All we have to do next to make your thing cannon is doing the new ecosystem action
A Hellfish flys again! ( a Simpsons X DVV CK2 Quest)
- Thread starter Ranger65
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[X] Fat Tony
- Location
- Three feet to the left
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So, I'm thinking next turn we take the action to make new cars to improve Powell Motors. Maybe do the advertising action, too. Boost our income and help our son.
Maybe restart the sweatshops too?
Maybe restart the sweatshops too?
I'd like to do at least one action for Itchy and Scratchy to help the show not die off. If nothing else becomes important I'd like to use one of our stewardship actions to buy the Burlesque house too.
As for Learning but I do want to get done studying Gill sooner rather then later.
- Location
- Germany
Me too, pal.
Yeah, but I consider cracking Fusion asap more useful for our polity´s economic backbone, you know?
he is smug as hell.
And he has good reason to be smug honestly. Not only is he getting bribe money from us, but also getting a lot of things done that will look good for him next time he's up for reelection.
MrWealthman
Filthy Capitalist
- Location
- Deep in the piles of cash.
So has our relationship with the good folk of Springfield gone up?
Well we did pass all but one of the actions that improves Springfield opinion, so almost certainly. Just gotta wait patiently until that info gets updated
Well the folks in Monsters Inc use some emotions as power. So it's not to much of a stretch.
Bullet-in for my Valentine (canon)
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- Germany
AN:
There you go, guys - the third and (for now at least) final installment of my "Living Dead Girl" cycle of omakes for Hellfish^^
Suffice to say that, even if it existed at all, it would not be nearly the same without @ChaosStar0 giving me the idea to gun for a StacyxCandacexJeremy polyship^^ Totally did not plan for it when I started the very first omake all those months ago, but I decided to own up to it afterwards.
So yeah, let us see how things go down during Danvilles first Valentine´s Day celebrations a full year into Doofenshmirtz´ "rule" (meaning this omake takes place during the later parts of Turn 6) and about four months into Candace´s state of being a vampire that´s starting to present itself as not nearly as horrible as she once feared and might even turned her life aroudn for the better - all through the eyes of her beloved Jeremy Johnson this time^^
Also, internet cookie for whoever catches the references to Candace´s less stellar life over at DoofQuest^^
Bullet-in for my Valentine
It had been roughly a year (give or take some weeks) since Dr. Doofenshmirtz "took over" in Danville as well as its wider surrounding and announced his supposed realm´s "formal secession" from the Union as "the sovereign nation of Doofania".
Since then the people living there have grown very accustomed to all sorts of zaniness happening, with the only thing setting today apart from the usual fare being that there was just so much it drenched in varying shades of pink and overflowing with chocolates or roses.
In simpler words, it just so happened to be Valentine´s Day and all kinds of couples - both existing and prospective - were seizing the opportunity to engage in blissful togetherness. Because of this universal truth, the Finn-Fletcher parents decided to partake in some romantical touring across Danville's locales and so left their home in the hands of their kids and their friends. With that in mind it was little wonder that, while the younger kids were congregating in the garden and wondering what they should do today, the three teens in turn decided to retreat to the living room and simply be together for now.
Or at least Jeremy and his girlfriend Candace would do so, with their mutual friend Stacy having excused herself a while ago for reasons nobody knew.
This didn´t mean that the younger Johnson wasn't having his well-founded suspicions as to the why, but for the moment he felt content in dozing on the couch with Candace in his arms.
Pokey-poke…
With a chuckle, Jeremy realized that his beloved seemed to have a different idea upon figuratively "returning to the land of the living" if he interpreted her softly prodding at his neck with her fangs, ever mindful not to pierce his accustomed-to-it-by-now skin.
"Well, well, well - what have we here?", he called out faux-bombastically with a smirk, "is my beloved feeling a bit peckish? Who woulda thought that some simple lazing around with your two favorite humans would drain you so much, hm?"
Feeling caught at her gentle niblings, Candace slowly retracted her mouth from her boyfriend and said shyly, "Actually no - I don't feel thirsty at all right now…it's just…"
"Just what, my love?" Jeremy whispered gently while hugging his beautiful undead girlfriend closer to himself, "you know you can tell Stacy and me everything, right?"
"...it's just that, despite me slowly coming to terms with being a vampire, a part of me still can't quite believe that you two would willingly be friends with someone like me and so I just needed to nibble at you a bit to show myself that this is really happening - that and I am kinda starting to see our feedings as more than just a way for me to slake my hunger, you know?"
"Instead it became something closer to us three going to a restaurant for some communal bonding, am I right? That's so sweet of you, although I'd never imagined I'd ever be a sirloin steak myself in that equation, hon"
Startling out of the bliss induced by being hugged so closely by that comparison, Candace quickly drew back in panic. "It's not like that at all, Jer! You and Stace are more than food to me - I love you two!" After realizing what she just blurted out, Candace quickly tried backpedal. "N-not that I love you two the same way, of course - you are my boyfriend and Stace is my bestie…nothing weird about it, right?"
"Nothing weird about it at all, Candace" Jeremy reassured his girl after stealing a quick and chaste kiss on the lips from her, "just us three being in all this together. But speaking of which, have you thought about what Stacy and I prodded you about earlier?"
Judging from her heaving a sigh while looking wearily at him through her blue contacts, his girlfriend obviously had indeed ruminated about the topic at hand.
"...I really want to tell my family and our closest friends what I have become, Jer, but how am I supposed to broach that kinda subject? And what if they end up disowning me for being a bloodsucking monster?"
"Do you really think that people as quirky and relaxed as your family or our friends would just give you the boot if they can see that it's still YOU in there and all that vampire stuff is just simple padding, my love? And as for the how, worrying about the `right way or moment´ only means that it´ll never come and you are stressing yourself out more and more in keeping quiet about something that vitally important, Candace…just get over with it and the two of us will be there to help you, okay?"
Nodding slowly while biting her lower lip and thus showing her cute fangs, Candace replied "...I mean, the boys and their friends are loitering around in the garden right now, so I could rip the bandaid off and just tell them…As for my parents, we'll figure something out, right?"
"Right you are, my love," the boy smiled proudly at his vampire girlfriend while squeezing her tightly once more "just go ahead while I am looking how Stace is doing, okay? You got this, my beloved."
A giddy giggle and a tender, longer kiss were his rewards for his faith in her before Candace stood up and stormed out of the glass garden door.
"PHINEAS! FERB! Front and center, you lot - I gotta tell you guys something!"
After that resounding call, she hastily closed the door behind herself and left Jeremy smirking to himself seemingly alone.
"...Candace really is something, hm, Stacy?"
With that question, he looked behind himself where Stacy had of course returned from having "refreshed herself" just now.
"...yeah, she's really adjusting well to her new life," Stacy mused, a faint smile on her lips as she thought of her bestie, most likely, "better than I would in her place, probably"
"Comes with being a girl of action, you know?"
"As long as she isn't being a total goober."
"And even then, she's just so funny and adorable.."
"..smart and capable too…"
Having come to an end of counting their favorite girl´s blessings, the two humans sighed happily while looking at each other, before Jeremy asked one central question.
"But that's why we both fell in love with her, right?"
"Tota-wait, WHAT?"Stacy blurted out upon being startled out of her happy space.
Unheeding of her outcry, Jeremy continued.
"We do our very best being there for Candace, we accompany her on having fun and I think we are just generally pleasant to have around - that´s why SHE loves US as well, Stacy."
"N-now wait a second, loverboy! I know what Candace said earlier, but there´s no way in heck that my sistah is feeling THAT WAY towards me…seriously, she said that she only sees me as her bestie - n-not that that's bad or anything, but…"
"Buuuut…?"Jeremy drawled with a smirk.
Silence.
"...but what, Stacy?" he pressed onwards, feeling just a little guilty at putting a kind girl like her through such a torment, "Come on, be honest with yourself now - are you in love with Candace, Stace?"
At first, his fellow Anchor did not respond to Jeremys prodding, but then Stacy started to sniffle a bit and she looked at him with faint tears in her eyes.
"...I am…maybe always have been, honestly…why does that matter to you, though? Even as kids, I crushed on her - but she only ever had eyes for you that way, so I just kinda denied how I felt and tried helping her win you over. And when you two finally got together a while back, I really was happy for her…didn´t make being `only a friend´ to her hurt any less, though…"
"It matters to me because it matters to you, Stacy", Jerarmy retorted kindly, "Honestly, I always thought that you two had feelings for each other with how close you were even for besties - that's actually why I didn´t want to make a move myself for quite some time at first and tried keeping my own feelings for Candace on the down low."
"Seriously??? Are you really telling me that the both of us were trying to bow out of being with her in favor of the other?"
"Looks like it - weird how things go, huh?"
"Definitely," Stacy smiled before becoming sad again, making Jeremys heart ache in the process, "but it doesn´t matter - in the end, she chose you and I lost my chance at being with her that way."
"You didn´t lose your chance at all, because I can see that Candace still harbors feelings for you as well and also…I want to share her with you, if you two are okay with that…"
This offer clearly surprised Stacy a lot, if Jeremy interpreted her tilting her head and blinking cutely correctly.
"..you aren´t joking - you really want to `share´ being WITH Candace with me? But why? You into poly stuff as well, eh, lover boy?"
His skin heating up at her playful teasing, Jeremy had to compose himself before replying.
"Easy - because you can be with her in ways I can´t and vice-versa...that and I just feel bad about `cheating´ you two out of happiness together by `snatching her away from you´, you know?"
"...it really is always the quiet ones, huh? Honestly starting to really see why she fell for you, Jer - you really are a sweet guy through and through, you know?"
"Um, thanks a lot, Stace" he stammered out a bit, feeling all tingly at her kind words all of a sudden, "s-should we go now to take a look at what our girl is doing and give her those tidings of comfort and joy?"
"...Christmas´ over already, but anyway - let´s get her already, Jer"
With that, both of them left the living room through the glass door and stepped onto the family lawn together, where the younger kids (consisting of Candace´s brothers, Isabella as well as the nerd-and-bully duo) were already congregating around a happily beaming Candace regaling them with the tale of her vampirification.
"While I don't doubt your claims of being a vampire now, Candace," Baljeet proclaimed, going into full `Indian Nerd´ mode for a second, "my respect for the scientific method demands a demonstration of those `vampire magics´ first to be certain."
"Yeah, what my egghead said - pics or it didn´t happen!"
At that, everyone glanced at Buford who was once again clothed as Cupid for the holiday, despite the garment starting to look seriously out of place on his growing body.
"I can speak for myself, thank you…"
"Am I wrong, though?"
"...not particularly, I suppose?"
Visibly amused at the two frenemies bickering, Candace then looked at her two same-age friends and raised her eyebrow with a smirk. Since both Jeremy and Stacy already knew their girl´s powers´ mechanics somewhat - with the Scrying school not really being that outwardly visible for the most part and Stardoms emotion tweaking being more than a bit morally iffy -, they nodded at the vampire girl and prepared themselves.
Next thing the other kids knew, Candace´s form grew blurry and she whizzed around the tree multiple times at a speed even most mortal runners wouldn´t be able to easily match and her audience whooped in cheer at her awesome display. Unfortunately, at this stage in her "life" Candace wasn´t able to keep that speed for longer than a short while and she noticeably slowed down before slumping into the already waiting arms of her favorite two humans.
"You okay there, my love?" Jeremy asked after allowing her to take a few steading breaths.
With her looking up at him, he could see the Beast slowly stirring to life behind Candace´s softly glowing claret eyes upon being starved ever so slightly of its nourishment, only to quickly be shoved into the depths of her mind again and his beloved smiling contendedly.
"Yeah, I´m good - didn´t even struggle against it getting all grouchy there about getting woken up."
"No surprise there, sistah." Stacy replied while hugging her bestie tighter than usual, causing the vampire to blink in confusion at her Asian friend, "you´re really rocking this whole vampire shtick right now - really proud of ya."
"Thanks a bunch, Stacaroo…could you..let go of me again now? Squeezing a bit tight there, you know?"
"Oh crud - sorry for that, sistah…was worried about letting you - I MEAN, letting go of you for a bit."
Her eyes flashing brightly again for a second, Candace untangled herself from Stacys embrace again and coughed awkwardly before hastily turning back to the rest of the gang once more.
"...sooo, what do you guys say - are we still cool now that you know now about me being a vampire?"
Baljeet, Buford and Isabella just shrugged and nodded benignly at the vampire teen, obviously deciding that in their eyes, Candace was still the same old with maybe some added bits on top.
Her brothers, on the other hand though…
"We´re sorry, Candace…"
Blinking at the sad tone in Phineas´ voice everyone turned to look at him and Ferb.
"Whu-what are you sorry about, Phineas? You two didn´t do anything to me."
"That's right - Ferb and I couldn´t cure you of vampirism back then, now it came back to haunt you…I wish we could have done more for you so that you didn´t have to deal with that on your own. Please don't hate us for letting you down, Candace…."
Next thing anyone knew, the two boys were tackle-hugged fiercely by their vampiric sister.
"I could never hate you two, Phineas. It's not your fault that your cure didn´t take because seriously, you were dealing with bonafide magic instead of something scientific like usual for you - and you still brought me back to friggin life after I crumbled to dust from the sun, for crying out out! What happened to me is not your fault - please don't ever think that…and honestly, by now I am actually starting to genuinely like being a vampire, you know?"
"...your magics and powers do sound pretty cool, yeah", Phineas agreed with a smile, while Ferb just gave a thumbs-up.
"Not just that, although those are a pretty nifty bonus. No, I meant that I am glad that becoming a vampire pretty much saved me from myself, guys. Seriously, you guys remember how borderline neurotic I used to be before - always obsessing about either being the perfect match for Jeremy or busting your Big Ideas in front of Mom…and what did that get me in the end? A great big frazzled pile of nothing!"
"Aren't you being a bit harsh on yourself there, Candace?" Isabella interjected, visibly sympathetic to the plight of her not-that-secret crush´s sister, "sure, sometimes your screaming and bossiness got a bit annoying at times, but that didn´t stop Jeremy here from falling for you and being your boyfriend, you know?"
"Maybe, but it still wore us all down over time, myself included. Heck, back when that pharmacist first `took over as Supreme Ruler´ shortly after Perrys disappearance, I actually thought about organizing a resistance with you guys and busting him for actually being evil. But when he actually got super popular and paid for a lot of admittedly neat stuff to make Danville nicer, I didn´t feel like pushing my luck there when people like Mom were already getting really fed up with my antics. With my luck, I'd probably have gotten grounded by Mom and dumped by my friends for bothering some actually nice guy and stuff…Then I got vampirism outta the blue again anyways and had to focus on what's actually important to me - not chasing shadows and stuff, but keeping those I love safe and enjoying my `life´ with them."
At this admission, the two boy geniuses actually smiled for a moment.
"That's great to hear, big sis…if only Perry was here to see you take that stuff so well…"
"Actually," Candace replied firmly after sighing, "that's something I wanted to talk about with you two. I know you really loved the little guy a lot - I did too, even if I couldn´t really show it back then -, but you can´t let his vanishing drag you down so much. One big drawback about being a vampire is that, unless something really big happens, eventually I…will outlive all of you. That's-...that's something I have to accept for now and I will not let it bring me down. `Just live your life one day at a time´, as my vampire tutor Damian Grimshire once told me in private. And just like I will outlive you guys, eventually you two would have had to say goodbye to Perry no matter what. Not telling you to stop loving him, but just accept that he wouldn´t have been here forever and cherish what great times we all had with him."
"Say not in grief `He is no more´, but live in thankfulness that he was - old Hebrew proverb", Isabella supplied with a warm smile, only to raise her eyebrow at everyones dull expressions, "...you guys do know that I have Jewish roots, right?"
A hurried chorus of reassurances and confirmations showed that if they did know, they definitely had forgotten it at the moment, which earned the whole lot of them one faux-stink eye.
Feeling just a smidgen of fear for her "life" at the younger girl´s mock-ire, Candace quickly changed the subject.
"...aaanyway - what I am trying to say is that you can treasure your memories of Perry with all your heart and mourn him too, but he wouldn´t want you to keep moping and not moving on with your lives, Phineas…got it, you two?"
"You got it, Candace" Phineas replied with a relieved smile, while both returned her earlier hug, "speaking of `moving on with our lives`, though - what about you? Even without you being a vampire now, have you thought about what you wanna do as a career? What with College closing in on you and all…"
"...now that you mention it…honestly, I was thinking about using my experience in trying to bust you two by going into law enforcement."
"Lemme guess - a lawyer?"Buford of all people snarked gruffly.
"Actually yes and YES, I know - the `evil bloodsucker´ jokes would write themselves…either that or a cop, honestly. Part of why I hounded my brothers was to protect them…not that they needed it of course. What about you two, Jer and Stacaroo? Even if you don't go for police work as well, we could still pool funds and live together"
"Not a bad idea, my love", Jeremy agreed kindly, before turning to Stacy with a smirk upon seeing that she was struggling hard not to blush furiously at the thought of living with the girl she was pining for, "what do you say, Stacy? Wouldn´t Candace look very good in an officer´s blues?"
"...um, I g-guess so? Not that that´s important, though…"
Blinking at her bestie´s odd behaviour, Candace asked, "...something wrong, Stace?"
"Yeah, didn't you want to tell her something important to you, Stacy?"
"…`tell me something important to you´? Okay seriously, what's going on, Stace?"
"What´s going on is that I´m in love with you, Candace Flynn!!", the pained Asian girl cried out, the dam holding in her feelings finally breaking apart openly.
With everyone else having been shocked into silence by this admission, Candace was the first to respond by letting go of her brothers before slowly walking towards her bestie, visibly still trying to rationalize what she just heard.
"Wh-what did you j-"
"I said I love you! What, that vampiric super-hearing betraying you now?" Stacy snarked back at the target of her more-than-friendly affections, her voice cracking a bit as she gently took Candace´s pale, clawed hands into her own, "And before you try to push the idea away again: No, you did not accidentally hit me with your Stardom stuff again, Candace - this is all me and has always been me since way back in the third grade when we both were pining for Billy Clarke."
"...I never knew that you felt like that, Stace…"
"Course not, sistah - how could you, with your eyes firmly on Jer here? But honestly, I can´t fault you for that one bit - he really is a kind one for sure. Heck, when he got me to fess up about my feelings for you earlier, he offered to…share being your Significant Other - if you WANT to, of course."
Still a bit floored by her friend´s admission as well as seemingly battling the Beast in her mind as was evident by her red eyes flashing brightly, Candace slowly turned to Jeremy, who on his own end was processing the Asian girl´s comment towards himself and could feel his cheeks warming up just a bit.
"...is that true, Jer?"
"It is, my love - honestly, I always had a feeling that there was more between you two and I'd feel bad cheating you two out of any happiness you two could have together."
"So yeah," Stacy concluded shily, "that's what's going on with me, sistah - I love you and have for quite some time. Of course, if you…don't feel the same as me, we c-can just…f-forget all this happened and g-go b-WUH?"
Any further tearful defeatism was smothered by Candace quickly pulling in her female friend for a surprisingly steamy (yet ultimately still kid-friendly) kiss that was was underscored by lots of oooohs, cheers and claps by the younger children until finally after quite some time, when the vampire released her very flushed friend again.
"That answering your question whether I feel the same, Stacaroo? Because I do and always have…I just didn´t want to ruin our friendship in case you didn´t feel the same. Then Jeremy came along and…well, you know that I am a sucker for fairytale endings by now, Stace."
"...are you telling me that all three of us were holding out on each other in some form outta fear of messing things up?" Stacy croaked out in annoyance at how things had apparently played out between the three teens.
"Looks like it, Stacy…wait a second", responded before gasping as a rather big oversight of their impending relationship presented itself, "what about Coltrane? Aren't you two a thing already?"
"He´s nice and all, but we just don't seem to click that way especially long-term, no. So we agreed to stay just friends, don't worry - meaning I am all yours now, Can-do…"
"...that's your pet name for me now?", Candace groused good-naturedly at her new girlfriend, who shrugged with a devious smirk.
"It's better than any variation of `Candy´, right?"
The sheer cringiness of that prospect caused the three teens to laugh uproariously for a time before a pointed coughing made itself heard.
"So, just askin´ so dat everyone is on da same page," Buford gruffly inquired while pointing at Stacy and Candace, "you two are gonna be a couple now?"
Holding hands tenderly, the two girls looked into each other's eyes with blissful smiles.
"Seems like it/You betcha."
Next, the bully pointed towards Candace and Jeremy.
"And you two are staying one as well?"
"Definitely", both answered together without hesitation.
"Okay, but what about you two?" the Van Stomme boy asked, looking at Jeremy and Stacy with an unreadable expression, "You planning on hooking up as well anytime soon? And what about all three of you hooking up together?"
"BWUH?" the teenage trifecta blurted out in shock at that thought.
"C´mon, it would only be a throuple instead of a proper love triangle otherwise - plus, my Cupid Senses are telling me there ain't just friendship between the two a´ you."
Never even having thought about that, Stacy and Jeremy looked at each now - and sure enough, as soon their eyes met it hit Jeremy.
Before this whole "Candace turning into a vampire" thing, he had never really interacted with the Asian girl on her own, but after having tended to their mutual friend together over the last four-ish months, probably without meaning to, she had grown on him a great deal. Smart with a sharp wit and certainly rather pretty in her own way, she had shown him that she was a really good person at heart by just being there when someone needed her. Yet with all that in mind, it still came as a surprise to Jeremy that pleasant warmth spread through his entire body while he just stood there looking at her.
And judging from her beautiful smile and coy glances at him from behind her long, silken black hair, Stacy felt the same.
"Well," she started hesitatingly yet warmly, "if you´d asked me a year ago, I'd have told you `no way, I´m not into those white knight types´, but now that I know him far better…"
"There´s something there now, right?", Candace asked her new girlfriend, understanding clear in her eyes.
"...yup…it's not yet `head-over-heels love´ you got for him or I for you, Can-Do, but…it just feels good to be with him and I want more of that feeling."
"Right back at you, Stace - never really thought about you much before, but after having come to know you for the great girl you are…the idea of being with you that way definitely is making me feel something great."
After this admission, the two hugged each other tightly (silently agreeing that as much as they might yearn for it, an outright kiss should be better saved for a later, more established time) before looking at their mutual Significant Vampire.
"You okay with that, love?"
"You kidding? Of course I am okay with that - it´d be pretty damn hypocritical of me if I weren't okay with you two or all three of us getting cozy with each other as well…", Candace smirked glad for her two favorite humans, yet claret human her eyes belied another layer to her feelings she was wise enough to keep away from underage ears.
Both Stacys and Jeremys faces turned bright red at that thought, with the sole boy coughing awkwardly before replying.
"...um yeah, we´ll talk about that some other day once we get properly familiar with this new…arrangement, girls."
Some flushed, hasty nods from both girls later, the Johnson boy turned to a broadly-grinning Buford.
"Yeah, looks like Stace and I am giving this whole `being together´ thing a try for now as well - no promises that it´ll last, though…"
"Feh, good enough for me," the bully replied with a shrug before turning to a dejected-looking Baljeet and socking him in the shoulder, "hey nerd, looks like I won that bet - best pay up now already!"
Grumbling under his breath yet lacking any real venom, the Indian pulled some crumpled bills out of his overall and forked it over into his frenemy´s waiting palm.
"I knew I should not have betted against you on that of all things…"
"...you two really betted on Jeremy and me hooking up? What gives?", Stacy asked the two, upon which "Cupid" simply shrugged again.
"On all three of you hooking up to be specific, because honestly? That chemistry between you three made my Cupid Senses go nuts, so it was a good way to get some cash on the side."
Not even mad at him, the teens just shook their collective heads amusedly before something on the sidelines seemed to have caught Candace's eye.
While the boys were already going back to ruminating what they were doing today (with the current consensus being them doing something nice for the Finn-Fletcher parents once they came back from their own Valentine trip), Isabella just stood there looking at the boy she has been pining for dejectedly, obviously resigning herself to never catching Phineas´ eye.
Luckily for her, Jeremy and Stacy could see that Candace seemed determined to not let the younger girl languish like she did.
"Y´know, I always wondered why you never told my brother how you felt about him - seriously, everyone but him can see you are crushing on him."
At that, Isabella looked with a raised eyebrow yet lacking any actual hostility at the vampire.
"And that's coming from you of all people after that emotional little show just now, Candace? But yeah, pretty much the same reasons as with you three - I was too afraid of messing things up between me and my little crumb cake and he always seems so caught up in his and Ferbs Big Ideas that he never noticed all my pretty big hints…just didn´'t want to impose, you know?"
"Isa, I had to literally die and come back as an immortal vampire before I finally got brave or maybe desperate enough to fess up to Stacaroo about how I felt - even if you don't become an undead like me, do you really wanna wait till college and just give up in the end, making you wonder what might have been?"
"Of course not - it's just that…"
"I know I am being really hypocritical right now, Isa, but I just don't want a nice gal such as you to suffer the same heartache as me or even worse. Trust me, Phin isn´t dumb enough to say no, although like all boys he can be dense about romantic stuff - and if need be, I´ll talk to him as well as his big sister, ok?"
Tears in her eyes, the girl nodded and with a bright, thankful smile she raced off
Watching from afar, the three teens saw her tackle her surprised crush from behind and pour out her heart to him. True to Candace's hunch about her brother, after a bit of soul-searching, Phineas admitted that he felt more than simple friendship for her and simply never noticed, having been too focussed on "making all their lives as much as a possible" with his and Ferbs Big Ideas without considering what was happening right in front of him. After that embarrassing admission, it was actually Phineas who asked Isabella out to be his girlfriend, which she gladly accepted with a kiss to his lips. Meanwhile, the teenage throuple
could also see Buford groan and return his previously-won earnings to Baljeet, apparently having lost a bet of his own against the nerd about whether or not their two same-age friends would hook up as well any time soon.
Chuckling at all that quirkiness unfolding before their eyes, Jeremy to his two girlfriends.
"Soooo, that just happened, I guess - what are you two feeling up to in celebration of our new thing together?"
"Weeeell…", Candace teased, yet with some uncertainty shown, "to put the cherry on top of our new polyship, I could Imbue you two - sure, depending on how exactly that `emotional feedback´ works, you two might not be getting much outta each other, but just look how happy it made Damian and Dr. Cahill"
"I wouldn´t call that just happy, Can-Do - also lovey-dovey and not to forget frisky, remember? N-not saying that I would mind feeling like that towards you, but…maybe a bit early for that?"
"Of course, Stacy, no pressure", Jeremy reassured his new girlfriend, himself still feeling a bit shy about crossing that particular threshold with anyone, "also, Damian and Dr. Cahill made it clear back then that you don't have to act on the feelings brought forth by Imbuement…so yeah, my love, I'd be up for it."
Stacy nodded firmly after calming down from her earlier embarrassment again, "Me too, Candace - but you sure about that? Even using only a few drops per person like they did will still drain you a little and I don't want you to starve yourself just for us, you know?"
"It's okay, Stacaroo - I'm not that famished yet. That being said, we should go inside for Imbuing since I don't want anyone to see that…not even the gang since it is kinda gross and all"
Before the three lovers could proceed with their pact though, the sound of tires rolling onto the driveway alerted them to a little hiccup in their immediate plans.
"...ooor we´re tabling that until after I told my parents everything about both us three and especially me - having to Mask myself in their vicinity is starting to get a bit old, you know" the vampire groused good-naturedly, while holding her two humans´ hands for reassurance.
"We´re behind you like always, Can-Do - just give the signal once you´re ready"
This caused a barely noticeable shift in Candace´s behaviour and with an eager smile baring her fangs a bit, she pulled in both Jeremy and Stacy before whispering in their ears, "Just saying that if my parents want a demonstration as well and you guys are still up for some private Imbuement afterwards, by then I´ll definitely be `peckish´ enough for a little SNACK, if my two `morsels´ are up for it…"
Looking at their mutual Significant Vampire, Jeremy could see her winking her firmly human-seeming red eyes and after both he and Stacy nodded with equally ready smiles, the two humans cried out in giddy surprise as they quickly were dragged along by the teenage bloodsucker.
"Mom! Dad! Stacy, Jeremy and I gotta tell you something really important inside!"
That girl is gonna be the death of us some time, Jeremy thought happily, but we wouldn't want it any other way…
There you go, guys - the third and (for now at least) final installment of my "Living Dead Girl" cycle of omakes for Hellfish^^
Suffice to say that, even if it existed at all, it would not be nearly the same without @ChaosStar0 giving me the idea to gun for a StacyxCandacexJeremy polyship^^ Totally did not plan for it when I started the very first omake all those months ago, but I decided to own up to it afterwards.
So yeah, let us see how things go down during Danvilles first Valentine´s Day celebrations a full year into Doofenshmirtz´ "rule" (meaning this omake takes place during the later parts of Turn 6) and about four months into Candace´s state of being a vampire that´s starting to present itself as not nearly as horrible as she once feared and might even turned her life aroudn for the better - all through the eyes of her beloved Jeremy Johnson this time^^
Also, internet cookie for whoever catches the references to Candace´s less stellar life over at DoofQuest^^
Bullet-in for my Valentine
It had been roughly a year (give or take some weeks) since Dr. Doofenshmirtz "took over" in Danville as well as its wider surrounding and announced his supposed realm´s "formal secession" from the Union as "the sovereign nation of Doofania".
Since then the people living there have grown very accustomed to all sorts of zaniness happening, with the only thing setting today apart from the usual fare being that there was just so much it drenched in varying shades of pink and overflowing with chocolates or roses.
In simpler words, it just so happened to be Valentine´s Day and all kinds of couples - both existing and prospective - were seizing the opportunity to engage in blissful togetherness. Because of this universal truth, the Finn-Fletcher parents decided to partake in some romantical touring across Danville's locales and so left their home in the hands of their kids and their friends. With that in mind it was little wonder that, while the younger kids were congregating in the garden and wondering what they should do today, the three teens in turn decided to retreat to the living room and simply be together for now.
Or at least Jeremy and his girlfriend Candace would do so, with their mutual friend Stacy having excused herself a while ago for reasons nobody knew.
This didn´t mean that the younger Johnson wasn't having his well-founded suspicions as to the why, but for the moment he felt content in dozing on the couch with Candace in his arms.
Pokey-poke…
With a chuckle, Jeremy realized that his beloved seemed to have a different idea upon figuratively "returning to the land of the living" if he interpreted her softly prodding at his neck with her fangs, ever mindful not to pierce his accustomed-to-it-by-now skin.
"Well, well, well - what have we here?", he called out faux-bombastically with a smirk, "is my beloved feeling a bit peckish? Who woulda thought that some simple lazing around with your two favorite humans would drain you so much, hm?"
Feeling caught at her gentle niblings, Candace slowly retracted her mouth from her boyfriend and said shyly, "Actually no - I don't feel thirsty at all right now…it's just…"
"Just what, my love?" Jeremy whispered gently while hugging his beautiful undead girlfriend closer to himself, "you know you can tell Stacy and me everything, right?"
"...it's just that, despite me slowly coming to terms with being a vampire, a part of me still can't quite believe that you two would willingly be friends with someone like me and so I just needed to nibble at you a bit to show myself that this is really happening - that and I am kinda starting to see our feedings as more than just a way for me to slake my hunger, you know?"
"Instead it became something closer to us three going to a restaurant for some communal bonding, am I right? That's so sweet of you, although I'd never imagined I'd ever be a sirloin steak myself in that equation, hon"
Startling out of the bliss induced by being hugged so closely by that comparison, Candace quickly drew back in panic. "It's not like that at all, Jer! You and Stace are more than food to me - I love you two!" After realizing what she just blurted out, Candace quickly tried backpedal. "N-not that I love you two the same way, of course - you are my boyfriend and Stace is my bestie…nothing weird about it, right?"
"Nothing weird about it at all, Candace" Jeremy reassured his girl after stealing a quick and chaste kiss on the lips from her, "just us three being in all this together. But speaking of which, have you thought about what Stacy and I prodded you about earlier?"
Judging from her heaving a sigh while looking wearily at him through her blue contacts, his girlfriend obviously had indeed ruminated about the topic at hand.
"...I really want to tell my family and our closest friends what I have become, Jer, but how am I supposed to broach that kinda subject? And what if they end up disowning me for being a bloodsucking monster?"
"Do you really think that people as quirky and relaxed as your family or our friends would just give you the boot if they can see that it's still YOU in there and all that vampire stuff is just simple padding, my love? And as for the how, worrying about the `right way or moment´ only means that it´ll never come and you are stressing yourself out more and more in keeping quiet about something that vitally important, Candace…just get over with it and the two of us will be there to help you, okay?"
Nodding slowly while biting her lower lip and thus showing her cute fangs, Candace replied "...I mean, the boys and their friends are loitering around in the garden right now, so I could rip the bandaid off and just tell them…As for my parents, we'll figure something out, right?"
"Right you are, my love," the boy smiled proudly at his vampire girlfriend while squeezing her tightly once more "just go ahead while I am looking how Stace is doing, okay? You got this, my beloved."
A giddy giggle and a tender, longer kiss were his rewards for his faith in her before Candace stood up and stormed out of the glass garden door.
"PHINEAS! FERB! Front and center, you lot - I gotta tell you guys something!"
After that resounding call, she hastily closed the door behind herself and left Jeremy smirking to himself seemingly alone.
"...Candace really is something, hm, Stacy?"
With that question, he looked behind himself where Stacy had of course returned from having "refreshed herself" just now.
"...yeah, she's really adjusting well to her new life," Stacy mused, a faint smile on her lips as she thought of her bestie, most likely, "better than I would in her place, probably"
"Comes with being a girl of action, you know?"
"As long as she isn't being a total goober."
"And even then, she's just so funny and adorable.."
"..smart and capable too…"
Having come to an end of counting their favorite girl´s blessings, the two humans sighed happily while looking at each other, before Jeremy asked one central question.
"But that's why we both fell in love with her, right?"
"Tota-wait, WHAT?"Stacy blurted out upon being startled out of her happy space.
Unheeding of her outcry, Jeremy continued.
"We do our very best being there for Candace, we accompany her on having fun and I think we are just generally pleasant to have around - that´s why SHE loves US as well, Stacy."
"N-now wait a second, loverboy! I know what Candace said earlier, but there´s no way in heck that my sistah is feeling THAT WAY towards me…seriously, she said that she only sees me as her bestie - n-not that that's bad or anything, but…"
"Buuuut…?"Jeremy drawled with a smirk.
Silence.
"...but what, Stacy?" he pressed onwards, feeling just a little guilty at putting a kind girl like her through such a torment, "Come on, be honest with yourself now - are you in love with Candace, Stace?"
At first, his fellow Anchor did not respond to Jeremys prodding, but then Stacy started to sniffle a bit and she looked at him with faint tears in her eyes.
"...I am…maybe always have been, honestly…why does that matter to you, though? Even as kids, I crushed on her - but she only ever had eyes for you that way, so I just kinda denied how I felt and tried helping her win you over. And when you two finally got together a while back, I really was happy for her…didn´t make being `only a friend´ to her hurt any less, though…"
"It matters to me because it matters to you, Stacy", Jerarmy retorted kindly, "Honestly, I always thought that you two had feelings for each other with how close you were even for besties - that's actually why I didn´t want to make a move myself for quite some time at first and tried keeping my own feelings for Candace on the down low."
"Seriously??? Are you really telling me that the both of us were trying to bow out of being with her in favor of the other?"
"Looks like it - weird how things go, huh?"
"Definitely," Stacy smiled before becoming sad again, making Jeremys heart ache in the process, "but it doesn´t matter - in the end, she chose you and I lost my chance at being with her that way."
"You didn´t lose your chance at all, because I can see that Candace still harbors feelings for you as well and also…I want to share her with you, if you two are okay with that…"
This offer clearly surprised Stacy a lot, if Jeremy interpreted her tilting her head and blinking cutely correctly.
"..you aren´t joking - you really want to `share´ being WITH Candace with me? But why? You into poly stuff as well, eh, lover boy?"
His skin heating up at her playful teasing, Jeremy had to compose himself before replying.
"Easy - because you can be with her in ways I can´t and vice-versa...that and I just feel bad about `cheating´ you two out of happiness together by `snatching her away from you´, you know?"
"...it really is always the quiet ones, huh? Honestly starting to really see why she fell for you, Jer - you really are a sweet guy through and through, you know?"
"Um, thanks a lot, Stace" he stammered out a bit, feeling all tingly at her kind words all of a sudden, "s-should we go now to take a look at what our girl is doing and give her those tidings of comfort and joy?"
"...Christmas´ over already, but anyway - let´s get her already, Jer"
With that, both of them left the living room through the glass door and stepped onto the family lawn together, where the younger kids (consisting of Candace´s brothers, Isabella as well as the nerd-and-bully duo) were already congregating around a happily beaming Candace regaling them with the tale of her vampirification.
"While I don't doubt your claims of being a vampire now, Candace," Baljeet proclaimed, going into full `Indian Nerd´ mode for a second, "my respect for the scientific method demands a demonstration of those `vampire magics´ first to be certain."
"Yeah, what my egghead said - pics or it didn´t happen!"
At that, everyone glanced at Buford who was once again clothed as Cupid for the holiday, despite the garment starting to look seriously out of place on his growing body.
"I can speak for myself, thank you…"
"Am I wrong, though?"
"...not particularly, I suppose?"
Visibly amused at the two frenemies bickering, Candace then looked at her two same-age friends and raised her eyebrow with a smirk. Since both Jeremy and Stacy already knew their girl´s powers´ mechanics somewhat - with the Scrying school not really being that outwardly visible for the most part and Stardoms emotion tweaking being more than a bit morally iffy -, they nodded at the vampire girl and prepared themselves.
Next thing the other kids knew, Candace´s form grew blurry and she whizzed around the tree multiple times at a speed even most mortal runners wouldn´t be able to easily match and her audience whooped in cheer at her awesome display. Unfortunately, at this stage in her "life" Candace wasn´t able to keep that speed for longer than a short while and she noticeably slowed down before slumping into the already waiting arms of her favorite two humans.
"You okay there, my love?" Jeremy asked after allowing her to take a few steading breaths.
With her looking up at him, he could see the Beast slowly stirring to life behind Candace´s softly glowing claret eyes upon being starved ever so slightly of its nourishment, only to quickly be shoved into the depths of her mind again and his beloved smiling contendedly.
"Yeah, I´m good - didn´t even struggle against it getting all grouchy there about getting woken up."
"No surprise there, sistah." Stacy replied while hugging her bestie tighter than usual, causing the vampire to blink in confusion at her Asian friend, "you´re really rocking this whole vampire shtick right now - really proud of ya."
"Thanks a bunch, Stacaroo…could you..let go of me again now? Squeezing a bit tight there, you know?"
"Oh crud - sorry for that, sistah…was worried about letting you - I MEAN, letting go of you for a bit."
Her eyes flashing brightly again for a second, Candace untangled herself from Stacys embrace again and coughed awkwardly before hastily turning back to the rest of the gang once more.
"...sooo, what do you guys say - are we still cool now that you know now about me being a vampire?"
Baljeet, Buford and Isabella just shrugged and nodded benignly at the vampire teen, obviously deciding that in their eyes, Candace was still the same old with maybe some added bits on top.
Her brothers, on the other hand though…
"We´re sorry, Candace…"
Blinking at the sad tone in Phineas´ voice everyone turned to look at him and Ferb.
"Whu-what are you sorry about, Phineas? You two didn´t do anything to me."
"That's right - Ferb and I couldn´t cure you of vampirism back then, now it came back to haunt you…I wish we could have done more for you so that you didn´t have to deal with that on your own. Please don't hate us for letting you down, Candace…."
Next thing anyone knew, the two boys were tackle-hugged fiercely by their vampiric sister.
"I could never hate you two, Phineas. It's not your fault that your cure didn´t take because seriously, you were dealing with bonafide magic instead of something scientific like usual for you - and you still brought me back to friggin life after I crumbled to dust from the sun, for crying out out! What happened to me is not your fault - please don't ever think that…and honestly, by now I am actually starting to genuinely like being a vampire, you know?"
"...your magics and powers do sound pretty cool, yeah", Phineas agreed with a smile, while Ferb just gave a thumbs-up.
"Not just that, although those are a pretty nifty bonus. No, I meant that I am glad that becoming a vampire pretty much saved me from myself, guys. Seriously, you guys remember how borderline neurotic I used to be before - always obsessing about either being the perfect match for Jeremy or busting your Big Ideas in front of Mom…and what did that get me in the end? A great big frazzled pile of nothing!"
"Aren't you being a bit harsh on yourself there, Candace?" Isabella interjected, visibly sympathetic to the plight of her not-that-secret crush´s sister, "sure, sometimes your screaming and bossiness got a bit annoying at times, but that didn´t stop Jeremy here from falling for you and being your boyfriend, you know?"
"Maybe, but it still wore us all down over time, myself included. Heck, back when that pharmacist first `took over as Supreme Ruler´ shortly after Perrys disappearance, I actually thought about organizing a resistance with you guys and busting him for actually being evil. But when he actually got super popular and paid for a lot of admittedly neat stuff to make Danville nicer, I didn´t feel like pushing my luck there when people like Mom were already getting really fed up with my antics. With my luck, I'd probably have gotten grounded by Mom and dumped by my friends for bothering some actually nice guy and stuff…Then I got vampirism outta the blue again anyways and had to focus on what's actually important to me - not chasing shadows and stuff, but keeping those I love safe and enjoying my `life´ with them."
At this admission, the two boy geniuses actually smiled for a moment.
"That's great to hear, big sis…if only Perry was here to see you take that stuff so well…"
"Actually," Candace replied firmly after sighing, "that's something I wanted to talk about with you two. I know you really loved the little guy a lot - I did too, even if I couldn´t really show it back then -, but you can´t let his vanishing drag you down so much. One big drawback about being a vampire is that, unless something really big happens, eventually I…will outlive all of you. That's-...that's something I have to accept for now and I will not let it bring me down. `Just live your life one day at a time´, as my vampire tutor Damian Grimshire once told me in private. And just like I will outlive you guys, eventually you two would have had to say goodbye to Perry no matter what. Not telling you to stop loving him, but just accept that he wouldn´t have been here forever and cherish what great times we all had with him."
"Say not in grief `He is no more´, but live in thankfulness that he was - old Hebrew proverb", Isabella supplied with a warm smile, only to raise her eyebrow at everyones dull expressions, "...you guys do know that I have Jewish roots, right?"
A hurried chorus of reassurances and confirmations showed that if they did know, they definitely had forgotten it at the moment, which earned the whole lot of them one faux-stink eye.
Feeling just a smidgen of fear for her "life" at the younger girl´s mock-ire, Candace quickly changed the subject.
"...aaanyway - what I am trying to say is that you can treasure your memories of Perry with all your heart and mourn him too, but he wouldn´t want you to keep moping and not moving on with your lives, Phineas…got it, you two?"
"You got it, Candace" Phineas replied with a relieved smile, while both returned her earlier hug, "speaking of `moving on with our lives`, though - what about you? Even without you being a vampire now, have you thought about what you wanna do as a career? What with College closing in on you and all…"
"...now that you mention it…honestly, I was thinking about using my experience in trying to bust you two by going into law enforcement."
"Lemme guess - a lawyer?"Buford of all people snarked gruffly.
"Actually yes and YES, I know - the `evil bloodsucker´ jokes would write themselves…either that or a cop, honestly. Part of why I hounded my brothers was to protect them…not that they needed it of course. What about you two, Jer and Stacaroo? Even if you don't go for police work as well, we could still pool funds and live together"
"Not a bad idea, my love", Jeremy agreed kindly, before turning to Stacy with a smirk upon seeing that she was struggling hard not to blush furiously at the thought of living with the girl she was pining for, "what do you say, Stacy? Wouldn´t Candace look very good in an officer´s blues?"
"...um, I g-guess so? Not that that´s important, though…"
Blinking at her bestie´s odd behaviour, Candace asked, "...something wrong, Stace?"
"Yeah, didn't you want to tell her something important to you, Stacy?"
"…`tell me something important to you´? Okay seriously, what's going on, Stace?"
"What´s going on is that I´m in love with you, Candace Flynn!!", the pained Asian girl cried out, the dam holding in her feelings finally breaking apart openly.
With everyone else having been shocked into silence by this admission, Candace was the first to respond by letting go of her brothers before slowly walking towards her bestie, visibly still trying to rationalize what she just heard.
"Wh-what did you j-"
"I said I love you! What, that vampiric super-hearing betraying you now?" Stacy snarked back at the target of her more-than-friendly affections, her voice cracking a bit as she gently took Candace´s pale, clawed hands into her own, "And before you try to push the idea away again: No, you did not accidentally hit me with your Stardom stuff again, Candace - this is all me and has always been me since way back in the third grade when we both were pining for Billy Clarke."
"...I never knew that you felt like that, Stace…"
"Course not, sistah - how could you, with your eyes firmly on Jer here? But honestly, I can´t fault you for that one bit - he really is a kind one for sure. Heck, when he got me to fess up about my feelings for you earlier, he offered to…share being your Significant Other - if you WANT to, of course."
Still a bit floored by her friend´s admission as well as seemingly battling the Beast in her mind as was evident by her red eyes flashing brightly, Candace slowly turned to Jeremy, who on his own end was processing the Asian girl´s comment towards himself and could feel his cheeks warming up just a bit.
"...is that true, Jer?"
"It is, my love - honestly, I always had a feeling that there was more between you two and I'd feel bad cheating you two out of any happiness you two could have together."
"So yeah," Stacy concluded shily, "that's what's going on with me, sistah - I love you and have for quite some time. Of course, if you…don't feel the same as me, we c-can just…f-forget all this happened and g-go b-WUH?"
Any further tearful defeatism was smothered by Candace quickly pulling in her female friend for a surprisingly steamy (yet ultimately still kid-friendly) kiss that was was underscored by lots of oooohs, cheers and claps by the younger children until finally after quite some time, when the vampire released her very flushed friend again.
"That answering your question whether I feel the same, Stacaroo? Because I do and always have…I just didn´t want to ruin our friendship in case you didn´t feel the same. Then Jeremy came along and…well, you know that I am a sucker for fairytale endings by now, Stace."
"...are you telling me that all three of us were holding out on each other in some form outta fear of messing things up?" Stacy croaked out in annoyance at how things had apparently played out between the three teens.
"Looks like it, Stacy…wait a second", responded before gasping as a rather big oversight of their impending relationship presented itself, "what about Coltrane? Aren't you two a thing already?"
"He´s nice and all, but we just don't seem to click that way especially long-term, no. So we agreed to stay just friends, don't worry - meaning I am all yours now, Can-do…"
"...that's your pet name for me now?", Candace groused good-naturedly at her new girlfriend, who shrugged with a devious smirk.
"It's better than any variation of `Candy´, right?"
The sheer cringiness of that prospect caused the three teens to laugh uproariously for a time before a pointed coughing made itself heard.
"So, just askin´ so dat everyone is on da same page," Buford gruffly inquired while pointing at Stacy and Candace, "you two are gonna be a couple now?"
Holding hands tenderly, the two girls looked into each other's eyes with blissful smiles.
"Seems like it/You betcha."
Next, the bully pointed towards Candace and Jeremy.
"And you two are staying one as well?"
"Definitely", both answered together without hesitation.
"Okay, but what about you two?" the Van Stomme boy asked, looking at Jeremy and Stacy with an unreadable expression, "You planning on hooking up as well anytime soon? And what about all three of you hooking up together?"
"BWUH?" the teenage trifecta blurted out in shock at that thought.
"C´mon, it would only be a throuple instead of a proper love triangle otherwise - plus, my Cupid Senses are telling me there ain't just friendship between the two a´ you."
Never even having thought about that, Stacy and Jeremy looked at each now - and sure enough, as soon their eyes met it hit Jeremy.
Before this whole "Candace turning into a vampire" thing, he had never really interacted with the Asian girl on her own, but after having tended to their mutual friend together over the last four-ish months, probably without meaning to, she had grown on him a great deal. Smart with a sharp wit and certainly rather pretty in her own way, she had shown him that she was a really good person at heart by just being there when someone needed her. Yet with all that in mind, it still came as a surprise to Jeremy that pleasant warmth spread through his entire body while he just stood there looking at her.
And judging from her beautiful smile and coy glances at him from behind her long, silken black hair, Stacy felt the same.
"Well," she started hesitatingly yet warmly, "if you´d asked me a year ago, I'd have told you `no way, I´m not into those white knight types´, but now that I know him far better…"
"There´s something there now, right?", Candace asked her new girlfriend, understanding clear in her eyes.
"...yup…it's not yet `head-over-heels love´ you got for him or I for you, Can-Do, but…it just feels good to be with him and I want more of that feeling."
"Right back at you, Stace - never really thought about you much before, but after having come to know you for the great girl you are…the idea of being with you that way definitely is making me feel something great."
After this admission, the two hugged each other tightly (silently agreeing that as much as they might yearn for it, an outright kiss should be better saved for a later, more established time) before looking at their mutual Significant Vampire.
"You okay with that, love?"
"You kidding? Of course I am okay with that - it´d be pretty damn hypocritical of me if I weren't okay with you two or all three of us getting cozy with each other as well…", Candace smirked glad for her two favorite humans, yet claret human her eyes belied another layer to her feelings she was wise enough to keep away from underage ears.
Both Stacys and Jeremys faces turned bright red at that thought, with the sole boy coughing awkwardly before replying.
"...um yeah, we´ll talk about that some other day once we get properly familiar with this new…arrangement, girls."
Some flushed, hasty nods from both girls later, the Johnson boy turned to a broadly-grinning Buford.
"Yeah, looks like Stace and I am giving this whole `being together´ thing a try for now as well - no promises that it´ll last, though…"
"Feh, good enough for me," the bully replied with a shrug before turning to a dejected-looking Baljeet and socking him in the shoulder, "hey nerd, looks like I won that bet - best pay up now already!"
Grumbling under his breath yet lacking any real venom, the Indian pulled some crumpled bills out of his overall and forked it over into his frenemy´s waiting palm.
"I knew I should not have betted against you on that of all things…"
"...you two really betted on Jeremy and me hooking up? What gives?", Stacy asked the two, upon which "Cupid" simply shrugged again.
"On all three of you hooking up to be specific, because honestly? That chemistry between you three made my Cupid Senses go nuts, so it was a good way to get some cash on the side."
Not even mad at him, the teens just shook their collective heads amusedly before something on the sidelines seemed to have caught Candace's eye.
While the boys were already going back to ruminating what they were doing today (with the current consensus being them doing something nice for the Finn-Fletcher parents once they came back from their own Valentine trip), Isabella just stood there looking at the boy she has been pining for dejectedly, obviously resigning herself to never catching Phineas´ eye.
Luckily for her, Jeremy and Stacy could see that Candace seemed determined to not let the younger girl languish like she did.
"Y´know, I always wondered why you never told my brother how you felt about him - seriously, everyone but him can see you are crushing on him."
At that, Isabella looked with a raised eyebrow yet lacking any actual hostility at the vampire.
"And that's coming from you of all people after that emotional little show just now, Candace? But yeah, pretty much the same reasons as with you three - I was too afraid of messing things up between me and my little crumb cake and he always seems so caught up in his and Ferbs Big Ideas that he never noticed all my pretty big hints…just didn´'t want to impose, you know?"
"Isa, I had to literally die and come back as an immortal vampire before I finally got brave or maybe desperate enough to fess up to Stacaroo about how I felt - even if you don't become an undead like me, do you really wanna wait till college and just give up in the end, making you wonder what might have been?"
"Of course not - it's just that…"
"I know I am being really hypocritical right now, Isa, but I just don't want a nice gal such as you to suffer the same heartache as me or even worse. Trust me, Phin isn´t dumb enough to say no, although like all boys he can be dense about romantic stuff - and if need be, I´ll talk to him as well as his big sister, ok?"
Tears in her eyes, the girl nodded and with a bright, thankful smile she raced off
Watching from afar, the three teens saw her tackle her surprised crush from behind and pour out her heart to him. True to Candace's hunch about her brother, after a bit of soul-searching, Phineas admitted that he felt more than simple friendship for her and simply never noticed, having been too focussed on "making all their lives as much as a possible" with his and Ferbs Big Ideas without considering what was happening right in front of him. After that embarrassing admission, it was actually Phineas who asked Isabella out to be his girlfriend, which she gladly accepted with a kiss to his lips. Meanwhile, the teenage throuple
could also see Buford groan and return his previously-won earnings to Baljeet, apparently having lost a bet of his own against the nerd about whether or not their two same-age friends would hook up as well any time soon.
Chuckling at all that quirkiness unfolding before their eyes, Jeremy to his two girlfriends.
"Soooo, that just happened, I guess - what are you two feeling up to in celebration of our new thing together?"
"Weeeell…", Candace teased, yet with some uncertainty shown, "to put the cherry on top of our new polyship, I could Imbue you two - sure, depending on how exactly that `emotional feedback´ works, you two might not be getting much outta each other, but just look how happy it made Damian and Dr. Cahill"
"I wouldn´t call that just happy, Can-Do - also lovey-dovey and not to forget frisky, remember? N-not saying that I would mind feeling like that towards you, but…maybe a bit early for that?"
"Of course, Stacy, no pressure", Jeremy reassured his new girlfriend, himself still feeling a bit shy about crossing that particular threshold with anyone, "also, Damian and Dr. Cahill made it clear back then that you don't have to act on the feelings brought forth by Imbuement…so yeah, my love, I'd be up for it."
Stacy nodded firmly after calming down from her earlier embarrassment again, "Me too, Candace - but you sure about that? Even using only a few drops per person like they did will still drain you a little and I don't want you to starve yourself just for us, you know?"
"It's okay, Stacaroo - I'm not that famished yet. That being said, we should go inside for Imbuing since I don't want anyone to see that…not even the gang since it is kinda gross and all"
Before the three lovers could proceed with their pact though, the sound of tires rolling onto the driveway alerted them to a little hiccup in their immediate plans.
"...ooor we´re tabling that until after I told my parents everything about both us three and especially me - having to Mask myself in their vicinity is starting to get a bit old, you know" the vampire groused good-naturedly, while holding her two humans´ hands for reassurance.
"We´re behind you like always, Can-Do - just give the signal once you´re ready"
This caused a barely noticeable shift in Candace´s behaviour and with an eager smile baring her fangs a bit, she pulled in both Jeremy and Stacy before whispering in their ears, "Just saying that if my parents want a demonstration as well and you guys are still up for some private Imbuement afterwards, by then I´ll definitely be `peckish´ enough for a little SNACK, if my two `morsels´ are up for it…"
Looking at their mutual Significant Vampire, Jeremy could see her winking her firmly human-seeming red eyes and after both he and Stacy nodded with equally ready smiles, the two humans cried out in giddy surprise as they quickly were dragged along by the teenage bloodsucker.
"Mom! Dad! Stacy, Jeremy and I gotta tell you something really important inside!"
That girl is gonna be the death of us some time, Jeremy thought happily, but we wouldn't want it any other way…
omake bounty board.
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(this will get bigger)
abe vs burns fight.
every wonder what a fight between these 2 would look like?
cowboy abe song
whats better then a flying hellfish? a flying cowboy song!
hellfish the video game trailer
you saw the hellfish the movie trailer, now how about hellfish the videogame?
general shenanigans of the various characters here who aren't from the Simpsons settling down in Springfield. (can be done multiple times with different characters)
let's see what the new arrivas are doing?
hellfish wars
hellfish star wars au.
a long time ago in a galaxy far far away there was a omake that might get us sued.
abe vs burns fight.
every wonder what a fight between these 2 would look like?
cowboy abe song
whats better then a flying hellfish? a flying cowboy song!
hellfish the video game trailer
you saw the hellfish the movie trailer, now how about hellfish the videogame?
general shenanigans of the various characters here who aren't from the Simpsons settling down in Springfield. (can be done multiple times with different characters)
let's see what the new arrivas are doing?
hellfish wars
hellfish star wars au.
a long time ago in a galaxy far far away there was a omake that might get us sued.
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- Three feet to the left
- Pronouns
- He/They
I'm picturing either a very anemic slap fight, or them calling each other very old fashioned insults in some kind of rap battle. Which I now want to see.
Abe's martial score is actually good enough that he could actually put up a fight against all but the strongest opponents. Burns on the other hand has a martial score of -5. If it comes down to an actual, physical fight between them Abe is going to be all but singing the curb stomp song as he beats Burns with his cane
- Location
- United Kigdom
That was a great turn; just about everything went right and no new issues came up
The reunion between Lena and Webby was sweet
[X] Fat Tony
Edit: random thought, if we had someone use the amulet on a recruitment action and they rolled a near crit... would it be raised to a crit if we pick someone with a sad enough backstory?
The reunion between Lena and Webby was sweet
[X] Fat Tony
Edit: random thought, if we had someone use the amulet on a recruitment action and they rolled a near crit... would it be raised to a crit if we pick someone with a sad enough backstory?
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….. I feel like there's lots of characters with sad backstory but the only one that might actually get a crit always would be doof that guy has so many backstory with various amounts of level of sadness that they combined together just making it more sadder
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And once again, crime does pay
MrWealthman
Filthy Capitalist
- Location
- Deep in the piles of cash.
Level 100 mafia boss achieved play the music!
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- Germany
the talking dead.
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- Pronouns
- Female
The Talking Dead
You were Kaiser Wilhelm II, and you were…. uncertain how to feel.
You were returning to that graveyard. The place where, in a way, it all started. At least your new life.
Before Herr Flanders, before your current home, there was the graveyard.
It almost made you unnerved to return. It brought back… unfortunate feelings.
But you owed much to Herr Simpson, and you refused to let him down. So off you went.
Your old housemate, bless his heart, insisted on writing you some potential conversation starters if things got awkward. You didn't have the heart to turn him down.
You got off Horsey as you arrived at the entrance. Your noble steed, perhaps sensing your apprehension, rubbed against you lovingly. You smiled despite it all and gave him a pat.
"Wait here. Vhis won't be long." You said, despite having no idea if that was true. You stepped inside.
It was about as average you could expect, for a graveyard. You grunted and double checked your guns. Better safe than sorry.
Click.
"Well howdy there, pardner. Here for a return home?" A voice chuckled behind you as you felt a gun to the back of your head. However, you were no damsel in distress. You easily grab his arm and maneuver into twisting it behind his back. The man is clearly surprised, but laughs it off.
"Whoa there! Easy now! We're the same, you and I, right?"
"Vhat are you-!" You begin irritably… before you blink. You really look the man over.
He was a pretty average looking guy, relatively young and with an old timey get up. But you recognized it. The era of gun, the broad hat, his relaxed smile despite being in danger….
"Oh meingott! YOU'RE BILLY THE KID!" You gasped, letting the man go.
"Guilty as charged." He chuckled, Dusting off his hat and cracking his neck (well, he made the appropriate gesture, but no sound happened).
"Vhat are you doing here!? I… I have always wanted to meet you." You try not to be starstruck, it's unseemly, but you can't help it! He was A cowboy! A real life cowboy, right here in front of you!
"Heh, you're making me blush. And really, I could be asking you the same thing. Heard you've been making a real name for yourself with the livin' folks." Billy chuckled. Though you can sense a speck of something in his tone. Because you are deeply familiar with it.
Longing.
"What troubles you so? Especially to be rising and endangering mine new home?" You ask, genuinely. With no one around, and you both being zombies, you feel much more comfortable being open like that.
"Ah. There's the rub, now, eh? You think we're just mindless biters, seeking to cause all kinds of mighty bad trouble. Traitor." Billy said, bitterness entering his tone.
"Are you not, mine cowboy compatriot? I apologize on the behalf of All of Springfield if we have truly misjudged you. Though I would appreciate you keeping insults to a minimum." You bristle a tad at the last comment, but you suppose you can see the man's perspective.
They had been stuck in this graveyard, relatively cramped and isolated, for months, while you gallivanted around Being a useful member of Society.
A tinge of regret filled you that you try not to dwell on.
"...Heh. I guess I can expect you to get it. Sorry pardner. How about we go to the others and we can talk further?"
You nod at that as you walk deeper into the graveyard. You pass by Many of the deceased, both clearly out of place and many not. You see a blind man playing his saxophone morosely, giving you a polite nod nonetheless. You see two men bickering over who was the better president (you make Out Buchanan and Fillmore as their names, though it doesn't ring a bell). You see so many lost souls trying to adjust to their new lot in life, and it makes your heart ache.
You meet up with a rather… eclectic group. They claim to be the council, elected as the best to lead them out of the options.
You doubt that for some of them (the man in the doctor's outfit saying "Hi everybody!" Seemed rather oblivious) but you obviously don't voice it.
You talk for hours. One of them, an elderly but kindly woman who claims to know (and even dated!) Herr Simpson, is the first to be willing to hear you out despite their imprisonment, and she is able to quickly convince the others to hear you out, though the muscular armed one who won't let go of a rounded boulder takes the longest to convince.
You explain the misconceptions you had, and they clear things up.
None of them wanted to cause trouble, or at least if any did they were quickly punished or otherwise taken care of. Sure, many came back mindless, but that meant they didn't really have the will to do anything but shuffle about, not that they wished to hurt anyone.
As you talked, you realized what you had to do.
"I will talk to Herr Simpson. You don't deserve to be caged like Animals. No offense to a colleague of mine." You promise them.
"If it's not terribly too much trouble, it would be a godsend. I didn't fight to build this nation to be trapped here." a man with an axe and a powdered wig nodded.
"Thou wouldth have my utmost appreciation, Sir." a portly man with a quill added.
"Squawk! Would be happy! Squawk!" A parrot sitting atop a mute man in pirate like rags finished.
Those three and others chimed in their appreciation. You nod and turn, making your way back to Horsey.
You pause.
"...I am sorry. For leaving."
"Don't be sorry, pardner. You helped us a ton, today." Billy smiled.
"But if you disappoint us… well… I founded this town! I can also end it."
"Jebediah!" The old flame of Herr Simpson's scolded with a look of offense.
"I vill hold myself to that. You vill not be stranded much longer, if I can help it."
You hop onto the horse and the 8 (technically 9 if you count the parrot and his owner separately) wave you off.
You hope you can keep your promise.
Reward: You confirm the zombies are non hostile! They just wish to be free!
Options unlocked to find places for them to stay or even hire them!
You were Kaiser Wilhelm II, and you were…. uncertain how to feel.
You were returning to that graveyard. The place where, in a way, it all started. At least your new life.
Before Herr Flanders, before your current home, there was the graveyard.
It almost made you unnerved to return. It brought back… unfortunate feelings.
But you owed much to Herr Simpson, and you refused to let him down. So off you went.
Your old housemate, bless his heart, insisted on writing you some potential conversation starters if things got awkward. You didn't have the heart to turn him down.
You got off Horsey as you arrived at the entrance. Your noble steed, perhaps sensing your apprehension, rubbed against you lovingly. You smiled despite it all and gave him a pat.
"Wait here. Vhis won't be long." You said, despite having no idea if that was true. You stepped inside.
It was about as average you could expect, for a graveyard. You grunted and double checked your guns. Better safe than sorry.
Click.
"Well howdy there, pardner. Here for a return home?" A voice chuckled behind you as you felt a gun to the back of your head. However, you were no damsel in distress. You easily grab his arm and maneuver into twisting it behind his back. The man is clearly surprised, but laughs it off.
"Whoa there! Easy now! We're the same, you and I, right?"
"Vhat are you-!" You begin irritably… before you blink. You really look the man over.
He was a pretty average looking guy, relatively young and with an old timey get up. But you recognized it. The era of gun, the broad hat, his relaxed smile despite being in danger….
"Oh meingott! YOU'RE BILLY THE KID!" You gasped, letting the man go.
"Guilty as charged." He chuckled, Dusting off his hat and cracking his neck (well, he made the appropriate gesture, but no sound happened).
"Vhat are you doing here!? I… I have always wanted to meet you." You try not to be starstruck, it's unseemly, but you can't help it! He was A cowboy! A real life cowboy, right here in front of you!
"Heh, you're making me blush. And really, I could be asking you the same thing. Heard you've been making a real name for yourself with the livin' folks." Billy chuckled. Though you can sense a speck of something in his tone. Because you are deeply familiar with it.
Longing.
"What troubles you so? Especially to be rising and endangering mine new home?" You ask, genuinely. With no one around, and you both being zombies, you feel much more comfortable being open like that.
"Ah. There's the rub, now, eh? You think we're just mindless biters, seeking to cause all kinds of mighty bad trouble. Traitor." Billy said, bitterness entering his tone.
"Are you not, mine cowboy compatriot? I apologize on the behalf of All of Springfield if we have truly misjudged you. Though I would appreciate you keeping insults to a minimum." You bristle a tad at the last comment, but you suppose you can see the man's perspective.
They had been stuck in this graveyard, relatively cramped and isolated, for months, while you gallivanted around Being a useful member of Society.
A tinge of regret filled you that you try not to dwell on.
"...Heh. I guess I can expect you to get it. Sorry pardner. How about we go to the others and we can talk further?"
You nod at that as you walk deeper into the graveyard. You pass by Many of the deceased, both clearly out of place and many not. You see a blind man playing his saxophone morosely, giving you a polite nod nonetheless. You see two men bickering over who was the better president (you make Out Buchanan and Fillmore as their names, though it doesn't ring a bell). You see so many lost souls trying to adjust to their new lot in life, and it makes your heart ache.
You meet up with a rather… eclectic group. They claim to be the council, elected as the best to lead them out of the options.
You doubt that for some of them (the man in the doctor's outfit saying "Hi everybody!" Seemed rather oblivious) but you obviously don't voice it.
You talk for hours. One of them, an elderly but kindly woman who claims to know (and even dated!) Herr Simpson, is the first to be willing to hear you out despite their imprisonment, and she is able to quickly convince the others to hear you out, though the muscular armed one who won't let go of a rounded boulder takes the longest to convince.
You explain the misconceptions you had, and they clear things up.
None of them wanted to cause trouble, or at least if any did they were quickly punished or otherwise taken care of. Sure, many came back mindless, but that meant they didn't really have the will to do anything but shuffle about, not that they wished to hurt anyone.
As you talked, you realized what you had to do.
"I will talk to Herr Simpson. You don't deserve to be caged like Animals. No offense to a colleague of mine." You promise them.
"If it's not terribly too much trouble, it would be a godsend. I didn't fight to build this nation to be trapped here." a man with an axe and a powdered wig nodded.
"Thou wouldth have my utmost appreciation, Sir." a portly man with a quill added.
"Squawk! Would be happy! Squawk!" A parrot sitting atop a mute man in pirate like rags finished.
Those three and others chimed in their appreciation. You nod and turn, making your way back to Horsey.
You pause.
"...I am sorry. For leaving."
"Don't be sorry, pardner. You helped us a ton, today." Billy smiled.
"But if you disappoint us… well… I founded this town! I can also end it."
"Jebediah!" The old flame of Herr Simpson's scolded with a look of offense.
"I vill hold myself to that. You vill not be stranded much longer, if I can help it."
You hop onto the horse and the 8 (technically 9 if you count the parrot and his owner separately) wave you off.
You hope you can keep your promise.
Reward: You confirm the zombies are non hostile! They just wish to be free!
Options unlocked to find places for them to stay or even hire them!
Well… what should we do with the zombies now since we kind of learned that they just wanna be free.
Should we be the employer of them? I mean, I don't think a lot of places wanna hire zombies… besides us of course
Should we be the employer of them? I mean, I don't think a lot of places wanna hire zombies… besides us of course
MrWealthman
Filthy Capitalist
- Location
- Deep in the piles of cash.
Ah goodie time to enlist the zombies just gotta get rid of the stench of the grave on them.