#cw: lying

[sleepyfan-blog]

Craft

Author’s Note:  this is the second part of mer-Deimos fic!  Previous. Next

Tagged:  @egrets-not-regrets @the-pure-angel @gallifreyanrose

Warnings: lying, manipulation

Summary: Deimos makes contact with a pod of young Blood Angels, integrating in with them to fish for information.

Deimos hums softly to himself as he swims over to where the nearest pod of Blood Angels were hunting. He keeps to the shadows of the kelp forest, listening in on their playful vox-chatter, to ascertain that the Blood Angel whose identity he’d taken was not currently within this pod - as otherwise he’d need to lure the Astartes’ whose face he’d taken away for his brothers to hold in place while he assessed the potential threat that this particular pod of Blood Angels posed to the plans that the Alpha Legion had in mind for this region.

Once he was relatively sure that “his” presence would be welcomed, he made his way out of the kelp forest and re-joined the “brothers” who were chasing after a large school of fish. There was a gap in the circle that they’d made which was allowing more of their prey to escape than they wanted, so he slid into place with a faux-cheerful greeting “Good afternoon, brothers! Lovely day for a hunt.” 

The rest of the Blood Angel pod chirped friendly greetings -and by the markings on their armor, they seemed to be younger Blood Angels. They were each full battle brothers, but hadn’t been for long. It did not take long with his assistance for everyone to each be able to gorge himself on as much live prey as each wanted to feast upon. 

“Brothers Sergeant Plethas, I didn’t realize you were in the area. I thought you were visiting with your bonded?” One of the younger Astartes asks, dark red eyes peering up at him curiously.

Plethas hummed before playfully reaching out and scruffing the nosy little brother “I just wanted to check in on how you all were doing. Good thing too, as otherwise the hole in your hunting circle would have meant that you all would have had to chase after the reforming school of prey for hours if not days longer.”

The younger cousin he’d scruffed pouted up at him, squirming a little “We… We were working on it! Besides, we wouldn’t have gone too much further south. Not with the recent breakdowns in negotiations between some of the larger chaos pods and our older brothers… Not that I’d have to remind you about that. You know more about it than any of us do. Do you know when the negotiations are going to continue? Or have the Chaos Bastards swum off in a huff again?”

… Negotiations? Deimos hadn’t heard any kind of chatter about negotiations between Chaos and Loyalist pods. He really hoped it was because of the long-term mission he’d recently come back from. He’ll need to update his captain immediately about this, as soon as he got all relevant information. He reaches out and ruffles the younger cousin’s gilded hair “You know full well that I can’’t tell you any more about how things are going until I get the go-ahead from the chapter master.”

The little cousin in his grip whined and huffed before leaning into his touch, a soft purr rumbling in his chest. His eyes were filled with affection and trust “Yes big brother…  I’m sleepy…” He was soon surrounded on all sides with sleepy and trusting younger cousins.

A small smile appeared on his face as he reaches out with careful, gentle hands, patting each of them on the head or shoulder. “Come now, we can’t sleep out in the open waters. Lead me to where you’re denning, then you may rest while I take first watch. Come on, youngsters.”

This prompted a round of grumbling from the younger cousins, but they obeyed his orders with some reluctance. There was an adorably amusing chorus of “Yes big brother.” They led him to where they were denning.

It was a decently sized underwater cave, with a mouth just large enough for a single astartes to pass through without trouble. There was enough room inside the main chamber of the cave for the small pod of Dark Angels to sleep together in a nested pile, and Deimos noted that there was evidence that they had contact with baseline humans - water-resistant blankets, brightly colored strings of beads, other easily carried knick-knacks that decorated the main area of the cave. There were side-chambers and tunnels that lead upwards, and another point of entry into this cave system.

All in all, it was entirely unsatisfactory for an Alpha legion nest, but most loyalist chapters were not so careful in choosing dens, especially temporary spaces such as this. Which was foolish of them, but useful for Deimos and his brothers. After all, they hadn’t once seriously questioned why he was here.

Deimos smiled again as the young battle brothers settled into a pile of limbs and tails, pulling him into the center of it with sleepy purrs. He hummed to them a common loyalist lullaby, helping them to fall asleep faster, his lilting voice and a touch of warp-craft encouraging them to sleep deeply. 

Once Deimos was sure that they were all fully asleep, he put his helmet back on and sent a brief, encoded message with what he had learned to his captain, before resuming his watch, awaiting further orders. 

[bacchuschucklefuck]

hell hath no fury etc.

[lil-lemon-snails]

Looks like you're caught in his web~

[weekend-conspiracy-theorist]

given cass's canonical love of reality tv, I am absolutely certain that every year babs has to go into cbs's recruitment email and delete her survivor audition video

[stefisdoingthings]

bleeding out on his sworn enemy’s bed is his way of flirting btw

[wickcipher]

LEO GOT IT LAST TIME SO

DONNIE #1!

🎵 Well, that was fun, goodbye! 🎵

[Masterpost]

[b1ttersweet-dreams]

ok ive decided - fuck it, v4v be upon ye this is my blog i do whatever i want around here additional v2 (& a bit of v1) sketches under cut bc well. favorite character

[strawberrylind]

they kiss sloppy in last dance (it’s true guys my uncle works at sony)

[spicyraeman]

"In times of war, it is better to execute an innocent than to harbor a mole. Nothing personal kid."

[lyrouxx]

🥚🍳

idk how much of this I can post without getting sniped but!! Easter meant putting some eggs in the tyrant ft. Ionel's half slayer form 🫡

Full on my bsky (warnings in post)

[drcaspiancrow]

yknow, I think it's really beautiful to think that Love itself created the universe, created us. Love predates everything, and Love conquers everything.

[jinjjayo]

JULIE GET LOUD @ KBS GLOBAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 241220

[danieyells]

UPCOMING CARDS

Frostheim Masquerade units(stats in a reblog because tumblr mobile won't let me upload more than 10 images in one go) and some sprite names for the next episode, which should be Mortkranken! (No title yet, which worries me a bit lol)

Character Card: Fractured Heartline(「心の裂け目をなぞる指」  "Fingers Tracing Cracks In The Heart") Skill: Limousine Escort(「リムジンの送迎」  "Dropped Off And Picked Up By Limousine") Fully Awakened Skill: Heir To The Kamurai Fortune(「冠氷財閥の御曹司」  "The Heir To The Kamurai Conglomerate") Warding Card: King's Morning(「キングの身支度」  "The King Gets Dressed")

Character Card: Crystal Virtue(「正義の棲む晶洞」  "The Crystal Cave Where Justice Lives") Skill: Polyglot(「ポリグロット」  "Polyglot") Fully Awakened Skill: Protective Blade(「守るための剣」  "A Sword Whose Purpose Is Protecting") Warding Card: Knight's Morning(「ナイトの身支度」  "The Knight Gets Dressed")

Character Card: Midnight Toast(「更けゆく夜への献杯」  "A Toast To The Latening Evening") Skill: Masked Intent(「見えぬ本心」  "Unshown True Intentions") Fully Awakened Skill: The King's Right Hand(「王の右腕として」  "The King's Right Hand Man") Warding Card: Rook's Morning(「ルークの身支度」  "The Rook Gets Dressed")

Character Card: Radiant Archer(「光弓の射手」  "Glowing Bow's Archer") Skill: Man Up(「漢、魁斗……」  "Be A Real Man, Kaito...") Fully Awakened Skill: Bolt From The Blue(「迅雷の一矢」  "The Sudden Thunder Of An Arrow") Warding Card: Pawn's Morning(「ポーンの身支度」  "The Pawn Gets Dressed")

New cosmic bonds! As usual I don't know what units are in these. Sorry! Although it's easy to guess lol

Morning Routine (「モーニングルーティーン」 "Morning Routine")

The Masquerade Of Frostheim (「フロストハイムの仮面舞踏会」 "Frostheim's Masquerade Ball")

The next episode, as I mentioned before, is most likely Mortkranken! The unique sprites are only referred to as "Pest" so who knows what that means. There will be two casual outfits for Yuri and Jiro and based on the filename "[Name]AcademyRobe" maybe there'll be some kind of assembly? Hard to tell but I'd be interested in knowing if they're the same robes as the ones in the pre-prologue. . .there'll also be a workout/training outfit sprite for both Luca and Jiro! Finally they'll get to train like Luca wanted in that campus chat maybe!! :'D

I don't have to say it every time but I will anyway!

Gacha is gambling and banners rerun! Please don't spend money you aren't able to lose trying to get things you won't be able to keep long term! The unit will come back in the coming months if you miss it, so you can always save back up!

My Japanese isn't very good so please take my translations with a grain of salt!

Brush your teeth and also floss! You've got a big day ahead, simply for being alive.

Unit stats in the reblogs!

[pathogencomic]

Prologue (start)

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[sometimes-rendog]

day 45, late bloomer (flower/frost)

[wildmoonatic]

something something we are getting this game