#sebastiennetbt

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Thinking bout. Sebastienne. Power. And limits.

Her powers are not like a butterfly effect that anyone anywhere is affected. Usually the subject of her probabilities, if not Sebastienne herself, is someone in visible range to her or, if a potential target is not visible, someone she’s aware of no more than a few feet away. IE she does not need to see her partner on a heist to influence them, she just has to be aware of them or them of her and only a room or two away. The Saints in the fourth quarter might make her nervous, but it’s not the Quarterback rolling a nat one, it’s her roommate catching their side off the countertop while grabbing more chips.

It’s not Looney Tunes suddenly a piano falls out of the sky type of odds. It doesn’t create situations. It modifies extant ones. Walking down the stairs becomes falling down them. Driving a car becomes crashing it. Fighting an enemy becomes overpowering them. Picking a lock becomes the door pops and the target just relocated all their shit into that one storage room.

The source of the adrenaline does not influence the outcome. Being in danger vs having an unexpected social interaction vs something exhilarating and chosen like a roller coaster doesn’t correlate to better or worse results — a robber or intruder might succeed in finding a valuable Seb was hiding, an awkward conversation might see someone have a great moment in the background, and that fun roller coaster ride might come to a screeching halt as the ride breaks down. The probability is always and actively random.

She is working with Pupper’s Xavier to see if she can actively work with the ability, to be able to control them rather than have them go into effect based on adrenal gland reaction alone. Results so far are inconclusive. Current theory is that her own emotional repression as a reaction to childhood trauma is acting as a block but nothing so far has been pursued.

Once again, not Omega but is capable of the worst kind of outcomes that make her a valid threat to others, especially as she’s a scattershot probability bomb rather than a concentrated, intentional blast.

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unsettling Sebastienne facts from discord:

Has slammed her pistol onto tables over card games. This one nearly scared Scott to death.

Knows how to hide a body. Her only lady friend growing up was Assassin. She knows some shit. She has helped with some shit.

Jean-Luc did not train her in firearms as people infer. Jean-Luc said she was fast and focused and just needed something to help her hit as hard. Sebastienne is a trained brawler. It’s not a sleeper build. It’s brass knuckles.

Her mutation has raised insurance prices for campus to such astronomical highs that Ax’s Scott thinks their one hope against declaring bankruptcy is getting her a xanax prescription.

Feels a non reciprocal affinity for the apex predator known as Sabertooth.

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cannot overstate how crusty white cat coded sebastienne is as a child. only child of an often absent but doting when present gambler and rambler. she's barefoot because none of her shoes fit anymore, in a dress she outgrew a year ago, with the messiest self-styled braids and the most wretched little dental trainwreck in her mouth.

crusty white cat of a child.

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writing this sebastienne thread just reminds me of discord lore where kayden and vera are trying to pick her brain for a heist against norman and sebastienne just. stands up. locks door to her nice shop in chappaqua. and looms over the two of them. we don't talk about her former business like that. she left that life. and if the proprietor of the nice watch shop next door caught wind of such talk, it ain't gonna be pretty.

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"How 'chu even go about makin' a cat a -- Well. S'ppose you are the expert here." Happy as the cat looked, Sebastienne wasn't exactly eager to reach out and test Elsa's diagnosis. A shame, really.

"More for the curios than the monsters, I think. I hope. Me and mine, we in the particular business of movin' valuables. Couple of new hires, they spooked all about a shiny new artifact that was donated to our organization. Was hoping you might be able to tell me if it was..." She can hardly believe the words about to leave her mouth. "...Cursed."

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"Yes, this cat is a vampire, and it is mine. He wouldn't hurt a fly... would you, little moggy?" she cooed at her vampire cat, scratching his chin as he purred happily in her lap.

"Now do you have a monster problem, or are you a monster problem?" she asked, eyeing the latest visitor of the Bloodstone Curio to ask for her. Usually Adam weeded them out and turned them away, but not this time.

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ECLIPSECROWNED PRESENTS... discord headcanons, batch 1.

recently, a bestie made a server just for the bestie squad to scream about muses. from this has come the 'Kadi's Playhouse' channel where friends can pose character development questions to me. In the interest of generating content for this account while too fucked off irl to get much done ic, I would like to crosspost the first 4 headcanons from this server, including musings on L0RGAR AURELIAN, HEL LOKADOTTER, SEBASTIENNE WAITE, & BANE.

Q: I know he's living in your brain real hard rn so what's L0rgar's favourite starbucks order [/jk, UNLESS-]

A little bit of hot chocolate. There are several problems inherent in this order, however. One, he is a grown man with a reputation to maintain, and the lil decadent treats do not match with that image, unless he can just doordash it over to the ministry without it being tied back to him. Two, his daddy dearest is lactose intolerant, and if he inherited that the same way he apparently got everything else from the Emperor, he's going to Yamcha death pose hard before the hour is up. Three, it's so decadent and sweet, it feels wrong, too indulgent. But he likes it precisely because it's so different on the palate than the C0lchisian (or modern AU equivalent) cuisine he grew up on and the slop the Empire uses to keep soldiers going. He thinks a little treat as reward for a well-waged conversion or aiding one of his brothers in that endeavor is not something to be ashamed about. Will he still be ashamed of it? Maybe. Possibly. Religion just has so many talons in his brain it's like Angr0n with nails. It's all he's got bro. Even little chocolate treats are a moral quandary. What would dad say? Probably man up and get a black coffee like an adult --

Q: L0RGAR VS HEL, ROUND ONE, FIGHT how would they think of each other :)

INHALES. depends on where in the journey it is let's start with hel's take on l0rgar. like crack them down to basics we have two children horribly misused by men/foster fathers who had power over them and wanted to make them pawns. both idealized an absent father -- l0rgar to religious extremism, hel using loki as her own hope -- to get through their nightmarish youths. if it comes down to it, there is an element of game recognizes game. both became leaders in a role they both pretty implicitly hate but are too honorable to abandon. he wants to be a preacher, a writer, a leader, not a conqueror. she wants to tend the earth, to be a part of a community, to be a part of something greater, not to merely rule over it. like it's occurring to me l0rgar might have spoken to me because what i see of his backstory is so violently my type in fiction. but then like. what do you do with the role you are forced to play? sure, l0rgar is honorable in trying to keep the word bearers together despite his methodology being anathema to the imperium, but he's still a colonizing youth preacher. that's not a bit. i think if the shoe was on the other foot hel as a primarch c0rvus would say there is no moral way to carry this out, contrary to l0rgar trying to convince himself his father's crusade could have greater meaning. l0rgar buys into the illusion, makes it comfortable to him, it isn't a trap, it is the path forward. hel is the caged bird wise enough to know she's trapped but a shade too wise to bash herself against the bars trying to get free. there's also hel would gladly go against her own nature and forgive odin everything if it saves all those slated to die at ragnarok. l0rgar… well, his own personal hell comes around, and he has to take that out not just on his father as the architect, but on everything his father ever touched. billions of innocent lives. the future of humanity itself. i think hel would not call heresy and later l0rgar wrong. she's had similar, though smaller scale, bloody-minded thoughts against odin. l0rgar just let those thoughts win. it doesn't make him right, but it does put him in a position where she lives in a shining glass house adjacent to him. to denounce him is to burn through some of her own sublimation, her own steadfast refusal to acknowledge her own negative emotions. as for l0rgar with hel, the free space on bingo is 'heretic god, kill with prejudice.' let's be real with ourselves. she's something that goes against his prime directive and he would not hesitate to show her the business end of the mace the same way many false idols have caught it. if he catches a whiff of 'ancient terran god not under father's thumb or part of the mythos i build for him' the immediate response is 'goodbye you little shit.' there's overlap between them, and she has such empathy for him at her age, but he's young, and proud, and making his bones. looking at her makes him acknowledge something is wrong in him. and nothing can be wrong with him. he's the righteous son of god, the devotee. he'd have to distance himself from any mutual experience. l0rgar is ultimately never getting help. it's kind of a cornerstone of his narrative. he's manipulated at every angle and sat high enough on his horse to go 'i am in control of me, i am the one who is right.' even if he could have someone pre-heresy who gets him and who could help guide him when no one else will, he will not take it.

Q: Tell me where......... spins the wheel Sebastienne wants to travel to. Where she wishes she'd never been. Her worst travel experience regardless of location.

So for the most part her life has been spent in the tristate area. Mostly centered on New Orleans, but she's seen the coast, once wasted a day driving to pick up Remy, Henri, and Belladonna in Mississippi before anyone's parents realized they were in trouble as teens, once ended up in Dallas on a job. Mississippi was its own interesting tale of on tiny teen in a big old beatup truck just doing the speed limit and picking up hitchhiking dogs and somehow being ignored by cops, something about the adrenaline surge working in her favor just that once in terms of luck. But that doesn't mean it was bad. Dallas is a nightmare city with nightmare traffic and the heat index is an affront to God Almighty on his Throne. Turn that shit to ash like Gomorrah. If she ever goes to Texas again in her life it will have been to soon-- probably because of the warants out for her in the Texas underworld. She's too much a Nawlins girl to really appreciate anywhere else. But she wants to go to Europe bad. It's a sore spot for her since she was a kid that for Remy's tithe he and Henri went to Paris. Bet Remy takes all his bon temps girls to Paris. The whole place just sounds magical and glamorous, worth seeing once in her life. Like she could be brand new in Prague or Dusseldorf or London, or any old place where she isn't just a white trash thief. She actually got to one of her places to visit in New York! Went up to see how Remy was faring and now it's her usual vacation spot. She likes it out there.

Q: FLIPKICKS OVER YOUR COUCH Bane has been a rebel for so long, what's he going to do when he has nothing left to revolt against? Does he even think he'll see it in his lifetime?

No. Revolution is a journey, not a destination. Rich men and fools who seek their lifestyle will always flourish in the suffering of others, and their methods to inflict suffering are myriad. There will never be a utopia so long as mankind has free will. There's a cost for everything like that. But he can do enough for him and his. To see Santa Prisca free and in control of its own destiny. To break the chains of those he has called friends and comrades over the years. To one day reach a point he has done enough, or better serves from the back than the frontline, and can retire to that house on a hill he rebuilt so long ago. Maybe it does not live out the dream he had for it once -- a pretty wife, fat children, a country at peace -- but what luck he has at all that he could go home to it when the day is done. He will go as far as he can go, and rebel in whatever way he can. And by that, perhaps more will be done by those who follow, and perhaps he will reach a point in his own tale where those who follow revolutionaries are artists and librarians and professors athletes and all method of beautiful, unburdened thing.

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how attractive are the six one six muses, and why?

raisa: yes. god, yes. good face, fine features, amazing jawline and cheekbones that are the ruin of lesser men with weak concepts of femininity, the fact she styles herself with a bit of androgyny only serves to highlight her good bone structure. rich dark hair and brilliant blue eyes. add in that she's a woman in a position of power and there's a definite additional layer to what makes her so hot. kiss her about it. i also write her as having a smoking hot hourglass build and legs for days so. yeah. hottie.

vera: adorable. thick black hair and piercing blue eyes help to draw a fine point on those soft girlish features, a lil doll of a lady. throw in her down to earth nature and ability to be everybody's best friend, and she appears to be the total package. look under the careful layering, however, and discover the wonder of a career vigilante and the physique therein. let her do the bicep curl around your jaw. it's ok.

kayden: cute. little too young to be fully defined, but she at least has a pretty good roadmap off her milf of a mom, and definitely has some kind of owo disney princess appeal. some people say it is ruined by her gothic/unkempt styling, to which she says this isn't for you, she's not here to perform beauty standards, and she feels great personally. big soulful dark eyes with a head of thick black hair really helps to tie the look together.

sebastienne: she's alright. in theory she's a pretty at best woman worn down by life and circumstances. has the kind of appearance that doesn't threaten other women, for what it's worth, and tends to be slotted as 'one of the guys' or 'ms. waite' by men as another measure. could probably clean up nice but is never going to be a stunner or a standout. flat black hair, a lean sort of look, i toy with at least giving her pretty eyes to be a single thing in her favor. what does work in her favor as a thief, however, is being just another face in a crowd.

logan: no bestie <3 short squat and frankly smelly little weirdo that crawls out of his lean to when the seasons change. the movies are lying to you. he's broad, has more usable strength than abs. he's a 5'3" bear with a bit of a belly at best. his hair is out of control. you can argue those baby blues are a plus and i won't argue, but that's all you're getting out of me. his physicality is fine if off the beaten path. his personality just wrecks it. if you guys want to date a vintage shag carpet that's on you.

michael: he has a nice personality. he has a nice personality as a human as much as in vampirism. and that's really all there is to say. genuinely he can be a wonderful man and apparently has some rizz that he had a smoking hot high society woman who adored him, but this man got nowhere on his looks. ever. in his life.

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how your mixtape finds her (it’s the 90s)

cannot overstate how crusty white cat coded sebastienne is as a child. only child of an often absent but doting when present gambler and rambler. she's barefoot because none of her shoes fit anymore, in a dress she outgrew a year ago, with the messiest self-styled braids and the most wretched little dental trainwreck in her mouth.

crusty white cat of a child.