Midnight Tumult

if i wanna stay alive, you should never cross my mind

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🕸️ What will it take to make you capitulate? We appreciate power <...>

Independent blog and highly selective for kafka from honkai star rail. written by Lu

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The One Feature That Convinced Me SweetDream Is Worth It

I'm skeptical by default, and I went into sweetdream.ai expecting to be underwhelmed. The feature that turned that around was memory paired with emotional read. Plenty of apps can string together a coherent reply. Far fewer can do it while remembering that you mentioned a deadline two days ago and asking how it went. That small act of recall is what makes an AI companion feel present rather than performative.

Once that clicked, the rest of the platform made more sense as a package. The deep character creation gives the conversation a stable personality to draw from. The human-sounding voice messages and real-time calls extend the same realism into audio. And because everything stays private and discreet, there's no friction in actually being open.

If you're weighing options for an AI girlfriend, my honest take after testing is that the chat quality is the deciding factor, and SweetDream's is the most convincing I've used. It's the feature that turns a curiosity into something you look forward to.

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Gonna be moving kafka to my multi over @moonflowe

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Oops i did a thing

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@astrcls ( unprompted //always accepting. ) "how is ... " jing yuan trails off, then clears his throat, staring at some indeterminate point on the horizon. "how is ... his mara doing ... ?"

"blade's you mean? it seems to be under control for now, but i'm unsure how to really examine him or even gauge properly." kafka looked over the commander. "never thought you'd be the kind to worry over a stellaron hunter, after all we're the most wanted criminals amongs the stars."

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serial killer kafka au plotting call

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          “   i don’t know why he bothers, i cannot give him what he wants.   ”   blunt, to the point. the vidyadhara, quite understandably, wouldn’t take kindly to the woman who encouraged blade’s murderous tendencies, especially under the effects of mara. himeko’s inherent distrust of her was enough for dan heng to mirror the same sentiments. kafka was not to be jostled, nor underestimated. he had seen the counties on each of their heads, and hers was, by far, the most impressive. nevertheless, bow was met only with a wary glare, icy seafoam eyes thinning into dragon slits.   “   what do you want ?   ”

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"i want to just size you up, that's all though i seem to have gotten separated from my destination." The huntress shrugged as shot down a monster that had spotted them. "How is the darling trailblazer doing if you don't mind the inquiry?" they were like a child to her, so of course she cared for the person's well being, especially since elio's script kept her from actively monitoring them, plus she had to work with blade anyways. "the truth is i don't know what blade has against you dan heng but i care not, our encounter in my eyes is most fortuitous for our destination is the same."

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I GOT KAFKA FIRST TRY LETS FUCKING GO!

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DEVINEVIRTUE --- an independent, selective, 18+, low activity, mutual only, multi-fandom, multi-muse featuring Welt Yang from Honkai: Star Rail beloved by Abyss

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The sight of the cards made his eyebrows go closer together. Red as the warmest and freshest bloodstain eyes watched them as they laid out before their holder. He had never treated fortune telling as something real ― at least a warning that something like this could happen. He didn't trust the words of the gods. Nor did he treat them with respect, but with a blind eye. As long as Kafka and Stellaron Hunters are able to protect his dark soul from judgment he saw no reason to be the first to bear his hand and object.

A slight frown and gasp came over his face when he heard about the trauma. His hands immediately clenched tighter. ❝ They must be wrong. ❞ He immediately said when he knew that the augury could have been about him. The person running away from him was his undoing. A lost piece of the puzzle when everything seemed to fit together so perfectly. Each piece fell into place ― but always the swordsman's hand could not grasp in its fingertips what it could not reach. The cards never said who they were for. To whom they concretely speak. The eyes of the two hunters could only guess ― believing that they were referring to someone, not them.

❝ You can't trust what the cards show. But you also can't always believe them ― it's still divination and who it will apply to…. The future will show. ❞ He did not show that something inside him was causing concern. He had one goal that could not be obscured by anyone. ❝ You are always wandering between three time zones. In each of them you are and further you fear that something will go wrong. Elio has predicted the best future and even if the Xianzhou predict us ― we will still be one step away from them. The future can change even if you know it. One person can change it ― that's why they can be wrong. You must be really confident if you want to put me in the hands of Cloud Knights. ❞

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"eh it's all really just fun in the end, smoke and mirrors really, bladie." she pat him reassuringly on the shoulder, for her future readings was a pass time sure sword training, reading all of that could just as easily be a future but she hated it..no she despised it all she did ever was train. at the end of the day for kafka this place was a free universe, one where she wasn't, sickly. she tensed up a little at his words, he was right..she was always in three places and everything she did could and might see them writhe with their schemes, but yet she always sucessful? lucky perhaps? something of that sort. "blade, i have a question humor me if you will." she started to recite her ever favorite poem. " I once dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, a veritable butterfly, enjoying itself to the full of its bent, and not knowing it was myself. Suddenly I awoke, and came to myself, the veritable human. Now I do not know whether it was then I dreamt I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a human." she took a brief pause, before stretching out her muscles feeling slightly stiff as they always did. "what would you see yourself as? the butterfly fluttering no knowledge of what a human must be like ever ephemeral and dreaming as if you understood or a human wishing to become something more?, i see myself as the butterfly in this scenario personally, something small and inconsequencial; and yet i wish to be human grander..than i am." her smile quickly returned effevescent as usual, "I have faith in you; i trust elio but he's simply dealing us the best hand, and yet you and i are the ones who are going to be going into lofu not him..so." she held out a warm hand as they approached their destination. "trust in me?"

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@tempestial

"So you're the one bladie's been in a fuss about interesting~", there was a velvety precariousness to her voice as she looked him over. The stellaron huntress ended up going, a different route than her boss had her going initially, so instead of her precious trailblazer she found this one and yet she felt as if it was still part of elio's foresight "i'm kafka by the way, but you probably knew that." a polite bow traced with a coquettish smile, she of course had to be proper to a new acquaintance.

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i return screaming from the void.

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      "Kafka." He mimics. Respectfully? Hard to tell. But it is only manners to greet someone once they greet you. And he wasn't about to be rude for no particular reason. Even if they both had different goal. 

      "I apologise for the welcoming you recieved, but with your tendency to 'escape' every time you're prisoner, everyone tends to be cautious." Though, he doesn't feel the need. Not when it's the same cat and mouse game that will end the same eventually. Kafka will escape soon. "But that's understandable. Memories tend to be muddled for various reasons when a lot occurs in your life."

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"It's no problem mr. yang, and as for my 'escape' i've got nothing up my sleeve at the moment, and i'm here of my own volition or at least as own as it can be." she let out a slight hum of a laugh as she wiggled her chains. "memories also tend to be muddled when you're pulled from one place to another, but you wouldn't happen to know anything about that would you?" a cock of her head the Cheshire grin she always wore fading if but for a fleeting moment; she had come here wanting to discuss something, what that was well seemed to drift out of her head.

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His hands clenched tucked behind his back when his red eyes caught sight of the oh-so-familiar yet unsettling sensation swirling through his body. He remembered as if through a fog everything about the place that taught him how to fight, how to feel... how to hate. The source of all the misery even hung further above him and his hands reached greedily for the object that had brought him all this. ❝ I wouldn't call it home. I was never part of the people who live there. ❞ A mutter escaped from under his lips as his eyes glanced out of the corner of his eye at Kafka.

In fact, he might have called the place familiar, perhaps even spicing things up - but the people who lived there were enshrined in his memory as old friends. The decision was made when the blade was drawn straight toward General. Never once had they all stood shoulder to shoulder against a common enemy. These were just memories that Blade now remembered like something pulled from an absurd fairy tale. ❝ If you think you'll see fear in my eyes you can dream about it. The plan is pathetic to say the least - why do we have to involve such an absurd number of people. Including Astral Express… Are we not prejudiced enough with the best future by Elio ? ❞ Eyes closed at the very thought of this train.

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"honestly, i was more excited to see you drop that ever stoic composure. you're always so hard to get a read on, so there was a small glimmer of hope to see you emote just a little bladie~" she cocked her head to the side a little concerned he would even question elio, but he was right the amount of people felt a little disconcerting. "i'd wonder that after all we're gonna be giving one of our prizes away, why don't we consult the cards hmm?"

with a flick of her wrist the woman manifested her tarot deck, it was a full one which took an awful lot of credits to hunt down shuffling it effortlessly she flourished her deck, doing all sorts of tricks before pulling out six cards and laying them out in a sort of cross pattern, cards 3 and 4 being the vertical parts of it. she smiled snapping her fingers and one by one the cards flipped over, there was a soft muttering to herself. "i see this is an interesting one..ignoring the first on the left which is our path behind our path ahead, is a heirophant in the reversed position often meaning rebellion, subversiveness and new approaches; our headwind is the nine of swords upright, meaning we're going to have to confront some sort of trauma at least one of us." there was a hesitance in her voice with the second card as confronting her own trauma would be a hell of a mess.

" 3 more cards, our tailwind our supports are represented by the upright five of wands; our conflict and rivalries should be a driving factor pointing a way forward, our fourth card the guidance is represented by a two of cups upright to represent the connections we may make, our..uhh final card seems to be a reversed two of pentacles; we're gonna have missed opportunities or become unorganized." she sighed a little clicking her tongue picking up the cards mixing them back into the deck. "Well it is just a form of divination; and my readings are rather rusty." a slight chuckle as she pursed her lips.

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everyone out here getting jing yuan and i'm just foaming waiting for kafka

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6 word sentence starters [prompt ; accepting]

@renjisei said: ❛  i'm weird, just deal with it.  ❜

"weird doesn't even begin to scratch the surface, still i have to ask why all the chestnuts, are you secretly a chimpmunk?" she looked at the shells that were strewn about the floor of the meeting room.

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🐝  *  ―  𝑺𝑰𝑿 𝑾𝑶𝑹𝑫 𝑺𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑵𝑪𝑬 𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑺.

❛  all of this is my fault.  ❜ ❛  are you even listening to me?  ❜ ❛  are you scared? 'cause i'm scared.  ❜ ❛  are you sure you'll be okay?  ❜ ❛  can you say that again, please?  ❜ ❛  do you have anything to say?  ❜ ❛  do you wanna go out sometime?  ❜ ❛  did you ever really love me?  ❜ ❛  have you considered trying something else?  ❜ ❛  how long do we still have?  ❜ ❛  i can't do this any longer.  ❜ ❛  i can't wait to go home.  ❜ ❛  i didn't want to do that.  ❜ ❛  i don't follow, i always lead.  ❜ ❛  i don't know what you mean.  ❜ ❛  i hate him but i love him.  ❜ ❛  i like i here, it's nice.  ❜ ❛  i'll only go if you go.  ❜ ❛  i'm here if you need me.  ❜ ❛  i'm sorry, i had no idea.  ❜ ❛  i'm weird, just deal with it.  ❜ ❛  is this your first time here?  ❜ ❛  just tell me what to do.  ❜ ❛  just tell me why we're here.  ❜ ❛  no one will believe you anyway.  ❜ ❛  nothing else matters except for you.  ❜ ❛  please just let me help you.  ❜ ❛  there is time to fix this.  ❜ ❛  what do you want from me?  ❜ ❛  where do you think you're going?  ❜ ❛  when will you come back here?  ❜ ❛  why are you acting so stupid?  ❜ ❛  why do you ask these questions?  ❜ ❛  why would i lie to you?  ❜ ❛  will you go out with me?  ❜ ❛  you are more important than me.  ❜ ❛  you don't mean that, do you?  ❜ ❛  you have nothing to worry about.  ❜ ❛  you'll always be my best friend.  ❜ ❛  your hair looks really nice today.  ❜

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HC - 001: the caged bird into the hunting spider

Kafka died from her illness in hi3rd shortly after discovering the stellarons and the alternate himeko, she was only brought back into the new reality as she was dying; simply wishing she could explore the sky that was just always out of her reach, she and himeko were close himeko often paying her visits when himeko died she threw her whole being into writing and finding away to reverse time her spider motif is a play on franz kafka's metamorphisis because she technically under went one when she was revived she has a love of the tarot because it can shift probability in unexpected ways, her compression gloves and mismatched boots are due to her right leg being weaker and her hands having extreme sensitivity.

the reason she's a stellaron hunter is they're the cause of everything bad that she had seen from her own world; while she and welt share the same motivations to keep someone they love alive kafka wishes to kill aeons and stellarons.