she does like the bare minimum to get by. She enjoys running from time to time, post-work out she definitely wants to just chill out with a cold drink.

31. Do they drink? What are they like drunk? What are they like hungover? How do they act when other people are drunk or hungover? Kind or teasing?No absolutely not she’s underage in America like whaaat.. no of course, like most teenagers do she’ll have a drink at a party. She’s a total blabbermouth when drunk (like a lot of people) and loves to dance. Hungover she is just really quiet, needs to consume all the junk food she can find and sit in a dark room. She’s such a caring person that she’d be running back and forth getting whatever someone hungover needed like “do you need another glass of water?” “shall i make you some food?” “do you want me to put netflix on?” 

32. What do they dress like? What sorta shops do they buy clothes from? Do they wear the fashion that they like? What do they wear to sleep? Do they wear makeup? What’s their hair like?Jeans and oversized tees are Maisie’s go-to, cute knitwear, lots of pastel colours. Either vans or a pair of ankle boots. She is partial to a skirt and a nice top on occasion, but most of the time she just likes to be comfy. She wears PJs - mostly shorts and a top, sometimes just an oversized top if it’s particularly warm. Maisie wears makeup most of the time, yeah. Nothing extravagant though just the basics like concealer, mascara, a bit of blush and some highlighter etc. Her hair is long, dark and very shiny. Never been dyed. 

33. What underwear do they wear? Boxers or briefs? Lacey? Comfy granny panties?Mostly cotton… she owns a few nice pairs but really underwear is the last thing on her mind.

34. What is their body type? How tall are they? Do they like their body?Slender, slightly athletic but no major muscle definition. She’s relatively small at five foot four. She has the usual hang-ups that a teenage girl has about her body, but she does her best to embrace it and love it for what it is.

35. What’s their guilty pleasure? What is their totally unguilty pleasure? I honestly don’t think Maisie really has a guilty pleasure, she’s a pretty honest and open person (for the most part… lol catch her keeping some major secrets in paroxysm) but like about herself, she doesn’t really lie or hide anything. She was a major One Direction fan back in the day… and definitely didn’t hide it despite Hazel’s constant complaints ( “stop playing that awful boyband crap immediately Maiz, before I throw your iPod out the window”)

[sir-adamus]

So.. Tell us about Addison? She's cute!

she is cute! i didn’t actually specify that when i commissioned her (she is supposed to be cute but i forgot to include that) but i love the way Erin has depicted her and i’m glad others think that Addison is cute!

Addison as a character i’ve had around in some form or another for years now, sort of an all purpose OC for a lot of fic, so i’ve got variants on the character that exist in say, the Pokémon world or went to Hogwarts, that kinda thing. the one depicted in the art i commissioned and the one i work with most is sort of the prime one who (along with her friends) gets involved in a lot of different things

she’s the protagonist of a lot of self-indulgent crossover fic which i really mainly write and daydream for myself, which i have no intention of sharing cos i’m fine just having fun with it on my own - the barebones of it is that she travels from fictional universe to fictional universe, for the most part just making friends and having adventures, fighting monsters, collecting cool stuff (and weapons) and generally trying to have a good time. the connecting thread of all this typically ends up being extra-universal entities and monstrosities and self-proclaimed gods that threaten to corrupt or destroy not only her own universe but those of the friends she’s made along the way - it’s kinda silly and over the top, but i like it

personality-wise, she’s pretty fun-loving and easygoing. she’s usually at her most vibrant and loudest when she’s out on an adventure. she’s pretty quick with the snark but she’s never mean about it, it’s playful when she’s with friends, when it’s towards villains it’s often to annoy and frustrate them, push their buttons a bit. she’ll even engage in sarcasm when it comes to the more horrifying stuff, even if only because the alternative is to break down and start screaming

when she’s not in ‘adventure mode’, in a more relaxed setting, she’s actually quite shy and awkward, and it takes her a little bit to get more comfortable around new people, but she does make fast friends after that initial awkwardness. she’s quite empathetic and always tries to help her friends and be understanding through a bad time, even if it’s just being there with a cup of tea or something or watching a film or playing a videogame with them

she’s had to be a pretty skilled liar, as travelling to these places, she already knows who people are and what’s going on and has to pretend she doesn’t so as not to seem too creepy or overenthusiastic about meeting these folks that she’s a fan of most of the time (as she’s from a universe similar to our own)

in terms of hobbies, she’s quite well rounded too, enjoys reading and playing videogames, she’s a fan of a few tv, film and web series. she’s a strong swimmer and she plays lead guitar and lends her voice on occasion to a cover band she and a few of her friends from her home universe formed whilst at school called ‘The Pantheon of Discord’, which later down the line became a somewhat prophetic name used to refer to the whole group of friends and their more permanent associates as they adventured around the multiverse, due to the varied and often chaotic personalities involved and the amount of trouble they end up causing on their way to try and save the day

i guess that’s a sort of general overview with her? like i said i’ve had her around for years, there ended up being quite a lot