#Silvanus merlo

[theauthorinblue]

Got bored, simulated some pieces of linguistic drift for a character name to figure out what to call him, because Silvanus doesn’t translate into the language it’s from, and the best translation I got sounded terrible, so I decided to pick something from whatever drift I made. So I made the drift to have somewhere to find a name.

At the current moment I’m leaning twisted Sernos, with a maybe on Sirnus since that’s pretty close to the original.

[miscellaniousbyblue]

In my book, we kill god. We also threaten several others.

Ladies, gentlemen and those of non binary persuasion, I have started.

[teamoliv-archive]

Cheshire Tournament Matches Announced

“Welcome one and all to the Cheshire Charity Tournament. Our competitors are assembled and the matches have been announced. Auroras, Hari, please announce the matches.”

“With pleasure. As you all know, huntsmen and huntress from all walks of life are here to compete for your enjoyment and to showcase their skill at arms. Viewers are encouraged to place wagers on bouts. A reminder that the half of all pots will go toward relief efforts for the families of those who lost loved ones in the latest attack. Now, Hari, announce the matches.”

“Alright, everyone! Here are your placements! Find your partners and get ready for your bouts!”

(Reminder: Check the blogs of character names HERE. It’s up to you to meet with your RP partners to set up the scenes and determine how they go. People paired with their own characters should just decide a winner and write a scene with them both. Please let me know if you have any questions!)

Regina Konsho v. Blade Stryker

Onyx Cheshire v. Sun Wukong

Puck Goodfellow v. Jackie Yu-Shi

Violet Goodfellow v. Robin Ironwood

Ivory Reynard v. George Jasper-Lapin

Silvanus Tenebrae v. Excelsus

Lapis Hamelin v. Auburn Huldre

Honey Mashiro v. Sable Night

Eros Ahab v. Louvel Shinba

Merlo Vampir-Copil v. Zeke Striker

@fumusdamnatorum​ @rwby-prsm​ @monkeysunsets​ @firestormmaidenanddragon​ @firestormtriforce​ @strykingback​ @team-orgk​

[teamoliv-archive]

Cheshire Charity Tournament Participants Finalized

“We have quite a turnout for our event. Huntsmen and huntresses of all ages and backgrounds have come to compete for the entertainment of the viewers and, more importantly, to help raise money for the victims of the latest Grimm attack following the election. With that out of the way, let’s get to the part you’re all here for.”

Representing teamoliv: Onyx Cheshire Lapis Hamelin Ivory Reynard Violet Goodfellow Auburn Huldre

Representing @fumusdamnatorum​ Silvanus Tenebrae

Representing @rwby-prsm​ Honey Mashiro Puck Goodfellow

Representing @monkeysunsets​ Sun Wukong

Representing @rwbysablenight Sable Night

Representing @firestormmaidenanddragon​ Jackie Yu-Shi Regina Konsho

Representing @firestormtriforce​ George Jasper-Lapin Merlo Vampir-Copil

Representing @strykingback​ Blade Stryker Eros Ahab Louvel Shinba Excelsus <Last name not given>

Representing: @team-orgk​ Robin Ironwood Zeke Striker

“We have a total of twenty competitors each performing in three matches overseen by my good friend Mr. Hari Lackey of the Blood Brothers mercenary company. They have helped sponsor this event and will be placing wagers on each bout. We expected a betting turnout among viewers as well so please call in with your guesses and favorites. We will now outline the details of the tournament:

Alright everyone, taking over OOC for this next bit as it’s oriented for the players/writers themselves! Here’s the things you need to know for when the tournament starts.

LATE ENTRIES!

I’ll still take late entries for now. Into the end of today. This is the “finalized” roster for now, but if anyone didn’t notice and still want in, please send me an ask, submission, or IM! The roster on this post will be updated to reflect that. Reminder to those still sideglancing at this, I recommend you enter no more than four characters but it’s not a hard limit. Just don’t bring a whole squadron with you unless you REALLY want to balance that many threads.

You can swap out/alter fighters you’ve submitted between now and the end of the day as well, just make sure I know first.

PARTICIPATION!

There’s nothing binding about this event. If you get bored, don’t have time, or just don’t want to do anything with this anymore, you’re free to back out at any time.

The list of people involved is made public for a few reasons. First, this is so everyone knows who/what is around. I encourage you all to at least glance at the blogs/profiles of other participants to see what’s up.

Matches will be determined by me randomly with a few edits. I allow players to tell me privately if they don’t want to interact with certain people to avoid reopening past drama should it come up. If you tell me, you won’t be matched with their characters at any point. I also understand if we wind up with two people playing the same canon characters that don’t want a mirror match.

You may also have your characters be matched with each other! If this happens it’s encouraged to use this to practice writing fight scenes solo and control the tempo on both sides. If you aren’t interested in this, tell me and I’ll make sure you don’t get that result either.

THE FIGHTS!

The first set of rounds will be shown off on Monday. When that happens, contact your writing partner and get to planning!

REMINDER: All characters are to be considered on even footing for this tournament. No insisting that someone would win/lose purely because of one being “obviously stronger” than the other. Try to plan this out from a storytelling standpoint. The actual winner of the fight is inconsequential- getting better at writing fight scenes and making new friends is.

If you and your writing partner don’t wind up getting along, that’s okay! Let me know and I’ll keep that in mind for the next set of matches. However, keep it respectful! If things get into actual arguments or personal spats and I catch wind, I reserve the right to remove someone from the tournament. 

A major tip for writing fight scenes: Always determine the winner before even starting the scene and then use the rest of your space for the sweet action moments and choreography. Hello Future Me recently uploaded a series of writing guides on writing fight scenes and I highly recommend you check them out!

As a courtesy for everyone else, I ask that you prioritize these threads if possible. There’s no time limits or anything like that, but the second round doesn’t start until the first is done.

Unofficial matches are absolutely okay! If two characters want to face off and aren’t part of the main bracket, they can do so for fun! I want to encourage more connections and practice after all!

Lastly, this event is as canon as you want it to be. If it otherwise doesn’t make sense for your characters to do this or have it be canon, it’s not. If you want it to be for future threads with you and other characters, you’re free to do so!

Any questions? Please let me know! Tyrael will announce the Bracket on Monday. Have fun and remember what we’re all fighting for!

[theauthorinblue]

Okay, so Sirnus, previously named and probably tagged as Silvanus. Hotheaded singleminded bipolar-if-I-can-write-it inventor and current holder of the legendary Green Poleaxe.

We first meet him months into running from his own then-best invention, a magically-powered bronze robotic wolf, which he’d made on a commission to his local representative to show off at the tech fair, because that’s what the city they live in is known for. It broke down and a different magic powering part connected with the behavior controlling magic item which made it break down and kill the representative’s son (whom technically Sirnus proposed to when he was like ten after fleeing a war and immigrating to the city with what remained of his family). Then he gets the weapon, finds a famous vet of that war, Chrisama, who also has another weapon in that set, hers is the Orange Swallow, and falls hard and fast for her, to the point he decides he’s happily die for her after maybe a week of knowing her and she tells him off because that’s unhealthy and actually joins a whaling crew temporarily to distance herself from him so he’ll realize it’s not healthy.

Then the whole group gets together, and he ends up becoming really good friends with this random guy who’s really good with a mace and also with pencil and paper and that’s about it. His name is Maydok. Sirnus makes a bunch of mechanical songbirds for him and also for himself, because he loves them and is proud of them and himself for being able to make them. Nobody else really pays attention to his stuff, which he finds really hard because he wants to be acknowledged for his skill, because he literally invented robots a century and a half early.

This culminates after a week of running around an infinite labyrinth on his own and then bargaining his and his friends’ way out of the labyrinth even the god who’s running their party, Frii (aka Frewin), can’t escape from, and gets about as much recognition for it as when the storyteller character sings a particularly good tale.

So he makes a deal with the enemies, and decides to leave the group. The conversation is overheard by Frii, who’s dragged out of his hiding spot by the captured other god, Belram, and immediately blows off Sirnus in attempt to rescue the clearly captured and mind-controlled Belram, until Sirnus gets so close to killing Frii that Frii brings out his own legendary weapon, which was believed to be entirely made up. This utter betrayal of trust, as Frii had previously refused to get involved in battles or even slaughters like the one Sirnus escaped from as a child that lost him his brother, who was five at the time, at the beginning of the recent war. That Frii absolutely could have helped and saved him, and he didn’t, and he lied when he said there was nothing he could’ve done about it, that betrayal is the last straw and Sirnus joins fully with the bad guys.

Maydok actually goes after him, thinking he might be able to convince him back, and also because he has a massive crush on Sirnus and refuses to believe he’s evil. He does eventually find him, with his right leg replaced by a bronze prosthetic that was clearly designed and built by him. Maydok asks about how he lost his leg, but Sirnus repeats that he doesn’t want to talk about it until he’s had enough and just blows up at him. Maydok basically just confesses his love and leaves after that. Sirnus just encourages him to leave, and doesn’t let himself react until what’s probably several weeks later, once he finally walks himself to the bad guy’s facility, thus ending his loyalty test from when it started, when Belram cut off his leg.

At the facility Sirnus is immediately placed as head engineer/inventor and basically held prisoner to his workbench. The bad guys use a magic object to keep him in a manic state so he’ll keep working, which does work to some extent, but Sirnus keeps doubting himself and destroying his work. They finally put him in solitary confinement when he starts to destroy his masterpiece, a four hundred-ish foot bronze mechanical dragon that he was forced to make into a weapon. After that he starts to realize he hates it and wants to go back, but he can’t, because he’s still being held prisoner, so he makes another mechanical songbird, who can fly, and starts sending letters back and forth with Maydok, with some unknowing help from Frii, who keeps using portals to get the bird back and forth quickly and safely. This is finally when Sirnus actually reacts to Maydok’s confession, and admits his own crush on him. That doesn’t really do anything, though, since Sirnus is still trapped.

Cut to the final battle, when Frii decides to trade his freedom for Belram’s. The person who’s been controlling Belram the whole time takes it, and orders Sirnus to kill Frii. Sirnus really doesn’t want to, because, he may not like this god but a) he’s done a lot of good and technically he still owes him his life, and b) he’s the god of the continent, he’s a huge deal, and killing him will fuck up absolutely everything. Frii actually encourages him to do it, and has a whole emotional death speech about how he’s at peace with this end and all that, and eventually, Sirnus does work up the nerve to kill him, and Frii doesn’t fight it. That pushes Sirnus over the edge again and he joins the good guys again, and uses his magic over air (it came with the weapon) to end the battle before it really begins, and nobody else dies in that battle.

After that, though, Sirnus is a fugitive from basically everywhere because he murdered Frii, and the belief that only gods can kill gods starts to spread, and due to the magic of the world, this makes Sirnus a god. He doesn’t know though, he just finds a place where he’s allowed to live, gets married to Maydok, who came with him, and starts helping as many people as he can to pay for everyone that he’s harmed. He actually invents electric street lamps while he’s at it, and starts a massive prosthetics trade.

Around three years later, for entirely unrelated reasons, a foreign goddess of exploration shows up, meets Belram, and starts to learn the culture of the world. She decides she wants to show off her homeland, so the old group of adventurers, plus some of their significant others sail off to the new continent, Alemi.

While on Alemi, Sirnus does several things only a god could do without knowing, including turning down the god of lust (who will happily use magic to force whoever he wants to fuck him, whether or not they want to), survive the first artificial heart transplant, which was a magic-and-titanium heart he made himself and got a god known as The Godhealer to do the procedure, and go into and out of the underworld with help from Zhakan, the accidental merge of the dead Frii and the live Alimen god Lallow, god of storytelling and philosophy. That leads to so many other things, but the main thing for Sirnus is that Zhakan actually gives an explanation to Sirnus that he’s a god now, and starts up the subplot of that Sirnus is stuck with the immortality, but it’s most likely possible to abuse the magic system and make the others of the group gods as well, if they wish, and allow Sirnus to have friends in his new endless life. I haven’t decided what will happen entirely yet, but I know several of them were okay with immortality, although at least one will not. It’s kind of cut short when the main plot brings in an end-of-the-world prophecy from Alemi and the gods who are supposed to be responsible for stopping it decide to do nothing so the team has to stop it themselves.

And that’s as far as I’ve got at the moment with this guy and this story!

who wants to talk about their wips and ocs?

[theauthorinblue]

“I’m nearly there, I just need another few minutes,” Silvanus said.

“You said that two hours ago,” Jasper replied. “And one hour ago. And half an hour ago. You’re not getting any closer and it’s nearly dawn. Come on.”

“Dawn? Already?! It can’t be, I just got started!”

“I know honey. But you need to take a break.” Jasper yawned before gently nudging Silvanus’s goggles off his head. “Come on.”

Silvanus sighed in defeat. “Alright.” He pulled off his apron and set his tools away from his project, another mechanical animal, this one a squirrel.

Jasper smiled and Silvanus tried to ignore the flutter in his stomach that always came with his smiles. They’d been married for nearly five years now and yet his stomach always did that whenever Jasper smiled.

“Hey, uh, thanks for keeping me on track.” And for always believing in me, and for staying with me, and for everything else you’ve ever done.

“Of course.” Jasper flashed a smile. “I’m always here for you.”

“I appreciate the dedication, but it’s time to take a break.”

“What? No. I haven’t gotten it right yet.”

“You’re tired. You’re not going to get any better until you rest.”