#my ocs: lilyana tsuki

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did u know this is my catgirl and i love her

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i have hired this catgirl to give you a patronizingly smug look, with accentuated eyebrow. she's not mad, she's not disappointed, she's not even trying to make you feel bad. you just did something silly and she thinks you're a moron (affectionate).

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slowly, i am defeating the depression demons. slowly, the girls are returning.

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birthday fun times

shoutout to the time I saw @wildstar25's Arsay Nun in Aether PF for the chaotic Cloud of Darkness alliance raid and teamed up to slay the void. definitely a helluva good time for Ellie. :D

best wishes for a happy and fun nameday, Arsay! you're a super-cool cat and i always enjoy seeing you on my dash!

but you didn't think the other girls would be left out, did you

Lily's always excited to have more miqo friends to hang out in coffee shops with! ...and maybe a little flirting?? she probably doesn't realize she's doing it. >.>

Mia's ready to tackle an adventure at any time, even if she is a little anxious about Arsay being so enthusiastic she's literally leaping out of her seat. Still not remotely as exasperating as the shit Ellie will pull on a bike.

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who wore it better (it's lily (i'm not biased))

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"Sure you don't want anything else?" "Mhm. This is already the best kind of nameday, to be honest."

today, the 9th sun of the 3rd astral moon, is Lily's nameday. and the 5th anniversary of making her in-game. canon age as of DT...i'd say 29 or so. she represents...a lot to me and i will never stop absolutely spoiling her. even though she pretty much has everything she wants at this point. lol.

happy nameday, lilyana tsuki. 🎂🎉💖

i spent a long time on those hands orz

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"It's about time we got some vacation pictures, right?" "Sure, I just don't know why we have to use the moon gadget to get them. I don't want our faces to end up in all that cosmic data." "Our faces are everywhere already, El. I think that's a lost cause." "Ugh. Fine."

"I hope you appreciate how hard this is on my knees."

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i gave lily more freckles and clanmarks

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Febhyurary Day 7: Sleep

she's very adaptable - learned how to sleep pretty much anywhere. but nothing beats either being a pillow or using others as a pillow.

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it really is about time i futzed with lily's customize scaling!!

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@ubejamjar

"Oh, don't worry, hon - we found her new weak points immediately." "hgfdsafshgksfdlhadf"

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i call this "generic raider catgirl lily" :V

(not to dump on anyone's white-haired catgirl wol, i promise - i've just noticed an awful lot of raiders seem to play white-haired miqo'te or au ra girls. so last time we were in uwu prog i jokingly switched to lily's model to "activate raider catgirl mode" and then we suddenly started getting way further than we had been. so. results? >.> we'll see how well it bears out lmao)

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lily ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i dunno this always amused me

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Any characters:

#23 and/or #26

23) If there's something they could forget, what would it be?

For Ellie: As little as I've actually figured out about the details of her Pearl Lane era, I'm 99% certain it's that. If losing her parents and getting rejected from the Studium was the first crack in her view of an ideal life, whatever happened on Pearl Lane ruined her so much that she refuses to acknowledge it even to me dammit woman help me out here. Whatever it was, it drove her to abandon everything and run away again and killed her drive to make anything of herself; it was extremely easy to fall into a ditch when she didn't think she had any reason to climb out of it. she very much wouldn't have if Raya-O-Senna hadn't found her in it. With pretty much anything in the MSQ giving her A Reason to Go On, she really doesn't like thinking about the time in her life where she had no reason.

For Mia: even after confronting him and killing him...Mia feels sick to her stomach thinking about her father. She wasn't mistreated as a child or anything; as far as she's concerned, she lived a pretty decent childhood...because she was unaware or unable to confront the sort of work her father was doing for the Empire. and right when she was able to start considering it, he threw her out. thinking about what she grew up ignoring, what she might've been able to do to stop him (she couldn't have done anything, she was a kid, but that doesn't stop the self-guilt-tripping), what her father would go on to do (kill her mother in an experiment, run the war machine for the Empire's occupation of Ala Mhigo, develop the Resonant by torturing Krile and Lily and imbuing it into Fordola and Zenos, create the souljacking technology that Fandaniel uses to swap Ellie's and Zenos's bodies...)... She doesn't have any regrets about killing him during the battle for Ala Mhigo. But she blames herself for "letting" him do those things that grievously harmed her friends, and on some level is bitter that her father couldn't have been a good person like Ellie's or Lyse's fathers.

So if she could forget anything: it's Aulus mal Asina.

For Lily: the traumatic event that drove her to leave home was a toxic boyfriend who had enough of a social cachet in her clan--he probably eventually goes on to claim nunh--that she started getting dirty looks and rumors spread about her after she broke up with him, and even her own family struggled to believe he was such an awful person, and fuck if she's willing to subject herself to that atmosphere, having to constantly hear about how great he is and being treated as a pariah for something she doesn't believe was her fault (...entirely). so honestly? her entire story arc kind of is "i want to forget my fucker of an ex, not realizing that doing so would prevent me from learning developing and growing as a person and allow me to actually move on."

which on some level is true for all of them. the question is what they would forget, not whether it's healthy, after all. :V

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26) I answered the elements for Ellie here, so I'll answer for Mia and Lily. Mia, as someone who values stability and is dedicated to protecting what she loves, feels pretty strongly associated with earth. Lily, as someone who is not only graceful and agile in combat but is trying to learn how to move with life's flow, has a strong association with water. I don't know if this actually manifests for either of them as literal "aspected to this in-universe," but I like the themes of 'em, at least. also an easy answer for "which elements would they bend in the ATLA universe" lmao.

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how are ellie, mia, and lilyana doing in arcadion? having fun, stressing out, secret third thing, secreter fourth thing? isk if ive seen you post about it yet... but if not consider this a loose writing prompt?

i thought i had posted something but turns out nope it's just in the one scrivener doc of random notes and even then it was just the barest hint of something lol. so thank you for prompting! <3

I had that hint of something but not many details, so this is the result of more thinking about the Arcadion storyline than I ever thought I was gonna do (i was just along for the crazy-ass fights before, but now i'm legit invested in and hooked by the actual story?? wild lol).

but one thing I know for sure is Ellie is in for the fights and the show of it all from the beginning...

This got long, as expected, so under the cut:

I don't think she's aimless in Dawntrail and she's finding some purpose in mentoring Lamaty'i, but she's definitely getting a little antsy after defeating Sphene and mulling over the key with Y'shtola. so when doug dimmadome owner of the dimmsdale dimmadome Metem approaches her, she realizes she's been slacking a little in exercising that muscle that only two people have ever really gotten her to flex: Zenos and Gulool Ja Ja. By this point, she's come to terms with sharing love for the thrill of the battle with Zenos. So if this dude's offering a no-stakes environment to test her limits, and people are going to cheer for her to do so? she is pumped and ready.

and I don't think she's just turning down the regulator, she refuses to accept even the slim justification for other MMO players - none of the girls are impressed by the soul economy of Alexandria and they all vowed to never use them like that. I think she just says straight up to Metem "I don't want them, I don't need them, and don't you dare hold them hostage on my account, just release them anyway if I win." She'll go it solo or not at all. Metem protests "No, you really cannot stand toe-to-toe with them without help of some kind! Do you maybe have any friends who could accompany you? We could sell that as a team with an unbreakable bond!"...

(and there's my slim justification for working Mia and Lily into it. if the Arcadion audience can accept "one warrior backed up by seven 'soul simulacra' of previous champions" then they can accept a 3v1+ lol)

...Mia is not happy about it. She did her time on the Ul'dahn bloodsands, and she hated it there too. She was tired of fighting and wanted to retire after Endwalker, and even moreso after Dawntrail. She promised herself she'd only fight again if there was a good reason to, and while she did help Wuk Lamat with the succession (happily) and the conflict with Alexandria (reluctantly), "her wife diving headfirst into the deep end against superpowered tournament rivals" might not actually clear that bar.

This... becomes a point of contention between Ellie and Mia and they have a massive fight the likes of which haven't been seen since the days of their rivalry, except now it's worse because they're married now and poor Lily's stuck in the middle. Lily has no objections to fighting and loves Ellie too much to let her go solo, and Mia loves Lily too much to not want to protect her from any consequences of Ellie's hubris. Mia agrees to fight too, but she makes it clear it's for Lily's sake and she's still furious at Ellie for forcing her into this situation, and now all of them feel like shit, with a hefty amount of guilt on Ellie's part.

That guilt spurs Ellie to at least take the vanguard so their foes are focusing on her.* They go in as the holy MMO trinity: Ellie takes up her dark knight greatsword again (guilt is a powerful fuel for darkness!!), Mia uses sage soumanotics, and Lily mixes up rogue, ninja, and pictomancer abilities. Despite Mia being furious with them, she saves their asses several times over and they easily claim the Light-heavyweight championship.

and then Eutrope barrels in and changes everything. now there's three super-dense souls for her to hone in on. bam, Mia has her reason to fight. Ellie has her justification for testing herself and thrillseeking. Lily's here to pet other cats and stab people who look at her wives funny.

This isn't gonna let Ellie off the hook with Mia, though, because it's not like they knew all that shit going in. They're definitely going to need to have a talk about their emotions. 🥲

*in reality I'm doing em as a melee (going monk this tier 💪) but by this point I'm also not inexperienced at tanking Arcadion lol

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I'm still mulling over how Cruiserweight advances all of that aside from giving Lily even more cats to pet. But I think there's juice in at least matching Ellie's readiness to fight against Hector's and Retsarra's. mwehehe. we're definitely getting to the point of "if anyone touches another hair on these children we will kill everyone in the room and then not ourselves because we're better than that" too, and maybe even needling this wet blonde catboy for fumbling Eutrope so hard lol.

Details still brewing, but hopefully this answers your question with...I'm pretty sure this is "secret third thing" :V

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the role quests in dawntrail have been extremely weird for me because

every time they meet Ellie is definitely looking at Tepeke and going "why do you look exactly like my wife."