#𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘴 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘎𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘰 𝘔𝘪𝘴𝘴? - [ 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘙𝘰𝘣𝘣𝘦𝘳 ]

[bells-of-black-sunday]

Added a few more muses, I don't expect to write them often, but they are indeed my little blorbos

[bells-of-black-sunday]

Rambling about thoughts I have for aus for my muses:

Modern au B.aldwin being some old rich guy whose terminally ill, but him and S.armenti still hang out. S.armenti used to play at many venues B.aldwin would attend and they bonded that way, he's the only one in his will and they live together so someone can help B.aldwin in his failing health. Or it could be B.aldwin was one of S.armenti's bodyguards when he used to perform and they bonded that way.

I also want to give Audrey one, because if you think she isn't still robbing graves you are dead wrong. You can slap "ethical" on anything and people will buy it while not looking into where it actually came from, there's a lot of side profit in it for her.

Think I might rework League Tar into being a darkin in a broken blade passed down through generation in V.ittorio's family. Vittorio being a mage even though he's a noble family ends up fleeing after being expected to join the military taking the blade who would whisper to him every night with him. They bond on the road, Tar eventually convincing him to hold him, but Vittorio still never lets him take over him, his will is too strong, but he does get some pretty sick tattoos. Being a pacifist, Vittorio uses his own blood to feed what he believes is a weakened God inside the blade. They are very close, but when Vittoro's guard is down Tar takes control and forces him to plunge the blade into a wind drake where he bends and molds his new form to his desire. Vittorio feeling betrayed and that his body was used is extremely conflicted, but Tar is literally the only person he has left and he can't go home without being thrown in mage prison, so he's forced to follow him around. Very toxic dynamic, Vittorio feels like he's trapped and Tar treats him like a pet. I think it ties in the whites in league Tar's original ref with Demacia and keeps the toxic dynamic him and Vit have in cannon.

Mafia au I gotta rotate more, I still love my mafia design for Tar, but I do still want to keep Tar inhabiting the body of Vit's dead friend and their dynamic coming from Vit trying to do anything to bring them back to life and learning the harsh lesson that you shouldn't mess with the natural order of things. I think I want to change the faithful three from being people who work with Vit to being Tar's priests who want to bridge the veil with him. I do want to add my D.arkest D.ungeon muses to it for obvious reasons, it's already a eldritch horror game and probably G.host too. So I will have to ponder. I am absolutely keeping the setting of beyond the veil being called the abyss and it basically only being lit by this single white orb that's a window into other realities. I'll talk about it more eventually, I do want to keep it an open plot thing so I can interact with mutuals in it :catnod:

I wanna add G.host to my monster au that is literally just my ocs world, because I think it'd be fun and I can carry over the black smoke I use in his D.bd au into it or something. I could also just be really stupid with it and make him a nymph or something. More of a "this is an aspect of the uncaring brutality of nature" nymph than the "nature is beautiful" nymph ya feel? Because nymphs in my ocs world are born from manifestations of nature, they can be the seasons and the lakes, they can be natures bounty and natures brutality, etc. etc. they are just aspects of nature.

[bells-of-black-sunday]

Before the A.bomination dlc releases for my blorbo game, I will post my shipping chart I yoinked from here

Spaghetti first then by pairings—

Romantic pairings I enjoy

One-sided

Fwb and haha unless 😳

These guys HATE eachother

And Damien, because every ship with him is fucking weird that is neither platonic, hatred, or romantic

Platonic because I almost forgot it—

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Not to "I've been laying in bed for 3 hours and can't sleep" ramble, but:

I do think there's a very weird phenomenon in general with f.andom where characters will be released with either a vague backstory or ones you just kind of have to guess and then as soon as it becomes concrete a lot of people utterly hate it and blame everything under the sun for why. "It removes their agency", "It makes them too similar to x", etc. Really I think it boils down to people getting really attached to one idea for a character they had and are now upset that the source material doesn't back it up anymore.

I most often see it with female characters which no surprise there, misogyny is rampant in f.andom spaces. Everyone loves evil male characters and people tend to rush to find a way to justify their actions or make them a depressed sad boy they can coddle, but will tear evil female characters apart for every small thing that usually is either intended for you to hate her for or completely made up. I think I see this a lot in spaces like d.bd or mainly with A.udrey in d.arkest d.ungeon though to be honest I've seen it even with the morally grey female characters there too, because of the above reasons.

I still to this day see people complain about b.hvrs "bad writing" for making Julie not be a helpless victim and instead make her complicit and often times the driving force in the l.egions actions. B.hvr has a lot of bad writing, but their cleaning up of the l.egion and making their lore consistent is genuinely some of their best work. The comics are really fun to read give flavor to members that genuinely had no character to begin with while preventing S.usie from being pushed into this weird "I'm a helpless teenager who has no agency in any of my actions" box the f.andom tends to put her in. It's great, I genuinely loved reading them to the point where it got me back into reading in general.

I really think the writing in D.arkest D.ungeon is fun and purposely ambiguous, but never to the point where you don't know what's going on. I really don't know what people expected from a mercenary whose title is "grave robber", but being mad that she's killed people is really stupid. I don't think making her husband abusive removes her agency if we went by that logic then people should also hate S.armenti's lore, because he was also abused and that should remove his agency too right? So why doesn't anyone get mad at his lore? Aside from the obvious misogyny, I think people genuinely hate female characters that are unapologetically horrible people and I'm going to be blunt: As bad as it is, it feels like people think there is only one outcome from abuse situations and it just makes the person nice and kind.

Her having an abusive husband doesn't remove her agency at all. She could've run away, she knew when he'd get drunk and pass out, she could've left at any moment and she did leave most nights. We are told that explicitly. Instead she chose to poison him, that is her choice, no one forced her to do that. Same with how no one forced her to use up all of her wealth or start grave robbing for money. She did that anyway. Believe it or not, but most resurrection men were poor people, not rich people stealing bodies and selling them to medical colleges. There's many things she could've done to keep her wealth, but instead she chose to go dig up her husband's grave.

It doesn't make her at all similar to D.ismas, she had a choice, he literally needed to do one last job to have money to eat. She's not remorseful at all, it's kind of obvious from her lines and trinkets. I think she's a very fun and compelling character same as J.ulie. People keep wanting more evil female characters, but the minute we get them it's immediate backlash.

Like why do y'all keep asking for things when you can't even handle a murderous teenager or a morally dubious victorian woman?