#axtapor

[writernopal]

OC Smash or Pass

Let's get ready for round 2! Thanks to @pheita for tagging me here 💙

Rules: pretty self explanatory. include physical descriptions or pics, and propaganda. the “other” label can be used for “sexuality misalignment” (ie: oc is femme and you’re gay, vice versa or you aren’t into smashing but a specific thing you wanna do with them like perhaps hug or study them under a microscope idc)

Axtapor Rehteus Oxlo of Ihama

Left art by https://twitter.com/Azraels_Art Right art by @illjustpretend

Quick Facts

Height: 6ft 5in

Age: 27

Gender: Male

Pronouns: He/Him

Sexuality: The most bi straight guy you will ever meet

Pros

Perpetually horny and also experimental because he likes to figure out what makes you tick 😇

Loves giving gifts, lavish ones especially, but only if its what you want.

Fiercely protective but not domineering. Personal freedom is very important for him and he'd never want to infringe on it. (unless you're his enemy then he doesn't care lol)

Very tactile. He likes being able to touch the person he's with. (to remind himself being with you is real WAAAHHH!)

DEVOTED! When he falls for someone, he falls HARD. He will never shut up about you, you are the best thing since the wheel and sliced bread.

Resourceful. Seriously if you get marooned or stranded somewhere he's the one you want to be stuck with. He regularly goes bushcraft camping so he knows all the survivalist tricks!

Cons

Smokes like a chimney and smells like one too.

Kickable. Constantly making sexual innuendos, flirts at inopportune times, has lame pick up lines, gives you blue steel out of nowhere, you get the idea.

Loses interest very quickly, so keeping him around long term is kind of tough unless he's taken by you from the get go.

Himbo. He's got about six braincells so you'd better hope he can rub them together long enough to decide he should not do the stupid thing he thought was a good idea five minutes ago.

Gets VERY angsty when he's upset. He's also very self-deprecating in this state and has a propensity to drink himself blind when he's at his lowest.

Falls off the face of the planet when things get too overwhelming. His first instinct is to get away from everything so he might just be gone if you come around looking for him one day.

Tagging (gently): @sarahlizziewrites @captain-kraken @void-botanist @paintedbutton @squarebracket-trick @mysticstarlightduck (also anyone tagged doesn't have to do it if you're uncomfortable offering up your OCs for something like this 💙)

[illjustpretend]

Forget me not 💌

drawing AASOAF fan art for @writernopal what’s new

[captain-kraken]

Happy STS! 💕

Sorry for the late ask, I've actually been writing all day and I genuinely thought it was still Friday until I checked my inbox!!

If you could have one of your own characters meet another fictional character of a writer of your choice (this can include mutuals!), who would you choose and how do you imagine their interaction would go?

It feels kind of like cheating to say @writernopal 's Axtapor and Pocha, but I have to say it!

Pocha would just be so excited to see someone else with scaly skin and would drag Axtapor out into the jungle to show him all his shedded skins that he's hung up in the trees lol. He'd show him all the best fishing spots and the trees to climb to get the most beautiful views of De'aba.

He'd probably also get on very well with Ladro, as he'd understand their relationship with their ship and the sea in general. Ladro also doesn't ask questions so they would just fully accept Axtapor as he is, and would love his expertise on their ship.

Honestly Axtapor would fit in very well in Sonhara. He'd probably get a lot of people assuming that he was a corrupted shraki though lol as he looks more like one of them than anything else in Sonhara.

[petti-fog]

Here’s Axtapor the Lizardfolk fighter! All these skin patterns took me longer than I figured they would. But hey, live and learn. It was fun nonetheless.

Commissions are open, if anyone is interested!

[thewardenofwinter]

Character Sheet Tag

Thank you so much @crowandmoonwriting for this tag! You can find their post here. this shit is so funny i just HAD to hop on this trend.

Doing this for Give No Quarter cuz why not? Might also do The Resurrectioners if the tide is right.

I was going to use their character art that I drew but then I realized that I've never drawn Henri?? I'm so sorry my little frenchman. I just used their face claims instead, if you are wondering Circe's is Golshifteh Farahani, Adam's is Charlie Hunnam, and Henri's is Tom Mison.

you can find the og sheet here if you would like to join!

Gently tagging @writernopal (I am DYING to se Axtapor's) @liv-is and @elshells

— M. Warrin

[sam-glade]

OCs in Bunny Picrew

Thank you so much @withlovelunette for the tag! This is so adorable😊

Gently tagging: @tisiphonewolfe @elshells @writernopal (I want to see Axtapor) and leaving open tag.

Here’s the link to the picrew!

I'm taking this opportunity to introduce all of you to:

Anthea and Erya

Anthea of the Moon-and-Star, the First Prince

The Prince of Light, Captain General of the Winged Division, and the Chief Strategist of the Army. My beloved.

Her Grandfather, the White Dragon, was a cosmic constant. He was never meant to step down as the First Prince. Her parents were never meant to pass away when she wasn't even a hundred.

It doesn't matter, because the Prince of Ice (as her political rivals refer to her) took all of it in a stride. Is she cold? Yes. Is she ruthless? Perhaps. Effective? Definitely. And yet...

Short story here.

Erya the Ermine a.k.a. the Shadow

Captain General of the Intelligence and Internal Security Corps (IntSec) by day, the Shadow - the most resourceful merchant of whispers, the de facto ruler of the criminal underworld - by night.

She has dreamt of the Cloak of Shadow since her mother kicked her out on the street at the age of ten. Freak, she's been called. Abomination. The term is 'albino', she'd remind them. When her Sword developed and granted her the power to create shadows, it probably saved her life. She didn't need to pursue the legendary Cloak any longer. She could never turn down a challenge though.

And she has never claimed that courting the Prince of Light as the Shadow is sensible, but it certainly is a challenge.

Of course I'm going to put my two most uptight, serious characters through this.

[tabswrites]

Happy WBW! What is the first thing that you think about/consider when you are building a new world? Is it the weather? Night/Day cycles? Maybe the food! Tell me about it!

Happy WBW!

I only have two examples to go off of so far and their worlds came about in very different ways.

With Silver Sentinels, the first idea that ever came to me was about a purple forest. The world was built around that, and eventually I added Rothar so I could establish some culture. The original concept was that Eternity existed within Caledon and you just had to find the entrance, but I’ve scrapped that for something a little more interesting. Basically, all of the world-building originated from the forest and how the sudden absence of magic would change things.

Everything starts with Eternity 😈

With Ascension, I wanted to start small and focus on just one kingdom at first, because world-building is still very new to me and I’m trying to go for quality over quantity. However, once I started I couldn’t stop. It began when I decided to create a religion, because that’s one part of S.S that hasn’t really come up yet (and it won’t until Book 2). I realized that in real life there’s more than one religion, so I decided that if I was going to talk about one, I was going to talk about them all. Once I started to work on the mythology, I created the other two kingdoms in the image of their respective deities and tried to imagine how they would interact with each other. I had the most fun building the island kingdom of Valta because it led to me becoming invested in pirates for the first time ever (until Axtapor).

From there, I just got really obsessed with each kingdom’s cultures and the reason that I barely ever post Ascension updates is because I’m writing pages and pages of mythology and world-building notes instead of the story.

[writernopal]

Character Voice Tag

Lets not talk about how behind I am on tags T_T thanks so much @pheita for tagging me here for this one! We're going to put all the blorbos in here because I simply ✨must✨

My phrase was: "You are going to get us killed."

AASOAF

Mariel: "P-Please think this through! We-- We could get caught, or worse killed!"

Axtapor: "Oh aye, ye been plenty wise! Near yokin' us to the devil's arse!"

Fay: "It's a wonder we don't listen to you more often. Laying on a beach somewhere with my guts ripped out sounds like a lovely way to spend an afternoon."

Wilkes: "The details have clearly escaped you. Primarily the one where you explain how we make it out alive."

Magdalene: "Thou hast fastened Yvedraniel's fury to spirits. Thine and mine."

Sartor: "My joie de vivre isé not to be gambled with!"

M.O.W

Hartim: "Ye been coaxin' Ishva."

Lexlar: "I nay take kind ta ilk o' yer sort, forcin' throats ta blades as ye been fit ta."

Tagging (gently): @oh-no-another-idea @squarebracket-trickster @void-botanist @writingmaidenwarrior @sarahlizziewrites and anyone else who'd like to this!

Your phrase will be: "What's that supposed to mean?"

AASOAF Taglist: @outpost51 @thelivingdeceased @faelanvance @captain-kraken @illjustpretend @elshells @full-on-sam @the-mindless @zestymimblo @tabswrites @void-botanist

M.O.W Taglist: @moonluringfrost @full-on-sam @illjustpretend @sparatus @outpost51 @captain-kraken @the-mindless @zestymimblo @mysticstarlightduck @tabswrites @void-botanist

[writernopal]

OC Ships and Songs Tag

I was tagged by @mysticstarlightduck, here, and @pheita, here. Thank you both so much! 💙

Rules: write two to five songs from them that represent your ship between your ocs (it can be platonic or romantic or a secret third thing). then add a quote from said WIP (if possible!) underneath it.

Tagging (gently): @sam-glade @outpost51 @void-botanist @sparatus @sarahlizziewrites and anyone else who'd like to do this!

Mariel and Axtapor: Valentine - Laufey

This WHOLE SONG is so them I can't 😭 but these parts especially!

What if he's the last one I kiss? What if he's the only one I'll ever miss? Maybe I should run, I'm only twenty-one I don't even know who I want to become I've lost all control of my heartbeat now Got caught in a romance with him somehow I still feel a shock through every bone When I hear an, "I love you" 'Cause now I've got someone to lose

Quote

And then, the realization hit me; he would probably be more affectionate now than ever before. Such a thing could not be possible, could it? I could hardly imagine how he would be— Oh, it was too much to entertain! I smiled at him, then covered my face bashfully, giggling at the prospect. He laughed along with me but, curiously, didn’t tease me about it.

Fay and Wilkes: If We Were Made Of Water - BANKS

Perfectly encapsulates their forever will they/won't they. My angry little disasters 💙

Baby say it again Maybe if you say it again Maybe if you say it again Maybe I'll believe it then Baby say it again Baby if you say it again Change some words around maybe I'll believe you then And I'm hurting from the way that this worked out If you could rearrange your words you could've saved it If we were made of water, we could swim around it Can't no more

Quote

She nodded after some moments and cupped my face in her hands. We savored one another on the decks of her ship as we’d done many times before, but not under the stars or those vast skies as before. Beneath the surface. Occulted. And this time with the limits of how high we could reach laid plainly before us. The soured reality of our demise tainted the water around us like some festering thing. There was no joy. No love. Nothing beautifully stirred. It was still and cold.

AASOAF 3 Taglist: @outpost51 @thelivingdeceased @faelanvance @captain-kraken @illjustpretend @elshells @writeblr-of-my-own

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Hartim and Lexlar: Pain and Misery - The Teskey Brothers

You guys are just getting to know these two but they and their story have lived in my heart for so long, I can't wait for you all to know it too 💚

Honey, please, whoa please Won't you stay with me? 'Cause since you gone It's pain and misery Hey I'm begging you, honey Whoa I want you to love me Yeah, I want you to love me I need you so bad

Quote

Something about the way he had spoken the word made Eiph’ck feel strange. He turned his head, easily finding Quye’ck’s outline. He was looking back at him, but in the darkness, could not make out his expression. “Goodnight, Eiph’ck.”  Those words, they were warm. And loud. Like a fire… They made his throat hot. They made him grateful for the darkness.  “Goodnight, Quye’ck.”

M.O.W Taglist: @moonluringfrost @writeblr-of-my-own @illjustpretend @sparatus @outpost51

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[writernopal]

ah yes, of course, the male protagonist of my novel, Taxpayer.

[writernopal]

🏴‍☠ Captain Frère, The Vanishing Pirate 🏴‍☠

The waves bring to shore many tales. Of sailors lost. Of treasure found. Of lands swallowed by the sea. Of graceless winds raising great storms. By now I thought I'd heard them all.

But I've heard a new one of late.

One of a ship which cuts not just the sea, but the veil of time itself. Of a ship so nimble, so lucky, that she escapes any fate that might befall her! But I can't write about it. You have to come and hear it for yourself.

The name Rabbit's Foot is spelled across her stern. It's clever. I thought you might like that.

At her helm is the mysterious one known only as The Vanishing Pirate to strangers and Captain Frère to her crew. What do her friends call her I wonder... Do they know her name? Perhaps not. Maybe she's bad at introductions.

It doesn't matter.

She comes to port. I wait.

She comes to our stall. I take off my hat.

She buys exactly six barrels of fish. I tell her it will be thirty pieces.

Her quartermaster gives me the sum and she smiles at me. I like it...

Grandma, the story I've heard is incomplete! I can tell you with certainty, she is not a woman, but a sea nymph come to life! And I fear one day her call will bring me to the water's edge...

And I'll dive in.

A fun little AU based off the sketch at the top of this post, gifted to me by @illjustpretend wherein Mariel has been re-imagined as a pirate captain 🥹 I've decided in this AU, Axtapor works at his family's fish market stall in Port St. Croix. He has a longing for adventure on the high seas, so he goes around to taverns and inns to hear stories about the wondrous things that happen all the way out there.

Eventually he hears the story of Captain Frère and how mid-chase her ship and crew, vanished from the waves, only to be sighted by her assailants disappearing over the horizon moments later. He can't help but go to the docks to see her ship for himself after. And he's unimpressed. He's expecting something much grander for a ship that's supposed to have done the impossible but he gets a kick out of the name, Rabbit's Foot.

The next day she visits his stall for the first time and in spite of his disillusionment with her ship, he's absolutely dumbstruck by her. He writes to his grandma after a few of her visits, because the urge to join her crew and follow her into the sea grows stronger and stronger each time he sees her. She warns him that it might be a dangerous ploy, but he goes after her anyway, and thus begins the story!

Maybe one day I'll write it because I love the idea of star-eyed landlubber Axtapor and the littol lady pirate Mariel 🥺

[writernopal]

OC Description Tag

I got tagged by @pheita here, thanks so much! 💙

Rules: Share an excerpt from your WIP that describes one of your OCs.

This technically isn't from my current WIP. This description comes from AASOAF 1 but it's still one of my all-time favorites of Mariel, not just because it's pretty but because Axtapor is SIMPING SO HARD, and STILL refuses to admit that he's got a fat crush on her lol. Gonna put it under a cut though because it's long.

ALSO, tossing the M.O.W taglist on this one because the woman in this snippet, Cassia, is a supporting character that you'll all meet in Part III!

I gave the room another pass when my body tightened nervously, and the breath departed my chest. Just along the back wall was a short human woman, adjusting a sheer pink shawl over her shoulders. Her hair, a soft sandy brown. Her skin, a pale olive color. And her waist…yes, small and pinched. Could it be…Miss Frère? No, it couldn’t be. Had she truly spent everything I had given her? And why was she here, of all places? Is this what she meant when she said I should not seek her out? And what about the knights who took her? Where were they? She flipped her fan open and turned to look in my direction. My heart pounded hard in my chest. If it was her— No. No. It couldn’t be. I waited, like a fish gasping for life on the end of a fisherman’s hook, as her eyes lifted to meet mine. Through her lashes, I spotted a pale blue color, not at all like the gentle and warm almond of Miss Frère’s. And her face was all wrong too. Her features were too handsome. Miss Frère wasn’t ugly by any stretch of the imagination, but her face was not…well, it just wasn’t like that. She had a softness to her as if she were always being seen through fogged glass. One’s eyes could easily roll back and forth across the gentle slope of her cheeks and the tiny bow of her lips. My heart sank for a moment, but why? I should be relieved it wasn’t her, right?  “Cassia, come here, dove.” The madam called out to her softly.  The woman began to approach with slow, deliberate steps. Wrong again. Miss Frère walked with a bouncy urgency that swished her skirts ever so slightly to make the most gentle rustling sound. Perhaps to sound, well, like the beating of a dove’s wings. Yet another thing this woman was not. “Cassia is one of our newer girls.” The madam began as she tucked a loose strand of hair behind the woman’s ear, “Is she to your liking, sir?” She couldn’t be further from it. There was something unsettling about how much she resembled Miss Frère. As if she had been hired to impersonate her though she was a sorry substitute. “Aye, she be.” “Then she is yours for the night, sir. Please enjoy yourself.” The madam said as she placed Cassia’s hand in mine.  Wrong once more. This woman had lithe hands with long slim fingers and smooth palms. Miss Frère’s hands were small and delicate but calloused, betraying the years of hard work and toil she’d put in as a servant to her mistress. This woman, Cassia, was beyond disappointing.

Tagging (gently): @sarahlizziewrites @mysticstarlightduck @crowandmoonwriting @thewardenofwinter

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[writernopal]

sorry but the way that Axtapor would dominate the Hunger Games

ALSO

Fay would straight up break them. she'd be the type to goad the game maker for sure and make it a living hell for everyone else

[writernopal]

Heads Up, Seven Up/Last Line

Got tagged by the following peeps for this one in recent days, thank you all so much!💙

@writingamongther0ses, here

@mjparkerwriting, here

@talesofsorrowandofruin, here

@dogmomwrites, here

@scifimagpie, here

@mister-writes, here

Tagging (gently): @gummybugg @captain-kraken @sam-glade @tabswrites @squarebracket-trick @void-botanist

From AASOAF 3: wherein Egra and Axtapor chat about Mariel 🥺 also yes this is way more than 7 lines but i love this exchange so much

“You really do love her, then?” “She been my heart.” I said with a shrug. “There be nary a thin’ I would no do for her.” Another nod. “Is it strange?” “What?” “Being with a human.” I shook my head. “They been different, but I nay mind it.” “The scruff on their heads and bodies doesn’t…bother you?” “Nay. Been soft as mink.” “They remind me of those dumplings that go into Kava’s Day soup.” She said with a strange little frown and a wiggle of her fingers, “Soft and…watery.” I laughed. “Take one to bed and find out if’n that be true.” “X’fidi! ” She hit me on the arm. I laughed. “I have no interest in taking any lovers right now, thank you!” “Oh? Nary one been eye catchin’ to ye?” “No…” I might be stupid, but I knew when ‘no’ meant ‘yes’. “Aye then.” I replied with a barely concealed smile. She cleared her throat. “Is she nice?” “Aye. Very. Sweetest creature I ever did meet.” “Well.” She brushed her robes. “I can’t say I understand it, but if you love her, then…there’s nothing more to say. Promise me you’ll tell grandmama and the others soon. Even if they don’t forgive you, they might at least understand your reasoning.” I sighed. “Nay be sure ‘bout that. Grandmother ‘lieves Mariel been a poison and a danger.” “She’s hurt. Of course she’d believe that about her, but…she misses you dearly. And I don’t think she’s capable of ignoring you forever. She worries too much.” “‘Haps.” “Give her another chance. I’m sure she’ll come around.”

AASOAF 3 Taglist: @outpost51 @thelivingdeceased @faelanvance @captain-kraken @illjustpretend @elshells @full-on-sam @the-mindless @zestymimblo

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[writernopal]

Quotes, Quotes, Quotes

some of my fave character quotes from AASOAF 3 that no one asked for!

Fay: “You’re the greatest weapon there is. A shield.”

Mariel: “You promised to make a pirate out of me. Now seems like the right time to start, doesn’t it?”

Axtapor: “She nay be ‘that woman’, her name been Mariel. Ye call her as so.”

Wilkes: “And I have no right to ask, so I won’t. But I swear to you I will live and die and live again for your Eternity. I will feast until the day you say no more. I will not rest until you rest. I will not yield until you say enough.”

Magdalene: “Thou fans flames. Inextinguishable.”

Sartor: “Oné must never forgette oné’s nature. How regrettable you havé…milord.”

also AASOAF 3 is now at a cool...151K words 🥲 bless future editing nopal pls

AASOAF 3 Taglist: @outpost51 @thelivingdeceased @faelanvance @captain-kraken @illjustpretend @elshells @full-on-sam @the-mindless @zestymimblo @tabswrites @void-botanist

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[writernopal]

Happy STS!

Tell me more about this Wild West AU idea. I’ve heard you mention it a few times but now that I’m actively reading AASOAF I want the details 👀

~ @tabswrites

TESS PLEASE

This idea has me in such a choke hold IM TELLING YOU. Not just because I want to write a Western but because I want Axtapor to be a cowboy so bad. I've mentioned it in this ask here and in the tags on this one here, and then I think there was another post but now I can't find it :(

Basically there is no plot in this AU LOL i just really love the idea of putting the cast in typically spaghetti western scenarios and imagining how they would play out in my head. Putting this below a cut bc it got longer than I thought it would.

Axtapor would be your train-robbing gunslinger. He rolls into town and is like "Gotta stay low 'round these parts. Ran me outta town last I was 'ere for tanglin' with the wrong sort of man." You know just this type who thinks he's waaaayyyy cooler and more mysterious than he actually is lol. I imagine his trusty steed has the attitude of Roach from the Witcher or Pegasus from Hercules and that he holds conversations ad nauseam with it.

Mariel is a little bo peep type who only visits town with her parents to sell their sheep's wool and other goods from their farm several miles out of town. I imagine that she's the type that falls for Axtapor's man-of-mystery act and secretly looks for him whenever they go into town but never does more than watch him from afar. In my mind she says "Heavens!" a lot lol. And maybe one time her parents catch her staring at Axtapor and warn her "That boy ain't any good. Stay away from 'im, ya 'ear?"

Fay is the local saloon owner that wears those giant feathers on her head and something lowcut so the bar patrons buy more booze. She is the head of a brothel in this AU and operates a spy network with the help of her girls. She's the one who pulls the fat shotgun from under the bar and goes "Y'all best be goin' now." She owns two big, grey dogs that sleep at her feet and follow her around wherever she goes. Their names are Right and Left.

And finally Wilkes, the actual man-of-mystery. He's the one who rolls into town and the shutters and doors all close as he passes. Men and women faint at the sight of him either because he's broken their heart once before or he beat the shit out of them. He comes riding in on this giant white horse called Moon who looks as serious as he does. Fay is the only one in town who's not afraid of him, definitely calls him "Big Boy" and he blushes a little about it every time. Oh and when he shows up the locals go "Careful now, the Moon is fallin'."