#{Etienne Headcanon

[r3d-m3dic]

made this for my pfp. the flags in order are transmasc, polygender (though you can only see two colors), and genderflux 👍

just my personal hc about gambit :3

here's the flags

here's the image I used

[supervillain-smut]

For any Skyrim character on your list, or, fuck it, anyone on your list, but add in Malborn, Etienne Rarnis, Marcurio, Erandur, and Gelebor: Do any of them do really weird shit, like some weird quirk, when they reach the peak of emotion? The emotion could be anything, from happiness to frustration to horny, just dialed up to 11. How do these men short-circuit?

I could go buck-wild with this one, so I'm going to stick to the specific characters you gave me, lol.

Erandur: When Erandur reaches the breaking point of anger, an extremely rare sight, he throws things, taking special care even in a fit of rage not to aim at or near someone. He'd never forgive himself if he accidentally cut his lover with a stray shard of glass from a vase he threw.

Etienne Rarnis: When Etienne can hold his laughter back no longer, he needs to brace himself against something or someone, otherwise he will simply double over, clutching his sides.

Gelebor: When Gelebor is on the fine line of being able to hold himself back from his love, his fists clench and unclench at his sides; he wants so badly to touch them, but is torn between his oath and his own selfish need.

Malborn: When Malborn is tired, but he can't quite sleep, he is prone to giggling at the smallest things. Really, it makes no sense what he finds funny, but he is so tired, and it is so late, anything will make him crack a smile. Even simply staring at him confusedly will make him laugh.

Marcurio: When Marcurio is on the brink of tears, whether it be emotional or physical pain, he bites his lip. Sometimes so hard it'll bleed. His pride keeps him from crying so long as he can help it.

[theunluckyvandalist]

Time to explain all of these

Trans and out

Churchill: has been out for years now [he's only abt 34] and has transitioned fully

Ezili: her connection to the spirits and magic made her realize she's def not a cis girl, she doesn't talk abt it much but will explain if asked

Psi: it's canon waht do u want me to say, but I think they project their dysphoria onto people they don't like sometimes.

Trans, but-

Quincy: he has transitioned but he hasn't told anyone except Gwen, he just doesn't think it's super important to say.

Rosalia: she's still figuring herself out, but she's p sure she's nonbinary

Etienne: same as rosalia

Trans by proxy

Adora: as my headcanon goes, adora is quite literally part sungod, the space gods were genderless and so her connection with gender is very warped. She identifies w fem terms and doesn't mind being called a girl though.

Corvus: according to him, the concept of gender being literally dead feels better to him

Benjamin: he's going thru smtn

Obyn: he is part plant and was raised by wolves, his perception of gender is mostly gone and he thinks masc agender works fine.

Dabbled but cis

Brickell: since I hc she and Churchill were childhood friends [and essentially found family] his gender questioning stage made her wonder if she was too, she realized p quickly she wasn't but it helped her w figuring things out anyway. [Realized she was bi]

Gwen: identified as nby for YEARS until realizing she was just a tomboy and felt like she couldn't be a masc girl [again, also realized she was bi]

Sauda: too much energy, so little time but figured out she was cis very wuickly

Bottom tier is self explanatory

[guavaghast]

some doodles 

first two are old stuff last two sketches are the newer doodles 

:) i like monkey 

[arcxnumvitae]

The praise k.ink club:

[strange-doll-child]

Do you have any headcannons for the Shadow Pianist?

Omg! Matter a fact I do lmao, one of my favorites after all hehe, lot of it is brainrot but stillll

I hc his name to be "Charlie Baroketch", I don't really know why, his last name- I took that from the Ghost Gallery iteration of him but idk where 'Charlie' came from, I just liked it

I (dis)like to beleive he was murdered by Constance because he found her like- Right after she killed one of her husbands and because he was a witness he had to go too, she just fucked up and hit his face tho because he panicked, so as a haunt he has just a wound all the way across his face that goes over one of his eyes

Speaking of that- I also think he can materialize into a visible haunt like the rest, he just doesn't do it that often because he feels comfortable as a shadow(And safe)

That Non-Binary flag in my most recent drawings of him is like, half a joke, referring to the fact he is basically just a shadow he can be perceived however he likes(And also the fact the Shadow Pianist is female in one continuity)

Him and Emily(The Beating Heart bride) get along fairly well, he was scared of her at first because he mistook her for Constance(brides and all that) but now she's kinda like a sister to him

IDK if this counts as a hc but I randomly started shipping him with Etienne Lalaurie(One of the duelists, specifically the one in black & red to how I deemed to name them) thanks to my girlfriend and like- Yeah sure that's a thing now lol

I have very vivid imagery of this man having a panic attack almost because when he first arrived in the mansion he remembered he was a pianist but he could NOT remember how to play the piano, like he was actually crying

I have more somewhere but like- This is everything that I remember rn and like- Yeah most of these kinda just pop up in the moment and all but I hope these suffice hhehes

[innocentsshounenjuujigun]

(Feel free to ignore this)

So we now know how the kids will react to parental figures, what about someone an older sibling? Basically the same but they just lack the parenting skills and they are uncomfortable being seen as parental figure.

Etienne — He's happy with just about anyone who's nice to him, and adapts perfectly well to that kind of figure. Since he's never had a sibling before, it feels special, in a way. And very fun!

Nicolas — His dumbass behavior comes out more often with someone who seems more on his level. However, he's also fixated on earning your praise and approval, through whatever means he can.

Henri — He starts out feeling even more like you're just going to tease or make fun of him, since you feel closer to being one of his peers, but he still adjusts pretty quickly once you're kind to him.

Luc — He gets along with you wonderfully from the start. An older sibling-like figure is more casual to be around, so it's easier to relax and not feel like he has to be on his best behavior for you.

Marc — So long as you're nice to him, Marc adjusts just fine. He's not too particular about who he gets along with, and he'll still come to trust you in no time. Like a lot of them, he's really needy.

Christian — She's a little more hesitant to open up to someone who seems less responsible, but in the end, it doesn't change much. You're still a kid person... and she needs that kindness a lot.

Remy — He has about the same issues, regardless of if he's dealing with someone more parental or older sibling-like. Still, he'll get comfortable around you eventually and be just as content.

Laurent — He can relate quite a bit to someone who's older sibling-like, and that means he might warm up to you faster. Especially if you actually have siblings, the common ground makes him trust more.

Lillian — Though he starts out concerned that you're going to treat him like he's helpless too, the reality is that he does very well with someone who's like a sibling. ...and he does like the attention.

Guillaume — He's a terrible brat either way, and whether you're more of a sibling or parental figure doesn't do much to change that. You'll still be dealing with all the same Guillaume-related issues.

Pierre — He'd be more likely to cling to a parental figure quickly, but an older sibling-like person would get the same result before long. He's just the needy, attention-starved type, in general.

Guy — It's a little easier to relax around you, but other than that, it doesn't change much. He has trouble trusting anyone, and the difference between "parent" and "sibling" doesn't affect that.

Michael — Unfortunately, he's less likely to respect you at first, that way. He takes authority figures very seriously, and someone who comes across as more like a sibling doesn't rank as highly.

Isabelle — She might initially feel more comfortable with that than with someone who comes across as more like an "adult". Regardless, though, Isabelle is slow to build trust with almost anyone.

[supertrxshwrites]

Masterlist

Started: 8/8/24

Last Updated: 8/14/24

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Maneater Pt.1, Part II

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[mymissalicorne]

OKAY SO FIRST OFF

GILBERT IS MARSEILLAIS?????????

I don't know about canon due to the time period and his upbringing, but BBC Gilbert def as a little accent because I said so and imagining a character with l'accent marseillais is somehow hilarious

With Serge being from Paris it's even better, as these two towns hates each other. It wasn't intentional however, because this rivalry was created in the 90s by Paris and Marseille football clubs because it would make them even more money. So surprisingly lore deepening coïncidence

Now I can't stop imagining Gilbert suddenly saying « LA CON DE TES MORTS » in frustration with the heaviest accent ever and Serge looking at him like he grew a second head

Fuck Carl, I'd say he deserves every bad thing that happened to him. How dare he deceive every good people like that ? This monster

Now, I say that because I take @iiyarada's headcanons as canon, and can confidently say that Carl ending with an american guy instead of a french one in the BBC is his best ending. Hiding being part of a gang is nothing compared to the sin of hiding the fact he says « chocolatine » instead of pain au chocolat

Who cares if he's american ??? This bitch doesn't now how to correctly call this viennoiserie :

(seems like nothing but it's a big issue amongst french people)

Claude will feel like he took the good decision after learning this horrendous fact about his ex.

If Kazeki happens at the end of the 19th century, then Kurt should've been happy Gilbert was hated because it probably stopped him from facing so much racism with a name like that. From 1870 to a little after WWI, french people hated german people with a passion ! Because of the loss of the Alsace and the Moselle to Prussia during the 1870 french-prussian war, there was a lot of propaganda against german people. So people probably called him a « boche » which is an ancient insulte to call german people, insulted him and said he was a thief and such. Violence was also a german attribut at this time, so his personality probably made it even worst. Rip Kurt, you and Serge could've relate to each other in being a victim of racism. Was this the reason he had a thing for Serge ? Who knows...

Nowadays however, Stachler is actually a french name, from Alsace ! Because Alsace have a lot of german influences, a lot of people and towns there have at least german-sounding and even german names (Artzenheim for exemple is a french town) so it could be that Kurt is an alsacien

Necroix is one of the most french looking name I ever saw, and I'm french !

From now on, I decided with power I do not have that Jules is from Saint-Etienne and that Pascal don't like his vibe for reason hedo not know (I'm too afraid to read this manga so I have no idea if that make sense is canon) (also the reason he doesn't like his vibe is because deep down his inner lyonnais self felt like Jules was from Saint-Etienne and Lyon and Saint-Etienne hates each other) (YES, it's ALSO a football based rivalry)

Renault is such a french name it's crazy. It's even both a first and last name, as a guy with this last name created the car company Renault, and a guy named Renaud (prononced the same since the l, t and d are silent) is a super known french musician. In the BBC he probably got some Mistral Gagnant and Toujours Debout jokes (songs Renaud made) from the french guys

Anyway, I'll stop here because I still need to accept the fact that Gilbert is marseillais and Carl says chocolatine

[stardust-and-snails]

agere moodboard for psi from bloons td 6!

requested by @thequeenofnaturesworld

headcanons & stuff under the cut!!

☾ they mostly regress at night or after the day's over, preferring to snuggle up in a blanket fort and read over more 'typical' agere activities.

☾ given that etienne and psi are about the same age both big & little, and neither of them really run around and play games like the other kids (etienne's just a very chill and sleepy little guy, and psi's blind and would definitely get hurt if they tried to play tag or something), they hang out a lot and play together, esp when regressed. (also they're adopted siblings in my lore lol, brickell adopted them both. long story)

☾ they almost always regress to 2-5

☾ they started regressing for fun, but it eventually became a coping mechanism for dealing with the stress of growing up in the bloon war. they're chronologically 12 and have nowhere else to go besides being taken care of by the heroes, not a good situation for them :(

☾ sometimes, they like to cause mischief with their powers :3 true for both big and little psi, but more so when they're regressed

[icerosesummerbracket]

Details that have been established so far

EDIT: This is out of date!! Most info has been moved to a Google Doc in the pinned post

Disclaimer for anyone who comes across this post that isn’t in the know- “A Rose of Ice in Summer” is a fake series made up for this bracket blog! It is being developed through people making fake analysis, similar to the phenomenon that happened with Goncharov

The source, “A Rose of Ice in Summer”

Currently being decided; Genre, Setting, and Medium

While there are polls running to decide prev, it seems likely that it’ll be a book,

And it’s been established that the original book series was published in the 2000s, but has an upcoming television adaptation announced

The original book series had an ambiguous ending, and with the adaptation announced there is speculation to whether or not it will be kept ambiguous

The fandom is small, but clearly very passionate!

Characters

Rose is the main character

There is a character named Belladonna who’s a foil to Rose

There is a character named Opal who plays a small role in the story

There is a character named Carter

There is an antagonist character named Radiance (she has committed yet-to-be-specified atrocities. a “god forbid women do anything” kind of woman)

There is a character named Etienne

There is a character named Chance who’s very gnc

There is a character named Madame Spiceberry (either canonically or commonly headcanoned to be a lesbian) (and she has a cool hat)

There is a character named Currant

There is a character named The Chronicler, described by some as a “walking talking plot device”

There is a character named Ellana

There’s a (probably antagonist) character named Isabeth who’s seen as controversial (has fans but other people don’t want her included)

There is a character named Ruskan. He’s also disabled, and uses mobility aids

There is a character named Lux

There is a character named Lily

There is a character named Jacob. He dies at some point

There’s a pair of twins named Sunrise and Sunset who are villains in book 5

There is a character named Alexandria

There is a very minor character named Mal

There is a character named Cian

There is a character named Mr. Oaks

Scenes/ideas mentioned

The main character, Rose, was attacked by a crow for 20 minutes once. It’s a little funny, but it’s also sad when you think about the symbolism- the crow symbolizes grief and how death keeps coming back, and how she feels like she can’t stop it no matter how hard she tries

Rose has a best friend who is a guy, but there is never any canonical romance between them- and also with the specifics of it not being a “love Triangle” there’s a hypothetical second guy

Creating a bridge between the last bullet point and the next one- the first best friend has a yet-to-be-specified thing about names, and is phrased as “settling” on the name Lily- this lead many fans to speculate trans headcanons for the character, but it’s noncanon

There’s an important point where Rose has the option to stay with Lily, but chooses not to. This is a low point in her arc, and it’s implied things would have been better for her if she did stay, but she cannot go back for an unspecified reason (at least, during the series)

(The thing about Lily being Rose’s best friend, and Rose leaving Lily at some point, were sent in by two different people who happened to choose the same character name, but I’ve decided to combine both of those. Further bridging this based on things known from other content, perhaps the love-interest/love-triangle thing is subverted between Rose and Lily by it turning out that they’re siblings in some way - this would elaborate on why they not only aren’t a canon ship but Should Not Be shipped At All)

Rose’s other best friend is Kivan, who’s a bit more “boring” and background in the first book but gets a lot more interesting later when he reveals a big plot twist

There is a scene that takes place in a garden that is considered “iconic”. There’s also some flower symbolism befitting the fact that it takes place in a garden.

Lots of flower symbolism in general that gives it a lot of reread value

Other symbolism; glass/glassy eyes, cold hands, the sun, broken swords, the color white

Lux is mostly a background antagonist in book 1, but becomes important later for yet-to-be-specified reasons

As mentioned, There is a running theme about the color white and light in general being Ominous as opposed to unquestionably good (the character Radiance fits into this theme, and so does Lux)

Etienne and Currant are twins

The character Etienne is morally gray in some way, with some fans defending her actions and some hating her for them

At some point Etienne caused an “incident” involving Ravens

Etienne tries to write an apology point at some point early on, the apology note both being kinda funny because of some point of it that was messed up, but also important to the character

Later on, Etienne helps the protagonists in some way by providing invitations and disguises- it has not yet been elaborated what those were for, but presumably they’re important in some way

Some people ship Etienne and Madame Spiceberry romantically

Unlike his twin, Currant is a positive mentor figure, and a genuinely good role model

Currant has a thematically important monologue in book 3

The character Ellana was given a bunch of chapters in book 4 to flesh out her backstory, and while some fans dislike those chapters for “messing with the pacing”, they’re important to the overall theme of that specific book

When Opal’s background story arc “concludes” in a way, they stay with Madame Spiceberry in some way, becoming a background element in plots that revisit her

Madam Spiceberry is also an innkeeper

Carter is canonically genderfluid, using she/her and he/him pronouns, and has a minor plot with Opal in some way.

There is a yet-to-be-specified complex magic system

There’s a lost kid who helps the plot in some way in Chapter 3 (of book one presumably)

The villains Sunrise and Sunset tie into book 5′s themes of identity

Alexandria is the first death to happen in the story, but she’s a “haunts the narrative” kind of dead character

There’s a shopkeeper named Monty who appears in exactly one scene in book 3, drops some kind of important worldbuilding/lore fact, and is never seen again (presumably the characters never answer the fact because to them it’s not important, but to an audience trying to theorize about lore it’s everything)

So far it has been implied that Isabeth may have killed Ruskan, and that’s why people hate her, but the details are as of yet unspecified

Mr. Oaks is responsible for something referred to as “the pergola incident”

Character ages

Anyone who isn’t mentioned in this section is undecided yet

Rose is 14 at the start of book 1 and would be about 18 by the end of the series

Lily is in the same age range as Rose

Belladonna is in the same age range as Rose

Radiance is an adult

Mr. Oaks is an adult

Etienne is an adult- and given that they’re twins, Currant is also an adult

Madame Spiceberry is an adult

Now that I have made this post I will try to update it every time I answer an ask that has new information!! And there will be a link to it in the pinned post!

[nikkiruncks]

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Hiya, Poorni ❤️! Buddy Morgan for the ask game?

My first impression: He was chill. I liked his character.

My impression now: I like him a lot. He should’ve been a recurring character.

Favorite thing about that character: He’s a huge sweetheart, and even though his family is rich, he doesn’t look down on others.

Least favorite thing: He wasn’t mentioned after Eric’s Buddy at all.

Favorite line/scene: “You’re so cute!”

Favorite interaction that character has with another: Eric easily

A character that I wish that character would interact with more: Mitch, Shelly, Jackie, and early Fez. Maybe Hyde too.

Another character from another fandom that reminds me of that character: I can maybe see Etienne having that chill and sweet vibe if he actually showed up.

A headcanon about that character: He has a little sister.

A song that reminds of that character: Idk

An unpopular opinion about that character: I can’t see him with Fez. I can see it in the early seasons, but later on I feel like Buddy can do so much better.

Favorite picture:

[artekai]

The @icerosesummerbracket has dragged me back into ARoIiS, so I spent all day drawing art of my absolute favorite, Currant!

I was inspired by some of the hc designs I've seen in the fandom lately for both him and Etienne, but I really wanted to lean into the ARoIiS themes of light vs. dark with his outfit. Though I fear I might have leaned into them TOO much lmao. But I do enjoy the space/star aesthetic, so it's fine with me, just consider it an artistic liberty. I definitely did not know how to depict his magic tho lol.

Also! I wanted to give him lots of blue so he and Etienne could be a red-blue sibling duo :D

I do headcanon Currant as trans :) I mean, have you ever noticed how ARoIiS uses similar words to describe him and Etienne, but in a different light? (pun intended) You CANNOT tell me they aren't identical twins. And you know what that means! One of them has to be trans. I'm convinced Etienne did his top surgery somehow, and you cannot change my mind idc idc.

Honestly at this point I would take a spin-off that's just about Currant and Etienne, exploring their origins, their rocky relationship, and how they ended up taking different paths in life. That would be cool to see.

Also, how about both a Currantsweep and an Etiennesweep, so they can both face off each other in the finals, for further family drama? I know it's not gonna happen but I can dream ❤️

[forestofforever]

Vampire headcanons

Since I am feeling spooky (I know it isn't Halloween yet but I feel like we're close enough) I thought I'd share some vampire headcanons that I have about my muses.

Etienne would embrace being a vampire, adapting to it easily. His job allows him to stay in the shadows, and his playboy persona makes it easy enough to get people to agree to let him take a nibble. Sure, not everyone is into it, but enough people are, and Etienne takes full advantage of this.

Wester manages to deal with the situation quite well. It's a lot like the werewolf situation, it requires some alterations to his normal life, but he figures it out in no time. The gym he works at is open 24/7, and he simply takes most of the late-night shifts, something that his coworkers really don't mind. He mostly feeds on animals, preferably large ones that will be fine even if he takes a sip.

Sylvester cannot deal with the situation. He's a monster, he refuses to drink, becomes even more of a recluse than he already was, and starts to really spiral. He refuses to feed until the hunger becomes so intense that there is no fighting it, resulting in him usually killing the people that he drinks from. Every time this happens he only becomes more afraid of what he's become, causing him to get stuck in a vicious cycle.

Benjamin adores being a vampire. He's already powerful and can work from the shadows just fine, but now he's also immortal and a literal monster, delightful! No better way to traumatize your enemies than by sucking one of them dry in front of the others. They're never going to recover from that.

Mary is an absolute fucking menace. She already was one before becoming a vampire, but now she's a complete nightmare. Her tendency to recklessly throw herself into any dangerous situation is only made worse by the fact that she is now immortal. She would probably handle the situation a bit too recklessly though, managing to get herself killed pretty quickly.

[lumiereandcogsworth]

wait omg I don't have any specific asks abt young adam but I would love to hear any headcanons you have about him and his mom 🥺 I remember that lil flashback we see in the movie standing out to me so much, I just know she was the sweetest woman in the world

often for bedtime stories, his mother would tell him about her life before she became royal. about her brothers and her parents and their animals and playing in the sunshine and warm dinners and laughter. she’d always promise to take him there some day.

adam has early memories of sitting in her room while she got ready for a dinner or ball. he’d sit on her bed and play while her lady’s maid dressed her and did her hair and makeup. eventually, the maid would leave and his mother would sit at her vanity. the moment that happened, adam would slide off the bed and climb onto her lap. they’d spend every minute together until the nanny would come to take him away and the queen would have to join the party.

they played in the garden a lot, particularly around his mother’s roses. they’d run around and play hide & seek and tag. they’d also collect flowers for the vase in her room and sit in the sunshine and she would sing to him. they’d go for walks when the cherry blossom trees were in bloom and the pink petals would fall like snow and it always felt a little magical.

on his birthday (august 26th) she would always make a special little chocolate cake for him, a tradition she carried over from what her mother always did for her and her brothers on their birthdays. she would also often send lumiere and plumette to paris to find a present for him, if she would not be going there with the king around the time.

adam was very quiet by nature, even to his mother, but he definitely lit up the most around her. he never said much to anyone when he was little, but you could quite easily tell he was happiest in his mother’s presence. he’d kick his legs and shake his arms when he saw her. and he’d cling to her dress or hand when others were around.

many nights when there was either a storm or a bad dream, little adam would brave the darkness in order to run to the safety of his mother’s room. he’d run in and climb into her bed and nestle right in her arms. she would wake and hold him tight and sing soft lullabies to him to help him fall asleep.

winter and christmas were also a special time. adam’s father often spent his winters in paris or versailles, leaving his wife and son behind. adam and his mother Loved this, of course. they would play in the snow every day and snuggle in her bed every night, the whole castle always smelling of cinnamon and gingerbread.

one of adam’s core memories, which i’ve written this fic about, so i’ll only say it briefly here, is when he was around four years old and his mother woke him in the middle of the night to bring him to the stables. he got to witness the birth of his first horse, etienne.

adam was very prone to meltdowns, especially if any changes happened or if he couldn’t see his mother when he had been told he could, or if his father yelled or slammed a door or hit him. adam was very sensitive to his environment and it would often bring him to tears and/or tantrums. his mother was pretty much the only one that could get him to calm down eventually.

as he got a bit older and started studying with the private tutors, he took so much joy in infodumping about new things to his mother. she never had a proper education, her brothers taught her to read and write, so she was always so fascinated by what adam told her. he’d spend hours telling her things, sometimes. they’d walk around the garden or ride a horse together and he’d ramble on. (truly the only time he’s ever considered a chatterbox is if he’s infodumping. otherwise he was so so quiet and still is generally).

when his mother got sick and became bed-ridden, she told him to keep an eye on the flowers and horses for her. so every day he’d come visit her and tell her how they were doing. he’d also tell her about what he was studying and reading. he was getting very interested in books by this age (nine). many nights he would stay in her room and read to her. she’d fall asleep before him and he’d eventually close the book and snuggle next to her. he could tell she was getting weaker but he’d close his eyes and pretend they were at the farm with her brothers in the sunshine. hoping one day they’d get there.

[arcxnumvitae]

Who/What inspired my muses

Part 3 what do unbroken fingers feel like

Minglian: Okay, so this was around the time all the stuff with Qingshan went down. As I had established with Zhaohui earlier, I was going to need a replacement Red Eye. Minglian actually became a concept around early 2020 and didn’t actually come into play until maybe October or so of that year? Later on, at least. She went without a name for a while too while in the simmering stages. At the time, Huaxiu was a kind of different person in his capability for sweetness and caring, so with the thought that now he’d be the one to be the teacher and the guide for this new being, I just kinda thought of all the ways in which that would affect him. From the get-go, Minglian and Huaxiu were meant to have a special bond, and it was through his care Minglian that a lot of the jagged edges left from some of Huaxiu’s past trauma began to smooth over.

Zhaohui: Here we go. Like I had said earlier, Zhaohiu was actually created years before, around when Huaxiu was. It started when I reblogged one of those “send in a fc and I’ll make a muse from it” memes. Angie sent in the fc and I didn’t know anything about the series he was from other than knowing it was some books that Kirei cried sitting in her car once while reading? I actually have the original notes where I was jotting down ideas for him! (I actually have them for a few muses now that I’m looking). Basically, my thought was still of someone who had a job, screwed the pooch (seriously, what is up with that saying?), and was punished for it. A curse of some form was also involved. Mainly, I made Zhaohui to be a double-agent in what was going on with Qingshan, someone who sided with her but planned to throw her to the wolves for his own machinations. He wasn’t fully a Red Eye at the time of plotting but he ended up one as time went on. After Qingshan’s stuff happened and his curse was removed, I was already adding Minglian and decided, eh why not, and added him too.

Ruaidhri: I realized I hadn’t added a single fae past Aur? Not a single muse from where he was from? I decided to rectify that. This is also where you can see my little brain starting to do some schemes with the overarching plot regarding the fae.

Zhifeng: As Kirei said in her post, she said something to the effect of “wanna do two con muses based on The R.oad to E.l Do.rado?” And who am I to refuse? Zhifeng really started to take form after we watched the movie, and really started to solidify as I was listening to Annapantsu’s version of It’s Tough to Be a God. Especially the line and especially the tone in which she sang, “And who am I to bridle if I’m forced to be an idol? If they say that I’m a god then that’s what I am!” I remember playing that part over and over again just luxuriating in the inspiration juices that flowed from it.

Eilidh: Baby I’m making the fae brown too. Plus, H.ades and P.ersephone from H.adestown. Specifically their “Chant” songs. And, while they’re not the same types, of quirky, I think some of her quirkiness came from Amber Gray’s amazing portrayal of P.ersephone. Go listen to H.adestown. Oh! Also F.earne from C.ritical R.ole.

Aodh: The other half of the duo of H.ades and P.ersephone from H.adestown. Particularly the way H.ades is, like, super in love with his wife. I was thinking the pining from the Epics, Epic III specifically, and super the bitter tone from Hades’ parts in Chant II and Chant Reprise linked above. Unfortunately, Aodh didn’t end up nearly as cool and “weighty” as H.adestown’s Hades.

Tomoe: I had been going really hot and heavy with the supernatural muses so I thought I’d buff up the normal human section to give more of a selection to any mutuals who wanted more grounded stories. And, sigh, yes, Steph, my ongoing love of R.iza H.awkeye and my love for her dynamic with R.oy hahaha.

Kasemchai: Babes, I wish I could tell you. I saw the fc and wanted to use it, from there I thought a naga would be interesting, a constant theme you’ll notice.

Tara: I wanted to explore things from Aur’s sister’s pov, since all that had been presented was his knowledge and thoughts on her plans to assassinate him. Inspirations? Mary Derrington from C.ritical R.ole (Taryon’s younger sister). And A.zula from A.vatar. So, a lot of better suited/kinda cutthroat younger sister vibes clearly.

Zaisan: Another one from Angie’s deity pantheon. Specifically me tying him into Matthias’ backstory as the one who took his eye.

Saori: @strawberryxdreams wanted to do sibling muses! So we worked out the background and home stuff together.

Etienne: I have a pretty and otherworldly fc but what if he was literally just a Dude?

Amelie: Arata’s daughter! If we sort of time jump to the future where she’s older! I thought her story was an interesting one and seeing how it played out in the future would be interesting too but she was like an npc and also 7, pft. The more interesting things happens when she’s older though since I have already actually worked out future stuff for her, so I said there was no other way to get to the good part other than jumping there.

Iomhar: What if I made a fae gentry and also made him a himbo? I thought it’d be a funny foil to how duplicitous the fae are usually portrayed as.

Taichiro: It was posed to me, “you’re going to become a lawyer, how come you don’t have a muse that does law?” Which was a thought. That I then completely undermined by placing him in an entirely different country with its own legal system so that my three years of hard-earned knowledge meant absolutely nothing anyways. Whoops? I also wanted to add more players to Tomoe’s stuff and the Kurosawa group that she works for.

Kaisei: Horns. No, no he has to be human because of the lore, no horn. But....horns? 👀 Gentle giant. Sorta came to be influenced by a joke of a guest character in C.ritical R.ole, Calianna, someone who’s 1/10 dragon-- “Okay, which ancestor climbed something they weren’t supposed to?”

Anja: More Bastion and also what if I made a snarky little shit for funsies. The last name was just a fun little nod to G.enshin’s K.aeya.

Ed: “I want another god-touched.” Also, what if I had a muse that was just, “’women’.” That’s it, that’s the inspiration. Athena’s always been my favorite of the bunch since my middle school beginning PJO days so it was high time I did something with her.