FLUFFY HEADCANONS ABOUT ETHAN AS A LOVER

■ There are some issues in relationships that the limit shouldn’t be crossed. By the time Ethan realized he had crossed that line, it was too late for everything. To be honest, he didn't even know what he was doing to get Eloise to slap him on the cheek. It was part of his character to tease people, to annoy them, and until now Eloise hadn't paid much attention to what he said. But she had been making it very clear that she was offended by what he had said lately. He didn't understand why he kept hurting her even though he realized this, but he was extremely displeased that she hadn't spoken to him for the past week. She didn't leave her room much either. When he found himself at Eloise's door after many soul-searchings, he really felt awful. Because the scene he hoped to see when he entered wasn’t seeing his Thing hugging to her body and crying. Since then, he has at least started to straighten up and fly right for the woman he loves. Wait wait, what about an apology? Geez, of course you fools don't have to know that! Painu helvettiin!

■ Ethan has already known that Eloise had weird tastes. Otherwise, why would anyone admire Vlad's hair? She even went so far as to compliment his hair one day. Huh! What's wrong with his own short hair? He is definitely more stylish than Mr. Fancy Pants. However, this didn't prevent him from deciding to grow his hair after a while. And no, he definitely made this decision because he was bored with his short hair, who would be jealous of Vladimir? Don’t talk nonsense!

■ Some days when Eloise feels down, Ethan lets her beat him in a chess match just to make her happy. Watching Eloise brag about thinking she's beaten him is much more enjoyable than winning a stupid match. And you'd better not tell her that though!

■ The fact that Eloise is often the giver in their relationship makes Ethan feel indebted to her. Therefore, when they are alone, he tries to show his gratitude by hugging her from behind and kissing her on the shoulders as much as possible.

HEADCANONS ABOUT ML BOYS WITH PREGNANT MC: PART I

VLADIMIR

■ One of the things that was believed to be true among the vampires was the rumors that the Leaths could not have children. There have been rare cases in history where Leaths have had children, but usually these have happened after different interracial relationships. He had never thought until he heard those words that a human, especially a chalice, could become pregnant.

“You’ll certainly be a very strict father, m’lord. At least as long as we don't have a daughter.”

He nearly fainted when he found out that his dearest was pregnant. Of course it wasn't because he didn't want to have children, since the day he had turned into a vampire he had just always thought that he would never have a family again and that he had to get used to being alone.

“Me? A strict father? Hell no! Well... Maybe a little.”

■ Vladimir was a little hesitant about announcing Eloise's pregnancy to the other inhabitants of the manor. He especially didn't want that stupid duo to bother Eloise with unnecessary comments. Well, there's a good saying, God laughs when people make plans. The news of the pregnancy spread so suddenly and quickly within the manor that he had no way of predicting that. He just wanted to announce the pregnancy to Aaron and Raph' first. At least, that was the plan until Aaron yelled like "Wait, wait, wait, is Eloise pregnant? Fuck I'm gonna be uncle! Hahaha!" shortly after arriving to the parlor. It was his fault for forgetting to take Aaron’s goddamn sense of smell and instincts into account. Geez, Beliath coming in with bewilderment, Ethan's stupid implications, Ivan's curious gaze from the door with no idea what was going on, Raphael's silent chuckles… It was totally chaos. CHAOS! DO YOU HEAR ME?!

■ During the first months of Eloise's pregnancy, Vladimir began to fear falling asleep. It was risky for a human to carry a vampire's baby, and he worried that Eloise might need help while he was asleep. It really took her time to convince him to sleep again.

■ It was the first time that Vladimir sincerely asked Ethan for help, as Eloise had to drink human blood along with human food throughout her pregnancy. And surprisingly for the first time, Ethan agreed to help him without grumbling. During her pregnancy, that maybe not so stupid duo brought blood for her with the help of the blood-taking set. It was the first and probably the last time Vladimir regretted his thoughts of kicking Ethan out of the manor.

■ Although Vladimir was genuinely afraid to drink Eloise's blood at first, he drank from her as rarely as possible throughout pregnancy.

■ The happiest moment of Vladimir during her pregnancy was when she told him that if they had a daughter, she wanted to name her after his mother. This may not mean a thing to anyone, but there were no words to describe how valuable these words were for someone like him who lived with the traces of the past and had so much regrets. That day, perhaps for the first time, he cried without fear of being seen crying as he hugged Eloise and her belly.

■ Unfortunately, Vladimir's jealous nature didn't leave him even throughout Eloise's pregnancy. Of course it was a relief that Eloise was having a good time with the others. But whenever one of them touched her belly to feel the baby's movements or held out her hand so Eloise could get up, his displeasure was written all over his face. What the heck, did that arrogant peacock wink at himself as he helped Eloise up? How dare he!

HEADCANONS ABOUT VLADIMIR AS A LOVER

■ Due to the manners of being a Victorian aristocrat, Vladimir was reluctant to show his love around other eyes at the beginning of his relationship with Eloise. It's astonishing even to him to see that his hesitation faded over time. Who would have thought that being able to hug her whenever he wanted or needed it without feeling any anxiety could be so comforting? (For God's sake, if that arrogant peacock calls him lovebird one more time, he'll never find hot water to take a bath again!)

■ As a man of manners, upbringing, and understanding, Vladimir was supposed to be free from the inferiority feelings felt by other people. But hell no, even centuries later, every time he saw that Eloise was getting along well with the other unnecessary inhabitants of the manor, Vladimir knew that he wouldn't stop voicing his displeasure. Even Ethan had been getting along incredibly well with Eloise lately. Hoo boy! Ethan and getting along well with someone else? He should have kicked that brat out of the manor long ago when he had the chance.

■ One of Vladimir's favorite things in his dating life is sitting wrapped in a blanket by the window with Eloise on his lap while it's snowing. Especially when Eloise watches the snowfall, he loves to watch her instead.

HEADCANONS OF ML BOYS NOTICING THEIR FEELINGS TOWARDS MALE MC

VLADIMIR

■ As a result of his time and upbringing, Vladimir would initially begin to deny his feelings and question his adequacy as a man. Even though he knew the fact that same-s*x couples exist, he would never have thought that one of them could be him. So it's highly possible to see him acting cold and rude towards MC for a while. As time passed and his feelings became uncontrollable, he had no choice but to accept them. Whether he knew what MC's sexual preference was or not, he just didn't have the courage to confess to him. So MC would probably realize at some point that Vladimir had feelings for him from his increasing shyness around him and one day, while watering the flowers in the garden with Vladimir, he would let him know by grabbing a lock of his hair and kissing it that he was aware of his feelings.

BELIATH

■ Beliath would have noticed from the start that MC was appealing to him, and he wouldn't have had much trouble with that. Under those clothes, he must have an absolutely perfect body. He wouldn't care much for these thoughts, after all, there were many people Beliath thought of that way. But as time passed, he realized that he didn't enjoy sleeping with women as much as he used to and when he was at the Moondance with MC, he began to feel uncomfortable with the presence of girls gathered around MC. And probably from that moment he would start to compliment him, increase body contact in a way that would get MC's attention. At some point, when they were alone, Beliath would say that he found him extremely attractive and offer to have a good time in bed with him.

IVAN

■ Ivan had been aware of his bisexual nature for a long time, and was occasionally impressed by his roommates with whom they shared a same house. So it wouldn't take him as long as he thought to realize his feelings for MC. He might even start to be more daring in his dreams after realizing his feelings, after all, whoever saw MC after his shower would dream of some spicy things. Still, these daring dreams eventually caused Ivan to be overly shy around him and would distance himself from him as much as possible. Realizing that Ivan was starting to avoid him, MC would probably get an unexpected confession when he went to visit Ivan, who still didn't leave his room for a long time. Ivan's face, flushed with embarrassment, was so cute that he wouldn't hesitate to kiss him.

AARON

■ Aaron isn't someone to care about who that person is as long as they are a good partner and companionship to him. Does he like MC, that's pretty cool. If he also shares common interests with MC such as walking in nature, training, hunting, he couldn't be happier. He would confess his feelings to him when they were walking in the forest, and would remain friends with him even though MC couldn't reciprocate his feelings. After all, he looks at MC not as a body he should have, but as a person he values highly.

ETHAN

■ Ethan may be the only one among others who is this resistant to accepting the fact that he likes a man (Yes, even more than Vladimir!). From time to time he wonders what it would be like to spend a night with Beliath, that doesn't mean he's impressed with every man he meets. Senkin typerys! When this brat finally admitted himself that he liked the MC, he would probably confess to him during an argument and grab him by the shirt and start kissing him.

RAPHAEL

■ Raphael is a much more considerate person as far as emotions are concerned and it's not hard for him to realize that he's starting to feel more comfortable around MC. At first he found this feeling of comfort surprising, since he hadn't felt that way around someone in quite some time. He would leave himself to the discretion of time to see where these feelings would lead, and would be happy when he realized that his own feelings were as deep as he had suspected for a while. He had witnessed many times when he was still a human that gender didn't matter when it came to feelings. And frankly, being able to feel those feelings again after Margarita was a new turning point for him, yet he was in no rush to confess his feelings. In fact, if he realized that MC likes women, he wouldn't even mention them to him. He certainly didn't want his feelings to be a burden to him. One of the greatest gifts of his blind life was teaching him how to hide his feelings, so with this gift, he'd be happy even just by MC's friendship.

NEIL

HEADCANONS OF AARON AND IVAN’S RELATIONSHIP

■ For Ivan, Aaron is the father/older brother figure he always wanted to have. When he first came to the manor, he was as afraid of Aaron as he was of everyone else. But it didn't take as much time to get used to him as he thought. He has to admit that he had never gotten used to anyone so quickly before in his life. Not even Constance at first.

■ Ivan has a deep admiration for Aaron. While he's still struggling to become a vampire, Aaron's ability to manage both his vampire and werewolf lives together so easily has a big part in that.

■ After all these years, their relationship began to evolve into complicity. Although Aaron was against Ivan at first, he later helped him buy mp3, phone, and tablet. Somewhere Vladimir still wonders why Aaron needs so much money to buy beer and even though he hasn't said anything about that, it certainly smells fishy to him.

■ Because of Aaron's habit of barging into the room without knocking, Ivan was caught many times when he didn't want to be seen. Whenever Aaron teases him about it, he starts shouting to hide his embarrassment or grabbing Aaron by the arm and biting him. That's why Aaron has so many teeth marks on his arm that he burst into laughter as he looked at it.

■ Ivan begged Aaron to teach him Spanish many times, and it finally worked. He really enjoys talking to Aaron with his broken Spanish when they go on night walks together. On the first day he agreed to teach, Aaron was seriously punched in his head when he heard that the only words he knew about Spanish were curses, and he still feels a headache when he remembers it to this day.

■ Whenever Aaron sees that Ivan hasn't dried his hair after a shower before going out for night walks together, with a sigh he drags Ivan to his room and starts drying his hair with a towel angrily. At first, Ivan was grumbling about this, but as the days went by, his murmuring turned to purring. Aaron can't help but smile when he sees this brat's submissive behavior and even if he wanted to, he still can't be mad at him for still walking around with wet hair.

■ Ivan has cried in front of Aaron many times over many things since he turned into a vampire. Because of his longing for Constance, because of Vladimir yelling at him when he accidentally plucked his flowers as weeds while performing his garden duties for the first time (which is why he's now on toilet cleaning duty!), the insecurity of not getting used to being a vampire, because he couldn't beat Ethan as he wanted, because he couldn't control himself for the first time and killed the woman while drinking her blood... At first, Aaron didn't know how to comfort Ivan, but he didn't hesitate to give him the hug he needed.

HEADCANONS ABOUT BELIATH AS A LOVER

■ It became an increasingly enjoyable challenge for Beliath as Eloise was getting better at dealing with him day by day. At first, Eloise mostly ignored his cheesy pick-up lines with her own words. Ever since they were in a relationship, she has started to keep up with his flirtations perfectly. So much so that at times she could even answer well enough to embarrass him. Who knows, maybe one day she'll be able to handle him better in bed, too. Hehe.

■ For once, Beliath allowed Eloise to dress him however she wanted, even though he was certain about that his style was timeless. To be honest, he didn't expect that black would suit him so well. Even Ethan couldn't take his eyes off him for an entire day. Since then there have been more black items in his wardrobe. Wait, could that black thing be lingerie?

■ Ever since he found out that Eloise wanted to read with him, Beliath, though not reading a book himself, began watching her as she sat by the fireplace on his lap while reading the books Raphael suggested. It doesn't matter how it happens, as long as the one he loves is in his arms.

■ Due to Beliath's arrogant character and race, it was inevitable that he always wanted to look his best. At least he was so, until Eloise started teasing him about his ridiculous childhood memories. Damn, why the hell does Leandra keep coming here? For God's sake, since when do these two get along well enough to start gossiping about himself?

RAPHAEL MEETS MARGARITA AFTER CENTURIES

His past… His disappointments… His regrets were everywhere. All he could do was curse his existence in this world with the agony of each day that he couldn't escape Phobetor's dungeon. Sometimes he felt himself like the Sisyphus of his world and while he was being overwhelmed by the weight of the past, that rock was falling on him every day, tearing himself into pieces.

He woke up in sweat and fear, sat up from his bed with his heart still beating madly. His whole body was aching, as if he had been crushed under that rock.

“Raphael, sorry for interrupting your sleep but you have to get ready and come downstairs.”

He smiled at his mind, which was so tired to realize that someone was at his door. It was just one of those days where his past haunted himself as usual.

"Come in, Vladimir, I'm already awake."

The creak of the door hinges filled his ears, followed by the hasty footsteps of his old friend. Whatever had happened, it seemed that Vladimir was having a hard time keeping his calm again.

“Who is the victim this time? Is it Ivan again? You should stop being so fussy about everything, my friend. I’m sure they’ll somehow find a way to get along with each other someday.”

While saying these words, he was looking for his blindfold he had put next to his pillow.

“Goodness gracious me! Are you okay? You really don’t look well.”

He felt a heaviness in his bed, Vladimir was sitting next to him. He silently nodded his head yes.

"I'm getting old, Vlad, it’s taking a long time to come to myself."

He put his blindfold on his lap and ran his hands through his messy hair. Today was the worst day he could deal with another problem.

"You still haven't told me what the problem is, I'm listening."

His friend's gasping breaths must have indicated that the problem was big and he directed his full attention to what his friend had to say.

“Aaron ran into someone looking for you in the woods. And now that person is waiting for you downstairs.”

That's what was interesting. Vladimir, who genuinely didn't like to receive intruders, had accepted someone into the house. Most certainly it was because the situation had something to do with him.

"And that person didn't say anything about who they were, then?"

He slowly got up from his bed and made his way to the bathroom. Vladimir was following him behind.

“Just as she didn't want to chat with any of us except saying that she was looking for you, she would have come to your room if we hadn't objected. What a reckless behaviour for a lady.”

“Hmm, you say a lady?”

He allowed surprise to take over his face. He didn't expect the person who wanted to visit him to be a lady.

“Will you do me the courtesy of telling me what kind of person she is?”

Waiting to hear Vladimir's answer, he slowly turned on the faucet and washed his face. His heart was still beating under the influence of his nightmare.

“I'd say she seems an elegant lady, if that's what you want to hear. The first vampire lady I've seen in a long time."

He couldn't help shaking his hands at what he heard. Had he even heard it right?

"Are you saying she's a vampire?"

He wanted to believe that he had understood Vladimir's words correctly. He turned his face to Vladimir.

“Vladimir, is what I heard true? Are you saying that lady is a vampire?”

He could sense Vladimir's bewilderment, even he himself was taken aback by his reckless behavior. He clenched his fists to hide his shaking.

“For God's sake, you really look like you're going to faint at any moment, Raphael. Yes, she is a vampire. Is she someone you know from your old life?”

Raphael's heart was beating even faster, he knew she wasn't her, couldn't be her, but he couldn't control his thoughts and feelings anymore.

"I know it won't happen, but is there any slight chance that lady might has jet black wavy hair?"

Excitement, longing, fear of what he will hear… Now not only his hands, but his whole body was shaking like a leaf.

“Y.. Yes. Are you saying she's someone you know?"

All the weight of his past on his shoulders, the presence of that rock that shattered him into pieces... Everything disappeared. Now there were only his heartbeats and "her".

“Porca miseria, com'è possibile…”

He hurried out of the bathroom, pushing Vladimir aside. He had to find out. He had to know if she was her.

"Raphael! You're still standing in your poet shirt and daily pants! Even your hair isn’t tied, what's the rush?"

It didn't matter how messed up he looked. He had lived in misery ever since he lost her anyway. His knees were shaking repeatedly until he went down the stairs, unable to walk alone as if for the first time in his life he had been blinded. Vladimir caught up behind him and took his arm.

“You're gonna fall and injure yourself, look at yourself Raphael! Let me help you.”

He was too drowned in his thoughts to answer. He was afraid. He knew so well that if she wasn't her, he would collapse, that no one could ever lift him up from his depression again. His heartbeats should now be audible even from afar.

“Calm down man! You are worrying me!"

“How do you expect me to stay calm in a situation like this?”

It had taken him almost centuries to go downstairs. Time seemed to pass slower every time he tried to get closer to her. When they finally got downstairs, he got rid of his friend who was holding his arm and started walking quickly towards the living room. He was so excited that he could hardly feel his legs. The moment he passed through the door arch, time completely stopped.

“Raffaello, mia cara…”

He made no reaction, fascinated by the tone of that clear voice he heard. His eyes began to fill with tears as he sensed that lovely body approaching him, those footsteps he had been missing for years. He must have been in a dream. He couldn't believe it.

“Dear God, I'm begging you if this is a dream, kill me here so I can never wake up."

Although years and centuries passed, he was literally crying when those arms were wrapped around his neck.

"Finally I found you…"

That body, whose every point he knew by heart, that unique scent, that poetic voice… After a separation that lasted for centuries, the woman he loved and adored was in his arms. He wrapped his arms around her waist tightly, buried his head in her hair and inhaled that scent that even years couldn't make him forget. He was still shaking.

“I missed you so much.”

His body, finally overwhelmed with excitement, began to falter, and he fell to the ground with his goddess in his arms.

“Raph, are you okay?”

He didn't let Margarita leave his arms, didn't care if he died from now on. Tears continued to run down his cheeks and his longing for her seemed to grow more and more with each passing second. He stood up from where he had fallen, using one arm for support.

He took the face of the woman he loved in his hands and began to caress her face with his thumb. Even though he couldn't see her, he had never forgotten her face anyway.

“Oh my Lord, your eyes…”

Before she could say anything, he covered her lips with his. There was nothing else on his mind as he had missed her for years. He dedicated his entire existence to her.