abyssower

[abyssower]

Character profiles!!! Yay, I love them. Thanks!

Name: Iver

Role: Protagonist

Age: ~22

Appearance:

Occupation: town guard (at the time of chapter 6)

Family: Jorgen (brother), Danika (mother)

Best friend: Helga (I think. I didn't ask him)

Way of speaking: polite and courteous (with strangers), emotional and expressive (with friends)

Hobbies: picking up stray animals and people (I suppose), and collecting interesting stories from other people.

Interpersonal relationships: kind-hearted and always strives to help others. He tries to find a common language with everyone and avoid conflicts, but despite this, he remains a person with principles that he will not violate.

Faults: he worries too much about the opinions of others. All the main problems come from this: misunderstanding what he wants himself, etc.

What he wants more than anything: for the people around him to have a better life.

@eloasun

ANOINTED OF THE LAKE — Eshani Faison

Thanks to @bardic-tales for the tag for the OC Profile game! :D

Basics

Name: Eshani Faison

Age: 168

Gender: female

Type of being: Fae

Nationality: Vaera, Helindian

Ethnicity: Seladian (Vaera)

Magical Abilities:

- Shapeshifting — if she wanted to, she could take the likeness of any living being she so chooses, but her most common usage of it would be to change her height, turn into a phoenix or alter her appearance in some way to match her fashion (such as changing her eye or hair colour, for instance)

- Teleportation — a rather important ability for her in the context of her profession, but it’s a lifeline and freedom for her also. It helps her to confuse, manipulate and otherwise get past people, but she will sometimes teleport to some other city or locale she has previously visited for a fun day trip or something

- Flame magic — she likes the drama and grandeur of it, using it for flair or to intimidate people. In addition, she uses her flames for seemingly minor things, such as for light, igniting campfires, lanterns/other controlled fires, roasting meat and so on so forth.

Occupation: High Councillor

Role: protagonist

Personality

Eshani is the type of person that naturally draws people in, puts them at ease but all the while, they catch none of her personal life. Because she keeps herself highly guarded, for fear of anyone using her identity against her.

In the position she’s now in, her tendency to collect people’s secrets is a great advantage. She pulls strings around her, for better or for worse, her stubbornness and tenacity a double-edged sword.

For those that she favours most, she is a deeply loving, selfless individual. In the past ten years she’s been away from her loved ones, there has not been a day when they haven’t crossed her mind. She feels a great amount of guilt for abandoning them, but all the same she has a tendency of leaving her loved ones in the dark when she’s dealing with things, doing things on her own so she doesn’t have to worry about the people she cares about getting implicated.

To those looking in from the outside, she seems like a bright, intelligent, if a bit manipulative lady that also seems a touch haphazard. She has a tendency of shifting mid-air or mid-movement, pulling stunts such as jumping off high places and sometimes teleporting straight behind someone. The more comfortable she is around someone, the more likely she is to be spontaneous and mischievous.

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Traits: chatty, charismatic, playful, intelligent, manipulative, stubborn, self-sacrificial

Likes: chatting, painting, sculpting, flying, her birds, travelling, fashion

Dislikes: fighting, sprites, Helindian superstitions, certain crows

Way of Speaking: In a lively, witty sort of tone, with a touch of sass for good measure. Her words come across as eloquent and deliberate, each one carefully picked to engineer what she wants out of the situation at hand.

Clothing Style: red and black are the dominant colours, green, blue and purple some less frequent flourishes. She favours things that are light and free-flowing, so as such she has a lot of dresses, skirts and long coats in her wardrobe. Her general style tends to focus on elegance, as opposed to the flashier affairs favoured by some High Councillors and Morilesian nobility. That being said, she has picked up a common trait of her clothes being a demonstration of intent; her normal, calf-length red dress is a sign of normality, her long coat with all the gold embroidery and the blue fabric trailing out the end is a sign that whoever she is encountering is about to face some harsh consequences.

Habits: idly weaving flames around her fingers, giving forehead kisses when kissing someone, walks at a fast pace, crosses her left leg over the right when sitting

Fears: getting afflicted by a sprite, her loved ones getting caught up in Morilaste/getting used as pawns against her, Claudia finding out who her loved ones are, getting couped, usurped and/or otherwise assassinated

Hobbies: swimming, painting, sculpting, taking in and looking after sick and injured birds

Describe her room: A small, cosy bedroom with a central skylight above the bed, pots of small trees and plants hanging from it. A door faces her bed, leading to her bathroom, a study, an artist’s studio and a walk-in wardrobe.

Items in her back pocket: a pen and note paper and a gold coin with sigils of a phoenix and flames on the respective sides.

Pets: The rake of birds in her sanctuary! Of them, the most significant are the phoenix she got from a dealer in Selade and a black ilasivine she saved from the brink of death in Arobyre.

Relationships

Cerigo Verasse: estranged lover, the pair were friends before they realised their love for each other had a romantic edge to it. Unfortunately, their romance was fairly short-lived as Eshani saved him from who turned out to be the High Councillor who preceded her. Though they tried to keep in contact afterwards, Eshani stopped once she realised she could be putting her family in danger.

Cheyoria Faison: her daughter, the girl was five years old when Eshani left. Just the mention of her is the quickest way to make Eshani vulnerable, she loves her more than anything. What little memories she does have with her, she treasures dearly, and the guilt she has is a big part of what drives her desire to leave Morilaste.

Claudia Emar: fellow High Councillor, these two trust each other but don’t. They share a mutual respect for the power and competency of the other, wary and reticent to become each other’s enemies. Therefore, they choose to keep a close, cordial rapport, but yet neither can breach the other’s heart. Their dynamic is deeply professional, yet somehow more.

Namon Darüven: another of her fellows, but their rapport is much warmer. The two of them consistently banter with each other, keeping each other at arm’s length, yet the chemistry between them is undeniable. And Eshani hates that. From the first time they met, Namon’s sought a more deeply romantic and physical bond between them, but Eshani can’t bring herself to do so. Though she’s estranged from Cerigo, in a court where word will not get out past its borders (or at least, any such words are depicted as exaggerations, fairytales, hearsay, etc), indulging Namon’s desires feels to her as if she’s wronging Cerigo. So she only indulges him in literally anything and everything except physical touch. (Well, except that one time she let him kiss her, as a sort of “there, are you pleased?” situation)

Appearance

She has the build of a model; she’s tall, slender, and fast on her feet. She exudes this fluidness, this grace in her movements, yet unpredictable as a flame. Not a single stutter in her steps, movements nor in her magic, she naturally draws the eye just by her existence.

And this especially goes for her true form. Most of the time, she prefers to walk around in human form because it makes communication easier, it doesn’t greatly intimidate people and thus she doesn’t have to feel so self-conscious. But unfortunately for her in that aspect… her true height is way taller than the standard person (thanks to the effects of Morilast’s Mark) and though she’s long adjusted to that, she’d still give it up in a heartbeat.

She has flowing blonde hair that she normally keeps down, but she will sometimes tie it up in a bun or a high ponytail or something, depending on her mood, what she’s wearing, etc. She has a pair of phoenix hair pins, where each pin is half of the whole. They’re long pins, so she’ll sometimes just use one instead of both.

Despite her affinity with flames, her eyes are a deep shade of green, which she’ll not change tremendously often unless her outfit calls for it. Her skin is as pale as the clouds, her face sharp and delicate, and her hands are not adorned with jewellery. In fact, she normally doesn’t wear it, not even earrings. She also only has one tattoo, on her upper back, and that’s the very Mark that binds her.

Features in:

Stories and Snippets

A Deal Between Dealbreakers

The introduction for A Healing of the Birds! (she’s one of the protagonists!)

A Broken Seal (this is going to be slightly retconned, because this was written before I decided that Eshani would teleport away with the acolyte!)

A Lesson in Observation *

Tainted Orchestrations

A Sacrifice Made Twice

A Pawn for a Greater Cause *

The Forest’s Disgrace

*She’s mentioned by appearance in these two, but doesn’t actually participate in the narrative

Ask games:

page seven of A Healing for the Birds

a snippet of her with Namon

Questions about her gait and favourite animal

A summary of her thoughts on her current status

A ballpoint pen and a sad face (for a character ask game)

A question about my favourite/least favourite aspects of her

Some battery percentage questions!

What could’ve happened if Eshani’s perspective got cut (WIP Folder asks)

More questions for another character ask game! (about strange food and alcohol)

An obscure moment

Tag Games:

OC in Fifteen

OC Interview Tag

Writing Share Tag (Eshani’s first meeting with Alycja)

Last Line Tag (angsty pining scene part #1)

WIP Wednesday (angsty pining scene part #2)

Proud of Tag (angsty pining scene part #3)

Friday Kiss tag (angsty pining scene part #4)

WIP Wednesday (more angst, just ten years later)

Height Comparison Tag

WIP Wednesday (a snippet of Chapter Two of A Healing for the Birds)

Out of Context Line tag

Trivia Tuesday

Character Voice Tag (“Do your worst”/”Fight me”)

Other

The High Councillors of Morilast

The Tag Part

Tagging the General taglist here (ask/comment/reblog etc to be added or subtracted): @mr-orion @the-ellia-west @guessillcallitart-deactivated20 @thereadingfoz @glassstardust22124 @honeybewrites @ashirisu @drowsy-quill @oliolioxenfreewrites @theglitchywriterboi @seastarblue @gioiaalbanoart @rae-butter @corinneglass @thelaughingstag @oros-ash3s @jacqueswriteblrlibrary @rainbowsnowflake @fourwingedwriter @oddcryptidwrites @ark-inkweaving plus @winterandwords @houndsofcorduff @nightmaricwriter @jconstantines @oleanderbailey @abitscripturient @tryingtimi @flock-from-the-void @ieppiq @aquadestinyswriting @thepeculiarbird @space-writes and open tag for people to show off their characters!

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[abyssower]

Когда зажжется второе солнце

6 глава с таким предварительным названием наконец закончена! (Предварительное оно, потому что у меня все плохо с названиями и я не буду давать их официально, пока не буду уверена, что смогу озаглавить каждую главу)

Если честно, последние три месяца были безумно сложными (3 месяца, 3 нервных срыва — хоть какой-то плюс, соотношение красивое😂). А так как пишу я по настроению, то все это отразилось и на Хельге, которая пережила такие эмоциональные качели, за которые меня вскоре побьет @eloasun

Важная ремарка: все то, что произошло — было запланировано. Но в зависимости от моего настроения я могу уделить больше или меньше времени на описание мыслей и чувств. Прости, Хельга. Не повезло тебе с автором.

Отдельное спасибо @sarnai4 ! Понимание того, что где-то в совершенно другом уголке мира у меня есть друг, который поддержит и подскажет способы избавиться от кошмаров, невероятно радует и успокаивает. Спасибо всем)

И пусть для каждого из вас зажжется второе солнце, когда настоящее будет сокрыто ненастьем.

[abyssower]

Pitch for OTB (Author Version)

OTB, also known as Our Tumblr Bookstore. This is a relatively new community here, but I want to make it clear that I plan on this being prominent. As an author myself, one of the biggest drawbacks I've seen to self-publishing is the marketing process.

You put your blood, sweat, and tears into the story that you love, only for it to be almost impossible to reach readers. When you research pros and cons to traditions vs self-publishing, you see the same type of warning. Something along the lines of, "Self-publishing is fine if you don't plan on being that successful." When we're not being told that, we're being approached by scammers and companies that want us to pay for promotions with ads, etc. Well, I'm sick of that.

That's why OTB exists.

Here, you can promote your works as much as you'd like, chime in for or create your own prompts to engage with other authors, and connect with your future readers. Find out from the people who'll be buying your book what they want to check out, increase your reader following, and build professional connections without having to come out of pocket. With our book review feature, you can even improve your craft by seeing what readers think of the works.

Even the process of getting into a physical bookstore can be daunting and difficult. Not here. Rather than hoping you can get into a store and that someone will go by the aisle with your book on it, you can directly go to readers who make their #bookhunter posts and tell them about your book.

If you're an author like I am (self or traditionally published) and are also sick of being expected to spend money to just get your name out there, I hope you'll consider joining us. Publishing a book is such an exciting experience. Selling one shouldn't be a stressful one.

Reader pitch

[abyssower]

Aw, thank you! That's so sweet😢

I wish friendship would have the same beautiful toasts as weddings, like "'til death do us part!" or "we'll be together through thick and thin."

I'm so glad I met you. And it's hard for me to realize that it would never have happened if you hadn't asked me the name of Jorge's next saga in a post and I hadn't answered you 🤣 What a coincidence! I'm glad it all worked out this way!

It 4 am time to get sappy about having friends <3

@sarnai4 @lady-of-the-spirit @dormats-town @idontreallywanadotheworktoday @rederthere

i’m so deeply glad I’ve been given the chance to meet each and every single one of y’all, even if we don’t chat very often I treasure many of our shared conversations and it alway brightens my day to see one of y’all pop up in my notifications!

I cherish all of my time spent with y’all, I don’t say that enough i think, I love being friends with all of you!

I sincerely hope my friendship with y’all will continue for many more years to come<333

and for those who celebrate, happy easter!!!

(i would have tagged all other my mutuals in this too but even at the tender wake of 4am, there’s only about 5 of my mutuals i can feel zero guilt for randomly tagging out of nowhere haha, other moots know i love y’all loads too i’m just tragically very shy unless sleep deprived lol)

[abyssower]

Thanks for the tag!

Last song: three final songs from Kimi no iro (I don't think I can write their names in Japanese😅)

Favorite colors: change depending on the period of life but probably green

Currently watching: Rings of power, Terra Nova

Sweet/savory/spicy: a little bit of everything

Relationship status: single

Current obsession: housing prices

@eloasun @meow-may

Nine people i'd like to get to know better:

Tagged by: @bell-of-indecision, thank you so much for tagging me <3

Last Song: Gmfu by Odetari,6arelyhuman

Favourite colour: Dark red, violet, pink

Currently watching: Death note, ep6

Spicy/Savoury/Sweet: Spicy

Relationship status: Single

Current Obsession: Mbti types and cognitive functions.

Tagging: @somin-yin @a-cloud-for-dreams @axepen @hinsaa-paramo-dharma @basic-bitch-alkali @rhysaka @blackknight-100 @squishywizardd @reykalot

[abyssower]

Thanks! Had to think about some points, but it was fun!

Love life: Invisible by Zara Larsson

Fight song: Drumming song by Florence + The machine

Personality: Never good enough by Citizen soldier

Theme song: (I don't quite understand what this is, but let's say) In the end by Black Veil brides

Wedding song: You're my sunshine by John Berry

Funeral song: Dzanum by Teya Dora

@eloasun @meow-may @apr1c1ty-117

im bored. 🫤

So im gonna do this and turn it into a tag game! ✨🤩😁😈

Love life- Charybdis — Jorge Rivera-Herrans

fight song- Rasputin (7” Version) — Boney M.

personality- rises the moon — Liana Flores

theme song- golden hour — JVKE

wedding song- Star — Mitski

funeral song- Don’t you dare (make me fall in love with you) — Kaden Mackay

. . .

I don’t know how to feel about this 🥲

anyways! @amy-r0z3 @luv-again @raine-ydays @sparkles-rule-4eva @glitch-studios @warriorofchaos223 @jjdrawstuff @rayzyart & anyone else who wants to join! ✨^_^

[abyssower]

Wow, this is an interesting game! Thanks for the tag!

"As she left, she heard the captain give the order to secure the cargo in the hold."

I only have one WIP, so it's from "The Labyrinth of Blood". (Oh my, every time I wanted to sit down and write these last few days, there was some problem that I had to solve. But I'll definitely continue)

@eloasun @meow-may @henry-adderley

Thank you @deathcomes4u for the tag!

Writing game: Post the last line that you wrote and tag someone for every word in the line.

Ugh, why do I write such long sentences??

“I’d love that,” she replied, and the next thing Gorthalax knew, he had a new number in his crystal and was walking on air as he sauntered over to the butchered body of Kalvaxus.

This is from 'Sated,' the prequel to 'It's Never Fantasy Lupus' (which is in the beta review stage! 🥳)

I don't know that many people who write on here, so I'm just going to tag the few that I know (sorry if you've been tagged before) @dullgecko @the-greatest-magic-of-all @thepoweroffriendshipgivesumoney @nonbeanary98 @aloofturtles-blog @stellarcider @the-archivist-14

If you want to share your own work and weren't tagged, please feel free to do so!

[abyssower]

Я не смогла остановиться и сделала еще одного котика, уже больше похожего на себя)

I feel like making one of those uquiz and picrew chains with these random ones I found sooo

Take this quiz and find out what instrument you are and thennnn

make a lil guy with this picrew :))))

(As a viola player I’m VERY offended. So offended, offended beyond belief. But hey kitty :)) )

@ilivebyshipping @glassesgirlies @lusxnei6

[abyssower]

Thanks! Bass is cool! Both as a instrument and as a description of personality

@eloasun

I feel like making one of those uquiz and picrew chains with these random ones I found sooo

Take this quiz and find out what instrument you are and thennnn

make a lil guy with this picrew :))))

(As a viola player I’m VERY offended. So offended, offended beyond belief. But hey kitty :)) )

@ilivebyshipping @glassesgirlies @lusxnei6

[abyssower]

Wow, this looks very interesting! Thanks!

@eloasun @meow-may

Been wanting to do a tag game for a while

Pinterest: Search your name +

Drink

Color

Hobby

Flower

Landscape

Feeling

Animal

Candy

Crystal

Those are mine :) seriously the first three are so perfect woah

Npt: @evermorecatra @missdarhk @grape-jucie-dog @bladevoyager @thestarryfalls @therapybard @sarnai4 @camipretzel @figureitoutinthemorning @thecoolestcrow @vicstarskiez @arson-mushroom @dantsem @disappointed-time-traveller @aceyanaheim @aikya-kat-44 @wolf-oc @firinnie @flyingonions @bluefirex @persony-person873 @lukasandsissi

and OPEN TAGS show me your goofy animals :D

[abyssower]

Спасибо😭🥰❤

[abyssower]

I feel like if I ever try to publish my book, I'll be arrested for antiwar propaganda

[abyssower]

Chapter 5 is ready!

[abyssower]

Happy Valentine's day too! It made my day warmer)) I love you all too!💕

@eloasun @henry-adderley @meow-may @apr1c1ty-117

🩷 you are loved 🩷 happy valentine's day! 🌹pass this message on and spread a little love and happiness today 💌🍬

Aww! You're the sweetest 🥰🤗! You're loved too! You definitely always bring some sunshine to my days😁 Happy Valentine's Day!

(This message also goes to you, @abyssower, @firinnie, @mer-acle, and @tanyakitty151)

[abyssower]

Stages of Writing

Getting an idea that won't stop plucking your brain

Trying to see if it will

Realizing that it won't

Creating characters who would hate your guts if they were real

Thinking about the characters while ignoring responsibilities

Putting it on the page

Editing the doc

Editing the document again

Coming to terms that the doc is the same. You just keep rephrasing struggle with syntax.

Crying a little when creating a title

Happiness(?) Happiness :D

[abyssower]

"It's like holding hands. My right in your left. Weakness evened out by the other's strength."

This is a quote from one of the characters in my new novel, Changing Waters: Jiol. Here is the synopsis and some links if you're interested!

What rests deep in the ocean? Mermaids? Monsters? Magic? All that and more.

Far below where any human can survive, there is a kingdom called Jiol. Kostas is a 14-year-old sorcerer who resides there with his mother and friends, but it is not their home. A home is filled with love, not fear and death. It is merely where they try to survive while the royal guards, the Patrollers, constantly raid the village. They kill anyone with tails, webbing, or fins—anyone who mutated for this underwater existence.

To protect innocent lives from the unending attacks, Kostas must get stronger even if this involves going behind his mother’s back. Training, sorcery, and seers are the villagers’ only hope against the Patrollers and a royal vizier who is as cruel as he is powerful. If Kostas cannot succeed as a protector of the village, Jiolans like him will be massacred to the point of extinction.

Ao3 link for the first 3 chapter

Amazon link (and here https://a.co/d/819WYr6 in case the hyperlink fails)

[abyssower]

I'm going to cry now😭 Thanks!

@eloasun @meow-may

SAY NICE THINGS TO PPL