#damien posting

[fishydaydreams]

cat rabbit vore or whatever

[the-darkest-guy-around]

[There is beeping out in the hallway and Damien already knows who came to visit before the door even opens. It's Adam, as per usual. He's.. the only real person who visits him, after all. Outside of the guards...]

"Damien! My good friend, how have you been? I apologise, I did not have the chance to visit in a while. I hope that you are happy to see me? I certainly am."

[Adam enters the room with his typical lustrous smile and sets the food down.]

~

[Celine could also predict who's about to enter, just by the incessant sound of the pen clicking while Jasmine inputs the code. It hasn't been that long, maybe a day or two, and Celine has not received any food during Jasmine's abscence. After just a moment, the scientist enters the room but hesitates in the doorway.]

"Hello, Celine. I.. have multiple things I wanted to talk to you about. Firstly, an apology. The way I acted during our last meeting was impulsive and immature, and I am sorry for the harm that I've caused. I'm.. uhm. I have been having a hard time, lately, with my family, and I let all of that pent-up stress explode onto you. It's my fault. I'm sorry."

[By the shadow of a guard looming behind her, and the way she keeps glancing back, it's clear that Jasmine is absolutely being forced to apologise.]

- @multiverseexplorationunit

Damien had been asleep for once, wedged in the corner when the door opened, and he jolted awake, dusting himself off and clearing his throat. Light sleeper. ”Ah, Adam!” Damien greeted. The cell could get terrifyingly lonely, so a familiar face was more than welcome — even if it was a scientist.

“I get it, truly, I do. Hope it wasn’t anything bad keeping you,” he said with a tired, but friendly smile.

——

Celine narrowed her eyes, but nodded calmly. “Apology accepted. I wasn’t acting at my best either.. So we’re even.” She was in the center of the room, legs crossed, as always. Her hands were on her knees, and she kept a neutral expression. She was still wary of Jasmine, and she made that clear, but she also had no choice but to speak with her anyway.

“What else brought you here?”

[winreyplace]

Hi! 💖 May we ask what was your first experience soulbonding like? How did you discover soulbonding and who was the first? We're very new to this and would love to hear your story if thats okay!!

Mel&: Hello! I, Mel&, and Lav are gonna answer this together, first me and then him.

My first munbonds started out as immersive daydreaming paras. I used to spend hours pacing back and forth in the dining room of my childhood home, neuronarrating out loud to myself and going on countless adventurers with my beloved (queerplatonic) best friend, Rune, and our father figure, Logan, along with a hodgepodge of my favorite characters. Around age 14 or so, I started interacting with them outside of their stories and imagining them alongside me in day-to-day life. At this stage, I called them Inklings after a book idea about a world of living characters which I have yet to put to good use.

Then I met Lav, and things advanced to a whole new level when she expressed awed enthusiasm and a genuine desire to get to know them as people, not just characters. Shortly after, one of my online friends at the time introduced me to soulbonding, and everything clicked into place.

Since then, the vast majority of our munbonds have been formed by both of us at the same time with characters from existing media. I’ll pass the ball over to Lav so she can recount one of our earliest experiences with this type of munbonding.

Lav: Logan very briefly shared what happened when he became my munbond in his intro here. Honestly, I just talked to Logan and Rune a lot over Discord (with Mel proxying) and also asked Mel tons of questions about who they were. This allowed me to get really close with them, establishing that deep emotional connection that is so fundamental to munbonds, so that when I actually tried to interact with them on my own, it was as simple as reaching out with a "hello?" in my mind and they just responded back (though as Logan said, it surprised me a lot when they did and

The first time Mel and I munbonded with a character together was with our munbond Damien, who is now my husband. Mel and I were in a long-distance relationship at the time when Mel told me she was experiencing some bond feels for a character in this podcast she was listening to. She then shared Damien's introduction episode with me. Despite him obviously being a jerkass, I felt a deep connection to what I heard behind his words: a boy aching for family and belonging. I immediately agreed with Mel that Damien needed us, so we decided to offer him a munbond connection in the hopes that he would agree.

We stole Damien away from his universe into a quiet room in our shared bondspace to talk with him. He was very wary about us and on guard, but he agreed to hear us out on the promise that he could leave right after if he wanted. We explained to him that in our world, he is a fictional character and we are people called munbonders who can communicate with fictional characters. We further explained that after listening to his story, we felt very drawn to him and were offering to munbond with him proper and if he accepted, he'd have a rent-free safe space to call home, all the food we could want, and most of all, the family and love that he always desired. It took him some time to process the offer, but his curiosity about us two peculiar girls and the strange pull he had towards us (bond feelings are often mutual!) eventually led him to become our munbond, though not without a few bumps in the road in our relationship. And he has been with us ever since.

So that's how munbonding typically goes for us: we feel a munbond "ping" with a character in their canon, learn all we can about their story until we know them, reach out to them or bring them to us, explain our position, make the munbond offer, and if they agree to it, we make an effort to strengthen the connection until communication feels as natural as speaking to someone in meatspace.

Damien: Also, before you get all up in arms about the "kidnapping", me being such a jerk and an ass at the time, I wouldn't have heard them out any other way. I am eternally grateful that they took a chance on me and wanted to love me, giving me better than anything I was gonna get in my source later on. I love my girls and they treat me very well.

[crying-kinesis]

rating black mage commanders based on how they would play as imposter in Among Us:

hilla: 8/10 sly mfer. a great actress and blames others easily. she isn't afraid to kill someone while the lights r out.

damien: 2/10 he has no idea what the fuck is going on as an imposter, i feel like he'd slip up very easily and ask how to shut doors.

von leon: 5/10 can get away with murder but would lose at the last second.

orchid: 3/10 she's not the best at teamwork and if she was paired with lotus, everything she would do would piss him off.

lotus: 14/10 what a fucking chad. he has the biggest brain out of all of them and pulls 300 iq strats as an imposter.

lucid: 10/10 also a great actress except she pulls the afk card. she is EVIL.

will: 6/10 he is not good at video games but he is definitely good at lying and deceiving in social deduction games. he knows every part of the map in skeld and where vents go but will get lost in polus or mira. a vanilla player.

magnus: -2/10 everytime he kills someone and he gets caught by 5 people he stabs his computer.

arkarium: -55/10, he's a boomer he doesn't play video games.

[fishydaydreams]

reggie will do out of pocket shit like this and it always catches damien off guard

[fishydaydreams]

quick sketch bc i miss damien

[fishydaydreams]

had this in mind every time i downed a cup of boba on an empty stomach

[the-darkest-guy-around]

Are you okay. Either of you.? I mean being split like that gotta be painful right

”… I’m not worried about myself right now,” Damien muttered.

Part of him thought he must be going insane; voices can’t just talk to you without an origin. But he’d seen crazier things. Experienced crazier.

—

“I’ll be fine. I’m worried about Damien, he never does well under pressure. My biggest concern is trying to figure out how we’re physical, and how to leave this place, not really physical wellbeing.”

Celine eyed the camera.