To The Consternation And Absolute Dismay Of The Palace Staff, The Count Of Vesuvia Was Declared To Be

To the consternation and absolute dismay of the palace staff, the count of Vesuvia was declared to be non-contagious and therefore safe to be around for longer than a few seconds. The doctors caution the servants to still keep their masks on and available at all times. Roanna keeps her mask on, but not because of any particular fear of the Red Plague. See, she didn’t have to school her expression with the mask on. A godsend when Count Lucio fucking Morgasson is throwing his fourth tantrum of the week, his emaciated limbs showing surprising strength as he hurls his third vase of the week at the opposite wall. It’s fucking Thursday.   OR: Pre-canon story of Lucio being the worst in the height of his plague era and the girl-mediocre that reluctantly looks after him.

Chapter 3 is up!

Mostly some filler before we get into the juicier stuff happening in the next chapter >:)

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🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨

p.s hihi !!!

5 Songs!!! I really love music and I don’t have a specific genre that I listen to… This isn’t listed by favorite to least favorite, just in the order the song came to me.

R U Mine?— Artic Monkeys (tbh, everything by Artic Monkeys is so freaking good, I had to struggle not to flood this list with them… Wanna Be Yours, my beloved, belongs here too…………..)

You’re The One That I Want— John Travolta (one of the best car songs for when I’m driving to uni)

Red Wine Supernova— Chappell Roan (the day I stop liking her, take me out back and give me the Old Yeller treatment, the lame horse special)

I Was Made For Loving You— Kiss (guys, I swear it isn’t just bc of the hit movie that had this one in it this year, I swear I’m original)

Tighten Up— The Black Keys (cool af. listening to it makes me feel like I’m in a scenery clip of a movie)

Having even more thoughts on this.

What would have made this story even better is if everything happened as it did in canon. MC does their timey-wimey bullshit and is alive. But they saw themselves die. They remember dying. They died.

And no one cares. It’s not that no one seems to care, it’s that everyone straight up doesn’t care. None of the immortal beings they are around give a single, solitary shit. Bc what are you talking about MC? That wasn’t you that died. You are still here. Okay, maybe that MC died, but you’re not dead, right? What’s the problem then?

And Belphegor acts exactly as he did in canon, doing a one-eighty immediately upon learning that the MC is Lilith’s descendant. And Diavolo is all “excellent! let’s put this whole ordeal behind us, hm?”

idk, it would make the intrinsic horror of the main character’s death being glossed over more horrifying and realistic for me. That entire part of the plot could have been— if not saved— drastically improved with just a bit of dialogue from each character.

I just couldn’t write a Belphie POV for my fic fear of falling apart (shameless plug) and I was wondering if it’s because I just don’t like him. In simple terms, yeah. But in not so simple, it’s cause I just can’t understand him or get into his head.

Warning: a whole rant is ahead. Just for my peace of mind.

While I don’t personally like Belphie, I do have a certain appreciation for his character. He is interesting, but what’s more interesting is what he could have been. I feel as though he could have been developed a LOT more into a really layered character that had a complex and interesting relationship with the MC after the whole Lesson 16 debacle. But it was such a massive waste of time. More than half of the entire first season was building up to the Belphie confrontation and all of the juicy, crunchy interactions and character moments that would have to follow an event like what happened. But it just didn’t happen. I’m not talking about the lack of apology or the canon “awkwardness” that the MC had to fix. The fallout, the consequences, of that entire situation should have been meaty. And obviously, everyone reacts to trauma differently so it’s hard to put that in a self-insert game, but there should have been dialog/action options or plot progression. PLOT PROGRESSION. Diavolo and Lucifer just inadvertently got the only human without magic in the exchange system killed on their watch. Simeon and Solomon— and VERY MUCH Solomon— should have been fucking on that. We could have had higher stakes than ever, even more than whatever forced “Celestial War” bullshit that Nightbringer tried to pull. Instead we get another 4 lessons of fluff and hyjinks. 

All that tension, all that suspense crashes down and is wiped away in an instant, leaving the player to wonder if the whole Belphie thing was even that big of a deal in the first place. 

I think that a really, really compelling dynamic could have been born from Belphie… not apologizing. Or apologizing but for the wrong things. He took the demon threat that had been hinted at with nearly every demon brother and fucking hammered it home. The MC couldn’t do a damn thing and just died. Just like that.

Just… there were so many different directions the game could have gone to really flesh out the Three Realm Student Exchange aspect of the world, and make Diavolo a character that isn’t just secretly super interesting. Or even just to make any characters other than Mammon and Lucifer (the faves) a little less two dimensional. Maybe even explore what it is to embody sin and still love. Finding love despite or because of that sin. Idk, I’m just a home fanfic writer.

But it pains me to see a product that had so much potential, a CHARACTER that had so much potential, get squandered.

Long rant told shortly, I don’t write Belphie because I just can’t. There’s nothing for me to extrapolate from. Lesson 1 - 16 Belphie is a different person from who emerges afterword. And I just can’t compute who he is, what his motivation is, what his wants are. I can’t get into his head or even make something up for him yet.

Anyway, if you read this far thanks :P

Takeda's speech x Hinata's journey

Cayrie’s Guide to the House of Lamentation - ✨

Heya, fellow MC’s! 

I’ve spent almost my entire weekend working on a simple floor plan for the House of Lamentation. I was trying to write some dumb fanficiton, realized that I had absolutely nothing concrete to anchor these characters to, and that was a problem for me.

Internet searches left me empty-handed. I found a lot of impressive Sim houses, but they didn’t really give me what I was looking for. So, I came to conclusion that I was going to have to make my own. 

There are a lot of small, often contradictory details about the HOL that made this a pretty daunting task at first. Then I just said fuck it and rolled with the punches. I took my liberties to make something that worked for me - and hopefully, it can work for you, too!

I like to imagine that my MC self actually did take time to create a map like this for her own benefit - and to the benefit of anyone else who might need it. (Potential spoilers ahead + map is not to scale)

AN OVERVIEW:

I took the time to scan my original drawings and upload them in a way that’s easier to read, (hopefully). From here, I’ll start from the Underground Tomb, and work my way up. The individual levels can be found under the cut:

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