Ooo love the devil’s bastard au
In one of your precious posts you mentioned Charlie and Nicaise meeting in heaven and getting to bond. How do you think a meeting like that would go?
They wouldn't know who the other was at first. It's an act of fate (me) that brings them together. I've seen a few different people say that the winners in Heaven don't remember their lives on Earth, but I haven't heard this until recently, and even if Vivienne did say it, I'm hesitant to take Word of God as the absolute truth until it's actually shown in the show proper. Things change in the writing process, you know?
That said, I like the idea so I'm going with it.
As a winner, Nicaise also has some deer-like traits. Her heavenly outfit is all creams and golds, she's got soft doe ears and white speckles across her cheeks, shoulders and arms, as well as a pair of cream-colored wings. Even with the deer traits though, Charlie doesn't make the immediate connection. She's a dark-skinned Creole woman who speaks with a distinct accent from Alastor's, so there's a bit of a disconnect in Charlie's mind.
They probably run into one another while Emily is showing Charlie around, perhaps at the zoo. The winners haven't been informed that they're hosting a guest from Hell because the heavenborn angels don't want to cause a panic or anything, but it becomes clear within a few minutes of conversation that Charlie's different from everyone else in Heaven. How amazed she is by the simplest things. Her sheer awe at the koala. The smell of brimstone that clings to her.
Now, Nicaise knows there's something... off about Heaven. She's known it since she first arrived and she felt like something important had been stolen from her. She just can't put together what that something was. Over the decades, the heavenborn angels have tried to placate her, reassuring that there is nothing missing from her life and that Heaven has everything she'll ever want or need. She calls bullshit. But, realizing she's not going to get anywhere butting heads, she opts to go the more subtle route, seeking out like minded winners and bringing them together. Together, she and her allies have been trying to figure out what the heavenborn are keeping from them, what they lost, but they've hit a lot of walls. Sera is too difficult to approach, and not easy to trick, Emily is just as in the dark as they are, and Adam... Well, Nicaise knows how to deal with repulsive men. But Sera realized pretty quickly what Nicaise was doing and forbid Adam from speaking to her or her cohorts, so that line of investigation was cut short.
Needless to say, Nicaise is thrilled to meet people from outside of Heaven.
She probes Charlie for information and Charlie is plenty happy to talk to someone from Heaven who doesn't seem politely disgusted by her lineage. (Something about Charlie's description of her father strikes a chord in Nicaise. She can't quite solidify the thought.) Emily is surprisingly open to the topic of conversation as well; Sera's never told her any of these things!
Nicaise knows that she must have had a life and a family back on Earth, but it's not until Charlie starts talking about souls passing to Heaven or Hell that she really understands what this means. For just a moment, the veil lifts from her memories. And then they're gone again, like a dream. Charlie, on the other hand, is more than a little peeved that Heaven is actually preventing winners from remembering their own lives. Yes, some of the memories may be painful, but these are their lives! The souls have a right to them, regardless of how painful they were! It's her first hint that Heaven might not be as idyllic as it seems.
Unfortunately, Charlie's meeting with Heaven's higher ups means they don't have as much time together as they would like, nor will they have any way to contact one another once Charlie returns to Hell. But she's left a lasting impact on Nicaise and has an ally in her and Emily both. Emily tells Nicaise everything that happened in the meeting, including the revelation of the exterminations. Nicaise passes this on to her group, who pass it on to more people who pass it on to even more people.
Soon winners all over Heaven are questioning and Sera is panicking. Things get worse for her when Sir Pentious shows up in her office. If she's going to maintain order over Heaven, she needs to find the people responsible for spreading disorder, and get rid of them. Fast.
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Seperatism needs gatekeeping. It's not for every women and that's ok.
I see separatists on here wasting their precious time and energy trying to get OSA women (mostly) on board. Trying to appeal to them with "separatism will benefit you too!!!" Sis they don't care. I'm like when people show you who they are believe them, remember? It applies to women too. The ones who get it will get on board by themselves.
And also you can't reap the benefits without doing the work. If you're not willing to disengage from XYs, you have no business being in separatist spaces
As a fellow seperatist, what do you think?
I'm not a separatist but I agree 100%. Spoke on this here.
when people show you who they are believe them, remember? It applies to women too.
I think a lot of separatists, feminists, and other women that constantly make excuses for maIe identified women do so because they dont want to be lonely. Similar to how women will keep making excuses for maIes because they love them & dont want to be alone.
Besides realistically speaking; things like separatism going mainstream full of women who aren't serious will be a disaster & end up the way feminism did. If women aren't fully committed they'll just be a liability so it's better off without them.
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If you’re someone like me who struggles with anxiety around calling people on the phone, especially important/authority figures, here’s a site with some short scripts I found that you can read off of for when you call your reps for ceasefire in Palestine. It’s not as complicated or long winded as you think it has to be, nor do you have to answer any questions. All you have to do is fill up their inboxes with demands for a ceasefire, they can’t ignore us forever.
also, if you really really cannot under any circumstances call, please at LEAST send as many emails and sign as many petitions as you can.
here are a few more petitions for you to sign
amnesty.org
oxfam.org
take action.amnesty.international
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I love the headcanon that Kaeya's corset is actually a back brace
In general I just love the idea that Kaeya has chronic pain and illness.
He's already got an eye patch! Yeah his eye "is fine" apparently, but it was hurt in The Fight™ with Diluc, and you know what Diluc fights with? Fire and a claymore. I'm not an eye expert but I'm pretty sure being hit in the eye with fire will cause at the very least some lasting damage. Canonically Kaeya can can still see out of it, so perhaps severe light sensitivity, maybe blurry vision to the point of vertigo.
But something about the corset being a back brace is near and dear to my heart. I love it! I've read it in so many fics and all these amazing writers come up with so many different reasons he need it, and I think it's lovely (lmfao I sound like a sadist).
Did he get it during The Fight™ when Diluc's burst slammed him into a rock, rendering him unable to move away fast enough before the next attack?
Did he get it when they were teenagers, when protecting his brother and captain from an incoming attack, making Diluc overly protective of him in the ranks for a good while, because gods know Kaeya himself had no self-preservation instinct and would do it again without hesitation?
Did he get it even earlier, when they were mere children, falling off the winery's roof because him and his brother were being silly little boys who didn't know better than to climb so high when playing pirates?
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Hmm. Wonder if V1 could teach Gabriel "Slam Storage" or all those other quirky ways of moving about? You know, considering his status and all that? (BTW, love your work!)
(aaa thank you!!) gabriel definitely has a lot to learn about the mechanics and physics of moving on the ground, which he initially sort of underestimates as flying, by its much less linear nature, would seem more difficult on the surface....and it would be, if that wasn't just gabriel's natural state that he's worked with for eons lol and omggg i love the idea of v1 trying to teach him what it knows, how to move faster, how to jump off walls, how to pivot and dodge just at the right moment. it can't fully translate but with v1 optimized for ground combat, it can give him plenty of aid in learning how he needs to move now without his wings (a big hurdle is just getting gabe to not instinctively try to use them while still on foot to give himself an extra boost or to take weight off to turn or stop - his wings just completely throw him off since they're no longer fit to function that way and it hurts BAD!!!) but i think its lessons definitely start to take and gabriel learns to move VERY quickly on the battlefield, plus he's absolutely great at launching enemies into the stratosphere with ground slamming since he now weighs significantly more than v1 does (also means v1 can quickly whiplash right to him - convenient!) and so his slam storage is probably ridiculous and possibly devastating lmao i still think v1 maintains a speed lead on him (esp with built-in functions like sliding and dashing), but gabriel becomes a highly mobile fighter with some of the burden eased by having a partner. great until v1 pulls out its bonus "advanced tech" class (it's rocket surfing)
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