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Detangling Mydei's Backstories Backstory?
My last post, casting doubt on 3.2's revelation that Mydei's immortality is deliberate on his part, led to some interesting discussion in the comments that definitely reinforced my earlier thoughts that the inconsistencies in Mydei's backstory are too numerous to be accidental. Star Rail is not known for its flawless continuity (Robin and Sunday's backstory, I'm looking at you lol), but usually the inconsistencies are not so overt, and repeated so many times, that they become central to the entire plot of a character.
So I wanted to refine my earlier theory a bit: I'm cautiously optimistic that there are enough signs that the inconsistencies in Mydei's backstory are deliberate, and that the Mydei of the current cycle in Amphoreus is actively experiencing an entanglement between two different timelines, without (yet) consciously recognizing the incompatibility of his own "memories."
When we work from the standpoint that the events of Mydei's backstory can be separated into two distinct timelines, the inconsistencies vanish:
The "Sea of Souls" Timeline
This is the most prominent timeline, and the one that appears most accurate for "our" Mydei. In this timeline, Mydei was thrown into the Sea of Souls as a tiny infant and spent the first nine years of his life there. This is confirmed both in the flashback we're provided early in 3.1, as well as in Mydei's voicelines and character stories.


After nine years, he crawled out of the sea (possibly motivated by witnessing Tribbie's "star" in the sky). On the same day (or very near it), he met with a band of Kremnoan exiles.

Whether this was a larger group already, constituting a small "detachment" army of exiles, or just started with the five exiled friends and Mydei then grew into a small army by picking up other exiles over time, is still unclear. However, at this point, Mydei makes no mention of returning to Kremnos and instead goes straight from "leaving the sea" to "living ten years in exile:"

This is the key point of inconsistency between the two "halves" of Mydei's story--either he lived in Kremnos or he didn't. We can handwave here and say "Yes, he returned to Kremnos with his friends and they just hid their identities, leaving Kremnos years later in a self-imposed exile," but the story gives us absolutely no indication that this realistically could have happened. Mydei never once mentions hiding his identity, changing his appearance, or living a double life in the city, and never explains how he would have had access to the inner city of Kremnos ("as befitting a crown prince") and the royal library, yet still go totally unnoticed by his father or anyone loyal to Eurypon, including Krateros. (There's also no explanation at all for why he would have wanted to return to a city ruled by someone who tried to murder him and where he would have had to live life under a fake identity just to get by, but you know...)
Instead, the game does give us several pieces of information indicating that the five Kremnoan exiles did not return to Kremnos after meeting Mydei:
First, Mydei's character stories confirm that Mydei deliberately hid his name while traveling in exile across Amphoreus, indicating that he knew he would be recognized by Eurypon/Eurypon's loyalists if he didn't hide his identity. This awareness suggests it is extremely unlikely that Mydei could have returned to Kremnos without being identified:
This also suggests that, at this point in this timeline, no one in Castrum Kremnos knew for sure that Mydeimos had survived being thrown into the Sea of Souls and returned. This is further confirmed by a memory fragment where Krateros says there has been a "rumor" that the leader of the exiled Kremnoan army is one who "defied death." Krateros alone makes the assumption that this could be Mydei and decides to defect to aid him:
This memory suggests two things clearly: Mydei was not living in Kremnos at the time Krateros defected, and the exile of all of Mydei's friends must have taken place before they met Mydei, years in the past, as there is no way an entire small army could have been exiled from Kremnos, with Mydei in toe, and not at all attract Krateros's attention until after they were gone.
The idea that Mydei never returned to Kremnos is further enforced by Eurypon, who did not recognize Mydei when he confronted him, to the point that he didn't believe Mydei was even Kremnoan. This suggests that Eurypon not only didn't know Mydei's true identity--he'd never seen him before at all, making it extremely unlikely that Mydei was walking around Castrum Kremnos, talking to Chryseus Leo, and reading in the royal library all under some false identity for years. Eurypon certainly wouldn't have been capable of exiling someone he'd never seen before from Kremnos, in any case!

Therefore, we can assume the series of events in this timeline is pretty straightforward: Mydei entered the Sea of Souls as a baby, came out nine years later, went straight into a life of exile with his five friends, amassed power and support for ten years, and then returned to seek vengeance on his father.
The only remaining question in this timeline becomes "When did Mydei join up with Okhema?"
I think, in this timeline, it makes the most sense for Mydei to have only joined up with Okhema after killing his father. In 3.1, Mydei confirms to Phainon that all his friends died before he was able to kill his father, and that none of them ever made it to Okhema:


Therefore, the final order of events for the more prominent timeline is:
Dumped into the sea as an infant, nine years in the Sea of Souls
Ten years in exile with his friends amassing strength and support
Returns to Kremnos, kills his father, and the last of his friends dies that day
Then he defects to Okhema, leading any of the Kremnoans willing to follow him there.
By itself, this story makes perfect sense. If this was all the information we'd been given, there wouldn't have been any gaps.
Unfortunately, we also have a whole other set of information that massively conflicts with these events, which can only really be explained two ways: Either Hoyo messed up (again) and really dropped the consistency ball when it comes to writing Mydei's backstory... Or there's an entire separate timeline going on. Personally, I'm leaning toward the latter, because there are just too many seemingly deliberate fingers in the story pointing toward the inconsistencies for them to feel entirely unintentional to me.
Therefore, I propose that Mydei's memories are actually getting infiltrated by a second, entirely different timeline:
The "Gorgo Lives" Timeline
From 3.0 all the way to 3.2, we're given numerous pieces of information that point to a wholly different order to the events of Mydei's life, contrasting the story that Mydei tells Phainon in the Garden. At first, these events seem scattered and nonsensical, contradicting the "main" timeline in too many ways to be anything but errors... But when taken as a whole, we can build a second coherent timeline out of these events if we make one assumption: There is a timeline where Gorgo lived longer.
In the second timeline which is intruding on Mydei's memories, there appears to be one key point of divergence: Gorgo did not die dueling Eurypon. Either she never challenged him to the duel, or (more likely) she was never successfully poisoned, and therefore it's possible she won the duel, allowing her to rescue Mydei from the sea.
Working from that possibility, a second complete timeline emerges:
Mydei was thrown into the Sea of Souls as an infant but did not drift there for nine years. Instead, he was rescued and brought back to Kremnos, where he was allowed to grow up in the inner city, with access to both Chryseus Leo, who served as his teacher, and access to the royal library, which he is proud enough of to call "his" library. He is able to lead Phainon and the Trailblazer around Castrum Kremnos even in its ruined state because he grew up there, spending enough time there to know the city like the back of his hand:




This is where we can slot in the inconsistent memories Mydei has of Gorgo:
(By the way, although Mydei writes this scene off as a dream, you can actually hear Oronyx's whisper play in the black screen seconds before this "dream" occurs...)
But okay, let's say this is just a wishful dream. Maybe this scene never happened. If all we got of Gorgo supposedly raising Mydei was this moment in 3.1, I might agree that it was just a dream (other than there being no reason to play Oronyx's sound effect there, but you know). However, in 3.2 they then hit us with this:
That's multiple moments now pointing to a timeline where Gorgo raised Mydei. Once is handwave-able--twice? That's deliberate.
In this secondary timeline, Mydei appears to have grown up as Kremnos's beloved crown prince, being warmly embraced by his people (at least until Kremnos fell into calamity). Apparently his days consisted of eating pomegranates, training for combat, playing with Kremnos's kids, and hanging out with his five friends. We see snippets of this idyllic life (along with his five friends appearing to be roughly the same age as him--something that likely wouldn't be true in the "main" timeline, by the way) on Mydei's long march back into Castrum Kremnos:
I know some people took this to be Mydei hallucinating or just wishfully imagining a life where he was able to be happy with his friends, possibly even some metaphorical "encountering the souls of the departed in a paradise," but I don't think this is true. Every single time Mydei phases in and out of this "hallucination," the visual effect and the sound effect of Oronyx are distinctly played--the exact same sound and visuals that play when Trailblazer activates Oronyx's prayer to jump between timelines.

Mydei himself doesn't seem to quite understand what is happening to him in this moment, as you can hear him stumble and pant as he repeatedly goes through flashes of Oronyx's power. You can listen to comparison video clips on the prior post I made about Mydei's backstory.
Furthermore, if we work from the assumption that these moments actually represent a rupture between timelines, then the rest of the inconsistencies can finally be cleared up:
In 3.0, Mydei says that his choice to leave Castrum Kremnos was not a forced exile but a "self-imposed" one:
And this aligns with what he stated in the Garden of Life to Phainon, that he and his friends "left Castrum Kremnos" to go into this self-imposed exile, rather than having never returned to Kremnos from the sea:

Furthermore, this also aligns with the angry NPCs in the past version of Castrum Kremnos that Trailblazer and Castorice travel back to:

Remember that this version of Castrum Kremnos was supposed to be occurring while Eurypon was still alive, so there is absolutely no way this line makes sense in the same universe where Eurypon didn't even know Mydei had survived. There isn't any way, in "our" timeline, that Mydei could have been both the "crown prince" of Kremnos for these NPCs and completely unknown to his father, the king.
These NPCs, furthermore, directly accuse Mydei of "deserting Kremnos," suggesting that Mydei was living in Castrum Kremnos as their prince, and then abandoned them to join Aglaea in Okhema, getting himself and everyone who went with him labelled as "traitors to Kremnos" in the process. None of this makes sense in the context of a timeline where no one in Kremnos knew he had even survived.
Instead, all of these elements point to a different sequence of events:
Gorgo lived, likely winning her duel and thereby (likely) giving her the right to save Mydei from the Sea of Souls and bring him back to Kremnos. He was raised by his mother as the beloved crown prince of Kremnos. Then, years later, as his father and Nikador both descended into full madness, Mydei and the Kremnoan detachment defected.
But what would have triggered this sudden need to defect after years of leading Kremnos as a well-liked prince?
The flashback between Mydei and Eurypon actually suggests a possible reason:

Apparently, at some point, in some timeline, Mydei knew about Eurypon's plan to break Nikador's divinity into separate parts and seal him away, harnessing the power of their titan for himself.
Yet the Mydei of 3.0 seems to have no idea about any of this, never able to give any explanation for how Nikador has degraded so much nor why Nikador is seemingly unkillable. Castorice, Mem, and the Trailblazer have to come up with the idea to go back in time to the past Kremnos by themselves, because Mydei never makes any mention of there ever having been a plot to break up and seal away Nikador's divinity, even when they walk past the very blades that did the sealing.
Finally, there's one last piece of conflicting information: While talking to Phainon in the Garden of Life, Mydei states that all of his friends died before the detachment could ever join up with Okhema and that all of their deaths occurred by the time he went to kill his father. But this conflicts with the NPCs above, who state that Mydei had already defected to Okhema and joined the Flame Chase Journey as a Chrysos Heir while his father was still alive.
This inconsistency is further reinforced by a memory fragment with Krateros, who confirms that Mydei had joined up with Okhema already before killing his father:

Putting all of this together, the complete series of events for this second timeline becomes:
Infant Mydei is quickly rescued from the Sea of Souls, is instead raised by his mother, and grows up as the crown prince of Castrum Kremnos with his five friends.
At some point, years later, he discovers Eurypon's plot to break up and imprison Nikador's divinity, and he and his friends and supporters defect from Kremnos as a result.
Either they go straight to Okhema (I'm inclined to say that "ten years of wandering" doesn't fit, chronologically speaking, into this secondary timeline) or they do wander a bit, but ultimately, Mydei reaches Okhema and aligns with Aglaea before killing his father.
After aligning the Kremnoan Detachment with Okhema, Mydei returns to Castrum Kremnos to kill his father, possibly to halt Eurypon's evil plan to harness Nikador's power.
At some point in this timeline, presumably before Mydei returns to kill his father, Gorgo likely still dies (possibly killed by Eurypon and/or Nikador), which explains why the Gorgo in the Sea of Souls seems to be the one convinced that she raised Mydei.
And this is just pure personal speculation, because there isn't enough evidence to really confirm it, but I almost feel like we can even pinpoint how/when the whole decision to defect to Okhema took place. At the end of Mydei's flashbacks to the "peaceful" Kremnos, Peucesta says that Mydei has been away from Kremnos for a while.
Leonnius assumes that Mydei was away on some apparently extended training trip, but this moment specifically ends with Gorgo welcoming Mydei home and asking him one very important question:
Obviously these lines are doing double duty, symbolically welcoming the present Mydei back to the ruins of Castrum Kremnos and asking him whether he's finally ready to take on his role as the "Guardian of Amphoreus." But as the wiki notes, this takes place in a flashback to the past, and for the "Mydei of the past" (aka the Mydei of the alternate timeline), this could very well have been Mydei disappearing from Kremnos to make contact with Aglaea in Okhema, and Gorgo questioning him about his decision to commit himself to the Flame Chase Journey, leading up to an ultimate and permanent defection from Kremnos. (This is just speculation though, trying to tie the last few loose ends together.)
Anyway, when taken from this perspective, that there are two separate backstories here, one from a world where Gorgo lived and the more prominent one where she died, we can sort all the seeming inconsistencies in Mydei's backstory into two surprisingly tidy and complete timelines.
I haven't yet found anything in any Mydei scene that doesn't fit one of these two scenarios, so I'm starting to definitely feel optimistic here that this writing was intentional, and that the "contradictory" backstory we're seeing for Mydei isn't "the worst continuity Star Rail has served up to date," but instead an actual deliberate choice to present us with a character whose memories are a hodge-podge of two divergent timelines, snippets of one timeline constantly erupting and "filling in the blanks" of the other.
I think this would be a fascinating way to lead up to the idea that Amphoreus's world isn't real, that it's a cobbled together story or set of memories that someone is barely holding together, and that it's constantly cyclical in nature, with events repeating with slight variations across times. The idea that Mydei is actually experiencing two different sets of memories crushed together into a tangled jumble and that he's only just now starting to become aware of the discrepancies would be such an excellent way to reinforce the "unreality" of Amphoreus's plot as a whole.
I really hope this is the direction that they take the story... Or at least that I won't one day be looking at all my Mydei posts and sadly thinking to myself that I put a lot more thought into the character's backstory than his own writers did, RIPPPPP. 😂😂😂
Cope with me, people!
#honkai star rail#mydei#amphoreus#amphoreus spoilers#hsr spoilers#3.2 spoilers#character analysis#honkai star rail meta#Mydei's backstory is only a mess if you try to read it as ONE backstory#when you break it into two#it suddenly all checks out lolol#the funnier thing is trying to figure out how Mydei had this much mess in his background#and never noticed that half of his memories don't even add up#bruh please#let's just go with “Memory magic kept him from thinking about it too hard”#It's all Cyrene's fault#yup yup#lol
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on my knees for the cowboy cyborg and the space knight 🌹
#yes argenti is actually my favorite male hsr character w ratio LMFAO I NEVER TALK ABT HIM BUT i love him sm#and i got way too interested in this rarepair so aughh#argenhill#honkai star rail#argenti#boothill#own art#sketch#knight of beauty and feral galaxy ranger....love#their tag is gunsnroses and its so funny and fitting but i dont wanna put it there#considering its an actual band and i dont wanna clog that lolol
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You guys have more then made up for missing my birthday. You're all forgiven.
#911#911 abc#911 spoilers#911edit#8.13#athena grant#bobby nash#bathena#bathenaedit#henrietta wilson#karen wilson#henren#gifs#mine#asdlfkjsdf the AUDACITY of this man lmaoooo#literally sat there and said 'its my wife's fault i forgot' LOLOL#i just know Athena is never gonna let him live this down#UGH BUT LOOK HOW CUTE THEY ARE I LOVE THEM
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Soooo I watched "KPop Demon Hunters" and it was super cool and I IMMEDIATELY started thinking of an au... Possibly a sub-AU of my already existing Band-AU ohh we are in it deep, guys...
In typical Y/N fashion, the outfit is just suggestion, I tried matching the style of the ending outfits to the best of my ability (I struggle with designing clothes... 🙏)
#kpop demon hunters#huntrix#kpop demon hunters spoilers#Hopefully I don't spoil anyone cuz the movie came out like.... a few days ago LOL#I'll probably hyperfixate on this until artfight and then get swept away so if you never see anything about this again that's why LOLOL#moondrop#sundrop#daycare attendant#fnaf moon#fnaf sun#sundropfnaf#moondropfnaf#sunfnaf#moonfnaf#sundrop x reader#moondrop x reader#dca x reader#sun x y/n#moon x y/n#dca x y/n#my art#dca au#band au#<- kind of?? This does NOT override my actual band au lemme just make that clear haha
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More sketchies!
(It’s been HOW MANY MONTHS since i last drew them?!?)
#naruto#sasunaru#narusasu#sns#my fanart#i may be in tgcf hell but you never forget your otp!#also totally underestimated how hard it is to switch between danmei and shonen chara designs lolol :[
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right next to me yet so far away
#you ever think about how no matter what gordon will never be able to interact with his friends in the way they can interact with eachother#can never touch them. never hug them. never share a drink.#aough#hlvrai#gordon feetman#benrey#tommy coolatta#dr coomer#bubby hlvrai#hlvrai bubby#op art#this is post game btw but gordos hasnt learned how to take off suit yet lolol
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Art dumphhhhh 😏
#i have this thing where i need to draw my favs as Falin from dun meshi#ive also never watched it lolol just big dragon character so cool so cool#huge dragon nerd right here 👆#did somebody say fleetway?!(late to the fleetway train)#sonic the hedgehog#shadow the hedgehog#my art#sonic#sonic fanart#sth#shadow#shadow fanart#fleetway sonic#super shadow#sonadow#if you squint
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i was trying to learn how to draw transformers and i accidentally made bumblebee look so incredibly high so i threw this up💀💀this is also the first time ive ever drawn robots
#transformers#transformers earthspark#bumblebee#transformers bumblebee#breakdown#transformers breakdown#tf earthspark#earthspark bumblebee#earthspark breakdown#tfe bumblebee#tfe breakdown#ive never posted transformers stuff so i dont know what tags to use lol#there in fact was a loss of effort in the middle of making this#fish•thing’s arttag#also also jerma ref lolol‼️‼️#im just gonna—#breakbee#😨😨😨#howd that get there!!
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oki NEW CONCEPT
so
pidw! liu qingge regresses from the point of death all the way back to the point where he was a disciple
the thing is, shit is Different
he's like, 15, a disciple, and shen jiu has only barely followed yue qingyuan back to the sect
and the thing is, shang qinghua is Different.
it's not that liu qingge was ever like, besties with qinghua. the two of them maybe went on a few escort missions and attended meetings together, but they were never close
but heres the thing:
airplane doesn't have an ooc lock.
why would he? for shen yuan, of course 'shen qingqiu' can't change personalities 100% over night, that's gotta be a gradual shift. and shen jiu was a fairly major antagonist in the original book. he had a prominent role. and his personality was a huge part of fulfilling that role.
shang qinghua on the other hand? his position in the story is so irrelevant that the system would have let him kill mobei jun. he's a one note villain. barely spoken of, barely written about. airplane himself barely knows the guys actual personality, bc literally this character only existed to betray the sect and then die off screen. shang qinghua, in the original pidw, shang qinghua was as irrelevant as qin wanrong. such a pointless character that you, my dear reader, prolly had to go look her up because you forgot she existed.
all of that to say, the system had absolutely no reason to enforce ic behavior onto airplane. only that airplane had to commit to certain missions. even if the system had tried, airplane doesnt even know this dude well enough to pretend to be him.
and what would be the point? no one in this world has ever met the original shang qinghua.
except for the regressed liu qingge.
and heres the other thing.
airplane isnt like... changing the plot as dramatically as shen yuan did, but he IS changing the plot. just literally by existing. by being a strange aberrant person who wasnt there initially. by doing things that airplane would do and not doing things that og!shang qinghua would do. it's a drop in the bucket, change wise, but it does change shit. it does effect the people around him and how they behave.
so liu qingge's first suspicion is that perhaps shang qinghua also regressed backwards in time. it would make sense. it's not like liu qingge is acting like himself. he's not the same person that he was as a teenager.
but.... shang qinghua isn't acting like the adult shang qinghua that he knows either. in fact, his behavior is COMPLETELY different. like that is a whole ass different person. liu qingge isn't the most observant guy on the planet, but he's not BLIND. this shift is as dramatic as the difference in personality between wei wuxian and lan wangji. that is NOT the same fucking person.
so now liu qingge is investigating airplane, because he is absolutely not about to sit there and let some skinner demon wear his shixiong's skin or whatever the fuck is happening
and see heres the second stressor that liu qingge is dealing with:
shen jiu tried to save his life. he failed. he failed spectacularly. but the person he thought was the worst scum ever had tried so desperately to save him from his qi deviation and that's not exactly something you brush off
and even more so: liu qingge is no longer a dumb teenager.
when liu qingge was an actual teenager, he was busy with his training and overall, just a dumb kid. and look, it's not like he grew up to become a super genius or anything, but he's not as wrapped up in his own bullshit as he was as a kid.
so when liu qingge met shen jiu for the first time, the real first time, he didn't see any of the signs. he saw a snappish and angry person who treated yue qingyuan like shit and clearly got a nepotism hire and had no morals and looked down on everyone and just all of shen jiu's actual flaws.
this liu qingge tho? he's been a peak lord for years now. he's seen shit. he's been places. he's no longer a fairly sheltered young master who has no idea what happens in the real world.
and it only takes one good look at shen jiu to make it obvious just how much abuse he's endured. he hasn't had years to learn how to conceal his trauma better. he doesn't have the cultivation level yet to fight for himself. he's just an abused ex-slave with trauma practically roiling off of him in waves and liu qingge, as an adult, is sitting here absolutely baffled as to how his teenage self missed every single sign
so now he's paying more attention to both shen jiu and airplane, because holyfuck he might have been partially wrong about shen jiu literally this whole time, and because that is NOT shang fucking qinghua. and shen jiu hates him just as much as before, because trauma, and he notices the unnatural attention directed at shang qinghua so now shen jiu is paying an unnatural amount of attention to shang qinghua
which would be all great and magical and fine if shang qinghua wasn't currently hiding a recovering ice demon in his leisure house
#moshang#liujiu#if someone wrote this fic i'd prolly die of happiness lol#shen yuan never possesses shen jiu in this idea lol#he can show up as a different character or something#beast peak lord shen yuan?#or cucumber in mu qingfeng's body lolol#i like beast peak lord better tho#or at least a beast peak disciple#bingyuan can meet up on inter-peak missions lololol
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A reimagined story of Princess Cordelia Thebe of the Royal House Thebe
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Princess Cordelia: Long John was the first man I’ve ever loved. He was devoid of grace and beauty, a daunting and imposing threat of the seas—the exact type of man my father forbade me from seeing. And still, I found it impossible to distance myself from him. Our affair was filled with fervor and passion for an entire summer. I was so lost in the fantasy I could no longer tell the difference between my desires to abandon everything I knew to escape with him or to simply flee from the mounting pressures of the throne. It hardly matter. I never got what I wanted.
[Long John] I’m off. [Cordelia] I want to come with you. [Long John] scoffs The sea’s no place for a woman. No woman like you, anyhow.
Princess Cordelia: The novelty of it wore off eventually. I was tired of men telling me where I belonged. The last I saw of him, I had wished death upon him. I prayed the seas opened up and swallowed him and his rotten, filthy ship whole. If I’d known the gods of the oceans were listening, would I have spared his life in the end?
[Bob] I bring news from the ports, Your Royal Highness. It appears Captain Long John Buttercups ship caught fire last night. It is believed this was a planned attack. There were no survivors. [Cordelia] Well, it’s his own fault for being a lazy, unkempt man and a terrible pirate at that. I’m sure my father will be pleased there’s one less drifter in his waters. That will be all, Bob.
Princess Cordelia: Stupid, rotten man.
#sim spice#princess cordelia#and 3 her evil ex boyfriends#lolol#I can never just not make a story#sims spice#sims 4 simblr#ts4 simblr#sims 4 stories#sims 4#pirates and vampires and yeahhhh#SIDE QUESTS - MINI STORIES
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Considering we know that Aedes Elysiae was home to faeries Memlings, I'm constantly imagining a Phainon who lives his life by all these in-grained, seemingly unnecessary (to outsiders) traditions designed around the fae folk...
Don't give your real name to strangers.
Always keep your promises.
Never trust anything offered freely.
Don't express any of your own wishes; you may not be able to pay the price of the granting.
Eat only the food of those you know by heart.
Wear a ring of iron to ward off the ill-intentioned.
Carry sweets and trinkets in your pocket to distract mischievous fae.
Do not enter a home until you're sure of your welcome.
But also: Do not reject visitors--greet all who come with hospitality; you never know what disguises a fairy may use.
Sometimes the children come back from the forest a little bit different. You didn't see anything and nothing has changed.
Make equal time for each who you hold close; jealousy is among the gravest dangers.
Leave milk and golden honey on the window ledge in offering.
Let no debt go unpaid, and leave no injustice unavenged.
Mydei: Castrum Kremnos was the most untamed place in Amphoreus--
Phainon: Aedes Elysiae was surely a paradise in comparison. One of my old neighbors traded his firstborn for a goat that talked in riddles once!
Mydei: --you know what, never mind.
#honkai star rail#phainon#faeries#aedes elysiae#ever since that Cyrene flashback where she told Phainon to go play with the faeries#the entire “Don't reveal your real name” thing has felt so on the nose#and I also like toying with the idea that no one from Aedes Elysiae is *actually* human#like sure there's fae that look like cutesy little animals#but also all the “people” of Aedes Elysiae are just something...#not-quite-right#Phainon can pull titans out of the sky and he's like#yeah I think that was just all the weight training or something?#surely everyone could be this strong if they worked at it?#not realizing that he is very much NOT like any of the other “people” in Amphoreus lol#and there's also the fact that Phainon repeatedly makes a big deal out of#“I haven't fought HUMANS in a while”#yes I know he means he only fights titankin/black tide#but there's something so specific in separating himself from those he considers “human”...#Dolos got cat people#Aedes Elysiae got “thought they were normal only because they've never met *actual* humans” fae folk#this is why Phainon is actually obsessed with treasure appraisal and wealth#he got that fae hoarding tendency lolol
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nsfw curly headcanons
whaddup mouthwash nation i don't normally make posts but i was sick in bed thinking abt curly all day n i got inspired by other ppl's hc posts on here ☺️ so im throwing my hat in the pile.. these are kinda disorganized but the first part is curly x long-distance reader (reader doesn't work on the tulpar), second half is more general stuff.
this post features; afab reader, cunnilingus, masturbation, various other things
when he's single it's pretty easy to get in his pants but it's embarrassingly easy for him to catch feelings for ppl he sleeps w. nd once that happens it's OVER he can't even Look at anybody else bro he is Dedicated
during hauls when he can't be with u it's rlly hard for him to get u out of his mind, esp when he's working bc there's no immediate outlet .. under normal circumstances he doesn't rlly masturbate that often, but when hes away from u it's a lot more common^^; just whenever he can get some privacy alone tbh. he prob does smth rlly lame like look at a picture of u while he does it LMFAOOOOAOA
he gets rlly pent up in the week or so before he gets home especially... once he finally gets home to u he can keep himself in check in public + around others, but once u two are alone at home he's all over u for basically the rest of the night DJFKG hope u dont have work the next day
100% service top no question. nothing turns him on more than your pleasure. he's fine w piv sex if that's what u want but honestly i think he rlly prefers to give oral/handjobs/etc. he'll make sure u cum at Least once before he gets any, especially!! when he's just got back from a haul. he likes to put off his own satisfaction as long as possible bc he tends to fall asleep after he cums but he doesnt want the night to end so quickly^^;
after hes finished getting u off he likes to hold u for awhile while u calm down.. n then he'll let u do whatever u like to him^^ i think he likes when u touch him the most, but really as long as you're enjoying it he's not too picky abt how u get him off
honestly he prob cums pretty fast bc he stays turned on for so long w/o stimulation, but he likes it when u edge him a little bit (not too much tho!)
i honestly don't think he's that much of a talker, esp while receiving. he gets too into it to form coherent words. u can try dirty talking him but u won't get much more than an enthusiastic nod or a whispered "yes" .. oh but he does love saying yes to you::3
THIS MAN WHIMPERS BTW. esp if u pull his hair while he's eating u out, it drives him crazy😭
very much an oral fixation kinda guy, he likes putting your fingers in his mouth, kissing, biting, licking, marking, anywhere he can get to but mainly ur neck/chest
SAYS I LOVE YOU DURING SEX IDC‼️ he melts if u say it too..
reaaaally really likes it when u take charge n tell him what to do, he'll follow ur every word
also into body worship, both receiving and giving. he works hard on his physique! tell him he's beautiful!! (he also thinks your body is perfect and will appreciate it at any opportunity ofc)
he is addictedddd to your voice n it's a big reason why he's so into pleasing you over himself, he lives to hear you whimper n gasp and moan for him. doesn't matter if ur loud or quiet, he loves ur voice bc it's yours
he also really likes to watch your expressions to see how he's doing, and because he thinks you look beautiful writhing under him, but!!!! he'd understand if u were a shy type who gets embarrassed easily, n he'd hide his face in ur neck or vice versa so he cant see u^^ he'd prob just verbally check on u a liiiiitle more often::3
#mouthwashing smut#mouthwashing x reader#captain curly x reader#curly x reader smut#curly mouthwashing#too embarrassed to put this in the main tag lolol but u can if u reblog ❤️🩹#ive never posted before this is rly scary and im being so brave so pls be nice to me
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lil doodle of the guys ever to keep my mind occupied enough not to spiral into abject despair rn tbh lol,,
#oops the bad feels leaked into the blorbos' sweet cuddle time;;; my sincere apologies lolol#but TwT bad feels aside have some pawpad kisses cuz they make me weak <'3#doodles#huskerdust#angel dust#husk#anyways! whatever it takes to keep hold of as much of my sanity as i can in these coming days/years :))))))))))#return of their outfits from the never-finished animatic also 🤧😩
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once again drawing click clack over images of my nefarious shape
+ bonus based on how I was handed an angora rabbit at a state fair and immediately started ugly crying
#great god grove#ggg click clack#ggg thespius#ggg bauhauzzo#huzzle implied but not rlly there lol#context for the first one is my rabbit has a personal fan that he loves to sit in front of giving his fur a dent#2nd image was me helping him shed his winter coat cuz otherwise i would never be free from the fur. the pile was bigger than him irl#for the bauzzie image they handed me that rabbit and it was immediate ugly crying and everyone was just staring at me holding the rabbit#crying like i had just found out i lost my beloved in the war#shaking and whimpering with the fluffiest thing in my arms#very funny because my family were all there staring thinking something happened but it was too cute. it was too cute to handle#me and bauzzie boy would bond with the ease it takes us to cry lolol#anyway story time over enjoy my silly click clacks#click clack bald arc for a week in the summer
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Mother's Day
#do yall get why first jam wears pearls?? anyways first jam kept that pearl necklace safe and only wear it in special occassions#this was supposed colored but i just had fun with the shadowing instead lolol#Ik im a week late but its better late than never#first jam cookie(alli oc)#blessed bibingka cookie(alli oc)#letche flan cookie(alli oc)#crk oc#crwc oc
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