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Hay everyone I'm here with day like 4 5 I don't remember but hay I'm to tired to draw cus I was at the pride peraded and I drew this yesterday day bit today is family and I did bill x macaque and Billy's my oc and I just think they'd go graet to gather
So while i wrote this for @monkiekid-shipweeks' Pride event, i actually came up with the AU idea a little bit ago, i saw that Soulmate AUs were one of the prompts and I was like 'perfect timing' and whipped this up real quick
Why yes this entire Pride Week is me just throwing my rarepairs in your guys' faces mwah ha ha ha ha
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Wong Zhihao was terrified, he was suspended what felt like at least a full story in the air, tied up with spider webbing far stronger than his wiry muscles could pull at and unable to do much more than wriggle as he desparately tried to get some traction.
Damn that woman- that 'Spider Queen'. He'd thought she was just a lost stranger looking for a certain shop in the marketplace, they'd small talked as he lead her to the stand and he had to curse his own obliviousness because he hadn't realized until it was far too late that she had a million questions about his profession and his general thoughts on the work he did, and he'd known nothing about her.
Bare minimum that had been rude, but that didn't even matter now because he was HUNG UP IN A SPIDER WEB because the lost woman had been the FUCKING SPIDER QUEEN.
“-Honestly I don't know why she's even keeping him alive, it's been so long since we've had fresh human in the stew. The stuff from the Night Deli just doesn't taste as good...”
“You know how the Queen is Hunts, she probably has a plan of some kind and Mister Scientist up there is some part of it.”
He staunchly looked away from the two spider demons. Staring up into the darkness of the greyscale world that had been his only real basis for observance for the past thirty four years and trying to not panic too hard.
He knew demons liked their prey afraid and Zhihao wasn't going to indulge that.
“You're right Goliath!” the fake cheer in the Queen's voice was somehow MORE chilling than the fact that she had seemingly appeared from thin air behind him and Zhihao startled, yelped, and on reflex tried to squirm away. The web bounced him back and forth with his motions leaving him inable to actually do anything else, and much to his humiliation he could hear the two spiders below begin to laugh.
There was a slicing noice and Zhihao let out another small yelp when he fell a few feet. The silk of the web being slowly undone to lower him to the ground.
“Everyone say hello to our New Employee!” the Queen eventually snatched him by his scruff before he could fall the rest of the way down and with a lurch of his gut and a light thump, Zhihao found himself being thrown to the ground and mostly undone from his cocoon like prison.
Not fully, his arms were still strapped to his sides, but he could at least move a little more than just wiggle about. Zhihao was terrified. The black and white world around him glowed strangely with lights from places he didn't think lights would be-
“Say 'Hi' Scientist~” he felt a hand grip into his hair and force his head upwards as the Queen bade him to look at the two other spiders.
The big guy drew his eye first.
“In a weird way he's kinda cute! Look at that messy hair! He's like a puppy!” the big guy cooed.
“Pssh, yeah if you think wiry nerds are 'cute'...” the smaller one scoffed, and Zhihao's eyes drifted to him-
Green.
Zhihao's gut froze, and he watched as the smaller spider's expression dropped as they met gaze.
His eyes were green. All four of them. He didn't know how he'd known the specific word but it had sprung into his mind immediately when he'd-
when he'd seen the color.
And starting from that met gaze the world hazed into much the same.
Green eyes.
Purple skin.
Silver hair.
The different minutia of shades and hues would need more practice, but the basic idea of color so seamlessly slid into place now that-
now that he could SEE color.
The Big Guy and the Queen continued the conversation, seemingly not aware of the change in captive and hunter both. And Zhihao felt his gut clench in dispair.
One of his captors was his soulmate.
That was just his luck.
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Huntsman had stormed off the second he possibly could get away with so he could be alone.
And you know... have a breakdown in peace. A Human. Not just any human, but their captive. Someone he had just been wondering aloud why they weren't just DEVOURING.
Soulmates they were- they were SPECIAL. They were said to be the person whom understood you the easiest and the best out of anyone. They were- they were supposed to be a person's true love.
Goliath was still in search of his, he was sure they were out there somewhere, and Huntsman had always tried to put his out of his mind. They weren't exactly hatchlings anymore. Fantasizing about true love and all that that entailed would get in the way of work. And besides, when the city was theirs all three of them would have suitors lining up to cozy into the Spider Clan one way or another.
But now there was this.
Now Huntsman could look at his hand in the dim glow of the caves, and his first thought was 'so this is purple' and know the experience was because of some- some human.
The human his Queen delivered to them and said that he was only NOT dinner because he was important, though Huntsman wasn't actually paying attention to whatever she was saying.
There had been shocked cedar brown eyes peering up at him and they'd had all of his own utterly spellbound.
But he had to convince the Queen to not do away with him once his usefulness ran out. He- He'd tell her if he had to but-
But you don't just ignore true love when its hand delivered to you.
He didn't even know his name...
But he wanted to find out.
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Syntax could always see in color.
For as long as he could remember, at least.
He knew the stories, intellectually at least. That all children are born to a world of black and white; that only when they lock eyes with their Soulmate for the first time, did the world fade to color. He knew them. And apparently he was an exception.
It wasn't like a person's Soulmate was their True Love or anything, the world was a bit more complicated than that, but it meant that- it meant that that person was the one whom would understand you the best. And by that metric most people did see Soulmate in a romantic context, as 'most people would want to be with the person that understands them best' or something.
Not like he had to care. Because he always COULD see in color. The green glow of the monitors, the purple of his skin, the eerie blue glow of the Lady Bone Demon when she'd just been 'the Mystery Girl'... Colors. Every single one of them. So obviously, Syntax didn't HAVE a Soulmate. Which was fine. Such things would be getting in the way of his work anyway.
He didn't mind.
He didn't.
He'd mentioned it offhandedly a little after they'd been saved, they'd been camped out in an abandoned warehouse and Syntax had been scavenging to try and set up a proper temporary security system for them. Goliath had brought up the whole idea, and he'd mentioned it when his opinion was asked on that matter. Not going into the specifics, per se, but that he didn't have a soulmate, and he was fine. He had work to do, no use paying too much thought into something that he'd never have.
Not that he was being rude, but he WAS busy, and didn't super have the brainpower to spare paying too much attention to this whole thing. So he said it and didn't think much about it. Goliath looked sad when he looked up at him, the Queen was looking away, and Huntsman had his back to him, but he saw him go rigid. So he assured Goliath that he wasn't sad about it or anything. He'd come to terms with it. Some people were just... born to be bachelors.
He'd turned back to his work and heard Huntsman stalk off, and, after a moment's pause, the Queen follow after him.
Goliath's gaze was drilling a hole into his back.
“Something wrong?”
“No uh- I was just... I was just wondering..” his large friend(? Coworker?) fidgeted around and rubbed the back of his head. “Are you Sure? How do- How do you know? I mean... You've said yourself you don't remember most of your life when you were human...”
The topic grated on him far more than any talk of Soulmates did. That WAS something that bothered him quite a lot about himself actually, that he knew close to nothing about himself before that time. He tried to tell himself it didn't matter, The others tried to assure him it didn't matter. He was theirs now so what did it matter who he was before.
So it was actually a little weird now that he thought about it, that Goliath was suddenly asking him over something like that. He raised a brow at the big guy.
“I mean I suppose it's POSSIBLE that I had one while I was still human and lost that memory when I became a spider...” he huffed, and... honestly the idea hadn't ocurred to him. “I mean... it feels a little far fetched though, doesn't it? It's not THAT weird for someone to not have a soulmate, and if I had one...”
If he'd had someone whom could be so close to him, know him as well as they knew themselves... If he didn't have to put everything through a filter of 'sounding normal' and just... being understood...
“I don't think that's something that can be forgotten... right? Once you know who your soulmate is that's not something you can un-know...”
AAAAAH- THESE TWO- Anyhoo- these two gals are my versions of Marshal Ma & Liu. Saw that I could do platonic and ran with it XD! (Bonus points because these two are regular cuddle buds))
(And then after doing a bit of research I realized that I made them queerplatonic-) We stand intimate friends on this blog, folks! (I just think they’re underrated-)
Macaque wanted to take the pig that he like him for a long time but he didn't know if the pig was single or not he always had a wired reaction to the scroller but when wokong and tang ran off to do something gay or what ever that dume monkie was going to do macaque did care this was his chance pigsy and tang could have just be friends so macaque wanted to take the chants be for his fears set in and he started second guessing himself
Macaque found pigsy near the pigs apartment macaque had never seen it bet the scroller had many times probably it mad macaque pretty angry to think about that but he pit his gaze back on the pig his heart so desired. pigsy looked a little sad or worried but macaque needed to stop staring like a creep he needed to talk to the pig but he was to scared the wait ifs set in and the anxiety came flooding in he could do it he was to scared to he was stupid to think he could ask pigsy out he was so dumb what was he thinking he wasn't good enough for the pig demon he probably be the last pick for a date he was HORRIBLE why would he even "I KNOW SOMEONES THARE "
SHIT macaque thought he'd been caught.
Macaque slowly emerged from the shadows and he was now faced to face with pigsy who looked pissed at first but calmed down a little now knowing that it was macaque "jezz macaque I thought you were some creep spying on me....well your some CREEP I know spying on me but I figure with your hole schtick the spying thing comes as a bounce hehe" macaque tinensed up from the creep statement he did want to look like a CREEP "I I wasn't trying to be a creep I wanted to talk to....you" "like what" macaque went stiff he didn't think pigsy would ask he had to think of something he didn't want to say all his mushy stuff out to the pig yet he needed to come up with something "um um about you and tang ya know hahah " FUCK WHY WAS HE LIKE THIS PIGSY WAS WORRIED ABOUT SOMETHING AND THE PIG MIGHT BE MAD ABOUT TANG WHY WOULD HE BRING THE FUCKING HUMAN UP WHEN HE COULD HAVE JUST SOMETHING L I'LL LE NOODLES OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT FUCK "OH um ya tang jezz I don't know with him " "I was just curious of why you liked so worried or sad that's all" "...I really look that upset" the pig looked away looking even more sad then be for. Macaque felt even more awful than befor now he was a creep, and he was rubbing salt in to the wounds of the poor pigsys heart "I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you even more upset" the pig looked back at macaque,macaque face was a little flush from embarrassment he looked the monkie up and down and looked away "I just don't understand why he would go after someone who almost got us all killed cus he didn't think the plan threw"
Macaque looked at the pig was pigsy jealous of wokong that hert the monkies heart to think the pig had unrequited love for the human and macaque was stuck with the same problem with pigsy "I just don't get it macaque I really don't " "ya I get what ya mean when you love someone but they don't love you back " macaque looked away for a bit and it was quite for a bit till pigsy spoke agin "so your in love with wokong..?" Macaque head jerked to face the pigs with shock and insult tlin he eyes "WHAT NO...well at one point but we ware kids and I lost all feelings after he kill me I I was talking about some one else ok..." "I oh jezz I'm sorry I just thought cus you guys were close and all" "I eph gods this is a mess " macaque sat down slumped back to the city "hehehe ya it is " pigsy joining him "so um who is it that you love" macaque wanted to scream it to the pig he wanted to kiss the pig and make the pig to forget the scrollers name and only say his name but he couldn't he was still to scared "you you would hate me if I did " "no I wouldn't it can be that bad " but it was cus it was you pigst macaque wanted to say he new the pig would be disappointed if he new. Pigsy pleased a hand one macaques sholder looking at ape and macaque face the pig gods those eyes looked so pretty macaque looked at them for some long fuck it he was going to do it he didn't care anymore he would just have to live with this for the rest of his life if he had to.
Macaque grabbed the pigs face and kissed him deeply he didn't feel the pig try to push him off or eny thing he was letting macaque kiss him he wanted to go further but this was probably enough for the pig and what ever pigsy wanted macaque whould do, the pigsy lips softened leaning it to the others lips they were like that for hours it made macaques heart flutter. When they let go the were panting hard and thare checks flushed red "ah I see hehe guess I feel pretty stupid hehe" pigsy smiled his forehead resting on the others macaque still didn't have words but he was happy that the pig wasn't disappointed with him "BUT I'm not considering this is our first kiss you got to take me somewhere way nicer then my apartment balcony macaque " "WHAT" macaque looked angry and flustered and the pig started laughing the monkie looking the other was flushed for the embarrassment.
This was race against time LMAO, my battery was exactly 4% when I finished this 💀💀 we really had to have a power outage-- and I realized its actually SPICY not SPICEY-
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LMK Pride Week Prompt Day 2 & 3-Coming Out/Love Confession:
Red Son has something he wants to say to the Dragon Girl, but she doesn’t react the way he was expecting. Perhaps a certain Noodle Boy can help make things better.
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