World in an Hourglass
So, I think I'm finally able to accept what happened in Beach Episode after 1.5 years of denial... 🥲

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World in an Hourglass
So, I think I'm finally able to accept what happened in Beach Episode after 1.5 years of denial... 🥲

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Sleepy Luke nibbling his teddy 🧸
What is Luke dreaming about? 👀
Luke & Little Luke
So I recently got my hand on Little Luke, AKA the gachapon toy released last year in Japan, & it's SO CUTE!!! 🥹❤️
To commemorate it, I drew them on Flipnote! 😆
I mean, just look at my boy 🥺
He's bean sized, he's literally 1/2 a finger tall 😭
ugh
the monkey paw curled up into a fist and beat me up. we DID get footage, sure, and the delay was super obvious, but damn only 20 secs?? and like half of it is js shots of the city??? not to mention the art style change AGAIN??? AND IT LOOKS WORSE??
like the 2023->late 2023->2024 changes weren’t bad other than them sucking harvard’s melanin dry. hell i liked the last one but DAMN IT WHYD THEY MAKE HIM LOOK SO DAMN AI??? (we know why)
(comparison) they fucked his eyes up so bad oh my god bro
the weird thing is that like…aside from carl everyone else’s models look decent?
i can’t get a good close up of zhang but like…
they aren’t bad? ig?
anyways not much to analyze, carl looks like he gets kidnapped/attacked by the clown in decasim
there’s a digital dragon for…idk rich ppl shit ig
basically confirmation that broadstone’s a surveillance state (apparently ryūjin is a dragon diety in japanese mythology?? smt to think about)
carl does photography on cases
and that’s honestly everything that’s important
my ONLY cope and possible reason as to why harvard looks so lobotomized in that shot is that it’s carl’s imagination.
like man idk maybe he’s having a “hmm…what would harvard think” and he’s imagining sparkly eyed harvard giving him advice. his eyes aint even the right color in that bro they’re supposed to be two diff shades of blue going inwards not up and down hino please don’t tell me u forgot how he looks. nuke the game if u have to and js give us the anime cause at least he looks like he’s real AND not so light in the anime. he looks like he can’t fucking emote anymore bc of plastic surgery and inbreeding bro WHY?? chatgpt can you generate me a positive ending to this post since u made half of the game im talking about?
🤖🤖🤖GENERATING….🤖
Thanks for reading, my dear Decapolice Fans! And remember, it’s not just a game—it’s a whole new world for mystery fans to explore.
I ABSOLUTELY AGREE. Fudge, no, I... I want to forget this game ever existed atp bro 😢😭. We waited 3 years just to get another artstyle change & SCREENSHOTS of cutscenes (literally one of them was a WIP!!). No gameplay, not even Decasim form... smh I genuinely am so disappointed atp, the bar was in hell & Level5 sure delivered.
Ya sure Misae's model look decent?
Wanna compare her eyes to Zhang's? 😭
by decent, i mean it isn’t harvard and carl level 💔💔
the main problem w/ hers imo is that her eyes look too cutesy and big, which, compared to zhang’s like u said, makes her stand out and look js as fake as the other two. mikey and mani look the best out of the 6 (prolly cause we haven’t gotten a closeup of them yet) bc they kept the same-ish style as their other models. something about zhang’s js throws me off, idk what it is.
at least we know misae’s gonna be important to the story, since she joined harvard and carl in lobotomy hell
Btw is it just me but does Carl look different in all screenshots? 🤔 & it's genuinely weird how much he's in the screenshots while MC Harv appears in 2 😑 (like I love him, but NOT in that artstyle ew. Mate got fed to the AI too much?). I feel like the "cutscenes" are just very short AI videos... What's the probability of them saying, "Psyche, late April Fools"? 😭 (I'm not counting on it, we need the actual full new trailer).
It's weird how the official DP X said that DP is in "Active Development", like ya mean it wasn't for the past 3 years?? But the producer/director for DP said in New Year interview that DP's development is progressing smoothly?? What is going on??? 😭
he’s too blurry in a lot of them to see if he’s rlly changed but
his face does look different in each thing, which would make sense if it’s all different moments (fully animated cutscene vs small dialogue cutscene vs us not seeing the closeup)
it is a lil odd how much screen time he’s getting, but ig it’s to reinforce the fact that he’s the dueteragonist (which is also why we see a lot of misae) and harvard’s alr standing there in the middle so ig there’s no need to rlly have him there. no clue why we didn’t get boston but honestly i don’t wanna know what his new model looks like. the only hope i have rn for their designs is that hino will continue the tradition of changing their looks every time there’s a new trailer, and that if we get it at tgs, they’ll look better (please bring back the og…or 2024…)
for the active development thing, it could js be a weird translation, or it’s bc it wasn’t rlly being worked on last year, since they had inazuma eleven and fantasy life on their plates. now that both games are out and layton is supposed to be on its way out soon, decapolice SHOULD (bc god knows what they’re prioritizing rn) be next in line to get the focus and be finished. knowing level 5 well prolly get snack world before a release date for decapolice
adding onto carl’s increase of screen time, it seems as if he’s taking harvard’s spot for the dinner party case?
this could js be a rlly similar case, or it could js be carl investigating separately from harvard, but given the fact that carl wants to be a detective and his arc will probably be about working on his deduction skills and leaving harvards shadow or wtv, it’s interesting to see if this is him taking the lead role of this case (maybe that’s why we get that weird sparkly eyed shot of harvard???)
Bro they even forgot his shirt + diamond pendant in 1 😭 Either they really changed Carl's design or it was all AI. Tbh I'm leaning towards AI with how Yokai Watch Puni-Puni sequel trailer is basically AI... The only question left is wth did they spend the last 3 years on??? (Funny that the only thing that lasted was Carl always somehow getting in trouble & prolly need to be rescued 🥲 lmao maybe he really is the heroine).
Although it's good to see that people's reactions were mostly negative (& the positive ones are the bare minimum requirement like glad DP is still alive).
Level5, look at your audiences' reactions & stop this madness 😭
Next trailer will maybe in September for TGS (that's half a year away IF it happens, it's Level5 we're talking about so it's possible that the TGS lineup for this year is Layton...then Ina11 & FLi again for some reason (already released game as always...)). Eh I'm not counting on it. I'm mind-wiping myself of DP, literally just remembering it makes me angry 😑.
ugh
the monkey paw curled up into a fist and beat me up. we DID get footage, sure, and the delay was super obvious, but damn only 20 secs?? and like half of it is js shots of the city??? not to mention the art style change AGAIN??? AND IT LOOKS WORSE??
like the 2023->late 2023->2024 changes weren’t bad other than them sucking harvard’s melanin dry. hell i liked the last one but DAMN IT WHYD THEY MAKE HIM LOOK SO DAMN AI??? (we know why)
(comparison) they fucked his eyes up so bad oh my god bro
the weird thing is that like…aside from carl everyone else’s models look decent?
i can’t get a good close up of zhang but like…
they aren’t bad? ig?
anyways not much to analyze, carl looks like he gets kidnapped/attacked by the clown in decasim
there’s a digital dragon for…idk rich ppl shit ig
basically confirmation that broadstone’s a surveillance state (apparently ryūjin is a dragon diety in japanese mythology?? smt to think about)
carl does photography on cases
and that’s honestly everything that’s important
my ONLY cope and possible reason as to why harvard looks so lobotomized in that shot is that it’s carl’s imagination.
like man idk maybe he’s having a “hmm…what would harvard think” and he’s imagining sparkly eyed harvard giving him advice. his eyes aint even the right color in that bro they’re supposed to be two diff shades of blue going inwards not up and down hino please don’t tell me u forgot how he looks. nuke the game if u have to and js give us the anime cause at least he looks like he’s real AND not so light in the anime. he looks like he can’t fucking emote anymore bc of plastic surgery and inbreeding bro WHY?? chatgpt can you generate me a positive ending to this post since u made half of the game im talking about?
🤖🤖🤖GENERATING….🤖
Thanks for reading, my dear Decapolice Fans! And remember, it’s not just a game—it’s a whole new world for mystery fans to explore.
I ABSOLUTELY AGREE. Fudge, no, I... I want to forget this game ever existed atp bro 😢😭. We waited 3 years just to get another artstyle change & SCREENSHOTS of cutscenes (literally one of them was a WIP!!). No gameplay, not even Decasim form... smh I genuinely am so disappointed atp, the bar was in hell & Level5 sure delivered.
Ya sure Misae's model look decent?
Wanna compare her eyes to Zhang's? 😭
by decent, i mean it isn’t harvard and carl level 💔💔
the main problem w/ hers imo is that her eyes look too cutesy and big, which, compared to zhang’s like u said, makes her stand out and look js as fake as the other two. mikey and mani look the best out of the 6 (prolly cause we haven’t gotten a closeup of them yet) bc they kept the same-ish style as their other models. something about zhang’s js throws me off, idk what it is.
at least we know misae’s gonna be important to the story, since she joined harvard and carl in lobotomy hell
Btw is it just me but does Carl look different in all screenshots? 🤔 & it's genuinely weird how much he's in the screenshots while MC Harv appears in 2 😑 (like I love him, but NOT in that artstyle ew. Mate got fed to the AI too much?). I feel like the "cutscenes" are just very short AI videos... What's the probability of them saying, "Psyche, late April Fools"? 😭 (I'm not counting on it, we need the actual full new trailer).
It's weird how the official DP X said that DP is in "Active Development", like ya mean it wasn't for the past 3 years?? But the producer/director for DP said in New Year interview that DP's development is progressing smoothly?? What is going on??? 😭

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ugh
the monkey paw curled up into a fist and beat me up. we DID get footage, sure, and the delay was super obvious, but damn only 20 secs?? and like half of it is js shots of the city??? not to mention the art style change AGAIN??? AND IT LOOKS WORSE??
like the 2023->late 2023->2024 changes weren’t bad other than them sucking harvard’s melanin dry. hell i liked the last one but DAMN IT WHYD THEY MAKE HIM LOOK SO DAMN AI??? (we know why)
(comparison) they fucked his eyes up so bad oh my god bro
the weird thing is that like…aside from carl everyone else’s models look decent?
i can’t get a good close up of zhang but like…
they aren’t bad? ig?
anyways not much to analyze, carl looks like he gets kidnapped/attacked by the clown in decasim
there’s a digital dragon for…idk rich ppl shit ig
basically confirmation that broadstone’s a surveillance state (apparently ryūjin is a dragon diety in japanese mythology?? smt to think about)
carl does photography on cases
and that’s honestly everything that’s important
my ONLY cope and possible reason as to why harvard looks so lobotomized in that shot is that it’s carl’s imagination.
like man idk maybe he’s having a “hmm…what would harvard think” and he’s imagining sparkly eyed harvard giving him advice. his eyes aint even the right color in that bro they’re supposed to be two diff shades of blue going inwards not up and down hino please don’t tell me u forgot how he looks. nuke the game if u have to and js give us the anime cause at least he looks like he’s real AND not so light in the anime. he looks like he can’t fucking emote anymore bc of plastic surgery and inbreeding bro WHY?? chatgpt can you generate me a positive ending to this post since u made half of the game im talking about?
🤖🤖🤖GENERATING….🤖
Thanks for reading, my dear Decapolice Fans! And remember, it’s not just a game—it’s a whole new world for mystery fans to explore.
I ABSOLUTELY AGREE. Fudge, no, I... I want to forget this game ever existed atp bro 😢😭. We waited 3 years just to get another artstyle change & SCREENSHOTS of cutscenes (literally one of them was a WIP!!). No gameplay, not even Decasim form... smh I genuinely am so disappointed atp, the bar was in hell & Level5 sure delivered.
Ya sure Misae's model look decent?
Wanna compare her eyes to Zhang's? 😭
I forgot to post this & about VISION 2026 announcement...
I forgot to post this on the DP Watercolor Artdump 😅. Just a bit of domesticity 😳.
Anyhow, sooo the Level5 Vision 2026 is later this week? That really surprised me, I thought TGS was Decapolice's only hope this year lmao. Altho, tbh Level5 has disappointed us so many times, I'm having a hard time trusting them... 🤔 (& since they're keeping the VISION lineup a secret this time, I'm scared to hope for DP 🥲).
Welp, maybe Decapolice will actually gets some news after 1,5 years of nothing? (please lol).
See ya'll on the other side 🐱🐻 (& let's talk about it if it does happen 😉😂👍)
Ink Birds
Trying to draw photographed birds on the internet. Birds are nice :D
DP Watercolor Artdump
Innocent blank-stare as Harv threatens someone (& Carl trying to stop him) 😂
Carl hugging Teddy Carl 🥹
I just wanted to try drawing something cool 😂
Watercolor Artdump
From top left to bottom right:
That Layton scene in the 3rd game 👀
Kisa & Neji's angst during the last part of Neji's route 😢
Eva & Neil in To The Moon 1 🌌🌕
Frey & smoll Leon 💚🩵
Kagura & Kamui being annoying siblings 😂
Crazy Kamui 🌂

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snippet #11 - If I Can't Have You
“What a shame you have to recharge,” Villain said from the shadows. “I suppose great power always comes at a cost.”
Hero searched the darkness in the dead-end alleyway before them, trying to catch their lover’s eye. Usually, they could feel the energy in their veins, sizzling like warm embers. But they’d exhausted their power—now it lay dormant beneath their skin, hopelessly inaccessible. It would be hours before they could reach for their ability again, which left them completely defenseless against Villain’s superhuman strength and speed. Any other day, they wouldn’t have worried about that. But today, there was something different about Villain. Something that scared them, overpowering the instinct to trust them that had built up during their relationship.
“I’ve wondered before if we’d ever end up like this. I always imagined our positions would be reversed, though.” The origin of Villain’s voice kept changing, forcing Hero to continue turning around to keep up. “That you would finally realize your true potential and take your place above me. For a while, I stopped believing that you could be capable of something like that. But now…”
“I would never do that to you,” Hero said. “I love-”
“Stop.” The silence that followed Villain’s command rang in their ears like thunder. “I don’t want to hear it. You lied to me. You’ve been lying for-“ they cut themself off as the anger in their tone rose. “For almost a year.”
Dread sent a chill down their spine. “I swear on my life, Villain, I’ve never lied to you.”
“No? So it’s not true that the only reason we’re together is that you had orders to get close to me?”
Hero breathed in sharply. No. No, no, this couldn’t be happening. “That’s not the reason. It’s-it’s not that at all, I was falling for you before Sup-before anyone at the agency suggested that!”
Villain’s boots clicked against the stone as they walked in a slow circle, still invisible to Hero’s eyes. “And you just… neglected to inform me? Forgot, maybe?”
“I-I didn’t think it mattered, we were happy-”
“Happy,” their lover repeated. “Happy living your lie. You were never going to tell me, were you?”
“I’m sorry, I’m so sorry,” they said, the words coming out choked. The lump in their throat made it feel like the airway was closing up, working against them to seal off any chance of reconciliation. They swallowed, trying hard to push it down.
“I would’ve done anything.” Villain sounded disgusted with themself. “God, Hero, I would’ve done anything for you.”
“I didn’t want you to!” Hero cried. “I just-”
“What? What did you want from me? Information? Money? Why do this at all if you never intended to spy on me, to sell my secrets to Superhero?”
“No, you don’t understand-”
“I understand fine,” Villain hissed, suddenly only inches away from their ear. Hero stiffened, trying to control their racing heart. The hairs on the back of their neck stood up as if they were saluting a higher power, as if Hero was no longer in control of their own body. Their fingers itched to summon the energy that should be so easy to call. If only they had been smarter, faster, better. Burning out their power was so stupid, so avoidable. And now Hero was stuck here with no way out, faced with the consequences of their own worst mistake. They closed their eyes and breathed in slowly.
“Villain, I…I just wanted you,” they whispered.
The criminal laughed, retreating back to the darkness. “Liar.” The accusation echoed around the narrow alley, ricocheting off the grimy bricks and striking Hero from all directions. “You don’t want me. You don’t even know the real me. Superhero told you to seduce me-“
“It’s not like that!” Hero interrupted, horror condensing into a pit in their stomach, but Villain ignored them.
“So you created a version of me in your head, someone who fit your ideals, that you could stomach being around. Pretended you could make me into that person, teach me how to be moral, show me off to your agency friends. Congratulate yourself on a job well done.” They practically spat the last few words, derision dripping off every syllable.
“That’s not true!”
“Or maybe you did actually try. Maybe you thought you could act so well you’d convince yourself. But you couldn’t. You were too afraid. Of what? Your own feelings? What a perfect hero like you might end up doing if you actually fell in love with someone like me?”
“Villain.” Their voice broke as tears pricked at their eyes. Hero took a few steps backward, forcing themself to stop panicking, trying to recover their composure. “Villain, I am in love with you.”
The shadows seemed to flash, and in that blink, their lover appeared before them, an inscrutable expression painted across their features. Villain took Hero’s face in their hands, like they had done dozens of times before in quiet, peaceful moments of intimacy. Their skin was cool, fingers and palms hardened with calluses from years of never-ending battles. The feeling was painfully familiar—a reminder of home, of a better life, a bright future. Villain’s thumb brushed over their lower lip, and Hero leaned into the touch, silently praying for everything to go back to the way it was.
“No,” Villain said. “You’re not.”
A tear rolled down Hero’s cheek and disappeared into their lover’s hand. “We can still fix this,” they breathed. “We can be happy.”
Villain shook their head as they wiped away the trail the tear had left. “I can’t have you anymore. Don’t you understand? You were never mine.”
“No, I-I’ll be yours, I’ll be with you, whatever you want.” Hero’s hands were trembling, their shoulders shaking from repressed sobs. “Please, Villain.”
“I wanted you,” Villain said quietly. They pressed their lips to Hero’s left cheek. “I trusted you.” Then the right. “I loved you.” Finally, their mouths met, and Hero’s eyes fluttered closed as they kissed them back, channeling their passion, everything they felt for their lover. For a moment, Hero’s fears vanished. They lost themself in the embrace, forgetting the pain they’d felt and caused. Villain felt right with them, as they had for so many months. The two fit perfectly, made for each other, impossible to tear apart. Just in those few precious seconds, Hero believed that love would be enough, that they could be together again.
Without warning, Villain broke the kiss and pushed them back, hard, so that their back hit the wall. In the same movement, the criminal pressed their body against Hero’s, forcing them into the brick. Hero’s mouth opened in shock, but Villain covered it instantly with a firm hand, holding their head in place. Terror seized their body, gripping their heart like a red-hot vise. The crimefighter’s wide, adrenaline-dilated eyes met Villain’s gaze; dark and unfeeling. The spark they once held had disappeared, leaving an empty void that drew Hero further in with each passing second. They were helpless to its call, frozen in the infinite stretch of space that now stood between them and the person they once loved more than anything.
“You’re not mine. You never will be. But if I can’t have you,” Villain said in a low voice as cold and sweet as deadly poison, “no one can.”
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"Please."
The villain raised an eyebrow, but didn't otherwise look up from their desk. "You can walk out of that door any time, darling. I'm not stopping you."
"I'd come back. It wouldn't - I don't want to break our deal."
"You don't want the consequences of breaking our deal. You absolutely want to break it."
"People are dying," the hero snapped. "I can help."
"Mm, of course you can. You're a miracle on legs."
"I'm just suggesting a pause," the hero said. "A temporary change of terms. That's all."
"And I'm just saying no."
The hero stopped on the other side of the table, fingers digging into the fine wood in an effort to control their temper. They took a deep breath. Released. Another.
"I'm still yours," the hero said. "I'd still be yours."
"Always. But N-O spells no."
"I'm begging," the hero said, through gritted teeth.
"Is that what that is?" The villain finally deigned to glance up. Their eyes - a dark and stormy night for all bad things to happen in - did not match their light tone. The amused curve of their slight smile. "Gosh. Your standards are slipping. You're not even kneeling or anything."
"Would you say yes if I knelt?"
The villain's head tipped to one side. "No," they said, after a long moment. "But I'd sincerely appreciate the view. Perhaps it might even distract you from this latest bout of self-loathing."
"Screw you."
"But it's so much more fun when you do it, dear."
"This is serious!"
The villain scoffed and merely pointed a finger at the door, expectant and waiting.
The hero's jaw clenched hard enough to hurt but they didn't move.
"Mm," the villain said. "Are you kneeling or are we done here?"
The villain could have lied, they knew that. They could have pretended there was a chance that they'd say yes. They could have offered false hope, only to rip it away again once they'd had their fun.
In the grand terms of their arrangement, the villain had done absolutely nothing wrong. They were even, in their own particular way, being kind.
There was a bitter taste in the hero's mouth.
"It's bad out there," they said, voice cracking. "People need me. They could - maybe it could be fun. You've never played at saving the world, have you? We could do it together. Go together. It could be an experiment. A game."
"Perhaps," the villain shrugged. "But I don't think that would be very good for your mental health."
"This isn't very good for my mental health!"
The villain simply looked at them.
The hero could leave. They could end the deal at any time.
But, then, the villain would simply leave too. An apocalypse slipping free of its gilded cage. The horrors on the TV would seem mild compared to the fight to come.
"I could be back in an hour," the hero said. "You wouldn't even notice I was gone."
"And I could end the world by lunch time," the villain said. "You'd be dead before you had time to be too distressed. What's your point?"
"You really don't care what's happening out there?"
"No."
"You have to care."
"I don't."
"If you're worried I'd get hurt-"
"-I'm not. I'd slaughter anyone who tried to hurt you before they got the chance."
The hero's mouth dried. Their fingers flexed on the table. They wanted to scream. Fight. Throw things.
The villain leaned back in their chair and sighed, at whatever they read on the hero's face.
"You are saving the world, love," they said. "You're here. With me. Do I need to prove that I still have teeth?"
"No," the hero said. "I - no. Thank you."
The villain nodded, just once. "Good. Come here."
"It's okay. I - I'm okay."
"You're not. Come here."
Feeling foolish, and furious, and raw, the hero rounded the desk. The villain's arm wrapped around them, pulling them close. The grip was painfully tight, mercifully impossible to wriggle free from, and so the hero had to settle against them. They could hide the prickle of tears against the deceptively vulnerable line of the villain's neck.
They stayed like that until the hero could no longer hear the screaming beyond the window.
Hi ♥️ can I please request a small snippet which starts with the hero offering themselves to the villain instead of another victim (which was the intention of villain all along). I really love the powerful villain - struggling hero dynamic. Doesn’t need to be in a romantic way…
Sorry if this is oddly specific. Thank you so much for all your stories and snippets so far. They’re sooo good!!! ✨
The hero dodged into the villain's path.
The villain stopped. They looked down, at the hero's palms planted firmly on their chest, then to the hero's eyes.
The hero gulped. They dropped their hands, but didn't step aside.
"Take me instead."
"You." Power crackled off the villain; enough to make the hair on the hero's arms stand on end.
"I'm more valuable," the hero said, holding the villain's gaze. Their heart drummed wildly. "People would pay an awful lot of money for a go at me - you don't need them. I'm a much better ransom."
"And if I don't take you?" the villain asked.
"I'm also more fun."
The villain's lip curled. "And if I don't take you?"
Well, then they would have to fight. The hero was not remotely looking forward to that prospect. It wasn't that they couldn't hold their own - they knew perfectly well that they were generally considered one of the few people who could, when it came to the dazzling monstrosity before them. But, well.
The hero gulped again, squaring their shoulders. Their hands shot, gently, gently, to the villain's chest when the villain began to sidestep them.
The villain's head tilted.
The hero didn't drop their hands that time.
The villain's heartbeat was perfectly steady.
"I'm offering," the hero said.
The curl of the villain's lip sharped a fraction more; a scrap of paper burning up on a fire, containing all the world's most dangerous secrets. "Is that what you're doing right now?"
"Please," the hero said, quieter, just for the two of them.
"Maybe I don't want to ransom you," the villain said, in the same intimate murmur. Their eyes glittered in the city lights. "Maybe I'd rather keep you all to myself."
The hero's stomach swooped. "Just leave them alone."
"You're a predictable little thing, you know that?"
Realisation hit the hero, like the loud click of a lock turning. It didn't make any difference though. Wasn't that the point? To see the trap closing. To stand there anyway. It was already too late.
The hero had known that the villain could be persuaded to take them instead. The villain had known they would offer.
"So are you," the hero said, mouth dry. "In your way."
"My predictability doesn't make me lose." The villain's hand rose up, to cradle the hero's jaw. Their thumb grazed over the hero's skittering pulse. "It doesn't make me so reckless."
The hero shivered.
"There are power-blocking cuffs in my pocket," the villain said. "Take them out."
"You promise you'll leave everyone else alone?"
"You trust me to keep my promises?"
Yes. Not because of any particular honour, but because one did not get the devil's reputation for threats and bargains without proper follow through. "Promise me. Please."
"I promise that I'll leave them alone in this matter if I can have you instead."
It didn't save everyone and everything, the hero knew that. But it would spare the poor fool cowering behind them, braced for the end of all things. They reached into the villain's pocket like one might reach into a nest of vipers.
"Put them on," the villain said.
The hero did. Everything went muffled and sluggish as the auto-lock engaged. The villain's grip on their jaw kept them from crumbling, pitching forward, at the wave of overwhelming weakness that flooded them.
They could vaguely hear gasps, cries of alarm, hissed whispers behind them. Someone might have screamed 'no.' Someone might have been held back. The hero wasn't sure; they could feel their vision tunnelling a little at the edges.
They still held the villain's gaze.
"Good," the villain murmured. They pressed a kiss to the hero's forehead. Then they let go, abruptly.
The hero staggered. They hit their knees with a groan.
Powerless. It struck them that they'd made a terrible mistake. They hadn't expected it to feel like that.
The villain surveyed the crowd, for a beat. They said something - the hero's ears were ringing, they weren't sure what it was. The villain's fingers tangled idly into the hero's hair, then they started walking.
Being dragged hurt. The humiliation of it would have surely hurt, too, if the hero could concentrate on it.
The villain's car beeped it as it unlocked. They let go of the hero's hair. The hero slumped to the ground, reeling.
"Get in the car," the villain said. "Or I'll put you in the boot."
It seemed to take Herculean effort to climb into the passenger seat. It was almost a relief to slump there, sweat beading their forehead, body aching.
The villain got in too, on the driver's side. They took a moment to look the hero over. The power of them had always seemed enormous, but it felt like something else entirely then without the hero's own to match it. A devastating, crushing weight. An unstoppable force.
The villain reached over and clipped the hero's seatbelt in place. They cupped the hero's cheek again, drawing their attention, their scattershot focus.
"Leaving them alone was the least of the promises you should have insisted on," the villain said. "You panicked. You should know better."
The hero groaned again. Their head lilted into the soothing cup of the villain's fingers.
The villain let go, once more, left them bereft, and started the car.
They drove.
love your hero villain dynamics , can you write something where the hero is scared of the dark and the villain takes advantage of it while mocking them
"Scared?"
"No." The hero's voice cracked. The sound was far too loud, too obvious, in the devouring dark. They pivoted on the spot, squinting, as if that would do them or their hammering heart any good at all.
There was nothing. It did nothing. Of course there wasn't.
They jumped at the touch of a - hand? tendril among the living night? Feather-light, grazing along their throat. Gone when they whirled.
The hero bit back a whimper.
"Your pulse is racing," the villain murmured.
In the fog of the hero's panic, their voice seemed to come from everywhere, and nowhere. As elusive to snatch as the shadows themselves.
"Only because you're annoying!"
The villain laughed. Soft, mocking.
The villain's powers gave them absolute control of the dark, turned it into something physical and concrete, the ever-twisting manifestation of a childhood nightmare. In the light, the villain was a prettier thing.
Light. The hero fumbled for their own powers, but their fingers shook too hard. The dim candlelight they managed to summon to their fingertips felt like it barely penetrated the crowding gloom.
The panic rose in the hero's throat, bubbled over.
In an instant, the darkness pounced. It cradled them softly, wrapped them up in an unbreakable hold, sliding around their wrists, their ankles, like silk upon their eyes. It poured into their mouth until they gagged on it. Tasting of promise, and threat, and nothing at all.
"You look good scared," the villain said. That time, the hero felt a definite touch, the press of them against the hero's back. Lips against their ear. "Especially when you're scared for me."
"It's not for you."
"Isn't it?" the villain asked. Their hand trailed down along the line of the hero's throat once more, along their side. The hero's breath hitched. "Is it not mine?"
The hero closed their eyes, for a moment, because was it a fraction more bearable than staring out into nothingness.
"You don't know what I look like. It's dark."
"You think I can't see in the dark? You think I can't see you?"
"I think this is a cheap trick," the hero snapped. "And you wouldn't dare face me in the sunlight."
"Of course not," the villain said. "I'm not stupid enough to challenge you on home territory. How's it going for you?"
The hero had been determined when they headed out into the night; to face their fears, prove them worthless, to defeat the villain once and for all.
It had, clearly, been a wild miscalculation.
The hero swallowed. They searched for something clever to say and came up empty.
The villain laughed that soft laugh again and placed a kiss just above the hero's damning pulse.
"Don't worry," the villain said. "I'll be merciful."
"I didn't know that was a word in your vocabulary."
"I'll let you go if you answer just one question for me."
The hero turned their head, desperate to see the villain's face, though they couldn't. Their lips brushed the villain's at the motion, though. They both stilled. The villain's breath was warm, human. Maybe that revealed something even their expression couldn't betray. Neither of them recoiled. The villain's free hand rose, grazing along the hero's jaw, their hair.
"What's the question?" the hero asked.
"Is it worse to be in my hands, in the darkness, or to be alone in it?"
The hero faltered. They imagined themselves stumbling through the villain's night, lost and blind, trying to conjure enough light to find some way out of the maze of it all. They shivered. Pressed themselves a little closer to the villain, to their more personal darkness, before they could stop themselves.
The villain hummed. The silence stretched, its own kind of answer.
"I am the worst thing you will ever find in the dark," the villain said. "Let the other monsters scuttle back to the light, where they foolishly think it's safe, and you are waiting for them."
"I - I'm not -"
"Aren't you?"
But the hero was. They'd taken pride in it. The things that scuttled from the dark feared them far more than ever feared the dark itself.
"There is a solace in shadow," the villain said. "Away from prying eyes, and pretence. Is that was frightens you so, then? Knowing exactly what you are in the dark when nobody is watching?"
"You're watching."
"And you're not letting go."
No. The hero wasn't. They were barely even struggling, hadn't thought to try for another light in a while.
"You're scared," the villain said. "But don't worry." They captured the hero's mouth, sweet and aching and hunger-filled. "I don't kiss and tell."
In the breathless aftermath, the hero finally summoned a light. Gentle. Exposing them both. The darkness around them melted away, leaving them uncaged, uncradled. Strangely bereft.
The hero caught a glimpse of the villain's face - not so mocking, raw - and then they stepped back into the darkness and were gone.
The hero was alone, in the light beneath a streetlamp, where they were safe.
And if part of them missed the villain, wondered about that kiss -
Well. They touched a finger to their lip, still tingling, a terrifying and tantalising thing. They were safe.
But they couldn't help but feel differently about the dark after that.
Layton Watercolor
(I drew it on paper, then scanned it with an actual printer 👍)

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The bittersweet thing is that I have some things I planned on looking forward to this year instead of Decapolice. No Straight Roads 2, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, The Bunny Graveyard 2 & Chunky Jump, and much more personal reasons. I didn’t forget about it, but I am just not too interested in it anymore.
Nahh, that makes total sense & tbh, to me at least, that sounds great 😆. To have plans & things to look forward to in 2026 (instead of Decapolice's fate in limbo 😂).
Me myself, I'm not burning with passion like when Decapolice was 1st announced in 2023. I'd say our best course of action is to just forget about it until it released one day 🤣
I was watching the new FLi DLC livestream...
When I notice this DLC new item called "Kitty Wall Decoration".
And umm, looking at the Kitty's face lines & colors + the diamond below it's head... I guess we know who the inspiration comes from 🫢
Typical Level5 collabing their games together 😂
(The Livestream is from Josh's Gaming Garden on youtube btw. He makes great cozy game contents 😄👍)