Tifa

Writer and Professional Daydreamer || Currently writing Sadeans IF and so much more :,D.

[tifa-writes]

DEMO

Sadeans: A Dark Urban-Fantasy Interactive Novel

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The zylox have plagued humanity for as long as anyone can remember.

They’re the stuff of nightmares. The monsters you tell your kids about to scare them into good behavior. The center of everyone’s darkest fears.

And now, they’re a bigger threat than ever.

Zylox (zy•low) are sadistic monsters that feed on human pain. They’re formidable, with superhuman strength, speed, and agility. They torture indiscriminately, kidnap people in droves, and make up more than half of the crime rate. But recently, they’ve grown cohesive. Coordinated.

Like they’re planning a revolution.

You’re a newly-minted agent at the Zylox Control Corporation—an institute focused on containing the zylox and eradicating all zylox related crimes—and you’ve just been handed your first assignment:

Work with a zylox to infiltrate the most deadliest zylox syndicate to date.

It’s dangerous, deadly, and likely to end in your death.

But you rise to the task.

Sadeans is a dark urban fantasy interactive novel. Features include:

- Customizable character. Choose your character’s gender, appearance, and pronouns. Shape their personality as you play.

- 6 current romance options: 3 guys and 2 girls. You can befriend, romance, or severely enrage any of them.

- Choose your skillset and apply it in combat.

- Fight to stop the Zylox revolution, and uncover groundbreaking secrets about the zylox along the way.

Junit (M, 24)

A captured zylox forced to do the ZCC’s (the Zylox Control Corporation’s) bidding, and your assigned partner. He’s flippant, bubbly, troublesome, and extraordinarily dangerous.

You’ll likely have to keep an eye on him to prevent him from escaping, or, you know, sneaking off to torture some poor soul.

Rion (M, 25):

Cold and quietly sassy strategist. He’s brilliant, calculating, and has a bit of a short fuse. He tends to keep people at an arm’s length, and you’ve never managed to make it past a distantly amicable relationship. But, perhaps that can change.

Aiden: (M, 28)

Your longtime loyal friend who cares deeply for you. He’s your senior agent, and a great recourse. He’s the perfect soldier: strait-laced, by-the-book, and fiercely protective.

Q: (F, 27)

Off-beat, spunky doctor who’s as wacky as she is skilled. Somehow, she always turns on the serious personally like a switch whenever higher-ups are around…

She’s fun and boisterous, but what might you find if you dig a little deeper?

Mermoset (F, 22)

A timid, nervous fellow rookie agent who has low self esteem issues. She seems to harbor a dark past that runs deeper than simple trauma.

Jamie Coleman (M, 24)

Fellow agent who’s sweet, soft-spoken, and determined to do good. As he’s an underdog, it seems your backgrounds are complete opposites: with him having a history of being overlooked and underestimated, and you being an esteemed cadet who everyone always hailed a prodigy.

Still, you may be able to find similarities in the things that matter most.

@interact-if

[interact-if]

BENEDICTUS DEUS

BENEDICTUS DEUS.

GAME

You are a Hollow. You’re powerless. Worthless. Forgotten. You’ve had to make your own place in this world for as long as you’ve known. In the world of Noxaria, strength determines your place, you were born without Vis — the very thing that defines humanity’s worth. It didn’t always used to be this way. And for whatever reason, you’re determined to find out why. Why the Vessels treat the Hollow’s the way they do, why you and your people are constantly vilified, why you are forced to constantly live in shadow. In shadow next to a pit that seems to be calling your name. Uncover the truth about what happened that day. On the day of the Resurrectio. It’s either that, or face your impending doom.

>Find out the truth about what happened that day.

>Play as male, female or non-binary.

>Customise your MC’s appearance, name, motives and personality!

>Play as straight, bisexual or gay.

>Choose one of 6…. 5 romance options!

>F̶̲̈́̈i̴̗͝ń̷͔̿͜d̵̞̠͆̇ ̷͉̔ô̴̥͖̓ṳ̵͋͜t̸̠̠͌͝ ̸̝̀͝w̵̠̲̒h̴̬͆â̶̺̫̊t̴͉͊ ̴͍̜̈́͐i̵̡͉͒s̶̯͗͋ ̷͖̲͠w̸̜̯͠r̴̢̲̂̒o̴̫̝͒n̵̥͒g̵͉͑ ̶͉͒͝w̶̺͝i̷͓̪̚t̶̳͐h̷͕͒ ̴͔̋y̷͇̐ö̶̲̒u̴̳͐.̷̤̎͂ ̷̢̗̾W̶̮̒ͅh̷̡̙͂̚y̵̐̊ͅ ̴̡̰̊ĭ̶̟s̷͕͑͝ ̸̖̹͋̄y̷̩͚̔o̴̰͇͌ū̸͚̓r̷̹̅͘ͅ ̷͓̚s̶͓͋͝a̵̤̯͠ǹ̵̠̟í̴͇͘ţ̶̹̅̈y̵͋͜ ̸̢̧́̉ṡ̶̙̮͋l̵̨̈́͌i̵̼͐͜p̶̜͑p̶̼̄̚ĭ̶͕̭̚n̴͙̱͊̅ģ̶̜̔?̸̞̄̍

  Lucian Alaric: 

Prince of the Sovereign Veil. Also your employer. Distant, intimidating and cold. When he doesn’t think your looking you catch the look in his eyes. Forlorn and lost. His exterior is hard, but once he swears his loyalty to something, he has every intention of fulfilling his duty. Will he let you in?

| You don’t understand why he looks at you with a grief in his eyes. “ “When I am around you, I forget the rest of the world. My duties, My title, my frustration at myself.”

 Solan: 

Your best friend since you can remember. You guys have stuck together through thick and thin. Through starvation and tears. He’s loyal, inquisitive and a tad bit sarcastic. But to you, he’s never been anything but kind. You were raised together, and you can’t imagine another world in which you were not. He would go to great lengths to ensure your safety. Will your bond survive, no matter your actions?

| His eyes are filled with an intense passion when he looks at you. “Just…I’m always here yeah? Always. To the depths of the void and back.”

 Sekhira Aten:

 Protective and guarded. Her determination drives her to do things that may be considered impulsive. Lucian’s right hand woman. Highly dependable and practical. She doesn’t trust easily, your either on her side, or in her way. You challenge everything she has been taught and she’s not used to being challenged. Will she view you as an obstacle, or decide your someone she wants to protect?

|“I don’t trust easily. I don’t forgive easily. But when I choose someone… I don’t abandon them.”

 Zaira Ankh: 

Skittish, defensive and blunt. There is anger there, but it stems from something. And you don’t know what. A constant readiness to fight. She pushes people away before they have the chance to get close, as if distance is the only thing keeping her safe. Eyes always flitting away, her anger masks her fear. Will you show her its okay to trust?

|“I spent years convincing myself I didn’t need anyone. Then you came along and ruined everything.”

 Batin Al-Layl:

 Snarky, manipulative and ready to stab you at any moment. He’s fucking crazy. He’s hunting you, and he makes it clear that your the prey. Relentless. The most important things to him is probably his dagger. He’s methodical yet violent. He is cruel. He is unpredictable. He is someone you should fear. Why don’t you fear him?

|“The problem with chasing something interesting is that eventually you don’t want to catch it. You want to study it.”

[tifa-writes]

Very late update, but I’m pushing the next section’s release back! I’m about 65% done with it, but it’s taking longer than expected :,D!!

So sorry to announce this waay after the original date passed! I’ll announce the new release date once I’m closer to being finished 🫡.

[spies-if]

Hello, may I see your invitation, please? Ah, yes, welcome! Please, leave a note for the happy couple to read on their honeymoon.

And take a seat, the ceremony will start very soon.

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Since the blog has hit the 1000 followers milestone, I've decided to release the demo earlier than planned, as a way to thank you all for your continued support.

PLAY HERE

@interact-if

@if-news-again

[tifa-writes]

UPDATE

After finals, I’d taken a break from writing the IF. Now I’m back in the swing of things and am in variation hell 🫩.

This one scene has so. Many. Damn. Variations. Why did I do this to myself?

Anyhow I’m aiming to release the next part June 30th, fingers crossed 🥹.

[silentstars-if]

DEMO (tba)

'Protocol: Aurora's Hearth', a mission to find a new home for humanity. After careful selection and dedicated research, a crew is assembled to board the Silent Night and seek a new planet to inhabit.

You however are given a different task; to ensure these intruders fail.

So you slip in between their ranks, smiling and laughing while planning their demise. With paranoia, with sabotage, with sweet lies. Whatever it takes until they can't even trust their own shadows.

But be careful, push too much or laugh too loud and their wary gazes, their suspicion might fall on you; then they might begin seeing through the mask

So smile dear—they're watching.

• Decide what kind of creature are you; a parasite that has grown consciousness or a shapeshifter wearing someone else's skin

• Form relationships with the crew members—are you using them or is the bond true? Or do you simply hope they are?

• Sabotage equipment, steal important items, sow distrust—or go against your initial mission and save the crew

• Hide your identity or drop clues of your origins. Maybe, maybe, they won't kill you once all the cards are laid on the table.

(These may e subject to change—either adding or removing)

This work may contain, implied or directly mentioned:

• Death/ murder

• Impersonification/ shapeshifter & parasitism

• Mind alteration

• Weapons/ violence

• Blood, gore and body horror/ mutations

• Cosmic, psychological and existential horror/ dread

• Manipulation

• Paranoia and distrust

• Awful dad jokes

Red | Ryan Campbell

“I don’t laugh to forget—I laugh to remind the stars I haven't”

The steadfast captain of the Silent Night, Red is a self-assured, if rather prideful man. But his pride is not icy arrogance that thinks himself better, but simply the calm and steadiness in every order and every word. His arrival alone seems to help everyone settle, like realising the way to answer a problem, though not quite the answer yet. There are rumours of course; that under his cheer and confidence, you see the weight of loss and pain in his gaze, the way he stares at the stars, as if awaiting some kind of guidance—or perhaps challenging the very cosmos themselves. They also say he had killed a few people, those who threatened not only the ship but other crewmates. A hard decision, but not one he regrets. Afterall, he's the captain—he won't let harm come to his crew nor ship.

Orange | Judah/ Judith Goldman

“O-oh, you're... like me.”

The ship's technician, Orange often works alongside Pink and Red to help maintain the ship. Despite their achievements and skill, they're incredible shy and jumpy, always nervously tugging at their hair and unbearably twitchy when others draw near. While others assume it's just nerves or anxiety, you know better—they're desperately battling for even a scrap of control. You notice it immediately, two beings recognising themselves in the other. But they think you could save each other, that you're an ally that they can turn to. Will you save them from themselves—or will you give them the final push?

Yellow | Anya Nikolai

"Eh, we can either panic—orrrr I make ya some flan?”

The ship's resident cook and muscle. Nobody is really sure what exactly qualified her to be amongst a space-faring group searching for a new home but everyone has longed accepted her presence. She may not be the smartest but her outgoing yet surprisingly easygoing nature, makes her both endearing and intimidating. She'll call you stupid while making you your favourite dish. Against the silence and eerieness of space, Anya provides a sense of normalcy. She's the first to offer a warm hug—and the first to hold you down if you give her reason to.

Green | Nadia/ Aidan 'Sugar' Shadow

"Hehe, what's the matter? You look like you've seen a corpse!"

The bubbly and sweet medic, Sugar is always happy to see you. They love to tag along with others, constantly talking and chatting gleefully. Apparently, Sugar suffered from head trauma due to an accident that led her to scattered memories and airheaded personality. It's honestly a pretty decent explanation for something merely wearing Sugar's skin. Just like Orange, your instincts immediately clocked her as wrong. Will you reveal her deception—or enjoy the chaos you sow together?

Blue | Eros Alder-Sage

"For your own sake—leave me alone"

The grumpy and prickly scientist of the Silent Night, Blue spends most of his time in the labs, experimenting and testing. Since the mission is to find a liveable planet for humanity, he often has to spends hours even days testing the soil while also observing native plant and animal life. Thus when the ship stops in foreign planets, he is usually the first to explore, clipboard and vials and other equipment to gather samples and intel. It's the only time anyone sees the man wearing something other than a scowl, his usually icy demeanour melting and revealing the inquisitive soul underneath. He knew you—or who you claimed to be—so remember to smile.

Purple | Theodore Hunter

"I like people better when I meet them in bodybags"

An abrasive and temperamental man, many tended to avoid Purple like the plague—and he's all too happy with that arrangement, enjoying his own company. But once you get pass his hostility, Theodore is incredibly professional and passionate, considered a prodigy even—unless you're squeamish that is. Purple would spend hour upon hour breaking something apart just to study it; when that focus shifts to a person though, it can be very intense and destabilising, quite literally like being put under a microscope. Despite all his rough edges, he can also be very loyal, borderline possesive once he considers someone his. Just be careful you don't end up the one under his knife.

Pink | Evangeline Rhodes

"...how interesting"

Pink is the Silent Night's unnervingly calm and seemingly detached engineer, unbothered by anything. Funnily enough, she also loves making jokes—it's just her deadpan delivery makes them hard to be treated as such. She is also scarily... silent; not in the shy sense but simply in the way she carries herself, able to fade into the background. So much so she frequently shocks others. It's hard to tell what she's thinking most of the time—apparently she has a condition that made her like that?—her eyes watch everyone like a camera recoding details. You wonder how long she's been watching you—maybe she never stopped.

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@interact-if @if-news-again

[tifa-writes]

junit is so sexy i need more of him i’m gnawing at the gates of my enclosure

LMAOO YESS! I can’t wait for you to see more of him next month 😈

[tifa-writes]

can i ask more about Coleman??? i love an earnest man who's kinda nerdy 🤭

Definitely!! And he’s probably one of the sweetest characters I’ve ever made 🥹.

His first name is Jamie. He’s 25 and a newer agent (he’s been an agent for around a year). It actually took him two years longer than most to to become an agent because he kept failing the physical, but he was extremely determined and is now a very capable agent.

He doesn’t give up easily, and WILL see the good in anyone before the bad. He’s really bad at lying if it’s not for an undercover mission, and will usually elect to tell the truth (you’ll probably know if he’s telling even a white lie to make you feel comfortable).

He’s indeed very earnest and he’s quite socially anxious. Definitely nerds out on stories (webcomics, movie franchises, and books)

Also, I’m now working on his description for the IF intro post! You totally reminded me to!

[tifa-writes]

Q CHARACTER PROFILE

General

Name: Q

Race: Vietnamese

Age: 27

Gender: Woman

Traits

Black wolf cut

Multiple piercings

Sleeve of tattoos

5’6

PINTEREST BOARD INSPO

Personality

Lackadaisical, aloof, blunt, and odd. Type to always speak her mind, even though it rarely makes sense. Obsessed with surgical experimentation. Marches to the beat of her own drum.

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Your in-house primary physician who you’ll meet next update!

[tifa-writes]

JUNIT CHARACTER PROFILE

Traits:

- Tan skin

- Black eyes

- Black hair

Race: Polynesian + Mexican

Species: Zylox

Age: 24

Personality:

Playful, troublesome, flippant, teasing. Morals—what are those?

Presenting your partner!! I have a lot of inspo for Junit on a Pinterest board and I thought I’d share a few!

Art Credit: @_ando_u_ on Twitter an

NOT OFFICIAL ART. Image inspo from my Pinterest board (and I added the black line to the eye in the first artwork to show what his mark looks like).

[lefay-if]

Demo coming this summertide! Thou art Morgan Le Fay, sister to King Arthur, apprentice and student to Merlin the Enchanter... for now.

A great destiny steeped in magic and mystery has been foretold to you, and the unnatural forces of this ancient world are guiding you towards it, whether or not you are willing. Having escaped heartache and woe, you are currently at liberty to enjoy a merry life at the court of Camelot, surrounded by kin and comrades. Raise your little son, learn from your ever-disgruntled warlock mentor, go on fantastical quests and romance the knights of the Round Table, or someone else entirely!

Customize your Lady Morgan's name and appearance, study rituals, raise your skill in different domains of sorcery (warcasting, trickery, divination and more), shape your relationship with your child and much more in this text-based fantasy interactive fiction based around Arthurian legend.

Love interests:

Merlin (m). He's old, prickly, sometimes mean... but less so to you than others, which is gratifying. His study is your sanctuary, his wit your sparring partner. You suspect your tutor is hiding a great many things from you, so pursuing him could be a bad idea. But perhaps you cannot resist an attempt to wiggle your way into his affections.

Sir Kay (m). King Arthur's foster-brother and seneschal of his lands. A behemoth of a man; tall, wide, thickly muscled. He's a brute, but he's carried a torch for you ever since you met him. Whether or not you entertain his affections is of course up to you, but the decision might be easier if only he stopped being so cruel to some of the aspiring knights who should be his protégés.

Sir Gawain (m). The bastard brother to King Lot, who's your sister Morgause's husband... small world. He is Sir Kay's best friend, though the two could not be more different. Fair Gawain is charitable, popular with the men at arms and so charming that he's widely known as the Maidens' Knight. Not that he is without his shortcomings; you would know, given he has somehow become a dear protector and confidant. Perhaps you still want him.

Sir Galahad (m/f*). An upstart knight from a backwards province, he should be fated to obscurity, but possesses strange talents and seems to carry a touch of the divine. Sir Lancelot brought him to court, so impressed was he with the young lad. Maybe you knew him long before he was presented to the Round Table, though. Maybe you've seen him in your dreams. If only Galahad, put off by your witchcraft, didn't hate you to the point of obsession...

Guenevere (f), the golden Queen of Camelot. Your brother's wife. She's the most beautiful woman in Albion, and the most talkative, and perhaps, paradoxically, the loneliest. She desperately wishes for your approval, but with the way she acts sometimes, it's hard not to wonder what else she might be wishing for.

Ninianne (f). The Lady of the Lake, ancient and most powerful fairy in all of Albion. She is the mother of Sir Lancelot, has tested your brother's might and appears to share a complicated history with Merlin. She's a mystery and seems to know much more about you than you can be entirely comfortable with.

Setting: this is not a precise retelling of any particular Arthurian cycle and lots of liberties were taken with the characters. Albion is a highly fictionalized version of/inspired by 13th-14th century England and Brittany.

*literally.

dividers by @/pixopix; artwork is a commission by the wonderful @/theoasiswinds and the blog's header image is an illustration by Mary MacGregor from her 1907 book "Stories of King Arthur's Knights".

curtsying and humbly presenting this to @interact-if

[tifa-writes]

The demo was so lovely to read, Junit already has my heart <3

Good luck with the writing and coding, take care, Tifa!! 💗

Yay!!! Thank you, Opalette 💕💕. I’m so glad Junit has your heart, I love that crazy guy ☺️🙂‍↕️.

And thank you for the luck!! I’ll need it 🥹. Good luck with your own writing and coding 💔.

I can’t wait to read Maze of Sorrows (I’m already super excited for Juno❗️) !!!

[tifa-writes]

oh wow oh wow! i loved the demo so much, very curious to see what happens next! the dynamic between the characters is incredibly fun

thank you for posting this :>

Ahhh thank you so much!!! It makes me extremely happy you enjoyed it :D!!

And I intend to update with at least an hour’s worth of content next month, if all goes well 🤞🏾🤞🏾

[tifa-writes]

Your if has such an interesting setting, unlike anything I’ve really before! Can we get fun facts about the ros 👀

Thank you so much 🥹!!! It’s been really fun to create!

And yes! Fun facts below:

Junit: He loves ice-cream—like is almost unhealthily obsessed with it. His favorite flavors are vanilla and mint chocolate chip, though he rarely ever gets to have ice-cream anymore.

Oh, and he also loves higher registered screams the most. Growls of pain are a close second.

Coleman: He’s adopted! He really has no qualms about it, but his mind does wander to what his birth parents might have been like sometimes. He gets sad about it on rare occasions, but overall, he’s very happy with his family.

Aiden: Is a few symptoms away from having OCD 🤫

Q: Really loves being upside down. If it wasn’t dangerous/unhealthy to be upside down for long periods of time, she’d do it for hours on end.

Mermoset: She really, really, really wants to dye her hair white, but she’s too scared she’ll look bad.

Rion: He used to get bullied in middle school, but he outsmarted them. It got to a point where the bullies were the ones who were shunned for a while, and people didn’t mess with him again.

Also, Coleman is romance-able! I just need to write a good enough intro for him :,).

[tifa-writes]

Ahhh this community is so amazing 😭. Thank you guys for the love!!

While I wait to commission some art of the characters, I might share Pinterest boards of what I imagine them looking like 🙂‍↕️

[sourdough-seal]

a single typo literally has the explosive power of a nuclear bomb like i just read back possibly the most beautiful scene ive ever created feeling so proud of myself ready to start thinking about the nobel prize in literature etc. etc. and then suddenly

“It’s oaky,” he whispered.

it’s oaky. what is this. a wine tasting

[evidently-endless]

so the childhood yearning to live in a fantasy world just never goes away huh