#Lei's Adventures In Life

[amazinlei]

NERVOUS!!!! BUT ALSO EXCITED!!!!

#CALLING MY DISABILITY JOB EMPLOYMENT CENTER #WISH ME LUCK!!!! #hoping for a part time job and they can help me get my GED too!!!! #also I woke up to SNOW!!! :DDD #now to convince myself I don't need another 'didn't break down and cry this month' order from build a bear X'D #I have so many plushies!!! #and the number keeps adding up!! #I may need a second toy net....... than again it's not like I won't be buying more stuff I don't need when I make my own money #Lei's Adventures In Life

[allieebobo]

Do you have any if recommendation?

Ooh! I have really, really bad memory(!!) but these are current faves that I have played/replayed recently that I can think of. A lot of the authors are also THE BEST HUMAN BEINGS EVER. So, double recommendation.

I probably missed a bunch out, so take this as a non-exhaustive list! In no particular order:

(Edit: Added some descriptions but yeah I got a little unhinged so I'm sorry nothing makes sense or if the quality of the write-up went down over time/did not actually give you any useful info)

WIPs with demos

Citadel, @bouncyballcitadel (I think of all the IFs on this list, this one makes me sweat the most. And I've said it once and I'll say it again: the dialogue is so snappy and well-written, and characters are SO DAMNED LOVEABLE.)

Infamous, @infamous-if (I've been manifesting Band/Musician IFs for the longest time, and then this popped up! I've even played Choice of a Rockstar, that's how desperate I was... Anyway, this is legions better than that. Angsty ex routes are my kryptonite, and Seven is just. Inevitable.)

Defiled Hearts: The Barbarian, @defiledheartsblog (I went into this wanting something juicy and fun/historical—and it's all of those things, but I didn't expect it to be so damned funny, too. The ROs are all impeccable.)

Raiders of the Caravan and Apartment 3-3, @leftski-if (A'ight listen, fantasy slice-of-life is my fave genre, and these are IT. Like, everything I never knew I needed in my life, and SO cozy/wholesome, with a cast of characters that I want to befriend in real life.)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: An Affair of the Heart @doriana-gray-games (First off, the customization in this game is INSANE, and the branching too. I've replayed a couple of times and the little variations I discover each time just blows my mind. Secondly, it's so funny and written so well. Ngl I'm not a Sherlock fan but that's just testament to how amazing this IF is.)

When Life Gives You Lemons, @when-life-gives-you-lemonssss (Modern slice-of-life with an adorable kid, a bunch of hot ROs, CC. Hill's humor, what can I say?)

Golden @milaswriting (Really interesting world-building, one of the coolest fictional cities I've read in an IF, AND I'm obsessed with the ROs, in particular K de la Renta. Also Mila is such an awesome writer, I'm beyond excited for @beyondthegame.)

A Tale of Crowns @ataleofcrowns (This game is beautiful, polished, and SO exciting. Honestly, it looks like the kind of game created by a whole-ass game studio and would cost $50 to buy, it's that good. I really got swept up by this IF—probably played it all in one go.)

Rougi @rougi-if (Again, another game with scrumptious visuals/UI and also is just so well-crafted. I love the premise too, it's so original and fresh.)

Scout: An Apocalypse Story @anya-dev (Unfortunately this one might be on hiatus but I am/was really, really obsessed.)

Wayfarer @idrellegames (Love the game mechanics of this one, and the visuals. Probably controversial, but I like the D&D / random dice effect. And I also like the fact that it feels like an old-school RPG.)

Chop shop @losergames (The premise is all I needed to be sold, really—I'd always wanted to buy GTA as a kid but my parents were like NO WAY. Anyway, this IF did not disappoint, and let me live all my childhood dreams.)

Edit: AHH! How could I forget, one of my recent faves, Folksaga @folksaga-if (Lush atmospheric writing, super unique premise—norse mythology, plus I'm head over heels for Katla).

Completed IFs

Butterfly Soup 1 and 2 @brianna-lei (these are completed and I will never not promote them. Honestly the most adorable, wholesome, funny sports/coming-of-age IF I've read)

Elsinore: After Hamlet @lapinlunairegames (Insanely cool premise, insanely cool execution)

The Thick Table Tavern @manonamora-if (I love bar/tavern games, and this one actually lets you mix drinks! Instant fave.)

Other HGs/COGs I love: Slammed, Tin Star, Fallen Hero, If it pleases the court, A Player's Heart (these last two are so underrated, though I guess cause it's mainly wlw)

#asks #if #IF recommendations #other IFs #interactive fiction

[amputeewomen]

Magical amputee

In the heart of a bustling metropolis, where the hum of the city blended with the whispers of the unseen, lived two friends bound by a secret—the existence of magic. Ashley, a spirited urban explorer with an unquenchable thirst for adrenaline, had always been fascinated by the covert world of spells and enchantments her friend Mia, a modern-day mage, navigated with ease.

Mia, with her cool demeanor and an apartment cluttered with arcane books and technological gadgets, had long promised to introduce Ashley to the art of magic, a promise that had been postponed by the chaos of city life. It wasn't until one seemingly ordinary afternoon, in Mia's high-rise sanctuary, that the promise would be demanded in an unexpected way.

Eager to showcase a newly mastered spell, Mia inadvertently altered the course of their lives. With a few whispered incantations and a misplaced flick of her wrist, she cast a transmutation spell that, to their shock, left Ashley with only one leg. The other had vanished, spirited away by forces they could barely comprehend. The sophisticated aluminum forearm crutches that Ashley now had to rely on felt cold and unyielding—a far cry from the freedom she was accustomed to.

Anger bubbled within Ashley, a fiery contrast to the cool, steel touch of her new supports. "Mia," she said, her voice sharp as a blade, "you better make this right. Teach me magic, for real this time. I want to be able to fix this myself."

Mia, her confidence shaken, knew the weight of her responsibility. The spell wouldn't reverse for four weeks, a period that felt like a lifetime to Ashley. Mia agreed, her guilt fueling a newfound determination to fulfill her overdue promise.

And so, amidst the glow of neon lights and the endless thrum of city life, Ashley began her journey into the world of magic. It was no easy task; the arcane books were dense, filled with esoteric knowledge that twisted the tongue and boggled the mind. Mia guided her through ancient spells, teaching her the delicate balance between the mystical and the mundane.

With each passing day, Ashley's frustration turned to fascination. She learned to harness her inner energy, to manipulate the elements, and to understand the language of the universe. The crutches, once a symbol of her limitation, became a part of her learning, as she used them in her magical exercises, balancing and moving with a grace she hadn't known before.

Ashley's anger faded, replaced by a sense of empowerment and an appreciation for Mia's world. The accident had been a catalyst for growth, pushing her into realms she had only dreamed of. By the time the four weeks had passed and her leg returned as if by magic—because, of course, it was—Ashley had transformed. She was no longer just an adrenaline junkie urban explorer; she was a mage in her own right, a master of her own story.

As for Mia, she had learned the gravest lesson of all—the consequences of her actions in the tapestry of fate. But she had also gained a true equal, a partner in magic, and their bond had grown unbreakable.

Together, Ashley and Mia stepped into the future, a future where magic and the metropolitan were intertwined, and their adventures were just beginning.

As the moon crested over the skyline of the city, Ashley and Mia, now comrades in the mystical arts, ventured beyond the concrete jungle to a place where modern GPS maps faltered and the ley lines of the old world held sway. There, cloaked by the lush embrace of the wild, lay the ruins of an ancient magical civilization, whispered about in obscure tomes and hushed tones in the backrooms of esoteric bookshops.

The ruins, remnants of a bygone era where magic flowed as freely as water, were said to contain a pool—a sanctum of pure mana, unspoiled by time. With the night sky as their canopy, the pair navigated the underbrush until the ruins rose before them, bathed in the silver light of the moon. Vines clung to weathered stone, and the air was thick with the power that pulsed through the remnants of archaic spells.

The pool, nestled at the heart of the ruins, glimmered like a jewel in the night. It was said that the waters were infused with the essence of the earth's veins, capable of rejuvenating the magic within any who bathed in its depths.

With a shared glance, Ashley and Mia shed the trappings of the city and entered the waters. The pool embraced Ashley, its magic compensating for her temporary loss, allowing her to swim with a freedom that defied her condition. The water was not just a physical balm but a wellspring of arcane energy that soaked into their very beings, replenishing the mana that flowed through their veins.

As they swam, the boundaries between them, once defined by mentor and pupil, blurred into something more profound. Laughter echoed off the ancient stones, a sound as timeless as the magic that surrounded them. In the water, under the gaze of the constellations that had witnessed millennia pass, they found themselves drawn to each other by a force as natural and powerful as the ley lines beneath their feet.

The water seemed to recognize the burgeoning bond, glowing with a soft luminescence that reflected the light of their souls. And in that moment, Ashley considered the possibility of prolonging her magical ailment. The thought of remaining an amputee, if it meant continuing to explore the depths of this newfound connection with Mia, wasn't as daunting as it once might have been. The transformation had, after all, led her here—to magic, to Mia, to a love she hadn't anticipated.

Their time in the pool was both an eternity and a fleeting instant, a paradox befitting the mystique of the ruins. When they finally emerged, it was with a sense of renewal, both in magic and in heart. The crutches, which lay beside the pool, seemed less like a shackle and more like a bridge—a bridge that had carried Ashley to this point in her journey.

The ruins, once silent and waiting, now played host to the whispers of a new story, one that intertwined Ashley and Mia's destinies. As they left the sanctity of the pool and the embrace of the ancient stones, they carried with them the warmth of shared affection and the quiet promise of tomorrow's magic.

The city awaited their return, a canvas for their adventures, both arcane and intimate. But the ruins and the pool remained, a testament to their journey, ready to welcome them back whenever they sought the tranquility and power found in its waters. The magic of the place had woven itself into their tale, a thread of the old world in the tapestry of the new, binding them together in ways they were only just beginning to understand.

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[yurimother]

The 2023 Yuri Guide - Visual Novels

Your ultimate guide to the best Yuri content with over 200 curated titles from every genre and medium.

Blackberry Honey

• Shakaijin • Drama • Romance

Forced to work for fourteen hours a day, with little chance to rest, Lorina, the newest maid to the Lennard family, is bullied by the senior maids and the youngest Lennard daughter. One of the only maids who deigns to speak to Lorina is the mysterious Taohua – but Lorina wishes she wouldn’t. Her aloof, almost cat-like personality, coupled with her peculiar complexion, eyes, and name, have inspired more than a few rumors around the Shropshire countryside that she might be a witch. Lorina knows she should keep her distance from Taohua, and she wants to most desperately… but maybe there’s a pinch of truth to all the rumors, because she soon finds herself under the older woman’s spell.

~Developed and Published by ebi-hime~ Available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC, Mac, and Linux

Black Closet

• School • Drama • Romance • Mystery

A noir story that places you in control as the student council president. To protect yourself and the school’s reputation, you must command your minions to solve mysteries by investigating scenes, looking for clues, performing surveillance, and interrogating students. Remember, never let your attention falter, no matter what sweet nothing your minions whisper or sly glances they give you. Because one of them… is a traitor.

~Developed and Published by Hanako Games~ Available on PC, Mac, and Linux

Butterfly Soup

• School • Slice of Life • Sports

Laugh-out-loud funny and featuring characters that each feels like one of your best friends! This gentle visual novel by Brianna Lei follows a group of four, queer Asian high school students living in California. The girls join an all-female baseball club together and spend their time playing the game, falling in love and memeing. A sequel, Butterfly Soup 2, is available for PC, Mac, and Linux.

~Developed and Published by Brianna Lei~ Available on PC, Mac, and Linux

The Curse of Kudan

• School • Horror • Mystery • Yuri Harem • Friends to Lovers 

Feelings start to bud between student Sakuya Kudan and culinary instructor Touko Shima after coincidence brings them into one another’s orbit. However, their peaceful lives are abruptly shattered when Touko sees Kudan, the harbinger of calamity. The rumors say that anyone who lays eyes on her is doomed within seven days. The hours tick down as Sakuya rushes find a way to combat the curse, and her search brings her to the academy’s Occult Research Club and its president, Koto Ashinaki. Now she must face off against the unknown in order to protect the people she loves…

~Developed and Published by SukeraSparo~ Available on PC

The Expression Amrilato

• Isekai • Slice of Life • Romance

"...Why is the sky pink...?" Rin should know this area well, but the unreadable letters on the signs and the strange language the people are speaking have made things unrecognizable. Suddenly transported to a parallel world, Rin is saved when Ruka, a girl so cute she could be an idol, appears and extends a helping hand. Now a guest in Ruka’s home, Rin, and by extension the player, must learn Esperanto through interactive lessons to navigate this strange world. This is the story, pure and sometimes frustrating, of two girls intertwined through their fumbling efforts to communicate.

The sequel, Distant Memoraĵo, continues Rin and Ruka’s story and romance and reveals the secrets of Ruka’s past. Two storeis of the struggles that come with attempting to connect with one another across age, language, and even worlds.

~Developed by SukeraSparo, Published by MangaGamer~ Available on PC, Mac, and Linux

The Fairy's Song

• Romance • Fantasy • Adventure

Marnie is a young goth girl with a less-than-cheery disposition. Her parents are going away for a week of sun and surf in Bordeaux, and Marnie has been palmed off in her grandmother’s care in the backwater English village Fenchapel.

While exploring, Marnie happens upon a young female knight in a glade, clutching a sword. The knight has been sleeping for many centuries, but Marnie (inadvertently) awakes her. The young knight calls herself Leofe. She does not know why she went to sleep, but she knows that the forest itself is plagued by a horrible curse, and she is the only one who can lift it. The sequel, The Fairy’s Secret is also available on PC, Linux and Android.

~Developed and Published by ebi-hime~ Available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Android, PC, and Linux

Fatal Twelve

• Isekai • Supernatural • Adventure • Mystery

One day, Shishimai Rinka dies in an explosion—yet she finds herself continuing to live her ordinary life as if nothing had happened at all. That is, until a few days later, when she encounters the Goddess Parca in the dream world.

"Good evening, my lovely little slaves to fate." Rinka discovers that she is one of 12 people the Goddess has invited to her game. A game that could undo their deaths. In this maelstrom of life and death, Rinka must face a myriad different emotions, as well as the truth behind her own demise. What will her final decision be...?

~Developed by LYCORYS, Published by Sekai Project & PROTOTYPE~ Available on PS4, Nintendo Switch, PC, Mac, and Linux

Flowers (Series)

• School • Adventure • Drama • Romance • Mystery • Multiple Couples • Yuri Harem • Friends to Lovers

In the middle of a forest isolated from the rest of the world lies Saint Angraecum Academy, an all-girls school. This private boarding school is isolated from the rest of the world, allowing the girls who attend the space and freedom to develop into young ladies under the guidance of their teachers. This is where Suoh Shirahane, a painfully shy girl, will begin her first year of high school. Follow her and her classmates in this four-game series as she navigates new friendships and attempts to unravel the many mysteries at the academy, including occult rituals and the mysterious disappearance of fellow students, all while trying to pass her classes. Suoh must learn to overcome her anxieties as she navigates new friendships. These bonds of friendship grow even stronger within the academy's special Amitié program, and Suoh's heart will open for the first time. But is it okay to like a girl?

~Developed by Innocent Grey, Published by JAST~ Available on PC

GOOD LUCK BABY!

• Mystery • Fantasy • Comedy

Japan, 2002. Bad luck is something we all experience - but for high schooler Hifumi Tanaka, it’s become an unwanted way of life.

Broken alarm clocks, lost wallets and bumped elbows; she starts wondering what she did to deserve this unrelenting misfortune. Her luck finally changes for the better upon meeting Kasumi Itou - a sunny delinquent with a heart of gold. But just as their mutual crush begins to bloom, the girls find a surprising sight awaiting them on Kasumi’s doorstep…a baby with wings and a halo!

Hifumi, Kasumi, and their newfound friends embark on the journey of a lifetime to solve the mystery behind this baby; kicking off a chain of events that affects the fate of the world itself. But with the ruthless Empress Metis following their every move, will good luck be enough to save them from the ultimate evil?

~Developed and Published by Noodletub Games~ Available on PC

Heart of the Woods

• Adventure • Drama • Romance • Supernatural • Mystery • Multiple Couples

Maddie Raines has had enough. After years of serving as manager, editor, and general business-handler for her best friend Tara's popular paranormal vlog channel, she's finally ready to move forward with her own life. But when she agrees to take one last trip with Tara to the mysterious village of Eysenfeld, she's suddenly surrounded by wondrous and dangerous supernatural events. One in particular captivates Maddie in a way she’s never been before: the ghost of a young woman, Abigail.

~Developed by Studio Élan, Published by Sekai Project and Sekai Games~ Available on Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC, Mac, and Linux

Heaven Will Be Mine

• Sci-fi • Action • Romance

It’s 1981, and the dream of a new home in space for all humanity is dead. After fighting for decades against an intangible and ephemeral existential threat from beyond the solar system, Earth command has declared the war effort a huge waste of time. The honeymoon is over, and a future of glittering cities across the solar system and cosmic battles between giant robots just isn’t going to happen. The outcome is clear: it’s time to come home.

But we don’t care. Giant robots may not make any sense. Celestial cities across the solar system are silly dreams. They are, however, extremely awesome. We, the girls who were raised in space, to be special and incredible and pave the way for a new future, aren’t giving up so easily. We’ve got invincible Ship-Selves for ferrying human bodies through time and space, and we have the weight and power to make a fantasy of the future real.

~Developed and Published by Pillow Fight & Worst Girls Games~ Available on PC, Mac, and Linux

Letters From a Rainy Day -Oceans and Lace-

• School • Romance • Drama • Mystery • Senapi/Kouhai 

The prestigious private girls’ school, Kikyou Academy, educates young ladies from elementary age to university. With cell phones forbidden on school grounds, letter writing is a pastime for many of the girls… for better or for worse.

Student Mikoto Kurahashi receives a disturbing blackmail letter, forcing her to ask out younger student Shiori Minato to protect her sister. The story switches between the two girls’ viewpoints, displaying both sides of this unconventional romance as Shiori works to discover the reason and the perpetrator behind the blackmail and Mikoto longs to get her new partner to engage with her more.

~Developed by Lily Spinel, Published by Hublots and mirai works~ Available on PC

Lilycle Rainbow Stage!!!

• School • Slice of Life • Comedy • Multiple Couples • Friends to Lovers

Sweet, heartwarming, and bursting with cheerful, colorful illustrations features a swarm of adorable Yuri couples. As every character’s perspective is shown, you could say that they’re all the protagonist! A love triangle between two friends and a recent graduate, a young maid and her precocious mistress, student council rivals, a wallflower and her socialite companion, and more. This Yuri buffet is overflowing with cuteness!

~Developed by PARTICLE, Published by MangaGamer~ Available on PC

Linghua (Series)

• School • Drama • Romance • Multiple Couples • Fated Lovers • Tragedy 

A Yuri visual novel series about young couples bound by fate and tragedy at an all-girls’ private academy. In Melancholy Love, an elite student, born into privilege, and a delinquent who longs to break free of her chains meet amidst the garden of scented dreams. In Symbiotic Love, a devastated Zihua discovers a mysterious diary after the death of her lover, Jisuo. One by one excepts begin to appear, revealing the truth behind the tragedy.

~Developed by White Dew Game, Published by Kikai Digital~ Available on PC and Mac

Lingua Fleur Lily

• Drama

The introvert Yuyi arrives at school every day with a secret deep in her heart, a truth she has kept hidden from everyone, even her beloved old tutor. But when she is paired with the excitable Yile, the eager girl helps Yuyi come out of her shell, confronting the bittersweet memories of her past and coming to terms with her identity. This tender hidden and emotional hidden gem is not a romance story, but a story of healing and accepting oneself, a gift given to Yuyi by an earnest and caring friend. Its gentle illustrations and enchanting soundtrack heighten this simple but poignant story. 

~Developed and published by Narrator and STORIA~ Available on PC

A Little Lily Princess

• School • Drama • Historical • Slice of Life

Sara Crewe was raised like a princess by her doting Papa, always given the best of everything. Now that she is old enough, she must be sent away to boarding school in a foreign land, relying on her love of books and fairytales to help her make friends. But, what would happen to a little princess if she lost everything? This Yuri retelling of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic children’s novel gives players the option to plan Sara’s daily activities and bond with her peers, leading to several potential romances. 

~Developed by Hanabira, Published by Hanako Games~ Available on Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC, Mac, and Linux

Mizuchi 白蛇心傳

• Fantasy • Romance • Slice of Life • Mystery

Abruptly finding herself at the bottom of a snake pit, an impoverished girl named Linh is bound and helpless for a crime she did not commit. Left to the mercy of the village snake god, a mysterious entity appears before her, offering to save her in exchange for her soul. Finding herself in a new reality, she is torn between staying with the beautiful temptress, Ai, who had rescued her from death, and the resourceful wanderer, Jinhai, who promises to set her free.

~Developed and Published by Aikasa Collective~ Available on PC, Mac, and Linux

a new life.

• Romance • Slice of Life • Tragedy • Love at First Sight

A short, simple, and beautiful experience. A classic love story: Meet, marry, grow old. But when your loved one hurts you, what do you do? Is it better to love and be hurt, than never love at all? From their first meeting in college until the bittersweet end, this short visual story is a beautiful and emotional highlight reel of two women in love.

~Developed and Published by Angela He~ Available on iOS, Android, PC, Mac, and Linux

Nurse Love (Series)

• Fantasy • Slice of Life • Horror • Mystery • Yuri Harem • Slow Burn

Surviving a near-death experience as a child left Kaori Sawai with the dream to become a nurse and heal others. And today is finally the day, as she leaves school to join the Yurigahama Hospital, mending injuries with the magical touch of her hands and navigating sweet, strange, and exceptionally disturbing relationships with her quirky coworkers in Nurse Love Syndrom.

Set in the same world, Nurse Love Addiction follows Asuka Osachi, a ditzy and easy-going girl, who graduates from high school and enrolls in Teito Nursing School along with her younger sister, Nao. With their two classmates Itsuki and Sakuya and their instructor Kaede, the girls will experience what it means to be an adult... and a nurse.

~Developed by Kogado Studio, Published by Degica~ Available on Nintendo Switch and PC

OshiRabu: Waifus Over Husbandos

• Comedy • Slice of Life • Romance • Already a Couple • Love at First Sight

Akuru Hayahoshi is an unlucky otaku office worker who just can't pull her husbando in the gacha game she's obsessed with, no matter how much money she throws at it.

Until one day, she runs into the garishly gorgeous and freakishly lucky Ren Furutachi. A series of misunderstandings causes Ren to full-on pursue Akuru. One thing leads to another, and in order to bring her husbando home, she ends up... bringing Ren home?!

In the sequel ~Love･or･die~ a fit of jealousy and more misunderstandings lead to a Akuru unthinking accepting one of Ren’s many joke proposals… and by the time she realizes what she's done, it's too late. Ren is in bridezilla mode and starting to plan the wedding!

~Developed by SukeraSomero, Published by Hublots and mirai works~ Available on Nintendo Switch and PC, iOS and Android

Perfect Gold: The Alchemy of Happiness

• Fantasy • Romance • Enemies to Lovers

Marion LaRue is not having a fun day at all. What was meant to be a harmless little fire turned into an explosion that has her stuck in detention, missing out on one of the rare opportunities for her to enjoy life outside the academy. And of course, she just had to be stuck with Audrey Clary, of all the high-class LeFay students she could be in detention with.

Determined to not miss out on the long-awaited festival, these former lovers begrudgingly work together to escape detention and find their way to the festival. As they explore the city and celebrate the Sunflower Festival together, an old friendship is rekindled, and new feelings begin to bloom.

~Developed and Published by Yangyang Mobile, Published by Mama Morin (Console/Mobile)~ Available on Nintendo Switch, PC, iOS, and Android

Please Be Happy

• Slice of Life • Romance • Fantasy

Born as a fox in the forest of Korea, Miho carries with her the memory of a traveler who showed her kindness and spoke of home. Now more human than fox, Miho has spent a long, long time searching for her person. She arrives by airship to Wellington, one of the jewels of the floating island of New Zealand.

Despite her years spent observing humans, she still has a lot to learn about their culture and society. She's made a living so far as a thief, her heightened senses allowing her to easily take advantage of people. She's also seen a lot of the worst of what mankind has to offer.

It's only after meeting Juliet, the owner of a small library, and Aspen, an aspiring novelist, that Miho starts to understand what kindness is, and that there's more than just the bad stuff when it comes to people.

~Developed by Studio Élan, Published by Sekai Project~ Available on PC, Mac, and Linux

Salome's Kiss

• Romance • Drama • Historical • Tragedy

Letitia Reed is an unremarkable woman in many aspects. Meek and mild, she prefers to keep her head down, and fears drawing undue attention to herself. As a governess to the wealthy Mortimer family, Letitia devotes her humdrum days in London to the schooling of her pupil, Clara, to better mould her into the image of an ideal lady.

Lurking beneath Letitia’s placid mannerisms, however, lay desires so intense they begin to unnerve her. As Clara matures, Letitia finds her feelings towards her maturing too – until, in the end, she can no longer bear it.

~Developed and Published by ebi-hime~ Available on PC and Linux

SeaBed

• Romance • Drama • Mystery • Tragedy • Slow Burn

A mystery told through the perspectives of three women: Mizuno Sachiko, a designer plagued by hallucinations of her past lover; Narasaki Hibiki, Sachiko's friend and a psychiatrist researching the workings of human memories; and Takako, Sachiko's former lover who has been rapidly forgetting her past, including how or why the two women drifted apart, despite being together since childhood. All three live in different worlds but seek the same goal. To separate truth from illusion. To make sense of their own lives.

~Developed by paleontology, Published by Fruitbat Factory~ Available on Nintendo Switch and PC

A Summer's End - Hong Kong 1986

• Shakaijin • Romance • Drama • Historical • Love at First Sight

Michelle is a young professional working woman living in Hong Kong during the heydays of the 1980s. She meets Sam, a free-spirited woman and an unconventional entrepreneur, by chance after an incident involving a broken heel. They share a mutual attraction. As their relationship progresses, Michelle is forced to make a decision between traditional propriety and her newfound feelings.

Inspired by classic Asian cinema, this beautiful game depicts the intense curiosity, confusion, and desire whirling around this incredible romance. Michelle A Summer’s End is a modern romance. A dazzlingly vibrant and intimate experience that explores identity, family, queerness, and love in a rapidly changing and highly political world.

~Developed and Published by Oracle and Bone~ Available on PC, Mac, and Linux

Synergia

• Action • Sci-Fi • Mystery

Cila, a veteran cop with a sour outlook and anger issues expects nothing more from life besides the smell of ozone, blinding neon lights and the ever-present manhole steam. At least, until a shady friend replaces her broken-down housedroid as a favor. Advanced, more efficient and remarkably perceptive, unit M.A.R.A. begins to penetrate Cila's toughened exterior and possibly even heal her new owner's old wounds – if Cila can decipher the recurring nightmare the process brings. Soon Cila and Mara forge a unique - if sometimes uneasy - bond. Unbeknownst to Cila, just as her life begins to find its new normal, the technological giant Velta Labs gets wind of Mara's existence and takes a mysterious interest in the android. A war unlike any before it is brewing on the horizon, its players are silently being selected and one android's fate may spell the difference between peace, war, the blossoming of a new religion, or a technological singularity beyond comprehension.

~Developed by Radi Art, Published by Top Hat Studios~ Available on PS4, Nintendo Switch, PS Vita, PC, Mac, and Linux

Who Is The Red Queen?

• Horror • Fantasy • Romance

Alice falls down the rabbit hole into a Wonderland not quite right. Meeting an eclectic collection of people, animals, and some things in between, she sets out on an adventure in this odd new place to find the missing Red Queen. Or, more specifically, to find the pieces of the dismembered queen whose body has been strewn across the land.

~Developed by 4noki, Published by Studio Élan~ Available on PC, Mac, and Linux

Yumeutsutsu Re:Master

Slice of Life • Mystery • Slow Burn

Set in the town of Koenji, not far from the imperial capital of Tokyo, where a small game studio called Eureka Soft has set up shop. The heroine Ai, a country girl, joins her sister Kokoro who works there, after receiving a mysterious email from studio head.There she meets the quirky all-girl (and a dog) cast: the big sisterly head of the studio, her sister, giving her a cold shoulder, the maid/voice talent, the "tiny dinosaur" scenarist, the uniformed artist, and Banako, the dog and vice-president. Ai starts learning about game making as she slowly pieces together the mysteries of her colleagues. Ai's world will expand bit by bit, as the game production begins.

~Developed byKogado Studio, Published by Degica~ Available on Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PC

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Unlisted Fandom Challenge

Two days ago, at our last Unlisted Fandom Challenge update, we had a 3-way tie for first. Today? One of those fandoms has taken the lead AND a new fandom that hadn't had even a single signup before has jumped all the way into a 4-way tie for second. Your fandom could do the same, in the hours still left before signups close!

At present, our leaderboard looks like this:

7 Danny Phantom

5 Carmen Sandiego (2019) 5 For All Mankind 5 Tortall 5 Yu Yu Hakusho

4 Ace Attorney 4 Alan Wake/Remedyverse 4 Formula 1 RPF 4 Ted Lasso 4 The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison 4 The Stanley Parable

3 Greek Mythology/Religion 3 Buffyverse 3 Bungo Stray Dogs 3 Call of Duty 3 Detective Conan 3 Dragon Ball 3 HBO War 3 Kingdom Hearts 3 Persona Series: 3-5 3 Professional Wrestling 3 Realm of the Elderlings - Robin Hobb 3 Shades of Magic - V. E. Schwab 3 The Mummy films 1999-2008 3 Undertale

Given the way Carmen Sandiego came from *nowhere* to tie for 2nd place, a single signup really can shake things up! And for the next few hours, signups are STILL OPEN! Do the thing!

The rest of our unlisted write-in fandoms under the cut for length -

2 Ghosts (TV) 2 Black Sails 2 Cosmere 2 CSI 2 Cyberpunk 2077 2 Dead Friend Forever 2 Death Stranding 2 Dice Punks (podcast) 2 Dimension 20 2 Donten ni Warau / Laughing Under the Clouds 2 Dracula 2 Dune 2 Firefly 2 Glee 2 Guardian/Zhen Hun 2 Hermitcraft/The Life Series SMP 2 Imperial Radch Series 2 Inception 2 JoJo's Bizarre Adventure 2 Mob Psycho 100 2 Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury 2 Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint 2 Ordem Paranormal Quarentena 2 QSMP / Quackity SMP 2 Riverdale 2 Saw 2 Slow Horses (TV Show) 2 South Park 2 Stormlight Archive 2 The Bear (TV) 2 The Empyrean - Rebecca Yarros 2 The Folk of the Air (Holly Black) 2 The Radiant Emperor Series 2 Venture Bros 2 Voltron 2 Wolf Pack 1 1670 1 A Court of Fey & Flowers 1 a league of their own (TV series) 1 A Plague Tale (Videogame Series) 1 American Gods 1 Among Us 1 Bandom RPF (Bad Omens) 1 Bandom RPF (Lorna Shore) 1 Bandom RPF (Motionless In White) 1 Beastars 1 Bendy (and The Ink Machine/Dark Revival) 1 Horror 1 Bioshock 1&2 1 Blue Beetle 1 Blue Eye Samurai 1 Books of the Raksura 1 Boondock Saints 1 Breakfast With Scot 1 Bunny - Mona Awad 1 Buzzfeed Unsolved/Watcher Entertainment RPF 1 Cabin Pressure 1 Cats the musical 1 Charlie's Angels (2019) 1 Cherry Magic 1 Chronicles of Narnia 1 Cobra Kai 1 Coffee Talk (Video Game) 1 Criminal Minds 1 Death Note 1 Devil May Cry 1 Dexter 1 Digimon 1 Discworld - Terry Pratchett 1 Disney Theatrical Animated Universe 1 Divergent 1 DMBJ (Grave Robber's Chronicles) - Xu Lei 1 Dream SMP 1 Dungeons and Daddies (podcast) 1 Endeavour/Morseverse/Inspector Morse (ITV/Dexter) 1 Ensemble Stars!! 1 Fallout Video Game (Bethesda) 1 Falsettos 1 Fargo FX 1 Farscape 1 Fire Emblem (4-10, 13, 14, 16) 1 Five Nights at Freddy's 1 Friends at the Table 1 Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid 1 Grantchester 1 Green Creek 1 Grey's Anatomy 1 Grimm 1 Gundam (see below for details) 1 Hatchetfield 1 Hawaii 5.0 1 Hello From The Hallowoods 1 High School Musical 1 Higurashi no Naku Koro ni 1 Hollow Knight 1 Honkai Star Rail 1 Horizon Zero Dawn 1 Infinity Train 1 IT (Movies - Muschietti) 1 Jeff Satur - music videos 1 Julie and the Phantoms 1 Kushiel's Legacy 1 Law and Order 1 Legend of the Galactic Heroes 1 Live Free or Die Hard (Die Hard 4) 1 London Spy 1 Lovecraft Mythos 1 Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic 1 Magnificent Seven 1 Mary Grant Bruce's Billabong series 1 Mrs. Davis 1 My Little Pony 1 Nancy Drew (CW Series) 1 Narcos (TV) 1 Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard 1 NU: Carnival 1 Omori 1 One Direction 1 Orphan Black 1 Outlast 1 Paranatural 1 Phantomarine 1 Re-Animator 1 Resident Evil/Biohazard 1 Sex Education (TV) 1 She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 1 Simon Snow Series 1 Skins (UK) 1 Slam Dunk 1 Starry Musical 1 Succession 1 Sunless Sea 1 Super Sentai 1 Sweeney Todd 1 Team Starkid 1 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 The Adventure Zone: Balance 1 The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension 1 The Adventures of Tintin 1 The Artful Dodger 1 The Good Place 1 The Greenhollow Series - Emily Tesh 1 The Hollows - Kim Harrison 1 The Last Kingdom 1 The Left-Handed Booksellers of London - Garth Nix 1 The Lunar Chronicles 1 The Mechanisms 1 The Pairing (Casey McQuiston) 1 The Saint of Steel 1 The Shadow Campaigns - Django Wexler 1 The Terror (TV 2018) 1 Three of Hearts 1 Tin Can Bros 1 Tower of God 1 True Detective 1 Twilight 1 Vorkosigan Saga - Lois McMaster Bujold 1 Wayfarers (Becky Chambers) 1 Weak Hero Class 1 1 Westworld (TV) 1 Yellowjackets 1 Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters

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[sunjinjo]

Genshin theory time

OK hear me out. I’m posting a theory for the first time, and yet at the same time I want people to tell me I’m wrong about all of this. Concerns Irminsul, Dottore, Nahida and Wanderer.

SPOILERS!!! for something that was said in an interview with one of Genshin’s writers. If you don’t want to know, stop reading.

OK so. Apparently, Dottore burning Irminsul in the Lazzo trailer wasn’t just symbolic, but something that’s still going to happen in the future. First of all, this concerns me because Irminsul just being sick caused Eleazar and the Withering in Sumeru, and it’s also tied to Nahida – what will it do to her??

But then, always having Wanderer on the brain as I do, my thoughts wandered further, aided by this twitter post. If he’s really carved from a white tree, and he’s still self-sacrificing and trying to be ‘of use’, would he not try to replace Irminsul somehow if Dottore burns it down?

Killing Irminsul might remove all the ‘lies’ from Teyvat, unveiling history as it truly was. And having Wanderer and all his honesty as the new tree, he’d keep and preserve those truths. It’d be a way to stop and perhaps harm or kill Dottore, and ‘tell’ everyone everything about his true past in one fell swoop.

“There’s no such thing as pure freedom in this world. Even the wind cannot blow on forever.”

He’d be like an Aranara, sacrificing himself to become a protective, preserving tree. He’d perhaps still be able to project himself into dreams, connecting to Nahida and perhaps others he cares about, maybe create manifestations the way he did in Pardis Dhyai.

'Perhaps a day will come when this body's adventures, its experiences, Will become tales to be passed along by mortals, distant memories that flow through the ley lines. But for now, his third act is still ongoing.'

(Calabash of Awakening description.)

He’d also be connected to Teyvat’s memories, and in a way, be with everyone he’s lost as well...

This could also tie into him being a Vahumana scholar now, studying history and the humanities, perhaps priming himself to become the ultimate record-keeper and caretaker the same way Neuvillette primed himself to become Fontaine’s ruler.

I don’t know if this theory makes me really sad or strangely fulfilled. It makes narrative sense to me, and yet I don’t want it to happen. I want him to have a life, not continue his transactional thinking to the extreme, and yet, and yet...

...Also, the whole thing with Raidens planting important mystical trees.

Please tell me what you think :P

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[sagradaserenidad-cr]

Message from the Universe to You / Mensaje del Universo para Tí

Pick a Card / Escoge una Carta

Take a deep breath, relax your body and clear your mind. Once you feel in the right headspace open your eyes, and let your intuition guide you to the best crystal and card for you. // Respira hondo, relaja tu cuerpo y despeja tu mente. Una vez que te sientas en el espacio correcto, abre los ojos y deja que tu intuición te guíe hacia el mejor cristal y carta para tí.

Cards Overview

Tiger's Eye - The World // Ojo de Tigre - El Mundo

For all of you dears that were drawn to Tiger's Eye, it brings The World, a card of success, wisdom and culmination. The World tells us that everything that needed to end has ended, so that you can be calm and enjoy everything you have achieved, celebrate this! Even though you have completed a journey, new horizons await ahead just for you. The world reminds us that the end of a journey announces the arrival of another one, after all life is an endless search of knowledge and adventures. What's waiting up ahead for you?

//

Para todos ustedes queridos/das que fueron llamados/das por el Ojo de Tigre, este trae consigo al Mundo, una carta de éxito, sabiduría y culminación. El Mundo nos indica que todo lo que tenia que acabar ha acabado, por lo que puedes estar tranquilo/la y disfrutar de todo lo que has logrado, es momento de celebrar! Aunque hayas completado este viaje, siempre hay nuevos horizontes adelante. El mundo nos recuerda que la finalización de un viaje nos anuncia la llegada de otro, después de todo la vida es una búsqueda interminable de nuevos conocimientos y aventuras. ¿Que te esperará adelante en el camino?

Prehnite - Justice // Prehnita - La Justicia

For all of you dears that were attracted by Prehnite, it brings Justice a card of balance, truth and rectitude. Justice represents the law of cause and effect, but you can be assured that she will always honor what is fair and true. Justice teaches us the importance of holding responsibility for our actions and reminds us that we will get further through honesty and rectitude, rather than lying and deceiving others. Depending on your situation it can mean something good, or that you should take responsibility for your errors.

//

Para todos ustedes queridos/das que fueron atraídos por la Prehnita, ella nos trae la Justicia una carta de equilibrio, verdad y rectitud. La justicia representa la ley de causa y efecto, pero puede estar seguro que ella siempre honrara lo justo y verdadero. La justicia nos enseña la importancia de la responsabilidad sobre nuestro actos y nos recuerda que llegaremos más lejos a través de la honestidad y la rectitud, que mintiendo y engañando a otros. Dependiendo de tu situación puede significar algo bueno, o que deberías asumir la responsabilidad de tus errores.

Red Jasper - Ace of Wands // Jaspe Rojo - As de Bastos

For all of you dears that were attracted to Red Jasper, it brings the Ace of Wands a card full of creativity, passion and good vibes. She brings us a lot of creative energy, take advantage of it! Since the Ace of Wands also indicates the arrival of a new project, it also reminds us that if we have an idea, we need to do everything possible to carry it out. Do not be afraid of risks, this is a time to trust your intuition, after all, the energy of fire asks us to act quickly and expand.

//

Para todos ustedes queridos/das que fueron atraídos por el Jaspe Rojo, el trae consigo al As de Bastos una carta llena de creatividad, pasión, y buenas vibraciones. El As de Bastos nos trae mucha energía creativa, aprovéchala! Ya que él también nos indica la llegada de un nuevo proyecto, y nos recuerda que si tenemos una idea ocupamos hacer todo lo posible para llevarla acabo. No temas a los riesgos, este es un momento para confiar en tu intuición, después de todo la energía de fuego nos pide actuar con rapidez y expandirnos.

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[high-achiever-dream]

Kinda worried that u didn't get my request cuz I got a notif Abt it and it was soon deleted I think, I'll just send it here again lmao Ivor and how he acts around his crush in case you didn't get it hh

[ Hello, hello! I apologize that your previous ask is suddenly disappearing after an error 😭 ]

➳ Minecraft Story Mode (MCSM) // Ivor Season 1 (Adventure Pass) and 2 (Ninja!) // Headcanons // Romantic! ✍🏻

{A Whole New World With You and Me}

《 Crush! Ivor x Gn! Reader 》

*ੈ✩‧₊˚︶꒦꒷♡꒷꒦︶ ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡ ˚₊꒷˚︶ɞ₊˚︶︶꒷꒦˚⊹๑‧₊ ᘏ ︶꒷︶₊·*ੈ✩‧₊˚ ︶

"Long live my Lava House! Long live lava!"

Weirdly, Ivor acts shy, nervous, becomes the softest bitch, as well more excited than he usually feels when his crush is near him. Although Jesse had given him the tips to stay cool and not be entirely himself, this eccentric man is Impossible to avoid having those manners.

"My friend, Jesse. I have a crush on someone. HOW DO I GET RID OF IT?"

"Do you mean by stop liking this person or make that fellow go away permanently?"

"Yes." 😃

In the event that you are not around him, Ivor speaks of how stunning and magnificent you are to Jesse and over again until he is out of breath to explain.

There are three choices available for Jesse to interrupt Ivor so he stays quiet and would not continue ranting forever and ever:

1.꒱ Teasing him that he has a crush on you =

"Awww, Ivor. Just admit it, you have a crush on [Name]! You really like them."

"Shut up! I don't know what you're talking about. And What do you mean I have a crush on [NAME]?! That's nonsense!"

2.꒱ Encourage him confessed his love to you =

"C'mon, Ivor! I know you can say to [Name] that you love them very much. After all, you've also explained a long paragraph about [Name] for hours."

Ivor sighed, "I don't want [Name] and I feeling uncomfortable with each other."

3.꒱ Make him feel panic when you are around =

Jesse called out your name, "IVOR HAS A CRUSH ON YOU!"

"NO, JESSE, WAIT! OOOOH, NOOOOOOOOOO-"

It is obvious to understand that Ivor is a man who will never admit his feelings to anyone and still be caring. Despite a million butterflies flying inside Ivor while wondering if all of the romance matter seeing you makes sense to him, he is getting closer to obtaining despair by free any day now.

No matter what you need help from Ivor, he sincerely helps you with no complaints. Let me do it for u 🎹 Didn't I do it for u? For instance: Teaching you how to create potions, showing the proper and perfect tutorials to build a lava house and bridge, etc other important lessons. Both of you are literally lab partners in crime. >:3

If anyone mocks or belittles you, Ivor will defend you and use his words to repay those mean bullies sadistically. Their reactions are gasping or crying. This is his natural weapon of pride to use as a poet.

【 "There will come a poet Whose weapon is His word He will slay you with His tongue Oh lei, oh lai, oh, Lord." 】

When you need to get the stories out of your mind and chest about what happened (gossip, trauma, and normal chit-chat), Ivor does not mind hearing you out and giving sassy or sarcastic yet wise advises.

"Ivor, you're the only one who understands me."

"Yeah, but it doesn't mean I care."

You have the ability to reduce Ivor's grumpiness and keep him calm, preventing him from continuing to yell even louder at everyone he sees.

Ivor does not ever stop his goofy behavior since he knows it makes you laugh and smile to cure your sadness.

If you ever catch Ivor in bridal style to prevent him from falling to the solid ground and you told this crazy man that his weight is light as a feather, he will giggle uncontrollably to himself like a schoolgirl.

From that moment forward, Ivor finds plenty of excuses in a dramatic way that he tells you to hold him in your arms again:

↳ "Oh, I don't race so much anymore. Bad, heh, bad knees. Sweet [Name], could you save me and take me to that faraway place, pretty please!"

↳ "Oh great, a run for my life. Just what I was hoping for! Not that I completely need [Name] to carry me from this life-and-death situation."

Ivor feels very embarrassed when you see him not wearing his 'adventuring' clothes.

"Don't look at me with those eyes!" Thereafter, his friends (Bombastic & Criminal offensive) side-eyed him and let him know with a visible sign that his words bothered you. "What I meant to say was," Ivor clears his throat as he twirls his hair, "are you staring at me because my outfit breathes wonderfully?"

*ੈ✩‧₊˚ ︶꒦꒷♡꒷꒦︶ ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡ ˚₊꒷˚︶ɞ₊˚︶︶꒷꒦˚⊹๑‧₊ ᘏ ︶꒷︶₊·*ੈ✩‧₊˚

"I’m a ninja now. You’d be surprised just how deadly I can be."

【[《{(꒰< Warning topic: Yandere behavior! >꒱)}》]】

Ivor has a hobby of sending you daily poems, words of admiration, your favorite flower(s), love letters, and stories about how he's been doing lately at your doorstep or mailbox without writing his name. However, the lapis lazuli inside the mail is a hint, giving away his secret identity easily and without a doubt.

Master Shadow has taught Ivor to focus and clear his mind on doing endless housework for the rest of his time as a ninja in training and not get distracted by thinking about you every day and night.

Ivor thought his 'crush' phase had finally faded elsewhere. Except for the moment you hug him tightly and say, out of the blue: "I miss seeing you each day so dearly, beloved dork." Yep, you shoot the Ninja with the bang-bang to the heart once again, causing his head to explode into red color.

In the past, Ivor used to gaze for a long time at you when you were not looking and refused to admit he was smiling at you, which he turned away and blushed. At present, Ivor is caught 4k staring at you with a helpless smile that puts him in a trance. He does not deny it this time. <3

These days, Ivor habitually keeps his distance from you and plays hard to get, the suggestion by Petra that he should give it a try to keep in ninja (mysterious and quiet) character for gaining more attention from you. Afterward, the masked hero does not continue to act like that anymore when he realizes you are confused and guilty.

"I hope you can forgive me if I did and say something that hurt your feelings."

"It's nothing you should worry about, really! This is supposed to be my responsibility to offer an apology to you. I was not at my best self."

The deadly intrusive thoughts in Ivor's head submit to reality, and jealousy strikes the best of him when he spots someone else having a crush, flirting, or even hurting you; he is calling dibs and keeping the inventory first to himself when the corpse is *POOF*!

If you want Ivor to train with you and make him fight like a man, he is reconsidering sparring so as to not hurt you in the process.

Sometimes, Ivor is creepy in the fact he spies/stalks on you to keep you safe and sound. The Ninja often uses the long-lasting potion of invisibility while casually walking or running beside you. At the time you notice him and ask: "Why, when, what, and how are you here?", he informs you: "Like I don't have anything better to do than spying on you. Wait, I actually don't. 😳 SMOKE BOMB!" Then, he fails miserably to disappear from out of your sight, "You didn't hear anything from me. Got it? I'm not here anymore."

One fateful day, Ivor is no longer a ninja, and before it is too late, Ivor will finally have the courage to communicate with you and he reveal his secret: that he thinks of you as more than just a friend in terms romantic feelings, also inviting you to go on random adventures with him and help him in his efforts to mend the divide among his old friends.

.ೃ࿐˚ ༘♡ ·˚₊˚ˑ༄ Bonus Scenarios ₊ˑ༄ ˚ ༘♡ ·˚.ೃ࿐:

For real that Lukas would write fanfiction about Ivor as a TSUNDERE and YANDERE man, and you are his beloved senpai. This blond boy's work of the story is classified and never will be read aloud to the public.

Lukas wins the bet that Ivor in the end confessing his love to you and you accept his feelings; Petra owes the Ocelot boy four iron.

Petra does not know what is the reason you also love someone like Ivor, of all the single individuals than can be chosen in the world? You definitely have a weird taste in people.

"Because he makes me laugh." You replied.

The warrior rolled her eyes and groaned, "No kidding, and sure, that's what all of them who like Ivor would say." 😒

"Okay, you got me there. 😔🎹 But, that is not a crime."

*ੈ✩‧˚ ︶꒦꒷♡꒷꒦︶ ˚ ༘♡ ⋆｡ ˚₊꒷˚︶ɞ₊˚︶︶꒷꒦˚⊹๑‧₊ ᘏ ︶꒷︶₊·*ੈ✩‧₊˚ ︶

despair - leo.

"I've lost my cool, I'm not sure how to act

Not even sure how I can keep my pride intact

Well, I don't know if this is it, but can't you see?

No, I'm not falling for you, so please have mercy on me."

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[redvoid-40]

Husk of Opulent Dreams

Good and evil were the song of sentient life, useless and cacophonous.

But if he were to wrench this "heart" out,

He would no longer be able to feel anything at all...

Donning his wanderer's hat, he headed eastward alone.

"This gold ornament is a proof of identity granted by the Almighty Shogun,"

"And she will not abandon you."

[...]

But in the end, the golden arrow-feather were covered in dust,

And all tales were incinerated in karmic flames till nothing remained.

"Yet, this is all but a fleeting dream of glory."

"And it will all one day drift away amidst the sighs of a suffering earth..."

Was it a "him" from the past who said this? Or "him" from the future?

The vagrant cared not, for when he awakened,

It was not he, but that ethereal future that dissipated.

Perhaps a day will come when this body's adventures, its experiences,

Will become tales to be passed along by mortals, distant memories that flow through the ley lines.

But for now, his third act is still ongoing.

- ‘Husk of Opulent Dreams’, Genshin Impact

ScaramouchexFem!Adventurer!Reader

Not-SFW bellow the cut. Also, this final chapter is like 11k words long, beware.

Previous

“We should take another bath,” his Adventurer said, fingers running through Scaramouche’s silky locks. Her breathing had slowed down somewhat, for the comfort of the man using her chest as a pillow. “The sheets-”

“Can be changed before we go to sleep,” Scaramouche mumbled, voice muffled by her breasts. “I’m not moving right now just because you made a mess.”

“And whose fault is that?” His Adventurer asked, and Scaramouche just knew that her cheeks were a lovely shade of red.

“Mine,” he answered easily, raising his face to smirk at her. “And don’t you forget that.”

“Don’t look so proud of yourself.”

“And why not? What was it that you said again? I don’t think I’ve ever felt so good before,” Kunikuzushi said in a high-pitched tone, mock-imitating his Adventurer’s voice.

His woman let out a mortified noise, bringing her hands up to hide her face. Scaramouche chuckled at her, feeling his smirk widen for a moment before a thought brought tension to his jaw and turned it into a tight-lipped scowl. Slowly, he pushed himself up and off his Adventurer, so he could sit by her side with his feet on the floor and his fists clenched over his thighs.

“That would be high praise, wouldn’t it? Being the best you ever had, I mean. Especially if you consider how many must’ve come before me.”

Scaramouche heard shuffling behind him before his Adventurer wrapped her arms around his waist. He felt her warm chest press against his cold back as she laid her cheek on his shoulder, and he couldn’t help but turn his neck to kiss the crown of her head and take a moment to breathe in the scent of her washed hair, only made sweeter by the fresh sweat clinging to it.

“Why does this bother you so much?” His Adventurer asked. “You clearly had partners before me, too.”

“That’s different.”

His Adventurer turned to look at him. “How?”

“The ones I had before were exchanges. A favour for a reward. I didn’t care for their pleasure, nor did I care to hold them. They were cold and unfeeling.” Like me, Scaramouche thought as his scowl deepened. “But you… You are overbearingly warm and tender. You treat me like precious porcelain and ask for nothing in return. And the mere thought of you looking and touching others like that - wasting yourself on lesser beings -, is enough to make me sick.”

“Caring for someone is never a waste, though. At least, I don’t think it is,” his Adventurer said, moving so she could sit on his lap and face him with that gracious little smile on her face. “Caring is not a finite capacity. No matter how many people came before, it doesn’t make the way I feel about you right now any less intense. If anything, my experiences made me who I am today and brought me here. Maybe, if I had not allowed myself to care about others before, we would never have met. Now, that thought makes me sick. Because, I… Well…”

Scaramouche raised an eyebrow as his Adventurer’s voice trailed off and her smile died. She looked oddly serious and anxious, making him curious as to what she would say next.

“Go on,” he urged, cupping her cheeks. “You were doing so well with your rehearsed little speech.”

His Adventurer let out an outraged little noise as her nose scrunched up. Scaramouche let her pull his hands away from her face and hold them captive close to her heart.

“It’s not rehearsed!” She protested. “I’ll have you know that everything I say to you comes from the heart.”

“Yeah, yeah, yeah. Are you going to finish that thought, though?” Scaramouche asked with a smirk. “Or do I need to give you some incentive?”

“When you say it like that, I don’t know if you’re teasing or threatening me.”

“Can’t a man do both?”

“You’re so mean,” she said with a pout, but kissed his lips anyway. “But you’re kind too. Though you try so hard not to be.”

“Only a silly Adventurer like you could ever call a Fatui Harbinger kind.”

“I’m not talking about the Fatui Harbinger. To be honest, I believe you can be a real nightmare to your subordinates.” Scaramouche scowled at that, but his Adventurer only smiled in response with no fear of retaliation - he really was too soft on her. “I’m talking about you, about Kunikuzushi. About the man who somehow completely swept me off my feet in just a few days. Honestly, it’s kind of scary how much I’ve thought about you since the day we met, and how much I’ve been wanting to be close to you.”

Scaramouche stared at her with wide eyes, flinching when a strange fluttering sensation spread inside his chest.

Of course, his little Adventurer completely misread his reaction and quickly climbed off his lap to turn her back to him, leaving nothing but cold space between them.

“I-I don’t mean to sound overbearing or make you uncomfortable. I know that we just met each other, and I may be sounding a bit crazy and lovesick-”

Lovesick? Scaramouche thought, raising a hand to his mechanical heart. It was beating as steady as usual, but the fluttering feeling inside only increased when he repeated the word in his head. What is this woman doing to me?

Scaramouche took a deep breath and stared at his Adventurer. She sat on the edge of the bed with her back turned to him as she continued to freak out and talk non-stop in an attempt to downplay the meaning behind her words, and he wasn’t sure he wanted her to. It seemed that, despite the hateful machine in his chest and Scaramouche’s own carefully cultivated rancour towards humans and their treacherous promises, Kunikuzushi’s latent hope for a sense of belonging still found a way to make itself felt.

“Anyway, I’m just saying that I’m happy that we had the chance to meet. I really like being with you, Kunikuzushi,” his Adventurer continued. “I feel safe and comfortable and understood. Which I know is weird because we know so little about each other. But-”

“I’m a puppet.”

Scaramouche saw his Adventurer’s back straighten like a rod and immediately he scowled, swallowing a lump in his throat as he turned his gaze downwards, to the clenched fists laying over his knees. Why did he say that? Hadn’t he learned to keep his identity safe from humans? That knowing the truth of his existence could only evoke horror in them? That they would sooner throw him into flames than even try to-

“What do you mean?”

Scaramouche raised his eyes and found his Adventurer staring at him with furrowed eyebrows and her head tilted to the side. Words failed him when she moved closer, gently laying a hand on his shoulder.

“Kunikuzushi, is everything alright?” She asked, looking so worried and warm and welcoming. “Please talk to me.”

Scaramouche swallowed. “I’m not human.”

To his shock, his Adventurer smiled.

“Well, I kind of figured it out last night, when you said I enjoy sex like you humans.”

Scaramouche blinked, surprised that he had said such a thing to her and completely forgotten about it.

“It seemed to be a sensitive subject, so I didn’t ask more, but I would be lying if I said I’m not curious,” she admitted with a sheepish smile before looking panicked again. “Only if you want to talk about it, though! I don’t want to intrude or make you uncomfortable. Of course, I’d love to hear you out and to learn more about you, but only if you want to share these things with me. I’m happy with whatever-”

“Stop… fretting so much,” Scaramouche scolded. “Let me talk for a change, alright?”

His Adventurer closed her mouth and nodded eagerly, making Scaramouche sigh. He let his body fall against the pillows, pulling his Adventurer down to lie with him.

“I was created by Beelzebub, the Electro Archon. A vessel without a heart, made to keep her own hidden and safe. She was supposed to be my… my mother. However, she deemed me inadequate to serve the purpose she had in store and discarded me. After that I became a Wanderer, travelling all of Inazuma, as if there was anything worth seeing in that land or its people.” Scaramouche scowled, eyes glued to the ceiling. His memories were old, partially eroded and blurry, but revisiting them still brought up feelings of betrayal and inadequacy that his mechanical heart was quick to morph into anger. “Looking back, I should’ve known better than to expect anything other than betrayal from a nation ruled by her. Centuries of my existence, thrown in the fucking trash.”

Scaramouche felt his Adventurer’s warm hand cup his cheek, urging him to look at her as she propped herself up on his chest. As usual, she had a smile for him, but this one was sympathetic and sad.

“I’m so sorry that happened to you, Kunikuzushi. Do you want to t-”

“Forget it,” Scaramouche said, pulling his woman back in his arms to silence her. “I’ve said enough. Your turn now.”

He felt his Adventurer sigh, most likely disappointed at his unwillingness to share more, but she didn’t press any further.

“Well, I’m from Mondstadt and I’ve been working as an Adventurer for a few years now,” she began, humming as her brain seemed to struggle to come up with more facts about herself. “I got an Anemo Vision in my late teens. And… I think that’s it?”

Scaramouche craned his neck uncomfortably so he could properly glare at the woman using his chest as a pillow.

“That’s it? You never seem able to shut up. But when I give you free rein to talk your little heart out, you find yourself at a loss for words?”

“Well, I’m just a regular human,” she said, rolling on top of him with a smile. “Other than having a Vision, I’m just like most people.”

“Most people don’t play the Lyre like you do,” Scaramouche pointed out. “Nor do they pout and scowl when mentioning their parents.”

That whipped the smile off his Adventurer’s face and Scaramouche would feel regretful if he wasn’t so curious.

“Not sure my family drama is date talk.”

“I believe we’re far past date talk,” Scaramouche stated. “Do you think I just tell anyone about my origins?”

His Adventurer tilted her head. “You didn’t really share much.”

Scaramouche snarled his Adventurer’s name, making her raise her hands in a surrender gesture.

“Fine, fine. But don’t blame me if it’s all too mundane for someone who is literally of divine origins. Also, how much are you familiar with the History of Mondstadt?”

“I have some superficial knowledge about it, but you can go over what you must.”

“Well - as you may know - centuries ago, the Lawrence Clan and other aristocratic families ruled Mondstadt in what was quite frankly a tyrannical regime. That ended after the Gladiator Vennessa and Lord Barbatos worked together to defeat the dragoon Ursa and start a rebellion to free the city from the Lawrence Clan. I was born into one of these old aristocratic families. And I think it’s easy to imagine that holding a grudge against the new Mondstadt and Lord Barbatos is basically a family heirloom by now.”

To his surprise, Scaramouche snorted at the joke, and his Adventurer smiled.

“Anyway, my parents weren’t too happy that I liked to sneak out of the house to play with other kids in the city. So they did their best to find ways to keep me away from them. Lyre practice, dancing lessons, etiquette classes… The list goes on. Not to mention they pushed my older sibling to play with me whenever they had spare time, even though they’re quite a few years older, and we have very different ideas of what is classified as fun. Still, after a certain age, there’s really no way to fully keep a child locked inside the house without having the Knights of Favonius knocking on your door to see if everything’s alright. So they had to make peace with me being able to go out now and then, as well as having friends in Mondstadt,” his Adventurer continued, smile quickly turning into a scowl. “I think the real issue was when I received an Anemo Vision. Having a child so closely associated with Lord Barbatos was a big no-no for my family.”

His Adventurer paused for a moment, scowl deepening as she looked away and took a deep breath, as if pulling strength from the surrounding air. She held that breath inside, holding on to it tight, before letting it go harshly and finally turning her gaze back to him.

“My parents took my Vision from me.”

Scaramouche froze, eyes uncharacteristically wide as he absorbed that sentence and all that it implied. He had heard about what happened to people who had their Vision taken away; read multiple reports of how people would plummet into a fog of confusion and madness - all courtesy of the actions of another of his creator’s puppets. And, though those stories held a sort of sadistic appeal to the distorted pump inside his chest, Scaramouche could not deny the cruelty behind the act. To take away someone’s Vision was no different from reducing them to a shell of their former self, if they were lucky.

To think there are humans who would do that to their own child, Scaramouche mused, taking in this new side of his Adventurer with something close to awe. Looking at her now was like staring into a lake; he could see his reflection there, even if it was not quite him.

Scaramouche laid his hands around his Adventurer’s hips, holding her tight to reassure himself that this connection he felt was real, and not a mirage conjured by the loneliness of his existence.

“What happened?” He asked.

“To be honest, I don’t remember much. I started feeling tired all the time, and just… joyless. I don’t remember actually doing anything in that period that was not prompted by my parents or sibling. And so the days started to blur one into another until a few months had passed without me even noticing it.” His Adventurer took a deep breath, then to his surprise, she smiled. “It was my sibling who saved me. They were so worried that they sneaked my Vision from my parent’s hiding place and returned it to me in secret.”

“After that… Well, I’m not proud to say it, but I flew into a rage. When I came back to my normal self and understood what my parents had done to me, I yelled and screamed and cursed at them like I had never done before,” his Adventurer admitted with a forlorn expression. “They tried to calm me down, but I was so angry that I just left the house with the clothes on my back and nothing more. And I haven’t really talked to them since. I mean, we see each other sometimes, when I go visit my sibling and their kids, but we don’t really talk.”

Scaramouche narrowed his eyes and sat up so their noses touched and his Adventurer had no choice but to look at him.

“You sound regretful.”

“I am. Leaving my home and family like that was not easy, and sometimes I wish things had turned out different. It wasn’t all bad memories, you know? My parents made mistakes, but there were plenty of good things too.” His Adventurer sighed, forcing a smile as a tear slipped from the corner of her eye. “I miss them.”

Scaramouche wiped her tears away, before pulling his Adventurer close so she could bury her face in the crook of his neck.

“So foolish… letting yourself cry over things in the past.”

“I know,” his Adventurer replied, voice muffled against his skin. “It’s been a while since I talked about these things. I didn’t think it would affect me like that.”

Scaramouche heard her sniff against him and held her tighter.

“You better not get any snot on my hair.” His Adventurer’s sniffing turned into a chuckle, and that was enough to ease the scowl on his lips. He was about to tease her further, but her stomach growled loudly, making him snort. “Such a noble lady I have in my arms.”

The lady in question tried to remove herself from his embrace, but Scaramouche’s arms turned into iron bars around her, barely allowing her enough leeway to pull away and stare at him with a lovely blush on her cheeks

“We skipped lunch, you know? And we did spend a lot of energy,” his Adventurer mumbled, then gave him an unamused look at the indecent smirk on his lips. “I was talking about the hiking we did to take the Seelie back to its court. Though… I guess the sex counts too. Maybe even more than the hiking to be honest. It was quite good. Well… way more than quite good. It was better than I thought it would be, and I’ve been thinking about it a lot, as you can imagine. But anyway!” His Adventurer spoke loudly, shaking the naughty thoughts from her head. “Should we go out to eat? The restaurants should be closed until dinnertime, but there are some street vendors that-”

A startled noise escaped his Adventurer’s lips as Scaramouche threw her unceremoniously to the soft pillows by his side.

“I’ll have someone bring food from the Hotel’s restaurant,” Scaramouche decided as he retrieved a menu from the nightstand and put it in his Adventurer’s hands. “Choose what you want. As long as it’s not only desserts.”

His Adventurer took the menu from his hands and immediately her gaze moved to the right side of the pages. Scaramouche rolled his eyes and took the menu back. He produced a pen from the nightstand and proceeded to strike out the prices of every item on the menu, uncaring of the woman scolding him.

“This is vandalism, Kunikuzushi!”

“I do not care.”

Satisfied with his handwork, he returned the menu to his Adventurer, who took it in her hands with a pout, scrunching her eyebrows to try to see the price of the items in there without success.

“Now, choose something for us quickly. If you don’t, I’ll just find a different way to fill you up.”

Scaramouche smirked as his Adventurer used the menu to hide her blush from him.

---

For the next couple of days, the Adventurer and Scaramouche did not leave the room. Fatui agents worked as servers and errand boys. They delivered whatever their Lord Harbinger demanded at any hour of the day or night with downcast eyes, fearing what could befall them if they accidentally caught a glance of their Harbinger’s companion in a state of undress.

Still, the Fatui were grateful for the small respite. For the last couple of days, they barely saw the Sixth Harbinger. And, on the few occasions he demanded their services, the Balladeer was in a never-seen-before good mood that caused him to treat his subordinates with something close to human decency.

So, it was with great chagrin that a Cicin Mage and a Hydrogunner under Scaramouche’s command watched a very familiar ship dock in Liyue Harbour, with none other than La Signora in it. She may have been number Eight of the Eleven Fatui Harbingers in terms of power, but was definitely a close second when it came to annoying Lord Scaramouche. She only lost to Lord Tartaglia - who was standing on the docks of Liyue Harbour to receive Lady Rosalyne with a practised smile on his face.

“Why do you think they sent Lady Rosalyne back with Lord Scaramouche’s ship?” The Cicin Mage asked as she watched Lord Tartaglia greet his superior with a large - and largely false - smile.

“I don’t know, but it can’t be good.”

Just on cue, La Signora turned her icy gaze in their direction and snapped her finger, commanding both Fatui to rush towards her.

“You called, my lady?” The Hydrogunner asked as both he and his companion kneeled before the Harbingers.

“Go find Scaramouche and tell him to meet me in Northland Bank as soon as he gets the message. And make it quick - I don’t like to be kept waiting.”

---

Scaramouche violently slammed the door in a Cicin Mage’s face and groaned, letting his forehead drop against the wood.

I should have her punished for coming to me with such a message, Scaramouche thought, but before he could act on that, his Adventurer showed up.

“Is everything alright?” His Adventurer asked, walking out of the bathroom in nothing more than a silky robe. “Kunikuzushi?”

“I’ll have to step out for a couple of hours,” he said. “There’s a pest by the name of La Signora demanding my attention.”

His Adventurer chuckled, drawing Scaramouche’s attention to her and her smile.

“That’s alright. I should probably go back to Mr and Mrs Huang’s Inn. They must be worried.”

“There’s no need for that. You can rest here and I’ll order a footsoldier to deliver a message.”

“Somehow, I think having a Fatuus knocking on their door to tell them that I’m alright would worry Mr and Mrs Huang even more,” his Adventurer said. “And it will be nice to have a breath of fresh air. We can meet someplace outdoors after your meeting is done, maybe have some tea. I can bring my lyre and play to you, if you want.”

His Adventurer approached him and wrapped her arms loosely around his neck. Scaramouche let himself melt into her embrace, hands resting on her hips so he could pull her flush to him. He buried his face at the juncture of her neck and shoulder and immediately began to leave wet kisses there, pulling breathy little moans from his lady.

“Don’t tease me like that, Kunikuzushi.”

“Who said anything about teasing?” Scaramouche asked, hands sneaking underneath his Adventurer’s robe to push the fabric off her warm skin. “I have every intention of following through with my actions.”

“But, your meeting-”

“Will wait.”

---

Lyre case in hand and backpack on her shoulders, the Adventurer hummed happily as she walked through the streets of Liyue Harbour. She had gone back to her inn and spent a few minutes apologising to Mr and Mrs Huang for disappearing without notice, before retrieving her lyre from her room. She also took the opportunity to change into a clean outfit and grab a few fresh pairs of underwear as well, despite not wearing anything other than the hotel’s flimsy robes for the last couple of days, if that.

Heat pooled in the Adventurer’s lower belly as her mind transported her back to the hotel room and the time spent in Kunikuzushi’s arms. It had only been a couple of hours since the last time Kunikuzushi was inside her, but she was already craving his attention again.

Maybe suggesting a date outdoors wasn’t such a good idea, the Adventurer thought. Especially since I apparently went back to being a horny teenager who can’t keep her mind out of the gutter.

There was nothing she could do about it now, so the Adventurer elected to wilfully push her arousal to the corner of her thoughts as she focused on what she could do to make this a pleasant outing for both her and Kunikuzushi. She knew he wasn’t a big fan of crowds - or people in general - so she had suggested for them to meet at Mt Tianheng, where they could enjoy the view of Liyue Harbour by themselves. It would be nice to bring some takeout from Wanmin Restaurant as well; she had been looking forward to having Kunikuzushi try Xiangling’s cooking and that would be an excellent opportunity to share it with him without having to deal with the bustling streets of Liyue.

With that in mind, the Adventurer made her way to Wanmin Restaurant and purchased a few of her favourites. After chatting a bit with Xiangling and Chef Mao, she made her way to Yujing Terrace. As the Adventurer walked by a small artefacts shop, something caught her eye, so she quickly made her make a quick 90-degree turn and marched to the stand. She greeted the seller and quickly pointed to a small, heart-shaped jewellery box with a glossy, red and blue flower pattern on the surface.

“May I see it?”

“Of course!” The seller quickly retrieved the box and put it on the Adventurer’s palm. “This is a brass artefact with an enamel lid. The flowers there were hand-painted by a renowned artisan from Qingce Village. It’s perfect for storing small mementos or even medicine.”

“It is quite lovely,” the Adventurer complimented. “How much does it cost?”

It took everything the Adventurer had not to grimace when the seller told her the price. While it was a sum she currently had on her, it was definitely on the expensive end of the trinket’s spectrum. Also, it had been longer than usual since her last commission for the Adventurer’s Guild, so her funds were slightyl low at the moment.

The Adventurer was about to put the small box back when Kunikuzushi invaded her thoughts, just as he had been doing since she first saw him.

 “You do not know how cruel a heartless man like me can be when I’m being mean.”

The Adventurer hadn’t liked the derogatory tone in Kunikuzushi’s voice when he described himself as heartless back then. And now that she knew a bit more of his origins, she believed she understood, even if just a little, how important possessing a heart was to him.

I think he’ll really like this, she thought, running her thumb over the smooth, flowered surface of the jewellery box. And I should be able to accept commissions again soon. My savings should last me a few more days. Hopefully.

The Adventurer sighed softly before smiling at the vendor.

“Do you gift-wrap?”

---

Once Scaramouche arrived at Northland Bank, the receptionist was quick to jump to her feet and offer to guide him to the large conference room in the back, where La Signora was waiting for him. The Harbinger noted her eagerness to take him there as quick as possible, so he made sure to walk as slowly as he could, taking pleasure in the palpable anxiety bursting through the poor receptionist’s skin in the form of trembling and sweaty hands.

“La Signora has been waiting for you, my lord,” the receptionist mentioned with a nervous smile.

Scaramouche hummed in response and slowed his pace even further.

The receptionist noticed it, but didn’t dare to say a thing to him. She only adjusted her strides to match his rhythm as her hands began to shake almost violently.

Once they arrived at the door, one of those shaking hands knocked twice on the finely carved wood before pushing it open to announce the arrival of the Sixth Harbinger.

Rediscovering his impatience now that he was face to face with his unreliable colleague, Scaramouche pushed past the receptionist before she could finish speaking his title. He took a moment to slam the door on her face before turning to face the fuming woman sat at the furthest end an oval table.

Scaramouche didn’t bother to even greet La Signora before taking a seat close to the door, as far from her as possible.

“Well, here I am. And I don’t have all the time in the world, so out with it.”

Predictably, La Signora slammed her open palms against the table as she shot up to her feet. Her eyes were as cold as a glacier, but her face was burning-red.

Scaramouche smiled, and she screamed.

“Who do you think you are, demanding me to be quick after you made me wait like a fool!? It’s been hours since I gave orders for you to see me!”

“I don’t think anything, my fair lady. I know I am your superior. As such, I do not take orders from you,” Scaramouche replied. “You should know your place as well, lest you find yourself in the sort of trouble you won’t be able to get out of.”

“From what I heard, you’re the one who’s getting himself in trouble,” La Signora said, lowering the volume of her voice but somehow sounding more unpleasant than before. “Allowing yourself to get lost in an Adventurer’s patched up skirt.”

Scaramouche’s smile curled into something ugly as he slammed a fist on the table’s surface, easily tearing out a good chunk of the wood without even using Elemental Energy. A heavy silence settled in the room as La Signora stared at him with her catalyst raised and ready for combat.

“You better contemplate your next words carefully, witch,” Scaramouche warned in a low voice. “I am not only superior to you in terms of rank; I am superior in strength as well. And if I need to physically remind you of that to put you in your place, I will. That floating thing won’t be any more help to you than a balloon.”

La Signora stared at him for a moment as her brain and her heart battled for dominance regarding what she’d say next. Scaramouche had no doubts that La Signora had at least a dozen insults tucked away somewhere inside her venomous fangs, but in the end she was self-conscious enough to understand that swallowing her own poison would be better than risking a single bite from him.

“As if I cared about some Adventurer,” La Signora said, already moving towards the door. “I just came because Her Majesty, the Tsaritsa, has ordered the both of us to oversee the operation in Inazuma. Our ship leaves tomorrow morning, so you better say your goodbyes.”

---

The Adventurer found a lovely spot on Mt Tianheng, with a wonderful view of Yujing Terrace beneath and a cool shade provided by the treetops above. She stretched out a blanket and placed the takeout boxes from Wanmin restaurant on top of it, all neat and sealed, waiting for Kunikuzushi to arrive.

Satisfied, she sat down and fiddled with her lyre absent-mindedly, improvising soft tunes to fill the empty silence around her. She watched the clouds drift by as she played, allowing her mind to wander alongside them.

It was a while until Kunikuzushi showed up, feet stomping on the ground and narrowed eyes glowing with anger. He didn’t as much as look at her as he let himself flop down on the stretched blanked, laying on his side with his back to her.

The Adventurer immediately stopped playing and just looked at him for a while, wondering if it would be better to give him some time to cool down, or if she should urge him to talk it out with her.

“Keep playing,” Kunikuzushi ordered. Then, as if reading her thoughts, he added: “I don’t want to talk about it now.”

To the Adventurer’s surprise, the words came in the form of soft whispers instead of the aggressive bark she expected. She smiled at Kunikuzushi and nodded - even though he could not see it - before her fingers resumed their dance over the strings.

Scaramouche closed his eyes as the soft sounds filled the air, falling like a blanket over his anger and weighing it down until it stopped squirming inside his chest and finally settled into something more manageable.

However, he could still hear La Signora’s grating voice from the back of his mind:

 “I just came because Her Majesty, the Tsaritsa, has ordered the both of us to oversee the operation in Inazuma. Our ship leaves tomorrow morning, so you better say your goodbyes.”

Scaramouche scowled. He had never got along with any of the Harbingers; but La Signora occupied one of the highest positions in his black book. Being under the scrutiny of those cold and dismissive eyes of hers always raised his shackles, transporting him to a time someone else had looked at him that way, even though he had come to them for help.

 That sly fox. She’ll get what is coming to her.

Scaramouche knew the Tsaritsa would send him back to Inazuma soon. He had planned for it, making sure to share every bit of knowledge he had about the nation and its many vulnerabilities so the Fatui could spread over slowly but surely- spore by spore and hyphae by hyphae, like a poisonous fungus taking over rotten tree roots. Now, after months of acting behind the scenes, it was finally time for him to return to the land of his creation, and take from his creator that which was rightfully his.

 “…better say your goodbyes.”

What Scaramouche had not planned for was getting attached to an Adventurer that was just as witless as she was warm. Kunikuzushi had vowed to himself to never again let anyone set residence inside the empty cavity in his rib cage- to never again let himself believe that mortals could fill his chest with their flimsy emotions and even flimsier lives. Lest he experience the pain of having another piece of him ripped out when they abandoned him, leaving Kunikuzushi with nothing but a wider and colder hollow inside his chest.

And yet here he was, standing in front of the footpath to his completeness and still hesitant to take the first step because of a mortal.

 It is not fair.

Scaramouche was a divine creation meant for adoration, and yet abandonment was all he remembered ever experiencing. And, now that he had someone to distract him from the ever-present feelings of inadequacy and loneliness, he was supposed to give them up, just like that? Gods had never cared for compromising, so why should he - an existence as close to divinity as Beelzebub herself - know nothing but it?

 “I’m yours! Kunikuzushi, I’m yours! Yoursyoursyoursyours!”

Scaramouche sat up as his eyes suddenly opened, literally and metaphorically.

Of course, there was no answer to that question, because nothing could ever justify the many hardships he was forced to endure throughout the centuries. He was meant to live life as he wanted, taking and keeping whatever he wanted, for as long as he wanted.

“Kunikuzushi?”

Scaramouche looked over his shoulder and found his Adventurer staring at him with furrowed eyebrows as her fingers hovered near the strings of her lyre.

“Something is bothering you, isn’t it? Is there anything I can do to help?”

She really was gracious, worrying about him so openly, playing the invisible strings of his non-existent heart with the same care she played her lyre. Just looking at her made the burning ire inside Scaramouche morph into something more pleasant, but just as fervent.

His Adventurer put her lyre aside and reached out for him. Scaramouche was quick to grab her hand and pull her to him, slamming his mouth over hers as he pushed her back against the quaint picnic towel she had stretched out in preparation for his arrival.

The food she brought him - caring creature that she was - remained forgotten to the side. Scaramouche needed something else entirely to settle his appetites.

Scaramouche kissed his way to her ear, running the tip of his nose over the sensitive cartilage before catching her earlobe with his teeth the way he knew she loved. His Adventurer hugged him tight, stifling a moan against his neck as he started working the layers of clothing off their lower bodies.

“W-We’re out in the open,” his Adventurer pointed out as his fingers started circling her clit. She was already soaked. “Kunikuzushi!”

“I don’t care,” he growled against her ear, using his unoccupied hand to pull her palm against his hard cock. “You’re mine, remember? I should be able to enjoy you however I see fit. And if anyone dares to complain about it or look at you in this state, I’ll turn them into dust. So don’t you worry about it,” Scaramouche cajoled, smiling wickedly as he called his Adventurer’s name in a honey-sweet voice. “Just say yes.”

His Adventurer bit her lip, eyes darting all around as if someone would walk on them at any minute.

Silly woman, Scaramouche meant every word when he said he’d undo anyone who dared to gaze upon her like this.

With a chuckle, Scaramouche raised fingers covered in her essence to pull her face back to him. His thumb ran over her lower lip, freeing it from the abuse of her teeth before diving into the warm and wet cavern of her mouth.

“Say yes,” he urged again, eyes fixed on her mouth. “For me.”

Scaramouche shuddered as his Adventurer bit his thumb gently, mouth vibrating against it as she got the so-coveted syllable out. Her warm and calloused hand finally grabbed his cock firmly and guided his tip into her opening.

Scaramouche smiled and slowly pushed inside of her. He imagined that’s what coming home felt like.

---

Redressed and with his carnal appetites satiated, Scaramouche and his Adventurer turned their attention to the food she had brought. She shared details of every dish excitedly, and watched with anticipation as he took the first bites, then smiled widely when he announced they were to his liking.

They ate slowly while his Adventurer told him about her day, sparing no detail whatsoever. Scaramouche listened to her patiently, making a few teasing comments here and there to watch her face contort in funny human emotions that he never quite understood; she blushed, laughed and pouted, and he drank it all like the fine wine her land was known for.

“What about you?” His Adventurer asked suddenly. “How was your meeting?”

If it was anyone else asking him this, Scaramouche would have no doubt that they were digging for intel on the Fatui. While he didn’t care at all for the Organisation itself, he would’ve definitely delivered a rather painful punishment on the fool who dared to direct such words to him. But this was his sweet, little Adventurer; and she was just silly enough not to realise that her mundane question involved secret political information about one of the largest and most influential organisations in Teyvat.

“You want to go to Inazuma, right?” Scaramouche asked with a smile, ignoring her question completely.

His Adventurer furrowed her eyebrows. “One day, yes. If the Sakoku Decree ever-”

“Never mind that,” Scaramouche dismissed with a wave of his hand. “I will take you there. We set sail tomorrow.”

His Adventurer scrunched up her brows, and her mouth opened, then closed. She did that again and again, like a fish out of water. It was the first time Scaramouche saw her at a loss for words, and he couldn’t help but chuckle.

Scaramouche moved closer, ready to steal a kiss, but his Adventurer pushed him away.

In truth, she had only laid her warm hand on his chest, as if asking for some space, but for Scaramouche, it felt as if he had been shoved to the side. It felt like something he was very familiar with.

Rejection.

Scaramouche wasn’t sure what expression he had on, but it must’ve been quite a sight to behold if the wide-eyed look his Adventurer gave him was anything to go by.

“Kunikuzushi,” she whispered in a trembling voice. “Please, take a breath. Let’s talk this over.”

“I don’t need to breathe,” he snarled. “What part of I’m a puppet didn’t you understand? Are you really as stupid as you look!?”

His Adventurer flinched at his tone, but Scaramouche was too deep in his own head to care about her discomfort. All he could see were dispassionate eyes - treacherous eyes, dead eyes - looking down at him with indifference and disdain. His chest filled with heat and he had to push himself to his feet and step away, lest he burned his woman with pressured steam.

Scaramouche looked over his shoulder at his Adventurer, only to find her staring at him with wide eyes and hunched shoulders, like a cornered animal waiting to have flesh pulled out of her bones. He hated seeing that look on her face, especially knowing he was the reason she seemed so scared.

The entire situation left a bad taste in his mouth, so Scaramouche did what he always did whenever he felt inadequate.

He chewed everything up and spat back at the world.

“Why are you staring at me like that!?” The Harbinger demanded, spinning on his heels so he could fully face his Adventurer. “I have never hurt you on purpose, so don’t you dare give me those eyes! You are an ungrateful woman, did you know that? I’ve been so gentle, so good to you- and you pull away from me! You’re just like every other human in this land. Selfish, cunning, treacherous.”

“Kunikuzushi, calm down,” his Adventurer asked. “Sit. Let’s talk.”

“Don’t tell me to calm down!” Scaramouche screamed. “I’m here, offering to give you what you wanted and you spit my kindness back on my face! What is the problem? Hasn’t my company been to your liking?”

His Adventurer pushed herself up on trembling legs and dared to take a step closer. “Of course it has. You must know how much I care about you.”

That made Scaramouche’s next accusation die in his throat. He snapped his jaw shut and glared at the woman standing in front of him, looking on the brink of tears.

Kunikuzushi wanted to brush those tears away with his thumbs, but Scaramouche stood his ground.

“Then why did you push me away?” He asked.

“If I went to Inazuma with you, would I have a visa?”

“What?”

“Would I have a visa to live there, to work there?” His Adventurer asked. “I know there is a branch of the Adventurers Guild in Inazuma, but only Adventurers who are in the country legally are allowed to accept commissions.”

“Are you doubting my abilities to provide for you?” Scaramouche accused, narrowing his eyes at her.

“That’s not the issue,” his woman stated, voice and expression strangely firm despite the tears brimming in her eyes. “Please, answer my question.”

Scaramouche scowled. “No, you will not have a visa.”

“Kunikuzushi, do you understand what you’re asking of me?” His Adventurer asked, taking another step in his direction. “You’re asking me to give up my life and follow you to a nation where I’ll have no means of taking care of myself.”

Scaramouche’s eyes widened at the sheer absurdity of his Adventurer’s words, before incredulous, mocking laughter bubbled out of his chest. Ignoring the hurt look his woman gave him, Scaramouche said her name in a condescending tone.

“What life?” He asked. “You run from place to place, running errands for any low-life in Teyvat for a meagre little sum of Mora that is barely enough to keep you fed between jobs. You sleep in the wild when it’s raining to save money, and wear clothes and shoes that look like they’ve been around since the Archons War. And, after putting yourself through all of that, you don’t even have a home to go back to. I mean, if you were to die in the wild, how long would it take for anyone to notice you were gone? Weeks, months? Come on, surely you must see that what you have is not a life. It’s barely surviving.”

Scaramouche finished his spiel with an arrogant smirk and stared at his Adventurer with arms crossed over his chest.

However, she did not return his gaze. She kept her eyes down, as if the space between her feet was the most interesting thing in the world.

Scaramouche scoffed at her lack of response and opened his mouth again - ready to spell out to her that coming with him was the best thing that could ever happen in her not-life - but whatever words he had died when he noticed tears falling from his woman’s eyes to stain the grass beneath her.

“How dare you?” His Adventurer asked in a whisper so low, Scaramouche was sure he only heard it because he was a puppet created by a god.

Scaramouche’s smirk died, and he called her name again, this time with worry.

When his Adventurer raised her face to look at him, her eyes were red and she looked so angry that Scaramouche was certain that was the only colour she was seeing too.

“How dare you mock me like this? You have no idea of the sacrifices I had to make, or the risks I had to take in order to make a name for myself as an Adventurer!”

It seemed that it was his woman’s turn to scream, and Scaramouche would have found the image of her anger beautiful, if not for the bitter sadness in her eyes tainting her ire.

“Do you think it was easy to make a living after I left my parents’ house? No one in Mondstadt wanted to hire a member of the nobility, so I had to juggle any odd jobs that showed up while I trained to become an Adventurer. And even after that, it was hard to find anyone that would commission me. I had to go way out of my comfort zone and pick up whatever came my way, no matter how inexperienced I was back then. It took me years of hard-work to establish myself as a reliable Adventurer who can take her pick of the available commissions in the Guild, instead of accepting whoever would take me just to make it through the day. My life may not amount to much when compared to your divine existence, but I worked hard to get where I am today. And I will not let you - or anyone - talk down to me like that!”

By the end of her outburst, his Adventurer was red from the neck up, with clear tear-tracks on her face and shoulders raising and falling sharply with each breath she took. The silence that followed her words was heavy and hot, and Scaramouche knew that a spark was all it would take to cause an explosion and knock down whatever it was they had built between them.

Unfortunately - for him, and for her - Scaramouche was far more used to surviving the destruction of flames than preventing them from scorching his life in the first place.

If I’m meant to part ways with her as well, I might as well do it on my terms.

“Your efforts and sacrifices don’t make your current life any less pathetic,” Scaramouche said, nose high in the air. “I don’t see why you cling to these small achievements of yours so much. You may be able to choose your work now, but it doesn’t change the fact that, at the end of the day, you have nothing to show for it. I’m offering you the opportunity of forgetting you ever had to put yourself through these probations, and just live like the noble you supposedly are. But if you prefer to survive like a slave, instead of living like a queen, that’s fine. I guess you really are as stupid as you look.”

Not giving his - no, not his; he was never meant to have something that was his - the Adventurer a chance to reply, Scaramouche turned his back to her and walked away.

At least, this time, he could tell himself that he was not the one left behind.

---

The sun was setting on the horizon by the time the Adventurer’s tears had dried and she dared to move from the spot Scaramouche had left her. Ants had walked all over the food left-overs, and she had no choice but to throw it all away as soon as she returned to Liyue.

What a waste, she thought as her hands pushed everything down a public garbage bin.

Once that was done, she wandered the streets for a while. The night-lights were starting to come up, giving a golden glow to the ever-vibrant city, but everything seemed grey and uninteresting to the Adventurer’s eyes.

Without noticing it, she found herself on the docks, gazing upon the ships stationed there. There were many sailors loading and unloading all types of cargo from them, and some Adventurers too- extra-hands hired to help with the twilight rush.

There was a vessel where the Adventurers didn’t set foot on though, and it was easy to understand why.

That must be the ship Kunikuzushi was talking about.

The Adventurer stared at the large Snezhnayan ship, following one of the many hurried Fatui while she marched back and forth on the deck, barking orders at her underlings as if there was no tomorrow.

 “Put your back into it! We need to have her perfect for Lord Scaramouche tomorrow or else he’ll have our necks!”

The Adventurer reached inside her pocket and pulled the lovely artefact she had got to the man in question. She wasn’t sure why she even bothered with it; it’s not like Kunikuzushi could ever have any use for something so inconsequential.

“You must be the pet.”

The Adventurer let out an unflattering noise as her shoulders shot up to her ears. Heart running leaps inside her chest, she turned to the owner of the voice and her shock came in a second wave at finding one of the most beautiful women she had ever seen standing by her side. Tall, with platinum-blonde hair and finely dressed, she also stared at the docks.

The Adventurer knew right away who she was.

 “There’s a pest by the name of La Signora demanding my attention.”

“You’re La Signora, right? The one who came to take… Scaramouche to Inazuma.”

“What if I am?” La Signora asked with a scowl on her red-painted lips. “Do you resent me for taking him away from you?”

The Adventurer blinked, taken aback by the question, and took a moment to ponder.

“K- Scaramouche and I just met,” she said after a few moments, rubbing her thumb over smooth enamel flowers. “There’s not enough between us to resent.”

La Signora fixed her icy gaze upon her. Her mask was covering her right eye, but her left one was certainly more than sharp enough to cut deep with just a glance.

“I certainly hope this is an attempt to fool yourself. Or I might just have to put you in your place for daring to try lying to me.”

“I’m not lying,” the Adventurer said. “We must have spent four days together in total. If that.”

“For fools, a night is all it takes,” La Signora said with a smile full of teeth. “And only a fool would ever let someone as horrible as Scaramouche get close to her.”

The Adventurer closed her fist over her heart. “We can all be fools sometimes. That’s what I think.”

La Signora seemed taken aback by her words; her diamond-sharp gaze dulled as she turned back to the horizon. The Adventurer stared at her, wondering what was going through her head, wondering what could make a woman like her - who possessed such cold eyes and cutting smile - look so forlorn.

“May I ask something of you?”

Ice quickly overlaid the glimpse of raw sadness in La Signora’s gaze at her question, but the Adventurer pressed forward. Before she lost her nerve - or quite possibly her head -, she extended a humble hand towards the Harbinger, making an offering of her inconsequential little heart.

“Would you give this to him? I mean, it doesn’t have to be you, as I imagine that such a silly errand is far below a Harbinger’s rank. But, if it’s not much trouble, could you ask one of your subordinates to deliver it to him? They can just leave it somewhere in his room or something. No need to even have to say it’s from me. I know it’s stupid. He likely will throw it away as soon as he sees it. But… I got this for him. So I figured I may just… you know.”

La Signora had no words for her, but the look she gave her was enough to make it clear to the Adventurer that she saw her as nothing more than a worm. A particularly daft worm.

It was the same look Kunikuzushi gave her a few hours ago, just before walking away.

Blood rushed to her face as the Adventurer lowered her hand and eyes; she could feel tears threatening to burst through again.

“Sorry,” she said in a whisper. “It was a dumb request.”

The Adventurer was about to hide the stupid trinket in her pocket when an icy hand closed around her wrist like an iron bar.

“You!”

The Adventurer watched in stunned silence as a Gunslinger sprinted towards them before dropping to a knee in front of La Signora. The Harbinger pulled the artefact from her hand and threw it toward her subordinate, who was barely able to catch it before it hit the floor.

“Deliver this to that nuisance that calls himself the Balladeer.” The order fell from La Signora’s lips like an icicle. “But do it tomorrow, after we set sail to Inazuma.”

“Yes, my lady,” the Fatuus said, before scurrying away.

At last, La Signora released the Adventurer’s wrist, leaving a red handprint on her skin that felt like an ice burn. Without a word, she turned her back to her and walked away.

“Wait!” The Adventurer said, rushing to catch up with La Signora’s long strides. “Thank you for doing that. But… Why did you? I thought-”

“We can all be fools. But only sometimes, so don’t get used to it.”

The Adventurer froze in her tracks and watched La Signora march away from her without even sparing her a glance.

---

If Scaramouche’s defective heart allowed him to feel emotions like a normal person, he would have been all too happy to leave Liyue. Scratch that, he would have been ecstatic to bid this ridiculous nation and its occupants a long-overdue goodbye.  

Once he was back in Inazuma, he would finally claim what was rightfully his and bring Beelzebub down to her knees. After centuries of being denied his Gnosis and his fate, he would make himself a god - a complete being, worthy of unconditional worship.

Scaramouche should have been joyous to leave, no matter how crookedly the coils in his chest turned.

However, as he watched the city of Liyue Harbour move slowly away from him, Scaramouche felt nothing but resentment and a vague, almost-there regret. Not for leaving the city - honestly, it was too bad Tartaglia was so useless that he could not bring it down, even with help from an old god - but for being unable to take with him what he wanted.

If he had been better - calmer, more composed and compromising -, would the Adventurer have agreed to come with?

 That doesn’t matter now. She doesn’t matter.

Scaramouche scowled as elemental energy left him in waves, something that did not go unnoticed by the Gunslinger approaching. The poor Fatuus gulped and looked down at the small heart-shaped artefact in his hands, wondering which was worse: to risk being blasted off the ship by Lord Scaramouche, or to run away and accept La Signora’s punishment for disobeying her orders?

Before he could reach an answer, Scaramouche noticed his presence. And he was all too happy to have someone to direct his annoyance at.

“What are you standing there for? If you have something to say, get over here.”

The Gunslinger felt cold sweat run down his back as he quickly took the last few steps towards the Harbinger in front of him before dropping to his knee.

“My lord,” he greeted, voice trembling. “I’m so sorry to bother you so early in the day, but I came at the request of my lady, La Signora.”

Just the mention of her name seemed to put the Balladeer in an even worse mood, and he made sure the poor Gunslinger felt it as his energy pressed down on him, making him lay a fist on the floor to keep himself partially upright as Electro made his skin itch.

“You better run back and tell that witch that I have no interest in any message that comes from her.”

“My lord,” the Gunslinger repeated, eyes still on the floor. “It’s a delivery. She has ordered me to deliver something to you.”

The energy weighing down on the Gunslinger’s shoulders seemed to ease slightly, and he dared to sneak a glance at his superior. Lord Scaramouche was still scowling, looking down at him as if he was an insect, but there was a tinge of curiosity in his eyes.

“Well, what is it?”

Knowing there was no escaping now, the Gunslinger swallowed his fears and presented the small artefact to the Sixth Harbinger. He saw his lord’s eyes glow for a moment - like lightning falling from the sky - as he quickly snatched the thing from his hand. He barely even glanced at it before fixing the destructive power of that gaze upon the cowering Fatuus kneeling before him.

“Is this some sort of joke?” Lord Scaramouche asked, voice rumbling like thunder. “Do you think this is funny?”

“No, my lord! Please, I’m just following orders,” the Gunslinger said, trembling as he shut his eyes tight. “I don’t know why La Signora asked me to bring this to you. It isn’t even from herself.”

“…What?”

“She was talking to an Adventurer yesterday, and she took this from her hands and ordered me to give it to you after we set sail. I’m so sorry, my lord. I didn’t mean to upset you. I was just-”

There was a brief moment of white-hot pain as the Gunslinger felt the Balladeer’s foot connect with his stomach and send him flying until his back hit the mast of the ship. He fell to the floor gasping in pain, but after a few moments to catch his breath, he managed to push himself up in a sittng position, just in time to see his lord Harbinger disappear below deck.

As a couple of Fatui soldiers approached to check his well-being, the Gunslinger whispered a quick prayer to her Majesty, the Tsaritsa. All things considered, he felt that he was rather lucky for completing his order with nothing more than a few bruises to show.

From the glimpse he caught of the look in the Sixth Harbinger’s eyes, the Gunslinger knew he was angry enough to kill.

---

Inside his cabin, Scaramouche paced from side to side with dozens of questions in his head and a little heart in his hand.

 When did she buy me this? Was it before or after our fight? Why did she still find a way to give this to me? What does she mean by it? Is she not angry with me? Does she not resent what I said to her?

And he did say quite a lot of horrible things, didn’t he? Scaramouche recalled every word he spat at her the day before and felt a very familiar sense of distaste, but it was strangely aimed at his own person. Nothing of what he had said was true, so-

 Why did I say those things? Did I want to hurt her that badly? Was I actually trying to push her away?

He had certainly succeeded on that front. Though he was an ever-lasting existence, Scaramouche was completely out of time. There was no way he could go back now without losing everything he worked for in the last centuries. Which begged the question-

 Why did that witch not give this to me yesterday, or anytime before we set sail? Was she trying to prevent me from finding her? From bringing her with me?

Like most Harbingers, the Eighth of them took pleasure in watching other people’s misery so it was not far-fetched to figure that this little stunt may just haven been her way to dangle the Adventurer in front of Scaramouche - close enough to make him salivate, but still just out of reach. He bet that the shrew was cackling like the old hag she was inside her cabin, certainly so satisfied with herself. The thought alone made Scaramouche clench his jaw and his fists.

And he regretted it immediately as a cracking noise reached his ears. Cursing under his breath, Scaramouche rushed to the desk tucked right beneath the large window of his cabin and set the box there to examine the damage he had done.

“Fuck. No, nonononono.”

Cracks formed a spiderweb on the enamel top of his gift, marrying its smooth surface with rough indentations that crooked the painted flowers’ lovely arrangement.

Scaramouche’s hand hovered above the heart, fingers flexing as he stared at the damage he had done. Though he didn’t need to breathe, his chest moved up and down rapidly as his anger, stress and misery mixed in a boiling concoction inside him that was quickly bubbling its way up his neck.

He could see the Adventurer standing before him, giving him that sad, disapproving look that made him feel all sorts of inadequate. Scowling, Scaramouche turned his gaze back at the artefact on his table, successfully blocking the vision of the Adventurer.

But not her voice.

 Why did you do something like that?

“It’s not my fault!” Scaramouche screamed, glaring down at the inanimate object as if it was the origins of all the horrible feelings building up steam - building up pressure - inside the machine that he was. “If you had just agreed to come with me, none of this would’ve happened. I would’ve treated you like a queen, given you everything you could’ve asked for. And if you wanted to continue to work as an Adventurer so bad, I would have figured out a way to get you the damn paperwork. I would!”

Then why didn’t you tell her that? Another voice asked, and it took Scaramouche a moment to recognise it was his voice, calmly berating him from inside his own head. Why didn’t you reassure her when you could?

“She should have known! I shouldn’t need to spell out everything for her all the time. Some things should be understood without saying! And if she’s too stupid to figure that out by herself, then- then!”

Then it’s better that you left her, Dottore’s voice whispered, and he could easily picture his shark-smile. What was the point of even entertaining the possibility of taking that silly Adventurer with you? Do you think she would have stayed by your side? One deep look inside that horrific machine you have for a heart would be enough to send her running to the mountains. And if she was able to look past all the gunk and crooked coils of your being, she would still leave you through death. You think an air-head like that will survive long?

“Shut up!”

Scaramouche slammed his palms on the desk loudly, and silence fell over him like a curtain.

“It’s not my fault,” he repeated one last time as looked down.

Trembling fingers glided over the table before they settled on cracked enamel, caressing the heart he was given and which he had broken.

---

The Adventurer watched Kunikuzushi sail away. Alone, she stood on the docks, eyes trained on the Snezhnayan ship, until it disappeared on the horizon.

Well, that’s that, she thought, rubbing her eyes with the back of her hands before pulling on the straps of her backpack. I should be on my way as well.

Just as the Adventurer turned around, a very familiar, high-pitched voice called her name.

“Paimon, Traveller,” the Adventurer greeted the two approaching figures with a smile that hopefully didn’t look as forced as it felt. “We’ve been running into each other quite a lot lately.”

“That’s true! Paimon thought you would have gone back to Mondstadt already!” The floating creature said. “It’s not usual for you to stay so long in Liyue, right? Oh, no! Don’t tell Paimon that you were with that horrible Harbinger until now!”

The Adventurer clenched her teeth to keep her smile in place, but she could still feel her lips tremble as tears burned the back of her eyes.

“Shut up!” The Traveler scolded, giving their companion the look. “She doesn’t want to talk about it.”

Paimon immediately started to fret and apologise.

It’s fine, don’t worry. I’m just a bit sensitive right now, is all,” the Adventurer said as she rubbed her eyes again before giving a couple of light slaps to her cheeks. “Anyway, it’s weird that you guys are still here as well.”

“We’re looking for Atsuko,” the Traveler explained, quick to pick up on the Adventurer’s desire to change the subject. “Have you seen her, by any chance?”

“Atsuko? Yes, I’m pretty sure I did,” the Adventurer answered, tapping a finger against her chin as she slowly turned around, eyes searching the people in the docks. “She should be… Oh, there she is!” The Adventurer pointed towards the young woman with a smile. “Did you take a commission from her?”

“Nothing like that,” Paimon said, floating with her hands behind her back. “Paimon and the Traveler are hoping to get to Inazuma, and we thought Atsuko might be able to tell us how to gain entrance. She is from Inazuma, right?”

The Adventurer felt her heart skip a beat as a very specific Inazuman came to mind, but was quick to push his infuriatingly flawless face to the back of her thoughts.

“Guess the Electro Archon is the next one on your list, huh?”

 He called her Beelzebub, his creator. His… mother.

“That’s right! Paimon has a feeling they will be the one to lead us to the Traveler’s sibling!”

The Adventurer smiled and reached out, holding the Traveller’s hand in both of hers.

“I’m rooting for you. I really hope you find your sibling, Traveler. Next time I’m in Mondstadt Cathedral, I’ll say a prayer for you.”

The Traveler smiled and squeezed her hands. “Thank you.”

“What about Paimon?” The flying creature asked, shaking her fists in the air.

“Of course, I’ll say one- no, two prayers for Paimon as well,” the Adventurer reassured as she released the Traveler’s hands to adjust her backpack.

“Good!” Paimon said. “Are you going back to Mondstadt already?”

“Yes, I got a few things for my sibling’s kids and I want to give it to them. Also… I think I want to sit down with my parents and try to have an actual conversation with them for once.”

The Traveler and Paimon exchanged a look - both aware that the Adventurer’s relationship with her family was a bit tense, though they didn’t know the details.

“I think that’s good,” the Traveler said at last. “Communication is important. Mind if I ask what brought this about?”

The Adventurer shrugged as she looked down at her feet.

 “And, after putting yourself through all of that, you don’t even have a home to go back to. I mean, if you were to die in the wild, how long would it take for anyone to notice you were gone?”

“I don’t know. It’s been so many years that I honestly thought I’d never want to talk to either of them again. But right now I feel like I’m losing them. I just… I guess I don’t want to feel like I’ve given up on my family without a fight, you know?”

“I do,” the Traveler said, and she knew they meant it with every fibre of their being. “I hope it goes well.”

The Adventurer grimaced. “Me too.”

“Paimon is sure everything will work out fine! There may be some arguments, and maybe a bit of screaming… likely a lot of crying too,” Paimon said, voice trailing off as the Traveler gave her the look, again. The Adventurer didn’t look too bright either, so she was quick to change her tune. “But every family gets in fights now and then! And these things take time too, you know? So if it becomes too much, you can always take a few days off and then go back to talk more.”

“That is actually a good idea,” the Adventurer said. “Who knows, maybe after you two have enough time to stir the pot in Inazuma, I may be able to visit, too.”

“We don’t plan to do anything crazy there,” the Traveler said. “I just want to ask the Electro Archon about my sibling. I’m hopeful everything will work out fine this time around.”

The Adventurer pursed her lips, swallowing a list of reasons of why she doubted those two would ever be able to go through a country without causing some sort of uproar. While most of them had to do with the Traveler’s track-record, there was one important reason she could not in good conscience omit; regardless of the number of Fatui watching them.

“I’m sure it will,” the Adventurer said with a smile as she pulled the Traveler in a quick hug and whispered in their ear: “The Fatui are in Inazuma. Be careful.”

As quick as the Adventurer pulled the Traveler in, she pushed them back, ignoring their wide-eyed stare. She made sure to hug Paimon next, keeping the same silly smile on her face.

“You two take care, alright?”

“We will!” Paimon reassured. “Now come on, Traveler. Let’s go talk to Atsuko.”

The Traveler nodded, sparing the Adventurer one last smile before walking away.

The Adventurer kept a smile on her face as she watched them go, even though she could feel a horrible weight settle in the pit of her gut.

Why didn’t she tell them about Kunikuzushi- no, about the Balladeer? Was it because she didn’t even want to mention his name? Or due to a misguided sense of loyalty that she really should not have towards a man she has known for a grand total of four days - if that -, and who left her after saying the most hurtful things she ever heard in her life?

This is ridiculous, the Adventurer thought, again rubbing tears off her eyes as she spun on her heels and started her long march back to Mondstadt. I am ridiculous, letting him get to me like that.

She really was, but she could not help it; despite the way Kunikuzushi left her, the Adventurer could not stop thinking about him. And it wasn’t even the expected “good riddance, I didn’t like him anyway” sort of thoughts. Oh no, when the Adventurer thought about Kunikuzushi - which was all the time - she couldn’t help but wonder how he was doing, if he was alright, and if her gift made its way to him in the end.

 Not that Kunikuzushi would care about it. He made it clear he has no use for any heart that would come from me. And I should not think about him, anyway. I should focus on what I’ll say to my parents when I see them. Yes, that’s what I’ll do now! No more thoughts about Kunikuzushi!

And focus the Adventurer did. At least for a couple of hours, she was able to drive away thoughts of Kunikuzushi as she played out a multitude of scenarios inside her head of how her conversation with her parents could go.

Those proved to be as heart-wrenching and as butterfly-inducing as wondering about Kunikuzushi’s well-being.

“I’m exhausted just thinking about it,” the Adventurer said out-loud. “I might need to take some time for myself, like Paimon said.”

Looking over her shoulder, she could see that she had already put some distance between herself and Liyue Harbour. While she loved the city, she didn’t see herself returning to it anytime soon. She may not have too many memories with Kunikuzushi there, but they were definitely too intense for relieving after the emotional rollercoaster she planned to power through with her parents.

“It’s been a while since I’ve been to Sumeru,” the Adventurer mused as she tugged on the straps of her backpack. “Maybe I should go back.”

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okay I'll bite: what is dmbj and why should I watch it?

OH!!! OKAY. An opportunity to ramble, thank you very much :D

(Disclaimer: I myself am a newcomer and have quite literally only been into DMBJ for just under a month. There are lots of things I do not know yet, and I'm nowhere close to taking in all of canon. That being said:)

DMBJ or Dào Mù Bǐ Jì (called either The Lost Tomb or The Grave Robbers' Chronicles in English) is a franchise based on a book series of the same name by Nan Pai San Shu (real name Xu Lei). It's a sprawling universe with lots of side stories and characters, but the main narrative follows Wu Xie, who's the youngest member and heir of an established tomb-raiding family. Different parts of DMBJ follow him at different points of his life as he explores ancient archaeological sites with his friends and allies (main ones being Zhang Qiling and Wang Pangzi), and attempts to solve mysteries using clues left behind by the generation(s) of tomb raiders who came before.

The books have been adapted into many TV shows and spinoff movies. Each one follows a different part of the story, and they're not adapted in chronological order (creators pick and choose what they want to cover basically and the details of the overarching narrative aren't always consistent between adaptations). It can get confusing. Each adaptation also usually has a completely different slate of actors, even though the characters are the same. There are some actors who show up in more than one adaptation, either reprising a role or playing a different character each time, but for the most part people are switched in and out.

Now, some of why you should start on DMBJ (imo):

The RELATIONSHIPS and character development. The dynamics between everyone, regardless of the nature of them, are just great. Keep in mind the books are not BL but there are a couple consistent pairings that show up in this fandom (see: Pingxie and Heihua) and there are VERY GOOD REASONS for that. Overall it's so satisfying to watch bonds form between characters in general though, and how those bonds change depending on how long they've known each other and what the tone of that adaptation calls for. Even if other aspects of the shows can be handled less well, the emotional beats hit.

Action and plot! There are definitely slower portions and questionable pacing in (some of) the adaptations, but it's a fun, adventure-based narrative that reveals clues well. There's exploration of creepy places, running from supernatural entities, and actual proper human fight sequences, all wrapped up in uncovering mysteries. I mean, it's centred around tomb-raiding, what do you expect, and these shows certainly deliver although you're going to have to suspend your disbelief sometimes.

Shifts in tone and casting. Granted, some people might prefer to stick with a consistent cast and mood throughout the franchise, or just care to stick with a particular actor, but in my opinion this is a really smart technique because it keeps the whole thing fresh. You can compare different shows and see how various actors adapt/play a character, and with the tone changing sometimes between adaptations it means there can be something for everyone. For example, something like Ultimate Note (2020) is more light-hearted than Sha Hai/Tomb of the Sea (2018), which is a darker and more serious show among the adaptations. Choose what you like!

As for actually selecting a point to start watching DMBJ and get into the characters, it can seem overwhelming and understandably so. You're not obligated to start at the chronological beginning of the franchise, either. I picked up on Ultimate Note, then watched Sha Hai, and now I'm on Reunion: The Sound of the Providence (or The Lost Tomb Reboot) and I was able to jump into the plot and follow along pretty well.

If you want some help here, foxofninetales has this excellent guide to help you choose a place in the franchise to get going, depending on your preferences (I used this when trying to start DMBJ myself). There's also this character guide on Ao3 to help you visually understand who is who across adaptations, and another which goes into more detail on each character, although watch out for some spoilers.

Hope this is convincing enough and/or helpful for a basic rundown on DMBJ and why I like it!

#dmbj #daomu biji #the lost tomb #ashton answers #anon

[wellthebardsdead]

Riiju-Lei: *sighs with relief up at breezehome as they approach through the still quiet early morning streets of whiterun* Home at last…

Nerevar: I passed by this place so many times when I first arrived here and I had no clue you were just behind these doors…

Riiju-Lei: that explains the random bouts of excitement I had then. I played a lot of tag with the kids those days. Speaking of which, I hope Caryalind handled looking after everyone okay- *opens the door to find Lydia cleaning up the mess the kids had made of the house, Khash quietly helping her and Caryalind passed out from exhaustion by the fireplace* oh dear.

Lydia: *looks up* oh my thane!

Khash: DAD!!! *drops the broom and runs to Riiju jumping up into his arms*

Riiju-Lei: *laughs and hugs her tight* Hello little shadowscale!

Caryalind: *jumps and flails out of his chair with a thud* Ugh! Hnuh?? *looks up to see the group entering* You’re back! It went well I take it??

Riiju-Lei: *smiles* better then just well. *sets Khash down gently* Everything… here? Go well?

Caryalind: *still on the floor* Oh yes, just fine, the kids were delightful…

Riiju-Lei: *quirks his brow*

Caryalind: …Alesan put lizards in my underwear, Blaise got caught shoplifting, Sofie kept bringing wild animals into the house and Lucia broke her hand punching Braith in the face… Khash was the only well behaved one.

Riiju-Lei: *sighs* thank you cary, go have a proper rest I’ll get our new friends settled in and make us all breakfast.

Caryalind: new fri- *spots nerevar then goes visibly pink as Miraak suddenly steps over him offering his hand* I-

Miraak: Let me help you up.

Caryalind: oh my you have a very deep voice- *shakily takes his hand and instantly gets pulled to his feet*

Taliesin: *brow twitching feeling protective of his prince* …

Kaidan: *gives his ass a squeeze* oi. Leave him be.

Riiju-Lei: *snickers taking nerevars hand and leading him upstairs as everyone else starts to unpack and relax* I’ll come help you clean up in a minute Lydia, thank you.

Lydia: *smiles at him and nerevar as they go by* thank you my thane.

Nerevar: *follows Riiju upstairs and into the master bedroom* it’s a lovely house you have here, your daughter is adorable too but… her tail- sh- she wasn’t hurt was she?

Riiju-Lei: hm? Oh Khash. No she just wasn’t born with one. She’s small but she’s the oldest of my kids. The others must all be still asleep. Usually she comes along on adventures, she’s an excellent fighter but… given miraak sent cultists after me and they targeted my family specifically… I didn’t feel safe bringing her along. *chuckles* funny how he’s now downstairs wooing the prince of the aldmeri dominion.

Nerevar: *brain short circuiting* I’m sorry he’s the what now?

Riiju-Lei: oh right, there’s a lot you need to catch up on. I’m sure we’ll discuss it over breakfast but let’s get you unpacked first yes? *smiles at him before dropping his pack on the bed to empty it*

Nerevar: … *smiles and gently embraces him from behind, resting his head against his shoulder* you’ve built a beautiful life here LeiLei… you found so many people who love you and a place where you can feel safe.

Riiju-Lei: *gently reaches back running his fingers through his soft white hair* and now I can finally feel that love thanks to you making me whole again… my moon and star…

Nerevar: *slides his hands up his torso beginning to playfully tug at and undo the straps of his armour* there was a place within my heart empty for too long when I was without you… im glad we’re finally together again… My Voryn…

Riiju-Lei: …I think we can wait a few minutes for breakfast don’t you?

*meanwhile downstairs*

Sero: They’re certainly taking a while up thei-

A wine bottle on the kitchen table: 🍾

Kaidan: and they’re fucking.

Taliesin: *sighs* I’ll get breakfast started.

#khash skyrim #Caryalind skyrim #skyrim taliesin #Kaidan skyrim #teldryn sero #Lydia skyrim #riiju lei dragonborn #indoril nerevar #nerevar #voryn dagoth

[amazinlei]

🎃🎃 HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE FROM YOUR LOCAL MOTH MA'AM!!! 🎃🎃

i celebrated with my sister over the weekend a couple of days ago, and it was a blast! Figured I'd post these since my sister's face is obscured by a pumpkin already X'D

#you see I went to the trunk or treat at the farmer's market and got some candy that I already finished :P #snickers my beloved!!! I got so many snickers I got stuffed by the end of the night XwX' #but currently I'm watching halloween 1978 and going to watch over the garden wall after #after that I'm not sure what I'll do for the rest of today but it's only midnight we have plenty of time to watch everything I want! #Lei stop being silly #Halloween #Mothman #cryptidcore #pumpkin carving #jack o lantern #spooky season #happy halloween #Lei's Adventures In Life

[disco-elysium-via-polls]

🎵 None

Once we arrive in Roy's shop, our much greater Perception points us to this rack of clothing.

RACK OF SECOND-HAND UNIFORMS - Wow! A very large red T-shirt with an impressive print stands out from the other garb.

Oh yeah?

Not now. [Leave.]

RACK OF SECOND-HAND UNIFORMS - *Oh* yeah. The print depicts a muscled man striding toward you, a giant sword in each hand, encircled by burning embers. Behind him is a cluster of cabins engulfed in flames. Beneath him are the words: "HJELMDALL BURNING."

Sniff the T-shirt.

"That's a rad Man from Hjelmdall t-shirt you've got there."

"This shirt celebrates a false hero, a guardian of the masculine order."

"How much are you selling this T-shirt for?"

Let go of the T-shirt. [Leave.]

RACK OF SECOND-HAND UNIFORMS - Smells like worn cotton. And a little old sweat there?

PERCEPTION (SMELL) [Medium: Success] - Worn cotton with a side of flea market or trash bin.

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "Sniffing is okay," says the shopkeep. "But please don't try anything on. Can't have you leaving your photon emissions in the fabric of things you're not going to buy."

INLAND EMPIRE [Easy: Success] - You're not imagining it. Photon emissions? What is he talking about?

2. "That's a rad Man from Hjelmdall t-shirt you've got there."

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "Hell yeah, man." The shopkeep sounds enthusiastic. "I don't usually carry printed tees, but this one was just such a pure exemplar."

"You must be a serious Man from Hjelmdall fan."

"We have a lot in common. I'm a big fan of the Man from Hjelmdall too."

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "A fan... No, I wouldn't go that far. But I do think the Hjelmdallermann Saga is an integral part of our shared reality."

"Most people don't think that the Man from Hjemdall really existed, but they're *wrong*."

3. "What did you mean the Man from Hjelmdall was real?"

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "I mean -- even if the Man from Hjelmdall didn't exist before the adventure novels, the stories have made it so that he has. It's simple really."

KIM KITSURAGI - "Okay..." He sounds incredulous.

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "You sound sceptical. It's not that complicated. All that's required is a more robust understanding of cause and effect."

"Besides, I've been to Katla, though not quite as far north as the Hjelmdall, and watched the northern lights travel across the sky. Very unique energetic tides there."

CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success] - His theory isn't exactly *incoherent*, but its logic does suggest some *unusual* neural activity. Interesting...

INLAND EMPIRE [Easy: Success] - Very, *very* unique energies indeed. Geomagnetic ley lines, one might even say.

4. "This shirt celebrates a false hero, a guardian of the masculine order."

BIRD'S NEST ROY - He drums his fingers on the counter. "I doubt the real Man from Hjelmdall was as poor a role model as the one in the popular literature."

"But, yes, the books are very sexist. In a not-entirely-unenjoyable way."

5. "How much are you selling this T-shirt for?"

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "Two reál."

KIM KITSURAGI - The lieutenant raises his eyebrows. "That's dirt cheap."

"Couldn't you just give it to me for free then?"

"Cool, I'll think about it."

BIRD'S NEST ROY - He frowns. "But... why?"

"Because I'm a broke cop without a cent to my name."

"The Man from Hjelmdall is a superstar, I'm a superstar -- it would be perfect!"

"Perhaps I could repay you in some other way?"

"I guess I can't really think of any good reason."

+1 Superstar cop

BIRD'S NEST ROY - He thinks about it. "I suppose that makes sense, yes. Please, go ahead and take it -- Welcome to Hjelmdall."

Item gained: T-Shirt "Man From Hjelmdall"

Huh.

+1 Physical Instrument: Inspiring musculature +1 Shivers: Sprawling saga -2 Authority: Too old for this shirt

The Man from Hjelmdall is standing in front of a burning village, dual-wielding his ever-present zweihänders. His muscles look ready to burst out of the two-dimensional print and into your three-dimensional life.

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "Greetings on this fine night. What brings you here?"

"You do know that it's not really a 'fine night'? The weather is terrible."

"How come you're still open?"

"It's cool that you're still open. Big city vibes."

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "Is it?" He turns his head to the right and then to the left, as if looking for non-existent windows. "Spring is capricious, yes."

2. "It's cool that you're still open. Big city vibes."

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "The pawnshop is always open."

We have a couple of new dialogue options.

"I'm looking for something that plays a tape. For police business."

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "Yeah, we still have those boomboxes on the shelves."

4. "Do you know anything about the traffic menace on the loose?"

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "Traffic... I'm sorry, officer, but I don't drive."

"Wait, why don't you drive?"

"But didn't you hear it when the traffic menace drove over your roof?"

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "I just don't like it very much. Movement on the road never really gelled well with the movement of my thoughts."

"But didn't you hear it when the traffic menace drove over your roof?"

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "Now that I think about it, I do remember hearing a thunderous noise the other night -- some kind of powerful electric vortex hitting the shop and then moving on..."

+5 XP

KIM KITSURAGI - "That sure narrows down our list of suspects."

"A vortex? Sounds fascinating."

"Does that mean you don't have any idea who the driver was?"

"I can understand how you would mistake Jacob Irw for a powerful electric vortex."

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "Jacob Irw? The great TipTop champion? Yes, yes..."

KIM KITSURAGI - His forehead creases. "Do you think it may have been... Jacob Irw who drove over your roof?"

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "It's a logical explanation. I felt within that thunderous crash a soul plunged into chaos."

3. [Electrochemistry - Challenging 12] Is Roy high -- and if yes, what is he on?

Our conversation about the shirt has given us a *lot* of new bonuses to this.

+2 Roy's prices are strange. +1 Roy doesn't really sleep. +2 Odd brain activity. +1 Composure noticed psychedelics. +1 Strange tie incident.

ELECTROCHEMISTRY [Challenging: Success] - Feeling warm and enthralled by the movement of light, while the mind continues to race forward? Lucky bastard -- he's probably on Pyrholidon. It's tough to come by on the street.

Pyrholidon? What is that?

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - A drug developed by the military to treat and prevent radiation sickness. It has psychedelic side-effects. *And* it makes your eyes turn yellow!

"Is it just me, or is it really warm in here?" (Look around.)

(Step closer.) "Sir, could you take off your sunglasses? I'd like to check your eyes."

(Get straight to the point.) "So, where does a man get Pyrholidon these days?"

BIRD'S NEST ROY - He tilts his head. "I try to keep the shop at a comfortable temperature."

EMPATHY [Easy: Success] - There's a note of indignation in his voice. Interesting.

ESPRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - Those triangle patches on his vest... you have a feeling they *mean* something. Like they're similar to the halogen rectangle on your jacket.

(Point at his clothes.) "Say, what's with the triangles on your vest?"

"It's pretty obvious that you're under the influence, sir."

"No judgement -- just curious. I probably did loads of Pyrholidon before I lost my memory."

"Chill out, man -- I'm a chill out cop who just wants some of what you're having." (Wink.)

BIRD'S NEST ROY - He hesitates. "I was... I was with the Emergency Relief Brigade. You know, after the People's Pile disaster." He coughs, as if to mark his words.

"Had to take Pyrholidon for radiation sickness. That's what you were hinting at just now, wasn't it?"

PAIN THRESHOLD [Easy: Success] - He's taking it for mental and emotional, not physical pain these days.

"The People's Pile? What's that?"

"Tell me more about this Emergency Relief Brigade you were part of."

"It must have been tough -- radioactive clean-up."

"How did you end up running a pawnshop?"

"Thank you for telling me." (Conclude.)

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "A bad idea. Some poor leftists built a particle decay generator in hopes of bringing affordable electricity to under-served communities. It malfunctioned. Radioactive waste everywhere, probably some of it in *you*, too."

2. "Tell me more about this Emergency Relief Brigade you were part of."

BIRD'S NEST ROY - He points at the white triangle on his orange safety jacket. "We were an all-volunteer force, self-organized. Tried to help fire brigades contain the spill."

PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Medium: Success] - On the patch -- gamma radiation lines crossed with a red drop of blood.

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "I lived by the river since I was a small boy. The Esperance... didn't have the heart to let it all go to shit without trying to *do* something, to help out."

"There wasn't much the volunteer force could do, however. We wasted years in the river mud. Years getting sick..." He looks at the spiralling light and stops.

3. "It must have been tough -- radioactive clean-up."

BIRD'S NEST ROY - He hesitates. "There's a reason why everyone's tried to forget any of it ever happened, and why no one has tried to repair or replace the Pile."

"So much disappointment -- and early deaths, cancer mostly. And we knew all that was coming even as we were *cleaning up* as best we could."

"Whose fault was it that the generator failed?"

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "No one's, everyone's..." He sighs and shakes his head.

EMPATHY [Trivial: Success] - So much bitterness.

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "A bunch of poor people built themselves a primitive nuclear reactor, hoping for the best. What do you think is going to happen?"

4. "How did you end up running a pawnshop?"

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "The clean-up happened fifteen years ago. I was young then. Later my second aunt died, left me this shack and the assorted junk in it."

"So I came to Martinaise. People told me don't go there, it's a *shit-hole*. I said: people, we just had a *nuclear pile meltdown*. I'm gonna get as far from Faubourg as I can. Still in the same city, but..." He shrugs.

5. "Thank you for telling me." (Conclude.)

BIRD'S NEST ROY - He shrugs. "I like theory more than story. Outward movement, not vortices."

+5 XP

ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Yeah... you gotta get in on those vortices, my man.

We *could* now ask Roy for some Pyrholidon. It gives +1 Psyche and -1 Health, so it's not especially useful for us, thought.

9. "I have other business to take care of now." [Leave.]

THOUGHT COMPLETE: THE JAMROCK SHUFFLE

BONUSES: Find better loot in locked containers

SOLUTION: In a way, yes. You *are* treasure hunting. Most officers from Precinct 41 do what is called the Jamrock Shuffle -- cracking open containers. Most of them are from Jamrock or Coal City, the poorest parts of Revachol that also overlap with the network of royal catacombs called Le Royaume, just beneath the streets. As children you would all go underground, hoping to find treasure, and come back with a rat’s tail or a used needle. That playful curiosity must still be in you. Who knows. Maybe one day the Orbe de Montagne, the Holy Scepter, and the Cocaine Skull will all be yours!

SHELF OF BOOMBOXES - The boomboxes wait on the shelves. And your boombox -- that gold and amber Harmon Wowshi -- stares at you longingly with its tape reel eyes.

"Are you sure this is all in working order?"

"Can I just play a tape on one of the boomboxes real quick?"

[12.00] "I want to buy the boombox."

"Can I get a discount on the boombox? A *police* discount."

"That's all." [Leave.]

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "Sorry, man. I can't be giving out freebies. Never have, won't now."

Uh...

Anyway, we want to have this boombox in our possession. For karaoke.

4. "Can I get a discount on this boombox? A *police* discount."

BIRD'S NEST ROY - "A discount? I do have to keep the lights on, man. It's twelve reál."

CONCEPTUALIZATION [Medium: Success] - Remember -- he doesn't like music. He likes *sounds*. The *Doorgunner Megamix* is his type of tape! Certainly he'd give you a discount if he knew you'd play something so *experimental*.

#disco elysium #kim kitsuragi #bird's nest roy

[fandomanimatic-tournament]

Fandom song animatic tournament: Bracket 1 Side B Round 2

Soldier, Poet, King - The Oh Hellos

"There will come a soldier Who carries a mighty sword He will tear your city down Oh lei, oh lai, oh, Lord"

Crossing the Line - Tangled the Series

"No! This has to stop now This thing where you think that you've been my friend And don't even hear how you condescend The way you've always done"

Remember that we're voting on how Iconic they are for ANIMATICS, not for the song itself. In order to make things fair, the tone and mood of the song should not affect how iconic it is (for example, a serious song should not be considered more iconic than a joke song just because it's serious)

Propaganda and animatic links of the songs under the cut:

Soldier, Poet, King - The Oh Hellos

Propaganda:

Everyone was doing animatics of this. The meme was that you’d choose one of your blorbos to represent the “soldier,” one for the “poet”, and one for the “king.” The original point of the song is that “soldier poet and king” are all one person, and that person is Jesus, but literally no one cares about that. Who needs Jesus when you have Warrior Cats?

What's that?...it's supposed to be about Jesus? NOT ANYMORE, BABEY!! It's about my BLORBOS

It's a really nice song and can highlight different characters and their talents/abilities

If your fandom is fantasy, has a fantasy au, or characters that fit the roles, this can works. Can probably fit any fandom.

you look this song up on yt and youre going to find an animatic with it for every fandom in existence i stg man

Animatics with the song:

Song of Achilles

DSMP Sleepy Bois Animatic

Genshin Impact

The Owl House

The Adventure Zone

Crossing the Line - Tangled the Series

Propaganda:

No Propaganda Submitted

Animatics with the song:

She-Ra

Encanto

Double Life Desert Duo

Marcanne Animatic

BNHA Villain Uraraka Animatic

Please be cautious and read the title, description and warning cards on the animatic videos if you decide to watch them. If you've got specific triggers I'd recommend even more caution when watching animatics of fandoms you don't know, since sometimes canon-typical themes don't get warnings.

#fandom animatic tournament #tumblr poll #tumblr tournament #tumblr tourney

[yurimother]

The 2022 Yuri Pride Guide - Games and Visual Novels

Your ultimate guide to Yuri with over 170 diverse titles from every genre and medium

Pride month may be over, but that does not mean the celebration has to end! With a priority on quality storytelling and positive representation, this curated list features anime, manga, light novels, games, and webcomics that showcase love and passion for Yuri.

Blackberry Honey

• Shakaijin • Drama • Romance

Forced to work for fourteen hours a day, with little chance to rest, Lorina, the newest maid to the Lennard family, is bullied by the senior maids and the youngest Lennard daughter. One of the only maids who deigns to speak to Lorina is the mysterious Taohua – but Lorina wishes she wouldn’t. Her aloof, almost cat-like personality, coupled with her peculiar complexion, eyes, and name, have inspired more than a few rumors around the Shropshire countryside that she might be a witch. Lorina knows she should keep her distance from Taohua, and she wants to most desperately… but maybe there’s a pinch of truth to all the rumors, because she soon finds herself under the older woman’s spell.

~Developed and Published by ebi-hime~ Available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC, Mac, and Linux

Black Closet

• School • Drama • Romance • Mystery

A noir story that places you in control as the student council president. To protect yourself and the school’s reputation, you must command your minions to solve mysteries by investigating scenes, looking for clues, performing surveillance, and interrogating students. Remember, never let your attention falter, no matter what sweet nothing your minions whisper or sly glances they give you. Because one of them… is a traitor.

~Developed and Published by Hanako Games~ Available on PC, Mac, and Linux

Butterfly Soup

• School • Slice of Life • Sports

Laugh-out-loud funny and featuring characters that each feels like one of your best friends! This gentle visual novel by Brianna Lei follows a group of four, queer Asian high school students living in California. The girls join an all-female baseball club together and spend their time playing the game, falling in love and memeing.

~Developed and Published by Brianna Lei~ Available on PC, Mac, and Linux

The Curse of Kudan

• School • Horror • Mystery • Yuri Harem • Friends to Lovers 

Feelings start to bud between student Sakuya Kudan and culinary instructor Touko Shima after coincidence brings them into one another’s orbit. However, their peaceful lives are abruptly shattered when Touko sees Kudan, the harbinger of calamity. The rumors say that anyone who lays eyes on her is doomed within seven days. The hours tick down as Sakuya rushes find a way to combat the curse, and her search brings her to the academy’s Occult Research Club and its president, Koto Ashinaki. Now she must face off against the unknown in order to protect the people she loves…

~Developed and Published by SukeraSparo~ Available on PC

The Expression Amrilato

• Isekai • Slice of Life • Romance

"...Why is the sky pink...?" Rin should know this area well, but the unreadable letters on the signs and the strange language the people are speaking have made things unrecognizable. Suddenly transported to a parallel world, Rin is saved when Ruka, a girl so cute she could be an idol, appears and extends a helping hand. Now a guest in Ruka’s home, Rin, and by extension the player, must learn Esperanto through interactive lessons to navigate this strange world. This is the story, pure and sometimes frustrating, of two girls intertwined through their fumbling efforts to communicate.

The sequel, Distant Memoraĵo, continues Rin and Ruka’s story and romance and reveals the secrets of Ruka’s past. Two storeis of the struggles that come with attempting to connect with one another across age, language, and even worlds.

~Developed by SukeraSparo, Published by MangaGamer~ Available on PC, Mac, and Linux

Fatal Twelve

• Isekai • Supernatural • Adventure • Mystery

One day, Shishimai Rinka dies in an explosion—yet she finds herself continuing to live her ordinary life as if nothing had happened at all. That is, until a few days later, when she encounters the Goddess Parca in the dream world.

"Good evening, my lovely little slaves to fate." Rinka discovers that she is one of 12 people the Goddess has invited to her game. A game that could undo their deaths. In this maelstrom of life and death, Rinka must face a myriad different emotions, as well as the truth behind her own demise. What will her final decision be...?

~Developed by LYCORYS, Published by Sekai Project & PROTOTYPE~ Available on PS4, Nintendo Switch, PC, Mac, and Linux

Flowers

• School • Adventure • Drama • Romance • Mystery • Multiple Couples • Yuri Harem • Friends to Lovers

In the middle of a forest isolated from the rest of the world lies Saint Angraecum Academy, an all-girls school. This private boarding school is isolated from the rest of the world, allowing the girls who attend the space and freedom to develop into young ladies under the guidance of their teachers. This is where Suoh Shirahane, a painfully shy girl, will begin her first year of high school. Follow her and her classmates in this four-game series as she navigates new friendships and attempts to unravel the many mysteries at the academy, including occult rituals and the mysterious disappearance of fellow students, all while trying to pass her classes. Suoh must learn to overcome her anxieties as she navigates new friendships. These bonds of friendship grow even stronger within the academy's special Amitié program, and Suoh's heart will open for the first time. But is it okay to like a girl?

~Developed by Innocent Grey, Published by JAST~ Available on PC

Heart of the Woods

• Adventure • Drama • Romance • Supernatural • Mystery • Multiple Couples

Maddie Raines has had enough. After years of serving as manager, editor, and general business-handler for her best friend Tara's popular paranormal vlog channel, she's finally ready to move forward with her own life. But when she agrees to take one last trip with Tara to the mysterious village of Eysenfeld, she's suddenly surrounded by wondrous and dangerous supernatural events. One in particular captivates Maddie in a way she’s never been before: the ghost of a young woman, Abigail.

~Developed by Studio Élan, Published by Sekai Project and Sekai Games~ Available on Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC, Mac, and Linux

Heaven Will Be Mine

• Sci-fi • Action • Romance

It’s 1981, and the dream of a new home in space for all humanity is dead. After fighting for decades against an intangible and ephemeral existential threat from beyond the solar system, Earth command has declared the war effort a huge waste of time. The honeymoon is over, and a future of glittering cities across the solar system and cosmic battles between giant robots just isn’t going to happen. The outcome is clear: it’s time to come home.

But we don’t care. Giant robots may not make any sense. Celestial cities across the solar system are silly dreams. They are, however, extremely awesome. We, the girls who were raised in space, to be special and incredible and pave the way for a new future, aren’t giving up so easily. We’ve got invincible Ship-Selves for ferrying human bodies through time and space, and we have the weight and power to make a fantasy of the future real.

~Developed and Published by Pillow Fight & Worst Girls Games~ Available on PC, Mac, and Linux

Letters From a Rainy Day -Oceans and Lace-

• School • Romance • Drama • Mystery • Senapi/Kouhai 

The prestigious private girls’ school, Kikyou Academy, educates young ladies from elementary age to university. With cell phones forbidden on school grounds, letter writing is a pastime for many of the girls… for better or for worse.

Student Mikoto Kurahashi receives a disturbing blackmail letter, forcing her to ask out younger student Shiori Minato to protect her sister. The story switches between the two girls’ viewpoints, displaying both sides of this unconventional romance as Shiori works to discover the reason and the perpetrator behind the blackmail and Mikoto longs to get her new partner to engage with her more.

~Developed by Lily Spinel, Published by Hublots and mirai works~ Available on PC, Mac, and Linux

Lilycle Rainbow Stage!!!

• School • Slice of Life • Comedy • Multiple Couples • Friends to Lovers

Sweet, heartwarming, and bursting with cheerful, colorful illustrations features a swarm of adorable Yuri couples. As every character’s perspective is shown, you could say that they’re all the protagonist! A love triangle between two friends and a recent graduate, a young maid and her precocious mistress, student council rivals, a wallflower and her socialite companion, and more. This Yuri buffet is overflowing with cuteness!

~Developed by PARTICLE, Published by MangaGamer~ Available on PC

Linghua

• School • Drama • Romance • Multiple Couples • Fated Lovers • Tragedy 

A Yuri visual novel series about young couples bound by fate and tragedy at an all-girls’ private academy. In Melancholy Love, an elite student, born into privilege, and a delinquent who longs to break free of her chains meet amidst the garden of scented dreams. In Symbiotic Love, a devastated Zihua discovers a mysterious diary after the death of her lover, Jisuo. One by one excepts begin to appear, revealing the truth behind the tragedy.

~Developed by White Dew Game, Published by Kikai Digital~ Available on PC

Lingua Fleur Lily

• Drama

The introvert Yuyi arrives at school every day with a secret deep in her heart, a truth she has kept hidden from everyone, even her beloved old tutor. But when she is paired with the excitable Yile, the eager girl helps Yuyi come out of her shell, confronting the bittersweet memories of her past and coming to terms with her identity. This tender hidden and emotional hidden gem is not a romance story, but a story of healing and accepting oneself, a gift given to Yuyi by an earnest and caring friend. Its gentle illustrations and enchanting soundtrack heighten this simple but poignant story. 

~Developed and published by Narrator and STORIA~ Available on PC

A Little Lily Princess

• School • Drama • Historical • Slice of Life

Sara Crewe was raised like a princess by her doting Papa, always given the best of everything. Now that she is old enough, she must be sent away to boarding school in a foreign land, relying on her love of books and fairytales to help her make friends. But, what would happen to a little princess if she lost everything? This Yuri retelling of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic children’s novel gives players the option to plan Sara’s daily activities and bond with her peers, leading to several potential romances. 

~Developed by Hanabira, Published by Hanako Games~ Available on Nintendo Switch, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC, Mac, and Linux

Mizuchi 白蛇心傳

• Fantasy • Romance • Slice of Life • Mystery

Abruptly finding herself at the bottom of a snake pit, an impoverished girl named Linh is bound and helpless for a crime she did not commit. Left to the mercy of the village snake god, a mysterious entity appears before her, offering to save her in exchange for her soul. Finding herself in a new reality, she is torn between staying with the beautiful temptress, Ai, who had rescued her from death, and the resourceful wanderer, Jinhai, who promises to set her free.

~Developed and Published by Aikasa Collective~ Available on PC, Mac, and Linux

a new life.

• Romance • Music • Slice of Life • Slice of Life • Love at First Sight

A short, simple, and beautiful experience. A classic love story: Meet, marry, grow old. But when your loved one hurts you, what do you do? Is it better to love and be hurt, than never love at all? From their first meeting in college until the bittersweet end, this short visual story is a beautiful and emotional highlight reel of two women in love.

~Developed and Published by Angela He~ Available on iOS, Android, PC, Mac, and Linux

Nurse Love

• Fantasy • Slice of Life • Horror • Mystery • Yuri Harem • Slow Burn

Surviving a near-death experience as a child left Kaori Sawai with the dream to become a nurse and heal others. And today is finally the day, as she leaves school to join the Yurigahama Hospital, mending injuries with the magical touch of her hands and navigating sweet, strange, and exceptionally disturbing relationships with her quirky coworkers in Nurse Love Syndrom.

Set in the same world, Nurse Love Addiction follows Asuka Osachi, a ditzy and easy-going girl, who graduates from high school and enrolls in Teito Nursing School along with her younger sister, Nao. With their two classmates Itsuki and Sakuya and their instructor Kaede, the girls will experience what it means to be an adult... and a nurse.

~Developed by Kogado Studio, Published by Degica~ Available on Nintendo Switch and PC

OshiRabu: Waifus Over Husbandos

• Comedy • Slice of Life • Romance • Already a Couple • Love at First Sight

Akuru Hayahoshi is an unlucky otaku office worker who just can't pull her husbando in the gacha game she's obsessed with, no matter how much money she throws at it.

Until one day, she runs into the garishly gorgeous and freakishly lucky Ren Furutachi. A series of misunderstandings causes Ren to full-on pursue Akuru. One thing leads to another, and in order to bring her husbando home, she ends up... bringing Ren home?!

In the sequel ~Love･or･die~ a fit of jealousy and more misunderstandings lead to a Akuru unthinking accepting one of Ren’s many joke proposals… and by the time she realizes what she's done, it's too late. Ren is in bridezilla mode and starting to plan the wedding!

~Developed by SukeraSomero, Published by Hublots and mirai works~ Available on Nintendo Switch and PC, iOS and Android (Game 1 Only)

Perfect Gold: The Alchemy of Happiness

• Fantasy • Romance • Enemies to Lovers

Marion LaRue is not having a fun day at all. What was meant to be a harmless little fire turned into an explosion that has her stuck in detention, missing out on one of the rare opportunities for her to enjoy life outside the academy. And of course, she just had to be stuck with Audrey Clary, of all the high-class LeFay students she could be in detention with.

Determined to not miss out on the long-awaited festival, these former lovers begrudgingly work together to escape detention and find their way to the festival. As they explore the city and celebrate the Sunflower Festival together, an old friendship is rekindled, and new feelings begin to bloom.

~Developed and Published by Yangyang Mobile, Published by Mama Morin (Console/Mobile)~ Available on Nintendo Switch, PC, iOS, and Android

SeaBed

• Romance • Drama • Mystery • Tragedy • Slow Burn

A mystery told through the perspectives of three women: Mizuno Sachiko, a designer plagued by hallucinations of her past lover; Narasaki Hibiki, Sachiko's friend and a psychiatrist researching the workings of human memories; and Takako, Sachiko's former lover who has been rapidly forgetting her past, including how or why the two women drifted apart, despite being together since childhood. All three live in different worlds but seek the same goal. To separate truth from illusion. To make sense of their own lives.

~Developed by paleontology, Published by Fruitbat Factory~ Available on Nintendo Switch and PC

A Summer's End - Hong Kong 1986

• Shakaijin • Romance • Drama • Historical • Love at First Sight

Michelle is a young professional working woman living in Hong Kong during the heydays of the 1980s. She meets Sam, a free-spirited woman and an unconventional entrepreneur, by chance after an incident involving a broken heel. They share a mutual attraction. As their relationship progresses, Michelle is forced to make a decision between traditional propriety and her newfound feelings.

Inspired by classic Asian cinema, this beautiful game depicts the intense curiosity, confusion, and desire whirling around this incredible romance. Michelle A Summer’s End is a modern romance. A dazzlingly vibrant and intimate experience that explores identity, family, queerness, and love in a rapidly changing and highly political world.

~Developed and Published by Oracle and Bone~ Available on PC

Synergia

• Action • Sci-Fi • Mystery

Cila, a veteran cop with a sour outlook and anger issues expects nothing more from life besides the smell of ozone, blinding neon lights and the ever-present manhole steam. At least, until a shady friend replaces her broken-down housedroid as a favor. Advanced, more efficient and remarkably perceptive, unit M.A.R.A. begins to penetrate Cila's toughened exterior and possibly even heal her new owner's old wounds – if Cila can decipher the recurring nightmare the process brings. Soon Cila and Mara forge a unique - if sometimes uneasy - bond. Unbeknownst to Cila, just as her life begins to find its new normal, the technological giant Velta Labs gets wind of Mara's existence and takes a mysterious interest in the android. A war unlike any before it is brewing on the horizon, its players are silently being selected and one android's fate may spell the difference between peace, war, the blossoming of a new religion, or a technological singularity beyond comprehension.

~Developed by Radi Art, Published by Top Hat Studios~ Available on Nintendo Switch, PS4, PC, Mac, and Linux

Yumeutsutsu Re:Master

Slice of Life • Mystery • Slow Burn

Set in the town of Koenji, not far from the imperial capital of Tokyo, where a small game studio called Eureka Soft has set up shop. The heroine Ai, a country girl, joins her sister Kokoro who works there, after receiving a mysterious email from studio head. There she meets the quirky all-girl (and a dog) cast: the big sisterly head of the studio, her sister, giving her a cold shoulder, the maid/voice talent, the "tiny dinosaur" scenarist, the uniformed artist, and Banako, the dog and vice-president. Ai starts learning about game making as she slowly pieces together the mysteries of her colleagues. Ai's world will expand bit by bit, as the game production begins.

~Developed byKogado Studio, Published by Degica~ Available on Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PC

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HD Mostly set outside the UK fic recs - Others

Here are a few drarry recs that are mostly set in outside of the UK, North America or the EU. Listed in alphabetical order.

Aeternus Solem by @onbeinganangel  [36k]

On December 1st, Harry Potter gets sent halfway across the world to attempt to break a possibly fatal curse on an unnamed British Unspeakable — except said Unspeakable is not unnamed at all and Harry has been in love with him for over four years.

Ai by talkplaylove [18k]

Harry Potter wanders into a bar.

Call Me by Your Name (And I’ll Call You by Mine) by @acupforslytherin [35k]

My dearest Harry, because no matter how far we are, even two different worlds apart, I can never tell where you end and I start.

Draco never expected Potter to find his way back to his life, especially after seven years of no contact, but here he was. With Potter’s will in his hands, his own name written in that untidy scribble he recognized anywhere, Draco had to accept this was his time to reopen an old wound, revisit painful memories, and relearn everything he thought he knew about his past.

Connecting Lines, Connecting Crimes by sleepstxtic [15k]

Magic is going haywire after ley lines all over the world are mysteriously failing. A cross-border Task Force is set up by the League of Wixen Nations with Expert Cartologist Draco Malfoy and Ley Line Specialist Pansy Parkinson being called in from Britain to work with Magi-Geographers Harry Potter and Parvati Patil in India. But can they get to the root of the issue before it’s too late? Featuring: an excessive use of holograms, numerous references to food, and lots and lots (and lots!) of travel.

Forged through flowing water by @tedahfromtayla [40k]

When Hermione sets up a diplomatic mission to begin repairing the damage British colonisation did to Indian magical communities Harry isn’t going to pass on the opportunity to visit and help his family’s home country. Maybe he should have asked a few more questions about the personnel she had recruited for it before signing on because Malfoy surely has an ulterior motive to be there.

Or

Harry goes back to India to rediscover some of his lost roots. He meets Malfoy there. Hijinks ensue!

The Great Magic Sex Mushroom Fiasco by Magnolia822 [6k]

Lost in the Siberian wilderness without food, Aurors Potter and Malfoy are forced to improvise, with unexpected consequences …

Grounds for Divorce by Tepre [122k]

Malfoy finds a coin. Harry finds a letter.

A story about histories, a story about families. A story about a lemon tree somewhere in Upper Egypt.

Potential Gravity by @lol-zeitgeistic [32k]

Draco is not good at Cards Against Humanity, but Harry’s not good at being human, so it all works out. Except for the explosions. And Harry’s inability to live when Draco’s not around.

Sæglópur by @femmequixotic [34k]

After a difficult breakup, Draco finds himself dragged to the land of magic, law, and natural wonders where, of course, nothing goes as planned.

The Spider and the Moth by marguerite_26 [10k]

Young Auror Harry Potter is sent to Morocco to investigate a potion smuggling ring. He quickly realises he’s in over his head with both the assignment and the primary suspect.

Survival of the Species by @romaine2424 [46k]

Draco approaches Harry on the 9 ¾ platform, after their sons have boarded the Hogwarts Express, and invites him over for tea.  The discussion they have leads them on an adventure that neither could have expected. There be dragons! HPDH compliant.

Ticking Time by calrissian18 [5k]

Draco moves to Egypt to escape his past. Of course Potter has to come along and be a tangible representation of it.

Through Worlds by @rain-beee [42k]

Harry is looking for a new start, and he’s travelled the world to find it. Now in Japan, a chance encounter with someone from his past threatens to distract him from his goal, but when he runs into them again and again, he begins to wonder if maybe he’s found what he was searching for all along.

The Unspeakable by @the-sinking-ship [24k]

Healer Draco Malfoy took the job at the International Department of Mysteries for the paycheck and the prestige.

But what he got was Unspeakable Harry Potter and the most fascinating curse he’d ever seen.

I hope you enjoy these stories as much as I did!

#my recs #drarry #drarry recs #theme rec