#Braith

[stymshots]

The Braith approaches.

[momolith]

ITS MY BABYS BIRFDAYYYY

the big 20 and 9

[antielva]

she bites

[sylvienerevarine]

i will defend braith until my dying breath. i know she's a little stinker but she's a cutie! and anyway, have you met her parents?

[helgiafterdark]

[pokemonomegaverse]

As a follow up to the last post about why I paired Hilda with Waitress Aurora, in an AU where the female protags were the canon player character, Hilda would end up with N because N/BW!Protag is OTP.  But since I lack good taste, I would have inevitably paired up Hilbert with Hiker Andy, since that Japanese dialogue in both BW as well as BW2 is too good to overlook.  I’ve actually given some thought to this AU so there is some development to it, at least in regards to how the fankids would work out.

Since both N and Hilda are alphas, Jordan ends up as their adopted daughter, which in ways, works better with what N would probably want.  Hilbert and Andy end up with Clover, Arian, and Braith who are all varying shades of brunet in this verse.  Clover, Jordan, and Oralie would still end up traveling together but Clover and Jordan would have switched roles.  Jordan is the one ashamed and humbled by Oralie’s injuries (sorry girl, you’re getting maimed in all the AUs), while Clover is the one who forces herself to become stronger and more battle-oriented to protect these two girls who are quickly becoming her dearest friends.

[dinnytchi]

Braith Reference

[late-nite-scholar]

WIP Wednesday WHENEVER :>

Thanks for the tag @mareenavee ! Tagging @frankensonnet, @svartalfhild, @stormbeyondreality, and anyone else that wants to join!

To be honest, I've been doing more revising and outlining than writing this week. But I started a little scene based on an unexpected letter Besharat received the last time I was playing Skyrim. I pushed forward in the timeline to what is probably after the events of the main game, though, to make Braith a little older.

(In my headcanon, Besharat takes Braith a bit under her wing to teach her how to be Yokudan and channel her anger somewhere better than bullying her daughters.)

Braith came into the training yard for our lesson, her face red and puffy. Her knuckles were white around the scabbard of her father's sword but her expression was like stone. I was going to ask her what had happened but she spoke before I could. "Ansei Besharat, my father has journeyed to the Far Shores." Her voice held no emotion, though her hands tightened even more on the scabbard.  "May he be welcomed by the Ancestors," I said automatically, before adding, "Do you know what happened?"  "He went out on a job. An upstart, would-be warlord, his brothers-in-arms told me. Of the ten that went out, only four returned. They did not bring my father's body back. They only brought his sword. Ansei, may I ask something?"  "Of course. I will help however I can."  "I am honor bound to recover my father's body and armor. I formally request to undertake my Warrior's Trial. Let me prove myself and take my place among you."  "Braith…" I began.  But she cut me off. "I must do this, Ansei! If I don't, then everything I've learned from you is for nothing! I must see my father laid properly to rest, and my honor demands justice for his death. You have shown me what it means to be Yokudan, and I will do no less than our ancestors!"  "Of course. And I will accompany you. By the traditions of the Companions, an observer from the Circle joins those on their Trial. And, as Ansei, I am honor bound to accompany you as my student, even if for not much longer."  "Thank you, Ansei." Her voice wavered. 

[talesfromthornvale]

Afternoons on the Red Audron

+ bonus empty background under the cut

[fromthebunkers]

Ok shitposts over time for my actual episode thoughts.

I forgot that Braith's parents were on a mission from Fithina. The reveal that its to recover her own angel feathers from the cloister's vault is setting up some potential conflict of interest bc as I remember Rusalka just wants the feathers and isn't specifically looking for her own. Orimar's deal with Rusalka and the Ashworths' mission for Fithina may end up at odds with one another. I wonder if Travis and Fithina know one another.

Fithina's getting a lot of attention between the main show and couriers. Very excited for the next couriers episode after That cliffhanger at the end of 78.

Already expressed this in the uwuru but I'm increasingly curious about the characterization of fallen angels as demons, the Young Coriander and the Devil story has only made me more so. *very* interested in how these stories relate to Rakshari cultural traditions around vulnerable hearts and true intentions. Bare chests and close greetings as a way to identify shapeshifting demons that don't have a human heart.

”and unfortunately for everyone involved in this endeavour, wisdom did come from the mouth of Travis Matagot”

The Dead Wing vibes are incredible. Real big fan of skeletons being integrated into the architecture and also in poses of supplication. Maintaining their prayers and pleas even in death.

[momolith]

this is a 90s vibe right LMFAO

[nerevar-quote-and-star]

Uthgerd the Unbroken: My advice to the kids is that they should fight people on the playground while they can still get away with it without legal consequences.

[misanthropicgardener]

i want to lock in and write something but i also have no idea how to write prose

[kaleidoarms]

TEAM RAIN: ARC 4 CH7 - THOUGH THE HEAVENS FALL (PART 1)

A WRITE UP FOR THE REST OF TEAM RAIN: CHAPTER 7

This is the big reveal and it's a lot of LORE so I decided to split it into 2 parts. You finally find out what the Braiths are :)

We open on Marron Armona’s shocked face. She exclaims “You’re their father?!” as Teams RAIN and PALM face the stranger. 

Wil Lincoln pushes through the crowd and tries to land a punch, but is stopped by Irving who catches his fist with a metal hand. He reminds Wil that the stranger pulled them from the car wreck, and recommends restraint. Wil softens.

The stranger holds up his hands and admits that while he is the father of the Braiths, he has no hand in their current dealings. He surmises that the teams have bad blood with his children, and asks them to sit around the fire.

Robin tells the man that Kamala killed her father. Marina adds that they hold their mother and brother hostage. Akane says they tried to kill her family, and Irving recounts the citywide Grimm attack launched on Avon.

Lucius looks bereft at this news, and slowly assumes they mean to bring the Braiths to justice, whatever form that may take. He supposes that before they make any final choices, it would be best if they heard the whole truth.

THE BEGINNING

The stranger’s name is Lucius Braith. We cut from his wizened face to a younger version of him some thirty-odd years ago, in a lab. He bears a striking resemblance to Viorel’s masculine form, or perhaps a less muscle bound Gardner.

Lucius recounts that he was something of a phenom in his youth, working professionally for Mantle scientific research since fifteen years old, but the story of his children begins when he was thirty - with his semblance.

We see young Lucius holding a metallic cube, some sort of paperweight, as a white aura effect glows around it. Old Lucius explains that he had “given his soul to science, and it had been accepted,” - that his semblance allowed him to perform a “biopsy” on his own aura, extracting it and applying it to inanimate objects.

Young Lucius approaches a lab partner, Alden Rossi, who is tinkering with robotics, and expresses glory at the potential applications of his semblance. Alden scratches his head as Lucius proposes studies on the very nature of the soul, that they “could finally understand the boundaries of that which once seemed beyond our comprehension.”

Young Lucius holds the cube up to his eyes. Narrating, Old Lucius explains that aura may be a crucial tool in humanity’s arsenal, but modern science still knew very little about it.

The kingdom of Mantle was still struggling even this long after the Great War, and it took little to convince the Council to give their support. They were so desperate to keep Lucius from finding better options overseas that they would approve whatever Lucius asked of them. The ethical concerns were almost nil - he was a promising young mind and he swore that he would only conduct research under the strictest of conditions… though he was the one who set the conditions.

We flash forward again. Lucius is overseeing construction at a location further north than any man had ever been on Remnant by that point, far from the prying eyes of both man and Grimm. He christened the facility Zenith, named for both its geographical location and his desire for it to be the pinnacle of scientific research. 

Due to the questionable ethics of experimenting on the human soul, only the brightest of Mantlean minds were brought onto the project and sworn to complete secrecy. For all intents and purposes, Zenith did not officially exist.

Another cut forward, and Lucius is inside the completed facility, showing other scientists blueprints in the conference room seen in Arc 3, Chapter 1.

Now the facility was complete, he would begin work on his magnum opus, the P.R.I.S.M.

Another cut, and we see Lucius standing on the gantry in front of the machine Kamala, Viorel and Roderick visited in Arc 3, Chapter 5. In the present, Old Lucius narrates that it took a few years and many sleepless nights, but he finally completed it.

Young Lucius places his hand inside the machine as Roderick did in Arc 3, Chapter 5, and is similarly zapped as the biopsy is taken. The screens to the side of the machine light up green in success, and Young Lucius allows himself a relieved smile.

His present day self explains that the P.R.I.S.M was designed to artificially recreate his semblance, and expand on it. It took a biopsy of one’s aura as well as a tissue sample. His plan was that - by cultivating both - he would be able to create life.

We cut forward again to Young Lucius in an elevator, some time later, on the ride down to the P.R.I.S.M. As he walks along the gantry, Old Lucius narrates thusly;

“The gestation period was shorter than that of a natural human. It was only a few weeks before we again returned to the P.R.I.S.M and saw the result of the experiment.”

Young Lucius opens a hatch on the P.R.I.S.M.

“We were unsure how long it would survive outside of the machine. We had to remain cold, scientific and unattached.”

We see a newborn baby inside the machine. And Old Lucius concludes…

“So, naturally, the first thing I did was name her Kamala.”

[oldsardens]

Anton Braith - Cattle Resting on the Lakeside