#kay basilisk

[sunthyme]

🏵️ Scarabia Headcanons!! 🏵️

Hey, so I've crawled out of college hell to deliver the next set of headcanons!!

Last second, after I'd already finished them, I decided to redo Kalim again and toss in a new oc. Yippee!

Also, apologies for the inconsistent formatting, I'm trying really hard to figure out what works best. If you have some suggestions, let me know!

🏵️ Kalim Al-Asim 🏵️

My precious boy!! For the changes, I made his skin a bit darker, no particular reason other than looking nice. I made the gap in his teeth a bit more slanted and gave him lil canines :3 going ham with making him look like an otter.

More scars from the assassination attempts, yay. Added a little diamond at the top of his earrings for fun and that's most of it.

Kalim would be a Sociology major!

🏵️ Dareen Irfan 🏵️

Dareen, my beautiful girl... Practically nothing changed, honestly, except I upgraded the style.

She's slightly lighter and I removed her hair beads, though they'd probably be a part of her dorm uniform.

Unique Magic - "Diamond in the Rough": Once cast, Dareen can tell when someone is lying or being dishonest. It's more effective on those she knows.

She's a Psychology major and is a part of the Basketball Club. Their birthday is February 12th (Aquarius).

🏵️ Chunying Liu 🏵️

Damn did Chunying get an upgrade, geez. I made her actually look Mongolian, though very pale. I wanted them to highkey look like a spirit haunting the mountain.

Gave her more scars from her adventures and growing up in the mountains. Some snake bites and second set of ear piercings to add to that tough vibe. I also gave her a sharp bob for the same reason.

Unique Magic - "The General will Survive": Chunying becomes immune to the climate around her for 24 hours.

She's an Environmental Studies and History double major. Jade and her collaborated to form the Mountain Lovers Club, bonding over their loves of hiking. Her birthday is March 21st (Aries).

🏵️ Jamil Viper 🏵️

They can never make me hate you, Jamil 🥹. Aw shit, I forgot his hair jewelry. Fuck. Welp. I didn't really change anything else, he's already perfect.🩷

It'd be a Psychology major and Culinary minor.

🏵️ Chanda Singh 🏵️

She's literally like peak character design tbh. I think it's all downhill from here. Anyways, as a result, I changed literally like nothing.

Unique Magic - "Tiger's Eye": Anyone that makes eye contact with her becomes frozen with fear. The time period it lasts depends on how easy to scare the person is and it doesn't work on people above her in the pecking order.

She's a Fashion and Botany double major and a part of the Swimming Club. Her birthday is July 23rd (Leo).

🏵️ Nasira Haqq 🏵️

Also got a hell of a glow up. I made her a bit more chubby to emulate Iago a bit more. Added a birthmark for some visual flavour and a broader nose.

Unique Magic - "Iory's Song": Nasira can perfectly imitate a person's voice.

She's a Culinary major and a Botany minor. She's in the Gardening Club (founded by Calendula) and her birthday is February 29th (Pisces).

🏵️ Kay Basilisk 🏵️

NEW CHARACTER!!! Introducing Kay BasilisK! He's twisted from both Jafar's staff and Kaa from The Jungle Book. He's Indian and a snake beastfolk (meaning he's got retractable fangs from the cobra staff and a forked tongue). He and Jamil are like super distantly related and that shows in his UM.

I gave him snake bites for obvious reasons and wanted his hair to have a lot of fang-like shapes.

He comes from a thickly forested area and has always been around nature. This means he's really passionate about environmental rights and whatnot.

Unique Magic - "Hunger Dance": Freezes a target of Kay's choice for a brief time via eye contact. Once immobility wears off, the target is in a trance-like state for up to ten minutes.

He's a Political Science and Ecology double major and a part of the Mountain Lovers Club. His birthday is January 8th (Capricorn).

[ziekkfreak2-0]

From the moment Eva mentioned "Bastilles and Basilisks" in her FTE, I knew she was truly a failgirl nerd.

Anyhow, I just finished Chapter 1 of Project: Eden's Garden. I figure I should just leaves my thoughts on it here since I'm prolly not drawing the rest of the cast, lmao.

Spoilers below the cut!!

So. Pretty ballsy to kill off the two most loved and probably most plot important characters. I'm not mad about it though, it makes sense. Their talents were far too useful to be left alive that long.

I LOVED Eva though. Even if she was probably being fake friendly during her FTEs and during the actual game, I still loved her. From the little "bweh" she does and how her voice gives "Erm, akshually ☝️🤓" vibes, to her hatred of her Ultimate title and desperation to be recognized and loved.

In that desperation, though, she failed to see the people who WERE trying to understand and get closer to her. She dug her own grave by lying about her title, inciting people to distrust her. The explanation she gave Damon (why she lied about such a thing) being a farce is up for debate, but I like to believe she was telling the truth. Eva is a lot of things, but she is first and foremost a scared, lonely child.

Of course, she's not entirely innocent. Her ego is off the charts. If it weren't for her title as the Ultimate Mathlete, I think she'd probably become the Byakuya of the game lol.

Originally I didn't like her execution, but then I realized the whole fire thing is because of the phrase "Liar, liar, pants on fire". Very devious. Plus the whole "desperately running away from fated death" using an escalator and a fire pit is a very fitting punishment for someone who wants to run from their Ultimate title. Throwing math equipment at her was just salt in the wound lmao.

Overall, I'm satisfied with how Eva's story played out. She could've lived a better life, but that's what fanfics are for babyyy.

Uhhh okay less on Eva. Wolfgang and Grace?? Never saw that coming. They're pretty cute though! I saw their room and jokingly said "Oooo getting freaky, are we?", so I was shocked to find that they were indeed, getting freaky. Still adorable!

SPRAKING OF ADORABLE!! Kai and Damon. Kaimon. They were literally roommates. I didn't get it at first when it was only the prologue, but I have seen the light. RIP to all the Wolfgang x Damon and Eva x Damon shippers though, lmao.

I feel like we have a new opportunity for a tragic yuri ship with Diana and Eva, though. They weren't together a lot, but I feel like in a different universe, Diana could've been the one to reach out to Eva and give her a friend. *points at Eva* Lesbianism could save her.

Ough okay that's all the thoughts I have rn. Maybe I'll come up with more later, when I'm more awake to verbalize stuff. For now I crawl back into my hole and read ao3.

[preppy-donkey]

You know what would be fun

Toh x Ml au where after belos started the ban on basilisks most fled to the human realm and split off into factions in the different countries

Marinette is decended from those Basilisks

She is half basilisk -sabine's side is all pure basilisk- and half human from Tom's side

The basilisks set up a night market where they trade magic objects to drain and ingredients for potions from the human realm and the demon realm

There are mostly basilisks in the night market but there are also a couple of witches and some humans that have sworn not to say anything

The entrance to the night market is guarded by a greater basilisk called Kai and you have to go to the basilisk council to registester

Marinette is so excited when she gets her miraculous, she sniffs the air and smells something so potently magical it has to be a god

And it is she opens the box and Tikki comes out, but pauses half way through saying hello when she sees Marinette- in her full basilisk form

After Marinette explains she's a basilisk she asks Tikki to continue what she was saying

That's when she says she doesn't want to be a hero and she's too clumsy to be one.

Maybe I'll write abt this 🤔

My ao3 acc is preppy_donkey just incase I do

[ratsoh-writes]

She breaks free an crosses her arms with a challengin smirk

Kay: ya feelin high an mighty big man? It's not that I can' I just prefer not ta! I am fully capable of lookin him in the eyes an shakin his hand!

Seth: alright~ so do ittttt~ hey bass~

A huge scaled skeleton turns towards Seth

Basilisk: BROTHER?

Seth: I made a friend, why dontchya say hi~

Basilisks cobra hood flips up and his face lights up in delight. He growls happily and holds his hand out abruptly to shake

Basilisk: tch- Cher- AH! HELLO LITTLE HUMANSSSSSS!!!

[fulcrumstardust]

books wrap up 2024 📚

here's my bodycount, let me know if you've read some of these (and what you thought!!)

Ball Lightning - Cixin Liu

A Far Wilder Magic - Allison Saft

Light Bringer (Red Rising Saga, #6) - Pierce Brown

The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes (London Highwaymen, #2) - Cat Sebastian

Certain Dark Things - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1) - Tamsyn Muir

Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2) - Tamsyn Muir

Nona the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3) - Tamsyn Muir

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) - Suzanne Collins

Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) - Suzanne Collins

Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3) - Suzanne Collins

On Basilisk Station (Honor Harrington #1) - David Weber

She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1) - Shelley Parker-Chan

He Who Drowned the World (The Radiant Emperor, #2) - Shelley Parker-Chan

The Hollow Places - T. kingfisher

Analee, In Real Life - Janelle Milanes

Jade City (The Green Bone Saga, #1) - Fonda Lee

Jade War (The Green Bone Saga, #2) - Fonda Lee

Jade Legacy (The Green Bone Saga, #3) - Fonda Lee

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde, #1) - Heather Fawcett

Snowglobe - Soyoung Park

Bride - Ali Hazelwood

Nettle & Bone - T. Kingfisher

These Burning Stars (The Kindom Trilogy, #1) - Bethany Jacobs

Some Desperate Glory - Emily Tesh

The Familiar Dark - Amy Engel

The Ministry for the Future - Kim Stanley Robinson

Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1) - Brynne Weaver

The Hurricane Wars (The Hurricane Wars, #1) - Thea Guanzon

🌟 Starling House - Alix E. Harrow 🌟 (this was my favorite!!)

The Bound Worlds (The Devoured Worlds, #3) - Megan E. O'Keefe

Wildfire (Maple Hills, #2) - Hannah Grace

We'll Prescribe You a Cat - Syou Ishida

the did-not-finish (RIP):

Wild Love (Rose Hill, #1) - Elsie Silver

Beacon 23 - Hugh Howey

We Set the Dark on Fire (We Set the Dark on Fire, #1) - Tehlor Kay Mejia

Aetherbound - E.K. Johnston

Bonesmith (House of the Dead, #1) - Nicki Pau Preto

Bright Young Women - Jessica Knoll

The Last Tale of the Flower Bride - Roshani Chokshi

The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy (Hart and Mercy, #1) - Megan Bannen

The Familiar - Leigh Bardugo

Payback's a Witch (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #1) - Lana Harper

Babel - R.F. Kuang

The Wings Upon Her Back - Samantha Mills

Not in Love - Ali Hazelwood

[help-an-alter]

hey! we have a new alter who is a dragon-human hybrid thing (think a dragonborn fron dnd but very emo) they dont have a name or pronouns yet, so could i get those and some xenogenders if you do that??(if not its fine) and then some comforts?

sorry if this is all over the place/ worded badly, im very sleep deprived u-u

here you are! we hope this helps :)

- mod hawks/emma (+ kaveh for some reason)

names: draco, draconis, drago, hydra, wyv, wyvern, cadmus, kai, scylla, saphira, narissa, idalia, spyro, agni, basilisk, dracaena, drake, firnen, leviathan, naga, minerva, cordelia, midnight, shadow, kier, astaroth, dorian, eldritch, kazimir, oberon, orpheus, serpent, salem, elysium, crow, obsidian, saber, whisper

pronouns: dra/dragon/dragonself, scale/scales/scaleself, fie/fire/fireself, zi(e)/zir/zirself, ro/roar/roarself, drae/draer/draerself, draco/nem/draconemself, fang/fangs/fangself, hoard/hoards/hoardself, dra/drake/drakeself, sea/sear/searself, scor/scorch/scorchself, bo/bones/boneself, fe/fear/fearself, cry/cryp/cry(ptid)self, voi/void/voidself, ve/ven/venself, fe/fel/felself, li/lir/lirself

comfort: dungeons and dragons (obv), fantasy media, warm fires, expressing through art of some kind (painting, writing, making bracelets, etc), witchcraft and eventually working with the dragons (if that’s a belief of yours ofc), camping, bonfires, night swimming

xenogenders: dracogender, draconix, void dragongender, dragongender, draconstosic, guisgender, draconigender, draconi(red/blue/green/black/white), punkdragongender

[xfriki26]

Fuck it, taglist

Toyhouse:

Artfight:

Ao3:

UnVale:

My Aus:

Spooky hunters au

Ride the ciclone au

Pump-King spice au (swap au)

The Hauntiest of Towns Au (with @/crossover-enthusiast )

Clickbait Spy au

Lila Velseb au

Original characters:

Main Spooky Month ocs:

Agatha Velseb

Dolores Zucar

Salomon "Sal" Cawthon

Ichneumon Ben

Audrey Krelborn

Neil Mercury

Professor Seymour Krelborn

Victoria Pines

Anastasia Lenombard

Alba Miday

Antinous Van Arcadia

Sara Berry

Takara (宝物)

Edward

Matt

Spooky Month Fankids (not in the same universe as my main ocs):

Jim (clickbait fankid)

Raphael Erotoph (ratmeat fankid)

Andromeda Ragel (holysight fankid) co owned with @/bulldog-geckorahhhhh

Other blogs:

@smshiptournament -Tournament about the spooky month ships, now doing an oc x canon one

@across-the-xaniverse -My selfinsert/selfshipping blog

@the-deeps-of-the-lab -Rp blog about my ocs Audrey and Seymour

@mister-melody -Rp blog about my oc Neil Mercury

@cementeryboy -Rp blog about my oc Raphael Erotoph

Oc Shipnames:

🥊💉Deadfighter (Agatha x Patty)

🍮🍭Diabeticdivorce (Dolores x Candy Dealer)

🪡🪞 Caleidoscope (Sal x Evermore)

🧪🪻Lilacformula (Seymour x Lila)

🎸🧢 Kingcobra (Neil x Roy)

🧨🎞️ Secretidentity (Victoria x Actress)

🕶️�� FashionPolice (Miday x Captain)

☕🍷 Cofeelycor (Antinous x Cecil by @/lolipoptheclown )

🪶🐍 Basilisk (Anastasia x Mireu by @/sp00ky-sp1der )

💤👹 Nightmareshift (Takara x Rick)

🪦🥸 Grimretail (Raphael x Costume guy)

Original works:

Tales of Eganap

Neve Lipsis

Gerard Bravo

Aria Dali

Kai Gozoku

Adonis

My persona!:

[sunshinemarauder]

what would you do?

what would you do? (AO3)

written for @thegobletofweasleys's Jily Week 2023 day one (it's still technically july 31st where I am, I swear)! fluff/angst day, because this fandom needs a laugh every now and then. gifted to the lovely lovely @kay-elle-cee <3 playlist here!

James has always thought that Lily Evans looks exceptionally breathtaking when she’s angry.

It’s the sort of thought that he keeps shamefully locked-away in a crevice of his mind with all his other foolish Evans-induced blatherings. He wouldn’t dare say it aloud in front of his own mates, let alone Evans herself. After all, he hardly needs to hand her more reasons to dislike him. The post-OWLs incident sends a miserable shiver down his spine every time he recalls it.

Right now, the intensity in Lily’s bright green eyes, staring him down with enough force to bore a hole through his Quidditch gear, reminds him of the fiery expressions she’d worn that were precursors to all their fights last year. 

They would all begin this way: he, a bumbling prat desperate for her attention, would say something thoughtless to garner a reaction from her. Evans, prouder than a Hippogriff and sharper than a Basilisk fang, would take the bait immediately, eyes flashing with affront, and volley a creative insult his way. James would comfort himself with the thought that she never seemed to mean her insults seriously; every so often he'd catch her hiding a smile as they parted, and sometimes he could coax the occasional laugh out of her.  

But since the beginning of their sixth year, things have been different between him and Lily Evans. They’re friendly, sort of, and rarely argue these days, but it’s tenuous. Fracturable. He inevitably seems to screw up every normal conversation they have and leave an awkward tension in his wake.

Today, as Lily stares him down with an intensity he hasn't seen from her in months, James hasn't a clue what he said to garner such a strong reaction from her. 

He had been heading to the Quidditch locker room for a quick shower post-practice when Evans — an occasional spectator at their team drills, thanks to her friendship with the Gryffindor Beater, Marlene — had fallen into step with him. He immediately straightened to his full height, hyper-aware of her presence beside him. 

James, as always, is desperate to impress her.

Thankfully, she hadn't seemed to notice his apprehension. She struck up a conversation about their assignments, which soon devolved into James waxing poetic on NEWT-level Transfiguration theorems. It marked the longest civil conversation he’d had with Lily Evans in ages, and he’d thought it was going swimmingly — he was just starting to tell her about tutoring younger kids in remedial Transfiguration essentials — when she abruptly stopped walking, placed her hands on her hips, and fixed him with that fiery, indignant look he’s come to both yearn for and shrink from over the years.

Now, James gulps. Shit. What had he done now? 

“You know, Potter,” Evans begins innocuously, but her eyes flash in his direction and James knows he’s in seriously deep water. “Sometimes I have no idea what to make of you.” 

James stares blankly. 

“You can be such a prat, you know, when you go around hexing people for the fun of it and acting like you’re the king of the castle. Sometimes I want to—” and here she starts getting agitated, her pale cheeks reddening rapidly: “—to shove your head down a toilet and leave you there until all that arrogance seeps out of your stupidly large skull.” 

His heart drops instantly. He’s only half-aware that the rest of the team is long-gone into the showers, and that it’s been only him and Evans for several minutes now. 

He thinks: arrogant, bullying toe-rag.  

“But sometimes,” Lily continues in a way that he can’t describe in any way other than heated, and then says: “Sometimes I want to cut off all your air circulation.” 

That’s typical, James thinks, picturing her hands locked around his throat, staring him down with that scorching stare as he slowly perishes. 

Then: “With my mouth on your mouth.” 

His brain flatlines. 

continue reading

[books-coffee-and-the-woods]

BOOK HAUL: USED BOOKSTORE EDITION

What actually motivated me to get off my butt and go to this store was their DVDs - I was hoping they'd have Mullholland Dr or Picnic at Hanging Rock but alas they didn't. So I was forced to buy as many books as I could carry 🤷🏼‍♀️

(and for the record, I got all of these for less than half of what I paid for 10 new books when I got birthday presents last month. so don't judge meeeeee)

More excited rambling under the cut:

Made some progress on my sidequest to collect beautiful old editions of Pierce books. I now have the entire Circle of Magic quartet in the covers I originally read them in, which I vastly prefer over the newer ones (I mean, look at them!). I did accidentally get a second copy of Daja's Book but. I might just have multiples of it now because I don't think I could bear to evict one)

Got a couple more de Lints: Spiritwalk which I hadn't heard of and a beautiful copy of The Ivory and the Horn, which I already own but this cover was too beautiful to pass by (I have a problem).

A couple Madeleine L'Engles: A Ring of Endless Light which I vaguely remember reading as a child, and Troubling a Star which I hadn't heard of before

Basilisk, an anthology edited by Ellen Kushner (also almost got a second copy of Swordspoint but I RESISTED!!)

The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay, because I've been meaning to read him and dat cover 👀)

Another volume in the Dragonlance Crossroads series. I read The Thieves Guild as a teen but haven't read any others yet, and well. The cover.

The Blue Roan Child I remember reading as a kid and kind of liking but thinking the writing was difficult, which I've realized is a sign I'll like it more as an adult, so I decided to get a copy to try rereading

A whole fuckton of random Jane Yolens because apparently in the past I just missed her books, right at the end of the very bottom of the last Children's shelf

The Fantastic Imagination II, which is an anthology I hope will be interesting. I think I had a different volume of this series once but got rid of it unread when I moved out of my parents place

A couple Patricia C. Wredes, including The Thirteenth Child which I remember liking as a teen. I was really disappointed when the rest of the series didn't get published.

Od Magic by Patricia McKillip. The store was sadly short on McKillips and McKinleys today, but I still found that one and the cover is gorgeous.

Silver on the Road, which I rented from the library recently and loved

Annnnd finally I got a new copy of Mrs Dalloway, because the copy I owned previously ended up being full of someone's scribbled essay notes and I found them too distracting.

[ferios-favorite-styles]

♬おすすめの曲 プレイリスト♪ Ferios List 204

2024/6/29～7/5にリリースされた邦楽の中からチェック。個人的に聴きたい曲を集めたリストです。

【掲載アーティスト】

Borderline / Mime The Weekend / MoMo EVERY HOUR / Sala, Shin Sakiura LOVE ADDICTION / Hannah Warm, Liverly Rhymes バブル / ボタニカルな暮らし。 More Than Meets The Eye / Naive Super deny / 詩羽 8月39日 / ORIVA, AGLYSTA Only U / Louis Vision, Hazky, Kiyoki Bitches Outside / MEZZ 凍京 / VaVa, Roland Jones Pirates / Kay-on Breath / 曽我部恵一, JUNES K Sweet Spot / lo-key design なながつ / HOTEL DONUTS, maco marets, 雲居ハルカ SILENCE / 夏水鉱平, Natsuki Narumiya 0(zero) - Stones Taro Dark Garage Remix / LMYK, Stones Taro HAGAKURE / Jazztronik 心音賛歌 / 水槽, r-906 サマータイム!!(DJ KAYA“トランスレイヴ”リミックス) / MINMI Don't / MFS 修羅場 / THE BACK HORN BAD END / Cho_Nans helm'N bass / 10-FEET 怪盗 / DeNeel エメラルド / 菅田 将暉 Question / Nagakumo Burning / 羊文学 clover / あの街の水色 Saisei / クジラ夜の街 C'mon / Group2, Meari(from xiexie) 踊りませんか？ / Aile The Shota Basilisk / Bearwear, 長瀬有花 本日のおすすめ / 離婚伝説 mokuren / YOHLU Scramble / Monkey Majik スロウ / 路地 Ghost Town / moeki ライター / MANGA HOUSE 一夜 / 竹原ピストル 夕陽の上 / 川崎 鷹也 Sunset Vibes / RAq

[monochromatictoad]

Romantic F/Os! (With their respective S/Is)

Main F/Os

🩷Gabriel🩷 🕊️Marie🕊️ (Kinda Ok with Sharing. Married! Planning a little ceremony soon!) 🩷Together🕊️ 💎The Polycule💎

S/I: Maycella, the Arachne Book Store owner.

🍷Walter🍷 (Nonsharing. Together, but more of a Dom/Sub relationship.)

S/I: Bug, the failed human sacrifice.

🎃Drake🎃 (Nonsharing. Married! Have been since November 8, 2016!)

S/I: Chicky, The Mii who's look alike runs the the island.

🌸Sakura🌸 (Nonsharing. Naruto and Boruto; Thinking about engagement)

S/I: Mono

🔗Cyrus🔗 (Nonsharing. Dating.)

S/I: Sol, a professor in training.

♨️Red♨️ (Okay with Sharing. Dating? More like an Idol and Worshipper.)

S/I: Saul

🖥️AM🖥️ (Nonsharing. Allied Mastercomputer. Mmmmmm)

S/I: Buttons

🐍Torn Knight/Torn Basilisk🐍 (??? On Sharing)

S/I: Unnamed Minotaur

Secondary F/Os

🔔Usiel🔔 (Engaged as of March 17, 2024.)

S/I: Ash, a bookkeeper who got stuck in his care for awhile.

🧄Wario🧄 (Dating? Partners in crime?)

S/I: Mono T. A toad who just wants to have a normal life.

🗡️War🗡️ 🪶Uriel🪶 (Poly ship, dating) 🗡️Together🪶

S/I: Vivian. A raver, who is a little more confident than she needs to be.

💪HUGE MAN💪 🚃The Director🚃 (Its unclear to Nancy what they all are, but she knows they have her back) 💪Together🚃

S/I: Nancy, a reporter working with The Bureau.

💀Death💀 (dating)

S/I: Kai, a raver and friend to Vivian.

🔫Strife🔫 (dating)

S/I: Kiran

🪃Fury🪃 (dating

S/I: Danni, another raver and friend to Vivian.

🦝Tom Nook🦝 (Partners in love and business)

S/I: Pearl, the Representative of the island of Glitter!

🃏Jester🃏 🥊Pinhead🥊 (Dating! Both in a human/puppet au, and a puppet/puppet au!) 🃏 Together🥊

Human S/I: Delilah.

Puppet form: Southern Belle

🏰Castle🏰 (Gabriel's Castle. It makes my brain go feral.)

Because of its Prince finding another lover, it grew obsessed with Maycella. Ft. 3 AUs currently.

Au 1: Post LoS2, where it tries to talk to her whenever Gabriel isn't around, trying to lure them into breaking the seal, so it can reclaim both its Prince, but also its newest obsession.

Au 2: King's Pet, where Maycella is a human pet of Dracul, and the Castle is equally as obsessed with the human.

Au 3: F/O house. It is where all my f/os and I live.

���Samael👹 (TBA)

S/I: Miriam

💌Backrooms💌

S/I: Josephine

[toxickimi]

Fallout 4 peeps as crytips/monsters. Go!

This took a hot minute, good lord. It's more folklore-y but I hope you don't mind :) Danse - Vampire

Preston - Pheonix

Maccready- Faun

Hancock- Draugr; DONT AT ME You saw this one coming a mile away.

Nick- Golem; Think Castle in the Sky

X6-88- Dullahan

Deacon- Anasi

Cait- Gorgon

Curie- Fairy/Fae

Piper- Pixie

Strong- Minotaur

Dogmeat- Hellhound; still the goodest of boys though

Codsworth- Gnome

Longfellow- Kraken; cause let's be honest here >w>

Nuka Gang:

Gage- Chimera

Mason- Centaur

Mags- Lampad

William- Tengu

Lizzie- Sphinx

Nisha- Basilisk

Savoy- Bogeyman

Dixie- Nymph

Misc:

Maxson- Werewolf

DiMA- Golem; What do you expect of me?

Magnolia- Siren

Daisy- Will-o-whisp

Haylen- Caladrius

Ocs:

Kimi- Banshee

Kai- Wendigo

Yuriko- Unicorn

Azumi- Blue cap

Hiroaki- Dragon

Aiko/Hannah- Ubume

[ratsoh-writes]

Sweets meets his serious stare and nods with a warm smile "I guess he'd get that from his brother."

Kay elbows Sweets "ya flritin with the from one!"

Sweets waves her off "oh shush you I'm not doin anythin."

Basilisk preens at the praise as he finally lets Seth go. The poor skeleton is flushed a pretty orange red from embarrassment, and despite their earlier fight, he proceeds to try and hide himself behind basilisk

Basilisk: NYEHEHEHE YOU MEAN I GET IT FROM HIM! SETH IS MY OLDER BROTHER!

[renon4224]

Blood Is Fun

Chapter One: Earth

It was a typical Tuesday, I was walking home from school, with Luz of course. She’d been my best friend since kindergarten, but since going away to camp last summer, she’s been very different. There was a loud crack in the woods behind her house, so we went to check it out.

“Is everyone okay?” Luz asked, pulling up four other teenagers with pointed ears.

“Oh no.” My Luz said it was quiet, but I could hear it plain as day.

“Vee?” The other Luz asked in awe, then recognized me and stood trying to hide her other friends.

Though I didn’t know why, tears began to fall from my eyes, “Who is Vee? And who are they?” My gaze caught on the charm bracelet I had made Luz for her seventh birthday, it was on a purple-haired girl, with a voice of steel I asked, “You gave it away?” 

“Kaira? We- I- you- remember me?” The other Luz asked, frozen.

“Luz? Who are these people, why’d they call you ‘Vee’? I turned to my friend, accusation in my tone.

“My name is Vee, I’m a basilisk.” And she shifted, into an amazing mermaid-equse creature, but I stepped back in horror.

I tripped and hit my tailbone on the muddy ground, turning to the other- the real Luz, “You said we couldn’t be friends anymore? But you kept the bracelet, just to give it to someone else? Why are you so scratched up, where've you been? Does your mom know? And why do they have pointy ears?” I was mad, so I stood, wiped the debris off my bottom and marched up to her.

“Amity, you okay?” She was talking to the girl who had my bracelet.

“Yeah, I’m okay, is this Earth?”

“Yeah, earth, the place of traitorous friends, and awful liars.” I turned to leave, she wouldn’t even acknowledge me.

She probably had a good reason but I just found out my best friend wasn’t even human, and my actual friend had a pointy-eared girlfriend to keep her company, why should I care that after I told her I loved her she ran off and fell in love with someone else?

A boy, a little older than me, was holding my wrists behind my back, “Is she to be trusted, or do we need to dispose of her?” I could feel him unsheathe a sword or dagger or something like that.

Panic flashed across her face, “No, we don’t need any murders. Police would trace it back too soon.” She trailed off, she was more worried about being tracked than my life.

“That and I’d be dead?” The boy yanked my arms down, making me yelp.

“Please don’t hurt her.” Lu- Vee cried, she shifted back to Luz’s form.

“Will she spill our secret?” His grip tightened.

“No, she wouldn’t put me in danger like that.” Vee was right, I wouldn’t let her get hurt, and after not mentioning my confession I figured she just wanted to pretend it never happened, not that she didn’t even know.

“Fine.” He let me go, and I whirled and punched him in the stomach.

“Don’t touch me, asshole,” I whispered in his ear, to him keeled over.

“Kaira! Don’t hurt him!” Luz fretted, rushing to the blond boy’s side.

The boy glared at me, and I him. “Don’t hurt him like you didn’t hurt me?” I was quiet and tired, I had mountains of homework to help Vee with, and I didn’t want to go home.

“Kai…I have someone else…” Finally, she remembered that we were friends, that I used to matter to her.

“The purple-haired girl? Amity?” She nodded, and Amity stood at her name, “Yeah, I figured, and let me guess, you ‘adopted’ the other three?” Another nod, and I tried to keep the hurt out of my voice, “So…I guess you don’t want me to ruin this for you?” The start of a nod, and a guilty look was all I needed. 

It started raining and I started running, deeper into the woods. I was no longer needed, unwanted by everyone I thought cared. My parents didn’t care if I didn’t go home for three weeks as long as CPS didn’t knock on their door. I barely felt the thorns and brambles scratch my skin. I tripped again, and the world went black.

-Vee-

Kaira was my best friend, sure she was technically Luz’s friend, but I’ve never seen her run like that…she was really hurt by Luz.

“Gus? Willow? You guys okay?” Luz shook off her stunned shock.

Mumbled yes’s followed. “Is she gonna be okay?” I asked, Kai could get hurt in there…

Luz ignored me, choosing to help everyone up, “Kaira wasn’t my friend before summer break, so I’m surprised she befriended you. If she wanted to be friends with me, she wouldn’t have punched Hunter, or ran off into the woods. It’s her fault, and she can get herself home.” Luz hugged Amity again.

“You hurt her feelings, Luz. I’ve never seen you be so mean before. What’d she do to you?” Amity asked.

“She…she told me she loved me…” Luz was so quiet, like it was a dirty secret she didn’t want to admit, “But I didn’t feel the same, and that’s why Mom made me go to camp, to get over losing my best friend…” She looked so mad, a primal fury that Kai didn’t deserve.

-Luz Noceda-

Kaia didn’t love me, she didn’t then and she couldn’t now. I love Amity, and either way, we split ways so I’m not gonna be friends with her at school or in the store or wherever I end up seeing her.

“Luz…she didn’t look like someone who loves you.” Amity said, placing an arm around my middle.

“Good.” I steeled myself, then looked at Vee, I could be civil, for Vee, “But I guess we should at least see if she’s alright?” 

“I’m not going looking for an ugly little girl, who punched me.” Hunter said, sitting cross-legged on the floor of the cabin.

“The Golden Guard, bested by yet another fifteen-year-old girl.” I said, poking fun at him relieved some of the tension, “Vee, can you take them up to the house? I can explain everything to Mom when I get back.” Vee nodded, but neither Hunter or Amity left.

“Luz, you’re not going alone, right?” Amity asked.

“I have to, she was my friend, and I should make sure she’s okay. Plus it’ll be good for us to work out our issues alone.” I tried a smile, but Amity didn’t look convinced, Hunter walked out.

-Kaira-

I woke to nightfall, and that stupid boy tending a fire. I tried to stand, to the boy’s irritation.

“Who are you?” No answer, “Fine, I’ll call you Pointy Ears.” I opened my back pack, to find soaked papers.

“Luz said you loved her.” I froze, she’d never spill a secret like that to a stranger.

“....Past-tense, I used to, then summer came and I stopped, her rejection didn’t hurt anymore and I moved on, when she came to school I asked if we could be friends again, Vee said yes and I didn’t think anything was wrong. I guess she actually hates me for that.” I pulled out a red sharpie, and drew a hanging girl on my arm.

“Luz doesn’t hate you.” He threw more sticks in the fire.

“Sure, she just sent her guard dog to threaten me into not spilling her secret.” If I had a mirror I would’ve drawn blood and gore on my face instead. The horrors were a distraction from actually making the nightmares come true.

“I am no one’s dog.” He growled, somehow proving my point and completely disregarding it at the same time.

“Oooh, excuse me, Pointy Ears.” I drew across a thin scar left from my brush with cutting.

“You are excused, Rainbow Hair.” He said, a smirk creeping into his features.

“Who gave you the battle scars?” I wanted him gone, no one made fun of my hair.

“None of your business, Rainbow.” More venom, lovely.

“Fine, bye.” I stood to leave but he touched a piece of paper and suddenly, I was surrounded by ice, I gasped, and he chuckled.

“Promise that you will not harm Luz, or her friends.” He was holding a golden dagger to my throat.

I rolled my eyes, but said nothing. He couldn’t be that much older than me, and anyways I wasn’t scared of dying. I leaned towards the blade, just enough to scare Pointy Ears.

He pulled away, the ice wall came down and I walked away, leaving my red Sharpie. I didn’t know whether Jessica would be home or not, if she was she’d probably be with Jonas making very loud noises from the bedroom. I did not want to listen to that, but the other option was going to Luz’s, and she doesn’t want me there, right?

After about five minutes of walking I heard voices, “Kaira? Kaia, come on, where are you?” It sounded like Vee and Mrs.Noceda.

“Here.��� I pushed away the brambles to see them, worry plastered on their faces.

“Kai, where have you been? We’ve been looking for you.” Mrs. Noceda pulled me into a fierce hug.

“Pointy Ears found me, he’s over there…” I trailed off, the fire was no where to be seen, “Nevermind, I should be off now, huh? Better get home to the parents.” I smiled, hiding my red arm.

“Yeah, I guess…” She loosened her grip just enough for me to wriggle out and run back to the town.

-Hunter, back at the house-

I walked in to a dark house, almost everyone was asleep, the basilisk and Mrs. Noceda were up looking for the Kaira girl. I don’t know why I made sure she was okay, No one else managed to find her, and Luz gave up after about five minutes. It was strange to see Luz hate someone more than me, I probably just wanted to see what made her worse than me. It could be that I never claimed to love Luz, of all people. Or maybe it was that I would never lean into a sharp blade? The memory of her throat pressing against my blade made my body cold. What made her so reckless? I laid down on the floor in a room full of weird metal cans, and fell asleep, exhaustion overriding fear.

---

“Hunter! What are you doing in there?” I bolted upright, dagger in one hand, when I realized that it was just Luz.

“I was sleeping, but now I’m awake.” I pushed past her, the encounter with Rainbow Hair left me anxious, I wanted her to come back, mainly so I could teach her not to mess with me.

“Are you hungry?” Mrs. Noceda asked, holding a plate of floppy looking round flatcakes.

“No thanks, can I go outside?” I needed some air, there was a sharp pain in my lungs.

“Sure thing, mijo.” She said, gesturing to the door, I walked out.

I walked straight to a nice little tree that had some shade, Willow followed. We sat down, and I fell asleep.

-A Dream from Hunter’s POV-

Rainbow’s hair was blonde, a gorgeous platinum blonde. I couldn’t look away, why couldn’t I look away?

“You ready Hunter?” How did she know my name?

“Of course, after you, Kaia.” Words were coming out of my mouth, words that didn’t belong to me.

She rolled her eyes and kissed my cheek, butterflies fluttered in my stomach, I noticed that I was wearing a rose-gold suit, she was wearing a matching dress that glittered to the floor, “Is it too much? It’s too much, I shouldn’t go, let me change real quick.” She tried to run back inside but something made me stop her.

“You are gorgeous, now,” I knelt, what happened to Willow? “Will you go to prom with me?”

Rainbow furrowed her brows at me, a cute little tic I couldn’t help but love, “Fine, but I still think it’s too much.”

“Uh, no, stop overthinking.” I smoothed her brows with my thumb, a light kiss on the cheek, barely missing her lips.

In a small voice, she whispered, “Everyone’s gonna stare, they’ll all laugh…” What was I doing? I wanted to take Willow to Grom, didn’t I?

“If they laugh, I’ll feed them to the Grom monster, and anyways, don’t you know nobody can keep their eyes off your beauty?”

She was stunned, and so was I, these were things I felt for Willow, weren’t they?

“Hurry up love birds!” It was Willow, she was waiting in a black car.

“Yeah, you two can ditch and kiss later! Come on!” Luz and Amity.

“No kissing here.” Mrs. Noceda and Gus.

Rainbow pulled me to the car, we sat down and I found my arm wrapped around her torso. She sighed and rested her head on my shoulder, it was a weight I didn’t mind carrying, “You make me feel safe.” Our hands were intertwined, and  my free arm was running the length of her forearm. 

---

I woke with my head in Willow’s lap. After that particular dream, I didn’t want to be around her. So I walked back to where I had met with Rainbow. I didn’t want to see anyone, I just wanted to be in peace for a few moments. 

“And it’s not like Luz ever liked me like that.” It was Rainbow, but who was she talking to? “I was probably just mistaking admiration for love. Whoops, ruined a life-long friendship for a mistake. And it looks like the blondie found my spot. At least he probably won’t ever come back. Right? Jessica was ‘making love’ to Jonas last night, so I came back, I know, coming back for what? I mean, I guess I just wanted to feel safe for once. And I should probably stop talking to myself before someone hears voices in the woods.” She stopped pacing, and laid face-down in the grass.

I was hiding behind a tree, eavesdropping wasn’t a favored trait, but I couldn’t help it. I heard a sigh and she rolled over, “How much did you hear?” She was leaning against the tree I was hiding behind.

“Just a little.” I sat too, what in the world was making me want to sit next to this insane female, instead of the girl I was currently dating?

“Sure, and I don’t dye my hair.” She paused. “Sorry, Luz says- used to say that I like to think I’m funny.”

“I thought your hair was naturally platinum?” I couldn’t see her but I could feel her presence, it was sharp, like iron.

She stood, backing away from me, “How did you know that?” Then she stopped. “Luz told you, nevermind.” She laid down, legs propped against the tree, looking into the dead branches.

“What is admiration?” It was a question I didn’t want to ask the others, they’d assume it had something to do with Belos, but it didn’t.

“Admiration is, well, for me it’s when I think someone is the coolest person ever. I keep mistaking for the stupid emotion called ‘love’, and it’s not like I know anyone worthy of admiration so it’s not like I know the difference between the two…” She trailed off again, almost like she keeps forgetting that I’m even here.

“So…I admire Luz, for helping me see the truth. But I don’t love Luz for that?” 

She groaned, she was getting tired of the subject, “I don’t fucking know? Go ask her your own damn self. Or hell, ask your girlfriend.” She pulled out a book, it was a thick book, titled: Not Your Type.

Huh, okay, one problem, “I can’t.” I didn’t realize I had said it aloud until she was right in front of me.

“You are willing to kill a random girl you just met, but you are too scared to ask your girlfriend to explain the difference between love and admiration?” She chuckled, I brought my knees to my chest, “Then you must be some sad sap.” She went back to her book, satisfied with her insults.

-Kaira-

His girlfriend must be a jerk to scare someone like him. Why doesn’t he just leave her if she’s like that? And I mean, the Willow girl doesn’t look like she could stop him, so what’s holding him back from leaving?

“Hunter? Are you okay? You left in a hurry earlier, did I do something wrong?” It was Willow…she sounded nice, and I don’t think she saw me yet.

“Willow.” Pointy Ears was surprised, “Yeah, I just needed some air. This tree is sad, isn’t it?” He regained some semblance of composure, I was pressed against the other side of the trunk.

“Oh…” She came close to where I was hiding, “Here, drink up.” She poured something on the roots, and the tree sprouted leaves, becoming more beautiful than I’d ever seen it. “Oh, hi there, Kaia, was it?”

A vine pushed me in front, face to face with the couple, I froze, no one called me Kaia, ever, “I don’t give a damn what Luz told you, but I hate it when people call me that. So don’t. Ever.” I snagged my book and bag, holding the book close to my chest.

“Oh, I’m sorry, Luz didn’t tell us your name, and I forgot to ask Vee for it, I just thought-”

“Well, you thought wrong, now then, I’ll bid you adieu.” Where did that vine come from? How did the tree heal? I turned to leave, they each said goodbye and I went to school, it was around noon, but the principal didn’t care as long as I did what he asked, when he asked.

[daisypreaker]

He fits right into a honky-tonk bar. They like his kind here. Cobalt blues and petrol-stained ruggedness, paired with the stetson Aiyana won for him at the local fair and the flannel shirt over a pair of Levis that are older than her. He's a regular trucker, and he's handsome in that dependable way that suggests he's from a region of old tradition down in the deep south. She knows for a fact he's from out west, Colorado or Arizona maybe, and ever since she figured it out, she can't imagine him being from anywhere else. Lone cowboy stereotype, Clint Eastwood's long-lost progeny. The girls working their shift for the night have to curb their enthusiasm. It's either servicing him or the rednecks in the corner with beer guts reaching the fourth trimester. Their attention is on the girl the stranger brought in. She isn't bleach blonde enough to be a regular. There's a reddish tone to her golden skin that pairs perfectly with the cheap LED lights and her hair falls down her back like the bars of a cage. Paris, Texas plays on a screen no one is paying attention to. Hood is giving Aiyana one of his squinty-eyed smiles, as a lovely brunette whispers into his ear. He overwhelmingly prefers brunettes. Maybe that's why Mrs Hopewell went lighter with her hair, like garlic to ward off a vampire. Aiyana wonders if she should do the same, become peroxide Tinkerbell so he can't bear to touch her. Maybe his mother was blonde.

"That guy looks like Kai Proctor," she says when they reconvene at the jukebox. She nods over at the sandy-haired farm worker in overalls, rolling chaw under his top lip with the agitated air of a pig to slaughter. "I called him Uncle Kai too, just like Becca did. Made me feel like family. The summer he started looking at my legs was also the summer I began masturbating. More of a compulsive thing really. I'd do it till it hurts just to avoid doing anything else. I think he would have fucked me if I let him."

"You don't need to vocalise everything that comes into your head." Hood isn't smiling anymore.

"Does the idea of me fucking Kai make you jealous? He's not that much older than you and you can't get enough."

He ignores her for the rest of the evening. It unsettles her more than she'd like to admit. At some point, she slips out of the bar alone and heads straight for the truck. The keys were on his person until she pickpocketed them - for a master thief, he isn't so aware things can be taken from him. She drives around in the truck for a while - three times past the local cop station - and then once past the intersection leading onto the highway out of town. And then she turns it right back around towards the motel hung with Christmas lights in the middle of June.

He's waiting for her outside, eyes flat in the cherry pink light and a cigarette pinched violently between index and thumb. Four others are scattered around his heavy boots. She gets a slap for her troubles, but no harsh words. Tears spring forth immediately. She lunges to kiss him, in search of oxytocin to soothe the sting of disapproval and rejection. He doesn't push her away but he doesn't kiss her back either, and in the end she has to give it up and sidle on inside like a farm animal resigned to captivity.

"I'm thinking of going platinum blonde. It'll suit my skin tone." Silence, strangled minutes of it, interrupted by the tick-tock of an analogue clock, the jangling of his belt, his boots, his keys, shedding his skin like a wearied basilisk. "If I end up pregnant, will you leave me and the kid somewhere or are you going to cart us around? There's no finding good schools in towns like this y'know."

"I'll build you a house."

"Where?"

"Paris, Texas."

It's her first real laugh of the week.

[agent--shadow]

"it's not." Shadow starts, "but the memory is hazy. All I remember is waking up on the beach with the others hovering over me. Babien said Kai entrusted me in their care or whatever." She shifted, looking incredibly uncomfortable at that statement. Who was he to hand her off to some random person? He trusted far too easily for her liking, but I suppose without all that she wouldn't be here. For better or worse.

"I'm sure Babien would know more if you asked him. Or Millie... Probably..." She looked hesitant to bring up the basilisk, things were still... Very complicated.

A letter appears next to Shadow one day, while she’s sleeping. It’s sealed with the stamp of a strange golden shield made of interlocking lines, one that glitters like the sun. It’s utterly unfamiliar, but the signature on the side is unmistakably her handler’s.

Shadow is very surprised, but her curiosity overrides any caution she may about opening a Mystery Letter.

She takes the letter and slides her finger across the top, peering inside.