#lore of low

[lowslore]

Happy Birthday! I hope you have a good day!!!

Thanks so much!!

I've had a lovely day. Went out to the beach and eaten lots of lovely food!

[svampira]

snack time🤤

[core-clash]

I mean this with love and kindness. I hope all the girlies who were convinced Jayce would exile Viktor and inherently despise him for using the Hexcore on himself feel real silly right now.

[mourn-and-watch]

just want to remind y'all of some kirkwall-related details that are not at all relevant for the possible events of datv:

meredith stannard is alive and kicking and is also planning a war against tevinter

red templars are in control of the gallows; it's hard to tell what's going on in the city itself, but with varric absent it might be left with no viscount again

there's an elven graveyard on sundermount where ancient elves entered uthenera; it is also possibly dedicated/related to mythal

there was also a demon contained in an idol on top of sundermount who supposedly possessed a great knowledge about arlathan and eluvians

the veil in kirkwall has always been remarkably thin and tevinter magisters were weakening it on purpose during their reign; the whole city was built as an enormous blood magic ritual site

if the veilguard squad is going to travel through the eluvians there's still one in kirkwall. the one that has been plot-relevant since dao

[martyryo]

Yaoi blast!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aphel1on]

AURGH auwarghh the autistic parental trauma... the epi was wacky hijinks then dropped this on us out of nowhere... (sobs) laios... laiiiiooooos

[bacchuschucklefuck]

space sweepers but they're delivery people and are at no point on screen through the entire movie

[canisalbus]

So I saw one of your art posts about machete and his mom and I was wondering does he ever reconnect with his parents later in life? Your art and characters are amazing btw.

In the original renaissance setting, no. His parents left him at a monastery to be raised as a foundling at age four or so, and at least during his stay there they didn't make an attempt to reclaim or visit him. He was a quiet, disciplined and obedient kid, and a fast and motivated learner, so the monks encouraged him to pursue an ecclesiastical career. When he was around eight he was picked for an apprenticeship by a highly respected priest in Naples and shipped to the mainland, and after that point any potential ties to his biological family were severed.

He doesn't remember his early childhood, I don't think he knows his original family name or where he was born to be exact. His parents have no reason to think that anything ever became of him.

[uglylilclown]

Family photo with their finest clothes 🥵🥵

(grandpa and grandma were in the outhouse ig)

I have been cooking a lil backstory and their ever changing household and so here’s their mama and some small headcanons :33

[lowslore]

It's my birthday today 🎉

[oh-no-its-bird]

Since Ichigo dies at about 15, and Hatake get their marks at like 14? what do her clan markings look like? 👀

OHHH OK THIS IS ACTUALLY A WHOLE THING, SO,

Ichigo got moon stripes !! It's also known as the story teller stripes, and is the traditional tattoos of the Hatake clan's religious leader and story keeper. Which Ichigo does end up in training to become!

There's actually a bit of drama with the fact that Yuki, the current clan shaman, is so old (she's in her 70's, which is basically like being in her 120's for a shinobi), and she's only now picking an apprentice in Ichigo.

Yuki did actually have an apprentice before, who was fully trained and set up to take up the position whenever Yuki died— but they were one of the 5 Hatake to die to illness the winter before the Hatake were summoned to iron court (which is the event that got the ball rolling on the Hatake joining Konoha a year or two later)

Yuki settled on Ichigo being her next apprentice relatively quickly after that, but wouldn't actually tell anyone about it for some more years— stubbornly staying quiet on the topic even when pressed with increasingly stressed and worried questions about it. Ichigo was only about 8 at the time, but Yuki set to training her just a little bit under the table

It was easy enough, when Ichigo was always happy to listen to her stories and gossip about past and present events. Ichigo kind of ended up soaking in a lot of things she'd be expected to learn in the role (religious rights / mythos of spirits and gods / traditions and why they do them / stories passed down through the family / etc.) naturally throughout the years.

Finally, Ichigo turned 14 and lead her first hunt— the marker of a Hatake coming of age. Afterwards, it was Yuki's job to give her the stripes Yuki deemed to 'fit her best,' which is ofc when she gave her the moon stripes and officially announced her plans with a "teehee congrats <3"

It wasn't actually too much of a surprise to those who'd been paying attention to what had been going on, but still caught some off guard. Ichigo had been "training" for like, 6 whole years at that point, without even realizing it. So she was honestly pretty well into her education on the roll, and would probably only need a few more years afterwards to be deemed officially ready to take it on

But then ofc, she dies a year later. And Yuki dies in very quick succession. (Losing her third apprentice, and so old already, had done terrible things to her heart and spirit) And with both of them went a very large portion of the clans history.

Others in the clan, of course, still knew plenty. Yuki's teachings had not been for Ichigo alone, and many had sat by her side and listened to her stories as well. But no single person knew as much as they had or had been in the same position of authority to do things like honoring the spirits of their ancestors or assigning Hatake stripes to their young.

In their deaths, Haruka had to take up many of their duties, mostly by default via being the highest other figure of respect in that regard. But they lost a lot.

There's some sort of interesting point to be made that the Hatake's religious leader wears tattoos that symbolize a red moon. And that Kaguya-hime is among the gods they pay respects to.

I don't really have any real thoughts on it other than going "hmm." and writing that down to reference later, but like !! That's something

anyways Yuki herself is also pretty cute, I find myself enjoying her immensely, so take this art I drew for her the other day that I've been looking for an excuse to post:

[beausprouts]

Compilation of the refs for my silly au 🫶🫶🫶

The Afton family making me scream and cry and throw up for real.

[son-of-lunadeyis]

so like. chip isn't human right?

between the unknown origins, the "welcome home", randomly knowing celestial and having no clue why - hell, surviving having his heart ripped out? correct me if im wrong but i don't think the rest of widows crew were human even before being undead. i don't know if a regular human could survive that! (the two that give me pause on that is the musician and the girl in the dungeon but i digress)

jay and gillion are related to the sun and moon (and in jays case, that really big tree on her mom's side) and chip is drawn to both them and the hole in the sea. his entire life has revolved around getting to that point and it says "welcome home"?? his friends are related to all these great divine powers and he's "just some guy"????

yeah. chip isn't human.

[thou-babbling-brook]

I can’t believe canonically this holiday season Basim can go see Wicked and Sonic 3. I hate ac lore.

[bottombaron]

just me thinking abt the insidiousness of the Familiar Clinic

a place where every familiar is recommended to be put down

not because of any injury or disease

but because their vampire cared about them enough to take them there in the first place

[dezmolad]

what I'd do to get my hands on those iconic TFP magazines. Look at this thing.

Translation:

FANTASTIC POSTERS

PRESIDENT HAS TO DIE!!!

isn't this. Something.