#This is one of my favorite Anathema ships ok

[homokommari]

If its ok to say OCs, I wanted to say for the character meme, Aldo!

First impression: new character? cool whats her deal- A TAIL?? 👀

Impression now: ears too... wow.... haha ok fr she is one of my favs from your characters even though she hasnt made an appearance in anathema. i just love her design and personality <3

Favorite moment: to me personally noticing her ears is up there. idk if u added them later or they just didnt stand out in her big fluffy hair but yeah huge fan

Idea for a story: lily/aldo 18+ comic

Unpopular opinion: she is my wife

Favorite relationship: with lilyyy!!! they are so cute jovhiuifdfjhosdu i wanna see their relationship play out in the comicccc. i am very weak to a ship of a royal and a knight/protector

Favorite headcanon: she is my wife

[vinatintasupernovita]

Anathema X Beelzebub // Occultic Consorts

[elfyourmother]

9, 15, 20 for heavensent and steel blossom

9. Favorite aspect of them/their relationship dynamics?

For Gisele & the lads it’s just about how fiercely devoted they are to each other and the deep, intrinsic level of trust they have in each other. Literally nothing could come between any of them and they all bring out the best in each other. To me the best kinds of relationships are ones where partners become better people for being together--Aymeric learns that he doesn’t have to be perfect in order to be valued, Estinien learns that people aren’t going to ditch him if he’s vulnerable, Haurchefant learns to be a little less hot-headed, and Gisele...her issue was similar to Aymeric and it’s part of why they have such a strong understanding.

For the ot3 there’s just an infectious kind of joy when they’re together--sort of like that giddiness of an adolescent summer romance, except it never really fades away. Hien and Haurchefant are both equally made of sunshine and they bring that out in Gisele so much. Not that she isn’t playful, because she is, but it goes to 11 around Hien because of how openhearted and guileless he is with his affection.

15. Which character of the pairing do you like more? (Would you ever pair yourself with them?)

In a poly context this question veers a bit too close to “ok but who’s the primary, who does she really love the most” for my comfort and I’ll just say here that I’ve never done hierarchical polyamory irl or in fiction, it’s anathema to me because it inherently runs contrary to the way I conceptualize love and relationships. Gisele can’t and won’t choose between her lovers, or say that this one is more important than that one, and I can’t do that either.

To that point, the fact that she and Haurchefant are married when they become lovers with Hien doesn’t mean that he’s the distaff counterpart of a unicorn or that they went hunting for him. It just kinda fell out that way, Hien would have returned Gisele’s feelings for him anyway but he specifically fell in love with her in large part because of her dynamic with Haurchefant and he fell just as hard for him and vice-versa. I mean it’s hard not to lol. But given the fire-forged nature of their friendship and romance those bonds are incredibly strong. The only difference there is the amount of history they have together.

20. What made you decide to ship them?

This is also kind of a hard question to answer because I never consciously decide to ship anything, it just sort of happens organically and I look up one day like “oh”.

With Gisele and the lads it was just a natural consequence of the story and the way it unfolded. I always say that I would and do ship Aymeric/Estinien/Haurchefant even without the WoL in the picture just because they fit so damn well together, they’re perfectly suited for each other and they have so much chemistry and the camaraderie is off the charts. With Gisele it just goes to 11--I joke a lot about her Thing for knights, but it’s true. And they all really do bring out the best in each other in different ways.

HW to me is the story of how Gisele finally found a home after literally fighting all her life for a place to belong, and losing it over and over again. For her “home” is forever Ishgard but specifically these three, who are Ishgard to her: stubborn, beautiful, a little broken but still standing and eager to seize the second chances they’ve all been given. And for each of the lads, Gisele represents something they’ve all been longing for but maybe didn’t even know they needed until they met her. Each of their lives is irrevocably changed for the better because she’s in it.

As Gisele/Hien/Haurche goes, when I knew that Haurchefant was joining the trip to the Far East (because he’s joined to Gisele at the hip as soon as he’s fighting fit again), I knew he would immediately take a shine to Hien because what’s a Samurai but a Knight of a different name? He’d have already heard so much about him because he and Gosetsu got to be thick as thieves (back at the Rising Stones they’d drink and carouse and tell stories all night). And Edmont really had him pegged when he called him a romantic fool, because there is nothing Haurchefant loves more than a noble cause except Gisele, who’s frequently leading him into them. He had a real heart for the Doman refugees because how couldn’t an Ishgardian knight feel for people from a war torn land who’ve lost everything? And one of the major themes of Haurchefant’s character arc post-HW in my verse is how even though he embodies all these traditional chivalric qualities of Ishgardian knighthood as laid out in the scriptures, what he encounters as a Scion traveling the world naturally makes him expand that concept of knighthood and what it means to him--I mean he was always very progressive as Ishgardian nobles go, given his position at Camp Dragonhead and the Fortemps’ forward thinking, multilateral kind of worldview because the House was so outward looking. He was always exposed to different ideas and cultures and ways of thinking, deliberately. But his entire world up to that point had been fighting the Dragonsong War, and now it’s over, and he’s seeing all these different struggles and all these people in need and how he can serve them (and this only grows when he’s on the First).

Given that, and given his intense feelings of compersion when it comes to Gisele’s happiness, there was no way that was going to stay a V. Hien is also very much his type--very strapping, exceedingly kind yet just as shrewd, an expert swordsman (slicing that bullet in half the way he did in Doma Castle honest to gods got Haurche hot and bothered lmao). In a lot of ways Gisele fell for Hien because she saw the best of Aymeric and Haurchefant in him, but it’s more than just that. There was no way she wasn’t going to fall madly in love with a handsome, lost prince in exile trying to take back his kingdom. But Hien specifically is just so easy to love, because of his warmth and his sense of humor and his intrinsic sweetness. Hien and Gisele have a lot in common, in that they are both survivors of some pretty horrific trauma and dealt with so much hardship in life but they haven’t let it make them hard or cruel. Haurchefant is much the same way, though there’s a remnant of bitterness deep down in him still over his upbringing (and they help him to let it go). Like the OT4 they just fit, I couldn’t not ship it. It helps that Hien is Gisele’s Job trainer when it comes to SAM (I ditched the canon story, and had her learn from Hien and Gosetsu)--when she expressed admiration for his swordplay, he offered to train her out of gratitude for what she’d done for his people in Eorzea. Her Samurai crystal belonged to Lord Kaien and Hien basically gave it to her as a lover’s token, though he didn’t admit it at first.

If she somehow never married the others, I could see her very easily marrying Hien and becoming Queen of Doma (but just like Ferelden in the other verse, she’d very much be a working one).

[667-darkavenue]

I know this isn't the spirit of an ask meme but 1. anathema 2. 3. crowley 4. probably magically convince all male filmmakers they should pursue other careers 8. raphael 10. i believe you said you read the book? i could be wrong 11. you already did crowley but you could do anathema easy 13. good omens has one theme they remix what is this question 16. anathema x demons 17. i hope you say mine

LJALKSJFAJ ARE YOU GUESSING WHAT MY ANSWERS TO THE ASK MEME QUESTIONS WOULD BE LMAOOOO ok i’ll tell you which ones you got right

1) Who’s your favorite character in Good Omens other than Crowley and Aziraphale? - Correct

3) Who do you relate to more, Aziraphale or Crowley? - hard to say, i feel like an even 50/50 on them. no one compares to how much i relate to anathema.

4) If you were the antichrist what are some little things you would change after the non apocalypse? - 100% CORRECT WOW STANDING OVATION FOR THIS ANSWER

8) Do you disagree or dislike any popular Headcanons people have? - correct

10) How did you hear about Good Omens? What made you decide to watch it? - correct. i am a gaiman fan

11) If you could cosplay one character who would it be? - correct!

13) Name your favorite song from Good Omens?

16) Do you ship anyone other than Aziraphale and Crowley in the show? If so which ship is your favorite? - CORRECT! also anathema x original angel character whomst no one has read but me

17) Is there any particular version/au of Crowley and Aziraphale you like best (the way a certain artist draws them, wild west/cowboy, reverse au, etc.) ? - alkdjflkadfkjasd im so sorry i love ineffable reptiles but the cold hard truth is that ineffable wives are my fave