#why doesn't this game have NORMAL COLORS TO CHOOSE FROM

[rigaudon]

who the fuck designed these color palettes hE LOOKS LIKE A WATERMELON

[freyito]

ʟɪᴛᴛʟᴇ ᴛʜɪɴɢꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴋᴏᴍʙᴀᴛ ʙᴏʏꜱ ᴅᴏ

so sorry for the little mini hiatus! im finally allllll moved in and i think all i really needed was like. a clean space. refreshed my mind a bit, lol. can't promise i'll have a steady schedule cause im still working on my inbox, just dont wanna get anything done (after this) til i've finished my new masterlists... anyways! ideas been in my head forever, need to get it off my chest NOW

cw: gn reader, just fluff, not proofread

⎯ Liu Kang

Liu Kang will come up with poetry ON THE SPOT. It's crazy scary how quick he is with it. He chooses something about you and just runs with it. How your eyes are just the most enticing color in the sunlight, just how beautiful you are in kombat...

⎯ Bi-Han

Bi-Han will place little notes around the house or on things he knows you use often. He'll place one on the cover of the book your currently reading, or even within the pages. Little love notes, mainly motivating you, praising you... but he'll write a simple 'I love you', too.

⎯ Kuai Liang

Specifically whenever it's colder, Kuai willpull you in for a hug, and make his body temperature increase. He'll do it under different circumstances sometimes, even to tease you. He likes to keep you close as his temperature steadily rises. Perfect for cold nights.

⎯ Johnny Cage

Footsies. Anytime you two are sitting across from each other, either at the dinner table, or at some fancy restaurant, Johnny's always tapping at your shins, your knee, anything. Brings you closer, in a way.

⎯ Kenshi Takahashi

Kenshi has a habit of placing his hand on your head, whenever he feels like it. He'll play with your hair, or scratch at your scalp. He likes the texture, but he also just enjoys messing with you a little bit.

⎯ Kung Lao

Tickling you. Always and forever. Kung Lao will take the most inopportune moments to taze your sides, find those soft bits of flesh that make you giggle in just the right way.

⎯ Raiden

Raiden will do the little heart thing with his hands (or fingers) from across the room when he can't be with you. Eventually, he'll even try to do it with his lightning. It's an uncontrollable variable, and it takes him so LONG to get ahold of it. But, when he finally gets it, he's all giddy.

⎯ Zeffeero

As much as Rain groans and complains that his magic shouldn't be used for mundane things or fun, sometimes he'll form water into little hearts or stars. All for you. But he'll do it away from you, and kind of side-eye you, to make sure your watching.

⎯ Tomas Vrbada

Smoke has a tendency to sway whenever you two hug. Specifically when it's a longer hug. He just finds the motion comforting! He'll hum a little as he does this, too. That hum starts small, but then it catches on, he'll hum the same tune to you before you fall asleep.

⎯ Baraka

Point. Why? Baraka doesn't know. But he kinda likes your reaction. You two have a little game where he'll point, and you'll pop up and look around, do the whole "who, me?" thing. It's like a displacement behavior for him. Secretly, he kind of just wants to place his whole hand on your face like a basketball. He won't. Too risky.

⎯ Geras

Since Geras is still kind of unfamiliar with mortal love, he'll bring you little vials of sand. Kind of like bottles of shelves you'd find in a souvenir shop? He also most definitely asks Liu Kang for help throughout your relationship. So, normally, you get sent little (they're not little actually, they're like 5-page essays) love letters via Liu Kang.

⎯ Syzoth

Syzoth will flick his tongue over your cheek unintentionally. He swears! He's not doing it on purpose! You'll be lying down, or just close in general, and boom! There's the tongue!

⎯ Havik

Havik does that thing where he'll pull you in with one arm around your shoulder and one on the side of your head, and shake you gently. He'll make a little "rah" sound, it's a whole thing. Sometimes he's just over-whelmed with the urge to do that.

⎯ Shao Kahn

Sometimes, whenever Shao passes by you, he'll take you by your hand, and spin you. He'll chuckle and go back to what he was doing. But sometimes, it turns into full blown dancing.

⎯ Shang Tsung

Shang loves passing winks to you. He'll do it when he's too busy, he doesn't even use it to imply something. He'll do that super corny thing where he over-exaggerates his face and winks at you a LOT.

⎯ Reiko

Whether Reiko's just sparring, or in a genuine match, he'll always dedicate it to you. Even if you're not there. He'll whisper something for you under his breath, then beat the shit out of his opponent. He also loves bragging about his achievements to you. Only you. A soldier MUST have some humility.

⎯ Takeda Takahashi

Takeda loves saying your name in a real stupid sing-song voice. Dragging it out, horribly, in such a cheesy manor. He'll bring his voice up all high pitch and even bring his hands up to his face.

⎯ Erron Black

As much as Erron tries to be smooth with it, he kinda fails at hiding the fact that he's doing this for you. He exaggerates his accent, he'll quote all sorts of westerns, and just play reaaaaal hard into the Cowboy part for you.

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[deerspherestudios]

Hey! I just recently met and went through the demo of "Mushroom Oasis", and I already have so many questions! I hope I won't be too intrusive. You may not answer some questions if the answers contain spoilers.

Questions about the game: 1.Will it be possible to choose the MC gender? Is it possible to choose the gender of the cat in the same way? It's just that when I started the game, I named the cat after my cat and it was a little funny to me when the pronoun of the cat was "she" when my cat is male.

Will we be able to choose some kind of "style" for the MC, according to the type of clothing, at the beginning of the game?

Questions about Michael:

Does he see the world like an ordinary person? I mean he has 2 pairs of eyes and 3 pairs of pupils. And it baffles me.

If the MC suddenly goes out alone and doesn't come back by midnight, will Mychael worry about the MC and will he go looking for the MC?

How does Mychael feel about piercings and tattoos? Does he know about it? If so, would he like a piercing/tattoo?

I wonder where Mychael gets things for the house. That is, I saw that he had a broom, thread and knitting needles. Where did he get them???

If Mychael saw me (I'm 164 cm tall and I have red hair), would he think I'm some kind of witch, because of the color of my hair, or something like that? How would he react if he saw me?

And sorry for the mistakes, I used google translator. English is not my native language :( I also want to say that I am your fan from Latvia (I don’t know why I’m saying this, I just want to please you with the fact that you have a fan from the Baltic countries)

Oop!! Ty for the questions!! Let me try and answer em under the cut, since it might end up as a pretty long post hahaha. But hi hello!!! I'm always happy to know where my fans come from, it's always a surprise for me to see people around the globe enjoy my silly little game ;v;

Questions about the game:

1. Will it be possible to choose the MC gender? Is it possible to choose the gender of the cat in the same way?

Being nonbinary, I just choose not to mention pronouns when writing for the game, so anyone can fit in their shoes. Unless it comes to a point where I have to use it, I'll probably code in a pronoun tool but for now it doesn't seem necessary! As for the cat, that's a good suggestion. Perhaps I'll try coding it in for the next update so the cat can be male or female, according to player preference!

2. Will we be able to choose some kind of "style" for the MC, according to the type of clothing, at the beginning of the game?

Probably not, as I'm not really good at setting that up in Ren'Py. I did make an MC design though! But what they look like is entirely up to you. I've drawn a POV shot of them wearing jeans and sneakers but that's about it. They can look however you like!

Questions about Mychael:

1. Does he see the world like an ordinary person?

He does! Trigger warning for unsettling iris images if you wanna look this up, but his bottom pair is kinda what people with polycoria has. Except it's normal for him, and not really a condition. His vision is normal, he just has lotsa peepers.

2. If the MC suddenly goes out alone and doesn't come back by midnight, will Mychael worry about the MC and will he go looking for the MC?

Yes? He didn't save you just to have you running off into danger again. He'd absolutely track you down and find you.

3. How does Mychael feel about piercings and tattoos? Does he know about it? If so, would he like a piercing/tattoo?

He knows about it, but not enough to really understand how it works! He finds it fascinating humans decorate their bodies with shiny beads and jewels, and turn their skin into tapestries for art. He'd probably assume you can take them off any time and that the tattoos are drawn onto the skin.

I don't imagine he'd want a piercing, but he'd probably try a tattoo! (Until he realizes it's ink going under the skin, in which case he might change his mind haha)

4. I wonder where Mychael gets things for the house. Where did he get them???

He has his ways ::-)

5. How would he react if he saw me?

He wouldn't be reacting much to how you look. You're not the first human he's seen! He's been around plenty of them, but you'd be one of the few he's interacted with the longest. And that's what makes you stand out more than anything else.

Phew that was a big ask!! But thank you for the interest :-D!! Hope everything's good in Latvia!

[gamequoteshowdown]

Thank you everyone for making this happen! Now, without further ado, the match-ups for Round 1!!!

Round 1

"I've been waiting for this!" - Akihiko Sanada, Persona 3 / "You're just a corpse who doesn't know he's dead" - Valter, Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones

"Are you going to be our goddess of victory… or our angel of death? Doesn't sound too bad to bet my life on that." - Keiji Shinogi, Your Turn To Die: Death Game by Majority / "Don't fuck with a witch!" - Bayonetta, Bayonetta

"Teammates!? Friends!? To hell with that! Why am I inferior to you!? I was extremely particular about my life, my grades, my public image! So someone would want me around! I am an ace detective! A celebrity! But you… You're just some criminal trash living in an attic!? So how!? How does someone like you have things I don't!? How can such a worthless piece of trash be more special than me!?" - Goro Akechi, Persona 5 / "I was just gunna ask you to sell a gun to this child." - Starlo, Undertale Yellow

"I want you to live." - Charlotte Wiltshire, Hello Charlotte Series / "Your hair… sunset colored. I like it." - Queequeg, Limbus Company

"The hope to end pointless conflict… The hope to tell your daughter how much you care… It is our mission as apothecaries to ensure that everyone lives long enough for their hopes to become reality. Even if it costs us our own lives." - Castti Florenz, Octopath Traveler II / "Game is clear when 2 zombies hold hands!!" - "How to Play" Narrator, Loving Deads: The House of the Dead EX

"Thanks to you, I am saddled with unnecessary… feelings" - Miles Edgeworth, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney / "I am so fucking normal right now" - Harry du Bois, Disco Elysium

“SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL IS GOING TO HAPPEN” - Harry du Bois (in the form as a potential mural painting), Disco Elysium / "You pull out your cellphone and access your old Tumblr. You have ten, but you specifically access the Garfield one." - Narrator, Monster Prom

"… Nice meeting you again, you FUCKING WHALE!" - Ishmael, Limbus Company / "My guess is no one's ever loved you before" - Woody, Kingdom Hearts 3

"Take care, [player]. I was lucky to have known you. Though the parting hurts... the rest is in your hands!" - Grovyle, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky / "Far out, man." - Netzach, Limbus Company

"I'll be back once I eliminate that devil called poverty from the world!" - Partitio Yellowil, Octopath Traveler II / "Elder gods from the whole cosmos have awoken to taste your cookies." - Narrator, Cookie Clicker

"Hello! This is the part where I kill you!" - Wheatley, Portal 2 / "Now we come to the question : Do I kill you? Do I tear you apart to my heart's delight? The choices of the beautiful are unbearable. How's a girl to choose?" - Alice Angel, Bendy and the Ink Machine

"I am Ferdinand von Aegir" - Ferdinand von Aegir, Fire Emblem: Three Houses / "Her metabolic processes are of interest only to historians." - Miles Edgeworth, Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations

"It ain't a matter of guys or chicks... I'm just scared shitless of being rejected" - Kanji Tatsumi, Persona 4 / "...also Stanley is addicted to drugs and hookers" - Narrator, The Stanley Parable

“You’ve met with a terrible fate, haven’t you?” - Happy Mask Salesman, Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask / "I have no idea what to do with my life, but that's okay! Because I'm still working hard! Even if it's on nothing at all!" - Papyrus, Undertale

"Despite everything, its still you." - Narrator/Chara/Frisk???, Undertale / "In this world, it's kill or be killed." - Flowey, Undertale

“Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves. Heart. Lungs. Liver. Nerves…” - Voices of the Paranoid, Slay the Princess / "In the quiet glade, across old bark. In the ancient glade, it's always dark." - Gabbro, Outer Wilds

"You take away all their sins, and people aren't people anymore!" - Rokurou Rangetsu, Tales of Berseria / "Do you even get how it feels to have nightmares about doing tango with raw chickens? Eh?" - Heathcliff, Limbus Company

"Life is worth living, even if it hurts you, even if you hurt in it." - Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid / "I often think about the god who blessed us with this cryptic puzzle... and wonder if we'll ever get the chance to kill him." - 2B, Nier: Automata

“Oh? Is that how it is? Yeah, okay, I like you too. Neat! Still going to kill you, but now we can both enjoy a mutual romantic subtext to the murder.” - The Razor, Slay the Princess / "Now it’s Reyn Time!" - Reyn, Xenoblade Chronicles

"You lost the coin toss. We both did." - Catherine Chun, SOMA / "I like to drink blood. . . and smoke the weed!" - Dracula, Space Funeral

"Pick a god and pray!" - Frederick, Fire Emblem: Awakening / "Can you believe it? Dragons! In your own homeland! What are you going to do?" - Florentia Candidius, Elder Scrolls Online

""Did you get the Broom Closet Ending?! The Broom Closet Ending was my favourite!" ...I hope your friends find this concerning." - Narrator, The Stanley Parable / "It’s dangerous to go alone, take this!" - Old Man, Legend of Zelda

“Close your eyes for a sec, will you Chigasaki?” “You mean physically? Or to the criminal acts I’m pretty sure you’re about to commit?” “Both.” - Chikage Utsuki & Itaru Chigasaki, A3! Act! Addict! Actors! / "You are all about to perish, do as you please. I'm sorry." - Meta Knight, Kirby Super Star

"Boy" - Kratos, God of War / "Take care of yourself, kid, cause someone really cares about you." - Sans, Undertale

"Almost Christmas means it wasn't Christmas!" - Phoenix Wright, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney / "Dios mío!” (Draw a cross.) “A LIBERAL!" - Harry du Bois, Disco Elysium

"That's it. I'm not paying one cent of my taxes!" - Ema Skye, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney / ""Trust your partner"... And I do. I can't forgive you, but I trust you." - Neku Sakuraba, The World Ends With You/Subarashiki Kono Sekai

"Hey, you. You’re finally awake. You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that Imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there." - Ralof, Skyrim / *clap ... clap ... clap ... * "Oh good, my slow clap processor made it into this thing, so at least we have that" - GLaDOS, Portal 2

"hallOO. chikkEN. OKs?" - BOb, Slime Rancher / "Pretty good plan. You could say it was the greatest—" - Charles Calvin, The Henry Stickmin Collection

"Blood comes in four types: A, B, O, and AB. However! No blood test can determine whether a murder was committed… in cold blood!" - Phoenix Wright, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney / "You ain't my partner anymore, man. You're my friend! So trus' that, yo!" - Beat (Daisukenojo "Beat" Bito), The World Ends With You/Subarashiki Kono Sekai

"I always come back." - William Afton, FNaF Pizzeria Simulator / "So -- as you can see, I'm a *pretty okay* detective -- and an absolutely GIANT COMMUNIST." - Harry du Bois, Disco Elysium

"Ears have a nice mouth feel, very chewy!" - Briar, League of Legends / "This is like taking candy from a baby, which is fine by me." - Shadow the Hedgehog, Shadow the Hedgehog (2005)

"It's a beautiful day outside. Birds are singing, flowers are blooming... On days like this, kids like you... Should be burning in hell." - Sans, Undertale / "In the dark times, should the stars also go out?" - Steban, the Student Communist, Disco Elysium

“We are a path in the woods. We have no beginning, and we have no end, but something cold and unnatural sits watching us from just beyond our edge.” - The Wild, Slay the Princess / "Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled Trainers should try to win with the Pokémon they love best." - Karen (Elite Four), Pokemon HeartGold / SoulSilver

[miasudare]

I HAVE A CRAZY THEORY ABOUT UNDERTALE AND DELTARUNE

(Note that it's just a theory!!!!)

So I've been thinking about it for a while. A couple of days a ago I saw a post about Undertale Spotify album. In the video they said that the album starts with "Once upon a time" and ends with "Good night" (credits to them) and that may imply that Undertale is a bedtime story. So that video lead me to this theory (it's long) :

I think Undertale is the dream of Kris from Deltarune. Not just any dream though, a lucid dream. Meaning that you control the dream yourself. Now, I want you to keep remembering what Kris does at the end of Chapter 1 while you read this.

Some dialogs in the game Undertale keeps telling you that you are living a dream such as that one death screen from (I guess it was either Flowey or Asriel) says " It's all a bad dream", (if I remember correctly) at the end of pacifist route Asgore saying "this is like a dream" or the item "Dream" you get from Asriel. Also you can say that the underground is always at the night time if there is no sun making a day cycle. Throughout your game play you can sleep at 4 locations anytime you want. And some monsters do sleep there with you.

Now I know you'll be asking; what about Frisk and Chara? Well I think it might sound crazy for a second but they are the same person, just representing different personalities. When I told you to remember what Kris does at the end of Chapter 1 is from this part. They rips their red* soul puts it in a cage and they turns to camera with red eyes and a knife. Meaning their true nature is showing violence. Now let me explain this detailed:

1-Frisk: In your Undertale game play you play as Frisk. They don't talk, show any emotion in neutral route or think for themselves at all. They have no emotion on their face too. Like a puppet. Frisk have/has(?) no control over themselves. Also throughout the game Frisk is seen with a red* heart/soul. We never saw anyone else use this color of soul in undertale. Not even Chara. /it might be fanon that Chara has red soul/

2-Chara: They have red eyes, a little smile and they show up at the end of genocide route. Unlike Frisk, Chara seems to be having control, hobbies and likings. Such as the comment they make about the environment in Asgore's house or the coffin. And in the genocide route of Undertale you'll realize that Chara slowly gains control over you. I'm not implying that Chara is pure evil even though they are violent since in the end we didn't get to choose not to kill Asgore or Flowey. Not to mention that Chara gains all the control over us after we make violent actions.

3-Kris: In Deltarune (most likely in the beginning)we don't get to choose anything about who we are. We don't have control. Although as soon as we go to the Dark World things chance. We get to choose what Kris does. We can make them hurt others, show mercy on others or even make them eat moss. WE get to ruin/perfect their life in the Dark World. And Kris can't do anything but obey us. Just like Frisk. And just like Frisk, Kris doesn't shows any emotion in the game play. When we get to the cutscene tho, you'll realize that the game is over. You don't have control over Kris. And Kris knows it. There is nothing you can do to stop them from doing what they want. They are free from you.

When Kris goes to the bed. There is a black screen for a while and we get to see the cutscene. Maybe after what Kris experienced in the Dark World, they had a dream about what would it be like if their life was just like that. Going to adventures, fighting monsters. And normally Kris sees their family, friends or their neighbors in the dream. That would explain a lot of things. Like why we see Asgore and Toriel are divorced in Undertale. In Deltarune they are also divorced so it would be logical for Kris to see them as single too. When you connect the dots you even get why some events happened.

In Undertale you never get to see Asgore alive without doing pacifist. And even if you do pacifist he gets treated poorly. In all other endings he dies. All because of Flowey(I'm gonna come to that too). Meaning that maybe Kris doesn't have a good relationship with his father at all. There might be things that happened during the divorce. Kris sees Asgore as the King because he is the only man that Kris knows as a strong male figure.

Also Toriel, being a queen is the same. Toriel is the only one Kris could image being in charge of a nation. She is a teacher after all and Kris might think her to be very smart. We also see Toriel talking about wanting to be a teacher in Undertale. Kris didn't miss that one. The way Toriel acts is also important too. She treats a complete stranger like her child giving them a bed, food, love and even education. Meaning that Kris and Toriel has a good relationship as mother-child.

Asriel though is very complicated. In Deltarune we never see him. We only know that Asriel is very talented in many ways because of the trophies in his shelf. In Undertale tho we mostly see him as a evil defenseless little flower in both neutral and genocide endings. And what did I said about Asgroe? He keeps dying in both endings. He gets killed by Asriel. This might imply 2 things. 1 Asriel doesn't have a healthy relationship with his father. 2 Asriel caused the divorce and he is not innocent. It would explain why we never get to see him again after he brakes the barrier. He doesn't get a happy ending while everyone gets. Because Kris don't think that Asriel deserves to be happy. We don't know much about the relationship between Asriel and Kris except for knowing that Flowey kills Frisk a lot. When you think that way you'll notice that Asriel might be a bully to Kris. He is talented, he might get more love and support from his parents since he goes to college. So no one would say anything to him if he picks on or even shows violence towards Kris. This might be the reason Kris stays quiet all the time or doesn't moves an inch while Susie threatens to eats his face off. Kris is used to it. In the other hand, Kris might even hate Asriel too. Like I said Kris doesn't think that Asriel deserves a happy end. (Not to mention we see Asriel as a cry baby. Probably Kris would love to see that.) Resulting him dying in process. A world without an Asriel is a world where everyone is happy to Kris. The way Chara portrays Flowey in genocide is also a thing. Flowey in genocide is scared, hopeless and helpless. Kris might imagine Asriel like that. When Kris gets a chance and a knife, Asriel begging them to not kill him, oh how much satisfaction Kris would feel.

Sans and Papyrus's apperience depends on Kris's imagination to be honest. Kris knows something goes on with his mother and Sans. Since Sans says "I befriended your mom last night". So this would cause Kris to see Sans as a punny, relaxed and mysterious man. The way Toriel would like to hang out. The mystery part also comes from Kris knowing a little bit of Sans. Papyrus is also up to Kris's imagination. The way Sans told them about Papyrus might resulted Kris to see him as a merciful, complex but friendly guy. And since Kris met Sans the day they fell into the Dark World would explain the Rabbit Shop lady's dialogs "They showed up out of no where and introduced themselves"

I don't think I need to talk about Undyne and Alphys. Undyne is a police officer (police shef?) and that would explain how Kris sees her in Undertale. An independent woman as a leader of a very strict group of guards. And Alphys? She is a science teacher and probably the only science teacher in the town. It would also make sense for think her as a scientist. Also the neighbors. We see Catty, Bratty, Snowdrake(not sure). Kris might see Catty and Bratty as low life, non important, cheapskate girls so that could led us to see them hanging in a literal dumpster, selling trash.

I don't know what I should tell you about Gaster. We just need more chapters so I can explain more I guess. Do you like this theory? Do you agree or not?

[sicksucculentz]

Regretavator headcanons: Bive

Don't look at me like that, I love this character

There are moments when she truly is scary to other people. Sometimes her fits of angry deranged delusional ranting can reach this fevered rampage that quickly becomes scary. She's never hurt anyone during these but there's been sometimes when folks have just left or pressed against the wall in a bit of fear. It's highly unlikely she would hurt someone but it's still scary. She's only lost her shit in the elevator about 4 different times and Split was present for one of them. It didn't phase her because she knows Bive. The only thing Bive has ever done to her is hug her a little too tight out of stress.

She smells. Holy shit she smells! she smells of just general BO and unwashed hair if not musty.

She doesn't sleep often and when she does it's only for about 3 or 4 or so hours. It's typically 3 or so times a week from about 4am to 6am or 7am when her body reaches her limit. Sadly due to her frequent sleep deprivation she hears things. They are just little things like a radio somewhere crackling and muffled speaking from a radio, something lightly skittering around in the walls, A soft quiet continuing beeping noise like an alarm clock she doesn't own, and pages from a book flipping and shuffling.

Split has been able to get her to sleep for longer hours in the past. Her secrete is to convince Bive to take a couple of strong CBD drops. It really helps settle her down, quiet her mind, and help her get to sleep sense in a normal state Bive's mind is constantly racing. It's pretty normal for Bive to completely pass out on the sofa with Split while watching murder mystery shows or game shows. Split often checks on Bive every hour or so because Bive doesn't move in her sleep. Her breathing is shallow and she already smells like a dead body as is.

Bive is in love with Split, Bive will often do what Split says with such little convincing. Split knows this and she loves Bive to but they are not in a relationship. Bive herself doesn't really understand WHY they need to label their closeness with a relationship and Split is just the type of 'go with the flow' type of gal, she's just happy to be around Bive.

Bive eats 2 meals with small snacks in between. She lives in constant stress so her stomach is always in knots or aches. Her appetite is almost gone at this point so she gets a little food in here and there when the hunger starts to make her dizzy and her head hurt. This doesn't mean she's small and skinny ether. I see this design with a lot of artists and I completely agree with it, she's husky. Tall, thicker, and bulky, an appearance much like that of a bear and she knows her own strength and size.

She does have some small abilities that she doesn't tell anyone about. She WANTS it to remain hidden so she can just pull something from her metaphorical back pocket. She does have retractable claws much like a cat and these claws are quite sharp. She's amazingly strong! and can get aggressive enough to rip a car door off a car with enough pulling and twisting. She has a very mild hypnotic ability, it's pretty weak though. Her moulth has the ability to open up wide like packman. There are chromatophore cells all along the inside of her mouth. These cells all have different timings for when they change colors. It appears as if there are thick stripes of rapidly color changing sections inside her mouth. There are all number if colors of the rainbow that flash from color to color. This has an odd weak hypnotic effect that can result in dissociation at most. It causes the person to freeze up and just stare, trapping them in place until someone shakes them or she stops flashing those cells. She can do this at will so it isn't constantly going any time her mouth opens, she has to choose to do this. She almost never uses this ability but she has had to do it once before in front of Pest. Pest tried to get her to do it to folks in the elevator so he could steal from them for like a month. She refused of course and even got frustrated enough to swat at Pest to get him to go away. Didn't hurt of course, just a physical way to get her point across. She does have a pretty nasty bite and that bite can become infected pretty fast. Human bites also tend to become infected pretty easily and it's the same for her even if she may not be human. Her sense of smell is amazing, much like a bear she can sniff things out from pretty darn far away. She does also hide small pocket knives or letter openers in her trench coat just in case. She doesn't have a lot but she'll use what ever works to survive. She's also a dirty fighter. This just means she's an unfair opponent. She goes for the face, neck, liver shots, groin shots, hair pulling, sand or dirt in the eyes, and even uses over wealming tactics. She just keeps swinging and swinging not giving her opponent a chance to recover. She can break someone's arms or ribs if she wanted to just by over the knee snapping or pushing them to the ground and throwing all her weight on top.

All her fur on her body raises when she's in the presence of Unpleasant. She just puffs up and stares Unpleasant down. If she can she wont even get on the elevator if she sees Unpleasant on that elevator. Unpleasant doesn't scare her she just hates them.

She has tiny little ears that are hidden in her mess of hair. They are pretty gosh darn small and resemble a bit like an elf's ear. They can move up and down, side to side, around, whatever. Her eyes are also very small. She has tiny beady little eyes and she can't see jack squat without her glasses. Everything is super super blurry without her glasses to the point she couldn't even navigate her own apartment without her glasses.

Her teeth reach pretty far back in her mouth and she even has all her wisdom teeth. Her jaw can handle keeping them and she only has some issues stemming from them about 3 times a year or so.

She's bigger than Split but of course and again Split is not scared of her because she's never ever hurt Split and she never ever would, she even tried to make herself seem smaller and weaker when interacting with Split. Split likes watching her stand at her full height, she likes watching Bive break things or fight.

Bive is an omnivore while Split is more of a herbivore. Bive does love fruit and funny enough bananas are her favorite fruit! she also loves loves loves sautéed zucchini and soft chicken. She's not much of a fan of heavy meats like beef or pork, ham or bacon is too salty for her. Unrelated but she finds fish has too many little bones and the fish taste just doesn't appeal to her regardless of what kind of fish she's eating. She does enjoy crab, lobster, and shrimp. She has the ability to just crack open the shells with her teeth and has a lot of fun doing it. Clams and muscles are gross to her, just slimey and bleugh. Squid and octopus is fine, lost of fun to chew on.

She sleeps in a small closet. It's completely by choice but there is a cot in a closet in a closet in her bedroom(converted to an office). She sleeps with her back to the wall and facing the closed closed door. The clothes hanging inside the closet also help conceal her and make her feel a little more safe/hidden.

She does have perpetually itchy spots like her back, head, under chin, and tummy. It might be because she has dandruff in those spots making those spots itchy. Of course the itchy spot on her tummy has never been itched by anyone but herself and Split.

[owlpellet]

What's something Niram is really bad at? What would he say his best trait is and what is it actually? How do his health complications impact his day-to-day? What would you say his most striking feature is? (Other than not having hands anymore) What subjects does he most like to paint?

Oh man oh man.

-So he's obviously really bad at anything that involves physical activity. He's an emaciated little shrimp with the core strength of a bean burrito who doesn't have any hands and is slowly making his own legs atrophy by choosing to levitate everywhere instead of walk like a normal person. His STR is 7. His magehand weight limit is probably higher than what he could have comfortably carried around before.

But no, his actual weak point that causes Real Problems is he sucks at lying. He sucks at it so bad. Whether it's some deep ancient fae ancestry nonsense or horrible contingency spiraling about having to maintain the lie like he claims isn't really clear, but he will avoid having to lie at all costs. He cannot force his way through one. He would rather be truthful and face the consequences of this than have to keep track of falsehoods and who knows them, although sometimes this also just means he has a big mouth about stuff he doesn't think matters.

This doesn't mean he's *compelled* to truth, though. He can simply stay quiet about a subject, or give only partial information, and he can lie for the sake of a brief joke or surprise, but if forced into a "yes or no?" type of situation his honesty is almost guaranteed.

-The biggest complication when it comes to his health is definitely his diet, at least when off campus. Turns out a lot of people take it as an insult when you won't eat their food, even when you explain why, and people can also be really weird about abstinence from drinking! His teammate Sayid graciously assists Niram in purging what his body can't filter by taking on some of the malaise for him and going through bathroom hell (just Ilmaterite things, we call it the holy dialysis), and it's one of the few things in life he grapples with guilt about.

I do also acknowledge in games the frequent toilet trips he needs, though don't derail RP for them unless they're narratively relevant or funny.

While not directly related to his internal health, he also encounters a lot of accessibility issues now that he doesn't have hands. The magehands allow for him to manipulate objects, but the disconnect from his actual body still presents a lot of challenges-- the session before last they actually had to work with Yuri's dad (an artificer) to modify special slot-style handlebars for him to attach to his magic broom that he had previously just been wrapping his elbows around for dear life.

Also sometimes he just... forgets they're not there anymore. It's been such a short while compared to a whole life of having them. He's had a few bodily collisions with things where a well-placed hand should have stopped that. Like... leaning against a wall.

-His most striking feature is probably that receding hairline and extreme widow's peak. Content-aware scaled, color-inverted Vegeta lookin mf. He would probably agree.

-He loves doing portraits/figures of all kinds but I think after a lot of practice and honing his skills he'll find he likes dragons, dragonborn, lizardfolk, aarakocra, and other scaled or feathered individuals because he finds the patterns/color variety soothing rather than tedious.

This differs from his sketching in his journal, which is a less time-consuming process in which he doesn't try to get so lost. His favorite things to sketch/ink are bones. Of course.

[artemiszy]

LOVE ME FOR ALL ETERNITY | Yandere!Douma X Kocho!Reader

Yandere!Douma x Kocho!Reader | One-shot

"Where Douma falls in love with the middle butterfly sister and will do anything to have her for himself."

WARNING. Yandere, toxic/abusive relationship, depression, stockholm syndrome, kidnapping, stalking, swearing, manipulation, mangá spoilers, death. FEMALE READER

Despite his feigned cheerful personality and amusing humor, the powerful upper moon two was nothing more than an empty shell. He didn't hesitate to say what he thought and claim that gods didn't exist.

His thoughts have remained the same for two hundred years, or rather... ever since he came into being, in fact. Ever since his greedy parents started using him to trick people desperate for some divine help and get some money out of them, claiming that their son was a miracle who had the ability to hear the voices of the gods, just because the boy had rare eyes... A silly lie but... it seemed to work.

Pretend was a word Douma knew well and knew how to put to good use. After all, he always pretended, all his life. He didn't hear the voices of gods, so why did his parents say this was true? Was it because gods didn't exist?

Although he doesn't have many memories of his human life other than the death of his parents and the way they used him to earn a living, has Douma ever wondered if at some point in his human life he thought about what it would be like if he had a normal life and upbringing, would things have been different? It even looked like a joke.

It was a foolish thought.

Douma was nothing more than a killing machine, without a certain purpose with bizarre beliefs and sick hobbies.

Gods and Buddha do not exist, the afterlife does not exist. Hell does not exist. Heaven does not exist.

Or at least that's what he believed.

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— "Nee-san!" — Shinobu's voice called out to the second eldest sister right next to Kanae, the eldest of the sisters, who gave a smile when she saw her younger sister in the distance.

Not so far in front of a game tent, a beautiful girl with long hair (h/c) with a light pink gradient at the ends and a single butterfly clip attached to the right side of her hair that made her even more beautiful, lifted her face and directed her brightly colored eyes (e/c) towards her sisters. The girl was (Name) Kocho, the middle butterfly sister, who gave a smile to the other two who approached, smiling and waving.

The three demon slayers decided to participate in the festival that night that was taking place in a populated village, maybe it was a good opportunity for Kanao to have fun, even if the girl still didn't know how to show her own emotions.

While Kanae and Shinobu went to buy some snacks for four, (name) took Kanao to a tent where to win a prize it was necessary to first pop the balloons first. Of course, as a skilled slayer, it wasn't a difficult task for (name) to take out all the balloons, the hard part was choosing a prize for Kanao. It turned out that (name) decided to take the prize that Kanao was looking at the most, a medium-sized fluffy teddy bear.

— "We bought dango!" — Kanae happily informed and handed one dango to (name) and one to little Kanao.

(...)

It was a good idea Douma had come to this village looking for some pathetic woman to find and devour, after spending all day listening to so much blah blah blah from his followers that he doesn't even remember what it was about anymore, it was clear that he I would like something to eat. His followers were "disappearing" too fast, so Douma had to look for food outside his temple if he wanted to keep things normal there.

Well, he wanted something other than another woman looking for a divine lord.

The handsome demon acted in the crowd as if he were an ordinary human, attracting glances from single and committed women unhappy in their own marriage who would adore a man like that. Douma was no fool, he fanned his smiling face with his golden fan wondering how loudly they would scream upon discovering the true nature of that monster disguised as beauty.

It didn't take long for his unusually colored eyes to see a trio of pretty girls in the distance and one more child with them, all wearing butterfly accessories. He soon concluded that they were sisters, it wasn't that hard to guess either.

Douma stopped walking for a moment and blinked a few times, still looking at those sisters, or more specifically, one of them.

Douma's colored eyes widened.

If heaven didn't exist, then why was he selling a celestial maiden at that moment?

One of the girls who seemed to have fun with the sisters was the one who caught the demon's attention. Douma's lips lifted with joy in a maniacal way as he realized how beautiful that young woman was and the way she caught his attention.

It's her. He wanted her.

He would wait to leave her away from the sisters and take her with him to a secluded spot.

Soon the group of girls started walking and talking together through the lively streets, and Douma followed close behind at a safe distance so that no one would notice that he was chasing them.

The way the beautiful butterfly girl caught the attention of the upper moon two left him intrigued, at that moment nothing else around him caught his attention, he felt as if a woman appeared out of nowhere begging to be devoured, he would ignore her, why he just wanted that specific girl. Just her.

His hands tightened around his fans anxiously as he watched the girl's things in the distance, and Douma soon perked up even more as he noticed the girl separating from her sisters, apparently they were going to do something and would soon come back, and the other two left with the child, leaving the lady who caught Douma's attention alone beside a tent.

This was her chance, with calm steps the demon began to approach the girl, fanning himself with one of her fans while his smile grew with each step he took with his eyes fully fixed on the girl.

It was when they were only two meters apart that the young woman turned and Douma stopped walking. Now the demon could see the girl's full face, even if she wasn't looking at him.

What was that feeling? That's what Douma thought as he felt a strange pang in his chest.

She had the most beautiful and delicate features the mighty demon had ever seen in his many years of life. Bright eyes, rosy lips, and a soft expression on her face looking down at the sleeves of her kimono. She must have been between fifteen and sixteen, but she didn't look like the youngest of the group of sisters.

It was at the moment that Douma realized that he began to walk again, as if his body was working on its own, this time with slower steps towards the young woman.

(Name) decided to wait for the return of her sisters who said they would take Kanao to some bathroom, the middle sister just shrugged her shoulders now alone, they would be back soon.

She came out of her trance when she felt a large body collide with hers, causing her to almost drop her dango that was at the very end.

— "Eeh?" — (Name)'s eyes blinked in confusion and looked at the figure that had bumped into her, coming across a man much taller than her, a little peculiar looking, but very handsome.

The man had unusually pale skin and his hair was an almost silvery blonde with a red "spot" on top, his eyes were colored like a rainbow. And he wore a red kimono with a black patch on the top similar to the red part of his hair.

The man looked down with a confused expression and met the eyes of (name), then he fanned himself with a golden fan and his confused face was replaced by an amused expression. — "Oh my, looks like I should watch where I'm going." — He chuckled.

— "Ah..." — (Name) hid her mouth with the sleeve of her kimono and gave a short laugh. — "It's okay."

She had a beautiful voice.

— "Did you get distracted by something, sir?" — (Name) continued.

— "I think so." — The tall man laughed again.

For a moment (Name) there was something different about this man, there was something familiar about his scent, but the abnormality seemed too far away to be noticed.

— "Everything is fine?" — The velvety voice of the man asked, still with his smile on his face when he noticed the thoughtful look of the girl.

— "Hm?" — She widened her eyes and shook her head, breaking into a gentle smile. — "Yes, it is."

— "Nee-san!" — Shinobu's voice came up again and (Name) noticed her sisters waiting for her not far away.

(Name) waved at Shinobu, Kanae and Kanao and turned to face the man again. — "Sorry sir, but I have to go now."

— "Oh?" — He looked a little disappointed for a moment, but he smiled again the next second. — "Well, if you say so, see you later!"

(Name) nodded and ran towards the sisters. Behind her fan, Douma's smile formed in a maniacal and anxious way with his half-closed eyes looking in the girl's direction.

— "I hope to see you very soon."

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Douma was anxious. It was a sensation he had never felt before. He wanted something, he desperately wanted something.

Since that day, his hunts for humans have become more brutal, killing in greater numbers than he normally used to slaughter. If he still couldn't have what he was looking for, he would take his frustration out on victims who were unlucky enough to find the upper moon two.

The last time he saw that girl was about seven months ago, since that day he hasn't stopped search. His hands were shaking and his smile formed on his face much more maniacally just thinking about her, he laughed and felt like his chest was going to explode, he rolled over on the floor and scratched himself with his sharp nails. A few followers would occasionally hear the maniacal laughter coming from their gracious founder's quarters, but when questioned about it, Douma just sliced ​​through them in seconds with his fans.

Even Muzan noticed the strange change in behavior coming from the demon, and he knew very well what made Douma like that, but he didn't care, after all, this change only made the upper moon more brutal. He was stronger, something was making him most stronger.

Another who noticed Douma's change was Akaza. It wasn't hard to see the urge Douma had to brutally bite and tear the first thing that came in front of him. The upper moon two acted as if he was in a hurry, whenever they met, Douma ignored Akaza, but the same remained with that crazy happy look of his. Of course, Akaza would never miss Douma's annoying teasing about the two of them being friends, but that was weird anyway, more so than usual, however the upper moon three didn't give a damn to find out what was going on with the annoying blonde, even though it felt like it wasn't good at all.

He wanted something, he would destroy anything for something.

For three months, Douma roamed the territories of Japan looking for the girl with the butterfly clip and questioned people about her whereabouts, from ordinary residents to demon slayers.

Nobody knew. And Douma slaughtered everyone who said they'd never seen a girl with a butterfly clip.

His tennyo was out there, and what frustrated Douma even more was knowing she was in a place he had no idea where.

It was during the confrontation with a common slayer that he had the misfortune of coming face to face with a upper moon in which Douma finally had some answers.

She was a female slayer who appeared to have had little training, which would make it much easier for Douma, not that it wasn't easy enough to kill a slayer with or without experience. At the exact moment she noticed the kanji in Douma's eyes, the demon burst out laughing to see that the slayer began to shake to the point of pissing her own pants and then falling to the ground, begging to be spared.

— "Ara ara~... let's see what we have here..." — Douma was amused by the desperate situation of that pathetic human.

The upper moon two was known for toying with his opponents before killing them, but now, since what happened months ago, he doesn't want to waste any more time, he will destroy the stones in his shoes quickly and then go to the next step.

— "Please! Spare me!" — The human was crying and trembling, kneeling with her head and hands on the floor.

How ridiculous that was. Douma wanted to sink her head into the ground as quickly as possible.

— "Why so afraid?" — Douma laughed as he fanned himself with his fan. — "I can spare you, but only if you give me the answer I'm looking for."

— "Yes! I-I'll do anything!"

Douma's lips rose slightly. — "Very well. You know, I've been looking for a certain young woman for a while now who caught my attention. Have you seen a girl with a butterfly clip?"

The helpless slayer's eyes widened, yes, she knew a girl with a butterfly clip, from afar, of course.

— "A-Are you referring to the girls of butterfly mansion?" — The girl dared to ask hesitantly.

Douma's eyes widened and his smile opened much wider than before, and that was scary. — "Butterfly Mansion? Could you describe them to me?"

— "Y-Yes..." — The slayer confirmed, still kneeling on the ground without looking at the monster in front of her. — "Two of them are the flower hashira... one of them having become hashira about two months ago... the other sister is not a hashira, but from what I hear she has great potential. But she also has other younger girls living in that mansion, but they're not slayers."

Douma's slow steps approached the slayer and he bent down in front of her and made her lift her watery and sweaty face, making her look right into the demon's eyes. — "Now, tell me which one is the girl with long (h/c) pink hair who wears the butterfly clip on the right side of her head."

The slayer thought for a moment, trying to remember which of the sisters the upper moon was referring to, until her eyes widened at the memory. — "(Name)! (Name) Kocho! It is the sister who became recent Hashira!"

(Name) Kocho... there it is.

A peaceful sigh escaped Douma's lips as he closed his eyes. He finally felt calm again.

— "Thank you very much for your cooperation with me." — Douma thanked her.

For a moment the female slayer had a glimmer of hope that she might survive, but alas, Douma was by far not the most merciful of demons.

— "Now, as thanks, I will allow you to live forever, an act of mercy, as I promised." — Douma grabbed the girl and pulled her against his body. — "Inside me, you will live forever."

The slayer didn't have time to scream or act before her body was absorbed by Douma.

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The butterfly mansion was a property of the demon demon slayer corps, Douma learned this from certain listeners he got, that's where she was, and the fact that she was a slayer only delayed the situation. Of course, Douma might as well go there, even knowing about the wisteria, and take it for himself, but it was better to avoid unwanted attention, that would surely make Muzan furious.

It was funny the way (Name) started to make Douma feel things he had never felt before. What was it? Was it the so-called emotions he was never supposed to feel? During the past seven months, was it anger he felt at not meeting her?

Douma laughed at his insane expression at the thought of all this. He was enjoying it, she was enjoying it, and he was enjoying it.

But soon he returned to his serious self as he finally realized that he had followed the wrong sister.

In front of him was this Kanae, (Name)'s older sister who he had confused with her. Douma hit himself on the forehead, how could he mistake his lovely lady for her sister? (Name) wore only one butterfly clip on the side of her head, not two!

— "Sorry (Name)-chan." — Douma moaned with his weird tears streaming from his eyes. — "I think my desire to meet you again ended up not making me realize that I had followed your sister. I promise not to make the same mistake next time."

Kanae's eyes widened as she heard the name of one of her sisters come out of the upper moon's mouth. — "How do you know my sister's name?"

— "(Name)-chan was the one I wanted here..." — He wipes away his tears and makes a sad expression. — "I miss her so much, could you take me to her?" — Douma looked hopeful in front of Kanae.

— "N-No!" — Incredulous and surprised by the whole situation, Kanae replied. — "I... I would never take you to one of my sisters!" — She tightened her grip on her katana.

— "Ah, geez..." — Douma was sad again. — "Looks like I'll have to force you to come here then…" — And then he opened his fans.

(...)

— "CAW! CAW!"

— "Hmm?" — (Name) recognized her crow tone as one more agitated than usual. Something had happened.

— "CAW CAW! KANAE KOCHO WAS DEFEATED IN THE EAST!"

(Name)'s eyes widened and she wasted no time before starting to run as fast as the wind in the direction dictated by the crow where her older sister was defeated.

Praying with all her might that Kanae would hold on, (Name)'s eyes filled with tears as her heart pounded almost out of her mouth.

"Please Nee-san... Please hold on..."

With her legs aching from running a considerable distance, (Name) arrived at the said spot in about a minute, where she found herself in an alley Shinobu holding Kanae with tears in her eyes.

— "..." — (Name)'s hands trembled along with her soaked lips and eyes. — "Nee-san!" — She ran towards the sisters and held Kanae along with Shinobu. — "Nee-san! Nee-san wake up, please!"

Not so far just below a safe shadow to later be able to flee, Douma watched the two sisters mourn the loss of the eldest, and despite being "upset" that he didn't have time to devour Kanae, Douma felt the same emotion again. looking forward to seeing (Name).

Finally, she was in his sight for the first time in months. She is still as beautiful as before.

Douma licked his lips, wishing he could go there right now, and take (Name) with him and maybe kill Shinobu soon too so there would be no witnesses.

damn sun.

(...)

— "Kanae-nee-san told me something before he died..." — Shinobu muttered.

— "Hmm?" — As her finished combing her younger sister's hair and securing it with the clip, (Name)'s attention was called.

After all, Kanae's funeral had only been a few weeks ago.

— "The demon that killed her..." — Shinobu sighed, but feel the anger in her voice. — "A demon with bloodstains above his head... he always gives a carefree smile... and speaks in a calm and gentle manner... the weapon this demon uses is a pair of sharp, golden fans." — She repeated the same words spoken by Kanae before she passed away.

(Name) released the comb and blinked a few times with a confused expression, as if a memory had come back to her.

Shinobu noticed the change in her sister's behavior and stood up, turning to her. — "Nee-san... is everything okay?"

...

...

...

(Name) blinked again.

...

A handsome man bumped into her...

...

Tall and handsome, with a red spot on his head that looked like blood...

...

He spoke in a velvety voice...

...

He was smiling and had a golden fan with a shine that made him look sharp...

...

He had a strange smell...

...

...

...

"Oh my, looks like I should watch where I'm going." He chuckled.

Panting, (Name) covered her mouth with her hands, hoping it was just a coincidence.

— "She also said... that the demon kept asking about you..." — Shinobu still hadn't noticed (Name)'s reaction. — "Nee-san, do you know him...?"

Shinobu's face turned over her shoulder to look at her sister, and it wasn't hard to see the feeling of unease in the older sister.

— "Shinobu... I think I made a terrible mistake..."

The younger sister stood up and took hold of (Name)'s shoulders. — "Nee-san... have you ever seen the demon that killed our sister?" — Shinobu looked tense but trying to keep her face steady, she was aware that, according to Kanae's last words, the demon wanted something with (Name). — "Please try to remember, our sister's murderer cannot go unpunished."

— "I-I..." — (Name) blinked looking at the floor, until she regained her posture and gave a sigh, regaining her calm. — "On the day of the festival a few months ago... when you and Kanae went out with Kanao and I was waiting alone, a man appeared." — She informed, and Shinobu listened attentively. — "He was a tall, very handsome man, and Kanae's description of the demon exactly matches his features, and... he had a scent and aura that made me a little uneasy, but it was something so far away that I I couldn't even understand it properly... but it was something in there..."

The two sisters stared at each other for a moment, Shinobu seemed to think about something, until he said something. — "His face, do you remember?"

— "It was a normal face… a human face…" — (Name)'s voice was low and emotionless. — "He didn't have any demonic traits… he was like a normal man…" — She continued. — "But remember, there's no way to know if he was really a demon or just a coincidence..."

The traits clashed too much for it to be just coincidence... and both sisters knew it.

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Things continued on a daily basis after four years. (Name) and Shinobu shared the same feelings after the elder butterfly sister's death... sadness, denial, failed attempt at acceptance, anger. But at least things seemed to take an evolutionary turn. Kanao became an official slayer and Shinobu rose through the ranks as Insect Hashira.

Maybe things were peaceful for now--

— "(Name)-chan!"

The female scream was loud enough that it might have been heard throughout the butterfly mansion. (Name)'s eyes widened after she finished helping the triplets put on their butterfly accessories.

The triplets looked at each other in confusion and then looked at (Name), who was the person she had been called.

— "Hmm?" — (Name) blinked in confusion and walked towards the room where she heard her name being yelled. — "Kanroji-san?"

In the entrance room of the butterfly mansion was the Hashira of love, her face flushed and excited, waiting anxiously for flower hashira in the place where she was. Mitsuri gave a happy little squeal to see (Name) approaching.

— "Mitsuri-chan..." — (Name)'s confused gaze looked in the direction of her pink-braided friend. — "What happened?"

— "Well--" — Mitsuri looked anxious and happy in a way that prevented her from finishing her sentence.

(Name) watched Mitsuri with her eyes seeming to have been replaced by black dots on her face with a clear expression not understanding the situation.

— "S-See for yourself!" — Mitsuri pointed to a well-wrapped gift box at the front door of the property.

When approaching the box, (Name) can get a better view when holding it. It was a medium-sized box that could be easily carried in the hands, the wrapping was purple paper with a light pink ribbon, and there was a note stuck to it.

"To (Name) Kocho <3"

— "..."

Mitsuri ran towards (Name) and gave one of her cute little squeals of happiness. — "A secret admirer, (Name)-chan!" — The taller woman took the butterfly girl's shoulders and rocked her gently. — "You have a secret admirer! This is so cute!"

Sometimes (Name) would like to see love the way Mitsuri saw it.

— "Open! Open!"

Hearing Mitsuri's hand clapping beside her, (Name) blew the air out and began to gently open the package without destroying the packaging or the tape. After that, she can see a box made of cardboard and then the girl removed the top lid. Mitsuri peeked a little to see what the gift was along with (Name) and they both saw that it was a kimono along with several red and white flowers.

— "Kya! How adorable!"

Still silent, (Name) handed the box to her friend to hold while she removed the kimono from inside so that both of them could observe it better. It was a lilac-colored kimono with lots of white details and flower and butterfly prints, along with a few more cute ruffles. Accompanying the kimono was also a pinkish obi sash with mixed designs of daisies.

— "How beautiful..." — (Name) gave a small smile, feeling grateful for the beautiful gift.

When Kanae was still alive, it was common for her and (Name) to have certain admirers among lower level slayers. (Name) was aware of this, but felt surprised that someone could send her a gift, her admirers were never brave enough to give her some sort of romantic gift.

Mainly for Kanae, who also had many admirers, but none ever gave her any gifts as they all had a strong fear of the terrifying wind hashira, because of the rumors about him and Kanae having feelings for each other.

(Name) suspected this and sometimes encouraged Shinazugawa covertly back then.

Meanwhile behind the wall, the triplets watched the two Hashira girls looking at the present. Mitsuri and (Name) only noticed the presence of the three because Sumi tripped and fell on the mat, then Kiyo and Naho falling on top of it.

In the next second the three were around (Name).

— "(Name)-sama!"

— "Who gave you this gift?"

— "Please put it on!"

— "(Name)-sama has a secret admirer!"

The little triplets seemed to cheer around the butterfly girl. Making both (Name) and Mitsuri laugh.

— "I'll try it later."

(...)

Douma's eyes widened with happiness as he saw his precious lover wearing the kimono he had sent her.

It wasn't that difficult to send the gift to the butterfly mansion, despite the fact that it was daylight. It was just finding a random, terrified slayer who would know the way to the property, telling him they'd spare him if he did that favor, another one of Douma's lies of course.

(Name) was strolling through the festival alone, but Douma knew what her intentions were. A demon lurked around the village and she needed to look like an ordinary maiden, a slayer's uniform could scare away the night beast. Douma is overjoyed that she chose her gift to wear as her outfit tonight.

That was her chance. Douma could take the opportunity to get closer to his beloved now that she was facing a tent watching some people play a game of fishing.

Slowly and still with his expression of peaceful happiness on his face, Douma approached (Name), who seemed to be alert for a moment, probably thanks to her presence. But before she could look back, Douma wrapped his arm around her waist and pulled her lightly against his body.

— "I've missed you so much, my lovely (Name)-chan" — Douma exclaimed in a gleeful whisper as he sniffed the top of (Name)'s head.

— "..." — (Name)'s face turned cold with a serious wide-eyed expression. She looked up to meet colored eyes that had the upper moon two kanji.

(Name) looked at that monster with visible veins on its face and its jaw was trembling as if its teeth were gnashing.

There he was. Now she recognized the demon smell coming from that man. Her older sister's killer was hugging her as if he were her husband.

— "Do you know how long I looked for you?" — He laughed and walked in the other direction, forcing (Name) to come with him as her arm was still under her waist. — "I dream and think about you since the first time we saw each other!"

— "Get your hands of me..." — (Name) growled in a whisper and tried to push the demon away, but to no avail as the grip on his waist was firm.

— "Don't be like that, (Name)-chan!" — He laughed again. — "Let's go now."

— "I don't want to go anywhere with you…" — (Name) tried to struggle, but Douma was much stronger than her. — "You bastard... how dare you show up in front of me after what you did..."

— "But (Name)-chan! I gave you so many beautiful gifts! Like this kimono for example!" — Douma smiled. — "It looks so good on you! And you seem to like it a lot."

Motherfucker. (Name) was hoping to get out of there immune so she could burn that kimono.

— "Ara ara..." — Douma chuckled softly in a bolder way, (Name) could hear the sadistic tone in his voice. — "Don't be so silly... my dear. Don't forget we are in the middle of a crowd, I could easily commit a massacre here if you dare raise your katana against me."

Shit. He must have noticed that (Name)'s nichirin katana was right under her kimono. She mentally cursed herself, she can't risk the lives of all these people for personal revenge. After all, it's a upper moon who she was dealing with.

(Name)'s silence was like a response to Douma, who regained his cheerful demeanor. — "That, (Name)-chan. Now come with me."

(...)

"CAW! CAW!"

Shinobu's face grew a little alarmed as she noticed her sister's crow appear in the skies above her and Tomioka.

— "(NAME) KOCHO DISAPPEARS! CAW CAW!

Shinobu fell into deathly silence. No... it can't be. She... she must have just had an accident.

Tomioka noticed Shinobu's behavior upon hearing the crow, but had no idea what to say or do.

— "CAPTURED! CAPTURED! UPPER MOON TWO CAPTURED (NAME) KOCHO!"

Shinobu's body began to shake as her face was plastered with fear and anger. First it was Kanae, and now she couldn't lose her other sister either. No... (Name) was still alive... If she was dead then the crow would have said "dead" and not "missing"...

The same demon. Shinobu clenched his shaking fists.

— "Kocho." — Giyuu approached the butterfly girl, still with her stoic face. — 'We must return to headquarters to ask for reinforcements for your sister."

Shinobu went ahead at high speed. She couldn't lose (Name) either.

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It had been weeks since (Name) was forcefully brought into the "cult of eternal paradise". She was not allowed to go out during the day and at night she was accompanied by Douma all the time.

(Name) felt like throwing up whenever she was able to hear cries for help and prayers to the "graceful savior", wondering what they would do if they knew the truth about this man's true demonic nature.

She felt totally helpless now that she was separated from her nichirin and the only thing she had in that room was the beautiful hair accessories and more kimonos. Douma made it a point to give only the best for his beloved now that he had her.

Even though it was only weeks, (Name) felt like it was a long eternity, being under the same roof as her sister's killer was without a doubt the greatest torture she'd ever felt, mostly because she couldn't do anything. She still didn't understand what plans Douma had for her, he always appeared suddenly and spent long hours hugging (Name) and talking to. her, even if she didn't answer back.

Did he intend to turn into a demon? Why didn't he do it yet then?

— "(Name)-chan!" — Douma exclaimed as he opened the shoji door.

(Name) remained silently eating his tonkatsu keeping his gaze on the wall to avoid Douma's happy face. And then she rolled her eyes as she felt Douma settle down beside her.

— "I'm so looking forward to introducing you to that man!"

Suddenly (Name)'s body shivered a little just imagining coming face to face with Muzan. Wait, did that mean...

— "I know you will be a strong demon!" — Douma hugged her and kissed the top of her head. — "And then we can be together forever!"

It can only be a joke. (Name)'s hands began to shake and clench to the point of breaking his chopsticks. The bowl of tonkatsu was thrown at Douma by (Name), the blonde man showed no negative emotion towards it and found his beloved's angry face adorable.

— "What the fuck do you have on your mind?!" — (Name) finally got tired of the whole situation. — "You murdered my sister! Are you aware of that?!"

— "Don't be upset, (Name)-chan." Douma pouted sadly. — "Your sister stayed between us. What was her name anyway?"

— 'Don't you dare say her name!" — she yelled before starting to throw things at him like her pillows. — "Die disgrace! Just die!"

Douma started to laugh. — "Hey hey! Don't be so upset, (Name)-chan. When you become a demon, there will come a time when you won't even remember your sisters!" — He smiled and opened his arms as if he was expecting a hug. — 'It will be just you and me for all eternity!'

(Name) wasn't able to answer, she just lowered her head and started to cry softly, wishing just to be in the company of her sisters and friends again.

And once again, Douma approached her and hugged her gently. This time, (Name) didn't fight, she was already too tired of it all, and so she just allowed her head to lie under Douma's chest.

She just prayed that someone would find her.

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— "Hello, nice to meet you in person." — Douma smiled at a troubled-looking Shinobu at the entrance. — "My name is Douma. You must be my sweet (Name)-chan's younger sister."

— "Help... help me!" — A girl cried for Shinobu.

— "Shh... we're talking." — Douma tried to silence the girl using his kekkijutsu, but she was taken out of there before by Shinobu. — "Wow, you're also fast, (Name)-chan mentioned about you being a hashira!"

Shinobu's eyes widened in horror as he saw that the girl he had saved had her body shattered while still in her arms.

— "..."

— "Oh don't worry about her! Just leave her there." — Douma assured. "I'll make sure to devour you later. I'm the founder of the cult of eternal paradise, my duty is to make all my followers, including myself and your sister, happy. Then I'm going to eat this woman without leaving a trace. Maybe I'll share it with (Name)-chan when she becomes a demon!"

— "Where is my sister?"

— "Oh, don't worry, she's fine. I made sure she couldn't get away from the cult." — He smiled carefree. — "But if there's something bothering you, just tell me and I'll tell (Name)-chan."

— "You bastard... You kidnapped one of my sisters!" — Shinobu growled. — "And you also killed my other sister, didn't you?!" — She squeezed the hem of her haori. — "Don't you recognize this haori?!"

Douma recognized that that haori was the same as (Name), and smiled. — "Ah, the other girl who also used flower breath! It's a funny story, I followed her thinking it was (Name)-chan!" — He placed the closed fan against her chin. — "I was very upset with myself for mistaking my lover for one of her sisters... but it's ok now! She didn't want me to get to (Name)-chan and so I got rid of her soon! sun appeared... otherwise I could have taken--

Douma was stopped as Shinobu stabbed her blade into the demon's eye, but it didn't cause any reaction in him.

"Insect Breath: Bee Sting Dance, True Flutter"

— "It was a good lunge, I couldn't stop even with my hand." — Douma smiled and opened his fans before breaking into a psychotic, terrifying smile. — "Now, let's get this over with. I want to get back to (Name)-chan as soon as possible."

"...Give me back my sister..."

(...)

Inside the luxurious and dark room only lit by a candle, (Name) was shaking and sweating as he stood staring at his hands in his lap. She knew the final fight had begun, her sister Kanao and the rest of her companions... all in enemy territory risking their lives.

(Name) started to tear up and sniffle, she wanted to be there for them to help them defeat those damn monsters that caused so much pain. That room was closed without any chance of communication with the outside, Douma made sure that she didn't run away, this time with even stronger protection.

Her breath suddenly hitched when she heard careful footsteps on the hardwood floor outside the room.

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Hands began to carefully remove the guard from the entrance. (Name) feel like her heart was going to come out of her mouth.

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The final battle was over.

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The shadow, now visible on the other side of the shoji door, began to slowly open.

For a second, (Name) had a glimmer of hope.

— "...Shinobu?"

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— "Ara ara~... it's just me, (Name)-chan~"

Douma's bloodied figure was standing in the doorway with his same happy smile as ever, now even bigger to see his lover again, even though her face was dead and her cheeks were wet from tears.

She remained that way from that day on. Douma hated it, it was as if his beloved (Name) had lost her luster, even after turning her into a demon.

How much time has passed? It's been a few years maybe.

Ended. The demons won.

That day, with every moment of time he wasted fighting those slayers, the more Douma felt like his chest was going to explode. He smiled maniacally and just wanted to get it over with as quickly as possible to return to his beloved.

And that's what he did.

The "conversation" with Shinobu was even fun, seeing how she writhed in anger at the loss of one of her sisters and the kidnapping of the other. She was furious as Douma joked about how him played (Name).

But Douma was even more furious. He yearned for (Name) and every second he was away from her was even more torturous than the very presence of Muzan.

He craved, he needed her.

He got tired of this situation, so he just killed Shinobu and decided to get rid of the other two that appeared without delay.

That pathetic struggle didn't last even a minute.

Douma decided not to go into details about how he killed Kanao and Inosuke, as he recognized that it would make (Name) even sadder. And that wasn't what he wanted.

Anyway, Douma helped Akaza, and then helped Kokushibo. No slayer was able to reach Muzan. All their efforts were in vain even before the sun could rise above the horizon.

The demon king went into a rage, after all that, he went after the rest of the slayer squad to finish the job. In the end, Muzan captured the demon girl who had conquered the sun and devoured her. It was over, now the Demon King was invincible.

But why would Douma care at all? Now and for all eternity, he had his beloved (Name) to himself, who was now "known" as the "Butterfly Demon". At first she was incredibly difficult to deal with, she didn't speak, she didn't eat, and she didn't even change her expression. Douma was upset as he would much rather see a happy expression on her face. (Name) was hungry all the time, refusing to eat humans, so Douma said that if she got too hungry she could lose control and attack a human, so she accepted Douma's blood as food.

Things were going well at best. After all, she had nowhere to go but Douma.

(...)

(Name)'s mind didn't work like it used to, it didn't care anymore to live or die. But as the years passed, maybe even decades, she began to wonder... what was right and wrong?

When you've been around for so long you come to "enjoy" the company you have. Maybe... (Name) was being a bit hasty towards Douma, after all, what had he done? She couldn't remember anymore, and knew that now, she had only him in the world.

Until... his company wasn't so bad, he had a good singing voice and gave his best to (Name). Maybe…she was being ungrateful? He surprised her in the late 20s when he brought her a magic box called "television", and in the early 30s he took her to America as a... honeymoon?

Until he was kind...

He took care of her and loved her, so...she shouldn't be so cruel to him sometimes...

Maybe... she should start repaying his love with her own love...

Meanwhile, Douma felt happy to have (Name) finally return his love, it wasn't a facade emotion like the masks he used to wear, no, with (Name) it was real. And he liked it.

Until the 21st century arrived, and Douma could barely contain his maniacal gleeful smile when he inadvertently mentioned the name of one of (Name)'s sisters, only getting a confused look from her.

— "Who is Shinobu?"

Douma swore to destroy anyone and anything that would stop the same from (Name) for himself, nothing would stop him from loving her for the rest of eternity.

It's everthing fine now.

Douma have you now for ALL eternity.

THE BAD ENDING

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[your-favorite-roommate]

"LISTEN this is about spaghetti"

prompt by @sleepyowlwrites

a genloss concept

cw for gore and death

Sneegsnag, who went through the same trials that Ranboo did. He had to do the cooking show. He walked into that cabin, and the execs were a little looser at the time so he had a bit more free roam. He talked not to the audience but to his best friend frank, who he was with. Now Frank was a smart cookie; while Sneegsnag was looking for the keys, Frank saw there were no hinges and walked right into the kitchen

Sneegsnag was so popular with the audience that the execs brought in a Best Friend character, meant to be silly and goofy. However, Frank, who wasn't with Showfall Media from the beginning, wasn't nearly as brainwashed, and was deviating from the plot and his intended character more and more.

They walk into the kitchen. They see the spirit of the cabin, Charlie's character. He jumps up in surprise, "Welcome to my cabin" he says, waving his hands around as his theme song kicks in. Why did no one give me my cue, he muttered under his breath

They start playing his little game, they're meant to make a dish for the spirit, and they choose spaghetti, or splaghebbi as the spirit calls it

But Frank keeps snooping. The producers are ready to jump in at any second but the audience is loving frank so they hold off. He messes with the chains on the bedroom door, not even hearing anyone approach as he feels the clap of a strong hand on his shoulder, startling him.

He turns to see the spirit directly behind him, too close for comfort. He grins widely, madly, "Don't go snoopin' where you aren't supposed to, there, Frank" and for a moment, his eyes hold a pit of fire, his teeth are sharp and jagged and far too many crowd his mouth, his clothes covered in a thick mucus of red, too closely resembling blood for Frank's taste.

Another moment and it's like it never happened. His eyes held charm and wit, his movements comical, his smile award-winning and not looking at all like the horror he had just seen. And the slime covering his suit slid back to a bright neon green that it once was, but it was too late. Frank could no longer trust his own mind, shock clear on his face as he allowed himself to be led back to the kitchen by the spirits strong arms. Sneegsnag was still in the kitchen, mixing what looks like spaghetti in a bowl, though Frank can't even be certain its not meal worms and tendons.

"Frank! There you are buddy, I could use your help in here! This guy is working us to the bone, I swear" he mutters the last part out of the side of his mouth, loud enough to still be heard.

Frank looks at him and says "Yeah… yeah okay." He still stands blankly, but tries to make it look like hes helping. A minute passes, the spirit making loud commentary as he leaves the room to sit at his own table. Frank leans in "I need you to tell me. What color is on that mans suit"

"Green, why? What, are you feeling okay Frank?" Sneeg looks at him, a half smile on his lips as he tries to figure out the joke.

"I don't think so. Listen, I don't… I don't think this is real"

Sneeg scoffs, a laugh rising from his chest, "Yeah, alright dude. Maybe you should go sit down. Have a little chat with that demon guy. Don't worry, I'll make enough splaghebbi for both of you"

"Sneeg, I'm serious! I don't think he's who he says he is. and I'm frea-"

"HEY" the spirit loudly enters the room. "That doesn't sound like splaghebbi making to me, Snackpack and Francis"

All other words died in Frank's throat, but Sneeg took the moment to speak up. "Oh perfect. Slime demon, tell Frank that this is super normal and totally real and not a show that's being put on and live streamed to people against our wills. He's getting a little freaked out," he looked back down to the spaghetti, missing the momentary flair of anger that welled in the spirit's eyes.

"Of course, Frank. You see, this is my cabin. I am the spirit of this cabin. Sneegsnag and his best friend, Frank, have broken into my cabin, and as payment, are making me some delicious spaghetti to eat. It's totally real and not fake and if you look to this wall, you will not see a multitude of cameras and producers and workers filming our every move, because this is not a show, this is real life."

As frank turned, he swore for a split second he could see the wall melt away, replaced instead with exactly what the spirit had said; cameras all pointed at the group, filming their every move, trained on him like a hawk. The image melted away before he could gather much else, but not soon enough to stop him from freaking out. He moved back, grabbing Sneeg's arm, mumbling and pointing at the wall.

"It- it's not- it's not real. I-I told you! I told- it's not- noth- it's- what- I-"

Sneeg clapped both hands on Frank's shoulders, forcing his attention to him. "Hey dude, you're alright. Yeah? What's this about it 'not being real', what? Come off it, dude. Just help me make this guy some spaghetti"

But Frank finds his voice once more. "No, no you don't understand. They're- they're watching! We're being watched, being filmed, actively! They're just there! They were just-"

He's cut off by the spirit, who looks at Sneeg with a devilish smile. "Do not believe a word he says. I don't know what the fuck he's on about." Sneeg nods, giving the spirit a knowing look.

Franks yells "What? Why can you be so sure, why do you trust this weird spirit in a random cabin? Do you even remember how you got here? Do you even kno-"

"LISTEN" the spirit yells over Frank. "This is about spaghetti. And it better be done by the time I get back, or so help me," he mutters darkly before leaving the room.

Frank takes the opportunity to grab Sneeg's hand, trying to tug him away from the kitchen counter. "Come on, we've gotta go now before he gets back."

"Dude, what? Why? The guy just wants his splaghebbi? We did break into his cabin"

"No! We didn't! We were planted! We didn't start anywhere but here! We've got to get out! This- this is a death trap!" He tries the other door leading out of the kitchen, but it's locked. No way to go out but through the living room, maybe he can try the cabin door again.

"Nuh-uh, I'm staying right here and finishing this splaghebbi. You go do your own thing, if that's what you want. Have fun without me."

Frank turns back, heartbroken and confused as he tries to rack his brain for when he first met Sneeg and comes up blank.

He runs into the living room, coming face to face with the spirit, who flickers back to that horror standing before him, dripping in blood and holding a great fiery rage in his eyes. "Now, where do you think you're going. You're not meant to leave for at least another three episodes." Frank says nothing, too stunned to speak.

"You know, you were a fan favorite, but what can be done. They'll get over you," the spirit says as a knife is drawn and shoved deep into franks chest. He yells in pain, blood gurgling in his throat as he watches the spirit twist the knife, pain exploding in his body, too much for him to handle as he nearly passes out. The spirit retracts his hand, wiping the blood off on his own suit, a disgusted face as his hands get stuck in the mucus.

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Sneegsnag is still making splaghebbi, looking up when the spirit reenters the room. "Oh, Frank! You're back so soon! Didn't wanna leave after all, I'm glad."

The spirit laughs in response and says "Yeah, I convinced him otherwise. But unfortunately, you've failed."

Sneeg looked up in shock, his spaghetti yet untouched. "What? failed?!"

"Yeah, unfortunately. It's no good, I can tell just by looking at it. I mean," he made a pained face "not even a hint of slime in there! No, no, I can't eat this. You fail. Awful. Horrible." He waved his hands, knocking the plate to the ground in the process.

"Let's go, out, out," he says, shepherding sneeg, frank's limp arm hung around his neck, into the room that had been previously locked.

"You don't even wanna try it?" Sneeg asked.

"Nope, nope, not enough slime. Something like that would kill me, I swear. Well, kill me more." Sneeg nodded, letting himself be led into the room and into a small cage off to the side.

"Watch your head, Frank," he said, kneeling so as to help his friend into the cage first. He didn't comment on how unmoving frank seemed; maybe he was just tired. Nor how his mouth hung open, a trail of red seeping down the side; that would just be rude of him. Nor did he comment on the dagger hilt sticking out of his chest; maybe he was just into alternative fashion.

The spirit disappeared as one of it's ghouls came along and pinned a tarp to the wall of the cage, effectively making the already small space feel even smaller. But sneegsnag wasn't worried, he was with his best friend Frank. And it was alright if frank decomposed over time. It was alright if his flesh rotted away and left a horrible corpse behind. Sneeg was fine, everything would be fine.

[beevean]

I'm getting really tired of Ian using the whole thing about the writing and characterization in the series being inconsistent throughout the years as an excuse. Yes, there has many wildly different interpretations and takes of the characters in the many different spin-offs in media that have been made throughout it's history. Imo it's why the franchise has remained so relevant and it's fandom so active to this day, because it's made the characters and series more accessible that way. Anywhere can be a jumping on point for people. But I really don't think people are asking too much for there to be some consistency or set of rules within a continuity that he and the others working on IDW have, or tried to have, established. Unlike with Archie, where they were literally making things up as they went along, they're supposed to be starting completely from scratch with IDW.

And it doesn't help with him doing writing work on a mainline game like Frontiers, because it's meant to take place in the same exact canon as the main games. Assuming he had something to do with it, I wouldn't have any problem with how the whole Eggdad thing was done(aside from it just feeling completely rushed) if it was in a completely different continuity that was it's own thing, as the character has had so many different portrayals throughout the franchise's history. But since this is meant to be the same Eggman from the games, I have to look at it through the lense of how he's been in the previous games up until that point- which I would say has actually been pretty damn consistent- and because of that, it feels so off-putting for him to suddenly soften up out of nowhere, when he normally would have immediately pushed the off button on Sage, or do a bit of "reprogramming", the second she started talking back.

It's a lazy copout, not befitting of Best Sonic Writer The Veteran, and it's not even true!

You know what, I'll just put this from the FAQ, which wasn't written for sport:

“Games!Sonic is inconsistent.”

Yes, different writers choose to emphasize different aspects of Sonic’s personality. In ShTH, he was overly giddy and excited, and even seemed to not notice Shadow being upset because he remembered his own death. In ‘06, he was overly stoic. In Colors, he gained the sudden quirk of taunting robots who couldn’t respond.

However, Sonic still has core traits that no game has changed: for example, Games!Sonic is always supportive towards his friends, and trusts them to know what they’re doing… something that isn’t always present in IDW. Games!Sonic remarked that Shadow saved the world once and thus he isn’t just a weapon in Battle; IDW!Sonic guilt-tripped him by reminding him that he tried to obliterate the planet once in #6. Games!Sonic listens to Tails, and he makes sure to apologize to him after the one time he has offended him in Lost World;  IDW!Sonic brushes Tails off and deflects blame when Tails confronts him about his decision to let Metal Sonic go in #50. Games!Sonic is fairly terse when it comes to himself, and only speaks for longer when he talks about the power of friendship; IDW!Sonic goes on whole speeches about his general modus operandi (granted, this is an issue with Flynn’s writing in general, who really seems to like writing many words).

Sonic is a simple character at his core, and as such, the traits that make his very being have always been respected. Sonic is friendly, kind although with a noticeable ego, he always always tries to save people in need even if he has no idea of what's going on, always sees the best in those people, but he's somewhat uncaring of villains, especially the ones who have crossed the line in his mind - he doesn't automatically go for the kill, but if he has to kill them, he'll do it. The fact that he's more of a chatterbox in Colors than he is in '06 doesn't mean that there is one game where Sonic has suddenly turned into a manipulative bastard, or somehow thinks that Eggman could ever reform.

The games. They're meant to be played. With care.

And of course, same with Eggman. Yes, the Eggman from '06 is a much more serious, less hammy version of the character, that is inconsistent. But throughout 31 years, Eggman never, ever displayed any positive quality that would suggest that he'd grow emotionally attached to a child, even one of his creation. This is why I hate the argument "well Bowser can be a dad and still be evil!" sure! Bowser. Not Eggman. They're not the same character. Anti-heroes who slash everyone in their way and still are heroic exist, but that doesn't mean that Sonic would be one of them!

Justifying it with "muh inconsistency" means you're not above the level of a 6 year old who makes up the rules of the game as they go along, because they really want to win.

[virtualpeople]

Get to know you: Sims Style

tagged by @goatskickin, thank you this was strangely relaxing :D

What's your favourite sims death? It's got to be the flight simulator in TS1. You ever been so sleepy you just drift right off into space? What about physically this time?

Alpha CC or Maxis Match? i guess semi-real? I've lost track of where the realism levels are at tbh. I love me some texture and shiny eyes is all I can specifically say, generally I just download whatever takes my fancy and hope for the best lmao

(now I'm just gonna derail this slightly to do my best grouchy old fucker impression and protest bitterly at the way the word alpha has come to be used to describe realistic CC, like arggghghghghg anything can have an alpha should you wish, why is this a thing >:( , ok grouch over)

Do you cheat your sims weight? Implying I ever play this game in a normal manner enough to have sims actually change weight from what they were originally created with in the first place

Do you move objects? Imagine playing sims 2 and not being able to move objects, truly a hellscape

Favourite mod? It's not exciting, but it's the SimBlender. Couldn't live (mode) without you, lil plant* fella.

*Other models are available

First Expansion/Game Pack/Stuff Pack? Here's a vague answer for you all: The first sims game I got was the TS1 complete collection, so technically it was all the sims 1 EPs. And then when I got TS2 I got about 8 EPs/SPs in one go off ebay, can't exactly remember which ones other than it didn't include Apartment Life or Seasons, so what came first was really a good 50% of the whole game

Slightly off topic but the only sims I've ever bought new was the IKEA stuff pack when it was on clearance. Enjoy your £3 for this entire series, EA ;)

Do you pronounce live mode like aLIVE or LIVing? LIVing, it's the mode where all the little computer people live :)

Who’s your favourite sim that you’ve made? Don't make me choose it could be so many of them ;-; Ok, maybe this guy. Or maybe this guy. Or maybe…

Have you made a simself? i tried a long long time ago but with very little resemblance. I have a very strange face that's hard to reproduce in <1000 polygons apparently.

Which is your favourite EA hair color? I'm quite fond of that slightly desaturated basegame brown shade, it's nice. Shame it's not really common in any of the more popular hair colour actions

Favourite EA hair? haircaesar, that short one that came with seasons. It's so… basic. So versatile. My beloved.

Favourite life stage? Adult. Elders second. I barely play any of the others tbh

Are you a builder or are you in it for the gameplay? I'd say technically for building, although it's more building characters and the world they live in. Gameplay does come into it, but more for letting sims play out storylines and interact with their world like in a soap opera way than the usual motives way of playing, if that makes sense - I'm constantly dishing out maxmotives because I had an idea of what I wanted to happen next but the sims would've otherwise been too grumpy lol

Are you a CC creator? As long as the title of CC creator doesn't expire after a couple of years of doing absolutely nothing (but definitely not retiring either) then yes

Do you have any Simblr friends or a Sim Squad? I have been here for so many years and yet I've never said much beyond a couple of sentences to anyone, let alone having an entire squad lmao. Not deliberately, I've just got a habit of sitting here and collecting dust vibing

Do you have any sims merch? no, I don't think I've even seen any sims merch irl actually

Do you have a YouTube for sims? no.

How has your “Sims style” changed throughout your years of playing? Many eons ago, back in the distant mists of time, I used to be able to churn out sims and buildings at a rapid rate all day long. Now I… can't. Am I getting more picky? Am I paying more attention to detail? Am I just getting old? Who knows

Who’s your favourite CC creator? Over all these years?? It wouldn't be fair to pick just one even if I could, there's so many people propping up my game and making it look nice :O

How long have you had Simblr? 4293 days apparently, that's a lot of days.

How do you edit your pictures? do I look like I know what editing is? These days I don't even crop my pictures, I just dump screenshots into a presized photoshop document and shunt them around a bit until the composition looks ok. At a push I'll boost the contrast/saturation a tiny bit, particularly if I've left low blue light mode on again and the colours look a bit odd

What expansion/gamepack is your favorite? TS1 - you know I think it might be superstar. I love how silly studio town is with all those fun things like the fashion runway and the film sets. The celebrity system is amusing too, and is a convenient way of making sims of famous people a bit less weird to have around as opposed to just having them as playables (imo anyway). Shoutout to makin' magic too though, still my favourite implementation of magic in the entire sims series

TS2 - Apartment life. The ability to build functional flats and having magic back (if in a slightly disappointing way compared to TS1)? Height-shiftable things? Nice.

I tag: YOU. (totally not a copout I mean it i love reading these things)

[spirithunts]

» — ⌜HUNGER & ITS IMPACT ON CONNECTION.⌟

ahri's need to feed on people's spiritual essence is as much a basic need as a normal human's hunger — although it does not remove her need to also get nourishment from actual food. it is canon that the vastaya are highly attuned to the magic around them, which allows them to thrive (and that its absence impacts them).

ahri does not seem highly impacted by leaving an environment with an enormous amount of spiritual magic, like ionia, to travel to a place like bilgewater, where magic may be present but wouldn't be as naturally abundant — and i deduce this might be related to her tribe having evolved differently, perhaps because of their frequent travels (some of them did establish themselves for research in the blessed isles, and i assume others may have wandered to other places), which led them to actively absorb magic instead of passively doing so as seems to be the case with other vastaya.

which is an elongated explanation to say my headcanon is the vesani evolved to actively feed on spiritual essence as a means of acquiring sustenance for the magical part of their beings, which includes their powers but also affects them physically and mentally.

in her short stories and other content, ahri is said to feed on people's essences, although it isn't always explicitly established what this essence is. most of her depictions, however, make it clear this includes people's feelings and memories. her color story suggests this is all there is to it; but given that taken to an extreme her feeding on someone doesn't simply make them numb or wipes their memory clean but actually kills them, i believe whatever comprises one's life force is also absorbed in that process — which is why even if she doesn't kill someone, anyone she feeds on will be weakened for a time.

this also means she wouldn't feed on any kind of being, as well. any undead, ghostly or spirit-like sort of creature would not be seen as prey, and while she would be able to sense their feelings, she would not be able to feed on them. as a result, they do not pose a challenge to her control, no matter how intense their feelings and memories.

personally, i would also include demons in that category, as they do not live and exist the same way as mortals do, but like spirits and wraiths and whatnot, they have (or can have) memories and emotions.

in ruined king, ahri absorbs viego's memories, but not directly from him — rather, she absorbs them from the mist around gangplank, after viego is no longer controlling him. she might be able to see memories even from the creatures she cannot really feed on, but i honestly believe the indirect way this happens suggests it's either due to the mystical nature of the mist, or the contact with a living being making it possible.

another interesting thing to note is that maokai, who as per his bio is a spirit, seems to willingly share his memories with ahri, as he shows her what the blessed isles were like and asks that she, in turn, show/tell the others about it. the fact he is not at all harmed by it and that the process is done consciously (while when feeding ahri cannot control what is or isn't taken, as she states in that same game in an interaction with sarah), with him choosing what to share, also suggests to me the way her powers interact with beings other than living mortals is different, and she neither hungers nor harms them with these abilities as she would living mortals.

for that reason, i also think being around sentient beings that are not living mortals is much easier for her — and something greatly appreciated, depending on who she's around of course. regardless of the specifics, though, the fact she does not hunger to feed on them in itself allows ahri to be far more relaxed than she usually is, because she doesn't need to fear giving in to the hunger and losing control. being around 'normal' people can be strenuous and difficult, and it's always tiresome, because she never wants to let her guard down and possibly hurt someone. in ruined king, another conversation addresses this when she speaks to illaoi, who questions how little she sleeps — to which ahri replies she prefers to stay awake around them, as to be fully in control. the constant state of alert to keep herself in check would certainly take a toll on her after extended periods of time.

and at the end of the day, while she isolates herself to avoid hurting people, ahri longs for companionship. she wants people near. she wants to be able to love and be loved without fear. and i think that's simply made a lot easier when she's not near constantly struggling against her need to feed. she tends to feel a lot more at ease, comfortable and relaxed around people who are not living mortals, as a result. i mentioned maokai, and ahri is visibly at ease with him at the same time she tries to avoid the rest of the group in ruined king (with the exception being pyke! and the two of them have some really interesting interactions about their respective natures and clearly form a kinship over it).

to my ahri specifically, i think that's also part of why she was more open to eve from the start; their similar instincts, but also the fact she could finally relax around someone and not be afraid of losing control and killing them definitely contributed to why ahri would allow her to get closer.

as a side note not necessarily related to the hunger and feeding aspect of it, her nature allows her to recognize other inhuman beings immediately a lot of the time (as i expect she would be recognized in turn). and around them her attitude tends to be somewhat different. not that her personality isn't the same, or that there are drastic changes, but a lot of the barriers she puts between herself and others are immediately down. using pyke as an example, they have this dialogue:

that in my opinion makes that very clear. she's not afraid to get straight to the point because she feels they are, in a way, similar. he is someone she can understand; not someone she has to be afraid of hurting, not someone who would scorn her for being a monster. all of this — being able to recognize other beings as inhuman, regardless of what exactly they are, as well as not being able (or feeling the urge) to feed on them makes considerably simpler for ahri to not hold herself back as much as she usually does, which results in her being often a lot more blunt and less evasive than she'd usually be.

[broodwolf221]

OC tag game: Intended for Inquisitors but wording it so you can use for other OCs as well! Alternatively you can RB this to make posts for all the OCs you want, in case you don't want to tag others. and feel free to tag me (elvhenprince) or reply to this post so I can see your ocs!

tagged by @jazzmckay this time~

tagging: @dreadfutures | @wailing-willow | @arlathvhenan with the usual no pressure caveat <3 <3 <3

velari lavellan | she/her | 40 | mage, shapeshifter self-centered: originally selfish, now she's switched gears to being outright self-sacrificing, but it's all rooted in the same core of fear

Associated colours/symbols/animals

halla; ram (normal, not august rams); red, gold, and green

What are their hobbies/skills?

she's reasonably skilled with leatherwork and prior to joining the inquisition made her own gear. leather is the only material she feels confident working with though, and is subsequently the only material that gets ornamented. otherwise she reads - a lot. she and solas parallel play study lmao

Is there any art they are good/bad at, or interested in trying?

she considers some of her leatherwork to have an artistic bend to it, but it's not something she would call art. she's very focused on a piece being functional. and although she appreciates art in all its forms, she doesn't feel like it'd serve a purpose for her to create - she undervalues her own perspective and that shows here.

What is their comfort food? Do they cook it themselves?

she will eat whatever, she's not that picky. she likes tea... much to solas' chagrin. herbal, earthy flavors are her preference, but again, not picky.

An activity they like to do with their partner(s)/bestie(s)

reading! and she practices shapeshifting with morrigan - it's an important bonding activity for the both of them.

Would they be able to lie their way through a card game?

absolutely not. she struggles to hide her feelings and reactions, and although she's aware of it she's uh... really not getting that much better about it

With no regards as to whether it exists or is realistic, what would they want as a pet/companion?

something small and soft. i can see her with a cat tbh.

Do they have a night-time ritual? Does this differ if they are at their own residence vs somewhere else (e.g. camping)?

she has really, really bad insomnia, so her nighttime ritual is mostly "lay down and pretend like i can sleep." she probably gets somewhere between 3-4 hours of (interrupted!) sleep each night, but she spends a lot more time than that just laying down in bed. when she's with solas she falls asleep much easier. her nighttime routine in that case is, well, normally cleaning up after some fun with him... regardless, basic hygiene stuff and she usually brushes her hair and dresses in comfortable clothes before laying down

What is in their inventory?

almost exclusively practical items - extra rations, sewing materials, bandages and a few other basic first aid items, empty waterproof/oilskin wraps for things like herbs found while traveling, etc. as she's out and about she will take small mementos from animals she's killed, so those go in her pack as well but they stay in her room at skyhold.

Their preferred dress in these settings: Daily, formal, casual/bedding down

daily: long-sleeved but loose tunics, breeches, simple, muted colors formal: whatever josie picks. she's not into formal looks and she doesn't have a strong sense of fashion anyway. if she did pick her own outfit, she'd choose something that looked powerful rather than beautiful casual: same as daily tbh; for bed she usually takes her breeches off and switches to a short-sleeved tunic; alternatively, she'll sometimes sleep in a slip since several nice ones mysteriously ended up in her dresser at skyhold (she suspects josie)

After the events of the Main Plot, did your OC go back home, or reunite with their people from before? Why / why not? If they did, then did they bring any new friends/partners with them?

main plot is different for her and that's all i can say :)

How did your OC deal with permanent injuries/changes/trauma gained from their story, if any?

alas, a major spoiler for bigfic

[betterbemeta]

Politics are strongly driven by aesthetics and lasting, positive political movements (and responses to hazardous conditions!) absolutely need to take advantage of this because reactionary groups do.

There is no point trying to hold the high ground, 'we care about facts and reality" as if that's mutually exclusive with aesthetics. Aesthetics will win every single time.

This is not because people are stupid. The opposite, in fact: people are extremely keen to their environment.

'Politics' itself is ONLY the act of deciding for groups of people, and the navigation of how to decide things for groups of people. This can be as simple as 'your friends negotiate what to order on your pizza' or as complicated as 'policy changes that alter the chances of human survival.'

Our environment influences our decision making. A sense of urgency, social pressure, catharsis, people are constantly sampling what's around them and using that as information to help them decide things.

If we get the sense that we're in a hazardous situation, we'll behave more carefully. If we see cues from the behavior of people around us, it will impact our choices. If we feel a certain way inside and the world outside doesn't reflect that, we will either feel dysphoria or succumb to consensus.

Aesthetics rules these factors. When you watch a movie or play a video game that feels scary and tense, your attitude and behavior will change. When everything 'seems normal' even if we live in an area still strongly impacted by the most deadly plague of our lifetimes, our attitude and behavior will change. People change the way they dress to attend functions and political rallies and there is a reason why megachurches and the RNC seem to align on the same strategies and presentations to their attendees.

If some kind of set director or environment designer was able to hover over the world and, I don't know… Bloodborne-ize it? Dracula-fy it? People would feel very differently about anti-masking or anti-vaccination propaganda. The aesthetics of a gothic style horror communicate to us a sense of unease and make it very clear that we should be wary about the environment and choose accordingly. Even if the conditions are still the same level of risk, when we go to the supermarket and we see the same friendly colors, normalcy of how others dress, kids running around, many people will lower their guard.

If you have ever had a miserable entry-level or unpaid marketing job you already know to distrust the aesthetics around you, how our souls are in a great tug-of-war between different entities that make us want to feel special, cowed by their power, or even that 'all is well' when it's clearly not.

The right wing, because it can't outwardly state its actual political positions like "we believe in rigid top-down hierarchy" or "we are the attitudes that monarchy once wielded, adapted to survive modernity" out loud, because nobody without lots of money relates to them, relies almost completely on aesthetic appeal. It manufactures the sense of ease or unease that 'normal people in their place' feel as well as discontent with things that don't hurt anybody or were even normal decades ago. Aesthetics drives the decisions it encourages people to make against their own interests. When the enemies of the right wing exhibit anger, conservatives are the first ones to take advantage of 'the bad look.' And when they have unpopular interests, they are the first to normalize their 'look': when a war breaks out, just open a fashion magazine and start seeing 'military inspired' spreads.

Even when you look at conservative-linked social panics like, lgbt+ liberation, feminism, race war panic, or reactionary-religious 'satanic panic' their conflict-detection basis is largely aesthetics. Pink hair and limp wrists scare the right wing. Butch women and unshaven legs scare the right wing. BLM was smeared instantly for its 'look' which was seen worldwide: in Hong Kong, Bolivia, and France in the same year. Fear of 'anti-Christ' imagery extends to the ridiculous, I don't even need to explain that.

All of these panics are politics urging reactionary political choices, driven by aesthetics. There's no reason to do the exact same thing 'back' (which would be destructive) but allowing the right wing to control the way the world looks and how it makes us feel is awful.

Every time urgent crisis makes the world look 'different' it scares reactionary political forces.

So, I propose the next tactic of egalitarian politics:

we gotta make everyone really goth, really fast

[tired-needs-sleep]

nia things cuz the brainrot is back for round three four five

her favorite cereal is trix and she named her scorbunny that because it reminded her of the mascot

she prefers hot springs over pools

she thought she was aroace before she had her first crush

she picked up rock collecting shortly after coming to aevium and since then knows a little about rocks and gems

her favorite rock is granite and her favorite gemstone is sunstone. she also thinks geodes are awesome

in school she played soccer and volleyball

she has an incredibly high spice tolerance

she finally realizes that how she feels abt aelita is not platonic sometime towards the end of chapter 14

instead of arceus she says adrest in common phrases

heavy sleeper. sometimes when someone tries to wake her up it won't work until long after a normal person would give up, but if she's tossing and turning it's a lot easier (which, is like 70% of the game, but details details), and she has a habit of swatting at people that try to wake her up while she's in a deeper sleep. she isn't aware she does that until someone tells her.

i almost named her an A name but i asked one of my friends which one and she chose nia's name

nia originally had gray eyes, but she always had heterochromia

if i could assign a legendary to her, i would choose either virizon, keldeo, or galarian zapdos

nia swears up and down she's killed a fake plant before

her favorite drink is apple juice, but she likes orange soda a ton as well.

^ her favorite food is galarian spicy curry.

she punched a screen in the nightmare school out of frustration and, predictably, cut her knuckles on the glass, but she wouldn't stop picking at the scabs when they were healing so they scarred.

she's a yellow character.

she's the type to confess something before a drop on a rollercoaster

she doesn't like milk. it needs to be flavored or in cereal for her to tolerate it. that's why her favorite cereals are the ones that flavor the milk. besides trix. she'll eat that and only that one dry sometimes

she might have adhd because of accidental projection

she's afraid of her own power

ironically, she's also afraid of heights

she treats her birthday like any other day and doesn't see it as very important, but goes all out for her friends.

instead of cherry like ari hosts usually get, the nickname marianette gave her is tangerine

it becomes her favorite after that chapter, and she has a few outfits with tangerine/orange slice patterns

she looks. really good in orange or yellow, which is a main factor in why they're her favorite colors post valor. before then it was red

for her birthday, she got a toxel egg from amber, a bandanna from aelita, earrings from melia, and the rest i haven't decided on yet

she her favorite jewelry is a ring her mother gave her

[millenianthemums]

Hello, hello!

For that "send in a character name and receive four different headcanons" ask game, is it possible for you to do Rosa/Mei, please? :)

yes!!! sorry it took me so long to get to this!

1. realistic

honestly my interpretation of Rosa is not very similar to canon at all. her name's not even Rosa, it's Mei, because when BW2 was first being announced we didn't know their english names for a while and i liked the name Mei too much to change it in my head. i have tried to reconcile my view of her with canon a bit more recently, though. i think she's very into fashion and dressing in fun, outlandish outfits. she really likes bright colors and fun accessories, she just doesn't have the confidence to pull it off at first in my au. like, she wears bright colored outfits because her mom insists she should express herself, but then can't handle the curious looks she gets from people.

2. unrealistic but hilarious

i like the idea that she’s not the most gifted at practical parts of pokemon training at first, like aiming her poke ball throws or giving quick decisive commands in battle, but her book smarts are off the charts. she knows every pokedex entry by heart, she knows a million obscure facts about the pokemon living in unova, she's got all this stuff memorized, she just has trouble, you know, doing the things trainers spend most of their time doing. at least at first. it's a confidence thing, she gets better as she grows.

3. soul-crushingly awful

i've alluded to this before, but i feel like Mei is a very shy and quiet kid. not by nature, just from a childhood of bullying and rejection. she only really had her mom and her best friend Hugh for companionship growing up. Hugh is a super great friend but not perfect since he's a kid too. she's known him since before she came out as a trans girl and if anyone ever says anything rude about her while he's around he'll kick their ass. he just can't be there all the time, you know? and her mom loves her a lot, and supports her a lot, but just doesn't really GET it. she doesn't get why things are so hard for Mei and thinks if she just encourages (pushes) her enough, she'll finally be the daughter she wants her to be. but i think Mei is autistic, and went undiagnosed as a kid, and has a lot of self esteem issues from not living up to people's expectations no matter how hard she tried. it takes leaving home on her pokemon journey and meeting people and pokemon (besides Hugh) who love her for exactly who she is, before she uncovers the confidence and capability that she always had.

4. Unrealistic but i will disregard canon and believe it anyway

i said in the Colress post that i headcanon that Colress adopts Mei, and i was gonna just use that same headcanon for this, but i wanna change it up a little. i already talk so much about how i think Colress and Mei should be found family, i’ll do something different here. who wants to learn about Legendary Pokemon Lore in my AU? strap in.

i feel like there's something in particular that makes legendary pokemon "legendary", beyond just being the subject of legends. i think the connection between humans and pokemon is kind of a magical thing that makes both the human and the pokemon stronger, hence why humans and pokemon started working together. i had the idea that for legendary pokemon, that connection is much stronger and provides much more power than normal, even resulting in a kind of psychic bond. legendaries can choose one human in particular to bestow this power on, and beyond just being its trainer and being able to command it in battle, this allows the human to wield some of the legendary's power on their own, and gives them the ability to communicate with each other telepathically and call to each other from anywhere. a human granted this power is referred to in legend as the legendary's "patron". often, the legendary even grants them a title.

anyway, the point of me saying all that is that i think Mei is Kyurem's patron. maybe the patron connection is a thing that ripples through time, and Kyurem called out to Mei for help while it was held captive by Team Plasma, leading her to it so she could rescue it. i'm not set on that part, but either way, Mei puts her life on the line to save Kyurem, and in return it chooses her to take on some of its power. the patrons of Reshiram and Zekrom (Touko and N) have the titles "knight of truth" and "prince of ideals". Mei's title is “herald of balance".