#calamityeden

[pinespittinink]

🐭you are not intimidating because i remember🥯face and also i live with you

ERAN WHY IS THIS STILL SLIGHTLY INTIMIDATING >:C

how intimidating am i?

[sentfromwolves]

◈—⌈ SENTFROMWOLVES ⌋ writeblr introduction ²⁰²⁴

Hi everyone, and welcome to my writeblr 2024 introduction. My name is Eran (they/he & freshly thirty) and I've been on writeblr for awhile, so you might've seen me around. ( •̀ ω •́ ) This is my yearly post to introduce the projects I'll be working on this year, what I write, and who I am. I'll be keeping it short and sweet.

I'd love to meet more writers this year, so if you write any of the following, or just like these genres, or even just wanna shout about ocs together, come holler and I'll give you a follow!

◈ — sci-fi and fantasy of any kind! cozy fantasy, romantasy, epic fantasy, space opera? this is my bread and butter, and I love shouting about it from the rooftops with others! ◈ — found families, ot3s, complicated soulmates. I am almost always writing about soulmates who have either killed each other at least once in the past or are planning some sort of murder. Complicated relationships, especially found families that aren't all rainbows and butterflies, are right up my alley. ◈ — queer and trans protagonists, large queer casts! all of my wips feature trans/nonbinary leads, and I'm always looking for more queer writer friends to connect with! ◈ — hope at the end of the tunnel, but hell to get to. I write stories with hopeful endings, with the sun on the horizon, with the promise that something better might now at long last be on the way. I love seeing characters get put through hell, but I love it even more when they make it to the other side. (if you write tragedy though, please know I will still cry on your doorstep if you'll have me) ◈ — corruption arcs, redemption arcs, sometimes both! Deeply nuanced characters with messy attitudes, and even messier actions. I'm just as equally obsessed with cool worldbuilding as I am with character-driven things, and I will yell about ocs all day, and maybe draw them too >:3 ◈ — big, epic, and sweeping worldbuilding! I am a huge fan of delving into the worldbuilding aspect of my wips. I love building magic systems, cultures, geographies, and more. One of my 2024 projects is doing a worldbuilding experiment blog at some point. I am always down to clown over worldbuilding, whether to sound board or just holler together!

There's a lot more I could say here, but this post can only get so long! Σ(っ °Д °;)っ my dms are always open, and I will follow back most of the time! But just to get all of the basics outta the way:

◈—« here's a quick and dirty rundown of how I work! »—◈

➺ I interact and follow from @calamityeden, so if you see that username, it's just me.✌️I am most active on discord, and if we become friends, you're more than welcome to ask to add me there. ➺ I am open to being tagged in writeblr games! Just know that I am not online all the time, and might be slow to respond to them. 🐌 ➺ My ask box and DMs are open, just please be respectful. I love meeting new writers and talking about projects! I am happy to chat and make new friends. You're always welcome! 💌 ➺ This is a strictly 18+ writeblr. Please DNI with me if you are a minor and respect my boundaries.

🪄You can find my core tags here under my writing and my graphics, as well as writer reminders, game train and catharsis. (❁´◡`❁) And now onto the fun part! My 2024 main project line up!

I have my main four listed here that you'll probably hear me yelling about pretty consistently, but I've also got a lot of other projects rattling around in my brain. So if you're ever curious about a project that's not here, feel free to yell at me about it! >:3

Genre: Dark Urban Fantasy Standalone.

Status: First Draft Complete (117k)—Revising for beta round one.

There's a clock tattooed on Nemesis's wrist, and when it reaches midnight on his 21st birthday, it will kill him. It doesn't help that his mom is the one that cursed him, and the demon currently possessing his car ate her before Nemesis could convince her to break the damned thing. Thankfully, Judge came prepared with an alternative: help him break into a mythical living city and steal its heart, and in return, he'll shatter Nemesis's curse for free. Accompanied by a three-headed hellhound, a haunted holy sword, and an excommunicated exorcist, Judge and Nemesis set their sights on an impossible heist. But the closer Nemesis gets to the heart, the more he begins to realize that he isn't the only one under a curse. And if he doesn't find a way to break Judge's soon, his own life will be forfeit as well.

Genre: Space Opera

Status: 2024 zero drafting from scratch

Two hundred years ago, humanity expanded to the stars only to find a cosmos filled with graves. But then their children began displaying the strange ability to commune with the alien ruins scattered across the planets, waking ancient, extrasolar mecha from their sleep, and turned the struggling colonies of space explorers into the fledgling galactic nation of Sol Galatea.  Now, Wren Akane is on the run from the whole galaxy, wanted for the strange alien powers throbbing through his veins. His luck runs out when he accidentally awakens an ancient Relic in the desert of his planet, only to be embedded with the memories of its last pilot and the revelation that the war that littered the cosmos with graves is far from over. But no one believes Wren when he tells them that continuing to wake the Relics will bring the hostile alien empire that destroyed them back to Sol Galatea’s doorstep. Only Wren’s rival pilot, Marek Khalid, seems interested in a word Wren has to say. But Marek doesn’t want to save Sol Galatea. He has big plans for what to do when the aliens arrive, a rebellion to lead, and if Wren isn’t on his side, he’s in his way. With time running out, Wren must soon decide how far he’s willing to go to save the people that never tried to save him—or if Marek is right, and he should let the stars burn instead.

Genre: Adult Romantasy

Status: First Draft (1k/100k)

Once a year, Celestials from all across the Lumina Kingdom gather together for Eventide, the season of courtship, hoping to win the hand of the most eligible star at court. Sirius knows the game they play all too well: by day, he is the forgettable, miserable daughter of the Lumina Family, least of his seven siblings and wanted only for the royal blood running through his veins.  By night, however, Sirius is the Starweaver—the mysterious dressmaker taking the kingdom by storm. Everyone wants to know the identity of the one responsible for elaborate outfits that turn even the quietest Celestial in the room into the star of the show, outshining even Sirius’s luminous sibling, Diana. When the infamous King Beyond Midnight arrives with the intent to wed Diana, Sirius finds his secret in jeopardy when the condition for their hand in marriage is a simple challenge: reveal the Starweaver's true identity. There’s no outsmarting Octavian for long, and soon, Sirius will have to make a choice: give up on his passion and stay hidden forever, or risk everything to stay true to who he really is.

Genre: Second World Urban Fantasy

Status: Outlining

Something changes the day that Nakano Touya returns to the crumbling city of Soma Lux. It starts with voices in the radio static, blurry figures caught on camera, always out of focus. When a monster crawls out of Touya's television screen and eats him, the last thing he expects is to find a strange, shadowy otherworld lurking on the other side. But his biggest problem isn't the monsters of the otherworld that want to eat him, or the talking cat that saved him, now living in his apartment without a care in sight. Soma Lux is experiencing a strange new epidemic—one that Touya is completely unaffected by. But when his half-sister falls comatose, Touya knows he has to get to the bottom of it all to save her—and find out why he's the only one immune. Accompanied by his jaded ex-boyfriend, Touya’s nosy classmates, a part-time fortune teller, and a cantankerous old hag, Touya dives into the murky underbelly of Soma Lux, where the realities have begun to bleed together between his world and the next. 

That's all for now! >:3 Here's to an amazing 2024! (also my actual blog is a mess right now please do not mind it ksjndfskfn)

[sergeantnarwhalwrites]

Oc in Three

I was tagged by @theprissythumbelina! Thanks for the tag.

Rules: Post three pictures that relate to one of your characters

I tag: @the-void-writes @vacantgodling @chayscribbles @calamityeden @jezifster @illarian-rambling @toribookworm22 (Only if y'all want! Open tag too! I'm trying my best not to tag the same people to death)

I did Donnie last time. Let's do Ian from Fucked at Five.

Daniel Clarke <- He drew the last image.

[illarian-rambling]

Thanks for the tag @leahnardo-da-veggie!

OC in 15

Let's do some Mashal dialog from MG3!

"I kind of just assumed some elves were blue, but then we got to Skysheer and they weren't. That… that probably wasn’t a very culturally sensitive move on my part.”

“Urgent message for Mr. Montane."

“It is our duty to stop her before she extends any further out of Skysheer, which she already rules. We thought that as godly folk who might have some investment in not having your city conquered, you might lend us some assistance.”

This is fine. It’s going fine. Divine contracts probably don’t work if you sign a false name, right? I don’t feel any divine magic binding my soul.

“I know, right? I’m not one to speak ill of people, but I don’t know if I’ve ever come across someone so mundanely cruel. He was like… like a barnacle. An evil barnacle, stuck onto the underside of society and glutting himself on all the refuse.”

“What’s cydo— cydosabe— sabo— Fuck, this magic terminology is not for me.”

“We can find another way if you don’t want to. That’s blood-money magic. I know I— I couldn’t take it. I can’t. I just don’t know what other option we have.”

“What about divinely blessed blood? What about the Chosen?”

“Ok, one last question. Sorry if this is rude. Are you a pirate? Like an ex-pirate? You have that sword scar and you walk like a sailor. The corkboard is an old naval trick too. I just…. You don’t seem like a professor.”

“You have an air of passion, which is even better in my books."

“You think I’m honorable?”

"I knew that was messing with you. But you’re right. I think I’m coming to understand Antonin Montane, and while he is deplorable, he’s not anything we can’t deal with.”

“So, neither of us can swim and we’re heading into a flooded crypt to hunt a…. How did he so expertly describe it? Ah yes, a ‘beast.’ Shall we?”

“It went in my chest plate. My godsdamned chest plate. In my body!”

“I guess we’ll find out. If that’s the case, then… then are we going to stick together once I’m human again?”

I always forget that Mashal isn't super talkative (more so that Astra and Ivander are professional yappers) so I was scrounging for these lol. I'll tag @avidrambling @calamityeden @ominous-feychild @starsoughtfrost and anyone else who wants to play :)

[tabswrites]

OC Two Truths and a Lie

Tagged by @mysticstarlightduck here!

Gently tagging: @calamityeden @sunset-a-story @rachaellawrites @megannabell @mister-writes

Hmmm I think the only one I haven’t done is Oliver, so…

[mrbexwrites]

Get to Know Me

I'm behind on tag games (again!) so apologies to @winglesswriter for being so slow in responding to your tag!

Passing the tag onto the new people who have stumbled across my dash! @jlilycorbie @caspersgraveyard @honeyhatred @calamityeden @cruelflesh and leaving an open tag for folk who want to join in :) Last song: Labour by Paloma Paris

Favorite color: Still Blue :D

Currently watching: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley (thanks to @sarahlizziewrites for the recommendation!)

Spicy/Savory/Sweet: Spicy!

Relationship status: Long term relationship with Mr Bex

Current obsession: I'm being very grown-up and renovating my kitchen. So of course, I've booted up the Sims to plan it all. Completely normal behavior, right? <.<

[mjjune]

Last Line Tag

I was tagged by @sentfromwolves! Thanks so much <3

Tagging: @isabellebissonrouthier @calamityeden @kjscottwrites or anyone who wants to!

This is the "last line" from Ch 2 of A Vision of Fire~

Aldrich’s shoulders have relaxed, and he no longer has that angry glint in his eye. He’s done scolding. He takes the last few steps to the door, pausing just a moment before disappearing into the hallway. “Just be careful there, Dan. You’re playing with fire.” Maybe someone should start one.

Taglist: @diemohnblume @wildswrites @little-mouse-gardens

Reply to this post to be added to the taglist!

[awritingcaitlin]

☄️ 📏 🎀 😭 for Rinnie, Nathaniel, and Killian!

Oh boy this is going to be a long one!

☄️what do people assume about them? are they right?

Rinnie: most people assume she's a ditz, a bimbo, a slut. To an extent, they're right. Rinnie is very promiscuous and sex is almost always on the table. However, she's letting you believe that she's a ditz so she can get the upper hand at some point. She is not above pretending to be unknowledgeable for her own later gain. Rinnie is an open book about everything but a few core issues. You must reach level 10 friendship to find out what those are.

Nathaniel: people assume he's a quiet, nerdy type. He looks like a tired grad student mixed with tired Marine. They are 100% correct with this assumption. Nathaniel lives by the phrases: "That is above my pay grade," "I don't get paid enough for this," and some lament about not being able to finish his doctoral thesis.

Killian: people assume he's an asshole. This is correct. People assume that he will come in and somehow magically but without magic fix the problem. This is also correct. He is a cocky water walker used to things going his way.

📏is your OC well educated? where did they get their learning from?

Rinnie, by virtue of age, has the most education of this current set of people. She went to college to become a mechanical engineer, then got drafted into the Navy and told she needed to go to med school to be a surgeon due to her theramancy. Then, years later, she went back to school for more mechanical engineering as well as some political science. She specializes in small-arms engineering, but has dreams about making stuff for airships. She is currently a diplomat however, functioning as a medical liaison because she can bridge the gap between doctors and politicians.

Nathaniel has obtained a bachelor's and a master's in history. He's currently 6 credit hours away from the doctorate but he's hit the correspondence limit and cannot get the Marine Corps to approve him for attending university full time for a semester or two. His focuses are on who the original people on the planet were and how differing cultures interact with each other.

Killian technically never finished the equivalent of high school because he was expelled. However, because the Marine Corps wanted to commission him, they sent him to get a bachelor's. He proceeded to get 5 of them in 2.5 years because he doesn't need to sleep very much. His degrees are in History, Political Science, Schmiedish Literature, Naval Architecture, and Fluid Dynamics because he had an interest in flying. He later went back and got Masters in Strategy, History, and Fluid Dynamics.

For reference, Rinnie is 117, Nathaniel is 26, and Killian is 36.

🎀how would they fit into other worlds / aus? what aus would you like to try out? what fictional world would they fit / not fit into?

I have already thrown Rinnie into a Witcher AU for an RP lol. And I've thought somewhat about smashing the three of them into an already-existing AU involving Tales of Symphonia, Xenoblade Chronicles, and Xenogears. (ask me if you want more info). Rinnie works better in worlds with magic, but I could see her in a highschool or coffee shop au without magic just fine.

😭what makes them cry? do they cry easily?

It takes a lot to make Rinnie cry. She doesn't want to show anyone any weakness. People who know her well might see her cry about her own failures and shortcomings. She also will sometimes cry with anger at injustice because she really believes the world can be better.

Nathaniel doesn't cry much at all either. He's seen war, death, comrades falling, felt so much disappointment over the years. He doesn't even cry when hurt or when he feels that all is lost. This lack of emotion is what he tells himself makes him a better Marine. But he really should show more emotion sometimes.

Killian has cried about three times in his life past being a baby. Once was the time his father legit said he was proud of him sometime around the age of ten. Notably, he did not cry when his dad was killed in battle a couple of years later. The other times Killian has cried relates to the only person on the planet he actually truly cares about. (He cares about a lot of people, but it's very superficial because it's easier to keep your distance when you expect to lose everyone at some point.) But this one person is special. But he's only ever cried over her a couple of times.

💖OC Ask Game💖

[pinespittinink]

☕️ + winter / aliens / my undying love 4 u / knife to the throat trope / sheith 😎 / tomatoes

i hate winter, i say, loving the winter wonderland nights when i can walk silently in the snow around town just vibing and thinking about my ocs. but i hate the biting icy cold and the chill wet and the dark days. least favorite season hands down.

aliens exist man, i don’t know what to tell you. not little green men, but there’s something out there. i refuse to believe otherwise.

your undying love--i love YOU!!! thank you so much for putting up with me and helping to make that writing server we met in four years ago ;;--; otherwise i would have just bugged you eternally about carve the stars. you are my favorite person <33

knife to the throat trope needs to be packed up and put on the shelf high out of reach thank you very much; i’m shoving it away, no one is allowed to use it anymore

sheith my BELOVED, listen,,,,, if you think lance should have been the black paladin i need you to leave the room; sheith is one of my favorite ships hands down, 10000000/10 would get a tattoo for and fill my room with art prints. also one of the few ships i’ve actually written completed fic for. 

tomatoes are beautiful, god’s most gorgeous vegetable. can eat it like a hand fruit, cherry tomatoes in summer are a blessing, the smell of any ripe off the vine is extraordinary. combine it with bread and cheese and you’ve got god tier food

send me ☕️ + [topic] and i’ll tell you my opinion on it!

[sentfromwolves]

💌 get to know the writer ; tag game—

THANK U to both @willtheweaver & @mrbexwrites for this tag!! (bex, I know you tagged my main, @calamityeden and just want to not startle you by replying here haha!) (๑˃ᴗ˂)ﻭ these kind of tags really make my day, and I appreciate it so much !

❖ 》　LAST SONG : Who Do I ; Set It Off & Hatsune Miku

❖ 》　FAVORITE COLOR : bright crimson or soft green-blue there is no in between

❖ 》　CURRENTLY WATCHING : catching up on Frieren: Beyond Journey's End & A Sign of Affection.

❖ 》　SWEET, SPICY, OR SAVORY? Sweet & Spicy is superior, but if I rank it it's 1) savory 2) Spicy 3) Sweet

❖ 》　CURRENT OBSESSION : I'm back in my art phase again because I want to slap Tora all over my dash along with my other ocs, here's a quick sneak peek of a wip >:3

❖ 》　LAST THING I GOOGLED : Uhhhhh CSP how does symmetry ruler work :')

❖ 》　FAVORITE SEASON : it's a tie! I love Spring but hate how fast it goes by, and I love Fall, but I hate that it means winter is on the way.

❖ 》　A SKILL I'D LIKE TO LEARN : I really want to get into cosplay and leather working! I attended my first renfaire this year and I am so so so obsessed !! I also am eyeballing creating 2d art models, I think that would be really cool!

❖ 》　BEST ADVICE : this time will pass anyways. (also: do it bored LOL)

tagging gently (literally no pressure): @forthesanityofstorytellers @addomfarm @surroundedbypearls @eccaiia @ayzrules @littleladymab @ahungeringknife @awritingcaitlin (hehe) @cowboybrunch

[sentfromwolves]

✧ SENTFROMWOLVES. ⊰ WRITEBLR INTRO & TAG/WIPS DIRECTORY ⊱

➺ Hey friends! Welcome to my writeblr (re)intro. If you’re new here, my name is Eran. I’m 20+, nonbinary (they/them, experimentally he/him), and not only is my sun in Virgo, so is my rising (heck). I’m from the pnw but I live in new england now, and if you ever see a key smash, I swear it was my cats. You can find out more about me here!

⊰  Let’s get some house keeping out of the way really quick! ⊱

➺ I interact from @calamityeden! If you see that username in your dms/ask box, it’s just me! 

➺ Feel free to tag me in ask/tag games! I am open to them and happy to partake. I am slow, so please don’t mind if I take my time in responding! ; w ;

➺ Never hesitate to DM or sending my asks about my wips or inquire about my tag lists. I’m also always happy to just say hi! My dms/ask box is not a scary place, I swear! I am just a slow and somewhat distracted potato.

➺ This is a strictly 18+ writeblr. Please DNI with me if you are a minor and respect my boundaries.

Ok cook, now onto the more exciting stuff. 👀✨

✧ TAGS MASTERLIST ✧ there are others but these are the important ones!

➺ 📝 my writing (woo!) 

 ➺ 💌 my graphics (double woo!) 

➺ 😤 shoutout train (for amazing writers & writing!) 

➺ 🎉 game train (for oc games/asks & answers!) 

➺ 🎑 insp tag (general inspiration for wips)

➺ 💫 shut up eran (personal thoughts, rants about writing, etc) 

➺ 📚 resource tag (!!) 

➺ 💦 you should be writing (writing memes & silly things) 

✧ So what do I write? ✧ I write queer NA/Adult crossover fantasy. Sometimes it’s space fantasy. Sometimes it’s urban fantasy. And sometimes I get really wild and do historical fantasy too. You can check out my main projects below for a better understanding of what I’m focused on at the moment!

In any and all of my works, you can be sure to find: 

➺ Nonbinary and trans voices at the heart of the story. 

➺ Polyamorous relationships in varying shades of platonic/romantic. 

➺ Tall men who love their tiny lovers. Am I a size difference hoe? Yeah. Yep. 

➺ Soft magic systems, celestial gods, sprawling series-long plots. 

➺ Large queer diverse casts. I very rarely write anything that doesn’t have an ensemble cast involved. 

✧ While I don’t often write explicit content into my projects, I am always happy to provide a list of potential tws for each of them. ✧ Very often I will explore complex topics and sensitive issues through the lens of my characters with a lot of nuance based on my own experiences (gender identity being a major one among others), and I will always mark anything I share appropriately if they are discussing or involving sensitive issues. 

✧ Beneath is a list of my active projects I am projecting to work on through 2022-2023! ✧ Feel free to ask about any of them, or inquire about being added to their taglists! 

✧ BIRTHRIGHT / ENCHANTED AT EVENTIDE.  ⊰ Adult Soft Fantasy Series ⊱

In Adrien, the light of the sun is eternal, but there are whispers that once, it was not. The middle daughter of the last Lunar Celestials in the realm, Aurora spends her time avoiding would-be suitors and reading myths of lost moons and missing stars, wondering where the night has gone.

But when her eldest sibling goes missing, Aurora flees her home to find a way to bring Diana back - even if it means chasing fairytales off the edge of the world and into the unknown. The last thing she expects is the help of an arrogant planetary god, or to unravel the mysteries of Adrien's broken past only to find herself at the center of a prophecy forgotten by time itself.

Soon enough, what had once been Aurora’s quest to find Diana and bring them safely home becomes a journey that will decide the fate of all Adrien--and the rest of the shattered celestial realm of Tolemia too.

➺ WIP PAGE . ➺ WIP TAG . ➺ CAST PAGE (UC)

✧ HIS BODY A BROKEN LAW.  ⊰ Nitty Gritty Urban Fantasy Duology ⊱

There’s a clock tattooed on Nemesis’s wrist, and when it reaches midnight on his 21st birthday, it will kill him.

It doesn’t help that his mother was the one who cursed him, and that the demon possessing his car ate her down to the bones before Nemesis could get her to break it. But Nemesis is nothing if not versatile, not when he’s only got a few months left until the big bad end. If a deal with the devil under the hood of his vintage car is what it takes to survive, Nemesis doesn’t mind selling what’s left of his soul.

But Judge doesn’t just want Nemesis’s soul. The demon has bigger, meaner plans than that, and he needs Nemesis’s help to see them through. After all, stealing the heart of a living city isn’t a one-man job, and for all Nemesis is cursed, he’s still the first True Witch in a generation. And with a centuries old turf war raging through the streets of the Veldt, Judge and Nemesis are going to need each other’s power if they hope to make it past every last exorcist, demon, and vengeful witch in their way―regardless of whether they can stand each other or not.

➺ WIP PAGE . ➺ WIP TAG . ➺ CAST PAGE (UC)

✧ CARVE THE STARS.  ⊰ Neo 80′s Space Opera ⊱

Two hundred years after reaching the stars, it turns out that aliens are either dead, missing, or worse.

For Wren Akane, this is a fact of life that comes alongside the three golden rules: water is wet, the sky is red, and whatever came before left something behind. A mechanic of Terra-9, a backwater planet in the backdrop of a budding human nation set against a foreign set of stars, Wren doesn’t care much for the starward politics of the galaxy, but they certainly have something to say about the aliens everyone thinks are merely dead.

Unfortunately, Wren’s golden rules are shattered the moment Marek Khalid touches down on Terra-9 and challenges them to a race. A star pilot turned famous for coming back the lone survivor of the missing deep space mission of the century, Marek is nothing short of dangerous, but Wren never learned better than to play with fire when it came crawling to their door.

But being burned is the least of Wren’s worries when their life is turned upside down by an alien doorway in the desert opening again after a thousand years closed, and a sudden calling only they can hear. Drawn into an intergalactic war when their planet is sieged in search of something ancient and holy, Wren is forced to flee to the stars, where they learn that they may play a greater role in the universe than they’d ever asked for, and that now, they’re being called on to finish the job.

After all, Wren might not have won the war they started ten thousand years ago, but they’re nothing if not determined to end it once and for all.

➺ WIP PAGE . ➺ WIP TAG . ➺ CAST PAGE (UC)

✧ PREY FOR THE WICKED.  ⊰ Adult Dark Fantasy Trilogy ⊱

The only thing in all of Ossia that men fear more than monsters are the red-coated hunters that slay them.

That's none of Zara's concern. As long as their coin continues to line her pockets, they can continue cowering for the rest of their years. A Marchen, Zara's life is defined by hunting and killing the beasts of the world, whether undead or divine or some hideous corruption of both.

But when Zara is hired to find out what is eating wives in an ancient forest far to the north, she is forced to work alongside a necromancer to get to the bottom of the malady in the heart of the woods. The last thing she expects is to fall into a forgotten kingdom trapped in time, or have to make an uneasy truce with the cursed wolf-headed queen that rules it to find a way to kill the evil sleeping within.

➺ WIP PAGE . ➺ WIP TAG . ➺ CAST PAGE (UC)

And that’s all she wrote for now! Please feel free to reach out anytime hehe! 💝

[pinespittinink]

“Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.” in the deep of the trees specifically tiddy lady and her hot evil boyfriend who is definitely not tigerclaw

“Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and its prey.”

ꕥ 🍃 ꕥ 🌿 ꕥ 🌱 ꕥ

Sabine's voice is a low, soft thing, green and quiet as the droonlight lanterns hung throughout the height of Palatruza. Titus could listen to her always and never hear steel in her tone. She touches the side of his face with her palm, fingers leafing down to petal over his wrist, held in her other hand between them.

“You broke their chains in the palms of your hands long ago. They have not held you for years."

“They have not held me ever,” Titus replies. He is tall in the shadows, large in the light, a man undiminished by nature.

Sabine's gaze is a verdant thing, like the lotuses, like the emerald trench of the deep. Her eyes are large and round, thick-lashed and down-turned at the corners. She has never been frightened of him, no matter how much blood he spills. Her hand curls over his, and Titus reaches up to palm the black fall of her hair, the supple curve of her neck. Sabine looks up at him, her head cradled in his hand.

“You are free to do whatever you want," she tells him.

“Am I?” His voice is a silken growl, black as the deep. He lays a kiss at her neck, dipping to mouth another one further toward the soft hollow of her throat. She has always been so small compared to him; a pearl in his hands. “Dearest, dearest Sabine. What of yourself?”

“Oh, my love,” Sabine says. Her breath tickles his ear, brushing like the fern fronds that drape and feather from the trees. "Don’t you know?”

He noses from her neck across her shoulder as he slips a hand around through her hair to the small of her back, the supple curve of her body against his own, draped as she is in pale silk. She's favored these filmy things as long as he can remember, dressing as though she's come from a lily bed, a spider's web. The very cloth of the moon, foreign above the thick of the trees.

“Your freedom lies with me," Sabine murmurs, like gentle commandment, "within the ledge of my ribs, my lips, the pink of my ear. It is within me that you may do whatever you desire. Within all in my hands.”

Titus makes a bestial sound, an obsidian huff licked through with his own disdain as he draws back from her, lifting his head only enough look down at her, slung still in his arms.

“I am not free then,” Titus replies darkly. “Not from you."

"Could you ever be?"

A low sound ripples through his chest, a burr dark and bloody. He curls his fingers in her hair, digs his grip in around her waist.

"I am not some prey animal for you to toy with," Titus says, embers licking through his teeth.

"No," Sabine agrees simply, unfazed. "But neither am I."

The night birds sing around them, calling through the dark. Titus studies her, the dark amber-green of his eyes gleaming. She is accustomed to his temper by now, but he does not believe it has ever angered or frightened her.

“The others," Titus rumbles, "they see you as just that, don’t they? A prey animal. Something meek and soft, to be left alone with your own milk teeth.”

Sabine tilts her head at him, the dark river of her hair tumbling down her back. She has always let it grow so long, untameably so.

“But you do not, do you?” she asks.

The question sears the air between them, percolating. Titus inclines his head down toward her, nails clawing smoothly through her hair, as though raking through water.

“I have seen the truth of you since first I saw you,” Titus growls, vetiver dark. 

“What truth is that?” Sabine asks him.

She offers her neck to him, gleaming in the droonlight, and Titus kisses her there. He travels up to the soft edge of her jaw, nose brushing against the scent of her skin, like the dew of the morning mist. He kisses her on the lips, her mouth plush and small and warm beneath his. She tastes of the deep, and Titus wonders just how long it will be before she gives in and makes a descent on her own, leaving him up among the trees.

“We are the same, you and I,” he says, breath heady, crumbling with emerald heat, lifting away only to speak against her lips, that she may swallow the truth whole. “You are a hunting thing, just as I am.”

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for ariel: 🔥🚲🎁 / for morgan: 🏊💐🌱 / for titus: 🎭💥🕷️ / for seonghwa: ✂️💢🙉

// ARIEL : the great glavenisean theater \\

🔥 FIRE - do they have any self destructive tendencies? what habits do they have that hinder them from becoming their best self?

Does generating a time loop and refusing to distance themself properly from Zachary count?

Morgan would say that Ariel is incapable of moving on, that she's stagnated. She doesn't socialize much with the rest of the theater, not in a way they can perceive to be very genuine, and it distances her from the rest of them.

🚲 BICYCLE - can they ride a bike? what do they remember from learning to ride a bicycle?

Ariel can ride a bike! There are actually a few of them hanging around in the theater that people ride around from time to time, both the kids of the house and the adults. Ariel has had to ride one for a show before, and he enjoys it really. Looks very elegant doing it too. If they can recall, they took to it rather immediately, like a duck to water.

🎁 PRESENT - what types of presents would they be most happy to receive? are they good at gift giving?

Ariel isn't the type to give gifts, except to Zachary on his birthday. They also don't really care to receive them from others but they'll accept them gracefully to avoid any slight or upset; you'd never know it was unwanted.

Is Ariel good at gift giving though? That's debatable. Zachary likes whatever they receive from them though, whether its a box of toffees or lotion for the callouses on his hands, or a flower from the portal.

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// MORGAN : the great glavenisean theater \\

🏊 SWIMMING - can they swim? or are they afraid of water? how well do they swim? how do they feel about swimming in the ocean?

Morgan is not a fan of swimming (i.e. he can't). He doesn't come from a wealthy family, and they lived out in the middle of the midwest where there are nothing but plains and prairies as far as the eye can see. He didn't exactly frequent a local swimming pool. If someone asked him to swim in the ocean he would Stare at them. (Actually he would probably hate the beach point blank. Sand....)

💐 BOUQUET - create a bouqet for them! what do those flowers mean? are any of the flowers their particular favourite?

Peonies, irises, roses, pansies, ranunculus, lilies. Very bright and colorful, jewel-toned specifically. These speak mostly for aesthetics-- roses and lilies for opulence and elegance, iris spears for Morgan’s more pointed and straightforward personality, ranunculus and peonies for their layers and floaty petals, like skirts and dresses, pansies for his roots, as they grew around his home and hang in baskets throughout the city.

🌱 SEEDLING - what is their most vivid memory from childhood?

It's a very early memory too; there was a cicada summer when he was a child, and Morgan remembers being on the front porch one early evening, the fireflies glowing in the yard. A storm front was rolling in, and as the first roll of thunder cracked and boomed, it completely drowned out the cicadas, and they fell completely silent in the beat of quiet afterwards.

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// TITUS : in the deep of the trees \\

🎭 MASKS - do they act differently around certain people? what's different between the way they act around friends, family, strangers, etc.?

Titus has a veneer of courtesy and calm, collected elegance with everyone he speaks to, particularly dialing this up for Lialaci, the High Chancellor. He is sharper and darker and more overtly duplicitous with Sahil and Yelena, the Left Hand of the Heartwood and his competition, as they have antagonistic relationships.

With Sabine, of course, he is the truest version of himself. Flawed, quick to anger and transparent in how it affects him, and more honest and open than the truest word that meets anyone else's ears.

💥 COLLISON - what emotions do they have trouble dealing with?

Titus's temper is ingrained in him as a problem, but he also has issues with empathy. He's apathetic more often than not, without care for the plights of others. Shame doesn't sit well on him at all. He tries to shake it off and knife it upon other people, as it makes him feel lesser, which he despises.

🕷️ SPIDER - what is their biggest fear? do they have any irrational / mundane fears?

In a way, the deep is Titus's greatest fear. The unknown is a great fear of his, and the deep is the greatest unknown both within Palatruza and beyond. A lot of what drives Titus's ambition within the court is to have the reach to eliminate the unknown, to send others to traverse the deep and map their opposition.

He has an irrational fear of spiders, as well as fish eyes. They freak him out.

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// SEONGHWA : the great glavenisean theater \\

✂️ SCISSORS - what is the "last straw" for them to cut someone out of their life? how easily do they let go of people?

Seonghwa can handle people disrespecting him. What sits worse with him is people disrespecting others around him; he doesn't like discourtesy and crassness especially. He won't hang around in an abusive situation; he knows and values himself enough to take care of himself that way. He's definitely had stalkers at the theater before, and isn't reticent about taking action to ban them and maintain his own safety and comfort.

💢 ANGER - what are some habits they have that will take some getting used to?

Seonghwa's most irritating little habit is that he makes little messes of things as though he expects it to be taken care of by others (see: dropping orange peels on the ground by his shoes at the afterparty). However, he does pick up after himself most of the time. He helps himself to other's food without asking, though that is pretty common backstage already.

Morgan thinks the most irritating thing about him is that Seonghwa will poke people with his bare toes, and that everyone loves him too much to ever give him a talking to.

🙉 HEAR-NO-EVIL - what is the worse thing your oc could hear from someone?

He can't stand remarks that he's trying gain anything as base and simple as money and sex from his boyfriend, Travis. It's part of why Seonghwa keeps his own apartment in the artist's alley. It's very important to him that he makes his own way in the world, beyond his shitty parents and in a city where an actor doesn't make a tremendous income. If anyone were to discredit that, as though he's seeking hand outs, it's the nearest thing that would upset and anger him.

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her skin wip? 👀 have you told me about this one yet???

Her Skin! Yes!! this is my soft sapphic wip (the only time I’m ever comfortable using that word lmao), about an empress by divine right who choses her wife the same way, and how they go from this arranged marriage to a genuine love and care.

This was also a wip with some dream inspiration, specifically backstory for the wife and her prior lover before she was summoned to a new life. But the whole wip is very gentle and refined and I’m very fond of Sievka, which is their omniscient goddess that the empress is an avatar of.

pick one of my wips to ask me about!