Author: phantasmagoria00

For your caretaker AU, the boys recognise the reader (who is a vampire of minor nobility) as one of their former maids who treated them very kindly as children, and was a firm favourite until Cordelia got rid of her due to jealousy (eg. allowed Kanato an extra cookie at dinner, listened to Reiji go on about whatever book he’d just read, let Shu play with her pet dog, praise Ayato when he did well and console him when he didn’t, spent time talking with Laito, helped Subaru curb his anger, etc.)

Admin Mawile: (*･▽･*)

Shuu:

-It’s strange to think that you’re back, and sort of unpleasant to know that you probably remember him before… everything. He’s likely to try to avoid you out of a need to keep far away from any kind of attachment, and deny remembering who you are if you press on the matter. 

Reiji:

-It’s a bizarre feeling to see someone who was actually sort of nice to him as a child, and, while he’s still not exactly going to be kind, you might get some extra leeway due to whatever sympathy he has in him. You were one of the better forces in their childhoods, and that does deserve some thanks. 

Ayato:

-If you go right back to treating him with the same open appreciation you did when he was a kid, he’s likely to slip back into the same routine. He’s a pretty childish person at heart, and remembering how nice you used to be goes a long ways in getting him to open up a bit to why you’re there. 

Kanato:

-Aside from the fact that he’s likely to get dangerously, violently possessive of the one person who was decently kind to him, being remembered does improve your chances of not meeting an unfortunate end. Especially if you’re still willing to make him sweets whenever he wants. 

Laito:

-Anything that reminds him of his childhood is kind of a touchy subject, and he might actually be more standoffish because you know too much. As long as you let him act like the cheerful pervert he wants to be seen as, there shouldn’t be much trouble, but do not try to question the facade he’s assembled. 

Subaru:

-He definitely remembers you… and is now mildly terrified that he’s going to ruin everything and either hurt you or chase you away. He acts as angry as usual, but it’s mostly because he doesn’t know how to deal with someone who was actually kind to him back before he could protect himself. 

Admin Mawile: I’m about 2000 words into the first real chapter of the fic… and my head is already insistent that’s terrible.(,,꒪꒫꒪,,)  It’s making it very difficult to write and I am very much wishing that my OCD would just shut up for a bit

Hi :) I was just wondering if you have played all of the games through and or just some of them and if so which games have you played? And which is your favorite? And what do you play the games on?

Admin Mawile: I have not played much of the games, actually! For one, my various mental issues mean that I get overwhelmed easy, especially when I get excited about something, which gets in the way quite a bit. Also, I’m not that good at reading Japanese, so, while I own a couple of the games, I have to put work into translating them. 

Mostly, I’ve read translations (again, not too much at once cause I get overwhelmed…), and paid attention to characterization and meta within the fandom. I’m good at picking things up this way, cause I have to do it a lot, but that’s how I’ve done things!

I own the first game and Lunatic Parade, though, and I play them on a PSP/PS Vita! 😀 My favorite game is any one with Carla in it~

I’m interested in Laito’s route. Getting him to admit, at least superficially/sexually, that he likes being dominated would be fairly easy, but getting him to be emotionally vulnerable? Very, VERY difficult. I’m looking forward to seeing you write it~!

Admin Mawile: Oh, and I fully intend for him to be emotionally vulnerable~

The way I picture his route going is that, when reader isn’t phased by his attempts at intimidation, he takes it as a fun little challenge and accepts her dominating him in whatever way he can pressure her into. 

Time passes, he starts to catch Feelings because reader is the first person to treat him like more than an empty-headed pervert and have genuinely good intentions, and Laito slowly starts to freak out because he’s falling in love with someone for the first time in his life and he doesn’t know what to do. 

Reader, meanwhile, takes all of this in stride, and continues to do her best to haphazardly glue all the Laito-pieces back together. 

At this point, she just wants to help (and DAMN does she feel bad for him), but Laito makes everything difficult, and if he doesn’t knock it off, so help her she is going to bring feelings into this. Laito does not stop acting like, well Laito, and he’s forced to face feelings in the end, which goes surprisingly well considering that reader has not yet realized the depth of fucked-up that Laito truly is. 

Things get sorted out somehow, though, and it all works out in the end. 

This is just a rough idea, though, and I imagine that things will change as I write! Who knows how it’s going to wind up

I would want to see Laito’s route because I think he’s one of the more complex DL characters. His trauma is much more deeply rooted in comparison to others, in my opinion. So I think it’d be really interesting to see him in a submissive and powerless position, something we never see in the games, anime or CDs. Thanks!

Admin Mawile: Thank you, anon! Despite Laito still being tied with another boy in the survey, this ask means I’ll be working on his route first! 😀 You make a very good point, and I hope my writing lives up to your expectations~ 

I don’t know if I’m going to do all of one route before starting another, though, and I do still need to be thinking about everyone else’s stories, so anyone who wants to talk to me about who they’d like to see is more than welcome to~

(Also, if anyone wants to ask stuff about Laito’s route…)

AO3 anon here: please take your time and don’t rush yourself! I’d hate for you to feel like writing for something is tedious or obligatory, and besides, I have a feeling this new fic will more than make up for it! Take care of yourself and stay hydrated 💜

Admin Mawile: (〃⌒∇⌒) Problem is, I tend to start fics, lose inspiration for a while (thanks, hyperfocus), and then get back to them after like 8 months… I’m SO sorry that my updating schedule is so bad, and I’m eternally grateful that ya’ll put up with my brain being weird.