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basuralindo · 3 months

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YHMR chapter 20 finally up!!

Thank you all for being so patient with the updates lately, I've been impatient to get this one finished, but here it is at last! More commentary under the cut

-So, I guess everyone has their own unique approach to consent when it comes to Jamil. Azul, who's both horrified at the idea of unintentionally forcing Jamil into something and so over being the one begging for scraps of attention from people who find him repulsive, has decided to wait stubbornly for Jamil to prove what he wants by coming to him. Floyd, being Floyd, figured "why is everyone playing chess with this when I can just make him tell me what he wants straight up?". And Jade… having taken notes from both of their stories and observations, decided that Jamil couldn't be trusted to give an honest answer and therefore the most efficient and surefire way around it was to push him past his comfort level and see what he acts like when he's lying.

-Joke's on Jade, Jamil is also Very Aware of microexpressions, and can catch his subtle changes in demeanor just as well.

-I know I've mentioned the idea of Jade having sensory issues before, but now I'm adding touch repulsion because I just can't get enough drama (or representation tbh. I've seen like three touch repulsed characters in my entire life).

-believe it or not, I actually try hard to make sure not every character is perfectly capable of raising a single eyebrow. Jamil kinda does it in canon, and also just seems like the type who'd master the art of annihilating people with a single judgy expression since he can't talk back. There's no way Floyd wouldn't figure out how, and no way Jade would let him be the only one capable. So really that just left Azul as the only one in the relationship who can't, and that feels like it'd be exactly his luck.

-Was the oral agreement kiss a happy coincidence, or did Jade introduce the term in the hopes of getting Jamil to say "oral"? That's for him to know

-Jamil at it again with the modified curses for basic household tasks. Maybe I'm reaching but I feel like it makes a decent metaphor for everything he could so easily be, vs everything he's had to put effort into contorting himself to become.

-Alsoooo I know the fish are all good cooks, but considering how different food prep must be on the surface, and the way Jade is shown to be very formulaic with new projects and how Azul just, IS, I imagine they started out approaching surface cuisine through research and carefully following recipes, and there's bound to be a lot of practical tricks that they aren't experienced with yet. Which is to say, watching human cooks break rules and wing it with recipes must be new and interesting for them, because while they probably have some theories on how things could work if they tweaked it (like in Floyd's chef vignette), they probably haven't had much time to experiment as much yet

-I'm picturing Jade making the aprons for everyone, half as a joke. Azul's is designed to be cute enough to be embarrassing, but still fitting his tastes enough that he can tell Jade put real thought into it, and Azul loves it for the gesture despite the teasing. He would never let another soul know it exists, and will die when he finds out Jamil's seen it. Floyd's was something Jade knew he would love the second he saw the fabric (it's inspired by this tourist shirt I found)

#twst #twst fic #yhmr #chapter update #fuck i literally forgot what i tag for these #octaviper #jeijami #flojami #jade x jamil #floyd x jamil #you'll have me rise you'll have me fall fic #writing

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basuralindo · 6 months

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You'll Have Me Rise ch.19 is up!

Content warnings for nongraphic discussion of animal death, relatively graphic arachnophobia, mentions of family death and funerals.

Editing by @kamikazequail

And as always, commentary under the cut

-Yeah Jamil just walked straight into that pickup line completely unaware… Jade's never gonna let him live it down, if anyone ever tells him.

-Jade hides his emotions as well as he wants to when he's prepared, but have you noticed he's totally transparent when caught off guard in canon? I think he'd be more obvious than expected if something he wasn't prepared for made him uncomfortable.

-Yugioh voice: "You've activated Jade's special interest! You must stand by and listen to nature facts for a full hour."

-Yeah Jade totally picked blue for poison specifically because it's such a universally innocuous color

-Jade: "Yeah I got whosits and whatsits galore" *opens door to reveal a horde of roadkill and mold*. Rizz game like no other

-tbh I just love slime mold and wanted to bring up slime molds because they're so fucking cool <3

-Oh btw, another fun psychology thing: If someone has a lot of stressors that they can't control or afford to be afraid of, the repressed terror can manifest as really intense irrational fears to things that are safer to avoid. For example, Jamil can't do anything about his situation and the risks and pressure involved, but he can absolutely obliterate a bug with very little repercussion. I feel like that phenomenon explains the level of fear he has with bugs in canon tbh.

-I also just really love bugs and didn't want Jamil killing them for character accuracy, so I've inserted Jade as protection.

-I might go into this more in some other post but like, I love the contrast of classic fishtail mermaids in their reef environments vs deep sea monster mermaids. There's just so much room to build on the potential cultures surrounding that.

-Did I need to go on a tangent about mermaid funerals? Will the details ever be plot relevant? Probably not. But hey, world building. (I'm considering Azul keeping a locket with his stepdad's teeth)

-!!! I've been waiting to drop more info about the tweels parents! Anyway, it's a personal headcanon that the twins' social issues developed in response to being involved in mob violence early on. Too much ugliness to handle as kids, and they both kinda broke in opposite ways. Also kinda ties into their unique magic imo: Floyd being expected to handle himself in a fight and needing a defense, and Jade needing a more efficient way to extract info from people.

-I could go on a whole ramble about my ideas for the Leech parents, but the short of it is that I think Jade and Floyd each picked up some personality quirks from the parent they were around more, but mostly developed emotional responses to balance out each parent's behavior (ie: reserved, observant, and meticulous in response to unpredictable emotional outbursts, vs emotional instability and exaggerated emotional reactions in response to emotional neglect and under-reactivity), hence the two comparing each other to opposite parents last time it was brought up. It also resulted in them balancing out each other's dispositions, leading to the kinda codependent dynamic they have as adults. I think they'd both feel like they specifically came out wrong as a result too. Like, Floyd believing he should be more pragmatic and levelheaded like Jade (like his mom wanted), and Jade feeling like he's too far gone and distant to connect with other people the way Floyd does.

-Mind games can be a form of foreplay, if you're tedious enough.

-I think Jade and Jamil would have similar ways of showing insecurity, Jamil's just more flexible about it. Jade, meanwhile, has ensured a position where he doesn't have to relinquish control unless he chooses to

-Will these people ever make out with Jamil in a normal location? The world may never know.

#jeijami #octaviper #jade x jamil #twst fic #yhmr #yhmr fic #you'll have me rise you'll have me fall #chapter babble

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basuralindo · 3 months

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So I've been kinda Going Through It, and would you believe I forgot that chapter teasers are a thing I do?

There's also been, once again, even more shit going down all of a sudden. Which means I'll either be writing a lot more or a lot less than normal (I know I haven't been writing much at all lately, it's been weird times, sorry)

Anyway here's a chapter teaser!

"It is uncharacteristically trusting of you, joining me here alone…" Jade murmured as he led the way to the foyer. "Should I be flattered?" The narrow hallway emphasized just how broad his back really was, the ceiling appearing low over his head. He cut an imposing figure, though Jamil hardly needed the reminder of how dangerous he could be. Jamil's lip quirked at the comment. They were both well aware that Jade had already proven his company was unavoidable, whether Jamil followed him by choice… or found himself followed later on. The only option left was to hope for the best, and be prepared to protect himself from the worst. "...I don't think I would describe this as trust." "Confidence, then?" Jade chuckled softly as they entered the main room. He drifted to the nearest table by the wall to set down the basket of mushrooms, back still turned to Jamil as he began to remove his gloves. "Are you so certain that things will go the way you hope?" Jamil halted his approach, stopping several steps behind the merman. "And what would you have me expect of you?" Jade's laugh grew slightly more sinister as he straightened up again. "What would I have?" He shot Jamil a thorny grin over his shoulder. "I think I quite like you with your guard down."

#I'm also working on a couple spinoff? type chapters?#like story content that doesn't fit into the main fic well so it's gonna become part of a collection #anyway I'll be posting some jade/azul octatrio backstory #and jade/jamil smut #eventually #writing #chapter teaser #you'll have me rise you'll have me fall #you'll have me rise fic #twst fic #jeijami #jade x jamil #jade will not let this man rest #granted jade won't let floyd or azul rest either #it's how he shows affection

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basuralindo · 3 months

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New oneshot!

You guys have no idea how much I worked to get this posted on valentine's day, and I failed most of you by a few hours, but it's still valentine's somewhere!

This is technically a future point in YHMR, and might get incorporated into the main fic in some way, but I'm leaving this one as a oneshot because I don't really wanna change the rating and warnings on the main story.

So, to all of you who've been patiently waiting for over a year for these people to finally hook up, thank you, and enjoy some Jade/Jamil smut. Happy (late) valentine's! ❤️

(Mind the tags, this is kinda dicey. It's also very much 18+)

#jade/jamil #jade x jamil #jeijami #jeijami smut #twst fic #twst smut #octaviper #yhmr adjacent #writing

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basuralindo · 7 months

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These Wicked Depths ch.4 is up!!

Editing again by the fantastic @kamikazequail

I don't have as much to say as usual, I'm just relieved to have finished it after so long, but there's still commentary under the cut (along with inspo image)

-I feel like Azul + baroque was fate, he's made for that shit, maximalist hoarder of precious things and all.

-lbr there is no way the tweels would let Azul get away with playing the cool guy in front of their new collective hyperfixation

-Azul is not remotely exempt from the theme of mermaids collecting random shiny human stuff and treating it like treasure. He's just acting like he's more sophisticated about it by using it for interior decorating. (I mean, I can't imagine there's a lot of mining or processing of metals under the sea, so all the silver houseware and everything popular back then must be impossibly fantastical to them, right?)

-Jamil literally out here ruining his own chances of escaping the Asims because Azul skeeves him out so much he won't admit he wants to

-I did way more research into the development of writing utensils than sane or necessary, but it's actually pretty neat! Fun fact, quills were a big european thing, but metal dip pens already existed before them! Also, before either of those, people all across the mediterranian and egypt were using small rods of lead to engrave wax tablets and mark papyrus, which were called styluses, as in yeah, using styluses and tablets has been around for literally thousands of years, which just makes it funnier. Also bone was used as essentially an erasable whiteboard for pencil before erasers for paper were invented! And pencils have always been made with graphite, but people thought graphite was a type of lead (specifically it tended to be referred to as "black lead"). The specific application of Azul's bone tablet and graphite …holster? thing?? weren't used in anything that I've read about, but seemed plausible to invent with the knowledge and technology of the time, so I just made that up wholesale

-Azul's magestone ring is based around this piece I saw in a shop window:

#twd fic #these wicked depths twst #chapter update #octaviper #azujami #ashenviper #flojami #jeijami #twst pirate au

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basuralindo · 2 months

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That was such an interesting ask game :O how about jamil and jade for 002 | Send me a ship and I will tell you:, with "My thoughts:", "What makes me sad about them", and "My happily ever after for them:" :D

omfg I'm so sorry I never answered this! I have been Unwell, and the thoughts were really hard to put into words, and then this got lost in my drafts and just @_@

I refused to abandon it though, so,

Thoughts on jeijami: I have so many thoughts and they're all so hard to put into words. One thing that feels really definitive of (my perspective/hc on) their dynamic is the way they, as two people who come off very level headed, would probably destabilize each other if left with no other support. Jade and Jamil can understand and accept the worst in each other, which they both need in a partner imo. The thing with that, though, is they both are willing to enable the worst in each other, too. They just seem like they'd play perfectly into each other's bullshit. Jade would encourage Jamil's more malicious urges while protecting him from consequences (he's pretty well versed in covering other people's tracks), while Jamil doesn't tend to give much of a shit what happens to other people so long as he doesn't get the backlash (as seen in glomasq), and would have little other motive to reel Jade in the way Azul does.

I think Floyd and Azul pull them out of themselves and make them engage with the world in a more real way, but without that kind of counterweight I could see them falling off the deep end together.

I guess that also covers what makes me sad about them. They're both so accustomed to being disregarded or shunned that they don't really connect themselves with the rest of humanity(etc), and are more likely to perceive a fellow monster in each other than anything else. They wouldn't know where to start with helping each other heal.

My happily ever after for them would involve a wider social circle/support system, and the freedom to fuck around without burning out? I wouldn't want them to ever stop being nefarious little gremlins together, I'd just want the rest of their personhood Seen.

#asks #ask game #jeijami #again I'm sor sorry it's been literal months

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basuralindo · 7 months

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WIP Wednesdayyyy it's been a while

So, I got obsessed with this art collection drawn by @deezneezz a while ago, and since it's been living in my head rent free, I was inspired to write a chapter based around it in YHMR!

It's not exactly coming up soon in the story, but it'll be there! So, here's that scene under the cut!

"Seasnake~!"

"Floyd?!" Jamil whirled to track down the familiar voice in an unfamiliar setting.

He almost missed the teal hair hidden among a cacophony of vivid fabric. Floyd was seated on the arm of one of the waiting couches, wearing casual clothes in bright shades of teal and purple, accented in yellows and magenta.

He was beaming in Jamil's direction, while stiffly poised boutique staff lingered nearby -clearly uncomfortable with his demeanor, but hesitant to approach. Their glares shifted to Jamil when it became clear he and Floyd were affiliated.

Embarrassment burned in Jamil's cheeks at the unwanted attention. He looked away to assess the rest of the situation and found that, unsurprisingly, Floyd was not alone. Standing behind his brother, dressed in more muted shades, Jade was grinning at the whole scene.

It was Jamil's first time seeing Floyd without black in his clothing, but the look suited him. Jade, on the other hand, was making Jamil realize that he'd never considered what the man's personal tastes would be outside of his uniforms.

He wouldn't have predicted red. Or patterns, for that matter. Least of all accessories.

Jade caught him staring and offered a small wave. He was dressed in a burgundy turtleneck sweater, worn under a black T-shirt and paired with plaid trousers. Jamil realized with further embarrassment that it was simply a shock to see him dressed his age.

The both of them, actually, looked like they had pulled their looks from a fashion magazine. It struck Jamil belatedly that they wouldn't have much experience with human clothing outside of what the school provided, and he was charmed by the idea of seeing what they would show interest in without the influence of cultural associations.

He let his gaze drift to the chains hanging from Jade's belt, and noticed the collection of charms they hosted. One side included a few varieties of mushrooms and insects in vivid colors, and on the other, an eel the color of his hair, a purple octopus, and something red that looked like a feather and gem.

Jamil squinted at the last one, finding it uncomfortably familiar…

A sputtering "owww" jerked his attention back to Kalim before he could finish the thought. The prince met his concerned look with a pout.

"Your hair whipped me in the face," he grumbled. "The bells hurt…"

Jamil clutched at his ponytail, mortified, only to be interrupted by Jade's snickering.

The merman changed expression the second Jamil turned to glare at him, and Floyd broke into a giggle fit of his own. Jamil rolled his eyes and turned back to Kalim.

"I'm sorry, are you alright?"

Kalim laughed brightly, perhaps finding the twin's joy contagious, perhaps just not wanting to be left out. "I'm fine! Just surprised. But look! Floyd and Jade are here, hello!"

He scuttled over to greet them, the raucous energy distressing the staff even more. Floyd's smile turned false at the approach, gaze flicking over to Jamil with weighted interest, while his brother beamed almost sincerely in anticipation of chaos.

"Hello Kalim, Jamil, a pleasure as always to see you. Doing some shopping as well today?"

Jamil smiled back in greeting, and hurried over to join the group before Kalim could say or see anything he shouldn't.

He was already chattering out an excited reply, much to Floyd's quiet displeasure. It allowed Jamil the chance to sidle up to Jade and get a better look at his belt charms. To his alarm they did, indeed, include a red feather and oval gem, like a small replica of his hair charm.

"Kind of you to join us…" Jade murmured once he was near. "Had I known we were heading to the same place today, I'd have invited you properly. Although, the surprise appearance does mean that-"

"Look Jamil, Azul's here too! Hi Azul!!"

Kalim's voice echoed through the room, immediately followed by a startled yelp and Azul's voice stuttering out Jamil's name in alarm.

The twins broke into nearly matching grins at the sound. They all turned in time to see a silvery head emerge from behind a trifold changing mirror, blink in surprise, and duck back out of view long enough to clear his throat.

Azul reemerged a moment later, straightening an outfit in layered shades of purple, price tags still hanging from the sleeves. He, too, was trying out patterns; similar to Jade's pants but in shades of lavender and gray on a button up shirt. It was layered under a pale sweater and a darker, lightweight coat to form a look very similar to one of the mannequins in the window.

"Jamil!" he greeted with more confidence this time. "And Kalim, of course, how wonderful to see you both!"

Jamil smiled at the sight of his flustered antics, only to smother it at the reminder of Kalim's presence. He greeted Azul more formally, then turned back to Jade with a nudge.

He motioned to the feather charm with his eyes and fixed Jade with a serious look. "If that is what I think it is, I need Kalim not to see it."

Jade responded with a playful smirk. "Do you like it? I put it together myself, and daresay did the original some justice."

Jamil desperately suppressed a flush, turning away to dodge the teasing. "Just hide it from him, please?" he whispered urgently. The significance of the gesture was something he'd have to explore when Kalim was not there to witness it.

Floyd didn't give him a chance to think on it any further, coming around to drape his arms over Jade and Jamil both. His body wedged between them effectively hid the charm from view enough for Jade to tuck it away into a pocket.

"Snakeyyy~" Floyd trilled. His voice was as upbeat as his demeanor, but both held a subtle tension that Jamil had become familiar with as a sign he was straining to be on his best behavior. "What're you guys doin' 'round here? You shoulda told us you were gonna be headin' down this way!"

"Small island, isn't it?" Azul cut in brightly. "To what do we owe the pleasure?"

Jamil looked up to see that Floyd had ditched Kalim just in time to leave him in Azul's path, forcing the man to address him instead of Jamil. It also allowed Jade and Floyd to heckle Jamil freely, much to the dismay of the now hovering shopping assistants.

Kalim tore his eyes away from the three of them to beam at Azul. "Hey! I didn't know you were out shopping today! Jamil and I are looking for winter coats."

"Is that so?" Jade's expression brightened menacingly. Some meddling temptation pulled him away to Kalim's side. "It so happens that we came here for some shopping of our own. Azul has actually been doing rather …extensive research into the available coat options himself, so we would be happy to help you two find the perfect choice."

Floyd snorted at the comment, and slouched lower to murmur to Jamil. "What he means is Azul's been here for hours fussing over every single jacket in this fuckin' place. Still hasn't picked a single one, but he must've tried 'em all on three times over-"

"I like to be thorough," Azul said tersely, having reached earshot. He shot Jamil a warm smile. "But Jade, at least, is right. We would be glad to join you in picking something out, isn't that right Floyd?"

Floyd cocked an eyebrow in Kalim's direction and rolled his eyes, but shrugged in the end. He gave Jamil's shoulders a short squeeze as he responded. "I mean, if we get to watch Seasnake tryin' on clothes, I'm not gonna complain."

Azul and Jamil both flushed at the comment, and simultaneously glanced over to be sure Kalim hadn't heard. Fortunately, Jade was keeping him occupied enough with conversation to remain oblivious. Though the look Jade threw over his shoulder at them said that he'd heard everything.

Jamil smiled sweetly at Azul, and elbowed Floyd in the ribs. "It looks like Kalim is happy with the idea, so consider your offer accepted. However," he dropped his voice sternly, "We do still need to be subtle."

#yhmr #you'll have me rise fic #wip #wip wednesday #yhmr wip #writing #twst #twst fic #octaviper #flojami #jeijami #azujami #ashenviper #octatrio #merfia #floyd x jamil #jade x jamil #azul x jamil #these guys got too many goddamn tags

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