#[ tagging: rhian ]

[explodingrn]

MACHINE!!!!!!!!! they don't love you like i love you...

[zico-if]

how would the ROs react if a very grumpy/angry MC (obv traumatised lil baby) one day like genuinely laughed

Ilya:

It's such a small little thing, yet they can't help but be completely entranced by the sound of your voice. They find themselves staring at you, stunned into a silence that doesn't break until you turn to look at them with a puzzled look and blurt out a short "what?"

It's then a gentle smile breaks across their face, wider than anything you've ever seen with a happiness twinkling in their eyes that stems just from that simple noise.

"Nothing," they reply, burning the sound of your laughter to their memory. They'd like to hear it again, if you'd let them.

Vira:

She pauses her motion, stilling her hands when she hears you laugh. She turns to look at you, tilting her head slightly to the side. "Did you...just laugh?" She questions, like she's uncertain if she heard it correctly.

"Yes?" you answer.

"Mm. I see," she says, satisfied with the answer and turns back to doing whatever it was she was doing, a faint and subtle smile gracing her lips. You don't fail to notice that her gaze seems to fall on you every now and then, as if hoping to catch you in the act of laughing.

Aurius:

Almost immediately, Aurius snaps his gaze towards the source of the sound. "You laughed," he points out, not bothering to hide the childlike smile on his face.

You blink at him. "I...did," you confirm, schooling your face back to a natural neutrality.

His smile never wavers. He looks at you as if you're a dream made reality. "It's truly a lovely sound," he confesses. "Perhaps one of my favourites." He'd never heard you laugh like that before. And oh how so euphoric it is to hear you do so.

Rhian:

When they hear you laugh, their eyes widen so much that it looks almost comical and in an instant, they'd wish that they'd been able to record that moment so they could reply it over and over. Suddenly, it becomes all that they can think of: hearing that sound again. That warm genuine laughter. "Could you do that again?" They ask.

"Hm? Do what?"

"That sound you just made. The laughter. I'd like to hear it again...please?" they ask, even adding a please to sound polite. Just once more. Even if it takes them a hundred tries to make you laugh, they only need to hear it just once more, because who would've thought that such a simple sound could bring them to their knees just like that.

[cilant-lis]

my dragon age protagonists: alvea surana, rhian mahariel (dual warden worldstate ftw), yana hawke, taremis lavellan and soon to be isen mercar

character sheets by @/citadrells under readmore

[therealrhian]

There was also one for rafal but I don't want to show it, it's unfinished and the proportions are unpleasant to look at 😭 so here's my first rhian fanart and most recent fanart of the brothers

[joeykeehl256]

HI SGE

I was scrolling around on twitter, facebook, discord, and even the forum on wiki but never seemed to find any active people! And now I'm here there's suddenly a huge community I'm speechless! The happy kind of speechless 🫶✨️

I read the School for Good and Evil first time in 2018, and the series was so captivating it never left me. I never joined any fandom before so it just always kind of danced around in my mind for a few years.

What seriously made me fell in love, though, was the Rise and Fall series! All the plot twists and drama and easter eggs to the main series, I'm in love with everything!

So glad to see the SGE fandom still active somewhere! If anyone sees this post, I'd really love to get to know you all and share our thoughts and idea and love for the series!

Looking forward to meet lovely people in the fandom!

Btw I made this sketch of the infamous scene anyone who read Rise of the SGE would know - I die for it every day 😭🫶✨️ i sketched this a while ago when I was reading the book for the first time but never got to show it to anyone

P.s. I've also been editing the fandom wiki to make things presentable since last time I checked it was a mess up there given the twists between Rise/Fall, so many things happening at once.

[discjude]

SO funny that the only explanation for why Aric stabbed Rhian is, in Japeth's words, "because [Rhian] said things about [his and Aric's] friendship" (the full actual quote is "because you said things! About him and me! About our friendship!"). Which is such a funny way of phrasing it because that could mean LITERALLY anything. Soman why would you phrase it like that. genuinely

The only other elaboration we get on the stabbing ever is right after the first line and it's vague as to what it's actually talking about, which is where Rhian says "Because he was a monster / a sadist with no soul" (which. yeah lmao), but that could be either "he stabbed me because he was a monster" OR "I said those things because he was a monster", and the rest of the line supports the second interpretation, so we just???? don't know what made aric do it??????? This is the single most influential event in the series it literally doubled the series' length what do you MEAN there's only ever two lines about it????? ? ? ??? arbed prequel when hello

[nothing-to-see-hi]

Hello, hello! In my inner debate about sharing something I've been working on for a while, I've decided to make sure that I'm not being absolutely delusional about a core concept. Soooo....

[liketwoswansinbalance]

SGE Characters as Literary Things

(Not all of these are actual literary or rhetorical devices; some are just writing techniques, forms, genres, mediums, etc.)

This is a bit abstract, so I’m curious about how subjective these might be. Does anyone agree or disagree? And feel free to make additions if you think I left anything out, or request another character that isn’t here.

Hopefully this makes (intuitive?) sense. As always, I'm willing to explain my thought process behind any of the things I've listed.

Also, anyone can treat this like a “Tag Yourself” meme, if you want. Whose list do you most relate to, use, or encounter?

⸻

LANCELOT (I know—how odd that I’m starting with a minor character and not Rafal, but wait. There’s a method to my madness. Also, watch out for overlap!):

Metonymy, synecdoche (no, literally, to me, these are him.)

Zeugma

Analogy

Figures of speech

Slang, argot

Colloquialisms

Idioms

TEDROS:

Simile

Metaphor

Rhyming couplets

Rhyme schemes

Sonnets

Commercial fiction

Coming-of-age genre

Line enjambment

Overuse of commas

Cadence, prose speech

Waxing poetic, verse (not prose)

Alliteration

Kinesthetic imagery

Phallic imagery/sword sexual innuendos (sorry)

The chivalric romance genre

AGATHA:

Anaphora, repetition

Semicolon, periods

Line breaks

Terse, dry prose

Semantics (not syntax)

Elegy

Resonance

Consonance, alliteration

Pseudonym

Narrative parallels

Realism

Satire

SOPHIE:

Sophistry (yes, there is a word for it!)

Imagery

Italics, emphasis

Em dash

Aphrodisiac imagery

Unreliable narrator, bias

Rashomon effect

Syntax (not semantics)

Diction

Chiasmus (think: “Fair is foul and foul is fair.”)

Rhetorical purpose

Provocation, calls to action

Voice, writing style

Rhetorical modes: pathos, logos, ethos

Metaphor

Hyperbole, exaggeration

Sensationalism, journalism

Surrealism

Verisimilitude

Egocentrism

Callbacks (but not foreshadowing or call-forwards)

Narrative parallels

Paralepsis, occultatio, apophasis, denial

Hypothetical dialogue

Monologue

JAPETH:

Sibilance

Lacuna

Villanelle (an obsessive, repetitive form of poetry)

Soliloquy

ARIC:

Sentence fragments

RHIAN (TCY):

Unreliable narrator

Setup, payoff

Chekhov’s gun

Epistolary novel

RHIAN (prequels):

Multiple povs

Perspective

Dramatic irony

Situational irony

Chiaroscuro (in imagery)

Endpapers

Frontispiece

Deckled edges

Narrative parallels

Foreshadowing

Call-forwards

Foil

Death of the author

RAFAL:

Omniscient narrator

Perspective

Surrealism

Etymology

Word families or 'linguistic ecosystems'

Latin

Verbal irony

Gallows humor

Narrative parallels

Call-forwards

Circular endings

Parallel sentences or balanced sentence structure

Narrative parallels

Foil

Juxtaposition

Authorial intent (“return of the author”)

HESTER:

Protagonist

Allusions

Gothic imagery

ANADIL:

Defamiliarization

Deuteragonist (second most important character in relation to the protagonist)

Psychic distance

Sterile prose

Forewords, prologues

Works cited pages

DOT:

Tone

Gustatory imagery

Tritagonist (third most important character in relation to the protagonist)

KIKO:

Sidekick

Falling action

Dedications, author's notes, epigraph, acknowledgements

Epitaph (Tristan)

BEATRIX:

Pacing

Rising Action

Climax

HORT:

Unrequited love

Falling resolution

Anticlimax

Malapropism

Innuendo

Asides

Brackets, parentheses

Cliché

EVELYN SADER:

Synesthetic imagery

Villanelle

Foreshadowing

AUGUST SADER:

Stream of consciousness style

Imagery

Foreshadowing

Coming-of-age genre

Elegy

Omniscience

Rhetorical questions

Time skips, non-linear narratives

Epilogues

MARIALENA:

Diabolus ex machina

Malapropism

Malaphors, mixed metaphors

Slant rhyme

Caveat

Parentheses

Footnotes

MERLIN:

Deus ex machina

Iambic pentameter

Filler words

BETTINA:

Screenwriting

Shock value

[partiallypearl]

You sliced me loose and said it was Creation. I could feel the knife. Now you would like to heal that chasm in your side, but I recede. I prowl. I will not come when you call.

happy belated birthday @imfunnyandrude. you're an amazing person, and yelling about fictional characters with you has been one of the best times of my life. here's a mer gifset for you <3

[cyanide-sodapop]

continue ahead if you want somewhat shitty low-effort art

[explodingrn]

whiteboard art. if you care

[deadrlngers]

i was tagged by @honeysofte and @cultistbase to make some ocs in this super cool picrew, thank you both so much!!

since i'm currently obsessed with my tes ocs i went a bit off jdsfj

sibylla || lanselot (sibylla's father) dervera || lilethys (dervera's mother) hiraeth || rhian (hiraeth's younger sister)

tagging: @arklay @morvaris @uldwynsovs @devilbrakers @nuclearstorms @girlbosselrond @swordcoasts @brujah @halsin @shadowglens @faarkas @malefiicarum @steelport @calenhads @risingsh0t @nokstella @indorilnerevarine and anyone else that wants to do this!!

[cilant-lis]

don't mind me, just getting emotional over mahariel and tamlen again (wip of the dao novelisation i'm writing)

The great trees of the Brecilian Forest were bursting with the vivid green of spring, the afternoon light filtering through them. The Spring Equinox celebration in Clan Sabrae would be beginning now. Fires to reach the skies, revelry until dawn and tables full of wine and delicacies. Rhian playing their flute, Tamlen next to them on the drums. But they were stuck guarding the camp for the night.

“Think Fenarel will save us some wild plum wine? I’ve been eyeing the barrel in Hahren’s aravel for the past three months.” Tamlen sighed from their perch up on a twisting branch next to Rhian. His back rested on the moss-covered trunk, bow beside him and quiver on his lap. He was testing the yellow fletching of his arrows, his fingers smoothing over the dyed feathers. 

Rhian grimaced. “I still can’t believe he got out of this.” 

“If you weren’t so ready to take the blame for everything, we all would have gotten out of trouble.”

“I was only protecting Merrill from the Keeper.” They turned their gaze to him. “And it’s not my fault you decided to own up as well.”

Tamlen smiled brightly, the sun catching on his sand-coloured hair. “And miss out on the riveting task of looking at trees all night?” His voice took on a mocking tone. “It’s a very important task, you know, the sylvans might decide to join the celebration. But what’s a few possessed trees to the great warrior of Clan Sabrae, Rhian Mahariel.” He puffed out his chest, echoing Rhian’s boasts from last night.

“I’m seconds away from pushing you off this tree.”

“You’d miss me too much if I cracked my skull open on the rocks.”

“Not if I’m it lets me finally have some peace and quiet.”

This light-hearted teasing came to them as easily as breathing, and was just as familiar. Rhian knew the true reason he was here: he didn’t want them to spend the night sulking alone. He was always like this, sticking with them through thick or thin, a ray of sunshine to brighten up Rhian’s day, ever since Ashalle made the orphaned Tamlen a part of their patchwork family. They grew up together, got in trouble together, got their vallaslin together, hunted together. Always together.

Tamlen now moved onto strumming his bowstring. He rarely sat still, his hands always busy. Rhian looked up at the slivers of sky visible through the young leaves. This will be a long night.

A rustle, too clumsy to be that of an animal, drew their attention. Tamlen fell still and quiet, as Rhian nocked an arrow and crept closer to the source, peeking around the trunk. 

Three humans, hunters, heading towards the camp. They signed behind their back to Tamlen. Warning will be enough.

They began to silently climb down the tree.

[enthesea]

i did find these picrews of some ocs while i was digging around tho and i forgot how cutesies beau and rhian are 😭 i miss them... (link to the second picrew, the first one is gone sadly)

[discjude]

this is HORRIBLE quality because my editing software sucks and every single image quality enhancer hates me but.

[nothing-to-see-hi]

Okay, so I know that we're in July but it's always mermay in my heart. You can blame Epic's Thunder Saga for this unwarranted and probably unwanted idea. But like, siren Rhian. Walk with me.

We're at the end of Fall, the Storian's doing its thing, Rhian's about to stab Rafal, and then whoosh he's gone. Where did he go? The ocean, obviously. Because even I, the person who gave up in the middle of Fall because of the plot holes, know that the stupid pen isn't going to let him get away with starting all of this mess unpunished.

Just imagine the angst potential. You've been dropped into the middle of literal nowhere. Your legs are gone, and your magic has practically fundamentally changed to where you can only summon storms and sing. (How he finds out the luring sailors to their death part is probably going to be a real trip for him.) And then you are. Alone. for 200 years or so. Imagine the potential for feral Rhian. Just him being reduced to the basics of a living being. Hunt, eat, sleep, and hate. You cannot tell me that this man who was going to stab his brother is not running off of pure hate by this point.

Anyway, how this could connect to cannon. They're on a boat at some point in the Camelot Years I think. Insert Rhian who is a variety of things but Hungry and Enraged are at the top. Imagine with me, if you will, him sensing Rafal's soul, magic, essence(?), maybe not essence, all over the occupants of the ship. Imagine his reaction to Sophie (I'm pretty sure she's on the boat, I haven't bothered to double-check) who has been around Rafal the most.

I'm just saying that it could be fun.