#tw snake bite

[hestia-doll]

Pop quiz!

Guess which of Pyre’s snakes decided that Pomni looked edible, tried to take a bite out of her, bite me instead when I threw out an arm to protect Pomni, and then sent me to the er where I had the get stitches! You will be graded on this.

And for all you guys that are interested by medical stuff, here’s the bite cleaned,

stitched,

and bandaged.

Leave your guesses in the comments!

@evyyy77 @samthelocalshadow @eflower8

[bonefall]

BB!Honeyfern -> Honeysnake

A girl who's gonna be stealing a little more time in BB.

[ID: The Better Bones version of Honeyfern. She is a spiky, golden, blue-eyed cat with a brown mask and stripes. Her torso, paws, and 'boots' are creamy. She is being bitten by an adder, and prepares to bite back]

Clanmew Name: Mlashiff, Mlasis (Mla = Honey + Shiff = Frond, the leaf of a fern) (Mla = Honey + Sis = Serpent, generic term for snakes)

Alignment: ThunderClan

Relations: Parents - Sorreltail, Brackenfur Siblings - Molepaw, Cinderheart, Poppyfrost Ex-Mate - Berrynose Apprentice - Briarlight

Honeyfern stands tall as the strongest, most ambitious kitten in the Brackenfour litter. Through BB!Po3, she is a rising star in ThunderClan, and Hollypaw's rival. Honeyfern's ferocity was only matched by her compassion; in early BB!OotS, she doesn't hesitate to lay her life on the line to attack an adder in defense of Briarkit.

After fighting for several days against one of the worst injuries Clan cats know of, Honeyfern survives, and is bestowed the Honor Title of Honeysnake before even getting her first apprentice.

(One of the first completely uncontroversial choices that Bramblestar makes!)

But, the painful ordeal causes Honeysnake to realize things about her boyfriend, Berrynose. Traits that had once been endearing were suddenly not so cute. Boldness comes across as selfishness. Protectiveness becomes controlling behavior. His 'sense of humor' means he doesn't take things seriously.

If only it could have been so simple to just leave him. No, she never would have guessed that the week she left Berrynose, he would immediately become interested in her sister. Poppyfrost!! What are you doing?! GIRL

With her uncle Thornclaw as deputy and far too busy for an apprentice anyway, it's obvious who Briarkit's mentor must be. The brave cat who saved her life became her guide and best friend, staying by her side through every hardship until her fateful death during the Battle of the True Eclipse (BOTTE).

LOTS more under the cut!

Honeysnake's personality is firm, responsible, and occasionally overly proud of herself. At the same time, she is driven by kindness more than anything else, and would break her own back to lessen the burden on her clanmates. She takes after her dad, Brackenfur, more than any of her siblings!

Because she massively values her own strength and her helpfulness, she can be goaded into overexerting herself and bossing around other cats. She doesn't mean to be pushy, but her heart is so large that she sometimes fails to realize that she's only made things worse. Big sister energy!

She must learn to balance this; a flaw is often a value in excess.

When she was an apprentice, her personality could really clash with Cinderpaw's.

Cinderpaw is very emotional, to the point of instability. Honeypaw couldn't understand that Cinder had to learn to work it out on her own, and sometimes inserted herself into her problems

This would make them both upset, as it wouldn't work and then Honeypaw would scold Cinderpaw for not taking her unsolicited advice.

In spite of all this, they love each other and got closer when they got older. It's ironic that Honey and Poppy would eventually be the ones fighting-- they NEVER fought as kids!

She fell in love with Berrynose after he developed a crush on her. Honey hadn't really thought much about romance before then, but she fell hard.

Berrynose was bold and exciting. She was always the one chasing after other people, finding ways to help everyone except herself. To BE pursued instead felt flattering, even freeing. He could be REALLY mean, yeah... but that was endearing, for a time. It felt like honesty, and it was refreshing that he would just say the things she would hold back to be polite, or diplomatic.

They were getting serious before the snake, which is now shuffled to happen in the first book of BB!OotS

The energy in ThunderClan had been... off, for a while. Since Hollyleaf had revealed the secret of her parentage and vanished, uncle Thornclaw had replaced Squirrelflight as deputy, and Leafpool was demoted as Cleric.

The couple had been discussing kittens and such, something uplifting so things could start to heal and move on.

In hindsight, they were normal adult discussions. In Honeysnake's reflections, something is ironic about how mature Berrynose had been just before the incident. Like he really was growing up, for a while.

Was he truly getting better? Or was that just a side of him she stopped being able to see in the new light? She'll never know.

The fight with the adder is burned into her mind, in extreme detail.

She remembers being cuddled next to Berrynose from the second level of the camp. She remembers the way her stomach dropped when she realized, from her vantage point, that a branch-shaped object under the wall was slithering. How she screamed for Briarkit to get back and bound across the quarry faster than she'd ever moved before.

The snake bit her first, and then she bit it back.

Venom from an adder burns. It quickly spread up her paw and through her arm, searing her veins like fire. She crumpled into a screaming heap next to her dead foe, sending the entire camp into a panic.

Jayfeather, already overwhelmed through being a new Cleric working alone after Leafpool's demotion, having recently been publicly disowned, and still mourning his sister, had to spring into action

And the very first crack that Honey noticed on her mate was how Berrynose threatened Jayfeather. "You'd better save her, if you don't I'LL kill you!"

Jayf didn't even dignify it with a response. She was glad he didn't. She didn't want Jay doing anything but helping her not have burning blood.

An adder bite is one of the deadliest, most painful, difficult injuries to treat across all four Clans. She required round-the-clock care and was in constant pain, for days, without guarantee she would survive.

And Berrynose was unhelpful, to say the least. Even going so far as to wrinkle his nose when Jay chewed up a mouthful of nettle for Honeyfern's treatments.

What she once found funny and endearing wasn't so cute when he couldn't be serious when she wanted him to be.

Leafpool, ex-Cleric, started stepping in to help Jayfeather in the den... against Bramblestar's demotion. Jay had never treated such a serious injury before, the rest of the Clan didn't stop needing treatment

The Clan was already a bit split on the idea of Leafpool not being a Cleric anymore. She's Leafpool Moonpool. She made mistakes-- but what else are the Queen's Rights even for?

Has she not already been punished? And what about Honeyfern, their clanmate, who needed her help right now?

And Bramblestar would NEVER prevent Leafpool from giving an injured cat from getting the proper treatment they need..........

But, of course, Berrynose was more loyal to his mentor than almost anything else. He had concerns about an unholy, codebreaking ex-Cleric attempting to heal his mate, and what it would mean for Bramble to rescind an earlier command.

Honeyfern, obviously, didn't care if StarClan themselves had come down to say Leafpool Bad. She wanted to not suffer and die.

And after monumental effort on the part of two trained cats, the entire Clan doing their part to support her, and Honeyfern's indomitable will to survive, the burning cooled to embers and the pain subsided.

She survived the bite of an adder, killing the beast in the process. An achievement that was so impressive that ThunderClan concluded she MUST be truly blessed.

Bramblestar is stingy when it comes to Honor Titles, but for this? He could not ignore it. The Clan needed a morale boost. She had survived the insurmountable. Everyone had come together over this situation, in a way that they hadn't in many moons.

So, as soon as she could stand for a ceremony, he decreed before their ancestors that the venom had been an anointment (thornclaw came up with that line). From now on, she would be known as Honeysnake, in honor of her survival.

It's rare that cats who are so young receive such Honor Titles, and it immediately boosted her up in status.

Berrynose was jealous of this. Not in a way where he'd say so openly, but in the way he would downplay her Title, not celebrate her achievements, or use it to deflect in conversations.

The breaking point was when the newest crop of apprentices was assigned, and Bramblestar decided that Honeysnake was absolutely ready for her first apprentice.

(Millie's three kits, despite being a little older than Dove and Ivy, were slightly delayed in their apprenticeship so they could all be apprenticed at once)

Hazeltail and Mousewhisker had proven themselves strong and competent, ready for their first apprentices. Mousewhisker was given Bumblepaw, Hazeltail receives Blossompaw.

To make sure there weren't too many young mentors, Birchfall was given Dovepaw, and Brightheart received Ivypaw.

And, lastly, to commemorate her strength and honor how she'd saved this child, Honeysnake was given Briarpaw.

...leaving Berrynose as the only cat of his litter without an apprentice! While Bramblestar, HIS mentor, was leader!!

But instead of being upset with Bramblestar, he felt Honeysnake had taken what he'd been owed.

Maybe some other time, Honey would have tried to comfort him, and make him feel better about it all

But she was DONE. That was ENOUGH coddling! SHE was the one who had gone through all of that, killed an adder and saved Briarpaw, and now he feels so entitled to an apprentice that he's upset with HIS MATE?

Poppyfrost, meanwhile, had been watching the ceremony of the apprentices with a forlorn gaze... and was about to get sucked in.

Without getting into Poppyfrost too much here, her key traits are Curiosity and Avoidance. Setting boundaries has always been difficult for her, or saying no to people. So when Berrynose turned his sights on her following his breakup with her sister...

Poppyfrost felt good. She felt desirable, for the first time since she'd given birth to Jayfeather's secret children. She hadn't shared with anyone how low she'd felt for the past 6 months, and it suddenly felt like there was a light in her life.

From Honeysnake's perspective, though, Berrynose found a whole new way to get into her life through Poppyfrost. Poppy started taking his side, or at the very least, not supporting her sister. Honey couldn't get away from Berry without avoiding Poppy, too. So the fights continued.

But, the most important thing in Honey's life quickly became her apprentice.

Briarpaw was attentive and enthusiastic, a bright little ball of light and hope. Honeysnake had a lot to teach her and she listened eagerly

But Honeysnake couldn't save her when the tree came crashing down.

Briarpaw lost control of her back legs, and it was immediately, widely accepted she would not be able to become a warrior.

As Jayfeather spoke with Littlecloud about how to treat her and give her a good quality of life, picking up the "notes" for Wildfur's old mobility device, Millie started becoming very controlling of her daughter.

At first, Honeysnake tried to give the family space... she didn't know what to do, if it was right to get involved or not.

After all, Millie is Briarpaw's mother. She just wants what's best for her, and Honeysnake wasn't sure how much Briarpaw could do now either. She loves her apprentice, so she didn't want to hurt her, or ruin her family by accident.

But then she started to realize how miserable Briarpaw was becoming. She was always such a joyful kid, so excited to get out there and try everything. A radiant little fireball, eager to fight for her Clan.

Now, she was silent, just letting her mother speak for her, only ever piping up to comfort her own parent.

Her quietness wasn't coming from her injury-- it was coming from how Millie was making her feel like her life was over. Like it would have been better if she died, since it was hurting her mom so much to "see her like this."

One day something hit Honeysnake, like a revelation. "I never stopped being her mentor. It's STILL my job to be there for her!!"

She couldn't completely stop Millie from making Briarlight feel awful. She couldn't prevent Blossompaw from misplacing her anger on her sister. She couldn't make Graystripe do his job as a dad to help his kids.

But Honey could be there for Briarpaw. She could be a safe place to talk, a friend and a mentor, and just get her away from Millie for a few hours a day.

And she was even wise enough now to realize that arguing with Millie directly would only make things worse for the young cat. Everything was for Briarpaw, what SHE needed. How to help her.

Together with Jayfeather, they'd even planned out how to schedule things so that Briarpaw could speak for herself without Millie interjecting.

For Briarpaw, it meant everything. There were people in her corner.

Though she couldn't pass an assessment in the usual way, Bramblestar still allowed Briarlight to get her full name. After all, she, like her mentor, had survived the unthinkable.

Honeysnake had never been so proud of anything in her whole life.

And at the end, just before the Battle of the True Eclipse when the Dark Forest was going to attack, they had a final conversation. Watching the moon inch closer to the sun, and knowing it may be the last time they ever spoke.

Briarlight said something she'd been holding back for a long time. "I'm sorry I couldn't be the apprentice you deserved..."

It made Honeysnake's belly lurch. After all they'd been through, to hear she was still holding onto a piece of what Millie made her believe was painful. "What...? I didn't save you to make a warrior. I did it because you have a life to live. Brili, I'm your mentor. I'm supposed to deserve you."

It turned out to be exactly what they suspected, the last words they'd ever speak to each other. Honeysnake fought ferociously for the Clans in the BOTTE, reunited with her old rival Hollyleaf and putting her quarrels aside. She meets her fate halfway through the night, in the bloody Second Wave.

Her death fills ThunderClan with sorrow. She's deeply mourned by everyone; her mother, sisters, friends, nespring, Clanmates. But most of all, Briarlight holds her memory close to fill her with strength in the coming years.

Honeysnake's spirit is invoked for fulfilling one's full potential, and making hard, painful choices to reach it. As the generations go on, she's associated with the shed skin of snakes and beetles, and the 'necessity' of putting oneself in danger to help others.

OTHER TRIVIA

SPIKY. I decided to give her Brackenfur's colors with Sorreltail's texture. She's the most intensely-colored of her siblings, BRIGHT golden, hence the name.

She's also got Sorreltail's torso marking going on, and her fuzzy 'dividers.' She got the boots from Brackenfur though.

In BB, she has Sweetness Tolerance! Ironically enough, she is able to taste and enjoy honey... and boy does she like her sauces.

Her favorite food is honey-glazed bacon, meat strips cut from the belly of a boar. A rare treat but a delicious one. She likes to eat the whole thing like a noodle, chewing it upwards and not using her paws at all.

As a kit, Brackenfur used to tell her to mind her manners. She had a bad habit of eating things without using her paws, because she likes sauce but not getting it on her beans.

She had her eyes on deputyship from a young age. She wanted to be just like her dad.

Losing him was rough. It was even harder when Bramblestar took power just a few months later, she felt like she should have been seeing her dad making the announcements...

But, she stayed strong, especially for her siblings who seemed to be taking it even worse.

Canon doesn't mention what sort of snake bit her, but BB takes place in northern England and the only venomous snakes there are ADDERS babey!!

I drew a girl adder on purpose because something felt very funny about this. here I go pitting two bad bitches against each other. diversity win! The wild animal that tries to eat a baby is a girl!

ADDERFACT: A female Vipera Berus is brown, a male is black and white, but their color can vary immensely.

Bramblestar is a terrible namer. Honeysnake, Mlasis, is a fine name, but he chose the generic term for all serpents (sis) instead of an adder specifically (sipya). In his head it sounded more honorable.

But! It's not the worst!

"Honeyfern" was given by Firestar, and intended to be a nod to her rivalry with Hollyleaf! Hollyleaf's suffix referred to the leaves of most trees, and Honeyfern's to the leaves of ferns.

Both them were named after Brackenfur, who they both looked up to. Brackens are a type of fern, and Firestar wanted to invoke a plant for the names of both cats.

Because Honeyfern was named first and also Brackenfur's child, she got the word for fern leaves.

Of course *Holly*leaf was already named after a plant... but no one ever said Firestar was a FANTASTIC namer either, after all, he's the genius behind "Brambleclaw."

Honeysnake's relationship with Poppyfrost was stable at the time of her death, with her two young nespring having been born... but if it was ever going to "improve," who knows.

but they were cordial. At the very least. She would have been involved in the lives of Mole and Cherry.

Unfortunately there's always a lot left unsaid when someone dies so young. She had a whole life in front of her, cut short because of Tigerclaw's ambition.

[baka-monarch]

Snake Bites

Here's my entry for the mcyt g/t collective promt from @bittydragon (original post here)

The prompt: The giant has always been the one to save the tiny whenever they’re in danger, but now the tiny gets the chance to save their giant friend from danger.

(TRIGGER WARNINGS: GETTING ROBBED, KNIFE, SNAKE, SNAKE BITES, VENOM MENTIONS)

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"Blow torching s'mores is a terrible idea" Ranboo poked his head out from where he was hiding in Tubbo's hoodie, the little naga wrapped around his friend's neck loosely as they'd been walking around town shopping for the past few hours.

"But-" Tubbo tried to argue, petting Ranboo's little head with his finger as soon as he saw it.

"You almost burned down a house the last time you made s'mores Tubbo." The small naga argued, and as he tried to glare he found he couldn't as he leaned into where his hair was being ruffled.

"Well, it's not my fault I didn't know metal could be put in a microwave!" The teen tried to argue once more, pausing in his petting only to look down and see Ranboo giving him an unimpressed look.

"You didn't know. After me Tommy, Techno, Phil- practically everyone told you not to?" Ranboo crossed his arms.

"Uhhhhh…." Tubbo tried to think of an answer, but before he could his arm was suddenly grabbed and the human was pulled into an alley. Ranboo was quick to duck down under the fabric of his friend's hoodie as to not be seen, but hated having to hide as someone cut off a yelp from above by slapping a hand over Tubbo's mouth.

"Shut up, and be quiet." The person's voice hissed, and Ranboo could feel his human friend's whimpering from his place around their throat. "Give me your money, and don't call the cops" Tubbo began to shake his head no, but quickly stopped and whimpered once more when they pulled out a knife…

Ranboo saw the knife from peeking out of the hoodie and froze. No… no not Tubbo. Ranboo would never let his larger friend get hurt if he could do anything about it- and he could. He was a Many-Banded Krait after all, he had fangs and venom, Ranboo wasn't completely useless no matter how many times his human friends had been the ones to save him instead at this point. With that thought in mind, Ranboo slithered under Tubbo's hoodie, feeling the teen's larger muscles tensed as he made his way over their chest and down their arm- he preyed that Tubbo wouldn't start giggling as they'd told him many times that this was very ticklish. As soon as Ranboo was looking out of the sleeve he wanted to bite this guy immediately as he saw how tightly they were holding Tubbo's wrists.

Not yet… he reminded himself. If this were to work he would need to go somewhere more lethal, he didn't have very strong poison, it was just enough to make someone become very itchy- but in the right place it should scare this person into leaving. So, Ranboo stealer his nerves and started to slither up the guy's arm, trying his best to not squeeze the fabric of their shirt too hard so they wouldn't notice him yet.

"What's wrong with you! Hand it over all ready!!" As the guy yelled Tubbo flinched. He was trying his best to not look at Ranboo. He didn't know what his smaller friend was doing, but whatever it was he didn't want this guy to find them… "Hey look at me!!" They shook Tubbo, making the teen whimper.

Oh Ranboo was going to bite this guy so hard. Ranboo finished slithering his way up to their neck, he hadn't done this in so long after not needing to hunt since he ate human food with Tubbo and Tommy- but right now, he wasn't about to let his unarmed friend get stabbed. Ranboo found a vein and bit down.

The reaction was almost instantaneous. The guy screamed and Ranboo was promptly grabbed into a fist and painfully ripped off of their neck and thrown at Tubbo, who caught the naga easily. "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!?" As the man screamed Tubbo seemed to snap out of his moment of fear and put on a mask of confidence.

"This is my friend, a venous naga." The human teen smirked and gently wrapped Ranboo around his arm, he'd have to get the first aid kit out later seeing as Ranboo was already flinching in pain from where they'd been grabbed. "I'd advise you go to a doctor."

"What the fuck!?" The guy backed away, suddenly scared now, his wide eyes watching Ranboo as if the small naga wasn't already going limp after having been grabbed and pulled so roughly. "F- fuck you and you're weird pet!" With that the guy ran off, leaving Tubbo alone to worry about this bi-colored friend.

"Boo, are you okay?" Tubbo asked, his mask falling as he gave the naga a worried look.

"Maybe a bit bruised.." Ranboo winced, putting his full weight onto Tubbo's arm, not feeling strong enough to hold himself up right now. "But otherwise f-fine…"

"Alright…" Tubbo held Ranboo to his chest. "I'll text Wilbur to come pick us up so we can get home faster.." the human pet Ranboo's head, getting a lazy smile in return. "That was very brave of you Boo"

"Of course I had to protect you Tubs…" Ranboo relaxed into the petting he felt and let his eyes close. Happy that his Tubbo was safe.

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[de-vile]

Ok I've got this really weird intrumoceit (is that what it's called?) AU just bear with me also sorry it's long I just NEED to get this out here.

Ok so Janus is a face stealing demon that sustains life by consuming the souls of people who have fallen in love with him. He gains the ability to wear the body of whoever he consumes. If he doesn't consume a new soul every century or so, he dies like a regular human and returns to hell. You get it.

So he basically floats through history wining and seducing innocent people and getting them to fall in love with him. He doesn't care about ANY of them. He's just here to c o n s u me.

So we hit the 1850s. Not sure where. He's wearing a face he's worn for a while and is looking for some fresh flesh to wear. He meets this dashing happy young fellow one night. He's really cute, has a great personality. He's got a weird thing for snakes and he's blind in one eye. He's in his late 20s maybe early 30s roughly.

Janus is perplexed by this man. He's dirt poor, blind as bat in one eye, has the most unruly, curly hair he's ever seen on a human and sOMEHOW he stuffs it under this bowler hat he's constantly wearing, and hes kind've a fool. Regardless, they fall in love. Now Janus is expecting this to end just like every other relationship has. The only problem; is that he genuinely loves this guy. Real love. The last time he experienced this kind of love was when he was angel.

This guy on the other hand has no clue that his dearly beloved is a soul sucking demon who is out to get him.

Janus tries everything he can to get rid of this guy because he doesn't want to hurt him. He's a demon. Even if he doesn't eat his soul, he can imagine that hanging around a demon is bad news.

The cute guy is persistent however and refuses to leave him alone.

One day however, the man comes running to Janus, blood searing out of his arm and he's howling in pain. Janus naturally goes to his side to see what's wrong. A very very poisonous snake had but him in the arm and left a fatal wound. Janus, being an occult being, had absolutely no way of saving him or magically healing him. His love was dying in his arms and he was so so scared and Janus only knew to do one thing. So then when his love looked at him and asked, tears in his eyes "am I going to die?" Janus said "oh my dear... You'll live forever tonight..." And took his soul.

The love of his life dies in his arms and learns that soul sucking demons can in fact cry. When he opens his eyes he sees that his own body had changed to that of his lover's and it crushes him. He doesn't want to wear this body. He feels.. Wrong. As wrong as a demon can feel.

He can't seem to bring himself to change his form. Like he's afraid that if he changes, he'll lose him forever. So, he never changes his form ever again. He is not blind in one eye however, instead his own slitted yellow eye peers out from one of the eye sockets. A painful reminder of what he'd done.

Shoot forward two centuries and a few decades. Janus hasn't changed his form, aside from using a small illusion to make his eye look normal. He meets a strange and.... Eccentric, individual in a club. His name is Remus. Remus could be described as Garbage Couture meets high goth fashion. Janus was almost convinced he was another demon just by how bad he smelled.

Janus and Remus seem to hit it off. Janus can sense Remus's infatuation, and realises that Remus would probably be his next target. Then roles up this lil soft boi out of nowhere wearing brown slacks and a cardigan. He hugs Remus and kisses his cheek, to which Remus proudly announces, "Janus! This is my boyfriend! Patton!"

Oh great. Janus can only smile. This Remus character is a cheating scumbag. Immaculate. He'll have to problem tearing out his soul.

So Janus spends the next couple weeks hanging around this couple. They live in a cutesey two bedroom apartment in the city. Janus hasn't really... Lived in human community before. So you'd imagine his surprise when this cute couple invited him to move in to their home.

For whatever reason, he agreed.

So he's living in this apartment with these two humans and things are pretty nice. For humans, these two were pretty neat. He genuinely enjoys their company. Remus is a character and Janus enjoys Patton's innocence, which is strange to him considering he normally dislikes it.

He finds himself sensing infatuation from Patton. Great. Patton is another cheating scumbag who will be-

Wait. He's never consumed two souls at once...?

This worries him. He's never felt true love from two humans at once before. Can he even consume two souls at once? What's stopping him?

One night, they're all hanging out in the apartment. Remus is going on and on about this project him and his brother are doing, Patton is baking (and failing miserably. Janus was there for the invention of puff pastries and he's pretty sure that's not how you make them) and Janus is reading some strange human book Remus gave him about, ironically, demons. He raises an eyebrow at the crudely drawn portrait of him drawn in the book. Yeesh you'd think they'd at least try to get his wicked and awful true form correct. Gotta know the anatomy before you can break it.

. Janus finds himself enjoying their presence more than normal. He enjoys it a little too much. This feeling is familiar.

He's getting attached. Again. For the first time since....

Then, out of nowhere, Remus asks "are you a demon?" And Janus straight up drops the book. The only people that have really asked that are priests who accused him of various things and occasionally witches who calles upon him for some stupid reason.

Janus asks him why he asked, to which Remus replies "cause the other night when you were using the shower you left the door cracked and I could have swore one of your eyes was all weird and snakey."

Janus could have taken this idiot's soul right then and there. He felt so awkward being put on the spot. How absurd, a demon being nervous at the hands of a human.

Janus laughs it off and tells him he was seeing things.

They forget about this event.

Then, weeks down the line, Remus and Patton have asked Janus to dinner with him. Why? He doesn't know. He agrees to show up, while trying to figure out how he's gonna explain why he's not eating. None the less, he goes.

They ask him to be their boyfriend. Their boyfriend.

Janus is fucking shook to his core. This sort of thing had only happened a few times in his life. Even then, he only found himself taking one of their souls... And leaving the others in agony over their loss.

He figures he can't pass up on offer like this. So he agrees. Two souls for the price of one in a way.

Soon they're all sleeping in the same room. Soon they're moving into a bigger house. Soon... They're married.

Janus can feel himself getting weaker. It's been far too long. He can't pick who to take for some reason. Patton for his innocence, or Remus for his taste in darker matters. It pains him every time he thinks about. One night while looking in the mirror at the face of his lover, he comes to terms with what the problem is. He loves them, just like he loved him. Janus wept. This was God's punishment for defecting.

He decides that he's just gonna go. Not gonna say a word. Just gonna leave.

So the next morning on his way to work (which isn't really work. He just disappears for 8 hours and comes back with cash he... Acquired from... Somewhere...)

As he's walking out the door, he gets a strong hug from Remus and a soft kiss on the cheek from Patton, who tell him that they love him and they'll see him later.

He can't do it. He can't lose these fleshy morons he's grown so attached too. He can't go through that pain again. He throws his arms around Remus and Patton and tells them he loves them too.

So he stays. He avoids the temptation and his demonic nature. He takes lets out pent up energy by being a general nuisance and haunting the rude, homophobic neighbors next door.

At some point, Patton and Remus find out that Janus is a soul eating demon. At first they are very apprehensive. Even Remus is taken back. Patton looks visibly heart broken and betrayed and scared. But sooner or later it all kinda makes sense. Why Janus doesn't eat normal food and why he refuses to step any where near a church. They even get a good laugh out of it when Janus says "hey yeah I thought you two were gonna cheat on each other with me". Patton is brought to visible tears one night when Janus explained why he has these two massive snake bite wounds on his arm.

Horror movies become waaay less scary because Janus's reactions are super funny. "THAT'S supposed to be a demon????? What are those- are those hOOVES??" Remus has so much fun when Janus makes him float. Patton will give him 'offerings' which are mostly little shiny things and candies and Janus thinks its the most adorable thing.

They eventually get a snake.

But yeah, just Patton and Remus living with their demon boyfriend who loves them too much to eat their souls.

[key-vey]

TW for Snake bite/Blood EDIT: Original Reference Mandatory favourite side character I honestly love Frecklewish because shes kinda got some depth despite being a character in a single book and never being seen again? She isn’t black or white, she’s all shades of grey and I can appreciate that. Her concept was loosely based off female Berus vipers but I ended up straying a little bit from that original design idea. Please don’t copy, trace, steal or repost this. Design is free to use as long as proper credit is given.

[archieved-dtvibez]

Prince George is bitten by a snake one day, fortunately they manage to get the poison out, but he has a high fever and remains in bed, Wilbur visits him every day; and he just stays there and holds his hand; Tommy sometimes accompanies him with Philza, worried too and when George wakes up recovered; the first person he sees is Wilbur

.. 🥺

His room is decorated in flowers of all sorts. All flowers that are blue.. Silks.. Letters.. Everything.

Wilbur gifts him so many things... Gosh. It floods Georges room. So when he wakes.. He sees Wilbur.. And Wilbur is surrounded by white, blue flowers.. Silks.. Curtains.. The sun pouring in from behind.. Gosh... George thinks he has moved on and believes Wilbur is an angel..

[bonefall]

If you do end up postponing Honeyfern's death 'til Battle of the True Eclipse (personally not a fan of this idea, gotta maintain the "anyone can die" vibe I was hooked on in middle school), what long-term effects after surviving a snake bite could Honeyfern expect? Alternatively, how feasable would her canon death be as the impetus for proper Berrynose Development instead of just making him sad for a while? Or is there not enough wiggle room for that?

I mostly don't want Proper Berrynose Development because I love the snotball. How can you not love the guy? He is SUCH a jerk and I love this about him. Never change, Berrynose, never change.

But the long-term effects of Honeyfern surviving the bite of an adder? It depends, but if it was a "survivable" bite, very little! Maybe some permanent nerve pain in the area. If it traveled, organ damage. The bite of an adder causes damage done to the cells it comes in contact with. "Venom-induced necrosis" is the fancy word for it.

In layman's terms, it burns the area it's exposed to like an acid. That's why it's not as serious if it doesn't get injected into a major artery-- it stays in that part of the body and damages it. If it gets into the bloodstream, it's carried to major organs and causes organ damage.

It HURTS though, it hurts and swells and it's VERY painful. Frecklewish being bitten between the eyes would blind her from the swelling. Honeyfern would have a fever and rapid heartbeat for several days.

Don't get me wrong though, an adder bite is a very serious injury, and they're treating this with stinging nettle, not actual antivenom.

[omg-snakes]