#and esme.............couldn't think of something concrete with esme though.

[songoftrillium]

Esme "Leaping-Ghost" Journal Entry #34

Date: October 13, 1964 Location: Macredie Station

I woke up to a furious Julie this morning. She found a Red Talon tribal symbol at the Strauss Lumber Company ruins, almost left as though a calling card. Julie said she'll have words with the Red Talons, but I doubt they'll answer her call. I asked an engling to fetch a wolf from the Sept last night, but instead, a pack of dogs answered the summons.

The Elk Prairie Sentinels are all puzzled by this, and we are unable to communicate with the dogs. While we're waiting for a response from the Sept, I decided to explore the ruins myself. As a Theurge, I'm naturally curious about the magic that destroyed the sawmill. I couldn't identify whatever ritual had been used, but from what I could tell, the oak trees and underbrush seemed to have grown from beneath the asphalt and concrete, destroying the buildings and equipment from the inside-out. I even found a forklift impaled in the upper story of a 30-foot tall oak. It's as if the mountain is taking back what's hers.

Taylor is going to see if he can spin something about the ruins at the Dead Mountain Echo. I'm curious to see what kind of response we get from the town's inhabitants but the paper is eager to have a reporter with a history covering the civil rights movement in Trenton.

Anton met with the elder of the Kalapuyan tribe today and learned a little about the region. The tribe named Dead Mountain "Mother" because the mountain was here before their people came. When Anton asked the elder what the Kalapuyan word for "mother" was, the elder responded "Dume'fa." It's fascinating to think that a primordial spirit has a name that's synonymous with motherhood.

I'm excited this find!. There's so much I want to learn about Dume'fa, Dead Mountain, and the garou that call this place home. I hope the response from the Sept comes soon.

[whoslaurapalmer]

title: the girl who played with fire

title: The Monday Morning

thanks!!

the girl who played with fire -- there are some obvious choices here and the obvious choices are in fact absolutely fine but sometimes i just like trying to think as outside the box as possible!! which can honestly lead to thinking too much about something, which is not, always, great. sometimes it's okay to be straightforward. anyway so this would be about sunny and beatrice, and babybea

it'd be about beatrice teaching a very obviously very small and very baby sunny about cooking, and about how Some Fires Are Necessary. i haven't really written about Sometimes You Just Have A Necessary Fire (except briefly in bea's letter) (and like, this is beyond 'both sides set fires', this is more 'what is a world without any and all kinds of fire?') but it's definitely something to explore and i think cooking would be ideal and that it would mean a lot to come from beatrice, and be about her trying to impart something crucial and meaningful about her life to sunny, who is still barely a couple months old at that point and doesn't really get it but in the world of asoue and sunny's existence, also sort of does? beatrice trying to restructure fire in her head and thinking about her life up to this point, being a mother, being a volunteer, what that means for sunny, what food and the act of making it with something that can be do destructive is to someone like beatrice.

then it'd also be about sunny doing the same thing with babybea, and i can't decide if i want, also very baby babybea or a little older babybea?? but sunny would be in a position to do the same thing, explain her own complicated relationship with fire (different-complicated than bea's was, but also just as complicated) to someone else to whom that relationship is minorly incomprehensible but also matters so greatly, through food and cooking and baking. and because babybea's place in canon, along with the baudelaires, is hopefully breaking the cycle, it's hopefully more successful than beatrice talking to sunny. mm, so maybe it is better if it's sunny talking to a little older babybea.

the monday morning -- so there's the song monday morning by death cab for cutie which is definitely stuck in my head now BUT i have already written a fic to that song. SO BEYOND THAT

'the' makes it a VERY specific monday morning, not just one or all monday mornings, and a monday morning of certain importance.......and there is a definite time limit in a monday morning. i wanted this to be fun lemonberry ice shenanigans, bc i have ALWAYS wanted to write successful shenanigans, but i've sat with this for a while now and can't think of anything for them, but what i did come up with --

there was an idea floated at some point in time on here (was it yours??) that olaf himself planned the murder of his parents and then rescinded it, so this would be the core group otherwise involved in the murder -- bea, bertrand, kit, lemony, dewey, mmmmmmmonty????? bc i like natalia's fic where he supplies the poison -- agreeing that they were going to go through with it anyway because olaf's parents have become too big of a problem. they definitely also debate killing olaf, because i myself have wondered sometimes how no one's tried to get rid of olaf pre-canon. oh clearly they do not decide to kill olaf, but it's definitely considered. it's a lot of very tense and layered conversations as this group of people with their individual perceptions of vfd and murder and the greater good, and their individual perceptions of olaf, and his family, weigh murder. oh, possibly lemony is not there, BUT he's narrating it, like canon. because if lemony is there that is very difficult. okay i like him narrating it better. it's as much about lemony and hangfire as it is this section of the sugar bowl gen, and all of them as a whole, and what they've become.

[bhaleesi]

Hello Bhaleesi! I divided my asks in two if you dont mind. The first one was getting long 😅😅

I noticed that Selena's cause of death is not concrete. So (hypothetically speaking) what if she was alive ryt now? Can the realm have 2 potentates at once? Emotionally, Selene has the upper hand whereas politically....Quill can't be removed. Sorry for the dumb question but I honestly adore both these potentates and I couldn't sleep last night thinking abt it😅😅😅😅😵 What abt Ayden though😬😬

Quill was tempted to trust the spymaster of the realm. She was more personable than her older brother, yet Quill remembered Isabelle including her on the short list of people to be wary of. He certainly was each time he saw Reyna and Ayden interact in an informal setting. It often left him … self-conscious.

And were Ayden and Reyna ever romantically involved? Reyna had still not given up on her hopes for Ayden that time I see😲😲 Does Reyna have something for Ayden other than her ambitions?🤔

I'm so sorry for the long asks but I'm obsessed with AWAS and want to dig into the characters. Love from me!!❤

P.S- I really wanna see Quill and the twins together!

No worries about dividing the asks - it makes it easier for me to give detailed answers to any questions you have! I enjoy answering your questions, too, so no need to feel like any of them are dumb! <3 

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Selene being alive would be ... uncomfortable to say the least. The realm can have two potentates in the sense that one is the “ruling” potentate (married to the current sovereign) and the other is a dowager potentate (married to the previous sovereign). In this hypothetical scenario, however, Quill and Selene would both be “ruling” potentates ... which the kingdom can’t have 😅. This is such a fun hypothetical because there’s so many ways it could go. 

1. You could make the argument that Selene being alive means that Quill’s marriage to Ayden isn’t legitimate. Depending on how the Grand Seer feels, an annulment of Quill and Ayden’s marriage could be arranged so that Selene takes her crown back. 

Which of course would immediately make Theron an enemy. One way I can think of to resolve that is to take away Quill’s crown and essentially give it to one of his younger siblings by having them marry Lucien. This of course opens up a tiny problem named Lyra Livingstone, who is going to be pissed because Corvus already has dibs on Lucien. So ... minimal bloodshed scenario is Viscardi or Luna marries Esme instead (to avoid messing with the Livingstones) and we hope that it’s good enough for Theron (it won’t be..)

2. Or we say that the Grand Seer decides not to annul the marriage and Quill’s claim is recognized. This will cause lots of unrest in the kingdom, since there will be people that prefer Selene (or at least just want Quill gone). There’s also the emotional component, where I think Ayden would be really conflicted. On one hand, it’s Selene. But also, on the other hand, Quill. Not to mention how the twins would feel. 

This one is definitely more unstable. The Annex and Coven are satisfied by the decision. Sanguis, parts of Ancient, and Briar will want Selene reinstated. The Seas won’t care either way. Stepes is a bit more variable. The newly-made Frontier will prefer Quill. 

Would this divide be enough to start a war? Probably not ... but it’ll make things incredibly tense in Eurydice. Selene will very much be the Catherine of Aragon to Quill’s Anne Boleyn (as in people view Selene as the real Potentate, no matter what the “head of the church” says). 

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I’m always happy to talk about Reyna! 

I don’t think that she wants more from Ayden beyond the throne. Spending so many years around Ayden has made Reyna more fond of him, and she might even enjoy being married to a degree ... but she’d still show up in a stunning gown to his funeral after he dies a tragic and inexplicable death, leaving the kingdom in her hands 😅

Ayden and Reyna were never directly involved. Ayden wasn’t in a romantically receptive state when they met. This changed over the years, and he starts to develop a subconscious “crush” on her just before the story starts. Reyna is very good at learning what people like, and modifying her behavior to wrap them around her finger. Had it had another few months to develop, I could see Ayden start to consider courting Reyna. Quill shows up at the perfect time~ 

(and now Reyna is Orion’s problem lmao) 

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I’ve actually got a fair amount of content planned for Quill and the twins in the upcoming chapters, so you’re in luck! 

Thank you for the ask!