During Chapter 3:
Jack: “You’ve got to act tough, MC! Show’em you can’t be pushed around? Show’em they can’t mess with you!”
MC: “Right! Yes. Tough. Got it.”
MC: *walks up to the monstro lounge counter and slams their hand down on the bar* “I’LL TAKE A CHOCOLATE MILK!”
Jade: ….
(romantic or platonic;)
Ok yes mammon x mc is amazing and has that ride or die best friends who are in love soulmate energy
But lucifer x mc is so...compelling???
Specially S1 om! & S1 nightbringer lucifer x mc
It's enemies to reluctant allies to friends to more
It's the straight laced grumpy one x the sunny chaotic one determined to annoy him to hell and back
It's "I don't trust you, hell sometimes I don't even like you, but I need you"
It's caring deeply about each other but being annoying about it because they're both in this stubborn competition to see who can go the longest without admitting they like the other
It's "we don't trust each other, we don't get along but we understand each other and we're working towards the same goal (keeping our family safe) so we have to work together" only to find out they work well together
It's "I'm going to push all your buttons but I'm also going to be so protective of you"
It's "no one has ever spoken to me like this and that's frustrating but interesting"
It's "the day has been long and taxing and we're tired but we're going to find each other, sit with each other in companionable silence, exist next to each other for a moment and rest our bones"
It's the formation of unconditional loyalty and devotion without either even realising it
It's bullying him into healthy self care
It's teaching them a skill, running them through drills over & over and being proud when they use it, when he sees how much they've grown
It's "I'll kill for you" & "I'll die for you" and it goes both ways
It's a little bit unhealthy but by god is it interesting and intriguing and by god do you want to see where it goes
It's literally all my favourite ship dynamics all squished together
Love mammon x mc to death, and they just make sense but lucifer x mc feels like something that was catered to fit all my shipping tastes
We can become larger than life but, we cannot become larger than death. This photo is so painful. 💔
And just like that, I lost all my followers
malleus draconia x reader. 1.7k words, hurt no comfort disguised as hurt/comfort kinda im sorrryyyyyyy, yandere-ish but its literally just how malleus is in canon so lol, BOOK 7 PART 3 SPOILERS
Green flames take over your vision, followed by the sight of Malleus in front of you.
Everything is hazy from there on out, from the words the Briar Valley prince says, to the yelling coming from your friends in Diasomnia, to the loud beeping and Ortho’s warning that goes unheard from your ears.
The dorm seems to be in a mess of chaos, a panicked state that is overtaking everyone but you. You’re not sure why the scenes before you seem to be playing out in slow-motion, or why the faces you see are blurred and the voices you hear are jumbled together.
The only thing you can see clearly is the horned fairy whose facial expressions are slowly morphing into a Malleus Draconia you’ve never seen before, a part of himself that he’s worked hard to keep hidden deep in the caverns of his very being.
There’s more screaming. Malleus is yelling now, presumably—you can’t exactly hear the exchange. But you can see the pained look on his face and the way his mouth moves in such a hurried and frantic manner.
You thought that, perhaps, you were one of the only people in the world who knew every side to Malleus Draconia. The only person who knew his pet peeves and his loneliness and everything in his heart.
But with the scene unfolding in front of you, you came to the realization that there was no way that could be true. There was a side of Malleus that not even you had seen before, a side that perhaps he didn’t want you to see. But somehow it hurts. It hurts that you’re seeing him like this and it hurts that you can’t do anything to ease the pain he’s feeling now.
Even if you wanted to reach out, wanted to console him, to take his face in your hands and let him know that you’d always be there for him, you couldn’t. Not with the way bodies upon bodies are running out in front of you towards the fairy, ready to attack. Not when it feels like your feet are too heavy for your own body to carry.
And just like that, the haziness becomes all the more apparent as your surroundings are suddenly shrouded in a green hue. You can just barely make out the sight of ebony vines, covered in thorns, snaking their way across the room.
Your eyes are closing, your consciousness fading, mind becoming even more cloudy than before.
Before the last bit of your consciousness slips away from you, you’re suddenly aware of the sleeping bodies beside you. The faces of your friends, the people you’ve come to think of as your closest companions, all fast asleep.
The deadly silence paired with nothing but a symphony of quiet snores was nothing less than terrifying. You watched the thorns continue to latch onto the various pieces of furniture—it was a sinister feeling, horrifying.
From the corner of your eye, you caught sight of the future king once again. He was different, a Malleus you didn’t know stood before you.
Green flames adorned the bottom of his cape, just like when he had first arrived. His horns glowed green, as well. You noticed there was ink seeping out of his shoulders, and his face was deathly white.
You thought he looked beautiful. No matter his attire or his form, he was always beautiful to you. So why was your heart clenching at the sight of him now?
The silence was cut off by the sound of his humming, a deep, low voice—one that you usually found comfort in.
But, somehow, for the first time in your life, you were scared of Malleus Draconia. Even though that voice was the one who called out to you in the dark, even though that face was as beautiful as the nights he laid beside you, you were scared—terrified.
That voice was not whispering sweet nothings into your ears—rather it was humming that deafening tune that made your stomach turn and your head cloud over even more. That face was not bashfully flushed at your hand in his hair, it was smiling at the sight of all your friends in a comatose state.
The last of your consciousness finally drifted off as your eyes closed. You were grateful, somehow, that the moment finally came. You thought that maybe it was better to join your friends in this deep sleep than to look at the man you love in fear.
———
You startled awake, eyes jolting open. Your breathing was unsteady, rapid breaths coming out of your mouth as you tried to settle down.
Just a dream.
Before you was the softness of your blanket and the sunlight of Twisted Wonderland peeking in through your blinds.
Your hands reached up to your eyes, presumably to rub the tiredness away and cope with the sudden brightness of your room, but your fingers were welcomed by a trail of wetness starting to dry on your cheeks. You were crying. Why?
The dream that had startled you awake had all but disappeared from your memory. It must have been a really bad one, you thought. It was strange, though, you can’t recall a single thing about it, yet it was horrible enough to bring you to tears?
You hear a low groan from the other side of the bed that you’re facing away from, making the tears on your face become all but forgotten. Suddenly, you’re aware of the arm encircling your waist, the grip getting tighter and pulling you closer.
You move a bit in the embrace, until you can turn around and see the person that is holding onto you so tightly.
A smile adorns your lips at the sight in front of you. Malleus, with his dark horns and messy hair scattered around the pillow, eyes closed with a small smile gracing his lips, is laying beside you.
A sleepy dragon, just for you. The Malleus Draconia that not a single other soul in this world gets to see.
He’s beautiful and you’re happy at the sight of him before you.
So, why do you feel the corners of your lips spread into a frown?
However, the frown is quickly replaced by wide eyes and slightly parted lips as Malleus opens his eyes. He’s sleepy, you can tell by the way he squints his eyes as he looks at you.
But however sleepy he is, that doesn’t stop the smile on his lips from growing larger when he sees your face in front of him, watching him sleep. It’s a lazy smile, one that has his fangs slightly protruding and his lips lopsided, but it’s so undeniably attractive coming from the ever-elegant prince.
“Good morning, my love,” his voice is groggy. He lets out a hum before nuzzling his face into your neck, still sleepy. The hum is deep, low and… familiar?
Did he sing you to sleep last night?
The thought was gone before it was completely finished as Malleus plants a messy kiss onto your neck. You sigh at the feeling and the sight of one of the most powerful mages in the world beside you in bed, holding onto you as tight as possible while peppering kisses onto every visible surface of skin his still-tired lips can reach. You never knew it was in a dragon’s nature to be clingy.
You love him, this Malleus in front of you. You love the Malleus that looks at you kindly as soon as he wakes up and the Malleus who wants nothing more than to hold you close to him and feel the warmth of your body right next to the coldness of his own.
As you’re thinking of him fondly, the dragon suddenly looks up at you, eyes wide and worried. His eyes are so unbelievably big and green, you feel you could get lost in them if he looked at you like this for any longer.
“You’re crying,” he says in a whisper, taking a hand off of your waist and reaching up to your face. Sure enough, when he pulls away, his fingers are glistening with your tears.
You’re crying. Why?
You’re not sure when the tears had started nor why, but the pit in your stomach that’s been there ever since you woke up from your nightmare hasn’t gone away.
Your lover’s face usually eases all your anxieties, so why, when you look at him right now, does the pit in your stomach grow larger? As he looks at you with his widened, worried eyes, as he wipes away your tears and whispers in your ear that he’s here, everything will be alright, why are you shaking even more?
And there it is.
In the background of your mind you see a flash of green flames and thorny vines and suddenly everything that happened last night is clear once again.
You shake out of Malleus’ arms, needing to be away from him after remembering the events from the night before. You don’t want to be away from him, you would never want to be out of his embrace, but right now, you need to. And he lets you, for he would never want his love to be uncomfortable beside him.
He lets you stumble out of his arms and he watches as you stand up, eyes still locked onto his own as you cry a seemingly never-ending cascade of tears.
He thinks you're beautiful, even as you cry, even as you pull away from his outstretched hand, even when he knows you’ve “awakened.”
But he doesn’t want to see you sad, especially not because of him. Perhaps this dream wasn’t satisfactory enough, maybe he was too simple in creating your dream—thinking that you’d be happy with just him, maybe that was just his wishful thinking.
He reaches out for you once again and you don’t move from his arms, you don’t think you have the strength to do so once again. He whispers in your ear, in that dreamlike voice that you’ve always loved, that he’ll do better, he’ll create a better dream for you, a dream where you’ll feel no sadness nor shed any more tears.
“Let us meet once upon a dream again.” He plants a gentle kiss to your temple.
His lips are cold.
And with that, your consciousness is fading once more and you think once again that this may be for the better—that you’d rather be in a dream forever than be afraid of the man you love.
These two kids are Hamza (the oldest) and Qusai (the youngest).
Their mother shares this video and bids them goodbye. They were both killed by Israeli bombardment 5 days ago. She says:
[Two days before Hamza and Qusai were killed, hamza asked me: "mom, when we die, where will I go?" And I told him: "you will be a bird in heaven, my love." He said: "and Qusai?" "Just like you inshallah."
And indeed, two days later, he left and took his brother with him. It's like he was preparing me for saying goodbye to both of them. Heaven is more beautiful than any place on this Earth, habibi. We will meet and be reunited one day, me, your dad and you two].
Our kids don't deserve to die already thinking about what will happen to them, they don't deserve to die already terrified, anticipating their death because the world failed them and decided their lives mean nothing. We are not numbers. Remember their names and their stories.
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1. Do NOT dare MC to do anything. Time and again it’s come to show that they WILL do literally anything you dare them to.
2. Do NOT tell MC that the house of lamentation has secret passageways, they will eventually find them and then we’re all in trouble.
3. Don’t allow MC to wander the forest in our backyard alone. If the soul sprites find them, it’s over, MC would absolutely follow them and we’re never seeing them again.
4. If MC is at RAD, one brother should know where they are at all times, the last time they were unsupervised, the culture club took them to the highest turret to show where students used to be suspended by their wrists as punishment.
5. Asmo; stop encouraging MC to get kidnapped, it is not romantic and no it never “turns out like in the movies”.
6. As a continuation, Belphegor, stop trying to get MC kidnapped by saying “you should beat your kidnapped record from last month”.
7. Mammon, stop taking MC to the casinos so they can be your distraction piece. Also, STOP BETTING MC AND YOUR OTHER BROTHERS AS PART OF THE WAGER. I do not care how much better you gamble when they’re at risk, STOP IT.
8. Belphegor, stop telling MC the stars look better from the roof, you know there is no railing up there and it’s lucky Beel was there last time to grab them since Solomon kept yelling “DO A BACK FLIP”.
9. Satan, please hide your most dangerous spell books in plain sight. The more you try to put them in obscure or dark places, the more MC wants to read them.
10. Levi, MC can’t hold their breath as long as you so please stop taking them to the lake to try to show them the underwater city until we buy them proper diving gear.
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And, since this was all sent over the group text, which MC can see, of course they immediately go searching for soul sprites and secret passages.
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