sometimes a family is a baker, a botanist, the king and queen, and a sentient puppet. and they take naps together 🥰

It's a QPR not a romantic ship but still... 🥰

Through the years (1/3)

I am literally so proud of this and if Tumblr crunches the quality I WILL cry

Someone ask me about my soulmate au w/ Cel, Gerda, Kai, Gwyn, and Pinocchio pleaseeee

ask and you shall recieve!

🔍👀

d... detaaaails...

Wshdjshfjs I should be asleep but I am not bc Them. Also my relationship w/ soulmate aus is complicated but this is one of two soulmate aus I have that have a special place in my heart ^-^

So it's the writing appears on your soulmate's body au bc that is one of my favorite concepts (and it's easy to do w/ multiple ppl wsjfjsj). Cel, Gerda, Kai, Gwyn, and Pinocchio are all soulmates with each other. Each of them has Their Color, which is just what color ink they write in. Cel is red (or purple, but leaning towards red), Gerda is yelloe, Kai is green, Gwyn is blue (light blue, to be specific), and Pinocchio is orange. For a while none of them realize Gwyn exists, as he's comatose at the beginning. When he wakes up, everyone is thrilled to have a fifth member of The Crew, so to speak. Also young Gwyn is VERY confused by the whole thing and it's adorable.

So with the whole Cel, Gerda, and Kai being childhood friends thing they realize they're soulmates fairly quickly. They're all very excited, and talk about what life might be like when they find the other two. Kai's a botanist with a somewhat shitty sleep schedule, so the other four'll wake up to see he took botany notes on his arms in the middle of the night. Secretly he takes his notes normally, he just writes down fun facts he learns that he thinks his soulmates would appreciate (they all always do). Cel writes recipes and doodles random shit, Gerda writes inspirational stuff, and Pinocchio usually just draws hearts. Gwyn, being a prince, will take notes about meetings n stuff he has to do.

Pinocchio turns into an inanimate puppet at the end of the last DP game he appears in, leaving his ultimate fate in-universe unclear. For the sake of my ship he gets better, though I cannot stay consistent as to whether or not to make him a sentient puppet or human whsjdjs. When no new orange messages appear for a while, after a worrying mwssage the contents of which i have yet to decide, they all assume the worst. So I have a very specific scenario in my mind where Kai and Gwyn are playing Hangman on their arms bc Gwyn can't be bothered to pay attention to his meeting. Unrelated but Cel's doodling on its other arm. But Kai puts down seven blanks, only to be startled when orange letters spell out "IM ALIVE" in those blanks. The idea of Gwyn having to pretend like he didn't get a bombshell and a half dropped on him amuses me idk why.

I also like thinking abt it from the outside. One day, the town baker doesn’t hum while they work. The guy who takes care of the forests doesn't sing with the birds in the early morning. The queen only nods politely, with the barest hints of a smile. The king is polite, but closed-off. This becomes a new normal for a while. A few months to a few years. Then one day it's like a switch has flipped, and everything is even brighter than before. The town baker is singing the most beautiful of tunes, and she invites her custimers to dance. In the early morning, the young man sings louder than the birds, but just as beautifully. The queen greets people with her brilliant smile, along with a hug if permitted. And overall the king just seems happier. No one in town knows what caused any of this. They don't know about the death of the unknown but very much loved Orange, or their sudden return.

But yeah eventually Pinocchio finally ends up in the kingdom where the other four live, and is taken into the palace even before any of them realize he's the mysterious Orange. And then it's all just wholesome shit from there. ^-^

Don't expect to see me tmrw but uh I maintain that Kai would give great hugs & be a great cuddler and augh I just wan hug/cuddle him

Bought myself gifts from the f/os (specifically Lynette and Kai & Gerda) and wrote little letters :3

The letters:

(I have a closet in my dorm room that I put them in bc I don't have to open it much)

And now the things I bought! (Plushies, bc I love them) (the Lynette one is left, the Kai + Gerda one is right)

(Naming the plushies Lynette/Nettie and Kai bc I can)

I have a lot of complex feelings about my relationship w/ Gerda and Kai in a selfship sense 🤔

Me looking at Kai through a queerplatonic lense makes it complicated but I do adore him with my whole heart

I'll probably talk about them in a polycule sense sometimes, and Gwyn also may or may not crop up from time to time

Gerda x Kai x Cel childhood friends to lovers trio where Kai and Cel aren't dating but they're not not dating

Also Gwyn joins Kai and Gerda, I guess (said lightheartedly, he's my best friend actually)

I don't have anything of substance to say in this post but uhhh wahh my friends I love them all so much ❤️💛🩵

I will never not laugh at the Gwyn screenshot btw he's such a loser (affectionate)

Gwyn: Do you love Gerda?

Kai: Yeah, I do.

Gwyn: Cel! I told you I knew it! You owe me 100 bucks!

Cel: We all love Gerda. You should've asked if he was IN love with her.

Kai: I thought that was implied.

Cel, having a realization: ...

Gwyn: ...

Kai, looking straight at Cel: Congrats Gwyn, you just won 100 bucks.

Time to play Ballad of Rapunzel again 👍

Means I get to go see my Dark Parables faves ahsjjrjsj I would die for any of them <<33

Chart of the relationships between me (purple heart), Kai (green heart), Gerda (yellow heart), and Gwyn (blue heart). I made this a few hours ago specifically to post it lmao

What is your favorite way to express affection with your F/O

Ty for the ask, I appreciate it!

I'll go thru my mains for this one (including my familials bc familial affection go brrr)

Phone Gal - Physical affection's a big one with me and her.

Kai - Acts of service, mostly. That's my main love language overall.

Constantin - More physical affection, although most of it's initiated by him.

Bennett - Acts of service, since it's both of our main love languages.

Lynette - Also acts of service. Although words of affirmation do make their way in there a fair bit.

Hina - Physical touch again, but acts of service is close behind

Drawings of hugs w/ my mains that I did a few days ago!

I'll probably turn these digital eventually but for now y'all get this

🔮 for any f/o

Ausidjd I think it's really funny that all three of the moodboard asks were all the same emoji :3

General Aesthetic Moodboard (Kai)

I quite like this one. Also, all the images I picked have reasons if anyone's curious