~ you may know his roles as Kakeru Kurahara (Kaze Ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru), Collot (Beastars), Takeo (Noblesse), Naoyasu Kuguri (Haikyuu!) etc
Birthday: 27 Januari
Height: 178cm
Organisation: Crown
Fairy Tale Curse: Snow White's Queen
A sorrowful nobleman with a peerless beauty like a bisque doll. Belongs to Crown.
He obsessively collects "beautiful things" and leaves them untidy in his room.
There seems to be a heartbreaking reason for his intense desire -?
Ahh snow white step-mom
Alfons Slyvatica (Hedonistic and Devilish Malicious Criminal)
VA : Saito Soma
~ Soma everywhere you may know his roles as Vlad (Ikemen Vampire) Gentarou Yumeno (Hypnosis Mic) Hinata-Yuta Aoi (Enstars) William James Moriarty (Moriarty the Patriot) Hyouma Chigiri (Blue Lock), Ten Kujou (Idolish7) etc
Birthday: 8 August
Height : 179cm
Organisation: Crown
Fairy Tale Curse : Snow White's Mirror
A hedonist who lives a decadent and spoiled life. Belongs to Crown.
Momentary pleasure is the first priority, and it is elusive like an illusion.
With his consistent dishonesty, he teases you, but—
seems close to Elbert then
Roger Barel (Egoistic Ex-doctor)
VA : Eguchi Takuya
~ wait why you're here too? You may know his roles as Nokto Klein (Ikemen Prince), Wataru Hibiki (Enstars), Tenma Sumeragi (A3!), Rokuya Nagi (Idolish7), Loid Forger (SpyxFamily) etc
Birthday : 23 November
Height : 183cm
Organisation: Crown
Fairy Tale Curse : Snow White's Hunter
A former doctor and a member of the Royal Order Corps Crown under the direct control of the Queen.
An egoist who seems rational and will go to any lengths for his own research.
He seems to have ambitions that he hasn't told anyone.
He looks like Jin Ikepri first prince ... but looks more reliable... wait, that's also my first impression of Jin lol
(or, how to get birthday stories and birthday CGs for free*)
* some caveats apply
Starting from the 2nd anniversary, with Leon's 3rd birthday, IkePri will no longer be selling new birthday stories the way they are done now (don't worry, you can still buy the old stories if you want them!).
Instead, they debut a new type of event called a Party Event, which is kinda like a story event but with a couple of quirks. By participating in the event, you can get the birthday story for that character as well as the birthday CG potentially for free, as long as you fulfill a few requirements first.
I myself have been able to get Yves and Licht's birthday CG card, the birthday story, and His POV versions of the story without spending a single diamond.
In case you wanted to start preparing for the events, here's a guide about how they'll work and what you need in order to get everything.
TL;DR requirements
To give yourself the best chance at getting the card and stories, you will want the following:
All four card slots unlocked (thus at least 10k BP from avatar items)
At least one 5* card of the birthday boy
The ability to be pretty on the ball about using your stamina properly (not letting it cap for too long, ability to check in semi-regularly throughout the day)
You may be able to make it without 4 slots if you have lots of 5* cards of the birthday boy, but I'm not certain, as that's not a situation I've found myself in.
So first of all, how do Party Events work?
Like I said before, they are kind of like Story Events. You do special salons and get Party Points for doing them. Accumulating Party Points will raise your Party Level, and every time you make it to a new level milestone, you get a reward. There is an early clear bonus to reach a particular level within a certain time after the event starts to get extra rewards. There are ranking prizes, and also 2x and 3x Lucky Times.
But, what are those quirks you mentioned?
Party Salons use a separate stamina system than normal events. In one sense, this is a good thing: Birthday Party events often happen while other events are ongoing, so by using a separate stamina system, participating in one event doesn't use up your stamina for the other. In another sense, this is a bad thing: you cannot use any tea sets you have previously saved up because they provide normal stamina refills, not the special stamina refills.
The lucky times work slightly differently:
The above is the lucky time schedule as shown by the game for Chevalier's birthday event. There is a 3x Lucky time for 32 hours when the event starts, and another 3x Lucky Time for the 30 hours before it ends.
But I said there were 2x Lucky times, right? Where are they?
The answer is: they are whenever you want them to be.
When you enter a Birthday Party event for the first time, you will be given 3 of an item that will allow you to trigger a 2x Lucky Time whenever you want. This lasts for 30 minutes.
(I used up one already which is why it says I only have 2)
These items expire at the end of each Party Event so you can't stockpile them for one character. And they are also disabled if there is a 3x Lucky Time ongoing, to prevent you from wasting them.
Another quirk of Party Events is that visiting the Party event page twice a day (once after 12 AM JST and once after 12 PM JST) will give you an item that restores the special stamina used in Party Events (called AP). You get a +50 AP item each time, and again, they expire at the end of the Party Event so you can't stockpile them for the future.
And the last major quirk of Party Events is what determines the amount of Party Points you get: the more of the birthday boy you have in your party, the more points you get.
Having cards of the appropriate character is EXTREMELY important to get points. Even low rarity ones are better than using a different character. To illustrate, look at these two parties below (for Chevalier's party event):
The first one is all 5*s, but none of them (except for the guest card) are Chevalier. The second party is a 2* card and the others are 3*s. And yet, they score the same amount of points, +21.
This party of 4*s is what I'm using for Chevalier and they score +71, more than three times more than the 5* party with "wrong" characters
Basically: fill your party with different cards of the birthday boy. Even if they're 3*s, even if they're 2*s. But of course, still prioritize 5* cards if you have any as they do give more points than a lower rarity card of the same character.
(If you want to be a good friend, change the leader of your 1st party to be your highest rarity card of whoever is having a birthday right now, as that determines which of your cards that people following you can borrow, because guest cards count too!)
A few more miscellaneous things about Party Salons: you don't get Bond Points for doing them, you cannot watch ads to get a 20 AP refill like you can for normal stamina, and there's no chance of getting a Surprise Bonus from doing them.
Now, about rewards.
To get the birthday story (which comes in 3 parts), you will need to reach Party Level 20 to get all of them.
To get the birthday CG card and His POV of the birthday story, that is an Early Clear Bonus. You need to reach Party Level 15 within 56 hours of the event starting.
Finally, there are bonus rewards for ranking which is beyond the scope of this guide since I doubt that they are possible to get without paying. But I will give a note at the end about the ranking rewards.
Here is a list of all Party Level rewards (lots of goodies!), and the corresponding point numbers that you need to achieve them.
Green cells are story rewards, Pink cells are avatar rewards.
Every 2,500 points after level 30 gives you an extra chibi (level 22 reward).
Here is what Yves's avatar items look like. They are pretty much just colorswaps from character to character.
And so, if we want the regular birthday story, his POV story, and the card, we have two goals:
Reach Party Level 15 within 56 hours
Reach Party Level 20 before the event ends.
And guess what? If you fulfill the conditions I set about in the tl;dr up above, then you can reach them without spending a single diamond!
These were the teams I used to get Yves and Licht's birthday stuff (one 5* card, and the highest BP cards I had. Once I got to level 15, I replaced the lowest BP card with the birthday CG, since it has 750 BP):
I reached Level 15 with about 3 hours to spare for the ECB, and ended up around level 22-24 by the end of the event, comfortably having gotten the 3rd part of the story.
I also made changes to who I was following, to ensure that I was following as many people with a 5* of the right character as possible.
The strategy I used was:
While the first 3x Lucky Time is ongoing, do as many Party Salons as you can. When you get the 50 AP item from logging in, just use it as soon as you can. You want to maximize the number of points you get during this time, so as much as you can, ensure that your stamina won't stay capped for too long.
After the Lucky Time is over, but before the end of the 56 hour period for the ECB, don't use up your AP recovery items. But I do activate two of the 2x Lucky Time items if I have 100 AP. Might as well use them up to get some extra points towards making the early clear bonus.
If you have one 5* card, this should put you in a position to reach Level 15 a couple of hours before the deadline. You can activate the final 2x Lucky Time bonus and use your stockpiled AP items to get over the edge. Of course, if you have more 5*s, it'll be faster for sure.
Then, after you have gotten the early clear bonus, go back to stockpiling AP recovery items. Just do your Party Salons as normal. And when you get to the last 3x Lucky Time, dump all of the AP items and do all the salons. You should make it to Party Level 20 easily.
Now, if you're aiming to try for Level 30, or even to rank, then maybe this isn't the optimal strategy. But I am only concerned with getting the story and the card, so this works well enough for me. Maybe someone else has a better or more efficient strategy too.
But what if you don't have a 5* card?
Well, in that case, you are probably not going to be able to make it without spending. For Leon, Nokto, I wasn't able to make it to the early clear bonus or to level 20, and I am probably not going to make it to Chev.
In that case, you are probably going to have to buy some sets/items. There are AP restoring items, as well as items that directly raise your Party Points. But I don't know how cost-effective they are or which set is better than the others.
Ranking?
So! When I said that you can get all the stories for free, that is prooobably a lie. Because there is an epilogue from the suitor's POV that is only given to the top 100 people who rank.
Yeah.
I highly doubt that that is going to be achievable without spending, particularly for more popular characters. But if you want to try for it anyway, I salute you and wish you the best of luck.
Additionally, there is another thing:
That little thing down at the bottom right of Yves's birthday card says that getting 5 more copies of the card will cause the illustration to change. But, if you go back up to take a look at the rewards list for Party Levels, you can't actually get any additional copies of the card. So how are you supposed to get 5 more copies?
The answer is by getting to rank 30 or above.
Yeahhhh.
And one final thing about ranking is that being in the top 200 will give you a birthday cake avatar item. This isn't just a color swap between the suitors, there are actually some design elements that are different between them. Like there's a stack of what I assume are fondant books on Chevalier's, Yves's cake has cat ears and a tail, things like that. And everyone rank 200 and above will get them, but if you are #1, #2, or #3, your cake will be slightly special in that it'll say your place on it for bragging rights, like so:
Here is a full summary of the special rewards that come with ranking (not including the regular ranking rewards like diamonds, gacha tickets, or gold):
And that should be it! In case anyone has any better advice about how to do party events, please do say so! And if anyone has any questions or if anything is confusing here, I'd be happy to clarify!
Could you do a headcanon on the Ikemenvamp boys reactions to getting a bunch of little kisses on their face from their significant other? I recently found your writing and I love it:)
Oh, thank you anon, and what a cute request!
IkeVamp HCs: Getting kisses on their face
How do they react to their s/o giving them multiple little kisses on their face?
Suitors: Napoleon, Arthur, Vincent, Isaac, Dazai
Napoleon
He can't help but feel a little embarrassed when he feels your soft lips peppering his face as your loving hands cup his cheeks.
He likes it really and can't help the fond smile it brings to his face so effortlessly, filling him with so much love for you.
He may wonder where this sudden onslaught of affection is coming from but he is not complaining...unless you choose to do this in public.
If he is left with lipstick dotting his face, he will feel even more embarrassed but he is still toasty and gooey inside.
He will definitely want to pay you back. You won't know when. You won't know how. But he will pay you back.
You would hardly expect it until he grabs your waist and sprinkles kisses all over your visage despite your protests and embarrassed squeals.
"Payback, nunuche."
He softly teases before his viridian eyes soften and he places a more tender kiss between your eyes, your lashes brushing his cheeks delicately.
"Mon amour..."
Arthur
The mystery author would be caught off guard for sure when you grace him with multiple kisses all over his face, holding his jacket to lower him to your level.
He may freeze a little for moment, blinking multiple times as he flushes pink.
He loves your open affection and it makes him want to keep you all to himself all day, cuddling you and spoiling you with love.
Leaving him with lipstick marks will not faze him too much, he is in no rush to wipe them off. If anything, he will probably tease you a little.
Never one to be outdone, you can be sure that he will surprise kiss you when you least expect it. Right out of the blue he will pull you to the side and give you a dizzying kiss that'll leave you weak in the knees.
And it won't end at that. You will be on the receiving end of many such acts of affection throughout that day.
The man just needs to let you know how much he adores you with every fiber of his being and you were everything he could ever need.
"I just want to show you how much I adore you, darling."
He purrs into your shoulder as he lays multiple kisses on you, his large hands brushing your ticklish sides like feathers, while he marveled at your sweetness as your squirm cutely.
"I want to love you until you can't take anymore."
Vincent
His timid giggles sound in your ears as you pepper his face with your sweet kisses, a joyous flush warm against your lips.
He feels so warm and fuzzy inside as his heart swells from your embrace around his shoulders as you peck his forehead, cheeks and nose. Oh how he loves you...
If he has lipstick marks left, he won't mind a bit, provided he even realizes. Actually he may forget they're there at all until Theo points it out to him. He doesn't think to wipe them off.
The painter can't resist tickling you lightly in response, wanting to hear your pretty giggles and watch you writhe in laughter in his arms as cerulean eyes gaze upon you tenderly.
He will quickly return the favour, looping his arms around your waist and meticulously kissing your cheeks, forehead, nose, chin, eyelids and finally, your lips.
"That's for being so sweet, my scatje. You're so cute..."
He pulls you even closer to him as he rests his head on top of yours, his smile easily outshining the radiant sun.
Isaac
His heart feels like it's going to explode when he is smothered in little pecks on his face with you laying on top of him, leaving him unable to escape your embrace.
You can feel the heat his reddened face emits against your plump lips with every kiss you leave on it.
He feels his heart pound uncontrollably as the affection he feels overwhelms him, the sensation of having you close to him in such moments makes him feel almost lightheaded.
If you leave lipstick marks, he might just collapse from how flustered he is. He is not leaving his room until they are completely gone, lest he be on the receiving end of ridicule.
He will pay you back, no doubt about it. The next time you are alone with him, he suddenly wraps you in an embrace and presses his lips to yours in a heart melting encounter, his hand caressing your cheek before gently pulling back.
"I had to get you back somehow, love."
His cheeks may be flush with apple red, but the mischievous little smile he has on his face is undeniable, because you are more flushed than he is.
Dazai
He didn't expect the barrage of kisses he is met with while you sit in his lap, slightly more elevated than him, but his surprise turns into a loving smile as he laughs ever so softly.
Your lithe arms coiled snugly around his neck as your soft lips covered his face like flower petals, his heart aching with adoration for you increasing with every contact.
He has no problem walking around with the lipstick marks left behind, regardless of how silly he might look.
He would be walking on air in all honesty with a slightly goofy smile on his face as he can think of nothing other than his precious one.
The next time he is graced with your lovely kisses, the novelist unexpectedly lifts his head and catches your soft petals with his own lips, just to tease you and see your adorable blush.
"It's my turn to shower you with love, sweet one~"
His playful tone is accompanied by a similar smile as he takes you in his arms and dips you back before raining kisses on your face, repaying you for every single one you gave him.
I have no clear idea how the residents understand each other or what other languages they speak
Like I'm pretty sure Leonardo doesn't bother to master French (the pronunciation anyway) so Comte is either fluent in Italian, or understands him somehow.
Theo is fluent in English from working with British clients
Sebastian knows English so he can have more access to history books
Arthur learning something in Japanese to impress MC (from Sebas, not Dazai lol 😹)
Charles only picked up some German and Romanian words that he hears often from Vlad and Faust (still can't pronounce "du vershrumpelte Fledermaus")
And Jean... well.. he had enough difficulties learning French...
A/N: A second Clavis fic in a row. Reading his route is doing something to me 😆
Pure fluff
Word Count: 1054
“Sweetheart.”
You look up from the book you’re reading to find your husband leaning back, arm lazily slung over the back of the desk chair, his handsome brow furrowed slightly as he stares at you. Outside the cold autumn rain drip drip drips from an endless sky of soft gray clouds. The wind yanks brown leaves from swaying trees, scattering them everywhere. It catches the chilled raindrops as they fall from the clouds and flings them around, careless and gleeful as a destructive child. It truly is an evening to stay inside.
“Yes, Clavis?”
“I’m just reading over a letter concerning the latest shipment of Jadean wool, which reminded me.”
Uh oh. You had hoped he had forgotten.
“Didn’t you say, way back at the beginning of summer, that you were using this exact wool to knit me a sweater?”
Damn him and his excellent memory. You had hoped that maybe little things like, oh, your wedding, would have kicked this tidbit of information out of the steel-trap that is his mind. You also should know better.
“Oh, that.” You drop your gaze back to your book, shrugging your shoulder in a way you hope looks both casual and elegant.
He knows you too well. You have now piqued his interest with the intensity of your “do-not-ask-me-about-this” response. He abandons the letter and gets up from the desk, walking over to the window seat where you are curled up, still pointedly not looking at him.
“Did you finish it?”
You purse your lips, lowering your nose to the page of your book, pretending to be deeply, deeply interested in whatever is happening there. You however do not lie to your husband so you answer with a small, high-pitched “Yes.”
Delight brightens the gold of his eyes like sunlight illuminating a pirate's treasure chest of coins. Your book is lifted out of your hands with all the enthusiasm of a toddler tossing aside a boring toy.
“Show me!”
You want to say no but he is smiling and it’s that honest, wide-open, field-soaked-in-sunshine smile that he only deploys when you are around. The smile that you would take on an army for, the whole damn world for. The one that keeps your heart alight.
With a sigh like a white flag of defeat, you slide off the window seat much the same way the raindrops are sliding down the window pane. His gaze follows you as you make your way to the brown leather trunk at the foot of your bed. Kneeling, you suppress the urge to sigh a second time as you lift the heavy lid and reach down, past the soft blankets and sheets, past the silken ribbons and pillow cases, until you reach the bottom where your fingers search for and then find the soft, hidden Jadean wool.
Carefully you lift it from its grave at the bottom of the trunk and it is reborn in the light of your bedroom, a mass of lavender and yellow wool that makes you cringe just looking at it.
There is a sparkle in his eyes you can’t quite read. Is he aware that this is going to be a huge disaster or is he genuinely excited and are they really mutually exclusive? You turn, biting back the groan that is struggling to escape your throat and thrust the mass of wool into his arms.
“Here.” Might as well get it over with. He’ll see it is a horrible monster of a sweater and he’ll take it off immediately, probably with a teasing, but very truthful poke at how truly awful it is. There’s a reason you banished it to the bottom of the trunk without breathing a word of it to him.
Clavis strolls over to the full length mirror in the corner of the bedroom and shakes it out. You already see the too-long sleeves, the uneven hem, the odd, half-turtleneck collar you couldn’t quite decide on. You pinch the bridge of your nose, a swimmer readying herself to dive into unpleasant, freezing water.
“The colors are so unique.”
You had been trying for lavender and gold. What you got was muddy purple and an obnoxiously bright yellow, a color that screams for attention and then does nothing at all to deserve it. He tips the wool bush over, searching for the opening and then before you can stop him, pulls it over his head and you watch as it swallows him whole.
There is some wiggling and then with a sharp intake of air, his head of soft navy hair pops out from the misshapen collar. Oh this is so much worse than you feared. His arms are still lost somewhere in the labyrinth of warm wool. You can see them, wiggling around under the material, searching for the entrance to the sleeves, which hang down like a sad, droopy mustache.
“Clavis….” you start to say, ready to draw a sword and rescue him, but then the most amazing thing happens. He spins around, arms still struggling under the sweater which has glommed onto him and refuses to let go and his eyes are wide with wonder.
“Sweetheart…….is this……did you make me……a trap?”
Your brain malfunctions as it tries to process what he said. Your mouth realizes that the brain is useless and helpfully takes the wheel.
“Yes. Yes I did.”
He beams, his eyes turning into pools of gold, soft with love and disbelief at your thoughtfulness. Still trying to free his arms from the maze of your sweater, he manages to walk over to where you are standing. He leans towards you and you quickly step forward, meeting him halfway so he doesn’t tip over.
He plants one sweet, affectionate kiss on your cheek and then for good measure, adds another one right next to it. When he leans back, you see the delight painted all over his face.
“I love you,” he says, his grin as bright as sunlight on raindrops. “Now let’s see how long it takes me to get free!”
You sink down slowly onto the trunk at the foot of your bed, a half-smile on your lips, a whole ocean of love in your heart.
“I love you too,” you sigh, watching him entangle himself further in the nightmare of a sweater. “I love you too.”
