61st ♫ | to this day my love remains, you are my only shining star

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SHIPPY (& SPICY) ❤ CMO

Ryoko Shinonome
any, teens only

Yuri
m/f pref, teens/early 20s only

Garnet Bellerose
m/f pref, 20+ only

Lambda
any, age is a fuck??

Annaliese
m/f pref, 20+ only

A p–potentially less wholesome CMO for all your shipping with Claire's girls needs!!! Drop a starter for one of the girls listed above (and mark as appropriate if you're shooting for something NSFW) and LET'S DO THIS!!

Other characters are also available so feel free to ask after them! The characters listed above are just the ones I'm feelin the most right now so I will be prioritizing prompts left for them!

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lambda!

[nightwild]

[Fauna has been working for Lambda for years now. They've worked together, granting wishes, doing whatever it takes to create a better world. But, well. Today. Today, there's no wishes to grant, no monsters to create, no monsters to fight. Leaving Fauna in their base, looking restless.]

Lady Lambda? Do we not have anything to do today?

[amorevolous]

[ For as restless as Fauna is, Lambda seems equally at ease in comparison – though that's to be expected. In all the time they've spent together, it's rare for her to be hurried or hasty, even in the case of their shared goals. If there's work to do, they'll do it. If there's not, then she's happy to enjoy the time they have.

Which is why her response to Fauna's question is a giggle and a presumptuous little pat on the head. That's Lambda for you... ]

Not a thing! You're not trying to overwork yourself, are you?

[nightwild]

N- No, of course not!

[She's flustered by the headpat- this long and she's still awkward about signs of affection. But she seems restless still, tail twitching with impotent energy.]

Just... You know, if there's anything I can do for others...

[amorevolous]

You won't be able to do aaaanything if you run yourself ragged, though!

[ She starts playing with Fauna's hair idly as she talks with a thoughtless easy familiarity. ]

You need to relax, relax! If you don't then one of these days you might just go pop!

[nightwild]

I.... I guess so...

[She isn't sure what to do, but she relaxes a bit.]

I don't think I would pop, though.

[amorevolous]

Then would you go boom instead? Like a firework!

[ She mimes the spreading of a firework burst with her hands, wiggling her fingers the whole while. ]

All my plans would be up in smoke!

[nightwild]

... I think I usually just hit things.

[or, you know, sets things on fire, or stabs them, but you know.]

[amorevolous]

And you're quite skilled at it! But even you need a break every now and then. Don't you agree?

[ despite her phrasing that as a question, it's becoming increasingly clear that this is Not optional. ]

[nightwild]

I.... I guess.

[She sighs, and slumps down a little.]

Then, is there anything I can do for you today, Lady Lambda?

[amorevolous]

. . . you're really not getting it, are you?

[ Lambda just. stares a hole right into her face. ]

I'm giving you a day off!

[nightwild]

[Urk.]

I mean, I get it, but....

... I, um. Don't know what to do with a day off...

[amorevolous]

[ . . .

Lambda puts a hand to her chin in thought. ]

You know, now you mention it... I'm not quite sure either. A day off is supposed to be for rest and relaxation, isn't it?

[nightwild]

[Fauna's tail flicks back and forth restlessly.]

Yeah... To do things you find fun, I guess.

[... Fauna is going to be trying her best to not admit that she doesn't know what's fun.]

[amorevolous]

Right, right!

[ She waits for Fauna to elaborate.

. . .

Then she narrows her eyes. ]

You do have things you do for fun, don't you?

[nightwild]

[Urk.

She withers under that gaze, shrinking down in embarrassment.]

I... Well... Um...

I'm happiest when I'm serving and being of use to you, so...

[amorevolous]

You're not about to tell me you don't have a single hobby or pastime to your name, right? Right?

[ when did this become an interrogation??? ]

[nightwild]

[WHEN INDEED.....]

Well... I mean, that's... Not really...

[amorevolous]

You don't read? Watch TV? Listen to music? Collect stamps? Build model kits? Run through video games as fast as possible? Those are all quite popular hobbies online, you know!

[ She siiiiighs and shakes her head. ]

You really won't have any hope of connecting with people if you keep this up...

[nightwild]

I- I don't need to connect with anyone else!

[She protests.]

I just, you know.... All of those things need money...

[amorevolous]

Connecting with people is the most important thing, Fauna!

[ And to emphasize that, Lambda seizes Fauna's hands in her own with an expression you can only really call intense. ]

Why else do you think we do the things we do?

[nightwild]

To make a better, more just world.

[IMMEDIATE.... even if her face is being smushed.]

[amorevolous]

And we do that by connecting people! By putting them through hardships to test their bonds and make them come out stronger than ever...! Don't tell me you haven't been listening to me when I explain it?!

[ STAAAAAAARE. ]

[nightwild]

Of course I have!

[Her ears droop.]

But I don't need to connect with anyone but you, Lady Lambda.

[amorevolous]

That's no good at all, Fauna!

[ She gets a disapproving finger waggle! ]

I might be your most precious person [ SHE REALLY JUST CAME OUT AND SAID THAT, HUH ] but humans like you need to connect with each other to survive! It's how you find real happiness!

[nightwild]

[SHE REALLY JUST CAME OUT AND SAID THAT....

... unfortunately, that confidence and honesty is part of why Fauna likes her so much.]

I don't want that kind of happiness. There's no way I'd ever fit in or be wanted by humans, anyway.

That's why it's best if I just stay with you.

[amorevolous]

Oh, Fauna. You really are a sweetheart, aren't you? But that won't do.

[ She reaches out and quite presumptuously cups Fauna's face in her hands. Her smile's just as warm as it ever is, but there's something a little cold under it. ]

There's nothing quite as sad as someone holding onto one-sided feelings, after all.

[nightwild]

[JESUS.

Fauna looks crushed for a moment, but quickly rallies, holding firm even with Lambda cupping her face...]

It's fine if that's all it is. I don't need anything more.

[amorevolous]

No, no, of course you do! After all – I might be your most precious person, but you can never be mine. I love all humans, after all!

[ She giggles pleasantly, as if this is not an absolutely heart crushing thing to say. ]

So I'd like nothing more than to find someone who'll be able to love you as their very own most precious person. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

[nightwild]

[Fauna is, of course, crushed. But at the same time... That grand nature, able to love all of humanity. Isn't that part of why Fauna is so devoted? Why should she be crushed by the same nature that drew her to her in the first place?

The conflict in her heart is complicated... so instead she chooses to ignore it and pretend she's fine.]

... I already know. A person who would love me like that doesn't exist. That's why I can devote myself to our cause so readily.

[amorevolous]

That's what you think. But you don't understand love like I do, do you?

[ She finally releases Fauna's face and sets her hands on her heart. Her expression turns soft and wondrous, like she's been given a rare and special glimpse of something magical and whimsical.

It's the sort of smile she's never directed at Fauna. ]

Everyone loves someone. And everyone's so different...! So surely, in all those billions and millions of people– surely there should be a person who's capable of loving you!

[nightwild]

... I can't imagine anyone like that. No one I'd want to love, anyway.

[She looks away.]

But... Doesn't that mean there should be someone you love more than anyone else, out there, too?

[amorevolous]

[ Lambda giggles. It's the way you might laugh when someone's innocently asked a foolish question, like she's charmed by how pure and naive the very idea is. ]

Of course not! I told you, I love all humans. So that means I can't pick and choose and favour one or two above somebody else.

[ If she knows that this is a lie, she doesn't show it in any way. ]

Besides – it's humans who bond with each other through strife and hardship. You're not forgetting that I'm not human, are you?

[nightwild]

No, but...

[She twitches one of her ears for emphasis.]

I'm not sure I count as human anymore, either.

[amorevolous]

The outside might be different, but what's in here–

[ She reaches out and presses a hand to Fauna's sternum – a little too hard. ]

– is the same, don't you think? You still have a human heart that goes ba-bump, ba-bump. ♥ You can't get rid of that so easily!

[nightwild]

I guess not, but...

[She looks down.]

I still... don't want to be with other humans.

[amorevolous]

Maybe so. [ She ducks down a little, so Fauna can't look away – so Lambda's face is filling her vision completely. ] But you're afraid of being alone, right?

But if humans are no good... hm, that changes things...

[nightwild]

I'm not afraid!

[Yes, she is. But she protests, but she can't look away....]

Changes things... how?

[amorevolous]

[ Lambda's saccharine smile grows just that bit brighter. ]

If you can't stand to be alone, that means you need somebody to be with. Right? And it has to be someone who'll treat you as if you're more precious than anybody else. That's the sort of thing you'd need to heal your heart.

But you're saying that humans are no good. So, we need to find someone who isn't human who'd be able to love you. That's a pretty big change!

[nightwild]

[Her voice is soft. Weak. Betraying just how hurt and scared she's feeling right now...]

And that person... No matter what, it can't be you?

[amorevolous]

Mmm... I could try, but...

[ Again, she reaches out to play with a little of Fauna's hair – whether affectionately or in a careless, thoughtless sort of way, it's hard to tell. ]

What you want is someone who'll love you more than anyone else, right? Who'll stop at nothing to make you and only you happy?

[nightwild]

... I don't know.

[And it's truthful, as she admits that.]

What I want is someone I can trust completely. Who I can believe in, no matter what, who won't betray me...

[amorevolous]

Mm... I see.

[ Her smile turns more thoughtful - it's not cruel exactly, but there's a calculating edge to it. Like a computer running dispassionately through an algorithm, combing through its datasets to come to the optimal end result. Sometimes, it's easy to forget that Lambda isn't as human as she pretends to be but at times like this, it becomes frighteningly apparent. ]

You know that I'll never betray you. And you know that I'll always make you happy. I'll love you, just as much as I'll love any other human I come across. But you'll never be my one and only and if I come across another human who needs my help as much as you do...

[ She lets the sentence trail off and the lock of Fauna's hair spills from her hand in turn. ]

Would that be enough to make you happy?

[nightwild]

[Would it make her happy? She imagines it. Being loved by Lambda... but never enough. Never betraying her, but never giving her her full attention.

... Would it make her happy?

It couldn't. But could anything else? So she swallows that.]

Of course. Lady Lambda is my everything, after all.

[amorevolous]

Alright then! ♥

[ Lambda promptly clasps Fauna's hand tight in both of hers and holds it to her heart, like she's cradling something precious. ]

If this is what will make you happy, then I'll love you. I'll never betray you. And I'll keep on loving all humans so you can believe in me until the end – even if it means I can't love you more than anyone else.

That's your happiness, right, Fauna?

This is a booty call for Miss Bellerose

[guildedlily]

Hey now, you're doing dishes without me? I said I'd help.

[After a series of events involving a desperate innkeeper and her "haunted" cottage inn, a research university for mages on a hill, the discovery of a slew of accidental magic poisonings, and a heroic childhood romance coming to fruition after far too long, Rhee and Garnet have temporarily become the sole guests of an inn that isn't haunted at all, while its proprietress and her beau take a well-deserved mini-honeymoon. It's a nice break for all of them, since they get to stay for free as long as they like, as a reward for clearing the innkeeper's name, and there's more than enough food in the pantry to tide them over until the owner's return. They just have to cook and clean after themselves.

It's been warm, so Rhee went upstairs to hang up his coat. The dark shirt he wears underneath hugs the slim contours of his body in a way his coat definitively does not as he comes to join Garnet at the sink. Though it's never really been in question, it's newly clear: Rhee is, unequivocally, a strapping young man, lanky but well-kept.

And they have the whole cottage to themselves. :)]

Not much of a reward for you if I leave you to do all the work. Oh, there--pardon me.

[Utterly unaware of the space he takes, he reaches up and around her, leaning close so he can grab a dish towel hanging by her head. He sets to drying the dishes she's washed. The fine, fair hair at the nape of Rhee's neck clings slightly to his skin as he bends to the task, and he shakes away the bangs that fall uselessly into his face.

The broad stretch of his shoulders moves beneath the back of his shirt as he wipes a plate dry.]

[eventidings]

[ If there's an unusual amount of clatter and bustle in the sink as Garnet cleans, it's surely just residual nerves from adjusting to staying in the haunted-except-not-actually-haunted inn. Never mind that in all the time they've been here so far nothing overtly frightening has happened, at least not to the degree that would have her this on-edge. And if she gives a small "ah-" of surprise when Rhee leans in, well that's not unusual either - even now, she has days where an unexpected touch, even from Rhee, makes her jump or flinch. So there's nothing at all unusual about her behaviour tonight.

... is what Garnet hopes he thinks, anyway. She resists the urge to avert her gaze and gives him a smile, though the awkwardness of it is impossible to miss. ]

I don't mind doing it. I'm still not used to it being so quiet, so I was trying to keep myself busy.

[ That much, at least, she's being honest about. She'd gotten so used to knowing that other people were bustling around that their absence has her feeling off kilter - and a little more overly aware of Rhee than she usually is.

But she can totally be normal about this. Totally. She'll handle it. ]

@pryftigern

[liedol]

[ Even now, after everything, the two of them still call it a mana transfer. As if nothing has changed and this is still nothing but a necessary transaction between Master and Servant. Even though when he'd touched her before, his eyes had always been frigid even when his words and his hands weren't but now there's warmth – heat, even, in the flash of his eyes, the press of his mouth and each stinging point of contact with his teeth. This has nothing to do with loving or wanting each other, after all – so mana transfer is the excuse they'll continue to use far beyond the point that either of them believe it.

It's late in the evening when she catches him by the sleeve – late enough that the sky outside is dark and the city below her apartment has lit up. With her lashes lowered, you could almost think the softness of her voice is something demure.

Almost. If you didn't know any better. ]

You still haven't recovered all the way, have you?

[ Excuses, excuses. It's been more than a week since they clashed with the Archer and ended him and while it had been a challenge... they'd won. And a week was more than enough time for a Servant like Oberon to have recovered.

But since this is just a transaction, there needs to be a reason for it. ]

Let me help.