#The Nature Of Soul’s Lore

[genericpuff]

an epitaph

#no salt but i get this question a lot because a lot of people naturally assume rekindled is my first comic project ?? #y'all rekindled couldn't be made the way it is WITHOUT experience #please don't use me as an example of a wunderkind #i'm a 27 year old with a dowager's hump and hip problems because of how long i've been doing this #i get that people are saying this with good intentions because they want to see me “be more” than just an LO shitposter #but this is the end result not the first step LMAO #just hurts my soul a little bit because damn those 10 years really didn't amount to anything huh TT-TT #nah ok that's harsh i have readers on the time gate side who i'm very thankful for #and those 10 years were necessary to get me to the point i'm at today where i could create rekindled for you all <3 #so trying to be grateful not upset LOL #always the alt never the main #lo critical #antiloreolympus #anti lore olympus #lore rekindled #lore rekindled comic #original work #time gate #project reaper #projectreapercomics

[cornerful]

Sméagol and the Gift

'Now!' said Sam. 'At last I can deal with you!' He leaped forward with drawn blade ready for battle. But Gollum did not spring. He fell flat upon the ground and whimpered.

'Don't kill us,' he wept. 'Don't hurt us with nassty cruel steel! Let us live, yes, live just a little longer. Lost lost! We're lost. And when Precious goes we'll die, yes, die into the dust.'

Devastated by this. Just a little longer, he begs. Even though his existence is a torment. Even though the will that holds him to life is barely his own anymore. He has long outlived his time but it's such a cruelty that now the only freedom for him is in death. I'm glad Sam didn't kill him but the whole scenario is awful.

When a mortal keeps a ring of power he does not gain more life, he continues, denied natural mortality as the fear of death is amplified and twisted into fear of separation, nothing matters anymore but the keeping, the continuing. In that miserable existence there is no peace, and at its end there is no graceful goodbye to life, there is only dust. Sudden, empty, and final.

It would take murder to spare him that. Or falling with the ring into the fire.

Bilbo let it go in time (did he feel anything when it was destroyed?) Frodo is freed of it now, though the toll it extracted for the separation was at very least a finger. It was too late for Gollum for the price to be anything other than it was, and that's brutal.

If you live long enough, death is no longer the enemy. What Sauron did to Gollum ensured that it would always be the enemy, to be feared and avoided for ever, once time and the ring had fashioned it into the only escape left. Evil.

#lotr newsletter #suicide mention in tags #haunted by the au in which gollum goes into the fire with the ring On Purpose #bc he still couldnt separate himself from it but frodo's compassion had somewhat released him from its evil #in a way an honor to frodo's quest and in a way an act of mercy to be able to give up the self-torment #which gives me shrimp feelings bc of the everything but also back to the original point that it is so tragic that death is all that awaits #bc death is natural and that was taken from him. what is the will to live in the absence of natural death? #smth deeply horrible about that #matt bugg screaming we'll be dust. so famous and rent free #lotrn325 #damn it im having more thoughts #wraiths vs gollum: discuss #the nature of the ring kept affects the nature of its possession no? those rings were made FOR thralldom #sauron has power over gollum but not That Much and his own ring is all abt the domination #what would a 2000 year old gollum even be like ._. #the wraiths are probably even more tragic bc at this point they're like...undead. even death isn't freedom #on that topic what happened to the witch-king's spirit fr #I'm pretty sure he isn't ever actually called that in the book but it's epic and gender and way snappier than lord of the nazgul #anyway shoutout to i think yambits for breaking the lore and giving them peace that was sick #where's my gollum rehab fic #i know he's a horrible little man who is constantly trying to murder my boys but i love him so #the au...gollum gaining the willpower to destroy himself because he was given trust and kindness and companionship for once. FUCKED UP. #fucked up horrible i need a minute. being shown compassion and then becoming more self-compassionate. epic #that compassion entailing seeking the freedom of death your soul was denied bc this is fantasy and somehow the exact #arc that usually leads to fighting to live is now flipped. HUH. #yeah jirt alluded to his motivation being For Frodo but i maintain that the willingness to die is HUGE there and extremely relevant #me and my red string keeping me company #ugh tag championships i win i think but at what cost #who wants to spin around miserably in a pool like franknfurter with me as we listen to gollum's song #tam you're already invited i have a floaty for u

[girl4music]

Possibly the greatest male character development that I’ve ever seen in any format of art/entertainment.

I still don’t believe that he needed a soul to be the man that he ended up being at his endgame. But that doesn’t negate the fact that him fighting for it is genuinely part of what makes that belief true for me.

They say he wasn’t capable of real true selfless love without a soul. But is there anything more representational of real true selfless love than the ability to give and sacrifice for the sake of others? Especially that of which you love? I don’t think so.

It’s ironic that what makes him worthy of his soul is the fact that he actually fought for it against all the odds when that is precisely why it wasn’t necessary. The irony of that is just something really quite bizarre. How else could you comprehend it but through fates’ intervention? Pulling you along the path you’re meant for by stripping you of the very reason you deserve it.

I’m not saying I wanted Spike to remain a soulless entity for forever. I just felt it didn’t really matter when the CHOICE to change was something he was capable of even when he was. That his NATURE never ruled him in quite the way it did with other soulless entities. I’m not saying it wasn’t difficult to defy his nature - his “baser instincts” as 5ft Geek put it - but if there was any demon possessing William, it clearly was not one that was evil. Or at least not evil to the level that Angelus was. Which is why I can’t understand why Spike is referred to as the anomaly in the lore instead of Angelus, who is the only significant vampire that initially appears to be two completely different entities when the soul is removed/restored and has no recollection of the events from either Angel or Angelus other than what the “curse” forces Angel and Angelus to remember about his involvement in those events.

And so I refuse to accept that it’s demon possession. With any significant vampire - not just Angelus or Spike. I can however accept it as demon corruption through reincarnation and rebirth. That the human died and is reborn as a half-breed demon. That makes sense given both what we are told and shown about vampires across both shows. Possession is something that doesn’t function the same way. If you’re talking about possession, you are talking about Ben/Glory. Two completely different entities sharing one body. That’s not what a vampire is. It’s not even what a demon is. A process of evolution through death cannot ever be a possession because it requires the human to be alive to possess in the first place. And unless the demon that possesses the human is purposefully taking over the body then it also requires amnesia. A complete mental wiping. And then a complete learning of that human’s entire consciousness/experience when it was alive so that it can effectively pass as that same identity/personality.

It is just so much easier to just say that the demon is the human that died and no possession ever happens. Because it doesn’t just insult Spike as a character, although he definitely gets the short end of the stick, but it insults any significant vampire. Including Angel. ‘Cause Angel’s redemption story does not work at all if all that’s ever happening to him is demon possession.

But back to Spike. I think the human informed him more than the demon or the man informed him more than the monster and that’s how he was capable of it. This didn’t mean that he wouldn’t slip up sometimes. It just meant that if he did, he’d find a way to resolve because he had the genuine passion in doing so. And regardless what Whedon or anyone else says - this choice to change wasn’t just all to do with Buffy. It was also because he felt a purpose in being helpful. And it didn’t matter which end of the spectrum he was on - good or evil - this was always what drove him. What gave him the ability to change was his knack for knowing people better than they knew themselves. Even if his words didn’t always come out quite right in communicating that knowingness to those people. But like he said, - he follows his blood. He always has.

'Self-destruction and self-sabotage are often just the start of the self-resurrection process.' - Oli Anderson

#buffy the vampire slayer #angel the series #spike #william the bloody #james marsters #passion #soul #choice #nature #love #fate #vampire #demon #lore #character representation #character development #character study #analysis #how william the bloody earned his soul #5ft geek

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

THEYER LITERALLY GOING TO TRY AND EAT YOU AND BURN DOWN YOUR HOUSE!

#beastmen are not some disorder or social stigma #their tainted by chaos! #like by their very soul and nature is anathema to good #gore #warhammer #man....fighting on the hill of a dumb fantasy lore to defend the not real concept of killing beastmen babies..... #Tuesday night am I right?

[opal-owl-flight]

wait can we backtrack? mags has a dark matter mental roommate??

He came from the Back to Zero arc, yes! After Mags gets possessed his soul becomes so fragmented that if Dwarf the Dark Matter leaves, he dies.

So he learns to live with this little shit. Thankfully, said little shit just wanted friends in the end. Now hes the embodiment of Mags' more hidden desires.

(Youd expect him to enjoy the recent Magowhoring but hes NOT! Bc such desires are NOT hidden at all, and so, something foreign to him.)

Mags' harmony with this Dark Matter allows him to wield Dark Matter magic, as well as have a more holistic understanding of the forces in the Universe. Magic is to tread the balance between light and dark. Both of which are simply a natural part of the whole, neither better than the other.

#my lore has DM be like the dark energies/manifestations of the universe and is completely natural #one part of the whole. #like how each soul has both positive and negative aspectsm #to accept the darkness in the self is to accept the darkness in the universe. a harmonization. #its just worldbuilding things! #opal owl hoots #magolor

[the-punforgiven]

I wish I could explain the difference in vibe Dark Souls and Elden Ring have for me but the best way I can think to do it is by saying Dark Souls is very cold and Elden Ring is pleasantly warm

I am aware Dark Souls has several levels where you venture into lava caves and volcano castles and nearly the entire second half of Elden Ring is frozen solid, but my statement still stands I think

#Elden Ring is very pleasantly warm #But the more lore you eat the more you realize that warmth is coming from something very large you probably don't want to be near #Dark Souls is similar but in a different way #Dark Souls feels like huddling around a fire while the shadows close in #but while Elden Ring gradually reveals the unsettling nature of the warmth #Dark Souls reveals the comfort and quiet of the cold #Both encourage you to shun the warmth and light by showing the acts that were committed to creating it #but in different ways I feel #disclaimer this is not like 100% fully Lore posting this is just based on vibes #with little bits of lore to grope around after like handholds in the dark #Pun's text Posts

[wibble-wobbegong]

rattling the inside of my skull line oooooo you wanna make under the influence about mike so bad oooooo

#ITS EDDIE’S THING. SO NATURALLY IT TIES INTO MIKE #the revival stuff is what i’m assuming is related to eddie but there’s also a bunch of stuff that perfectly describes a vecna trance #‘midair. suspended animation’ #‘our of the dark into the light. it’s a breakthrough. starting with the sound.’ #‘what you see and what you feel are nothing nothing real. a visionary climax. an imagery so clear’ #and there’s so much stuff about running out of time and I think everybody knows how important that is to mike lore #and there’s a line about being on the edge and another one about an eternal trance which like. literally mike hostage theory #another line is about taking the heart and the soul + an everlasting presence in my mind + a contract signed #which makes me think of the shedu #and there’s mention of a code blue which is death so mike’s fake death possibly #there’s a mini story here. or im losing it due to the content drought #‘content drought’

[hex-mania-animatics]

Originally finished June 15th 2022, posted to YouTube on October 17th 2022

Kind of Hex Mania lore since it focuses on Hex. But also like- I kinda implied it to be a sort of “oh yeah you remember the kin shit you were suppressing? Now you’re free to do that shit again.” So partially Hex Mania lore, partially kin stuff

#pokemon #pokemon OC #VOCALOID #vocaloid cover #wil vocaloid #vocaloid wil #project sekai #rui kamishiro #soul eater #stein soul eater #natural harmonia gropius #n pokemon #pokemon black and white #homestuck #karkat vantas #evillious chronicles #pollo evillious chronicles #hex mania lore

[chaospcrsona]

𖥔 𖥔 𖥔 Tag Dump #1

#Tag Dump ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ #Mun ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ #OOC 𖥔 ( Out Of Character ) #IC 𖥔 ( In Character ) #Open 𖥔 ( Rabbit Season; Duck Season ) #Closed Starter 𖥔 ( Natural Selection ) #Musings 𖥔 ( Chaos Personified ) #Art 𖥔 ( Paint and Crayons ) #Lore 𖥔 ( Cosmic Fundamental Structures ) #Misc Characters 𖥔 ( The Light ) #Misc Characters 𖥔 ( The Justice Losers ) #C; Teekl 𖥔 ( I can haz ur soul? ) #C; Klarion 𖥔 ( Alternate Universe Cool Guy ) #Inbox memes 𖥔 ( Let's get this party started! ) #Askbox 𖥔 ( Summon The Witchboy ) #Writings 𖥔 ( What kind of nerd writes fanfiction of me? )

[impossible-rat-babies]

uhhhh weird eyrie lore today is: death and eyrie are haunting each other

#no I will not elaborate on the subject #I have too many jumbled thoughts on the matter #I’m thinking of eyrie family lore atm and maybe perhaps they are a bit cursed #endwalker spoilers #sticky as in Charon’s soul is….sticky #the sundering messed with their soul a lot #something fundamental and not used to being reborn suddenly subjected to that #there’s the intense desire for the pieces to gather up again #and that has manifested in curioisities in eyrie’s family over the long years #they are cursed in some ways and blessed in others to be as haunted by death as they are #Charon’s soul doesn’t cause it but it’s more a consequence of a fundamental way their nature has changed over the years #oc: eyrie kisne

[demcnwrought]

( when julien was an infant, he often experienced very random and extreme bursts of magic, particularly when he was sleeping. his father assumed that it was just because of his lineage, but later learned that it was likely because julien possessed great magical abilities and would likely tame them when they came around to be present in his life. unfortunately, though, as you may know, he did not experience any bursts of magic or have any signals that he was ready to use or learn about it around the same time that the other young angels did, but this time around, malachi knew exactly why; julien had to learn the secret of his birth and become comfortable in his world as a hybrid. as loving and protective of a father malachi was, it was irresponsible for him to keep the secret, even if he feared that revealing it prematurely and at an age where it would be difficult for his son to digest would make him vulnerable to the angels around him. of course, it would save him from being socially ostracized, which he cared less about as he aged anyway due to his budding interests in things that he could easily do as a form of self-entertainment, but waiting until julien was in his 20s to tell him the secret and for him to truly gain and tame his powers will likely take him many more years than the other angels around him who were able to start young. )

#lore notes tbt. #( mainly in tags tho so check em out ) #( ofc now we know that after learning about his lineage and accepting who he is he becomes op as fuck lmao ) #( and in his corruption verse he manages to break the magic barrier during his fall and he gains control over his powers almost instantly ) #( ofc this is likely due to the fact that he was born and not made and therefore will always be part angel ) #( or it could be simply because of the sheer powers of the nephalem. 🤷‍♂️ ) #( oh and when i say magic barrier ) #( i'm referring to the invisible field of magic only generally accessible by the gods and ruled and controlled by them ) #( natural magic is distributed in and out of the field ) #( think about the quintessence field in voltron if you've seen it. it's basically that ) #( technically julien can jump through the magic barrier in any verse but it takes much more energy from him than for ex. one of the gods ) #( & he's only able to stay there for a short time cuz exposure to too much will drain his soul and energy ) #「 ⚜ 」 » HEADCANONS. ⋮ ━━ ˗ˏˋ I’LL NEVER BE THAT ME AGAIN. ˎˊ˗

[phenphoenix]

LUTE AND EMILY-

The gals, look at them go.

Lore tiiime

Alright, so Lute! Still fiercely loyal and a bit much- just not as sadistic anymore. Now, here's the fun part, she's still kinda an exorcist. Just now, instead of being under Adam, she's under Sera and Emily. And is in charge of keeping Adam distracted as well as the rest of hevan.

Decided to kinda mess around with the whole exorcist army and split them into like two halves. One half stays up in hevan, creating this image of the exterminations as though they were just going down into hell to try and "save souls." The half that Emily leads, and Lute helps command. The other half is what we see in the show. The half vaggie took part of and Sera leads. Adam knows about this, and is even suspicious about the whole "saving souls" deal. But keeps a blind eye because he trusts Lute so much.

Emily! Still sickly sweet, but give that missing sadistic nature from Swap!Lute to her. She's not as intense as Cannon!Lute but still enjoys going down to kill sinners once a year. All the while looking cute and innocent the whole time. However, she doesn't fully know that she's just further damming them. Sera is the only one who really knows what they are doing. So, while Emily is still killing them, she's thinking that their souls are being set free to get reincarnated or something like that. (Which can also lead to her disbelief is redemption, and the whole "hell is forever")

Of course, this is all based on headcannons. I'm going off of an apparent post made in the past, where they said that "when a sinner is killed, they become a mindless part of hell. That's why there are so many eyes in the walls and why hell seems "alive."" Or sonthing along those lines. Idk if that is still cannon. Or if reincarnation is even a thing in this version of the afterlife. But for the sake of this AU, I say all of it is.

So, in a way, all 4 of the angels are kinda swapped and meshed together. But hey, this is my AU, and it's all for fun and games, so whatever, lmao.

MASTERPOST

#my art #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel swap au #hazbin hotel au #art #hazbin hotel fanart #hazbin art #hazbin hotel lute #hazbin hotel emily #the hart hotel

[girl4music]

So the metaphor is growing up and the “canon” lore is vampires are incapable of growing up, right? Not in the physical way, the mental way, the spiritual way. A vampire remains an undeveloped entity in every way. That’s the “canon” lore for vampires.

But then you have a vampire character that is literally written to contradict that lore. Forced to by the network or not, Whedon wrote him like that to begin with. He’s the one that planted the seeds of goodness in Spike in the first place only to stomp all over the flower when it bloomed specifically because it bloomed. It’s petty and just shows how much of a dick he is that he blames everyone else for that regretful decision of making Spike be the outlier in the “canon” lore. Personally I believe Angel is but that’s another topic for another day.

The fact of the matter is that Spike is not like other vampires. ‘Fool For Love’ directly contradicts the “canon” lore point blank by showing us how a human informs a demon and a demon informs a vampire. It IS a development - a cycle. Some random demon has not set up shop in Spike despite William’s soul leaving his body. Spike gets the demons instincts but retains William’s psyche. So if he was just a soulless monster, he wouldn’t immediately feel guilty for his actions the same way Angel wouldn’t as Angelus. He is just evil to be evil. Nothing more, nothing less. But I’m sorry because that’s just not what they show with Spike. They show he is capable of good just as much as evil and they show that it’s through choice rather than through nature. So the question becomes - does Spike CHOOSE to rape/sexually assault Buffy or does the demon in him compel him to as it’s part of his NATURE as a vampire? This is the debate.

My insistent stance is he doesn’t and it doesn’t. He wouldn’t choose to do it and it’s not against his will. It’s a contradiction. Neither argument works. The debate is irrelevant. It’s character assassination.

See this is the problem with the split-divide identity/personality of Angel/Angelus. His CHOICE means nothing because IT’S NOT HIM! It’s a random demon. They don’t do that with any other significant vampire in the show. And so Spike is rendered “faulty” instead of the former. I honestly think it’s insulting. I prefer flawed characters. Not faulty ones. Because faulty ones can’t grow from and through their flaws without an external source.

This means that there’s only one thing Spike can do to “fix” this “faultiness” and that he CHOOSES to in itself directly contradicts the “canon” lore as that is also a development.

#buffy the vampire slayer #seeing red #spike #james marsters #choice #nature #human #vampire #demon #lore #soul #soulless #character representation #character development #character assassination #comment #thomas dougherty #thelexicrowd #buffy reaction #Youtube

[rubra-wav]

May I Request a part 2 to Dealbreaker!Reader (same characters) but it’s the characters reactions to the reader surprisingly breaking their deal? I loved what you wrote!

Angel, Husk and Alastor with a dealbreaker S/O pt. 2

[ Part 1 ] < > [ More lore on DBs ]

A/N Thank you so much, I'm glad you liked it, I loved writing this and the last one. Dealbreaker lore brainrot fr.

With how dealbreaking usually goes, it's not instantly a happy ending, unfortunately. These are all pretty happy endings, though.

Fairly long reads for all of these, but it's worth it, I promise 🙏

!(MY REQUESTS ARE NOT OPEN RN. THIS IS JUST LEFT OVER FROM WHEN THEY LAST WERE.)!

Cw: SFW, depictions of violence, mentions of murder, Husk and Angel's is romantic, Alastor's is platonic, gn reader, male reader in mind for Angel's (forgot to add this aaaages back omg)

**Alastor's is written under the assumption that the Lilith owning his soul theory is real + is making a great big assumptions about Lilith + the nature of her deal that will likely be disproven.

She's a great big mystery, I'm just heavily leaning into pure theory in that one.

Angel

- When you break his contract, Angel is overwhelmed with a potent mixture of relief and gratitude.

- The path this far had been fairly easy as far as the process of actually breaking the contract goes.

- The chains on him were poorly crafted and the format was extremely simple with a lot of loopholes to bust the contract wide open.

- It was honestly much harder to fully knock Angel out of the all-encompassing fear-rooted belief that he was doing something incredibly wrong after years of Val's manipulation and control over every part of him.

- It didn't take long to make the counter-contract, just a few minutes referencing the draft as you quickly wrote everything down upon the page pressed against the filthy bench you were sitting at. Angel hovered over you anxiously wringing his hands as he watched you work.

- The lock on his prison cell was quickly broken, along with the actual collar around his neck.

- You cheered as you threw your arms around the disbelieving man next to you. Angel cracked a smile, giddy as he realised that you had done it.

- This peace was short-lived, however.

- You now had to deal with the consequences of actually breaking Angel's deal. Valentino does not take kindly to people taking his toys away from him, especially not one of his top money-makers and favourite souls.

- You had, of course, crafted the counter-contract that was now clutched in your palm in some random location far away from the hotel so Val wouldn't be knocking at the front door knowing it was done then and there.

- However, you two still needed to run.

- Hand in hand, you run away from the approaching sound of distant but loudly approaching cars with the sound of gunshots echoing, legs and lungs burning with exertion.

- As a contrast to your very evident worry, Angel is laughing joyously and more boisterously then he thinks he ever has as the feeling of the heavy sensation of the collar that has been weighing on him is lifts alongside the inability to speak his real name without choking on it.

- The feeling of his newfound freedom and adrenaline mixes in his body, making his blood sing out in his veins like a symphony. An indescribably rich sensation of being alive that he thought he'd never be able to feel again while sober.

- "So long, you overly tall rat bastard! I've found something that's better then anything you could ever fucking give me!" Angel yells out into the warm air of the night as he flips off the general direction of the sound of the gunshots, laughing all the way as you get to the getaway car.

- You're panting as you crank the car into gear, speeding away and putting the glowing counter-contract on the back seat.

- As the distant sounds of gunshots fades into the distance behind you, you turn to the passenger side of the car to make absolutely sure Angel is really okay as he calms down from the high of the chase.

- Your boyfriend is absolutely beaming next to you, glowing with a sense of natural light you'd never before seen in your time being together. It's a beautiful contrast to the artificial sense of life you are so used to seeing broadcast within the studio and his films.

- He looks so different, and not only due to the disguise he had decided upon to lay low until shit calmed down a bit.

- As you make it to your destination - a small house youd been allowed to stay at courtesy of Charlie - you put the car into park and sit there for a for a few seconds.

- "Holy shit. I did it. I actually freed you. And we're not dead." You said, stunned.

- Angel snickered, unbuckling his seat belt and leaning over to you to kiss you on the cheek. "Never doubted you for a second, baby."

- You laugh, relieved, turning to him and gently pull his face close to yours, kissing him deeply. You chuckle at the feeling of the giant smile on Angel's face.

- As you move to settle in to live in the small house for a couple of weeks, you regret turning on the television.

- Angel's face flashes across the screen with text quickly scrolling past a smiling but seemingly close to tweaking Vox on the screen, the man looking like he's about to absolutely lose his shit if one more mild inconvenience happens. The Video Star's eye twitches sightly as if hearing something irritating as he speaks.

- "There is a hefty reward for anyone who can find Angel Dust and the dealbreaker who has interfered with his contract. Any useful information will be welcome. To give us tips, go to the website listed below or call-" You switch the TV off, unplugging it as well just in case.

- If Vox got well and truly involved in this situation to attempt to placate Valentino as soon as possible, this would be even more difficult of a situation. You hadn't much considered the rest of the vees getting involved, assuming they would stsy in their own lanes while Valentino stopped being pissy.

- You shake your head, and move to go to the room where Angel is unpacking. The outside world could wait until later. All that shit could wait until later.

- Angel smiles at you as you walk into the room, such a lightness in it that makes your heart burn.

- You hug him tightly and then fall down on your side into the bed, both of you laughing joyously and filling the empty house with life.

- The road ahead would not be easy, but you were finally on the road to starting your life with him.

- Your life with him as Anothony, not Angel Dust.

Husk

- The road to forming a counter-contract was hard as all hell.

- Alastor's deals are absolutely air tight, crafted with the uptmost skill and attention to detail, so you finding a vague clause to dig your claws into to get it rolling after weeks of arduously reviewing it again and again was a goddamn miracle.

- When he saw that you had made progress, he's shocked as can be. Has a 'well I'll be' moment as you point it out to him after another sleepless night as he wanders up to you.

- Feels bad for fully doubting you after that. He's still pessimistic about your chances of actually succeeding in the counter-contract, but the flame of hope inside of him sparks to embers as you manage to do what nobody has managed to even remotely succeed to do in centuries.

- When you make further progress, he becomes deeply afraid for your safety. If Alastor ever found out you'd been able to get this far, you'd be toast.

- Never in a million years would Alastor allow someone who's managed to undermine his skills to this degree to live. When you say that you've got it covered when he brings it up, he's incredibly skeptical and is even more concerned when you say you can't tell him 'just in case'.

- Is in utter disbelief when you insist you just stay in the hotel as you actually write the counter-contract to break the deal while Alastor is out doing some shenanigans.

- When you say that you don't, in fact, have a death wish, he's extremely stressed and sweating bullets as you begin to write what you'd been drafting for weeks.

- The lights flash and then go out as you're about halfway through writing the contract. Unnatural green light fills the room and Alastor casts a great big shadow on the wall as he materialises out of nowhere.

- Husk feels dread sink into every part of himself.

- The ground shakes as Alastor physically shows up, much larger then usual and snarling. "What do you think you're doing."

- His voice is dripping with malice and static which hurts your ears greatly, but the movement of your pen on the page doesn't stop even though you can feel your heart thudding in terror and your vision is becoming blurry.

- Husk feels nauseous as Alastor looks down at you, growing all the more aggressive the more he feels his hold on Husk slipping.

- Husk fights a panicked yell as Alastor's neck snaps to the side loudly, now looking directly at him with an absolutely vile grin on his face. He cannot make it in time as Alastor's hand moves to crush you, and he fears the absolute worst as you are no longer in his sights.

- His deep despair is interrupted however, as from underneath Alastor's palm great big rose briers grow from underneath and pry it backwards, revealing you still writing - albeit looking extremely stressed - and the figure of Rosie who looks rather angry at Al.

- Alastor's eyes widen in shock and disbelief that one of his oldest friends are currently blocking him from destroying the one trying to take his property.

- Husk hardly hears the back and forth and stalling that goes on between the two overlords as he's running to you to try and pull you the hell out of here.

- He stops in place as he feels it, and hears Alastor let out a terrifying frustrated growling noise. The green collar and chain around his throat appears, and then it breaks with a loud snapping sound. You've succeeded.

- You actually fucking did it.

- The next few moment are a blur as Husk is rendered motionless and speechless, eyes wide and tears pricking at the corners of his eyes as if he's about to wake up from this moment.

- He slowly walks towards you, looking to the side blankly as Alastor shrinks back to his normal size and is escorted out of the hotel with a look of pure bewilderment on his face by a now smiling and laughing Rosie. The leader of the cannibals winks at you and gives you a thumbs up as she leaves.

- You turn to Husk and grin at him wearily, still sweating nervously with clear relief on your face. You literally could have just died.

- Husk sinks to his knees beside you from where you sit on the ground, having fallen from your chair as Alastor tried to crush you.

- Husk grips your face in his shaking hands as he looks up at you. He can now see that one of your eyes is black with a deal you've made yourself but for now he doesn't address it.

- "Thank you." His voice is hoarse, low. Tears stream down his face for the first time in a long long time.

- Your face crumples as you allow your brave face to fall to bits. Your heart is still racing and you are still getting over the fear you felt.

- Husk pulls your crying face to his, leaning his forehead against yours as he wraps his arms tightly around you. "Thank you so much." Husk says, closing his eyes and causing more tears to roll down his cheeks.

- "If you ever do something that fucking stupid again, I'll not be humouring you." He added after the wonderful moment stretched out for a couple of seconds.

- You laugh softly, and nuzzle into his cheek as you kiss it. "You're welcome, Husker my love."

- Husk hums in fake annoyance, but he cannot even hide how much lighter he feels.

- The bonds which had kept him trapped for decades had been broken down all at once, leaving him free.

- He had no idea what kind of deal you made with Rosie, but he sure hoped it kept Alastor the fuck away from you and him for the rest of your lives.

- And, for your sake, he desperately hopes it is not the type of deal you will regret making later.

Alastor

- The path to dealbreaking Alastor's is bar fucking none with difficulty, mostly because he doesn't want your help.

- Hurts his his ego so much to see that even though his consistent efforts to tell you to get lost have failed. He's opted to scaring you off multiple times and yet you're still relentless.

- After yet another time of him growing into that massive form and snarling down at you, you snap.

- "Maybe I'm 'overestimating my abilities', but what if I'm not? What if a fresh pair of eyes are what you need rather than you just pissing off to your radio tower and staring at everything until you have a mental breakdown over it!" You yell at him weakly as he turns his back to leave. Blood is dripping from the corner of your mouth, and you're only just regaining your vision from the former static, which blacked it out.

- Alastor stops in his tracks, startled that you know about that too.

- "Maybe I don't have as much experience as you, but I have a different mind and way of looking at things! What if that's exactly why you can't break it? What if whoever it is knows how you think so they've designed this thing so you can't do this alone?"

- You can't see Alastor's face, but he's standing there still not saying anything. One of his ears is pointed backwards in your direction. He's actually listening.

- You gulp, and stand up shakily. "What if they knew that you would never seek assistance, so they've done things which won't be visible to you and only you. If you just give me a chance." You're no longer shouting, rather speaking in a tone you're trying to keep even despite how afraid you are.

- Alastor grits his teeth, ears twitching as he considers it. He's pissed off because you're actually making a good point.

- It goes against every instinct in his body, but suddenly, he's right in front of you, holding out his hand to you as he glares menacingly at you. "A week, and if you find nothing, you will never fucking approach this with me again, or share what you have seen and heard about my deal with anybody."

- You gulp audibly. It's a ridiculously slim deadline for this kind of business, but it's more than nothing. As you accept the deal, he utters a single word you're shocked to hear.

- "Lilith."

- Without any further words, he disappears, leaving a glowing copy of the contract at your feet.

- The week of reviewing the contract was utter fucking hell.

- it's not just that the contract was super air tight, it's just that it was so ridiculously complicated and hard to understand that you could hardly fucking comprehend what you were reading most of the time. It was utterly maddening.

- Your breakthrough, however, came not through solely just reading the words, but from actually talking to Lucifer himself about Lilith when he came to visit the hotel while Alastor left.

- As per the deal, you didn't share anything about the contract, but you did ask about her in private with him and he was actually surprisingly happy to discuss her.

- So that's, how on the last day of the deadline, you cracked the contract wide open with a counter-contract draft you had written in a few hours.

- Alastor almost screams out in pure unadulterated fury when he sees what you've written and hears the explanation behind it.

- Lilith wasn't some skilled dealmaker hellbent on controlling demons. She was a broken down dreamer who had no idea what she was actually doing in the contract, but being Lilith, her words held so much weight that they'd chained him despite that.

- It actually takes every bone in your body to not burst out laughing with how utterly humiliated he looks.

- His ears are pressed forward on his head, and he's making an odd high-pitched audio feedback kind of sound as his face is hidden in his hands.

- He'd been stressing over this thing for years as a skilled dealmaker looking at it, and yet that was exactly why he couldn't do it.

- Couldn't do what you did in a fucking week.

- "So, do you want me to undo this thing now or-?"

- You startle as suddenly he's in front of you, both hands on either one of your shoulders.

- you try so hard to not snicker as you see his expression finally, but fail. He's pressing his still ever-smiling mouth into a crooked line, eyes squeezed shut and brow furrowed. Dark flush covers his cheeks and neck.

- "Yes. Please." He says those words as if they are poison in his mouth. "I'm.. Sorry. That I underestimated you." Alastor opens his eyes to look at you as he begins to regain his composure a bit more, the hard part of this interaction being over with.

- Fortunately, and also infuriatingly, Alastor had not had his soul contract used once. Lilith simply had him in her back pocket and didn't lift a finger whenever she felt him try to break it again and again. It's like she didn't even give a fuck that she literally owned him.

- This fact burnt hot embarrassment and frustration into him as it destroyed his ego, but now it was a relief as she would most likely not try and come after him. Or you for that matter.

- His claws grip painfully into your shoulders as you fail to stop snickering loudly in disbelief that he actually apologised. Admitted losing essentially.

- "S-sorry! I just can't believe I'm seeing you like this." You apologised.

- Alastor gritted his teeth. "Don't get used to it." He growls before his mask slips right back on like it never happened. "I'm simply admitting my mistake in assuming you could not do this, darling! It turns out you truly can't teach an old dog new tricks. Or deer, in this case." He clears his throat, straightening up.

- You smile up at him, heavy bags under your eyes from where you've barely slept for the past week pouring over this.

- "If it makes you feel any better, it makes sense why you couldn't solve this thing. It's utter bullshit nonsense." You shake your head at the contract.

- The deal was undone embarrassingly quickly after that using the draft you had written. No pushback at all on it.

- Alastor feels his collar slacken and break to bits as you write the counter-contract and sighs with extreme relief as he watches the other contract disintegrate, feeling the power which had been stolen coming back as it turns to dust. It doesn't cure the utter humiliation that still sits heavy upon his shoulders however.

- After everything, he would threaten to kill you if you tell anyone about what went on or how he had fallen apart. Though, it would be a lie to say you two don't grow significantly closer.

- Alastor is still hesitant to fully let his guard down around you, however the massive wake that existed between you two even as fairly good friends has now significantly closed.

- He's still a lying, scheming asshole, but he'll be much more inclined to not be so much with you considering you've kept multiple giant blows to his ego fully secret.

This was a lot longer than what I usually write for requests holy moly, but I absolutely loved writing these. I hope I fulfilled your vision anon 🙏

You get through Angel's and Husk's, which are really emotional and sweet, then you get to Alastor's 💀

Masterlist

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[leclercsbunny]

maybe if you loved me ♡ c.sainz

part two ♡ masterlist

F1CHAI the summer vacation not only brings dramatic shifts and shuffles among the current lineup, it also brings forth a new *rumored* couple. after a previous relationship that was rife with confusion and so much controversy, y/n has rose to the trends, this time, with daniel ricciardo headlining the event. their similar posts have sparked discussions all through out the interweb, prompting fans to speculate that they have spent their break together.

"haagen or ben and jerry's?" daniel hollers from the kitchen, and you raised your head to shout back, "both!"

you focused on the task at hand, picking the perfect movie or series to binge while munching on the junk food spread on the table. it was covered with all the essentials for a night in; chocolates, popcorn, fries and nuggets. you were wrapped in the fluffiest of blankets, and the felt the most comfortable you've ever been in a while.

daniel sat himself on your side, grabbing the other end of the blanket and getting cosy himself. you murmured a quiet thanks when he handed you the icey treat, leaning into him when he kissed your head with a welcome in return.

the aussie raises an eyebrow to his phone, seeing notifications flash after the other and feeling it hot under his touch. he chuckles, showing the barrage of mentions and messages he's recieved, "see, i'm not totally sure but i think they're saying we're on a holiday. together."

"me with daniel ricciardo?" you gasp for added effect, "i couldn't possibly."

"i know, where could they have gotten it from?" he sighs dramatically. "i'm woefully alone."

"and i'm utterly heartbroken," you touched your chest with a fake pout, "on a soul searching rendezvous."

"we're a bit pathetic." he tilts his head, a grin forming on his face. "but in-a-totally-chill way." you giggle.

"it's nice to be sad and pathetic together, though." he nods his head with a laugh, "ditto." you toast your respective icecream cups.

you both settle into comfortable silence, watching the generic comedy film playing on the television. daniel's arms felt comfortable around you, and you naturally fell into his embrace... he felt safe, and warm.

"thanks for being a friend dani." you mumble, on the prepice of sleep.

"... someday.." you were too incoherent to understand what he said in reply, only faintly registering his lips on the top of your head.

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[bellshazes]

dreaming up a syllabus for an imaginary course on metanarratives about gameplay, which i think would go something like:

unit 1: who do you think you are i am - auto-documentary & games

Vlogs and the Hyperreal, Folding Ideas

The Slow Death of Let's Play Videos, Meraki (to ~10:00)

World Record Progression: Mike Tyson, Summoning Salt

ROBLOX_OOF.mp3, hbomberguy

Life as a Bokoblin: A Zelda Nature Documentary, Monster Maze

optional: Braindump on the History of Let's Plays, slowbeef

unit 2: what like it's hard? - intro to challenge narratives

Chapter 26: Games as Narrative Play: Two Structures for Narrative Play, Rules of Play

A different kind of challenge run: Minimalist 100% (BOTW), Wolf Link

Surviving 100 Days on Just Dirt, Mogswamp

Can You Beat DARK SOULS III with Only Firebombs, the Backlogs

Is it Possible to Beat Super Mario 3D World while permanently crouching?, Ceave Gaming

The Pacifist Challenge - Beating Hollow Knight Without Collecting Soul [CHALLENGE] - Sample

optional: How to 100% Snowpeak Ruins in under 15 minutes, bewildebeest

unit 3: nelly you don't understand, i AM the narrative - form and function

The Future of Writing about Games, Jacob Geller

Can You Beat GRIME Without Weapons?, the Backlogs

Mushroom Kingdom Championships, Ceave Gaming

My Life as a Barber in Hitman 2, MinMax (Leo Vader)

MyHouse.WAD - Inside Doom's Most Terrifying Mod, PowerPak

optional: Mega Microvideos, Matthewmatosis

the theme and structure is mostly intended to introduce at least one critical or historically contextual work followed by examples of the type of narrative in question.

in unit 1, this is the idea of "How do people talk about their own experiences in the context of YouTube and playing video games?" across three rather different kinds of documentaries. unit 2 is intended to take that lens of who is telling what tale and dial in on challenge running, where i first noticed the way some videos turn the story of overcoming a challenge into its own narrative that is distinct from but related to the narrative events of the game itself. unit 3 circles back to the bigger picture with a variety of examples that, to me, are maximally metanarrative, the emergent story of the player-narrator now functionally replacing the game's embedded narrative.

bonus unit: broken narratives

Glitch & the Grotesque at the MLA, Sylvia Korman

Watching time loop movies to escape my time loop, Leo Vader

The Stanley Parable, Dark Souls, and Intended Play, Folding Ideas

Breaking Madden, Jon Bois

The TRUTH about the Pizzaplex in FNAF: Security Breach, AstralSpiff

this one is highly underdeveloped, but i'd love to work out something more robust building on randomizer challenges that produce intentionally bizarre, semi-ironic "lore," and bois-esque endeavors to break games so hard the story itself crumbles. but that's really out of scope so i'm just including the links to things i couldn't bear to get rid of. more rambling abt the challenge runs I chose under the cut.

Challenge runs represent one of the most obvious places to start, due to being extremely plentiful and having a hook that makes a "here's how I did X thing in Y video game" format almost unavoidable. Minimalist 100% is an underrated and sweet straightforward example that I mostly include as a baseline for reporting-out style narrative; here are the facts, here's what happened, this is the thing that it is. Mogswamp's 100 Days on Just Dirt is similar in style, but the physical measuring of days is a delightful and, more importantly, external narrative device.

Now oriented, we get a taste of Ceave Gaming's narrative approach to Mario challenges with the no-crouching run, and while we still aren't at the degree of player-characters being constructed for the narrative's sake, the spirited belief in crouching sets the stage for other rhetoric in more extreme cases we'll see later.

The Backlogs' entire body of work qualifies here, but GRIME is the strongest inspiration for putting this list together. I include the DS3 firebombs run because what was initially a factual description of how his wife's use of firebombs inspired him to play differently in the original DS1 firebombs run has developed into full-blown multi-game narrative arc with the Firebomb Goddess (his wife, who also voices the character) compelling his in-game character to achieve his destined quest. Grime takes that even further,

In-Game Documentaries

I include Life as a Bokoblin mostly as a contrast to My Life as a Barber - there is a level of fictionalization and roleplay involved in the Zelda in-game documentary that highlights exactly what I want to single out when I am talking about metanarrative, the story about a story.

#peter posts #mc meta #<- close enough #also i will add some context for the rest of the docus too since the summoning salt is on here for a VERY SPECIFIC REASON