#antanasia

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would your ocs be able to get away with murder?

hello friend!!! thank you for sending this ask (and your other ask) in, I'm sorry it's taken me so long to reply. I just started a new job and it has been killing me.

like. how some of my ocs. also kill people.

Unquiet Bones cast:

Antanasia: YES. Her ability to get away with serial murder is actually a major plot point of Unquiet Bones. Antanasia is a necromancer who has been convinced her powers work on essentially a tit-for-tat basis, meaning that for every person she resurrects, someone else has to be that missing death. She has been getting away with this for years on the basis of living in an analogue to a medieval city where the concept of a serial killer is not really known or understood. Given that the city she lives in is near-constantly expanding and overcrowded, and she specifically targets "undesirables" who live in the slums, she's been getting away with it for quite a while.

Lucia: NO. The polar opposite of Antanasia, her inability to get away with murder is a plot point. To be fair, she was like... seven, and it wasn't exactly intentional. Lucia was brutally bullied as a child for her (unrecognised because, again, medieval times) autism. Unfortunately, an autistic meltdown combined with untrained magical powers ends... explosively. As several tormentors find out to their detriment. Lucia's solution to this was to hide in her house's pigeon loft. She was quickly found, very nearly had extemely bad things happen to her, and was saved and sent to the College of Constellations to be trained as a magus. Given her intensely negative experiences at the CoC, it's... debatable whether this was really salvation.

Damian: Has never tried to kill anyone, but theoretically could get away with it by virtue of being King of Haelgavaard, and his life being sacred (at least until he sires an heir to continue his royal bloodline): his servants and intimates (namely, his sworn knight Sir Beladon) would go to extreme lengths to save him from consequences, and likely believe that anyone he killed was "lesser" than Damian, and so his continued life and happiness and security was worth more than any other person's life. Fortunately, despite his many and legitimate stressors and frustrations, Damian is not the murdering kind.

Varnius: YES. Kind of. Like Antanasia, Varnius is a priest of Ysa-Munda, the goddess of death, and also like Antanasia, he has a body count. Unlike Antanasia, all of Varnius's "victims" were willing and... not really victims at all. Varnius operates a hospice some miles outside of Haelgavaard and unofficially offers euthanasia to patients who experience intense suffering: physical and mental. By the time Unquiet Bones opens, Varnius has helped many patients find peace but is still conflicted -- he believes in his heart he is doing the right thing, but his actions directly contravene the doctrine of Ysa-Munda, which states let no mortal hasten or delay the hour [of death]. He has a lot of secondary trauma that he has no real way to process, which is driving him further and further towards caregiver burnout and an accompanying decline in safeguarding when it comes to making sure his patients are sure about ending their lives.

Other OCs:

Madeleine: YES. Madeleine is an OC I've used in a wiiiiiide variety of stories at this point. In her OG incarnation in You'll Be Free (If You Truly Wish To Be), she's never put to the test, but in numerous other stories she can and has gotten away with murder, usually on behalf (or in vengeance of) someone else, and often with the help of her right-hand woman, Siobhan, whose past is both shady and blood-soaked. Madeleine is not inherently bloodthirsty by any means, but she is fiercely devoted to those she loves, and if killing is the only way to protect or avenge her loved one, she will plan and execute it both brutally and exquisitely.

Zebelon: YES. Zeb is a gangster in a steampunk version of 1830s London, so he has absolutely killed people and gotten away with it -- although murder is not his primary course of action, and he'd rather avoid it if possible. Still, a fellow has to keep up appearances... especially when he has something to hide. Zeb endeavours to be both intimidating and uninteresting, preferring to melt into the background and let his friend and boss Benevolence Creed take centre stage.

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Antanasia the deflowered Romanian vampire. Created by https://x.com/darkandlight999?s=21&t=8D0z69TFmA94cNTLzRBXQg

Happy to have her in my list of friends and fiends to my cartoon scene, art journal webcomic PAPER STAGE

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Some of my dnd characters

In Order:

Arlo, Oath of Vengeance Paladin, Aasimar

Ondine Zora, Life Donain Cleric, Water Genasi

Elke Sentinel, Oath of the Watchers Paladin, Aasimar

Antanasia Skender, Order of the Mutant Bloodhunter, Dhampir

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A gift for @ohbutwheresyourheart since ae’s been feeling down after some recent life events 🖤🖤 it’s aer lovely OC Antanasia, necromancer extraordinaire!

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merry belated christmas featuring @buglich and my vampire and noble characters, antanasia and saima

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• Van Helsing Inspired Moodboard 1/3 •

Ihrin Antanasia Daciana Munteanu as Marishka

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52 for Ada if I can? :3 And I have been meaning to ask you about Unquiet Bones stuff, so 54 for the main cast of Unquiet Bones? :'D

Ooooh, these are such good questions, thank you for asking! :D

(also my 'v' key is choosing this moment to fuck up again so if there are any weird typos, including but not limited to 'ergil', that's why lmao)

52. Do they act on their immediate emotions, or do they wait for the facts before acting?

Ada does her best to wait and get a grasp on the full facts before acting. Growing up as a human (albeit one trained in combat and magic) around demons has taught her a lot of caution over the years just to stay alive, so she would prefer to analyse a situation and come up with a strategy before diving in.

On a personal side, having seen the clusterfuck of "for the love of sparda why will you two motherfuckers not just TALK to each other with your WORDS" that was Temen-Ni-Gru, Ada tries not to jump to conclusions about possible misunderstandings with her loved ones. She's a pro at taking a deep breath and counting to ten before replying, even when she's seething inside.

On the downside, sometimes this caution comes across as holding her cards too close to her chest. In my AU where Ada raises Nero with Dante post-DMC 3, Nero and Ada have a fair bit of tension and spark off each other as Nero grows up and figures out there's a lot Ada isn't telling him, especially about his father. It's not meant out of malice, Ada is just trying very hard how to figure out how to talk about Vergil and Sparda without creating another Vergil if she fucks up and plants a seed in Nero's head that he's safer embracing his demonic side.

This is all adult Ada, however; as a teenager, with all those teenage hormones running through her, PLUS the stress of her boyfriend possibly kick-starting an apocalyptic demonic invasion and/or being murdered by Mundus? She... definitely said some things she really regrets to Dante just after DMC 3: blamed Dante for Vergil's death (so they thought at the time), for not going with him to stand by him, and to an extent even for Temen-Ni-Gru as a whole, because why wouldn't Dante just be the bigger person and TALK to his brother???

Dante, filled with self-loathing and guilt, and more than half-convinced she was right, just took it at the time. Eventually he explained, and Ada apologised, and he forgave her, but... it was a deep wound, and it never quite goes away entirely.

Hence why now Ada is much, much more careful about what she says and does.

(Putting the rest under a read more because Unquiet Bones deals with a lot of dark topics, including suicide and child/religious abuse)

54. What’s their instinct in a fight / flight / freeze / fawn situation?

Antanasia/"Tansy" - As a secret necromancer keeping the king alive since they were both young children, Tansy got comfortable with asserting herself early. This was not entirely intentional (the previous king and the High Priestess of Ysa-Munda the goddess of death would have perhaps preferred her more malleable), but when you take a child, tell them they have special powers and the entire fate of the kingdom and possibly the continent rests of their shoulders... Well, in Tansy's case you get someone who learns the meaning of "immovable object" real fast.

King Damian is not exactly happy with the resurrection carousel that is his (un)life, so Tansy often goes toe-to-toe with the king himself to ensure he gets the care he needs (in her opinion... it's highly debatable whether what she's doing is ethical in the slightest). So in most verbal confrontations, Tansy goes cold and stern and tries to assert herself with logic. She does know when to fold 'em, but usually that means just abandoning the head-on approach and finding a more sly solution.

In a physical confrontation, she would probably be more inclined to flee. Tansy is very tall but thin as a reed and has little to no muscle; she'd go down fast and easy in a fight and she knows it.

Lucia - By the time the story opens, a combination of freeze and fawn. Lucia is intentionally coded as autistic in Unquiet Bones, although it's not explicitly called out in the text, and is based off my own experienced as a neurodivergent individual in an academic setting.

Lucia has a defining childhood experience where she was physically and emotionally bullied to the point of exploding (metaphorically and... kind of literally). The backlash she got for reacting as she did, even when it was to protect herself, was so harsh -- from family, friends, and authority figures -- that she became terrified of ever losing control to that extent again. This means that she has trained herself out of a fight reflex, but at the cost of being so afraid of conflict that she either fawns and tries to resolve the situation ASAP, even when she is the wronged party, or just shuts down altogether and waits for the storm to pass.

Damian - Damian vacillates between fight and freeze. As a king, he's simultaneously aware he holds ultimate power and he has a very specific set of behaviours he's supposed to follow for the good of the kingdom. As someone with what is essentially a deteriorating chronic illness, he's also become normalised to docilely allowing people to do things to him that he doesn't want because it's "for his own good".

So his preference is to roar and fight and defend his boundaries as well as he can, but it's also a question of whether he a) has the physical and mental energy to do so, b) is in a situation where he won't damage his own reputation or undermine the strength of his position by setting a boundary, and c) believes that the person/people he's arguing with will even listen to him, or just disregard what he's saying and physically overpower him.

Sometimes it's easier to just let whatever is happening, happen, and pick up the pieces afterwards.

(And that's not even going into the bodily autonomy horror of being a deeply closeted gay man who is married to a woman and expected to get an heir as soon as possible -- in fact, that's the main reason you're being kept alive, so your bloodline doesn't die out with you.)

He also fights (verbally) much more often with people he trusts, at least subconsiously, not to leave him. His wife from a political marriage gets cool, polite interactions. Tansy and Beladon, both of whom he's known intimately since he was a young child, get the brunt of the yelling and harsh words.

Varnius - Varnius was actually the hardest to answer this for! Partly because he's the least developed so far, I think.

Varnius joined the priesthood of Ysa-Munda, Goddess of Death, when he was thirteen. At the time, the Mother Superior of the priesthood took the word of Mother Death very literally, especially concerning that Her devoted worshippers were considered dead to the world when they took their vows. Varnius experienced very harsh conditions in the priesthood during his initiation and throughout his teenage years, leaving him with a profound lack of self-worth, and a conviction that his only reason for existing was to help others.

This means he avoided conflict as much as possible during his younger years. Questions were punished. Failure was punished. Crying because you were tired and cold and hungry and wanted to rest was punished. So he learned not to complain. He learned not to question the will of Ysa-Munda. He learned that he was as good as dead, a vessel who existed only to tend to the dead.

Then one day he met a priest of Xenith, the God of Life. Emil was warm; he was kind; he was patient; and, little by little, he put the shattered pieces of Varnius's psyche back together until he felt like a person again.

The upshot of this was that Varnius started questioning the priesthood again. Started considering if he could maybe one day find a way to leave. Then Emil died, and the resulting mental breakdown of grief that was then swiftly suppressed to fester turned Varnius into a man who looks far, far more mentally stable than he actually is.

Nowadays he still hates conflict and avoids it as much as possible, but he will stand his ground when it's for the benefit of others, especially those under his care at the convalescent home he founded, and where he defends his patients' rights to decide when, how, and if they end their lives.

Beladon - Beladon has been raised to be a chevalier parfait, the epitome of a chivalrous knight. He serves King Damian as a counsellor and close friend, pays the expected level of chivalric adoration to Queen Saveria, excels at the joust, writes heartfelt poetry... etc., etc.

Beladon keeps himself on a very short leash. Self-control is his primary virtue. He identifies the correct way to act in every situation and does not allow himself to deviate from that. His inclination is to fight, and he will throw down with anyone who insults his king and queen, but even that is done very correctly: a verbal warning, a threat of repercussions, and finally a formal challenge to a duel (to someone of his own class), or removing them from his presence (to someone of a lower class who does not merit a duel).

Interpersonally, however, Beladon fawns and fawns hard. He has been Damian's best friend and confidant since they were ten years old, and knows more about Damian than anyone else. He has been in love with Damian for a not inconsiderable number of the years they've known each other, and he cannot bear for Damian to think badly of him. So if he ever senses he's annoyed Damian, he immediately backtracks on whatever he has done or said, trying to please him.

Unfortunately for Beladon, Damian finds this habit infuriating, and would respect Beladon far more if he stuck to his guns and was prepared to have an honest argument from time to time.

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Closed starter for @viiuvas​

Antanasia’s past was not far in her rearview mirror, so, therefore, it still haunted her. Although she never dabbled with it herself, she loved the occult and had experienced second hand how relentless black magick could be if unleashed in an ill manner. 

Still, she knew that it was and always will be an imperative part of her life. The Romanian had immigrated to the States with the help of family friends, one of which suggested that she make her new home at a special school for girls in New Orleans. 

Money wasn’t an issue for Antanasia as she had inherited her Uncle’s fortune after the fire nearly a year ago. She always had been able to see the glass as half full rather than half empty and with that being her mindset, she looked at the grand manor before her and then opened the wooden door confidently.

She stood in the entrance, yet not a soul was in sight. Was this the right path? As she set down her belongings, which were only two small suitcases, Antanasia cautiously strolled into the sitting area to her left where a fire sat crackling away. “Hello?” 

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Teenage Vampires Meet Jane Austen

There is a danger of decrying all vampire YA books released in the 2000s as mere Twilight Saga clones, but Beth Fantaskey's (and if ever an author had a vampire novel writing last name, she does!) novel was published in 2000, and Twilight wasn't released until 2005. So please, no comparisons between these two books--they're sufficiently different that they deserve to be discussed on their own merits. Honestly, I kind of wish that Fantaskey's books had blown up and become the mainstream YA vampire duology of the 2000s, but a girl can't have everything. Let's talk the marvelous mix of Jane Austen and vampire lore that is Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side.

Right off the top, this book has startlingly excellent adoption representation. Jessica is adopted, and she has a phenomenal relationship with her adoptive parents. She is unconditionally loved and supported, she is happy, there is great parent-child communication, and there is exactly zero resentment or hesitation once Jessica is ready to explore her birth parents--she is supported in that too. She struggles with her adoption circumstances specifically, but even that is handled well--who wouldn't struggle with being adopted as an infant to avoid being murdered alongside their family? I was pleasantly surprised to find such great representation, and it serves the story equally well, given how objectively abusive and cruel Lucius's biological family is. This tends not to be something I see a lot in SFF (you could argue for found family doing similar things, but this is an explicit adoption story in the 2000s, so I think that gets its own literary area), and I loved how well it was handled.

So who are Jessica and Lucius?

Jessica was born in Romania as Antanasia to the Dragomir royal vampire family. However, she grew up as Jessica Packwood, daughter of a university professor and a hippie in Southern America, a mathelete, and a 4H horsewoman who isn't a half bad jumper. She's not popular at school but she has her best friend, her mathelete colleagues, and even a boy who is a little bit interested in her as she learns to be more assertive with her worth and skills--again, supported wholeheartedly by her parents.

Then Lucius Vladescu rocks into town and pulls a Heathcliff out on the moors at her bus stop on the first day of senior year. That absolutely unmitigated dramatic flair is arguably a combination coping and rebellion methodbecause Lucius is the heir apparent to the Vladescu royal vampire family. He's basically a teenage angst version of a combination of Mr. Darcy and Heathcliff, and that in and of itself is the weirdest combination of chivalrous, assholeish, dutiful, and "let it burn." It's unusual for me to say that the male lead in a YA vampire romance is actually fascinating, but watching Lucius try to burn down the status quo as hard as he can while also trying to stop things from catching fire as hard as he can is never not interesting.

In addition to Jessica and Lucius being genuinely interesting characters to follow, the book itself does the weirdest thing where it combines literary influences and allusions to Pride and Prejudice (in the form of Lucius's letters to his uncle and Jessica's resemblance to Lizzie), Wuthering Heights (in Lucius's *gestures broadly* and direct diegetic references to the novel that get a bit close to the heavy-handed line), and Dracula (in the general vampire aesthetics and the Vladescu vibes--I am super not speaking for the Dragomir family vibes, because that is just...yeah). Vampire and Gothic make sense together, but the Pride and Prejudice vibes just take this story and give it a bit of lightness that I wasn't expecting and frankly think works astoundingly well.

Overall, this book was a favorite of mine when I found it in high school, and I cannot recommend it enough. It's part one of a duology, so be sure to follow it up with Jessica Rules the Dark Side.