I made an antagonist in one of my rpg's who's a guy made entirely out of fingers, but he dresses up as that painting of the guy with an apple in front of his face to draw less attention. He gives the painters name as a false identity.

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"Lincoln." Lori moaned over the sound of the tv. She leaned further forward. "Work lower. My back is literally killing me."

"It's really tense, you're not kidding." He responded, dragging his curled knuckles down past his oldest sisters shoulder blades.

Luna shifted in her seat, trying not to make it too obvious that she was watching them. She sat in what she hoped was a convincing lounged position, but she couldn't make her muscles relax all the way, so she doubted she'd fool anyone paying too much attention. She couldn't keep her eyes off the pair. Like they had some magnetic pull that she couldn't resist. And the sight of Lincoln spreading his hands across Lori's back, rubbing, stroking, pressing, and caressing her, made Luna squirm as butterflies did a jig in her gut. When Lori groaned in pure bliss, Luna could feel herself flush, as heat built under her skin. She felt like she was intruding on a private moment, except that this was happening in the living room. Their location didn't make her feel any less like she should be giving them some privacy. Though Lynn, watching football on the telly, didn't seem to be nearly as effected. That's proper football, not American football.

"Oh my god…" Lori almost purred, leaning back into Link's searching fingers, as he drew them through her locks.

She was tugging on the front of her work shirt in a way that was probably just to get air circulating, but combined with her arced back and the angle she was leaning at, provided Lincoln with a generous view down the front of her top. Luna shifted uncomfortably. This was Lincoln though right? Their best bro. There's no way Lori was doing this on purpose, right? There's no way he'd take advantage, right?… Right? None of this was helping her cool down…

"Could you guys keep it down?" Lynn turned her head away from the tv to look at them, "You're drowning out the game."

Lori opened her mouth as if she was going to respond, but a sigh of pleasure interrupted whatever she was about to say, as Lincoln began kneading her scalp.

"Why don't you just turn it up?" Lincoln answered for her. "We don't mind. Do we sis?" He curled down over Lori, placing his head on top of hers, and crossing his arms under her chin.

Her hair swayed, as she shook her head from side to side. Leaning back into his embrace, her eyes closed. She looked completely content, a gentle smile tugging the corners of her lips.

Luna gulped, half wishing she was in her older sisters place. It looked brilliant.

Lynn didn't react, other than to stare at the pair for another second, and turn up the volume on the idiot box.

This wasn't the first time Luna felt like she was intruding over the last month. Things had settled back into relative normalcy. Not normal compared to even four months ago, but nothing had ever been quite the same since Bobby broke up with the oldest of the Loud children. Relationships seemed to shift on a dime. Linc and Lori became closer, then Lucy and Lori had some kind of fight, and Lincoln went spare on their gloomier sister. In the four weeks since they resolved that though, things shifted even further. Before that, it felt like Lori was just being a more affectionate, if a little clingy, sister. Now… It didn't feel like that… Now…

Lincoln shifted onto his stomach, his knees bent and his feet in the air above him. His head now on Lori's shoulder, breathing into her ear. One of Lori's arms came up to wrap around his head, pulling him more tightly against her.

Luna's breath caught in her throat, her heart beat faster, she suddenly felt the urge to adjust her panties.

"Hey Lori."

"Ah! Bloody hell!" Luna flailed and toppled over the arm of the couch, hitting the floor and standing to see Lucy, who'd appeared in the room without warning.

Nobody else looked nearly as surprised, and three out of the four were looking at her with mild concern. Lynn just looked annoyed.

"Alright. You know what? I'm going outside to practice. This is a rerun anyway." Lynn picked up her football from beside the couch, carrying the white and black spotted ball under one of her arms as she walked out the door.

"Are you okay?" Linc asked, his eyebrows furrowed slightly.

"Yeah, dude. I'm good." She waved his concern away. "I was just lost in my thoughts, is all."

"Lori." Lucy said again, turning away from Luna once it became clear that she was fine.

"Yeah?" Lori's gaze flicked back to their darker sibling.

"I have something to show you."

Lori hesitated to move, until Lincoln uncoiled his arms from around her and sat up. She glanced over her shoulder at him, then rose to her feet, grunting at the mild effort involved.

"Alright, let's see what you've got." She followed their younger sister to and up the steps.

Luna followed them with her eyes until they were out of sight. She flicked her gaze back towards Lincoln, finding him looking at her as well. He smiled, patting an open part of the chair in a clear invitation. Without conscious choice, she found her legs moving forward to accept his offer. She assumed she'd be squeezing in next to him. An assumption that was quickly proven false when he scooted backwards on the chair and spread his legs, creating an open space for her to sit between them. Her mouth dried out, but she didn't stop herself from sitting down. He folded his arms around her middle, pulling her back against his chest, and placing his head upon her shoulder…

He didn't say anything. He just held her, cuddling her softly, leaning his head against hers, breathing calmly in her ear. Electric shivers rippled under her skin and up her back, her breathing felt funny, and blood pounded in her ears, almost drowning out his breath. Despite that though, her muscles unwound. Though she felt like she'd jump at the slightest noise, she felt good.

"Bro?"

"Hm?"

Her question died in her throat before she could ask it. "Never mind."

She'd just resigned herself to a lengthy, though not unpleasant, cuddle session with her bro, when the front door banged open and Luan stepped into the house. Their comedian sisters eyes swept the room, narrowing on Lincoln and Luna, before a broad, toothy, smile split her face and she stepped towards the two.

"Hey Link, hey Luna!" She greeted them energetically. "Cuddling I see. Looks fun. Why don't you give me a turn and go do something else Luna?"

Luna felt Lincoln tense slightly, and found herself similarly resistant to the idea. Because, as much as the current situation made her uncomfortable, she found she Really didn't want to move from her spot.

In a parallel universe, my stories really suck. I'm probably an accountant or something… Gross.

Lincoln really wanted her to get along with Lucy. Lori followed her younger sister up the stairs. She didn't really want to leave his embrace, only getting up when he gave her a gentle push towards Lucy. Her sister led her to her own room, opening the door to see Leni sitting on her bed, painting her toe nails.

"Hey Leni." She waved to her roommate.

"Hi Lori!" Leni brightly helloed her back.

"Alright Lucy, what did you want to show me?" She turned back to her darker sister.

"Lincoln helped me set up your old game system." She pointed to the end of Lori's bed, where the same console Lincoln dug up for their first date sat. It was hooked up to an old computer monitor. "I thought you might like to play it after such a long day."

And it had been a long day. Work at Gus' Games and Grub. Lincoln worked so hard to get the money for their dates, it wasn't fair of her to take advantage of him. She didn't really like working there the last time, but she'd applied for the job again anyways, because Lincoln made the hard work worth it. She was still going to look for a better job though. Just because she could stand to work at the Gus' Games and Grub for Lincoln, didn't mean she wanted to. Maybe it would be better if Lincoln went there more often, but he'd stopped going for fun a while ago. Now he just came to visit her while she was working. It made her feel a little giddy every time.

"Yeah, alright." She lay down on her bed, picking up one controller as Lucy picked up the other.

She'd rather be downstairs with Link, but she didn't want him to think she wasn't getting along with Lucy. She was also already here, and she honestly did want to play some games, so she might as well.

The fact that Lucy was even playing with her was something that would have literally shocked her not that long ago. Lucy? Her almost rapist? But Lucy had actually been making a real effort to make it up to her. They'd gone out a few more times, and Lucy kept volunteering to do things with or for her. Lucy just wasn't her enemy anymore. In her place though, Luan seemed desperate to fill in.

Lori didn't know what Luan's deal was, but at least the family comedian wasn't sexually assaulting her. She didn't seem to be doing anything, really… It's just that she was always vaguely antagonistic towards Lori. It was better than psychological torment, but it was still fairly irritating.

Lucy flipped the on switch, and they chose two player on Horizon, a good old fashion top down shooter. it was a pretty great game. You only got one gun, but it had infinite ammo and the bullets ricocheted forever, until they went off screen. It was really more of a puzzler than a shoot em up, because your bullets could also hurt yourself and your teammate, the enemies had different movement patterns and methods of attack, and some obstacles changed the way your bullets bounced. You had to carefully plan your bullet paths to kill the enemies while making sure that you didn't kill yourself and the enemies themselves didn't kill you. Lori didn't know why it was called Horizon though… Lucy wasn't very good at it, but Lori supposed she should have expected that. Lucy didn't play video games very often, after all. The fact that she was trying was good enough.

Luan though. Beyond Luan's faintly antagonistic behavior towards Lori, she was… Lori didn't know how to describe it. Was it possible to be predatory and loving at the same time? If it was, she was that way towards Lincoln. If Luan's behavior towards her was irritating, Luan's behavior towards Lincoln was literally rage inducing. Was Luan trying to seduce Lincoln? Lori wouldn't have even considered that before all this started, so it showed how much she'd changed, but after falling in love with Lincoln herself, finding out that Lucy loved him as well, and accidentally becoming involved in a three way relationship with Leni and Lincoln, Lori wasn't willing to discount the possibility. It even seemed likely! AND, it would explain why Luan acted the way she did towards Lori. She trusted Lincoln not to be tempted, but she might have to have a talk with the families resident comedian.

"Really?" She sighed when Lucy's bullet ricocheted wildly and she ended up killing herself with it.

Her three way relationship with Leni was something else to consider though. She couldn't claim that it was unpleasant, but she'd sort of been expecting that she'd be able to find someone else for Leni to be with by now. It was harder than it sounded though. Leni was very pretty, but also very oblivious to most things. There were a lot of people out there who'd take advantage of that in a second, and it's not like Lori had been thoroughly vetting any potential candidate. She'd been too distracted… Luna would still be perfect, but how was she supposed to work that out? Apparently the family was more open to in-family relationships than she ever thought possible, but she couldn't just go up to Luna and say "Hey Luna, you want to date Leni? She's been butting in on my private time with Lincoln." There were so many ways that could go wrong…

Horizon needs to exist as a video game in real life. I'd play it.

Leni peaked through the crack in the door, into Lincy's room, wondering why her two favorite people were in there, instead of outside. She felt her face heat up, and her eyes widen in wonder. They were doing boyfriend and girlfriend stuff! Leni wanted to join, but she couldn't make herself move. The scene in front of her kept her in place. Lincoln leaning back against the headboard of his bed, his pants around his ankles, Lori's head in his lap, her eyes closed. The image was stamped into Leni's mind. She couldn't think about anything else. Her breath caught in her throat, as Lori's head rose from their brothers lap, her lips dragging along the surface of a tower of flesh. What did it taste like? Leni wondered.

Lincoln voice creaked at the back of his throat in pleasure. Air was burning in her lungs. Leni was forced to blink. Her heart beat fast. Tingles raced up her back. Fireflies danced in her tummy. Her heart beat faster. She licked her dry lips. An ache grew inside her. Her legs felt weak. Her hand trembled as it moved down her body, slipping under her dress. Her heart beat the fastest. The ache traveled down, taking over her most sacred place. Her hand slipped into her panties. Ah… it was burning hot. Her eyes were forced closed, as a shudder ran through her. Her heart felt like it might burst.

Then she exploded… Or, at least, it felt that way… Except in a good way.

Lori made a humming sound as she lowered her head back to Lincy's lap, and Leni fell onto her butt as her legs gave out.

Leni is turning into quite the voyeur isn't she?

"How ah you liking the grub?" Lincoln asked, deliberately affecting a British accent.

Luna startled from her absent minded picking of her food, taking her first full bite since the beginning of the meal.

"Heh," She chuckled nervously. "You know me too well bro." She took another bite, chewed and swallowed. "It's really good."

He could feel his brow furrowing in concern. She was distracted by something.

"Hey." He reached across the table to grasp one of her hands in his own, her eyes following it until he made contact. She shivered. "Do you have something on your mind? You seem distracted."

"Ha, it's uh, it's nothing dude." She tried to laugh away his worry.

He searched for eye contact, holding it once he had it.

"I can't make you tell me, but believe me when I tell you that I'll listen to anything that's bothering you."

She swallowed.

"I guess uh… I guess I was just wondering why you went through the effort to do this." She waved her free hand around them.

Physically, she was gesturing to the breakfast cafe around them, and Lincoln easily could have pretended to misunderstand and think that was what she was talking about. Doing that wouldn't help anything though. Truthfully Lincoln invited her out for a variety of reasons. For one, she was on his list of sisters he wanted to date. He'd been working to get progressively closer and closer to her over the last few months, and he was hoping that he was close enough now that she'd react well to a date. That's what this was. He'd planned it out as well as he was able. He spent weeks working on a semi convincing British accent, to mimic her. That was an actual psychological tactic. The more similar someone was to you, the more comfortable you were likely to be with them; and beyond that, Luna, specifically, was likely to be charmed by the effort he'd put into it. He chose a breakfast cafe so she could get her favorite foods. They were going to go to a music store after this, then go back home and have a jam session. This, like most of his previous interactions with her since he started on this path, was designed to make her love him as much as her loved her.

Something was wrong though. She was unhappy, and Lincoln needed to know why. Was Luna just not into him? Was she weirded out by it all? Lincoln needed to know, because as much as he loved her and wanted to be with her, he couldn't put his own desires above hers. If she didn't want to be with him, he needed to know so he could stop trying before he hurt her… Maybe it would be better if he just stopped here. It's not like he could actually date her, even if she was fine with it. Not without Lori's permission anyway.

He forced himself to smile, crinkling the corners of his eyes to complete the illusion.

"It's just been a while since we got to spend much time with each other, so I thought it would be cool if we spent the whole day together." He said, not lying precisely, but omitting a lot.

"But… You're paying so much of your hard earned money to do this." Confusion twisted her features. "All this effort is better spent on a girlfriend. Why are you trying so hard for me?"

Melancholy suffused him, and he retracted his hand from hers. "I'm… Sorry." He felt the need to apologize. "I should have considered how you would feel about this." His gaze dropped the the center of the table. "If you don't like it, we can go-"

"No, no!" She interrupted him, reaching out to grab his hand again. "I do like it! I just wanted to know what made it worth it to you to do all this."

"Luna." He locked eyes with her, trying to make her understand what he meant, even if he couldn't say it all out loud. "I love you." Her breath hitched. "No amount of effort is too much, if it means you're happy."

"Oh…"

That scene turned out significantly differently than I was imagining.

Ha ha… One could not understand the pure frustration Luan was feeling at the moment. Lincoln, Lori, Luna. Luna was a new one to the list, and Luan was fairly certain that her musically inclined sister didn't even understand what was happening or why. It was the only thing that prevented Luan from getting properly mad at her, but boy, she came THIS close to snapping on several occasions. Only stopping because Luna didn't deserve her anger.

Lori though. How dare she! HOW DARE SHE! Luan threw Mr. Coconuts across the room. Lori was smarter than Luan ever gave her credit for. To put the pieces together and figure out that Luan was gunning for a piece of the Lincoln pie. She had almost no information to work with, other than her own experiences, but Luan supposed those were enough. Lori was wrong on one thing though, Luan wasn't striving for a piece of the pie, she was striving for the whole thing. And she'd get it too. No matter what Lori did to stop her, Luan would win the prize in the end. It was only a matter of time.

And Lincoln. Oh, haha, she loved the kid, but he was testing her patience. She trudged across her room to pick Mr. Coconuts back up. Brushing him off with a few swipes of her hand, she put him back in his case. It wouldn't due to break him. She still needed him for a few upcoming shows. Lincoln was more resistant to the idea than she'd imagined he would be. He obviously knew what she was doing, but he Just Wasn't Playing Ball. She wondered what he was thinking. Was he trying to be faithful to Lori? That would be cute if he was, but Luan didn't think so. He was clearly putting the moves on Luna. What kind of faithful boyfriend did that?

… Hmm… She didn't need to bring out her trump card yet. Maybe a more direct approach would work better. You couldn't manipulate a manipulator, not without significantly more information than them anyway, so maybe it was time for her to just come clean with him about her intentions. Or at least… Maybe it was time for her to appear to do that.

Tell him that she wanted to date him too. Tell him that she was willing to keep it a secret from Lori. Tell him that she wanted to negotiate. What he wouldn't know though, was that as they stayed together longer and longer, Luan would be sinking her claws in deeper and deeper. In the end, he wouldn't even want to be with Lori. He'd want to be with Luan instead. Only Luan… She'd make sure of it.

I need to do my laundry…

"Hmm… I don't know." Leni dimpled her cheek, pressing her pointer finger into it as she tilted her head to the side in contemplation. "Isn't that a bad thing?"

It was probable that Leni was thinking about the act of cheating on your significant other. She just didn't know enough about romance to put a name to it. Still, Lucy couldn't say she expected any kind of resistance from Leni. It didn't really matter in the end, because despite her age, Lucy was significantly more experienced than Leni, so she would definitely be able to convince her. She just found it surprising.

"No." She reassured her more oblivious sister. "Think about it. You're already dating both Lori and Lincoln. Lincoln is dating you and Lori. Lori is dating you and Lincoln." She said the same thing three different ways to reinforce the coming idea in Leni's head. "All of you are already dating more than one person. What's one more to the group?" She crossed the room to sit down on Leni's bed with her. Bringing her hand up to rub Leni's back in a comforting motion. "All that matters is that everyone in the group is okay with a new inclusion, and everybody in the group loves everyone else right?"

"Yeah…" Leni nodded her head in thought.

"And you love me right?"

"Of course I do."

"I love you too. So it's perfectly fine for you to date me." The end goal, of course, being Lucy's inclusion in the main group. She was already working on Lori, but she needed a backup plan in case that didn't pan out. If she could seduce Leni, than Lori would have a hard time excluding her, in the case that she wasn't successful in her mission to seduce the eldest Loud sister. Leni didn't need to know any of that though.

"But… But, Linky said that you should only do that kind of stuff with people you love as more than friends or family." She looked confused.

"Do you not love me as more than a friend or a sister?" Lucy pressed.

"I don't know…" A small frown tugged the corners of Leni's lips down.

"Well that's fine. We can still try." She wrapped an arm around to Leni's other side. Then, because she wanted Leni to stop thinking about whatever was making her unhappy, she skittered the tips of her fingers along underneath Leni's ribs. Leni shook in place and tried to squirm away, giggling laughter breaking past her lips. "We can pretend date, until you're sure." She continued once Leni's giggle fit abated. "That way, we don't even have to tell Lori, because it's not real."

"Hm…" She thought about it. "Okay!"

I was tempted to exclude this scene, but I couldn't make myself do it. It needed to happen.

Lynn didn't know what was going on with everyone but everything was different now. Was it better? Was it worse? Lynn didn't know and couldn't say, but she knew for a fact it was different.

In every relationship, whether that relationship be a friendship, a romance, or a family connection; there was a dominant and a submissive. Lori used to be dominant… Now she wasn't. Lynn didn't know what was happening behind the scene, and she couldn't honestly say she cared that much, but she could see the results.

Lori Used to be in charge. Now she wasn't. Luan Wanted to be in charge, but couldn't get a foot hold. Lincoln Was in charge. She could see the way that Lori, Leni, Luna, and Lucy subtly bent to his will. Even though he never gave any direct orders, his desires were always catered to.

Lynn itched to challenge him. To be in charge herself. But he had too much support, and she didn't know what the game was. Besides that, she wasn't sure she'd make a better dominant than him. She'd be More dominant, for sure. Whether she'd be Better though, was questionable. Lynn just liked being in charge. Lincoln took care of those he was in charge of. It was probably why he had so much support.

I thought it was time to show how the uninvolved members of the family were reading and reacting to the unfolding events.

Things were different now… Lana didn't know how or why, but everyone, except Luan, seemed much happier now… So that was cool.

Now for the mirrored perspective.

Things were different now… Lola didn't know how or why, but it didn't really matter. What mattered was figuring out how to turn the new set up to her advantage. Lincoln had an in with Lori now. Maybe she could bribe him for reduced chores… Or threaten him. Whichever worked.

Watch your step, this chapter is a doozy.

"After gaining access to Luan's camera systems, I came across record of your… Alternative methods of sibling bonding, to put it delicately." Lincoln and Lori stiffened in front of her. "Not to worry sibling units. I shall not inform anyone else in this world of your activities. You do deserve a certain quality of life, after all." She pulled off her glasses, drew a silken cloth from her pocket, and wiped the lenses off. "A quality that would become impossible to maintain should your altered relationship become public knowledge.

Of course, her promise didn't extend to other worlds. Lincoln and Lori would never go to other worlds, and those worlds couldn't effect them here, so that particular loop hole shouldn't matter. Professionally she had an obligation to study them. And why study something if you were never going to record or share your findings. They were an interesting pair of specimens.

Personally… She normally didn't allow herself the luxury of personal investment, but she felt she could be forgiven in this case. Personally, she felt a little sorry for them. They clearly loved each other dearly. Their life would be difficult from here on out. People would constantly wonder about them… Perhaps Lisa could set aside some time to ease their future burdens… It was the least she could do for her family.

"Why are you telling us than?" Lori asked, allowing herself to relax just a bit, now that it was clear Lisa wasn't trying to break them up or extort them.

"Simply to let you know that you should be a little more careful about where you show each other your… More than family affections. However, I also want you to know that you can come to me if you ever need help with anything…" She paused, debating whether or not she should tell them the next part. "I've taken to slipping contraceptives into your meals, over the last few days. Better than the commercial variety, and with fewer side effects." She held out a pair of pill bottles. "It might be prudent of you to begin taking responsibility for yourselves." It was her initial instinct to keep her knowledge of her findings to herself. However, after thinking it through, she came to see that doing so would serve no greater purpose, and, in fact, had a high probability of ending poorly.

Lincoln and Lori reached out for a bottle each.

"Uh… Thanks Lisa." Lincoln offered her a smile. "It's sort of a relief to know you approve of us."

"I wouldn't say I approve." Lisa clarified. "I simply love you two enough that I'd rather you were happy and together, than unhappy and apart." She rose from her seat, striding towards the door. "Have an acceptable day."

"Bye Lisa." She heard her brother say, just before the door closed.

That resolved one issue… Still she had another one to deal with. Her observations of Luan revealed alarming behavior patterns. Increased aggression and violence… She might have to move up the time tables on a few of her projects.

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Chapter notes:

I agonized for a while on how to go about doing the Leni scene. I hope I did it well.

During the date between Luna and Lincoln, I had no small amount of trouble figuring out what Luna should say. Normally she's an easy character to write, but not in this case.

This isn't the longest chapter I've ever written. That honor goes to a chapter that was twelve-thousand words, in my Naruto story. This chapter doesn't even stack up against that. However, this chapter is longer than I've done in a while.

It's also possible that my stories really suck here, and you're all playing an elaborate prank on me.