#ikemen vampire leonardo

[chevlvrs]

old man yaoi

[jackson-otto]

[junokko]

What do we think, chat?

[ana-leotorulus]

Th 9th anniversary sneak peak

[gazzistt]

sooo I finished Leonardo’s sequel and here are my thoughts…

so heres my honest opinion:

i’m not mad at it. honestly, i loved the story, it was really dramatic, had nice moments with the characters (although there were some that we rarely got to see)

my only thing was i thought leonardo biting mc was going to be a BIG thing. the majority of the story was leonardo lore dumping and fighting with the fact/idea of biting someone.

by the time he actually bit mc, it was very quick and not at all elaborated i thought i hallucinated it. also, that “bite” happened on chap 14 (which was the second to last chap) but then they gave us a more detailed scene in the last chapter when he finally bites her. So out of the 15 chapters with 5 parts each (75 parts total), he actually bites her in 2 parts (2/75).

i’m kinda disappointed, i thought we’d see more leonardo feigning for mc, or maybe a comment on how he’s always wanted to do this (like how he feels to finally drink her blood), or even mc biting him—but i guess those are saved for events.

leonardo’s stubbornness low-key made me mad. like this summed up his thought process up until chap 13:

mc - “would you still love me if i was a worm?”

leo - “ofc”

mc - “what about a vampire?”

leo - “… ehhhh”

and the fact that mc “had” to become a vampire because she got stabbed with syringe with that elixir of immortality? i wish sequels were longer because it didn’t seem as fleshed out as it should have been.

there was a 50/50 chance she could successfully become a vampire or she would die in a month. and even though Faust said there was no way they could make a cure in time (even if all the doctors in the game worked together), and that leonardo should just do the thing that would guarantee mc’s survival (bite her) Leonardo was like:

“oh no, we’ll def find a cure.”

spoiler, and to no one’s surprise, they did not.

it literally took mc, crying because she didn’t want to die for leonardo to be like:

“yeah, wanting you to stay human was kinda shitty of me. and i do want to spend my life with you.”

but hey! at least he got character development AND he’s self aware <3

i hope there are more events with Leonardo biting mc because i want to see more. i feel like this should’ve been a really detailed thing since he’s came so far. maybe it was in a side story but I didn’t pay attention </3

[lolziesitsame]

IM BACK IN THE BUILDING AGAIN

Since I'm boycotting LADS I needed a new distraction so I'm back with my boy Leo again

It's like I never left

ALSO I'm sorry for the lack of art on here artfight kept me BUSY but there will be Reiji art at the end of this month for his birthday

[lorei-writes]

Let It Be Light

🙀 Leonardo da Vinci x OC (Leanna); a gift for @rinaririr , made as a part of Top Tier! Gift Exchange hosted by myself and @pond-lilies; Fluff, Angst, Slice of Life -- a little bit of everything; Reincarnation; Soulmates; Red String of Fate; Cofee Shop; Cats 🙀

Soft sunlight weaves itself through Leonardo’s hair, strokes the contours of his face while feathering kisses over his eyelids. Overzealous in its affection, it earns itself a grumble and then a yawn, a stretch of his arms. A cat reconsidering a nap, Leonardo turns onto his side. Long, dark hair scattered across the pillows tickles his face. His nose scrunches up.

“Five more minutes…” a voice beside him mumbles.

“Scusa…”

His arm wrapped around her waist, Leanna releases a pleased sigh. If he could, he’d freeze the moment, preserve it in time… Just this once, just for her, just because of her. Before the well of years they have left to share fully dries out. Leonardo nuzzles against his love, lips hot on her neck. Her pulse is still strong, and it lures out his fangs, something inside of him begging to turn her seconds ironclad.

His stomach drops.

He shouldn’t.

“Leonardo?” Leanna asks, turning onto her back to better see him. He’d rather she didn’t. “Why so early?”

He can’t.

“It seems your pull on me is stronger than expected, cara mia. Couldn’t help myself.”

Crow’s feet appear around her eyes as she smiles, and she is just as radiant as when he’s first met her. Leonardo cups her face, his thumb stroking the dark circles underneath her eyes. How very selfish of him to disturb her rest; as if to apologise, he kisses her forehead, to then draw her against his chest, their limbs tangled as they strive not to fall off the piece of furniture he generously calls “his bed”.

“Hey!” she protests, but without any real spirit behind the sentiment.

“Five more minutes,” Leonardo murmurs against the crown of her head. Five more minutes is reasonable. That much he is allowed. His eyes close to shut off any hesitation, the warmth pressed against his heart lulling him into the most pleasant of temporary dreams.

Days turn into weeks, which in turn become months, years, decades… No more than decades. Leonardo runs his hands over the duvet to smooth any folds in it, rather unsure whether his life hasn’t been just a particularly long nap. It hasn’t felt real for a good while. The door to their bedroom opens, and Leanna joins him with an armload of fresh linens.

“Laundry duty?” he asks.

“Laundry duty,” she echoes, rather tired by the looks of it. “Sebastian said there was no room left in the closet and that we should store them here. Open the chest for me? I can hardly see where—”

The globe – his favourite – spins just as his world does, slamming against a stack of books right when his back hits the floor. Leonardo tries to look around, but a fallen sheet obscures his vision. A weight presses him down, a sharp elbow turning against his ribs, and after a moment he is no longer blind. Leanna peers down at him, her brows knitted together in a lovely frown. Spread half on the floor, half over his torso, she does not appear to be particularly pleased with the present state of affairs.

“I thought it was your favourite,” she remarks. “Weren’t you supposed to put it away? Three days ago?”

“Oh? So it wasn’t months this time. I told you, dolcezza, I would improve.”

“I should have left you below that bedsheet.” Leanna glares at him, but he can see amusement glimmer in the depths of her eyes. In either case, she averts her gaze soon enough.

“Well, we could still fix that.”

Her face turns towards him, surprise flashing though her features lightning-fast. That moment he, too, will cherish. Leonardo catalogues her expression in his memory to later sketch it out, and it is only the silver woven into her hair that worries him.

Time.

He needs more time.

It moves on too fast. He won’t be ready to let go.

“Cara mia!” Leonardo announces upon entering their bedroom. “I wound your watch.”

“Was it a nice walk?”

Leonardo sits on the edge of their bed – a proper one, for the old couch has long proved to be insufficient. Leanna lay on her back, snow-white hair spread over an equally pristine pillow, eyes expectant, dim, yet not fully devoid of light. Wrinkled as they may be, her hands still belong to her, and he craves them all the more now that they are approaching the end. Leonardo entwines their fingers. He hasn’t changed, aged for even a second, never mind a day.

“Yes. Next time, I will carry you along.”

“People are going to think I’m your grandma. Again,” she complains, although with a hint of humour in her tone.

“Let them think whatever they want.”

“There is no other choice.”

Silence falls, heavy and too thick to swallow. Leonardo shuffles his feet against the carpet; if he wanted to, he’d distract her with another story or play for her until his fingers grew numb. Perhaps that would be the right thing to do, however, he stalls.

“Soon—”

“We’ll start again,” he assures, his thumb brushing over her knuckles. “I won’t stop looking until I meet you again, Leanna.”

***

Leonardo lacks a compass or a map, the path he seeks remaining stubbornly uncharted, obscured even from his very own eyes. Minutes have become a century and a half, the memories of affection now bitter-sweet, the rotten heart in his chest still daring to instruct his actions. Leanna is gone. Has been for a long, long while. Yet… Yet that ridiculous, wretched organ holds an eternal hope. Leonardo clutches his suitcase to then set it down on the conveyor belt. Onto another country. This time, this time surely, he will find her.

Cheap airlines have never been the height of Leonardo’s dreams, but it is what the moderate remains of le Comte’s fortune can afford him. The digital age has not been particularly kind to their kin — one can only transfer assets so many times without raising any suspicions, although the word has it Queen Elizabeth XVIII of England has tasted the eternity. One day, Leonardo will have to pay her a visit and inquire about that personally; currently, however, he has more pressing matters to attend to. A child seated beside him breaks into a healthy cry. The plane takes off. Five hours to go.

Four and a half.

Three and three quarters.

Three…

Two.

One and a half.

One.

A half.

A quarter.

Ten minutes…

At last, the plane lands, and it takes all of Leonardo’s patience not to burst through the emergency door. None of his ploys have worked, all his genius rendered fully inconsequential in the face of inaccessibility of the MelonNana TV channel. Nevertheless, he is tactful enough to exit it as a normal person would, even going as far as to collect his luggage. His looks must have alerted the taxi driver. The man doesn’t strike a chat. That suits Leonardo just well, his head turning towards the window, although he can hardly see the buildings they pass. They stop in front of his hotel sooner than he would have expected.

The reception, his suitcase hitting the floor, the rustling of the bedsheets as he drops among them, all thoughts fade out of his head. Leonardo closes his eyes. A cat nap wouldn’t hurt, but the persistent meowing outside pounces on his consciousness whenever it is about to dissipate and release him into the ether. His brow furrowed, Leonardo gets up to his feet and walks up to the window. He glances out of it, but he cannot see anything. He grabs the handle.

“Meow!”

A cat looks at him from the ground, its black fur shimmering in the setting sun. Red ribbon tied around his neck, it holds its chin high, golden eyes filled with pure, unfiltered disdain.

“Hey, you there! Tone it down a little, hm?”

“MEOOOW!”

“Some of us are trying to sleep.”

“ROOOWR!” The cat bristles. “MEOW! MEOW! MEOW!”

Leonardo runs his hand down his face. His options are numbered, so… He takes a note out of Dazai’s book and leaps out the window. The creature doesn’t seem affected. It simply begins to walk away.

“You’re a rather cold furball.”

The cat glances over its shoulder.

“If you don’t like that, you should change your attitude.”

The cat takes a few steps. Again, it looks over its shoulder. Leonardo needs no further instruction – he follows after the pet.

They cross busy, four-lane roads, march through bridges, cross all sorts of neighbourhoods (some more than once). Leonardo has begun to question his sanity, however, a part of him enjoys the walk. The watch he’s been ordered to take care of also appears rather pleased, the mechanism inside of it heating from excitement. Sweet ragoon creeper climbs up fences and walls.

“Where are you taking me, gattino?”

The cat opts to remain silent, as per its right.

The door to a building opens as a man exits onto the street; seizing the opportunity, the cat plunges inside. Leonardo stands still on the pavement for just a moment. He looks up to investigate the sign.

BLACK CAT

It tells him precisely nothing, but he does enter the establishment.

Dark eyes settle on him the moment his foot passes the threshold. The watch on his wrist stops together with his heart.

“How may I help you?” Leanna asks from behind the counter, the black cat stretching besides the register. She is exactly as he has remembered her, from her tired eyes, to the charming air of awkwardness, and her dearly beloved hands.

“Scusa… I followed the cat,” Leonardo blurts out after a short while.

Her eyebrows shot up at the remark. “It’s a coffee shop, sir.”

“One espresso then.” Leonardo sits down in the nearest chair. “What’s the name?”

“I’m Leanna.”

He smirks at her. He’s known that much for far longer than she has. “I meant the cat.”

“Lux.”

Light. Yes, the light has returned.

🙀🙀🙀

Dear Rina,

As you know by now, you were my giftee. I hope you like the story I've prepared and that I did Leanna justice. I gave it my all.

Truth be told... When it was greenlit that I would prepare something for you, it made me really happy. Sure, sure, I joke that I'm your fangirl, but it isn't wholly incorrect -- I do appreciate you a lot as an artist and a person. So... >:) In a way, this is also a revenge story for all the nice things you've made for me.

Keep warm,

Lorei

PS

I had to read Leonardo's route specifically for this story and I was so uncertain about my characterisation choices I ended up asking 5 people to verify them -- so I owe major thanks to Shao-wei @youngshaowei1991, Venulus @venulus, Chisa @cheese-ception, Lily @pond-lilies, and Eli @cottonfluffballofdoom.

Have a laugh at how bad I overthought things, please, hahaha.

[ikevampdwdfan01]

This new event in IkeVamp JP is pretty crazy. I've never got to play an election event outside of EN's and JP's anniversary election events, so It's also very new to me.

It's a battle of the bands AU, and the groups seem so random lol I was really hoping for cards for the event given how wild some of these combinations are (ie; character and music genre combo), so I'm a bit disappointed there aren't any, but I did kinda guess there wouldn't be.

Here are the groups, listed from the ones I'm least interested in to most:

A bit boring they just gave Mozart what he usually plays, and I can't imagin the outfits are that interesting, basically just exactly what they have their sprites in for the event. The group feels very random, but I think that's fine, It's interesting to see characters that don't commonly interact grouped together. (Plus It's AU)

Why does Jazz kinda feel right for Leonardo? I mean, it's not exactly perfect for him, but it still feels somewhat fitting? I dunno. Feels strange for Dazai and Faust, though lol Leonardo and Dazai being teamed up doesn't feel that strange, but Faust being grouped with them feels like such a curve ball lmao I'd assume their outfits would basically just be what they're wearing in the sprites again.

This group feels the most basic. Napoleon and Isaac are already close in the original canon and Napoleon and Theo have already been teamed up in an event like this (not sure about Theo and Isaac, though). Almost feels boring compared to the other groups, tbh. Classic rock feels like it works for all three decently well, so this is actually probably the least interesting actually lol Mostly curious what kind of outfits they'd wear if they had made cards for this event.

This is the first one I'm really interested in. This group is crazy, and it's metal??? Crazy stuff right here omg. I wanna see death metal Drake. I feel like if they did cards, they could have given Charles his long hair from his past for this, since it's pretty common for guys in metal groups to have long hair. (Or be bald, but that's besides the point) The funniest thing here, though, is in the free digest they said the group is supposed to be in all black, but they didn't have a sprite like that for Drake, so he just looks fully out of place lmao (poor Drake) Feels like they could have made him one of the dressed-down-with-the-undershirt-changed-to-black sprites which is what Arthur and Charles are in, but it is what it is. (Can I please see death metal Drake 🥺🙏🏻My metalhead hearts wants)

(Why is my screen translator calling Jean "Jance" wtf 😑) Will in visual kei is a mighty need. I can't imagin it, but I need to see it. Please 🥺🙏🏻

Can I just rant for a second, though? Why is this group 3/4 the bottom five from this year's JP election??? Will-16th, Galileo-15th, and Jean-either 13th or 14th I forgot. I hate having rely on Vlad's popularity, and I doubt it'll be enough... 😭 I had to vote at least once for each group member, and I was still in the top 100 for Galileo and Jean until a few hours ago, and I'm still in the top 200 with just one vote each. (the event started about 14 hours ago) I'm not even placing in Vlad's, so maybe his popularity can hard carry... I don't know if they thought since this is one of the two with four members it would be unfair to have another even decently popular character?? I feel like we're getting either last or second to last place with this line up...

Enough complaining, though. I feel like I can easily imagin Vlad in visual kei style, and I can kinda imagin Jean, but Will and Galileo... I'm having a hard time picturing those two lol It's certainly an... interesting group up to say the least. I still really want to see Will in visual kei. My mind has hyper focused on that. If any fan artist that are still drawing IkeVamp art get inspired by any of these, especially Drake in death metal or Will in visual kei, I would very much like to see them. 😊 Just a suggestion, though.

The chibis aren't scratching the itch... Why are the group members all exactly the same? I feel like there would have still been cohesion between the groups if just the outfits were the same, I feel like their accent colors could have been their character colors... Green for "Lost Eden" is... A choice. The outfit is kinda boring compared to some visual kei looks, but it works. I like their mic stands. I also feel like "Iron Pulse's" outfits aren't even metal... Maybe kinda classic metal? But certainly nowhere near what I was imaging... Star shaped guitars feel like more glam rock then anything. I feel like "Midnight Avenue" should have hats. The other two are fine.

Overall, I'm still excited to read the event stories, but I feel like this should have been the type of event they'd do more with. Specifically had cards for it. These combinations feel to interesting to just have fairly basic looking chibis be showing off their looks. I feel like I complained to much for an event in a free-to-play game, but those are just my thoughts. I'm curious to know what other people think, so, to anyone reading this, lemme know your thoughts. 🙂