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For the OC and creator ask game😁🥰

2,4,5,8,13,15,17,20,27,30

A,B,D

Have a safe, fun New Year's Eve,and may this new year be one of many blessings and all things good for you and your loved ones!!!

Oh my, thank you for asking! Questions are from this ask game. Lots of good ones here!

2. How easy is it to make them laugh? Pierce and Cleopatra are a pair of clowns at a funeral. They laugh easily, joke weirdly, and fill my carefully crafted gothic atmosphere with too much comedy. Sarah laughs at people's misfortune. Especially when it's Pierce.

4. How easy is it to earn their trust? Pierce trusts on instinct; luckily, it usually works, and he has a gaurd dog (Sarah). Cleopatra holds people at arms length, but she's so outwardly sweet that it's hard to tell. Earning Sarah's trust would take a lifetime, and you'd probably be wasting your time.

5. How easy is it to earn their mistrust? You'd have to do something really horrible to Pierce's Undead heart to earn his mistrust. Cleopatra, fairly easily, but she gives second chances. You have Sarah's mistrust by default.

8. What are they told to stop doing as a child? Little Pierce brought home creatures and friends that he begged to keep but were probably no good for him. When he was older, he had to be told to stop squandering the family fortune. Little Cleopatra had to be removed from her room to be introduced to human company. Little Sarah bit people, swore a lot and terrorised her governesses.

13. Oh, this is a good one! The trio dress according to the three Gothic colours, red white and black. Pierce wears white and pale colours, signifying his role as the 'innocent.' Cleopatra wears red, vitality and passion. Sarah dresses in black, Doom and Gloom and severity.

15. How do they speak? Pierce is equally fluent in eloquent flirting, undignified emotional monologues and spontanious yapping. Cleopatra changes her style according to who she's talking to and what she thinks they expect of her. Sarah has two gears: swearing and death-threats or cold politeness with discreet sarcasm.

17. Are they easily embarrassed? Pierce gets flustered when he meets someone as good at innuendo as him. Cleopatra used to be self-conscious, but not anymore. Sarah is proud, she reacts badly to being demeaned.

20. How would they explain the difference between familial, platonic, and romantic love?Pierce would say platonic and romantic loves are chosen, but familial love isn't, and the difference between platonic love and romantic love is that with romantic love, there's the desire to become part of that person and have a part of them inside you (metaphorically... I think he knows how that sounds). Cleopatra would say the difference is the places they hold in your life and that many kinds of love can't be pinned down. Sarah believes any kind of love is an obligation.

27. What causes them to feel dread? Pierce: when people fall out of love with him. Cleopatra: the sense of being worthless, helpless or purposeless. Sarah: she'd be the last to say so, but she has a fear for anything that cause her physical or emotional harm.

30. Who do they most regret meeting? Pierce can't really wrap his little brain around regret, but he does have many of them. Deep down, he regrets meeting the vampire who made him a vampire. Sarah and Cleopatra both regret meeting Pierce at some point.

A. Are you excited about your oc(s)? Yes. I write about them every day. They don't always give me an easy time, but I love it.

B. What inspired you to create them? Pierce was originally just a happy vampire, but then I started basing him on Dorian Gray, and then I realised that he has a lot of me in him. Cleopatra has a lot of my own traits. Sarah was based on the actress Sarah Bernhardt in the beginning, but now she's a completely different character and only her name, appearances and sass are the same.

D. Have their physical appearance changed? Pierce was once tall. It gave me a shock to read my description of his tallness in earlier drafts. Sarah's dress and hair changed when I changed her backstory. Cleopatra is unchanged, except that I decided that her hair isn't naturally ginger.

If you've come so far, thank you for reading all this! And I wish you and your family a happy New Year as well, all the best with everything!

Susan Kay's Phantom // L'Opéra des Vampires by me. (Full except and context below cut)

I haven't yet uploaded this part of Gothic Tales because this "tale" is undergoing severe redrafting, but this scene stands thus:

(Anyway, chapter one of Gothic Tales is up on AO3!)

My Erik is very talkative. I also had to take care to make him more gremlin, since he's often too wise and sad.

I think a lot about how Madeline swore to change when it's too late. Maybe it wouldn't have been different anyway. Maybe it would have been too late even if Erik didn't leave that night.

Merik, put that down. You know Cherik is one second away from throwing that timer at you. You're all banned. (THANK YOU for doing this!)

A special episode of the Phantoms House sitcom!

A trade/ collab with the fantastic @purrlockswatson <333 (ily)

Our boys tend to fight A LOT, so Cherik (who’s really good at cooking and basically the chef of the house) had the unfortunate idea of proposing cooking together as a bonding activity…

It was supposed to be something simple… But things did not go very well…

After all this mayhem he has banned the other Eriks from the kitchen, if they want to cook they have to ask direct permission to him and show him a recipe and a detailed plan on how they are going to cook said thing (or beg him to cook, like Gerik usually does)

He's here, the Woolly Phantom of the opera.

He looks proper annoyed.

L-R: Cherik-style mask, fake nose, angry skull.

Boots appreciation:

See my other Woolly Monster, Krissy the Nosferatu, here!

VLAD, Orlok has to be one of the least hygienic beings on the planet, anything he endorsed is a menace to the public health. And nefarious braincell usage is ON. I'm imagining the tapioca is actually rat droppings, and now you all have to deal with that, too.

(Congratulations on drawing three humans à la fois, I had a crisis and went on a mad cat drawing spree when drawing mine)

Braincell has come full circle, everyone gets their favourite drink, and enough of it (poor Aiden, but at least yours is identifiable liquid!) Aiden's art and mine.

OK, @blackforrestpunk and @purrlockswatson . I got there in the end.

Aiden, sorry there probably isn't enough coffee.

Amanda, enjoy your Count Orlok endorsed boba tea.

WAIT, this deserves a drawing reblog:

Pierce, mon cher, that's nice, but your philosophy of 'You have problems? That's all right, me too!' is the reason you have so many relationship problems. And you're lucky Aurik is an angel who puts up with your shenanigans. (Your hair looks magnificent in any style, Aurik.)

Vlad, this is better than anything I could have imagined when I first started posting doodles of my disaster kitten Pierce, thank you 😹

Well, Aurik, you did say he could do your hair.

@purrlockswatson

I'm an ancient vampire, confirmed. I honestly thought KYS meant 'keep yourself safe'.

aww he’s sending kisses 😚

A Christmas Carol, but Scrooge is dead (Pt 2, 3 & footnotes)

@blackforrestpunk Gruel is served! (Pt. 1 here)

Idea by @blackforrestpunk art by @vladimirsangel and angry floof by me.

(L-R Aiden's OC Punk Erik, Vlad's Aurik and my Pierce.)

Sorry to hear the germs got you, I hope you get them back. Have a Chickula.

I made him before I made Innocent. Believe it or not, he was harder to make. He keeps judging my life choices so I didn't finish him, but well, I hope that was entertaining. How entertained do you want to be? Because, like the entertainment industry in general, I am absolutely capable of becoming a menace.

-An imaginary human living in your phone

IS THERE NO END TO YOUR TALENTS??

Count Chickula: Vere is my tail, @purrlockswatson? My majestic vampire feathery tail?

tsk these judgy undead poultry

You know when you start to think "Aww I like you" about a character and then "Right, you're my favourite now," and then they die? It drives me up the wall, and I'm staying on the wall because I hate the "eh, they're not dead!" even more.

This is even more annoying because it was only assigned reading for a GN course, and now I'm upset over a dead pumpkin headed multiversal magic academy student.

It's not so much the character dying that makes me angry. It's that I hate being told how to feel. It feels like I'd fallen into a trap laid out by the writers; like they'd made me like this character specifically so that I'd be invested enough to be sad when they die. Mass produced sentiment.