#Julianne Bougainvillea

[astrunaria]

Who TF is Kallen (ft. Remus & Jules)

Hi! Another yappost from the lovely google doc again (I think I might need to take a while to cook rn bc tests are coming up) because I think they're worth talking about + back in Feb I hyperfixated on Kallen and Jules (though I'm mostly gonna be talking about Kallen today)

Backstory

(This doc's like a good maybe 8 months old so bear with me lol I've edited a few parts but yeah)

Born into a prestigious family business under full moons, in an effort to harden her at a young age her father had her kill her mother who was trying to protect her from the family business, Cassie landed a blow on her mother but her mother seemed to drop dead at her command. Later on in life Cassie would come to realize that this was her full moon ability: she could control people, but only if they feared her (her mother feared in that moment after realising they’d spoiled her too much in childhood and she’d only get more fucked up from there uh ohh). From then on Cassie’s father would begin shaping her into what he saw fit as the ideal family heir teaching her fencing, the family’s business tactics, and even bringing her to business meetings sometimes. It soon became clear that her family wasn’t only in the mining business…. It was a crime family, a secret that was well hidden this whole time as well. One evening however, when her father brought her to a business meeting in a shabby cabaret, she became entranced by a performer she saw there; a ballerina (bi awakening). When she got home, she couldn’t stop thinking about her, so she ended up sneaking out on the excuse that she wanted to check if their workers needed discipline as a working experience for herself, and went then back to the cabaret the next day to see the performer again.

Over time, she became a regular at that cabaret, always getting better with her lies as well. She would go out on scattered days; the lie depending on the random day she chose. If the weather was sunny, she’d say she’d be going on walks (so on and so on point is she became a good liar, lies being something that would also affect her later in life). The ballerina eventually recognised her as a regular, and so, Cassie and her being a similar age, she approached  her one evening. That ballerina was Jules. The girls got along pretty well, and after Jules introduced Cassie to Remus, an orphan who grew up close to Jules that worked as a part time stagehand there, they all became a fast group of friends (Jules and Remus were working part time jobs there to pay rent for their first apt at the time, they were around the age range of maybe 17 - 19 at the time just moved out of orphanage, gonna go more into detail about them someday dw). Cassie kept sneaking out to meet with them, finally with friends of her own. This went on for maybe 3 years, with Jules and Cassie eventually falling for each other and Remus having an epiphany down the line for his future. After helping out in debunking a money laundering scandal at the cabaret , Remus found that he quite enjoyed finding the truth in things, and decided to work towards becoming a Chevalier. This didn't work out however - His ideals clashed too much with the Chevaliers, so he ended up becoming a private detective instead.

Naturally, Cassie also came to discover Jules’s secret: she was an astrologer. She had first chosen to become one out of naivety at first, after her parents died, she wished to know the future so she could protect other people she loved. But over time, she’d grown mature, understanding fate and the course of life much differently than the average person. Jules’s wisdom was a reason Cassie admired her… but things wouldn’t be like this for much longer.

With Cassie’s greed being a lingering problem since her childhood, she’d become a little possessive over Jules, even growing a little suspicious of Remus, despite him trying to flirt with other woman a lot as a young man (a phase of his life which he now cringes over when mentioned). Jules was the only person she had in her eyes, and she needed her constant attention. Whenever Jules tried socializing with someone else for one moment, she’d even guilt trip her into not being there for her, complaining about her life and father (Something Jules was well aware of). And then, Cassie’s lies stopped working.

It was another day of Cassie using the excuse of checking if the workers needed discipline…. But coincidentally, on that day, there was an accident in the cave system Cassie had lied about going to. Concerned for his future heir, her father hurried to the scene, only to be shocked to realized that she’d never been there at all. Furious, he contacted his connections around Throdia City to search for her. It didn’t take long for him to discover that Cassie had been discovered with other people her age. In an effort to stop his heir from getting distracted, he tasked his subordinates with finding dirt on Remus and Jules. While there was nothing too incriminating found on Remus, there was evidence on Jules being an astrologer. He immediately went to the Chevaliers to report her, claiming that the evidence he had was from Cassie himself.

Jules was arrested later that afternoon, and received the Divine punishment just soon after. With Cassie mentioned as the person who provided all the evidence at her trial, Jules could’ve lost her mind in that moment as it hit her finally just how toxic Cassie had become. She couldn’t help but question as if this was a bid to control her… with everything Cassie had said over the years, she didn’t even know anymore.

Soon enough, Cassie had found out what her father had done, and she finally snapped after all the years of him trying to dictate her life. When her father organized a dinner at their family mansion, she saw a chance to have her revenge. She slaughtered everyone at the party, leaving her father for last to taunt him. She was enjoying this. She let flames from the  fireplace pour out into the house, burning all the evidence of the massacre as she used her full moon ability to command her father to stay in his seat. As they were surrounded, she willingly dealt the final blow with a few words:

“Your heart’s stopped.”

Cassie walked out of the flaming house into the night, finally feeling liberated. With all the bodies at the scene burnt beyond recognition, she was pronounced dead, presumed to be among the ashes. But for the next two years, Cassie would remain within the shadows, soon returning under a new identity: Kallen Antonescu. Using the business strategies she’d learnt from her father, she’d start a new business, and quickly grew in size and power. She would take charge of her own business now, with a motive to drive her. While Cassie was in hiding, mourning over her loss of Jules, she’d had an idea: she could find the legendary tomb of Alexandria, the first Skirmisher. With the supposed remains of Aurelia’s godly power there, and the sisters being the only beings to have powers relating to time, Cassie thought that maybe, just maybe, if she’d found the tomb and harnessed  Aurelia’s remaining power there, she could change the course of time; change her life. She could twist time so that Jules could’ve never been arrested, and she could possibly have control over Jules once and for all. It was a motive anyone would call mad, but by this point, after having realized just how she could abuse her power, Cassie had grown so cocky that she just didn’t care anymore.

BONUS: Real quick, just to clarify...

Cass has always loved Jules. She just didn't really know how treat her properly due to her upbringing (but that doesn't rlly excuse some of her actions ngl).

One of my only animatics I've made was inspired by this

Kallen Now:

So, she's now Kallen Antonescu. What does she get up to these days? What's her motive to keep going?

Ok, here's a little bit of a lore drop idk if I've mentioned before.

The Sisters (aka the gods of Arphene) both have their own abilities.

Ophelia can see into the future.

Aurelia into the past.

There's a popular hypothesis, or rather, legend that's been around Arphene for centuries. If the Sisters's powers are combined, it could manipulate time.

Enter Kallen's delutional ahh

Now, there's the legend of Alexandria's tomb (context in the link below).

Considering the traces of Alexandria in the mines of Throdia, so powerful to have created a new species (post for the future lmaoo) Kallen believes it to be true. She's managed to successfully seize control of the mining city Amerton underneath Throdia city so far for her plans; she's overthrown the mayor (keeping his son, Gerard Cabot, AKA Bucky around due to a deal) and now she's gatekeeping the mines.

Why?

Kallen wants to try and manipulate time. With her having the power to control people, albeit using fear, she’s become obsessed with control. And she wants to control her life. With how she was raised, her father played a huge part in mentally breaking her, not to mention she’s still a bit obsessed with her past. Still a bit obsessed with Jules's love that she at some point had for her. She wants to change her past… perhaps change time itself.

Anyways

Misc Fun Facts!

She can take her skirt off to reveal pants underneath for swordfighting

BEAST at fencing

Her unpredictability made it into her rep

Miss girl is 39

Got inspo for her writing a lil after reading wuthering heights (pack it up Heathcliff)

Her voiceclaim is Black Swan from HSR

Magic type is crystals

Ty for reading about my mentally ill bisexual ❤️

[astrunaria]

LUCULIA LOREDUMPPP (Bc I don't think I've done this properly for her)

Ngl I was gonna save this post for when I FINALLY redesigned Lu but w the state of my laptop rn and my abundance of projects I've gotten impatient and I love her and keep talking about her lately sooo

Backstory

Iris Meier was born into the beginnings of a less than ideal situation; a poor family in the more lower class area of Amerton. By the time her younger brother Aster was one, her father had already left the house, forcing her older brother Sage to have to step up and be the man of the house while their mother, Cecilia, neglected them. She never really learnt to care for her mother’s coldness, however; Sage more than made up for that with how much he tried. That didn’t really stop it from completely affecting her, however.

Her mother was like extra baggage. Even if she was in the background of her life for the most part, she still caused extra problems for the family, her drinking habits taking a toll on the money Sage earned to support his siblings. Over time… She really did start to see how messed up her home situation was.

And it kinda hurt.

Still, they had to live with it. It was difficult for Sage to move out and be able to have custody over his siblings, so they had no choice but to stay. At least their mother was usually out during the day a lot, typically wasting away at a local tavern.

But one day, while Iris was home alone, Cecilia came back earlier than expected.

She was drunk. And angry. Spotting Iris, she stormed over to her, and started verbally berating her, taking out all her frustration with her “failed” life on her. She’d never seen her mother like this. It scared her. Unsure what to do and panicking, she ran off - but Cecilia went after her, wildly knocking things over along the way. She reached the fourteen year old with ease, and tackled her towards the ground. Iris wasn’t sure what to do - was she… going to kill her? It was uncertain… but could her mother be capable of such a thing? And then, in a moment of weakness, she grabbed one of the shattered objects off of the ground… and slit her mother’s throat.

Blood spilled everywhere.

As Iris got up, she froze, watching her mother choke on the ground. It was like she stopped working as she struggled to process what was happening. Soon enough, however, Cecilia gave out her last breath - leaving a disgusted Iris alone with her thoughts. What would Sage say? How would he even react? What’s going to happen now?

Did she really deserve that?

Her legs carried her out of the house and into the woods as the world spun around her. She doesn’t know exactly how long she hid. Days? A week? She was too panicked to really think about it, hiding in bushes and madly trying to clean blood off of herself with filthy water from puddles during all that time. It was one evening however, after a good few days, when two particular individuals finally found her. Remus Ramobus and Julianne Bougainvillea.

They’d apparently gone out for Jules to do a reading of the stars that evening, when they came across the young girl, Jules picking up on the smell of blood. Sympathising with her, due to their shared background of being orphans and assuming she could be one (perhaps traumatised from a troublesome incident), they brought her back to stay at Remus’s extra apartment, where Jules had apparently been hiding out due to her curse. She’d end up staying after she warmed up to them; which was no easy feat. They’d been calling her “the kid” the entire time because she seemed so shaken up to talk.

When she finally gave them a name, she gave them the answer of Luculia.

Misc Fun Facts

Most likely has undiagnosed ADHD

She keeps a lot of flowers (fem urge to tie this in with her guilt like maybe she thinks if she can nurture she can't hurt)

Steals 1 cig from Remus everytime he buys a new pack, hiding them in a tin and smoking when she's away from Remus and Jules

Honestly a lil stuck in finding herself since the incident

Dancerr she used to love the atmosphere of Amerton's disco as a child

She is my oldest OC, used to be a Genshin OC (like a few others) who was basically a personality ripoff of Dazai from BSD with NO backstory until I realised her character writing was a joke and decided to do her justice at the time of writing I think Lu's like 4 years old??

Speaking of Genshin influence her magic type is wind! She was born on third quarter moons so pretty alright magic level

Weapon of choice is dual guns (Remus influence)

Wants to be a witch (?? honestly still pondering on this like she ORIGINALLY wanted to be an astrologer but considering Arphene lore it's risky af and I honestly just love witches)