#about isadora

[someone-else-entirely]

Me, a child, reading A Series Of Unfortunate Events and seeing that Duncan, Isadora, and Quigley Quagmire are meant to look eerily similar to one another: "Ah. Identical triplets."

Me, a teenager, learning about how genetics work and realizing that a boy and a girl cannot be identical twins/triplets/etc: "Nevermind. Fraternal triplets who just happen to look super similar."

Me now: "They are in fact identical and Isadora is trans"

[loriane-elmuerto]

—picrew tag!

got tagged by the amazing @shellibisshe, @rhettsabbott, and @cptcassian to make myself and the baby in this cute picrew, as well as share the last song I listened to. Thank you so much!!!!

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[bridgetserdocksketches]

pov: you're a euthanasia wizard and the consequences of your actions have finally found you

[alun1r]

RIP Isadora Morganach.

You would have loved anti-depressants.

[foragergnome]

Could I request a gothcleats sketch please? 🥰

we're floating in the gravy

the dark horizon, huge in size

and everything is changing

my spaceship started dying

[doortotomorrow]

isadora ryder » interfacing with tech

[charlotte-of-wales]

Leah Isadora Behn - the daughter of Princess Märtha Louise and granddaughter of King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway - has made her tiara debut at the Debutantes Ball in Paris. She is wearing a Giambattista Valli gown | November 26th, 2022

[ven10]

hello :D! i'm curious that with the quagmires being your favorite characters, do you have headcanons for them, pre and/or post canon?

Hiya! :) I have SO MANY hcs about them so thanks for asking!!!! :D

Pre-canon relationship dynamic:

Quigley was closer to Isadora than to Duncan before the fire although he still was really close to Duncan too. I mainly think this bc in ‘The Slippery Slope’ Quigley mentioned Isadora on her own a few times, even quoting a couplet she wrote, whereas he only mentioned Duncan when talking about both of his siblings.

In order of most to least mischievous growing up I feel like it’d go Quigley, then Isadora and lastly Duncan.

Games/How the triplets would play when they were young:

Duncan: Would grab any random object of *aproximately* the right size (could be one of his mother’s shoes or it could be a spatula) and pretend it was a microphone. He’d follow people around “reporting” (more so narrating,really) what they were doing. This would REALLY annoy Isadora bc the worst thing when having writer’s block would be to have someone right beside you describing how you “stare blankly at a page in anguish. No inspiration detected for at least another treacherous week”.

Quigley: Strikes me as the kind of guy to climb trees, regardless of age tbh. He just has the vibe.

He would build forts at EVERY opportunity. Duncan once challenged him to build one in every room of the mansion and he almost did, with the exception of his parents’ office which was always locked.

He’d also draw loads. His drawing of a cave in TSS was described as an “elegant rendering” so I imagine he started doing art young. He’d get too passionate with a box of crayons and end up snapping most of them though. For his sixth birthday he’s gifted one of those pencils with multiple colours in the led and somehow angles it so that all the purple is used up first.

Isadora: She’d write plays for her+her siblings to perform for their parents+their parents’ friends that had surprisingly dark plot lines, especially for a 7 year old. Oh, and all the lines would rhyme, of course. She’d get annoyed when people read the script and asked if it was all one long song rather that the masterpiece of poetry she intended it to be perceived as.

Quigley would really enjoy acting in her plays+pour his heart and soul into the performance. Duncan would get really excited about it and do great when practicing with just the three of them but when it came to the actual performance he’d get shy+back out meaning Quigley or Isadora have to fill in for his role.

🎃 Halloween:

For Halloween one year, Isadora thought it’d be an amazing idea to dress up as Evelyn the conjoined twin bc she loved the song ‘Evelyn Evelyn’ based on her but Quigley found their story too depressing and Duncan didn’t like that it meant one of the triplets would get left out. Quigley suggests ‘Alvin and the chipmunks’ as a group costume earning instant “no”s from his siblings. They end up dressing in individual costumes based off historical figures (A poet, an investigative journalist and an explorer) but create their own story involving time-travel that connects the 3 characters.

Isadora loves Halloween as she is a goth(headcannon) so it really goes with her vibe. Quigley takes information about monsters/spooky creatures like vampires or werewolves and uses it to decide on which part of the world would be best for them to inhabit. Duncan then uses Quigley’s theories to research newspaper articles from the area, searching for any sign of the creatures.

Style/Fashion sense 🌟🧥

Duncan 📰:

Comfy green jumpers/sweaters or sweater-vests, white short-sleeved dress shirts and dress trousers/pants. (Pre-canon)

Comfy green polo-neck jumpers and (usually brown) corduroy pants/trousers and either dark green or white high top shoes. (Post-canon) Occasionally wears neatly applied eyeliner. The slight change in style is bc Duncan doesn’t want to wear clothes that feel so similar to a school uniform after spending so much time with those as his only clothes at Prufrock. He’ll occasionally wear hoodies but not if he’s to be seen in public.

Owns a few T-shirts with Dorothy Parker quotes which he cherishes and wears daily, even if they can’t be seen under the jumper/sweater. One quote he’d have is: “The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue”

Isadora+Quigley once bought him a quirky reporter’s hat with a feather in it as a joke but Duncan ended up adoring it; convincing himself it gave him an extra boost of inspiration when writing articles. 🪶

Has a Polaroid camera looped round his neck 📸

Quigley 🗺:

Initially, he struck me as a rucksack guy but I was reading over TSS yesterday and discovered he canonically uses a totebag, “I was putting an atlas in a totebag I found”-Quigley Quagmire (‘The Slippery Slope’ Chapter 8, page 148) so technically that’s a canon not a headcanon but oh well 🙃

Wears clothes more so for practicality than for style, although if he has a choice he’ll get things in dark purple.

He’d wear cargo pants bc of all the pockets; this would inspire Isadora to write a poem titled ‘Two and a half’ about a scientist who was trying to clone someone twice but messed up, resulting in one of the copies (Quigley) having no legs.

He would also wear a jacket with tonnes of pockets bc it’s practical for the explorer’s life he leads plus it looks cool. Although, it looks a little less cool when he stitches on a hood with fabric that doesn’t even match.

He drew maps on a couple of T-shirts and wears those, unfortunately he has to redraw them every time they get washed.

Wears exclusively boots bc of their grip+durability, one boot would have purple laces and the boot on the other foot would have black laces bc the original lace got stuck in a thorn bush so he stole borrowed one of Isadora’s.

As for accessories; a compass on string looped round his neck, clips shoved in at random to keep hair from falling in his face as he climbs, a hat/beanie with pins on it

Also: Frayed fingerless gloves!!! I saw this in one of Quill’s art pieces of Quigley and like the idea immensely ( @lemonysnicket ) :))

Always has the most RANDOM items in his pockets; will reach in looking for a packet of gum and come out with binoculars.

Isadora 📜:

Goth.Goth.Emo.Goth.

Wears almost exclusively black: Black boots or high top converse (with doodles on the white toe bit in sharpie),

Wore black nail polish pre-canon. At Prufrock she improvises using black markers+pens on her nails. She once tried the same trick for mimicking eyeliner…it did not turn out well and Duncan brings it up at the WORST times.

Wears winged black eyeliner, smudged under the eyes.

Likes long swishy skirts (midi skirts). They’re sometimes a bit impractical but if she’s just spending the day writing poetry it’s fine. Otherwise she likes cuffed shorts with leggings underneath.

Violet once bought fishnet gloves bc she liked how they looked but gave them to Isa after they kept getting caught in her inventions. Isadora loves them even more bc they’re from Violet.

Has a really cool leather jacket but doesn’t wear it much bc she secretly worries that she isn’t cool enough for the jacket.

Has a T-shirt with all of Sappho’s poems printed out really small and arranged into a picture of Sappho herself. Quigley owns a similar one but his contains the bee-movie script.

Cooking abilities ranked🍳:

1: Quigley 🗺- he’s the best bc he had to cook for himself while “dead”. Granted, he did just eat canned peaches, toasted marshmallows, almonds and carrots but he had to find his own food anyway so that’s a start.

2: Isadora 📜- Her meals at Prufrock were cooked for her but it’s possible she had to cook for Duncan and herself at previous guardians. This task would fall on her as Duncan used to be afraid of stoves for a while after the fire

‘ “For a long time,” Duncan admitted, “I was afraid of any kind of fire. I didn’t even like to look at stoves.”’ -The Austere Academy, Chapter 3, page 47.

3: Duncan 📰- For the reason above and also bc he seems like the kind of guy who would mess up simple dishes by trying to apply extra information, “I read in a news article once about a famous chef who’d put mozzarella in porridge for extra flavour, let’s try that!” (Made-up quote)

Choice of stationary 🖊

Isadora: Fountain pen ✒️ bc it makes her poetry look fancy

Duncan: Biro bc it doesn’t smudge easily and he needs to writes down a lot of info quickly for his journalism 🖊

Quigley: Coloured biros bc they make maps easily decipherable+they don’t smudge easily which is useful for accuracy

In a modern AU Quigley has a 6 hour screen time average and it is ENTIRELY Google maps. Duncan listens to podcasts. Isadora’s Pinterest is made up completely of quotes.

Books/Literature 📚:

Apart from atlases, Quigley reads fantasy books with maps. He would adore books in the Grishaverse bc of this, especially obsessing over the canal system of Ketterdam which can be seen in detail in a map in ‘Crooked Kingdom’ by Leigh Bardugo. 📚 🧙‍♀️ However, with the Grisha triology (Shadow and Bone, Siege and Storm + Ruin and Rising) he would be disappointed by how little the cartographer/ex-cartographer protagonist mentions maps.

Duncan would enjoy the ‘A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder’ series due to the strategic, organised layout alongside Pip-the protagonist- ‘s note-taking skills. As Duncan aspires to be an investigative journalist he’d be enthralled by the investigations that are central in these books. He would annotate the books as he reads them; filling them with his own theories as well as highlighting important information.

The poem ‘Long Distance II’ by Tony Harrison doesn’t consist of rhyming couplets but I think Isadora would find its portrayal of grief powerful regardless of whether it’s in her preferred poetic format. Especially as it’s about the loss of family members.

Quigley would create his own fantasy map using tea-stained paper with rice spilled on it, drawing around the rice to get the outline of a country. He’d be really strategic about the details he draws though; having mountains before rivers so the water runs off of them etc. 🗺

Favourite Colours 🎨:

Isadora: Pitch black 🖤

Duncan: Dark green 💚

Quigley: Dark purple💜

(Bc of their notebooks 📓)

Thanks for the ask!! :) <3

I wasn’t sure what to include so I wrote quite a bit, this was me restraining myself tho. I think about the Quagmire triplets a LOT :). This is only the tip of the iceberg ;)! :) I also have kind of detailed hcs about injuries the triplets would have after the eagle fight if u want to hear about that.

Please send more asks if you like! You can be as specific as you like, especially if it’s about the Quagmires! :D

[ghostcond]

the guys the guys the guys

[inserviceto]

"Harken-"

Her eyes must be playing a cruel joke. Clearly, it must be a trick of the eye-- perhaps even a hallucination on her end no..? Perhaps she's pushed herself to far.

"You.. You disappear for so long.. too long. You left me waiting and waiting and my heart ached every day when nothing came up from you" Some part of her felt sorry for anyone else who had to listen to this, she knew it was about to get ugly.

Isadora frowned as some rage from deep inside bubbled out of control. Her pained tone turn slowly into a mix of rage "How could you- How could you promise me something so cruel that day only to completely abandon me" She missed him so much, yet.. her anger was justified "Could you have not sent me a letter, or even a message saying you were okay- or alive?! Was that so hard for you to do, Harken!?"

Harken had just been returning to the knights' barracks after the special training that had taken place. Although no one had come out of that strange realm with any wounds, the mental fatigue and demoralization of his own personal performance weighed on him like something physical.

He clearly hadn't been doing enough to maintain his skills. He'd need to get up earlier, work harker--

"Harken-"

The familiarity of the voice snaps him out of his thoughts in an instant, reacting as if someone had jabbed him with a hot poker.

He heard familiar voices all the time. Laughter. Fearful screams and broken cries. Wispy words that reminded him of his failures, of what he needed to do in order to make it right -- to begin to make it right. Voices of dead comrades and old masters, but never hers. Though she was one of many he had wrong and failed, she was not dead -- at least as far as he knew.

Blood is rushing in his ears.

But, as he finds his body moving towards the source of the voice without any aware input from himself, Harken finds it difficult to cast back to the last current news out of Pherae. After the slaughter of his fellow knights and kidnapping of Lord Elbert, his entire being -- worthless as it was -- had been bent on tracking down those responsible, and dragging them down to hell with him.

For days he could barely keep track of, that's what filled his cracked core. Eating, sleeping, thoughts of a home he did not belong to and people he was too ashamed to face -- it all fell to the wayside. All that had mattered was recovering Lord Elbert, and if he no longer lived, the only recourse Harken had was the greatest sin.

There is a tightness, a constriction, in his chest. It makes his breaths short and his heart race rabbit-fast.

The only thoughts he'd spared towards Isadora and Pherae, to Lord Eliwood and Lady Eleanora, had been cowardice and shame. How he could not bare to stand before them in such stark failure. Alive. Alive where he should not be. Alive when so many others that deserved to breathe and love and live were dead without even a proper burial!

She looked so painfully real before him. Beautiful and torturous. Her expression shifted from disbelief to grief to anger, a storm of emotion echoed in flesh.

Her words landed like burning lashes from a whip. He would not interrupt, would not take away her right to these feelings and reactions. Their confrontation was not private, however, and though it was slightly more secluded here than out in one of the more high traffic walkways in Garreg Mach, there were still far too many eyes and ears pretending to not observe.

"Isa...Isadora...," Harken breathes out, feeling faintly dizzy as he finally finds his voice. "I am...I'm so..."

What? He was what? What could he possibly say to her? Of all the things he'd inflicted upon those around him, he had done Isadora the worst without ever having laid a hand on her.

"I am sorry--!" he eventually manages, his hands feeling jittery and disconnected from himself as he spoke. He clasped them tightly behind his back, mind blank and racing wildly at the same time. "You deserved much better from me -- better than me, as well. I...I should have returned to Pherae."

Harken falters, wetting his lips with a tongue that feels far too dry.

"If I were a true man of honor and strength, I would have. I would have faced whatever punishments awaited me. I would have...would have released you from this anchored tie I hold you in," he murmurs, trying to keep his voice clear and steady but failing as a hot, tangled knot grows in his throat.

"But I am not such a man. I have never been. I...will never be. When I lost Lord Elbert, when the others were slain...I could not return to Lady Eleanora and Lord Eliwood, not empty handed." Desperation had led him to believe he might be able to rescue Lord Elbert at first. The more he dug up, the less it seemed a possibility; that fragile hope had died quickly.

He cannot meet her eyes for long.

"...I could not inflict false hope on you so, Isadora. Once I...knew that I could not succeed in returning Lord Elbert to Pherae, I marched toward the deaths of those that had taken him as well as my own. I thought it-- it would have been a gentler path for you. I would be presumed killed in action, as with the rest of the elite guard. You would grieve. You would move on. You would be better off."

He'd not planned for returning alive. He couldn't send her word of his survival, only to carry out his attack on the Black Fang and dying in battle.

She rightly thought him cruel for promising marriage upon his return, only to disappear without any sort of clues, but giving her hope where there would be no happy ending was not something he could do to her.

"You are right to be wounded and upset by me. How shall I be punished for the many wrongs I have inflicted upon you, Isadora?"

[ladyofcrowsandcoffee]

☁️

☁️ wip you want to write but haven't started yet

So for personal wips there's an idea for a novel that is told via the main character's cat's pov as they're the narrator. It be a portal fantasy where the MC has to go on an adventure not because they're the chosen one but because they're the one who is foretold to befriend the chosen one.

For fics I've got a couple floating around

A fic about an unnamed Tav who ends up romancing Rolan and him meeting their half siblings who are tieflings which means he finds out what they were doing before the nautiloid. Tldr Rolan gets a tad overprotective and thunderweaves someone shortly after that reveal.

A post game fluff piece about Isadora babysitting her niblings and the chaos that ensures.

A fic idea that follows Isa finding out she's going to be a mom I have ideas but her romance isn't locked in yet

[robynrileyart]

ancient oath paladin elf hector jones from last night's dnd sesh

[full---ofstarlight]

men resting their heads in laps like if u agree

[lovelyisadora]

Only just woke up, somehow made it down the stairs, and got hit with the ‘everyone has aches and pains suck it up’ talk. Sorry but if everyone had aches and pains the way I did, they’d have my exact diagnosis. Getting really sick of the way my family forgets I’m disabled. And when I point this out to them I’m told ‘there’s no reason to get aggressive’ okay.

[shadowglens]

isadora visits her father's grave, despite the fact that she told herself she'd never set foot within neverwinter again, because she's not really sure what else to do in the wake of learning he died. the dirt is still freshly-churned, his body barley cooled six feet under - she missed the funeral by two days. astarion goes with her, because of course he does, wrapped head-to-toe in armour to save his skin from crumbling to dust under the blaring sun. on their way back to the tavern where they'd rented a room for the night, isa unconsciously finds herself walking by her childhood home, with the arched doorway and her father's merchant symbol engraved on the front steps. too late, she realises. too late, and her mother is opening the front door.

[the-indie-owl]

Been re-watching Tabaluga lately and something caught my attention towards the episode, "Arktos' Last Gasp" to where Arktos hints on an Snow Witch named Isadora.

Kinda made Me wonder regardless towards my idea of "If Arktos did raise Lilli as his own Heir" like what if Arktos had to re-marry Isadora and that she'd be Lilli's Stepmom but if you put that all in a blender, you get a Matilda Wormwood Family to where the Parents are terrible but the Kid is good, so it's probably either a doom scenario or a possible potential scenario (I dunno even know cause I kinda don't ship Arktos with everybody in the franchise).

For a "Step-Mom" Scenario, I can at least see Isadora being a Witchy Mother to Lilli if she didn't use Arktos and would probably teach her all sorts of Ice Magic that Lilli would use in case if she were to protect herself from Danger if her Father could breathe through Ice that tends to froze people since deep down, she is magic like Arktos because Tabaluga's fire freed her own spirit and become alive (unlike how the Movie adaptation changes).

Regardless of those scenarios, I bet Isadora would...

A) Love her as a Child, even as a Calm Mother (ever since she met Arktos as he was instantly crushing on her).

B) Possibly being Manipulative like how Arktos was in the Movie within a Toxic Father/Daughter relationship (think Mother Gothel if she was a Snow Queen) as I'd bet that she'd probably want to have Greenland all to herself just by using Arktos to manipulate for another of her scheme.

Then again, there is James though I am kinda not really much of a Jarktos shipper (sorry Jarktos shippers), but I can see James being the absolute Best Parent figure for Lilli if he was her Manny since I do vision Arktos and Lilli having an On and Off Familial Relationship in the show's universe since there's too much good inside of her and let's face it, she'll probably won't be a Next Dictator if Arktos would've had wanted that in her.