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I was tagged, thought it was sweet and decided to do it... Hope it goes well!
*Calls in every bitty that isn’t directly to be bought out of the shop*
Bitty Questions
These are just some fun questions for people to get to know your bitties!
+Who was your first bitty?
*Three Lamia Bitties show up as on the count of three both pose with the one with the shinest purple scales puts his hand on his chest with stars sparkling around them, the one with the fuzziest coat and red pattern crosses his arms and the golden-fanged larger lamia immediately dabs the hell out of his entrance*
Arach: WHY IT ISSSSS WE, ARACH THE MAGNIFICENT MAMBA, ZALMAN THE PEACFUL CHAIN, AND MAGNAR.
Zalman: … -The sssssssstubborn Coral.
*Magnar made a face at Arach behind his back as Zalman chuckled slightly*
They’ve become better with each other while taking care of the hatchlingsssssss believe it or not.
+Who is the shortest and tallest of your bitties?
Coffee: E-Erm… If we were going by adoptables in g-general that would be me...
*The bara raised a hand before lifting up the happily chirping and grumbling Dietyrus Pele whom he had been giving love and affection with the Harbinger Bitty Leti on his shoulder with Horror*
But Zalman and Nagarada the b-biggest otherwise.
*Said Twister Nagarada waves from beside Coffee, still wearing his duct tape blue ribbon*
Nagarada: And for the smallest? That would have to be Geist.
*A Ghoulrus Bitty peeks from Murder’s hood before shying in as Murder and Toriel chuckle in care for the bitty*
+Any of your bitties need special attention? (Physical or mental)
Toriel: Yes. Killer needs to be near Nightmare a lot or one of us that sibling bonded with him or else there would be dusting...
Murder can’t be left alone with the other Sans bitties too long or he gets agitated, Horror needs to be constantly fed or he would be experiencing starvation symptoms very quickly, Arach and Magnar need to be constantly validated- which they are through the baby bitties- Geist needs low light and little attention to himself, Pele needed the lower half of the shop child-proofed so things don’t fall on him and squish him... And I believe that’s it unless you want to go into our deeper traumas then most everyone here needs the help ^^
+Which bitty/bitties have most in common with you?
Dotchi: All of them have something in common with me someway or another, I would say though I relate to Toriel and Zalman the most at the moment, trying to be helpful, comforting and kind of quiet, though there have been times in my life I was most like Nightmare and Murder, in a dark place seeking validation and help- something that has been coming back more and more unfortunately- and when I was very little I was a lot like Brand the Centaurus and like Arach bursting with energy and life, wanting praise and adoration from a lot of people, but yeah. the only one that I haven't really been is Pele, I don’t think I’ve ever had anyone mistake me for a god and worship me.
*She laughs*
+Any babybones or kid bitties?
Arach: ALL HATCHLINGSSSSS ARE OUR HATCHLINGSSSSSS.....
*The Mamba stated bluntly while all other eyes went to the Horror Bitty, who merely stared blankly back*
Horror: Deme and I haven't even mated yet, we’ll get there, don’t put your clothes in a twist.
*Leti snorted beside him*
+Who’s the most independent?
*There was a silence in the room as they all looked to each other before Zalman, Toriel, Brand and Nagrada raised their hands*
Nagrada: We’re usually taking care of the others, so while we would rather be with everyone else we’re the most independent.
+Now who’s the most clingy towards you?
*Magnar, Arach and Zalman wave their hands while slithering onto the Heartsona that had been pulled into Coffee’s arms with Pele happily resting on top already with Nagrada*
Dotchi: These six are pretty clingy, not that I mind that much, it makes me feel pretty good actually!
+Any bitties get jealous for your attention?
Zalman: Arach and Magnar are bad.... Better since Hatchlings came.
*Zalman asserted*
Leti: The seem to really fight for each other’s attention more than they do for the Mortal.
*Leti pointedly looks at Murder, Toriel, Nightmare, Horror, Killer and Geist*
+Do they all get along pretty well?
Nightmare: Yeah we seem to find a way to be a cohesive unit. Somehow.
+If there are some bitties who fight sometimes/often, who are they?
*Everyone looks pointedly at Killer before Arach and Magnar*
Killer: … i got better.
Magnar: And Ssssssso did Ara and I. No fighting in front of hatchlingssssss.
+Any picky eaters?
Horror: ya kiddin’ us kid? other than killer here who wants the tears of his enemies mixed inta his food we all ain’t picky.
+Do any of them sleep with you?
Murder: Toriel, Nightmare, Killer and I live in a place together and Horror is constantly off with his future mate but the rest of them do.
Coffee: I have my own room, as does Geist so he isn’t overwhelmed, the rest stay with her unless I steal her for a night.
+Who’s the most spoiled?
*Everyone looks around before pointing to Pele, Arach, Magnar and Coffee, Pele, Arach and Magnar being happily pampered in Coffee’s arms by the two of them*
Toriel: We don’t mind it though, Pele, Arach and Magnar were labeled as pretty high-care for affection when Dotchi got them.
And it’s not as if she ignores us, she just spoils the four of them most, when the shop’s not up and running Zalman is always treated well, as are the rest of us to our needs, we handle it like any other big family can!
*She beamed in pride*
+Do any of them have mates?
Horror: i gotta for the future named Deme, and if murder gets off his ass he’ll get tori too.
*He then looks to the others*
coffee and Dotchi are mated and Arach, Magnar and Zalman are basically parents to the baby bitties dunno about the others though, they still need ta be properly introduced to the shop, might find someone there.
+Have any of them not warmed up to you yet?
Dotchi: Nagrada, Leti, Geist and Brand need to spend a little more time with us, but they’re basically brand new and they’re already settling in nice, Pele’s the only one who’s down with the love we’re all giving him right off the bat, though Brand is pretty receptive I have to say.
+Who’s the newest addition to your family?
*Everyone points up*
Tag!: Argh... Um... You guys can just do it if you guys want, I ain’t gonna force anyone into doing this, go ahead- I would love to see what you guys do! :D
Bitty Questions
These are just some fun questions for people to get to know your bitties!
+Who was your first bitty?
+Who is the shortest and tallest of your bitties?
+Any of your bitties need special attention? (Physical or mental)
+Which bitty/bitties have most in common with you?
+Any babybones or kid bitties?
+Who’s the most independent?
+Now who’s the most clingy towards you?
+Any bitties get jealous for your attention?
+Do they all get along pretty well?
+If there are some bitties who fight sometimes/often, who are they?
+Any picky eaters?
+Do any of them sleep with you?
+Who’s the most spoiled?
+Do any of them have mates?
+Have any of them not warmed up to you yet?
+Who’s the newest addition to your family?
Tag: @sirpumpkinlumps @nsfwalphatalelioness @chrysalis-the-centaur-queen @roseclaw123 @unseensilver @selkiesbittybonanza @noragamilover01
Feel free to do this if you’d like~!
New Caretakers and Loved Ones!
Rating: G
The Dietyrus, Harbinger, Centaurus and Ghoulrous came from @mythical-adoptions
And the Twister came from @selkiesbittybonanza
The shop of the bad bitties was abuzz with activity from all the anxious and excited bitties as decorations had been pinned up with a ‘Welcome Home!’ sign hung up thanks to the Nightmares, Dreams and Killers, as shown with the things holding up the colorful sign being small knives and black goo.
Horrors, Teeth and Mumchers had went all out and created a whole snack table which was always being replenished seeing as the Horrors and Teeth bitties kept stealing food back to devour, Raggedies, Queenies and Toriels had made confetti, giving them to the baby bitties whom were being carefully supervised by their lamia parental figures Arach, Magnar and Zalman.
Murder bitties were still in their room as they had created a house for the Ghoulrous bitty to be safe in and so they could visit him often, though Murder had lectured them ahead of time over the phone on not overwhelming the poor thing. Empress bitties were sitting above the chaos, watching silently for anything getting out of hand.
Coffee the Bara waited by the window, having already set up the place for the Twister complete with a Kiddie Pool in his room and a large one behind the front desk for him, a net covering it at the moment to catch bitties that may have climbed up. There was silence before Coffee noticed them.
“ They’re here!” He called, his voice being the loudest anyone had heard, causing everyone to still before Nightmare, Horror, Killer and Deme scrambled onto the desk, Nightmare lashing out a tentacle and wrapping it around the doorknob, yanking it open as there stood Dotchi the Heartsona in her person form, Twister by her side as he had Murder and Toriel on his shoulders, Murder’s hood twitching a little while Dotchi held the Centaurus, the Dietyrus and the Harbinger.
There was a silence before the cheer rose, the baby bitties being levitated carefully by the appeared Murders as the tiny things tossed the confetti to rain down on them before being carefully let back down as Dotchi waited for the cheer to lessen a little.
“ Everyone, let’s welcome the new caretakers of the shop!” She gestured to the Twister, “ Meet Nagrada! He’ll be one of the two new greeters at the desk when people come for adoptions!”
He grinned to the bitties as he slithered forward, Toriel hopping from his shoulder onto the desk to meet the others again while Murder merely winked out of sight to the Murder bitty room, the Chain Zalman with the Mamba Arach and the Coral Magnar slither forward as well, greeting one another before he is immediately pounced on by baby bitties.
They were very used to climbing all over their parental figures without getting hurt as they asked him about the shop he came from and about his blue ribbon, learning about the Rubber Duckie contest and demanding he show them as they followed him to the Kiddie Pool with Magnar following to make sure that there was a second pair of eyes on the tiny bitties.
“ This is the third greeter, Brand!” Dotchi made sure the Centaurus had enough distance to hop from her arms onto the desk as Horror and him made eye contact. There was the smallest pause before Brand gave a blinding smile and introduced himself, Zalman also going to say hello as well to his fellow guide, Toriel and Raggedy bitties hearing Brand rattling off facts about his old shop and they immediately flooded the desk to talk to him and share their own facts of everything they could, Brand looked happy to share and speak to those of like-minds and with the Dreams joining, those of similar energy.
“ Geist has been kidnapped by Murder so if you will respectfully not crowd the little bitty you are allowed to go and see him.” Dotchi pointed out as Murder bitties popped out of the room with a couple of curious Queenies to meet the Ghoulrus bitty.
“ This is Pele and his brother Leti.” She set down the last of the bitties, a large Dietyrus and his Harbinger, Mumchers immediately making their way first, offering foods in offering to Pele, immediately showering the larger bitty with affection and love as Teeth bitties made their way over as well, admiring their larger counterpart with a few surrounding Leti along with Horrors and inviting him to come with them and have something to eat, all the newest bitties fitting in like puzzle pieces into the shop.
Arach the Magnificent Mama
Based on @vex-bittys post here
I saw it and my brain immediately told me ‘Do it.’
Keep in mind these are how my boys have grown, you may be an owner of these such boys yourself and they are completely different.
Rating: PG
Characters: So Far, Zalman the Chain, Magnar the Coral and Arach the Mamba with their multiple baby bitties.
Warning: A LOT of gushing and explanation of what kind of parents the lamias are to their babies here, if you don’t want to read all of that skip to this: ~~~~~~~~
They had come a long way from hissing at each other and fighting over the attention of their Owner Dotchi before being distracted by scarves.
Sure they still loved being pampered and were still very much spoiled in some aspects, but in becoming parents they had since put their focus on less of themselves and more on the tiny babies of the shop, minus Zalman whom very selfless to begin with as he joined them in taking care of the baby bittybones.
It all really started with tiny Tori bitties coming in with their parents on the first wave of bitties to the shop, their pure smiles and very tiny statures made all three Lamias swear to protect them with their lives, and the other bitties types only followed suit until all baby bitties were taken under their wing minus Killer bitties as there were never any baby Killers, always being born as adults.
Arach raised them to be fearless, Zalman raised them to be emotionally connected and sympathetic while Magnar had totally accidentally raised them to be affectionate no matter his protests, even tiny Nightmares and Horrors didn’t mind cuddles.
Soon enough a whole generation of bitty adults called the three of them their other parents, calling Magnar their Dad, Zalman their Papa and Arach their Mama.
Arach merely preened whenever he was called this as not only was he given such pride in being called such, but he was the only one to be called that! As it should be in his eyes, Magnar and Zalman could have the male references for all he cared, there would always be two while he was one!
Magnar always blushed a little at the endearment, even when he stopped hiding in his hood and shouting he wasn’t to the unaffected little bitties that showered him in the affection only tiny children could give-, Zalman happily welcoming snuggles and calls of Papa to him for any children, and every night he was cuddled by many Murders attaching to the only non-Sans type lamia along with fluffy Toriel-types and Teeth bitties, bitty piles being a real thing.
Even if there were a few rough patches the three of them powered through, Arach blowing their accomplishments way out of proportion to make them feel important and was always sought out to do physical activity with, Magnar always there to be given affection and to relax with, and Zalman there whenever the other two were in a panic any time that a baby gained a fever and one to lend a sympathetic ear canal to the children, all three are very heavily attached to the babies, and it was when the adults started getting adopted that they were forced to accept their babies wouldn’t be there forever.
Even if Arach went on a rampage, Magnar couldn’t stop crying and Zalman had to take a walk to get ahold of himself for a while, it didn’t stop them from absolutely covering the babies with love before they left though.
However... Neither three would know that such a dynamic was going to be broken.
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Arach was on Orb watch, there being a nest they created filled with orbs carrying still developing babies, orbs being the thing used to carry babies if they had no real parents to carry them.
He slithered among them, checking on them as this new batch just came earlier. They were color-coded to the bitties, Toriel bitties being pale purple with streaks of white, Raggedies being pure red, Queenies being a royal blue, Empresses having a deep purple color like he did, Mumchers being pale purple with streaks of lime green and cracks in it, Horror having a red like fresh blood, and Teeth having white with streaks of red, Nightmare and Dream bitties always creating a yin-yang swirl in theirs and Murders being pale blue and red and a swirl of the two.
Everything seemed to be going well, until he finally noticed it.
A pure red orb with cracks in it.
A raggedy-mumcher.
Arach felt shock course through his whole body while watching it.
The chance of getting such a bitty at such an early time of the shop was baffling, sure the shop had a few but they were all adults and had not been born, but created.
The likelihood of the little bitty having a fragile mental state that would help her never get adopted was nearly astronomical, rarely did anyone ever want a Mumcher in the first place, let alone a much more violent and sensitive one.
Before he could even finish his thoughts he found his body already wrapped around the orb as he laid his skull against it, life pulsing in his coils as he instinctually behaved as everyone called him: a mama.
“ NO ONE WILL HURT YOU LITTLE ONE.” He assured the life inside with a hiss, “ YOU’RE MY SSSSSPECIAL HATCHLING.”
For the rest of the night he stayed with the Orb, watching over the area and making sure the other orbs were safe and functioning properly, never once leaving it’s side as morning came, where Arach abrasively shook the other two awake and let it be known the three of them now officially their own child.
Zalman the Peaceful Papa
(Based on this post by @vex-bittys, yeah, it doesn’t take much to make me want to write something :3)
Rating: G
Characters: Zalman the Chain, Nagrada the Twister from @selkiesbittybonanza and both Graves the Wyrm and Tacet the Maple from @dumplingsspookysweeties with a small mention of the Nocturne and Lumous Lamias from @tails-and-scales (Only a mention because they aren’t fully adopted yet)
Warnings: Babybones Fluff, by now all the Lamias are parents to the baby bones, if I give any inaccuracies to your lamia bittybones Vex, Selkie or Dumpling, please let me know, don’t want to bug you guys with inaccuracies.
If you guys want to skip lamia introductions and head straight to the story (However little there is) go to the next ~~~~~~~
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Zalman had been a part of everything since the beginning.
He was there to keep the peace between Magnar the Coral and Arach the Mamba, he was there when Toriel, Nightmare, Murder, Killer and Horror showed up and a whole bitty shop sprouted from that, more additions to the shop being quite delightful.
He was always a very responsible lamia, even when he had plenty of times where he merely flopped onto the heartsona Dotchi and fell asleep or took some time to enjoy outside he was always close by and made sure that everyone was safe, anyone that was an irreparable threat was to be eaten or have Magnar and Arach sicked on them.
He never expected to be a Father, but when the first babybones smiled to him his heart went to them, and it was the same with his brothers, the three of them taking them in, and it was three months into raising the first batch of babies that he was called ‘Papa’, his SOUL filled with joy and he immediately held the baby Simba-style and let everyone know of this joyous occasion, promptly dodging Arach whom wanted him to handle the tiny beings with more care than that.
With that more lamias soon arrived in the shop- adding to the growing caretakers among others:
First with Nagrada, the full-sized Twister being able to probably carry the whole of the babies on his back and tail as he took care of the babies whenever Magnar needed time alone in his treasure nest, the Coral needing his space at times, and the babies always took time in their day to crash into his swimming pool and give him much hugs and affection.
There was also a Lumos and a Nocturne whom was still being traded with by Sai and Dotchi, but were still very promising.
Finally thus far there was Graves the Wyrm that was brought in for the Horrors and Teeth to take care of was stolen frequently by the baby bitties, tiny Horrors and Teeth always poking around in his ribcage for any food while tiny little Toris enjoyed his purring very much, so it wasn’t very often that there wasn’t purring coming from the babybones room whenever the Wyrm was there in the waking hours of the adoption center.
Still, nothing could sway the Baby-bones from their core three parents seeing as Nagrada still had to man the desk being the biggest ‘bitty’ in the shop (though stowaways to his pool were very frequent) and Graves was still a very prevalent part of the Horror and Teeth Pantry.
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When Zalman’s birthday came around he found himself receiving a jacket from all the babies, with small stitches that upon close inspection was words of love from all of them, you could tell that the jacket was once dirt brown but now it was patterned with so many colors to differentiate who was speaking that you could only tell if you looked on the inside of said jacket, and even that wasn’t enough unless you looked at where his spine was.
He adored it, casting aside the one he was wearing to wear that one, finding the fur lining the hood was sprinkled in with shiny silver hearts courtesy of the Queenies and Classic Toriels whom giggled when he looked to them. It was very warm the threads sown in made it harder to tear, it was perfect, though he had to ruffle the collar to try and unstick the hearts.
He was very happy with this, receiving other presents from adult bitties and other caretakers alike, a party being thrown with music he enjoyed until evening.
It was there he made his way for outside on his nightly patrol when he got a tug on his tail, looking back to see a tiny Murder, whom took advantage of him stopping to teleport into his hoodie, the little Murder’s head popped out of the collar right under the Chain’s jaw, “ hi papa.” He called with a small yawn
The Chain lets out a huff in amusement while the Murder doesn't move from being snuggled in his spot, “ Come on little one, ‘m just gonna check around the house with Nagrada and Tacet, i’ll be right back.” He grinned not really minding as long as they wouldn’t care being jostled with him climbing around the outside of the center.
“ no.” The Murder probably got his stubbornness from his Dad Magnar as Zalman stuffed his hands in his pockets, using them to support the baby bitty inside as he met with Nagrada and Tacet with the little Murder giving them a sound in acknowledgement before dozing off, the Twister having the same thing as he gestured to his pockets to show three Toriel types, a Raggedy, a Mumcher and a Toriel snoozing there before his hood which had a Dream, a Nightmare, a Teeth bitty and a Queenie, Tacet not having a baby bitty but he was seen off by the affectionate Dietyrus Pele while his Harbinger was asleep as the three of them split up to check on the area as always, arriving back to be smothered in warm and comforting bitty piles.