The concept of Fairytale Detective in the dark parables games is so funny it's like I signed up to the police force for valid reasons and now my superiors are all like hmm you have to break a curse. And I'm like hello? And they're like yeah listen there's an ancient witch trying to kidnap a prophesied maiden to take over the world. Go deal with her! You have NO magical ability and NO backup!!! I would simply quit and open a bakery
Inspired by the previous reblog, the idea of the fairytale detective being non-human would be fun to dive into since we don't have much of a backstory on her. The possibilities are endless.
She could be a cryptid.
Perhaps an eldritch construct sent by higher beings to restore the balance of magic.
She may even reveal herself to be a forgotten deity, far more ancient than the gods and goddesses she has helped in the past decades, awakened by the increasing irregularities of magic.
Maybe she's already dead and was replaced by a superhuman android built by the detective agency she worked at to keep a better hold on the volatile world of fairytales, because, I swear, the detective was not the same since Eipix took over lmao.
Perhaps she's the incarnation of humanity's collective yearning for the magical and fantastic, which is why she has such an affinity for the supernatural when those fantasies turn out to be real.
Maybe she's a changeling, an infant swapped at birth and grew up drawn to the songs of the brook, the whispers of the wind, and the calls of the forest in the middle of the night, all of which easily fly past the attention of others.
y'know what would be funny if the fairy tale detective was a cryptid that is human passing.
(possible spoilers for jack and the sky kingdom, and more rambles under the cut)
like when Jack is first interacting with the detective he is like 'oh another human dealing with all this weird magic bullshitery' and then a little bit later he turns to talk to det and just sees eye glow for half a second but it's so brief he questions whether or not he saw anything, and then they meet back up with Emma and she notices it too, and they're both like wth?? do the ask the detective about it? absolutely not! that would be so awkward...
cut forward a little to a unspecified adventure and the detective needs a ladder for something and is hanging out with Gerda and company, and they find a ladder and Gerda turns to the group and is discussing working together to move the ladder to where they need and turns back to see no ladder?? the detective is just standing there where the ladder was waiting for Gerda to finish talking. when they get to where they needed the ladder the detective seemingly just pulls it out of nowhere and places it against the wall.
the detectives allies/friends now have bimonthly meetings (provided the worlds not ending) trying to figure out wtf the detective is and where they came from and who old they are, because they are weirdly spry after at least 20 years dealing with weird magic stuff.
I've been reading a lot of childcare manwha so here's Childcare AU with Cursery duo and Belladonna. It's revisiting the old crossover art I did with Parn and Bella, but with a more wholesome twist.
Alternate titles: Messed-up people with god-like powers become each other's emotional support. Serial killer gets too busy spoiling child with abandonment issues to do any serial killing. One of them is a tsundere and it's definitely not the catboy (or so he says).