#Felwinter/Osiris/Timur

[makoredeyes]

It’s been six months and the series is still going so I thought I’d throw this back out into the wild today! Earlier entries in the series are more stand-alone but the further on you get the more interconnected they are, so for folks just arriving and seeing my update posts, if you’re lost, this is where you start.

Conflagration, inspired by artwork by the incomparable @/Sylenth-l begins the journey of the On Like A Housefire series, now 22 fics and counting (#23 is in production) following the loves, lives, and losses of primarily Osiris, Felwinter, and Timur from the Dark Age right up to more or less current game canon.

Overarching thematics are widely romantic, with some healthy doses of drama, action, and angst. (And a sprinkling of kink smut, just to keep it that Warlock level of Weird)

*Don’t let the rarepairs/triad scare you off, I back my shit up.

4/25/24 EDIT: For those of you who do not have an AO3 Membership yet, I have a handful of invites on hand. Given the recent bot attacks, I encourage my readers to sign up. It is free and easy to join, but requires either an invite or a wait list vetting from the site (to avoid exactly this kind of problem). If you'd like an invite please DM me with an email address.

[sylenth-l]

[gtswmeiko]

Got a new fic out, this one delves into an AU that is just casually sitting in my head.

as always, read the tags before reading the fic!

[the11tailedwrites]

Day 11-12 | Exhaustion

Takes place in my Destiny/Naruto fusion au. @hidden-scarlet-whispers more Osiris being a badass stuff for you plus, the actual canon-in-my-verse way Sival was exposed. @/sylenth-l is 100% responsible for me falling in love with Colovance.

Tw: implications of sa, mind control

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Lord Colovance was tired. He was so fucking tired. Not physically. He knew it wasn’t physically. He watched his body sleep, he watched it lounge around. He knew it was mental. Watching himself do things, say things, and not being able to control any of it. A helpless slave in his own fucking body. It was all Lord Sival’s fault. Colovance wasn’t sure how it was that Sival was able to use mind control, but it worked pretty damn well.

Sival fucking used him to frame Osiris for a crime he didn’t commit and get him exiled from the city. And all the while, the real Colovance thrashed in the prison of his mind, screaming for someone, anyone to hear him. To help Osiris. To help him. No one did.

To his credit (as much as Colovance hated giving that bastard Sival and credit) he knew how to manipulate. He made all the Iron Lords think that Lord Colovance was still in control. Sival had turned them against Osiris.

But now…now Sival had grander ambitions. He had set his eyes (and mind control powers) on The Speaker. If Sival had The Speaker in his pocket, under his control, he would gain so much power that Colovance wasn’t sure anyone would be able to stop him until it was too late.

When the control had first been placed on him, Colovance had tried too hard to fight it. It, of course, didn’t work. He was too weak. He knew Sival tried to do it on Osiris, but couldn’t. That was why Sival had wanted Osiris gone. Because he could control him.

Sival liked being in control. He liked it almost as much as he loved torturing people. He liked beating Colovance. His only personal pet that could do nothing but what he says. Of everything Sival had done, he allowed Colovance to keep control over some of his senses. Touch, Sound, Taste, Sight. His mouth was not his, his eyes couldn’t move by his orders.

Colovance wished he had been stripped of all sense. Maybe that would have been better than being aware, being able to feel, as Sival carved him open and…well he had to do something when he got hard. He liked it better when Colovance bled red and white.

It made Colovance so sick.

It had been the night before Sival was to set his plan into motion. He heard something behind him. His body turned, his eyes shifting to find the source of the noise. Osiris stood in the doorway of Colovance’s bedroom with a look of determination on his face and a strange paper tag in his hand.

Then he shot forward and slammed Colovance onto the floor before he pressed the tag against his head.

There was a blinding light and Colovance cried out. He cried out! Him! Not the mind controlled him, the real him! Colovance shot up, eyes wide as his body listened to what he wanted. He flexed his fingers and they flexed! Colovance looked up at Osiris, eyes stinging with tears.

”How did you know?” he croaked, voice almost breaking.

”Your mind was buzzing. It never buzzed before,” Osiris explained, looking rather proud of himself.

Colovance let out a sob, burying his face in his hands and breaking down. After so many decades, he was in control. Not Sival, him.

”Thank you, Osiris,” sobbed Colovance, “Thank you,”

”Don’t thank me, thank Makato. She made this tag”-Colovance didn’t know who Makato was-“You think you can fight?” asked Osiris and Colovance looked up, tear stained face coated in confusion, “Sival is planning to attack The Speaker and put him under his control, no? So let’s stop him,”

Osiris held out a hand and Colovance took it.

”Let’s kick that fucking bastard’s ass,” said Colovance

Colovance knocked on The Speaker’s door, Osiris hidden at his side.

“Enter,” called The Speaker and the duo stepped inside.

Sival was already there, drinking tea with The Speaker, but looked confused when he spotted Colovance.

”Colovance, I thought I said I would be doing this alone,” snapped Sival

Colovance cocked his head and walked over to Sival, stopping just short of the man, who glowered up at him in rage.

”You did say that,” said Colovance, before he hit Sival with a void coated hand.

Sival was sent slamming into the ground and The Speaker shot up.

“Lord Colovance, what are you doing?” cried The Speaker

”Getting revenge,” snarled Colovance, “For the past few decades of pain he caused me,”

The Speaker moved to grab him, but Osiris’ hand shot out and he gripped The Speaker’s arm, firmly, tossing off the void as he did.

”Osiris?” asked The Speaker, confusion on his face

”Lord Colovance has been trapped in his own mind for decades because of what Sival did. Let him get his vengeance. I know he will not go too far,”

”What do you mean, trapped?” asked The Speaker

��You know I speak the truth,”

”I-I do,” The Speaker said, glancing out the window towards The Traveler, glowing softly in the sky.

”He was going to do the same to you,” said Osiris, letting go of The Speaker’s arm.

The Speaker backed up, away from Sival.

”He’s fucking lying,” snarled Sival, “Don’t trust anything that mad warlock says!”

”I trust the Traveler. And it trusts Osiris,” said The Speaker, “Try not to go too far, Lord Colovance,”

Colovance took that as permission and lunged, fist coated in void, and smashed it repeatedly against Sival’s body, hot tears of rage streaking down his face. He didn’t stop until Sival was almost dead.

He fell back against his heels and buried his face in his blood coated hands and sobbed. His shoulders shook and his sobs were muffled only by his hands.

”I will contact the other Iron Lords,” he heard The Speaker say.

A hand rested on his shoulder, far too small to be Osiris’ and he looked up. A child of maybe 13 stood there, hunter judging by her cape. Her fox ears twitched slightly as she gently rubbed his back.

”It’s okay now, Uncle Colovance,” she said, “He can’t ever touch you again. If he tried, I’ll eat his face,”

She bared her teeth, revealing sharp teeth reminiscent of canines.

”I’m sorry, who are you?” he asked, softly, voice still shaky with tears.

”I’m Makato Uzumaki, the one who made the tag that freed you,” she said, cheerfully

”Thank you, Makato,” whispered Colovance, “For giving me back my freedom,”

”Anytime!” she said just as the door flew open.

”Speaker!” came the voice of Lord Timur, “What’s the emergency!”

Colovance glanced towards the door and spotted Lord Timur and Lord Felwinter quickly making their way inside.

Timur glowered at Osiris and readyed his fists. The Speaker placed a hand on top of them.

”Osiris is not the enemy here, Lord Sival is…or was. I think he’s dead right now,” said The Speaker.

Timur and Felwinter glanced over as Lord Sival’s motionless and bloodied form, to his ghost, hanging in suspended animation, a long paper tag slapped over its face. Colovance recognized some of the lettering as Japanese Kanji.

“Colovance, are you alright?” Timur asked, pulling Colovance’s attention away from the ghost and towards his former mentor.

”I-maybe?” he said.

”You’re crying?” asked Timur, crouching down in front of Colovance and gently brushing his fingers against Colovance’s face.

Colovance felt his eyes sting again and then he threw himself into Timur, body shaking and soft sobs escaping his lips.

”Shhh,” whispered Timur, holding him tight, “It’s okay,”

Timur glanced around the room, hoping someone would fill him in.

Makato did.

”He was under the effects of mind control,” she said, “We undid it, but he spent many many many years under its effects. Bad juju. He was aware but not in control. I know what that feels like,”

Timur’s eyes widened.

”Lord Sival did this, didn’t he,” said Lord Felwinter, speaking for the first time since he entered The Speaker’s office.

”Yes,” stuttered Colovance, “He fr-framed Osiris, got him exiled and then he-“

Colovance couldn’t continue, memories of the…nights they shared together.

”If you were under Sival’s control for years, does that mean you never consented to a relationship with him?” whispered Timur and all Colovance could do was nod, “Oh light, Colovance, I am so sorry,”

”You didn’t know,” whispered Colovance

”But I should have, we all should have,” whispered Timur

”I will discuss the terms of Sival’s punishments with the council in the morning as well as the lifting of Osiris’ exile,” said The Speaker, “For now, Lord Timur, you should probably take Lord Colovance to his room to rest. He looks exhausted,”

Timur nodded and gently guided Colovance to stand, letting the man lean against him as he led him out of the Speaker’s office.

”Osiris,” Felwinter started, glancing over at his student.

”I should be mad at you,” said Osiris, bluntly, “But it’s hard to be mad when I fell for his manipulation too. I’m trying to not be so much of a hypocrite,”

”You, trying not to be a hypocrite, my Osiris, how you have changed,” said Felwinter, tone light

”Blame Makato, she’s been too much of a good influence on me,” said Osiris

”Then, I thank you, Makato,” said Felwinter

”I even got him to learn how to cook! We eat every day! I make sure of it,” said Makato, grinning before her face fell slightly, “Will Uncle Colovance be okay?”

An uneasy silence filled the room.

”I hope so,” said The Speaker.

[makoredeyes]

Ugly crying for a beautiful little fic ❤️‍🔥

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Destiny (Video Games) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Felwinter/Osiris/Timur (Destiny), Osiris/Saint-14 (Destiny) Characters: Osiris (Destiny), Felwinter (Destiny), Timur (Destiny), Saladin Forge Additional Tags: Game: Destiny 2: The Final Shape DLC, Game: Destiny 2: The Final Shape DLC Spoilers, Angst, Love, Ghosts, Grief/Mourning, Major Character Injury, Injury, Reunions, Affection, Past Relationship(s), Rescue, Hope, Hopeful Ending, The Light (Destiny), The Iron Lords (Destiny), Friendship, Flashbacks, Battle, Gun Violence, Dead People, Healing Summary:

If he dies here, it will be his final death.

As the final battle against the Witness rages, Osiris encounters ghosts from his past.

[datmoongamer]

Felwinter wielded solar and void, but he was best as a voidlock.

In [Remembrance], he displays one of the earliest known uses of a Well, but he states that void/his void is more destructive. In [Lady Skorri], Skorri comes up with a plan where he uses his (Nova) Bomb. In [Lord Felwinter], he uses void to kill Citan. [Swarm of the Raven] is a void gl.

In [Lord Timur], he shields himself in "the Light of suns." He trained Osiris, who was the most famous solarlock. [Felwinter's Lie] is a solar shotgun.

Now, this is complete spinfoil: what if the reason he focuses on void is because he's avoiding the association with solar and Rasputin?

[The Liar] and [Winter's Guile] don't mention Felwinter's class/subclass at all. By the time we see his first usage of void, he already knows that he's Rasputin's copy (sorta). Maybe it's another way to protect himself.

[slavetomyheadcanon]

Getting to know your moots

Tagged by @makoredeyes <3

•What's the origin of your blogs title?

In the ancient times, I was a mommy blogger, and the title of my blog was "Slave to the House" (I did not see the poisonous irony at the time). Later, when I moved away from that circle of hell, I realized that I had a ton of OCs who made a lot of noise in my head. If I was writing, RPing or drawing something they wouldn't do, they'd whine and complain about it until I fixed whatever it was. Thus, I am a slave to my headcanon.

•Favorite fandoms

I am ever a slut for Destiny 2, and I adore Titanfall 2 very very muchly. I am often fandom adjacent, to where I enjoy art from many fandoms (Transformers, Team Fortress 2, Wicked, etc) even though I'm not necessarily active in them, and I celebrate my friends' interests even if they are not my own and will seek out artwork and other things specifically to give to them, kind of like a cat bringing 'a present' home to its owner.

•OTPs+Ship name

All ships are valid. Yes, even that one. YES, even that one that makes you uncomfortable. I am unabashedly proship and a multishipper.

My OTPs are BT/Jack/Blisk and permutations thereof, as well as Felwinter/Osiris/Timur and permutations (especially with Saint-14). As I mentioned, I'm a slut for Destiny 2 therefore any and all ships contained therein are my jam (too many to name specifically but Candal and Drifteris are choice). Special mention to my boy Gheleon who I will shove into a closet with anyone who's hot. Stormpilot, Reaper76, Spiderpool, Spirit Assassin, Kylux, Destiel, Wincest, Victuuri (and others) - I am not what I would call active in these fandoms any more and don't necessarily seek them out intentionally, but I always enjoy when they cross my dash.

•Favourite colours Cool jewel tones like emerald, sapphire and amethyst. Cobalt blue is probably my ultra favorite.

•Favourite game

Destiny 2! I tend to hyperfocus on one game at a time (currently have 11k+ hours in Destiny 2 since I started playing in 2019). Previously played hundreds of hours of Titanfall 2. Prior to that it was Lord of the Rings Online, Diablo 3, City of Heroes, and EverQuest.

•Weirdest habit/trait

I'm not really sure this qualifies as weird but I eat certain foods in layers. For example, if I'm eating a Kit-Kat, I will take a single section, eat the chocolate off the edges first, then the top, then I will eat each wafer individually. If I have a Three Musketeers bar, I will eat the chocolate off the outside first, then the nougat (I do this in bite size chunks, I don't skin the entire candy bar in one go), etc. Other layered foods I generally eat normally e.g. I don't disassemble my sandwiches; it's pretty much only sweets that I do this with.

•Hobbies

I am an AVID enjoyer of fiber arts. I know how to loom knit, knit, crochet and Tunisian crochet (as well as cross-stitch, embroider, and latch hook, though I don't actively DO these things). I struggle with my brain to actually FINISH things that I start, but I do enjoy it very much. I am getting ready to explore dyeing my own fiber very soon. I write fanfic when my muse cooperates with me, and I also draw. I love plants and nature and despite being old as fuck, I still hold out hope I might someday have my dream hobby farm. Although I haven't done it for many years due to finances and lack of space, I was an avid stunt kite flyer when I was younger, and I was pretty good at it and owned several kites, ranging from three feet to twelve feet. I was just getting into ultralights when I had to exit that hobby and I miss it an awful lot.

•Something you're good at

I think I'm good at spur-of-the-moment shitposting. What I mean is, I'm pretty good at scribbling out something I find amusing very quickly when inspiration strikes. I'm an idea guy. I have a lot of great ideas, but not always the talent to execute them. I still think they're pretty good ideas though.

•Something you're bad at

I'm not that great at Being Human. I often forget how social interactions work and saying things like "please', 'thank you', 'you're welcome' etc aren't real high on my priority list because it always seems like it should be implied. I struggle with explaining why I do things and often make it worse if I try because the stepping stones in my thought process are not linear and my brain will go from Point A to Point F in .2 nanoseconds and it's hard to explain Points B through E because they happen so fast.

•Something you excel at

Procrastination.

•Something you love

Forests, the smell of dirt after it rains, the ocean, the beach (not the tourist kind, the rocky kind where stuff lives), the night sky, music that gives me chills.

•Something you could talk about for hours without off the cuff

Fiber arts one million percent. Destiny 2 stuff is right up there.

•Something you hate

Hate's a strong word that I don't use very often. Most everyday things I don't vibe with I will simply say I dislike. However, given the state of the world right now, I'm just going to say I hate Nazis and rich people in positions of power (especially rich white men).

•Something you collect

Destiny 2 merch. I have so, so much. I used to collect dragons and griffons but I've moved on from that. Although, I think with the number of tarot decks I have, that probably counts as a collection too.

•Something you forget

I often forget that not everyone wants advice (I learned it from my mom, sorry).

•What's your love language

Gifts. If I find out there's something you want, it's entirely possible it will show up out of the blue in your mail. I try to be very very thoughtful with my gift-giving (and also very very sneaky because I love blindsiding my friends with a treat), because for decades I picked out my own birthday and christmas presents because the person(s) I was involved with couldn't be bothered. Basically I treat other people how I wish I'd been treated.

•Favorite movie/show

I have many because I tend to watch the same things over and over again (dozens, hundreds of times in some cases) but my main comfort movies are Tron, Tron Legacy, Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers, Princess Mononoke, Whale Rider, and Never Cry Wolf.

•Favorite food

Oh lort. I love all kinds of food, and I consider myself an "adventurous" eater, so it's really hard to pick one thing. I can narrow it down to bulgogi, bibimbap, spam musubi, tamales, and something I only know as "spam and noodles" that my dad made for me growing up, and I in turn make for my kids.

•Favorite animal

Another difficult one. Animals are so cool in so many different ways. I think I'll have to go with the humble chicken, for now. I had several for a time and it's absolutely obvious they are dinosaurs if you sit and watch them for a while.

•Favorite subject in school

Art. It had a lot to do with my teacher, who pretty much gave me free rein to do whatever I wanted as long as I also did the assignments. Ask me about my massive airbrushed Dragonlance poster.

•Least favourite subject

Any flavor of math.

•What's your best character trait?

My stubbornness. It's kept me alive this long.

•If you could change any detail of your day right now, what would it be?

I would have liked to have an extra day off from work.

•If you could travel in time, who would you like to meet?

My great-great grandparents, who came from Čáslav in the (now) Czech Republic.

•Recommend one of your favorite fanfics

One? ONE? No way.

My bestie @makoredeyes has written some of the most exquisite fics (I am truly spoiled) so ANYTHING they've written is gonna be a recommended read from me, but I am also going to single out one of the most devastatingly heartbreaking stories I've ever had the pleasure to cry over, Damages Done. Seriously, folks, this one's a rough ride. I am also offering up In Turn by IsraelHandsDown, which pretty much jumpstarted my love for Drifteris.

Huge shoutout to @gileonnen for A Heart of Wings. There is so much breathtaking detail in this fic, I absolutely adore it. Another writer whose entire catalog is worth checking out!

Mako already tagged most of our moots so in the interest of not spamming the exact same people, I'm tagging @fruityshirts, @water-you-not-doing, @tarakanpaintedpurple, @imonthemoonitsmadeofcheese and @arcaneglitch

BUT ONLY IF YOU WANT TO. No obligation. I know how these things are <3

[guardian-battle-bracket]

BRACKET RULES

This bracket is exclusively for Lightbearers and Guardians canon to the series.

Polls run for one week and are published every Wednesday at 2:45 EST.

During the Crown Bracket, multiple polls will be running at once.

In the event of a 1-1 tie, a one day tiebreaker match will be held.

Whoever wins the tiebreaker takes the versus.

PLAYER RULES

No targeted attacks of other players.

Propaganda is allowed, but be nice about it.

If your propaganda involves directly attacking a character in the poll you will be blocked.

Respect your fellow Guardians.

Submissions are open for propaganda all tournament and new fighters to be added until we reach the final six.

Propaganda will not be added until the Blood Tournament. Because fuck me, man. I cannot manage it before.

Factions will be fighting within themselves to claim the crown as representative for their own faction before moving to Blood Bracket. This is known as the Crown Bracket. Following the Crown Bracket, champions will face against champions of other factions in the Blood Bracket. Once we are down to the final six, the Champion Bracket begins. Winner of this faces against everyone's favorite motherfucker, YOU. The Young Wolf.

PLEASE NOTE: NOT ALL NAMED GUARDIANS ARE ON HERE. ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE. I'M NOT DOING THAT TO MYSELF.

May the best Guardian win.

CURRENT BRACKET: THE CROWN RUN

THE CROWN RUN

The Lucent Brood

The faithful of Savathun, Hive raised by Light, a heresy to Guardians.

Ken vs Savathûn, the Witch Queen Crownbearer: Ken

This previously had every member of the Lucent hive but fuck no that's too many. We narrowed it down to these two.

Rogue Lightbearers

Risen beyond the City, no gods, no masters to tether them.

Ayrin vs Cenric - Victor: Ayrin

Gryphon-11 vs Otto - Victor: Grypon-11

Rience vs Thalia - Victor: Thalia

Crown Bearer: Thalia

Warlords

The Lords of the Dark Age, powerful Risen, beholdent to no one.

Benyo Lukacs vs Carnunta - Victor: Carnunta

Castor vs Cathal - Victor: Casotr

Citan vs Heyka-4 - Victor: Citan

Jaxxen vs Kandak - Victor: Kandak

Lord Shaxx vs "Red Man" - Victor: Shaxx

Reich vs Rience

Segoth vs "The Wake"

The Iron Lords

The now silent howls in the night, the first Lightbearing defenders of the surviors.

Ashraven vs Bretomart - Victor: Ashraven

Colovance vs Crimil - Victor: Crimil

Deidris vs Dryden - Victor: Dryden

Efrideet vs Felwinter - Victor: Felwinter

Finnala vs Frostmire - Victor: Frostmire

Gheleon vs Gunnora

Haakon vs Jolder

Jorum vs Nirwen

Orewing vs Orimund

Perun vs Radegast

Saladin Forge vs Silimar

Skorri vs Timur

Tormod vs Weyloran

The Vanguard

The elite of the elite, Guardian commanders supervising the actions of Guardians and the safety of the City.

Andal Brask vs Aparajita-4 - Victor: Andal Brask

Caliban-8 vs Cayde-6 - Victor: Cayde-6

Ikora Rey vs Kauko Swiftriver - Victor: Ikora Rey

Osiris vs Saint-14 - Victor: Saint-14

Tallulah Fairwind vs Commander Zavala - Victor: Commander Zavala

The Guardians

The Light in the Dark, the protectors of the Last City, Risen given purpose, to fight, to die, to rise again, in the name of the Light.

Ana Bray vs Aunor Mahal - Victor: Ana Bray

Blue Boaz vs Dredgen Yor - Victor: Dredgen Yor

Eris Morn vs Fenchurch Evris - Victor: Eris Morn

Jarden Ward vs Marcus Ren - Victor: Marcus Ren

Randy vs Shin Malphur - Victor: Shin Malphur

Shiro-4 vs Taeko-3

The Crow vs The Drifter

The Speaker vs Tevis

That's all we got.

Also don't fight me on The Drifter being in Guardians. He's part of the Light Alliance. He lives in the Tower. He works with the Vanguard. He's a Guardian.

Submissions are open, send in propaganda or suggest more Guardians to be added!

SUBMIT YOUR GUARDIAN FOR THE GUARDIAN OC TOURNAMENT!!

[findroleplay]

Hello ! I am a F21 ,discord roleplayer ! I am looking for a detailed roleplayer (over F16) so we could make some Destiny (video game) action on discord or messenger!

Literacy: I am an intermediate writer, I write rather long lines and I would like your copy to be longer than three sentences.

Fandom: Destiny (video game) I don't have a specific idea (maybe soulmate? Idk) for the plot, but I suggest the beginning of the era of the City. First or third person style.

Pair: Cannon x Cannon

Characters: Andal Brask, Cayde-6, Tevis Larsen, Shiro-4, Tallulah Fairwind, Osiris, Saint-14, Pahanin, Eris Morn, Efrideet, Saladyn, Timur, Felwinter, Gheleon, Shin Malphur, Jaren Ward

Ship: Andal Brask x Cayde-6 | Felwinter x Timur |

Triggers: Due to the lore of the game and the experiences of the characters, the topics of PTSD trauma, angst, graphic descriptions of combat and blood, injuries may appear in RP.

Genres: Action, Adventure, Angst, Fluff, Romance

Where: I usually write on Discord, messenger or here, but I'm open to suggestions

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[makoredeyes]

The next installment of On Like A Housefire has finally begun…!

[sylenth-l]

Thoughts on the boys and swimwear? (Yes all of them. Any of them.)

Got a little carried away thinking about this... We had the hunter pack's day off on the beach before, here comes the warlock flock (+ their family dog)

(bottom of the ocean sounds like the best spot to be, I'm so with Felwinter on this one)

Meanwhile, far, far away:

(does he know how to swim at all tho 💀)

[daeluin]

counter argument

osiris: feral

felwinter: also feral

nirwen: I'm the only sane person here

Doing bungies work for them again by writing their lore. no need for pay bungie. i do this because i love it.

[allteacher]

33. Ink?

“Is that—?”

“Don’t try to guess,” Sagira cuts in, shell spinning, “you’re not going to get it right.”

Osiris looks up from the tangle of lines as Timur’s slanted frown dissolves into a sigh. Across the table, Felwinter studiously ignores them both. “It’s the Crypt,” Timur says. “Ashraven’s description of her dream-thing, anyway. Too many birds.”

Sagira digs a piece of her shell underneath his ear. Osiris, bent over the puzzle, says, “And you want a picture of the Crypt because you think you could find the tower.”

Timur leans in, the manic glint in his eyes like a blown transformer. “And from the tower, Bray.” He leans back, stretches against the back of his chair. “And from there—! Wonders beyond our comprehension.”

There’s a catch, obviously, or Timur would have them all combing the system already. “But?”

“No two descriptions suggest the same architecture, of course. All towers, all gloom, all killing everyone I know, but the topography doesn’t match.”

Osiris gestures towards Felwinter, realizing the futility of it even as he asks: “and you?”

“Oh, don’t bother with him,” Timur groans, “I could draw the Peak and he’d say it looked like the Crypt. No imagination in that one.”

“I don’t think you could draw the Peak,” Sagira mutters, and Felwinter makes a sound like a stalled engine.

“Warlords, the lot of you.” He flings his pen at Felwinter’s head, hits his shoulder instead.

In his periphery, the shaky lines of the high-block tower turn towards comprehensibility. “It looks like a Vex tower, not something man-made,” Osiris says, outlining what seems like a superstructure.

Even the suggestion makes Timur lose interest, mind ever-turned towards Mars and Bray and, lately, Felwinter’s SIVA. “Those little things,” he says, waving a hand. “Why, if you’re so interested in it, go collect me some more data.”

Osiris pays no attention to the suggestion; anything he brings back to Timur will be forgotten in a week, abandoned in his search for more tangible wonders. The suggestion of Vex architecture, though…

Felwinter’s eye-lights flicker on. “Who on the Peak could he ask? The villagers?” There’s a modulated ring underlying his voice.

Timur grins, rooting out gossip. “Oh, yes, Osiris, who could you ask?”

He doesn’t ask, and the Crypt lies undiscovered for three centuries more. The Vex do not.

[cayde-6]

This soulmate AU my friend @bunniesandbishamonten and I came up with, you can't hurt your soulmate (in certain ideas), you don't have to be in a relationship with your soulmate meaning you two can hate each other. This list isn't completed and is a mix of our OCs and NPCs. There will be more later.

Saladin and Jolder are soulmates and he watches her supposably die but she doesn't, she instead turns into the SIVA monster version of herself. Now Saladin notices his vision doesn't turn muted but he can't get to Jolder, so for years he's suffer this until one day the colors go muted. Then the Young Wolf (our Guardian) tells him about the SIVA monster Jolder, Saladin realizes that is why the color he sees never went muted.

We both agreed that Saladin probably would have thrown himself off of Felwinter's Peak.

The Speaker never knew that Saint and Osiris were soulmates and while he was banishing Osiris Saint was in so much shock that he short circuited. Osiris left not noticing Saint was short circuiting, so he thought Saint hated him. Meanwhile when Saint came to he asked the Speaker where Osiris went and the Speaker told him, this causes Saint to freak out and puts the Speaker in a situation.

Joylon seeing the world in muted color then the day Crow gets brought into the world he sees color again. Joylon wants to go find Uldren but Petra won't let him because the Darkness is in the solar system.

Joylon seeing the world in muted color then the day Crow gets brought into the world he sees color again. Joylon wants to go find Uldren but Petra won't let him because the Darkness is in the solar system.

Deimos has three possible soulmates:

Tevis

Ruin-1

Shaw

-Faire lost her soulmate in the Vault of Glass

- Drifter and Eris are soulmates. Eris would never known because she doesn't have her eyes.

- Felwinter and Timur are soulmates. Felwinter, not being a normal person wants to know what the fresh hell is going on

Cayde and Andal were soulmates

- Shin and Rezyl are soulmates. Shin figured it out after he killed the man, and has to live with that knowledge - what if Shaxx and The Drifter are soulmates?

- Katabasis never met his soulmate, who found out through interacting with his corpse.

[sundayswiththeilluminati]

Oo, I saw your latest post and I wanted to ask if we know where Rasputin gets his power. I’ve always assumed it was from seraphite but is there any knowledge on how it works? Or is it just idk space magic ksgsjsgsh

That’s a good question! Despite my argument that he’s too intelligent not to be at least a little paracausal, Rasputin doesn’t have any actual space magic (that we know of). Consider also that while he’s described as very powerful, Rasputin’s exact capabilities are deliberately left vague for storytelling reasons; writers don’t want to establish too many specifics lest future plotlines be hampered by players asking, “Why doesn’t Rasputin just do [X]?” But as far as we know his strength is purely secular; he wields all the lost might of humanity’s Golden Age plus whatever nonsense you might expect from a half-cracked AI with a penchant for railguns and several centuries of free time. 

Golden Age humanity had a real schizophrenic time with the concept of violence; new technology enabled destruction on an unfathomable scale at the same time the Traveler’s gifts and philosophy made people ashamed of our brutal history. Their solution was to box up everything related to warfare and shove it onto Rasputin instead, making it someone else’s responsibility so humans could pretend they were now enlightened, peaceful beings. As a result, by the end of the Golden Age pretty much all serious weaponry (and we had some very serious weaponry) belonged to the Warminds. Personally if I were building AI to oversee an age of peace and prosperity I might not have named them warminds, buuuut...feature creep, I guess? Then when Darkness attacked Rasputin assessed it as an existential threat and therefore invoked authority over all assets within the solar system. Since he’s never officially stood down from a war posture, that means he still considers all human assets to be legally/morally under his authority - including whatever assets remained when he finally conceded the war as lost and ordered everything surviving to go into deep hibernation. Basically if it was built during the Golden Age Rasputin has some claim to/control over it.

When it comes to Rasputin himself there are three aspects to consider: engramic computation, warsats, and Seraph energy. We know from the recordings at the Braytech Futurescape that “engramic computation” involved applying the same techniques engrams use to encode matter to computer hardware. Physically encoding normal silicon transistors allowed Golden Age computer engineers to pack exponentially more information into the same space, furnishing Rasputin with absolutely bonkers amounts of computing hardware compared to today - plus whatever he’s constructed himself in the meantime

Then there’s the warsat network: Rasputin was designed in tandem with the network and intended to operate across it. Warsats aren’t just Rasputin’s tools, they’re part of him. This is probably why Ana cracks a joke about Rasputin spending too much time “talking to himself” in the new public events; he really does spend a lot of time coordinating his various parts across the network. Operating as a distributed intelligence hardens Rasputin against being taken out by a targeted enemy strike during a war, but as we see with both Hellas Basin and the Cosmodrome, he does still have special complexes housing substantial computing power plus dedicated facilities for manufacturing, transportation, etc. The “Rasputin” we talked to in the Cosmodrome in D1 was essentially a stranded fragment isolated by the fraying of the warsat network from the rest of him.

Then we come to the most mysterious component: Seraph energy. The word “seraph” (Hebrew for “burning one”) has been associated with Rasputin from the very beginning - from the pre-Alpha build of Destiny 1, in fact. D1′s demo originally showed off five factions: the three we know (New Monarchy, Dead Orbit, and Future War Cult), plus an Osiris faction, plus one called “Seven Seraphs.” According to the Lead World Artist for D1 Seven Seraphs involved a program overseen by Cosmodrome “higher-ups” regarding where to site Rasputin’s bunkers. Though Seven Seraphs itself got cut from the game, the  word reappears associated with Rasputin throughout both games. In D1 his central area in the Cosmodrome is named “Seraphim Vault” and when Lord Timur fishes for information on the connection between the Exo Felwinter and the Warmind Vaults he asks, “Does the word Seraph mean anything to you?” Season of the Worthy has Rasputin explicitly mentioning “the Seraphs” as individual beings, plus the entire Seventh Seraph line of weaponry and armor. 

Destiny 2 is the first mention of Seraph energy in particular, that distinctive red-gold linework crackle associated with the terminal in Rasputin’s Aurora Reach vault, the Valkyrie javelin, and Rasputin equipment in general. His power sources in Alton Dynamo are filled with the stuff. Flashes of Seraph energy appear around all four IKELOS weapons plus Sleeper Simulant, as well as on the Mars planetary material “Seraphite,” described as “Native Martian relic iron infused with resonant Seraph energy.” Whatever Seraph energy is, Rasputin can wield it with great skill and may be partially made of it.

So...what is it? The closest I can get is “an artificial force capable of quickly transforming between energy and matter.” The IKELOS SMG has a perk named “Seraph Rounds” that causes rounds to overpenetrate targets and ricochet off surfaces, behaving a bit like an energy beam and a bit like material projectiles. Sleeper’s beam acts similarly. Whatever it is probably isn’t natural since Ana says Seraphite is unique to Hellas Basin, presumably having picked up stray emissions from Rasputin. The Valkyrie coalesces into material form out of energy and, when thrown, explodes back into an energy burst. Similarly the “printers” that fabricate Rasputin’s new satellites and heavy frames in the Seraph public events appear to form them directly from Seraph energy. But bottom line: we don’t know what it is, what it’s capable of, where it comes from, and what specifically it has to do with Rasputin.

I suspect that this season has a lot more surprises up its sleeve than the roadmap would suggest and hopefully we’ll get to learn more about Rasputin’s heavy weapons and maybe even his construction. Till then Rasputin’s real power is: fire. No, really. Seraph means “burning one,” his weapons are Solar-aligned, and the key art for this season composites a Warmind diamond with the Sun itself. No ontological contradictions or mystic power. Just steel and flame, and pure will. And hey - we’ve done more with worse.

[titanharem]

Okay okay, a ramble of my thoughts about the Iron Lords because wow do I love them all and the flood gates have been opened and Bungie barely gave me anything about them

In my mind, Lady Perun is a Nightstalker Hunter and her fc is Jaimie Alexander (mostly looking at her as Lady Sif in the Marvel movies)

Speaking of Perun, she’s 100% dating Lady Skorri. They’re in lesbians with each other. It’s about the Void/Solar dynamic, and also the More Practical/More Chipper Or Optimistic dynamic

Lord Radegast? Yeah, he’s a Sunbreaker Titan, trust me on this. And I’m mostly talking about the shoulder charge ability for Sunbreakers

Naturally, this means Radegast is very warm and would probably be really nice to hug, and it’s not just out of me being in love with every Titan I get my queer little hands on

(ps, Radegast probably needs a good long nap to relax for once in his life)

Lord Silimar kind of has a stubborn streak, but it’s a part of his charm really. Also he’s a Sentinel Titan. Think of the Ward of Dawn to be specific because if he continuously rebuilt a structure until one day it can’t be toppled by attackers, he’s stubborn and will hold his ground (and protect others with his shield)

Another part of Silimar’s charm is he kind of has the “Titans have two braincells and they’re stored in the fists” syndrome, but it works out in the end

I always imagined “what if Lord Felwinter was a Dawnblade Warlock because he apparently taught Osiris some things at some point” but Bungie just made that a canonical thing, and I owe Bungie my life

Alright, hear me out here, Felwinter/Shaxx enemies to lovers. In the new lore dropped by Bungie (“Remembrance”), they dueled repeatedly, were stuck in the castle for days because of a snow storm, and there was some respect between two Warlords (former Warlords at least)

Lady Efrideet is a Gunslinger Hunter because that feels oh so right if you ask me

Lord Gheleon is uhhh a bit of a himbo honestly. But don’t be fooled, he’s a competent bastard with many knives 

Gheleon is also a Nightstalker Hunter because that just feels right honestly 

Lord Timur? A little bit… eccentric and once he starts talking, he isn’t going to stop. You will hear what he has to say, and he can’t really stopped. Even if you shoot him because you’re an impatient monster, his Ghost would just finish his thought for him while bringing him back