She hadn't meant to stumble upon Alucard's castle, nor infringe on his markedly thin hospitality. Still, she had little choice once he decided to take her in, set on nursing her back to health even though he seemed to find the very sight of her contemptible.
Are the castle walls enough to keep her past at bay? Or will she become yet another ghost wandering the crumbling halls?
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The Last of the Silverboughs
Baldur's Gate 3, Astarion x Named Tav
Halsin struggles to put his past to rest, but it's haunting him in more ways than he realizes. He'd thought his time in the Underdark was long behind him, an unpleasant pitfall of youthful hubris, but remnants of his captivity remain, the youngest of which unwittingly stumbles to his rescue.
Lythra can't stop running from her past--hasn't, since she managed to make it out of the Underdark. She has no love for Menzoberranzan, or her House, or anything she left behind in the dark. Or nearly anything.
Still, she'd rather die than return--a prospect all the more likely with a tadpole jammed behind her eye. But perhaps, with the help of a renown druidic healer, she can go back to what remains of her half-life in the sun.
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Strawberry Blond
Stardew Valley, Elliott x Named Farmer/OC
Felicity Ward was working at a top publisher as a rising editor, seemingly living her dream life. She had the prestigious job, successful boyfriend, beautiful apartment overlooking the park—and yet, she gave it all up when she heard of her grandfather’s passing, moving back to the family farm without telling a soul.
It’s not hard for the mysterious new farmer to catch the eye of Pelican Town’s resident reclusive writer, though the more he gets to know her, the less exciting and more worrying he finds unraveling her secrets.
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Bluebell
Criminal Minds, Spencer Reid x OC
After being abruptly transferred to the BAU at what she suspects was Gideon's request, Cassie Boann struggles to find her footing. Shy and solitary by nature, the transition is made all the more difficult when Dr. Spencer Reid seems to take an almost immediate dislike to her. Unfortunately for them both, their respective areas of expertise leave them paired off more often than not. But when Cassie's past literally starts hunting her, Spencer is forced to consider that he might, in fact, not hate her at all.
Quite the opposite, actually.
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To Inherit the Night
Fire Emblem Three Houses, Hubert von Vestra x OC
Cecily Leclerc will do whatever it takes to eradicate Those Who Slither in the Dark, even if it means killing the man she's loved since the Academy. That is, until her brother Yuri is captured, his life taken hostage for hers.
Hubert will do anything to help Edelgard realize her dream. No cost is too high--except, perhaps, the life of the urchin girl who stole his heart before the war, a girl Lord Arundel is hunting down with the rabidity of a wild dog.
A girl he wants alive for reasons Hubert has yet to uncover.
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Just wanted to let everyone that updates are coming, they might just take a little longer than usual. I'm dealing with some health issues and will be going in for surgery soon and have been really struggling to write with everything going on. The most I've had energy for after work has really just been Stardew Valley, which has not been great. But I am trying to re-motivate and pick up where I left off.
Thanks for being patient and I promise, there will be new chapters, I'm just not sure when.
Hoping to have a finished chapter for SOLS tomorrow! I may have gone a little crazy with the domestic bits, but I want some fluff before Elyra and Alucard have to deal with the whole mess in Faery. 💜💜💜
I’ve seen your last post and I’m sending you some questions about SOLS and the cast (there is a lot so bear with me 🤧):
— So first, do you have any headcanons about Alucard's childhood or his relationship with his parents ? I always thought it was a shame that the show didn't give us more flashbacks of his childhood or his life prior to the big tragedy.
— Will Valion ever tell a "this is how I met your mother" story to Elyra?
— Have you ever thought about introducing another non-faerie OC who could be a forgemaster or a speaker?
— Will Elyra reveal her true nature to the kids 🫣 ?
— What happened to the corpses of the two horrible people we shall not name ?
— At what point did Adrian and Rose realize they were in love with each other ? Do you have a ship name for them ?
— Since Trevor doesn't have any monsters to chase (and I don't think he teaches the kids anything), what does he do in his free time ?
— How far along is Sypha in her pregnancy ?
— Does Valion have any cousins, aunts, or uncles, any relatives still around besides granny and gramps ?
— Does Riona have a consort ? What is the name of her dynasty ? Do the seelie have a form of constitutional monarchy, and what about the unseelie ?
— Will Lisa and Dracula make an appearance 🫣?
Hi! Today has been insane, so I'm so glad to think about all my little guys instead of when I'm going to get power back lol. I went a liiiiiittle insane with this, so it's under the cut. Thank you so much for your questions, feel free to send more, this was so fun!
~~~I feel like he must have had a pretty good childhood considering how he talks about his parents in the show, though I think he wasn't home with them for super long? He has that one off-hand line about growing up 'very fast' in the show, and then there's the whole underground, steam-powered lair in Gresit. I feel like he must have moved out at least a few years before the start of the show to be able to make all of that. Plus, he'd have to have spent a lot of time with his dad to learn how to make the mechanism properly and make his own place.
Like all the material evidence we see in the show of his childhood shows that his parents loved him, like the fact that they made all his toys and painted constellations on his ceiling, and also the fact that they kept his room the same after he'd grown up? It feels very much like they were trying to preserve a part of him in the castle, like a little bit of his childhood. It was probably very disconcerting to have a child grow so quickly and mature and want to leave and start his life, so I kinda see that almost as a sort of mourning? It feels very 'child who died' to me, especially because he most likely was a teenager in the castle too, and that room didn't look like a teen boy had lived in it, at least to me.
~~~I think that unless Elyra asks, he probably won't. He's not good at identifying and telling her the things he probably should about her mom, it's more that he shares things as he thinks of them, or when it relates to what their doing. It's gotten easier for him to talk about Orlaith to Elyra, but I think he's so used to not talking about her to anyone that he just doesn't think about it.
~~~I haven't specifically yet, but would love to as the plot allows! I'd looooove to get more Speakers in the mix and I think it would be very interesting to have Adrian and Elyra run into a forgemaster, because I feel like they might have veryyy different feeling about them. Like Adrian being raised by Dracula for sure knows about them and probably has more ambivalence about them as a general rule unless they're specifically doing something horrible (ie Hector reanimating animals) whereas Elyra's only exposure has been to the roving Night Creatures that they can make and I'm sure if she learned they were made with human souls she'd be about ready to go give them a nice warm dirt nap.
~~~Honestly, I don't think she truly will? I think she'll come up with something of a half-truth to protect them from Faery as much as she can. I don't think that will work with all the kids, I think several of them will figure it out, given everything they have access to in the library, but I don't know that they'd bring it up with her? Like, I could see Andrei and Mihai figuring it out, and Andrei would tell Maria, but I can't see them making a big thing of it? Like they would know there was a reason, especially after seeing her return from visiting her father and being so hurt. I'm on the fence whether Petru would figure it out. I think it would have to be much later in life for him, but I don't think he'd care, especially at that point? Left to their own devices, I don't think Florin, Tereza, Adelina would figure it out because they're not big into the library or research, which is also good, because they would be the ones to make a big thing about it and try and get her to take them to Faery.
~~~I assumed they got torched by the crazy fire-breathing monsters in the siege? Or trampled and thrown in a mass grave after with the other people who died and couldn't be identified? Personally I like the idea of them just getting incinerated.
~~~Adrian realized that he was in love with Rose after Valion pulled her into the Dream Realm and then made it so she could safely sleep and he thought she was going to die. It fully hit him that morning after staying up all night in case every breath was her last that it was actually love (even though he'd been lying to himself before then that she was just his friend). Elyra knew for *sure* when Vranos took her, and getting back to Adrian was her light at the end of the tunnel. I think she was more aware of her feelings beforehand, though she pushed them down more consciously because she never saw them being returned.
I didn't have a ship name for them. I'm not super good at coming up with them lol
~~~Currently Trevor is trying to get his voice back somehow, lmao. But I think he's working on helping with the construction of the village and the reconstruction of some of the Belmont manor. He's still recovering from his brush with death, so Sypha is making him take it easy, but I'm sure he's also itching to hunt down some monsters, though that'll for sure have to wait until after the baby is born, because there's noooo way he's taking any chance of missing that. I also see him informally passing on some of his monster hunting knowledge to people who want it? Like no way he's holding formal classes, but if someone wants to learn how to use a whip or throw some daggers, he's all about it.
Unless it's one of Adrian and Rose's kids, then he has to do anything else. (Florin wants to use a whip soooo bad, but to be fair, he'd probably put his own eye out if he tried to use one.)
~~~5ish months? I'm trying not to rush through it (but I want Baby Belmont to be born so bad!!! I already have bits of them written as a toddler and I *love* them)
~~~Riona had a consort, who has since died. He was good at being a voice of reason and she wasn't as fearful and reactionary before. He died in a freak accident, along with their daughter, and that really lead her to be more irrational about things (it was 100% an actual accident, but she convinced herself that it had to have been a plot by the Undercourt or someone in her Court looking to unseat her, that someone had taken him from her.
Her dynasty is the Aurelianes, and they've been in power for less time than the Blackthornes. The Seelie Court has quite a bit of turnover in rulers compared to the Unseelie Court, which also adds to Riona's paranoia. She has two living siblings (Aoife, Róisín's mom, and Iomhar, her brother who has no children) and had three children: Fionn, who is her eldest and heir, Eimear, and Caoimhe, who died with their father. Fionn has only recently married (for a faery) has a daughter, Siobhan.
I'd say that Seelie and Unseelie are both semi-constitutional monarchies. There are limits and rules which the ruler could be called to step down, but it's super rare that it's enacted in Seelie and never happens in Unseelie. Basically it takes a coup to shove someone out. There's clever ways for the ruler to get around them, but it's not good for them to look like they're breaking the rules (faeries love rules).
~~~I'm so torn on this, because I want them to, but also, it would go so bad??? Like, it would be soooo devastating to Adrian that his parents had lived and they were out doing whatever and never thought to tell him and relieve him of the guilt he holds over not saving them? And I also think that since meeting Rose and starting a family, that he'd be even more angry about it, and angry with his father? Because he could never imagine hurting his child or abandoning them when they needed him.
And it would be sooooooo bad if Rose was there, because they hurt Adrian. Like, I feel like Adrian would let his mom off the hook, but Rose for sure would not, for making him feel as if he were secondary in her life and not as important as her husband, not to mention for not seeking him out after she came back to life, especially after all Dracula had put him through. She'd want to send Drac straight back to Hell, for hurting Adrian and doubly for *hurting his child*. She would have Things To Say about what sort of parents she thought they were. I don't know that she would be able to keep her temper, tbh. She'd try for Adrian's sake, but she'd be so absolutely infuriated by Drac she might have to just go to Faery so she didn't deck him.
I'm still deciding if they'll make their way into the story. I feel like it could super derail the story if I didn't do it right, and also, if they showed up anywhere near the castle, Trevor and Sypha are also for sure going to want to send Drac a one-way ticket back to Hell.
Trying to make the most out of the power outage from the crazy storm last night and get some writing done at a cafe with power (and ac!). Hopefully will be able to finish the next chapter of SOLS or at least almost finish it.
I’m also still working on my ‘Meet the Parents’ AU, which I’ve made a lot more progress with, but am still struggling with tbh. Figuring out how Dracula would handle everything is actually turning out to be so hard for me for some reason.
Feel free to send me headcannons or questions or just chat! I’d love the company while I wait for power💜
