#Odette tag

[gilfodile]

she misses her wife i mean rival

[who-scrambled-my-ocs]

“Huh? What are you doing up?”

Her question is a mumble, body feeling heavy under the covers, and her arm felt made of lead with how she struggles to raise it to her eyes “Weren’t you dreaming?”

Dark brown eyes look at her from where they were sitting staring at her from the edge of her bed, silently watching her struggle to rub her eyes

“We are having a nightmare”

“Huh? Who-“ she struggles to raise her head to look around “Okay, hold on” Sia forces as much willpower as she can into moving her limbs, leaden and slow and struggling to obey her wishes from the dead sleep she’d ��woken’ from

It’s as the covers fall off her shoulders onto her lap that she realizes just how freezing cold the space was

How cold she was

“Oh. It’s me” she breathes out with a shiver, breath fogging out with every word as she rubs her arms, shaking in a full body shiver as flakes of snow slowly trail down around them

Brown eyes silently watches them fall down, holding out a small hand to catch one in their small palm

“It’s white” Odette states, glancing once between Sia and her own palm at the melting flake “Why is it white?”

“It’s always been white. It’s frozen water” Sia chatters, still rubbing her arms “It’s snow”

“Hmm” Odette hums, watching the flake turn to water, and looking around the rest of the snowfall covering the ground

“Mine were black, kinda. They didn’t taste very nice. Also they weren’t really cold” she sticks her tongue out in a grimace, shaking her hand rapidly to try and dry it off as Sia chuckles

“Yeah? I guess we’re pretty good at making the black snow” she snorts, rolling her eyes at herself at the darker humor

She shivers again, glancing at her own younger self as the wind bites at her skin “H-hey wanna build a mini fort with me?” She near chatters through her teeth, gesturing at the thick blanket on her lap

It was blue and grey, woven from to ends to the middle, different hands and different levels of skill having worked together to make this gift for her

It was warm as she held it up, waiting for Odette to climb under it with her, and using her own head as a support as she sat up underneath it, keeping it raised above her younger self

“Now what?”

“Now what?”

“I dunno. You wanted to make the fort” Odette huffs, rolling her small eyes as Sia snorts, still shivering a little

Her face and shoulders still felt frozen, but underneath this blanket she couldn’t feel the nipping wind anymore, and the snowfall was kept at bay outside of it for now

“I dunno. I guess we could play a game”

“In here? We can’t even run around” Odette huffs again, making Sia laugh this time

“I really am snarky as fuck”

“You said a bad word!”

“You gonna tattle on me?”

“Uh yeah” Odette says without missing a beat, pulling out a notepad out of a nonexistent pocket “You have to tell Green!”

Sia laughs, feeling the warmth of it in her stomach “Why would I tell Green?”

“You have to! It’s the rules!” Odette exclaims, shaking the fist holding a purple crayon “He has-he has the swear jar! And when it’s full euhm, he gets to go somewhere”

“Oh?” Sia hums, smiling bemused as she tries to ‘remember’ the moment “Only him?”

“Yeah. But we get to-to help supervise and take notes of the euhm, location for the future” Odette hums, scribbling rapidly on her notepad and carefully ripping the page out while Sia tries her best to stifle her snickers, laughing with her hands held up as Odette turns to glare at her

“We have to tell him! Promise me we will tell him! Promise!” Odette declares loudly while holding the page insistently by Sia’s head as she tries to placate Odie with her hands

“Okay okay! I promise” she giggles, accepting the page with a fond and bemused smile “I promise I’ll tell him, scouts honor” she repeats, glancing at the page fondly before tucking it in a nonexistent pocket above her chest

The spot glows for a moment, feeling warm as she lowers her hands back down while watching Odette fiddle with her notepad “How about we play a drawing game?”

“Huh? A drawing game?” Odette questions as she looks up, watching Sia nod and giving her the notepad as she gestures with her hand

“Yeah. It’ll be like-like a story. I draw one thing, and you draw another thing, and we’ll keep drawing a part of something until it becomes a whole story” she says, holding a blue crayon in hand as she carefully draws a bird onto the page, offering the notepad back to Odette

Scrunching her small face into a frown of concentration, Odette adds a hat onto the bird, along with a fancy staff, before pushing the page back to Sia “They’re a witch”

“Oh yeah? Well then they’ll need a cool book-“

“A notepad!” Odette says quickly, looking closely as Sia adds a notepad with a chuckle “And-and a magic brush”

“Maybe their staff can be a brush?”

“Yes! Yes yes and euhm they’re friends with a yellow bee-“ Odette rattles on, chattering as midst turns of drawing onto the page, detailing animatedly about every detail Sia too had to add on as they both make up a tale together

The cold memory still raced around them, the wind still whistling, the snow still bitter cold, but it was a little easier to burden underneath a warm blanket and crayon smells rubbed on paper

She thinks it’s nearly morning when they finish their tale, holding a heavily yawning Odette against her shoulder as she lays down her purple smudged, blue crayon

“I’m gonna tell Green about our story too”

“And-and Yellow?” Odette mumbles, nearly asleep “And-and, euhm-“

“And Yellow. And Blue, and Red, and everyone else too” Sia says softly, laying them both on the pillows with a kiss on Odie’s forehead “And I’m gonna tell them all about the purple parts, and the sea lion, and the star blanket”

“Yeah” Odette whispers, snuggling up to Sia “I want- I want the purple star blanket” she mumbles just as Sia pulls the covers off of their heads to look around a bit, snorting small at the blue blanket now ombré’d purple at the end

“We will make it happen” she whispers, brushing Odette’s hair idly with the hand trapped underneath her small head, looking around the space

The snowfall had stopped, darkness having fallen with an odd white haze of light above the snow itself, reflecting from whatever small source of it was around

Maybe it was them, at the center of it all

It changes before she can muse too long on it, turning slowly red interspersed by specks, a dull sound heard in the distance

“Guess it’s my turn now” she says softly as she turns to a sleeping Odette, their foreheads resting together as she slowly starts humming, singing softly as black and white dwarreled down a red dawn

As present peace rested through past memory

[ariseur]

they made him this attractive and for what? for him to die??

[puddii-ng]

swan lake x valkyrie

[necrodette]

TomeWeave art by the absolutely incredible @nikoadmeliora! Go check out their art!

While I'm currently working on the fanfiction of Odette's story pre-BG3 (which leads into the game's events), I had some brainworms that I wanted to sprinkle to my fellow Galemancers out there.

Brace thyselves for a very long, very random assortment of lore and romance between my Tav, Odette Tavelyen, and Gale Dekarios (lovingly referred to as TomeWeave).

Spoilers & personal headcanons for BG3 romance with Gale below!

◇ While Odette was attracted to Gale initially, she misunderstood his attempts to prove his worth/value to the party as him being another pompous wizard, and worried that he may be too fond of his own voice without the true mastery of the Weave to validate his claims (since his magic was a bit unpredictable at times with the orb acting up).

◇ Due to this ignorant misconception, Odette was sometimes annoyed by Gale's remarks (like when he's publicly describing his previous relationship with Mystra or when he's unintentionally, overly thorough in explaining his magical prowess). She was never mean or cruel because that isn't in her nature, but she would certainly be on edge around him or would reply with a witty retort or two.

◇This changes during the Act 1 romance scene. In my headcanon, it happens the night that the party frees the Emerald Grove, and there is a celebration in camp all night. After Odette gives an awkward speech to the group (she's a librarian, not accustomed to being the motivational hero of the day) and makes her rounds through the party, Gale gives her a gift: one of a pair of identical blue journals (picked up from the vendor in the Grove). Gale and Odette bespell the journals to communicate with one another, channeling their magics together and connecting through the Weave. It is intimate, honest, unsuspecting. She feels the warmth of his affections for her and she realizes that she had been misjudging his actions.

And yes, the other party members will write in the journals from time to time, and yesssss I spent too much time picking handwriting style fonts for every party member

◇ Before Gale reveals his surname in Act 3, Odette makes a game out of trying to guess it. She'll think of some random noble family or one she'd guessed based on historical names in the region and ask him - sometimes in the most inopportune of times, such as mid-combat or when they're trying to go to sleep.

◇ Odette actually met Tara well before Act 3. She didn't understand the connection to Gale at the time and wouldn't for a while, but...this requires context, so bear with me:

◇ As an Avowed Adjutant in Candlekeep Library (pre-BG3 game events), Odette was often working with Seekers of knowledge who came to the library offering their price of admission: an original work that doesn't already exist within Candlekeep's walls. If their submitted work was not accepted, they could not gain entry within the library and would be turned away.

◇ For years, Gale had requested entry to Candlekeep through submissions of his own poetry and journals, thinking that his experiences as Mystra's Chosen would elevate his works and would certainly be accepted. But they weren't, because works of Elminster's personal accounts already existed in the library that were too similar to Gale's, and so Gale was turned away multiple times (mostly via letters, since it is quite the long trip from Waterdeep to Candlekeep).

◇ But after he was cast out of Mystra's favor and corrupted by the Netherese Orb, Tara took matters into her own paws. She was determined to find a solution to Gale's predicament with the orb, so she took a collection of the recent works he'd made in his grief and regret - mournful musings of a man utterly abandoned by his former lover, his goddess, and the knowledge of his impending doom as penalty for his hubris. Finally, his (unknowing) acceptance to the library (through Tara) was obtained.

◇ It's a temporary acceptance into the library (five days instead of the normal tenday) by offering Gale's journals anonymously and also with the condition that the original work could not be submitted: the Scribes of Candlekeep would need to copy the journals contents while she was there, but had to take it back with her. This condition was accepted!

◇ Odette was elected to assist Tara with her research, which included many sleepless nights of intense research and several early morning teas together. During the five days that Tara was allowed entry, Tara only ever referred to Gale as her esteemed friend or dearest colleague, so Odette never knew who Gale was before meeting him post-tadpoling.

◇ And it was during Tara's last day that she discovered how to temporarily appease the orb via intermittent Weave consumption. She hurriedly said her goodbyes and left the library to tend to personal matters. Odette was a little sad to see her go as Tara's company was quite comfortable and very entertaining.

◇ In Act 1, when Gale (gets on one knee like a gentlemen omg??) opens his mind to Odette to show her truth about the Netherese Orb in his chest, she realizes that the "cat" he's mistakenly mentioned (he's also said 'tressym' before, too, so Odette actually spends a while thinking he had both) before must have been Tara.

◇ Odette doesn't tell him that she knew out of fear that he would be upset that Tara had taken his most personal thoughts and feelings (in the journals she used to gain entry to the library) without his consent (plus, it helped him in the end anyway, right?) And, as a follower of Deneir, once she's confided in, she is sworn to uphold the secrecy to avoid her God's wrath.

◇ So in Act 3, when the party happens upon Tara on the roof of the Temple of Ilmater, not only does Tara already know and has a warm relationship with her, but she also makes Odette lose "the game" of guessing Gale's surname!

[gilfodile]

OH MY GODDDDD BASILLLL

YOU DIDN'T NEED TO DO THAT FOR ME TYSM,,, ;;

um um!!!! trick or treat :3

treat!! old lady :}

[ahollowgrave]

Then and Now

July 2021 -> December 2024

][ Tagged by: ][ @lilbittymonster and @elliewiltarwyn thank you!!] ][ Tagging: ][ You (: ][

I made Odette in 2020 but sadly I don't have access to my very first attempts at gposing! I really wish I had them, early vanilla Odette is an extreme cutie. I had played FFXIV a few times before but the game had never stuck until her. Odette has changed a fair amount since I've had her! Thanks to crimes but also because of lore! I've only fanta'd her once and it was to make her chest smaller and change her eye color.

When I decided to lean into the ghost stuff I changed one of her eyes to purple. As a way to signify her coming into her abilities, so it is also the eye she sees spirits out of.

Her hair has always been white, in canon it has an iridescent sheen to it which is one of the reasons the convent thought her blessed. Early in 2024 Odette had a mini arc of realizing she had strayed from her vows. As part of her renewal of them she cut her very long hair.

She's had scaling from the moment I knew about it. Use to have to apply it in ana with each gpose. I'm certain the first screen has one of my first attempts at scaling her applied. When I finally got C+ I was so excited to see her scaling all the time, plus it makes it so easy to adjust it on the fly. It's the thing I miss most when its gone!

Rue body... body hair... belly piercing...

Her piercings (belly and nose) were small acts of rebellion! And my friend Esh ported a nose chain over for me I think just this year, too!

Her gap teeth !! Precious to me. Thank you Onei ! If I could figure out dimples she'd be even more perfect.

Dawntrail's graphics update left me incredibly happy. I loved Odette before but she feels so much more Right to me, now! She has new makeup, new face scaling, i just like her so much...

I've rewritten her entire backstory, made her undead and a powerful psychopomp, gave her a long-lost twin sister and then turned the twin into a possibly evil ancient and undead great-aunt (whew), made her a paladin, started to think of her as an actual WoL... She's always been a love nun, though.

[princess-polls]

Bonus Poll: Barbie Princesses

Hi y'all! It was requested a while back that I do a poll with only Barbie princesses and since this tournament has now ended, now is as good a time as any to post this!

Also, as soon as the next tournament's theme has been decided, I'll be taking a small break so I can prepare for that tournament. Around the time this poll ends I hope to have the submission form posted. See ya then!

[lathez]

Some light NSFW Miraak/LDB adorations

Miraak, used as a pawn, accustomed to being a servant and a plaything, never given a choice in any matter of fate, crying out to the LDB that they own him when he first lets his walls down enough to submit and be taken care of in bed, because ownership is the only intimacy he's ever known, the only love he understands.

Said LDB slowing and stopping and holding his flushed face and asking him to promise to never say that again. Kissing his neck with the sweetest gentility, smothering him with adoration and praise for the simple act of existence. Swearing that he is everything and nothing to them at once; everything they venerate, everything they adore, everything they desire to make love to, but nothing to use. Never to use.

He can't conceptualize that kind of love, but the sudden realization that someone is willing to help him learn is overwhelming, and he allows them to kiss away his tears, rub his shaking back, whisper little intimacies as he cries for the first time in eras.

And only when he asks, only when he chooses, do they continue, and they put their love down so so gentle that he begins to wonder if Akatosh ever really abandoned him at all.

[gilfodile]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Happy birthday to @misty-wisp/@gilfodile!!! I did a little animation of her OC Odette who I love I think she is very cool 💜

Happy birthday Misty and thank you so much for being my friend all this time, you're seriously one of the best friends I've ever had and I'm so happy whenever we get to hang out, you're seriously so awesome <33

[gilfodile]

loopdile

[who-scrambled-my-ocs]

Bring Hell and Waters, High

This little snippet got completely away from me. Enjoy some nonsensical sea dangers and adventure - song refs at the bottom

Word count: 5728

Swish

Blub

Swish

Glub blub

Swish

Blub

The dark liquid swished to and fro as she rocked the bottom of a bottle, holding it up to a lantern light by its neck

Swish

Blub

Swish

Glub blub

She sighs heavily, resting the bottle on her stomach where she laid inside the dinghy-boat on deck, half repaired and swinging in the quiet

“Well this isn’t real, so a swig won’t matter” she mutters to no one, staring at the bottle, rubbing the side of it idly with her thumb

A small piece of cork inside it bobbed along with the liquid, like a ship on rocky waters

Glub blub

Blub

Glub blub

The rumbling of approaching thunderstorms could be heard in the distance

It wouldn’t sink

She sighs and rolls her eyes, popping the cork on top open with her thumb

Before she can think of taking a swig however, something moves on the empty deck

She’s on her feet in a blink, cutlass in hand with the bottle attached onto her belt

She sneers into the darkness

“Show yourself. I don’t take kindly to stowaways, not even in my head. Especially, not in my head” she growls the last bit, all too aware of the havoc that’s been happening to her soul

Souls. Demons. Nasty memories

She preferred dealing with the Mer

She rolls her eyes when the image of Lucas persists in her minds eye at the thought, stretching her wrist holding the cutlass

“I stand by my point. I prefer dealing with fish guts” Abeni mutters, taking a careful step forward

A movement-

Her cutlass sings in the air with her speed and ferociousness, destroying the barrel before her to splinters

There’s a high pitched scream, more movement-

Her blade sings!

Brown eyes-!

“You-! Fuck!” The blade finds itself imbedded in the floor instead, a hairs breath away from the

Kid

Cowering on the floor right beside it, small hands covering their face, ratty hair shaking over it and their eyes

The rumbling in the distance sounded deeper, gutteral, closer

A lil cloth covered piece of glass laid at their feet, a red tinged makeshift dagger

Abeni huffs

“What the hell are you doing here? Fuck mate you know better than to be sneaking around me!” Abeni’s tone is agitated, and perhaps a bit shaken at having almost stabbed her future self

It’s the only reason she hadn’t noticed the state the kid was in, making her wince as a powerful lightning strike struck close, the thunderous sound deafening as the deck got lit up

Open scab marks, bleeding hands and open knees, broken boots drenched in an undefinable dark substance, and frame rattling in its paper thin skin

She could hear thuds on the wood, the scrapes and the groans, and she knew it wasn’t just water hitting the sides of the ship

“Najma did always say you got the worst ones” Abeni mutters, before immediately shrugging off her fancy, thick and warm coat, reaching to pick Odette right up with one arm and haphazardly tossing the coat around her

“Nah nah you ain’t fighting me, hush” she shushes, easily ignoring Odette’s slight attempts at fighting Abeni off in her lingering panic, and wincing slightly as the kids blunt nails dug into her “Yeah, just hold on”

She carries her smaller self over to the sailboat as stuttering and awful guttural moans are heard along the edges, along with the sound of something scratching the wood as she deposits Odie onto the inside of the sailboat, pulling the coat tight around her

“Stay put” Abeni huffs, stumbling back over to the other side to the cabin door, tossing it open and running up to one of the hammered in cabinets, grabbing bandages, salve, a nearly empty bottle of disinfectant-

There’s groans in the darkness-

“Well good thing I still got- ah fuck” Abeni huffs as she pulls up the bottle she’d had swinging on her hip

The cork was crumbled on the bottom, broken apart from dry heat, the same that had absolutely evaporated its contents despite the cork on top

In fact that cork was dried out as well, crumbling inside the bottle with a mere tap of her thumb, making Abeni sigh with a glance at Odette on the sailboat

“No happy-go-lucky dreams around the kid, I get it” she huffs with a roll of her eyes, tossing the now empty bottle to the side and clipping the bottle of disinfectant to her belt instead, one handedly carrying over the rest of the medical supplies as scratching and scrapes got louder in the darkness

“Would’ve probs calmed her down though but whatever. Alright show me your hands- no no” Abeni nudges the coat aside a bit despite Odette’s attempts at hiding “Hey hey, eyes on me. What’s out there isn’t real- Odie” she’s snapping her fingers in front of Odette’s face, making Odette flinch a little and look at her

“Look at me okay. Ya gotta help me with this. I only got one functioning hand and biting off bandages with your teeth sucks. So you’re gonna have to hold it for me. Keep looking here” Abeni goes to work quick, drawing Odette’s attention back sharply any time it seemed her eyes were being drawn to the sounds and shadows beyond the deck

Before long there’s a pile of bandages ready to be used, and the scratching had faded to harsh slapping waves instead, the wood around them creaking from the force

“Okay so this is gonna hurt like a fish slap in the face and then some. If you know fish scales then you know they sting. Here. You can bite my thumb” Abeni hums, unsheathing the small dagger with its wooden thumb from her prosthetic, handing it over to Odette before grabbing the disinfectant she’d prepped

“You ready? Three, two-“ she counts rapidly, quickly soaking the worst injury right before she’s done counting, making quick work of tying the bandage right after

Despite her warning Odette had barely made a peep, her flinch small and her face scrunched tight where she was biting the thumb, waiting for Abeni to be done, which makes her past self chuckle

“Tough mate huh? Well you were me once” Abeni grins wry, wiping Odette’s face but saying nothing of her tears, letting her sit up with a brave little sniff as she tossed the remains of the supplies aside

“So? Ya were fighting a zombi?”

Immediately the crashing waves beyond the deck are replaced by howls and moans, louder and hungrier than before, with nails scratching the wood like chalkboard

Odette immediately has her hands over her ears again, the makeshift dagger she’d dropped before back in one of them, the other still holding Abeni’s dagger

Weapons of two past lives, in inexperienced hands, mirrored in its uselessness for safety by how they felt in comfort

Abeni tsks

“None of that kid, it’s all fake in here. You don’t gotta be living it twice-“

“I’m not a kid”

Abeni raises a brow and snorts out a laugh “Yes you are. You’re a squirt. You barely reach my damn knee and weigh less than a sack of peas. You’re the kiddiest kid to ever kid” Abeni taunts, grinning snarkily at Odette as Odie glowers at her

The waves slap at the sides, the wood creaking ominously as water slapped onto the deck

Her fingers itch by her side, missing a familiar weight

“I’m not-!!”

“S’not a bad thing though. Kids get to be pirates” Abeni interrupts her shout, looking around some of the barrels beside the dinghy, searching for a blanket of some sort while watching Odie with a smug expression “Like me”

Blind eyes stare in the distance-

“Huh-but-but-but-!”

“Buttbutt”

Abeni snickers as Odie fumes

“But-but-Argh! Stop it!” Odie yells angrily at Abeni, annoyed by her relentless taunting and she crosses her arms with a deep glowering pout

Stormy wind whistles around them, the edges of tied up sails flapping-

Abeni cackles

“What? One of them toothless landlubbers grab ya tongue on the way in here?” She taunts with a gesture

Lightning and groaning clashing between each other

Odette breaks the stare-off first, huffing in the face of Abeni’s grinning

“Adults are pirates too. I’ve seen it!”

“Sure. They don’t get to be cool pirates though. Only kids are cool pirates. All the others are lame” Abeni snarks back with a chuckle, watching Odette frown with a hiccup

“Even-even the captain?” She asks incredulously, her brow furrowed above her eyes, pushing and prodding at Abeni’s most painful parts without a clue

She could feel those brown eyes burn a hole in her head

“Especially him” Abeni sighs dramatically, waving her prosthetic arm in a gesture “He was the lamest, dumbest, most boring, lumber-headed-“

“Lumber-headed? That’s not a word!”

“Sure it is! You sassing the storyteller? Rude” Abeni declares, grabbing and noogie-ing Odie’s head with her wooden fist, who shrieks

“Stahp! Stahp you’re pulling my hair! Ahhh!” She yells at Abeni, who snickers as she holds on a moment longer before relenting, rubbing her nose

“Yeah, especially him. Stupid lumber head wanted to become a landlubber. For dumb love“ she tsks, but there’s no real bite to it, turning quiet as she thought about her captain

Former captain

She was still stuck on that

“So because he wanted to be a landlubber, we all had to go find the best treasure of all treasures-“

She doesn’t react as Odette suddenly flinches before her, but she does huff an annoyed groan as she hears something smack onto the deck behind them, a spine-curdling screech following it as it presumably sees them

Between that and Odie’s screaming she was sure her own undeath memory ass was gonna go deaf

“Hey you stinkin’ lily-livered bilge-rat! We’re in the. Middle. Of a. Story!!” Abeni yells, turning deftly in the dinghy while grabbing Odie’s glass shard dagger out of her small hand, pulling back and tossing it full powered at the rotting face standing up beside the balustrade

It sings through the air and jabs full powered through its eye, making it shriek as its tossed right back over the balustrade it’d tried to climb on from the force of the toss

There’s already another hand reaching up-

“Well pipsqueak, guess we got company” she huffs, jumping off the dinghy and running up to the hand, yanking her cutlass from the ground on the way-

The undeath creature shrieks as its hand is chopped off the deck, throwing it off balance and falling back down with a swift kick from Abeni’s boot

“Hah! And stay down ya bilge rat-!”

Lightning thunders above

Lighting up the sea of corpses around them

She grimaces with a step back as undeath eyes look up at her, renewing their efforts to try and climb up the sides at the sight of her

“Ah shit- change of plans mate, we’re setting sail!!” She yells, holding onto her hat as she runs as fast she could to a thick rope tied on the deck, chopping another one on her way

The sails fall down just as she skids to a stop by the anchor wheel, pulling and heaving at it with a grunt

“What are you doing-?!”

“Kid! Get the last sail! Now!” She barks back at Odette, grunting as she turns the wheel “Now!!”

It takes but a second after her bark for her to hear small but rapid boot stomps rush towards the last sail just as more groans are heard from the side-

“What do I do-I dunno-!“

“Toss the rope like a pirate! Pull and heave! Heave!!” She yells just as another corpse climbs up the rope she herself was trying to loosen

A swish of her cutlass, a kick of her boot-

She hears the last sail clack open, feels the rush of the storm blow through it just as she frees the boat from its anchor

The ship surges forward and Odette screams as barrels and boxes start sliding back-

“Hold on kid!” Abeni yells, grabbing a rope and slashing it apart beneath her, lauging as she soars through the air

She lands and grabs Odette, rolling them both away from a rolling barrel and grabbing one of the mast, laughing as the barrel smashes through the balustrade and takes two corpses with it

“Look at you! Winning your first pirate fight!”

“There’s more!” Odie screams, and sure enough, more could be seen on the deck, having been tossed up by the initial surge of the ship blasting forward, with even more clambering the sides

The worst of Odette’s nightmares clambouring together

Abeni simply grins bright as lightning thundered and crashed around them, staring down at the sea of corpses trying to get to them

Hordes. Mers. Other pirates and privateers

What was the difference?

“I know! We’re in quite the pickle aren’t we? But we’ve got a few friends who can help us!” She yells over the storm and shrieks, grinning wry and almost maniacally down at Odette as she pulls up her hat

“Do you trust me?”

Odette looks scared, glancing between her and the ever approaching sea of death towards them

She swallows, and nods

“Atta kid! Now get to the bell while I hold 'em off! Ring it like your damn life depends on it mate! Go go go!” She yells, pushing Odette towards the birds nest, turning to face the horde while fixing her hat

“Like old times” she chuckles, jumping towards a box and pulling out a pistol from nowhere, cracking her neck

“BANG”

“BANG BANG BANG”

The gun is old and shouldn’t work that way, but she didn’t care

It worked because she wanted it to

“Haha!! Take that!” She cheers and cackles, taking out several more before she jumps in with her cutlass, taking out any that tried to get close to the birds nest mast

Odette was climbing, but she screams and scrunches her eyes as the wind howls around her

“Kid!! I need the backup!!”

“It’s too high! I’m-I’m scared!” She wobbles back, hugging the rope ladder tight

“Kid- ah fuck off!” She kicks off another walking corpse away “It’s fucking terrifying, but ya gotta keep going!!” Abeni yells up, tsk-ing as she sees it's doing nothing

Well it wasn’t her nightmare. She couldn’t make Odette believe her

None of them ever could

“Kid-Odie! Odie you did it for your tante!” She yells and grunts as she fights “You were brave for your tante!! You gotta be brave for us now okay?! You gotta be a pirate!”

“But-but I’m not a pirate!”

“Like hell ya ain’t kid! You’re climbing a real pirate's nest on a real pirate ship!” Abeni shouts, kicking and slashing at more corpses

Man these things reeked up close

“And you’re not alone! No pirate ever is! But ya gotta wake 'em dem lumbar-heads first!”

Odette gulps up above, staring down below with a wince before looking back up

The wind still billowed around her, the groans and shrieks still reaching her ears

“Ahahahhaha take that ya scoundrel!”

She gulps, and frowns hard as she steals her nerve, climbing the rest of the way up

“Atta kid” Abeni grins, reaching over to one of the barrels and tossing it to its side, giving a harsh kick towards a bunch of the corpses

“Take that- woah shit!” The ship lurches, tossing several off the deck and nearly her along with it, forcing her last second to stab the ground and hold on-

She couldn’t get back on her feet, and those stupid sacks of meat were crawling towards her now with their jagged nails-

They weren’t the only things

Shadowy Mer, dripping fangs

It was messing with her

She shoots, haphazard and off-aim, lurching this way and that where she held on tight to her dagger

Loosening, moving side to side with her-!

A shadow silently laughing as it tapped some more on its handle

The bell rings, like a siren through the din of groans and stormy winds, making the corpses shriek with every ding it made

Making the shadow dissipate in a shriek

“What the hell happened here-?”

“We’re under attack!”

“Who cut the anchor-?!”

“We’re in a storm!”

It’s immediate chaos on deck, person after person running out from the decks below, rising from the wood, jumping down the ropes, yelling with sword and guns in hand

Hordes. Mers. Other pirates and privateers

What difference did it make?

The crew knew what to do

She cackles amidst the chaos, amidst flying heads and rushing boots, of people flying overboard and swords singing through the air

“Abeni what the hell is going on?!”

“A battle. Now start kicking ass!”

“You couldn’t toss a blanket over it?!”

“Now where would the fun be in that!”

Abeni laughs and slaps Najma’s back, pushing her towards the horde and laughing as she gets a roll of the eyes back

Grabbing her abandoned coat back from the dinghy and tossing it half on, she finds a full bottle of rum beneath it, shining in the low light-

-She uses it to smash another corpses head in, laughing at the shards flying around-

-she runs and grabs another tethered rope, hacking it off from where it was tied and sailing up through the air as the weight on the other side rushed her up

The damage didn’t matter

She lets go, grabbing hold of the rope ladder at the last second and climbing the last bit up

“Ya did it captain! Ya woke up ya trusty crew!” She cheers as she climbs into the birds nest, grinning down a wide-eyed Odette

“Captain?”

“Yeah! You got the crew going didn’t you? You’re the captain right now!” Abeni boasts to Odette, plopping down her feathered hat onto her small head and pushing her to look to the side “Look! Even Toby’s in the action!”

True enough, the blind tank of man was lifting several corpses up with a roar, tossing them at a whole bunch and knocking them all overboard in one shot, making Abeni whoop up above

Odette stares in awe, watching the literal sea of corpses be brushed back into said sea, being hacked and tossed and barrelled down-

“But- you said the captain was dumb-“

“The old captain! You’re a kid captain! A cool one!”

There’s a small grin on Odette’s face

She winces as the ship lurches again, holding tight to the side as Abeni tsks

“Looks like we’re needed back down captain! Ships needs a-steering!”

“But-but where to!? I dunno where to go!”

“Well that’s why ya need a navigator don’t ya?” Abeni grins cheekily, patting her hip “Come on, hop on! Our crew needs us captain!” She cheers

Glancing between the battle below and Abeni, Odette nods determinedly, confidence brimming as wide as the hat on her head as she holds onto Abeni, who sails them down with another rope

She winces, then grins, then laughs as they sail through the air, holding on tight to the bright blue hat on her head as they quickly reach down, jumping off and running to the wheel “I’ve got the wheel!”

“Aye aye captain! Steer us off the starboard!” Abeni yells, visibly gesturing with her arm and cackling as little Odie swung the wheel, holding on tight to balustrade beside it

“You’re sailing the seas captain!”

“I am!”

“We’ll be rid of these interlopers in no time!” She cheers, shaking her cutlass in the air as the ship cut through the tide of death around them, and the cacophony of shouts got louder than the moans and groans and shrieks of before

One shout breaks through above the rest

“Cap-i-tan! There’s something ahead!” Areshe’s voice yells through from where he stood atop the ships bow, his scarf flapping hard in the storm as he pointed

True enough, things were rising out the blood red sea, imposing and large and turning-

Tanks. They were tanks. Because of course IT’d add those too to the medley

Before Abeni can bark orders however, Odette was already standing on a box by the wheel

“Crew! Ready the cannons! Arghhhh!!!” She shouts, waving a cutlass of her own as Abeni cackles

“You heard the captain me hearties!! All hands on deck, Now!!” She shouts, laughing as she slides down a balustrade to join in on the cannon loading, landing next to tattooed blond

“You’re antagonising it, you know”

“So? It’s been picking us off one by one anyway. Kid deserves to give it a good fucking wallop, and so do we”

“Damn straight we do” Elise smirks, helping shove a cannonball into the canon with Abeni, turning it to point

“S’gonna turn Her head into a blender though”

“Eh, we can take it”

“FIRE!!”

The cannons all shoot one after the other, pairs of cannonballs blasting across the sky towards the imposing and terrifying mass of weapons ahead

But instead of impressive BOOMS and BANGS and all sorts of ear-splitting and deafening cacophony, the cannonballs implode upon reaching the tanks, exploding out a massive glittery cloud of purples and magicks

In an instant the vehicles are completely overtaken by plants, thick and strong and purple-yellow, exploding out flowers that spawn more of the plants and take out every other thing following it, sinking it down into glittery red ocean below it

The cheers on the deck are thunderous, louder than the storm clouds above and more cheerful than the groaning dread had been before

“We did it captain!”

“We won!”

“We got the interlopers!”

Odette stands victorious on her box, grin reaching from ear to ear where she held her hands up, accepting the cheers and applaus with all her heart-

The ship bucks!

“Shit what’s happening-“

“We got them all-!”

“The ships gonna capsize-!”

“What in the Davy Jones’s locker-“ Abeni looks up just in time to see a massive head breach the surface of the water, big blackened eyes set deep and glittering in the starless night, with massive limbs following as its screeches through rows of teeth-

The Kraken

Odette hadn’t been only running from her own nightmares

She had run straight into Abeni’s, as the storm had forewarned

Her own words drift by her ears

‘Najma did always say you got the worst ones’

“Oh for fucks-“

She doesn’t get to finish the sentence before one of the massive limbs races towards them all, crashing onto the deck and swiping across it

Abeni narrowly dodges it, laying flat against the side as everyone goes flying, the remaining balustrade shattering to smithereens

“Look out-!”

“Ahhhhhh-!”

Another smack and swipe, and the deck is laid bare-

“Abeni!”

She looks up to see Odette was clinging to half a wheel, the other half splintered away, staring at her for help as more limbs raise up in the air-

Something swings to the side

“Kid!! Get to the dinghy!” She yells, a bit of panic seeped into it despite herself

It just felt too real

She didn’t know how to change her own nightmare

Her own memory

She’s dragging herself to the swinging little boat as she sees Odette jump into it, dodging a limb breaking through the deck floor and using the edge of that hole to pull herself up, rushing towards the dinghy boat

‘You couldn’t toss a blanket over it?’

She lets out an almost hysterical laugh as she grabs the cover of the dinghy and tosses it over their heads

“What are you doing? We can’t hide under here!”

“Sure we can! See!” Abeni hehs weakly as the sounds of crashing limbs and roaring monster dims as soon as the cover covers them, turning their little spot dark, save for the small lantern that Abeni had placed there earlier

That felt like hours ago

Maybe it had been hours

She flinched as she hears another muffled roar, the space they were in rocking left to right on its ropes

“I don’t understand! That’s my friend!”

“Huh?!”

“In the aquarium! I met-I met an octopus and it was nice! It played with me”

Abeni barks out a near hysterical laugh at Odette’s words

“This one isn’t our friend from the aquarium mate. This one hates our land-guts very much” she says rapidly, holding on for dear life to the small boat

She hoped it’d at least stay afloat once the ship-

Something splinters and snaps outside the covers, something big

Shit. That must’ve been the sail

“What’re we gonna do?”

Hah! Hahah! Fuck if she knew!

“I-I dunno” she stammers, cursing the panic “I never meant to lead us here. I made a mistake”

Just like in real life

Doomed to repeat your failures

“I led my crew and us to our doom”

“Huh? But that’s not true”

Abeni laughs but Odette pushes on “It’s not! You said so! You said you were all searching for the euhm, best treasure of all treasure!”

“Don’t see how that changes where we are-“

“You’re the navigator! You lead the ship!”

“So??”

“So? That means that-that big monster is guarding the treasure!” Odette waves her arms, determined and utterly confident in the words she’d uttered

She was just a kid

“Odie-“

“No! I’m the captain! And-and I order you to continue us to the treasure!” She points with a determined frown at Abeni, demanding her to do her job

She was just a kid

“Do you trust me?”

Well

So was She

Abeni snorts, a definite hysterical note to it as she nods “No rest for the lily-livered pirate scum huh? Fine! Fine!! Aye aye captain- hold the lantern” she tosses it over to Odie, digging in her coat

She pulls out a map and Her Tools, slapping them on the plank seat between them and immediately got to work

This was ridiculous

She’d done stupider while drunk

“There! Fifty degree port side should get us to the X” she says, tapping the map, wincing a bit as they’re almost tossed out their seats by a lurch of the ship

Odette simply grabs the compass out of the air

“Get me to the wheel!”

“Aye aye captain!”

Grabbing Odette round the middle, she tosses off the heavy cover, yelling as the dinghy swings violently

She manages to stay on her feet, immediately turning her cutlass to stab her way up to the wheel, teeth gritted so tight she was sure they’d break

Tossing Odette the small rest of the way, she holds on tightly to what was left of the balustrade

“Turn!”

“Aye aye Navigator!”

There were holes in the deck

The sails had been smashed to smithereens

There was no balustrade left

This ship would Break before ever reaching treasure

It would not return home

“Ab-Abeni! I can’t- I can’t turn it!” Odette yells and grunts, her small bone-y arms struggling to turn half the wheel that was left

Scrambling, Abeni is behind her in a blink, holding tight above her small hands

“We’re headed straight for it!”

“The compass says we have to!”

“Then we’re charging forward!!”

Both yell loudly as the bow turns straight for The Kraken, aiming straight for its face, aiming-!

The creature screeches as it pierces through its eye, black putrid liquid gushing out-

“Abeni-!!”

The ship bucks, cracks, and explodes as a limb comes crashing down the middle, sending both of them flying

This was it

She’d usually drowned before even seeing the ship break

Flying in the air was new

She sees wide eyes staring down at her, the hat starting to fly off, the panic setting in in flailing limbs moving so slow-

She grabs her arm and pulls her towards her chest, shielding her head as they plummet down towards the water-

The cutting slap of water breaching

The rush of air bubbling past their ears

The helpless pull of the waves and plummeting debris

The darkness

Sinking

Sinking

Sink

.

.

.

..

…

….

She should sleep now

….

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.

.

.

Tap tap tap

There was something tapping her shoulder

Tap tap tap

Wary eyes open to sparkling lights, blurry for a moment as bubbles-

Bubbles?

-drifted out her mouth, but no sound followed it.

Tap tap tap

Odie’s small hand is tapping her shoulder, pointing towards a sunken submarine

‘Look!’ She signs underwater, gesturing rapidly at the wreck ‘We found it!’

‘Huh?’

‘The treasure! It’s there!’ Odie signs once more, before swimming away from Abeni towards the sunken ship, turning only once to gesture rapidly ‘Come on!’ She says, swimming ahead as Abeni just stared bewildered

‘Are we dreaming?’ Abeni asks no one, pausing only a moment before swimming after Odette

She pauses by the entrance to look down, snorting and laughing soundlessly

A mantis shrimp sat there, holding two sticks, quietly knitting seaweed into a scarf

It looks up at her, and she has a feeling it was tutting at her

‘We are gonna be exhausted’

Abeni snorts again and just shrugs at it, gesturing loosely

‘You think I’m still in control here? I lost the plot ages ago’

The mantis shrimp moves as if it is sighing, before scuttling off with its little knitting needles, furiously continuing its seaweed scarf as Abeni laughs

Tap tap tap

‘I’m coming I’m coming’ she signs as her coat is tugged and tapped at, snickering as Odie grumbles ‘You know what’s happening?’

‘We’re finding treasure, duh’

‘Duh. Of course’ she snorts, following after Odette towards the middle, lit up by some light somewhere above, passing small schools of fishes as they go

They reach the mound, and Odette is already digging

‘Help me!’

‘Aye aye captain’

They start digging with their, swirls of sand dusting up the water around them until they could barely see

But once it settles there’s-

‘Treasure!! We found it, we found it!!

Shells. Little trinkets. Small bones

Crystals. A magnifying glass. A little wand

A music box. A shelled vest

A little octo plushie

Abeni chuckles as she picks the last one up

‘The best treasure of all treasure huh?’ she muses as she holds the little beady-eyed thing

‘Not so scary when you’re this small’

She sits cross legged on the sand as Odie pulls out one Treasure after the other, parading them around and cheering soundlessly in this quiet and peaceful scape of fish and sea critters

A little reef from a little beach trip not that terribly long ago

….

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She could sleep now

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“What happened to you?”

Hair sticking out in every direction with the most bleary-eyed expression possible, Sia slowly turns her head, her shoulders covered under her thick comforter where she stood

“You look like you went on euhm, what’s that word you use?”

“Blender” Sia mumbles as she takes a seat at the table, groaning a little as Neora chuckles across her “I think I was a shrimp”

“Shrimp?”

“Rainbow. Mantis” she mumbles as Evan chuckles sympathetically

“Well Yellow is out right now but he left some herbs in the cabinet. I’ll make some tea-“

“Coffee”

“Tea is healthier you know-“

“Coffeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee” Sia draws out, making Neora laugh as Evan snorts in the kitchen

“Aye aye Ma’am”

“That’s captain to you”

“Pffft” he snorts as Neora continues laughing at the table, with Sia lowering her head down for just a little snooze

…

….

..-!

“Here we go, fresh brewed coffee-“ Evan says, placing down a pot of coffee “-and your mug and cinnamon-“

He’s not even done speaking before Sia is grabbing the pot, popping the lid off and chugging the entire thing

“Ahh” she smacks her lips once she’s done, grabs the cinnamon and turns to leave, waving the small jar as she goes

“I’m taking another nap” she yawns out, comforter billowing out behind her like a cape or a coat, and they can distinctly hear her humming some tune as she goes back up the stairs

…

“Did she just shotgun that whole pot and take the spice to go?”

“Yes. Yes she did”

Neora snorts, laughing with her hand over her mouth as Evan blinks at the staircase, snorting and chuckling himself as he turns to the empty pot

“Tea?”

“Please”

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“You know I still think we could’ve- we could’ve turned the ship into a robot”

“And how pray tell where you going to do that while the Kraken was tearing the thing apart?”

“Through the compass! I would’ve-wouldve put it in the euhm, slot of the wheel-“

“Slot of the wheel”

“Yes! Yes like so-“ Odette is scribbling on a page with a yellow crayon, detailing the steps as Abeni snorts “-like so! You just had to euhm, turn the wheel a secret combination and it’d appear!”

“The ship was made of dead wood”

“Yeah but the compass would be magic! And once you plopped it in, it would-it would transform the whole ship-“

“Like in warrior turtles-“

“Euhm it’s ninja turtles, and no like in transformers!”

“Transformers? You’re making stuff up”

“I’m not! I saw it on the tv! You put the power thing in the slot and the whole ship would’ve transformed”

Abeni is snickering as Odette tries hard to give her serious idea!

“Stop laughing!”

“Okay okay I just- what would’ve it transformed into?” She signs amused, watching Odette frown and tap her chin underwater

“Like euhm, like euhm, so-“ she moves back to the papers, her hair moving gently in the water as she scribbled away, her lower half floating a little in the water

She thinks she sees a cuttlefish with a red scarf scuttle by

Odie quickly shoves a completed drawing in Abeni’s hands, tapping it

“See?”

It was the ship

And Abeni’s navigator tools

Turned into crab arms

“A crab? You’d use a magic compass to turn a ship into a mech-crab?”

“Uh yeah? It can snip, walk on land and swim! It can totally fight the Kraken by-by snipping all its arms off!” She gestures rapidly with her hands

“That’s brutal”

“Eh, they can grow them back in euhm, 130 days. I read it in a brochure” Odie nods sagely before shaking her fist “That’ll teach it for being a bully”

Abeni laughs, bubbles bursting free from the force of it, hugging her stomach as Odie keeps shaking her fist

“Dang right. Alright tinker, better continue those build plans”

“Blueprints”

“Yeah yeah, smartass” she teases, poking Odie’s side as she giggles before both grab a crayon once more

“I’m gonna call it Snippy”

[startagainaprologue]

ddid i not send one oh no,,, trick or treat :3c

HEEHE :]

youu get aAH AH AH STOP CHEWING!!!!

[nechestiv]

[inkperch]

In my 'Carmilla adopts Vaggie' au.

I'm so tempted to have Clara and Odette (gently) bully their dumbass little sister into telling her girlfriend she's an angel waaay earlier than canon

But also, the angst to Charlie learning angels can be killed and having no way to know if Vaggie knew and didn't tell her in an Au where it was Vaggie's mum who killed a fucking angel-

[ohnopeepo]

please... my boy.. he is very ill