#self‑insert: hero's guide (alise)

[tiny-cloud-of-flowers]

i have a question for story! how did you and alise meet? and how long did it take for the two of you to trust each other?

"Story": "Oh!~ Something for me?~ Why, you shouldn't have!~ Ahh, I'm only joking, you see~ I would love to talk about my darling girl!~

Oh, my dear Alise.. Yes, of course I recall how we met, so intriguing as it was~ It was not perhaps the first time that our fates had quite been laid out as if to cross..~ But, it was the first time that one of those heroes she had been trying to help made it all the way to me without getting picked off along the journey. I don't even quite remember the finer details at this point. But that's because they are not relevant!~

What I do recall is putting on the usual sort of show, and seeing my would-be foe be unable to even live up to his feeble little title.. Honestly, some days it makes you wonder why I bother, doesn't it?~ Yet, even after he failed so pathetically, a little golden glow kept flitting back and forth, the poor thing..~ Ahh, but her demeanour wasn't quite what I'd expected it to be!~ No, no, it was really rather intriguing, as I said~ She was awfully curious, you see, and- well, whether out of curiosity of my own, or mere boredom, or perhaps even a little whim of Fate - I simply deemed it no small loss to answer a few of her more pertinent questions!~ And from there, well.. it wasn't too tricky to figure out a way to keep her around~ I truly have grown quite fond of her, you see!~ Are you surprised?~

Hm.. That should just about cover your first inquiry, shouldn't it?~ And so then, for your second.. I can't deny that there was perhaps some.. delay, let's say~ My darling Alise was, shall we say, a bit uncertain of how to think of me to begin with~ Quite understandably, given how we'd first encountered one another!~ There was certainly gratitude there, but a good bit of trepidation as well~ It wouldn't be wrong to say that I'd completely turned her world on its head!~ Even still, I at least knew I could trust her from the beginning~ After all, trust is simply confidence that you know what someone is capable of, isn't it?~ And it was quite plain that she would not have had the means to stand up to me, even if she'd wanted to~ I've had to teach her so much more about what she shows to the world, ahaha~

Well, I suppose that answers both of those, you could say!~ I do so hope that this has been satisfying, ahaha!~"

#heart of the void #selfshipping #mother: witch of fated tales (story) #familial F/Os #self‑insert: hero's guide (alise) #out of the inbox #selfship asks #neuvilline #F/Ovember #F/Ovember 2023 #i apologise if this doesn't sound enough like story #I am probably not awake enough to be trying to answer the last asks #but we shall see if I can get any done!

[moved-to-void-kissed]

and I STILL do not have an Alise model, drat

#maybe one day #when I have more of an idea of her design than “long hair and looks friendly’’ #actually maybe that’s why I’ve been holding off because long hair is just so not me #hence why Emily is the only other self-insert to have it and even then it’s to make her look more like the playable character claire #a call from the void #self-inserts #ah drat alise’s tag uses a desktop apostrophe I can’t put it in right now #for context: Alise is my other cloverse self-insert and story is her mother figure #she helps her with her role by finding people fated to be heroes and directing them down that path like a guide fairy type figure