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@iris-j-verblenk.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 12:34 PM

#LitHodgepodge 9 for #AdrianOC
🪦He'd like to know when. He's an Immortal; very few things are still able to kill him, so he has a hunch about how.
🧠Be able to forget, which he already sort of does. He refuses to remember a painful detail about his past. He's not ready.

contd. in comments

Adrian recreated in the game Baldur's Gate 3

@iris-j-verblenk.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 12:24 PM

#LitHodgepodge 7 (one day late because I could not decide lol)

One Snip for #JudahOC and one for #AdrianOC

From my WIP #SteepedInShadow

#WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

Judah absently reached for the bottle of shampoo and worked it into the long, tangled strands of his hair. It smelled faintly of coconut and vanilla, not bad, but nothing to rave about either. He scrubbed the suds into his scalp until his fingers hit the shaved patch on the right side of his head.

He hadn't seen himself in a mirror in all this time, and had avoided it upon entering the bathroom too. But now, he wondered what he might look like. He knew he'd lost a significant amount of weight, was likely looking more like a scarecrow than a human being, and he felt itchy stubble on his face and neck, so he hadn't been able to shave for some time either, patchy though as his beard always grew.

So most likely he looked like a malnourished homeless person.

Well, at least now he no longer smelled like one too.

But it brought about the need to change the only thing he could control right now. Turning the water off with a decisive twist, he stepped out into the bathroom, dragging a towel from the nearby shelf and wrapping it around his hips.

Then he reached for the disposable razor.

Once his thigh hit Judah's bed, he reached forward, trying to feel his way about. His hand hit Judah's neck, feeling cold, clammy skin drenched in sweat, but before he could continue checking on him, Judah's eyes suddenly popped open with an eerie green glow. It was like the jade green of his eyes was amplified, something Adrian knew his own eye would do whenever he went more wolf than man.

Then the shadows—that thing that had hovered before—drew closer around Judah, forming a new body; his limbs grew longer, shoulders broader, and his teeth sharpened into razor-sharp tips. It had begun gradually, but then, just as Adrian was about to pull back, Judah surged up, his hand closing around Adrian's throat and claws digging into his skin—not yet breaking it.

"Who are you?" Judah asked, but the voice that came out of his mouth wasn't his; it was a deeper, darker tone, thick with an accent Adrian couldn't place.

"Adrian," he answered. "Judah, it's me. Come on, pull back those claws."

The grip around his throat remained unrelenting, claws digging deeper just slightly, just enough to prick Adrian's skin. Then the third presence in the room seemed to feel him out. It slid over him like an unwanted touch, and his wolf side bristled in defiance.

But at the same time, something inside him answered.

Then, as fast as the presence had manifested, it was gone again, and the shadows receded, leaving Judah collapsing against Adrian's chest with heaving breaths.

He wrapped his arms around the other man and snarled, cursing the scientists who continued to treat people as lab rats.

@iris-j-verblenk.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 9:05 PM

#LitHodgepodge 5

#JudahOC: "For once, not having to worry about money and be forced to decide whether to fix my car or pay my rent."

#AdrianOC: "Find the same kind of love my parents had. Yeah, I'd really like that."

#SteepedInShadow

@iris-j-verblenk.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 7:02 AM

#SongsOfSeptember Day 5
#JudahOC and #AdrianOC end up in the middle of a conflict that's older than most Immortals.

Angels Fall by Breaking Benjamin fits the vibe a lot.

youtu.be/hVl5MtdodLU?...

@iris-j-verblenk.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 6:46 AM

#SongsOfSeptember Day 3
Good Things Go fits both MCs for different lines of the lyrics...

#JudahOC #AdrianOC #SteepedInShadow

youtu.be/Ip0jJACsE_g?...

@iris-j-verblenk.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 6:41 AM

#SongsOfSeptember: Day 1
Hello! I'm Iris, I'm currently working on a Queer #UrbanFantasy Novel called #SteepedInShadow.
My MCs are #JudahOC and #AdrianOC.

It's very hard to pick a favorite song, but I guess I really like this one?
youtu.be/TjMPGd20Ryk?...

@iris-j-verblenk.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 7:06 AM

#AwesomeCharacters #WriteSky #WritingCommunity #WritingPrompts

#AdrianOC

"I don't remember."

#SteepedInShadow

Adrian in front of the full moon, his hand is covering half his face, the claw perfectly aligned with one of the scars over his eye.

@iris-j-verblenk.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 6:01 AM

#AwesomeCharacters
#JudahOC didn't finish High School. He dropped out at around 17 years old to start working full time when he emancipated himself from his mother.

#AdrianOC has a degree in technical engineering. He also dabbles in coding, but likes to work with his hands.

#SteepedInShadow

@iris-j-verblenk.bsky.social Sep 9, 2026, 5:56 AM

Though I don't know yet how detailed it'll be. But I very much agree with Rachel.
A middle ground between "just smut" and "no smut at all" is very important to me too, as is showing healthy intimacy, and I promise I'll do my best to write #JudahOC 's and #AdrianOC 's first time as well as I can.