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What would Alastor's tail even be in bc&br? Normal deer tail? It's very important for flight so deer tail would be too small. Bird tail? Proportionally it has to be longer than his legs for it to do its job, so it would be ginormous. Tail that is similar to Husk? Can work with length but it's so thin and feather tuft on the end is a bit too small to steer in similar way birds do.

On the flipside, long tail for Alastor means that he and Husk can twist their tails around eachother, which would be really cute?

Alastor with adjusted colour palette came out more purple than I expected.

Husk is still in the works, need to figure out how to properly make him ✨️fancy✨️ .

Still crawling deeper into rabbit hole of vintage cosmetics and specifically vanity cases and compacts (they are so tiny and beautiful holy frick)

Velvette design is still laying in the wip folder, waiting on appropriate mood.

That concludes the update notes on RHD au for now!

Would any of you be interested to hear about some worldbuilding details present in this au? Cause I have some tidbits about effects of soul contracts on both contractor and contractee

Ooh okay so I’ve been thinking, and hear me out. I know Spike has adapted and become pretty thoroughly modern and Punk Rock and all that, but never forget that, as a human, he was a Victorian gentleman. So, I like to imagine that every once in a while, he does these random little Victorian things, like sending Buffy a truly weird Christmas card like one of the above or wanting to tell a spooky Christmas Eve ghost story. 

Granted, in life, proper little aspiring Romantic Poet* William said he didn’t like to discuss “dark, ugly business”^ such as the “rash of disappearances” that had been going around town (spoiler alert: the ones caused by the vampires that were soon to turn him, but I digress) so maybe that suggests he wasn’t the biggest fan of the Christmas Eve ghost story before his turning--although it’s also possible he simply wasn’t big on true crime (nor the people telling it, since they often made fun of his poetry) but he was still down for a spooky story enchantingly spun on a dark night by the fireplace; I know we don’t get a ton of pre-turn William--but either way, after becoming a vampire and thus becoming into Dark, Edgy Things, I’m convinced he would have loved a scary Christmas Eve ghost story, and I like to imagine he carried that forward with him even after getting into the Ramones and Nirvana and hair dye. And whatever Passions is; I should really look that up. Huh, I guess it’s basically just a soap opera. But in any case, we know the guy likes to tell a good spooky story, like that time when Dawn comes to visit him and he’s regaling her with his own gruesome exploits, so we know he has a talent for suspenseful tale-telling. Even after getting his soul back, I don’t think that storyteller aspect of him goes away (although he probably prefers fictional stories to his personal history now). 

So, one year, Buffy gets a Christmas card with an illustration of Santa stuffing a kid into his sack or frogs falling on ice, and on the back there’s an invitation to Christmas Eve ghost stories in Spike’s crypt (does he move back into a crypt? I’m just into season 7 now and he’s living at Xander’s at the moment but I do still picture him in his crypt) and anyways I miiight have to write this fic now if I can get around to it. As much as I love punk rock Spike, I still want him to be a little Victorian sometimes :)  

*I know he’s technically from after the Romantic Era proper--he was born shortly after it ended if you take Wikipedia’s end date of 1850 and consider that he was I think 26 when he was turned in 1880 (which is firmly in the Victorian era)--but I still feel like Romantic Poet is what he was aspiring to be.

^I looked up a transcript for the quotes; thanks go to this site

P.S. Along these lines, I’ve also been thinking about whether Spike would go Christmas Caroling. I do very much doubt that soulless vampire Spike ever would, but I’m fairly confident that pre-turn William would do it happily; so, my question is, would now-reensouled Spike be willing to go caroling, or would he still be too Edgy? These are the real questions about Buffy’s soul lore we should be asking, haha. 

Victorian Christmas cards were bonkers

HC OF GLISTEN OMG

Yeah so, as the btch i am and how i LOVE making my fav character suffer :3 heres the headcanon- Y'all know abt the letter of his room, and his description of him overworking himself in the wiki. Yes YES angst i love it. But heres the headcanons based on wtv is going on: 1- Glisten kinda uses make up to cover some eyebags, by overworking himself at nights trying to practice the reflection trick (ik hes a mirror and that won't kinda work much but i just thinked it would be cool) 2- He haves a secret diary where he puts all his real emotions there. 3- He have nightmares of being alone (poor pookie 💔) idk guys make ur ideas of the nightmares- 4- The only person who knows abt the overworking and some insecurity of him not being perfect is Rodger (Actually canon), but maybe Razzle & Dazzle and/or Boxten gets to know this eventually- 5- Since is a desing wich that comes from dhis originally, i think he maybe have some traumatic experience in some part of his live idk? (not sure abt this one) Anyway thats all ig, this is literally my first post sooo boing :3 and im sorry if my english is not perfect pls correct me if im wrong 💔