#blurbing

I... I seem to be vibing with Crpyto rn. I still don’t know how I got my 2k badge with him. Probably a triple take game. I seem to get those, when the TT was still ground loot (rest in peace TT)

so yeah, duos is actually giving me teammates! So that’s cool

I appear to be on a losing streak. 0 wins today. I have died within the first 5 minutes, usually. The endless rat maze. I should probably hit up arenas or ranked, but I don’t feel like it. Dying in duos is comfortable enough

(I hope things get better for ya ^_^)

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“They’re called what?” 

“Buckeyes.” Dark pointed up the tree he and Anti were standing under. “It’s common for them to be turned into jewelry.” 

“Those spikey little mounds?” Anti hopped up and plucked a low hanging buckeye. 

“They break it open, take the seeds, let them dry out, and then drill a hole into it,” Dark explained. 

“That sounds fucked up.” Anti squeezed the buckeye, feeling it poking at him. 

“You’re usually supposed to wait for them to fall since there’s a chance they’re not done if you pluck them.” Dark gently moved Anti’s hand apart from each other so he wouldn’t hurt himself. 

“So, if they fall, they’re ready?” Anti asked. 

“Most likely.” Dark nodded. 

“Hold my nut.” Anti tossed the buckeye at Anti. 

“It’s not a…” Dark just sighed, knowing it was no use. “And what are you doing?” 

“I’m gonna make them fall.” Anti jumped up to a low branch. 

“Don’t do that. You’re going to get hurt.” Dark pinched the bridge of his nose. 

“I know how to climb a tree, Darky, been doing it for a while.” Anti shimmied up a thicker branch. 

“You haven’t been doing it, Sean did it as a child and you just have the physical memory of it due to-”

“Incoming!” Anti started to shake a branch and Dark have to cover his head as buckeyes rained down on him. 

“There, you did it. Would you get down now?” Dark kicked one of the buckeyes away from him. 

“Wait, one stayed on.” Anti started crawling further up the branch, feeling it bend under him but he was sure it was strong enough. 

“Anti, I don’t think-Anti!” Dark quickly reacted when the branch gave out. He dove forward and caught Anti before he hit the ground. Anti was expecting to land face-first in the dirt and finding himself in Dark’s arm was a surprising, but not unwelcome, twist. 

“Aw Dark, my great big, hero.” Anti giggled, having fun with the moment and wrapping his arms around Dark’s neck. He grinned when he saw Dark’s face becoming a darker shade of gray and he knew that meant he was blushing. “However will I repay the favor?” Anti added with a flutter of his eyelashes. 

“Sh-Shut up.” Dark placed Anti back on the ground, fixing his suit. “Just grab some of the buckeyes and we’ll see if any of them work.” 

“Yes, sir~” Anti practically purred and he laughed when Dark walked away, face still flushed. 

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Character name/other basic facts

Story context

Character motive

Short description of setting

Some other minor characters

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“In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

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“When a meteor hits the moon and knocks it closer in orbit to the earth, nothing will ever be the same again.

Worldwide total waves.

Earthquakes.

Volcanic eruptions.

And that’s just the beginning.”

It’s not much, but it’s enough XD (warning; violence via cane and implied child abuse) -----------------------------

Eric was crying into Wilford’s chest, having finally broken down and told him and Dark what his father had done. What he’s been doing for years. 

“We got you, buddy.” Wilford rubbed Eric’s back. “He’s not welcomed here and we’ll keep you safe.” Wilford looked up and saw that look on Dark’s face. “Dark, whatever you’re-”

“I’ll be back.” Dark turned and walked away. 

Dark ignored Wilford’s protests and he found himself walking to his room, opening a space in the wall that hadn’t been touched in decades. Dark reached into the space and pulled out a slick, black cane, the gem topper shining as bright as ever. 

“It’s been a while. Hasn’t it?” Dark spoke to the cane before vanishing in a cloud of black smoke, blinking and finding himself inside of a warehouse. “Derek!” Dark screamed, his voice causing something to shatter and the workers ran. All escaping the noise and somehow knowing to leave and not come back for the rest of the day.

“What in the hell?” Derek came out of an office. “Dark? Dark what are you doing here? I thought you didn’t-” Derek was cut off by Dark slapping him across the face with the cane, the gem slicing open his cheek. “The fuck!?” Derek touched the wound with his hand and saw the blood. “Why did you do that!?” 

“Why did you do it to Eric?” Dark asked, walking towards Derek when the man tried to move away from him. 

“Whatever he said, it’s a lie!” Derek fell over to his hands and knees when Dark smacked him again, this time across the other cheek. 

“Eric is a terrible liar, you made sure of that.” Dark watched as Derek coughed from the pain. 

“I didn’t-” Derek didn’t get to finish before Dark swung the cane like a gulf-club, knocking it into Derek’s jaw and forcing him to fall flat on his back. Dark pressed his foot into Derek’s chest and held the end of the cane in front of Derek’s mouth. 

“You are ever even in the same building as Eric, this cane will find it’s way into your throat,” Dark growled before stomping his foot down, not hard enough to break anything, but enough to hurt. 

“Dark!” Edward barged into the warehouse. 

“That’s what you guys look like as babies?” Yandere asked, looking at the bundle in Chase’s arms. 

“Pups.” Marvin corrected. 

“Look at their little teeth.” Wilford giggle, wiggling a finger in front of the pup’s nose. 

“You’re going to lose that finger if you keep doing that.” Anti laughed.

“He’s got little fins and little hands and itsy-bitsy claws.” Wilford kept cooing at the pup. 

“Where did you get a baby?” Dark asked Anti. 

“A pup.”

“Where did you get a pup?” 

“Found him.” Anti shrugged and Dark sputtered, trying to form a new question. 

“Are they freshly...hatched?” Edward asked, opening a journal to take notes. 

“Sirens give birth to live young,” Henrik stated. 

“Do you have to make legs?” Bim asked. “Cause it doesn’t look like it can come out of anywhere when you’re in the tail...mode.” 

“Birthing happens in ‘tail mode’ because it takes too much energy to do so and making legs would most likely kill the pup, the one giving birth or both,” Henrik said. 

“Where does it come out of?”

“Our slits.” Henrik didn’t miss a beat and Bim suddenly didn’t have any more questions.

“Slits?” Edward, on the other hand, had plenty. 

“Could you talk about that in the bedroom? Anti teased. “The lil’ guy doesn’t need to have the fish and the sea talk yet.” 

“The...what?” Bing placed a hand on his chest. “The fish and the sea?” 

“I didn’t want to say sex.” Anti popped his tongue. “But it’s too late now.” 

“What are you guys going to name him?” Yandere asked. 

“We’re thinking Jack or Jackie,” Marvin said. 

“I vote Jackie.” Anti raised a hand, JJ doing the same to show he agreed. 

“I think Jackie fits our group fairly well,” Henrik said. 

“Hi, Jackie.” Robbie waved at the pup, who just giggled and was trying to catch Wilford’s hand. 

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(Fun Fact, I’m planning on having him being a grown Siren when he’s found in the long story and he’s in a little...trouble)

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Marvin was laying on the bed, dressed for bed in only a pair of PJ bottoms with his nose in a book and unaware of a sneaky Chase slowly making his way on to the bed and up his body. When Marvin finally realized that there was a Chase above him, it was too late.

“Chase!” Marvin squealed when Chase pressed his mouth to his stomach and blew a raspberry against it. Marvin bopped the top of Chase’s head with his book and that got Chase to blow on his stomach again. “Stop it! You little shit!” Marvin said between laughs. 

“You don’t like my kisses?” Chase asked with an exaggerated pout of his lower lip. 

“Those aren’t kisses, you’re getting spit all over my stomach.” Marvin rubbed a hand in Chase’s hair.

“Here.” Chase pressed a kiss on Marvin’s stomach. “Is.” Another kiss a little higher up. “This.” Another kiss. “Better?” A kiss between Marvin’s chest. 

“Almost there.” Marvin giggled, tapping his lips with a finger. 

“How could I forget?” Chase chuckled and kissed Marvin properly. Marvin laughed into the kiss before placing his book aside and hugging Chase close to him, deepening the kiss. 

“You mother fuck!” Anti’s voice screamed from outside the room. 

“I’m sure it’s nothing,” Chase said, continuing the kiss. 

“Choke on a dick!” Jackie screamed back. 

“We might need to go help.” Marvin sighed. 

“They can-” Chase stopped when there was a loud shattering. “-fuck off.” Chase finished with a groan and rolled off the bed. He went to the door and threw it open “Would you two cut it out!?” 

“He started it!” Anti and Jackie both yelled. 

“Listen, listen, listen!” 

“I’m listening.” Marvin chuckled, sitting on the bed as he watched an overly-energetic Chase pacing in their room. Marvin had tried to create a ‘coffee replacement’ potion that would give the energy from a caffeinated coffee but without all the sugar. Chase had offered to try it and was now unable to keep still. 

“So what if I-like-we went to, we went to the roof and like-” Chase could get barely get his mind to calm down enough for him to form a proper sentence. He stopped and loudly gasped, spinning on his foot to face Marvin. “What if I used k-cups instead of tea bags!?” 

“That sounds very interesting.” Marvin wondered how long the potion would last since it was the first prototype of it. 

“I could-oh, my god-I could-” Chase bounced up on the bed, standing above Marvin. “I could throw the k-cups into t-bag boxes!” Chase kept bouncing and clapped his hands with excitement. “Imagine the mind fuck of that!” 

“That would throw everyone off.” Marvin was enjoying seeing Chase so happy. 

“And then I...I could...I…” Chase’s body suddenly slumped down and he flopped down to his knees. “We can do that later.” Chase struggled to keep his eyes open. 

“I wasn’t expecting a crash,” Marvin said to himself, pulling Chase in to curl up against his chest. 

“I’m tired.” Chase murmured, wrapping his arms around Marvin.