#mxlevolence

[witchcraftandburialdirt]

C'est quelle émotion, ta haine ou de la douceur Quand j'entends ton prénom?

✧ ━━ @mxlevolence

I just wanted to say thank you, I cannot overstate my joy that we've been able to create something wonderful together. Your passion continues to inspire me (´⌣`ʃƪ) ♥

Frankly I think he should kiss both of them.

Also I couldn't help but make them spiiiiiin.

[offdxty-moved]

@mxlevolence sent in:

Day 1683 out of eternity. He wasn't keeping count, though. ( Those etchings in his notebook was his countdown to Death, not freedom. The latter was unattainable in five consecutive life sentences plus an additional 150 years. Unless he was immortal. And he was not. ) It was his allotted Outside Time. Where, dressed in his orange jumpsuit, he would stand and glare at the too-bright sky, wishing it were dark outside. But day 1683 was different. Today he ventured from his spot on the outskirts, close to the stone facade of the prison building, and flitted toward an equally lone figure, William Tillich. Danny gestured to the pack of cards in Tillich's hands with a jut of his chin. "Gambler or magician?"

As opposed to most of his fellow inmates, Will seems to enjoy the time he's spending in here, inside this well-known prison; Everything is the same each and every single day: Same toothbrush, same toothpaste, same bed, same farts, same shoes, same window, same floor, same ceiling, same sink, same toilet, same toilet paper, same smell, same air.

Blank. Uneventful. Restrictive. Ouright boring, nerve-wracking in a way, sense-dulling. Most wish for some kind of distraction, for a change in pace, a new sight, a new sensation that will help them to feel alive again...

---To him, it's comforting. It sates something inside Will, a deep urge that eats away on his bones day after day of his tired existence. He likes it, to have the same toothbrush and the same bed, to stand at the same wall at the same spot whenever they're led outside; Part of him even wished the sky would stay the same, just to dull his life even further.

He deserves this. Will has always deserved it, will always deserve it.

Said comfort lies within punishment. The prison-therapist calls his behavior an 'expression of deep-set PTSD'; Will does not really think about it, just keeps flicking his cards back and forth between his fingers...

Until he's being interrupted, that is.

...He doesn't want to be interrupted. It's a change of pace, and he didn't ask for it to happen.

"...Gambler." Yet he does offer this answer to the other, a man he's seen before but never really spoken to; Voice soft and steady, his eyes remain lidded and focused on his task at hand - continuing to flick Cards from one hand to the other, then the other way around. Back and forth, back and forth.

---He peeks up at that guy for a moment then, once a few seconds of silence have passed - but his dark eyes fall away almost immediately; The sun's too bright, he hates having to squint against it.

[cursedblesseda]

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No... he doesn’t feel better. If anything, his chest burns hotter, a pressure that no punch could bleed out. Would another strike ease it? Two, three— one after another until Danny’s face was unrecognizable? The thought tempts him for a fleeting, vicious moment... then sours. The first blow had been cheap, stolen when the other least expected it. Anything further would just be foolish, opening the hellish gates or brutality. And still, some buried part of Atlas wants cruelty. Wants it to escalate, to spiral until he doesn’t have to think about what he feels at all.

❝ You let me believe you were the fucking victim!? ❞ The words come out like a snarl, jagged and completely unrestrained. What is left of his control fractures, anger rushing in to fill the cracks he thought were long sealed. He trained himself to master his temper, to bleed it out in controlled spaces, in rings and gyms. But Danny has unraveled all of it with nothing more than a truth revealed too late.

It isn’t just betrayal, though. That’s what unsettles Atlas most. It’s the pull that coils tight in his gut, the wrongness of his own fascination. He should hate this man, but hatred will not explain this intensity; explain why his pulse spikes when he looks at the killer with blood running from his lip, eyes still unflinching. That dark intrigue is harder to shove away than the rage.

Atlas shouldn't want to know, and yet he aches to ask: what finally made you act? what did it feel like the first time? How did you hide it for so long? Why did you stop? The questions would sound like admiration if he spoke them aloud, and that thought makes him sick. Yet the sickness does not dull the growing fascination.

He shuts the thought down, grinding his teeth, nails digging into his palms. No. No. His voice is ragged when it comes out, thick with everything he can’t name. ❝ Why the fuck are you here? ❞

[threegoldfish]

@mxlevolence asked: ❛ you look like you just saw a ghost. ❜ / unmasked GF, maybe? And Steven or Marc!

---Marc cannot even say anything against that, those words that the one in front of him speaks into the silence between them; He's not sure whether they're meant to be a tease, a taunt, something smug - it's hard for him to focus on such things when the face he's looking at is...

Damn, perhaps he is seeing a ghost, in a strange way. Perhaps not literal, because that guy sure as hell looks like he's breathing and all of that, but... ---fuck this, the fact that these eyes that stare straight back at him look so hauntingly familiar sends a cold shiver down his spine, so intense that it prompts goosebumps to appear all over his neck, shoulders, back.

Marc certainly feels like he's seeing a ghost, wonders if his own features are going a bit pale in return. A tongue flicks out for a second and a half, wets a pair of full lips, then disappears again - followed by a somewhat shaky inhale of air, an exhale that follows, hands curling into fists by his sides.

"What kind of shitty game is this supposed to be?" Low, almost a grumble, but filled with obvious discomfort - with confusion, something unsure, uncertain. Maybe a little afraid, even.

Sure thing, people say everyone has a couple of doppelgangers existing on planet Earth - but this? Fucking scary, the resemblance.

[desiderixm]

8, 9, 19, 21!

Virus game asks

8. What's your favorite map? Do you have a least favorite?

Favorite map to play on is 100% Lery's, I know most people hate it, but as someone who doesn't play as much as I used to, the map having clear landmarks for where I am and where I can go helps with my brain. The tiles being pretty stationary and only really changing when windows doors and what side pallets spawn on is also really good for remembering which is why I'm kind of shocked when people say it's not a good beginner map. I think it could be an extremely good new player map with a few tweaks, like coal tower does have the giant tower, but the rest is generally some random tile set spawns unlike Lery's. Lery's has a set spawn center room where there's always a gen, blinking lights tell you where gens are, the shack (library) has a set spawn, etc. etc. I understand hating it on killer more, it does prevent a lot of killers from using their abilities to their fullest because of the hallways, but I adore playing on it as survivor to be honest.

Least favorite no question is R.pd. I'm so sorry to people who enjoy it because it is basically 1:1 from the game, but that map is so horribly designed it still needs tweaks several years later. I'm assuming most people who live it did not play when that map was slower to get around than old mothers dwelling. (the largest map in the game) My god I hated even trying to find gens, because unlike Lery's and H.awkin's there is nothing telling you where they are and the map isn't as open or small as Midwitch so you can't see them either. There used to be several infinites on that map so while you're playing a lot of killers with a severe handicap just due to it being an indoor map, you couldn't catch anyone if they ran to the library and other areas. Not even counting how on survivor it can be impossible to win sometimes if your teammates do the roof gen first. I used to alt + f4 in loading if someone brought an offering since you'd dodge the penalty that way like "oh noooo my game crashed thats so sad" just knowing the main reasons survivors took you there was to abuse that infinite at the time.

9. Do you care about the lore? If you do who has your favorite backstory?

So,,, I love d.bd lore, but also consider: I haven't read the observer tomes since Trickster came out and I keep forgetting. So I really need to get caught up on the observer side of things even if I'm caught up on the character side. I do think the games world is super interesting though even if an entity exists outside of time and space as this pseudo-godlike figure is a pure excuse to have Willy boy A.fton and M.ichael M.yers in the same space without having to worry about license holders fist fighting over whose stronger.

(Which I could go on a whole tangent about how annoying the f.naf community is about that and how they won't accept that their favorite child murderer is both an asshole and a theater kid and that's what makes him a fun character especially in the god awful books but I digress)

Favorite backstory I think would have to be L.egion's if only because they're becoming the poster children of the series and get a lot of love because of that. I loved the comics, I think their tomes writing is pretty solid, and I think they're the most believable killers in this game as someone who grew up kind of similarly. My town got gentrified by the time I was a teen, but before that it was a migrant worker town with a lot of agriculture and a lot of factories and that was the only real work. So I can 100% sympathize with angsty teen-adults not having anything to do and having that by exploited by the entity especially on Julie's side. Which I'm honestly shocked Susie got so popular when Julie is an extremely interesting character motivation wise, I personally love when she asks Frank if he'll kill for her and she gets disappointed when he says no.

I think it just adds another layer with that section in their tome + the comics where shes already manipulating how she knows Susie has a crush on her to get her to do what she wants. That whole Frank maybe the face of everything and think he's in charge, but she's really pulling the strings behind the scenes. The entire L.egion thing being her idea in the tomes even too. Which of course makes their entire lore extremely messy and if you look at the dates on their cosmetics it makes them like 20-21 which does line up with what the devs have said before in Q&As. They're over all pretty all over the place, but I do think they're really interesting if you combine all that knowledge and I think it makes since that so many people have attached themselves to them because of that.

I do really enjoy Tarhos's lore too, but it suffers from the "It's obvious there was several re-writes and no one cleaned it up to make it cohesive" disease and then his tome was an attempt on that, but is literally just the end of his lore and barely mentions the faithful 3 despite him taking that contract for them. Which is why I'm still low key kind of pissed that he was the center point of a tome and then they immediately announce after that they're adding lore back. Can't wait for C.laudette to get her 4th tome while so many character have 0 at this point or their tome being just their lore re-stated.

Regardless of all of that though, as much as I don't like S.kull M.erchants store page lore, it's pretty boring especially combined with how she looks aesthetically, but I do really enjoy her tome and I think more people should give it a chance. It really makes you be like "Wow she could've been such a fun killer kit wise if they just tried harder and didn't hot glue skulls to drones".

19. How long have you been playing? (hours or years, your preference) Do you think the games gotten better or worse over time?

I have 641 hours, 99% of it being in 2020-2022.

I fell off around W.esker to be honest mostly because of irl things happening at the time that made it so I no longer had anyone to play with and the introduction of "sbmmr" making my killer games utterly miserable due to it launching with 0 decay on your mmr and it staying that way for a year or two. Every time I try to get back into it B.hvr does some fuck ass thing that makes me be like "No I think I'll wait this one out."

Despite that, I do think community reactions are generally over blown and extremely annoying. I think it's mostly due to all the young people the games attracted with T.okyo G.houl and F.naf being added where to a lot of young people devs making a bad decision is actually the end of the world + this weird continual fostering of this stupid "us vs them" mentality the devs and community still cultivate. No, bad decisions don't usually get pushed to live. I've been playing for a while, I know many bad ptbs that never made it to live. I knew the last changes would no make it to live either, the numbers need tweaking and 25% gen repair is actually absurd when the survivor side of it is so easily used offensively.

I don't think the game itself has gotten worse, I think it's improved in several aspects and I think it could still improve especially on the accessibility side of things, but I do think the community has gotten worse. Like way worse. Used to be the the toxicity I'd receive in end game chat wasn't even comparable to what I'd get in other pvp games, but now I get called a zoophile for having a furry pfp and have to keep my profile friends only. Used to barely get called slurs either (a gamely occurrence in the avg l.eague ranked game) and now I know people who have gotten tunneled out for having the trans charm.

It's 100% because B.hvr does not do anything about these people unless you send a direct ticket into them, the report feature does exactly nothing in game and I think people who tunnel others out because of their identity should get more than a slap on the wrist personally. Complaining about tunneling, saying gg ez, etc. etc. used to be so common and now it's just gotten so amplified that it's like. Wow! I love end game chat having exactly 0 moderation!!! I sure totally open it and don't keep it closed 99% of the time anymore despite how I used to enjoy it :)

21. If you could change or remove one thing from the game what would it be?

Remove K.aneki pls and thank

No, actually I'd really just like them to stop adding licenses that primarily cater to young people to the game. There's so many wonderful horror ips out there that will never get added because F.naf was such a big hit and K.aneki is literally pay to win for 90% of your games so people keep buying that one too. I'm not saying D.bd is an adult game that teens should never touch, but I do think the playerbase getting younger and younger has contributed to a lot of the toxicity and annoyances I keep seeing.

Like I've said, I really don't want D.anganrompa in the game. I'm tired of them looking for the most low hanging fruit "weeb bait" ips. There's so many great East Asian horror ips out there if they want a licensed chapter not even counting folklore, it's insane that D.anganrompa is even on the table anymore with how far they're strayed from the game being about a celebration of all things horror. I'm genuinely irritated that J.unji Ito only got skins, but we got an actual s.honen protagonist as a killer. Not any of the wonderful body horror villains from that series, no no we need the protagonist to run around making annoying anime boy sounds.

I'd killed to see P.erfect B.lue as a chapter, that'd be so much fun, but man. I don't think we'll ever get an interesting East Asian horror ip again, because K.aneki became so popular just due to the sheer fact that he's so insanely over tuned still.

[angelatelier-a]

@mxlevolence summoned cupid ! ♡ ˚.

❝ i've heard a few things about you. ❞

✿ ⧽ muses who are just meeting prompts .

❥ Kiwa couldn’t be too surprised. Stories always drifted around the fog. Everyone had heard of everyone, in some way… and Kiwa knew she was a particularly loud presence in a realm full of those who’d grown silent and bitter. Hearing about her was inevitable, but what exactly he could’ve heard? That was a different story entirely. It could swing all sorts of ways depending on who was asked, she knew she wasn’t exactly everyone’s favorite. Or, well…. Most anyone’s favorite, but still.

“Sooo, likeeee… good or bad things?” She questioned with a playful tilt of her head, her manicured hands resting carefully on her hips. Kiwa was always an oddity within the fog: a flash of pink in an otherwise dull place. Carefully kept nails, well maintained clothing… who knew how she managed it other than through sheer force of will alone. “Prolly good things! Right?”

[undyingmedium]

@mxlevolence liked for a one liner!

"Trying to blend in with the ghosts?"

[leadxxr]

@mxlevolence continued from here.

Dwight couldn't even begin to comprehend how taking the life of someone else could possibly bring another human being JOY. But then again, he had a feeling whatever humanity had once existed behind that mask had long since faded. The hollowness of the morbid, plastic expression mocked him with the dangerous stranger's every word, giving birth to an uncomfortable lump in his throat. Dwight can't help but wonder what he looks like underneath it, but he finds his curiosity fading as the man's words send chills down his spine. He feels like he could collapse at any moment...

"Why- " Dwight's voice breaks softly, his eyes habitually scanning his surroundings as he backs himself up slowly from the ominous figure, searching his environment for an escape. "Why am I still alive, then? Reached your daily limit of joy?" Wow. That quip was a little bold, though his eyes begin to glisten as he chokes back the threat of tears. Is he seriously trying to act T O U G H right now?

He denies the tears of PAIN. LOSS. SHAME.

The screams of his deceased group still echo and haunt his eardrums as he feels something akin to GUILT creep up in his chest. He couldn't save them. And doubt was sprouting whether or not he'd be able to save himself with every shaky step he takes backwards, desiring nothing but more distance between his wounds and the man who would exacerbate them if given the opportunity.