#seulgi008

[marshmallowprotection]

What do you think it would look like for an MC to complete Ray's route in a platonic way? Do you think its possible to do it and still have Saeran be happy? (Maybe he realizes he likes the ideal more than the reality?) I love Saeran's route so far because no one dies, Saeran chose to get away from Magenta and he looks so happy, and the issue with the Choi twins father is finally resolved. And i feel like there defintely is some way to spin it platonically--you can hug instead of kiss ray, for example. idk. do you think it can work? (personally--very personally, i prefer saeyoung but his ending leaves so many people unhappy--plus v is dead : ( )

I think it’s possible. You don’t have to be romantically in love with someone to be close to them or mean a lot. Friendship is nothing to scoff at or shake your head to. It’s something that Saeran has never had before and honestly, it would be a very natural progression for him to start with a friend instead of rushing into a relationship. 

You don’t have to kiss him. Honestly, if you take out the kisses that happen in the route and just add a sprinkling of fewer romantic words, you could read into it as a friendship path if you wanted. There’s a lot of caring for another person in this and that’s all that means. 

Saeran has never had a friend before. If you’re his first friend, then he’s done something that he’s never been able to do before and you show him that he can start over and change. You don’t have to be in love with him to want to help him or to stand by him. He cares about you greatly and he would be happy to have a friendship. One where someone holds his hand and tells him that it’s okay to be hurt over what happened and that he has a right to find and chose his happiness for himself. 

Not much would change, really. I think so much of the route already has elements where you reach out to both Saeran and Ray in the hope to be close to them and the hope to be friends. He would still be happy. Romantic love is not the only love in this world. Familial love is real love. The platonic love of a strong friendship is real love. So, yes, I think you can be friends with Saeran and it still works out for him. 

He just wants you close to him, no matter what that means. 

[currentlyprocrastinating]

i'm so excited about Ray's AE I cant stop internally squealing. asdffghjjkllasdffghjkl i dont even know what to do with myself

RIGHT?! I FEEL THE SAME WAY DON'T WORRY

It was 00:30 over here when i saw it and BOY DID I STRUGGLE TO NOT SCREAM OUT LOUD

[dalishious]

Hello, do you happen to know how Cassandra was turned tranquil? Was it through a chantry ritual only without stamping her forehead? Or did she do it to herself, with no external help, through meditation and prayer in her vigil? i thought the vigil was so the spirit wont become corrupted when the person is possessed. can someone actually turn themselves tranquil with sufficient training/meditation only??

The Rite of Tranquility when performed on mages is a forceful thing, and involves branding their foreheads with magic.

“Our forehead is branded with magic, which stills our talent and mind. The process is irreversible, as far as I am aware.”--Tranquil mage at Ostagar

According to Gaider on the dead forums, the brand is part of what severs the mage from the Fade.

Wulfram: Is the brand a necessary part of the process, or just something they do so you can recognize them?Gaider: It's part of the rite, the lyrium being what severs the link to the Fade.

(The fact that’s the Chantry symbol, however? Like stamping property? That is 100% just a choice by the Chantry.)

However, the rite that Cassandra and the others Seekers go through is a wilful act and yeah, part of meditation, which I assume is the difference. The Rite of Tranquility codex entry in DA:I still says that the process involves ‘branding the mind with lyrium,’ but instead of using a literal brand, I suppose there must be something else?

[edgelord-saeran]

Seven: "Aw yeah it's Elly time."

Seven: *sees MC lying face down not moving*

Seven:

[pseudofaux]

Requests are open?! I'm so happy, I've loved your fics from AO3. My favorite is your Kenshin/MC one called Blance. As for prompts... how about something kinda spicy with Edgar Bright, but with a more suspicious, perceptive Alice who gets easily flustered by his more flirty teasing?

Ooooooh, I like this idea! Thank you for reading (Balance has a special place in my heart), and for requesting. 🙇🏻‍♀️ This ended up being safe enough to not really need a cut, I think… but it IS Edgar, so you don’t have to stand very close to smell the spice. I hope you enjoy it!

“Your shape is delightfully curvy,” Edgar sighed, and she startled and looked around the dim shop in alarm.

“Edgar!” she hissed under her breath. “We’re in public!” Too wary to even chance addressing that he had been talking about her, she left it at that.

In the corner of her eye she could see that he blinked several times, the picture of innocent confusion (save the keenness she was learning to watch for in his eyes). “What do you mean?” he asked softly.

“You—!” She glanced around once more and then leaned closer to whisper, “You know it’s not appropriate to say that kind of thing!” She straightened immediately, nervous they would offend other shoppers.

Edgar’s smile widened and she knew he had danced her backwards right into some snare. “Alice,” he said, affecting saintly patience, “I can’t see why it wouldn’t be appropriate to talk about candy in a candy store.” He tilted his palm toward her, revealing a single jellybean, and then popped in his mouth with great cheer.

He always had something! She whirled away from his overamused face and tried not to huff as she walked to a table crowned with a stand of sugared candy fruit slices, skewered on thin canes radiating out from the display. The fruits looked like pieces of glass, and she appreciated their beauty as she set to paying the Jack of Hearts no further mind.

Unfortunately, that meant she missed the sound of his footsteps entirely— or perhaps he walked soundlessly, she wouldn’t put it past him. Either way, she was unprepared for the husky whisper just behind her ear. “What a precious treasure you are,” he said, and it wasn’t only the warmth of his breath that made her gasp. Edgar’s arm reached over her shoulder to pull one of the pretty skewers from the stand. Pleasantly, he asked, “Don’t you think?” as he stepped up beside her to show off the candy before tucking it into his basket.

Still unrecovered from his breath on the back of her ear, all she managed was a nonsense squeak, pitched so high her cheeks went even hotter. She looked down at her feet and realized that whatever was going on between them, her toes would never touch bottom when he was around.

Edgar peered into the empty basket hanging from her elbow.

“Come now,” he said, and then said nothing else for so long her heart lurched and she looked up at him, panicked all over again. His arms were spread wide. “Take what you want, won’t you?” he offered. A hug, or was he gesturing to the contents of the shop? Something else? He was terrible!

His smile reached his eyes, so his expression was honey-sweet all the way through. Maybe he was done having his fun with her. She couldn’t tell which half of her heart to trust: the one that warned her to be wary, or the one that whispered what she really wanted was for him to have all the fun he could. 

[jove-bluh]

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Also, I remember in the prologue that Ray only said for MC to come there so he can install the game. As far as I know, he didn't mention she was staying there for a long period of time. It's very likely then that she didn't bring a change of clothes. This might be why see MC wear one dress the entire route.

This was something I was actually super pissed about in Ray’s route tho???

Like, I think the whole part right here, we - as the MC - should be like scared or something but then Saeran’s all ‘i hate your smell’ and I’m sitting there like Well Shit Three Guesses Why, Nerd Brain and my heart had not a single fear.

Even knowing he’s not really talking about her, like, B.O or something still made me really mad. I like Saeran/Ray tho, it was just this whole thing with him commenting on her smell shot me straight into the fucking sun because guess whose fault it is???? :’D

Mm but yeah, I think she was wearing this black dress in Another Story and only got to change into Rika’s dress in V’s route. Had to remain stinky in Saeran’s route because he got off on it probably (he doesn’t)

[imaginarydaydreams]

Okay so like I just woke up from a nap and I’m still vibrating from writing that fic so I’m also kind of delirious rn I guess you can say this is my morning after regrets lol but I just want to address two things:

Thank you so much for reading that hell fic?? The joke stems from when this fic was an idea--a friend and I said that Seven would be the type to read MC’s embarrassing fanfics to his kids, and made the joke that Jumin would strangely like it and ask if she wanted to publish it. I agree with you though; there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the Squid Fic from a writing standpoint. In fact, I still consider it one of my best, if not THE BEST, writing I have ever done. Why I wrote this fic is as a joke and response, especially since the prospect of writing a Squidward x Reader once made me hella embarrassed but I now look at that fic as a badge of honor that I made people feeling things about Squidward Tentacles. 

I AM SO SORRY YOU THOUGHT THAT OH MY GOD. Please let it be known that the phrasing was an inside joke for me because I literally can’t bring myself to write anything hella explicit, but hoo buddy, I could come close. I left it ambiguous as a means to tease people (the original draft had the sentence “furiously typing away at the keyboard” but I changed it to sound dirtier I’m so sorry). That being said, I love Seven with my life and would never ruin his character like that. I fully believe in constant consent and the like, so please never think that he, or I for that matter, would ever do something as terrible as that. 

Also, most of that fic is based on my experience for writing the Squid Fic. Which is why MC has the big headache, doesn’t remember anything, etc. It’s because the Squid Fic was written/finished in the wee hours of dawn, running on sleep deprivation, and once it was finished, I passed tf out and had no recollection of what happened that night or even that I posted the story until the next day.  Anyways, all of that rambling done, thank you so much for reading, and I hope you have a wonderful day/evening! 

[marshmallowprotection]

Have you ever watched the movie 'Life is Beautiful' ? Its a movie set aroung World War II. I ask about this because the protagonist reminds me a lot of Saeyoung. If Saeyoung lived in World War II I think he would react in a similar way. You see, in the movie a lot of bad stuff happens, but each time, he approaches things with such good humor, that the situation ends up not feeling so horrible and you catch a bit of the humor in the situation. And the way he romances his love interest, with jokes and he's like Gomez with Morticia in how he worships her and calls her the Italian word for Princess. And the way he protects his family!!! Reminds me of Saeyoung so much it makes me cry! If you havent seen it, I defintely reccomend it! Theres a trailer on youtube if ur curious as well. And if you have any movies or srories with a character like saeyoung or saeran feel free to mention it here!

I haven’t seen it but that’s very delightful. It’s hard to say, though, I’m inspired by a lot of different movies and things that I’ve read. I tend to use Ghibli crossovers quite a bit. I think Saeyoung and his MC would be great in Kiki’s Delivery Service, and I project too much but I like Saeran and his MC in Whisper of the Heart. I can’t really think about anything else at the moment but I love to see when someone is inspired by something enough to make an AU where their favorite characters are being goofy. 

I think we’d all love to see Saeyoung dote on his MC like Gomez does with Morticia. Y’all just want the body kisses.