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a cookie and a monster by starbitsaplings
Fandoms: Deltarune (Video Game), Cookie Run (Video Game)
07 Nov 2025
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“Cream critters are shape-shifting species that consist of cream,” Pure Vanilla explained sagely, “They are regular cream animals that can transform into cookie forms, or anything else.”
“Oh yeah?” Susie held back a sneer, “Well, sorry to break it to you, but I’m not that, either. In fact, I’m not any kind of sweet treat like you.”
“Then…” Pure Vanilla started, his eyes practically glimmering like stars, “What are you?”
“Well… I’m a monster from the Lightworld. And…” Susie explained rather humorously as she straightened herself, “From where I’m from, we eat cookies.”
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Susie suddenly finds herself separated from her friends after the cooking minigame, warping into another kitchen-themed area littered with baking appliances. While on the lookout for her friends, she stumbles into a rather interesting dessert-esque monster. Both comfort and learn much more from each other than anticipated.
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"The song that Kris was playing had a rather brightening and courageous tone to it - like a shining, refreshing beacon of hope within a situation of bleakness.
For some reason, listening to her dear friend’s piano music for the first time in a while suddenly gave Noelle a shred of courage and hope.
It was what she needed to hear for a while, after everything.
The song felt extremely reassuring, as if Kris was reassuring her from a distance. Just like old times. The deer girl could cry in relief upon hearing their friend’s playing for the first time in what felt like ages, if Susie wasn’t around."
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For the first time in years, Noelle finds herself a distant yet important audience of Kris' piano performance. This time, she has Susie by her side.
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- Part 2 of they're playing piano
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“I am… Very sorry, Vautrin…” Neuvillettte said, realizing that he’s now speaking up for the first time since meeting up with the duo, “I owe my deepest apologies to you and Carole, too.”
“Hmm?” Carole tilted her head, seemingly confused at the rather sudden change of topic, “What are you sorry for, Monsieur Neuvillette?”
“For not being able to protect the both of you,” Neuvillette answered. “Both of your fates have haunted me for centuries.”
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In an unexpected dream of a beach blanketed within a sunset, Neuvillette encounters some familiar faces of the past.
[character study, oneshot.]
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In all his years in this world, Neuvillette had never experienced such intimacy in his life. Indeed, he had made it a personal goal of his to keep an arm’s length (or further, even) to all people, no matter what. The only closest thing he has ever felt that was intimate was all of his precious times with not even any of the humans, but instead, with the melusines.
-Other than that, he has never received much intimacy elsewhere. At the time, he felt that it was the closest form of intimacy he would ever receive from others.
Not until he adopted the white-haired human boy.
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one peaceful night, neuvillette's young human son seeks out his father for comfort and company after a nightmare. as neuvillette soothes the boy, he reflects on his experience of raising a human child for the first time, along with the lessons of humanity he has learned through the years.
oneshot character study.
[adoptive father au; written as a gift]
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Akihiko was then snapped back into reality as he heard Kotone to his side rather nervously reply, “Um… I don’t really think I can braid your hair, Maiko. I actually…” Her tone faltered as she admitted, “I can’t really braid hair at all.”
Akihiko wasn’t too surprised upon hearing her admit that; she didn’t seem like one to care much about learning intricate hairstyling, as she almost always had hers up in a ponytail if it wasn’t loose down past her shoulders. If anything, maybe Takeba or even Mitsuru would have at least a little bit of knowledge.
Though, it didn’t mean that Akihiko himself didn’t know how to braid hair.
He glanced back at Maiko, who looked slightly disappointed, with how she pouted.
For a split second, Akihiko saw Miki.
Before he knew it, he offered, “I can braid your hair for you.”
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akihiko offers to braid maiko's hair one afternoon. doing so reminds him of who he learned to do it for. in turn, he reflects on his past and present relationships with friends and family old and new, as well as himself as a person.
oneshot.
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a series of oneshots depicting kris and noelle's bond through piano-playing visits over the years.
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August was raised in a convent kept by “The Sisterhood of the Shield,” A slightly more modernized and open answer to the reclusive Order of the Sword. This was not a particularly pleasant arrangement for a person who most definitely had some form of demonic blood in her veins. In the aftermath of the Crisis of Redgrave, she discovers a plot amongst the Holy City of Batrice’s elite to unleash a new Hellgate - or rather an ancient one sealed by the Dark Knight Sparda. Though she thwarts the plan, she falls through the gate, and lands within a temple dedicated to the sealed demon prince, Beelzebub, the youngest recognized heir to the Darkness Mundus.
Upon freeing Prince Beelzebub, the two agree to travel together to escape the demon realm. They both have business in the human world. Beelzebub is a curious demon; one with no ill will towards humanity. But he was sealed away by the Dark Knight regardless. Why? Meanwhile, August sets out in search of a young man. A devil hunter with white hair. The same white hair that she bears. Perhaps he may have some answers as to ‘who,’ or rather, ‘what’ she is…
They’re gonna have a bad time.Bookmarked by starbitsaplings
07 Feb 2026
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"Neuvillette.
She says his name sometimes, whispered into the empty night, like a sailor throwing an anchor down at sea. Semantic satiation twists any word she repeats beyond some invisible threshold, numbs her tongue into incoherence; only Neuvillette is immune. He may have no interest in becoming her friend, but he’s something — an oasis in the desert, an island in the middle of the sea. A ‘something’ beyond comprehension or definition. He is gentle, and fair, and so much himself that sometimes Furina can hardly bear to look at him. Instead, she drapes her hope for the future like a cloak around his shoulders and pulls him with her into the sky, hand in hand, onto the glittering pedestal of fame and faith that will save their people from ruin."
Neuvillette and Furina, throughout the centuries.
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24 Aug 2024
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"Neuvillette does not remember a great deal from his past life, but he remembers his tail. He remembers the feeling of it, strong and heavy behind him. He remembers how he had swum with it, how he had fought with it, though the memory of those waters and those battles had been torn from the fabric of his being along with his Authority. All that remains is the tail, the lost limb of it aching in the dead of night as he tries to sleep in a body that does not exist."
The scales of justice are perfectly balanced. Neuvillette is... less so.
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- Part 2 of i drink the air before me and return
- Part 1 of a natural imbalance
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24 Aug 2024
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douse the hearth, lock the door, yet still the body keeps the score by placesinfive
Fandoms: 原神 | Genshin Impact (Video Game)
31 Jul 2024
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It all comes to an end, as things often seem to do, with a mission gone wrong.
“Father,” Lyney says, throat dry and voice hoarse, “What are you…what are you going to do to him?”
He isn’t entirely sure why he asks. Everyone at the House already knows the answer, even if it remains largely undiscussed.
Father doesn’t respond immediately.
“He no longer wishes to be with us,” she says, eventually. “I am going to do what needs to be done.”
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In which a mother refuses to go down without a fight, and is promptly sent to the Fortress instead of an early grave. Upon her release, Freminet is given the chance to leave the House, and live with her again.
Unbeknownst to him, he takes it.
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03 Jul 2024
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making vows i know will be betrayed. by pyxae
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses
18 Oct 2019
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spoilers for azure moon ch 12!!!!
a fic in which byleth uses divine pulse to take rodrigue's place in defending dimitri against fleche's attack
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09 Mar 2024