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[devilsnocturne]

Devil’s Nocturne is an AU of SMT Nocturne with Devil Survivor Series characters. This is an old AU I’ve been doing since 2013, I am making a remaster version of this with updated content. Hope you enjoy your stay!

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Vol 1

Chapter 1: Something brewing

Chapter 2: The Conception

Chapter 3: Demi-Fiend

Chapter 4: The Contract

Chapter 5: Fornues

Chapter 6: Vortex World

Chapter 7: Ikebukuro

Chapter 8: The Amala

Chapter 9: Court of Strength

Chapter 10: The Great Underpass

Vol 2

Chapter 11: Matador

Chapter 12: Raidou Kuzunoha

Chapter 13: Gozu-Tennoh

Chapter 14: Daisoujou

Chapter 15: Assembly of Nihilo

Chapter 16: Reason of Yosuga

Chapter 17: Fallen Mantra

Chapter 18: Reunion

Chapter 19: Hell’s Angel

Chapter 20: Kabukicho Prison

Vol 3

Chapter 21: First Kalpa

Chapter 22: Second Kalpa

Chapter 23: Ikebukuro Tunnel

Chapter 24: Conquest Knight

Chapter 25: Asakusa

Chapter 26: Resolve

Chapter 27: Bloodthirsty Knight

Chapter 28: The Obelisk

Chapter 29: Rescue

Chapter 30: Reason of Musubi

Vol 4

Chapter 31: Reason of Shijima

Chapter 32: The Scales of Famine

Chapter 33: Third Kalpa

Chapter 34: Death Incarnate

Chapter 35: Fairy’s Territory

Chapter 36: Kill or Be Killed

Chapter 37: Unknown reason

Chapter 38: Mother Harlot

Chapter 39: Mantra Reborn

Chapter 40: Mara

Vol 5

Chapter 41: Cold Emperor

Chapter 42: Amala Network Revisit

Chapter 43: White Temple

Chapter 44: Red Temple

Chapter 45: Black Temple

Chapter 46: The Drifting God - Noah

Chapter 47: Manikin Massacre

Chapter 48: Sumerian Fertility God, Hadad - Baal Avatar

Chapter 49: The Trumpeter

Chapter 50: Diet Building

Chapter 51: The Avenger God,  Ahriman

Chapter 52: Fourth Kalpa

Chapter 53: Lord of the Flies - Beelzebub

Vol 6

Chapter 54: Tower of Kagutsuchi

Chapter 55: Ahriman

Chapter 56: Noah

Chapter 57: Baal Avatar

Chapter 58: A visit to Bandou Shrine

Chapter 59: Kagutsuchi

Chapter 60: The Freeing Globe - Freikugel!

Vol 7?

Chapter 61?: A Fiend’s Wrath

Chapter 62?: True Demon

Chapter 63?: Tower of Kagutsuchi

Chapter 64?: Reasons

Chapter 65?: Kagutschi

Chapter 66?: 6 winged angel - The Last One

[multiversalmayhem]

Chapter Selection

PROLOGUE - THE STAGE IS SET [●]

CHAPTER 1 - ESCAPE FROM PARADISE [●]

CHAPTER 2 - RETAIL HELL [○]

CHAPTER 3 - ET TU, BRUTE? [○]

CHAPTER 4 - REIMBURSMENT [○]

CHAPTER 5 - MIND THE MIND [○]

CHAPTER 6 - THE PART WHERE HE WINS [○]

EPILOGUE - BEGIN AGAIN [○]

[pmd-team-comet]

☆☆Navigation☆☆

From here you'll be able to select which chapter you'd like to start reading:

☆Cover: 2022, 2023

☆ Prologue: It Was a Little Bit of Light

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☆ Chapter 1: The Guild

☆ Chapter 2: Caves and Cubchoos

☆ Chapter 3: Day to Day

☆ Chapter 4: Dreams and Dangers

//note: if you'd like to catch up to the most recent pages, consider reading on Deviantart or Comicfury//

[fumifooms]

That. That screentone on Chilchuck’s chest in the low open collar. Is Chilchuck having chest hair canon Kui. Kui? Gripping my knee

[jtl-fics]

Fluent Freshman - Part 44

PREV

The flight up to New York is a pleasant one.

The time in the airport itself had been less pleasant. Matt, as it turns out, is a firm believer in arriving with just enough time to check a bag, get through security, and get to the gate. He had claimed up, down, left, and right that he had it down to a science.

No matter how many times Smith had wondered about the scientific rigor of this 'science' he still kept it to himself. There was no need for Smith to voice his uncertainty with this plan because Kevin well and truly had it covered.

"You're giving us only an hour to check bags, get through security, and get to our gate?!" Kevin demands.

"Kevin, if you wanted to be there earlier then you could have asked Andrew to give yo a ride." Matt says. "We'll be fine."

"You know what Neil and Andrew get like when they have a long roadtrip ahead of them." Kevin argues.

"All lovey-dovey?" Nicky asks as Aaron makes a gagging sound.

"No, well yes, but no they always stop and buy all of the worst food too." Kevin reminds. "I'm just concerned about us missing our flight! We have barely enough time!" Kevin huffs crossing his arms.

"You're wrong anyways." Aaron says idly as he continues to text with Katelyn.

"How am I wrong?!" Kevin demands.

"We also have to park within that hour that Matt has left us with." Aaron says looking up from his phone.

"Matt!" Kevin squawks.

"It'll be fine." Matt reassures for the 2nd time.

"We all have checked bags!" Kevin exclaims, "What if we miss our flight?!" he wails.

"It'll be fine!" Matt repeats.

"No it won't!" Kevin exclaims.

---

It was fine.

The only real delays they met were at security.

Smith prided himself on being efficient in the security line. He has his watch off, his phone and ID secured in a zipped jacket pocket, his backpack and electronics in separate trays, and his shoes ready to be slipped off.

So he was shamed to have been the cause of the first delay when the TSA agent wouldn't wave Smith through the metal detector since she didn't realize he was there. That had been a whole anxiety attack and a half as the line had formed up behind him all wondering what the hold-up was.

Finally she seemed to startle as she realized that Smith had been standing there waiting and waved him through.

The other delay was that Kevin got patted down after he had forgotten to empty his 'emergency' water bottle.

It was probably for the best that they didn't have to be in the airport for that long. Every announcement that it was very important to not leave your bag unattended made him worry that with every blink somehow someone had slipped a bomb into his backpack.

While it was on his back.

As he was running with the rest of his friends to their gate.

"It just had to be the gate on the other end of the terminal." Aaron huffs.

"It would have been 100% perfect if someone hadn't left their water bottle in their bag despite the, let me check, 3,820 signs that said remove all liquids from your carry-ons!" Matt says as they continues to run.

"I said I forgot!" Kevin yells back from his spot at the front of the pack. Smith was under the distinct impression that Kevin was keeping pace with them since he had seen the Striker move much faster on the court and during warm-ups.

"We could have forgiven that!" Nicky pants, "Why did you have to slam the whole thing to prove that it was 'just water'?" he asks.

"Because I wanted to prove I wasn't a national security threat!" Kevin says. "I'll be going to the Olympics in a couple years and I can't have that on my record." he continues as he rounds a corner.

"What record?!" Smith asks suddenly worried that there was a record.

"Smithy, there's no record Kevin's just an idiot. An idiot who got patted down, tested for explosives, and had his carry-on searched." Nicky huffs.

"You don't know that there's not a record! The record everything nowadays!" Kevin huffs and their gate is in sight.

"Kevin, just shut up!" Aaron exclaims as they reach the line for their flight.

"Wait why aren't any of you getting shitty with Smiths?!" Kevin asks.

"His delay was like a minute and more importantly NOT HIS FAULT!" Nicky defends.

"He should have just walked through!" Kevin argues.

"Oh it's fine if he gets a record but not you?!" Aaron asks.

"So there is a record?!" Smith asks again.

They reach the line and the largely empty area around their gate is more than enough evidence that this was the final boarding. Smith breathed a sigh of relief as he took his place in line behind Nicky.

"The lines pretty slow, I'm going to go get a water." Kevin says and before any of them can say anything he is off towards a busy looking Newsweek store.

"I cannot believe him." Aaron huffs.

"All that water he just drank and is about to drink? He has lost window seat privileges." Matt pants wiping sweat from his brow.

"Agreed." Nicky says.

Smith laughed between panting breaths. His stomach hurt a bit from the stress of running but it was fine.

They get on the plane without Kevin and head to their seats. Most of the overhead storage is taken up at this point but Smith slides his bag under the middle seat in front of him after Matt

In the end, Kevin barely made it onto the plane in time since he got caught up in deciding on water. "You're in my seat." Kevin says as the only man not yet seated.

"I am not about to spend this flight getting up every 2 minutes because you have to pee." Matt says, "Abby didn't used to need to take all those pitstops when we're on the bus." Matt adds.

"I hate the aisle, the cart could hit my legs." Kevin argues.

"Then you can sit in the middle if Smith's willing to move." Matt says.

"You can have the middle Kevin." Smith offers actually preferring the aisle seat since then he doesn't have to ask anyone to move for him.

"I hate the middle seat, there is no room." Kevin crosses his arms.

"Smith is like only 3 inches shorter than you and he's not complaining." Matt continues.

"It's an important 3 inches."

"I bet it is."

"Nicky, are you serious?"

"What?!"

"There is an uninvolved member of the public, right there."

"He's wearing headphones it's fine!"

---

It's fine.

Eventually Kevin takes the middle seat if for no other reason than Matt stubbornly pretends to go to sleep but absolutely does not want the aisle seat either.

Smith gives it up and ends up with his own preferred seat while Kevin pointedly takes both of the arm rests, as is his right. The plane ride progresses smoothly from there. Smith has always liked flying. There is always a sense that the second that he gets onto the plane and the door closes he has absolutely zero control over what happens afterwards.

That is a nice comfort.

He pays attention to the safety briefing, finds his nearest exit, and that he should secure the bag over his own face before securing it on Kevin's.

He puts his headphones on and tries not to think about the anxiety of meeting the 'girls'.

He has heard much about the 'girls'.

Allison Reynolds. Allison was someone who's legacy existed even outside of the team. Smith didn't know much about fashion but a Reynolds bet remained a solid practice within Palmetto. She was, undeniably, absolutely gorgeous and if Kevin was to be believed 'kind of a bitch'. Nicky had swatted his arm but had said that it was not entirely inaccurate but like 'in the best way'.

Dan Wilds. He met Dan. Dan was nice. Also, if Matt was to be believed, the best human to ever walk the planet earth. The reason the sun rose in the east and set in the west. The gravitational pull that held the universe together. If Andrew is to be believed, she's fine.

Renee Walker. Renee was the one who taught Andrew how to use knives. His friend has talked warmly of her, in the way that Andrew talks warmly about anyone which is mentioning them at all. She was the one that Smith was the most anxious about meeting.

Kevin turns his nose up at the ginger ale that Smith gets but he's allowed these now per his actual doctors orders.

1 hour left until arriving at JFK.

He hopes this ginger ale is enough to calm his stomach since he's still not allowed Pepto.

MASTERPOST FOR ALL PARTS OF FLUENT FRESHMAN AU

NEXT

[yellowocaballero]

Reading 'Solo Leveling' (a webtoon/webnovel about a guy who uses a game-like interface to level up and fight monsters and become ridiculously OP and the coolest and hottest guy in the whole wide world) really proves something to me that I've thought about.

The goal of a story is to achieve what it wants to achieve. Different genres have different certain marks the story should achieve. If it doesn't hit those marks, it's not a good example of the genre. In a lot of was it's not even a good story - it doesn't entertain the audience in the way that they want to be entertained. A romance novel isn't a bad story because it doesn't feature great action scenes, but neither is it a bad story because it doesn't delve deep into the sociopolitical implications of neocolonialism. Does it make the reader feel happy? Is it cathartic? Is there a happy ending? Then it's a good romance story - even if you think stories shouldn't need happy endings.

The 'satisfaction' of stories like Solo Leveling is the fact that is very entertaining to watch a guy be super powerful and mow down bad guys and have everybody around him go "WHOAH that's a cool guy". Maybe it's cool because you're projecting, or maybe you like great action scenes, or because you like 'underdog gets powerful' stories. It's a power fantasy. That is the goal of Solo Leveling, and so long as I'm going "WHOAH COOL", then it's a good story. And Solo Leveling is the example of the power fantasy video game dungeon OP protag. It does those elements, it executes them competently, it's a good story.

This is the third of these types of stories I've read more than 5 chapters of. The first was Omniscent Reader's Viewpoint. And baby. This is no ORV.

ORV a big reaction to Solo Levelling in a lot of ways, since Solo Levelling was very genre defining and influential, and it's hard to write these OP stories without having a relationship to Solo Leveling. It's like the most popular webtoon out there. The OP hero, the gaming interface and rules, the gods fucking you up, power fantasy - they're all checked off by ORV. It doesn't subvert them much. You watch kdj pull one over on a shmuck and you're like HEY YA BABY and you watch him utterly decimate some schmuck and you're like WHOAH COOL. You like ORV, basically, for the same reasons you like Solo Leveling. They're the same genre and in a lot of ways the same story.

But ORV has driven me nuts and after a while Solo Leveling has gotten boring. Because ORV has a fantastic supporting cast that puts the MC's OPness in relative perspective. Because there's cool action scenes with different teams, of different dynamics, giving freshness to each chapter. Because you get to see kdj slowly implement some nuts gambit of the course of the entire arc and when we finally hit the end point where it all comes together it's FUCK YEAH. I'm leaving out the actual depth here. But ORV and Solo Leveling do the same thing, except ORV has a great deal of other story elements that build into the main 'point' and escalate the satisfaction, joy, and intensity of those points. You don't read these OP hero novels for the supporting cast. You read it to watch a dude be cool. But ORV's supporting cast - and, like, the fact that they're actual characters, even the women - gives us a lot of other smaller 'hey yeah!' moments, gives it buildup, makes the OP moments meaningful, and gives a grand climax and huge satisfaction when kdj does what the SL guy did by himself. And the supporting cast is only one example of this. A story is a good story if it accomplishes its point, but a story like SL will never really deliver its promises nearly as well as ORV could. Not because ORV is deep and has """themes""" or fucked up shit like that. The 'WHOAH COOL's are just better. Because ORV knows why stories are good and what makes a good story.

Anyway I'm fucking begging you I have tears in my eyes this is why your fic needs more than the hot ship of the day I promise it won't detract from the ship it will make the ship BETTER but you have to get WHY you like these homosexuals so much and it's NOT just because they're CUTE sometimes there's OTHER REASONS THAT ARE IMPORTANT LIKE THE WOMAN YOU'VE BOOTED AND -

[kinsagi]

All the people in reddit talking about how Hiori is "plot armor," "convenience," "buffed," "forced," etc., completely ignoring the seeds were planted as early as the 3rd selection

[alastor-simp]

Part 3 Finale of Alastor X Mute Reader is almost finished!!

Who's excited?!

[anna-scribbles]

“Look who finally showed up.” Ladybug’s voice was the quiet kind of rage, an animal she was just barely keeping penned up. “I was starting to wonder.” She looked at him like he was a dead thing.

good morning and happy call it even chapter 6 day to me and @sha-nwa and all those who celebrate<3

[sunsetsmakemesad]

This has been on my head for a while and it's not really relevant but what if shaun is 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 suzie's little brother

[emilianadarling]

fic: Heart Beats Slow author: cam_elot | emilianadarling  artist: lovey-dovey (full art on tumblr and ao3) chapter: Collision Course (1/6) rating: E ship: Din Djarin/Luke Skywalker contains: Alternate Universe (Neo-Noir/Urban Fantasy), Werewolf!Din, Incubus!Luke, Coruscant, Sex Magic, Magical Sexual Urges, Rough Sex, Biting/Marking, Protectiveness, Porn With Feelings (and a side of plot). summary: Among black towers and gleaming neon lights of Coruscant, a grieving Mandalorian finds a half-starved incubus in the snow. In a galaxy far, far away - where magical beings live alongside droids and sentients - their lives, once separated by class and species, are drawn inextricably together. And all the while, something darker lurks in city shadows.

[otaku553]

so you know how I've been talking about the Kazuha Demon Slayer crossover for ages now?

Hahahaha

Chapter 1 is out :)

[nonbinagi]

Maria calling Draluc "tiny tits" sends me every fucking time

[exilethegame]

will the upcoming chapter part 2 update include any alterations to the previous chapters/chapter part 1? i was just wondering so i can know if i should reread the demo now or if i should wait for the update to reread if theres altered/new content in the old chapters.

There's no altered content that you, as the reader can see, but there's a lot of new variables being added behind the scenes. For that reason, I'd wait to replay until the next chapter is released!

[dilutedconfusion]

There’s a horny ass meme of Eustass Kid under here. Be warned.

[walmart-miku]

ORV rereading liveblog chapters: 5-6 (beginning of episode 2)

Warning: This post contains MAJOR spoilers under the cut, proceed with caution if that's not your thing (I'm talking massive spoilers here, things that get revealed near or at the end of orv)

Orv and flipping roles example 1

Shut up Kim Dokja and thank you for living

WARNING SPOILERS

*breathes in* Lee Gilyoung my bby boy. Kim Dokja you're soon going to learn that Lee Gilyoung was passive not only because he was afraid but also because he didn't care what happened to his "mom" (*cough cough* his aunt *cough cough*)

WHEN THE PARALLELS PARALLEL

I think Kim Dokja just sees himself in Lee Gilyoung here because of the ✨️traumatic experience of watching a person die in front of you (whose death you may or may not have caused by either actively killing them or just letting them die)✨️ :D

But like seriously. I love how on some subconscious level Kim Dokja saw his small little self (who was prob around Lee Gilyoung's age) that had just killed his father and decided that he would not let the kid go through it alone like he did.

O U G H WHEN THE PARALLELS PARALLEL (if yknow yknow)