Dreaming to escape boredom

A macaron (22 y/o) with a few interests

[hunterrami]

fooling around with fem!caleb

[hunterrami]

pov: you're on a date with fem!caleb

[actualbird]

von hagen household teasing back when marius was single. happy pride.

[kanteryuuzen]

Happy end (+ Happy 10th anniversary to the game ever!! 🎈)

[actualbird]

gay bar

[egophiliac]

as penance, here's that Georgina/Dylla for y'all 🙇

[honey-bee05]

How Would TWST be as Yanderes? - Savannaclaw

Warnings: Financial abuse, unconsensual touching(?), MDNI

I have no idea why Leona's turned out so long, nor why Ruggie is so difficult to write, but whatever we ball. Characters with ✩stars by their names are written purely platonically, and characters with ♡hearts can be platonic or romantic. Word Count ~1k, and onto the yanderes!

♡ Leona Kingscholar- Possessive and Self Aware.

It snuck up on him, how much Leona found himself liking you. Your quiet strength, your patience, the way you saw the depth hidden within his faux apathy.. it caught him off guard. You caught him off guard. And far sooner than he'd like to admit, your presence became something he missed and craved; a spot in his life he'd begun leaving space for. But, in spite of the warmth and cautious tenderness sprouting inside the prince's heart, Leona's not stupid.

He knows you don't belong here. Knows that as soon as the opportunity is presented, you'll tuck tail and run straight back home, leaving him and everyone else behind to try and navigate a world forever changed by the few short months they had you in it. He knows you deserve it, too- to go home. You've earned it, really, after all you've done for those around you. But at the same time,

you fucked up.

Knowing others so intimately, healing wounds once thought to be permanent, you've made yourself indispensable without even realizing it. And for once in his life, Leona will not let what he wants be taken from him.

Gradually, bills begin piling up. Food for Grim, repairs around Ramshackle, little things just outside the meager allowance oh so kindly bestowed upon you by Crowley each week. At first it's not a big deal, you'd been planning on getting a part time job for a little while anyways, so you just figure you'll have a bit less spending money than you'd hoped- except no one will hire you. Everywhere you go, it's the same story: no id, no job. Even the shady places you're almost positive are some sort of mob front shoo you away, pushing you out the door with a feeble excuse and a nervous glance. You begin to panic, rapidly running out of supplies and backed into a corner, until one day,

"Here, I've got it."

You're shocked, but immensely grateful the first time he pays for your groceries, waving off your thankful sputtering like it was no big deal. It happens again the next week, and the week after that, each time Leona helping you out with just a little bit more. Before you know it, you're relying on him completely, wracking up a silent debt and stuck in a legal purgatory where you don't exist enough on paper to have any way of paying him back. Until, once again,

"Here, take it."

This time, he hands you a small square of a plastic like material. 'Sunset Savanna - Permanent Resident Identification Card' sits at the top in bold letters you're barely literate enough to read. You don't realize it at first, too thankful for the little square of security to question the implications, but the power dynamic between you has officially shifted. You're formally one of his, now, at least while you're in Twisted Wonderland; and if the bird actually manages to find a way to send you back? Well, he's got a few shiny madol and some choice words to get him to change his mind.

♡ Ruggie Bucchi- Manipulative and self aware? (Not really sure what category this falls into).

It was a slow process, getting to know him. Ruggie doesn't trust easily, having learned from experience that most displays of good will always came with a catch, an expectation of receiving something in return that he may not be able to give- so neither of you are quite sure when it happened. Somewhere along the line, his teasing lost it's sharp edge when he was with you, the purpose of his jokes became to simply make you laugh instead of a way to subtly sniff out your intentions, and you fell into a nice rhythm of mutual respect and a friendship without expectations.

Maybe it had something to do with the relaxed atmosphere free from projection you'd created, but you steadily found yourself being more clumsy around him. A trip here, an accidental bump of the shoulder there- nothing overly dangerous, and he was luckily always there to catch you, but it was frequent enough to be noticeable. Then again, maybe your unrefined behavior was secretly a reflection of your own self conscience; a strange magnetic pull you couldn't quite place having often accompanied your mishaps, urging you closer to him.

Like Leona, Ruggie's not dumb. He sees the way some people treat you, people a hell of a lot stronger and more powerful than he is, recognizing all their little acts of courtship you'd have no way of knowing about. He knows that if he doesn't play his cards right, one of them is bound to catch on to him and take you away forever, so for now he bides his time; appeasing the more restless parts of his soul with the sparse contact forced with his magic, waiting patiently for a window to open up for him to push the boundaries just a bit further. Is it wrong? Sure, of course it is, but this is Twisted Wonderland, and you don't get anything you want if you're not willing to play a little dirty.

✩ Jack Howl- Overprotective.

Jack respects you, significantly so. Like Deuce, he looks up to you in many regards, but you also make him nervous. For every act of genuine kindness, every helping hand extended or undeserved forgiveness given, you teeter on the edge of your own undoing, danger seemingly following you at every turn.

He begins to linger. You're strong, he knows that, but you don't know this world like he does, and sevens be damned if he were to just sit back and do nothing while you got yourself into a situation you couldn't get out of. He's there to back you up, whenever there's a fight; warning you before and after the fact not to get involved with certain people- just the more unsavory groups at first, but steadily evolving until you're barred from speaking to half the school.

"Pack mates look out for each other," is what he tells you, and he full heartedly believes that's all there is to it. You've stuck your neck out for him before, so it's only right he does the same, even if you can't see it that way.

[tooaya]

Mortenax

[niisancomplex]

missing the high marshal hour. who's with me

[spacekittiesmeow]

zayne uses makeup?

"I didn't know you wore makeup." you hold up the concealer in your hand. zaynes eyes flit to the rose gold tube.

"I do. though, only after we started dating." he tells you. "you could say that you introduced me to the various benefits of cosmetics." he gives you a proud little smile.

"such as?" your arm crosses over the other.

"i don't look as tired when we meet after long shifts."

your smile quickly fades. "so you've been hiding your eye bags from me, dr zayne?"

his lips purse. "not hiding, per se." he answers. "you put in a lot of effort when you get ready for our dates."

"my conscience didn't allow the lack of aesthetic effort on my part." you blink at his words. "so I suppose you could say I wanted to look appealing to you." he adds, looking away.

just when you're about to melt, he speaks again. "ah, there's something else." he takes you to his bedroom and opens a drawer.

"I bought this yesterday." he pulls out a chapstick. and then puts it on. like he's been doing it for years.

his eyes twinkle with mischief. "why don't you taste it and tell me if you'd prefer a different flavour?"

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[solxamber]

WHAT THE FUCK HOLY

[ntaleteam]

May Dev Log: A Month Dedicated to Writing Seo-jun, Bom, and Yu-chae’s Routes

Hello, Finders!

It’s already the end of May. After some surprisingly hot days, the weather has cooled down a little again!

Let’s do our best to survive this summer together! ☀️

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Current Development Progress

💜 Sooha Route Progress (Based on the Ending Route) Scenario Writing ✒️: 95% Complete Remaining: Direction polishing Programming 🛠️: 20% Complete Remaining: Script implementation, build development Art 🎨: 100% Complete Sound 🔊: 50% Complete Remaining: Voice recordings for certain characters, sound effects, direction audio Localization 🔡: 20% Complete

📌Upcoming Schedule

🖥️ Steam Version Release Planned for July 💜 Soo-ha Route Release Planned for August

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Season 3 Progress

(Common Route + Seo-jun Route + Yuchae Route)

Scenario Writing ✒️: 80% Complete Programming 🛠️: 5% Complete Art 🎨: 40% Complete Sound 🔊: 20% Complete Localization 🔡: 20% Complete

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Season 4 Progress

(Bom Route + Final Chapter)

Scenario Writing ✒️: 80% Complete Programming 🛠️: 5% Complete Art 🎨: 5% Complete Sound 🔊: 0% Complete Localization 🔡: 0% Complete

Compared to last month, the scenario writing is now almost complete!

The remaining 20% mainly consists of polishing and revisions that will be done alongside programming and implementation.

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So, our goals for June are:

Steam version QA and review submission

Soo-ha Route direction, programming, QA, and localization

Voice recording implementation for all characters

Soo-ha Route production and programming

We need to release both Seasons 3 and 4 before December...

That means only seven months remain!

So lately we've been working with the mindset of, "Let's survive this!"

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Good News!

🎉 Moonlight Dialogue Has Reached 10,000 Mobile Downloads!

Thank you so much to everyone who has played our game—even if only for a single second!

As an indie game, we received almost no external support and spent very little on marketing, so reaching this milestone honestly feels like a miracle.

Finders, thank you from the bottom of our hearts. ❤️

Maybe if we keep working this hard, we'll finally escape being in the red someday!

Knowing that our efforts have reached you fills us with happiness and gratitude.

We hope that one day, the love we share for Moonlight Dialogue will reach the sky itself.

🎉 Steam Wishlist Count Has Surpassed 1,000!

How is this even possible?!🥹

We truly never expected this.🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 This feels like another miracle. Thank you. Really, truly, thank you.

A Few Words from the Planner

Thank you for taking the time to read these monthly development updates.

Last year and the year before, we participated in PlayX4. Since we're not attending this year, it feels a little bittersweet.

Back in July last year, we even held a fan-sign event and invited Jiwon and Soo-ha cosplayers at Comic World!

Those memories still mean so much to us. To every Finder who attended our events, thank you sincerely. Because of you, we were able to create precious memories, and we hope those memories were just as meaningful for you.

During the final week of May, I focused on writing the Final Chapter.

Every day I wrote roughly 10,000 English characters, going through draft after draft, revision after revision, until completion.

Of course, after cutting, refining, and polishing, much less remains in the final version.

Many of these scenarios were originally planned over three years ago.

Seeing them finally become real scripts, line by line, filled me with emotions that are difficult to describe.

These aren't characters created by someone else.

They're characters that we created, raised, and developed entirely within NTale from beginning to end.

That's why they mean so much to us.

Right now, these stories are still undeveloped film waiting to be processed.

We can't wait to finish the work and finally show them to all of you. (I know I've probably said that a hundred times already. 😭)

Even after the Final Chapter, we still have countless ideas planned, including After Endings and DLC content.

To us, the Final Chapter is not the end—it is simply the path leading to those future stories.

To be honest, I'm the kind of person who waits until a drama is completely finished before starting it!

So this year, we'll continue focusing entirely on development.

Just as we always have, we'll do our very best.

Thank you, as always, for your support. ❤️

[tartppola]

yuu meets someone the headmaster had hoped they’d never see.

[bubblegumkatz]

yuu headcanons p.2 [view p.1]

"How dare you.

MAKE ONE WHERE THERE ARE ANGST FOR THE BOYS WHO WANTS TO HELP BUT CLEARY COULDN'T AND REGRETS IT DEEPLY WHEN YUU DISAPPEARED/JJ"

i have the rights because i KNOW yuu's never going home BLEHHH :P thank you @rosieletwst !!!!! i HURRIED to make this, i love angst...

After Yuu returns home, the boys start replaying old conversations differently.

Every slight mentions about wanting to go home.

Ace realizes Yuu stopped talking about their world near the end.

At the time he thought it meant they’d gotten attached to NRC.

Later he understands that the truth was Yuu was trying to make leaving hurt less.

Deuce remembers all the times he found Yuu awake late at night in Ramshackle.

He always told them: “You should sleep.”

He never asked: “What’s wrong?”

The boys eventually realize Yuu had been preparing everyone emotionally for their disappearance long before it actually happened.

Becoming quieter, no more making comments because they knew they wouldn't fit in no matter what. *****

Like they were already halfway gone.

Ace keeps thinking about the last night at Ramshackle.

Yuu looked fine for a magicless person being taken to a complete different world.

But now he wonders if that came from the relief of finally being able to go home… or from spending one last night with people they loved.

Deuce’s regret comes from all the things he didn’t say.

He thought there would still be letters somehow.

A foolish hope indeed.

He didn’t realize goodbye meant gone.

Grim is much more upset

Yuu spent so much time comforting everyone else about the separation…

and almost nobody stopped to comfort Yuu.

The cruelest realization is that Yuu probably left believing they hid their sadness successfully.

Meanwhile the boys are left wishing they had noticed sooner.

*****im pretty sure among the overblotters' voicelines they say something about Yuu 'maturing up'...*****

creds to @Valkyriii on yt for the translation, i was lazy so here are riddle's and malleus's

[honey-bee05]

Hi again, so I've been on a linguistics rabbit hole and have so many ideas about twst world languages and the influence of human emphaty on our languages.

Our languages tend to be influenced by our tone that can change with our emotions.

More specifically, the shift we had with emojis. As graphics advance and we have a multitude of new emojis and so they gained new or very specific meaning. I think since we have such variety, we start to differentiate between, for example, smiley faces ( like these two :) 🙂 have very different meaning even though they're technically the same) or how their meaning can change depending on context. Part of it is our inate empathy and how we assign emotions and feelings to inanimate objects.

Since inhabitants of the twst world have lesser amount of emphaty I was wondering how it'd influence their tonal expressions? Or texting and use of emojis (if any at all). I can imagine it can sound more stoic or even robotic to us. (Or how older generations tend to text). Also the vice versa can apply for (after learning Common of twst world) MC texting can sound strange to them.

Sorry for rambling so much and I hope it made at least a little bit sense.

Hope you have a lovely rest of the day/night!

Oooh I hadn't thought of this! I think that while emojis would still be used, there'd be less subtle tone differences between them, like how both of those smiley's would mean the same thing. For text, it would depend on the individual, but over all tone indicators like /srs or /j would be the standard. Things like teasing and sarcasm are also still common, but twst folk make it pretty clear when they're talking like that.

They actually tend to talk fairly animatedly and expressive, overexaggerating at times to get across the intended emotions. I imagine MC might come off as cold or rude at first, as their tone may be to subtle for them to pick up, especially while texting.

Switching the topic a bit, you also mentioned how Earth humans will assign emotions and feelings to inanimate objects, which I think could lead to some pretty funny misunderstandings. Since magic doesn't really have too many hard limits, there's always the chance that any random thing is enchanted with sentience. I just imagine MC bumping into a chair and apologizing to it, and everyone else is just like ???? it's alive???

Anyways, thank you for the lovely ask, and have a great day!

[bubblegumkatz]

• yuu headcanons •

because yuu's geniuenly my favorite character....... im still torturing them

[view p.2]

Yuu occasionally forgets details about their old world. First it’s small things like favorite snack brands, a classmate’s face, the route home from school. Then one day they realize they can’t remember their own bedroom clearly anymore.

Nobody at NRC fully understands how lonely being magicless is. The first years mentions it rarely but in a casual way, like 'oh yeah we forgot', but Yuu constantly lives with the awareness that if something goes wrong, they can’t protect themselves the same way everyone else can. They're thankful to have friends that protected them during the overblots even tho they felt utterly useless...

Ramshackle is cold because the dorm was abandoned for so long, and sometimes Yuu stays awake listening to the building creak, realizing there’s nobody in this world they truly belong with.

Grim notices when Yuu is homesick before anyone else does. He’ll start fights or act extra annoying on purpose just to distract them from crying.

Yuu keeps souvenirs from every dorm. Not because they’re sentimental, but because they’re terrified that if they ever go home, this world will disappear like a dream.

Some nights Yuu quietly wonders whether their family thinks they disappeared… or died. (I think I saw something about Yuu's original world being paused or something like that in one of the novels but im not too sure so...)

Ace is one of the first people to realize Yuu smiles differently around others versus when they’re alone.

Yuu gets used to being needed only during crises. They become “the reliable prefect,” but secretly start feeling like people only come to Ramshackle when everything is falling apart.

Malleus visiting Ramshackle late at night becomes important because he’s one of the few people who understands isolation. Neither of them says it directly.

After every overblot incident, Yuu becomes more afraid. Not of the overblots themselves, but of losing the people they’ve grown attached to.

There’s a version of Yuu that stops talking about going home because they realize NRC is home now… and that realization scares them more than anything.

Crowley promising “we’ll find a way home soon” starts hurting after a while because Yuu can tell he doesn’t (want to) know.

Yuu sometimes sits in on magic studies they can never use anyway. Not because they expect to learn magic, just because they want to feel included.

The students eventually stop calling Ramshackle “haunted” and start calling it “home,” and Yuu nearly cries the first time they overhear it.

If Yuu ever made it back to their original world, the loneliness would hit in subtle moments. Reaching for their phone to text Ace about something dumb. Hearing thunder and thinking of Diasomnia. Turning around to tell Grim a joke before remembering he isn’t there. And the worst part would be knowing nobody around them could truly understand why they miss a world that technically never existed.

🦐

[sylusdreams]

"Would you mind if I stole Luke and Kirian?"

Red eyes scoped you, "for what?" he said, the eye brow raise audible at this point.

"Nothing, what if I just want them to be my hench men."

He paused, white strands of hair swaying swinging softly in the AC air. "I was under the impression," he tilted his head, "they were already your personal henchmen."

It was your turn to emote — a pouted lip, only for jokes, and furrowed eyebrows, "No, you are my henchman. They just follow you around."

There was a long pause, the room tone overtaking comfortable silence. Then, something many viewed as a miracle happened. Sylus, leader of the Onychinus, laughed. Not for tease, nor for sarcasm. A true laugh. One that shook his shoulders and reverberated through his chest.

"Then you wouldn't need them, you have me."

Somehow, Sylus had accepted his fate as your eternal henchman. Not like he'd personally complained, he was yours from the beginning.