#magical familiar

[munroemagic]

With knot of seven, the spell will waken.

[inkribbon796]

Egotober 2022 Day 19: Nature of a Deal

Summary: Janus and Marvin go to talk to Phantom, to make some kind of bargain.

Prompt: Wing/Wings

Characters: Marvin, Janus, Phantom

Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31

Marvin looked at the nightclub: the Crossroads. It was a nightclub that was under the control of Phantom. Part time club owner, full time asshole. And the heroes had been having some problems with him. Mostly that Phantom had been sending his goons to pick fights with the Sides and any time Logan saw them it was always a fight.

So something had to be done because Phantom was fully entrenched in his night club and very rarely left it. So if the heroes were going to try to arrest a powerful demon it would be just as much of a struggle as if they tried to arrest Dark.

It made Marvin think that this was just how older, more experienced demons tended to behave. Get entrenched in an area and then bully people into doing their errands for them. Before Phantom had shown up the demons that Marvin had regularly interacted with typically averaged out at about sixty or so years. Anti being the 100+ year old outlier in the group and Dark well in his 300’s. Old in terms of humans but demons could survive and thrive for thousands of years unless they were killed by another demon. They were functionally immortal. And they chose to kill and maim with that instead of doing good with it.

So Marvin already knew he didn’t like Phantom, and he barely interacted with him because of Logan.

So he was walking into the club with Janus, because Logan hadn’t wanted Roman or Patton to go. And Logan couldn’t go because he was absolutely furious with Phantom’s existence. Marvin glanced at Jance.

“Kay, Dee,” Marvin said. “You don’t cross me, I don’t cross you.”

“If I let you die here, I would never hear the end of it, and Logic would dox me,” Janus said.

“He knows where you live?” Marvin asked as they passed through the door, the bouncers barely gave them a glance over with little more than a glance and a quick warning into his ear piece.

“He has mine and the Duke’s social security cards because the Duke cannot be trusted with them,” Janus said.

Marvin stared at this careered, pathological liar and was trying to figure out if he was actually serious or not. “Why not bring someone else? You seem to be on speaking terms with Dark these days.”

“If you like the Sides you will help me convince this cretin not to shoot them on sight,” Janus said.

“Yeah, but why am I here with you?” Marvin asked.

“Because you’re a pretty face,” Janus lied.

Marvin glared at him. “Careful two-face or I might take that personally.”

When they settled into a main dance area when a man in a vest came over to them. “Hello, you two, the boss would like to talk to you.”

“Perfect,” Janus glanced at his watch as if they’d already been there for hours.

They were led to a back room where there was a familiar perched on an outcropping on the wall, the demon that had summoned it was able to look through its eyes. The familiar was a vulture, a red-stained bearded vulture. It turned its head to stare at them before flying into the room it was waiting by. It looked like a normal side office from the outside but inside was a couple couches, a coffee table, a desk, and a full liquor bar.

The vulture flew back to its master. The magical construct, a large familiar that folded its wings as it perched on the back of the fancy couch and glanced between the newcomers, and its master.

Phantom fed it some magic and it seemed to settle down, preening its large wings.

“Well, well,” Phantom turned away from the winged beast to smile at them. “And here I was hoping I’d see the real deal tonight.”

“I can leave if you’re going to waste my time,” Janus said.

“Don’t let me keep you,” Phantom dared, making the two of them start and intense stare down.

Janus looked especially disgusted and Phantom just smiled.

“One of these days, I want you to actually bring Iridescence with you, I’d like to actually talk to him,” Phantom smiled.

“Well you talk to us, or we get some drinks and walk out,” Marvin said.

“Why don’t you calm down, kitten,” Phantom said, picking up a glass of scotch and watching as he idly swirled the ice around in the glass. “It’s all alright. We’re all friends here.”

Janus’s fingers itched to summon his staff, but he resisted the urge as he refused to take his eyes off Phantom.

“Nice bird,” Marvin tried to say.

“Yes, it’s been centuries since I had a proper companion again,” Phantom itched under the bird’s chin. “The last demon I was with didnt like my birds. He was more than a bit jealous of the attention, I think. But he was an empath, so that’s to be expected of them.”

Phantom was pointedly looking at Janus as he was talking. “Don’t you think so.”

“We’re here to talk about one, actually,” Janus said.

“And your boss didn’t think to come and talk to me himself?” Phantom said with a smug smile.

“He doesn’t go anywhere without one of the Core Sides to keep people from picking fights, and that means the Logic accompanies him.” Janus sighed, he cut off after that as if that explained everything.

However, Phantom was waiting for more.

So Marvin spoke up, not wanting to just be steamrolled in the conversation. “Bringing Logic would cause a fight and no one wants that.”

“Yes, a shame all the same,” Phantom smiled. “I can’t imagine what I would have done to upset that arm so much when the rest of you are all fine with me.”

“The issue is that Orange likes your arcade, and we want to make sure that you don’t kill him,” Marvin said.

Janus and Phantom were just staring at each other. The wings of his familiar poised to strike, clearly braced for a command. Janus tried to look as calm as possible while braced to defend himself.

“Hmmm.” Phantom sipped his drink as he took his sweet time thinking about it. “I want to formally meet your boss. Iridescence likes to stay down in his little area of Gainesville and I want to have a nice, formal chit chat with him. Bring however many of you want but I want to talk with him and exchange some drinks. And in exchange for the face-to-face meeting. Your little runaway arm can keep being nickel and dimed at my low end arcades.”

“It’s obviously a trap,” Marvin said.

“It’s good business,” Phantom corrected as his familiar nestled close to his head. “It’s not my fault that Ent has such bad manners.”

“And we can bring whoever we want?” Janus asked.

“Your boss and his arms,” Phantom corrected. “The rest of your friends you leave at the door.”

Marvin made some upset noise but Janus thought it over for a couple seconds.

“I’m sure that can be arranged, first week in November?” Janus said and Marvin stared at him.

“Are you mad?” Marvin demanded.

“Let the adults talk.” Phantom had a huge smile on his face. “First Friday?”

“We’ll have to get back to you on that,” Janus said and stood up. “Now, if you’ll excuse us, the meeting has to be arranged and I’m certain you have an evening of cheating and dealing to get back to.”

“Don’t let me keep you,” Phantom said.

Janus was quick to leave and Marvin followed after him to meet back up with Thomas and most of the Sides down in Gainesville. Janus already knew that Logan and Virgil weren’t going to be happy about the deal. That much was obvious, but there was little else that Janus could do about the situation. The only other option was let one of the Sides fend for themselves.

And Janus was many things, but he was not about to abandon Thomas or the other Sides if he could help it.

As they left, Phantom’s familiar flew after them, watching as they left his territory.

[proteidaes]

Thinking about the Lunar New Year and realized I had a silly dragon I could share 🐉🎉

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photoshop

[mevil]

this silly little extra really cements the idea in my head that falin’s chimera form incorporates a cockatoo like marcille’s old pet pipi having been around some growing up they really always used to be covered in feather dander it would feel ridiculous at times

[iridescent-witch-life]

Kyracyan.design

[lobster-lover]

the joker for girls with bpd

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 106

Dan absolutely despised his parole at first, but honestly this is a blast. Sure, he’s stuck in the form of a cat, a kitten even, but he’d found an absolutely wonderful companion. Partner. Ally? Baby Chaos Lord? He’d work on it. 

Klarion is just happy to have found such a great familiar, he even named them Teekl II, which is a great name thank you very much hero-babies! So now he has two Teekl familiars, and Teekl II always gets so gleeful whenever they successfully pull a prank! He even has his own fire magic which is so fun! 

Danny is not happy to get thrown into another world, stuck as a kitten. He’s also not pleased to have found a sick baby liminal, but fine. If this is what he’s supposed to deal with then he’ll deal with it! Even if he has to be a familiar for a teeny tiny bit of time. It’s fine, and the dude has a pocket he can peek out of on his coat. 

Jason has no idea where this kitten came from but the Pit is being surprisingly chill about it. Something about a baby? Whatever, he’s made the furball a little matching outfit and they like to sit in his pockets and peer out. No idea how Cat Hood is making the shadows all spooky now or why the eyes went from blue to green, but whatever. 

Ellie is utterly delighted in this situation. She was just wandering, but now she’s a lil fluffy kitten, and ended up landing on this kid’s head. This magic kid’s head! He even has a talking tiger friend too! So cool! She’s definitely sticking with him! This will be so fun!

Billy was worried about making sure the kitten got food, she’s so tiny! Mr Tawny is a big help though, and apparently she’s his familiar now that he’s given her a mortal name? He doesn’t fully understand but apparently she’s connected to his magic now, if the shouts from the gods are anything to go by. Look, an electric cat is cool. Pakhet is amazing, and Fawcet thinks it’s adorable that Marvel has a kitten clinging to his shoulder

[jattendschaton]

Émilie Agreste purposefully giving Adrien an allergy to feathers to make sure her son would never be able to use the peacock miraculous in the future

[oldschoolfrp]

Orbs, candles, snakes, miscellaneous body parts -- I should tidy my desk more often (Nicholas Bibby, White Dwarf 38, February 1983)

[hoegender]

magic kaito incorrect quotes

[stevetwisp]

Familiar.

available as a pdf (here)

decided to put the whole comic into one post!

[deconstructthesoup]

The parallel of Simon forgetting Betty as a result of going mad and Betty going mad as a result of not being able to forget Simon and yet both of their insanity manifests in an inherent obsession with the other will continue to make me lie awake at night

[iraprince]

more necromancer doodles. u guys will hear more about this guy eventually 💀

[owlyjules]

Wisptober Day 13: Coffee

 "As the Witch set up for a long night of work, their three familiars prepared a delicious coffee for them."

This one was kinda hard.XD But I fell on those pictures of those cool antique decanters for coffee and I had to do one!:D

[luna-lovegreat]

Hyrule's actually...

really not looking forward to the idea of the monsters being stronger

Look back...

In both mentions of monsters being stronger- He looks so scared. I want to hug him.

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Art from @linkeduniverse :D

@breannasfluff @la-sera

[thehmn]

A witch and her familiar finding the perfect ingredient.