I Have No Idea Who This Bottom Guy Might Be...

What about poor Edward??? Who is he? I mean, who is he in the orphanage. I know he runs an orphanage, but dude, Can u explain what he does in general? I've never played the game, I know about him and about all of game, but I've never played.

I'm sorry bit I just love the idea of Poor Edward thinking he's hot shit with his creepy gifts and deranged letters, then here comes Samuel who's even more fucked up than him, looking for some homoerotic stabbing while Edward cries. Baby faced loser just cannot handle an experienced freak.

LAKSJDFLASEKJES INCREDIBLE ASK TO RECEIVE, THANK YOU

but okay listen I think they're on different freaky axes. Stalking, sending someone your skin in the mail, getting possessive and jealous enough to kidnap their baby, those are all ROMANTIC freak activities. Samuel did not get the skin and go "pff, amateur, get on my level," LIKE HE WAS PRETTY DISTURBED TO GET EDWARDS SKIN IN THE MAIL. and then Sam is not really romantically inclined, he is just SEXUALLY freaky (calling him an "experienced freak" absolutely delights me but I don't know if this is true, he DOES like homoerotic stabbing but hes still a confused and repressed Victorian gentleman) while Edward simply does not seem to be sexually inclined at all?? TBH I pretty strongly headcanon him as asexual just based on how he handles love and marriage... So they're just on different tracks.

BUT HONESTLY?? IM NOT EVEN SURE THATS THE ISSUE. gets fully sidetracked with my Poor Edward Is A Kinky Ace headcanons

Thoughts & Evidence: - pain/injury: top - he "dislikes butchery" and seems to have a flair for causing psychological terror over simple murder, but causing people real tangible pain is the one thing he truly misses in his happiest ending. - restraint/confinement: switch - hes SO fixated on the coffin thing but ALSO in That One Very Normal Silverer Option hes fine playing along when YOU restrain HIM, it's only when you threaten to murder him that he actually freaks out - control; dom/sub: bottom - this never occurred to me during the ambition but makes a lot of sense in retrospect... he wants a master to pledge himself to and he's not sure if you're going to take that slot or not so he flips back and forth between pitching himself as a loyal henchman and a sadistic tormentor as he tries to capture your affection. But the only way to actually be with him is to fully take control, to essentially tell him "new plan: i do whatever I want, and you lock yourself in this building until I get back <3" and he's SO HAPPY TO DO IT.

All this to say that like, there's a couple of actual obstacles here, but neither of them are "erotic stabbing is too much for Edward." HE just doesn't wanna get murdered! BUT LIKE THATS PERFECTLY COMPATIBLE, SAMUEL IS ON BOARD FOR BEING THE GUY GETTING LOVINGLY MURDERED!!!!

I strongly suspect the actual obstacles here are: (a) Sam is too much of a bottom to be Poor Edward's master but also (b) Poor Edward is chemically impaired. In the whole first chunk of Light Fingers he's grabbing you constantly, easily overpowers you, and has NO PROBLEMS inflicting death as long as it's not permanent, but after the moon-milk he NEVER TOUCHES YOU AGAIN unless/until you actually consent to the wedding. THIS IS A FASCINATING DETAIL TO ME. He's clearly frustrated with you at points and trying to force your hand, and he doesn't seem to mind you getting hurt in the Nightmare-Orphanage when he's not the one doing it; can he just not bear to attack you himself????? ARE HE AND SAMUEL BOTH EQUALLY FRUSTRATED BY HIS INABILITY TO JUST FIGHT SAM

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I have a question, and if I said something wrong, you can correct me.

Is this the son/daughter of whom? I still don't understand. And one more thing about Penny. She, as I understand it, is Edward's daughter? Or who is she to him? Has Edward already had sex with the main character or not? Do they have children together, or is Edward the stepfather? (about which I am more confident).

i cant believe how long it took me to think to afflict Poor Edward with hanahaki. He already has the "I'll die without the affection of the person I'm in love with" part, why not also violently cough up flowers!!!

I figure most websites with big lists of flower meanings should probably be taken with a grain of salt, but this one was just too compelling to resist:

Anyway I personally think he would (a) not hesitate to tell you that he has hanahaki disease because of you and therefore you have to love him back, (b) send you flowers he coughed up as a romantic gift & write you poetry about the sensation of flowers filling his lungs, and (c) WORK VERY HARD TO NEVER SHOW SYMPTOMS IN YOUR PRESENCE.

Is there any guarantee that Edward simply stood and looked at the orphanage as it burned?

You know, it's probably worth drawing...

Imagine a dark large room on the floor, an altar on which light falls in a thin column and two figures next to it: one a head lower, and the other higher. And so, they kiss... This kiss is unremarkable and not full of love, but... it still takes place

here is another drawing that I drew 3 days ago, but forgot to publish

Yes, an idea came to me and I completed this terrible drawing

I have no idea who this bottom guy might be...

AU Where He Said Yes aka Bittersweet Marriage AU

since i mentioned it in the tags of one of those character asks, I dug up some of the sketches from when I was pondering how it might have worked out, if Samuel had agreed to marry Poor Edward... He isn't in love with Edward, but Sam felt a lot of sympathy for this out-of-control whirlwind of self-destruction and wanted to... help him, somehow. If he went through with it, he'd treat it like a real marriage, he wouldn't marry again in the waking world, he would ease off of his dalliances with Peter and Jack because that's cheating on Edward now, and do his best to be faithful and present for his husband. It would, in truth, be a loveless duty of a marriage, but I don't think Samuel would regret this choice; the fact that he feels unsuited for a "normal" marriage would convince him that he's the right person to keep Edward company.