#Livia Saint

[it-begins-with-rain]

Meet my new baby.

Named her Nevan on our system.

Etymologically descended form of Neachneohain meaning "Daughter of the Divine"

Because she paired with my phone and started downloading my media apps and logging me in.

[ladythylia]

1583 Dust in the wind…all we are is dust in the wind ....

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[evita-shelby]

A tale of two Evies

or what if @novashelby 's Evelyn Shelby and Eva existed in the same universe

cw: mentions of war, refrenced child abuse, absent mother

Eva has always had a soft spot for children.

Whether it was the children in Altamira, the ones in Veracruz or the ones she met in the war. The ones who followed the army to be with their fathers and mothers who gave their all for the revolution or simply had nowhere else to go.

Polly trusts her with the Shelby children, Evelyn and Finn.

Finn who worships the ground she walks just like Oviedo ---who used to follow her like a puppy until their camps were attacked and died in Diosdado's arms--- and Evie who shares her name and an insatiable curiosity to make even a saint lose their patience.

“If you keep your plan for tomorrow you will lose your appendix, and your father will be very disappointed in you.” Eva says from the kitchen as Finn vehemently refused to participate in his niece’s scheme tomorrow.

Evie is terrible at math, had the same problem one of the girls at school had where it was just impossible for the nuns to teach her, so they just gave up. Eva is no quitter and if she could teach orphaned children to read and write in war torn Chihuaha, she could have Evelyn Shelby at least learn the basics until her father has enough money and influence to let her be a lady of leisure.

Just needed the time, patience and right set of things to help her. Oviedo learned times tables through the annoying song Eva’s governess taught her, Eva learned math with an abacus and using her infinite number of toy and other things in the nursery she shared with her cousins in Altamira. Her aunt Livia, taking the role of mother after Eva’s mother realized for the fourth time in her life that she never wanted kids, had rewarded every milestone she reached no matter how small.

Besides, Eva knew exactly what she would be tested on and even if ten-year-old Evelyn failed, she wouldn’t fail so badly. Or worse lose a fucking organ.

And so, it began.

Evelyn Shelby joins the Shelbys who found themselves embracing the lonely witch with tales of a far-off land and an endless supply of affection and gifts. Spellbound, one might say.

Spring becomes summer and summer becomes fall. Evie and Finn become regular fixtures in her life to Grace’s envy. Grace who is forbidden by Polly from getting close to the children because the witches know better than to trust someone who smells too strongly of death.

“You smell like daddy’s pillows.” Evie points out when she hugs her in greeting after being allowed to skip school as long as she stayed with her while Polly ran her errands.

So that had been who Polly wanted the satchel of sleeping scents for.

Thomas Shelby who not only eye fucks her every morning she passes by his window but sleeps over the satchel with Eva’s anise and lavender to ease his nightmares.

No wonder Grace felt so threatened by Eva even if the witch and the devil have never even spoken to each other.

“It’s a scent to keep nightmares away, would you like one, mi niña?”  the witch smiles and dismisses the little girl’s pangs of jealousy regarding her father.

Good thing Eva and Tommy were nothing but strangers even with Polly and her uncle trying their hardest to match them up.

And yet when she and Evie walk down Garrison Lane, she hears three gunshots and sees Shelby being shot near the heart. As much as the witch tries to shake off the vision, the girl notices the sudden fear and worry in her grown up friend and sets off the chain of events that leads to the last thing either adult in her life wanted.

It began with those gifts Polly had foreseen he’d need ---to make his intentions clear from that night after he survived the ambush Grace had stupidly helped Campbell orchestrate--- and ended with him taking her to the Derby and them becoming engaged less than a week later. Eva had kept him at bay the entire winter and the spring after only for June to come and have the strength of their feelings for each other breakdown each of her walls.

Now he snuck away while his daughter was asleep in his bed to be in hers and leave before Evie noticed he was gone. Strangely, the little girl has not noticed their courtship occurring under her nose and now would learn she and her father will be eloping in about two weeks.

“Do you think she’ll hate me?” Eva asks, fearing how the sting of this betrayal will hurt Evie. She adores her namesake and her namesake adores her, but its one thing being her friend and another thing becoming her mother before she’s even had the time to tell her they were courting.

“Never, she adores you.” Tommy assures her with a sweet sounding lie.

As if Evie will refuse to see her as anything else than the wicked witch stealing her father’s love from her.

Evie has never liked the idea of someone else in their lives.

They wouldn’t fit in his bed, for a start, she would be like those evil stepmothers in stories and send her far away where people will hurt her like that woman did.

Eva was like a fairy godmother, but if the fairy was also a witch who liked the color black and smelled like the little bag of sweet-smelling stuff her dad keeps under their pillows.

Mrs. Changretta, who Polly and Eva had enlisted to help her pass the school year, said Eva and her son could suit if Eva had no serious offer still. Evie didn’t know him and while she supposed Eva would want a husband, maybe Eva wanted someone who lived in Birmingham and not in America.

“So, you want her to stay too?” her dad asked as she told him about what the former schoolteacher and Aunt Pol talked about while Evie practiced her mathematics since Eva was gone for the day.

“Yeah,” Evie admitted and didn’t like that smile her dad seemed to get when they talked about or saw Eva now.

Finn had said his brother was in love with Eva and she was going to become her stepmother because Polly is never wrong when it comes to romance or so John and Arthur said.

Then she saw it, what everyone had already known since last December when he went alone to her house with pink flowers and a box of cards Eva doesn’t let her open.

She liked Eva, she was not like Grace or even Lizzie and they were friends, strange some kids thought because Eva was a grown-up and Evie a kid. Even the nuns at school liked Eva and they barely liked Evie’s family.

But her dad and Eva said they were just friends, and she believed them until now that she knows that smile her dad has on his face is because he is thinking about Eva.

“Do you like her, daddy?” Evie asks the question she’s been dreading since May.

He pauses, unsure of how to answer. As if wondering if he can tell the truth or lie to her face. “Yes, very much. She is lovely and loves you more than you might even love her.”

Love. Three times if you count lovely.

Evie asks her father again, a knot in her throat because she knows now why Eva and her father were busy today, they had been together! “Do you love her?”

“Yes. I do.”

Evie doesn’t know why she hates it so much. She likes Eva, she knows Eva wouldn’t be an evil witch stepmother, but even the idea of her being with her dad made Evie hate it so much.

“I hate her.” It hurts more because she loved Eva like she loved Aunt Ada and even Aunt Polly. That traitor had been her friend and now she would take her dad away from her and give him babies he would love more than Evie and Evie would be sent back to that woman.

Evelyn Shelby is shouting at Eva’s door and having to be held back by her father who tries to explain things Evie doesn’t want to here.

“Bad luck for the groom to see the bride in her wedding dress, Tommy.” It’s not Eva who opens the door, but her friend, Linda, who demands Tommy not come in with a laugh.

It is much worse than Evelyn had thought.

A wedding? Their wedding?!

Was anyone going to tell her about it? Why didn’t she know about it?

“How could you do this to me, you were my friend!” the ten-year-old girl shouts at the witch wearing a wedding dress and Aunt Esme’s veil as the women in the neighborhood stopped on their tracks.

So, everyone was in on it? Everyone knew it except Evie.

“Sweetheart, we can explain.” The witch says and looks at her father who had come into the house anyways.

The three sit there where everyone had been preparing for a wedding no one had considered telling Evie about. She can recognize the suit jacket as her father’s, and Linda’s neat handwriting on the list of people who were invited and even worse, a picture of Eva and her dad kissing at the Derby they went last week. They had gone with them to Epsom, to celebrate how great things were going now that Billy Kimber was gone. Never did Evie think that her dad would be taking them so he could propose to Eva.

“How long have you been seeing him behind my back?” Evie asks the woman still in her wedding dress and being forced to sit apart from them because Evie refuses to let her be near her.

“We wanted to tell you, sweetheart, believe me, we were going to tell you we were seeing each other since the Derby, but things changed. I am sorry you had to find out this way.” Eva doesn’t like lying, says the truth hurts but it’s still better than lying. “I hope you can forgive us for it.”

“Maybe I don’t want to. Maybe I don’t want you to take my daddy away from me!”  Evie refused to let it happen, her dad was hers and hers alone.

“Evie, she’s not taking me from you. As a matter of fact, Eva will come live with us and be the mother you deserve to have.” Tommy tries to take her face in his hands to get her to understand them, but his daughter refuses to even look at him. “It would break my heart if she left. It would break yours too, I know.”

“I don’t care.” The girl lies. She would miss her, Finn too and her dad never looked as happy as he did since they became friends and sweethearts behind her back.

“They will kill her if she leaves England.” He says as seriously as he had told her to stay in the patch with Esme’s family that day he came back with a bandage over his chest. “I can’t let that happen, and neither could you.”

Because he saved her that day and even if everyone says he’s a bad man, he still the man who saved her and made her a Shelby.

And even if Evie hates it, she must let it happen because even if she really hates Eva right now, she doesn’t want her to die.

“Fine, but we aren’t friends anymore and I won’t ever call her my mother.” The girl crossed her arms and resigned herself to her fate.

“I will take what I can get.” Eva tells her father and agrees to Evie’s terms. “I promise I won’t ever become your wicked stepmother, and I won’t ever make you call me mother.”

They keep their word; Evie isn’t forced to be nice to her ---even when they take her to Brighton and London with them on their honeymoon--- and Eva never becomes her evil stepmother even when 1922 rolls around and comes with the news that Eva is having a baby.

And yet, when May Carleton shows up looking for her father at the betting shop, Evie introduces a very pregnant Eva as her mother because there is only one other person Evelyn Shelby can share her father with and that is Eva Shelby.

[liviavanrouge]

Late Celebration

Livia: *Looks around curiously, taking in all the Elemental Spirit decorations* Wow...

Leona: *Walks beside her through the kingdom, beastmen passing by excitedly chatting* We're almost there..

Kalim: WOW! What's all the decorations for!?

Azul: Clearly for the Spirit Fairies..but why is the Afterglow Savanna celebrating..

???: Many, many years ago a Spirit Saintess saved the First King and since then we raise our hands in celebration on the Spirit Saint or Spirit Saintess' birthday as thanks to him or her

Falena: *Kneels down in front of Livia with his wife and Cheka, bowing their heads to her* We greet the Spirit Saintess of Twisted Wonderland, forgive us for being...so very late to celebrating you..

Livia: *Stares at them feeling shy and slightly confused, stepping closer to Leona* I-It's okay..I don't mind,

Livia: A-And please stand up...

Falena: *Rises to his feet, smiling* Happy Very Late Birthday, Saintess Livia, please enjoy the festival...

Amara: We always start the festival off with the Saintess herself, showing us an element she picks

Livia: *Walks to the stage, looking slightly nervous*

Leona: *Nods to her, smiling* You got this..

Livia: *Holds her hand up* Tsunami! Ripple!!

Tsunami and Ripple: *Appears in the air, creating a large body of water in the sky*

Livia: *Leaps up, swimming through the water, smiling as she did a twirl in the water*

Livia: *Holds her hands out, the water forming into large lions, running through the air*

Leona: *Claps with the crowd, grinning widely as Livia came down*

Livia: *Perks up, the flowers underneath her feet lifting into the air, spinning around*

Livia: *Laughs, sitting down, a wide smile on her face*

Falena: Ah, so the rumors are true, she absolutely adores flowers!

Amara: That is a relief...

Cheka: *Beams as the flower passed overhead*

Falena: LET THE CELEBRATION OFFICIALLY BEGIN!!!

Kalim: Yeah! Let's go join Liv, we can sit together guys!

Azul: *SIghs* Very well..for Livia's special day..

Epel: Let's go!

Vil: Can't let have Potato Cub have all the fun

Trey: *Laughs* Agreed!

Riddle: *Smiles* Then what are we waiting for? Let's have fun!

~~~~~

Livia: *Laughs, dancing in the middle, wearing the Afterglow Savanna outfit given to her, her hair up in pigtails with a single braid, two braids hanging on either side of her head*

Falena: *Smiles, standing in the middle with her as people held hands moving in a circle around them*

Riddle: *Laughs with the others, holding Trey and Vil's hands, moving in a circle with everyone*

Livia: *Smiles wide, her eyes sparkling as Falena lifted her up, one hand holding hers as he moved around balancing her on his shoulder*

~~~~~

Livia: *Smiles wide, waving to everyone, sitting in the carriage specially made for her*

Leona: *Smiles, sitting with Livia, alongside the others*

Kalim: This is so cool! They take this seriously!

Vil: Indeed, seems like all of Twisted Wonderland celebrates Livia's birth, she is a very important person after all due to being the only Saintess as of right now

Azul: *Chuckles* How lucky are we to know someone more famous than Malleus Draconia

Trey: Very lucky!

Livia: *Smiles, gently tossing candy to people, her eyes brightening at the sight of everyone's smiles*

~~~~~

Kalim: *Holds his hand out* Come on, Liv!

Leona: Little Hunter, they have your favorite! Fruit!

Livia: *Beams, laughing as her friends surrounded her*

Vil: *Places a rose crown on her head, smiling*

Livia: *Smiles, looking at Falena and his people doing a traditional dance* WOW!

Leona: Wanna join them?

Livia: Oh can I show them a traditional dance from my people!

Amara: *Smiles coming over* Of course! We would love to see the dance you hold so dearly, Saintess!

~~~~~

Livia: *Beams, teaching people the Fae Jaguar traditional dance*

Falena and Livia: *Grabs each others hand, spinning quickly in a circle then holding a hand out*

Kalim: *Laughs, dancing with Riddle and Azul*

Livia: *Beams, lifting her hands into the air in a waving motion then twirls with Falena switching spots*

Leona: *Chuckles, placing his hands on Livia's waist, spinning around then setting her down*

Livia: *Beams, twirling away, laughing*

~~~~~

Livia: *Waves to people in her carriage taking her to the Kingscholar Residence*

Kalim: Today was so fun!!

Azul: I'm tired out, never before had I had so much fun!

Vil: *Laughs, a hand on his chest* It was adoring! The fruit, the decorations, the games!

Riddle: Look, she's asleep...

Livia: *Smiles, fast asleep in her seat, her head resting on her arms*

Leona: *Pulls Livia close, leaning her against him* Tuckered herself out

Trey: Indeed, she had the most fun, came right out of her shell the moment she rode on the Spinning Flowers

Vil: It's good that she enjoyed today, otherwise I'd have taken her back immediately

Riddle: Agreed!

Azul: *Chuckles, putting his vest over Livia*

@queen-of-twisted @yukii0nna @zexal-club @soulfungai @teddymochi @writing-heiress @fair-night-starry-tears @abyssthing198

[tumblingghosts]

re: ask game

felix ratvinstill, the patron saint of rodents

because I would love to know any and all behind the scenes thoughts

of course! happy to yap about the rats <3

(i have an embarrassing about of lore about these rats)

i already mentioned a few things in these replies:

gaul's beef w/ felix & where the rat obsession started

clemmie is tired of felix's rat shenanigans

reference to livia worshipping taylor swift

max making sure the rat parade was not broadcast

expanding on those:

felix's rat obsession started shortly after his parents' deaths as a coping mechanism that no one addressed until it was too late & felix was irrevocably attached

it was still war time so there were a lot of rats around on the streets and felix had somehow managed to capture one (aesop) to keep as a pet turned support animal

max (president) was pretty concerned about the whole thing, but between the grief of losing family members and the ongoing war, he basically went 'kids will be kids ig' and let felix be

felix originally calling aesop 'mr rat' and would read him some stories (aesop's fables) to help him go to sleep bc that's what his parents would do to help him sleep when he was younger

aesop was named as such because he went 'storybooks' -> 'rat that helps me sleep' -> 'perfect name :D'

max (president) did have gaul 'check' aesop (without felix's knowledge) once it was brought to his attention that felix was letting aesop sleep in his bed bc he did not want felix to be killed off by a potentially diseased rat

(is aesop the same rat that felix originally caught? maybe. maybe not. gaul certainly isn't saying whether she modified aesop or gave a mutt replacement. maybe the rat she melted on their field trip as nine-year-olds was the original aesop. again, gaul certainly isn't going to say anything one way or the other)

anyway, that's how all of felix's rats live past 3-4 years 🐀

felix stopped collecting rats when the war ended (eight-years-old) because max (president) was able to convince him that it would be too much of a hassle to have more rats once transitioned from homeschooling to a school with others. max was not, however, able to convince felix to get rid of any of the rats (his original intent).

when felix was younger, i like to think he had one of those little red wagons to bring all his rats along everywhere. by the time he reaches the academy, he just carries them in his pockets and/or lets them follow him on their own.

asclepius is his medic rat (named after the god of medicine) and the first rat that clemensia was introduced to. she was severely weirded out, but came around after an asclepius alerted a teacher when she was having an allergic reaction (strawberry allergy headcanon from medea)

yes, felix did make clemmie thank asclepius for quote "saving her life", which she did do. her thoughts on felix's rats after that event were basically 'well, i guess this is a thing.....this is fine....' which felix took to mean that she was an ally against rat haters (livia)

max (rat) was the last (36th) felix had adopted. it was just a few months before the end, and he quickly became felix's support rat. max (president) was not present enough in felix's life to realize felix had named after him under nearly a year later.

max (president) knew about albanus (rat) but was fine with it because he thought felix was just honoring a dead family member. max (president) side eyes felix's interactions wtih max the rat all the time. marius and gnaeus are just grateful that no rats are named after them.

side note: originally, this fic was just supposed to be felix's perspective, but as i was writing, felix's pov sounded too 'rational' bc of how much he was coping, so dill's pov was added in for contrast (and get an outside view of the rat-related insanity)

the rat parade happens at heavensbee hall. the people in attendance were the mentors and tributes (and, of course, felix's rats). max (president) did not attend. gaul was not invited. livia was also not invited, but she showed up because she was insulted that facet was given a personalized invite.

felix wanted it to be bigger, but that was the compromise that max (president) was able to negotiate felix into agreeing to. there were cameras that felix insisted on being there with the intent to broadcast the event, but none were actually recording.

max (president) made sure that none of them were on and told felix after the fact that they had 'malfunctioned' so the rat parade 'unfortunately' was not shared. felix is very disappointed by this and has to be comforted by max (rat) when he can't host a second rat parade to make up for it.

no one ever believes reaper and dill when they go back home and tell others about the rats. eventually, they just fudge the story to stop people from pressing them for the "real" story (aka "the mentors were convinced by the tributes' humanity from interacting with them and realizing how bad things were in the districts & dill's mentor was able to use nepotism to stop the games" - basically the same concept minus the rats)

i didn't have any solid ideas after that, but i like to think that felix visits dill in d11 sometime in the future and she has to awkwardly explain to her family that 'this is felix ravinstill, yes, that ravinstill family, yes, these rats are normal and please don't say anything against it to his face, please'.

and there you have it! 🐀🐀🐀

thanks for the ask abyssal! :D

[morbidology]

On 30 Janaury, 2011, 6-year-olds Alessia and Livia Schepp vanished from Saint-Sulpice, a suburb of Lausanne in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland. They had been picked up by their father, Matthias Schepp, on 28 January, to spend the weekend with him. Matthias and the girls’ mother, Irina, were separated, with Irina having main custody.

The girls had been expected to return home on 30 Janaury. However, they never arrived. Irina contacted police to report her daughters missing. Detectives discovered that Matthias had driven to France with Alessia and Livia where he had withdrawn money. Matthias then boarded a ferry to Italy. Once here, he took his own life by throwing himself in front of a train.

The last time that the girls were ever seen was on 30 Janaury. Detectives couldn’t figure out whether he had taken the girls to Italy with him. Shortly before taking his own life, Matthias had sent Irina a cryptic postcard which read that the girls were “resting in peace.”

[myrfing]

[knocks down your door] 6...!

ohhhhhhhhhhhh. thank you adr

6. How did they deal with the massacre on the Waking Sands?  

he got mad as hellllll. +500 to insanity meter instantaneously he thought he lost the place he found once more to some garlean bullshit again and after he buried noraxia. if he didn't have the hope that arenvald was alive & cid hadn't regained his memories & alphinaud hadn't busted in he would've probably eventually just gone on a suicide mission alone to kill gaius and livia which is WHYYY he was so complacent re: this random kid coming in and making a bunch of questionable decisions. not his proudest moment. uhh the time he spent at the church of saint adama landama is also longer than in the actual arr msq. he helped bury the bodies and then just kind of joined bonkedcid in being a Weird Guy Helping Out (bumming) At The Church stewing in his own I Should Just Go Kill Them. you'd find him in good or bad weather at odd hours sitting or sleeping near the big dead goobbue and he also spent a lot of that time wandering around in eastern thanalan doing weird shit

[the-only-trans-sopranos-fan]

watching many saints of newark and this shit is so goofy like what were they thinking putting all these marvel ass easter eggs all over the place like silvio's dad is in it for no fucking reason ???? and then livia mentions how tony should go into selling patio furniture like her cousin (which is a nod to the kevin finnerty dreams which showcase the life tony could have lived WHERE HE IS A PATIO FURNITURE SALESMAN) the sopranos cinematic universe is real and uncle junior is thanos

also they did young paulie so dirty i will never forgive them

[cosmosrebellion]

Fantasy Recs:

The Book of Jhereg by Steven Brust (Dragaera) Black God's Kiss by C.L. Moore (Jirel of Joiry) Waylander by David Gemmell (Waylander) The Blacktongue Thief and Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman (Blacktongue) Assassin’s Apprentice by Robin Hobb (Realm of the Elderlings) The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie (The First Law) A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire) The Curse of Chalion by Lois McMaster Bujold (World of the Five Gods) The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams (Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn) Chronicles of the Black Company by Glen Cook (The Black Company) The Dragon’s Path by Daniel Abraham (The Dagger and the Coin) The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (The Masquerade) Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard (Johannes Cabal) The Folding Knife by K.J. Parker The Devourers by Indra Das Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell and Piranesi by Susanna Clarke A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett (Discworld) City of Bones by Martha Wells The Alchemy of Stone by Ekaterina Sedia A Woman of the Sword by Anna Smith Spark Those Above by Daniel Polansky (The Empty Throne) The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez The Dragon Waiting by John M. Ford Books of Blood by Clive Barker Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay The Chatelaine by Kate Heartfield The Etched City by K.J. Bishop The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera Gormenghast by Meryn Peake Viriconium by M. John Harrison Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James (The Dark Star)

Horror Recs:

North American Lake Monsters by Nathan Ballingrud The Marigold by Andrew F. Sullivan The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron The Wingspan of Severed Hands by Joe Koch A Collapse of Horses by Brian Evenson The Immeasurable Corpse of Nature by Christopher Slatsky Negative Space by B.R. Yeager A Natural History of Hell by Jeffrey Ford We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson Furnace by Livia Llewelyn Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt Queen of Teeth by Hailey Piper Leech by Hiron Ennes

Sci-Fi Recs:

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin Rosewater by Tade Thompson (Rosewater) Ammonite by Nicola Griffith Dawn by Octavia E. Butler (Xenogenesis) A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood

AHHHHH!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! All go on The List!! Can't wait to check all of them out!

[thunderberryart]

Silent Hope/Rune Factory connection theories that I have yet to make any significant posts about

Fact or Fiction: Silent Hope's nature as a fable

Seven Heroes, Seven Countries: Where do the protagonists come from?

Monsters: Creatures from another world or the reincarnated spirits of the dead?

Primitivus, Proto-Dragon of Void: A potential answer to Livia and Radea

The Fighter: An ancestor of the De Sainte-Coquilles?

[darkacey]

So, what the heck is Eliza?

Let me tell you!

(Spoilers for RF5 and slight spoilers for my upcoming fic, Who Remembers a God, but I’ve been sitting on this for a while and I wanna share it. Also I use it/its pronouns for Eliza, but I figure it is fine with any pronouns)

As we know from RF4, Saint Eliza in that game is a mailbox that gained sentience possibly because of the power of the Sharance Tree. It’s not stated who built it, but my theory is that it was Ventuswill, which I will elaborate on in a bit.

In RF5, it’s not explained why Eliza can talk to the MC or what its purpose is beyond being a convenient gameplay mechanic to improve the town. However, we do know that it has a familiar relationship with Livia, who it calls Livvy. And we know she’s the Divine Dragon of Light, Lumenevia.

My headcanon is that all of the Divine Dragons are capable of building divine simulacra - sentient constructs that can perform miracles given certain conditions. These simulacra allow the Divine Dragons to more easily benefit the areas they watch over by drawing upon the positive runes generated by the land/people they’re in charge of, rather than solely their own powers. Given the lore we learn about gods because of Lucas’ backstory, we know that miracles are specifically created through the coalescence of positive runes. True gods like Lucas naturally emit positive runes at a fairy steady rate, but happiness increases the output.

Do you see where I’m going here yet?

As the MC, players create positive runes not through divine nature, but hard-won acts of service. RF4 calls positive runes “Princess/Prince Points.” RF5 calls them “SEED Points.” The point system is how Saint Eliza quantifies the positive runes that the MC generates in their daily tasks. Being an Earthmate, they are allowed a similar amount of authority as the Divine Dragons in their ability to decide what miracles should be performed with the accumulated positive runes. (Yes, I know Dolce can hear Eliza too, but she’s not allowed access to the system because she doesn’t have the Divine Dragons’ or Mother Earth’s blessing. I imagine Dragon Priests’ could be granted permission, but that’s an entire different conversation about religion instead of magic systems).

Unlike true gods who have to be careful about how many positive runes they emit because of the dangers of attracting too many negative runes to themselves, the positive runes collected by Saint Eliza is simply a system of rerouting what was already present in the area. The MC’s actions to generate those runes requires hard work, and usually their fair share of bad luck. Consider for example that the MC can get points for banishing monsters — every time the MC is injured, that’s the result of negative runes, a natural consequence. Rather than allowing the benefit to stay out in the wild (keeping monsters away from that area for a longer period of time), the runes are moved into town and manipulated to cause specific improvements. Through the Divine Dragons or the MC’s direction, Eliza performs miracles.

And so, this is why Eliza is a Saint.

[thebeckster]

Rune Factory Fic Master Post

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Rune Factory 4 Fics:

Our Dear Empress - The Empress Frey AU; T; 41k; 9/?; Started 3/5/2021; Work In Progress.

Adored - An AU of Frey's last night in Selphia in the Empress Frey AU; E; 6k; 1/1 Chapter; Written 8/28/2023; Complete.

Love and Latkes - Margaret enjoys a peaceful winter night; G; 2k; 1/1 Chapter; Written 12/30/2022; Complete.

Make A Wish and Hold On Tight - Leon and Lest celebrate Christmas; G; 3k; 1/1 Chapter; Written 12/30/2021; Complete.

The Forgotten One - Lest searches for his missing sister; G; 3k; 1/1 Chapter; Written 9/6/2021; Complete.

RF Weeks 15th Anniversary - Prompt fills for RF Weeks event; G; 4k; 7/7 Chapters; Written 8/25/2021 - 8/26/2021; Complete.

A Secret Friendship - Arthur and Frey are childhood friends; G; 5k; 1/1 Chapter; Written 6/16/2021; Complete.

Remember Us - Frey suffers head trauma and amnesia again, to disastrous consequences; T; 21k; 6/? Chapters; Started 5/27/2020; Work In Progress.

The Mistress - A mistress of the king makes some difficult choices; T; 7k; 1/1 Chapter; Written 5/18/2020; Complete.

Rune Factory 5 Fics:

Let it Snow - Alice and Scarlett get snowed in; G; 3k; 1/1 Chapter; Written 12/30/2022; Complete.

And Each In Your Season Returns - Livia takes a nighttime walk around Rigbarth; T; 3k; 1/1 Chapter; Written 11/28/2022; Complete.

Multi-Fandom Fics:

Casual Prompt Fills - Various Casual Prompt Fills; Not Rated; 2k; 4/? Chapters; Started 3/23/2023; Work In Progress.

Little Runeys - Tumblr Prompt Fills; T; 21k; 16/? Chapters; Started 7/3/2021; Work In Progress.

Love At First Bite (And Other April Fools Prompts) - Prompts filled for April Fools; T; 2k; 4.4 Chapters; Written 4/2/2022; Complete.

Misc. Fics:

Design a Candidate: Amirah - Original Character design and heart events; T; 12k; 1/1 Chapter; Written 12/22/2022; Complete

Design A Candidate: Thoreau S. Montgomery de Sainte-Coquille - Original Character design and heart events; T; 14k; 1/1 Chapter; Written 12/22/2022; Complete.

[fashionbooksmilano]

Sguardi di intesa

a cura di Angela Madesani e con un testo critico di Daria Jorioz

Fotografie di Veronique Mazzoli, Gabriella Mercadini, Lee Miller, Tina Modotti, Brigitte Niedermair, Ilaria Orsini, Elsa Robiola, Lori Sammartino, Viviane Sassen, Livia Sismondi, Alice Springs, Ellen von Unwerth

Nomos Edizioni, Busto Arsizio 2024, 128 pagine, 24x28cm, ISBN 9791259581709

euro 32,00

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Catalogo della mostra fotografica presso il centro Saint Benin di Aosta. Una ricognizione sulle donne fotografe di moda, dall’inizio del XX secolo a oggi, proposta in un progetto espositivo inedito. Il ruolo della donna sta mutando radicalmente all’interno della società e diventa quanto mai interessante osservare come, da soggetto privilegiato della fotografia di moda, le donne siano diventate autrici tra le più intelligenti e raffinate. 

19/04/24

[alarrytale]

Hi, hope you're doing well Marte ! I just wanted to talk about how strange I think some of the fandom is with this stunt, like don't get me wrong I understand it's nothing like the previous one but it's still not exactly Low-key or believable (for the gp) and even though the person that's he's doing it with this time is not as chaotic but she still chose an easy route to get famous so while I understand feeling indifferent and appreciating that it stops other rumors from surfacing plus whatever other purpose it serves but it's still a stunt that even the solos see as such I guess it's weird seeing some of us not only indifferent like myself but almost happy even though they acknowledge it's a stunt just cause it's not like the last one

Hi, anon!

I think h*livia was so far over the line and so horrible that any stunt that came after would be tame in comparison, even if it's pretty full on. This stunt started off with a very timid and careful profile, probably to test the waters, but is now on par with some of h*oliva's stunt events in regards to obviously set up public outings with pda. This is still pretty full on. So it's not low key anymore, and you can’t say the relationship is private. The difference is the stunt is more controllable due to Harry being the bigger celebrity, and TR is just along for the ride without much of an agenda of her own. She's kind of like E in that respect. Just an accessory to make him look straight, like he's boyfriend material and get attention on themselves.

To me this stunt feels like a mix of Cami*le and of O. If you count all his stunts; his involvement, time spent on it and level of pda, this one is still pretty bad. I think we're numb to it. The bar has shifted.

I think indifference is a good approach to this stunt. Don't give it any attention, it's what they want. Don't be happy about it, just because it's not like h*livia. Don't help legitimise this relationship by accepting it or look at her as a saint for helping him out. She's doing something ethically and morally apprehensible to get more famous. Demand better for Harry and for this fandom. Bearding and PR relationships are not cute. It's not a neccessary evil, not this way of doing it anyway. Think how Louis must feel when you call TR and H cute or not so bad. It could be worse, but it's still a pretty full on stunt.

[liviavanrouge]

Adorable

Malleus: Is she ready?

Lilian: *Nods, smiling wide* YES! SHE'S READY!

Talon: *Beams*

Malleus: Bring her out then

Lilian: Lady Livia! You may come out now!

Livia(7): *Walks out, wearing a white dress with bunny prints that had silver trimming outlining each bunny on the outfit, flower bracelets with a bunny at the center of the bracelet around her wrists. A bunny hair clip in her hair, holding back half of her bangs, with a bunny scrunchie keeping her hair up in a ponytail*

Lilian: *Beams, gushing over her as she slipped the white low heeled shoes on the childs feet*

Talon: LADY LIVIA!!! YOU ARE THE MOST ADORABLE CHILD I HAVE EVER SEEN! NOBODY CAN RIVAL YOUR ADORABLENESS!!!

Talon: I HAVE BEEN BLESSED! BLESSED BY THE GODS ABOVE TO WITNESS SUCH A PHENOMENALLY ADORABLE CHILD!!!!

Malleus: You're too much

Talon: DON'T HIDE IT, PRINCE MALLEUS! I SEE YOUR FACE!!

Malleus: *Perks up* Huh?

Talon: *Smiles wide* LADY LIVIA YOU HAVE SOFTENED THE HEART OF OUR DARK PRINCE, YOU SAINT!!!

Livia: *Smiles at Talon, giggling* Thank you, Talon!

Talon: *Gasps, his eyes widening*

Livia: *Perks up and crouches down, gently tapping Talon* Talon? Are you alright?

Talon: I can die peacefully now! Your giggle was so adorable!

Lilian: Lady Livia, Queen Maleficia is waiting for you!

Livia: *Beams* Gran Gran!

Livia: *Takes Lilian's hand* Is Malleus coming this time?

Lilian: A-Ah...N-No, not this time, Lady Livia

Livia: But, I want Malleus to come...

Lilian: I know but....uh-

Malleus: *Picks Livia up* I'll be fine, Beastie, you go have fun with Grandmother

Livia: But I want you to come too...

Malleus: I know but today is not that day

Livia: *Looks down disappointed* Okay...

Malleus: *Sets her down, smiling* Have fun..

Livia: *Nods, taking Lilian's hand and walking away*

Talon: Why'd the queen call her?

Malleus: To have a painter paint Livia

Talon: *Shrieks excitedly, his eyes sparkling* YEAH!!!!

~~~~

Malleus: *Chuckles* Grandmother has a secret room filled with paintings of Livia

Livia(16): *Looks at him alarmed* Huh!?

Malleus: You were such an adorable child that she wanted lots of paintings of you, you fell asleep through most of them though

Malleus: They finished the painting with Grandmothers help because you fell asleep on her lap

Livia: *Gasps flustered* I WAS A KID AND PRONE TO NAPS!!

Malleus: *Chuckles*

Livia: *Gets up and runs away flustered* YOU GUYS ARE SO EMBARRASSING!! WHY COULDN'T I HAVE A NORMAL CHILDHOOD!!!!

Lilia: *Laughs* Livy! Come back! We're sorry!

Silver: *Chuckles* I'm not

Sebek and Kuro: *Laughs*

Malleus: *Smiles amused*

@queen-of-twisted @yukii0nna @zexal-club

[ult0rcorp]

good evening everyone

i am royalbowser haii hello hiiii

on here ill likely just be talking about saints row and my SR ocs :3 ill also just post art! im just silly like that

speaking of my SR ocs, here they are! from left to right:

Niven (pre-SR1), Livia, Niven (SR1), Malika, Axel, Santiago, Niven (SR2), Reagan, Dominik, and Yuuna!

niven has 4 different versions now he has a SR3 design but its not in this image right now im so sorry

ill explain lore sometime stay TUNED!!!! be silly be cool have fun goodbye tumblr fandom