Slow and Steady: Prologue
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Summary/Details: A new series - featuring an MC who isn’t too on-board with getting taken from their home, placed into another world and thrust into living with demons. A more realistic take on the human exchange student gradually getting accustomed to their new environment - and new housemates - told as scenes taking place in-between major events in the original Obey Me story.
This series comes with a whole bunch of topics, which will be detailed at the start of each one. For this prologue, story parts from the start until Lesson 5 are mentioned. May be a little OOC from the in-game MC dialogue choices.
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No one saw you much in your first, few weeks as human representative in the Devildom. Unless you were at RAD, the only person (who wasn’t your roommate, Beel) to interact with you was Mammon: who had become increasingly, increasingly irritated at your lack of… anything. For once, he had begun to see what Beel was saying, comparing you to a meal. Food didn’t talk, didn’t move, didn’t protest… and you were much the same.
And yet, he’d still drop a tray of food outside your bedroom anyway. After all, he had been scolded by Lucifer each and every time you’d fail to show up to meals with the family. If he didn’t at least pretend to show that he gave a damn about being your caretaker, the Avatar of Greed’s already-meagre allowance would just dwindle further.
It isn’t long until the brothers stop setting your place at the table all together.
Things wouldn’t be that much easier for the demon on the inside, either. Beel tried making friends with you - he did. But he could only do so much when you would cower and flinch at the mere sound of his voice. When you would yelp whenever his mouth - and the sharp fangs within - dared to form the slightest smile. Curious questions turned into brief greetings, turned into necessary statements, eventually turned into curt nods and grunts of acknowledgement. The Avatar of Gluttony gets angry on occasion. He asks how your day was; you say you’re fine, and quickly turn away. He seeks you out at lunch in the RAD cafeteria, and you scurry to eat somewhere alone in the shadows.
But then he thinks of you, and the frighteningly familiar-sounding situation of being ripped away unwillingly from your home to live in a scary, unfamiliar place. He thinks of you, face-to-face with the scary and unfamiliar, during that night in the kitchen when you stared up at him: the monster too close to devouring you.
Then, his anger subsides. A silencing guilt takes its place.
Over time, you slowly show your face around the house. It starts small. You study in silence in the same room as Satan. You ask Levi to help you connect with the House’s Wi-Fi. You even muster up the courage to knock on Lucifer’s door. When it opens, you stammer something about having your place at the table set again, and run away.
You reason with yourself that it was getting annoying having to eat cold meals. Waiting for Mammon to leave your front door alone usually took a long time.
Slow and steady… you make friends with each of the brothers - the scary, terrifying, oddly-loveable demons - living under the same roof as you.
After all, you had no choice but to spend a year in this place. You may as well make the most of it.
And your new housemates… you’d come to find aren’t so bad, after all.
(new series! this is one i’ve wanted to do for a while, since i’ve been seeing a few posts of people talking about how quickly we accept being an exchange student, how quickly we forgive belphie, how quickly we’re basically okay with all the wild stuff that happens in this wacky game lol. so i plan to write a few scenes in between major plot points which basically show how long/how difficult it is for mc to process the aftermath of them. some will defo be angst - but i am hoping for some fluffy parts since i do want it to eventually lead to the closeness mc has with the family by the end of the story! stay tuned!)
