#lore drops

[bitchin-beskar]

ok, inspired by @lilhawkeye3’s lore drops, I figured I’d drop some of my own lore

my great-aunt’s boyfriend’s daughter was an actress in a very well known CW show, and when I randomly met her at comic con she gave me a hug and scared the shit out of her security guard

[flowersosa]

The lore drop this episode is so fucking hawt, much like the seltzers from hell.

Also, free my girl Ankarna

[blindtaleteller]

MCU Asgard Canon Observation Research [Part 1]

Firstly and before I even start in on the subject, keep in mind that this is what it says: a collection of research into actual Canon Lore from the Marvel Cinematic Universe: not the comics, or the Nordic lore twice removed from it.

Secondly and alongside that, also keep in mind that even back at the start of the MCU as a long term project, while the MCU is based on the Marvel comics universe: the creators made a point of making it a completely different universe: for many varying reasons, including the spaces lacking continuity in the comics over the years that the MCU as a project wanted to pursue from it's first conception.

This is a large part of why there are phases and why they were numbered from it's creation. (And yes also why my tags recently mentioning counting phases are what they are elsewhere, but that's a whole other post.. or set of them.)

These are important to remember because, I would like to avoid previous iterations of people wasting their time trying to insert comics-universe lore and more excessively into or onto this requested post purely for the sake of, well; being argumentative or just trolling:as much as possible. I do try to take some time to respond to comments and reblogs as much as possible, but I can and will ignore or yes, at times point out people unable to manage these things.. and respond as necessary.

I normally wouldn't bother to mention this except yes, that has happened before so: consider this your disclaimer.. I ain't dealin' with you if you're gonna be a trolly shit disrespectful enough of the time effort and willingness to share what research and observations I have, by shitting on it or me in your pursuit of whatever flimsy excuses might be given for any inhuman reactions posted passive aggressive or worse.

More frankly: be respectful on my posts or get lost. I don't tolerate harassment on my blog whether it's aimed at me or others. Passive aggressive or otherwise. I'll discuss stuff, am happy to have any valid references I might miss added to and pointed out. Just don't be an asshat about it, and you'll get the same from me. That's how basic-bitch Karma, and I; both work: you'll get what you give along those lines, while in my space.

The necessary now out of the way... Next!

More as a side note with that mentioned; while I may mention some meta/theory in the form of the most probable (as that's how my meta in particular is formed) it is again: based on the facts of the canon lore and contexts confirmed presented in it; visually, in dialogue, and out of the mouths of the very people who made all that themselves, at the time that lore was given to us on screen: and will be mentioned as the theory and supposition that is 'meta' rather than 'canon'. I have gone out of my way as a fan of world, universe, and character building as a part of the creative process in particular: to watch, rewatch, rewatch again and again, and hunt down all this stuff (often lol purely out of my own curiosity.) All in all Meta is theory, Canon is story/film-established fact; and I do try to keep a clear line between the two of them. The early world and character building in the MCU has always been interesting enough to me alone, to do all that with my free time.

And that's especially true with Asgard in particular, as a main story driving force in one form or another as far back as 2010 when both Thor and CA: tFA's scripts were being filmed and their sets/settings picked out and created.

Final few bits before we get into it..? As Asgard lore (and even a lack of it's presence at times) is directly and appropriately attached and or in relation to the lore of several races, species, and massive events in the entirety of the MCU's first three phases.. I will be touching some of those cultures and places too, where important. Probably not in this particular part, but yeah. It's gonna happen.

As with the research post into Loki and his year of absence prior to Avengers 2012: (yes that's a link to an ask that contains a good chunk of info and years of interviews on that particular subject) this might not be an entirely complete compilation: for the same reasons. As I said, i didn't just watch, I rewatched repeatedly from differing personal mental angles: not just three or four times, but and as I wrote my own fanfiction.. I would also re-watch once or twice just prior to fleshing out an outlined story of my own to refresh my memory, seek out interviews official and otherwise from the creators and actors who made that lore and put it on screen for us to enjoy as part of the stories we enjoyed (or not, depending lol) and well.. the resulting organization of the whole outside of this post is less than comprehensive for anyone else. You can see the explanation for how that happens in the foreword of that thread if you're curious.

As a result, I may or may not exclude the actual interviews if this gets too long. Much of the visual in this first part especially are pretty self explanatory, as I did find some of my dissection pics too.

All said (I think? Gods I hope so that was a lot wasn't it? XD) and as suggested/requested recently in discord?

This one is gonna be expansive.. and hellaciously so: so grab your drinks and your snacks and still be prepared for this series of posts to be going for while (not kidding, may be compiling this properly between jobs for weeks) so yeah..

Here we go again!

The major forgotten fact of Asgard's depiction in the MCU is this:

We the audience are only shown a very tiny fragment of Asgard as another separate planet in space, and: they do show us we're missing as much, from the very first film.

That gif directly from the movie I used at the top? I'm using it again, because...

..look at that.

With topography, perspective and size in mind.

That tiny golden triangle in the middle is the Palace at the center. The little golden bar along that tiny portion to either side? Is the city attached to it proper, with the Bifrost, and as far as we've seen the 'Heroes Road' (as soem are calling it) and city walls cupping the Bifrost Bay directly facing the camera.

This is a space shot (of course,) and that tiny itty bitty moving spec that is still shrinking as it gets further from our perspective and closer to Asgard at the bottom, is the Bifrost in use.

And, they do give us a few views of that as early as five to six minutes into the first movie in 2011, as seen in the first clip below. I've set it to share at the first view of Asgard itself.

Hopefully that works. If not, the timestamp you're looking for is 2:04.

I recommend shutting off the audio, as it's a bit distracting. Trust me, we will get back to the very interesting audio from a world builder's perspective, when we get to the History and Relations section of Asgard's break down.. there are several tons, of that and in that opener alone, to examine later.

IMPORTANT!! When looking at any of these images or videos, keep in mind and look at the scale. Not just in the scene on screen at that moment, but also in reference to previous shots. Distance is a thing. The size of trees and people are a thing. This place in the MCU is much more massive than where it's very cloistered story parts take place.

This is not a city-planet like and for comparison: Coruscant, from Star Wars... though I am very aware that some people will throw out Asgard's concept art to try and 'debunk' that (yes its' been done and proven pointless in other threads).. that does also bring us to another couple of facts that slip by in their context.

In fact, you know what? I'll throw it in here right now myself:

This concept art: does still apply, if slightly adjusted with the topography and likely under ground portions taken into account.. because Asgard is the name of both the planet AND the city as separate entities of the same locale.

In other words, the concept art is VERY valid as a map of the city itself: but not the outlying locations outside of Asgard as a Capital City Proper, of Asgard as a disk planet.

And again.. they do show us this, and not just in the first film: although that first shot going into the city says as much too, being that..

A. Asgard is established as a society greatly more advanced than Earth and most others, and;

B. there are whole swaths of land (and especially mountain they like to build into) without structure between the edge panned through and the City itself. (see still image below: not the best quality but it's also in the video.)

Which.. we'll touch again a little more in a bit (and probably the biggest lol) part of this breakdown set; digging at History, Culture, and Relations.. as the fact they do prefer to build INTO their environment much more than on top of it is also shown in the shot of the canyons and canals on which not only that city is built, but even what buildings are shown outside of it on that panning-in shot.

We can see in the one above though: that while they did redirect some of the water through canals in the lower shot; they also kept and built into the natural(?*) lay of the river canyons below.

This theme is kept even before we get into the city though with the first part of the shot above the water.

Want a more visual view of the breakdowns as I do them?

Here you go, here's one example from out of my crazy folders and docs, that I made in paint back in 2013 (LOL yes I know. XD) while once again re-watching that same scene.

I would highly suggest clicking on it, as tumblr does downsize images making text on them hard to read otherwise. Crappy in-motion quality screen cap but, it was made more for breaking down the visual elements on screen for what it told us about the land, and more; on it.

----[?*] As a set of side/foot notes to that last bit and the image..

A. the top left corner yes: does reference some of where I use certain observations of canon in my own fics; and how they would have grown or evolved depending on that story. In this case, and at the time: the pink text is making note to utilize those observations in outlining Hvedrungr (Loki from Uni 0) and Flykra's (Loki from Vesti1 Uni 14) universes in particular: both of which return to Asgard at VERY different times and in different situations: while the history and culture I've been able to glean and expand on in some cases is still part of their and the location's background. As I don't have the patience to remove the text from an old paint shop cut.. I thought I would at least explain it's presence left there. These things are, ultimately connected by the culture that originated on and created them on that planet after all.. and why there's an entire section dedicated to the varied aspects of Asgard's presented Cultural, Relations, and History lore. B. The '?' at the 'natural' mention in parenthesis above, also takes into account that Asgard is much older than Earth's culture and has to be: if only because as only three generations have come and gone over the passage of what to us is five thousand years! (see the next installment Thor the Dark World: Bor and Darkalfheim, or just watch the movie with info gathering in mind.) In other words, between Bor's War, and Odin's Asgardian Great Wars: we cannot be certain whether or not 1. those canyons are actually natural or the now aged result of one of many previous interplanetary wars, or 2. whether Asgard at this stage of it's showing timed at 2011 more than a millennia later, has even always been this size, given their advancement in technology and study of magic as presented OR left in question, either. For my part, as there's no conclusive dialogue from that era to state otherwise in the MCU or it's interviews that I know of, and knowing the context of Malekith and Darkalfheim's familiarity with Asgard itself during their raid to reclaim the infinity stone: I tend to veer towards a mixture of the two. While it's very likely at least some of the canyons are indeed natural; the great age of the culture and planet both, along with the nature of Bor and Odin's rules alone as we've seen them: leaves a HUGE and LONG period of time and opportunities for some of those nasty fights to come directly to them... or even their predecessors. Which would also explain why they had that shield for the palace too. You don't build and more importantly upkeep something like that without a very good set of reasons or examples experienced, to do so after all. Much of that is meta though, however based on canon fact it may be: and as many of the creators were not asked publicly during that era, and have been dismissed or moved on to other projects since.. it's hard to know if we'll ever see a *genuine* answer from the people who actually made it all starting sixteen years ago.

Anyway, let's look at a few more shots of Asgard with that breakdown going. Some of these are all old, from as far back as about ten years ago when I first started writing outlines for the varied universes in my Lokiverse Project: but they do still hold up. theer are some from TDW in this bunch too. I heavily dissected these scenes knowing I was going to do whole chapters in multiple differing universes, and wanted to have the presented layout and feel laid out in my head, before I started adding in locations on the planet not yet shown on film. And given my first Book was already going to be DREAMS.. where Asgard has been blown to bits post Endgame? I really wanted to get it right so I could deconstruct it as many times as I and the muses wanted to. Laufeyson (Universe 10 Loki) was pretty insistent too with the opening chapters on his end focusing partially on that chase with Abell through Asgard's blown apart ruin

Sorry for the ramble of an explanation, but that's how it is and how it works over here...? XD

..uhmmmm. Yeah lol! When I said I watch and re-watch from differing mental perspectives..? That's what I mean. I don't usually share those at all... only the unedited pics. Genrally I will take caps or take existing raw caps and pick out piece that catch my eye. I've been told they do help put your brain in the right mode for those who have difficulty processing them in that way, like I do when in that mode. Also yes, trees and fish ...bruh. lol!

It's there, has been for years in some cases; and I'm not messing with it now.

That basic bit out of the way (doesn't sound so basic does it.) Let's backtrack a bit, specifically to Asgard's shape and the placement of it's location and the locations on it.

As I first write this, I don't have the talks I had with a few wild meteorologists and geologists back then directly on hand (as this is a part I still don't focus on too much; but:) shaped as it is, those I did talk to theorized that between the shape and placement of planets as well as the nebula they're partially inside, that Asgard may be shaped and in rotation as it is because of its' placement in it's system: or because of late interference by Asgard's inhabitants to keep it stable.

^ That one scene in particular from Thor 2011 really made my eyes pop. Not because of what's going on in it so much as trying to answer the whys and hows and what the actual fricks man: because..

Can you imagine, the conversation: trying to pitch that spinning death ball to the King there OR anywhere else on the planet before Bor or even his great grandfather?

Or, trying to talk the royalty down from the idea of putting it anywhere NEAR the palace, or other people's homes?

How about testing that house sized death-by-velocity-alone gilded mess? (Yes I still laugh thinking about that. Some poor scholar/engineer type trying to dissuade Bor's grand-daddy from building what would definitely become a giant pinball of death in the canyons and canals, if that thing ever came off it's anchors even once in the city. Good gods! lol!) Who knows; maybe that was when people started moving to Vanaheim... XD! Just (mostly) kidding.

Cray-cray thoughts of high velocity gilded pinball hell that was probably somewhere way back in the Bifrost's likely development and evolution as tech/normie science boosted by magic, and or vice versa, aside:

You probably notice I've mentioned the nebulae and the planets in their rotation more than once. And with good reason.

Backing up a bit; Asgard is interesting well before you hit her shores.

Not only is she a top-shaped disk-planet: but with the way the sky is shown: Asgard has a very interesting rotation if she has any left at all. There's very little we know, but what we do know is she is not alone in her systematic rotation either way.

(Asgard's sky from Thor's personal Hall in Thor: the Dark World)

In fact and as seen in the screen caps above: Asgard has an incredibly close relation to at least three planets in her nebulous solar system. At least one of which is absolutely massive: massive enough that it's close proximity is theorized as being pretty likely to be the only way Asgard experiences night cycles as seen in Thor: the Dark World... mainly through eclipsing the nebulous sun by passing between it and Asgard as a planet.

Which is both cool -and- scary when you take things like degrading orbits, space debris and projectiles like comets and other space science into account.. but also very, very interesting.

It also begs the question either way: why didn't Asgard at their earlier establishment of a greater technological level, colonize or move to those planets sooner? Of course.. the first obvious answer is.. they probably couldn't, at first. And even more probably were past trying by the time the Bifrost was built, prior to Bor's time (I say prior because we have seen Bor use it in Thor the Dark World: and on a massive scale moving whole armies, the same as his son Odin. See some of the scenes from Bor's seizure of the Aether below.)

But yeah, Asgard is a pretty unique place even before you get to the water fall's edge: or questioning what kind of condensed mass it has to retain gravity at it's very small size.

Or, whether that gravity and the shape is in fact generated in some form or another after millennia upon millennia of just the Wars we do know about in their history.

(At current we know about Darkalfheim and the series of Wars including Jotunheim and Muspelheim that they call the Great Wars. While they are definitely aware of the extensive millennia of intergalactic war between the Xandarian based Nova Corps and the Kree Empire put front and center in GotG.. there hasn't been any actual confirmation as to whether Asgardians fought in that war on either side: only that they are at that stage at least loosely allied with Asgard.. if not a more separated protectorate being considered among the nine realms in the MCU.)

Why do I keep pointing out trees, and perspective; or teh size of the city in that first little gif again?

Because.. that is our repeated visual evidence of just how much of Asgard as a planet; the story did not take place in.. huge parts of the place we haven't seen. And that makes sense.

Power plants or generators, smithys, and even schools can be easily placed in the city proper, at this stage.

But what about BEFORE, they got to this stage.. because that is a thing in the MCU in regards to Asgard: and a major plot point for three movies of script running, from 2010 all the way to 2015 when Taika Waititi was hired (unfortunately, for those of us who know the root of what happened there.)

What about food, for thousands of 5000 year lifespans and their kids. And their grandkids. And.. the food for the livestock, or the wild game

Or the bilgesnipes and dragons--well we can guess what happened to the dragons of Asgard in particular actually. If they were anything like Muspelheim's; and on a planet that size..? It doesn't take much to figure out Odin, Bor and their predecessors probably couldn't excuse not hunting a predator big enough to swallow people to extinction: not for much longer than they absolutely had to anyway.

What about fibers and leather for clothes.

How about waste management, for both the city and suburban areas? Sewers? Water filtration? Factories or slaughterhouses to process it all, and the means to support those things. Everything man made, is grown, processed or made somewhere.

We know they have these things, because we know they have and make their own alcohol (fermentation of grains, fruits, and more); as well as other things to eat: displayed in both T1 and TDW.

(The top image is from Thor's table flip scene in Thor 2011; while the one below it is from the tavern scene in the beginning of Thor: the Dark World.)

Meat, vegetables, fruit, grain, herbs, and seasonings are all represented on the tables above. While some might be imported (I really do wonder about the platters of golden apples myself:) it's not very likely all of them are. And it wouldn't make sense for them to have been imported from off world throughout their species development either. After all and again: they would have had to have survived and developed enough to GET TO, that stage in the first place.

You're also looking at Varnish in the shine of that table; smithing and metal working and ceramics in their table ware. Weaving either plant or animal fibers in their clothes, as well as the likely production of tannin (or it's equivalent) and leather working in every leather piece on screen. Candles can be made from varied sources, whether that's actual wax of some form, or condensed animal fat.

Oh, and if you find the enlarged version of those images: you'll also notice things like fine engraving and metal sculpture to the goblets and platters on the Thor 2011 table in particular.

Either way, the images above show us directly that unsurprisingly, they have come to understand whole other sub-levels of production: before you even get to the high-tech and magic ends of any of that to be able to reproduce it in that modern era.

As another side note related to that: the booze alone is pretty telling as to how far off the "Loki" series is on this mark, as well. Creators of current content 'conveniently forgot' that this is supposed to be a space faring, technologically advanced society (even if they're the social equivalent of medieval imperialist thugs .. lol sorry not sorry! That's literally how they're depicted... and honestly that really weird twist IS some of Asgard's most interesting and strange development) whose friends, allies and other examples of places visited DO and HAVE included Earth, Xandar, and six other 'realms' as their etymology names them: for literal millennia. Even taking the other, long established cultural influences and visitations aside? For a society who 5000 years ago was still porting whole armies to other planets to kick peoples asses? The idea they never discovered honey; or sugar especially even on the inside of a fermentation barrel for wine; OR how to process it into something like candy? Is more than just a -little- dumb in the stretch. Sugar often naturally starts to separate and crystallize during the fermentation process. Ask a vintner, or look it up if you don't believe me. Just sayin'.. just on Earth alone, we know sweets were discovered more than 8000 years ago. Eight thousand. And the only reason we haven't been able to confirm people older than that finding things like bee's hives?? Is because well.. that kind of thing rarely survives even that length of time at all, to be found in archeology in order to tell us more. I'll touch that and how it's pretty damned near impossible that 'Loki doesn't know wtf candy is' being 1k+ years himself, and a guy raised as an Asgardian prince & spymaster to boot later into the culture section I think, but mmm.. that whole bit still reeks of stupid, to me And more so after their own DB Cooper scene. Gonna say candy wasn't a snack in that era either? Cause if so; I got big shocking news, for those who think so... XD

In closing.. for this part?

As far as the world of Asgard goes, we have only been allowed to see a very small part of it: and even then? It is still undoubtedly massively larger than even what's implied: and definitely capable of supporting it's comparatively small base population of less than 10k people.

(Odin's subterranean vault reference: exterior)

The only reason we don't see even more of it; is the fact that films have a limited time to give you everything, and the story focuses on the royal family from the get go. And they live, in the heart of Asgard's capital city... so we largely don't see as much of that as weirdo world building fans like me would absolutely love to see in the process... and frankly; they gave plenty enough to start us off with.

The films would have suffered for having too much more of that, rather than the stories they were trying to tell.

The same.. I would love to know more: and I do wish the current teams paid the previous ones more respect by using what was already there and expanding on it: instead of making mismatched new things up, as they went.

The early creative teams really knew what they were doing back then.

(Asgard's defensive cannons defending against the Darkalfheim air raid in Thor the Dark World.)

And no, this isn't all they showed us, in the show and tell they did manage to give us over the course of years of work... far from it.

Hope you enjoyed part one! Maybe you learned or saw something you missed.. or have been inspired to watch the older films again..?

I know I often am.

[loreintheaether]

i’m catching my friend up on the kotlc fandom here on tumblr as she rereads the series and just sent her 50 posts from u guys to look at LOL

but she doesn’t know/remember some of the later plot points, so i’ve been trying to keep everything spoiler-free

thank you kotlc fandom for the shitposts and the fanart!! i’ve had a lot of ammo thus far >:D

@wistronaut DON’T GET SPOILED

[legacieswcrp]

LORE DROP: THE PATRONS OF DIVINATION AND THE HUNT

Even after the Fallen left, StormClan's days on Tallrock were not peaceful, no matter how desperately they sought it in the wake of the war. Cedarstar, chosen to succeed Rimestar for her tactical prowess, proved to be a passive and insecure leader, her legacy a thin shadow easily dwarfed by the legends before and after her. When southern floods forced the seasonal sheep to graze further up the mountain, deep into StormClan's territory, it was not Cedarstar who would be remembered as the hero of her time, but a cleric and a warrior, honored respectively as Snowfall and Hornbreaker.

StormClan's recovery after their crimes against the Fallen was a slow and painful one. It took time for the once again isolated Clan to mend the bonds that had been so severely broken and burned in that era of violence and treachery, when Fallen friends and Clanmates alike turned on those who trusted them most, abandoned their families in the name of their ideals. Many among the Clan, including Cedarstar herself, were of Fallen descent, born in that precious window of time between Adder's crimes and the end of the war, when the Queen's Rights became a concept more familiar on the lips of the Clan than they had been in generations. Some among these were cats who suffered strange dreams haunted by Glory and his Fallen, visions of red moons and in their very bones a sorrow deeper and older than the mountains - cats who wisely kept their troubles hidden from the rest of the Clan and resigned themselves to the company of one another, or worse, to suffer alone.

Though they didn't arrive immediately after the war, when the torrential rains first started over the Tallrock territories, StormClan - and others around them - knew that there was something off about them. The downpour was relentless, slicking the mountainside with a dangerous slurry of mud and half-buried soot. The river in the lowlands broke its banks like an eager animal and all but swallowed the lowland meadows, and the familiar grazing sheep, in their northernmost greenleaf wandering, were stranded with StormClan on Tallrock.

When the first warrior died - some say he slipped from a rain-soaked ledge, others that she fell under the hooves of a panicked ewe, and others still that they were the first in a slew of greencough victims - Cedarstar knew that something needed to be done, but was at a loss for what. She had been trained to fight cats and predators, not the weather, not livestock; nobody in the Clan was prepared for this. With no other options in sight, she turned to Moonflowers.

Moonflower was an herb StormClan had discovered in their travels, an ornamental plant kept by some Twolegs. Eating the seeds in the right dose could cast one into a deep sleep, an unnatural dream. In the wrong dose, it was a deadly poison, but in times of extreme crisis, StormClan cats had used it before to directly seek StarClan's guidance, something that in those days was not otherwise possible in the absence of a Moonplace. While not quite the brazen taboo of channeling - forcing a heavenly spirit to convene with the living by ritual, altar, material sacrifice, and prayer - it was as close as most straight-laced cats dared to try, and an extreme risk regardless. On this occasion StarClan did answer Cedarstar's call and told her that the Clan would need to look south, where they could glimpse the future through a spider's eyes.

Whitestem, the younger of the Clan's two clerics, volunteered to go, bringing a small entourage of warriors with her. The other hero of this story, Houndflight, was not among them; though the two were extremely close friends - would later become mates - Houndflight was busy helping StormClan devise a means of keeping the wandering sheep away from their camp.

Whitestem's story is unclear from here, the particulars lost to history. What is known is that at the end of her journey, she found her way to a Twoleg barn where a loner named Spider lurked. Spider was strange, a tiny scrap of a cat with huge, unblinking eyes, who had built a reputation among the Twolegplace cats for reading the future i the movements of its namesake and the patterns in their webs. It was Spider's divination that guided Whitestem north once more to the flooded meadows, and it was there that she found StormClan's Moonplace, reflecting not one but dozens of gasping moons shining in rain-drawn pools all across the landscape, islands of silver light in the downpour: the Moonpools. What Whitestem experienced when she closed her eyes beside one of these pools - what she did - is a secret she carried to the grave, but the stories say that when she woke, the rain had given way to that leaf-fall's first snow.

On Tallrock, StormClan was facing stray sheep. As if the weather hadn't been bad enough, the sheep were driving out what little prey wasn't already gone from the rain. The Clan was fairly familiar with the beasts by that point, taught by the Fallen to give them a wide berth and let them do their work well before the war, but avoiding them was becoming less and less of an option. Most concerning was the ram, an ornery, dark-eyed thing that was prone to getting lost and even more prone to stamping and butting at anything - besides the ewes and dog that followed him - that moved too close, including StormClan cats. Houndflight was spearheading the counter-strategy; she was young, like Whitestem, but nothing short of a hunting prodigy. She had outpaced her mentor's hunting skills before she'd even finished her training, and seemed to understand the sheep's movements and behavioral patterns like she had known them from the day she was born. Some say this had something to do with her alleged Fallen heritage, that her gift was some part of their concealed culture. Regardless, Cedarstar had concluded early on that there was no better warrior for the job, and so Houndflight devised a plan to lure the herd to the far side of the mountain by baiting the ram.

It worked, in the end. Warriors died in the stampede, but Houndflight was like the wind, dodging ram and dog both until, when her escape routes through the herd tightened and vanished, she leapt onto the ram's shoulders and rode it over the mountain like a man on a horse. The sheep lost too, in the end, as in his furious head-tossing the ram lost sight of the mountain beneath him, slipped, and went tumbling down the rocks, dragging Houndflight with him. When the rest of the patrol finally dared to inspect, they found him dead, one horn broken and bloody at the end of a trail that led to a one-eyed Houndflight.

More romantic retellings say that Houndflight and Whitestem returned home on the same night, perhaps even at the same time. Others say each molly fretted for the other for days before their tearful reunion. Whatever the case, the ending is the same - Cedarstar honored them both in the same ceremony for their feats. Houndflight became Hornbreaker for her triumph over the ram, and Whitestem Snowfall for the break in rainfall that supposedly coincided with her moment of communion.

Hornbreaker remains StormClan's most celebrated hero. Her story is one everyone hears in the nursery, her bravery the inspiration of countless warriors since. Her legacy is as cautionary as it is aspirational, a warning against careless hunting and the cost of being a hero. Snowfall's is less celebrated, but arguably the more impactful, not only for her discovery of the Moonpool, but for her nearly exclusive part in changing the cleric tradition, separating healing from spirituality so that, in the future, pilgrimages such as hers would not come and the cost of StormClan's medical preparedness. She is credited as the first sage as well, a cat who dedicated much of her long life to teaching others about StarClan and their rites.

Today, most lucky charms and trinkets hearken back to these two cats - broken prey bones for bravery, frostbitten twigs for spiritual awareness, spider husks and antler chips for good luck, wool scraps for healthy relationships - and Hornbreaker is often invoked by pious warriors for productive hunts and success with experimental techniques. Some believe that Snowfall is the maker of prophecies, spinning omens like spider's silk from her claws. Of all of StormClan's heroes and villains, these two stand out as their brightest twin stars, likely to keep burning for even more generations to come.

[sunnyxjarrus]

my mom is currently quietly pissed off at my grandfather(my dad’s dad) because of his lack of reaction to my younger cousins autism diagnosis where when I was diagnosed he threw a massive fit saying that these doctors just want to put a label on everything and that there was nothing wrong with his grandkids

( there was definitely something wrong with us[my sister is the only one of my siblings that doesn’t have adhd my older brother has an anger disorder and at the time our stepdad had just died])

but when the youngest grandson gets a diagnosis it’s just fine

@local-lover-boy

[turnthepagevn]

ZackFact: Zack is not a fan of when people come into his store and start screaming "HELP MEEEEE" while recording themselves.

[retrokid616]

gm: the matron is showing imogens mom and oh idk where everyone been since exu!

always when i gotta go lore drops just hits anyway till most likely a ass load of double checking the cr wiki on my weekends list other than reviewing joker 2 take care everyone and see ya'll in the vods good luck rest of y'all watching

[rowavolo]

what’s your (group?)chat name(s) in obey me? as in luke and barbatos are “sweet tooth,” diavolo, lucifer, and barbatos are “the fantastic three,” etc. yes this is the tiniest detail of worldbuilding ever but my warrant is that i put too much thought into mine (and will go into detail if pressed)

- blue

WAIT I ACTUALLY. IVE DONE THIS.

i have decided on custom nicknames and icons for my s/i and like. most of the obey me characters (by which i mean like. the brothers and the primary dateables)

Here are my nicknames for them! (if you get the beel one youre my new best friend btw /silly)

And theirs for me!

Extra context, Octariians is my username on some video game things (though i have a few others i cycle through, i havent been consistent for yearsss) and i imagine simeon is like my grandma and just uses the last name to add a note about how he knows the person. He knows me because I'm friends with luke. and Barbatos names the people in his phone after their favourite kinds of tea if he likes them enough

Honestly I don't have anything off of the top of my head for group chat names. Though I can imagine me, beel and belphie being "the sleepy, the eepy and the hungry" or something dumb like that. theres an ongoing war over "the anti lucifer league" because when im in a good mood with him i keep changing it and satan and belphie get cross.

Though I'd imagine my gc with lucifer and diavolo is something really silly and cheesy but changes regularly based on the whims of dia and i (much to lucifers chagrin) . we love to come up with dumb nicknames too, especially ones related to notable groups of three. (i can totally see us being 'the starter trio' with dia as charmander, me as bulbasaur and luci as squirtle for like a really long time)

this is such a cool and fun ask, thank you so much!!!!. i absolutely live for the tiniest worldbuilding details you have no idea (glances nervously at the huge array of scattered headcanons i have about devils and angels and their mannerisms/differences) . Id love to hear some of yours if you're willing to share!! :D

[dreamworld-and-co]

LORE TIDBITS FROM STREAMS

(PASTED FROM DISCORD, LET ME KNOW IF I MISSED ANYTHING -FOX)

-Did you know one of the main characters has something to do with one of the characters with their names spoilered? (context: on character profiles in the discord server, some names are spoilered for mystery purposes. these characters are plant, whom, devil, chip, felt, etc)

-Did you know that same character might be considered a mix breed of sorts between two COREs?

-Did you know Scape has something to do with one of the spoiler name characters too?

-Scape has committed a crime or two. Or three. Might have something to do with the second most web-ish core.

-You might not like Sunny as much about halfway through the first arc :]

-Did you know only one of the characters with their names spoilered is conscious currently?

- trick x sunny is the only canon and confirmed ship in the entirety of dreamworld.

- more sunny teasing about the big thing he’s gonna do. may or may not kill people, but that’s up to your own interpretation! the fate is left vague, but the action taken is very clear.

- human core character reveals! what’s up with eve?

[mings-lore-library]

So here’s where I’ll do lore drops and some roleplays with my OCs if ya wanna. Send asks about any of them.

Real quick brief lore, we have

Ming- My main OC. She’s a demon princess, she’s got it all. She was raised by the ninja turtles and is a ninja. She’s short and can’t swim and allergic to wasps.

Victoria- Ming’s evil clone. Created by darkness and Ming’s DNA. She eats wasps for breakfast just to flex on Ming and her inferiority. She’s evil evil. Ish. Possibly redeemable?

Damien- Ming’s twin brother. He loves sex, drugs and alcohol. He’s been raised as a prince, and by that I mean spoiled as fuck. He gets his way, whether he has to use force or not.

Rex- Vampire boy. He’s a sharpshooter and he loves basketball. He likes Ming, but he’s fine just being friends if she is. Also he’s secretly a clone.

Ted- Rex’s twin brother. A werewolf. He was nearly mauled to death so his transformations hurt more than they should. Pretty smart, but mostly cares about biology. They’re both Latino.

Tweet- Ghoul. Spanish. Albino. His real name is Daniel but everybody calls him Tweet and nobody knows why. He’s a hacker. A computer whiz. He also has black tentacles that sprout from his back. He can barely control them and they scare him.

Kyle Wu- He’s a drummer he’s a rockstar! He ain’t very bright but he’s a sweet guy. His parents immigrated from China when he was nine, and his “American name” was Kyle up until he was 17, when he decided he wanted to be called his birth name, too, and combined them. He’s also a wizard. He loves his ace girlfriend.

Elsa- Tweet’s girlfriend and Kyle Wu’s twin sister. She’s a pretty girl, and she’s a witch. She’s also polyamorous and very much pansexual, so she’s flirted with Ming a few times. She loves her birds!

Hami- Kyle Wu’s girlfriend. She’s a vampire from Cuba who isn’t afraid to get in a fist-fight. Her parents enrolled her in boxing classes when she was younger to try to let out her anger issues, but now she has anger issues and can throw a punch. She’s very proud of who she is and thinks bats are for sissies. Asexual and proud of it.

Ivy- Ted’s girlfriend and Tweet’s cousin. Both her and Tweet were raised by their grandparents. She’s very sweet but very shy. She loves horses and she’s a werewolf, just like Ted.

Those are my main 10. I’ll include my other OCs under this cut (there’s a lot) (the list is probably incomplete)

My Little Pony OCs

Starblood-

Starblood can transform into a griffin, is trans, emo, Japanese, and Ming’s future wife and “father” of their future biological daughter.

May- orphan Daughter of April O’Neil and Casey Jones. She’s a hot-head and a troublemaker, with a history on the wrong side of the law. Adopted foster daughter of Raphael, and she’s on a redemption arc

Alyssa- Ex-Girlfriend to Ming, used to be Christian. Mortal.

Oak- So, technically she’s my first OC. Anything to do with dinosaurs, that’s her. She raised a T Rex by hand and several other babies that are all named after most of my other OCs lol. Because the dinosaurs were the first form of lots of my OCs.

Sky- I found a place for her. She is Ming’s current girlfriend and also a forest fairy. She’s South African and short and chubby and has bright blue hair and vampire fangs. She’s great. I love her.

Lucifer and Arianna- Ming and Damien’s parents. (Allegedly). Devil and Angel.

Mien- In some iterations, she is Ming’s mother. She was the first version of her mother.

Angennika- Ming’s daughter in Mutant Mayhem. Her middle name is Ming because Ming is currently trapped in a crystal, so her mother (Starblood) calls her Ming. But she actually prefers Angie.

Spruce- Victoria’s twin and Damien’s evil clone. He’s not evil. At all. He sucks at it.

Samar- Hami’s evil clown. She’s ACTUALLY evil, and irredeemable unlike Victoria and Spruce. I was going to make an evil clone for each of my main ten but considering Victoria is ALREADY an evil clone and Rex is a not-evil clone too, that might be hard.

Ducky- Tweet’s baby sister. He will do anything to protect her.

Pebbles- Ducky’s best friend and Rex and Ted’s little sister. Real name is Roxanne.

Razor and Martha- Rex, Ted and Pebbles’s parents. Vampires. In some iterations, Razor is Lucifer’s secret boyfriend.

Alex- Ted’s real identical twin brother. When Theodore and Alexander were young they were both kidnapped. Ted was found safely but Alex was never found. In heartache, and to give his young son his best friend back, Razor used Alex’s DNA to create Rex. Which nobody found out the truth… until Alex showed up on their doorstep 15 years later.

Angel- So in some iterations, Ming’s mother is Mien. And in a universe that Mien is her mother and Ming is raised by the turtles, Ming has a younger sister. That’s Angel. Mien’s second daughter.

Angel Draxum- So y’all know Baron Draxum? He has a daughter. Who was kidnapped and raised by Ming as her older sister.

This list is in no way complete and I will add more OCs as I remember them (or create them)

[wolf-onajourney]

training praises

Athena:

"Impressive. Excellent display of wit and skill"

"Thank you, my patroness"

Or

"You could've done better."

"I know, my patroness"

Vs

Ares:

"WOOO! THAT'S MA BOYYY"

Telemachus, drenched in blood and just killed whatever animal that's used for live training in the most painful way possible:

"..."

(He likes it, it's just hard to respond to. At most, he's known the god for 2 years)

[george228732]

A Poem - Cosmounse

Father, Mother, now you are underground. Lost, Forgotten, that soul hasn't been found. A rule, a law, that I must abide, For I am too late, to get insight.

Faces, faces, they all have a force, That send me to madness, without any control, I must protect, I must apply, Any punishment, for anyone that dares hurt this pride. A lust for power, it's everything I want, For I have a purpose, one not given by a wand, But heroes and more, that want to give in entry, To my own son, who is the sin of envy.

I will get rid of anyone getting in my way, I will burn, destroy, and cut threats of my reign, Pure bliss and happiness will come towards me, But disgrace and misfortune will come towards thee.

[ask-electric-lemon-cookie]

*as the battle rages above the calm depths of the sea, bodies and men are thrown overboard, one of them, a certain cookie alight with thundering sky in the sea falls overboard gaping and trying to brea the hold of the chains he quickly losses consciousness, the wounds and disorientation mixing into him loosing consciousness.

Unknown to the family taking calm stroll across the sea world, their world is about to be shaken as demons from eel past sink back into his life*

@ask-the-almighty-electric-fish

[loreintheaether]

What's a movie you loved during your childhood?

the secret of the kells!!!!!! for the longest time, i thought this was just a fever dream i had as a kid because i couldn’t remember the name of the movie, just recalled glimpses of it. it’s such a magical film, and the animation style is enchanting to a child and even more impressive as an adult. i really recommend it. it ranks high in my childhood favorites, along with a bunch of other animated movies like anastasia, sleeping beauty, the swan princess, etc.

thank u sm for your asks they were so fun to answer!