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about me !!!
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drawn by the amazing @ghosttoastx !!! if you read this ily you’re never getting rid of me now
Hi!!! I’m Alice.
I do stuff. It’s pretty cool.
Enfp, hufflepuff, Capricorn Sun, Libra moon, Pisces rising, he/she, and more!! I’m also a non-partnering aromantic and gray asexual!
I stalk blogs I like, don’t be alarmed if I like a bunch of posts at once!! In fact, be happy!! I love you!!!!!
If you want to talk to me please do!!! I want more friends. Just keep in mind I am a 15 year old minor!
You have been warned!
DNI:
racists, homophobes, sexists, etc. general dni criteria ig
people who just hate for no reason!! (anti-furry, just hating on certain fandoms, etc. ticks me off!)
proshippers
frans/fontcest
exclusionists
radqueers
radfems
pro paras. go to therapy
nsfw (also sorta related to above, pro cnc/ageplay. go to therapy)
WIPS:
Wilting Flowers - My actual baby. My pride and joy. It’s imperfect but that’s okay.
The actual grim reaper falls in love with a mortal. I can’t do it justice, you’re just gonna have to trust me.
don’t break my heart - Shameless Sans fanfic. All of the self indulgence ever, but it brings me joy :) semi discontinued, might come back!
I love it man. It makes me so happy. Basically yn is an awkward dumbass and so is Sans and they fall in love and stuff :)
Fandoms:
My main fandoms are Twilight and Undertale (obv), but I’m in a bunch more!! :D
The Arc of a Scythe by Neil Shusterman
Harry Potter by Daniel Radcliffe (JK…)
Steven Universe by Rebecca Sugar
Doki Doki Literature Club by Dan Salvato
Omori by Omocat
Arcane by Riot Games
The Walten Files by Martin Walls
The Amazing Digital Circus by Glitch Studios
The Phantom of the Opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber (the book’s by Gaston Leroux but i haven’t read it lol)
Deltarune by Toby Fox (is that an anagram???)
Meet the Robinsons by Disney
And more that aren’t off the top of my head!! Just ask bros :)
I’m kinda obsessed with UTMV, soooo….
Fav AU - Insomnia (link to chapter 1)
Fav Sans - Dust by Ask-Dusttale and Geno by LoverofPiggies
Music:
Ranked by popularity, with my fave songs from each! Just like the fandoms, it's all over the place.
Taylor Swift - Haunted
Hozier - In The Woods Somewhere
Muse - Soldier's Poen
Mitski - Last Words of a Shooting Star
Will Wood - Suburbia Overture/Vampire Culture/Whatever the hell the name is idek anymore
Dazey and the Scouts - Maggot
The Oozes - I Still Adore You
Lemon Demon - Action Movie Hero Boy
Tally Hall/Miracle Musical - Misery Fell
Teddy Hyde - Terry’s Taxidermy
Destroy Boys - Crybaby
The Crane Wives - Little Soldiers
Steam Powered Giraffe - Malfunction
Writing Requests:
HEY SO HERES A FUN FACT: I WANT YOU TO ASK ME TO WRITE THINGS FOR YOU!! LIKE I LOVE THAT!!! I WILL WRITE YOU LITTLE ONESHOTS IF ITS A FANDOM IM IN!!! OR I CAN WRITE ABOUT MY CHARACTERS IF YOU’RE INTO THAT!!! JUST PLEASR PLEASE PLEASE ASK ME AAAAAAA
Things You Might Want to Be Aware Of:
i tend to isolate myself when i’m having a Big Sad™️ moment. please do not be mad if i act cold!!!
i’m a very empathic person and i get really upset around negativity. please do not send me or mention me in anything political or controversial.
i get in my head about disturbing/sexual things. once again, don’t show me this stuff. don’t ask me to write about it, either!!
i am uncomfortable around religious discussions. i get enough of them irl!!! please keep them away from me :')
i’ve got adhd and possible ocd so yeah and also my auditory processing sucksssss so if we ever interact on call or *gasp* irl then i’ll say “what?” every five seconds
books. @bunny-on-a-bookshelf for books.
i’m just a silly little girl who is also a boy. we have fun here
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#sparkly - twilight
#im aspec BUT - simping, fangirling, i do a lot of it
#liveblogging homestuck - reading homestuck and making vague comments about it.
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#about me#this user#moots#mutuals#friends#userboxes#minor#looking for friends#looking for mutuals#mootie patooties#skeleposting#sparkly#reblogs#irl alice#alice writes sometimes#is that an anagram???#im aspec BUT#liveblogging homestuck#rock n robinson#ALL HAIL#twilight#undertale#meet the robinsons#homestuck#aromantic#steam powered giraffe#deltarune#musical automatons#i am a farmer 🫡
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"Because you're Charlie. And you love me. And I love you."
Oh I feel like that is the line from the third season. Why are we like this is probably more of a running joke than a leitmotiv, but Nick actually giving an answer to that question in that precise moment is like the turning point when their schoolboy crush becomes something much more adult.
Why are we like this... because we are. Because you are you and I am me, with all the messy and silly and complicated things that we both are, and we are in love.
Two people, two simple humans who randomly cross each other's orbits in the ridiculously small portion of time and space we occupy and decide that yes, this is it, this is one of the reasons why I'm here.
In the Nick & Charlie novella, Charlie often mentions that he knows his relationship with Nick is not normal, because they care about each other much more than any regular teenager should care about their first love. I think that fits the overarching storyline of them staying together well into adulthood and beyond and it also fits Charlie's mental state in that particular moment, but I like that Nick's simple answer is the path forward for them. Sometimes there's no need to seek a be-all and end-all answer. Sometimes it is as simple as we are here, and we love.
#heartstopper#joe locke#kit connor#nick nelson#charlie spring#alice oseman#doesn't happen often but i'll admit that sometimes i find alice's writing a little trivial... and then she comes up with lines like that
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how about hc of reader washing his hair during bathtime 🛀💆🏼♂️
This request is so cute <33
So it’d start after y/n washes her hair
And Chishiya mentions how her hair always looks so nice
And says he wishes he knew how to wash his properly
And y/n offers to wash it for him this time
He declines because nobody touches his hair but himself - that’d explain a lot ahskakallal
He eventually gives in after y/n gives him puppy eyes and offers a head massage
As y/n massages Chishiya’s head, she notices his hair is actually super soft
Chishiya starts to relax more and more and closes his eyes
y/n uses her favourite coconut scented shampoo remembering that time Chishiya mentioned how nice it smelled
He feels more and more relaxed as y/n starts untangling his hair with a detangling brush
y/n starts rinsing his hair with lukewarm water while humming her favourite song
Chishiya knows this is coming to an end and starts feeling a bit sad about it but can’t wait until your next bath time so you can do it all over again <3
#sorry it’s so short :(#nijiro murakami#chishiya#aib chishiya#shuntaro chishiya#alice in borderland#chishiya shuntaro#aib#chishiya headcanons#shuntaro chishiya x reader#chishiya imagine#chishiya alice in borderland#chishiya x reader#chishiya x you#chishiya fanfic#i write sometimes
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Its honestly so funny to me when people talk about ryan condal's "team black bias" and its like yall... i dont think condal cares about the fictional waring factions of incest kingdom... i think he just thinks rhaenyra is his main character and thus warps the world to suit rhaenyra
#and that spills over into the characterization of the other team black members#hotd#house of the dragon#ryan condal#team green#team black#i do think the show pretty much paints the greens as the villians#but like i feel like thats more of a simplifying conflict to appeal to general audiences thing#i think they probably just think normies will probablg hate every character if every character is actually fully a terrible person#oh and theyre scared of making any of the women actually terrible#i swear you guys talk about the show runners like theyre litterally the biased maesters in the book sometimes#id also say for however much they remove rhaenyras responsibility jn stuff they sure as hell do alicents too#the writers just arent that good at writing
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I started a fic with the cute concept of “Alicent and Rhaenyra reunite after 20 years at Viserys’ funeral” and now it’s turned into an angsty work meditating on re-kindling feelings that never burnt out, realising that they’ve changed so much and yet they still know each other better than anyone, while also being a study on grief
Totally not inspired by the fact I’m already experiencing a bit of grief in my life
#personal#fic stuff#writing things#rhaenicent#rhaenyra x alicent#sometimes you don’t know life is getting to you until it suddenly appears in your work
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Bendy Comics
Hehehe kicking my legs back and forth because I just read the little Bendy’s Crack-Up Comics Book and here are some of my thoughts while reading it:
This image of Bendy. Tempted to make this my pfp ngl.
I like the cat one, not just bc my batim toon oc is a black cat—
Also I need the goats in the main line game stat.
Also also, Boris and Alice are adorable :3
Alice! Boris is dying! Alice!!!!!
“I see you are a man of culture.”
This one was just cute. Bendy deserves all the pies, the lil guy.
Okay, calm down there, Dr. Eggman.
“You’re too late, Bendy! I am now FORKLIFT CERTIFIED!”
Alice is such a mood in this book, she’s my spirit animal.
The moon comic is so strange out of context. Bendy and Alice get arrested and Boris eats the moon.
Also as for the Bendy charm line, Bendy 100% tries to max out his charisma stat in dnd and that’s canon now.
He’s gonna do a crime.
Projectionist cameo? Also Spinel is in this? Neat. (I also very much need her in a mainline game plz and thank you)
Just this entire page. “We didn’t wake up and choose violence… But the children did.”
Edgar appreciation. He’s the littlest guy.
More Alice appreciation because she’s iconic.
#bendy and the dark revival#bendy and the ink machine#batim#batdr#bendy crack up comics#humour#bendy the dancing demon#bendy#alice angel#boris the wolf#butcher gang#comics#I love this trio an irrational amount#They make me so genuinely happy#Okay okay I’ll get back to writing my Bendy fics now—#Every time I consume batim content it’s a free boost of serotonin#it’s free real estate#Charlie is forklift certified#Alice is iconic I forgor#I need more of these three getting into chaos#Sometimes I forget this is a horror franchise
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Green vs Black
Alicent vs Rhaenyra?
Warning: none, just some thinking I do rather than studying for exam next day, not much long of post because I really need to study but I don't want to
I have been mad about how the show is always showing it Rhaenyra against Alicent. How it should be Aegon who should be in covers and whatever. And I think many would think so too.
But is it right?
No.
The war is really between Alicent and Rhaenyra. Not Aegon and Rhaenyra. Alicent and Rhaenyra.
It is actually quite obvious when you take a reading of book and also while watching the show it occurred to me that they are not wrong at all.
Because, it is Alicent who initiated the war between against Rhaenyra. Rather it be out of jealousy, greed or resentment.
Here's how.
It is Alicent who wears the Green gown, her House colours. Not Aegon, Alicent.
She is the one who kickstarts this.
And her sons', just like that of any other mother's, followed their mother's footsteps.
It is stated quite a few places through out the book that it was Alicent who wanted the throne to go to Aegon.
Here is one of the few examples:
Rhaenyra and Alicent had a somewhat good relationship, it was good enough that she even filled Alicent's cup during the feast and Alicent in return called her daughter.
But it is when Alicent gives birth to sons, sons of the King, is when the problems starts arising.
The thing went so far that Viserys had to remove Otto Hightower from his position as the Hand of the King.
It was called Queen's Party. Not Prince's or Aegon's Party.
Now this is not much of the point, Alicent's is the Queen, of course she would be notified of the King's death first hand. But is to be noted that she had ordered for the room to be closed, the servant to be taken in custody. Also, she had been aware of and had planned along with the people who were on her side.
And even much further, after Rhaenyra has taken over King's Landing, it is Alicent who tries to negotiate with her. Of course, at is Aegon and his brothers who fight in the real battlefield. They who fly Dragons and are the figure head of Greens. And at that time, Aegon is not there since he had to hide from Rhaenyra's men who would have killed him.
Alicent tried to do this, knowing her son would listen to her. She has some influence over him.
And with this, I conclude that the war between of the Greens and the Blacks is really between Alicent Hightower and Rhaenyra Targaryen.
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk and reading and giving your precious time to my thoughts.
Lots of love.
#house of the dragon#hotd#rhaenyra targaryen#alicent hightower#team black#team green#sometimes I wish all I had all the time to just write fics and blogs about my favourite show and forget about exams#i really wish so#asoiaf#fire and blood#hotd discourse#house of the dragon discourse
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the thing about me that i will say though, is that... i've never really thought about my pronouns, nor my gender really, i've just went with what i was referred to as i grew up because it never felt wrong at all, and it still doesn't.
but, with creating universe friday and being this anonymous... blob who could be anyone, look like anyone, sound like anyone, being referred to as the 'creator' and with they/them pronouns...
made me realise in a really weird way that i kinda fuck with that. but not entirely they/them pronouns on me, myself (at least not in a way i would push to be referred to as) but when people don't know me.
when people hear my name or a description of me and automatically call me by a 'gendered' pronoun i kind of hate it. not repulsed by it, but in a way that i almost want to be truly anonymous to anyone before they've met me. or even until i'm a lil closer to them. like i wanna be referred to as 'they' in the way you say, "who are they?" when you ask about someone who's gender you know nothing of. anonymity.
idk. there's just something that just feels so right about not being known and being allowed to pretty much have no gender or appearance. i fear this blog is teaching me more about myself than i ever would've expected Erm...
but also i feel like this happens every time the weather gets colder. does seasonal gender exist??? it does now. i just decided.
#the most lore drop you'll get from me#even though sometimes i do wanna say things about myself#how incriminating of me#this does not reveal anything about me at all#actually more reveals things to the irls who know this account whom i've never brought this up to before!#hey what's a better time than on my anonymous blog#eh i don't think any of them actually READ read it#fake fans really#but truly sometimes im like FUCK cause i can't say too much about me#well there are times where u can fully know where im based#u just gotta search for them now#but things like sexuality wise#having this platform i would love to talk about how my sexuality relates to my writing in the most unexpected way#but i fear i'd be saying too much .....#peace and love homies#i need to sleep#uni . tomororw. Eugh#universe friday#osemanverse#alice oseman#radio silence#aled last#universe city
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In original takes do you prefer there to be one protagonist to explore the world, or for them to have a buddy? If so, how many? Keep in mind, this is just the protagonist group, not the main cast. Basically, these are characters you stick with throughout the whole story. (Harems aren't included in this.)
#mine#I prefer two myself#like Sam and Max#Though I can go up to three#One I like sometimes#but I can feel that one can get lonely at times#Unless they're constantly interacting with the rest of the cast#writing#polls#protagonists#lotr#narnia#naruto#alice in wonderland#matilda#mario and luigi RPG#ATLA
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making a little get to know me post since i've gained a few followers! 🤍
basics!
- i’m kath, she/they, 24, living in california but a new york native
- this is predominantly an amc's interview with the vampire blog! i mainly post devil's minion & loustat with some loumand as a treat
- i write fanfic & make fan edits for iwtv, though i’m terrible at updating (pearl diver chapter 2 is almost done i promise!)
- i’m an alicent apologist. mainly because i’m in love w emily carey and olivia cooke and also because i love a morally grey beautiful woman
- other fandoms i occasionally post for: hotd, skam, the peripheral, heartstopper, the last of us, bg3, tbh anything the slightest bit queer let's be honest
fun facts bc why not
- i’m queer & so are my two moms ;)
- i play dnd far too much to be normal about it
- i’m a classical roman historian in grad school. i'm working on my thesis on roman & etruscan women in power
- i'm an ex-english major, and you can tell this because my prose is so violet that it exhausts me as i write it
- if you go back far enough you'll realize this used to be a sims 4 account and i never made a new one to deal with my iwtv obsession
- i have secret spotify playlists meant to be played in a specific order for my favorite iwtv pairings. maybe one day i'll dox myself and post them
- insomnia plagues me. it's 3:18am as i type this
thank you for reading this far & thank you to my very loyal mutuals for liking everything i post in a fugue state 😌 love u
#no one asked for an about me but i wanted to write one anyway!#also i KNOW my username is alicent based and i only post about her sometimes#is it my hamartia? no. alicent deserves to be in my user#iwtv#hotd#interview with the vampire#house of the dragon#loustat#loumand#devil's minion
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I'm getting tired of this "if the war can be averted...I have a duty to try" shit, like the show keeps having these lead characters say it every episode. And it only really made sense in episode 10 of S1, before Luke died, there was a chance for that. The crown was usurped, but there'd been no major casualties.
But after Luke's death, Alicent kept saying it. And now after Jaehaerys' death, Rhaenyra is saying it.
And like, GURLS, DARLINGS, WE'RE HERE. THE WAR IS HERE. IMMA NEED YOU BOTH TO ACCEPT THAT.
People have DIED. You've both lost CHILDREN (well Rhaenyra and Helaena have). We're not coming back from that. The war isn't going to be curbed now.
And the stupid fucking misunderstood prophecy rearing its ugly head yet again. Like Rhaenyra, babes, you thought Alicent was going to change her mind NOW!???
Like c'mon, writers...let the war, WAR already 😭😭💀 Let these women get behind it and LEAD it already 😭💀
#hotd#like this isn't even team related#this aimed at the writers really#I'm confused why they keep halting the progress of the war at this point#Rhaenyra reading Alicent's letter NOW shouldn't mean as much as they're telling it does#it's too late 💀💀#LIKE 'she sent her condolences' ANDDDD your kid is still dead#what is Rhaenyra gonna do#apologize for Jaehaerys too LIKE IT'S TOO LATEEEEE#the whole meeting in the sept was CRAZY there was never going to be anything to gain there 💀💀#what 'peaceful' solution was Rhaenyra looking for???#there's two options here either YOU surrender or AEGON DOES that's it that's all#i cannot with the writing sometimes i fucking swear💀💀
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i think i peaked
wildddd man
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the labyrinth of us~
'July 18th, 2009
My brain is defective, so they tell me /A tangled web of misfired neurons / Strung together like uneven roads with jagged edges that lead nowhere / Full of landmines hoping for a misstep / Carved fissures between thought and memory / Unfinished, temporary. / I don’t tell them the blackouts are getting worse / That sometimes I become lost in that empty space where nothing connects, swallowed by the void / Instead, I wait in the darkness, make friends with the silence until it speaks, reaching out with a faint whisper.
Two words. Simple. Heavy.
“Save her.” '
(the butterfly effect au no one asked for, but I'll be writing anyways because this post by @ladyalayne gave me thoughts and feelings. so credits to you babes for the mess I'm about to make lol!)
#rhaenicent#rhaenicent au#alicent x rhaenyra#sometimes I write things#alicent hightower#rhaenyra targeryan
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(HEAD CANON TIME WOO)
We all know that Chishiya is really good with stressful situations in the borderlands, but I was wondering what you think he would be like in some more everyday stressful situations that weren’t life or death? Like.. at the airport for example? Being in charge of not just himself but also the reader
I reckon he’d be overprotective of reader
In situations when they need to be in a crowded place like an airport, a shopping centre, a crowded bar or street… he’d probably not let go of her but if it’s less of a crowded place then he’d let her be on her own but he’d always be keeping an eye on her from afar
In not so stressful occasions when they are with friends, relatives… he wouldn’t want to disturb her and would just let her enjoy her time with them <3
#anon <3#i write sometimes#nijiro murakami#chishiya#aib chishiya#shuntaro chishiya#alice in borderland#chishiya shuntaro#aib#shuntaro chishiya x reader#chishiya x fem!reader#chishiya fluff#chishiya fanfic#Chishiya hc#chishiya alice in borderland#chishiya x reader#chishiya x you
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AU Thursday: Valicer In The Dark -- Fun With Trauma
Hi all -- it's time to talk about my VITD trio again! Specifically, today we're discussing their Traumas! :D Now, "Trauma" in Blades In The Dark refers to a condition your scoundrel picks up when they max out their stress during the course of their adventure -- once they fill up all their stress boxes, they have some sort of mental break, can no longer participate in the rest of the current score, and develop a new specific personality quirk that will haunt them for the rest of the adventures. A character can develop four traumas before they have to be retired from life as a scoundrel (either literally retiring or being thrown into jail as a sacrifice to the Bluecoats). On the plus side, each new trauma is also a chance to earn extra XP -- if your character struggles with the side effects of a trauma during a score, you can mark a point or two of XP for it and level up your character a little bit faster. The book has eight potential traumas for scoundrels to pick up -- Cold, Haunted, Obsessed, Paranoid, Reckless, Soft, Unstable, and Vicious -- but as I've thought about my trio and where I want them to go (and what other systems in the book I'd like to use), I've come up with somewhat more bespoke traumas for them:
-->Alice: Our favorite Cutter actually starts with a trauma -- as I've mentioned before, I looked at the description for the Haunted trauma -- "You’re often lost in reverie, reliving past horrors, seeing things" (pg 14) -- and went "yeah, that pretty well covers her hallucinations of Wonderland." (It's the reason she also gets two starting abilities instead of just one -- trade-off!) As for her next potential trauma, I was initially considering Vicious -- "You seek out opportunities to hurt people, even for no good reason" -- but then decided that perhaps a slightly more logical one would be a tweaked form called Overprotective -- "You make sure everyone knows that what's yours is yours, to the point of violence." Alice is, of course, protective of Victor and Smiler even before she picks up this particular trauma, but afterward, she can get a little overenthusiastic about keeping danger away from them, simply because she doesn't want to lose the people she loves again. That house fire where her family died did a number on her head, after all! The pair probably have to rein her in sometimes to make sure she doesn't accidentally cause them more trouble trying to keep them safe. I don't have a specific scene in mind for what triggers it, but I know it would have to involve Victor and/or Smiler getting hurt and her just letting loose to protect them.
-->Victor: My initial ideas for a trauma for our lovely Whisper were Paranoid -- "You imagine danger everywhere; you can’t trust others" -- as the result of a particularly dangerous score that spooked him badly, or Obsessed -- "You’re enthralled by one thing: an activity, a person, an ideology" -- as the result of him getting a little too much into studying the dangerous magic of Duskwall...but then, while researching the Ritual special ability to figure out how to create new rituals for Victor to use, I found the sample ritual "Portal to the Depths" -- which involves singing an ancient song to open a portal up into the Void Sea, swamping anyone unlucky enough to be in front of it with its dark water filled with mysterious starlight and dragging them into the cold depths. The thing is, whenever someone uses this ritual, along with taking six stress, they must also tick a progress clock called "Seduced By The Leviathan's Song."
Cue me coming up with a scene where Victor, having filled up that progress clock, is with Alice and Smiler at The Docks (yes, this the name of a neighborhood in the city; it is self-explanatory) -- and ends up getting mind-controlled by the song of a nearby Leviathan into nearly walking off one of said docks to either drown or get devoured. Fortunately, this is after the trio have started playing with hypnosis in their private lives, and Smiler and Alice are able to stop him in his tracks by invoking their control over his mind -- but the experience leaves Victor with the custom trauma Phobia -- "You are terrified of a particular person, thing, or place and refuse to be near it." As you might imagine, Victor's terror revolves around the ocean, and he refuses to be anywhere near it if he can -- no more scores involving The Docks for this trio!
-->Smiler: Deciding on any trauma conditions for our cheerful combination Leech/Slide was a bit tricky for me at first -- not only is Smiler a naturally-cheery person who takes a lot of things that would stress out others in stride (see them very casually talking to ghosts in "Start At The Beginning...Sort Of"), they also of course end up in possession of the ability Functioning Vice, which allows them to adjust how much stress they clear when indulging their Vice and makes emptying out that track between scores a lot easier. I really wasn't sure which of the ones on offer would actually fit them --
And then. While reading through the "Changing The Game" section of the book, I stumbled across the "Forgotten Gods" section in "Advanced Abilities and Permissions." Which details what happens when your character opens their mind to a forgotten god -- including access to the ability Glorious Visage, which allows the character to hit everyone in the vicinity with an image of the god's form, costing them three stress and causing everyone around them to at least flee in fear or be paralyzed with dread. The more traumatized the character, the more harm they can do, up to killing a specific person by shattering their mind. I was like "Oooooo, wow, creepy but neat" --
And then I was like "Smiler's already been touched by their god..."
Cue the creation of the custom trauma Vessel -- "Your body is capable of hosting the will of a forgotten god -- and they know it." The way I see this working for Smiler is, the first time they overmax their stress, their god Mar-Mal sees this, is like "!!! Let me help!" and straight-up possesses their body for the rest of the score. Fortunately they do leave once the danger is passed -- helped by Victor and Alice going "It would make us VERY HAPPY if you gave us Smiler back" -- and Smiler recovers from the experience, but the door has been opened in their head, and it's not being shut anytime soon. The trauma automatically gives them access to the customized special ability Joyous Visage -- where Smiler can use Mar-Mal's power to stun people with happiness (it works a bit like the "Hysteria" power in VTMB's version of the Dementation discipline, with people getting completely incapacitated by laughter) -- but every time Smiler uses that power, a die must be rolled. On a six, they use the power safely and only take two stress; on a five through two, they use the power but Mar-Mal takes an interest in the proceedings, forcing them to take three stress; and on a one, Mar-Mal is like "time to take over again!" and possesses their body for the rest of the score. On the plus side, Mar-Mal automatically succeeds at everything they do while in control of Smiler's body (they are a fucking god, after all); on the minus side, when they leave, Smiler has to deal with Level 2 "Post-Possession Exhaustion" harm (because hosting the power of a god is no joke). Smiler has mixed feelings about this whole situation -- on the one hand, they're super excited that they can host the will of their god and not die, but on the other...they are a little scared that maybe, one day, Mar-Mal won't give their body back...
And there we have it -- three lovely traumas for my characters to suffer with! I don't know yet when they'll come into play during all the various stories I have planned, but they are there when I need them! I'm sure the trio are thrilled. XD
#valicer in the dark au#worldbuilding#valicer#blades in the dark#trauma conditions#because sometimes the trauma on offer is just not good enough#and you have to come up with fun new agonies for your favorite characters XD#I actually came up with these in reverse order of how they're presented#Smiler's possession problems first then Victor's phobia#and then Alice's overprotectiveness very recently#hence why Alice doesn't have any fun scenes or extra write-ups to go with hers#it's also arguably the simplest of the group#as it could be triggered by any scene that makes it looks like her boyfriend and metamour are about to die#oooh I should probably do the moment with her going into Hysteria mode in her head#that would be very appropriate#instead of her own low health triggering it its theirs#yeah I like that#as for Victor's ritual he gets four uses of it until he fills up that clock#better use them wisely Victor!#I mean given the stress cost it really is something that should only be used for emergencies soo#and I AM gonna try and not overtax them TOO quickly#don't want the stress economy to end up in shambles#I mean Smiler already has fewer stress boxes thanks to my decision to trade a couple for that dot in Attune#sooo yeah#we'll see how it all works out in the fiction!#queued
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she rubbed alice’s hand. “i remember when you caught marlene, lily and i sneaking out of the dorm. you told us to run off before someone sees us; i appreciated it, especially since, you know, you were the head girl, you could have just given us detention.”
alice was looking somewhere, at a certain spot on the wall, a slight smile on her face, almost as if, through a haze, she could remember.
“and then, right after we graduated, you and frank invited us to your wedding. lily almost didn’t come, her parents didn’t want to let her, because they thought it would be dangerous, but you and frank came over and told them that you’re aurors, and that we’d be safe. augusta wore that tacky hat again.” mary rolled her eyes. “has no one told her that it’s out of date?”
alice chuckled, looking over to the bed in which her husband was, and nodded.
“and you had a huge cake and lots of guests and even moody was laughing!” mary exclaimed, letting out a chuckle. “i think it was the only time i ever saw him laugh, really. you had s knack for bringing the best out of people, did you know that?”
the other woman looked at her, and smiled. mary knew that she didn’t remember anything of what she said, but there was something in her, maybe her own delusions, that felt that, deep within her, somewhere inaccessible, alice might have a few of the memories tucked away.
“you were our role model in school, but i don’t think you knew that. we looked up to you a lot, as younger girls. we wanted to be cool like you, with short, choppy hair and wide smiles and something that seemed to be genuine happiness. i’m gonna tell you a secret; sometimes, i wished i was your younger sister.”
mary smiled at alice one last time, then got up. she pressed a kiss to the woman’s forehead, then winked at frank, who had, in the meantime, gotten up and started listening, with interest, to mary’s story.
“your turn next time, frankie.” she waved, closing the door behind her, both of the patients giving her a serene, warm smile.
mary left st. mungo’s feeling hollow as ever, but there was a small, flickering light that had started burning in her.
#based on a tiktok i saw about how mary would come and tell them stories from their youth sometimes#really inspired me to write this tbh#anyways never thought about the friendship between mary and older people than her but anyways!!! here we go this friendship is canon now#mary&alice#mary&frank#mary&alice&frank#my writing
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