#Lernae Sisters

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Hildri Lernae

This page contains mention of death and blood.

Danger scale: Moderate

Key notes: Dead Lusus, Heiress, Cold, Young Sister, Conflicted

🐚Hildri's mood🐚

Name: Hildri Lernae

Age: 8.31 sweeps (18 y.o.)

Height: 5’5 (165 cm)

Blood colour: Fuchsia

Wiggling day: 24 January

Symbol: Hydrus

Gender: Female (She/Her)

Orientation: Lesbian

Occupation: The future Heiress of Alternia

Place of residence: Big castle under a water - near the the cliff - a tip of the castle could be see in the water

Lusus: MotherHydra (Giant size; Alive), MotherHydrus (Small size; Dead)

Hobby: Training her fighting skills

Hemoloyalty: She is against the current hemospectrum

Fetch modus: Button. Wherever she presses the button, she gets a random item

Strife specibus/Weapon: Chain/Chain kind

Troll Tag: antagonisticСombatant [AС]

Typing quirk: After every 4 letters put capital letter

Typing quirk example: 

[AС]: no cOmmeNt…

God Tier: Witch of Breath

Ancestor: The Next Inheritrix

Dancestor: Enidro Shewei

Personality: 

Hildri is a cold-looking troll with a lot of problems behind the scenes. She is distant, serious and blunt, but somewhere deep inside, sympathetic and soft at the same time. After some events, Hildri becomes more careful with her actions, regretting all the stuff she did in the past. She wasn't able to let it go and has a habit to remind herself about it constantly, especially when she's around Crucis, these thoughts appear in her head every time.

Before Hildri was considered as one of cool guys in highschool with sport jackets. She was a laid-back troll with chill vibes, true to her character and easy to befriend.

But as time went by, Hildri changed herself drastically to fit into a mold of 'future heiress'. She doesn't like it, but... what can she do? Does she have a choice on this matter?

Still she couldn't change herself fully as she won't judge anyone beforehand and treat everyone equally in her eye. You can still befriend her, but it wouldn't be so easy as you need to gain her trust first.

It's better to not make her angry as her patience becomes worse throughout the time and she won't hesitate to beat shit out of you or let drones attack you.

Likes:

Hanging out in abandoned places (still likes it)

Training her fighting skills

Strawberry cakes

Weapons

Jewellery

Being alone

Swimming

Sea

Dislikes:

Hemospectrum

Cold weather

Loud noises

Coffee

Being pressured to do things

Books

Cold treatment

Her Imperious Condescension (HIC)

Trivia:

Hildri is aware that she had her own lusus in the past.

Hildri was a part of a gang called ‘AngrySnakes’ made by Seyfer. She was too young to participate in raids, but she fought with drones when they located their hideout in one accident.

Hildri got all of the scars in a fight with other fuschias for the throne.

Hildri lost her eye in the fight with another fuschia who she had a rivalry with.

Hildri still keeps Crucis’s pin somewhere in her pocket.

Hildri was forced to cut her hair back in the spaceship.

Relationships:

Matesprit - Closed. (Doesn’t want any relationship in this quadrant at the moment)

Moirail - Taken - 🍨Sweet and Spice🧂

Crucis. After talking out everything both of them went through, Crucis and Hildri were hesitant to tell what kind of relationship they have and so Hildri suggested becoming moirals. Crucis agreed and couldn’t feel happier.

Kismesis - Closed. Crushing...???🦈

Auspistice - Closed. (Doesn’t have a time for this)

Out of quadrants

Older Sister - Nuriko. Hildri feels sorry for her older sister to take care of someone like her. She wishes she could be a better young sister.

Old acquaintance/Crucis's guardian - Phecda. Hildri is glad, Phecda is not angry at her for breaking up with Crucis. On the second thought, she should...

Old acquaintance/Crucis's guardian/Role model - Seyfer. Hildri still has a lot of respect for Seyfer. She wishes to become a good leader like him.

Old acquaintance - Gienah. Hildri remembers it was fun to hang out with him, still she thinks he was a bad influence on her and Crucis.

Old babysitter - Pavoni. Hildri barely remembers them, but they were nice to her and Crucis.

Acquaintance/??? - Eingal (@.dracoinfernous). Hildri doesn't like her and only knows her as Crucis’s girlfriend. Still she feels something towards her and she has no idea what...

Backstory:

Nuriko and Hildri became sisters early in their childhood. Nuriko was around 3.23 sweeps (7 y.o.) when her lusus adopted young fuchsia.

It happened when MotherHydra was training Nuriko how to fight. They were training in the open ocean, improving her fighting skill. As the training was coming to end, suddenly both of them heard a cry of help and sounds of drones flying around. Confused, Nuriko and MotherHydra rushed to investigate the scene. When they both approached the place - it was a place surrounded by rocks with a cave near it, the only thing they saw was drones flying away, then much later it was followed by another cry for help. MotherHydra figured out it sounded from the cave, so she rushed inside with her daughter. 

Nothing was strange about the tunnels, but as soon as Nuriko’s lusus noticed a bit of blood on the ground, she immediately covered her daughter’s eyes and told her to look away. Following the trace of blood, soon, MotherHydra reached the end of the cave and her heart broke into pieces. She saw a heavily injured lusus, protecting a small grub with her whole body and it touched her huge heart. The other lusus looks similar to MotherHydra, but a bit smaller with less heads.

MotherHydra promised her to protect her grub and in return other lusus told her name - Hydrus and the name of the grub - Hildri. Then Hydrus died with a small smile right in the cave. 

It was heartbroken to witness for MotherHydra. She couldn’t believe such a tragic event happened to the poor grub and later took a grub under her wing, adopting her as her second daughter.

Nuriko and Hildri become sisters.

As Hildri grew up, she become more and more aware about her surroundings and reckless about it at the same time. Hildri doesn't remember much when she was a grub, but thanks to MotherHydra and her story, she knows she had a lusus before and she was killed by drones. It made her upset and question why they were doing it in the first place and who.

That's why she joined a gang called 'AngrySnake' made by Seyfer. Shewas the youngest member of the gang, so most of the time she didn't do anything. She couldn't join raids or fights, but she felt like at home there. Everyone was really nice to her and treat her like a part of the family. Later on, when she grew up a bit, she was able to protect their hideout from drones and she gained a huge respect from members.

One day, when Hildri was walking through the street, she noticed a troll with a sick lusus on the road, cold and hungry. She felt sorry for them, so without thinking, Hildri approached them and offered the hand of help. At first, they hesitated and Hildri saw it, but soon the troll accepted the help and introduced as Crucis to her. Turns out, they were the same age, 6.46 sweeps (14 y.o.), so it was easy to communicate with each other.

Later on, Hildri brought Crucis with her lusus to her hive and introduced her to Nuriko and told her a story about how they met. After Nuriko found out about the Crucis’s and her lusus condition, she immediately gave the poor girl some food and medicine for her lusus. It slightly shocked Hildri of how fast Nuriko was to help Crucis, but happy to know that her older sister cares about others.

Unfortunately, because their hive was underwater, Crucis couldn’t stay, but Nuriko asked her friend, Phecda, to let Crucis to stay for a while. Phecda agreed and took care of the poor girl while her hive was under construction.

Nuriko and Hildri helped Crucis whenever they could and gave some things such as laptop, phone, food and ect, so Crucis could feel comfortable living a new life. Hildri was feeling good about herself and what she did to help Crucis in her situation. She helped someone, not just someone, but a friend.

She thought they were friends.

Suddenly, at the age of 6.92 sweeps (15 y.o.), Crucis confessed her feelings to Hildri. It confused the heck out of Hildri. She didn't know how to reply. Does she feel the same way? Still Hildri accepted the proposal and later, they started to date.

Hildri had a pretty steady and a bit boring life, but not for long...

Hildri got a letter, an urgent letter to come to the place (spaceship) where she could sign up and fight for the throne or disinherit herself and live a peaceful life. Confused, Hildri tried to figure out what that meant and was ready to ask Nuriko about that, but then...

...she bumped into a bookcase in the living room and another letter fell down on the floor. Hildri took it and carefully read it.

Hildri had a full picture now.

The first letter, that fell down, was about her being a candidate for the throne. Nuriko tried to hide it from her. (And she can't really blame her for that, but still.) The second letter was a warning about the deadline to sign up for the tournament.

It was overwhelming, but she needs to do something and fast.

Hildri disappeared the next morning and only left the same letter and the note:

‘Sorry, sis, but I have to go. If they really want me to fight over the stupid throne so bad, then i’ll deliver it in my own way.’

Hildri came early to the place (spaceship), waiting outside for it to open. While she was waiting, a sudden realization hit her.

16 June. 

It was Crucis’s birthday.

She facepalmed herself as she remembered it, feeling so guilty about it. She really wanted to visit her birthday party, but she couldn't because of this bullshit with the throne. Hildri cursed herself, wanting to end it all at once.

Finally the spaceship opened and Hildri could go inside. But then-

...she was stopped by Nuriko. Her older sister tried to convince her to think twice before entering a tournament. Unfortunately, Hildri didn’t listen to her and went to the reception desk.

It took longer than she thought as she was waiting in the line to sign up. She yawned, feeling quite bored from all the waiting, how suddenly-...

...a gruesome picture just appeared out of nowhere. One of the drones she fought before, just killed another fuschia and then started to drag their body to the side.

It scared the shit out of Hildri.

When she heard there was a background check on fuschias who wanted to participate in selection, she felt goosebumps on her skin. Crucis was a lime and she was a fuschia.

She was in danger.

Hildri looked at her phone screen with her and Crucis together. She needs to do something quick.

But what could she do?

With a heavy heart, she deleted all the mention of Crucis in her phone and then sent her a break up message:

‘Hey, Crucis. I’m sorry I wouldn't be able to come to your party. 

The thing is that I'm tired of you. Your behavior, your naivety, your clumsiness - I'm tired of all of it. Don’t look for me or you’ll get in trouble. Peace.’

She felt awful.

After that she doesn't remember much of what happened, but she knows that her sister was there with her and comforted her in the worst time of her life.

Hildri was accepted to fight for the throne.

So Nuriko did something with the documents and was able to travel with Hildri. It made her a bit happy. Both sisters packed their things in a few days and later on they left Alternia in the spaceship without telling anyone.

Hildri's life in the spaceship was hell. She was constantly attacked by other fuschias outside and inside of the area, barely had any friends, forced to cut her hair and just tired from all this commotion. She barely saw Nuriko because of them being in different locations.

But she couldn't give up. Hildri got all her scars from in a fights with other fuschias and in the last round she lost her eye.

And so she won the tournament.

When the tournament ended, Hildri and Nuriko reunited and returned back to Alternia where they decided to contact their old friends and new one.

Hildri and Crucis had The Talk and reconnected.

So, now, Hildri is peacefully preparing for another fight...

[zwy01]

Noble OCs - Agvain

Making five OCs for every clan!

Typhon Agvain: Pureblood. Entered eternal sleep, belonged to Lagus’ generation.

Typhon was the father and predecessor of Calytrix, the mother and predecessor of Urokai. He was also the father of Rubino Elenor, the father and predecessor of Rozaria. Typhon pretty much raised Calytrix with free-range parenting. He was happy to let her run around and play to her heart’s content, which defined her childhood as one filled with pure joy. His fellow Clan Leaders raised their eyebrows at him once they learned that he never really pushed his daughter with her education either. He ignored the standard successor training procedure which was an extremely unusual decision at that time. It still is mostly unheard of in the present day. Typhon’s philosophy of life emphasized how children should be able to enjoy their childhood while it lasts and the work can happen later. No one needs to be shackled to a suffocating life of grinding just because “ancient tradition” said so or whatever, he thought. His predecessor raised him with a fairly relaxed attitude, and he turned out fine. Typhon had full faith in little Calytrix. If she took after him, then she’d naturally fall in love with studying just like how he himself suddenly went from neutral to passionate during his teenage years, so he had no worries. Even if she didn’t, he would’ve fully supported her as her father anyway. If Calytrix wanted a carefree life of leisure and freedom even after succeeding Typhon, he’d gladly do Clan Leader work in her stead for as long as she wanted him there. He wouldn’t mind. After all, he chose to bring her into this world and of course he’d want the best for her. In Calytrix’s case, she did find clan duties to be somewhat entertaining so naturally she integrated the studying and training into her routine without any influence from external pressure. Her beloved father asked her if she did it because she truly wanted to and not because of the adults’ whispers, to which she giggled and responded of course, why would she ever lie to her amazing Pa. Typhon was extremely grateful towards his predecessor for letting him decide his own pace of life and thus parented his daughter the same way. Calytrix’s peers watched her with admiration and envy as she laughed and rolled around in the grass while they drowned in piles of books. Luckily for them, Calytrix was very smart and helped them sneak out to play with her and snuck them back in before their tutors noticed. Typhon’s so proud of his little girl, aww. Isn’t she so generous. Father and daughter treasured each other very much. When Trixie’s younger half-brother Rubino was born much later, Typhon suggested raising him free-range like his older sister but the Elenor Clan Leader rejected the idea and insisted on following tradition. Welp, guess that couldn’t be helped, Ruby wasn’t Typhon’s heir so he had no say in his upbringing. Still, with a wink and a playful smirk, he let little Ruby know he was welcome to come visit Pa’s home anytime. Typhon’s love for his family meant he stuck around for a long while. He was present for the entire duration of Calytrix being Clan Leader and only entered eternal sleep after her retirement. Typhon’s partner was an unnamed Blerster, the mother of Calytrix.

Lerna Agvain: Non-pureblood. Alive in the present day, belongs to Gejutel’s generation.

Lerna was the mentor of Urokai. Her placement in such an important position wasn’t a mere coincidence. Everything she had ever worked for was an effort on her part to approach the Agvain heir. She didn’t do it because she cared about him, though. As a matter of fact, her concern for any of the Agvains was minimal. Lerna simply wanted to see chaos unfold and she’d be the one to make it happen. That’s right. She approached Urokai to sabotage his life. And she started early to achieve the ideal results. It would be wrong to say Lerna is just another amongst the crowd, because she isn’t a nobody; she was actually Calytrix’s childhood companion, by pure luck. Typhon was a kind-hearted man and one day, he passed by a young clan member who seemed unhappy and after he knelt down and talked to her, he found out it was due to her less-than-ideal family. He wanted to offer her a chance to escape from that environment, so he asked if she was interested in becoming her future Clan Leader’s playmate, and she accepted because she desperately needed the opportunity. Little did Typhon know that his single act of kindness would result in disaster in the far future thanks to the snake he invited in his den. But of course he wouldn’t have known, because she was just a child. Perhaps Typhon underestimated what children were capable of. In Lerna’s case, it was the amount of hatred she could manifest inside her. Turns out Lerna wasn’t exactly grateful for the opportunity she was given. She made sure to look like she did, though. She’s an excellent actress and even fooled Calytrix into thinking they were best friends. In reality, Lerna despised Calytrix. Her position as companion just allowed her to witness Calytrix’s wonderful life up-close which fueled her discontent and jealousy. Typhon spoiling his beloved Trixie, the servants adoring her, their clan members promising to serve her well, etc… instead of being happy for her future Clan Leader, Lerna grew bitter and hateful. It didn’t matter if Typhon was super nice to her and treated her as if she were Calytrix’s sister and part of their family. She simply wanted to destroy them just because, and she had to do it discreetly. So she waited. All those years of pretending to love Trixie paid off. When Urokai was born, naturally Calytrix asked Lerna first whether she’d like to be his mentor. She pretended to cry happy tears and hugged Calytrix as she exclaimed yes nonstop. Great, now she could finally get her schemes going. Urokai was a difficult child. That’s just in his nature. He could’ve turned out a bit more normal with proper guidance but any efforts to improve him would be countered by Lerna in the shadows. Long story short, she slowly poisoned his mind. She never turned away from opportunities to smite any budding hope in his character and constantly fed him with hatred to keep him angry. She whispered into his ears “You’re the best in the world and everything you do is right”, “Those who disagree with you are wrong and deserve punishment”, “When you’re denied of what you desire, cry and scream and fight for it until you get it” and “If someone doesn’t love you back, get rid of them”. Again, Lerna pretended to love Urokai. As expected, Urokai genuinely loved her back. He soaked up her “teachings” and heavily relied on them for guidance and comfort. It’d be a lie to say Lerna didn’t care for Urokai at all because she kind of did have affection for him though her feelings were too complicated and twisted thus difficult to convey through words. Lerna was successful at molding Urokai into an angry, explosive, agitated, and violent person. She even got him to turn against his other parent, Isolde. After learning of Urokai’s execution, Lerna is silent then laments the loss of her prized source of entertainment. Unbeknownst to her, someone may or may not have unintentionally eavesdropped on her confession monologue. In the present day, Lerna works as a babysitter for Agvain children. Unbelievable, right? Lerna’s partner is an unnamed Ru.

Hammurabi Agvain: Non-pureblood. Alive in the present day, belongs to Gejutel’s generation.

Hammurabi works in the judicial branch of the noble government. He is a just legislator who places a strong emphasis in balance. The law should be neither too relaxed nor too strict, and they must find a suitable middle ground between the two extremes. Hammurabi’s greatest rival is his colleague and fellow legislator Phachoen Mergas, an advocate for extreme justice and unreasonably harsh punishments as a full-on authoritarian who refuses to see things any other way. Unfortunately, Phachoen has many strong networks in Lukedonia at his fingertips. His group of loyal followers support him in whatever he does. His excessively harsh laws get passed one after another while the more reasonable and humane ones by other legislators don’t, to Hammurabi’s dismay. The two of them argue constantly which mostly results in Phachoen winning because the court at the time leaned towards authoritarianism thus favored the extreme over the reasonable. Hammurabi tries to alert everyone of the dangers of total blindness towards nuance and perspective but his voice gets buried and almost no one votes for him. Centuries pass and nothing has changed as Phachoen still dominates the court and Hammurabi starts to give up. Feeling utterly defeated and frustrated, he quits his job as legislator and goes back to his home in the Agvain territory to make intricate voodoo dolls instead. He also maps out backup plans for his family and himself to move out of Lukedonia in case things become a total wreck with the ever-increasing terrible laws. Hammurabi manages to convince all but one of his family members, his own son Samsu-iluna Agvain. Under the effects of Phachoen’s laws, more torturers are being hired and the job is in high demand. Samsu-iluna is one of the torturers and frankly he quite enjoys the work and thinks his father is being over-sensitive and delusional. How bad can it get, he scoffs at his father. Hammurabi once again admits defeat to his stubborn son and makes plans with the rest of his family instead. He then decides to scout the human world by himself for potential new homes to move to. During his travels, he may or may not have bestowed upon a group a humans some legal texts on a stele to give them a starting point in civilization. He could have lent his name to them too. Hammurabi neither confirms nor denies these claims. Phachoen, at one point, makes a remark on how his “dear old colleague” is aimlessly loitering in the outside world because he’s unable to live with his own inferiority and mingling with the humans is his only way to feel validation. Phachoen’s basically pitying Hammurabi for bringing himself down to the humans’ level. Meanwhile Hammurabi thinks humans have much more potential than nobles, and those who can’t see past that are too sheltered and deeply buried in the nobles’ closed ecosystem. Hammurabi eventually returns to work as a legislator after Phachoen gets assassinated. He doesn’t exactly want the job anymore but sees it as necessary to help fix Lukedonia back in the right direction after a certain someone screwed it up. Hammurabi’s hobby is making voodoo dolls, and he’ll never stop making them. His favorite voodoo doll with pins all over the torso area has short grey hair and an ugly frown on its face. That sounds familiar, doesn’t it.

Sangria Agvain: Pureblood. Alive in the present day, belongs to Raskreia’s generation.

Sangria is the study buddy, playmate, and sparring partner of Raskreia. She’s also Raskreia’s not-so-distant relative from her mother Desdemona’s side. The two children didn’t get along too well because little Raskreia suspected that her mother chose Sangria to be her companion in order to monitor her even though that wasn’t the case at all. In reality, Desdemona picked Sangria for her competence and potential as Lord’s heir’s companion and the Previous Lord approved the decision. They promptly made arrangements for the children to meet each other. Upon Sangria’s arrival, Raskreia scowled at her for two seconds but was polite enough to acknowledge her with a proper greeting and introduced herself as the Princess, saying the standard filler of how she looks forward to spending time together blah blah blah. Sangria wasn’t dumb either and immediately realized that Raskreia was hesitant if not reluctant to accept her as her companion. She knew even if she tried her hardest to bond with the future Lord, her efforts wouldn’t be reciprocated easily. Still, Sangria wanted to give it an honest shot. After all, she admired the mysterious Lady Desdemona and was willing do it for her even if it meant spending the next couple hundred years dealing with her difficult daughter. Sangria truly cared for Raskreia’s wellbeing despite the latter always keeping a distance between them; she was polite, but not nice. Raskreia needed Sangria but wouldn’t admit it, and pushed her away when she got too close. Raskreia didn’t realize what she was doing, but she basically used her companion as a crutch: one she didn’t fully accept but couldn’t let go of either. Sangria felt hurt at times. Nevertheless, she never stopped trying to form a bond with Raskreia in hopes that she’d let down her guard one day but her efforts only made things worse. They were just “proof” of Desdemona picking Sangria to conveniently spy on her daughter for whatever reasons. Raskreia was too proud to ask questions and consequently her only option was to internally reinforce her misunderstandings of Sangria, to the eventual detriment of the latter’s mental health. The Previous Lord and high-ranking nobles in Lukedonia all praised the heir-companion duo for their excellence, friendship, and how they set up a great example of “model peer relationships” for noble youth. That’d be a superficial observation, of course, because somehow the two of them have an unspoken agreement where they’d pretend to be best friends when the older adults were watching.

Eventually the stress takes a toll on Sangria’s mind in her teenage years and she resorts to self harm. At some point she discovers that her blood, in certain conditions, develops a fruity, almost alcoholic aroma. Out of curiosity, she tastes a drop and to her surprise, it’s sweet and delightful. Soon enough Sangria starts self-harming to relieve stress and to drink her own blood. Her routine is serve Raskreia, go home, self-harm, drink, then heal up before returning work the next day. Curiously, Sangria stays with Raskreia even after the latter reaches 200 years old and no longer needs a companion by noble traditions. Perhaps she still feels like she has a responsibility to take care of the princess. Meanwhile Raskreia never tells Sangria to pack her bags and go away permanently either. Her feelings regarding her companion are complicated, specifically how she “knows too much”. Sangria has a good understanding of Raskreia’s habits, likes and dislikes, strengths and weaknesses etc. Even though Raskreia feels uneasy about someone knowing so much about the details of her life, it’s oddly comforting and thus a possible explanation of why she allows Sangria to stay. Raskreia suspects her, but is attached to her. In the present day, Sangria works as one of Raskreia’s secretaries. She knows her Lord still suspects her of being Desdemona’s spy, which hurts more or less. She keeps it to herself and copes with the stress by self-harming as usual. Sangria’s hobby is plucking seeds off strawberries and collecting them in a small treasure chest. As for the strawberries, she doesn’t eat them and instead hangs them from the ceiling with clips and throws them out once they dry up. Sangria’s partner is an unnamed Mergas.

Rojas Saffron Agvain: Non-pureblood. Alive in the present day, belongs to the Previous Lord’s generation.

Rojas has a weird hobby which she calls her job. It might as well be one, but that depends on who witnesses her do it. An Agvain would call it a job while others would frown and walk away in disgust, confusion, or both. Rojas likes to decapitate herself. Burning or freezing it off, cleaving it off in a single quick blow, sawing it off inch by inch, or twisting it around so her spine cracks and the muscle fibers snap until it’s easily pulled off… she gets real creative. She has tons of ways to experiment with her body. There’s several reasons behind her rather violent “fun”. Firstly, Agvains are the only nobles who are impossible to kill through decapitation. Or, near impossible, to be considerate of the slightest possibilities. There are no records of any Agvain being killed from getting their head blown off, though it’s worth noting the rest of their body parts are more fragile as a balance. It’s one of the many strange abilities of the clan and some are quite proud of it. So Rojas here is simply testing how true this statement is by challenging the odds. So far it’s true according to her “data”. As soon as her head gets detached from her body, her neck muscles bunch up to halt blood loss. If her head is still lying somewhere, she can place it onto where it’s been cut off and it’ll seamlessly reattach itself to her body. If her head is destroyed, she’ll just grow a new one though it’d take a few decades. If she were a pureblood, it’d only take a few months. With special potions, the head regrowing process can be expedited though it partially depends on the individual too. Rojas thinks it’s fascinating. No Agvain would constantly chop off their heads just for the sake of studying themselves yet clearly dear Rojas here is crazy enough for it. Agvains feel pain like normal people after all, leading to the second point of how Rojas enjoys the sensation of losing her head. It’s kind of addicting and therapeutic, in a way. It’s also pretty to look at and she thinks the blood is a really neat tool for artistic projects. She insists it’s romantic though those who run away screaming when she asks them out by using her head as a paintbrush to write “Will you go out with me?” on the walls say otherwise. Curiously, one of them doesn’t reject Rojas and agrees to the proposal, and that is Rojas’ current partner named Poppy Tradio. They are head over heels for each other and the Poppy is completely smitten with Rojas’ dedication to her “research” and even helps her with it. Maybe that’s also because both of them are pretty unhinged. They think they’re the normal ones and everyone else is weird. Poppy uses her noble superpowers to invent new kinds of flowers and gives one of her creations her lovely Agvain girlfriend’s middle name; lo and behold a beautiful purple and red flower just like the two of them when they’re together. How romantic! Rojas is super flattered. Currently, Rojas has a gig in the human world as a model for the fashion industry and people always praise her for how realistic her “special effects” are. They don’t need to know that she really is walking without a head there.

Thank you for reading! Kravei is next!

[monochromefilms]

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#14/31 - Mythology | Bobaween 2023

@bobatrait

Medusa,

Also called the Gorgon, is in Greek mythology one of the three Gorgons (with her sisters Euryale and Stheno). She is the only one who is mortal. Daughter of Phorcys and Ceto, and therefore granddaughter of the union of the Earth (Gaia) with the Ocean (Pontos), she belongs to the group of primordial deities, just like her cousins, the Chimera and the Hydra of Lerna , which also had traits associated with the image of the serpent and were destroyed by heroes. Even though it appears on the pediments of several temples, it was not the subject of any worship.

His eyes have the power to petrify any mortal who meets his gaze.

[happyhappyfantrolls]

[Your name is HILDRI LERNAE. You just returned from a long ‘trip’ from SPACE to Alternia, your home where you grew up and had plenty of friends who you missed dearly. Right now, you live in the big castle under the water with your OLDER SISTER and your LUSUS, MotherHydra.

Your interest is training your FIGHTING SKILLS. You can’t talk about your training sessions that much as you keep it as a secret from VERY CURIOUS rivals of yours.

You are known to be one of FUSCHIAS who will participate in taking over the THRONE. You don’t want to be SHOW OFF, but you are in the first line of becoming EMPRESS in the future and you think it’s pretty IMPRESSIVE how you even SURVIVED the selection in the first place.

You also feel pretty GUILTY towards a certain LIMEBLOOD who you hurt in the past. You just hope she WOULD listen to you.]

[chibichibisha]

Yesterday I wrote down Kero’s backstory and I now feel self-aware because maybe it’s too dramatic to what I wanted at first dfgdf but well, I really want the Cerberus/Orthrus reference to stay big on his character. And after the overblot on Igni chapter happens, he will be able to start moving on for real (and maybe reconnect a bit with his family?? who knows)

[artzychic27]

The Artist Family- The Malevolent Miraculous

No Master Fu, no Chat Noir, yes Hawkmoth and Mayura.

One night, the Artist Family went to the cemetery to play a game of Funeral. They just find roadkill, put it in a small coffin, and bury it

Marc: Come, sorrow. We welcome thee. Let us rejoice in despair, misery, tragedy, and honor the fortunate dead.

While Alix digs the grave, she finds something in the dirt. It’s a weird box

Alix: What is this?

Juleka: Hand it over. *She takes the box and closes her eyes for a few seconds* ...It’s cursed.

Nathaniel: Oh, maybe it’s Pandora’s box!

Juleka opens the box. The Artist Family expects tortured souls to fly out a wreak havoc all over Paris, but to their disappointment, there’s nothing but six pieces of jewelry

Rose: Aaw. No chaos and human suffering?

Marc: No chaos and human suffering.

Marinette: Only in our nightmares. At least we get free jewelry out of it.

Marinette takes the bat-wing earrings, Nathaniel- Shark Tooth Necklace, Marc- Ankle bracelet, Alix- Choker necklace, Rose-Wrap bracelet, Juleka- Belt

Once they put them on, an eerie black fog surrounds them

Alix: Alright, bring on the chaos!

Again, to their disappointment, small fairy-demon-bug-rat things appear in front of them

Bat- Screech, Spider- Fangg, Shark- Chompp, Hydra- Duuo, Kraken- Oarr, Tasmanian Devil- Rabbid

Screech introduces them as Kwamis, gods and goddesses who grant powers to those wearing the Miraculous

Juleka: We accept and shall do your bidding, creatures of darkness.

Screech: ... We’re not imps.

A week after getting acquainted with their Kwamis, Hawkmoth strikes and creates his first Akuma- A preppy, spoiled cheerleader whose boyfriend broke with her after how she treated his gothic sister

She’s called Princess Perfect, and has the power to turn people into her rose-gold armored knights using a beam shot from her phone

The Malevolent Miraculous team have some fun watching that puff Princess suffer

Nathaniel (Jaws) bit through the swords and shield wielded by the knights, leaving her without defense

Rose (Sinker) grossed her out by making magic tentacles wrap around her

Princess Perfect was horrified when Alix’s (Lerna) head grew back after her knights who still had swords sliced it off

Juleka (Sarcophilus) created a tornado that ruined her once flawless hair

Marc (Black Widower) may have given her nightmares after entangling her in a huge web that attracted some of his spider friends

And Marinette (Nocturna) made her regret ever speaking ill of goths/punks/emos (Anyone not all preppy and shit) by making her believe she went blind

Break object, catch Akuma, MIRACULOUS NOCTURNA! Black and Grey bats fix the damage

The citizens are hesitant to trust them due to their threatening demeanors, but soon warm up to them after they defeat three more Akuma

Nocturna: Only we may bring about discord and chaos, not some man in a butterfly costume.

Nadja: ... Right. Well, viewers, you heard it today! Paris has heroes!

Lerna: Nah, we just wanna-

Nadja: Yes! We have heroes!

Alya creates a blog- Miraculous Media

People immediately ship Jaws and Black Widower after seeing their interactions

Jaws: Do you plan to ensnare me in one of your webs, love?

Black Widower: Perhaps after you bite my arm off.

Same goes for Sinker and Sarcophilus

Thomas Astruc makes a movie, but does it right out of fear of enraging the team and having them watch him while he sleeps for the rest of his life. (They’re doing it to Chloé)

Adrien develops a crush on Nocturna after she slung him over his shoulder like a sack of flour to get him away from an Akuma

Now he’s conflicted, because he likes Marinette, too.

The Bluenette facepalms every time she sees him

Cue Lila. The Artist Family buys none of her lies

Marinette doesn’t bother trying to expose her. She just ignores her and allows her classmates to dig their graves and lie in them

Lila tries to impress them by saying she could introduce them to the Malevolent Miraculous Team. They just walk away and silently curse her

Steals book, park, pulls out fox necklace, claims it’s a lost Miraculous that’s way more powerful, Marc’s spiders ruin her chance of impressing Adrien by revealing its a Gabriel necklace

Cue Volpina. She tries to make the Malevolent Miraculous Team look like Villains due to how they look and their name

Big mistake

Nocturna summons darkness, Black Widower and Sinker trap her, and Jaws threatens her with his sharpened teeth

She immediately gives up her Akuma and stops telling lies... About the Malevolent Miraculous Team

Cue Mayura creating a giant Spider Sentimonster using Lila’s hatred towards Marinette for “Bewitching Adrien”

Black Widower is somehow able to tame the sentimonster and treats it like it’s a puppy

Wanna add on? Go right ahead.

P.S. I’m currently working on chapter 2 for the Artist Family. They’re going to school

[just-patchy]

Twst OC: Halcyon Lerna

ღBasic Informationღ

Name: Halcyon Alphard Lerna

Nickname(s)/Alias(es): Hal

Age: 20

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Bisexual

D.O.B.: 7th May

Horoscope: Taurus

Homeland: Isle of Lamentation

ღNRC Fileღ

Dorm: Ignihyde

School Year: 3rd

Class: 3-E

Class No.: 19

Occupation: Student

Club: Science

Best Subject: Magical Pharmaceuticals

ღAppearanceღ

Height: 8’2”/ 249 cm

Weight: 347 lbs

Hair Colour: Dark purple, near black

Eye Colour: Reddish-orange

Jewellery/Others: Chokers, piercings, large mouth that stretches along his face, sharp pointy teeth, venomous/acidic, able to unhinge jaw

ღPersonalityღ

Halcyon is a rather serious person, especially in regards to gaming. He’s a bit of a lazy perfectionist, not willing to play new games if he has to pay in order to acquire all the items. While Halcyon seems to be rather intimidating due to his height, sharp teeth and general serpentine features, he’s quite sweet and friendly, if a little shy and self-conscious.

While Halcyon tends to be a loner, he’s very fond and protective of his friends. He can get feral sometimes, and while he might think it’s a little unsightly in front of those he cares for, he has no shame in getting defensive for them. Halcyon is a bit of a hopeless romantic, usually trying to see the good in everyone and crushes on people quite often.

Favourite Food: Meat, usually eaten with bone and all

Least Favourite Food: Chicken feet, mashed potatoes

Dislikes: Being burned

Hobby: Trying out new games and making guides for them

Talent: Staying perfectly still when writing, gaming, etc.

ღAbilityღ

Unique Magic: Second Head

Halcyon can regrow an extra limb alongside the one he lost initially. Technically, he can also regrow organs (except the heart) but it’ll likely end up misshapen since it’s harder to picture organs than limbs. He can regrow his entire head but only one head since it takes longer to regrow the brain in it, and he has to be focused the entire time in the case of regrowing his head or he’d likely die. The extra limb will eventually fuse back into the original limb.

ღTriviaღ

-Dominant Hand: Left

-CV: Hirakawa Daisuke

-Twisted from the Hydra

-Probably tried to use his unique magic to get higher scores in arcade games (spoiler alert: didn’t end well)

-Entered the same year as Leona, stayed behind because he was skipping exams to grind events

-Free player, collector-type, hates any game that makes you pay for exclusive units/cards/etc.

-Has detailed hand written guides including experimentation results

-Really good at resource management from gaming and buying merch

-Happiest moments include beating smug rich gamers with the most basic decks,

-Doesn’t like talking in case he accidentally scares people off with his large mouth, also eats alone somewhere hidden

-Ironically, he’s quite talkative once he starts

-Has a serpentine form

-Familiar with the many sisters in the neighbourhood (based off the Danaïdes, whose myth originated from the same lake)

-Lives near a shortcut to Idia’s place

-Lone surviving sibling (his parents are still alive though)

-He can somewhat control the acid in his mouth, but it has a tendency to pool occasionally so he spits it into a special container and gives it to Crewel as potion ingredients in exchange for bonus marks

[tyrantisterror]

The Official ATOM Vol. 1 & 2 Playlist

You may recall that I made a playlist of music for my first novel, No Sympathies, when it got published.  You may also have wondered why my second novel, ATOM Vol. 1: Tyrantis Walks Among Us! didn’t get one of its own.  Well, wonder no more!  The reason was because I was waiting for Volume 2, because Volumes 1 and 2 really need to be viewed as one big story rather than two separate ones.  And since Vol. 2 has now been published (BUY IT HERE), I figured it’s time to finally reveal this mix.

So, here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxjcPtZ64qKB9ZlzpaEPdRmETqF39HuW7

And below the cut, the breakdown!

The Superquake of 1954 (Shake, Rattle and Roll! by Bill Haley and the Comets)

Dr. Lerna’s Theme (Moons of Jupiter Retro-Mix by Freezepop)

Ahuul’s Theme (Legends of Dino’Soul and Monster Funk by SuperTohoRemix)

Tyrantis’s Theme 1 (Boogie Stop Shuffle by Charles Mingus)

The Spooks Organization (NERV by Shirou Sagisu)

Giant Bugs (The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth by Creature Feature)

Tyrantis’s Theme 2 (Ayla’s Theme by The Blake Robinson Symphony Orchestra)

Tyrantis vs. Girtabane (Godzilla vs. Kumonga by Masaru Sato)

Henry Robertson’s Theme (20th Century Man by The Kinks)

The Valley of the Mists (Jurassic Park Theme by John Williams)

Gwen Valentine’s Theme (Lucky by Max Rabbe und de Palastorchester)

Tyranta’s Theme (Wild Thing by The Troggs)

Eric and Laura, Meddling Teens (Leader of the Pack by The Shangri-Las)

Mothmanud Strikes (Horsell Common and the Heat Ray by Jeff Wayne)

Gorgolisk’s Theme (The Mothra Song by Toshiyuki Watanabe)

The Battle of Party Beach (A Step Forward Into Terror by Shirou Sagisu)

Tumult on The Ahab (Death of the Postosuchus by Benjamin Bartlett)

Bobo’s Theme (The Sacred Springs by Akira Ifukube)

Wasp and Mantis (For a Few Rocks More by SuperTohoRemix)

Tyrantis’s Theme 3 (Great Balls of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis)

Typhon Island (The Lost World by John Williams)

MechaTyrantis’s Theme (Defeat MechaGodzilla! by Masaru Sato)

Trials of Tyrantis (The Battle of the Salt Plain by Benjamin Bartlett)

Dumped in the Ocean (Godzilla Love Theme by The Star Sisters)

Shark Chase  (Decisive Battle by Shirou Sagisu)

The Thunder Lizards Benefit Concert (Help! by The Beatles)

The Ballad of Tyrantis (Godzilla March by Susumu Ishikawa)

The Battle of Mount Fuji (The Fighting Machine by Jeff Wayne)

Herakoschei’s Theme (Pacific Rim by Ramin Djawadi & Tom Morello)

The Siberian Monster Zone (Back in the USSR by The Beatles)

The Writhing Flesh (Who Will Know? by Shirou Sagisu)

Pathogen’s Theme 1 (Tyrano Lair by The Blake Robinson Symphony Orchestra)

Area 51 (Weird Science by Oingo Boingo)

Tyrantis’s Theme 4 (The Last Dinosaur Few Men Remix by SuperTohoRemix)

Promythigor Theme (Sasquatch by Parry Gripp)

Return to Typhon Island (Godzilla by Bear McCreary and Serj Tankian)

Ullawdra’s Theme (The Red Weed by Jeff Wayne)

Atomoton’s Theme (HONOR A TRUE HERO! Jet Jaguar - PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH! by Masato Shimon)

The Martian Monsters (Monster Zero March by Neil Norman & His Cosmic Orchestra)

Kemlasulla’s Theme (The Twist by Hank Ballard)

Kaiju Sanctuary (Time of the Titans by Benjamin Bartlett)

Invasion of Typhon Island (The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny by Lemon Demon)

The Battle for Typhon Island (Rivers in the Desert by Lyn)

Pathogen’s Theme 2 (The Beast by Shirou Sagisu)

Hyper Mode (The Genesis: Uplifting Verse by Shoji Meguro)

Home Is a Monster Land (Ain’t No Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell)

[tyrannoninja]

It should be common knowledge by now that human beings in their modern form, Homo sapiens, first evolved in Africa. Exactly when we emerged on the scene remains uncertain (recent fossil discoveries suggest it may have happened over 300,000 years ago, a hundred millennia earlier than we originally thought), but whenever it was, most of our species’s history of existence would have played out on the so-called “Dark Continent”. It would have been no earlier than 70,000 years ago — and possibly as soon as 55,000 years ago — when the ancestors of all people outside of Africa would wander out of the continent and colonize the rest of the habitable world.

This would not have been the first dispersal of hominin apes out of Africa, mind you. Much in the press has been made of the fact that between 1–7% of modern human ancestry outside our ancestral continent comes from the descendants of earlier emigrants such as the Neanderthals and Denisovans. What may not be so widely publicized, however, is that the famous “Out of Africa” migration between 70–55,000 years ago would not have been the last movement of Homo sapiens from Africa into Eurasia and beyond, either. There is, in fact, a plethora of compelling evidence that humans from Africa continued to venture out and leave a permanent genetic mark on the ancestry of their Eurasian kin— even the “white” peoples of Europe.

I don’t mean a light dash, either. Almost one third of European ancestry descends from African admixture within the last 55,000 years.

As early as 1997, population geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza observed in Genes, peoples, and languages that the ancestry of Europeans could be characterized as 2/3 Asian and 1/3 African. More recently, Jeffrey D. Wall and colleagues reported in 2013 that East Asian people had a higher proportion of ancestry from Neanderthals than did Europeans. Since Neanderthals are known to have lived in Europe and the Middle East but not East Asia, it seems unlikely that the ancestors of East Asians had any more contact with Neanderthals than those of Europeans. It would, however, make sense if the proportion of Neanderthal ancestry in Europeans got driven down by admixture with people with little to no such ancestry — namely, people from Africa.

In 2012, a population genetics blogger with the pseudonym “Etyopis” ran the ancestry of almost 3,000 individuals around the world through the program ADMIXTURE, measuring how much of their ancestry was of relatively recent African origin versus how much of it descended from the initial “Out of Africa” migration. His results revealed that between 28–29% of his European subjects’ ancestry was of recent African origin. This held true for European nationalities as different from one another as the Spanish, Italians, French, Slovenians, Lithuanians, and White American citizens from Utah.

In addition, African genetic haplogroups pop up quite often in some European populations. For example, almost 25% of Greek men carry the originally African Y-chromosomal haplogroup E.

That such discoveries would surprise most people of European descent is a given. It would certainly be ironic given the infamous history of white supremacists (or white nationalists, or alt-rightists, or whatever euphemism they want to be called these days) decrying “racial miscegenation” and “non-white immigration” as threats to Western civilization. However, even those who don’t subscribe to such ideological racism might still wonder when and how this African ancestry would have entered the European gene pool.

Most of it probably happened sometime before the first appearance of agriculture in Europe during the Neolithic period (7000–1700 BC).

Back in 1971, physical anthropologist J. Lawrence Angel wrote in The People of Lerna that the skeletal remains of Neolithic peoples in Greece and Macedonia showed “Negroid” physical traits common to African people, which he speculated had arrived in the region from the Nile Valley of Egypt and Sudan. More recently in 2005, C. Loring Brace claimed that the remains of a prehistoric Middle Eastern people called the Natufians — among the immediate predecessors to the first farmers in the Fertile Crescent and then Europe— showed “unexpected ties” to African populations.

Such ties between the Natufians and African populations may not be limited to skeletal features. Archaeologists such as Ofer Bar-Yosef and Graeme Barker describe the primitive tools the Natufians used as similar to those of earlier populations along Africa’s northern coast, even speculating that these similarities could attest to African technological influences if not a full-blown migration.

If the skeletal and archaeological data hinted at recent African admixture in the first farmers of the Fertile Crescent and their European offshoots, later genetic data from remains such as these would confirm it — even if the geneticists haven’t always realized it.

When analyzing ancient DNA extracted from various prehistoric remains in 2014, Iosif Lazaridis concluded that the first farmers to appear in Europe had 44% of their ancestry derived from a population he called “Basal Eurasian”, characterized by an almost complete absence of the Neanderthal ancestry that all non-African people have inherited today. He would later find in a second study that approximately half of the ancestry in Natufian and early Neolithic Middle Eastern populations came from this “Basal Eurasian” heritage.

Common sense alone would imply that this so-called “Basal Eurasian” component must actually be African. After all, it is the indigenous peoples of Africa, not anywhere in Eurasia or the rest of the habitable world, who have little to no Neanderthal ancestry. Yet, in a sense, Lazaridis’s label might only be partly wrong. One of the ramifications of the “Out of Africa” theory is that not all African people will be equally related to those outside the continent. Instead, those Africans from whom non-Africans splintered off (i.e. populations in the northeastern region of the continent) would have a greater genetic affinity to those non-Africans than would other Africans. And indeed, genetic research has revealed that native Northeast African ancestry is genetically closer to that of non-Africans than is ancestry from, say, West or Central Africa (the ancestry of aboriginal peoples from southernmost Africa, who speak Khoisan languages, is the furthest removed of all). This means that Northeast Africans really would represent a population basal to non-Africans (hence “Basal Eurasian”).

It is very likely, then, that the “Basal Eurasian” ancestry identified by Lazaridis and his colleagues actually comes from a native Northeast African population that stayed home on the continent for tens of millennia before moving into the Middle East and giving rise to the Natufians between 12,500 and 9500 BC. This African ancestry would have been absorbed and inherited by the Fertile Crescent’s Neolithic populations before they spread into Europe. With them would have arrived farming, animal husbandry, and the majority of the recent African ancestry that all modern Europeans possess.

This is not to say that Africans did not influence European ancestry after that point in the Neolithic. For example, skeletal remains with African characteristics have been uncovered in Roman-era sites in Britain, such as Leicester and York. We have also found a skull with a mixture of African and European features in a tomb in Ephesus, Turkey — it may belong to the famous Cleopatra’s (half?) sister Arsinoe. Given the influence of the Hellenistic and Roman civilizations around the Mediterranean basin in classical antiquity, it is not surprising that native Africans would have entered their population upon being incorporated into their empires.

For that matter, the Middle East may have also received influential African immigration even long after the time of the Natufians. Genetic data indicates the introgression of African ancestry into populations in Armenia around 3800 BC. It is around this same time period that linguists believe the Semitic languages (e.g. Hebrew, Arabic, and ancient Phoenician) would have appeared in the region. Since we know that Semitic is one branch of the larger “Afroasiatic” language phylum which first emerged in Northeast Africa, it seems likely that ancestral Semitic’s development in the Middle East is linked to the contemporaneous influx of additional African ancestry as far north as Armenia. In other words, it would have been yet another wave of Africans who brought the progenitor language of Semitic there.

And then, of course, there’s the historical incorporation of the Syro-Palestinian coast into two African empires, those of ancient Egypt and its Sudanese neighbor Kush.

All this history is important not only for its potential use for trolling white supremacists and eugenicists. It also attests to a little-appreciated influence of African people on the cultures of ancient Europe and the Middle East. Too often, Eurocentric accounts of history have regulated Africa and its indigenous peoples to the sidelines of importance, with one of the few exceptions being a de-Africanized misrepresentation of Egypt. The knowledge that Africa was not only the birthplace of all humankind, but also a major influence on the so-called cradles of Western civilization, should be one of many reasons to push it back into the spotlight of history that it deserves.

[happyhappybios]

Nuriko Lernae

This page contains mention of death and blood.

Danger scale: Docile

Key notes: Teacher, Royalty, Sweetheart, Lonely, Big Sister

📚Nuriko's mood📚

Name: Nuriko Lernae

Age: 11.54 sweeps (25 y.o.)

Height: 5'11 (180 cm)

Blood colour: Violet

Wiggling day: 5 December

Symbol: Hydra

Gender: Female (She/Her)

Orientation: Bisexual

Occupation: Teacher - Boarding High School of Her Imperious Condescension (HIC)

Place of residence: Big castle under a water - near the the cliff - a tip of the castle could be see in the water

Lusus: MotherHydra (Giant size)

Hobby: Reading geology books and collecting crystals, rocks and jewelry

Hemoloyalty: As a teacher of boarding high school, Nuriko doesn’t allow herself to separate her students by castes

Fetch modus: Multi-thematic. Each items can be put in the category and can be freely pull out

Strife specibus/Weapon: Sticks/Stick Kind

Troll Tag: commonsensicalAward [CA]

Typing quirk: replaces о with О and put \ / on on both sides as fins. Smart words put between《》

Typing quirk example: 

[CA]: \I’m afraid but i dOn’t knOw the term Of this wOrd./

God Tier: Sylph of Mind

Ancestor: The Great Governess

Dancestor: Hydrae Lernae

Personality: 

Nuriko is a nice troll with a goal to teach younger trolls something new everyday. She is a kind, intelligent and understanding troll, but strict, demanding and stubborn at the same time. Nuriko always loved teaching others, explaining in detail subjects that are hard to understand, showing something new everyday and so on. She loves sharing her wisdom, experiences and discoveries to other trolls, showing there is more to the world than just one place. Nuriko just loves to share things, even if sometimes it can be dangerous.

Nuriko is a pretty busy troll with her job as a teacher in school. She barely has any free time to enjoy, always preparing lessons for her students, but she doesn’t regret it as it helps her to be organized.

Nuriko could be seen as a nice and kind troll at the first sight, and she is, but whenever she is in a teacher mode, she becomes strict and demanding. She brooks no distractions, loud chatting and bad behavior in her class, giving warnings to anyone who broke the rules.

Nuriko rarely can accept the fact she is wrong in some subjects. It will take her so long to correct herself or accept it that sometimes she can be a bit salty towards anyone she disagrees with.

Likes:

Reading

Books

Teaching kids

Sea

Jewellery

Swimming

Rocks

Doritos

Dislikes:

Uncivilized trolls

Dirt

Lies

Stereotypes

Insults

Cold weather

Mess

Being alone

Trivia:

Nuriko has very bad eyesight (-6). She wears contact lenses, but sometimes she can wear glasses when her eyes get tired.

Nuriko is sharing her lusus with her little sister, Hildri. 

Surprisingly, Nuriko is good at taking care of grubs. She was shocked when she found out about it, after she helped Phecda in the cave once.

Nuriko works in a boarding high school where she teaches the history of Alternia.

Nuriko has a big collection of crystals and rocks that she has been collecting since her childhood.

Nuriko doesn’t have much clothes, so you could see her in the same outfit more often.

Relationships:

Matesprit - Open!

Moirail - Open!

Kismesis - Open!

Auspistice - Open!

Out of quadrants

Younger Sister - Hildri. She wished her sister could be less reckless about things as she is tired of being worried about her every time.

Old friend - Phecda. They were pretty good friends in the past and have a lot in common. Unfortunately, they stopped seeing each other and lost the connection. Nuriko really misses her and her wonderful cakes.

Old acquaintance - Seyfer. They didn’t talk much with each other, but she knew him as Phecda’s husband.

Ex-student - Crucis. Crucis was one of Nuriko’s students. She is very proud of her and very sorry for what happened between her and Hildri.

Old friend - Gienah. He was one of her friends who supported her and cared about her well-being. She really misses him and their time together on a shopping spree.

Old acquaintance - Pavoni. Nuriko knew them as Crucis's and Hildri’s babysitter. She doesn’t know what they are doing right now, but hopes they are ok.

Acquaintance - DJ Cupcake. Nuriko recognized her once in the spaceship. They talked about some stuff and got along pretty good. Later she saw her leaving the ship from a distance and it made her a little upset.

Neighborhood/Acquaintance - Squati. She always sees them spending their time at the beach from her hive. They talk with each other from time to time and get along pretty well.

Backstory:

Nuriko and Hildri became sisters early in their childhood. Nuriko was around 3.23 sweeps (7 y.o.) when her lusus adopted young fuchsia.

It happened when MotherHydra was training Nuriko how to fight. They were training in the open ocean, improving her fighting skill. Nuriko personally didn’t like their training as it wasn’t something she wanted to do in the future, but she couldn’t oppose her lusus at that time.

As the training was coming to end, suddenly both of them heard a cry of help and sounds of drones flying around. Confused, Nuriko and MotherHydra rushed to investigate the scene. When they both approached the place - it was a place surrounded by rocks with a cave near it, the only thing they saw was drones flying away, then much later it was followed by another cry for help. MotherHydra figured out it sounded from the cave, so she rushed inside with her daughter. 

Nothing was strange about the tunnels, but as soon as Nuriko’s lusus noticed a bit of blood on the ground, she immediately covered her daughter’s eyes and told her to look away. Nuriko was confused about it, but followed MotherHydra’s instructions.

Following the trace of blood, soon, MotherHydra reached the end of the cave and her heart broke into pieces. She saw a heavily injured lusus, protecting a small grub with her whole body and it touched her huge heart. The other lusus looks similar to MotherHydra, but a bit smaller with less heads.

MotherHydra promised her to protect her grub and in return other lusus told her name - Hydrus and the name of the grub - Hildri. Then Hydrus died with a small smile right in the cave. 

It was heartbroken to witness for MotherHydra. She couldn’t believe such a tragic event happened to the poor grub and later took a grub under her wing, adopting her as her second daughter.

Meanwhile Nuriko didn’t understand and was confused by that at the moment. She watched her lusus take care of the grub, wondering when she’ll find the grub a new lusus, but when MotherHydra was too busy to feed the grub for some reason, Nuriko helped her with it…

… and only after that did she realize what her words meant.

Nuriko and Hildri become sisters.

Nuriko started to care of Hildri and helped her with anything she asks, trying to be a good older sister. It inspired and motivated Nuriko to become a teacher in the future and teach young trolls about Alternia.

As Hildri grew up, Nuriko worried more and more about her well-being, her behavior and actions. Of course, she couldn’t control her actions, but it still made her stress out whenever she saw Hildri with bruises and scratches on her face.

And one day, Hildri brought a homeless troll with her lusus and introduced her to Nuriko as Crucis. Nuriko was shocked by this, but when she found out about the Crucis and MotherChameleon’s condition, she immediately gave the poor girl some food and medicine for her lusus. Unfortunately, because their hive was underwater, Crucis couldn’t stay, but Nuriko asked her friend, Phecda, to let Crucis to stay for a while. Thankfully, Phecda agreed and took care of the poor girl while her hive was under construction.

Nuriko and Hildri helped Crucis whenever they could and gave some things such as laptop, phone, food and ect, so Crucis could feel comfortable living a new life.

Nuriko even took her as her student when Crucis asked to teach her, assigning her to the school she was working at.

Nuriko had a pretty steady life with new friends and her sister, not worrying about anything. It seems as if everything was okay…

…but unfortunately, something went wrong. 

Nuriko got a letter from a Seadweller Council where it stated that Hildri is a candidate for a throne. She got scared by this news, knowing well even if Hildri doesn’t want to fight for the throne, she would be forced to. Nuriko tried her best to shield Hilri from this news, but soon enough Hildri got her own letter.

Hildri disappeared the next morning and only left the same letter and the note:

‘Sorry, sis, but I have to go. If they really want me to fight over the stupid throne so bad, then i’ll deliver it in my own way.’

Nuriko was terrified. She didn’t know what to do, but back in her mind, Nuriko knew she needed to follow Hildri and protect her from whenever she faced. 

She is an older sister.

She promised MotherHydra to protect Hildri.

She is responsible for her.

Nuriko rushed to the place (spaceship) where there was a meeting and just in time, she noticed Hildri going to the spaceship. She immediately stopped her and tried to convince her to think twice before entering a tournament. Unfortunately, Hildri didn’t listen to her older sister and went to the reception desk. Nuriko felt hopeless at that moment.

The only thing she could do is wait for Hildri as drones wouldn’t let her enter. While waiting, Nuriko met a famous DJ with whom she had a nice conversation. Sadly, their conversation ended early, but it was still nice to meet a celebrity for Nuriko.

After a few hours, she saw Hildri coming back, but something was wrong. Hildri was quiet, too quiet and her head was lowered. And Nuriko asked what’s wrong, Hildri just rushed to her and hugged her, crying. It shocked Nuriko very much to see her little sister cry for hours. She carefully listened to her story and just hugged her in return.

She can’t leave her with such baggage in her life.

Nuriko stayed by her sister’s side.

After that, Nuriko gathered (rigged) documents about her being Hildri’s lusus, so she could travel with her sister to help/support. It was a VERY risky move, but thankfully, no one seems to notice a few corrections here and there.

Then both sisters packed their things in a few days and later on they left Alternia in the spaceship without telling anyone.

Sadly, Nuriko couldn’t watch over Hildri all the time as lususes were placed in a different location. Nuriko was pretty worried while watching her sister, but supported until the end. She knew Hildri would win.

And so she won.

When the tournament ended, Hildri and Nuriko reunited and returned back to Alternia where they decided to contact their old friends.

Nuriko is just glad to finally be home.

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The Zodiac Signs as Greek Monsters

Aries: The Sirens

A distant cousin of the mermaid (in folkloric terms anyway), the sirens were beautiful, alluring women who dwelled near rocky cliffs and sang to passing sailors. According to legends, the hapless seamen would become enchanted by the sirens’ song, following the mellifluous melody to their deaths as their boats crashed upon the rocky shore. It is an ancient morality tale about the evils of women, but not all sirens were so comely.

Other accounts depict sirens as half-bird, half-woman creatures who would lure travelers to their doom with harps instead of their voices. In Greek myth, Odysseus escaped the sirens by having his sailors plug their ears with beeswax, though in modern times doctors recommend soft foam earplugs for sailors who may encounter these dangerous monsters.

Taurus: Polyphemus

The most famous of the cyclops was Polyphemus. Greek hero  Odysseus and his crew were trapped by the cyclops Polyphemus, who kept them in his cave for later consumption. Odysseus cunningly plied Polyphemus with wine, and when the monster fell asleep, blinded him by driving a large stake through his only eye.

As the story goes, Odysseus later escaped captivity from the now-blinded Giant’s cave by tying himself to the underside of one of the Cyclops’ sheep, which was let out by the giant for pasture. Or, that’s what Odysseus told  people who found him cavorting with a sheep.

Gemini: Hydra

Hydra is an ancient Greek mythical beast that was mentioned in the tale of the twelve labors of Hercules (also called Heracles). The hydra has many heads (possibly 7, 8 or 9), the number of head varies from different versions of the legend, however, more accounts agree on nine. It was said that the middle one was immortal and it has very poisonous venom and breath.

If the heads are cut off, the heads would grow back. One head cut-off would result to two heads growing back in its place.

The Hydra was believed to have lived in the Lernean marsh which is located near Argolis, the region around Argos, Greece. Others say that the Hydra lived in Cave in the Swamp of Lerna.

The serpent-woman Echidna and the hundred headed Typhon are the Hydra’s parents. His siblings include the Nemean lion, Cerberus, Chimera and Ladon.

The Hydra guards the entrance to the Underworld and from the murky swamps of the Lake of Lerna the monstrous serpent would rise and terrorize the city. The Hydra was finally killed by Hercules during his second labor.

The Hydra was said to have the body of a dragon/snake with many heads (possibly 7, 8 or 9), two arms & legs with knife-like claws, sharp spines/spikes & a long serpent tail.

Cancer: Charybdis

Charybdis was interpreted as either a sea monster or as a large whirlpool in the Greek mythology. In the former, she was portrayed as the daughter of the sea god Poseidon and goddess of Earth, Gaia. In this interpretation, she had a mouth for a face and had to swollen huge amounts of water each day. When Charybdis belch the water back, it lead to the formation of large whirlpools.

Charybdis was featured in the story of Odysseus, who had to cross a narrow channel in the Strait of Messina. On one side of the channel lies Charybdis while the other side lays a hydra monster by the name of Scylla. To cross the channel successfully, Odysseus had to balance the ship’s navigation well. This give arise to the modern saying of “‘between Scylla and Charybdis’”, which means that choosing between 2 dangers.

Leo: Medusa

Medusa, in Greek mythology, most famous of the three monstrous Gorgon sisters. She was once a beautiful woman, but she offended Athena, who changed her hair into snakes and made her face so hideous that all who looked at her were turned to stone. When Medusa was with child by Poseidon, Perseus killed her and presented her head to Athena. Chrysaor and Pegasus sprang from her blood when she died. Medusa’s head retained its petrifying power even after her death. Because of this power, her image frequently appeared on Greek armor.

Virgo: Lamia

Like many women in Greek mythology, Lamia is dealt a bad hand in life just by virtue of being born beautiful—and by somehow not managing to stay out of Zeus’s sight. And we all know what Zeus does to beautiful women…and who it is that gets blamed afterward.

The story goes that Lamia was once the queen of Libya, who became a beloved mistress of the god Zeus (by choice or by force, we’re never told). Naturally, Zeus’s wife Hera found out about the affair—she had a knack for that sort of thing—and instead of punishing her husband, she took out her anger on Lamia. This isn’t unusual for Hera, though the concept of blaming the woman for the man’s infidelity is a theme that runs throughout much of history and ancient myth.

To punish Lamia, Hera transformed into a monster and murdered Lamia’s children while Lamia watched, helpless to stop the goddess’s fury. There are several different accounts that explain what happened here, depending on the source:

1.   As if killing her children wasn’t enough, Hera then took away Lamia’s ability to blink or close her eyes, so that she would be forever haunted by the sight of her dead children.

2.    Hera didn’t actually kill the children—she only stole them—causing Lamia to go insane with grief and tear out her own eyes.

3.   Rather than kill the children herself, Hera forced Lamia to kill and devour her own children.

And whether it happens out of the madness found in grief for her children’s’ death, as a part of Hera’s punishment, or as a gift from Zeus in order to exact revenge on the world for what has been done to her, Lamia is transformed into a serpentine monster that hunts and devours other people’s children.

Libra: Scylla

In Greek Mythology, Scylla was a monster that devoured Men who passed near her & Charybdis

According to Ovid, Scylla was once a beautiful nymph. The fisherman-turned-sea-god, Glaucus fell madly in love with her, but she fled from him onto the land where he could not follow. Despair filled his heart. He went to the sorceress Circe to ask for a love potion to melt Scylla’s heart. As he told his tale of love about Scylla to Circe, she herself fell in love with him. She wooed him with her sweetest words and looks, but the sea-god would have none of her. Circe was furious, but with Scylla and not with Glaucus. She prepared a vial of very powerful poison and poured it in the pool where Scylla bathed. As soon as the nymph entered the water, she was transformed into a frightful monster with a body of a Water Serpent & six heads with faces of frighting women with sharp teeth. She stood inside a large cave, destroying everything that came into her reach, a peril to all sailors who passed near her. Whenever a ship passed, each of her heads would seize one of the crew

Scorpio: The Erinyes

The Erinyes were known to be entities of vengeance. They were born out of the blood of Uranus when Cronus castrated him. It is unknown how many Erinyes were there although their physical attributes were unmistakeable. They had serpents around their waist and had blood dripping from their eyes.

In the Greek mythology, they appeared to Orestes and try to hunt him when he killed his sisters on the orders of Apollo, the god of sun. Eventually, Orestes managed to escape to Athena template where he was given a trial, attended by both the Erinyes and Apollo. Orestes was later found to be not guilty and was released from pursuit by the Erinyes.

Sagittarius: The Sphinx

Sphinx has the head of a woman, the body of a lion and the wings of a bird and might be the sister to Chimera and Cerberus.  In the Greek mythology, there was one sphinx who guarded the road to the city of Thebe.  To all travelers who used this road, the Sphinx would ask the following riddle “Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?” Anyone who can’t answer this riddle correctly was devoured.  The riddle was eventually solved by Oedipus who gave the correct answer: “man”.  It was said that the Sphinx either jumped off a cliff or devoured herself when the riddle was solved.

Capricorn: Cerebus

Cerberus is the famous three headed hell dog that guarded the entrance of the underworld. Appearing in both Greek and Roman mythology, Cerberus has also been depicted numerous times in various game titles. According to the Greek legend, Cerberus was was given birth by Echidna, a hybrid half-woman and half-serpent, and Typhone. Cerberus was featured in the stories of Hercules as the last labor in which the hero must captured the monster alive with no tools.

There are currently some disagreement over the representation of the three heads. Some said that they represent past, present and future while others have argued that they represent birth, youth and old age.

Aquarius: Harpies

The Harpies were the spirits of sudden, sharp gusts of wind. They were known as the hounds of Zeus and were dispatched by the god to snatch away people and things from the earth. Sudden, mysterious disappearances were often attributed to the Harpies. The Harpies were once sent by Zeus to plague King Phineus of Thrake as punishment for revealing the secrets of the gods. Whenever a plate of food was set before him, the Harpies would swoop down and snatch it away, befouling any scraps left behind. When the Argonauts came to visit, the winged Boreades gave chase, and pursued the Harpies to the Strophades Islands, where the goddess Iris commanded them to turn back and leave the storm-spirits unharmed. The Harpies were depicted as winged women, sometimes with ugly faces, or with the lower bodies of birds.

Pisces: Graeae

Graeae are the three sisters who shared one eye and one mouth. They were birth by Phorcys and Ceto and were in fact sisters to the Gordons . The names of the three Graeae sisters are Deino Enyo and Pemphredo. Although mot stories portrayed the Graeae sisters as old hags, some poets actually described them as beautiful creatures.

The Graeae sisters appeared in many pop culture including the second book of Percy, as well as in the 2010 movie, Clash of the Titans. In the Greek legend, it was the Graeae sisters who directed Perseus on how to kill the Medusa, although the hero did steal the eye from them before they are willing to do so.

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These two charming ladies are Hydra and Lerna 

species: Angfemin

species belongs to @chingkittycat​

they’re based off of king scarlet snakes and eastern coral snakes, only one of them is venomous ( You’ll have to figure it out yourself )

Even though only one of them is venomous they’re both toxic. Hydra(left) is very elegant, well mannered, eloquent with words,graceful, and manipulative. She uses her way with words to manipulate others to DO what she wants. This makes her a great at politics (wink wonk). She cares greatly about her sister and will do anything to keep her happy and healthy. Lerna (right) is for the most part quiet, but she does have a way with words much like her sister. She can make anyone GIVE her what she wants, sometimes without having to say a word. She is very cold and cruel to others and only cares for her sister.  While Hydra can be a little aggressive she has a soft spot for a little blind chef (;3). Lerna doesn't like that hydra has a crush on roxy, but she’ll tolerate it because she loves her sister. 

(i only drew them once because look at all dem stripes!)

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BESTIARY  - Monsters

22/11/17

THE GREEKS

“Greek myth attempts to explain the origins of the world, and details the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines and mythological creatures. These accounts initially were disseminated in an oral-poetic tradition; today the Greek myths are known primarily from ancient Greek literature. The oldest known Greek literary sources, Homer’s epic poems Iliad and Odyssey, focus on the Trojan War and its aftermath. Two poems by Homer’s near contemporary Hesiod, the Theogony and the Works and Days, contain accounts of the genesis of the world, the succession of divine rulers, the succession of human ages, the origin of human woes, and the origin of sacrificial practices. Myths are also preserved in the Homeric Hymns, in fragments of epic poems of the Epic Cycle, in lyric poems, in the works of the tragedians and comedians of the fifth century BC, in writings of scholars and poets of the Hellenistic Age, and in texts from the time of the Roman Empire by writers such as Plutarch and Pausanias.” - Wikipedia   

CHILDREN OF TYPHON 

Typhon was the last son of Gaia and Tartarus, and known as “The Father of All Monsters”. There are several different versions of what he looked like, but most of them depict him with either his head and/or arms and legs replaced by 100s of snake and dragon heads, with 100s of different wings, with red eyes that terrified anyone who looked into them and a “savage jaw” that could breathe fire.  Typhon married Echidna, who was described as having the top half of a beautiful woman but the bottom half of a huge and terrible snake - she became known as “The Mother of All Monsters”. The couple went on to raise some of the most famous monsters from Greek mythology;

SPHINX 

With the body of a lion, the head of a woman and occasionally the wings of a bird, the Ancient Greek Sphinx was a treacherous beast that killed and devoured anyone who couldn’t answer her riddles.  She was defeated by Oedipus when he answered correctly, the monster throwing herself into the ocean in a fit of rage/despair and drowning.

NEMEAN LION 

A giant lion with impenetrable skin and claws that could shred any armour, this beast was slain by Hercules as part of his Twelve Labours, as a result freeing the city of Nemea in the Peloponnesus.  The Lion was said to have become the constellation Leo after being slain.

CERBERUS 

Cerberus was the giant three-headed hellhound that guarded the gates of Hades, fawning over those who entered Hades’ House and ensuring no-one left - eating those who attempted to. He was sometimes depicted as having a serpent for a tail and snakes protruding from his body. Hercules managed to capture Cerberus, shooting Hades in the process, and presented him to Eurystheus, completing his twelfth Labour.  Cerberus was then either returned to Hades by Hercules, or was said to have escaped and returned by himself.

LADON

The serpentine dragon that guarded the Golden Apples in the Garden of the Hesperides, curling around the roots of the Apple Tree.  The dragon was sometimes depicted with a hundred heads, each speaking a different language. Ladon was defeated by Hercules as another of his Labours, but whether the dragon was killed or not varies on the author.

LERNAEN HYDRA

A water-dwelling serpent-like monster with many heads, the Lernaen Hydra’s lair was in the lake Lerna at Argolid, said to be the entrance to the Underworld and the same location of the myth of the Danaids. The hydra’s breath was poisonous, and its blood was so vitreous that even the scent of it was deadly. It was was also said to regenerate its heads - when cut, two more grow back, until the neck stumps were burned with fire.  Hercules managed to slay the Hydra for his second Labour.

CHIMERA

A monstrous beast with the head and half-body of a lion, the head (and back-legs) of a goat and the tail and head of a snake, the Chimera was a bad omen, and said to be seen before shipwrecks, storms and other natural disasters - such as volcanoes.  It was a “she”, and the goat head could breathe fire, with the snake head having venomous fangs. She was slain by Bellerophon and Pegasus.

OTHER MONSTERS

ARACHNE 

A human woman skilled at weaving, Arachne boasted so much about her skill that she (depending on the author) either challenged the Goddess Athena to a weaving contest, or Athena became so annoyed at her boasting that she challenged the mortal herself. Athena wove four stories depicting mortals striving for godhood and facing the consequences, whilst Arachne wove four stories of the Gods punishing mortals for no reason; Arachne’s stories painted the Gods in a bad light, and her weaving was a much better quality than Athena’s, causing the Goddess to become both enraged and embarrassed.  There are a few different endings - some where Athena curses Arachne, turning her into a spider; others where the curse means that Arachne can’t weave with any loom or tool ever again, the woman becoming so distraught that Athena eventually takes pity on her and turns her into a spider so that she can continue with what she loves without breaking the curse; and a few versions where - after seeing the error of her ways and how arrogant she was for mocking the Goddess to give her the skill of weaving in the first place - Arachne takes her own life, Athena then bringing her back as a spider so that she can continue doing what she loves. Regardless of which ending is used, Arachne’s fate remains the same, and stands as the origin of the words “arachnid” and “arachnophobia” - it was also a story the Ancient Greeks used to explain why spiders create the webs to hunt and live on.

CENTAURS

As followers of Dionysus: god of wine, insanity and parties, the half-horse-half-man Centaurs are typically boisterous, barbarian beasts that represent chaos and the unruly effects of consuming alcohol. One centaur, however, was much wiser and more civilised than his kinsmen: Chiron, son of Philyra and Cronus, was the tutor to the likes of Achilles, Hercules and Jason, and resided in the forests of Mt. Pelion with his wife Chariklo, a nymph.  

CYCLOPES 

One-eyed giants that are said to be the sons of Poseidon and Gaia or nymphs, the often savage beasts are workmen of Hephaestus’s forge due to their resistance to heat and their ability to smith.  A famous Cyclops is Polyphemus, born by the nymph Thoosa and the god Poseidon, described in Homer’s Odyssey as the giant that was blinded by Odysseus, who tricked him into believing he was attacked by “nobody” after he and his crew were taken and some eaten by the cyclops.  

HARPIES

Harpies, with the bodies of birds and the faces of women, are often regarded as the hounds of Zeus due to them being dispatched to snatch people and objects from Earth, or to deliver punishment, for the god - being used to explain sudden or mysterious disappearances. 

MEDUSA

Medusa was the mortal of the three Gorgons - sisters with hair of snakes and grotesque faces. She was a beautiful woman before she cursed by Athena after falling in love with Poseidon and breaking her priestess vows, or after fleeing to her temple to hide from the god (depending on the author); turning her eyes red, her skin green and her hair into a mass of venomous snakes - anyone who looked at her directly turned into stone. Legend has it that Medusa travelled Africa for a time, baby snakes dropping from her head as she walked - explaining why there are so many snakes on the continent.  She was slain by Perseus, the man using a polished shield from Athena to watch the Gorgon’s reflection so as not to be turned to stone. 

MINOTAUR 

Born to the wicked King Minos as a mutated, half-bull looking creature, the Minotaur was sealed in a Labyrinth under Crete, built by the inventor Daedalus, after Minos killed the mother and couldn’t stand to see it as his son. Anyone with qualms against the King were sent there to be eaten by the beast - Theseus being one of them.  However, the man had plotted with Minos’s beautiful daughter, Ariadne, and took with him a ball of yarn and a sword she had given him, the first so that he would be able to find his way out of the ever shifting and confusing maze, and the latter to kill the Minotaur. 

SIRENS

Another monster that was part woman, part bird, Sirens would draw sailors to their deaths with their beautiful singing.  Two heroes were able to survive encountering them: Perseus and Odysseus.  Odysseus has his crew tie him to the mast and plug their ears with bees wax, so that he could listen to the Sirens without jumping overboard.  Perseus had the musician Orpheus, who played music so beautiful it overwhelmed the Sirens’ singing.  It was said that if someone were to escape them, the Sirens would throw themselves into the water and die. 

PEGASUS

The son of Poseidon, Pegasus - a brilliant white winged stallion - leapt from the neck of Medusa when she was beheaded by Perseus. 

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Sevag Balikci’s Sister Settles in Armenia With Husband & Kid

YEREVAN (Armenpress) — To live and continue to create, be stronger and fight for justice – these are the words that accurately describe Lerna Balikci – the sister of Sevag Balikci, the ethnic Armenian soldier of the Turkish Army who was killed on April 24 in 2011. Lerna has relocated to Arm...

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Part 1 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8

(Warning: blood, gun, ask to tag)

Phecda know whatever Crucis is doing it is not her business. She should probably back off and bake cupcakes for her bakery....

But-

But it's not the first time she saw her leaving hive at the late hours and coming back home at early morning, all tired and sleepy. Sometimes she could even pass out in her friend’s hive and later on Phecda could find out about it, thanks to her friends.

It's not something she can ignore and let the situation out of hand. She need to know what is going on before apologize to Crucis and leave her alone with this. Phecda wants it to be safe for Crucis. She can’t be stay quite and not worry about her daughter without proofing that what she is doing is safe for her health.

"So...it's here." Phecda whispered as she stood in front of abandoned house. She swallowed nervously as the fear of her daughter getting into something bad crossed her mind. She already imagined Crucis stealing with a group of bad trolls before shaking her head side to the side. Crucis would never agree to this, nor she agree to do something bad. Phecda know that Crucis hate such a behavior.

Finally Phecda entered the building with a hope to see nothing, but Crucis sitting here and at least listening sad music. But there were nothing, literally nothing. There were only old dusty furniture in the room.

Blinking with confusion, Phecda walked deeper into the building, carefully checking the rooms to find no one, but old furniture.

As she finished checking all the room, Phecda focused on the basement that turned out to be outside of the house. It was behind the building covered with tall grass around the entrance.

As she get closer to entrance of basement, she noticed that it was unlocked and widely open. Her heart started to beat faster and hands become sweater.

No.

No, it couldn't be....!

Phecda slowly entered the dark basement. Thankfully, being a jade had their own perks. She clearly could see in such dark place as brooding cavern most of the time lack of natural light.

She went deeper into the basement and saw a small source of light. As she gets closer, she could see two figures in the distance, seems like talking.

"...i...i already told you that today i wouldn't be able to produce electricity! I need at least one day of break!" Very familiar voice echoed in the basement as Phecda got closer, hiding behind the boxes. Her eyes widened as she recognized the owner of the voice. It was Crucis.

"And you think i'll believe a lime with a endless power of electricity that she needs a one day break? Do you think i am stupid?" The harsh strict voice sounded from other figure. The disappointing ‘tch’ sound echoed in the basement, making Crucis flinched.

"N-no! Of course not! But-"

"But?" The figure cut off Crucis immediately, making Crucis shut up. "But what, lime? Did you already forget about our contract?" The strange figure turned around and took a few steps away from where Crucis was standing.

Contract?

Phecda started to shake, not from fear, but from rage. She squeezed her hand to calm down. She has to be quite or they found out about her.

"N-no..." Crucis replied in fear, rubbing her hand.

The figure let's out a tired sigh, tapping the finger on their hand with no patient.

"Let me remind you, your contract with us, Miss Crucis." The unfamiliar troll started to speak, turning around and making small steps toward Crucis. "I, Crucis Chamae agree to provide an big amount of electricity everyday to Her Imperious Condescension royal spaceship in a exchange information of location of future empress, Hildri Lernae."

Phecda's eyes widened even more as she listened their conversation. Behind the scene, Crucis... tried to find Hildri?

Something happened to her?

Unfortunately, Phecda didn't know much about the Lernae sisters and what happened to them. All she knew, they suddenly disappeared without any warnings. Of course, it concerned Phecda of her friend disappearing, but she couldn't do much about it. She tried to find some clues, but it always lead to the dead end...

"So tell me..." The figure started to speak again, looking right into Crucis’s eyes. "Where it states in contract that you have to stop producing electricity? You don't want this information anymore, don’t you?"

"...! I-i want..." Crucis's voice trembled and small tears started to appear on her face.

Phecda couldn't see this anymore. She doesn't want to see some random stranger to treat her daughter like that. With all the determination, she had, Phecda just took one step to come out her hiding spot...

It was a biggest mistake in her life.

She stepped on something stick and crunch sound echoed in the room.

"...!"

"Moooom?!"

The sound of something loud followed the sound of crunch. It happened immediately. Phecda doesn't even have a time to blink.

"We don't need extra ears and eyes."

Phecda saw an indigo troll in front of her with some kind of modern gun in their hand. She doesn’t know why but all of sudden she felt so...

....so weak?

Her eyes started to blur and she felt a pain near her chest. Phecda slowly touched the place where she felt the pain and saw her own blood on her hands. Her legs betrayed her and she fell on the floor with a loud nose. The last thing she saw...

"MOOOOOOOOOOOM?!"

...her daughter, Crucis, crying before she passed out.