#but i need to study and push through oughhh

[butterrdream]

My cold is making me wanna make bad decisions so allow me to share my outdated design of my JJK OC it's mostly the outfit that's outdated Meet Sasaki Momoka!

Cursed Technique is Absorption (meaning she can absorb cursed energy). This is subject to possible change!

some more info on her under the cut!

CW: childhood abuse, obsessive behavior,

This is just a very very brief summary Momoka grew up in a very neglectful and abusive home. The abuse only made worse by her ability to see Curses. Eventually she is sold to a cult wherein she eventually meets and is rescued by Geto after he takes it over. (Their relationship does not start good though as Momoka attempts to kill him as he sleeps but he is able to catch her and is able to convince her he has no intentions to hurt her or any other sorcerers)

Momoka quickly falls in love with Geto and develops a unhealthy obsession with him and becomes blindlessly devoted to him. Revering the ground he walks on and seeing him as a saviour and god. These feelings are mostly one-sided but not completely... he likes her enough... I think In certain aus he certainly likes her more than others and they share a bit of a healthier dynamic lol

Unlike Geto though, Momoka hates both regular humans and Sorcerers alike due to her trauma at the hands of both groups. In her mind all of humanity (aside from Geto and their “family”) is disgusting and non-deserving of life/protection. And that's all for now! She's a bit underdeveloped because I'm quite behind in the series but she's a fun character since she's a lot darker than my other ones! Also I have two separate routes for her ending (depending on whether or not her and Geto have a child together) and neither end happily 🥰

[chronically-a-bacteriophage]

ok ok okay, so the Starless Sea is a fantasy novel by Erin Morgenstern, and it revolves around an underground magic library world, that is sort of alive? it's ambiguous, but it's this massive sprawling world full of books and stories and cats.

the main character is this guy called Zachary Ezra Rawlins, who one day picks up an old book of short stories in the library of the university he goes to (he studies video games), and starts reading it, and then realises that one of the stories is about him. it's a bit from his childhood, where he discovered a painted door on his way home from school, and almost almost tried to open it, but didn't cos it was just paint. he went back to try open it the next day, but it had been whitewashed over, but he never really forgot about it. the story ends with him *not* opening the door, and teh last line is 'and so the son of teh fortune-teller does not find his way to the Starless Sea. Not yet.'

he never told anyone about the door, but it was written in a book older than he was. he gets kinda freaked out about that, understandably, and tries to figure out why exactly he's in the book. on the back of the book is three little symbols, a bee, a key, and a sword. he tries searching for these symbols, but all he can get is one picture of a woman at an annual literary party wearing a necklace with the bee key sword on it - the next literary party is a few days away, so he buys a ticket and goes looking for clues.

he meets mysterious guy called Dorian who tells him a story about the Heart of Fate in the dark, and Dorian gives Zachary some strange instructions to break into a building and steal a book, and then some stuff happens and he meets this woman Mirabel (who was the one with the necklace, he works out later) who pushes him through a painted outline of a door, and he ends up in a magic elevator going down into the magic library place, which is full of piles of books and strange paintings and cats, and is really really cool. he and Mirabel have to rescue Dorian from the building he broke into, because there are some people who are trying to stop anyone ever getting into the magic underground library, and they'll do anything to stop people getting in there.

the place (it's called the Harbour, it's a Harbour on the Starless Sea) is sort of... crumbling?? it's very very old, and almost no one lives there anymore--it used to be full of people, but that was a really long time ago, and it's sort of a tragic shadow of what it used to be. but Zachary loves it, feels more at home there than he has anywhere else. 'homesick for a place you've never been' is the phrase used which i think is just so beautiful. and they have to work to save it, and he and Dorian have a bit of a crush on each other as well, and have to save each other a little bit AND I WON'T SAY ANYMORE OF THE PLOT COS I DON'T WANT TO SPOIL IT BUT OUGHHH IT'S SO GOOD

the cool thing is though, the book that Zachary finds himself, it's called Sweet Sorrows, and the book he steals for Dorian is called Fables and Fortunes, and we get to read those too, interspersed with the main plot. and the further you get through the book you realise that the things happening in those books are things that happened in the Harbour, some a very long time ago, and there are characters who were the same person, and all these metaphors winding together, and it gets kind of complicated but once you work it out it's SO BEAUTIFUL AGNSGNASG. it's all one interconnected story. and it's kind of sad but hopeful as well and hrmhrmn i've read it a bunch of times and every time i read it the beauty of all the stories just gets me completely and i notice new connections and oughhanganasgn

it's my favourite book ever and i love it so so much. everything is described so beautifully and it's incredibly well written and it's so magical and i love it i love it i love so muchhhh

anyways that's a quite a lot i hope you enjoyed my braindump :D <3

OH MY THAT SOUNDS INCREDIBLE I NEED TO READ THIS NOW! awjsjjshsjahshwkshsjwj

THANK YOU FOR SHARING WITH ME! It seems like such a cool concept and I love o terconnected stories!!!!!!!!! *makes plans to visit library soon*