Chimes of the bells under moonlit sky, sounds of laughter decorate the halls of the old building, a night of dreams or a night of nightmares? Sweetly hidden under hushed whispers of the festive lights, the end of an origin shall begin.
Whether what happens under the moonlight was a spur of the moment or an act of truth, it will all fade when morning comes and cover the memories of the previous night.
“My Lady…” the older woman in front of the younger pause for a moment, cloudy eyes waiting for what she could possibly say at the moment “there are at least a dozen assassins in the vicinity, I don’t think we should stay here for long.”
Laya Yvette Valentiones
Secretary of the Inase
Hydrangea
Letting out a deep sigh the woman simply nods her head, however she continues moving forward, there was much to accomplish in this dreamy night… Laya trailed behind the older woman with her hand on her weapon, she can’t allow herself to drop her guard at any moment now.
Dimly lit oil lamps, revolting laughter and hushed whispers from the rooms that they pass, why the older woman even chose to visit these types of places was not a choice but a demand.
“My lady, you finally came,” wooden doors slide aside allowing her to enter yet shut immediately as soon as she entered “I believe we have much to discuss about.”
Palustris
Aka Prefect Luminary
Secretary of the Tsubaki family
Narrowing her eyes she gave him a disgusted look, she had suspected to be an enemy, but to meet one from the Tsubaki family like this “I don’t believe I have anything to discuss with a long time enemy.”
“Now don’t be silly,” twirling the glass of wine in front of him before setting it down and looking her straight in the eye “I believe you have something that belongs to the Tsubaki family.”
“And I believe you’ve killed my business partner,” she pointed at the headless corpse in the corner of the room “I have nothing which belongs to your family.”
An atmosphere thick enough to be cut by a knife, that smile which always creeped her out never seeming to fade, what was he planning? Leaving his seat she saw the glint of a blade on his hip, how troublesome…
On the outside of the room, it became… too quiet, a bit too suspiciously quiet, where was all the noise and laughter? The chattering of people from before? It was as if the world had been paused, and Laya had been isolated from what was happening surrounding her, confined in the dark and gloomy hallway.
Footsteps… the quick paced steps towards where she was, did whoever lured her lady do this? To pressure her lady into submission by threatening her? A lowly trick truly but it’s not like she couldn’t deal with it.
“You’ve messed with the wrong sort of people…” she mumbled, staring at the group of people who had just arrived, armed in weapons, signaling to each other to deal with her.
Closing her eyes for a minute before opening them again, a friend in arms had arrived to assist her in battle, as the assassins made their first move she blocked their attacks and swung her dagger at them, her lady wouldn’t mind a bit of blood being spilled as the price of safety, right?
“Laya stop getting distracted for Pete’s sake!!” snapped out of her worries and thoughts her mind returns to the scene in front of her, right, she was still fighting.
“Right, 3 o’clock, Xuxa!” steel clashed against each other, blood stained on the clothes of her comrade in arm.
Xuxa Sawada
Assassin of the Inase
Hydrangea
Faced with annoyance from her clothes being stained with blood, Xuxa huffed in anger before pulling a standard glock and the first shots were heard. Inside of the room, Palustris frowns hearing the fired shots and immediately looks at the woman drinking tea as if she wasn’t even in danger. On the other hand, the woman was mentally scolding herself and her subordinates for using a gun and creating such a scene.
“It seems your subordinates are having fun,” she wished she could savor that frowning expression a bit longer, but oh well “When are you planning to return the thing that belongs to the Tsubaki family?”
“I’m afraid you’re going to have to be more specific, Palustris.” smiling in an innocent way she threw the cup of tea she was drinking at him, which he dodge gracefully much to her dismay “One man’s trash is another’s treasure, if the Tsubaki had lost it and the Inase has found it you really shouldn’t pursue it.”
“Well then, looks like you don’t want to clear these resentments anytime soon” for someone who was born in a time of peace yet grew up ensuing chaos, Palustirs truly was a hypocrite to think he can just “clear up resentment” after what the Tsubaki family did.
“Don’t act like you didn't start this war,” cold metal on her neck and the handle in his hand, this wasn't the first time they had done this “It will only end when one of the two has paid their price.”
A burst from the door revealed Laya and Xuxa having wounds and cuts on their clothes, seeing her being momentarily distracted. Palustris tried to press the blade deeper into her neck but had only managed to draw a small amount of blood before she stabbed him with a second knife.
“In blood…” he winced in pain at being caught off guard. He didn’t expect the woman to carry a weapon of her own, he has to note that down.
He wasn't going to die from a wound like that, but he was going to get distracted by it and that was all she needed to move away from him. As soon as he got distracted she immediately ran away to her attendants waiting outside, noticing their spacing out faces, she snapped her fingers in front of their dazed faces waking them from their daydream.
“Where’s the clean up team? Don’t tell me you both forgot to call them.” but just as she finished her words there were a few people who showed up.
“Apologies~, My lady.” pink hair and an oddly cheerful attitude, he might not look like someone who would work for a place like this but who’s going to say otherwise?
William
Clean up team
Lilacs
“Stop fooling around,” William winces as his partner hits his back, reminding him to respect the person in front of them. “We’ll start immediately, just leave the work to us, My lady.”
Kaiyo Azuma
Clean up team
Delphinium
Kaiyo and William went into the room where the injured Palustris once was, however there only remained a dagger with blood, seeing that the woman and her attendants left, paying no more attention and left the Clean up to do their job. It looks like… the war is only going to get more and more brutal.
With each step they took the smell of blood became stronger and stronger, the woman turned around and gave a stern look at Xuxa and Laya, the two could only awkwardly avoid her gaze and continue walking. Men and women alike, they were all assassins… under the guise of a blissful night.
‘It wasn’t supposed to end in a bloodbath.’ the woman silently thought to herself, but what could be done at this point? There was no use beating herself up for not being able to save one of her people, she had hundreds of others she had to protect under her wing, it seems she can’t afford to play it safe anymore.
‘I went… too far.’ Laya awkwardly stared at the dead fish eyes of the dead assassins by her feet, the woman in front of her definitely was not pleased. She didn’t mean to just kill everyone since she was supposed to capture some back for interrogation, it was a requirement to bring back people who work for enemy or suspicious groups.
‘Tch, this stain…’ Xuxa hissed at the blood stain parts of her clothes, she knew that her job involved a lot of spilling but really hates it when it stains her clothes like this, she’ll have to meet with Latilfolious for something to remove the stains with.
Latifolius (or Modern Alkaid)
Head of the Inase’s Apothecary
Lilac
Leaving the building as though a mass homicide didn’t happen, the group entered a nearby carriage back to their home, the Inase. A place on the outside seemed like any other brothel or tea houses in the red light district, it really didn’t help that the Inase was indeed famous for its courtesans.
However beneath the flowery visage and honey-like dreams, it was also the home to the lost and found, the grapevine of information, and the bane of one's existence. To call it a ”house” would be wrong as the Inase itself was more or less its own red light district, it had its own rules and its own hierarchy, break those rules and the order of the Inase and you might find a fate worse than death.
“To the Nightless Wing please.” A woman in black spoke to the coachmen, the group looked at the stranger who turned out to be one of them.
“You gave us a jumpscare.” The gray haired woman only laughed in return, greeting the group.
“Any new kamuros?” the woman asked looking in the eye of the recruiter sitting opposite to her, the gray haired woman seemingly zoning out at the scene outside of the window snapped out of her day dreaming.
“The batch for this recruitment is… quite disappointing” she complained to the woman who seemingly nods, all seeds are the same upon first look, perhaps its sapling stage can help determine its quality.
Nephila Lonaris Alwyn
Recruiter/Assassin of the Inase
Hydrangea
“My lady, don’t you think we should stop buying new children?” Nephila asked the woman, there wasn’t a strain on the funds for the Inase with the amount of children being sold into the red light district, however there was no space to house them, the woman only laughed in return.
“Worried about their living space now, are we?” After sitting in silence for a while, the woman gave her final verdict on the matter. “The surrounding businesses…”
“Excuse me?” The woman stared outside and let out a long sigh, maybe it was the fact she saw herself in those children that was why she bought them in the first place.
“The business owners have been wanting to hire employees yet no one was willing to work for them because of their affiliation with us,” a way to tackle the situation “Send the ones unwilling to work as kamuros for the courtesans, I’m sure we have plenty judging by the number of run away children.”
Whilst in the middle of planning on how to deal with the Onna’s impulsive buying records and the tears of the financial recorders who planned a rebellion by sulking in their work corners, a figure from a far stares in contempt. Slowly blending in the crowd and approaching the busy streets, they pushed a child in front of the horse carriage making it nearly hit the child.
Xuxa who was momentarily distracted by her thoughts snapped out of it the moment she heard of the commotion happening outside, it was chaos, but luckily enough the child was not injured being saved by a man with navy hair. It seems wherever they go there’s always something dangerous lurking around the corner to try and bring them down.
“Thank you, thank you so much!” A mother held her shaken up child thanking the man profusely before taking her child away.
“Back from your mission already?” He didn’t reply, but just by looking at him the others knew the mission wasn’t the reason why he was here.
Solanum (Eden Clarence)
Spy of the Inase
Lilac
“…” he seemed to be looking for something, his eyes darted around in the crowded streets, after a while he spotted a blond boy amongst the crowd “Did you manage to catch the perpetrator?”
Vincent Ainsley
Spy of the Inase
Lilac
“They were too fast..” Vincent mumbled as he walked towards the carriage and slips in a dirty letter “However I did manage to pick this up from that person, my lady.”
From within the carriage the woman frowned at the waste of time and harshly took the letter, signaling to the coachman to go on, they will capture the perpetrator later for now they have to return to the ‘Nightless Wing’.
Curiously Laya and Nephila stared at the letter, they were curious to see what was inside however it didn’t seem like the appropriate time to ask seeing as the woman had started to grow tired the longer she stayed in the carriage.
The trip back to their final destination had no more problems nor incidents to be dealt with, however, what they did not expect was for the skies to burn a bright red, the air hot and harsh and sounds of shouting and screaming.
Fire, from unknown sources, has started to spread and burn down the restaurant that they were supposed to arrive at. How did this happen not even once cross their mind as they had no choice but to focus on putting out the flames.
“My lady!!” Someone shouted in a panic catching the woman’s attention, as she turned to look at a small fish tank that had somehow landed in her hands, knocking her to the grounds.
Jumping from his aquatic tank up and down shaking the water, the older woman furiously yanks the creature from the waters and gives him a stern look.
Lobster Tail
Accountant of the Inase
Lilac
Under her stern look the Lobster settled down, the woman dropped the animal back into his tank before deciding to give orders to the surrounding people.
“The people in the building?” Putting the fish tank down near the injured patients, the woman started to run towards the burning building.
“Most of everyone got out, the cook’s daughter is still inside.” The shouting grew as more and more gathered to stop the fire, Xuxa and Laya went to assist the people in carrying the injured.
“We got her out!” As soon as the young child was brought out, she was immediately reunited with her parents, but there was no time to care for them as all attention went back to the blazing building.
“Laya, are there any dead?” Things seem to be in control for now as everyone who was originally in the building has left it, the fire still burning as strong as ever.
“None, although many have suffered injuries.” Laya sighed as she picked up Lobster who somehow had escaped his tank.
“Call for the apothecaries immediately!”
Sitting in a makeshift tent the woman looked at the letter from earlier, the fire had started to die with the sudden rain. This was definitely no coincidence… someone had caused it.
But there was a problem, there was no evidence since everything was burnt away, anyone who was in the building was recuperating due to heavy injuries, no eye witness, no left over evidence… nothing.
There hasn’t been a hate crime like this one for a very long time, and such an orchestrated one as well… maybe it wasn’t a crime and just a bunch of coincidences lined up like one.
Head heavy from the incident, the woman opened the letter… it’s words written in blood.
“An eye for an eye
Your words which lead me to my bitter end
Burn away I shall
Along with the world you built under the moonlit sky”
Staring at the letter her mind began to dig up old memories, seemingly remembering that hand writing, the way they used blood instead of ink, and who they were, alive after so much time, were they… the same person who burnt the ’Nightless wing’ down?
From the corner of her eye a girl of her age appeared, one of her courtesan’s future successors, kamuro, walked in with a neatly wrapped and covered in red, however this doesn’t seem to be from her courtesan sister.
Lumina Andersen
Kamuro
Delphinium
“My lady, someone from the fire incident was found missing,” an innocent outsider to the war of the underground business, however it seems many shall be affected just because they were involved with the Inase, like the kamuro who knew nothing in front of her “this was found in the burnt down building as well”
“So who disappeared?” Hovering the letter above the flame and burning away the threat to her people, even if it did nothing she couldn’t care less at this point.
“We haven’t identified who was missing yet, my lady” her attention turned to the box sitting in front of her, the only thing that survived while almost everything burned down.
Maybe she should have sent the kamuro away, maybe she shouldn’t have been so hasty to open Pandora’s box, but the head in front of her now seems to remind her that there might be more than one party involved in this fiasco.
Hollowed out eyes was a signature style of the Haruki family, the Inase though had many enemies also made alliances with others as well, the Haruki family was one of them… she’s confused, so many suspects yet no evidence, the head of the headless corpse from before in front of her, taunting her like a puzzle.
“I supposed I visited at the right time,” aquamarine eyes with an unreadable face, the two turned towards the intruder who smiled meeting their gaze “It seems you’ll be needing our assistance soon?”
“ Unfortunately yes…” she had hoped never to work with or at least meet him again, the infamous blond devil of the officers.
Abrus
Aka the Consul
Head Detective
“I’m curious to see how you will handle this situation,” another letter given but dyed in the red color of blood, how eerie…
Reverie/Norie
Onna kachō
???
Second chapter preview!
“You’re so undeserving of being so close to her,” ???’s blade dragged across the boy’s skin, it burns… the heat searing scars and wounds into his flesh “Why you and not me?”
“Why do others get to see that gentle side but never me?” the knife plunged into his abdomen making him scream out in pain, but ??? only buried it deeper… as though ??? wanted him dead.
🥂 SUMMARY - "Harp Island is the place to be, complete with luxury!" Hidden beneath that peace lies a clash between powerhouses. Miss Liore made a deal with LBC, an infamous organization with its claws hooked on the underworld, to carry out some tasks for her due to the filth invading the island. Why would he, Lars Rorschach, refuse? Merits of the deal can be reaped later, his fun matters much more.
🥂 LINK - AO3
— goes insane. anyways do you miss me i havent opened tumblr in a while,,,,,, would you believe me if this is a oneshot. haha sorry !!!!!! hope you have fun enjoy appreciate reading ok thankss !
Someone in the For all time/Lovebrush Chronicles facebook group said they look like the same guy in different fonts lol its not that srs but its just so fun analyzing characger design
Transcript if u don’t wanna erm. Look at all. That. Its basically the same stuff as in pic tho more utc
ALKAID AND LARS
Hair
- Hair is blatantly different colors although based in a similar color (Alkaids slightly closer to strawberry blonde)
- Lars hair is upturned and fairly wavy/curly; although messy its clearly intentional
- Alkaid hair goes straight down and is just messy (not curly/wavy) though fairly thick
- Lars hair only goes down 3/4 his neck and Alkaid hair goes down to around his collarbones
- Although Lars has a similar bang style to Clarence his is shorter, fuller and more curled
- Although Alkaid has a similar bang style to Ayn his is more full and messier
Eyes
- Alkaid has a softer curved eye shape and his eyes seem to be a bit larger
- Lars has a more dramatic curve with smaller eyes though it’s difficult to tell considering he is smiling
Nose
- Alkaid has a flatter and the smallest nose
- Lars appears to have a more curved nose (he has that bump nose shape idgaf what anyone say its so prety)
Face
- Lars has higher cheekbones than Alkaid
Lips (Note: Its hard to tell from the image alone but you can see the contours of their lips in the high quality sprite images which ill include below not sure if it will be visible thou)
- Alkaid has plumpest roundest lips
- Lars has a more defined cupid’s bow and lips are not as round as Alkaid’s
CLARENCE AND AYN
Hair
- Very similar upon first glance but based in completely different colors (blue and red respectively)
- Clarence hair flows downward like Ayn but is fluffy messy and thin
- Ayn hair flows down but is neater and obviously thicker
- Ayn has more downturned eyebrows (angry brows)
- Clarence eyebrows are softer although a bit downturned
- Clarence hair goes down 2/4 his neck
- Ayn hair goes down only 1/4 his neck
Eyes
- Ayn has short round eyes with shorter and fullest eyelashes as well as a more dramatic shift in eye curve
- Clarence has long slim eyes with sharper neater eyelashes and a pretty soft curve in eye shape
Nose
- Clarence has a more pointy/curved nose
- Ayn’s nose goes pretty much straight down
Face
- Clarence has a less dramatic shift from cheekbone to chin
- Ayn has a more dramatic shift from cheekbone to chin
- Clarence has a sharper stronger jawline
- Ayn has a softer curved jawline
Lips
- Clarence has the most defined cupids bow
- Ayn has almost no cupid’s bow (May be more visible on another sprite like smiling or sth??)
- Clarence has slightly fuller lips than Ayn
- Ayn has the thinnest lips
CLARENCE AND LARS
- Although they have similar bang styles, Lars bangs are shorter and more curled
AYN AND ALKAID
- Although similar bang styles, Alkaid’s appears more full and is messier
CAEL
One of these things is not like the others (its him) (he thinks hes on the team)
Just stating the obvious
- Clarence has a mole and glasses
- Lars has ear piercings
- They have very different fashion senses
- Their personalities and, in turn, their expressions/behavior are very different
- All have different eye colors or at least different shades (It doesn’t look it but Alkaid’s eyes are green and Lars eyes are more teal than Clarence’s who dons a pure blue)
Valentine's day is here! who will you invite to spend it with?
Alkaid - Lars - Clarence - Ayn
or would you rather take a walk alone instead? maybe you'll run into...
..Cael - ..Naledi?
a boat ride with lars! maybe you can get some painting done on the way too!
would you believe me if i said i started this before playing through lars' eden route? this is the second time i accidentally predicted a scene, i drew lars and mc dancing before i played his godheim route as well!
hi nami!!! currently i am contemplating whether or not offering my crustacean body to lars for food is an act of love (it is) but im also trying to reread a manhwa
and the character on screen is... godheim clarence?? are you trying to kill me or put me in a vegetative state what is wrong with you..... the song is really good guys please listen to it i am going to force you.
not only is the song so beautiful to listen to thanks to the vocals and how calmly groovy the instrumentals are, the lyrics makes me want to lie on bed and think about lbc's storyline which is surprisingly. really fucking good i wasnt expecting it
while lars may be #1 and forever my silly ceo, if he didnt exist or was actually a domineering ceo (which i do not care about) then clarence would actually be my top 1. yeah cael youre still top 2-3 dwdw!!!!
godheim clarence's route was the saddest shit ive seen in lbc and experiencing it blindly made me an emotional trainwreck, i was legit crying and i was reading the text through tears and adhsiadasgda
this is why im scared for spirit world. i love eden as much as the next guy, but i am happy it did end in a hopeful note compared to the pain i was subjected to in godheim what the hell netease
Finally drawing again tday,feeling good that im outta artblock after 3 months >_< Heres a smalllllll rorschach doodle @ school,im super proud of it rn (approximately 45 mins)
Ironically i still hvnt drawn ayn even tho this blog is ayn-dedicated.but oh well,i suppose the luo xia fans will (hopefully) eat tis up :3
Godheim , and Cael's attempt to assassinate Lars is him dressing up in a dress to seduce the guy and assassinate him . This doesn't make sense but also does it really need to make sense when we put cael in a dress
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