#Mithfic

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also btw next chapter of Mithfic is delayed as I haven't been able to set up Arkay yet. and right at my fave chapter too.

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The first part of the post. THIS IS IMPORTANT!

I will immediately discount the second part of the post. One person will definitely like it 🦋+🌒 These are all my sketches lately. I mostly sketch at work because it's boring there. I'm realistically not getting much work done yet.

And today in general, I'm in such a particularly good mood. So far, I'm Chaotic-Good 💜 Oh, my girls, I'm about to blow up your messages. And you'll remember I exist! I'M STILL ALIVE! Whoever I can, I'll tag. Not everyone is here, or at least I don't know.

Ramien is pissing Melissa off again 🌝: Catch @nnibarrel the priest of Desna!

And here he is very different 🤨:

Oread Trickster, Karia(I really don't know how to spell it in English, sorry), her daughter 👉👉 @alis0vvs

Aasimar Aeon Roche, Devil mithfic path👹 : @vrroche

Aasimar Flayma , Trickster! And the lizard 🦎: @ronavorona16

Another Trickster?! Kitsune Jest 🦊:

Cute aasimar Kalten (tieflings forgive me, I only like tieflings)🧊 :

And this is the son of a girl I know from Baldurs Gate 3. He's Dark Urge:

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Seriously my antagonist just showed up and was like "this is exactly what I'm planning and why"

Makes a huge difference from the antagonist of Mithfic who was like "eh I just want to fuck with this one guy for the lols i guess"

there is a reason why it took me years to get Mithfic this far lmao

tfw the overall plot of the fanfic finally comes to you

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OK, I'm crying laughing.

I guessed by your comments that Timmaeus turned into hvare (mithras daemon). I expected a Asian leopard cat because of small leopard like description.

But nope, it's a pallas cat! (Manul I believe, need to check if there was controversy on one of these names, so bear with me). Why? Why is his that cat of all animals!

I don't actually know! Paging @starsilvereld for this one. I wasn't actually the one that came up with this (I don't know if Starsilver was either, but I'm sure they'd know who!).

Timaeus hasn't actually turned into a manul; you are correct, that was the Asian leopard cat. No manuls have shown up as of the latest chapter. But yeah, Hvare herself is a manul.

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Question.

Your dark materials and vtm fusion fic.

Do daemons have to resettle and change when you get embraced?

I wonder if the banes effect the daemon, like an ugly nos daemon or a really aggressive brujah one?

Also I'm on chapter 2, it's really good!

aaaa I'm glad you're enjoying it!

My headcanon is that yes -- when someone dies, their daemon turns to Dust, and when the Embrace is finished the daemon spends a few hours reforming. The daemon remains unsettled for about fifteen years, which is how long Cainites are considered fledglings for, and the daemon resettling is usually the signal that it's time for their sire to formally release them.

However... my headcanon is that this doesn't always happen. In humans, it takes major trauma for a daemon to unsettle -- it's the trauma of the Embrace that causes a daemon to unsettle. So people who make a much smoother transition and are less ruffled -- their daemons either resettle more quickly, barely change, or don't unsettle at all. For example, Wendy took to vampirism pretty well (kennels notwithstanding) so her daemon, Sammie, merely changed colour from a sable ferret to a white one.

Before the Masquerade, it was a lot more common for people's daemons to unsettle for only short times or not at all because their lives weren't turned completely upside down; they could still remain in touch with mortal families and so on, if they so chose. Not any more. Becoming a vampire so dramatically upends your life that it's very rare now for daemons to unsettle unless you were already a ghoul used to the life.

I also headcanon that Tzimisce daemons never resettle again and always retain the ability to shapeshift.

Another headcanon is that dying very much acts like the same severing that witches undergo with their daemons in HDM; daemons can now wander from their vampire without limit, and while that magical empathy is still present a daemon can be awake when their vampire sleeps and vice versa. A vampire with enough self loathing may be abandoned by their daemon or abandon their daemon. Elders are less fazed by this, but neonates find it horrifying.

Thinbloods, however, can wander farther from their daemons than mortals but there's a limit. In the prologue of the fic the Thinblood is really anxious and worried about Aredvi possibly wanting to abandon him one day, and feels discomfited when she leaves his side for a greater distance than she could while they were alive, even though they've been a vampire for a few years by then.

A daemon is affected by the same vampiric weaknesses but I hadn't considered physical banes. In my head Sammie just looked like a normal ferret, but the idea of a Nos daemon looking hideous is something I hadn't considered and is a really good idea. I'd definitely considered them to share the same emotional/metaphysical banes (eg inability to photograph Lasombra daemons, Brujah daemons being contrarians, Tremere daemons being prone to blood bonds), but not physical ones, oooh...

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I'll need to fix that line where Roger is like "wtf I'm going SIXTY" when Mithras is being a little bitch about his speed then lmao

Wait. Re: that UK measurement post. Does this mean that speed limit signs are in miles, not KM?

I believe so 😅

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Woke up to SO many comments on my fic and I’m losing my shit in the best possible way

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I have finished the fourth draft of Mithfic! \o/ This is the pre-beta polish. Now we're at the point where when my beta has the time, he'll do a read through, then he'll attack the individual chapters. :3c

I'm especially Not Happy about the last few chapters but he knows his stuff. At this point I'm too close to the fic to really view it objectively and I figured it was better to have SOMETHING to show him for us to work with than anything else.

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I was thinking about your dark materials/masquerade au last night.

Few questions on vampire deamons-

Are vampire daemons as invulnerable to harm as vampires (ie regular bullets not too bad and survivable). Or just as vulnerable as human daemons. Are they more vulnerable to fire, sunlight and true faith etc. I think big daemons make easier targets to aim for hearts or with fire weapons too.

Do vamp daemons have Disciplines?

Can tzmisce ones vicissitude? Pretend I can spell that. Or just not settle on a form only.

If they leave their shitty attitude vamp, are the vamp still in danger if their daemon is killed or is it like severing almost, (just no dead daemon.)

With sullivan (and trans people in general)- does the daemon consider themselves trans or just sullivan/their person only?

What's caine's daemon? Or is that debated by many. Also Calebros, Cock Robin, and Gerard rafins ones? Sorry I love nos

Are werewolves (if real) wolf daemons or can be any? Laughing at raging werewolf crinos and their angry pomeranian daemon.

phoenix daemons sound really magical. Is their a masquerade in your au. As it's quite fantastical anyway. Or are Kindred still at risk of hunters?

Can you ghoul or protein form into an armoured bear?

Sorry for a million questions. It's just kindred have such interesting implications on daemons in your au. I'm really interested if you didn't know lol.

Feel free to say some are to be revealed in story. Or answer privately, so others not spoiled.

So TL;DR the HDM!AU is an AU called His Dark Masquerade that me and several friends came up with. Everyone has their own distinctive headcanon for how daemons work in this universe (I think there's even one version where vampires don't have daemons at all, which die during the Embrace, and naturally cause Masquerade problems) so please keep in mind that these answers apply strictly to my version of His Dark Masquerade. While other people are welcome to adopt these headcanons for their own versions, I do not speak for anyone else and do not presume that this applies to all versions of His Dark Masquerade.

Also I'm completely shitfaced rn so apologies in advance if/when I make zero sense.

Are vampire daemons as invulnerable to harm as vampires (ie regular bullets not too bad and survivable). Or just as vulnerable as human daemons. Are they more vulnerable to fire, sunlight and true faith etc. I think big daemons make easier targets to aim for hearts or with fire weapons too.

So in my personal continuity of HDM(asquerade), daemons basically share Disciplines with their masters (for lack of a better term). A vampire who is bulletproof with Fortitude will have a daemon who shares that same resistance.

So daemons are just as susceptible to True Faith, fire, sunlight, etc. And as you point out, larger daemons are more vulnerable to attack as they're literally a bigger target.

In this continuity, Mithras has/had a daemon called Hvare Khshaetra. Hvarexaetra is Avestan for "the rising sun," and she shares all the Disciplines that Mithras has. Mithras has been diablerised by Olivia, so his Disciplines currently range from either not affected at all to quite watered down. Timaeus is currently very influenced by Hvare Khshaetra, but as the daemon represents their person's unconscious in the original HDM Timaeus is more heavily influenced by HK than Olivia is by Mithras.

Given Mithras's background (which, as of the current chapter, hasn't been completely explored yet), Timaeus is actually less influenced by the sun than most daemons would be, but that's because of his link to Olivia (and therefore Mithras) and not because daemons are less resistant to the sun. Most daemons will burn up in the presence of sunlight. While the daemons of Cainites can freely leave the sides of their Cainite, if either of them are confronted by sunlight, both of them will burn. They might be relatively independent of each other compared to humans with their daemons, but there still is a link between them, even if it's not nearly as significant as the human/daemon connection.

So basically... even if you haven't seen your daemon in two hundred years because they fucked off and ditched you when you were a neonate, they end up in a patch of sun, you both dead.

Do vamp daemons have Disciplines?

Yup! As per above -- they share the same Disciplines. Obviously a fanfic isn't the TTRPG, but if one burns Blood during a rouse check, they both gain a hunger point, and are both sated by one of them feeding.

Can tzmisce ones vicissitude? Pretend I can spell that. Or just not settle on a form only.

If their master has Vicissitude, the Daemon can use it as well. Tzimisce daemons never resettle after Embrace, but if a non-Tzimisce daemon has access to Vicissitude, they can change their form at will. Unlike Tzimisce daemons, however, they still have a "default" form.

If they leave their shitty attitude vamp, are the vamp still in danger if their daemon is killed or is it like severing almost, (just no dead daemon.)

So it's somewhat like the severing in that they can wander far from their masters and their masters won't know where they are (beyond maybe a vague sense of direction, if the abandonment is recent), but if one is destroyed the other goes with them.

With sullivan (and trans people in general)- does the daemon consider themselves trans or just sullivan/their person only?

This is probably a question better for Philip Pullman, but in my particular continuity some daemons can be trans like their master, but others aren't even if their master is. Sullivan's daemon, Molly, is basically cis. Sullivan does not identify as female and transitioned to male, but Molly has always been female.

I personally headcanon that same sex daemons can cause assumptions, in the modern era with our queer civil rights movements and numerous bigots, that their master is queer in some way, but that doesn't mean it's actually true. In Philip Pullman's continuity there's just no explanation as to why some daemons are same sex, and I adhere to that. Sullivan's daemon was same sex and he turned out to be trans, but I also have another OC (Frida) whose daemon was same sex, but she wasn't queer (beyond perhaps being on the asexual spectrum), her daemon just happened to be female.

What's caine's daemon? Or is that debated by many.

Not something I've put thought into -- either it's in the Bible as to what his daemon is (and given he almost certainly has Vicissitude his daemon can probably take whatever form she wants), or it's not and it's hotly debated.

Also Calebros, Cock Robin, and Gerard rafins ones? Sorry I love nos

Honestly have not thought that far ahead. Wendy's is a white ferret called Sammie, and Kaiser's is a burrowing owl, but I haven't thought about the other Nos.

Are werewolves (if real) wolf daemons or can be any? Laughing at raging werewolf crinos and their angry pomeranian daemon.

Haven't put that much thought into it tho I agree a pomeranian daemon standing by while their crinos master wrecks shit is hilarious.

phoenix daemons sound really magical. Is their a masquerade in your au. As it's quite fantastical anyway. Or are Kindred still at risk of hunters?

Yep, there's still a Masquerade, and daemons can either complicate it or simplify it depending on circumstances. Imagine being a young Neonate who's just been Embraced and you run into someone you knew when you were alive -- maybe you can pull off a "yeah I totally haven't aged in fifteen years", but it's a lot harder to explain your daemon suddenly taking another form.

Can you ghoul or protein form into an armoured bear?

Do you mean the Tzimisce warform? Have not put any thought into it so can't answer at this point in time.

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Just posted this to Ao3, as an addendum to the latest chapter of Divine Intervention:

Update 17/10/24 - Apologies for the delay in uploading the final chapters. I'm REALLY not happy with them and need to give them an overhaul, but got distracted by a mental health spiral which turned out to be due to alcoholism... I feel a lot better now after quitting drinking, but I am only just putting my shit back together now.

I'm seriously cutting back my work hours starting November (the same job that triggered the alcoholism; I wanted to make sure it stuck). While Veilguard will probably eat my free time for breakfast, I'll be back to writing in November and Mithfic will be the first thing I get to. I'll post another update on how it's going by December at the latest.

Thanks to everyone for their patience and encouragement. :)

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Hi friend! This is random, but I accidentally recreated this Sascha Vykos and Rose d'Eleanor interaction in real life: https://robotslenderman.blog/post/638353858821816320/sascha-several-nights-later-while-fishing-for-a My cousin showed me a cosplay of an anatomically accurate anime girl (the body horror kind) and I did Rose's "Ohhhhhh, it's gorgeous ~ ! They must have worked so hard on it!" My cousin was derailed and flattered that I was not horrified and instead complimentary and polite. Reviewing the interaction later, I realized I'd imitated your OC, hahahaha. I couldn't NOT tell you! I hope your today's going well and best of luck with Mithfic edits! :D

Bahahaha that's brilliant :D

Mithfic is a little delayed rn - I am NOT happy at all with the current ending so I'm going to rework it but have. like. no idea. how to start lol. Sorry for the delay!

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Rowan had his limbs back.

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Reading your new chapter and the names are all jumbling up in my head.

Who is aredvi? Is it Mithras original demon? Or Olivia's original? Or even the phoenix daemon.

I know hvrare is mithras current demon in the firm of a manul cat.

That Olivia is now a cat called Timaeus.

But I forget the name of Mithra's original moth. Or Olivia's original Butterfly.

I know Hwisparian was a raven and now an owl. Ironic as owls are not that smart. Instead a myth due to association with Athena. Yet corvids are the most intelligent bird.

Out of curiosity what were the when they were human daemons of Mithras and Olivia.

My mind can't keep track :(

Aredvi = Mithras's original daemon

Hvare = same daemon, but post-diablerie, infused with another daemon.

Timaeus = Olivia's cat daemon

Timaeus = also the butterfly daemon, when Olivia was alive.

Aredvi was a rhinoceros beetle when they were alive. Yeet!

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Am v pleased that every time Mithras or Roger fuck shit up @orodrethsgeek is like “that’s hot”

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Scene I will be sad to delete from Mithfic: the bit where Wendy freaks out because Adelaide Davis broke into Thomas Arturo's high rise apartment and reflexively frisbees a laptop at her, but misses so badly the laptop shoots through the windows and catches air and is never seen again.

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*Vibrates* Nearly halfway through the Mithfic edit!