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MH3 but Deuce ended up in Boston and meets Chad, Clair, and Jackson (who is part monster but in hiding)

Lilith is his antagonist and she comes from a superstitious, monster hunting family. Her father is descended from Abraham van Helsing, and her mother is descended from William Stoughton (the chief judge of the Salem Witch Trials)

She isn’t too bad she just wants balance. The moment she realizes there is a way to get him out of the human world, she stops attacking him and helps.

Ellis is recruited to help too (for the witch drama with Lilith)

LETTING EVERYONE KNOW RAFAH IS BEING BOMBED AS WE SPEAK. ALL EYES ON RAFAH.

When you get too English teacher-y and almost write symbolism of Kieran Valentine being a blade of grass

in honor of the new spelldon/valentine comic coming out, i thought id share my spelldon design that i made like 2/3???? years ago!! cool witchy dude with a hat :)

very inspired by this look by @beingadp on instagram :)

When your Valentine origin fanfic is getting out of hands and probably going to be the length of a short novel :/

Life action Valentine with hair like

Val learning to love love because of Spelldon >>

Him learning to value it after realizing how dedicated he and Spelldon are to each other

They’re such sweethearts this is so cute

HERES A SKETCH IM WORKING ONNN

the news is driving me CRAZY-

the sweater and cat sketch is inspired by @vlovebug and mine’s chat abt spelldon :>

THE BOYS AAAAAA

official art from this year's pride comics!!

toradeen cover by betsey cola

spellentine cover by céli godfried

Okay so I know Casta is a real name ok it’s own, HOWEVER imagine it’s a nickname. She got it as a child living on Aeaea.

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When she was young, her cousins, the Nereids, would laugh and welcome her into their pools when they noticed her. Her babbles would transform one into a small fish. The others would hold her close to their sides, caress her hair, and call her “Casta” after the spells she weaved

When she was older, her mother first showed her the herbs that grew in the soil. Together, they dried and crushed leaves into fine powder before tossing it into the boiling pot. Circe would hold her shoulder, not tight enough to hurt but tight enough to show she was proud. The potion would hiss in her ears, but though it all she heard her mother mutter “Casta”

But she was not “Casta.” She was not whatever “pure” thing they saw in her. She was cursed since the moment she rose from the sea foam her grandmother claimed, her grandfather’s golden touch burning her back and shoulders.

She was Cassiphone. “Brother killer.”

She hadn’t paid her name any mind until another form emerged from the earth. This one, a young boy her mother called “Spelldon.”

And when she first held this small, precious thing, delicately enough he must not have known she was there, she was glad she was “Casta”

The fact Casta is an actual Greek name and not something MH made up. It means “purity” and and in Latin it means “lineage,” both of which can relate to the harsh pressure (from her mother and from herself) she feels to perform perfectly so she doesn’t let anyone down.

“Fierce” is canonically a stage name, but can be explained as her trying to build up her confidence and self-esteem. She is Casta Fierce.

And then we have her brother shelldon

Deliberate use of Kieran versus Valentine ugggggh foaming at the mouth

If valentine is not in MH3 and I can't edit him to "can't fight the moonlight" by leann rimes i will be very sad :( so mr. holland you should add him

When i can’t find hyper specific information I need for a fanfic 🙄🙄 like what do you mean you don’t know if theia was imprisoned after the titanomachy

Okay but you know how EVERYTHING in MH happened 400 years ago? Stoker has been in charge of the vampires for 400 years and the vampire’s heart is missing. Lizzie left before Draculaura did which means Val is for SURE in Romania when she flees.

What if Stoker sent him out to find the Vampire Heart? After all who better than the immensely powerful emotional vampire he has wedged beneath his thumb?

And Val is just that guy and ended up near Monster High, unknowingly finding the location of the Heart in Robecca

Because he can’t get rid of stoker’s control no matter how hard he tries or how far he goes

Despite both of them growing up on islands, Valentine nor Spelldon can swim

Spelldon claims it’s because he’ll melt, but he isn’t entirely sure and isn’t willing to try

Valentine doesn’t want to ruin his hair

Valentine and Spelldon are both pretty, but:

Kieran is pretty like a thunderstorm. He’s like the flash of light before the low roll of thunder. Like the trees dancing a tango while diamonds fall as rain.

Spelldon is pretty like light dancing on gold. Like the glare in your eye that blinds you for a moment, but leaves you in so much awe that you can’t bother being mad.

Spelldon speaks Ancient Greek with his family and one day he’s on the speaker phone with his mother. She asks him about Kieran, and Spells goes “I’ll ask”

Before he can even open his mouth, Kieran answers the question in perfect Ancient Greek because he’s a NERD and either 1) secretly learned it for Spelldon, or 2) knew it all along

Valentine sleeping hanging from the rafters and Spelldon just pushing him aside like one of those beaded curtain things

When you’re looking for an open space in your note pad and find:

“…like a wicked form of Eros, not because Kieran was evil, but because in spite of all of Spelldon’s yearning, he would never be Psyche.”

Like???

(The general context is from a [probably] scrapped fanfic idea, when Pegasus is behind Kieran so it looks like he has wings)

Spelldon turns Valentine into an animal

Valentine turns himself into a bat, then back into a human to get out of it

Spelldon turns him into a slightly more insulting animal

When you write so much fanfiction over winter break you might have carpal tunnel

Best part is none of it is remotely close to being done

Valentine calling Spelldon sunshine in a “you are the light of my life” way and a “you hold my life in your hands and if you chose to destroy it, I’d let you” way

Spelldon and Kieran having children galatea style, where they make the kids out of clay or like dirt (because neither one of them is good enough at sculpting for marble) in the backyard and Aphrodite is just like “oh my god them again” and makes it come to life

I love how the Kieran Valentine and specifically the Love Spell (Kieran x Spelldon) fandom has flourished in the past few years

Like I remember like 3 years ago looking on AO3 for fanfics and there were two. Only two fanfics, and one of them was in Spanish, and once I finished the English one, i went and put the Spanish one through an online translator so that I could read about kieran Valentine and his never-debuted witch crush

And now, as of December 26th, 2023, at 6 PM Eastern Standard, there are 27. More than 2 dozen. If you read one chapter of each a day, it would take you (yes I did the math) 89 days. 3 months.

Which is 1012% higher than when I started writing

That’s insane. Just in 3 years there’s been so much growth and it’s such a nice little niche

Valentine being super excited to get to speak Latin again during the Renaissance.

Valentine struggling to correct everyone about obscure antiquity facts during the Renaissance.

Kieran Valentine messing up era fashion and mixing them, or wearing something entirely wrong or outdated

One day, he wears a line of red lipstick down the center of his lips (because CA’s made him think it was acceptable). Spelldon has to be the bearer of bad news that no, it wasn’t a current trend, and no, people weren’t staring because they were into him

Kieran had been so disappointed (“what do you mean? You should’ve seen how much business this got me during the tang dynasty!”)

Valentines real accent is definitely a MESS

He’s been everywhere a million times, and every time, the language is different. He definitely merges them and his real accent picked up traces of nearly everywhere he’s been. He uses the southern one often (even when he doesn’t need to) just because it’s easier for everyone else

The real one comes out when he’s tired, or cranky (which is quite often), or when he’s talking too fast, or not paying enough attention to it to fix it

Spelldon loves it. He loves the stories it tells of places he was never allowed to go. Of eras and cities and empires he missed out on

I don’t know the exact timeline of the movies or how the comics fit in with them, BUT

if Spelldon offered to “keep [Val] up on the groanings” around monster high, would he know about the events of certain movies/other comics? Does he know about what Lilith did? Or Kala?

Did he know about Whisp before they met? Did he already know what she did and let her say her piece anyway?

Penelope teaching Spelldon how to fight so he stops getting his butt handed to him sparring with Kieran “dozen-time-war-veteran” Valentine

yeah you can have your MH opinions but was your top song this year coming out of the dark?? didn't think so