this au has an official name now! from now on, this will be tagged as everdawn au!
why everdawn?
it was gonna be “new dawn” at first because, you know, new beginnings and all.. but . everdawn sounds cooler. LMFAO
but you can interpret is as the fact that a new day always comes around wether you like it or not. sort of like moving on? yeag.
anyway thank you all for the support on the initial post i was not expecting it hehe… as a heads up:
this au IS burningvanilla centric, HOWEVER it’s not only about them! it’s a full story revamp and other characters and storylines will be envolved in the future. we hope you enjoy them <3
and.. as a request from me and argus: if you don’t like the ship, or just don’t see them matching or anything, it’s fine, you don’t have to add that to your comment. reading “i don’t ship this, but…” makes us a bit uncomfy. thank you in advance <3
aand it’s my first time making a comic ever… so please excuse little inconsistencies between panels here and there. im trying my best over here
go follow the co-author @altriusargus too! she helps me with the story, the paneling and how the dialogue goes. everyone say thank you argus
In which Tobias, a sex repulsed asexual, deals with being hit on by a very traumatized, very injured, very young-looking vampire.
Note: while Tobias refers to the vampire as a 'child', she was turned at age 19 and has been alive longer than that. She is not a minor; he's just freaked out.
CW: referenced former non-con/NSFWhump, panic attack
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“Stop,” Tobias choked out.
He felt like he’d fallen through the ice on a frozen lake. Shock hit him first, followed swiftly by icy numbness. He staggered back a half-step, hand falling from the vampire’s face. He was frozen, limbs stiff and uncoordinated.
His skin was crawling. She was a child! And she was expecting him to—
What— what the hell—
The girl immediately obeyed. Her body language shifted abruptly, from— temptress? What the hell had she been…?— It shifted back to her usual timid obeisance.
Fuck.
He ran a hand over his face. He—
He couldn’t deal with this.
“Stay there,” he told the girl, and then fled the room.
His limbs were uncoordinated, his eyes unfocused on his surroundings. Through some miracle of muscle memory, he ended up in his study. The smell of ink and leather from the numerous books was grounding.
“What the fuck am I doing,” he muttered quietly.
He was entirely out of his depth. He was a bounty hunter! It wasn’t exactly a job that required being the most in touch with your emotions, meaning that it attracted asshole loners like himself! He didn’t know how to deal with…
With whatever the fuck that had been.
What had that been?
She had been offering herself to him. That much was clear. What he didn’t understand was why. She had been so skittish the day before, flinching away and seeming to lose herself in memories when he even touched her leg.
The image of the dried blood on her inner thighs flashed behind his eyelids.
He breathed slowly and deliberately, reminding himself that he couldn’t go find Emmett Harding and punch him in the face. Not without it causing far more trouble than it was worth.
Besides, Harding might have been the vampire’s last ‘owner’, but he wasn’t her only one. If Tobias was going to punch all of them in the face, he would have a hell of a job tracking them all down first.
Fuck.
Tobias grabbed his journal and pen. If he was going to figure this out, he needed to write things down.
He’d already written up all that had happened on the job, up to and including how the vampire had saved him after Harding’s hired goons wounded him. He started jotting down his notes of the vampire’s behavior since then, using his personal shorthand for privacy.
He wrote down everything he’d noticed, handwriting nearly unreadable as his hands continued to shake. He started with the vampire’s appearance, then her injuries, both old and new. He wrote down how she’d been afraid to have him take the muzzle off, and how she’d expected him to pull her fangs when he finally did.
Could this attempt to throw herself at him something similar?
He frowned down at the paper. He let his thoughts flow onto the page with the ink.
She had been trained, somehow, to act as a pet. He didn’t know what they were, but she had been taught some kind of rules for how she was supposed to act. She had set ideas for what she needed to do and what punishments would come with certain actions.
Something she had done would have merited her fangs being pulled, with her former owners. Maybe it was that she had drunk his blood? He’d been a little more focused on how she had saved his life in the process, but he doubted that would have been allowed. She’d also taken off the muzzle to do it, and put it back on afterwards.
Whatever the reason, she had expected him to pull her fangs. Maybe this… attempt at seduction, for lack of a better description, was something similar?
He re-read what he’d written, trying to make sense of it all.
She had little mannerisms he didn’t understand.Things like offering her hands for him to bind, kneeling and making herself vulnerable when she thought she’d done something wrong, offering up her fangs for him to pull.
It was like she was following a script, written out by whoever had hurt her again and again and again. She had things linked in her mind as cause and effect. If she acted out, she got punished. If she behaved, she got… less harsh treatment, he supposed? She played one part, and expected him to play another.
The problem was, Tobias wasn’t reading from the same script. It was clear how confused she was by his actions, by what he considered to be basic human decency, that she was expecting something entirely different.
Something in their interactions had made her think she needed to do… that. Made her think that she was required to offer herself up to him as payment. The idea was horrific. Could she really have been subjected to such horrors for so long that it was what she considered normal?
It was somehow still a better option than thinking that she honestly expected him to—
Just thinking about it too hard was making him feel nauseated. The idea that he would take advantage of someone so injured and vulnerable, so young?
Did she honestly think he was that kind of man?
He shook his head. This wasn’t about him.
He put away the pen and closed his journal. No matter what the reason was, he had a person who expected horrific things to happen to them. Who was willing to offer up her body as payment, as a sacrifice to appease him.
Which meant it was now his responsibility to explain that he didn’t want that. He had to make her understand that she didn’t need to do such things with him.
It suddenly occurred to him that he’d left her alone. He’d left the traumatized, frightened vampire alone after reacting badly to something she’d done.
Sorry, no specific attacks, I thought about it and didn't get any idea for a move that really fits her.
I have a backstory instead:
This is the same version of Undine that was already in the No Yandere Sim AU, she got isekaid into this world when the big bomb exploded the entire school at the end. Just a normal day at school for her and then - BANG - she feels disoriented for a moment as she wakes up in a gate. Crowley opens the gate and tells her that the Dark Mirror summoned her here for a reason, to become one of his magical people!
It takes a while for Undine to understand what happened to her and everyone else at the school, as well as that she is in a different world now, where her family and friends don't exist. She is naturally furious at whoever killed her and lots of innocent people with that bomb! If she ever finds that villain, she will get revenge justice will be served.
Soon, Undine comes across a group of her classmates from the previous world. She runs up to them and tells them that she is happy they survived the bomb as well - but they don't know what she is talking about, they don't even recognize her and deny that they went to school with her. Undine has to wonder, if her classmates have lost a part of their memories, or if these people are alternate versions of her classmates, native to this world, and her true classmates are dead after all.
Is she the only one who has gotten isekaid? Is she the only one who remembers another world?
Perhaps that can be her chance to start over with these familar faces. After all, in the previous world Undine has has ruined her own reputation at school by mouthing off about some outdated and cruel points of view. But this time she'll do better! Her plan: "Woke people can't be reasoned with anyways, so I'll just keep my opinions to myself to not upset those sensitive weirdos."
Important: This is a fictional character, not the real me. This is supposed to be an example against hate (and violence). I don't agree with anything politically or legally incorrect and this is not an encouragement or celebration of such behaviour. It is a fictional villain-/antihero-character doing bad things.
Perhaps that way she can get that popularity she always wanted after all! She get's to be a hero like she always wanted as well, it's like living the dream! (If only she still had her friends and family with her! At what a price that dream has come!) And for that power she always wanted... well, Undine just has to figure out what to do with this key! She just has to develop some awesome, powerful, practical, unique signature attacks... yeah, that might take a while and a lot of brainstorming.
Perhaps it will help to see, who the villains are and what they do? Then she can create moves, that counter the enemies on point - wait, aren't those all guys from her old school!? "Why are they even villains?, in the other world they were good students, on the commitee even, really on the right path in life and in no way criminals!"
Undine really has so many questions about what's going on in this world. Among them also how the secret identity thing even works, how people can't recognize her in her magical girl outfit, even though her face is unchanged and on full display. But based on that, choosing her nickname as her magical name shouldn't be a risk...
Skills she still has are basic magic (even without a key) and martial arts. Using that as a starting point, Undine is currently trying to come up with her first attack as an enchanted martial arts move. It's a starting point.
At the same time, she continues to go to school in this world, so that all that studying in the previous world wasn't in vain - she still aims for that graduation.
Feel free to include Undine in your posts for the AU, I give eyeryone officially the permission!
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