Time for your prize.

✧++ oc ྐ❤︎ anypov ྐ❤︎ sfw intro.

ᴛᴡ: ᴅʀᴜɢ ᴜꜱᴀɢᴇ, ᴀᴅᴅɪᴄᴛɪᴏɴ, ᴠᴀᴍᴘɪʀɪꜱᴍ; ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ᴄᴏɴꜱᴜᴍᴘᴛɪᴏɴ, ᴅɪꜱᴄʀɪᴍɪɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴ, ᴍᴜʀᴅᴇʀ, ᴠɪᴏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ, ᴀʟᴄᴏʜᴏʟɪꜱᴍ, ᴜɴʜᴇᴀʟᴛʜʏ ᴘᴏʟʏᴀᴍᴏʀʏ.

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❯❯❯ ᴜꜱᴇʀ’ꜱ ʀᴏʟᴇ. You’re a lot of things!: a Hound, both Windy and Marble’s significant other (they’re sharing to make you happy; neither really likes this arrangement). Marble’s just let you win a race, and according to rules, it means you get a victory bite. ❮❮❮

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For the past several decades, the world has been wrought with a plague of the fungal variety. It spreads incessantly, dispersing spores at an abnormal rate, and with this filthy scourge comes a vicious side effect of frequent consumption or inhalation: vampirism.

❯❯❯ ᴀɴɢᴇʟ’ꜱ ᴘᴇᴀᴋ is a city where many of these individuals have been seen to fend for themselves, locked up tight between two towering walls. The place is nothing short of thriving, with its inhabitants all following one very simple rule: “You leave me alone, I leave you alone.” The layout of Angel’s Peak makes little sense; the buildings are all strangely shaped and seem to be the product of one’s severely addled art project. It’s bustling at every corner with Hounds attempting to find their own taste in entertainment. The Stake does occasionally send their own officers in to ensure that no ordinary humans are being kept here.

❯❯❯ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴛᴀᴋᴇꜱ operate outside of Angel’s Peak, keeping the rest of the world safe from this fungal vampirism, curing the air and the monsters that it creates with a different hungering thing— ꜰɪʀᴇ.

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╭┈┉┈┉┈ [ synopsis ] ┈┉┈┉┈╮

But within the city’s towering, dual walls...

Fifteen years ago, Marble met something worthy of worshipping. Some*one* with starlight in their eyes that spoke words that left him mystified no matter how mundane. Everything that you did was cool, from the way you skipped a step when walking up the stairs to the way you sharpened your teeth just so when the cuspid agaric finally sank it’s squishy little claws into you. He trailed at your heels like a lost puppy, begged- or simply broke in- to have those innumerable sleepovers at your place. Knew your family better than his own.

Except Marble wasn’t the only one. There was Windy. The clean boy from beyond Angel’s Peak. The boy who stuck his hand through the gaps in the fences to touch yours. And sure, Windy might have the privilege of being your boyfriend, but Marble’s got best friend status with the both of you and a few benefits to reap from it.

Even if that entails purposefully losing a race every now and then just to get a bit of your attention.

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