#ewordis

[axel-tiredstudent]

OC MASTERPOST WOOHOO ⭐

Although there's still a lot to plan and do before this story is anywhere near done and I don't even have a first draft yet, I really wanted to talk about it and share who my OCs are (since i keep talking about them in here).

This story (called Ewordis) is one of necromancy, otherness and isolation, but it's also about love, saving and connection!

The main character is Absalom García Medina (much to his own dismay). He is 22 years old and studies fine art in university. He's also a drummer in a band with his two closest friends. Absalom comes from a long line of necromancers! He doesn't really understand or control his powers, but he's set on his goal of finding his mother's spirit, which he has never been able to do!

Almudena is Absalom's grandmother, who raised him when Alma (her daughter), passed away. They are both also necromancers. Almudena taught Absalom how to use his powers until she died when Absalom was 12. She's still with him as a spirit.

Alma died in labor. Not only was she a necromancer, but she also had prophetic visions, something not common in their family. Neither Absalom nor Almudena have ever found her soul.

Angel is Absalom's best friend since they were in higschool. They take care and support each other through everything. Angel has a beautiful voice and she can play many instruments. She's the singer, songwriter and guitarist of their band.

Naomi met Angel and Absalom when they were looking for a bassist for their band. They became close soon and shortly after he started dating Angel!

Percy is Absalom's ex boyfriend. Their relationship was rocky and difficult, which really affected Absalom. They still see each other sometimes, but Percy doesn't seem to be willing to change for the better as a person, which is why Angel dislikes him and wants him to stay away from her best friend.

Ozzie is a non human creature that Absalom meets in the realm between life and death. Ozzie doesn't remember anything of his life before appearing there and he can't go to the living realm, so he and Absalom decide to find out what he is.

Victor also comes from a line of necromancers. He meets Absalom in a graveyard, after many spirits warn Absalom of a creature eating their corpses there. That would be Victor! Victor was brought back to life by his necromancer abusive father and now he's forced to feed on human flesh to not become a mindless "monster".

The Knight of Death is one of the Horrors. No one really knows of their existence, but necromancy powers are related to the Horror of Death. How is it related to the Medina Family? What will Absalom do when faced to this Knight?

LONGER EXPLANATION BELOW THE CUT

As I said before, Absalom comes from a long line of necromancers, this gift/curse always passes down to one person in the family. He got it from his mother, Alma, and she got it from hers, Almudena. Alma died in labor so Absalom was raised in a small close-minded village by his grandmother. Since it was little, Absalom has been able to see and communicate with the dead. Almudena taught him how to use his powers and insisted that this is a gift that makes them special. Nevertheless, she also taught him to hide it to avoid rejection from people outside their family. Even with their powers, there was something neither Absalom nor his grandmother were ever able to do: find Alma's soul.

When Absalom is 12, Almudena dies and Absalom, unable to find her either and suspecting her dead is related to the necromancy, blames their power for it. And so he starts seeing this power as a curse instead of a gift. Something that he doesn't truly control nor understand, something that scares him and isolates him. Absalom goes to live in a bigger city with his uncle. It spends a few rough years feeling alone and othered until, at 15, he meets Angel! They bond over their mutual love for music, being rejects in their school and their queerness. During their teenage years they both join a few bands and, finally, at 19-20, they decide to create their own music band, with Angel as the songer-guitarist and Absalom as the drummer. They are on the look out for a bassits when they meet Naomi. They quickly click and Naomi becomes the third member of TTT (Tres Tristes Trigres). A few months later, Naomi and Angel start dating! Playing with them is one of Absalom's favorite things in the world, and he trusts them more than anyone else. Nevertheless, he never tells them about his necromancy but they do notice weird, worrying things about him.

At 19-20, Absalom meets Percy after bumping into him a few times in campus and in local concerts. They hit it off immediately and start dating shortly after that. They're both interested in music and art. At first, their relationship seems perfect. Absalom (who's in the aro spectrum) falls in love for the first time and he feels really happy and loved, something he has truly struggled with for all his life. As time goes by, their relationship starts to get rocky, they fight and argue a lot, but they always go back to each other. Their relationship ends up beng really toxic on both sides. Percy is manipulative and cheats on him and Absalom is jealous and desperate for this idyllic love and comfort they had at first. But, thanks to Angel and Naomi's support, Absalom breaks up with him after dating for a year and half. During the time they were dating, Percy started noticing a few odd things that surround Absalom, like weird aggresive energies around them after they fought. No matter how many times Angel warns Absalom against it, sometimes, when it feels lonely, it goes back to Percy, looking for momentary comfort.

Regarding the necromancy gift/curse. Its origins are uncertain to the family but what does it exactlty allow them to do? The Medina family (or at least those that inherit it) can see spirits in their daily life and communicate with them (spirits may appear everywhere and they mostly can tell when someone is able to see them so they may follow necromancers around, there's more spirits in places like graveyards tho; they don't really have that much consciousness, except for the spirits of necromancers, like Almudena, who Absalom will be able to find at some point). Thanks to this power they can also search for (and most of the time) find the spirit of a specific person (but still, Absalom is never able to find Alma, which tortures him). Another thing that they can do is enter Ewordis.

Ewordis is the realm between life and death (but closer to death, as no living creatures can enter it, except for some necromancers). Ewordis is a inmense white space full of mostly nothingness and some spirits where time doesn't really exist. Absalom hides there when he gets too overwhelmed by real life, thinking that avoiding reality helps him. When he enters Ewordis, his real body is frozen in time, so he can stay there for days or weeks without truly noticing. But time itself doesn't stop. This has lead to his friends worrying after not hearing of him for days in more than one occasion. Isolating himself in Ewordis like this is something that Absalom does to cope when he is really really bad and he tells no one about it. He doesn't really understand what this realm truly is, nor where does it lead. What are the secrets that hide beyond this seemingly vast white empty unreal territory?

One day, after Absalom's mental health worsens and he goes back to hiding in Ewordis, he meets, for the first time, a demon-looking huge guy! Absalom is shocked, because he did not know of the existence of creatures like him. This "demon" tells him he remembers nothing of before being in Ewordis and that he himself doesn't know what he is. They keep bumping into each other when Absalom enter Ewordis, and it notices that this demon must be lonely. They talk a lot and become friends, and Absalom tells him about his life in the living realm. He ends up naming the demon Ozzie, after one of his favorite movies: "The Wizard of Oz". They decide to try and find out what Ozzie is.

After many spirits start following Absalom around and telling him about a monster eating their corpses in a graveyard, Absalom decides to investigate and get rid of all of them. Not really because he wants to help them, but because he wants to be left alone. He goes to the graveyard at night and he founds a thin young man crying next to an open grave. When he sees Absalom, he runs away. This young man is Victor. Victor also comes from one of the few necromancers families left. Their powers are different to those of the Medina family tho, since they are more related to the pyshical body and flesh than to the spirit. He was alive many years ago and he lived with his two siblings and his abusive father. Victor killed himself to escape his father but he brought him back, mixing his body and soul with those of other corpses. Now Victor is forced to feed on human corpses to keep their conscience. Victor loathes his father, who keeps him locked in their old mansion and forces him to keep himself alive. Thanks to his powers, his father has kept himself and his children alive for many many years.

Necromancy powers are directly related to the Horror of Death. There are many Horrors related to different aspects of existence. The Horrors are cosmic entities beyond human comprehension. More ancient that everything. They are neutral entities, not bad nor good. They just exist and keep balance. They have no human morality or feelings. Or at least, that's how it should be. So why can't Absalom die? Who protects him and why? Where is Alma's soul? Who are the other Horrors and how do their existence affect the characters lives?

[yasmijn]

Magrib-magrib emosi karena dikirimin seseorang ss grup telegram ewordi batch doi yang berinisiatif untuk minta naikin living allowance karena katanya: yang di UK udh mulai bikin kajian dan harga bahan makanan juga energi naik sebagai efek Russia-Ukraina.

Menurut w orang-orang kayak gini itu rakus banget. Setahuku, allowance sekarang yang 1,300 EUR itu udah naik dari 1,200 EUR pas tahun aku kuliah disana (2018). Fyi w dapet beasiswa dari TU Delft, yang per bulannya itu 950 EUR, bisa reimburse pesawat maks 750 EUR, full tuition fee and that’s it. Gak ada komponen-komponen hiasan lainnya seperti settlement allowance, uang buku, yadda yadda gak tau lagi ada apa. Plus sejak tuition naik (dulu pas w 13,500 dan sekarang udah 19,600!!!) itu allowance-nya berkurang terus. Pas angkatan 2019, penerima beasiswa yang sama kayak aku cuma dapet 855 EUR :”( Itu jujur ngepas sih apalagi kalo ngga bisa dapet rumah yang murah. 

Kayak, bisa gak sih bersyukur aja dan make do with what’s given to you? Tujuan elu kesana kan mau kuliah, nih negara udah berbaik hati memberikan anggaran bulanan yang LEBIH DARI CUKUP supaya kalian nggak hidup ngegembel di belahan dunia yang lain. 

Berangkat belum, kuliah belum, ke supermarket untuk lihat harga beneran aja belum, bahkan menjalankan satu bulan yang sekiranya bisa jadi benchmark butuh berapa untuk hidup layak aja belum, kan? Orang macam apa sih yang belum apa-apa udah otomatis bilang, “Gak cukup nih.” Belum tentu gak resit, belum tentu bisa cumlaude, udah minta ini-itu. Mending pada nabung gih, belum tentu juga kan bakalan lulus tepat waktu supaya nggak bayar tuition bulanan yang hampir 2,000 EUR.

Asli deh kayanya Allah tuh gak ngasih w keterima LPDP biar gak cepet mati karena emosi ketemu OKNUM-OKNUM kayak begini (dan juga alhamdulillah terhindarkan dari risiko diasosiasikan sama manusia-manusia sampah macam itu). Ya jaman dulu juga pernah dapet cerita dari temen yang kuliah di Swedia, bahwa ada segelintir makhluk yang bikin kajian karena mau minta naikin allowance yang kuliah di Swedia. Terus w diceritain, bahwa salah satu alasannya adalah supaya bisa beli makanan jadi aja dan gak usah repot masak, supaya bisa fokus belajar.

Pantes gak sih?

Heran. Bener-bener gak tau diri.

[Udah diservice macam itu pun masih banyak yang kabur gak pulang ya memang bajingan]

[axel-tiredstudent]

ocs outfit and height references!!

i want to do more outfits in the future but idk when ill be able to so im posting these now!

body references / underwear under the cut!

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Sometimes bringing your dead son back to life is not an act of love but a violent act of profound hate

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oc posting

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Who would have thought creating a story out of the blue with a bunch of characters with depth and development and a purpose and a message was going to be so complicated huh

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I need to keep "writing" Ewordis I've been neglecting actually planning and figuring out the story for too long

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diversity win! the tortured inhuman creature that came to kill you is GAY

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Thinking about my ocs story and maybe p!atd was right I also write sins not tragedies

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💯 for the Eldritch throuple !!

And 🎮 and 🎶 for Angel and Naomi !!!

AND (I'm sorry for this 🫡) 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 and 🍸 for everyone I've mentioned here

Thank you so much for asking!!! <3

💯 — share three random facts about your oc that others may not know.

:0 difficult but interesting one!

Apart from drums, Absalom can also play piano. He was taught as a kid by Almudena and he picked up drums as a teenager. The only people hes been romantically attracted to are Angel (when they were 15, before she came out) and Percy.

Victor is the eldest of three siblings. When they were kids, they were close to their mother, before she passed away from illness. When Victor came back from the death he did his own top surgery :) (very epic)

Ozzie does not remember anything from his past, he himself does not know what sort of creature he is and the only place he knows is Ewordis. His name was chosen by Absalom after The Wizard of Oz.

🎮 — what are three of your oc's favorite hobbies?

Angel main hobby (which is also her livelihood) is music: playing instruments (she can play a bunch), singing and writing music. She enjoys reading, writing poetry and short stories, and swimming as well!

Naomi plays bass and writes songs too! He loves fashion and sews some of his and his friends' clothes and she likes listening to podcasts too :)

🎶 — what type of music does your oc like? do they listen to music very often?

They both LOVE music and listen to a lot of it (they are musicians!). They are always going to record stores and finding new stuff or sharing playlists and songs with eachother <3<3

Since in my story the aesthetic surrounding TTT (their band) is very 70s and glam rock inspired, that's mostly what they create and listen to. Angel loves disco and R&B too, while Naomi sometimes listens to electronic music. Their music tastes are overall pretty open and they like appreciating different stuff.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 — how many people are in your oc's immediate family? how many people are in your oc's extended family? do they have aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, etc? who in their family are they closest with? are they close with their birth family, or do they have a found family?

Absalom was raised by his grandma, his mother died in childbirth and he never met his father. Then it lived with its uncle (his mother's brother) and aunt. He had no cousins nor any other family members. He was really really close with his grandma. Altought it doesn't see his aunt and uncle very often anymore, they have an okay relationship.

Ozzie's past is a mystery! So far he is the only creature of his type hes seen.

Victor has two siblings, a very tyrannic father and his mother who died. He knows his mother had siblings but their father never allowed the family to visit. They don't know if their father has more family. He lives enclosed in his father manor.

Naomi has a younger brother (named Akihiko) whom he loves a lot. Most of his family lives back in Japan, Naomi used to be really close to his cousins when she lived there as a child but doesn't see them often anymore. She's not close with his parents because they used to be close minded and strict, so she lives with Angel and meets her brother as much as possible. Her parents have changed since she left and they are supportive of Akihiko now, but Naomi hasn't forgiven them yet and still keeps his distance. She's glad Akihiko is doing great but she mourns that her upbringing was different.

Angel is very close with her parents! She's an only child but she has many aunts, uncles and cousins. They all love Naomi as well! Her family is really supportive so she visits often. Altough she is close to her birth family, she considers Naomi and Absalom as her found family as well. (the three of them do!)

🍸 — what is your oc's favorite alcoholic drink, if they can drink?

Absalom: beer. a basic guy but it's cheap. If he orders a cocktail it's probably gin and tonic

Ozzie: he doesnt drink but if he lived in the human world he would like stuff like Mojito or Daiquiri yep yep

Victor: he also doesn't drink but he seems like a vodka lemon type of guy to me

Angel: shes a fancy girl she likes wine especially rosé, also tinto de verano (shes just like me)

Naomi: beer usually but if they go out clubbing shes gonna order jager shots cause HES INSANE LIKE THAT <3

THIS IS SO LONG OMG IM SORRY