"What do you dream about?" Demeter asked, staring intently her acquaintance. And that's what Alonzo had become, she supposed, in the stretches of time the queen was left to her own devices since coming to Macavity's domain: an acquaintance. Maybe Demeter would go so far as to call him a companion - an associate in misery. Better than the "co-worker" that he'd sarcastically thrown out when another henchcat was snagged sniffing too close around her. That one had...annoyed her.
Regardless of what he was, it had become enough of something that Demeter found herself passing her thoughts through him; practically or otherwise. Almost like she cared about his response.
"Me?" Alonzo remarked lightly, too quickly to have been fully thought out. "I don't think I've had a dream in maybe five years." He sounded his usual nonchalant, but the queen heard the tonal change- the deflated flattening of words as he avoided looking her in the eye. Demeter had noted that all over - how cats would quickly avert their eyes at the first sign of disagreement or mistake. The Palace's equivalent, she thought, of showing one's belly in submission...regret, perhaps. Strange.
The queen bit her lip, confused by the tom's words, feeling the hair on her neck stand to attention. That is to say, Demeter's dreams had started blurring into emptiness - a recent and rather startling change that warned of something foreboding she had been hoping she was wrong about, and that'd not at all been the reassuring answer she was looking for. "What do you mean?"
"They, uh…kind of stop around here." Alonzo blinked a few times, as though considering what he'd admitted to her and regretting it instantly. His tail paused its twitching, and Demeter was suddenly very aware of how heavy the air was around them. The base of her spine was suddenly alight, claws digging deeper. "Or maybe," he continued, hasty. "I just don't remember what they were about."
An odd ringing swelled in Demeter's ear. Then nothing.
Now Alonzo is staring at her, brow furrowed, looking wary in a way she couldn't put her paw on. The general stony expression had slipped fully open for a brief moment, pained and frightened, before being carefully smoothed away again. "Why do you ask?"
Demeter caught her tongue between her teeth, considering the truth, but a whisper inside her pushed the thought aside, gently and carefully, like tucking a newborn under a blanket before smothering it.
"No reason," she murmured instead, charming and avoidant in the way that had rarely failed her in life thus far. She pushed herself comfortably into a lie instead. "Just curious. Mine have been rather...odd."
Odd. Sure. Better than nothing.
Alonzo didn't believe her for a second.
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I see it now! I was literally reading and listening about their relationship in your podcast! i really thought that Statice and Nick DESPISE eachother. This AU is interesting, I love it vry vry much. Im not fond of it at first because I can't really Imagine Basil. Basil doing all of that stuff. because he's my favorite character(and I can't really see him being like that). But I eventually learnt to separate them and sees Nick as his own character. Like an actual oc(Still sees him a little bit as Basil if you understand what I mean)( can't wait when Sunny's other friend gets revealed or maybe the parents. *Maybe* they're not that important to the story but the CURIOSITY IS TOO STRONG AND SORRY FOR YAPPING HSJSKAK IT MUST BE TIRING TO ANSWER ANY OF MY QUESTIONS I WON'T DO THAT AGAIN)(Also excuse my grammar also, english is not my first language 😣)
-Anon from the previous previous post.
(the aura I felt after asking that is unimaginable. I used to be so shy to ask anything on people's blog so Im a *bit* proud of my confidence!)
Oh I see !!
Yeah Nick is... more or less an OC, he's got very little to do with Basil now. I refuse to cut of all ties to OMORI/Basil because it's very important to his origins and taking that from him would be taking out a lot of how I personally see him, but, well... He wasn't exactly based off of normal in-game Basil, either, so it makes sense that he's very different. He looks different, acts different, has a different family, age, personality, story, nationality even, different interests... He's like, 70% OC and 30% OMORI AU. Basil is also my favorite character, and that's not how I see him at all either.
I understand why you thought Statice and Nick hated each other — to be fair, there aren't a lot of people who don't hate Nick, lol. Being around him and knowing why he is the way he is makes it easier to love him, though.
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i'm sorry you're feeling bad love :( i'm always here if you need anyone <333 and for the oc asks i'm curious about what valerie's relationship with her parents would've been like if the situation wasn't. That
ndfjfjfjfjf ty love…… 💞💞💞💞
ahhhh valerie’s situation would have been. Bad. omg i’ve actually made some doodles relating to this WOW if only i had my sketchbook on me rn.
tbh i just dont see it ending well at all. she would probably split time with both frost and surge (they werent together to start with i believe? may change that but they split pretty quickly) and frost was Not excited to be raising a child again. she just got rid of the last one, dammit. like with marlow, she does the bare minimum for valerie. just feeds and houses her with none of the love. she would mostly just ignore her daughter and pawn her off to other people as much as possible.
surge would be comparatively better but…. they do not know how to interact with kids. theyre a battle-worn brute who isnt afraid to use underhanded tactics to get what they want…. and i think valerie was always gonna be the softer type. so its a relationship thatd probably be better once she was older and they could bond with her through battling, but i dont think it would have been fantastic during her formative years. theyd probably butt heads a lot due to their different ideals anyways. like theyd have their sweet moments probably, i think at the end of the day if anyone can break surge’s shell, its their daughter, but its like castor and bruno probably where they care about and love each other but there are Unresolved Issues There
valerie would end up being touch starved and not nearly as socially adept as she is in canon. she wouldnt know how to talk to people, she’d be incredibly insecure in her interests, she’d probably have a bad
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Pro tip; if u have a headache, exacerbated by both ur period and ur loud workplace, do not put your hair up in a ponytail! It will make u curse the day u were born.
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