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good morning dash! please keep an eye on him for me.
#𝟎𝟎𝟑 : 𝘪 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘣𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘦𝘥. ◟ visage .◝#( i posted this on my other blog but i never put this on his ACTUAL blog oops DSKDK )#( rules revamp is done this is now officially a single muse blog though abbel is available on request ✨ )#( i'll post a starter call sometime soon i'm feeling pretty sick right now BUT look at him.... )
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would you all still love me if i soft-rebooted and made this a single muse blog for only ruairi? 🥺
#𝟎𝟎𝟏 : 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 2𝘢𝘮. ◟ ooc .◝#tbd .#( i'm not guaranteeing it but DKVKD but i should just face the reality that he is my favorite )#( i'd still keep abbel open for interactions they'd just be there on request bc i do adore them also but ruairi grips my brain more )#( also i want to apologize for starting this blog up and dropping off the face of the earth. )#( my family was going through a difficult time & it killed my motivation to write when i was hoping writing would instead be a comfort )#( BDKFDK i can't promise anything 100% i'm going to do some drafts on my volo pokemon blog but maybe later!! i will consider!! )
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❝ please, like i need any of that? ❞ a name? who cares! he'll make something up — probably something really unflattering, too. ( maybe he should write down a list? the rejects get to be magnus' nickname for the day. ) ❝ look around. does this seem like the sort of place that values fairness and conventional court proceedings? we lock 'em up and throw away the key by default here. liberty has a price tag and i can already tell it's way beyond YOUR budget. ❞ empty threats — well, mostly. it's basically the most poorly kept secret ever that the malebranche is corrupt as corrupt can be. ( but hey, is it really so different upstairs? from what he's heard, he doubts it. ) escaping the shadow of his last name is pretty much impossible, so ruairi might as well spin it to his advantage — but he'd much rather argue for arguing's sake than actually make good on any of the blustering. usually.
at least she's not levitating halfway through the damn ceiling anymore. eugh, that was freaky.
❝ not confident? all that floating through walls must have seriously scrambled your ocular nerves, lady. ❞ teeth flash in a shameless grin, as if he means to shake off the implication through sheer theatrics. ❝ no one actually cares about integrity, just how well you can sell the illusion of it. if the man makes the clothes, then what are first impressions for? ❞ magazine covers. television interviews. podcasts. it's all about selling a carefully curated version of reality — faking it until you make it! ( and faking it further still. ) ❝ that's the dirty little secret everyone pretends not to notice, you know. ❞ the demon continues aloud, punctuating the declaration with a flippant shrug. ❝ no one cares about REAL substance, they just say that they do because that's the answer that earns them a pat on the back. when it comes right down to it, most people never grow past being babies getting all excited about a set of shiny keys dangling in front of their face. ❞ that's practically the entire thesis this city is based on, isn't it? dangle whatever the humans want in their faces and watch them sell their souls for it.
❝ anyway, i'd offer you a DRINK, but i'm pretty sure it would go right through you. you know, because ... ❞ words trail off, yet ruairi finishes the thought by gesturing towards her with a hand. floaty. ❝ a tragedy, really. i would've filled it with edible glitter so it could be glamor AND substance. ❞ like drinking wet sand.
("even God(TM) could have worn crocs better than this dude for sure lmao" - may, probably, circa 2XXX) - continued! / @riverdebt !
And taking the obvious ragebait, the man rambles back to her about his very stylish and impeccable dress sense. Or something like that. To be frank, May wasn't really paying attention - she had half an ear out to listen, and the rest of her focus was on a quick survey of the room, where she concluded that the interior certainly matched the rest of the rooms and hallways she had floated through prior to sticking her head into this one.
Quite the fancy place this was, really. The aesthetic is quite adjacent to Mr. Person With A Very Stylish And Impeccable Dress Sense And Yes That's Sarcasm. Hm. Hmmm.
"—Sue me?" the woman replies, more an absentminded repeat of the last thing she heard, before the words properly register and she grins. She starts to float the rest of herself down from the ceiling - though she stops short of reorienting herself from her upside-down position. "Hilarious. Do you even know my name? Pretty sure any formal procedure like that requires a name for the defendant. And the plaintiff too - but is your name even worth being put on some petty court documents?"
She giggles, and finally turns to a proper standing position that isn't upside-down - although, she's still floating some ways in the air regardless. "From my first impressions, I'm not sure of that. After all, a truly stylish man—one that you so proclaim to be—probably wouldn't care if their wardrobe gets any media attention whatsoever. After all, it's not that clothes make the man - it's the man that makes the clothes."
A delicate sigh, mocking sigh, as she rests her cheek in a palm. Red eyes fall into a narrow, perhaps contemplative look - or at least, if her demeanour didn't reek of an acting jester right now. "But it seems you're just not all that confident. Or all that of anything. All glamour and no substance. Or are you? Any evidence to the contrary for this court case?"
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❝ i ... see. ❞ the words come out slowly, as if they are wont to stick to the roof of their mouth — though it's difficult to tell whether it's skepticism or confusion that slows their tongue. rose quartz eyes flick about their ruined surroundings, taking in the destruction with a slight downward tilt of their lips. ( idly, they can't help but think ruri would find it impressive. ) ❝ are giant insects common here? ❞
they glance down, carefully patting their jacket as if searching for hidden injuries. ❝ i should be fine, but ... ❞ abbel's words trail off as they withdraw their phone�� from a pocket — its screen shattered beyond repair. jabbing the glass with a thumb earns a flicker of kaleidoscopic lights before it fizzles out entirely. they breathe a quiet sigh, as if trying to expel irritation from their lungs.
❝ it seems we weren't without casualties. ❞
@riverdebt ❤'d for a teeny starter (for abbel ? but if you think ruairi works better feel free to swap!)
"No, I broke everything in this room fighting off whatever . . . That was. Are you hurt?"
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@vulpesly &&. SAID... If your muses could each eradicate one thing in the world (be it something physical, a concept, a historic event, etc), what would each of them choose? Would it be for a closer, personal reason or something that would impact a wider range?
abbel would probably be the easiest to answer this for, because there's really one event in their entire life that most of their problems stem from — the death of their mother, noel. i cannot possibly stress enough how important abbel's mother was to them. love is a VERY important component of luminary culture. ( arguably the MOST important. ) familial love, platonic love, romantic love — they have been known to quite literally die from broken hearts, which is precisely why they've become one of the rarest species of demon in all of styx. it's a recognized phenomenon that families will experience a single loss and have it snowball into entire swathes of the bloodline dying out from sheer grief — one death becomes two, becomes five and so on. furthermore, abbel's mother raised them entirely by herself; they were the result of an arranged marriage noel was very much against and she fled with her child the moment an opportunity arose. for the longest time, she was all they ever knew.
technically speaking, noel is publicly listed as missing — though she's clearly dead, and abbel has no delusions to the contrary. she left them with oziel alichino when they were still quite young and disappeared, never to be seen again. ( presumably to spare them the very real chance of dying from grief. ) as a direct result, they were forced to become the heir to the alichino family — a position that abbel doesn't necessarily dislike, but did put them under massive amounts of pressure effectively overnight. oziel is also a generally horrible person, to put it very lightly. his relationship with abbel is purely transactional; though he may be their adoptive father on paper, they both know he merely sees abbel as a tool to do his bidding. an investment. ( always an investment, never a person. ) as the alichino heir, abbel has access to resources and luxuries most residents of styx can only dream of, but it comes at great personal cost. they would give it all up in an instant if it meant getting their mother back.
as far as abbel is concerned, the only truly good things to come out of being adopted by oziel is the opportunity it granted them to meet ruairi and their retainer, jael. their relationship with ruairi is very complicated and layered and probably deserves a post in its own right — but suffice to say, he is one of the most important people in their life. ( even if he doesn't actually realize it. ) meanwhile, jael is the person who effectively raised them; oziel wanted an heir, but he had no interest in being a father. he hired jael to look after them in his stead because he couldn't be bothered. though she functions more like an assistant or bodyguard these days, abbel sees her as a mother figure and she sees them as her child.
but again — they would still risk losing it all if they could have noel back.
by contrast, i don't think there's anything ruairi could choose to erase that would hold anywhere near the same weight. he may toy around with the idea of eradicating various inconveniences — there's another member of the malebranche named magnus malacoda who he has a particularly fierce loathing for, but that's more along the lines of petty drama. ruairi's issue has always been a hunger for more, rather than less. more respect, more power, more attention. he puts on an arrogant display, and it IS genuine to a certain degree ( he's definitely a spoiled brat ) — but the knowledge that he will always be the second born son has hung over him for his entire life. while abbel grieves for what they've lost, ruairi hungers for more than what he has.
you could argue that erasing his brother would be a nice compromise, but it isn't that simple. ruairi is a brat, however he isn't nearly as callous as he might appear. ( most of the time, he's really just bluffing. ) he genuinely does care about emmerich no matter how much he complains. even if being the spare eats away at him, he would never risk his brother's life for his own selfish gain. emmerich is the only member of his family who has ever treated him LIKE family — and even if he's a boring workaholic, he also went out of his way to sneak ruairi his favorite candies when he was little and insists he has a seat in malebranche meetings despite not being an actual heir.
ultimately, i think ruairi would probably choose something really stupid and petty. like getting rid of salmon. he hates salmon.
#vulpesly#𝟎𝟎𝟒 : 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦. ◟ hc .◝#( thank you for the ask!! this was super fun i love yapping DBKDF )#( i don't know if it's obvious but luminaries all traditionally have names ending in ''el'' )
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why yes, he IS going to spend the rest of the day preening over that — !
#𝟎𝟎𝟓 : 𝘴𝘪𝘱 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘱; 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘬𝘦. ◟ status .◝#oficeandwind#( BLUE RASPBERRY!! never doubt him about anything ever again ( <- objectively terrible idea actually ) )
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❝ ... ❞ at first, they think they're being threatened — greeting the response with a slow blink. ( the tone he employs is quite severe indeed, after all. ) it's only when the stranger speaks again that abbel realizes his words are intended to be taken in jest. ❝ a pun ... did you come up with that one on the spot? impressive work, if so. ❞ they wonder if it's customary for the people of this setting to greet one another with situational wordplay. their brow furrows lightly, lips pressing into a thin�� line as they take a moment to think. ❝ ... or should i say sand-sational? ❞ the luminary pairs the joke with a sweep of the hand — accentuating the joke by drawing deliberate attention to their surroundings. quite sandy indeed, if they do say so themself. a far cry from the misty riverbanks and rain-drenched alleyways of the city.
rising to their feet, they close the sketchbook and tuck it securely beneath their arm. ( they're more interested in this stranger at the moment. ) ❝ my name is abbel. ❞ the luminary says, punctuating the declaration with a slight nod. force of habit compels them to prioritize running this familiar gauntlet of introductions before anything else. ❝ it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance, mister ... ❞ the words trail off deliberately, gently prompting him to fill in the blank.
Cyno did not answer right away, so focused in his thoughts as he were. He seemed to be studying the artist with the same intensity of a fellow creator, himself. Behind closed lips, his mind raced to find just the right opening...
Sketching... sketchy... pencil strokes...
Oh, he had it.
"How many strokes does it take to an artist, before they die in the desert?" He solemnly asked to his unfortunate victim. "... Just one heat stroke."
Flawless. This one was sure to win over the whole office, later that night.
"Hm." He smiled, a bit too proud of himself as he finally looked back at the stranger with actual attention. "What do you think?"
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❝ ... ❞ they're staring at a vending machine with a look of intense concentration etched upon their face — rose quartz eyes narrowed as if attempting to decipher codes constructed from the arrangement of drinks for sale. ( scalegorge spring water? mung bean soda? ) several minutes pass in tense silence before the luminary suddenly breathes a soft sigh, smoothing invisible wrinkles from their jacket as they stand up straight.
they glance over their shoulder, gaze sweeping the crowds of passing strangers with that same quiet intensity. they settle on the first soul who doesn't appear too terribly preoccupied with anything else at the moment. ❝ excuse me. ❞ abbel says as they approach, greeting him with a polite dip of the head. ❝ i'll try not to take too much of your time. you see, i'm not from the xianzhou luofu, and i was wondering if you had any recommendations regarding souvenirs to bring back home. ❞ they raise a hand to their chin, eyes narrowing. ❝ i don't think drinks from a vending machine would make an appropriate gift, even if they are ... unique. ❞
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the scent of smoke and blood cling to the air like a particularly repugnant cologne. ruairi sits, knees pulled to his chest like a fucking child, white-knuckled grip on a glass that miraculously hasn't spilled its contents over the already-sticky floor. his back is pressed uncomfortably close to the inside of the bar; some liquid from a shattered glass on the counter overhead drips ( cold and wet and disgusting ) down his shirt, staining hundred dollar silk. the sound of gunshots gradually fades to an unpleasant ringing in his ears. ruairi swallows, his tongue feeling thick and awkward in his mouth. fuck. fuck. this is why he NEVER goes to any bar he doesn't own.
❝ ... ❞ he counts to ten. after a deep breath ( and a shallow sip of his drink for courage ) magenta eyes peer over the counter — sweeping carefully to and fro. ❝ ... is it over? ❞
@hatefueled &&. liked for a STARTER.
#hatefueled#( i'd like to imagine ruairi's probably in the wrong place at the wrong time when something goes down & now he's freaking out about it )#( but pls pls let me know if i need to change anything! )
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his chin rests atop an upturned palm. the demon sports an easy smile and lidded eyes — unbothered, confident, charismatic. before him sits a glass of whiskey. top shelf, obviously — anything less would turn his stomach from sheer mediocrity. ❝ so ... ❞ ruairi begins, tracing the rim with a single finger. ❝ you're a woman with some pretty powerful connections ... don't mistake that for hollow flattery, of course — can't really take credit for making what's really just a simple statement of fact, can i? ❞ the ice clicks softly as ruairi raises the glass to his lips for a shallow sip. just enough for the burn to wake him up. ❝ hypothetically speaking, if i wanted someone to disappear ... how much would it cost me? five souls? ten souls? a ferrari? ❞ he cants his head as he speaks, drenching the words in a thick layer of faux-innocence — no one spontaneously asks such a grim question without a target already in mind, after all.
❝ if it helps sweeten the deal, the person in question is REALLY annoying. ❞ a pause. ❝ ... hypothetically speaking. ❞ again. obviously.
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they're perched atop a rock overlooking the desert — one with a surface just barely flat enough to sit on comfortably. they've removed their jacket, folding it into a neat rectangle; a very rudimentary cushion. in their lap, they hold a simple notebook. its pages are comprised of rough paper — perfect for sketching. ❝ this architecture is unique ... ❞ abbel muses idly, holding up their pencil to measure the proportions of the distant mausoleum. a slow blink, and they return to their drawing. they freehand perfectly straight lines with the sort of confidence achieved only through strict repetition. upon this framework, they add depth and shadow through layers of meticulously applied cross-hatching.
it's just beginning to take shape when they pause, pencil stilling on the page. again, they look up — this time to shoot the stranger a glance. their expression betrays little beyond a mild sense of curiosity. ❝ was there something you needed, sir? ❞
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❝ blue raspberries ARE blue. it's in the name. ❞ hmph! okay, well — maybe blue raspberry isn't an actual fruit so much as it is an abstract, artificially flavored suggestion of one, but it tastes pretty damn blue. whatever it is. ( it's also the objectively superior flavor of gas station slushie in ANY given scenario. ) ❝ do you want me to compare you to something ELSE that's blue? talk about a choosing beggar — okay, fine. ❞ the demon bites the inside of his cheek, grumbling under his breath as he tries to think of something that meets his companion's ever so lofty standards.
several seconds tick by. then, inspiration strikes. ❝ crab. ❞ ruairi declares, pointing at the stranger ( whose actual name he hasn't gotten around to learning yet ) with an authoritative finger. ❝ you're a crab now. congratulations. ❞
"― or raspberries?" chongyun challenges. "since we're going with red themes, according to the rules YOU just set."
one of these days, the exorcist should really learn to watch their mouth, and play into the meek personality they like to use from time to time. most people would say chongyun is nice and sweet, when right now chongyun wants little more to do than to insult some hellspawn. insult, nothing more.
neither of them are throwing hands, so chongyun is calling this a WIN.
"if you want to call me a colored item, go with something that's actually blue. like blueberries."
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lips part — no doubt to fire back with some manner of rebuttal. ( hey, he's not JUST a demon, he's a CALCABRINA — pride is their cardinal sin. ) yet the words lodge themselves firmly in his throat with an undignified squawk when they have the audacity to fire back with a nickname of their own.
❝ red apple? that's the best you can come up with? ❞ of all the cliche, undignified — ugh, no way. he isn't even THAT red! ( is he? ) ❝ would it kill you to pick a cooler fruit? cherries? cranberries? blood orange? ❞
"blue, what?"
chongyun had NEVER before been called a blue raspberry, and they can't tell if it's meant to be an insult or a general statement of their fashion choice. WHICH, chongyun would point out in any other circumstance, is more white, than blue.
"what HAVEN'T the demons done to me? red..."
chongyun is not good at returning the insults. "red apple."
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❝ hey — HEY. you aren't fooling anyone with the innocent act, blue raspberry. wipe that smile off your face. ❞ a little huff. the nerve! ❝ what did the demons ever do to you? ... recently. ❞
@riverdebt : ruairi giving the most bombastic side eye
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if any mutuals are interested in a small starter, you're welcome to give this post a like! i would also greatly appreciate it if you specified whether you wanted abbel or ruairi — but if you can't choose, it's not mandatory!
#𝟎𝟎𝟏 : 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 2𝘢𝘮. ◟ ooc .◝#( i'll try to keep these around a paragraph but this is me and i have cannot shut up disease )#( i'll probably reblog this again later! )
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demons cannot actually touch water from the styx. in small amounts ( a handful of droplets ) it burns through their flesh like acid. larger amounts will cause them to burst into flame upon contact. this is normally a death sentence — though they can be saved if any damp clothing is removed and their skin is dried completely. intervening is quite risky, however; the "fire" can easily spread from one demon to another if they happen to also get drenched in the process of trying to help.
humans ( and blanks ) can touch the river freely without risking injury. ironically this makes them best equipped to save demons burning from the styx's waters — though whether they would actually feel inclined to is a different story entirely.
#𝟎𝟎𝟒 : 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦. ◟ hc .◝#worldbuilding#( the ''flames'' are also oddly colored; pale blue with magenta at the center. )
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@capt3n &&. SAID... "Is 'what the hell?' considered an insult?"
the demon blinks blearily at the question, wrinkling his nose a bit as he mulls it over. ❝ what the hell? ❞ is he making a statement or echoing her? well, maybe it's a little bit of both — he's always been damn ambitious. ( bet abbel couldn't multitask HALF as good as he can. ) ❝ depends; context matters. if someone goes what the hell are those shoes — YEAH, that's definitely an insult and you should feel pretty damn offended. ❞ he would go so far as to classify them as fighting words, really. ( or security come eject this clown from my property words. same difference. ) arms cross; ruairi balances his weight on one foot — leaning back as if resting against an invisible wall. ❝ but unless you're some pearl-clutching granny, just saying it isn't a crime. not in this day and age, anyway; heard they used to burn people for smaller offenses. ❞ god, humans are so weird.
❝ now if you're looking for things to say that will actually make people angry, you've come to the right person. ❞ ruairi places a hand on his chest, as if preening beneath an imaginary spotlight. ❝ if they gave out awards for that, i would be the reigning champion circa the year i learned how to talk. i know swears you've never even dreamed of. ❞ he's BASICALLY made up his own and added them to the public's collective vernacular through sheer force of charisma. ( okay, well, that's a lie — but he probably could if he actually WANTED to. )
#capt3n#( ''you know damn?? yeah. i invented it. well not really. but i could have if i felt like it.'' )
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