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hannahhook7744 · 2 years ago

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They is my Family au part 1;

A Young Justice season 1 au where Connor Kent actually gets parented and gets to know his Luthor-dad's side of the family.

Featuring revamped characters from Supergirl, the comics, Smallville, and the superman movies as well as original characters cause why not?

This was born solely out of my need for more Young Justice Connor Kent and Luthor family content.

And also for my need to see more of Connor's friends from school as well as his teacher.

I just love them all so much, okay? Judge me all you want for it.

Now onto the characters!

🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸🦹‍♂️🦹‍♀️🦹🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸🦹‍♂️🦹‍♀️🦹🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸🦹‍♂️🦹‍♀️🦹

Trigger warnings; Child abuse, crime, murder, and child death.

🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸🦹‍♂️🦹‍♀️🦹🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸🦹‍♂️🦹‍♀️🦹🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️🦸🦹‍♂️🦹‍♀️🦹

Name: Lachlan Luthor.

Age: Not known.

Relation to Connor: Great Grandfather.

Crimes: Attempted murder, attempted grand theft auto, murder, being a killer for hire once, and child abuse.

Spouse: Eliza Luthor.

Children: Lionel Luthor.

~~~Notable facts~~~

—Born in Scotland.

— He and his wife were murdered by their son, Lionel.

—His job is unknown.

Name: Eliza Luthor.

Age: Unknown.

Relation to Connor: Great Grandmother.

Crimes: none that we know of.

Spouse: Lachlan Luthor.

Children: Lionel Luthor.

~~~Notable facts~~~

— She lived with her family in Suicide Slums of Metropolis.

— She and her husband were murdered in a fire set by their only son.

— her maiden name is 'Meehan'.

—her job is unknown.

Name: Lionel Luthor.

Age: 77 years old.

Relation to Connor: Grandfather.

Crimes: Murder, Torture, Corruption, child abuse, and fraud.

Spouse: Lillian Luthor.

Children: Lex Luthor, Lena Luthor, Lucas Luthor, Julian Luthor, Grant Gabriel, Lydia Luthor, and Tess Mercer.

~~~Notable facts~~~

—He is alive but he and Lex don't talk.

—Actually he doesn't talk with most, if not all of his kids. Because most of them don't want anything to do with him.

Name: Lillian Luthor.

Age: 45 years old (at time of death).

Relation to Connor: Grandmother.

Crimes: Murder.

Spouse: Lionel Luthor.

Children: Lena Luthor, Alexander Luthor, Julian Luthor, Grant Gabriel, and Lydia Luthor.

~~~Notable facts~~~

—She is deceased.

—in her last years, she showed signs of mental instability.

—She murdered Jullian to prevent him and Lex from being pitted against eachother by Lionel. Lex took the fall.

—She died from cancer.

—She had a heart condition.

—She came from money.

—She had postpartum depression after Julian was born.

— Lex was at boarding school when she died.

—One summer, sometime before she died, a snake spooked her horse and Lionel saved her.

Name: Tess Mercer.

Age: 42 years old.

Relation to Connor: Aunt.

Crimes: Aiding and Abetting, Murder, Kidnapping, and Conspiracy.

Spouse: none.

Children: Lutessa "Lutsey" Mercer.

~~~Notable facts~~~

—she is Lex's younger half sister, born from an affair.

—She is a villainess turned heroine.

— She was born Lutessa Lena Luthor.

— She first went by Red Tornado before switching to Watchtower.

—A role she shares with her sister in law, Chloe.

—she possess High Intellect, hacking abilities, businesswoman skills, hand -to -hand combat skills, Longevity, flight, Technology & Electronic Manipulation, Holographic Projection, and Aerokinesis.

— She is a Harvard educated Marine Biologist, used to work for Luthorcorp and checkmate, and is a former member of the Justice league.

Name: Lucas Luthor.

Age: 40.

Relation to Connor: Uncle.

Crimes: Attempted murder, Theft, Espionage, drug use, and assault.

Spouse: Unknown.

Children: Leonard Luthor.

~~~Notable facts~~~

—He's another affair baby.

—He's been described as a Volatile Sociopath.

—When he was 18, he was willing to betray his family for money.

—He also got in trouble with the Yakuza.

—He also tried to elbow Clark just so he could win a basketball game but hurt himself instead.

—He cheats at poker.

—He grew up in the system and hates Lionel for it.

—Lex hid him away somewhere despite all he had done to protect him from Lionel, who he had tried to kill. Because of this, they grew close.

Name: Julian Luthor.

Age: a few months old (at the time of death).

Relation to Connor: Uncle.

Crimes: none.

Spouse: none.

Children: none.

~~~Notable facts~~~

—He was suffocated by his mother, Lillian Luthor, to avoid Lionel pinning him and Lex against one another.

Name: Grant Gabriel.

Age: 34 years old.

Relation to Connor: Uncle.

Crimes: none.

Spouse: Chloe Sullivan (Lois's cousin).

Children: Juliet "Julie" Gabriel-Sullivan and Julian "JJ" Gabriel-Sullivan Jr.

~~~Notable facts~~~

—Clone of Jullian Luthor.

—He is Lois's ex.

—He is the managing editor and city editor.

—He had a falling out with Lex for a while after he found out that he had been a Clone of Jullian and not the original but they eventually made up.

—Lex took care of him secretly for years.

—Grant didn't die in this universe.

Name: Alexander "Lex" Luthor.

Age: 46.

Relation to Connor: father.

Crimes: Unethical experimentation, Murder, Attempted murder, Torture, Stalking, Blackmail, Extortion, Drug use, Usurpation, Corruption, Conspiracy, Property damage, and Incrimination.

Spouse: Ardora Luthor.

Children: Connor Kent, Alexis Luthor, Lily Luthor, Lexi Luthor, Linus Luthor, Lex Luthor Jr, Alexander Luthor Jr, and Lucinda Luthor.

~~~Notable facts~~~

—He is a tragic mastermind turned Supervillainous Mastermind.

— He and Lionel had a rocky relationship.

—He's been married 3 times before Ardora.

Name: Lydia Luthor.

Age: 41 (at time of death).

Relation to Connor: Aunt.

Children: Nasthalthia "Nasty" Luthor.

Crimes: Presumably none.

Spouse: Unknown.

~~~Notable facts~~~

—Not much is known about her, only that her parents stopped talking to her after she moved to Europe at 18. (I made up her name).

—she is deceased in this universe.

#smallville #young justice #luthor family #good dad lex luthor #dc #dc dads #dc fanon #dc fanfic #my fanfiction #smallville au #young justice au

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seiwas · 1 year ago

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i'm here for the sleepover, sel! thanks for organizing this! 😊😊🫶🫶

what i'll be saying is not really a spooky story. more like, something i experienced when my grandfather passed away few years ago.

okay. so. in the culture i belong to, when a person passes away, there will be religious ceremony held to pray for the peace of the deceased soul. And one of the most trademark features of those ceremonies is the flower used to decorate the venue— the tuberose flower— and its very unique smell. there's no other flower which smells like that, afaik.

yeah. so. my grandpa passed away of old age. we did all the required ceremonies and stuff and our life slowly returned to its normal pace, tho it took us, esp my mom who was his eldest daughter, some time to get over the grief... anyways–

now fast forward from 2019, year to his death, to 2022, the year i got to know i cracked the university entrance exam, and that i can study medicine.

so after celebrating the good news with my family, when i hv gone to my room, tired but happy— i look at a photograph of my grandfather kept on my table and i just think on how nice it would have been if he too was here w us to celebrate, and then, i kid u not, sel—

I GET THE SMELL OF THE TUBEROSE FLOWER THAT WAS THERE IN THE HOUSE DURING MY GRANDPA'S FUNERAL CEREMONY!!— THO THERE WAS NOT EVEN A SINGLE FLOWER IN MY HOUSE AT THAT TIME IN 2022...

i just got rooted to my spot in the room, eyes wide and limbs frozen, while that smell overwhelmed me for a good thirty seconds or so...— and then it was gone like poof! such a strong fragrance and it wasn't there after thirty seconds, like not even the tiniest trace of it was left!

i looked at my grandpa's photograph, smiled shakily, then bolted out the room. tht night, i slept on the couch in the living room with every light on in the vicinity— i was so very terrified!!

but. yeah. now when i think abt the occurence, i don't feel scared any more. just somewhat happy but in a sad way, that maybe— js maybe — my grandpa was there w us tht night, celebrating me getting into my dream med school. and i still miss him sm, yk? but feels good to know that ur loved ones will always be there w u, no matter wht... :))

hi kit! welcome to the sleepover ✨

first, i am so sorry for your loss. i hope time has been healing to you and your family 🫶🏻

thank you for sharing this with us kit!! especially since this is so personal and meaningful!! i completely get what you mean by being spooked out the first time you smelled the flowers omg 😭 i also understand the bittersweet feeling that comes with remembering it too! and i like how you're looking at it now as well 🫶🏻 i like to think that the ones we love never truly leave us (not even just in some spiritual way, but also in our hearts!!) i’m sure your grandfather is very proud of you.

not sure if it's a cultural thing for me but for us that's kind of what butterflies are? my grandfather passed away just a bit after i was born, and i remember my mom would always tell me that if i saw a yellow butterfly in the garden it meant it was him!

join the sleepover! send in an ask sharing/asking anything you want!!

#kit.⚡#ask #rep #vagabond-umlaut #sleepover!

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bippusmymippus · 2 months ago

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I went to a very small high school in a very small town, so the art teacher also did the yearbook and the school paper. This is setup. So because she did the school newspaper, which was sandwiched into the towns newspaper, she had an extra credit system in her art class where you could read an article in the Town Weekly and tell her what happened in it.

When I was 17 and in my senior year my grandpa died. He was a prominent figure in the town, he had been the towns pharmacist for years and my grandma had been active in the community also, so his obituary was featured very prominently in the newspaper. He was remembered as a good man and a good father who was gone too soon, taken at 72 by Parkinson’s. I was even mentioned in the obituary. “Survived my his wife (name), two sons (names) and five grandkids (names)”. Again, small town. The whole high school was 350 kids give or take.

I was a shy and quiet kid, and my teachers liked me but the students outside of my grade didn’t know my name or probably that I existed. So I suppose the kid in my art class a few years below me didn’t realize what obituary he was using for extra credit.

The kid looked so (correctly) mortified when partway through his synopsis of my grandfather’s obituary, only a few days after his death, my art teacher looks up and asks, in front of the whole (20 people) class, if that was my grandpa.

Naturally I start crying. It was incredibly painful because it had been three days. I didn’t know what to do, so I just kind of choked out a “yeah” and got back to whatever it was I was drawing. The kid didn’t even apologize, he just never made eye contact with me ever again.

These days I think it’s actually very funny honestly. I don’t know what possessed him to do his extra credit on an obituary but I assume he learned his lesson. It has to have been so horrifying to have to turn around and look at the girl crying because you were doing extra credit on her recently deceased grandfather in front of her.

I wonder if he still thinks about the incident too, occasionally, in the wee hours of the night. I hope he’s still embarrassed about it.

#truly what the fuck dude #tw: death #tw: mentions of death #I think it’s funny #I’m still a little cheesed about it though

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marshmallowloves · 9 months ago

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Afterword

The selfship Valentine's event is pretty much over, and this doesn’t fit in with any of the theme days anyway (and I know that’s fine but for this I mostly wanted to try and stick to the themes dkjfg) BUT… I wanted to say a few things about some certain F/Os that I didn’t get to during the event.

(tw for mention of real-life death)

I love all of my F/Os dearly, but I have more of a history with some of them. And even fewer still held a deeper meaning to me before I even knew about the term “F/O.”

I think it began with Pit. My grandfather died in 2014, much earlier and more suddenly than expected. At the time, and for a short time before, I was very devoted to the religion I grew up with (of which he was also devoted to his whole life, up until around his death), and I had a lot of encouragement to continue this devotion from the one very good friend I had, who also shared this religion. This window of time also coincided with my first time playing Kid Icarus: Uprising, which I absolutely adored. And because of the way that I handle grief – isolating myself with the things and hobbies that I like – Pit could not have possibly been a more perfect source of comfort. An angel, a heavenly messenger who might help me say the things I never got to say to my grandfather, who might help me hear him back. Someone who would be my friend and hug me and say all the right things to me about death and grief and healing. It’s a little embarrassing to say but I’m tearing up a little as I write this. I didn’t selfship with Pit at this point - right now he was just the closest thing to a guardian angel I had, because I didn’t think I could take real solace in anything other than something like divine intervention.

I graduated high school half a year later in 2015. I had about a 1-2 year “break” period, and then was expected to start seriously considering work or more school. The fact that I am still tearing up about my grandfather’s death nearly a decade after it happened should give you an idea of how badly it affected me before, even if I had a hard time outwardly expressing it. I was not ready to continue life yet in the slightest, despite the well-meaning pressure from my parents (and I will never think of it as anything but well-meaning, just really poorly timed).

So when I was then introduced to Seduce Me – a visual novel featuring a protagonist whose beloved grandfather dies much earlier than he was supposed to, and despite her grief she is expected to continue her normal adult life at the behest of her parents (well, one parent), before finding solace in otherworldly/supernatural beings that just so happen to appear during this very dark point in her life – it’s safe to say it resonated with me immensely. It’s no wonder then that James became a new source of comfort for me, although this time around I felt comfortable self-shipping with him as well - Seduce Me is a player-insert romance game, after all.

The fact remained though that he served much the same purpose as Pit. It’s the reason why, in my Brother Husbands AU, James and Pit are the two main heads of the house besides myself (and in my Summoner AU, they’re the two beings my sona can summon with each hand: the angel and the demon). They’re the ones who have been here the longest, and they were integral to my healing process. (To a slightly lesser degree, that’s kind of also why I have them listed as “not comfortable sharing” in my F/O list... I think I’d feel kind of weird about it since they’re not just romantic faves to me.)

Needless to say I still haven’t fully recovered from this. That’s why I still include a deceased grandfather in some of my S/I’s backstories (or just keep it in, if it happens to a self-insert character in canon) – Seduce Me, Stardew Valley, Ace Attorney, and probably some others I’m forgetting right now. Incorporating it is a way for me to have more control over it, in a sense (I know realistically I could never have controlled what happened), and it helps me continue to process it in a way that’s comfortable to me.

I didn’t really think of an ending message to this post, so I’m not really sure what else to say, actually. I kind of just wanted to express how important some of my F/Os are to me beyond selfshipping, and I think it’s good if your F/Os bring you this sort of comfort for real-life stuff, too.

#sorry to drop the serious stuff right after a week of fluff and fun #but I feel. pretty importantly about this I think #marshmallow valentines 2024 #still tagging it as that so it's easy to find tho

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dragonofthestone · 2 years ago

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𝐌𝐔𝐒𝐄'𝐒 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐎 𝐒𝐇𝐄𝐄𝐓

{Basics}

Name: Timaeus Locri

Alias: Tim, Maeus (at present only by Bido but reserved for only the closest of people) ; The Chimera / Chimera

Gender: Male

Age: Early-mid 20s (probably) Looks younger then he is- 17-19 most commonly mistaken for

Species: ??? Presumed Chimera (but that’s up for debate)

Zodiac: Unknown / Libra - celebrates near the end of September but not his actual birthday

Abilities/Talents: Skilled climber, can play just about any piece of music just by hearing it, Increased healing abilities, a keen sense of hearing and smell, Can recognize someone simply by the sound of their foot steps, very fast reflexes, knows how to travel using the stars

{Personal}

Alignment: Chaotic or Neutral Good

Religion: None / Kinda follows that of Milos I guess

Sins: Envy, wrath (doesn’t want to admit it tho)

Virtues: diligence, humility, kindness, patience

Languages: Cretan and some fragmented Amestrian

Family: Nikolaos Locri (Dad) Maria Locri (Mother) Alec/Alexendros (Younger Brother- Deceased) Rosa Locri (Grandmother- Deceased) Cyrus Locri (Grandfather) Bido (Adoptive family)

Friends: The Devil’s Nest Crew (Also double as family), Aya , Greed (Any others are verse dependent)

Sexual Orientation: Questioning/Unsure technically (Acespec/DemiRo)

Relationship status: single

Libido: very low to non-existent

{Physical}

Build: average or athletic I guess???

Hair: black / other- It’s dark

Eyes: other

Skin: olive? Other- scaley skin

Height: 4-5 foot

Weight: under 100 pounds (Honestly after what he’s been through he’s def lost weight)

Scars: Visable- Large one starting slightly above his eyebrow through his eye and stopping the top edge of his cheek, a myriad of scars cover his torso from experiments, a long thin scar down the back of his left thigh from when he fell out of a tree asa kid and got sliced by a branch

Facial Features: *shrugs*

Tattoos: None at present

{Choose}

Dogs or Cats? Both

Birds or Hamsters? Bird

Red or Blue? Blue

Yellow or Green? Green

Black or White? Both

Coffee or Tea? Neither- with the exception a Valerian Tea he drinks with honey to sometimes help him sleep

Ice Cream or Cake? Both but slightly more of a cakes guy

Fruits or Vegetables? Fruit

Sandwich or Soup? Soup

Magic or Melee? Preferably neither

Sword or Bow? In terms of aesthetic Sword (also we talking bow and arrow or a bow staff?) He also wouldn’t mind learning how to use a sword- but not to actually use one in a fight just cause he finds them neat

Summer or Winter? Summer

Spring or Autumn? Spring

The Past or The Future? Neither- both scare him so he tries to focus on the present

tagged by: No One (Stolen from many) tagging: ALL OF YOU!- I don’t know who has or hasn’t been tagged and I’d hate for anyone to feel left out so to all my wonderful partners and followers this for you.

Do it yourself here

#lab report || about tim #; biology lesson #tw injury #; likes #; family #caps tw #muse info

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the-raven-dhampir · 2 years ago

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Current Status:

Indefinite RP hiatus

(I'm randomly around to scroll and reblog sh*t that gives me vibes. If you want to write with me, I'd be happy to share my Discord!)

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So... where were we?

Curious?

GUIDELINES

#1: Before interacting, please consider that Raven is not a nice character. He is cold, depressed, self-centered, sadistic and pathologically Narcissist. Dark themes, smut and angst will be constantly present too.

#2: I'm not my Muse. Please read several times and let it sink in! Just come and talk to me, I strongly encourage that! Also, feel free to reblog memes from me - I consider us players as a small community here, let's help each other! 🖤

#3: Both Mun and Muse must be 21+. Please, take this seriously.

#4: Open to NON Mutuals. If you are passing by and feel inspired, PLEASE interact with me. NO, you won't bother me.

#5: Multi-para/novels strongly preferred. You don't need to match my lenght, but if you leave all the plotting to me, I lose interest very fast.

#6: If you want to god-mod, please talk to me about it first. Raven is highly unpredictable and I like to keep it this way.

#7: I'm not an English native speaker and I may be slow with replies, I have a full time job and a family. Tumblr is a hobby to me. Also, I am on my phone 99% of time, so don't expect fancy formatting.

#8: If you want to interact, just do it! Send me a starter, meme, anything! Please avoid DM over and over with "Let's play." messages, just throw one of your Muses at Raven.

#9: I usually prefer going with the flow, I find it much funnier, but I’m eager to plot together.

#10: This blog is absolutely ANTI JKR and a safe place for everyone, except racists, bigots, incels… In short: bring your hate somewhere else.

#11: At the moment, I prefer playing on Tumblr, I find it a better ice-breaker. But feel free to ask me for my Discord.

#12: Let your fantasy run free!

MUSE

[Name] Raven du Rêvenoir.

[Age] 200+ (Mid 30s look) - Will vary according to AU

[Species] Dhampir (part human/part vampire)

[Family] Child of a Wallachian vampire (alive) and a French pure-blood noblewoman (deceased).

[Alignment] Chaotic Neutral

[Face claim] Tom Sturridge as Dream of the Endless

[Height] 185 cm

[Weight] 80 kg

[Sexual preferences] Pansexual; men leaning

[Dom/Sub] Switch

[Bottom/Top] Both

[3 positive traits] Caring, generous, creative

[3 negative traits] Depressed, selfish, narcissist

DHAMPIR FEATURES

Not immortal, but aging very slowly.

Mildly pronounced fangs.

Pale skin, always cold to the touch.

Occasional blood feeder, almost only for pure fun.

Can survive without blood and solely on food like humans.

Daywalker, but shade preferred.

WIZARD FEATURES

[Wand] Larch with a Phoenix core. Eleven and Three Quarters. Flexible.

[School] Hogwarts

[Hogwarts House] Ravenclaw

[Patronus] Cat

BACK STORY

Born from a Wallachian Vampire and a French noblewoman, Raven was raised by both his parents in his father’s mansion, and he received a Patrician landlord title from his father. When he was eight, his Mother got murdered for “alleged witchcraft” by the rough justice of the local peasants.

Right after his mother died, his father became emotionally detached from him, till he got sent to his mother’s house in France.

Adopted by his grandfather, whose pure bloodline dates centuries back, he was sent to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in England under a false identity to elude the 'Magical Being' laws in force in France, where it was extremely hard for part humans to get jobs, receive proper education, proper medical care or any sort of justice.

Sorted into the Ravenclaw house, he was an average student awfully fascinated by the power a broad knowledge could bring - and by Dark Arts as well.

Before dying, his grandfather named him heir of the large majority of the family fortune, seeing in a nearly-immortal grandchild the possibility to keep the family assets intact.

After his Hogwarts years, his family's wealthy background allows him to travel around the world, and study the arts of Magic from some of the greatest modern wizards.

He was forced to change identities many times to escape the great deal of prejudice against "Half-Breeds", and he rarely remained in the same place for more than a decade.

PRESENT

Once back in the western world, he chose the name Raven to honor the founder of his Hogwarts House, whom he always felt very close to.

After years and decades of being told and believing he was an "inferior", an "abomination", a "half-breed", Raven developed an ultimate love for himself as a kind of self-defense mechanism. He seeks to be perfect and flawless to the limit of pathetic.

His wealthy family’s background allows him to dedicate himself to his hobbies and deviations without any concern.

He can be stubborn with quite a childish attitude towards his "preys" and he considers "preys" anyone he can get something from: knowledge, blood, bare good company.

Raven has been taught to keep his true nature secret and will not disclose it until necessary. Same goes with his native name or his family of origin: some secrets are meant to be kept.

MUN

Mun is 30+ and my pronouns are She/Her.

Raven is a character I've created for a 30k-word FB3 fanfiction that will never see the light. Since I've traced his personality very well in my mind, why not try role-playing with him?

I've role-played for years as several fantasy characters (elves and vampires mainly).

I’m also a visual artist, which basically means I have a lot of fun with Photoshop. Most (or even all) of the very simple edits you see here will be done by me.

I'm a very easy-going and open-minded person. Feel free to drop a message anytime, both for role playing and not!

#dhampir #magic #rp rules #must read before interacting #vampire #roleplay #Hp roleplay #Harry Potter roleplay #Hp rp #vampire rp #Updated: 31st July 2023

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shirophantomvox · 4 years ago

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Analyzing Illumi Zoldyck's Character

Chrollo Analysis | Hisoka Analysis | Killua Analysis

What’s up y’all! Sorry for being away for the last few days. I needed a break from social media because I am so tired of seeing toxic, self-righteous people on my TL. Anyway, quite a lot of you liked my posts about analyzing HxH characters and somehow comparing them to VLD characters. Today, I’ll be talking about Illumi Zoldyck and I’ll try to compare him to a Voltron character. I know many people have already analyzed this character before, but it wouldn’t hurt to add to the discussion some years later. If you want me to write about anything else, send me an ask! The formatting of this post may be different than the one I wrote about Hisoka Morrow (click his name to view that post).

HERE WE GO!

In the first season, all of the characters are contestants for the Hunter’s Exam. I say contestants because this is a contest to see who can win without any injuries and can keep up with each host. I forget what number stage they were at, but I do know they were at the stage where each opponent has to fight each other. They are declared the winner if their opponent forfeits or gives up mid-match. (Off-topic, but) I am going, to be honest; Gon was my favorite character but his flaws began to show, annoyed me, and later led to his horrific downfall (based from YouTube clips). He didn’t know when to stop and kept pushing himself over the limit. Anyway, Killua and Gittarackur are set to fight. This is when things take a turn for the worse.

Gittarackur is a form of a disguise for Illumi to mask his identity. His face is long; nearly (and reminds me of) in the shape of a Tiki. His face also reminds me of the Witch Doctor mask from Scooby-Doo and Hell-raiser. He has several pins stuck in his face to maintain the facial features of Gittarackur. On the flip side, if he removes the pins, his biological form is revealed. Once he does this, Killua is nearly paralyzed; he cannot believe his eyes and I’m sure the trauma he endured at home hit him like a sack of rocks. Illumi then tells Killua that he wants him to return home, that he cannot maintain a friendship with Gon, stated that he was going to kill Gon, but realizes that if he does so he will be disqualified and will not obtain his Hunter’s license.

I’m assuming the cops aren’t a thing in this reality and the only way for them to “destroy” under the law is by obtaining the license. What do you think? I rarely see police officers; all I see are the Mafia and every they suck compared to the Zoldyck's and the Phantom Troupe. Shit, it seems like they’re the police but have twisted motives.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a fictional character or not, first impressions matter and he bombed this one...even for a villain.

But you did this for what?

How can you hypnotize (by using Nen) your own brother into killing another opponent because he doesn’t want to become an emotionless zombie like you? At least, that’s my perception. Telling your brother to run every time he faces an opponent that he knows he cannot win against is the sickest shit I’ve ever seen. I know I’m jumping around but another thought popped into my head. As the seasons go on, Illumi expresses an odd way of loving his younger brother and to him, that means to make him suffer in the same way he had to. It seems like Illumi is jealous of Gon in a way. (I’ve seen clips on YouTube) Killua takes Alluka to the hospital to heal Gon. Illumi has stated several times to Hisoka that Killua was hiding rules from him and that he still wanted to get rid of Alluka. Although it is clearly stated why he wanted Alluka gone, I still think that Illumi was jealous of Gon simply because his younger brother preferred to be with a friend instead of him. This is why he emphasizes “You cannot have friends. Either they will betray you or you’ll betray them.”

As I read and watched as the seasons went on, I noticed something about Illumi and his family. We all know that the children were raised by their parents. Specifically, their dad is a trained assassin. I can’t remember but I think Zeno is their grandfather who is also an assassin.

I view him as a character that has suffered from abuse and trauma in order to mold him into an assassin. He is emotionless, doesn’t really care for others, has an odd relationship with Killua that he doesn’t have for his other siblings, and is a hypocrite. Killua can’t be friends with Gon but every time the show cuts to him, he’s with Hisoka? Something is fishy there. Are they more than friends? OK, thanks for coming to my Ted Talk. Here's the physical analysis below.

Face

When masquerading as Gittarackur, his face has several pins in them and his hair is in a rock star form of Mohawk that is purple. I’ll give him 10/10 for uniqueness, yet it still reminded me of Hell Raiser.

I’ve noticed that when he is in public he is in costume. Why doesn’t he reveal himself in public? I’ve researched this and no one could answer this question. My guess is that he is a verified hunter and assassin. How can you carry out your missions if everyone knows what you look like? Without the pins in his face, it reverts back to his natural state. To me, his large eyes and long, shiny black hair are his distinguished features. Although he may be my least favorite character, he does have pretty eyes. Haven’t you all heard of “I got lost in his/her eyes”?

Yeah, that can be said about him. Most definitely. He rarely smiles and when he does, something BAD is going to happen. I saw him laugh crazily once Alluka began the healing process, the Nen (I guess) rose from the hospital and got on him. This scene reminds me of how Haggar reacted once the Komar’s quintessence bounced from Voltron and bounced onto her. Wow, these supernatural abilities make y’all feel that good?

Clothes

Gittarackur and Illumi wear the same clothes, which should be a clear giveaway that they are the same. Illumi wears a neural green short jacket that has yellow pins in them, a light green shirt underneath, and green pants. His shoes remind me of loafers with a heel on them, something my grandmother would wear.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say again, these bad-ass men in this show are very stylish and seem to be in shape more than I am. Although Illumi irks me, his fashion is great and this is why people prefer him to be their favorite character. Shows should always produce characters that are memorable; that is the key to a long-lasting fan base.

In conclusion, this anime (for the most part) has well-rounded characters that make the plot interesting and wanting more.

Illumi and Lotor are somewhat similar. They both grew up in abusive households and lost some sense of sensitivity, common sense, and were often “misguided” by their own selfishness. Illumi wants a better life for Killua by constantly brainwashing him into thinking that he cannot have friends and his can only find happiness through killing. Zarkon raises Lotor to be a prince that shouldn't work with planets and should destroy them. This explains why he used deceased Alteans from the colony, drained their quintessence, and didn't give them a proper burial. Lotor IS just like his father but Killua IS NOT like Illumi. Ironic, huh? As we all know by now, Lotor is the son of Honerva (Haggar) and Zarkon. After the rift accident, he became an emotionless, ruthless monster that colonized and destroyed planets just to gain their quintessence. He taught this to his son and once he was old enough to think for himself, he refused to act in such a way. Although he was exiled and said he wasn’t like Zarkon, he was; but worse. Lotor studied and gained knowledge about Altea and its people while using Allura to gain the secrets of Oriande. I say he used her because he knew from the moment he met her that he was harvesting Altean quintessence. While fighting the white lion, he yelled “Victory or Death” which is a common catchphrase the Galra use when they are in battle. In fact, the Galra have been victims of trauma from Zarkon. Zarkon’s ruthless ways of ruling had no other motive except for obtaining quintessence so he could live forever. Silva’s way of raising his children was done to mold them into assassins. Since he was taught this way he did the same thing to his children. Zarkon, Silva, and Zeno think that their ways of parenting are necessary for survive in life when it doesn’t have to be that way. Illumi and Lotor have experienced this horrific parenting and deal with it in different ways. Illumi is oddly obsessive of his younger brother and Lotor is a fucking liar.

This analysis was fun! Next, I’ll be analyzing Killua and Keith Kogane.

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kevin--of-desert-bluffs · 2 years ago

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WTNV Quick rundown - 41 - WALK

Featuring the voice of Jasika Nicole as Dana Cardinal~

At a loss for words? Here's a few you can use - Welcome to Night Vale.

Walk signals all across NV are malfunctioning, displaying only WALK which compels people to do so. They usually display a graphic of a run over pedestrian to indicate you shouldn't walk, and a time lapse of flowers wilting to show you should go.

The crowd of citizens compelled to walk (in unison) end up being compelled to march towards City Hall. Cecil says that only those who can see a walk signal are compelled. Promptly, one appears in his studio, compelling him to walk and making him unable to say anything except 'walk'.

They are eventually saved, but we don't know how except that it was 'miraculous' as several times during this episode we are spoken to by Dana, who is attempting to communicate with Cecil but with no luck. He goes on with his broadcast regardless of her segments, so parts are blocked out when she speaks.

Weather: "What Have They Done to You Now" by Daniel Knox, danielknox.com

She leaves us by telling us about her deceased grandfather, good memories she has of eating at a carved table with him and her mother and her brother and how she isn't even sure if she is Dana or Dana's double as she feels her memories and experiences cannot be trusted as proof of either possibility.

Dana's segments tell us a lot about the desert otherworld she is trapped in. This is as followed:

- time passing differently resulting in her feeling like she's been in the desert otherworld a lot longer than she has to them,

- it's possible to have visions in which she seems to be in the studio with Cecil but is physically still in the otherworld,

-there are giant masked warriors but they either don't know she's there or don't care or do care but don't want to do anything about it so she isn't scared,

- she is able to find the Old Oak Door that Larry Leroy found and chained, and she can smell NV through it which apparently smells like sour peaches and linen, like freshly cut wood and burnt almonds,

- when she walks away she always ends up back at the mountain, no matter how far she walks or in which direction,

- she finds and approaches a lighthouse upon the mountain, it is 40ft tall, 15ft in diameter and made of brownstone,

- beyond this she finds a settlement bound into the walls of a tightly wound gorge, it is however completely empty of people and causes Dana to miss home and her brother even more,

- the gorge is also filled with glowing orange triangles that grow bigger as she traces the spiral of the gorge, burrowing their light into her skull so that it's painful and yet she can't look away,

- she states that the people here were taken by something bigger and stronger than even the masked warriors,

- a bright blackness leads her out of the spiral but on the horizon she sees the same kind of painful light as from the triangles,

- she says that she feels something deathly cold, some vast creature, is coming soon.

City Council decided to hide in a hole in Mission Grove Park from the people waling towards City Hall, but tries to act like they're not doing that. They apparently have 'dirt gills'.

'Frightening Day' is a holiday in NV which apparently involves the sharing of scary stories. Possibly but not certainly the NV version of Halloween.

Stay tuned next for the noises of my hurried retreat, echoing first as sound and then as memory, and maybe then again as part of tonight’s fractured dreaming. Good night, Night Vale. Good night.

Proverb: Please move your brain so we can get to the drugs and stop leaving it there, we've talked about this.

#wtnv #wtnv quick rundown #welcome to night vale #wtnv ep 41

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“I told you before, I’m not a princess!”

Kalai is my primary KH OC. She is young noblewoman and keyblade wielder originally from Radiant Garden. Her Nobody Alixka was member No. 0 in the original Organization XIII and was also a reserve member of the Thirteen Seekers of Darkness. The illegitimate daughter of Dilan and a woman from a noble family, she is sent to live with Ansem the Wise in his castle with his apprentices soon after turning 11. This is where her story begins.

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💜Basic Information💜

Full Name ~ Kalai Lindworm (nee Rowan)

DOB ~ February 5th

Homeworld ~ Radiant Garden

Other Residences ~ The World that Never Was, The Land of Departure

Organization Title ~ Maiden of Tempests

Family ~ Dilan (Father), Ilise (Mother, deceased), Anila (Grandmother), Ansem the Wise (Great Uncle), Iris (Sister), Adelen (Sister) Tarian (Grandfather, deceased), Adura and Haneul (Great grandparents, deceased), Athena (Niece), Cyrus (Nephew), Zephyr (Son), Taima (Daughter), Mateo (Adopted Son), Liliane(Adopted Daughter)

Friends ~ Kairi, Ienzo, Aqua, Namine, Moana

Lovers ~ Lauriam and Elrena

Enemies ~ Xemnas, Luxu, Young Xehanort, Kali

Voice Claim (EN) ~ Brina Palencia

Voice Claim (JP) ~ Nana Mizuki

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💜Name💜

The name Kalai comes from the Hawaiian name “Kala” which means princess or lady. It can also refer to the Pua Kala, a white flower that grows in the volcanic areas on the Hawaiian islands. Kala are also similar in appearance to the flower of her creator's namesake.

The other part of her name, “ai” comes from the Japanese word for love.

Outside the Kingdom Hearts universe, her name translates roughly to mean “lady of love” but within her story, Kalai is named after a small white flower that grows in many worlds and thrives even in the harshest climates. Within the culture of Radiant Garden in which she was raised, they represent strength and nobility. Her name means “noble strength”.

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💜Personality💜

Kalai’s personality goes through many changes throughout her journey. As a child, she is timid with occasional outbursts of anger and a fear of rejection. The result of an abusive upbringing in the home of her stepfather. As she ages, she begins to exhibit a more outgoing personality. In many ways, she is like her father, determined, temperamental, passionate if not occasionally stubborn, but noble above everything else.

Alixka on the other hand is coquettish and headstrong with many of Kalai’s less likable traits accelerated. She hates being seen as weak and only shows vulnerability to those she’s closest to. From the beginning, she questions whether Nobodies are capable of feeling and doesn’t pretend not to have emotions like many others in the Organization.

Post Organization, Kalai is a perfect mix of being ladylike and fearless. A fighting spirit with a deep sense of purpose, she wants only to be happy and protect those she loves.

Her hobbies include adventuring, sparring, reading, and playing the harp. She’s also very skilled with needle and thread and another thing she enjoys doing is making dolls in the likeness of her friends. She hates snakes, being belittled, being called “Princess”, and she’s not a big fan of spicy food. For a long time, she held a somewhat irrational fear of Dreameaters, but it’s something she eventually overcomes. To the point that she becomes the owner of a bunny spirit that she calls Mimi.

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💜Physical Appearance💜

With her long dark hair and amethyst eyes, Kalai strongly resembles her father though naturally, her features are softer. Her hair is typically worn loose down her back or with a half-crown braid resting against the rest of her hair.

She stands at about 5ft 7in with a strong but slender build. The fact that she wears mostly purple is a reference to her noble background and the fact that purple is the color most associated with The Whirlwind Lancer.

Kalai’s story begins when she is 11 years old, and she is currently 25.

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💜Background💜

Kalai’s parents met when Dilan was still a trainee with the Royal Guard, and Ilise was staying in her uncle’s castle to finish her education, her family already planning her marriage to a provincial governor. Despite this, Ilise fell in love with the guardsman, and over time, he returned that love.

They had plans to elope, but soon after discovering she was pregnant, her family removed her from the castle and quickly married her off. Her new husband reluctantly agreed to claim Ilise’s newborn child as his own on the condition that Ilise never see Dilan again, threatening to have him arrested for good measure.

Even if Ilise was willing to lie about Kalai’s paternity, the truth couldn’t be more obvious regarding her appearance, something her husband severely admonishes her for. The first eleven years of Kalai’s life are spent in the cold grandeur of her stepfather’s household along with four younger step-siblings; Lucio, Lucia, Iris, and Adelen.

Pre BBS

Despite his promise to pass her off as his own, from the start, Ilise’s husband was extremely resentful of Kalai’s presence in his house, doubly so because she strongly resembles his romantic rival in looks and temperament. A living reminder of all he is not in his wife's eyes. It’s a resentment he passed to his own children and he actively encouraged them to mistreat Kalai. There was little Ilise could do to stop this.

Around the age of 8, Kalai begins to exhibit traces of an inherited affinity with the wind, further fueling her stepfather’s hatred of her and making the next few years of her life even more difficult to the point that she instinctively forces her affinity into a subconscious state. She would continue to show no sign of magical ability until more than a decade later when she becomes a Nobody. School was no easier for her as she was a frequent target of bullying from her siblings and their friends. Her temper often got her in trouble as well.

Things come to a head soon after her 11th birthday when her stepfather decides he no longer wants her under his roof. She is sent away in what she thinks is a punishment at first but turns out to be a blessing in disguise as her new guardians treat her with far more kindness than she had previously ever known. In Ansem the Wise, she finds a loving caretaker and in Ienzo she finds a true friend. Kalai also meets Kairi and becomes her friend and meets her true father though she is not yet aware of this.

BBS and Post-BBS

After a happy year of living in the castle, Unversed attack Radiant Garden. During the crisis, Kalai and Ienzo escape the castle and are both accosted by the monsters. Kalai encounters Terra, who helps her when she is attacked, and later she is cornered by Vanitas who would have killed her if Dilan had not come to her rescue.

This harrowing experience prompts her desire to be stronger and never again be defenseless. She begins spending more of her free time with the guards and expresses an interest in joining their ranks. Dilan teaches her to use a lance and it’s decided that she will join the Royal Guard after her seventeenth birthday.

Around the same time, Ansem the Wise takes in Xehanort and he begins his experiments on the heart. The other apprentices join him and start making Emblem Heartless. When the danger becomes clear and Xehanort begins to tempt Kalai to join in on the experiments, Dilan realizes that she is no longer safe in the castle and arranges for her to live with Kairi and her grandmother.

When Radiant Garden falls to darkness, Kalai is separated from them and ends up in Traverse Town where she befriends other refugees from her fallen homeworld. She is taken in by an elderly couple that own a flower shop and for the next few years, her life is reasonably peaceful. Unfortunately, things take a turn for the worse when she is ambushed by heartless and loses her heart.

Organization XIII, Pre-CoM

Sometime later, Xaldin finds her unconscious in The World That Never Was. Upon recognizing her, he brings her to The Castle That Never Was and Xemnas gives her a new name: Alixka.

As a member of Organization XIII, Alixka holds the rank of 0 due to her connection with the founding members. It is strongly implied that had Dilan not sent her away, Xehanort had designs to make her a founding member as well. When she reawakens as a Nobody, her memories of her life as Kalai are gone but slowly return over time. The senior members are all extremely protective of her, especially Xaldin.

Nearly the moment she is introduced into their ranks, Alixka attracts the attention of two members in particular. Marluxia and Larxene both find her fascinating but while the latter pretends not to like her at first, the former goes out of his way to seduce her. Though she is wary of him at first, Alixka realizes she is also attracted to Marluxia after six months in the Organization. They begin a relationship that becomes deeper over time.

Unfortunately, her new relationship puts her at odds with the senior members, who hold contempt for the more junior members. As time progresses, Alixka also begins to question if Nobodies truly are not capable of feeling emotion and for that reason, joins Marluxia’s plot to overthrow the Organization with Larxene joining the coup (and relationship) soon after.

CoM and Post-CoM

Alixka becomes Lady of Castle Oblivion and follows Marluxia's plans in all ways but one, she constantly feels conflicted in how he is using Namine and goes out of her way to show kindness to the fragile girl. Marluxia see’s Alixka’s kindness and uses it as an incentive to keep Namine under his control. He’s also the only Organization member (besides Lexaeus) who knows the truth about who’s Alixka’s father. Despite his genuine affection for her, he is not above holding this information over her when she becomes upset about his treatment of Namine.

Unfortunately, their plans fail thanks to Axel and when Alixka goes to Zexion to plead for help, he tries to kill her and is saved at the last moment by an intruding Xaldin. He brings her to Twilight Town and when Axel tracks her down, Alixka blackmails him by threatening to expose his own traitorous actions in Castle Oblivion.

Once she returns to The Castle that Never Was, she becomes determined to bring Xemnas down and exact revenge for her lovers’ deaths. To keep herself alive, she decides to seduce the Superior, hoping to get closer to him and expose his sinister designs for the rest of the Organization whom he is deceiving.

But behind the scenes, Saix is plotting his own rise to power with Axel, and now with Alixka standing in the way, they conspire to get rid of her. Axel gets his hands on some of Vexen’s old research about Xion and Saix uses them to temporarily reprogram her to assassinate Alixka. Her demise as a Nobody is what eventually drags Xaldin into a furious downward spiral.

The Final World and Pre-KH3

Between re-completion, Kalai finds herself in The Final World. There, she briefly reunites with her mother’s spirit, apologizing to her daughter for all the neglect and abuse she suffered at her husband’s hands and her own indifference to her in life. Before Kalai returns to humanity, she tells her mother that she forgives her and loves her and will always keep her memory in her heart.

The re-completed Kalai returns to Traverse Town, where she is nursed back to health by her friends Aerith, Yuffie and Leon. They explain to her what had been happening, about the heartless and about Sora. They also tell her their plans to return to their old world to help restore it to its former glory.

KH3

On the night before their departure, Kalai is approached by two men in black coats. They turn out to be Saix and a time-traveling Young Xehanort with the offer to become one of the Thirteen Seekers of Darkness. At this point, she understands the true purpose of Organization XIII and refuses. But as she tries to flee she is taken hostage and norted solely because Xemnas wanted her back under his control, having become obsessed with her.

Her time under Master Xehanort is brief but tumultuous, though made a little easier by some old companions also under him.

When Vexen approaches her with a proposition to betray the seekers and return home, she finds herself conflicted. True, she could be reunited with her Radiant Garden family and as a reserve member she could probably escape, but in doing that she would also be abandoning Marluxia and Larxene and she is determined that they should never be separated again.

Kali

One effect of Master Xehanort’s influence on her heart is the emergence of a nightmarish demon known as Kali (“the shadow” or “Anti-Kalai” within universe). Kali is the shadowy remnant of Kalai’s heartless and all of her sorrow, rage, and fears, taken human form. She thrives on Kalai’s darkness and continues to survive even after her second-recompletion, longing for her to finally accept her darkness to take vengeance on the world and those who have wronged Kalai in the past.

Post-KH3, Return to Radiant Garden

By the time Kalai escapes the Organization, she understands at last who her true father is and their reunion is a very heartfelt one. The first months after the Keyblade War, however, are not easy ones for her. She profoundly regrets leaving Marluxia and Larxene behind to their grim fates and soon begins to experience terrible nightmares about her past with the Organization. And Kali continues to torment her.

Eventually, Iris and Adelen return to Kalai’s life after their father has died and they have a falling out with their other siblings. They wish to be better people and reconcile with their outcast older sister. Naturally, Kalai is extremely wary of them and Kali later reveals in a nightmare that she was the one who killed Iris and Adelen’s father.

This revelation shocks Kalai into determination to banish the darkness in her heart once and for all, refusing to let her past dictate her future. In this spirit, she begins to accept her sisters’ presence in the castle and by the end of the year, they are as close as any sisters can hope to be.

Graceful Destiny

On the final night of the year, Kalai is formally welcomed into the Royal Guard. Even with the heartless return to her world in the coming months, she lives peacefully (and more importantly, happily) with her castle family. In time she realizes many of the citizens still don’t trust Ansem The Wise due to his hand in initially bringing the heartless to their world. His remorse on the matter is genuine and Kalai goes out of her way to help repair the broken bond between the Sage King and his subjects.

Eventually, her efforts are rewarded when she is finally reunited with Laruiam and Elrena who have sought her out to assist them in searching for the other Dandelions and Strelitzia.

Reluctantly, her castle family part with her but while preparing to leave, there is a vicious Heartless attack. During this raid, Kalai’s weapon shatters but transforms into a Keyblade, the ability to use it being unknowingly bequeathed to her when she touches and holds Lauriam’s.

After tracking down Ventus to the Land of Departure, it’s decided that Kalai must learn how to properly use her fantastic new weapon before they can set out on their quest. They live there while she trains under Master Aqua, along with her old friend Kairi.

Present and Beyond

Kalai and her friends spend the next year visiting different worlds to either take down Heartless and searching for the New Seven Hearts. While this is seemingly no different from her days in the Organization, she now fights on the side of light. However, neither she nor her companions suspect that the final Princess of Heart is Adelen, her youngest sister.

This revelation marks a shift in both Kalai’s relationship with Adelen and her relationship with Aqua. Because of Kalai’s past as a vessel of Xehanort, Yen Sid feared she’d be a corrupting influence and pressured Aqua into deliberately keeping the info from both Kalai and Adelen. They only realize the truth when Adelen is unintentionally put in danger. At the cost of temporarily severing the trust between Master and student.

Fearing that she will never be free of her past and with Kali tormenting her again, Kalai goes into self-imposed exile for several months before Kairi and Adelen can convince her of her true goodness. She vows to always protect her sister from the dark forces, shattering all animosity between them once and for all.

Finally, when Kairi and Riku are given a lead to Sora’s whereabouts, they depart the Realm of Light to a world called Quadratum. With Kairi gone, Aqua requests that Kalai return to the Land of Departure with Lauriam and Elrena to continue training, realizing how wrong she was to keep the truth about Adelen from her. She agrees while she is still sometimes haunted by shadows of her past, Kalai will continue to strive to create a brighter future for herself and those she loves, becoming a paragon of her namesake.

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💜Relationships💜

Dilan/Xaldin ~ Her beloved father and probably the most important person in her life. Their relationship begins rather complexly. While he never held any resentment towards Kalai, his heartbreak where her mother was concerned is why he had such a cynical outlook on the concept of love and his cold and distant manner towards her in her youth. But as she ages, father and daughter become closer and he is thrilled when she begins to show interest in the lance. Dilan teaches her how to fight, defend herself, and emphasizes the importance of intelligence and personal nobility, refusing to praise anything but her intellect, kindness, or skills. His overprotective nature prompts him to send Kalai away when Xehanort’s experiments get out of hand. His love continues even after they become Nobodies and only after her demise does he begin to exhibit the sadistic coldness that he shows towards Beast and Belle. With her return, Dilan feels that his heart is truly re-complete and thawed and while she has grown into a formidable warrior, he still feels extremely protective of her. He will not hesitate to chase down anyone who dares to harm his sweet girl, so Heaven help you if you even look at her in a way he doesn’t like.

Lauriam/Marluxia and Elrena/Larxene ~ Kalai’s two lovers. They met while still in the Organization and while their relationships don’t get off on the very best start, in time they come to really care for each other. Larxene already loved Marluxia for a very long time and was in a casual relationship before Alixka’s arrival. Initially, they only want her as a plaything, and Marluxia in particular sees her as a means of gaining the upper hand over the senior members when he realizes that she is Xaldin’s child and that it’s supposed to be a secret. But he changes tune when he realizes that Alixka herself is unaware that Xaldin is her father. Marluxia comes to admire her kindness and in a twisted way, envies her closeness to the senior members because, as he puts it to Larxene, “she has something to hold onto, we are not so fortunate.” As time passes, their dissatisfaction with the Organization brings the three closer. By the time they are under Master Xehanort, the uncertainty of their situation brings them together in the fullest sense of the word. With recompetion, they finally have the chance to be happy without the looming threat of outside forces driving them apart. Lauriam is the softer, more reserved lover whom Kalai can go to for romantic tenderness. He likes to call her Rosebud, a nickname she didn’t always like but grew to find endearing. Elrena on the other hand is more snarky, with blunt honesty that can sometimes seem cold but is always well-intentioned. She also has a love of teasing Kalai that recompletion has only slightly dulled. But when push comes to shove, Elrena is fiercely devoted to her and often says “No one is allowed to fuck with Kalai except me!”

Iris and Adelen ~ The kinder of Kalai’s four younger siblings.

Anila ~ Kalai’s paternal grandmother and a former Keyblade Master, originally from Scala ad Caelum.

Ienzo/Zexion ~ Kalai’s childhood friend when she first arrived in the Capital as a young girl. Because Ienzo lost his parents so young and was raised by Ansem and his apprentices, he never had the chance to interact with other children. So he takes an immediate liking to Kalai; at first, he loves her as an older sister but later as a woman. This love goes unnoticed and is discouraged as Xehanort gains more influence, with him deliberately acting to keep them apart to tempt Kalai to join in on his experiments. Naturally, Zexion is extremely jealous and hurt when Alixka was getting closer to Marluxia and Larxene. Doubly so because his superior has always drilled into him the idea that feelings were an illusion for his kind. In his anger and confusion, he inflicts terrible pain onto her, ultimately forfeiting his chance to have a place in her heart. Now recompleted, Ienzo holds a tremendous amount of guilt where Kalai is concerned and hopes that they can rekindle their friendship, one day at a time.

Kairi ~ Kalai’s best friend. When Kairi was growing up, she was one of the youngest children living in the Capital of Light and consequently did not have many friends. While playing in the gardens by the castle gates, she catches sight of an older girl reading within the castle walls. That girl was Kalai. Because she lived in the castle and was always followed by the guards, little Kairi quickly got the fancy that Kalai was a princess and went out of her way to become her friend. She gets her chance when she sees her at the fountain court one spring day and from then on they become fast friends. Whenever Kalai was allowed out of the castle, she would always find time to visit Kairi and her grandmother and Kairi was sometimes brought to the castle to play with Kalai and sometimes Ienzo, though these visits put her in unintentional danger when Xehanort takes notice of her.

Aqua ~ The Master and keeper of the Land of Departure and Kalai and Kairi’s teacher/mentor. As a Keyblade Master, her power is on an entirely different level, and her omnipotence is something Kalai finds very admirable. Though she can seem intimidating, Aqua has an undisputed kindness in her heart and she and Kalai truthfully have much more in common than one would guess. They both struggle with their past mistakes and both hold shame for once falling into darkness and fear falling again. Aqua is the only person who knows about Kali/Anti-Kalai and Kalai is the only one who knows about Anti-Aqua, secrets that connect them in a sadly unique way.

Young Xehanort ~ Her greatest personal enemy besides Xemnas, Xigbar, and Kali. Young Xehanort is the one who ultimately brings her back into the Organization and goes out of his way to antagonize her nearly the second she reawakens as a Nobody. Outwardly, he finds her insolent and bratty and longs to break her spirit with darkness. But secretly, he finds her enchanting. Alixka hates him more than all the other Seekers combined and their rivalry is extremely fierce with them frequently scoring points with each other. There is admittedly a certain level of sexual tension within their clashes and quips that make for some rather awkward (and often hilarious) scenes between them though they never forget that they hate each other. While Alixka wants only to put him in his place, it is implied that Young Xehanort’s attraction to her is based on something relating to his past.

Kali ~ Kali is a special Nightmare spirit bonded to Kalai’s heart. Originally a remnant of her Heartless, Kali was born from the intense dark emotions Kalai harbored in her youth and while in the Organization. Through Master Xehanort’s influence, Kali becomes stronger with the ability to dive into Kalai’s nightmares and subtly influence her when she is feeling depressed or angry. She also has the ability to shapeshift and will often change into forms that cause Kalai distress. Despite their chaotic, abusive relationship, Kali truly cares for Kalai but longs for her to embrace her darkness. Her rage has already claimed the life of her abusive stepfather and she wishes for Kalai to exact further vengeance on those who have wronged her in the past.

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💜Skills and Abilities💜

Throughout her journey, Kalai uses an array of weapons with a strong preference for polled weapons like those wielded by her father. Even after being bequeathed a keyblade, she continues to rely heavily on lances and spears through form changes. For a more in-depth look at Kalai’s weapons and skills, visit this link here.

#Meet Kalai

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astra-galaxie · 2 years ago

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"Nice to finally meet my twin's husband, now, if we could talk in private-" - Magnus Dahl

Biographical information

Full Name: Magnus Dahl

Alias(es):

Stormshock (codename)

Maggie (nickname)

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Pansexual

Status: Alive

Age: 27 (Season 2)

Birth: August 13, 1987

Race: Mythonite

Nationality: Asgardian

Origin: New Asgard

Residence:

Earth

New Asgard (formerly)

Profession(s): GIA Agent

Past profession(s): Crown Prince of New Asgard

Family:

Adalet (Anders) Sadik-Halvorsen (younger twin, not biologically related)

Tómus Dahl (younger brother)

Runa Dahl (mother)

Eir Dahl (mother)

Henrik Dahl (grandfather) (incarcerated)

Sylvi Dahl (grandmother) (deceased)

Partner(s): Aurora Toivonen (fiancée)

Affiliation(s):

New Asgard Royal Council

GIA

Profile

Height: 5'10" Age: 27 (season 2) Weight: 190lbs Eyes: blue Blood: O-

Magnus is the older twin brother (though not by blood relations) of Adalet Sadik-Halvorsen. The two have shared everything from a birthday to a crib, clothes, and parents! He has a muscular build with fair skin speckled with freckles and bright red hair like his mother Eir had when she was younger. He has Runa's blue eyes and a short darker red beard that almost covers a scar on his right cheek. He has a small, silver hoop earring in his left ear and often has small braids in his hair to hold it back.

Magnus normally wears a pair of dark jeans, a dark yellow tank with a lighter yellow drape-style shirt over top, a light brown coat and combat boots. He can also almost always be seen wearing a silver necklace with three gems set into the band. It was a gift from Tómus and Adalet for his 20th birthday and features a gem representing each sibling: red for Adalet, yellow for Magnus, and green for Tómus. Magnus also has a gold tattoo of Mjölnir on his inner right forearm.

Powers and Abilities

Asgardian abilities:

Super-strength

Enhanced durability

Enhanced speed

Superhuman Stamina

Regenerative healing factor

Flight

All-Speak

Star generation

Asgardians can create small orbs of light which they call "stars" that they send up into the sky at night

Magic

Powers gained from wielding Mjölnir:

Weather manipulation

Electricity generation

Enhancement of physical abilities/powers

*Note! Magnus needs to "recharge" these abilities if he has not been in contact with Mjölnir recently. Holding the hammer for a few seconds is all he needs and he can go up to a week without welding Mjölnir.

History

Magnus is the firstborn son of Runa and Eir Dahl, Queens of New Asgard. He was raised in the royal palace but spent a lot of his time outside of it with his twin Adalet exploring the wonders of the kingdom. He attended one of the public schools in the capital city alongside children his age and never cared about the crown or power he was destined to inherit. In fact, he chose to give up his title of Crown Prince and gave it to his younger brother Tómus.

Magnus and Adalet have been inseparable since they met when they were just days old. Oftentimes the only way the two would sleep through the night was if they slept in the same crib. When they got older and learned about what it meant to have a twin, they decided they must be twins since they were born just minutes apart, no one had the heart to correct them.

During Ragnarok, when New Asgard was being attacked by the army of fire demons who had risen again to try and fully destroy the planet, Magnus and his siblings decided to try and wield weapons of the gods. Magnus wielded Mjölnir, the hammer of Thor, and gained the ability to control the weather. He used his new powers to create heavy rainfall across the planet helping to extinguish the fires created by the fire demons.

He joined the New Asgard branch of the GIA in his early twenties around the same time as his sister. If Earth should be approved for integration into universal society, he plans to move to Earth to be closer to his twin and be one of the first participants in the galactic immigration program.

Events of Criminal Case

Season 2

Magnus appeared for his twin's wedding while Adalet was still living in Pacific Bay. He tried to intimidate Fili, as he considers it his duty as Adalete's brother but was quickly reminded that she doesn't need him to fight her battles. It also didn't help that Adalet had already told Fili plenty of embarrassing stories about Magnus from their childhood so he wasn't really scared of the younger man.

Season 3

Magnus made a brief cameo in Stonehearted at Ahmet's birthday party, where it was announced that he and Aurora were engaged.

He later appeared again during the Intergalactic Summit. He had accompanied Heimdall to the Summit as a GIA guard to the New Asgard Ambassador and later became a suspect in the murder of Earth's Ambassador. At first, Magnus doesn't say anything about Zimmerman; he simply says he has been at one of the crime scenes because he needs stuff for New Asgard's ship. But later, after dealing with a drunk Anders, it was revealed that Zimmerman had confiscated Magnus's chewing necklace because the Ambassador claimed it was "unprofessional" and "something for a toddler."

But Magnus uses the necklaces to cope with his stress. He tried getting it back, but Zimmerman refused, stating that he would be reporting Magnus for insubordination. Fearing termination, Magnus walked away and tried not to chew his nails as his stress hit a near-breaking point. Thankfully, Zimmerman's killer was caught, and Maguns was proven innocent.

Following Earth's proposal for universal integration being approved, Magnus joined in the festivities with his family and the Bureau. He was so happy for his twin winning Summit and Earth finally getting to become one with the universe. He looks forward to living on Earth with Aurora and starting a life there as they help with Earth's integration. He's also happy to be living on the same planet as his twin again, and while he'll miss New Asgard, he knows he'll always be welcomed back home when he visits.

Organization(s)

G.I.A. - New Asgard Branch

Rank: Agent

Story Information

First appeared: Tying the Knot

Trivia

Magnus was the first person Adalet came out as genderfluid to. The redhead grinned and told her that no matter what gender she was, they would always be twins

Is a big mommy's boy. As a kid, he would often trail behind his mothers, especially Eir since Runa had a lot of duties as Crown Princess, like a little duckling and always jumped at the chance to help them

When his brother was born, he would carry the younger around showing him anything and everything even if the baby couldn't understand or care less about the tour

His weapon's specialty is in battle axes including axe throwing

Since he can control the weather, he can generate miniature forms of weather around himself, like small rain clouds or rainbows. Under feelings of extreme emotion, he might accidentally create a small weather formation to reflect what he's feeling. Rain cloud for sadness, sun/rainbow for joy, thunder/lighting for anger, etc.

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Gallery

This is the tattoo Magnus has on his right inner forearm.

Disclaimer: Character design was created using Rinmarugames Mega Anime Avatar Creator! I have only made minor edits to the design! Background courtesy of CriminalArtist5.

Links to my stories:

The Case of the Criminal (Ao3/Wattpad)

Killer Bay (Ao3/Wattpad)

Where in the World are the Killers? (Ao3/Wattpad

#criminal case #astra's ocs #pacific bay #my ocs #original character #save the world

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“...It stands to reason that a society which is ruled by its male senior citizens through the control of younger and less powerful men would instill reverence for the wisdom of advancing age in its male youth. The Romans, we might observe, referred to previous generations as maiores, greater individuals, and employed the adjective magnus, great, in the kinship terms for parents' close male and female ascendants (a practice the English language has adopted with its use of the adjective "great" for kin of earlier generations); such a practice testifies to the Roman equation of seniority with superiority, and to the inclusion of women among its superior seniors.

Thus it should come as no surprise that older women seem to command more respect, inspire more awe, and have (or be perceived as having) greater social and political influence than do younger ones. In addition, Roman women along in years were more likely to have young male relatives who were eager to prove themselves worthy of and to their elders, and who were mindful of the nurturance they had recently received from mothers and older kinswomen; such young men were under special pressure to manifest their respect and awe for their female maiores through publicly visible gestures.

We have already examined the idealization in Tacitus' Dialogus of the moral instruction and intellectual sustenance provided for an eternally indebted Roman male youth committed to a life of public service by his upstanding female relatives; this picture is far from unique in Roman writings. Such a vision of an older Roman matron's function, and of Roman mother-son relations, seems the parodic point of Plautus' Casina. The play, composed immediately before the playwright's death in 184 B.C., was popular enough to be revived in the next generation. In it, the materfamilias Cleostrata intimidates her elderly and socially powerful husband both through proving herself his moral superior and, as her son's ally and abettor, by ingeniously securing for this son the sexual favors of a slave girl his father also covets.

By cleverly rendering her presumably grateful son such services, attracting admiration for her capable handling of this complex affair, but nonetheless setting herself up as a moral example in the process, she evidently travesties the Roman concept of a wise, righteous, and exemplary mother. This same vision, however, is reproduced as part of a serious moral and political exemplum in Livy's narrative on the Bacchanalian scandal, an episode which profoundly shook Roman society shortly before the Casina was first performed. Livy's young male protagonist Aebutius and his reluctantly influential courtesan mistress Hispala Fecinia manage to bring the matter to the consul Postumius' attention, and Postumius proceeds to bring the malefactors to justice, solely through the aid of Aebutia, amita (father's sister), to Aebutius, and Postumius' venerable mother-in-law Sulpicia.

These two older women—depicted as virtuous, beneficent, sagacious, deserving of male reverence and hence, by Livy's implication, truly "maternal"—are contrasted with two, far less admirable, matronly counterparts: Aebutius' own mother Duronia, whose devotion to both her second husband and his interest in depriving Aebutius of his patrimony led her to seek her son's undoing by having him initiated into Bacchic worship; the Campanian priestess Paculla Annia, who began the Bacchic cult's corrupting influence by initiating its first men, her own sons.

Livy's account, at 39.nff., of Postumius' efforts to ascertain, through Sulpicia, the character of Aebutia, warrants special notice since here he treats these two nurturant and publicly influential mother figures in a sympathetic and sentimentalizing fashion: he refers to the former woman as dignified, a gravis (and later a gravissima) femina, to the latter as morally upright and of old-fashioned ways, probam et antiqui moris; he even describes Aebutia as moved to tears by, the dreadful treatment of her brother's son (filius eius fiatris), also morally upright (probus), by those who should have been the last to do so.

Another, doubtlessly romanticized, moralizing tale also attests to both the esteem in which a young Roman male was to hold his elder kinswomen's judgment and moral authority and to the public display and political impact of such esteem, namely the story of Gnaeus Marcius Coriolanus. Set in the mid-fifth century B.C., the story achieved great popularity in the classical period: a lost book by Cicero's closest friend Titus Pomponius Atticus featured Coriolanus prominently; Livy, Valerius Maximus, and Plutarch all treat his tragedy. Coriolanus has recently been called the "Roman archetype" of the "perpetual mama's boy" in a provocative psychoanalytic study of the Roman mother-son relationship, and for good reason: he allegedly valued his widowed mother so highly that he abandoned a traitorous march on Rome at the head of an enemy force only after she demanded that he desist.

There are less dramatic, and probably somewhat more reliable, pieces of ancient Roman testimony to the reverential regard of young Roman men for the older, maternal female members of their families, to their—and others'—experience of these women as significant and influential individuals, and to the frequent exhibition of both this regard and this experience in a larger sociopolitical context. Several laudationes Junebres, orations delivered by aristocratic Roman men (and usually youthful ones) to honor a deceased relative of political distinction, belong in this category.

Cicero reports that the first such speech in commemoration of a woman was given in 102 B.C. by the consul Quintus Lutatius Catulus to honor his mother Popilia; no young woman received this same recognition until over thirty years later, when Julius Caesar's second wife, Cornelia, was buried amid her husband's public praises. That same year, however, Caesar made a more memorable, or at least better remembered, contribution to funeral oratory with his laudation of his father's sister Julia, wife of the military and political leader Marius. Caesar's words first proclaimed the glory of this aunt's, and hence his own father's, maternal ancestry: The maternal lineage of my paternal aunt Julia descended from kings, the paternal is connected with the immortal gods.

For the Marcii Reges go back to Ancus Marcius, Marcia being the name of her mother, and the Julii, to which clan our family belongs, are offspring of Venus. There is, therefore, in her lineage both the holiness of kings, who have the greatest power among humans, and the religious quality of gods, in whose power are the kings themselves. Perhaps not insignificantly, Ancus Marcius, the early king from whom Julia's maternal Marcii traced their lineage, supposedly inherited Rome's throne through his maternal grandfather; so, too, the divinity from whom her (and her nephew's) paternal Julii avowed their descent was Venus, mother of the Trojan hero Aeneas.

A later, and also elderly, Julia, Caesar's sister, was hailed in the funeral laudatio upon her death in 51 B.C. by the twelve-year-old Octavius, whose mother Atia was Julia's daughter; through this maternal grandmother Octavius, later the emperor Augustus, could claim descent by blood, as well as adoption, from Venus and the Julian clan. The laudatio delivered in 42 B.C. to honor the nonagenarian Caecilia by her son Atticus, a man whose attraction to the Coriolanus legend we have already noted, stirred comment as providing proof of Atticus' familial devotion (pietas): said to be sixty-seven at the time, he pointed out that he had never once needed to apologize to his mother, nor quarreled with his sister, who was almost the same age as he.

One might also consider in this context an inscription generally dated to the early empire, the laudatio of a noble matron Murdia. It is dedicated by a son of the woman's first marriage, despite the fact that her second husband seems to have been numbered among her survivors. She is, moreover, identified only with the words Murdiae L(ucii) F(iliae) Matris, "Murdia, Lucius' daughter and my mother"; she is acclaimed by this son as "most precious to me" (carissima mihi), although he says nothing about affection between her and either husband.

Along with citing her modesty (modestia), upright character (probitas, an attribute we have seen noted in Livy's Aebutia and Aebutius), chastity (pudicitia), compliant nature (opsequium), wool-spinning (lanificium), conscientiousness, and trustworthiness (diligentia and fides), he cites her wisdom (.sapientia); what is more, he accords her special praise for treating all of her sons equally in her will. Both mater and amita also figure prominently in another, fairly early and important source for the public reverence awarded and sociopolitical significance clearly and justifiably ascribed to older Roman women of the upper classes by their younger male relatives.

…It may help further to elucidate why other young Roman men of the upper classes regarded their elder female relations, their own and other men's mothers, so seriously, looking upon them as socially and politically powerful figures deserving publicly visible homage. Atticus' sister of sixty-odd, Aemilia, the dowager sister of Lucius Aemilius Paullus, and the matrons who were sisters of Aemilia's son Publius Cornelius Scipio (and hence enjoyed the magnanimity of his adoptive son) obviously rank among older women, whether by age or by relation to their devoted male kin. But the concern publicly evinced for other, younger, women of high birth by their brothers, such as that displayed by Scipio in his munificence to his sisters, indicates that sisters in Roman elite society were also highly, and publicly, esteemed by their brothers.

Evidence from Roman comedy merits special note in this context. A lengthy passage from Plautus' Aulularia generalizes on the feelings and duties of brothers and sisters to one another: it depicts Roman brothers and sisters as partaking of a close relationship, sharing the same concerns, and looking to one another for advice; it depicts one particular sister, moreover, as expecting her advice to be followed. At lines i2off. Eunomia speaks of her sincere commitment to her brother Megadorus' best interests as "befitting a sister of the same parents" While acknowledging that brothers find sisters bothersome, she points out their mutual obligation to counsel and admonish one another, and even demands that Megadorus do what she orders; she justifies these demands on the grounds that she is closest to him and he to her.

More importantly, both Roman legend and Roman historical writing concur in their depiction of this fraternal esteem for sisters, and fraternal compliance with sisters' wishes, as having a substantial public impact among the Roman elite. They suggest that a Roman sister, though likely to be regarded with respect rather than veneration, and subtly complimented rather than eulogized, by her brother, often exerted influence of a political nature both on and through him; they indicate that various sisters publicly reflected in—and often actually benefited from—their brothers' social and political prestige.”

- Judith P. Hallett, “Women of Elite Families and Roman Society.” in Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women and the Elite Family

#judith p. hallett #history #ancient #roman #fathers and daughters in roman society

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