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Was wondering how to reintroduce Nyx and the idea of making some small comics again. Settled on this old idea, because it defines them so well
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i'd rather seduce heizou ๐ฅฐ
we need more content about diluc and kaeya being absolutely feral as children. they'd wrestle on a nearly daily basis. sometimes it was born out of an actual fight but most times it was just for fun. they'd be bored out of their minds and look at each other from across the room and a mutual understanding would pass over them that they just need to battle to the death right now. diluc could overpower him in strength and weight but kaeya has always been better at strategies and dirty tricks (pulling his hair, tickling, biting his arm really hard)
๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐
"๐๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ฆ๐? ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ ๐๐๐ง ๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฒ, ๐๐ฏ๐๐ง ๐ญ๐จ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ข๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ง ๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ข๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ, ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ฒ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฅ๐๐๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐ก๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ ๐ซ๐๐ ๐ซ๐๐ญ ๐๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐ฉ๐๐ข๐ง."
๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฌ: ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฎ๐
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In the far-off, distant past, there was once a coiling collar.
At the age of 6, Prim was raised to believe one thing. If she were to make her parents proud and happy, then it means she's a good child.
โI want people, I want people,โ it cried, this cursed collar.
And so she did. She met every expectations whether small or big, she earned medals at a young age and even had her certificates displayed on the wall.
Donโt get angry.ย
"I'm sorry..." Prim softly choked on her sobs as she is kneeling down, clutching onto her father's pants.
Donโt abandon me.
"I won't do it again, I promise!" She begged and cried. All because she made a mistake, she hates it when people yell at her. Why is her father looking at her coldly? Is he leaving her?
Donโt go anywhere.
She was alone in the room, crying. Why did he leave? Didn't she promise to be a good girl? Why? What did she do wrong? She thought she was making him happy!
(Hey.)
As Prim gets older, she kept hearing the same thing from her parents. 'It doesn't matter to us if you're an achiever or not, we just want you to have better grades, but it's better if you are an achiever.'
It strangles me tightly, til I could throw up, whenever no one's, no one's around.
She didn't know when it happened, but she started fulfilling their expectations. She studied hard, getting recognized by teachers and even scoring high marks.
Nice grades, huh?
Prim is holding her report card, the average is high and her conduct is highly satisfactory...yet it feels so...empty to her.
Hey, hey, arenโt I a good kid?
Everytime her mother is viewing her card, she is praising her child for maintaining the high grades. But she nitpicks when her grade in a certain subject is lower than the previous semesters and quarters, causing Prim to feel more pressure.
Arenโt I a cute kid?
Soon, it even turned to appearances. Ever since her father had passed away, she gained weight. She wasn't really all this 'fat' or 'chubby', she's fit.
Hey, hey,
Yet their insults never stopped, it was suffocating to the point she wanted to carve a knife to her skin until she cuts out the imperfect parts of her. Until she began to slowly lose weight, exercising and starting diets even if she has a medical condition that doesn't allow her to eat less.
Iโm good, right?
She hated seeing her face, her reflection and body since she gained weight. But as she slowly lost the heavy weight, the fat and chubby cheeks...she could finally be confident in herself, to finally look at a mirror without breaking it.
It hurts, hey...
But why does she sometimes feel like she needs to change some parts of her?
Love me.
She seeks validation, whether through academics or just compliments about her body and face.
Love me.
She even decided to have curtain bangs, to cut her waist-length hair and turn it to a wolfcut.
Love me.
She learned how to use makeup, to make herself look more pretty and hide her ugly parts.
more and more.
"Your eyeliner is amazing!" A girl from Prim's class commented when Prim entered the room. Prim puts on her usual smile for formalities and faรงades, someone noticed? It felt nice. "Thank you." She softly replies.
Love me.
"If you all need complete notes, you should all talk to Prim." A teacher says during a review session, Prim's eyes widened as she didn't expect anyone to acknowledge her notes. It's pretty, clear and those aesthetic notes you see in pinterest.
Love me.
They were having an activity where a paper with a student's name gets passed around in a circle and everyone writes what the think or see of that person, once Prim read hers, she received many compliments.
So much that it's maddening
Prim gets praised by her teachers that whenever she enters the faculty room, her teachers smile when seeing her.
It's painful
Prim slowly finds herself piled up in duties that were way worse than before, causing her to feel overwhelmed and pressured.
It hurts
She wants to cry, to scream, to be angry. She's human too, why can't they see that? She's not always the Perfect and Smiling President.
Break, break this binding spell, okay?
"Is this what my life would be like?!" She cries to her best friend who remains quiet, gazing at her with pity. She was always known to be perfect, to be able to handle pressure and always come out on top. Yet her closest friends see the truth, how broken and how much pain she endures.
It can't be stopped...
Yet she can't stop this, this responsibility, this pain and this pressure. She was never supposed to be involved in design team for competitions anyway, why did they have to include her in the design team? Once she sent the design, there were no objections. Yet when it was finally discussed upon, those bitches had to fucking ruin it and act arrogantly because someone older was backing them up.
"I'm fucking older than them, I'm the President. I don't use any of these as a way to get things my way, so why the fuck can't they understand and comply when their own ideas are fucking garbage?! I fucking tolerated everything, every fucking headache and stress they give me and this j what I get in return for being so nice, for not being a bitch?!"
Prim throws her bag, destroying everything she sees. Screaming and punching and even kicking things. Destroying graded projects and papers and even attempting to hurt herself. Scratching her body, pulling her hair or hitting her head.
Yet her mother never comforted her, only telling her to stop crying, it's annoying. And it triggered Prim.
No matter how big your body, your body grows, this collar remains small.
Prim continues onto living, putting her dark humor as for 'jokes' when she's thought about offing herself. The fucking adult in the room can't even act like one, yet gives the eldest the fucking responsibility of one. It disappoints and disgusts Prim.
It's agonizing now, but this is nothing new.
She grits her teeth underneath the face mask she wears as she fakes a smile, luckily the face mask hides it. It hides the hatred Prim bears for everyone she despises.
People just, people justโthey're not enough.
Prim slowly loses herself in all this pain. If it's not academics she struggles with, it's life.
I vow not to lose to anyone in my class, aren't I a lovely child?
Prim's heart aches and sinks to her stomach each time she reaches the achiever's list, she's happy but only for a short while. Of course, if she tells her mother, that woman would be proud. Yet Prim has to bear the weight of expectations and responsibility again.
(right?)
She can't even play her video games as much as she wants, she can't even laze around for a bit when it's the weekend as much as she wants.
Way more than that child and more than that child. Everyone, marvel at me!
Prim climbs on stage, receives her certificate and smiles brightly before bowing and leaving the stage. Finally, all her hard work and breakdowns made it to where she is now. Is it all worth it?
Behind the gymnasium when I told you that I was in love
"I like you for a really long time now. I know you'd figure that one out easily since you pick up hints that fast." A girl confesses to Prim, she was taken aback of course. Under all that much insecurities and issues she has, someone actually likes her? Or is it just because of how they view her?
Wasn't that kind of a lie?
"Ah, I see..." Prim replies before noticing the girl's nervous expression, she's sensitive to people's emotions. She's scared that if she makes the wrong move, people will hate her and it's all her fault. "How about I think about my answer to you before replying? I...wanna make sure if I feel the same way." She replies, it gives the girl hope. The weight in Prim's chest feels a little light.
I love you so, so very much
Prim accepted the confession, made the relationship work even in long distance. Yet as time passes, that girl seems to change. Be moody, start a fight and not even hear Prim out, even calling out Prim's issue and struggle of being too sensitive to other people's emotions. "You would atleast understand what I'm feeling!" It echoed to Prim's head, she wants to tear that girl apart and rip her to shreds.
Even though I think you are trash.
That girl never went through the abuse and trauma Prim had to undergo, they were never kicked out of the house when they were sick, they never had to experience in facing expectations of everyone or having to change their own body for someone else's sake! Or needing to discard their own pain and feelings because their significant other or family is in pain and need comfort! Or having to fear mirrors because she dislikes the way she looks! Or having to bargain God to atleast change places with her dead father!
Love me.
Now the girl is ghosting Prim. During that time, Prim slowly learned things herself, is this what she really wants in a relationship? To be this hurt and misunderstood just like her mother does? To hate arguments because it reminds her of her mother's fights?
Love me. Love me.
She slowly realized she was losing feelings during the 4 days the girl ghosted herโNo, this isn't right! She's supposed to keep her promise! She swore to never be like her father who can't keep a single promise! Why us that girl so cold? Why is the spark gone?! Are they not interested anymore?! Do they not love her anymore?! But Prim loves them! Whether they were being an asshole or a dick, they still accepted the insults and called 'dramatic' for writing Prim's own issues in writing as a coping mechanism.
I'll give you everything.
Everyone knows how devoted and loyal Prim is when she falls in love. Even if there were pretty and handsome people in her school, in her class, she only had eyes for her lover. Wasn't that loyalty enough?! Being excited to talk to her lover after school, to be able to talk to them again...
I'll have you.
And that person broke it off in Halloween, just when Prim had made a gift. Prim felt her world shatter, she didn't know what came of her when she suddenly burned the gift just to feel something. She already lost her own identity, emotions and personality because of everything. She can't feel, what's going on? After all the nights she spent awake trying to understand why this gurl was just so important to her, finally accepting that she is bi...just to be replaced by someone near that girl? A boy?
I'll have you.
She hid the pain from her family, heartbreak is normal after all. People only confess to her because she was the fat pitiful girl, she was used to it. But why does this hurt so much?
I'll have you shoulder everything for me.
She can't cry, she has duties to fulfill. She pushes that pain down and focuses on completing her project and duties as the girl people see her as. Usually, being the President could mean that you are the 'head' or leader of the class when the teacher isn't around, it feels like a dream isn't it? But for Prim? Being the President means needing to do things a Secretary or Monitor should do, needing to keep everyone in check or having to announce events going on in class. Yet the 'popular' girls think they're high and mighty and don't respect Prim, even though Prim wants to hurt themโshe never does. She's surprised her patience last that long. Her own adviser is a useless adult as it doesn't even really act like one, giving Prim all the responsibility alone and it makes Prim sick.
It's not enough.
Her eyes lost their shine, she doesn't feel like her body is her own anymore. She doesn't even feel anything, she feels so numb.
You're not enough.
Everytime her mother tries to act affectionate after fighting with her, it makes Prim so sick. She knows she has mommy issues, yet her mom makes everything worse to the point she even questions her own life.
I won't let you go.
She doesn't know what went through her mother's mind, telling her details before, during and after Prim was born. Her father was never present during the time of her mother's pregnancy, he was staying at another girl's house and they broke it off when her mother found out. Yet, they got together when Prim was born. Their anniversary is Prim's birthday, causing her to dislike it.
Please forgive me.
She hates herself even more, disliking her own date of birth. Prim slowly underwent an identity crisis, she has thoughts she wishes to escape that even no internet or music can't help her escape it. She hates her own being, feeling betrayed and offended by the act that her parents had to keep. Pretending to be a 'happy' family, making her think abuse is normal when it isn't. She hates it.
Love me.
Prim doesn't understand why her life became like this.
Love me.
She's been sexually abused since childhood even up till now, no matter what her body looked like.
Love me.
Prim wants to fall in love, to trust someone again after that horrible relationship but...is it really worth it?
More and more.
A lady matures faster than a man is what her mother would say, yet it irritates Prim that her mother never let her experience a proper childhood without all the trauma and abuse or needing to be a perfect golden for validation.
Love me.
When Prim wants to wear what she wants, her mother acts dramatic about it. When Prim wants to put on makeup to make herself look pretty, her brothers act as if it's the end of the world and Prim hates it.
Love me.
Whenever Prim complains, her mother goes "It doesn't matter, you're an honor student now." It makes Prim wonder if that's what's really important to her mom.
So much that it's maddening.
Is her life even worth it just to be a trophy daughter? Is this what she'll grow up to? Pleasing people, putting on faรงades and always needing to put her pain away because her feelings aren't validated?
It hurts.
She can't breathe.
I won't let go.
Prim gasps for air as she sits up and tries to count to 10 as she takes deep breath.
It hurts.
Prim grips her hair. She's never had an anxiety attack before, she doesn't know what to do. She grabs her phone and tries to breathe. "Hello?" "Mom, come here please." She drops the call and phone as she cries, why can't she breathe?
More, more and hey.
Prim works hard everyday, to make people happy, keep her grades up and to make sure her body maintains it's healthy shape so she won't be rushed to the hospital anymore. She spent her childhood in a hospital and it was torture. White plains walls, machines and tubes around you, oxygen tanks, needles and you feel like wanting to die. Prim's used to the needles poking her skin, she has high pain tolerance after all. Puking acid, that horrible smell of soap they mop the floor with and the food.
This is happiness.
Chat, is this a sign
Some of us really need to be doing โFinish That Fanfic We Havenโt Updated in a Year Novemberโ ๐
Hey if ur going to put a giant tag at the beginning of something warning people it may have uncomfortable things in the writing, you may want to also add in a โread moreโ so people on mobile arenโt scrolling for ages trying to get past it especially since tags are at the bottom. Adding the warning on top is great! But a read more makes it more possible to avoid if itโs something that may upset someone.
Oh and in general If ur going over 500 words itโs polite to do it under a read more. Your followers may be okay with it but anyone just going through the tag is going to be scrolling for quite some time to get passed it and youโre more likely to get blocked by people randomly simply so they can scroll the tag with ease and you may find yourself blocked by creators you really like simply so the tag is useable for them.
Also the general tag for any kind of โx readerโ content is
[Fandom as applicable i.e. Genshin impact, MDZS, Haikyuu etc] x reader
when you change it to individual things it makes it impossible to blacklist but also greatly erases your own ability to bring readers in who do want your content. The specifics are great for second, third etc tags but itโs helpful for both those who are interested and those who arenโt to blacklist/search for this specific kind of content.
Thank you and sorry, I'll take note of that the next time I write but um...how do you put a read more in mobile...?
A thought came to my mind after rewatching horimiya which is a beautiful show btw, you guys should watch it ^^^
What if there's Miyamura! MC or Akane Yanagi! MC in Devildom?
For the Miyamura one, the character is portrayed in Horimiya's Episode 1 until the Character Arc where he spoilers accepts himself and moves on from his past because he's found his people, people who accept him and changed his world and point of view, who he calls his friends, his family. Of course, the part where he feels happy whenever he has friends and always invites him wherever or whatever the occasion is, also the haircut, piercings and tattoos are still there, it isn't Miyamura MC without Miyamura's other details and all especially being a wallflower until they eventually step out of the darkness. Hair is long like in Episode 1, wears glasses and looks gloomy until that hot glow up when he cut his hair. Grades are awful but not as worse as Mammon's as stated from Hori when she saw Miyamura's grades.
For the Akane Yanagi! MC, of course, pretty as fuck and timid wallflower, formal when speaking until they slowly get used to talking casually with friends. They're not an early bird in mornings and struggle to wake up early to the point you have to drag them out of bed. They have poor eyesight as well until they get glasses or contacts.
So, what do you guys think? Want me to write it? Or if you want to write something like that, feel free to take the idea as long as you tag me so I can read and appreciate it as well!
Feel free to lend me your thoughts in the comments!
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"๐๐ฏ๐๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง' ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ก๐๐ฏ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐ฐ?"
๐๐ก๐๐ฉ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐ก๐ซ๐๐: ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐ค๐ง๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ ๐๐๐ซ๐จ, ๐ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฒ๐ญ๐๐ฅ๐
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Prim continues to rehearse in the room Diluc showed her earlier, struggling to find a song that could somehow fit the atmosphere and Mondstadt's vibes or agendas.
Hmm...what does Mondstadt...
She freezes as she remembers that song, it was...'her' favorite song. Prim could barely even remember anything or think of anything whenever Dandelions start playing, just remembering the girl she fell for.
"It wouldn't hurt, this could serve as my small step to closure...right?"
She hesitates as thoughts drown her once more, she closes her eyes and takes deep breaths.
"I think...I need fresh air..."
She slowly heads outside, telling one of the maids before heading somewhere in Dawn Winery. As she takes in the beautiful scenery, she slowly feels the pain leaving.
It'll continue hurting me like this until I truly get the closure...I want...
Just for me to remind myself that 'hey, you guys are friends now. No need to hold on to the past'
She hums as the breeze gently caresses her cheeks, feeling relaxed that somehow it made her calm. Grounded her more than anything and made her realize that she has to get over it somehow. After all, it's that girl's loss not hers. That girl lost someone who truly cared and dedicated themself to her despite seeing many beautiful girls and boys, Prim remained loyal and didn't care if the distance was too wide nor the wait would be longer than expected.
She sits on top of a hill nearby and hums.
"Every day we started fighting, every night we fell in love"
The pain kept clawing at her, as if telling her she deserves to feel it. She shouldn't move on from it, yet Prim ignores that and continues singing. The only way to calm her down.
"No one else could make me sadder, but no one else can lift me high above~"
She grips the clothing where her heart is, brows furrowing as the pain gets deeper and deeper. She had to let it out her chest, she's tired of crying. Tired of feeling like she should cry when no tears could ever come out. One where only a song could heal her a little, save her a little...a habit she used to have and escape reality's cruel reminders.
"I don't know what I was doing...when suddenly we fell apart~"
Back to December but I'd go back to November back when we were alright...
We fell in love in October...more like we fell apart in November...
Bound to falling apart...
Prim pushes those thoughts away and sings her heart out, only softly. It'd be rude to wake some people up at night just cause she's in pain.
"Nowadays, I cannot find her...but when we do, we'll get a brand new start..."
If you find her then what?
Will you let your walls fall apart again?
Will you let yourself be hurt again?
How many times do you have to do this to yourself?
You can't change the past, you never could
Enjoy this moment than hurting yourself over it
Heal yourself
Whether your walls fall or not, never expect anything from people
That way, you wouldn't be as hurt as much anymore
You're used to always being left alone, aren't you?
She grits her teeth as the voice comes back.
"I'm in love with a fairytale, even though it hurts..."
She couldn't feel anything that could make her cry, she feels like she should but she couldn't. No tears could come out anymore, as if what remained was an empty shell back to discarding her emotions and feelings.
"I don't care if I lose my mind, I'm already cursed..."
She opens her eyes to see crystal flies surrounding her, wanting to comfort her as it seems they feel what she feels. Prim chuckles and gently touches one, closing her eyes with a smile on her face.
"Thank you, lovelies..."
She mumbles before watching them fly away, she lays on the grass and watches the moon. One of her favorite activities during childhood, back when she was always bored in night and couldn't sleep. Her father would take her outside and they'd watch the moon together, he'd tell her stories and they'd wait for a shooting star to make wishes, how innocent and naive she was. Which Prim later found out the 'shooting star' is just a meteor or meteorite in Science Class.
"The Moon is beautiful, isn't it?"
She blurts out and sighs, enjoying the cold breeze of the night and peaceful view.
"It is"
She looks at the side to see Diluc, wearing a cloak and is holding his claymore before making it disappear.
Ah, just like in game, huh?
Yet I'm quite disappointed in that response...
He just stands there, watching her look at him before looking at the moon.
"The sun watches everyone yet the moon keeps our secrets, amazing, right?"
She says, clearly didn't mind him just watching her. She pats the unoccupied grass and he sits there, just looking at the beautiful night sky.
"It's dangerous out here, Your Grace"
He says, trying to persuade Prim into getting back inside. She didn't listen though.
"I can't always be trapped inside forever, Diluc. It feels like I'm back to being a perfect puppet"
He didn't quite catch the last one yet he couldn't help but feel peaceful for once, maybe it was the atmosphere or Prim's doing...maybe the place and the moon did make it seem like that.
No words were spoken the rest of the night as the peaceful atmosphere lasts before the two went back inside.
Somehow, that small interaction seemed to comfort the two at the quiet dark night.
Until they hear monsters lurking around the forest, Diluc immediately summons his claymore and goes infront of Prim.
"Get inside, Your Grace. It is dangerous for you to be out here"
Prim sighs.
"I understand you're worried for my safety, Diluc dear but I must remind you that I am not called the 'Divine One' for nothing"
She says as she feels an attack happen from behind, she quickly puts a hand out and all of a sudden dark vines come out of her palm and trap the 'monster' caged in her dark vines.
These...aren't vines...
As more monsters seem to attack, Prim holds her hand out in shock and summons a lightning in panic.
Diluc hears the clap of thunder as he fights the monsters away, they are a bit far from the Winery so the Winery is safe.
"Your Grace, was that you?"
"I-I think so..."
Prim's heart started beating harshly, she couldn't breathe as her hands started to shake. She first released those 'dark vines' before summoning thunder, heck, she isn't even Raiden Ei to do that.
"Eyes on the battle, My Lady"
Kaeya says as he joins the fight.
"We can talk about your abilities that aren't said in the prophecy later, for now, let's focus on this lovely battle"
Diluc groans at Kaeya's way of smooth talking, Kaeya and Diluc lends their hand out to Prim who looks at them in fear.
"Shall we three dance, Your Grace?"
They ask in unison as Prim hesitantly holds their gloved hand.
"We shall"