#she has a few silver hairs here and there but she's mostly her original hair color

[thedawningofthehour]

Okay, I need a think tank here. This has absolutely nothing to do with anything and will likely never pop up in my writing, but I was thinking about it in the shower and now I can't leave it alone.

So that concept art of apocalypse resistance fighter Draxum.

I mean, yes, he looks way older in general. But the greyscale shows that his hair has definitely gone completely grey.

The 'future' scene we see in the movie takes place in 2044, only 24-26 years after the series if we consider Rise to have taken place over 2018-2020. And Draxum likely died before this, considering he's not seen in the final battle.

25-ish years is nothing to a Yokai. Draxum is confirmed to be a few hundred years old himself. So it's highly unlikely that he just happened to go grey during this time.

Possibly the stress, we see that Huginn and Muninn have obviously died (and demanded to be forever immortalized as his shoulder pads) and depending on when he died, he might have outlived Cassandra, Raph, and Donnie. So losing three of his kids, plus whatever Splinter was to him at the end. That'll age someone. And then there's whatever mystic nonsense that caused Mikey to age rapidly, potentially Draxum was overusing his powers to fight and keep the colony safe and ended up drawing on his own lifeforce.

But I thought of a funnier explanation.

Hair dye.

Do you guys think maybe Draxum is already going gray? And he's just too vain to admit it, so he dyes it back to red so nobody notices. But in the apocalypse he can't justify scavenging for hair dye or wasting their water supply on something so frivolous. Or whatever potion he used, he didn't have the ingredients/couldn't waste resources like that.

I dunno, what do you guys prefer? I kind of like imagining him carefully dyeing his roots before every Major Villain Thing so nobody realizes how old he actually is.

[ddarker-dreams]

the yan hxh character's favorite types of styles on you.

(warning for some not SFW implications/reader described as fem)

chrollo loves you in classy, elegant, yet formfitting outfits that highlight the silhouette of your body. slim blazers, short pencil skirts, sheer tights, pumps. will be smiling happily to himself if you struggle with heels since you're forced to cling to him, or trip. purposefully gets outfits that are difficult for you to put on by yourself (like having a zipper in the back) so you must begrudgingly call upon him for assistance.

pretends he 'forgot' to include some pants or shorts as potential options but it was 100% intentional. don't believe his lies. he loves anything that reveals your collarbones but not if you're going out. only he gets to see them, no one else. he mostly goes for neutral colors with a heavy emphasis on black, ivory, beige, navy, and sometimes burgundy if he's feeling a bit wild.

as far as accessories go, he favors dangling earrings and choker-length necklaces. you don't get to wear watches anymore because when he last gifted you one, you kept checking it every time he started talking, and it kinda hurt his feelings. he is a fan of you putting your hair up because he loves admiring the muscles of your neck and it grants him easier access for kissing.

(phinks, feitan, machi and paku under the cut)

phinks originally gives you some t-shirts and sweatpants because hell if he knows how to dress a woman. he doesn't want you thinking he's some pervert that kidnapped you purely for sexual gratification — no, there's a deeper connection he's trying to foster with you here. that being said... if he could have it his way, his biggest fantasy is having you wear those tennis outfits. preferably with white or pink colors. he just thinks you'd look really cute. the short, pleated skirt brushing against your thighs, tight polo shirt, a pair of high top tennis shoes; he'd be in heaven. phinks will want to scoop you up and twirl you around or some other romantic-sounding shit.

doesn't really have any preferences when it comes to accessories. his biggest thing is in the colder seasons, seeing you wrapped up in a scarf is super endearing. it makes his heart almost beat out of his chest. jewelry isn't a big deal to him. he'll gift you a fair amount because he figures Woman = Want Shiny Thing (as if you're a crow), but it doesn't do much for him visually. aside from stud earrings with simple designs, like a flower or moon. he thinks that's pretty cute.

feitan doesn't think about fashion much. he literally wears the same thing every day and only washes his bloodstained jacket if you ask nicely (aka plead). he gets you some long shirts and calls it a day. when you ask if you can have shorts or anything similar to that, he silently stares at you. unlike chrollo, it really didn't occur to him. if he's in a good mood he'll pick up what you asked for. probably gets an uncomfortable material or the wrong size but it isn't out of spite, he genuinely has no idea what he's doing.

he discovers by accident that the sight of you in a sheer nightgown is especially appealing. other than that, the only preference he's aware of is seeing you in light colors. it gives you this innocent glow that he finds aesthetically pleasing. the way it further highlights how different you are — pure (by his standards, at least), virtuous — really does something for him. he has a weird obsession with your wrists so he's gotten you a few silver link bracelets. that's the most you get to accessorize should you ever choose to wear them.

machi lets you wear whatever you want and listens to your clothes requests, because she's too embarrassed to admit what she'd find you cute in. no one could get the information out of her, even if it came down to torture. so... what she wants more than anything (drumroll please)... is to see you wearing one of those short overall outfits over a plain shirt. she'd be staring at you as if you were the mona lisa. she has no idea why the concept entices her as much as it does. all she knows is that you'd look fucking adorable and she'd commit multiple crimes for you.

she likes you in denim, any color really. jean shorts, ripped jeans, skinny jeans, flared jeans, wide jeans, high waist, low waist; she's all about it. oversized tops are a big favorite as well. extra points if the sleeves are too long and cover most of your hand. you think she's glaring at you but in reality she's trying so hard to keep her fraying mind in check.

pakunoda has you looking runway ready whenever she takes you out. the woman did research. a lot of what you wear is tailored specifically to your complexion, body type, facial structure, etc. she enjoys high fashion and has procured pieces made by the biggest names. most of what's in your closet is either wool, pure cotton, or silk. it looks and feels luxurious. she favors seeing you in jumpsuits or maxi-length dresses. coordinating outfits is a favorite of hers, she has color theory down and you both look stunning together. around the house (or wherever she's keeping you), you're free to dress as you please. you both have matching house slippers and robes.

accessories will depend on the season, but you can expect to be wearing sleek sunglasses and the occasional hat. for jewelry, she goes for her birthstone, diamonds, and gold. nothing too ostentatious though. she keeps it classy. while she'd love to see you in stilettos, if you can't walk in them well, she'll go for flat pumps instead.

[leeknowsintrusivethots]

Marked By Him

Part 1 | ?????

Pairings: Lee Know(SKZ)/OC, Secretssssss here

Summary: Vampyres dominate the entertainment world with their otherworldly beauty and talent. It's a world you must be born into, but a few lucky ones are Marked. Stripped from her home and everything she knows, Minji's Marking means that she has to rely on the Devil himself, Lee Minho, to be her mentor. He's cute and sweet to the public, but behind closed doors the monster comes out to play.

Content: Angst, slow burn romance, lotsa plot, eventual smut, vampires, darkish romance, original characters, first person perspective, general 18+ content, asshole Lee Know, alternate idol universe, love triangle (Surprise), pet names: kitten/mouse

WC: 2,208

Minors do NOT interact. Do NOT repost my work in anyway. This includes translations or sharing to sites such as Wattpad or Ao3.

Notes: I have risen from the dead through the power of Stray Kids. This one is intended to be a long form story, probably around 20 parts or so or until it reaches a natural end. Individual parts will be labeled as smut and smut warnings will be included for future parts. Ngl, it's mostly wish fulfillment and because not many people seem to write longer SKZ content. Enjoy, my dirty dirty friends.

"He will meet you in Conference Room Number Zero."

I waited for his arrival with anticipation creating a knot in the pit of my stomach. Not even meeting the CEO of JYP Entertainment had caused such nerves to take root. This was the person I would be spending most of my time with - the one who would integrate me into my new life. He would be my mentor and teacher. I could only guess at what kind of person he would be.

Would he be kind? Smart? As ethereal and graceful as they usually are?

They were known for their cold beauty - so chilling and unreal that it haunted people as well as it enamored them. I am sure, just like humans, they varied but every single one that graced the media was the image of physical perfection. They were Gods come to life amongst mortals. If even the average ones were half as good looking, they still had to be pretty damn exceptional compared to humans.

And so I waited.

The dusty, peculiarly ancient looking grandfather clock chimed in the corner of the room. It didn't fit the image JYP was associated with: a sleek and modern entertainment company that housed some of the brightest talents in Korea. As a matter of fact, the entire 'conference room' felt out of place compared to the rest of the building. The modernity of the outside was forgotten in the confines of the four walls that surrounded me.

The wallpaper was reminiscent of an ancient mansion: a dark royal blue with silver feligreses interspersed through the length. All of the windows in the building were tinted darkly to ward off paparazzi but also natural light, but the windows in this room were completely covered. The only light source came from elegant sconces that dotted the walls and an antique lamp that sat in on the corner of the desk I was seated at. The rest of the room was filled with shelves of books and peculiar looking items that my frazzled brain refused to make sense of.

All I could do was marvel at where life had taken me: at how I was going from ordinary to extraordinary.

The doorknob twisting had me sitting up straighter in my seat and my eyes widening in alert. I held my breath as the door disengaged and opened. It felt like life had gone into slow motion as he entered. As I took in my mentor, the world stopped as my heart sped up and heat rose in my cheeks.

He was beautiful. He had sharp facial features that only God himself could have chiseled: perfectly pouty lips that would put most human women to shame, large dark eyes that captured the soul at a glance, perfectly styled black hair that looked so thick and soft I wanted to run my hands through it just to see if it was real, and clear skin without a single blemish. He could have been a painting, a true work of art.

And even more insane: I knew who he was.

I watched music videos with him in them. I bought his group's albums at every release. I had posters of him on my bedroom walls back in Busan. I had spent countless hours of my youth being a dedicated fan.

"Minji?" Lee Minho questioned with a raised brow.

I was so enraptured I hadn't even noticed the door shut. I hadn't even noticed that he had crossed the room to stand behind the chair opposite of me. I had also completely forgotten my manners. I pushed back from my chair in a haste and stood up. I bowed deeply, partly out of how much respect I had for him but also as an apology for forgetting myself.

"Hello. I am Minji," I greeted formally.

He nodded with an air of boredom about him in return before taking the seat he was behind. Even the way he sat was gracefully beautiful. The man could burn whole cities and he would be forgiven based on his looks alone.

"Sit," he commanded simply. I did as I was told and resumed my seat immediately. I couldn't help but to study his features further, committing them to memory to paint later. His sharp jaw, his soft looking mouth, and his eyes. Eyes that were staring at me with something scarily remicent of disdain under a dark cocked brow.

Suddenly, I felt inferior. I felt unworthy to look at him so blatantly. Who was I to stare at someone like him? My eyes fell to the table before me in something akin to shame.

"I am assuming the Tracker gave you all the usual information pamphlets?" he asked in a bored tone. I got the impression he wanted to be anywhere other than in that room with me. It hurt that the man I idolized seemed to be so disinterested in me, but what did I expect? He had millions of fans all over the world.

"Yes," I answered as steadily as I could. I heard him rustling through papers and waited as patiently as I could for him to offer more information or even ask something else, but he didn't. I only willed myself to glance up at the loud thud of something being dropped onto the desk in front of me. It was a large book - a textbook. It was eerily new and modern compared to the rest of the contents in the room. The title was simply "Marked."

"This book has been approved by the Association to help guide you into your new life," he said with a small but beautiful chuckle at the end as if he found the book amusing more than anything. "You will finish a chapter every two days in-between normal idol training."

"I- I can do that," I stuttered when he paused as if waiting for a response.

"Good girl," he almost scoffed in mockery at my answer. My cheeks heated again and strangely a small tingle made itself known between my legs at the insincere praise. I did my best to ignore it. When he didn't continue, I chanced a glance up at him to find him smirking in amusement before he continued. "After each chapter, we will meet here for any questions and to review what you have learned."

He paused again, and I nodded to show I understood without daring another look at him. I was never a loud or overly confident person, I was simply quiet. That didn't mean I was a doormat, until Lee Minho walked through the door. I was fairly certain at that moment I was wearing a shirt inviting him to step on me.

"I was told to make myself available to you for further questions and help in between meetings," he continued. I heard a rustling as he stood from his chair. I refused to look up even as his shoes appeared in my peripheral. I could feel his presence next to me like a reaper come to take my life, but the normal feeling of body heat was absent. A cold hand pushed the long loose hair back from my shoulder, exposing the bare column of my neck to the chill of him and the room. I involuntarily shuddered.

"You won't have any questions or need any help, will you?" he asked with a faux saccharine in his voice that somehow chilled me to my core. The blood in my veins had turned to ice as my heart pumped harder to compensate. My words stuck in my throat as a strange panic set in.

I knew they were dangerous. I knew they could hurt me, but this was Lee Minho - Lee Know of Stray Kids. He was the weird but sweet one who showed his affection by spanking his fellow members. He was not the kind of person who discreetly threatened strangers, but I felt like that's exactly what he was doing.

"Answer me, Mouse," he all but demanded with the fake sweetness fading and the chill boredom returning to his voice.

Insanity comes in all forms and from all places. Sometimes it's as simple as someone making a noise that gets on your nerves that makes you snap. In my case: I had traveled to a whole new city on my own and uprooted my life in a move that was not of my choosing. I was alone. I was scared. I was changing into something I couldn't even begin to comprehend in a world I had only read about, and the man I had considered to be my ultimate kpop bias was threatening me and treating me like a burden. The actual audacity.

My head snapped up and my eyes found his. I stared at him with a newfound sense of annoyance. I didn't ask for this - I wasn't even sure if I wanted it. How could he treat me so badly when he was fully aware of the situation?

"My name is Minji," I snapped with as much force in my voice as I could muster. "If we are to be forced into this situation together, at least call me by my proper name."

I don't know what I was expecting, but I wasn't expecting him to give a dark chuckle and his eyes to fill with - amusement? I also wasn't expecting long elegant fingers to reach up and take hold of my chin in a firm grip. His touch was cold. Despite my efforts to keep it from affecting me, it shot sparks of heat through my entire body in contrast to his temperature.

"Maybe not a mouse, then. A kitten with little ineffective claws," he mused. He held my gaze as he taunted me, keeping his hold firm on my chin. His face came closer and my delusional heart pounded out an encore. His soft lips were right there, just mere inches from my own. I could feel his cool breath on my cheek as he moved to my ear. His next words tickled my skin and had me shivering again. "Careful, Kitten. I like the feisty ones."

Insanity gripped me again. It was madness, pure and simple. I was taunting not a God like I thought, but the devil himself. I was starting to see that, but I did it anyway. "I'm sure they don't feel the same way. Cats are very good judges of character."

A sharp inhale against the side of my face followed a light chuckle as he pulled back to hold my gaze captured yet again. The amusement was still present, boredom all but gone, but it was mixed with something else - something darker, scarier.

"Word of advice kitten," he started. His cool hand released its grip on my chin to trail up my jaw and to the center of my forehead. "This Mark doesn't mean shit. You will never really be one of us - just an imitation - and no one here will praise you for it. It's a target, and you will be surrounded by predators."

"Why?" His words chilled me, actually had me fighting the impulse to shake in my seat, but the confusion weighed out. I didn't understand this world - I didn't understand them.

"Don't ask questions, Kitten, and maybe I'll take care of you if I decide it's worth it." For just a brief moment, his eyes glanced down at my lips. My silly heart almost couldn't take it, but I persevered.

"But-"

"No," he stated firmly. His hand had fallen back to my chin, and his thumb brushed against my lower lip almost accidentally. My breath hitched. "Listen and behave, Kitten. That Mark already draws attention, don't make it worse by being a brat."

With that, his cool presence was gone. He moved away so fast that I blinked and he was across the room at the door with his sinful fingers wrapped around the door handle. He didn't turn back as he spoke again. "A car is waiting at the front of the building. It will take you to the dorms. Welcome to hell, Kitten."

His words, combined with the entirety of the events that had just transpired, were the icy wake up call I needed. I had been Marked. I was entering a new plane of existence I knew hardly anything about, but I was already learning. It was dangerous. It was not at all like the media and the Association wanted the world to believe. They had painted the things that go bump in the night to be beautiful but perfectly normal parts of society - but the painting was beginning to turn red for me and it was only day one.

An antique mirror wedged between two bookshelves caught my eye. I vacated my seat and went to stand before it. The girl in the mirror was familiar. Long, dark hair, a light complexion with a smattering of freckles across the nose bridge. It was me, yet it wasn't. The mark stood in stark contrast against my skin. It was a dark purple outline in the shape of a crescent moon. It was a sign that I was changing. It was a sign I was becoming one of them.

I was becoming a Vampyre.

[spectralscathath]

May you explain the thought process behind all of Scorpion Faunus RWBY AU designs if you please?

Absolutely, buckle in. I'm a bit of a chatterbox, so I hope you don't mind long responses.

Let's start with Miss Scorpion Faunus herself. Now, Ruby has two versions of her design, one with her hood and one without, so I'm gonna pop them both beside each other just to contrast them.

Starting with Ruby's Vale/Beacon outfit, originally I hadn't changed it all that much from her original look, but then looking at it beside her other designs it looked a bit dull, so I revamped her to have a white top under the corset-vest and what my friend dubbed 'Miku Sleeves'. I'm honestly a lot happier with how it turned out.

Breaking it down, my main focus was to try and bring in some extra red into Ruby's look. I've always felt that without her cloak, her first look was really plain, with all the red on her dress being dark and her tights being black meaning she didn't have much of her colour. I made her tights redder and changed her corset design to be more similar to her later look, with a long stripe of central red, and some brighter accents all around.

Her white sleeves and the collar decoration are tied off with darker red, and I mostly kept them because they looked both cute and kinda fairytale-ish, but the main thing I wanted to do with this design was bring in the star theme that I want Ruby to have. The scorpio constellation decorated the sides of her corset, the two buttons on her white vest are star shapes, and her cloak has a small clasp that has another star on it. I axed the crosses she had in her show look, no hate to Qrow but I just never liked them on Ruby, and overall I think she looks cute.

I really like her Mistral look here. First major change is that her top is now a light grey instead of white. This will start a trend. Second major change is obvious, while in Vale Ruby is devoted to hiding her tail under her skirt, in Mistral she starts to wear it out a little more. Thirdly, I liked the idea from her show concept of battle damage, with the ragged cloak and the nicks on her red tights.

The main idea with Ruby's Mistral outfit here is that it carries elements of the people who were lost or impacted in the Fall of Beacon. The black neckpiece is taken from a cute piece of concept art and also references Penny, similar to the slits on her skirt. The trim at the top of her boots slightly references Nora's shoe style, and the puffier sleeves with a black cuff is a clear reference to Yang's own Beacon outfit. She also has changed her emblem to sit on her cloak, which is how Summer wears it in Antares as well.

Her hair's a bit messier, a little longer, and finally we can properly see that she has Tyrian's nose, which is one of my fav dumb details because it helps me slightly avoid same face syndrome (my enemy). There's a few extra belts, because belts on kickass goth boots Do Not Count as unnecessary, they're part of the style, and her gloves are way thicker and a bit more practical. I was able to bring in a darker red into this outfit, which ends up helping break up the black and red in a nice way without being too out of her colour scheme.

And yes: she has two star clasps on her neckpiece and the scorpio constellation on her skirt. Little star girl, falling fast.

The Atlas outfit is where we start getting the signs of story progression beyond just Ruby's outfit. Her tail is thicker due to a moult she undergoes in Mistral, her face is scarred from SpoilerSpoilerSpoiler, and her hair is beginning to turn silver-white due to overusing her silver eyes. It also has a little braid in it (can't be a scorpion faunus without braids), and has gotten to its most fluffi and messy it'll be here.

The big goals with this outfit were two-fold: make it look warm, and reference Tyrian (though in-universe it's subconscious on Ruby's part). The skirt has been officially switched out for a set of overalls, the belts on her waist are an exact replica of Tyrian's in Ruby's palette (she starts wrapping her tail around her waist as a fake belt, similar to him), and I snagged the undershirt and cuffs from her Mistral outfit and made it a darker grey again from her Mistral outfit. Her cloak has also become even more tattered, I wasn't a fan of her getting a new cloak in Atlas.

The other main things in this outfit that are different is the addition of the metal caps on her boots, which helps keep the silver travelling through Ruby's outfit as she becomes more in-tune with her SEW heritage. The scorpio constellation is again on her cuffs, she has some dark red gloves to stay warm, and while she has three stars on her overalls, between the belts, the star pattern is mainly on her shawl.

Speaking of the shawl, it's fur lined to bring in a little bit of white, and once again, a reference to Tyrian's overcoat. It is also where her emblem is now located, on the back, as at this point Ruby's having some struggles with the concept of 'identity', poor thing.

I'm a little biased but I still think her Vacuo look is my personal favourite out of these four. The hood is gone entirely, replaced by what I happen to think is an Adorable Poncho, and there is also the matter of the eyepatch. Due to SpoilerSpoilerSpoiler. But it has her emblem on it, very very faintly.

The rest of the Vacuo outfit is almost a reference to her Vale outfit more than anything else. We've nixed the darker red for a simpler colour palette, and her hair is messily cut short again, and a lot more silver. She still has a slight reference to Tyrian in the collar style of her undershirt, which is the darkest grey that she gets. She has cute lil lace edges on the sleeves tho.

The tights have also officially switched from red to grey, and while we haven't returned to the skirt, instead going for shorts-overalls, she does have a little overskirt patterned with scars that keeps her tail warm during the cold desert nights. The elbow cover adds a little funky assymmetry, very important in a rwby design, and the keen-eyed will notice the big departure in this from the other designs, the lack of bullets on her belt. It'll all make sense in context.

Finally, we've moved the scorpio constellation to her boots, nixed the goth belt on said boots, and kept the metal toecap from her Atlas outfit. Honestly there's not as much to say about this outfit, it's a bit simpler than the others, and there's less red in order to balance out Poncho Era, but I just think it's real cute, she's real precious.

Onto Weiss!!

Weiss was, no joke, a goddamn headache and a half. I find it really hard to understand her exact 'style' of fashion. But here she is and I'm happy with her anyway. The first main things that one might notice is that she has a much larger scar then the thin one from the show. That would be because A. Scars are Cool, and B. her scar is from blunt force trauma over her orbital socket, and the cut is from the skin splitting right over the bone. Which is supposedly what happened in the show but whatever. Bigger Cooler Scar.

The other main things are thricefold: she has the beauty mark from her original concept, she has freckles all over if you look close, a really pointy nose to look down on people with, and she has the Snow White 'lips red as blood'. If anyone would wear lipstick into battle its Weiss.

Her Vale outfit honestly isn't that different from her show look because it was overall solid if very bright. Mostly I just added extra details to make her look richer, such as all the little metal diamonds on her dress and sleeves, and decorating her boots and dress, and adjusted the colouring a bit so it wasn't all Bright White (see also: the black heels on her boots and the black sash, just to break up the colours). I did change up some of her accessories, like making her apple necklace have a red jewel, adding a cute choker, black diamond earrings, and red nail polish.

The other main thing was her hair. I decided to borrow the idea from the amazing AZRE au that Weiss started with her ponytail being straight instead of assymetrical, to show how she's still under Jacques's control, and I'll be entirely honest I kinda stole her headpiece from Amity's grown-up look in Owl House because it looked real cute and princessy. Her emblem is also located on the back of her bolero, and you don't see it in any of these designs, but its canon now that the underside of her boots, like the sole part, is red.

I based her Mistral Look mostly off her Snowpea look, except instead of making it a whole dress I decided to make it a jacket she wore over a dress. The dress is probably more like her Mistral outfit, you can see a bit of it peeking out, and I just adore the idea of Weiss wearing sweetheart bodices when she is flat as a board (I say this lovingly, and with respect). It's not visible here, but her dress is actually trimmed with sapphires that match her earrings, and the same with the gloves that you also can't see much of here but are very cute opera gloves. I try to keep Layers in mind when it comes to outfit design, usually.

The other big thing from Snowpea is that I gave her the thigh high boots, just to really look a bit different from the other outfits she has. She has a red scarf because I liked the idea in the show but not the execution, and I moved the idea of the white trim pattern of the scarf onto the black sash, just to help with breaking up the designs. Her jacket is designed to look vaguely business and vaguely military, since her Mistral arc has her very torn between her identities as Jacques's Heiress and being a Huntress like Winter.

I didn't mention it prior, but one thing I wanted to do for all the designs for the girls was to have some repeating elements throughout to tie all the designs together. Ruby has her stars, the belt, and the general boot design, Weiss has her jewellery, the triple diamond pattern seen on her skirt here, and transparent fabric, which is something that becomes more prominent across her designs as she grows into her own.

Also, we finally have the assymetrical ponytail, and the cute hairpiece from the show. She also has a slight change in her hairstyle from the show with the lil sidebangs, because if her hair was down I wanted it to reference the 'hime cut' a bit. And her emblems are on her shoulders here, just to add a lil extra spice to the jacket.

I truly do love Pixie Cut Weiss, I think it's still super feminine and cute and also she should have been the one to cut her hair, not Blake. I'll die on this hill. Anyway, Atlas look. I wanted to go full Magic Knight here, adding in pieces of armour (the shoulderpiece has her emblem), the transparent overskirt, the whole shebang.

Some of the major changes here is that Weiss's tights are darker, as in thicker material, and she has a similar thicker undershirt below her dress and jacket. Again, same with Ruby, I wanted to make a look that actually appeared warm, and I didn't want to go the route of the show where they made her look cluttered and also freezing and also just Not Good. I decided to keep the red gem accents, but instead of having them on a hairpiece they're meant to be on her bodice (again, thinking in layers), and her boots.

The other thing I really wanted with this was to have her both reference Winter, with the white jacket tucked into the black gloves, and be the most 'militaristic' of her outfits, what with the actual belt, and the epaulette. In Atlas, Weiss is almost a go-between with her team and the Atlas Military, after all her training with FANCI, the Ace Ops, and Winter, and has a lot of trust in them.

The scar on her neck is gonna make sense in the story. If anyone can figure out how it references Snow White, I'll give you an internet cookie.

We have reached Vacuo, and Weiss's Military Look is gone and her Rich Princess Look is toned down in favoour of what my friend dubbed 'punk ballerina'. Which is very fitting because this is the part of the story where Weiss takes the final step in a long journey towards anti-capitalism. In order to take out some of the princessy vibes, Weiss no longer has high boots, she instead has ankle boots that vaguely look like laceless converse, she has short fingerless gloves instead of something more operatic, and we've gotten rid of the jackets for a see-through top over a shoulderless look.

I think her dress here is pretty cute. I decided to do a sort of corset style that reminds me of the old-school disney princesses, and she still ahs a few metal diamonds scattered around, it's her thing. The observant may notice that all Weiss's buttons are diamond-shaped throughout her outfits, which was harder to detail then I first thought!

The skirt is meant to be more of a sundress style rather then something full of petticoats, and the red mesh under the dress was my way of trying to keep the pattern of 'red focused around Weiss's neck'. It also helps a bit with the more punkish look, which is aided by the pixie cut, which has grown out slightly. The white stockings are also just there as something of a sun/sand protection, and also because I wanted to really bring the colour back hard for Vacuo.

To Blake!

Observant people might notice that Blake has melanin here. I would be disqualified from Certain Redesign Contests for such a deviation from canon. What a shame.

But anyway, most of the Beacon looks really were solid outfits, as seen by how they're the ones that get press in everything rwby does outside of rwby 90% of the time. I honestly didn't have to change much. Mainly just doing a few small tweaks here and there. I changed her shorts to lose the excess zippers and added one of those like useless button straps that don't actually do anything but look cute, and here we see that I made all of Blake's buttons look like lil moons. Just for flair.

I gave her a purple belt and changed the tone of the purple in general, since I prefer Blake with bluer purples/indigos to Yang's more lilac purple when it shows up. She has the purple soles, but not heels, one thing I wanted to do with all these designs was make sure that the shoes could all look similar but different, give them all something specific to them.

The other big thing I did was I took her glove away and replaced it with two shorter gloves, one of which has her emblem rather than it being on her leggings, and the other of which has fishnets on it, because Blake Shops At Hot Topic and Listens to Evanescence you cannot tell me otherwise. The little white straps on her top were just, again, a bit of visual flair, and a way to keep some white travelling through her design without making her upper arms empty with nothing to look at.

Also you can't see it at this angle but she has a crescent moon nose piercing throughout all of her looks, even in Beacon, and she has black nail polish. I like to think she, Weiss, and Yang all did manicure sessions together in Beacon.

Her Mistral look is already a departure from canon, though I kept the thigh high boots and the idea for the cutouts on her top, even if I made her crop top white. You can't see it here that well because Blake is also wearing a sleeveless croptop jacket over a sleeveless croptop. It's fashion.

I gave her the glove from her show Beacon design here instead, for the assymmetry, and she has a bandanna tied around her right bicep with a moon pattern to kind of mirror the metal band on the glove. The big thing I wanted was to put her in a low ponytail, because that meant I could keep her bow motif while still showing off her ears. When she wants to cover them she has a beanie, because beanies are cute.

The zip for her zipper is, again, a crsecent moon, and she has a moon phases pattern along the tops of her boots. I gave her kneepads because Mistral Blake is ready to scrap and it matched with the metal band on the glove, and popped her emblem on her hoodie in a similar way to her vol2 outfit. Also similar to her vol2 outfit, I added those adidas tracksuit lines but in purple on her trousers. I liked this one a lot. It had the stuff I liked from the show Mistral one but without completely drowning her in not her colours.

This one gave me trouble, I went through so many sketches before I decided on this, but I think I'm happy with it overall. As a lil sneaky on this I made her jacket clasps the Bi Double Moon, which can also be seen on the metal tops of her boots. I had a sort of idea for stripes for her pattern here, just to look cohesive and also distinctive. She has the white to black gradient on her trousers, which are meant to be thicker and warmer. I wanted to always make sure she had white on her upper legs, just for the follow-through.

The bow for her ponytail is also white here in Atlas, and it's not on this look but she has a new beanie with white trim and one of those fluffy pom-pom thingies. The belt has her moon phases design that I introduced in the Mistral design, and her jacket was just me playing around until I had something I liked that kept her colour and had just the slightest hint of a suit jacket or waistcoat or something, in the shape and the white cuffs, mostly.

Her emblem is on a neckerchief that she can pull up over her nose to stay warm, and she's gotten two silver piercings in her right ear as a homage to her mom's gold piercings. Also, the notch in her left ear? She gets it from a fight, but she also comes out winning, and if anyone can guess why 'A V-shaped Notch' and where I got the reference from, another internet cookie and also my apologies, possibly.

I love Blake's Vacuo design, I shouldn't be biased but I am and I love it. I wanted her to have pirate boots, where I moved her bows to because she's dropped the ponytail, but my biggest wish for this look was 'that goth bitch at a rock concert who's about to scrap'. Everyone is punk in Vacuo, apparently.

She's wearing torn fishnets in the desert because she's hardcore like that, I gave her assymetrical gloves, one of which has like, a studded band purely for the 'about to dropkick someone in the moshpit' look, and a single-shoulder croptop that has her moon phases pattern. The more I look at her top the more I realise I may have been thinking of Amethyst from Steven Universe but Amethyst's designs all rocked so that's not a bad thing.

She still has the double bi moon on her pirate boots, right at the end of the bits that flop over (I don't know terminology), and finally she has her emblem on her legs, on her high-waisted shorts that are based off a pair I had as a teenager but in black.

And the jacket. Yes. Okay, I know: holographic fabric in the desert? Well the desert can be cold at night so she'll be warm then and also: she can blind her enemies with it. I just really like the shape and style of it, and I think it really distincts from her other looks. It was also really fun to draw, and I'm allowed to keep one darling alive as a present to myself.

Onto the fourth and final teammate, Yang!

Well first of all, her new Vale look is pretty much just 60% of vol2 outfit with a few minor tweaks. i turned the black miniskirt under the cream miniskirt into a pair of short-shorts because she deserves it, I took her emblem off the sparkly purple sash so she could keep it on her stockings.

The top is a mix of her original outfit in her new colour scheme of black, white, cream, and yellow, but I changed up her sleeves to be white for the poofy-fairytale-goldilocks appearance. I also turned all her buttons into rectangular clasps, and made the croptop under her jacket purple, to really bring the colour through the outfit. She and Blake are really close in Beacon, so having more purple in Yang's outfit, the bows on her boots, and the matching black scarfs was a fun way to show that for her.

One may also not that Yang's now got a bit of an updo going on. I wanted to incorporate just a few more Chinese influences into her design, though I will admit it is heavily stylised, and not very obvious in her Vale look. I also gave her a tan, just to really help bring out the colour palette a bit. And she has lilac nail polish because goddamnit she's allowed to be girly AND tough I hate the erasure of Yang's femininity just because this fndm can't wrap their lil heads around a wlw relationship that's not butch/femme when Yang isn't even butch in the show.

Anger aside. Part of what I wanted with this look was to make it seem, well, a little impractical. More fashion and form over function. Her boots have four belts each that need to be individually done up, her sash reaches her knees, that sort of thing. She can still fight in it, obviously, but she's in the fight for the thrill of things, because she's cool and knows it, and isn't really choosing to think deeper.

Her Mistral Look is meant to be very, very different from her Beacon look. She's axed the miniskirt and belt boots completely, she's wiped almost all traces of purple from her design, and she's got no bows. Yang in Mistral is almost running from everything in Vale, and especially anything that reminds her of Blake. She's trying to be a lot more practical here, her boots zip on, her qipao-influenced dress is short, cut high over the thighs, and out of the way of any kicks she might do, the sash wraps around the top of her boot and that's all, her hair's up in a ponytail.

The short jacket is pretty much the half of her vol2 look that didn't make it into her Vale look, and her yellow crop top under the qipao has her emblem, deliberately obscured and covered up a bit for symbolism. She has a black liner for her prosthetic here, and takes it on and off when she wants to. She didn't just put it on and never remove it, like in the show, here it's a bit more of an adjustment for her. Not as much to say about this outfit, it's simple but effective.

Yang's in a much better headspace from about Atlas onwards. She's more willing to combine fashion and function, she's finally started incorporating cute patterns into her style, and she has the cute hair bun covers that are purple and sparkly and adorable! She really starts coming into her own in Atlas, and I wanted to show that by having her settle into her motifs of fire and bears, as shown by the fire design on her jacket and the bear patterns. She has a trio of ursa skulls on a patch on her super fluffy jacket, and a set of bear pawprints on the edge of her qipao.

The boots have belts, though they're mostly decorative and the boots are actually zip on, and her emblem is still a bit hidden on her thigh. She's incorporating a lot more gold metal onto her shoes, following through from her Mistral look, and has a little golden band she can use to tie off the sleeve of her jacket when she's not wearing her prosthetic. Under the jacket, I like to think the sleeves are short before it cuts off just above the end of her right arm, and transitions into a full black glove on her left arm. She's switched the liner out for a bright yellow one, and she's just happier here. Someone has to be the sunshine in this team.

Similar to Blake, and Ruby, and possibly Weiss once I can look at her designs again, Yang's Vacuo outfit is my favourite of the four. She's got her hair up in cute buns for the bear ear ref, she's got cute ribbons that aren't bows because she and Blake have sorted stuff after Beacon but they're not codependent, and she's still got the purple sparkly fabric as her socks.

The main thing for Vacuo was to try and bring back some of the biker babe aesthetic, which I mostly did with the denim shorts that have that specific white fray thingy. She's got gold caps on the knuckles of her glove too, just for some extra fun. The emblem on her boots matches the metal inset of a fire pattern, and I brought back the bear idea with a paw on her sleeve. Maybe she has the ursa skulls patch on the other arm, I'm not sure yet, I'll need to decide if I want symmetry or not.

I simplified her arm from her show look, by trimming the amount of yellow into a few clear plates to cover the main workings. I never was sure how she managed to spray it perfectly enough on the finger grooves to not get paint everywhere.

Her necklace has turned into a clasp at her throat now, jsut to prevent it swinging around in combat, and the qipao is now at its longest, but still cut high over the sides so it's not impeding her movement. The pattern at the bottom is a fire pattern I found that also looked vaguely watery, which I think made it perfect, since she's kind of mixing the two into her mindset at this point, she's doing the kung fu panda thing, she's seeking inner peace. And she's looking great while she does it, she has a better colour scheme here.

And that's all of them!! All I have to say. I think. Thank you so much for this question, Nonnie, it was fun. I hope the quality of the images is at least half-decent, my tumblr fucks them all so I'll never be sure

[presleyhearted]

Yours Truly - Chapter 13.5: Soon.

・❥・pairing: Elvis x original female character

・❥・genre: slow burn, mystery, angst, fluff.

・❥・wc: 645 words

・❥・summary: In which a 21-year-old girl suddenly finds herself having consecutive dreams of a particular rock ‘n’ roll star whom she has never met and who died 45 years ago.

・❥・ ratings & warnings: SFW. none.

❥・a/n: This is written from a different point of view. And yes, it it mostly a back-and-forth dialogue, which lacks description and detail. But all is intentional. You should zoom in, analyze, and put the puzzle pieces together yourself. This chapter was posted on wattpad months ago, I thought I already posted it on here at the same time. Sorry about that.

It is a short, but highly important chapter. 

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"When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable." - Jess C. Scott 

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NARRATOR'S VOICE 

[24 HOURS PRIOR. . .]

IT WOULD BE untrue if one were to say that the world is only full of purity, hope, and overwhelming happiness. However, it would also not be deemed proper to agree that only all dark madness and misery roam the earth. One cannot exist without the other. A saying that has been echoed from one ear to another. A saying that can account for a plethora of statements; you can never truly have it all. No one ever can. Furthermore, human beings have a forceful tendency to prolong what is simply out of their grasp. It is admirably optimistic, however, once again only prolonging the sheer inevitably of it all. 

How human. Hm. 

For one to voluntarily exhaust themselves for the silver of nonsensical hope? How foolish one would be to disregard the oldest rule of nature. 

Therefore, Dear readers, it would only be appropriate to simply from time to time - remind ourselves not to fall into our own warps of idealistic reverie. But of course, as it has been said many times before, humans are not known for being exceptional listeners. 

The rigorous downpour continued, and the dark-haired man could not care less - his blue eyes fixated on the spot in front of him with his right hand grasping into the air, then dropping it to his side momentarily. For just a few moments prior a woman was in front of him, her hazel eyes and radiant smile aimed at him. Not to mention, her arms around him as they danced despite the unconventional conditions, despite the water cascading down her dress and sticking to her skin. Now, at this moment, the man stands alone - the woman? vanished in a second, without the man completing his sentence. Slipping through his fingers just like that. 

The man slowly notices the umbrella hovering over him, the act of the figure beside him. He lets out a heavy sigh. 

"No- not yet." The man says, despite the person beside him not uttering a single word. 

"You are only exhausting yourself." 

"'Am not. " The man replies, shaking his head.

"It all has been more than enough." 

 "No," The man rejects, "Not even close."

"Yes, yes it it is. It has been. Listen to me-"

"No! I-I-I can't. Please, not now."

"Need I remind you that there is a limit." 

Silence.

"It is not wise of you to take hold, to attach yourself like this. You know the inevitable. For your sake, I am to warn you - be done with it."

"Be done with it?! " The man scoffs, "The fuck is she? A toy? No. I-I-I have chosen this, this was my choice. Don't you dare rip this off me. You know how it's been for me. I don't give a damn about your warning, keep 'em to yourself. She needs me. I-I-I have to be there. For her. All for her. I don't give a damn how tired ya say I am, I will do everything I can. I-I-I know, I know that it will happen. But not today. Not now. I-I can't let go. I- I-I need her. It's not possible to just 'be done with it' nah. Not with her. " The man furiously shakes his head, his eyes swollen with tears. 

"Let go."

"No."

"I shall see you soon then, Elvis." 

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chapter 14

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[mleelunsford]

Bloody Roar redesign concept breakdowns

People asked for these when I did my Darkstlakers project a while ago, so I figured I should do them again, but this time I came slightly more prepared with extra work! Let’s talk about them!

A main thing I wanted to do, whether subtly or bluntly, is to make more reference in their human designs to what they transform into. I also tried to stick with a theme of giving the characters eye colors that the animal they turned into might have for extra flare, inspired by Alice’s original design having red eyes (though they took this away from her later on and changed it to brown).

Alice (Rabbit)

Alice in the first game seemed mostly just designed to be a plucky young girl with purple hair and twin ponytails. Later games she became a nurse in the story, and was given an outfit to match. Then much later down the line she and a lot of the cast were toned down severely, making her a more normal young woman with a basic casual outfit. I wanted to try and use ALL this information to make a new design for her. The coat I gave her was meant to evoke the feeling of an emergency response worker, nothing specific, maybe for an fictional  in-universe organization. The sleeves of her coat have bunny stamps on them, and she wears a rabbit pendant as well.

Yugo (Wolf)

Mainly with Yugo I wanted to go back to his Biker looks of the  past, rather than his later “hip street clothes” look. And I wanted his close to be torn, ripped apart, and sewn back together, in some ways reminiscent of something you’d see in a werewolf move. I left some references to things you’d see on his older clothes via the design on his boots, and “Silver Noise” on the back of his vest. I also made little wolf claw accents on his boots.

Fox the Assassin

Fox, or “Hans” only showed up in the first game so I didn’t have a ton to go off of, but I definitely wanted to tackle the character and see what I could do. Japan and America got versions of the game where Fox was said to be a man, and Europe got a version where the character was said to be a woman along with a different voice actor to match. So, a lot of choices in the original were rolled up in some dated stereotypes and ideas and uncomfortableness. I took some inspiration for shapes and ideas from the original design, but my main goal was to make a streetwise assassin  who dresses themselves in a feminine way. I’m not here to re-write the character from scratch, but as a non-binary person myself, I tried to design the character in a way I found more palatable, while keeping Fox’s history intact. I tried making the flop of hair over Fox’s eye look like a fox tail, and the necklace has a stylized fox head

Shina/Marvel (Leopard)

I honestly didn’t want to stray too far from Shina’s original designs. She’s one of my favorites from t he original games and I think a few of her designs still hold up great today. I tried to simply modernize some of her look, and I liked the idea of giving her mechanic’s overalls tied at the waist to replace her old military pants. The eye on her top and “KMF” are pulled from designs seen on her older outfits.

Busuzima (Chameleon)

I started off just wanting to update the punk werido look busuzima usually has, but then I was reminded he’s also a scientist? So I gave him a messy paint covered lab coat and latex gloves as well. I think this ended up being a fun combination of the different aspects of the character. The main thing I wanted to do with the concept is just make sure I got the face right. It was pretty difficult to get down, and I’m not sure I actually achieved what I hoped for. Hopefully it’s good enough!

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So, those are all the concept drawings and my thoughts on them! I’ll write up more once we see the next 5!

[aquadestinyswriting]

The Origins of Selene's Name

Ok, so here's something completely different. This isn't necessarily a worldbuilding post or a specific story, so much as it is an explanation as to where Selene got her name. Thanks absolutely must go to @druidx for helping me with the folk tale at the end of this little explanation.

Tags: @druidx, @sparrow-orion-writes, @ashirisu, @blind-the-winds, @philosophika, @the-down-upside-finch

OK, so, I wrote about Selene's birth family a long while back and realised that Sel's name does not fit the naming conventions of the rest of her family. Of course I came up with Selene years before this part of her backstory, but I wanted to explore a more in-universe explanation.

Selene was born in the equivalent of early January, on the night of a full moon on a crisp and clear night. Her mother, Rosalie, recalled a word her grandmother had used to refer to the kind of moon present in the sky that night, and decided it would make for a suitable name for her newly born daughter should she survive the 4-5 months until her Name Day.

Selene, when she was a little girl, did ask her mother where the name came from, and Rosalie explained that her grandmother had said the name at one point and made mention of an old fairy-tale passed down through the generations that had been mostly forgotten. While the full story was no longer remembered, parts of it were, and Selene was told it was to do with the moon, mid-winter and this name. Skip forward a few more years, and Selene is talking with Yastromo after her arrival at his tower near the Darkwood. Yastromo notes how unusual Selene's name is in comparison to the rest of her family, and Selene tells him what her mother had told her. Yastromo, as much older and very learned man, realised that the fairy-tale passed down through Selene's family, was the same as an old folk tale from a tribe of nomads that had once lived in the area that the little town of Toreguarde now occupied. While the old wizard could not be certain that Selene's family had any connection to this nomadic tribe, he did decide to regale Selene with the full tale, which has been transcribed for your pleasure below:

A long time ago there was a fair young girl with skin as white as freshly fallen snow and hair as silver as the stars. She lived a simple life with her mother and father in a little house on the edge of the forest. One harsh winter night, the girl's mother got sick and the wise man of the nearby camp told her father that the only thing that would cure her was the heart of a pure white rabbit. The girl's father asked the girl if she would go out and look for this rabbit so he could cut out its heart to cure her mother. So, off the girl goes into the woods in search of a pure white rabbit. The girl spends a whole day searching the woods, but does not find a pure white rabbit. When the sun sank below the ground to go to sleep, the girl started to get very tired and hungry and curled up underneath a tree to rest. When she awoke, the night was lit by the soft, silver light of a full moon, and sitting at her feet, cleaning it's little pink nose, was a rabbit with fur of purest white. The girl slowly brought out her knife from her boot, knowing that the only way to save her mother was to kill the creature. But a pang of pity stayed her hand at the last moment. The rabbit looked up, twitched it's nose at her. The girl started to cry, for she loved her mother and did not wish her to die. But neither did she want to kill an animal so innocent and pure. The rabbit sat up and smiled at her, "Little girl, why do you cry so?" it asked. The girl explained her predicament, that she needed the heart of the rabbit to save her ailing mother, but that she did not want the rabbit to die either. The rabbit cocked its head to one side and looked up at the moon. So full and bright was it that it reflected perfectly in the rabbit's eyes. "You are a good and gentle child. If you promise to return home and never again return to this forest, then I shall speak with Selune to see that your mother's life is spared." it said. The girl looked at the rabbit in confusion, "Selune?" she asked. The rabbit nodded, it's ears flopping. "Yes, my mother. She lives upon the moon, you see, and watches all of Titan's children through the night." the rabbit explained. The girl thought for a moment, then nodded, "I promise never to return to your forest and disturb your rest, so long as my mother survives this sickness." she agreed. The rabbit thumped its foot upon the biggest root of the tree, then turned tail and hopped away. When the girl returned home without the rabbit, her father was furious. He took off his belt to beat her, but was stopped when his wife came through the door and asked why he was shouting so. While she was still tired and pale, the mother was in no danger of passing that night. The girl hugged her mother, then ran to the window and smiled up at the moon that gleamed in the night sky. She then told her mother and father of the promises she and the white rabbit had exchanged, and never again did the girl or her family ever return to the forest.

When Selene heard the tale, it resonated with her so much that, once she turned 16 years old, she officially began using the surname Frigidwake rather than the one she had been given by her birth family. The idea of promises kept also resonated, hard, and Selene has a personal oath to never break a promise she's made if she can help it at all. It also means that she can take sincere promises made by others extremely seriously, especially if they're made by friends or those she considers family.

[lincolndjarin]

Lysa & Elaine ✮ BKS

hated all the sketches i did of them (whoops) gonna take a shower and try again. until then here's some background information on princess!readers personal servants, including basic information on their relationship, origins, and descriptions that most likely won't be included in bks but are canon. enjoy!

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the only canon description of the girls i recall is when reader draws them so here's that:

Elaine: "You draw the short horns that come up from the top of her head in cone shapes. The long head tails that fell down her shoulders, you’d never seen a Togruta with them as long as hers. You lightly shade in the red parts of her skin, leaving the white spots on her face empty of any ink."

Lysa: "Her big round eyes, her olive skin, and her short black hair. You draw her next to Elaine. It feels weird to separate them." 

here's a more detailed description of how i imagine them :)

Lysa: i've had a couple of different visualizations for her (which is why it's hard for me to draw her) but here's the main points that are always the same

short curly black hair

olive skin

wide round eyes

significantly shorter than elaine

at shortest probs like 4'9, at tallest 5'2

hooked nose

thick eyebrows

she has a few beauty marks

tiny little tooth gap :)

a perpetual confused look on her face

she wears mostly long skirts and cotton tunics

keeps her hair back when possible, typically with headbands and bandanas

gold jewelry

Elaine:

from the start she's always been red to me

almond eyes

short horns, almost like they never grew in

super fucking long head tails

asymmetrical face patterns

very very tall probably 6'2

like fr a permanent frown on her face unless she's actively laughing, oddly stern expression. crazy rbf

wears pretty jeweled headbands

wears those cool ass flowy linen pants and sleeveless tops

silver jewelry

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relationship and backstory:

I think it's clear at this point that they are lovers and have been for quite some time and I adore them. once again this is not going to be deeply discussed in bks, mostly because it won't be important to Din and Readers story but also it's still important to me LMAO

basically in my head canon (as the author when i headcanon does it just become canon?) is that they were in a very similar situation. elaine was a part of a small outer rim royalty adjacent?? family, something more like a dukedom or a lordship sort of thing. she wasn't in an arranged marriage or anything, she was mostly just facing pressure from her family to find a partner and settle down (is there homophobia in star wars??? not in my canon! anyway,,,) lysa's family was employed by elaines family. they grew up together and eventually once it was expected of elaine to marry when she came of age she decided she wanted to be with lysa which resulted in her exile from her family. they traveled around doing odd jobs for a period of time before finally setting on something permanent where they could have a life together on Naboo.

idk if anyone cares about this but uhhh yeah. that's my girls <3

[sassenashsworld]

Hi Everybody!

On this Fallout Day, let's me re-talk a little about Silver, my OC

Mainly we can't really talk about an "OC" as Silver IS Nora. She is almost the basic characters of the game but for : her long white hairs and her eyes as green as plutonium

Nick is the person who nicknamed Nora because of the color of her hair.

At the very beginning of the Fanfiction (ao3 The path of the private), Nora remains a long time in silence just staring at Nick, then as they advance in the story, she says very few sentences and finally, Nick realizes that he doesn't even know her name. Since it’s so hard to get her to talk, he just nickname her Silver.

Even if I mainly stick to Nora main story in my game for this fanfiction, I still used the gray areas of the game to go a little in the Head Canon and I admit that at one point, I added elements out of canon (like the way it was Nora who brought the original Nick Valentine to the CIT).

This characteristic is based on the fact that the fanfiction is entirely based from my game (survival no cheat -no power armor mostly) and that I realized that the companions often spoke, made comments here and there, but that Nora hardly says a word except few dialogues… and then, the companions and NPC can go in big, long speeches, but not her.

I thought it would be fun to imagine how others perceived such a silent person, thus was born my Fanfiction.

So, if we are to talk about Nora AKA Silver :

She is a discreet and silent person. She internalizes her traumas and accepts her new reality with a taunt humor, sometimes biting, degenerate if we take Nick to his own description of it, and still according to him, absolutely inappropriate.

Ironically, even if everyone agrees that Nora is beautiful and "well rolled", she has very big problems of esteem, and due to the scars that she won in Concord by fighting the Deathclaw, she considers herself downright visually horrible…

She consumes an astronomical amount of whisky. Probably she would choke if she drank water (but in reality she has to drink it since I play survival) and she uses combat drugs…. every fight.

It’s a big deal for Nick.

She’s a great shot. Nate taught her to shoot guns before the war and she’s really a natural. She can practically snipe with a .10mm, and I’m not talking about a riffle. --even if I use the VATS sometime, I admit that I like to empty a place on the scope as far as I can. I played Unreal Tournement when I was younger and I sniped while my teammate went to get the flag. I don’t think I’m exceptional, but Nora is.

Speaking of guns, she has an excessively nervous trigger. She can shoot several bullets before people around her react --yeah, VATS… worse when she get her hands on The Deliverer.

This combination of skill makes her impressive with her shooting skills and that made her reputation.

That, and her shitty nature.

Because even though Nora uses humor to deal with her trauma (she must have had a great sense of humor before the bombs), she is very straightforward, doesn't like to waste time and has no tolerance for gratuitous acts of malice. She often tries to reason first, then shoot, but as her adventure progresses in the Commonwealth, new traumas are added that make her lose even more faith in humanity.

She is however not a bad person --eh, otherwise Nick would not be her best friend-- and she is always ready to offer a chance to someone who try. But not two, as quickly --before dying-- Porter learns.

Speaking of Nuka-World, it is worth mentioning that the excessive use of drugs + the experimental gases of Among the Star caused a seizure to Nora who developed a schizophrenia. I am not an expert on this disease, I mainly use my personal experiences having been with some people with this disease to describe her condition, and I absolutely do not recommend judging a schizophrenia person on my writings.

--One of my best friends had schizophrenia and refused to seek treatment. I had to cut ties with him three years ago after twenty years of friendships. It is a very difficult state for the person and for the entourage but a person with schizophrenia can get through it and live a normal life, even if it requires a lot of courage and effort…--

...and Nora does the opposite.

Then her state IS NOT based on a normal struggling person but based on the worse reactions my friend could have, a little romanced to make an awful impression.

In the main game, Nora leave Dogmeat at Sanctuary, but in any modded game, she always keep him with her. He is her good doggie doggy precious baby smishie little love.

As for the companions, Nora has a distinct preference for MacCready, whom she regards as her little brother (and he regards her as his big sister), Hancock, with whom she could have had an affair, in another life, another world, and of course Nick Valentine, who becomes a kind of father/best friend figure.

She often admits that without Nick, she would have badly turn. But he keeps her on the straight and narrow.

To Nick’s great damn, she also adores this cursed paladin, Danse, but to his great astonishment, he also ends up understanding the qualities of the man beyond his creed and ends up respecting him.

She also likes and respect Preston a lot, even if they sometimes have conflicts --virulent that she solves viciously-- and Sturges is like a brother in arms for her, mechanic side. They love to fix and build things together, two little tinker geniuses.

It is mentioned that Piper is her best friend but Nick rarely attends their meeting and he knows that she spends time with Deacon and likes him a lot but he knows nothing of their exact relationship (as The Path of the Private is written from Nick’s perspective, I can’t say more).

Nora absolutely doesn't know how to deal with Strong and its takes her a long time to get closer to Cait, but she refuses to let them down.

Also, she will dive head first into Kent’s delirium about the Silver Shroud.

Nora shares a secret with Kelly, the Mayor of Somerville (OC not OC, it's the settler with two kids when you first get there), Clem, and a certain Doctor Laslay (OC), but this secret is explored in more detail in the fanfiction Heartbeat of the Commonwealth, co-written with @jasmineofthecommonwealth.

So, if you want to know more about Silver, I invite you to read my fanfiction on Ao3

And of course The Heartbeat of the Commonwealth also on Ao3

PS: I admit that I was learning English at the beginning of my fanfiction and I promise myself one day to rewrite it with the experience I acquired since (mostly thanks to @jasmineofthecommonwealth), but I think it’s legible ;)

PPS : The screenshot have been taked from a modded game, not the game from The path of the Private but mostly based on The Heartbeat of the Commonwealth

Have fun!

[bbygirl-aemond]

Stormbreak Chapter 26 References

since a bunch of y'all asked for more details from the chapters, here are a ton of references for what aemond, rhaenyra, and daemon look like in the latter half of this chapter. also this is the first time everyone gets to make their first formal appearance all together so i have thought about it a lot & it'll serve as a guide on how to picture them when they're attending formal events going forward (though not necessarily for everyday)

rhaenyra

okay first here are two hair options. i wanted her to mostly have her hair down here, because it makes wearing a crown easier than the more elaborate styles and because she looks very pretty with her hair down. i thought some braids like the type daenerys likes to rock (below left) or the loops rhaenyra favors in the series (below right) would look cool:

then we get to her dress, which i have no one specific reference for. the most important thing is that it's red and very, very blingy and extravagant, as per book rhaenyra's typical fashion tastes. i'm talking velvet, gold embroidery, dripping with pearls and jewels, the works. so here are a bunch of images that evoke that vibe, feel free to cobble them together in your mind:

you also know she has to have some kind of ruby-based jewelry. i went with gold rather than silver here to accentuate her ring and crown, shown later on. here are a few options in the style i'm thinking of:

and as a final reminder, here's what viserys's signet ring (below left) and jaehaerys's crown (below right) look like:

aemond

moving onto our babygirl, we first have the hair. trying to follow that simple vibe rhaenyra sets, especially because the boys are not trying to outdo her in any way. but i thought the gold details here (below left) were nice, feel free to imagine all three of them with these kinds of accessories. as for clothing, i imagine something very nice like the one pictured (below right) but a different color (dark green with gold detailing) also without the neck scarf thing bc sorry to cravats but i simply do not like their look:

for the necklace, there are two different options but i wanted the imagery for both aemond and daemon of almost like collars because rhaenyra walks them like a dog because rhaenyra's head honcho and they're her homicidal lapdogs, y'know? daemon is a chihuahua and aemond is a shih tzu. anyways i couldn't decide between a bolder or a more delicate vibe to i gave you guys both options and will do the same for daemon later so they can still match but be a lil unique:

remember, the following is roughly what i imagine aenys's crown to look like, but with pearls and jade instead of what's pictured here, and also the jade is carved with each of the faces of the seven, all of which is described in the original source material:

and lastly, we have his brand-new valyrian steel sword, vigilance! he yoinked it off of lord hightower when he made him surrender and no one stopped him. i don't think we have official art for this one, but it's from house hightower so you know it's def very elaborate. i picture it with a gold hilt, not silver, and with some sort of flame or sun imagery at the very top of the hilt (in place of where the coat of arms are in the actual reference image):

daemon

last but not least, daemon! the general vibe for him and aemond is "sisters not twins" so he has a similar three-braid, mostly-down style, but a lil different. and just picture something similar to what aemond's wearing, but it's black and has red embroidery like what's pictured below:

for the necklace, i really just wanted him and aemond to be matching lmao so you have two options like with aemond above. rubies and silver here instead of emeralds and gold because they know their wife well and rhaenyra loves her color schemes.

as for aegon's crown, no shade to the show but i tend to prefer how it's depicted in other art, as more of a circlet with bigger rubies. i like the idea of it being simpler and a more unique style/placement compared to rhaenyra's and aemond's crowns. also, i feel like this could vibe well with the necklace options from above. as a reminder, here's what that would look like:

and lastly, just in case any of y'all forgot what dark sister looks like:

happy reading!

[thecurioustale]

(Re)introducing Galaxy Federal

This is the third and final part in my (Re)introducing Series, and the one that I've been looking forward the most to writing, because I've thus far held details about Galaxy Federal very close to my vest. Here's a look at my big sprawling sci-fi world.

Galaxy Federal is a lot newer than The Curious Tale, though with the passage of time I can no longer call it truly new.

The first stirrings began in the late 2000s when I created the character of Mereidi Basilisk, my spiritual successor to Samus Aran of the Metroid franchise. I love the mysteriousness, desolation, exploration, and eeriness of the old-school Metroid, especially the ones I grew up with, Metroid II and Super Metroid, and I like to dwell on stories like the ones they inspire.

The other big sci-fi source that I've always wanted to do my own take on is Star Trek, with its optimistic future, sense of wonder and exploration, and commitment to humanism. I began imagining a story about a starship on a 20-year mission to travel to a charted but unvisited star system, to build a massive colony and install a faster-than-light gateway to connect the system to the rest of civilization. This story involved a captain modeled on the Goddess Venus, someone so fat and bountiful that she had a second body just to get around in, as the first one was too busy luxuriating at home. It was shaping up to be a decent story, but then winds of fortune changed:

I gradually converged the two vibes, Metroid and Star Trek, together into one catch-all, one clear counterpart to The Curious Tale, and early in the 2010s I began conceiving of a story about a completely different starship on which Mereidi was a crewmember. I had an idea for a "walking simulator" video game—which I would still like to do at some point—where Mereidi wakes up after a medical procedure and finds the ship seemingly deserted.

Nothing came of that idea at the time either, but gradually I became more and more interested in the captain of Mereidi's ship, a gaunt and short person with silver hair named Cherry. She's the one who finally became the nucleus of a story that stuck.

"Galaxy Federal" refers to the entire legendarium as a whole, not any one specific story, much how "The Curious Tale" refers to everything set in the world of Relance. The name comes from a few things: 1) It's the name of the government; 2) it's a nod to the endearingly bad translation of the title screen of the original Metroid, where Samus receives her mission orders from the "Galaxy Federal Police"; and 3) it's descriptive, as I love thinking about and depicting bureaucracy. (Do you remember the video game Control a few years ago? Good grief I loved that game! Not for the gameplay or the mechanics, but for the brutalist aesthetics and the ridiculous inanity of this shadowy, quasi-competent US government agency whose purview is the realm of the supernatural. Delightful!)

The world of Galaxy Federal is set roughly 162,000 years in our future. In that time, humanity has spread across the entire Galaxy and is now in the process of beginning to infill the many star systems it initially skipped over. In this way, human civilization is a lot like an archipelago, little star-islands connected by extradimensional roads called Galaxy Vectors (modeled after the National Interstate Highway System) that allow the full breadth of the Milky Way to be traversed in a matter of weeks instead of millennia. Even so, relativistic physics are an important presence in Galaxy Federal storytelling, as the movements and communications within star systems are mostly relativistic, as are voyages to star systems with no Galaxy Vector access. (That's why Galaxy Federal is set as far in the future as it is: At sub-light speeds it took humanity a long time indeed to traverse the Milky Way to set up its Galaxy Vector system.)

Galaxy Federal represents a future where, at some point between now and then, humanity decided that the most efficient, most profitable, and most resource-minimized solutions aren't always the best ones. Dark indeed are the logical implications of the endless quest for more efficiency, and, among other things, there is no room for humanity as we know it in such a future. So, in Galaxy Federal, you will often see people doing things in ways that are not necessarily efficient so much as fulfilling. It's why starships have human crews at all. It's why people eat costly cakes and burgers instead of optimized nutrient slime. It's why people often visit each other in person to talk rather than using electronic communication. And so on.

The future of Galaxy Federal is essentially a human one. Galaxy Federal posits the "lonely Earth" scenario of intelligent life being extremely rare to evolve, and so there are no "alien" civilizations, no Klingon Empire; virtually every sapient being we encounter is a descendant or creation of humanity. But humanity itself has grown much more diverse. So, while many if not most meat-bodied humans look more or less like you or I do, there are all kinds of exceptions—both pragmatic for the purposes of living in different environments, and also aesthetic (because some people just really want to fly). In the time of Galaxy Federal humanity has taken control of its own evolution, and the practice of body modification has progressed extensively, so there does exist everything from bird-people to tree-people—all human in lineage. (There are also rare instances of members of other quasi-intelligent Earth species, like crows, lifted up into sapience.)

Humanity is broadly divided into three groups: 1) the "old humans" who live in meat bodies, though these bodies may be heavily modified; 2) the people who exist entirely within virtual worlds and have no physical body but are otherwise like "old humans" in intellect; and 3) people with constructed intelligence, who may exist in physical bodies or purely virtually; these people are what we would call artificial intelligences (or, sometimes, artificial general intelligences) today. These three groups of humanity are not "factions" in the political sense; there is no storytelling that I care to wring out of setting them against each other. Rather, they represent three different modalities for experiencing the world. And all acknowledge their human lineage. There is no "us versus them" mentality, for instance, when it comes to those whom we would consider AI. Everyone is human.

The political conflict, rather, emerges geographically, economically, and ideologically. For example, Galaxy Federal (the galactic federal government) controls most of the settled Galaxy, but there is a breakaway civilization as well, and war exists between the two. Galaxy Federal member states are like states of the United States in that they enjoy broad self-governing autonomy while still being subservient in some matters. Thus, the quality and texture of life is quite variable across the Galaxy.

One thing to appreciate about the civilization of Galaxy Federal is that everything is really, really big. Starships are huge; megastructures abound. There is a lot of hard science fiction to be found in this—and a lot of me running around behind the scenes with my hair on fire to make sure I don't accidentally create a ship so big that its energy requirements exceed the available energy of the Universe or some damn nonsense like that.

That's Galaxy Federal, the series, the franchise, the legendarium.

But what about the actual novel that I'm working on? Well, that's the novel about Cherry. It does have an official title, but I haven't announced that publicly yet, so for the time being the working title is "Galaxy Federal Inaugural Novel," or GalFIN. 😏 (Just kidding, though that does sound like some kind of fun miniature-golf-adjacent leisure sport.)

I've said very little as yet about this story publicly, even though it has been in active development for over seven years. Here is what I can say about it today:

Diwa ng Seresa, more commonly known by her popular epithet Cherry Ilyapa, is a famous starship captain—the most successful and admired in all the War Sectors. But life is not easy for her, and she often skirts the line of oblivion. Now she is being promoted and reassigned, but on her final voyage she sees an upsetting photograph of a battle that she fought in many years ago. When she gets permission to investigate, Cherry and the Starship Sevenge unwittingly begin a journey into the unknown from which there is no return.

That's not the best back-of-the-book blub you've ever read, I grant, but it's the best I could do on short notice. Several fundamental details of the story and its arrangement are still in flux such that it is difficult to write any synopsis. But hopefully this does the job of intriguing your curiosity without giving away too much and/or becoming wrong or outdated in the future.

And I think that about does it for (re)introductions! Let me know if you have any questions.

[shesalewa]

I'm sick and tired of Goo angst. (Lie) it can't be considered Goo angst when he's legit just gonna die and Gun ends up being a sad boyfriend who killed/witnessed his BOYFRIEND'S death.

Technically it's Gun angst. Because he has to sit with the fact that his equal is no more. And that the person closest to him and fought Along side him is gone. @gungoo4lifer did it. I did it. It was all technically Gun angst.

And at times like this. I want to write Gun Fluff.

With a bit of angst.

GunGoo: Happy childhood

Goo: whoa! This is your parents?! They don't look like they're from the Yakuza!

Goo said with pure excitement holding an old photo. Yet this photo seemed well preserved.

Gun: I had good parents. Mom loved Martial arts but giving birth to both me and my sister made her body weaker.

Though Gun was talking to Goo, not once did he take his eyes off the TV, of course, that's because Martial arts is on right now.

Goo: you have a sister?!

Goo was shocked at Guns statement, a sister? Who would've thought this hot-tempered man would have ANY siblings?

Gun: yeah. Older sister, Way older than me, She was a great swordsman. She takes after father with her swordsmanship. I take after mom with martial arts.

Goo: wait then that means you know how to use weapons!!!

Gun: no.

Goo: liar! I'm sure you're lying!

Gun: I USED to know, I'm honest.

Goo: then why did you stop?

Gun: ... Notice in the picture... My sister isn't there?

Goo: yeah? What happened?

Gun: ... She went missing that day.

Both Goo and Gun went silent. It was awkward. Well mostly for Goo.

As for Gun? A sudden hand on his back started patting, and even rubbing his back as comfort, Goo knew Comforting wasn't his forte. However, Goo knew he was better at comforting than Gun was.

Goo: I'm sorry.

Gun: ??? Why are you sorry? That happened like what? When I was 6? It doesn't matter to me anymore.

Goo was embarrassed by this, even so he wanted to change the topic.

Goo: ... Your mom seems nice. What about her?

Gun: Mother hardly ever spoke. But she would always sing me to sleep, she smoked quite a lot, from a smoking pipe, it was shocking that she could still sing.

Goo liked that thing we're changing in the topic

Goo: and what about your father?

Gun: Shiro Oni. Damn bastard. I admired him but I'll be honest, he was clingy, to both me and mom, he didn't know who to be jealous of.

Goo: Shiro Oni?

Goo was confused, he thought that Gun is the Shiro Oni.

Gun: right, I forgot, father was the Original Shiro Oni, had my sister not died she would've taken that title, she was more suited for it anyway.

Goo had a little smile on his face, he was a bit envious of Gun for having a nice family.

Goo: seemed like you grew up with a silver spoon in your mouth. Why are you working for Charles if you're Already rich?

Gun was silent.

Gun: I Was bored, I was constantly itching for a fight, I thought that with his offer I could find a good fight frequently, and though I wasn't wrong, it was hard to find a good fight, I was quite lucky the first person I fought while working under Choi was a great weapon master.

Goo: psh. Shut up. ... When can I meet your parents?

Yet again another awkward silence filled the room.

Gun: mother died the same day Anego died. Mom stayed up late worrying about her daughter the same way she did when father forgot to tell her I was sleeping over at an old friend's house, she was sickly worried. But she thought she was being paranoid, yet even still she went out to look for Anego, they were both found dead a few days after

Goo shuffled through Guns Photo binder. And noticed how different Gun Started looking.

Goo: you look tired here.

Gun: why wouldn't I, that photo was taken a few weeks later, my hair was still long too.

Goo: and... what about your father?

Gun: died as well, not only did he become a widow and a single Father, but he also had the responsibility to take care of the Yakuza, he couldn't show any weakness, not in public at least, he became overprotective after Anego and Haha-ue died. It felt like a prison but not once did I disobey him. I knew what he was going through after all, but he died 3 years later, I think I was 9, he went out to Kyoto to do some work, never came back, but the police did.

Goo felt awkward knowing this.

Gun: I was Born with a silver spoon in my mouth, but I didn't grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth. Papa, Anego, and Haha-ue all died when I was young, or should I say assassinated?

Goo stopped flipping the photo binder. His skin turned a bit pale as he saw a photo of Gun.

Goo: im sorry you had to go through all that.

Gun: it's not as bad, my aunt came to take care of me, even though she was a drunken woman, who refused to believe her brother died.

Gun: ... I grew up constantly having to avoid being assassinated, and lonely, sure my aunt was there but I looked exactly like my parents who she loved dearly. Still my aunt never, and refused to become the supervisor of the Yakuza, she basically became one of the body guards. And I took over the Yakuza, such a young age no?

Gun: though at such a young age I actually thought of Seppuku. But my aunt hid all. The swords in the house. So I went for my wrists instead. That's why these arms are tattooed. still kinds feel pathetic for thinking about suicide like that.

Goo, stopped flipping through pictures and placed the binder down. He moved to Gun's side and rested his head in Gun's shoulder.

Goo: I'm sorry. All this time I thought I suffered more than you, but your whole childhood all you kept doing was trying to survive.

Sighing, Gun stopped the TV. Turning it off.

Gun: stop apologizing for something you Didn't even do.

Goo moved and sat on Gun's lap, yet again resting his head in Gun's shoulder, parting Gun's back, and hair.

Gun didn't hate it. Not one bit. He hugged Goo.

Gun: I'm very happy I met you. I'm proud to have met you.

They spent the night hugging each other, it felt comforting to Gun to know that this blonde idiot actually cares and loved loves him.

[squishosaur]

do u have a list of all of ur hcs for twst characters? i love to read more about them!!!!

here is a list i compiled of the things i already have mentioned on this blog!! let me know if you wanna know more on a specific character, i'm kinda blanking ajdjfjfn

riddle

transfem/genderfluid (she/her mostly, he/him less frequently)

chubby

hearts. everywhere

first crush was on a fictional character, second crush was on trey (completely over both of them now)

mixed race

ace

filipino swag

polyam & bisexual

deuce

dyslexic

filipino also

bi & polyam

trey

endomorph, he's strong && muscular but appears soft & round

has, at some point in time, had a crush on/dated che'nya but he has not specified which

m-spec

cater

bi

transmasc nonbinary (he/him)

he dyed the tips of his hair purple in his first year to match vil & get his attention, it didn't work, but he still dyes it pink/blue/purple sometimes.

he has self harm scars

leona

genderfluid (any pronouns)

has an american football player type of build

vision impaired, the one eye with the scar does not work well

ruggie

transmasc (top surgery paid for by leona)

scars on his nose, cheek, chin, and ears

skinny/usually looks half starved

sometimes i give him a doglike snout/nose instead of a human one

jack

snout type nose like ruggie

transfem (closeted)

azul

fat (sometimes will wear shapewear in public)

bigender (she/he)

octopus mannerisms

lucky ball & chain is her song btw

down bad for jamil in every iteration

can chew through rocks with beak

blushes blue/purple (i have other posts with this too ajdnns)

merform redesign

jade

chubbier than floyd

has neater hair

blushes blue/purple (green/teal in eel form)

merform redesign (in the same post as azul's) to look more morayish, but generally i keep him blue bc i like it more

capable of unhinging jaw

horrible fashion sense

floyd

very lean

unkempt hair

bpd

also blushes blue (again, blue-green when in eel form)

see merform redesign post again ajsns (same note as jade tho)

can unhinge his jaw all the way

kalim

chubby

lower empathy than one would think

he/they nonbinary

jamil

bpd

has lots of scars

agender (never mentioned anywhere but know it's real)

vil

npd

genderfluid, transfem (she/her mostly)

rook

genderfluid (any/all pronouns)

originally had brown hair and dyed it blonde for vil

NOT fake french. he lives in the twst equivalent of francophone africa to me

epel

ALSO french but also nordic

vitiligo

transmasc

idia

he/they/it

digigender btw

fat

ortho

pre-book 6: deep rooted fear of being tossed aside because he is replaceable technically

being that he can outlive a human, he subconsciously seeks out malleus & sebek because they will also outlive their peers

has freakish older bodies because idia used to be too caught up with hyper realistic facial reconstruction

malleus

transfem (she, sometimes he)

not particularly muscular

has a gargoyle plushie

grows her hair out evenly

lilia

cis man but comfortable being called girl or referred to as she/her

has chubby cheeks like a baby

aroallo (mentioned in a tag somewhere)

silver

genderfluid (princess and knight themes)

albino

demiromantic asexual (also mentioned somewhere)

sebek

pointy ears like fae

so hypermasculine that he's kinda fem now akdndm

che'nya

allegedly (meaning, according to him) has dated trey, riddle, And neige at some point.

lanky build

labeless, any pronouns

neige

masc aligned nonbinary (he/they, sometimes she)

had a crush on vil a few years back

ships

treyjade hcs

idikei started e-dating before they realized they were going to the same school

poly first years is real....

etc.

nrc students as mlp pony types

3rd year housewarden bodytypes

[suffcring]

A QUICK PRIMER/ TL;DR ON RABBIT

this is pretty much standard across her history, and minus a few changes for her Ghsot AU, is across the board useful

It is important you understand Rabbit was an OC I made when I was 18 on a forum for the webcomic Order of the Stick, and is therefore semi tied into DnD ish concepts, but largely has moved on from that to be a completely original character

I cannot TL;DR her religion, sorry. You can read it here I made it up myself. There will be some summarizing of the details included.

The leader of the cult was Rabbit's father, Jackal. Her mother (Cat) was the sister of Jackal's wife (Akita), and therefore Rabbit is a bastard which does not help with her ostracization from the clan. Jackal had a brother, Raven, who might have actually been Rabbit's dad. There's really no way of knowing, since, like, Rabbit killed him after she saw him kill Akita (who had poisoned Cat and had been intent on killing Rabbit, too). Rabbit has a half sister who leads the clan now, Dove. Dove has some fondness still for Rabbit, but Rabbit is incredibly bitter and angry

Rabbit was ostracized due to being unable to shapeshift and being a necromancer. As a child. Completely cut off from any warmth.

Rabbit ran off with a boyfriend (Amour, my friend Bryn's old OC) and then ran away from him, too-- cause trauma (there's more to it, but again this is a more digest friendly explanation of Rabbit). He's a musician, with some ancestral connection to the sirens of greek myth, and he's recently been on the radio quite a bit. Think Hozier/George Ezra -esque sound.

her main goal in any universe except Ghost is to absolutely destroy the compound her family lives on. Just. Destroy all of them. Wipe it from the planet. She's convinced she will not be at peace until they've suffered

Rabbit's family mostly lives on a compound, though most of them attend the local public schools, go off to college, and plenty of them live off compound as adults when they get married or find a life of their own

most of the family on compound partake in the family industry -- think Academi (formerly Blackwater). Body guarding, military security, that sort of thing.

because of this, Rabbit is buff. Not hugely so, but she's strong and knows how to physically take a person down. She knows sixteen ways to kill you with her thumb.

Rabbit is asexual and heteroromantic. My only hetero character ever. Still, she prefers the friendship of women to that of men.

Due to Trauma TW, Rabbit often cannot enjoy sexual encounters without an element of pain. She is masochistic. That said, she has and will engage in vanilla sexual encounters with people she loves (though this is rare)

How does Rabbit animate corpses? I'm so glad you asked, she kisses them. Sleeping Beauty style. If you have an undead character and they allow her to kiss them, they're under her control. Sorry.

Rabbit does her own acrylics -- and the benefit of this is that her nails have an enchantment on them so she can touch ghosts and poltergeists :)

in NON GHOST universes, Rabbit is on her way to becoming a lich. I am bending the rules, I do not care. She has a phylactery, but only certain people know what it is, even ooc.

almost always in skirts and dresses, they look very cute on her five foot nothing frame. Tiny buff goth woman.

dyes her hair every few years. She's been rocking the silver balyage for a few years. I'll change it again eventually. Her natural hair is brown, she'll tell you it's auburn.

in her "end game" universe, she found her goddess Moon's bones, lost an eye to bring her back, and was given a boon. Her family lost their shape-shifting ability, and Rabbit herself is returned to a fully human state

I think those are all the important details that are needed for like a "starter" dump on Rabbit?

[newmayhem]

Wardrobe & Styling: Risika PT1

As always, I’ll keep using original names if I’m talking specifically about the original iteration and in quotations and stuff, but I’ll be referring to everyone by their new names in all other situations.

Welp, I guess I'm officially back! In a nutshell, work got really busy and I got distracted by a few other hyperfixations (and I also got a bit self conscious now that I realize this blog actually kind of has an audience). I was going to do a big post explaining what I’ve been up to, but I it was taking too long and I didn’t feel like it, so I guess I’m going to just jump right back in!

I recently started watching a lot of youtube videos about fashion and costuming in movies and tv shows, so I thought it might be cool to do a short series about how I’d dress these characters for my version of the story. Starting, of course, with our girl Risika!

Canon outfits

We don’t get a lot of detailed clothing/outfit descriptions in general, but here’s what we have for her:

Chapter 1 (Now) - Black jeans and a black t-shirt

She doesn’t always wear black, but that was the color of her mood that day.

She also says in this chapter that she wears a silver ring set with a garnet stone

Chapter 15 (1704) - Mens clothes and tangled, unkempt hair

Wearing long skirts was getting too cumbersome for her

Chapter 18 (Now) - Black tank top → cropped body hugging gold tank top with black jeans

Generally keeps her hair its natural old gold color until the end when she adds black stripes to it.

Going off of just this, it seems like Risika is pretty utilitarian when it comes to clothing choices. Very simple, no frills (literally), mostly/exclusively black (contrary to her own narration)…up until when she’s dressing for her fight with Aubrey.

I take this to symbolize Risika’s character journey from being depressed, antisocial, and wanting to hide away from the vampire world (or at least pass through it unnoticed) to embracing her predatory nature and being comfortable with being seen and making her mark as a part of vampire society.

My Version

I want to stay along these same lines as the canon, but add some more nuance and details.

Generally, Roksana favors earth tones and natural materials (to show how attached she is to nature and humanity). She doesn't like things clinging to her too much but she also doesn't like things that are so baggy or flowy that they get in the way (to show her yearning for freedom).

She hates button-ups (too stiff and formal); she likes dresses and skirts in theory, but doesn't often reach for them on a regular day.

For the most part, she likes to keep things simple for her main apparel pieces—solid colors, basic shapes. Shoes and accessories is where she likes to have more ornamentation.

She tends to keep her accessorizing to a minimum because she likes to be able to move unencumbered. She hates carrying bags or wearing hats but she has a pretty extensive shoe repertoire. Her shoes are practical but well-crafted and even ornate.

When it comes to jewelry, gold is her preferred metal. She's not super into precious stones or pearls. She likes wooden or clay beads and semi-precious stones like jasper, jade, or lapis lazuli.

These days, she doesn't wear much makeup, but during time periods where heavy makeup was a thing, she'd wear it in order to blend in.

She typically styles her hair in whatever is fashionable at the time, but prefers to wear it down in its naturally curly/wavy state.

She's more interested in how things feel as opposed to how they look, so comfort, mobility, breathability, and texture are very important to her. She doesn't like feeling trapped.

I really want her wardrobe to speak to her innate longing for freedom and her resilience as well as her connection to the past. I also thought it might be interesting to hint at a secret craving for luxury (a contrast to the idealized image she has of her saintly brother in order to make her feel even more guilty and self hating after she becomes a vampire) and a desire for comfort (or rather, to stay in her comfort zone) but at the same time always being prepared to flee.

1701

I'm still researching the specifics of what was worn at this time/place (it's been surprisingly really difficult to find info about late 17th/early 18th century fashion in Mexico) so I'll probably do a more detailed followup post later on, but Roksana would basically be wearing whatever other people of her social class were wearing in terms of silhouette, fabrics, etc. I don't she would have much flexibility when it comes to self expression at this time (clothing was expensive to make so she probably wouldn't be very trendy or experimental as a working class woman). I think she would favor solid colors over prints and she'd wear almost exclusively earth tones except for a blue rebozo (a long woven shawl of Mexican origin; image below) that was her mother's (blue to represent a touch of the supernatural). No jewelry, either, except for her rosary (although, I'm not sure if this actually counts as jewelry) that was passed down through her father's family.

Because she was raised without her mother and apart from her mother's family, aside from the rebozo, her clothing wouldn't really have many indigenous or African elements to it.

NOW

While she's not into metallics and synthetics, I do picture her style as kind of reminiscent of Y2K era R&B singers, especially in terms of silhouette (small, fitted tops, big pants, chunky shoes), but there are also some goth elements like corset tops, square or high necklines, the occasional puff or bell sleeve. She loves crop tops! For bottoms, she liked wide leg pants, utility/cargo pants, and joggers.

STYLE NARRATIVE

Closer to the beginning of the story, Roksana's outfits are very subdued. It's like she's constantly trying to camouflage. She's also wearing more historical looking clothes to show that she's kind of trapped in the past.

Towards the end, she starts to incorporate some bolder, more eye-catching elements, especially metallics, which also feel more futuristic, like she's finally ready to move forward and she's ready to be seen.

She also starts to dress a little more like Andros, who I picture as having very bold style.

Also, because in my version her hair is dark and curly/wavy, the tiger stripes in her hair aren't going to work out so well, so I was thinking of giving her tattoos, like tiger stripes along one arm, her shoulder and down her back (I have no reference photos for this because everything I could find on pinterest and google images looks stupid). This would not only symbolize her embracing being a predator, but it also shows that she's becoming a little more like Andros (who has tons of tattoos).

This post is already getting too long, so stay tuned for Part 2 where I go into specific outfits!

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Míriel Þerindë

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Míriel is an original character belonging to Tolkien - here are a few headcanons on now I imagine her character would be like to rp as her :) - - RULES

Ataresse: Míriel

                          - q. jewel-woman or jewel-daughter

Amilesse: Þerindë

                          - q. the Broideress

Titles: First Queen of the Ñoldor and Handmaiden of Vairë. In headcanon: Disciple of Vairë.

Proficiency: Embroidery, sewing, needlework

APPEARANCE:

Build: Lean, Lithe

Race/Ethnicity: Elf

Hair Color: Pure silver

Eye Color: Dark (jet black/deep brown appearing black)

Eye Shape: Almond

Skin: Fair, almost pale

Headcanons ahead!

Nicknames: Mír/Míre (as Finwë affectionately called her).

Visual Age: 27

Height: 7’2

Hair Style: Braided into intricate and exquisite patterns on the top of her head to keep away from her face.

Weapons: Sword fighting - she was definitely alive during the time Finwë led the Ñoldor to Valinor so I hc it is something she excels in.

Magical Ability: Perhaps none - but I hc her as becoming a disciple to Vaire (as she probably cannot become a maia), she is able to see a little into the future and weave it into tapestries (only from the line of Finwë), but obviously not as much as Vaire.

Hands: small, thin lithe fingers, squoval nails.

Types of Clothes: Gowns/dresses mostly made of velvet and unique colors like turquoise. Flowy dresses that are made to easy to move in and sat for her to sew.

How do they wear their clothes: Neatly and very put together - not a single thread out of place.

What are their feet like: Clean slippers or soft boots, rarely ever barefoot.

Mannerisms: Míriel is an expert at hiding her emotions - however she does give a proud smile and give sharp nods a lot once acquainted. She is a kind person with tough love, her affections are carried mostly through her actions and acts of service. After becoming a disciple sometimes she likes to speak in riddles.

Important/Usual Accessories: She wears classy hairpin sticks most of the time.

ABOUT:

Alignment: Lawful Good

Occupation: Disciple of Vaire.

Likes: Art, reading, sewing, embroidery

Dislikes: Arguing, war, swords - ever though she has good swordsmanship, she hates having to use it.

Favorite Colors: Any soft, unique and pastel colors. Her favorite turquoise because it is a color unique as her hair to the elves.

Literature: She likes to read a variety of genres - she loves mysteries the most, she is not able to tell what is coming in books so loves reading a lot and make up her theories.

Hobbies: sewing, reading.

PERSONALITY:

Personal Triggers: Weapons, abuse and wrongs in her family (yes, of course she considers Indis family).

What words or phrases do they over use: “By my lady Vairë” or “There is nothing I can do. . .only weave it.”

Are they more optimistic or pessimistic: Optimistic in Valinor, pessimistic in the Halls of Mandos at first but grew optimistic again when she realized she could weave the the deeds of her family. But pessimistic again when Fëanáro creates and commits to the oath and all events that followed - she was in depression for a long time until her sons and grandchildren regretted and served their punishments.

Love Language: Acts of service, quality time and physical touch.

Strongest Character Trait: Her abilities as a weaver and the expertness to hid her emotions.

Weakest Character Trait: Can be stubborn sometimes - but in her own calm way without having to raise her voice.

Greatest Fear: Morgoth winning - and Fëanáro at one stage.

Overrated Virtue: Temperance and solemnity

If they could change one thing about themselves: To be able to do something when she weaves in a misfortune in the line of Finwë - she is only just a weaver and cannot prevent fate, but she wishes to change it or fix it.

Songs I associate with Míriel: Skyfall by Adele, Can’t Pretend by Tom Odell and Scars Leave Beautiful Trace by Car the Garden (Alchemy of Souls OST).

EXTRA NOTES:

Later when Míriel becomes the handmaid of Vairë — they're bonding over the art of sowing — and became very close friends. Neither talk much; small smiles shared — but sometimes becomes each others words of advise and wisdom. Míriel then becomes the disciple of Vairë.

Míriel would be in two minds about seeing – heartbroken seeing her little flame has become someone as dangerous as Morgoth, that would scare her. She might refuse to meet him a few times as first – but would him from afar without him knowing.

Then, seeing how he acts in the halls of Mandos and if he regrets his actions and ready take his punishments, then she would be more willing to see and talk to him. Definitely a few awkward meetings at first – she would not know what to say and probably maintain a distance as much as it hurts her too. Then, slowly warm up go him seeing him grieve for his own sons.