There is a car
It is morning, and I wake up thirty minutes late.
My husband has already left home. No note or text explains, but I understand.
I wake the kids. As they get ready, I make their lunches. My son gets leftovers from last night’s takeout, my daughter gets an egg sandwich and macaroni salad. They both get a small brownie.
When the kids are done, I rush them out the house and straight to the car.
As I pull out of the driveway, I notice a car parked by the curb. I’ve never seen it before. It’s painted a dark blue, and none of my neighbours own it.
I drive down the lane, and give the car no mind. I need to drop my kids off at school.
It’s there when I come back.
At night, after dinner I stay awake. My husband has already fallen asleep. He has spoken four sentences to me. I look out the window, gazing out at the moon.
The car is still there, illuminated in the light of the full moon.
I gaze at my nieghbour’s driveway. It is empty save for one car.
I stare at the car. I don’t know its make, nor its model.
I go back to bed and fall asleep hours later.
I wake up late. Again.
This time, my husband shakes me awake. I make him breakfast.
The kids are harder to wrangle today, my daughter having had a nightmare last night. I shush her, and bundle them into the car.
I don’t pay much attention to the car parked by the curb.
This night I sleep as soon as I hit the bed.
I dream of large vast places. Places without people. Places where I feel home. Places I feel welcome.
The car is still there that morning. I ask my husband if he’s seen anyone enter or exit it. If he saw it arrive or leave at any point.
“It’s just strange, I guess.” I say.
He gives me a look and a shrug. I don’t bring it up again.
Both the kids are sick today. I make the necessary calls, give them the necessary medicine, and make the necessary meals.
I am about to ask my son if he knows where the thermostat is, when I realize I don’t remember his name. I don’t check their temperatures after that.
I leave the house later, needing to get groceries.
The car is still there.
I don’t sleep at all that night. I tell myself it is because I worry for my children.
I spend the whole night looking at the car.
I wonder if it is locked.
It is 4 am when I decide to check if it is.
I walk out the house. The full moon is out and bathes the car in white light.
It looks almost inviting.
My bare feet feel the grass beneath me. It’s wet. I almost slip, nearly bashing my head across the sidewalk.
The Car doesn’t let me.
I open the door.
I step into it.
I sit down.
I leave.
They welcome me.
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Presenting my very own take on the Goddesses!
🌺Cetrion and Delia!☀️
The Goddess of Life, Light and Virtue and the Goddess of Sun and Bearer of the Eternal Flame!
For their dynamics:
They are good friends!
Though Delia ascended to Godhood and Cetrion was born a Goddess, Delia was still a Goddess longer than Cetrion (as Outworld is waaaaaaaay older than Earthrealm) so for a while, Delia played the role of mentor for Cetrion!
Cetrion was trying to become a better Goddess for Earthrealm than she was in her past life (she doesn't quite remember why she was bad, but she knows she was and is trying to atone), so any help and advice was welcomed!
And as the younger Goddess likes Delia, she naturally DESPISES Argus! The Sun God and the Light Goddess have a TERRIBLE relationship, often bickering and insulting each other!
Cetrion tries to be on her best behaviour for Delia, but it really doesn't help that Argus won't put on the same effort!
Cetrion used to like Amara, Delia's favourite mortal and good friend. But their relationship took a critical hit once the Sorceress had an affair with Argus. They barely talk nowadays, and things will only get worse now that Amara's son, Zeffeero, flooded the whole Kingdom of Seido💀
Now, allow me to ramble a whole lot about their designs! 👀 💚 ❤️
Starting with Cetrion:
Yes, I did redesign her head to toe😅
I REALLY love the idea of her being Mother Nature herself and I wanted her new design to show that she's fully embraced the tittle and is dedicated of making caring for all life in Earthrealm her true purpose!
So the main idea here is that she's a walking ecosystem, every part of her, from body to robes are an environment that carries actual fauna within them!
Her hair was inspired by my favourite brazilian tree, the pink Ipê! She can change her hair at will, to make it resemble all types of different trees, and you can always find birds, bees and butterflies flying around her!
Her robes are an actual ocean, and if you look closer, you may find a variety of fishes swimming in there! You can even attempt to fish one for yourself, but be careful not to fall in to the water!
Speaking of careful, her magma body is usually safe to touch, though she can make herself unbearably hot, to the point a simple touch can melt your skin!
Her freckles are stars she crafted but were not used in any galaxy design, but as she's very attached to her creations and didn't want to see these go to an waste, she decided to wear them herself!
The flowers on her belt and arm are... well, Cetrion flowers, they grow on her only and have medical properties. They are trusted to the her warriors only, more specifically, to her head healer, who is also the Grandmistress of the Order of Cetrion! (Harumi got to use them once she graduated as Umgadi warrior and proved herself worthy of the tittle of head healer)
Now for Delia:
I'll start by saying I wasn't feeling at all confident while working on her🫣
I genuinely don't like her canon design-- really, she probably has my least favourite design ever! She's hypersexualized to an extreme. Her skirt and veil are so vastly different that they just DON'T match at all, and her top is just offensive!
Like--
What in the ever loving heck am I looking at?? (ಠ_ಠ)
MK couldn't just screw her over by giving her a shitty husband, an evil son and death. They also had to give her an awful design!
*Sigh* anyways... despite my strong opinions on this design, I believed a couple alterations could make me like it better.
So for her I started my giving her whole attire ONE main colour, which is the dark red.
I get that her skirt was trying to emulate a flame with that gradient, except they also messed that one up cause guess what? In a flame, the lighter yellow/orange part -> 🔥 is on the bottom!
And let's be real, her whole design would've improved 110% if they had made the gradient go from red to orange, the skirt would match the top, it would properly emulate a flame and for once, the colours wouldn't look all over the place on her!
Now as Delia is a Goddess here I really wanted her attire to stand out and look alive and magical (much like Cetrion's) so instead of a common gradient, I gave her a whole living flame! It glows and moves inside her dress!
I also wanted a special thing for her jewelleries and details on the veil, so I made them the sun's surface :D they were fun!
And who would've guessed the sun would make such perfect jewellery, huh? Lol!
For reference, Suchin's Blessed Swords look like Delia's jewellery (but she doesn't use them yet, only when she grows up and take over the position as the family's vigilante)!
And Jade has a protection amulet like this too. She has had it with her since forever, but she just can't for the life of her, remember who gave it to her! Learning it might belong to Delia is what encouraged her to go seek answers among the Umgadi.
And for the final touch, the symbol on her veil is of the Umgadi!
Oh, hi! You made it to the end! :D
Before I wrap this all up, a huge thanks to @rasta-bot and her amazingly inspiring work on Delia and Edenia!!💕💕
And as always, my beautiful girlies, hope you enjoy the reading! @mikka-minns @thedragonholder @orbitinytheworld @madamealtruist @moody-bloos 💕💕
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