#the aetherium

[fairytaleinagem]

hahaha,,,, i'll try to post more,,,,

top two are debatable in their hairstyles (Akina is always changing smh) but the rest are pretty solid! which ones your fav i wanna know 👀

[papercutsunset]

i do love that the aetherium lineup is "a group of problematic queer girls (and dranaxx)"

[fairytaleinagem]

Akina always gotta be the leader man 😔 She doesn't like it but she's gotta push through for her fam!!!

Are there any groups where your OC is the leader?

[luvnami]

"who's that?"

"gallagher." you tap on the character selection screen, swiping over to the brunet's profile. "he's a healer."

ushijima nods seriously. he doesn't quite understand how the game works, but he likes to watch you run around the map and pick up shiny bits of treasure.

the first time you explained the game's terminology to him was a struggle. eventually, you figured out a middle ground. tankers were like blockers, supports were setters or liberos, and spikers were dps characters.

"y'know, you kinda look like him, toshi."

you turn your head over to glance at ushijima. he's tucked politely in bed, the covers bunched around his waist. he meets your stare.

"do i?"

"if you grew your hair and scruff out, maybe."

he touches his hair, rubbing a few strands between his thumb and index finger. gallagher yawns on your phone screen.

"mmm."

ushijima likes his hair cut short and his face cleanly shaved. he's never had any urges to change his personal style. if anything, it's the last thing on his mind (he basically wears sports clothes seven days a week).

you go back to your game, making the character run towards your next quest objective. ushijima briefly wonders what he would look like with a fully groomed beard.

[pomegranateteeth]

this meme came to me in a dream from 2014

[fruit-sy]

"Join me in this dance!" He exclaimed, voice filled with vigor

You can't help but feel your face split into a grin. The rush of a great battle, the roar of your name as the audience cheers for you, this is what it's all about!

At that moment, you suspected that you were actually enjoying the thrill of being deceived by the Elation.

[fairytaleinagem]

𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝘼𝙀𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙐𝙈

── a plane above The World, and inhabitants stronger than human, the Aetherium is nothing less than intriguing. why don't the strongest of the strongest introduce you to their home?

The Aetherium's best team, the 10M Company, have been assigned to teach a new recruit; one who has no name, no Vessel, and no memory. Despite the blank slate of the new kid, underlying echoes of an identity long forgotten hides in every move, every breath they take. Something that seemed to have been hiding for almost centuries. Maybe it was for personal curiosity, an empathetic desire, or even from a purely educational standpoint, the 10M Company decides to give their new student, Zenith, a chance to rediscover their lost Alterity.

Here's Aetherium! And one of the plots that will exist within that world! (More may come, who knows?) Here's the full intro post if you wanna see more about it (though it's very much unfinished!)

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[tastesoftamriel]

The Aetherium Forge. ~Talviel

Screenshot: my own

[deathlysilent13]

DPxDC Fic Snippet: Clockwork Sets Up a Meeting

(So, I can't call this one what I want to because that would be telling af, so for now it'll stay a premonition via Clockwork. What happens after this? WHO KNOWS! lol)

Standing in this particular location is absolutely not on the list of things Danny wanted to do today. He levels the fifth glare of the hour at the calm, vaguely smug ghost floating next to him, purple cloak impeccable as always. They bypass the obvious rooms, going lower and lower down staircases that appear to simply pop into being as needed. Danny's so lost at this point he doesn't dare lose sight of Clockwork.

They come to a massive metal door. Bolts are dotted like sprinkles across it, and thicker beams cross diagonally across the whole thing in a strangely plaid adjacent pattern. There's two keyholes, one on each door, and a mounted metal head of some creature or other above each slot. This is definitely a door designed not to move.

Clockwork pulls two keys out of nowhere and one at a time sets each into it's hole and twists. The hum of the released locking mechanisms seems as complex as the door itself, but eventually it swings open. Danny expected a lot of things. A torture chamber. Mountains of gold like that cave in the beginning of Aladdin. An army waiting for Pariah Dark to wake and send them forth. A weapon's cache that would make Skulker and Danny's dad both weep with delight.

He was partially right. One wall does actually have piles of treasure looking like a pirate's haul. Youngblood can never know. But there's a wall of somewhat haphazard bookshelves filled with leather bound tomes. Words are etched into the spines in what Danny can only call holographic ectoplasm green. It makes him vaguely nauseous. Piles of scrolls, files, and objects surround these bookcases, all labeled in some form or another.

Danny follows Clockwork to this wall, skimming the titles. The names. There are names on these tomes. "Clockwork, what is this?" he asks softly, voice echoing.

The Master of Time doesn't look away. "These are the souls contractually bound to the King," the old ghost answers gently. "All are yours now. Some belong to Pariah by name, some simply to the King. By defeating him in single combat, your acceptance of your right to the crown means all things once belonging to him, even to his name specifically, are now your domain."

He pulls a tome down as he speaks, handing the book to Danny. Danny looks down at the cover, embossed square swirls lining the edge all the way around. In the middle, almost a window is embossed, the frame a thin line tracing the outermost edges of each of eight rectangles, four on top and four below. Each rectangle looks like shattered glass, the lines somehow both delicate and chaotic.

Clockwork lets him study the design in silence. "There is a braided leather bracelet embedded into the inside front cover," the old ghost says softly. "It was the binding for this contract, an odd one to be sure. Wear it, and never remove it." He says nothing further.

Danny furrows his brows, but opens the cover and pulls the bracelet from where it rests and slips it on dutifully. "What will it do?" he asks, curious. He doesn't want to read the tome, most are done in the language of demons and he hates looking at it.

Clockwork merely gives him that weird, knowing, vaguely constipated smile. "All things in time, dear Kingling," is his answer, and he leaves before Danny can say anything further. He sets the tome down and scrambles to catch up lest he be well and truly lost, only barely registering how the doors automatically close and lock behind him. He knows he's not getting anything else out of the old ghost, so he asks him slightly more general questions about the other tomes and some of the other things within the vault instead. It occupies their path out of the castle, and Clockwork bids him farewell before disappearing into a swirling blue portal, dramatic as ever.

[prettybbychim]

i want this guy to be playable dear god pls hear my prayer

[papercutsunset]

also worth mentioning: most mentions of beacon of sin in our written canon have been made by tiff who, by virtue of being played and written by me, becomes a reflection of jeanette-- or, rather, sees way too much of herself in the character

which is FUNNY! BECAUSE! of the aetherium characters (which is an in-universe book series with an accompanying playstation game?? about the sport??), tiff resembles two of them. when i was making alf, i was trying to go against type a bit and gave her a very happy home life. sure, her grandmother disapproves of alf and her opinions and nervous habits (see the mention of the familiar-buying incident, where she got nervous, went outside, and found a possum), but alf's parents love her very much, her aunt is very supportive, and her main source of conflict comes from (to type) and thing that is keeping her from sleeping.

so, when jared made trish as a foil, she got an extremely shitty home life. in alaska. and got pretty surly.

so while tiff realistically WOULD be most like alf (anxious, prone to rambling, ambitious, doesn't sleep well, very into, magical theory, stem, and the intersection of both), she sees herself MORE in trish-- which is the ACTUAL reason she doesn't like it, for the record.

likewise, in the same way she's the blake abbott to bloodsaw's zero (fantasy-loving ray bradbury fan and a dead punk lesbian), there's most certainly a part of her that would see something about herself in jeanette (rats and cameras, mostly) and then NEVER ADMIT IT.

which could also be something to get into with regards to comic jeanette-- maybe that went longer, and further, and jeanette steadily came to their fucking senses.

and that's another key difference! tiff actively doesn't struggle with being aroace. jeanette *does*. when tiff kisses someone, it's weird and uncomfortable because... tiff, why? why are you doing that? jeanette's reasons are less funny and more sad. WHOOPS.

you know, tiff being a fan of the Beacon of Sin comics opens up a lot of space for me to bring in scrapped concepts for jeanette and have them referred to as things from the comics, as opposed to the "show" (where gerard way plays her dad? apparently? i don't remember much from last night, but i remember that).

for example, there was something we floated where she had/was references to disney princesses and archetypical princess things, only more sewer princess than anything. she collected roadkill-- which i do recall mentioning last night, but as a thing "show jeanette" abandoned in favor of chicken boned. there was also a running thing of carmen referring to them as those princesses-- which, funnily enough, DID come up as a remnant in one of the episodes, where she realized she could control crabs during the first prison escape. comic jeanette would have had and maintained these parts, then, among other things we mentioned but never actually roped in-- and alternate avenues of being.

think of it like some of the differences between the boys comics and the boys show, but much less large-scale (and jeanette was never SCOTTISH).

it would also be interesting to see a version of jeanette where how deeply anxious they are comes through in something other than throwing up all the time-- like the original nervous little habits i had for them (chittering under their breath and fiddling with bones in their pocket)

[fairytaleinagem]

─── 𝐎𝐂 𝐌𝐎𝐒𝐓 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄𝐋𝐘

got tagged by @thatfunkylilfey! (x)

─── 𝐑𝐔𝐋𝐄𝐒

use the prompts given and answer which of your OCs would be most likely to do the prompts, then provide three new ones for whoever else wants to play

─── 𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐃 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒

most likely to [be] banned from the kitchen due to burning a meal

most likely to act first and ask questions later

most likely to hide an injury from their companions

─── 𝐆𝐈𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐒

most likely to (willingly) sacrifice themself for the survival of their friends

most likely to freeze up on stage and forget their lines

most likely to hit a glass wall/door, thinking it was an open door

─── 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐄

↳˳;; ❝ * ˚ ✦ most likely to [be] banned from the kitchen due to burning a meal?

A duel between ZENITH and ELLYA. Zenith because they lack memories, besides muscle memory. And apparently the muscle memory didn't include cooking! Ellya is often too distracted to actually cook something, so she'd probably forget it and something would end up in flames. Of course, the rest of the 10M Company would look after the two if they decided to cook, but itll probably end up with someone else making dinner.

↳˳;; ❝ * ˚ ✦ most likely to act first and ask questions later?

MAERTHRO! The man lives a little too much on Vigor, and when he's energetic, he's energetic. In the midst of battle, he's one of the few that jumps out at the sight of the enemy immediately. One track mind kind of guy. There's not many thoughts that run through this man's head that are quicker than his reflexes. Ask him to solve a problem while fighting several people, he'd finish the fight before he's even said a definite word!

↳˳;; ❝ * ˚ ✦ most likely to hide an injury from their companions?

Oouh, it'd either be AKINA or ANDREI. Neither of the two like receiving help, although Akina is a little more willing to reveal the wound if it's severe enough. Andrei is used to tending to his cuts and bruises on his own, especially after that one time with Miss. He's the Researcher, he'd search for a way to deal with the pain without it showing. Even if he gets chewed out for even thinking about the idea in the first place...

─── 𝐂𝐀𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐓𝐀𝐆 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐋𝐋 𝐎𝐍…

@magscrane ✦ @boomiburst ✦ @saturnine-saturneight ✦

as well as those who want to join! there's no pressure to play!

[papercutsunset]

alf..........alf, honey.....

[chickenparm]

desperately going through and completing quests and events i slacked on up until this point. aventurine is coming and it's almost time for me to pay the fucking piper.

[tafiir-dovahkiin]

Sometimes I wonder if this could fix me…

[storywonker]

JUNE - 1628 PHILIP II, life extended by dark alchemy, is master of Earth, and of Spain's colonies beyond. Only an alliance between CARDINAL RICHELIEU and TOKUGAWA HIDETADA stands between Spain and control of the entire Solar System. THE AETHERIC VOID IS NOW A BATTLEFIELD