#birtlin

[glacierruler]

So here's Birtlin from my Of Magic and Mortals au. The hair is off, and I may do a redraw of him with the hair better, but I think he turned out well despite that.

Unshaded version and link to the au under the cut

Link to the au if you want to read it is right here, it is a sanders sides au.

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Almost done shading Birtlin from my Of Magic and Mortals au. If you'd like to read it, the link to it is here

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The new chapter of my of Magic and Mortals au is going to be finished at the latest, Saturday.

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Listening to a podcast for english a million times rn. I should also end up writing my thoughts on it, but I feel lazy and I don't want to, so I think I'll draw Birtlin and Emble instead.

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Of Magic And Mortals

Well thisTWs: Threatening to commit arson, prelude to future accidental misgendering

Waking up today, Virgil went into the bathroom and looked in the mirror. "Alright, let's get this over with. Virgil is such a great friend, she's the best. Okay, yeah, that sounds good for today. Now for the next one. Virgil's the best, isn't he? Nope absolutely not, guess it's just one today." She went to her closet and got her clothes and pronoun pins for the day. She put on a grey dress with intricate black designs on the sleeves and bottom of the skirt, black mesh gloves with chains on them, dark purple spiderweb tights, and black combat boots. Then she put the she/her pronoun pins on. Stretching out her wings she went downstairs to meet up with her friends, and for the daily wing care routine.

When Virgil gets downstairs she goes to the living room and picks up her wing care stuff. Looking around, she realized her friends weren't up yet. So she proceeded to yell, "If you two don't get down here right now I will burn the house down again!" Virgil heard her friends start running down the stairs, hearing their voices overlap each other. "Vee don't you," "not burn the house! We just bought," "fire damage is," "done with this!" Virgil started to laugh uncontrollably, "I can't believe that still works!" "Only because you mean it, if you didn't it wouldn't. The fact of the matter is that the one time that we didn't get up immediately and start our routine, you had the bathtub on fire! With water in it! How the follywock do you set the bathtub on fire if it's full of water! That's not your specialty." Said fairy was in a dragon onesie with a bedhead. They had fiery red hair and reddish-brown eyes that looked like the embers of a fire if the light hit them right. They also had a naturally warm aura, but right now their aura felt hot enough to burn. Their wings were different shades of a fiery orange, duller closer to the center and brightest at the ends of the wings, with bright red -a little duller than their hair- detailing. When Virgil looked at their wings, she was glad to see that there weren't flames frolicking on the edges of their wings yet. "Look Emble, I don't know how I did that. And I payed both of you back. Also, I promised I wouldn't threaten that again, unless it's important. I've got to look my best today the letter should be in!" The other fairy in the room laughed, but then his face grew serious. "I know you're going to pretend that you're human, but in order to do that we need to dye that purple hair purple. Don't want a lie detector catching you." He had a Batman pajama shirt and Superman pajama shorts on. His hair was a forest green color. His eyes were brown, the color of rich dirt. His aura naturally felt calm and peaceful, but it had a tinge of protectiveness right now. His wings were different shades of leaf green, the duller colors closer to the center and brighter colors near the ends, with some wooden brown detailing. Virgil scrunched up her nose in distaste at the statement her friend had made. "I know Birtlin. I'm pretty sure there's a chemical free fairy dye store nearby. I don't like it much either, but I'd rather avoid everything being a fairy brings. It's the best medical school sure, but I've heard the horror stories there. I don't wanna risk it." She sighed, before remembering why she had called both of her friends down here. "Come on! We need to do our wing care routine! I have to look my absolute best when we get the letter! It means free food and drinks from strangers if I'm not accepted!" She gushed out, both of her friends smiling at her. "And if you get in?" Emble asks. "Then we celebrate somewhere fancy of course! Now hurry up! The mail person will be here soon!" Virgil was practically jumping up and down. Neither of her friends had seen her this excited in years, so they were smiling almost as wide as her. "Alright princess, let's get our stuff. We'll do your wings first."

After all three of them got their wing care stuff out Virgil laid down on her stomach, stretching her wings out. They were a beautiful pitch black, like a cave with no light on, with royal purple detailing. A darker shade of purple than her hair, which was amethyst. After her wings were taken care of, she got up and helped her two friends; Emble first, then Birtlin. About ten minutes after they finished taking care of everyone's wings they heard the doorbell ring. Virgil jumped up and ran to the door, opening it up to reveal the mail-fairy. "Hey you have three packages and a letter. If I heard you three correctly yesterday, the letter is of utmost importance, is it not? Something about an acceptance into a certain college." The mail-fairy gave a wink to Virgil, she blushed. This was the cute one, Virgil remembered, who wasn't supposed to work today. "What are you doing here Junir? I thought today was your day off, and you ought to stop flirting when you have a partner." Emble got up. "Junir! We have a date tonight, what are you doing working? Also, Virgil already said that she won't join us, leave her be. Why don't you come in?" "Sure, that was my only delivery anyways." Junir went inside the house carrying the mail. She gave the letter to Virgil. "Open it up, read it out loud!" Virgil took the letter, and read.

"Dear Virgil Storm, We are pleased to inform you that you've been accepted into Cypress Independence University. We have also given you a full ride scholarship, but due to what you have told us, we will not be giving you a dorm. Instead we will be switching your scholarship with a different student. This only means that you won't have a dorm unless you pay for it yourself, everything else will remain the same. With this letter, you should receive three packages that contain your books for this year. We hope that you shall enjoy your time at our school. When you get to the school, please head to my office to tell me how you will want to present. I know that some people are still in the closet, so there is no pressure and you can change how you wish to present yourself at anytime. I will notify your teachers immediately. Sincerely, Headmaster Mars Gestingon"

Virgil was practically jumping up and down with glee. "I GOT IN!!!! I GOT IN!!!!" She reread and reread the note, before she paled a bit. "I don't know if I want to be out to a whole college of people I don't know. I mean, sure they won't know I'm a fairy, but if they find out I don't want more reason for being weird." Emble sighed, knowing that their friend was about to start overthinking. "Look, I think that you should present as yourself, but if you must insist then why don't you flip a coin." Virgil thought about that for a moment. "Sure, heads means I present as male and tails means I present as female." She reached into the pockets of her dress, knowing she shoved stuff in them all the time. Finally she found a penny and flipped it. When the coin landed, it landed on heads. "Alright, guess I'm a guy at school." The three other fairies looked a bit disappointed at the outcome, Virgil noticed, but it was probably because they would rather her be herself. Hopefully she could deal with what she just got herself into.

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Of Magic and Mortals

Alright, this is the last chapter I have so far, and it's probably the most dull out of all of them, but the next one should be more interesting, when I'm finished writing it.

TWs: Fantasy Racism, Cursing, Anxiety, Alcohol, Mentions of death, Mentions of sex, Sexual innuendos, gender dysphoria, feeling like an outsider in one's own body, 

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Virgil went partying with her friends, and called off of work (making a mental note to talk to her boss about the scholarship and what that means for her schedule). They ended up in a bar called the Lucky Hen. It was known for it's more questionable drinks, and the food was supposed to be okay. As she ordered her first drink, she heard a werewolf tell someone, "this place would be awesome if they didn't allow fayries in here." Don't say anything, you've had a great day. Don't ruin to give the what for to some asshole who doesn't know what he's talking about. Virgil breathes in and out when she hears Birtlin murmur, "At least we don't leave our fur every place we go." As Emble laughs at that, Virgil hears the werewolf get closer. She looks over her shoulder and sees the person getting a little too close, as her two friends turn around. Fuck, I was hoping to avoid something like this. "Did you say something?" The werewolf growls out, glaring and making sure to show his teeth and shove his face a little closer than necessary. Virgil gets off of her seat. "Hey buddy, back the fuck up. If you get to diss on fairies, then we get do diss on werewolves. It's only fair." She claims, rolling her eyes. The werewolf backs up, only to turn their rage onto her. "You fayries think that you're so special. But you're not. You lot are all lying, cheating, scum bags who don't know how to work for a living."

Virgil starts looking the werewolf up and down. This ought to be fun. She scoffs. "As if you do, I mean, can you even afford a glass of water here?" The werewolf walked over to her, and raised a hand. And now I die. I blame Birtlin and Emble. Virgil stands up a little straighter, realizing that everyone is looking at her and this person. She looks the werewolf in the eye. "Do it, I bet you won't!" As the hand goes to hit her, it gets intercepted in mid-air. "Yooo, leave the sexy fairy alone dude."

Looking over, Virgil sees her knight in thrift store armor. Kind of glad she's not getting killed right now, she decides not to comment her inner thought of I had it handled bitch. Watching as this fake mustache wearing person is chewing out this random werewolf guy, apparently. One can never be too sure, but thrift store person was using masculine pronouns for this person. After a few minutes the werewolf leaves. The person, who's probably human, who saved her turns to Virgil. "Hi, are you okay? Sorry that dickhead was bothering you, too bad he goes to my school. I'm Remus, he/him pronouns. Would you mind telling me a name to go with this stunning faerie?" Virgil could feel her blush. I need to stop getting so flustered with just a little flirting. Looking Remus up and down, Virgil sees a bracelet with the crest to Cypress Independence University. Better not give him my name, if I want to pass as a male there. Just because he gave me pronouns, doesn't mean he's not transphobic. "Well, you can call me Anx, and I use she/her pronouns." "Cool, Anx, feels like some kind of super secret code name. Do you have a job where you kill people, or string them up for information. Oooh, I get to tell my twin that I met the sexiest and deadliest fairy in the world!" "Woah, hold on big boy~. The deadliest thing about me is my tongue, and you might want to stop asking questions like that to random strangers. Wouldn't want to die because of it." "Well, it's actually my dream to die in the middle of making out with a deadly sexy fairy~." The flirting went on like this for a while, before Virgil yawned. Realizing that she should get home soon, so that she can get to her school tomorrow, she says, "well handsome stranger, this is where I must go. Maybe we'll meet again, wouldn't want this to be just a one night stand~." With that, Virgil went to her two friends (who she forgot about while flirting with the random stranger,) and left.

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As Virgil woke up the next morning, the first thought in their mind was, did I seriously pay for a drink that I didn't drink. Then they went to the bathroom mirror. Looking at their feminine figure, they felt sickened. Shit, I haven't felt this dysphoric in ages. Why now?  Virgil got their binder and put it on. "Alright, time to see what my pronouns are. Hey did you see Virgil isn't she- Nope! Not trying that again!" Virgil exclaimed, having to look away from the mirror in order to keep from criticizing their appearance. After breathing for a bit, Virgil looked in the mirror again, ready to try more pronouns. "Did you see Vee today? He looks like shit." Virgil nodded at himself, but it still felt like something was missing. He'd talk about it with his friends when they woke up. Then he got dressed in baggy jeans, and an oversized dark purple shirt with a bleeding black heart. Fluffing out his shirt a bit, to keep it from sticking to his binder, he went to his closet and put on his dark grey jacket. He put on his he/him pronoun pins. Then he decided that it was time to start his day, and went downstairs.

When he got downstairs, he noticed that Emble had already made food. As he was eating, he was pondering what was missing, before deciding to try some new pronouns. "I know Virgil looks deadly and scary, but they're really cool when you get to know them." Those pronouns felt great, so they decided to use them.

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