#Charmer then Coordinator then Curator then Cartographer

[ask-thearchivists]

Ngl you two hot lmao

(I have a feeling I am going to get destroyed because of this)

The Coordinator: I do not know how you could have noticed, but yes, our internal temperature is about 5000 degrees Celsius or 9000 degrees Farhenheit if you are more familiar with-

The Curator: They're complimenting us, Coordinator.

The Coordinator: Oh, you retrieved some of those mortals from the Archive.

[thebisexualteen]

Solari/The Curator!

Character from @Insanelyadd

Pretty Archivist-(I'll do Satellite/Cartographer, then Penumbra/Coordinator and then Crescent/Charmer soon)

[ask-thearchivists]

Hey would the 4 of you mind rating these songs from 1-10? With 1 being the worst and 10 being the best. Because I wanna know what music you prefer.

(This all based solely off the preview that spotify is giving me)

The Coordinator: I am going to pretend I know how you made those noises with your mouth. In order it's 3, 7, 4, 7.

The Charmer: I think for me it's 6, 8, 3, and 5.

The Cartographer: I don't know? 1, 5, 4, 3?

The Curator: I don't know what you're all talking about that first song is an 8. And then 5, 5, 5.

[ask-thearchivists]

What is a memory you all will never forget

There is a tense, loaded silence before any of them answer.

The Coordinator: The births of the Curator and the Cartographer. It was the first birth of any of my siblings that I was old enough to remember clearly, and twins are incredibly rare for our species.

The Curator: I feel the same about the the birth of our youngest sibling. He's the only one younger than me and the Cartographer. They were sooo cute! Just a sweet, chubby little baby. He was born with all of his teeth which is cool.

The Cartographer: The Curator playing with the Collector after he was born and getting their fingers bitten.

The Curator: HEY!

[ask-thearchivists]

I get that you guys don’t want your youngest sibling to be alone but why not just do your own thing in secret. Like don’t tell anyone and lie to the other collectors?

The Coordinator: We do not know how the others found out what our parent was doing. We have never discovered how they knew. They did not tell us either. Since they could have just been scrying on us randomly and seen it, it is not safe. Since we do not know how they found out the first time, there is the very serious possibility they will eventually find out again. Even if some of us do not like it we have to just continue as we have been. It is how it is supposed to be done, and it is safer.

The Charmer: It is better for the mortals and for us to continue to follow our code as it is written.

The Cartographer: Yep. I would rather not be arrested. I. Hated. Watching our parent be taken.

[ask-thearchivists]

Charmer, what do you do when mortals resist being collected?

The Charmer: Depends on the context. If it is a single or very few mortals, that can be ignored. If others begin to listen to them and it makes my job harder, then I make an example out of the most vocal ones. If it is a large majority who resist then it depends on the loyalty of those who do follow me. If they are as loyal as is required then I will lend them my power, strategize for them, and have them fight in my name until the surrender or annihilation of the enemy. If there is no loyalty to be found then I ask permission from the Coordinator to initiate a Cleaning.

[ask-thearchivists]

wait so can you shape shift into each other?

They glance at each other, before turning back to face you, all of their faces and clothes changing, their proportions shifting, until they are all each other.

The Coordinator: Yes we can, though we would not usually do so.

The Charmer: I imagine seeing our expressions on each other's faces might be unnerving for you.

The Curator: I like to do this to torment Carti sometimes.

The Cartographer: That's why I commit crimes while looking like you.

[ask-thearchivists]

our Archivists and the Conservator, if you were to carve yourself a Palsimen, what would you carve?

The Coordinator: Oh, I very much enjoy keystone species, ones that if lost, cause a chain reaction and eventual collapse of the ecosystem they belong to. They are usually predators, but sometimes they are other types of mortals. So perhaps one like that.

The Charmer: My favorite type of mortals are extremophiles, so I would like one that is like that. Though I couldn't tell you which of the ones we have encountered I would like.

The Cartographer: I like domesticated species a lot, so maybe something small, shy, but friendly. I've encountered so many species like that, that it is hard to choose.

The Curator: I'd want it to be a creature so weird and bizarre that it's extremely difficult to classify, since I love mortals that are exceptions to the general rules of their classification. Like animals that usually lay eggs, but there's a small selection or just one that is absolutely in the same class, but it gives live birth instead, or other various exceptions.

The Conservator: Oh, having one of those would be nice, even if it would serve no purpose for me besides companionship. My favorite kind of mortals are the venomous ones, I am fascinated by all the different kinds of venom there is and how so many have unique chemical structures and functional properties. I would probably choose mine to be a Relizenithica Devasterrifim, which is the scientific name, meaning Powerful and Ancient Bringer of Horrifying Destruction. It was a species with two types of venom, one from a stinger on the tail and the other from fangs. Its species was millions of years old and had not evolved except, perhaps, to make the venom more corrosive. The stinger was a paralytic agent that was powerful enough to induce localized petrification of tissue if the prey managed to get away quick enough for the second venom to not be used, and the fangs administered a strong corrosive venom that would liquify the prey from the inside. The paralytic did not cause the organs to stop, unlike many paralytics, so the prey was quite typically digested from the inside while still completely alive and cognizant. I would name it Twinkle.

[ask-thearchivists]

Archivists, what do you do for fun? I mean, after work is done. How you spend your R&R?

The Coordinator: I listen to music from the latest planet to see if there is anything I enjoy, and I will Collect some books on my favorite topics from that planet to read in my spare time. But if there is none of that and no work to do, I will sleep to pass the time.

The Curator: Books? You mean those trashy mortal romance novels-

The Coordinator reaches over and covers the Curator's entire face.

The Coordinator: I have no idea what you could possibly mean, unless you want to do some Conservator and Copyist work during Charmer's next mission.

The Coordinator suddenly snatches her hand back in disgust, revealing that the Curator had licked her hand.

The Curator: You're no fun. Anyways, I like to make fun outfits for myself in my free time.

The Cartographer: Woodworking. Carpentry. Designing and building houses based on ones I see on different planets.

The Charmer: I make silk flowers for my room based on my favorites from every planet we find.

[ask-thearchivists]

Not a ask but I see many occasions in which askers could accidentally say the Archivists's true names:

- Asks about the Earth's moon.

- It's the only planet's natural Satellite.

Cartographer: Eeek!

- Asks about the sun's name in other languages.

- Sun, Sol, Solaris... Etc...

Curator: Eeek!

- Asks about the moon again

- Oh it has many phases! My favorite one is Crescent!

Charmer: Eeek!

- Asks about eclipse

- Oh, what I most love about the eclipse is the Penumbra in the ambience.

Coordinator: Eeeek!

XDDD Imagine that!

Yeah, I love that they're all saying "Eeek!" like a cartoon woman from the 50s seeing a mouse. XD Fun fact about Penumbra's name is that I'm pretty sure I came up with her name first and I was like "Space names, space names...is Penumbra space related? It means 'shadow' or 'darkness' right?" *googles it* "IT IS SPACE RELATED, I ALWAYS WIN!" also to make up for the lack of asks here's an EVEN OLDER picture (that I literally found by accident right before answering this) of their original designs where you can see I had different colors for Satellite and Penumbra's skin (I feel a little bit of regret about changing them, I actually like these colors more in retrospect), and THREE of them had different pronouns. The Ancient Lore. Satellite has had they/them energy since the dawn of time.

Another fun fact that I learned a few months later after googling whether console like "console table" and "to console" are spelled the same, and though they are, they have different origin words, like for instance, in "to console" the "sol" is derived from the Latin word for "soothe" which is. Solari. So that's funny and half ironic.

[ask-thearchivists]

yes Charmer, we know. EVERYONE KNOWS that you want a Baby.

it is very weird given the fact you are a murder who has taken great joy in the stealing of lives. both young and old

Heck, you even used your youngest sibling, who was a child as BAIT despite knowing they could very well get hurt or even KILLED!

are the children you long for going to be used as you used the Collector? are they going to end up dead like all those mortals whose blood soak your skin? Or shall you raise and train them, only to send them to their deaths like what was done to the Titan trappers?

or prehaps you shall cause them needless pain and suffering like what was done to the twins while you were fighting the titans? make them wear the blood soaked skins of freshly killed mortals?

(apologies if this was too far.)

The Charmer: HOW DARE YOU!? I NEVER USED MY BROTHER! AND I WOULD NEVER ALLOW ANY HARM TO BEFALL MY CHILDREN!

The Charmer: You act as though I started off enjoying every aspect of my job. Do you know how old I was when I started having to do that, because our parent was taken away? I was what in your species would be 14 years old. How about you tell me how I'm supposed to feel about this, as I need to do it from now until the end of time, since you are so much more wise than beings who've been alive 3,000 times longer than you?

The Charmer: And it is so far from your place to comment on our family!

The Cartographer: WHY DO YOU KEEP BRINGING THAT UP!? I TOLD YOU TO STOP!!!

The last word is screamed so loud the whole room shakes. They fly out the arches behind them and into space, seeming to disappear in the blink of an eye, and they are followed almost immediately by the Curator who doesn't even take the time to threaten the mortal.

The Coordinator: Yes, I think you have said quite enough, mortal.

[ask-thearchivists]

Hmmm, I believe it has been 350 years or so.

The Coordinator: Stars, we have to do something, we cannot just leave them awake for so long in that prison-

The Charmer: There is nothing we can do, we- we have to adhere to our plan. Surely the Titan has hatched and soon they will free him.

The Curator: 350 years? Have they been passed down through a family line? This is terrible, they must have seen so many mortals pass.

The Cartographer: This is the exact thing I was worried would happen. I can't imagine how awful it's been for them the whole time.

The Cartologist: What's wrong?

The Charmer: Our brother who was imprisoned...the spell used against them was a Collection spell, but one made by the Titan. This means, as long as the tablet is not activated, he would be asleep, but according to what the mortals have seen in there visions, someone woke him up 350 orbits ago. So they have been imprisoned and aware of it for that long, unable to escape or feel the starlight on their face.

The Cartologist: That is really sad. I can't imagine not being able to fly through the stars.

[ask-thearchivists]

No, sir. I can attest that I sometimes forget I’m not actually a human

This is going under a read more because this anon got so out of pocket and I need to show everyone's reactions.

There is a cacophony of sound as everyone responds at once.

Uncle Coor: You do not have to be that honest. Please stop being that honest.

The Compelor: What a terrible day to be able to comprehend language!

The Copyist: THERE IS A CHILD PRESENT!

The Cartologist: Huh? What did they say? Sissy why are you covering my ears?

The Conservationist: I do not know what to say to that.

The Cataloger: Compelor, I need you to use a spell to wipe my memory of the last five minutes.

The Coordinator: I would rather I never hear about these things you think about my brother again.

The Charmer: Oh wow, how...flattering. Did you have to say that in front of literally everyone?

The Curator: In this moment I am truly torn between laughing at Charmer's anguish and flinching so hard I shed my skin.

The Cartographer: The second-hand embarrassment in this room is at lethal levels.

Truthful Captives Spell: 8/10 Remaining

[ask-thearchivists]

Sooo... Who's younger? The Collector or the Cartologist?

-🪐😡

The Charmer: Well, if our brother was released right now, they would simultaneously be older and younger than the Cartologist...Coordinator how old would our brother be specifically right now?

The Coordinator: From his birth he would be 4,056 orbits old, if you do not count the imprisonment, he would only be 2,008.

The Cartographer: I'm 2147 orbits old.

The Curator: Well then, let's just call it even and say you're the same age.

[ask-thearchivists]

Can one of you swear? Like fuck shit damn etc etc

The Coordinator: Curator. You will not say a word.

The Cartographer: No, they should, it would be funny.

The Charmer: No, I think the Coordinator is right, and she shouldn't say a single thing.

The Curator: Okay, you all convinced me, I won't say a single word.

The Curator flips off everyone.

[ask-thearchivists]

The Charmer: Hello darling family, I've managed to Collect some WONDERFUL specimens from this most recent mission. They were so enchanted by me they voluntarily gave themselves over. They'll make lovely additions to our-

The Charmer: Coordinator? Cartographer? Curator? Why have these mortals been removed from the Archive?

The Curator: It was The Coordinator's idea.

The Charmer: That was a quick accusation, do you have something to hide, Curator?

The Cartographer: It was The Coordinator's idea. She released them to study their behavior in abnormal conditions.

The Charmer: Mmhmm. Coordinator? Is this true?

The Coordinator: *sigh* Yes, it is, Charmer.

The Charmer: Hahahaha. Why.

The Coordinator: It's a question I've wondered about for thousands of years? How the mortals would react to awaking millennia in the future and seeing all of us again.

The Charmer: And the results?

The Coordinator: Mixed.

The Charmer: Excellent, now put them back.

The Coordinator: No. There's additional information I want to gather. Anyways, what’s your rush, I thought most of the mortals loved you?

The Charmer: It's not how things are supposed to be done.

The Coordinator: You've hardly let that stop you before, but let's put it to a vote. Those for, vote with stars, and those against, vote with moons.

The Charmer votes with a moon, while Curator, Cartographer, and Coordinator vote with stars.

The Coordinator: Wonderful. They stay. Have fun, Charmer, they love to ask us questions, and we haven't said much about you, so they're dying to know more.