#rouxls can stretch

[mtthellspawn]

Well, Rouxls Kaard scribbles I drew while in the hospital.

#my art #deltarune #rouxls kaard #lancer #spades king #reading a book upsidedown would be a bit boring #rouxls can stretch

[stunfiskz]

ship bingo roulx x king

ohhh haha you have opened. a very large can of worms with this one. under the cut because this is long and probably me thinking too hard

kingkaard is a bit odd to me both from a fandom meta perspective and a how i personally think of it perspective…. firstly, it’s definitely a ship that i enjoy more so in watching them be miserable than as a happy couple. i think that the nature of both of them- king’s bitterness and cruelty spurred by being abandoned and rouxls’s spineless suck up nature- makes for an absolute trash fire of a relationship. a fascinating one, but like. it’s awful. i think that the way rouxls expresses his dislike for king is fascinating, too, because no matter what he says, he never DOES anything. i don’t think they like each other very much, but they’re kind of the only ones left. it’s very interesting. i also honestly don’t think it’s that far of a stretch to interpret them as having had something going on either (to be clear don’t think its canon or toby fox’s intention when i’m saying this lmao), considering rouxls’s search for a new “evil rulere” in queen is portraying like him attempting to woo her lmao.

but also, i mentioned this before when discussing results from the ship survey (which unfortunately has been scrapped, by the way), but the sort of history i guess of this ship in the deltarune fandom is super interesting to me. i’m pretty sure it’s still the most popular ship for both of them on ao3 despite people not really caring for it that much anymore, and i’m pretty sure that’s mostly because with only chapter 1 out, it was pretty much the only ship option for both of them (well, i think jevil/rouxls was a thing for a bit? but you know, there’s not really any canon notion that they knew each other, and i think seavil outsold.). but that also leads me into the main problem… dear god, finding fan content for this is a trash fire. it’s either way too fluffy and soft for my taste for this ship, and feels really out of character (as well as ignoring things like king’s abuse of lancer), or. really fucked up in a way that i do not enjoy engaging with. so that’s part of why i don’t post about them all that much, lmao. 

also, i would be remiss not to mention that this ship can just be really fucking funny. i almost worry that i got too dramatic with my initial description because goddammit i will ALWAYS be a sucker for characters being haters about each other. they’re that one damn “eating trail mix” “no one even knows you…” “what does that have to do with me eating trail mix…” tweet in my head. just stupid shit like that. it’s very funny.

damn. knew i had a lot of thoughts about them but did not realize i had this many. lmao

also just remembered and i NEED someone to know this. i had my mom, who i’ve played undertale and deltarune with, fill out the ship survey, and she’s apparently a big kingkaard fan so. make of that what you will, i guess.

#ask

[myosotis-secunda]

THE REAL ULTIMATE SEAM MANIFESTO

AKA: why the fuck are they like that what’s their deal!!!!

i’ve been a huge deltarune fan since release, and one of my favorites (if not my most favorite) is seam. and, as anyone does when their favorite is a character with not too much screentime and not too much content, I’ve ended up going down my own rabbithole of obsession and analysis of their dialogue and appearances. However, this has led me to a conclusion that i believe to be separate from my own biases and grounded somewhat in evidence:

seam is a deceivingly important character. and the following text is my manifesto on the topic. i am sure some, or even much, of the info presented in this has been documented or theorized on by other people, but i hope this can serve as a convenient summary of seam info, and that i can provide some new bits of info or speculation for anyone reading. i hope you will give it a read! (art below by me)

CHAPTER 1: WHERE IS THEIR OVERWORLD SPRITE?? + FOURTH WALL KNOWLEDGE

so obviously, seam is one of the four main shopkeepers (technically one of the six..) we’ve seen so far in deltarune, the others being rouxls, sweet cap ‘n cakes, and swatch. there’s also spamton, of course, though his functions are.. different than those of the other shopkeeps. regardless, one of the differentiating things about seam compared to the other shopkeepers we’ve seen so far is their lack of an overworld sprite.

as to why this matters: it is my belief that this lack of a sprite is purposeful and intentional. let me explain:

in deltarune, it is a seeming trend for all shopkeepers to receive an overworld sprite either before or after their introduction. this trend even applies to the undertale shopkeeps, though this can admittedly also be attributed to the difference in tone for the light world. all this being said, i’d be completely willing to accept seam simply being an exception to this trend, were it not for two moments:

the fact that seam is specifically excluded from the walk-around after beating king, and that its even brought to the player’s attention via. this NPC, has always seemed strange to me. considering that there’s no shortage of situational dialogue written for seam (as ill get more into later), its not as if they couldn’t have appeared. this can also, of course, be explained as it simply being in their personality not to appear, which makes some sense considering that they express no interest in things like what happens to the Fountain. this brings me to my second point:

“As long as I stay in my shop, these walls won’t change.”

discovering this line was key in figuring out this aspect of seam for me. what it indicates, as far as i understand, is “shopkeeper knowledge” ala. gerson in the genocide route.

compared to undertale, the significance of fourth-wall-related knowledge seems to be a bit more dubious, but considering other aspects of their character such as having been influenced by jevil, i dont think its at all a stretch to think theyre aware of the in-game limitations and advantages being a shopkeeper would provide. whether their use of it here is simply due to them not wanting to go outside and have their seap messed with, or if it has deeper implications, i cant say. what i can say is that its a notable aspect of seam which, as far as i can tell, has been overlooked by most people. additionally, the absence of an overworld appearance SO FAR, based on the trend, does imply the possibility of them showing up on the overworld later on.

FUTURE EDIT: one more thing i should’ve added in this chapter which i did not initially, so sorry for the non-sequitur here. since it goes in with fourth-wall knowledge, though it’s not very related to shopkeeper stuff, i figured i’d mention it.

seam elaborating on their name pronunciation here often goes overlooked just on the basis of it being a silly pun. but obviously, when looking at it from an in-universe perspective, it doesn’t make much sense. when having a conversation with someone, theres no need to tell them how to say your name in this way when you’re saying it out loud for them to hear regardless. however, if you’re having that conversation via. writing or text? THEN it’d make sense to add a note like this about how to say it. from that line of reasoning, it’s extremely possible that seam is aware that they’re communicating via. dialogue boxes here, adding to their awareness of fourth-wall stuff.

CHAPTER 2: FORESHADOWING IN DELTARUNE + FUTURE CHAPTER PREMONITION

to start off this section, i want to clarify that the nature of foreshadowing and characters’ knowledge of the events of future chapters is unclear, and at the point of writing this manifesto (post-chapter 2, for any future readers!), difficult and likely impossible to answer. i will try to go over what i mean by this quickly, though im sure its also been covered plenty by other people.

within undertale, all the allusions to characters who appear later on in the story, like all the ominous mentions of ASGORE early on, make logical sense. its a story which takes place in a single setting (the expanse of the underground), where many of the characters know eachother prior to the appearance of frisk/the player, and so on. so cool, makes sense! this is not the case with deltarune, and specifically, within the dark worlds.

there is some information shared between the dark worlds we’ve seen that makes sense. for example, although the presence of THE KNIGHT is mentioned by both king and queen, this checks out since they’re implied to be a lightner, and would be able to traverse between dark worlds.

SPEAKING of king and queen though, i have to break the semi-academic voice ive been doing for this because they seriously throw a loop into so many of my thoughts about this section. here are all the details about them from around the end of chapter 2:

they know each other and knew each other well enough to have nicknames and banter

queen witnessed king sleeping on his throne, implying she was in the unused classroom darkworld at some point??

queen DIDNT KNOW lancer existed before chapter 2???

 king even has this like joke foreshadowing moment before the queen walks in??

so its like... do the dark worlds function independently of their fountain being up in the light world??? can darkners traverse between dark worlds at will?? were king and queen just e-dating at some point??? how does baby work???? is the future chapter knowledge a specific ability or something granted by, say, THE KNIGHT??? is it even an ability at all or is it just there for plot/foreshadowing purposes??? am i reading into a joke scene too seriously (answer: yeah)??? [EDIT TO THIS PART: someone i know pointed out that since queen is a laptop she couldve just been moved from the classroom to the librarby which makes a lot of sense... so this part might be useless.]

regardless of that. there have only been a few moments, to my knowledge, in which future chapter events are mentioned or known by the characters. these are:

jevil’s post-defeat dialogue. note the line “BUT THERE ARE YET FASTER, YET STRONGER.”

spamton’s mentions of [[Mike]]

additionally, although not knowledge of future chapters, there’s this line implying he knows jevil, which is probably due to them both having direct relation with the mysterious guy who definitely isnt gaster.

THIS whole multitude with seam

although its an admittedly small pool of data, so far this foreshadowing seems to follow the topics of the bonus bosses and future antagonists. with jevil’s, and potentially with seam’s (”And we can toast... to the end of the world!”), theres some allusions to the LEGENDS as well.

what this shows is that seam has many, many connections to the secret bosses as a character. not just in the obvious points like them having known jevil and them handling the shadow crystals, but with their own abilities and knowledge mirroring that of the secret bosses we’ve seen so far.

CHAPTER 3: SEAM AND THE GUY WHO IS PROBABLY GASTER...

in deltarune, every other moment and character seemingly does have references to gaster, whether that be in the OST, random lines of dialogues, or telephone sounds. however, i think most people would agree that, besides the intro, the moments in the game most evocative of him are the secret bosses. by going into the details of this in relation to jevil or spamton id be beating a very very dead horse, so for the purposes of this i’ll be focusing on seam.

[ABOVE IMAGE TEXT:

Damage to eye similar to a scar

Damage which overlaps the mouth

?: POSSIBLY  the shape of their smiles matching, though this is probably a stretch..]

first off, seam has some vague similarities to the mystery man sprite, which is the most likely candidate for gaster’s canon appearance, and is at the least ASSOCIATED with him due to being a FUN value event. As stated in the above image, this resemblance between seam and m-man is in the scars/marks on their faces. additionally, they both have one open (or in seam’s case, circular? i suppose the button cant close...) and one closed eye. seam’s non-button eye is also completely black, which matches the m-man sprite.

there’s also this line.. which is a pretty clear reference to entry seventeen. (”DARK DARKER YET DARKER”)

so does this mean that SEAM = GASTER!?!?!??!!? is confirmed? obviously, no. considering how chock-full deltarune is with gaster references, i think these are just another egg-in-the-basket, so to say. what this leads into, and what i think is more important, is seams more indirect association with gaster.

let’s go back to the full context for that “darker, yet darker.” line. as a result of meeting a guy who may-or-may-not-be-but-probably-is-gaster (while i will be shortening to “gaster” for convenience), jevil gains the knowledge that he, and everyone else in their world, is in a video game. he is driven mad by this, and spreads the knowledge to seam as well, leading to their current state of nihilism.

what i find interesting about this is that seam is the only character so far who we know has been affected by this fourth-wall knowledge but who didnt directly receive it from gaster. in the case of spamton, he has a few more characters who he interacts with, such as the addisons and swatch. however, none of them seem to have had their worldview significantly affected by their relationships with spamton. for example, in the above pics, swatch seems to think of him as just being greedy or power-seeking rather than having any idea of him being affected by gaster-philosophy.

[SIDE TANGENT: it could also be argued that THE FUN GANG was influenced by spamton in this context, based on their post-NEO dialogue, but the long-term implications of this are unclear. susie is spooked but seems not to be personally affected by it, ralsei deflects the idea of the fight having deeper meaning than it being a corrupted program, and kris is shaken, presumably due to their own experiences with being a ‘puppet’. at this point though, it cant be said that any of them have any relation to gaster, or where their knowledge of fourth-wall shenanigans stands. basically, going into anything related to the fun gang would be a massive rabbithole with not enough information to say anything definitive, and i want to focus on seam. ]

tldr; they very likely have fourth wall knowledge, which furthers their connections to the secret bosses and may possibly play a role in their future appearances in the game.

CHAPTER 4: THEY ARE STRONG + TRANSLATION TIDBIT

before any gaster shenanigans happened, seam tells us that they and jevil used to play “games” together, and that jevil was the only one who could match up against them.

what kind of games these were is never explicitly stated, but considering jevil’s idea of a game, we can infer that it did probably involve battling. considering jevil’s strength, as anyone who’s played against him will know, this on its own shows that seam is likely very powerful.

and since we know they were the one who imprisoned him, this again implies they’re at the same, and likely greater, level of strength as jevil.

i don’t have much to add for a conclusion here... i just find it neat to think that they are very strong, and it’s an important point for my speculation later. just for fun, here’s a little translation tidbit unrelated to the chapter topic!

for a long while, this line confused me on its exact meaning. to be specific, i was confused on whether seam was “forced” as in ordered to against their own will, or whether they were forced as in they were pushed to that limit due to the threat jevil posed.

additionally, jevil never actually blames seam for his imprisonment! he instead blames the kings. so, to figure out the line’s actual meaning, i decided to look at the japanese version of it.

[RAW TEXT: あたしは宮廷魔術師で　やつのたった 　 １人の相方だった。王様の命に従い 　 やつをオリに入れるしかなかった… ]

differing from the english line, this one actually mentions the kings! as a very literal translation, it says something like “I was the court mage, and his only compansion. In accordance with the king’s orders, I had no choice but to imprison him.” so, there’s the answer to that for any jeam lovers reading this, or just for anyone who likes their dynamic.

CHAPTER 5: LIGHT WORLD KNOWLEDGE HUH!?!?!?!?

to start: this is one of the weirder things i noticed while looking over seam’s dialogue for this, and its something where i dont think there’s enough information in the game for me to draw any direct conclusions. still, i thought it was notable enough to include.

when talking to seam after returning from the cyber world in chapter 2, you can get either of these two dialogues depending on how many darkners you recruited. it appears inconspicuous, but after thinking over it for a bit i realized it came bundled with its own odd implications.

considering the way the dark world functions, and the lack of any other mentions i could find, it doesnt have a day/night cycle the way the light world would. additionally, since seam is telling our protagonists to go home, it implies that they mean its growing late in the light world specifically.

but... HOW do they know its growing late in the light world? did they just guess based on the relative amount of time that passed in the dark world? do darkners have any internal clock (like our circadian rhythms)? this is a question i literally cannot answer accurately, because we don’t have that much information on how or if darkners can perceive what goes on in the light world.

though not related to our time-related conundrum, there IS another instance of a darkner* having knowledge of the going-ons in the light world. specifically, its when ralsei gives kris specific directions to the old classroom, which implies ralsei knows about the layout of the school. its hard to say whether this is something special specific to ralsei, or if all darkners have this kind of spatial awareness of the light world. its entirely possible ralsei just uses the proximity of castle town and the chapter 1 darkworld to determine where itd be placed in the light world. however, considering ralsei’s ability to travel to and persist in other darkworlds, without his equivalent object being moved there by a lightner, it’s entirely possible this kind of knowledge is an oddity for darkners. with this in mind, though this is not a definite conclusion, i think it is entirely possible seam’s awareness of time here may be something unique to them.

another weird note about this dialogue is their specific wording. although this dialogue could just be an old-timer telling some young whippersnappers to go home, it’s worded more specifically than that. “You don’t want to get caught when the sun goes down...” is a bit more exact of a warning, though for what I can’t say. additionally, considering this is a character who’s glad to give a group of teenagers access to the prison of a murder-clown, it’s doubtful that they’d care much if this was just a matter of them staying out too late. considering the tone of events we’ve seen happen at night so far, i.e. kris’ nighttime knife sessions, it’s possible that staying in a dark world too late may hold dangerous implications in some way for lightners? that’s entirely speculation though, and as i said earlier there’s just not enough info to draw definite conclusions from any of this. it’s not, however, something i’ve seen widely acknowledged, so i thought it was of note enough to write about here.

ADDITIONAL NOTE: for a long time, i didnt even know about these dialogue lines. the reason for that, as far as i can tell, is that if the player defeats both(or either?) spamton+jevil, this specific dialogue doesnt show up. so, if it doesn’t come up in every route, this may mean it’s not an important line at all, which may possibly invalidate this section’s relevance completely. to know if it matters at all, we’ll just have to wait for more chapters to release!!

[*although him being a lightner is a popular theory, ralsei is almost definitely a darkner. this is indicated by a couple of details, the most convincing of which being his faint animation where he just kind of turns into a pile of robes. additionally, toby has said he doesnt plan on making any merch focused on the lightners in deltarune, and ralsei.. has his fair share of merch. arguments can still be made in favor of this theory, but for the intents of this essay, ralsei is a darker.

CHAPTER 7: SHADOW CRYSTALS

this chapter will be a bit of an unsorted mess, due to what i think is the extreme weirdness of the shadow crystals. seam has a ton of dialogue and interactions on the topic of them, and although this is mainly for game design reasons and facilitating their odd introduction, i still think there’s merit in diving into the details.

for one, seam’s involvement with the shadow crystals makes it incredibly likely that they’re going to end up being the main “authority” behind the secret bosses. by this, i mean that the player will have to go to them to actually make use of the shadow crystals, whatever that use may end up being. and since the shadow crystals seem to also act as verification that the secret bosses have been defeated by the player (since they can be grabbed in any save file so long as the boss has been defeated previously), this will also likely act as a way to advance the secret boss side-storyline-thing as a whole. this is furthered by the fact that they give suspiciously accurate backstory for spamton, despite having no connections to him otherwise. at this point in the story, there’s no way to know for sure what the secret bosses will lead to, but its fair to say that seam will likely be a key actor in whatever it may be.

there’s also the issue of the shadow mantle. mainly, the question of what the hell happened to it! if toby didnt want the player to have it immediately, couldn’t have seam just delayed giving it to the player until chapter 3? say that they still need time to sew it or something? since he didn’t go for that approach, there are two main options i see for what its deal is:

1: seam is being honest here and the shadow mantle was somehow stolen. in this case, the result is straightforward. in some later chapter a character will show up with the shadow mantle or something, we fight against them, get the mantle, cool-cool.

2 (the way more speculative option): considering the evidence that seam is aware of game ui/shopkeeper logic to some extent, there is the possibility that seam is purposefully keeping the shadow mantle from the party. as to why theyd do this i cant say, but its a possibility!

backing away from speculation, there are also two other items that need to be gone over in relation to the shadow crystals. these are both unused items, but ones which have a very real chance of being included later in the game. scroll past if you’d like to avoid (possible) spoilers for future chapters!

the pure crystal, as seen from the flavor text, is likely going to be a shadow crystal purified by seam. (i’ve seen people speculate that the flavor text is a fake-out and that it may be purified by one of the other cat characters, like tasque manager or catti, but... c’mon.) the really interesting thing about this item is that its an ingredient for crafting the twisted sword, the other being the thorn ring. to obtain the thorn ring, you have to initiate a snowgrave route and continue until you can buy it from spamton, and then abandon the route afterwards. as is the case with many things, there’s no way to know the details of what this will entail when done, but it is interesting that seam will end up getting tied into snowgrave shenanigans as well.

the sky mantle is another item likely related to the shadow crystals. i have no idea what it implies for seam or secret boss lore, if anything, but it at least lets us know we’ll likely retrieve the shadow mantle later on. perhaps it’ll be made from the pure crystals instead of the raw shadow crystals??? and considering seam said we’d need the shadow mantle for a specific secret boss, maybe that boss will use elec/holy attacks... in short, IDK!!!!

CHAPTER 6: CONCLUSIONS

so i don’t draw this out longer than it needs to be, i’m gonna go straight to my main point: there is a very high chance that seam will not only be a secret boss in the future, but that they’ll be the final one.

there are a few pieces of evidence from the previous chapters i’ll be using to prove this. first of all is the fact that they have no overworld sprite. as i said in chapter 1, them not having one is VERY odd, and i cant imagine there being a reason for them to not have one if its not to have some reveal with them leaving their seap for some reason later on in the game.

additionally, them being stronger than jevil means they’d be at the same strength level or higher compared to the secret bosses we’ve seen so far, which to me absolutely seems like it could be setup for them being a boss later on.

we know that seam will be a reoccurring character throughout the game due to their role as an exposition-er on the  secret bosses, but they also have this piece of dialogue, which i think is more specific than our visits to them at castle town. realizing the futility of our actions? toasting to the end of the world? considering how the world ending is something literally prophecised in the story via. the roaring, it’s reasonable to assume that it will occur or come close to occuring due to that generally being how stories are set up, and that this will likely occur near the end of the story. although it’s obviously hard to know what the circumstances will be at that point, perhaps this is the point where seam’s boss fight would take place? they seem to find amusement in the fun gang’s antics and they encourage them to seek out more shadow crystals, and we know they used to enjoy battles against jevil, so perhaps this could be a final rendezvous for them before everything goes to shit. or, maybe it could be an entirely different situation by that time, [shrugemoji]!

one last bit of speculation i have in this regards is what exactly the role of the shadow crystals will be, besides using them to make/upgrade equipables. in my opinion, since they’re retrievable across save files, their purpose is to be a sort of tally of whether the player has defeated the secret bosses, and how many of them they have. with this in mind, there almost definitely will be some sort of happening once all of them have been collected. because of the amount of evidence i think there is for them ending up as a secret boss, and just due to how intertwined they are with the secret bosses as a character, i think they’re a very likely candidate for this event.

EDIT THAT WASNT IN THE ORIGINAL POST:

^^^THIS FUCKING EXCERPT FROM THE UNDERTALE CROSS STITCH BOOK. SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.

THAT IS ALL I HAVE TO SAY!!! GOODBYE

(by the way... let me know if you see any grammar or other errors in this!!! thank you for reading this far if you got to this point)

#deltarune #dr #seam #seam dr #dr seam #alll the tags

[lavvys-headcanons]

Undertale and Deltarune Requests Are Open!

Masterlist

Hello everyone! My name is Lavender but you can call me Lav or Lavvy! :)

Today I’m officially starting to write headcanons! Under the cut is all the info!

Accidental Hiatus For Two Years? Woops!

The Undertale Characters Are Inspired From the @bonelyheartsclub Character Designs And Names!

Characters I Will Write-

Undertale AUs:

* Undertale- Sans, Papyrus, Grillby

* Underfell- Red (Sans), Edge (Papyrus), Grillby (Fell Grillby)

* Underswap- Blue (Sans), Stretch (Papyrus)

* Swapfell (Indigo)- Nox (Sans), Rus (Papyrus)

* Horrortale- Ash (Sans), Poplar (Papyrus)

Deltarune:

* Kris, Susie, Noelle, Ralsei, Berdly, Swatch, Spamton, Rouxls Kaard

I Will Write-

* Character x Reader

* Match making

* Gender neutral or AFAB reader (I’m not too good at writing AMAB readers atm)

I Will NOT Write-

* Pedophilia, homophobia racism, etc

* Character x Character

* Character x OC SPECIFIC

* Strong angst

* Fontcest (I’m not sorry, the undertale characters are portrayed as cousins or siblings)

* Anything 18+

Basic Other Rules-

* I will delete an ask if I don’t feel comfortable writing it, and if your account is linked with the ask I will message you why

* I’m fairly confident in myself that I’ll be able to do all 10 Undertale brothers in one ask even if it may be longer, but a cut will be on the writing then.

* I’ll do mainly romantic relationships but I’ll also do platonic

I think that’s about it and everything, but all in all, I’m accepting asks for matchmaking for yourselves and headcanons! In the future if I get more time to write full fics I might but as of right now I have school.

But, feel free to send in asks! :)

#undertale #undertale au #deltarune #undertale x reader #deltarune x reader #undertale sans #undertale papyrus #underfell sans #underfell papyrus #grillby #swapfell sans #swapfell papyrus #swapfell purple #underswap papyrus #underswap sans #horrortale #horrortale sans #horrortale papyrus #bonely hearts club #requests open #sans x reader #papyrus x reader #grillby x reader #underfell sans x reader #underfell papyrus x reader #underswap papyrus x reader #underswap sans x reader #swapfell sans x reader #swapfell papyrus x reader #horrortale sans x reader

[starxscream]

Slice of life/domestic idea: Rouxls asking if he could borrow one of Swatch's spare shirt for some reason (like he needs to do the laundry and needs to borrow one for now) and Swatch agrees without thinking too much of it, but then they see Rouxls wearing the shirt that is way too large for him and they have a gay tm moment because Rouxls looks really cute in it.

I was chomping at the bit during my entire book report bc this made me want to write so bad I LOVE this SO MUCH

so anon, for you, a swatchkaard drabble

Plus a widdle surprise at the end :3

Click...click...

Swatch idly presses on the end of their pen repeatedly, skimming over papers and making marks where necessary. Double checking all of the cafe's records and numbers, making sure that everything lined up properly. It was late afternoon by this point and the bird still had a lot to go over. A sigh escapes their beak.

Soon, they hear the pattering of footsteps behind them, already knowing who it is they don't bother turning around and instead continue working. Hoping that the visitor gets the message that they did not wish to be disturbed this exact moment.

Of course, they were still disturbed anyways.

"I needeth to borrow one of thou shirts." The familiar voice announces, "I art without thine usualest garments, as thou art headed towards thy wash."

Swatch barely gives a glance at Rouxls who was hovering behind them, still focused on their work and barely registering what he was even saying, "Sure, that's fine by me." Swatch agrees, idly, waving the blue man off.

"I appreciateth thy kindeth gesture thy darling paraworm." Rouxls moves forward to stand beside Swatch for a moment, leaning over a giving Swatch a quick peck to their cheek. Lingering for a brief moment before pulling away and quickly heading off to do the laundry he had been alluding to.

Swatch pauses for a moment, glancing over their shoulder as Rouxls leaves, a pleased trill hanging in the back of their throat. However, they soon return to their work, idly spinning the pen between their fingers as they sort through the papers.

They're not sure how long they spend crunching numbers and organizing, only vaguely hearing Rouxls do whatever it was he was doing in the background. Eventually though, they finally set down their pen and rub at the space between their eyes.

It was time for a break, they decided. The rest could wait and they could use a brief refresher before tackling the last of it.

Lifting their arms above their head, Swatch lets out a yawn, stretching out their arms and back. Goodness how long were they sitting in that position...

Choosing to get up and move around, Swatch hefts themself out of their seat, stretching out their stiff legs for a moment. They glance around, not seeing Rouxls nearby despite having heard him around earlier. Hm...they wonder what he was doing.

If anything, Swatch can help out with the chores for a little bit. (Any excuse to spend time with Rouxls really...)

Making their way towards the door, Swatch reaches to open it but does not get the chance as it abruptly swings opens and something crashes right into them.

Swatch stumbles backwards, letting out a quiet pained oof, clutching their gut as they hear something heavy drop to the ground with a loud thud accompanied by a yelp of surprise.

Swatch looks over to what had fallen, seeing a laundry hamper tipped onto it's side, clothes strewn out from where it hit the ground. At the sound of a familiar frustrated voice however, Swatch's attention is taken away from the hamper.

"God. DAMN IT." Rouxls immediately bends down, picking up the hamper and putting it back upright and starts piling the clothes back into hamper quickly, just throwing it back in with an embarrassed flush on his face.

"I giveth thou my deepest condolences-" Rouxls speaks quickly, veins buzzing with nerves, "I dideth not expect thou to be on thee otherest side."

Bending down and helping pick up the scattered clothes, Swatch attempts to ease Rouxls' worries, "It is quite alright, it was an accident. No one was hurt and it's an easy fix."

Rouxls glances up at Swatch, before huffing and grabbing the rest of the clothes and slamming them into the hamper before Swatch could get ahold of them, "An accidente that I will taketh care of!" Swatch rolls their eyes, of course Rouxls would still hold a sense of pride over an accident.

Grabbing the hamper again and tucking it into his side, letting it rest against his knee, Rouxls stands back up and uses one of hands to sweep his hair back over his shoulder while the other holds onto the hamper. Swatch soon follows suit, dusting themselves off and-

Oh.

Oh...

They finally get a good look at Rouxls, at what Rouxls was wearing.

Instead of the usual fancy blue dresswear, Rouxls wore Swatch's usual black and white shirt. It was much too large for the smaller man, the sleeves having been rolled up and the bottom of the shirt tucked into his pants professionally. Of course he would still put effort into his appearance even when it's not fully his own...

Gaze centered on their own shirt covering Rouxls' frame, Swatch finds themselves at a loss for words, mind coming to a full halt as they just took in how much they loved seeing Rouxls in their shirt.

Rouxls shifts awkwardly, "If thou could...please moveth I do needest to finish foldinge thee rest of thy attires."

Swatch finally snaps out of their trance, flush rising to their face, "Oh- yes. Right. My apologies." They step to the side, allowing Rouxls to pass, head turning to watch Rouxls walk away and soon beginning to fold the clothes that were tossed back into the hamper. Rouxls was completely diligent, making sure to make every crease perfect and concise, and Swatch had to admire that about him. Rouxls always did try to do his best in whatever it was he did.

A smile forming on their face, Swatch looks over Rouxls again, feeling a loving warmth bloom in their chest. That was their shirt, Rouxls was wearing their shirt. It filled Swatch with a sense of giddiness, the bird finding themself coming up behind the smaller man and wrapping his arms around his waist.

Rouxls jumps, the shirt in his hands coming unfolded, "W-what art thou doing!?"

Swatch hums, leaning forward and rest the bottom of their beak on top of Rouxls' head, "Nothing." They feigning innocently respond. Their hands casually tracing shapes over Rouxls' stomach over the fabric of their shirt.

Rouxls huffs, trying to ignore the rising heat in their cheeks and tries to sound annoyed but it comes out more like a squeak, "Fineth then annoyinge worm-avian, just do noteth get in thy way, I am busyeth as thou can plainly see."

A hum rumbles from Swatch's throat, "Of course, I would not dare of it." Rouxls mumbles something, blush worsening, and trying to focus back on folding the laundry, but he seemed to be taking more time to fold the clothes than he had been.

Smile widening, Swatch gently tugs Rouxls back into his chest, moving their beak to press a kiss onto Rouxls' cheek. And another. And another...

"Sw-Swatch!" Rouxls exclaims in surprise, startled enough to use the bird's name, "I toldeth thou-" As another kiss is pressed to his face, he can't help but giggle, "Thy is busy!" He cranes his head to the side, Swatch taking advantage of the access to Rouxls and gleefully pressing chaste kisses to his lips. Rouxls unable to keep himself from giggling inbetween each kiss.

There’s a gentle push back from Rouxls, more playful than anything, slipping away from their arms solely to peer up at Swatch with his hands on his hips,“I needeth to finish thy chores!” Even still, there was a smile on his face. “If thou desires thine attentions liketh a lovestricken puppy so badleth then thou can be patiente!” Always with the acts of defiance, as if asking for a challenge.

Swatch’s own grin widens, stepping back into Rouxls’s space, the blue man raising an eyebrow, “Yes, you certainly could do that right now.” A hum, “However, you could also take just a small break and do it later, after all, you’ve been working so hard all day. Don’t you think you deserve it?” A hand snakes back around Rouxls’ waist, pulling them back flush together, Swatch placing the other under Rouxls’ chin and lifting his head up.

“Or do you find wearing my clothes that appalling that you wish to be out of them as soon as possible…?” Swatch whispers, pausing for a second, but not allowing Rouxls time to respond as they add on, “I find you to be rather stunning if I dare say so myself, as now you actually look like you’re the ‘butler supremeth’.” Their gaze travels back down, purposefully making their approval of Rouxls’ choice of clothing obvious.

As Rouxls is once again pulled closer to Swatch, his face begins to light up in a flush, yet he manages to keep his expression the same confident smile he always wore. He chooses to place his hands on Swatch’s shoulders for now, fingers idly tapping.

“And how doth I know if thine idea of a ‘smalleth break’ won’t-” Rouxls tries to reply, freezing as his chin is lifted, voice dying in his throat. Eyes wide, his flush deepening, he can only listen, enraptured, to what Swatch says next. His fingers curl into Swatch’s shoulders, eyes darting around as he feels his face burn and melt onto Swatch’s hand at the compliment. He tries to speak, but it comes out as an incoherent stammer at first, earning a chuckle from Swatch.

Finally, Rouxls inhales, forcing himself to get the words out and not let Swatch win, “As if thy do noteth look like thine butler supremeth every daye!” A haughty scoff, “Do noteth praise thouself so highlyest thine darling worm-avian, thine fancy garments do noteth make the man!” There’s a glitter to his eyes, and Swatch’s head tilts slightly in curiosity, grin still hanging on their beak, curious to see what he was to do next.

“Howevere!” Rouxls announces, abruptly swinging his arms to loop around Swatch’s neck. He then tugged them down to be on his level, forcing Swatch to drop their hand from Rouxls’ chin, the bird taken slightly be surprise at the sudden motion. Swatch peers over the top of their glasses at Rouxls, refusing to look away from his deep blues eyes- let it be because of the obvious challenge Rouxls had so gracious started, or because they were simply lost in them. Who could tell.

Rouxls’ cocky smile only gets bigger, “If thou so clearly haseth taken to thee wearing thou articles of clothe, then maybest I, Rouxls Kaard, can be persuadedeth into wearing thou drab dress morest often.” He leans forward, his breath teasing across Swatch’s beak, “Only if thou finallyest admit that thy am thee one and thy only Butler Supremeth… and, perhapseth, grovel at thy feet. Justeth a bit. For thine goode measure.” His lips barely touch the tip of Swatch’s beak, giving the faintest hint of a kiss, just enough for Swatch to want more.

“Despite beinge so frumpish, thy doth admit, thou attire is … comfortableth”.

Swatch’s fingers dance along Rouxls’ waist at the ‘ultimatum’ that Rouxls had given him, of course he would come up with something like that. A part of Swatch was annoyed, challenged, wanting to push back- yet another thought the idea of seeing Rouxls’ outside of his usual dresswear, in their clothes, was worth the embarrassment.

Not that Swatch’s pride would ever allow that, however.

Pushing back, Swatch rests their forehead on Rouxls’, as if directly showing that they were not going to bow to Rouxls’ demands.

“Hmm, I must decline your offer, as ‘tempting’ as it sounds.” One of their hands moves upwards, teasing at the ends of Rouxls’ hair, “I do not like lying to you after all…” Swatch dramatically sighs, a playful tease hidden behind a feigned saddened tone, “So, please, allow me to make a counteroffer.”

Their beak turns, head moving to press a proper kiss to Rouxls’ lips. They linger for longer than necessary, letting them enjoy the softness of Rouxls’ lips pressed against their beak, relishing in knowing how they stole his breath away, feeling the little gasp bubble in his chest but not a sound to be heard.

As they pull away, Swatch whispers their offer lowly, “Instead, I will give you my undivided attention. After all, isn’t that what you always want?”

Rouxls blinks for a moment, having been distracted by the kiss, Swatch soaking in his dumbfounded expression. Before he finally registers Swatch’s words and puffs out his cheeks, “Thou doeseth not playeth fair!” While accusatory, there’s no actual frustration in his voice, Swatch knowing he had, once again, won.

“Is that so? Well, I would say you are still getting the better end of this deal.” Bolder, Swatch presses more chaste kisses on Rouxls’ face, his cheeks, his forehead, nose…all but his lips.

Rouxls tries not to giggle again, of course, failing.

“Fineth. I, thee gracious duke of puzzles Rouxls Kaard, shalt humor thou requeste. As longeth as thou truly keepeth to thou word. I expecteth thou to giveth thee thy undivided attention, so thou should giveth just that! Anythinge less and thee dealest is off!” A huff, pretending to be ‘upset’ while knowing full well he loved the attention.

Pausing of their peppering of kisses, Swatch smiles at Rouxls, bowing their head best in the position they were in- solely to get that familiar flustered stammer from Rouxls, “It will be my pleasure.” Finally, Swatch kisses Rouxls again- properly this time, basking in the warm glow that seemed to radiate around them, full of love and adoration for the other man.

Work was...promptly forgotten in the middle of everything, Swatch finding something else to direct their attention towards. Ah, Rouxls was always so distracting.

[Artwork courtesy of @killjpeg and permission was given to use <3]

#asks and answers #anon #sugars sweet treats #swatchkaard #rouxls kaard #swatch #IM SO WEAK FOR STUFF LIKE THIS U HAVE NO IDEA #OUGH #AND THEN MY BF DREW ART FOR IT? #IM A GONER EVERYONE GOODBYE #pls appreciate his art it is SO good #he came up with paraworm. it is my favorite thing in existence

[everysongineverykey]

deltuwune

this was one of two deltarune suggestions i got for the ask game. out of the two, i don't know why i chose the uwu one, but let's get to it!

blorbo: ooooohhh this one's already hard. kris or gaster or seam? i think about those three an awful lot. god. god.

skrunkly: ralsei. especially ralsei in that little suit. he's too cute to be real i wanna put him in a hamster enclosure <3

scrimblo bimblo: SEAM. i know there are many who do appreciate them but there need to be MORE. SEAM PLUSHIE WHEN FANGAMER

glup shitto: DOES ROUXLS COUNT DJSJSJSJ that's just the vibe i get from him. he's a glup shitto. although i do go insane whenever i get to talk to napstablook so i guess they count too💙

horse plinko: spamton. put him in that taffy machine from charlie and the chocolate factory and stretch him out. he'll look like a crypto bro when he's done

eeby deeby: also spamton. and jevil cause he can handle it

[good-old-kooks]

Hi, I spent the entirety of last night drawing an entire a4 page’s worth of shitty Spade King doodles and I’m going to make that everyone elses problem. Incoherent ramblings about the drawings (that aren’t on the image already) under the cut.

I think it’s VERY telling that, out of all of the kings, this asshole’s the one wearing the most black. Like, come on, he’s such a moody bitch, staring off of the balcony of his castle before his battle and shit. And having his tits out 24/7? Dumbest motherfucker alive.

Spade yelling. I like his teef :)

I can bet my ass the only reason he doesn’t swear in-game is because he’s trying to look all cool and dignified. He’s such a fucking tryhard it’s embarrassing. 

This man eats soap you can’t convince me otherwise. There’s legit reasoning behind this headcanon of mine but no one cares lmao, so all you need to know is that Spade and Lancer can both digest just about anything and soap is just Spade’s personal favourite.

Greedy bastard. Again, teef are mostly the reason I drew this one. Also please for the love of god ignore the shitty cape. I gave -5 shits about drawing his cape in the smaller sketches. Also yeah all of these are just coloured sketches, I swear I usually draw better than this.

HE LISTENS TO BOOMER MUSIC YOU CAN’T CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE. THIS IS SINGLEHANDEDLY THE BEST ART I’VE EVER DRAWN IN MY LIFE-

Anyway here’s human Spade. Both my sister and best friend said he looks ugly and I think that means I did my job REALLY well.

Oh yeah, I also have full personality headcanons for all the other kings, I just happen to like Spade the best. I like seeing just how much I can stretch and pull an expression for exaggeration purposes. Spade is really useful for that because he has a REALLY weird and specific design, so he’s easally recognizable.

Seam and Jevil cameos. Again, you can’t convince me that Spade ISN’T the “no fun allowed” king. Also I JUST realised I didn’t draw a Rouxls cameo on this entire page... Good.

What else is there to say? Other than the fact that the proportions on this are the worst I’ve ever done. I had to re-scale Lancer TWICE. And it STILL looks bad.

Yeah I don’t know the context for this one, I just thought it was a cool pose, and gave him something in-character to say along to that. I’m considering actually making this a Real Finished Drawing but god only knows how long THAT will take.

Bonus Lancer for your patience in reading through all this.

Also, shameless plug, I made a playlist of songs I associate with/are about the Spade King, it’s called the Spadelist. Right now there’s not much on it, other than remixes of his theme and some other metal songs and metal adjacent songs I think fit him. Check it out if you want, it’s only 21 songs thus far, but I plan to keep updating it.

#kooks art #spade #spade king #king of spades #deltarune #deltarune fanart #seam #jevil #lancer #im really fucking gay for this dickhead if you couldnt tell #i excuse none of his actions i just think hes neat #like watching a dumpsterfire #i cant help it its fun

[sporadicbearkingdom]

Thou summonedeth me, Lorde King?”

Rouxls’s teleportation spell fades, and he blinks until his eyes adjust to the gloom. The chamber is empty, save for the king upon his throne. Though his subjects had been in....short supply, the complete lack of them is peculiar.

The king clears his throat.

Rouxls bows a bit too quickly.

“Duke of Puzzles. How are you enjoying your new title?”

“It…” Rouxls stares at the king’s boots. “It hath been wonderfule, mine king.”

And it has been. Better than he could’ve hoped. No one left dares to question his intelligence or laugh at his calligraphy. He’s appreciated, finally, for the skills he has always possessed.

“I have been good to you, have I not?”

“Aye.” He chances a look and finds the king’s lips quirked to one side, a hint of fang reflected in the dim. Rouxls’s stomach twists.

“Approach the throne and kneel.”

There is a strange lilt to the king’s voice, unfamiliar, dreadfully so. Rouxls’s steps are unsteady, but he lowers himself to the floor, the carpet plush against his legs. The king dwarfs him at the best of times, and framed by his boots he feels an ant. The skin at the nape of his neck prickles.

“You are loyal, Kaard,” the king murmurs. The mouth along his stomach breathes, the warmth of its breath ruffling Rouxls’s hair, heating his face. “But one can never be too careful.”

“Mine king?”

“Loyalty must be continually challenged,” the startling blue of the king’s huge, gloved hand slides along his naked thigh, “in order to preserve the safety of the kingdom.”

Rouxls cannot drag his eyes away from his hand’s smooth path inward, just beneath the round swell of the king’s belly. All of the king is grand, larger than life. His lower mouth opens wider, the tips of his fangs dragging over skin, tongue lashing out as the king tugs his uniform to the side.

All of him grand, larger than life.

Rouxls cannot move an inch. Only his blood thunders, a shiver coursing in his bones, a bead of sweat shining at his temple.

“You, Kaard, understand what a burden this is. A king’s solemn duty…”

Rouxls’s face slackens, thoughts dulled and racing. The king’s words drift in and out as his gloved fist passes over his cock, pale and tinged blue at its fat tip. There was a time, when the king was not the king and the duke was not the duke, that Rouxls dreamed of this moment.

He exhales shakily as gloved fingers curl into his hair and draw him close.

-

The king is not kind. Still, Rouxls is thankful. His fingers curl and uncurl, bracketing the base of the king’s cock, holding it upright as he sucks, led by the tight grip on his head. His clothes feel constricting, stifling in the heat between the king’s meaty legs, his lower mouth wide and drooling, adding to the dampness in the air. A strange sweetness lingers in Rouxls’s mouth, faintly acrid, dizzying, but he dares not stop, not when the king’s cheeks burn blue and his tongue lolls over his fangs, as pleased as Rouxls’s seen him since his son disappeared, granting him a modicum of peace.

The king barely fits an inch or so inside his mouth, and tears prick his eyes at the strain of it, the want to do more, to please, to reach between his own legs and touch, but he dares not. A sigh rumbles in the king’s chest, and Rouxls redoubles his efforts, hollowing his cheeks, dragging his tongue against the thick, pulsing vein along the underside of his cock.

“Is this the best you can do?”

Rouxls swallows, widens his jaw, tells himself to relax, but only a third of his cock shines with saliva, the king little more than grinding into his mouth.

“Hm…” The king releases his hair only to hook his index finger behind the skin bisecting Rouxls’s lips. It doesn’t hurt, only tingles and stretches, jelly-like and flexible, as the king pulls and pulls, then—his cock pops through, clutched between skin and the edge of his mouth.

“T-thou hast—I—” Rouxls babbles, he cannot help it, words slurring against his cock as it begins to shift. The king grunts as he pumps his hips experimentally, the stripe of skin slipping from beneath his glans to the base of his cock, once, twice, setting a slow, rough rhythm. Rouxls can do little in this position, lips catching over his cock, his tongue lashing, sideways and ineffectual, against every inch he can.

The king seems not to mind at all, simply leans his cheek into his fist, pace quickening, fucking the side of his mouth while Rouxls whines and gasps.

“How nice. Your talents continue to surprise me.”

The king’s grin nearly splits his face as his thrusts quicken, jostling Rouxls enough that he almost falls backwards, mouth and skin stretching, tingling, body burning. His gloved fingers dig uselessly into the king’s thighs, drool haphazardly spilling from his lips, coating his chin, easing the catch-slide-tug as the king’s breathing grows labored.

“S-swallow every drop. Don’t disappoint me.”

The king groans and withdraws fully before shoving his cock back in Rouxls’s mouth, deeper than ever before. His jaw protests, a choked whimper warbling around the intrusion, hot and heavy and impossibly huge.

Rouxls swallows, and the pain eases, his cock giving its own traitorous pulse, disabling him, the first scalding throb catching on the back of his tongue, then another. He swallows again and again, throat convulsing, his stomach burning, swelling with it. Tears threaten at the edge of his vision, and he chokes, he can’t help it, the last few spurts catching against his cheek and over the bridge of his nose as he pulls back and coughs.

Rouxls blinks rapidly as he wheezes, cheek pressed into the heat of the king’s thigh. His own thighs clench together, needfully, stupidly, afraid that the king will see, wanting him to see.

“Almost, Rouxls.”

A finger returns, tugging the slice of skin away from his mouth, angling Rouxls’s face to survey him, sweaty and teary-eyed, flushed deep blue and drooling. Rouxls keeps his mouth open, the spend on his tongue sickly sweet and salty, presented for the king’s judgement.

“That’s a better look for you.”

#kingkaard

[dopaminerjic]

hi bestie!! for the send in a fandom thing i will go with deltarune

hiiiiiiiii

. can i say mettaton again. is that cheating

ralsei<3 spamtong as well in that he is in fact so shaped and also i wish to crush him in my hands and stretch him out like a ball of play dough . and lancer is very shaped too

mettaton

mettaton

ROUXLS

rouxls and also spam tong

nobody but splammngtogn can go to fake super hell which is in other words just my washing machine hope this helps

#sorry to all the cool deltarune characters who got left out here</3 i still care u i prommy

[rosepetalwings]

Oh I'm More Than Glad To Talk About Deeprune

ok so lets run through the au in sections

DEEPRUNE

Story:

The cast are now all mythological mermaid/siren creatures.

The Light World is the epipelagic zone (and upper half of mesopelagic zone) of the ocean and live in ignorance of the strange creatures that look as they do in the twilight below...

Dark World is mid-mesopelagic and below, full of frightening sea creatures those so blessed to live in sea reef coral homes could never hope to fathom... and should never hope to meet.

One day, one of the 4 kings of the ocean basins drew help from a powerful, unknown force and imprisoned his peers at the bottom of the deep sea trenches... And to this day, he rules his little area, biding his time for the day the Dark can take over the Light.

That is, of course, unless a very human looking siren, a sea crocodile tough girl, a bioluminscent jellyfish(?) fluffy boy, and a villainous... cloaked hybrid thing can fulfill a very familiar prophecy...

Locations:

Light Zone

Hometown - A bright and cheerful coral reef with a good amount of merfolk in the community.

School ‐ Building constructed out of stone and hidden amongst normal marine foliage and coral. Normal congregations of school akin to what the land-dwellers (or terrans, as the merfolk might call them) do for their own children.

Hospital ‐ Made in the same way as the school and serves the same function as its land counterpart. The hospital does have different instruments to serve its marine patients, however.

QC's diner - Hidden under a rock shelf and is more of an open seating arrangement. Fan coral serves as a sort of decorative barrier to keep the seating plan from being too open.

ICEE's p"e"zzeria - Incredibly conspicuous and placed between the brightest coral on the reef for the attention-grabbing colors. High visibility means free advertising, no?

The Graveyard - In a clearing among the kelp forest, there lies a set of engraved stones covered in algae. It's especially quiet there. Peaceful when you focus on the sunlight filtering in through the kelp stalks.

The bunker - Placed just before the continental shelf begins to fall off into complete and utter darkness. The merfolk in town warn their children to never near that area.

Dark Zone

????? - A craggy mess of rocks on the outskirts of the continental shelf. The light begins to grow strange here for whatever reason...

Castle Town - A shipwreck amongst the craggy rocks in the dark where a strangely kind shadowy figure lives.

Field - A seemingly endless stretch of ocean in which a Lightner's vision alone cannot be used to find one's way in the dark, lest they be horribly lost until the end of time. Or lest they stray further down, where it grows darker, yet darker...

The Scarlet Forest - Not really a forest, per se. More a jestful remark over the collection of sea creatures that have evolved to have a red tone to their skin as camouflage in the watery depths. The creatures are so very frightening and strange with their sharp-toothed open maws and flashy photophores. Strange to think how normal this all is down in the depths...

Great Board - The inlets and caves that checker the continental slope and house very many deep sea merfolk. Very many large tunnels dug out to house many of the population and keep them interconnected as a society. Alas, this stationary grouping also makes them vulnerable to the power of kingly apex predators.

The Castle - Hidden within the depths of the Mariana Trench. None of the Board have seen the castle in such grave depths and lived to tell the tale. None but a strange barreleye and his hyper young ward...

Characters:

Lightners

Kris - A mostly human-shaped siren, save for fishy bits, including but not limited to, gills and an iridescent shine to their hair. Always sneaking off to play tricks on unsuspecting beach goers. Kind of a quiet kid but their mischievous grin says it all for them.

Susie - A rude, rough-and-tumble kind of sea crocodile gill girl that does not appreciate nautical wordplay. She will appreciate your lunch money, though.

Noelle - The most nervous kelpie you'll ever meet. Easily provoked but she's very sweet and intelligent and perhaps she's a shade dorky, but it's through that dorkiness she'll find a way to make you smile.

Asriel - Sweet and effortlessly loveable and smart and talented capricorn brother to Kris who's just gone off to do independent study in a different sea basin! He's coming back to town next week; Kris seems a little downcast as of late, though...

Alphys - Marine iguana teacher at the reef's local school. Please don't ask her for her reviews on neat human media she's managed to salvage, we'll be here all week.

Undyne - The undying undine on everyone's minds! ...Because she's likely tried to tackle you for minor offenses like littering or jay-swimming in the humdrum life of this little reef town. She's somewhat of a vigilante, working by her own judicial metrics and warning the reef of any terran sightings or other such troubles. Not much to report on though, these days...

Toriel & Asgore - The capricorn divorcees. Haven't you heard; the news has spread all over the place! What a shame too, they looked just like the perfect reef family...

Sans and Papyrus - The strange brothers that just moved into the reef... Coelacanth merfolk with mottled, skeletal appearances. The shorter brother "runs" the reef market. ...If you can get a fin in the door, anyway. The taller one hasn't made much of a public appearance in town yet; hard to comment on him.

Darkners

Ralsei - The prince of the prophesy, as well as the bringer of Light to the Dark, as symbolized through his charmed hat and cloak, to make him appear as though he is but a jellyfish that sways with the currents. Seems to be as soft in personality as a jellyfish's bell though.

Lancer - A hooded, mischievous figure that's always up to no good. It's kind of hard to tell what he is, with his short, stubby tentacles and furry, webbed paws, but he's kind of too adorable and personable to care much about it. Popular vote's on dumbo octopus though.

Rouxls - A vigilant barreleye with his haunting eyes always to the sky in search of tributes to pay his king or danger from which to protect the child of a royal bloodline he's been entrusted to care for. He's ditzy and kind of an asshole, but deep down, he's got a good SOUL... that glows through his transparent chest.

Seam - Ah? Looking for wares? Seam's will definitely have something to cure what ails you. The old anglerfish sits behind the shop counter, items lit only by the faint light of small jellies and the wisened shopkeep's lantern-like forehead protrusion. Go for the low prices and stay for the enchanting tales.

Jevil - A laugh sounds in the dark before you could ever approach his cell. He's nothing but needle teeth smiles when he explains to you the nature of the game. Numbers game. Must be a couple of sharks to have gotten down there in the first place. And this freed jester wouldn't have it any other way - sharks to goblin shark.

King - He is, by all accounts, imperceivable. He is larger than life and covered in shifting, writhing appendages that do not keep the shape you once thought them to be, no matter how hard you attempt to keep your focus on any point of his form. He is Leviathan, and the fact that you are before him means that you are incredibly fucked.

Knight - [REDACTED]

PREVIOUS DRAWINGS

Rouxls and a mysterious man

Unmasked Lancer

okay... i think that's about it! don't be afraid to ask for more clarification on anything, i know i gave general overview/musing blurb of... kind of everything i could think to describe! hope this is fine!

or ask me to infodump on another of my AUs! ;3c

#deltarune #utdr #safeutdr #deltarune au #deeprune #long post #spooky writes #body horror mention

[mtthellspawn]

Rouxls can still stretch.

#my art #deltarune #rouxls kaard #spades king #lancer #rouxls still being gross #shlorp

[berrymeter]

idk anything about the grace period for deltarune u can just keep this ask in the attic until that’s over.. anyway.. i really liked chap 2 i played it in one sitting 😭 the rpg combat is enjoyable enough and just the right amount more complex than the undertale combat is, although not very difficult. very touching power of friendship moments minus that fucking bird man. some of the dialogue felt quite fandom tropey and surface-level, and queen’s lines (love her tho) were hit or miss for me. i think the biggest frustration i have with it is all the useless random encounter characters clogging up your world 😞😞 there’s only so many wacky one-liners toby can give them and i am not invested enough to care! also some of those designs are uglie!! there are better ways to make a world feel real and lived in. same thing happened with undertale.

BUT it was a great time! i liked the juxtaposition between the ultimately harmless antics and charming banter with the gang and queen, and the more sinister plot going on in the background. most obviously in the ending. toriel and susie making a pie while kris RIPS OUT THEIR SOUL….spoiler warning.. did u see the theory that the soul aka red heart is you the player operating kris the vessel? i’m definitely not a theorist but i like seeing all the loose plot ends i’m having a good time. i love noelleeeeee 💞💞💞💞and i liked susie a lot more this chapter. when ralsei taught her a healing spell 😖😖 i still don’t really care about ralsei though 😓

special shoutout to the spinning teacups ☕️☕️☕️ and special NOT-shoutout to the mice games with the rotating blocks i never understood how to do that.

it was a very feel-good game. it made me feel good. standards for video game passed. what did u think tho!! i mean i assume u liked it but for the same reasons? different ones? feel free to respond with an excruciatingly long essay of ur own <3 we are back to the tt anon blocks of text i restrained myself for a bit but we are back -tt

hiii tt anon <3 back at it again with the asks that i am looking forward to answering. if i post this a little before the 48 hours i will be forgiven bc i will use the deltarune spoilers tag and also the long post tag LMAOO anyway anyway oh btw never refrain urself from sending blocks of text if my followers are mad even though i tag them long post that's ON THEM. everything u say is worth listening to & same for everything i say so that's my final stance on this 😌

i also played it in one sitting it was so GOOD. i don't care that it was 2 am here when it was released i wasss ecstatic and the game was so fucking GOOD tonby the fox delivered!! it was so so worth the wait! the music was so much better than in chapter 1 imo, like... my castle town? the cyber fields theme? the queen's fight? spamton g spamton??? rouxls' "fight"?? BANGERS. i only see bangers. the new gameplay mechanics were also very fun!! i for one kinda struggled with the mice puzzles but not nearly as much as that one section with the traffic jams where you have to go down and back up or whatever. what the hell was that? i'm surprised i actually got past it. i loved the parts in cyber field though where you had to move on beat with the music that was sooo fun!! more of that! i prefer the fighting system in undertale ngl but it's mostly bc the undertale bosses are... just so good. the one boss who rivalises for now to me is queen, although rouxls is also very fun.

as for the story itself... i liked it :) susie & noelle are fucking ADORABLE. i think they deserve to be happy forever like not even together just individually as characters they're the fucking best. susie's grown so much that's my girl... wough... ralsei i do like but... i don't trust him :D i don't think he's evil but he knows too much and tells us too little until he can't keep it for himself and i don't like that. like bro you're gonna get us in trouble stop. but ALSO some ppl speculate that himself is being misled and that the fountains wouldn't bring the roaring, which is an interesting theory. (also i miss lancer being more relevant)

uhh kris is... well... kris... :)... yeah i did hear about that theory i'm in a discord server where ppl have been going on and on about theories since the game dropped LMAOO we're all insane. um. my personal theory is that there's another knight, or that kris is at least also influenced by an "evil force" or whatever, and we're the good force influencing them bc otherwise they're just a normal albeit mischievous kid. and the stretch part is that uhhh there's two knight pieces on a chessboard, ik this isn't about chess at all but king of spades does tell you at the end of chapter 2 that you'll meet a more powerful foe = the queen, coincidentally in chess the queen is stronger than the king. hmmmmmmmmmmm. lmao i don't think my parallel here is right but it's fun to think about anyway

did you see the superboss? i didn't fight him myself but he's so fun. also @ everyone who said he's gonna be a tumblr sexyman i hate that you're right shut that shit down HJKSNFKJSDHG. also did you see the secret fucked up pipis route? it's horrible. genuinely... i watched a streamer play it and 😳 uh. well i didn't even hate berdly before anyway yeah he's annoying but like he's a snot-beaked kid i'm not gonna wish him... whatever happens in this route. legit scarring. and poor noelle... pffbbgtbg. hate this so much. but i think it was done so bad and horrible on purpose, with how specific your gameplay has to be for you to be able to complete it tonby really was like "you wanna be an asshole? undertale wasn't enough? fine. work for it. and also suffer" nskjshf. i'm never doing it <3

lastly FUCKING QUEEN!!!!!!! QUEEN MY LOVE!!!!! BEST CHARACTER. i love her sosososo much it's unreal. and i didn't mind any character designs much, i'm not too complicated in that regard shfkjsdfh i love the tasques and tasque manager though :) also the... idk their names... the butler dudes? they're so cute. swatch's design is neat

so those are my thoughts <3 can't wait to hear more from u!!!

#asks #tt anon #long post #deltarune spoilers

[afterthelastreset]

Rules Of One’s Soul Ch25 Ending

(Hey everyone. I just wanted to thank everyone who read this far and liked my story enough to read it to it's end. I had a lot of fun writing it and it makes me happy knowing some people loved it enough to read it fully. Thanks to everyone for reading this, adding it, or leaving a nice comment. And thank you to Toby Fox for creating such wonder characters for us all. Mak belongs to @alois-toussaint)

It was...just as they promised.

Rouxls took the last day off, with supervision of course. After that little scare both Seam and Jevil insisted that he stayed right there with them so they could keep an eye on him incase anything happened. So, Seam (forced him to sleep in) offered Rouxls his bed for the night, and he at first refused, but he was too mentally exhausted to argue for too long. So he took his offer, and fell fast asleep. Probably one of the most peaceful nights he had. He slept in rather late as well, because when he woke up he saw the blurry vision of Seam STILL sewing the black cloak he had been working on for a while now and Mak passed out lightly snoring on the couch, still wearing the small purple suit but now it was wrinkled in their sleep.

"So you're awake I see" Seam said with a smile, not even looking up from his sewing. ''I hope you slept well."

The worm groaned and reached up a blue hand run through his messy shiny hair. Slowly sitting up and looking to the cat with a tired grin. "...Yes. Thank thee." The blankets were tossed over, and his legs swung off the bed, And he slowly stood to his feet. Slowly stretching out his dark blue body and still Seam didn't look at him when Rouxls looked in his direction. "And howest didst thou sleep?"

"I slept rather well, thank you. But you must've been more tired than myself as you slept in rather late today, it's almost afternoon." Rouxls ground and reached to grab for his suit coat hung up on the bed post. Seam busying himself by doublechecking the stitching he had just done, bringing the black cloak up to his one good eye to peer at it. He was almost finished really, he just wanted to double check on everything before he decided to wear it. "So when does this celebration start if I may ask?"

Rouxls had just finished buttoning his coat shirt and sighed. "Tomorrow afternoon at five o'clock sharp. I musteth leave tomorrow to make sure all are according to plan-"

"After you're break today. You did promise us you would take time off today after all, and it would be rather rude to go back on your promise."

The worm paused what he was doing and despite him wanting to go and deal with the nonsense and chaos coming to prepare for the ball..He sighed in defeat. "Very well. Thoust shall havest mine word on it, but has thou been up to now?" He finally turned to the duke, who was currently running his hands through his head to try and tame his wild bed head but nodded to the cloak in his paws. "Thou haseth been working on that clothing for a longe time. What ever tis it for?"

"Oh this?" He held up the cloak and the duke nodded. "Oh, it's just an old coat I plan on wearing tomorrow on our little outing. It just needed some fixing from all these years, but it'll do in a pinch. But that also begs another question, what do you plan on doing until tomorrow afternoon?"

"I shallst keep to mineself and reopening mine shoppe for today." A smile came over the duke's features and he chuckled. "Who knowest how many Darkners forgotten to gettest their special someone something last minute.~ Mine profits and funds shall rise substantially."

He hummed and went back to sewing his cloak again. "I see. Are you planning on doing that for the entire time you're waiting?''

"...N-Nay. I'm also going to best thinking about f-future events, and ..a-and what wouldst be best for mineself and Lancer."

"And have you decided yet?"

A pause...And he heard footsteps walk past him and glanced up to see Rouxls stand in the doorway but smiled and looked back to him. "N-Not yet. B-But I havest plenty of time to thinkest it over. A-And perhaps a new speculation on mine life is just what I needed for a long time."

Seam chuckled again. "I suppose we could all use a fresh start every so often, but I want you to know duke. I'll support your descicion whichever you decide."

Rouxls smiled wider. "Thank thee. I shall seest myself out. I shall pick thee up by four thirty sharp tomorrow."

"Just be sure to be ready by that time tomorrow. I'll be expecting you, Mr. Kaard.~"

It seemed the whole day and a half of waiting for the two went by in a blink of an eye. He wasn't sure what Rouxls was doing within that time frame, but for him he was quite busy. More busy than he has been in a while. It took most of the rest of that day to finish sewing up the cloak back to it's former glory and it...it still smelt musty so into the wash it would go. Mak woke up not too long after Rouxls left and awakened with a snort and looked up at him. "Breakfast time??" He chuckled and offered to trade a giant diamond to wash the suit they were wearing and they happily agreed seeing the baseball sized diamond in his paw. Ok. So he got the laundry to go, what else could he do to prepare? ...Well what else to do but do what he usually did to pass the time in his life, he opened his sheap for a limited time this day. So he took down the closed sigh from his flap, gave Mak some food they gobbled down, and sat down at his usually spot behind the counter and waited. It didn't too long for three panicked Rudinns to come scurrying in and frantically looking around for anything they could grab for...the holiday he guessed, and came up to the counter. Each having a small bag of dark candy and one also grabbing a can of food along with it and the three threw money at him before slithering off just as fast away from the sheap....Well. If this is certainly how Rouxls said it would be, things just might be a bit more busy around here in the next few hours. AT least that's what he thought as his paws calmly went and picked up all the darke dollars thrown at him and he got up to pick up the few that fell onto the floor. Yep. It was looking to be a profittable time. And he wasn't wrong. Throughout the one day alone more darkners, mostly Rudinns with the occasional hathy or club, would make their way in and look around for what exactly they needed before exiting just as quickly with what they wanted. Most of it was tiny bags of dark candy, but their was also the occasional darkburger, tea mix, and at one point he even finally sold his spooky sword to a hathy. She said something about her husband always liking edgy looking things. Whatever the heck 'edgy' meant. But it wasn't over crowding, the most everyone would be in there was maybe four or five at a time and they'd leave just as quickly. Mak certainly wasn't enjoying the big crowd and just stayed in the back while occasionally poking their head out to ask a few questions.

"When's Jevil coming back?" "Lunch time now?" "Is my suit done yet?" "Where's my crayons?"

He chuckled and sat there and did what he normally did, meditate the hours away until someone else dashed in and he'd watch them scramble, buy, then leave then start his whole process again. The hours ticked passed and when a small period went without anyone, so he thought it'd be a good time to close up shop. He just got done sealing the flap of the sheap with the closed sigh hanging up, when he heard the familiar sounds of Mak's maniac laughter which could only mean one thing. He smiled as he walked back into his home and sure enough the sight of a very tired Jevil sat upon the couch and Mak was happily showing him their new giant diamond Seam gave them. The imp smiled and patted them on the head before flopping back into the couch's soft cushions.

He chuckled as he walked in and made for the armchair he always sat in. "Well, how was your day of work and playing with the little king?"

Jevil didn't even look up from his tuckered pose position. "Exhausting, exhausting. Rouxls, Rouxls has much to do around the castle and watching a child, child while practicing tricks is not easy, easy work at all. Even for myself, myself."

"Says the one that can do anything?," he chuckled as he sat down across from him.

Jevil chuckled. "I never said I couldn't, coudn't do it. Only that it wasn't easy, easy. But where is Rouxls, Rouxls?"

"He's at his shop resting as far as I know. He said he'll be back here tomorrow to escort Mak and myself to the castle, but how is that routine coming along? I would've helped but I vowed to retire from that life long ago."

..Jevil sighed before smiling wider and finally opening to look at him. "I respect, respect your descision old friend. But I will be able to perform tomorrow, tomorrow if I sleep all night tonight. If it means Rouxls, Rouxls and you will like it."

He chuckled. "You know I've always loved your tricks my dear friend. I wouldn't miss it for the world."

"Thank you, thank you." He smiled at him...before his smile disappeared for a moment and he turned his gaze to the ceiling. "Seam, seam?" He hummed and Jevil deflated a little with a sigh. "You know I can never, never apologize enough for my actions all those years ago, and I may make up, make up for my mistake...B-But if Rouxls chooses you or neither, neither of us...Would you mind, mind if we were still, still......I mean..Have, have a second chance at what once was between us, us?"

A silence followed and the cat was staring in surprise at the nervous form of jevil silently laying on the couch awaiting the cat's answer with fear as to what he might say. There was no way he wanted to be left alone after all these years of having no company except for guards delivering food or Lancer occasionally, and after he had discovered he had two soulmates he made peace with. But...it all depended on their answers. He was still dreading what Rouxls would eventually pick, but Seam-...He feared more. But as the cat Chuckled he squinted his eyes shut, fearing the worst.

"But of course. I couldn't imagine life without you again."

Like a spring his eyes snapped back opened and looked to the cat in disbeleif. "WHAT?!"

He just calmly shrugged and smiled. "I already forgave you, you apologised, and life is as normal as it'll be under the circumstances. Why wouldn't I accept an invite like that from my dearest and oldest friend- OOF!!" He didn't get a chance to finish before a purple blur suddenly jumped on him in the form of Jevil hugging the much larger cat as best as he could, Seam freezing up for a good moment or two, before chuckling and reaching up to pat the gremlin on the back.

"Thank you, Seam, Seam."

"Of course. But perhaps we both should get some sleep now. We both have a long day ahead of us tomorrow."

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Seam awoke the next morning to Mak asking for Breakfast and Jevil gone. Guess the royal jester was needed for rehearsal and all that with a ball. Which suited him fine. Not only did he himself had to get ready, but it was going to be difficult to convince the child to do anything of the sort, and he couldn't very well leave them here by themselves. They would've probably been ok, but he would've been a bad caretaker if he left the child there alone by themselves. First order of business was coaxing them into a bath, but of course like any child they refused and he had to brib them by offering them more shiny objects for their collection if they did so, which thy did reluctantly but they didn't like it. He'd make it up to them later when he was finished grooming himself....He was not fond of baths himself. One being because it was a cat thing, and another reason being because whenever he did take a bath his cotten always felt weighed down by all the water soaked into it and his stitches always strained. Nothing a magic drying couldn't fix, but that always left him rechecking all his stitches and brushing all his fluffed up fur. Especially the orange tuft of fur around his neck, it always fluffed up to make him look like some kind if lion, Mak laughed when it happened this time as he rain his claws and brush along the dum mane of hair and the rest of himself, repatching stitches and sighing after the amount of work fixing himself always took. Mak wasn't any better. They would let any part of them be brushed and even after he offered them something in return, only let him fix up the top of their head before clambering back into their suit and letting Seam fix them up and straighten their bowtie back into it's proper place, before throwing on his own black cloak. It had been slightly over a hundred years since he wore it, so he wasn't surprised when it was kinda snug, but it still fit fine all the same at least. He straightened out what he could and even dawned a fancy dress pants to match with it. When he was finished he summoned a mirror with a snap of the fingers and took a look at himself. The cat in the reflection smiled back as he inspected the cloak around his shoulders. The smooth black velvet had gold stitchings on the shoulders and hem and while it didn't go all the way down to his feet, it was still long enough to sheild his arms from sight unless he poked them out, and two large buttons were sewn to the left side of the suit with golden strings attaching them to the other side. Why- He'd say he'd look just like he did nearly a hundred years ago in this, even after his accident which left one of his eyes to be replaced by a button, minus all the patches he had now. Below him Mak was smiling and messing with their bowtie as if still readying themselves for the giant event. He chuckled and patted their head before snapping away the mirror.

"Are you nervous about the party?"

"Nah. Just hungry."

He chuckled again and made for the armchair he was all so familiar with. "Well just remember to behave yourself while we're there, and don't cause trouble." He sighed as he sat down into the comfy armchair and relaxed back into it's soft seat. Snapping his fingers to summon a flame before throwing it into the fireplace, lighting a fire in it's place. The kettle over the fire slowly starting to heat up.

They didn't have to wait too long. Time flew by as he sipped his tea and Mak..was playing with whatever shiny object they had collected recently, but there was no mistaking the sound of the flap opening and fancy heeled footsteps approuching the backroom. Seam hummed and looked to the old clock against the wall. Four thirty sharp. Well the duke wasn't a lier, he did show up to get them at four thirty sharp, and he smiled and turned to the doorway- And blinked in surprise at the sight before him. This could NOT be the duke. This fancy dressed up make up wearing beautiful GODDESS!! Could not be the duke. The blue man that was standing there was wearing fancy white, shiny heeled boots that stopped by his knees, fancy black dress pants and an even fancier blue and white velvet coat shirt. Gold shiny buttons shined from the coat shirt and the long elegant blue cape drapping over one of his shoulders and flowed down until it was a few inches away from the floor. Black spade markings lined the coat and white velvet gloves pushed the coat away for a moment. A small necklace hung around his neck with a shiny black spade and matching earrings were hanging from his pointed ears, but all that was nothing compared to his face. The shiny white hair that usually drapped down his back was now styled in an elegant braid drapping over his left shoulder and any left over small strands were curled framing his face. His eyelashes, looking like they had been curled, brought out his pretty mitchmatched eyes as they fluttered at him and Rouxls smiled. The worm quickly took notice of the cat's staring and the small pink to his cheeks, he's always had this effect on people, but this somehow made him feel more...bashful as the blue man looked down and reached up to push one of the white curls away.

"Art thou pleased with mine look?"

Seam didn't respond at first but coughed before giving a polite smile. "O-Of course. You look rather handsome tonight, Duke." Despite his initial shock at first, he calmly stood up and Mak poked their head out of their corner. Upon seeing Rouxls, they clambered out and bounded over by Seam's side as he rose a hand and snapped his fingers. The fire instantly disappeared and Seam turned back to him. "Sorry. Have to take precations."

Rouxls just bashfully cleared his throat. "T-Thank thee. Art thou r-ready to go?"

Seam patted Mak's head. "Yes. Are you ready to take us?"

His Only answer was smiling and held his hand out. Seam reached down to pick up Mak and calmly put the child under his arm before his bigger paw grasped onto Rouxls's and for a moment the two stood there and flushed, before he felt a sudden build up of magic and a blinding white light captured them both. It was a very strange and weird feeling to be sure, the light bodied nothingness feeling just felt..Strange. So when the three of them landed down on a path, thank goodness, instead of hard stone of the castle and much to his embarrasment, he fell over flopping softly onto the ground and coughed a few times. Blinking away the bright white light and staring up to the dark sky as feeling came back to his body and he realized his fur was standing on end. Mak grunted and crawled out from under his arm and shook the dust off themselves, just as Rouxls leaned over him with a concerned look over his face.

"Oh my. I amst so sorry! A-Art thou alright?"

"Yeah. I'm good." He grunted as he sat up and Rouxls comically pushed his back until the taller cat stood to his feet. The nervous worm quickly dusting him off and he shook his head, feeling slightly embarrased he fell over like a goober. Rouxls's way of teleporting was MUCH more different than Jevil's. He was used to the tight compact feeling of Jevil's twisting teleporting, but he guessed even Rouxls's way was more fancy of doing it. But he paused as Rouxls was still dusting him off and moved to the front of his magnificent cloak. And paused. "Oh. We're here."

The giant looming figure of the Card Castle's shadow towered over them as the cat stared and his button eye spun. He didn't even realize Rouxls had grabbed his paw and began to pull them forwards towards the castle's grand entrance. And Seam only watched as the castle grew closer with Mak bouncing at his heels, the front doors being guarded by two giant Rudinn Rangers who lowered their weapons once the duke waved them away. It was almost like nothing changed. The pathway was still as stone cold as he remembered and the anxeity of all those eyes possibly on himself again for being the old magician. Would everyone look at him funny? By being the duke's date he was bound to get some attention, but that was the least of his worries. WOuld the kings be displeased to see him? It had been quite a while and he wasn't sure if Rouxls told anyone of him being his date for this whole night, but it was still terrorfying. Even if noone knew or remembered him, he was sure he would get some attention for just being on the duke's arm, or more likely the duke being on his arm, but it still made him nervous. And when he blinked, brain catching up with him, he finally noticed they were in the castle. The many, MANY red and pink decorations lining the other wise drab hallways. A lot of giggling and smiles from the many staff and guards were a refreshing sight and calmed his nerves even if only a little bit. Mak was giggling and running around startling some of them and eyes wide at all the shiny decorations, and startling a few of the people watching the child floating around. But no one was looking at him, but he noticed a few people gazing towards the duke then away again. Despite his calm and polite smile, he felt a bit of annoyance at seeing the smiles sent Rouxls way, guess he couldn't help it. Despite what Jevil said, he wasn't the best or young looking. Scars and patches here and there. One eye. Stitches. He was only a few years older than Jevil and a few they were both older than Rouxls by a few more, but he still gave off the aura off being much older. Jevil was always saying it was because of how wise and patient he was, but he always knew it was more his appearance. But he was most surprised when the pair turned a corner and ran into two tall darners wearing suits and with professional faces. He was sure with his limited memory this was the rather large throne/ball room and by the way Rouxls was smiling excitedly at it, his gut feelings was correct. The worm suddenly stopped when Seam did and looked over his shoulder, white brow raising in confusion. The cat had grabbed the stuffed bat for a moment and kneeled down eye level with them for a moment.

"Now do you remember what we talked about?," He questioned and they nodded. "And what did we talk about?"

"No biting or scratching."

"And behave yourself. Can you do that?" They nodded again and he patted their head before standing back up and letting them run ahead to the doors. ROuxls excitedly lead him to the doors and nodded to the two in front of the doors as the child bounced excitedly at the doors waiting for them to open.

At Rouxls's nod, the two Darkners in suits both reached over and grabbed a door each and pushed them open. Seam was NOT prepared for what was on the other side of the doors. His good eye widened and his button one spun about as the doors opened and bright candlelights lit the room and bounced off the many MANY giant glittery decorations lining the wall. His ears twitched towards the left where a band was playing ballroom dance music even though no one was dancing(yet) and he couldn't beleive he just now noticed these sounds. Even though they were around half an hour early arriving, their must've been around at least fifty fancy looking darkners around them wearing glittery jewelry and other fancy things he didn't care for, but it seemed Mak did as their eyes widened before they ran off in a seperate direction giggling to themselves and disappearing into the crowd. Not that the two noticed. Seam was still star struck at the incredible sight of it all. Over to the far left near the winows was a very VERY large and long tabled filled with food: two gigantic roasts, a giaint salad, a chocolate fountain with bowls of fruit around it, a few cakes king sized, a punch bowl, a...giant bowl of Salsa(??), some platter of some kind of cookies(they were shaped like something but he didn't know what), another giant bowl full of dark candy, and a few other things he couldn't make out from the crowd clocking it. And there sitting on the thrones, were the kings and Queens themselves. Ah! He remembered them well. The Clubs were talking to their four headed queen. AH! King Heart and his beloved Queen Amory, the two looked so loving together as Mrs. Hearts fed her husband one of those strangely shaped cookies, and the Diamonds-...Well. They still looked as unhappy in their marriage as usual. The giant Rudinn was rubbing his temples and Mrs. Diamonds was glaring boredly at her surroundings. He chuckled- Until he saw him! The little jevil himself! There was a few wooden stands were in the middle of the floor a few feet above the audience with 5 performers. Four of them were simple jacks. 2 juggling a couple of harmless pins to each other on the stands above the crowd, the third a contorshonist curving his body into impressive poses impossible to most, and the last one laying on a bed of hot coals. The coals safely inside a suspended fireplace for everyone's safety. And in the middle stand of them all was the man of the hour themself. The purple menace hand't noticed them at all yet and wore a jester outfit similar to his regular one, only this one was made of black and gold velvet. The gold parts shiny and flashing brightly thanks to the devilknives he was juggling....and the devilknives were on FIRE!! He sat cross-legged in mid air and easily juggling four devilknives on fire, smiling widely and cackling at his work-

"Sir Duke and Royal Advisor Rouxls Kaard of Puzzles and Card Castle!!...And his plus one Retired Royal Court Mage Seam!!" Seam flinched as someone inside the door way called out Rouxls's official title and a LOT of people turned to see them, the kings included...He guessed someone told them about him too. Rouxls gave a smile and squeezed his paw almost comforting as he gently pulled the startled cat along into the room.

At the announcement of them two specific people caught their attention. Jevil snapped he smile over to them and paused. His yellow eyes widened first at Rouxls. The worm's hair and eyelashes naturally glowing and lighting himself as his fancy eyes met Jevil's and he bashfully smiled back...Jevil's hands didn't stop that expert juggling as he had developed to perform as second nature but he visibly gulped and his eyes slowly widened and had a pinkish hue to the bottom of those yellow orbs. But they started to become fully pink when he turned to Seam and saw the outfit he was wearing. The old but fancy magician cloak was simple compared to Rouxls or his or anyone else's outfits, but it suited him to a T and all the happy memories of him and Jevil performing and being happy came rushing back- And his smile came back even more wide as Seam calmly smiled at him too. His cackling growing as he juggled. The second person jumped up on their throne as soon as Rouxls's name was announced before jumping off said throne and began zooming through the crowd towards them. Pushing past others and excitement dripping over their young face.

"LESSER DAD!!" Rouxls's head snapped to the left and smiled widely kneeling down and holding his arms out just as Lancer grunted and squeezed between two darkners before coming free and running towards the worm who easily captured the young boy in his arms and happily brought the giggling boy up in his arms. Seam smiled and peered curiously at the small boy in the duke's hold, finally getting a look at this famous young king. The child was dressed in a small fancy uniform and cape, with a white crown on his head. A blue tongue stuck out of his mouth as she giggled and his tail wagged happily as his face hole that was apparently his face stared at his father. "Where were you? I thought your break was over."

Rouxls chuckled and bounced him a few times. "I waseth...a bit busy with a fewest new things and visiting someone." He turned to Seam who reached a paw up and waved to the small pup who tilted his head at him. "Lancer. Tis a friend, Seam."

"...You look really fluffy and tall Mr. Grandpa cat!"

Seam's brow rose, not expecting that kind of reaction from the child, but chuckled either way as Rouxls groaned softly. "Well, I'm happy you think so, Young King. " He bowed. "And what a brave little man you are."

"YEAH!! Lesser Dad is my noble steed too!!...Whatever a noble steed is." He said proudly and both men couldn't help but chuckle.

"Were you good while I was gone?"

He nodded. "YEAH!! I got to play with Uncle Jevil, and he made sure I got all the food I wanted, and he let me watch him practice, and he made me do boring homework with the teacher guy, and then I had to take a bath." He sucked in a breath to keep going. "And then I had to wear this itchy suit, but I got to eat ice cream for breakfast today!!" He took a moment to look at his father. "WOW!! You look really pretty, Dad!"

Rouxls rose a brow at him at the ice cream bit, but still smiled at the compliment. "Thank you, and you look as handsome as ever." He gave him a kiss to the forehead to which the child giggled at but shook his head.

"And Ralsei's coming!! I don't know when because his letter said his parents were busy, but he promised he would come!!"

He chuckled. "I look forward to meeting this Prince officially. We haven't been properly introduced since mine encounter longe ago with thine Lightner friends."

"This young uh..Prince wouldn't happen to be a small white darkner with glasses would it?" Seam asked curiously and Rouxls blinked at himbut Lancer answered before he could.

"YEAH!! He really cool!! Not as cool as Susie, but he can do really cool magic and is really nice!!"

He hummed and smiled again. "Well then I remember this Prince of Darkness. He and his friends visited my shop and fought Jevil. I was honestly surprised they made it out in one peice."

Rouxls blinked..before scowling. "What?..Art thou telling mineself that Jevil battled against children and thou let them?!"

Seam paused sensing Rouxls's now displeased scowl and shrugged nervously. "They lived, and aren't you the one who tried to stop them using puzzles and a powered up K-round?"

His frown deepened. "Mine puzzles were not thine best true, but they were made to trap and not harm and mine control crown -before it was destroyed by thine lightners- made thine K-round under mine control and I waseth going to stop it once it weakened thine lightners enough to store them safely within thine dungeon....I was NAY!! Intending on causing any harm or did so so carelessly, Seam." The cat didn't say anything this time and Rouxls sighed. "We and Jevil are goinge to have a longe talketh about this later." He quickly turned back to a small smile to Lancer and chuckled. "Now. Art thou having fun?" Lancer shook his head no. "Nay? What ever is thy matter?"

"Ralsei's not here and Uncle Jevil's busy...and everyone said I couldn't bring ANY toys and I have to sit on the dumb chair until Uncle jevil does his trick Routine." He pouted and leaned against his father.

"Oh? And when is Jevil going to entertain us?"

"He promised before my bedtime but it's taking too long!!"

Rouxls chuckled at his pouting and nodded to Seam to follow. "Well then. Now that I'm here, why don'tst thou wait with me while you wait for thou's friend, and gettest to know Seam better?"

"Is he cool?"

"Very.~ He was a magician."

Lancer's interest spiked up at magician and the pup stared past Rouxls shoulder up at the stuffed cat as he followed Rouxls back to the giant thrones. He was pretty anxious to be stepping up in front of the kings and queens no less, but to his surprise and absolute releif, none payed much attention then the usually 'Oh, I remember you. How are you these days?' kinda talk. Two of the four kings were too busy making googoo eyes at their partners anyways and one was busy trying NOT to notice the giant lady Rudinn they were married to. Lancer looked up at the kissig faces and made a 'yuck!' face and pointed at his mouth. Seam chuckling at the sight. Such a innocent child. Rouxls set him back down on the chair and Lancer groaned, falling back into the comfy seat as the other royals greeted the duke before going back to their regular business. Despite being next to the gigantic royals, Seam's attention was on the crowd. His good eye scanned the many, many couples swapping small hearts or giggling with red faces. One or two kissing each other. He thought he saw a flash on Mak every few seconds but couldn't be sure, and his eye went to Jevil the imp smiled seeing him look at him juggling before doing a flip in mid air looking like he was doing a hand stand without using his arms to stand and looked at him upside-down without stopping juggling and winked at him. Seam chuckled and waved back over to him- He hummed and turned back to the throne. Rouxls was now sitting in the throne with Lancer in his arms and said child was tugging his cape with interest.

"Are you really a magician?," he asked.

He chuckled. "A used to be. But I'm retired now."

"What does 'retired' mean?"

His paw came up to pat his head where his crown wasn't. "It means I don't work that particular job anymore. Now I own a store."

"Like Lesser Dad?" Seam nodded and Lancer smiled wider. "Uncle Jevil said you used to do tricks too!" His tail thumped wider in excitement. "Can you show me?! Please!!"

Seam hesitated for a moment, he hadn't really performed persay any tricks in a long time. But one look at Rouxls's smile encouraged him. After all, Jevil had made peace with their soulmates child, it was only fair he made a good first impression too. So he leaned down and held out his paws, both empty and not wearing sleeves. Lancer glanced at them curiously but jumped when Seam suddenly clapped them together, and slowly opened them to where he was holding a small toy in his paws. Lancer gasped at the cute teddy bear in his paws and reached out excitedly for it as Seam handed it over. Lancer was happy to examine the new toy before holding it to him in a hug and looked back to him bouncing and saying: 'Again! Again!' Rouxls was smiling wide now as was Seam as he performed another trick for the small pup. This time reaching behind his crown and then suddenly pulling out a single dark dollar, to which Lancer gasped in wonder and also took it when Seam offered it to him, shoving it into his pants pocket and asking for him to do it again. He smiled and happily performed a few simple tricks he remembered. Pulling a strand of tied together hankercheifs out of nowhere, which lancer also reached for excitedly. Making a small flame appear and turning it into different simple shapes like a circle, cube, flat surface, etc. Pulling a button out of his ear seemingly. And a few other harmless little party tricks a child like Lancer found amazing, the child was just fascinated with magic and he chuckled at his excitement. In the meantime Rouxls watched lovingly as Lancer was giggling and enjoying himself as Seam bowed as he clapped at his small performances. While this was going on every so often the announcer would shout out another name as more guests arrived.

"Princess Clover Clubs of Card Castle!!" King and Queen Clubs were excited and babbled as their small three headed daughter came up to them wearing a small crown for each head but that was about it. "Baron Mr. Elegance and Mr. Society of Great Bourd Pass!!" Two strange all white darkners made their way in about thirty minutes later and mingled with the crowd. Thirty minutes later."Royal Court Healer Ms Valen and her Husband!!" A slightly bigger than average blue hathy couple. Seam was starting to get the impression that most of the folks here were important court members and their plus ones/partners or just important people invited to the royal shindig. As the next ones also arrived around thirty minutes after the last. "General of War Sir Punch-a-lot and his husband!!" A VERY scarred up red rudinn ranger slithered through the doors with a slightly smaller green one and the red one gave a grumpy look around before rolling his eyes and letting himself be dragged in. Thirty minutes later. "Head Of Treasury and Staff Ms. Royal Coat Jack!!" A strange looking jack came in, but she just looked nervous and skittered in without another word. Huh. Guess she was the secritary Rouxls often referred to helping him. But the next announcement made Lancer perk up from his new teddy bear again thrity minutes later. "Esteemed Guest and Hero of the Darklands Prince Ralsei Durrmee of the neighboring Durrmee Kingdom!!"

This time a LOT of attention was focused to the doors as they opened and Seam looked too, wanting to get a look at this hero once again, and a small hush came over the crowd. Behind the doors strode in a teenage darkner. He looked-..Well exactly how Seam remembered. Same outfit too. Green cloak and hat, wide circle glasses, and red scarf. The nervous looking boy paused looking at all the darkners suddenly staring at him and he smiled nervously before waving a paw.

"Uh...H-Hi, Everyone." He quickly excused himself and made his way towards them. It seems the only ones who didn't stop were the band and performers, taking their jobs seriously no matter what happened. The nervous goat monster made his way through the crowd and Lancer's tail wagged even more as he came closer. "Excuse me. Excuse me. Pardon me, Ma'am. Oops! Sorry. W-Watch your footing, Sir." He said as he walked even closer to the royals who were now looking with smiles- Except for Queen Diamonds who seemed more interested in her jewelry. But the boy still bowed once he got close enough to the giant thrones and their occupants. "U-Um..Greetings, Everyone. I hope I'm not too late-"

''RALSEI!!" Lancer happily jumped off the Duke's lap and made for the teen still holding his teddy bear, said goat prince looked up just in time to watch the small spade pup hug one of his legs and giggled. Tail wagging. "YOU'RE HERE!! NOW IT WON'T BE ALL MUSHY AND BORING!! YOU WANNA PLAY WITH ME?!" All the adults (minus Queen Diamond and Clover) awed at the adorable sight of the teen giggling and patting his head in response. Clover's three heads were staring at the small goat teen with blue blushes even though each head had a different face responding to the blush. "Sure. If your dad doesn't mind." He looked back up at the duke still sitting in the throne smiling and watching, and waved a paw at him. "Um. H-Hello Mr. Kaard. Wow. You look really nice tonight. All of you guys do too."

Clover flushed deeper at that and Rouxls chuckled. "Nonsense. Thou arrived with plenty of time to spare. How waseth thou's trip?"

"F-Fine thanks." He straightened his glasses before looking down to Lancer. "And if he doesn't have any other duties, I'd be happy to catch up-"

"HEY!!" Most everyone jumped up at the sudden shout from one of the clubs princess's heads. "YOU PROMISED YOU'D BE OUR DATE TONIGHT!!" "I-It's fine if he wanted to spend time with him instead, I'll just be a little sad." "OH! I'm so excited! Our first date with a cute fluffy boy!"

"Uh..." Ralsei glanced to Rouxls for any help on the matter.

All of King Clubs heads looked displeased and about to say something a whole lot of somethings before his wife's heads spoke up. "Dearest we talked about this." "J-J-Just...l-l-let her have this moment..ok?" "Im fine with anything really." "HEY!! SHE'S ALMOST SIXTEEN!! GIVE HER A LITTLE SPACE!!" The five heads of his majesty stared at each other for a moment...before grumbling and not saying anything. "THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT!!" "Thank you, Sweetie." "T-T-Thanks." "Im still fine with anything really."

Ralsei still looked quite unsure before looking back to Clover. "U-Um..Ok. C-Can Lancer come too? I promised to spend time with him too."

The three heads looked at each other before the middle one spoke. "Would that make you happy and like us more?"

"Uh," he said still really unsure and looked at Lancer who nodded eagerly. "Yyyyeesss??"

"OK!! We can start by getting some roasted tree!!" She shouted before standing back up and walking towards him.

"Roasted what?"

He was nudged away by one of Clover's heads and Lancer happily bounced next to the two (or five if you counted each of Clover's heads as an individual) teens. King Clubs still not looking the tiniest bit pleased at his daughter's 'date' for the night at all.

"Do you think we're pretty?" "I thought we looked nice." "OF COURSE WE ARE!! WE HAVE STYLE!!"

"Uh..Yes?"

The last Seam heard of THAT conversation was Clover happily squealing to herself and still pushing the poor boy off with Lancer at their heels. At least the boy would be around two other kids and get to spend time with someone closer to his age group. But speaking of food, Seam gazed over to the table full of goods and wondered if there was anything to his liking. He didn't really have to eat being made of cotten, but anything he did eat was converted into extra magic later and who knows when that might come in handy? Rouxls seemed to mirror his same thoughts as he stood up and bid good morrow to the giant royals before turning in Seam's direction and gesturing to the giant food table in question. Seam nodded and the two began their way there, with Seam politely offering Rouxls his paw and the duke gladly taking it with a smile. The two made their way over past the others in the room and finally his one good eye was able to make out all the stuff on the table that was previously blocked from veiw...and his smile disappeared as he blinked. The last table sat a ....bowl of roasted tennis balls covered in cheese and-...a atcually honest to lightner tree that looked like someone tried to burn it but didn't do a very good job. Clover was there sitting on her hind legs and her front paws held a plate with ease. The giant plate had a couple of the tennis balls and a chunk of what he could only guess was this 'roasted tree' she was so excited about. One of her heads was jabbering to Ralsei while another one scarfed down what was on the plate. Poor kid was smiling nervously holding a plate with a single cheese covered tennis ball, obviously trying not to be rude...and LAncer was bouncing one of said tennis balls getting cheese all over the floor. The cat chuckled and shook his head. The poor kids. The duke and him at first stuck together looking at things but as soon as his eyes spotted the mac n cheese bowl he lit up and made a beline for it, leaving seam chuckling and looking around at all the other foods. He wasn't really that picky but none of it was really appealing to him yet. The roasts looked too hard and chewy, and he was never a big fruit or salad fan. And all the deserts looked too sweet for him. And there was NO WAY he was about to eat cheese covered tennis balls or burnt trees- And speaking of deserts. He chuckled when he finally saw the strange cookies and now understood why they were called 'Lancer Cookies', because they were all decorated to look like the young boy. He sighed and shook his head, going to move past the punch bowl since he wasn't really that thirsty....But paused when something...(or someone) slowly rose out of the punch bowl making a few darkners around them cringe in disgust.

It took him a few moments of blinking and staring to realize who it was, and when he did he sighed. "Mak. WHY are you in the punch bowl?"

The child blinked back. "I got thirsty."

His brow rose. "And so you decided to go swimming in the punch bowl?...And where did you get those sunglasses?" He now noticed the new and shiny sunglasses on top of their head. And he sighed. They were all sticky and wet now.

"Waiting for the surprise."

He blinked. "Surprise? What surprise?"

Before they could answer the same announcer that was shouting everyone's official statuses shouted out his voice from near the king's throne and he turned to look. In the meantime Mak slowly drifted back down into the pink punch and disappeared. "ATTENTION!! THE ROYAL PERFORMERS SHALL BEGIN THE SHOW!! PLEASE STAND CLEAR FOR THE CENTER STAGE!!"

Seam looked confused for a moment, but then sudden flashbacks of his old shows reached his mind. The audience of around a hundred darkners all gasped and stood aside when the jacks all stopped performing including Jevil as he caught the devilknives that he had been juggling this whole time. Each one being put out as he did and he watched in mid air as the five jacks jumped from their set up stages and began to push their own stage towards the middle one Jevil was sitting above. The five giant puzzle peice designed stages coming to fit perfectly with one another as he remembered it would and a small smile reached his face. Well, well. It had been quite a long time since he'd even seen a royal performance. Now was a good oppurtunity to witness one. Rouxls walked up back next to him watching curiously as he ate and the lights dimmed out until only two spotlights remained, one on the band that had gone silent, and one on the stage where all the performers including jevil had hopped off.

"ANNOUNCING LADY PAPER DOLL AND HER WONDEROUS BALLERINA DANCERS DOING THEIR FAMOUS WATERFALL DANCE!!" The man announced. "PLEASE EVERYONE STEP AWAY FROM THE DOORS!!''

Most everyone scrambled out of the way as the band started up some ballet sounding waltz music starting with violins at the same time the doors opened and in came not one but FIVE different all white white some black thin looking darkners dashed in through the dark. Making the audience gasped in surprise as they all jumped expertly and easily onto the table and could now be all clearly seen the spotlight. The biggest one was all white and stood in the middle as the black and white ones, four of those, all stood around her. All made similar ballerina poses as the music faded for just a moment before starting back up again, them moving along with it it gracefully. With the four smaller ones standing on their tip toes and slowly swaying their arms going a few yards away from the bigger one (the stage was fairly large and well built for such things) as their leader stood on one leg and reached her hand up as the soft flute music slowly died out once again and the other four stopped in a pose which left them on their tip toes and their arms pointed to their middles. They could hear the music conductor tap his music sheet stand and begin to wave his hands. Trumpets and violins started to play and they moved. The four began to move in similar motions, twirling themselves in circles while also circling their middle leader in a bigger circle as they spun, and who he assumed to be Lady Paper Doll moved as graceful as one would expect. She expertly brought her leg up high to stand on one leg and twirl around before taking a few graceful steps forwards the edge of the dancing circle before stopping, hand to her chest in fake distraught befor doing the same thing towards the other side before holding a hand to her forehead and dashing back towards the middle twirling a few more times before expertly 'falling' to the floor and laying limp like a ragdoll in a fake faint.

Seam hummed and leaned down to Rouxls to whisper. It was easy to see the worm as his white hair and eyelashes easily glowed in the dark giving him a beautiful aura. "They're very good. This Lady Paper Doll is quite graceful."

Rouxls nodded without looking at him. "Tis based on a true story about what someone sometimes experiences."

"Oh really?"

Rouxls nodded and pointed to Ms Paper Doll who had just now sat up to her knees and was fake sobbing and twirling her upper body in graceful circle motion to the music. "She represents the struggle someone goes througheth with their sad emotions when something devastating happens. And the four dancing around her-" He gestured to the still twirling ballarinas still doing circles while encircling her. "-represent the obsticles and circle of emotions thoust tis feeling. Which is why she's also metiphorically trapped within thine middle. Trapped within her own emotions and problems, which only go downwards as if one tis in a waterfall. Hence thy name Waterfall Dance. They're truly a remarkable group."

Seam didn't doubt that as he looked back to the lit stage from the dark audience. Lady Paper Doll then expertly held her hands up and pushed herself up onto her toes that resembled someone lifting a limp puppet. Twirling around a few more times before she blinked and held her head up to the light. Pretending to just now notice the light shining down on her. Reaching a hand up towards the spot light before she flinched and curled in on herself head down in fake shame. The four dancer had now stopped twirling and were facing her, the for gracefully ran up to her and held their arms above her as if metiphorically holding her down- Before she suddenly snapped back up. The four smaller dancers recoiled and treated back to their circle. This time running back to their circle, but instead of their twirling from earlier, they gracefully lept and ran around in a giant circle as the middle tallest dancer twirled a few more times before stoppong in the middle and striking a proud pose of her chest out, arms back and head held high. Rouxls smiled excitedly next to him.

"This is thine best part, the next steps represent her tossing the stress and thinges away from her and crumbling in sweet defeat and rising to thine goals!" He sighed. "Such beauty tis a work of art.~"

He had to agree. She stood in that pose for the longest time as the four others encircled her before she suddenly pirouletted and pivioted to the middle of said circle of ballerinas before stilling. One ballerina suddenly breaking the circle the circle and running towards her gracefully, the taller woman easily caught her and held her up in the air, the two doing a graceful pose before she let go mid spun and the smaller ballerina expertly 'fell' to her knees and slid a little away, hand to her forhead before 'falling' to the floor in defeat. Followed one by one of the other three who slid away and laid down in similar defeated poses which the audeience awed at and even Seam had to confess the ladies' were experts at their job. Leaving the spotlight on just the tall one and watching as the depressing and exciting music from earlier suddenly became more happy sounding and she prirouletted and spun in other dance moves he couldn't name as the song came to an end spinning happily and doing the same proud pose from before with her head and arms pointed backwards as the happy music finally ended and left. There was silence for just a few seconds before cheers and applause came from the audeince watching all around the stage and the other four ballerinas stood from their position on the floor to go stand next to their leader as they all curtsied to their audience. Seam found himself clapping along and smiling at the performances the ladies did for them. One by one they jumped off the stage and gracefully leaped back to where they came from. The balloroom still quite dark other than the two spotlights on the bandstand and huge stage. He almost did hear the announcer shout the next performers.

"UP NEXT!! THE JACK BROTHERS AND THEIR AMAZING BALANCE ACT!!"

The same four jacks from before all flipped and jumped from different parts of the audience onto the stage and struck a pose. Everyone clapping excitedly for the next act. Except for Seam. He recognized these old jacks and already knew their whole routine, if he remembered right they would start out with two of them standing on top of each other balancing on a ball and two others throwing juggling pins over the two flipping on the ball. And wouldn't you know it, one made a giant green ball appear, so Seam busied himself by turning around and grabbing one of these lancer cookies as the four performed, the audience including Rouxls watched captivated. Upon eating the cookie, he discovered it was just a regular sugar cookie with icing. He still didn't watch the performance when the audience gasped when one of the jugglers suddenly jumped onto the ball with the other two while still juggling back and forth with the one on the ground before they jumped, and was suspended onone of the bottom jack's held out arms, the entire time two jack's still juggling but now they were rolling the ball around moving around on the stage as they rolled around and juggled with expert balance, making the audience awe in disbeleif and he had finally turned around to look around at the crowd. It was dark but he was used to seeing everything in the dark besides lanturn light or his fireplace. He was looking for one small purple gremlin dressed in black ang gold in particular but he didn't see him anywhere. Now where could that little rascal have run off too this time? He was wondering if Jevil was planning some kind of grand entrance to the act, most likely. He always liked showing off to others around him. The four jacks was bouncing on the ball now, up and down a few times before one by one they jumped off the ball and the two juggling caught the pins and did poses with the other two. The audience roared again with excitement at the second performance as the four bowed to the watching crowd. Seam did too, more out of politefulness of the situation than actually watching the performance, but the four hopped off the stage and disappeared somewhere within the crowd not to be seen again for the rest of the night.

"NOW FOR OUR FINAL PERFORMANCE!! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!! PLEASE WELCOME THEE ROYAL COURT JESTER SIR JEVIL!!"

The crowd both gave a mix of excited and unsure faces but all that changed once a giant puff of smoke exploded on the stage and Rouxls's and his smiles became wider. A small BOOM! noise also went off and gold confetti shot out everywhere. Some landed on the stage but some fell over the crowd, shining thanks to the spotlight. Happy cackling was heard as the dust cleared and there was the purple jester in all his glory, he giggled to the crowd and bowed. The bells on his hat jiggling to his movements, the gold parts of his outsit shining in the light. Here we go. They were in for quite a treat.

"Ahehehehehe!~ Welcome, welcome!! Let there be chaos, chaos!! Fun, fun!! But a word of warning, warning!" His held up his hands. "Please, please do not try to do what my chaos, chaos brings at home, home! They are quite dangerous, quite dangerous!!" He snapped his fingers and suddenly the band started playing some kind of upbeat circus music and the audience's main focus was on the clown as he Suddenly whipped out a metal hula hoop. He sucked a deep breath and his cheeks puffed out, Rouxls recognized it as the face he made before he blew fire. And sure enough flames came forth from the fool's mouth and the hoop caught fire. The iron circle was tossed away from him quickly after that and they guessed he must've been using magic to make it suspended in mid air on the other side of him, before he yet again reach behind him and summoned more devilsknives, around five. He was floating now and stood on the stage. Really showing how small he was compared to Seam and Rouxls. Without so much as a warning he began to easily juggle the sharp looking weapons as the flaming hot hoop came shooting at him. While STILL juggling, he easily jumped up a foot and jumped right threw the flaming hoop's middle, the hoop stopped before it could even reach the other side of the stage and they guessed Jevil must've been using his magic to make it go back and forth as he still jumped threw it whenever it got close enough and still juggled those devilsknives, cackling and happy all around at everyone marvaling at his skills. Bells jiggling wildly. "This is fun, fun!! But more excitement should be expected, expected!!" Without warning the devilknives were all grabbed by him one by one and shoved back into his black cloak disappearing while he still jumped through that flaming hoop, when the last devilsknife disappeared, he reached a clawed hand out and caught the flaming circle. Giving it a few shakes until it was completely put out and he held it up, showing it off with a smile.

Everyone clapped again including them and Seam chuckled. "An old but classic. I wonder if he shall do his famous No-throat sword swallowing trick or fire images."

Before Rouxls could answer, Jevil had already bounded to the other side of the stage before reaching over into the dark real quick as someone (one of the jacks most likely) handed him what looked liked a couple of long rods wrapped in an old cloth, he nodded to whoever handed him the thing before he made his way back to center stage, the audeince watching in silent anticipation. With his back towards the half of the audience that his two soulmates were and only stood back up when he unwrapped said cloth on the floor, a metal SHING!! sounded off as Jevil produced a shiny average looking sword in his hands and showed it off to the audience. "Again, again! Please do not recreate what you are about to see at home, home! Sword swallowing and playing with fire is a very, very dangerous skill even for me, me." The sword was tossed up without another word and it was suspended in mid air by his magic. One person in the band gave a drum roll as it slowly desceneded dowwards and to everyone's shock, the fool's head sprung off his shoulder with a spring and he opened those jaws wide. Rouxls's jaw dropped to the floor as his mousetrap jaws opened and the sword continued it's decent down and THROUGH IT!! The audience gasped when the sword seemingly disappeard into the void of his mouth until the handle was left and his spring neck wobbled. WHERE WAS THAT THING EVEN DISAPPEARING TOO?! Seam chuckled. He knew, Jevil was using teleprtation magic to give the illusion it was going down his none-existant-for-the-moment throat and instead most likely making it appear under the stage where the audeince couldn't see it, but it was still amusing to see their surprised faces. Especially Rouxls who looked at him bulged eyes. The drum still played when Jevil's hand flicked it back up and the sword began to retreat out of his opened jaws. As soon as the last few inches of shiny metal left his teeth, there was a crashed of symbols from the band stand and his neck sprung back down to his shoulder. Instantly like it never happened and he did another pose as the audienc roared again in applause, the sword dropping and being caught in his hand as he presented it back to his fans. Before setting it back down to his feet when another long metal thing was picked up by him. This time it was a long metal rod with some kind of giant fuse at the end. Like a long torch. The same hissing breath and puffed out cheeks signaled the flames before it erupted from his throat, blowing onto the end of the rod and catching it on fire just like a torch. He smiled and giggled at his handywork, holding it up and he looked around to the darkened audeience! "Hehehehe!~ Forms and shapes I make with flames, flames. But helpers I need to pick, pick what to form and dazzle you all!!"

Seam leaned closer to Rouxls. "He means he's going to pick a few people from the audeince to choose what magic picture he'll make with fire."

Rouxls gave a small oh and watched as Jevil tapped his chin and looked over the watching crowd. "Now, now! Who shall I pick to choose the first picture-"

"DO ME!! DO ME!!" Jevil's head snapped to the right and Rouxls suddenly groaned as Lancer was jumping and waving his arms a few feet away from the crowd in a very unkingly manor. "PLEASE! DO ME!!"

Jevil chuckled and bowed in the boy's direction. "But how could I refuse, refuse a request from our beloved King, King?" Everyone watched as Jevil turned his face and the flaming rod up towards the stone ceiling and sucked in another hissing breath, though this one seemed to take longer as his chest expanded at well- Before it all broke loose!! A large stream of flames shot out from his mouth and hit the rod as the flames' path widened and a HUGE wall of flames shot out above the audeince and spread out into lines forming the shape that was similar to the Lancer Cookies clearly intending to be the small boy. The audeince's eyes sparkled as the flames fizzled into nothing after a few seconds and immediately applauded the clown as he bowed his head, Lancer giggled and clapping his hands together from seeing his flame protrait. "Hehehe!~ Thank you, thank you!! As tradition I shall take four more requests, requests to equal five!! Who shall, shall request next?!" This time a lot more people raised their hands and shouted requests to the purple imp! And he slowly did them one by one. A rabbick for a Noble. Another flame portrait for Mr. Society. A lovely flower for King Hearts dedicated to Queen Amory, Rouxls awed at the romantic gesture King Hearts made towards his wife who herself gushed at the sweet thought. And lastly a diamond shape after Queen Diamond ordered it of him. Well...He couldn't disobey the Queens but King Diamonds looked rather embarrased as he held a hand over his face when it all happened. The rod was put out when Jevil stuck the entire flaming end in his mouth- Before removing it quickly and a fire giant stream of hot flame was shot over one part of the audeince who leaned away and gasped before applauding his efforts again. "Now for some old classics! But first please, please welcome by adorable asistant, asistant!!" He snapped his fingers and another bang and small explosion of smoke appeared something purple and grey shot out of the smoke cloud. It slid up to him in the form of Mak wearing those sunglasses and a kazoo in their mouth, blowing on it before posing and a poof of confetti went off behind them. "Now we shall begin, begin the fun!!''

The rest of Jevil's tricks were pretty basic tricks, He would summon props he needed or someone would hand him what he needed from the audience, and Seam watched as it went as followed. The disappearing box. The classic (fake) sawing someone in half. And the classic having Mak stand against a wooden wall while he threw small show daggers at them, expertly missing. And at the end the two did a pose at the end as everyone clapped for them and Jevil looked to the two soulmates standing to the side by the table. Giggling and-.. blowing kiss in their direction. Rouxls froze with a small squeak sound, immediately turning a darker blue and Seam chuckled at both their reactions as he and Mak bounced off the stage. The candles were relit and staff quickly rushed over to grabbed at the stage, pulling the puzzle peices apart and beginning to pushing them towards the front door the dancers had run through before, making more room in the large ballroom for one obvious reason. But they would get to that in a moment, right now everyone was starting to chatter to each other excitedly about the performances that had just been shown to them while others made their way for the food table. Seam felt sorry for all the folks drinking the punch, and the band started up with the calm ballroom music again. And Rouxls turned back to him with a wide smile.

"Thine Jester's performance waseth astounding!!" His wide grin and excited tone made Seam chuckle.

"I told you. Jevil's magical abilities are quite impressive."

A stream of maniac giggled from behind Rouxls made the worm jumped and whirl around and blink at the side of Jevil smiling, sitting in mid air, tail wagging behind him happily. "Really, really?!" He giggled more at the worm's slightly spooked face. Dark purple rushing to his cheeks as his head fell to his hands staring at the two of them lovingly. "Thank you, thank you. You both l-l-look so lovely, so lovely.~"

Rouxls cleared his throat and gave a polite smile and bow. "Thank thee. Thou art looking splendid as well. Thine performance waseth wonderful!!"

Seam nodded. "I agree. You're performances were just as magical as I remember old friend."

Jevil giggled even more and if Seam didn't know better, he would say he was flustered in the presence of both him and Rouxls dressed up in fancy clothing. More purple coming to his cheeks at the compliments, but what perked the old cat's attention was the sudden start up of exciting violins and the excited gasp King Hearts made. He watched as the giant hathy pushed himself off from his throne and turned to the other giant than average hathy bowing and offering one of his giant tentacles to her. She giggled and of course accepted his offer to her. His one good eyes watched as the two intertwined hathys made their way down the small steps of the throne and into the crowd of the ballroom. Seam knew exactly what was about to start happening and sure enough, a whole bunch of other darkners were bowing or asking their partners to dance and the dancefloor area was soon filled with the dancing forms of couples as they laughed and made googoo eyes at each other under the candlelights and pink and red decorations. Jevil watched them all for a moment before looking back towards Seam and Rouxls with expectance- Rouxls jumped in surprise when a soft hand grabbed his shoulder and pulled him against an equally soft body.

"Sorry old friend." Rouxls eeped when he looked up and found himself leaning against Seam as the giant stuffed cat gave Jevil a patient smile. "I know we agreed to be equals but you had your date, so please allow me to have mine. But I assure you, you can come to talk to us when we're not busy dancing or whatever it is people do on dates."

Jevil blinked, clearly not expecting that but gave a smile at them anyways, "Fair enough, fair enough. I was feeling a little hungry anyways. " He looked back to the table just as the Royal Clubs couple walked by talking loudly to themselves and making a line for the roasted tree and sports section of the table. And Seam chuckled again before tilting his head down to Rouxls.

"I know I don't know how to ballroom dance, but I suppose I Should ask you if you would care to dance anyways."

Rouxls blinked flustered up at him and cleared his throat, looking down. "W-W-Wellst if t-thou c-can't dance I shant make thee dance if thou are nay comfortable with it-"

"Oh, I'm comfortable with it. I just don't know how to do the fancy dances they're doing." He gestured to all the fancy waltzes and ballroom dances the nobles and court members were clearly doing. Chuckling when he saw the Prince Ralsei trying to dance with Princess CLover but she was so bigger than him she just stood on her back legs as Ralsei nervously held her front paws and sort of rocked with her. Clover wasn't complaining though as her faces were a dark blue and Lancer was sitting on the floor next to him and playing with the teddy bear he had given him hours ago now.

Rouxls reached a hand up to nervously grip his braid and still didn't look at Seam even as the cat let go. "W-W-Well..I-I-If thou insists- " He blinked nervously when Seam bowed and offered a paw then.

"Well then Mr. Kaard. Would you like to dance?"

Roucxls could only stand there with a deep blue blush and Jevil chuckled behind him. He opened and closed his mouth a few times like a goldfish before clearling his throat trying to look perfessional before shakily reaching a hand out and grabbing the soft paw. It closed around his smaller hand and Seam leaned back up before gently tugging him and pulling him towards the dancefloor with everyone else. Rouxls looked nervous and gave a look to Jevil behinde him only to see Jevil waving him good bye. The fancy shining light and jewelry everyone was wearing was almost blinding as he was lead into the crowd and stopped. Pulled against another figure suddenly as Seam put them into the tradional ballroom dance pose, but instead of the fancy waltzing around them, he just gently made them start swaying in small circles. Which he was releived at. He didn't know if he could handle any real fast and fancy dancing with his legs feeling like jello. He looked up to Seam's face for a moment as he smiled back, his heart skipping a beat before he cleared his throat and looked away nervously again. The silence still going on for a moment before he tried to speak and break the awkward silence.

"T-T-Thou art a b-better dancer than thou thinkest."

"Well thank you. I'm sorry if I hadn't said anything yet. But I wanted to be sure you were just as comfortable speaking." there it was, the patience and consideration of the cat he always loved.

Rouxls chuckled bashfully and fluttered his lashed up at him. "W-Well thank thou. I appreciate thou's concerns for mineself."

"But of course. Why wouldn't I? You and Jevil mean a lot to me." He chuckled. "It's been so long since anything really mattered to me as much as this."

Rouxls blinked up at him lovingly and in surprise as they still circled around. The taller form almost blocked out the light making it bounce around him and make it almost like the cat was glowing, a being of light similar to himself. Which is why his brain possibly wasn't really thinking and he suddenly stood on his tip toes and pressed a kiss to his nose tip. Seam stopped completely surprised and Rouxls suddenly pulled away. Blinking up at Seam's frozen form and a sudden feeling of guilt came over him.

"O-Oh. S-Sorry! I didst not mean to makest thou uncomfortable-"

He chuckled. "No, no. It's alright. In fact I would say it was the best part of my night."

He blinked up surprised again. "R-Really?"

Seam nodded and Rouxls sighed, releived he didn't do anything wrong by his sudden boldness but he would make sure to ask first before he did anything else like that. He wasn't sure how long they stood there dancing in each other arms, Rouxls giggling if Seam's made a small joke towards him and still smiling. But the two were soon interrupted when a white paw pulled at rouxls's cape and the worm turned around curious and came face to face with Prince Ralsei. The goat darkner looks at him with a slightly guilty face, Rouxls stared down in his arms and noticed he held a sleeping spade pup. Lancer was lightly snoring in Ralsei's arms and cutely clutching the small teddy bear in his arms, the crown lopsided on his head and that spade hole in his face closed. He shifted a little in the goat prince's arms and gave a cute puppy yawn before curling into his warmth like any cute child would.

"Uh. S-So sorry to bother you Mr. Kaard. But Lancer fell asleep and I didn't know what to do." He held the child up to him and Rouxls smiled and reached for him. Lancer's face blinked open for a second and his mind woke up just enough to recognize Rouxls so when the worm picked him up, the pup wrapped his arms around his neck and laid his head on his shoulder still clutching the bear.

He grunted as he shimmied him into his hold. "Tis quite alright. Tis rather late after all, tis only natural Lancer fell asleep." He patted Lancer's back and looked back up to Seam. "Mine apologies but I must get Lancer to bed."

He held up his paws. "No, no. It's understandable. ...*sigh* I think I better find my small one too. They're most likely tuckered out after the exciting night they just had."

The two men and sleeping child excited the dancing crowd and spotted Mak pretty easily. Jevil was hovering beside them as they snored and laid on one of the chairs placed out for the guests. The imp chuckled and waved at the trio as they arrived and Seam sighed, reaching over to take the sleeping bat in his arms and looking over them. The sunglasses were crooked on their face, and they were all wet and sticky from the punch, but he soon found the extra weight to be a whole bunch of shiny jewelry stuffed in their pockets. He didn't say or question it and instead turned and started making their way towards the exit with Jevil shrugging and the two men followed after, neither saying a word to each other in fear of waking either children until they got to the giant doors that were pushed open by servants and closed behind them as the trio made their way out. Rouxls watched the doors closed behind him before turning around to the other two smiling men.

"I...I Hadst a great time tonight. I thank thee and apologise for thine trouble."

"No apologies needed. We might as well get going anyways." He held Mak up. "Plus Jevil is my lift back, these old stitches don't feel like walking all the way back home in the middle of the night." Jevil giggled next to him and nodded.

"Doth thou need me to showest thou where the door is?"

"No worries, no worries. I can teleport anywhere!" Jevil proudly proclaimed and Rouxls smiled even more before bowing his head.

"Then I bid thee both a good night..I shall seest thoust two tomorrow.~"

The two watched as Rouxls turned and made his way down a hallway and what they presumed to be the young king's bedroom...Before Seam turn also and began walking, leaving the sounds of music and laughter behind him, but could feel Jevil right behind him floating. The two went in silence for a moment before Seam finally stopped and inhaled deeply, letting it out slowly and turned to Jevil with a smile. And the imp smiling back the two sharing the same loving thoughts of each other and a certain snow haired duke. He shifted Mak into one arm and held out his paw to the jester. Jevil happily took the paw with a giggle and flush of purple. In a second both were suck up into the void, on their way home after such a loving night.

#Deltarune #Seaxls #Jeam #Seavil #Nosuit #rouxlvil #rouxvil #Seam #Jevil #rouxls kaard #Rouxls #rouxls x jevil #rouxls x seam #rouxls kaard x seam #rouxls kaard x jevil #seam x rouxls #jevil x rouxls #seam x jevil #jevil x seam #jevil x rouxls kaard #seam x rouxls kaard

[iamnot-theboynextdoor]

deltarune thoughts

ralsei IS asriel, i don’t care if that’s a “basic” or “too obvious” theory

evidence:

-anagram

-they look the same

-darkners are apparently regular objects (hence: playing cards, checker pieces, computer viruses) in the light world and turn into beings in the dark world...maybe ralsei is a photograph of asriel

-but, having said that, if lancer and rouxls turned into statues because darkners can’t travel between/exist properly in other dark worlds, but ralsei remained Alive And Statueless, that means ralsei is a lightner, right?

-lancer and rouxls only got to the other dark world via kris’ pocket, and the NPC darkners only got to castle town because kris carried them there in the real world, but ralsei can travel between dark worlds by himself offscreen. thatse a lightner babey

-ralsei didn’t have a labelled room/cell in queen’s mansion, but “your brother” (asriel) did, and the narration did not specify a name...i think that was ralsei’s room, because ralsei and asriel are the same person

-ralsei did not seem to recognise kris upon first meeting them, or let on that they knew who they were, but i don’t think he has amnesia (i think the writing in ut/dr is Better Than That) so i’m going to say...escapism? asriel secretly didn’t go to university, discovered or created a dark world, learned about it or created the lore, and took on a new persona (because, like susie said, the dark worlds are better than the real world). typing it out like this seems like a bit of a stretch and that’s because it is! it’s a real weird headcanon that probably isn’t true!

kris is an amalgamation of frisk and chara

-to clarify, i’m not using “amalgamation” to mean the same thing as the amalgamates in undertale, and fusion isn’t quite the right word to describe what i mean if you’re going by the su or dbz definition. i don’t mean that they’re literally two people turned into one person, or a bad DID/”split personality” character, or two souls fighting for control over one body...it’s hard to explain what i mean. an AU where frisk and chara never existed but are also the same person?

-but kris’ reflection “it’s what they call “you”” kind of suggests that they’re not a real person? and deltarune chapter 1 begins with the player creating a “vessel”...even though the game immediately discards it, it sets up the concept of vessels at least

-kris keeps ripping their soul out in order to do weird shit like slash toriel’s tires for no apparent reason and i don’t have a theory for that i’m just noting it

-BUT kris appeared to be the one making the dark worlds, or at least the Next dark world (by ripping their soul out? that’s part of the process?), so i predict chapter 3 is going to be Toriel’s Living Room: Dark World Edition...chairiel is going to be the next boss (i’m kidding...but imagine), toriel might accidentally find herself in the dark world, toriel will recognise ralsei and there’s the big reveal (or at the very least, will tell ralsei he looks just like asriel for some reason) and asriel will get into big trouble for Not Actually Being At University

-lore-wise it’s stated that a “knight” created the dark worlds, and kris’ dark world form looks like a breastplate and a cape

queen

-i love evil robot kanaya

-i love evil robot white diamond

-naming conventions and character design would suggest that she is lancer’s mom, but i feel like that might have come up if that were true...besides, if darkners are Actually Regular Objects, i don’t think they have parents/offspring in the traditional sense, darkners probably just Decide that they are family

-although it would be really funny if in a future chapter lancer says out of nowhere “yeah, she's my mom” and everyone’s like ??? why didn’t you SAY THAT before? or maybe queen unofficially adopts lancer when she finds out that king sucks. i remember some text saying that she is A mom (whether the text meant that literally or if that’s just describing her personality) and she kind of??? treats noelle like a surrogate daughter? noelle’s room is not a cell and is much bigger than kris’, and she’s always calling noelle pet names...all this to say i want her to Decide she is lancer’s mom

sweets, cap & k_k

-are the best characters

a Joke Theory

-papyrus actually created the dark worlds and is the final final boss and that’s why he isn’t in the real world

and i don’t know shit about the snowgrave route or spamton neo lmao

#deltarune #i expect a grand total of 0 people to read this and that's fine lol #i played ch 2 and am ashamed to admit that the first time i died was to fucking berdly. i can't believe i got dunked on by An Epic Gamer

[the-light-is-running-low]

... Wait... waIT I GOT IT! Jevil, you have a free hand, right? Also your neck is literally a spring? Just hold the tray with your free hand and stretch your neck out as far as you can. Maybe Seam can hear you then.

[ * This may take a few tries, but Jevil feels like he can get the hang of it. ]

[ * Seam doesn’t notice him yet, but it’s only a matter of time. ]

[ * Meanwhile, let’s check on Spade and Rouxls, hm? ]

[ * Coming next update. ]

#jevil #seam #deltarune #the light is running low #most updates will be hand drawn from now until the end of the holiday event so i cangive you more plot and string my little motivation along #THERE HE GOES #SPROING #what an absolute lad #dONT WORRY we get to see what seam is up to in the next update #edit: I FORGOT TO DRAW LANCER AAAAA #oh well you guys know he's around jevil somewhere #sorry for the lil inconsistency

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Despicable Dad || Closed @laughthroughanotherday

One of the worst things about going home for Lancer was facing his father. There was no telling what kind of mood he would be in when he returned. And what was worse, he could flip his attitude on a dime. The game had touched on it a little, but really, it was even worse than his friends and the Player saw. At least during the story, he could see it coming... Tonight started like any other. He came home. Lesser Dad helped him with his homework. Dinner started, and Lancer started to babble about his day. He'd mentioned how Ralsei worried about the Dark World before. Only in passing, really, because the topic was somewhat boring. But today, Ralsei had gotten sick! And he'd fallen asleep in class! He had to go to the nurse's office and Seam had to come and pick him up!

When Lancer mentioned Seam coming to the school, the King shot a dirty look in Rouxls Kaard’s direction. “Is that where you ran off to in the middle of the day?” Rouxls said nothing. As much as his employer’s outbursts tended to frighten him, he’d found that the best tactic was to ignore the King until he absolutely couldn’t any longer. And he wasn’t at that point yet. The King growled and shook his head. “Damn waste of time. That kid really thinks he’s got what it takes to be a ruler? Pah. Pathetic.” 

Lancer's swinging legs slowed a little. "... He was really tired after school. He didn't even wake up when we visited him! But Kris and Seam said he's okay, so he'll probably be back at school soon."

The King grunted. “Well, the sooner he’s back in school, the less we have to worry about him trying to usurp the throne. Since I know that’s what he’s aiming for.”

Lancer's tongue stuck out a little. "... He's not trying to take the throne... He just wants to make everyone happy..."

“Oh, that’s what he wants you to think. And unfortunately, you just happen to be dumb enough to believe him!” Rouxls flinched, almost invisibly. 

Lancer shrank down a little, gaze flickering towards the floor. "... I..."

“Sire, please,” said Rouxls hesitantly. “There is no reason to—“ “Did I say you could talk?!” demanded the king, pounding one fist on the table.

Lancer flinched, biting down on his tongue softly. There was no mistaking it. His father was mad...

When Rouxls fell silent, the King turned his glare on Lancer. “Finish your dinner. Unless you want me to send you to bed without it for the next few days.”

Lancer started to eat again, not daring to meet his father's gaze. But he just couldn't leave things there... He whispered to himself, hoping with all his heart that his father wasn't listening to him anymore. "I'm not dumb... Ralsei's not tricking me... He's just nice... I'm not dumb..."

Unfortunately, when it came to his son, the King seemingly had super-sonic hearing. “WHAT did you say?!”

Lancer stiffened, eyes blowing wide. Oh no... Oh no, oh no, oh no...

The king shoved out his chair behind him. “Get over here, Lancer! Now!”

Shakily, Lancer slipped down from his chair, shuffling hesitantly over to obey his father.

The King reached down, seized Lancer’s chin, and jerked the boy’s head upwards. “Do you think that you know more than me?!”

Lancer did his best not to wince. "N-No, father..."

“What’s that? No?” challenged the King. “Then you didn’t disagree with what I said?”

"I-I..." He... Oh god, what did he say...?!

He raised his eyebrows. “Now, you wouldn’t happen to be lying to me, would you...?”

"No...!" No, of course not!! ... but... wasn't it possible that he his father was smarter than him... but still wrong?

The King’s eyes flashed. “No what?!”

Lancer was starting to tremble a little. "No, f-father! I'm n-not lying...!"

“I think you are. In fact, you’re lying now...” His voice was low and dangerous.

Lancer shook in his place, not daring to run away, but desperate to be anywhere else. He didn't know what to say. What would fix this...?!

The King had been irritated all day, just looking for an excuse to fight...and now, his son had given him one. That quivering lip, those shaking knees...how was this pathetic creature his own progeny? He drew back his hand, not noticing that Rouxls Kaard immediately stood up.

Lancer recoiled softly, but didn't try to protect himself or run away. That would only make his father angrier... It was best to just... get it over with.

Whack. Normally, that would have eased a great deal of the King’s tension — but this time, he didn’t have a chance to relax. He heard a familiar voice call, “Stop.” Rouxls Kaard was standing up, trembling slightly...more from anger than from fear.

Tears welled in Lancers eyes, out of reflex rather than fear at the moment. But he didn't reach to rub or cover his stinging cheek. He didn't try to run. He'd hardly even stumbled back. His Lesser Dad's voice, however, had him nearly jump out of his skin. This... This had never happened before. This was new. Uncertain... Scary...

The King turned and flared over his shoulder, only to see Rouxls scrambling over towards them. “Will you stop it now! The child has done nothing to — oh...!” He was shoved in the chest, hard enough to send him sprawling across the ground; he slammed into the wall while the king sneered. “Well, well...when did you decide to grow a pair, my sweet little peach?”

Lancer gasped softly, trembles worsening to full-fledged shaking. Rouxls Kaard... He... If he was hurt...!

Rouxls pushed himself up quickly, mostly unhurt, but stunned into silence. Which was just how the King liked it. “Good,” he snorted. “Next time you try to play the noble parent, though, it’ll be worse. Much worse.” He snapped his cape and stormed out of the dining room, leaving Lancer and Rouxls to their own devices.

Lancer didn't know what to do now. Didn't know what to say... He stood frozen in place, terrified tears finally slipping free.

Rouxls slowly got ahold of himself, straightening out his jacket...before turning to Lancer. “Are you...ahem. Are thou all right...?”

"... I..." Lancer's voice was painfully quiet... and he couldn't seem to manage forming a coherent thought at the moment.

Rouxls knelt down to examine him, in particular the mark on his cheek...

Lancer flinched softly at his touch, a hiccupy little noise escaping him.

Rouxls snapped his hand back immediately. “H...have I hurt you...?”

... After a few moments, Lancer managed to shake his head, reaching to cover and wipe his eyes. No crying. No crying. His father would only be angrier if he saw...

Rouxls reached out to catch his hands. “I...I am sorry...I should have stopped him...”

Lancer shook his head quickly. "Y-You would'a got h-h-hurt..."

“But look — you have been hurt instead. How is that better?” ...he shook his head. “Let us put some ice on that bruise, Young Prince...”

He sniffled, not daring to object or argue.

Rouxls carefully picked the boy up, settling him on his hip...

Lancer clung to him softly, burying his face against his shoulder.

Rouxls started a little; he hadn’t expected that. He never expected it when Lancer did things like that... He got an ice pack from one of the Rudinns in the kitchen, then headed back to Lancer’s room.

Lancer didn't let go the entire time, his sniffles gradually becoming more and more frequent.

Rouxls was no good at this...he never knew what he should do in these kinds of situations... He ended up sitting down on the bed with Lancer in his lap, lightly pressing the boy’s cheek with the cold pack.

Lancer winced at the chill and the pain, but he didn't try to pull away. He was used to this kind of thing...

Still, Rouxls’ touch was relatively gentle. He wasn’t trying to inflict more pain, only to bring the swelling down...

Of course, Lancer knew as much... So he remained still for his Lesser Dad, still curled up against his side.

After a while, Rouxls drew the ice pack away. “It does not seemeth too bad...”

Lancer shook his head softly. It really wasn't all that bad. He'd only been hit once this time...

“Well. I shall not...alloweth him to get awayst with such things in the future...” His arm tightened slightly around Lancer.

Lancer blinked up at him, eyes owlish. "But... he'll hurt you..." Rouxls Kaard didn't have to put himself in danger. He was the king's employee, sure, but that didn't mean he would get beaten on a regular basis. Lancer, however... He was a child. He was weak. And he was his father's son. Always an available target... And everyone knew that if you got between the king and his object of fury, you were simply asking for trouble. So why...?

Rouxls shook his head. “No. Someone needs to show him that you are not there for him to use as a punching bag. And if no one else will stand up for you, then…well…I am the only one who can…"

But... then he'd just have two people to beat up... Lancer grew quiet though, not wanting to risk angering his Lesser Dad too with insistences and repeated questions.

So Rouxls said nothing more, simply keeping a tight, almost protective grip on Lancer...

Lancer kept hold of him the entire time, eventually nodding off in his arms.

And, once he realized that Lancer was asleep, he reached around to lay him down in bed...

There were a couple problems, though... One, Lancer's bike was in the way. And two, the boy's fingers caught softly in the fabric of his suit.

Rouxls sighed. Why did he always have to put the bike there...? He did his best to shove the bike onto the floor with his foot, all without bothering Lancer.

The wheels clattered and the horn honked softly, but thankfully Lancer was undisturbed...

So Rouxls was able to properly lay him down...

"... nn..." His eyes fluttered a little as his bruised cheek pressed against the pillow.

Rouxls quickly turned him so that the injured side of his head was facing upwards...

... Gradually, he settled, arms stretched to embrace something that was no longer there.

…Rouxls pulled back, stepping as quietly as possible — and narrowly avoiding stepping on the bike...

A good thing, really. Lancer treated that bike like his best friend. And the noise probably wouldn't have done either of them any favors anyway.

Maybe that was why he was always sleeping with it… Stifling a sigh, Rouxls wrapped his arms around himself and retreated towards his bedchambers, uncharacteristically silent.

Hopefully nothing more would come of this horrible evening... But knowing their luck, they were unlikely to get off so easy.

Knowing that, Rouxls found himself keeping a sharp ear out, rather than sleeping. If the King went on another rampage…well, he didn’t want to be oblivious, at the very least.

So the night passed by... and Lancer at least slept on, curled up in bed where he belonged.

#Despicable Dad RP #mainverse