#chaining and torturing him

[adrift-in-thyme]

Here it is! The fairy Time fic I promised. Be warned, it is extremely fluffy

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It is a quiet night.

Time is always grateful for those. They are in short supply on this journey, too often interrupted by the rise of the cursed Blood Moon or an outburst of beasts from under the cover of foliage. But tonight, the moon is tranquil and golden and the surrounding bushes and trees conceal nothing except chattering critters.

The heroes have settled around the fire, and are trading lazy quips. The occasional tale sneaks in between them, which quickly becomes a competition to see who has endured the more exciting experience. 

Time doesn’t normally make a habit of joining in. He is content to remain just outside the conversation, close enough to comment if necessary, but far enough to merely listen. Such peace and joy are precious things – as precious as every moment spent by Malon’s side – and they surround him like a warm blanket.  

Tonight, however, that wonderful feeling is making it rather difficult to remain awake. 

It doesn’t help that the healing spells he had cast in the aftermath of today’s battle have left him feeling drained. With the traveler down and their potions used up, he had had little choice but to act. And he doesn’t regret it in the least. But that doesn’t negate the fact that healing magic has never been his strong suit.

Every fae possesses the power, yet not all have the strength to employ it in such a measure as he had today. Healing is a delicate act. It requires attentiveness and care, dedication and focus. He had poured all of that and more into his spells, used his heart and mind, his soul to heal his brothers’ wounds and save their lives. And in the moments afterward…had collapsed. 

He is fortunate his brothers had been there to catch him. Too many times before he learned his limit, this weakness had spelled his doom. He has scars on his wings to prove it.

Still, he is practically useless, even now after the impromptu nap. He feels dried up and hollowed out, limbs heavy with the same exhaustion that drags his eyelids downward. And though he would normally protest at least a little at the prospect of staying in his current position, he cannot dredge up the will to do so.

So, here he remains, curled up on his side on Wind’s lap, Warriors’ scarf a silken cocoon about his body, one giant wing draped over him like a comforter. 

He shifts with a small sigh. The sailor giggles, ever amazed at his fairy form, and reaches out to run a finger over Time’s wings. He is gentle, careful in every movement. Still, Time is a bit surprised at the lack of the fear that usually bubbles up whenever anyone touches him in this form.

He has had too many injuries, too many close calls with death or worse. They have made him wary. But he trusts the sailor. Wind is nothing if not kind. 

He is safe here. 

The knowledge hits him harder than any monster blow.

You are safe here.

Something breathtakingly warm wells up in him at that thought, similar to the feeling he has been basking in since he awakened, yet unique all the same.

“Alright, old man?” A soft voice asks, now, and Time pries open the eye he hadn’t even registered closing. Warriors grins down at him. 

Time’s soft hum quickly dissolves into a blissful sigh as the captain tucks him more securely into his bed of softness. He allows his eye to slide shut again, his body to relax more fully. He allows the sensations and sounds to envelop him, surround him in warmth and comfort. To pull him down into blessed darkness once more.

“He’s adorable like this,” Wind says, his noisy whisper breaking through the haze. Another giddy giggle bursts forth from him like gurgling water. 

“He is, isn’t he?” It’s Twilight now. Time can imagine the dirt-eating grin on his face, the same one that spreads across Malon’s when she beats him in yet another race around the pasture. “Though I doubt he wants us calling him that.”

There’s a pause, then in a disapproving whisper-yell, “and he definitely doesn’t want that. Put that slate of yours away, champion!”

There is the distinct sound of a camera snapping a photograph. Laughter ripples through the group like the wind through the trees. 

“When he kills you all, don’t come running to me,” Twilight says, though there’s laughter in his voice too.

Traitors, Time thinks, lazily, all of them.

“Oh, come on, Twi. Look at him! He wouldn’t hurt us! Not like this anyway.”

“Then, you haven’t gotten a good look at his wings,” Legend pipes up, drily. “They’ve got eyes on them, you know.”

“Ooh.” Time can feel Wind’s breath ghosting him as the boy leans down to get a closer look. “I wonder if they make up for the one he lost. I’ll bet he can see us through ‘em!”

If Time wasn’t quite so tired (or finding this quite so exasperatingly comical) he would correct that assumption. But then again, what’s the harm in allowing a little rumor like that to spread and strike some healthy fear into the hearts of his would-be blackmailers? 

“Come on guys.” Warriors’ voice rises above the hushed clamor of the others, all bickering about Time’s ability, or lack thereof to watch them through his wings. “He’s exhausted. Let him sleep.”

The heroes try to quiet, though their efforts are about as successful as Time suspected they would be. Whispers and barely stifled laughter continue to weave their way gallantly through the night.

He wouldn’t have it any other way.

…though a few more telltale clicks of Wild’s slate cement his decision to play a prank on him as soon as he regains his strength. 

“He’s so small,” someone murmurs, now as the hubbub begins to subside, sleepiness getting the best of even the most energetic among them. Sky, Time’s mind slowly supplies, putting a face to the voice that wafts gently around him. “To think, he healed us all while in that form…”

“Something you get to know very quickly about Sprite is that size doesn’t bother him,” Warriors replies, fondness in his tone. “Even as a kid, he could take out groups of monsters much larger than what we faced today.”

Sky chuckles, soft and almost sad. Time is too far gone to decipher why. 

But he can’t deny the sudden rush of warmth when the chosen hero whispers, “thank you…little one.” And when, in the next moment, Sky ghosts a finger over the very tip of his wings, Time is unafraid beneath his touch. 

He drifts off not long afterward to the sound of tired murmurs, the crackling of the campfire, and a soft song played upon an ocarina, the notes drifting up toward the moon.

#me: this au has so much potential for angst and whump #also me: time is now conveniently snuggle-sized and I must take advantage of that #this poor man #i'm either smothering him with snuggles #or torturing him in the most painful and traumatizing ways #there is no in between #alas tis the cost of being my blorbo #trin writes #fairy time au #linked universe #linkeduniverse #ficlet #fluff #so much fluff #lu time #lu chain #lu twi #lu twilight #lu wind #lu sky #also this is set later than my other two fics #by this point everyone's had a chance to find out time's secret #though some have known for longer than others

[evilkaeya]

[holds Dazai's face in my hands] you are so loved btw

#HE HAS NO IDEA #HOW LOVED HE IS #he fr doesn't guys bcz 1. no one tells him 2. if anyone tries to tell him he runs away #let's chain him up and shower him with love and compliments #this is chuuya's 191st torture dazai method

[sarafangirlart]

It’s ironic that Hephaestus has more written evidence of being a mama’s boy than Ares. Yet Ares is the one portrayed as a mama’s boy more often.

#I enjoy ares being a mama’s boy but evidence of him being such are surprisingly limited #Hephaestus defended Hera from Zeus’s abuses 2 or 3 times #tried to comfort her after she was yelled at in book 1 of the Iliad #tried to defend her from Zeus only to be thrown off Olympus #tried to free his mother from being chained and tortured only to be thrown off Olympus #yet for some reason ppl act like they hate each other #when Hephaestus is surprisingly not a vengeful guy #greek mythology #greek pantheon #ancient greek mythology #hera #greek goddess #hera goddess #hera deity #zeus #hera greek mythology #hera x zeus #hera children #goddess hera #hephastios #hephaestus greek mythology #Hephaestus

[maegalkarven]

I'm going for a run, but when I return imma gonna write about how BG3 really said "I see you all bitches with parental issues".

Bhaal, Raphael, Cazador, Ketheric, Gortash's parents, Shar, even Selûne and Ravengard are the examples of not so perfect parenting. No wonder I latched into these dynamics.

#bg3 #bg #baldur's gate #baldurs gate 3 #listen i love selûne #but isn't she a lil “the absent parent” figure? #where was she when her daughter was killed over and over. when shadowheart was kidnapped. when lands were corrupted? #where was she? #i know she's strong on the “do not interfere and let them live/do their own mistakes” path #but shadowheart was a child stolen from her home #aylin was chained for century. her daughter. her tool. her Fleming sword #Ravengard is another “absent parent” case. that and his “assuming the worst of wyll” bullshit #Ketheric was doing EVERYTHING for Isobel without actually asking what ISOBEL wants #like not once he consulted her/her spirit/etc #he did what HE thought was best for her. he revived her for HIMSELF #not for her #combined with him torturing her lover for century... #well #others are self-explanatory kind of #to be clear Raphael is here as a parent figure #gortash was raised in hoh as fucked up as it was #but raph also has his own daddy issues which is fun #this game really said “it's about parents. it's about family. it's aabout trauma and cycles of abuse” #also it's me in a bitch with parental issues

[s2pdoktopus]

I do love it when there's a conversation about Jiang Cheng's deniably in committing brother murder and torture.

#i love jiang cheng stans more than Jiang Cheng himself #while you guys are out there arguing jiang cheng's deniability of brother murder and torture #his disciples are fighting against anyone saying that he didn't do a murder #you just know that they are proud of his 'accomplishments' #secretly of course. for some reason that they cannot comprehend sect leader jiang doesn't like hearing about it. #my little reblog chain of this dumb au is kinda long so I'll just post this separately #just take the murder accusations. it might make him less pathetic

[friendlylocalwhumper]

Iron, with a smothering kiss of cold earth, has been locked around his jaw and hugs the base of his skull. Furiously stormy eyes glare from above the solid muzzle, from under frizzy white hair.

When the metal rod nears his thigh, it’s the first time that that defiance and rage falter. Eyes full of hatred suddenly flit downward to lock onto the metal that glows white at the tip and red a few inches further down. The heat radiates off of it and caresses him in a sensation worse than creepy trailing fingertips. The branding iron is moved slowly enough that he sees his coarse hairs curl up and smolder before the burning even really starts.

The room is getting darker. Major’s eyes rise for a half second to blink rapidly at the lightbulb above him, which holds steady and bright even as his vision darkens at the edges. The branding iron makes contact and for a second it feels startlingly cold. Short quick hummingbird-wing-beat breaths huff out from his nose over the muzzle. He thought he would scream, like the last time he got burnt. But he hears a high-pitched dog-with-its-tail-stuck-under-a-tire sound, and then the world swallows him whole, and he feels numbness and unconsciousness flood in.

Whimper-whine-wail. Whimper-whine-wail. Whimper-whine-wail. As he wakes, Major’s nose and eyebrows crumple towards each other, and he groans. Someone’s being a pussy, really close to him, and it’s fucking annoying. Someone’s making stupid hurt sounds, and… wait. It’s the exact same every time. Teary eyes blink open, and he can make out a small black recording device through his grogginess. The play button is stuck down and his own cries spill out of it on a loop. Agony is kindled in his leg and he shudders, stiffly moving his aching body to roll onto his back and untangle his ankles. At his thigh, which he refuses to look at, there is what feels like a burn a foot long and just as wide. It can’t be that big, he’d have a fever or be screaming his head off, he knows. But it hurts that much, and every nerve within a fucking mile radius of the small burn is shrieking in protest.

The healer tries to reach down to fix it, just let magic spill over the burn and erase it. But the muscles in his shoulder twitch and the limb doesn’t budge. Head rolling until his cheek smushes against the floor, he sees that his arm is chained down to a metal grate. Strong thin black bars, and a void beneath. Smells like… like… Beneath the muzzle, he whines low, eyes widening. Just his left arm is chained down to a grill in the floor. They’re gonna, they’re gonna fucking-

A whoosh and a roar sends Major flinching to the right, but his arm won’t budge. The dark room bursts into bright orange with the light cast from the fire underneath the grate. For three heartbeats it feels comfortably warm, the air rippling with the heat.

For long enough to send his mind scattering and spiraling in shards, screams are caught by the muzzle. In the haze of wishing he had no body and wishing for ice and numbness and to pass out, he reaches with his other hand to try to tear the chains away, and shriek-sobs harder when that just gets him a second burnt hand.

Finally, finally after passing out with sweat trapped beneath the muzzle and tears and snot across his face, his body lies limp as his crispy arm is extricated from the chains and the grate. And when he wakes, he learns that he wasn’t burning for an eternity, but for two and a half minutes. That’s how long the recording echoes his maddening screams before it loops again.

#whump #ocs #mine #burning #burns tw #chains #major #his dialogue is so one note that i decided to muzzle him #he is VERY cute when he's hyperventilating and writhing and screaming! #muzzled #captivity #torture #losing consciousness

[hellhoundlair]

dont get me thinking about attack dog puppy slave sam ill end up freaking the fuck out

#keeping him chained up and feeding him blood and only letting him out to hunt and kill and torturing his cock and- #and the best part is he still gets to top but not before teasing him and denying him for hours on end ♡

[alternatesouppe]

Some Klavier outfit ideas! Still figuring out this style but for the most part I like the direction it’s going as well as the outfit! I didn’t want to change much from his prosecutor’s outfit but I wanted it to have more of a street style than … courtroom style. Also it’s always morally correct to put Klavier in a fishnet shirt

I’m leaning towards one of the leather jackets bc even in a brc/skater au I can’t take this man’s hog away from him and I feel like he needs to look the part of a biker, if only partially

#I mentioned this on my main but the fishnet jacket look looks like he has a binder on LFMAO not intentional but I’m not changing it either #I feel like I should give him more chains but how much do I want to torture myself with giving him more chains plus the fishnet… #wrighter au #ace attorney #the best part about this au is it’s forcing my to work on this style which is fun and also hard #PumpkinSouppe #alternatesouppe

[hangingoffence]

the fact that jesse was supposed to be killed in season 1 but he turned out to be the only one who really got out and escaped the life

#he was at the bottom of the food chain due to his addiction #almost nobody in his life truly respected him as a person and only used him bc he was easily manipulated #he got tortured mentally and physically he got beaten and used over and over again by people he thought he could trust #but he still had the strength to stand up against walt and finally free himself by not doing what walt wanted #and in el camino he relives his time with todd and how it broke him so completely #but he again found out the strength in himself to burn that past and move on #finally he was truly truly free from everything that was done to him #he could start the true healing process #hes so.... :((( #jesse pinkman #brba

[eebie]

if u make this shit like this you're actually SICK in the HEAD and you make me want to THROW UP

#i got reminded of that guy on youtube who talks about his marshmallow business #all his vidoes are of him cutting them and they make me feel nauseous l8kje how could someone in good conscience put this shit in their #mouth!!! #i feel like ium going to THROW UP #it looks TOO SWEET #it's liike. i feel like im being forcefed honey through a hose just thinking about it #seeing the marhsmallows squish and get sliced and shit makes me violent. dont sell this to anyone you FREAK #its like that torture method where they make you eat honey mixed with milk And then cover you in honey and send u out 2 a swamp #and all the bugs and shit start to eat youALIVE and you cant do anything about it because you're chained to the boat all alone #this is what you're doing to people. by making this shit . how do you SLEEP at night #my rambles #also i realy dont care about this it makes me mildly irritated at BEST ^_^....... #im just feeling violent 2day because i didnt get good sleep last night

[marklikely]

a LOT of people on that "why doesnt sisyphus just stop' post are saying that the furies attack him if he stops rolling the boulder.... quick question but did you guys ever play hades game.

#because i think. im like 90% positive thats just something they made up for a video game and not true .... #ive literally NEVER heard of the furies having anything to do with sisyphus outside of hadesgame #avpost #like. am i wrong i thought the furies only go after people who violate xenia. which was not sisyphus's crime #i mean i guess making thanatos chain himself up and throwing him in ur closet counts as being inhospitable? #but still thats like. low on the list of reasons why it was bad of sisyphus to do that. and why he was in trouble. #idk if there's a source ill change my tune on this but i personally didn't see anything about the furies with sisyphus #and i did some extra research when i saw the post to confirm that there wasnt a consequence ever given. and a lot of ppl said there wasnt #i personally think he just sucks he's too prideful to admit that he can't get over the hill. torturing himself in tartarus forever

[i-dont-bite]

i've been cancelled for the 2nd time on twitter because i thought finn wolfhard going to starbucks was not such a big deal lol

#i hate this shit because like man it's STARBUCKS it is REALLY not that deep. it is the biggest chain of coffeehouses IN THE WHOLE WORLD #WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO #he didn't even promote it and post a picture himself HE JUST TOOK A PICTURE WITH A FAN AND THEY POSTED IT #it's so counterproductive all of these things #it's like when sabrina carpenter promoted coca cola and some idiot tweeted ''is that... a genocide drink'' LIKE DUDE #IT'S COCA FUCKING COLA #DO YOU REALLY EXPECT PEOPLE TO BOYCOTT COCA COLA?? #IN THOSE 10 SECONDS IT TOOK YOU TO WRITE THAT STUPID ASS TWEET 40 LATINO FAMILIES BOUGHT 80 COCA COLA BOTTLES TO HAVE WITH AN ASADO #DO YOU THINK IT'LL MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE IF FUCKASS SABRINA CARPENTER DOESN'T POSE WITH A COKE CAN??? REALLY??? #capitalism made y'all think consuming is the only power that you have and the only thing y'all can do #obviously is useful to boycott but is it making a fuss of a celebrity getting an iced latte??? #go to the fucking streets if injustice really doesn't let you sleep at night. do something. open your wallet. try to do real helping #internet activism isn't real. not on something as big as this #retweeting shit to your 60 followers that are doing the same thing is closer to useless. it may be good! but you're not doing any change!! #you're just torturing yourself filling your timeline with shit that makes you upset and that you don't have the power to change!! #everyone knows about this. the people that care will look for themselves it is literally all over the internet #is it useful to harass random teenagers on the internet because they're talking about their favorite artist #instead of putting a watermelon in their dn and retweeting a bunch of videos of children dying like you??? #really you people need to go outside. right now. instead of acting like you care so much to feel morally superior to others #plus now that we're at it!!! i love finn fr!!! but there's a much reasonable thing you could try to cancel him for!! #like still being seemingly besties with a guy accused of beating up like all of his girlfriends for example!! that's a bit more serious #yk i know nothing about that like i don't know them!! idk jdg maybe it's not true!! there's little info and most points at yes but idk idk! #i'm not talking about a situation i don't know about but I THINK that's much more serious and NO ONE on finntwt ever talks about it 😂

[silverselfshippingchaos]

i hate s.eifer a.lmasy so much

#that was a lie #i need him carnally actually #ahem sorry what HAHAHAHAA #ash rambles 💚 #he is so... AHSKHSKAHAKAHSJWJSJAHSJWJSJWHSJQHSNWJRUJWHEJW #i know he's an asshole but shhh he's sooo dreamyyyy!!!! #i don't support the chaining s.quall up and torturing him but um #heck #s.eifer in the mobile games... him always talking about how he wants to be a knight and protect the people he holds dear... #also he's really handsome did i mention that #thank you s.quall soooo much for cutting his face in the intro of the game since that facial scar does him soooo good #ahsjabdnsbdjwhdb i feel like this gush post is all over the place but s.eifer turns me into mush #however my s/i for him is so cool! she's so stylish! and also she has guns! two of them! and lots of earrings and a cool outfit and stuff!! #she's a member of the main party so s.eifer is her enemy for like. the whole game #(but she has a crush on him and her friends tease about it often) #however in the ending cutscene you see them hug! they get together a bit after the game! they have a lot of recovering to do together #considering that they've both been enrolled in Mercenary School since they were very very young- #but heck. i hate him (i really love him so much but i'm stubborn and just saying it makes me smile) #he's handsome and strong... and kind.. actually no he's not #but shhh whatever i love him anyway!! he may be a questionable villain but he's MY questionable villain #also hehe i used tiny s.eifer for this post #look at him. look at how small he is. he's so cute

[vampiremansionpoolboy-moved]

xavier blorbo of all time

#he’s fruity he’s tall he got long hair he wears buns he’s got a secret little she shed with paintings of his tortured visions he’s got #daddy issues he’s got trust issues he’s a simp he’s a bit of a creep he’d do anything for his friends he’s kinda insane he got framed for #murder by the dude who assaulted him and got turned in by the girl he loves his ex wanted him back but when he wanted her back for a #distraction she left his pathetic self alone he’s a painter his drawings come to life and attack him sometimes he’s got rlly soggy eyes he #was so deranged when he was chained up in jail he lets a girl use him bc he likes her he tries to save her and ends up shooting her with an #arrow and finally bc he’s rich he buys her a phone as a thank u even tho i’m p sure they were even but anyways #i just love him #he’s my new meow meow #toad talks #wednesday #wednesday spoilers #xavier thorpe

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here they are!! finally!!

okay, so at first i thought that i should add something like "part 1", since this post will include only the guilty trio's side characters, but i thought about it and.. i don't really think i should make profiles for other side characters too? most side characters are just the family members (like asahi's adoptive father or eiko's mother) or they're those prisoners' friends (riku's friends/bandmates, reina's friends, etc) and i don't want to make profiles for all those friend groups.

but we'll see! maybe i'll just drop some family/friends lore when i feel like it.

Side character 001: Saito Arata

Name: Saito Arata (斎藤新) (his last name means "purification, worship" and his first name means "fresh, new")

Age: 17 y/o

Gender: Male

Birth date: March 23rd (Aries)

Height: 176 cm

Blood type: AB

Occupation: High school student (first year)

Personality: Arata is an interesting and unpredictable person. It's hard to tell what's going on inside his head, but he always looks like he's up to no good. He does whatever he wants and whenever he wants and he doesn't care what others say. He's very chill and relaxed most of the time and there's only a few things that can make him angry. He's very talkative and outgoing, but he still has no friends.. Or maybe he has one, if you can call that boy his friend. It's hard to impress someone like Arata, so if you manage to do that, don't be surprised if he suddenly becomes obsessed with you and starts basically worshipping you. But also.. don't be surprised when he just as suddenly decides that he doesn't find you interesting anymore and leaves you. His interests change all the time, he can't control it. And also, even if you are like a god to him, it doesn't mean that he will forget about everything else. He's not as loyal as he likes to make people believe. Also, what's the point of being so obsessed with someone if he actually has more power than anyone else here?

Trivia:

Arata's grades aren't that good and one of the reasons why he started to like Akio is the younger boy agreeing to let him copy his homework.

Arata doesn't look exactly like Riku, but they share some other traits, like age, zodiac sign, blood type, being taller than Akio and having dark hair. Also, Riku not looking like an exact copy of Arata and Akio still liking him because of how much he reminds him of his follower can be explained as Akio missing Arata too much.

Arata is a year older than most of his classmates, but there's not any particular reason for that.

Arata really likes animals that are considered to be weird, dangerous or scary by most people and he was obsessed with insects and dinosaurs when he was a child (he still is). He also has a huge shark plushie in his room, but it's not cute at all and it's actually kinda creepy. When Akio found out about that interest of his, he tried to find as much information as possible, so that he could impress Arata with his knowledge later.

Arata actually didn't care about Akio that much when he first met him, he only had to spend time with him for reasons I can't talk about yet, but as he kept learning more about him and what kind of person he is, he started to admire him and be truly supportive of him.

Arata knew Akio's victim well not only because of them all being classmates, but also because Akio's victim really wanted to be friends with Akio and that annoyed Arata even back when he wasn't interested in Akio (or at least he thought so). When he fully turned into Akio's follower, he did everything to make his victim's life worse: from stealing his medications to "accidentally" pushing him down the stairs. Akio actually didn't need to try and "manipulate" Arata to kill the poor boy for him, Arata would do it anyway sooner or later.

If you remember, the silhouettes' eyes in Akio's MV were green (meaning envy and jealousy) and only one of them had pink eyes (meaning love and genuine support). Yes, those other figures are Akio's classmates and the pink-eyed figure is supposed to be Arata.. but only in this particular MV (symbolism, am I right), because in real life, as you have probably already noticed, Arata has heterochromia and one of his eyes is pink, meanwhile his other eye is green. And yes, I've made his eyes like that on purpose.

Remember how Akio mentioned in his interrogation that he's okay with anything his mother cooks, but something was crossed out? He actually wanted to write "anything Arata cooks", but quickly changed it to his mother, because he found it too embarrassing and he didn't want the guards to ask about Arata. The funniest thing about this is that Arata actually can't cook at all and he just bought random food and then he was like "Yeah, I've made it for you, do you like it? <3". It worked though and Arata had to hold his laugh every single time because Akio genuinely believed him.

Side character 005: Mikazuki Ruka

Name: Mikazuki Ruka (朏 瑠日) (his last name means "crescent moon" and his first name means "lapis lazuli" and "sun")

Age: 21 y/o

Gender: Male

Birth date: May 19th (Taurus)

Height: 164 cm

Blood type: A

Occupation: Unemployed

Personality: Ruka wishes people would just.. ignore him or pretend he's not here. He doesn't like talking to people and finds it exhausting. Even simply being around people is too much for him. No, actually, everything is too much for him. Getting up in the morning or even simply eating or breathing is too much work for him. It would be nice if he had someone who could just.. do all of that for him. He'd be okay with doing anything in return for that.. well, if it's not too exhausting. Ah, and if this doesn't sound too weird yet, Ruka has this interesting habit of saying that he's actually dead if anyone asks him to do something he's too lazy to do or simply asks him a question about his past or how he's feeling right now. He often says something like "'Cause I'm dead" in the end of his sentences. He never explains why he does that and it seems much more serious than just him trying to come up with an excuse not to talk about something or not to do something. Maybe it's because he genuinely feels like he's actually a corpse and that's why he's always so tired?.. Ah, but don't think that he's always so cold and emotionless. He's actually very expressive, but only around one specific person.

Trivia:

Ruka's voice is very androgynous and most of the time people have to ask him about his gender. It doesn't help that he has a unisex name as well. And when someone asks him or thinks he's a girl, he simply shrugs and goes "I'm dead anyway, so it doesn't matter". He often wears skirts and dresses too.

Speaking of that habit of his, at first Kei thought that Ruka suffers from "Cotard's syndrome", a condition in which the person thinks that they're actually dead or don't have any blood or organs, but he has soon found out that Ruka knows perfectly well that he's alive, he just likes to think that he's dead, a walking corpse or even a zombie.

Ruka stopped growing when he was 14 years old and he still looks very young and people often mistake him for a teenager. When Kei first met him in a night club, he actually got worried and wondered how this kid was allowed in here. Ruka kinda likes the fact that he looks so young, since "it proves that he really has died and stopped aging".

Ruka is much more talkative around Kei in general. And just so you understand, he wasn't a "poor innocent guy who Kei has kidnapped and tortured in his basement", he was free to go anywhere he wanted to (without leaving the house, of course) and do anything that he wanted. He even made fun of Kei and made jokes like "Ah, do you like me for my childlike appearance or something? You're even more of a creep than I've thought" (Kei punched him right after that and made him take his words back because even he got uncomfortable after hearing that) and "Just beat me up and take as many photos as you want already, I wanna go to sleep as soon as we're done". He even teased him and said things like "What, is this everything you've got?" while Kei tortured him. Kei absolutely did horrible things to him, but Ruka still had more freedom than it was shown in Kei's MV and even though he's still a victim of kidnapping, he actually kind of enjoyed the process because he thought he was finally about to die for real.

The outfit that he's shown wearing has sun and moon motifs which is a reference to his name meaning. I wanted his name to be related to both sun and moon to show that he's Kei's "sun and moon", that meaning that he's Kei's everything.

According to Ruka, he doesn't have any parents or siblings and he also hates when people ask him about them. He still had a friend group (he didn't care about them at all) and he actually was basically forced to come with them to that night club from Kei's MV. They have still spent a lot of time explaining that he really is an adult This is how Kei and Ruka met and Kei went "Oh.. He's just like me fr.."

It's hard to explain what kind of relationship Kei and Ruka had, since it's hard to call them friends and they weren't really a couple. Their relationship had platonic, romantic and sexual elements, but they still had no idea who they are to each other and they mostly just treated each other like an artist and a muse at first before they started to become closer.

Side character 008: Kanasawa Takame

Name: Kanasawa Takame (金沢喬女) (her last name means "gold" and "swamp, stream" and her first name means "high, noble" and "woman")

Age: 31 y/o

Gender: Female

Birth date: November 16th (Scorpio)

Height: 170 cm

Blood type: O

Occupation: Maid cafe manager

Personality: Takame is a polite and gentle woman who is always very kind to everyone, especially her employees. She has a very good reputation and everyone knows her as a caring and understanding person who never lets her employees overwork themselves and if she sees someone making them uncomfortable, she will make sure to take care of that and protect them. She's quite passionate about anime, manga and games and that's.. uh.. one of the reasons why she decided to open a maid cafe. What about the other reasons? Haha, you don't have to know that. Maybe this woman really does have a dark side, but only one of her workers knows about it. And that worker still loves her no matter what.

Trivia:

Takame secretly has a thing for cute girls in maid outfits and that's a second reason why she opened a maid cafe.

Takame really does have a secret second job and her being a cafe manager is just something she does to hide her secrets and make herself look like a normal person who doesn't do anything illegal.

Unlike other two side characters who actually liked their prisoners, she didn't have any feelings for Yurika and just manipulated her because she knew that Yurika is the only worker who would agree to help with something like Takame's second job and she knew that Yurika really needs someone to rely on, so she promised she will take care of everything that Yurika has problems with. She thought that Yurika is cute, but that's all.

Takame really does like anime, manga and games and that's not something she made up. She believes that no matter how old you are, you should still do what you like, even if other people judge you for it.

She knew everything about Yurika's past and her problems and she knew about Yurika's relationship with her victims. She used that information to make Yurika trust her, but no matter how manipulative she was, she actually did protect Yurika from her stalkers and people who harassed her. Of course, that made Yurika like her even more, but when Takame did that, she genuinely wanted to protect Yurika because she didn't want her to go through anything like that.

#most facts are just about their relationships with their prisoners but if i tried to talk more about their backstories and personalities #it would be way too long and i also want to discuss those topics later so yeah #feel free to ask questions about them though! #no arata doesn't actually have an akio itabag BUT IF HE COULD MAKE/BUY AKIO MERCH HE WOULD #i really really like his dynamic with akio especially bc i know arata's backstory so i'm like. HHHHH THEY'RE SO INTERESTING #yes i can't believe i'm saying this but. kei and ruka's dynamic is kinda cute if you think about it #OF COURSE IT DOESN'T EXCUSE THE KIDNAPPING AND TORTURING AND BASICALLY BRAINWASHING HIM AND ALL THAT STUFF #but still it's very interesting how kei likes ruka bc he acts like kei's real self meanwhile ruka likes him because he makes him feel alive #and in a good way and he doesn't want to say that he's dead when that happens #also when i started working on lineart and looked at takame i realized that she reminds me of shidou's wife and i screamed #LIKE I THINK SHE DOESN'T HAVE THOSE VIBES NOW THAT THE DRAWING IS DONE BUT STILL #(yurika simping for shidou's wife is a hilarious concept though) #i don't know if these guys will have their own tags but again we'll see #i'll just tag their prisoners for now #👑prisoner 001: miyagawa akio👑 #🍓prisoner 005: sanada kei 🍓 #🎀prisoner 008: maruyama yurika 🎀 #(and yes i used a chain brush for ruka listen i got lazy IT WAS SO HARD TO DRAW THIS GUY FOR SOME REASON) #(AND YOU HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN HIS FULL DESIGN YET.)

[queen-scribbles]

A mental image I suddenly want v badly to commission:

Vikkari and Seelah arm wrestling. 💪

#queen rambles #vikkari damson #no he will not do lann next #same thoughts as sparring #he knows lann would kick his ass(DOPE MONK SHIT) he doesn't need it proven xD #seelah he at least has a 50/50 shot #real talk someday if i feel like torturing myself i'll pull vikkari's game back to act 2/3 and replay AGAIN #so i can do the mini lann quest chain they don't TELL YOU ABOUT #bc i'm still sore that with how incredibly competent and badass vikkari knows lann to be the ending is lann thinking vikkari doesn't #believe in him bc i missed something the gAME DIDN'T TELL ME WAS A THING #i can accept messing up sosiel's quest but this still stick in my craw :\ #i wanna fix it