#her lore is so fuckin vague lol

[coldgoldlazarus]

Lazarus Lore:

Is a feathered serpent with some sort of ambiguous divinity

Can shapeshift into a human form. She has a full-snek form, a full-human form, and of course a kemonomimi form, which she favors the most

Has lived as a human and is only recently learning about the snek goddess(?) part

Lives on a large tropical island and/or archipelago in the middle of a big ocean, tech base is mildly futuristic but has a pretty good balance of cities and nature

The planet she lives on is one of two, tidally-locked binary planets of roughly equal size and mass, revolving around each other while sharing an orbit and a handful of moons

Why is the other planet there? She might have a connection to it, but it might just be there for vibes, idk yet. Looks really sick looming on the horizon all the time though

Due to the whole feathered snek thing, has powers over plants, water, and lightning... maybe gravity too?

Despite this is kind of a pansy about nature on account of growing up a city girl; likes plants, but bad with animals (like me lol)

Maybe the nature half of a nature vs tech to nature x tech theme but idk

Allergic to cold, loves warmth, will dress either super slutty or in a gazillion layers with no in between based on the weather

Sideboob is mandatory to most of her wardrobe

Put her under a heat lamp already dangit

Strict mom mommy issues

Generally lazy and airheaded and cuddly (like me lol) but also a showoff (the feathers of her feathered serpent form are peacock feathers for a reason)

ADHD executive dysfunction and mood swings and absentmindedness an-

Useless lesbian supreme, very openly horny online but too self-conscious in person to let on any of that

But also gives into snek instincts to lik or nom girls affectionately way too easily, leading to awakwardness

Neeeeerd, obsessed with this universe's offbrand equivalent of lego bionicle, unironically goes 'wow I wish tropical islands with magic robots were real' while forgetting she lives on one

Would do beach episodes more often if sand wasn't a bad texture to her, but always down to dip in a pool

Naturally smells like mint when she actually makes the effort to freshen up, possibly tastes like it too...

Best quality: her squiggles

[lavellander]

I just need to think “out loud” about my da4 pc so sorry in advance for posting this but also if you’re brave and patient enough to read it all and have input pls lmk 🥲

I already said on main that my vague plans for a da4 pc were basically (what we have seen thus far of) bellara: elf who loves history/learning. due to presumed multiclassing and/or looser boundaries bw classes I don’t want to assume she’s Only a mage but my da4 pc Will be a mage

problem A: I want dalish-specific dialogue SOOooo FUCKING BAD but don’t want my pc to be discount bellara / want my pc to be different enough that I can bring her w me everywhere lol. and even if the pc can’t be dalish I still always prefer playing as an elf

problem B: I had an idea to make des my da4 pc and while this actually would prob fit in w them pretty well (if I retcon a lil pseudo redemption for them bc I’m bad at playing mean characters), they already have A Lot Of Lore in my brain that will feel weird to have missing from the game

I typed up basically a whole essay of talking myself in circles and ended up deleting it bc it didn’t solve anything so. I guess I just gotta fuckin wait for more info. boo hiss etc

[heartbrake-hotel]

I just wanna say (and I'm aware this is probably Cilla's hand at work here), the only truly unrealistic thing about AE (besides everything else lol) is the fact that E refuses to flirt with or have sex with anyone else because he's married. We all know he would've been all over Cece (and probably her mom too lol!)

yuppppp. yup yup yup !!! as soon as i finished i was talking to a friend about it and we were both really surprised (and i don't mind saying a tad disappointed) that it wasn't hornier, given how raunchy it remains throughout.??

like you im definitely assuming cilla did that purposefully- that seems a given- but i did think it was.. interesting that she okayed that quip about taking her karate lessons even though the show painted elvis "buried in a beaver" presley as Mr. Monogamy 🤨🤨

i mean it was there with cece but ok i guess you can play it off given her obvious disinterest. like on one hand it's shocking he didn't try to win her over even a LITTLE or at least flirt meaninglessly bc that's just How He Was w women, but her whole role is to fuck w him and they hit u over the head w the fact that their interests don't intersect anywhere so... it's also not out of the realm of possibility to keep them so deeply platonic. it's at least arguable with the two of them, which i appreciate !

but where it was blatantly obvious was like you said with roxanne.! the way he's SO emotionally detached from her explicit affections that he says he's flattered by her interest but literally just . totally ignores it and moves on is SO weird !!! like he's got the one singular line about "i would've guessed younger sister" and otherwise he doesn't play into her flirting at ALL it's ?? kind of jarring honestly.. like the fact that for most of her lines about/to him the only response we get is one of disgust from cece is just incredibly wack.

im trying SO hard to justify it in my head too, im like "ok maybe its just a trappings of fame kinda response like maybe he's uncomfy but so used to being polite throughout bc of how familiar this behavior is to him that he just ? doesn't react ?" and THEN i decided that having to keep ae so far removed from real elvis that his characterization gets his own meta lore is just fuckin stupid lmao.. priscilla's interest in maintaining his legacy in this one very particular way is one thing; i get why they wouldn't have wanted ae to fuck around.. i don't like it but i do get it. but the fact that it's been extended so far that it just makes him sound stilted around women cuz he doesn't fuckin talk to them at all or engage with them in vague flirtatious pleasantries is laughable honestly.

[yeehawbvby]

EDIT 12/4/23 - IGNORE ALL THIS unless you’re interested in Max’s old lore!! It doesn’t apply to her anymore :3

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Because I’m balls deep in PLA brainrot, and I didn’t wanna make a new oc just for this, I now have properly outlined Maxine lore for those who care 🗣🗣🗣

- born in Unova

- became a trainer at like 13 and was kinda on her own/constantly on the move from then-on. Stayed in the region for the most part but rarely went home

- moved to Galar at like 19-21

- earned the terribly corny nickname DynaMax from Leon and Hop and when she grew popular it became a widely used nickname for her amongst fans UGHHHHH

- almost the same story as the protag in SWSH. Became champion at 24

- pressure got to be too much so she left for Paldea a year or 2 later to try and settle down a little bit/go to school/figure out what she wanted

- wound up getting mixed up in all THAT stuff

- eventually graduated, didn’t know what to do from there

- impulse got a bunch of pokemon-related tattoos during a crisis lol, mainly related to legendaries she’s encountered and her starters but some god-likes (Arceus + Giratina) were mixed in there

- canonically she fucking dies (I still dunno how, maybe pokemon battle or something)

- is reincarnated from the same age into Hisui because Arceus saw the tattoo as some kind of pitiful plea at a second chance from someone it deemed like.. mildly worthy (even though It Was Not lmaooo DUMBASS)

- kinda follows a mix between canon and a few fanfics I’ve read from here

- keeping it vague for now but I just know she fuckin SOBS when she sees Ingo because she knew him and his brother and hasn’t seen them in forever but now Ingo doesn’t even know her because of his memory loss. Like she doesn’t handle it well at all that her one connection to her prev life doesn’t recognize or remember her or anything (she gets it and doesn’t hold it against him or anything and hides it the best she can but still!!)

Idk how I’ll bring her back for the next games but I think this is kinda fun uwu I might make character sheets for each region too✨

[bubblyernie]

Hi! I hope its okay to ask but what is Erill's relationship with his cosmic horror patron? :3c

Omg absolutely okay to ask!! (Also I’m so sorry but you asked about OC lore and I verbally threw up like fifty paragraphs)

Short answer is this super vague comic, it’s Complicated. But it’s love.

Long answer is (It’s so much backstory I PROMISE it’s relevant) hope my dm doesn’t read this lol it’s got stuff I haven’t told him in it)

The one thing that Erril did know from his parents was this very like. Cult/small town mentality of you succeed your parents craft. Which makes sense bc yknow very very very few people (none) on the top of the mountains where he lived. Dad was a mortician, he had to pick up the craft bc people more often than not Died on the journey up (one of those It’s paradise on top but only to those who survive the trip kinda legends) and he just doesn’t know any better at all. He’s also a cleric (as was his father and father before him) of secrecy, imagine a lot of Final confessions and shit like that. Not great for a child with no other influences.

So the one thing Erril has, even when everything went to shit (his fault, ditched his BFF on a mountain left for dead oops kinda like how his parents did to him not outta malice or anything just. Idiocy and cowardice) The One Thing He Has is faith. If I can compare it to anything from Greek love mythos it’d be mania for sure (he’s not like a crazy devotee cultist- or, maybe he is)

He LOVES his god with what emotionally ability he can. He doesn’t understand that though he sees what he’s doing as like, “he’s a cleric, of course he’s like this”. His understanding of love is so childish and shallow, but also so biased. He assumes marriage is — and this is why he packed up and bolted when Winnie confessed — bearing child and then running off to spend your life together, cough cough. It’s also, and he understands this but won’t accept it, deeply parental which he did GET from his parents, they always encouraged his success and treated him well when they were around. Like a child who tries and tries for their parents approval even for a sliver of affection — that but make it a duty. It’s one of those “if my patron asks, I will, because she’s all I have and I respect her authority over my actions. If I’m not useful to her then what am I?”

Anyway to make a long story even longer, left for three years (yay start of the campaign here!!) fuckin Uh wild ass turn of events kept rolling double crits on d100s found out he’s a prophet (doesn’t want to be but his destiny is trying to reach him about his fates extended warranty) and also had to See her (the god) and you know how that shit melts your brain. Went from kinda melancholic and soft to Jaded and angry and aimless. Errils so fucking broke after that shit he got frustrated and threw like a cleric tantrum of like OH YEAH IF IM SO IMPORTANT WHY WONT SHE ANSWER MY QUESTIONS????? Tries to gouge out his eye and his god is just like okay quiet down small man, look at me

She, again, god of all secrecy, asks him what he wants to know. And Erril (idiot) says “do you love me?” And her answer was like Lol Mmh nah, that’s one of your silly mortal things. I do require you tho. And Errils been repeatedly throwing this tantrum over and over trying to earn her respect, because at the end of the day, sure she needs him, but he NEEDS her. And he wants her to need him as much as he needs her and his hubris thinking he can even achieve that will probably destroy him sighs (yay corruption arc)

He keeps fucking up tho he’s a terrible secrecy cleric. Can’t heal can’t keep his mouth shut, all he does is roll nat 100s and aces religion checks but in practice he’s ruined what good grace he has because he opened Pandora’s box and can no longer be oblivious. Ah the allegory of the cave is strong in this one.

Fucked up spider mommy god and her little bitch boy who bites the babysitter (the warlocks), has to be kept on a child leash. Arrogance of like “I’m ur prophet boy I’m allowed to do this I’m going to say that!!” And everyone in the religion is just trying to get him to pipe down and drink his apple juice

[flecks-of-stardust]

hmmm Lemm, the Hunter and... Zote, please? ^^, i'd also send the Collector but I know you better than that itjfjgf

[ask game referenced] [link to ask box]

The Collector: How obsessed are you with this game?

yeah i think it's pretty fuckin obvious, no? /lh

Relic Seeker Lemm: Favorite piece of lore? Favorite theory?

honestly i don’t have a damn clue, but i skimmed through the lore tablets just now. i think the ones in the sanctum still hit the hardest, tbh, especially record cenda. the wording still sounds... idk. it just very much makes me think that the atrocities that happened in the sanctum were originally done out of desperation and a genuine drive to find a solution where there was none, before they fell to the radiance too and had their intentions twisted. i think this is becoming less of an unpopular opinion, but it’s personally way more interesting for me to explore the sanctum as the epitome of ‘good intentions pave the road to hell,’ because so many things about the structure of the sanctum itself and the city imply it wasn’t just a greedy grab for immortality. but also the implications of phrasing it as ‘through their grace we are evolved’ is. man. their grace. like. does that imply the bodies we see were, at least initially, willing sacrifices? there’s so many directions you could take this and hfrgbfhhjdfdrg

i don’t know if i have a favorite theory so much as just... uh... the entirety of my au, lmao?? like everything that’s vague or inconsistent i just took and made it Better. lmfao. i think the one i’ve worked with the most though is that hallownest’s ‘the only kingdom’ thing is pure and utter bullshit. cause first of all, pharloom exists, so that already makes it out to be a lie. and cloth, tiso, cornifer and iselda, quirrel, etc had to have come from Somewhere. it can’t just be wastelands for miles and miles. even if it Is mostly wastelands, there were clearly small settlements interspersed throughout. i just kinda took that and made a bunch of kingdoms lol. at this point there’s at least four known kingdom clusters in my au, and there’s Definitely more than that, so. none of that ‘one and only kingdom’ bullshit, not even from hallownest itself.

The Hunter: Favorite/least favorite enemy you encounter? What is your favorite journal entry?

yeah like i said earlier, i do not pay attention to field enemies enough to have a favorite enemy. i would say for least favorite i would put great husk sentries, because they’re massive and annoying to deal with. my low% scuffed run has put me in fear of them permanently. (do Not fight these pricks with nail 0 and nothing but vs. it’s Awful.) but otherwise i really don’t know. if i had to answer it would be a boss, but i think you know what i think about those already fkjghjks

favorite journal entry would be one of the zotelings ones, i think. especially the volatile zoteling. but yeah i don’t read the journal very extensively fgkhjs

Zote: Least favorite character? Or which unpopular character do you like?

... probably divine, if i had to pick. not that i hate her or anything, she just. uh. why... does she make the sounds that she does. i do not like them. at all. i don’t remember my exact reaction to the first time i used her services but i doubt it was anything positive lmfao.

is greenpath vessel considered unpopular? because they’re the only character i can think of that would be considered unpopular in any way. a lot of them i’m just sort of ambivalent to, or i really like them and they’re a popular pick. i don’t often see stuff about greenpath vessel though, so i suppose that. like, often when it’s something with the vessels and hornet, it’s just lost kin and not greenpath vessel. i think i’ll always be more of a lost kin lover than a greenpath vessel lover, but it is Close. they’ve both stolen my heart lol

i had an idea for a new profile picture featuring them both, actually. it’s been bouncing around my head for months, i just haven’t found the time to draw it. they deserve the love <3

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HC: Xemnas and the other Xehanorts love playing Animal Crossing.

Just because ACNH has been such a fuckin BEACON OF JOY in my life since it came out (even though I have no means of playing lol) i’m adding some general animal crossing Nort headcanons 

Master Xenahort :

He’d be a snooty goat, pretty obvious. All of his letters sound vaguely threatening and pretty creepy, but he also sends super rare furniture so it’s not like you can complain that much.  Whenever he’s in your town, all of your flowers are bound to turn black for some weird fucking reason. - no one knows if this is a feature or a glitch You have more chances of getting him to show up if you have a heart shaped pond for him to lurk around.

As for Xenahort playing Animal Crossing, weLL. Good luck getting this old boomer figure out how the controls and everything else works. He seems to like Isabelle a lot because “she’s efficient and a cute dog” but he ALSO likes Apollo and his litte “PAH !” catchphrase.  Xenahort could have a pretty gothic and aesthetic world if it weren’t for the fact that he struggles with technology. Also also the guy who’d listen to all teh fun facts Blathers has.

Ansem (Heartless) :

A jock/cranky boar maybe. The kind of villager you wouldn’t really give much thought about, he looks a little funky and emo but eh, it’s not a big deal - until you get into his house and see that it’s pretty much chaos. There’s furniture you’ve never seen and are those fucking GLOWING EYES in the background ? You don’t think you wanna know. Exclusively comes out at night when there’s literally no other villager awake and he’s never present during holidays or events.

Ansem wouldn’t even play Animal Crossing, ngl. He has 0 interest in the game and would most likely drop it after 10 minutes. Also why can he only call like ONE person in the attic ? Fucking whack, that’s not how phones work. Spends the entire time complaining about little things he doesn’t understand. Like come on, man they’re just funky talking animals, let them live.

Xemnas : 

A lazy wolf. More quiet and lethargic than actually lazy. The guy is pretty quiet the first days UNTIL you start befriending them, then you’ll discover that he’s actually a fucking chatterbox. You can find Xemnas on the beach at sunset just vibing most of the time or at the museum. After having him around for a while, you notice that he’s the only fucking villager in your town that hasn’t celebrated nor told you when his birthday is. His house is pretty minimalist and monochrome.

Xemnas doesn’t exactly “play” the game - he mostly just roams around, doing absolutely nothing or just talking with people while going “Hmmm” Ohhh” “I see. . .” and other noises to himself. Couldn’t figure out how to give Isabelle a seashell on the first days so he just dropped that shit on the town hall pavement and it’s been there since then. Xemnas also never learns the real names of the villagers in his town, he just names them after people he knows and calls it a day.

Vanitas :

Definitely a jock cat, but like, the mean kind. He’s just too childish and energetic to be a cranky villager lol - his catchphrase is probably some shit like “idiot”. Not even a nickname, he just adds that at the end of sentences. Vanitas (or Catnitas :punch: :pensive) runs through the flowers but ONLY when you’re watching, orders the weirdest and most complex coffee just to see if you can make it - and then when you show him that you can, he’s impressed but also angry cause now he has to drink that shit. If you get Vanitas on your town, there’s a high chance that Ventus also moves in right next to him and viceversa.

Vanitas claims that he doesn’t give a shit about Animal Crossing, but his town is impeccable and he WILL kill for the villagers he loves - even if he’d also just try to straight up kill the ones he hates lol. The type of guy who carries around an axe 24/7 for no reason other than aesthetics and to make a Statement (tm). His house is pretty ugly though and he gets mad because he just doesn’t know how to properly decorate it to get a good grade.

Young Xenahort :

Smug goat. Smug goat. SMUG GOAT. The 100% definition of smug bastard - old Xenahort at least had the decency to SEND you rare furniture, but this guy just DISPLAYS it all on his house and MAKES SURE you know how pitiful it is that you can’t have the same things as he does. His house is chess themed and he has a picture of Eraqus somewhere. All of his letters sound condescending and he tries to use really long words to sound cooler, but we all know the truth. 

Young Xenahort shares a switch with Young Eraqus so naturally they  share islands in ACNH. Eraqus didn’t really mind but Xenahort REALLY wanted to divide the island in half so that they could have their own territory. IRONICALLY, he spends most of the time on Eraqus’ side tidying shit up - because he just can’t help getting mad whenever he sees how messy everything is, with all the fucking fish just laying around because Blathers isn’t there yet. Young Xenahort also insists on only having white roses and is very hellbent on keeping a strict aesthetic.

Terranort : 

The snooty lion she tells you not to worry about. Also a bit smug, but not as bad as the actual Xenahort - he’s actually pretty tolerable, when he’s not giving you the cold shoulder. The villager that takes you 207456 years to actually befriend and who only likes super specific and rare items as gifts. It’s really funny to bully him around because he only gets angry and just stomps around all day after that.

Another sad lad who wouldn’t play AC BUT if he DID he’d have some intense lore and one man larping sessions with the villagers. Like, those people who get WAY too into it. And sadly that’s all I got on him because I wasted all of my juice on writing for the other guys who are all technically the same guy. 

Dark Riku : 

Stereotypical jock wolf - head empty no thoughts, only muscles, sports and a deep seated inferiority complex. If you send him fruit, he’ll send you garbage in return. The only villager who wil SMACK you back with a net if you hit him, but his letters are oddly ??? Pretty nice and normal too ??? Unlike all of his regular dialogue about beating you up at every single game and sport possible in this entire world. Like, calm down, bro. Calm down and have a caprisun. Brags a lot about his “friend Kairi” from another town, which is sad cause she doesn’t. Actually know him. At all.

 Like Vanitas, e-boy Riku says he “doesn’t give a shit about some animal AI from a kids game” but he actually does. Sable is BEST girl in his eyes and getting her to open up and share her story with him was a magical moment. The game is super soothing and it calms him down, he’d even listen to those Lo-Fi AC 24/7 streams on youtube whenever he needs to c h i l l.

Xigbar : 

Peppy panther, I don’t even have to tell y’all what his catchphrase is. Constantly breaks the fourth wall with little jokes, known to “teleport” - he kinda ends up showing up on every single store and building you enter, as if nothing happened. Sends you VERY specific letters describing shit he shouldn’t knowor stupid jokes and puns. LOVES to gossip about other villagers and gives you that Extra Lore and trivia about them - but whenever you ask others about him, they just Dont Know Anything About Xigbar. Are you SURE he’s in your town, mayor ? 

Xigbar would mostly play Pocket Camp because it’s easier than carrying around a fuckin ds or a switch. It’s also less work and it’s a nice distraction from all the drama going around in the real organization. To play ACNH or ACNL he probably leeches off someone else’s console and he’d exclusively visit others’ towns just to fuck with them or annoy them to death by surrounding their houses with pitfalls.

[faunusrights]

OFFAL HUNT REMASTERED LIVEBLOG // CHAPTER 14

IN THIS EPISODE OF THE OFFAL HUNT LIVEBLOG:

On the other end of the line, Cinder let out a tight sigh. “Yeah. Okay, well—I’m in a difficult position right now. I’m balancing a lot. So, that wasn’t, you know, directed at you or whatever… I’m just trying to deliver you to Atlas. That’s all.”

“Yeah,” Glynda said. “This apology sucks.”

CINDER FALL TRIES TO HAVE MANNERS. AND FAILS. BUT SHE TRIES.

it’s been a WHILE but i’m STILL HERE!!!!!!!!! also i’m a little late to the draw and also unlike w/ prior chaps i did actually read this one when it came out so i’ve had my first run already. BUT that means i actually get 2 Focus so lets get this party started

so we’re now entering into the New Umbraroot Arc which Frightens me on a deep and intrinsic scale because now i have no padding to ready me for whatever the Hell is going to occur, but i do know it will be gay(er) than the current content was (is/shall be) and here’s the proof

It had only been a day, but the sound of Cinder’s voice was a relief to Glynda’s senses.

glynda that’s gay. hey. hey. glynda have u been told yr a lesbian. lesbeeb. besbion--

“Not at all.” Thank god. It was one thing to be traveling with Cinder Fall. It was entirely another to have her checking in on Glynda’s well-being.

cinder: my well-being is SHIT but thankfully there’s someone nearby doing WORSE than me, which makes me feel better at least,

“Oh.” Our sounded strange in her mouth.

my favourite thing abt any gay media and content is that it’s gay in ways that hettie(tm) nonsense can only dream of being. when a story is abt a guy and a gal all the romantic tension comes from like. looking at a tiddy or getting naked or w/e the shit. here? it’s literally found entirely in the use of the word our. such power. i love it.

I went from unknown to one of Atlas’ most wanted overnight, which is charming… And also annoying, because they refuse to stop pasting wanted posters on every street corner.

i feel like cinder is the type of bitch to send pics of them back to emerald like ‘is my face ACTUALLY that janky??? my hair is a state. you think they’ll use a selfie if i ask nicely???’

Cinder hummed, affirmative. “Which would be unnecessary, if you hadn’t reported me.”

Glynda returned, “I wouldn’t have reported you if you hadn’t been committing a crime.”

glynda you snitch. you narc. you bootlicker. does be gay do crime mean NOTHING to you,

We left a funny taste in her mouth, almost as strange as when Cinder had said our. She tried not to examine it too closely.

again. look at this shit. this is real slowburn hours. this is how u DO IT.

Her heart was beginning to feel like a pin cushion with all the needles pulled out, little holes left in their wake.

would i be showing my age if i glanced at this and wondered if it were a reference to the inciting og offal hunt inspiration fic or. it does doesnt it. okay moving on.

“Okay.” And then, in an effort to change the subject to something lighter: “I’ve never broken into a country before.”

glynda’s complete and continuous inability to actually like. do what she plans on doing is SO funny to me. she’s going to be stealthy, she says, throwing a man aside in obvious fashion. i’m going to be subtle, she says, being as conspicuous as possible. she’s a disaster and i live for it.

"The Faunus." Cinder's voice was cold. "Don't speak to her."

this part of this fic is subtitled ‘cinder’s rank opinions time’, apparently. not that u can tell. but it is. dsfhgjsdfghjghfjdk

In the silence that followed, Glynda thought of the stunted horns jutting above Cinder's hairline at the restaurant.

Glynda murmured, "That’s a horrible thing to say."

"Don’t start." There was no concession in her words. “I mean it.”

“...I just didn’t expect that from you.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

There was something in Cinder’s tone that told Glynda that nothing she said would be correct. She said nothing.

cinder’s! rank! opinions! time! honestly this section victimises me the MOST as i very famously cried over an earlier section in which cinder thought abt all the faunus she grew up with, so i know that kc and diesel were looking to hurt me directly. that said i DO find it funny that cinder, yet again, looks like a pile of shit.  she can’t do anything right. naturally inclined to be the villain completely unintentionally. what a moron.

A harsh laugh. “What do you think we are, friends?”

“Well, no—um. Not really, but—”

YOU SEE. CINDER. PLEASE. £10 FOR U TO BEHAVE FOR FIFTEEN SECONDS.

“Then, just—just listen to me. I’m going to get us there. I p-promise.” There was a soft sound, like disgust or the prelude to a gag. “Urgh, your soul—give me more space.”

cinder: i’m inclined to being an asshole glynda: every time yr mean 2 me i’ll make u feel worse cinder: ah no. ah shit. i have to be nice??? ah fuck. what the shit is this.

Glynda thought of Ozpin. It wasn’t a comforting thought—more like the memory of a near-accident, like sliding on ice and feeling the world shift beneath you. It was a flinch-thought, and it would have made her miserable instead of just homesick had she not shut it out so quickly.

god the writing in this fic is so especially pristine. everything feels so real and visceral and you just know Exactly how that feels. it’s brilliantly punchy and i adore the way u get have the exact sensation click into place. it’s SO good.

She wondered if it was the same moon Bacia and Vivienne had looked upon. If they had felt the same beneath its pale light. The Great War had seen two shatterings of the moon, so perhaps it had appeared different, but… Glynda couldn’t help but wish that it was something they shared, even lifetimes apart.

👈😎👈

actually im a little nervous abt doing fingerguns because WHAT IF SMTHNG HAS CHANGED... but i think this bit is. safe. maybe. diesel. kc. am i safe,

Glynda closed her eyes and tried to feel out that instinctual power within her. Tried to know herself better. It resonated around her like a water in a tank, nearly palpable.

again this is just GREAT storytelling. i just LOVE how well kc and diesel turn abstract ideas into such physical manifestations it’s completely unreal. r y’all seein this shit???

upon checking his number, she’d discovered it had been blocked.

i love that glynda is abt as knowledgeable abt little jumps like this as the reader is. are we surprised as a reader? yes. is glynda also surprised? HELL YEAH SHE IS. SHE AIN’T GOT A FUCKIN CLUE MY DUDE.

Remembering the notes to herself not to trust Winter, Glynda opened the log hesitantly.

glynda no yr sending read receipts to yr future gf and thats a bad move on everybodys part

The indicator showed this wasn’t the first time Glynda had accessed the message. She couldn’t remember doing so. 

OH NO BITCH U ALREADY DID

“Special Operative Schnee, things are…” Glynda paused, searching for something suitably vague to say. “Proceeding.

do you see what i mean abt glynda’s ineptitude. it’s slapstick levels of ridiculous and i’m living for it.

Do you suspect she’s attempting to cross the border?”

“Maybe.”

‘sure,’ glynda says. ‘you could word it like that if you wanted to.’

“Bold of her, if nothing else. She should know there will—” Glynda skimmed through the rest of the paragraph to reach the end, the corners of her mouth curling. “—can make arrangements. Let me know if there’s anything else you need.”

HGSDFGKHJSFDGHKJDF JESUS CHRIST

its like in fallout 4 when someone tells u important info and when u click past it the main character just goes ‘uh huh’ ‘yeah’ ‘okay’ ‘sure’ ‘mm-hm’ as the text boxes whizz by GLYNDA PLEASE

Bubbles appeared, showing that Cinder was typing. Glynda waited.

And waited.

And waited.

The bubbles appeared and disappeared four times.

She flipped back to Cinder’s conversation and found that, after all that time, Cinder had finally settled on a reply.

It said:

“Good.”

i just had to pair these up for a second if only to say: dis me lol

okay let’s double back for a second just to cover this Juicy Lore:

If you’d like, I can arrange a bouquet of flowers to be left at your mothers’ memorial site. My thoughts are with you.”

For a long moment, Glynda simply stared at the screen. [...] In quick succession, she realized that it had been sixteen days since she’d met with Cinder in the restaurant and that it was soon to be the anniversary of her mothers’ deaths.

WHAT IS THIS LORE MA’AM AND MX??? **MA’X**??? firstly idk what the HELL the Black March tragedy is but im fascinated but also: did u have to do that. can ONE person in this fic not have [spoilers redacted cant say that yet no sir] problems??? no??? die. dsfhjgghjkfsddf

Glynda picked herself up from the armchair, neat and tidy, and disassembled into bed, pulling the covers up to her throat. With her Semblance, she turned off the lights. She closed her eyes.

It was quiet. Cold. The only thing she felt was the weight of her soul.

Her Scroll buzzed. Glynda answered it.

“Glynda.” It was Cinder. “I can feel that.”

okay following on from cinder’s text message, i just. love that cinder’s having such direct repercussions to her shitty shitty actions. like this is all tying together in some 👈😎👈 instances but having cinder be her usual callous self and having to literally turn around and start fucking Being Nice For Once is VERY gratifying. fuck you you lil round-faced one-braincelled baby. time to learn to have some Manners. jgdsfghsdfghfjd

She’d simply resigned to the loneliness of having no one to trust but Cinder, and then, not even having her.

... thats gay. hey lads is that gay? its gay. it feels gay.

On the other end of the line, Cinder let out a tight sigh. “Yeah. Okay, well—I’m in a difficult position right now. I’m balancing a lot. So, that wasn’t, you know, directed at you or whatever… I’m just trying to deliver you to Atlas. That’s all.”

“Yeah,” Glynda said. “This apology sucks.”

this feels like a reference to 👈👈👈😎👈👈👈 (IS IT. AM I RIGHT. IT IS ISNT IT) but also: LOOK AT CINDER GO. TRYING. BADLY. BUT TRYING. i love her she sucks so much shes such a dumbass. feel the consequences. feel them.

Glynda chided herself; Cinder Fall wasn’t capable of remorse, but she was more than capable of simple math. It seemed the worse she treated Glynda, the worse she herself would feel.

glynda: she’s doing this because it makes her feel better, not me cinder in like idk 20 chapters down the line:

(i guess thats another 👈😎👈 moment but for GOOD REASON)

There was a shift, like Cinder was rolling over, or maybe propping herself up. Was she in bed also? It triggered the remembrance of Glynda’s own physicality, and she turned over as well, searching in the dark for the nightstand and the lamp upon it. The light clicked on. The room brightened. Glynda settled in, ready.

OOOOOH THE PARALLELS. glynda turning the lights off and sinking into darkness and the void versus perking up and sitting up and turning the lights on when talking to cinder!!!!!!! POETIC CINEMA. OOF. OOF. HOW DOES FIFTEEN POINTS OF LOVE TASTE.

“Great! Lovely. Glad to hear it.” Fangs rounded out the words like scissors. A pleasant sense of satisfaction unfurled in Glynda’s chest. “So, once upon a fucking time—”

there were two gays and they were enemies to lovers but didnt know it yet. but they will be.

THATS CHAPTER 14 BABEY!!!!!!!! i LOVED this chap and i can rly feel kc and diesel gearing up for umbraroot. its great being able to like. feel the shift of focus goin on here and im SO ready to see this arc play out. once again offal hunt is the best fic ever made. this is a fact.

[sichore]

monstrousmoonshine replied to your post: I have like a biyearly quota of talking about...

a. you’re right and you should say it and b. I really wish we’d gotten more world building re arrancars

lissen

one of the lines that rankles me the most in the final arc was that one about “how arrancar have no society” because it’s not fucking true and also highlights the abandoned plot point of how Soul Society knew about the arrancar for decades but it didn’t matter because they got depowered very early on to better highlight shikai/bankai/shinigami moments we honestly didn’t even fucking need!

of course they had a society and a whole social structure that we never saw explored because so much of the supplemental material went to the shinigami and we never got a databook released outside of Japan after Unmasked which would have at least given us info on the top Espada where most of the backstory was hidden. Like Baraggan in particular is a huge well of lore we never fucking got and no one cares to explore because he’s not fuckable. 

We got several examples of interpersonal relations and how they differed and no exploration of how that changed once Aizen came into power. See the differences between Grimmjow vs Baraggan vs Harribel and how they treat their fraccíones; the massive self and familial love between Starrk and Lilynette; the loyalty between Tesla and Nnoitora as violent as it was and also whatever was going on with Yammy and Ulquoirra??; and the love and pride Cirucci had for her people (but everyone all but forgot about the Privaron Espada despite the short-lived return of two of them in the zombie arc). We had special locations from Nas Loches itself to whatever those ruins were that Urahara gathered everyone to in that one part of the final arc that would have been really nice to see but we didn’t get that either. We got so many vague ideas of who and what mattered to arrancar (or explicit in the case of Shawlong loving Grimmjow) and it just got brushed off because lol they’re evil as per the interview in Unmasked which is one of very things I kinda wanna box Kubo over.

You wanna talk about a female character who was wasted potential? Tia fuckin Harribel who after untold generations of Espada (which we also didn’t learn much about) ended up the 3rd strongest, as she was a Vasto Lorde, but her story got regulated to a goddamn filler episode of the already wack anime and she got jobbed because Hitsugaya’s popularity meant he couldn’t be maimed or killed as much as Kubo seemed to want to do just that. And as much as I love Grimmjow his ass could have stayed in the dirt if it meant we got to see Harribel do something in the last arc because Nel’s mission of getting Harribel back was also a plot point deregulated to the last novel and Grimmjow’s presence was not needed at all.

This is just some of the deep shit we could have had if not in canon or supplemental materials then at least in fanwork but lmao no, they’re still on the same bullshit they have been on since basically the Soul Society arc.

[terramythos]

My thoughts on October Daye #12 “Night and Silence” oooor “Dammit, Janet!” (suggestion courtesy of @mistressofmuses ).

And with this I am officially all caught up! Well, I haven’t read all the novellas and short stories, but caught up on the main series. Now I have to wait for #13 this year like a normal person! Gah! 

-So, leading off from all the horrible shit that happened last book, things aren't going.. great.

-You know that intense, extreme trauma 2 members of the main cast experienced @ the end of last book? Yeah that. Didnt go away

-There's a line about how Tybalt keeps seeing Toby as her mother Amandine... the person who kidnapped and basically tortured him last book. And he's basically terrified of shapeshifting at all and has just stayed in his humanoid form. And he's refusing help from anyone and disappearing for long stretches. And maybe going just a little bit Fuckening Crazy. G-great start, guys!

-And there's a flashback where he's just MEAN and like you can understand why but MAJOR YIKES and also pain.

Ok unexpected May feels ;-;

-Gillian Is Missing Again but I have a feeling this is not gonna be much of a retread...

-And.. boy this sure is a callback huh? May and Quentin being the found family, Gillian is missing, Tybalt is antagonistic...

-ok Jocelyn is a creepy fangirl character

-ok I'm 5 chapters in and wondering where this is going. Apparently there's Quite The Twist in this one or at least that's what I suspect is going to happen

-oooohkay they find like this weird pocket dimension with like. A miniature house that is also a chicken (and no one even mentions Baba Yaga). And idk what it is about the scene but it is fucking eerie and creepy as hell somehow.

Shade appeared in like book 6 as a Literal Cat so.. here she is showing up and being relevant for 5 minutes

-but what the FUCK is with this place. I got nothing and that exposition just raises more questions. There's no magic scent at all (except MAYBE cinammon), a bunch of rare fucking plants, and a fucking miniature baba yaga hut just wandering around

-that opens another rabbit hole because Golden Gate Park is ALSO completely unclaimed for no particular reason 🤔

This might be a waste of picture and might get deleted later but like, that's fucking creepy, right???

-god I know there HAS to be someone with cinnamon in their magical signature who we've MET but... it's been 12 books, dog. I dont fuckin remember

-The closest I can think is Simon with "mulled cider" because that's cinnamony... BUT it's pretty unlikely he did this, and that part of his magical signature is PRE corruption and we have the corrupted version running around.

-We just found a SECOND creepy unexplainable house hidden in plain sight so that's starting to feel Thematic.

-And she smells the false Queen's magic in this house :) someone supposedly asleep for 100 years in Silences. So that's great.

-Aaand there's Gillain! Not even halfway through the book. Way too easy.

-It's not Gillian. It's a Baoban Sith which is apparently *googling* a.. vampire. Ok

-My crack theory is pretty much dead in the water lol 

There's more than this bit but ;---; fuck dude

-But yeah! After a book and a half of hiatus, Tybalt's back! A little.. broken and suffering from severe PTSD, but you know.

-They go to Goldengreen based on a hint and Marcia is there baking cinnamon rolls. It really stresses the fact that she's making cinnamon rolls.

UM.

-.... holy shit.

-Ok. Ok ok. Assuming that's the truth that means Amandine's mother was.. a human? Making her a fucking CHANGELING Firstborn? What the fuuuuuck

-Oh that is fucking hysterical with what a fucking blood purist Amandine is. She looks down upon changelings and the beast races SO MUCH. Janet implies Amandine has no idea her mother was human, or at least never knew Janet. I'd bet she figured out she was part human because the Dochas Sidhe's whole deal is messing with one's heritage for fun results. Gosh. Hmm.

-And this mirrors everyone hiding October's heritage from her BEAUTIFULLY.

-I don't remember quite when "Miranda" was introduced but it was pretty early on. And now that I think of it there was NO REASON for her to fucking exist! What the fuck! The story would have made just as much sense with Cliff being a single dad raising Gillian. Miranda was just an antagonistic extra detail who didn’t... really do much. God damn it. 

-Cliff “accidentally” marrying Toby's maternal grandmother who is somehow Human and also like, alive, in order to help raise Toby's daughter is. Fucking Something, huh.

Oh lore??? (Oberon, King of Faerie, kinda a nice guy it turns out, accidentally knocks up a human. Uh... whoops?)

-Fuck dude, that was the blood memory flashback we had in book 9. The Luidaeg begging her mom not to leave on The Ride. Oof.

-So Janet is, yes indeed human and YES INDEED Toby’s grandmother. She’s cursed with immortality because of all that shit she pulled. 

-And BOY does that lore regarding Janet make the whole "Amandine was doted on and given everything she ever asked for" make sense cause... THAT'S WHAT THEY DID WITH HUMANS. And here we have a fucking FIRSTBORN born from a fucking HUMAN. Gosh. Jeez.

-and Katy pointed out to me that that's a big book 3 reference because Toby's family holds her down when THEY try to remove her from Blind Michael's version of the Ride, and SHE wildly shapeshifts through dozens of forms.It was a Tam Lin retelling only I don’t think I ever expected the actual thing to be relevant. 

-And FUCK Evening/Eira, by the way. I think that goes without saying at this point.

-So is Blind Michael's Ride supposed to be a replacement of the old one? 500 years ago the fae used The Ride to sacrifice a human every 7 years--until Tam Lin and Janet fucked it up. Fast forward to the present and we had Blind Michael showing up every couple years stealing children for what HE called The Ride.

-soooo Toby killing Blind Michael might have not been a great thing if you follow that line of reasoning. I mean, he was a fucking monster, BUT... Because The Ride is supposedly to maintain balance, hence the sacrifices. Whatever the fuck that ultimately means. And by stopping it...

-Add that on to all the stuff last book about how Blind Michael wasn't always such a shitty person, and... uh hmmm.

-OK this part might be a stretch but: the Dochas Sidhe are the only descendants we know of that are just... one hundred percent descended from one of the Three. The human part is largely irrelevant in fae terms. They’re directly Oberon’s, not some mix of Maeve/Oberon or Titania/Oberon. Would that mean Oberon is actually Dochas Sidhe? He did, after all, create the hope chests, and the Dochas Sidhe are literally living, breathing hope chests. IDK MAN. 

Tybalt, PLEASE.

-So it is, predictably, the false Queen behind this whole situation, helped by Jocelyn. And I just FUCKING REMEMBERED that it was that dickbag Dugan who had cinnamon in his magical signature .-.

-The Baoban Sith just be like "yeah sorry about almost eating you I uh straight up hadn't eaten in 40 years lol. Anyway I'm Kennis, what's up?"

OH FUCK! I FUCKING *CALLED* THIS SHIT OUT IN BOOK SIX! I remember it being mentioned offhand as something that could happen. I fucking KNEW we were going to turn a character into a Selkie for plot reasons. But I gotta say I didn't expect it to be Gillian!

FUCK DUDE ;___; in this house we stan The Luidaeg. Best character. I'm not crying. (I am.) 

-She has a line a few pages later about anxiety and catastrophic thinking, and how what you THINK will happen is never as bad as what actually happens. She compares it to "chasing the tide" and honestly that's such a useful metaphor, as someone often caught in that trap...

-They take down Dugan, yay, he was a loose end. He's not DEAD, but.. This is another one where the villain felt pretty secondary to the big plot revelations. 

-And Tybalt stepped down (temporarily) as King. Jolgeir's daughter is apparently going to temporarily take things over so I expect we will be introduced to her later?? 

---

-And, like the last few books, theres a novella epilogue at the end. This one is "Suffer a Sea-Change" and looks to be from Gillian's perspective.

-ok so Gillian has this whole scene where she TALKS to Firtha (whose skin she's wearing now) and I can't help but wonder if all selkies have this weird scene with the Roane whose skin they inherit when they ascend or whatever?

-The Answer Is "No", The Story Explicitly Says 

-Gillian is honestly pretty funny. She's up to here with this bullshit.

-The Luidaeg would like to remind everyone that she’s nice to October and Quentin but she’s not actually all that nice to most other people and Definitely Has Her Own Agenda. Although she seems to have taken in Poppy as an apprentice of sorts so... *vague shrugging* 

-And The Luidaeg speaking fondly about her "little brother Michael" who liked interior decorating despite being entirely blind. This is my uncomfortable face based on all my Analysis earlier.

-So Gillian is a Selkie now! That's not a twist I expected. And the next book (not out until September) is about The Luidaeg finally calling in their debts. So uh. That was one hell of a way to make the stakes personal on that.

-Im probably gonna make a master post overview of the series now that I read the whole thing in relatively short order. I'm glad I'll have a chance to read other books, but I'm anxious for the next one too based on the recent developments...

[captainshadowshifter]

OHMYGODIFOUNDTHEWRITINGOFSHADOWSORIGIN-

Written in my uh. Kinda note-y way? Idk. When I wrote most of this I wasn't necessarily intending to share the written versions...

Gonna post this shit. Under here. Before I uh. Cringe myself out I guess?

Oh also. Neo is Johnny, Faye is Shadow.

Vaguely related lore-y/general stuff in case anyone's interested prolly not

I wrote this back in 2018 so it's like. Really fuckin bad lol

Johnny (or Shade, as he's known by most because of his artificial power project) is the only family member Shadow had any decent relationship with

For 14 years she thought he was dead, and he had no idea if she'd managed to get away

Shadow's natural hair colour is white, but her powers make it blue. When her powers fade, so does the colour. There are only three times in the whole timeline where this happens! (And the timeline is uh. Very long. For reference, the Corruption timeline takes place like... 150~ years after this?)

Johnny also has naturally white hair, though his is dyed black with streaks left for the colour of his artificial power (green). His fades when he moves too far away from any of his sources

In both the Corruption timeline and dimension Zero, this colour effect also happens with Vex - the blue from attaining the full power in Corruption, and in Zero his glow is dulled if an artificial power source is moved too far away

Uh that last one made no sense probably, might make a Zero post. Maybe.

But speaking of Vex, his powers would also weaken a fair amount at times when Shadow is using full force - because they have to share

Oh also on the colour thing! Newton gets to be shiny blue too!! Only once. Though he does get to go all sans undertale every time he uses the Glitch (or the Glitch uses him)

Ahah I went on a tangent sorry- I haven't talked about any of this in a while 🥲

[pangeasplits]

A verdict on the Han Solo movie darling Pan???

it was certainly...........A Movie

sorry i’ve taken so long in answering this but i’ve been parsing out my thoughts for a week and here they are in rambling form

(this is vaguely spoilery but nothing huge)

okay, it wasn’t bad. but it didn’t grip me as hard as rogue one did, and while i didn’t walk out of the theater like “why did i waste my time” i also didn’t walk out like “wow that was REALLY good” haha. there were some fun moments and tidbits of interesting world building lore but otherwise it felt kind of...unnecessary? like did we really need to see this chapter of han’s life? not really? and the movie wasn’t really striking enough to me to go, oh, yeah okay, that was cool, and nothing seemed to really Add to his character that we didn’t already know.

one thing i’m relieved about though is they didn’t wreck han’s character like they did to luke’s haha. i was worried that han would be like Ladiez Man as is the standard hollywood formula before he finally settles on The One Beautiful Girl but they did not! do that, and i was pleasantly surprised. alden ehrenreich definitely isn’t as charismatic as harrison ford, but he did okay.

speaking of The One Beautiful Girl, Qi’ra was pretty cool and i would definitely watch a spinoff movie about her, tbh. she was interesting because they also didn’t follow the standard hollywood formula for her character type; she wasn’t angry or bitter with han, or like an icy cold bitch. it was very refreshing how warm and soft she was, but mercenary at the same time. A+ 

also it goes without saying, but the leader of the bandits. hell. fuckin yea.

donald glover played a pretty good lando, but i’m assuming he and han somehow improve their relationship in the years between this movie and a new hope because they didn’t really like each other all that much here, haha, or at least lando didn’t like han. interesting choice to go this way if this is going to be our one movie on their backstory. also, the “reference” about lando being pansexual was as bland and easy-to-miss as they come, but no surprise that disney is a coward and played it so safe.

i’m also kind of side-eyeing lando’s droid. maybe i’m reading into it too much, but it was kind of hmmm that we finally see a “””female””” droid but she’s characterized, for laughs, as a sort of sjw (read: feminist), like haha look at that ridiculous harpy always going on about, lol, equal rights. and then she’s killed. :) all the other “main” droid characters seem to make it to the end of their movies (except ofc k2, but everyone dies in rogue one haha). and yeah, they port her into the millennium falcon but she can’t even speak anymore, she’s just a navigation program. hmmmm.

anyway, i’m sure there’s other things i’m forgetting but i need to head to work. my final verdict is that it’s worth watching, overall, but it didn’t blow me away.

[curiositydies]

Besides the obvious suspect, was there anyone in the Scourge or the Cult whom Kel'Thuzad was friendly with? What sort of relationships did he have to the other members of the upper echelons of the Scourge, like the Icecrown bosses?

HMMMM this is gonna be a bit of a long one I think so you’re gonna have to bear with me for a bit while I refresh my memory

OKAY SO, NO PARTICULAR ORDER

Deathbringer Saurfang - Kel proooobably didn’t have a lot of contact with this guy. I have to imagine his feelings were kind of like “lol sucks to suck” except not in exactly those words, since he’s one of those people who challenged the Lich King and immediately got super-murdered and raised as a Scourge champion. Happens all the time! Kel is terrible and only has emotional room for a select few people so he doesn’t care about who Saurfang used to be all that much.

Thinks he’s pretty useful both as a physical wall and as a psychological burden. He loves it when people they uhhh recycle happen to do that. It’s a two for one deal!

Lady Deathwhisper - We don’t actually get them interacting despite her being basically second in command of the cult after Kel went off to run Naxxramas in person, which is weird. Either way I feel like it’s a pretty good assumption that he instructed her personally and clearly felt like he could leave running things to her. Based on what little dialogue/lore she DOES have, that seemed like a pretty good choice, so I think he does trust her enough to delegate to her instead of hovering over her shoulder anxiously to make sure things are done right. I feel like they had a mentor/pupil relationship at first and then it leveled out to being coworkers once she stepped into her role as Overseer. I think he absolutely respects her and trusts her to an extent, which is pretty high up on the pole of Kel’thuzad’s esteem for literally anyone, but he wouldn’t describe their relationship as friendly. It’s strictly professional.

Amal’thazad - might as well put him here too since he’s a death knight trainer. Probably was put under Kel’s tutelage for a time after Arthas forcibly converted him, may have liked him enough to take a part of his name after he split off to tutor death knights instead. I figure Kel’thuzad trusts him well enough and does respect him but again, strictly professional.

Professor Putricide - Haha this fuckin’ guy. Kel sort of likes him solely because sometimes you need someone to blow off steam with and be enthusiastic about horrendous plagues and that guy, unfortunately for everyone else, happens to be the professor. I can’t imagine they didn’t work together on various bioweapon crimes at SOME point, even if it was probably through the magical equivalent of a zoom call after a while.

Blood Prince Council - lol, elves

Kel’thuzad probably finds them.......tolerable? He’s not going to go out of his way to hold conversations with them or anything but he’s fine making idle chatter if that happens to be the case. He’s pretty ambivalent about them in general; as long as they do what they’re supposed to competently they’re not super his problem.

Blood Queen Lana’thel - another lmao sucks to suck opinion candidate. Sorry Lana’thel.

Kel’thuzad doesn’t have any real big problems with her; as long as she does her job of protecting Icecrown he could care less whatever vampire shenanigans she gets up to in the meantime. He almost certainly knows about her previous history and doesn’t give a shit. She got haunted by her memories and then broke her own sword and tossed it to stop it from happening! Good for her. Solid decision making.

Sindragosa - Sure is a dragon. I don’t actually know how much Kel’thuzad knows about Sindragosa’s history but hey, Arthas made a sound tactical decision in raising her frozen corpse to be an undead guardian! She’s just angry at everything which is fine since she’s directing all that anger into flash-freezing the Scourge’s enemies. He likes her fine for what she is and what she does, no real opinion either way.

Darion Mograine  - Kel’thuzad finds Darion amusing and also kind of vaguely bargain-bin Arthas in a thematic way. Like he doesn’t actually think that in that exact sense, but Scourge corrupting paladins into death knights is always a classic and he respects the classics.

Knows Darion is absolutely real pissed at the Scourge and ESPECIALLY at him. He 100% doesn’t give a shit.

Alexandros Mograine - Useful pawn. Probably felt kind of annoyed when Darion ruined things by saving his soul, but hey, Darion damned himself in exchange, so it’s not like he got nothing out of it.

Baron Rivendare -  An actual textual friend for Kel’thuzad?? And he knew him when they were both still alive?? Blizzard, you shouldn’t have! They don’t give me anything more than this though so I’m not giving them any more credit than that.

I think Kel may have just viewed him as a good target for manipulation at first (rich landowner, etc), but I do like to think he actually did come to see him as a friend in time which i guess confirms his preference for melee assholes. He seems to have a good head for strategy so it’s entirely possible they have the type of friendship that involves playing a lot of chess by mail and debating each other. Maybe a book club idk.

Kel’thuzad is probably pretty fond of him, which makes him one of the few people Kel would honestly say he could feel fondness for. He’s an old friend and surprisingly Kel still values that kind of thing despite saying he doesn’t.

Lady Blameaux, Thane Korth’azz, Sir Zeliek - Part of the Mograine Collection(tm). He recognises their power enough to have raised them as his elite guards and shackled them to servitude as long as he still like, exists, but I don’t think he thought about them or Mograine super hard except as tools for use.

Korth’azz i think is implied to be one of the Silver Hand, so he may have picked Korth’azz specifically as some sort of fucked up favor for Arthas (because corrupting more Silver Hand paladins is fun and Arthas would like it).

Sir Zeliek I almost think that Kel sees enough of either Sylvanas or who Arthas used to be in him that he left his mind pretty much intact on purpose and just forced him to obey commands. Of all the death knights he raised personally, I think Zeliek’s faith and power to command the Light despite being undead probably contributed to Kel’thuzad leaving him mostly-intact mentally partially out of spite and partially out of a professional interest to see how long it would take before his faith broke. Part petty bitch, part science experiment. Sorry, Zeliek.

[winterywitch]

aaa i saw u rb a lot of fl stuff and 👀👀 do u play fallen London... do u have any characters/hcs for it

i used to play it a lot!! unfortunately my disabled ass just could not keep up with the fancy prose💦💦 plus the big name fandom as i remember it was trash anyway

all i was really into was the masters anyway but im sure i would get into more if i got back to it!! light fingers was REALLY fun i hope to finish it one day. im also kin w mr eaten which gets very weird and Feelsy

!! i do have some characters, they're all sapphic women except one who's aroace

lois liddell - aroace, mostly uneducated at least in comparison to a lot of the other fancy folk running around the neath, very cockney, punches a bunch. had a qp crush on the quiet deviless but got her heart broken ;-; mostly dangerous and persuasive in terms of stats, in (qp) love with @cocoacasualties' FL oc booker, she's here to kick ass and chew gum. in her future she's some kind of general and she works with the calendar folk?? i think 👀 she also vaguely becomes death itself but that's lore im just not super brushed up on unfortunately... iirc her ambition was hearts desire?

ophelia hollingberry - hypersexual bi ace, very blunt affect and T_T-style line-faced. she's autistic, that was important for me in the sense that it helped me get a little closer to realizing im on the spectrum (more towards the DDNOS and asperger's end of the spectrum than autism but those don't ^_^;;;; exist anymore technically). also she's a survivor which in her case kind of draws her to sex work. it's safe and only happens on her terms, sexual interaction has never worked that way for her before. she's a little scared of romance though because she doesn't often feel it very profoundly and the last person who loved her committed suicide bc she didn't love him. she never realized that was a purposeful, cruel thing to manipulate her and scar her emotionally. she also has a bad leg and doesn't like shoes, she walks around in scarlet stockings (but like with a long enough skirt to not immediately die of scandal lol). she starts out a pretty big fan of mr wines just in terms of what he's doing and his fun little sex work ring but she comes to be disillusioned with the masters as a whole, later finding them unanimously corrupt. which she's not exactly wrong about? her ambition is light fingers which has only traumatized her further but another personal ambition of hers is to sexually pleasure the vake. yes, she's serious, she insists with that T_T look on her face. she has weird pseudosexual tension w mr fires, @hauntpark's FL dude harvey is kinda sorta her partner she's still working through what she wants but she's also desperately in love (semiromantically?) with @scherzotz's lady, ivy. mostly persuasive and shadowy stats-wise. she's doin fine. i think she becomes a huntress in parabola which is like SHES DOING, REALLY FUCKIN GOOD

vivienne armani - ophelia's aunt! she's a lesbian and she's like in her 40s but she fell into a coma in her early 20s because she studied the correspondence and it kinda, slightly flooded her head a little (im still figuring out how that even Works but correspondence is a fuck 6284882989 dead constables etc). she's still mentally in her 20s but she's really really trying to catch up. she's had /some/ luck with it! being the freaky vodka aunt isn't too hard. she loves danger and horrifying thrills and actually has a bit of a Thing(tm) for blood which leads to some Confusing Feelings for @scherzotz's lady, hester - but she's staying appropriate, she knows the physical gap in age is pretty big between them and she respects that. she had an older husband when she was pretty young mostly as a financial thing and a protection thing, there were a lot of nasty men trying to marry into her family - said husband was more like a friend to her than anything. they never had children and he never had sex with her or gave any romantic overtures, period. and he was really her first friend she could trust and marriage was one of the only smooth avenues that they could meet in unfortunately, in vivienne's very traditional and misogynist circle of society, but someone murdered him. her ambition thus is nemesis and she's having a great time! she loves hats a lot. mostly watchful and shadowy in terms of stats, she's very smiley and she's doing her best! her future seems to be liberation of the night

dorothy ernest - she, is a lesbean. she and the next girl are way less developed but she was made out of spite at first bc the fandom was very racist in a lazy britaboo "this society is post racial!!!2" kind of way. so she's not ambiguously brown like one of her inspirations was in the least she is unambiguously black and if she had her way she would really have nothing to do with these pretentious shitty white britaboos, but alas they're most of the important NPCs and ocs and her ambition is bag a legend which needs her to make connections to even figure out what she's looking for. she doesn't think she's gonna get very invested in this beyond it being a way of proving herself to the neath as someone it and the surface shunned and abused but she actually gets weirdly into the bazaar lore and like she thinks it's ridiculous bullshit that could have easily been fixed if everyone perhaps spoke to each other a little more, which she's right about, but she's weirdly into it nonetheless. she's very like 👀🔪📝🍵 "go on?" mostly dangerous and shadowy wrt stats, unsure what her future is

stella isabella - i dont know SHIT she's a living doll and right now she's a pretty young kid but she wants to be just like @scherzotz's oc hester which is worrying. however she never does, she just becomes /cooler/ as an adult than hester seemed to be. so that's good. her ambition was going to be enigma if i ever figured that shit out, she's mostly shadowy w/ stats

(collapses) we did that lads