Cat got the kitty’s tongue~?
Nykui met Dr. Phantasmo when a bunch of teenagers challenged him to enter the mad scientist’s mansion… and of course, him being the stubborn runt he is, he wanted to show these “kids” how brave he truly is (at first he was a little apprehensive but… he didn’t want to come off as a coward…)
So, with all his courage (and stubbornness), he entered the mansion… he explored the first corridors of the building and… he was starting to notice that it wasn’t so-
That is, until said teenagers locked him inside the mansion…
Nykui: g-guys…? Come on: stop being immature you all! Let me out!
The group of mean teenagers laughed at him and asked him if he was chickening out… then, Nykui heard them scream and run away… little did he knew that the “devil” himself captured two souls of the mean teenagers…
Without knowing what was going on, Nykui started scratching the front door of the building… but to no use… so, without much choice, Nykui went to find another exit from the mansion…
Nykui: calm down Nyu-nyu… it’s just… an abandoned mansion… no big deal…
As he passed through the corridors, he would look at the paintings of the same two people: a big and tall man with a goatee and a ponytail and a woman with a beret and black hair… he sometimes felt… being watched by said paintings…
Until he… smelled something… fresh and delicious… but that quickly made him feel… suspicious… he thought: “either there is already some homeless person living here or… nah… or maybe it could…?”
Our brave (and stubborn) kitty arrived to the mansion’s kitchen: it was… half cleaned and half a mess… almost as if… someone was cleaning this place just now… he looked at the table and… his mouth began to water and his stomach began to growl:
In front of him there was some pancakes with chocolate sauce and-! Cinnamon sugar beignets! His favorite!
He quickly went closer to the table and grabbed a handful of cinnamon sugar beignets but… before he popped them into his mouth… he quickly felt a sense of foreboding… he looked around with his eyes narrowed (and still with the treats on his hands) and said:
Nykui: …This isn’t a trap… is it…?
???: “That’s for me to know… and for you to find out my little rascal friend~”
Nykui quickly jumped startled (and dropping a few treats on the floor) and began shaking… but he wanted to stand his ground and appear brave… he placed the leftover treats from his hands on the table and puffed out his chest and said:
Nykui: w-who are you…? Are you the so feared villain that everyone keeps talking about…?
???: hmm… perhaps~ why don’t you take… a look behind you~? Mhhm~?
Oho… that certainly sent a shiver down our feline’s friend spine… but he managed to take a big breath and-! HOLY SHIT THIS GUY’S HUGE!
Nykui quickly stumbled backwards and crawled a little far away from the boogeyman himself… or at least that’s what Nykui assumed but he was almost certain that this was… him… the creepy and scary grin on his face… the goatee… the messy flowy ghostly hair… yup, this is the guy…
There was a very intense mood on the kitchen… for god that felt like an eternity… but then… the “doctor” himself decided to break the ice:
Phantasmo: why my, my~ looks like little Nykui finally met the town’s most infamous villain~!
Nykui: w-wait… h-how do you know my-!
Phantasmo then shushed gently our feline friend using his floating hand to cover the little one’s lips… this made all the hair strands of Nykui’s head rise up in fear…
Phantasmo: you hear that~? Listen very, very closely~
Phantasmo then retreated his floating hand from the young neko’s mouth… Nykui let out a deep gasp he didn’t know he was holding… this made the mad scientist chuckled darkly and deeply…
Nykui’s ears perked up and… he could hear screaming from below his feet… did… did this guy kidnapped those bullies…? If so… how many of them and… how…?
Nykui: . . .Y-you… you don’t scare me…! You can intimidate me all you want! I don’t know what you’re scheming or planning right now but… but… please… don’t… h-hurt me…?
Nykui could feel his face getting wet from the tears that were rolling down his cheeks… Phantasmo let out a soft “ tsk tsk” sound before floating closer to the small child and wiping his tears with his thumb:
Phantasmo: my kitty friend… don’t worry~ I’ve got… far more interesting plans for you~ but none of them involve hurting you in any way whatsoever~
However… i won’t hesitate to eliminate you if you upset me… are we clear, my kitty friend~? Not even your cuteness will be enough to save you from this big cat here~
The neko child didn’t know if he should feel relieved or afraid of the ghost (okay, maybe a little bit more of the latter, after all, why should he trust this guy out of all people???). But… he couldn’t help but interrogate him:
Nykui: why you have got “interesting” plans for me specifically? What are those said “plans”? Why did you-
Phantasmo silenced Nykui with a finger over the young neko’s lips. With a sigh and holding his face with his other detached hand, Phantasmo spoke:
Phantasmo: so eager to find out the answers… aren’t you? I’ll answer you your first question and you are gonna have to be happy with that, because working for me requires not knowing a lot of things… at least at the right time… you’ll know eventually~ let’s say… i know a little bit about everything of everyone~ i have… little eyes around town~
Nykui then gently pushed his finger and hand away from his mouth and said:
Nykui: this doesn’t explain nothing! Why are you acting so damn mysterious and omino- mmhhfpf!
Phantasmo then got a little tired of the neko’s curiosity and stuffed his mouth with the cinnamon sugar beignets he left on the table…
Phantasmo: don’t you know little kitty? Curiosity killed the cat, so… i advice you to be careful with yours~…
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Now here’s some bonus stuff :D
Nykui helps Phantasmo steal anything he asks him to steal: be it jewelry, money and credit cards from people… (oh, and hair strands from anyone he can cut the hair off… Nykui doesn’t know why but… he’s too afraid to confront Phantasmo about this…)
He sometimes also serves as a distraction for when Phantasmo is either kidnapping someone or fighting against Charlie… (in “serving as a distraction for when Phantasmo fights Charlie”, he distracts Carter from helping his sister out… Carter is too innocent to notice that Nykui is now working for Phantasmo… even though his sister already told him that a billion times already, lol)
Their relationship is… how may i compare it? Like a frog and a spider’s: if you google it, you’ll know that spiders usually see their… “friend” frogs as pets… yeah… take that as you will… (*whispers* it ain’t a healthy relationship)
Fun fact about Nykui: he’s very, very touch-starved for a cat… and Phantasmo knows it too well… he takes advantage of that to manipulate the young kitty boy…
Phantasmo’s tactics of manipulation are: love-bombing, scratches behind Nykui’s ears (Nykui’s weakness) and food… yep, just making a batch of cinnamon sugar beignets is enough to have this kitty do anything Phantasmo wants him to…
Hewwo, would it be too much to ask if you could drop some dating headcanons about Phantasmo with a reader who falls into the "pure cinnamon roll"? You know, like my Melody? (Also i'm really curious about your fan child! Please, tell us more about her!)
She was born half dead and half alive
She has the same ability as Viola, Phantasmo’s first daughter, of changing her age: she can transform into a baby, child or teenager
She has a dark grey-ish blue skin, pink eyes and a dark purple hair
Sometimes she has intrusive thoughts about hurting others, she doesn’t like it but she can’t help herself when someone, for example, hurts themselves by accident: she either smiles or starts chuckling at the person… she feels really bad though. After doing or thinking that way (Charlie believes she takes after her father, Phantasmo and his sadism)
But it isn’t all bad though! She also took after her mother as well: her courage and determination!
Every time her parents start fighting (verbally or physically), she involuntarily morphs into a baby to gain her parents attention and make them stop fighting :)
She usually acts before thinking (just like her mother)
Her favorite animals are hamsters and pitbulls! :D
She is really friendly with T-oby, she calls him her cool uncle :)
At first, Phantasmo really thought that your character was a facade. But as he slowly knew you, he realized that no: you’re actually a pure soul and a little oblivious (because everyone knows that cinnamon roll-like people are always a little oblivious to everything, if you disagree, fight me!)
Of course, he WILL take advantage of your obliviousness and innocence for his selfish and nefarious plans at first. But eventually, as time passes, he will leave you out of his dirty work
He will try to fluster and embarrass you in any way possible, but, given that you’re too oblivious to even his flirting, it all flies over your head while you smile cutely at him (and instead, you’ve flustered him hahaha!)
You like holding hands a lot with him or just snuggling against his neck or chest, of course, you’ll make him a blushing mess without even realizing yourself
You like to call him sometimes “big marshmallow” gfjgfhgfjghf XD
He will never admit it but… he loves to place you on his lap or over his shoulder when you’re sleeping while he works on his experiments
He will ALSO not admit that you’re his little “bon bon” but will demonstrate in other ways that he loves you ;)
For as incredible and unbelievable as it sounds, you can make him really flustered with any little thing you do: you kissed his cheek? Flustered mess. You called him handsome? He’ll smile shyly and awkwardly while blushing. You lay on top of him? Blushing mess.
Heheheheee
Hehe >:]
You already probably know what I'm going for >:]
(Btw if u don't know, I just wanted to ask if u could write a short story of daisy forcing Charlie to try on some outfits she found and Charlie thought that the outfits daisy chose were going to look dumb but was surprised at how awesome they actually fitted her!)
Tehee :>
Charlie: Daisy, could you stop nagging me? I’m busy.
Daisy: doing what? Starring at the sky and doing nothing?
Charlie: exactly.
Daisy: come on, get up. I bought new clothes for you!
Charlie: Daisy, you know i hate girly clothes. There’s no chance i’m wearing these…
Daisy: i’ll buy you a pizza if you at least wear them to see if you-
Charlie: *smirking and giving Daisy a thumbs up while her hat is over her eyes* ok i’m sold.
One changing clothing session later:
Charlie: . . .
Daisy: *smiling smugly at Charlie while she looked at herself in the mirror with the overall she’s wearing* you liked this one, didn’t you~♪?
Charlie: *looking grumpily at Daisy* ……yes…… *smiling again* but i guess the other clothes are going to be yours, cause they’re a little too feminine for me.
Daisy: *sighs* alright… at least i could make you have ONE cute overall…
Charlie: What’s wrong with my “non-cute” overalls?
Daisy: do i really need to say it?
Charlie: ok, ok… they may look old and a little too badly patched up… but they still fit!
Élos created Oliver with the “essence of life”. And before y’all ask, it’s not your “usual” essence of life that you would see on other types of media, according by Élos, this “essence of life” was made with these ingredients: Fairy dust; “rainbow tears” (Oliver is still trying to decipher what exactly would be “rainbow tears”); a “heart” of a bloody moon (not our moon, but rather a moon from another planet); a single tooth of a first born; golden feather from a wing of an archangel; Lillies of the valley; forget-me-nots; shards of an hour glass and some grass.
Oliver knows that Élos erased his memories from his childhood where he saw Élos much more than he does now because Élos wrote him this when Oliver questioned them how did they raised him: Élos -“on the 5° spring i simply couldn’t let you have any memory of me nor my face anymore… i would then take care of you from afar and have Morgel take care of you occasionally…”-. (Morgel is Élos pet crow that sometimes visits Oliver and brings him anything he needs: money; clothes; wood for the fireplace and the list goes on. And oh, Morgel can also transform into a human.)
Élos can’t see Oliver or be seen by him anymore because of a “barrier”. (Although Oliver believes they simply just don’t want to take care of him themselves anymore and that the barrier is just an excuse. But Oliver still loves them, even if he knows it’s just a lie)
Morgel and Élos share the same heart (Élos rescued Morgel from a hunter, and, to not let him die, Élos ripped off their own heart and sliced into two to share and replaced Morgel’s old sick heart)
Élos soul is inside Oliver’s amulet.
Élos is completely and truly neutral about Oliver’s decisions and life choices, to them, Oliver should be able to be free to do anything, even if it’s questionable. Morgel on the other hand, always tries to convince Oliver to basically be themselves, minus his questionable actions and motivations, especially towards the clones.
(sadly I can't upload photos but I think you know what i am talking about... Right?)
First of all, let’s just change a bit how these two appeared in the Telltown universe because these two were first created as an alternative “Player2” kind of thing to the cuphead universe… and since both artists don’t want their creations being related to the Cuphead premise anymore, i’ll just create an excuse to how they would exist on Telltown! XD
With that out of the way, let’s begin~: Basically Phantasmo was trying to create a clone more stronger than his arch nemesis but as always, Charlie came in to beat his ass and accidentally did something to his cloning machine that not only made a clone of her but also a clone of him! (She cut herself on the machine’s sharp edges when she was trying to punch him and he was electrocuted by the machine, which made the thing to malfunction and create alternates of them both)
Suddenly the whole lab glowed and disoriented them… when they woke up, in front of them were the alternates:
Alt!Charlie: Finally woke up you two…
Original Phantasmo: What the-!
Original Charlie: the hell?! Phantasmo! What’s the meaning of this?!? Why… there’s an almost identical me!?
Alt!Charlie: Uh, i dunno, maybe because there’s a literal CLONING machine? Duh…
Original Charlie: . . .okay… at least she’s not entirely identical to me… although she’s rude.
Original Phantasmo: and who are you? *points to Alt!Phantasmo*
Alt!Phantasmo: uhm… i… i think i am… y-y-you…
Original Phantasmo: Ah great… just what I needed: a coward version of me and… i didn’t knew this could be possible, an even more arrogant version of you…
Original Charlie and Alt!Charlie: you’re the only one to blame…
Original Phantasmo: now… how do we fix this…?
And then, Phantasmo and Charlie tried to seek for a way to get rid of their clones… but Alt!Charlie didn’t like that one bit and managed with her doubled strength (she’s even stronger than Charlie) to beat both of them and try to take over Charlie’s life… later i can write a story about that… (someday… i’m feeling lazy right now as i am writing this :v)
Alt!Charlie (who was named by her original counterpart as “Lily”) and Alt!Phantasmo (who was named by the original Phantasmo as “Victor”) certainly would be a very, very toxic couple at first… BUT:
After they were banished to an isolated island, they (or, in Lily’s case, only SHE would fight with Victor) would fight a lot and… eventually, would try to change their appearances and identities to not look like exactly the same as their original counterparts.
Even trying to change, their opposite personalities would still be there:
Lily is everything Charlie’s not: she’s cold, heartless, calculating, sophisticated, arrogant and basically very, very bitchy.
Victor is: kind, nervous wreck, polite, simple, empathetic and very caring about others… and also a coward.
Lily couldn’t change that much, as for Victor he definitely can because he’s a ghost and can change hair and color of his… soul…? (Idk, don’t ask) she’s definitely jealous of him because of that…
When they finally left the island, they started to live on a small town close to Telltown and built their own small house together… they started from zero. (I’m still thinking about how that could work, i am maaaaaybe thinking on reworking on their origins because there’s a lot of stuff i need to write to make things make sense hahaha… 🥲 and i am very tired because i am writing this instead of sleeping-)
Lily’s love language would be (for her, not her doing those but more like being on the receiving end): acts of service and receiving gifts.
Victor’s love language would be (he’s on the giving end): words of affirmation, quality time and physical touch.
They would still be like Charlie and Phantasmo but, like, ✨~be completely different~✨
Lily’s the top and Victor’s the bottom, end of discussion
Here’s a quick sketch I’ve made while i was thinking of what to write next on your ask Anon! :3
(Aaaand great… i forgor to draw her goddamn right arm… yay…)🫠😶🙃
Also, sorry it took another year to finish your ask Anon… it even looks like… it was last year i- ok, I’ll see myself out.
Since he is a little troublemaker to most townsfolk, he doesn’t get along with Charlie… (she doesn’t do anything to jeopardize him… she only picks him up and takes him out of the store he was stealing from… or she grabs him by the back of his coat when he’s pickpocketing people… of course he scratches her good and run away as quickly as he can… and she only sighs in a disapproving manner…)
Nykui is very stubborn and easily tricked when you use the right words with him… he’s not naive, but if you offer what he craves most, you’ll mostly likely will have his attention…
Thanks to his cuteness and trickery, he can fool a lot of tourists that come to Telltown.
His best friend is Lena: she’s nice with him…
He also likes Oliver and Emilly: Oliver always offers him their house for him to sleep on cold winters and makes the best cinnamon sugar beignets when it rains :). And Emilly… even though she acts sometimes a little Tsundere-ish, she has a soft spot for the neko child… like secretly giving him some of the pastries of the cafe she works on.
I really like to think that Nykui managed to convince Carter, Charlie’s brother, to build the treehouse for him muehehe~ >:3
I’m going to post a “little” (may or may not be actually a long-ass fanfic but oh well) fanfic about his relationship with Phantasmo… i’ll leave you all in suspense~ Muahahaha! >:D
*smacks lips* A n o t h e r O n e
(Also: the first person i hear a feet joke is going to get blocked >:( /J)
Original scene under:
G’night Tumblr~ ;)
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