#arsinoe

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WIP basically Wednesday

I’m not staying up late enough for it to ACTUALLY be Wednesday for me but thank you for the tag @glitchy-npc ! I’m gonna go ahead and tag @thenightdayblogger and @autistic-sidestep and uuh @sunsetno4 ?

Here’s some telepathy connections and disconnects musings from a longer piece that might… not get posted publicly lol

“I wish—“ Ricardo says, cuts himself off, and it’s Daniel’s thought not yours that completes the sentence, even though Daniel’s mostly nodded off against your side. Wish that he could do that. Wish that he wasn’t stuck on the outside of your brain. “I’d crawl inside your head and live there too if I could,” you murmur, raising a hand to blindly trace your fingers from his temple down around his eye, the edge of cheekbone. “Tangled up so nobody could tell which was which. But I can’t, and you’re safe from me or any other telepath doing something stupid to your head, so that’s alright too.” He’s tangled your limbs together, instead, legs entwined (for now) and his arms wrapped around the both of you, best he can. His chest is warm against your cheek, and you shut your eyes, listening to his heartbeat compete with the gentle thrum of his generator. His fingers tapping a pattern on Daniel's shoulder. Daniel’s fallen asleep, and he’s threatening to take you down with him when Ricardo finally responds. “I’d take knowing you like that over being safe any day, Ars.” You can’t say much to that — not like his epilepsy is going away any time soon, not like you’re suddenly going to be able to punch through the static of his mind. At least not safely. So making more promises of being willing to climb into his head like a hermit crab finding a new shell feel pointless and maybe a little bit weird. You kind of want to anyway.

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Just some highlights from Elizabeth Carney's biography of Arsinoë II that make me giggle and/or feel like I'm going to throw up a bit...

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It really sucks that people who worship Iomedae are being screwed while Desna and Pharasma show more interest in the events.

And yet another plot event that would've been ruined if someone coincidentally happened to know Level Eight and Nine spells.

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Abyss is the Negaverse, hurr durr.

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WIP Whenever

Tagged by @sheirukitriesfandom and @dirty-bosmer, thank you! <3 I tag @nostalgic-breton-girl and whoever wants to join. :3

I haven’t been writing too much on account of resting on my laurels from finishing Evey’s fic and doing a lot of prepwork for ttrpg Pathfinder, but I actually wrote a little paragraph recently! Back to Isanna at Drezen:

The Hellknights weren’t the only ones to have arrived at Drezen that day, Isanna noticed during her walking rounds of the cidadel’s streets. As her eyes swept over the chapel, they were drawn to an aasimar with golden hair and eyes standing by its door. Dressed in gold and white cleric’s robes and bearing a golden holy symbol in the shape of Abadar’s key, she looked almost unnaturally pristine compared to her surroundings, save perhaps for the shrine to Abadar she had set up next to a table of wares. Although Abadarans’ mercenary approach to healing irked her, Isanna had to admit she was glad to see that reclaiming and rebuilding Drezen had drawn the attention—and, she hoped, the support and protection—of a devotee of the god of cities.

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MOSTRE / Archeologia, ecco l'antica Arsinoe in 3D: alla riscoperta di una città perduta dell'Egitto greco-romano

#MOSTRE / #Archeologia, ecco l'antica Arsinoe in 3D: alla riscoperta di una città perduta dell'Egitto greco-romano

Una città perduta e uno scavo archeologico dimenticato riemergono grazie alla tecnologia in una suggestiva mostra al Museo di Antropologia ed Etnologia. Giovedì 14 dicembre si apre a Palazzo Nonfinito di Firenze (ore 17 – Via del Proconsolo, 12 – piano terra, aula 1) “Arsinoe 3D. Riscoperta di una città perduta dell’Egitto greco-romano”, mostra che recupera con reperti originali e ricostruzioni…

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Okay but London Thor would do such a great job at playing Arsinoe like look

Give her shorter, messier hair and facial scars and she could pull it off so well.

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New Reign pg 18

New Reign pg 18

This will definitely make her see red. :B (unfortunately, this will be the last page I'll be uploading of this comic. The drive isn't there anymore and I'd like to focus on other projects. More info here) _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ [Next--->] [<---Previous] [ * Start * ]

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April Question:

New month, new question: Lets talk gender. How does Arsinoe identify? Is that different from how you would describe them? Do they feel any particular way about their gender?

And bonus late question: What made you decide on this gender for them?

-Cigs

Arsinoe is they/them as in you-don't-know-my-gender ! They're a guy who often defines themself in negatives-- they're not a girl, they're not NOT a boy, stop asking them questions this is none of your business. They just sort of blanket-term themself as nonbinary, and sometimes think of themself as transmasc. They're on T, and have been since the Sidestep era. They want top surgery, but various things (tattoos, the need for secrecy, the general unease with putting themself in a vulnerable situation with people they don't trust, etc etc) mean it hasn't happened yet.

dropping below the cut because this got LONG.

Sometimes they feel a type of way about it. Regenes are in such a weird space of being degendered and then cuckoos, specifically, are regendered to pass as humans-- the degendering was less jarring than the regendering, although both were Not Right, and Arsinoe in their early days of freedom took a Hard Sprint away from femininity and things they perceived to be feminine or that they thought would make *them* be seen as feminine, because *that* was a very incorrect perception that jarred far worse than anything else. As they got more comfortable, they sort of... relaxed, and found things that they liked and wanted to keep? But when they're at their most uncomfortable and unsettled, they still tend to overcorrect to the masculine. they tried out he/him pronouns post-escape but pre-sidestep and it did not stick.

Overall, they are what they are and that's just how it's going to be. Other people's perception grates, and Gender Stuff is a not insignificant portion of their disconnect from their body (the regene tattoos are a scapegoat, in some ways). They don't want to define themself any more specifically than that. Having to TRY to explain it makes them frustrated. But they're also not really hiding who they are, except in the ways that they're trying to stop their entire self from being perceived.

In some ways, Arsinoe has a surprisingly firm hold on their concept of self. I don't really disagree with any of their overall perception of their gender.

Back in 2019, when I made Ars, I was figuring out my own gender and also recreationally picking they/them in character creators for no reason isn't it cool that this is an option here! Anyway. They've got some projection from me, but it's not a 1:1 situation. I think the way their gender interacts with Ric's bisexuality is interesting, and IMO forced them to do a little bit of (gasp) communication back in the Sidestep Days that standard canon doesn't really imply? Which is fun for me.

BB, as an extra-bonus, is a cis-ish guy. hes having fun with it. hes getting a little campy, he's trying out makeup and also drag. Yeah sure he's a man but also what is supervillainy if not a little bit of fun with gender. probably would eventually consider himself genderqueer when he figures out that Actually The Identity Was Everything You Were All Along.

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hey hi i'm expecting Random Nico facts in return because i love him a great deal BUt

Arsinoe let Anathema help them find furniture + move into the tiny shoebox studio apartment they eventually had during the Sidestep era, but Ricardo didn't get to know where they lived for another like six months after that because it was in the wake of them ghosting him for a month after the Psychopathor Kiss Incident so they didn't invite him :)

send me random facts about your sidestep

sjfdkghbsdfg oh my god i am so obsessed with ars. that is hilarious. sorry ortega buddy this is on a need-to-know basis and, well! not arsinoes fault he went and made it weird!! completely justified if you ask me

random nico fact for you <3 his busted ass nose makes him snore if he falls asleep deeply

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Arsinoë II, Queen of Ptolemaic Egypt.

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This is my portrait of the Ptolemaic Egyptian princess Arsinoe IV (b. 68-63 BC), who was the youngest daughter of Ptolemy XII and a sister to Cleopatra VII (the famous Cleopatra). After their father’s death, a secession dispute broke out between Arsinoe, Cleopatra, and their brother Ptolemy XIII, with the Roman statesman Julius Caesar entering the conflict as he became Cleopatra’s lover. After the conflict turned bloody and then ended with Cleopatra gaining the Ptolemaic throne, Arsinoe found sanctuary at the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus (located in what is now Turkey), only for her big sister and Mark Antony to have her executed. Ancient power politics could often be cutthroat like that!

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New Reign pg 17

New Reign pg 17

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Bookish! Thank you for letting me know your questions were eaten by the abyss! Sorry about that. So, here is the first month's question: Where did your Sidestep get your name? Do they know what it means? Do they feel any particular way about their name? And a bonus "sorry I had to resend this question" behind the scenes question: What was your process for finding your Sidestep's name?

Tumblr truly did eat them huh. Thank you so much for resending!!

I named Arsinoe back in 2019, before actually playing them through the game, entirely based on sticking the word 'mind' into a baby name website and going 'yeah that one sounds cool and not super gendered'. This has meant I've vaguely struggled to give them an in-universe justification, lol.

Mostly what I've settled on, is that back in the Farm days, when they were a nameless thing, they ended up hiding in a library in a fancy house during a mission they were technically already done with and just waiting on pickup. They ended up poking around the books, over-emphasizing with the story of the Minyades (didn't want to do the thing they were being prompted to do, got driven mad by Dionysus for refusing to follow him, did it anyway, etc) and just sat with it in the back of their head before sticking with it. Their last name (Becerra) they picked up from a motel guest book and they're not attached to it, they just have it 'cause people are supposed to have last names.

Names are kind of weird for them, Arsinoe is Their Name and they care about it, but more because it's who they are with the people that they care about knowing who they are? When someone they care about thinks 'Arsinoe', they think about the person that Arsinoe is. The name's just how they get to the concept. That's part of why they like the nicknames they're given, because that's an even more *specific* way to get to the concept of them. But the actual essence of them isn't really a being that has a name, to them.

They told Anathema and Ric their name first, after they'd already been dubbed Sidestep, and consider the day that they spoke their name aloud for the first time to be their birthday, which presumably makes Someone very smug.

I didn't know there was a character named Arsenaux (pronounced the same way as Arsinoe) until Retribution came out and I started poking around the code, Arsinoe didn't know about this until Months Minimum of them using the name and didn't know they knew anyone with a personal connection-ish to her until the Void Incident (tm), and at that point I was committed and they were committed. They'll fight the seven foot tall cannibal who may or may not be on fire, it's fine.

BB's easier. BB is BB is BB, he got given the alliterative letters in his Farm ID code and said Mine Now and refused to let go. Half of it's a joke, half of it's... building an identity in defiance of their refusal to let him have one. His official civilian name is Bailey Becerra, because I wanted his last name to match Ars, and he liked the idea of being a fortification, but he doesn't really consider that his actual name (because his actual name is BB). He calls his bike a BBike. His puppet's name is Bambi because it's sneaking the double B's in there.

I called him Baby Boy too many times when he was in a nascent state and it stuck. And sometimes he gets called Baked Beans. I have an emoji somewhere of his hair drawn over a can of Bush's Baked Beans.

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Cleopatra Time Princess ~ IGG, Inc.

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