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Am I writing this purely because I have accidentally come across several Ortho x reader and Ortho x [first year] ship posts? Along with a smut fic where Ortho is 18 and they give very very specific details which made me want to burn my computer?

Yes. It is. (Someone burn my eyes, please.)

Anyways:

All the first years forgot Vil and Jack were childhood friends for a whole month and all keep getting jumpscared when they remember.

All members have an initiation ceremony when they become friends which is literally just them going around Ramshackle and picking out the room they want to sleep in.

Epel's room was originally for escaping from Vil but Rook caught on within two days. Now it's where he stores his apples and apple juices, which Grim feasts on. Epel doesn't exactly mind as long as it isn't his junk food that he managed to stash away without Vil noticing. Someone is getting slimed out the moment it's gone.

Jack uses his room for some personal training when he can't find peace in his dorm, and to store some of his lighter weights. He attempted to put some of his heavy ones there at first and heard something crack before everything fell onto the first floor. He did some damage and got scolded by Grim of all people and helped repair the damages.

Ace called dibs the moment Yuu announced the rooms were clean enough for them to call dibs. He claimed one right next to Yuu, and Deuce took the other room next to Yuu.

Ace and Deuce usually use their rooms for privacy, and when Ace needs to escape from Riddle. Deuce uses it sometimes for private studying because his dormmates (mostly Ace) can get loud and he needs all the peace he can get.

Sebek said he didn't need the room due to his duties as Malleus's guard, but did warm up to it after Lilia pushed him to hang out with his friends more. Also after his friends dragged him a few times.

Ortho has one too, and he uses it as his second charging spot. He also uses it for privacy on occassions, and his room is full of new hobby items that he tried out, like origami, knitting, and more.

Addition to that: Ortho, especially after Book 6, has repeatedly tried out multiple hobbies to figure out what he likes. His friends sometimes offer new things he could try, Jack offered him a cacti once to grow.

Deuce has droven everyone to the beach for screaming at least once. Epel is the most frequent visitor but everyone's gone at least once. It's very cathartic.

All the freshmen know the one window in Ramshackle that's always open. They made it look like it's locked with this rusty looking lock, but they all know it's open and they break into it when Yuu's not around and the door's locked.

Whenever one of them feels sad, or says something even slightly self deprecating, the first years do some sort of cult circle around the sad person and forbid them from escaping. Not an actual cult circle, it's just their way of stopping the person from avoiding their feelings. All of them are hypocrites and always try to escape the friendship cult circle.

Sebek's way of cheering someone up sometimes in said friendship cult circle is yelling, "YOU ARE LOVED HUMAN!!!!!" and of course, being the blunt yet caring friend.

Deuce is a little awkward at first but is a bit more gentle with it, talking about his own flaws and how the person who's sad is amazing.

Ace does tease a bit at first, but is realistic, talking genuinely and bluntly, just like Sebek. He will point out the person's self deprecating bullshit within seconds.

Epel's also pretty blunt, he tries to use his real accent specifically at times like these to show that he's being genuine and not fake. He also yells at times, sometimes talking about how the person who's sad should be more proud of themselves and also brings up his flaws at times, like Deuce.

Ortho brings up statistics and specific memories that contradict what the person is saying. Ortho would be one of the more gentle ones, talking very specifically in order to show that he's not just trying to be nice.

Jack's a bit stiff, but reassuring. He may not always be upfront about his emotions, and may try to express them in a more subtle manner, but he's as firm as he can be when he's trying to reassure someone.

Yuu gets talked over by Grim sometimes who calls the sad person an idiot first for thinking in such a manner. If we're just talking about the game version of Yuu, they probably bring up a new perspective to what the person is feeling bad about. Grim would probably say something a bit silly, and even a little snarky, but nice and chuck food at the person.

Anyways they all collectively run away from the other first years whenever they're feeling sad and one of them says, "Get 'em," because they know they're about to be surrounded.

Yuu and Grim are technically one student together, so their grades get added up and sliced in half. The first years all collectively thank god for Yuu's ability to score higher than average or they would both be in remedial classes or expelled for academic failure.

One time they had a sleepover at Ramshackle and after many, many board games played and many movies watched and many fights started, they fell asleep in the bathroom and Jack was sleeping in the tub with Epel who was snoring very loudly.

On that topic: Epel snores.

Ortho has a mean streak, obviously so he has laced his friend's foods with spicy stuff on a few occasions.

They all had to collectively sit down and teach Sebek to not use all caps when he texts, with Ace joking "I can literally hear him yelling this at me whenever I read his texts in his voice," and continued to do a Sebek voice impression.

They also had to explain some "normal human activities" to Sebek so that he could feel included.

Ace always teases everyone, but when he goes too far, he apologizes. Even if it's awkward, even if it's sloppy. He apologizes. He may realize he was wrong a bit too late. But he always admits it if he can.

They've all collectively figured out that Sebek doesn't exactly like the fact that he is a half-human, half-fae species due to him feeling abnormal and out of place. When this happened all of them cheered him up using their own methods, like Epel bringing up he gets mistaken as a girl all the time, and Yuu saying, "I'm literally from another world, me too Sebek", Grim saying, "I'm literally a direbeast in school, not that it will stop me but still!” (Cue friendship cult circle.)

While I don't hate Ace for this, he did get relentlessly bullied by his friends for ghosting his girlfriend in middle school. Specifically by Sebek and Jack.

Deuce probably had a bunch of guys have a crush on him during his middle school days. He never noticed.

All of the first years have made it their mission to occasionally drop by with food and hide them in the refrigerator in Ramshackle without Yuu or Grim noticing. Grim, because he will tell Yuu, and Yuu because they keep rejecting their attempts to help. They've pulled some cartoon-level bullshit to make this happen, like hiding very badly behind a potted plant level of cartoon bullshit. It's a heist mission every time.

Sebek (Whisper yelling): "ARE THEY GONE?”

Everyone except Sebek: "Sebek STFU-"

(All of them are hidden horribly behind something and they somehow haven't gotten caught yet.)

They all collectively have the mindset, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" in certain areas.

They once had an apple carving contest after they witnessed Epel make a swan out of an apple. Ace started it, obviously and Epel was the victor. Ortho turned off most of his skills so they could have a clean fight.

After all of them got to go to the beach to scream about their feelings just like Deuce did for Epel, they all collectively went to a rage room. Surprisingly the ones that went apeshit was Jack and unsurprisingly Epel. Ace and Deuce did some damage, Sebek did less damage considerably and Ortho had also done some moderate damage. However they had all used one room so they had demolished the place by the end.

The first years are involved in a ship war. The Heartslabyul students ship Adeuce, Pomefiore ships Deuce x Epel, Diasomnia ships Deuce x Sebek, Savanaclaw ships Deuce x Jack, and Ortho is the son of this entire situation, why is Deuce specifically the catch? I don't know, why not?

The first years all cockblock anyone from trying to flirt with them. Like they never notice when they're being flirted with, but notice immediately when it's anyone else.

They obviously have a group chat and sometimes they keep going to another one by accident and saying some wild stuff.

Exhibit A:

Epel: "WHICH ONE OF YA FUCKIN HOES TOOK MAH ICE CREAM????? ACE WAS IT YER FAT ASS AGAIN????? ISTG IM SLIMING YALL OUT TODAY"

Silver: "..Epel, I regret to inform you that 1. No one took your ice cream, and 2. I assume that you are in the wrong group chat."

Epel: ".....please don't tell my housewarden about this ^^."

They have a handshake thing going on as well. They have a bunch of stuff they thought about trying as a sign of their friendship but most of them thought "it was cringe" or something until they all decided on having a secret handshake.

They all gatekeep information from others, like they have a gossip session almost every day without necessarily making plans because everyday, some shit happens.

Ortho doesn't say much when others refer to him as a robot, but his friends do. They all get jumped the moment they even say the "ro" in robot.

Ortho also turns off most of his robotic skills when doing something new with his friends so he can have a more normal experience. Sometimes it's demanded of him because of how overpowered he is otherwise.

The first years have all memorized each other's habits without saying much. They are not slick. They all know Sebek and Epel both like eating, especially when Epel has the chance to snack on junk food, so they all collectively buy some junk food to stash at Ramshackle (with some left over for Yuu and Grim).

People constantly talk about how he's "changed for the better".

His dormmates talk about how magnanimous he is now, how much calmer he is.

How he was so, so terrifying before his Overblot.

How he was impossible to approach, how now they can finally breath around him.

Like he was some impossible monster who always screamed.

Yes, Riddle acknowledged his wrong doings. Yes, he worked towards changing that, every day. Every single painful step he took towards the path of change.

Yet most people hated the old him. The old him who yelled, and beheaded, the old him who suffered.

What was obvious was this. It was that the old Riddle, was only valuable after he had changed. As some sort of "look at how much he's improved" manner. Just there for comparison.

They only saw the harm he brought.

Their compliments towards Riddle are just insults they think are nice. All of them summarize to the fact that his old self wasn't "lovable".

Most of the NRC students would act like current Riddle is a separate being from the version before his Overblot.

The thing I notice the most is Riddle is a straightforward character. He will do what he believes is right. And even then, before his Overblot, he did what he thought was right. He tried his hardest, and I just think no one acknowledged it except Trey but his acknowledgement was more "enabling" than actual acknowledgement.

Riddle, under this situation would slowly believe that his previous self was a mistake. His memories of his past would slowly turn to shame and embarrassment and he would dislike bringing it up.

Except you, and Floyd for some reason.

You, who had only known him for like, 2 or 3 days after arriving to this whole new world out of no where.

Floyd, who literally gets beheaded by Riddle every other day.

Floyd's interpretation at first glance could be seen as simple minded. "Oh, Goldfishie had a better reaction before his Overblot", or something of the like, that could be seen as rude, but it likely recognizes something Riddle wanted to be recognized.

That he tried. He tried a lot, too much if we're being honest. He walked towards the path he believed was correct, probably sprinted towards it for a very long time.

He took every, single step back towards a new path after his Overblot. He acknowledged everything and changed, but people act like his previous self was a monster.

To Floyd, Riddle was still "Goldfishie", his old self wasn't some weird sea monster that everyone feared. Goldfishie was still Goldfishie, no matter which version it was.

Floyd could recognize how passionate Riddle was before. He still is, of course.

Also Floyd knows he may have been a tyrant, but that he was a tyrant who cared.

Floyd had the first row seat to all of Riddle's "tyrannical behavior". He was the root cause of around 50% of said behavior. He's been collared, yelled at, threatened, and so much more.

You, the Prefect who knew Riddle for 2 days and mostly saw how he was deteriorating as they spoke. You were there for the ugliest part, you met Riddle for probably what was the worst moments of his life.

If anything, you are one of the few people that can honestly hate the old version of Riddle. You were magicless, and left stranded in a whole new world with magic everywhere and witnessed a powerful mage attempt to kill people. Your first view of Riddle was likely not good to say the least.

However, you was also there for when Riddle actually broke. You learned the reason behind everything.

Riddle clung to the rules because he was afraid that after everything that he went through, what if it was all meaningless? What if all those years of isolation and forced studying meant nothing? What if his mother was wrong? His actions resembled that of someone who was drowning.

You have seen the crash out moment. You have seen the exact moment from when Riddle slowly started just losing it. But that's how you know Riddle wasn't just some weird tyrant who just wanted to dictate everyone.

And as someone who was considered an outsider, you could have seen things from a more rational perspective. You didn't have baggage like the other Heartslabyul students or literally anyone from NRC. You didn't have guilt over Riddle like Trey did, or experience "managing" him like his classmates or his seniors did. You weren't beheaded constantly, or had history with him.

The main point is, both Floyd and you have the best opportunity in my opinion to give the most blunt opinion of him. Both you and Floyd have seen the two versions of Riddle, and can recognize his efforts easily.

By hearing, "I liked the old you too," from either you or Floyd or literally anyone, Riddle could have some moment of realization and comfort. People's judgement of him had easily oversimplified all his actions to the dictatorship of a tyrant. Of course, there are other characters who don't think that at all, but the mass of the school does.

By hearing that sentence, Riddle could hear something else. He could hear that "I didn't like your actions, but I didn't hate you."

Yuu: (explaining the lore of the Overblots of 7 mages, one Direbeast that is currently violently using firework magic, how they got drop kicked into a whole new world with no magic, how their Headmage does absolutely nothing to help them, how they got kidnapped by Scarabia students, how they went homeless for 3 days, how they don't get paid, how they are the school's free therapist and more)

Rollo:....

Yuu: Yeah that's it. Rollo you ok?

Rollo: "ARE YOU?????"

Name: Eugene (It's pronounced like Yuu-jin so their nickname was Yuu right before the actual Yuu arrived.)

Gender: Idk bro

Age: 17

Year: 2nd year

Dorm: Scarabia

Club: Mountain Lovers Club

Height: 5'8

Nickname: Ika chan/Squiddie from Floyd, Jin, and Genie chan.

Occupation: Student, tutor, part timer at Sam's Mystery Shop, works sometimes at Mostro Lounge, does random stuff if they get paid.

Magic or Magicless?: Magic user/Mage. They can use magic, it's just they were also suddenly sent to NRC without warning.

How they got to NRC: They closed their eyes, woke up and suddenly they were in a casket and they just broke out of the casket because they thought they were being human trafficked or something.

How it happened:

Riddle: "OFF WITH YOUR HE-"

Jade: (Wheezing on the floor)

Azul: "I don't know him."

CRASH

Eugene: "Yo what the actual FU-"

(Crowley gave them a lecture on patience.)

Note: This was a year before the Prefect arrived so this was also the same Orientation day where Floyd pulled on Riddle's bangs and got his ass whooped.

The funny thing was when the Prefect arrived everyone's reaction except for the first years was literally "Oh not again" until they learned the Prefect was magicless which was the shocking part.

Based off: You guessed it, the Genie from Aladdin.

The Genie is also seen cross dressing in the song, "Prince Ali" so that's why I made Eugene's gender the most mysterious thing to ever exist. It's like the whole "we've had a 3 month debate over this and they refuse to say anything."

They respond to any pronouns, but most go by she/they because they look a bit more feminine than masculine. Was this literally just be swapping the cross dressing order? Probably.

Personality: Calm, all rounder and adaptive person. They can fit with anyone, like a puzzle piece that matches every piece. They're friendly and laid back, easy to please and hard to anger. They always read the room and is competant. They're very resourceful. A mix of Cater, Trey and Jamil all in one.

Appearance: Black hair, and black eyes. They have a very androgynous face, like their eyes are very big but they look like a guy sometimes and looks like a girl sometimes. Their hair is long though. (Think Asian person with long hair.)

Favorite food: Jams, and buffet food. (Jams because, you know, Genie but buffet food because of the whole "I'm fine with anything and everything" thing going on.)

Least favorite food: Stuffed dates (no specific reason, they keep getting offered stuffed dates as a sign of hospitality) or fortune cookies. They ate the paper inside once and choked. Also they don't like fortunes.

The reason Eugene is based off the Genie: There are two main traits and it's that 1. the Genie can't leave the lamp and Eugene can't leave Twisted Wonderland, 2. the Genie can't wish for himself and Eugene doesn't have the resources or time or opportunity to do anything.

Main thing: The Genie can't leave the lamp without the wish of the owner of the lamp, and Eugene can't leave Twisted Wonderland without the help of others.

Also this is how the whole "Yuu suddenly arriving to NRC" went down.

Riddle: "A human from another world?"

Leona: "Again?"

Ace: "WHAT DO YOU MEAN AGAIN-"

Vil: "Paperwork."

Kalim: "A lot of paperwork!"

Leona: "I skipped the paperwork."

Housewardens (except Leona): "We know."

Fun fact: Eugene is not worshipped or famous in a celebrity way, but they are mentioned a lot.

You want tutoring? Eugene's a tutor.

You forgot lunch from the cafeteria? Eugene probably has a backup lunch.

You need to get to class? Eugene knows a short cut.

You need to overthrow a government? ..Eugene probably knows a guy?

The whole gender thing and how it happened:

Ace: "Eugene's a guy."

Deuce: "Huh? Aren't they a girl?"

Jack: "So are they a guy or a girl?"

Cater: "Oh yeah we asked a few times."

Epel: "What'd they say?"

Kalim: "They said, 'Wouldn't you like to know, weather boy?'"

Anyways, I just created them because I wanted a character that would specifically work toward the goal of literal survival in a whole new world. Of course unlike the Prefect, Eugene can use magic but other than that, it's the same. I wanted a character that wasn't focused on the Overblot or the tournaments, and just worked on financial stability and returning to their world.

Not just intellectually, but also street smart and emotionally smart and physically very capable.

Like the type of person who meal preps, studies, exercises, and honestly an overall normal, well rounded person.

Something that never lasts long at NRC yet here they are.

(As you can probably tell by now I dislike the stereotypical Y/ns, or the new chaotic versions. The second version is very entertaining but far away from who I actually am as a person. I also dislike the idea of Yuu's only purpose being to thirst after characters.)

Side note: This is an HC, pick out the ideas you like, throw out the ones you don't like.

The Prefect, who remains the top student of the first years, for multiple reasons.

One of them being the fact that they received higher education, either by a tutor, or by them pursuing a higher education as they are older than their fellow classmates. Or they got the Riddle treatment.

The Prefect keeps making deals with Azul even when the first year friend group yells at them to stop and keeps getting out of the deals before they lose something and it ragebaits Azul so much. Azul and the Prefect have a bit of a love and hate relationship going on because Azul wants to beat them SO MUCH and the Prefect keeps escaping them like two miliseconds before they are caught. (Aka the street smart part.)

They also keep working part time at the Mostro Lounge and is the only reason Floyd is consistently engaged and working whenever they are there. Aka the second reason Azul has a love and hate relationship with them because they keep jumping out the window (metaphorically and literally) whenever he offers them a full time job.

If the Prefect ever gets a full time job at Mostro Lounge, Jade will quite literally book them for every day he's working, or every day Floyd is working, or just every day. The Prefect is NOT seeing the light of day again.

The Ramshackle dorm is probably a little bit cleaner than in canon for several reasons.

Riddle keeps sending the Prefect to tutor Ace and Deuce and somehow whenever he does that, Vil sends Epel who's a dumbass who drags Jack along with him and then Ortho joins for socialization and then Lilia pushes Sebek into it so he can make friends.

Imagine Grim and the Prefect have to add their test scores to each other's and divide them in half to get their actual score because they're a "2 in 1 deal".

The Prefect is quite literally the only reason Grim has not been expelled for academic failure and the teachers KNOW it. (the Prefect is scoring 100s every test for a reason lmao.)

The Prefect also probably goes around doing stuff for others when they are free, like speedrunning cooking for Jamil whenever Kalim throws a party, or organizing a study group for their other friends, like Kalim, Ruggie, Cater, and more with Riddle and Azul as the other two tutors on occassion.

They are pretty street smart, so I'd imagine them doing tutoring on the side for paying off bills, and bothering Crowley until they get paid their promised allowance, and doing random side quests for Sam to get discounts.

They did so many side quests for Sam that they somehow get 50 percent off all of Sam's products. No one knows how. (There is some parental favoritism in there.)

I'd imagine they probably save coupons, and befriended Ruggie out of their shared financial situation. (They're crying in broke.)

I can also definitely see them being friends with Jamil and Ruggie specifically since they all work in service in some way.

They are 100% the favorite student of the teachers, because of how hard they work both inside and outside the classroom. (This happened specifically after they saw the Prefect pass out, get back up, pass out again, and then apologize and go back to work.)

The Prefect probably has a cult. I don't know, probably. Or a fan club. If the Housewardens have a fan club, I'd think that one dude who came to a whole new world magicless, tamed a direbeast, beat 7 Overblots while magicless, and lives in what's considered a fucking haunted and abandoned house has a fan club.

They are THE heart throb of the school and they have accidentally acquired many sugar daddies.

Since the Prefect is probably physically capable, that's likely how the first years (except Ortho), and probably the entirety of Savanaclaw came to like them.

It'd be funny if the Prefect was like, talented in music, like both singing and dancing so Rook chased them down during the VDC auditions and Grim had to be like "HEY, HANDS OFF MY HENCHHUMAN!!!"

The Prefect is also the only reason Grim is being fed (fucking fatass).

They also, albeit to the dismay of all NRC students, get along with RSA students (Canonically, the Prefect in game has never looked down on RSA students either.)

They have managed to rizz Chenya, and then Neige when they met, and then accidentally rizzed up everyone else. Rielle was very easy to rizz.

HCs:

I like to think the Prefect indulges Malleus's yapping sessions about gargoyles and genuinely remembers some of them, especially about his rants about grotesques.

The first years keep breaking into the Prefect's dorm to sleep over or to escape their dorm. Grim decided after their 4th break in to demand that they bring foods or extra stuff in as a bribery attempt whenever they wanna crash.

There was a war between everyone when the Prefect was deciding which club to choose until Grim just dragged them into that one big back club.

The Prefect sometimes visits multiple clubs just for fun and joins them sometimes. Especially the smaller clubs, like the Gargoyle Studies Club and the Mountain Lovers Club and the Light Music Club.

Jade drags them to hike with him almost every week, sometimes Floyd steals them away and drags them to watch him play basketball or someone else takes them.

Cater sends reels at 3 AM after they get really close and drag them out to eat cute desserts with him which is literally just him taking all the pictures and giving them all the sweets to eat. Neither of them complain. Free food is free food.

The Prefect has been invited into multiple group chats, including the Light Music Club one, and more.

The Prefect is the only person that willingly helps Lilia cook, other than the times the Diasomnia squad tries to salvage the cooking by directly helping Lilia.

The first years have this secret handshake that they keep gatekeeping whenever others try to copy them.

The Prefect is one of the only people that actually listens to Sebek when he talks about Malleus.

The Prefect genuinely scares others sometimes in a good way because they keep remembering small things about their friends for their gifts.

Epel sends you to Vil as a replacement sacrifice whenever he's trying to get Epel to do skincare. (Vil prefers this as well but he will never admit that.)

Jamil, Ruggie, and the Prefect has some GC together.

The first years have a GC where they keep forgetting to go to the actual GC and go to the shared GC with all the first, second and third years, say some wild shit and shocks everyone. (They once saw Epel typing some tarnation of a series of curse words because Ace stole his ice cream that he hid in Ramshackle.)

The Prefect did not fear Riddle, even before his Overblot because they don't have magic, so other than the mildly inconveniencing feeling of having a collar on they don't have any problems going on with being collared.

Most of the upperclassmen's crushes on the Prefect grew after their dorm's Overblot.

There have been MANY attempts of each dorm to have the Prefect move dorms (to theirs specifically).

After everyone basically had a crush on them, or just began to really like them as a person, the Ramshackle dorm's situation became very clear to them, so Ramshackle was fixed faster than in canon.

They all die during some apocalypse/Overblot moment (I'll just say Malleus's Overblot because why not) and all end up back in time.

Instead of realizing they're back in time, the first years all have a moment for around 3 ish days where they all assume they are in an alternate dimension because their friends (other first years) are being way too nice.

They all wake up back in time right around Orientation, including the Prefect and Grim. The Prefect/Yuu did not act calm but instead of "OMG WHY AM I IN A DIFFERENT WORLD AND WHY DID I COME OUT OF A CASKET AND WHY IS AN EVIL BIRD MAN STARING AT ME" they were more like "..Is that Grim or am I on crack?"

Ace and Deuce did not fight or have the cauldron moment and just met during Orientation, and Epel did not fight Vil during Orientation.

Jack and Sebek (who was uncharacteristically quiet) were both trying to lock in and figure out if they were back in time but witnessed Ace and Deuce getting along and Epel being very calm and both decided "Yup this is NOT my world".

Ortho was running data and had half a hunch he was only back in time due to some super duper cool tech data he got telling him his info of the world he was previously in and the world he was currently in had a 100% match but decided to fuck with the first years and remain quiet.

All of the first years had come visit Yuu and Grim after Orientation to drop off some spare stuff they had, like clean pillow sheets and pillows, blankets, cooking utensils, extra shampoo and towels, albeit extremely awkwardly.

At some point Yuu had decided "Yup this is NOT my world" (part 2) because of that and because Epel and Sebek were both way too quiet.

Epel did NOT have his Orientation uniform vignette story happen because he hadn't fought Vil and had Vil's table manner lessons drilled into his bones. Rook did somewhat figure that Epel was not originally born into a noble family due to 1. his table manners being just a tiny bit sloppy (curse his hunter instincts) and 2. Epel had caught his eye and 3. he did seem slightly out of place and seemed awkward amongst his fellow classmates.

Sebek was quiet since he was trying to think so it scared every single Diasomnia member in existence (aka just Malleus, Lilia and Silver).

Ortho was acting normal around Idia but had basically been acting "odd" and seemed like he wanted to go somewhere else but had been trying to seem calm.

They figured it out when Ace didn't punch Riddle (the Overblot happened either way.) and all of them (Sebek, Jack, Epel and Ortho were all hiding around since they figured the Overblot might happen) went "AHA-".

Eventually all of a sudden NRC had 8 first years all bickering loudly and running after each other as if they had been friends all along.

Tbh lmao yeah I can see that. It was just:

Malleus: "Humans fear me."

Random human (you): "Here, this is a ticket I got for free-"

Malleus (pauses): "I see. You shall be my companion for life even after death."

You: "WHAT-"

Malleus: "What color shall the wedding dress be?"

You: "YO HOLD ON-"

I was gonna do an x reader and somehow turned it into a character analysis.

Also it's so funny how it takes me a few days for any of my other posts to hit a hundred likes but ANYTHING Malleus related takes 2 hours at best.

A child that others could not see behind the infinite power that he held.

A child who should have been treated like one, yet wasn't.

A child that didn't get to be a child. That is what makes up Malleus Draconia.

A person that was feared and avoided before he even knew why he was feared.

He, who had those who loved him in their own way. Lilia, whose love was the most obvious, but even he could not fill up the void in Malleus's heart.

Silver and Sebek, whose loyalty overshadowed their love and friendship that they had with Malleus.

His grandmother, who loved him, but was busy with her duties.

His servants, who avoided him like the plague.

His peers, those around him. Those who stared, but never approached.

Except you.

You, who did not recognize him. You, who did not associate him with danger. You, who called him Tsunotarou after one conversation. You who helped him realize what it was like to have friends.

It was easy to win him over, he was a simple person after being deprived of affection for so long.

Especially if the person he was with was a fearless human that talked to him like an equal.

However, he did not believe it would last. Those who knew him ran away. Those who knew him saw his title, and his power first before the person behind it.

Perhaps he did not think you would be any different. Perhaps he assumed you would regret calling him in such a friendly manner, and do everything in your power to stay away after learning about his identity.

Maybe he did, and maybe he didn't. Yet, you proved him wrong either way.

And yet, you always stayed. It was never obligation, or pity, or false bravery. What was the oddest thing was that to you, it wasn't some dramatic show of bravery that befitted a fairy tale.

It was just something you chose to do. Just a thing where you looked at him, decided he was funny, and chose to stay.

And out of everything that he dealt with, I feel like Malleus was confused by this the most. Was it this easy? Then why couldn't anyone else do the same except you?

You approached him as a friend. Asked questions that were normal among friends, yet completely new to someone as isolated as Malleus. Malleus was surrounded by those who admired him and respected him. But not someone who asked him "what's your favorite color" out of curiosity and nothing more.

Maybe Malleus didn't know what to say. Not because he'd never thought of it, or never had time to think about it. No, all he had was time.

It wasn't that he didn't have thoughts, it was that no one ever waited long enough to hear about them.

And after realizing you wouldn't pull away, he'd fall head over heels, platonically or not.

It was already easy to please him, all you had to do, at least at the beginning was chuck a VDC invitation at him and he'd be a happy dragon, all smug and humming to himself at his dorm.

And the most pitiful thing, is that this was all it took. One simple step.

A single step towards him, one tiny attempt and he would run a mile for them. He would come running to them and give them the world. But no one except his family took that step.

No one realized that he was a child, underneath all that strength and power.

Yes, Malleus is arrogant, but he is arrogant for that is how he was taught. He was taught that he was different. It didn't have to be told to him, anyone with half a vision could see with ease.

Not only was he born different, he was treated differently. He was taught that he wasn't like other people, that he didn't belong with other people. That he was "gifted". Why would his servants fear him if he was normal? It's because he was talented and powerful! (Of course this guy develops a raging god complex who wouldn't?)

I think what could have stood out to Malleus the most was that your decision to be his friend came so easily to you. A natural thing. You thought he was cool and decided to hang around him. It wasn't a dangerous choice that you made to save millions, it wasn't a sacrifice, it wasn't some thousand-step-by-step mission.

You stayed, and he let you. And that, was honestly it. And I think that's what made him swoon.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk guys.

Yeah that's it. That's the entire plot.

Azul's having his daily crash out of the day the moment you give him something without any reason out of love and refusing to accept his transactional deals or point systems in return.

Azul would try his hardest to not even think about hugging or making any physical contact with you when you two are sleeping together. He tries, and he fails.

It took one day, the next day you wake up with 4 limbs stuck around you that you can't seem to even get rid of. (Just imagine Azul using both his arms and legs like how a sloth clings to a tree.)

Then he wakes up and dies of embarrassment and either tries to gaslight you and fails or tries to bribe you to forget what he did.

During the first week, especially after his failure to keep his hands to himself, Azul decides the next best option is OBVIOUSLY to put pillows and a rolled up blanket in the middle in order to keep his distance.

Yes it is childish. Would that stop him from trying in order to save himself from further embarrassment? No.

However, each day ends up with Azul crossing the makeshift border that he made himself, and every day ends with you unable to leave the bed until he wakes up.

I'd imagine he tried to make the border/line even higher until you had to sit him down and tell him that three layers of pillows on top of each other just to create a wall from you was a little too far.

After a bit of reassurance that this was by no means embarrassing and that you found it endearing, Azul would likely loosen up.

Does that mean he will stop trying to be nonchalant? No.

Another thing about him is that as an Octopus merman, his grip strength is inhuman and you will be unable to remove him no matter what. (He is NOT nonchalant.)

As someone who lived in the sea for the majority of his life, Azul with almost a 99% guarantee has those cooling pillow cases that are made with breathable materials.

As he used to sleep in the sea with nothing but the sea water surrounding him, I'd say Azul isn't exactly someone who finds blankets to be that big of a deal. Azul does canonically seem fond of pillows due to them improving his sleep.

Azul does not hog the blankets. He hogs YOU.

He likely has some of those summer blankets that are thin and lets air in to make them cool. He probably complains when it's a bit hot since he's used to the cooler temperature.

He, without a doubt, falls asleep in his office while trying to work overtime and either you or the Leech twins have to drag him out. It depends ENTIRELY on Floyd's mood.

You have witnessed Floyd carrying Azul on his back like a potato sack, groggily grumbling about wanting to sleep while Jade was laughing hysterically and recording.

Azul falls asleep in the Lounge and wakes up to his bed only to find that he's restricted every opportunity for you to escape by cuddling you to death.

Hello! Thank you for asking!

Actually my original plan was to make them the Housewarden of Privalo (the Savanaclaw's opposite dorm) because if you check some of my older posts you can see that this specific reader was in Savanaclaw before they moved to Ignihyde (something I added because we have two students that transferred from, or wants to go to Savanaclaw), but yeah either Privalo or Psycheros (Ignihyde's opposite dorm).

They became the dorm leader (for either dorm) after accidentally making their old Housewarden insecure with themselves with their grades or whatever they were good at and while crying like a Disney princess the old Housewarden gave them their spot before running off like a diva. (I made this for shits and giggles, but either that or they fought and Reader won after trying to help someone who was being bullied by the old Housewarden but the other one's more fun.) But the general idea is Reader got popular fast and the old Housewarden was a 3rd year and they, for (multiple) reasons, gave the spot to Reader fast.

Reader moved from RSA after their first year at that school but before that, they definitely knew Minajael in person but did NOT know Rielle since they are a third year and only knew people above or in their grade. Rielle was not in RSA when Reader was a first year so sadly, they did not know each other in the school.

However Rielle met them outside of school (FOR THE PLOT TRUST). All second and first years of RSA that have not been released have met Reader outside of school or during some random hangout that they visit once in a blue moon.

Rielle met Reader near a beach for the first time and fell head over heels and mind you this is when he wasn't in human form so this is the "Ariel meets Prince Eric for the first time" moment and Reader was a tiny part of the reason as to why Rielle wanted to go on land. However Rielle was a year late to RSA (he vaguely remembers Reader having an RSA uniform on when they met) as "that mysterious person" was already gone. (Cue another dramatic Disney princess sobbing moment.)

Minajael was in class with Reader and absolutely went on adventures with them. I feel like Reader would have been one of the first people to teach Minajael about "normal people life" (Cue Aladdin x Jasmine moment). They had classes together and both of them were partnered up a lot for projects.

Minajael's love story was a slow burn (for about 7 months?) going from friends to "having a crush". However Minajael was already the type to flirt so Reader never noticed.

Think both of them have a Ariel x Eric and Jasmine x Aladdin relationship dynamic and add onto what you want!

And Chenya also likes Reader, so bro keeps manifesting himself into NRC just to visit them for fun.

Currently there is a running joke (half joke people that actually had a crush on Reader take it literally) that Reader was taken by the evil bird man. (Insert 'THEY WANT YOU' sound track/In The Navy sung by Crowley.)

And yes! They DO keep in touch! The students have an RSA group that that Reader is not allowed to leave :)

In which where a certain prince decides, why keep escaping blind dates when he could just marry YOU? (Minajael x GN! RSA 3rd year! Royalty! Reader)

Minajael had done it again.

He had not offered a polite excuse. Had not made a strategic retreat. Not even a grand speech about having the right to marry who he wants and leaving through the front door with a flick of his coat.

He hadn't walked out with dignity, not slipped away quietly, no.

He launched himself out of a second story window with the level of grace equivalent to that of a startled cat and landed in a bush that did absolutely nothing wrong to deserve such treatment.

Yeah that's it.

Let me clarify: The popular opinion of their dynamic is Kalim, the sunshine boy, and Jamil, the calm moon. I hate those.

Kalim is not an innocent, naive, sunshine, always happy, always lucky, nepo baby. He's emotionally intelligent. He's not stupid, he just believes in second chances, and is just so kind, amongst more shrewd people to the point that he's SEEN as stupid.

Kalim's generosity is often overlooked as his "stupidity", and the fact that he grew up by being praised for average things, and somehow still grew up to be kind is also overlooked.

It doesn't take a lot for anyone to be traumatized after seeing their best friend get poisoned by food they were supposed to eat, you know.

He has gotten kidnapped. He has gotten poisoned. He has trauma, and it's seen in the game. He hates curry for a reason.

Something like this, that should be seen as resilience, is often seen by the fandom as just another thing Jamil had to deal with (the fact that he got poisoned for Kalim, and all the stuff he did in order to keep him safe, along with him not being able to eat curry becuase Kalim hates it). And yes, it is true. Jamil has to technically do all that but Kalim is still a victim of a traumatic series of events. Jamil is also a victim but Kalim's sunshine like personality stops the fandom from looking too deep into his trauma.

His guilt is also highlighted toward his friend, Jamil, not sadness over his own situation.

Jamil is not a silenced slave that never fights back. He might be silenced and enslaved but he's definitely fighting every step of the way and screaming curse words at someone or planning to gaslight them. He is scheming a hundred different plans to overthrow the government. He's Jamil "burn down the corrupt government and build a new, better one" Viper.

Jamil being a quiet, tired, parent figure (which he technically is), is not the full version of his character.

If we are specifically using the famous lyric "I shine only with the light you give me", a reference to the sun and moon trope, yes, both of them can be the sun and the moon, with the Kalim as the sun, and Jamil as the moon trope being more popular. Jamil shines only with the light that Kalim, and his family allows him to have, as his status as a servant holds him back. Yet, Kalim is also the moon. He also only shines with the light that Jamil gives him. He's not been given a proper chance to fight freely for the number one spot without Jamil helping him by stepping back into the shadows.

However, that is not what I was trying to mention.

I mean their personalities. Jamil may seem calm, yes, he's tired. He's composed. He's quiet, he seems like the moon. However, he's more ambitious than anyone. About as ambitious as Azul, though Azul’s greed/ambition is divided into many aspects, with Riddle claiming he had a finger in too many pies. He, during Book 6 firmly believes that if he wasn't holding back due to his status and situation, he'd be able to do as much as others, which Leona points out. His belief holds him back more than anything. Not to forget that his entire Overblot was based on his desire to be free, a show of his ambition.

Yes, Jamil can be seen as the moon: being forced into the background while Kalim shines brightly.

However, Jamil burns. He burns bright, he would burn himself into destruction if it meant tasting freedom before he died. He would burn in the most bright, and dangerous way, grabbing everyone's attention. Jamil burns with potential and self destruction in his core. Jamil isn't just lacking in ambition, he's just containing it, and hiding it.

He can be the moon, but that's only if Kalim is seen as the sun.

In my eyes:

Jamil is the sun, or, he can be considered a star. After all, a sun is a star. If we simply talk about Jamil himself, without involving Kalim into anything, he is a star. Because stars don't just exist to be seen, they burn regardless. Some may just disappear without even being acknowledged, but they are still bright, and massive, and overall: burning.

Kalim, is the moon. The moon can shine even when it is dark, during the night, mirroring his ability to remain positive even when things are bad. However, his light is artificial, since his light is based off how much he is given. Even without Jamil being the sun, he can still be the moon as he is often controlled.

Although, the thing about Jamil being the sun and Kalim being the moon is that I feel like then the sun should shine more than the moon.

However, I think if Jamil wasn't forcefully hidden he would burn brighter than Kalim in some shape or form. So, more likely the sun is forced to be "eclipsed" and the moon suddenly has a spotlight on them.

Either way, both of them are severely mischaracterized or oversimplified.

I'm just saying, if Jamil was the type to easily give up he would have never Overblotted and attempted to make a cult.

If Kalim was just a naive, sunshine character, he would have not offered to become Jamil's real rival, nor would he have punched him.

They have so much more depth than what the fandom sees.

Comment what you think.

He would have gone wild the moment he learned to walk after he came to land.

Bro has been waiting for this moment his entire life.

Like look at him. Not a single thought in his brain. And we love him for that.

He's been waiting to whip out a musical number about visiting the land people and being a part of them and proving to his dad that he's grown now.

He genuinely looks like he'd sing in public, out of no where. And people would actually like his singing for some reason. He definitely does improv.

He definitely arrived on land and immediately started grabbing things he thought was pretty and began sticking them in his hair and then adapted to sticking them onto his clothes.