#but it's also nearly 1am so i am ramblin!!!

[gatheredfates]

Do you guys ever like... have vastly different interpretations of the same concept across different characters? Case in point, I love the void. I cannot get enough of it. I have three characters (El, Seelu and Z) that all deal with it and another... sort of in the wings? Iunno if I'll use her - not the point.

Anyway, for example, I see Elandervier's void manifesting in the same way I see a lot of her concepts surrounding being Gelmorran and a bog witch; in ooze, in goo and in shadows that 'stick' to things. I totally imagine people have walked into her cave in the past and she's just been suspended from her roof half slime half woman. Basically this art fundamentally altered my brain chemistry when it comes to her.

Seelu, by comparison, is space and the gaps in stars. It's vast nothingness in that empty space between dreams. It's animals that look wrong; deer and hares with extra eyes, the stopping by woods on a snowy evening poem and that sense of wrongness you feel when you know something you really shouldn't. If you ever got The Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron you know what I'm talking about, the phrase "have you had the dream again? A black goat with seven eyes that watches from the outside."

Z is vampirism. I'm not even going to try and be like romantic about it because that's exactly what he is. He is entirely self-indulgent and adheres to a lot of the traditional lore (you have to invite him in, drinks blood/aether, not a huge fan of the sunlight, etc.) and draws a lot of inspiration from this kind of art (gore tw here please be mindful it's an exposed ribcage).

Then my other character is more like... shadows and smoke. Snakes and spiders and things that unsettle you. That shiver across your spine accompanied by the phrase 'oh, so someone walked over your grave?'. Elandervier can be bugs and arachnids if she wants, but generally they adhere to things that dwell in caves and places underground.

I just think it's neat!!