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journey-to-the-attic · 2 months

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3rd anni req 2: [DRAGON AU] mammon / first encounter

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note: requested by @whensam! i have to admit, i was hoping this'd pop up. i know i can write what i want, but i always feel i need an excuse anyway. you didn't indicate a preference for pov and i also just ended up wanting to do both, so this is a little longer than expected as a result!

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Baker's children don't make good hunters. We’re used to carrying sacks of flour, not sprinting across fields with pitchfork-wielding mobs in hot pursuit. We don't make good kindling, either, but that hasn't stopped about half the adults in the village - for shame, I'd say, if I had the breath to speak.

Here's the thing. Our village isn't exactly a popular spot by any definition of the term. We're too far from any big cities to make good business, we don't make much worth selling, and the people certainly aren't charming enough to warrant a detour.

More important, though, are the creatures we share land with. Through the grassland that border the crop fields, there are invisible lines drawn in the soil - ones that no one crosses.

These lines mark dragon territory, and everyone knows that a dragon would sooner eat you for breakfast than stop for a reasonable conversation. Reasonable conversation is not something I have the luxury of at the moment, which is why I’m already several hundred paces over the line.

Just fifty already takes you into the forest. I don’t hear footsteps in pursuit anymore - they’d have to be mad to follow me so far in, which is exactly what I'd been banking on. The issue now is that, rather than being pitchforked, or burnt at the stake, I’ll probably just get eaten instead.

I pick my way through rotting leaf litter and ridged roots before collapsing against an old oak, wondering if the moisture dripping from overhead is safe to drink - or at least to wash my mouth out with. Gnawing through rope seems like a clever idea until your teeth start bleeding.

I can’t stay here, I think. Dying now would be like letting them win. Then Dad will have smacked the alderman for no reason.

Just as I get back to my feet, something whooshes overhead. I freeze. Those wings were larger than any bird I’ve ever seen.

Surely it couldn’t see me through the leaves. I crouch low to the ground and try to hide in the undergrowth - the wingbeats disappear until all I can hear is distant birdsong.

At least they’re having a nice day. I duck my head and trudge through a hedge - and come face to face with a dragon.

“Argh!”

I leap backwards. Bad move. The sunlight falls across its pointed face just in time for me to watch its pupils expand into full moons, like a cat on the hunt.

It doesn’t pounce. It doesn’t charge, snap or growl. It creeps slowly, eyes fixed on me the whole way forward, as if making sure I know that I can’t escape.

Nowhere to run. I press my back against a wizened old pine and shut my eyes tight - throwing out an arm, as if that might shield me.

Nothing happens. Then something cold presses into my palm.

My eyes snap open. The dragon blinks down at me. Its eyes are such a deep shade of blue that it’s almost dizzying. Oh. Oh, okay.

Its - his? I wonder, noting the ridges on his nose - snout rests carefully in my palm. He seems to register me staring at him, and snorts. The hot air is just on the brink of scalding, but not quite enough to hurt.

Then, almost experimentally, he opens his mouth - a yawning chasm of teeth, poised as if to ever-so-gently bite off my head. Except he doesn’t do that. There’s no pain - no crunch of broken bone or split sinew - far from it. The dragon leans down, carefully hooks his teeth into the collar of my shirt, and takes off.

I’d have screamed if it wasn’t for all the air leaving my chest at once. The forest shrinks to a dark blanket beneath us faster than I can even register it happening, and I realise very quickly that I’d be dashed to bits if I so much as slipped.

Wyvern, says an unhelpful voice in the back of my head as we soar. The dragon’s white-and-gold wings blot out the sun, but they’re so brilliant that it’s hard to tell the difference. They’re good fliers.

Before long, the dragon lands - legs first, digging his talons deep into the soil as he skids to a stop. After a moment, he huffs, then (strangely gently) drops me in a heap on the stony ground.

There’s a rumble, a swoosh - then several thuds, a swoosh of wings. I watch a shadow fall over my field of vision, then slowly raise my head.

Oh, I think a little faintly.

All sorts of colours, all sorts of demeanours. One in particular steps forward - dark, with crimson eyes, and the sort of air about him that tells me he's the leader. Boss, I'll call him, if only to settle my own nerves. The dragon that brought me here (Goldie, I decide, still trying to settle my breathing) steps forward with a sort of chirrup in greeting.

It's a spectacle, if nothing else. Here are seven dragons, horns and wings and all. I've heard cautionary tales and horror stories, but they never really tell you how majestic they look in real life - scales shinier than any jewel I could imagine. Marvels of creatures, really. If only I had the wits to appreciate it.

Boss is growling now - there's a sort of heat rolling off him in waves. Some of the feeling coming back to my numb legs.

If only I knew what they were saying...

It isn’t often that the forest bears treasure - usually it’s all very boring things, like meat and berries and leaves. To be fair, Mammon's used to treasure of the shiny, golden kind - not this weird little critter crouched against a tree.

It smells faintly of smoke and burnt wheat. He stalks closer, but he's testing it more than anything - it doesn’t look like any prey he’s familiar with.

When he gets close, it sticks out a little starfish-shaped appendage and closes its eyes. He smells bitter fear now.

Is it greeting him? Telling him it isn’t a threat? That’s smart. He thought only dragons could be smart, but it’s not behaving - nor does it look - like any dragon he's ever met.

So he returns the greeting with his snout. He half expects to be stung, like the time Asmo brought that little spidery thing home, but all the critter does is look up at him fearfully.

Interesting. On a whim, he scoops the little round thing off, and decides to take it back home.

The weird not-prey goes still as soon as he takes off. Once home, he lets it disembark (drops it on the floor, though he tries to be gentle), then looks up to face his brothers as they land around him.

The others decide to keep their distance. Lucifer is the first to plod forward and investigate.

He sniffs carefully at the air, then makes a crackling noise somewhere at the base of his throat - which isn't usually a good sign.

“That’s a human, Mammon," He says, glaring at the little critter. It’s still sitting, frozen.

“It’s a what?”

“What’d you bring that for? Stupid.” Belphie settles back on his haunches, blowing out a puff of frost. “Can’t go around snatching humans. We’ll get hunted. Stupid.”

“Shut up,” He grunts. “And I didn’t snatch it. Found it walkin’ around in the forest.”

“That’s impossible,” Satan says nearly immediately. His tail swishes back and forth - slow and deliberate, an analytical glint in his clever eyes. “They don’t let their young anywhere near us.”

“Well, whaddya call this, then?”

The human - apparently - suddenly seems to regain use of its limbs. Springing to its feet (Levi shrinks back, crest flattering over his head), it stumbles for a moment, then abruptly ducks under one of Mammon's wings.

The rest of his brothers - who'd similarly drawn back - relax again with a simultaneous murmur of vague confusion. Mammon blinks. Then his tail starts flicking at the end - like it always does when he's pleased.

“...you are not keeping it,” Lucifer says, looking as if he'd very much like to fly off into the sunset.

“It might have a disease!” adds Asmo.

“I don’t care what any of ya say,” Mammon says stubbornly, snapping at Beel when it looks like he might creep in for a bite. “I’m not sendin’ it back to the forest. It’ll be dead in a day.”

"It might be dangerous," Levi hisses. "It's totally giving me the evil eyes."

"Stop scaring it, then,” Mammon says loftily. “Relax, ya big baby - You’ve got teeth bigger than its whole head.”

“You are not keeping it,” Lucifer says again, as if repeating himself will make him sound more in charge.

“Pfft. Can’t tell me what to do.” He snaps at Beel again. “Oi! No bitin’! Go raid your stash or something.”

Beel’s horns seem to droop a little. “...fine. C’mon, Belphie.”

“I was busy,” complains Satan with a huff as the twins flap off. "This is boring. I've seen deer carcasses more interesting than that weird little thing."

"Go look at your stinkin' carcasses, then," Mammon shoots back, fighting the impulse to spit something at him.

Satan does exactly that. Levi soon slinks off as well, apparently still intimidated - and Asmo seems to have disappeared as soon as he decided the human wasn't going to make a good accessory.

Lucifer, meanwhile, stands his ground. His tail is beginning to lash in agitation. If Mammon’s lucky, maybe he’ll even start spitting fire.

“I'm not gonna eat it,” He says stubbornly.

“I wasn't going to tell you to,” Lucifer replies, but he sounds very much like he’s considering it. “Belphie was right. If a hunter sees us with one of their young, they’ll take it as a threat.”

“Like we wouldn’t win,” He scoffs, sitting down with a thump. "Anyway,don't ya smell the fire on it?"

A single scarlet eye narrows a little. Evidently he hadn't - though Lucifer's always smelling smoke, by virtue of the literal furnace in his chest, so he can't really be blamed for not noticing.

The human is peeking out from beneath his wing with a little more bravado now. Lucifer eyes its round little face as if it might start spitting poison at him.

"...humans don't usually try to set fire to their young," Lucifer says after a moment. "You're sure she doesn't have anywhere to go?"

"Wouldn't've been in the forest if it— uh, she did." He glances down. "C'mon! Not like we don't have the space."

Lucifer is silent. Then he gives a long-suffering sigh - sending a plume of dark blue smoke into the sky - and bends down to the human’s eye level again.

“Will you behave?” Lucifer asks her severely, as if she can understand dragon-speak.

The human child blinks up at him. Then she reaches up and plants a hand on his snout.

Mammon holds his breath. After a moment, Lucifer’s wings flutter, then settle.

“I’m not having any part in this,” He announces, stepping back. “This is to be your responsibility only. Don't make any trouble for your brothers. Do you understand?”

“Yeah, yeah,” He says dismissively, occupied with keeping his triumph from showing in his tail. Got it.”

Lucifer glances down at the human one final time. “...take care of her.”

And off he flaps - to attend to his usual nighttime duties. He says he's keeping watch for danger, but mostly they seem to involve gazing darkly into the sunset.

With his brothers dispersed, Mammon takes a moment to actually consider his situation. He doesn’t actually know what taking care of a human child involves. He doesn’t know much about humans in general - it’s not like he usually pays them any attention. Maybe some of his brothers could give him some advice… if any of them were interested in the kid’s well-being, at least.

They’ll come around, He decides after a moment, unfurling his wings and attempting to nudge the human in the general direction of their living caves. First, I gotta figure out what these things eat…

#3rd anni event #obey me #writing #dragon au #i mentioned this in the ao3 notes but it's crazy to me that it's been two years since dragon au started #like woa. time passes #jtta aus #obey me mammon #jtta ik #obey me brothers #(won't tag the others individually since they're not as prominent)#whensam

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samcscreams · 10 months

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hope ur doing okay friend!

what are ur thoughts on how sam and tara's lives look immediately after 6? like their dynamics with each other and with the rest of the characters? i feel like they go through a pretty soft and quiet period with each other where there's no more fighting and they get to just relax together for a bit as they recover

or tell us about any scream headcanons u have!

Great question! I have a weird answer tbh so just stay with me.

I think Sam and Tara’s relationship right after 6 was a lot like dancing. Well the symbolic and metaphorical aspects of dancing.

Either sister not wanting to step on the other toes literally and figuratively. It’s the over communication. it’s the Hey I’m just checking in. Texts followed with the dont worry if your busy!everything’s fine. Texts. To the small touches as they pass each other to let each other know their there. It’s the constant double checking to make sure a boundary hasn’t been crossed.

Of course as anyone learning a new dance you slip up here and there and step on some toes. But you learn to trust your partner that they won’t do it again. Sam has to trust Tara in a whole new way. But Tara also has to trust that Sam will give her new room to breath.

However on the flip side as Sams learning to give room Tara’s finding the need for closeness. Tara wants to be pulled into her sister embrace. It’s safe it’s warm. Sam is so afraid to smother Tara and lose her that she’s hesitant. They move around each other. This ebb and flow an intricate dance if you will.

It’s not perfect but there both trying and that leads to many peaceful days. And with each day they try the easier the dance becomes.

#sam carpenter #scream #tara carpenter #I know you asked for all characters but my brain said no just the sisters #but I do feel like whenSam and Tara’s connection gets stronger the twins start to get jealous. like how do they have better twin powers #ask

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journey-to-the-attic · 9 months

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I feel like IK is the type of person where she tries to play harmless little pranks and by some random coincedence they end up much more elaborate, so everyone thinks IK is some kind of prank master but she's just like "haha yeah I swapped the sugar for salt how funny is that guys"

She hides a cookie in Lucifers coat so some devildom birds will flock him on his walk, but then the birds start recognizing him as 'the guy with the cracker' and keep flocking to him, and it gets so consistent that the predator of the birds charges Lucifer the whole way home because Lucifer = birds in its mind

After a week of this he finds the cracker in his pocket and IK is like "haha! I pranked you! :D" and he's baffled that she planned out that whole scheme

When really IK was just like "oh he's going to have SO many crumbs in his pocket"

oh i love this it's so funny... ik absolutely is the type to cause massive knock-on effects while just trying to do something harmless

she draws the loss meme on one of solomon's things because she knows he's aware of it, but turns out the way she drew it (literally just lines) also formed a magical rune and solomon activated it out of curiosity and ended up summoning a thunderstorm above his head

afterwards he's like "very clever ik, playing on my curiosity with a seemingly innocuous rune..." and ik's just like :D? wasn't the comic funny though

also the potential for satan and belphie to use these (unintentional) abilities to cause chaos for their own devices...

#answering asks #whensam #lucifer never gets mad he's just incredibly bewildered #whenever he catches satan or belphie they're like 'how do you know it was us specifically? there are more of us in the league you know'#and lucifer just deadpans 'your scheme was not nearly clever enough to be anyone else's'

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journey-to-the-attic · 1 month

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OMG, I'm so sorry that happened to you that sounds awful !!! I've definitely been there before, so happy you only came out sore 🙏🏽

As for AU stuff-

I think a super cool side spin to the Drangon!AU would be if IK became the world's first dragon rider, like a HTTYD situation !

I think about the transition from "small weakling human" to "precious baby child" all the time, so I feel like the process of them learning about each other (the brothers + IK) in the sense of being in tune while flying is so sweet,,, like, they all obviously have different flying styles, and I'd imagine that Satan, Levi, and Belphie can't even fly at *all*, so getting accustomed to the ways they operate was probably pretty tough but SO cool for IK yknow

And on the flip side it was probably a struggle for the brothers to learn to trust her cues when training or even actively fighting something when they're so used to being independent, but they have to realize that she's not trying to control them, but work as one essentially

Idk, they just make me so happy!!!!! I love dragons!!!!!!

Any thoughts on maybe who enjoys flying/riding with her the most/who has the easiest time adapting to her cues? or any other misc thoughts, up to you!!

oooooooh humans becoming so close to their creature companions that all their movements are in sync is something so dear to me

i reckon mammon (who is nearly always ik's first friend, no matter what universe, and also the best flier) would be super quick to get used to giving her rides around the place, but at first it's more like just carrying a doll around because ik is clutching him stock-still in Terror the whole time

but then!! there's a moment where it just sort of clicks. i'm vaguely remembering a trick in one of the httyd movies where hiccup jumps off toothless's back, and then toothless catches him again? it'd be like that, except it happens completely by accident the first time, but then they keep doing it for fun

on the other hand lucifer would take SO long to properly sync, because he's always like I Will Do As I Think Is Best, Your Commands Are Mere Suggestions. for him i think it'd take a moment of him being in danger and needing to rely on ik, and that's where it clicks for him. he mellows out, but he keeps acting as if he marches only to the beat of his own drum, even though he is absolutely doing everything ik tells him to

in general ik would have a set of subtle but specific gestures (some of which are unique to each brother) that she uses to both communicate and instruct, and i reckon levi likes that bit the most. since he's more geared for swimming, he'd have a range of clicks and whistles designed for underwater communication, and ik learns to understand and reply - so it's like they have their own secret language

#answering asks #whensam #dragon au #since satan is more arboreal i imagine he'd have the most problems taking ik around #it is very easy for a human on your back to get dislodged when you're weaving between branches like that #ik hangs out on his back a lot when he's not out in the forest though so that makes up for it #also belphie (who either already had or i decided to assign ice-related powers in the mammon dragon au req)#is probably cold as hell #so they have a special riding blanket and belphie is specifically attuned to make up for the extra slipperiness of a blanket-wrapped human #jtta aus

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journey-to-the-attic · 4 months

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oooooh it is so very late at night and I am having #thoughts #emotional #notclickbait

thinking about how in the grand scheme of things IK is like. inherently the bravest being in the devildom

Mind You it's not even to do with the massive amounts of trauma she's been through, it's solely because she is a human

Humans lives are like a second long compared to these centuries (eons even) old demons- she knows virtually nothing in the grand scheme of things compared to them

And yet despite her knowing nothing (and being aware that she knows nothing and could die at any second) she still walks forward with little hesitance, trusting and learning and growing which is the bravest thing you can really do as a human (imo)

Even just the fact that she lives knowing she could die at literally any moment makes her braver than like. half the cast. because while yes they have all been through their respective traumas, they still live for HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of years, and every like. 200 years or so they'll maybe once think 'man i've been alive a long time' and continue on with their day

IK, as a human, looks around at just. the place she's in. and registers that virtually anything there could kill her and says 'yeah I could probably survive'

I honestly feel like it awes the others, especially given their lack of knowledge on humans. If I was a demon I'd be like 'shouldn't thinking about dying break your brain or smth' and here's this baby walking around like 'hey how many ounces of fucking cyanide could I chug before things start getting serious'

And I rewatched Finding Nemo recently and pictured this scene with Lucifer and IK and I think I severely dehydrated myself with how much I cried

IK: "He says to let go! Everything is gonna be alright!!"

Lucifer: "How do you know?! How do you know something bad isn't going to happen?!"

IK: "I don't!"

SHE KNOWS NOTHING!! SHE HAS NO KNOWLEDGE OF HOW FATE CARRIES HER OR WHAT SORT OF INEXPLICABLE DANGERS LIE AHEAD OR EVEN THE BASICS OF HOW MAGIC WORKS AND YET SHE BRAVES THE UNKNOWN ANYWAYS AMD LUCIFER IS IN AWE!!!!!! IM GOING TO BE SICK

this is us right now THAT'S OUR GIRL

for real though. it's like watching a baby bird fly for the first time. it's tiny and helpless and could be crushed in an instant in a predator's jaws, but it clambers out of the nest and jumps for the sky anyway, even if it could very well smash itself to pieces on the rocks below

one of my favourite genres of character tbh... i love that baby bird so dearly

#answering asks #whensam #i think the especial thing with lucifer is that as avatar of pride #he moves forward with absolute certainty that he WILL be able to handle what comes next #(and he panics when confronted with the fact that he can't)#versus ik who's tumbling on with no idea where she's going or what she's doing #it's like. we see lucifer adapt to new life in the devildom by dedicating himself to earning his place there #it's all deliberate and calculated because he needs him and his brothers to survive #whereas ik gets there. looks around. realises 'oh this place is a death trap.' and just keeps chugging along #she wanders her way home and that's how she thrives #they're both lonely at the start of their arcs in different ways #but lucifer thinks he can do it on his own while ik always welcomes company on the road #auhgh i love doing this. i love getting emotional and introspective over my own characters spshdfhsk

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journey-to-the-attic · 6 months

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I absolutely adore the trope that's like the 'apex predator' is the one you wouldn't typically guess because theyre like. smart or not aggressive or something even though it's a little cheesy

But I ESPECIALLY love it with IK because not only does she have no idea she's the 'apex predator' but she doesn't believe anyone when they try and tell her depsite having several centuries-old mythical/magical beings willing to fight for her viciously and at the drop of a hat

Some demon at RAD is like "dude like. thinking about it you're kind of the most powerful person here on account of your pacts with the seven most powerful demons down here and also your being friends with several other extremely powerful beings" and she's like "whaaaaat haha you're so funny. they are just my silly friends!! they are just funny guys!" like she knows they're extremely powerful but she doesn't see them as under her control at all so she doesn't even register that they would level cities for her so crazy right

anyways to summarize IK is the apex predator of RAD and she's just a little cutie patootie. yes I listened to the mean girls musical before typing all this out

yess i really love this trope too!! ik is So powerful that she can be surrounded by ten of the strongest beings in the three realms and if you asked her who the scariest person she knows is she'd go"'oh definitely the shouty man who runs the corner shop" and not see anything at all unusual about it

i'm imagining a new demon attending the rad and they're like "so who's top of the food chain around here? got to be lord diavolo over there right?"

to which their guide shakes their head solemnly. now a little worried - who could possibly be higher up than the prince of the whole devildom - the new demon goes for a different angle. "oh, so must be that guy lucifer, right?"

"nope."

"one of his brothers?"

"nope."

"so who then???"

"next to barbatos over there."

"..........................the kid with the backpack?"

"that's the one."

"oh."

"yup."

#answering asks #whensam #if you had to like pit them against each other tournament bracket style #ik wins every encounter just because everyone else becomes Distraught as soon as she gets mad at them

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journey-to-the-attic · 7 months

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* Mammon patting IK firmly on the head * Ain't she a beaut? And she only needs 15,000 gallons of rocket fuel!

(re: IK's use of she/her pronouns)

I love her dearly !

mammon has NO idea what ik means when she attempts to describe her relationship with gender to him, but what he's hearing is that hers is way cooler than the average person's

i'm at work rn so i had to do this on paper

#answering asks #whensam #art #i mean it just barely qualifies haha #obey me mammon #jtta ik

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journey-to-the-attic · 2 months

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hey so WHO WAS GOINT TO TELL ME THAT A NEW VHAPETT IS OUT AND K MISSED IT !!!!!!!! HEY GUYS !!!!!! WHP WAS GPJNG TO TWLL ME IM LATE TO THE PROGRAM !!!!

hey when I tell you i've never opened Tumblr so fast in my life. one question for you please answer as honestly as possible: genuinely do you care if I live or die!!!!!!!! (/j)

the last time I cried this much over a piece of fiction was legitimately back when adventure time ended and I had been watching that show since I was 5 years old and this is more devastating than that. I am not joking !!! I am going to Find You and Get You !!!!!!

Jokes aside the chapter was phenomenal as always and the pacing was brilliant- such a great way to cap off the ending

Please see my previous emotional spiel about the impact your story has had on me because I don't want to bore you repeating it but it very much needs to be said

[insert emotions here]

They mean so. so much to me ,,,,m,m

tgey are so cute. i'm going to be sick

I need to know how badly Mephisto misses her PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEA

ah at least you know now!! and ajhdsjk i feel like i've said this too much but it means so much to know i've managed to invoke Feelings.. as always thank you for keeping up with our sweet girl and for chatting with me here!!!!

as for mephisto ohh he misses that kiddo like a grandmother misses her grandkids. outside of the newspaper club that's his best friend (though to be fair, ik is many a being's best friend), so whenever he's idle he just bombards her with messages because he can't go bother the exchange students under their lunch tree anymore

sometimes he sits there under the tree on his own and 'broods' for a bit, but that generally only lasts for about half an hour before alecto finds him. one time levi joins him and they sit there in silence for a whole lunchtime

(side note i'm especially glad that the pacing worked out because that was my no.2 biggest issue after deciding what was actually going to happen! no. 3 was satan's poem, which took up a disproportionate amount of time for something that i completely spur-of-the-moment decided to include)

#answering asks #whensam #little extra: satan originally chickened out of actually submitting his poem to the newspaper and accidentally left it behind #lucifer found it in the council room and took the liberty of submitting it for him #unseen sequence: satan deciding that even if he doesn't submit it to the newspaper he wants ik to read the poem #and completely panicking when he can no longer find it in his bag #only for lucifer to nonchalantly give him a copy of the newspaper the next morning and say 'the poem in the messages section is very sweet'#satan did want to kill him a little bit but he liked the title lucifer gave it so he conceded #unbeknownst to him lucifer ALSO chickened out of submitting his own farewell half poem half cryptic letter #except HE locked his somewhere in his office so that no one could find it

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journey-to-the-attic · 11 months

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Do you think crows in the Devildom talk/mimick. Or do you think that IK showed everyone of a crow mimicking it's owner saying "Hola!" in a super deep tone and gave everyone nightmares as a collective

I feel like Mammon would be enthralled and try to make his familiar copy him like that to scare people

I like the thought of the demons and angels being horrified by Earths mindfucks tbh, kinda like with the mind control mushrooms from the culture chapter

She's like guys look at this deep sea squid with tentacles that can be over 26 feet in length. She shows them the most horrifying godless creature known to man and is like "Look at this silly little goober :D"

ik: everyone look at this fella the bigfin squid!!!

everyone else, immediately: WHAT THE FUCK

it gets to the point where ik will send single smiley face to the group chat, and everyone knows that she's about to send them a picture of the most horrific creature they've ever seen, and she's going to caption it something like 'my best friend'

#answering asks #whensam #also the talking crow thing reminds me of this one video i saw ages ago #of a crow going 'y'alright love?' in a perfect yorkshire accent #ik shows mammon that and after that they just keep repeating it at each other #it just becomes their standard greeting and mammon starts yelling it across the hallway if he spots ik at the rad between lessons #they both do the yorkshire accent every time this is a very important detail

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journey-to-the-attic · 6 months

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Okay idea for the Dragon AU--

WHAT IF Diavolo is the king and Barbatos is his servant and Diavolo is secretley half-dragon on Sonnos side? And him trying to make peace with dragons is so he can reveal to his people that he's half-dragon and show they aren't bad

But at the point of the AU, people still hate them hence IK stumbling upon Mammon deep in the woods after being accused of being a witch

The reason I thought of this is because I think an AWESOME concept would be if Barbatos was a dragon that learned how to take on a human disguise and act like a human

But as a dragon he's like oroboros!!!! He's watched the rise and fall of both dragon and human kind over and over and over, essentially watching the world eat its own tail and unfortunately he's as much of a slave to it as everyone else, it's just that he's one of the only ones who realizes and actively remembers ALL of it

And he's hoping that Diavolo (with the power of this strange little human) might be able to break this cycle

Just an idea but my brain is firing at 100% right now

ohohohoooo this is GOOD

okok so imagine that diavolo's been (subtly) trying to make contact with the full-blood dragons, but barbatos knows this never works out - no matter how promising things start out, something always ends up going wrong, because there is a fundamental mistrust between both humans and dragons

so there's always a miscommunication that makes either side think they've been betrayed, or one side will be too tense and convinced they'll be attacked, so prematurely attack the dragons in retaliation; it always ends in either a mass-hunting of dragonkind, or destruction of the kingdom

but then this cycle is the first time ik shows up, and this important because ik explicitly trusts that her friends will NOT do anything to hurt her on purpose - the kind of unwavering faith that diavolo wants to establish between humans and dragons

of course, there's a bit of an obstacle in that ik is also mistrusted at this point - "of course the witch child would ally with those wicked dragons!" - i imagine there'd be moments where public opinion begins to change, e.g. when ik along with one of the brothers helps save a merchant being robbed by bandits

maybe they get on diavolo's radar for the first time because one of the nobles in his court (om mephistopheles perhaps) gets attacked by monsters while technically invading the dragons' territory, but the brothers save and then return him back to safety. to diavolo this is a MIRACLE, and he MUST meet this witch-child who's prompted the dragons to show compassion to humans immediately

(to put an ironic twist on this, maybe the reason ik's never appeared before now is because barbatos's attempts to set things on the right track in previous cycles always butterly-effected into her being killed prematurely; she only survives in this one because barbatos is standing back in the hope that diavolo would be able to break the cycle)

(he only figures this out upon going back over his memories from past cycles - since at the time the deaths were just part of the (what he thought was) inevitable collateral damage of his efforts)

#answering asks #whensam #ouhhhh the ouroboros thing!!!!! sam your brain is so unfathomably big #dragon au #jtta aus #i think this is a constant with barbatos... always over-burdening himself with the inevitable nature of fate #and the things that he can or cannot do under time's shackles #only for ik to come along and show him that the solution is simple really #love is enduring!! love moves all!!! and she can fit so much love inside her little body!!!!!!#the thing about ik is that she thinks she can hold whole world in her hands when she cares enough. and you know what she's right

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Okay this is going to be super mushy but it's nearing the end so I want to say it

I have always loved found family. It's my favorite trope, the only one I consume really

2021 was a super sucky year for me for a lot of reasons, and I was knee-deep in the Obey Me fandom, even if I didn't interact with the fandom itself. The reason I didn't is because all the content was romance based, and the only comfort I got all throughout 2021 was dreaming up scenarios in which the brothers were MY brothers, and it was just so weird to have that sort of connection with them in my head and then read romance stuff about them

And then randomly one day I was going out on a limb to see if there was any found family obey me content just because and I found JTTA

literally oh my god.

you were on I want to say the tenth chapter at that point? and immediately I got hooked like I had never been hooked by anything else before

for the first time I wasn't finding comfort in pretending the brothers were my brothers, but I was finding comfort in watching this little kid go through the story and interact with the characters and be her awesome little self, I felt like I didn't need to have that connection to the characters because IK having that connection was enough for me

Really quickly I stopped interacting with canon and instead latched onto JTTA, because 1. the way you write them is much better than the original imo and 2. because obey me is a dating game after all, and that wasn't the type of content I was looking for

your story has kept me hooked for a solid 2 years straight. I am here for every update, for every drawing, for every silly or angsty scenario because I love it so very, very much, and because I love IK very much. where the OBM characters once brought me comfort, now SHE does more than any of them

I'm going to be so real, this is the only fanfic I read anymore!! I used to open ao3 every day and now I only open to re-read JTTA over and over and read new updates

the thought of it coming to an end puts an ache in my chest, but I'm so, so incredibly thankful to you for making such an awesome story. I obviously can't speak for anyone else but it has impacted my life in so many meaningful ways (weird as it sounds) and has brought me endless amounts of comfort when I really needed it

so all that to say: Thank you, because you have just blown me away these past two years. that's all I wanted to say :))

Happy holidays, and I know IK wasn't the one getting high but I had to get this out of my head

oh my god i really wasn't expecting the image this is killing me

but that aside - aa sam!! i don't really know how to verbalise how much it means to me that you connected with my fic like this, but thank you for telling me!!! it's always lovely to see you and i'm super happy you found jtta both for your and my sake <333

#answering asks #whensam #<33

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