mwhwhwheheheh i'm just a stray livin in Vesuvia being like, totally human. no cats here. eheheh. no one can tell i'm cat (avanteTemido's arcana shitposting here) they're a calico nekomata. they're approximately 250 years old but they haven't really been in touch with the humankind and the people for Vesuvia for most of the time. they just like food and sleep.
i’m still not done with all @apprendicekato ‘s looks but i’m quite satisfied for now! with bandages and without
two closeups on one of their daily outfit and on the masquerade one, both bandageless
i had absolutely no idea bink was a cat shapeshifter how did i miss that!!!! cat gang cat gang. is he born a human and then learnt how to cat right? my apprendice Kato is the opposite, they're born cat and then learnt how to human!!!
Is her family a bunch of cats? That’s the only kinda of family reunion I wanna attend 🤣
And not really! Initially I wanted shifting to be a thing he settled into as he got older but I’m absolutely SOFT for kitten Bink giving moma a hard time and getting grabbed by the scruff for it. He’s just as much cat as he is human, if he’s not working his job as a library assistant (and mouser) or sketching somewhere he’s wandering the neighborhood getting pets and food from his favorite cat ladies :3
I have NEVER tought about Kato’s family. I don’t know how it would work. Like, Kato is essentially a nekomata, so what is their family? demons they’ve met and grew closer to? or cats of the same blood? supposedly, not all cats become bakemono, and also, bakemono can easily age centuries... so probably the concept of family is a bunch of demons that Kato has met during the years ahah. So yes! cat party. There WILL be food.
i absolutely love the concept of a young mage learning that he could shape shift and so being a kid just.... Boom, tiny kitten roaming around!!
Hi!! I LOVE your writing!! may I request something for modern! Muriel where he goes to a school, never talks to anyone and maybe still lives in a hut, so he doesn’t really know all the modern stuff. He sees the MC (fem would be nice) and develops a crush on her. One day he sits in like a library and he’s on his laptop and the poor guy just doesn’t know what to do with it, so the MC offers him help and he’s a big blushing mess. She invites him to come to her house to study and she has this small apartment with like lots of flowers and animals so he feels right at home and they talk about plants,animals and stuff? it’s so much I’m sorry, I thought it’s cute 🥺
awwwww omg thank you so so much! I’m still super surprised people like my writing and like me enough to follow just I love y’all.
So these are in headcanon form and I went a little wild. Also this counts as a little birthday present for @tabbybells since I thought of Bink and Muriel the whole time I was writing~ Lov u and your amazing artwork. You’re super fun and very sweet, if y’all have the time go check them out! Wonderful art of Muriel and a super adorable MC cat bastard named Bink. (there is a bonus with Bink and Muriel too after the other headcanons just for fun! Lmfao hope I got Bink right XD)
Muriel x MC modern au. Made it college, he’s a Veterinary Science Major MC is not specified with gender and major (you two have science classes together tho ;3)!
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Muriel is the more reserved student, SUPER DUPER smart and really good at what he does but more reserved
Hear me out here but: he has glasses. Thick black frames, he pushes them up his nose with his shoulder a lot when he gets distracted
He does struggle to use his new laptop because he was just fine with his old one until it broke on him.
You found this kinda funny. You’re studying in the library for a science test and this really big dude is just pouting at his laptop with the blue error screen
Of course this gets you out of studying so you go over to help him. At first he waves off your help, until you show him you have the same laptop and know what you’re doing
Then he gives in
“Good luck trying to fix this mess. Ugh my old laptop was better than this junk.”
...he had a 10 year old laptop that was the size of a brick and ran like a 94 year old woman with arthritis it was not better
He’s smart just not super tech savvy. Think ye old dad’s asking their kids for help with tech kinda not tech savvy.
It’s okay because he’s freaking adorable when he pouts over his laptop not working for the eight billionth time
You two start to chat a little bit after helping him boot up his laptop, and it’s goodbyes from there when you’re done
But he started going to the library pretty often after that in hopes of seeing you again
You come in every day to study and check out something new (or pester the librarians.)
So the two of you run into one another a bunch. Each time he has a new problem with his laptop (sometimes they’re real other times it’s an excuse to talk to you. O-Only to get help of course!)
Depending on you it might take a few days or a few months to catch on to his plan
And once you do, it makes you smile and laugh a little because gosh he is quite the dork
Of course you developed a little crush on him too during this time, but one day he comes in to actually study
You two have a science exam together to you invite him to come study over at your house
He tries to hide it but he lights up at the idea of spending more time with you, so of course he accepts (after...a moment of pretending to think about it. He didn’t want to seem too eager and scare you off)
When he first sees your apartment he’s....in shock to put it lightly
So. Many. Things.
He likes it a lot. The amount of animal stuff you have on your walls, plants hanging from the ceiling and a bunch on every window sill. Birds/cats/dogs/hamsters etc chattering around
It’s very bright and warm he feels at home immediately
You make warm drinks while he sets up in your living room, looking super large in this almost dollhouse couch and coffee table
It’s quite a sight, but he accepts the drink eagerly. You two study for a bit before the books get forgotten and you just...talk
About anything. Everything. The weather. Your classes. And it moves to animals.
He gets all excited and lights up when he starts talking about Inanna (met her injured in the woods outside of town when she was a pup. He nursed her back to health and she’s never left his side since)
When he talks about her he gets all animated and opens up a lot more. Still soft spoken and shy
If he notices you staring he’ll blush red and go quiet
But when you ask questions and ask for more stories he’ll slowly warm up to being animated again
You’re...really easy to talk to like this
When it gets late and he has to go home you kiss his cheek and send him off
Bright red he is.
But he can’t wait to see you tomorrow.
MODERN BINK AND MURIEL HEADCANONS UNDER THE CUT. This is what im good at so Happy Birthday Tabby! 😎👉👉
Modern au Bink feels like a cat person to me. All the cats. Any cat he runs into he gets. House is filled with cats. It’s hilarious
Muriel calls him Grandma because of this. Bink in turn calls Muriel Grandpa due to his troubles with tech
Asra knits them both matching ugly sweaters
They wear them every time they see Asra
Bink and Faust have gotten into staring contests when they go over. Muriel finds them amusing and they can go on forever
Bink loses every time but he will not give up
“...you do know she doesn’t have eyelids right?” “I DON’T CARE I’LL BEAT HER”
Bink (to me) seems like a reigning champ of roller skating. Super graceful and finds it fun (gonna add Maeve in here real quick because this hit me: Bink and Maeve are the power couple of roller-skating.)
Muriel is uhh...not that. Clumsy, and VERY out of his element. Bink takes it upon himself to hold Muriel’s hand and guide him around
To outsiders it’s hilarious as Bink is 5′5 and Muriel is 6′10 and looks like he can bench press a truck
Muriel whittles Bink little presents and cat toys
He keeps the wooden animals on a shelf dedicated to them. You could map out their relationship through the wooden carvings.
Muriel lives on coffee. Bink is banned from drinking coffee
Asra has a polaroid camera and a cork board of pictures of Bink and Muriel
Faust and Inanna are good friends
Inanna and some of Bink’s cats are not friends
Inanna is banned from Bink’s apartment due to this fact
Bink and Muriel go on a lot of late night dates. They both like to nap with one another in a sunbeam on a couch
Muriel is the dad that passes out when he sits in a comfy chair. Bink is the cat that curls up on Muriel’s chest to soak in the warmth
Said cats will gather around them as well if they can
Asra has taken to calling them the oldest married couple
They are an old married couple, sinking into home like routine
Muriel carries Bink on his back when they go out into town because Bink does not want to walk
Bink and studying don’t go together well due to poor attention span (FAIR) Muriel has created a reward system for him (yes Muriel still has his glasses, and yes Bink steals them and wears them himself. yes he has gone blind in them. Yes Muriel has lecture him. yes Asra has a picture of this)
Muriel’s nose bridge is so steep his glasses would be slipping down CONSTANTLY, I can see him being subtly salty as fuck with this 🤣
Those modern Bink and Muri head canons are absolutely adorable 🥺 and all pretty on point except Bink’s a clutz and he’d eat shit trying to roller skate 🤣🤣🤣 he’d try REALLY hard to keep up with Maeve tho. Thank you so much for the gift and birthday wishes!!!💕
ok for some reason the way you described devil muriel's smell makes me think of a very specific ginger and chili chocolate i ate once that was super rich to the point it just felt devil. which makes me think, i know muriel isn't fond of food, but what kind of comfort food would they represent? they being the 3 of them lmao
OH WOW that sounds super delicious. DX
okay so... here’s my best take for what food kind of embodies them:
Devil Muriel: something very rich and preferably intoxicating. Potent sangria mixed with pomegranate juice, fermented fruit, weed brownies that get you pretty hazy, sheesha in heavy flavors, really premium tobacco, chocolate liqueurs but the liquid inside is like turbo potent.
Werewolf Muriel: something strong. Big rare steak with that high-temp crust on the fat, sweet hard cider, rillettes on buttered, fresh bread with a load of deep fried potatoes, roasted fish doused in lemon, grilled root vegetables??
lkasjdfal?? I’m not sure i’m great at this sort of esoteric stuff but it’s super fun to marinate on, thanks for asking :O
I have gone full Venetian Renaissance Patron/Tumblr Medici these last few weeks and been commissioning lots of stuff because I need more serotonin. Anyway I commissioned @maffidraws for Erin n Muriel and MAN THEY DELIVERED and I’m D Y I N G
anyway when slots open up again i highly recommend you get over there and get one.
Comparison between human kato and cat kato’s hands.
while they might look like freckles in both forms, they arent!
Kato is, after all, a self insert. i’ve had recurrant nerves infection during my life, resulting in dark red spots all over my hands. they’re easily treatable with an antibiotics cycle, so it’s nothing scary. they leave barely scars, just some lil red spots. when they’re fresh however they blister and hurt a lot.
it’s something that’s not in their control, so they aren’t able to hide it with shapeshifting.
had some fun trying https://www.instagram.com/mimishadraw/ 's cherry blossom festival charm thing! i fucked up the first time not knowing about the colored lines thing, but i was able to quickly resolve it and find out some interesting firealpaca features. also yes, mc Kato was originally wearing the famous strawberry dress. i thought, they're not human and don't know what human do and how they behave, so being out of theme with their clothing was not something i hated- ended up changing it only for the sake of consistancy lol!
did i just learn that apprentice is spelt with a T? yes i did. fuck me lol
with all this devil muriel posting i can only think of un-pacified kato....
after asking some friends their opinion about yokais and demon, we came to the fact that a western demon, if more powerful, could indeed be able to possess a yokai that has a phisical form. would it end well? probably no, expecially since nekomata can be incredibly malignant and destructive
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