With the recent trend toward dark haired baddie and blond haired waif pairings, Astarion and Gale are somewhat opposite. Gale has dark coloring and is sweet as pie. Astairion is pale with white hair and mischievous.
I don't know. It's probably the tadpole brain I have now.
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I’m rereading Po3 and despite its flaws I really enjoyed the introduction to the three. Jaykit isn’t mentioned to be blind in the first few chapters and instead they chose to show how much MORE capable he is compared to his littermates; until at the end of chapter 3, he brings up his blindness on his own. It makes forcing him to be a medicine cat SO much more frustrating because it really feels like they’re setting him up to be a warrior and choose his own fate (note i haven’t finished the reread this is just my first impression)
I like how you seem to take that path in BB regardless! It makes his arc so much more enjoyable
His arc in canon is super frustrating because he's such an independent character who clearly wants to make his own decisions in life, but then he just gets shoved into the medcat den. I LIKE that he ultimately goes there and that he enjoys it; but it was still really fucked up that they stripped away his autonomy in the process.
Re: they are not real, they are writing choices. Taking away the choices a disabled character can make over their own life, forcing them into a celibate nun role, and then going "awwwww dont worry see? he likes it! This was the best thing for him :)" was fucked up.
And imo it didn't have to be that way! You wouldn't have to go the FULL route I did with big changes, he could just be more involved in the descision to stop being a warrior apprentice and it would be fine. Minor change that would make a world of difference.
I do also have to interject to say though... blindness should really not be an extremely severe impairment for a ThunderClan cat.
I'm dead serious.
Whiskers are built-in sensors that tell you the exact position of everything within several inches of your head, ears swerve to pick up sound, and the jacobson's organ provides a sense of smell so keen that I have an entire Clanmew expansion draft because I needed to make WORDS describing the power of this sense that humans do not have. I cannot stress enough how delicate their other senses are, felines do not rely on their sight like primates do
ThunderClan lives in a mixed-oak woodland, where sight is already often obscured by foliage, objects are close together (for whiskers to feel), and nearly every movement makes noise against the leaf litter. RiverClan and (moor-running) WindClan cats would have a harder time with this disability than Thunder or Shadow.
Cat sight SUCKS to begin with. It sucks BADDD. They don't have color vision, they're significantly nearsighted, and they can't track up-and-down movements well. WC doesn't write realistic cats (more like small fuzzy people really) and I also work with more humanesque eyesight, but the only thing Jay should really lose is an ability to rapidly track a small animal swerving fast. Blind cats are often still excellent hunters in spite of that!
So it's an extra big waste that they railroaded him into a position he didn't choose, saying he couldn't be a warrior. This is the perfect disability to write, if you want to explore how ableism can impact the characters in this society who ARE legitimately still capable of nearly full independence, but still need to find accommodations for what they can't do.
In the same arc they're doing the dumb Cinder Reincarnation Plotline, no less!! Where SHE is also feeling like she has no choice over her "destiny," and gets a conflict over a potentially disabling injury
"Oh nooo if cinderpaw breaks her leg she wont be a warrior!"
"What the f-- Im Jaypaw and im reporting live from the scene where a Category 1 Idiot Moment is taking place. Woman breaks leg, suddenly everyone believes she is a horse, more at 11."
One of these days I should really make "herb guides" just covering how various sensory disabilities impact the lives of Clan cats and some tips for writing them as warriors, especially between Clans. Stuff you wouldn't usually consider, like how much noise deaf cats tend to make, how RiverClan would get a ton of sinus infections and lose their sense of smell, being blind in Sky vs Thunder, etc.
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Do u have a favorite random detail about the atla au that isn’t yet connected to anything else to make sense but is so stuck in your brain?
honestly not to pat us on the back but most of the ideas sam and i have vaulted back and forth have been kind of .. /scarily/ well-integrated into the overall plot so i don't think there are too many stragglers ??? like fr its kind of wild how we'll toss something out and it just slots into place like it was Meant 2 happen
however i do have a favourite random detail i can share!! made th executive decision 2 make yuuji a Rock Nerd(tm) because /i/ love gems and shiny things and i am Projecting . like listen ok listen. image of tiny yuuji covered in dust bashing rocks tgt to try and find crystals inside (i did this as a child and got in trouble at recess,,, smth about them being scared id 'crush a finger' or 'lose an eye' smh . anyway yuuji can live my dream)
so yes not only is yuuji an earthbender he gets rly excited abt the Properties Of Rocks and Types Of Minerals n whenever he finds himself in a new environment he'll dedicate time to seeing what he can find in the cliffs,, i love him so much ok this is MY (co-owned) sandbox and I am gIVING this boy a gem collection >:(
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Wait wait I just scrolled by a mutual that reblogged your Godseeker-Comic. Is that an AU? Is there more of this? This is so interesting! I have never seen Godseeker turning to be a part of Void. Mostly just always getting killed by it.
I hope you're doing more with this concept in one way or another because this is a really interesting idea!
ouuu thank you 🥺❤️ its not really an au, its more like my interpretation of a continuation to the embrace the void ending!! :D I think most people are not aware that she canonically doesnt die, and take the ending at face value.... its kind of hard to explain for me since even i am not 100% sure what exactly happens lol but i like to think that theyre perpetually linked or fused together in some weird way. and i feel that this result is pretty intentional from both sides.
Godseeker mentions that they seek gods to "clutch at their greatness and immortality", which i assume that with 'clutch' she means that these traits would be shared with the Godseekers through the "Godly focus" thing. And the knight, besides the fact that it proved its strenght against the local strongest beings, it posesses (via the Void Heart) the void under its will, which is literally said to be an "eternal" force that "denies time", ie immortal.
and this union of sorts would be beneficial for the knight as well, as it can go into Holy Beast mode at just about anytime it wants, which is a really awesome powerup if u ask me. That and also (in my headcanon) it does like her. very much :-)
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leopold's the sort of guy who catches feelings VERY quickly i think he was a little infatuated with jamie from the moment he thought of him beautiful, but didn't think much of it until he saw him again in ep 93. like the "...gwen's brother is cute....." to "oh no i like him as a person and even worse i'm going to spend the next several weeks painting him over and over" pipeline. he separated jamie (real person) from the pink demon (creature haunting his nightmares) very early on. but unlike with gwen he didn't pursue jamie in a dating capacity because he just sensed that wasn't where jamie's priorities were at, i think. also probably was scared of the brutality of rejection from ANOTHER pastel sibling in rhe space of 2 months or something. he was being respectful and channeling his crush in ways that are much more insane than simply asking jamie out (such as painting jamie 1 million times and turning his photobooth into a sting operation for jamie and crossing country borders to figure out why jamie ghosted him and lying to help jamie sneak into his employer's home without any context despite having just been ghosted). i think he would have stayed silent about it out of respect for god knows how long if jamie hadn't accused him of having no reason for doing all of these things. like leopold, point of pride, had to clarify that theres a very good reason he's spent months dropping everything to help at all costs whenever jamie stubbed his toe thank you very much!!!!
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