some vampire au stuff. this story is about a prey creature raising a predator.
lilith is a vampire and hunter is also a vampire, except his type prey on.... other vampires! the two types are very similar and are obviously enemies.
while hunter was very small and out with his parents, they stowed him away so they could ambush lilith, who they’d stumbled upon alone.
but lilith won. she kills both only for tiny hunter to stumble out of his hiding spot soon after to find lilith standing there in the blood bath. he is too young to be a threat. and now lilith is met with the choice to kill this child, who is going to grow up into a killer. or she can take a more sympathetic route.
as you might guess she chooses to take him and decides that maybe she can figure out ways to make it work. she will have to keep him alive (he feeds from her own kind!). keep him secret from her nest. and the nest his family is from will realize he’s alive and try to find them. how will she do it!!! will it work!! what will hapen.,,, who knows...
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Long-PSA-short of sorts that's more a vent: I was always aware my behavior and way of expressing myself online can surprise many people, especially if they are not used to someone who uses the writing medium as a playful form to tell emotions in a very descriptive way as I do. I'm quite affectionate with words, yes.
And I always beg people I hang with personally to let me know if some of that bothers them, curtly of course. So far there have been few instances of individuals confusing those signals with ulterior means, things I assure you there's nothing more than me being friendly and supportive.
Imagine idk an excited dog seeing its owner haha
Until the past week, I found myself being tackled by something that made me almost knock everything aside because it made me realize that probably I'm a walking trigger/squick inducer with even the way I wield words like "love" and "friendship".
Almost...
I'm pretty tolerant of whatever way people conduct themselves in this life, the only moment I flinch is when an individual assumes from my default behavior and presentation that I want to impose my way of life... And nopes.
This is simply how and who I am. Nothing more, nothing less. I don't search for conflict but for understanding.
My language for expressing marvel and reflections is like this, never to make the other feel awkward or attacked.
So, it upset me knowing that by wielding this forever welcoming and lovable disposition, I can be something to fear and even despite... to some people.
But, you know? That means that my "love" and "friendship" lifestyle are not made for you, no reason to come back to me and point at it. Just keep walking if you have only rage and rejection to give as a reply to my point of view.
Because by wielding rage and rejection, what you only do is burn bridges. To create conflict and assume imaginary antagonistic scenarios where there's nothing of that at all.
You can't create the world you wish to live in by burning bridges.
It took me a lot too to forge who I am right now. I even keep learning and chiseling through traumas and mistakes—kindness and patience taught me more than rage and rejection. And "love" and "friendship" are the bricks I chose to build those bridges. I know everyone else uses different concepts but in the end, we all build bridges.
By creating bridges and inviting others to do the same, I expand not only my world, but the other's too!
Isn't that better than demanding to be this or that through a black/white flag of rage and rejection? I think so. And I understand perfectly we sometimes need to be blunt when marking our boundaries. Still, never justifies treating the other bad.
And if some of you find "fake" or distasteful the way I wear this flag of "love" and "friendship" I'm sorry: this place will never be safe for you then. The exit door is always open. Go ahead.
I hope you find your place and flags out there too, but don't forget that to do that you need to build bridges.
If you don't want to call it "friendship" call it "glue" or whatever makes you comfortable, but don't kick people like me who fought with claws and teeth to reclaim those words and feelings.
Fight your fight by being a good example, not a bad experience that makes someone never want to deal with something like this again in their life.
"Any color you like, (in the end) they're all blue."
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what makes minedai even sadder is that we never rlly see daigo try to build a bond with anyone else like he did with mine it rlly shows how badly it effected him like yeah he reached out to shinada in y5 but that’s rlly it and he probably would wanna leave him alone after that and not involve him in any yakuza stuff so i don’t think they would’ve hung out or anything like that afterwards. All he rlly had were saejima and majima but they were more like babysitters than anything, wish we saw more of their dynamic tho like we did with majima and daigo in dead souls since that was fun and we were lowkey robbed but in canon he’s just as lonely as he was before majimas promise to kiryu. And mine is the only person he really had a meaningful relationship with romantic or not they were still really close and we don’t see that again with daigo ever (from what i recall after y3) ok sorry for rambling LMFAO
even with shinada, he reached out to him more so out of 'duty' and trying to make up for the misfortune that befell him because of yakuza than wanting to rekindle any kind of friendship they might have had in high school (though it sounds more like they were just acquaintances if shinada needing a second to remember who daigo was is anything), so yah i doubt they really had any kind of bond afterwards
dead souls really was the only time after Y3 where we got to see daigo be more sociable with someone, but its as you say majima and saejima are more like retainers than close friends
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you know, there's a particular brand of eldritch to having really long hair.
it's just... there. Dead outgrowths of your body falling over your back and limbs when you sit and lie and walk. Having to stretch your arms to the limit qhile tying it at the back of your head. Finding a little hair sticking out from a sweater and pulling and pulling and pulling and pulling until it comes free. Maybe it doesn't ever.
because at some point the hair is everywhere. it's like a n additional appendage you have no control over
it has control over you
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so you all know i love studio ghibli so much and i love hmc the movie so much. it was my childhood, it introduced me to the books. of course i love it so much, and love the little bits they added in. but my character is book-based for a reason. the movie leaves so much to be desired. there is something about it that is just not satisfying to me.
for example, they mention the witch of the waste's curse once. one time, they say 'you who swallowed a falling star, oh heartless man, your heart will soon belong to me' which is a very great reference to the book and all, but that's literally all they say about it. they don't mention the poem by john donne, they don't have the witch acknowledge the curse throughout the rest of the film. meanwhile, it's a huge part of the books, it's literally the driving force behind pretty much everything howl does. he's scared of the witch more than anything else, he wouldn't be so calm seeing her again.
not to mention the movie also only acknowledges once that sophie is a witch, and even then, it's missable. that time sophie follows monster howl into his lair or whatever and he's like 'how do you expect to break my curse when you can't even break your own curse' which i feel like is a reference to sophie speaking the witch's curse into strengthening accidentally. but like, that's it. meanwhile in the books, sophie is literally a witch who doesn't know she's a witch, who literally speaks events / transforms objects into existence. i miss that in the movie so much.
like please don't think i'm a hater, i loooove the movie with my whole heart. i just see a whole bunch of differences between book and movie that, while they are both great versions of the story, also differ so widely ( especially in the second half of both versions ) that it makes them fundamentally different pieces of art with different messages that simply come to the same conclusion. i just think dwj's original world does a much better job tying everything together, of course, because she's the one that wrote the original book. just please remember that my characterisation of howl is going to differ widely from movie howl, in personality and in the way he describes his past and the circumstances surrounding his curse / contract with calcifer ( he was 21 in the books when he swallowed the star, not a child ). i'm willing to bend canon to fit with the movies, but only to an extent. and please don't worry about not knowing anything about the books. the movie is a good surface-level understanding that is perfectly good to know !
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