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cabinofimagines · 6 months

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A Graveyard Smash

and here is the last one of the year! Hope you guys enjoyed our shorter but still there Halloween fics :) Pairing: Platonic the seven + a bunch of other ones x reader Word count: 2k Warnings: none! -Asnyox < prev.

You didn’t know what to expect from the grove as a party destination, yet you were slightly blown away. You noticed how most of the decorations were themed around the destruction of nature- pollution was replicated by snack stashes for the satyrs (and perhaps some fauns from Camp Jupiter, you were certain you saw Don somewhere sneaking around), there were red and yellow lights all around, simulating fire and there were many skeletons (which, given how Nico had immediately left after the group call two days ago, probably was courtesy of him). You didn’t know how to feel about the possible real skeletons laying around, so you opted to ignore the possibility of Nico summoning them.

However, you also saw that Meg and her siblings had deemed that to be a rather serious theme to decorate in, so here and there you found some more, handcrafted of reusable materials, generic halloween decorations. Except for carved pumpkins. There were so many pumpkins, but they were all uncarved. You guessed they didn’t want to show actual body horror to the dryads. There was some old-timey Halloween music playing, although you were unable to find any speakers. Guess the trees to really speak to you if you listen.

As you saw Leo and Jason’s costumes you just knew that Leo had bribed Meg to know what the theme of the party would be like. He must have, why else would he think of these costumes? You had to admit, you didn’t know Leo owned a hat this tall, but you didn’t put it above him to have crafted it himself.

“I don’t think the Onceler’s hat was that big?” You walked up to the duo, “Or the Lorax’s mustache that big.”

“I am lucky to not have to deal with the orange paint,”. Jason grimaced. Leo elbowed him.

“Say the line Jason!” Leo whispered, loudly. Jason sighed and deadpanned.

“I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees!” Jason tried to make a more spooky sound at the end of the sentence, after which Leo jumped forward, borderline belting.

“How ba-a-a-ad can I be?” Leo’s ‘be’ ended, somehow, on a S-tone so it rhymed with Jason’s phrase. He was grinning proudly. Jason tried to hide it, but he did seem to get amusement out of his friends' behavior. You laughed.

“Jace, I have to be honest with you,” you looked at your friend, “I had a bet with Nico that you would be a tree. Will won though, he guessed the Lorax.”

“You had a bet?” Jason shook his head, “Let me guess, you do have a spare tree costume and want me to put it on so you win?” You laughed again.

“I wish,” you turned to Leo, “How is your hat staying up when it’s this tall?”

“Support beams made out of metal rods and foam!” Leo’s eyes sparkled, “carton in between, I can show you after the party, I swear it’s so structurally sound. Annabeth would love to know the skeleton of. this hat.” Leo pouted,“ It’s too bad she has been so busy with school lately, she would have loved to work on this thing together.”

“Everyone was suffering under me indeed,” you sighed dramatically, intentionally showing off your outfit.

“Wait, you’re-“ Jason got up real close to one of your sleeves, “That’s my English essay! How the fuck did you get your hands on that!” Jason shivered, “I still haven’t heard back from it, I sure hope I passed.”

“I shalt not say, dear Grace, whether you passed or not,”. You smiled, “However, I have my sources and thankfully an amazing artist who hand copied all of your work.”

“Luckily I do not have anything on here,” Leo laughed, “Dying was the best decision for that.”

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You found two sheet ghosts with cowboy hats a bit further out, talking to each other.

“But you’re so cute though!” Hazel exclaimed, “I’m sure Nico meant no harm.”

“I know it was just weird seeing that.” Frank sighed, “Hedge seemed really happy though.”

“Boo!” You yelled and the pair jumped up. After a second Frank leaned back. You couldn’t see his face underneath the sheet, but you figured he looked upset.

“That’s our line (Y/n)!” He faked exasperation.

“Yeah! We’re the cow-boos after all!” Hazel snickered while saying her phrase.

“Cow-boo? Oh- I get it,”. You smiled, “Yeah that is funny.”

“It doesn’t seem like that when you say that,”. Hazel sighed, “Well, what are you then?”

“Oh, for you I have my left leg,”. You smiled deviously, “Praetor's have a lot of paperwork after all.” You held out your leg. Frank and Hazel moved their eye holes to see more clearly as they bowed down to take a look.

“Uh Frank,” Hazel hesitated, “I think we forgot something.” Hazel pointed at your knee, “I did not fill out this document which we had to hand in yesterday.”

“I did uh, I did not either.”

“Fuck” they said in unision.

“Also how did you get these?” Hazel sounded panicked, “These are classified documents!” You laughed.

“Look, most of my costume is deadlines,” you added a spooky ‘ooooooohhhhhh’ to the last word, “but for you two I also choose to be a security breach. I can give you the name of the one who gave Calypso the files.”

“That would be great.” Frank said, “Uh, Hazel, maybe we should quickly IM someone at Camp Jupiter about the deadlines we missed.”

“Yeah, also (Y/n) you better hide your legs or we will steal your pants.” Hazel glared at you. You slowly backed away.

“How about dinner first?” You joked, as you ran for it.

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You quickly weaved around the crowd, trying your best to get away from Hazel and Frank. You stumbled into what seemed to be the heart of a gathering. On one side of the circle you had Rock, Paper and Scissors. On the other side you had The Argo II, together with the seven demigod heroes who defeated Gaea.

Except that Will was just standing on the side. You joined him quietly.

“This was Nico’s plan?” You asked him and he sighed,

“Yes and he stood on me being Percy.” Will looked at you, “As if he wanted to rub in that Percy was his first crush.”

“You look nothing like Percy though,” You laughed, “You’re blonde.”

“Nico wanted to force me to wear a wig,” Will shook his head, “I opposed him, wigs are itchy.” Will smiled softly, “Although the Cocoa Puffs are adorable, and it warms my heart to see Hedge in his element like this.”

“I look nothing like Will!” Percy’s voice sounded loudly. He seemed offended, “At least Frank looks really cute.” Percy pouted. One particular Cocoa Puff puffed out their chest in pride. Nico stood in the middle of it all, dressed at what you assumed to be a Reyna costume, as Reyna stood next to him, dressed in Nico’s clothes. Nico could hardly stop smiling at the reactions to the Cocoa Puffs. You were about to ask Will something when

“BAM!” Hege yelled as he hit you from behind with a blow-up bat, “YOU JUST GOT ARGO’ED!”

“Amazing,” you looked Hedge up and down. He was wearing a boat around his middle, and on his head was a … Festus Hat? Hedge looked like an excited child.

“Whatcha think, huh? Valdez even delivered on the hat!” Hedge let out an excited bleat, “Although it was all the kids idea,” he pointed at Nico, “I’m really happy to be included though! It’s been a while since all my cupcakes were in the same spot with me! And now I even got two batches! OH! I see Zhang over there, gotta hit him too!” And Hedge ran off.

After a moment of silence Will and you locked eyes, and both started laughing.

“He’s having a blast,” Will smiled, “Nico was right to get Hedge involved. How’s the scaring going?” Will turned to you.

“Hazel and Frank are panicking about some forms they forgot and the security breach,” You grinned devilishly, “Jason is just mostly disappointed, and I still have to show the Rock, Paper Scissors trio my outfit.”

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Annabeth hated your outfit. Whether it was the fact that you got her only failing grade paper on the back, or the fact that she did not want to think about the last minute mistakes she made in two of the other papers she would not tell you. However, she did say she would find Leo to, and you quote, ‘definitely not set fire to your costume and ruin Calypso’s hard work’. Percy held in his laughter until Annabeth was out of earshot.

“So where’s my work?” Percy eagerly looked around your jacket, and you pointed him towards the sleeve.

“Sally was eager to give it to me, she seems proud of your grades, even if they aren’t that high.” you said, and Percy had a bit of an embarrassed blush on his face.

“Whenever I get a passing grade she keeps it,” Percy explained, “to remind me what I am capable of.” He was still inspecting your arm, but suddenly stopped, “Wait, is this- I wrote this when I was 7!” he was now a mess, “Please don’t tell me you read it.”

“I did, Percy.” you cackled crazily for a moment, “Percy Jackson or should I say Aqualad! I am your embarrassing past!” Percy glared at you.

“Just because I wrote a Aquaman and Little Mermaid crossover does not mean I wanted to BE aqualad (Y/n).”

“I think it does,” Piper spoke up, “Also I appreciate the effort but I will not be looking for my work, thanks.”

“Aw, Pipes, come on,” you begged her but she shook her head.

“Deadlines cannot be scary unless you face them, so I am procrastinating.”

“Unfair!” you glared at her, “Piper Mclean I will come for you! You can run, but deadlines always catch up to you!”

After a moment of silence all three of you laughed.

Your moment was interrupted by Meg calling for attention. She was dressed as Gollum, while Apollo stood next to her in a Frodo outfit. A bit further in the back stood who you guessed to be Grover from the satyr legs, dressed as Gandalf.

“It is time to announce the winners of tonight's costume contest!” she yelled, and everyone cheered, “We have seen many amazing costumes, but one duo certainly blew us away.”

Percy, who still stood next to you, breathed out a soft ‘dam’.

“What? You really thought you would win with ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’?” you whispered and he just looked at you.

“I could dream okay?”

“Please come forth!” Meg paused, “Gideon Nav and Harrowhark Nonagesimus!” After a moment, filled with cheers, Calypso and Thalia took the stage looking absolutely stunning and creepy. Calypso was dressed as Harrowhark, with intricate face paint and basically wearing a skeleton around herself. Thalia was Gideon, with more shabby facepaint, the iconic sunglasses and with a six feet claymore on her back. They both bowed, looking up smiling.

“By my rules,” Meg continued after a moment, “You get to decide where to host next year, so where will it be?”

Thalia and Calypso looked at each other and Thalia shrugged, “I don’t know where I will be with the hunt, so it’s up to you Calypso.” Calypso looked a bit panicked, before taking a deep breath.

“I guess it will be at the Waystation then!” she announced, and there were loud cheers from the crowd.

As the party resumed, you hoped Calypso would be earlier with the invitations than Meg had been. After all, working with deadlines was pretty scary.

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se7ens-oc-heaven · 6 months

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Some redesign sketches that I did in the middle of halted traffic at night. The fact I could do both of these says to you just how long traffic was backed up, I think.

Sorry I don't have the old designs on hand for reference, they're buried in my mountains of sketchbooks. Mostly I just de-anime-boy-ified them a bit though so you're not missing much.

#idk how often these guys will show up but we'll see #art #ocs #sketches #se7enart #character art #izumi #cain #izumi's feeling solid but cain could be more... something #spcverse #ehhhhhh sorta #halloweenverse #there's backstory on that. I'll address that later. maybe

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narrativedoomed · 1 year

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zeppc · 1 year

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#in character.#main (s1).#main (s2).#main (s3).#main (s4).#main (s5).#main (s6).#main (s7).#halloweenverse.#wishverse.#study.#headcanons.#mannerisms.#aesthetic.#physique.#visage (1).#visage (2).#tag dump.

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rotturn · 2 years

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#xander harris: in character.#xander harris: arc one.#xander harris: arc two.#xander harris: arc three.#xander harris: arc four.#xander harris: arc five.#xander harris: arc six.#xander harris: arc seven.#xander harris: wishverse au.#xander harris: halloweenverse au.#xander harris: study.#xander harris: aesthetic.#xander harris: headcanons.#xander harris: physique.#xander harris: visage.#xander harris: canon visage.#xander harris: edits.#xander harris: dash games.#tag dump.

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lovebroken · 2 years

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#xander harris: in character.#xander harris: arc one.#xander harris: arc two.#xander harris: arc three.#xander harris: arc four.#xander harris: arc five.#xander harris: arc six.#xander harris: arc seven.#xander harris: alt — wishverse.#xander harris: alt — halloweenverse.#xander harris: study.#xander harris: aesthetic.#xander harris: headcanons.#xander harris: physique.#xander harris: visage.#xander harris: alt visage.#xander harris: edits.#xander harris: dash games.#tag dump.

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funnytrue · 2 years

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#xander harris : in character.#xander harris : arc one.#xander harris : arc two.#xander harris : arc three.#xander harris : arc four.#xander harris : arc five.#xander harris : arc six.#xander harris : arc seven.#xander harris : halloweenverse.#xander harris : wishverse.#xander harris : study.#xander harris : aesthetic.#xander harris : headcanons.#xander harris : visage.#xander harris : physique.#xander harris : mannerisms.#xander harris : edits.#xander harris : dash games.#tag dump.

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lewdys-world-of-asks · 5 months

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Mood~

Muse mood: All muses~!

Specific muses: All~!

AU mood: Officeverse, Maidverse, Halloweenverse, Schoolverse (Currently active)~!

Kinks mood: CNC, teasing, denial, challenges/dares/tasks, cum, public play, groups, intox, monsters, cheating, cuckolding~

Hungry for: Anons/nameless individuals, goons/henchmen, monsters, grimm, zombies, goblins, slimes, voyeurs~!

Specials board

Current active prompts post

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floridaboiler · 6 months

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source - https://twitter.com/HalloweenVerse

#Halloween #Michael Myers #Spooky Season #Mariah Carey #all i want for Christmas is you #Christmas Music #Christmas #Xmas #Noel #Yule

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lewdiverse-archive · 2 years

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AUs~!

All AUs are available for every one of my muses, the more muses interact with one another in these universes, the more familiar they are likely to become. Anything that happens within these AUs is all set apart from each muses' respective universe and other AUs (i.e. anything within the Pornverse is separate to the Halloweenverse)

Lewdiverse

My main AU, a universe where the lewd factor is kicked up to 11. Tighter, skimpier costumes? Of course! Various accidents leading to risqué situations? Obviously! A universe made for all those moments that just seem so coincidental and for teasing you until you're squirming!

Pornverse

A universe wherein muses are instead pornstars! Expect plenty of situational fun that's played up like typical porn!

Maidverse

Ever wondered what would happen if muses were instead maids? Well here's your answer! Grouped together into rival maid companies, all determined by their respective origin universe, see as muses all strive to provide the best cleaning service possible to be the best!

Fantasyverse

Set long ago, see as muses transform from their normal self into classic fantasy inspired roles, or maybe ask for a muse as a role you'd like them in and see just what kind of medieval hijinks they can get themselves into!

Halloweenverse

On a chilly autumn night we find the various muses enter a mysterious fog only to forever be trapped within an eternal Hallow's Eve! From varying costumes to seeking out all kinds of candies, this universe offers up plenty of tricks and treats!

Prisonverse

An alternate universe that shows the side of the law most of my muses fight against, but now they're pitted in a situation far from what they are used to. Powered individuals are weakened as to make them more manageable by the various wardens, and every inmate here is keeping their eyes on new new batch of muses making their home within Lewdworth Penitentiary!

Officeverse

Hello and welcome all to the offices of Lewdcorp! Here houses the varying members of of our fine company. With each universe working as its own team within the company aiming to have the most sales, all to impress the CEO of the company, Mun! Expect plenty of office debauchery, boardroom antics, espionage and sabotage, team infighting and an absolute nightmare for HR!

Femboyverse

A warm welcome from a slightly different universe, one where all our heroines and villainesses are still gorgeously feminine, though with a cute little secret tucked away into those pretty panties! The femboyverse is prone to colliding with other alternate universes, causing anomalies wherein women from that universe will be replaced with their femboy counterpart, allowing for alllll kinds of hijinks!

Schoolverse

This universe sees the muses head back into academia, whether studying hard for exams, taking part in extracurriculars or planning their next lessons, both students and teachers will be under the watchful eye of Miss Lewdy, Headmistress of Lewdville Academy!

Thank you for taking the time to read through all of this! For any other information please see my introductory post!

#info #au

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cabinofimagines · 6 months

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Trust and Tribulations

I can't believe we're pulling it off, and here we are. Pairing: Platonic the seven + a bunch of other ones x reader Word count: ~1.1k Warnings: Bad puns, hatcanons from me and Danny -Asnyox < prev. - next >

As the midterms were still ongoing, the monthly meeting was half in real life and half via Iris message. You, Nico and Will had ventured out to Percy and Annabeth, whereas Hazel and Frank called from Camp Jupiter. Jason and Piper joined you from Piper’s house and Leo joined from the Waystation with Calypso.

I don’t know whether you have ever been on a call with multiple friends, but simply said it was chaos. After everyone was in the IM there and said their hello’s a silence slowly seeped into the conversation.

“So, has everyone gotten their invites?” Frank softly asked, “You know, as we all knew that Halloween was coming up, just checking whether everyone got the invites now.” He was clearly looking for any facial reactions as he made his statement. Percy was quick to give one of panic, and then school it back.

“Grover gave us one yesterday, he mentioned Apollo delivering them?” Percy looked around at the people in the IM.

“Yeah, he loves helping Meg out. He also told us that you all seemed like you’re dying, so how’s that going?” You asked as most people in the IM except for Leo suddenly looked more tired.

“Halloween this year is very on brand with the scare factor,” Percy said, “Saving the world? Easy. School? The scariest of all. Luckily I got my wise girl here helping me out.” he pressed a kiss on Annabeth’s cheek as she smiled.

“It did take us by surprise,” Hazel bumped into the conversation, “Frank and I had been very busy with Preator duties and then suddenly Apollo was there.” She laughed as if she was embarrassed, “I genuinely was about to fight whatever he was bringing, luckily it was only the invite.”

“You could’ve brought it better though!” Frank exclaimed, “We have a quest from Apollo,” he impersonated Hazel, “It scared me half to death!” Hazel laughed at her boyfriend's terror, before shaking her head, “Sorry Frank, just wanted you to know how I felt when I opened the door.”

“Do we know who else is coming?” Piper asked, “Is Reyna invited? Are there going to be more satyrs because it is in a grove?”

“Coach Hedge is coming,” Nico said, “Don’t know about any other satyrs though. I do think Reyna is coming, if Artemis lets the hunters partake in the celebrations.”

“Cool,” Piper nodded.

“Anyways,” Percy drawled out, “How’s the costumes going? As clearly nobody forgot Halloween was happening. We just ran into uh, a problem with ours.”

“You forgot, didn’t you?” You accused Percy, “Unbelievable.”

“We might have,” he admitted, “but we’ll have to figure something out, we can’t disappoint Meg like that.”

“I mean, it’s on her for sending out the invites that late.” Annabeth stated.

“It’s a Halloween party, on Halloween.” You said, “You knew this was coming all year, don’t blame her for your own tardiness.” Annabeth glared at you.

“Well, I have a plan.” she said.

“You did not yesterday.” Percy retorted, “Better yet, you wanted to fake sickness because of your construction deadline on friday.”

“Are you underestimating me, seaweed brain?” You were glad you were not Percy right now, because Annabeth looked like she was ready to go for the kill.

“... no?” Percy gulped.

“I don’t have a costume yet either,” Will tried to break up the tension.

"Yes, you do.” Nico interjected, “I have you covered in my costume plans.” Will looked at him questioningly, and after a moment it seemed like he realized something.

“Wait, you are still doing the thing?” Will asked and Nico nodded quickly, “Seriously? Then who…?”

“Can’t tell you, it would spoil the surprise for the rest of the people here.” Nico smiled crookedly, “Besides, you know you can trust me right?”

“I am not so sure anymore, my sunshine.” Will looked at his boyfriend skeptically as Nico let out a laugh.

“Love you too.”

“Speaking of costumes,” Hazel said, “Leo, could Frank and I borrow some hats from you? We’ll tell you the specific ones later.”

“Of course! I should bring spare hats to the party anyways,” Leo grinned, “You never know how many people will come with bad costumes that my hats can fix. If a certain couple needs hats as costumes too,” Leo pointedly looked at Percy and Annabeth, “they just have to ask. I know you all love my hat collection!”

“No, thanks.” Annabeth grumbled, “I have a plan.”

“I haven’t even thought of getting a costume yet,” Jason looked awfully guilty.

“Jason, do you want to do a costume with me? I need someone to finish my mys-tree costume” Leo lit up.

“Yes?” Jason hesitated, “Was that a tree pun?” Leo ignored his comment.

“That is such a re-leaf. Our costumes are gonna have so much chemis-tree together, trust me!” Leo’s grin got wider with each pun, “Fir sure we are going to have the pinest costumes at the party.” There was a mix of groans and laughs.

“You’re not dressing us up as trees are you?” Jason looked scared.

“Nope! Good guess though.”

“Well,” Piper bumped into the convo, “Good things come in trees, so do you have room for one more?” Leo shook his head.

“Sorry pipes, I don’t be-leaf I do but I can always lend out my hats.”

“Maybe we should get the hats, Annabeth-” Percy whispered but Annabeth elbowed him.

“No way, seaweed brain. Some of them might be cursed, and besides that I have a plan.”

“What plan?”

Ignoring the lover’s quarrel, Piper turned to Calypso.

“You don’t happen to have a bunch of time to help me with my costume?”

Calypso shook her head. “No, I’ve been so busy with (Y/n)’s costume that I have yet to start my own, sorry.”

“No worries,” Piper seemed to start thinking, “no worries,” she mumbled.

After some more discussion everyone realized the time, and as most people in the calls had deadlines to make (and costumes to get) you ended the meeting. You looked at Will and Nico as you smiled.

“I think most people are royally screwed trying to get costumes this close to Halloween.” you laughed and Nico nodded.

“Luckily we’ve been preparing.” He said and Will sighed. “At least I know I won’t be a tree, poor Jason.”

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se7ens-oc-heaven · 6 months

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Not sure if I'll be doing anything for halloween, so for now here's a sketch of my pumpkinhead oc Pamela that I did the other day!

#art #ocs #sketches #se7enart #character art #pamela #spcverse #halloweenverse

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beyond-the-lewdiverse · 6 months

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Whats your inspiration for your various AUs

Lewdiverse - it's my base universe and tbh there's not much inspiration for it besides plenty of ecchi anime

Pornverse - the same inspiration as above but dialed to 11 instead~

Maidverse - I always loved french maids since playing a certain game with one of my bfs at the time and welllll need I say more~?

Fantasyverse - Purely all the fantasy tropes as well as I quite like the settings you get in classic high fantasy, plus the town I lived in had a medieval castle soooo that helped. Also an old porn game I used to play called Witch Girl helps contribute to it~

Halloweenverse - Put simply, I love Halloween~

Prisonverse - an old roleplay I had with somebody where I was a prison psychologist and there ended up being a riot and my my did that roleplay get me hot and bothered~

Officeverse - I've always seen the office as a place where sultry shenanigans can happen sooo why not, plus the way I categorise my muses works with it~

Femboyverse - Well I have only two femboys in my muse list and I really enjoy writing them soooo might as well add it in as an option~

#anon #ask

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ethelindawrites · 3 years

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October 19

Fictober, Prompt 19 - "I feel strange."

Original fiction, fantasy-ish, horror-ish. If anyone is interested, this is the same world as this piece from Fictober19, but this piece stands alone just fine.

Warnings: non-graphic discussion of forced shapeshifting? Not much in this one.

The sound of a shift happening on the bed brought my attention back to my patient. Born human, female, twenty-seven years old, worked at a car rental office at the airport in the big city two hours from here.

And, thanks to an unfortunate encounter with a worldmagic flare on her hiking trip with friends three days ago, now a shifter.

Hearing that the shift was complete, I turned to find a human woman on the hospital bed, rather than the housecat that had been there for the last three days. She was awake as well, staring at the ceiling with wide, terrified eyes.

“Jillian?” I asked softly, and her eyes snapped to me. I smiled sympathetically. “Can you understand me?”

Slowly, she nodded.

“Good,” I said, staying seated by the computer but I finished turning the chair so that I was fully facing her. “Do you remember that you had gone hiking with friends?”

She opened her mouth, closed it, and nodded again.

“Good, that’s a good sign,” I told her encouragingly. “Have you heard of magic before?”

A hesitation, but then a tiny nod.

“Okay. You may have heard of it just as stories, or something that wasn’t real. Is that so?” At her confirmation, I nodded. “That’s okay, that’s not uncommon. I ask because the explanation of what happened to you involves magic, which is real, though the kind you encountered is not common. Do you want to hear more right now?”

This hesitation was longer, but the worst edge of terror was starting to fade from her eyes, which was also a very good sign.

“While you were hiking, you got caught in what we call a flare of magic, which changed you into a cat. Your friends weren’t caught in the flare, and they were able to bring you here. This is a hospital where we help people who have had encounters with magic like yours. Are you with me?”

“This,” Jillian’s first word was hoarse, but it was a fully human word, “there’s a…hospital…for that?”

“There is, and I’m one of the doctors here,” I told her. “I specialize in helping shifters, which is what you are now.”

“I feel strange,” she admitted, almost absently. Then fear edged back in. “I’m- I’m not better?”

“The change the magic made to you is permanent, and irreversible,” I told her, careful as always to be completely honest about this. “You now have the ability to change into a cat, just a domestic housecat, and that will never go away. But, with some help from us over the course of your stay here, you can be very in control of that ability, and once you go back home, you will be able to decide if you want to shift or not.”

The mention of “going home” was clearly a relief, and a significant amount of tension drained visibly out of her body. “I’ll…I can go home?”

“Not immediately, but yes, you should be able to go home,” I said. “Learning to control this ability you have now will take some time, but we have some good processes worked out to help with that, so you’ll learn everything you need to know. We’ll also help you communicate with the people you’ll need or want to talk to about this. Does that sound okay?”

Jillian nodded again, tears spilling out of her eyes. “Thank you,” she whispered, “if I’d been alone I…I don’t know what I would have done.”

“That’s why we’re here. This isn’t common, but it does happen, and many people can still live relatively normal lives. It won’t ever quite be the same,” I cautioned her, “but you’re not going to lose everything.”

“Okay,” she said, tears still welling in her eyes. “I guess… Well, if it had to be anything… I guess I’d have picked a cat.”

I smiled. “Based on what I know, it should be on the easier end of the scale of animal forms to deal with.”

Her eyes widened again. “Really?”

“I had one patient who turned into a bison,” I told her, which actually made her jaw drop.

“Wow,” she said, sounding what I suspected was more like her usual self. “Wow, yeah, that would be so much worse.” She thought about that for a few more minutes, then looked at me again. “Are- Are you a- a shifter too?”

“Yes,” I said, “I am.”

“What do you turn into?”

The usual follow-up question was easier to answer now, so many years on, my carefully worded answer as always. “My other form is a reticulated python.”

“Oh,” she shifted back slightly. “You’re not…going to shift or transform or whatever, are you? I’m sorry but I’m—”

“Not fond of snakes,” I finished, offering her a wry smile. “No, I will not shift if that’s the case, and I’m not offended, don’t worry. We all have some creatures we find more tolerable than others.”

She relaxed again. “Sorry! You’ve been really nice, so it’s definitely not you.”

“I understand,” I assured her, and I did. There was a tiny part of my mind that still always felt even such a mild rejection with alarm, but I had learned to accept that over the years. I knew that most shifters came to have a similar instinct about their other form, even when there was no harm intended.

“Well,” I told her, rising. “If it’s all right, let me call a nurse in. We’ll run some standard tests, but nothing about your shift or your current mental state give me cause for worry. Then we’ll get you a little food if you’re hungry, and let you sleep again – you’re going to be very tired for at least a couple more days. Tomorrow, we’ll begin filling you in beyond the basics. Sound good?”

Jillian agreed, relieved, and I stepped out to call the nurse.

It was good when a shift went this well. The shifter patients that I typically helped (or attempted to help) were almost always in a much worse state.

But Jillian wasn’t that bad, I reminded myself firmly. For that good fortune, I would be grateful.

They could not all be saved. Most of my colleagues struggled with that truth, I knew.

That was why I usually volunteered to be there when a new shifter patient first woke…and that was why they let me.

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