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elegantsplendour · 1 year

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Dance of the Empire

Chapter 6 Rules and Secrets

Pairing: Aemond Targaryen × Lannister! ofc x Aegon II Targaryen

Summary: On the feast of Prince Aegon's tenth name day, a dark-haired Lannister girl enchanted both Queen Alicent and Princess Rhaenyra.

Ever since Lucerys Velaryon got away with taking Aemond's eye six years ago, it pained Queen Alicent every single day witnessing her drifting from her and the whole world, finding an escape in relentless studies and training. Lucerys Velaryon ripped way something more profound from his son that night. Is it possible that a woman could cast a light in the darkness in his life? Even after years imprisoned in the cold walls of Red Keep and familial duty, Alicent still had a shatter of hope that love had the power to heal even the deepest wounds. Or so she thought.

Sometimes, love can be just as destructive as hate.

Especially when her first-born son's suppressed feelings start to emerge; especially the politics of the realm rip away an all-consuming love; especially when demons of her second-son are unleashed by thirst of vengeance.

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Warnings: mild depiction of violence in this chapter.

Taglist: @marvelescvpe @buglyberry @theroyaldixon @aemondx @heavenly1927 @apollonshootafar

Welcome to the Red Keep, a place where rulers decide the fate of millions, where the servants work at a relentless pace to satisfy the fast-paced demands of their masters, and where noble ladies engage in overwhelmingly stimulating conversations that revolve around the art of weaving while tasting culinary exuberance, where whispered tales travel like both poisonous smoke and intoxicating fragrance.

"Have you seen the dark-haired Lannister lady with Prince Aemond?

"It would be impossible not to. It seems like the Queen has made a successful match. I wager it must have been difficult finding a lady of Katherine Lannister's beauty and status for the prince. Given... his condition. Though I must say, Prince Aemond's courtship of Lady Katherine is quite passionate. My sister overheard from a maid that they have been spotted on Vhagar three times this moon. I, myself, have found them holding their hands in the library."

"Oh dear Lady Meera. That was nothing compared to what I have witnessed in the garden."

"Spill the tea, Alayne!"

"I saw Prince Aemond placing a cherry in her mouth and his fingers lingering on her lips."

"Gods be good. Many would deem such an act improper."

"You know what they say, the blood of the dragon runs hot. However, I do sympathize with Lady Katherine. It used to be an honour to marry a Targaryen, yet it seems that she has bound her life with a deformed."

"Don't be. She might carry the Lannister name, but her beauty is not of the House of the Lion. Her earthly features are a constant reminder of that disastrous marriage. Perhaps. Perhaps, she is the product of her late mother's indiscretion."

"That is a vile and dangerous speculation, my friend. But I have to admit, the idea of it: the Broken Prince and the Bastard Beauty. They do make a lovely match."

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Unlike her usual attire, Katherine was dressed in a humble dark dress with a black cloak covering her head before exiting the gate of the Red Keep.

As she ventured into the maze-like warren of narrow streets of King's Landing, four men in shadows followed and observed her and those around's every move.

Four Red Cloaks disguised as peasants ensured her safety. After all, she was not foolish to navigate the most dangerous, like a lamb to the slaughter.

Although Katherine's features remained expressionless, her heart contorted in disgust at the sight unfolding before her.

Against one of the many decaying structures barely holding together against the weight of destitution, a drunken man was brutally coupling with a woman she was unsure of willing or not. Puddles of murky water gather in the uneven cobblestones while the foul stink of unrecognizable origins pervades her senses. Vile insults filled the air while pickpockets terrorized the streets.

Suddenly, a wave of cheering grappled her attention. The screams consisted of screams of cheering, disappointment and whimpers of excruciating pain. She gave a signal to her closest bodyguard and entered the chaotic building.

Hidden under her cloak, she weaved her way through the putrid stench and rowdy drunks, squeezing between leering men and scantily clad harlots, desperately trying to suppress her gag reflex from the noxious blend of sweat and stink of their mouths. At last, she reached the epicenter of the raucous uproar, only to witness a chilling sight that sent shivers down her spine. Malnourished children, barely reaching her waist, their skeletal frames exposed, their teeth and nails sharpened to grotesque points, engaged in a brutal battle like savage beasts. With each sickening blow, they toppled one another, painting the scene in a gruesome mosaic of flesh and blood.

While her eyes lingered on the brutal scene, her mind wandered elsewhere.

Greens.

Blacks.

With King Viserys' deteriorating health, the unspoken tension in court and across the realm continued to aggravate.

Who will inherit the Iron Throne? She questioned.

Rhaenyra, the King's named heir?

Or Aegon, the heir by the "order of things."

To Katherine, it made no difference. Both orders would lead to one path, the one that forged the obscenity in front of her.

It had been two moons since she arrived in King's Landing, and she had seen Prince Aegon three times.

The first was their first encounter, during which he goaded his brother into bedding her.

The second was her witnessing him, drunken and mumbling profanities, dragged to his chamber by Ser Errek.

The third was, Aemond striking him down in the training yard in word-for-word 10 blows.

As for Princess Rhaenyra, while discontent about her accepting Aemond's courtship, their correspondence remained consistent and intimate.

As grateful as Katherine was for her somewhat motherly presence in her life, she could not help but to sigh regretfully at her decision to reside in Dragonstone for six whole years, distancing from the ever-changing political landscaping of King's Landing. Doing so has given the lords and ladies who once swore fealty to her switch allegiance.

Rhaenyra once told her that once she becomes Queen, she would create a new order. Back then, Katherine felt a fierce admiration for her aspiration. Looking back now, she sees both entitlements and oaths were nothing but hollow promises: one has to earn and fight for the right to create their own rules, man or woman, especially a woman.

If only someone worthy could claim the Iron Throne.

Someone with an unstoppable strength, with a strategic mind, unapologetic and unafraid to turn over the table if they deem the latter being a mess.

Someone

Someone like Aemond.

Her hands squeezed the fabric of her robe as his name echoed in her mind. The sweetness of the memory of that afternoon in the garden and the raw scent of blood in the arena composed a perplexing mishmash in her head.

"Duty, honour and family are my motto," Aemond had declared, his voice calm, his gaze still fixed on the pages of "The Fires of the Freehold."

Duty to a family that treats me like a broodmare, enslaved by an illusion called honour. Never.

A sly curve tugged at her lips,

"I knew you wouldn't have it any other way, Aemond, yet I wager many could question tricking your opponent by feigning your defeat is the most honourable way to win a duel, especially the opponent being your uncle Gwayne."

"In a battle, there is no deceit," he lifted his head, "All is fair."

"I say you prefer to win regardless of the rules."

Aemond chuckled," Says the lady who believes her only duty is to herself."

She asked carefully, "Do you ever wish to make your own rules?"

A long silence ruled between them.

Katherine wished to unravel his carefully wrapped facade of faith, composure and duty. She wished him to say yes. Her heart pleaded to say yes.

"I follow the rules to make my own. So yes, I do," Aemond finally broke the silence, his tone soft yet unwavering and his one violet eye unreadable, transmitting a steadfast resolution that quickened her heartbeat.

Aemond furrowed his brow, a chuckle tumbled free from his lips as he leaned closer, brushing a strand of hair behind her ears, "But you already know that, don't you? Little lioness? "

Taken back and slightly flushed, she swallowed and met his eye, ready to retort. But before she could say anything, his long fingers rested on her lips, "Close your eyes," his voice at once commanding and assuring.

She did.

For a fleeting moment, she expected him to kiss her and damn codes of propriety.

She gasped in surprise at the sensation of his large hands hovering over the back of her neck, gently closing the distance between them, "Open your mouth."

Her lips trembled as she hesitantly obliged. With her eyes closed, all she could feel was the radiating heat of his breath.

Her tongue detected a small, spherical object, tenderly placed upon it. She savoured the taste, instantly recognizing the sweet tang of a perfectly ripened cherry. In that moment, conflicting desires surged within her. One part yearned to prolong the exquisite vulnerability, surrendering entirely to his touch in the obscurity of darkness. Yet, another part longed to seize control, turning the tables and leaving him at her mercy.

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Just a sudden, a loud, deafening cheering and the forceful jostling of the nearby hulking man brought her back to reality. A youthful roar reverberated in the arena: a bold boy had just knocked his scrawny opponent unconscious, whom had been carried out by a man.

"We should leave at once, my lady," one of the guards suggested.

Katherine swallowed, "We shall," she slowly retreated from the centre of the mob and whispered, "in the days to come, disguise yourself as peasants and find out about who are the beneficiaries of this arena and report everything back to me. Spare the poor children some food and clothing. But do not leave any trace of House Lannister's involvement."

While she exhaled in relaxation while withdrawing from the horrifying spectacle, her eyes widened her figure exiting from the door of the building on the other side of the street.

Prince Aegon.

Prince Aegon Fucking Targaryen, eyes red and bleary, though body stumbling yet still mumbling explicit profanity to the giggling half-naked women.

Momentarily, they stayed frozen before Katherine enclosed her features in her cloak, but it was too late.

"Lady Katherine Lannister," Aegon immediately chased after her and burst into a grin, "The Exquisitely Odd Lannister," he continued, leaning to her earlobe, "My brother's precious little jewel, venturing alone in Flea Bottom. Who knew?"

Katherine pushed his head in annoyance, "You stink of ale and wine, my prince. And please, I am not stupid, four Red Cloaks are observing my every move as we speak," she covered her nose in a mixture of distaste and amusement, "You look like you have been through Seven Hells and back."

"More like Seven Heavens, my lady," Aegon smirked, "The women here possess more, let's say, exoticism, than the ones on the Street of Silk. What were you looking for? Some forbidden adventures, or pleasure?

Katherine rolled her eyes, "Spare me the details, Aegon," she fastened her pace and mumbled, "The people of this city are living like dogs, perhaps even worse."

Aegon's face contorted in amused confusion, "Why do you care? You are a lion. I am the prince of the blood."

She raised her brows, "Haven't you heard the saying? The water can drown the fleet just as much as it can carry it."

"You sound like my mother," Aegon halted his words, his playful tone imperceptibly turned grave, "I was never the one who built the fleet you speak of, nor did I choose to be born in it.

Taking a corner where a stone dragon on the wall breathed flame, he murmured, "If watching it drown means to be free of its grasp, then be it."

Katherine's eyes widened at his statement. She opened her mouth to speak but could not find the right words.

Being free of the grasp of her family, it sounded like a dream. "You have a dragon, Aegon. Don't you tell me that you haven't thought about escaping the chains of your life," she swatted his arm teasingly, "It's a privilege I do not share, yet here you are, bedding the most beautiful whores and drinking the finest wines. Maybe, you enjoy the privileges of this fleet a little bit too much."

Aegon laughed at her comment. "And what privileges are you searching for in the most dangerous and dirtiest parts of the city?" He leaned closer and whispered, "Don't tell me it's pleasure," he frowned, "You know, if that is what you desire, all you have to do is ask."

"In your wildest dreams, you incorrigible wastrel," she chuckled, pushing him away playfully.

"But in all seriousness," she locked eyes with him, "The small folk, they may not be as glamorous as dragons and thrones, but they're the ones who will ultimately decide our fate. And I prefer to be the master of my own."

"So this is what all your little adventure was about? Surveying public sentiment?" Aegon said sarcastically, shaking his head in disappointment.

"And figuring out ways to improve their livelihood," she nodded, "The greatest stronghold lies within the hearts of the people. No matter how many fortresses you possess, they offer no protection if you're despised by the masses."

Out of the blue, a wagon full of fruit slipped down Rhaenys Hill while a merchant shrieked out for help. Aegon gripped Katherine's arm instinctively from the path of the racing cart.

"Wow, that was something," she caught her breath, "Thank you."

"That," he teased, "Katherine, is what happens when poor ladies busy themselves lecturing a prince and do not even notice a speeding wagon coming at them."

"I guess you're right. I guess we are even now. I saved you from a horse. You saved me from a wagon," she chuckled.

The way to the gate of the Red Keep was rather silent. Both of them are immersed in their turbulent thoughts,

"Aegon, I don't want Aemond to know my whereabouts today," Katherine turned to face him as they were about to part ways.

Aegon tried to read her expression but at no avail, "If that's what you want, Katherine. It will be our little secret."

But why? Katherine? I thought you told each other everything?

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baileyblues · 8 months

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OC rant i made to my friends

There's so many grammar mistakes in this but i'm too lazy to fix so pls bear w/ me

if anyone actually reads this pls pressure me into acutally writing the lore

Bailey's original name was baisley, the original god of the worlds but her followers called her unique bc they didnt' know her actual name.

because she violated the heavenly law and broke the universe's balance, universe (very first existence) stripped her of her power and scattered it across the cosmos

of course, she descended as a god, but still retained her most important powers, which are associated w/ the stars. and she has no recollection of her past life

and of course, new gods were created in order to fill her role, aka the 3 balance gods were created, each holding diffeent types of balances, as well as a new god of the worlds that was supposed to hold her role. the new god compared to baisley, was soo much weaker than her.

baisley deceded onto the hybrid realm on earth, and as she fell she fell into a coma in order to preserve her strength. she was eventually found by 2 witch sisters, heather and elementa. she doesn't remember her past, but took on the name "bailey" as it was very similar to her original name and she felt familiar w/ it.

baisley came from the realm of the gods, but also had her own mini dimention to which she used as her living quaters/abode.

there were 6 gods who were made to replace baisley in terms of her duty, 3 of them were balance gods, one was made for her original role, and the other two created balance together (or was supposed to)

bc of baisley's descent and the creation of the new gods, specifically mayhem and harmony, mayhem is the embodiment of chaos and those 2 are like yin and yang which forever balance eachtoher and the world. BUT mayhem being basically chaos, breaks the heavenly law, and instead releases chaos onto the mortal realm/earth. ofc, harmony reports it to her higher ups, time and reality, and they also tell her to fix it. so she goes to heaven and calls upon angels as reinforcements and decend down to earth, which was just utter chaos and darkness. the fight goes on for a bit, and eventually they balance out. time and reality both punish them equally, for unbalancing the equilibrium and sends them to a fixed reincarnation cycle that will end when both has repayed for their crimes. however, the forces on earth still stay there, leading up to the events of the main oc story.

umbra, being the creation of mayhem, basically takes mayhem's place. and ofc, on harmony's side, there's several angles still on earth. ofc, they do eventually die and umbra gets sealed, but both sides tranfered their knowledge onto new generations to fight the war for them the first dark elemental, suvillain, was an apprintice of umbra and a general. during umbra's original reign, she also used her energy to creat jinx, an artifical being. the angels found about her plan and tried to purify it, which actually worked and made jinx into a pure hearted person, despite being a dark angel. so jinx naturally sacrifices herself for umbra, only to be discarded by her.

later umbra gets sealed by the secret hybrid society, which at this time the hybrids and humans are in seperate realms and this is a secret organization where they fight agaisnt ddark forces which lasts for a pretty damn long time. it's basically history at this point. the 2 witch sisters, heather and elementa, are part of the society, along with impius, who has yet to be promoted to being the demon king/king of hell. elementa is an alpha shapeshifter, which is a hybrid that's selected by gods to balance the world. this only happens when teh world is in grave danger and usually no 2 ASS (IT'S AN ABRIVATION OK) can live at the same time bc of the time gap between them.

umbra get sealed, and at this point, jinx already died but was sent in a reincarnation cycle for one life time and was chosen by Death as their apprintice. so jinx follows death adn eventually becoes the princess of the underworld. at this point, it's already a couple of generations into the elemental's, which were originally only the light and dark force during the war, but new elements popped up with time, and new brances appeared. such as nature, fire, water, being the original 3 other than dark and lgiht, then their derivatives, wind from nature, ice from water, and lava from fire.right now there are 11 generations of elementsals in the current main timeline

impius gets promoted into becoming the king of hell, which he accepts (this is very important, since in the future this will be very relavent)

actually gonna skip the timeline a bit. umbra gets "revived" again by accident, bc she has a cult that's in some sort of distorted dark realm to which klin (fandom oc who becomes the main character later on) takes an importatn item taht speeds up umbra's ressurection, since she's technically sealed but not dead, though wasin a coma like state where she can shift her conciousness.

jinx, impius, and ofc heather and elementa participates in the new battle, along with our main trio, olympia, karma, and krystal. the witch sisters send the main trio back in time for a bit to see if they are able to prevent umbra's past seal into undoing (gonna figure out the timeline issure later), but fails. ofc, umbra gets revived, jinx is tramatized, and deliah, who is a descended of a civilization/society umbra destoryed, sought out to kill her after waht she's done to her homeland. jinx has to make a decision btwn her mother creator and her advisor, her best friend. klin is suffering bc she gets shouldered w/ big responsibilities, and chooses to sacrifice a part of her soul with bloodlust, a blood angel who was exiled from heaven (this won't make sense w/out context but if yall want i can tell yall) in order to try and defeat umbra

i'd be surprised if anyone actually read all of this apsorewhaiolhdsa

just wanted to put this somewhere (and also cuz my friends asked for it)

#oc #ocs #oc tag #i actually need to write out their lore #it's so dense istg

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witchydino · 1 year

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~~My OM! OC PT. 1~~

My Ocs name is Kasi, they are a she/they with female parts. She is in her early 20s. They are a modern witch whom does more studying than practicing. And I wanted to write a lil bit of how she would react to devildom and being brought there. It's exciting but I'm a lil nervous to write this out pleasee enjoyyyy♡

Warnings: slight angst, mental illnesses mentioned (anxiety, despreso, sxxcde), mature language ofc, faked death scenerios, just various serious tones lemme know if theres more warnings I should add!

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Honestly out of all the unexpected things that happened in their life Kasi never expected this. Being woken up from a very comfortable dream by landing face first onto an unfamiliar floor was not exactly ideal or pleasant for them.

"My lord you must be more careful, humans are fragile" said an unfamiliar voice sounding more dissapointed than concerned. Before Kasi could lift her head to see whos speaking someone grabs her under the arms and lifts her to her feet way to fast.

"My sincerest apologies, I had no intention of you falling onto the floor! Are you alright?" another unfamiliar voice speaks, this one sounding more concerned. Kasi was to dizzy to speak, from smacking her face on the floor to being picked up way too quickly her head feels like it just went through a blender. While trying to keep her balance and recovering from her head rush she finally takes in her surroundings. They are in what appears to be a sort of council or court room. 8 fancy seats lined one of the walls with interesting banners hanging over each one. Turning towards the voices Kasi is suprised and annoyed. She sees several random man all way too handsome to be trustworthy. They also appear to all be wearing matching uniforms, all but the one who just lifted her from the ground. Whilst everyone elses was black, his was a bright red. Kasi speaks with a very displeased tone "No I am not alright. For starters I was woken up by being stolen away to wherever this is and immediately dropped on my face. Also it's freezing in here, I don't know why you are kidnapping me, I'm not valuable nor am I good product to sell for trafficking." She crosses her arms and frowns at the man in the bright red uniform.

He laughs before saying "Again my sincerest apologies for dropping you. And we will fetch you something warm to wear. Barbatos?" He nods over to a man with a little blue streak in his dark hair. Barbatos nods back and replies "Yes, my lord" and walks out of the room swiftly.

The man who is apparently a lord continues to speak to Kasi "As for the kidnapping and trafficking there is no need to worry. You signed an application form for this program. You were selected from the human world as an exchange student for The Royal Academy of Diavolo, or RAD for short". Kasi was to baffled to speak, selected? Application? When did she sign a letter? When did she even apply to some school? None of this was making sense to her. Before she could reply the lord speaks again. "I am Lord Diavolo, Prince and future King of Devildom. I am running the exchange program you were selected for. The goal is to unite the three realms together and create peace umognst them. You are one of two humans selected from the human world to stay at RAD for a year. Two humans, devils and angels were sent to each realm for a year as exchange students. When you complete your year here you will write an essay about your stay and be sent back home."

Kasi fumbles backwards and falls. Completely stummed she has lost her balance entirely. They are also convinced they've lost their sanity. Exchange program? Student? A year?!! This was a very strange and too elaborate to be some kind of prank. Like really demons? Kasi studied a bit of demonolatry and demology as a modern witch. She has heard of Barbatos in many different texts and goetias but Diavolo? That was just the italian word for devil. He was THE devil? While Kasi was lost in thought one of the other men, or demons approached her. He had dark black hair with a small hint of gray in it. "Yes we understand this must be a lot to take in, you wom't have to write a novel just a short passage of your experience here. You will be staying at the House of Lamentation with me and my brothers." He spoke with a very prideful tone. The tone of his voice sounded so egotistal that Kasi was almost disgusted. Whatever this was she was already over it. Whatever prank or skit this is Kasi would put an end to it right now. She began to stand but before she could speak she was interupted by Diavolo "Yes Lucifer and his brothers will be taking care of you during your year here, some of them are here now" he says truning towards the 3 other people in the room. But Kasi was stuck on the part where Diavolo said Lucifer. THE Lucifer. In a lot of religions and texts Lucifer was considered the ruler of hell or the underworld. But here he isn't, here he is some kind of host for some student program. Kasi had heard enough at this point, finally fed up for not getting a word in she blurts out "Oh HELL no!" And with that she finally had everyones attention. She walks towards Diavolo and says sharply "Whatever this is, a prank, a skit, some television show thing I don't care. Seems super cool all the effort you put into this but I'm not interested in whatever this is. Come on now demons? Lucifer and the devil? Devildom? Devil kingdom that's kinda clever but also cringe. I mean I know I'm a witcb and all but if you think I'm a dumb witch you're wrong. Also it is 100% kidnapping when you steal someone from their home while sleeping without their knowledge. Whatever form you claimed I signed is a lie. I would never consent to being stolen in my sleep thats weird. So this is over, if you aren't kidnapping me or trafficking me please take me home. I need to sleep before work tonight and I WILL be reporting this to the police, hopefully they'll actually do something."

Everyone pauses and starts laughing. After a moment Lucifer speaks "I assure you this is all very real, and you did indeed consent to this program. If you need proof this badly I guess I will oblige." All of a sudden there was a flash and Lucifer is now wearing horns and wings. His whole outfit has changed into a fancy suit. And before Kasi could blink the breathe was knocked out of her as Lucifer garbs her and carries her across the room so fast she almost blacks out. Lucifer sets her down and smirks. Another flash and he is back in the uniform. He grabs a piece of paper from his pocket and hands it to Kasi.

It was an application acceptance letter explaining the program. And at the very bottom was her messy attempt of a signature. They finally remembered the letter. Kasi had recieved it months ago and signed it thinking it was a cool video game raffle or something. They didn't even think about it again after mailing. Realizing the reality of her situation Kasi grows agitated. Yes whilst it is a dream come tumrue to be swept to another world full of magic and demons she was not pleased about most of this situation. She had to go to some school? She hated school, she hates how educational programs work they don't adapt to everyone learning style, it's more brutal than informative. And then she realized, a whole year? What about her job? Her debt and bills, her whole life? Did they expect that the world woukd just press pause and let her stay her a whole year? Evertone will probably think she had a breakdown and killed herself. She wouldn't go missing for any other reason. It's the first thing they'd all assume. If she came back she would probably be assumed dead, with a certificate and everything. Her job lost, her stuff gone, her life over. How would they possible pull off pausing her life? Even if magic all exists it wouldn't work. A spell that complex would be way to much trouble. Besides now that Kasi thinks about it, she wouldn't want to go back anyway. Why would she? After leaening how all this is real and her witchy dreams have practically come true there was no way she would return. "Well yes it does appear I have signed this paper and it does seem like you are a real demon. However if you want my full cooperation I have a few requests." The only way she would go through with this is if she would stay here and not go home. They thought about how the would negioate this properly. No point in being hopelessly naive that'll it will all go her way. Before she could continue Barbatos walks into the room and approaches Kasi. He has what appears to be an oversized uniform matching the ones everyone has. "Here are some warmer clothes for you miss. They may not fit well, but they should keep you warm until we get you a proper fitting uniform"

"Ah yes thank you" Kasi accepts the clothes and begins to put on the shirt and jacket. In all this mess she forgot how cold she was, she could barely feel her toes. Before she could continue speaking about her requests Barbatos says "My lord it is time for you next appointment"

"Yes indeed, apologies Kasi we will have to continue this discussion later. I will gladly here out your terms and consider them. Until then I will let Lucifer take over from here, I hope you enjoy your stay in Devildom" and with that Diavolo and Barbatos left. Well good now she has more time to think over her requests. Maybe she can get a vetter sense of exactly what she wants after having a look around.

"Well whatever your requests are you should consider yourself grateful Diavolo will here them out. Now you may introduce yourselves to Kasi, she should know who she will be staying with" Lucifer says turning to what Kasi assumes is the brothers that were mentioned.

"Hiiiiiiii hiiiiii Asmodues here! I'm the Avatar of Lust you must be so excited to be living with a beauty like me but I won't promise I'll be on my best behavior with you around. That was all so dramatic too you sure are interesting for a human!" Kasi recognizes the name Asmodeus. He was the demon of beauty so to speak. She didn't study too much about him. But she assumed he was similar to other mythological characters like Eros and Narcisse.

"Yes I will have to agree with Asmo you are quite the interesting human. You said you were a witch correct? Atleast you aren't some ordinary human you might be able to defend yourself here. I'm Satan, the Avatar of Wrath." Now THATS someone Kasi knows about. Everyone has heard of Satan, just like Lucifer. Although in some parts of the world they'd be considered the same person. But they weren't in some of the demonology texts Kasi read they were responsible for ruling different levels of hell in most religions. Where Lucifer was considered a fallen angel Satan wasn't he was supposedly always a demon in most texts.

The orange haired demon smoke interuppting whatever else Satan was going to say "I'm hungry Luicfer"

"That's too bad, now behave Beel and introduce yourself" Lucifer says to the now very sad looking demon.

"I'm Beelzebub, the Avatar of Gluttony, do you have any food?"

"Whoaaa careful human! If Beel gets to hungry he just might eat you!" Asmodeus says giggling.

"Well unfortunately for Beel I will not allow that to happen. Now the rest of my brothers aren't here but I'm sure you'll meet them soon enough. There's seven of us and we all are on the student council at this school. If you have any questions or need any help we will be around. Now speaking of brothers I've tasked one of them with look after you specifically. You will have to call him, here in the devildom your phone won't function and we have different types of technology here. This is a D.D.D. a Diavolo's Devildom Device, it is very similiar to your human world phones. All of our numbers are programmed in it already. Try calling Mammon, he is who will be looking after you.

~~to be continued~~~

Thank you so much for reading!♡♡♡

#obey me pact satan #obey me fandom #obey me shall we date #obey me x mc #obey me headcanons #omswd #obey me x chubby reader #obey me mammon #obey me fanfic #obey me oc #obey me diavolo #obey me house of lamentation #obey me devildom #fanfic #shall we date otome

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sleepingbutawake · 2 years

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congrats on 100! can i request the prompt masquerade ball with solomon and gn reader?

Thank you <3 and thanks for requesting annon ^^

As you didnt state in the request which genre it should be (fluff, crack or a little darker - please if requesting darker fic be a little more specific of what you want -) ill be doing automaticaly fluff.

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Masquerade ball

Solomon x gn!MC

Genre: Fluff

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As usual, there was a party at the Demon King's Castle. But I wouldn't call it a party. It was more like a ball. Masquerade ball. Each of the guests wore an extraordinary costume. Some of them represented famous people whether from devildom or celestial realm. Ofc, there were human ones too. And who else would that be than you and Solomon. The only humans there living amongst the other beings.

You both decided to wear matching costumes inspired by the Italian Commedia dell’Arte. Solomon was wearing a costume of Harlequin, who's role was that of a light-hearted, nimble, and astute servant, often acting to thwart the plans of his master, and pursuing his own love interest, Columbine, with wit and resourcefulness, often competing with the sterner and melancholic Pierrot. His costume was tight-fitting with bright triangles and diamond shapes and his face was covering black half-mask. You were wearing a costume of Columbine, usually cast as a mischievous maid in the Commedia dell'Arte, a comic but not always virtuous figure with a best friend and sometimes lover Harlequin. Your costume were a dress but could also consist of a wide blue skirt, a bodice, a red jacket and a white apron, whose pockets hide the love messages. You had a black mask covering only your eyes. (Lets pretend Columbine can be a boy too)

Ofc nobody understood your reference to the form of a popular theather from Italy. There is not an exact date when it was created but it became popular in the second half of 16. century. Demons ofc find human world boring. Well good for you two then. Not having to share the beauty of humans with them is good, right?

The ball was in full swing. Music was playing, guests were dancing and tables were full of whatever food you had in mind. There were so many people at the ball that you both got tired of them. Its was still the same. You had enough of the brothers and wanted to spend the night with that one person you desired to be with. With the only human besides you. With only Solomon.

When you found each other on the huge hall where the ball held it's place you step by step walked carefuly to the door and when nobody was looking - disappeared. Running all the way to the castles garden was worth it. There wasnt loud music but if you were quiet and listened carefuly you heard it throught the moonless night only devildom can have.

„So this was your plan all along," Solomon laughed from behind his mask.

You nodded. „Im tired of being surrounded by demons all the time.”

„I get it. After a long time you start missing what is the closest to your heart,” said Solomon and looked at the dark sky.

„A touch of humanity,” you said and joined him in looking at the dark sky where nothing could be seen. „The little things that make you feel at peace, feel at home,” you continued.

„Like stars on the sky?”

„For example.”

„What do you say, MC, for a little dance?” he asked and held his hand out for you to take. There was no hesitation in your actions. You took his hand and he led you to a small gazebo, which was in the shape of a circle with a roof. All around was railing overgrown by all kinds of flowers the castles garden could offer. The only light was from the laterns hung on the pillars from the inside of the gazebo.

„This reminds me of the human world,” you sighed.

„I know. Thats why i took you to this specific place in the garden. Barbatos has shown it to me.”

After you were done looking at the gazebo you took his hand and started dancing. It was like a dream to you. And you sure didnt want it to come to an end. You could spend every night there with him embracing you, you embracing him and slowly swaying to the slow melody of waltz. You could care less of what will the others think when they find you two together - if they ever find you two. Much more important to you was him - the music, gazebo and the nice calming atmosphere was all just a little detail that made it perfect.

„Mc,” Solomon broke the comfortable silence, „what are you to me now? Best friend or a lover?” You laughed. Making a reference to your costumes and its history was something Solomon would do. But good thing you were into it.

„Normaly im your best friend, but tonight? Oh tonight im willing to be your lover.”

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A/N: Oof, sorry if it was long. I got carried away. There are not many Solomon x MC fics or headcanons and this context have some much potencial. Btw the facts that i was stating here about the costumes and characters were true. I specialy for this fic did a research. Sorry if there are any gramatical mistakes ;-;

100 FOLOWERS EVENT

(The prompts I've already written will be linked there. If you like my work go check it out and feel free to request again!)

#Masquerade ball #obey me solomon x mc #obey me solomon #obey me mc

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the-meme-monarch · 2 years

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haha . *thinks abt a deltarune toh au*

#the dark world is the demon realm ofc #ralsei is either in the potions coven or already in the emperors coven and is just going school for fun #cap’n and sweet are mixed tracks in the construction and bard tracks #sweet started in construction and cap in bard and were secretly teaching eachother their respective tracks until mixed tracks happnened #kk graduated already so he’s Just bard coven #idk how queen would play into it but she’s in some kind of position of power and went ‘bard coven sucks lol. no more bard track’#susie and kris entered the demon realm somehow .#susie wants to learn healing magic :’]#now that I’m typing it I think ralsei is Already Guaranteed a place in the emperors coven but maybe he just started in potions #but hes allowed to learn all tracks now so he teaches susie healing magic like in game :]#oh fuck what if he was plant track as a flowey parallel #lancer probably isn’t old enough to have chosen a track yet #maybe the emperor is the knight HDHDJDJJDHD #words from the monarch #deltarune #the owl house

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Looking for fellow creatives for a fantasy project!!

Hi all! I’m looking for other people who might be interested in collaborating on a hobby world-building project. !!Please help me find people by reblogging this post!!

[ID: Sketch of someone waving cheerfully at the viewer. end ID]

This world is designed to be the basis for a magic-based, multiplayer platformer fantasy game similar in ways to Maplestory and Fantasy Life, where the player character travels throughout various cool and magical realms. If you want to learn more about the world, please check out the information under the “read more” (I didn’t want the post to get too long).

Some stuff about me: I’m a Thai-American genetics student/researcher with heavy interests in evolutionary biology and Southeast Asian culture. I like to draw/design in my free time. I’m looking for people who are interested in contributing (to any degree), especially those who have an interest in biology, ecology, or sociology/anthropology. I would love to be able to work with other people from cultures that are underrepresented in the fantasy genre (though ofc not a requirement). No skills necessary!!! I'm able to handle all the art and visual design load on my own, I'm just looking for anyone imaginative!

I tend to be very realism-focused, so I’m hoping that input from others will help this world blossom into a more fantastical, wondrous setting. You don’t have to commit to anything--if you want, you can just hang around a bit and see if it interests you, or just provide input once in a while.

This is currently just a fun side-project that I work on in my spare time. I want to make it clear that even though I’m designing it with a videogame in mind, there really is no guarantee that it would ever get to that point, and I don’t want anyone to join with the hope that it would eventually pay off monetarily. I’ll make sure that anyone who contributes heavily will get a say in where the project eventually goes, if it turns out to last long.

Please contact me on Tumblr or Twitter to get involved! I plan on making a Discord server to keep all our collaboration in one place, invites given by PM.

[All images described in alt-text]

The premise of the world is that flora and fauna are not separate beings, but instead that all animals start their lives as plants, turn into animals, and then at death they create seeds which sprout into new plants. People also go through this life cycle--when they start out life they’re the huge, slow-growing plants that provide the structure for complex ecosystems (pine trees, kelp, huge cactuses), and then when they become people, their community cares for the ecosystem in question.

--MAIN GOALS-- - To build a work in the fantasy genre that rejects the overwhelmingly common eurocentric and often colonialist setting, as well as incredibly popular westernized systems of fantasy morality (light v. dark, demons v. angels, etc) - To portray fictional cultures in a way that highlights the incredible diversity of IRL cultures without stereotypes or homogeneity - To show the interconnectedness of everything, including showing different groups of humans as being connected with each other and showing humans as part of the environment; actively rejecting contemporary notions of “mastery over nature”

!!Everything below here is subject to change!!

Since I’m heavily interested in evolutionary bio, I built the biology of this world on the premise that life evolved much like it did on our world, starting from a single organism and blossoming out into different branches. Humans, or rather “people”, evolved multiple different times whenever a complex, dense ecosystem arose. Here are the groups of people I’ve come up with. The player chooses which species they want to start out as, and the dominant weapons or magic style of that culture determines the combat style they first learn to use. (Each group of people has multiple different subcultures, but there would be one “main” subculture that players start out in.)

Merfolk/seafolk:

Perhaps some of the earliest peoples, seafolk start their lives as kelp and inhabit the thick kelp forests that surround many coastlines. They have a love for exploration and discovery, but generally avoid encroaching on land. Their magic generally has to do with water, and the weapons they use are mechanical crossbows and heavy blunt weapons (blunt weapons integrated with controlling/redirecting the flow of water to lend force to blows). I haven’t figured out which real-world cultures to draw on for inspiration for seafolk societies, since nobody IRL lived underwater, of course. This is probably the most open-ended group of people. They’re visually based on fish and salamanders.

Frostfolk:

These people start their lives as conifers and thus inhabit the taiga and tundra. Their magic mostly has to do with ice, cold, or wind, and their main weapon of choice is spears. In this group of people, I want to have different societies: a nomadic hunting/fishing society, a nomadic pastoral society, and a more sedentary river/forest-based society. They’re based visually on dinosaurs, specifically theropods, with perhaps more bird-like features.

(No name yet):

Related to frostfolk but now geographically isolated from them, these people start their lives as cycads and live in the tropics, especially on chains of islands. Some subcultures would be highly seafaring, while some would be more sedentary and involved with metal-working and smithing. For the sedentary cultures, their magic would revolve around utilizing fire, and weaponry would be small blades made from obsidian. They are also based on theropods, but would have more vibrantly colored feathers like tropical birds.

Dustfolk:

Based on carnivorous mammals, mainly cats, foxes, and coyotes, these peoples start their lives as succulent plants like giant cacti. They inhabit the deserts and canyons of the world and live a largely nomadic life. Their magic has to do with wind/sandstorms, and their main combat styles are focused on hand-to-hand combat, utilizing claw or knuckle weaponry.

Plainsfolk/brushfolk(?):

These people start their lives as deciduous trees, generally as part of savannas, or sparse forests on mountainsides. They are based visually on ungulates, mainly deer/antelope, goats, and pigs/boars. I plan to have a semi-nomadic subculture in the dry savanna, a more sedentary agricultural society in the tropical savanna, and a mountainous society. Their weaponry would use a combination of sword and shield, and they would utilize light magic by way of reflective metal or glass.

(No name here either... they’re humans):

Finally, there would be a species of primate-based people that start their lives as broadleaf evergreen trees and inhabit the tropical jungles of the world. Many of their societies would be agricultural, with some fishing river-based cultures. Their magic would be related to monsoons and thunderstorms, especially lightning magic, and they would use long, thin blades for fighting.

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In addition to the "main" cultures of the world, there would be many cultural centers where multiple peoples meet and trade food, goods, and technology. People will not be divided by nation borders or "species".

Currently, my idea is that combat is used to battle metaphorical representations of disease, malaise, generally bad and imbalanced things. I haven't developed this part of the storyline too much yet, I just know some thematic goals I might have.

In addition to combat (either physical or magical-based depending on the player's preference), players would be able to pursue a few different skills, like farming/breeding using a robust genetics system, tailoring/clothes-making, furniture/crafts-making, smithing, healing, cooking; as well as more "meta" hobbies like making maps and puzzles for other players to use.

Again, if you're interested in getting involved or have any questions, you can reach out to me here on Tumblr or on Twitter. If people do end up being interested, I'd like to make a small community on Discord to chat with! Edit: We do have a discord server now, you just have to ask to join!

#artists on tumblr #world building #fantasy #character building #speculative biology #brainstorming #game design #fantasy world #can't think of any other tags #ive never tried putting out a post like this before so i wonder how much of a long shot it is #spec bio #speculative evolution #ecology

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initiumseries · 3 years

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Hey! I love your thoughts on bad tv and I’d love to hear a series wrap up on CAOS if you want to make a post about it. If not no worries and thanks for posting your thoughts on the show over the last year. Loved them and love your blog too!

Thank you!! Sure I can totally do a series wrap up, pretty much right now, in response to this ask.

So, if I had to distill my issues with this series into a few bullet points it would be:

-plot -world building/continuity -characters

Plot

CAOS struggles with plot, and I think the biggest reason why, is they just seemed to completely lose track of what the hell they were doing lol. Season 1, ends up being the tightest season because the plot was simple: Sabrina’s dark baptism and her leaving her mortal life behind to become one with witchkind. They beat us to death with the Satan stuff, and they cram as much corny imagery as possible in, even if it doesn’t really make sense.

why are they having class in a hallway? Do witches not use technology? Why is that blackboard so small? Why isn’t this just a normal classroom setting?

Sabrina’s Season 1 character arc is also clear: she decides, fuck the rules, she’s going to straddle both worlds and everyone’s just gonna have to accept it. It’s not good, but it’s clear. S2, 3, 4 get completely lost in all this other weird stuff. Sabrina is actually not her father’s daughter, but Satan’s, and that plotline goes absolutely nowhere when Sabrina conveniently doubles herself (and experiences 0 consequences for it) and rules hell while also staying in Greendale as herself (seriously, it’s not like satan was dying or anything, he was perfectly fine. For what reason did Sabrina need to become Queen? There’s no answer or explanation for that, she just...did. Ok :/). Father Blackwood goes apeshit and pulls a Jonestown, for no real reason, CAOS starts leaning heavily into this white feminism stuff (for godsake, the coven kills a DEMON, with the fucking pain of childbirth?! Are you SERIOUS??) Then, s3, it’s about losing their powers because Satan is childish and petty, and a new group of spellcasters are out to kill the witches, and Prudence and Ambrose hunting Blackwood. S4, the eldritch terrors, which honestly, make so little sense, I couldn’t even be bothered. Each season, CAOs falls deeper into the trap of trying to up the ante, make the danger BIGGER, WILDER, more insurmountable, while being completely unprepared to stay consistent with their characters/motivations and undercutting their own BIG ideas with stupid, nonsensical solutions (let me trap this all powerful eldritch terror by taking it to a party, proposing and luring it into a magicked dollhouse...wtf?).

Worldbuilding/Continuity

What I hate most about these writers for Riverdale and CAOS is that they just don’t feel beholden to being consistent in their worldbuilding and continuity. I don’t find anything cool about kids living in houses with old tvs and rotary phones, but then having a cell phones or wearing modern clothes. Historical anachronisms like that should serve a purpose.

It COULD be interesting if the conceit is that Zelda and Hilda are OLD, so they take comfort in old things like that, but then that should be specific to the Spellman house, and it should be weird. People should take note of it when they’re there, Sabrina should be conscious of it because she grew up in a time where TVs didn’t look like they were stuck in the 50s. But instead, it’s just...a stupid mess of aesthetic anachronisms for no reason other than they can do it and I just find that to be lazier than utilizing those details in an interesting way.

In season 1, we get a relatively clear idea that the witches have a certain way of life, that bleeds into season 2. It’s still very sloppy; the anti-pope, using satan where we’d use “god”, introducing the feast and other dangerous parts of being a witch, and essentially just doing the opposite of christianity (except for the racism/sexism ofc. That would require too much thinking I guess). But by season 3, essentially the witches’ way of life have been completely turned upside down. And we never...unpack that. There’s no mourning for literal millennia of supposed tradition, there’s no real floundering or struggling. There are apparently no other adults AT ALL in this magical world outside of Blackwood, Zelda and Hilda, so there’s no real way to get a sense of the REALITY of losing their way of life for these witches, or this world. Is it even a world? Or just a handful of people? Lol. What it means to have to choose a new god to pray to, and is there an divisiveness over who? In Harry Potter, the kids’ parents are tangentially involved when they start pulling their kids out of Hogwarts. Do any of these kids’ parents pull them out of the school when they start praying to Lilith and then Hecate? Do any of the boys have issues with moving from a male god to a female one? Where did all these kids come from if they didn’t have parents and families? Is this witch world just...the school? Why? It would have been interesting watching the witches struggle and scramble to regain their powers while also being hunted by this new, threatening group whose magic seems to be much older, much darker. But instead, they just pivot, and have a fucking picnic before the full moon.

There’s nothing interesting about characters just constantly pivoting around obstacles without having any real emotional reaction, any real struggles. Obstacles like losing their powers, should be an actual obstacle. They should struggle, there should be emotional weight, and consequences. Instead, Sabrina continues to break rules to suit her agenda, put her friends and family and risk and everyone just...rolls with it. No one is angry at Sabrina for the loss of their powers? Her choice to not become Queen of hell is why they lost their powers right? No one has feelings about that? Sabrina isn’t ostracized? We never see the way these choices, or the overarching plot obstacles impact the characters emotionally. Instead, they’re doing this stuff:

Which is completely ridiculous to me. It all just...HAPPENS. Which is this entire series. Stuff happens, and the characters just, do stuff in reaction to it. Harvey, Theo and Roz are ostensibly human, living human lives. They end up getting pulled into Sabrina’s world, and no one has any strong feelings about that? Harvey’s brother is killed, Roz is turned to stone and Theo talks to his dead great aunt and none of them are haunted by any of that? No? They just decide to create a faux scooby club to fight demons? Ok. And that cheerleading things is over as quickly as we see it. Stuff like this is insanely frustrating to watch because it makes the show a nonsensical slog to sit through. There’s nothing interesting or engaging to latch onto because they just hammer through it all and make up stupid solutions to get themselves out of the impossible stakes they threw the characters in in the first place. They introduce ideas and discard them just as quickly. An ex:angels show up, start killing people, Sabrina channels satan and kills them, and then that’s the last of those guys. Metatron (jfc even the name is stupid) shows up and is killed just as quickly. Why bother introducing them then? Why bother do any of the things you’re currently doing in this show if you have no intention of seeing it through?

Characters

No one on this show gels, at all. I don’t believe Theo/Roz/Harvey/Sabrina have been friends for ages. I don’t believe Sabrina and Nick are “end game” (why the hell do we keep saying this riverdale? It’s stupid and senseless). I don’t believe any of these relationships at all. Part of this is because the cast have no chemistry with each other:

they do not look like a friend group or couples at all, these are a bunch of people paired together.

But also because they weren’t consistent at all.

Father Blackwood went from a witch/warlock purist, to a raging sexist, to a cult leader who killed his followers, to a raging maniac bent on hitler-esque destruction in 4 seasons...for nothing. It served no purpose. He didn’t even DO anything. He was nice to the Eldritch Terrors, and became immortal...for nothing. He killed the coven, for nothing. He killed his wife in childbirth, for nothing. Zelda stole the baby, for nothing. None of that amounted to anything worth while in the entire series. So what was the point? Zelda marrying Faustus also made no sense and only happened to show JUST how sexist he was! But why? WHY? We don’t receive explanations for character behaviour, and when we do, it still makes no sense.

Sabrina breaks all these rules and experiences ZERO consequences. At all times, and it makes her a terrible main character. Everyone else abides by the rules but she doesn’t and doesn’t have to pay for that? Why? She straddles both worlds instead of committing to one, and that was the closest we got to seeing consequences for her. Everyone rushes in to help Sabrina break rules instead of holding her accountable for feeling above them. Sabrina creates 2 versions of herself, and they sloppily tie in that all the realms are converging in on each other because of what she did. Except she and Sabrina Morningstar had been hanging out...ostensibly for days/weeks/months (who knows? Not this show!) before we saw any potential issues, and then we end up finding out that this is about the next eldritch terror, not about Sabrina existing as a double in 1 universe. People get upset for a second and then move on to help her. So why have rules in this world at all if it means nothing to break them?

Nick goes through literal hell, and immediately cheats on Sabrina because of how a man made of clay looked at her. That’s laughable to me. It makes no narrative sense. Their relationship doesn’t even make sense.

Roz and Harvey spend 90% of their time almost fucking. It’s bizarre. Their getting together was random and every single scene with them alone in it is like a precursor to fucking and I don’t get why. This show does not grasp how to build up relationships. Also do these kids not have parents? Theo and Harvey stay having constant sleepovers with their respective partners, in their parents’ houses? Really? At seventeen? Lol k.

I feel like, if CAOS were better thought out, it could have actually been interesting. But it was just a smorgasbord of stuff happening, and characters doing stuff, and none of that following in any real narrative way. Storytelling has structure for a reason, and a show with a good story structure usually yields an enjoyable watching experience. CAOS is a pretty strong example of how throwing that out and relying so heavily on aesthetics and still taking the show so seriously it’s not even fun terrible, gets you nowhere. Ultimately I’m glad it’s over.

#caos #caos netflix #the chilling adventures of sabrina

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I Love Matthew Fairchild aka Incoherent Thoughts about Chain of Iron (2021) by Cassandra Clare

I made one of these rant-rave reviews for SJM's book so check it out if you want, no pressure tho lmao.

Aight so I finished Chain of Iron last night and OMG I HAVE TO YELL like I loved it sooo much like yooo, I have a lot to say. I know the book is new so... beware for spoilers plebs.

Also context: I been reading the Shadowhunter books since I was 12 and I'm 19 now *insert dead emoji face* so yeah, I'm just so happy rn with where the Chronicles have come and the fact that they’re still ongoing *insert uwu face*. I remember when in like 2014-2015 or something when Cassandra Clare teased that Will and Tessa's kids' generation was gonna get a trilogy set in Edwardian London, loosely based on Great Expectations, and holy hell? I think that was perhaps one of the best days of my life considering how much I adore The Infernal Devices (that trilogy really changed the way I see YA literature... don't ask cus I won't shut up about it) (also yes I read TMI and loved it too but there's a “generation gap” between TMI and the other Shadowhunter books stylistically so don't ask me about that either cus I also won't shut up).

Anyway, shoo from here if you want a critical essay on Chain of Iron. I'm not providing that, this is just me raving here for the fun.

Listen... I want the bulk of this to just be two main things: The Matthew Situation, and then all the literary and judeo-christian meta aspects of it.

BUT I ALSO NEED TO TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING ELSE SO FRICK LET'S JUST START WITH THE OBVIOUS SHIT LIKE THE PLOT AND WHATEVER

Okay, the plot and writing and shit, let's get that out of the way:

The WHOLE Jack-the-Ripper-esque ambiance was just sooooo good man wow like I did not expect the book to take this cold turn but it worked so well. There was such a contrast between Jamie and Cordelia's warm little house and then the cold winter and the stabbings and shit and it felt like a nice little callback to the actual Ripper phenomenon that preceded them and a nod to the Whitechapel Fiend story from Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy.

Bitch OFC that whole thing with Wayland was a set-up like nawww that was too easy to spot and I get why Cordelia feels like shit about it.

Dawg Lucie was just the Among Us imposter here in that my girl was just venting and sneaking around with dead people and I was like nooooo girl run, don't deal with Fade this is a set-up THINK ABOUT JULES LUCIE THAT'S LIKE YO GREAT-GRANDSON *sobs* but yeah anyway my girl has death powers she gonna kill some bitches next book.

You see that confrontation between Lilith and Belial? MASTERPIECE DIALOGUE like this was the point within which I was just like "yo is this the book of Genesis or a YA Fantasy novel" like when Lilith said "I may have been cast out but I did not fall" like??????????????????? I YELLED she did not have to END Belial like that. What a bad bitch.

More on Lilith and Belial... "You, who brought nations into darkness? Shall I finally be able to tell the infernal realms you have gone mad, lost even the image of the Creator." HAHAHHAHAHA SHE SAID "YO BELIAL GO GET SOME THERAPY AND GET OFF MY ASS" LIKE??????

Ughhhh yasss Clare has improved writing diverse characters in this book compared to in The Dark Artifices in my opinion... I'm not gonna expand on it cus ain't nobody got time for that but like, I enjoyed how she wove Persian poetry and tales into the story and the way in which she writes Cordelia and Alistair. They're not caricatures of Persian people but rather multi-faceted beings who also happen to be Persian and I appreciate that. Also, Alistair and Thomas and Anna and Ariadne were just so fun and interesting to read as coupbles but also as individuals. She really higlighted diversity in a very natural manner. All I need is a hijabi character and I’ll die a happy woman lmao.

The level of META man like the references to Classics and art (I swear, she might have compared Matthew to angels out of Caravaggio AND Rosetti AND Boticelli paintings and I Am Living For It) and just all the quotes from holy books and shit omg I love it here like you really feel catapulted into the time period, she draws reference to external art and philosophy so well and I feel like she upped the notch on it in this book (didn’t know that was possible but it was the prose is BEAUTIFUL, archaic, but not pretentiously so). No, like the characters live in their OWN worlds of literature and art and history in the way we are living in THEIRS. They quote Wilde and Milton while we'll quote Clare. It's awesome.

This is an unusually structuralist take even from me but: I like the way the milieu social of the book, i.e., the high society Edwardian circles and their values, have a direct influence on the plot. James and Cordelia got married because society’s values essentially forced them to, not a demon. Cordelia abandons Jamie at the end of Iron because her shame as a woman in society and fear for her reputation made her, not a demon. Thomas and Alistair can't be together solely because of how Alistair tarnished the reputation of the Fairchilds and Lightwoods by using the horror of infidelity against them. Issues relating to marriage, gender roles, etc, stemming DIRECTLY from the time period rule the sequence of events to the same degree as the epic fantasy aspects (demons, Princes of Hell, the lore itself) do and I LOVE that dear God above.

OKAY THE GOOD SHIT LET US TALK ABOUT CHARACTERS AND SHIPS (N.B. but imma discuss Matthew and the Fairstairs situation separately below this portion):

Alistair's redemption arc: No, cus Alistair's redemption arc is honestly amazing. He really did change and it's not like his betterment as a person was linked to any one heroic deed but rather he simply decided he wanted to be better especially for his family and he decided to become a proper protective son, a caring brother, and an amiable friend. He fully owned up to his Malfoy tendencies and apologized without expecting forgiveness. He shows how he cares in the little ways and omg it's so sweet and tender. I really do want him to love himself now and be embraced by Matthew especially and the rest of the Thieves.

Dawg Lucie and Jesse are so funny to me like it's so hilarious how this girl fell in love with a whole ass ghost that no one else knows about like HHAHA. Are Lucie and Jesse my ult ship ever? Nah, but it's nothing to do with Clare, it's just that their relationship happened pretty quick and feels quite like something epicly romantic that Lucie herself would write. I just like slow burn and friends-to-lovers the most from Clare. To be honest part of me just wanted Lucie to not have a romantic arc all together but like, it's all good, I'm not complaining.

Okay Grace- like yooooooooooo I never hated her yunno. She has been abused and isolated all her life. It's not that she is a bad person, but rather that she does not know what being a person even entails. Can't even say she's a “doll” of a person cus she's never even been pampered like one by her family. I really started understanding her motivations since when they gave us her half-childhood with Jesse. I want better for her but cmon can she REALLY be saved???

GRACE X CHRISTOPHER *pretends to be shocked*... Okay, sometime in the middle of the Dark Artifices series some big brain put together a very thorough family tree of the families and like, it clearly showed that Grace and Christopher got married so like, lmfaooooo, I knew this was coming one way or another, but the journey to this ship is more important than the destination. Like in a way Christopher is such a cute baby lamb that it makes sense he'd end up being immune to her Grace-ness when he's just a cute little Einstein boiii. Like this is just so funny to me cus he's so oblivious to social conventions while she makes the milieu social her entire life so OFC it's gonna work. Like, this is such a worlds-colliding trope like just Give It To Me.

James and Grace - aw mannn Jamie just had me fricking wanting to hit a wall every two seconds cus like yooooooo every single time I think he and Cordelia are gonna stop being emotionally-constipated spouses, Jamie says some kinda shit like "omg me and Daisy are just friends uwu" like DO I NEED TO HIT YOU?????????? See I can't blame him for not slamming the door on Grace's face even tho he totes should- Jamie is so cerebral and kind that even if Grace wasn't using the enchantment on him, I think he would always be soft for her even if it isn't in a romantic way. There's just so much miscommunication cus like he said "Thank God" when she broke off the engagement with Charles and lowkey embraced her but it also wasn't his fault cus it wasn't even romantic BUT OFC IT LOOKED HORRIBLE TO CORDELIA like James literally never told the woman at least once that he loved her so OFC she thought she was back to square one with him dear God above what a mess. Not his fault, but she DID set down one rule for him: don’t cheat with Grace. And yeah even tho he hasn’t properly cheated, it must FEEL horrible to her cus she’s just been enduring the pain of their unrequeted love for so long :((

See imma just say it but if Cordelia thought that James didn't love Grace then she def would have confessed to him about her feelings right but like James, on the other hand, was delaying his own romantic confession cus he was BEING EMOTIONALLY CONSTIPATED and I can't even say the bracelet was solely to blame cus like my boi was just being so difficult omg I believe he should be lightly spanked by his three parents aka Will, Tessa and Jem *cries*.

Cordelia is such a MOM like she's so mature and stable and her self-preservation instinct? OFF THE CHARTS I love this woman like James definitely treated her well as a hubby but like I JUST WANTED HER TO HAVE CLOSURE ABOUT SOMETHING and boy oh boy she did get that closure she got it good but not from the person she expected in the LEAST *hehe* *pelican screeching*... like Lucie was being sus with the whole ghost business and James was being just, quite a case, dealing with Grace and Belial right and I don't blame them at all for their secrecy and shit but her FATHER DIED and her friends were hiding a lot from her so in a way she turned to Alistair for help but he could only do so much cus of his own pain (she couldn't even talk to her mom cus she's pregnant and she doesn't wanna stress her right) and then there was this emotional block between her and Jamie, Lucie was often absent and conspiring with the dead... the last person remaining was HIM (imma discuss this soon), but yeah my heart just went OUT to her cus she's tryna save herself and her family and she just doesn't know what to do. That's why I love the way her mom told her to stop holding herself back for others and live her own life. Like Cordelia grew on me so much cus in Gold she undoubtedly was a strange Elizabeth Bennet-wallflower hybrid and I... do not usually get attached to wallflowers but in Iron I feel like I finally understood that she was just tryna be unproblematic and self-preserving all along and nottt put her family and friends in a tough situation.... she reminds me of my mom personality-wise so yeah I’m totally rooting for her now that her *situation* in the past seems clearer.

Anna, Thomas and Matthew are such a SQUAD lmfaooooo like united in their gayness they'd be so unstoppable.

Will and Tessa are the most in-love of all the in-loves in this story and I respect that so much.

I lost a year to my life every time the romance between James and Cordelia got cockblocked. Like they were MARRIED and I thought they were gonna at least sleep next to each other at least once BUT NO James couldn't take a hint omg I'm actually gonna eat my fist and sob (but in retrospect, I think this serves a bigger purpose in terms of the narrative structure i.e. the interruption of all the spicy James and Cordelia action serves a bigger purpose which I think brings me to my next section, *exhale*)

Welcome to the Matthew Fairchild Enthusiast Club (this section is me talking out loud; it makes no sense):

bitch.

LISTEN TO ME LISTEN WELL I LOVE THIS BOY SO MUCH IMMA SCREAM I REALLY AM GONNA SCREAM MY FIST IS LITERALLY IN MY MOUTH *BACKFLIPS OFF THE ROOF WITH LANA DEL REY PLAYING*

Okay like where to BEGIN I think the Shadowhunter boy who I'm most attracted to is Julian while the one I love the most is Will but I think I see myself in Matthew the most. Like ever since that first story where the Thieves all met at the Academy then got expelled, I think that I just KNEW Matthew was destined to be epic. Plus the whole Wilde obsession? I’m no libertine myself but I just love his chaos and passion for life.

NO CUS HE'S SO WITTY AND SWEET AND EPIC AND YET SO SECRETIVE AND DEAR GOD ABOVE AHHHHH WILL HE SURPASS JULIAN FOR ME??? Ion even know but this is just sodjsgdwsdygyegydgef

Hear me out but I said after finishing Gold last March that I wanted this book to be Matthew's healing arc right so halfway into the book when I realized that we weren't getting all that good healing arcing I was confused just cus I thought it seemed natural to address all of his alcohol issues and sadness by now. LITTLE DID I KNOW CASSIE WAS SETTING UP A WHOLE OTHER ARC WITH HIM THAT I WOULD HAVE NEVER GUESSED WTH.

At first I thought Matthew didn't have feelings for anyone at all, and if he DID develop feelings unexpectedly, I fricking thought that maybe he's catching feelings for James, if anyone??? I mean, I did have some suspicions about Matthew from the get-go: like he's so secretive and as readers we think we know everything there is to know about him since we were all privy to the truth potion incident in his short story right BUT NO I GOT PLAYED AND I DESERVE IT SO BADDDDDD.

Listen I hadn't shipped him and Cordelia simply because I never thought it in the realm of possibility but it MAKES SENSE as a ship... think about it: he never says what he feels, he flirts with her like he does with EVERYONE, he is kind to her in the way he is with EVERYONE. Really, Matthew is shippable with everyone, doesn’t matter if they’re taken cus that’s just what his Matthewnes allows for ya feel. There is such a beautiful irony that CORDELIA herself did not see this coming. Even the little teasers and hints in Gold have only NOW started making sense to me likejhss. I just felt like the hints in book 1 did not indicate to me that Matthew really harbored real romantic feelings for Daisy. I thought he was upset that James and Cordelia were being fakes, not a developing CRUSH on the woman fgs.

Not to mention that you usually sense a ship building when the emotional connection or sexual tension between the characters is made clearer but to me their FRIENDSHIP grew right but it didn’t feel like Cordelia was thought that she liked him or he liked her so that means me and Cordelia are clowns *together* 😤

Okay I was lowkey having SUSPICIONS but I immediately shut them down right... like firstly when he took her to the White Horse in his car and she went OFF and OFF and off about how she felt free for the first time? I thought Cassie was just tryna develop Cordelia's self-liberation arc through Matthew there. Heck, I didn't even think ANYTHING of it when Matthew confession to Cordelia about the "truth potion" incident at all cus I was like they're FRIENDS??? BUT now it's adding up now...

See when they were at the inn place and he was telling her that she doesn't in the least seem like a 100 year-old married woman? I was like hmmmm he's so sweet but why did Cassie phrase it like that like??? When Cordelia later reiterated that she thought Matthew's flirting was “meaningless”?? I was like hmmm kinda SUS tho. And then when he and James had their fight over the way Jamie kissed Grace like again I thought he was just like? ion know? mad at James for it but I didn't think he was in LOVE with Cordelia??? So I immediately put aside my slight suspicions. The probability that he had a crush on James at that point seemed more likely to me.

BUT THEN it started hitting me that every time Matthew drank, even before he explained his issue with the truth potion, that Cordelia would note it, she would worry about him, she would think of her father which seemed so poetic to me, history repeating itself and all that but this time you can FIX it??? Yeah, but again I didn't think the L WORD would be involved man???

Now imma sound like a delulu shipper here but it just makes sense they would develop feelings logically- reason being that it definitely is possible based on the way Cassie set up the story, like there's a combination of little “friend things” that can turn this into a proper ship: Matthew rescues Cordelia in the ballroom when Grace captures James' attention in Gold. Cordelia sees her father in Matthew all the time but knows now she has a chance to be there for him in the way she couldn't have been there for Elias (classic “history repeats itself” trope, she doesn't want Matthew drinking in Paris like dhshghdfhdhch). Cordelia tastes freedom for the first time when driving with Matthew. Matthew caught James and Cordelia making out in the room and was pissed but not even HE properly knew why then??? Umm, when she thinks James is forreal cheating with Grace on her she subconsciously goes to Matthew??? I also found it funny just how every intimate marital moment between her and James got interrupted somehow. Like, it's as if the narrative is just a living force REFUSING to let James and Cordelia as a ship be consecrated. Heck, every time Matthew is scantily clothed Cordelia notes it. LITTLE CRUMBS I TELL YOU LITTLE CRUMBS.

I tell you when Cordelia showed up to Matthew's flat I thought they were gonna f*ck as friends but I got SOMETHING EVEN BETTER SOMEHOW

THEY ARE GOING TO PARIS LA BELLE EPOQUE PARIS THE PARIS OF DREAMS AND ART LIKE??? FRICKKKKK I DID NOT SEE THIS COMING AT ALLLL MAN? I deadass thought the story would be restrained to the UK but like it MAKES SENSE the trope subversion MAKES SENSE.

“In Paris, with you, I will not need to forget.” SHITTRGEGGGDG

BUT CORDELIA LOVES JAMES TOO LIKE I CAN'T DENY THAT... where are we GOING with this like Matthew wouldn't lie about his feelings and yet Cassie wouldn't give us Matthew and Cordelia crumbs to only end it in the next book immediately for her to just ditch him for James. I mean she was clearly holding back on fleshing out James and Cordelia as a ship for this but to WHAT END??? Daisy feels wild and free with Matthew and she feels warm at home warm with James. I can’t advocate for the sinking of ANY ship here.

Imma say what we're all thinking: Is she gonna give us a Will x Jem x Tessa type situation where Cordelia gets both of them cus I'm not strong enough for this but I also think it'd be really funny if James gets a surprise bi awakening in the next books and then we get POLY even tho this would never happen, it’s actually impossible, because of the whole parabatai thing.

Listen I ship Cordelia and Matthew much more than Cordelia and James, not that I dislike James in any way tho. It's just: Matthew is so unrestrained and she's so composed. They seem like an unlikely pair so it makes sense that they hit harder for me. James and Cordelia have such similar personalities but I ALSO don't ship James with Grace at all so like?? Poly would be... ideal... but it can’t happen especially cus they are fricking parabatai... a Will-Jem-Tessa situation seems more likely but mannnn ion know what to expect. I just want FAIRSTAIRS to have their moment in Paris. I mean James and Matthew clearly don't abhor each other for this.

Take everything I say with several grains of salt, take everything I say with the whole Dead Sea actually, cus I damn well know that Matthew is so flirty and whatnot that I’d have shipped him with anyone in their little circle but now that she set him up with Cordelia it all feels so right?? I have wanted this man in a good relationship since he walked onto the page in Nothing But Shadows so-

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I can't believe Cassia duped me like this omg, Matthew is gonna have his healing arc in Paris with Cordelia by his side like- THIS IS ALL I HAVE WANTED AND SO MUCH MORE. Question to yall btw: are you all as surpised at Fairstairs as me or did yall see it coming all along like smart people? Am I a lone clown? 🥺

BRUH okay criticisms of CC?:

Lmfao a part of me feels like I GOTTA say something bad about CC or the book but honestly I have no objective complaints about it as of now. Am I saying that it’s the PEAK of Young Adult literature and Urban Fantasy? I mean, I make no such claims tbh. I’m not here to be critical when I read as a hobby and when CC’s writing makes me happy regardless of how flawed some people see it.

Okay what next?

So like I’m excited for the adult high fantasy she’s releasing in the fall and whatever other works she might be releasing outside of Chain of Gold within the Chronicles.

As for TLH itself? Man I’m just VIBING like I suspect I will reread Chain of Iron soon and maybe one of the anthologies just because I am happy that this series actually happened after me waiting like 6 years for it when it was just a concept: a Dickensian retelling filled with poetry and culture and history and the conventions I so loved in TID at age 12. This is all I been wanting tbh. I’m just enjoying watching this series come to fruition for it to inspire and transform me in some way. I feel like in a way my coming-of-age aligns with that of these specific characters yet I ALSO feel like I raised Jamie since infancy. Wack.

MATTHEW AND CORDELIA IN FRANCE LA BELLE EPOQUE TO BE EXACT IMMA CRY I DID NOT SEE THIS COMING AND AHHHHHH. ALSO WILL AND JAMIE GOING TO CORNWALL TO GET LUCIE AND MAYBE BOND I LOVE WILL. HE WAS ONE OF MY DILF AWAKENINGS AT AGE 12 AND NOW HE’S HERE AGAIN IMMA CRY. I WANNA SEE MATTHEW GET HAPPY. AHHH.

Ending with a fun quote: “In the wise words of someone or other, there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy, Maurice.” 😉

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danieyells · 3 years

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Messy mutterings about Chapter 55 spoilers with a small angst warning, copypasted from discord with little cleaning and edits lol

I'm imagining Raphael sent Luke away so he wouldn't interfere with him killing/fighting Michael and Simeon went along with the idea and is in the human world too so Luke's not, y'know, on his own in a strange new world and to reduce Luke's suspicion and all. But as Michael and Raphael are fighting or whatever Luke somehow learns what's going on/realizes why things are off and rushes home to try and stop it.

He tries to get between Raphael and Michael(perhaps his back, Raph perhaps striking while Michael is lost in thought missing the brothers, spaced out, staring at the wall where their portraits were) and is struck violently by Raphael's spear instead. Simeon, ofc, followed him home to try and protect him but is too late because of Luke's own determination to protect Michael bonus if he grows a little in this scene--just magically, because his current smol form is too weak to help surely but if he were a little bigger, a little stronger, maybe he could make it in time--!! and Luke is impaled.

He doesn't die but none of the three wanted Luke hurt in this confrontation--Michael is angry at Raph for attacking/being violent in the first place, Raph is mad at Simeon for failing to restrain Luke, and Simeon is like is now really the time for this because hello Luke is hurt.

Angels are made of strong stuff, he's not gonna die but he'll be in a bad spot if they don't get him to an angel who specializes in healing. I've elected this to be Uriel for now although I've been told that Raphael is generally percieved as the angel of healing--but with OM canon his reputation sonfar is so hostile I'm gonna say that may not be the case. Michael (or Raph) can stave things off for a bit but he's not healing specialized either--they're all Archangels and Seraphs but their fields are elsewhere, mostly combat.

(Luke tries to assure that he's fine and attempts to remove the spear. They don't allow this because the spear is, of course, keeping most of his blood in at the moment.)

They can't fly him to someone because it'd be bumpier so they have to carry him or call/run/send for help--so other angels do learn what's going on and speculation begins. Luke is hospitalized and Raph and Michael and Simeon stay with him while he sleeps, kinda tensely, not really ready to talk out whatever happened. But before he passed out Luke tried to tell Raphael not to fight/kill Michael, to talk to him instead. He wanted to tell him to talk to the demons/humans too, they're not as bad as they think(he and Raph are very likeminded so he thinks 'maybe Raphael will listen to me since I'm starting to see that I was a little wrong maybe') but he couldn't get it out.

Simeon messages the demons, Solomon, and MC and says he won't be returning to the human world/devildom for a bit because Luke was hurt in the CR. Mammon, having had recently gotten attached to Luke, is stunned and angry and anxious and wants to know what happened. Simeon isn't ready to tell them yet, and Mammon demands Barb make a portal to the CR for him to check on Luke--surely Barb is also worried because he cares for Luke too!

Diavolo says they're not allowed to go and Barb agrees(he felt as much before Diavolo said anything too.) Simeon agrees because there's some unrest now and speculation and with an exchange student angel having had been injured by a notoriously demon-skeptical Archangel some angels are worried the demons may be involved in this somehow and if demons suddenly showed up it'd make things worse. Mammon curses his helplessness because his new little brother minion is hurt and he can't even check on him. Simeon feels helpless too--he's an archangel, a Seraph, but he can't help Luke either.

I imagine MC then offers to visit instead--they may be a powerful sorcerer now but they're still just a sheep human with an inhuman aura right? They wouldn't be as concerning for the general populace. After some consideration the demons and Solomon agree this would be okay, as does Michael and Simeon [and Raph maybe] but they say to wait a few hours/a day or two before doing so, just to allow some cooldown/recovery in the CR.

(In the meantime Mammon reviews one of Luke's recent text chains to him where he's baking something. He tries to copy all the steps and instructions and clumsily makes some cupcakes. They're ugly and Mammon isn't known for his stellar cooking, but they kinda relieve him a bit and Beel says they taste alright, so Mammon asks MC to bring them to the CR for Luke for him--there's enough for Michael too since he's probably going through a hard time. It's not like he cares or anything!! He's just building up credit! They'll owe him with interest when this is all said and done!!!)

Idk what'd happen afterwards--it's probably the first time MC meets Raph so it's not under the best circumstances and he definitely wouldn't trust sweets from a demon. And even if he was gonna fight/kill Michael he doesn't trust that Mammon would give him anything safe and instinctively would tell Michael not to touch them, let alone Luke if he's awake to do so. So it's not like he hates Michael, he just. Things need to change and he tried to incite it the only way he knows how--or, rather, the most effective way, given how quickly things changed after the Rebellion. A spear to the throat makes anyone listen. A rebellion is what made Michael change, so maybe it will help him go back to normal too.

(Maybe Luke is awake enough to hear them talking about these things and weakly asks if Raph is going to be exciled over this--the first thing he says since passing out. They're surprised because. He got injured trying to protect Michael but he's still trying to protect Raphael, Michael's assailant? But Luke understands how Raphael feels because he feels the exact same way--or he used to. He didn't trust demons or humans or sorcerers or the exchange program, he didn't think they should get along at all. And he saw how sad Michael was without the brothers and hated them for that too--and Raph feels the same way, right?

Angels are all family. Raphael, Michael, Luke, Simeon, even when they disagree, when their views don't align due to time and perspectives and experiences and ages and positions, they're all brothers. And Lucifer and them were their family too. Even if they disliked them or how they behaved, even if they resent their rebellion and its effects they were still family and they loved and cared about them.

And Raphael doesn't want to see Michael hurting anymore either--certainly not over people who don't care anymore, certainly not over people who turned on them and Father, who must hate them as well. . .but he's been with the brothers for over a year now. Maybe two or three at this point. And he may have only learned it recently but. . .they haven't forgotten. They probably don't hate them. And the demons, the humans, even those unfaithful and the practitioners of dark magic, the fallen, they're not as bad as they thought. They're not necessarily their enemies. Raphael doesn't know it like Luke does because he's never left the CR aside for war and maybe visiting the human world briefly too, right? But if he'd consider things differently, if he's allowed a chance to learn, Luke himself promises Michael, promises Father who's surely watching as he always is, that he'll understand. Raph made a rash decision albeit after many many years of consideration-- but it was out of ignorance, so please forgive him and give him another chance and don't excile him? On top of that he needs a chance to learn and do better--imagine how he'd feel, being turned into something he hates or fears? It will help him learn, sure, but it also may only make him feel worse or make him do something more rash or result in another Fall if he has supporters.

Raphael doesn't hate Michael--he just wants things to be different. Perhaps to go back to normal. And he doesn't want Michael to mope over the loss of the seven brothers and Lilith anymore either.

And maybe in this time, since they'd have to decide what to do about Raph, Michael requested Diavolo come over too--y'know, in case Raph is exciled, they'd want Diavolo's approval and reassurance to keep an eye on him too. So maybe he or Barb, as they arrive in the room, would approve of Luke's appeal--ask what Michael and Simeon And Raph and MC think. They could always bring him in as an exchange student too! 😘 That worked for Luke!

Ultimately Raph probably wouldn't be exciled/become a Fallen but be given another chance. Maybe he's stripped of his title temporarily, until he's sufficiently deemed to learn about demons, angels, their history together, culture, whether or not they can get along, etc--so he's bitter, but thankful. And Michael understands that perhaps he's been allowing how much he misses the brothers and Lilith to cloud him and maybe it's time to move on and make changes to the Celestial Realm again after all this time. Bonus points if the bros came along and he was too distracted to sense them--someone's like "oh you're moving on? So we came here for no reason after all?" and ofc he's happy to see them again and gets to hang out with them again for a while before getting to say a goodbye with more closure. And he hangs off of Lucifer's neck the whole time they're there lol he and Dia bond over being Lucifer fanboys too.

Luke's okay in the end--a little worse for wear because being stabbed by Raphael is Not A Small Ordeal but he's okay and he shows a little more maturity. But he's also still same old Luke who will happily point out how awful demons are and use it as an excuse for distrust/fear--but he's more mindful of it now because he feels like he needs to set a good example for Raph lmao.)

#obey me!#obey me! spoilers #obey me! headcanons #obey me! luke #obey me! raphael #danie yells at obey me! headcanons #danie yells at obey me!#danie yells writing #i meant to take a nap like an hour and a half ago but my brain went 'WRITE THIS OUT FIRST' and it got so long i haven't slept yet lol #so now it's naptime #long post

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shima-draws · 4 years

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Okay now I’m really curious!! You said you had a Tododeku AU based off of one of your original stories right?? Mind sharing what that’s about?

Omg sure!!

It’s called Shadow Catchers! It’s about this girl named Sheila who gets accepted into a very prestigious academy called the DAA (Demon Arts Academy) which is basically dedicated to training and refining students into becoming full-fledged Shadow Catchers with actual licenses. Shadow Catchers have one sole purpose: to seek out and destroy beings known as Shadow Reapers, which seep in from the cracks of another world and threaten humanity with their chaos and darkness. They’re basically like demons with negative influence

Sheila’s a prodigy among the trainees, and wants to follow in her mother’s footsteps, who was a legendary Shadow Catcher back in the day and left behind a huge legacy for Sheila to uphold. Her mother disappeared years ago without any trace, and Sheila’s determined to get her official Catcher license and find out what happened to her mother.

Of course everything kinda goes haywire when she’s suddenly confessed to by one of the boys in her class, a nearly unnoticeable nobody named Aaron. Sheila wants absolutely nothing to do with him at first lmao and views him as the weak link in their class because he’s constantly being hospitalized due to having a bad medical condition, and she constantly questions why he was even accepted into the academy in the first place if his health is so terrible. However over time Aaron continues to crack Sheila’s tough outer shell, and she sees his unwavering determination to become a Shadow Catcher despite the risks, and that inspires her a lot!! She starts to grow closer to him, which bothers his best friend Nura immensely, so Sheila has to deal with her on the side too;;

As the year progresses and they get more intense with their training and courses, the Shadow Reapers start getting stronger and gaining new abilities—like being able to take on the appearance of humans by sneaking into their shadows. It’s very problematic and gets Sheila and Aaron into a lot of trouble because they unfortunately become targets, and cause two Reaper clones of them to start popping up and causing havoc :’)

Things start to come together as the two of them discover more and more secrets about the Reapers, like how they have a central figure of power called the Shadow Reaper Queen, and they find clues about how to travel to the Shadow Reaper Realm, the world where all of the Reapers come from. Eventually the two of them actually venture into the Realm to find out the truth behind everything, and this includes Sheila’s legacy, the real reason behind Aaron’s illness, and the true identity of the Queen. It’s fun. And it’s angsty :)

So that’s the general plot! In the BNHA AU, Todoroki is Sheila, and Izuku is Aaron, and Bakugou is Nura. Ofc their other friends and classmates are just the rest of 1-A, Sheila’s mother is Rei, and we get all the UA professors in there too haha

#Shadow Catchers is GOOD I SWEAR it’s one of my favorite original stories #I just don’t talk about it enough 😭#Shima answers questions #Shadow Catchers #Shima’s OCs #Guess I’ll tag this—#Tododeku #BNHA

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scarletfokx · 4 years

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Regarding episode 58- Beware, there shall be spoilers!

Okay, so, Peacock and Runyu have a convo where Jinmi overhears them talking and figures out that Runyu knew that Xufeng wasn't her parents murderer before she killed him. Then after peacock leaves and Runyu wants to get some shuteye before the wedding he is confronted by Jinmi who shouts at him in angst.

It was a powerful scene. And extremely...unjustified.

I personally believe that in her mind Jinmi still wanted to escape the blame of everything bad that happened because it all revolved around her, and she obviously didn't want to marry Runyu, hell, she didn't even PRETEND to care about him. She didn't even show friendly affection. The thing is...is what she said fair or true?

I want to point out that it would have been cruel of him to tell her that peacock was the real murderer after she already killed Xufeng, and even if he wanted to tell her he couldn't because she put herself in a coma. He couldn't exact her revenge because even though he denys it and we know he is jealous of Xufeng, he still loved his brother deeply and the damn peacock was the only thing keeping Xufeng alive. I couldn't find the episode before the wedding/murder, so I'm not entirely certain that Runyu DIDN'T know who was behind Jinmi's parents murder, but I doubt he would have let her go through the injustice he had to, that's against everything he stands for and let's face it, he DID fix the heavenly realm and the six realms as best he could after the corrupt ruling of his parents.

I'm posting this because I really need to know what you guys think. I barely sleep at night now and this injustice infuriates me in bed for hours!

Jinmi didn't give him the opportunity to defend himself properly. She even scared him and riled him up with the fear of losing her. He just took her words like whips.

How did he use every inch of her? He didn't marry her, he didn't sleep with her...and as for her accusations of him never loving her and only loving himself...he never loved himself until he met her. He loved her because she taught him to love himself. It was sincere and honest and it never changed. (Love triangle my ass, they never gave Runyu a fighting chance! Xufeng always got seen and acknowledged for his actions but Runyu never did.)

He also genuinely never wanted the throne. He just wanted to give her the best life could offer, in a world fit for someone as pure and innocent as her to live in. He fixed it up and took on all the dirty work and responsibility...

When she accused him of approaching her in the beginning because she was close to Xufeng and using her to spy on him...LIES. I literally (in my obsession for justice) searched all the scenes and annalised them closely up till episode 16 for this, and no, he didn't ever spy on Xufeng intentionally, and he was genuinely interested in her because he liked her, NO OTHER REASON!

And he is smart, but even he didn't suspect that she was related to Water Immortal the day of the empress's birthday. Sure it surprised him, but the hail stone isn't far off from all the other wierd and unexplainable things she did. He didn't he know about his mother yet, or the conspiracy. He eavesdropped on them all after HE helped save her from the empress (no thanks might I add), to learn the truth about her. He didn't plan to use it against her or anything!

As for pretending to not have seen her father...guys and girls, if it got you brownie points when you were behind in the live competition, wouldn't you do the same? It WAS underhanded, but it wasnt a bad thing really. In a way it was cute and showed us how he wanted to impress his in laws, goddamn, he has been teased about the nonexistent fiance for ages and now he finally has her, AND it's the one and only girl that he likes!

Anyone else think that Xufeng SHOULD have stepped down because it was the right thing to do? It WAS the right thing to do. He was willing to leave her when he thought they were related, yet he still left his father with her to show her that his feeling didn't even change! So why should Runyu's have? It doesn't mean he knew anything! And for his brothers sake, his brother who never asked for anything but gave as much as he could to his brother who already had everything, he WOULDN'T step down. WTF?!

Yes there was something between Jinmi and Xufeng already which was ofc, 99% only Xufeng's affection anyway, but this was his brothers promised bride for gods sake! Is it wrong for Runyu to pursue her? It was wrong for Xufeng to pursue her in the mortal realm! And was Runyu wrong for restoring the elixir? No. He did it for selfish reasons, but also for her own health as he always does. Love, even true love, is NEVER entirely selfless. This gave him equal footing to Xufeng to try and win her love.

And for the record, she is the o e who said she liked Runyu, even though he did understand it as the 'friend' way, as he also proved by playing 20 Questions. He never pressured her into staying in the arranged marriage, even when he knew she was trying to get out of it. He really just wanted her to be happy.

Runyu didn't need her fathers help to fight Xufeng, he needed his help to overthrow his parents and to stop the tyranny. Her father was already wanting to exact justice for Jinmi's mother, so they had similar interests. Didn't Runyu's mother deserve justice? I get how she abused her son, and to me it will forever be unforgivable, however by that point she was already driven into insanity.

The beast of dreams part was also a low blow. It's one of the few things that actually belong to him and he gave it to her in a sincere gesture way before anything terrible happened. Sure maybe he could have been using it to watch over her, but hello, he was protecting her!

I have no doubt that he believed that Jinmi would go against Xufeng for him, but I doubt he expected THAT outcome. The way she screams that she only loved Xufeng...his heart...you can just see it shattering!

And hello again, he IS the most innocent, kindest person around there who doesn't even expect praise for anything he does! Xufeng shows off while Runyu hides away. I doubt he ever wanted the entire world to adore and respect him :'D I mean...does she know him at all?!

Can you really tell me he wasn't sincere when he professed his love to her? <\3 Can you imagine the hurt he felt seeing her and Xufeng having sex in the dream? By then they all knew she was Runyu's fiance, and even worse, Jinmi couldn't love or show romantic love so Xufeng ALSO manipulated her into feeling and doing what he wanted. There are no two-ways, that is a damned fact. Runyu knew he had no place staking a claim or getting revenge for something that still wasn't his yet so HE DIDN'T! Even when she spied on Xufeng in the demon realm and kept getting into trouble, he kept saving her again and again, more times than Xufeng, and yet he asked for nothing. She he hurt him by saying she 'owe's him' OUCH! He gave her half his life!

(Somebody You Loved is totally his song btw!)

I feel that Runyu is like a heartbroken husband who knows his wife is having an affair with his own brother but because he loves them both he just continues being good and hoping with all his heart that she will open her eyes and realise that he is the right person for her, not Xufeng. I can imagine a man laying alone in bed and being grateful that his wife still came home to sleep. That's how much its synchronizes.

He then bore his heart open for her to see and told her the things that mattered to him and she told him he didn't deserve to be loved...O.M.G. Okay, so, I won't lie...I'm a crier. I cry easy. But this had me bawling like an infant because both sides were just so...I'M STILL DYING INSIDE! He wasn't even lying about giving up being the emperor! He really meant it. <\3

How desperate he was made it so much worse. He made some wrong choices in life, who hasn't? She killed an innocent man for a crime he didn't commit, and yet...

Runyu believed that she would understand and learn to live him in time. She could have. He knew the self hate was killing her inside so he even told her to hate him. <\3 All he wanted was to love and protect her. And then she dropped his heart scale like it was nothing. NOTHING. O.M.G!<\3

And when he said 'In the future, if we get married you might not be treated fairly. Would you mind?' He meant that she would be treated the way he was which was horribly! She didn't mind then, so where did that faith go?

His memories at the end scene...just so sad. I think I got an eyelash in my eye. He brokenly picked up his scale. Despite how she hurt him he won't regret it because he did it all for her.

After she died and the flowers all disappeared, including the one in his hand...it was heartbreaking. That's all he had left of her. At the end when he sits on the throne alone and in the dark,(except for his aid and the beast of dreams), he doesn't even resent her a tiny bit, but he has everything except the one he tried to get it all for. That's just...they really did him wrong.

My problem is that (and I started a fanfic that I'm too muddleheaded to continue atm) I can't get over this injustice. I'm one of those people who really just can't take it. In all of two weeks I watched Novoland S1and2, Ashes of Love, and The Eternal Live S1and2, and through all that, this scene sticks out worst of all of the injustices. Not even Tingjun's cruel fate.

Am I the only one who see's Runyu like this? Tell me what you think, I need someone to sooth my poor mind!

#ashes of love #runyu #run yu #xu feng #jin mi #cdrama #fan theories #fan theory #theories #theory #chinese drama

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SPACE MOUNTAIN: THE MOVIE DISNEY WOULD MAKE IF IT HAD THE BALLS

the movie takes place in a fantasy sci-fi setting where advanced technology exists but it’s all due to magic. padmé amidala is a disney princess, the heiress guardian to space mountain, a holy site that has existed for thousands of years, a giant mountain that connects the kingdoms of the earth below to the heavens above and keeps the magical elements of the world in balance. it’s hollow inside and houses bustling high-tech cities of thousands of people, all of which padmé rules over. as its guardian and ruler, it is her job to keep space mountain balanced toward light magic. to help her, she has a council of warriors called the lumiknights who are basically the jedi. in fact, the head of the knight council, a woman named malvina luminaire, told her a prophecy that she will be the one to balance it toward the light once and for all. however, the regions below are also in a crisis due to things being shifted too much toward the light: nature is out of balance, and the land is suffering greatly for it. padmé thinks, though, that the solution to the crisis is to shift the balance more toward the light, in spite of that literally being the problem.

darth vader, on the other hand, is the demon prince of the realm of exegol; he is not fully in charge of the demon kingdom due to him still being young when his parents were dead, so his regent is supreme chancellor sidious. he was supposed to earn the princess’s trust by disguising as a human named anakin skywalker so that he could gain the secrets of the mountain for sidious and use it to plunge the realm into eternal darkness. he earns the trust of the council of knights, who eventually appoint him to the council. throughout the course of the story, he and padmé also fall in love, which is super duper forbidden because the princess of space mountain is only allowed to marry other people of noble birth.

throughout the movie, both anakin and padmé have visions. padmé has visions of anakin turning into this horrific monster of dark magic, while anakin has visions of padmé dying after she balances space mountain--she is consumed by the mountain, but another shadowy figure seems to be benefitting from this as well. yoda is also in here, he’s a hermit who left the council a long time ago, he’s sorta a rafiki-like character who keeps trying to tell padmé that her current path is putting her in danger, but she’s like “it’s destiny, i have to follow my destiny.” there are also a ton of hints that anakin is vader, such as vader being oddly protective of padmé in his conversations with sidious and even letting her go in a fight scene. shit happens, i don’t know what, but vader gains access to the mountain’s secrets and in an absolutely apocalyptic-looking scene he corrupts the mountain, killing malvina luminaire (no graphic death is shown though, she has one of those classic cartoon getting crushed by a falling object deaths). this also plunges the land into darkness in a process that is completely irreversible unless it is unstopped by the one thing that embodies light magic the most: true love. padmé goes to try and find anakin so that their love can undo the corruption of space mountain, but vader meets her along the way. he then tells her that he is anakin, in a reveal that in this verse would be just as shocking and iconic as the “i am your father” reveal to luke.

he shapeshifts back into anakin and starts pleading with her. he tells her of his visions that she would shift the mountain to the light and then die for it, and then drops the BIGGEST BOMBSHELL……he figured out from talking to yoda that malvina luminaire’s prophecy is a LIE. malvina’s plot this entire time was to get rid of padmé by having her balance the mountain so that she would be the strongest lumiknight in the land. so vader considered not following sidious’ plot and turning the mountain dark because of his love for her, but then did it once he found out this new information in order to save her.

padmé goes to yoda and asks if this is true. yoda says something to the effect of the absolute truth this is, tried to tell you i have. she asks him what she should do now and he says that only her and anakin’s love together can bring the mountain back into balance, but that he has fallen down a very dark path and he fears that this might not work--that vader may by now be too consumed by anger and hate and lust for power to love. padmé says she has to try, and so she does. she manages to get through to him ofc, and the two of them face sidious together. possibly the best scene in all of the movie is when vader literally PUNCHES SIDIOUS DOWN A REACTOR SHAFT, like literally, he decks him in the face and sends him flying over the railing and sidious falls screaming to his death.

padmé and anakin then go to the top of the mountain and place their hands on the summit, pouring their love into it to stabilize the mountain--the balance of light and dark solves the crisis, and there’s a scene panning across all the kingdoms around it that show how nature heals thanks to the power of these two’s magic and love, and then the two of them kiss. she also realizes that technically, since anakin is a prince--the prince of exegol--the two of them can marry, and her parents are like ‘well we can’t argue with that.’ the movie ends with padmé and anakin waving out at a cheering crowd, the guardians of space mountain, with a toddler luke in anakin’s arms and a toddler leia in padmé’s.

disney would never make this movie in real life because it would include the following things:

a mixed race neurodivergent couple (i love brown padmé, her name is sanskrit for ‘lotus flower’ so she could definitely be desi)

accurate depictions of mental illness (padmé’s depression and anakin’s bipolar), mental disability (anakin’s ADHD) and physical disability (anakin’s phantom pains)

accurate depiction of abuse that isn’t played for laughs--sidious is very much anakin’s abuser, and unlike gaston’s abuse of lefou this isn’t slapstick, it’s serious. little kids might not pick up on it but any adult can tell what it is at the way he shrinks back and flinches at sidious’ voice and the subtle gestures/threatening tones of voice that sidious makes that look like he’s about to lash out at ani.

positivity for amputees and burn victims--ani has all four prosthetic limbs and some burn scars and he’s still considered the hottest man in the land

diverse POC cast in a scifi setting

#you call yourself a dark lord? you couldn't even conquer space mountain! || DISNEY AU #verse info. || DISNEY AU

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🔥 @ Yumigami (gatheringofsouls) ofc~

drawn to you as a moth to open flame, without a drop of embarrassment or shame // accepting.

He sees her between the flashes of lightning trailed by a field of stars, hears the might of her hammer crash against the inky blackness of their demonic foes in time with the thunderclap, and all he can think as he raises his sword in kind is that this is how it was meant to be. How man and god, born from the First Flame and the first shadow cast from its light, ought to have stood against a world of grey skies and towering stone trees and immortal dragons that hated them from the moment of their birth. How they should have been equals, how the devotion of one could’ve fed the strength of the other against the horrors of their world, how they should have reigned together whether by light or darkness in each of their cycles’ turns…

They were deprived of that by the old gods, in the lands of Lordran where humanity was shackled to flame, sacrificed for the sake of a kingdom that perished nonetheless in macabre irony. They were crushed still under the heels of the new gods in the lands of Drangleic, humanity degrading itself before deities imagined for a comfort that wasn’t real or slaughtered for the thirsting gullets of those that were all too tangible for their wickedness. Brom had scorned them all, he and homeland forsaken for all their meaningless faith hard fought for, and against the sins of the gods would make war eternal to bring them to bear for their crimes.

It had not been until so, so recently that he found a divinity that did not deserve the judgement his sword dully delivered. It had not been until he stumbled upon the people of this far flung place, until he had all but stepped upon a rabbit whose claim was the moon and her duty to serve, to protect, to save her people as once Faraam had been meant to for his own. In Yumigami he had at long last found what his dutiful heart had craved for but been starved of: a goddess worthy of his devotion, his service, his life and sword and strength until the end of his days if she would have it.

Draped in celestial colors moon-gifted and blessed, he is a blazing white shining against the darkness of this stormy night, a fiery crimson that carves through the demons that would swallow Nippon in their shadows. A swing from his sword strikes down a scion of darkness and meets the swing of another with a ferocity unmatched, batting the katana aside before slaying the wielder with a slash that cleaves the demon near in two. Three more take the place of their fellow fiend but are laid low just as easily, their claws and swords and hatred finding no purchase on the painted armaments of one protected by Yumigami. The screaming tide of shadows recedes and rushes back again, and again, only to break against the bulwark of his wrath, led by their dark desires to the slaughter as sacrifices for the gods of Nippon, for the moon that fights just as fierce beside him even now.

A champion of Orochi emerges from among the rank and file, some hideous thing with three heads and too many arms wielding too many weapons to count before it has suddenly fallen upon him with a terrible howl. His own cry answers it, the shrieking of steel in protest his rebuttal as they fight to bitter end. An axe’s head is caught upon sword’s edge and torn free from demonic grasp, two daggers batted away with a flourish before he lunges, Brom’s attempt to skewer it caught between crossed swords- their dance is one that waters the earth with ink and fresh blood alike as they trade blow for blow beneath the outpouring of the sky’s wrath above. This clash of gods’ chosen, this exchange between man and monster, ends as quickly as it began when Brom slackens his grip and lets the swords of the enemy tear through the flesh of his flank. What hideous glee the champion finds from the cruel blows is short lived, for their edges are now trapped fast between steel plate and mail, leaving their champion wretchedly open to the ramming of mortal steel through its wretched heart.

When it falls the paltry remnants of a once dread horde falters, stops, then stares in fear and growing terror as Brom hoists the already fading corpse over his head with a triumphant roar of victory. Here is the proof of his admiration for Yumigami. Here is the evidence of his worship to the only worthy goddess he has ever known.

“Flee!” Splattered in the freshly spilt ichorous ink of fallen foes, still dripping whites and reds from celestial paint, Brom stands before them all as an avatar of her wrath and ruin towards all who would threaten this land, this people. “Flee! Run back to your shadows and cower in fear! Run back to your realms of darkness, worms, and tell your master what his hunger has wrought!” With a great heave he casts the fallen champion onto its already retreating fellows, crushing those too slow to flee beneath its weight. “For the shadow of Orochi cannot stand before the light of the moon, before the might of Yumigami!”

When what precious few of the foes still yet living have fled from his sight, Brom winces and kneels onto the still soaked earth. Numbed fingers manage to free his face from his helm, and he sucks in a ragged breath between clenched teeth as he prods the still weeping wounds left from demon swords. He doesn’t need to turn to see that she’s standing beside him now, mochi hammer in hand, offering the free one to him as though to help raise him up once more as she had when first met so long ago… from the hatred that had near consumed him, from a wrath towards the gods that had eaten away at his soul just as fiercely as the Darksign still sought to.

“Yumigami,” Brom sighs. His longsword’s point digs into the softened earth as he anchors himself to it, props himself against it whilst still on bent knees. Beneath the crescent moon above, before the rabbit goddess, the hand of his not holding tight to his weapon swipes at the divine paint covering his breastplate and draws it across his face. White, then red, and when he meets her gaze it is with an expression painted in the likeness of her own markings, in pale imitation of her glory so deeply admired and drawn to.

“If only my own causes had been as noble as this.” He mutters, reaching out to take her hand now, not to rise but to honor as he brushes his lips against her knuckles. “If only my own gods were so driven by courage and compassion, so full of beauty and grace.”

Brom loosens his grip, lets his hand fall from hers, and presses the hilt of his sword against his face in reverence and honor, in salute to Yumigami.

“I am grateful for their cowardice, for the weakness. I would have never met you otherwise.”

#gatheringofsouls #verse; vagrant lord ( interim. )#// brom: the one goddess i find to be worthy would be someone i'm attracted to. of course she would.#// time to play a game of 'how much of this beast of an answer actually makes sense!'#// tl;dr brom is absolutely enamored with One (1) rabbit moon goddess and shows it through crushing her enemies!#// neat stuff i think #witchamania

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original, percy jackson, pokemon, avatar, skyrim, fallout ;

I’m AJ! I lost a couple partners in the holiday craze, which is totally fine! Now I’m lookin’ for some RPs to head into the new year. If we had something lined up and things fell off the wagon, no sweat, just message me again and we can get the ball rolling again! :)

For original settings: apocalyptic (zombie, disease, extinction event, whatever), supernatural (fantasy, urban, sci-fi, literally anything). For fandom universes: Percy Jackson, Pokemon, Avatar: The Last Airbender/Legend of Korra, Skyrim, and Fallout.

Gonna run through my basic info and then onto the particulars. 💕

⥽ About Me ; ⥼

• Name/Age ; AJ! 22! Finally!

• Timezone ; CST! I don’t mind time differences, this is just so you know my general schedule.

• Length ; Depends on whether it’s novella or multi-paragraph. If m.para, around 3-5 minimum I guess? Novella would obviously be much longer.

• Reply rate ; Varies depending on whether we’re doing multi-paragraph or novella. I can respond anywhere from every day to every other day or a few times a week to weekly depending on the writing style of the RP and my schedule.

• OOC ; I like getting to know my partners and sharing enthusiasm over our ideas and characters. Nothing hits quite like mutual investment! I like making playlists/pinboards/sending you videos or songs or memes that remind me of our characters!

• Contact ; Strictly email for OOC and roleplay unless we’re using GDocs for the RP itself. You can find me at [email protected].

⥽ On the lookout for ; ⥼

• Doubling ; Not a deal-breaker!! I just prefer writing a cast of characters, so this is something that’s more of a bonus. Ideally we’ll double, but I’m down for writing just one character each. Let me know how ya feel about it!

• Will only write MxM or FxF ; MxF’s not my cup of tea (I’m extremely picky with it, fellow gays u know how it is). If we’re writing a cast of characters then I’m fine with having an MxF side couple. And I STRICTLY write OCxOC! Canon characters won't be found anywhere near this stuff, folks!

• 20+ ; Partner’s gotta be 20+ even if we don’t write anything explicitly adult! I’m outta my teens now and don’t have any interest in writing with them. Same goes for characters. It’s a 20+ zone for both partners and characters ‘round here, folks!

⥽ Yes! ; ⥼

• Smut ; I enjoy writing it, but it’s not a deal-breaker if you’d rather fade to black. All characters will obviously be adults. I expect versatile characters in bed by default, that way we’ve got an even route for playing roles in bed. Admittedly this shifts a bit depending on the character I write but for the most part, yeah, I stick to verses.

• Face claims ; Spent a huge chunk of my roleplaying years on tumblr (it was very over-the-top and flowery and weirdly formatted and grossly difficult to read, I know I know), so having a face for characters stuck with me. If you don’t have any of your own and want good resources to find a face, I’ve got some recommended sites I can throw at ya! Not a deal-breaker, though, and for certain fandoms (Pokemon, Avatar) I actually prefer not to use realistic face claims so we can just opt outta that when writing in these universes.

• Depth & growth ; Not a fan of one-dimensional characters or characters who act the same from beginning to end! People change with experiences and the people around them, so this is to be expected. ESPECIALLY when doubling with a cast. I loooove complicated characters growing together.

• Plotting & Worldbuilding ; *For original settings/worlds! I’m not picky with this if we’re working with a canon setting, so if that’s what you’re looking for, we can skip this section. I run into loooads of folks who say they do this when they really don’t. We’re writing an entire world together, so there’s some degree of effort involved! I need specifics to use as a start-off point for the roleplay and a general outline for where the story’s going. RPs that are just random, spur of the moment with writing as we go on tend to burn out REALLY quickly for me. I know not a lot of people are into this, so I’m sorry about that.

⥽ No! ; ⥼

• Single paragraphs ; I’m not too picky with a lot of length a lot of the time, I just don’t mesh well with people who don’t write more than that. Go ham. I like my responses meaty!

• Limits ; Abuse, nonconsensual/sexual assault, pedophilia, incest (includes step-relations, adopted relations, and that figurative like if one character essentially raised another or they were raised as family), weird age gaps, BDSM, any kind of master/slave or dom/sub dynamics.

As for the goods, I’ve laid ‘em all out for you here! Keep in mind that while all of these are fun on their own, I’m definitely the type of writer who’s into mixing and matching. Sci-fi apocalypse? Fantasy apocalypse? Fantasy supernatural stuff? Sci-fi fantasy? Sci-fi supernatural stuff? Supernatural apocalypse? Period settings? Literally whatever you could think of, I’ll give it a whirl. The particulars down below are just to get the ball rolling and catch some interest, some asterisks for current cravings but I’m soooooo honest when I say that I’d love to write anything down below and won’t shoot you down if you come at me with stuff. Hit me up with whatever you’d like!

APOCALYPSE: My bread and butter! Bro. I’m all about the tense, harrowing, and especially gut-punching when it comes to how close people become to survive together in quiet moments of a world they used to know. I’m a big fan of zombies, so that’s my loose preference. I loved Black Summer on Netflix – the earlier episodes, at least, as well as The Last of Us. That’s the kind of vibe I favor with zombies/zombie-like creatures. But, ofc, an apocalypse can be anything! I love writing different takes on the genre since there’s so much to cover. Extinction event, pandemic, impact event, monsters/beasts, man-made, whatever. The more creative the apocalyptic setting, the better, so I’d love to bounce some ideas back and forth. Not too into a nuclear apocalypse setting, since that overlaps a lot with Fallout down below. I’ve also had some ideas of a futuristic/sci-fi apocalypse that I’d love to tell you all about if you’re interested!

FANTASY***: High fantasy, low fantasy, medieval fantasy, urban fantasy, whatever. Love dragons, love magic, love weird fantasy flora, definitely love the classic prince/princess x knight or commoner schtick. You want prophecies? I’m game. You want elves? I’m game. You want steampunk? I’m game. You want none of that and wanna do something else? I’m game, baby. The possibilities are endless. I’ve had two particular ideas floatin’ around in my noggin lately: an apocalyptic-fantasy that takes place in a medieval fantasy realm wherein an ancient curse/plague erupts across the land with horrifying zombie-esque symptoms (obv with more fantasy elements than just that) that involves a quest to try and awaken a god or two OR some magic journey to the heart of it all and out and end to it, and a modern fantasy involving a run-down summer camp secluded deep in the woods. Two new counselors (our characters) start working there over the summer and things slowly unravel from there, either with faerie stuff involving replacing campers/staff (definitely aiming for the freaky horror faeries as opposed to like, beautiful or only slightly unnerving faeries) or the camp being run by a secret cult that sacrifices campers/staff.

SUPERNATURAL/PARANORMAL***: Vampires and werewolves and demons, oh my! Can’t go wrong with horror, especially can’t go wrong with comedy-horror. I’m more of the type to prefer humans and supernatural beings together in a ragtag duo type of way as opposed to two supernatural beings, but anything’s cool in my book. Medieval/fantasy setting for a dark fairytale vibe, urban/modern supernatural beings slinking in the shadows outside of the human eye, supernatural sci-fi stuff, mysteries and danger lurking around every corner? Seriously, it’s a great genre! Any and everything is fantastic. I’ve got a loose concept of demons/the Underworld I’d like to get into revolving around a human accidentally summoning a demon or making a really poor deal with a demon and the eventual threat of the opposite effect (humans who work with angels/angels who clean up demonic stuff) since I’m struggling with the worldbuilding of it, so applying all that to a roleplay to give it a whirl sounds like a great way to work out the kinks. Plus, c’mon. Paranormal romance. End of the world. Flipping the script on angels and demons with the demons being “good” and the angels being “bad” but really there’s more nuance to that since they’re two sides of the same coin. What’s not to love there? I’m a sucker for human/demon relationships and/or human/angel relationships, what can I say!

PERCY JACKSON*****: I haven’t ever roleplaying this verse before, so this is completely new grounds for me. I’ve seen some fun takes on it, though! Scoured older ads but haven’t reached out to anyone because the posting time’s pretty old, but a couple ideas I’ve skimmed through sound fun. HP got a period take on it, so why not put that spin on PJ with a period setting rather than in modern times? Or just a regular modern setting. Y’know, keep it classy, keep it sexy, keep it fun! I’m definitely interested in life outside of camp since they’d all be adults. Life’s supposed to suck for demigods, so let’s get into that. I’ve only read the first series but I’m game to read more or look over the Wikipedia if it suits your fancy! I’m REALLY looking for a PJ RP, seriously, message me.

POKEMON: Man, I just… miss Pokemon, dude, what else can I say? :( I miss fun adventures and goofy scenarios and taking a more serious or realistic route with threats. I’ve got a couple of ideas from heists to evil Elite Four members to Poke-Jurassic Park, but I’d love to hear anything you’ve got in mind!

AVATAR*****: Alright, not gonna beat around the bush, I had a killer post-Korra RP setting like a year ago that died off early on and now I’m kinda itching to put it back into action! Basically this whole thing just revolves around our own Avatar and world/conflicts. Something before Aang could be fun too? Or a couple Avatars past Korra? There’s so many routes we could take this! And so many things we could bring in! I had an Avatar marathon with my brother this weekend and I just miss this universe. I’ve never actually managed to RP it before, so I wanna remedy that!

FALLOUT***: Played 3, watched various playthroughs of New Vegas, 4, and working on 1+2! I’m a recent fan and I’ve fallen head over heels for it! I’ve got ten prepped OCs for this universe so feel free to take your pic once we get into contact! :D I think it could be fun if we make our own setting for this, but I’m so down for piggybacking off canon settings. I love the Mojave in particular, but everything’s cool in my book. I’ve also got a couple plot ideas, so I can tell you all about ‘em when we get into things!

SKYRIM***: Well I’m a new Fallout fan so it should come to NO surprise that I’m new to Skyrim too. I recently got into it after someone recommended it to me and I’m having a blast playing the game on the Switch! I don’t have any particular ideas but I’d love to dip into the water here and see what comes of it. I’ve got a couple character ideas already so if I manage to rope anyone into this universe I’ll be one happy camper.

#multiple paragraph #long term #email #pokemon rp #smut rp #submission

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