#denerims

[fashionablyfyrdraaca]

im late BUUUUT A, E, J, K for archibald smut hcs!!

alksjfafl don't worry about it!! i'm just happy you sent me an ask at all <3 Also I'm slow because I've been hanging out with my cat watching movies u_u

A: Aphrodisiac (What encourages or entices them to make a move?)

Archibald is the type of man to wait for the person he's interested in to express interest in him. If they don't express explicit interest, he will use gentle touches such as "coincidentally" touching their hand or prolonged eye contact to try to make his move without using his words. He's also the type to want to spend as much time as he can with someone he is interested, finding their presence like a drug.

E: Experimenting (Trying something new)

Okay, so in the Fallen London universe, there is something called Prisoner's Honey which transports the mind of the user into a dreamlike state. I think that this is something both Archibald and Likely would want to use in order to try intimacy in the realm of dreams as it is stated by the bohemian faction that it heightens experiences. Also due to Archibald being in his fifties, he probably thinks the honey will help his performance LMAO

J: Jealous (“Claiming” a partner)

Archibald would be the type to lay claim to his lover with physical gifts like necklaces or rings, especially any that include his initials. For example, such as old rings that would have both lovers' names engraved on the inside.

He trusts Likely to not break his trust of her, but he would still give her little gifts to make it obvious to outsiders that she has a sweetheart.

Going to put the next part under a readmore since it's extra spicy 👀

K: Kitchen (Describe a sex scene in the kitchen)

This is likely to take place before they have their son (or if their son is out with his nanny). If he came into the kitchen while she was preparing a meal, it would start with him being handsy: his hands on her waist, kissing her neck as she worked, whispering sweet nothings into her ear.

If she is receptive, I imagine it would end with him pressing her against the counter, fingers in her mouth and working as hard as his old man self can work. 😂

[gendameron]

30-40 for erin and tommy!

Could they manage a long distance relationship?

absolutely not—these bitches are too handsy and codependent for it. the only way erin gets a full night's sleep these days is if tommy's there, and vise versa.

Do they finish each other’s sentences? Pick up any phrases or habits from each other? Know when the other is hiding something?

erin already has a bit of an accent, being a phoenix native, but the more time she spent with the miller brothers the stronger it got. (in all honesty, she has never in her life pronounced the 'g' at the end of any word that ends in 'ing' and she ain't about to start now) seriously, her "y'all"s per minute has skyrocketed in the past 5 or so years.

Do they ever get into trouble? Is it serious, or are they just mischievous?

depends on your definition of serious trouble. together, they've cleared more swarms of runners than they can count, and that was just a thursday.

What kind of presents do they get each other? Do they only do it on special occasions?

erin has a problem with finding weird shit in all the old houses on her routes and bring it all back to him. doesn't matter if it's useful or not. the most notable thing was a boxed set of twilight dawn of the wolf hardcovers in damn near mint condition, literally only because he mentioned watching one of the movies with sarah once and...not hating it. now it's an inside joke.

Do they have any pets?

there are a handful stray/community cats in town meant for pest control, but they've all been too spoiled to actually, y'know, kill bugs and mice like they're supposed to. the best most of them will do is stare at something until one of the humans does something about it instead.

bloater—a thicc, long-haired tortie—is one of those cats. before erin showed up, he had a reputation for not just avoiding people, but HATING them. alex's daughter olivia has been trying to bribe him by feeding him scraps over the years but literally the moment erin returned to jackson with joel and ellie, bloater found his human. tommy, on the other hand, has taken in one of the town's senior doggies—a german shepherd/chow mix and all-around good boy named kramer. kramer was supposed to help out in the animal pens, but he's one of the only shepherds on the planet that has no clue or the desire to herd animals. he's spent most of his life laying about getting belly rubs and free food, and now he's just doing that with tommy.

Do they bring out the best in each other, or the worst? Do they have a fatal flaw?

yes. (this is me saving you from the novel-length downward spiral of me ranting about their arc in the second game—i'm also too exhausted these days to like…write the novel-length headcanon because it'd at least be 1k words long and i need to like, organize my thoughts on it)

the short version is that on one hand, they bring out each other's selfless streak, but on the other hand they did nothing but encourage each other go to seattle specifically to murder about ten people so...yeah.

What’s their greatest strength as a couple? Their weakness?

am i allowed to say trust for both of those? ‘cause it’s both. they used to have one of the top 'scores' on erin's little "infected cleared" leaderboard because they were always out there taking bigger risks than they should have, simply because they knew they had each other's backs. on the flipside, getting these two to talk about the bad parts of their past is like pulling teeth.

How much would they be willing to sacrifice for the other? Any lines they refuse to cross?

so…erin did some shit back in phoenix, okay. like, tommy's and joel's whole double-interrogation thing is child’s play compared to what FEDRA had her doing to suspected fireflies. “suspected” being the operative word.

unfortunately, since this iteration of erin is only about a week old i don’t have any concrete examples of what she used to do beyond terrorizing civilians (ironic right), but all this being said it’s safe to assume that throughout the seattle arc, tommy found his and joel’s match in terms of capacity for cruelty. hell, i'm even toying with the idea of erin saving tommy's ass by shooting abby in the kneecap before the latter shot him. it's a total fluke, but it screws up abby's aim enough that it didn't kill him.

What are they like in the bedroom? Any kinks/fetishes/turn-ons? Anything they won’t do?

i'm sorry to say that like the rest of my ocs/ships, these two are boring as hell. like, the craziest thing they've done is have sex out in the woods. and coincidentally, this was the only time because erin spent the next week trying to get rid of a poison ivy rash.

Who initiated the relationship? Who kissed who first? When did they realize they were in love?

look, i'm not gonna place the blame squarely on erin here. yes, she's still a selfish prick but tommy could've easily just not have been flirting in the first place. they're both at fault here. erin just had the nerve to act on it first.

Any special memories? Do they have a special place they like to go to?

they only ever went there twice, but there was this firewatch tower in the cascade mountains in oregon that had a beautiful view of the sunset above the woods. little did they know its the same tower deacon (and later, alex) used to shelter in way back in the early years after the outbreak, before they found themselves in wyoming.

erin and tommy spent a few days there both to and from seattle, and while oregon is a long way to go for some time away it did inspire erin to seek out other towers near jackson, and later pick deacon’s brain about ones he knew of in the region—notably one with a good view of gannette peak to the east and hardly any infected between there and jackson most of the year.

[risingsh0t]

♫♫♫ for willa!!!

our corner of the universe - k.s. rhoads

forest fire - brighton

too much is never enough - florence + the machine

a year like this passes so strangely / somewhere between sorrow and bliss

[lilywatt]

♫ ♫ for lil!!

ROLLED TOGETHER / THE ANTLERS

pulled together but about to burst apart / rolled together with a burning paper heart

CONTROL / LIZA ANNE

oh i heard once / you only love when you're lonely / and you smile when you're hurting / so it doesn't concern them / but i’m so tired / i’m just so tired of hiding / i'm so tired of keeping to myself / that i’m spiraling out of control

[galfrey]

what's lyra's status at the start of the game after the helicopter crashes!!

after she shows up at dutch's bunker with an open side wound that nicely sells the narrative that she was helplessly caught in the crossfire of the reaping kicking off she rummages through his shit to take inventory of both his knowledge and his resources, you know, no real reason, just making sure that in case of an emergency the bunker's fitted out for checks notes seven years or you know some arbitrary number like that. oh yeah where are the prepper stashes in the area? SO helpful ty this will help SO much. oh are your comms down that's soooooo sad. pouring out half a bottle of whiskey on her side like yeah no i'm good i'm really really good.

she crashes there for the rest of the night of the reaping (much to her chagrin, she would have liked to be with her people nailing sinners to telephone polls, but she couldn't very well go back out into the chaos without raising suspicion from dutch about her distressed damsel schtick). the next day is. the most uneventful of anyone in the county for her because she's a target for exactly no one and dutch still has no signal so she can just slip over to the outposts the project already took over and get reports. ends up just strolling off the island and across the bridge into the valley. shit is blowing up around her. oh well. yes, she will be taking boomer, he knows her, scratch brother john's order, yes, she's overruling him, would you like to call him about it? at a time like this? she didn't think so.

she does get holed up in fall's end for a couple days in the initial town stand-off because she once again can't really waltz past the other peggies without blowing her cover, which she's not prepared to do yet. sits there smoking five cigarettes at once and bleeding all over the spread eagle's floor while she takes town inventory to assess how long it would take to starve them out if it came to it and slips supplies to the project members on the outskirts of town at night during ceasefires. she ends up making a break for it after smuggling out enough town artillery that they can passively run surveillance on it without losing more of their people than they have to.

[phillipsgraves]

what is evan doing during the fight with murphy in book 1!!!

most likely trying to mitigate any damage, get people away stuff like that! i think he might've missed the actual fighting by a small margin so he does the next best thing and make sure no one else gets hurt

[shadowglens]

👐 ok your turn wow oc info peas

oh man i haven't thought about this lot in So Long, ty emily 💖

annika dobrovski - human hunter, ♡ john j keeshan. the main girlie is, of course, annika! she was born a few years before the first war and fills the role of the player character since classic. born and raised in the mountains of dun morogh by her father sacha, annika left to join the fight at around 18 when orc encroachment started threatening her home. she was unofficially involved in the end of 2nd war and most of the 3rd war, although she didn’t start officially serving the alliance until her twenties when their base moved to stormwind. 

she was a trusted ally of king varian and later, anduin, and also has close ties to many of the night elf and dwarf contingents. she and keeshan leave the alliance after the mess that was the fourth war, choosing instead to raise a family in the wilderness away from conflict and suffering. (also self indulgent but i like to think they’ve been harbouring anduin after shadowlands because they really did move to bumfuck nowhere dgfajdsgf).

they have two daughters, ivana (human mage) and nessa (human monk). when ivana starts showing magical potential at a young age, annika and keeshan asks khadgar to tutor her in dalaran. ivana eventually leaves home in her teens to board in the city, eventually becoming a skilled mage of the kirin tor. meanwhile, nessa takes to wandering azeroth in search of adventure and knowledge with one of annika’s wolves, hati, by her side. 

natine sunstalker - blood elf paladin, ♡ lor’themar theron (ex husband ... it’s complicated). natine is the other main wow oc, and essentially follows the horde side of the main story parallel to annika. she was born to the esteemed high elven sunstalker family in quel’thalas, and while she was groomed to become a priestess from a young age, she took private swordplay lessons as well. she was close with the main blood elf contingent over the years, and was even known as a trusted friend to both ranger-general sylvanas and prince kael’ thas before their deaths. natine eventually helped liadrin found the blood knights and thrived in her new power. she and lor’themar also fall in love and marry, with natine even taking the title of regent lady of silvermoon; however, she is disgraced and betrays her people when she sides with sylvanas over the horde during the fourth war, and in the aftermath she disappears in shame.

she also has a daughter with lor’themar, faylin (blood elf warlock), but the whole situation is very messy and complicated. lor’themar doesn’t know he has a daughter since natine didn’t find out she was pregnant until after she had betrayed him and fled the horde, and the only two other people that know who faylin’s father is are khadgar and rommath. also faylin and annika’s eldest, ivana, end up getting together after meeting in dalaran - as a result, annika and natine, who have been mortal enemies for decades, end up being in laws which is eternally funny to me.

some of the other wow kiddos that aren’t as well fleshed out are:

kaelien dewtrick - void elf monk, ♡ lirastraza. essentially follows the red dragonflight storyline in the twilight highlands, and ends up becoming a trusted ally of alexstraza and also accidentally falls in love with lirastraza. 

bailie shorthorn - dwarf death knight. she had a husband and life in ironforge but after dying forgets it all.

ixiye - troll druid. she eventually takes over the reigns as champion of the horde following natine’s fall from grace.

[risingsh0t]

🖊🖊🖊🖊 for rune!!

🖊️ rune's window cat resembles a siamese cat. she names him umbra!

🖊️ she's always wanted purple hair with multiple shades, but never had the means or funds to do so. when she joins the shepherds it's one of the first things she does, although it's a novice dye job since she's new to it. eventually lavinet hires professionals to fix it up the way rune has always pictured.

🖊️ a picky eater except when it comes to desserts. honey pudding is a must when going to the tavern with one of the other shepherds and it's no surprise that she also loves lavender dumplings from capra. also, she really hates beer.

🖊️ something of comfort for her is writing letters to people she misses (or has lost) and never sending them. so she has several addressed to red that i imagine he would eventually find lmao 🥲