VIS ATTRAHENDI! - ✧

"Bookworms are very cool. In fact, there's nothing cooler than being smart and looking good with books. Like me!" klug of puyo puyo / affiliated with isola radiale

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Event: Maskerade Festival - Info

NO COSTUME

It’ll take Klug a bit to talk himself into putting on a costume. Though he’s very curious about the candies and their magic, he thinks the festivities are silly.

This is the best state for him to react to others in costume, however

He’s practically a magnet pulled towards characters with power and strong magic. He’ll also have interest in those who have become something darker or infernal. It’s a good opportunity to make a first impression--and to mess with someone easy to manipulate

On the lighter end of things, Klug is used to bizarre and nonsensical things happening around him on a regular basis. This does not mean he likes it. He will not be amused by shenanigans, meaning he’s perfect to get dragged into shenanigans.

GENIUS KNIGHT

Fine, you got him. He took the dang candy after getting together a costume resembling his Genius Knight alt in Quest.

He has magic back!...Kind of. Most of it just looks flashy, though he can do a Zelda-style sword beam five times a day.

Also yes he has a real sword dear god help us all

Thankfully, he did gain some basic swordfighting knowledge from the costume, so he probably won’t fall on the thing.

His personality doesn’t change very much in this state, but his confidence appears to run slightly deeper than surface level now, and he’s much less cowardly, prone to throwing himself into danger to ‘prove’ himself, fighting ‘monsters’ including others ‘in character’. Heck, he might even be brave/stupid enough to go to the Mistwood! Siege the castle! Get treasure! Slay the dragon! Probably get killed by the dragon when he runs out of sword beams!

He also is extremely prone to leaning on knight-in-shining-armor and even occasional magical girl/sparkly anime-style tropes and stereotypes.

SPARKLING DARK MAGE

After the previous escapades, Klug wants to try out something a little more interesting. It’ll probably be fine!

This costume is more based on the Sparkling Klug alt in Quest, but without the book and a few shades darker (though no less sparkly and gaudy).

...and he decided putting devil horns and vampire fangs on it was a good idea, just as a test. While that didn’t make him either of these things outright, it did lead to more mental change than the first time--and certainly more than he expected.

To put it bluntly, Klug has totally lost himself to the role of a melodramatic card-carrying villain. His behavior is somewhere between his normal self but evil and a little closer to Strange Klug’s more refined, calm personality than he’d like to think about afterward. Basically he’s impish and likes to cause trouble and inconvenience, but acts the part of a grandiose dark sorcerer when confronted, and talks a big game.

He still kind of looks like a poser and doesn’t have much more power than he did before, aside from some very minor illusory and otherwise aesthetic magic (create sparkling visual illusions no larger than a three-foot cube lasting up to five minutes, five times a day).

As time goes on, he’ll sink deeper and deeper into the role, to the point where he might forget about the costume and candies entirely!

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[[ I made a post about my situation here, but tl;dr I’m going to get activity checked. I do plan to reapp, but my threads are all from at least Halloween and I’m not sure how many people want to continue them.

So! I’ve gathered up all of the threads I owe responses to and am going to @ the people involved so I can get this done in one fell swoop. If you wouldn’t mind, if you’re mentioned, please like this if you’re interested in continuing the thread? I was just going to list Halloween ones, but there are a lot fewer that I’m the next reply on than I thought. ]]

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[[ I made a post about my situation here, but tl;dr I’m going to get activity checked. I do plan to reapp, but my threads are all from at least Halloween and I’m not sure how many people want to continue them.

So! I’ve gathered up all of the threads I owe responses to and am going to @ the people involved so I can get this done in one fell swoop. If you wouldn’t mind, if you’re mentioned, please like this if you’re interested in continuing the thread? I was just going to list Halloween ones, but there are a lot fewer that I’m the next reply on than I thought. ]]

@dimittere @thetruename @lavadunker @onethunderthrow @inaydoshi​ @temperedwithgods​ @homunculusrune​

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[[ Hey guys. I only intended to be gone for about the first week or so of November for reasons that should be obvious, buuuuut stuff happened and I’m going to get activity checked. I just wanted to give an update to those who aren’t following me elsewhere, and get it out there that I’m definitely going to reapp Klug--I’m not done with him yet, and PPT2 is only nine days away.

Most of my current threads are from Halloween or the event, so I’m going to gather them up and make a separate post in a bit asking if folks will want to continue those once I’m back.

As for an explanation, (slightly heavy stuff beyond this point) I’ve been gone because my grandfather, who I’m very close to, has been actively in the process of passing away for the last two weeks or so, and dealing with that with extended family here and a painfully strong sense of empathy has been basically doing the equivalent of kicking my mental health like a can down the road. Since we still aren’t done and dusted with it all yet, I’m still probably not gonna be around for a while. Which sucks, because I really want to write.

I’m occasionally on Twitter, and if we’re mutuals there, you can probably ask for my Discord. Look out for the post about threads and I’ll see y’all on the other side. ]]

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HEWWO FEWWOW CITIZENS OF SPIWAWE.

IT IS I, THE GWEAT MAGICIAN--

KWUG.

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smartdwarf​:

📚 Dortin smiles timidly. He certainly does tend to get nervous easily around other people, and this person’s behavior is really not helping it. Actually, they remind him of himself a lot. Not just in behavior, but also in appearance. …just the height is off, but well, he’s a dwarf after all.

He follows their eyes to his books next to him, and the prospect of talking about the books is exciting him a bit. “Oh. Well… the first two are very old dwarven books. One is telling the whole dwarven history, the other is an inscriptions about monsters and animals all over Masmaturia. I mean, I’ve read these books before, but that’s a while ago actually. The third is in a foreign language called french. I hope to be able to translate a few passages from it over the weekend to figure out what it is about. You she, the great library has books from various worlds actually.” He… didn’t mention that already before, did he? No, no he didn’t. The mention of the stars prompts him to ramble a warning.

“You’ll only waste your time if you look for the stars, though. The books here have no further information about them written down here, unfortunately. I’m not the only one who’s been searching. Ah… as for magic, though? There are magical books in the library, but I can’t confirm whether they’re of use or not, because I’m a dwarf and dwarves can’t utilize magic where I come from—” He tends to ramble when he gets nervous, which in turn just makes him… a little fidgety now as well. What now? Ask them to sit down next to him? Or just lead them back to the library?  …the latter is probably more what they’re actually asking for here.

“Uhm actually… I can lead you to the library. I’m off today, anyway.” He quickly puts his books back into his worn leather bag and gets up from the bench with a little hop.

To be fair, Klug isn’t so much asking for anything as he is curious, but he certainly isn’t going to say no to an offer like that, and brightens up considerably. “Excellent!” He claps his hands--or, well, he claps one hand, as he’s still holding his own book in the other, but it’s the same basic principle.

“I would be very interested in seeing it for myself.” He clasps his hands in front of him, the book between them and rocking on his heels. He’ll follow if Dortin starts moving.

“A dwarf, you say? I don’t think we have those where I’m from.” Really, everything Dortin’s talking about sounds more like something from Arle’s world rather than Klug’s. As far as Klug is concerned, wherever Arle came from sounds much more...out there from what he’s heard. “What do you do here, anyway?”

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pearadough​:

(Event starter for @urusamayoru​!)

No villain can compete with Peridot, no matter how melodramatic they are about it - and no villain can ever compete with Super Peridot. She’s going to show every hero and every villain in this stupid city to never, ever mess with her!

And this so-called “villain” has stolen her look! Purple? Stars?! Wizard?!?! That’s the Nightmare Knight’s whole shtick! She can’t stand for this blatant dark lord/evil sidekick appropriation!

“Hey, loser,” she says as she flies up to someone not even good enough to be her new mortal enemy. “Go home and take that thing off. You look dumb.”

“Excuse me?!”

The would-be illusionist whirls on a heel to get a look at the offender, sizing them up. Under normal conditions, the other’s similar aesthetic might’ve piqued some interest. As it is, he scowls, sweeping his sparkling (much better looking!) cape off to the side with one hand as he adjusts his hat with the other.

“Do you have any idea who you’re talking to?” He gives her a derisive smirk. “The one wearing rabbit ears thinks I look dumb. How quaint.”

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lalaluuz​:

Luz just laughed–a low, growling hiss of a laugh. Klug had been doing this overly dramatic presentation with his sword and costume of choice since they’d teamed up. Luz thought it was a little goofy, sure, but she couldn’t fault him for it.

They were just two different brands of nerd, really. She could respect that.

“I’m holdin’ you to that!” she half-joked–she really would be upset if he didn’t do an even split on the candy. Then she started sniffing again, angling her head this way and that, spinning in place, searching for the stickers’ scent again. “We’ll just have to wait and see who finds the next one, won’t we?”

“Yes, yes, of course,” Klug says with a dismissive wave of a hand. As much as he may not care for sharing, especially sweets, even he has to acknowledge it’s only fair.

Klug glances back to the sword he’d just planted blade-first in the dirt, frowning at it before grabbing onto the sides of the hilt and yanking to try and get it unstuck. It doesn’t budge. Another yank, and this one sends both him and the sword flying backwards. Klug yelps as he falls, bruising both his ego and his rear, before he quickly gets up and dusts himself off as if nothing happened, picking the sword back up.

“A-and yes! We will!” Klug bolts off in the opposite direction; he thinks he might’ve caught a glimpse of something shiny in a tree, but needs to get his sword’s light closer to tell for sure.

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lxnarprophet​:

“I can assure you that I am no ghost,” Waka said, amusement in his tone. “I presume you haven’t ever set eyes on a demon, much less a tengu, have you? Crow tengu are no ghosts, but rather demons where I am from.” A pause. “I should mention that I am no demon, but the candies have made me so. I do not plan to harm anyone.”

It was after he spoke that he noticed the spirit box in the other’s hands. “What a curious device: How does it work, exactly?”

“I--” Klug lowers the box, trying to recover himself. He scoffs, though his shriek from earlier undercuts the casualness of his tone. “Of course I’ve seen demons! They just...don’t look like that where I’m from, that’s all.”

Granted, he isn’t sure what demons do look like in his world, as he’s only really seen two--one who wasn’t even from his world, the other who was essentially a ghost.

...Who he still hasn’t heard from since arriving.

Best not to think about that for now.

The box is a welcome distraction. “Supposedly, this device allows the spectral entity we’re looking for to speak to us in some way. I’m not sure if it’s working properly, though.” He shows it to the tengu, its screen rapidly cycling up and down through numbers. He doesn’t really want to admit that he has no idea how to get the thing to work.

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“This is ridiculous. I don’t know why it’s so important to make a fool out of yourself.”

He’s still in his sparkling wizard getup, though without the additional features that had caused the Ascension Candy to backfire--he is not taking any more of those, thank you very much. He crosses his arms.

“Ah yes, just walk up to somebody’s door and shout ‘trick or treeeeeat’ as if that doesn’t make you sound like a complete loser.”

...Still, he wants more candy. Just how much is his pride worth?

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Can You Fight God?

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“All well and good, but mine was more interesting~”

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Can You Fight God?

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@onethunderthrow​

Klug was about ready to call it quits for the day, just take a descension candy, head home, and go to sleep. Of course, given the current ghouls and ghosts running around, he can’t necessarily do those things in that order. It’s for the best that he keeps his real sword until he’s certain he’s safe--and maybe he kind of likes the confidence it gives him.

There are other things he didn’t like about it, though. He hadn’t managed to have any luck finding candy in the scavenger hunt, and had been chased halfway across Archimedes by some sort of zombie. The one sword beam he’d shot at the offending zombie had managed to break some business’s window and he’d gotten shouted at and humiliated, left quietly stewing as he heads back toward the Golden housing.

Until he comes across the dragon, that is.

Klug quickly darts back around the street corner, taking his crackling sword off his back. Yes, yes--what better way to redeem himself and prove himself as a powerful, brave knight than to slay a rampaging dragon? And right in the middle of a populated ward! They’ll all have to notice! It’s practically what he’d been waiting for since he’d put on the costume!

Klug giggles under his breath, before clearing his throat a couple of times and standing up straight, brandishing his blade as he steps back toward the dragon.

“Halt, foul beast! Your reign of terror ends now! Uhyahyahya!”

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dxrkestmirror​:

Ugh.  He can’t do his normal thing…With a heavy heart, he popped a descension candy to bring himself back to normal.  Though, not much has really changed.  He’s still goth.

Shadow paced infront of Klug, seemingly sizing him up (down, rather.)  ”Sure, keep dreaming…”  He paused before continuing, “But, I suppose you could say something like that…”  He disappeared for a moment, just to reappear behind Klug.

“Boo.”

Klug squints into the infernal darkness, mind racing as he tries to figure out how to fix this. He can’t just run away, but he can’t fight either--he thinks he still has a couple of illusions, but--did he hear a candy wrapper? Wait, where’d the other guy go?

“Ukyaaaaa--!”

He lets out a shrill screech and jumps a surprising distance in the air, before fight or flight kicks in and his costume causes him to pick ‘fight’ for once in his life. That is to say, he flails his arms in front of him in some attempt to strike the shadow he can’t see.

[thetruename]

(Starter for @urusamayoru​!)

If one was to see Chara travelling throughout the city, one would think it was not a child they were staring at. One might even mistake them for something not human. Their shambling gait, their unflinching stare, their wide smile, the knife held at their side… they look almost zombie-like, unflinching and resolute.

But they do not hunger for flesh and brains. They hunger for strength. To grow strong, and to destroy this world, and then to move on to the next.

Unluckily for a certain knight, they are in Chara’s path. They are in Chara’s way. They sense no ill will or mortal sins from them, but… an obstacle is an obstacle. LOVE is LOVE.

Without a moment’s hesitation or warning, they lift their knife at the stranger and strike overhead.

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The would-be knight gets his blade out as soon as he notices the stranger getting near him, but is left merely staring in confusion and nervousness. Is this some sort of zombie? Demon? Surely, he must defeat it! For fame, glory, and the safety of the city! 

But mostly fame and glory!

Clang. He barely manages to get his sword up in time to stop the knife from slicing him, and the blades clash with a surprising impact. Klug jumps back, leveling his sword at the demon as crackling mauve energy surrounds the blade (though it’s purely visual).

“S-stay back! I won’t hesitate to strike you down!”

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lxnarprophet​:

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It didn’t take long for Waka to find the haunted cabin, and it took even less time for him to enter it. Upon doing so, he immediately took note of his surroundings and was left rather unimpressed but it all. This was not a place that would be haunted, at least not to him.

There were, however, many things crawling about with a multitude of legs.

“Look, there are spiders everywhere, so that’s nice.”

“Well, that’d be great if we were looking for spideaaaAAUGH--!”

Klug had been so focused on trying to figure out how the so-called ‘spirit box’ he’d taken worked that he hadn’t actually looked at the person coming in, if it...was a person. He’d been expecting people in costume, but this costume in particular gives him quite a start, and he quickly holds the box out towards the thing as if trying to threaten it.

“A-are you the ghost?” Some of the boldness from his current knight costume returns to him, and he stands up straighter. “You aren’t going to hurt anyone today!”

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lavadunker​:

He frowns slightly at the comment, but… ah, well, not everyone’s into dressing up as other things than themself. Guide shrugs, looking over the bags of things he’s hoarded. “Fair enough. I’m curious about that as well. Perhaps it somehow recognizes the intent of the person who consumed it? I haven’t yet seen anyone actually using them, at least— not that I was aware of, considering their function changes them… and that I still don’t really know the range of species here… I suppose that’s why you experiment. And, the way I look at it,” he pauses to gesture at the bag of things, “If it doesn’t work, I won’t be making a fool of myself in a badly made costume!”

Hm. He rotates the horns in his hands, before moving to root through his bags again. “You know, I think you’re right. I was intending to go for a more traditional grey tone native to the demon species I was thinking about dressing up as; but perhaps red would be a good alternate… Maybe I could actually change it for something more fitting to me in particular, actually… Hm.” He pulls out a sheet of plastic— something that honestly looks like it was pulled from a garbage can, part of some discarded packaging or something— holding it up before pulling a small and also probably discarded lighter. “In fact, you could probably add to the horns themselves, like take this and mold it into a more interesting shape on top, using the original horns for structure.“ This is a bit much to get excited about, isn’t it? This is the first time he’s been handed the opportunity to truly do what he wanted for a long time.

“Then what would happen if you threw different parts together, without any sort of intent?” Klug rubs at his chin, clearly deep in thought. Either he’s given up trying not to look curious, or he genuinely doesn’t realize he’s being so obvious about his interest.

And speaking of interest, that comment gets a raised eyebrow out of him. He’s been around enough strange people that he doesn’t bat an eye at the garbage as long as it’s kept away from him, and besides, there’s something else he’s focusing on. “A specific native species?” He adjusts his glasses. “I’ve only seen illustrations and none of them are consistent. Would the candy really be able to make that dramatic of a change?”

Finally giving up the ghost, Klug kneels down to take a closer look at the bags. He pulls out what looks like a set of alien antennae on a headband and sighs dramatically. “I suppose some experimentation couldn’t hurt...”