#so Demo can start stealing some >:]

[triplefrontierbabe]

2 Hands Lando Norris Imagine

smau linked here

summary: you’re a world famous singer dating Lando Norris

pairing: f! singer reader x Lando Norris

warning: suggestive content, language

a/n: this is part of a request paired with a smau, linked above

Ask any woman what their favorite part of a man is and she will most likely say his hands. There’s just something so innocently sensual about man hands, especially if they’re the hands of a racing driver.

It’s no secret that using your significant other as inspiration for your work is one of the highest forms of flattery, especially when it comes to art. And ever since you met Lando Norris, he has been your muse for your work. Every song somehow suddenly was about him, he’s all you thought about. Now that your second world tour has come to an end it’s the perfect time to get back in the studio and you have the perfect idea of what to do.

To be honest, one of the first things you noticed about Lando was his hands and how they looked like they were carved from marble. The mere sight of him holding a coffee cup made your mind wander like no other. All you could think of was how his hands looked on your body and how he would touch you with such gentleness and care. Occasionally you’d sneak a photo of his hands while you were around him. Soon enough he realized the obsession of his hands that you had developed.

One night you and Lando were heading out for a nice dinner when you pulled out your phone to take a photo of you two in the elevator mirror. Lando immediately grabbed your phone out of your hands and moved his hand from your hips to the front of your stomach, and dangerously low might you add. You blushed at his actions, knowing your not so secret obsession had been found out.

“I know you like them.” Lando said cheekily handing the phone back to you as your face broke out in a blush yet again.

“Can you blame me though?” You asked, grabbing his right hand and examining the rings he had on. Those rings were another weakness of yours. The way the cool metal clashed with your burning skin made your whole body shiver. His hands were going to be the death of you.

“Write a song, it’ll last longer.” He responded with a mischievous smile as the elevator door opened. You looked over your shoulder at him and rolled your eyes.

“You know I just might, Norris.” You said as you stepped out of the elevator.

“Atta girl.” He said laying a light smack on your ass which earned a whispered scold from you.

A song about his hands is exactly what you wrote. The writing process for this song was probably the fastest you had ever written a song in your entire life. Your producer was shocked when you got to the studio and had to make minor changes to the lyrics, it was practically perfect– like Lando’s hands.

While Lando was halfway across the world for a race you facetimed him to play a demo of the song for him.

“You mean it?” He asked, looking at your face on his screen with a look of disbelief.

“Every word.” You simply replied, giving Lando a sly smile.

“What about a music video?” Lando inquired, shifting in his seat.

“Okay, hear me out” you began “I was thinking about incorporating cars into it somehow, maybe a McLaren or something.”

“A McLaren, huh?”

“I dunno, just a thought. Could be a fun little easter egg.” You responded by shrugging your shoulders while stealing a glance at his hands that were barely in sight on the phone.

Before you knew it music video rehearsals had arrived. On your first day of rehearsal you walked into the studio to see a box wrapped in bright orange- or papaya- wrapping paper with a big blue bow on top. There was a card attached that read ‘although this isn’t a sports car, i hope this gives you some inspiration ;) -4’. Lando had gifted you one of those battery operated kids’ McLaren F1 cars.

Another month had passed of working on 2 Hands but it was finally ready to be promoted, and so was your relationship with Lando. Since you started dating him, small easter eggs of your relationship had been sprinkled throughout your instagram posts.

But the post you made announcing that you had new music coming out, you decided to be bold. You included a picture of you on the toy car that had Lando’s number on the front. But the kryptonite of the post was the last picture which was a closeup of Lando with his hands on his helmet with his hand veins on full display. You had spent hours of looking through social media for the perfect photo of his hands, many thanks to the thousands of other girls who were just as enamored with his hands as you were.

The minute you posted, your phone was blowing up with countless fans speculating a relationship between you and the famed driver but more so, the attention was on his hands like you wanted it to be.

Abu Dhabi rolled around which was a big weekend for the both of you. Lando won the race, McLaren won the Constructors’ Championship and 2 Hands was released. You were with Lando at the hotel basking in his victorious weekend and listening to your new song. It was a perfect weekend and you couldn’t have imagined it to be any other way.

“I fucking love this song.” Lando said, grabbing you by the waist giving you a deep kiss. “But I love you way more.”

“I couldn’t have done this without you, Lan.” You replied, raking your hands through Lando’s curly hair. “I love how everyone loves your hands too. Did you know there’s pinterest boards dedicated to your hands?”

“Of course there are.” He responded by throwing his hand back in laughter. This moment was perfect, just being in the same room as him celebrating your accomplishments together.

“But, I’m the only one that knows what they feel like.” You said with a wink.

“Well, look at you Miss Possessive.”

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Helping Hand - Bang Chan

Bang Chan x fem!reader

Warnings: None

Genre: Fluff

WC: 1.4k

Summary: While on a work trip to Japan you run into a familiar producer.

A/N: this is my first original fic so please be kind, hope you enjoy! let me know if you have any requests or suggestions. i'll hopefully be posting more and maybe i'll figure out how to make a masterlist at some point.

- kit <3

You weren’t much for flying but when your company asked you to join a work sponsored trip to Japan you couldn’t help but jump on it. Though you’d been working in Seoul for almost a year, you’d never been able to find the time to travel out to Tokyo. And having the whole trip paid for by the company made it even better.

Though they hadn’t splurged for first class tickets, you’d never sat in business class before, not even on your flight to Seoul when you’d first moved there.

You found your seat quickly, a middle seat, wonderful. But as the plane filled up you realized you lucked out and got the whole row to yourself, though it being a red eye flight might have something to do with it.

Now, you weren’t afraid of flying, but you weren’t exactly a fan either. Particularly when it came to take off and landing.

As the plane taxied away from the gate you got comfortable in your seat, putting on your headphones and playing some music hoping to distract yourself from takeoff. You squeeze the armrests as the plane rises and falls before eventually reaching cruising altitude.

Having settled down a little from takeoff, you take the time to look around the plane cabin. A particular passenger catches your attention, black beanie, black sweatshirt, black sweats and sneakers. Though it wasn’t his outfit that caught your attention, it was his face. You’d know it anywhere, you were certain that Bang Chan was sitting in the row across from you, working on his laptop.

At first, you didn’t know what to do. You didn’t want to bother him but you wanted to say something.

“Hey Chris.” You were thankful he didn’t have his headphones on right at that moment because he looked up, turning towards you.

You smiled awkwardly and waved, “Sorry to bother. I just wanted to say I’m a big fan.”

He returned your smile, about as brightly as you’d expect from someone on a red eye flight, “Hi. What is your name?”

“Y/N.”

“Nice to meet you.”

“What is bringing you to Tokyo? It’s not a SKZ thing is it? Though I suppose you’re probably not supposed to tell me if it is.” You laugh quietly at yourself.

“No, it’s just me. We have a week break and I wanted to get out of Seoul. I was going to go to this spa resort Hyunjin told me about for a few days.”

You gasp softly, “You? Taking a break? Who are you and what have you done with Bang Chan?”

He chuckles, “Haha, very funny-” as he was about to continue the person next to him slumped over onto his shoulder. He jumps, turning towards the man and slowly pushing him back to his own seat.

You bite your lip, hesitating before speaking up, “Do you… do you want to join me?”

He looks back over at you and his millisecond of hesitation makes you overthink.

“You don’t have to! I just, I wasn’t trying to- I have more room and you… you don’t have to…” You trail off.

“I appreciate the offer…” he smiles genuinely. “I don’t want to impose.”

“You’re not, I promise.” You wave him over, “I’ve got the whole row.”

He glances between your empty row and his full one, both people beside him sound asleep. You wave him over once again.

He glances down the aisle, making sure the stewardesses are busy, and quickly grabs his backpack and laptop before sliding into the aisle seat next to you.

“I can move over if you want more space.” You offer, already starting to shift to the window seat.

“No, no, you don’t have to move.” He shakes his head, pushing his backpack under the seat and setting his laptop on the tray table.

You can’t help but steal a glance at the screen, seeing that he’s working on song a demo.

“Trying to get a sneak peak?” Chris teases.

You sit back, blushing, “Sorry, couldn’t help it. It’s not like I understand what any of it means...”

“Do you want to listen?” He asks.

“You’d let me?” You raise your eyebrows in surprise.

“It’s a pretty rough demo at the moment and there’s no vocals so I don’t see the harm in letting you hear it,” he holds out his headphones.

You smile, taking them and placing the headphones over your ears. Chris rewinds the track and presses play. It wasn’t what you had expected, much slower, almost sensual. It reminded you of Red Lights a little bit. You could hear where the melody would go and couldn’t wait to find out what the lyrics would be, though knowing Chris it could be years before this song was finished and released fully.

The song ends and you take off the headphones, handing them back to him, “I like it, it’s very you.”

“I think it fits with our style.” He nods.

“I meant you specifically.”

“Me?”

You nod, “Mhm.”

“Why me?”

“You have a very particular… sound, especially for your solo songs.”

“Do I?” He laughs.

“It’s very distinct.” You grin.

“Good to know," he nods, "So, tell me about you.”

“What do you want to know?”

“Why are you heading to Japan?”

“Work trip.” You answer simply.

“What do you do?”

“I’m a photographer.”

“That’s cool, what will you be photographing in Tokyo?”

“I work for a large marketing company and they need pictures of an event they are holding in the city.”

“Very cool.”

Before you knew it, two hours had passed and the captain came over the intercom saying that they were going to begin their descent. Chris started to put away his laptop as you buckle your seatbelt.

You felt your stomach drop as the plane slowly lost altitude and instinctively grabbed for the arm rest, unfortunately for you, Chris already had his arm on it, meaning you grabbed his hand. You pull away quickly, feeling a blush heat your cheeks as you apologize.

“Shit, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to- I just don’t like-”

He cuts off your ramble by taking your hand and squeezing it tightly in his, “Squeeze as hard as you need to.” He smiled gently.

You looked at him, you were surprised but also not at all because this was completely in character for Chris. You were about to say something stupid when the plane dropped again and you sat back in your seat, squeezing his hand hard as you gripped the other arm rest.

The plane landed on the airstrip, Chris didn’t say a word as you continued to hold his hand until the seatbelt sign was turned off. You gathered your things and walked silently off the plane with Chris trailing behind you.

Once you were at the gate you stepped to the side, Chris following suit.

“Uh, thank you… for that. I really appreciate it.”

“Happy to help, a few of the guys don’t really like flying either so I’m used to it.”

“This, uh, this is kind of awkward but can I ask you to sign something? It’s been really cool hanging out with you and I… I don’t know, I want something to remember it by.”

He laughs softly, “As long as you swear I won’t see it on eBay in a few days.”

You giggle, “Cross my heart.”

You pull out the notebook you carry with you and hand it to him with a pen.

“No photocard?” He teases.

“I… I didn’t bring any with me…” You look away as the blush returns to your cheeks.

“I’m just teasing.” He says as he starts to write in the notebook.

He took longer than you expected but after a minute he closes the notebook and hands it back to you, “I would ask for something from you to remember this by but I think the nail imprints on the back of my hand will suffice.”

“I did not grip your hand that hard,” you reach out without thinking and take his hand, inspecting it for marks.

As you let go and look back up at him you see him smiling fondly at you.

“Oh, sorry, I wasn’t thinking-”

He shakes his head, silencing you, “You think too much, sweetheart. You didn't do anything wrong. Maybe I’ll see you around.”

You both wave and he walks off, leaving the airport as you head to baggage claim.

As they find somewhere to sit and wait for your luggage, you open the notebook and find where Chris had signed.

Y/N Thanks for hanging out with me, hopefully I’ll see you around ❤︎ Bang Chan XXX - XXXX use it wisely ;)

He didn’t…

Part 2

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[cerastes]

Monster Hunter World - Drimo Edition

I am going to sum up my thoughts of the pre-post game, base game experience of Monster Hunter World as someone who used to actively dislike Monster Hunter and who, in the last 2 weeks, has had a veritable blast with Monster Hunter World, and who defeated Xeno'jiiva last night. Most of the intended readers for this are familiar with my background, but in case an unrelated reader finds this to be something they'd like to read, a fast and dirty breakdown of my background is that I am in love with fast action games and in true love with FromSoft games, by which I mean not just Soulsborne, but also Armored Core, Shadow Tower and King's Field (and The Adventures Of Cookie & Cream, but that one's not important here), having grown up with FromSoft well before Demon's came out: The first Armored Core for the PS1 is a childhood favorite of mine and my first FromSoft title. I have done speedruns of Dark Souls 1, have cleared DS1, Bloodborne and DS3 in no level up challenges, and DS2 in a no death challenge. This intro is not to stroke my epic gamer penis, rather, it is to contrast this experience with my Monster Hunter experience prior to World: I gave Tri a go, and I did not like it, dropped it fast, then many years later, I gave Rise's demo a try and did Not Jive With It. I am a Complete Noob when it comes to MH. I want to credit @kc5rings for selling me an extremely compelling look into this game franchise I had basically written into my No Flight List and made me want to give it one last, third try. I want to thank @lc87 and @fractalanimus for playing the game with me when the time came to do sidequests, grind out some rare drops, and in general teach me the finer minutia of MH that you only learn through word of mouth, experience, or looking up guides, the last of which I'm allergic to. Three Wonderful People! And I want to thank a lot of different people in my notes through the Posting Of MH World that gave me different useful tips.

Very long post to it'll be under a cut.

The first thing I want to say, after this foreplay, is that to everyone that, through more than a decade, told me "dude you like Dark Souls, play Monster Hunter, you also dodge attacks, you'll like it!", you do not know how to sell your game. These games have a few overlaps, but they are very, very different beasts, they play fundamentally different and dare I say opposite in many regards. The moment I stopped trying to play Dark Souls in Monster Hunter, no, the moment I stopped trying to apply my prior knowledge of nearly all action games in Monster Hunter, was the moment it really started to click that this is more of an action positional turn based game than an action game. In Dark Souls, for example, you and enemies have really good tracking and adjustment, and even in Dark Souls 1, a game slow by the modern standards of the formula, you find speed similar to the fastest in the base World -- I've not played Iceborne -- there is a relation of economy of action and speed of action equals the amount of turns you can take. You take turns in Soulsborne as well, but the way you take and steal them is by knowing your attack speed, how many times you can swing and roll before running out of stamina, and how these factors interact with each of the enemy's attacks. This is reactive turn based action combat, where your main way of staying alive is properly timing your i-frames to the enemy's moves and then not overextending your stamina usage so you can both attack and get ready for the next affront. In Monster Hunter, you have way fewer i-frames, but conversely, both Hunter and Monster are extremely committal in their attacks, there's almost no adjustment, and the relation is instead economy of action and position instead of speed of action: Faster and less positionally important moves are weaker proportional to their convenience (Dual Blades, Bow for example), slower and more positionally important moves are vice versa stronger due to how inconvenient they are (Great Sword TCS). Your main way to evade attacks is to move to where you shouldn't be and not being there; your have a super high i-frame universal option in the sprinting dive, but this is entirely defensive and sacrifices your turn for a very safe move, which is antithetical to the offensive defense MH likes to encourage.

Once it clicked, the combat went from "holy fuck this feels awful to play" to "ohh this makes so much sense", initially there was a certain desperation of me trying to do things Fast because I like playing Fast, but that only resulted in missing attacks nonstop. You don't need to be Fast because nothing is Fast in this game. And just like Dual Blades and Bow, if a Monster is Fast And Its Attacks Are Convenient, it comes with a price tag: Odogaron and Tobi Kadashi are fast! But they are VERY linear, and what few moves they have that swipe or hit horizontally, they telegraph three business days in advance. Odogaron attacks 1 to 4 times in strings depending on its HP, but all you need to do is Move To The Side for the most part. Hunter and Monster follow the same rules, but you have to follow the rules! In fact, the reason Deviljho is so dangerous is because it doesn't follow the rules with its advancing body slam and with the Beat A Motherfucker With A Mother Fucker mode; Body Slam comes out relatively quickly compared to how it makes its entire body because a meteor sized hitbox advancing at you. And even then, it has a tell that gives you enough time to Move Out Of The Way (depending on where it cocks it head before the slam, it swerves left or right, meaning you can dodge towards the side its head is to get out of the way), as for the Holding A Monster, it gets insane and fast horizontal attacks, meaning disarming it is essential (Flash Pod).

Now, the flow of the game felt pretty good, but what I like the most: Scoutflies. For an environment rich in detail, Scoutflies allow you to properly parse the world without needing to strain your eyes by giving you all sorts of useful info and highlighting items of interest in the environment. The more you learn about a monster, the easier they track it for you. This is great, because, personally, I like the Fighting Part of the game more than the Tracking Part of it... But! The breathing living nature of World was still very fun to engage with.

In terms of difficulty, I think the game was pretty tame. It lives and dies by its rules, and I think the postgame will disrupt that with its superbosses and such, but at least the base experience was very strictly tied to the rules of combat. That doesn't mean it's boring, it was incredibly fun! Engaging with the rules per each Monster's needs means not only having to know the rules well, but also to be able to identify where a monster is not following them! So, for example, Odogaron overcommits, Xeno'jiiva has a tool for everything but only mediocre tools, Teostra is strong from the front and back but very weak from the flanks, Nergigante has good attacks but they are all highly telegraphed with high start up, Kirin has insane damage output options but can only land them on Stun, and so on. Just like your weapons diversify how you engage -- and skip some of -- the rules, so do Monsters. It's an incredibly level field between you and the Monster, almost like a fighting game where you can't pick half of the cast and the AI can't pick your half.

Initially, I thought the rhythm of having to grind the fuck out of stuff was going to make me hate it; the thing is, the fights were sufficiently fun for me to not mind doing some Monster fights several times in order to craft the gear I wanted, and this gear didn't need to get replaced often, that's great! However, this does lead to something the game disappointed me with: Weapons. The vast majority of weapons don't look good, and are small variations of the same base model for the tree. Sure, you got your Kirin Bolts and Bazelgeuse Hachets, but the majority is just... Generic weaponry with small modifications. In fact, Xeno'jiiva, the freaking final boss, doesn't get unique weapons! What the actual hell. The armor is great, but man, big fumble on the weapons to be frank!

The story is obviously just there, and the Handler -- I hope on purpose -- legitimately just exists as an entity that gets in trouble for you to see a Monster being dangerous for a while. But I didn't hate it or anything! It's Just There as a wrapper for the Monsters and the Hunters. This is pretty explicit, I think, considering all monster are named yet no human/wyverian is named. The only non-monsters with names are your Hunter and your Palico (Big Al my man). That said, I appreciated the angle of the story! We are a research commission, we are here to Learn Shit and not kill god, because god is part of the ecosystem, it's just Nature. It's Animals. We don't fuck with the environment, except when something has already fucked with it in ways that will be catastrophic to Everyone Involved, so we get involved to Unfuck It. I like that.

Overall, my experience with the game was very positive, and I am happy to have given this game a try. These two weeks have been pretty busy for me, but getting home and carving Odogaron and Deviljho to get those damn parts I am missing (Deviljho Scalp is rarer than Deviljho Gem, the spirits told me) has been a pretty fun activity to destress and beat the fuck out of Monsters with cool moves.

The Thing Is,

I Get It Now.

I get why you like this.

Looking forward to doing the rest of High Rank and then Iceborne and later on playing Rise!

[sophiasharp]

I’m graduating college in like 4 days so I haven’t been able to work on the soulmate au fic as much as I want, so in the meantime I’m gonna get on my “Demo is really capable and smart” bs and throw out the headcanon that Tavish is a polyglot.

Cause Tav is technically Scottish royalty, right? It’s not relevant for most things but like he did likely get a lot of the finishing training that Royal/upper class folks get, and considering all these other countries with unique languages are right there, language training would make a lot of sense.

So fast forward to Tav becoming the Demoman for Red Team and Mann. Co. He is surrounded by some of the best mercenaries from all over the world, each with their own cultural quirks. And even though they mainly speak English at work, most of them have this funny little habit of occasionally falling into their native languages, especially when they don’t think anyone can understand them.

Which means more often than not, when his European team members start spilling their guts to people who they think can’t understand them, it’s usually within his earshot.

And that means he gets all the gossip on the base. All of it.

Scout heckles Medic a bit too much after a game? That’s how Demo finds out Bonk! Is radioactive! Engie uses the wrangler to steal a kill from Spy? Happens to be the same day Demo learned their favorite Texan is a legacy hire! Soldier keeps calling Heavy a dumb commie bastard? What a great time to find out the tap water has lead in it!

Spy, international man of intrigue that he is, also speaks German on top of French. And let it be said that the good Doctor loves to yap. So, every couple of weeks, two out of the three support classes meet late into the night to talk shit in the common room. Demo crashed this meeting the first time on accident, just meaning to steal some ibuprofen from the med bay for the next day’s hangover, but when they didn’t stop upon seeing him, he’s since made a habit of finding reasons to be conveniently within earshot of their hushed discussions. Ah, so THAT’S why Pyro and Engineer are such good friends!

It’s not all rumors, though. Sometimes, if Heavy gets particularly invested in rereading some of his favorite books, he’ll start to read from them out loud, making himself a nice impromptu audiobook for Demo to fall asleep to in the room next door. Later, when Demo overheard Medic start adding “Schatz” and “Bärchen” to his list of nicknames for their mutual Russian friend, Demo found a way to casually bring up the fact that Heavy had an apparent fondness for old fashioned courting, and wouldn’t you know, there’s a Russian ballet troupe performing a few towns over that he might find interesting.

And as for Spy, well. If Demo heard the occasional grumbles about “un démolisseur avec un beau visage stupide,” then it was easy enough to hide his smile and pretend he had no idea what the other man was saying.

[takemealivelh]

spread them open|| l.h.

fratboy!luke

i've been delaying this because it's not that i don't like it, it's more like i think i could've done more with it. i'm posting this and then i'm disappearing for a bit.

Luke and his classmate (self-insert) find themselves in her room late at night after new year's party.

2.3k words

MDNI: fingerfucking, unprotected sex, choking, spanking, dirty talk, you get it lmfao

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you meet luke at one of your friends' gigs. he plays songs with the band he formed during his freshman year in college. he's a junior and you're a senior now. he's in the advanced music theory class, so you share the same class.

at the new year's eve party, your dorm is packed with musicians and friends who attended the show a few hours ago at your college's theater. you catch luke smiling at you with a drink in his hand.

you've been friends for a while. you think he's sweet and emotionally intelligent. he seems older, and more experienced. and he's absolutely gorgeous. "hey," you smile back. it's all it takes for you to end the rest of the night flirting.

"you wanna listen to this demo?" luke asks you when you're outside, taking some fresh air, and alone. "but you can't laugh. it's the first one i ever made." luke's cheeks flush and you think he's adorable. he plays a song about anxiety and fear. and you think that him being this vulnerable with you must mean something. you also show him some of your first productions. he likes them.

midnight strikes and you hug each other. there's quite a bit of flirty tension but neither of you acts on it. then, when it's suddenly four am, it doesn't take long. not after the rest of the party dies down. you two are sat down near the end-of-the-hall window and you say "it's cold." "maybe your room is warmer," he smiles.

when you get there, he asks you if he can play your keyboard. the one between your bed and your desk. you say sure and lay down, feet up on the comforter even though you hate you're wearing these shoes, they're probably gonna stain the whole thing. "i like it," you smile as he plays one last chord and runs a hand through his bleached curls.

"it was shit," luke answers, chuckling awkwardly, leaning back on your desk chair.

"you're too hard on yourself, man."

"maybe," he shrugs. and you both stay silent, staring at each other. you feel the tension building up. you've had a crush on him for months now, ever since you had a dream where you both were dating. went to the beach and everything. luke scratches the back of his ear as if he's coming up with the courage to… do something. you can't really tell what's going on through his head.

"i'm so tired, i can't even take my shoes off," you grin, looking down at your feet. something to alleviate the tight knot in your stomach. he stands up and walks over to you. he doesn't say anything as he undoes the shoelaces and takes your shoes off, dropping them on the floor. "thanks," you smile. feeling him this close is making your head go dizzy. you're not even that drunk. he doesn't seem drunk either.

"can i lay down with you?"

you nod your head.

in no time, luke's beside you. you feel the weight of his body on the mattress and the warmth of his clothes against yours. you both stay silent for another couple of minutes. you don't dare to look up at him, not even when he starts playing with your hair. you feel safe with him, but also horny as fuck. you haven't gotten laid in about a year and the drought has been driving you insane. "hey, i've been meaning to ask you something," he says.

"what is it?"

"can i steal a kiss from you?"

you look up at him, his soft yet playful smile. those baby blue eyes. you don't answer the question, you just close the gap between both your mouths.

making out with luke feels like a fever dream. his texture and flavor, god it's so good. your hand finds the nape of his neck as he cups your face, making you shift your weight and end up on top of him. there aren't too many words. the only sounds in the room are sighs and heavy breaths. they echo around. you pull his hair and a low moan erupts from his lips, making you smile into the passionate kiss. "i wanna fuck you," he finally says, pulling away and looking into your eyes.

you want to burst. you want to cum right now. the way he looks with his tousled hair and that devilish smirk on his lips. "cool." your voice is soft but desperate as you kiss him again. he smiles.

the messy makeout session goes on for, three minutes? an hour? time doesn't feel rational right now. it doesn't exist. it's just this moment, and luke's tongue licking your lower lip, begging for entry. his boner, growing hard. his eyes, growing darker. "i've wanted this since the last show."

"really?" there's both confusion and joy in your voice.

"yeah," his tongue runs down your chin to your throat. licking your salty skin, he seems to be having fun. your college classmate's hands find the hem of your shirt, quickly removing it from your body. you let yourself melt into his movements. "you wore this fucking dress…" his grin against your neck makes your skin bristle. you remember that dress. the blue skin-tight dress you put on for that night. it accentuated your curves and "it made your ass…" he slaps it, "you're a gorgeous view, you know that, right?"

you blush. no man has ever admired your body as much as luke. the way he touches it, both caressing it and being rough with it. pretty sure he's already left a mark on your left asscheek, you bite your lower lip. "mm-hmm." it's a soft affirmative sound. sometimes fake-it-till-you-make-it works.

he chuckles and grips your waist, kisses your lips, and swiftly moves you to pin you down to the bed. hovering over you, he trails down his hand to find you absolutely soaking wet under your panties. you moan a little louder this time. "god, you're tight," he says as a finger slips in and out of your pussy. your walls already throbbing for him. for something bigger. so pathetic. "you gonna let me ruin this body, yes?"

your heart pounds harder in your chest. your breathing becomes irregular. luke looks so ready to ravish you, to absolutely destroy you. it's all you want. "mm-hmm."

"good girl." you both take off your pants, fast, like animals. that's when you see it for the first time. it's big and thick and absolutely beautiful. erect and leaking precum. he catches you staring at his dick and chuckles again, "i know."

you would've never thought luke to be so confident in bed. he's sweet and a bit anxious, so the passionate movements and dirty talk startle you a little. but also, life has been hard lately. you might as well submit to this fucking fratboy, the one that popped into your head every once in a while when masturbating.

"spread them open," he orders as he parts your thighs with a hand adorned with rings. he grips the flesh of your left one so fucking hard that you know the indents will be there till morning. you have no time to catch your breath as his fingers skillfully slide up and down your folds. you cannot stay still for the love of god. your mind's about to shut down and you can't resist it. his fucking smirk as he sees you lose control makes him throb harder. "let go, gorgeous. i got you." his words are sincere and it only takes a second before he penetrates you with three fingers.

"fuuck," you moan out when you feel them inside. your walls already longing for something bigger, yet enjoying how his fingers spread you open even more.

"that's it. let it aaall out."

your moans become strained as he keeps fingerfucking you. you don't know where to focus your attention. his heaven-sent fingers, his fallen-angel lips on your tits -licking sinfully every nipple till they become erect- or the sounds he makes. so animalistic yet so beautiful. your hands fly to his hair and you tug his blond curls, which makes him groan.

"yeah, baby," he hums. pulling his fingers out, luke holds them in front of you, his sweaty forehead and his lustful eyes waiting for you to lick them clean. "taste yourself," he orders, once again. and you do. right now you'd do anything for this man.

he rubs his sticky thumb against your lower lip and you put it in your mouth. his smirk grows wider as he looks at the mess you're making. so filthy. so sinful. your mind doesn't work anymore. and nothing matters. nothing can make you worry right now, not even luke lining himself up -no condom- with your entrance and slowly but surely sliding into your swollen pussy. your lips suck his fingers dry with a moan when you feel his size. his mischievous eyes make you go insane.

"you like that." it's not even a question. of course you love being treated like a fucking ragdoll by him. he can have his way with you. he can absolutely destroy your body and you'll thank him in the morning. he's your master and you'll do unquestionably everything and anything he says. his hand pins you down to the bed by your throat. you can barely breathe but all you can do is smile and roll your eyes to the back of your head. "god baby you make me sooo hard." luke hisses as he begins pulling out, then pushing in at an excruciatingly slow pace. he knows he has you in the palm of his hand.

"more," you beg in a choked whisper.

"more?" he chuckles. "you want more of my cock inside you?" his breath near your ear makes you so fucking soaked that you know you'll have to wash your sheets in the morning. and that's when the thought stops. it comes to a halt when he pulls out and then pushes right back into you with the impetus of a madman. he starts fucking you so hard that all you can hear is the skin slapping on skin. his hips bruising yours, his hand choking you harder. "you want it hard and rough and you want all of me inside you. don't you, girl?"

god, you love it when he calls you that. as a consequence of him hitting a deeper spot, your legs fly open only to then wrap around his waist. his moans grow louder and your whining is so pathetic that the kisses on your mouth feel like sins.

"come on," luke pulls out and it makes you shiver. "come on, on your stomach. ass up," he orders.

and you do what he says. it takes no time for you to turn around and shake your pretty ass on his face. it makes him want to devour you. "fuck, you're gorgeous," his smirk is noticeable in the tone of his voice and you cry out when he penetrates you with four fingers and slaps your asscheek as if it's the most natural thing in the world. "come on," he hisses before pulling your hair with his sticky hand. lining up behind you, luke pushes his fat cock inside your swollen pussy and he yanks your hair. "wanna hear you beg for it."

"please, please," you start to implore, "please, luke. ruin me, make me cum." his laughter echoes in your ears as he slaps your ass again and pushes your head down on the mattress, making it hard for you to breathe. you can even imagine his face right now. red, flushed, sweaty. teeth biting down on his lower lip as he fucks you deep, hard and fast. you can't open your eyes and the pleasure you experience is so fucking overwhelming that you feel your orgasm bubble up in your lower stomach. your walls clench around him and he groans out. it's pure bliss.

"louder, girl." his thrusts are so forceful you can picture the bruises there'll be tomorrow. so you comply and start whining louder even though the sounds are muffled by his hand pressing your head against the bed. "fuck, fuck, fuck," he keeps repeating, holding you down, spanking your ass and fucking you so deep that your brain shuts off. your brain malfunctions and that's the moment you squirt all over his cock, which makes him shoot his cum into you. it's such a stream that fills you up and his guttural moans don't stop while he fucks you through both your orgasms.

his movements become sloppy as he yanks you by your hair one more time, turning your face around and looking for your eyes. his hips stop moving the moment he sees your drool drip down your chin. and he smiles. that devastating trademark smile he has. you are speechless before the fallen angel that's got you wrapped around his finger.

luke chuckles and lets go of you. he pulls out with a hiss and lets himself fall on your bed, on his back, his whole pelvis sticky from all the fluids exchanged. "fuck, that was good. you feel so good," he whispers, turning his face to look at you, absolutely destroyed, lying on your chest. "come on, here." his arm pulls you closer and he lets his eyelids rest as he kisses the top of your head. "you're such a fucking good girl."

"thanks," you can't help but blush, closing your eyes and wrapping an arm around his naked torso. you don't mind all the mess you two have made. you don't mind anything because that orgasm was out of this world. your pussy's relaxed, your mind isn't spinning and all you want is to stay there, against his chest, having him kissing the top of your head over and over.

"happy new year," he grins.

"happy new year."

[prettyboypistol]

What if... stuff that m!reader does/can do that makes the mercs flustered? even if its just making them a little embarrassed i need to know!!!

What You Do That Flusters the Mercs! || TF2 x M!Reader

Scout

He likes watching you socialize with people, you naturally lean on walls and tilt your neck up when you laugh- god damn, you look so hot when you laugh!

For some reason, when you throw things and catch them. He has no idea why it just makes his heart skips a beat.

When you focus and your eyebrows knit together and it deadass just stares at you.

Soldier

DISPLAYS. OF. POWER. Deadlift something. Throw an enemy off a cliff. Threaten a Spy and scare him. Solly will never fucking recover.

Independence and general "coolness" makes Jane stumble over his words! You don't need a man, yet you still ask him to assist you? He feels so honored!

Asking for help casually, like said above. When you extend your hand out to grab something from him it makes Soldier scream internally.

Pyro

The fact that you're kind to people makes them like you. You're sweet and polite and cordial when you want to be. You're not annoying or hard ot read or obnoxious- you're just kind.

When you take your time with things to understand them. They daydream about spilling all their secrets to you.

Protectiveness really flusters Pyro. One time in battle, Pyro was cornered. You slammed the Scouts with a metal pole and growled that "nobody touches our Pyro!". They haven't stopped thinking about that. Nor will they ever.

Demo

Tavish is enamoured with your sense of humor. He loves how you're quick to make a joke and open to laughing at anything.

Can't help but blush when you stare at him. Yeah, half of the times you stare, you're spacing out, but Tavish still looks away and is flushed a pretty deep red.

The joking flirting??? YEAH HE STARTED IT BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU'RE ALLOWED TO BE THAT HOT

Engie

Hard work and general work ethic.

Dell is super insecure about the fact the finds you super hot when you're sweaty. After a battle or working out is when Dell seems to linger around, stealing glances at you.

WHEN. YOU. PRAISE. HIS. INVENTIONS. That replays in his head all week long.

Heavy

He likes to watch you spar with people with stuff like wrestling/boxing, especially when you swing Scout around like a baseball bat.

There was one time where you and Heavy were in a tough spot against the enemy team, down by 4 kills. There was just something in your eye that had a light of fire and determination. Seeing that is how he fell for you.

Cook for this man please he will love you and blush forever.

Medic

CASUAL KNOWLEDGE ABOUT MEDICAL PAPERS AND SCIENTIFIC STUDIES. GOD YES.

Cooing with his birds??? He wants to pick you up and spin you around and kiss you and-

He really likes when you challenge him. You give this confident smirk and your tone shifts that make Medic want to just scream about how handsome you are.

Spy

Spy's a man with refined taste. He likes his men like he likes his wine: aged finely and polished to perfection. He likes when you're classy and get onto the others about acting crass and classless.

If you can dance, Spy absolutely pulls some strings to have you two on a mission where you two are in matching suits and dancing together.

Spy once was muttering to himself in french and you catch him and you just lean over the back of the couch, look down at him with a knowing smile and just respond in french as well "now now, a lady shouldn't scowl like that." He knew you meant it as a playful insult, but he blushed wildly under his mask.

Sniper

Mick's downright horrendously flustered when you make eye contact with him. You're a tad shorter than he is, so you looking up from behind to him makes Mick shake in his boots.

Bro please don't grunt/groan in effort at anything. He will NOT stop thinking about that.

When you accidentally look at him during missions. He's always keeping an eye on you, so when you stare back at him it makes his heart flutter.

[vani-ash]

Hi, I'm new here, I've just discovered Jeff a couple of weeks ago. And now I feel like a teenager again with a celebrity crush 😅

I'm very busy irl and I'm slowly working my way through his acting gigs and music videos. As a Jeff expert, what do you suggest a newbe like me should watch/listen to/read/know? I'm a little confused about all the Jeffs :D

a jeff expert 😭

Hi! Welcome!!! ❤️🥰 I hope you understand by asking this you have given me the opportunity to info dump about this man 😭 I'm sorry in advance but here is a (still very long) basic guide to Jeff Satur :)

Acting

I don't know what you have and haven't watched yet but his main show is KinnPorsche (which you can watch on IQIYI) his character Kim is only a side character though.

There are two series you can watch on youtube

He she It (3 episodes, about 50 minutes all together)

Labeled as a horror but it's not really.

Ingredients the series (21 episodes, each aprox 10-20 minutes)

Cute slice of life series about cooking

He just had a movie come out called The Paradise Of Thorns, it is on Netflix in Thailand (and will probably come to netflix in other country's too eventually) so you either need a VPN or other site to watch it currently

Happy Ending

Jeff is currently in the process of making his own series called Happy Ending.

He has made a pilot for it but it hasn't actually been filmed yet and is scheduled to start filming sometime around the middle of this year, and be out around the end of the year.

Vamp

He is also going to be part of another show called Vamp, Also not filmed yet but scheduled for sometime this year.

Wuju Bakery

This was filmed back in 2023, and was meant to come out the same year and then the date got moved twice, something happened and the company that was making it did some shady things and now its unknown if this will ever actually air, but you can still find bts photos and people often reference this show so I'm going to mention it here.(There is also 40 second trailer)

Call Me By Fire S3

Jeff was also on a Chinese survival show called Call Me By Fire S3 (can be found on youtube, there is english subtitles)

Music Videos/Jeffcest

Jeff has been making music for 10 years, (he used to use the names Jeff the Demo and Jeff Garden if you want to look up any of his earlier songs on youtube)

Due to his whole vibe (and specifically his music video for Ghost, which is actually a two part MV continued in his other song called Yellow Leaf)

People started shipping him with the characters he plays in his music videos. This has been labeled as Jeffcest, and each Jeff is a clone, the clones are each named after their respective song titles unless they already have name, pretty much everything about Jeffcest is fan made.

The most prominent of Jeffcest being a character called Sunshine from the music video Dum Dum. (There are 3 music videos for Dum Dum, Thai, English and an Unchained version)

(Ghost and Lucid are two of the other most used)

Jeff has dressed up as Sunshine during a concert and was also just brought back in Jeff's most recent MV called Ride Or Die. (which only came out 5 days ago)

Sunshine has his whole own lore (not fanmade comes from Jeff) which I wont get into here but if you want me to explain feel free to message me :)

Jeffs most popular song is probably Fade (based on the views, 208 million)

But his other most popular song is probably Why Don't You Stay which is an OST from KinnPorsche. There is a Thai and English version.

All of his MVs have an interesting story line so they're all worth watching at some point.

Some songs Jeff is featured in:

Far - Silvy ft. Jeff

แผลเป็น (scar) - bodyslam ft. Jeff

Steal the Show - Shaun ft. Jeff

จำนน (White Flag) - Nont Tanont ft. Jeff

Other Things

Whenever Jeff preforms, wherever he is, it rains. He got joked to be the son of the rain god due to how often this happened, and for Halloween 2023 he held a contest for people to design him as the Rain God. (Rain God is also often used in Jeffcest)

Acounts

Jeff has his own company/studio called Studio on Saturn

Twitter - Instgram

On the last day of the month this account will post his schedule for the upcoming month letting you know when he has any scheduled events.

This Youtube account often posts fancams of the whole event from most of Jeffs events.

This youtube account posts any Lives Jeff does.

Brands

Space Shuttle No.8

Jeff put out his first album last year and it came with a box set (can no longer be brought but I have photos of the whole thing here :)

Pets

This man has so many cats like 20 something last time i heard him talk about them 😭

(And I don't know where to put this but his fans are called Saturdayss or Sats)

i am so sorry how long this is but I hope this was what you wanted and helped 😭💛💛💛

[blumoontf2]

TF2 Merc Headcanons!

Starting with the Offense Classes!

We’re starting with Scout, Soldier, and Pyro! It’s mostly just rambling… I’m sorry Soldier enjoyers, I love him in the comics but I had no ideas 😭

Scout

All bark but can and will still bite if challenged to.

Inclined to be more reckless but in a heroic sort of way (i.e stepping into gunshot for somebody, or pulling someone away from a bomb).

Scout knows Spy is his Dad but is horribly gaslighting himself to believe he’s wrong (source: read the comics)

Loves celebrating birthdays!!!

ADHD coded

Fidgeter. Fidgets A LOT.

Wouldn’t exactly be a kleptomaniac but I think he would steal a lot from people knowingly and accidentally.

Steals things to fidget with, steals things to use (and forgets to return them until called out)

Can’t cook that well on account of his Mother or Brothers were often the ones to do it.

Good Dishwasher though! (he was forced into the role. He hated it until he was given gloves to use)

Second Youngest in the cast.

Closest to Sniper, Demo and (surprisingly) Spy in a ‘bickering all the time’ way. Also close to Engie in a mentor way.

As much as I LOVE Scout&Pyro friendship… yeah, it would take a couple of months for them to become friends.

Even when friends I think Pyro would still mildly freak him out.

They bond over art though!! :)

Also relatively close with Heavy in a big brother type of way. I imagine he’d be reminded of his brothers back at home, and Heavy by his sisters.

Soldier

I’m sorry, I don’t think about this man very often 😭

Saw a headcanon once that (due to him thinking cardboard cutouts of people are real) he sometimes places his hands on people’s chests just to feel their heartbeat and know they’re a real person.

I took that headcanon and ran (I forgot where I saw it from though I’m sorry 😭)

Very in tune with his state physically. Mentally not so much…

Like Pyro, can be convinced to do anything for a lollipop or sticker.

Pities weak men (and will try to train the American into them)

Weak men include (but are not limited to) the French. The British. Children.

THIS MAN IS SMARTER THAN HE LOOKS. HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS DOING WHEN HE TELEPORTED BREAD FUCK OUTTA HERE!!

Very smart practically. Knows a whole range of survival skills. Can tell the time from the placement of the sun in the sky

Is an INSANE navigator! You’d think you’re getting more lost by the amount of times you pass the same rock but put your trust in this man and he will get you out of a forest before sunset!

I feel like he would fish in his spare time. Not… in a traditional sense though… more like in a Brave when Merida teaches her bear mum how to fish like a bear.

He’s really fucking bad at geography. Can’t distinguish between two different flags. Could not tell you where Poland is on a map. Probably thinks that Russia and America are oceans away even though Alaska and East Russia are brushing tits at their coasts. I’m not saying this in a stereotypical American way, I’m just saying Soldier probably doesn’t remember lots from school.

His name is Jane Doe. Does he have some canon memory loss event wherein he was accounted for as a Doe by a hospital or something? I like to think he was really smart in his childhood then trauma event happened, lost a lot of memory including his identity, became propaganda America to cope.

He’s not very well socialised? It’s not that people hate him, it’s just that he’s… a lot!

Closest with Demoman. Might also be particularly close to medic in a surprising turn of events for they both are rather into physical fitness and health.

Medic and Soldier could probably have lengthy conversations on the best workouts for specific things like leg strength or muscle building.

Would probably talk to Heavy on the same topic like muscle gain and building.

Pyro

Explained their views on fire once by using rainbows and unicorns as a metaphor. In a ‘the oil spills like rainbows and we’re all cherubs to the flame of God’ way.

Told this to Scout who has zero literacy skills to identify these as metaphors. Took it literally. Told everyone else.

People in Red fear Pyro unfairly.

Deeply, personally affected Pyro to be feared with such vigour.

BPD coded Pyro 🥺 as a treat please BPD coded Pyro

Or at least seasonal depression Pyro (my source: projection the comics)

Not in a freaky way or anything but I imagine they’d smell quite nice. Like smokey ash and burnt wood. nice.

Doesn’t like to complicate their life. They know what they like, they avoid what they dislike. They will burn whatever causes discord in their peace!

NUMBER ONE HOLIDAYS CELEBRATOR!

If it’s your birthday best BELIEVE they will be the FIRST to wish you a happy birthday!

Thinks they’re friends with everyone. For the most part, gets along with everyone!

Not everyone gets along with them though… :( (at least at the beginning)

Closest with Engie through work. Close with Demo through chemicals that can be burnt to make fun colours!!

Close with Sniper and Scout because of their ages (and Demo)

Gets along least well with Spy and Medic (for fairly obvious reasons)

[circeyoru]

{Demonic Companion} Reader's Demon Design + What if LK arrives in Hell as well?

To the people that have yet to read {Demonic Companion} and {What If The Lover is A Killer}, major spoilers, so please read those before reading this. Check the Masterlist for the story.

This request can be found in {Demonic Companion _ Part 2}

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@skyxqueen8

Will you be able to do another one where LK goes to hell? I really want to know what’ll happen to LK when alastor finds out LK is in hell. 

Also loved this!!! 🥰🖤🥰🖤

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**Same as before, LK, is the lover with the identity of a killer. But before anything, I’ll start with giving Reader/You a base information on your demon self.

Reader's Demon Design

Demon Title: The Weeping Demon

Demon Species: Demonic Spirit / Ghost Demon

Date of Death: 20XX (as long as it’s a time when technology is quite advanced)

Age of Death: (Adulthood)

Reason of Death: Murdered by LK

Reason to go to Hell: Two reasons. One, when you were young, you summoned a demon, even though you objected to it and advised not to, you still went through with it with your friends. Afterwards, you continued to be the host for the same demon’s return (Alastor able to return to Earth to your side and offer you deals). Two, you were into the paranormal. You have been watching ghost videos and demon huntings, attaching ill-willed spirits and more demons (that Alastor would kill when one’s near you without you knowing). You yourself aren’t aware that these are the exact reasons, you guessed that the demon summoning was the only exact reason and just accepted it since a long time ago

Appearance: Your eyes are pitch back (like Rosie’s and the other cannibals) because your eyes were actually gouged out after death (why do you think Alastor was that offset by your appearance). Wearing what you were having when you were killed during the 1-year anniversary of your relationship with LK, but all torn and deshreveled, like the ends of Alastor coat. As a ‘mark’ of Alastor, more like a lucky charm to instantly know where the other is and teleport to that location, you have a radio dial hair pin in your hair or on your collar

Personality: You’re as charismatic and cheerful as in life, able to approach people with a naive and open mind. But you are perceptive and sharp to manipulation and toxic traits directed at you or people you care for. Your moods can switch pretty quickly, normally, it can switch back the same but it’s not as easy to tell since you’re quite emotionally sensitive. You’re confident and stubborn, but shy if left alone so Alastor is your safe haven and your source of mental boost to be the best you. You are merciful, in a bad way. For example, while you wouldn’t seek revenge outright, you’d be sure the target doesn’t get a good end or when you see Alastor about to devour some demon, you’d suggest that the demons’ screams sounds lovely for his broadcast. You’ve changed to a bit of a wolf in sheep’s clothing, especially when Alastor is around to compare. Think of that meme where you look innocent, but can kill with outsiders and look innocent and is innocent in Alastor’s eyes

Demonic Abilities / Powers:

Your abilities and powers are centered around paranormal, ghosts and the like

Levitation: You naturally hover over the ground without having to do anything, similar to that of a ghost. You can ‘fly’ up, but that would require your concentration. You can also move things without touch, with the wave of a finger in the beginning and later on you can do it with your mind, advancing as Telekinesis

Glitch: You can steal electric power and use it as your own energy (Vox better be careful). Not only that, but you can phase through solid objects without issue when you will it

Invisibility: You can disappear from sight, but people can still feel your aura or sense you near

Chilling Aura: You have a natural cold air around you wherever you go, demons will feel a chill. When your emotions are intense (like in the 2nd spin-off) you have a frail of frost behind you as you travel

Cryokinesis (Ice manipulation): You can create, shape, and manipulate ice, along with freezing water into a solid state (think Elsa, let it goooo)

Possession: You can possess the body of a demon or human (if you go to Earth), even angels. But you must be stronger than them. You can best possess someone when they are unconscious or dead, even better when the person doesn’t have a soul or their soul doesn’t belong to them

Soul Manipulation: You can touch a soul and take it as your own, you’re unable to pass it to another. However, you must be in physical contact with the body of the soul to take it. You can even break contracts, but all you’re doing is shifting the owner of the contract to you, so the contracted soul is still not free. Once you have a soul, you either destroy it to use as your life essence or keep it like in a contract, else the soul will be gone since you can’t return it to the original body

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Now for the actual request

What if LK arrives in Hell as well?

It takes a while and by the time LK does arrive in Hell, you weren’t as shaken by your death and its reason, you’ve also grow a bit dark as you’ve been in Hell a while. Not to mention your boyfriend was the Radio Demon so, you picked up some bad habits. You had a name for yourself as The Weeping Demon since your arrival and first known appearance was you crying while freezing the streets and demons over, but you weren’t among the Overlord ranking 

You’ve also had friends with the other Hazbin Hotel residents, closest with Husk. Everyone was basically on the lookout for LK as well, since you’ve become a soft spot for them all, not as much as Alastor, but yeah, you’re well-protected and sheltered. Everyone got your story with Alastor’s comments and were devastated that you met such a fate

Alastor still remembers his order to his minions to capture LK alive and so does his minions even though it looks like he let it go. His murderous bloodlust is only low because you were there with him and he was focused on courting you properly

It happened out of the blue. LK’s arrival. As expected of a killer, LK was quite to act when realized this was Hell and there was basically no rule not to kill. Alastor passed you over to Husk who got the message to distract you while he was gone. You were none the wiser since you were quite used to Alastor leaving you suddenly, you figured it was duties of an Overlord and he would always bring back a gift or two, so you really didn’t mind

Your engagement gift finally arrived. Oh how Alastor wanted to tie the knot for so long. It was a good thing that you didn’t give Vox any interest when he was trying to pursue you to rile up Alastor, but you saw through that TV. When Vox really wanted to pursue you without alternate intensions, it was already too late. Now that you were his and he was yours, all that’s missing was marriage

In Hell, a marriage is tied till one soul disappears, so it’s basically permanent without breaking. It was to declare that the other was taken and so were you. The ultimate contract. Your little friendship would Lucifer would ensure his presence in the ceremony, and help solidify your marriage with him

Going off track. Alastor watched from the shadows of what LK was capable first. Since your powers were unique and terrifying, ones that can land you an Overlord title but you declined, he figured it was better to be on the safe side. Like a hunter, stalk the prey and watch for the perfect moment to strike. He can afford to take it slow, slow and steady wins the hunt

LK was rather ruthless and violent, a crazed smile on the face as body after body fell from the newly earn demonic powers. It seems the shackles that bound LK on Earth was what kept LK somewhat sane and normal from suspicion. That was what tricked you to your untimely death

When Alastor deemed that there was nothing to cautious about, he stepped out of the shadows and approached the raging LK and the masscre. “Greetings! My fellow hellish soul!”

LK turned around, raising a brow, “And who are you?”

“Alastor! I’d say it was a pleasure, but it really isn’t considering your actions to my beloved.” Alastor’s eyes narrowed as he glared dangerously at the smaller demon with his smile stretching too wide to be considered welcoming

“The ****. I don’t even know you. We just met.” LK rained back with a look of disgust

Ah, modern people and their rudeness. How did LK get you to crush on them for so long until the unthinkable happened? It really irked him. But he’ll blame it on his denial and wrong timing. Alastor laughed, “Oh we’ve met! Surely you forgot since time has passed and you’ve only met me that one time. Here, I’ll give you a hint.”

Shifting into a human form, Alastor revealed the biggest twist. Alastor watched with a sickly glee as LK’s face turned to shock and fear. “You’re… You’re that…”

“Ah, what was the modern term you youngsters use? Third wheel? Lightbulb? Hahaha, no matter! No longer am I fit for those terms. Your lovely lover and victim is now mine.” Alastor laughed as he swirled with his staff. “Oh you poor poor soul.”

LK growled back, “What’s that have to do with me then? You want a rematch? I bet [Reader] only went for you because I killed her, if I didn’t—”

“Oh, but you did. Broke my darling’s poor heart.” Static rose to a deafly tune as Alastor’s form shifted to a more demonic one. “You never should have had the pleasure of taking up my dear’s time.”

After Alastor had his fun, he took the long route back to the hotel, his shadows dragging behind the body of LK that’s still alive but too exhausted and traumatized to do any struggling

When you heard the hotel door open and the sound of static, you immediately floated over to Alastor and greeted him with a tight hug that Alastor returned as well. You quickly peeked over to see what was in the shadow’s gasps. “What’s that?”

“Ah.” Alastor let go of you and sharped his claws before, plunging it into LK’s chest and ripped the beating heart out. Alastor kneeled down and presented it to you, “My dearest love, I’d offer you my heart but I’m afraid you’ll reject the offer, so I give you a suitable substitute. The heart of one LK.”

Your eyes widened as you doubled back to the body. For better or worse, demons can’t be killed unless it was an angelic weapon, so you were positive that LK was suffering greatly with this act Alastor was putting on. You turned your attention back to Alastor, a red dot appearing in your black eyes to show your intense focus

Alastor grinned, as he sang, “My dear, if you’ll have me.” His shadow appeared and took your hand, afraid he’d dirty you with the blood of that filth, the shadow copy of Alastor smile and held up an open box that made you gasp. “Will you be mine and I be yours? For all of eternity.”

You giggled, a laugh so familiar to when you were alive, and threw yourself at Alastor, making him drop the heart to cradle you. “A thousand times, infinity yes!”

Alastor got up and dipped you down after a twirl and placed a kiss on your soft lips. “Mine.”

You smiled back, “So are you.”

Bonus!

Angel: So what do we do with this body now?

Husk: It’s still breathing

Vaggie: Throw it out?

Pentious: Slave for the hotel?

You: No need, we can handle it (smiling innocently) I’ve been wanting to want how to use a shotgun and Alastor’s teaching me. LK’s size is perfect for target practice

Everyone (except Alastor and you): (shiver)

Alastor: Oh, isn’t my beloved charming?

Everyone (except Alastor and you): Match made in Hell…

Note: I nearly forgot about this request since it's not in the inbox area.

Circe Y.

[komatsudaya]

Getting to Know: Komatsuda Shuusaku

This is (what I hope is) the first in a series of posts dedicated to showcasing different characters, groups, committees, etc. in Nintama so that anyone who's interested in knowing more about them has a bit of a starting point. There's a ton of characters to learn about in Nintama, so sometimes it can be difficult to figure out which episodes to watch.

I will, perhaps unsurprisingly, be starting with Komatsuda Shuusaku. This post contains an overview of Komatsuda's history and personality along with a selection of episodes that provide a well-rounded picture of him as a character. I'm hoping this will be a good intro to those who don't know much about him and a nice refresher for those who already do.

This post cites both the Nintama Rantarou anime and the Rakudai Ninja Rantarou manga.

Komatsuda Shuusaku, sixteen years old, is the second and youngest son of the Komatsuda family of folding fan artisans and sellers. His older brother, Yuusaku - who has taken over the family store Komatsudaya at the age of nineteen - characterizes Komatsuda as having always done things "by halves" and never following through (vol 35, pg 47 and ep 13-05). We've never been told anything about his childhood, but it's likely he spent parts of it helping at Komatsudaya, as he always comes back to help with the store during school breaks (vol 65, pg 15).

At some point in his youth, he became interested in ninja and learning ninjutsu. Yuusaku paid Komatsuda's way through the private ninjutsu school in town - an expensive undertaking, so the Komatsuda family must be rather well-off (vol 32, pg 87 and ep 31-30). Komatsuda graduated with a third-level ninjutsu certificate (vol 28, pg 235 and ep 09-20), though his current skills don't quite reflect his education; he's on par with 1-Ha when it comes to ninjutsu.

After receiving his certificate, he set out to find employment as a ninja. In his first appearance in the series, he infiltrated Ninjutsu Academy to attack it as part of Dokutake castle's employment exam (vol 19, pg 79 and ep 04-82). He'd been vaguely aware of Dokutake's bad reputation, but once he ran into 1-Ha and they showed him just what evil Dokutake gets up to, he gave up on joining them.

We don't know exactly what he got up to after that incident. Perhaps he continued seeking out ninja work; perhaps he returned home to help with the store again. Some time later he ended up as the newest employee of Ninjutsu Academy (vol 21, pg 211)*. He joined the staff as a clerk, with some of his duties including paperwork, taking care of equipment, and getting people to sign in and out whenever they come into or leave the school.

If I had to sum up Komatsuda's personality, I might go with "in his own world." In some ways, Yuusaku's description of him as doing things by halves still rings true. He naps on the job (eps 14-40 and 16-97) and immediately goes off the clock as soon as the bell sounds at the end of the day (vol 27, pg 204). He can be easygoing to a fault: his reaction to someone saying he's a bother is to smile and say with a little laugh, "I didn't know! So I was being a bother"(ep 17-05). When Dokutake ninja come to spy on Yamada-sensei, he happily lets them - and even brings them bento (ep 22-53). "It's frightening how out in left field this boy is," someone said of him (vol 22, pg 111).

These traits, as well as his poor ninjutsu skills, often have people telling him that he isn't suited to be a ninja. However, there's one thing he does have that would make him a good ninja, and that's tenacity. When he falls, he gets back up. No matter what happens, no matter what people say and no matter what setbacks he faces, Komatsuda has never fully given up on his dream of becoming a ninja.

He also tends to see the best in people and situations. Demo Shikanosuke, a ninja who's vying for Komatsuda's position, tries time and time again to steal Komatsuda's job in underhanded ways, but Komatsuda never thinks poorly of him. When told that Demo purposely tripped him to make him look bad, his response is simply, "No way! Demo Shikanosuke would never do something like that" (ep 32-66). This sort of harmonious attitude is why Komatsuda has kept his job in the first place. Unlike Demo, who everyone thinks has a rotten personality, Komatsuda almost never does anything to hurt others and gets along with everybody - a trait that's more valuable than ninjutsu or clerical skills.

That's not to say he's always all smiles. In some ways, he can be incredibly stubborn and pushy. For example, his fervor for getting people to sign in and out of the school is unmatched; he'll chase after people, cling onto them, take bombs and beatings just to get a signature. He can also be petty and childish, such as when he chased Hemu-Hemu all across the school because Hemu-Hemu laughed when he fell down (ep 26-13), or when he got mopey about the students ignoring him (ep 11-04).

The adjective most associated with Komatsuda is "heppoko" - untrained, incompetent, good-for-nothing - and it's not entirely unearned on his part. From scattering stacks of papers across the floor to spilling tea to sending out invitations to all the wrong people, there's little as a clerk that he's actually good at. When he does his job right, it's usually because he does things by the books. However, being Komatsuda, he sometimes takes things to the point of absurdity: he'll let in an intruder and show them around the school as long as they sign in (ep 18-58), will ignore any enemy until they hit the invisible threshold of what he considers the school grounds (ep 23-34), and even makes animals sign in and out of the school (ep 15-19).

However, there's one thing he's more skilled at than anyone else: sensing and chasing down people trying to get in or out of Ninjutsu Academy. Whether they're going over or under the school walls, he'll be there as fast as his legs can carry him. If someone doesn't sign the entry or exit form and he senses them, he'll chase them down to the ends of the earth - into the ocean if he has to (vol 29, pg 234 and ep 10-05). His skills were even acknowledged by the Dokutake ninja, who used him as an alarm system when they'd taken over Ninjutsu Academy (30th anniversary special). This talent has earned him a variety of nicknames, such as Ninjutsu Academy's Sidewinder (vol 36, p65)**, their Terminator (vol 28, pg 234), and their Ultimate Weapon (vol 26, pg 234 and ep 22-67).

That's it for the overview - onto episode recommendations!

*It's possible that the why and how of Komatsuda getting his job at the school is explained in the anime, but the episode(s) in which he's reintroduced as clerk are currently unavailable to me so I can't know for sure. **A reference to the AIM-9 Sidewinder, a heat-seeking missile. In the anime adaptation of this chapter (ep 13-26), his nickname was changed to "Demon Pursuer" (鬼の追跡者). However, he was later called Sidewinder in the anime in ep 23-23.

Recommended Episodes

For convenience, I've put all the episodes together here (except the three episodes which have been translated - 28-48, 31-30, and 32-62 - where I've linked to the subber's page).

Most of these entries contain spoilers for the episode in question, as almost none of them have been translated and I want as many people as possible to be able to understand the plots.

Introductory episodes:

04-82 "RanKiriShin Get Angry" (乱・きり・しん怒るの段) His very first appearance. While quite different than his current incarnation, this episode gets you acquainted with his backstory, and it's interesting to look back on. Technically a two-parter, as his story continues into episode 04-83, "It's Finally Summer Vacation" (やっと夏休みの段).

13-05 "Yoshino-sensei's Home Visit" (吉野先生の家庭訪問の段) This episode has a little bit of everything, making it a good introduction to Komatsuda's character. It introduces us to his brother, shows off his poor ninjutsu and clerical skills, and showcases his odd way of thinking. Additionally, it lets us see his cheerful, caring attitude, as well as how he and the staff feel about each other.

Episodes that show off his personality and skills:

09-05 "Komatsuda-san's Talent" (小松田さんの素質の段) Komatsuda and RanKiriShin visit Daisankyoueimaru at the ocean, where Komatsuda saves him from drowning (Komatsuda had excellent swimming skills, but these seem to have been forgotten in later seasons). Daisankyoueimaru says Komatsuda has the talent to be a pirate, which gets Komatsuda dreaming. However, when he learns that Daisankyoueimaru can't swim and is still aiming to be a pirate anyway, he reflects on his own aspirations. "I may not have the talent to be a ninja," he thinks, "but it's so much fun to work as the school's clerk. It's okay if I'm not talented, as long as I enjoy my work every day." Komatsuda can always find a silver lining.

17-89 "The Master Komatsuda Shuusaku" (名人小松田秀作の段) The sixth-years are all showing off their ninjutsu to appeal to prospective employers who have come to visit. To Komatsuda's surprise, one of those employers scouts him - not as a ninja, but for his intruder-detecting and detaining skills, as the castle's princess keeps sneaking out. Komatsuda arrives and does his job well: he keeps going even after being bombed and chases the princess as she digs her way out of the castle grounds. However, Komatsuda's stubbornness and fervor take over, and soon he's making sure nobody leaves - not soldiers nor cats nor even mice. In the end, he's returned to Ninjutsu Academy. Komatsuda is the kind of person to take a direction literally and commit his all to it.

21-72 "Don't Throw Your Dreams Away" (夢を捨てるなの段) Yoshino, Komatsuda's direct supervisor, is worried because Komatsuda has been even more absent-minded than usual. It turns out he's been thinking and has decided he's not cut out to be a ninja. However, the always steadfast Komatsuda has a plan - if he can't become a ninja, then he'll just become the best clerk that he can possibly be. Unfortunately, this causes even more problems. In the end, he goes back to being his normal self and continues to dream of being a ninja. Komatsuda normally doesn't get down on himself, even when he's yelled at or reprimanded, so I enjoy the rare moments where he's introspective.

22-67 "Ninjutsu Academy's Secret Weapon" (忍術学園の秘密兵器の段) While showing around a ninja looking to scout students, Komatsuda relishes the chance to be scouted as a ninja himself - but, after much inner debate, decides he shouldn't. Komatsuda is aware and humble about his own lack of ninjutsu skills, even showing the scout how bad he is at throwing shuriken - but the scout is convinced Komatsuda is downplaying his abilities and is actually an amazing ninja. When he returns to his castle and his lord looks up Komatsuda's name, he finds that Komatsuda is described as "Ninjutsu Academy's ultimate weapon" (perhaps acquired as rumors of his intruder-catching skills spread?). The scout returns to tell Komatsuda of this nickname, and Komatsuda gets fired-up, returning to his job with new vigor… only to fail as usual. Komatsuda is confident in himself, enough to engage in flights of fantasy, but he's also aware of his strengths and weaknesses.

27-67 "Mail-Order Ninja" (通販の忍者の段) Makaino-sensei of Dokutake orders the wrong item and ends up getting Komatsuda sent to him instead of the vegetable komatsuna. A good example of how silly (and cute) Komatsuda can get, especially when he has a straight man to play off of. He takes an already absurd situation and his naturally unusual thought process makes it even more absurd.

Episodes focusing on his relationships with others:

School staff:

The staff is most often seeing yelling at, berating, or just being baffled at Komatsuda. However, beneath all that, everybody at the school cares for him in their own way - or else he would've been fired long ago.

30-12 "What's 'Normal'?" (普通ってなんだ？の段) RanKiriShin find Yoshino watching Komatsuda from a distance. RanKiri say maybe Yoshino is too strict, but Shinbei insists Yoshino is just keeping an eye on Komatsuda. Yoshino doesn't hate Komatsuda; he criticizes Komatsuda because he wants Komatsuda to become "an excellent clerk - no, an excellent human being." It turns out that Komatsuda hasn't been his usual clumsy self lately - and this worries Yoshino so much that he ends up collapsing. When they ask Komatsuda, it turns out he'd been to a shrine recently, and that's why he hasn't been clumsy. When all of them go to the shrine, Komatsuda rings the bells - and they end up falling on Yoshino's head. Yoshino chides him, and Komatsuda, with a blush on his face, says it's been awhile since Yoshino scolded him. Ninjutsu Academy is kind of like a big family, with episodes like this emphasizing the bonds all the employees share.

31-05 "Ninjutsu Academy's Specialty" (忍術学園名物の段) Hemu-Hemu and Komatsuda tend to work well together (they have that same kind of breezy attitude), but Hemu-Hemu can also bring out Komatsuda's more childish side. In this episode, Komatsuda decides to go on a journey to train to be a ninja, and it's decided that Hemu-Hemu will take over Komatsuda's job. But when Hemu-Hemu excels at it and is called the school's specialty, Komatsuda gets jealous and instantly declares that he's the school's specialty and won't give up that title to anyone. It's not even the first time he's tried to compete with this dog… (see also ep 23-34).

His brother:

Yuusaku is a kind older brother who some might say babies Komatsuda a bit, and Komatsuda refers to Yuusaku as his "pride and joy" (ep 28-48). They're usually affectionate with each other, but there are times when they don't see eye to eye.

28-48 "Komatsuda Brothers Taken Prisoner" (とらわれた小松田兄弟の段) [Subbed by Tasogaredoki Jou] When Komatsuda returns home to help with the store, he finds that Yuusaku has been kidnapped by the Dokutake ninja so they can force him to make fans for them to use ninjutsu with. Never fear, for Komatsuda is off to rescue him! An excellent example of their love for each other, as well as how understanding Yuusaku is of Komatsuda.

31-30 "Loved By Everyone" (みんなに愛されているの段) [Subbed by Tasogaredoki Jou] After Komatsuda says he's on par with elite ninja when it comes to tracking intruders, Yuusaku visits the school to put Komatsuda's skills to the test. When Komatsuda doesn't perform as expected, Yuusaku decides to take Komatsuda back to Komatsudaya. This episode lets us see the friction that Yuusaku has between treating Komatsuda like a child and treating him autonomously.

Rikichi:

Rikichi and Komatsuda are like oil and water - except Komatsuda doesn't realize it. Komatsuda looks up to Rikichi's skills and gets along well with him, while Rikichi's anger at Komatsuda's shenanigans goes right over Komatsuda's head. Despite this, Rikichi still tends to treat Komatsuda with a level of respect (albeit sometimes begrudgingly).

30-56 "Rikichi's Day Off" (利吉の休日の段) On his day off, Rikichi runs into Komatsuda while walking around town. Convinced that Rikichi is actually on the job, Komatsuda asks Rikichi if he could watch him so he can learn to be a ninja. And so begins an inadverdant game of hide-and-seek as Rikichi tries to get away from Komatsuda. This episode is a microcosm of their relationship: the casual and close way Komatsuda interacts with Rikichi, Komatsuda's inability see how irritating he can be to Rikichi, and the way Rikichi always gets pulled into Komatsuda's pace.

32-62 "Testing My Patience" (イライラするの段) [Subbed by Tasogaredoki Jou] In addition to his normal spiel about how Komatsuda should give up on being a ninja, Rikichi specifically tells him that people like him are the first to die on the battlefield - potentially a look into why Komatsuda's naivity incurs Rikichi's wrath, as Rikichi has probably seen enough starry-eyed teens go to war unprepared and end up killed. This episode also has a rare instance of Rikichi respecting Komatsuda for his character and giving a genuine smile. Includes the line "Just looking at you annoys me!" (イライラするんだ君を見ていると!) - a staple in fanwork with Rikichi and Komatsuda ever since its first appearance in volume 32 of the manga.

If you've made it to the end - thank you! I hope that even just reading through everything here has left you with a better appreciation of the depth of Komatsuda's character. If you have any comments, suggestions, or corrections, I'd love to hear them!

Interested in more episodes with Komatsuda? You can consult my chart which lists all (currently) known appearances of him in the anime. Please also feel free to direct any questions or discussion about Komatsuda my way!

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出門票にサインおねがいしま～す！

[wings-of-ink]

Okay don't know if this has been asked.

I feel like i always start my asks to you this way but you get alot of em so!

Okay. Saaaaayyyyy MC was hiding a engagement ring the ROs found accidentally because they are a bunch of silly babies.

How would the ROs feel about this. Obviously in the relationship stage because otherwise that would be hella weird. 🤣

Hey, I can't blame you for that, we have so many asks floating around here, it's crazy. Don't ask how many pages I'm up to…It's nearly as long as the demo, lol. I don't think your question has been asked yet! At least that I can find or remember!

Oswin:  He immediately slams shut whatever cabinet or drawer he just found it in. He pauses a moment and then peeks in again, slowly, as if the ring will jump out to bite him. He shouldn't be doing this, he slams it shut again and walks off. He cannot get his mind off of it no matter how hard he tries. Guilt tugs at him. Should he confess about what he accidentally found? Would that ruin the surprise?

Zahn:  Has no clue what they're looking at. "Ooh! Pretty ring!" is all they think. There's a high chance of them taking the ring to MC and being like, "Look what I found! Can you believe this was just tucked away in a drawer!?" MC might wanna go ahead and ask…

Duri:  Ooooh, this is so shiny…it looks important. *looks around* I should hide it somewhere… *giggling* MC will run to me to help them find it. And when I find it they'll reward me and croon about how wonderful I am… *Looks at the ring really hard, still not realizing what it's for* This would look pretty on me…

Rune:  They almost don't believe it, but what else could it be? They're in shock for a bit and may just freeze as they stare at it. A big smile plasters on their lips and they struggle to school it and tuck the little treasure back in where it was. Rune can't get their mind off it after that and they keep finding that they are smiling wide and unable to control it.

???:  *Slips it on his finger and admires it* "Damn, they're good…I wonder how they'll ask…I hope it's soon." It's hard for him to put the ring back and he's tempted to go off and get the exact same one for MC and propose first…but for once, he doesn't want to make a joke of it. Instead, he'll go off and go steal some cuddles from MC.

Thank you for the ask, my dear! ^_^

[maleyanderecafe]

Pretty Boy Panic (Visual Novel)

Created by: Bingzi

Genre: Horror/Otome

This game, as many, is still in it's demo state and it's actually created by the same person who made Pocket Lover. Currently, there is only one route available, which is Li, one of the MC's neighbors, thought there is a bit of another boy Tao, who is currently still in the development that's in the game. There are three ending so far and a guide. It's not too long of a game, but it does bring up yandere elements.

The story starts out with the Tan Xin waking up and being annoyed because of their neighbors who are being loud. They haven't slept well in a while because of them and the sounds range from lewd to suspiciously like murder. Tan Xin works in marketing with their friend/neighbor Kelly. Their boss (who just got a promotion) has been very tough on Tan Xin, making them pick up his extra work, much to their dismay. While going home, Tan Xin is extremely tired and has the option to kick one of the neighbor's doors in frustration and out comes Li, a surprisingly handsome neighbor. Tan Xin vents about how loud the neighbors are, and though most of it seems to be a different neighbor's fault, Li promises not only to talk about keeping the noise down but also buying the Tan Xin's food. After going to sleep, Tan Xin notes that it feels as if someone is watching them sleep. Tan Xin wakes up the next day to hang out with Li and while talking sees a beat up neighbor come out. It turns out he had quite a stern "talking" to by Li. Li and Tan Xin go to someplace sweet to buy food and the two talk about themselves- like Li's job and hobbies. After a while Tan Xin develops a crush on Li and sees him bringing boxes into his room. If you offer to help carry them, he snaps at Tan Xin before apologizing- as it seems there are some important computers in there. Tan Xin gets sleepier and sleepier as the days go by and even starts to lose things. One particular day, Kelly has to wake Tan Xin up before they oversleep and they head to work. Kelly asks Tan Xin to write James up for workplace harassment and the two go back. Li sees both of them coming back and asks the MC if they could start dating since they like each other. He says yes on the condition that Tan Xin stop talking to Kelly. The next day Kelly seems to have moved or gone on vacation (sure, that's what happened lol) and Li invites them into his house. There, Tan Xin notes a weird smell and while looking around, finds the dead body of Kelly. After finding out, Tan Xin finds out just how yandere Li is (stealing the MC's teeth and getting jealous). There's an option to tackle him, but either way the MC gets tased and taken into Li's home. There are a couple of other endings, one where Li breaks up (?) with Tan Xin because they don't have much in common and one where Tan Xin doesn't even confess and gets tased anyways.

If Tan Xin decides to not kick on the door, they will wake up the next day to find Tao as he gets slapped by another woman. As Tao cries, Tan Xin tries to comfort him and they start talking. Upon going to bed, Tan Xin ends up getting a call from James about the fact that they need some work done, promising to get them a good word so that they can get a promotion. The passing week is a big pain for Tan Xin, either having to work extra because of the project that James gives them, or are being forced to do extra work for refusing James. To take a break, Kelly brings Tan Xin to a bar, and ends up having to talk to one of her friends there, leaving Tan Xin alone. There, she interacts with the lady that slaps Tao, which can result in her letting it pass or flipping her off. Either way, Tan Xin ends up drinking a lot, leading to them talking to Kelly and Tao as he seems to be at the bar as well. There is a decision on whether or not Tao should bring Tan Xin home or if Kelly should, with the two compromising and both bringing them home. Tao ends up giving Tan Xin a piggy back ride and they end up sleeping at Tao's place, which slowly builds Tao and their relationship together. Later on though, Tan Xin learns that both Games and Kelly have died, with someone leaving their body parts all over the place. While going home, Tan Xin walks in on Tao and the lady from before hugging. Tan Xin runs off, devastated, but Tao runs after them, reassuring them and talking to them about how much they mean to him.

In the good ending, Tao and Tan Xin end up living together as a couple, but Tao ends up suggesting that the two of them move after learning about Kelly and Jame's death as he wants them to be safe from the serial killer.

In the normal (?) ending, Tan Xin notices a strange smell in Tao's place and looks around, only to find the lady amputated and dying. They try to help her, but Tao ends up knocking them out, only to wake up to having lost limbs just like the other lady.

In the bad ending, Tao ends up knocking Tan Xin out after the talk at the end and wakes up to Tao cutting off their arm. He mentions that now that they've lost an arm, they can be with him, unlike another girl that he seemed to be projecting onto them.

If Tan Xin goes back to their room and wakes up much later, they will end up meeting Hu, a college student that is working at tech, though he wishes to do something else. Hu apologizes for making noise and talks about his hobbies about pictures, and later offers to buy them lunch in response to them making noise. They end up going to eat at the same place that Li goes in his route and the two of them get a parfait. We find out that Li and Hu are actually brothers, catching the two talking to each other in the hallway. While at work, Tan Xin has to make James a coffee, which ends up with James eating glass and bleeding to death. Hu ends up following Tan Xin around, taking pictures of them while they sleep.

The two endings that are a bit similar are Hu and Tan Xin meeting under the cherry blossoms (after hiking for a bit, I believe), though in one ending if their affection is lower, Tan Xin will tell him that he doesn't want to have a relationship with him, while the other they simply just hike together.

In the bad ending, Tan Xin and Li talk for a bit, but Hu ends up catching them and kidnapping him. He ends up chaining them when they go out for classes, feeding them sweets to sustain them.

This game has a bit of spelling errors, but other than that it's a pretty good start. While I do think that I currently like Pocket Boyfriend a bit more since it has more elements of horror, I do think that Li himself has some good potential as a yandere. I think it's pretty neat seeing Li slowly cause Tan Xin to drift deeper and deeper into sleep as well as steal Tab Xin's molar (which is... a weird thing to steal and shrug off to be honest). We also see that he's pretty jealous, not only killing Kelly but also beating up our other neighbor for being too loud. It's very likely a lot of his "computer" hobbies are more of a cover up, considering how he reacts when Tan Xin asks to help carry boxes for him. It makes me wonder if he will get rid of James as well if Tan Xin asks him too considering that he is the source of a lot of the Tan Xin's problems. It's weird to me that there's a "bad ending" where Li doesn't see Tan Xin as someone datable and yet still tasers them in the end. It's actually comedic in a strange way, and it makes me wonder when Li started falling for Tan Xin in the first place.

Tao I feel like I have mixed feelings of as well, considering that he is a playboy but he also cries a lot. I generally am not as big of a fan of playboy characters in games, but I do really like crying. This is such a pain. In any case, Tao seems to be a projecting yandere, where he is trying to replace Tan Xin with another girl (as I remember), though we don't actually get to see who she is or what she even looks like. He also murders both James and Kelly, presumably for getting too close to the MC as well as the lady he was seeing at first. Still I don't really understand or know why he ended up meeting her again near the end since it's not really explained what they were doing together, which kind of put me off with his character. Still having a playboy type yandere is a pretty bold move regardless, so I think that it does deserve some props. Really wish we knew about his previous obsession though since I think it would really shine more into his backstory.

Hu despite being the youngest and most harmless of the yanderes actually probably has the worst ending out of all of them considering he basically kidnaps and keeps them in his studio. I do like the description on how Tan Xin struggles when they are captured by Hu though since you can really feel the hopelessness of it. I think it's also cool that Hu mimics a lot of things from Li's route since they both go to the same sweets shop and both stalk Tan Xin for a bit, though in different ways. It makes a lot more sense when you know that the two of them are brothers and that Li is actually helping Hu with getting along with Tan Xin. I think it adds a bit more of a layer to it considering that we kind of understand where Hu is getting a lot of his advice from. I think for that reason, I quite like Hu's route.

I played this first when it originally was just Li's route, so some of the opinions here might be a bit dated. I think that it's impressive they were able to finish a game with three different yandere love interests, since that's not a common thing nowadays, with all the demos. Still I think while it is great that it's a finished game with multiple routes, there could be some polishing done as well. I feel like since Li's was the first route made, he's actually one of the more weaker writing characters, where I feel like Hu is probably one of the better ones because he's more recent, so if the creator ever goes back to rewrite the other routes, I think that Li's route could probably be more expanded on. I also think that Tan Xin's name is kind of funny because it basically means like greedy in Chinese (assuming I'm using the right characters), which kind of is how you can view them considering they have like three yanderes after them. Kelly is the best character though, she stays by our side through thick and thin.

Overall, not bad for a full game, especially since it had a bit of development time. It's often rare to see a full game for yanderes now a days since currently most of them are currently in a demo state. I am curious to see if this creator will make anymore yandere games in the future that I'd like to cover.

[wisteriaiswriting]

Chill and Laid Back, Hippie S/O

Words: 503

Request: Can I suggest Soldier and Spy with a chill and laidback hippie s/o or crush? I think this person will be very different from their usual type and that they both might be a bit confused by this :)

Used crush for Soldier and S/O for Spy.

Anon, you are so right, a chill, laidback hippie isn’t someone he would’ve ever liked as a ‘TRUE BLOODED AMERICAN!’ In his words.

At first it’s very highly likely that he hates your guts, claiming that ‘You aren’t American enough’ especially compared to him.

But all he needs is to spend some more time with you, which has him get used to you.

As long as you still fight in all of the battles he’ll be fine, moving you out of, what he thinks is the ‘classic hippie’ stereotype. (And that is a huge step with him.)

For the longest time this man will be fighting in an internal battle with his feelings, and was losing from that start. Absolutely cannot fathom why he feels like this, and for you??

In the end, he was convinced by Demo to confess, and he is surprisingly straight forward about his feelings.

If you have plants, don't let this man care for them in the slightest. They will die in the first few days, or even hours somehow, but he’ll make up for it by buying (stealing) more for you

Cannot understand any of your lingo, so you’ll have to teach him. But most of it goes in one ear and right out of the other, there might be a lucky few that stay in his brain though.

He kinda likes the fashion sense. (On you, you're very special to him.)

If he’s being honest here, people like you (Hippies) were never his first choice for a partner, but you were too good looking to pass up.

Give him some time to get used to how you do things, it won't take him long but give him that time.

Do you smoke? You do? Great, the two of you can spend some time together in his smoking room. And depending on what you smoke he might be willing to share with you.

If not? That's perfectly fine, there's more things you two can do. Just hopefully you can deal with the smell of smoke, and just smoke in general as he won’t stop his own.

Will pay for most if not all of your clothing, at your request, he’ll find some more ‘sustainable’ brands. (Which isn’t alot in the 1960s but he makes it work.)

One of the better plant dads, just doesnt have many of his own so you can never see his full potential. But when you come back every single one is flourishing.

Doesnt really understand your lingo but is more willing to learn even if it’s highly likely he won’t use any of them.

Actually doesnt hate your music, (Whether you make some or just listen) he just won't go out of his way to listen to it as he prefers his own type. But if you’re listening to it he won't change it and will listn with you.

Is really glad that you’re laid back and chill, opposed to his current teammates. So you’re a very welcome change in his life.

[pompomqt]

Journey to the West Chapter 60

Princess Iron-Fan welcoming home the Demon Bull King like:

Welcome back to this week's chapter of Journey to the West with @journeythroughjourneytothewest. This week we finally get to meet the infamous Bull Demon King we've been hearing so much about. So let's get into it shall we?

We start this chapter off with the Mountain Deity from last chapter giving us some backstory information. When Monkey asks if the Bull Demon King is the one who set the mountain on fire, the Mountain God is hesitant to correct him, but correct him he does. It turns out that Sun Wukong is actually the one who set the mountain ablaze. Despite the fact that I already have 'arson' listed on his rap sheet, Monkey takes offense to this accusation. However, back during his troubled youth when Monkey was finally captured by heaven and placed in Laozi's brazier, when Monkey made his grand escape he knocked a few of the fiery bricks to earth and well... the rest is history. The fire has been roaring ever since. And the Mountain God who used to be the worker who tended to the brazier, was blamed for the incident and banished to look after this mountain.

All that's well and good, but Monkey still doesn't know what any of this has to do with the Demon Bull king, so the Mountain God explains further. Turns out that the Demon Bull King is the husband of Princess Iron Fan, however the two are currently separated, since the Bull Demon King decided to move in with his mistress. A rich fox demoness, who used the fortune her deceased father left her, to use as a dowry to convince the Bull Demon King to leave his wife and come protect her instead. And despite the fact that the Bull Demon King hasn't seen his wife since, it's up to Sun Wukong to convince him to lend him his wife's fan. And if he succeeds he'll do three good deeds in one- he'll clear the way for them to continue their journey west, spare the locals from having to deal with global warming 700 years to early, and obtain a pardon for the Mountain God so he can return to his place in heaven.

Now armed with the full story, Monkey takes his leave of them and heads for the Bull Demon King's new hideout, leaving Sandy and Pigsy to guard Tripitaka, he also tells the Mountain good to stick around to keep them company for now. Personally though, I just think Wukong has limited expectations for Sandy and Pigsy being able to watch after Tripitaka, they're overdue for a demon trying to eat him after all. So Monkey arrives at the mountain but decides to ask for directions to the exact cave, so he stops the first beautiful young woman he see's to chat with.

The girl of course is terrified to be addressed by this terrifying monk- but Monkey presses on, and tells her he has been sent by Princess Iron Fan to fetch the Bull Demon King and asks if she knows where he can find his cave. This turns out to be a bit of a miscalculation since this beautiful woman just so happens to be the fox Demoness who took a position as the Bull Demon Kings new concubine. And she is not to happy to find out that the wife has been asking about him, and flies into a rage. She insults Princess Iron Fan, calling her shameless for wanting more, when the Bull Demon King already sends her riches every month.

Turns out however that Sun Wukong doesn't think very highly of mistresses, and he also flies into a rage, yelling that she should be the one ashamed of herself for using her riches to steal someone else's husband. This scares the girl into running home so she can get said stolen husband to do what she bought him to do- protect her. This has the added benefit of luring Sun Wukong right to their doorstep, so at least he got his directions in the end after all.

So the girl rushes inside the cave and finds the Bull Demon King, and tells him all about the scary monk, who chased her all the way here that was sent by Princess Iron Fan. The Demon Bull King comforts her, but is still a bit confused by the situation, since he didn't even know his wife even knew any other men, let alone had any in her employ. Regardless he decides to head outside to take a look for himself on who it might be. Only to be politely greeted by Sun Wukong with a bow. The Bull Demon King, returns the polite greeting, but isn't exactly happy to see him, because of the whole Red Son situation.

Monkey once again tries to explain that the Red Son situation isn't as bad as it sounds, and also not his fault. However, even if the Demon Bull King is willing to forgive him for that incident, there is still the fact that he's been chasing his concubine about to deal with. Monkey says that he only got angry with her because she yelled at him first, and asks that he let it go. The Bull Demon King agrees to let it slide, and tells Monkey to leave, however Monkey refuses since there is still one more thing he needs from the Bull Demon King. Monkey tells the Demon King that he needs to borrow the palm-leaf fan so he can extinguish the fire on the mountain and continue his journey west. So it would be just swell if he could convince his wife to lend it to them, and he'll even be sure to bring it right back to them.

The Bull Demon King however has heard enough, and has no intention of lending Sun Wukong the fan, after he has insulted his entire family like this. So the two begin to fight, which Monkey is perfectly fine with, he's always game to spar with a buddy, despite the fact that said buddy is definitely trying to kill him in earnest. So the two fight for a while, with no clear winner, until suddenly the Demon Bull King receives a dinner invite from a messenger. Upon receiving this message, the Bull Demon King tells Wukong they are going to have to take a rain check on this fight, and leaves to attend the banquet. With Monkey of course secretly following from behind.

Monkey follows the Demon Bull King all the way to a a lovely clear water lagoon, and Monkey figures that the demon must have gone in. So Monkey follows suit by turning into a crab, and sinking to the bottom, where he see's the Demon Bull Kings ride- a golden eyed beast tied outside, and a party in full swing, where the Demon Bull King is seated as a guest of honor. Unfortunate before Monkey can continue his streak of party crashing a dragon spots him and calls him out as an interloper.

Monkey plays innocent, and begs for them to spare him, saying he's just a simple crab, who has never been here before and is unfamiliar with proper etiquette. The old dragon is willing to let the incident slide, but Monkey is still kicked out of the party. However Monkey is fine with that, since the Demon Bull King doesn't seem like he's going to be leaving the party any time soon, and even when he does, he probably still won't agree to lend him the fan. So instead Monkey does what he probably should have just tried from the very beginning and turns into the Bull Demon King, to deceive Princess Iron fan. He also steals the Bull Demon King's ride while he's at it, probably to make the farce more believable so that she doesn't try and give him a quiz about when her birthday is like her son did.

So Sun Wukong arrives back at Princess Iron Fan's doorstep disguised as the Bull Demon King, and has two maids announce his presence to Princess Iron Fan. She is very enthused to see him after all this time, and they settle down to talk and have tea together. After a while, Wukong is able to steer the conversation over to her fan, and she tells him the story that he already knows, about how he came by to hassle her for her fan, but that she managed to trick him with a fake. Monkey asks where she's hidden the real one, and she simply says it's in her possession before changing the subject and pouring him some wine. Monkey doesn't drink much, but encourages Princess Iron Fan to drink some, and as she gets more and more drunk, she starts... coming onto Monkey more and more. Which has got to be an awkward situation, but one that he is able to handle with slightly more grace then his master at least.

Eventually Monkey is able to bring the conversation back around to the fan and asks where she has hidden it. Princess Iron Fan responds by spitting out a tiny fan, no bigger then an almond leaf. When Monkey asks how a fan this small can extinguish the flames, Princess Iron Fan shows him the method to return the fan to its normal large size. Now that he has the fan and information he needs, Monkey takes the fan and puts it into his mouth before revealing his true form to Princess Iron Fan, who is of course pissed about the situation, but Monkey doesn't care to hang around to see her full tantrum.

Once Monkey is a safe distance away, he decides to test the fan, and uses the method the Princess told him about to revert it to it's true size. It works, however, Monkey never found out how to make it shrink again, so he just lugs it over his shoulder to carry it the rest of the way.

Meanwhile the Demon Bull King has finally left the party, only to find that he has been car/beast jacked. He calls everyone together to ask who has stolen his beast, but everyone denies having anything to do with it, but the old Dragon mentions that there was a strange crab earlier. The Demon Bull King connects the dots and figures that Sun Wukong must have followed him here and taken on a form of a crab before stealing his ride. Now knowing the situation, he takes off, hoping to chase Wukong down before he can get the fan. When he arrives at his wife's house, he see's his beast outside, and his wife crying up a storm inside. He asks her where Wukong went, but she just yells at him for letting Wukong steal his beast so that he could deceive her. So the Bull Demon King borrows some of her weapons, before taking off to continue his fight with his ex brother.

Current Sun Wukong Stats: Names/Titles: Monkey, The Stone Monkey, The Handsome Monkey King, Sun Wukong (Monkey awakened to the void), Bimawen (Banhorseplague), The Great Sage Equal To Heaven and Pilgrim Sun. Immortality: 5 + 94,000 years Weapon: The Compliant Golden Hooped Rod Abilities: 72 Transformations, Cloud-Somersault, Ability to transform his individual hairs, super strength, Ability to Summon Wind, Water restriction charm, and the ability to change into a huge war form, ability to duplicate his staff, ability to immobilize others, the ability to put others to sleep, and the Fiery eyes and Diamond Pupils, intimidating horses, churning large bodies of water, sleeplessness, seizing the wind, enhanced smell, discerning good and evil within a thousand miles, Spirit Summoning, lock picking, object transformation, distance reduction, vanishing in a flash of light, super healing, transforming others, Invisibility, and Wind Resistance Demon Kill Count: 10 + Unknown Number of Minions Human Kill Count: 1039 God's Defeated: 23 + Unknown number Defeats: 7 Crime List: Robbery, Murder, Mass Murder, Arson, Theft, Coercion, Threatening a Government Official, Resisting Arrest, Assault, Forgery, Employee Theft, False Imprisonment, Impersonating a Government Official, Treason, attempted murder, failure to control or report a dangerous fire, desecrating a corpse, breaking and entering, trespassing, violating Tree Law, looting corpses, trading counterfeit goods, criminal threat, animal abuse, Assisting or Instigating Escape, Damage to Religious Property, contaminating a substance for human consumption, Identity Fraud, Disorderly Conduct and Joyriding Cry Count: 9 + 3 fake cries Mountains Trapped Under: 4

Current Tang Sanzang stats: Names/Titles: River Float, Xuanzang, Tang Sanzang, Tripitaka and the Tang Monk Abilities: Curing Blindness, making branches point a certain direction (allegedly), reciting sutras, pretty privilege, memorization, Heart Sutra and Meditation. Cry Count: 31 Tight Fillet Spell Uses: 63 Paralyzed by fear: 6 Bandit Problems: 3 Kidnapped by demons: 9 Falling Off Horses: 10

Current Bai Long Ma Stats: Names/Titles: Bai Long Ma (White Dragon Horse), Prince of the Western Ocean, and third prince jade dragon of the dragon king Aorun Abilities: Transforming into a human, a water snake, and a horse, eating a horse in one bite, flight, Magic of Water Restriction, Singing, and Sword Dancing. Cry Count: 1 Crime List: Arson, and Grave Disobedience. Contributions to the plot: 3 Kidnapped by demons: 1

Current Zhu Wuneng Stats: Names/Titles: The Marshal of the Heavenly Reeds, Zhu Wuneng (Pig who is aware of ability), Zhu Ganglie, Pigsy, Idiot and Eight Rules. Weapon: Rake Abilities: 36 Transformations, parting water, fighting underwater, cloud soaring, size enhancement and CPR Demon Kill Count/Kill steals: 5 Kidnapped by Demons: 4 Human Kill Count: 1 Failed Flirtation/romances Attempts: 4 Cry Count: 2 Crime List: Sexual Harassment, Murder, Kidnapping, arson, defamation, Damage to Religious Property, contaminating a substance for human consumption, Identity Fraud, Theft and Forcible entry

Current Sha Wujing Stats: Names/Titles: The Curtain-Raising General, Sha Wujing (Sand Aware of Purity), Sandy and Sha Monk Weapon: Monster Taming Staff Abilities: Fighting underwater, Cloud soaring, and fetching water from a well. Demon Kill Count: 1 + Unknown number of minions. Kidnapped by Demons: 3 Human Kill Count: 1 Cry Count: 1 Crime List: Breaking a Crystal Cup, murder, desecration of a human corpse, Damage to Religious Property and contaminating a substance for human consumption

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[tales-of-wocdes]

Hi! I hope you have a nice day.(I apologize in advance for the long text) Your IF is truly amazing, both in writing and story, and interesting characters. I'm madly waiting for the continuation!!! I wish you a lot of inspiration and strength💕💕💕 So I really have a lot of questions (if some have already been asked, sorry). Also, if you can't answer some questions because of spoilers or something else, that's okay. English is not my native language so all text was translated with the help of a translator so sorry for the mistakes.

Do Custodians and Protectors have days off? Since taking care of children is really hard work (especially if they are little rascals). Maybe on the day off they could visit relatives (or were they all orphans too?) then just go visit friends. And the child they are assigned to would be looked after by other Custodian and Protector.

I saw posts where MC steals cookies, could we steal them (or just ask) for someone? Like, Havard had a lot of work and MC was being looked after by Custodian Ethel, and they decided to bring Hvard some snacks(cookies) and leave them on the table. We could also bribe Lexia with cookies so that she wouldn't tell Havard that MC ate cookies before eating. (Or her was accomplice in the theft and MC shared cookies with her)

Dragons are big, scary and can roar. And if MC has a dragon heritage, then that means they (even though they are not as big and scary as they think) can also roar. And during training with Lexia, they can try to scare her with their menacing roar!! (which would actually be super cute and not scary)🥰.Or just scare away people that they are afraid of or don't like

Until what age can children stay in an orphanage? And how will children with elven, dragon or kitsune heritage start? Do they have the same age of majority as humans, or is it different? Will the children stay in the orphanage until they can find a place to live and a job, or will they be given both? And can they themselves become new Custodians or Protectors?

Are love affairs forbidden between Custodians and Protectors? Or between two Custodians or Protectors? And what if they start a relationship with someone outside the orphanage? Since it can distract them from their work, so it can be forbidden? (they can also quarrel and this can affect their work together) And if they have a child, how will the ancients react to this? (They built an orphanage for children who faced the cruelty of the world and were left all alone, and then suddenly children with both parents appeared in the orphanage) 🤔

I really hope that our MC at a later stage of the game will be able to tell Havard and Lexia that he loves them (or even call Havard dad and Lexia mom). I really, really love these two wonderful people ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you for the enthusiasm! And the praise! It is rather incredible and surreal to hear :D

There is lots of text under the line, and you are asking some things that I have not considered in too much detail :D Since there is so much text here, I will not do snippets here.

Q1: Of course they have days off. You pretty much hit the nail on the head with how I imagine it goes. A rotation and collaboration between the staff will help, and there should be enough people to go around to take care of the kids. I also have some plans for "special" caretakers for some instances...

The Custodians and Protectors are not all orphans, though some of them are. Out of the current cast (Havard, Lexia, Alessa, Sandor), only Lexia is an orphan (I think I mentioned it in the second interlude so it should not be a spoiler).

Q2: That is adorable. I will put it in the notes for the demo or maybe make a snippet later.

Q3: That would be adorable :D Adding that to my notes as well or make a snippet later.

Q4: Until they are ready to be independent, there is no specific age. As adults, they may become Custodians or Protectors if they so choose (See pinned post... The IF is named this way for a reason.).

We can assume that those with strong immortal heritage will live longer though it is debatable by how much for the current story, everyone here so far (aside from the Ancient) is also part human here and the heritage features are supposed to be inherited from far back.

Still, let us assume people with different heritages develop at the same rate as everyone else (and pretty much have to assume or otherwise we get into too much trouble with timelines and stuff). I view this as a function of the environment. I.e. being surrounded by other children and adults of a very mixed heritage will adjust their perception of time. A sort of "life in your years vs. the years in your life thing." As in, if an immortal is surrounded by mortals they will experience life at the same rate as those mortals in the moment. If an immortal is surrounded by other immortals, everything slows down. (I am using an immortal here as a catch all word for every species that just lives a very long life.) Alternatively, we could assume that the human blood has diluted the immortal blood too much (but I don't like this as much now, it made more sense when everyone could have one heritage feature but not so much now that you can have many).

The orphanage attempts to make the orphans into functional members of society that should be able to find jobs and places to live. However, of course they will help if needed. The children will eventually get a sort of "apprenticeship/summer work" type of thing that could help them.

Q5: Affairs are not forbidden between Custodians, Protectors, each other, or with someone from the Outside (with some caveats on the last one i.e. no access to the orphanage for outsiders no matter who you are dating). The expectation is that everyone does their duty, and acts like an professional adult though. The children come first, and you don't ignore that if you want to stay at the orphanage as a custodian or protector. However here I stress that the Ancients do not expect this to be a huge issue, they chose all of these people themselves. The Ancients are far from infallible but they have their moments.

Still let's assume that some... non ideal relationships happen. If relationship drama interferes with the duty, the relationship is expected to end on good terms. Or at least terms that do not affect the duties of the affected parties. If not, both participants get kicked out of their respective orders. The Ancients have no patience for such things (read as petty mortal shit) when it comes to the orphanage where the expectations have been quite clearly laid out.

The Ancients would have no issues with children in the orphanage as long as they are not given special treatment. If the parents cannot agree to this, then they may be excused of duty until they are ready to return. And parental leave is a thing in during the ~2 years after birth (I might have decided that right now). It might even be a good thing to have some people who could act as wet nurses on orphanage staff if any really young orphans are found.

Q6: I would imagine MC will be able to do that if they so choose :D

[19thperson]

19th's Steam Next Fest Impressions Feb 2025 Edition - Day 6

Day 0/Day 1/Day 2/Day 3/Day 4/Day 5

Wanderstop

Teashop running cozy game from half of the duo behind Stanley Parable and from the creator of Beginners Guide.

You play as Alta, a warrior who had an undefeated streak lasting 3 and a half years before experiencing of string of two (2) losses and having a complete physical and emotional breakdown about it. She journeys to see the illustrious Master Winters to get training, only to collapse partway there, losing the ability to even pick up her sword.

She's saved by Boro, a gentle and emotionally intelligent man who runs the teashop wanderstop. After several failed attempts to leave again, collapsing each time, she agrees to stay and help run shop until she can lift her sword again.

I've said this before but I like seeing cozy games that dig deeper into the iyashi-kei/healing story aspects, highlighting the melancholic alongside the soothing. And this game is going all in on that.

Alta and Boro have a great chemistry, someone putting up a stoic front and someone else who can see through it immediately. He has a wisdom about him that's blunted by an inherent goofy awkwardness that's legitimately funny, and Alta not being sure how to respond to this treatment. The kind of back and forth where either side can take the straight man role.

The demo only gives a taste of gardening and tea-making, but I like how involved each system is. The gardening is basically a space puzzle, where you need to plant seeds in specific formations. Nothing with a strenuous fail state, but adds some texture to the moment to moment stuff. The tea brewing machine is a rube goldberg machine with several steps that have to be done in the right order. It's a good way to simulate being mentally present and involved in small tasks.

Wheel World

Cyclist Breath of the Wild by Messof, the Niddhog guy. I am gald he is no longer self-sabotaging by making his games look as ugly as possible.

Your character, Kat, wakes up confused in the wilderness, and finds a temple. Inside is a bike spirit who explains that his job is to cycle spirits to the moon and back through the sewer of spirits to keep the cycle of life (do you get it) moving and shift the world into a new ger (do you get it). But between his old rider passing nad theives stealing all his legendary parts, he needs your help to fix the situation. The world is filled with bike puns.

The game does nail the "feel" of manual cycling. Hills drastically effect your momentum. Drafting not only speeds you up but further refills your boost. Turns at high speed need to be handled very deliberately.

Mildly worried about the "texture" of the world. The sense of it being a lived in place. The starting island didn't have much by way of landmarks save for some sparse houses and a beach, and most NPCs only existed to make further bike puns. But the trailer makes it look like there will be a lot more.

The first race the demo offered was dead easy, but the optional extended rematch actually provided a bit of challenge.

There's also, as the trailer clearly shows, a lot of customization, but so far the game hasn't given me any impetus to not just pick up everything that make number go up across the board. not much incentive to specialize yet. Expect that in the full game though.

Also if you press up on the d-pad you ring your bell. Ding Ding.

Am I Nima

Horror game about making your mother happy.

You play as Nima, a child who suffered a severe accident. You wake up with your memories foggy, tied up and locked in the basement by your mother. She claims it's for your own safety, yet seems… afraid. Distraught. You have to convince her that you are, in fact, her daughter.

The core gameplay is a word combining system. Either when exploring the basement or talking to mom, you'll get new keywords, which can be combined with other keywords to make further words. Those words can then be used in dialogue choices when talking with mom. While it's not a completely freeform system, the game gives you a lot more words than expected.

A lot of combinations circle back to the same words, like "pain," but that in turn leads to it being a very naturalistic way to deliver exposition and simulate memory recall. Combining words with "dad" will eventually lead to greif, and you realize that dad's probably dead, for instance, while combining words with "mom" leads to words about neglect and resentment.

It's doing a lot with a little.

Sol Cesto

Push-your-luck roguelite about italians delving into a dungeon.

Every floor is a 4x4 grid filled with enemies, treasure chests, traps, and healing items. When you choose a row, your character randomly lands in one of the 4 spots. If they land on an enemy, the enemy dies, but if they had a higher physical or magical damage stat, you take the damage in difference. empty at least 5 squares to unlock the floor's door, although you can spend extra turns there to get more resources.

Inbetween enemy floors you can get upgrades that change your percentages, with some drawbacks. +20% landing on a chest, but +10% chance landing on a physical type monster, for example.

You also have the "sun" ability which allows you to move in a different way than usual. The starting character of the knight can instead choose a column instead of a row. you need to build meter to use these but it refills quickly. You also have items that can heal you, weaken/eliminate monsters or areas, and even skip floors entirely. Despite the luck based gameplay, there are a lot of tweakable aspects.

I never beat the demo's boss because it's gimmick is it turns 1/4th of the map into an instant death zone and for some reason or another I kept doing the gamble instead of going for the 100% safe routes

It's a slot machine but one where the odds are very obvious.

Labyrinth of the Demon King

Feudal era Japan survival horror King's Field.

It is the latter age of Dharma. War and famine blight the country, and demons walk the earth. You're a simple footsoldier, whose army was decieved by a demon and led into an ambush. Having lost your lord and all your comrades, you descend into the demon's stronghold looking for revenge.

This is a game less that I "dislike" and more "I couldn't get my head around." Namely the combat. It has a stamina meter tied to your attacks, a very short dodge, and a parry. But this meter is punishingly strict. I was constantly finding myself on zero and dying at every enemy encounter. I'm assuming it's a me problem, that there's something about the rhythm of combat I'm not picking up, but I spent an hour with it and want to move on.

That isn't to say I couldn't appreciate anything, though. It has a strong atmosphere, and the cutscenes that deliberately up the grain feel very apropos.

Enemy behavior was impressive too. They won't just head straight toward you, they'll fight eachother if given the chance. One time I got lucky enough to whittle an enemy to low health, and it ran away. I was honestly just grateful for the breather, so I stopped for a bit to regain my stamina and slowly crept down the hallway.

The same enemy was hiding around the corner waiting to swing at me.

I may try it again later at some point, I just had other things I wanted to finish.

Isle of Reveries

Game Boy Color Styled Classic Zelda.

You play as a young nameless owl boy on a pilgrimage, to a mountaintop temple said to grant any wish. It's a pilgrimage that many take, but no one seems to come back from, and as you arrive, you realize something is terribly wrong here.

This one took much longer than it should. I got stuck. While being a classical top down zelda, you have the unbelievable power to manually jump. While I smiled at the novelty, I forgot it was something I could do right as a puzzle demanded it, and I sent myself back wandering through the halls thinking I needed to find an upgrade

Aside from my blunder this was a pretty good zelda like. I liked most of the dungeon design. But there were a couple complaints.

The first is… you're not actually stuck to a grid. Or at least, not the grid the pixel art implies. But the granularity of movement means you can easily slip into a pit or water trap by clipping the edge of it. There was a hidden optional upgrade to turn off damage from those but if you recognize that it's a problem you've just giving me a band aid, and an optional one at that.

You got a big chunky hitbox and you're garunteed to eat damage. To counteract this you can pick up hearts everywhere. Makes combat a bit frustrating

There was something that I really liked though. In the last bit of the demo you get the ability to copy a tile and replace it elsewhere. Like an extremely scaled down version of echoes of wisdom's ability. This turns what was previously "single room limited problems" into ones where you can drag anything from any point in the dungeon to a new space. I can see this being really interesting on a large scale.

Moon River

(wider than a mile, I'm crossing you in style someday…)

This is some classic RPG Maker Shit. Some Enterbrain Logo on startup shit. 640x320 resolution at start and hit F5 to fullscreen shit.

The world is ending from an event called "The Dimming." Shadows swallow the world, a void that supposedly leaves nothing but conciousness in a vaccuum. One island remains, where people can only exist in moonlight. Our protagonist, the mariner, arrives from the sea, and aims to read the end of the Moon River cutting through the island before sunrise.

It's mostly a puzzle game, although… not great puzzles. I didn't finish it, this demo was unexpectedly long, but save for a set of block pushing puzzles, it was all fetch quests.

But as a narrative experience, it was interesting. It has a repeating structure. Mariner goes down the river, hits a wall of shadow. It can only be dispelled by filling a nearby lantern with "pure light." You dock, and go to the nearby village to search for it.

Each village so far has been different ways people respond to the end times. Complete lethargy, paranoia, throwing their remaining time into longshot solutions, religious mania. It reminded me a bit of Kino's Journey.

The music is excellent. While the pixel art isn't the most detailed, I like the art direction of having each area use a different color pallete. Both in terms of giving the game a sense of visual progresssion, but also informing the mood of each section. The town of monks who turn themselves into trees, explicitly presented as mass ritualized suicide, is bathed in an oppressive red. The town of the astrologers aiming to reverse the dimming is pained in a gentle but melancholic purple.

Has some very clear technical issues though. I was clipping through areas I wasn't supposed to. One time I brought someone an item for a side quest, and he just responded as if I had already given it to him, while it still stood in my inventory. It's not deal breakers, nothing so far derails progression, but mildly annoying.