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[multi-lefaiye]

🚗 and 🧛 :3

hi finally doing more of these <3

ANYWAY!!!! snippets for u,,, one is from the wip that is intersection chapter three, and one from something recent i started picking at with sal.

life begins at the intersection ->

Tony wasn’t really one to develop crushes easily, and he’d only ever had a few genuine ones in his lifetime. It just wasn’t something that clicked easily for him, and he’d long since accepted that he probably some flavor of aromantic. He was perfectly comfortable in that knowledge.

(He still experienced some romantic attraction, he was pretty sure, just not very often. Not that it was something he put much thought into either way, because it didn’t matter to him. He already had enough shit to worry about.)

And yet, knowing all of that didn’t mean he’d gotten any better at actually identifying crushes on the rare occasions he did develop one. More often than not, romance blindsided him at every turn.

However, this was very obviously a capital-C Crush, and Tony suddenly felt very, very stupid for not realizing it sooner.

His thoughts, or at least his emotions, must have shown on his face, because Jack fell quiet and was looking at him with a concerned expression, his brow furrowed and his nose scrunched up a little.

“You okay, Tony?” Jack asked. He was looking a lot better after some time in the hospital, and it was clear he was on the mend. Last Tony heard, he might even be discharged soon.

I want to kiss his adorable face, Tony thought. What the fuck.

and then the salvatore thing. putting this one under the cut ->

note: at this point in his life, sal uses the name seamus.

CONTENT WARNINGS: referenced violence against children (Sal is 14 here), implied child abuse

“The fuck are you waitin' for, boy?” Clarence rumbled, his thin lips peeling back in distaste as he glanced up from the ledgers on his desk. “I said, you’re dismissed.”

“I…” Seamus swallowed. The stab wound in his side was still sluggishly bleeding, throbbing in time with his heartbeat. He needed medical attention, and he knew he needed if fast, but in the face of his uncle’s impatient glare the request turned to ash on his tongue.

His hand shook as he pressed it harder against his side, trying to staunch the bleeding even as it stained his shirt.

“Spit it out,” Clarence growled. “Stop stammerin' like an idiot and tell me what the problem is, I ain't got all day.”

“I got hurt,” Seamus blurted out, instantly regretting it as his uncle’s eyes narrowed further. The silence that followed chilled him to the bone, and he shrank in on himself.

He’d never been afraid of his uncle before, not the way the other Devils were, but in that moment, he suddenly understood all too well why none of them could seem to look Clarence O'Malley in the eye.

“You got hurt,” Clarence repeated, disappointment ringing in every word. The air around them suddenly felt even colder, thick and stifling, and Seamus bit back the urge to shudder. “Right. Is that it?”

“I… That fuckin’... that guy I told you about, he pulled a knife on me after I got the payment from Jimmy," Seamus said. Clarence's expression didn't change. "I-I took care of it, an' I kept the payment, but he... nicked me..."

Clarence took a long drag of his cigarette, its light flickering in the darkness bleeding from the window behind him. His emerald eyes glittered coldly in the darkness as he stared, unblinkingly, at Seamus, an eel poised to strike.

[transmasc-wizard]

happy storyteller saturday! whatcha workin on these days?

thank you for the ask and happy STS! I'm working on 3 Things nowadays, because I am a gremlin and I cannot focus on one

1: Arthur WIP

my primary wip, this one doesn't have a name yet. It's a fantasy horror novel told from two POVs; Alexei in Before, Arthur in After, intertwined between each other throughout the story. Alexei's POV shows the two of them growing upbtogether from 16 to 20, Alexei forever struggling to fit in with his community and Arthur being the perfect shining example of success. Arthur's POV shows Arthur at 21, a complete wreck who is totally disconnected from his community and having dreams of a cold, dark place where everything dies. Something very bad happened, but Alexei has not yet seen it and Arthur is trying desperately to run from it, so you don't know what for a good while. themes revolve around responsibility, grief, and closeted queer shame. (these bitches gay.) (Arthur is my DND character transplanted into a novel because I got really attached to him and wanted to fill out his life more.)

2: WIP Bad Things Happen

An apocalypse horror, pre-the apocalypse. Gabriel Shaw is always in the wrong place at the wrong time. And when a car crash he narrowly survives seems to open a hole in the universe, this turns into a worsening and compounding streak of bad luck held by him and the other two survivors. When this luck starts giving way to things like shattered bones, a disappearing lover, and the corpse of the woman who died in the crash appearing in his laundry basket, Gabriel and the other two survivors (Prisha and Jesùs) have to try desperately to close the wound they ripped in the world before their bad luck turns into an apocalyptic-level event. themes are heavily about religious trauma, how being trans and disabled shapes your life, faith, and guilt/shame. this one is always floating in my brain but I don't work on it quite as much. (also, there is cannibalism. Yay!)

3: Valarie Saintly Is Totally Normal

egads! an old wip! a recap: Valarie Saintly saved the world when she was 15. Now, at 19, a whole lot of people want her to do it again. With the help of Mack, an eccentric and overly optimistic genderqueer vampire, Val goes on a string of wild adventures to avoid having responsibility placed on her shoulders a second time. Themes revolve around childhood trauma, neglect, and learning to feel the full spectrum of your emotions. I very recently dug this one up again and am currently in the process of updating character designs, which I plan to post when I'm done :)

I still have a lot of the old wips I used to post about, just a lot more on the backburner. but yeah this is what I'm up to ^_^

[cepheusgalaxy]

happy belated sts! do any of your characters have pets? tell us about them please? :3

😌 they do

-> Juste, specifically! He has a cat named ms. Unju—fun fact, I choose "unju" because the name "juste" itself sounds a lot like "just" (as in fair) so the cat's name is unju because "unjust" get it—and she is a complete BITCH. Think of the most asshole little ball of annoyance of a cat EVER. That's ms. Unju. Juste absolutely adores her and pampers her rotten, and even makes his subordinates (read: the child soldiers from the org that have been indocrinated and tortured into submiting to him and the other handlers), esp Sabre, take care of her.

Sabre hates ms. Unju with a burning passion btw

[cottonspotten]

happy STS! are there any particular topics your characters get REALLY riled up over? what could they go on an hour-long rant about?

hi!!!!

not riled up as in “angry” but rather “enthusiastic” -

clover, despite living in a world where magic no longer exists, is insane about magic. she is soooo desperate to understand everything about it and potentially bring it back one day. shes good at hiding it but she just absolutely loses all sense the second she gets a whiff of possible new information/research. she could probably singlehandedly bring back her communitys written script just to have a way of writing everything down

[incandescent-creativity]

I am so so so curious about the world of FLOAT and how people come to find themselves in it... I'm assuming a lot of the details about why people wind up FLOATing are spoilery but I bet they're super cool... how did you come up with the whole? system? can you share any little hints hehe?

Your curiosity pleases me :D

It is indeed spoilers because it ties into what River finds when she becomes a diver, but I will say it puts the alien in “hostile alien ocean planet” and is kind of the reason there’s an argument to be made that it fits in the scifi genre

[memento-morri-writes]

happy storyteller saturday! what's the most physically painful thing your oc has endured? how about the most emotionally painful?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Okay, enough evil laughter. Thank you very much for the ask!!! But truly, this is SUCH a perfect question for me, the person whose friend (lovingly) called her "a sadist for fictional characters".

This is going under the cut because not only is it extremely long, there's also very very very explicit discussion of torture, extremely violent deaths, gore, emotional manipulation, and hallucinations, among other things. You have been warned, I guess.

Rook:

Physically painful is definitely the keelhauling hands down. For anyone who doesn't know, that means being tied up and dragged along the underside (keel) of a ship, letting all the barnacles and shit rip into your flesh. (If you're super-duper curious, there's a scene from Black Sails that depicts a version of it that, while not exactly accurate, is enough to give you an idea of how fucked it is. It's on youtube if you search.) Here's what I read to the party when they saw his keelhauling wounds for the first time:

"Every inch of his back and shoulders is raw, covered in dozens, maybe hundreds, of small cuts. They overlap and merge so that his entire back is one giant wound. The skin is covered in such a thick layer of dried blood, almost black in some places, that you can’t get a good look at it. As he moves, some of the cuts, which have just begun to scab over, crack open again. He winces as fresh blood wells to the surface.”

To make things worse, it's (obviously) salt water, which is gonna sting like hell. And on top of that, the poor man was just thrown back in his grungy cell with no medical treatment, so he ended up with several nasty infections. (My most recent snippet offers a bit of insight into his delirious state after that.) And of course, this was after about two weeks of relentless physical torture already.

When the party found him, he was mostly unconscious, and the little glimpses of consciousness he had were entirely delirious from fever. (I posted a little thing here of when the party found him. Yes, he does call the party bard by the name of his favorite party member who died only a day or two before Rook was kidnapped.) And things didn't immediately get better from there, because some of the barnacles he was dragged over were blood barnacles.

[do-do-do, think of something less painful before continuing...]

Emotionally painful is a tie between the deaths of Warren and Sigmar. Warren was the aforementioned favorite party member who was kind of like a father figure to Rook. He was a werewolf and the party gunslinger. He died, sacrificing himself to revive Rook and save the rest of the party.

Sigmar was an weird guy that Rook befriended by accident and adopted into the party and they both got extremely attached to each other. Except that it turns out that Sigmar was actually just a corpse being piloted from a distance by the BBEG, Dr. Purity. And to make matters worse, the party Wizard had known this for months and didn't tell Rook anything, which resulted in this argument. (Yes, that happened in-character, yes that dialogue is nearly exactly verbatim.) To make matters even worse, the wizard violently destroyed Sigmar with his teeth and claws (he's a fox-based race), and then his brother shattered all of the corpse's bones with a sonic shockwave. Oh, and as they were killing him, Sigmar was begging Rook to help him, saying "You said I've changed." and "You'd be dead without me." :)) (There's a reason that my tag for Rook+Sigmar is "*Liars", hahaha.)

The truly tragic part is that Sigmar (and thus Purity) truly actually really does love Rook, in his own fucked-up way. And both of them are going to have a hard time hurting each other when it comes to it. But I've already decided that Rook is going to beg the party to let him deal the killing blow to Purity. Not because he hates him. In fact, it's for the exact opposite. It's because he already watched the party torture him once, and he can't bear to see it happen again, even though Purity doesn't look like Sigmar did.

Oh, and the Sigmar reveal and "death" happened less than 48 hours before Warren's death, and then the day after Warren died, Rook got kidnapped by Wolf, which eventually led to the keelhauling. (I swear only the kidnapping is my fault. I did NOT know the other two things were planned.)

Shortly after Warren died, Rook, who had been poisoned by one of the guys Warren sacrificed himself to protect us from, had a very vivid hallucination in which he saw Sigmar and Warren's corpses berating him. Extreme tw for gore and potentially body horror, but it's one of my favorite things I've ever written. And yes, I read it out loud to the party when it happened.

Rook feels extremely guilty over both of these things. Warren because he died to revive Rook and save him, and Sigmar/Purity because if he hadn't befriended him and let him into the party, several people would have been spared a LOT of emotional pain.

(Two close runners-up for emotional pain, from just last session (!!!) are him discovering that his former captain and first mentor, Zara, was aware -- in explicit detail -- of the torture he was undergoing at Wolf's hands (the first time, not the keelhauling time), and also the death of Jay (the only friend he'd ever had before meeting the party) as a direct result of his actions. He's not had any time at all to process either of those things, and you'd better believe he's gonna be really fucked up about it in tomorrow's session.)

[nerice]

F! :3

desperately wanted to pick fauve for this one but i cannot risk putting myself into the mucihe zone or i might abandon my current novel. so even though faye gets a lot of clout in ask games at all times, let's talk abt women in stem (suffering, torment, evil, manipulation)

^shoutout to unfinished oc site draws

full name: like every other immortal, faye has no last name 🌺

nicknames: none, other than the slew of ridiculous pet names arianna calls her (my personal favourite is 'pumpkin' on account of eye color lol)

gender: female

sexuality: lesbian (stone femme babeyyyy)

a song i associate with them: i've basically talked abt her whole playlist atp so i will just link two previous posts, here and here

three important relationships: ※ eliada!!! her partner in crime when it comes to fixing the moons so they can both go home. he is also the one that custom crafted her armour so she doesn't lose any more limbs in the process w ※ linnea, ofc, my toxic yuri du jour. cycle of vengeful psychosexual drama that started when linn ruined faye's arm (after politely asking her to leave, logical next action really) and turns mostly one-sided after faye successfully breaks linn's melody, memories, and displaces her through time. they do have a fated showdown abt it in motd. the reckoning >:) ※ nd since i mentioned her before, arianna! they don't cross ways in canon (other than a one-night stand in which ari is too drunk to realize she's with a soulless lol) but platinum road exists precisely as alternate timeline in which arianna does realize and then invites faye to come to the palace with her, forcing her to try life rather than suicidal moon questing. and 3kau, a kingdoms au where arianna is a court architect turned head of guard of whom faye constantly runs afoul with her nomadic merchant ways taking her wherever she pleases, including highly restricted zones uwu.

two fears: ※ logical conclusion of a million timeline reset: the growing terror that the entire endeavor is doomed and she will never return to the invisible moon....... ※ linnea's melody :) maybe don't wear it as an earring then king

one element of her backstory: *spins wheel* uhhhhh fun fact faye losing an arm goes entirely back to an art mishap and i just rolled with it. she is a staunch prosthesis hater (that part of her armor is entirely empty and it moving is either light illusion or clever manipulation on her part) the only time she wears a fake arm is when conning jumie (exploiting her empathy) bc this encounter is the catalyst for the entire verse fixing plan & and jumie's soft paladin heart is so easily swayed by a woman as pretty as faye playing up a heartbreaking personal tragedy w. <3

> send me a letter and i will yap abt an oc with that letter yippee