#brother: abyss‑forged warrior (tartaglia)

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Childe: “..Remind me again why your girlfriend is sat on that statue?” Signora: “Why, she just likes to feel tall!”

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Just a silly little render I put together a short while ago, because I haven’t had a chance to work on anything today, so I had to fall back on this. It’s based on that one meme about the dachshund standing on the kitchen counter because “he likes to be tall”, and I’m only about 160cm at the last count, so I thought it would be fitting for this selfship since Signora is one of my tallest romantic F/Os! (I made her MMD model six feet tall because I could, but I don’t think she’s much shorter than that in-game.)

Reblogs of my work are always appreciated, but by no means required!~

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happy birthday to not one but two of my fictional brothers today ^-^

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A dear friend of mine said, to quote, “ain’t never seen two siblings who didn’t share aspects of their fighting style”

So I went down through mine, and.. she’s right:

Both Alectra and Lamia wield swords, like Tartaglia’s melee stance, with Lamia having actually witnessed him learning his sword skills from Skirk in the Abyss

Catarina shows Felix the value of learning magic in addition to swordsmanship in their shared supports (like this one comic I saw that was like “felix if your sword got knocked out of your hand and you could conjure up a new one wouldn’t that be epic”), and ends up taking pointers from how he fights with his own sword too

Inigo is highly skilled in archery, one-handed weaponry, and sneaking - which are the exact same three skills Carmine specialises in (plus alchemy, in her case)

Aria and Vanitas are both dark entities and wield Keyblades of darkness in their fighting styles, with both also focusing way more on offense than defense (I think of Vanitas as more able to take hits whereas Aria is more about dodging them)

Katya, Dima and Echo all have mutations that can be used to attack in various ways - Katya by producing tissue, Dima wielding something with his telekinesis, Echo manipulating electrical signals inside an opponent’s body

Noel is battled on Grassy Terrain by the player, and Adriana’s Aevian Mismagius can set that; Noel, Anna and Adriana all also have at least one Fairy-type Pokémon on their teams (Clefable and later Xerneas, Sylveon and shiny Gardevoir, Mimikyu); Lumi and Adriana both battle more to have a good time than to necessarily get stronger (and Lumi also has an Alolan Ninetales, which is Fairy-type!)

The Lumas don’t generally really fight, and Mimi doesn’t like fighting either, though she can using star magic if she needs to (and Lumas become stars, so)

Maria has two guns. I don’t have a self-insert for her source yet but I don’t know how she learns how to use those so maybe I can teach her? Either that or we can match in dual-wielding but I have some other sort of weapon, I'm not sure yet.

I do believe that is all of my fictional siblings

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for the self insert lore ask game: 5 & 10 for alectra, 15 for sapphire? :D

Ah, sure thing! Thank you very much for sending these in! (Also, I know I am biased, but the fact that your blog theme is Eula right now made me smile ^-^)

(question source: "ask game: self-insert lore" by inserthaven)

5. does your self-insert have any special powers or abilities? - Indeed she does! Most prominently, Alectra holds a Pyro Delusion given to her by the Tsaritsa, which gives her the ability to wield dark ashfire in combat. She deems this ironic. Due to the fact that she is not fully human, instead arguably being defined as a sort of vengeful ghost (she used to be a nightingale, but when she was killed, her will to live on mixed with Rosalyne’s anguish at her death, which sustained her spirit and rebirthed her in a human form), Alectra carries a couple of other traits as well. For example, she and Rosalyne - who of course is now Signora - are quite literally soulmates, since Alectra is essentially partially made up of her powerful emotions from that time. This means the two of us can sense where the other is regardless of distance - it’s the reason why Alectra felt drawn towards joining the Fatui in the first place, on top of her becoming disillusioned with how the archons ruled Teyvat.

10. how do the other characters feel about your self-insert and F/O’s relationship? - Since Alectra is Signora’s second-in-command, and she attained this position incredibly quickly after Signora chose her as a direct subordinate, I imagine a few of the other Fatui agents would be a bit resentful of Alectra’s status - though they would obviously never make this known. However, to those that don’t mind their current positions, I like to imagine that seeing the love we so clearly have and demonstrate towards each other does make them smile. On the other end of the hierarchy, Tartaglia in particular teases Alectra about her relationship because he is like a older brother to her, but does support her even if he and Signora are very different in how they operate.

15. how does your self-insert play a role in the plot of the story? does she help directly defeat the villain, support the heroes, etc.? - I already answered this one for Sapphire on a precious ask, but to give a summary of that again, Sapphire is one of the protagonists and becomes a directly playable member of the party! Her main motivation upon joining the group in Chapter 3 is to find out more about her origins and the ability to crystallise ether that she holds, as well as to help Pyra and learn more about her (because she has a crush on her), but she is also an active helper in stopping Malos and the rest of Torna, especially after Malos nearly kills her father Vandham. Most notably, despite the fact that Malos is essentially a demigod and his ally Jin is capable of moving at near-light speed and cooling things down towards absolute zero, Sapphire manages to get close enough to Malos to kick him off a cliff and down into the land that lies under the sea.

I hope that all of those answers were alright! Thank you very much once again for sending these questions~

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A thought, for your consideration:

Little teenage Ajax, falling through the world

spending three days (that are three months) being trained by and trained by, then training with, Skirk - and having the Abyss seep deep in and steal him all the while

and having this be witnessed, this total metamorphosis, this way that the endless void alters the things it takes a liking to and wants for itself so dramatically

by a little teal Abyss Mage

and that is what first stirs her curiosity about humans and what their lives are like - the curiosity that then eventually leads her to turn her serpent-spined back on the Abyss

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okay you know what screw it, I have two more evil brothers now

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Howdy Echo! Who've you been thinking of most recently? If you don't have an answer, may I ask what are some things you really enjoy about Pyra's character?

Clover @tex-treasures

Hehe, I knew this was you from the “howdy”, Clover - thank you for this!

Most recently.. as in right this moment when you sent this, the focus is on my brother, Tartaglia, because of a) the upcoming new update for Genshin Impact meaning people are speculating about whether he’ll show up again soon - and are making jokes about his banner being rerun because it has come back more frequently than that of every other character for some reason =P - but also b) the fact I just figured out a way for my second self-insert (Lamia) to meet and interact with him, which I’m very happy about! I get to share two of his key aspects, namely being part of the Fatui and having lived/spent time in the Abyss, across both of my self-inserts for the game, which I think is neat ^-^

However, speaking more generally, I’m planning to livestream a playthrough of Dragon Quest IX sometime in the next couple of weeks, and as part of that I get to see Pavo again, which is nice. I miss my angel girlfriend. Then there was also the playthrough of Fire Emblem Three Houses that my dear friend Zale did, which.. may or not have prompted the acquisition of two new romantic F/Os from that game and subsequently the creation of a brand-new self-insert, whose info document is already over 2,500 words long despite only being 1,000 words long as of yesterday. Oops.

I hope that all that is alright for now - if I tried to also tack on an answer to your question about Pyra, I think we'd be here all day.. Thank you very much for sending this, though! ^-^

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sometimes I really wish it was easier for me to classify how I feel about different characters

I know I don’t need to make it specific in most cases, what’s important is that I like the characters, but- I just personally like having things organised properly, so that they feel more definite ;w;

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I wonder why it is that I keep ending up finding out new stuff that makes me go aaagh about not one but both of my brothers who are from a fictional version of/place inspired by somewhere in Eastern Europe at the same time

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As I’ve been playing a little bit more of Genshin Impact, I’ve been starting to get attached to some of the characters and wanting to add them as platonic F/Os - so far it’s specifically Diluc, because he’s really cool, Sucrose, because she’s really sweet, and Childe, because he just seems really neat (..even if I still can’t get over the fact that his name is literally just pronounced as “child”, I’ve been reading Childe as “chill-dee” or “chilled” this whole time prior to actually hearing it in-game)

In the case of the first two, especially Diluc, part of me was a little bit unsure of how to make it make sense that my self-insert is friends with them, given who she is. To start with, I was just sort of working off of it being an “unlikely friends that are friends because I myself want us to be” sort of thing that I didn’t really have to explain in-game, we just.. happen to get along well.

But I think it’d be funnier if Alectra’s friends just  didn’t actually know that she was with the Fatui, maybe she either never wears her mask around them or her mask has two parts so it doesn’t look like the full “image” they have associated with an elite Fatui agent.

Maybe it’s a stretch, but I think it’s amusing, so I’m going to stick with it ^-^

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For the Sapphic September f/o takeover: Hello, Signora! Could I ask what first drew your attention to Alectra? And what is something you love about her that you noticed after spending more time by her side?

Signora: "Ahaha, of course!

Let’s see now.. It was at the time she was granted her Delusion, I believe. I had.. opened up some spaces, shall we say, in my division of the Fatui, so I decided to attend the usual ceremony to see if any of the recruits there would be worthy of becoming my underlings. She stood out to me for the way she seemed so eager to wield her Delusion’s powers, and her determination to prove herself to Her Majesty, the Tsaritsa - a mask can’t hide everything about a person, you know. So I chose her as one of my subordinates, there and then. And she hasn’t disappointed in the slightest, ahaha!~

For your other question.. why, there are many things I love about her! She certainly knows her worth, and her power, and she’s not afraid to relish in that, either. Some of my colleagues have sent more than one scornful remark my way about how quickly my little dove attained her current position - but it’s none of their business how I treat those under my command, is it? Besides, I daresay my darling is capable of matching any Harbinger’s might by now, even without a Vision to call her own - the fact she's faced Childe in single combat and still stayed standing after the fight should be proof enough of that to the rest of them. Though, I suppose the fact she gets on rather amicably with him anyway may have helped with that.. No matter. The point still remains.

If that’s everything, then I’ll leave you to whatever it is you were doing. Thank you for your question.”