#Northern California goth

[nugothrhythms]

"Blue" by Sacramento, California-based darkwave act Creux Lies off of a 2020 double release

[hiraeth-arcane]

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[philthy-daddy]

Day 1 of trying to found my fellow kinky pervs in Northern California !!

[charlies-a-ghost]

hi nerds intro posts

im a strange man from the woods here to partake in some henious activity and make bad art

witchcraft practitioner

based in northern california

certified cryptid

I like writing (poetry, short stories, music, novellas), reading (dystopian, horror, graphic novels, comic books, victorian gothic, sci-fi), acting, fencing, archery, art (mixed medias, i do a bit of literally everything), foraging, punk diy, taxidermy, dissection, astrophysics, jewlery making, crochet, I speak french and ASL, i have 5 cats and a dog and a lot of shiny rocks i collect, I play mainly electric and acoustic guitar, but also bass, piano, cello, ukulele and kalimba. I have synesthesia as well as a plethora of issues like severe anxiety disorder, depressive disorder, autism, adhd, POTs, PCOS and hashimotos disease I can NOT catch a break. puppy punk but i like to involve myself in a plethora of subcultures so also goth and emo

bands: my chemical romance, beastie boys, maneskin, ghost, nirvana, ac/dc, fall out boy, pencey prep, green day, peirce the veil, the ramones, the smashing pumpkins, the smiths, the talking heads, the linda lindas, the strokes, car seat headrest, pixies, the front bottoms, sir chloe, leathermouth, gerard way, the cure, david bowie, opal in sky, freddie mercury, queen, frank iero, siouxsie and the banshees, nine inch nails, sisters of mercy, bauhaus, mindless self indulgence, lemon demon, will wood, gorillaz, ayesha erotica, mitski, jazz emu, tom cardy, joan jett and the black hearts, jack stauber, dead kennedys, christian death, black flag, weezer, black sabbath, metallica, blink-182, iggy pop, i set my friends on fire, she wants revenge, like moths to flames, misfits, ozzy ozbourne, the cramps, skindred, social distortion, dresden dolls, the killers, the peggie's, the runaways, the taxpayers, the used, yaelokre

books: the ash house, scythe, Frankenstein, edgar Allen Poe, ready player one, do androids dream of electric sheep, carry on, 1984, the hobbit, lord of the rings, James herriot, renegades, lockdown, diary of Anne Frank, the true lives of the fabulous killjoys, umbrella academy, paranoid gardens, animal farm, handmaidens tale, the right stuff, maze runner, the giver, fahrenheit 451, brace new world, hatchet, the poison thread, the ruins, the watchers, nimona, dracula, interview with a vampire

musicals: beetlejuice, mean girls, hamilton, heathers, ride the cyclone, six, le mis, little shop of horrors, phantom of the opera, newsies

tv shows, movies and video games: saw, silence of the lambs, a quiet place, midsommar, nimona, the owl house, the umbrella academy, young royals, little nightmares, omori, detention, room of old sins, mechanarium, cozy grove, animal crossing, inside, squid game, the platform, bird box, Alice in borderland, girl from nowhere, breaking bad, demon slayer, death note, black butler, don’t hug me I’m scared, seven deadly sins, the promised neverland, the amazing world of gumball, adventure time, Minecraft, legends of Zelda, fnaf, Fiona and cake, gravity falls, more I’m forgetting

[crazyworldofemmamarie]

Day 6 of Rammstein's Countdown to Halloween

Tonight, it's The Lost Boys (1987, dir. Joel Schumacher)

Brothers Michael (Jason Patric) and Sam (Corey Haim) move with their mother (Dianne Wiest) to a small town in northern California and while finding ways to fit it, Michael becomes friends with a gang of vampires.

Okay, where to start, we have hot 80s vampires, an incredible soundtrack, amazing clothes and a young Kiefer Sutherland. Perfect recipe for a vampire flick

And I was a goth child actually, my mom was a total goth punk who was in love with vampire stories; so I ended up seeing a lot of those flicks, all the Dracula's, Let the Right One In, Interview with the Vampire and more. Now, other than 1992' s Bram Stoker 's Dracula this 80s picture is probably one of my all time favourites.

I really do enjoy the soundtrack of this film and how it works so well with the plot and to add to to the story it is so fresh and creative and the way these vampires are portrayed just really well thought out and I feel when it comes to 'angsty, rebellious teen vampires' this is definitely the way to do it.

The combination of action, comedy and horror is perfect, the acting is superb and again, the costuming is just through the roof and honestly my top favourite thing about the movie.

Highly highly recommend.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.3 (before 1950)

2457 BC – Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day. 52 BC – Gallic Wars: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia. 42 BC – Liberators' civil war: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight to a draw Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius in the first part of the Battle of Philippi, where Cassius commits suicide believing the battle is lost. 382 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans. 1392 – Muhammed VII becomes the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada. 1574 – The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen. 1683 – Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang receives the surrender of the Tungning kingdom on Taiwan after the Battle of Penghu. 1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor. 1739 – The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia ending the Russian–Turkish War. 1789 – George Washington proclaims Thursday November 26, 1789 a Thanksgiving Day. 1792 – A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile. 1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. 1873 – Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California. 1912 – U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill. 1918 – Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne. 1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a World Series. 1929 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I. 1932 – The Kingdom of Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom. 1935 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia. 1942 – A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude. 1943 – World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lingiades, Greece. 1946 – An American Overseas Airlines Douglas DC-4 crashes near Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, killing 39. 1949 – WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.

[mixotrophics]

i was tagged by @mountainmoth to share 10 songs, like an eon ago, my wifi was Broken and then my computer Broke so its been a proper saga here. so im gonna finally cough up some songs, not in any particular order.

[funk] Opus Kink is refreshing in that the first song i heard of theirs I was like, this from the 80s or smthing? anyways no they're from Now and the song i heard was from 2022. Its like O.G. goth adjacent Funk, and im always up for some brass instruments

2. [metal] i recently saw Nekrogoblikon and Aether Realm together at a gig and i got injured, a lot, and so did my friends, and maybe almost died? Anyways it was great and exactly what i hoped for. so they get a song on here

3. [metal] I didn't know Aether Realm before the gig w/ Nekrogoblikon but they were so good i was yellin. My friend managed to get an autographed set list from em. i love it when metal mixes with other genres, Aether Realm is country metal, and RVFH (which they opened with) exemplifies that

4. [punk] gotta show off a smaller & more local band Ive seen. SNASH is a great bit of angry fucking punk from glasgow

5. [electronic / metal] i did say I liked it when metal mixed w/ other genres right. anyways this takes me back to the days of listening to the Falkkone intense symphonic metal covers of soulsborne songs.

6. [psychedelia] this one's just so groovy n chill and has a good beat. I can't say ive listened to the Gaslamp Killer much, i found this song thru the Heliocentrics, which generally do nice psychedelia and reggae-esque stuff. but in any case its def one of my fav chiller songs, and just look at that album cover, mmmwaH

7. [?????????] ok so i enjoy brass instruments, as mentioned before. And Mr Bungle kind of. "Commencing in 1985 as a neck-snapping death metal outfit, the Northern Californians underwent a full sonic lobotomy in the '90s, operating under the influence of ska, heavy metal, disco, thrash, funk, and avant-garde jazz (often in the same song)" according to spotify and. yeah yep thats. yeah. Im not a huge fan of All their stuff, but the California album is great and varied and full of bangers of different appeals

8. [metal] ok this is a LONG FCKING SONG but this song is, about the K-T/K-Pg extinction, from the perspective of the dinosaurs living thru it. and even better, this band (The Ocean) basically just does metal music thats inspired by paleontology and astronomy and biology it's great.

9. [grindcore] yeah this song makes my ADHD brain go brrr. Igorrr is definitely in the Fav Artists Of All Time sphere for me, they just keep hitting. this song is a great taster for igorrr's stuff

10. [??? idk] this my fav song.

[nugothrhythms]

"Hueso a Piel" by Oakland, California-based post-punk act Nuevo Cuerpo, a solo project by Andres Ruiz of False Figure and Adrenochrome, off of the self-titled 2024 debut EP, provided by Oakland indie label Transylvanian Recordings

[kiweetree]

resting places

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@kiweetree / zroe.zroe

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

so we've talked about southern gothic but what about northern gothic? is that a thing?

There wasn’t so we invented one!

Southern gothic is a conventional literary genre, but northern gothic fiction would just get encapsulated in the overall Gothic genre. BUT. Tumblr made a meme. Because of course we did. It’s here: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/regional-gothic.

So far I’ve found Midwest Gothic: here here and here

Southern California Gothic, which is  popular (because of fucking course): here here here here and fuckin here

Northern England Gothic: here and here and here

not to mention chucklefucking Alaskan Gothic: really? i mean really?? fuck you. fuck you alaska.

And fuck me there’s even Gothic subgenres for cities that shouldn’t exist in the first place. Kansas City. Minneapolis. Small town Michigan Gothic?? Toronto? Yeah fucking Toronto.

In fact, there’s assorted Canada Gothic? There’s  so much hell-forsaken Canada Gothic, too fuckin much. 

International Gothic? Fuck this. There’s So Much Australian Gothic. There’s Finland Gothic. There is so much more and I want nothing to do with it.

But the worse, the absolute worse of the whole satan-forsaken toxic hellpile: Ohio Gothic. I hate Ohio. I am. from. Ohio. I was born there. One day I will die there. I fear Ohio. Because in Ohio: “Holes in the sidewalk. Holes on the street. Holes on the freeway. Holes in your mind.” And Ohioans know: HELL IS REAL.

[ineffableandirrevocable]

more information: my tuesday night

he's into me i just gotta keep it up but i'll get him

twilight not only made me into the goth i am today but it also made me so desperate for a vampire boyfriend that i am literally seducing one of the member of bauhaus

[seemslegitflapjacks]

Another AU

WARNING! This contains mentions of things such as sa, abuse, violence, blood, and murder. Please put your mental safety above reading this.

These events occur in the year 2006.

The setting is in a made up town ins Northern California called Redwood that borders Oregon.

Jeff has lived here for a while, since first grade.

Met Randy in third grade and they became friends with on another.

They were very close in their younger years, and Randy would often stay over with Jeff. It was like he was a third child to the Wood’s family.

Troy and Keith would later tag along, and Liu would occasionally hang out with them as well.

At this time they’re in their senior year of highschool.

Randy begins to experience very obsessive feelings for Jeff

Keith and Jeff started secretly going out with one another. Jeff kept it a secret for his reputation, since he was popular among the student body and participated in soccer and cheer. Keith understood this, since people didn’t like his goth style of dressing. They made it work.

Not too long after Randy would put two and two together and realize what was happening between his crush and friend.

Jeff is well known for throwing tailgate parties, ones that include underage drinking, alcohol supplied by his father who in his words “I don’t give a shit iff you drink just do it on the property.”

Randy attempts to make moves on Jeff, clearly way too drunk.

He shoved Jeff into the side of his ruck and forcefully made out with him.

In a panic Jeff broke the beer bottle he was holding onto and threatened him, saying; “Get the fuck out of my tailgate before I turn your eyes into bloody kaleidoscopes!”

That was enough to scare Randy off and make Jeff chase the other party goers off his land. Jeff would later drunkenly tell Keith what had happened over the phone in tears.

Keith was upset and went over to comfort his boyfriend and sober him up. In the morning Jeff had begged him not to tell anyone, since he was afraid of rumors and putting his scholarships in jeopardy.

Keith reluctantly agreed, even though he hated the fact Randy would legally get away with it.

Later on Keith would beat the snot out of Randy, but didn’t mention any of what he knew had happened.

That officially ended Randy’s friendship with Keith. However Jeff had never confronted him about what had happened at that tailgate.

That Christmas break Jeff stays home while his family goes out to a party. Randy lets himself in since he’s bored and is tired of being around his own family since he’s sidelined by his older brother, Adam.

They lounged around together despite Jeff’s discomfort and fear.

That night Randy had wound up having a few drinks as well.

He was tired of rejection, and the fact everyone seemed to overshadow him. He was slowly getting pissed as he reflected on the fact Jeff had kicked him to the side like his own family and even seemed to replace him in some ways.

He’d taken his friends, popularity, and respect. Not only that but he faced a very violent rejection and Jeff’s tailgate party when Randy attempted to get intimate with him.

Randy led Jeff’s dog, a large German shepherd named Cujo, to the upstairs bedroom and locked him in a bathroom.

Randy went back down to the kitchen where he faked a struggle and thrashed the back door open, alerting Jeff.

Jeff asked what happened, and Randy explained that Cujo had accidentally gotten out.

Reasonably pissed, Jeff shoves on some boots and runs outside to fetch his dog. He hadn’t checked to see that the snow was smooth, there were no paw prints.

Randy took his opening and grabbed the pocket knife from his jeans, running after Jeff. He tackled Jeff and began to stab him.

Jeff was left with over 26 stab wounds, and was also left with injuries likely made from blunt force cause by punching or kicking.

Not bothering to his the body or check if he was dead, Randy went to his car and drove off.

Jeff had managed the strength to try and crawl back.

His bloody handprints were found int the snow, Jeff had tried to clean his hands off before he reached the house.

Jeff didn’t make it to the driveway before he died.

His official cause of death was bloodloss.

The morning after when his family returned, Liu had been the on to find him.

Police were called, and Liu was left with the scarring image of his brothers bloody body in the snow.

Randy did get away with it, until he couldn’t take the guilt and turned himself in.

In the end Randy was charged with second degree murder and sexual battery.

He was sentenced to life in prison.

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 10.3

2457 BC – Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day. 52 BC – Gallic Wars: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia. 42 BC – Liberators' civil war: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight to a draw Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius in the first part of the Battle of Philippi, where Cassius commits suicide believing the battle is lost. 382 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans. 1392 – Muhammed VII becomes the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada. 1574 – The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen. 1683 – Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang receives the surrender of the Tungning kingdom on Taiwan after the Battle of Penghu. 1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor. 1739 – The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia ending the Russian–Turkish War. 1789 – George Washington proclaims Thursday November 26, 1789 a Thanksgiving Day. 1792 – A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile. 1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. 1873 – Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California. 1912 – U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill. 1918 – Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne. 1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a World Series. 1929 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I. 1932 – The Kingdom of Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom. 1935 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia. 1942 – A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude. 1943 – World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lingiades, Greece. 1946 – An American Overseas Airlines Douglas DC-4 crashes near Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, killing 39. 1949 – WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta. 1951 – Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops. 1952 – The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon in the Montebello Islands, Western Australia, to become the world's third nuclear power. 1957 – The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene. 1962 – Project Mercury: US astronaut Wally Schirra, in Sigma 7, is launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight. 1963 – A violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule. 1981 – The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths. 1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight, carrying two DSCS-III Satellites on STS-51-J. 1986 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened. 1989 – A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed. 1990 – The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day. 1991 – Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1993 – An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die. 1995 – O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. 2008 – The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush. 2009 – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.

[thenukacolachallenge]

OC Bio: Corona Nova

art by @negativesd09​!

TRIGGER WARNING FOR CHILD ABUSE, CSA, AND EMOTIONAL ABUSE IN A RELATIONSHIP, as well as series-typical violence!!!!

Full Name: Corona Nova

Alias(es): Siren(codename, work-related), Cora(nickname from friends), Coco(nickname from family and very close friends)

Age: 29

Place of Birth: California, US, Earthrealm

Birthday: November 14th

Species/Race: Earthrealmer, Caucasian

Languages: Greek(ancient dialect), English

Occupation: Head of Specialty Team at Tanaka Industries

Orientation/Sexuality: Cishet woman

Body Build: Dancerly/athletic

Height: 5′3″

Weight: 115lbs

Skin Color: Porcelain

Hair Style: Curly, waist-length

Hair Color: Silvery-white

Eye Color: Light brown

Body Modifications: Earlobe piercings

Preferred Clothing: Alternative, pastel goth, oversized comfortable sweaters and sweatpants. Her most common “look” is a black tank top with an open-button flannel shirt over it, and jeans with lots of holes and fishnets underneath.

Abilities: Shadow/darkness powers(come from a deity of vengeance named Zatounin, who is fused with Coco’s soul). Can grow wings, claws, and fangs; can also fully transform her body into his form for short periods of time. Can also teleport small distances.

Field of expertise: Stealth missions, offensive capabilities

Affiliations: Tanaka Industries(OC-owned company), Black Dragon(former)

Biography: Coco was born in the forests of Northern California to Orion and Celeste Nova. The couple were refugees from a small island in the Mediterranean Sea, hidden away by powerful magic. The island was called Andromede by its inhabitants, which were an offshoot of the cult that bred powerful warriors for the gods(the same cult that the Cage family’s ancestors were from). Instead of continuing the cult’s tradition of breeding and training powerful warriors for the Elder Gods, the small sect of the cult left said cult to worship a specific pantheon of deities, and were blessed by these gods, who gave them powers directly. The power was given through a direct ritual where the god was “drawn down” into the person’s body, briefly merging with their soul and imparting the power of their choice. Because of how dangerous this could be, this ritual was only done on those whose souls could withstand the merger, and therefore wasn’t done on anyone younger than the age of fifteen.

While Celeste was still pregnant with Cora, Shang Tsung and his forces assaulted the island, determined to take the Gods’ powers for his own. However, these powers did not extend to Shang Tsung as he took his first soul of Andromede’s people; in retaliation, he razed the island to the ground in anger. Celeste and Orion were one of a small handful who managed to escape, and they made their way to America after doing so.

Corona had a brief amount of time with both of her parents, learning how to live off the land and defend herself as well as learning her culture at a very young age, but sadly Orion passed protecting the family from bandits when Celeste was still pregnant with Callisto, Coco’s younger sister. Celeste passed when Calli was only a few years old, sending both the girls to a nearby orphanage. Before her passing, Celeste asked Coco to take good care of her younger sister, to keep her safe and give her a chance at a normal life, whatever that may be.

Cora and Calli spent a few years together at the orphanage, keeping away from the other children for the most part, since they were teased a lot for their naturally light hair and lack of knowledge of modern ways of life. However, when Corona was eleven and Calli was eight, a family decided to adopt the two. Coco could tell quite quickly this was not a beneficial arrangement, and managed to convince the family that Calli was not “worth” adopting, lying and saying that the girl was more trouble than she was worth. This deception broke Cora’s heart to do and absolutely devastated the soft-hearted Calli, but it worked; the family decided to adopt Corona alone, and the two were separated for the first time in their lives.

(TRIGGER WARNING FOR MENTIONS OF CHILD ABUSE AND CSA IN THE NEXT TWO PARAGRAPHS! PLEASE BE MINDFUL IF YOU ARE TRIGGERED BY SUCH THINGS!!!!)

The family that adopted Coco was the same family that adopted Izumi Tanaka after the housefire that killed her parents(that she caused, though nobody knew this). The father of the family was one of the members of Tanaka Industries board of representatives, Izumi’s family-owned company. The man was wicked and abusive, putting both of the girls through terrible abuses of many kinds. He had a particular type of abuse he enjoyed inflicting on Cora: he would starve her for days at a time, and when she was finally fed food, it would be unsuitable for eating(moldy, cleaning supplied added into the food etc). This would give her a lifelong trauma related to food.

One night after particularly harrowing abuse in which Izumi was sexually assaulted and Corona was being tortured via drowning(her face being pushed into a sink of water and held there), while her head was underwater, she prayed to her family’s gods for anyone to help save her and help her destroy the terrible man responsible for these deeds. She did not expect any answer, but her prayers were answered by a god of vengeance by the name of Zatounin. He merged with her soul, although she was not nearly old enough to safely do so, and took over her body while she was blacked out, violently murdering the man and the rest of the family(minus Izumi, who was merely a victim), who knew the abuse was happening, but did nothing to stop it.

When Coco came to, she awoke to blood around her and was terrified. Zatounin and Izumi herself managed to calm her down, with Izumi explaining she was already planning to murder the family, but with Cora’s actions having saved her the trouble. She stole some money from the family safe and gave it to Corona, telling her to run away and hide, explaining she would make up a story that a random assailant committed the murders and kidnapped Cora, to protect her. She also made a promise to the other girl, that once she was old enough, she would be in charge of her family’s company, and she would make sure that Coco would never want for anything again.

Coco left that night, and found that because of Zatounin’s interference before she was old enough to properly merge souls, his soul was now fused to hers. He would be with her forever now, until her dying breath, as her protector. She made her way back to the orphanage that she was sold from, and found that Calli was still there, being protected by another child: a quiet boy by the name of Sascha. She decided that Calli was safer there than on the run, on the streets with her, and so she spent the next few years homeless, becoming a thief and working odd jobs to survive.

When Cora was fifteen, she found that she was making enough money with multiple jobs(and fake IDs claiming her to be older than she was) to get a place of her own. In the dead of night, she came back to the orphanage for her sister, and they tearfully made up and reunited, with Calli leaving the orphanage to live with Corona, and Sascha coming as well. The trio lived a quiet life for many years, with Sascha and Coco working multiple jobs to keep food on the table to provide some sense of a normal life for Callisto, who attended school like a normal girl her age. During this time, Calli was able to perform the Drawing Down ritual at the correct time, receiving powers from a Goddess of protection by the name of Ahksana.

When Cora was nineteen years old, Izumi managed to find the girl, having become the CEO of her family’s company and ready to finally fulfill her promise. Coco began to work directly under Izumi, while still living with Calli until it was time for her to go off to college(which was all paid for by Izzy). She and Sascha became the heads of what Izumi called her Specialty Team, a group of assassins and “fixers” that weren’t known to the public at large but helped Izzy with sensitive missions to continue to gain power, money, and influence. Corona’s darkness powers were especially helpful for these missions, allowing her to quickly and stealthily neutralize her targets, though she did not and would not kill unless it was strictly necessary. She took the codename Siren, for her love of singing and her tendency to hum or sing constantly while working(she just genuinely likes to sing AND it freaks people out! win-win for her)

At one point, in Izzy and Coco’s early 20s, the CEO struck a private deal with the Black Dragon to take out an arms dealer that both companies were unhappy with. Cora was forced to work with a pre-burn Kabal, and the two ended up warming up to each other, with both of them developing feelings for each other. However, Kano ended up double-crossing Izumi, and Siren was forced to fight the entire Black Dragon trio on her own to prevent them from leaving Tanaka Industries with blueprints Kano had stolen. She managed to defeat Erron Black and Kabal(unhappily), but lost to Kano, with him tricking her into thinking she had won, and then surprise stabbing her when she approached him to retrieve the stolen documents. They were able to escape, and Corona was left with a large scar under her collarbone for her efforts.

When Coco was in her mid-twenties, she was able to take time off for her and Callisto to make a return to their ancestral home of Andromede. The two were shocked to discover there was still a small community there, lead by the lone remaining Elder of the village, a woman by the name of Astrid Rigel. Calli left a day before Cora did due to college obligations, and therefore did not meet Astrid’s adoptive son, a man by the name of Aten Vela. Corona and Aten connected quite quickly, and started a relationship soon after, with both promising to help restore Andromede to its former glory.

However, this was all deception on Aten’s part. The young man was secretly hoping to restore Andromede for his own selfish purposes, to become its ruler and eventually take over Shang Tsung’s mantle and power. He was also quite manipulative and emotionally abusive to Coco, forcing her to keep their relationship secret from everyone, including her family, and cheating on her almost the entire relationship. She found out about eight months into the relationship and it quickly dissolved, after catching Aten cheating and him gloating about how easy she was to manipulate. She snapped, beating the absolute snot out of him, with Zatounin eventually taking over and preparing to kill the man. Cora had to actively fight Zatounin’s control so he wouldn’t do so. She returned to Tanaka Industries, defeated and despondent.

A few months later, her friend Saiyaka took her and another friend by the name of Cash Black aside and told them something shocking: Siren’s ex, Aten Vela(under the codename Charon), was the one who had shot Cash twice in the head, nearly killing her. The three of them realized that he had to be stopped lest he actually kill innocent people, and in order to do so, Cash and Coco would have to temporarily stay at the Black Dragon headquarters. Because of this, Cora would gain the opportunity to reconnect with her old flame, a post-burn Kabal, as well as challenge Kano to a fair(er) fight, to restore her lost honor.

Personality: Corona is a very closed-off individual due to her rocky upringing. She is very wary of strangers, choosing to not speak often in front of them, as well as wearing a face mask around them. She comes across as rude, grumpy and uncaring because of this, but that is more of her walls, than the real her. Once Coco gets to know someone, she is very kind, always wanting to help them and take care of them in whatever way she can. She is also a very active person, loving to sing and dance, as well as enjoying things like yoga and roller derby, though she doesn’t have time for the latter as much as she’d like. She tends to be quite emotional as well, angering easily and being prone to crying at the drop of the hat. For all her barriers to keep others out, she’s also a terrible liar and unable to hide her true emotions.

Tropes:

Be Careful What You Wish For: For the longest time, Coco dreamed of returning to Andromede, falling in love with someone there, and rebuilding her ancestral homeland. Her time with Aten and Astrid showed her that was largely a pipe dream.

Beneath the Mask: It takes Coco a while to get used to people she doesn’t know, and she puts on a decent front of pretending to not care about others on the surface. Once someone gets past that, it quickly becomes obvious that she’s a kind and caring individual, even though she has an odd way of showing it at times.

Bad Liar: Sucks ass at lying. Becomes very obviously uncomfortable when trying to do so. Especially clear when she’s trying to lie about her feelings for others(namely Kabal), as her face turns bright red and she attempts to “hide” behind her wild mass of curls.

Bad Powers, Good People: Coco is skilled at hand-to-hand combat all on her own, but the majority of her strength comes with being fused with a god of vengeance. This manifests in shadow/darkness powers. Despite all that and Coco’s icy exterior, she is committed to doing right by people where she can, and showing kindness to others who need it.

Berserk Button: Do NOT threaten her little sister if you feel like keeping all your limbs. Threatening Sascha and Izzy will enrage her as well, but Calli is her number one Berserk Button.

Dark and Troubled Past: She went through absolute hell as a child, and much of her teens and young adulthood was spent making sure Callisto didn’t have to go through similar things, and could live a normal life.

Defrosting Ice Queen: If you’re not a shitty person, and you spend enough time around her, you’ll witness this in real time.

Doomed Hometown: Coco’s ancestral hometown of Andromede is destroyed by Shang Tsung prior to her birth. She grows up with a dream to return and bring the town back to its former glory, but her time with Aten crushes that dream, and speaking further with Astrid(the remaining town Elder) confirms that there just aren’t enough of their people for this to ever truly happen.

Elective Mute: Chooses to speak as little as possible around people she’s unfamiliar with. This is largely for two reasons: 1), as a way to protect her family, specifically Callisto(the less she speaks the less she can accidentally let slip she has a little sister that can be used against her), and 2) as a means of intimidation toward others. Is actually quite the chatterbox once one gets to know her.

Hurting Hero: Coco is the type of person to do the right thing simply because it is the right thing to do. She and Izzy frequently butt heads about this, and it results in Siren not running certain missions for Izzy because they are not morally on the up-and-up. She is also an angst factory.

I Just Want To Be Normal: She never wanted to have her soul fused with an ancient vengeance deity, nor go through all she went through. As much as she loves her younger sister, she is more than a little jealous that Calli had a chance at living a normal life than she did(especially when Calli becomes an Earthrealm defender, which Coco initially sees as throwing that life away).

Love Martyr: During her and Aten’s relationship. She tries her hardest to show him that being kind is its own reward. He returns the favor by completely breaking her heart and ruining her trust in others even further.

Pintsized Powerhouse: Coco stands at a very short 5′3″. She was also able to take out 2/3rds of the Black Dragon trio on her own, and might have taken out all three of them if Kano had played fair.

Terror Hero: She absolutely leans into her darkness powers and stony personality to scare her enemies and break down their defenses. If she can defeat a foe through scaring the shit out of them, as opposed to having to kill them, she will happily do so. Unless they’re a threat to others, of course, but she doesn’t like to kill regardless.

The Cowl: Spent her homeless years as this, defending innocent people with Zatounin’s powers and teleporting away before anyone could spot her.

Knight In Sour Armor: Coco is very prone to cynicism and constantly seeing the negative in any situation. Despite all that, she still always strives to do what’s most beneficial and “morally right” for everyone, specifically because it is the right thing to do. When she and Kabal finally get together, most of their disputes come from her disapproving of his more callous behavior as a mercenary.

People of Hair Color: Everyone from the island of Andromede sports silvery-white hair, Coco included.

Secret Relationship: First with Aten, as he didn’t want her to tell anyone(specifically so it’d be easier to manipulate and abuse her). Then again with Kabal, though this was agreed upon by both of them, and only extends to those they work with, specifically to keep Kano from using that information against them.

Racial Remnant: Not “racial” per se, as the people of Andromede are made of many races, but it still partially fits. Coco is the daughter of refugees, and didn’t get to visit her homeland of Andromede until her mid-twenties. By the time she’s able to return, there’s only a small fraction of people left, with those left unable to really repopulate their ancestral homeland. It leaves her with a bittersweet feeling, after decades of dreaming about a place where she might finally belong.

Vengeance Feels Empty: Coco eventually helps Cash enact her vengeance on Aten, and keeps him from hurting any more people. It doesn’t make her feel better at all about what happened between them, and being an accessory and witness to his death genuinely distresses her.

When She Smiles: She doesn’t smile often, and when she does, she usually covers her mouth with her hand to hide it. Kabal really wishes she wouldn’t, as he’s seen her real smile before and it’s one of his favorite things.

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Chelsea Wolfe Interview / Cover Story // Revolver

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Chelsea Wolfe has escaped into the woods and she's not about to come back. You'll find the singer-guitarist in the mountains of Northern California, hours from her Sacramento hometown, where the closest she gets to city life is in some tiny, ancient hamlets left behind from the Gold Rush days.

It's quiet up there, which might help explain the acoustic direction of her next album, a mostly solo project she's been writing and recording in her living room, her garage, wherever there's space to dig into Wolfe's new songs that are both intimate and biting, delicate and fierce. As an artist, she was already hard to pin down, with elements of folk, goth, post-punk, industrial, metal and more woven deep into her grooves. "I move in extremes, hot or cold," she says. "I tend to combine those two things at all times."

The still-untitled album is a left turn from the explosive rock guitars that dominated 2017's acclaimed Hiss Spun, with its churning songs of white noise and epic melodies. This year, she returns to her core inspirations, and the playlist Wolfe is spinning on infinite loop are recordings by Townes Van Zandt and Neurosis, Johnny Cash and David Bowie, disparate songwriters who cut deep. That makes the new album a kind of follow-up to her smoldering 2012 release Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs, which gathered leftover folk tunes of a certain understated volume that hadn't fit on her other albums.

This one is different in that Wolfe is building this collection from the ground up, intentionally working within her own version of folk on songs written over the last year. She has longtime collaborator Ben Chisholm co-producing and engineering, and occasional guest players to add subtle layers of sound, including drummer Jess Gowrie. But she is determined to make this a solo project as raw and as cooked as the early country music and folk she heard growing up, with a modern message suited to the moment.

With Hiss Spun, her following only grew wider, and she's seeing fans with her lyrics tattooed to their skin. Wolfe is responding with new songs that both embrace and challenge, exploring the trials and triumphs of feminism, present and past, within an ever-changing world order that she's encouraged to see has a new wave of women rising to power in the U.S. Congress.

"I just follow my instincts and I follow all the strange and different voices that live inside me and I don't hold them back," says Wolfe, "especially not anymore."

photograph by John Crawford

YOUR LAST ALBUM, HISS SPUN, HAD A LOT OF EXPLOSIVE GUITAR MOMENTS. IS THIS ACOUSTIC RECORD A REACTION AWAY FROM THAT? CHELSEA WOLFE Honestly, I didn't know exactly what I was going to do next. I was so completely enveloped and focused on doing that record. And it was cathartic for me. That record felt very internal, but very explosive, as well, letting a lot of things out I hadn't thought about or talked about before. Maybe the natural reaction to that is to retreat into the wilderness and just write a really quiet album. It's introspective, but it's also about the history of women and what we've gone through over these years and how a lot has changed, a lot hasn't changed.

IS THAT INSPIRED BY RECENT EVENTS IN THE WORLD? I'm sure it is. Part of it has to do with just being a woman and getting older and understanding things more and just feeling that really visceral reaction to the way women are treated and seeing it on the daily in our society and on the news.

THIS ISN'T YOUR FIRST ACOUSTIC PROJECT. DO YOU GET A DIFFERENT FEELING ONSTAGE WHEN YOU'RE ALONE VERSUS BEING WITH A BAND AND HAVING AN ELECTRIC GUITAR IN YOUR HANDS? I haven't done shows by myself onstage in a really long time and it's not so easy for me. It's definitely more comfortable to have your band with you and to be able to lose yourself in all these sounds and things that you're creating together. But I also feel really ready and excited to do that, even though it's scary. I like to push myself into new territories musically and physically. Heavy music can be really intimate, and solo can be very intimate. So in a way it's the same thing, being up there and baring your soul for people.

HOW IS THE NEW RECORD BEING MADE? I'm recording it at home. Originally, I really wanted to do everything myself. Sometimes as a female artist, if one man is involved with one little thing on your record, they end up getting a lot more credit for it. I was being a little defensive at first. But as I started approaching it, I felt like that was actually a very lonely way of doing things and it didn't sound like much fun. So I decided to involve Ben, and he's helping engineer it so that I can just focus on recording the parts and not having to run back and forth to the board or computer.

I really wanted to play every song just with me and an acoustic guitar. That was important for me. So they all started in that way. We might add some electric guitar, or some kind of electronic beats to it.

I sat down with Ben and that really helped me finish everything — we would talk about a song and then I would run upstairs to my writing room and suddenly have all these lyrics that finished a song.

HOW ARE THE NEW SONGS RELATED TO SOME OF THE QUIETER MOMENTS ON HISS SPUN? I think it's different. I did Unknown Rooms, which was a compilation of a lot of acoustic songs I'd written over the years. They were just written with the idea of playing them as a solo artist in mind. I think every record definitely is going to have some heavy moments and some soft moments. Abyss had "Crazy Love" and Hiss Spun had "Two Spirit." It's just part of me to oscillate between the two.

CAN YOU TELL ME ABOUT ONE OF THE SONGS? One is called "Be All Things." It's very introspective and it's very triumphant. Conceptually, it's about a Victorian-era woman who is a maiden but very much wants to be a warrior — and just thinking about nature and environmentalism and how long that has been a problem and how we're trying to make changes but still we're just destroying the earth. Just when it seems like something's changing, it just gets worse. I think my music in general represents the soft and the strong, embracing the feminine and masculine of myself. This album is very much along the theme of that dichotomy. And I think a lot of people can relate to that, as well, whether it's a man or woman, a non-gender-specific person. I think a lot of people are starting to embrace that about themselves, the soft and strong, and then really finding that empowering.

DID THAT COME AS A REACTION TO SOMETHING? It's a bit of a reaction, but it's also just something that's really been a part of me for a long time. I'm not just one thing. You can't really put me or my music into a box. Sometimes that's frustrating for me because I think maybe it holds me back in a way, but then sometimes I think that is why I've been able to do what I do and why I have any kind of success as an artist and a musician. I'm saying in the song: "I want to be all things." I don't want to be held back anymore and I don't want to feel like I need to quiet my voice. I just want to be who I am and be free.

IT SEEMS LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE FEEL THAT WAY. JUST LOOK AT HOW MANY WOMEN WERE RECENTLY ELECTED TO CONGRESS. Exactly. It's amazing. And I think it's very indicative of this time and more and more women and non-gender-specific people are really starting to speak up for themselves and let go of the fear of that. So that's definitely a strong theme with this new album.

HOW HAVE YOU EVOLVED AS A LYRICIST SINCE YOUR FIRST RECORDS? I'm a much better writer and I'm taking the time to really make sure I'm saying the right thing. As a younger artist, I would just write a song and then that was it. I never really went back and fixed up the lyrics or changed a word if I didn't like it. I love words and I love reading and I love thinking about language and how to make something sound the best way but also infuse a lot of meaning into even just a short phrase. On this new album, I'm using some archaic language to talk about new things.

HOW ARE YOU USING ARCHAIC LANGUAGE? I was spending some time with my great-grandmother before she died and I would often write down a word here and there that you don't hear anymore. Jess is very much like that, too. She was raised by her grandparents, so she has a lot of cute old phrases that she says that you don't hear very often. There's a moment [on the record] with the word "daylight plumed my skin." That's something I've probably read in some old poetry books. It's something sensual, and I'm always trying to bring sensuality into language and keeping that alive because I feel like sometimes that is a dying art.

ASIDE FROM YOUR OWN TOURS OVER THE LAST YEAR, YOU DID TOURS WITH MINISTRY AND A PERFECT CIRCLE. HOW DID THAT GO? I'm such a big fan of Ministry and they're really great — but I don't think their audience was as open as I thought they might be. So it was a little bit tough if I'm honest. I got really aggro on the Ministry tours because sometimes it felt like their audience was just looking at us with disgust. Not all of them. Of course, there were some really nice people that wanted to be open to it. It ended up being fun and it brings you and your band closer together, too. I just took it as another learning experience.

Al [Jourgensen] was so great and he would invite us onto his bus after the show and just talk about music and stuff for a long time. We would overhear him describing us to other people, talking about me and Jess: "They're women and they're angry and they're making good music!" It was really cute.

A Perfect Circle was very different. Their audience was a lot more accepting of us for some reason. Definitely bigger venues than I've ever played. I have a long way to go in knowing how to work a room of 8,000 people because that's totally different than what I'm used to be playing. Maynard actually invited us out to his winery. We got to experience his wine and homegrown vegetables and stuff. It was really cool.

YOUR FANS SEEM WILLING TO FOLLOW YOU THROUGH YOUR SHIFTS IN TONE. AND NOBODY REALLY KNOWS WHAT THEY LIKE UNTIL THEY SEE OR HEAR IT. That's true. And I think it makes you a better artist when you do things that people aren't expecting. It's like when I heard Black Sabbath doing the song "Changes" the first time — after hearing all their other heavy music. Them doing something so touching and intimate helped me understand the freedom to just sing whatever song is calling to you.