#[Antares -threads-]

[5mind]

really like the idea of Antares using his tail to emote but its a conscious effort and doesn't actually reflect what he really feels, it's all just for show

[justashadetalkative]

(Making a new post from here with @5mind )

5mind:

For a moment, the tiredness that had weighed his mind and body was shrugged off and replaced with an urgency that gave way to a lukewarm sort of anger. But even an emotion rounded off at the edges was enough to carry him forward - because more often than not that was all he could feel.

He skid to a stop where a wall swerved into a dead end.

"Look, just hand the wallet back. I won't call the cops or anyth-" He stopped talking and blinked. The shadows have grown, but not in anyway that was natural. For a moment, Terry did think that perhaps it was all the product of a fatigued mind.

He took a step forward. And then another. And then he realised it might all be real after all.

Trepidation had him reeling back, eyes wide and sweat forming. But then he pressed a hand against the pocket of his pants and felt the emptiness where his wallet had been.

The man took a deep breath and lunged forward for his wallet.

Linast’s perspective was so frustratingly limited in this form; shielding himself from view meant blocking his own view as well. Still, he heard the human hesitate, back up—and then rapid footsteps approaching once more.

Shit. He couldn’t just—if he… the human might be bluffing. The man would stop, surely. And if he didn’t, then Linast would…

His indecision lasted half a second too long. He felt his magic slice through clothing and flesh even as he wrenched his focus around, removed the cutting edge from his shadows and forced himself to summon enough brute energy to grab the human instead. 

Linast slammed the stranger up against the wall and pinned him there. For a moment he just stared, wide-eyed and panting from the recent sprint. Then he tossed up his arms, the stolen wallet still clutched in one hand.

“What – why – who the fffuck just – throws themself into — into unfamiliar magic like that?” he demanded. His voice was high and young, filled more with furious incredulity than with regret. “I could have killed you!”

[soulsxng]

The invitation envelope is sealed with blue wax, the outline of the Meriet royal seal carefully pressed into the the center. The invitation itself consists of a single letter that reads:

❝The kingdom of Brecaea cordially invites you to join them in celebrating the Festival of the Blue Moon. We humbly look forward to your presence in ushering in a new lunar season that is set to begin on at . We advise that you dress in light, airy clothing and have footwear that will not be damaged by any amount of water. We also advise that you arrive by sunset on the first day of the festivities in order to fully experience the welcoming ceremony.❞

Along the bottom of the letter, the words “Please dip in water and turn over.” is written in neat lettering along the bottom of the invitation card. Once done, the rest of the letter continues as follows:

❝An additional, private gathering will be held at Castle Luvalon throughout the entire event. Overnight accommodations will be provided to all guests with this invitation. We advise you keep it in a safe place, to bring it with you on your travels, and to present it to castle staff upon arrival. Your host, Queen Dakota Tetrarch of Meriburn❞

(for those attending the Brecaea party)

@sansloii

"You're going to come with? That's surprising; I thought you hated socializing and party stuff."

Jawyr laughed at the look his father gave him over his shoulder-- the older man rolling his eyes as he nodded his head outside the window, to where the gigantic crystal, Innaius floated in the air above the castle grounds.

"Very funny. I just don't like socializing and party stuff when it concerns a gaggle of prying or stuffy nobility, and whatever other gossip mongers decide to swarm me the second I'm by myself. But...Lerato wants to visit Cassandra and Dakota with Joseph, and I'd rather not risk him running out of energy and collapsing while on an entirely different continent. So we'll be heading to Brecaea first, and leaving halfway through to go to Meriburn...granted no word comes that I'm needed back here. The others should be able to keep a handle on things in the meantime, though...and if not, we teleport back."

- - - - - -

"Are you sure you and Rei should be going? With the way current events are right now, it'll be risky."

"You're coming as well, Varius. Do you not feel like you'd be able to protect us, if it came to that?"

The Setian guard falls silent, expression a conflicted twist. Naturally, if something happened then he would protect his king-- it was as simple as that. Not that Fekik needed it (and Areix would be especially safe, as Fei would sooner see himself killed than allow anyone to lay a finger on his youngest), but...well, Varius wasn't quite sure. He couldn't exactly say that he had a bad feeling.

After a few moments, he finally shook his head and relented. If they were going, then he would simply resolve to keep a close eye on everything and everyone!

- - - - - -

"If you're bringing Harailt, then I'll be inviting Iki. No offense, but I'm really not looking to third-wheel you the whole party."

The young prince was seated comfortably on a couch, feet kicked up on the arm of it as he regarded his older brother; the king. Alkaid was telling him about some party they'd be attending in Brecaea...honestly, he hadn't really been paying attention to all the details. It had been a while since he'd been able to bring Iki to anything like this, so most of the time that his brother had been talking, he'd been busy thinking up everything that he wanted to have prepared for her.

They were already friendly with Brecaea, so it's not like there had to be a lot of planning toward how to socialize and gain favor with them. He could look into the specifics of the gathering a little later.

"You don't have to say it like that; you would have invited her regardless of if Harailt came with us...just don't go too crazy on whatever you're plotting. You'll end up making yourself freak out if it can't all get done in time."

[artbyblastweave]

ask game; Victoria Dallon, aka Glory Girl aka Antares

I've always thought that Victoria's first appearance is quite the bit of deft needle-threading.

The thing about Interlude 2 is that Vicky is our first example of one of this setting's established heroes actively fighting crime- not just swooping in to vulture up the accomplishments of an up-and-comer- and a therefore a major goal of the sequence is to ensure that the audience comes away structurally unnerved by what counts as business as usual for the heroes, set the stage for the hurricane of ass-covering to come. So we have a sequence where she lords her power over a baseline criminal who has no realistic chance to fight back or get away, where she cripples and nearly kills him in a display of excessive force, where she uses her connections to other capes to duck out on the consequences of her excess once she realizes that she's crossed certain moral and optical Rubicons. All of this is gross, all of this speaks to an alarmingly cavalier attitude amongst even the most ostensibly accountable heroes. And from a protagonistic perspective, all of this serves to soften the blow of Taylor's actions at the bank in act three, because we're predisposed to see Vicky as an arrogant, overprivileged loose cannon who'd actually have a significantly higher body count than all of the Undersiders put together if not for the cushion afforded to her by her status as a superhero. A golden child up against the already put-upon underdog.

But. She also does all of that to a Neo-Nazi, who was fresh off committing a hate crime. I mean, if this was violence against a purse-snatcher, a drug-dealer- It would be very, very easy to block this sequence in a way that would set her up as a villain and nothing else for the rest of the work. In The Boys, for example, Homelander debuts by incinerating one bank robber's hand and throwing another a thousand feet into the air to land hard on a parked car, and the dissonance between that casual brutality and his chumminess with the onlookers is the thematic backbone for... basically the entire show, because he was in such total control of the situation that the only reason to do it that way is that he fundamentally doesn't care. In Super Crooks, it's made abundantly clear that the superheroes trying to arrest the titular supervillains are significantly more destructive to the city than the villains are, because their institutional backing removes any incentive to do anything but pursue the flashiest arrests possible for the sake of ratings. But Glory Girl? She's a sixteen year old putting her money where her mouth is on the unconsidered-dilettante suburban-left-ish tumblrite rallying cry of punching a Nazi. She's living out a near-boilerplate superheroic fantasy of righteous violence against an uncomplicatedly righteous target- likely a fantasy entertained at least once by the median cape fan, if we're being honest- and then, in the aftermath, blood on her hands and on the pavement, staring down the full weight of the prospect of actually having killed a person in an unconsidered spate of rage, is very much a panicked teenager about it, scrambling for a way to walk it back.

Which, independent of the specifics of whether this particular asshole had it coming, is the problematic element of this that generalizes- that superheroism in this world is a system that puts the social license to use concrete-shattering power in the hands of a kid with the judgement and attitude of someone scheming up ways to dodge curfew. She's done this before, she's gonna keep doing this, she's gonna keep being two-faced about it with her public-facing golden-girl image. But she wasn't wrong to be angry. And the fact that this is the kind of thing she gets angry about is hard to separate from later beats where she tries to do right by people, hard to separate from her willingness to put herself on the line against Endbringers and the Slaughterhouse 9. It's a bad situation, a horrible system that's guaranteed to incentivize bad behavior, they shouldn't be assigning any of this shit to a 17-year-old. But later on, when things go south for her, the seeds are planted so that she can retain audience sympathy in a way that she likely wouldn't be able to if this story was a banal hatswap, with unfairly maligned "villains" who do no real wrong against supervillains who happen to call themselves superheroes.

[lefluoritesys]

A breakdown of apps you can use to communicate with your alters as separate people and write down information about them online and offline with their pros, cons, and a personal rating because I really needed it when I was new to being a system:

Note: by "PC" I mean any computer/macbook/etc. By "all devices" I mean PC, mobile, tablet, iPad, etc.

I apologize for mistakes in advance.

1. Antar: An app created to chat with your "inner self," found in both Play Store and AppStore. One of the more popular ones among systems. It is an app where you get to create personas that would be chatting with each other in chats called "sessions." Those sessions can either be given a name or just left named after the date they were created on. Each persona is given a color that would become the color of their messages in sessions. Offline app.

Pros: Fiarly easy to use, no in-depth information needed to access it fully. Biometric lock; 4 languages (English, Chinese, Hindi, Spanish) for the system, however any language can be used via text; no limit to the amount of personas added (as far as I'm aware). Messages sent by the wrong persona can be changed; the "quote" feature allows you to start a thread under a message; provides descriptions of each persona. You can also give your personas an avatar rather than just a color. Has a "replay" and "visualization" feature, though I'd say it's strictly just for funzies.

Cons: Not available on PC; has no backup, phone-related resets or deletion of the app results in all information lost. Session order constantly changes depending on which senssion you entered, which in my opinion (+OCD) is a nuisance; you can't delete the "me" character which I've been wanting to do for a while. Can't add hexcodes.

Personal rating: 6/10. If you need an app that you can lock from unwanted visitors, if you don't mind and even prefer something simple, and if you don't care that the conversations might disappear, this app is a good choice.

2. Discord's PluralKit: A more avdanced discord bot with tons of settings and commands that was created specifically for systems. Allows you to add almost any information about your system memebers, even such things as birthdays. The way it works is, it "proxies" your messages with a certain command somewhere in the "normal" message, sends a message identical to yours from a bot created with the name you chose, and deletes your original message. Basically replaces a message from your account with a message from a bot you created earlier. Proxies are small commands that give the both a green light to do that, and they can be whatever you want them to be. Online bot.

Pros: Feels like different people are talking; allows you to track your switches; available on all devices; one system can be linked to multiple accounts, although you can't create multiple systems under one account; allows you to group alters together; allows you to restrict access to certain information from all users; allows you to add as many alters as you want; has a number of ways you can access the information you put in which would all be sorted and organized for you; autoproxy allows you to not proxy every message you sent; since you can't delete messages of other people on servers that are not yours, and the bot messages are not, in fact, yours, PluralKit allows you to react to the message with an emoji that deletes the proxied message; while you can't use it in DMs, you can set up commands in DMs with the bot; every memeber has a unique code, and so does the system itself, and it records when the member was created; can be exported to SimplyPlural.

Cons: Commands are difficult and complex, and so is the dashboard; can only be used on servers; sometimes offline as all bots are, though rarely; you can't use it anywhere outside discord (a con for those who don't use discord); I had instances where I saw people use it for roleplay which is also allowed; proxies are a pain; you'd need a guide to tell you why certain things are needed in it; you cannot reply to messages with gifs when using a proxy; when being exported to SimplyPlural it exports everything, so if you had 10 members on SimplyPlural and 15 on PluralKit, it's best to add those 5 manually than delete 10 new exported alters (I did it with 100+ alters by accident and it was a pain).

Personal rating: 9/10. Complex, difficult to figure out, but once you get ahold of it and how it works, you'd be amazed. Also a pain that you can't use it in DMs, but it's to be expected from a bot. And you can always create a server with just you.

3. Discord's Tupperbox: A discord bot created mainly for roleplay, but actively used by systems who cannot get along with PluralKit. A simpler bot, easy to use and figure out, most things can be done via dashboard, doesn't have the opportunity to add a lot of inofrmation. Online bot.

Pros: Simple; allows grouping alters; allows different tags for different members and groups, sometimes individually; way simpler commands, and most things can be added via dashboard; looks and works almost the same as PluralKit when in a conversation; available on all devices.

Cons: Can't add avatars via dashboard, only using the commands; can't add two alters with the same name (which you can do with PluralKit); people reported it glitching out and deleting members; mainly used for roleplay; gives a weird list of members via commands that is unusable in my experience; doesn't work out of discord.

Personal rating: 7/10. Perfect for people who just want to talk and not write down information about them with the bot, but the threat of members being deleted, especially as a larger system, is concerning. We mainly use it for OSDD-1a subsystems. It was also not created for systems, as far as I'm aware. I see more cons than pros.

4. Simply Plural: Another more well-known tool used and created for systems. Simply Plural is an app that allows you to create profiles of your members and add any information you'd like about them via custom fields. It has a chat feature, allows you to track your front and switch history, add friends, and many more. Supports endogenic systems (which is being mentioned not for discorse purposes but as a fact. Whether you find it good or not is up to you) and allows singlets to create profiles as well, although I don't know a lot about that part. Both offline and online app.

Pros (and a bit about the app): Backup included; tracks your switches and front, allows you to change exact time for them, too (24-hour clock down to minutes included); the polls feature works like polls on same Tumblr and everywhere else but specifically for your system memebrs; analytics provide information about who fronts the most, during what time of day they usually front; you and your friends can see each other's profiles, which is why singlets can also create profiles, which allows you to acces info about each other's systems; "trusted people" feature allows you to pick whether you want everybody to see your alters or not, or if you want outsiders to see your profile at all; provides resources and guides to plurality (which I personally haven't checked, but still putting it in the pros, if somebody thinks I shouldn't, let me know); has an app reminders feature; you can add as much information as you want; front history shows up in a person's profile; alters can add notes; alter groups are available; available on all devices, however, only as a website on PC; colors of your alters can be used in the chat to highlight names; hexcodes are available; "custom front" is a status you set with fronting which can be hilarious sometimes; connects to PluralKit in a number of ways.

Cons: The chat feature is a bit difficult to use, and first time I did, I freaked out because I couldn't get out of it (the trick is to go to "channels" and press "navigation", there you'll see the dashboard); friends can't communicate with each other; copy-pasting is hard on both mobile and PC; something about the interface and navigation irks me and our visually impaired self; notes have same visibility as the profile itself, which is inconvenient if you want your profile to be seen but not your notes; avatars can't be added via website.

Personal rating: 6/10. I don't like how it looks and works (probably due to being visually impaired and other issues), but if you manage to get the information in it, it's pretty accessible and thoughtful of what systems might need. Could be used as a tool to start working with your system rather than do it long-term.

5. Twinote: An app that is your "personal Twitter." Pretty sure it was created for the purpose of having fun rather communicating with alters. Offline app.

Pros: Backup provided; allows "private accounts" that other "users" can't see; can create as many users as you want, as many posts as you want; can upload up to 4 images; works almost like Twitter; has a chat feature; comments, retweets, likes are present; "lists" feature allows you to group users and see only their messages which could be used for "things only protectors sent" and such; storage shows all pictures used in the app, so you won't lose anything; tagging and following people is still an option, and following private accounts give that user an opportunity to be the only one seeing their tweets.

Cons: Can't upload videos; can't do much with anything other than posts and profiles, so trends and other stuff there is off-limits (as far as I know); you have to constantly switch between profiles for the chat feature; share button only shares the contents of the message; very easy to accidentally press the wrong button and delete a tweet by dragging it left (which I almost did a few times).

Personal rating: 7,5/10. I know it's probably annoying that I didn't just type either 7 or 8, but the reaosn why is cause I have mixed feelings about it from a practical point of view. We use it strictly to communicate what we did during the day as a small journal and just joke with each other, and it's incredibly funny in itself, but it doesn't allow you to write down a lot of information about your alters and has a character limit in profiles. So it's strictly for communication.

6. Notion: An app created as a dashboard for literally everything you could ever dream of. You can personalize it however you want and use it for whatever you want. Those who saw the post we made a while ago probably know the reason I'm mentioning it is due to a template that I linked here. Online app.

Pros: Can be used for literally everything without limits; available on all devices; big and has enough storage for a lot of information, text, projects, etc; can be designed however you want; a lot of useful templates for all life instances (even taxes); can be shared with people who also use Notion in a variety of ways (either only comment, only see, etc); can add your own custom covers and icons via both gallery and links; looks neat and doesn't mess with visual impairment for us; can add a page in a page in a page which can be used for diaries; links to different pages on other pages are also available; endless possibilities, I could rant all day.

Cons: Glitches on the phone a lot; certain things are allowed on computer and not on mobile and vice versa; all templates available only on PC; you need to have an account in order to use it; glitches if it's offline; sometimes deletes a bunch of text because of glitches, usually the triggers for it are writing a lot in it directly or erasing previous text a bunch of times; can't invite someone in your space, it would take too much storage; some storage needs to be bought, although, I don't know the limit (but there's a lot. Like, a lot)

Personal rating: 9/10. With all its antics, I love this app dearly, it's incredibly useful, and you learn to deal with the cons. It's the best one I've used for communication and information storage so far.

7. Texting Stories app: As ridiculous as it sounds, it could be used as a tool to communicate with your alters, especially in secret. We are fighting for our safety here, so I ask you to take this suggestion seriously. Could be used when you don't want to let anyone know you're a system and have noisy family members/relatives/etc who like to snoop through you personal devices, by using it, you can say you've just been doing a story. Offline app.

Pros: I believe you can add as many people as you want; can add avatars; different stories can be different days of the week; easy to use; easy to brush off as "just making stories."

Cons: Can't change colors, you need to pay for most things.

Personal rating: 5/10. Can be used for emergencies and communication only, although we haven't used it much.

8. Notes: Just the same plain old notes app on your phone that everybody has installed as default. Offline app.

Pros: Easy to use; can be easily lost within your other notes for privacy; used for literally everything you desire, even drawing; automatic backup.

Cons: Doesn't give you the ability to really present as separate people; doesn't have as many options as Notion.

Personal rating: 5/10. used it at some point just for communication, was cool, somple, easy, but nothing too big.

I hope this helped to put these apps in perspective. I do apologize for it being a bit all over the place, but I did attempt to make it coherent enough (I am currently in a psychotic state, it's difficult for me to communicate). And remember, there are always options to use a written journal rather than a digital one. If anything, it's better to keep both in case one gets lost. Who knows, maybe our parents asking us what we would do if the internet disappeared is actually a warning. /j /nm

-host

[5mind]

"Just a big one...any big battery?" Under the helmet, Antares raised a brow.

"What do you need it for? Like, what're you hooking it up to? I mean, that's kinda important to know."

"Battery... Battery... I'm looking for a battery! Does anybody have one I could borrow? Apparently it can't be a small one, not like a double A or those kind. I'm needing a big battery. Maybe a car battery? I'm not sure. Just a big one."

[malwaresilly]

[Continuation of Feige and Procyon and Antares meeting because thread was getting long]

Feige smiles and pulls out the pink glowing quartz. It floats in her cupped hands.

It is very important... Anyone who has this can control me and my power... I can overload and shatter it if that happens but... the fallout is catastrophic... Although, they have better control and access if a connection is made to me directly...

@animatronic-assistant

[they give a curious chirp, examining it without touching it as they're a bit nervous what will happen if they did]

"it's as pretty as you are"

[the words came out before they could truly process and stop them, their cheeks flushing purple again]

[spacegirasol]

A veces el corazón quiere intervenir, quiere rescatar, quiere quedarse. Pero había aprendido, a la fuerza, que amar a alguien no siempre significa quedarse junto a esa persona. A veces, amar era saber soltar un poco. Dejar que el otro aprenda a caminar por sí mismo.

—Antares, cap 20: “Tangled Threads”.

[esoteric-chaos]

Cosmic Witchcraft: On Cosmic Bodies

Please keep in mind, this post is all my UPG. Take with a grain of salt and make your own correspondences if you wish.

When we talk about astrological magic, some practitioners stop at the moon, maybe the visible planets. But cosmic witchcraft reaches into deep space, drawing power from asteroids, star clusters, galaxies and more beyond.

🌌 Cosmic Bodies & Their Magical Correspondences

🌠 Fixed Stars

Sirius (Canis Major): Divine messages, protection, channeling.

Aldebaran (Taurus): Courage, wealth, archangelic protection, steadfastness.

Regulus (Leo): Royalty, honor, ambition, solar power, resilience.

Antares (Scorpio): Passion, baneful workings, ancestral, decisive endings.

Vega (Lyra): Beauty, music, harmony, glamour magic.

Use fixed stars for spells with legacy, ancestral magic, or anything to do with elevation, something that’s meant to last.

🪐 Asteroids (especially in natal/astro magic)

Chiron: Wound healing, soul retrieval, deep initiation. Great for trauma healing magic.

Vesta: Hearth, devotion, sacred flame, inner temple. Amazing for home + body blessing spells.

Ceres: Nurturing, grief, abundance cycles, fertility, ideal for working with seasons and life/death cycles.

Juno: Partnerships, sacred contracts, marriage. Use in commitment work, handfasting prep, or healing toxic ties.

Pallas Athena: Strategy, spiritual insight, psychic defense, ancestor wisdom.

Lilith (Black Moon): Shadow work, empowerment, baneful justice work.

Asteroid magic is intimate. You use it for personal spells, deep inner work, and reshaping your own archetypes.

🌌 The Milky Way

The galactic plane. This is big-picture magic: life path revelations, ancestral magic, and connecting to the universe.

Use Milky Way magic in astral work, spirit travel, or visions. Offerings could include starlight-infused water, music played outdoors at night, or devotional poetry.

☄️ Comets & Meteors

Sudden change, insight, fate cracking open.

Use when you need something to shift dramatically or want to do "crash and burn" style spellwork to end old cycles fast. Think a tower moment mixed with the death card.

🌌 Galaxies & Nebulae

Andromeda: Boundaries, freedom, releasing old cycles. Good for undoing generational trauma or societal expectations.

Orion Nebula: Birth of stars = birth of new ideas, new projects, or new identities.

Pleiades (Seven Sisters): Connection to the divine feminine, intuition, dream work, ancestral healing.

Galactic energy is collective. Think community work, legacy spells, healing the future.

🔭 How to Work With Cosmic Magic

Timing: Use star rise/set times, galactic alignments, or transits through fixed stars.

Offerings: Starlight-charged water, sky-gazing, poetry, incense smoke sent up like a message.

Rituals: Deep meditations, journeywork, mirror scrying.

Correspondences:

Colors: deep violet, black, white ish gold, navy blue

Herbs: mugwort, damiana, blue lotus, star anise

Crystals: labradorite, meteorite, obsidian, amethyst

🛸 Suggested Cosmic Spell Ideas

Milky Way Lineage Spell: Call in wisdom from your ancestors to guide your next chapter.

Fixed Star Focus: Align your solar plexus with Regulus for confidence and clarity before a major move.

Asteroid Archetype Work: Work with Vesta to reclaim your sacred space or Chiron to release shame.

Comet Curse Breaker: Use a meteor shower to destroy lingering patterns in your life.

Galactic Web Ritual: Visualize weaving threads between you and spiritual allies across time and space. Astral work is a great example.

Final Thoughts

When you reach for cosmic magic, you're syncing with galaxies and drawing power from beyond the veil of something that we have yet to fully grasp.

Use it when you’re ready to transform, to connect with something ancient, or to call in a future you are seeking for.

Blessings,

Juniper

[5mind]

"Maybe I would have proposed to you at some point. But, that's right, I just remembered that I never cared about you, so never mind," James says, as if he cares as much as he says he never did.

He does.

@the-haunted-office

Wedding Bell Wednesdays! Send "🔔" if your muse would marry mine!

"We barely know each other, James," Antares replied with a sigh. That could have changed. They could have changed that. But they haven't.

And even if they had, would James still want him then? He had no idea how the guy saw him, aside from as just some casual(?) fling, but Antares already had the strongest hunch that it would end in either disappointment or betrayal. Maybe even both.

Better to shoot both of them in the feet now than later, he supposed.

"Did you come all the way here just to say this?" Odd thing to do for someone who apparently didn't care.

[houseoflibra]

Saint Seiya: Dark Wing Chapter 31: The Surplice's Memories

Page 1

Eulalia: - Scarlet Needle Antares Kick!!

Page 2

Page 3

Minos: - Ghwah!!

Page 4

Minos: - (What…?) - (My consciousness…) - (…as Minos, the Celestial Noble Star Gryphon…) - (My soul is becoming unstable…?!)

Page 5

Page 6

Minos: - (At this rate,) - (it won't be just my cosmo that will disappear. My soul will too…!) - Damn you… damn you!!

Page 7

Minos: - (No!) - (I refuse to accept it!)

Eulalia: - (Is that…) - (…the Gryphon Surplice?)

Page 8

Eulalia: - What an ominous cosmo…!

Minos: - My cosmo as a specter… I can still fight, - even if all I have left is my soul! - Yes, I have the perfect solution… - I captured Pandora and Necromancer before coming here.

Page 9

Minos: - I will be fine if I take their cosmo!

Pages 10 + 11

Eulalia: - No, wait!!

Minos: - Hahahah! Yes! - Those two are indeed ready, - just waiting for me, aren't they?

Page 12

Minos: - (Oh, Lady Pandora!) - (And you, Necromancer!)

Page 13

Minos: - (Give me your cosmo!!)

Yoruhime: - Celestial Noble Star Gryphon, - so you were shamefully defeated by the Scorpio Gold Saint, weren't you?

Page 14

Minos: - Defeated?! - If I will take your cosmo and go back to that vessel, this time I won't!

Yoruhime: - This time…?

Page 15

Minos: - Whaaa?!

Charlotte: - (Sigh…) - As warriors of the gods, - our strong beliefs and loyalty afford us great cosmo.

Page 16

Charlotte: - You were defeated by a Saint, - reduced to a mere soul, - and fled so shamelessly that you possessed that surplice. - Is that really what one of the Three Judges, close aids to Lord Hades, is supposed to look like?

Minos: - Damn you… - You lowly Necromancer - dare to address me, your superior, in such a manner?!

Charlotte: - Mort Resurrection!!

Page 17

Page 18

Minos: - What?! You were able to clear my cosmo threads - with a cosmo like yours?!

Charlotte: - You are currently nothing more than an ancient soul possessing a surplice... - You are like a vengeful spirit who possesses nothing - of the noble will of the Gryphon or any loyalty to Lord Hades!

Page 19

Charlotte: - You are not my enemy!!

Minos: - Grrr!!

Yoruhime: - You miserable soul, - risen in a twisted resurrection by an abhorrent power!

Page 20

Yoruhime: - By my hand, - may you rest in peace - once more.

Page 21

Minos: - This cosmo… - Is it soothing me and showing me compassion?…

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Yoruhime: - You will eventually be awakened again by a strong will. - Until then, - slumber peacefully among dreams of the night.

Minos: - (This cosmo feels like) - (a quiet and gentle night…)

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Minos: - (Forgive me… Lady Pandora.) - (I will go back to sleep now.)

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Charlotte: - In the end, he had a gentle cosmo, didn't he?

Yoruhime: - It appears that this surplice was used - to summon the most violent and cruel memories of the Celestial Noble Star Gryphon.

Charlotte: - The surplice… - …has memories?

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Yoruhime: - Perhaps surplices and cloths alike - harbor the memories and souls of those who wear them? - Maybe… - they can even transcend space-time or dimensions.

Charlotte: - Yeah… - maybe.

Yoruhime: - But it's still too early to relax, - Charlie.

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Yoruhime: - The cosmo barrier around the school is getting stronger.

Charlotte: - Huh?! - Then that means... - ...the Gryphon wasn't behind these incidents after all…

Yoruhime: - *nod*

?: - Well done, well done!

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Seirim: - Pandora, I didn't expect you to have - a cosmo technique like that!

Yoruhime: - So you're the one who used the Gryphon's surplice - to cause these incidents?

Seirim: - Yup! - (That was me!)

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Seirim: - I am a Clown of Lord Demiurgos, - one of the Four Horsemen, the "King of Diamonds", Seirim. - I am the one who was entrusted with conducting this "story", - the "Witch".

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Yoruhime: - (She called herself a Clown of Demiurgos…) - (They're completely unknown to specters and saints alike.) - (They're a formidable enemy…!)

Charlotte: - If I defeat you, - this barrier will be lifted, right?

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Seirim: - Ohh! - Despite appearances, you're unexpectedly aggressive, huh? - *giggle giggle* - Ok, sure! - I'll let you fight me, - little Charlotte!

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Yoruhime: - (Charlie hasn't been awake for very long,) - (and her cosmo was also considerably depleted breaking free of Gryphon's threads…) - (Shoichiro and the others aren't responding either.) - (Something must have happened to them.)

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Yoruhime: - (Harpy was supposed to lead the battle but she's out too.)

Zhu: - Yaaah!! - Jeez! - It's still standing?!

Yoruhime: - (And Sphinx) - (is also being kept out by the barrier.) - (The female Gold Saint was fighting against Gryphon…)

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Yoruhime: - (As for the other Gold Saint,) - (we should assume that he was also dealt with somehow.) - (And this was all…) - (…this Witch's doing!)

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Seirim: - *giggle giggle*

To be continued…

[cuckoo-among-beasts]

Okay, drafts has been cleared. These are the threads I'll keep (+ what's in my inbox):

@battleguqin - Post-workout "dying" Huaisang

@demcngeneral - Gifted egg.

@multeasers - An Audience (NHS & Antares, modern), Hostage (NHS & WRH), Meeting A-Qing

@shallliveoninsong - Time travelling.

The rest of my drafted threads will, unfortunately, be dropped. This is the first time I mass-drop threads and I apologise for that. A dropped thread does not signify disinterest in our muses btw.

I'm going to reply to these six threads and the three things I have in my inbox. Once that is done, I will be open for plotting and asks again.

Thank you all for your patience. I'm looking forward to rping with you all again. Huaisang has finally gotten louder once more.

[ulircursed]

♡ ok but I'm actually genuinely curious as to what Andrei himself would think of how his situation would change in this situation KSHDKDB

from this picrew!

a new child in jugdral-verse? yup, but hold tight, this au is my wildest one yet. there's another child too, but i'll talk about the other kid when it comes up

cw for rape

unlike the other jugdral asks where i just went crazy on my own, a few sensitive details were discussed a little with erica bc of the topic at hand. so deirdre and andrei have a precanon thread currently going on, where the two of them meet and have a meal and it's their first time hanging out just the two of them. in it, deirdre thanks andrei for, and i quote, 'dealing with one of the men who killed [her] father'. that's ring! andrei freaks out internally, of course, though he is able to salvage the situation to an extent

now, what if that meeting went well enough (in deirdre's mind) that they had more meetings? andrei is on one hand extremely uncomfortable with her, but on the other hand, this is exactly what he wants!! think about what it does for yngvi's reputation if the duke has a direct and personal friendship with the princess and future queen of grannvale!!! this is excellent and great and he cannot possibly refuse this. so he agrees to every single meeting, and talks to her, and they form some sort of friendship thing. at this point andrei's mental health is a mere thread away from utterly insane by the way. surely this will end well, right?

(oh yeah, at this point, andrei does already marry antares and have scipio. scipio is not involved in this mess and is the exact same as he is in canon)

it all comes to a head at one meeting, where deirdre confesses to him that she is ready to have children with lord arvis. she thinks she's ready, finally, thanks to the support and friendship of those around her, including andrei! she mentions something about ring again, and andrei snaps. i've mentioned it before, but andrei resents arvis for (as far as he knows) heading the conspiracy plot, because without it none of this would've had to happen. and so, upon hearing that arvis is about to get what he wants with the woman he loves, andrei forces himself upon deirdre

he comes to his senses after the deed is done, and apologizes profusely, begging her for his life essentially. he says that he will die if word of this ever gets out, and deirdre agrees to keep it a secret. and she does! until. she gets pregnant. i won't go into detail about when/whether she and arvis would've consummated their marriage at this point, but as erica points out, deirdre is not good at hiding her emotions and will eventually tell arvis about it as soon as he asks, so even if being pregnant was potentially expected, the secret would've gotten out at some point during the pregnancy

for his crimes, andrei is publicly executed and yngvi falls into disgrace. antares, already not a noble (this is purely my hc but andrei married a non-noble claiming to have minor ullr blood to have scipio), gets kicked out of yngvi along with scipio, and they go live their non-noble lives somewhere else

anyway, deirdre is pregnant! with twins! manfroy is kinda frustrated, bc he wanted her to have kids with arvis, dammit. but she's of course gonna keep the babies, so they are born. julia is still julia, just with major naga and minor ullr instead of fjalar blood. but her older brother, get this—

name: julio

gender: male (he/him)

class: prince > master knight minus bows and sword

minor ullr, minor loptous

tiptoes around his 'father', whom he's aware isn't really his father. has developed some chronic people-pleaser tendencies because on some level, he feels like his and his sister's existence broke something in this household and that he's not meant to exist. good at charming the staff! very polite for a noble scion

protective of his sister, mostly because of the above reason. the twins grow up really close! julia is the only one that julio feels he can show his true feelings around

they stay in the velthomer household as part of the family upon deirdre's insistence, which isn't terrible because they get a loving mother growing up, but also isn't great because they have to interact with arvis. arvis isn't abusive or anything, but everything about these kids brings back his trauma re: victor so his mental health is just not great in general. they try to avoid each other wherever possible

he's set up to become the duke of yngvi, or whatever that territory is gonna be called if that whole house ends up being dissolved. he works really hard in his youth, but doesn't pick up the bow because he can sense that his 'father' is really really not ok with that. forgoes the sword too, while he's at it, because his 'father' doesn't seem too pleased with that either. he knows how to fence and stuff, but not horseback sword usage. he learns magic though, magic is a-ok in this household

deirdre isn't blamed for this incident, because andrei was the one who initiated the whole thing, and the twins are... yeah, they're bastards, but they're the blood of the legitimate royal family, so it's not like they can be killed or anything. anyway, at this point, sigurd gets to belhalla and arvis cooks him twice as hard as in canon because at this point he's pissed off at anyone who's ever had kids with deirdre, but it's not like anyone can tell because no one knows how hard he cooked sigurd in canon so they just think wow his meteor spell is that strong

manfroy urges them to try again, and tbh azmur wants fully legitimate grandkids too, so according to erica, they do! because deirdre loves arvis and everything. but you know, holy blood weirdness and all that, their kid (let's call him julius) is born with fjalar blood and naga blood but not loptous blood. manfroy, extremely frustrated now, tells them to try AGAIN, and this time, uh, deirdre dies in childbirth and the child doesn't survive. listen, this is kid #5 ok i don't think health care was that good at that time. as an extra screw u to manfroy, maybe this kid would've had major loptous had they survived. but they didn't

manfroy's plans fail! julio becomes the new duke of yngvi and arvis just tries to avoid looking at him. julia is married off to one of the neighboring countries (i had to google what happened to illegitimate children of nobility/royalty and the answers were... this basically). julius becomes duke of velthomer and the heir to the throne. seliph can come in and fix some things about this, but loptous isn't one of his problems for once. everyone is either happy or dead! if julio ends up fighting febail, he will die to febail and his cousin will become the new duke of yngvi, but he doesn't have special dialogue with any of them because who tf are these people. the end.

bonus: thank u to erica for suggesting this route btw

[kurniawangunadi]

Jurang

Hi semua. Tulisan ini mungkin cukup sensitif dan membutuhkan empati untuk membacanya dengan hati-hati, karena akan menggunakan sudut pandang perbanding-bandingan. Sesuatu yang mungkin tidak nyaman untuk dibaca bagi sebagian orang.

Dalam proses mengamati sekaligus menjalani kehidupan selama 34 tahun ini, terasa sekali bahwa fase yang sedang dijalani saat ini itu benar-benar jelas sekali garis batas kehidupan satu sama lain, antara diri kita dengan orang lain itu kelihatan sekali.

Dulu sewaktu kecil, sewaktu seru-serunya menjadi anak-anak, tidak memandang dunia dari sisi materi, tidak bingung bangun tidur harus bekerja, bahkan ini mungkin terjadi hingga kita SMA. Antara kita dengan teman kita itu sama, sama-sama di fase berjuang. Lagi di fase belajar untuk mewujudkan mimpi masing-masing. Ngerasain kelas yang panas tanpa AC bareng-bareng, naik motor iring-iringan, dan semua aktivitas yang membuat kita terasa tidak ada bedanya satu sama lain. Coba deh perhatikan, teman-teman kita semasa TK, SD, SMP, ataupun SMA dulu. Inget nggak serunya bermain bersama, paling satu-satunya hal yang membuat kita berkompetisi saat itu adalah rangking kelas. Itu pun kadang sadar diri kalau udah ada yang langganan juara kelas berturut-turut, kitanya juga nggak berkecil hati karena tidak juara kelas, enjoy aja, dan ya berjalan sebagaimana biasanya.

Tapi coba lihat semuanya sekarang. Perbedaan antara kita dan teman-teman bisa kayak bumi dan langit dari sisi kehidupan. Di umur yang sama, ada yang masing single, ada yang sudah punya anak mau masuk SD. Ada yang sudah punya rumah, ada yang masih ngontrak. Ada yang kerja dengan gaji puluhan bahkan ratusan juta per bulan, ada yang berjuang biar bisa UMR aja alhamdulillah. Ada yang lagi jalan-jalan ke berbagai kota atau negara, ada yang lagi langganan ke psikolog/psikiater. Ada yang berubah jadi kriminal, ada yang menjadi seorang alim. Ada yang lagi kesulitan finansial, ada yang lagi lapang banget sampai bisa bersedekah tanpa berpikir panjang. Ada yang pernikahannya bahagia, ada yang sudah menjadi duda dan janda.

Perbedaan itu terpampang secara nyata. Dan itu dialami oleh diri kita sendiri dan juga orang-orang yang dulu sekali, tidak begitu lama, mungkin 15 atau 20 tahun yang lalu adalah orang-orang yang bareng sama kita. Yang dulu sama-sama memikirkan tugas sekolah, les bareng-bareng, kalau libur sekolah bikin agenda kelas, kalau ramadan bikin acara bukber kelas. Kalau lebaran, rame-rame keliling antar rumah-rumah.

Tapi perbedaan nasib, garis takdirnya bisa sejauh itu. Kadang, diri sendiri pun merasa begitu asing dengan segala jurang yang ada, begitu tinggi perbedaan yang dimiliki. Kadang, diri juga mengukur-ukur diri sendiri, bertanya-tanya mengapa ada yang bisa sejauh itu sementara kita terasa jalan di tempat, gitu-gitu aja.

Tanpa sadar, bahwa "gitu-gitu aja"nya diri ini juga ternyata jadi sesuatu yang amat berharga bagi teman kita yang lain. Hidup yang saling melihat ini, rasanya semakin membelalakkan mata di umur sekarang. Umur-umur yang menurut kita harusnya sudah bisa mencapai hal-hal tertentu dalam hidup, tapi kita baru mencapai sebagian kecil atau bahkan belum sama sekali.

Kemarin waktu baca threads, ada sebuah utas yang kurang lebih bilang begini : "Umur 42, belum punya rumah sendiri, masih ngontrak pindah-pindah, kendaraan cuma motor ada 1, anak ada dua udah sekolah semua, tiap bulan gaji ngepres buat semuanya. Nggak apa-apa kan?" Dan jawaban orang lain yang membalas, begitu "nyesss" pada baik-baik.

Kadang mulai mikir juga, apa selama ini kita terlalu lama hidup dalam bubble. Hidup dalam perspektif bahwa keberhasilan-keberhasilan itu harus mencapai ini dan itu. Ditakut-takuti jika kita tidak begini dan begitu, nanti hidup kita akan menderita. Hidup kita akan gagal. Gagal menurut orang yang menebar ketakutan tersebut.

Dan kita lupa dan tidak pernah diajari untuk bagaimana caranya bisa bahagia dengan alasan-alasan yang amat sederhana. Kebahagiaan kita penuh dengan syarat, syarat yang kita buat sendiri, tapi sekaligus syarat yang amat sulit untuk kita sendiri penuhi. (c)kurniawangunadi

[5mind]

"Becauuuuse, not killing me is the bare minimum ?" He lets out another one of his trademark world-weary sighs. "It shouldn't even count as payment in the first place!"

"And just so you know, I'm not even getting off on this." Or so he says now. "I haven't even seen all that happen yet."

"What? Why would I pay you money if your payment will be me not killing you? That'd be double-dipping, jackass," Doom scoffs as she folds her arms across her chest at him.

"As if you aren't getting something out of this anyway. You enjoy seeing him cut his own dick off and shit. Isn't that payment enough? Just imagine that. Hours of free wank material for you, all for the price of... me not murdering you."

[extraae]

Where are the angel asteroids in your chart? These include:

Angel 11911

Angelica 965

Gabriella 355

Raphela 708

Michel 1348

Oriela 701

Saint Michel 9395

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11911, 965,355,708,1348,701, 9395

and also the fixed stars -

Regulus - Archangel Raphael

Aldebaren - Archangel Michael

Antares - Archangel Uriel

Formalhaut - Archangel Gabriel

This thread was inspired by ReeseC's posts in the 'Asteroids that build Self-esteem' thread. Reese mentioned key angel placements and how she feels their presence in her life.

Do others feel supported or protected by their angel placements in any way?