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pls call me mochi, i write twst, im kalim al-asim's #1 stan and an octavinelle slut, pls read my rules before requesting, terfs dont even bother i will fucking snap your godforsaken spine if you interact.
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Hi!! Could I request something with Floyd courting the reader? I love how you portray the tweels and how silly they can be. You’re writing is always so fun to read!!
Aaaa this was so fun to write!!! I miss writing for Floyd I should give him some more attention!!
Floyd is someone to me who falls in love at first punch. Or any act of violence and or aggression towards him. Really, someone who grabs his attention and keeps it is going to be the type of person that Floyd is into.
floyd leech x reader courting one-shot!
wc: 1,648
Floyd is an interesting case, being both a bit of a coward and very upfront about his feelings. He doesn't want to be vulnerable (ew yuck)! That's so not his style!
Unfortunately for you, his style is very middle school-like, aka: I'm gonna bother and annoy you but also expect you to know from this irritating special attention that I actually like you.
It makes for a really, quite funny sight for the others around you, as they can tell that you're definitely getting "special" treatment from Floyd, but due to his general demeanor and his role in Octavinelle, it's hard to tell if this is a good or bad thing.
Going back to my interspecies romance post (which might be due for a rewrite tbh I have more refined thoughts now) a few things from there apply to Floyd still.
He does bestow you with gifts, gifts that you don't really want because Floyd refuses to say what he wants in return. "They're just for you, take them." "I think I'm okay—" "I said. Take. It." You take them anyways because his expression is that unnerving one he always does when Ace starts annoying him in basketball and he's just about to start chasing him and throwing Ace into the hoop. Again.
They are the oddest little gifts. There are nice ones of course, an eel keychain that he insisted you take. A rock he found that Floyd though matched your eyes. He heard that for some reason, humans really like shells. Floyd learned the hard way that specifically empty shells, after gifting you one too many conches with the snail still in it. So Floyd brings you (empty) shells that remind him of you. They're fun colors, big, and usually pointy.
He also really likes to give you teeth. He gives you a lot of teeth, sharp ones, dull ones, ones with a little bit of blood still on them. You think the sharp ones might be his own, you heard Azul mention that growing up the twins would get into fights and lose teeth, only for them to grow back pretty quickly. Some of the teeth certainly looked big and sharp enough to be Floyd's. The others you're not too sure, but if you'd paid more attention to Floyd, you'd notice that he'd started a habit of following certain students that liked to push you around. All it takes is for one of them to mutter something about the "useless prefect" and you lack of magic, and Floyd is back with another tooth, smiling brightly like he did something trophy worthy.
Yes, he will "talk" to your bullies, in part because that's how you court and show love in the deep sea. A dangerous place like that means that you want to show that you are someone who not only can withstand the icy waters and her inhabitants, but can protect your beloved from her as well. The other part is because only Floyd is allowed to bully you.
This is more where the middle school behavior peaks most. Once again, if Floyd is pursuing you, it means you got is attention somehow. Most likely his interest started during one of the times you came into the Mostro Lounge, and probably did something like kick him in the shins, or the dick, and it's been love at first punch since then. Not many people can get the drop on him you know? And the other part of courting in the deep sea is making sure that your partner is also strong enough to protect you and fight for you. As such, he is antagonizing you daily with the sole purpose of getting you to fight, chase, and lovingly maim him.
Floyd is into you because you are exciting, more like a mantis shrimp with how you fight back when he bothers you. The pissed off look in your eye is just so thrilling when it's on him, and he wants to keep it on him. It's unfortunate that this aspect of eelmer courting is so conflicting with humans, because playing with you is his favorite way of courting. To him, it's obvious, all of his attention is on you and you on him, so it's going to be the quickest way to get you to confess to him first!
Oh, you think Floyd is going to confess first? Ha! No. He thinks that all his actions: the gifts, the protection, the "playing," is all an obvious enough sign of his courting. If anything, Floyd thinks he's practically shouting his intentions from the rooftops, and you're taking your sweet time. Honestly, the fact that you haven't caught on ("or," a voice whispers at the back of his head, "they aren't interested. They're ignoring you.") frustrates him to no end.
His mood swings ironically get a bit more predictable around you, just not in the way most would prefer. Floyd approaches you with another gift, after another "talk" with a bully, or tries playing with you again, if you don't react the way he wants his mood is dropping. He'll sulk, laying down in a booth at the lounge or at the bleachers during his club. Sometimes he gets antsy, wondering if he just squeezes you hard enough that you'll finally give in, so he'll stalk around campus to find something else to rough up, since humans apparently fragile little things. Jade makes fun of him for this, since when has Floyd cared about being gentle? Since when has Floyd become predictable—why even random students are clocking that Floyd gets moody after talking with the Prefect!
The fact that other students are noticing a pattern annoys Floyd even more; he doesn't need his business known by anyone but him. Alas, it continues on as you live on in ignorance and Floyd lives on in annoyance that you're not already sloppily making out in his room right now. He's ready to just do it anyways, if you didn't like it all then you would've told him to stop long ago. You gotta like him too!
But it's not the gifts or protection or attention he gives you that eventually catches your attention, but rather the rare, almost foreign sound of your actual name from his mouth. It's not often, as Floyd thinks that if you're gonna stay being a little shrimp around him then you can stay as Little Shrimpy. But sometimes, when it's just you two, and you play along with him, Floyd likes to feel the way the letters of your name leave his lips as you blink up at him with a cute, surprised expression.
"Ah!" Floyd rocked on his heels, looking down at you with a lazy smile as you pointed a finger up at him. "You do know my name!"
Floyd tilted his head and giggled, "Duh, why'd you think I didn't?"
A pleasant change of pace for him, usually you'd blanch at the sight of him and grimace at the latest trinket he'd gotten you. It pissed him off, Floyd reeeeeally wanted to just pick you up and squeeze until you finally gave in and agreed to go out. There's a fun spooky escape room in Foothill Town that he wants to try with you but it's not fun if you're gonna be clutching the wall with fear and not him. But Mama reminded him that humans were soft things, had to be careful with them if you liked one. And he really liked you.
"Cause you call me Shrimpy instead! Like, all the time! I thought you just didn't bother to remember anyone's name!"
He shrugged smile dropping into a pout.
"Only when I wanna."
He frowned as you huffed, rolling your eyes as you fidgeted with the rock Floyd had given you. More so plopped in your palm after cornering you at the end of a hall during his latest chase. It was…certainly a rock!
"Lovely, so you only wanna remember my name sometimes."
"Only when Shrimpy deserves it."
Floyd leaned back as you whipped your head up at him and held up your hands in a strangling motion, an also strangled sound coming from your mouth as you practically growled.
You had look in your eye, like you were on the last straw of you patience. Floyd would really love to see you lose it though, see how you'd jump him and rough him up. You'd look so pretty, breathless and flushed, like you would after making out, he's very sure of it.
"Why are you like this? And why me? Wasn't Riddle enough fun for you?"
A giant, full (sharp) tooth grin grew on Floyd's face as he giggled. A fond warmness filled his chest and bloomed on his cheeks.
"It's different with (Name)!"
Then, you slumped and half whined, half groaned as you ducked under Floyd and started walking away.
"But why?! What'd I ever do to you? Are you still mad about the first time I came to the lounge? I didn't mean to dick you down there! Everyone else started fighting and I was just trying to make sure I didn't get hurt!"
Floyd also whined, following after you like a lanky, looming puppy.
"Ugh! How come Shrimpy still doesn't get it!" He sighed, suddenly draping himself over you. You yelped, stumbling as you tried to steady yourself from falling. "I'm doin' everything like Mama said! But you're taking too long!"
You went warm and stiffened, Floyd's breath grazing the back of your neck as he murmured into you: "How come you don't answer me? Don't cha like me?"
"A-ah, Floyd you're being weird…"
It was confusingly pleasing and frustrating that you liked how Floyd practically curled over you as if he could merge you two into one.
"Don't want me? I want my (Name), and I think I'm gonna take you now."
Azul is nothing if not an opportunist and if he sees that there is a way to make money, then by GOD he is making that money. People get hungry and thirsty... the REAL question is whether he gets chased off by the crowd for trying to profit or if he is smooth enough to get them to buy his food
okay i cleared my asks except for two requests that I'm gonna write some quick little drabbles for, otherwise asks/request are open babes send what you want and I'll work on them as I work on PTM and requests!
hello! just wanted to pop in and say that i'm *really* enjoying your work (particularly, that of ptm, that one bookshop au w/ malleus, and the maid café saga). hope this doesn't sound *too* weird, as i'm aware some people take issue with this, but i went and scoured through your entire blog from the eldest post to the newest at the time of writing this purely for the opportunity to chew on more of your writing and thoughts (i enjoyed myself greatly).
question, what would the obsession inspired oneshot be? i'm assuming for one it would be angsty (but seeing as comedy is more your thing, maaaaybe it would have a happy ending or have more of a comedical tone, somehow?), with perhaps the obsessed character in question being a more yandere-like version of themself.
(i can actually see jade fitting this for some reason. seeing as the ending to obsession happened because "freaky" nikki had nothing to hold on to bear as he was kind of a nothingburger of a man, to put it lightly, and jade is far more interesting of a person by a long shot, maybe his request instead of being "i wish yuu loved me more than anyone else in the whole wide world" was "i wish yuu loved me back" which would've been a bit more realistic bc of...y'know...the one wish willow's whole thing of taking wishes very literally (and maybe yuu's entire personality wouldn't have been replaced by another them that's just really really really in love with jade and hold himself above them. y'know what i mean?))
ALTERNATIVELY, yuu is the one who makes the wish in the first place, whether the oneshot follow's obsession's plot more closely and jade ends up [REEDACTED] them in the end, or yuu is self aware and has more personality then a 10 madol shrimp and the wish is more realistic (see my hypothetical other wish above) + jade having his personality in ptm so he does not change in the slightest or he's more forward and bold. who knows!
sorry for yapping so much, i'm just really curious on what that oneshot would be!
Thanks for sending this, one I'm happy that you're enjoying my works, even the older ones! I'm not bothered by anyone going back to my old posts, I think it's expected by most people on tumblr that people will go through your older posts anyways lol. I'm glad you enjoy it!
I've been thinking a lot about it since I got this ask because Obsession really did a number on me as a horror lover! It legit might change my entire dissertation because I have so many thoughts about it.
For starters, even though it would be an x reader, it wouldn't be romantic in any sense, nor would it be comical or even angsty, it would very much be a horror piece as I can't see a way to write something funny or romantic about the loss of not just your autonomy as a person but being forced to watch your body do and say things that you do not want. Partially I don't want to write any of the cast in the same role as Bear because he is such an awful person, but that's also compelling in a way to think about which characters you could see doing the same as him and why!
I'll put the rest under read more for any Obsession spoilers, but after thinking about it for some time, the guys I would write the oneshot with would be Kalim, Ace, and Idia.
I came to the conclusion of these characters because I kept thinking about Bear and his reactions to Nikki as the film progressed. You could make the argument in the beginning that him making that wish and the first few interactions that he didn't know what was really going on and didn't mean for everything to progress the way it did.
And while it's true for the beginning of the film, I think once we get to Bear's phone call to the One Wish Willow customer service, it's no longer deniable that Bear is an antagonist of his own and Nikki's story. Though I am of the opinion that the same night he makes his wish and spends it with Nikki is the start of Bear's role as the antagonist, as he clearly sees Nikki act different and has moments of sudden clarity and fear when gaining control of her body again, but downplays it the day after.
This is all to say that I wanted to think about who would not only make the wish, but also who would be more likely to let the wish progress in intentional ignorance until he would no longer be able to deny that something is wrong with you.
Kalim and Ace are the strongest contenders to me for making a wish like this with the One Wish Willow. I can see Ace, similarly to Bear in the movie, making the wish out of frustration after not being able to confess his feelings. Kalim, though yes kind, is spoiled and I think might accidently make the wish because he's always been given what he wants, but this is one of very few times when he doesn't and he can't comprehend: why don't you love him the way he loves you?
Idia I think would make the wish in the isolation of his room. Maybe he got it at Sam's during a rare outing from his room, and of course he cannot fathom you ever agreeing to go out with him. He's of the belief that someone like him is unlovable, it'd totally take a wish for you to even consider going out with him!
I don't think none of the three would have their own stories progress the same way as in the film, as they would all be dealing with you and the new version of you fighting for control of you body in different ways.
That's the extent of my thoughts about the oneshot rn, let me know what yall think or if you have other characters in mind for this kind of story I'm super curious to know what yall think!
Okay I can't figure out how to add the video itself and not the pin but that's very funny
I think the funniest potential I have in regards to PTM would be to make Jade clock that Yuu has telepathy just because they cannot hide their facial expressions to save their life
"Wow, how did you know I could hear your thoughts? I was hiding it so well!"
Cue flashback of Yuu with a thousand-mile stare as Jade stands next to them with a smile.
Person who sent in the maid au ask here! Maybe a situation where the cafe is short staffed and Trey gets roped into being a butler server for a day? (I know i originally said dealers choice lol but 💚Trey💚)
Aaaaah I forgot about the maid cafe au! It was a fun one I should write little things for it more <3
But ooooo what a juicy idea!
I'm trying to imagine a scenario in which Trey not only ends up at a maid cafe, but also working there.
Hmm, perhaps Trey is interested in some of the dishes that the cafe serves, and while taking notes he gets the attention of manager.
At first, they're a bit peeved, assuming that Trey is there to steal their menu (which isn't too off, he would personally argue that he's just looking for inspiration!)
Once he manages to explain that he's a baker, they get the idea of letting Trey learn from their cook if he helps out. The cafe is having a special event and they're going to be short staffed, if he works as a butler for the day alongside a customer favorite maid.
He's a bit bashful about the idea, especially by the off chance that someone from school sees him. He'll never hear the end of it, hard enough as it is to have a normal, relaxing day at NRC. But he's not one to deny an opportunity, especially since the pastries from the cafe are known for being phenomenal.
Besides, it's only for a few shifts, and the staff have always been polite, and they speak highly of their customers. He's sure it won't be all that much trouble.
So, that's how Trey finds himself slipping on the cafe uniform, one of the staff fussing over his hair as they and another bicker over how to accessorize his glasses.
"Just a simple chain! It's classy!" One of the maids, dressed similarly to Trey in a sleek pastel suit, was holding up various glasses chains up to his face, while the other maid, in a frilly red dress, slicked back his hair with gel, eyeing the options.
"Hmm, he's working with (Name) right? Let's wait to see them in uniform and see if we can match them up."
(Name)? No, not his (Name) not the (Name) he knew, right? Yeah, it was probably someone else with the same name. There's no way you'd be at place like this, what a silly tho—
Trey froze at the sight of you, dressed to the nines in a frilly, short maid dress, unaware of his presence as you dug through your bag, humming triumphantly as you pulled out a frilly headpiece.
"Hey guys, can you help me again with this? I can never make my hair look as nice when you do—"
A half scream, half yelp left your mouth as the two of you made eye contact. Your two coworkers stared in confusion and amusement, glancing between Trey and you frozen, like a deer caught in headlights...if the other person was the headlight.
It was a very awkward start to the shift for Trey, make more so at the snickering and teasing from the other maids.
"Ooo~ Did you see the way he looked at them? He totally is into them!"
"You mean into the outfit, I so saw him checking them out. Up n' down and looking at allll the right places."
"Aaaaah! You're so right, how scandalous. Here I thought NRC students were supposed to be respectful~"
So much for no trouble. Trey's only solace is that not all of the attention is on him.
"I can't believe you've been holding back on us! Are all your friends from school as handsome as your boooyfriend?"
"Don't be coy with me! I saw the way you got all flustered. What? You only dress up for him during alone time?"
"It's so cute that he came to work with you, how sweet~ What? You want us to believe it's a coincidence that he happened to work here too?"
Trey was tired just 2 hours into the shift taking a moment to rest against the wall of the hallway leading into the kitchen. It was one thing for Cater or Lilia to tease him. He was plenty familiar with Rook and his inclination to wax the poetic. He'd even grown accustomed, amused really, by Ace's ribbing.
But it was one thing when strangers pointed out just how down bad he was for you. And when they made the same comments to you? Sevens it made him feel things.
More things. Way more things. Things like the tingly warmth in his cheeks and chest at the way the fabric wrapped around your body. The heat in seeing the way you laughed with the customers and batted your lashes. Trey knows the feeling he gets seeing your attention on them instead of him has a name.
Oh, the things he'd give you to see that look on him instead. If your just doing this for the tips, let him be the one to take care of you. He's very good at it you know, Trey's always been the doting kind.
But he's not saying any of that to you. He can't. There's no way. He's got the flirting skills of a wet grape.
"U-um, Trey?"
He startled slightly at the sound of your sudden voice, noting the way you looked up at him nervous smile.
"You're not gonna tell anyone about this, right? I really need this job and I don't really don't want like Ace coming and making fun of me for the whole maid thing."
He smiled that gentle smile, making you relax. You can always trust Trey to be dependable.
"Course, it's not like I mind seeing you—" Trey stumbled, warm in the cheeks again. "—I mean it's just cute—different. Seeing you like this."
Trey was going to bury his face into his pillows and scream. What is wrong with him.
"Ah." You let out an embarrassed giggle.
"Yeah! It was nice seeing you—"
Eyelashes batting at him.
"It's just that, I'm glad it was you who saw me like this."
Oh fuck him. Trey hopes you agree to stop by his place tonight.
just got my brain chemistry fucking altered after watching Obsession and while I was terrified I am now also thinking of the possibilities of writing a horror oneshot based on the premise of it
You’re literally one of my favourite authors when it comes to Kalim.
I’m a huge kalim simp and I love how you write him as this Horney bastard because this is still a grown dude, I hate it how ppl dumb him down and make him so innocent that he’s only a child basically, like man is gonna rule a nation one day im pretty sure he knows how these things go..
(Not an ask or a request but had to say this cuz I lack kalim content.)
Thank you! I honestly feel that due to the lack of Kalim content and how what we do have is read by the audience, a lot of people infantilize him to the point that he tends to get written as "sunshine dumb baby who is cute and innocent uwu" when that's not what he is. At least not to me.
Kalim is, when compared to most of the cast, yes a sunshine-y character. Azul even states similarly so in Book 4. But that doesn't mean he's just a ball of sunshine, sweet, and stupid. He's a complicated character, just like the rest of the cast.
Kalim is someone who is a kind person yes, but he's also intentionally naive, as he admits so in Book 4 when he states that he was aware deep down of Jamil's animosity to him, but chose to ignore it and pretend in ignorant bliss that they're best friends (not servant and master). He tends to be impulsive and spoiled as well, as evident in many of his interactions with his peers, and as a big mouth as he's accidently insulted people like Riddle in the latter's PE vignette by accident because he's naive.
He's also someone who is growing up in a rather traumatic environment, his life threatened daily just because he's the first born. It's to the point that he's essentially become an expert in recognizing poisons because he's consumed so many of them. He's not an idiot, his strengths aren't in academics, but in the arts and socialization. Ironically, despite his obliviousness and (intentional) naivety, he's great at supporting his classmates and being a friend, as he is beloved by his dorm despite.
As a housewarden, where he struggles with being strict and maintaining the more (without a better way to put it) administrative role, he excels as a leader in being someone who his dormmates know will back him up and be generous. He's also a quick thinker, coming up with the idea of using his signature spell to fill the empty river to get him, Yuu, Grim, and the OctoTrio back to Scarabia quickly. Same in his Dorm Uniform vignettes, coming up quickly with a banquet, a menu, a parade, and getting the parrots back quickly in a very short amount of time. I haven't gotten into the way Kalim's magic is downplayed (both in game and in the fandom) as not as powerful as the other housewardens, when in reality the ability to produce a large amount of water with a minimal amount of magic is extraordinary and revolutionary in a situation like a drought or lack of infrastructure producing clean, drinkable water. The main reason we see him not being in the same level as the housewardens is because he as been rasied in an environment where he is coddled, babied, and is valuable not as a person but as an heir, which is when we often seen Jamil put on the front lines (which ofc has repercussions on Jamil and how he perceives his worth).
Anyways this is a very longwinded way to say that I love Kalim and I love writing him not just as sunshine boy but as sunshine boy despite the odds.
Me: "Gosh, I wonder how I end up writing so much in my chapters, one of them was 15k! I need to make sure I don't go overboard and try to keep chapter length's consistent!"
Ptm question for the wedding event from a while ago. Will you include the event in the story or a side story of ptm? Even if you don't include the event itself, would you include Jade having wedding thoughts? I can see Yuu/reader overhearing domestic wedding thoughts and finding Jade all cute for that thought to suddenly turn pornographic and Yuu gets flustered
This is a great time to say that I've decided that the events won't be included in the main story for PTM just because with the sheer amount that has been added since I started writing it, I would have to add more chapters and delay the story more than it has.
I think what I would like to do is for the events (birthdays too) and their vignettes, write a separate collection of short stories set in PTM. Since technically the events take place before PTM starts and thus no telepathy yet, it would be "non" canon to PTM and ideally would be fine to read without needing to read PTM itself. But for PTM, the main story of course and the base cards (Dorm, PE, Lab, and Uniform) vignettes will be canon if that makes sense?
EDIT: wait actually the events that can fit into the first year (the first Halloween, the Phantom Bride, the Wish Upon a Star, the first Birthday event) will be included I just need to refresh myself on them lol, later events that start getting messy in fitting in the timeline i won't include
And if it is in the latest PTM chapter sorry I didn’t read it, I’m lazy fuk
lol yes we see his thoughts in chapter 6, I have rules for the telepathy that I've written in my notes that might lowkey be edited a bit as I finish editing the older chapters!
