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🧁 cupcake analysis 🧁

YES, YOU READ THAT CORRECTLY 🤡 I’m still fixated on the cute character-themed cupcakes we got from the recent TsumTsums x TWST collab… so I’m going to talk about more things I noticed in the cupcake designs by dorm + by individual characters!

Mmm, cupcakes… 🧁 I would make these if only I had the tools to make all of the painstaking little details—

Heartslabyul

They all have checkered cupcake liners with a half-painted white rose. Famous Heartslabyul iconography!

Their names are written out in a white cursive font. Not the wackiest they could have gone with, but it fits the whimsical style of these cupcakes.

Riddle

Of course, we have strawberries—a fruit from Riddle’s favorite dessert, his beloved strawberry tarts (which also have personal significance to him, being as it was a strawberry tart’s taste that entranced him and made him late to return home as a child). The ring of frosting piped around the strawberries kind of creates the illusion of a tart’s puff pastry with the fruit nesting inside.

Red frosting made with a piping tip to resemble a big rose! Again, more famous Heartslabyul iconography.

IT HAS RIDDLE’S HEART AHOGE 😭

The cupcake also has the crown and a ribbon similar to the ones he wears in his Dorm Uniform~

Unlike the other Heartslabyul cupcakes, Riddle’s is predominantly one color: red. This could be referring to how Riddle is the most rigid in the dorm and someone who demands uniformity and preaches absolutism (“follow the rules”, “paint all the roses red”, etc.).

Even so! There are still little gold and blue sprinkles (though still in a neat arrangement)! I like to think of them as sprinkles of hope and a willingness to change… the first step he’s taking outside of his comfort zone!

No card; this makes sense since Riddle is also the only one without a card suit mark on his face.

Trey

The cookie iced to look like his hat…

Another cookie iced to look like the three of clubs heart (for obvious reasons)!

Trey’s cupcake looks kinda fuzzy like moss, so that leads me to believe the frosting got dipped in sanding sugar to give it texture or something. This makes the cupcake look like it’s an unassuming shrub—and really, isn’t that what Trey claims to be? He’s not an exciting red rose like Riddle, he’s the mild-mannered “normal” guy there to support the flower as the leaves and shoots.

Sugared violets as a topping! Nice way of incorporating Trey’s favorite food into this.

He has a little dusting of sprinkles too; maybe because it was him that showed Riddle “a whole new world”.

There seems to be a layer of jagged chunks (maybe crushed pistachios) along the rim. Feels quite different than the rest of the cake—maybe it’s to represent the less kind side of himself that Trey sometimes alludes to.

Two cookie sticks, which remind me of like two spears crossing to block off a path to the queen. On-brand for Trey, who initially follows Riddle’s orders to a T and kicks out his rule-breaking underclassmen.

Cater

There’s a LOT going on here, and I wonder if that’s in part because Cater is a Magicam fiend and in part because he’s using his flashiness to distract from looking deeper into him. This cupcake reflects that idea well, especially with the colorful sprinkles in the center (as opposed to spread out like Trey or Riddle’s) to make the otherwise mainly orange and red cake pop out more on a social media feed. It also could mean that Cater really keeps to himself, as the sprinkles are not spread outward.

If you look closely, the frosting vaguely resembles Cater’s hair. There’s a larger dollop in the middle which sort of looks like the middle section of his hair that’s pulled back.

There’s lots of little decorations that resembles the decorations on Cater’s phone case—an item near and dear to his heart.

The orange slices can be sweet—the impression that Cater tries to give off—but the pretzel implies a savory taste—what he actually prefers to eat.

There’s a squiggle of darker orange under his name. Is it to call attention to his identity? Cater tries to seek validation and attention from socials, so maybe this is a call to action.

Cater’s cupcake is the only one in his entire dorm that has TWO cards (both four of diamonds). One is probably a cookie and is in full color whole the other is one solid color (brown) and made of chocolate. Most likely this is referring to his UM, which allows Cater to create clones of himself. I wonder if the second card being chocolate alludes to something else too… Namely, the more melancholy and downtrodden part of himself that Cater usually does not let his peers know about 😔

Also two cookie sticks! Similar meaning as Trey’s, especially given that Cater was the first upperclassman to toss Adeuce out (after he gets them to paint the roses for him).

Ace

Ace of hearts card!

A sprinkle of hearts… Are any of us surprised??

His frosting is very ruffled and playful, much like his personality.

The cupcake is more on the simple side compared to many of the others; this is also very “Ace” of him, as Ace is commonly described as “the average high school boy” and has indicated himself that he has no particular goals or ambitions yet.

There’s a cherry on top! Very bright and cheeky, just like Ace—oh, and let’s not forget, cherry pie is his favorite food!

There’s also what appears to be almond shavings on Ace’s cupcake; almonds are actually very closely related to cherries so it’s a great pairing! If we really wanna stretch it, maybe it’s a reference to how Ace is skilled at mimicking or copying others, as the taste/smell of almond and cherries can be commonly mistaken for one another.

Deuce

Two of spades card!

Deuce’s cupcake has a very different texture to it. Unlike the others, his is very smoothed out and almost shiny (like a mirror glazed cake!). It makes me think this is to help him stand out as someone who is trying to reform and reinvent himself into something sparkling—especially seeing as the blue part of the cake seems to be covering up/glooping over the body of the cupcake itself.

Little candy eggs (one with a crack in it) and a baby chick! A callback to him liking egg dishes and the utter despair he experienced when he first learned that supermarket eggs aren’t fertilized…

The light blue squiggle makes me think of Deuce meandering and not knowing where he wants to go in life, representative of his delinquent phase or perhaps struggling to stay on the straight and narrow path of an honors student.

Finally, we have the grey marks on the cupcake which look like tire marks left from skidding around on a magical wheel/blastcycle, Deuce’s preferred mode of transportation!

Deuce's cupcake goes from blonde/yellowish to blue, which probably refers to him going from bleached hair as a delinquent to his natural hair color as he tries to reform himself.

Savanaclaw

Golden yellow cupcake liners with Savanaclaw’s signature horizontal zigzag pattern.

Their names seem to be done in a blocky text on chocolate. Fits the tough, somewhat rigid hierarchical feel of the dorm.

Leona

A crescent moon-shaped candy invokes the imagery of Scar singing the final line to Be Prepared as he and the hyenas ready themselves for the coup.

The darker frosting swirled on the side be interpreted as his scar or maybe the end of his tail.

Cacao nibs kind of remind me of rocks, perhaps to symbolize the hard childhood Leona had, desperately trying to prove himself to people who didn’t like him in the first place. There’s notably also golden specks there—a ray of hope for him to be better? Or maybe a nod to his noble lineage.

The chocolate sauce makes this cupcake feel very decadent but also adds to the dark look of it. I would say it resembles blot, but none of the other OB boys have this same feature. Maybe a hint at Leona’s depressive traits?

Wishful thinking on my part, but Leona’s cupcake is the only one in his dorm with a large splash of green (thanks to the leaves there). I like to think it’s him “turning over a new leaf” and turning his sights onto his internship + working toward helping to help preserve nature and discover energy efficient methods to help his country.

His cupcake is the “tallest” in Savanaclaw (because of how high his frosting is)—he’s obviously the leader of the pack.

Ruggie

Very decadent cupcake. A large scoop of ice-cream, nuts, pastries, tons of cream and frosting… it looks like someone just piled on all their favorite desserts (which suits a glutton like him). Even his own cake looks like it’s about to burst out of the liner!

Two donuts inserted in, because 1) they’re Ruggie’s favorite and 2) two is better than one!

The scattered chunks of chocolate resemble the pattern on the coat of a spotted hyena, which is what Ruggie is.

Jack

WHY DOES HIS CUPCAKE JUST STRAIGHT UP LOOK LIKE HIM… The two paler frosting peaks are his ears, the two-tone swirl results in his hair but also results in the high peak of his tail.

This cupcake has a lot of nuts (I see a walnut, a cashew, maybe crushed peanuts, and many whole hazelnuts). Maybe because Jack is “a tough nut to crack” due to his stoic and standoffish attitude? But we all know he’s a sweetheart deep down, perhaps why the most abundant of these nuts is hazelnuts, often used in many desserts and especially paired with chocolate.

xvsjwveiwk This is a slightly unserious note but there’s something whitish that night be dried coconut??? Sprinkled on the cake… I-Is that Jack shedding/j

Octavinelle

Each Octavinelle cupcake has a black macaron decorated to resemble their dorm uniform hats! The filling is purple (like Octa’s usual color) and has candy pearls (since they’re from the sea).

Their names are written in an elegant flowing font, with emphasis on the first letter of their names (slightly bigger than the other letters). It provides an impression that differs from the other letters in their names, much like how the Octatrio themselves can be deceptive.

A bowtie that matches what each boy wears in his dorm uniform.

The sprinkling of little purple pearls could really be nothing, but they could also be all the powers/abilities they have collected together.

Azul

The single chocolate stick (not two, unlike Cater and Trey’s) could pass as a straw, making the whole cupcake appear like a drink. Makes sense, the Mostro Lounge has a 1 drink minimum + his Dorm Uniform vignette is all about how he wants to buy the rights for the popular Mystery Drink from Sam.

A little contract and writhing chocolate tentacles pair nicely together. Together, they represent his UM and how his tendrils reach out to pull people into deals.

Azul also has a scoop of ice-cream, but it is notably VERY different looking than Ruggie’s. Azul’s is much smaller (because he moderates what he eats and how much) and neater too (because he cares about his tidy appearance).

There is a swirl of purple frosting on the bottom but most of the frosting is white and piled high. The former must be Ursula’s skin, and the latter her hair, as it is similar in shape.

His cupcake liner has the widest stripes (because he used to be overweight in the past) and has little purple dots (maybe in reference to the suctions on his tentacles).

Azul keeps the spiral seashell that resembles Ursula’s necklace.

Azul's cupcake goes from purple to white, which may denote his transition from octopus merman to human.

Tweels

The twins have a scalloped seashell that splits in half, representing the other brother. The way the shell divets also makes it look like a heart shape, implying the brothers “share a heart” or perhaps calling back to how both of their UMs involve “the heart” (Shock/Bind the Heart).

Their frosting is the color of their hair, even containing a stripe of black (in opposite directions) to match their hair. The frosting also seems to be slightly textured, which matches the gills and scales on their merforms.

The peak of the frosting resembles the ends of their eel tails flicking in opposite directions.

Three diamond-shaped “scales” on each cupcake; this is ghe same shape and design as the earrings they wear.

A ring of purple frosting is included; this could represent Azul, someone whom the twins closely work with and consider a great source of amusement. It’s telling that the purple frosting is below the teal frosting, as the twins have made it clear before that they’re not his minions or “below” him, they act independently and choose to follow Azul because they want to (and have the agency to leave whenever).

Jade

Jade’s cupcake liner has the most numerous and thinnest vertical stripes. There is also a very fine zigzag running through the liner. Very similar to Jade’s teeth arrangement and how they present as small but frequent.

Jade's cupcake stays a consistent color throughout the creation process.

Floyd

Floyd’s cupcake liner is in the middle of Azul and Jade’s in terms of line spread and thickness. The zigzag is also more elongated than Jade’s, matching Floyd’s more easygoing personality between the two twins. He’s also more likely to show his full teeth!

Floyd's cupcake goes from gold to teal, but Jade does not do the same or even the reverse. Maybe this hints at how Floyd is the more fickle brother?

Scarabia

Scarabia cupcake liners are color blocked with solid black and a deep red with an intricate golden pattern. Matches their dorm uniforms well!

They have snake biscuits with their names in bold, blocky all capital letters for impact. The biscuit shape suits the Sorcerer of the Sands. The text choice… I’m not sure, maybe to match the “casual streetwear” style of the dorm…? Or the dorm leader’s brazenness and overt friendliness?

Kalim

His earrings have been made into an edible version!

Thumbprint cookies that resemble glistening jewels! This, plus the colorful sugar pearls, represents Kalim’s immense wealth.

There’s a bow tied around his cupcake liner, which matches the cloth he wears around his head in many outfits of his.

The feathers that transition in color are for Kalim’s love of animals and willingness to accept others of all kinds (“colors”). This could also be a reference to his Dorm Uniform vignettes, where he pulled off a trick that made white birds appear to be “rainbow”.

At first I thought the white puffy frosting was to look like the Sultan’s turban, but wouldn’t they make it smoother and resemble one cohesive lump in that case…? Then I realized the white frosting actually resembles a CLOUD 😭 which fits Kalim so well, since he takes his friends out on magic carpet rides…

The red peak poking out of the top could be like… the domed roof of a tower, since there is one both for the Sultan’s palace and in Scarabia dorm. The white sprinkles/coconut shreds on the red part also gives the impression that the roof just poked through the clouds www

VERY tiny detail but if you look closely you’ll notice that Kalim’s cupcake is… lumpy… almost as though he tried baking for the first time himself and messed it up a little, so Jamil took over decorating for him to cover up the mistakes. (That’s headcanon anyway, lol)

Jamil

Jamil’s cupcake is a two-tone twirl thar matches the colors of his dorm AND the turban he wears when he overblots.

We have the classic red feather, three golden orbs, and a thumprint cookie (again, resembling a jewel) to match Kalim’s and to match Jamil’s hair accessories!

The little bits of gold sprinkled around are hard to place but maybe it’s to show how Jamil has to put Kalim first and foremost while his own feelings get dismissed/belittled/treated as less important.

Large chunks of chocolate on top! Not sure what this could be, but a part of me wants to believe it’s his depressive or defeatist traits, since Leona also has chocolate, but scattered. (Can you tell I loved these two’s interactions in book 6?)

Finally, we come to the enigmatic and out-of-place golden squiggle. Someone as meticulous as Jamil couldn’t possibly have intentionally placed that there, right…? Allow me, if you will, to circle back to the “Kalim was trying to bake with Jamil” theory… What if, while Jamil was decorating Kalim’s cupcake to cover up the unevenness of the cake, Kalim tried to thank Jamil and repay the favor by decorating Jamil’s cupcake??? And it resulted in… that squiggle… so Jamil had to roll with it and make the rest of his cupcake look as aesthetically pleasing as possible.

Pomefiore

All Pomefiore names are written in elegant script on a chocolate disc that is also stamped with the stars and moons of their dorm.

The cupcake liners have the same stars and moons pattern and has the colors of Pomefiore.

Vil

Similar to Riddle, Vil has a crown to show that he is the dorm leader. His is, of course, a different design to reflect a different queen (the Fairest Queen, not the Queen of Hearts).

The frosting has a slight gradient which is the same as the tips his hair.

The golden leaves match the leaves on the back of his dorm leader tiara/crown.

There are berries on top; notably, a red one still has a bit of leaf and branch stuck to it, making the berry look like a red apple (you know, cuz the Evil Queen used one to poison Snow White).

Vil has golden dust and two types of round candies evenly dispersed on the cupcake. It shows us how clean and yet elegant his personal style is.

Rook

Rook's cupcake has a very unique shape that is not quite like any other student's. Indeed, his cupcake resembles his hat (note the little feather sticking out of the top purple part) and bangs (the lower yellow part).

The purple part looks like it is made with an extruder and results in a texture similar to the top of a mont blanc; this is probably to help differentiate it from the smoother texture of the yellow beneath. Since the purple is a hat, the texture is most likely to make it seem more "fabric-like".

The yellow part + the color change from yellow to purple may also be a reference to how he was originally in Savanaclaw, but then transferred to Pomefiore.

An edible bow and arrow motif befitting of a skilled huntsman!

The squiggle line here seems to be showing the path of his arrow, which always finds its mark. Additionally, Rook himself is a tricky person and usually employs roundabout strategies or misdirecting ways to achieve his goals.

At the end of the arrow's path is a cluster of what seems to be pomegranate seeds, which seems odd and something more befitting of Idia or Ortho (who have ties with Hades; there is a tale about Hades having Persephone eat a pomegranate fruit which dooms her to spending half of her time in the Underworld). However, I think here the pomegranate seeds are meant to be... like... an artistic, abstract depiction of blood once the arrow strikes its target.

There's blueberries on top, an element he has in common with Vil (someone whom he devotes himself to). The leaves here with the berries tie Rook to the wild, both as a huntsman and has an ex-Savanaclaw student.

Epel

The pale purple color of the frosting is the same as Epel’s hair!

Unlike Vil’s sprinkled-on decorations, Epel’s are not spread out evenly and instead cluster at the top. This may be attributed to their different levels of maturity, as Vil and more knowledgable than Epel, who expresses outdated views on gender and has a limited understanding of the world due to coming from a very rural area.

There’s a fine shimmer on Epel’s cupcake—probably because his arc in book 5 was about learning to appreciate and weaponize his beauty.

Two apple slices because… well, when you think of Epel, you think of apples and the Felmier family business!

There seems to be a little bit of yellow peaking out from the cake? Are those more apple slices or an apple filling…?

The pale frilled strip of frosting resembles a lace collar, something which Epel wears in his school uniform.

Epel is the only member of Pomefiore to have a cupcake which LACKS a blueberry (or really any berries at all). This is a subtle indication that he is the “odd one out” within the dorm, as he, unlike Rook, is not conforming to the standards set by his dorm leader.

Ignihyde

The Ignihyde cupcake liner has the same black and blue geometric look as their dorm uniform jackets.

I don’t know how to really describe the font their names are written in, but the way the letters are cut reminds me of a “Greek” style of text (similar to this).

Their names seem to be displayed on Oreos chocolate sandwich cookies with Ignihyde blue fillings. Counting the parts (2 cookies, the cream filling), there’s three in total, which matches the count of the heads of Cerberus, as well as how many Shroud brothers there are.

Both Idia and Ortho have what look to be confetti cakes as the base for their cupcakes, Because of the dark color of the cake and the bright color of the sprinkles, it creates the impression of stars in the night sky—maybe to reference Star Rogue, their favorite video game.

Idia

The skull-shaped technomantic device Ida uses to launch his magic spells tops off his cupcake.

On either side of the skull device are candies (?) that look like the same light sticks Idia is super into waving around at his beloved idols’ concerts.

The blue frosting is meant to look like his fiery hair!

Idia’s cupcake goes from a red gradient to a blue one. His hair actually goes change color like this based (on his mood), We’ve seen his hair go from blue to red from anger and/or determination and passion in both book 7 and in his Dorm Uniform vignettes.

Ortho

This cupcake seems to represent both the deceased Ortho and the current android Ortho.

Not sure what it is, but there’s something with a cybernetic glowing design that implies a circuit board; this is part of the internal parts which make up robo!Ortho.

There’s some kind of sauce with sprinkles over the top of that layer; this could be the blot that makes up phantom!Ortho, since we usually don’t associate the “dripping” of the sauce with robo!Ortho.

The smaller dollop of blue frosting is Ortho’s fiery blue hair. He’s smaller and younger than Idia, so the flames do not consume the entire cupcake. (Alternatively, this could also be the fire-shaped bottle that serves as phantom!Ortho’s head.)

Under the frosting is a cookie and a thin ring which resembles the ring of glowing triangles that appears around robo!Ortho’s neck. A similar pattern appears around the neck of phantom!Ortho.

This cupcake’s cake is a lighter color than Idia’s cake. It also has a larger variety in the sprinkle colors, maybe as a nod to Ortho’s cheerier and more hopeful personality compared to Idia’s gloomier and pessimistic one.

Diasomnia

The Diasomnia cupcake liners are black with a green briar pattern.

Each student’s name is piped in chocolate, with the third years in white and the underclassmen in what seems to be milk chocolate.

The cupcakes seem to be malformed or sort of puffy like Kalim’s is. I wonder if that means Lilia roped all of his kids to bake with him as a bonding exercise www

Malleus

Malleus’s cupcake goes from Diasomnia green to black (the royal color of the Draconia bloodline), symbolizing the eventual transition he must make from student to king of his country.

The frosting on top is the same colors as he night sky sprinkled with silver stars. Malleus likes to take solitary strolls under the cover of night, so this suits him.

Malleus wouldn’t be Hornton/Tsunotaro without the horns! Of course we’ve gotta include a chocolate version of his iconic horns.

Extra frosting in a bright green; these are meant to be Malleus’s apocalyptic green fire that he spouts.

There’s a purple grape cut into two (I’m sure Rollo would be furious/j) to reveal the green insides. How curious! These colors are also considered accent colors for Maleficent. Another nice detail about the grapes is that the veining of the flesh makes the insides resemble reptilian eyes—like those of a dragon.

Lilia

The frosting is black for Lilia’s hair and has magenta (berry?) sauce to reflect his hair streaks.

Lots of berries (Lilia loves his berry juice) and irregular pink sprinkles or candy shards. It’s cute, punky, and whimsical, just like he is.

Chocolate bats for the bats that swarm Lilia in many animations. He’s also shown taking care of a bat in his Dorm Uniform vignettes.

I’ve been trying to figure out what the whole cream is… My best guess is they’re representing Malleus, Sebek, and Silver??? Silver and Sebek are the smaller two dollops since they grew up and trained together + are the most immature of the group. Malleus is the big, textured swirl on the left—he is older and more powerful than Sebek and Silver. This analogy also works when you consider that these three sit upon Lilia (the cupcake), who is the oldest and serves as the father figure and foundation for their dorm to get along with each other and with others.

I don’t know what that ahoge-like thing is supposed to be or mean—

Silver

His cupcake goes from a deep blonde/yellowish brown to silver. This reflects his hair color change following Lilia’s blessing.

Silver’s cupcake has a very dreamy and cloud-like quality to it because of the abundance of pastel-colored cream. The top of the frosting even droops over, sort of like a head dropping in sleep.

Crushed bits of an aurora-colored candy are sprinkled over the cake. They’re the same color as his eyes, as well as the ring gifted to him by his parents.

Two birds and some mint (?) leaves make up the colors of the Three Good Fairies (Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather). They also speak to Silver’s familiarity with the forest creatures.

Sebek

The pastel green frosting for Sebek’s cupcakes is sloped, and it is the only one styled this way. It may represent his lopsidedly views and understanding of the world, as he is easily one of the most rigid thinking within his dorm.

Many different things are sprinkles on the cupcake; it looks like someone threw them on thinking they would look cool with very little thought or planning. It fits how brazen Sebek is and also (funnily enough) matches his struggle with the arts.

Sebek is the only student with triangular sprinkles; is this meant to look like scales?? Or maybe particles of lighting?

There’s a massive chocolate lightning bolt topping off the cupcake. Nothing subtle or tactful about it, much like Sebek’s personality and voice.

There are two pieces of sliced grape to mimic Malleus’s cupcake. Interestingly, the grape halves seem to come from entirely different kinds of grapes: one green (unlike Malleus’s), the other red (like Malleus’s). Assuming the red half (which Malleus has two of) implies fae heritage (Malleus is full fae), then the green half is one’s human heritage. The grapes, then, denote Sebek being of half fae, half human descent.

Extra

Grim

He has a unique black and white vertically striped cupcake liner to represent Ramshackle dorm!

Grim’s name is written on a cookie that looks like a puffy manga text box. Makes sense, he’s usually being the mouth piece for Yuu when they don’t get dialogue options or even when they do.

Seems to be covered in sanding sugar to achieve the fuzzy texture of fur!

Little wafer (?) shaped like Grim’s tail! And cookies (?) iced to resemble his ears! Two paw prints 🥺 to match Grim’s toe beans… The cupcake truly is made in his image!!

The white shell border is probably a stand-in for the white tuft of fur that Grim has.

[royalsealy]

First meet after some pretty serious travel, I had a lavender latte and pistachio cake ♡

This is a piece I love but I always hesitate to wear, was really happy to coord it differently from how I'm used to!

ID and Coord Breakdown under readmore

JSK: Doki Doki ♡ Strawberry Magic by BTSSB

Bag: Ru Frill // Blouse: AP

Umbrella: AATP // Wristcuffs: Belladonna

OTKs: BTSSB // Hair Clip: Deerist One Designs

Shoes: Axes Femme Kawaii

Royalsealy stands in the center of a cemetery, he is wearing a red and pink jumperskirt. The jumperskirt pattern is full of hearts and strawberries. He is wearing a sax blue short sleeve peter pan collar blouse and white with sax striped socks. His hands meet in the middle to hold the handle of a frilly ivory parasol. He has red strawberry and heart rings on and sax blue wrist cuffs. He is wearing red shoes with a short heel and big ribbon the front. He has black and bleach blond hair in two braids and straight across bangs framing his face. He has round glasses on. The bottom of his face is covered with an ivory mask. End ID.

[bebemoon]

look for the name MAIREAD (requested by anonymous) | selkie "the secret lover sweet nothings" cotton and lace mini dress w/ adjustable bustling drawstrings on skirt, (underside pictured) stavroulaspyrou (on etsy) black and pistachio green two-tone hand-embroidered wide brim hat w/ silk ribbons, giuseppe zanotti black lace sandal heels w/ porcelain rose medallion embellishments on front, oriza l. legrand "foin fraichement coupe" eau de parfum (angelique, star anise & wild mint, clover, sainfoin, new-mown-hay & clary sage, dry hay, white musk, cockle & ivy), simone rocha oversized straw tote

[thevanityofthefox]

Thanks @merry-andrews for tagging me!!

This is mine!

Sage

herb clippings, macha, bullet journals, mini backpacks, needlefelts, pistachio, laptop stickers. your essence is sage: you are introspective and retreating. everything is organized and planned ahead; you are meticulous, stacking up a card tower you can't let fall. it is difficult for you to untwist your tongue and tell others you need them. you are the observer. you are the writer gone off alone. you find kinship in like-minded individuals of green, forest, honeysuckle, and seafoam, who share your guarded nature. you are also drawn to the self-expressive sky and apricot, who will help you grow and embolden you to say what you need. however, you may struggle to get along with the overly-emotional personalities of rose and cream who ask you to be too vulnerable.

This is by Glam Cat

Amaranth

bundled flowers, ribbon, merlot, overcoats, gemstones, lipstick prints, red velvet. your essence is amaranth: you are engaging and passionate, but never out of place. you do what needs to be done; your confidence is unflinching, least of all when something has slipped beneath your standards. it is hard to live up to the image you imagine others have of you. you are the demonstrater. you are the debutante. you find kinship in like-minded individuals of wine, pearl, noir, and magenta, who share your inner intensity. you are also drawn to the ambitious amethyst and indigo, who will help you grow and inspire your actions. however, you may struggle to get along with the mercurial personalities of teal and bronze who wish to be free spirits.

so Glam Cat! hahahaha

this is the game haha

Tagging: @jakexneytiri @mrsdesade @thequietfaun @friendstolobsters

[iolite-moodboards]

powerpuff girls vibes

this isnt fanfiction!!! theyre just vibes I think the girls have 🤷‍♀️

If this does well I may continue to post them maybe

rrb version~°•☆

bubbles⋆｡°✩

stuffed animals

cream filled donuts

glittery eyeshadows, lip stain and fluttery falsies

french vanilla

iced lattes

cinnamon rolls

apple cheeks

birthday cake ice cream

diary entries written in blue, glitter gel pens

shoujo manga

beach days

self-care every day

planned outfits

OOTD

cute animal videos

fuzzy socks

dressing for the spring

ponyo

animal crossing

scented bath bombs

buttercup⋆｡°✩

jasmine and vanilla

forgetting to do laundry

late nights and early mornings

cookies and cream ice cream

iced americanos

gym days

instant ramen

always carrying an extra pair of socks

concealer, eyeliner, and long lashes

energy drinks

take out

decent grades

late night convenience store runs

good night texts

kickboxing

80s and 90s Japanese city pop

staying late in school

sweat pants

matcha

my neighbor totoro

blossom⋆｡°✩

strawberry and pistachio ice cream

studying

journaling

gel pens

lip oils, tinted moisturizers and mascara

pancakes

self-care nights

library trips

sugar wafers

milk tea

pink ribbons

walks in the park

cinnamon

tennis skirts

productive mornings

jazz

late night phone calls

fruit loops

scented candles

when marnie was there

[lazarusdrawsthings]

You know what, fuck it *dragon-ifies your DRDT cast*

I've been thinking abt making a flight rising AU for a bit now, but I finally got around to getting some simple sketches down and finalizing my ideas for the main cast (excluding MonoTV and a certain unnamed student).

Text is just breed, eye type, genes, and gene colors, but it's kinda disorganized and hard to read even when clicking on it, so I'll list everything below the cut.

Teruko Breed: Mirror Eye type: Earth Rare Primary: Shamrock Savannah Secondary: Umber Noxtide Tertiary: Pistachio Ghost

Eden Breed: Tundra Eye type: Earth Uncommon Primary: Cottoncandy Fade Secondary: Raspberry Seraph Tertiary: White Underbelly

Xander Breed: Guardian Eye type: Fire Primal Primary: Tomato Falcon Secondary: Rust Morph Tertiary: Black Spines

Min Breed: Gaoler Eye type: Arcane Unusual Primary: Wisteria Shaggy Secondary: Wine Stripes Tertiary: Wine Wintercoat

David Breed: Skydancer Eye type: Light Uncommon Primary: Ice Falcon Secondary: Twilight Constellation Tertiary: Lemon Sparkle

Charles Breed: Imperial Eye type: Light Common Primary: Violet Savannah Secondary: Heather Stripes Tertiary: Storm Capsule

Nico Breed: Fae Eye type: Plague Bright Primary: Stonewash Jaguar Secondary: Midnight Stripes Tertiary: Midnight Points

Ace Breed: Wildclaw Eye type: Fire Rare Primary: Vermillion Skink Secondary: Berry Toxin Tertiary: White Underbelly

Levi Breed: Gaoler Eye type: Ice Unusual Primary: Plum Boa Secondary: Eggplant Blend Tertiary: Magenta Weathered

Whit Breed: Aether Eye type: Ice Uncommon Primary: Cottoncandy Cinder Secondary: Heather Blaze Tertiary: Cyan Monarch

Arturo Breed: Pearlcatcher Eye type: Ice Common Primary: Splash Iridescent Secondary: Robin Blend Tertiary: Aqua Points

Veronika Breed: Aberration Eye type: Plague Unusual Primary: Red Pharaoh Secondary: Red Weaver Tertiary: White Ghost

Arei Breed: Pearlcatcher Eye type: Water Bright Primary: Ultramarine Ribbon Secondary: Ultramarine Eel Tertiary: Cornflower Glimmer

J Breed: Nocturne Eye type: Lightning Common Primary: Azure Vipera Secondary: Phthalo Eel Tertiary: Mantis Thylacine

Rose Breed: Coatl Eye type: Earth Rare Primary: Rose Poison Secondary: Rose Toxin Tertiary: Iris Glimmer

Hu Breed: Skydancer Eye type: Nature Bright Primary: Fern Petals Secondary: Emerald Butterfly Tertiary: Turquoise Stained

(Worth noting: not all tert genes are visible in the image)

[generouswindow]

I won’t lie this plague of gratitude

by KAVEH AKBAR

I won’t lie this plague of gratitude      is hard to bear I was comfortable in my native pessimism not this spun-      sugar fantasy last night I made actual

          cake there were no worms in the flour no     bloody whirls in the eggs afterwards the minor           holiday below my waistband remained festive     as ever when I touched two breasts each one

was my favorite not long ago I was hard to even      hug like ribbons of cartilage cut from a lamb I dressed in shredded roses      and pistachio shells I drank an entire language

          and flung tar at whatever moved     until the world cut me open like a tube of paint           until it crushed me between its fingers     like a hornet none of it was graceful

I had to learn to love people one at a time     singing hey diddle diddle will you suffer me a little how could they say no     how could they say anything I kept

          biting their tongues I kept clicking     my heels now I am cheery           and Germanic like a drawer full      of strudel I always wanted to be a saint

but I thought I’d be one of the miserable      ones sainted by pain burnt alive inside a brazen bull instead I weep openly at obnoxious      beauty cello music comes in

          from blocks away and I lose it completely      there is a word for these fits of incomprehensible           delight I said it last night      when my mouth was full of cake

[johaerys-writes]

Ch. 14: You Say

Read on AO3 | Read from the beginning

Patroclus frowns at himself in the mirror. His reflection stares back at him as if he's done something terribly wrong. 

His hair was a mess when he woke up today, and even after fiddling with the unruly curls for the better part of the hour, they still refuse to lie quite as flat as Patroclus wants them. Even using one of Achilles’ hair foams didn’t work, save for making it a little less frizzy and giving it a vague fruity smell, for which at least Patroclus is kind of grateful. He huffs as he presses down a particularly bouncy curl close to his temples, then rolls his eyes when it springs right back with a vengeance. 

“Leave it, you’ll ruin it.”

Achilles is standing by the door, leaning against the doorframe when Patroclus turns around. He looks tousled and sleek and sinful in his white button down and his black slacks, one of Peleus’ expensive black leather belts hugging his hips. His hands are resting leisurely in his pockets, head tilted to the side for the light to touch his neck and the golden chain around it just so.

“It’s already ruined,” Patroclus says, returning to frowning at himself. “I can’t make it look right. I just have to admit defeat.” 

“My God, so dramatic.” Achilles laughs and comes forward, shifting Patroclus around by the shoulders. He studies his hair intently for a few moments; then, he carefully threads his fingers, on which he has dropped a small dollop of gel, through it. 

That feeling, the brush of skin against skin, rushes down Patroclus’ spine. It isn’t unfamiliar, not exactly. Achilles has never been shy about touching him, but it has been happening more and more often of late. Accidental or purposeful touches, taking advantage of every opportunity to come closer, to tease or poke him or brush the hair out of his face, to provoke him into impromptu bouts of wrestling that leave them both flushed and panting. And Patroclus is a more than willing participant in this game, matching Achilles step for step, as if it’s an intricate dance. 

Something has shifted between them since that night at the holding cell, and it feels dangerous. Thrilling. Like a fish toying with the hook. 

He looks anywhere but in Achilles’ face as he lets him do what he wants with his hair, twisting some locks around his finger while fluffing others up. Achilles takes a step back when he’s done to examine his work. 

“How do I look?” Patroclus asks. 

Achilles’ eyes travel from Patroclus’ hair to his face to his shoes and back up. The corner of his lip tugs in a smirk. “Hot as hell,” he says. 

Patroclus’ face burns. “Shut the fuck up,” he says, trying to laugh it off, turning away from him to look at the mirror. His hair looks decidedly better after Achilles’ ministrations, but the light grey suit he borrowed from Peleus is still a tad too big on him, and his leather shoes are in need of a good polish. Patroclus takes off the suit jacket and pushes his glasses up his nose, then steps past Achilles and out of the room. 

“Father has taken the car to the wash. He’s coming to pick us up later, and we’ll swing by Telamon's house.”

“Good,” Patroclus says, sitting on the bench by the shoe rack to give his shiny leather shoes a final polish. Achilles is right beside him once he finishes, spritzing him with his cologne. 

“For good luck,” he grins.

“Now we’ll smell the same again,” Patroclus protests, remembering how the other boys had teased them about dropping into the same vat of cologne last time this happened. Achilles only laughs.

“It’s a tradition now! Get used to it.”

Patroclus groans for good measure as he follows him out on the porch. They talk and bicker for a little while longer while they wait, Achilles snacking on pistachios and throwing the shells at him, before Peleus’ convertible appears in the driveway. Its shiny surface reflects the sunlight, and it's decorated with flowers and white ribbons. 

“Come on, lads,” he tells them impatiently. “You don’t want to miss the party, do you?” 

“Nah, Periboea will stretch this for as long as she can,” Achilles says, rolling his eyes as he slides in the passenger seat. “We have time.” 

Read the rest on AO3!

[impossiblesuitcase]

How the Kingdom Lights Shine

Artemisia Palace has the grandest, most opulent dining hall Kai has ever seen, and that’s saying a lot. He’s an emperor; he has been to state dinners in every country and nearly every city on the blue Earth. He’s seen crystalline cutlery and wax candle chandeliers and food so impossible one daren’t eat it.

But Luna takes the cake. Literally, they have taken cake and transformed it into a fifty-tier, ten-metre-tall sculpture, each layer separated by gold lace that should be physically incapable of holding such weight. A fountain flows in the centre, spurting out creamy gravity-defiant chocolate which falls in ribbon-like swirls into a golden basin.

And that’s just the cake. The decorations are excessive, the entertainment is sheer magic and the servers bow to all. No doubt a portion of the spectacle is accomplished through glamour, and that fact makes Kai uncomfortable.

Cinder, sitting at the head of the table, looks frazzled by it all. When she’d asked the chefs to prepare a meal for her and her closest friends, it was unlikely she’d anticipated this.

Her eyes are screaming at him. Feeling playful, he smiles as if clueless, shrugs and turns back to his diamond-studded parfait.

“She’s not quite in her element,” comes the voice seated at his right.

Kai switches his attention from the bowl—contemplating how the diamonds are edible—to the rouge beauty next to him. Her bright hair is pulled back into a simple ponytail with a braid crowning her head. Her dress is emerald, a similar cut to what she wore at Cinder’s coronation last week. The only ornamentation is stunning dangling crystals adorning her ears and her natural charm.

He laughs. “Not even slightly.”

“Sorry,” she says with that distinct French accent, although more rural than the Parisian diplomats he’s familiar with. “I meant to say hello, but someone”—she juts out a thumb at her neighbour; Winter, enrapturing the attention of all nearby—“won’t let me breathe.”

Kai smiles. “Not an issue.”

“So…” She cups her chin with her hand, resting a sacrilegious elbow on the table. “You’re the famous Emperor Kaito.”

“And you’re the famous Scarlet Benoit.” He recites the title with a deserved reverence. “I have to say, you’re very well-renowned with this crowd.”

“I’d better be.”

A retinue of servants approach the table in perfect unison, like synchronised swimmers of the culinary pool. They kneel beside the guests with a tray of merlot in gold and silver chalices perched on their heads. From across the table, Cress is flapping her hands with a spluttered, “I’m not eighteen!” while Thorne, despite not being of legal drinking age in his native country, is already a third of the way through a glass.

Kai and Scarlet simultaneously decline, more so that the server can be freed from this cramped position.

“I suppose you’re used to all this,” says Scarlet, shaking her head in disbelief.

“Not really.” He takes a bite from his parfait. The diamonds crunch under his teeth, melting into a syrupy honey on his tongue. “Even the Earthen elites don’t go all out like this.”

They share a look, and together: “Lunars.”

It sparks muffled laughter, knowing that most of their peers on this table are Lunar. It’s nice, still, to have some solidarity with a fellow Earthen, to both recognise how foreign this mingling of cultures would have been to their untrained minds just months ago.

Scarlet takes a bite of the pistachio sponge in her bowl, which is surrounded by dark chocolate trees and a matcha crumble moss. It’s the perfect scene of a fairy-tale forest, and yet Scarlet still mutters, “too many eggs.” 

Based on the lemon cake she made for Cinder’s coronation, he’ll take her word for it.

She discards her spoon in her bowl and turns to him. “So, I assume you and Cinder are…together.”

“Absolutely.”

A grin. “Hm. She had the most obvious crush on you. I’m glad to know it was reciprocated.”

He wipes his brow with his sleeve, a touch embarrassed. “I was likely worse. Torin probably thought I’d returned to early puberty for how much I gushed about her.” Scarlet is still, essentially, a stranger, yet there’s something about her so honest and comforting, like a cup of hot chocolate from a kind old woman on a blustery day, that he has no qualms in baring these secrets. “Still,” he adds, contemplative, “not as much as Wolf to you.”

She rolls her eyes, but it’s a tender gesture. “He’s the worst.”

Wolf is across from them, gazing longingly at Scarlet. Iko arranged the seating plan so guests could interact with those more unfamiliar, and Wolf is evidently not impressed.

Scarlet notices his superglued gaze and blows him a kiss. He turns red.

Kai snorts. “You’re evil.”

“I know. That’s love.” Something flickers in her eyes as she leans back in her chair. “Speaking of which, may I ask when you realised you loved Cinder? After all, you were actively trying to track her down with your military. It makes for an, euh, unlikely romance.”

No one—asides from Levana—has asked him yet if he loves Cinder. But Scarlet is keenly observant. It’s not a matter of if he has fallen in love, but when.

“Here, on Luna, while I was trapped inside this prison for a pal—” he clamps his jaw shut, wishing to retract his words. Yes, his confinement to his suite in the palace had been tortuous, but Scarlet had actually been imprisoned. And actually tortured. “Um, while the others were in the outer sectors,” he amends, “I had a lot of time on my hands to think. I worried about her constantly, and I guess at some point it just ticked over in my brain. It wasn’t a sharp realisation. It was just fact. I was in love with her.” 

He finds his eyes latching onto Cinder unbidden. She’s in a beautiful gown and a glimmering tiara, courtesy of one Carswell Thorne, and scoffing at one of Jacin’s snide comments. “I am in love with her.”

“I hope she knows that.”

A flush covers his ears. This is revenge for mocking Wolf, he knows, because the florid is far more obvious on Kai’s pale skin than Wolf’s tanned.

To be frank, he hasn’t told Cinder. Not because he doubts his feelings, rather, because he doesn’t know how deep hers are. It’s all new, and he doesn’t want to scare her off with premature confessions.

Scarlet blessedly doesn’t mock him. She folds her hands over the table. “You know, Cinder has been treated horribly these past months. Actually, her whole life, I think,” she includes, scowling. “I’m sure you know it well: the terrible, salacious claims they made about her in the newsfeeds. And people do believe it. In my own town, Rieux, when the footage from the ball was released, they said—ugh—disgusting, perverted things.”

He sighs, knowing all too well what was levelled against his girl. “Right. Being cyborg and Lunar. How appalling.”

“Cyborg and Lunar, yes, and also”—she looks at him very seriously—“how much they wanted to take her home and use her.”

His face contorts. “...Use her?” 

A grim nod.

Kai has to bite his tongue to stop himself from thumping the underside of the table. He knew this, minutely, logically, yes he knew. But he didn’t…he couldn’t…

“Unfortunately, people haven’t changed their opinions yet. Particularly when it comes to your relationship. You are ‘the victim,’” she air quotes, “and her ‘the predator.’”

“They’re vile. The whole lot of them.”

“Of course.” A platter of fruits is presented before them, and Scarlet lets out an awed, “real food.” She nabs a strawberry, sucking out its sweetness. After a bite, she says, “I know I don’t know you very well, but I do feel I know you to some extent.”

“Most people feel that way,” he assures, “my being a public figure since birth and all.”

Her lips purse into a smile. “I actually had a poster of you on my wall when I was fifteen. My grand-mère cut it off—”

“—a cereal box?" he half chuckles, half grimaces. “That was never a licenced product, by the way.”

Iko, four seats to his left, leans her chair onto its hind legs and calls, “I had that cereal box too! And a fan club membership—number one fan!”

“Stop eavesdropping!” Scarlet yells back.

“Can’t help that I have super high-radius hearing.” She swings back to all four legs with a clomp as Cinder corrects, “Peony had the membership.” “She said I could share!”

Kai snickers.

When he returns to Scarlet, she is shaking her head, carrying on as though uninterrupted. “I put that poster on my wall because I thought you were cute, but also respectful and good-hearted,” she recalls plainly.

Although this praise is not uncommon, Scarlet strikes him as someone not easily impressed, and a flutter of bashfulness thrums in his chest.

“Meeting you now, I still hold that opinion. That’s why I believe you will be good to Cinder.” She plucks another strawberry from the tray, carefully tearing off the leaves. “Still, if I was unsure of your relationship status, how much more so will the public be? How much more so will the rumours persist.”

Sure, they haven’t announced anything. But they aren’t the only ones: Scarlet and Wolf’s relationship was confirmed through loving glances. Jacin’s arm around Winter apparently made it official last week, and the only surprise is that Kai learnt that they weren’t already dating. Cinder bumped into Thorne kissing Cress in the hallway and warned him not to mess with her feelings, which received a grave: “I’m not. I love her.” 

(When Cinder relayed the tale to the others, Kai mentally patted himself on the back. His pep talk in the Rampion podship had penetrated deeper past Thorne’s defences than Kai had ever hoped.)

Still, Scarlet is right. The difference is clear: Cinder and Kai are the ones the public cares about.

She extends the fruit to him. “Cinder doesn’t deserve those comments, does she?”

Kai digs his nails into his hips. Isn’t it obvious to everyone in a ten-kilometre range that he loves Cinder? Even embarrassingly so, as Levana and Torin and Dr. Erland had made quite plain?

But people are people, and people persecute.

He kissed Cinder in front of Scarlet before the coronation, he recalls. They kissed on the Rampion in front of their friends, even when they hadn’t defined their relationship because commitment was too optimistic, the environment too fickle. 

They have something now they hadn’t had back then—permanence, however strange and new and infeasible. He doesn’t even know how it can last when they will be rulers of different lands, doesn’t know if Cinder will even want to become empress. Doesn’t know if Cinder wants children when that is an essential requirement of being his wife. He doesn’t know her favourite colour or song or netdrama or much of anything about her.

And yet, in spite of every spite, it still feels permanent. There is no doubt.

He accepts the strawberry from Scarlet and bites down hard on its seeded sweetness.

———

“Long live the queen! Long live the queen!”

Cinder is considering throwing up. At least that would expel the butterflies from her stomach. 

No, butterflies are how she feels with Kai—happy and fluttery and safe. Right now in her gut, squawking, belligerent crows are playing frisbee.

“They’re waiting for you, Your Majesty,” says Kinney, as he and another guard open the large double doors to the balcony.

Damned audio interface. The chanting is deafening, yet she’s forced to hear his whisper. If she pretends she didn’t hear it, maybe she won’t have to go out at all.

“Your Majesty?”

Cinder nods, or maybe shakes her head, before a force starts to push her forward. It could be Iko fed up with her nervousness, or even someone glamouring her, or just her own legs taking master of her body. Nevertheless, one moment she’s safely concealed inside, and the next she’s towering above thousands of her subjects.

Cheers erupt. Flags and banners are waved and the chant starts up again. “Long live the queen!”

The queen! She hasn’t even mustered up the courage to tell Kai she loves him, much less know how to lead these people! And she is responsible for every single face down there, not to mention the million others not gathered in this courtyard. There are those congregating in the streets of Artemisia; huddled together in public squares in the outer sectors.

How it can be so invigorating to stand in front of a crowd and galvanise them into rioting, yet paralysing to address them afterwards? Is it the massive drop? A UFO of doubt sucking her up in its beam?

Warning —Erratic heart rate. Recommended course of action is: Slow breaths.

Commencing in 3, 2,

Deep breath in. Deep breath out.

She is their queen, so she will stand unbalanced on this balcony in a ridiculously costly gown and diadem instead of her cargo pants and gloves and be their queen.

Cinder smiles awkwardly, and waves, (awkwardly), and either they are particularly forgiving or cannot see her strain from this high up, because they cheer even louder.

In. Out.

Something soft grazes her elbow, coaxing it to slow down, to take a more natural glide. It travels up her arm to firmly grasp her hand.

The crowd reaches an impassioned frenzy for Emperor Kaito of the Eastern Commonwealth. The last she knew, he is supposed to be with their friends in the ballroom.

“What are you doing here?” she whispers.

All the beauty of New Beijing Palace has travelled here, in this moment, over the landscapes of his face. “Hi.”

The crowd adjust easily, shouting, “Long live the emperor! Long live the queen!”

Her eyes magnify on their joint hands like a zoom lens. He’s never done this before in public public, even at her coronation where his polite kiss on the hand was taken as etiquette more than intimacy.

“Long live us, hey?” he murmurs, lips a ventriloquist for the cameras.

She emits a shaky laugh. “Let’s hope.”

Kai comes closer. Cinder lifts her cheek in wait of another whisper, only for him to settle a dizzying kiss on her temple.

Internally, she’s toppling over the balcony rail. But outwardly she’s frozen, deafened by the nuclear explosion of sound below. 

“I think they approve,” he muses into her hair, gloating.

There is no doubt.

Cinder attempts to pull away—check his face for traces of smugness, surely knowing this would bewilder her. Kai slides an arm around her waist so she can’t go too far. 

“You just want your face on the cover of every newsfeed,” she berates with a grin.

“I want us on the cover of every newsfeed.” 

The people beneath them blur into nothing, the sounds become wind. When he winks at her, it’s a far more picture-worthy moment than the kiss. One she will bottle up and unscrew and drink before she goes to bed that night.

Long live the emperor! Long live the queen!

Cinder buries their joint hands into the folds of her skirt, suddenly a lot less nervous. Suddenly she isn’t ruling alone, and neither is he. 

Long may they live.

Notes

This is purely so I can write Kai Scarlet friendship.

I realised I have never advertised this, but I'm on ao3 at au_moins_jessaie

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[wexlermendelssohn]

I made a delicious vegetable thing today

Cut a delicata squash in half and get it in the oven to precook after whatever temp your oven happens to be at. (It was 400 since that’s what Jiffy uses)

Soak dried cranberries or tart raisins in hot water and drain after while.

Cut up some leek in thin half moons and kale into fine ribbons; sauté lightly in olive oil with garlic and black pepper. When leeks are translucent and kale has started to soften remove from heat.

Toast some pistachios or your preferred nut or seed. Crush or chop to pleasant size for eating.

In a bowl mix a couple big scoops of whole milk ricotta, about a third to half that much crumbled blue cheese, and the sautéd veg, fruit, and nuts. Add more black pepper.

Stuff mixture into precooked squash and bake until lightly browned on top.

I think a pretty delicious veganized or dairy free version would use smashed silken tofu and nooch to replace the dairy, but in that case I’d add mushrooms in lieu of the blue.

[somelonelywordmonger]

Scry-A-Day #433

September 12, 2024

Meet Abe!

Phthalo Ribbon | Pistachio Blaze | Sable Soap | Pastel Earth Eyes

[thefakerachelray]

(I didn’t include the caramel ribbon crunch frapp because it’s a year-round drink now!)

[just-a-carrot]

Howdy, Carrot

This is a question of utmost importance. What is each of the main five's favourite ice cream flavour? (For some reason, I feel like Orlam would like mint chocolate chip ice cream)

ohhhhhhh... a very good question... (and now i want ice cream LOL)

Iggy: Green tea; or, if they went to coldstone, he'd just get plain sweet cream flavor with no mix-ins at all lol

Genzou: Chocolate chip cookie dough, chocolate brownie, basically anything with big chunks of stuff in it

Orlam: Pistachio (tho he also likes mint chocolate chip)

Gidget: Gold medal ribbon or anything with caramel in it

Bucks: Sherbet of any kind, especially rainbow sherbet

[blankticket]

.📻🍳🐯🌙

📻 = What music genre do the mun and muse listen to the most? Any favorite bands?

my favorite band of all time is sleigh bells, has been for something like 14 years. i have so much to say about them… anyway, i've been listening to lauren bousfield a lot since last year around the same time stampede started airing; even now i listen to palimpsest and salesforce a Lot i listen to quite a mix of genres [here's my topsters list for albums], but to try and put it in broad strokes to answer the 'genre' thing… it seems like i like listening to music with distorted vocals, very maximalist songs with more emphasis on making you feel something than being the most eloquent and efficient with the lyrics.

i like vgm and witch house and jungle and any sound at all that makes me feel something.

i think i answered an earlier ask about stamps liking noise and understanding the scene—that people can and will dance to it because music is something that makes you feel something even if it doesn't have an orthodox melody/rhythm/etc. given the novelty of it and the openmindedness that vash tends to have i think he'd do fine with experimental, noise, etc. sorta genres; i don't think there'd be any genre he'd hear and have it be the sonic equivalent of giving a caveman a warhead candy or whatever.

but i also think that vash would particularly love live music, from concerts to just someone chilling out outside with an out of tune guitar, covering a rock song to kill some time.

sure he's got that radio/music player he keeps around, but i think he'd gladly take those earbuds out if he hears a friend humming or whistling or notices the wind picking up and nudging against windchimes or howling through metal structures.

he's used to living a life where you can't really stay put, and have to find meaning out of the little things. sometimes they require for you to focus on them, sometimes they make you stop and listen

🍳 = What are the mun’s and muse’s favorite foods?

i talked about liking pistachios (especially with whatever chocolate i have on hand) as a snack earlier. i'm also a big fan of anything and everything cotton candy, especially ice cream. i am allergic to a Lot of things, but if i were to only eat what i'm not allergic to, i'd easily get malnourished. my favorite fruit's strawberries (which i'm allergic to…..), although! i'm Not allergic to any kinda seafood, which is fantastic news for me given how much i love seafood :3 especially mussels and octopus! i've only eaten oysters once but i did enjoy how its just like eating a mouthful of solidified seawater

i'm filipino-chinese and have been pretty blessed w/availability of respective cuisine; favorite soup is sinigang, which is wonderfully sour and brings me a lotta comfort. could fuck up some sisig or bicol express any day. i've only ever had spaghetti of the filipino kind, and prefer my lemonade to be the kind made with calamansi.

favorite dessert is leche flan (the filipino kind's a lot denser, with more egg yolk and condensed milk). a lot of my birthday cakes were either goldilocks or red ribbon (bakery brands) mango cakes or mocha cakes lol. even now it still Is the go-to for any celebratory cake

ougghh peking duck and yangchow fried rice make me forget about all my problems in life… i'm also very happy to be at any dim sum place especially if i can get cantonese siomai or that one dish that's like chao tom but in Ball Form… egg tarts and mango pudding… dude i will be so happy. i will be SO happy

anyway i also talked about stamps liking oranges and orange juice! the rest of the food that was on the table for the twins' first birthday… looks kinda bland honestly lol. but, it makes me think that stamps would probably find space food to be nostalgic! i'm sure he's also grateful that Plants know how to produce[?!] pizza??

my interpretation of vash has a pretty big sweet tooth, and indulges it with fruit and desserts and pastries. although i've had him enjoy donuts as a nod to his other counterparts, i've also had him express that his favorite kind of donut is "assorted", LOL.

so i imagine him to be a lot less picky about his food given his circumstances, but i think that also comes with him not having too many "favorites", and there's still plenty of firsts he needs to try out here in spirale where it's possible! he's probably especially excited about what human food engineering's come up with, so any food that has that sort of novelty to it (like the whole miracle fruit thing, or spicy ice cream) has a particular appeal to him.

🐯 = What animals would best be associated with the mun and muse?

with me… well, besides mice and rats (due to being quite attached to my zodiac sign lol) i don't have any other super strong animal associations w/myself, they're all mostly bugs or fictitious animals LOL. online quizzes have given me killer whales and polar bears. i had a sick-ass dream about falconry once?? i guess if i had to pick, then it'd be hummingbirds! or maybe pigeons… wow! my answers all over the place

for vash… i did make him a ptarmigan for endless aurora. he chose those dudes 'cause he mistook them for doves LOL. i wonder what kind of bird call is used in the full version of TOMBI? kinda wanna say that's an eagle

suppose there's a little bit of lamb association with vash, given wolfwood's mission with him and the biblical stuff goin on over there. then there's also the namesake! i keep forgetting to make stamps buy a highland cow plushie wearin heart shades for maxvash and calling that guy the 'third vash' [or 'fourth vash', if we're counting spamton as an honorary vash?]

🌙 = Are the mun and muse more morning, day, or night people? When are they the most relaxed? When do they get the most work done?

i stay up too late and have a very erratic sleep pattern. daytime and sunsets make me the happiest, but sometimes mornings and nighttime's the only times of day where it's cold enough and quiet enough to Think. i dont have a phobia of the dark and i can sleep at any hour of the day so theres no real time of day that i dislike, at least

vash strikes me as a morning person… sorta. i think he sleeps more if he hasn't been eating hence all the dozing he does on-screen even when it's like the middle of the day, with his mood apparently remaining unaffected. i also know he's had to tend to animals & worked tirelessly hard as a Plant engineer. he doesn't ever seem to be disturbed by the heat that two suns bring on or by the chill of the desert-planet night, so i could see him be pretty adaptable himself.

i think the only reason he'd feel anxious about nighttime is bc a lot of terrible things (the Big Fall, the destruction of Jeneora Rock, the attack on the Humpback, the night of 7/21, etc) tend to happen then. which incidentally is part of why i made his giant challenge occur in the morning last summer; i'm mean, and i don't think he should get to feel safe from the horrors just because the sun's up

[chiyoda-division2]

“The taste of death is upon my lips... I feel something, that is not of this earth.” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Introduction🩸

Fusao Ise(異世フサオ)、 a.k.a. Revenan† on rap battles, is a CEO and leader of Chiyoda Division’s 狂音INC., he is the CEO of the successful audio equipment company ‘Wonder⇓anD Sound Systems’, he is a man shrouded in mystery to the masses, especially with how he sprung back into his job like he did not just stop appearing to the public 8 years ago.

He was forced to join the DRB after the Party of Words found out that he kept ‘something’ someone that should’ve been disposed of years ago.

Link to picrew used

Appearance

Despite his old age, he has a well kept appearance, Fusao is a middle-aged man albeit taller than average. He has neck-length brown hair that he preferred to dye in dirty blonde and he has pistachio green eyes with visible wrinkles underneath them.

At work, he is usually seen in a black dress shirt, a white suit jacket in pinstripe pattern, a red tie hidden by a scarf of a similar color, black pants and black dress shoes. He is often seen clutching on a black service cap rather than actually wearing it.

He doesn’t really look that different outside work, save for changing his white suit jacket with a black trench coat.

Name Meaning

Fusao(フサオ) - no concrete meaning as it’s written in katakana

Ise(異世) - Different world (literally just one character away from ‘isekai’)

Nicknames and Aliases

Revenan† - MC Name

Boss, Sir, etc. - employees

Hun - his wife Ageha

Papa - his children

Pops, Sao - Nayomi

“The Living Dead” - himself

"Mad Hatter" - Eiji

Hazumu

Biographical Info

Gender - Male

Age - 52

Birthday - March 3

Star Sign - Pisces

Ethnicity - Japanese

Hair Colour - Dirty blonde (dyed), Brown (natural)

Eye Colour - Green

Height - 6'3"

Markings - Scars at the back, stab wounds on his stomach

Piercings - Lobe

Family - 

??? (deceased)

??? (deceased)

??? (deceased)

Wife

Stepdaughter

Biological daughter

Triplets

Voice Claim: Ryotaro Okiayu (speaking); SymaG(singing/rapping) 

Fun Facts 

Occupation - CEO of Wonder⇓anD Sound Systems

Division - Chiyoda

Team - 狂音INC.

Position - Leader

Favourite Food - Rum chocolate

Least Favourite Food - anything with too many bones

Likes - His children, profit, drinking with his business partners, stories about the undead(mainly zombies)

Dislikes - Raiden’s antics, his in-laws, the authorities, those who try to look into his past

Image color - Dried Blood (#4B0101)

Hypnosis Microphone

Fusao’s Hypnosis Microphone takes the form of a silver ribbon mic on a black stand, the stand is wrapped with thorny vines of white roses, the roses contain dripping red paint painted on, as if to hide the fact that it’s white, the stand’s lower section has a large splatter of red paint.

Fusao’s speakers take the form of a large black coffin with gold linings and red paint splatters, the coffin opens to reveal a bunch of roses the same as his mic’s with a large black speaker with gold lining resembling shaped a lot like himself laid on top, the cofffin’s lid contains a gold relief carving of a cat’s head with its left eye replaced with roses on the outside and the inside reveals 4 small speakers of varying sizes. Black, thorny vines stained with red take the shape of a hand as it holds the lid open.

Whenever he activates his mic, he is contained inside of his speakers and comes out of it as if he’s a vampire.

Fusao’s rap ability, Rabbit Hole—[REDACTED] “Tch, I won’t let you know that yet.”

Most of Fusao’s rap themes revolve around the concept of life and death, that he is phasing in and out of both of them and how he is a dead man in the world of the living and a living man in the world of the dead. He occasionally slips in references to the children’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, this is often paired with him telling the listeners to just for once, throw away logic and common sense out of the window.

Personality

Fusao likes to joke around a lot despite his position inside work and is quite easygoing compared to the typical boss, yet at the same time, he comes off as a complete enigma for he is very secretive, not easy to reveal his intentions and things like his personal life especially the days before he met his wife or how he got the position as CEO of his company.

Fusao has a petty side toward people he see as enemies, he will act out against them without any explanation whatsoever, mainly doing so just to see their reactions.

People say that he has a twisted view on the concept of ‘second chances’ for he has a history of employing people with… not the best records. He says that he does have a limit but it’s quite hard to believe…

Background

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Trivia

His birthday is also Alexander Graham Bell’s birthday, not only is Bell credited for the telephone but he also is one of the first people to have patented a loudspeaker

He bites his thumb whenever he gets mad

He’s the only older member in the Ise family that Nayomi gets along with nowadays

He was pissed off when he found out all of his social media accounts were memorialized (not like he’s gonna make new ones anyway :p)

Wonder⇓anD Sound Systems is not at the same level as E.L. Medical or Arakawa Tech Industries though his company is quite popular amongst audiophiles

Though Wonder⇓anD is a competitor against Arakawa Tech, he seems to be in neutral terms with Misa herself

He was acquaintances with Reika Aichi’s mother, Minako time before her death

He is very fond of the series Handead Anthem, even though it was long discontinued

He has quite the dislike against Eiji Noguchi for… some reason

[demonica-31]

Hey guys, I need a little bit of help. I’m doing a Halloween themed game on ClanGen, but I’m having trouble figuring out how to name my characters. The only names I’ve been able to come up with are

Pumpkin

Were/Wolf

Chocolate/Cocoa

Bony/e

Skeleton

Skull

Witch

Zombie

Dead

Franken

Undead

Gourd

Spider

Corpse

Mummy

Eerie

Creepy

Crypt

Fear

Web

Troll

Hob/Goblin

Blood/y

Corn

Sugar

Sweet

Sour

Spirit

Ghost

Ghoul

Wraith

Fright

Stitch

Rat

Needle

Beetle

Glow

Lantern

Grave

Tomb

Freaky

Sliver

Grim

Phantom

Tarantula

Eldritch

Maggot

Vampire

Bat

Midnight

Fairy

Sprite

Vulture

Mushroom

Worm

Wither(ing)

Wilt(ed)/(ing)

Demon

Slime(y)

Dead

Cinnamon

Caramel

Coconut

Wisp

Rot(ten/ting)

Coffin

Howl/ing

Scream(ing)

Gore

Casket

Fungus

Taffy

Buried

Banshee

Beast

Bean

Monster

Nougat

Peanut

Sprinkle

Syrup

Ooze

Gooey

Cream/y

Knife

Cleaver

Slash

Doll(y)

Frosting

Icing

Glaze

Cookie

Cake

Poison

Cider

Shark

Metal

Mold/y

Nightmare

Hiss/ing

Severe/d

Cadaver

Devil

Ro/bot

Carcass

Lollipop

Licorice

Gummy

Jelly/bean

Marshmallow

S’more

Frog

Pie

Walker

Brownie

Fudge

Sharp

Razor

Buried

Chip

Bitter

Cyborg

Cyber

Digital

Pixel

Pixie

Blade

Toadstool

Snake

Cobra

Glitch

Spine

Chill(ed/ing)

Coffee

Espresso

Tick

Leech

Sting

Serpent

Cauldron

Iron

Potion

Pudding

Vanilla

Flour

Piranha

Boar

Pig

Leather

Orca

Anaconda (don’t want none)

Gorilla

Alligator

Crocodile

Turkey

Citrus

Lemon

Lime

Unicorn

Dagger

Clown

Jester

Void

Leprechaun

Orc

Torn

Shattered

Tea

Butter

Butterfly

Diamond

Gem

Alien

Mocha

Banana

Mermaid

Siren

Angel

Soda

Popcorn

Voodoo

Rattle(d/ing)

Dragon

Scale(d)/Scaly

Blueberry

Raspberry

Mango

Strawberry

Grinning

Dancing

Latte

Spice/y

Cozy

Tar

Acid

Melt(ed/ing)

Autumn

Cheesecake

Twilight

Grape

Shard

Crisp(y)

Still

Rabid

Bitter

Twisted

Bullet

Charcoal

Feral

Griffin

Nymph

Melon

Crimson

Plum

Salt(y)

Ring

Somber

Hyena

Decay(ed/ing)

Whiskey

Margarita

Cocktail (that's a whole entire name right there!)

Beer

Pirate

Glitter

Moon

Powder

Heathen

Garlic

Firework

Trick

Treat

Widow

Eclipse

Butterscotch

Gargoyle

Honeydew (another full name!)

Pomegranate

Malt

Milk

Tangerine

Kiwi

Apricot

Blackberry

Cranberry

Fig

Papaya

Pineapple

Raisin

Eclair

Drowned/ing

Viper

Wicked

Glass

Gem

Jewel

Thrash(ed/ing)

Venom

Almond

Cashew

Pistachio

Walnut

Fruit(y)

Bomb

Cherry

Chamomile

Volt

Jolt

Punk

Goth

Emo

Grunge

Hex

Vex

Snap

Macabre

Crazy

Insane

Muffin

Chain/Saw

Hammer

Hook

Machete

Axe

Slice

Loon

Lunar

Phoenix

Nail

Balloon

Fizz/y

Foam/y

Froth/y

Spook/y

Flesh

Haunt(ed/ing)

Poltergeist

Apparition

Soul

Scare/crow (Another full name!)

Cold

Elf

Ogre (someBODY-)

Frenzy

Mirage

Spunk

Darkling

Minotaur

Basilisk

Chanterelle (it's type of mushroom)

Clementine

Nectarine

Orange

Wizard

Broom

Mystery

Yeti

Cryptid

Wendigo

Behemoth

Kelpie

Goat

Amarok (it's a type of wolf)

Pegasus

Truffle

Saffron

Croissant

Strudel

Pepper/mint

Paint/ed

Imp

Bug/gy

Wax

Peach

Ribbon

Gumball

Squash

Tin

Bonbon

Sheep

Harpy

Avocado

Flamingo

Pinata

Confetti

Dino/saur

Toast

Button

Rainbow

Cosmic

But here’s the thing. I’m running out of ideas! Can you guys help me come up with more names?