#SAME LENGHT SKIRT

[kradnie]

maya as the random woman i saw on the street, aka normie maya

[id: a drawing of maya fey from Ace Attorney in regular clothes. She has her hair down and is wearing a purple cardigan, pale pink camisole with black lace and a short denim skirt with a dark magenta belt. She is drawn knees up. There's an official Maya picture in the top left corner. End ID]

[mayakern]

hello! the stained glass pattern is amazing! will the skirt be available in full lenght / ankle lenght as well?

thank you!

i can't say definitively forever, but for now the cathedral skirt will only be available on midi skirts. we are not making miniskirts for 2025 and the proportions of a maxi skirt are completely different from the midi skirts and the cathedral art was designed specifically to work with the proportions of a midi skirt. it just wouldn't look as good on a maxi. (also, the only maxi skirts i make are collabs with @freshhotflavors and are sold in their store and they use FHF's templates, which are significantly different from ours)

i would have to redo a significant amount of art to make it work on a differently proportioned skirt.

plus, if i'm being completely honest, i do not want to format this design on other skirt lengths.

and it’s not just the art that took a long time—in order to make this design as seamless as possible, i have to have a total number of panels that is divisible by 3. for the smaller sizes, that isn’t so bad, because i can put 6 panels on each skirt half for a total of 12. but that doesn’t work correctly on the larger sizes, so for those i have to do 7.5 panels per skirt half for a total of 15 on the skirt and then i have to do my best to align one of the art panels so it matches up over the side seam.

after i finished the art, getting these skirt templates laid out in all sizes took me an entire week and many failed attempts at doing geometry. none of the skirt halves have the same curvature and none of them are actually circular in nature. they are very weird shapes and the upper arc of the waistband and the lower arc of the bottom hem are not the same.

i actually cried like three times trying to calculate the angles of the side seams before i realized that the waistband and hemline are not perfect circular arcs so getting the angles wouldn't help.

i ended up having to manually make my own measuring system by hand to work off.

i am never doing this again it was so much work and i think the final product will be worth it but god was this harrowing.

[furinana]

The subtle ways androgyny is used in SMTIV&A and its context in the franchise

What if I tell you... there's more characterization than it appears to be?

The most consistent trait among Megaten protagonists is certainly their androgyny. Fastidious fans would accept nothing less than the most beautiful eyelashes someone could have the privilege of being born with as it became a long defined characteristic in Kaneko's art.

Considering the franchise debuted with a main character described as a guy that would look good in a skirt, it's no wonder Kaneko (and later, Doi) had to follow the feminine-looking boy legacy:

However, this aspect is not actually that commonly depicted as a self-aware trait in the games. Attractive? Sure. Wooing ladies? Almost always. Specifically having a spotlight on the feminine features, though? Hardly any would be at par with our originator Nakajima.

Which includes Flynn. That being said, even if it's not brought up in the story, Flynn's androgyny is still touched upon not only in his profile notes in the SMTIV Artbook...

...but also in the way he's perceived in demon negotiations:

Excuse me!

Going from a stinky swordsman to bestie <333 in a flash.

Lham Dearg having this dialogue when the motherfucker shares the same hair lenght as Flynn is some double standards BS.

And then Chagrin-chan gives you a Detox solution.

However, you also have a chance of becoming a target of gender rivalry for this same answer:

No good, Chagrin-chan.

And then you have the rather unusually neutral way Flynn looks at relics:

You could argue that it’s due to Flynn being a country bumpkin born in an artificial world currently in its medieval period hence even basic concepts that he would know of would be interpreted differently when seeing their modern versions.

On another note, we also have to recognize that the location with the most conservative worldview is Mikado.

And yet, it's Nanashi the one with very gender-specific commentary:

A feasible counterpoint perhaps would lie on the possibility that Flynn didn’t grow with many women around him, specially ones that would invest in their own appearance which would be difficult considering their peasant background.

And an indoctrinated one on top of that.

Which isn't to say that there isn't makeup culture in Mikado though, as shown by Isabeau and Gabby.

Regarding Isabeau, I commented before that her choice of fashion seems to be more adapted to her own self-expression rather than a default way of presenting for either Luxurors or Samurai women. At any case, it's still part of a larger issue.

In fact, Luxurors and even monks from the Monastery weren't shown to be as anti-Unclean extremists as the Divine representatives themselves.

In the myth, Gabriel is a messenger who was entrusted to deliver several important messages on God’s behalf. Therefore, as Gabby, Gabriel acts as a mediator and makes God's message understandable to people through adapting her appearance to reach the most hearts as possible.

In other words, we have the picture of peasants being fairly ignorant of new technology (with Flynn among them) and only having the bare essentials while the higher caste thrives over luxuries to the point that becomes normalized what would be considered slightly sinful.

So much that even the angels had to tolerate it to a certain level in order to become close to humans and manipulate them.

Nanashi, on the other hand, meets so many ladies worried about their appearance all over the underground that he somehow ended up knowing more than Asahi even.

So essentially, Flynn "isn't familiar with female expression" but "effortlessly passes as a woman" regardless of what he's wearing while Nanashi "knows" and "plays around" with it like a costume.

And in both cases, it seemingly comes more "at the player's choice" rather than being done in an unsolicited way.

Doi's comments on SMTIVA's wardrobe convey that Nanashi is into wearing flashy clothes. Some fashionable, some dumb, some awfully absurd for anyone to wear in the middle of a war-like environment.

Nanashi basically wants to stand out. He fully knows he looks weird and is having a blast wearing flamboyant shit while fighting demons around Tokyo.

Meanwhile most of Flynn’s wardrobe are basically “gears that Flynn would consider useful for avoiding hazards while being ignorant of what the design means”.

Nanashi does it for fashion while Flynn does it for protection. This is also applied to the situations where the player "can choose" to act feminine: Nanashi crossdresses and wears make up while Flynn lets demons believe he's a woman to get a positive reaction in negotiations.

To summarize, Flynn was intended to be seen as an individual with both male and feminine traits (or the lack of both in some aspects) beyond just the stylistic choice of his androgynous design. While Nanashi is aware of gender roles and his social standing as a guy but also breaks expectations according to his own will.

These qualities are coherent to the lore of the story while simultaneously working on a gameplay perspective, as those are ways to bring diverse options for the average player while making female players also feel 'included' even if the protagonist is a boy (as emphasized by Doi himself), which is, to this day, an unbreakable tradition in mainline games:

Somehow, it turns out that Nakajima's legacy comes in handy with a seemingly unisex-presenting main character that is able to fill the gaps of an audience.

On an ending note, while we have yet to see a more complete official breakdown of SMTV's art direction through interviews, one can understandably connect a similar reasoning for the design choices behind Nahobino.

The fanbase of the series combined with Persona has a male-to-female ratio of 40:60, to which confirms the feminine-looking boys indeed reach a bigger female audience than male.

As interesting as it is, one can't help but wonder if we would ever actually reach the other side of the gender spectrum in an actual title. We have horny mods, so there's that at least.

[moirindeclermont]

Day 25 of our BridgertonS3 Polin Kinktober arrives with a train full of... lingerie and teasing!

Also, thanks to everyone who voted in the poll The weekly prompt on here and on Threads was the winner. I'm thinking of making a list of prompts (with your contribution) and extracting the lucky four for November. What do you think? Let me know!

But for now... let's enjoy this episode (also a modern!au)!

The weekends Pen goes shopping with her friends (who are not Eloise) are the worst for him.

Not because he misses her - he does, still - but because he knows they will go into some lingerie shop, pick some outrageous set or something she knows Colin likes, and then he has to pass the entire evening in a semi state, waiting for the moment they come back at home and he can finally observe her in all her beauty.

Pen did not have a thing for lingerie before him. He likes to think this little indulgence she concedes herself from time to time is because of him and how he literally goes crazy every time he sees a piece of lingerie on her.

So, yeah, he hates those weekends, but secretly, he can't wait, the desire and lust making themselves know the moment she goes out and they will see each other in the evening at the pub. He even has to rub one in the shower because he can't seem to function otherwise.

At the pub, he and his friends are the first to arrive. Pen always comes later, going home and changing into whatever torturing device she has chosen for him. After some time, he sees her in the corner of his eye, entering the pub. Colin gulps. Pen has a beautiful green skirt that arrives mid-thigh, a black camisole and a black and green corset over it. Under the skirt, he can see the black fishnets and the heels at her feet.

Most importantly, he can see they arrive just where the skirt starts, leaving him with the impression—confirmed once Pen is situated—that they are sustained with garters, leaving a tantalizing inch of white, creamy skin for him to lose his mind.

Pen kisses him, ignoring the "bleah" of their friends - as if they haven't done the same with their respective s.o., and then they quickly engage in conversation. Colin has to take a moment. Or several.

The camisole has some buttons open, leaving him with a perfect view of her breasts pushed up from the corset. She laughs at something John said, and Colin is so hard in his pants it is almost uncomfortable. The rest of the evening is a blur as Pen keeps teasing him, pushing his hand on her thighs, drawing his attention to her tits, licking her lips. By the time they go home, he is sure he is walking funny and grateful she waited for everyone to get up before they did it themselves.

The walk home is good, mainly because the fresh air makes him more lucid. Barely, though. The moment they step home, he helps her remove the coat, and he can't help but grope her bum.

"Go in our bedroom, Colin... I'll arrive in a minute."

He almost runs to the bedroom, causing Pen to laugh at his eagerness. He sits on the edge of the bed when Pen arrives, doing a little catwalk that has immediate consequences for him.

She has removed just the camisole, so now he has the most gorgeous view ever. Pen knows. She is teasing him still. She sits on his lap and kisses him deeply. "Hello, gorgeous," she says to him as he grabs her bum.

He goes down to her knees, expecting to feel her garters, then skin and then her thong or slip - whatever is fine with him - but instead, it's just skin and skin until he feels the garter belt. Fuck. Is she?

She is smirking. Fuck.

She stands up, removing the skirt and he can see her pu5sy bare. She turns around, so he can see her bum as well, and he curses out loud this time.

"Did you remove it just now?" he asks, breathless.

She doesn't answer, just goes near him, open his zips and takes his lenght out of his boxers, giving a pump for good measure.

Then she stay above him, ready for the next part.

"No, Colin. I was bare the entire time. Since I've arrived at the pub, I wanted you to put a finger on me. I was hoping..." and she lowers herself slowly, the tip now touching her soaked entrance, "I was hoping you would take me on your lap so that you could fxck me slowly."

She lowers even further until she is sitting on him again.

"Naughty girl, in front of our friends?" he lightly spanked her ass, making her moan. She nods, starting to move up and down on his dick.

He assists her effort with his hands, guiding the movements as he looks at her breasts, now bouncing. She smiles at him, clearly enjoying herself, and then, with a quick movement, she snaps the hooks, and the corset falls, leaving her in heels and garters. He grunts at that vision, and with a swift motion, he picks her up, turns them around, puts Pen on the bed, lifts her legs up and then drives in her again, causing her to gasp loudly.

From there, it takes only a few minutes for both of them to irgasm, both to be aroused to last long. He collapses on her side, kissing her deeply.

"You are going to kill me one day," he says. She smiles at him, love clear on her face, as she removes the garters. Colin stops her.

"Give me ten minute to recover, I'm going to fuck you again with those on."

Pen doesn't answer. She simply lies down on her side, lifts a leg, making it rest on his stomach, and then starts to rub it on him slowly.

He curses again.

"Ok, make it five minutes," causing her to laugh at him before kissing him, full of love.

[lovechrissturniolo]

18/ evening |18+|

contains: rough fucking on Matt's bed, no foreplay, pure smut

The stream was over.

Lea's boss had come to talk to Matt in the living room about the final contractual details while Lea and Chris were in Matt's room dismantling the equipment that belonged to the company.

〽️

The moment they were alone in the room, Chris was all over her. "Fuck you got me going with this little skirt, god damn!"

He greedily pressed his lips on hers while his hand wandered under her skirt.

"I don't wear anything underneath..." Lea gasped, taken by his greed.

"Fuck..."

"Tht's so risky Chris..." she tried to interrupt him even though she didn't care at all.

"I don't give a fuck! I need you right fucking now!"

He pushed her onto Matt's bed and pulled his sweatpants down.

"'m all yours!" she moaned and willingly spread her legs so that he could see her glistening wet slit. "can't get enough of you!"

Chris bent down and knelt between her legs while stroking over his hard-on.

"can tell." he moaned at the sight of her pussy looking so ready for him and couldn't stop slowly working his cock.

"Please don't tease..." Lea whined and put her legs around his hips to pull him closer.

He peeled back the skin from his tip and rubbed it against her wet entrance bevor pushing into her.

"Oh my god..." Lea moaned from his whole lenght stretching her out.

"Fuck!" Chris moaned at the same time. "Y're s' tight around me..."

Her moans became so loud that he had to silence her with his mouth. "Shh.. need'a be quiet."

"can't take it, feels s' good." she whimpered feeling her abdomen tighten even more.

"y' can." he commanded while speeding up his movements.

The sight of her pulling her head on her neck, arching her back made him feral.

"Look 't you" he panted, grabbing her hips to push into her as deep as possible. "so f'cking horny for me"

〽️

"I'm close..." Lea moaned and he felt her pussy tightening around his throbbing cock.

"Fuck, come for me... 'm so ready to explode..."

His hands were burried in the skin of her hips.

Her half open mouth and her rolled eyes as he repeatingly pushed into her almost made him lose it.

"F'ck I can't last any longer..." he groaned between clentched teeth and felt her climaxing right before his cock unloaded inside of her.

⬅️ index

[vampire-cupid]

Chris with a shorter alternative reader?

Maybe reader has fave piercings/tattoos and dresses darker and chris being a total geek definitely is into scary women.

but hear me out.

reader being like 5ft-5'4 ( chris being 6'3 in the remake ) and instead of the dynamic being

reader says jump: chris says how high

Chris totally doms the fuuuckkk out of them 😵‍💫😵‍💫 jejjxhs need more dom!chris tbh

🐾

I had so much fun writing this ^^

I have more Chris stories planned (including Dom!Chris so stay tuned! :3)

- from the moment Chris saw you he was in awe. Just mesmerized by your looks and they way you stuck out.

-the fact you are so much smaller than him made him realize he had a size kink. A big one at that.

-Please wear a low cut shirt and look up at him, he will melt and get on your knees for you.

-whenever the two of you are alone, his fingers will redraw the lines of your tattoo. He does it so often, he can redraw them without looking, the design already mapped in his mind

- will ask to see your tattoos all the time.

-having a tattoo on your upper thigh that gets hidden by a knee-lenght dress/skirt? Oh he will lift the skirt as soon as he has the chance to glance at the colors decorating your skin

-or having a tattoo on your chest that only he knows of? Oh he is getting hard just thinking about how no one but him knows

- similar with piercings, he loves to look at them but he loves touching them even more.

-Anytime he kisses you, he takes extra time to kiss every piercing he finds on your face.

-If you have a belly piercing, you can already bet who buys you crop tops all the time so he can look at it.

-secret nipple piercings? DAMN HE IS HORNY! Good luck of ever getting him off your chest.

-and yes he will grab a feel over your clothes or even slide his hand under your clothes to feel them. Just to make sure they are still there of course. Hes just a sweet boyfriend making sure his s/o has all their piercings

-the dark clothes are just the cherry on top for him.

-please put make up on him, he wants to match with you and have an excuse to be that close to you

-he tried once to fit your style more, dressing all dark and scary. It worked at first but as soon as he saw you he was just smiling so brightly that he once again was the sunshine boy

-if you wear platform boots or any sort of shoe that has spikes, he will love you even more. No matter how high they are he can still look down on you, it just makes kisses easier

-he loves his small s/o so much. Will do everything for you. This guy is WHIPPED!

-you want food? He will get food

-You want cuddles on the couch? He will be the best cuddle buddy ever!

-You want his help to get something from the top shelf but you want to get it yourself and not have him just grab it? He will lift you up easy peasy

-i said it before and Im gonna say it again “Size Kink!”

-Horny boy who loves to have to look down at you. He will hug and hold you close all the time.

-cuddling 24/7

-please lay on top of him, he will beg you.

-if you end up falling asleep on him, he will take pics, bragging to Josh how much he loves his s/o and make the picture his phone screen

-everyone always assumed that you would be on top in bed. None of your friend would have guessed that sweet Chris, who does literally anything you could ask for, would completely dominate you

-with his size he covers your whole body under his, having to lean down to kiss and fuck you at the same time

-he is big, not only in body size but in dick size as well. And if he pushes in all the way and sees the little bulge in your tummy, no doubt from his dick. HE WILL POUND YOU UNTIL YOU CANT WALK ANYMORE!

-dont even try to squirm away, unless you want his hands leave marks on you from his bruising grip.

-but as soon as the spicy time is over, he goes back to the sweet puppy who loves you so so much

[garysprites]

die 06 wearing a long skirt (same lenght as jade's skirt). just keep the color the same as his outfit :>

[lightleckrereins]

i have noticed some small differences with the Pink Alt Costume but can you go over them more in depth if possible?

Pink is a weird costume in that it has slowly changed over time instead of having easily separated versions like most of the six costumes. It has a lot to do with costume makers changing but there are really only two cases where you can say this two costumes have the same style: Shekinah and Zara, and now Erin and Laura. So under the cut my very long description of the changes in all of them.

I should mention that all the pink skirts and peplums have mirrored the Aragon costume skirt for that cast to some degree, in part because they generally share makers. I have the feeling this is intentional at least to some degree, but have no real way to confirm it.

Without going into changes that come from how the costumes fit the things that change are: collar shape, neckpiece shape and style, bodice style, belt shape, peplum shape and opening, and skirt shape.

The early costumes (Shekinah and Zara) had a square collar, a neckpiece with a soft curve in a single piece from the shoulder to the waist, a cutout panel covering the entire front and back, a straight belt with a small point at the front, a short peplum that lays almost flat over the skirt with the same lenght all around and has no gap at the front and a skirt with a wider gap and edges looking parallel to each other.

After reopening the first costume was Roxanne's and it keeps roughly the same bodice, belt, peplum and skirt but they switched the neckpiece to a sharper angle and made it in two pieces connecting at the edge of the collar, the collar also became curved towards the top. Natalie's costume went back to the original collar shape but kept the curved collar and had a rised peplum instead of flat over the skirt, it also added a second line of studs on the top of the peplum.

Leah had the biggest change up to that point. She had the curved top of the bodice and the neckpiece introduced for Roxanne, this time with studs over the seam. But then added a black square vinyl panel between the cutouts and the sequins on the bodice, made the belt thicker at the center front and gave it pointed shape. The peplum went back to being flatter but it became longer at the front creating a point and was longer all around (cutouts are placed differently too which makes it look even longer) it also lost the top line of studs. The skirt is narrower and flatter too.

Tamara went back to no black panels on the bodice and a straight collar. She kept the newer neckpiece with studs over the collar seam and the pointed belt. Her skirt was closer to the original shape, but her peplum got for the first time a wider opening than the skirt. The peplum also got very sharp point at the front and the top line of studs returned.

On a first look Erin has the same style as Leah with a wider skirt, but it is actually closer in construction to the Aragon costumes (specifically the US details that are slowly being standarized globally) than to older pink costumes. She has a straight collar, the newer neckpiece with studs on the collar seam and black panels on the top. But the top cutout panels became very narrow at the bottom, in turn making the side panels point towards the center instead of being vertical and the sequin panels wider at the bottom. Before the cutout panels had been very straight only narrowing towards the bottom following the shape of the torso. The belt kept the recent point but now is all the same width. Peplum and skirt are wider and have the same width for the gap, peplum is also raised and longer.

Photo angle for Erin doesn't allow for the best confirmation, but it seems like Laura has the same details with a shorter skirt and peplum (which could be just a matter of height).

[noa-de-cajou]

The Hawthorne Case, part 3

Part one and Skill index here

Part two here

Mention of drugs

Ian and Toshiki (both mentioned) belong to @corneille-but-not-the-author

The sun has risen at its highest in the sky, and Taiven’s bike comes to a halt in front of the People's Party Headquarters. The building is large, almost town-hall like, made of white stone and with a huge red banner with a white flower hung around the large door to the yard. Inside, people can be seen running around the corridors on several stories.

SCATTERBRAIN – It's nothing like the district office. It's a hive.

HYPERMNESIA – This is where you first became an adherent, back in 189. Your hands were shaking when you asked for a membership card. You had stolen from your parents’ cash register to pay the fee. Either they never found out or they chose to ignore it.

COMPOSURE – 2:45 pm. You're on time.

Taiven parks her bike in the backyard, secures it with a lock. She walks in, the receptionist lifts her head.

COMPOSURE – Her tired eyes squint at your entrance.

BLEEDING HEART – She recognizes you, and not in a good way.

PARTI DU PEUPLE – Yolanda Rodriguez woke up this morning with a terrible headache. Had to dress up her youngest kids for school, her eldest is fifteen and giving her trouble. It’s never been the same since his father passed away during the war. He’s never quite gotten accustomed to his stepdad, either.

HYPERMNESIA – You heard her mutter something under her breath about the Markhovs once.

PARTI DU PEUPLE – She thinks you’re too loud and obnoxious.

THEATRICS – Which isn't really wrong.

SHADOWSELF – Show that you remember her.

SENSES (SIGHT) – Hey, look in her bun! That's a rose hairpin.

SCATTERBRAIN – Pretty...

“Hi, Yolanda,” Taiven says with a smile. “You look great today! Nice hairpin.”

COMPOSURE – Her sour face cracks a little with surprise.

STREET SMARTS – That hairpin was probably the only nice thing she had the time to put on this morning.

BLEEDING HEART – She’s a little happy someone noticed.

“Thanks, Mrs Markhov. Have a good day.”

RHETORIC – That's as amicable as she'll get with you, but at least she won’t pry as to why you’re here.

Taiven walks past the reception and into the offices, buzzing with activity.

THE HUNT – No one is paying attention to your entrance. Make a beeline for Janelle’s office.

PARTI DU PEUPLE – You know where it is by now.

Taiven carefully zigzags between the people and the machines and the office desks before heading up huge marble stairs and into the first floor hallway.

AIM/READY/FIRE – You bump into several people on your way to the office. Proprioception isn’t your strong suit.

THE HUNT – Lucky for you, all of them seem to have more important business than yelling at you for being careless.

The office is at the very end of the hallway. A plaque on it reads “Janelle Venegas - secretary”.

PARTI DU PEUPLE – She was a mere adherent when you two met.

HYPERMNESIA – Nearly eight years ago.

Taiven inhales slowly, readies her fist to knock.

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – Hey. Breathe. You’ll be fine.

THE HUNT – But what if-

BLOODSTAINED DOOR – Remember. Fast tap. Not a clear knock. You know how terrifying those are.

SOLLERTIA – You knock. A fast tapping.

SCATTERBRAIN – Knockknockknockknockknockknocknock.

“Yes, Mr Presgella, one moment, please!”

PARTI DU PEUPLE – Right. Dlawenn booked the appointment under his name.

The door opens on a young woman. Small stature, medium-lenght blonde iron-curled hair, greenish eyes, a tan birthmark on the cheek. Her blazer is neatly ironed, so is her skirt, and her moccasin are absolutely spotless.

BLEEDING HEART – Her face, however, is marked by stress, frustration and lack of sleep underneath the perfect make-up.

HYPERMNESIA – Janelle Venegas. Twenty-five years old. Her family was deported during the war for being openly communist. She was saved and hidden by the Resistance.

PARTI DU PEUPLE – She was promoted to secretary back in 193, right before you got married.

SHADOWSELF – She is what most people would consider pretty.

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – She’s hot as fuck, you mean.

FOCUS – Ahem. She has a diamond engagement ring on her finger.

PARTI DU PEUPLE – Future Mrs Marques.

NERVES – For some reason, you feel a little annoyed by that fact.

COMPOSURE – She freezes in the doorway. Looks you up and down. Then you can see realization dawn on her face.

THEATRICS – You’ve duped her.

BLEEDING HEART – Disbelief. Anger. And a tinge of panic.

PARTI DU PEUPLE – “Dlawenn. I trusted you.”

She shakes her head, her blonde locks moving along with it.

“Ugh, I can't deal with this right now.”

STREET SMARTS – SHE’S CLOSING THE DOOR!!

REFLEXES – STOP HER. NOW.

AIM/READY/FIRE – ON IT.

SOLLERTIA – Wait no don’t-

REFLEXES – I’m sorry, it's the only way.

FEISTY FLESH – Go for it, NOW.

Taiven lunges at the door, grips the frame with her left hand.

“Janelle, wait-”

The wooden door violently slams on her poor fingers.

NERVES – OW OW OW FUCK HELL BLOODY FUCKING SHIT-

SOLLERTIA – YOUR FINGERS!!

THICKSKIN – Come on, don’t be a-

NERVES – SHIT FUCK GOD FUCKING DAMMIT-

COMPOSURE – You grit your teeth and try to swallow down tears. They start gathering in your eyes nonetheless.

THICKSKIN – Fucking hell, it isn’t that ba-

NERVES – DAY ABOVE YOU SON OF A BITCH WHY DID YOU DO THAT FUCK THIS FUCK EVERYTHING SHITDAMMIT-

FEISTY FLESH – Have to say, your commitment to this is quite admirable.

NERVES – WHAT GOOD IS YOUR FUCKING “COMMITMENT” DOING RIGHT NOW-

SOLLERTIA – The door suddenly lifts off your fingers. Release at last!

NERVES – THANK GOD.

Janelle stands there, looking absolutely dumbfounded.

“I- What- Why would you do that?!”

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – For your gorgeous eyes.

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – For justice.

THEATRICS – Hey. You could exploit this a little. You'd just have to stop holding back your tears.

RHETORIC – I see what you’re doing. Smart.

COMPOSURE – It isn’t… Ugh, fine. Tears start flowing down your face. It’s surprisingly easy.

NERVES – BECAUSE. IT. HURTS.

THEATRICS – Can you put in a little sob for good measure?

COMPOSURE – …

THEATRICS – Pleaaase? Pretty please?

COMPOSURE – A pathetic little sob wracks your shoulders. Happy?

BLEEDING HEART – Janelle’s eyes widen. Guilt starts filling them.

SHADOWSELF – Whatever you're doing, it’s working.

THE HUNT – She looks around the hallway.

PARTI DU PEUPLE – People are not paying attention to you… Yet.

THEATRICS – Can you-

COMPOSURE – Yes, you sob a little louder.

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – Something in Janelle gives in.

“I- Oh, for god’s sake, just come in already!”

She joins the gesture to the word and grabs Taiven’s arm to pull her in and slam the door behind her.

FOCUS – The office is small but well-lit, with huge windows and a nice view. The desk is neatly organized, the typewriter clean and the fax machine brand new. A small TV stands in the far corner. Colorful pencils and pens fill the holders. There’s even a little cactus.

SCATTERBRAIN – Its name is the Destroyer of Realms.

PARTI DU PEUPLE – Its name is actually Prick.

SCATTERBRAIN – The smallest prick in those headquarters.

THEATRICS – Mission complete. You can stop crying now.

COMPOSURE – As a matter of fact, you can’t.

NERVES – I-It just hurts so fucking much.

THICKSKIN – You really are just a crybaby. You've been through way worse.

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – Hey, at least you didn't damage your ring!

Janelle drags Taiven to a chair, forces her to sit and leans down to inspect her fingers. The Gaikamshigthai winces, the secretary grits her teeth.

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – Her fingers. On yours.

NERVES – It hurts!!

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – You might be into that.

THICKSKIN – Yeah, uh, you're not. Or like. Not a lot. I hope.

“Why would you… Ugh, nevermind, just wait here.”

She goes to rummage through a minifridge situated behind her desk and pulls out an ice pack, that she delicately places on Taiven’s hand.

“There. Twenty minutes. Should prevent the swelling.”

NERVES – I suggest we all start worshipping the almighty Ice Pack Provider right now.

SOLLERTIA – It does feel good.

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – Hey, she’s really close to you and she smells real nice.

SENSES (SMELL) – Expensive perfume. Lily of the Valley.

SMARTASS – Probably a gift from Anthony.

COMPOSURE – Ahem. You’ve stopped crying.

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – That's great! About time!

“Thanks,” Taiven says, repressing a sniffle.

Janelle sits at her desk, crosses her arms and huffs.

FEISTY FLESH – She's stressed out. Uncomfortable. She'd much rather be working at her open space desk downstairs, but appointments deserve an office.

PERCEPTION (SIGHT) – Now that you mention it, this office does seem a little too neat. It's probably unused most of the time.

SOLLERTIA – Explains the low-maintenance plant.

“You’re welcome. Taiven, what on earth are you doing here?”

RHETORIC – Oh, she's pissed.

BLEEDING HEART – Can’t really blame her.

RHETORIC – Get straight to the point. Her patience runs in short supply today.

“I’m here because I need your help.”

Janelle raises a doubtful eyebrow.

“You… needed my help… so you made someone else book an appointment for you and then showed up unannounced at the headquarters?”

RHETORIC – Of course, when you put it like that…

“You're lucky that Anthony’s upstairs. He’s been on and on about Saturday’s meeting.”

THE HUNT – Nervousness in her tone.

BLEEDING HEART – And a hint of resentment.

BLOODSTAINED DOOR – You're everywhere. Like a pipe leaking into her fiancé’s mind. Like poison.

ASSERTION – Awww, did the poor baby not take your interventions very well?

“What, he's still sore about me speaking up, which is my first right as an adherent?” Taiven sneers.

RHETORIC – Maybe not the best thing to say to someone you want help from.

ASSERTION – Screw that. If Anthony has a problem with you, let’s settle it face-to-face.

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – Chill out! You can't let the thought of that asshole rile you up. You have an important task at hand.

Janelle frowns, but sighs reluctantly.

“I guess you could say that. But let’s keep this short. What do you need me for?”

RHETORIC – She wants this to be over as fast as possible. So do you. Be smart about this.

“Do you know anything about a new adherent? A certain… Tristan Hawthorne?”

THEATRICS – Fake hesitation. Perfect. That’ll help us corner her later.

COMPOSURE – She tries to keep her features smooth, but she’s not good at it. Worry is visible in her entire demeanor.

NERVES – The name stirs something unpleasant in her.

“... No. I don’t know of every person who joins the Party. Do you have any idea of how high the number is?”

SMARTASS – Not precisely, but you know it’s like, kind of huge.

THEATRICS – However! She’s lying.

RHETORIC – And why would she lie, if not to hide that she knows something?

“Really? That's a shame. I assume you wouldn't know of his wife either?”

COMPOSURE – Janelle visibly tenses up, gripping her hands together.

PARTI DU PEUPLE – Who here doesn’t know Charity Hawthorne?

SMARTASS – You, apparently.

“What’s your deal with them?” she asks, defensively.

THEATRICS – Stopped playing dumb, have we?

“Me? Oh, I'm just curious. I've heard a lot about Mrs Hawthorne, I thought you could enlighten me.”

SMARTASS – Janelle may not be that clever, but she’s far from stupid. No one books an appointment just because they're curious, not even you.

SOLLERTIA – They also don’t get their fingers crushed over it.

THEATRICS – But she still can't figure out where exactly this is going.

“I don’t know anything,” Janelle replies hastily. “You should leave, Taiven. Anthony might come in any minute and I don’t want him to see you here.”

RHETORIC – Because if he does, she’ll never hear the end of it.

SCATTERBRAIN – That boy’s like a broken record.

PARTI DU PEUPLE – On the fourth floor of the building, Anthony Marques is neck-deep in a meeting with his partisans. “You have to assert yourself, Marques,” one hammers. “If you keep getting ridiculed by the Markhov bitch, you'll never get a seat in Parliament!” A woman sighs, “You’re lucky your popularity’s still looking pretty high, but that could change any moment. Stop going to public speaking events hands-in-pockets like your position’s granted. You lack preparation.” Anthony grits his teeth. “But she-” “Gods, Marques, stop being so obssessed with that girl! It’s the seat you need. She's just a speck of dust in your way. Brush it off. The more importance you give her, the more she’ll have room to crush you. She’s a non-mage, why would she ever be a threat?”

SMARTASS – I think the little bitchlord is busy at the moment.

THE HUNT – It would be bad if he did see you here, though.

RHETORIC – Be efficient about this.

“Janelle, I don’t need that much. Just to see a videotape of whatever meeting where Charity Hawthorne took the stand.”

The secretary’s eyes refuse to look into hers.

“I’m not really supposed to show the tapes to random adherents.”

THEATRICS – Got her.

“So you do have one.”

Janelle blinks.

“What?”

“A videotape of Charity Hawthorne’s speech.”

COMPOSURE – Color drains from her face as she realizes her slip-up.

“I- What difference does that make?! I can’t just show it to anybody, especially not you!”

“Why especially not me?”

“Because Anthony-”

She stops herself short. Straightens her back, a defiant glint in her eyes.

COMPOSURE – Trying to regain some sort of control.

SOLLERTIA – Fidgeting with her ring. Just like Tristan.

“It doesn’t matter. Go home, Taiven. Please.”

BLEEDING HEART – It’s supposed to sound firm, but if anything, it’s more of a plea.

ASSERTION – Stand your ground. Keep pushing her. You’re getting there.

SHADOWSELF – Welp, no choice. Janelle cares a lot about doing what's right, deep down, and you know it. Pull at her heartstrings.

HYPERMNESIA – “It’s just awful, Lia. How can they let this go? Someone died because of this smuggling and no one cares because the owner of the warehouse has a seat in Parliament and didn't want bad publicity? How could anyone…”

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – Um, I don’t know. This feels wrong.

THE HUNT – She used you. What's so wrong about using her back?

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – It’s not who you are.

BLOODSTAINED DOOR – Or is it?

SHADOWSELF – You’ve done far worse than that.

Taiven leans a little closer, putting her elbows on the desk, with her most serious expression.

“Janelle. This, and I mean it, this could help me save Tristan Hawthorne.”

The secretary takes some time before answering.

“Save him… From what?”

BLEEDING HEART – That stirred her worry.

“From whom. Charity. I have good reasons to think that she’s abusing him.”

“Really? Tristan is…”

RHETORIC – First-name basis? Interesting.

PARTI DU PEUPLE – They've met before. Never spoke, but saw each other enough for that. Maybe at some… unofficial dinners.

SMARTASS – Corruption?

PARTI DU PEUPLE – Wouldn't be the first time.

“There’s been signs,” Taiven continues, keeping it vague. “I need to know what kind of person Charity is. And I think this tape might be necessary. Don’t you want to help Tristan out?”

“I…”

SOLLERTIA – Fidgeting with her ring again.

THEATRICS – She isn’t doubting you for a second here. Isn’t that weird?

PARTI DU PEUPLE – She knows, deep down, that you're trustworthy. And that you’re always, always serious about these kinds of things.

BLEEDING HEART – But Tristan makes her uncomfortable, you can tell.

BLOODSTAINED DOOR – He reminds him too much of herself. It’s painful. She'd rather cover her eyes.

SHADOWSELF – Come on. She's about to crack. Go all out.

Taiven slowly reaches out her free hand to place it softly on top of Janelle’s. The young secretary startles a little, but this time her eyes remain on Taiven’s face.

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – Oooooh, daring.

“Nellie. Please. If not for him, for me.”

SHADOWSELF – Nickname. Perfect.

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – Kind of a low blow, really.

SHADOWSELF – Who cares? It works.

COMPOSURE – It does. Conflictual feelings wash over Janelle’s face as she glances between your face, your hand on hers, and a box on the shelves behind her. Then, she sighs, massages her temple.

“... Fine. Fine, I'll play it for you. But only once, you hear me?”

SHADOWSELF – Got her. Hook, line, and sinker.

BLEEDING HEART – The nickname got her. Reminded her of some good times.

HYPERMNESIA – September 15th, 189. You walk into the offices on the ground floor, your brand new membership card in hand, since you were allowed to take a look. A girl about your age, short blonde hair and a birthmark on the cheek, is walking in with a coffee cup and approaches you with a smile. “Hi! Um, I'm sorry if this sounds weird, but I saw you get your badge delivered from over here, and you looked cold, so I thought I’d get you a cup. It’s not prime quality, but it does the work.” You took it, blinking.

BLEEDING HEART – You weren’t that used to kindness from strangers.

SHADOWSELF – Much less from pretty, popular-looking ones.

HYPERMNESIA – She smiled and extended a hand. “I'm Janelle Venegas, but most people call me Nellie. What about you? What's your name?” You swallowed.

BLOODSTAINED DOOR – Swallowed the truth.

HYPERMNESIA – “Thalia Kellermann.” You shook hands. Hers were warm from holding the cup she’d just given you. “Hmm… I should probably call you comrade Kellermann, then, but that's a little too formal. Thalia, Thalia… Can I call you Lia? Is Lia okay with you?”

ASSERTION – She was much more outgoing and talkative then.

BLEEDING HEART– She didn't like it when you changed your name back.

BLOODSTAINED DOOR – But you had to.

“Thank you. Really.”

“Don’t mention it,” Janelle grumbles before standing up and opening the box she was glancing at. She rummages through it for a few seconds before pulling out a tape.

PERCEPTION (SIGHT) – The date is… “something/something/194”. Sorry, that's the best I can do.

SMARTASS – So that was from two years ago. Recent enough.

Janelle walks up to the TV and gestures for Taiven to come over before sliding the tape into the dusty cassette player. The Gaikamshigthai stands up, with her ice pack still pressed on her now numb fingers.

“... I’m gonna play it. Ready?”

BLOODSTAINED DOOR – A strange form of gravity laces her words. Maybe you should backtrack-

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – Nuh-uh. You’re not giving up, not after all of this shit.

SCATTERBRAIN – The sacrifice of your fingers shall not be in vain!

“Ready.”

SOLLERTIA – She slowly presses PLAY, then takes a step back.

FOCUS – After a little static, a picture of a people-filled stadium comes into view. The sky is heavy with clouds and most people are wearing summer clothes, short-sleeved and made of light fabric. They’re cheering.

PERCEPTION (SIGHT) – Good video quality.

SOLLERTIA – Probably filmed with a magic camera? Magic cameras are a little more advanced.

SMARTASS – Electronic ones are starting to catch up, though.

FOCUS – The first few minutes are pretty uninteresting. A bunch of speakers, more or less acclaimed. Until the spokesperson announces, “Now, please welcome Mrs Charity Hawthorne to the stand!”

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – Wow. This is the most lukewarm applause you've ever heard.

FOCUS – A woman walks on stage. Zoom-in. Tall, deep-green hair cut short, very fancy suit, dark eyes, lips pressed into a thin line. Skinny build. Late twenties.

SHADOWSELF – There's some charm to her.

SMARTASS – Well, duh. Otherwise she wouldn't be a politician.

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – I mean, if every politician looked at least this good…

FOCUS – She clears her throat.

PERCEPTION (HEARING) – An uneasy chatter runs through the crowd.

“People of the Party, Party of the People, it's with great honor than I stand before you once more. I was pleasantly surprised to see that many of you have called for me to come back here. And beyond grateful.”

SMARTASS – So that wasn't her first speech. The second, most likely.

BLEEDING HEART – That crowd looks very unconvinced.

THEATRICS – She speaks the truth, though. The people did ask for her.

RHETORIC – But what kind of people, exactly?

“These are dark times. Each day that passes, the divide in our city grows deeper and deeper. You all know which divide I speak of: the mages and the non-mages.”

SMARTASS – Hold up. Isn’t she a mage?

HYPERMNESIA – Dlawenn did say she was a radical, so maybe…

“As mages, we have a duty to help the lesser abled and stand on equal ground with them. However, it seems that powerful mages nowadays are only interested in two things, forming those makeshift oligarchic clubs they call “political Cliques” and keeping their privileges and money to themselves. The non-mages can only stare from below and watch the nation fall to ruins with their living conditions.”

THEATRICS – Wow, she sure doesn’t mince her words.

THE HUNT – It’s dangerous. To call out the Cliques like that.

RHETORIC – Hum, is not one going to talk about the fact that she said “lesser abled” to talk about non-mages? It was drowned in the rest of her words, but it was there.

BLOODSTAINED DOOR – Yes. Something is definitely not adding up.

PERCEPTION (HEARING) – The stadium is dead silent, except for her voice.

“Dear comrades, contrary to popular belief, magic is not something you are born with or without. It’s something you have to train. A potential you should cultivate. So what if, what if… Magic was made more accessible?”

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – So she means non-mages can have access to magic remedies? Magic services? Mixed schools?

RHETORIC – No. I don't think so. And I don't like where this is heading.

“It's simple, really. What good is magic that only a few people master? What if everyone… And I mean everyone could be a mage?”

THEATRICS – The crowd stands there. Dumbfounded. Waiting for her to elaborate. So are you.

PARTI DU PEUPLE – She's exalted. They all listen.

BLOODSTAINED DOOR – That reminds you of someone. Something. Impending doom.

HYPERMNESIA – “Are we gonna die?”

“It'd be slow, of course. Non-mages would have to enroll into special programs, special training facilities, to avoid influence. Cliques would have to be overseen by the state. But imagine what Encre would look like if every single one of its citizens was a mage! Better productions, better schools… A better army. Everything we never were and everything we need to be. We could take it all back. Encre is a glorious country and we could make its population just as glorious… If we only tried.”

PERCEPTION (HEARING) – Silence. Deafening. Then a slow clap. Then another. Then a whole part of the stadium bursts into-

SOLLERTIA – It all stops. Janelle took the tape out.

“... I think you've seen enough.”

Taiven remains silent. Eyes fixed on the empty screen.

THEATRICS – … What the fuck was that?!

RHETORIC – Concentration camps. That’s what she means by “training facilities.” Concentration camps.

THEATRICS – She’s nuts. That woman’s completely nuts!!

SMARTASS – No. She isn’t. That's the problem.

BLEEDING HEART – Janelle seems a little sorry that you had to see this.

PARTI DU PEUPLE – It was probably worse for her. She was behind that camera two years ago.

SOLLERTIA – With no button to stop the tape from running.

“Are you okay, Taiven?”

RHETORIC – “You did ask to see it.” She doesn't say “Told you so” but it’s written all over her voice.

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – … Yes. Yes, you'll be fine.

BLOODSTAINED DOOR – You will be. But for now, you're not.

THICKSKIN – You feel nauseous. Like you’re gonna puke.

SHADOWSELF – Hey! Remember what we said about not throwing up on people’s shoes again?!

“I… I don’t know how anyone could be fine after seeing this.”

Janelle simply nods, guides Taiven back to her chair and sits down next to her this time. Not behind her office desk.

BLEEDING HEART – She can’t help but feel compassion for you now. She thought it'd feel good to see you that way, as a sort of petty revenge, but it doesn’t.

SOLLERTIA – She hesitates before patting you on the back, slowly.

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – It does help a little.

The secretary sighs.

“I don't blame you. That’s why I didn't want to get you involved. She's… always been like this.”

ASSERTION – How come this hasn’t gotten her arrested yet? Or lynched?

SMARTASS – That's right. The treaty of Xofu-Nandong has been very clear, if an extremist party was ever to emerge, the allied forces would intervene themselves.

BLOODSTAINED DOOR – And then it would all start again. Over, and over, and over, and…

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – Breathe. In. Out. You need to think clearly.

PARTI DU PEUPLE – She hasn't been arrested yet because she's a mage. An asset. And you've heard the applause. There are people who think like her.

“Janelle… Do you… agree with her?”

“No.”

RHETORIC – The answer rang loud and clear.

“I agree that magic is useful, but I don't think being born a non-mage is a mistake, either. Some people just shouldn’t be mages. I mean look at you, Taiven, you can barely control yourself as it is, I wouldn't dare to imagine what you'd be like with powers!”

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – Hey, rude.

RHETORIC – It might be true, but there’s nicer ways to say it…

ASSERTION – She’s got some principles. You might not agree on a whole lot of things, but you can respect that.

“Gee, thanks. But, moving on…”

Taiven leans back into her chair and sighs.

“I was right to be worried. Tristan's a non-mage. If she applies her ideas to her personal life, I can't imagine what she does to him when no one’s looking.”

COMPOSURE – Janelle becomes livid.

“... Shit. You’re right.”

RHETORIC – She rarely swears, but the situation calls for it.

“Ugh… This is why I hate arranged marriages,” she mutters. “At least I had a choice.”

SOLLERTIA – Fidgeting with her ring. Again.

NERVES – Always does when she's nervous. It's the third time since the beginning of the discussion.

PARTI DU PEUPLE – She thinks about Anthony.

THE HUNT – She’s scared of him.

BLEEDING HEART – She loves him.

BLOODSTAINED DOOR – It’s the worst part.

FEISTY FLESH – But she’ll be fine. He doesn't beat her.

THE HUNT – Yet.

PARTI DU PEUPLE – And when he'll start, no one will care. Because he is a mage, and she isn't.

FEISTY FLESH – A dull anger fills your lungs.

HYPERMNESIA – Pitiful stares. "Poor thing. Such a waste of a pretty face."

“I knew Charity was… Well, peculiar. But if she does what you suspect she does to Tristan…”

She lifts her head to look at Taiven.

“What are you going to do now?”

SMARTASS – Now? You’ve had a good overview of what Charity is like. You should-

FEISTY FLESH – Find her address, walk up there and punch all the air out of her rotten lungs.

THE HUNT – No. Absolutely not. No direct contact with someone like her. She might be dangerous.

ASSERTION – Also, pretty sure that'd be considered a break-in.

THICKSKIN – And she's a mage. You’d be no match for her.

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – You also promised Ian you were going to investigate safely.

RHETORIC – Technically, you didn't promise anything, but-

FOCUS – You need testimonies. Someone who'd be willing to give you anonymous info that you can hand to the police later.

THE HUNT – But what kind of mouse would be willing to face a lion?

“I… I need testimonies. Someone other than Tristan who could testify on his behalf. But… Yeah, I don't think there’s anyone like that,” Taiven sighs.

She slowly gets up from her chair, putting down the ice pack on the desk.

“Thanks for humoring me, Janelle. I'll need to look deeper into this. See what I can do.”

“Taiven, wait.”

The secretary slowly takes her left wrist.

SOLLERTIA – Taking a look at your fingers.

“Hm. It’s a little red, but I don’t think they’re broken, and it hasn't swollen too much… You should be good to go.”

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – Anthony must have all of this. All of the soft touches of fingers on skin and more.

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – Unwarranted.

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – Oh, cut the crap. You know what you wanted then.

BLEEDING HEART – You were friends. Before Anthony came along.

THE HUNT – You weren't friends. Never were. She ditched you as soon as he came into the picture.

SCATTERBRAIN – And lost her spark.

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – Ah, jealousy.

COMPOSURE – Don’t pay that one any mind. You weren't jealous. Why would you even be?

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – You could have treated her so much better. That's what you always thought.

THEATRICS – Shut up.

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – Why? I'm always honest with you. You’re always lying to yourself, I'm the only one who doesn’t buy into your little self-righteous act. And right now I'm telling you that her fingers on yours are making you feel weird.

COMPOSURE – Stop it. It's not like that. You don't have feelings towards her. That’d be ridiculous.

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – Oh, I'm not talking about feelings, those are a little faded now. No, if we’re talking about feelings, then… Well. You know who you have feelings for.

BLOODSTAINED DOOR – No, you don’t, and you don’t need to know. You don’t have feelings for anybody.

SHADOWSELF – You don’t do feelings. You don’t deserve feelings.

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – It’s not about what you deserve or don’t deserve, it's about priorities! And your priorities should be, in order, your family, helping out Tristan, and the Party.

SCATTERBRAIN – Hum, what about Toshiki?

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – I said “family”, didn’t I?

SCATTERBRAIN – Oh. Oh! Yes! Makes sense!

FOCUS – Alright. You know what you should do?

SMARTASS – Oooh is it what I think it is?

SCATTERBRAIN – Please not-

FOCUS – A checklist.

SMARTASS – FUCK YEAH! CHECKLIST!

SCATTERBRAIN – Nooooo… Not again… Whyyy? Why can't you just, I don't know, go with the flow?

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – Because you need to be a respectable member of society and being respectable member of society is incredibly, utterly, indeniably boring.

FOCUS – No, you need to get your priorities straight for maximum efficiency.

COMPOSURE – I agree, but could you run that in the background? I think you've been staring off into space for a good three minutes and Janelle seems concerned.

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – Still holding your hand, by the way!

“... ven. Taiven? Say something.”

NERVES – Yeah, uh, let me reboot that real quick.

Taiven startles as a sudden shudder shakes her, and she repeatedly blinks, vision finally coming back into focus.

“Yes! Yes, sorry, you were saying?”

“Um, nothing in particular, you were just… really silent. And your eyes were unfocused, you seemed... elsewhere. I was afraid you were having a panic attack.”

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – Oh, right. The silent ones.

HYPERMNESIA – Those episodes used to be pretty common for you, back in the day. She stayed with you through a few of them.

BLEEDING HEART – It’s not the panic attack that scares her.

BLOODSTAINED DOOR – It’s where you go when you leave.

THE HUNT – You've seen that expression before. Those eyes. The frown. Trying to reach you when you disappear inside your own mind.

SCATTERBRAIN – The flames in the dark.

COMPOSURE – You breathe in, slowly, straighten your back.

“Don’t worry, Nellie. I’m good. A little lost in thought is all.”

“Are you sure? You should remain seated a little if you don’t feel well…”

RHETORIC – What happened to “you should leave as soon as possible”?

NERVES – It hurts when she's being nice to you like that.

ASSERTION – You don’t need her pity.

“No, really, I'm fine.”

Taiven gets up slowly, just in case.

THICKSKIN – You feel okay. Not great, but okay. No dizziness, no pain, no tunnel vision, you're good to go.

Janelle stands still for a second before rushing to her desk, scribbling something on a piece of paper and shoving it into Taiven's hand.

“Here. If you're looking for testimonies. It might not be much but it's a start.”

BLEEDING HEART – She can’t believe what she's doing right now.

COMPOSURE – Neither can you.

“Wow. Uh… Thanks, Janelle. Really.”

“Don’t mention it. Now, Mrs Markhov, if you’d please be on your way.”

RHETORIC – That's bureaucratic for “get the fuck out”.

ASSERTION – She’s back into professional mode now. You should do the same.

STREET SMARTS – Wait until you're outside to read that paper.

Taiven nods curtly before heading out the office, then down the stairs, until she reaches the backyard where her bike still waits.

SCATTERBRAIN – Good bike. Such a good boy.

STREET SMARTS – The yard is empty and no one seems to be around. Plus, the walls block out the noise of the street. Perfect timing for reading that paper.

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – And for a smoke.

SOLLERTIA – Your fingers hurt a little when you press them on your lighter, but soon enough your cigarette is lit and you unfold the crumpled paper.

SENSES (SIGHT) – A neat, tight handwriting. Two names and an address.

“The Brickwall, 25B Solomon Street”

“Magali and Charles Delestre”

HYPERMNESIA – Huh. Delestre… Delestre… Nope, nothing on that name.

SMARTASS – Janelle said something about testimonies. They might know something about the Hawthorne situation.

PARTI DU PEUPLE – Janelle has always been good at finding and keeping sources everywhere. Always been naturally good with people.

SHADOWSELF – Unlike you.

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – Hey! We have scripts now! We know how to talk to people, we've learned how to. We know the ropes now.

SHADOWSELF – It’s not something you’re supposed to learn the ropes of.

FOCUS – So. I’m done with that checklist. Let’s recap.

- Make sure Tristan’s willing to be helped out of his situation ✓

- Make sure Ian approves ✓

- Get information on the Hawthorne family from Dlawenn ✓

- Watch a tape of Charity Hawthorne’s speech to learn what kind of person you're dealing with ✓

- Pick up Ujin from school at 4:30

- Make dinner

- Ask Ian if he can get one free evening

- Visit the Brickwall and interrogate Magali and Charles Delestre on said evening

SMARTASS – Hold on one moment. I love this, but I have to ask, what even is the Brickwall?

HYPERMNESIA – You remember it. It’s a bar. Open from 6pm to 6am every night.

CITY GIRL – Solomon Street only comes alive at dusk. For now, the sun only shines on a paved road littered with empty goblets, cigarette butts and colorful pieces of torn paper. Someone lost their shoe in front of the 25B. The blinds are shut, but inside, the employees are already hard at work. Gordianus Gens Laurentia, the owner, is coordinating his staff from his countertop, towering above the room with all his 129 centimeters. “Mayumi, I want those speakers working in thirty minutes. Bilal, if the shaker keeps malfunctioning, you're on barista duty tonight, you have the best grip in this entire town. Snowfeather, are the costumes and stage ready yet? Who's taking care of the lights? Penny, if you'd be so kind as to go get Heinrich, that good-for-nothing is probably tripping on Ferran somewhere in North Galilea and I need him tonight. What do you mean you broke your heel, Julieta?!”

STREET SMARTS – Wait, isn't that…

HYPERMNESIA – This is a bar where all people that don’t recognize themselves in the gender binary, in the classic heterosexual norm or that want some fun can gather.

RHETORIC – A queer bar. The Brickwall is a queer bar.

HYPERMNESIA – It opened back in 190. Before that… You don’t remember what it was before the war. You never went in this part of town then.

CITY GIRL – Solomon Street is known for many things. Opioid lounges. Bars. Cabarets. Nightclubs. A few brothels disguised as motels.

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – So, so much debauchery.

SMARTASS – Where do you even remember this from?!

HYPERMNESIA – You went in once. When you were absolutely stoned. You don't remember what you did in there.

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – Oh god. This is the worst.

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – Are you kidding?! We're finally about to get that party started!

PARTI DU PEUPLE – Why would Janelle send you to a queer bar?

THE HUNT – To get back at you.

SMARTASS – For your investigation. Remember the names. Those two are probably regulars.

COMPOSURE – That's gonna be tricky. You’re the Chief Head of the Bureau’s wife. You can't be seen in this kind of place.

THEATRICS – Well, you know what that means. You’ll have to blend in with that crowd.

FOCUS – For the good of the investigation.

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – Ugh, bars are not good for you, I don't know if-

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – Shut up, stick-up-the-ass! This is finally my time to shine! Oh, you're gonna have so much fun.

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – But this is a bar. A bar means evening. Evening means no sun. No sun means-

THICKSKIN – You’ll just get a lot of caffeine.

SMARTASS – And go in early.

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – …

SCATTERBRAIN – Do you get to put on glitter?

NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS – Damn right you do. Hey, brain gal! Put this on your lil list!

FOCUS – Checklist update:

- Get ready to serve cunt. Whatever that means.

SUN-POWERED-POWERPLANT – Day above, have mercy.

BLOODSTAINED DOOR – No use praying to a dead god.

THEATRICS – Well, sister... Time to get on stage.

[the-flower-ranchers]

The Flower Rancher's Askblog family 😋🤟

*This post will be linked in the pinned post, and will be updated :D*

🌸: Its 🌸!!!!!I have white hair with purple ombre, forest green eyes and I'm a selkie! My outfit is red leather jacket with blue and yellow patches ontop of a black tank top. I have see through leggings with star patterns on them with Jean shorts on top! Idrk my personality but I guess you can tell I'm near by with trails of rose petals and the distinct fragrance of rosewater and rosemary.

💥:BOO!! ITS💥but uhh my character has short white hair and is a allay turned vex. she has tiny itty bitty webbed wings that aren't really attached to her but she can make them appear at will with vex magic and a long scarred up tail. she has sharp teeth and a silver fang to replace one of her canines and wears a long tattered and stained grey skirt that goes from her left ankle to her right mid-thigh. she has a loose shirt in the the same worn out condition that slips off her one of her shoulders :3 also since she's allay turned vex she has a verryyyy strong fascination with crystals/gemstones/shiny things (she messes with tangos flame all the time)

💜: I’m 💜! My favorite color is purple obviously, therefore my life is mostly purple jsjsjjs, I’ve got medium length purple hair and bangs! I’ve also got pointy ears with a single piercing on my left one, I wear all kinds of clothes but I prefer comfy ones for day to day life, I’m a shapeshifter so I love having wings, they’re a mix of teal and purple feathers. As for my personality,, I would say I’m a curious but polite person, if not a bit shy, I’ve mentioned before I love Apple pies and I would love to get a tattoo of a cat!

🦋: Just here to pop by from time to time (no character)

🐝:

🌱: 🌱 as goat features such as brown legs, tail and hears ! They use any prounons but they/them is their default :3 they have split dye, having blond for the top of their head ending in a ponytail blue for the lenght under the ponytail and 2 braids on each sides (lots of hair damn) they have ligth tanned skin and most of the Time wearing a sweater and short overhalls. Their eye are blue too !

🦝: My character has dark brown hair styled in a pixie cut, brown eyes, freckles, and a blank expression. their outfit consist of a black under shirt, a random shirt, a jacket or green hoodie, a red side bag with a white cat design,either offside headphones with a wing design or a brown and off white hat, black shoes or green boots, and old jeans with big pockets. They're a shapeshifter who either takes the form of a raccoon hybrid or an avian. They're quite shy at first meeting but the closer they are to someone the more open and energetic they are. They like being in the trees and are open found there.

🐸: Hey! I’m 🐸. I have short curly brown hair, with green streaks. I have four small wings on my head that most of the time I cover my face with. I’m (unfortunately) fairly short, and use my long tail to boost my height. Oh, and I also have bird legs!

🦊: i have shoulder length light cream hair with darker ends with a black bramble crown of sorts, I have a deep red eye colour and a black bead necklace. I wear a cream long sleeve shirt with a red jacket threat falls off one shoulder and black purple tinted cargo pants. and last of all I have large cream and red wings

🐦🔥: Dawn uses she/it pronouns and is a totally normal human... Yes normal... Dawn has green eyes and short brown hair that she sometimes dyes other colors. It wears a black hoodie that fade to dark blue and has a few embroidered stars on it. Her pants are a dark gray and slightly torn. It also wear black fingerless gloves. Dawn usually has her hoodie's hood up. It also squints a lot and has a few scars (an big one of her face from a creeper and a few random arrow ones from skeletons.) .

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🎀: hiiii it’s 🎀! my character uses she/her, she has mid back length black hair and she’s a wolf! :3 she wears a pink off the shoulder sweater with a white lacy top underneath, a plaid skirt, stockings, leg warmers and mary jane shoes!! she’s very bubbly and silly :D

🌷:i'm small size of like a pixie or small farie because that what i am, I have a few earrings that dangle off my pointy ears, I dress in clothes that are reminiscent of plants, but my main outfit is a light green off-the-shoulder knee-length floral flowy dress and a pair of brown wedge sandals, my hair is pretty long very light brown that has a small purple flower crown that sits on top it, and I have pale skin and purple shear wing

Moth:

🐠:I’m 🐠 I have light blue hair and purple eyes and I look like a normal person on land at least In water I’m a blue and purple fish

🦇: Hi there! I'm 🦇. I have long, brown scruffy hair with the ends blue and hazel eyes . I have large green and blue moth wings and antennae. I wouldn't say I'm shy, but I keep to myself a lot. Also I'm very sarcastic.

🦉:I'm a swallow-tailed kite avian: i have the back wings and tail. I also have shoulder length, straight black hair and bright blue eyes

⭐️: Hello!! Im ⭐:] I have short almost black hair, fading into green. Im always wearing a flannel, underneath a pair of torn up overalls, and some scuffed light blue converse. I have white wings, likely Dove wings, but who knows. Sometimes I'll just kinda appear from behind things, dont question how i got there. My accent is a bit southern, but only if you listen.

🌈: 🌈 Has curly rainbow colored long hair, brown skin with rainbow swirls all over their body, a red hoodie, yellow shirt, green skirt, blue leggings, and rainbow sneakers. They're also covered in accessories. Hair clips, bracelets, leg warmers, and necklaces.

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(Lastly, please do not use any of the following emojis as your sign off, because I like using them for tone expression 😅✨️💅🤟)

[the-hilda-librarians-wife]

so howd you like it what are your thoughts

Anon, I hope you don't mind it but I'm going to use this ask as an excuse to do my Full On Rambling post about my honest thoughts. I'll try to keep is as coherent as possible, but I can't actually guarantee it :')

Also putting it under a cut because some of it is going to sound negative (as I said, I want to exorcise any critiques I have so I can go back to Vibing asap) and I know many people (undestandibly!!) won't want to read that, and I don't want to burst anyone's happy bubble :) . And also because of s3 spoilers. Bear in mind that it's not a rant post, I still had tons of fun with the season. But since I'm going to be talking about the things I enjoyed forevermore and gonna try to keep all my 'didn't really like this :/'s contained in this post, it may come out sounding like I enjoyed it less than I truly did. Here we go, get ready for some Thoughts

-> Content

Okay, listen. This season was fun. I had a nice time watching the newest shenanigans. New characters (with one notable exception) were a joy to watch (yes, even the thing. We're in a toxic situationship) and I was greatly amused by their adventures; most of them kept me on the edge of my seat.

(ok, here's where the negativity begins. Please don't take me for someone who wanted everything to be done for Their Specific Standards or who thinks they know more than the professional and extremely skilled team that was behind the series. I'm just throwing around thoughts about how I feel, but in the end, the only thing that matters is that Luke Pearson and the team got to tell the story they wanted to. If that was achieved, I'm happy regardless)

However, I couldn't help but think that some of it felt... like it was "thrown" at us, in a way? To be fair, I think most of the negative points I'll discuss in this post are a consequence of this season being 6 epsidoes short of what the writers originally planned because, as I've mentioned before, I do think the show's writing is great and that the team puts their heart and soul into making this the best cartoon possible. Anyway, what I mean is that at times I thought the episodes seemed so worried with delivering all the information they could that a lot was left behind and some stuff didn't really tie together with the rest.

For example; I still cannot understand why aunt Astrid and Anders had to be these big surprises that had never been mentioned before if Hilda, the character who we see this world through, already knew about them? Don't misunderstand me, I am well aware that these nitpicks of mine are subjective and only my personal opinions that may very well simply be a consequence of not understanding what the writers were trying to achieve. I just feel like Johanna's family and Hilda's father are topics that have been discussed so at lenght in the fandom, precisely because they'd been so carefully skirted around in the previous seasons, that the reveal that nothing really dramatic had happened (between Johanna/Astrid and Johanna/Anders, at least) feels anticlimatic to me. It just feels (again, to me, personal opinion) that if this was going to be the case all along they could have mentioned these characters before, and it would have made the narrative make a little more sense.

(This is especially true to me in Anders' case. Bc it felt to me like they had been trying to highlight how irrelevant Hilda's dad was to the story in the first seasons by not bringing him up at all, by not even pointing out his abscence. But I can't really see the point in that if you're gonna bring out the man either way)

Ironically, at the same time I felt like some of the arcs were a tad overachieving, especially the Johanna's parents one. I just felt like it was Too Much Too Quickly, which once again is likely because of the season having been shortened. I feel like if they really wanted to do that arc, and that way, it would have been helpful to cut some other storylines so they could begin fleshing out this one earlier. They way it was done I just personally (can you tell I'm terrified of being taken as a hater?) felt like there was no time at all to get either used to the idea of Johanna being half faerie nor to get attatched to her parents. Like. I know the episode was the season's emotional peak, but it just didn't hit me the way I know it should.

Not sure if this was a me problem, but I felt like the audience wasn't given enough time to process what had even happened when they got stuck in the fairie island, nor to even consider that they'd truly be stuck there forever, much less to fully process the sacrifice Johanna was making when she left it with Hilda. I didn't get to get attached to Johanna's parents or to the dynamic they have with their daughter. I didn't suffer the way I wanted to when I saw them having to part ways, because I couldn't become invested in their bond when I was still trying to wrap my head around what their backstory even was and pay attention to the action heavy scenes that were to come.

What I'm gonna say here is way meaner than the people behind the show's writing deserve and I know, I can absolutely tell it isn't the case because you can see some of the foreshadowing once you have the benefit of hindsight, but it felt to me like some of Johanna's backstory was written for shock value alone. Which, considering the previous components of the season that I have already mentioned felt underwhelming, was even more jarring.

Another thing is that I feel like a lot was sacrificed in order to do these overachieving arcs. This maaay just be the side character lover and change hater in me, but I do feel like in order to present to us all these new concepts that would be necessary for the backstory to make sense, we were deprived of some elements in Hilda The Series that are arguably what the show does best. It felt like they all but scratched all of their previous stories, characters and components to switch them up for new ones. Pikablob has said it better than me, tbh.

However. I do feel like saying that none of the fears I had for the season came true. No character feels ooc, no one was left with an incomplete arc, and though I can't see how Anders contributes to the story, if he had to be there I feel like the way that was it done was the right one.

-> Pacing

Frenetic. Run for the hills kind of thing sometimes. Which, once again, I can't bring myself to believe was the writers' fault, not when they had other 6 episodes planned that they didn't get to do. I absolutely understand that they had to condense everything they wanted to show us into half the runtime. But it did become an issue (to me) when instead of the trademark Hilda Idyllic Tranquility I usually feel while watching (even plot and action heavy content like TMK), I felt like I was watching a completely different cartoon. Carmen Sandiego, or something like that (please note that I do also love Carmen Sandiego). Many times it just felt like there was no breathing space, which isn't necessarily bad when done well, but I hadn't gone into the season prepared for that.

It wasn't a problem that was all around present, though. I do want to point out that imo "The Giant Slayer", "The Laughing Merman", "Strange Frequencies" and even "The Forgotten Lake" still felt like Hilda to me. Which is where I realize what the main issue I had with the season was. That a lot of it just felt like a different show.

-> ~ vibes ~

I am bringing back the disclaimer that if the team told the story they wanted to, then good for them, I'm pleased as can be. I do enjoy that the series played with some different concepts. The musicality and colours in The Laughing Merman, for example, were absolutely delightful to me. Seriously, I want an entire Hilda musical now.

But some things I just couldn't help but feel were so disconnected from the previous feel of the show that it felt to me like they didn't belong. You can sum the rest of this post up by saying that season 3 would have been one of my favourite ever cartoons if it had been its own thing. But it's not, so I can't help but compare it and try to understand how all of the installments work when together.

The faeries, for example. I was so excited when I saw the trailer and knew it was going to be one of the plots, because I thought it was going to be another adventure of the day type of thing that would span over three episodes max. And listen, I've talked about how much I love Celtic folklore, and maybe this is just my consistency loving brain being annoying, but it felt a bit... clashing? that this season was based on tales and creatures and treaditions that weren't the scandinavian ones that inspired the rest of the series. It just felt like a major shift in tone that I don't really understand (once again, me problem, may very well be a skill issue on my part & I'm not saying they shouldn't have ventured so far just bc I didn't quite vibe with it). It just feels a bit off to me, knowing that Johanna's backstory was likely planned from the start, that there wasn't any celtic lore at all in previous seasons to make this sudden detachment from nordic folklore feel less out of the blue.

You know that joke that Disney movies like Aladdin and Raya take concepts from different cultures and smash them together like they're not completely different? I felt to some extent (bc OF COURSE Hilda is much better researched and has a lot better quality than that /gen) like they did that this season. But with white people. Which, fair, I can appreciate the irony.

Back to the topic of bold storylines, I understand what the Hilda team did with all the Johanna backstory. I understand that it's something that everyone wanted to see soo bad and they wanted it to be great (and it was). The thing I got stuck on is just that it ended up changing the vibe of the show to me. Whereas previous seasons feel like "slice of life in a magical place", I felt like this time I was watching a magic centered fantasy. Especially when they got into trying to explain the origin of magic and everything. Which is ironic, because I enjoyed the concept a lot and will explore it in the future, but it still felt like something that I wouldn't have expected Hilda the Series to tackle. Like there was a giant shift from folkloric to fantastic that isn't bad, but it is different and I hadn't been prepared for that lol.

God, I feel like I just wrote all of that and just to be A Bitch. I just wanted to get these thoughts out but I don't expect you guys to agree or anything. I genuinely liked watching this season, and I will continue to reiterate this in the future. And even if it doesn't beat s1 or s2 in my heart, I'm still grateful we got a final season at all, and everyone who was involved in it deserves all the praise <3

[gchausz7872]

now I understand why their uniform weren't always have the same lenght for the skirt for each member, this is the reason why... no matter how tall or short their height if they all stand in one line they will look like this :-)

[drawmyhearton]

Very rare to find Bratz!

At first I saw a Jade with red lips and went "another style it jade" *buffer* "GIRLZ NITE OUT JADE?!?"

also the skirt she is wearing is my Rodeo Sorya's missing skirt so double :D :D

and Campfire Cloe! Pretty sure I own all of her clothes so that's cool! Unfortunately her hair is MELTED. It's at the front, near the roots. No way to hide it 😭 her face is intact at least so she gets put in the rerooting pile (note: I do not currently own rerooting tools or doll hair. It is something I've been meaning to pick up for a while.)

also now I see why Jade was priced lower lmao

I'll see if that can be fixed/ hidden by boots, otherwise she'll get a rebody. Not a big deal!

I've washed and straightened her hair already. Waiting for it to dry. It's funny, without her default hairstyle you can see how all over the place her hair cut is 😆 it's meant to all fall at the same lenght when half of it is up.

[rosesnink]

Meet Amaryllis

Full Name: Amaryllis Lilac Woodstock

Meaning behind the name: Amaryllis - Sparkle / Lilac - Purple

Birthday: 4th of June, 1994

Status: Engaged

Nickname: Mari

Age: 26

Parents: Azalea Woodstock, Hal Woodstock

Sibling(s): Saffron Woodstock, Magnolia 'Maggie' Graves

Further Family: Aparagus the cat, Brooks Barrett (brother-in-law) Azalea Woodstock Jr (niece) Penny (sister-in-law)

How old they appear: Mid-twenties

Weight: 63kg

Skin Type: Fair

Religion: Non-religious

Sexuality: Lesbian

Hair color and lenght: White, down her shoulders (around 28cm)

Taste in clothes: She dresses all witchy and loves frilly dresses and skirts

Music: Indie

Good habits: Kind, funny, protective, brave and determined

Bad habits: Self-sacrificing, has little regard of her life, naive

Guilty pleasure: Mexican telenovelas

Hobbies: Practise magic, cooking, reading

Deepest fears: That she fails as an anchor to her coven

Love Interest: Marion (Rainier renamed) Fang Ziyi (originally Kaine)

Child(ren): Jade Woodstock-Ziyi

Actual Residence: Woodstock residence, Santa Renata, California, USA

Allies: Several covens

Enemies: The Wraith King

Goals: To be a good anchor to her coven

BACKSTORY

The second of the three daughters of the witch Azalea Woodstock, her childhood was full of everything... save a present and emotionally available mother. Her and Saffron raised themselves into very different beings, and, when it was time to go to college, Saffron ran off to the furthest univeristy that'd have her and Amaryllis stayed in the state, which was a lot. Not finding a suitable job, when she finished her career, went back to Santa Renata and worked as a barista for her friend Brooke. She noticed that her most regular customer was a beautiful stranger.

DURING THE SERIES

The day she received the news that her mother had died was life-changing for her. The handsome stranger, Marion, turned out to be a sort of magical being... which she discovered at the same time she discovered she had a younger sister, Maggie, and that they all possesed magic and were a coven protected by Marion herself.

The first days were rocky, for the three sisters barely knew one another and had many things built up, but with Marion's guidance, they built themselves a good coven bonding. At the same time, she discovered the wraiths... and a major one being Miss Bell, her mother's lawyer, who was named Kaine, the mistress of pleasure of the Wraith King who she planned to betray over her. She was drawn to her too, as well as Marion, and was mostly torn apart.

Getting to know the witch community was enlightening, but the fact that it was being targeted by wraiths soured the experience. Enhancing her powers empowered her, and with now Kaine by the sisters' side, they went on for a quest to vanquish Doubt herself, Feras, which she succeeded, proving her power was a witch.

She also grew closer to her sisters through trials and tribulations, such as chasing Maggie's shadow or getting rid of nuisances like a bind from a ritual gone wrong.

The day of the Summer Solstice was supposed to be a great day... until Mara, who turned out to be a wraith, revealed that Kaine had been spying on them for the Wraith King all along. Heartbroken, Amaryllis sent her away for the coven's sake, despite wanting to believe her.

Then, tragedy struck Santa Renata, and Amaryllis knew she was running out of time. Unlikely allies came to her aid, and Marion was called to the front lines to fight. They made love as a goodbye, and the Woodstock sisters, alongside their allies, prepared themselves for a goodbye. Including Kaine, who wanted to redeem herself. Biding her a warm goodbye as well, not knowing if she'd live, the Woodstock sisters woke up with Maggie having been kidnapped in her sleep. Knowing that it was a trap, they went anyways.

The fight was fickle and arduous, but with her enhanced powers, after an exhausting fight, the whole gang came together to defeat the Wraith King, and they did.

After the battle, Amaryllis had decided after recent events that she didn't want to choose between Marion and Kaine, and so, she chose them both. They both took it rather well, and despite Kaine now being human and Marion still being a Guardian, they'd make it work.

Her sisters all got improved powers, but not Amaryllis. Until, one day, it came in the best way possible: she could take a peek at the future, and what a future was!

AFTER THE SERIES

A year later, her niece Azalea Jr. would be borne by her sister Maggie and Brooke, her best friend and now brother-in-law. Saffron and Penny also married and had a child, and Amaryllis, Marion and Ziyi all married in the nearest state where you could marry two people and two years later had their daughter, Jade, who was her pride and joy, and she and little Azalea grew up together.

The rest of her days were calm and full of witchy magic, knowing other newest covens and making the society a renewed one so mistakes wouldn't be repeated.

[bxtxnx]

Hey! I really liked ur page,

I need fashion advice desperately lol, mind if u tell me what suits me?

I have a cancer sun, Leo moon, aquarius rising, cancer venus, Virgo Mars and gemini mercury 💗

Hi! Thanks!

With a Cancer Sun and Venus, you will look best with a softer style that focuses on comfort. Graphic t-shirts paired with cardigans or hoodies will be ideal on you. Especially with your Aquarius rising, you can go for some bold and crazy colors, patters or graphics. A teddy jacket or hoodie (or a nice knit cardigan) with a graphic T-shirt and jeans or a slightly more formal shirt and pants will be your best type of look.

You should also go for shirt that are a bit more loose and "free falling" on your frame, as opposed to tight, form-fitting shirts. Same goes for skirts and dresses - long, flowy, floor-lenght skirts and dresses will look magnificent on you.

You can also go for a boho style, as that will fit both your Cancer and Aquarius placements. ☽

[circusislife]

Idc if you’re not in the hurricane family at this point, you’re snuck into the walls so it counts

I’m doing this project where I’m drawing everyone in the HF so if you could give me a quick description of what you’d like to be portrayed like it’d be appreciated :)

(I Probably won’t see this for an hour or so tho)

Ok, First of

Ok, now then...

for the hair you can have fun. It can either be perfectly straight or a heap o curls depending on how I dry It and the products I use, and under the shoulders for lenght. Same for skin color. I can go from ghostly White in winter to quite tanned in summer (tho I don't burn Easy). I mostly carry my hair half up or in a bun, but if not, then I 100% Will have a hairtie or two on my wirsts. No other bracalets tho 'cause they bug me. No matter what, unless I make a really High ponytail, a lock of hair wil escape the do and into my face (i usually direct it mostly to the left, my sight's already bad on that side, so It bugs me less). Also, glasses. This and my last pair I choose to match my hair color (light Brown, mostly goldish highlights, but there's still a bit of a reddish hue from when I dyed them two years ago, so Hazel or auburn or something in between). (Eyes also Brown by the way)

An outfit... tucking the shirt inside the pants Is a conditioned reflex (you don't want to leave It loose when you go upside down during training...) and in the rare instance I wear a skirt, I WILL be wearing leggings or shorts underneat (same for dresses if the design allows for It). For the most part tho I love black leggings and short sleeved shirt with a sweater (worn or tied at the waist depends on the weather). For the shoes, either trainers or boots (those in winter), but no High heels or I Will break my ankle.

I wear most colors, but am partial to blues, greens and any color the Sea can take.

I have a pair of stainless steel hearrings with tiny half moons and hearts pendants I have worn basically non stop for the Better part of the last 3 (4?) Years and more often than not a necklace to have something to thinker with (that One changes tho, from minerals and non precious stones, to a tiny goddes sword, to a yin-yang pendant, so go nuts<3)

I feel i forgot something... oh yeah, I've worn makeup a Grand Total of 4-5 times in my life, so go Easy on that.

This... Came out longer than I expected. You don't have to follow It all tho, Just have fun drawing.

good night Ghost! (Or morning if you are actually sleeping and don't see this at two in the morning) <3