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Douxie being a theater kid

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Ordershipping Week 2022

Title: if you like piña coladas Fandom: Tales of Arcadia (Cartoons)  Rating: M Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships/Characters: Skrael/Douxie, aka Skrouxie Prompt: October 25: date night

Summary: Douxie gets a late night visitor

Frost climbs the edges of the rug, turning the tassels stiff and brittle in the sudden cold wind. Douxie pulls his feet up on the bed, but not fast enough; he inhales sharply as the chill grazes bare skin. Skrael enters, moving soundlessly as any apparition, a light tug at the corner of his mouth the only hint that he’s aware of the discomfort. For all Douxie knows he’d consider it a bonus.

“Must you?” He’s not truly angry, but he offers Skrael the gift of Getting To Him, and Skrael preens as if Douxie was flirting.

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Ordershipping Week 2022

Prompt: October 24: classic trope    Ship: Skrael/Douxie aka Skrouxie

𝓔𝓷𝓮𝓶𝓲𝓮𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓛💗𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓼

Ah, so, yeah. Enemies should be smorching. This is watercolor and I wish my scanner was a bit better because this didn’t quite capture the nuances, but, well. At least they’re smorching.

Bonus ink only version under cut.

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Douxie: “I may not know how to fix this, but I do know you shouldn’t be stuck in here.”

Nimue: “You are... different. You are kind.”

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once you’re stripped clean, what’s at your core?

flightless bird

the thought of your found family is what motivates you in your own little world. you touch the clouds, and the soil gives way under your footprints... this is utopia. if you were to erase one thing, it would be your memory. experience is important, but ignorance is bliss. identity, in heaven, should give way to happiness. you'd give anything just to sit by the swings and eat ice cream, but this isn't that kind of world. you have to get up and wash the dirt off of your scraped knees. i think you have an escapism problem.

Stolen from: @flamekeeperbellroc

Tagging: you? :)

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you touched my hand, i played it cool

(unrated/non-explicit; 1090 words)

When he leans in, resting his arm over Casperan's shoulder, the touch is gentle; almost tame.

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Enemies-to-friends-to-lovers trope is the shit

And anyone who says otherwise can fight me, then be forced to work together with me, then become my best friend, then marry me.

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“Good evening, doers of evil and ancient terrors.”

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I’m ok. I’m gonna be ok. I’m gonna live a beautiful life and I’ll get to know beautiful people. I will create things of beauty and be surrounded by flowers. And I’ll love myself, and I’ll be soft, I’ll be kind. And I’ll be ok.

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Bard: And remember, if you can’t blow them away with your brilliance, baffle them with your bullshit.

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[⚔️, 🔮, 🍺!]

Music of the Muse || @flamekeeperbellroc || accepting

Thank you so much!! I'm sorry this is so late, I loved tinkering with it. ❤

⚔️ - Fight music

Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls is excellent Douxie fighting music. And the church bells? Perfection. Debuted as Douxie fighting music in Essex 1647 because everybody has a breaking point and he was well past his.

🔮 - A song relating to the character’s use of magic

Neptune by Lisa Gerrard resonates so well with Douxie's relationship with magic - the essence of it that he's not quite aware of anymore (and needs to revisit) - it has such a gentle vibe that matches his kindness (Nimue called it). At the same time it's deeply powerful and filled with yearning. Do I listen to this when writing the next chapter of Bones of Us? Mmmmaybe >:3

🍺 - Drinking/Intoxicated music

Sooo many to choose from! When I think of drinking music for Douxie I get old rock vibes. For fun and revelry, You Give Love A Bad Name with Bon Jovi is definitely on the playlist (mine when writing and his own) and he's trying to coax Archie to sing along. For sad, broody vibes, Johnny Cash's I See A Darkness is depressingly accurate.

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Douxie, what is even that hair. 

Stop that.

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Music of the Muse

Music is a key part in the creative process, and I know there are a lot of writers out there that have whole playlists for their muses. So, let’s see about sharing some of what goes into these characters we write for!

Send a symbol and I’ll send a song. Will give context upon request!

🎵 - Theme music

⚔️ - Fight music

⌛️ - Character’s theme as a final boss.

🎉 - Victory music

👢 - Traveling/wandering music.

🔮 - A song relating to the character’s use of magic.

💛 - A song relating to family

💗  - A song relating to a friend (Provide a character name!)

💖 - A song relating to love

💔 - A song relating to heartbreak

🍺 - Drinking/Intoxicated music

💋 - A song for sex

🍼 - A song relating to parenthood

🚿 - Song the muse might sing in the shower

💀 - A song relating to death/mourning

🏠 - A song relating to home

🎭 - A song to fit a certain mood/emotion (Suggest one!)

🛌 - A song that matches the muse’s dreams/nightmares (Pick one!) Special thanks to @windandscales, @houserosaire, and @zoetic-grimoire for giving some suggestions/general moral support while I over thought the ever living fuck out of this.

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another silly little skrael doodle, from further excellent rp shenanigans with @lad-of-fortune! don't worry, fellow perfectly normal café patrons, he's in incognito mode 😉

a short king wrangling an easily-flustered tall on the flimsiest pretext for a coffee date... truly, he is living his best life 👏

(+ because i couldn't resist: bonus original flavor under the cut!)

(he's going to be such a little shit, prayer circle 4 douxie)

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which beautiful concept are you?

daylight streaming through the windows, golden as a crown

you are a reminder of the hope that reveals itself in glimpses, in snippets of beauty amongst the ordinary. the sunlight illuminates but does not overwhelm or overpower, it is warm and kind and gentle.

tagged by: stolen from @themissingthird

tagging: you :)

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fire at one end, two fools at the other

(unrated/non-explicit; 5201 words)

“No, no—you’re holding it wrong. See? You’ll burn yourself, watch.”

A moment’s fumbling, the weight of the thing small and unfamiliar in his hand.

“Ah—like this, then?”

“I—” A short, bitten-off laugh, half-lost under a sudden crash of waves. Then, half to himself: “You would hold it like that, wouldn’t you.”

“What’s wrong with how I’m holding it?”

“Nothing, nothing. That’ll do. Now you’ve got to light it.”

Skrael levels him a flatly unimpressed look.

“Well,” the boy insists. “You do. That’s how it works.”

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We have all hurt someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. We have all loved someone tremendously, whether by intent or accident. It is an intrinsic human trait, and a deep responsibility, I think, to be an organ and a blade. But, learning to forgive ourselves and others because we have not chosen wisely is what makes us most human. We make horrible mistakes. It’s how we learn. We breathe love. It’s how we learn. And it is inevitable.

— Nayyirah Waheed, Warsan Shire, from Kept Honey