#ouroboros-end

[DEMO-TBA]

An IF about coming back wrong in a fantasy world where seekers eliminate all that is considered impure.

The final cry of the god Ouroboros sends a ripple across the lake, lifting sediment from the bottom, sending rocks tumbling into the depths.

And you rise again, crawling from the murky hells that engulfed you 20 years ago. The same mud filling your boots, the same cold expanding from your chest, the same body, but wrong.

The water tastes the same as then. Thick, muddy, unforgiving.

Slightly nsfw ask what is their reaction to MC pulling them towards them (MC) by the belt ? -sarah

*giggles, twirls hair*

oookkkkkkkaaaaayyy,, thiihihihihih Slight NSFW under the cut <3 making this crushing stage for the giggles

Omg AAAA sooo cute!!!!

If it was post relationship (aka in the couples stage of the story) a lot of the RO's would not let this happen and probably try to shut the flirting down quick, and don't even think about MC being flirted with cause,, that would not end well lmao. Thank you for the cute ask Anon <3

Gonna make this answer a biiiiit longer to get some writing practice in and make each RO have a different scene, I hope that is okay!

Omg Saraaaaah this is so cute ?!?!?! I will take this as crushing stage!! >:D

Simeon looks at you with one eyebrow raised. His face slightly smushed between your hands, the two of you had been having a silent face off for almost a minute at that point. But then you lean in, and press a gentle kiss on his right cheek, then another, and another.

A disbelieving laugh bubbles from him, first low and raspy, then louder and more boisterous as he sweeps you into is arms. He will try his best to reciprocate this gift you have given him.

SIMEON IS A SIMP FOR MC AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN. This would probably undo years of trauma for him and he would try to give an equal amount of kisses back.

Delvin pauses his book, lifting it to the side as you scramble closer to him. His face remains rather deadpan as he stares you down, until finally one of his brows lift once you cup his face in your hands. At that point you strike, like a viper in the bush, shooting forwards to begin to pepper kisses over his weathered cheeks.

A soft sigh escapes him, but not out of annoyance, but contentment. He wraps his arms around your middle, pulling you closer. "Make sure to not miss a spot now."

He is not a very romantic person, until MC so while he isn't the best at these things he will gladly accept any affection. It might not be until MC and he are in an official relationship that he would feel comfortable enough to return the softness.

Alda blinks, a small smile already peeking past her usual stoic expression. Before you have started, her eyes have fallen shut, preparing for what she hopes might happen.

Her smile grows into a bright toothy grin by each passing kiss. And she rests her hands over yours, stroking over the back of them with her thumbs.

Depending on where this kiss takes place she might get super shy afterwards, or reciprocates by kissing MC on the lips. She is not used to being in a relationship, but figuring it out with MC has been some of the best moments in her life.

Calypso has been avoiding you, for almost over a week now. Every meeting has resulted in them suddenly realising they have other plans, or that they are urgently required elsewhere. But now you have managed to corner them.

They flinch as you touch them, but they don't try to run. The kisses are soft, careful and sweet against their pristine skin. Yet when you pull away they look sickened, they give a rushed excuse and extract themself from your arms.

Okay so, this will make sense in the story, I promise. But yeah, Cal would probably look almost disgusted by it, and go back to trying to avoid MC like the plague again.

Noor briefly looks up from his scroll, giving you a soft welcoming smile as you enter his study. "Please give me a moment to- Oh?" He goes quiet as you cup his face within your hands. A curious smile lighting up his face at the touch.

The sound that leaves him as you press a kiss to his cheek is something between as gasp and a squeal. His face turns crimson, but he does his best to stay completely still as you gift him with affection. "Thank you."

Am I correct at assuming our MC died at 29, and so, when resurrected, is younger than the people they used to share ages with?

Because that's so tragic (and hot). Obviously angsty. Plus I love being able to romance older RO's, since most WIPs only have younger romantic options. Rarely you see someone in their late forties.

It does beg the following question, however: how is the MC's appearance affected by the resurrection? Is it affected? Since most of the effects that seem in place from the intro post seemed mostly mental (lack of memories, maybe changes in personality).

I ask, because I don't what is most angsty: MC looking exactly the same, if not better than they used to do before dying, and they're wrong due to their different personality/lack of memories/other symptoms I'm yet to know; or MC still looking relatively the same, but there's something unsettling about how they look, as if you could plainly see they were a corpse just recently.

Both are interesting, especially since (if I assume correctly) it has been 20 years since MC died. Their corpse shouldn't be something... Easy to revive. There shouldn't be much corpse to recover, if anything.

Omg HI anon, I am delighted to answer this! Thank you for taking your time to write this, all of these are excellent questions and I will do my best to answer them all!

Yes MC dies at the age of 29, and has not aged a day since they passed, and the people they used to know have all gotten 20 years older. Friends younger than them prior are now older than MC has ever been.

If you are looking for other great IF's with 'older' RO's I highly recommend @suevi-if and @aelvsbyn-if ! I am more than willing to fill in the lack of older RO's lmao <3

The shift in MC's appearance will be a customizable choice in the story, so if you don't wish for something too drastic there should be one or two options that suit that! The main change will be in MC's personality/mind, but then again I think I too would be unsure how to handle missing out on 20 years.

I think being soaked in swampy water for a couple years have left some changes, but maybe most of those changes happened not to the MC but rather those that knew them ;))

Delvin Regalis, 50 [M] Captain Seeker.

His eyes remain cold, but for a split moment you think you see something far more innocent, hope, hells, he burns with it. Men like him aren't built for missing someone.

Delvin is 178 cm (5'10) with a aged, slightly pudgy at the corners, soldiers build. His skin is a slightly rosy beige. His face is pockmarked and he has a major scar trailing down from one of this dark brown eyes, leaving it blinded- did you... had you been there?- with a clouded pupil. His hair is buzzed close to his scalp and ash brown. He has a Zapata moustache and shortly trimmed beard.

Simeon Johans Lutz, 47 [M] Soul Seeker.

Stolen smiles, laughs shares huddles around a campfire in the cold winter. "I don't think I have ever lived without you." He feels so familiar, with his dark blue eyes- If only you could see him smile, maybe then you'd know...

Simeon stands at 198 cm (6'5) with a statuesque build. His skin is a dull cold tone beige. He has pale blond hair down to his chest, greying at the temples, deep blue eyes- you think, you remember- his left one is covered with a heavy leather eyepatch. Scars trail up his cheek and under it, along with a gnarly one covering most of his throat leading up to crave a small hairless spot in his otherwise well kept ducktail beard.

So does this mean that no matter the MC’s gender, they can get pregnant? Or is it more like only AFAB MCs can, and AMAB MCs would go through adoption or something like that? I always play with a M!MC so I got curious lol.

"He would do his best to be a good father, but he is not instinctually very parental. He did however dream to start a family when he was younger. (Not to mention when his daughter was born he lowkey wished she was his and MCs)"

So MC really can get pregnant by him (or get them pregnant) in the story, or is this more of a "yes, it’s possible" kind of info, but something that won’t actually happen in the plot?

Also the part about him wishing the kid was his and MC’s really hit me hard 😔💖

So if MC romances him, he would’ve been with other people after when MC was dead, but more in a casual way and not because he was in love? Like he was still in love with MC even after they died?

I just got a bit confused about his relationship with his daughter’s mother since they were together for four years, right? And if he had this wish that his daughter was MC’s kid with him, I started wondering if he did care about her too, but deep down was still in love with MC or something like that.

ANYWAY, I NEED SOMETHING CUTE, SO:

It’s the MC’s birthday, and the ROs want to surprise them. The MC had mentioned before that they love homemade sweets, and those are their favorite gifts. So…what would each RO do, and how well would they manage in the kitchen?

Omg hi, this is a long one, thank you 😳

It's... hm. For the first question.. I thought on this for a bit, thinking of whether to let this be possible or not but alas. Seeing as the world is very anti-Magic this would be limited to the realms of our world. So AFAB, possibly intersex MC, otherwise adoption is the route to go. I wanted to make it possible since the world technically is a magically based one but the amount of finagling I would have to do to make this 'socially' acceptable is .. well a lot :(