Pavlova Cookie is a bit annoying with his penchant for sticking his nose into everything with little regard for if it’s wanted or asked for, so that is something that people may want to avoid, but the main reason for this opt-out is his primary ability. Pavlova has the ability to essentially look into a person’s heart and see their relationships. This is not limited to romantic relationships, as he can see both romantic and platonic relationships, as well as being able to sense if a person wants certain relationships. If it has to do with their relationships in any form he can find it out from poking around long enough. From unrequited love to lies people tell themselves in relation to their perception of their relationships, he can see it all. If he focuses hard enough he can even read the story of a particular relationship. It’s a very specialized power, but it’s also very powerful. So I’d like to know if for one reason or another you’d like him to Not Do That. Or if you’d like to opt out of interacting with the little shipper entirely. The descriptions offer suggestions for people opting in, but opting out is always alright, and you can just put “No” into all of the sections. You can also just put what he can sense and nothing else if there are parts and pieces you don’t want him picking up on.
Opt out: Yes/No
Relationships he can read: This is the fun part! Tell me aaaaall about your character’s relationships. All of the important ties they have! This can be as detailed or simple as you like, or as you feel befits the importance of the relationship. If your character has a billion and one friendships with npcs, you can just say that. Have fun with it!
Beliefs they hold: Essentially, what parts of their relationships are they misinterpreting or lying to themselves about. Have they been willfully ignoring someone’s advances because they’re nervous the other isn’t serious about it? Have they been arguing with a friend over a total misunderstanding? Do they think that a relationship they want won’t work out for some reason? Do they want romance but don’t think they’re cut out for it because of their occupation or situation or something? He can sense that! Put it in!
Tropes: He is the CRK equivalent to a kid who reads fics on Ao3 to stave off depression. If you want him to call your character cringe I can see what I can do to make that happen. He’s already wrapping his head around Shadownilla Toxic Yaoi. This is also a less intensive option for those who don’t want him peeping their whole romance.
How does their heart look: I often like to embellish my writing with things like this, so sometimes I might refer to a character’s heart as though he is seeing a representation of it tangled in its relationship strings. Are there a bunch of severed ones hanging there? Are the strings squeezing it too tightly? Are the strings threatening to break? Loose? What are the strings made of? What does the heart itself look like? Is it like glass? Literally walled off? Drained of color?
Additional considerations: Anything you think is important that might not fall under the prior sections! His "knowledge of relationships" is very vague in it's scope so if you'd like him to learn something specifically to call them on it, this would be a good place to note that.
May I contact for more info: Yes/No. This is just here in case things change organically over time and/or i’m writing something specific and want to double check about the specifics of something mentioned above. “No” is for those who only want him referencing what is mentioned and nothing else.
Opt out: No Relationships he can read: So, there is really one person Mephisto unconditionally loves. Which might be concerning, since he's only 15. There's others where love might be present, but it's muddled and gross and complicated. If Pavlova can sense the lack of love, he'll definitely see that Mephisto's default is just to loathe or be indifferent towards people. He is not open - everything is very shut off.
But the one person he does love is a boy named Sasha (or his codename, Faust). It's almost an innocent and playful sort of love. Like, they grew up together. Sasha wanted to protect him from all harm. Sasha become stronger for Mephisto. Sasha was able to eat and learn to read because of Mephisto. They did everything together. Even when Mephisto grew to hate the world and everyone in it, he still always loved Sasha. He was still always kind to Sasha. But now Sasha is dead, and Mephisto is in a constant state of grief and depression because, well, Sasha was his best friend. His true love. The only person in the world he cared about.
There's a few other people that Mephisto has sort of a "familial" relationship with. But it's complicated. One is FrostNova, who Mephisto used to see as a big sister figure, until she started to hate the person Mephisto was. It's only at the end of her life, when she died, that Mephisto realized she still cared about him. The other is Talulah, who used to care for Mephisto, until she got possessed and started treating him like a weapon-
It's a lot!!!! Basically!!!! Anyway, Mephisto doesn't know how to love anyone anymore. Even in Sticks, he's just manipulating people into being friends with him, and liking him. Lily and Till are both people he doesn't totally hate, but he sees them both as a means to further his own goals, rather than actually form a meaningful relationship with them......
Beliefs they hold: Mephisto is just very hurt, and has been emotionally and physically abused for most of his childhood, so he doesn't actually hate-hate everyone? He used to be a very shy, very loving person. He does care, he just convinces himself not to. He wants to love and be loved, but he doesn't want to be hurt, so he pushes people away and incites violence to keep it that way.
Tropes: idk if "Yandere as fuck" counts, but if he gets close, he just will not let go. Sasha had allowed this and never attempted to correct this sort of behavior from Mephisto, so he never tried to better himself. Now if he gets attached to someone, it's an icky, gross, festering sort of affection, even if it's just platonic.
How does their heart look: I imagine Mephisto's is what you would expect of someone like him. A bleeding heart, but surrounded by sharp, black, thorn-y vines.
May I contact for more info: Yes pls talk to me always!!! Discord is the best way to hmu, and I will likely slide into ur dms at some point too fair warning anyway ilu kiss u
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lovelyredthread) wrote2025-05-11 11:34 pm
Joins this late witha goblin child cw: for child abuse-
Relationships he can read: So, there is really one person Mephisto unconditionally loves. Which might be concerning, since he's only 15. There's others where love might be present, but it's muddled and gross and complicated. If Pavlova can sense the lack of love, he'll definitely see that Mephisto's default is just to loathe or be indifferent towards people. He is not open - everything is very shut off.
But the one person he does love is a boy named Sasha (or his codename, Faust). It's almost an innocent and playful sort of love. Like, they grew up together. Sasha wanted to protect him from all harm. Sasha become stronger for Mephisto. Sasha was able to eat and learn to read because of Mephisto. They did everything together. Even when Mephisto grew to hate the world and everyone in it, he still always loved Sasha. He was still always kind to Sasha. But now Sasha is dead, and Mephisto is in a constant state of grief and depression because, well, Sasha was his best friend. His true love. The only person in the world he cared about.
There's a few other people that Mephisto has sort of a "familial" relationship with. But it's complicated. One is FrostNova, who Mephisto used to see as a big sister figure, until she started to hate the person Mephisto was. It's only at the end of her life, when she died, that Mephisto realized she still cared about him. The other is Talulah, who used to care for Mephisto, until she got possessed and started treating him like a weapon-
It's a lot!!!! Basically!!!! Anyway, Mephisto doesn't know how to love anyone anymore. Even in Sticks, he's just manipulating people into being friends with him, and liking him. Lily and Till are both people he doesn't totally hate, but he sees them both as a means to further his own goals, rather than actually form a meaningful relationship with them......
Beliefs they hold: Mephisto is just very hurt, and has been emotionally and physically abused for most of his childhood, so he doesn't actually hate-hate everyone? He used to be a very shy, very loving person. He does care, he just convinces himself not to. He wants to love and be loved, but he doesn't want to be hurt, so he pushes people away and incites violence to keep it that way.
Tropes: idk if "Yandere as fuck" counts, but if he gets close, he just will not let go. Sasha had allowed this and never attempted to correct this sort of behavior from Mephisto, so he never tried to better himself. Now if he gets attached to someone, it's an icky, gross, festering sort of affection, even if it's just platonic.
How does their heart look: I imagine Mephisto's is what you would expect of someone like him. A bleeding heart, but surrounded by sharp, black, thorn-y vines.
May I contact for more info: Yes pls talk to me always!!! Discord is the best way to hmu, and I will likely slide into ur dms at some point too fair warning
anyway ilu kiss u