#mumbles into a cup.

[bestworstcase]

i do think it’s thematically important that the maidens are inherited in this specific way, it’s not an accident that when the narrative sets down the rules the potential violence is not just remarked upon but given emphasis and used explicitly as justification for the aura transfer machines. nearly everything ozpin does is rooted in keeping the maidens within his control—selecting candidates in anticipation of their deaths, giving the branwens bird forms to identify maidens when the line of inheritance jumps the tracks, chaining the maidens to these vaults, etc—and his greatest adversary in this endeavor is the maidens themselves, because the magic preferentially selecting maiden-killers is, in effect, the magic fighting against this control.

why does the magic transfer itself like this? it will not be controlled. throughout the years ozma and his allies have devoted enormous effort to dictating the Final Thoughts of anyone who receives this power in order to maintain control over it (& their abject failure in this regard leads to the invention of the aura transfer machines); meanwhile the magic binds itself to "random" heirs if the candidate its host has in mind is unsuitable, and prefers to go to ozma’s enemies when it can.

(and do mark that. the person in the maiden’s Final Thoughts is explicitly only a suggestion, one the magic can and will disregard if he or she is unsuitable. ozpin et al believe that these candidates are only rejected if they are 1. male or 2. too old, but none of them can read minds; and as ozpin says, maidens choose themselves. it’s just as likely that there are additional disqualifying criteria, such as the candidate being coerced or just not being spiritually compatible. there’s no reason to think that KILLING A MAIDEN couldn’t be a disqualifying act if the magic were unwilling.)

of note in this regard is that cinder breaks amber’s aura (orange) before using the beetle to draw out the magic (golden):

which matters because the magic is attached to aura and separates at the moment of death; as i said in the last post, the grimm beetle is successful because it respects the magic’s own rules. cinder breaks the outward projection of amber’s soul and then shoots her in the back (symbolically, killing her) and then claims the magic as she begins to die. had she walked up and slit amber’s throat here instead, she would have almost certainly inherited all of the magic too. the grimm beetle thumbs the scales a bit but in the context of the magic’s rules, it’s playing ball.

whereas:

when cinder uses her arm to drain raven’s/penny’s auras, she doesn’t gain any portion of the spring/winter maiden’s magic, nor do either of them suffer lasting harm in the vein of amber (coma) or pietro (holes burned through his aura).

so there’s nothing special about grimm that allows them to violate the magical rules. all evidence suggests that the ATMs don’t work for this purpose either: as soon as amber dies, the magic rips free, and cinder’s grimm arm can harvest aura but not magic. it follows that in the event of a complete aura transfer, the magic would detach from the donor aura as soon as the donor died, leaving the recipient with two souls and no magic. there is a degree of wiggle room (under particular circumstances you can convince the magic to begin separating before the previous maiden is fully dead) but you can’t outright cheat.

which is the whole point. you can’t take a maiden’s magic without killing her and you can’t circumvent the maiden’s agency by stealing the soul of its host. the maidens are unbound by death. and i think there’s a literal causal relationship between how ozma treats the maidens and how they choose their hosts—he can’t use them as weapons without losing them, or outright delivering this magic into salem’s hands. nor can he hoard them or hide them away forever because he can’t dictate their final thoughts.

[mumblesplash]

actually tumblr does have pvp enabled it’ scalled you assholes circling around my perfectly normal posts and chanting “containment breach” until it summons the bloodthirsty swarm of psychic piranhas this site has instead of an algorithm

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

my dominoes apparently ran out of those little dipping sauce cups so they just sent me an entire pan of marinara sauce???

[ellecdc]

I need all your help for a personal project

every year (except last year) my family and I have done a hockey pool in the playoffs (my mum, my brother, and my nephew). I've won twice and everyone else has won once

I need help naming my team

(don't judge me lol) these are the names I've used for past teams:

The Future Husbands

Puck Buddies

Gadreau Your Own Way

The Pucky Bruisers

do you guys have any ideas for this years team???

[coastxlwaters]

Katherine, Jackie, Fier and Reyn, scrolling on tinder for some shit since humanoid cryptids have learned how to use phones from newly turned vampires. And all of them, ALL OF THEM, are on tinder for to try to lure idiots in. Vampires and skinwalkers have so far been the most effective.

At the hunter cabin, where alot of cryptid hunters come to visit and the groups main base. Kinda like a summer camp, but all the activitues are focused around cryptids. (if u want more info u can just ask <3 )

Fier: Rey, i think i found smth u might like

Reyn: Istfg, Fier, my beloved brother, if this is ANOTHER STUPID HALF NAKED WEREWOLF WITH ABS, im flinging u into a lake and wtaerboarding you. FOR THE LAST TIME IM TAKEN!!!!

Katherine and Jacky: *WHEEZING*

Fier: BRO I SWEAR ITS NOT-

Reyn: *Looks at his phone* Welp. Bitches, bros, and nobinary hoes, get ur gear we found a target

Jackie: Well, im actually ASEXUAL-

Reyn: YKW I FUCKING MEAN BESTIE, HOW MANY TIMES SHALL I REPEAT?!

Katherine: bUt Do ThEy?

Reyn: ...if the skinwalker gets any of yall, i aint doing shit to help, unless its Fier, but then im helping the skinwalker

Fier: WHAT TF DID I DO?!!

Reyn: Exist

@thekillermaretwinz @librarian-computer @multifandomcutie13

[icehearts]

-- day 23: feast 🍽️

Spoiled for choice. Never satisfied.

[firstwcman]

Of course he's good at hide-and-seek, he's been setting the example for absent and inattentive fathers since the beginning of time itself.

[adashofniallandasprinkleoflunacy]

home from work

[hollowsart]

worst brand of cotton candy in a cup: Fun Sweets

that stuff doesn't even taste like it should be edible. everything has the same bland flavor that tastes like plastic, in a way. it's.. really not good.

Buc-ee's cotton candy in a cup? waaaaaayyyy better

although no cotton candy will compare to the fresh stuff right out of the machine. I can't wait for the state fair to come around again so I can get me a bag of that stuff.

[ratz-iz-bonkerz]

BREATHING HEAVILY

20 DAYS

20 DAYS AND I GET TO SEE MEL LIVE RAAHHHHH ‼️‼️🦅🦅

IM SO FUCKING EXCITEDDDDD

[ratatatastic]

another angle of the feelin hot hot hot cup dance has dropped

Ekky Cup Day | 8.17.24 (x)

[mumble-draws]

mushroom creature for week 1 of @\feefal ‘s #Funguary

[tokkias]

something something cosplayer au nalu. if you even care

[itoshi-s]

thinkin of sleepy rin padding into the kitchen when u leave the bed earlier than he’d like &trapping u between him n the counter < 3 wrapping his arms around your waist and playfully sliding the coffee cup away so u can focus on him !! nuzzles his face in your neck &just.. slumps against u like a big warm human blanket u_u

[melophobia2013]

if that aussie boy had scored at the last minute i think the argentinian fans might have invaded the field to kill him fr

[miraculouslumination]

Sometimes I think about queer people who fit into “problematic” stereotypes and just feel so much love for them