Aegis: Aegislash lmao they’d also like steel/rock types.

Crane: BIRDS. ALL OF THE BIRDS. Definitely a Natu and a Xatu tho. And a Noctowl. 

Many-Names: Fairy types and they will side-eye the hell out of you if you make the obvious comment about it. They just like them because they’re cute, okay??? But among all of these cute pokemon (Sylveon,Kirlia, Whimsicott) they also have a DRAGONITE WHAT THE HECK

Primus: Fighting types. Hitmonlee, Hitmonchan, that kind of thing.

mmmmmoooore doodles. ngl while i play visual novels i doodle ideas for that prospective Thaumatale dating game. i have some cool ideas about it? this is all subject to change.

> Main character is Crane. In the prologue, she realizes that - unless she successfully bonds pretty strongly with someone - she is Going to Die. That’s the big ‘gimmick’ behind the routes.

> That strong bond can be either friendship or romance. That’s pretty high up on the list of priorities - even if I have to axe other things, I want there to be good platonic endings along with the romance endings.

> Prospective routes are Aegis, Legbiter, Many-Names, Rust, aaand... I’ve got a couple of ideas for the fifth ‘main’ one. If there’s a character you’re unnaturally attached to that I’ve drawn or written about, feel free to chime in. (I’m reluctant to add the Primus as an option because tbh he’s big into dick lol. tho maybe a purely platonic route might be a nice thing to write?? mmm) I’ve also got some ideas for some ‘secret’ characters that are substantially harder to get -- but those are much lower on the priorities list and might not make it into the final project.

> Events have been rearranged so that characters are much closer in age - for obvious reasons. This also means that the game won’t have the same exact plot or setup as the fics.

> A feature I’d like to add is like... a shipping feature?? like on certain routes you can do little side plots to pair up other members of the cast. Primus x Legbiter comes to mind, but Legbiter x Aegis would be cute as hell, along with Primus x Many-Names. I dunno how expansive it’ll be - like, really, this is all me musing about things that would be cool - but it’s something I’ll keep in mind while working out the plot.

> at the very least you can ship forest witch x dogwitch i’m  s o  sorry please take that as an apology.

> I’m....... planning a really meta mechanic where Crane has something of a ‘dating advisor’. it’s. a little umineko in set up.

If nothing else, Legbiter was at least an entertaining tour guide. And that’s how he treated the walk to the Primus’ house, like a tour, giving the nameless-magician-formerly-known-as-Kuebiko little asides and anecdotes as they traveled. For example, that Livingstone Terrace used to be called High Road, long ago, until a particularly playful magus decided to enchant some of the stones on the street to sing when they were stepped on. It had become something of a cultural landmark, and the residents of that area refused to let the city “fix” the problem.

And that one of the statues they passed - of a hippopotamus painted with bright, floral design - was playfully called the Wishing Hippo, and that children in the local school district liked to make pinky-promises official by swearing them there. When they’d gone by, a pair of kids were already lounging near it, playing some handheld game.

Stories of hauntings, little tidbits of city history - Oh, yes, there was a riot there, about forty years back over fish prices, and down that street is a particularly lovely street market - that had, in the end, served to make the journey go faster.

Hopefully, Kuebiko didn’t mind having someone chatter to him, for awhile.

Gradually, they entered more residential areas of the city, and after a time came to a house clearly owned by someone with an interest in gardening. Roses lined the short gravel pathway up to the door, and flashes of coral dahlias waved slightly in the breeze. Trees, too - dogwoods bloomed in the yard, along with other ornamental shrubs and bushes.

It was this path that Legbiter lead Kuebiko down, gesturing to the tamely colored door. “And... we’re here!”

Architecturally, it was styled colonially - though it was quite squished, focusing more on height rather than width. Legbiter ignored both the knocker and the entire concept of knocking in general, simply turning the knob and pushing open the door.

A short hallway terminated in a living room that was extremely neat - aside from the paperwork devouring the entirety of the coffee table. A doorway to the right lead to a kitchen, given the sounds of dishes being washed emanating from it. 

"I’m home!” Legbiter called, kicking the dirt off his boots on the doormat before entering properly. 

“...Inquisitor? What are you doing back so soon?” 

In the alley cutting a straight line from Morristown Street up to Livingstone Terrace, the Inquisitor found something interesting.

No… someone, he corrected himself as he peered over the small line of bricks encircling the roof of La Bianca’s, a faux-Italian restaurant that he held in mild-but-continual contempt. He’d forced Avon Under the River to meet him there for lunch, once, and watching as the ill-mannered old coot picked at the overcooked noodles of his meal had filled Legbiter with a sense of almost transcendent satisfaction. After all, there was nothing the Inquisitor liked more than abusing his power to inconvenience people he hated, and golly-gee did he have a bug up his butt about Avon.

Only he was allowed to embarrass the Primus in public. Anyone else would be introduced to the full extent of his pettiness.

That didn’t matter, though - not this particular dreary, overcast afternoon, for Legbiter had something to investigate. By necessity, he was familiar with every magus in the city - strengths, weaknesses, loves, hates, names, anything to pierce the veil of their hearts when he’d need it most, whether by the word or with the sword - but he didn’t recognize the figure sitting below him, keeping the company of the gutters and the garbage. A visitor, he presumed, or a new arrival he’d not yet met - …or perhaps some sort of eccentrically dressed cosplayer, though he hadn’t heard of any conventions going on in town.

He liked keeping track of those sorts of things. It helped prevent… Misunderstandings.

No matter what it was, who he was, it was something he wanted to check on, so after observing for a few moments, Legbiter walked along the edge of the building to the nearby fire escape and pushed himself onto the metal grating of the stairway. He could have been quiet, sure, but he wasn’t bothering. It wasn’t like it was necessary.

the primus thinks its deplorable and legbiter doesn’t really think about it at all, considering he often just shoves things into his unholy maw without actually tasting them.

47:

How do they express love?

what a cute question.

Aegis - Around someone they love, they’re less guarded. They show emotions other than happiness more readily, they allow themselves to be comforted - they are all about being “strong”, “cool”, and “tough”, so if they’re letting that themselves relax a bit more, they clearly care a lot. They’re.... embarrassingly knightly so - for the object of their affections - they’d do tons of shit like... “oh, that’s heavy, let me carry that!” and “you’ve had a long day, let me make you some tea!” and holding open doors and pulling out chairs and...

y’know, general chivalry.

Not to say that isn’t general behavior for them, but they’d make a show of it to someone they love. On the flipside, though, if they love you they will also FIGHT YOU because there’s nothing they like more than some good old fashioned debate.

Crane - She’s a very “object” oriented person - so giving and receiving trinkets is like, a pretty high form of love for her. It’s basically - to her - a way of acknowledging someone having an identity and not just being some ... thing that walks around and talks and stuff. Like. Gift-giving is a way of treating someone like a person, because you a.) have to make a conscious decision that ‘ohh i want to make them happy with something’ and b.) you’ve got to consider their personality and what they like.

....am I giving hints about things that’ll be done/discussed in future chapters? possibly.

Many-Names: PHOTOS. Many-Names LOVES photographs, it’s a way of recording memories and they’ve got a film camera they know how to use pretty well, so, like... taking photos of people/with people is one of the ways they show they care, because it means they want to preserve the memories they have of you forever. That’s why they have tons of photos in their apartment! They also are super, duper perceptive, so for someone they love they’ll like, anticipate their mood/the things they need and will plan around that. 

Primus: He shows he loves you by working EVEN HARDER for your happiness, and considering how much he just cares about the people he’s in charge of, well....... you can imagine how stressed this dude is. But, his cutesy displays of affection are in the form of plants. Leggy loves gardening - it’s one of his few hobbies - so even though the Primus doesn’t really... care... he still tries to engage with this thing on an intellectual level with Legbiter, and he gets him potted plants and stuff.

Legbiter thinks it’s cute, even when the Primus is like... just hapless and doesn’t really know what he’s talking about.

More generally, you could say that he shows love by trying to intellectually engage with things his partner cares about, even if... he really doesn’t get the appeal at all....

Legbiter: “I was hiding under your porch because I love you.”

legbiter doesn’t........  stalk people........ he just..... low-key keeps tracks of their movements - okay Legbiter is a little bit dubious. But the more he cares about someone, the more he’ll like... just... y’know.... 

He doesn’t do any actual invasions of privacy like rooting through garbage or peering through windows or.... anything like that. But he does know people’s schedules more-or-less, and occasionally he’ll trail someone just to make sure they’re doing alright. And he’s very, very sneaky. If someone he cares about goes missing, there’s a good chance he’ll know where they were supposed to be.

Before he and Primey started living together, sometimes Legbiter would just........ sleep in a tree outside his house sometimes. Just. Y’know. In case.

6: Eating habits and sample daily menu

LEGBITER IS THE WORST like he just. He eats anything???? His diet is awful??? And he gets weirdly picky sometimes, and he’s the sort of person who won’t eat unless he wants to, so sometimes he’ll go for an entire day without eating and then devour two steaks. Sometimes all he’ll eat is a cupcake. Sometimes he’ll bake an entire package of croissants and eat all of them, and then eat an entire box of strawberries, and then he’ll have nothing but animal crackers for dinner.

The only thing that keeps him from being a nutritional nightmare is that the Primus likes to cook, so he gets some healthy food occasionally. And the Primus cooks a lot of pasta (because its quick) and grills when it’s nice. 

Legbiter’s favorite thing to eat grilled is corn.

22: Given a blank piece of paper, a pencil, and nothing to do, what would happen?