#Purified Chrysalis

[fillyfool]

[sylvesterelle]

In "I accidentally hallucinated a fic for a game I don't fucking play on a 12-hour drive and now I'm writing it for nanowrimo" news, somehow a throwaway wake-up scene became an alternate backstory and now I'm a Ghost Has Catholic Guilt truther.

557 words, TW: child abuse, blood, religious themes

Simon woke with a breath of air against his face. 

For a moment he was twenty years old again, sleeping out under the stars on a mission in Mongolia, sun and wind caressing his bare cheeks. 

Memory made itself known in aching joints and the constant tightness in his muscles, a consequence of the years in-between.

Ghost blinked into wakefulness, eyeing where Johnny’s head rested on his shoulder, breathing heavily into his face.

As far as wake ups go, not one of his worst. 

Knew he shouldn't take it personal, he wasn't special or anything. Johnny had an alarming tendency to attach to the nearest warm body when asleep. That it so often happened to be him was his own doing; Johnny was always the brightest flame in any room and Ghost was ever an idiot moth.

His father had kept a shadow box frame on the wall behind his desk, winged insects pinned tightly above the neat, black script giving their Latin names. Right in the center, place of pride, his father had the African Death’s Head moth. Acherontia Atropos, so named for the Fate who cut the thread of life and ushered in death.

Simon had memorized all their names and markings over the years, but it was Acherontia that haunted his dreams. The human skull sketched on its thorax pinning him with its gaze night after night, mocking him as he braced against the heavy wooden desk, trying fruitlessly not to tense against the next lash of the belt. His father preferred it when Simon took his punishment quietly. 

Unflinchingly, even when the blood dripped down his back and stained the waistband of his trousers.  

At least, that was what he named as his preference. Simon knew better; knew well the excited spark that would appear in his father’s eyes when Simon would inevitably collapse on the desk, unable to keep the whimpers from escaping his lips no matter how tightly he gritted his teeth. Knew the heights of ecstasy his father reached in the mortification of his son’s flesh, the kind he never quite reached when assigning days-long fasts or solitary confinements to purify his soul.

No, it was violence that swept up his father in holy fever, near breathless with excitement as he recited the same verses, over and over.

“Put to death what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire.” Colossians. “If you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.” Book of Romans. And his father’s favorite: “Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him…Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.” Proverbs.

Simons had believed them all, then.

Now, he knew his true inheritance: not the words, not the religion that served as reason and shield, but the lust for blood that burned so hot it felt holy.

And so it was that when Ghost emerged from a chrysalis of blood and gristle, he wore the face that had watched him all those long years—pinned above his father’s desk and grinning like it always knew what he’d become.

And look at him now, Ghost thought as he stared at Johnny’s face. Fluttering like a suicidal moth around a flame, he knows, he fucking knows will be the death of him.

[soverane]

have you seen the arlecchino ult leak posted just now and how do we feel abt arlenora now

[genshin leaks ahead!]

[sobs, falls at your feet, weeping, wailing, curls into a ball] hi meadows!!! <3 i was having a field day... i didn't know what to expect with her leaks but the parallels with signora as well as signora's own theme in her boss battle phase 1 ost leak was not on my 2024 bingo card but here we are...! omfg i am devastated in the best possible way... i'm gonna try to collect my thoughts here...

arlecchino's constellation, "ignis purgatorius"

it means "cleansing" or "purifying fire", and this is interesting bc signora (then rosalyne) "sacrificed her [physical, mortal] body to become the embodiment of liquid fire herself." i'm not sure what being the "embodiment of liquid fire" really entails for signora but the crimson witch of flames and the pale flame (specifically the flower, "stainless bloom") artifact sets tell us that rosalyne was a living being who still looked human, but whose essence is made up of "liquid fire." that, and her newfound purpose is to aid the tsaritsa in "cleansing" the world of its darkness and corruption. (the shivada jade gemstone description is my tsarlyne roman empire but that's a ship for another day <3) idk why arlecchino's constellation is so conceptually similar to signora's whole "liquid fire," "cleanse the world in silent ice" schtick, but it is giving me brain rot, so, yes.

arlecchino's boss form

her splash art complements signora's so much it's driving us all insane!!!!! i saw a video leak of her boss gameplay and it seems her 'wings' (?) resemble spider legs more actually! she uses them to walk, among other things. i wonder where this is going! but ok, sure! bug yuri <3 spider x moth yuri <3

arlecchino's boss battle phase 1 ost

of all the leaked content it's her ost that did it for me. towards the end of the track (2:19-2:30) WE HEAR SIGNORA'S THEME. I KNOW HER THEME BY HEART CHRYSALIS SUSPIRII AND SALTATIO FAVILLAE ARE FOREVER IMPRINTED IN MY BRAIN. I KNOW HER THEME WHEN I HEAR IT. so why!?!? what is her theme doing in arlecchino's phase 1 ost, and what does this mean! T_T what was the reason!!!! why would they do this to me!!!!! i'm not ok!!! if there's one thing i know about genshin's music team and lore team it's that the smallest details are not put there without intention, so i'm curious about the inspiration for arlecchino's ost and why it includes elements of signora's theme. the boss battle ost's of childe and scaramouche don't have signora's theme at all, so what makes arlecchino's different?

for those less familiar with signora's theme (there is a fatui theme, which is recurrent throughout all their ost's, and then you have each harbinger's individual themes unique to them only.), you can hear it in chrysalis suspirii between 2:08-2:32 (imo the saddest, most beautifully haunting, most romantic version of it) and in saltatio favillae between 1:16-2:24 (imo the most dramatic, phantom-of-the-opera-esque version of it). there's just... so much grief and tragedy in her theme that i've never heard in the other harbingers'. elogia cinerosa also shares this leitmotif between 2:11-2:43, and it's this version of signora's theme that's heard in arlecchino's phase 1 ost.

someone on twitter made a very cool music analysis of this if anyone's interested!

anyway arlenora isn't beating the moth to flame allegations, they're not beating the secret affair allegations, nor the doomed lovers allegations.

now how do we feel about the fact that arlecchino has an agreement with the tsaritsa that lets her use the hydro gnosis for her own interests before surrendering it to the tsaritsa, and how do we feel about arlecchino possibly using the hydro gnosis to resurrect signora :D

[hoshinierabareshimono]

Dies Irae

@hiislegacy

In hindsight, Genesis had been foolish to expect anything akin to bliss at the end of his vendetta against those who had wronged him, against the planet herself for tolerating his impending death.

His DNA may have been purified of any error, any necrotic leak that was the aftermath of Hollander’s failed experiments, his battered form revitalized by the gift of the goddess he had coveted with his last strength. And yet, when he had come to himself, his perception no longer governed by pain and justified ire, it had dawned on him that his triumph over his own defective genes may have been nothing but a hollow victory.

The life he had fought to reclaim with such vehemence, after all, was no more. Angeal and Sephiroth were both dead, his sense of kinship with those more human than him erased by his newfound insight into their incorrigible nature as well as his virtual immortality.

The lofty ideal of heroism he had pursued, too, had been exposed as a mirage in equal parts conjured by Shinra and the naivety of youth.

Although Genesis would never want to return to a state of ignorance, dulling his mind with comforting delusions, he nevertheless felt compelled to acknowledge that, where there had once been the final vestiges of innocence, there was now an exquisitely bitter pain.

He thus permitted himself to mourn his past happiness in its own right, withdrawing from the world stage in the absence of a cause worthy of his attention.

Only when the planet herself called for him wearing his goddess’s distressed countenance did Genesis summon his trusted Rapier and take to the tumultuous sky on a single jet-black wing.

The planet alone had healed him and for that very reason become the object of his unreserved loyalty.

For that reason, if she feared the alien entity having taken up residence in the depths of the North Crater, Genesis would gladly dispel her sorrows.

However, when his goddess showed him glimpses of her enemy, of his ambitions to attain godhood at the cost of her continued existence, he experienced tentative hope for the first time in many years.

“So you survived, my friend,” he uttered, his voice colored with affection and reverence as he peered inside Sephiroth’s figurative and literal chrysalis.

Reaching out, he caressed the translucent crystal with a gloved hand.

[gale-gentlepenguin]

“Akuma purification is stupid”

Now that I got that out there allow me to explain.

Akuma being made and utilizing a negative emotion is cool and it’s a great feature of the butterfly miraculous.

But the fact that the only way to deal with an akuma permanently is to have ladybug purify it by capturing it with her Yo-Yo. In the show there is no choice BUT to have the ladybug miraculous deal with the butterfly miraculous. Making it crucial, but it doesn’t explain why the cat miraculous should be involved at all.

Also if an akuma doesn’t get purified it can multiply. But it’s still linked to the one akuma, which makes me wonder why Hawkmoth never just akumatizes someone, tells them to break the object to call back the akuma, let it multiply and send it back out again.

I think that having the item be broken or the akuma admitting defeat should be enough to purify the akuma. That whole akuma multiply if not purified nonsense is gimmicky.

I also think Multiple akuma should be able to be made like in the movie. Make the drawback that it’s harder to keep control of them or make it more draining on the user. It would explain why one at a time is the rule and allow for multiple threats at times.

By removing the purification aspect, it makes it so Any miraculous can help deal with an akuma. The ladybug and cat miraculous can become important in another aspect, like helping maintain balance in the order. Or if the purification aspect is needed. Make it so the cat is needed to break the chrysalis holding the akuma. Or add a way the cat can remove akuma.

[princess-of-the-corner]

PrincessBee: K, random thought, what if the Akuma that Mari & Adrien get rid of, because they can’t purify it, it kind of . . . IDK, sinks into the ground, becomes a chrysalis or something, goes dormant. & none of them find it or anything. Life moves on. Then the kiddos go out for a roof run, & they use the powers a bit, & that wakes up the Akuma, which goes on a rampage, & that's what the kid's debut is, fighting this leftover Akuma from before? & then Lila sees the news report . . .

hm.

I think they'd be careful to either contain or find another way to get rid of the Butterfly (worst comes to worst, Tikki can do it and cause some other problems). Like they've seen what an escaped Butterfly can do and especially one without someone controlling it.

My thought for the kids' first outing is still them being dumb teenagers and like. This is the equivalent of when two friends of mine thought that since one knew how to drive they could take her mom's car and go to baskin robins(while leaving the 8 year old alone in the house) and be back without being caught(they were caught).

So they're like 'let's go for a rooftop run no one will notice we'll be too high to be seen!' but the next day the news shows footage of it.

[wackus-bonkus-maximus]

loa update

summary

The trust between Ladybug and Chat Noir is stretched to breaking point when a new butterfly holder emerges in the wake of Monarque's defeat. Chat Noir doesn't know who to trust until Chrysalis confronts him with a truth Ladybug had tried to bury: Monarque made the Wish—and she wants Chat Noir’s help to undo it.

excerpt

She smiled at him, her amethyst eyes luminous even through the mist, her form shining with violet and moonlight as she stood and stepped down to meet him. Chat Noir gripped his baton, holding it ready as she came into view, only for her to feet to still and her hands to raise in surrender. “Bonsoir, Chat Noir,” the girl said, the moon hanging high above her like a spotlight. The akuma circled once around her head, then fluttered toward her outstretched hand, landing silently upon her gloved fingertip. She brought it deliberately into her cupped hands and, with a glimmer of light, released a newly purified butterfly into the air. “Chrysalis,” Chat Noir said. She smiled wider.

thank you @ladyofthenoodle for the end card it fits so well >:3 part 7 of our collab is up!

[nothingtherefornow]

How will Miraculous Balance Lila lack's of ressources and power compared to Gabriel against the Miraculous Team ?

While surfing on a Miraculous Ladybug Reddit, I found a fan suggesting that Miraculous season 6 may be forced to introduce new super villains that have nothing to do with Lila, because for what little we know, Lila is just no match for Team Miraculous on her own.

Even if her excellents talents as a chameleon and manipulator can allow Lila to create numerous situations to her advantage to trigger akumatizations, and to potentially sow discord among heroes ("divide and conquer" as they say), the existence of magical charms that can now purify akuma in an almost Utopian Paris (and thus filled with a lot more positive emotions than in a previous full of corruptions), and the fact that Ladybug and Cat Noir are now capable of using the cataclysm and the lucky charm to infinity without detransforming put Lila in a serious disavantageous situation.

In the world of Miraculous where magic and the existence of meta-humans/mutants is common place, to introduce new original super villains who would attack Paris and ally themselves with a Chrysalis offering to make them stronger by akumatizing them would indeed be a plausible solution in the future season 6.

The problem for Lila is that according to the latest news, she does not have the same wealth or the same resources as Gabriel. The latter had his secret garden where he regularly harvested numerous butterflies which later became his akuma, in order to never fall stranded and to be able to continue attacking the heroes every day and thus give them very little respite, but also to be able to launch attacks of the scale of the scarlet butterfly.

I am certain that an akuma purified by Ladybug then becomes unusable, and we do not yet know if it is enough for a butterfly miraculous wielder to detransform then retransform so that their cane is always automatically equipped with an akuma if the the latter had just been purified. However, a wielder of the butterfly miraculous acting for good does not seem to have to worry about the same problem, because we saw in the Paris special that Betterfly could use the same kamiko, which he keeps in his weapon, to kamikoze more than one person at a time in a short period of time. Especially since Betterfly's kamiko seems to be fast enough to avoid being purified if Betterfly were to free its allies from their power just before the kamikozed object get destroyed (and in any case Betterfly doesn't have to worry about that. since the Ladybug of his world has become his ally). And in order to be able to create a second kamikozed champion without linking it to the same kamiko as the first, simply lend the butterfly miraculous to an ally so that the latter is also entitled to their own kamiko to use.

However Betterfly also showed us why having only one magical butterfly supplied with his weapon was a big disadvantage compared to Gabriel's akuma garden : the fact that Ladybug was able to find Hesperia by tracking down her only kamiko , which should automatically return to its creator. Gabriel didn't have to worry about his akuma being used to track him, because no purified akuma has ever returned to him, and an unpurified akuma can multiply, or Gabrie himself can certainly break the connection ( in the episode Ladybug, we saw the scarlet akuma turn white again and therefore "purified" after Gabriel transformed).

We do not yet know if the butterfly miraculous will always provide Lila with a new akuma in her weapon each time the previous akuma is purified by Ladybug, or if like Gabriel Lila will be forced to regularly harvest butterflies to make akumas. Especially since with only one akuma at her disposal, Lila could possibly be hunted down, unless she detransforms just in time after each fight. But unless Lila joins forces with Tomoe Tsurugi and asks for her help in creating her own butterfly garden, I don't think Lila won't have the same luxury that Moth/Shadowmoth/Monarch had.

Another fan confirmed that this idea would indeed be the best direction to take.

Although I think Lila will learn to create megakuma very quickly, magical charms can still work against them by being fueled by positive emotions. And as I said above, in the new Paris, positive emotions are likely to be much more widespread than negative emotions in a Paris that is no longer under the reign of a corrupt mayor and his equally wealthy corrupted partners.

This I can only see 4 ways in which Lila/Chrysalis could gain the upper hand over Ladybug and Cat Noir and become a more dangerous threat than Gabriel :

Create an alliance with Tomoe Tsurugi or another supervillain we don't yet know about, and give him access to other supervillain allies that Lila could easily manipulate into becoming her pawns..

Unlock powerful new powers never before seen with the Miraculous Butterfly, until you reach a power, able to counter that of Ladybug's magical charms.

Succeed in stealing miraculous from her future school friends, and even then the task will be difficult because apart from the ladybug, the black cat, the rabbit and the peacock, the other miraculous have changed shape, which could prevent Lila from recognize most of the magical jewels and steal them (unless she manages to discover with her tricks who and who within the miraculous Team)

Reveal to all of Paris the truth about Gabriel Agreste = Papillon/Papillombre/Monarch, and the fact that Ladybug voluntarily hid this truth, with the aim of sowing doubt and discord throughout Paris and within the Miraculous team, thus giving Lila more means to act and turning certain heroes and citizens against Ladybug

Without that I don't see how Lila can become a credible threat to Ladybug and Cat Noir.

This could also explain why Lila mentioned looking forward to meet Marinette again while putting the butterfly brooch on her, yet without mentioning Ladybug (if we assume that Lila doesn't know that Ladybug = Marinette). Maybe this is because Lila should be intelligent enough to understand that the power alone of the butterfly miraculous is no longer sufficient against Ladybug, and Lila must therefore at the beginning have only intended to use the powers of the miraculous against Marinette to ruin her life (what more easy than akumatizing herself into Chameleon or Volpina)

However, let's find out what scared Lila at the end of Re-creation first when season 6 comes out, and figure if it will play an important role in her future role as a butterfly super villain or not

[ladyofthenoodle]

She smiled at him, her amethyst eyes luminous even through the mist, her form shining with violet and moonlight as she stood and stepped down to meet him. Chat Noir gripped his baton, holding it ready as she came into view, only for her to feet to still and her hands to raise in surrender.

“Bonsoir, Chat Noir,” the girl said, the moon hanging high above her like a spotlight. The akuma circled once around her head, then fluttered toward her outstretched hand, landing silently upon her gloved fingertip. She brought it deliberately into her cupped hands and, with a glimmer of light, released a newly purified butterfly into the air.

“Chrysalis,” Chat Noir said.

She smiled wider.

chapter 7 is UP!!! follow the butterflies to go read it 🦋 @wackus-bonkus-maximus will take you there

[songofthesibyl]

Metamorphosis

A short sketch of the scene in chapter 80 of ACOWAR where Feyre gives her speech, told from Tamlin’s POV:

He felt heat up and down his skin, flooding his face. He sat still, apart from the others. And earned a momentary glance from Feyre before she continued on, a sea of black leather at her side. Lucien wrapped up in it, too. The transformation had happened. In the chrysalis of his house, the petals had finally fallen, the fruits grown ripe, it was close to harvest now. What was sown would be reaped. He understood this. Poisonous flowers, carnivorous flowers, luring one in, and then stuck inside, devoured within.

     He hadn’t bothered trying to heal himself. Lucien could have done it. But he wanted the scars, the bandages, the blood. The final thing he had been able to do, with what he was. He could imagine himself human, rest, and poultices reapplied, and seeing the wound, and how reassuring it was to see it, the proof of it. And how it healed, slowly. That was reassuring too, the time it took. Healing took time, wounds sometimes never healed at all.

     This house had been hers, he had bought it for her. He wondered why she had chosen it, wrecked and ruined as it was.

     He supposed that was the reason.

  She looked now with love, and joy, at her mate, who looked back on her with pride, and the same. And a certain smugness he knew he was not imagining. All of them.

     Everything he touched turned to this. Blossoms opened but briefly, and quickly withered, or blew on the breeze. Spring was ephemeral, really. It was never meant to last.

     She beamed. She was beaming. The sadness in her voice, the discomfort scattered on the wind as she spoke of seeing Velaris for the first time. He wondered if he had ever seen it, when he was young, before everything started. And if Rhysand had erased it from his mind. He would never go there now. It was pointless.

     The speeches went on for hours. One after the other, telling their stories, human and fae and half-fae. So many he had never seen, would never know. Animated, and ecstatic, and sorrowful, and angry, all of it, everything he loved—and he remembered, when she looked at him like that. Wildly and deeply and all at once. Such joy in her, she had not tried to hide it when it came. There had been no deceit in her then.

     But in him, yes.

   He could still feel the mask, he figured he always would. The shadow of it, how it covered him. His face unchanged, unmoving, beneath. He knew how to be still. He was very still, now. The tension before had been too much, he had held himself in for too long, and he had forgotten, he had forgotten himself. All of his selves had exploded out, the manor, the entire world exploded around him, wrecked, and ruined, like this. A final remnant of what had been, before. But he remembered, and he was still now. Very still.

Talk now of the wall. He crossed his arms when they looked to him, it was his court, his land, after all. What did it matter, if there was a wall, or not. He would be the wall. He would keep everyone out, by himself. He had already been doing such a good job of driving people away. 

An echo, through his empty head, of Lucien’s laughter through the halls, purifying them, and oh, how much life he had brought to it. How much Feyre had. Never from him. Never from himself. He took it from them, saw the joy leach out over weeks, over centuries, until he had used them up, and only the rotted heart was left. This husk, this shell of a person. Sloughed off, and discarded. Adorned in stars, in moonlight.

     Their wings on the wall. In his haste, his father hadn’t even bothered to clean them. And the smell of them, when they burned.

     So be it.  

  He would burn himself. Everything he had ever been, and tried to be. One layer after another off of him.  

     The long speeches were over. Everyone stood up, mingled, talked, shook hands. It should have been a triumphant moment. It was. For her, for everyone. The first bit of progress, after 500 years of stasis. It was not a part of him though, it was far from him, he had long since shed that self. And all he could see, as the remaining six High Lords spoke, and shook hands, were talons, and claws, and wings, mouths extended into canine jaws, he could feel the tickling underneath. Masks and leather and smooth skin to cover it up. All manner of dressing.

     This was who the humans were shaking hands with, were trusting. Cat’s eyes and fox’s tongue and serpent’s tail. The truth of it on the battlefield. Beasts, all of them.

     He would transform, become snake and caterpillar and bird. Cocoon, and molt, and shed. Everything that he had built up over 500 years. Layer after layer.

     Friend. Soldier. Son. Brother. Lover. Fae. High lord.

     All of them, all the way back, to what his becoming High Lord had revealed.

     He remained standing a moment more, then turned, and, without a word, lost amidst the crowd, disappeared into the night. And felt them leaving him. What a weight lifted. To stop pretending. To be anything else but a beast.

For @tamlinweek2023 Day 1: Beasts

[hellishrebukesystem]

10/05/24--POEM THREE

I have loved you enough to desire a metamorphosis within myself. I want my skin to melt into a chrysalis and my eyes to become strange again. My bones to turn to new bones, my lungs to breathe the air rawly and with rage. In the metamorphosis, there is heat, in the heat there is friction, in the friction there is smoke, in the smoke there is flame.

I will turn away from the love of my own mother--from the home of my father--I will turn to God and spit in his massive eye; one wound seeks another wound--and I will use my newfound wings to fly us through the wound of God's pupil--Heaven is in the eating of our betters; feast with me then. Feast upon the God brain and gain a higher consciousness.

We aren't meant to only be human--I think you must've known that for quite some time now--take my heart and turn it to nutritious pulp--feed yourself and bathe in the nearest river;

If I am an animal, then you are an angel, and if angels know nature through perfect knowledge, then you must know me, better than even God--better than I--better than the rule of man.

In the fires where we burn--in the chrysalis where we turn--there comes a cleansing, a purifying, a death beyond death--and though we become different and separate, we also become alpha, omega, kingdom and one.

Let's become new together. Let's bring in the age of certainty.

[fillyfool]

A kiss for Chryssie!

[ricky-toon]

Purified Chrysalis

Base by ElementBases

[feslussila]

Last night ,I attended my own funeral.Cloaked in a jet-black suit, I drifted through the cemetery at the witching hour, the dark shroud of night embracing me.As if summoned by the weight of my journey,storm clouds gathered, ominous and foreboding.Lightening cracked and cut across the menacing sky as thunder let out a terrifying cry. As I approached the grave, a lone figure stood vigil, head bowed, hands clasped in mournful prayer. Raindrops, icy and deliberate, began their descent, mingling with the tears starting to trace a path down my cheek.

"Since you left," the solitary figure murmured, "I have not been the same, but your death was a necessary gain."

I moved closer, each step heavy with the gravity of recognition. The figure lifted his gaze, and I found myself staring into my own eyes—yet these were not my eyes. They belonged to a reborn self, a phoenix emerging from the ashes of my former existence.

"You were my chrysalis," he spoke, his voice a sonorous echo, "your demise, the crucible of my rebirth. It was your suffering that tempered my spirit, your doubts that honed my clarity."I nodded, understanding the profound truth in his words. "To forge this new existence, I had to surrender you, to bid farewell to the ghosts of my limitations. Your death heralded the dawn of my boundless potential."

The rain fell harder, a purifying torrent, washing away the vestiges of the past. Together, my new self and I turned from the grave, leaving behind the sepulcher of what once was. As we walked away, the storm began to abate, and the first light of a new dawn broke through the clouds, illuminating a path of infinite possibility.

[readerofoddities]

More info on my AU :)

Sunset Shimmer got her degree at the same time as Twilight and recently got her license to practice medicine

Trixie changed her last name to Lulamoon to distance herself from her family... and cuz it's a better stage name than 'von Gemhouser'

Empress Amore, Queen Celestia and Princess Luna's dad is Starswirl the Bearded, who disappeared a couple thousand years before Celestia became Queen

Amore, Celestia and Luna's mom was called Supernova and she had dominion over the stars and deep space as well as being the first queen of Equestria

Celestia sent Luna to the moon due to a vision she had of Luna being evil, which led to Luna becoming the very thing Celestia feared

Celestia spun the tale of Nightmare Moon to justify her actions

Luna became corrupted due to the sheer amount of magic on the moon (because prolonged magic exposure = corruption and/or insanity)

Blueblood is Cadance's older brother and was sent to Equestria when Emperor Sombra started trying to take over the Crystal Empire. Celestia took him in as her own when he arrived

Filthy Rich is the Mayor of Ponyville, therefore feeding into Diamond Tiara's ego

Chrysalis takes Shining Armor's place to feed off of Cadance's magic when hearing about the union between Cadance and Shining

Discord's statue was in Starlight’s village and he was worshipped as a god there

The magic Luna used to break free cracked Discord's prison and allowed for him to be fully set free when some kids were messing around with his statue

Starlight later claims that she can communicate with Discord after he was freed, therefore allowing the people to fall under her manipulation

Diamond Tiara thinks she's better than the CMC because Sweetiebelle's got a stage magician older sister (disgrace), Scootaloo's parents don't care about her and she's got deformed wigs, and Apple Bloom is just lower class

Apple Bloom gets into a lot of fights due to DT's bullying

Scootaloo's parents honestly didn't want her but kept her to make them look better

Scootaloo is sometimes forced to be a child actor when her parents are short on money

Fleur Dis Lis is Scootaloo's aunt who sends her nice gifts and stuff but never sees her cuz she has the same attitude of Scoots's parents

Alicorn = ascending to royalty. Very rare for an alicorn to be born

The Castle of the Three Sisters was where Supernova sent her kids when she didn't want to deal with them

Pinkie's dad and Mr. Cake are brothers

Changelings in their unpurified form need magic to survive. To purify, they need to show the capacity to care about things beneath them and those around them

Cheese Sandwich is a comedian and sometimes he and Pinkie perform together

Zecora is from over the sea and was once a diplomat. Now she just lives here

Cloudsdale and Ponyville are trade partners

Bright Mac & Pear Butter (AJ's parents) died in a Bug Bear attack

Silver Spoon's family is the third most affluent, but she's DT's sidekick over Sweetiebelle because of a debt Silver's family owes to the mayor

Big Mac & his wife, Sugar Belle, are the heads of the Apple Farm now that Granny Smith is getting older

A. K. Yearling/Daring Do lives in Sire's Hollow and actually once babysat Starlight, Sunburst & Sunset as kids

Sunset and Sunburst are siblings (Sunburst is older)

Starlight and Sunburst are married for tax benefits and had a child (Luster Dawn) to keep up appearances

Uhh yeah. Sorry this is all over the place. I'll probably have more info to come in later reblogs

Compiling all the little details for my MLP AU (now named the Stars and Sun AU) in one post so that I can come back to it, add onto it and so on. Yay!

Dr. Twilight Sparkle is the head researcher and astrophysicist at the Canterlot School of Science and Magic at only 26 years old! Wow!

Spike, age 17, is Dr. Sparkle's only apprentice and closest confidant

Dr. Sparkle's relationship with her parents is messy, but she's very close to her brother, Shining Armor (who is a diplomat)

Twilight got her degree at only 19 due to how genius she was at such a young age

Twilight is the only member of the Canterlot School who speaks with and hears from Queen Celestia on a regular basis

Spike's family used to live in the Dragon lands but moved to Canterlot when he was a baby

Spike is very proficient at magic, hence why he is allowed to be Twilight's apprentice

Apple Jack is the sheriff of Ponyville and main apple cider brewer in town

AJ and Pinkie's moms are cousins

AJ is a heavy drinker and most nights can be found in the town's combined bakery and bar drinking her woes away

Rainbow Dash is the deputy sheriff of Ponyville and local daredevil

RD used to want to be part of the Wonderbolts performers and the Wonderbolts search and rescue team but later found that being a police officer works better for her

RD is usually the officer who bails Scootaloo out of trouble because she is the only one Scoots listens to

Pinkie Pie often lives in the combined bakery and bar, Sugarcube Corner, with her aunt and uncle, but is a wanderer at heart

Pinkie's family are gem miners for the Queen’s treasury and are very strict about their jobs

Rarity von Gemhouser is from the second most affluent family in Ponyville and is the second daughter

Rarity is the only seamstress/tailor and so on in town and one day hopes to have a fashion brand in Canterlot

Rarity’s older sister, Trixie, is estranged from the von Gemhouser family due to her interest in stage performing. Rarity doesn't like to talk about her older sister

Fluttershy’s family is made up of changelings who didn't want to live under Queen Chrysalis's rule anymore. They have all disguised themselves as pegasai to hide their true identities

Fluttershy is the local vet and loves healing little animals

Fluttershy and Zecora are good friends and often swap techniques

Queen Celestia has the gift of prophecy, which has led to her becoming quite paranoid

More to come in reblogs later because I'm busy rn

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Nothing suuuper exciting or finished today but I ended up colouring some old AU chibi doodles of my cambion Niya and … guess I’ll self indulgently ramble about her a bunch, mainly regarding their differences ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Original/D&D:

- disguised as a tiefling with the aid of an artefact, is unable to suppress her appearance on her own

- Never taught magic, some points as artificer

- The “youngest” one in terms of consciousness, could probably best be described as still being in her chrysalis state

- The Incident as a child has occurred, leading to her imprisonment and isolation at 12 (with the only family that would have accepted her being deceased)

- Has escaped her confinement and is on the run, but still hopes to reunite with her parents. Attempts to write them letters. Painfully naive overall

- Her family orders her death to protect their standing and disavows her. She doesn’t know or expect it

- Had a centuries’ long coma and very little control of her powers.

- Not really any gold scales or horn veins yet

- Is very confused and just as chaotic

- Past nobility with zero concept of money

- Very awkward, tries her best to be nice but is overall Very Scary. The cackling, rambling, talking to herself, and making noises to self soothe with periods of dead quiet focus doesn’t help, but she’s spent 300 years alone in a basement so she’s doing her best - she just has a bad awareness of people around her.

- Can’t stop talking

- absolutely no sense of self preservation whatsoever, will wander into an obvious trap while whistling up a tune and toss a close range fireball in a tiny tavern. Often doesn’t realize other people aren’t quite as “death proof”

- is a ticking magical time bomb

- is also absolutely godawful at hiding her nature, doesn’t even know what year it is when she gets out, hopes to make it on a bunch of stolen valuables but possesses zero street smarts, which she’d need to pawn a bunch of obvious antiques as a tiefling

- knows her heritage purely by accident, and is secretly absolutely terrified by it, considering herself a monster, and still hopes for a “cure”, whatever it may be

- Empathy is… hard. She finds it difficult to relate to people and has few reservations regarding murder and other morally questionable things, depending on the crowd she ends up with.

- suffers from frequent and intense night terrors about the Incident and Carrie’s the guilt for it

- An unrepentant magpie that will collect anything shiny, be it stolen, found, or looted. Disregards curses on items she took a liking to as “neat quirks” that add character to the item to the point where she’ll absentmindedly hand you a possessed dagger to cut your cheese without a second thought or a word of warning

- has an unapologetic obsession with dragon paraphernalia, dragons being the animal on her family’s crest

- a total pyromaniac

- deathly afraid of heights despite being a winged creature

- would probably insist on being Fun Scary

- needs a hug real bad :(

Modern:

- has also experienced The Incident and being locked away, but has instead been subjected to numerous attempts to “cure” and “purify” her instead, which ended up being just about as traumatic

- the “healers” sent to her were often disposed of after finding out her nature, which brought upon a string of attempted murders and assassinations in retaliation to said disappearances. Few got very close, but at that point her being a scared infernal spawn with uncontrollable sorcery has proven.. helpful(?)

- she was taught magic in the process, and is probably the most competent one of her other two counterparts, being able to casually perform complex spells, calm herself to avoid outbursts, and use Alter Self to present as a sun elf.

- for the same above reasons, she is also the most jaded, as she’s had to put up with her family’s cynicism for much longer and has been harshly conditioned to stay behind the scenes and dispose of anything that would compromise the family status

- has been released into the world due to the accepting family member’s influence, under surveillance at first, and has chosen to distance herself from her family. They haven’t objected too much because she is largely a liability both due to her character and her compromising origin

- Lives alone in the middle of nowhere in an old overgrown mansion. The basement still has the dungeon where she was kept, and the rooms are well suited for something that is old and not quite living - there is no kitchen, and most of the rooms are taken up by items of varying antiquity, all having been of notable novelty at one time or another

- It has taken her quite some time to readjust to the world, but she put in the effort. Still, she isn’t too familiar with many aspects of people’s everyday life, like supermarkets

- has chosen to start studying modern magical applications to medicine and works part time as a barista. She genuinely enjoys both, being a high achiever (especially with having impostor syndrome for… obvious reasons) and the job has helped her adjust to life much faster. She doesn’t usually sleep, which makes for plenty of study time

- is very sociable, helpful, and friendly, but doesn’t let people get too close. No one knows her full name or where she lives, and she prefers to keep it that way.

- Teleports at will to return home using a destination circle (largely to avoid being followed), but still rides the train to its end stop each Friday because she likes seeing the world pass by

- Due largely to the Incident but also to her family’s political standing( the individuals involved being fellow long living high elves doesn’t help), she still deals with a significant amount of attempts at her life, but has at that point gotten proficient enough at handling and disposing of her adversaries for it to become little more than a nuisance

- Ends up feeling terribly lonely, but doesn’t know how to remedy it so she just pretends it doesn’t bother her

- Is a massive fan of horror and monster movies, having a special fondness for kaiju and blowing quite a bit of her wages on action figures. Not having to eat or pay bills comes in handy

- Despite not needing food, she really enjoys sweets and often takes the bakery rejects home with her

- volunteers at an animal shelter in her free time, though it takes animals quite a while to get used to her. Still, she’s sweet and patient and doesn’t mind a few scratches if she can be of assistance

- puns and snark galore, sometimes a bit too much

- loves punk style clothes but she’s just in it for the leather and spikes.

- her bio dad actually claims her in this continuity, which is… awful for her. He is, however, very nice to her and even teaches her to make contracts. Yay. Bonding. Not at all ominous or alarming to have Devil Dad in your life after going out for milk for 316 years, with absolutely zero strings attached

- blames herself for the Incident, but it coincides with resentment for her parents. Guilt and self loathing galore either way. Internally sees herself as evil and unworthy of personal connection

- has had plenty of admirers , but is very experienced at rejecting people. Awful. Is totally in to wingman, though

Regency :

- Baby

- no incident in this universe, so she has been able to stay with her family, remaining the appointed heir

- her change has hit her parents hard, with her father largely avoiding her since then, and the parents’ relationship crumbling over time for them yo only remain together for appearances, but once again the supportive family member saves the day so that Niya herself can remain a part

- has also undergone strict magical teaching and alteration training, but to a much less painful extent. She can conceal herself and has moderate control of her magical outbursts, but no training in any kind of battle magic

- attends city events like balls, but only under strict supervision and chaperones

- is more afraid of her powers than anything, and isn’t aware of her heritage. Assumes her appearance is the result of a deal, which is only a fraction of the story

- probably the most anxious of the bunch

- overheats when nervous or flustered

- studies magical engineering to one day take on the family business

- very sweet and excitable, although very prone to getting distracted

- is… extremely naive and *very* sheltered, but can get rather snobby at times, if only to discourage people from getting too close to her

- adores murder mysteries and monster horror

- her only real connection with the outside world are her weekly drawing sessions at the upper town salon

-spends most of her time in the garden or library

- secretly plots outings out into the town, disguised as someone else and armed only with her shaky teleportation spell casting, which can only end in disaster

Endgame(bad ending):

Uh oh oh no the girl has gone on to replace her bio dad and salvage the remainder of the realms he tore open by chaining herself to him and confining herself to the Hells for eternity. Immensely powerful, giant, shimmering, and… absolutely miserable, icy, and disconnected.

I suppose it beats being the sacrificial lamb in a plot for world domination , but does it really? The world goes on, but she’s doomed to be left behind.

Her friends and family are gone, her love is lost, and she is once again alone, this time forever. Her awareness of her own personhood is barely lingering save for faint whispers from the worlds beyond, and she can no longer tell too easily which of them are real.

It’s getting late and I’m getting less and less coherent, but this Niya is the Archdevil, a goddess, I guess. I have considered making her evil and indulgent before, succumbing to corruption of some kind, but I think she would primarily just be … lost. She’s never wanted power or control, especially at this scale, especially alone, and it would eat her up inside - ironically, that would mean she’d be trapped in her *personal* hell, in a way. If her father was a personification of the sin of pride, she is one of despair and melancholy.