#dae!

Lingering Will knight AU

It involves Terra cursed to be an empty suit of armor looking for his heart, a la the Lingering Will from KH2/3

I'm the prince of the kingdom whose outskirts he's haunting, and I hear that nobody who's ever challenged him has ever come back

Naturally, I have to see him for myself, like an idiot. So I ride off into the night to find him and nearly get myself killed for it. But he's so taken aback by how fucking inexperienced I am with real combat that he immediately knows I'm no knight, and refuses to fight me further.

I need to fill in the blanks but hnnn hot cursed knight boyfriend

It eventually ends with the power of our TRUE LOVE breaking the curse, obviously

he's still my hot knight boyfriend, it's just now we can kiss.

@adoredbyalatus

-slams a tome on the counter-

OKAY, so basically the story is one day, night came as normal, but like... for the ENTIRE WORLD. The sun just didn't come up anymore. And then this moon appeared, and forests and weird plants started popping up out of absolutely nowhere. And then twilight came, and people thought it was over, but nope. It was just the result of a moon-like entity that swallowed the sun. And THAT brought forth a bunch of monsters that came out of the woods. (These moons take turns, so sometimes it's pitch black with a blood red moon, sometimes it's late twilight with a pale silver one) Which basically chipped away at society until it turned into "Kingdoms" (basically an area of territory with an old major city in the middle) and "Villages" (smaller self-sufficient towns). The cities built big walls to keep out the riffraff, so to speak (aka they have electricity and resources and fuck everyone else). People still travel the roads in cobbled-together vehicles or even use certain domesticated monsters as mounts or carriage pullers.

@adoredbyalatus

OKAY, I had to give you TWO options because I was torn between a dragon and an eldritch beast.

First is Misridya, a black dragon that was forced to eat a demon core (the demon hunter/Illidari initiation ritual), and is now fel-bound. She was extremely angry about this while she was reluctantly serving the Illidari, but now she's free to be as big a bitch to anyone she wants all the time forever.

Second is ATROPA!!! One of my absolute favorites, they're a piece of the void that traveled through a rift to reach Azeroth. It's only benevolent the way a kid with an ant farm is. They looove mortals in a very dehumanizing way. It loves making friends, but you never get the feeling that they're seeing you as anything but a puppy or something.

@adoredbyalatus

NO, DAE, THIS IS SO PEAK THOUGH

@dearly-beeloved @adoredbyalatus

I'M POOR AND CAN'T PISS 😭

okay yeah, anyway, last night i was REEEALLY high on sleep aid and my brain created this whole ass comfort DILF to fantasize about JUST BECAUSE my brain dredged this post up from the depths of my inebriated psyche

And I'm still trying to name him and like, I'm having to pull up popular names from FORTY-EIGHT YEARS AGO but alas, it do be going slow.

I drew him already but I'm embarrassed to post a picture because he looks exactly like the type of guy you think I'd be gay over OTL

OKAY ROUND TWO, NOW IN COLOR

I drew a thing for @adoredbyalatus of Aqua reacting to her in that outfit swap we did, because pastel gf turning into goth gf wow.

And so I decided to do one of Terra for self-indulgence reasons.

So lingering darkness traits coming out when they really really really just want to eat their little s/os up, hot damn.

anyway

ONCE AGAIN

Me talking to @adoredbyalatus about our inserts being goth 🤝 pastel solidarity which led to this

We're about to make them PEAK gay.

Like, have to go out and show us off immediately gay.

Terra's gonna be shy about it, though. Aqua probably not so much lmfao.

@dearly-beeloved @adoredbyalatus @aetherwrite