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guards this is him, the man who ruined my life forever. take him away to the eternal torment dungeon

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local demon gets his freak matched by a demon hunter, absolutely hates it

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fire divine have mercy

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Short answer : yes and no.

Long answer : When around English speakers, he intentionally talks with a British accent to maintain a façade of sophistication and friendliness.

However, in the event he's not around English speakers, his voice and vocabulary seemingly adapts to the language spoken in an instant to maintain the same effect. The "science" behind that is actually a bit more complex.

Since he's a demon, a rather powerful one at that who specializes in mind control and manipulation, he simply exists above language barriers. So regardless of who he speaks to, if he wants the other party to understand what he's saying, they will understand it as though he's speaking their language fluently. While sounding like that language's equivalent of Stephen Merchant.

fuck it oc posting time

his name is andrew he's 586 years old and he's awful his favourite past times include listening to dad rock, ghosting, gaslighting and killing people and worst of all he's cosplaying as a british person

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this post is gonna talk about pro-shippers btw

So, i dont get why pro-shippers are bad? but i also dont get why they do it at the same time, so i would like to hear from both sides as to why they should do what they do, and/or why the other side is bad

i want to be educated and i will do my own research, but i want peoples opinions

thx! (please be RESPECTFUL to everyone responding)

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fuck it oc posting time

his name is andrew he's 586 years old and he's awful his favourite past times include listening to dad rock, ghosting, gaslighting and killing people and worst of all he's cosplaying as a british person

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someone I follow on the bird app just announced they’re starting a very exclusive private fic server because they and a bunch of other people want to talk about how much they love the fics they’re reading, and as an author can I just say that a really great place to talk about a fic you love is in the comments for that fic

I understand that people are trying to create safe spaces, but as the number of comments that I get on my fics dwindles with each passing year, knowing these spaces exist where my fics are being discussed, places that I am excluded from, makes me want to write fic LESS

I mean I guess who cares, right, because if I stop writing, there’s 10,000 other people that will continue…but if you participate in a fic “book club” server and you say nice things there about a fic you loved, maybe copy and paste that into a comment on AO3?

the only thing fanfic writers are asking for in return for hours of hard work is attention. please don’t rob us of the one thing that we hope for when we hit “post”

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i happened to re-read @bitchwhoreofastorm 's nord demon short stories recently and I remembered how a while ago I said I had to draw Barfok, so here she is now!!

(i can't exactly remember the specifics of her described appearance but. i like to imagine that her eyes turned yellow after being affected by hermamora. as for the face paint i know it wouldn't make sense for her to use patterns referencing the deity haunting her but i couldn't resist 😭)

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natlan npc : xilonen PLEASE I need an actual GUN my meemaw got eaten by an abyssal creature for the fifth time this week and all my fighting sticks broke, and if you can't do a gun can I at least PLEASE have a bike to get to safety with????

xilonen: sorry no can do, phlogiston limitations and all that

natlan npc: didn't you make a FLYING GIANT GUN for chasca???????

xilonen: oh that's because she's not a broke bitch who can't afford designer hope it helps, come back when you become a main character

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guys holy shit rhinedottir's backstory leaked

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so I ended up writing a one-shot about the sinners of khaenri'ah (rhinedottir and surtalogi in particular) and for the time being im proud of it so 👉👈

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dainsleif lore leaks

I can't believe that they dropped not one but two tragic lore bombs for my mans.

not only did they blind his brother and threw the guy into jail for doing his job, apparently before becoming twilight sword dainsleif was a part time janitor.

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my favourite magical girl* terrorists from my and my wife's passion project

*disclaimer, the magical girls are sometimes neither girls or magical and simply have magic radiation sickness

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siblings who are polar opposites my beloved

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Okay so bear with me, most of what I'm about to say is either literal crumbs or stuff I made up to fill the Sinner shaped hole in lore.

So, starting with canon crumbs.

In a way, the two of them haunt the narrative of the Fontaine archon quests - the prophecy was penned and carved into stone by Vedrfolnir and carried out by Surtalogi's disciples, which makes me wonder : did Vedrfolnir know of his once brother in arms' involvement? With what intent did he leave the stone tablets for humans of centuries in the future to discover? Was it out of spite, a show of sympathy that's not understandable to us yet, or merely display of his power?

Now, you could say the connection was entirely unintentional, that they just wanted two Sinners in the same place at the same time to name drop them, but here's the thing :

When Skirk uses other Sinners as point of reference to describe Surtalogi, she doesn't go off of what people of Teyvat would consider common knowledge. If she did, she wouldn't have mentioned Rhinedottir second. After all, Rhinedottir seems to be the only one widely known for her deeds out of them, to the point where she's not just called a Sinner but The Great Sinner.

which, wow. slay. good for her.

But nope. She mentioned Vedrfolnir first, and immediately after she says she only heard of them from Surtalogi. Therefore, this implies that she mentioned Vedrfolnir first because Surtalogi spoke of him the most and likely holds him in high regard. Or maybe he holds some grudge against him. We probably won't know for another 2,5 years.

Everything else after this is strictly headcanon territory that will likely be debunked.

I'll start with the actual canon fact we know: that Vedrfolnir and Surtalogi both were geniuses : with Vedrfolnir likely being an astrologist, while Surtalogi was likely both a great warrior and a sorcerer of sorts, having invented the ability to harness Abyssal power without lethal, lasting harm to the user (Foul Legacy).

So. As I mentioned in another post, I feel like looking into the future has caused Vedrfolnir to lose his mind long before the Cataclysm, since I don't believe clairvoyance is something you can just practice nilly-willy without consequences.

it's a bit different with mona and barbeloth as they use astromancy (iirc) which is a subcategory of astrology and not actual, full on clairvoyance.

As for Surtalogi, I like to think he and Childe are actually pretty similar in some fields of life : such as concealing the depth of their capabilities unless absolutely necessary, so I imagine that Surtalogi wasn't exactly fully honest about his intellectual prowess, instead presenting himself as a great warrior first and foremost. Partially because it's more convenient that way and partially because he has a more straightforward mindset.

With that in mind, I think that before the Cataclysm he greatly respected Vedrfolnir, seeing not a barely lucid madman but someone who sacrificed his own sanity in pursuit of enlightenment for his nation. In turn, I think that Vedrfolnir saw right through Surtalogi's carefully crafted façade and found him far more bearable to be around than, say, Rhinedottir - in a "You. You do think you're better than anyone else but instead of flaunting it, you focus on proving it. I like that." sorta way. Dishonest, multilayered people probably give him a headache.

Thus, there you have the dynamic : two geniuses, one unsuspected and one undervalued, between them an unspoken understanding and mutual respect in the middle of a social battlefield that would be the royal court.

*passes out*

we heard of faceless yuri (rhinealice) get ready for faceless yaoi (surtafolnir/vedrlogi) who wants to hear me out

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we heard of faceless yuri (rhinealice) get ready for faceless yaoi (surtafolnir/vedrlogi) who wants to hear me out

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i think dain and vedr had a kinda falin and laios relationship before the cataclysm : both of them were a little strange but dainsleif happened to be the more sociable one, so he tended to play mediator/translator between vedrfolnir and the rest of the world.

so when vedrfolnir would suddenly stop in his tracks for a solid minute, drop the drink he was carrying then proceed to try and either sip it off the floor or sweep it back into his cup, dainsleif would turn to whatever witnesses were present and go

"ah, don't mind him, last night he looked five years into the future. he's really out of it, but he's still really grateful for the commodities provided by the king, deep down. we should ask someone to clean it up and give him a refill don't you think 🙂👍"

that works on just about everyone but the other sinners. they know he forgot irmin even exists and instead is looking for the Hat Man's hat in the puddle of juice, milk, mead and soap that just happens to resemble an existing drink. this visionary is fucked up bruh