( open ) if i wanna stay alive

[breweries]

Who 🍷 shylock and you!
What 🍷 april catchall! mostly festival prompts inside for now.
When 🍷 entire month of april
Where 🍷 hell, baby
Content Warnings 🍷 alcohol and maybe some nsfw things, since he's a tamamo. the rest is tba.




prompts and whatnot will be in the comments! feel free to hit me up via plotting post or PM if you want something more specialized.
also shylock looks something like this, but obv without the fox ears. he'd still be wearing the earrings though, and the bun is a lot more elaborate than his usual.

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[breweries]

[ oya, oya. shylock covers his smile with his hands in mock bashfulness. how adorable. ]

My, my. I'll be sure to be on my best behavior, then.

[ fufu. as for that question: ]

A certain sword spirit had given me the gist last month. Something about humans locking themselves in their houses while the demons come out and play in the streets, correct?

[paperpusher]

Correct! [A certain sword spirit, huh... Well, Natori has some suspicions about who that's referring to, but that's not relevant right now.] Some legends go so far as to say that any human who sees-- or is seen by-- the parade will die. It's exaggerating the risk, since there's nothing unique about the night parade that makes it any more dangerous than any other time hundreds or thousands of ayakashi come together to celebrate, but...

[He peels open the paper bag and demonstrates the inner surface for Shylock. While the outside of the bag is relatively simple, there's a complex spell circle drawn on the interior; while Shylock's newfound understanding of Japanese means he might recognize some of the kanji incorporated into the design, as a whole it's illegible, with several characters that simply don't exist in standard (human) Japanese.]

Exorcists tend to take legends seriously. My warding charms haven't been working properly since I arrived here, but it's hard to give up on the habit.

[breweries]

It sounds to me the complete opposite of our version of Walpurgisnacht. [ now it's his turn to do exposition for a human! ] It is a festival for wizards, essentially. Each country celebrate it differently, and in the West, humans are highly encouraged to participate, drink, and be merry with the wizards in order to appease us and the living dead who will come and party with us.

[ come to think of it, this festival is more in line with eastern country's version of walpurgisnacht, isn't it...

in any case, shylock takes a closer peek at the runes on natori's paper bag, nodding as if he could understand whatever was written inside of it (he cannot). ]

Most of our natural abilities have not been working well for us since our arrival. Perhaps if we've satisfied our great leader enough... [ he doesn't really like the idea, but it's not like he has a choice. haha, how troublesome. ] Well, anyway. Allow me to make you look more presentable underneath your paper bag as a surprise for anyone who wishes to take a peek.

[paperpusher]

Walpurgisnacht... [He does his best to repeat it (his best is shit). In any case, this comparison isn't counteracting the idea that wizards are basically ayakashi.] We have a few festivals that could work like that in theory, but nowadays humans have their own festivals, and ayakashi host theirs separately.

[Unless they invite the humans there in order to eat them, which is a possibility.]

Seems like it, huh? [Privately, Natori's not sure if he'll be getting access to his exorcist abilities anytime soon; he's equally unsure if it's conceited to think so highly of his own abilities to think he could pose that sort of threat.] ...Well, since you've offered, I'll take you up on that. Let me know how I can return the favor.