fanged, quiet, clingy, and full of light

✨🩷🦇 Welcome to Nova’s world. 🦇💜✨ She’s nine years old. A vampire. Deaf. And still the softest little light in the dark.

She didn’t ask for fangs. But she has them now🦇 and she still chooses gentleness. She holds tight when it’s safe 🐨 She talks with her hands 🤲 She watches faces like stories 🫧 And she dreams with her whole heart 🌙

🩷 Get to Know Nova ╰───────────────♡───────────────╯ 🦇 About Nova 💜 | read all about-the-baby-bat 🦇💜 | Backstory | Nova's Deaf Identity | How She Communicates | Nova’s Inner World ~ A Language of Light 💜✨ | 🩸 Nova and Feeding 🦇 | Nova and Heightened Vampire Emotions 🩸| Stories Blog 🩷 @marshmallowfangs

🦇💜 cottoncandyfangs ~ Nova’s World Index 🩷✨ A gentle table of contents for the little baby bat’s universe 🦇💫 → step inside ✨

🕯️✨ Behind the Fangs 🦇💜 ╰───────────────🪐───────────────╯ For Visitors | Personal Tumblr ~ 🪐inorbitofstars | behind-the-fangs 🦇

💜 Nova’s Tags ╰───────────────🦇───────────────╯ about-the-baby-bat 🦇💜 | cotton-candy-bat-art 🦇🧁 | nova’s-little-bat-graphics 🎀 | nova’s-little-bat-diary 📒 | games-the-baby-bat-loves 🎮 | art-the-baby-bat-loves 🦇🧁 | spooky-games-the-baby-bat-braves 👻 | safe-in-the-sky 🌌 | baby-bat-treats 🧁 | little-bat-cinema 🦇💿 | characters-she-adores 💫 | a-bat-like-me 🦇 | plushies-the-baby-bat-loves 🧸 | cotton-candy-treasures 🧁| pisces-baby-bat ♓ | nova's-neopets 🧁 | nova’s-sky-event-diary 🌈 | nova’s-time-capsule 🌈

🌙 Extras & Credits ╰───────────────✨───────────────╯ Art in theme and graphics by ahrwiblush Theme graphics by @theircursegfx 🧁 Logitech Pop Mouse for emojis

🩷✨ Cotton Candy Bat Gallery ✨🩷 ╰───────────────🦇───────────────╯ Her magical, sparkly art and graphics now live in full size and perfect quality over on DeviantArt! 🌙🦇 cottoncandyfangs on DeviantArt 🩷 🌙✨ My Little Bat & My Little Star ✨🌙 ╰───────────────💖───────────────╯ 🩷 Nova ~ @cottoncandyfangs

💜 Hazel ~ @starwishchild

🐧💙 To Nova, the 2000s Brought Club Penguin… 💜❄️

After the bright magic of the 90s came the 2000s ~ and for Nova, that meant one of the sweetest little worlds of all: Club Penguin.

Club Penguin became one of her favorite little worlds almost instantly.

Her vampire guardians saw how much she loved it right away ~ how excited she got waddling around the island, meeting other penguins, and discovering new places ~ and before long, they surprised her with a membership because she was playing so much.

Nova adored making friends on the island. There was something so special to her about a world full of penguins laughing, dancing, playing games, and just being together. She loved that soft feeling of belonging somewhere bright and busy and full of little joys.

She took such loving care of her puffles too. Feeding them, playing with them, making sure they were happy, and choosing favorites to follow her around on little adventures ~ Nova loved every second of it. To her, puffles weren’t just pets. They were tiny fluffy friends.

And of course, she spent so much time decorating her igloo. Nova turned it into the coziest little snow-dream home imaginable ~ soft colors, cute furniture, sweet little details, and a space that felt warm and magical even in the middle of all that snow.

She loved dressing up her penguin too, changing outfits all the time just to see what felt cutest that day. Her penguin’s name was NovaMarshmallow ~ the most perfect little snowy name for her.

One of her favorite things of all was dancing in the Night Club with other penguins. Nova loved the lights, the music, the feeling of everyone moving together, and the happy, playful energy of it all. She was there all the time, twirling her penguin around and feeling like she was part of something bright and alive.

To Nova, Club Penguin felt like a snowy little wonderland ~ a world of friendship, puffles, cozy rooms, silly outfits, and dancing under colorful lights.

A tiny island full of fun. A little penguin world made for a soft-hearted baby bat. 💙🐧🦇

🌐🩷 To Nova, Neopets Became a Little World of Her Own… 💜✨

In the stories where Nova’s life unfolds in the 2020s, she discovers Neopets ~ and it doesn’t take long at all before it becomes one of her favorite little places on the internet.

Her username is marshmallowfangs ~ soft and sweet with just a little vampire sparkle, perfectly hers.

And of course, one Neopet is never enough for Nova.

She fills her account with tiny beloved friends, each one with a name that sounds like it came straight out of her own heart ~ Blushberrybat, Blushmallow, Bubblewishbat, CandyBabyBat, Coralwish, Lunawishy, Mewmuffin, Moonwishy, Nebulapaw, Novasnowpuff, Pastelwishie, Petalwishbat, Prismblush, Skittlekiss, Skywishie, SprinkleMew, StarbatNova, Starblushy, StardustMew, Starwishbat, Starwishpup, Sunwishbat, Taffytrix, and Wishblush. A whole little family of dreamy names, soft colors, stars, blush, candy, and wishes.

She loves all twenty of them fiercely.

To Nova, Neopets feels like a giant toy box crossed with a fairy-tale world ~ full of little creatures to care for, customize, love, and collect. She checks on them carefully, feeds them, dresses them up, and looks at them with the same tenderness she gives all the soft things she loves most. Her Korbats are especially precious to her, little bat-shaped pieces of her own heart fluttering through her account.

She also pours that same love into her little Neopian spaces. Her shop, Pastel Starlight Nook, is filled with starry little things ~ treasures that feel soft, dreamy, and touched by moonlight. And in her gallery, Cotton Candy Treasures, she gathers all her favorite cotton-candy-colored finds, turning it into a tiny world of blush, pastel, and sparkle. To Nova, those places aren’t just parts of her account ~ they’re little corners of Neopia that feel completely her.

And in the stories set further back in time, where Nova discovers Neopets in 1999, it carries a different kind of wonder.

In those stories, Neopets feels like the internet was made just for her.

A world of bright colors, little games, strange and lovable creatures, clickable treasures, and endless small wonders waiting behind every page. To a forever-nine little vampire child with a heart full of stars, it feels like opening the door to a secret kingdom she never wants to leave.

With her vampire guardians’ permission, Nova even uses the Neoboards, and that becomes part of the magic too. She makes friends there, chats with other players, and loves the fun feeling of the early 2000s boards ~ the glowing fonts, the colorful posts, and the sense of so many other kids sharing that same bright little corner of the internet. To Nova, it feels lively and welcoming, like stepping into a sparkling clubhouse full of other people who love the same tiny world she does.

She loves the feeling of logging in and seeing her pets waiting for her. Loves the shops, the maps, the silly little surprises, the way the site feels full of secrets and treasures. Loves that it is a place where imagination lives everywhere ~ in the names, the worlds, the colors, the creatures.

Whether Nova finds Neopets in the 2020s as marshmallowfangs, building her little family of beloved pets, or discovers it back in 1999 when the internet still feels bright and new and full of wonder, it becomes the same thing to her in the end:

A favorite place. A tiny magical world. A little corner of the internet where all her stars, wishes, blush, bats, and dreams can live together. 💜🦇✨

💿🩷 To Nova, the 90s Felt Like They Were Made Just for Her… 💜📼

In some stories, Nova was turned many years before the 90s, and when that happens, the decade feels like pure magic to her ~ like an entire era made just for a forever-nine little vampire child with a heart full of color.

She loved how bright everything felt. The stickers. The glitter gel pens. The toy aisles full of rainbows. The plastic little treasures tucked into vending machines and clear glittery purses. To Nova, it felt like the world had suddenly decided to become softer, cuter, and more playful all at once.

The 90s were Nova’s dream era.

She adored Lisa Frank with her whole heart ~ all those neon dolphins, pastel leopards, glittering skies, and impossible rainbow worlds. To Nova, it felt like someone had opened up her little vampire heart and turned it into school supplies.

And the Beanie Babies… oh, she was obsessed. Tiny soft friends with names and birthdays and sweet little poems on their tags? Nova wanted to collect them all, keeping them lined up carefully on her bed like a tiny plush family. She probably always carried one around with her, tucked close beneath her arm or held against her chest.

Tamagotchis completely enchanted her too. A tiny little creature to care for, carry everywhere, and check on all day? Nova took it very seriously. She peeked at it constantly, making sure it was happy, fed, and loved, her whole face lighting up every time it chirped for her.

She loved the whole feeling of the decade ~ the bright colors, silly commercials, cartoon sleepover energy, shiny stickers, toy catalogs, and the sense that everything could be fun and a little magical. The 90s felt like a giant treasure box made of friendship bracelets, pastel notebooks, and tiny plastic stars.

For a little immortal girl who never grows up, the 90s were more than just a decade.

They were a wonderland.

A world of color and cuteness and tiny beloved things. A world where being soft, playful, and full of wonder felt like the whole point.

In those stories, the 90s stayed in Nova’s heart forever. 💜📼🩷

🌻💛 Nova’s Sky Event Diary ~ Days of Bloom 2026 🌈

Nova loved Days of Bloom 2026 so much.

From the moment she arrived in the fields, her whole world felt soft and golden ~ sunlight spilling across endless hills of sunflowers, swaying gently around her like a dream. 🌻✨

She dressed herself in the Bloom Sunflower Sundress, the Sunflower Bandana Hair, and the tiny glowing Sunflower earrings, building the sweetest little outfit she could. Then she added her blue butterfly wings and the curled antennae of the Migrating Butterfly Charmer, their yellow tips glowing softly.

And just like that, Nova turned herself into a little sunflower fairy butterfly. 💛🦋

She spent her time running through the fields with her friends, laughing and playing among the flowers, her wings catching the light as she moved. Everything felt warm, bright, and alive ~ like the whole world was blooming just for them.

One of her favorite things of all was helping care for the sunflowers. Nova loved picking up the little bucket, watering each plant carefully, and watching them grow taller and brighter over time. It felt gentle and important to her ~ like she was helping something beautiful come to life.

She would pause sometimes just to look at them ~ rows of golden flowers reaching up toward the sky, glowing in the sunlight. To Nova, it felt like standing inside a field of little suns.

There were so many quiet, happy moments too ~ sitting in the grass with her friends, listening to the soft music, watching the flowers sway, and feeling like everything was peaceful and full of light.

Days of Bloom didn’t feel like just an event to her.

It felt like warmth. Like sunshine. Like something soft growing, slowly and gently, right in her heart.

💜 Nova’s Sky Event Diary ~ Days of Love

Days of Love is Nova’s very favorite Sky event of all. She loves Valentine’s Day so much, so an event all about love, friendship, sweet moments, and glowing pink and purple magic feels like it was made just for her.

She always gets so happy the moment Days of Love arrives in Sky. Everything feels softer and more beautiful ~ full of warmth, sparkles, and little moments shared with other sky kids.

One of Nova’s favorite things is watching the falling stars. She loves standing there and looking up at them, all glittering across the sky like little wishes falling down for all the sky kids to share.

She also loves the purple crystals so much. She thinks they’re beautiful to watch, and she loves listening to the soft sounds they make too. There’s something magical about them that feels calm and dreamy and full of wonder.

Nova has all of the Days of Love items, and some of her most beloved favorites are the Days of Love Amethyst-Tipped Tails, with their pretty purple-tipped high ponytails, and the Days of Love Amethyst Accessory, the tiny glowing crystalline hearts on the headband she wears in her hair. She especially loves how they glow when she hugs other sky kids ~ it makes every hug feel even sweeter.

She also adores the Days of Love Serendipitous Scepter and loves making red, pink, and purple heart fireworks with it. It makes her so happy to fill the sky with little bursts of love and color.

And of course, Nova absolutely loves riding with her friends on all the Days of Love props. She loves the gondola, the swing, and the seesaw so much. Sitting together on them feels so special, especially when the little red hearts begin to appear after sitting together for a while. Those tiny hearts always make Nova smile.

She even loves carrying those props with her when she plays Sky, so if she’s with friends ~ or even kind strangers ~ they can stop and swing together anytime. To Nova, that’s one of the sweetest parts of the event ~ turning an ordinary moment into a happy little memory with someone else.

Days of Love always leaves Nova with so many cute, happy memories. It feels soft, sparkling, affectionate, and full of togetherness ~ everything she loves most about Sky.

For Nova, Days of Love isn’t just her favorite because it’s pretty.

It’s her favorite because it feels like Sky turns into a glowing little world where love and friendship are everywhere ~ in the stars, in the music, in the crystals, in every shared moment, and in every heart she gives and receives. 💜✨

🧧 Nova’s Sky Event Diary ~ Days of Fortune

Nova had the happiest time during Days of Fortune this year. The whole festival felt magical ~ glowing lanterns, little stalls, and Sky kids gathering together to celebrate.

But her absolute favorite thing was the carousel ride.

Once the spirits finished building it, Nova kept going back again and again. She loved sitting on the carousel mantadeers, listening to the soft carousel music and spinning gently while other players hopped on beside her. Sometimes the whole ride would fill up with Sky kids laughing, waving, and sending emotes to each other.

It made Nova so happy to see everyone riding together.

Her vampire guardians also surprised her with the Fortune Plush Mount, and she instantly fell in love with it. Now she rides it everywhere she goes in Sky, happily bouncing across realms.

And Nova never keeps the fun to herself.

Whenever her friends are with her, she always invites them to ride the plushie mount together so they can travel through the skies side by side. Nova loves sharing little adventures like that ~ flying together, exploring together, and turning every realm into a tiny celebration of friendship.

For Nova, Sky events are little pockets of magic she gets to share with other sky kids.

Seeing everyone gathered together ~ riding, exploring, and enjoying the festival side by side ~ makes her feel safe, happy, and full of wonder. 💜🦇✨

💜 Nova’s Diary ~ The AURORA Concert

The AURORA concert will always be one of the most magical memories in Nova’s heart.

AURORA is Nova’s favorite singer ~ and the Sky x AURORA concert was the first time music truly felt like something beautiful and alive to her. After becoming a vampire, Nova could physically hear sound, but it did not feel simple or familiar. It was overwhelming, strange, and new. Then the concert began, and for the first time, sound became something more than noise.

It became magic.

Wrapped in dreamlike lights, endless color, and the feeling of thousands of sky kids gathering together, Nova listened to AURORA’s voice and felt like she was being welcomed into an entirely new world.

AURORA’s voice felt soft and ethereal and full of wonder. It drifted around Nova like starlight ~ gentle, glowing, and full of feeling. The music did not feel harsh or frightening. It felt tender. It felt safe. It felt like hearing had opened into something luminous.

Songs like Exhale Inhale, Runaway, All Is Soft Inside, Warrior, The Seed, Through the Eyes of a Child, and Queendom lit up Nova’s heart with awe. Each one felt like a little piece of light reaching her, showing her that sound could be emotional, comforting, and full of beauty.

The dreamlike visuals made everything even more unforgettable. The concert did not feel like simply watching a performance ~ it felt like floating through a living song. Nova was surrounded by color, movement, light, and the presence of other players sharing the moment with her.

With so many sky kids gathered together and the whole concert unfolding like a dream, Nova felt like she had been carried right into the heart of something magical.

Seeing so many other sky kids there with her made the concert feel even more magical ~ like thousands of little hearts were all glowing together inside the same song.

For Nova, AURORA is not just a singer she loves.

She is the first voice that truly reached her.

She is the melody that welcomed Nova into sound with softness instead of fear. She is part of the reason hearing became tied to beauty, hope, gentleness, and wonder. Through AURORA, Nova discovered that music could hold her instead of overwhelm her ~ just like the soft sounds she had already begun to love: the swirl of water, bubbles in her bath, the heartbeat of her vampire guardians, and their voices. Little by little, those sounds welcomed her into hearing, and AURORA became one of the brightest and most beautiful parts of that new world.

That is why the AURORA concert will always mean so much to her.

It was not only a beautiful Sky event. It was the moment Nova realized that sound could be a kind of magic, and that one voice could make a whole new world feel warm and bright and full of love. 💜✨

🩷🫧 Archie the Axolotl ~ A Squishmallow Just Like Nova 🫧🩷

Nova loves many soft things in her world ~ pastel skies, fairy lights, and Squishmallows tucked beneath blankets ~ but one of the most special ones to her is Archie the Axolotl.

Archie is a shy little Squishmallow with a beautiful talent: he talks with his hands. Instead of speaking with words, Archie communicates through sign language, sharing his thoughts and feelings with careful, expressive movements. Because Nova is Deaf and speaks with her hands too, Archie feels wonderfully familiar to her ~ like a plush friend who understands her language.

When Nova first learned about Archie, her heart lit up right away. A Squishmallow who signs? One who teaches other Squishmallows how to communicate the same way she does? To Nova, that feels like a tiny piece of her world living inside a soft plush friend.

Archie is kind, gentle, and brave in his own quiet way. He even started a sign language club so other Squishmallows could learn to sign too, helping them understand each other without needing spoken words. Nova loves that about him ~ the way he makes space for everyone to communicate and belong. She also loves that Archie loves to dance, because Nova loves dancing too ~ swaying and spinning to music in her own soft, joyful way.

She also loves that Archie feels the rhythm of music rather than hearing it the way others do. That part reminds Nova of the way she once experienced music as a human ~ through vibration, rhythm, and feeling rather than sound itself. After becoming a vampire, Nova gained the physical ability to hear, and music opened into something new and beautiful for her, especially soft, ethereal songs like Aurora’s. But even now, too much noise can still overwhelm her, and there is something deeply familiar in Archie’s quieter way of experiencing the world. That’s part of why she relates to him so much ~ he feels like a soft little reflection of both who she was and who she is now.

And Archie isn’t alone, either ~ he has Clutch, his sweet blue axolotl best friend and teammate. Nova loves Clutch too, because he stays close to Archie and steps in as his ears and advocate when they’re with someone who doesn’t sign. The fact that Clutch helped teach their whole team to sign for Archie’s birthday means so much to her. Nova loves that kind of friendship ~ gentle, loyal, protective, and full of care. It reminds her that the best kind of love is the kind that learns how to understand you.

Sometimes Nova curls up beneath fairy lights with her axolotl Squishmallows tucked against her chest, imagining Archie happily signing stories to his friends, teaching them new words, dancing along to music in his own sweet way, with Clutch always close beside him. To her, they aren’t just plush toys ~ they’re little reminders that there are many ways to speak, many ways to listen, and many ways to belong.

That’s why Archie is so special to Nova.

He’s soft, kind, and brave.

🎮🎞️ The Stories Nova Loves 🦇💜

Nova doesn’t love loud, chaotic stories. The worlds that stay in her heart are soft ones ~ quiet, emotional, dreamlike places filled with beauty and gentle wonder.

The games and films she loves all share the same feeling: glowing skies, beautiful music, kind companions, animals who guide the way, and little places to hide when the world becomes too loud.

Many of her favorite stories are told without many words. They speak through music, movement, color, and quiet moments instead. Nova understands those kinds of stories deeply. That’s part of why she loves games like Sky: Children of the Light, Journey, Gris, ABZÛ, Neva, Sword of the Sea, AER: Memories of Old, Stray, Farewell North, and Fe ~ stories that feel less like playing and more like drifting through a dream.

The ones she loves most often have:

• wordless or low-word storytelling • movement that feels like flying, drifting, gliding, or swimming • companions who stay close and never leave you behind • beauty mixed with a little sadness • worlds that feel lonely, magical, and gentle all at once

She loves gliding through the skies in Sky with her best friend, lighting candles for strangers, honking back and forth, and flying hand in hand through realms that feel like dreams. She loves the soft rain of Hidden Forest, the glowing open skies of Daylight Prairie, and the feeling that every realm is full of quiet magic waiting to be found.

In Journey, she chirps through golden ruins with a silent companion by her side, sliding down dunes with scarves trailing behind them like little stars, never needing words to feel understood. She loves swimming through glowing oceans in ABZÛ and finding healing in the watercolor sorrow of Gris.

In Neva, she runs beside the brave white wolf through glowing forests, holding close to the quiet bond between them even when the world grows dark. In AER: Memories of Old, she soars between floating islands as a girl who can become a bird, drifting through the sky as if she has stepped into one of her own daydreams. In Farewell North, she loves the bond between girl and dog, the lonely beauty of the landscape, and the way love and companionship feel like they are coloring the world back to life. And in Sword of the Sea, she watches the world unfold in sweeping waves of sand and water, drifting across ancient ruins like a dream carried on the wind. Even when a story is sad, there is still something soft inside it ~ something beautiful, kind, and full of hope.

Some of Nova’s favorite stories remind her that even creatures people fear can be kind. That’s why she loves Undertale so much ~ a world where monsters aren’t really monsters at all, just friends waiting to be understood. As a little vampire, that truth means everything to her.

Nova loves stories about animals wandering through mysterious worlds ~ like Spirit of the North, Lost Ember, Fe, Stray, and the quiet journey of the cat in Flow. Whether she’s following a glowing spirit fox through snowy ruins, slipping through old memories as a wolf, climbing and gliding through a dark Nordic forest while singing to birds, plants, and animals, prowling through a neon city as a cat, or watching a small creature move bravely through a strange and beautiful place, those stories feel deeply familiar to her.

Nova also has a playful side, and that’s where games like Little Kitty, Big City and Untitled Goose Game come in ~ tiny animal troublemakers causing silly chaos, stealing things, honking, meowing, and turning the world into one big mischievous adventure.

And sometimes she loves a little gentle spooky adventure too. Little Nightmares III is one of her favorites because of the bond between Low and Alone ~ two small children facing the dark together, side by side. What Nova loves most is the way they stay with each other and hold hands through the fear, a tiny reminder that even the scariest places feel softer when someone never lets go.

These kinds of stories feel safe. They feel soft. They feel like drifting through a dream.

Little worlds where no one has to speak to understand each other ~ where music, movement, and light say everything that needs to be said.

Those are the stories Nova loves most. 💜🦇✨ Read more about 🎮✨ Nova’s Favourite Games 🩷🦇

Nova is a little vampire child ~ a forever-nine baby bat with a heart full of quiet love and pastel light. Born Deaf, she speaks with her hands, her eyes, and little notes bright with color, moving through the world with a softness that is entirely her own. Though becoming a vampire changed her life, it never changed who she is ~ gentle, clingy, imaginative, and full of wonder. Now she lives beneath moonlit skies with the vampire family who keeps her safe, wrapped in love, fairy lights, and cotton candy dreams. She spends her nights drawing tiny bats, pink-and-purple Swoobats, Sky Kids, axolotls, and soft Squishmallows, curling close to those she trusts and finding magic in every small, beautiful thing. Nova is tender, dreamy, and endlessly loving ~ a little star in the dark who shines with all her heart. 💜🦇✨