DL!Pearl X Arachne!Gem

DL!Pearl x Arachne!Gem

Fair warning, I don’t know how people usually go about posting fics on tumblr but some quick disclaimers:

-Mildly suggestive(physically)

-Descriptions of violence

“My webs do have a tendency of snaring little bugs in.”

“Little bugs?”

“Little bugs.”

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“I know you’re here with a purpose.” Gem chittered. Her mandibles clicked along to the trill of her voice. “So what was it? To plunder my friends? To steal my belongings? Because you’ve certainly achieved your goal if that’s what you meant to do.”

“I was only trying loot this mineshaft.” Pearl tugged at the webs. It didn’t want to come off. “This mineshaft that I didn’t even know was occupied.”

“Does that change the fact that you’ve caused me damage though, moth?” Gem’s tone stayed dark, though her eyes trained on Pearl’s hands with a hint of amusement.

Pearl felt herself burn under that gaze. Judging from how her skin would sooner tear off her body than it would the web; and how the arachne loomed over her with a keen interest that was closer to predatory than it was curious—the odds weren’t in Pearl’s favor.

Still, she couldn’t allow her dignity to go down like this. “I have a name.”

“You look like nothing more than a moth to me.”

The arachne had an attitude, it seemed. Pearl would’ve loved to play around with someone like this if she wasn’t in a life-or-death struggle. “Not to be egotistical, but people fear the mere sight of my axe. I’ve killed for less.”

“I don’t see an axe, nor a fearsome killer.” The arachne’s front appendage tapped against the floor, and the rhythm was eerily similar to the ticking of TNT.

It wasn’t difficult to see why. A soft hissing shadowed her every word, and a sharp rap came of those spindly legs—tick, tick, ticking.

Pearl tried to supress her shuddder.

As if by mercy of the watchers above, or perhaps by the arachne herself, the tapping stopped. Pearl wasn’t looking at her to see the way that the arachne’s brows furrowed. “…that name of yours, moth, what was it?”

“Why should I tell you?”

“You were so eager before. Why rescind now?” The arachne leaned forward, with a grin that Pearl thinks burns her skin in a way that no flame can. “My name is Gemini Tay. Call me Gem.”

“Pearlescent Moon. They call me Pearl for short.”

At that, Gem hummed. “They. So there are more of you plunderers?” She straightened back up.

Pearl had the urge to laugh. This woman was so wary, especially for someone whose only threat for most of her time has been cave-lurking mobs. “Like I said, I’m not a plunderer, and they certainly aren’t either. That bunch of ‘em have souls more golden than I.”

Gem cocked her head. “So you are wicked?”

“It’s subjective.”

The arachne shot her a tentative glare.

Pearl didn’t know much about spiders other than the way that their heads severed at the end of her blade. She’s only familiar with them in the way that their blood splattered across her armored chest. Never given the creatures much thought.

And yet she seemed to be giving her plenty of thought now. The urge was ever-present—to dissect things, to rip them apart, and to study them all from the most grotesque to the most intact parts of their corpse.

That was the same kind of look Gem was dissecting her with. Violent curiosity. The same kind Pearl held for her.

“You look as if you wish my neck were between your fangs.” Gem spoke up first.

“You look like you want me as your next meal.” Pearl responded in kind, unaware of when exactly her heart decided to spite her and hammer a wild rhythm in her chest.

“If I freed you from those webs,” Gem’ four eyes were all lasered onto her. “What would you do, Pearl?”

“I could give your treasures back and leave you be.”

“Why? Is there anybody waiting for you on the surface if you leave?”

Pearl’s expression dropped. She ignored the sourness trying to crawl up from her stomach, acidic and vile. Even Gem’s words could cut, it seemed.

“What’s your point, Gem?”

“Tell me more,” The arachne invited herself into Pearl’s personal space, of which the moth was helpless to combat. “Tell me about you, about the surface.” One, scythe-like spider leg prepped its blade up to the peeling, stringy web. “Do that, and I’ll cut you free; but you won’t be rid of me for a while.”

Pearl eyed her diamond axe, the single glint of the torch’s light stared back at her. “Don’t hurt me?”

Gem found herself looking at the axe too. “Don’t hold back on me.”

Pearl smiled. “Deal.”

The sound of the webs tearing were the same as when she cleaved through fabrics with her axe. Like a puppet whose strings were cut, Pearl fell.

Gem’s ginger braids filled her vision before she felt the impact of landing on the arachne’s chest. “Careful,” her voice took on a softer quality. Was this how she spoke to all the mobs in her keep? It was invigorating, shameful as it was to admit.

Pearl, always a curious creature, wrapped her arms around Gem’s waist. It was the point where Gem’s spider and human half met, which was a strange mix of textures; and it brought about a confusing clash of bloodthirst against instinct.

The moth wanted to run. The wolf wanted to hunt.

She ran her hands over Gem’s fuzzy hide, and slowly, brought it upwards to feel at the skin of Gem’s waist under her top. Was there a vulnerability here somewhere? Did it have less durability than the rest of her body? Pearl wondered.

Her wrists were seized. “Are you not pulling away?” Gem’s mandibles clicked.

“You aren’t pushing me away,” Pearl shrugged. She quite liked hugging Gem. Yes, hugging, because she had the face to admit that’s what she was doing. An embrace, albeit with ulterior motives.

Gem sighed. “Are you always like this?”

“What can I say? I like being difficult.” Pearl hummed. Though there was a limit to her ability to be thick-skinned, so when Gem let go and lifted her arms to accommodate Pearl’s, she finally peeled away.

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guavacaado

5 months ago

SO obsessed with the way the game cut off gem's f-bomb literally as perfectly as possible. phasmo is a comedy game first and a horror game second etc etc

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guavacaado

6 months ago

So I keep thinking about Gem being able to do astral projection, X-ray, free cam, go out of body, whatever you want to refer to it as. There's so much angst potential.

Trigger warning: dissociation, skin picking/rubbing? (I think that's how I word that? It's one sentence) Depersonalization (the whole thing to be honest)

Gem still exists in the real world, but she's not in her body. The dissociation that most likely comes with that is absolutely insane.

Like in my head the past wildcards are always on their minds, there's absolutely trauma there. People worried about snails for weeks, people who died from hunger had this unquenchable hunger for a bit and some still do, and people wake up in the middle of the night knowing the answers to trivia questions, as you do for tests. Some are worse but its still bad for everyone.

And now Gem has been out of body. She's talked to the dead, for God's sake. Does she wake up in the middle of the night because her flesh feels wrong for some reason? Is she always aware that dead people are just around? Does she talk to the air sometimes because Mumbo and Skizz are still around always? They just don't show up. They're there; they have to be.

She forgets that she can't leave her body, that she's stuck in the flesh, and she cries and rubs until she's red trying to leave, and Joel comes over and holds her until she's safe. (she breaks down once outside, and Pearl finds her; they don't talk about it, but they both know. Pearl forgets she can fall sometimes)

I just think that Gem is so angsty with this power, and as a girl who loves angst I’m absolutely devouring,

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guavacaado

2 years ago

i made pokemon teams for like almost every carmen sandiego character

started making these like a month ago bc i thought it’d be fun. went with no legends, no repeats on one team. teams + my explanations for them under the cut.

carmen’s team:

ampharos

blaziken

quaquaval

thievul

whimsicott

weavile

i’d imagine ampharos was her first pokemon, because… black sheep. blaziken fits the red, plus it and quaquaval remind me of how carmen fights. thievul, whimsicott, and weavile are all because.. thief. also, i tried choosing pokemon from a wide range of regions for her.

player’s team:

porygon2

litten

abra

elgyem

munna

rotom

porygon2 and rotom for hacker reasons. i’d imagine he doesn’t really battle that much, so all are nfe

ivy’s team:

revaroom

unfeasant

herdier

klinklang

magneton

tinkaton

revaroom because cars, unfeasant and herdier are common pokemon in unova, klinklang, magneton, and tinkaton all because of her being a mechanic 👍

zack’s team:

snorlax

orthworm

quagsire

bidoof

deino

tepig

all no thoughts, head empty. most are big eaters as well.

shadowsan’s team

crobat

ninjask

jolteon

drapion

glalie

kartana

all were either chosen for speed or for knowing evasion boosting moves- with the exception of kartana, which i chose because i think it would be fun to give all of the vile faculty one ultra beast. additionally, i thought it’d be fun to do the pokemon villain team thing of “giving them a crobat (or other pokemon that evolves via friendship) to show that they’re not all that evil”

chase’s team:

pyroar

gumshoos

furfrou

talonflame

absol

gogoat

all but gumshoos are available in kalos bc.. french. gumshoos is a detective, so i thought it’d fit him as well. also i think it’s silly to give him an absol and imagine it loses its shit every time he enters a car

julia’s team:

purrloin

runerigus

golett

mismagius

gourgeist

frillish

giving her a near-mono ghost type team wasnt what i thought i’d do, but i actually think it fits with her focus on history. purrloin because i absolutely believe she has a pet cat, runerigus and golett especially to fit in with her interest in history. i also don’t imagine her as being much of a battler.

chief’s team:

liepard

purugly

garchomp

corviknight

greninja

gliscor

went for more intimidating looking pokemon- with the exception of liepard and purugly, which i chose because of her cat. also garchomp always makes me think it’s wearing a suit, which is part of why i gave her one. also all have a sort of blue-purple color scheme going on, which i thought fit with her.

coach brunt’s team:

emboar

conkeldurr

throh

sawk

bewear

buzzwole

wanted to give her a mono fighting type team- all unovan except for bewear and buzzwole. bewear because “mama bear” and hugging :) and buzzwole as her ultra beast because of its massive attack stat

dr. bellum’s team:

reuniclus

beheeyem

tastugiri

alakazam

archeops

xurkitree

wanted to give her some absurdly, comically intelligent pokemon, as well as at least one fossil (and archeops is my fav fossil lol). xurkitree as her ultra beast because high special attack + wanted to throw at least one electric type in there.

countess cleo’s team:

gardevoir

hatterenne

gothitelle

florges (white)

lilligant

pheromosa

me: you better not be serving cunt when i get over there

cleo’s team:

professor maelstrom’s team:

malamar

spiritomb

hypno

sigilyph

starmie

nihelego

wanted to give him a kind of freaky looking, mind alternating weirdo team. nihilego as is ultra beast for that reason, plus bonus jellyfish points

roundabout’s team:

copperajah

boltund

inteleon

dragapult

hatterene

dracovish

wanted to give him a fairly standard galar team.. minus dracovish, which i have to imagine there’s a ton of arguments over the morality of owning in the pokemon world. additionally, inteleon because. spy.

crackle’s team:

electivire

luxray

jolteon

rotom

raichu

vikavolt

electric monotype team! wanted to also give him pokemon that are more.. animalistic? friendly looking? idk how to describe it

tigress’s team:

liepard

delcatty

incineroar

meowscarada

meowstic

pyroar

kitty cat :) i’d imagine her as having specifically female meowstic and pyroar as well.

le chèvre’s team:

gogoat

garchomp

tyranitar

noivern

lycanroc (midnight form)

salazzle

look i know this one isn’t the best fit but there’s only so many goat pokemon, and i wanted to go the rock climbing route instead, but then i realized that salazzle reminded me of his suit so here we are.

el topo’s team:

excadrill

clodsire

swampert

camerupt

dugtrio

sandslash

excadrill is obvious, and also wanted to give him a mono ground team. also all very friendly cute looking little guys on his team, which i think fits well.

mime bomb’s team:

mr mime

mr rime

zoroark

primarina

drifblim

ditto

mr mime and rime for obvious reasons, zoroark and ditto because of the disguise, primarina and drifblim because i was trying to think of things at a circus. also because i think he’d probably try to use his drifblim to kidnap kids or some shit.

dash haber’s team:

froslass

leavanny

gardevoir

alolan ninetales

vespiquen

milotic

similar to cleo, wanted to give him a slayful team. additionally, all are special attackers (or technically mixed attackers but would be using their special attack i just wanted to try to give him a sa based team lmao)

paper star’s team:

kartana

hatterene

mimikyu

banette

froslass

cacturne

i know i said i’d only give vile faculty ultra beasts but like.. how could i not give her a kartana. the rest are just cute but very fucked up little guys. also she reminds me of a cacturne.

lady dokuso’s team:

venusaur

crobat

arbok

gengar

roserade

toxapex

poison monotype team, obviously

the mechanic’s team:

klinklang

excadrill

coalossal

grapploct

aggron

revaroom

mostly steel types, but also coalossal because of powering things and grapploct because i just. really wanted to give her one. plus extra galar/british points

the driver’s team:

salamence

electrode

noivern

weavile

salazzle

cinccino

focused mainly on speed for her pokemon. also i just think that the idea of her with a cinccino is very cute

neal the eel’s team:

eelektross

ninjask

wugtrio

alolan muk

sandaconda

dragalge

for neal, i chose eelektross for obvious reasons, and the rest either for speed or evasion boosting moves. also i chose alolan muk over regular muk because i think he’d like the colors

otter man’s team:

gumshoos

lucario

froslass

weavile

frosmoth

houndoom

tbh i made his team a while ago and i don’t remember the thought process for anything beside from i thought he looked like a gumshoos and wanted him to have ice types

moose boy’s team:

hariyama

abomasnow

mamoswine

beartic

baxcalibur

galarian darmanitan

all ice types, all big, hard-hitting guys.

spinkick’s team:

hitmonlee

blaziken

scrafty

mienshao

hawlucua

tsareena

all can learn high jump kick lol. plus mostly fighting types. tsareena was chosen even thought it’s not a fighting type because its entire gimmick is kicking things

flytrap’s team:

volcarona

togekiss

decidueye

yanmega

galvantula

greninja

all special attackers! chose galvantula specifically bc it can learn sticky web as well.

the troll’s team:

porygon-z

rotom

metagross

kadabra

umbreon

dedenne

porygon-z and rotom for the same reason as player, but i’d imagine he’d be more willing to use the dubious disk. also, for kadabra, i liked the concept of him not being able to trade with anyone to evolve it lol.

madame goldlove’s team:

gholdengo

azumarill

steelix

aegislash

meowstic

kommo-o

all are shiny- i thought it’d be fun to make her a shiny hunter, specifically for these since all of them are gold shinies.

pls lmk what you think of them or if you have any more ideas or suggestions ^_^

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guavacaado

6 months ago

ShinyDuo/Gempearl Wildlife ep 6 AND Caitvi Arcane season 2?? Winners really do love winning

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guavacaado

2 years ago

I’ve seen a few reverse transmigration SVSSS stories, but one of my favourite ones mentions that SQH updates PIDW and the comments go wild. It also mentions SQQ absolutely roasting him for it.

Personally, I think it would have been funny if there was a fanfic where this happens and SQH slaps back with a, “You didn’t realize your husband was gay until you were making out. You can’t talk SHIT TO ME” and the comments EXPLODE IN ECSTASY. Can you imagine, can you actually imagine this? This would be the most anti-fan hate reading critic known to literally everyone who’s read PIDW doing his usual roast after years of being gone and the author reveals that not only is this fool married, but that he knows the author personally, and that he is an oblivious moron when it comes to romance. I think SQQ would simply cease to exist when he realizes but not before he claps back too, and they go on a multi comment page rant at each other revealing that they know each other super well and that they’re some how related to each other (SQH says that SQQ is married to his son but SQQ hits back with stop calling him your son and its very confusing for the comments). It becomes a living legend, sonic for justice style.

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guavacaado

2 years ago

I don’t think I can explain to you how amazing this makes me feel, like it tickles my brain just right

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guavacaado

2 years ago

GENERAL HUA