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Parker: Marigold, Ryan, Oakley

Roksi: Roksi

Harlyn: Scarlett, Nova, Jamie

Quincey: Lavendar, Lily, Noah

First names that came to mind ^^ I’m in hospital right now and reading all these prompts made me feel so much better haha

If your OC had a baby tomorrow, what would they name them?

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Harlyn. Dare I say Quincey is the therapist…

Which OC?

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Me: my characters, my babies, my precious children, i will protect you, i will never let anything bad happen to you, you mean the world to me, whenever you’re sad i’m sad, i want you to be happy

Also me: *throws tragedy and trauma at them like my life depends on it* are they miserable enough yet?

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A brief summary for my MCs

@xaliaver here you go :D

Parker (they/them):

The main protagonist, the one who can enter the Zodiacs’ temples. Mango obsessed, sassy and sarcastic lil guy but also genuinely cares for the world and the people around them. Lover of their friends and the colour orange. Will have a panic attack if you make them enter a library. Easily manipulated by power, as any human would be - they go on an arc that makes it seem more likely they’ll save themself than save the world. My friend (who has read some of the book) asked me if I thought Parker was evil. I said no, they’re not evil, they’re just sixteen and struggling.

Roksi (she/her):

Chaos incarnate, loyal sidekick, abandons her whole life to accompany Parker on the quest. Never seen not wearing neon clothes and bright makeup. Usually in platform boots because she hates being the shortest of the group. Confident, not quite shameless, but refuses to be held back by the opinions of others. Every colour is her favourite colour, a quote which i’ve used before but still think it suits her perfectly. Her main goal in life is to keep the people around her happy. If she fails at that, she thinks she’s failing at life.

Harlyn (she/her):

Angry, angsty, will insult you if she doesn’t like you. Claims she isn’t a pirate but hides the fact she’s the daughter of some. If you see her cry she will cut your throat so you can’t tell anyone. Always smells like vanilla. Has an obsession with the way the ocean looks at dusk and will spend hours just watching it. Almost always wearing her white tie. Decked head to toe in silver jewellery. She has a tattoo sleeve and a matching one with Quincey. Always drawn to kindhearted people because she thinks she can learn from them. Loyal to a fault, even if you don’t expect her to be.

Quincey (she/her):

The sweetest person you will ever meet, the human cross between a cherry blossom and the sun. She sings and plays the guitar and makes a living off busking, because she loves the way people smile when they hear her music. Has a sunflower tattoo matching with Harlyn, and a butterfly on her neck, flowers on her ankle, and the word ‘Blessed’ written across her waistline. Obsessed with the sky. Easily distracted, easily anxious, but she will put every worry aside to help ease the burden of others. Trying to escape her father who made every attempt to make her into something she didn’t want to be, but doesn’t want to leave her mother. She loves fruit and sage green. She never, ever gives up on people.

I hope this is a nice intro!! If you have any questions just send me an ask!! I’ve said it before but i love to yap about these guys and will take any opportunity to do so. Have a good day <33

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I’ve seen a few other accounts do this, so I wanted to try (at least one, maybe more we’ll see) I’m going to write a quote from my book and you have to guess which character said it!

Here it is :3

When asked ‘are you insane?’, responds with: “Yes, but that’s not relevant right now.”

thought this might be fun but no pressure haha

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Hey guys, just remember, you've made it through 100% of all your worse days so far. So all the ones ahead? You will make it through those ones too!

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First ten thousand words of Curses are written!! I’m super happy with how it’s going so far, and I think I can tell my writings skills have really developed from when I started this duology 1 and 1/2 years ago, and I’m really proud of myself <3 that probably means a rewrite of Blessings to get it to a higher standard once I’m done with Curses, and I can’t wait, I love the original book and am looking forward to revisiting. Posting this partially because I got an anon ask this morning telling me to stop wasting my time as this book is never going to go anywhere~ but so what? I’m writing it because I’m passionate about writing and about a message. I’m not writing it for money. I’m sorry if you can’t understand that a passion doesn’t have to earn you anything but love and joy to be worthwhile. But I’m going to keep being passionate and you can’t stop me :)

(if you sent me that ask and you’re reading this now I hope you have a change of heart when you read this. Either way I send you love and hope your world can brighten before long!! 🩷💜)

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thank you for the tag, i love this idea!!

i started book 2 a few days ago so here is the opening scene:

I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve read through this notebook. The dark ink on the pages has a death grip around my throat and refuses to let go.

I trace my finger down the yellow pages, letting the corners poke at the palm of my hand, watching as the wind teases its edges and sends them fluttering, though they’re tethered together by a world-weary spine with little hope of escape. The threads are coming loose where I’ve been anxiously picking at them; the paper is starting to curl in on itself where it’s been soaked by the sea and then caressed by the summer sun.

I sigh as I snap it closed, my hand falling to my side and stealing the book from sight. The railing of The Rocky Scales - our untiring boat and my fourth companion - does little to comfort my aching head as I fall against it, but it catches me without complaint.

Blinking slowly, I watch as the sea spray reaches for my ankles, its lavender depths beautiful and hopeful, as though aspiring to compete with the sky above. Twilight is heralding the darkness of night, but for now the purple skies are bleeding into the water like spilled paint. Salty air is tousling the boat and my hair, fresh against the hum of the engine and the cloying scent of bad memories. Stars are beginning to shine like priceless diamonds in the cave of the sky, and I tilt my head in the hopes they’ll burn bright enough to melt away the numbness in my limbs.

Ok sorry if this is too long, I got carried away, but I personally really love this scene and I was proud of how I wrote it. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to share :D

No pressure tags @askyaphelion @inedibleplastic @snowfromfallenclouds @writingwithpen @sagebriarspoets @purple-dinosaur17 @luminous-whispers @storiesbyemma

Writing Share

Rules: Share some of your writing

My blog has been lacking any kind of tag game. So, here is one.

Thanks @leahnardo-da-veggie for tagging me

“We don’t just take every random boy that walks up here into the academy,” the pudgy man muttered, his voice a low rumble barely audible over the scratching of his quill on the thick leather ledger. The man, dwarfed by his oversized desk, adjusted his square glasses as the room smelled of aged paper and fresh ink. His desk’s surface reflected the flickering candlelight, which cast long shadows across the large foyer. “Get out of my face, peasant.” "But I came all the way from Lykkested! The journey is half of the admission, no?” Astrid protested, folding her arms across her torso.

Tagging: @fablesandfragments @aalinaaaaaa @rayne143 @shepardstales and an open tag

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Worldbuilding: worship, and rituals after death

I was thinking of posting more about Zavarya itself and these were the aspects I found most interesting to develop, so here :)

The Emerald South (earth), Sapphire East (water), Diamond North (air), and Ruby West (fire) all have very different ways of worshipping the Zodiacs. Southerners believe tending to the land they created is one of the purest forms of worship, so they take care of all life and nature alongside their prayer. Westerners think the only way they can show their devotion is through dedication to prayer, so they spend a lot of time doing it, often believing it will spare them from the Zodiacs’ anger. Northerners have fallen greatly out of touch with the Zodiacs. They believe humans should have the freedom to live as they want. Even then, the ones who do still believe in them think the best way to honour them is by living a good and fulfilling life, because it respects the freedom the Zodiacs gave humanity. Easterners are split, with half being extremely devout to their worship and prayer, and the other half thinking humans are far superior and their time is wasted on such frivolous acts.

In short: the South and West are highly tied to the Zodiacs, whereas the North and East (as a whole) are less so.

Whilst this has a great impact on the way humans spend their life, it also alters their wishes for how they are treated after death. This takes two forms: ritualistic send-offs, and how to treat the body itself.

Send-offs differ the most. Once a person has died, it is common for those most close to them to gather and perform a certain ritual. In the South, a person will select a treasured object before their death - or, if they die suddenly, their family will select it for them - which will then be buried. They believe the earth will preserve this object and the love it holds, and it will continue to live on in the ground its human once worshipped.

In the East, people will lower their hands into a bucket of ice cold water. The aim is to reconnect with the water as you pray, and to cherish every single feeling, because those you’ve lost no longer can. Even if you don’t believe in the Zodiacs, it is still a perfect way to reconnect with the world itself.

In the North, people write the lost one’s name onto a piece of parchment, and wait for the high winds to release them. This way, they may traverse the air, and fall only when the air decides. It symbolises the unknown, because you never know where the names will end up, nor when they will fall, the same way you can never know about your death until it happens.

In the West, you would carve the name of the lost one onto a piece of wood, then wait to burn them in big groups. Not only does it symbolise union and togetherness, it means they can create fires so large it’s as though they reach for the sky, and the Zodiacs’ constellations. They believe that the flames carry the spirits of the lost to the stars, where they belong.

How the bodies are treated is a bit more simple. They are buried in the South, so that they may continue to nourish the land that provides for them, and in the North, where the ground is frozen and believed to preserve them without freezing their soul. Meanwhile, bodies are burned in the West, and people will keep the ashes of their loved ones close as a reminder of their love, and in the East, where it is more common for ashes to be returned to the sea.

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all of my moots are so lovely and talented 🥺 thank you so much, i love it <3

Here's Parker @rayne143 !

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Character introduction: Jambatti Thales

| Jam | They/Them | Southern | 14 | ❤️🐦‍🔥🌹 |

(Pronounced as Jam-Bat-Tee Tar-Les)

Appearance: dark and soft skin, bright eyes and a brighter smile. they’re tiny, only 150cm (4”11) tall, and all of their features are small enough to match - button nose, wiry eyebrows, short eyelashes. all of this is then contrasted by their big eyes and their many coils of hair - it seems as though half of their body weight stems from their hair alone.

Backstory: Jam was born and raised in the Southern Tropics, a rainforest in the Emerald South, inhabited by a group of people dedicated to worshipping Capricorn. Their mother and father have a happy relationship, though Jam knows their mother has secrets left unspilled, about a period of her life spent outside the Tropics. Jam knows little about it because their mother doesn’t like to talk about it - only that they’re not her first child. They find out in the second book that this mysterious sibling might be closer to them than they think.

I haven’t written this section of the book yet but I have some rather extensive notes written in my plan. I had loads of fun playing with this sibling dynamic; my own experience with siblings is something alone the lines of shouting stop throwing that stuff at me, you asshole whilst simultaneously planning what gifts you can get for their birthday to show you love them. But… how do you navigate that relationship when you haven’t grown up together? They meet, but it’s more like they’re meeting a mirror to their own soul, and they know this is a person they should be able to share everything with, but how? How how how becomes the question nagging Jam’s mind and they don’t think it will go away any time soon.

Their role in the story involves getting Parker to Capricorn. Most of the Tropics dwellers are devout worshippers and would blanche at the thought of giving up their most precious artefact to Parker, a sixteen year old nobody - or so they think. Jam wants to rebel against this stoic way of living and embrace change, they know Parker can save the world, and why shouldn’t they help? So Jam works hard to encourage the elders around them to see Parker for who they really are - not a sixteen year old nobody, but the saviour of Zavarya. And they are determined to succeed.

Okay it’s really late at night, I’m exhausted, rambling, and I don’t know if anyone actually reads these but I couldn’t sleep and felt like making something. If you did read, hope you enjoyed <3 either way, hope you’re having a good day / night!!!

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list five things that make you happy, then send this to the last ten people in your notifications! no pressure <3

things that make me happy? making other people happy. chocolate. the rain (it inspired my name, after all). pretty sunsets. dogs. plus a lot of other things, because i think there’s so much to love about being alive, but there’s 5 :)

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you relbogged an ask game, so:

8, 11, 21 and 30 (you don’t have to do all of them, but i’d love to hear!)

Hi, I wasn’t sure which character you meant, so I went with Parker (the main protagonist). If you meant someone else just let me know and I’ll do it for them too :D

8 - something nobody but them likes:

their rucksack. it’s the rattiest thing you’ll ever see, the threads are falling apart, it’s an ugly faded shade of grey, like, most people would see it and assume parker simply just can’t afford another one. the reality is that they can, but they don’t want to, because it has personality, and it’s been with them through so much that it almost feels like another friend.

11 - something they made themself

it’s not quite right in that they didn’t make them originally, but their glasses - they’ve been broken more than enough times that parker has to keep them together with tape to stop them from falling apart. their life is so busy that they don’t have the time to get new ones, but they’d also be left stumbling like a hedgehog without them, so it has to be done. so they didn’t quite make them, but they’d modified them themself :)

21 - something fragile:

i can’t think of anything else so i’m going to say their glasses again, for the same reason

30 - something that has a scent:

they have a thing of mango fragrance because they simply love mangoes and smelling like them takes them a step closer to their dream of becoming one. okay, i’m just joking; they don’t actually dream of becoming a mango. that would be ridiculous. haha. totally not. 

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1, 2, and 3 for Parker?

Here :)

1 - an object that is purely decorative:

I’m gonna say their star earrings. Parker loves to wear them because they remind them of the Zodiacs, and they’re a yellow/orange colour, their favourite. However, they only have one ear pierced, so they always carry the other in their bag with them… not sure if this counts as a spoiler, but it was meant to be symbolic of them being half tied to their human side, and half tied to their divine side. 

2 - an object that was a gift:

their fleece - it’s fluffy black, with silver fur (fake - because Parker doesn’t like animal products) on the inside, long sleeves (they don’t like showing their arms), plus it fits them perfectly. Parker receives it from one of the Northern characters after they quickly have to escape up there, but the sudden nature of their escape means they don’t have any time to prepare, so Parker doesn’t have anything to deal with the drastic cold and ends up getting sick. They’ve always been amazed that someone they barely knew cared about them enough to get a gift so thoughtful, 

3 - an object that has sentimental value:

their history textbooks. Parker knows there’s no point in bringing them with them, but they’re a reminder of a simple, more peaceful time. Parker always wanted to go on to study history after they finished their Second School; they’ve always just been fascinated by it and how it’s affected their world today. As such, they bring them on the quest, as a way of tying them to their childhood dream, because if they let go of it now, it’s be like admitting they’re finally giving up on it. Maybe, if they get to a point where they finally snap because of the pressures of saving the world, they’ll give them up - both the textbooks and their dream. 

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gorgeous <33

literally love you for this

and your design is so pretty as well :D

Whoops my hand slipped-

Harlyn is just too cool not to draw again I had to😭😭😭

(Forgive the hands pls)

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YOU ARE OFFICIALLY MY FAVOURITE PERSON ON EARTH!!!

i literally adore this- i can’t believe someone would actually take the time out of their life to draw my characters but i am so unbelievably grateful for it. thank you, thank you, thank you!

And yes, Iriz looks wonderful ^^

Heyyy @rayne143 I have made some doodles of my 2 fave characters in your story- tell me if the guy above looks somewhat like Iriz, I tried to make it look like the description😭

Tell me when you publish the book~

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5 & 6 for roksi?

Sure! 

5 - something she keeps around for somebody else:

this took me a minute but part way through she starts carrying Parker’s notebook for them, in which they write and recount all the things they’ve learned from the Zodiacs on their quest. However, Parker gets a bit obsessed with trying to keep track of it all and it stresses them out to no end, so Roksi carries it for them so they can’t waste too much of their life simply staring at it. 

6 - something she uses often:

her makeup kit, 100%. eyeshadow and winged liner and highlighter and lipstick is considered a low effort look for her - she’s an artist with a lot of confidence so it’s pretty standard that she’ll go around with butterflies or flames drawn on her face, or with rainbow freckles, if she can draw it, she’ll wear it. Therefore, she spends a lot of time using the kit :)