⛧Novella/Long-Term Search MxM⛥ Monster-y Edition

[Chernabog]

Hello all! Greetings and Salutations

My name is Chernabog, or you can call me Cherno.

Pretty much everything and anything you want to know about me or my interests can be found in my O/O:

My O/O

I would say it's pretty much required reading, but the tl;dr for at least what I am looking for is:

M/M [trans/enby characters welcome]

Monster-friendly sorts

Adv Lit/Novella writers like myself [700 word minimum - 1K+]

Long-term story building/writing

For my Yes/No/Limits, please see my linked O/O above.


Also, please DM me vs commenting here if you're interested.

I have ranked these in order of want/cravings. AKA: one star, being the least interested, and the higher the star count, the higher the craving.

So without further adieu...

Plots

Heart of Stone [⛥⛧⛥⛧⛥]

Gargoyle x Witch

YC is a gargoyle, bound to a churchground as a slave whose priest master died many years ago. He is unable to leave and has long ago given up that he'd ever be free. However, the last few months a witch [MC] has started to visit him during the day and stayed with him for as long as possible before being torn away by the church before the sun sets. YC has started to pine for the man, the only company he's had in years and also eventually wants to protect him from the church's abuse that he also experiences.

MC is a captured witch who is terribly abused by the church, but kept around as a slave for his magic and body. The only thing keeping his mind from breaking is the solace he feels after having found a beautiful gargoyle statue that he goes to as much as he can. He isn't sure if the gargoyle is still alive or has let themselves stay as stone for good, but doesn't let that alter his interactions with him.

It is one evening when a series of events happens that allows for MC to be out at night and they finally get to see each other, revealing YC is very much alive. They wish to try and work towards freeing one another; even with the difficulties of their captors and only having access to each other during the day.

Note: This will be a bit of a challenge at first because the characters can physically interact, but not directly. YC will not be able to respond while in a stone state, but that doesn't mean you won't have access to write out their responding thoughts/etc and then of course what they can do at night, when MC can't respond. It eventually will resolve, but in the beginning it will be a sort of back/forth perspective.

Note: This is vaguely inspired by the comic Atnomen. Feel free to take a look if interested [note: MxF content] for the same aesthetics I'm going for, but not meant to be a copy.

Curiosities Within the Depths [⛧⛥⛧⛥]

Merman x Merman (of interesting varieties)

YC is a merman creature of some sort. Preferably a 'non traditional' fish or sea creature of some kind. Think a merman that resembles an Oarfish, Anglerfish, Coelacanth, etc [the weirder, the better]. He has been exiled from his pod because of [whatever reason, up to you] and has been living on his own. He is regularly picked on by standard mer people because he's an oddball and doesn't belong, but also has never lived outside of his previous pod before and is barely surviving; he also misses his them and ultimately wishes to do whatever he can to be accepted again, mostly out of loneliness.

MC is a merman of the octopus variety. An apex predator and highly intelligent. Dangerous but also strangely playful and curious as well as completely alien to YC {and each other}. Initially finding YC out in the open, it seems like an easy lunch, only to realize that he's never seen a mer like YC before and despite being unconventional compared to the usual mer-types where he lives, he finds YC to be curious and even cute. {to YC's horror, as MC again, is a predator}

This would start as a highly unconventional enemy-to-friendship-to-romance situation.

Edit: I want these guys to be pretty monster-y. Doesn't have to be scary or anything, but not traditional 'Ariel' or 'Ursula' merfolk. Feel free to DM and I can send over examples/my own character to clarify.

An Echo Left Behind [⛥⛧⛥]

Spirit/Ghost x Human

YC is a loner, down on his luck, who never understood why he hasn't had much success in life. He used to live with his great uncle, until he was taken away due to his uncle's eccentricities - despite that he was one of the few people who ever openly showed him love and care. He was placed within the foster system instead where his abuse was rampant. He never learned the turth or details as to why he was taken away from his great uncle. Yet recently has been approached by an estate lawyer to let him know that said great uncle has died, and willed him everything - including his massive, isolated manor. Part of his will has left YC with a novella of instructions; in which YC realizes that his uncles eccentricities were actually his interests and dabbling in the occult. He is told that apart of his estate comes with something unimaginable; a ghost/spirit, bound to the mansion. He is instructed to not research into releasing this spirit, as the may end up being vengeful - yet to take care of him regardless.

MC is said ghost/spirit. Long ago his form was trapped by YC's great uncle in a ritual against his ethereal will. It was a violent, angry start, but after many years together of trying to understand each other, they fell in love - even despite their circumstances. Yet MC, ever eternal, had to watch his lover age and eventually die before figuring out how to release him so they could be together in death. MC is angry that the small child that he once played with in the halls is now his new 'owner.' Upon seeing him, he realizes that YC is an almost mirror image of his former lover. This makes him angrier in his despair, grief, and enslavement. Despite this, he can't look at YC without thinking of his past love and desperately wants to feel that connection again.

Note: I've always imagined this to be a pretty slow burn, getting established with the estate lawyer/introductions/etc. Also this would most likely be a bit more on the violent side at least in the beginning with the main characters.

A Match of Malice and Magic [⛧⛥⛧]

Witch x Demon

MC: A witch that has lived alone for many years in the heart of supposedly haunted and rather dangerous forest, purposely living there to stay away from the tyrannical lord of a nearby kingdom/dominion who he has a painful and disturbing history with. He is content for the most part, but is world-weary and wishes his life's trajectory hadn't so far included so much death and misery.

YC: A demon that has been imprisoned by the aforementioned lord since as long as he can remember. He doesn't remember any life before or even how he came to be in this place. Because of this, he has no real idea of what his potential can be besides that he is used as both a sort of enforcer for the lord. Lots of wiggle room for what his setup is/etc, but just a basic skeleton idea. Mostly he's treated as an animal instead of a proper demon.

Plot: MC finds out that someone he holds dear has been killed by a 'beast' [YC]. It sets him in a spiral and he vows revenge, even if it means having to sneaking into the castle to kill the lord's terrible pet. However, it is there he quickly realizes that the beast is a captive demon and YC is merely a puppet and nearly caged animal being used and abused by the lord. This throws a massive wrench in MC's plans and his concept of the entire situation. As history has shown, demons and witches have worked with each other for centuries, and the two find that their abilities interact and  become empowered when around each other. MC takes pity upon YC and instead of killing, breaks him out to stash in his woods home, but ever looming that the tyrant of a lord will find them and only add further suffering as MC works to try and rehabilitate and teach MC about his own kind and help put his past together.

The general idea is that this is an unconventional story of healing with a lot of hiccups along the way. Our characters don't exactly trust each other, and both are dangerous in different ways. But it's along this trajectory that a sort of bond builds between them, more than just that of a partnership/pact that can be made between witches and demons.

Not required, but I've also had the idea that there's a pretty big size difference here, and while both are switch/verse, MC is also a bit of a power bottom.

The Sea's Calling [⛧⛥]

Selkie x Human

After a hellacious storm/hurricane, a lonely fisherman [or could be a lighthouse worker/something related to being near the sea] finds a heavily wounded and beautiful young man washed up on shore near his home. Curiously, the beached man is naked except for a dark/spotted seal's pelt. The fisherman brings him home and works to nurse him to health. The strange man eventually comes to; warm in a seafront home, wounds dressed and healing because of the efforts of the fisherman. Eventually, it is also revealed that he is in fact, a selkie.

Because of the fisherman's devoted and extended care for him, the selkie finds himself falling fast for the human. For awhile as the selkie continues to heal and wants to spend time with the fisherman in his isolated home by the sea, But over time, the selkie begins to feel homesick and longs for the sea once again. More and more the fisherman finds the selkie gazing out at the sea, nostalgic and yearning for the life he had before he had been caught in the storm.

The fisherman has hard choices to make; he can entrap the selkie with him by stealing his pelt and forcing him to stay in a human form like legends of yore at the potential cost of his new love that would turn to misery, or he can learn to let him go with no guarantee that the selkie will ever return to him.

Wouldn't really mind who plays who. Likely has the ability to be a shorter story.

General Plots/Fandoms I would be interested in making plots for;

Fandoms
[Some are kinda niche, but hey, you never know]

Silent Hill

Metalocalypse

Most of the 'Soulsborne' series

Castlevania

Pacific Rim

Also,  if you don't see anything here that strikes your fancy, feel free to message me with any ideas you have if you think we'd vibe well together. Always willing to take a look at someone else's plots, even if I politely decline.