Can't believe you lost my sfw prompt request smh in cri /lh
Anyway
Perhemps
Murdock/Reader afab/fem pronouns
SOFT LOSERS YOUR HONOR
Mayhemps the losers going for a walk in the woods. Just a little outing/date together walking the trails. Spending time together? With a murder man? More likely than you think.
warnings: none apply :)
The smell of damp bark makes Murdock close his eyes for a second, something he doesn't usually allow himself to do outside his own bedroom.
Now though, he feels a type of serenity wash over him gently. These are his woods, surrounding his cabin, and there's not much that would be able to sneak up on him here. At least, not without him being delightfully prepared for it.
As if anything could surprise him here, let alone you.
He can't help the twitch of a grin curling his upper lip just before you playfully wrap your arms around his waist. Your laugh is light and intoxicating, as if you don't know what a bad idea it is to try and jumpscare a man like him.
"Careful, little fawn. It's dangerous to play games in the woods," He warns, but not without amusement dancing on his lips.
"And what exactly is gonna get me in the woods, huh? The big bad wolf," You put on a mocking scary voice, but he can see your eyes now you've stepped beside him. Your eyes never fail to betray your emotions.
"I told you to wear gloves," Murdock states, eyeing your small, pale hands exposed to the misty air.
"And I told you I don't need them," You respond, despite tucking your fingers further into your jumper even as you speak.
He smiles, your smile, before continuing on your morning walk. As if trying to act casually, you look up at the canopy of evergreen leaves whilst strolling to match his pace.
A few seconds and Murdock brushes his gloved hand against yours and suddenly you're enveloped in the warm, soft leather. He sees you shudder slightly at the change in temperature, your hands looking so very fragile in his.
He doesn't say anything, but there's a fire that's warming in his chest.
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thinking about how Merlin had to light Arthur's pyre.
thinking about shared destinies and being two sides of the same coin, about fear and nightmares coming true but not as you expect.
thinking about irony, of thousands of sorcerers that died in a fire lit by Pendragon blood, thinking of the last heir burning by the hands of magic.
thinking about Merlin alone in a shore with golden eyes and fire on the distance.
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God I fucking love Chris Saphire's vocal portfolio in Supergiant games it's like
Softest ray of sunshine good boy of all time, Hedwyn
Solemn and brooding but at heart still deeply caring and gentle, Thanatos
Asher Kendrell
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Yknow. I do forsee a potential plot point for Netflix-levania to somehow have Dracula as a villain back, even with the end of the previous series. Obligation. He's no longer the weary widower, and with Lisa's return there's closure. He's lived as a man. He understands man. He may not even hate man. Maybe.
And yet he's back because the other Vampires are fucking it up and now daddy's home to bring back order. He's no longer gunning for genocide, but honestly, the politicking of the vampires who are so far up their own asses, they need to be reminded who's really in charge. His death left a power vacuum, a particularly annoying vacuum. Maybe the little things of humanity irk him, but vampires are everything they have but turned up to 11.
So at the end it's a formality. He'll come back, clean things up among vampire society, make enough of a mess to get a Belmont to kill him, then turn in for another 100 years.
Does this make him too noble? Probably. If you want the grandiose "What is a man" Dracula, you can extrapolate from "It's an obligation" and have him actively resent people pulling him out of the afterlife from Lisa so fucking much, that he leans too hard into the role. The part of him who's evil out of obligation and the part who's evil out of resentment begin to blur the lines. Is he the lord of darkness because that's the role he's been cast and is simply going through the motions or his he just so simply done with the whole process that he refuses to give up an inch of power to any other Vampire (or human) because they're all just children in his eyes?
It could still ultimately culminate in a Soma Cruz plot line where after 1999 he quits so hard that he refuses to even return to the role properly but it doesn't matter because his mere presence fills the vacuum, even when he does nothing (not for the lack of trying from others).
Maybe that's a bit petulant in its own right. YMMV, but I think that's the point. For being such an archetypal lord of all evil villains, how he fills it is shockingly dynamic. He's evil for evils sake, a beacon of arrogance, or a truly tragic villain. Depends on what's needed. If he does come back, I do want to really see a "Castlevania does Bram Stoker's Dracula. Genuinely. It's just an adaptation for the original novel because that's Canon to the original Castlevania timeline, and it'd be funny to properly reveal that Quincy Morris is a Belmont (And his son fights WW1 vampires and grandson WW2)."
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