Age: "24" (Unsure of his age in Lemurian context)

Astrological sign: Pisces

Birthday: March 6th

Occupation: Artist

Evol: Fire

Workplace: Mo Art Studio, Whitesand Bay

Residence: Mo Art Studio, Whitesand Bay

Family:

Aunt: Talia

Uncle: (In one of Rafayel's Anecdotes, Talia gets married to an unnamed man)

Mother: Deceased? Unknown

Father: Deceased? Unknown

Speculation Note: Talia says she's the only family Rafayel has left, so it's possible that his parents are dead?

Friends, Associates, Connections:

Thomas: his manager and exclusive agent

K: Deceased. Was a Lemurian survivor

Mr. Raymond: Deceased. Was a renowned art collector who had one of Rafayel's paintings in his collection room

Details:

Actually Lemurian

Can speak multiple languages

Afraid of cats, but won't admit it

Bad at riding bikes

His coffee order is an Americano

Drives a convertible sports car

Taught as a visiting professor at Linkon University for one year

A sponsor for Linkon City’s Neon Botanical Garden’s research. As a token of gratitude, they let him name a species of flower.

"I've been to an exhibition on that street before. That's how I know [about the traditional local shop]. Don't think I looked it up just for you."

I think one day, at an art exhibit just past closing, Rafayel loses his phone. And it's a big exhibit, one that's spread out across multiple rooms because Thomas had wanted it that way; had wanted to be able to separate Rafayel's paintings by motif. But that did make it a terrible place to lose a phone.

The three of you split up, everyone keeping their ears open as you get entrusted with being the one to get his phone ringing. It takes quite a few rooms of searching, but down the hall and 15 calls and 47 texts later, Thomas shouts that he hears a vibration. You come jogging down, and he tells you that the vibration isn't good in this kind of room; it echoes too much—could you maybe send a text?

So you do.

And then you hear it. It's brief, loud, and then the room is silent.

Thomas's head twists slowly, his gaze even slower. He opens his mouth. Pauses to think. Opens it again.

"...Did you just...snort?"

"What?" You blink. "Why would I do that?"

You both look at one another, each with a brow cocked, and huff out a laugh in unison. Thomas blows it off, "it's been a long day. I must be hearing things. Try again?" So you do.

But Thomas wasn't hearing things.

No. It sounded like you were fucking snorting. A classic mid-laugh, coming from the belly-type snort in your specific cadence.

You start speaking before Thomas can, "—I SWEAR I am not—"

—Thomas grabs your phone, eyes glued to your face as he sends another text.

Snort.

Thomas's eyebrows almost touch. "What the actual—"

It sounded like it was coming from behind one of the paintings.

You race forward. No fucking way that was your snort. Why in the hell were you hearing your snort in a dignified art gallery where paintings worth millions of dollars lined the walls? It couldn't be. It better not. You bark at Thomas to do it again, now. And when you hear it that one last time, you pinpoint the easel in question, turn it on its back and—

"—my phone!"

You're still holding onto it when you and Thomas regroup with Rafayel. Your cheeks are a few degrees hotter than when you left him, but Rafayel still gives one of them a peck anyway, unaware.

"Thanks cutie." He gives you one more peck just cuz. "Now we can finally get outta this—" but you don't let him finish.

"—Rafayel Qi." Both men flinch. Instinctively, Rafayel whips his head to Thomas for guidance—because what was that tone and why did it make him want to shit himself—only to find that Thomas had become the walking embodiment of the stone-face emoji right now. Oh fuck.

He slowly pans back to you.

"...Love of my life?" You glare at him.

"...Keeper of my heart?" You glare at him.

"...My beautiful muse and most merciful bodyguard?" You glare at him. Hard.

"Rafayel," you grit out. "Why. Is the sound. Of my SNORT—your ringtone?"

Silence. Thomas closes his eyes. Hopefully Rafayel was smart about this but in the event he was not: no witness, no crime.

"Oh, that."

Thomas squeezes his eyelids even tighter together.

But Rafayel just exhales in relief. He laughs.

"Cutie it's my favorite sound!"

—And that's how I think you discover that Rafayel has a favorite sound. Yes, you do eventually get him to change the ringtone. But yes he certainly fights back at first. Throws in a little pout. And you hate to admit it, but hearing his reasoning does make you a little more reluctant to not have your snort sounding off at fancy banquets and in front of Rafayel's peers.

That night, the two of you bicker in the loving and playful way you always do, all the way back to his studio. You keep trying to be serious and end up in giggling fits instead. Exasperated, and dangerously close to snorting again, you try to compromise—just use any other sound, okay? There have to be other noises I make that are more pleasant? Maybe even a list of favorite sounds? Even just the top five.

lads boys with mc who's head is 'in the clouds'

a/n: this is such a cute lil scenario i hope you enjoy what i came up with sorry it's kinda short and that it took me so long to get to.

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summary: you don't want to get out of bed, and Rafayel respects that entirely, keeping you company and in high spirits.

tags: wanting to stay in bed, established relationship, domestic fluff, hurt/comfort, caretaker Rafayel, emotional comfort, cuddling, hair stroking, pet names, acts of service, soft Rafayel

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ICANT TAKE IT ANYMORE.if infold doesn't want valko, the indian muslims welcome him with open arms!!!! FROM NOW ON HE IS ONE OF US!!!!

his name is now VALIUDDIN PARVEZ KHAN. plz be respectful to him & address using huzoor, sahab, or janaab only. he has gone for umrah inshallah he come back with all hairs intact ameen🙏 KHUDAHAFIZ.

It’s been 30 minutes— heck, probably even longer than that. 30 something minutes of you just moping and crying on your bed in the middle of the night, it’s quite literally 2am and you’re just randomly crying.

You don’t even know what are you even crying about.

Curled up in a blanket, suddenly hearing quiet footsteps reaching towards the bedroom door.

Shoot— it’s Rafayel.

You scramble and try to hide, hide the puffy eyes, stuffy nose, the tear stains on your pillow, and sleep. Well, atleast pretend to sleep. It does not work. The moment he entered your room, Rafayel notices

He will always notice when it comes to you.

Carefully, he approaches your shared bed, gently caressing your head. Finding comfort in his hand, you subconsciously lean into his touch.

“Cutie? Did anything happen?” You can practically feel the concern in his voice, seeing you like this literally hurts his heart

You shift a little, trying to get close to him even more.

“Dunno. Nothing, actually. Just wanted to cry. I guess.” You look at him, peeking slightly over the blanket covering your figure.

“Honestly, nothing happened. I had a great day- i don’t even know why i cried randomly. It’s frustrating, feeling like something is wrong but i can’t even explain—“

He hums, climbing onto the bed, carefully pulling you into his warm embrace. Tucking your head against his chest, rubbing tight little circles on your back.

“Hey, hey… It’s okay. Let it all out, yeah? I’m here, I won’t leave you” You can feel his heartbeat increasing with worry— yet his voice is steady and calming, it gives a sense of relief that slowly washes through your heart.

This position that you guys made— Raf clutching you tight, grounding you, and you’re slipping into the comfort that he effortlessly gives you continues on for the rest of the night (or morning?).

Slowly, Raf’s steady breathing and touch lulled you to sleep. And finally, both of you can settle down peacefully.

A soft kiss landed on your head, “I’ll always be here, pretty.”

without a shred of doubt the reason valko was immediately announced as "cancelled" by infold is because a bunch of toxic people (be it paid by a rival company or not, it doesn't matter, the damage is done) brought up the ISAIAH related world underneath where human experimentation is obviously shown NEGATIVELY, only now.

the fact that so many valko antis are bringing this up now and many even think it's related to him shows that a whole lot in this fandom lack reading comprehension or perhaps don't even know how to read. if you were invested in the lore instead of busy encouraging classist dick-measuring contests about which side spends more, you would've known better.

it's also the reason why majority of yall valko antis don't understand the myriad of consequences that come with scrapping a fully developed and perfected character and his lore. so you're telling us a literal male lead, the chairman of a tech company that deals with PROTOCORES has nothing to do with the story? can you not fathom how many senseless plotholes, how much unnecessary retconning of the other 5 love interests, the main story will end up with?

valko's team had been planning, designing, writing, acting, voicing him, etc etc for YEARS because it TAKES YEARS to do all that, especially for a game like love and deepspace which has such high quality graphics. and now you're trying to convince us they came up with him overnight and rushed him on a whim? you're only gaslighting yourself and it's just SAD ASF

and don't even get me started about the "why yall attached to him his trailer was released 5 days ago." do you not understand how stupid that sounds coming from anybody who actually plays or has played the game? specifically if you consider that the PRETTY MEN were marketed to us first, and then everything else? because it is an OTOME game?

i literally saw one meme. one MEME. of rafayel on pinterest and immediately began digging for more, here I am now. because that's how it's supposed to work. do you not remember the frenzy caused by sylus and caleb trailers? imagine if infold decided to scrap sylus entirely after posting his official teaser because of the leaks. or better yet if infold confirmed caleb wouldn't be returning from the explosion as a love interest like a week after posting his teaser in jan2025. IMAGINE😂🙏

tl;dr : infold's lack of communication dominoed all the way to this mess and valko is being dragged because a bunch of jaahil chudettes can't read.

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