Okay, This Is Absolutely Adorable. My Heart Melted Too While Reading This

Okay, this is absolutely adorable. My heart melted too while reading this

(Un)Fortunately, I have also had a short story idea inspired by this, except it's not so fluffy. VH falling asleep on Tora reminds me of a story concept a came up with a while ago, so maybe I can tie it to this

For reference! Victor-Hecate can feel whatever the person she is touching feels when that person dies. Tora is supposedly going to die due to overextending and draining her powers (@pagesofcursive lore), which only creates a numb feeling that VH can actually deal with, leading them to become very attached to Tora since it doesn't harm him to be with her. But surely this death will in no way hurt them in the long run, right? ;)

13. X and Y are sharing a dessert. what do they agree to get?

For Victor-Hectate (I'm not sure who their parner is but yeah)

Thank you for picking one of my favourite couples. Unfortunately, like all but one, the other person belongs to @pagesofcursive and her name is Tora! They’re in a QPR together. All I know for now, is that Vee would get something chocolate, though they might have to compromise since Tora’s lactose intolerant. It’d remind them of baking brownies with their brother when he couldn’t sleep

Is there any better feeling than opening Tumblr, refreshing your dash, and seeing your own content reblogged by a beloved mutual with enthusiastic tags? I think not.

Oo Meredith sounds so cool! I think she and Bella would get along well, nerding out over the things they've learned

And here's Anabella

For the song/poem thing! Anabella is a very smart, older sister type character. She is very good at programming, and has a silver tongue that can convince almost anyone to do almost anything she wants, which she earned by doing hours of intense research, but she sometimes struggles with empathy. Her favourite thing to do is learn. She very quickly loses her put together nature if she's tired (I don't know if that's too much or not enough, but I hope you liked it at least)

Sorry for the late response! Anabella literally reminds me of one of my own OCs, and yet I still struggled to think of a song for this.

After a while of trying to find something more fitting, I decided the best I could do was Infinitesimal by Mother Mother.

It references the Big Bang and how atoms never technically “touch,” which could relate to how your character loves to learn. The song is about feeling insignificant, which could maybe fit if your character ever feels bad about struggling with empathy, or thinks about her smallness in the universe when she “loses her put together nature?”

Probably a stretch, but I tried!

This is so gooood!! I love Lev and Evgeny together, and their kinds of morals are my favourite. Knowledge (or magic) is a tool, and nothing makes it dark but the users purposes

The Gays: Unburied

Word count: 999 words

A/N: reposting because I'm an idiot and accidentally deleted the original. The first short story I wrote for CLH

TW/CW: brief mention of violence

Two things could always get under Evgeny’s skin: Lev being in trouble and uncertainty. In the face of both, all of his self-control was channeled towards not ripping out the throat of the next person that would say they don’t know anything or that he should calm down.

Ms. Angelica needed the services of a necromancer after an accident with the time-traveling field trip, and Lev volunteered to teach her class in the meanwhile. Evgeny gave him the “don’t start with “back in my day”, you’ll be teaching the 18th century, some students might feel uncomfortable” talk. Everything was going fine. And now, Lev, never-misses-a-deadline-Lev, loves-teaching-more-than-anything-in-the-world Lev, was missing.

Evgeny found himself in front of the door to a small summoning chamber and, in the irrational motion to check everywhere, even if the place was abandoned for years, pushed it.

The door opened with a creak, scratching against the stone floor.

A younger student was quietly crying in front of a demon-trapping circle. Inside the circle Lev sat cross-legged, flipping through some big, dusty book. Notes were scattered all over the place. The circle gave out cracking noises, and blue sparks ran across it whenever the tip of Lev’s shoe touched it.

“Oh, hi, Zhenia!” Lev gave Evgeny a quick smile, pushed back his glasses, and returned to the book.

“Mr. Evgeny,” the student mumbled, inching away from a visibly furious vampire.

“Lev. What, in the name of common sense, are you doing?”

“Well, this young lady here came up with an exquisite trapping circle. We’re testing it out.”

“Don’t you remember about your class? Couldn’t you at least tell me that you’re going to be gone for”- he furiously checked his watch- ”twelve hours??”

“Well...” Lev scratched his head, making the remains of his bun fall apart, “I… made it sound more deliberate than it is. The fascinating thing about this circle is that it can’t be broken - at least by any methods we’ve tried - from the inside or the outside”.

“Wonderful. Did you draw a copy of it?”

“Yes, but why-” Lev broke himself off as Evgeny approached the circle and punched a hole through the floor. And another. And another. He went all around Lev’s improvised prison until the stone and the remains of the floor beams crushed to the story below.

“You’ll be able to study it later, then. Come. We both have classes to teach” Evgeny said calmly, snatching Lev out of the air.

Everyone got out of the room, the floor being in a condition far from the one planned by any architects. Lev, a bit shaken, went to find his classroom, and Evgeny now had to try and teach a bunch of kids how to raise the dead.

That was far out of his usual monster-hunting arsenal of spells. In fact, raising the dead is the complete opposite of monster hunting, but there were kids here who needed to know how to do that, and Mx. Elin was busy resurrecting Ms. Angelica.

It shouldn't be so difficult, right? Resurrect, bind to the necromancer's will, watch over the kids while they do the same. Easy.

***

“Who-” Evgeny dodged another swing of the rusty morgenstern- “in their right mind-” he jumped over the cemetery’s fence- “buried a monster hunter-” he almost slipped on the wet grass, hardly regaining balance, now only a few feet away from his destination- “in a small village’s graveyard?” Evgeny jumped through the classroom’s window, the reanimated corpse following close behind, holding on to its decrepit weapon.

“Lev!” Evgeny managed to squeeze out.

“On it!” Lev, who already chased the students out of the classroom, was hastily drawing on the floor.

Evgeny made a couple of seemingly uncoordinated jumps, and the newly undead monster hunter found themself in a demon-trapping circle. Many useless attempts to break out later they settled in the middle of it, staring at Evgeny with all the hatred they could convey.

“Won’t it… get out?” Evgeny sat down on the floor to catch his breath.

“I used the new circle,” Lev beamed, “I’ll have all the time I need to study it now. Judging by their weapon, they’re from your order, right? Maybe they’ll be able to help me.”

“I won’t do anything for the likes of you!” an unexpectedly loud, clear voice came from inside the circle. The two ignored it.

“So, necromancy class didn’t go that well?”

“Can you believe it? Some idiot buried a monster hunter here! Here! In this backwater cemetery! Why would anyone do such a thing? Monster hunters should get proper burials in the Order’s grounds”.

“Like you did.” Lev nodded along, quietly sweeping away the mess left by the fight.

“Exactly! Like I did!”

“Wait,” came the voice from the circle, “you there, monster!”

No answer from the two.

“You were a hunter, too?”

“Yes. And what of it?” Evgeny repositioned himself so that he could look down at the undead.

“Aren’t you ashamed of yourself? Tormenting a place where the Order used to teach?”

“We aren’t tormenting anyone here. This is still a place of knowledge, believe it or not.”

“Yeah, right. What do you do here really? Some type of human-hunting, dark magic, evil...” the figure began, then stopped themself, noticing the topic written on the blackboard, “...history?”

“History, among other things!” Lev chimes in, grinning, “we do languages, maths, physics- magic, too. Anything the young magefolk need to know to function in the human world.”

“Dark magic, I presume?”

“Any magic they might need, and yes, what you call dark magic, too. Magic is just a tool, and the wielder is the only one responsible for the results. Here, we try and teach the kids to be good wielders.”

“And keep them from dying,” Evgeny adds.

“Yes, that too. We’re better at the first part, though.”

The figure in the circle gives the classroom and the vampire couple a good, thorough lookover.

“You don’t actually know how to run this place, do you?”

Awwww. That's just as cute as I imagined!!

11 for Ambrose and Eli please? In that order preferably, but no pressure

11- X gets a gift for Y. what do they get?

oh ho ho, Ambrose getting a gift for Eli!! okay...

Ambrose would get Eli a pair of earrings that reminded him of Eli. They're nothing fancy- probably dangly, just enough to catch some light. Maybe they've got a pretty stone, or maybe they're just gold.

Eli would be SO touched and would wear them all. the. time.

Thanks for the ask!!

I love the idea of an exchange for the first one

"please, tell me when you're hurting. I want to help you and I hate seeing you suffer" "of course! Only if you tell me when you're hurting as well"

Meanwhile they're both thinking that's the one thing they can't do for the other

I suppose this is the downside of opposites attract, which is present in this adorable couple

And 5 for Juni and Nyx. Either way is fine

I want everyone to know that I messaged eve privately and joked that I would probably make the answer fluffy because I love nyx and juni so much. and they made me do angst. so thank THEM FOR THIS <3

5. what does X hate about Y?

ironically, they both dislike how the other will not ask for help when needed. when juni is in pain because of her heart condition, she usually keeps silent about it until it becomes a bigger problem (because she doesn’t want to trouble anyone unnecessarily, and she doesn’t want to be left behind). and nyx doesn’t like to reveal her emotional vulnerabilities because they can be used against her. luckily, juni and nyx are very good at recognizing when the other needs help <3 also, both of them get better at asking for help as time goes on and they grow 

it’s not that nyx doesn’t love juni’s sweet and trusting side, but sometimes she gets very scared that juni is going to get hurt badly one day because of it. vice versa, juni is sometimes afraid that nyx is going to miss out on lovely parts of life because she doesn’t trust easily. 

the character ask game can be found here!