#The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2002)

[illiana-mystery]

I love when my faves play... (Pt. 3)

Writers

Jeffrey Hunt (The Hitch-Hiker, 1986)

Bram Shepard (Bram and Alice, 2002)

Dick Suskind (The Hoax, 2006)

Peter Van Houten (The Fault in Our Stars, 2012)

Fantasy Characters

Gavner Purl (Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, 2009)

Maxim Horvath (The Sorcerer's Apprentice, 2010)

Businessmen/CEOs

Robert Royal (Return to Zero, 2014)

Ed Blackridge (A Family Man, 2016)

Accountants

Lionel Ellerman (The Accountant, 1989)

Albert the Abacus (The French Dispatch, 2021)

Stay tuned for part 4! Or go back to part 2!

[ricmlm]

World Magician Day is celebrated on January 31st.

A magician is an artist who captures the imagination of his audience, often resulting in looks of astonishment and admiration.

The origin of World Magician's Day is the desire to pay homage to Saint John Bosco, the patron saint of magicians, who died on January 31, 1888 and canonized in 1934 by Pope Pius XI, in Italy.

On this international day to celebrate magicians, various activities take place around the world, with emphasis on magic shows and the teaching of some magic tricks to children in schools.

Phrases for World Magician Day

What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes. (Harry Houdini)

My mind is the key that sets me free. (Harry Houdini)

The magician is the one who makes people dream and believe in the impossible.

Famous magicians;

Harry Houdini

David Copperfield

David Blaine

Criss Angel

Dynamo

Jerome Murat

Luís de Matos

Movies about magic;

The Illusionist (2006)

The Prestige/The Third Step (2006)

Oz: The Great and Powerful (2013)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

Fantasy (1940)

The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)

Parnassus - The Man Who Wanted to Deceive the Devil (2009)🪄

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[scorsesedepalmafan]

Alfred Molina characters I write for

I wanted to make a list of Alfred Molina characters I write for (for the moment) since I didn’t really do one and there was some previous confusion.

I’m currently looking for more requests since I’m running out.

MALE/GENDER NEUTRAL/TRANS/ENBY/FEMDOM/butch!FEM readers (SFW & NSFW - no multi-chapter fics)

In chronological order , *for gn and male reader/trans male reader only ** for male reader/trans male reader only.

(sorry for how long this is lol, just want to be clear I’ll write for all of these)

Link back to my masterlist x  , rules here x

(1981 - Raiders of the Lost Ark) - Satipo

(1985 - Letter to Brezhnev) - Sergei

(1985 - Ladyhawke) - Cezar

(1987 - Prick Up Your Ears) - Kenneth Halliwell** (yes, but please read borlpcd )

(1991 - Screen One: Hancock) - Tony Hancock

(1991 - American Friends) - Oliver Syme

(1993 - When Pigs Fly) - Marty

(1995 - Species) - Dr. Stephen Arden

(1995 - The Steal) - Cliff

(1995 - Hideaway) - Dr. Jonas Nyebern

(1995 - Nervous Energy) - Ira Moss**

(1996 - Mojave Moon) - Sal

(1997 - Anna Karenina) - Konstantin Dmitrievich Levin

(1997 - Boogie Nights) - Rahad Jackson*

(1997 - A Further Gesture) - Tulio* (desperately want to write for him but I haven’t found the movie anywhere :( )

(1997 - The Man Who Knew Too Little) - Boris “The Butcher” Blavasky*

(1998 - The Impostors) - Sir Jeremy Burtom*

(1999 - Dudley Do-Right) - Snidely K. 'Whip' Whiplash

(2000 - Chocolat) - Comte De Reynaud

(2001 - Texas Rangers) - John King Fisher*

(2002 - Frida) - Diego Rivera (AU) will post about this tomorrow*

(2002 - Undertaking Betty/Plots with a View) - Boris Plots

(2004 - Spider-Man 2) - Dr. Otto Octavius/Doctor Octopus

(2006 - Orchids) - Cliff

(2007 - The Moon and the Stars) - Davide Rieti**

(2007 - The Little Traitor) - Sergeant Stephen Dunlop*

(2008 - Nothing Like The Holidays) - Edy Rodriguez

(2009 - An Education) - Jack Mellor

(2009 - The Pink Panther 2) - Randall Pepperidge**

(2010 - Prince of Persia: Sands of Time) - Sheik Amar

(2010 - The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) - Maxim Horvath

(2011 - Abduction) - Frank Burton

(2012 - The Forger) - Everly Campbell**

(2012 - Loving Miss Hatto) - Barrie/William Barrington-Coupe

(2014 - Love is Strange) - George Garea**

(2014 - Swelter) - Doc**

(2020 - Promising Young Woman) - Jordan Green*

(2020 - The Water Man) - Jim Bussey*

(2021 - Spiderman: No Way Home) - goes without saying

I haven’t seen the new Cowboy show but I’ll do him too pretty sure (poor choice of words)

[thenightling]

Happy Birthday to the late Fred Saberhagen.  Fred Saberhagen wrote a vampire book series that I consider to be woefully underrated, and frankly, better than The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice. The Dracula Tape (Warner June 1975/Ace January 1980)

The Holmes-Dracula File (Ace November 1978) Allegedly this was not Saberhagen's choice of title, as it gives away what was intended to be a surprise plot point. An Old Friend of the Family (Ace June 1979) Thorn (Ace September 1980; text restored and/or revised: Tor February 1990) Dominion (Tor June 1982) "From the Tree of Time" (short story), in: Sorcerer's Apprentice #14 1982 A Matter of Taste (Tor July 1990) A Question of Time (Tor May 1992) Seance for a Vampire (Tor June 1994); republished as The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Seance for a Vampire (Titan Books, June 2010) A Sharpness on the Neck (Tor October 1996) "Box Number Fifty" (short story), in: Dracula in London, ed. P. N. Elrod (Ace November 2001) A Coldness In the Blood (Tor October 2002) And you can get his vampire short story collection "Saberhagen Vampire tales" on Amazon.   I wrote the introduction for that. _____________   I highly recommend this book series.  The books are often out of print and hard to find so your best bet might be downloading the audible versions.   The first book "The Dracula tape" retells Dracula from Dracula's point of view.   The one called "An Old Friend of the Family" is like the story in Taken if Dracula was in Liam Neeson's role.   The only two books in the series I don't care much for are Dominion and A Question of time but you can skip those without it effecting much.  

[fuckyeaharthuriana]

All the arthurian movies I watched from best to worst (imho)

Regarding my opinions and my taste: I am okay with low budget, bad special effects and even bad/weird acting, I prefer enjoyment over any kind of historical accuracy. I also enjoy cheesy movies, and I prefer characters over plot, and plot over the rest (pace, acting etc.).I tend to prefer movies that uses characters with a reason (ex. using Morgause as Arthur's sister versus using a random guy and calling him Gaheris just because it's an arthurian sounding name). I am also a bit Mordred fan.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Camelot (musical, 1982 or the Vanessa Redgrave version) - this musical is one of my favorite musicals and one of my favorite arthurian adaptations. It makes Arthur a true protagonist and really put a lot of effort into showing how complex and important his dream is (also I love movies where a character has to renounce to something to protect an ideal)

Excalibur Kid (1999) - best trashy Connecticut Yankee movie, with Morgause as Arthur's sister and focusing on the protagonist convincing Arthur to be a king

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (cartoon) - the best adaptation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Sire Gauvain et le Chevalier Vert (French short) - the best non animated Gawain story at the moment

The Sword in the Stone

Sword of Lancelot (1963) - a classic Lancelot and Guinevere story, but probably because of the hawk-bearing Mordred and his plotting I really enjoyed it

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1988) - a great adaptation of the book with a girl as the protagonist. It has nothing too different from usual, but the protagonist is great and Guinevere has a much bigger role than usual

Morte d'Arthur (1984) - a movie of just scenes and an external narrator, but it is so well done and some of the scene (Mordred's betrayal!) are amazing

Excalibur (1981)

Merlin and Arthur the Lion King - a cartoon, so expects it to be very kids-friendly, but it still manages to be fun and also one of the two movies with a Mordred redemption

Dragons of Camelot - extra trashy, but has a very thigh pace and gives a lot of depth to the characters, mostly Guinevere, Morgana, Lancelot and Galahad. It's so bad that it's good.

Merlin and the Sword - an extra trashy movie, but there are so many plot points (Nimue and Merlin, Ragnelle and Gawain, Lancelot and Guinevere, Morgana) that it ends up being entertaining

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword - pretty fun, a lot of strange humorous pacing, but using Kay as a random name, and not enough arthurian elements, it was clearly made to be the first of a series and kept a lot of elements for the future that never happened

A Knight in Camelot - another good Connecticut Yankee adaptation, with an interesting twist at the end

Arthur and Merlin (2015) - historical based, very nice visuals but Arthur and Merlin are the only real characters in the movie (and the only arthurian characters) and it seems more like it is setting the scene for a bright future that never comes, also very slow

New adventures of a Connecticut Yankee - this is so low because it's in Russian and I don't know Russian, but the visuals are AMAZING

The Knights of the Round Table (1953)

King Arthur: Knights of the Round Table (2017) - not really arthurian characters just strange reincarnations, a lot of absurd plot points, but pretty fun and one of the two movies in existence to have a Mordred redemption. Also, aliens. Far too long.

Percival 2007 - it was in Portoguese so I could understand little, but it looked very dramatic?

Quest for Camelot - the cartoon! Probably this is my nostalgia bias

King Arthur - good actors, not boring, but also nothing special and mostly focused on Lancelot and Arthur

Merlin and the Book of Beasts - classic 'Arthur's daughter has to reclaim the kingdom', but it glossed over the whole Mordred thing.

Arthur's Quest - a classic modern reincarnated Arthur fighting Morgana

A young connecticut yankee in King Arthur's court - a bad movie but so so fun. It also has evil Galahad and an amazing Morgana

Prince Valiant -classic Valiant adventure with more Gawain

Prince Valiant (1997) - classic Valiant adventure

Merlin and the War of Dragons - the plot is all over the place, but it manages to put together Igraine and Uther with Merlin's backstory. The only interesting part is the whole Nimue vs Viviane.

Avalon High (2010) - this low for having butchered the novel and ending up with confusing the plot and the whole sense of the novel. Still, definitely fun to watch for the right public.

First Knight - not too bad, but a bit boring and a story already seen. A classic Lancelot/Guinevere.

Guinevere (1994) - this is a mediocre movie about Guinevere and a loose adaptation of Persia Woolley's books.

Merlin the Return - so bad but also weirdly fun, a part for extra sexist Gawain

A kid in King Arthur's Court - my least favorite Connecticut Yankee movie, mostly because I really disliked the protagonist and the pace

King Arthur: Excalibur Rising - very slow pacing, focusing on Owain (here Arthur's son) vs Mordred, but spends little time on the characters themselves and mostly on setting Owain's big sword revelation and stuff

Lancelot du Lac (Lancelot and Guinevere) - I hate this movie. It's the classic Mordred finds out about Guinevere and Lancelot, but all the characters appear pretty boring with the exception of Gawain.

The Spaceman and King Arthur - this is so high in the list because it adds something new to the usual Connecticut Yankee story. But it's bad and pretty sexist.

Camelot The Legend cartoon - they sing and it's very bad

Sword of the Valiant - which is this low for the absurd way the butchered Gawain and the Green Knight

Merlin of the Crystal Cave - mostly focused on child Merlin and his mother

Merlin (1993) - not really an arthurian movie, as it's a modern times reincarnated lady of the lake stopping a prophecy. Nothing too exciting

Un espanol en la corte del rey Artur - a musical

Arthur and Merlin: Knights of Camelot - takes itself too seriously, Merlin is in it just for 10 minutes, focusing on Arthur's self angst, a lot of plot-points that makes little sense

Lancelot: Guardian of Time - this movie is weirdly fun, but the bad outweighs everything else, especially the sexism

The Sorcerer's Apprentice 2010 and 2002 - just bad, I hated both this movies but I preferred the 2020 one.

Pendragon: Sword of his Father - worst movie EVER. This is not an arthurian movie, just Christian propaganda with Arthur in it. It also makes no sense arthurian-wise.

Movies not in the list because they are not out yet:

Kaamelott part 1

Green Knight

Green Knight: The Movie

The Legend of Sir Mordred

Fate Grand/Order the movie

Movies not in the list because I could not find them to watch them or had no time to watch yet:

Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarves (not watched yet)

The Kid who would be King (not watched yet, SORRY)

Kids of the Round Table (I watched it but I remember nothing)

Merlin's Magic 2013 (never found)

Gawain and the Green Knight (1991, to watch soon)

Connemara (not watched yet)

Gawain and the Green Knight (1973) (watched it but so boring that I remember nothing)

Perceval le Gallois (I've watched it too long ago to remember)

Studio One: Connecticut Yankee (I've watched it too long ago to remember)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court (the 1949 a d the 1931 ones)

Lancleot du Lac 1970 (it's pretty, but only in French so I did not watch it)

Camelot cartoon 1999 (I've watched but I remember nothing of it)

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (cartoon that I watched but don't remember)

Merlin: The Quest (never found it!)

the 9 movies pre 1921 because I could not find them or were in languages I could not understand

[swynlake-rp]

“Whatever.”

FULL NAME: Vanessa Doofenshmirtz BASED ON: Vanessa (Phineas and Ferb) FACE CLAIM: Diana Silvers PRONOUNS: She/Her AGE: June 15, 2002 CURRENT STATUS: Closed

Character Information

Vanessa Doofensmhirtz is many things. She’s a sorceress, but she’s also a scientist. She’s an outcast, but she’s also a leader. She’s the most capable person she knows when she puts her mind to something,  but she also struggles to pay attention in school and commit to one thing for too long. She’s a firecracker blazing across the sky, but she’s also the deep dark night sky with no stars.

But one thing’s certain: If you have a problem with Vanessa Doofensmirtz, she’d prefer if you told her to her face.

Vanessa is used to people having problems with her. On her first day of fourth grade, a kid dumped his lunch on her lamp and she came back to her desk after recess to find the word “Witch” written across her desk in Sharpie. The next day of fourth grade, Vanessa showed up in all black and murmured some gibberish and told Bill Michaels that she’d just cursed him. (Vanessa didn’t know anything beyond basic reagent collection). She got detention for that; Billy got off scot-free.

It  only got worse from there.

See, even though Plains View, Nebraska was a Magick Friendly Town, very few people were actually friendly to Magicks. It didn’t help that it only became a Magick Friendly Town in the last five years, the result of an initiative passed by the U.S. Government that, like many programs, was good in theory but not so much in execution. Vanessa was collateral damage. All the Magicks of Plains View were — but where else in Nebraska could you even go?

But Plains View was Vanessa’s place to be safe. It was her right. When she was 11, she knocked on the door of every sorcerer in town till she found one who would take her as an apprentice. When kids pushed her around in school, she pushed back. She wore black and drew runes over her homework and very quickly, she found that the other Magick kids in school started to cling to her. They were scared. Vanessa wasn’t. Vanessa fought back. Vanessa became their leader.  Vanessa wouldn’t be silenced.

She couldn’t afford not to stand up for herself. No one else was looking out for her. Not her father, who was the one who moved them to Plains View in the first place. Not her mother, who left.

(Maybe she should give her father more credit; he taught her everything she knew about robots and even though he didn’t have magic, he helped her figure out spells and reagents just based on what he’d read. Everything can be done via the scientific method, he told her. Maybe she should give her father more credit; he was the one who stayed).

Vanessa scraped through school — a combination of the odds being stacked against her and her own inability to pay attention when something bored her —  but managed grades good enough to get into Pride University. It wasn’t her first choice, but then again, any choice, any ticket out of Plains View would do.

Vanessa is many things. She’s scrappy, resilient, and ready to make something of herself somewhere where she can be all the many things she wants to be.

✓ Easy-going, funny, individualistic

✖ Cynical, sarcastic, apathetic

Character Suggestions

None

Current Relationships

Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz (father)

Possible Relationships

click here!

Magical Abilities

Sorcery – specialty up to mun

[nyctophilia-35]

İn time-2011

Jumper-2008

Elysium-2013

Minority report-2002

Pan's Labyrinth-2006

The Sorcerer's Apprentice-2010

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events-2004

Fantastik filmler izlediğini söğlemişsin

İyi seyirler

Teşekkür ederim.

[moviefestuk]

Nicolas Cage's career is a bit like his acting style; eccentric, sometimes too laughably over the top, and for the most part, too damn Cage-y to be taken seriously. But, the actor who has just overcome a very shaky last couple of years, amassing a shit-ton of debt and accumulating enough shitty straight-to-dvd releases to fill a film store, is still one of the best actors working today, and his last couple of hits -- since, lets say 'Bad Lieutenant' in 2007 -- 'Mandy' and 'Color Out Of Space' shows in abundance why cinema needs nonconformists like him in order to progress and push the boundaries of acting to new levels. Wether or not you like him, and even though he's been in some truly shocking films, and the fact he will pretty much do any film, this man is as electric as his iconic "Nicolas Cage Freakout" in 'Adaptation' back in 2002, and his substantial film catalogue speaks for itself.

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Here's every film I've ever watched by Cage, best to worst:

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• Mandy - Miller Bloom (2018)

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• Con Air - Cameron Poe (1997)

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• Joe - Joe (2013)

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• Face/Off - Castor Troy (1997)

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• Adaptation - Charlie Kaufman (2002)

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• Bad Lieutenant - Terence McDonagh (2009)

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• Color Out Of Space - Nathan Gardner (2019)

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• Matchstick Men - Roy (2003)

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• Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse - Spider-Man Noir (2018)

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• Leaving Las Vegas - Ben Sanderson (1995)

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• Raising Arizona - H. I. McDunnough (1987)

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• Wild At Heart - Sailor Ripley (1990)

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• The Rock - Stanley Goodspeed (1996)

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• Lord Of War - Yuri Orlov (2005)

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• The Croods - Grug (2013)

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• National Treasure - Ben Gates (2004)

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• Gone In 60 Seconds - Randall Raines (2000)

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• Mom And Dad - Brent Ryan (2017)

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• Kick Ass - Damon Macready (2010)

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• Drive Angry - John Milton (2011)

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• The Family Man - Jack Campbell (2000)

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• National Treasure: Book Of Secrets - Ben Gates (2007)

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• The sorcerer's Apprentice - Balthazar Blake (2010)

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• Windtalkers - Joe Enders (2002)

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• Ghost Rider - Johnny Blaze (2007)

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• Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance - Johnny Blaze (2011)

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• Season Of The Witch - Behman (2011)

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• Bangkok Dangerous - Joe (2008)

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• The Wicker Man - Edward Malus (2006)

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Upcoming Project - Untitled Joe Exotic Project 😂

[xellandria]

A friend of mine is running a D&D one-shot this weekend which meant creating another character.  I was sort of grasping at straws (I don’t want to use the tabaxi rogue I’ve got waiting in the wings for if/when my character in the campaign game we’re in dies for a one-shot) but then I was like “wait, what if I just played another character that sort of exists already?

In BA, Alex is an incubus who falls in love with a human woman who is killed by a covetous evil vampire (warning, art at that link is from 2002-2004 and is *real* bad).  When I was writing out Alexus’ backstory to fit the old character into the new world, I was like “phew, let’s be real—this backstory is like 20 years old and it is showing the hell out of its age; this woman was created and immediately fridged explicitly to fuel some manpain” but there wasn’t much point in going into detail since backstory is basically irrelevant in that game so I just was like “yeah she disappeared one day and nobody knew why and he eventually kept traveling but still keeps half an ear to the ground for news.”

Anyway so instead of being a character that exists solely to be fridged, now Mephala gets to exist on her own for a bit!  She, uh... well she’s more of a person now but the covetous evil vampire is still there to some degree  Also since Alex turned into a half-elf, Mephala gets to be the demon(-like creature) instead.  Good trade.

Mephala - level 5 Tiefling Sorcerer (Divine Soul) Str: 8 (-1) Dex: 10 (0) Con: 12 (+1) Int: 14 (+2) Wis: 14  (+2) Cha: 18 (+4)

In the D&D universe, she was apprenticed to a goldsmith(/guild artisan: jeweler, in D&D background terms) who was sort of also a kind of parental figure (cos she didn’t have those for some reason I guess?) when she and Alexus met and became close, but one of the dudes in her town was all Frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame up in here and was like “yo you’re an evil hellspawn but also I want your body?” and she wasn’t super into him.  At one point he cornered her and she straight up told him to get bent and he got real mad about it (as whiny pissbabies are wont to do) and yo! turns out he was some sort of creature in disguise or something?  I am slightly unclear on that part cos I’m not super familiar with D&D monster lore and stuff but anyway in the encounter he cut the shit out of her shoulders and throat but at some point her innate magic sorcerer powers kicked in (because the player’s handbook tells me this is how sorcerers work) and either massively fucked him up or killed him (again, unclear and at this point irrelevant).  She also kinda fucked up herself at the same time (did he have like, acidic blood or something? did she just fireball herself in the face? I DON’T KNOW, MAN!).

She ended up staggering off into the woods and fleeing her town because the whiny pissbaby dude/monster was like, the D&D sheriff or something (Viktor, the OG covetous vampire dude, was the chief of police in her town in BA) and she was pretty sure she wasn’t gonna be able to get a fair trial or anything there.  She desperately wants to return, but hasn’t quite worked up the nerve yet.  Reason for being an adventurer TBD, but apparently the one-shot is going to be a heist so I guess she’s trying to save up funds to get protection or a better shot at biasing the law in her favour or something? idk man, lol.

Aside from the obvious ones on her face, neck, and torso, Mephala’s got lots of little scars on her fingers from learning her trade, which she is actually pretty good at (I guess she was less an apprentice and more of an established/senior journeyman when The Incident happened, really).  Most of the jewelry and metalwork she wears is her own work, as is the pendant that Alexus still carries around for luck.  She was never super outgoing but is extra wary of strangers nowadays, and makes liberal use of Thaumaturgy’s “change your eyes for a minute” ability (in conjunction with her cloak) when in crowds or unknown situations.  When she does, the right eye typically ends up kind of cataract-clouded; she can still mostly see out of it but it did get damaged somewhat when she took that hit.  She avoids speaking whenever possible because her vocal chords also never quite recovered from that day (aka I don’t want to be the face of this game’s party, I mean what).

Design-wise, I really wanted her horns to be something that wouldn’t interfere too badly with a hood but that isn’t the curled ram-ish horns I used for Delenda; with a big and drapey enough hood, these seem to work for that.  The scarf was important for covering her neck because she doesn’t want to show off the claw/handprint on her neck, but leaving off the left sleeve displays the clawmarks on her shoulder, and basically nothing below the waist got refined at all.  I’d like to keep working on it, but the game is on Sunday and I have a commission in the queue, so I had to stop myself at some point, lol.

Alexus’ pendant is a wire-wrapped fluorite heart; I’m not sure what sort of stone Mephala’s arcane focus is (the smaller teardrops and oval cabochons and such are probably enamel and coloured glass).  I was thinking labradorite cos those can look super sweet and reasonably magical, but I couldn’t find any that were big enough when I went looking through ebay and etsy earlier.

She’s a divine soul sorcerer instead of some other kind of sorcerer largely because I don’t actually know what anybody else in this one-shot is playing (well, I know we have two rogues but) and I wanted to make sure we had at least one healing spell available, lol :x

[omniversalobservations]

McDonald's (2019)

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first-ever Happy Meal, McDonald’s is launching the Surprise Happy Meal with some of its most popular Happy Meal toys from the last four decades. This limited-edition offering will be available in more than 90 countries around the world at participating McDonald’s restaurants beginning Thursday, Nov. 7 through Monday, Nov. 11, while supplies last.

The roster includes beloved toys across the globe with two additional toys available exclusively in the U.S. Watch this video to see them travel through time and excite customers everywhere. The official lineup of the 17 toys coming to the Surprise Happy Meal in the U.S. includes:

* Cowboy McNugget (McDonald’s): 1988 * Fireman McNugget (McDonald’s): 1988 * Mail Carrier McNugget (McDonald’s): 1988 * Hamburger Changeable (McDonald’s): 1989 * Grimace (McDonald’s): 1990 * Dino Happy Meal Box Changeable (McDonald’s): 1991 * McDonald’s Hot Wheels Thunderbird (Mattel): 1993 * Hamburglar (McDonald’s): 1995 * Power Rangers (Hasbro): 1995 * Space Jam Bugs Bunny (Warner Brothers): 1996 * Patti the Platypus (Ty Beanie Baby): 1997 * 101 Dalmatians – U.S. Exclusive (Disney): 1997 * Tamagotchi (Bandai): 1998 * My Little Pony (Hasbro): 1998 * Furby (Hasbro): 1999 * Sorcerer’s Apprentice Mickey – U.S. Exclusive (Disney): 2002 * Hello Kitty (Sanrio): 2013

“Since the Happy Meal was introduced on the menu, it quickly became synonymous with our brand,” said Steve Easterbrook, McDonald’s CEO. “Today, this iconic red box creates lasting memories for billions of families annually across the world.”

First introduced as a Circus Wagon Happy Meal in June 1979 nationally in the U.S., the early iterations of the Happy Meal featured a decorative box including various toys such as a spinning top and McDonaldland character erasers. The Happy Meal global footprint has expanded to more than 38,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries around the globe —with the iconic toy still a beloved staple—serving as a symbol of surprise, playfulness and fun.

“Parents tell us how fondly they recall their favorite toys,” said Colin Mitchell, McDonald’s Senior Vice President, Global Marketing. “So, unboxing the Surprise Happy Meal together creates a real moment of bonding with their children. We hope these toys are something that they will treasure and remember.”

Source: McDonald’s Corporation

(images via YouTube)

[myhumaninteractionsafterall]

These are some notes I wanted to keep after reading the above book, which is very good if you are into Cage. My only complaint is that 75 pages is not enough, and it is now 4 years old and needs a companion volume. 

What follows is an annotated timeline of Cage’s films circa January 2019.

Any italicized quotes are from the above book.

Followed Method Acting Style

1982 Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1983 Valley Girl

1983 Rumble Fish

1984 Racing with the Moon

1984 The Cotton Club

1984 Birdy

1986 The Boy in Blue

Developed Abstract Method Style (Surrealist or ”Counter-Critcial”)

1986 Peggy Sue Got Married

1987 Raising Arizona

1987 Moonstruck [directed to use Operatic approach]

Developed Western Kabuki Style

“Kabuki performers wear makeup to exaggerate their features, and male Kabuki dancing is more like a series of elaborate poses that establish character than a dance.”

1989 Vampire's Kiss

“[In Vampire’s Kiss Cage] combines opera and silent film-style acting, using exaggerated movement and emotions to create characters that keep audiences guessing.”

1989 Never on Tuesday

1989 Time to Kill

“After filming [...] Time To Kill (1989) in Zimbabwe, he noticed that the local people would gather to watch Charles Bronson movies. He knew then that action films would be the genre that would deliver him to new audiences.”

*Son Weston born in 1990*

1990 Fire Birds

1990 Wild at Heart

“[In Wild at Heart Cage] used Andy Warhol’s duplicates as inspiration and played Sailor as Elvis.”

1991 Zandalee

“Cage was inspired to move not more lighthearted fare [his self-named Sunshine Trilogy] by his grandmother and Jim Morrison. [...] he was intrigued by Jim Morrison’s desire to make a song that 'conveyed pure happiness’.”

1992 Honeymoon in Vegas [Part of Sunshine trilogy]

1993 Amos & Andrew

1993 Deadfall

1993 Red Rock West [cited as naturalistic/realism]

1994 Guarding Tess [Part of Sunshine trilogy]

1994 It Could Happen to You [Part of Sunshine trilogy]

1994 Trapped in Paradise

1995 Kiss of Death

*Turned down Jeff Bridges’ role in Dumb and Dumber for Leaving Las Vegas*

1995 Leaving Las Vegas [cited as based on a person “heightened version of reality”]

1996 The Rock

1997 Con Air

1997 Face/Off

1998 City of Angels

1998 Snake Eyes

1999 8mm

1999 Bringing Out the Dead [cited as naturalistic/realism]

2000 Gone in 60 Seconds

2000 The Family Man

2001 Captain Corelli's Mandolin

2001 Christmas Carol: The Movie

2002 Windtalkers

2002 Adaptation [cited as based on a person “heightened version of reality”]

2002 Sonny

2003 Matchstick Men

2004 National Treasure

*Son Kal-El born in 2005*

2005 Lord of War

2005 The Weather Man

2006 The Ant Bully

2006 World Trade Center

2006 The Wicker Man

2007 Ghost Rider

2007 Grindhouse Segment: Werewolf Women of the SS

2007 Next

2007 National Treasure: Book of Secrets

2008 Bangkok Dangerous

2009 Knowing

2009 G-Force

2009 Astro Boy

2009 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

2010 Kick-Ass

2010 The Sorcerer's Apprentice

2011 Season of the Witch

2011 Drive Angry

2011 Trespass

2011 Seeking Justice

Developed Nouveau Shamanic Style

2012 Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

2012 Stolen

2013 The Croods

2013 The Frozen Ground

2014 Joe [cited as naturalistic/realism]

2014 Rage

2014 Left Behind

2014 Dying of the Light

2015 Outcast

Films released after this book’s 2015 publication date

2015 The Runner

2015 Pay the Ghost

2016 The Trust

2016 Snowden

2016 USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage

2016 Dog Eat Dog

2016 Army of One

2017 Arsenal

2017 Vengeance: A Love Story

2017 Inconceivable

2018 Mom and Dad

2018 Looking Glass

2018 The Humanity Bureau

2018 211

2018 Teen Titans Go! To the Movies

2018 Mandy

2018 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

2019 A Score to Settle

2019 Kill Chain

2019 Grand Isle

2019 The Color out of Space

2019 Prisoners of the Ghostland

2020 The Croods 2

2018 Between Worlds

2019 Running with the Devil

2019 Primal

[longrooms]

My story isn t over yet ring

Step 8: Progress Until You Reach the Three Sisters Area and Reveal Seluvis’s Hidden Cellar She’ll ask you to take her Primal Glintstone to find a new body. Head down into the ruins near the sphere, and speak to Sellen’s true body. There’s no boss in the Witchbane Ruins, but there is a large sphere of sorcerer masks spamming AoE attacks guarding a stairway down. Step 7: Speak to Sellen’s True Body in the Witchbane Ruins In her menu, select “Lusat’s location.” Listen to what she has to say about her body, and she’ll point you to the Witchbane Ruins in the western portion of the Weeping Peninsula south of Limgrave. Go back to the Waypoint Ruins and speak to Sellen. Step 6: Return to Sellen and Tell Her Lusat’s Location Beyond it is a small cavern with Sorcerer Lusat, who gives you the Stars of Ruin Sorcery when you interact with him. Provided you have the Sellian Sealbreaker in your inventory, you can undo the seal. Step 5: Unlock the Sealed Cavern to Find Sorcerer LusatĪt the bottom of the Sellia Hideaway cavern, you’ll see a seal similar to those blocking the way to Raya Lucaria Academy.Īpproach the seal. Odds are that there are messages on the ground pointing to the wall’s location. If you don’t find the fake wall initially, keep hitting the rockface as you move south. Near the southern end of the rocks is an illusory wall. You’ll end up at a seemingly barren rockface. From the Plague Church, go northeast and right at the giant skull. You'll also need to do it if you’re looking to start Millicent’s questline. Next, you’ll need to complete Sellia, Town of Sorcery, and open the seal at its northern end. Step 4: Head to the Sellia Hideaway Dungeon Your task, then, is to find Sorcerer Lusat somewhere in Sellia in eastern Caelid. She’ll eventually ask a favor of you and, at the end of that conversation, provide the Sellian Sealbreaker key item. She’ll give some background on herself and her goals, then ask you to join her on a journey to reclaim her place at Raya Lucaria. Step 3: Listen to Sellen, Join Her Journey, and Take on a FavorĪfter hearing Sellen discuss Azur, select “Tell me your story” in her menu. Once you have the spell, return to Sellen and select "Show Azur’s sorcery" in her menu. Gelmir, then follow our guide to acquiring Comet Azur. Progress through the game until you reach Mt. She’ll ask if you want to become her apprentice, then ask again if you’d be okay joining an exile from Raya Lucaria. Open the door at the back of its arena and speak to Sellen. Head to the Waypoint Ruins in the southeast portion of Western Limgrave and defeat the Mad Pumpkinhead boss. You’ll also be taking on a few optional bosses, but nothing on the level of Godskin Duo, Morgott, or otherwise. You won’t be going to the endgame in Sellen’s questline, but some of the later steps are particularly difficult or annoying at lower levels. How to Complete Sorceress Sellen's Questline in Elden Ring The rewards, however, are more than worth the effort, as you’ll get your hands on some of the best Sorceries and magic-centric equipment in the game. He is furious & cussing both hobbits for having stolen his "precious", The One Ring of Power that Frodo bears.Like many NPCs in Elden Ring, Sellen's questline takes you across the Lands Between but doesn’t require nearly as much investment as Alexander or Corhyn and Goldmask'squests. Here, before Gollum assaults them both as they're sleeping, he crawls down a rocky cliff. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers scene when Gollum/Smeagol makes his first OFFICIAL appearance to Frodo & Sam and becomes a central character. The phrase “My precious” originates from Peter Jackson’s 2002 film adaption of J.R.R. Photoshop would often be a useful tool to accomplish hilarious memes. Or it can be simply someone else saying "my precious". It would generally be used as a meme with either Gollum/Smeagol declaring something or someone his "precious". "My precious" is a memorable quote from the 2002 highly acclaimed fantasy film The Lord of the Rings : The Two Towers. Lord of the rings, gollum, smeagol, my precious, the one ring of power

[thenightling]

Name a favorite movie from each year since you were born. (Personal note. The Trouble is I have a a lot of favorites from before I was born or some years with multiple films I liked and some years within my life, in which there was no film I liked at all...) 1981. An American werewolf in London 1982. Dark Crystal 1983. Something Wicked This way Comes 1984. The Company of Wolves / Ghostbusters 1985. Fright Night 1986. Labyrinth / Highlander  1987. Lost Boys 1988. Fright Night: Part 2 / Beetlejuice / Child's Play 1989. The Little mermaid / Ghostbusters 2 1990. Edward Scissorhands / Child's Play 2 1991. Beauty and the Beast 1992. Bram Stoker's Dracula 1993. Nightmare before Christmas / Hocus Pocus / The Halloween Tree 1994. Interview with the vampire 1995. Casper 1996. Hunchback of Notre dame / The Canterville Ghost  1997. Anastasia / Men in Black 1998. Mulan / Les Miserables (Liam Neeson version) 1999. Sleepy Hollow 2000. Dark prince: The True story of Dracula 2001. She-Creature (not like the 50s film of the same name) 2002. Spider-Man 2003. Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl / League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2004. Frankenstein (Luke Goss version) / Hellboy / Van Helsing 2005. Corpse Bride 2006. Pan's Labyrinth / Dracula (Marc Warren version)  2007. Doctor Strange: Sorcerer Supreme / Stardust 2008. Let the Right one In / Hellboy 2: The Golden Army 2009. Trick r Treat / Dorian Gray / Coraline 2010. Sorcerer's Apprentice / Despicable me 2011. Thor 2012. Woman in Black / Avengers / Hotel Transylvania / Dario Argento’s Dracula 2013. Frozen / Despicable Me 2 2014. Maleficent / I, Frankenstein   2015. Crimson Peak 2016. Doctor Strange 2017. The Shape of Water / Wonder Woman 2018. Aquaman / Hotel Transylvania 3 2019. Shazam If you want to try this, feel free to give it a go.

[fuckyeaharthuriana]

Movie gifs (list)

Green Knight (2021) Kaamelott part 1 (2021) Arthur and Merlin Knights of Camelot (2020) The Kid who would be King (2019) King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) King Arthur: Excalibur Rising (2017)  King Arthur & the knights of the Round Table (2017) Arthur & Merlin (2015)  Night at the Museum 3 (2014) Dragons of Camelot (2014)  Sire Gauvaine et le Chevalier Vert (2014) Merlin’s Magic (2013) Avalon High (2010)  The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2010)  Merlin and Arthur the Lion King (2010)  Merlin and the Book of Beasts (2009) Merlin and the War of Dragons (2008) Pendragon: Sword of his Father (2008)  Camelot cartoon (2008)  Percival (2007) Morgana (2007) Impossible to find! Shrek the Third (2006) Tristan & Isolde (2006) King Arthur (2004) Young Arthur (2002) Not even sure it exists in complete form Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (short movie) (2002)  The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2001)  Mists of Avalon (2001) Merlin: The Return (2000) Tristan (1999)  Arthur’s Quest (1999)  Excalibur Kid (1999)  Camelot (1999) - Merlin: The Quest Begins (1998)  Quest for Camelot (1998)  Merlin (1998)  A Knight in Camelot (1998)   Lancelot: Guardian of Time (1997) Prince Valiant (1997) Kids of the Round Table (1997)  A Kid in King Arthur’s Court (1996) First Knight (1995)  A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1995)  The Last Enchantment (1995) Impossible to find Guinevere (1994)  October 32nd (1993) Merlin of the Crystal Cave (1991) Connemara (1990) Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde (1990) impossible to find A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1989) Ubit Drakona (1989) New Adventures of a Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1988) Merlin and the Sword (1985)  Morte d’Arthur (1984)  Sword of the Valiant (1984)  Camelot (1982)  Parsifal (1982) Feuer und Schwert (1982) Lovespell (1981) Knightriders (1981) Excalibur (1981)  The Spaceman and King Arthur (1979)  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1978) A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur’s Court (1978)  Percival le Gallois (1978)  Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)  Lancelot du Lac (1974) Gawain and the Green Knight (1973) Tristan et Yseult (1972) Lancelot du Lac (1970) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1970) Camelot (1967)  Un espanol en la corte del Rey Artur (1964)  The Sword in the Stone (1963) Sword of Lancelot (1962)  Prince Valiant (1954)  The Black Knight (1954) The Knights of the Round Table (1953)  Studio One: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1952) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1949)  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1931)  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1921) Tristan et Yseult (1920) These movies are probably lost Knights of the Square Table (1917) These movies are probably lost Parsifal (1912)  Tristano e Isolda (1911)  Tristan et Yseult (1911) These movies are probably lost Re Artù e i Cavalieri della Tavola Rotonda (1910) These movies are probably lost Launcelot and Elaine (1909) These movies are probably lost Parsifal (1904) These movies are probably lost

[ao3feed-lokiangst]

Triangles are a Sorcerer’s Best Friend

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/aLB62Km

by LongestWordintheDictionary

“Most teachers don’t intrude upon their student’s sex lives like an over protective hound.”

“Well most teachers aren’t the sorcerer supreme.” ____

Reader’s got a good thing going with Loki, and a great thing going with Stephen. Not like that though, he’s just her master. Her…teacher. And Loki is, well that’s still kinda undefined. But everything is going great. The sex is hot, (with Loki, definitely not with Stephen) and her relationship with Stephen is an amazing chance to become a talented sorcerer. Everything is going exactly as it should, and nothing could possibly go wrong. No three sided love shapes to be found here. Absolutely not.

Words: 2002, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Doctor Strange (2016), Loki (TV 2021)

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: F/M, M/M

Characters: Stephen Strange, Loki (Marvel), The Avengers - Character

Relationships: Stephen Strange/Reader, Loki (Marvel)/Reader, Loki/Stephen Strange

Additional Tags: Fluff and Smut, Porn With Plot, not so slow burn, I mean we’re coming right out the gate with something steamy, Reader-Insert, Reader is a sorcerer in training, magical sex, Loki has feelings, Master/Apprentice

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/aLB62Km

[swynlake-rp]

“"Girl? GIRL?! If it weren’t for this girl, you would still be in the Horned King’s dungeon!“

FULL NAME: Eilonwy Llyr BASED ON: Eilonwy (The Black Cauldron)     FACE CLAIM: Skyler Samuels PRONOUNS: She/Her BIRTHDAY: August 8, 2002 CURRENT STATUS: Taken

Character Information || cw: child abuse mention, kidnapping, fire ||

Eilonwy always found it interesting that ‘princess’ and ‘prisoner’ were so close alphabetically. Because for the majority of her life, her identity as one made her feel like the other. Eilonwy was born as the heir and Crown Princess to the Mona Throne, the last of the line of Llyr sorceresses. But as she was told over and over again, she was never likely to be as powerful as them. This was because (according to her Aunt Achren who was raising her) her mother, Angharad, had thrown away hundreds of years of tradition to be with a Mundus man. So for the first time, the magical blood of Llyr was diluted in Eilonwy. Apparently, this was why her relatives had decided that she needed to be trained properly with her Aunt.

The problem from Eilonwy’s perspective was that the training was inconsistent at best and bad at worst. She spent most of her days by herself, wandering Spiral House, and looking for things to occupy her curious brain and explain the world she found herself in. The doors to the outside were always locked, but the house itself was big and full of hidden rooms and secret passages which it was possible to find if she looked hard enough. Occasionally, she would have servants or tutors to homeschool her, but they never lasted long enough for her to develop a real attachment to them. Eventually, they would always disappear without saying goodbye. After experiencing the consequences the few times she tried to ask where they had gone, she learned to keep her questions to herself. Instead, she watched. And listened.

The times Achren would call her into the inner study were almost worse. Achren was the only one who would teach Eilonwy about her magical legacy, and she started to introduce Eilonwy to the basics of fire manipulation and aether manipulation. But these sessions were typically short, frustrating, and painful for Eilonwy. Mainly because Eilonwy would ask a question about why something worked or would question a process, Achren would lose her temper, and the two of them would fight until Eilonwy was locked back in her room nursing her pride and her bruises.

So Eilonwy learned how to teach herself. She found the library and read everything she could get her hands on, from books about magical history to fiction to modern science. Sheer stubbornness kept her going when the books she found were far above her level and she slowly began to unlock their secrets. The more she learned, the more she wanted to be able to explore the outside world. But the books gave her another valuable tool. They showed her models for living that didn’t look like her Aunt or the scared servants. Models that included heroes, adventurers, carers, and healers. Deliberately, she started copying what she saw in the books to make sure she was different from her Aunt in every way.

Everything changed when she was 14. That was the day she had finally found a way to sneak into her Aunt’s work room when the woman wasn’t around. It only took a quick look to realize that her Aunt was experimenting with blood magic and necromancy, something that all of Eilonwy’s studying had told her was dark and forbidden. Worse, she found a scroll detailing how to take another’s magic. And the only other potential sorcerer around was her.

From that moment, Eilonwy was determined to find a way out of that house. Her opportunity came the day a sorcerer and his apprentice showed up at their door. Eilonwy wasn’t sure why her aunt had opened the door to let them in, especially since the apprentice was immediately locked into a room by himself while the sorcerer was led away. But with the memories of that dark workroom in the back of her head, she threw together a go bag, including her magical bauble, and went to rescue the boy who was around her own age. Together, they snuck towards the back of the house. Just before they left, her bauble flashed and illuminated a magical sword Eilonwy had never noticed. The boy immediately grabbed it, and the two of them raced out of the house together.

They were only a few yards away when the house exploded in flames. She doesn’t know what caused it or if there were any survivors. But it didn’t matter. All they needed to do now was run. The apprentice insisted they needed to take the sword back to the castle of Caer Colur, which distant memories told Eilonwy that was her home. They hitchhiked with trustworthy travelers when they could and walked when they couldn’t, Eilonwy always looking back over her shoulder in case her aunt had survived to follow them.

When they arrived, there was an immediate explosion of sound and movement. Eilonwy couldn’t understand why they were making so much fuss, until she realized it was for her. That was when she finally learned the truth.

It turned out that only part of her aunt’s stories had been the truth. It was true that Angharad was a sorceress and that Eilonwy was the Crown Princess. It was also true that she had fallen in love with a Mundus man. As Mona was one of the few remaining fully magic communities, this did cause a huge scandal. But by all accounts, the couple was happy and loved their daughter. Which is why it was so shocking for them when Eilonwy was kidnapped by Achren. Both her parents went searching for her and were never seen again. So even the idea that Achren was her aunt had been a lie told to keep her compliant. And she had no idea if she would ever see her parents again.

Reeling under the weight of these revelations, a kindly sorcerer who had helped to train her mother offered to let her stay with him until she was back on her feet and ready to face the reality of the Court with all of its people and expectations. Gratefully, she retired with him to his farm. It was the first time she had someone consistently paying attention to her education, and she finally started to make some progress on understanding the elements and the magic of her bauble, although it was slow going. But those were the happiest years of her life so far.

When she turned 18, she suddenly found out that her parents had set up a trust for her years ago to attend university. It hadn’t been touched in years, but the seed had been enough that the money would fully cover her university experience and living expenses. The time gap had also been long enough for Eilonwy to recover from her initial shock and grief so she was ready to start exploring the world and meeting new people.

She immediately applied for PrideU in Swynlake. Now that she was free, she wanted to meet people, both Magick and Mundus, to better understand the two worlds that she straddled. She wants to experience everything that university has to offer and finally learn what it is like to have friends her age. And maybe, maybe, she will be able to start finding out what happened to her parents and if they are still alive after all. She is nervous as this is the first time she will be leaving the island of Mona. But there’s a small part of her that is also hoping that if she’s in a new place, she’ll stop looking over her shoulder for Achren to find her and finish what she started.

✓ Practical, excited, loyal

✖ Rebellious, hot-tempered, stubborn

Character Suggestions

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Current Relationships

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Magical Abilities

Sorcery – Elemental: aether & fire (shadow/light)