#❥ aryin. about ﹕ every card i'm dealt is black & blue.

[stellarhistoria]

where should you be kissed?

Aryin Ethan Cytos:

palm

you give and give. you are a gentle heart, broken but still standing… always lending a hand for those who need it, expecting nothing in return. you deserve someone taking your hand and kissing your open palm, the hands which have selflessly helped so many others.

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[stellarhistoria]

i know today's orlain's session day in about 6 hours, but can you send questions about aryin's session? it's kingdom hearts centric. things to help ask about:

her teammates: cayde(nce pendraco), ace lancealot (last name renounced), jetsam ryder, gwennen gawain, juliet herald.

her allies/teachers, past and present: sir max (son of goofy), yen sid, zee, apex, vivian highwind, elysia holmes, grey ashlynn (deceased), auria cytos (deceased).

her parents: fenix, auria cytos (deceased), lord cytos (abusive father, caution), grey ashlynn (self appointed apparently by the man himself).

history: they're 300 years after kh3. mordred split into morganna (bbeg) and tristan (that is our dad boogie woogie woogie. he sacrificed himself tho).

sides of the war: magic kingdom (aryin's ex allies), restoration committee (neutral ground), the keyblade academy.

keyblades: frolic flame, dual disc, magenta clockwork, classic tone (nerf gun), nightshade vines (legendary artifact).

friends/family: justine calistine (deceased), johnny calistine (if you spot the joke? no you don't.), ariel cytos, luka cytos, zachary cytos.

past relationships: peter, rose, "port royal" (ask, i dare you.)

misc.: morganna, ezekiel, becoming a wizard/leaving druid behind, being a keeper of balance, "patchwork", the experiments/the lab, guilty conscience/blood on her hands, tristan, being on the run.

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q1: what is their favorite time of year?

their favorite time of year is, season wise, the cresting of summer into autumn. that first breeze where you can feel the chill of the summer beginning to end. time to bring out the sweaters and warm tea.

q2: what is their happiest memory?

you ask them something they cannot answer. perhaps it was meeting justine, their best friend in the whole world, who they would live for - who they would die to see once more. perhaps it was meeting elysia holmes and his daughter, iris - two people who are beginning to reach the ranks of people who they would live for ... which scares them to no end. perhaps, perhaps you mean the memory of when they decided that history no longer mattered, and they had laid eyes on gwennen gawain after being heartbroken for so long. perhaps. perhaps you mean so many things. perhaps.

q3: what is their most embarrassing moment?

trying to cook for the first time for rose and peter and elysia for sure. when you get the "oh, sug'." from a cajun? even the autistic one knows they fucked up.

q4: recall a moment with their best friend they deem as cute.

oh, that one time that they swore justine didn't know how to braid their hair, and they fussed and fussed, and she just stood there, waiting, with a smile. not too much older than they were, maybe one, one and a half years. and she just walked to the door and shouted for their mom. mom arrived and saw the problem and laughed, laughed, laughed, like it was the funniest thing. she took the supplies and began to show justine how to put their hair into box braids. and then said, "you know, just like you do mine?" so sheepish they were...

q5: recall their best childhood memory.

aryin remembers the days where they were read story after story of the princesses being saved by the knights in shining armor, the dragons being slain, and there being a happily ever after. zack had told them, these aren't real. don't rely on these for being the basis of your reality, aryin. but they sounded so fantastic. they sounded like they COULD BE REALITY. after all, they could be a knight! they could be the princess! they could be the dragon! they could be all parts of this story. they could die, live, and get their happy ending just the same. and that's what scared the family.

[stellarhistoria]

im prepping for session in about an hour but sometimes i think about the fact that were it not for aryin's inherent connection to the light (and darkness, too) as well as zee and cayde keeping them active after actually dying, and coming back wrong, they would not look as healthy as they do now. they are constantly in pain to a point that even a literal demon goddess goes "u fuckin good? u still sane?" and they just tilt their head at her, but they're healthy physically.

[stellarhistoria]

PARENTS: QUEEN AURIA (MALLAS) CYTOS & KING MOROZ CYTOS (calls himself lord).

CHILDREN (in order of oldest to youngest): ZACHARY CYTOS, ALCAEUS MALLAS (by two minutes), CALLIOPE MALLAS, LUKA CYTOS (HIGHWIND), ARYIN CYTOS, & ARIEL LANCEALOT (ASHLYNN).

"lord cytos", known by the worlds as king moroz (or, worse, king of winter), is not a kind man but he will continue to claim he has the best interests of his children and extended family constantly in mind. whether this is true or not is hard to gauge, as he has done some truly awful things in the past.

the first and last time, the ONLY time he got physical with one of his kids was the last time he ever had contact with one of them: the day zachary ran away.

for all he says about his kids to people who try to get him away from them, most of what he says does, to an extent, come from a place of... "love", in his twisted way.

he wants them to understand that they're "hurting people" by continuing to play hero. by continuing to believe in some strange fairytale. he wants them to grow up at least a little bit and face reality, and people encouraging them to stay where they are mentally feels, to him, "reckless and dangerous". both to the people around them and to his children themselves.

he's not as much of a fighter as one believes he is. he has very few attack options, the rest of his spells are for controlling a battlefield and being the most annoying epitome of "DIE ALREADY, YOU FUCK". so most do not challenge him.

he does not swing first. ever. (aside from with that one time with zack.)

"lady auria", otherwise known as queen cytos, or more historically as lady of the moontide, was a woman who did her utmost to keep her kids happy and healthy once she realized just how much she loved them.

yes, for a while, her children were politically born, for "function". she held no attachment to them. but after a while, she grew to love them, and found herself upset that she did not love them immediately, as they were so full of joy and light like she was once. and it scared her to know she bore such gifts of the world with such an evil and selfish man.

as the keeper of balance for a long time prior to her second youngest, aryin, she was much much older than one would have taken her for, only starting to age quarter yearly past her set age when she began to have kids with moroz. she knew this would happen, but she expected to be there for them the whole time they were alive. she was wrong.

she was ... sort of killed, physically killed, by her husband after getting too close to something he didn't want her to get near. her last wish was that she could have said goodbye to her kids one last time, or at least reminded them that she loved them. because she knew he would never say it to them. at least, not in a way where it would make them FEEL loved.

she was a druid (moon) - fighter (champion) - wizard (scribes). almost max npc level of eighty. only surprise group attacks could have killed her, and it did.

she was a terrifying woman, who would have torn apart reality to give her kids anything they wanted, even if it meant toppling their own kingdom and running to safety. perhaps this is why she was killed by her husband.

ex crown prince zachary cytos, man of many wonderful abilities but master at nearly nothing. every since he was young, he had a fairly decent aptitude for everything he touched, everything he picked up he could handle with dignity and grace, but he was never anything more than... good. you can see when this broke the camel's back.

for a long time in his youth, he was serious, solemn, the one who remained unshakeable. he was the pillar, the coliseum, unbreakable, unwilling to bend. someone had to stand their ground against their father and it had to be him. none of the others would suffer at their father's hands as long as he was around.

...as long as he was around.

during an altercation that was supposed to be like any other with his father, a usual hissing match behind closed doors. right before his eighteenth birthday. his father got mad enough to lay hands on him, near full force throwing him against the wall with a back handed hit, forgetting his own strength and where he had placed some things for a split second, getting some pieces of broken ceramic into his back past his clothes.

that day, not even waiting until the rainfall had stopped, zack ran from home, and never looked back. he didn't stop walking until he managed to find himself on a different world, and collapsed in a city of commerce and creation (san fransokyo).

he met a woman named circe there; she picked him up off the ground and gave him a place to stay until he recovered enough to tell him what happened, and they've been best friends and coworkers in his practice ever since. (circe is three years older than him, and is the "i will kill you myself once we're out of this deadly situation" lesbian to his "bad decisions are my middle name" gay.)

every attempt to tell him about what has happened with his father has been met with total silence and "ignorance" in the sense that he outright tunes it out. however, mentioning his siblings gets him to immediately drop what he's doing and light up like a golden retriever hearing that they're going for a walkies.

his dream job is to be an engineer.

alcaeus mallas, known by all simply as "kae", is a chaotic firecracker of the bluntest sharp object you've ever come across. usually found not to far from his two minutes younger twin sister, calliope "kallie" mallas.

energetic and the life of the party, it's not uncommon to find him suggesting the most insane plan that could get someone killed, and not uncommon either for him to have a full plan on the spot of something being announced, only for kallie to proofread it just as fast.

like his sister, he takes after his mother in mannerisms and ideology the most, but even that is negligible. they both share their mother's maiden name after being given direct expressed permission from her (tearfully so), but to say that they model either of their parents' mannerisms to a far extent is... an insult.

i don't know what classes they'd be, but they genuinely don't care that much about the war unless their siblings end up keeling over. it is unknown if they know about aryin dying and coming back to life, as they seem to have remained quite jovial after that point up until five years later (current day). it's possible the other siblings are worried about their response to it.

kae is the aggressively caring sort to make himself obnoxious to get you to love yourself so he'll leave you alone, but by the time you realize what he's done, you've been bamboozled and he's already gone. obnoxious (affectionate)

they're SAFE. and they're happy.

luka cytos, revered doctor and feared pirate captain, is a treasure to have at your tavern, as he always has some new story to tell... if you can get him to talk for longer than a few sentences.

idolizes captain jack sparrow - or at least believes captain jack sparrow to be a hero.

he purposefully makes himself look smaller to get away from people who don't want to hit someone who "looks like a coward". this doesn't always work, and instead provokes different people to hit him. most of the time it's people who believe he's incapable of fighting as a doctor.

he's studied gloom (the source of 75% of his fears) to an extent that he can infuse excess gloom within plant life to a safe extent and create new life.

canonically, it's heavily implied that he's capable of stitching souls back together, with enough magic, the right pieces, and willingness of the spirit.

luka has no romantic awareness at all, and in fact believes that relationships "thrive" on lack of communication. which is why his canon polycule has no definitive label and he has no qualms about simply saying he "Cares" about elysia and mollymauk. because it's not wrong and he doesn't have to worry about scaring them with a label that they didn't talk about.

he has been on the pirates of the caribbean world for over ten years, claiming that he's on vacation, to his father. ...moroz is not the smartest man.

vivian is dead certain that this boy is a highwind more than he ever would be a cytos but he refuses to acknowledge it despite how many times he's accidentally called her "mom".

i mean you already know a lot about aryin but let's talk family.

aryin loves their family more than they love themselves, but that's not a hard feat to accomplish, really. it's better to say that they love their family more than they respect their duty to being what the worlds need.

if their family needed them, then the worlds could burn. their family have been the only ones who haven't abandoned them throughout all this, or asked lofty goals of them, or confused them on what they should or shouldn't do. they have only ever asked for them to do what they feel is best.

aryin and ariel have the darkest humor out of the group of six siblings, because they were the closest to death out of anyone. aka they actually died or wished they had died rather than fought back against what fate had in store for them.

aryin however, humor wise, doesn't come across as dark humor, but if you make a really dark joke, aryin will likely start howling with laughter.

aryin learned of fairytale endings from zack reading them bedtime stories of times before the war. they have since learned that, well, ha, fairytales aren't real, but the endings are.

they do not hate their father, and in fact believe he can change. they have to believe he can change. because if he can't, then...

they miss their momma every day. she was the one who wanted them to grow up into whatever they wanted to be.

aryin became a knight to protect the family. to protect, to be a shield, to be the stalwart guardian. it just so happens that they found friends, and a new pair of people to love. it terrifies them.

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q11: how do they spend their rainy days?

if it is a gentle enough rain, they go outside in it, dancing among it in clothes they do not care about, uncaring if they get sick. they love the rain after all. if it is bad enough, however they stay near the windows with a warm drink and a blanket, watching the rain fall. something about it feels melancholic to them.

q12: do they have a good luck charm? why and what is it?

all the trinkets from their loved ones. it feels like they haven't left.

q13: name their favorite candy; explain why it's that specific one.

candied oranges of any kind! they love regular orange slices the most though, and prefer them.

q14: do they pray? if so, who do they pray to?

why would they pray to a god when no deity answered when they asked for help as a child?

q15: list their distinct vocal mannerisms.

little "ehm"s in between words when they find themselves unsure.

humming when they're pleased by something happening.

exhaling heavily through their nose, less a sigh, and tilting their head when something bothers them.

purring when happy or lovable towards someone.

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q6: what is their biggest regret?

not getting to say goodbye to justine. holding rose or peter one last time. getting ariel hurt. letting johnny get himself hurt. not running from home sooner. not running from the lab sooner. not meeting momma sooner. not acting, doing something sooner. so many. too many. which regret do you ask them of?

q7: what is their favorite way to waste time?

people watching.

q8: nervous tics?

tapping their claws together, tucking hair behind their ear, tugging on an earring/fiddling with an earring.

q9: name their calming techniques.

jewelry making, humming nonsense songs or humming in general, if they can they will garden.

q10: how do they cope with their nightmares?

usually they go on a short walk around the ship, or if someone is awake they will grimace about a smile, and claim that they "couldn't sleep very well" until they're questioned about it, at which point they will talk about what kept them awake. when in other universes/other peoples' homes, they will simply leave the home and go on a walk until they calm down.

[stellarhistoria]

ELEMENTAL PROWESS

luka & ice

if water is a lifesource, ice is trapping it, condensing it to where it can be transported across long distances. it is holding life in your hands and gifting it to the world.

luka is ice in the sense of "i give to you my heart, don't hurt yourself on the coldness it carries".

ice is where everything is preserved, where everything stays exactly where it was at the time that it was supposed to. if caught appropriately, the right person can find the best things... or the worst person can find their demise. or in reverse.

ice is a potential end, but it is also a potential beginning. it is what we imagine happens when we take off protection out in space, so cold that it instantly freezes us, because there is nothing to breathe.

ice is danger. ice is threatening. ice is hopelessness.

but in the same vein, ice must care. it must care enough, at least, to say "do not progress further". we are the ones that do not listen, and reach out regardless.

aryin & lightning

lightning, in some cultures, is considered to be the bridge between the heavens and the earth, a moment when the two finally meet, which is why the sound we hear is so wildly destructive, called thunder.

lightning, also in some other cultures, is considered to be a balancing of forces in the atmosphere, a release of pressure in the air to settle everything back to center once again so that things are calm once more.

lightning is considered by people to be the symbol that people give to themselves to be in and out of situations, fast, quick, like a lightning bolt, devastating, powerful, but respected.

as such, aryin's presence being called electrifying would not be too far from the truth. they, in and of themselves, are much like lightning. they are in and out of situations in a flash, but they always leave devastation in their wake, like a bolt of lightning, often leaving a grimace of power behind them. there, and then not, never grasped.

similarly, aryin is the closest to understanding the false gods that any of the keykids have come. because aryin has walked the line of death and come back. has not just walked it, but understood that it was their time, even if they didn't want to go, and then was RIPPED from the afterlife with an unearthly gracelessness because the kids did not want to let them go yet not yet so they understand the fear of death unlike any other.

zack & wind

wind is considered ever flowing, ever free, uncapturable. i beg to differ.

wind is air, wind is the breath in your lungs, wind is reactant before a flame. it is not only capturable, it is not only weighted, but it HEAVY and it is EVERYWHERE.

despite this, wind is easy going. wind is a presence that we don't think about until it brushes past us, laughing so carefree, giggling past our hair and brushing through the spaces of our open hands. wind is gentle in its heaviness.

zack is wind in the sense of "i shiver in the beauty of noticing what i can only observe from my place above it all". zack is wind in the sense of "i sigh, and disturb your rest, and i pull away just the same in apology". zack is the anxiety of a summer storm and the smile of a spring breeze.

[stellarhistoria]

OK SO WHILE I'M BEING JUST OUTRIGHT SILLY NOW.

Aryin has a gun keyblade... affectionately labeled the Norf Gun. It deals 1d100 per shot of explosive damage at base level without a formchange, and as an upgraded Second form, it's at base of 2d100 per shot.

it looks like one of those Rebelle nerf guns. Yeaaahhh the magical girl guns. Those bitches. And it's a prototype.

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are the cytos kids ashamed of being royals? because, as far as that goes... if im keeping track of things, line of succession goes, zachary should be in line for the throne, not aryin. since he's the eldest, right?

Aryin's expression turns intense, almost sour. ── " We are, not ashamed of being royals, not in the most literal sense of the word, no. " He purses his lips slightly before returning to the comfort of keeping his expression intense, wondering if the person would leave before he would have to explain.

Sadly, it doesn't seem to work... so he only sighs, and looks away nervously.

" We are just . . . ah, how does one put this. " ── " Our lives have been dictated by a philosophy in which none of us follow, by a man who has controlled us all our lives simply for the sake of wishing to gain more power and status in the world system at large. And I don't mean Mr. Lancelot. I wish I could say I believe in the good of my father, but he proves me wrong at every opportunity. I want to believe there is GOOD in him. I do. But... "

Aryin sighs, shaking his head. " We are not ashamed of being royals. And as for your question... my eldest brother resigned his position from the throne after a fight, and my second eldest became, eh..? How do you say- court doctor? So that is where I'm heir to the throne. "