#oc tag: heron/thousand

[soul-has-left-the-chat]

Working on a few lil side projects rn and redesigning my ST OC, also making an ST vers of my friend's OC for the fun of it

Here's a teensy preview lol

Yeah I'm getting rid of the long hair and trying out short hair cause a friend requested me to :P

[dragons-bones]

As a former L5R player (both RPG and TCG, a little at least) I need to know about "l5r au except make it crab"

this is gonna be a long one so buckle up, kiddos! (gonna tag @scholarlostintime as they asked for this one, too!)

so for everyone else: Legends of the Five Rings started as a TCG, got turned into an RPG with four editions, then the game ended, then the IP got sold and the game rebooted as an LCG (which is ending again) and a new RPG. I don’t play the card games, and my interest in the RPG currently is mostly “okay how I do turn FFG’s fucking stupid hard-on for custom dice into a system I want to actually play.” BUT I fucking love the setting. like, A WHOLE DAMN LOT, and have seen I was like...thirteen or fourteen.

tl;dr L5R is a Fantasy Japan setting (like, Heian Era-style court politics, Tokugawa Era-style military/samurai culture, a bunch of other things) with some various other Far Eastern elements thrown in. this setting was originally developed by predominately white men in the nineties, and the early setting fluff definitely hasn’t aged well; my issues with FFG’s dice systems aside, they’ve done a great job making the setting both more egalitarian, friendly to players of all kinds, and respecting the culture the setting draws from. (with the caveat they still do some things I sigh very heavily about but that’s a discussion for another day.)

(aside: yes I realize how funny it is how much I love L5R while also having zero personal interest in exploring FFXIV’s Far East in my own fic or headcanon. I think it’s because especially Kugane/Hingashi is a bit too much of 1:1 match to real world Japan to ping at my worldbuilding interests, whereas L5R is very much its own beast and fun to chew on.)

so a big thing in the setting is that the county of Rokugan is basically divided up amongst seven Great Clans (and many assorted Minor Clans) under the Imperial Dynasty, and each Clan takes its name and symbol from an animal. the Great Clans are: Crab, Crane, Dragon, Lion, Phoenix, Scorpion, and Unicorn. each clan and the major family lines that compromise them have their own stereotypes about them (Crane are the courtiers, Lion are the military experts, Phoenix are the primary priest-magic users, etc). when FFG launched the LCG and new RPG, I basically ended up shooting the shit with one of my friends about hypotheticals of which clans our characters (FFXIV and original) would fit with each clan, and then NPCs and characters from other media, and it spiraled out of control from there. for non-OCs, we didn’t bother to try to find one-to-one matches for the stories, but instead focused more on which clan/family fit the personality best and then went from there.

so, “l5r au except make it crab” is the variation where we put all of our OCs in the Crab Clan specifically. the Crab Clan is one of the clans we both really love (my other top favorites being Unicorn and Scorpion): their conceit is that they guard the southern border of Rokugan against the demons and undead of the Shadowlands, using sheer brawn, tactical ingenuity, and engineering genius (including an enormous fortification known as the Carpenter Wall that spans the breadth of most of the southern border). they have no time for the pretty niceties of the Crane and are considered very coarse and uncouth.

they look into the literal mouth of hell day after day, month after month, year after year, and have done so for a thousand years, with no expectation or reward. it is their duty, and they will see it fulfilled.

this file really isn’t a fic, just a lot of funny little exchanges and scenes. Synnove is a Kaiu (basically the big engineering arm of the Crab), Heron a Hida (the bulk of the Crab’s soldiers), Alakhai a Hiruma (scouts and skirmishers), and Rere a Yasuki (formerly a Crane family, they’re the courtiers, and basically in charge of the vital job of keeping the Crab war machine fed and clothed). the big fun is leveraging the Crab and family stereotypes to highlight different aspects of their personalities or take them in different development directions. (same with other OCs; my old Fallen London character Ali is a Scorpion in the primary AU and works off more of her politicking side, whereas Crab!Ali is her criminal side changed into an kneebreaker to get what she needs from the Rokugani underworld.) one day I may even try to figure out proper Rokugani names for the lot. (Alakhai is easy as in the main version of the AU, she’s Unicorn, who have a strong Mongol influence and her name would stay the same.)

[eclipsewarrior101]

I posted 131 times in 2021

115 posts created (88%)

16 posts reblogged (12%)

For every post I created, I reblogged 0.1 posts.

I added 164 tags in 2021

#amphibia - 32 posts

#darkwingocmonth - 29 posts

#amphibia au - 27 posts

#oc andy - 25 posts

#oc sid - 13 posts

#@psychosistr - 11 posts

#oc diego - 8 posts

#{ true dark colors au - 7 posts

#empires smp - 6 posts

#oc matrix - 6 posts

Longest Tag: 118 characters

#this is why you dont make friends with a manipulative vessel creature...it traps you in a prisone for a thousand years

My Top Posts in 2021

#5

Who’s excited. Any one got any theories or predictions

24 notes • Posted 2021-09-11 02:20:41 GMT

#4

Empires SMP Au Child of Corruption

After finding an egg belonging to Zornoth Joey keeps it,

Unfortunately the other empires find out after what hatched out was a small little girl. half demon half girl. 

Joey, protects her and even cuts other alliances to keep her safe. He calls the little one Zorra. he raises her as a princess and she is to stay in the Lost Kingdom for her own protection. 

Zorra is a sweet, shy but moody and rude girl when she gets mad. She is talented in magic and can control corruption. 

She is also very lonely and is an outcast. but she is friendly with the strange demon (zornoth) who follows her and is invisible to the others. this demon teaches her her magic. though Joey forbids her from practicing it in fear of her being locked away or destroyed by the other empires

25 notes • Posted 2021-10-23 23:31:03 GMT

#3

A New Ducktales Au.

Ducktakes Spoilers: So since the Ducktales Finale just got rid of a good villain. I am making an au for her.

The Curious Tale of Holly Heron: After being betrayed by Bradford, Heron is somehow transported to a strange uncharted forest far from Duckburg. Severely injured and in a coma a strange man finds her and nurses her back to health. This man...Poe he goes by helps her but when she wakes up she has complete amnesia from the severe head injury. Renaming her Holly, he helps her with physical therapy and she grows to love him...however a chance meeting with the Mc Ducks turn her world upside down. Soon her past will come to light and she will have to face her past sins and may have to chose who to be.

26 notes • Posted 2021-03-15 16:18:13 GMT

#2

Helluva Boss Theory:

Arranged Marriage Theory:

i think Stella and Stolas were arrang to be married since they are demon royalty.

I think Stolas liked men at a young age but was made to marry Stella to be able to have an heir. From what I have kinda seen I don’t think they really loved eachother fully, maybe tolerated.

but Stolas began to like men again after Octavia was born so...when he met Blitzo, he decided to do it cause he was was bored of Stella.

( if this was someone elsea theory, sorry I didn’t know)

26 notes • Posted 2021-05-05 19:22:53 GMT

#1

Cookie Run Kingdom Au

A Dark Cookies Redemption:

After failing Dark enchantress way TOO much, she orders Licorice Cookies death. Pomegranate lures him to a mountain range then attacks. Thinking he is dead throws him off the cliff, However he survives a fall off a cliff but hits his head very hard. He is found by gingerbrave and his group and soon they uncover he has complete amnesia. They decide to allow him to stay in their kingdom and for once licorice feels like he belongs…although, he feels a strange pull. A pull that he tries to ignore.

So, tell me what you think. This game is adorable and I’m In love with it.

If you have any questions about this au please ask. This is a work in progress and questions might help me flesh it out.

35 notes • Posted 2021-11-07 01:18:14 GMT

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[soul-has-left-the-chat]

Introduction

I see everyone else doing introductions so might as well do a quick one myself (don't be afraid to say hi, I don't bite ^^)

Name: Soul

Nicknames:

- Soup

- Suop

- Soulie

- Soil

- Soiler

- Soupie (Woopie)

- Newt

- And whatever else you wanna call me

Nationalities: 🇧🇩🇨🇦

Any pronouns :)

INFP-T, 9w1, Chaotic Neutral

Interests:

- Music (bands and stuff)

• STARSET!!!

• Sleep Token

• Bad Omens

• Bring Me The Horizon

• Creo

• Wage War

• Palaye Royale

• Ice Nine Kills

• Glass Animals

• CG5

• Chase Atlantic

And so on

- Art

• OC content

• Fanart

• Art collabs and trades

• Requests (depends)

- Writing

• Lore!!!

And anything else related to writing idk

- Gaming

• Metal Gear Solid and Rising

• Devil May Cry

• Soulsborne franchise (Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Elden Ring, so on)

• Call of Duty

• Yakuza

• Psychological horrors

• Entry Point

• Decaying Winter

• Pressure

• Doors

• Slap Battles

• ULTRAKILL

• Ghost of Tsushima

• Sky: Children of the Light

• Geometry Dash

• Stardew Valley

• Minecraft

• Obey Me! (Nightbringer)

• Warframe!!!!

- Some animes and shows

• Jujutsu Kaisen

• Trigun (Stampede and Maximum)!!!

• Beastars

• To Your Eternity

• The Great Pretender

• Chainsaw Man

• Bungo Stray Dogs

• Lucifer

• BFDI, BFB, ONE, TPOT, LOTS

- Some book franchises and comics, also manga and manhwa

• Alex Rider!!!

• Villain to Kill

• Market of Monsters

• Arc of the Scythe

• The Hunger Games

• Pigpen

- Science and trigonometry

• Chemistry

• Biology (mostly genetics)

• Microbiology

• Marine biology

- WANNABE BIKER!!!

• dream bike Kawasaki Z400

I'm an introvert with pretty bad social anxiety and extremely asocial, but I love making new friends, so feel free to drop by :))

If you wanna find my art/writing/oc stuff, you can here:

#soupie woopie art

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#soupie woopie oc art

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Personal OC tags:

#oc tag: crossfire/hundred

#oc tag: sage the skykid

#oc tag: helios

#oc tag: x/benji

#oc tag: omens

Friends OC tags:

#oc tag: heron/thousand

Other stuff:

Side blog - @bowl-of-soupie

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Art Fight - SoulMidnight64

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Edited blog 00:28 / 12:28am 10/9/24