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HI so I mentioned earlier that I think Anfroy sounds like Hermes FF14 and @slightly-sigilant was very kind to have shared a Cameo of the VA (Jeremy Ang Jones) voicing a shitpost so here. It helps that he doesn't like frogs kdhkfhf

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BREAKING NM NEWS!!

a while ago i saw this pin and produced the sketch. now coloured this anime shipbait poster ass thing to commemorate my ghostie's getting their first ever nat20 on their edcard rolls.

Big Things were always set to happen the first time either rolled a nat 1 or nat 20, so... this means they're Aware of their Feelies now. still laughing my fucking ass off at these circumstances however RNG continues to be one of the biggest nm fans.

so, context that led to this latest groundbreaking development in TL;DR format:

rei gets invited to a wedding. edward finds out

they argue abt their weird fucking marriage

he's forbidden from attending, as expected, but it still pisses him off incredibly. he stays home nicely though drinking wine til he passes out instead

rei attends but is haunted by the conses of their own quences regarding matters of love and couples

they end up dreaming of the orphanage the very next day again and finally puts 2+2 together about Some Things

well .

more context!! context for the context god!!:

two days prior. we receive an invitation to a extravagant wedding. the literal next card draw was poor fucking edward i kid you not. he knew.

these two argued badly (read: in a non-fun way) like they hadn't in quite a while. it's less about the event itself and more what it represents. this particular kind of thing – romantic partnership that isn't there despite both still clinging to the "marriage" word – really triggers edward. and when he gets tilted he gets really antsy & full of violent thoughts about wanting to ruin things for his terrible horrible spouse somehow.

here's the thing: reisz has always been putting quite the work in making sure he still Is. which means that although

the guy in question can technically manage to sneak out when they're not looking just fine. He doesn't because he feels compelled to stay in the Orphanage, and the sheer reality of the Is after so long in the mirror makes him feel nauseous and smothered to almost an incapacitating degree. But he can.

i rolled again to decide the outcome. first was how much he was okay with complying. he got a whopping 2. (if it was a nat 1 I'd have to bite the bullet and say he actually went to commit a faux pas of some sort and this would set their relationship back really hard LOL.) then whether he actually complied. got a 18. he was a good boy despite it all

rei goes to the wedding and does have a great time But. it's a marriage. there's couples everywhere in the afterparty. there's love mentioned all the time. they didn't feel like courting anyone bc they kept uncomfortably being reminded of the fucking guy on their basement. also known as their husband lmfao

it's not that they wanted him there, or anyone to know; but the concept of bringing someone along to go to an event, the fantasy of having an actual partner they could lock arms with and take a walk around town; all these silly things they loved doing & that they gave up on when they removed themself from the dating pool and chose to keep him...

it was a little lonely.

the next day, on rei's 16th (or 17th) edcard draw (fuck i lost count), their subconscious yeets them on the Orphanage again and. 20. the day finally arrived. the Realization comes like a trout jumping out of the water straight to their face:

- they really miss doing actual couple things

- they ? are okay with the idea of doing these with him ?¿

- they DID wish they could have him there .

- they DO feel kinda ??something about the things he said in the argument

- whenever they think too much about love or romance or company they end up drawing an edcard dreaming about their husband. this was a pattern.

maybe they actually like him?

huh.

ok.

what do they do now?

(and the answer so far has been: literally nothing . this got them so destabilized they started working on the railway board again. cheers!)

anywho og pics below :3c

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taking poor edward too seriously as is my wont but just thinking a lot lately about the horror of traumatic abuse that doesn't show on the body, the horror of being in a terrible situation but you Look Fine, the headcanons of Edward's weird strength and speed etc being due to Orphanage Experiments, the fact that despite him almost certainly having been mistreated there he doesn't seem to bear visible scars from his time as an Orphanage Boy, surely most people would at LEAST come out looking haunted or broken in some way but he still looks like a rosy-cheeked innocent boy despite everything that's happened to him and everything he's had to become in response……. and thinking about the fact that he goes by "Poor Edward" and wears a literal tragedy mask at all times. he wants to be a nightmare, he wants to be feared and powerful, but what he's decided to make his appearance forever is just something that looks like he ought to. Just thinking about the idea that it's ugly and strange and incongruous with the whole rest of his "elegant" presentation, but on some level he needs people to look at him and know that something's wrong with him, because without the mask, nobody could tell.

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kill him KILL HIM

marlowe: damn. you must be ugly as hell. why in tf would you wear that ghastly ass mask if not to hide your face. is it a fashion statement? no i am genuinely very curious. tell me. is it required. no come here i do want to know if your employees require you to commission an ugly mask to wear all the damn time-- AGHJKK

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Oh hi, I'm pretty sure this is referring to the tags I left on rainrein's post yesterday.

Yeah, I shouldn't have said that and I apologize for it. It was entirely coming from a place of frustration with Clara's actual role in the story, and I was trying to agree with OP, but it was a weird thought to jump to and I should have known better.

Only thing I really want to defend myself on is that I never meant to imply that I didn't want to expand on Clara's story due to the severity specifically, that wasn't my problem. But I also don't want to turn an apology into a fight, and if that's the impression I gave off, that's what I gave off and I gotta own that.

sometimes i get really sad that Clara is not just treated terribly by the events of the story but neglected by the narrative too and thus also not super engaged with within fandom [to the extent of equal to how relevant she is to everything in the story but equivalent to how much the narrative cares about her]

and then i decide i really need to finish my wips with her but also i have like 300 art ideas always

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Went to go check my followers for reasons, and got reminded of a very specific follower who I'm honestly surprised hasn't unfollowed me yet.

Keeping them anonymous because I honest to god think they follow so many other people they never see me.

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my friend, who i tell about fallen london sometimes, realizing that their initial assumptions about Light Fingers as a storyline are not quite correct: "I THOUGHT POOR EDWARD WAS THE PREGNANT ONE"

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what if i told you he's just a little guy [LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]

i need to make an animatic to Aqua's Doctor Jones with Edward and Tomas but for now here's this

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god the implications of what clarabelle went through at the orphanage are horrifying . blows it up again with my mind

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I was looking up when rats became a domesticated pet for curiosity's sake (and for Call of Cthulhu purposes), and

What the fuck do you mean Victoria had a rat catcher named Jack Black.

@thedeafprophet You. Get over here. No reason, I just need you to see this.

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If you call pedophilia a kink please unfollow me and never talk to me again

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As others in the reblogs have said, the answer is canonically yes since there are multiple instances throughout the various Fallen London games where you get the chance to hook up with a clay man or woman.

However I've also thought about this way too much with my clay woman PC, Fae, who I've characterized as a woman of easy virtue, shall we say.

You definitely can, but I think you'd probably have to be careful. Judging by some text of your hand feeling like its stuck between boulders when a clay man holds it, I don't think their flesh is particularly flexible, which can cause a lot of damage to fragile human parts.

So for example, if you want that pumice pussy, you might wanna stick to surface level exploration, otherwise…

Situations that would give Teeth (2007) a run for its money.

can clay men have sex? i know this has probably been discussed before, but i need a meeting of the minds. do they have pumice pussy? calcite cock? its important.

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"just write a little every day" ok but what if i write nothing for 3 weeks and then suddenly type like i’m being hunted by god

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Mr Fires: Oh, and I understand my servant Poor Edward has been bothering you? He has been unreliable lately. I will resolve the matter.

Player: No don't actually, I want to marry him.

Mr Fires: … You have issues.

Okay something shazzbaa said in the replies of my other post reminded me. Something I find really funny about my playthrough in particular is that Poor Edward really didn't have to escalate things to the point it got.

And what I mean is that Emery immediately says yes to the proposal. Maybe not so much because he actually likes him back, but more-so to keep Edward's condition from getting worse because he genuinely feels bad for him. And from there Emery is generally cooperative and willing to marry him.

He absolutely could have avoided getting trapped in Parabola while getting what he wanted, but noooo he has to make sure Emery gets the extra strong dose moon milk and kidnap the hybrid for it. Honestly that's probably why Emery makes him fall in love with the orphanage, like "Okay I was perfectly fine marrying you but you had to drag Esther into this mess so you can drug me. If we're doing this, you're staying here."

So yeah Light Fingers is so exponentially funny if you're not resisting at all. Emery just wanted to be a trophy spouse, but Edward had to get himself stuck in a literal nightmare.

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@dr-baasha Us at Edward:

Okay but also I just realized another really funny factor.

The turning point I'm pretty sure for when Poor Edward really starts planning to steal the Hybrid and make you fall in love with him is after you go to him for the Moon-Milk Swaddling. If you're already betrothed to him by this point, he agrees to help you if you discuss the wedding with him. For me, since I caused a riot, I get this text when agreeing and going along with it.

All the inmates of the Orphanage will be in attendance, of course, and he will force them to fall in love with the occasion.

And you don't get to respond to that, but I imagine Emery's reaction is most definitely a "No??? Can we not do that???"

So- I think Poor Edward gets so salty about Emery having even the slightest pushback against him and not wanting to inflict more misery on the Orphanage inmates that he decides to escalate and get the Hybrid's venom involved.

Okay something shazzbaa said in the replies of my other post reminded me. Something I find really funny about my playthrough in particular is that Poor Edward really didn't have to escalate things to the point it got.

And what I mean is that Emery immediately says yes to the proposal. Maybe not so much because he actually likes him back, but more-so to keep Edward's condition from getting worse because he genuinely feels bad for him. And from there Emery is generally cooperative and willing to marry him.

He absolutely could have avoided getting trapped in Parabola while getting what he wanted, but noooo he has to make sure Emery gets the extra strong dose moon milk and kidnap the hybrid for it. Honestly that's probably why Emery makes him fall in love with the orphanage, like "Okay I was perfectly fine marrying you but you had to drag Esther into this mess so you can drug me. If we're doing this, you're staying here."

So yeah Light Fingers is so exponentially funny if you're not resisting at all. Emery just wanted to be a trophy spouse, but Edward had to get himself stuck in a literal nightmare.