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"Mainat. once a desert land governed by creatures of coloured smoke, decked in the finest of jewels; now a desert kingdom ruled by Boann, an embodiment of dreams and imagination. the palace shines with the light of the stars at night; it glows with the colour of the sky in the day. "

- extract from a book written after the age of the Rulers began.

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"purple eyes, purple hair, purple skin. horns glinting with jewels of the highest quality, always picked to match xir clothes. Boann was renowned throughout xir rule for the balls that would spread beyond the palace gates into the city. for the days where musicians walked the streets and the people danced."

- extract from the writings of an ex-musician

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blythe, to coralie: you have the moral backbone of a chocolate eclair.

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lucas: this is it?

coralie: you asked me for a plan, you never said it had to be a good one.

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calum: as your best friend-

lucas: i have no friends.

calum:

calum: AS YOUR BEST FRIEND

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rainer: fine, i admit it. i still can’t swim! i never took those lessons at the community pool.

wren: rain, you promised!

rainer: they wanted to put me in beginner’s class with the little kids! i can’t be swimming around with a bunch of five-year-olds! they can be so cruel when they sense weakness.

coralie: that’s why on the first day you have to beat up the biggest one in the yard.

wren: coralie, that’s prison.

coralie: only if you let it be.

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lucas: when I’m murdered, make sure my case is unsolved.

coralie: what?

lucas: i want to be on buzzfeed unsolved.

calum: can we go back to the bit where he said “WHEN i’m murdered?”

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Which character collects shells? 

Who makes shell jewelry? 

Who’s never seen a seashell before?

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Which character can stand the heat? 

Who spends the summer in front of an AC unit? 

Who pushes themselves to the max by mowing at the hottest part of the day?

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remember me? If you feel like it

asdfghjkl this has been in my inbox for... what, a year? and i can’t remember what i was supposed to write other than something to do with remembering (ironic, right)

anyway.

sorry it took so long! here it is!

they don't go near the cave, not without permission.

the elders say a dying goddess lives within, mourning people long since passed.

sometimes she appears, and they see why the elders call her the dying goddess. they wonder who she was before.

gaunt, in armor from days long ago, with sunken eyes and dirty hair and a air of deep sadness around her. she walks slowly, uses an old spear as a walking stick. they think she might have been a warrior goddess.

they don't go near the cave, but the dying goddess goes near them.

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the hour is late, but that hasn't mattered to her in years. the air is cold, but she is colder. the moment is coming, but not fast enough. the water is deep, but she will not drown.

there's still some pride to be found in her, the last one alive.

her eyes are always heavy, always sore from crying, but she opens them and stares into the cave pool. throw the stones into the water and they'll never be found, leave them where she sits and they'll be found too quickly.

she sighs.

so many plans, so many years to wait for those plans to come to fruition, no guarantee those plans would even work.

she misses her brother. so many years wasted over a distance formed from years apart and differences assumed and words thought, and the years they had together were so few in comparison, so full with sadness

she misses her lover. it's been so many years since she saw them, she doubts they're still alive even in calivorlia, and her hope has long since run dry. maybe she'll see them again, maybe, when her duty is finally complete.

she closes her eyes again.

(she's a girl and her brother is a boy and the days are bright with sunshine. the flowers grow in large groups and she watches him weave them into a crown of purples and pinks.)

(she's a woman and her lover is there and the day has been won. the smile they share is tired and proud and happy. they've done what they set out to do and they still have more work to do, but for now they are happy.)

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to be fair, the camper parked outside coralie’s house wasn’t as surprising as rainer wants to say it is. dominic, for a man with a step-daughter, has terrible impulse control.  

still, he has to question the flowers that have suddenly appeared on the outside wall. 

“oh. that?” coralie gestures to the both the house and the van with one sweep of her arm. “dominic owns the house now, cause marjorie pretty much confirmed she wasn’t coming back.”

“so they’re getting divorced?” 

“yeah, i’m surprised she waited this long,” coralie says with a shrug. 

“and the van?” it’s a nice van, don’t get him wrong, but still. he’d think she’d have a stronger reaction to it then a shrug. 

“a graduation present from her. or a birthday present, i guess. she didn’t say so i’m trying to decide which one i’d like to get a van for.”

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one camping trip later...

heya, i'm louise. chesh or other variations on cheshire are also accepted. my pronouns are she/they.

td(ocs) is a magical girl/boy/nb project that isn't currently being worked on, but that i'm still very fond of and might come back to.

this isn't a story that would ever be published, even if i was actively working on it, because i'm more interested in writing for fun.

links

tags (really just a breakdown/list of the tags i use, which might be helpful... or not! it exists anyway).

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3, 5, 6, for the cute character asks pls!!

thanks for the ask! i’ll answer these for luella!

What is your OC’s favourite kind of weather? Do they like watching it rain? Do they prefer a gentle sunshine? How would they spend the day with this weather?

luella likes it when it’s raining, but there’s also visible sunlight (so a sunshower, which is also such a cute name asdfghjkl). it’s something she rarely gets to see once she moves to twin wave because the place is in an area where it’s sunny all the time (and when it isn’t, it’s stormy). she thinks it’s pretty to see and will take as many pictures of it as she can. 

What is your OC’s favourite childhood memory? Why?

it’s summer. it’s the first year she can remember being in twin wave with her father. he takes a day off from his booth and they go for a walk down by the beach. she hunts for shells and hands her father the prettiest ones. when they get back to their caravan, they’ll decorate them and hang them up inside. 

it’s a memory that reminds her why she loves her father, because even if he does work hard and long hours, he makes time. 

What does your OC think is the cutest thing in the universe? Kittens? Baby plants? Something else?

there’s this franchise in the twin wave universe called marshimals. it’s one of those collecting things, where there’s figures and cards and stuff like that, and the creatures are divided into sets. despite the name being a mashup of marshmallow and animals, there are sets made up of legends and the zodiac and monsters. 

and the last one is the one luella thinks is the absolute cutest.

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🖊 Lucas? and/or 🖊 Alma? (not sure if that's the exact emoji but please gush about them!)

thanks for the ask! i’ll do both 

lucas isn’t actually that interested in following the legacy his father set out for all his children! and he’s a lot more interested in finding something that makes him happy! don’t expect him to act like it though, he’s got a reputation to uphold no matter how much anyone who matters knows it’s fake.

alma would definitely be interested in retiring to some isolated forest/mountain to paint to her heart’s content, if she didn’t have a rebellion to take part in and lead. she just wants a quiet life, ya know

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🖊 -stuffaboutwriting

thanks for the ask!

calum is someone who second guesses his goals in life a lot. not all the time, but if it’s late at night and the only thing he can hear is his thoughts, he starts wondering why he wants to go into the sports field and then he starts wondering if there’s anything else he can do instead of sports and it cycles around.

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For world building Wednesday ::: What kinds of foods does your main characters like ???

thanks for the ask!

coralie is very all over the place because she genuinely will eat anything but ig the kind of food she likes the most is convenience food. stuff that can be done in the microwave or stuff she can order from a takeaway/fast food place 

wren likes things that are more on the sweeter side, but her main thing is anything strawberry flavoured. even if there’s something else there, as long as it’s strawberry she’s happy.

blythe likes citrus fruits, oranges especially, but she's a big smoothie/ice cream/yoghurt enthusiast so. it's to the point where she's probably tried every smoothie, ice cream and yogurt on sale in the local smoothie bar and yoghurt place at least once.

rainer has a very bland taste in food. he likes things that aren’t that spicy, aren’t that sweet, arent that sour, and he doesn’t go out of his way to try new things. projection? i don’t know her. he likes fast food, if he had to choose a specific kind, i guess

casper... well it'd be weird if he didnt like sweet things considering he lives and works in a bakery, so it's probably a good thing he's got the mother of all sweet tooths. that being said, his favourite kind of food is pastries probably.

luella is very experimental. she likes spicy foods, salty foods, sour foods, but again her favourite is sweet foods. she likes cupcakes bc it gives her a way to eat icing without being judged for just eating icing.

calum is spicy food all the way. it's kind of concerning. he, also, is a fast food lover with a preference for pizzas. specifically ones with chicken there's no projection here whatsoever. and of cause he's into eating healthy foods, but you know. gotta treat yourself.

lucas is much like rainer in that he prefers bland foods. probably because his taste buds have been killed by drinking so much black coffee. but he does also like some sour things so i guess he isn’t a total lost cause.

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the girl, no older than seven, watches. her hair is like her father’s and now, presumably, her little brother’s; white like bleached bone and ash, shining like silver and starlight.

the eyes though. now, they are different. not the stormy grey of her father’s, nor the electric blue of her brother’s mother, her eyes are violet. the lightest shade of violet possibly, at least so the healer thinks. she’s never been outside of sapion, never had the desire to.

but the father… the father had travelled far. far enough to take a wife from rouc, far enough to have a daughter.

and yet. here he was. married to a saponian woman.

the healer wonders what brought him back, back with a daughter and no wife. she wonders and then tells herself, firmly, to stop wondering, there’s work to be done.

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rainer thinks coralie might laugh if she knew just how many photo albums he’d filled over the years he’d been friends with her.

the day they’d gone up into the forest when they were ten, a while before blythe and wren became a part of their group, years before casper and luella and calum and lucas did the same, and spent hours looking for proof that the story of the felidaves wasn’t just a story stood out. there’d been leaves in their hair and grass stains on their knees and they’d come away with a collection of feathers. he’d taken some pictures and she’d taken the rest.

even when they grew older, when they found out that there was another world out there with fairies and magic and danger, he’d never stopped filling photo albums. couldn’t. 

he wanted it to be there, proof that they’d existed, his friends who’d risked their lives to save a country.

and proof that coralie, for all her faults and lies and secrets, has been his best friend since he was six and she was seven.

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