#SICSIG

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Immortal Desires MC - Luca O'Rinn

ok folks. i call this one "aria tries to figure out how this art thing works (???????)". (photo refs used) its uhhhh real hard! I'm gonna stop! I just keep making it worse lmao

This is literally the third time I have legitimately attempted to draw something in the past decade. It looks nothing like the blorbo but yay for attempting new things!!! 🖤

#SICSIG #choices immortal desires #immortal desires #luca o'rinn #all my mutuals sharing their art make me want to try 🥺💖

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*dreamy sigh* Luca, you pretty little slut 🖤

the new wardrobe in ID2 is bringing me so much joy, its so much fun to edit with these pieces 😭💖 (ty ty to @farizrz for the assets!! You're the best)

#SICSIG #luca o'rinn #immortal desires edits #choices immortal desires #immortal desires #idk how it took Gabriel so long to notice Luca's tattoos #clearly he only ever caught them in oversize sweater mode #and not crop top mode #somehow #also i still need to actually design the actual celtic knot inspired version of that butterfly lol #i'll get around to it one day #maybe

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Breakfast Roast

Book: Immortal Desires

Pairing: m!Cas x m!Gabe x nb!MC (Luca O'Rinn)

Ratings/Warnings: General, language

Words: 1K

Summary: Gabriel can't resist teasing Cas and Luca over morning coffee.

A/N: I got this super cute ask, and as I was thinking about how to answer it, somehow I blinked and a little fic happened? So here you go! Someone once told me the Starlight trio was the Idiots to Lovers trope and I couldn't agree more. This is just a little slice of Starlight Idiot Hours / Fluff in a nutshell, set a few years after the events of SICSIG

Tagging: @choicesficwriterscreations, @lilyoffandoms

Things were going alarmingly well for a Monday. Gabriel had completed his morning jog in record time, there hadn’t been a queue at the coffee shop, and he’d come away from his early-morning grocery run with a couple of unexpected little gifts in tow.

Cas was hunched over a bowl of cereal when Gabriel arrived back home, scrolling idly through his phone. He shot Gabriel a sleepy grunt by way of greeting as he set the bags down on the kitchen counter. The morning sun slanted cheery and gold through the open window, bringing with it the smell of fresh spring pollen and the droning buzz of bees.

Content, Gabriel stole a moment to inhale the sharp scent of the freshly roasted coffee beans he’d picked up. He flipped the coffee machine on to heat, and began to unload the groceries.

‘They were out of hot sauce, darling.’

‘Fucking again? Arson.’

Gabriel shook his head in fond exasperation. ‘They said it’d be back in stock next week.’

Cas grumbled, low in his throat like a churlish cat. ‘…Less arson.’

Gabriel laughed. He loved hearing Cas like this; all snarly and husky, his voice deep and gravelly with sleep, yet light and unburdened of anything but the most mundane of trifles. Cas deserved mundane. He deserved domestic and peaceful and happy. Gabriel could listen to him grouse about grocery stores forever.

Even after years of waking up next to Cas, it never got old.

Huh, Gabriel thought, bemused. That’s vampirism for you.

Mellifluous laughter filled the room as Luca bounded in from the hallway.

‘Less arson, huh? However will you cope?’ Dropping a kiss on Cas’s cheek as they passed, Luca skidded into the kitchen, their threadbare socks slick against the linoleum, sliding along until they bumped cheerily into Gabriel’s side. ‘Good morning gorgeous!’

‘Good morning to you too, mi corazón.’

Gabriel dipped his head to meet him; Luca’s kisses tasted of peppermint toothpaste and pure adoration.

‘I come bearing carbs,’ Gabriel said, handing them a greased paper bag, laughing at the muffled “oh my god, I love you” he managed to decipher from a mouth somehow already crammed full with an over-ambitious bite of cinnamon roll.

Luca leaned against the counter, eyes sinking closed in sugary delight.

‘And gifts!’ Gabriel added, eyeing his two loves carefully.

Cas was barely awake, slouching about in his favourite sweatpants and one of Gabriel’s bathrobes, knuckling the sleep from his eyes. Luca’s hair stuck up at awkward angles, a smear of frosting clinging to their lip.

The pair of them were far too cute not to tease.

‘I got you a little something,’ Gabriel said carefully, casually, his mouth twitching at the corners. ‘Just there on the counter.’

He nodded at a small white box he’d set down on the counter, tucked between a potted plant and a carton of eggs. Cas shambled up to join them, slumping into a seat on the barstools with a jaw-cracking yawn. He stole a bite of Luca’s cinnamon roll as they plopped down beside him.

‘Wait, “you”, who?’ Luca asked.

Gabriel shrugged evasively, already enjoying himself far too much.

Cas’s eyes narrowed. The pair shared a suspicious glance, before Cas flipped the box open, pulling out the white ceramic mug inside.

He barked a laugh.

‘“Cute but dumb”?’

Luca snorted. ‘Well, that’s obviously for me,’ they said, reaching for the mug.

Cas jerked it out of Luca’s reach. ‘Well, hang on just a goddamn minute, O'Rinn. Who’s to say it’s not for me?’

‘Since when have you let anyone call you “cute”?’

‘Wha— I’m cute,’ Cas pouted. ‘I’m fuckin’ adorable!’

‘Cas, you’re six foot three, you’re covered in tattoos, and you threatened to fistfight a vending machine yesterday when it chewed up your dollar.’

‘Exactly.’

When Luca broke into a peal of derisive laughter, Cas cocked his head.

‘What makes you the default cute one in our relationship, huh? Being two foot tall?’ Cas crossed his arms, fixing Luca with a smug grin. ‘I’m surprised you can even see over the counter from all the way down there, New Kid.’

‘Oh! Short jokes now!’ Luca snarled. ‘Very funny. Ha ha.’

‘Yeah, I thought so.’

‘Won’t be laughing when I headbutt you in the dick,’ Luca muttered.

‘Woah, hang on a minute.’

Cas set the mug down, raising his hands in gentle placation. Gabriel allowed himself a small moment to be impressed — Cas, done with goading Luca after a bare few minutes?

That had to be some kind of record.

‘…let me find you a stepladder first.’

‘Oh, fuck you, Harlow!’

Ah. Apparently not.

Gabriel sorted some lettuce and avocados into the vegetable crisper, stowing away groceries while Luca attempted to shove Cas directly off his bar stool. He turned and fixed Gabriel with a bargaining look.

‘Gabe. Tell him it's mine. You think I’m cute, right?’

‘Of course I do.’

Gabriel’s smile turned coy as he poured the fresh coffee beans into the grinder and flipped it on, plucking up another bag of groceries to unload. The kitchen was quickly filled with the aromatic, chocolatey smell of his favourite arabica blend.

‘I think you’re both cute.’

‘Ha!’

‘Yeah, but— oh, shut up, Cas. Oi!’

Luca smacked Cas’s arm as he tried to steal a triumphant bite of their cinnamon roll.

‘But,’ Luca pressed, ‘out of the two of us, only one was so invested in a conversation they were having this morning in their own head, with themself that they walked head-first into a fucking doorframe, ergo—’

Luca snagged the mug, holding it proudly next to his face.

‘—I have clearly achieved peak idiot and this mug is mine. Hey!’

Gabriel stifled a laugh as Luca gaped at their now empty hands. He hummed idly to himself as Cas and Luca sprang from their seats, wrestling with each other in a desperate bid for "Cute but Dumb"-mug-ownership rights.

He passed a pleasant few minutes as the coffee brewed and Cas tried to stuff Luca inside his bathrobe — he was usually more of a tea drinker, in all honesty, but as this morning was proving, sometimes it was nice to indulge in the things that made you smile.

Love burgeoning in his heart, Gabriel finally deigned to unpack the second mug he’d purchased that morning, right as the coffee was done.

‘Gimme the mug,' Luca hissed.

‘No.’

‘Ass. Gimme the mug!’

‘Fight me!’

Gabriel cleared his throat, his expression carefully neutral. ‘Coffee, anyone?’

Cas and Luca froze mid-grapple, eyes locked on the second mug on the counter.

“Cute but dumber”.

Moving in tandem, they rounded on each other, challenge on both of their faces.

‘Well that one’s obviously for me!’

#SICSIG #choices immortal desires #immortal desires #cas harlow #cassius harlow #gabe adalhard #gabriel adalhard #luca o'rinn #cas x gabe x mc #playchoices fanfic #choices fanfic #choices fic writers creations #cfwc fics of the week #cfwc lgbtqia+ #🏳‍🌈🏳‍🌈🏳‍🌈

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Meet my OC - Viktor Ivanov

Name: Viktor Ivanov Book: Immortal Desires Orientation: Bisexual Pronouns: He/him Birthday: 12th October 1997 Sign: Libra Born: Dunedin, New Zealand Raised: Sydney, Australia, and Inverness, Scotland (with some short stints in both NZ and Croatia) Heritage: Croat

More under the cut! 🖤✨

Family

Henrik Ivanov (younger brother) Mother (name tbd) Father (name tbd)

Viktor’s closest family member is his younger brother Henrik (Henri, as a diminutive), who is eight. Henri attends boarding school, so they do not see each other much, but Henri idolises his big brother and Viktor would do anything to keep Henri from being hurt. He believes his parents treat Henri as the “do-over” child, and that they think Viktor “lacks ambition” and “refuses to take anything seriously”. There is a lot of pressure on Henri to perform well academically and to follow in his father’s footsteps, career-wise.

Viktor’s father’s career remains something of a mystery to him — he knows it is a somewhat high-ranking governmental position that requires him to travel a lot, so his father is only home for short stints every few months. When he was around 12 or 13, Viktor decided he would ask his dad outright what his job actually was the next time he showed an interest in one of Viktor’s hobbies or interests.

To this day, Viktor has no idea what his father does for a living.

His mother is a stay-at-home housewife. She is the family member Viktor sees the most often, and also the one he has the worst relationship with.

Skills / Hobbies

Sketching, painting, singing — frontman and founder of grunge/rock band Your Bisexual Awakening. Also plays bass

YBA cycles through names often, all of which have a story attached. They choose a new name via the following system: if a band member says something stupid or memorable in conversation, and two or more members simultaneously say "band name", they must change it to whatever was just said. I.e.

Cal: seriously, guys? again? Ava: my bad. Angel's refractory period is more like a Refractory Comma Angel, Viktor, and Luca, simultaneously: band name Ava: aw, fuck.

Random Trivia

Moved a lot as a child — growing up jumping between Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, and Croatia has left Viktor with the weirdest accent. Its mostly Scottish... ish? Kinda?

Enjoys anime — once described watching Tokyo Ghoul as the purest spiritual experience of his life (and then sulked inconsolably for a week when he found out the final season was copaganda)

Scared of dogs (was bitten when he was younger)

Loves having his photo taken, but also can’t look at photos of himself sometimes, because they often bring on depersonalisation episodes

Huge collection of slogan t-shirts he crops and alters himself.

Can do overtone / polyphonic singing (but not well)

When he shared a dorm room with Luca at Avalon, for a while his alarm was this Marc Rebillet song (until Luca threatened to beat him to death with a pair of socks unless he changed it)

Has a crush on Kylo Ren

Is deeply ashamed of his crush on Kylo Ren

Favourite movie is Sucker Punch (will rant AT LENGTH about how people completely miss the feminist read)

His fashion sense is varied and questionable. One day he’ll be in gritty, black techwear, the next he’s full flower-boy poet. Then he’ll be Grandma-chic, and the next day he might be wearing a three-piece suit patterned exclusively with cobs of corn.

He does really love garments that drape and flow, though, and is a bit of a sucker for glitter and fun textures. No matter how loud, he somehow manages to always wear the outfits, and not have them wear him.

Viktor’s goals are informed by an odd mix of wanting a sense of agency and independence, while also just wanting to be taken care of and not have to think

Pathetic Babygirl of All Time

Personal Life

cw!! for talk around mental illness, suicide, and substance abuse

Viktor’s childhood was extremely difficult in that his mother simply does not believe that mental illnesses and neurologic disorders are legitimate conditions, and denies that Viktor’s many conditions are real. She believes he is making everything up for attention. Viktor has had this rhetoric drilled into him since childhood — there is nothing wrong with him, he’s just weak, lazy, a failure, a troubled child.

As such, he has never been diagnosed with anything on record.

He is quite mistrustful of authority figures as a result of his upbringing.

The first real, healthy parental influence in his life was Terri O’Rinn. She was the one to refer Viktor to a specialist doctor — she called in a favour from a friend/colleague, who was able to confirm Viktor’s diagnosis of mild to moderate Tourette Syndrome. This diagnosis remains strictly off-record. He primarily has motor tics, but he does have some verbal ones too — many of his tics are indistinguishable from the way he carries himself and his usual, somewhat eccentric mannerisms of speaking and moving.

Viktor also suffers from depression and generalised anxiety disorder. Luca has “diagnosed” him with “ADHD by peer review.” Viktor also deals with frequent bouts of passive suicidal ideation. Luca has had to talk him down on two separate occasions when he has threatened attempts. He has attempted once, on his own, and has never told anyone about it. Viktor loves Luca like a brother, as they do him, and their bond is fundamentally unshakeable.

Viktor fell into performing initially as a means to cope with his Tourettes — music helps to help him feel in control of his symptoms, so he can often be found singing, humming, or whistling to himself as he goes about his business. Alcohol and weed incidentally dial back his premonitory urges as well, allowing him to more easily suppress his tics, so there have been patterns of substance abuse throughout Viktor’s life when he’s been in a bad place mentally.

In classes at school, he was something of the class clown — Viktor quickly realised he liked dictating the kind of attention that was on him (and that he actually really loves attention when its the kind he has sought out himself). So rather than people staring at him because of his tics, he’d rather enrapture them on purpose with beautiful and hypnotic performances. Leaning into his role as the band’s vocalist and frontman did wonders for his self-confidence and overall quality of life.

Also — he’s just really, really, good at singing 🖤🖤🖤

You can find out more about Viktor via my masterlist, or read about him in my longfic, snow in crimson, starlight in gold on AO3! 🖤(direct link, fic is rated Explicit)

tagging: @choicesficwriterscreations

#i release the boy into the wild hes your problem now #SICSIG #viktor ivanov #meet my oc #cfwc meet my mc #immortal desires #playchoices fanfic #choices fic writers creations #🏳‍🌈🏳‍🌈🏳‍🌈

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With Love From The O'Rinn Family

Prompts: Storge (Unconditional, familial love) and Philia (deep friendship)

I know Chapter 41 of Starlight is still a few chapters away, but I saw the prompts for the Choices February 2024 challenge and knew I just had to make a series of "Christmas family photos" with Luca's family.

These are definitely my most technically ambitious edits I've attempted so far, but it was so much fun to try get better at editing! (Just don't look too close lmao). The thought of Cas, Gabriel, and Seth being surrounded by so much love and warmth and welcome makes my heart so freaking full ❤❤❤

Tagging: @choicesfebruary2024 @jerzwriter

Huge thank you to @cassiopeiacorvus for the assets!

#choicesfebruary2024 #choices immortal desires #we've had first Christmas but what about second Christmas #SICSIG #immortal desires #immortal desires edits #cas harlow #gabe adalhard #luca o'rinn

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okay so, further to Cas's revelation that Gabriel smells like chamomile because of the tea he's always drinking, he discovers (once he starts making Gabriel's tea for him), that the tags on the teabags have quotes on them.

Naturally, Cas thinks this is the STUPIDEST thing he's ever seen, and regularly mocks Gabe because of it 🖤

Cas: *setting a mug down on the coffee table* Hey Golden Boy... did you know that tea is a hug in a cup?

Gabe: *rolling his eyes*

Cas: Uh huh. Must be time for a cup of positiviTEA

Gabe: *just trying to drink his goddamn tea in peace*

Cas: Hey... hey Adalhard... you're my cup of tea

Gabe: *smacking Cas with the couch cushions*

Cas: *running from the room cackling* Damn! Turn over a new leaf, Adalhard!

Gabe: You're so annoying!!

#SICSIG #choices immortal desires #immortal desires #cas harlow #gabe adalhard

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Cas x Luca by @mydemonsdrivealimo

FOLKS. LOOK AT THEM. LOOK HOW AMAZING

Thank you so so so much to @choicesficwriterscreations for hosting an event for 💜 Bisexual Awareness Week 💜, and affording me the chance to win this stunninggg commission by @mydemonsdrivealimo 🖤🧛‍♀️

Ever since I wrote the scene in SICSIG with all the Immortal Desires characters in their Halloween costumes, I've been longing to see it reimagined as fanart, and !!!! Way to make all my dreams come true, oh my god??? (Luca in a corset and horns combo is just pure self care and I will never be able to thank everyone involved in making this happen enough. I want to glue this to my face.)

If this art made you as happy as it did me, and maybe you are looking to get a commission of your own, (afaik) MJ's commissions are still open! Cannot recommend them highly enough, they were awesome to work with!!

Thank you again to CFWC and MJ both, I'm gonna go stare at this nonstop for another 7-10 business days ✨✨✨

#SICSIG #choices fanart #choices fanfic #choices immortal desires #immortal desires #cas harlow #cfwc art of the week #choices fic writers creations

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Meet my MC - Luca O'Rinn

Name and Meaning: Luca — Bringer of Light / O'Rinn — Descendant of the Stars

Book: Immortal Desires Love Interests: Cas Harlow and Gabriel Adalhard Pronouns: He/they Birthday: 5th January 1997 Sign: Aquarius Born: Kinloch Rannoch, Scotland Raised: Inverness, Scotland Heritage: Scottish with ancestral roots in Ireland

More under the cut! 🖤✨

Family

Therese “Terri” O’Rinn (mother) Wayne MacAllister (father — estranged) John “Jock” O’Rinn (grandfather) Esther O’Rinn (grandmother) Morag O'Rinn (great aunt) Phoebe O’Rinn (cousin)

Skills / Hobbies

Dance, drums, butterfly knives, annoying ancient vampires with incessant questions and somehow not being murdered outright

Random Trivia

Luca has an avid curiosity (which often gets them into trouble) and is fascinated by how the world works — in every possible universe, they would have found out about the vampires in Crimson Beech.

He gets bored if he hasn’t learnt something new in a while.

Luca has Combined Type ADHD and frequently needs something to do with their hands — they can often be found flipping small items (pens, drum sticks, balisongs, etc, their phone, if they can’t get their hands on anything else)

...His phone screen is always cracked.

TERRIBLE at replying to text messages if they don’t do it then and there. Cannot make a phone call to save their life.

Has no problem biting ice cream, but sometimes sensory things ( unexplained sticky hands, clothes textures that feel suddenly wrong) with make them explode with sudden rage that comes on fast and goes away even faster. (It always alarms Gabriel whenever it happens. He tries to help and inevitably gets in the way and makes it worse. Cas knows to just ignore him when he’s having a moment.)

Loves playfighting with Cas (despite always losing and probably getting thrown somewhere)

Late. For everything. All the time. Zero time management skills.

Luca's first crush was Howl Pendragon of Studio Ghibli's Howl's Moving Castle

He takes his tea/coffee without milk bc he’s forever forgetting to drink it — there is always a small army of half-full, forgotten cups and mugs around his room.

Restless sleeper, abhors early mornings, can’t fall asleep unless he feels safe (which leads to a lot of falling asleep on Gabriel and Cas)

He despises math and still counts on his fingers. Numbers make his brain short-circuit.

Will absolutely eat food off the floor if they drop it.

Forests have always made him feel calm and want to dance.

Luca has had a habit since childhood where, any time they are walking alone through a forest, they’ll slow their pace and hum a gentle tune, trying to see if they can catch sight of any fairies or little fae creatures out of the corner of their eye. (Which seemed like a silly superstition until a few months ago, but now that they know vampires are real? Hey, maybe little Luca was on to something.)

Education (Scotland)

Rather than traditional schooling, Luca attended a specialised Arts school from the age of 14, in their hometown of Inverness, Scotland. Avalon Academy of the Arts is an alternative educational institution, covering both secondary- and tertiary-level studies in fields such as traditional arts and media, photography, music, theatre, and dance.

At Avalon, Luca trained primarily in ballet, lyrical jazz, contemporary, jazz funk, street dance, and urban hip-hop. Luca does enjoy ballet, but he found most of the ballet students too pretentious, cut-throat, and close-minded to consider pursuing a career in ballet long-term (especially as a non-binary dancer in an extremely gendered environment).

Luca’s main dance style tends toward a unique blend of lyrical, ballet, and street — though in recent years, there is definitely something of a K-Pop influence present in their choreography. They idolise Lee Taemin of SHINee, in part because of his expression and technical precision, but also because of the androgyny and power of Taemin’s dance style. They enjoy watching dance practice videos on YouTube in order to study other dancer’s body lines, transitions, and use of tension.

Education (USA)

In transferring to Crimson Beech High to round out their formal education, it became clear that Luca was very behind in some areas (math, physics, sciences) and very ahead in others (history, literature, anything pertaining to arts studies).

The semesters at Avalon do not align with traditional US schooling system (beginning in February and wrapping up in December to mirror their sister school in Avalon, Australia), so Luca is actually marginally older than many of his current classmates at Crimson Beech High.

(well. Those that aren’t vampires, anyway).

As at the first chapter of ID/SICSIG, Luca is 18, and will be turning 19 in January.

Hobbies

Luca could have taken music as an elective at Avalon, but he never did. Music is something that is purely for self expression and fun. While he did take drum lessons for about a year as a child, most of Luca’s musical ability comes from the school of fucking around and finding out — he is a kinaesthetic learner, so much of his drumming is self-taught.

Wayne (read: awful person) never really approved of Luca’s dancing and wanted them to quit when they first started taking lessons in primary school, but Terri put her foot down when she saw how happy it made them to have a form of self-expression that really spoke to who they were. As a means of compromise, Wayne suggested Luca take up drumming — something he saw as a suitably “masculine” hobby to “help him man up”.

A lot of the arguments Wayne and Terri had regarding Luca’s hobbies in their formative years were, in truth, veiled conversations about Luca’s sexuality and gender identity. Terri has never been anything but accepting of her child, and Wayne has never been able to get his head out of his own ass around Luca being gay, let alone non-binary. Though Terri tried to shield them from it, Luca often bore the burnt of a tirade of queerphobic verbal abuse, which escalated to physical violence in the years preceding Wayne and Terri’s separation.

There were a whole host of reasons why the O’Rinn household wasn’t the easiest or safest place to be growing up (which I have explored more in Starlight!); understandably, Luca had a lot of energy (and, in the years before Wayne’s arrest, a lot of anger) that he was able to take out on his drum kit.

Drumming on his own has turned into a really therapeutic space for Luca, wherein he can get into a flow state, lose the outside world, and work through a lot of his feelings. As much as Luca despises his father, he loves his drums — and knowing his father was the one to buy him his first ever drum kit is something of a sore spot. To this day, Luca still has mixed feelings about it.

Drumming with Viktor’s band, however, became a space of growth and celebration. Your Bisexual Awakening (as they are currently called — the band's name changes with almost every gig) is made up of other students from Avalon, and is unapologetically queer and in your face about it. They mostly play classic rock, punk, and grunge tracks, but ultimately do not limit themselves by genre.

Viktor, the band’s vocalist and frontman, is an OC (and will probably get his own "Meet My OC" profile!) (eventually); the other band members are Easter Eggs from other Choices books: WtD’s Angel on bass, NB’s Cal on keys, and ILITW’s Ava on lead electric guitar.

You can find out more about Luca via my masterlist, or read about them in my longfic, snow in crimson, starlight in gold on AO3! 🖤(direct link, fic is rated Explicit)

tagging: @choicesficwriterscreations

#SICSIG #luca o'rinn #meet my mc #cfwc meet my mc #choices immortal desires #immortal desires #playchoices fanfic #choices fic writers creations #🏳‍🌈🏳‍🌈🏳‍🌈

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To congratulate you on beating cancer, Luca in crop top stealthy outfit <3

I HOPE YOU KNOW I SQUEALED. LEGIT PATHETIC LITTLE SCREAM. THIS IS EVERYTHING 💖💖💖💖💖🥰🥰🥰

i love this edit so much, oh my god!! it's brilliant!! Luca looks soooo good!!! Thank you soooo much Cady, you're the best!! ugh this made me all squishy haha LOOK AT THEMMMM hes so pretty 😭

#Luca would wear the fuck outta this #daaaamn #SICSIG #immortal desires #luca o'rinn #edits by cadybear420 #asks answered

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immortal desires + text posts (pt4)

immortal desires + text posts

|Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

thanks to @farizrz for the assets!

Bonus: Cassius Harlow (circa Starlight CH37)

#SICSIG #choices immortal desires #immortal desires #immortal desires edits #cas harlow #gabe adalhard #playchoices

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after the trio move in to Gabriel's place (bc lbr that is happening), I think it's going to take them suuuuch a long to figure out their sleeping arrangements.

Like, the vampires don't need as much sleep (in my lore anyway) as humans do, so some nights it'll just be one or two of them.

Luca and sleeping mix like oil and water, I don't think my poor baby has ever had a good night of sleep in their life. So half the time, when they get decent rest, it's because they fell asleep on Cas or Gabe somewhere, or they are on the couch or on the floor just doin their thing.

But when he does manage to fall asleep in their bed, he's SO freaking restless. So, Luca, I think, gets a side of the bed to himself.

Cas and Gabriel are both serial cuddlers/spooners, so they'll be content to curl up with one another, but I think Cas would get in his head about needing to be closest to the door (protective mode, flighty, past traumas, he wants to get out of bed quickly and easily in case something goes wrong in the middle of the night).

Which leaves Gabriel taking the middle spot. Which is totally fine, he loves knowing that his two loves are either side of him, it soothes that deep loneliness that has been there for years... but also, he likes to read before bed? And wants access to a side-table so he can switch a lamp on and off, and have somewhere to put his phone, and his water, you are NOT depriving him of a means to stay hydrated. But then he has to fumble around and either annoy Cas, who has quickly taken over his side of the bed and has his shit everywhere, or he has to try not to squash Luca/wake them up, while also running the risk the one of Luca's flailing limbs is going to punt his water bottle right off the sidetable and give them all a heartattack at like 2am bc they think the Creator has come to eat them or something.

Eventually (and it takes a long while lol), they resolve to buy a new bedframe that has big built-in shelves in the headboard

(and then Gabriel has to go on an interior design tangent and re-decorate the entire room bc the vibes were wrong and the new wood tones didn't match.) (The whole process makes him super happy, bc its theirs. Its their bedroom, all three of them. It fills him with so much joy 💛)

#SICSIG #im still rambly ig hehe

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ID MC Redesign

listen, Luca deserves their freckles and nonbinary fashion ON SHOW so I just had to make some edits for @lilyoffandoms Choices OCtober Event! 🖤🖤🖤 (Thank you for hosting!)

Prompts: Re-design, Clothes

Tagging: @choicesoctober

#SICSIG #choicesOCtober #choices monthly challenge #choices immortal desires #immortal desires #immortal desires edits #queer fashion #nonbinary

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WIP Wednesday!

(yes, on a Saturday. Shh. It's fine.)

Thank you so much for the tags @stars-are-within-me @aallotarenunelma @peonierose !! This is was a lot of fun! 💖

Here's a ✨far too lengthy✨ look at some things I'm working on at the moment, because brevity? Don't know her!

Immortal Desires: Starlight, Chapter 38

‘I don’t ever want to fight with you again,’ Gabriel said on an explosive exhale, agony shaking loose from his lungs to lift free into the stale air. ‘I had no idea how much it would ache, not being by your side. Now that I know exactly what I’m missing. Never again.’

‘That shit sucked, yeah,’ Cas agreed, turning his head to press an idle kiss to Gabriel’s temple. ‘But, like… never? I dunno — that’s most of my schedule for the week. I had light bickering pencilled in for Thursday right after lunch, I’d hate to reschedule at such short notice. And then “fundamental disagreements about toast”, that’s locked in for Friday morning, after I bring you breakfast in bed…’

Cas shook his head ruefully.

‘Yeah, I just don’t see how I can get out of that one. Sorry, Adalhard.’

Gabriel sighed, a warm thread of laughter trickling down his throat to settle behind his ribcage. He nuzzled his cheek in closer —somehow— smiling against Cas’s skin.

‘Oh, you’re right,’ Gabriel said. ‘That would throw us right off for “squabble about whether to watch Blades or Bloodbound” on Friday night, god. We can’t miss that again.’

‘I’m sorry, Adalhard,’ Cas repeated.

His voice was insistent, tight with feeling; blinking, Gabriel looked up to see a muscle flickering in Cas’s jaw, his eyes bright and glassy.

‘I’m sorry, Gabriel.’

Immortal Desires: Into the Witch-Dark, Chapter 1

‘That was terrible. Again.’

Morag snapped her fingers; a sharp crack that echoed and warped in on itself, folding within the edges of space and time as they stole along an inky shore of black twilight. A sea of gold stars washed over Luca’s skin, turning it dazzling in this far-away, nothing space.

‘I’m trying,’ Luca gritted out, waiting to catch their breath where there was none to catch. A curious emptiness ached in the place where their lungs should be — here, he was little more than light, and choice, and reason.

His great aunt stared down at him, unimpressed. Where Luca would have met her gaze, he saw nothing but two burning, searing holes, the vacant glare behind them hungry for knowledge.

Funny that a ten foot light-being in a vaguely humanoid shape could still look so, so deeply unimpressed.

‘We have a handful of weeks, a month, at best, to get to the bottom of this. We don’t have time for “trying”. Succeed or die. Those are our choices.’

Luca scoffed. ‘Yeah, no pressure.’

Blades of Light and Shadow: Dorian (MC) x Aerin Fluff

After last night’s dismal attempt at putting together a meal —when Willow had politely but firmly told him that what he had created was an affront to nature and gently escorted him away from the cooking area— he’d woken this morning determined to redeem himself.

In the cooking department, at least.

Like his other attempts at redeeming himself, it wasn’t exactly going great.

‘I am nothing if not consistent,’ Aerin said to no one in particular as he watched a spray of oil spit and leap from the sizzling pan. He yelped as it landed in the flames, the fire leaping up in an orange-red column of flame.

‘Woah, there, let me just—’

A large, calloused hand reached past his waist to grab the pan by the handle, adjusting it on the cooking stand until it was no longer in danger of setting itself, Aerin, and the entire Whimsywood aflame.

‘Okay, first we save breakfast, then we save Morella.’ Dorian fixed Aerin with a grin. ‘Move it.’

Bumping him out of the way with his hip, Dorian took over at the helm.

‘I had everything perfectly under control,’ Aerin lied.

Blades of Light and Shadow: Dorian (MC) x Nia angst

He’d knelt before her to tug out her old, ragged laces, grinning up at her as she’d wobbled on one foot, balancing her hands on his shoulders. He re-laced her boots with swift, deft movements, stealing half a moment to lay his hand over her own when he was done and give it a quick squeeze.

‘Wouldn’t want you to trip and fall in front of the dwarves of Zaradun, now, would we?’

His palm was broad and calloused, warm where it lay over her own. It was the first time he’d touched her in nineteen days. Since he’d healed her by the lake in the Whimsywood. She’d counted. She ached for him. All too soon, Dorian drew is hand away and rose, tossing her a carefree wink as he sauntered off.

His smile didn’t reach his eyes.

It never did, these days.

Blades of Light and Shadow: Dorian (MC) x Aerin angst + smut

[A/N: no smut in the excerpt but there is a smooch 🥰]

Aerin worried his lip. ‘I wanted… I wanted to believe it was real,’ he admitted. ‘That even despite all I’ve done, there might somehow be a way. That you could truly—’

‘Love you?’ Dorian cut him off, his gaze insistent. The night air lashed wildly around them, branches whipping in their trees. Though it was cold, Aerin’s skin seared beneath Dorian’s hands. ‘I do.’

Aerin blinked. ‘W-what?’

Frozen, Aerin could only watch in quiet bewilderment as Dorian lowered his head to meet him. He caught Aerin’s lip between his teeth, biting down on a snarl, kissing him with a fervour that bordered on punishing. A needy moan escaped Aerin’s throat as he opened to him, their tongues meeting in a heated glide that had Aerin grateful for the tree at his back, lest he lose his footing entirely.

They broke apart on a shuddering gasp. Heat flooded into Aerin’s cheeks.

‘Does this feel real to you?’ Dorian growled.

For a long time, they simply looked at each other. Dorian’s gaze bore into his own, and all at once, Aerin understood he wasn’t looking, he was seeing— Dorian saw to the very heart of him; all his bitterness; all his lies; his hate and pain and open scars and chose to love him anyway.

‘Say it,’ Aerin choked out, his voice a colourless whisper, the weight of the revelation so immense that it had all but rendered him mute.

Dorian tilted his head, his eyes raking slow over Aerin’s face; eyes, nose, lips, back again in tender passes.

Aerin wasn’t breathing.

‘I need to hear you say it.’

Tagging @lovehugsandcandy @nukritus and @dreamscapingsblog (and anyone else who feels like it!) in case you want to share anything you've been working on lately! I'd love to see what y'all are up to!

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[aria-ashryver]

Luca, Gabe, and Cas as plushies!! picrew used: [here]

I NEED THESE. I NEED THEM ALL

omg they are so perfect??? 😭😭😭😭 look at Cas's little face aaaahhh!! And all of the details of their lil outfits, they all work so perfectly, oh my god???? I want to hug them 😭 I want to hug you! 😭

thank you so much for this sunshine, this is so sweet!!

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[aria-ashryver]

too many characters vying for space in my head this morning so

one) this is how i imagine a DnD session with Trystan Thorne would go

two) I can so clearly see Cas whipping out the "you're a short motherfucker and nobody likes you" riff at Luca out of nowhere as a bit and Gabriel getting mad at him lol

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[aria-ashryver]

immortal desires + text posts

immortal desires + text posts

|Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

cr. to @farizrz @korgbelmont for the assets!

I'll be posting more of these but they'll all be very Starlight coded and self-indulgent asjsjkss

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