So I've been thinking of the Omegaverse lately and I can't quit thinking about adopting the entire fantasy trope around it.
Like, for example, just imagine...
An Alpha Siren who happens to discover its Omega Reader while there's a cruise ship above, which leads Alpha Siren to follow the ship to port while attempting to gather Omega Reader's attention, stalking you from a distance, leaving little love trinkets everywhere you go, before finally kidnapping you and dragging you need into the dark abyss.
Or reverse it— An Alpha Reader hunting down their Omega Siren, searching the ends of the Earth, diving in vast oceans, countlessly losing your Omega Siren after a single glance, only for your Omega Siren to come to you, half laying on the deck, wagging their tail desperately, wantonly begging for their Alpha Reader to impregnate them.
An Alpha Dragon that captures treasures in their vast abode while waiting on their perfect omega, then happens to discover Omega Reader gathering herbs. We can even turn you into an Omega Witch. Captured by the dragon, fighting for your life, even when your heat kicks in...
Or maybe an Omega Dragon that sneaks up on Alpha Witch Reader in the forest one day and refuses to leave your side. Whines like a puppy, guards like a dog, purrs like a cat, but is as horny as a rabbit when it comes to its heat.
How about an Alpha Naga hunting in the forest, searching for prey for their tribe, then comes across Omega Reader collecting samples, safeguarding the forest, or whatever else you may be doing for planet earth, and takes the chance to observe a new species before falling quickly. Alpha Naga ends up causing your premature heat, kidnapping you from your tent, and hiding you deep in a cave. Your heat gets the better of you but that doesn't mean you won't put up a fight.
Or an Omega Naga that you find as an adventurer that fights you tooth and claw. After winning, maybe it just slithers away or, because of Alpha Reader's pheromones, they go into heat. Maybe you help Omega Naga through its heat intimately, or maybe they are the ones who claw at your shirt, coiling their tail around your legs, their forked tongue kissing your neck and face, even the slippery cocks that end up slipping between its orifice.
Take an Omega Selkie that adores the shore and while swimming to the surface, catches wind of your Alpha pheromones, which leads to the Omega Selkie searching everywhere for you, discovering your swimming form scuba diving or just swimming leisurely, they end up playing with you in their seal form before revealing their true self when you have to leave. It's pretty hard to turn down a tempting and innocent creature that's leaking for you to sate their desires.
Or an Alpha Selkie who dominated the waves, blending in with humans while protecting the seas, they also dare to sift through the human omegas before coming across you, which leads to your rejection and their perseverance until you end up being emotionally and physically attached. Now you’ve got no where to run and no where to hide with Alpha Selkie breathing down your neck and following you at every turn.
Maybe try an Alpha Harpy bleeding from a wound in a fight and comes across you, an Omega Bird Hybrid, before passing out, to which you take them in and clean them up, feeding them, nursing them back to health. Alpha Harpy refuses to leave at the end, declaring themselves your mate, grabbing many courting gifts to give you, nonstop attempts to mate you, aiding you in building your nest and even collecting your meals.
Or maybe an Omega Harpy that is in constant need of affection but refuses themselves from having any contact with it due to their abused childhood, thus leading Alpha Reader, who has Omega Harpy as a pet, to care for their needs, to learn more about habits and behaviors, before attempting to try anything, which leads to multiple disputes that ends bloody for Alpha Reader before you honestly takes care of Omega Harpy through their heat, platonically, thus ending up with them falling for you.. but more slowly and with caution.
We could try an Alpha Cereberus Pack that has lived for thousands of years, most of them mateless and horny, until one night where they meet their perfect little Omega, you, a Cat Hybrid. They're sent to guard the demon that's killing your neighbors, all the while watching you, individually, invisibly, before the demon comes after your Omega Cat Hybrid Reader— which sends Alpha Cereberus Pack feral and ends up taking the demon's life and disappearing with you...
Or an Omega Cereberus Pack that have been abandoned by their last owners or their parents (bc that's the way of life what cruel abusive demons do) and are starved, on the brink of death, when innocent Alpha Cat Hybrid Reader finds them in the wet rain before taking them safely home. You take good care of the Omega Cereberus Pack, even as they snap and growl at your every move, but eventually, they grow fond of you, growing like wild weeds, and, out of nowhere, they've become adults, begging in heat one day.
Maybe enjoy an Omega Arachne that is super shy and scared of others that are not of their kind due to the screams of terror when coming in contact with someone else. Omega Arachne who's lived alone for a few hundred years, succumbing to loneliness.. then they caught a whiff of Alpha Reader's pheromones and suddenly went into a force heat, which causes your rut to come into play, but not until you've stumbled upon their web (in a cave, in a forest, or maybe on a mountain).
Or an Alpha Arachne that has set his eyes on you, an Omega Arachne (or maybe an Omega Lamia) since you were born, watching, waiting, for the perfect time to strike and capture you in their web. Alpha Arachne designs a web for the upcoming mating season and delivers many prey of all kinds for the honeymoon, and even if they don't end up catching your attention, they take matters into their own legs and kidnap you for their own. After a clutch or two, they know you'll be fine.
hey hey!! I noticed that you also write for marie and medusa, so if it's okay with you: can I have headcanons of female characters crushing on the reader? If also possible, can you try to add arachne? It's okay if you can't!! thank you <33
Absolutely I can anon!
Although since these head-cannons do tend to be longer than others I am going to leave Patty out to keep six characters and under!
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Soul Eater Girls Crushing
word count; 1,667
characters included; Maka, Tsubaki, Liz, Marie, Medusa and Arachne
Maka Albarn
Maka as usual is practical when it comes to having a crush on you
she knows she likes you, she's spend enough countless nights hidden beneath her covers blushing at the memory of your interactions to realize that much
Maka's strategy for winning over your heart is to become friends first, after all she wants to be someone you feel you can rely on
it's moving on beyond being friends that Maka struggles with
she just feels like she can't express herself right and you never seem to quite fill in the gaps for her
Maka tries to spend as much time as possible with you, signing up for the same missions as you, reading the books you like and asking to 'hangout' and grab coffee at the shop she knows you love
Soul thinks Maka is doing way too much and that she should just tell you
but Maka believes there is a method to her madness and if you spend enough time with her you'll fall for her as well
she's wants to prove that she is loyal and reliable above all else
the very last thing Maka wants is for her relationships to end up like her parents
it all comes to head when you're complaining about how there aren't any nice people around you to date and how you just wish someone would appear like a knight in shining armour
"my goodness Y/n just date me please!! I've liked you for a while now!"
she embarrassed and goes to leave when you stop her, stumbling through a speech where you basically admit that you've felt the same way about her the entire time
Maka loves awkwardly but fully, she gives her entire self to you, even if she sometimes doesn't know what she's doing
Tsubaki Nakatsukasa
when Tsubaki has feelings for you nobody will ever know it (especially you)
Tsubaki is just a little bit too good at acting like an amazing friend that you constantly question what you are
she'll compliment you in a way that both has you beaming with pride and blushing
"that was excellent Y/n! You always manage to look so composed and beautiful while you're fighting!"
and you just cannot tell if she is flirting with you or not
and you aren't the only confused one
none of the gang knows for sure what Tsubaki's true feelings are because she won't give it away
Tsubaki's love is guarded, she's watched what blinded love and faith can do to people and how they can be taken advantage of and she doesn't want the same thing for herself
but the thing about Tsubaki is that she's always there for you no matter what
every presentation, book club, performance you might be giving
she's there to offer help in training, school and even just a second opinion on what to wear in the morning
yet once you show signs of requiting her feelings?
she shifts, she's still there no matter what, but there's a twinge of longing to it
her compliments become more direct and frequent, you find yourself having deeper talks with Tsubaki and really getting to know her
when Tsubaki is in love and knows she is loved she will let her guard down, fully allowing herself to love and dote on you like she'd been dying to do for so long
she actually confesses to you with a letter she wrote explaining how she's finds you uniquely beautiful and perfect, how she feels like a new person around you and that with you she is the happiest she will ever be
Liz Thompson
Liz is absolutely the biggest flirt on this list...while also being the biggest goddamn tsundere out there
she will sit there and tell you that you should go out sometime and then dare to act flustered and annoyed when you flirt back
of course it's mostly a facade due to her upbringing
she's scared to let someone in like that but she also genuinely treats her own feelings like a game
she hits on you relentlessly to see the blush on your face that she adores so much, but hates that you can pull the exact same feelings out of her
Liz tries to win you over with words of affection, she tries to be sly and understated like Soul but unfortunately it's just not something she's good at
Liz spends more trying to sort out her own feelings than she does in trying to win you over
it's fairly obvious to everyone around that there is some form of tension forming between you and Liz
I think that you would have to be the one to confess to Liz first
and she would just stand there, no witty comeback, no dramatic emotion...just....silence
and then she steps towards you, eyes wide and glossy and she reaches for you
she just holds you in shock, eventually letting go enough to respond
"I....I love you too."
that moment seems to break down so many of the walls that Liz spent years of her life building
she lets herself be loved and she lets you really see her
she drags on the ends of her sentences, latches onto you like a leech and complains whenever you have to leave bed because that's how Liz finally lets herself love you
Marie Mjolnir
couldn't hide her feelings if her life depended on it
when Marie likes you it is so so obvious
stammering on her words, blushing whenever your name gets brought up
and if you flirt with her? whether it's intentional or not Marie falls to pieces
"th-thank you!!....you're too kind Y/n"
Marie tries to spend a lot of time with you without realizing it, trying to get to know you
she'll offer to stay back and help you grade papers or volunteer for that student event you got forcefully signed up for
she'll ask thought provoking questions about your upbringing, teaching style and even your own personal morals
the more you share the more Marie falls deeper in love
although Marie and be a little rash when it comes to her actions she isn't very bold
when she eventually bucks up the courage to ask you over Stein's her home for tea she's shaking so bad she nearly spills the tea
for the most part you are the one doing the flirted if you're equally interested in Marie
but if by some one in a million chance you don't catch on to her advances Marie won't know what to do
she'll complain to Azusa similar to her introduction episode, probably threatening to marry a sink or something of the sort
but if you're aware of Marie's advances and are playing coy? Azusa is onto you
she will ask you straight up if you know Marie has feelings for you
if you answer know then Azusa were exasperating enlighten you
and if you already know? she may respect you for being stoic but implore you to do something about it because it's hard to see Marie in such emotional torment
after all, when Marie loves, she loves wholeheartedly and innocently, hoping that she's finally found someone that will love her
Medusa Gorgon
very forceful and cunning
Medusa doesn't get 'crushes' she merely finds you intriguing
like a mad scientist she wants to study you, play around with you and see what makes you tick
there's an undeniable sexual aspect to it but Medusa finds no flaws in her twisted way of thinking
but Medusa is very impatient
if you don't return her feelings as quickly or strongly as she pleases she will likely either take you or kill you
if she takes you she will keep you locked up, unable to leave
forcing her affections onto you until you're trained to like it
it's obsessive and maniacal
but if you return her feelings just as strongly?
she might not take you but she will slowly seep into and take over your mind
make you reliant on her, feeling like you can't and don't want to do anything
Medusa wants you pliable and easy
she's interested in seeing how long it takes before you're obsessed and content
"you love me don't you? you want to keep me happy yes?"
Arachne Gorgon
Arachne is very similar to Medusa in the sense that the second she decides you're slightly amusing you're already hers
it isn't a matter of asking you out or growing your affections
its a matter of possession
that said Arachne does have much more of a romantic air to her than Medusa
she will attempt (and likely succeed) to seduce you
lavish dinners in her castle, expensive wine and entertainment
she spoils you endlessly with gifts and affections
she even allows you to speak while she is dealing with her subordinates; she finds your outbursts and comments extremely amusing
to Arachne you can do no wrong to some extent
as long as you behave and return her affections to a satisfactory degree your life is fairly yours
she lets you wander in and around the castle, so long as you have someone with you
although she cannot entertain leaving the castle with you, she will find some sort of way to satisfy you
"yes my dear? what is it that you desire?"
did you want to go to a new restaurant with her? she'll hire the chef to cook you two a private dinner
you want to go to the art museum? she'll steal borrow pieces of the collection for your personal viewing
what makes Arachne dangerous is you don't realize you're being caged in like prey
before you know it Arachne has entire control over your life and what you do
and if you ever try to hide something from her or leave her, she'll know
but why would you ever leave? Arachne is good at making you just as infatuated with her as she is with you
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I hope you enjoyed anon and thank you for the request!
I've never written for Arachne before so I enjoyed delving more into her character!
--Melodrangea
I will write smut, nsfw, certain kinks, smut prompts, female! reader, gn! reader, headcanons, one shots, scenarios, and fluff stories 💕
I honestly write anything as long as it isn't anything weird or creepy, keep this in mind :)
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I will not be writing any pedophila kinks, ddlg, piss kinks, shotacon, lolicon, non con, dub con, rape, abuse kinks, anything that is genuinely gross.
I will also block people who are trying to ask me this, because I will NOT do this bc it's just fiction. fiction does affect reality, and I'm leaving it at that. If you try to ask me for any of what I do not write, you're blocked.
that's all!! please don't be afraid to send me asks for anything, my requests are open <3
hey listen i know I'm delusional but can i request the soul eater villains being your soul mate? arachne, shaula and medusa. Including your favorite, asura? (I'm pretty sure things won't work out cuz reader is a good person)
soul eater villains being your soulmate! - headcannons!
☼ - gender neutral reader, featuring: asura, arachne, and medusa
i didn’t write for shaula because i haven’t seen “soul eater not!”
ASURA
• ngl don’t expect much from this guy.
• he’s the kishin for fucks sake ☹️👎🏽
• would probably only think of you as a source of entertainment, rather than a lover or soulmate
• still want him tho 💔
ARACHNE
• she believes in soulmates, but you’re gonna have to prove yourself to her
• be heavily dedicated type shi
• and if u do, she’d be a good listener if u ever came to her with any of your problems
• good at comforting
• she’ll only act like this if she truly likes you though
• if not
• she’ll just get into a relationship with you so things will be more convenient for her
• like she’d almost view you as her servant if she doesn’t have feelings for you
• but back to the positives, she’ll most likely take on a motherly role in the relationship
MEDUSA
• def would only keep you around for her entertainment, like asura
• if y’all got into a relationship she’d be sweet at first, completely doing a 180 with her personality
• then as the relationship goes on she shows her true colors and it’s just so bad
Hey! once you have the free time can i request headcanons of marie, medusa, arachne as your girlfriend? Take your time! And Don't forget to take breaks! :D
hey hey hey!! sorry this request took so long and that it’s short :( omg. i feel so bad, im just really slacking on school and my entire life in general LOL. school is ending tomorrow and stuff for me :3 so hopefully more works this summer! HONESTLY THIS WAS RUSHED TOO BUT IM SORRY AND I HOPE YOU ENJOYED
MEDUSA
def toxic 😭 sorry. but i’ll feed into your delusions
super possessive. don’t talk to other women or men. she’s angry with you if you do.
let’s you parent crona in a good way (you’re crona’s favorite)
medusa is def big spoon. she loves playing with your hair
she wants only the best for her sweet partner
she’s passionate about you but don’t get in her way.
don’t lie to her! she knows everything you say or do.
she’s so possessive but she just wants you to know that you are her lover no matter what and that she loves you so much
you both love the moon and talk together under the moon light <3
MARIE
truly a sweetheart
if you’re like dr stein and have that little madness inside of you, she knows how to help you
she’s so affectionate!
you can always lean on her!
ask her for help because she loves to help you
sweet girl js really loves you and wants to be near you
marie is a sweet lover. she reminds me of a 16 year old highschool sweetheart romance with pink clothes. the ribbon and the shirt with polos or a sweater.
marie can get jealous but always talks it out with you!
this girl just holds so much love for you
ARACHNE
def toxic too …
oh but shes a toxic sweet lover. she feeds you into lies yet why do they all come true
her love is like venom but you’re just stuck to the web
she loves letting you lay on her chest, if it’s the only way to comfort you she’ll lay you down and play with your hair.
oh how jealous she gets when other people get near you, you must stay with her forever.
don’t ever leave her, she treats you too well for you to leave
she just wants your love, attention, and time.
oh how much she just loves talking with you. your love is pure yet evil with her.
It’s been too long since I wrote for MHA, and I’m trying to get back into the manga especially after those leaks so 🥲 reader is gender neutral!
Dream’s Spooktober 2021
You confused Shouta, and it made him irritated more than usual.
He was irritated because you made him feel conflicted, and he was conflicted because you made him confused, and the cycle continues. Either way, you were irritating to him.
He would always catch you admiring his webs, fingers inching to touch his creations. It surprised him at first; shouldn’t you be running the other way instead of looking at them in awe? Surely you understood that the average spider didn’t make them (but then again, your kind has shown time and time to be idiots). Or were you getting tempted to destroy them like others tried to do in the past? That thought displeased him immensely, and he tried to scare you off, terrifying you to the point that even glancing at the smallest spiderwebs would have you sprinting from it. But you never showed any ill intent towards them or him, only fondness. That’s all you ever displayed to the creatures you came across, even him no matter how blunt or insulting he could be.
The more you kept coming around, he found himself observing you like you did his very webs, just waiting for the moment you slip up and that he can strike (or so he claimed as time went on). While he liked his solitude, he came to the realization that your presence wasn’t as annoying as it could have been (and it did boost his ego a little bit to see you praise his webs so much, and your expressions were starting to grow on him). But there was one problem-
You’re oblivious, and it’s laughably easy how fast you get distracted. It wasn’t his responsibility to look after you. You weren’t a child, but yet you still managed to let your head get lost in your own little world like you were one.
It was only a matter of time until you got yourself in trouble, and what’s more of a perfect example than being caught in one of his webs?
“You know that this was bound to happen eventually, right?” Shouta asked, just observing as you tried to lift your head, only failing as it jerked back to his web. “Your kind has always acted so careless. I don’t know if you’re just naive or an idiot. Probably both.”
“Hey I’m not an idiot!” You defended.
“But yet you still ended up in this position after coming close to so many times before and ignoring my warnings. Sounds like being an idiot to me. And it’s pointless to struggle. If my other meals didn’t get out so easily, what makes you think that you can?”
He lowered himself and landed above you, his pitch black abdomen and many legs circling you, trapping you. He leaned forward, the fear in you eyes making him chuckle, and the squirming you did in his arms almost coaxed him into cocooning you. “Wait! I mean- you don’t want to eat a dirty human like me. I won’t taste very good, and I’ll probably give you really bad indigestion or even a parasite-“
“Then I’ll just take my time with you to make sure that doesn’t happen.” An unnerving smile spread across his face, one that made your heart drop to the pit of your stomach. “It’ll be fine after that, right?”
Your eyes bulged out of your skull as you tried to furiously shake your head, but of course your movements were being restricted because of his web. “No it would not be-“
But he leaned closer anyway, and the squeal you let out when his breath tickled your neck it was humorous to him. Your eyes were squeezed closed, fists balled as you waited for your inevitable fate-
Then you felt him flick your forehead, and when you felt no other pain you cracked one eye open to see him peering down at you with a bored expression. “…huh?”
“You’re too gullible.”
“Wait so- you’re not going to devour me whole and use my bones as toothpicks?”
“You humans aren’t as good as you think, so no.” Call him a sadist, but he was never planning on eating you. He just liked seeing you squirm.
You breathed out a huge sigh of relief, thanking the universe for letting you see another day-
“But you’re still coming with me.”
“Coming…with you?”
“It’s obvious that you’re too irresponsible to be left alone, and since I have to do extra work because of it, it’s only fair that I get some type of compensation for it.”
“Wh- how is that any type of compensation?!”
“Less work I have to do to keep an eye on you. Now hold still, it’ll be your fault if you get pricked after this.” Everything happened so fast, your vision a blur, until you found yourself in his arms wrapped in a cocoon. How did he spin this so fast?
“But what about my home? I can’t just abandon it!”
“You’re worried about your home now? As much as you’ve been coming out here, I was convinced that you were trying to make my home our home, and it gave me a headache every time I thought about it.”
But truthfully, it didn’t sound as bad anymore as it did in the beginning.
He began to welcome the thought of you being in each other’s presence.
It’s been hard. Breakups were never easy. Your girlfriend recently broke up with you and even though you were trying – and you were trying your damnest – you still missed her. You missed her so much. So much of your heart you gave to her. You thought you loved her. Maybe even spend the rest of your life with her.
But apparently she didn’t feel the same way. You held no hard feelings towards her. Honestly, all you cared about was that she was happy. And apparently she decided she would be happier without you. And that was fine. You accepted that.
But God, did it still hurt. It still hurt when you looked at the empty space in your bed. The empty space in your closet. All the places her presence in your life once occupied were now hollow and sucked you into their depths of loneliness. Dating was always hard for you growing up. Mostly because straight people got to have all the representation and dating stuff figured out while you were on the fringes having a late start.
Not that you were in a rush when you were growing up. Honestly, you thought it was kind of obnoxious how people around you threw themselves in and out of relationships so frequently and flaunted them every chance they got. You didn’t care for it. It was annoying and unnecessary.
But somewhere deep down inside, you wanted something like that for yourself. You just didn’t have the nomenclature at the time to explain why it was so difficult for you to put your finger on what you wanted different.
That was until you met your then girlfriend and now ex. You had discovered a lot about yourself when you were with her. She helped make you into the person you were today. You wouldn’t have really known yourself as well as you do know if you hadn’t met her.
But now that she was gone, you didn’t really know what to do with yourself. You were a clothing designer at a local business and she was trying to figure herself. Eventually, she decided she needed to be on her own in order to do that.
Which you understood. That didn’t mean it didn’t hurt.
Looking in your closest, you also saw some designs you were neglecting while dealing with the freshness of your breakup. They ended up sitting there collecting dust for a bit. Your manager was very understanding. She was more than happy to let you have enough time to work through it and even let you vent to her on the phone off work. She was honestly more like family than just your manager.
Letting out a long sigh, you reached into the closet and pulled out one of the dresses you were stitching together. It was more intricate and you were even incorporating some embroidery into the design.
However, looking behind the dress, you realized that there were threads of cobwebs connecting the dress to something. And when you saw what it was, you dropped the unfinished dress and shrieked. You didn’t like spiders, even at the best of times. You never liked spiders. You thought they were uncomfortable and gross and everything about them made your nerves feel like they were getting shot.
Anytime there were bugs, you let your girlfriend deal with them. Usually, she’d just kill them unless you caught her and begged her to just let them outside. You didn’t like them, but you didn’t want to just needlessly kill them, either. After all, they were important to nature and they had a job they were good at doing.
But, since your ex was no longer here, that meant the job was up to you.
Carefully, you grabbed a glass and a paper and navigated yourself to the closet. You hesitated. You never liked it when spiders ran really quickly or made sudden movements and you were always afraid they’d end up on you or in your clothes. You’d have to check the dress you were working on just to make sure there weren’t any more hiding in there.
You slowly herded the small arthropod into the glass and quickly grabbed as much of the webbing as you could. You’d need to have a proper look at your closet before going to sleep, tonight. Nevertheless, the spider was caught and you took it outside and let it go.
Once it was outside, you couldn’t help but admire it. As much as spiders often creeped you out, some of them were such gorgeous specimens and you couldn’t help but gawk at them at times. You often found them terrifying, but sometimes you could find them elegant. You at the very least definitely had a soft spot for jumping spiders.
But this was not one of those. In fact, you recognized this species. They were fairly common where you lived and you knew that they were harmless. That didn’t stop them from making you uncomfortable, but the green, yellow, and black stripes all over its elegant form was a sight to behold.
Bidding it a verbal farewell, you retreated back into your house to continue working on your dress for your manager. Coping had to happen sometime and work couldn’t wait forever for you. Besides, maybe you facing your fear after your breakup left you without someone to deal with spiders was some sort of good luck sign.
Once you made sure there were no more spiders left in your dresses or in your closet, you got back to work, setting the dress on a mannequin and starting to stitch together the parts you neglected and plan out how you were going to embroider what patterns into the crimson fabric.
The next few days after that were a little odd. On the outside of your window, you found more webbing. Not inside, but outside your window and there were no signs of spiders. But the webs got more and more intricate. They didn’t look like ordinary spider webs and it confused you.
But, they didn’t come into your house, so you weren’t bothered. In fact, you found them rather elegant.
At first, you thought they just looked pretty. But as time went on, the more you could see something else in them. You saw shapes in the webs. Shapes of your favourite things. Strange, yet seemingly deliberate patterns. Ones you thought would actually look really lovely on a dress or another article of clothing, so you incorporated it. Your manager even noted just how much she liked the web inspired patterns on them.
More and more strange things kept happening. Not just with the webs, but objects were left on your windowsill as well. Spools of thread that looked particularly valuable and pretty. Spare needles you thought you’d lost. Spare buttons and other accessories. Sometimes small bouquets of flowers meant for a small vase. Sometimes discarded jewelry and beautiful stones and other strange and fascinating oddities.
You don’t know how you managed to capture the attention of this mystical secret admirer, but you had to admit…the attention was nice. It was nice having something to actually look forward to waking up to and come home to. Perhaps someone was simply rewarding you for your kindness. Though, you idly wondered how your ex never had things like this happen to her, before. Were you just special?
This continued on for about a month or so. Life went on. And even though you were still dealing with your breakup, going back to work as well as this strange daily routine kept you going. It made going through life in general that much easier to do. It made you feel strangely whole, again. Not all better. No, that was something only time could really do. But you felt better.
You felt like you were appreciated, again.
Then, on your windowsill, you discovered something that really you should’ve expected at some point. A folded up piece of parchment. It looked like it was rather old. It had that specific parchment texture and scent to it that made it seem like it was something out of time itself. Gently pulling it out, you opened it up and read it.
The calligraphy was exquisite. Whoever wrote this had magnificent penmanship. If it was possible for something like that to take your breath away, this certainly did. Leaning against the windowsill by your back, you read over the elegantly written paper, a smile slowly etching itself onto your face.
With tender heart and tender hand,
You whisked my child off of your land.
The fear was evident, our kind so fearsome.
But even still, you were kind in your lonesome.
Your mate had to be persuaded by you
To show mercy to those with legs more than two.
But you needn’t persuade them any longer.
You need not beg someone else to treat us fonder.
At first, I simply repaid your kindness.
I thought it only fair for yours was honest.
But now, I must confess to something curious.
You have my hearts beating for you something furious.
I would like to get to know you, if you would.
I understand if you are scared, I would tell you if I could.
But humans only see us as something to crush.
You are different. So, we can keep this under hush.
You had no idea what to say. But the blush on your cheeks was quite evident and revealed what your true feelings were. Were it not for the weird and elegant webs and other oddities since you let that first orchard spider out of your house, you’d think someone was stalking you.
Whether you actually believed it or not, whoever was now giving you all this attention was not human. And apparently that spider was its child. You had no clue who this even was, but whoever it was, they were quite the romantic. In fact, in all the years you could think back, your ex girlfriend never wrote anything this sweet or sappy.
It honestly made you feel very flattered. You were almost willing to throw yourself at your mystery spider admirer.
But, for all you knew, they could just be trying to butter you up so they could eat you. Still…they put in all this effort for you just to make you happy after you did something kind for them. It was only fair you reply back.
So, before you went to work, you pulled out a piece of paper of your own and began writing a message back to them. You weren’t sure if you could even measure up to the sentimentality of the one you got back, but you put the parchment on your desk in a place where you wouldn’t lose it. So, instead of writing a poem back, you decided to be honest. You let them know how sweet it was for them to do everything they were doing for you and how romantic the poem was.
You thanked them and you started asking questions about who they were. Your curiosity got the better of you and before you knew it, you were starting to run out of room and you opted to just wrap up your reply and folded it, setting it on the windowsill for your spider messenger to bring back to your secret admirer.
Coming back home after a long day at work, you found that your paper had been taken and the web at your window was updated once more. More patterns were added. But even sweeter, several heart shapes were woven around a rather cute one of your face.
You couldn’t remember the last time you felt this giddy. You felt like a teenage schoolgirl all over again. You didn’t even care if this was all just leading up to you getting eaten. You were actually…happy. For the first time since you were broken up with. And God damn it, you were going to take that happiness and run with it.
Another month of correspondence with your secret spider admirer had gone by. Your messages only got more intimate and sweet. Your admirer not only was interested in you, but she also seemed to want to be there for you. She wasn’t just talking you up, but she let you vent. She let you explain your woes to her and she responded with nothing less than support and kindness, assuring you of your worth and value.
Soon enough, you wanted to meet her. Damn the consequences, you wanted to see her. You wanted to put a face to the personality you had gotten to know. You wanted to know the hands that wrote you those messaged. You wanted to see the eyes that saw so much in you.
You wanted to kiss the lips that said such sweet things about you.
And, one day, you got your wish. On the next parchment you received one morning, you felt your heart leap out your chest.
She wanted to meet you. She gave you instructions and direction on where to go. Apparently she lived underneath an actual orchard. All you had to do was follow the webs of her little spiderlings. You’d know them when you saw them. They would lead the way to her home.
So, the whole day you were at the shop, you were imagining what your spider admirer looked like. You were thinking about what to wear. You definitely wanted to dress up.
As soon as you got home, you immediately set upon wearing your best outfit. One of our favourite dresses you’ve made that you just couldn’t let go of. You dolled yourself up in a bit of makeup. Not a lot. But just enough to really make your eyes pop and bring attention to your lips.
And you styled your hair in a very specific way to really bring out the volume of it.
Wearing your best shoes, you walked out of your home feeling more attractive and seen than you’ve felt in a while. Not because you didn’t know that you were attractive, because you did. Even if it could sometimes be hard to, you knew that you were attractive. But it was different when you were telling yourself than when you had someone else telling you, too.
Just like your admirer said, you did know the spider webs when you saw them leading you in the direction you needed to go. The webs pointed you in the right direction, almost like arrows.
It wasn’t too long a walk. It was a beautiful walk, actually. The suburbia started to fade out in favour of rural countryside until you found the orchard you were looking for. Apples as far as the eye could see. It was dark and the workers were likely inside after a long day of hard work. You were most definitely trespassing, but for this? You’d walk past violent armies just to meet your mystery admirer.
Coming to the middle of the orchard, you found what looked to be a pitfall. Though, it was more of a trapdoor than anything. The spiders were telling you to go here, so this was where you needed to be.
Lifting it up, you saw what your admirer was telling you in your letters to each other. She really did live underneath an orchard. And inside the caverns below, you could see light. You could also see webbing coating the ground beneath.
As much as the thought of being inside a giant nest of spiders made your skin crawl, you were willing to suffer it. Anything to know who your mystery admirer was.
So, taking the plunge, you steadily slipped down, closing the door above you, and descending into the underground.
Once on the ground underneath, you stood up, dusting the dirt off your dress and looking around at everything around you. There were torches leading you down the tunnels, but the spiders continued to weave directions for you to follow. And even more than that, there were curtains. Actual curtains. It seemed that your mystery admirer didn’t just live in a hole, but furnished it. You couldn’t wait to see what the inside of her home looked like.
Following the tunnels and spiders to where you needed to be, you eventually came into a heavily illuminated room filled with furniture. Bureaus, a large table surrounded by chairs, paintings, the like. It was almost like an underground manor.
Standing at the other side of the room was what looked like a giant orchard spider. In the underground torches, the green shimmered brilliantly against the dark contrast of the black stripes and brightness of the yellow. Hearing your arrival, the creature turned around and you got a proper look at who belonged to that arachnid backside.
A woman. Dressed in something that covered most of her seemingly human half. The robes were woven in the same colours as her body, but you could tell good craftsmanship even from afar and all you wanted was to get a closer look at the thread work.
But then, your eyes landed on her face. Fangs attached to mandibles protruded from either side of her mouth and she stared at you with eight round emerald eyes. All of which softened and warmed when they laid on you and you could see her mandibles upturn in a smile. “(Name).” She said, her voice as smooth as silk as she approached on delicate spider’s legs. As she drew closer you could see her lips hidden by her mandibles and you wondered for a moment what it would feel like to kiss her.
Suddenly, she was standing before you and you saw how much she towered over you, leaning down so she could get a proper look at you, reaching out with a clawed hand to trace over your facial features. “How I’ve waited to meet you in-person.” She cooed, tilting her head as she gazed at you affectionately. And, admittedly, you couldn’t help but melt into the hand that was currently cupping your cheek, starved for some sort of romantic affection. “You’re even more beautiful than I could have ever imagined.”
Looking up at her, her shimmering raven hair draping over her shoulders as she regarded you, you couldn’t help but be mesmerized. You weren’t sure what you were imagining, but all of your fantasies paled in comparison to the real thing. “So are you.” You said in awe and reverence, your eyes flicking to her lips.
Pulling away from you, the spider woman approached one of the cupboards she had in this space and started to rifle through them. “No words can express the gratitude I have that you accepted my invitation.” She said to you, her words honest and true as she pulled out a bottle. “Could I interest you in a drink to start the night off?”
Normally, you didn’t really drink. But, one couldn’t hurt and you were a houseguest in the woman’s home. “I’d love one.” You replied, taking a seat at the table and politely folding your hands in your lap.
As the spider woman poured you a drink, you couldn’t help but be curious. In this moment of meeting your secret admirer, you realized that you don’t know her name. She knew yours, clearly. But you don’t know hers.
“I’m so sorry, I feel sorta dumb right now, but…I just realized I never asked what your name was.” You said bashfully, looking up at the woman as she set your glass down beside you, looking down at you with a smile.
“Thava.” She replied, reaching to grab your chin in her hand once again. Seemed she still couldn’t quite get enough of looking at you. “It’s a pleasure to finally meet you, my love.”
Returning her smile, you settled in your seat, knowing that this was the first date you’ve had since your ex broke up with you and getting comfortable with this new change in your life with Thava. “The pleasure’s all mine.”
