Not a request but I had some ideas so I decided to make them into little Headcannons! Hope you all enjoy!
Asra
Because they run warmer they often sleep in silky pants and no top.
He is so touchy in their sleep!! You will never go to bed without him touching you somehow.
If he’s sleeping alone then they won’t move much, maybe shifting occasionally but no more than that.
If you’re going to bed with them however, they’ll end up staying in the same position all night.
When you two are sleeping in the same bed together they like to sleep with their head on your chest, hearing your heartbeat.
Asra doesn’t snore in his sleep at all, but he does occasionally hum!
Julian
He doesn’t like layers at all and this means he’s going to sleep in just his underwear.
This also continues into how many blankets he has, which is just one and it’s pretty thin.
If he’s sleeping alone he has no problem taking up the whole bed. He’ll end up with limbs everywhere and no idea how they got there.
If you’re with him you’ll have to either adjust or figure out a way to get him to relax. He moves almost the exact same amount, somehow avoiding hitting or pushing you most of the time.
Julian runs extremely cold. He likes it cold but he also loves your warmth, and he will touch you will his cold feet/hands in the middle of the night.
Julian does snore but it’s not super loud. His snoring is almost like background noise.
Nadia
Nadia sleeps in a silk nightgown, with short sleeves and that ends near her knees.
She also has a robe to wear over it, which she wears if she needs to get up for any reason.
Nadia runs chilly, though not as cold as Julian nor will she randomly torture you with her cold limbs during the night.
She doesn’t mind who ends up in which role, but she always loves spooning. It’s her favorite way to fall asleep with you.
Nadia doesn’t make any noise in her sleep other than occasional deep breaths.
Muriel
This guy is a personal heater. He still sleeps with pelts due to the forest getting chilly during the night but his hut is always warm and cozy.
Due to how warm he runs he generally sheds some layers ending up in pants and whatever top he’s currently wearing
Muriel always wants to hold you, wants to feel like he’s protecting you even while you both sleep. He also really likes if you face him. He won’t ever verbally express that but the way it flusters him gives it away.
He doesn’t make much noise. Much like Nadia, he might take a deep breath or a heavy exhale. Occasionally, if he’s having a bad dream he might grunt.
Inanna has her own little pile of pelts and pillows next to your bed. Somehow she always worms her way into the bed though…
Portia
Portia sleeps in a sleeveless top and shorts.
She tends to run chilly, but has so many blankets that she gets extremely warm during the night.
She doesn’t care how you two position yourselves for sleep, but she would enjoy getting to hold you!
Portia sleep talks during the night. It’s soft and quiet but definitely there. She’ll be amused if you tell her stories in the morning about what she said.
Pepi can often be found in the bed with you both, near the bottom of the mattress.
Lucio
Somehow this man runs hotter than anyone else on this list. He has no shame in sleeping in just his underwear, even with you around.
Lucio has a robe and thinks it makes him look the royalty role, with its red and gold color scheme he always adores.
He would love to be able to hold you all night but eventually, two bundles of pure white fur end up between you both.
That’s right, the M&M duo aren’t afraid to take what they want even during the night.
Melchior end up on your side, nudging his way into your arms and onto your chest. Mercedes just sits herself on top of Lucio and decides it’s his problem to cope with that.
They’ll push and whine and kick in their sleep. Only if they’re having a very intense dream.
Lucio will snore, grunt, and sleeps insanely light. If you so much as try to leave the bed before dawn he’s snapping his head up asking where you’re going.
Fyi pretty much all of this is very outdated and badly written cause i wrote ithem a long time ago. Some make me cringe but i don't want to delete them lol. 🤍 = Non-Yandere
⟡ Asra Alnazar
Asra with an s/o who loves rain (Headcanons) 🤍
Yandere headcanons
More yandere Asra
Yandere Asra with an s/o who takes a while to warm up to cuddles
Asra comforting you (Drabble) 🤍
Fluffy Asra headcanons 🤍
Yandere Asra during the apprentice's death
Yandere headcanons + au
⟡ Julian Devorak
Yandere headcanons + Nadia
⟡ Nadia satrinava
Yandere headcanons + Julian
⟡ The Devil
“If you weren’t so much trouble, you would make a very entertaining play thing.”
In simplest terms, the good guys are bad and the bad guys are good.
It's Inspired by a fic I found on Ao3 that I can't remember the name or author of unfortunately because I'd love to give proper credit. I tried looking for similar ideas and was surprised to not see a lot of these kinds of AUs. Even if you consider The Arcana fandom to be dying out, there wasn't a whole lot of content like this dating even from back when it was at its most popular. But if fandom spaces have taught me anything, it's to be the change I want to see.
Anyway, here's some notes on it. I tried to organize my throughts but I know it's still kind of messy.
Background/lore/basics: The Red Plague still hit Vesuvia and raged strong on battle fields. The only difference is instead of Lucio making a deal with the Wyrm of Pestilence to gain power which ended up leading to the plague’s release, an unnamed magician had made a deal with the Devil. The exact motives are unclear, with that magician long gone after being one of the first to succumb to the illness.
Lucio, after turning 18, was given more responsibility in his tribe and ended up getting involved in a war between two more powerful nations (Vesuvia and I suppose the second nation doesn’t really matter). This is the battle that lead to his arm being amputated by Doctor Devorak. After which, Vesuvia’s current Count requests Lucio’s presence. They become friends, Lucio slowly steps away from his tribe, and the title of Count is eventually given to Lucio.
Lucio ends up meeting Nadia during the first masquerade Vesuvia ever hosted. Lucio hoped it would be a good way to form bonds with other countries. They got married, and Nadia wanted more power than she was allotted as Countess. After six years of marriage, the Count was found dead in his wing by mysterious (magical) circumstances, leaving Nadia, the widowed Countess, to step up into his role as Vesuvia’s leader.
How characters are different than canon
Nadia Satrivana: Somewhere in the prologue in the game the MC mentions to themselves of rumors of Nadia being a tyrant. Put short, those aren’t rumors here. Nadia is a Satrivana, and one of the many princesses from Prakra. Her mother has a title of ruling one of the largest, most successful nations in history. All her elder sisters either are taking up ruling over domains of their own or finding a calling that sets them a part of one another. Being the youngest, Nadia was left feeling obsolete. There’s such prestige to live up to. She saw marrying Lucio to be a way to get her foot in the door.
She remains authoritative, direct, and strong, but is known to be quick to lose patience. She shows little grace to those who step out of line. She wants the image of a perfect city, even if she isn't improving enough aspects of Vesuvia quickly enough for such an image tobe properly upheld. She's not above fear tactics. She wants her word to be treated as law. Do not mutter under your breath in her presence, roll your eyes, click your tongue, or make it seem like your questioning her too much. She might throw you into the Colosseum to be the next source of entertainment for the nobles, while being the next example for everyone else. If not that, she still loves to be creative...
Asra Alnazar: A little orphan child that found himself to be gifted, and let that power go to his head. He had lost his parents far too young and was left to fend for himself. He was nothing better than a street rat with a few fancy tricks. One day, he met a magician. This magician, fascinated with the potential he showed being so young, gifted Asra Faust's egg and promised to show the kid great spells. This magician happened to be the same one the released the plague, of course Asra knew this individual before they fell I'll. The magician taught Asra magic, and poor morals surrounding it. The better you are at spells, the better you are. Seriously, you begin to rise above people. They begin to sink to be beneath you.
Egotistical is a good word to use. His business is composed of hasty deals made by people who are desperate. It's rumored he owns souls. He doesn't do anything unless he feels like there's something he can get return. Anyone who's heard the story of Lucio's death knows that the Great Magician Asra was involved. It becomes speculation of whether he was the murderer or not.
Lucio (Montag) Morgasson: He had a lot of big dreams and lofty goals. He dreamed of getting out of his tribe with it's more outdated and arguably primitive ways to see the progress through the rest of the world and be a part of that change. His enthusiasm did lead to reckless decisions, poor calls on occasion, and a fumble here or there. After all, he agreed to marry Nadia rather quickly with hopes that would boost his status faster to make work with other countries easier.
He really did have the best of intentions. It's a shame that the light of his future was so bright it blinded him of the present. He never saw his death coming. Now left as a ghost, he can't do anything really. Only Asra has seen his spectral presence lurking around. But that means both Nadia and Julian know he's still around too. It's best for Lucio's sake to stay clear of the magician, lest he gets banished to some, most likely unpleasant, realm. The late Count has been forced to stand by and watch the city he was slowly cultivating for greatness be plowed over and soiled with terror and mistreatment.
Julian (Ilyushka) Devorak: The doctor was so enamored with the plague. Where magic meets science, that's what those bright red beetles were. Yes. While Julian still doesn't care all that much for magic and doubts the fantastical aspects of it, he still sees it as something that can be studied and understood. He's theatrical and insensitive, at least if he doesn't care for you. That's the common denominator between all of Vesuvia's most feared names. If he doesn't like you, if any of them don't like you, just hope they don't acknowledge you. Blending in keeps you safe. Keeps you off the vivisection tables.
He remains loyal, protective, and charismatic. Only here, none of it is an attempt to hide insecurity or direct attention away from self-loathing tendencies. Julian is too emersed in his research and his position as the palace's most highly regarded physician to really reflect on himself. With his status, it seems kind of silly to. Nadia's actions in her position have rubbed off on other people. If you're in her circle, you can be regarded as being like her.
Portia (Pasha) Devorak: Now I'm being so honest, I struggled here. Not because Portia is a precious angel that could do no wrong, but because I struggled with how to make her cruel when her position in the palace is a servant. Nadia still has Portia as a favorite, so the redhead wouldn't have to fear about messing up or having other servants mishaps come back on her. What made most sense was to promote her a tad, not quite making her a courtier, as the tyrant has no court of second opinions that waste time.
She's in charge of all the palace servants. Chefs, maids, gardeners, tailors, you name it. Portia over sees them. From there, the best I could do was make her incredibly morally grey. Portia knows what's around her isn't right. Portia also knows she can't change anything. It may not be right, but things are working for her. She can just choose not to watch fights at the Colosseum. She can choose only to see her brother after he's cleaned himself off from whatever got on him in the palace basements. She can pity the servants or townspeople that found themselves unable to flee, but that hurts so she chooses not to. She can't think of everyone else like vermin yet, but she'll get there. She has to protect her own mind. For now, she just doesn't get involved.
Muriel: He didn't like hurting people as a child. That stayed true at least. When a group of orphans wouldnt leave him alone he was left with little options. They needed him to steal, to confront shop owners while the rest of them got away. He got tired of it and I'd what he had to in order to get them off his back. After that he was aimless. Asra, his good friend, got him a place of higher standing. Nadia still saw Muriel as valuable for his size and strength and put him in charge of the Colosseum. He learned that hurting people wasn't that bad. He's learned to not mind the screams and the killing. It's a dog eat dog world. Do or die. If he wasn't who he was, he could very well be the people he executes. This is for his survival.
He's still terribly reclusive. He gets invited to events often but won't attend unless Asra will be there. He can still count on one hand the people he tolerates. He's still quiet, still ominous, intimidating, scary...
Now on the other hand, the courtiers, were some of the people to help individuals out of Vesuvia when things went bad. They themselves fled after they helped as many as they could.
And I'm sure you're wondering where the MC, the beloved apprentice of Asra, comes into this? Well, if this sounds super cool, I'd be willing to write a fic on this AU. My plans for that would be that the MC, who I'm gonna refer to as (Name) moving forward, would be trying to kick start and lead a rebellion. The courtiers are her support system (I like writing for fem self inserts, that's my preference, that's what I'm gonna do). (Name) takes on a few different aliases to try and gather information from multiple sides. As the rebel leader, she's a thorn in Nadia's side. As the thought-to-be-deceased apprentice of Asra and aid to Doctor Devorak, she haunts the narrative as someone dearly missed, especially since its seems the attempted rivival ritual was unsuccessful (to the eyes of Nadia's circle). And, as the quirkly travelling jester, coming to Vesuvia every now and again on business, even when heavily concealed and disguised, the current nobles of Vesuvia can't help but feel connected. Something is familiar about that jester, who buys up people in unfortunate situations, loves the arts, how they speak of people. No one can put their fingers on it. And when said jester refuses to take off their mask, it can't help but be frustrating.
The six romance options in canon would serve as love interests of course. And since I'm a firm believer we are lacking yandere Arcana content, that would be the trope I dabble with.
There would be dark themes to expect if course. If I actually sit down to write this I'll be able to come up with a proper list.
Anyway, this is cool beans right? Maybe even a little awesome sauce?
I have been one of the BIGGEST Nadia Satrinava stans since back when Nix Hydra owned it, but as I replay my beloved wife’s route, so much of her route has been rewritten to the point that it’s like they emotionally lobotomized her! She doesn’t grab you and hold you at Vlastomil’s Estate, and she isn’t enraged at all after finding out Portia lied to her about not being able to read, and sent that letter, inviting Nasmira to the palace.
Dorian, you sorry fucks, GIVE MY WIFE’S EMOTIONS BACK!!!!
