#bad beleve

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moreee bad beleve possession stuff in the home hunter timeline

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oughhh more bad beleve oughghgh

what if in the Home Hunter universe Belos stole Steve's eyesight and used him as something of a puppet to try to lure Hunter back to him, what then?

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Hey hey hey brain cells have thought home hunter plus Bad Beleve

Oh that is EVIL (in a good way)

That would give the whole situation a new level of stress for Hunter, cuz not only has he left his Uncle, he’s left poor Steve behind too! And who knows how Belos will take his anger at Hunter out on Steve. Hunter would feel so fuckin guilty, I don’t know if he’d even be able to ask Luz and the others for help, cuz he’d have to admit that he left Steve to face the full fury of Belos alone. He doesn’t want them to think he’s a bad person but he thinks he’s a bad person for doing that, especially because of all the times Steve has stood up for him or protected him or shielded him from Belo's wrath. The angst potential for that would be delicious.

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Your art has officially convinced me to be a Steve x belos shipper lmao. Do you have any plans for them?

ok ok sooo this is kind of a wild ask to me because I haven't posted beleve art in like. 2 years I think?? I haven't even made it since we found out Steve has a canon face so technically most of the beleve art I've made before is a oc-steve x belos.

there's also the fact that near the end of when I was making art about them it was majority vent art to deal with the INSANE amounts of stress college was putting on me, which has its own tag (bad beleve) because it's so toxic and abusive so like- uh-

ok TO ANSWER your question: I did not have any plans for them, but I am willing to draw more of them if that's something you want (which it sounds like it is) because I find the dynamic interesting and I love writing about abusive relationships. (I could also write them non-abusive but yeah up to you)

Now I've got a question of my own: Do you want to see canon steve x belos or OC steve x belos?

I feel like canon steve is wayyy too emotionally mature now to ever date belos, but there is an interesting idea there where Belos grooms steve so steve never matures to that point. much to think about. But also I've never drawn canon steve so that'd be a little harder than usual.

OC steve is basically just Some Guy cause steve wasn't really a character when I made him, more like a running background gag. So he's basically just an OC heavily inspired by a toh character, so there's a lot we can do with him!

OC steve/bad beleve is also (potentially) present in my home hunter au, so if what you're looking for is a bit of angst based on Hunter running away and Steve taking the brunt of Belos emotions, that'd be a pretty interesting area to explore too.

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Yo hey, uh, genuine question— is it… okay to enjoy your Bad beleve au, purely for angst reasons? I understand it’s something you use to cope/vent, and I just want to make sure it’s not. Weird that someone enjoys it for Angst Purposes.

You can enjoy whatever I make for any reason you want! But thank you for asking, that's very sweet <3 I'm kind of surprised you even thought to send this ask, since I haven't made art for it in a while.

And frankly, I'm not sure there's much of a different between enjoying making vent art and enjoying the catharsis of angst. They're pretty similar feelings, at least for me.

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Bad Beleve anon again: thank you for your response! I was very worried that people enjoying the AU purely for angst/whump made you uncomfortable, and I’m glad to hear it’s okay! <3

one again I consider this a kind of sweet thing to worry about, seeing as even if it did make me uncomfortable, I wouldn't have known one way or another.

But I'm happy to put those worries aside I guess :)

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Wait ok so I know I literally just said I didn’t want to deal with Beleve being an abusive relationship but I guess the sheer fucking angst potential that has never really occurred to me before so basically- if I start making angsty abusive Beleve content ummmm don’t be surprised I guess????

I’m sorry I’m just- I’m often a very sad person and angst is so fun to make and-

Tbh what can I say I love taking sweet things and ruining them, even silly crackships 😔 at that point though, I’ll probably lose the small audience of Beleve shippers who wanted something cute, but I promised myself I’d post whatever I wanted lest this blog become a chore sooooo y’all are kinda fucked. I’ll tag it tho obviously probably as like “Bad Beleve” or something