Lillybelle238 - Female - Level 20

Fans of VADD, what was it about the story/premise that made you read it and at which point did it become your favorite? You can Reblog your answers.

For me personally, it was the Female Lead's name and hair. I have personally held a special place in my heart for the name Penelope I can't explain it. Ironically I had an OC whom I named Penelope who was a redhead but it was more orange.

Speaking of hair, Penelope's hair was the first thing that stood out to me about her. I've seen and read my fair share of anime, light novels, and manhua but I personally never saw the shade of pink Penelope has so I was very surprised. Usually, any pink-haired character has the soft pinks we see with characters like Reynold and Ivonne. They were never as dark as Penelope's.

This kind of works for the story in my opinion because her darker hair fits her image as the villainess since in media the villains usually have a darker color palette compared to the main characters. This is ironic considering that Ivonne the main character of the game who has brighter hair and color palette was actually the villain.

(this was way longer than I thought it would be)

⚜️🪞🗡Revenge

DITOEFTV The Dark Figure

Every time Penelope is in a potentially life-threatening situation a tall dark figure can be seen looming behind her in the background. It looks like a person but their face is covered by a dark cloak. The capture targets can see this figure but everyone else can't.

Depending on the likelihood of her dying the closer the figure gets to her. For example, in her encounter with Callisto in the royal garden, the figure appears right behind her as Callisto has his sword to her neck. Each of the capture targets eventually piece together that the dark figure is tied to how close Penelope is to dying.

So they are very much petrified during Penelope's coming of age ceremony where she drinks poison and the dark figure that usually stands still behind her when she's in danger is actively moving to grab her as she is dying from the poison. They are all very relieved when it backs off and eventually disappear after she is given the emergency antidote.

An Unlikely Pet

The maids have not cleaned her bedroom in months. It's gotten to a point where rats are beginning to infest her room. No matter what she did nobody would believe her thinking she was exaggerating. She gives up and decides to clean her room herself.

Days later the rats begin to mysteriously decrease in large numbers. When investigating the reason, Penelope makes a horrifying discovery. Inside one of her vanity draws is a snake...…a SNAKE!!! It was sleeping so Penelope quickly shuts it and tries to go about her day as if nothing happens.

But when she eventually goes to the vanity draws and finds it is still there but it's awake. They make eye contact and both of them freak out, the poor snake was trembling and trying to seem bigger but it was so scared. Penelope realizes it's just as scared of her as she is of it. So she tries to calm it down by offering it a blanket.

The next thing she knows hours have passed and she has a sleeping snake in her hands. Judging by its size, it's probably a newborn snake which would explain why they were so scared or it was just their personality, probably the latter. Anyway, her new scaley friend who Penelope named Onyx is basically imprinted on Penelope after their first meeting and now permanently resides in one of her jewellery boxes.

Years later, our dear Penelope finds out that they are a magic beast/monster when they keep growing till they are the size of a basketball court and can't fit into her room anymore. Don't worry she commissions a wizard to make a device that allows Onyx to shrink to any size they want.

DITOEFTV Encanto songs

I was listening to the Encanto soundtrack when I thought about scenarios where Penelope is singing the songs "Waiting on a Miracle" and "What else can I do?". In this au everyone has a magical ability or gifts like Encanto and Penelope's gift is like Isabella's. I'll explain why. In this au Penelope has the title of "the perfect lady". She puts a lot of pressure on herself trying to be perfect to not bring shame to the Eckharts.

Waiting on a Miracle

As Penelope sings this song she thinks about she's always trying her best to be perfect to get the Eckharts to accept her as one of them ever since she arrived at the duchy and doubling her efforts after the necklace incident. She tries to convince herself that she is fine with the direction her life is going before she cracks and admits to herself that she is not fine. She does not want to pretend to be perfect feel loved.

What else can I do?

As mentioned above Penelope's ability is being able to control plants like Isabella. Like Isabella, she could only do flowers and never went beyond that as she tries to fit herself in this perfect mould. Then Yvonne (not possessed) comes back to the duchy and she feels like her world is crumbling around her.

She and Yvonne do not see eye to eye. After a very disastrous family dinner due to an argument, Penelope goes back to her room, hours later Yvonne comes into her room to reconcile considering she was the reason the fight started in the first place.

Yvonne is giving this half-assed apology when Penny has had enough of people's bullshit for the day a uses her vines to drag Yvonne out like Isabella did Mirabel. As she is getting dragged out Yvonne is throwing jabs at her which Penelope ignores until she hears the word selfish.

"SELFISH!? I've been forced to live in a house where people wouldn't care if I dropped dead. I try to move on, try to find something new but you just had to come along and MESS THINGS UP!"

"Nothings messed up you can still have that stupid title!"

"I never wanted that title! I was doing it FOR THE DUCHY!"

*POOF*

A cactus

Penny is shocked she never grew anything other than flowers before ever since she got her power. She's in awe of the unsymmetrical creation. She begins to wonder what else can she do?

Dude don't leave me hanging like that! I have so many questions.

One Thousand and One Nights

[This is a idea-fanfiction collaboration with @ship-ovnik​]

“Your Highness, would you like to hear a story?”

“Story? Do you know about something that the Crown Prince of this empire doesn’t know?”

“It’s a little story that could brighten up our evening”

Callisto put glass of wine on the bedside table and got out of bed, gave her his hand and sat her down on the couch opposite the other, on which he lay down comfortably with his head thrown back.

Surprisingly, His Highness turned out to be an attentive listener, who interrupted from time to time, asking a small clarifying question. Of course, it is much easier to surprise an inexperienced viewer, or rather a character from the game, with a retelling of “Harry Potter”, “The Chronicles of Narnia” and even “Winx” or “Twilight”…Literature that has never existed in this world.

If Siyeon had been asked if she had assumed that running away from the Eckart family would turn out to be the prince’s concubine, she would have immediately cursed this man, not sparing the magic stone, and ran away from him as far as possible. But here she is, in the palace of the Crown Prince, sitting in his chambers and trying in every possible way to delay the moment when he reaches out to her for caresses, retelling to him the plot of teenage literature from her world.

It was crazy, but damn it, he liked it, and he listened, greedily swallowing every word.

When Siyeon woke up in Penelope’s body, she realized with horror that it wasn’t a stupid dream at all. She got into the world of the game, becoming the main villain.  Knowing the plot and further events, she tried to rationally figure out how to complete the game without repeating the sad end of Penelope. But after trying to use the game mechanics, in the form of answer options, as well as to establish relations with her brothers, she realizes that no matter what she chooses, she will still be in a losing position. Siyeon spends too much time trying to establish a relationship, and the risk of a bad ending does not decrease, the potential protagonist can change his mind at any moment and leave her with nothing, choosing Yvonne at the very end of the game. Neither Vinter, nor Callisto, nor Iklies inspired her with confidence. There is only one way out - to achieve a good ending for Penelope herself, without the participation of male characters.

“Surely there is a hidden ending in this game, where the villain remains alone and goes into the sunset so as not to interfere with the happiness of the main characters,” she thought, collecting jewelry and dresses with her to get money from their sale, on which she could live comfortably for many years.

Wearing a magic bracelet, Penelope hid her appearance and went to a small dysfunctional town where no one would ask her a single question about where she got such jewelry.

Penelope goes on a little trip, wanting to get away from the capital. And finally, she finds a small town in the south where  needs a man in the town hall who can read, write and count. The elder turns out to be an elderly old man who was happy to hire her. Penelope helps in the library along the way, sorting books and helping to organize a file cabinet, while studying paleontology and the history of the ancient world, trying to learn more about the empire and its rules.

But after a few months, the quiet town turns into a noisy farce. Everyone is preparing for the holiday - the return of the Crown Prince from the war with victory. Fortunately for the residents, their city was one of the transit points before returning to the capital to replenish supplies and get some rest.

Hearing this news, Penelope was scared to death. She needed to avoid meeting a madman so that the game would not force her to participate in a chain of stupid quests for the sake of a percentage of sympathy over his head.

In order not to accidentally pass the game on a “happy” ending with him.

Penelope, as the elder’s assistant, was obliged to help with the counting of provisions and preparations for the celebration. That’s why she went to the military camp, where she met Cedric Potter, the assistant to the Crown Prince. And it would seem that the nightmare has passed… But, alas…

During the festivities in the central square, Penelope, enjoying the fireworks, did not notice how someone quietly crept up behind her and grabbed her hand.

“Is a beautiful lady walking here all alone?”

*The title is a reference to work about the Persian king Shahryar and his wife Scheherazade.

✨ Genderbend Penelope ✨

I’m back lol I’ll try drawing Genderbend Callisto next 😊

When she was pregnant with Judith, Penelope began sleeping a lot like 10plus hours a day A LOT. She finally accepted that she wouldn't be put into life or death situations anymore and finally let herself relax for the first time in years. At first, it was quite concerning, since she had a habit of staying up late and getting lost in her research all the time. But Callisto got over it because she was eating healthy and gaining weight. The sleepy cuddles were a bonus too.

Modern Au

Tags: Angst, Exes to Lovers, Office

Penelope and Callisto use to secretly date in high school. They met at the beginning of their final year of high school but broke up just before graduation. While they were compatible with one another, it was their family problems that drove them apart.

Callisto's relationship with his stepmother was downright hostile and Penelope was still clinging to the possibility that her family might love her. They both tried to not let it affect their romantic life but there was only so much they could have done given that they both were about to graduate and possibly go to different universities.

This all resulted in a massive argument between them that ultimately led them to break up.

They graduated high school got into different colleges, graduated from said colleges and got jobs and try to move on with their lives. The key word being tried. While they didn't want to admit it, they still miss one another and all the good times they had even if it was for a short time.

Years later they've both gotten promoted in their jobs. Their companies just so happen to collab with each other on a big project. Penelope and Callisto who are very hard workers in their jobs are chosen by their respective companies to be a part of this project, they think it will be just like every other assignment they've done before.

So imagine their surprise when they see each other at the beginning of the program. Their minds are like "Oh shit, what is he/she doing here?" while keeping a poker face. They decide right then and there to avoid each other as subtly as possible to avoid drama but low and behold their place in the same group together.

Not a problem they'll just do what they do best, ignore the problem till it goes away or till they have no choice but to confront it. The two of them decided that avoiding each other outside of work is the best option and all seems to go well...…....for a while.

You see, Penelope and Callisto work very well together despite trying to avoid any other interaction with one another. But even then they tend to bicker and throw jabs at one another at every chance they get.

Their other group members have collectively agreed that they are made for one another. Cut to them trying their best to get Penelope and Callisto to spend as much time together as possible without it being too suspicious.

This leads to both parties feeling emotionally drained at the end of every day from all the mental gymnastics they're doing around each other. They catch on to what their colleges are doing but don't have the time to tell them to stop, plus they'd prefer not to go around explaining that the person the group is trying to set them up with is the high school ex.

But soon they settle into their temporary routines and sparks are beginning to fly between to two. They're more comfortable around each other now and are reminded of how things were between them when they started dating years ago.

Everything is going normal until months later when they hit an important milestone in their project. To celebrate, their bosses take their workers out for a few drinks. You can see where this is going.

Long story short, Penelope and Callisto both get drunk, head off to Callisto's apartment and had sex, they went at it the whole night and slept till noon and would have missed work if it wasn't a Saturday.

Suffice it to say they were horrified when they woke up. To make matters worse, Penelope can't leave cause there is a massive storm outside, the streets are flooding and people are advised to remain indoors. So they've stuck indoors...…with each other...….not a problem at all.

They are a little awkward around each other since this is their first time in years interacting with each other outside of work. Things were a little tense on day one but they settled into a temporary routine by day two and were comfortable sharing a space together. But they could only ignore the massive elephant in the room for so long.

One of them finally brought up the topic that they indeed slept together the night before. Their both not embarrassed by this considering they were each other's first in high school. But the conversation inevitably shifts to their nasty breakup literally a week before graduation, and that leads them to bring up some still painful memories about the families they've since cut off from their lives.

To them, there was just too much happening all at once so suddenly. Things got tense in their respective households, they had to prepare for graduation, prepare college and all that jazz. They didn't seem to have time to process their emotions back then which lead to them braking up on such bad terms.

But now they're older and have worked through their issues over the years. However, they genuinely never expected to see one another again after going to separate colleges.

So after a very long talk, they decided to give their relationship another chance. They took things slow at the beginning which escalated to going on trips together and moving in together. After two years Callisto proposed, they got married, bought a house and had kids.

THE END