#Lilith Capellenaga

[oxventurequotes]

anyways uhhh here's the hobby horses (and luke) as troubled birds

oxventure-as-troubled-birds part two

[owl-house-incorrectly]

Eda: We're about to do the taser challenge. You want in?

Lilith: What's the taser challenge?

Hooty: We taser each other than drink.

Lilith: How do you win?

Eda: What are you, a lawyer? You want in or not?

[theoxvest]

Lilith F5 Hewwo and make it snappy

Snek

[a-casual-egg]

I’ve been thinking about Puppy Dog Eyes

[sierradee]

Nothing bad ever happens to Barnaby "The Butcher" Fortescue III

Props to Barnaby for laying out the flag at the start of the whole series to suffer the most traumatic timeline and still end being incredibly unbroken.

[coldstormyday]

Edvard: You read my diary?

Lilith: At first I didn't know it was your diary. I just thought it was a very sad handwritten book.

[thestayathomedragonfanworks]

Chapters: 5/7 Fandom: Oxventure (Web Series), Blades in the Dark (Roleplaying Game) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Barnaby "The Butcher" Fortescue III, Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s), Lilith Capellenaga, Edvard Lumière, Kasimir Jones, Zillah Bruseau, Algernon/Squiffy, Pashmina Farukah Aziminzar, Ishmael Favreau, Miss Agnes, Rosie and Josie Dimmer, The Demon Prince - Character Additional Tags: Alternate Universe Summary:

Just what did Rosie and Josie do to Barnaby during his stint as their plaything? Barnaby would certainly like to know.

This picks up from the Oxventure Presents: Blades in the Dark season one finale "The Dreadful Dimmer Sisters" and diverges greatly from canon from there.

[unofficialoxtimeline]

Some Lingering Questions, Part 2

Here's a post about something only I care about that demonstrates a problem with lore built in real time. So strap in, we're going to college.

1. Why did Lilith come to Volisport?

We can definitely say that she came as a spirit assassin to track down an unnamed ghost that was presumably destroyed/released when the Barricade was powered off (The Wardens of Bellweather Crematorium, Magic, Ghosts, Danger, and Death). What else she was going to do in Volisport is contradictory; she says repeatedly she came to Volisport to study, but she also says that Flint* is the one who told her to study at the Academy (Murder at Volisport Academy), but unless she met Flint before she came to Volisport, she apparently just decided to get a PhD when she got there.

If you have ever tried to get a PhD, you will know that starting a PhD all of a sudden is both not how it works and also absolutely bizarre.

The most logical resolution is that she met Flint while one or both of them were traveling, he told her to study at the Academy, she applied or arranged to be admitted, she came to Volisport and entered the Academy.

*Flint is a canonical character who is one of the starting allies for the Whisper playbook (Blades CRB)

2. Where did Edvard go to university?

There is a consistent problem with shows based on improv with a persistent world that's best summarized by "If everything's a joke, nothing's a joke." It's a little easier in RPG shows, because I have generally considered things attached to a mechanic as canon (they spent coin, did a flashback, took stress) and eyeballed the rest. The problem becomes, how many references constitutes a canonical statement?

Edvard's college career is described three separate times in three different ways. Roth has transcripts that put Edvard as graduating with honors from an unnamed university (The Astor Gambit). Edvard says that he went to Volisport Academy, where he did theater (The Marriage of Lady Fyengeh) and got kicked out or sent down/reprimanded (Murder at Volisport Academy).

Per Luke's description and the BitD CRB, Doskvol/Volisport Academy doesn't offer engineering, oscillotronics, or spark-craft. Those subjects are covered at Charterhall/Volisport University*.

One logical solution is that Edvard was made to/chose to go to Volisport Academy to study something that wasn't spark-craft/oscillotronics. He either was kicked out or transferred to Volisport/Charterhall University where he was a student with Wester and graduated with honors (The Astor Gambit).

It also makes sense that a joke that was funny in the moment got written into canon on top of something that already existed. Stories about Edvard doing weird shit in college didn't stop being funny, so it kept compounding.

So if you're wondering why this project took over a month

*Wester and Roth never name this university; this name comes entirely from Edvard shouting "VOLISPORT UNIVERSITY RULES!"

[25thhanabusa]

"Kasimir, do you want some help with your seaghoul problem?"

"Nah, Spooky, I think me and Coleridge are gonna get along just fine."

"Sea...ghoul...like seagull, but-"

"Yes, I know you made a pun, I am simply choosing to ignore it."

[randomthunk]

Some Lilith action for Inktober, need a little bit of the Spooky Situation around these parts.

[oxventurequotes]

lilith: you know how some people say that i get inside their heads with the whole ghost thing?

lilith: other people got wayyy more inside people's heads

edvard: well that sounds horrible so i won't ask any further questions!

[owl-house-incorrectly]

Raine: So, Eda is no longer allowed to take the trash out at night.

Lilith: Why?

Raine: Because I've caught her trying to train raccoons to fight five times in a row.

Eda, arms crossed and pouting: You'll be thanking me when the third raccoon battalion saves your ass.

[theoxvest]

Thinking about @thatbiologist 's post from earlier

[a-casual-egg]

Two incredible girls and their rich femme bestie

[sierradee]

Happy Halloween!

Short spooky slightly violent story below the line.

There’s an itch in the back of your mind the moment the head comes free. You tell yourself it’s because it never gets easier (It does; you haven’t thrown up in years. Haven’t cried for longer still). It used to worry you at night where their souls might go after. Or if they even had souls.

Now, you just don’t look them in the eye.

There was something weird about this one, though. Its face slackens in surprise as you pull the gun, hands open, palms up. You aren’t fooled by the tactic, and it’s dead before it hits the ground.

The eyes, oddly bright, feel as though they follow your steps across the room. So, you slide them shut before you start to cut.

A disquieting shiver, nails on a chalkboard as you make it through the worst of it. The snakes, whose eyes you can’t waste time closing, seem to watch you in silent disapproval as you work.

[krystalgazer]

Some (more) Oxventure in the Dark headcanons:

- Barnaby is the oldest of the group; he doesn’t seem like it partly because he’s rich and can afford decent food etc, partly because of his indolent personality and partly because he’s a Paul Rudd/Keanu Reeves level cryptid.

- Edvard on the other hand is the youngest, which everyone else kinda cottoned on to relatively quickly. He’s the unofficial little brother of the group; this is also due to him having the Least Suited to this Crap award amongst the crew. He tries to hide it but he has the softest heart, is the most moral and has an almost rabid sense of justice.

- Zillah *loves* romance novels, the more syrupy and fluffy the better. She’s also the best shipper on board you could want; ask her to help you with anything to do with impressing or wooing someone you’re into and she’s *living* for it. She’s indifferent to relationships for herself though.

- Lilith is not fussed about killing people so long as there’s a justification and has killed before. Her upbringing and training does mean she’s quite amoral without her realising.

- Kasimir is a widower and the death of his spouse is part of why he parted ways with the Billhooks. It’s also why he’s actually ageing a lot more rapidly than even a lifelong criminal born into poverty would. I headcanon he’s probably barely 40, but grief and guilt (and his injury) are taking a heavy toll.

- Barnaby is almost single-handedly keeping the fortunes of his family and several other families in his orbit afloat. His business acumen is known by some hangers-on in the know, who pay for his drinks and get him to give them advice on their ventures, which always works. Barnaby doesn’t realise this though.

- And of course, Barnaby and Cart-on-the-Road had an absolutely passionate torrid love affair