#w.i.t.c.h. yarr

[krchar]

Yarr has exactly two modes of being

Having awesome hair

2. Being shocked by Himerish

[lumiy-a]

I think the last time I shared my covers on Tumblr there were quite a few missing, so here's an update on the situation. It went a bit out of control and there are two upcoming, I need help

Link to the series because that's actually why I made Tumblr again: (x)

[krchar]

This is what I was thinking about last night right before falling asleep. Someone counts the sheep, someone imagines basiliade-kandra-crew hanging out (everyone is alive) and starting to talk about who would be which guardian (this is not the only possible solution obviously)

Tibor: hm… sometimes i think, if i were a guardian, which would i be? but i can never pick, they are all so great..

Himerish: we could split the roles here! Build a new guardian crew!

Yarr: there is six of us, though…

Endarno: well, Orube would be counted in, of course

Luba: awww..

Tibor: Yan Lin, how about you?

Yan Lin: ah leave me alone, i already was a guardian and i have had just enough - you know what, i will be Orube, because i would be standing sort of outside of it and laugh at how silly you all are

Tibor: good! you are also the wisest here.

Yan Lin: aww

Endarno: Oracle would be the Keeper of the Heart, obviously

Himerish: no way! i am the head at work, i will not take responsibility in my free time, as well. i will be Hay Lin! i really need some lightness…

Yarr: as i heard, Hay Lin is also open about being sensitive.

Himerish: ha-ha.

Luba: hey, Yarr, is it truth that Himerish called you a stallion of fire in your first training? you should be the guardian of fire then! cackles loud

Yarr: glare I will be the guardian of water.

Endarno: Irma is also the funny one of the group, you know.

Yarr: offended I can be funny!

Himerish: oh, he can!

Tibor: i think the one who could hold the power of fire under control is Endarno

Luba: oh, but I sort wanted the power of fire now!

everyone looks at her nervously

Himerish: yeah i also think Endarno would be the best pick

Luba snorts

Endarno: How about Earth, Luba? Powerful and strong, yet, uhh.. stable.

Luba: Oh.. Cornelia, huh? I have a sort of complicated history with her…

Endarno: You have a complicated history with all the guardians.

Tibor: wait, that leaves me with the Heart of Kandrakar?

everybody realises, first surprised, then nod in approval

Luba: That is actually a good idea, someone slightly normal should hold that power.

Tibor: Oh, dear, I do not know if I could take it!

Yan Lin: Do not worry, dear, Will has a lot of self doubt all the time. I will support you!

Himerish: Also, you know more about Kandrakar than I do.

Tibor: Well…

Yarr: Hey, is Will the one who takes care of all the animals at that shop?

Himerish: Yes, that is her and Orube.

Tibor: Aw, that is wonderful, I love animals! All right, I will be the Keeper.

everyone clinks their glasses

[krchar]

I have a potential headcanon that, when Himerish gets out of the lake, he says the "stallion of fire" thing as an inside joke, cause they are both aware it is the cringiest thing he ever said

I also wrote this as a joke, but now emotion hits - imagine, they reunite on such humane level as "our shared awkward memories"

i did not write it so in the 4th arc wip but now im really tempted

[krchar]

People O.O

I don't know if you know but I would like to point out that there is another author for Yarr/Himerish ship on ao3!

And it is no one else then the sweet former Cedric's Not Dead! She wrote this soft little story as a part of her longer series Ink and Blood that generally focuses on Cedric / Orube, but also holds space for some other nice ships like this one :)

She also created this wonderful cover for this story, where Yarr has as awesome hair as ever <3 I'd give up position in Kandrakar for that ponytail (and those golden eyes in the blue field)

I love the themes of the restraint of an Oracle, the waves of long forgotten past, the intense presence of history going on in Basiliade.. <3

Also Luba has an awesome role in this... but like no spoilers

Behold people!

[krchar]

ok am i getting repetitive

k i didnt do these that much lately

edit: i forgot to say im sorry

[krchar]

Introducing: My Basiliadean Headcanons II

Ok... this is part II of my overthinking... (part I) it is so long, it is only for the strong with the brainrot

I gave some issues too much thought when writing my fics

5. Basiliade and romantic love This is quite an issue, when you dive into Basiliade for the ships lol.. so I thought about it damn lot So.. we see Orube is surprised at the huge role of romantic love in the lives of Earthlings.

We also know that Basiliade, at least in elite classes, is quite a strict society based on firm hierarchies, not very prone to attachment – as is seen in the memory of Orube's father (the guy is hot tho)

although the society might clearly favour other kinds of attachment and love – like that between master and apprentice (and Orube is also surprised the girls seem to put love before friendship sometimes). It is possible that romantic love is just not as important in the society - even on Earth it had a lesser role at times, than the extreme one it has now in the Western media. It can also be looked down upon, as drawing a person from more important spheres of life. When I wrote H/Y, I presumed their relationship would be secret - I joked on everyone actually having an inkling in the Garden, cause I thought the reality of such society is always different than the ideal - but generally I kept love as something you are not open about. Of course, H/Y are two males, so it might have appeared as an issue of homophobia - as it is common to presume homophobic tendencies for any made up world. My reasons for their secrecy and restraint were actually more complex, but I regrettably might not have made it very clear - although I have some, eh, WIPs mentioning hetero relations of warriors as problematic, too. Still, to add some self-reflection, I suppose including the secrecy might’ve felt natural to me, because I have the homophobic trope internalized like most people. But my reasons were 1) The society viewed as strict, non-individualistic and focusing on other spheres. Basiliade comes from the comics’s orientalistic tropes, so I think it is based on these classic patterns emphasized in Western portrayal of the Far East. Still, I keep thinking of a 17th century Chinese play that I have seen years ago, a story of two lovers divided by dramatic events and seeking each other - then meeting with all the drama, then a monk tells them their love means nothing - and they realize she is right and stop feeling the love. As a then ca. 15 yo European, I was shocked. Still I felt like - oh, yeah, the Far East, classic - bc I am a Westerner, like the authors of the comics. 2) Warrior lifestyle - I see masters as an icon of the strict society - they live for a task and they subordinate their personal desires to it. Note e.g. the hints of Orube's difficult and humbling training, her painful parting from her family, which refuses to acknowledge her pain, Yarr's self-diminishing after an apparent mistake etc. I mean, there's this:

but I think this refers to a bit of a different level - keeping your values, your identity, but not being self-centered. In a fic I also followed Orube's unfamiliarity with love and made Yarr a bit confused about his crush, although now I think that at his age (ca. 39 then), he might have had a better idea... but I also made it specific to his warrior life, that he is just not used to love, although he does know it from theatre - cause I think it might have a role, but it is problematic, unofficial, left for art, fringe culture, stories of old times and not the present. And definitely not for the daily life of masters. 3) For masters also the rank must play a role - and this could be extended to class in the general society. Strong hierarchies commonly build great barriers between people. Specifically H & Y in my story are divided by several years in duty, but much more by those two cursed years of them being master and apprentice, which, apparently, might connect and divide you at once, for life. Even in canon, it is interesting, how Y. keeps the custom of respect, when they meet, even though by now he may just as well have a rank much higher than H had, when he had left. Y. keeps this mostly formally, while they seem to speak quite equally at times, but it is there. H. was once his superior, and so he is forever. I hc that, generally, in such society, love over the borders of class would not be favoured, and for masters difference of rank would make the situation even more problematic, than it already is.

Still this all is based on the orientalistic trope - it is not impossible that some masters were quite unhinged and nobody cared.. or that, as I mentioned, the society had a certain facade, but inside everything was very different - I think I was using the latter idea mostly

Well but... these were my thoughts.. yours?

[krchar]

Introducing: My Basiliadean headcanons I

I am so sorry, but I have a LOT of thoughts about this stuff. Why am I posting this???? Probably a wild nerdy urge to share my crap. Very not Basiliadean. I try to keep my HCs canon-conforming - that does not mean they are clearly truth or anything, only that they are mostly based on hints and gaps from the canon and that they are, to my mind, not denied by it. There is so much that I split it in two parts, because it looked so intimidating… especially the last one (in part II).. your thoughts are very welcome, people, if you have a similar brainrot.

So.. ehum.. my theories/headcanons.. so let's start with this:

1. Endarno might have entered Kandrakar before Himerish

In their shared backstory, it is clear that Endarno is considerably older than the apparently teenage Himerish - then the E. that we see in Kandrakar appears a little older, but not so much, so I think it is quite possible he went to Kandrakar for some reason not so long thereafter, and only later Himerish was invited, as well - maybe on Endarno's recommendation? ;) But he IS a little older, while Himerish did not grow very old in Basiliade, meaning he also left after not so long a time, so it is not clear. It might have been the other way around - or they also may have entered together as old bros :) I just used the former version in my fics..

(also i never noticed how funny Endarno's eyebrows are)

2. Basiliadeans live much longer than Earthlings This may be only a result of that classic timeline incoherence of the comics, but: Kandrakar is supposed to be ancient (of course, at the same time only as old as the Veil around Meridian, but that is another problem). While there were several Oracles, I always thought that Himerish was considerabely old himself. But apparently, when he returned home, his old boyfriend, I mean friend, was waiting there - older, but still alive. So, there are two options - either Himerish was actually relatively young (and forgot everything quickly - online friends suggested it was an influence of the position), or Basiliadeans live very long. (I chose a middle position for fics, where I let them live for several centuries.)

3. Himerish was actually not Yarr's master the way Luba was to Orube

Yarr calls Himerish master, and Ih-Shui refers to him as "your old master", when talking to Yarr. But I do not think that necessarily means they had the Orube - Luba relation. For one, I suppose you call any superior "master" in the Garden, as Yarr continued to do so even after the many years have passed. But my main reason for thinking this is Yarr's memory of their training combat - the thing is that they are both clearly adults of not so different age - although if you give Basiliadeans a longer life span, they can just age slowlier and the age gap could be greater than it seems to an Earthling like me - and they act, as if they did not actually know each other very well. We know that an individual training starts at an early age and we know that Luba trained Orube from her childhood and they had a close relationship. Yarr, on the other hand, is surprised that Himerish defeated him, while you would expect that at the point of knowing each other for maybe over 20 years, it would not have been so shocking. So, I think that they met only later in life, while Himerish had some unusually wise or what not stuff to teach him still, as an adult man (although, how old Yarr is, depends much on the art style.. I think he could be over 30 here, but in some frames he could be like, 25 or something..) Of course, this is quite fortunate for the ship, because you avoid the classic Obikin trouble of dating someone you raised from childhood hehe

4. Luba has been living between Kandrakar and Basiliade, training the "chosen ones"

This one is probably quite simple, but it makes sense, because what we know: 1) Luba trained Orube 2) Orube was trained in Basiliade at first (although she later moved to Kandrakar, but she specifically thinks of Luba in her memories of Basiliade) 3) After her very first appearance in the 3rd issue, Himerish mentions that Luba is thousands of years old. 4) I do not think that Orube would be that old tbh. -> so all this means Luba trained Orube in Basiliade, while she already has been working for Kandrakar for quite some time. She even might be wearing Kandrakarian suit in the picture there? At the same time, Orube is called a "chosen one" by a guard in Basiliade, after she tells them that she comes from Kandrakar - so, it is possible that Luba only came to Basiliade for very specific individuals to train them for the fortress.

Ok these were some of my ehum thoughts.. I'm going for part II, which is basically one very long essay, so long I had to make it shorter, cause even itself it transgressed tumblr limits.. but i cannot fight my urge

[krchar]

long time no see...

like what explanation do you have for this monologue

H is a bit too chill here tho

and a parallel one, for the brave, under the break (but it is not mature dont worry)

sorry not sorry

[krchar]

I've kinda been thinking for some time how this actually went

ok maybe he just dramatically entered with Hime alive and cool and everyone just kneeled down

[krchar]

I guess I just gave all my eloquence to the fanfictions, now it is just this classics

Btw hey, you, Disney, now that everyone is talkin about Poolverine queercoding, don't be cowards and declare Yarr/Himerish canon!

even behind the scenes if we cannot hope for any actual content, you already did that with cartoon Nerissa/Cassidy so what's the big deal

although of course if you published a wedding special i would not mind either

[krchar]

Hello, people... ehum

It turned out I could not live without the story I previously posted here... so.. there is a sequel to my Yarr/Himerish ecstasy ... yes i did

Ehum.. so it is mostly described in the intro notes, but like, it is Himerish's point of view, but not a parallel story, only vaguely overlapping at some points, but mostly taking place later than the previous one, Of Custom and Flaws it was called, yes.

It is about how Himerish entered Kandrakar.. what made him do so.. what all he had to sacrifice...

As a special treat, I have an OC, the previous Oracle, they are morally grey, so I hope that sounds Oracly

Also Endarno is there a bit, I am sort of nervous, cause like, he's so popular, I hope I treated him well o.o

Fluff comes a little later, but it is there, really. I wanted this story to be not only about Yarr, because it kinda sounds like there must have been more to this transformation of H, right, and I wondered about this topic before - but in the end I gave him quite a big role in the process

Also, there is like this crucial issue that H solves in cooperation with Kandrakar - it is not very much described in details - but that is partly laziness and partly intention - i felt like the particulars of the adventure would only draw the attention from what is the point of the story.. yep

i am a bit calmer now than before bc now you already know im a melodrama queen, so i have not as much to hide from you

and i also know you are lovely people

thank you again for the sweet reactions to the previous story <3

[krchar]

30 Days of Witchversary

Days 13 & 14: Known & Unknown

With a little bit of delay I dare to make another small contribution to the Witchversary - a short Himerish/Yarr drabble, again, hidden in my computer, pushed to be posted by the event - see, it works, actually :)

This time, no angst, pure fluff. I am really happy about it. Also Himerish is a bit of an annoying teaser here, hindering a normal conversation, I like that mannerism for him hehe - i think he has some goofy moments in the comics, occasionally..

It relates, sort of, to my former headcanon post about Basiliadean approach to romantic love - it is, though, only a short cosy chat between Himerish and Yarr on the fact that they are actually keeping stuff secret, but that does not truly mean that nobody knows :) And that they are by far not the first ones in such situation..

It is about the contrast of reputation and the truth of life - and the rumours that kind of bridge between the two :))

Yeah I also headcanoned some very specific details.. just for it to feel real and just because i wondered in the shower (in the kitchen, in the bedroom, in the street...) how some things would work

ok.. fluff known and unknown by the Garden's inhabitants for anyone interested <3

[krchar]

this was supposed to be a chill song meme, but i just couldnt stop myself from adding the last part and ruining my own attempt at fluff

the song is Young Folks by Peter Bjorn and John

[krchar]

30 Days of Witchversary

Day 7 - Home

Heyy I am posting this small thing for the witchversary - it is just a drabble I had in my ntb and it felt like "home", that is, the loss of a home, is actually the main theme in this...

I don't know what is it with me and angst lately, I am actually in a rather good mood in real life hehe

To anyone unfamiliar with my stuff, it is a part of my broader series on Himerish (The Oracle)/Yarr - that is a rather rare pairing and tbh also one of the characters (can you guess which one) is sometimes quite controversial in the fandom, which is completely fair, he is quite grey, but tbh that is one of the things i like about him, complex weirdos with potential for responsibility/guilt issues are my type of literary character

Himerish is still a warrior in Basiliade, he was just for the first time asked to help out Kandrakar, in the middle of the night, by no one else than Endarno (who is already a member of the council in my hc), he returns to his room in the Garden, which appears still the same, but in reality, everything about his life is going to be changed...

[krchar]

a sequel

lately this blog could basically be marked as yarr/himerish comics rewrite

i am inspired, this is not the last