#but then u became a seer

[sapphic-woes]

I accidentally wrote vi x reader x sevika um–

[featherlouise]

OK HERE’S MOST OF THE MOTHFRIEND SHIT I HAVE

HIS NAME IS EÓGHAN BE KIND TO HIM

Also I am never drawing in that style again holy fuck I forgot how much I hate drawing lineless

Brief rundown of his backstory under the cut (bc it’s changed a fair amount)

(For context) The Order of the Old Flame (OOF) is a cult that originated from a small group of moths who left Hallownest when PK took over, they fled to a small village MILES away in a tundra, and over the course of a few thousand years, dug their claws into the very foundations of the kingdom that became of it.

Signs of their reverence of the Radiance are everywhere, but most notably architecture, which are emblazoned with suns and clouds and dream catchers (this will be important later)

SO

Eóghan’s mother grew up in OOF, and is the older sister of the Seer (the leader, aka the one who’s seen as the most ‘in touch’ with the Radiance (all moths possess some type of dream magic, some stronger than others))

She met his father, a man living outside of the city in a small cottage with his mother

Etc etc they fell in love, had Eóghan, all was right with the world

Until OOF finds them, they have spies everywhere after all. The Seer and some OOF members resolve to eradicate the traitor and the one who has poisoned her mind, setting the cottage on fire in the middle of the night, with all but the old woman inside (who is staying in the city overnight, having been held back and forced to book a hotel)

Before setting the house alight, the Seer finds Eóghan, barely a year old, and decides to “save” him, raising him as her own.

Years later, miles away, a vessel destroys the dream goddess in her own realm, and the very foundations of the kingdom shake with her screams. The death of a god is something that every living being can feel, even if it’s just through a pervasive feeling of wrongness.

A disillusioned Eóghan takes the commotion as an opportunity to escape, almost being stopped by a dagger to the hand from his aunt, who is one of the most effected by Radi’s death, barely able to stay on her feet.

Eóghan manages to escape out into the cold, but with only a thin shirt, trousers and leather boots to protect from the cold, coupled with a steadily bleeding knife wound, he’s not long outside of the city before he collapses.

CONVENIENTLY on the road where a certain old lady is going into the city to sell some goods from her farm.

Long story short bc this is getting long!!! Old lady nurses him back to health, and he repays her by helping her round her farm. Eóghan is a VERY angry boy after realising that not only was his entire life and belief system built on a lie, but his auntie, basically his MOTHER, cares more about her faith than her son, would rather try to kill him than let him leave, or goddess forbid go with him. SO. Old lady teaches him how to be a healthy, mostly emotionally stable person!!!

A few years later, she passes away, but not before telling Eóghan that she would be so proud to have him as a grandson. He never does find out the truth. But as far as he’s concerned?? That’s his nana, blood relative or not.

Even more years later!! (Reminder that they meet about 8 years after Holly nerfs the Radiance) Hollow is kidnapped by a combination of PHFTT (PK’s killers in case u forgot) and OOF, and they manage to escape by the skin of their teeth, being injured and draining their magic in the process (they’re not difficult to kill, per say, but there are a LOT of them, and killing people is kinda hard when ur tied up with a concussion)

Eóghan, seeing this VERY interesting looking person passed out in the snow, decides “AGH fuck it!!” And takes them in

Queue meet cute!!! (meet ugly?? I wouldn’t class waking up in a strangers house after a near death experience a meet cute)

[blvetv]

character filed under : bai u-jin.

application.

〈  cha eun-woo  /  cis man  /  he / him / they  /  twenty-seven ( 270 ) 〉in the great land of prythian, U-JIN BAI of the DAWN COURT begins their journey towards a new future. known to be compassionate and creative, their suspected obstinate and perfervid habits might prove to be their undoing. if the fae could compose a song for them, it could tell stories of healing sigils etched on the corners of your lips, fraught of a never waking dream, nimble fingers working on intricate gearings, ticking and chimes from clocks that line your walls, and orange ambience of the morning glow. the fates whispers to the tinker of dawn court and it is said that their loyalties lie with prythian. only time will tell if the HIGH FAE ( seer ) has what it takes to live amongst the ruin . 

statistics .

birth name . bai u-jin.

name meaning . his name means blessing. ( pls, i want someone to call him blessing like romantically. )

age + appearance age . 270 + 27.

gender + pronouns . cis man + he / him / they.

species . high fae ( seer ).

orientation . bisexual / biromantic.

status . betrothed, complicated.

occupation . owner of tinkering smith.

languages . sign language ( psl-prythian sign language )

personality .

positive traits . compassionate + clever + illuminating.

negative traits . obstinate - sarcastic - .

mbti . intp.

moral alignment . chaotic neutral.

prone to violence . yes, not by choice.

appearance .

faceclaim . cha eunwoo.

voice claim . cha eunwoo.

eyes . dark purple. when the light isn't reflected in them, they appear so dark that they almost look black. however, in the light mainly the in the sun, they appear like lavender fields in midday rays. and his eyes happen to be very expressive, you can read them almost like an open book. though the fatigue is notable under his eyes most days due to lack of sleep from working on the latest craft, clock, art.

hair . black in colour, when in the sun it almost has a blue tint to his hair. he has a short wolf cut styled hair do, here.

dominant hand . left.

height . 6'0 ( 1.83m ).

build . slim muscular.

tattoos . technically speaking he has none. but he has healing sigils on the corners of his lips from a healer years ago but it has faded quite a bit, still very noticeable against his pale gold skin. here.

piercings . both his bottom lobes are pierced.

notable features . a splatter of freckles across his cheeks and nose ridge, noticeable up close up. his eyes, framed by long lashes. when in lower collared tops, the scar across his neck is seen, faint but catches the light.

family .

father. bai in-su. †

mother. bai hyun-ae. †

brother. bai man-shik. †

character study .

triggers : death, violence, blood, murder ( self-defence ),

a blessing. was what he was to his mother and father, their second child and always deemed a blessing. usually, that would go to someone's head, right ? it would but it didn't, he always stayed humbled and grounded. though that could've been from his older brother's doing, never did the brothers see eye to eye.

and for years it would fester.

they found out quite early on in his life ( which he can barely remember now ), that his larynx had a fault with it, when he was younger he was able to form sentences but his voice was merely a whisper. constantly his brother made fun of him so, he just stopped talking to him — and then to most.

start of trigger : death.

his mother died when he was quite young, not even that of a man yet. she died young from some unknown illness, it took hold of her and never let go. it devasted his father, the man became that of a shell of his former self for the longest of time when it was just him and his boys but from the outside looking in they would assume everything was with him. and that's how he kept it.

end of trigger : death.

it was the following months after his mother's death without his father being present that his brother's antics became next level, dangerous even. he had nowhere to go, meaning he put up with it.

constantly at odds with one another. it was exhausting on u-jin, he never could gage if it was for man-shik... every time he tried in vain to being it to a ceasefire it would always flare up again and go out of control. u-jin was far from perfect but he did try to stop the senseless fighting between his brother but it never worked out. and towards the end, he just stopped caring altogether.

start of triggers : violence, blood & murder.

they were still very young man when the bitter war between brothers finally came to a violent end.

man-shik attacked an underarm u-jin, outside their home in the public eye for all the neighbours to see and no one did anything to assist u-jin or man-shik. he wishes on the stars, that someone would've intervened but no one did.

he got a few really good hits in, trying to block his brother's blows to that of trying to keep him at arm's length. but it didn't stay that way, man-shik blade got the best shot, right across u-jin's jugular ( deep enough to cause more damage to his throat ) whilst blood rushed out of his wound, he managed to backhand the dagger out of his brother's hand.

thus the brothers fell to the ground, fighting for the blade that was just out of reach of the two. somehow, u-jin managed to grab it first and stabbed the blade and in an upwards motion found his brother's heart.

his brother's body fell limp on him. all he could think of was that it was finally over, this horrible war between siblings which he was still uncertain how it even begun in the first place.

end of triggers : violence, blood & murder.

he laid under his brother for what felt like eternity, going in and out of consciousness. strongly believing this was going to be his end. however, his father came and everything went black after that.

u-jin spent a lot of time in the healing wards but nothing could be done about restoring his voice to what it once was.

his father would take him to the best healers the dawn court had to offer but nothing could be done. he accepted that he'd probably never be able to talk again but it was quite hard on his father as he was the one that had to live with the deafening silence... until u-jin lived on his own.

the time under the mountain, felt like a haze to him and still does. his subconscious refusing to reflect back on those dark days.

once out from underneath the mountain, he did his best to assist in the re-building of prythian. that of fixing things that had been broken to that of creating something beautiful for someone, just so they had a little light in their life. and that's how his business of tinkering smith came about, he could fix pretty much anything he was given or create something out of nothing.

canons .

a slick device. pocket size. is what he uses to communicate with others, especially if they don't know psl - prythain sign language. tends to be a robotic voice or just simply for the other to read off the scene.

he can say one word sometimes three words, but it does really place a lot of strain and sometimes even causes him pain to do so. hasn't formed a sentence in over two hundred years.

he's a craftsman, quite a talented one some much so that he gets jobs all over prythian in fixing or creating something for someone. u-jin is a humble fae but when it comes to his masterpieces ( even those he's fixed up ), he makes really proud.

hook-ups hasn't had one for over a hundred years, kid you not. my boy is a near virgin again. all funnies aside, the reason is that he has little time to dedicate to himself at the moment and his last hook-up did die - he misses their company as they were more fwb. but since their death, he hasn't hook-up, fwb or anything close to romantic interest for that long.

connections .

his last hook-up / fwb . this muse was actually one of his main hook-ups but they somehow ended up becoming besties. and since he stopped sleeping with people, they have always had this flirty friendship - dare i say platonic soulmates ? yes, i dare.

unrequired crush . love for someone to have a crush on him and he's just completely oblivious to it.

seer mentor . someone who helped him through the difficult path of being a seer, and they have a closeness to one another.

friends from other courts . everyone needs cute little pen-pals.

high lord or lady . this is someone who asks for his services quite a lot, in crafting something new for them to have in their court or that of fixing something, he's always their guy.

anything !!!

[newyorkkiss]

135, 119, 100 :D

100: whats your most listened to playlist?

my general listening diary which i've been curating since i was 16 lol

135: what’s a music pet peeve of yours?

hm. intentional record crackling on a track. awful stuff, especially if it actually runs throughout and you can hear it. really can't stand it. there's defs other ones but that one just seems to be the one on my mind rn

119: What music did you grow up on?

putting this last bc i wnna put a post cut here cuz im just gonna go on awhile SORRY this one means a bit.

i'm putting * next to my all time albums here

for the first 13 years of my life, i would say it's 70/80s chart hits through my parents, and modern pop radio on my own. mostly the latter. the first song i ever became aware of was nelly furtado's maneater when i was 5. most of what i really did grow up around was pop radio like your generic local station shit. then my parents got cable when i was 7 which introduced me to more... curated things? i'm gonna speak in australian pay tv networks and artists here i'm sorry i hate speaking like this. but [v] (may it rest in peace for its shuttering is easily one of the worst losses i've ever experienced) was like my slow awakening to my more "alternative" tastes than the general packaged pop i'd been so used to at that point, in the way it was mostly just 2008-12 peak era (imo) triple j buzz bands and that kind of thing. artists i really remember getting into that time because of that were the presets – who'd just released apocalypso* at this point – and ladyhawke* – who had just released her self titled debut (another all timer.) very related is that modular (the label that issued these albums, and of tame impala fame) genuinely had some fucking top tier albums out in 2008, like van she's v and another all timer and pitchfork best new album in ghost colours* by cut copy. insane year for them, but back to me. i was really getting into listening to the weekly top 40 on radio around this time too. my local station was mostly syndicated programming from 2day from a certain hour. like their usual weekdaily thing was their morning show which i have never heard for some reason, then it was just local in house selected garbage that i have permanently seered into my mind now until 3 when they started the pre-record syndicated stuff like hamish and andy or kyle and jackie o. which after 5pm is when The Fucking Goods happened and you got the ill-fated hot 30 which was pretty much became a ritual thing for me when i was 9 until it was canceled when i was 11. on weekends i would listen to my beloved take 40 which i continued doing up until i was 12 and gained a proper internet connection. when i think back on this time period it it's kinda crazy how much music i was listening to and the fact it was just something i did and didn't know anybody else who was like crazy deep in music like this. but it did give me my extensive knowledge of 2000s/early 2010s popular music which i've been curating in a playlist since i was 15 that was just a comfort list turned mutant.

but the turning point in my taste came when i was 12 and got an non-poor person internet connection aka wifi, an ipad and a dream. at this point i was slowly moving away from charts and into full albums – something i never really did. one of the first albums i owned was rogue trader's here comes the drums* and that until katy perry's teenage dream were like the only albums i'd heard back to back. first album i brought in 2013 was ellie goulding's halcyon* and i pretty much burnt it to my pc and listened to it and it only for like 6 months of the year, before buying calvin harris' 18 months* on itunes when they did that u have 3 singles from this album u can buy the rest for $6 thing. by this time i was starting to get on socials and drift into fandom. one of the first ones was dan & phil who are big fans of muse and spoke about how origin of symmetry* is their fave album by them and i was like, damn i gotta check this out. from that point onwards for another like 6 months was the only album and first discogs ever sought out and listened to. through being in that fandom i started getting into music circles which happened right at the biggest turning point of my life. by mid 2014 i'd started to venture into the 2014 tumblr-core stuff; sky ferreira, vampire weekend, the strokes, grimes and twigs, and my first super hyperfixated musical act, foster the people. i was on indie twitter by this point and consumed by it and had completely stopped and refused to listen to top 40 radio which i still don't do. by 2015 i'd basically crafted my alternative taste and begun collecting vinyl. here's my top artists from my old last.fm to illustrate where i am as a 14 year old:

it pretty much stayed like this for somewhat unchanged until 2017 when i got a spotify subscription and started listening to radiohead a fair bit lol. by early 2018 i was starting to listen to fantano-core stuff and by extension got into post-punk, iceage-ajacent bands which led me to posh isolation and started my interest in noise/ambient stuff. late 2019 i started listening to the brixton windmill-ajacent bands like black midi and bc,nr and started using rateyourmusic and just discovering things over time.

im sorry that this is so long and i dont expect anybody to read this lmao 😭

[cicadaland]

ok. ok so i AM intrested in the uhh the oracles stuff!! however everytime you explain its a lot of text and i cant really focus on it,,SO explain as much as u can in as little text as possible? please!!

No problem!! I will explain using bullet points :) Let me know if you want anything else explained btw I will be happy to tell you all about them!!!!

MANHATTAN ORACLE (Our Lady of the Seven Horns)

Perhaps the most famous of all the known living oracles (as of 2512, which is when the story takes place)

lives inside of the Statue of Liberty and wears a similar crown (the seven horns!!)

Doesn’t get outside very often because she’s stuck on Liberty Island (the island the statue is on) most of the time. Because of this she’s very pale and sickly looking

When she dies she will return to the womb of the Statue, meaning she will be put in a coffin by her devoted followers and placed alongside the previous Oracles of Manhattan in the center of the Statue of Liberty.

Most of the time she uses her prophetic abilities to predict weather and communicate long distances through dreams.

CHICAGO ORACLE (The Angel’s Vessel)

Gained her prophetic ability through eating an Angel’s flesh as a starving girl lost on the vast prairie.

Has a cultish group of acolytes, all dedicated to deciphering her prophecies. She doesn’t really like them but keeps them around to mess with them a little.

Delivers prophecies through extremely cryptic metaphor and song.

Tried to steal Joseph’s golden tooth once. She’s kind of weird for that one NGL but a girlboss nonetheless I have to say. She loves to steal.

After she ate the Angel’s flesh, its nutrients were distributed throughout her body and she became blessed (cursed?) with visions only Angels were meant to see.

LOUISIANA ORACLE (Seer of the Delta)

Lives with her sisters and nieces on the delta of the Mississippi river, around where New Orleans used to be.

Had her abilities since birth. She can understand what stories the bloodsoaked soil of the world have to tell. She can speak the language that mycelium networks speak.

Because of this she has a unique view of rotting and death. She views it as a blessing, to return to the Earth and cycle through infinite amounts of God’s creatures.

She holds beliefs similar to that of African-American Protestants, but also believes in reincarnation through this rotting. She believes Heaven and reincarnation is one and the same, and Hell is to be cut off from this cycle.

The oldest of all three known major oracles. She can’t wait to die though so she isn’t too bothered by this.

Loves it when people visit :] she will kiss you on the forehead and have you over for dinner if you help her with household chores

I could also write about Audrey but that would take up a whole nother post like this. But let me know if u want me to bc I will!!!!!!

[seencatz]

all I really want is for the original crew, (namely percy, annabeth, grover, nico, rachel) to go back to being friends without any tension or awkwardness between them. no impending doom from the war or strained relationships because of recent events. just regular sibling dynamics because that's what most of them have and I just. can't believe we didn't see them all together one last time 💔 we get the percy annabeth and grover road trip. and we get the rachel and nico friendship. now put them together and give me chaos !!!!!!

[nikethestatue]

there was an ask some days ago (idk if it was your blog or some other) about elain losing her powers like nesta did and that got me thinking... do u think elain hates her powers just like nesta did? we know she doesnt use her powers unless absolutely necessary so what if its because she doesn't like them? and IF she also loses her powers in her book, would it be because she hates those powers?

I wish we knew what her powers were, besides the Seer stuff. I dont think she loves the Seer powers. But at least she kind of understands what it is. Seemed that Nesta didnt even understand what the powers were (but it's okay Nes, neither do we or SJM, so you are in good company!). But what was the power that allowed Elain to find the Suriel? Was it the same as her Seer power? What are the powers that she is 'dusting off' to look for the Trove?

I personally think that Elain will have powers similar to Feyre, in that they are varied and immense. I think it aligns with how people view her (weak, timid, etc.) and with how Feyre was viewed (weak and human, and illiterate), and how Feyre got huge powers and became a HL. As a Dusk Court theory advocate, I think that Elain will become the High Lady of Dusk.

So no, I don't think she will lose her powers. She might actually get more.

[phoebehalliwell]

i don't know if i'm the only one but i've often wondered exactly how hard it was to convince julian mcmahon to stick around for season five. they took his character, a feared powerful half demon and made him into the butt of the joke and the whole joke was basically ha ha look at this lovestruck fool obsessing and suicidal because he's got nothing to live with but can't die. ain't that funny? like how the fuck did the writers sell that to julian is my question

i find the entirety of season five just so goddamn insulting to cole's character. hell the fact that he got possessed by the source and this was treated as him turning evil instead of a shitty situation that got out of hand. like it wasn't bad enough he was villified for something that he wasn't even in control of half the time they couldn't even just vanquish the dude, they dragged it on and ridiculed him. i hate it here

lol. i mean. yeah. i really. like. it's like. like okay we all know cole was a fan favorite right and he & phoebe were really meant to like. be the sex appeal to the show no one else was really filling that role they were charmed's Sexy Couple tm. so like. in a sense i get the notion ab wanting to keep him around. because everyone loves him! he's bad boy! he adds this dangerous edge love balancing on a knife's point stuff like that. so like. that being said. u wanna keep him around. i just like Do Not Get how you opt to keep him around Like That. tbh. as w all things. i am blaming brad kern. i think it all really started to tank s4 (well, with mortal cole, but like) with source cole. that was bad, but i know it was part of the push to have like long form season drama character driven plots conflict between the sisters themselves it just like. sucked ass and balls imo. like i mean the fact they had to do the source as a possession just so they could get demon cole and lover cole,,, i mean it speaks to how stupid it was. the fact that u wanted cole to be a villain So Bad but the only way to do it was like. possession? sign that u should not do that like. like. like. i don't know how we're supposed to feel ab that.

and then. the vanquish. not sticking. i think like. i think they probably had the vague idea that cole having a mortal soul would not be able to be vanquished properly right? like. demons get destroyed into nothingness, but the human part of him lives, so i think they probably knew that was what they were going to do, that's what they sold to jmm and like. we sowed those seeds in the s4 finale w his ghost whispers and materialization. so i think like. they knew they wanted to Not Kill Him because he was such a fan favorite. maybe there was an intention to do a will they won't they variant of phole? and then. of course. there was the whole idea of paige cole, which, as the rumor goes, was meant to kick of in the s5 pilot, but both julian and rose shut it down. but i feel like. assuming that's true (which i 100% do assume that's true absolutely and i'm not endorsing it i don't think it would have been good or well written or whatever but like. 👀. you know?) but yeah. assuming that's true, i feel like that piece really speaks to what their designs for cole were: man meat. he was meant to be their male sex appeal and they weren't going to be picky about the narrative itself as long as he was still kicking.

but like honestly? i mean i shouldn't have to say this it's a given: it's not enough to just put your sexy man in front of a camera and call it a day like imo even a man who is not sexy can be made appealing through the power of the narrative. like, to level with you, i never really ever shipped phole nor found cole attractive at all like ever, but i can see like the fucking support beams you know i can see the infrastructure on which this whole thing can you know take on a life of its own in the earlier seasons because they very consciously put it there!! people shipped it for a reason n not just because they were two people standing next to each other on a tv screen i mean hello almost sinking a dagger in her heart but can't do it sends her away back to her sisters because he can't act out on his evil plan!! that's something!!!! that's so very something and they gave us Nothing they gave us nothing in the later seasons. and still expected it to fly. like. tbh julian was probably just like unwittingly duped like dragged along for the ride s5 which is likely why he was vanquished halfway through because i'd imagine roughly three episode in he went okay! um. what's this? guys? what's this? and then they said cole<3 you know he like knew he had to get the hell outta dodge.

anyways. if i were to resuscitate phole in s5. which like. to level w u. i wouldn’t. because they would need a lot of one-on-one screentime and we already spent so much of s4 splitting up the sisterhood in the name of phole i wouldn’t really want to continue with that per se But. if i were. this ask is getting long it’s under a cut 

something something demon of the week something something realms the point is cole is there when he very much shouldn’t be and like. he and phoebe get knocked into a different plane. so their bodies are fine and at the manor, but their minds are elsewhere and they need to solve whatever it is in order to get back. and we’ll say there’s a fuckin deadline because the girls need the power of three and right now they are sealed off from accessing it. and you know phoebe’s pretty fuckin pissed with cole because you know. he dragged her down to hell and she almost gave birth to the antichrist. actually source’s heir might be fun to keep around in this au idk. the point is phoebe’s pissed at cole and cole’s pissed at phoebe because phoebe’s pissed at him but he literally didn’t have control over himself in that era and he’s not getting the space he needs to justify himself because phoebe keeps stepping over him. but they gotta work together to get out of here. and were kinda doing enemies to lover 2.0 but like now they have History. of course we’ve gotta do a moment where cole has idk done something normal and phoebe’s so riled up that she does something rash and almost dies cole saves her like catches her bridal style or something faces inches apart breathing heavy and there’s a moment. like a we’re back in early s4 moment. which phoebe immediately breaks from and like walls going flying up but just for a moment there we see it it’s obvious: she’s still in love with cole. which then segues into an argument because like. cole wasn’t sure. right? he wasn’t sure if phoebe now just genuinely hated him. but now he knows right he knows better now so why are you acting like this? why are you taking every opportunity to shut me down to shut me out? why are you acting like you hate me when you know that’s not true right that whole thing to phoebe who gets the Classic because i do hate you. i hate you for what you did to me for what you did to my family and i hate you because i loved you so much and you destroyed me and i hate you because no matter how hard i try that love is still there and i know that for a second if i stop hating you i’m going to love you just like before and you can destroy me again and i hate myself because i’d let you because i love you. you know? big speech. big reveal. i have No Idea what piper and paige are up to right now. the point is. after this big confession we get the lull the cards are on the table what the fuck do we do now which is when cole Finally gets to opportunity to say he was actually possessed by the source and manipulated by the seer and the only thing that kept him holding on was his love for her and after she became queen of hell after he saw what the source had done to her he knew it had to end he doesn’t hold it against her for vanquishing him right this is where we exonerate all wrongs we’re just saying anything bad that has happened ever? scrub it. it’s the source’s fault. cole has no resentment against phoebe. he loves her a healthy, normal, non-possessive amount, so much so He Loves Her So Much he let her kill him and like honestly would probably do it again. idk and then they make out or something. and then they’re out of whatever plane they were in by the end of the episode. And Then we get a buddy cop episode with paige and cole where they bond and also sort through everything that happened there. slowly but surely. and then we do a real phole wedding a super small affair in the manor lowkey bc i hated their wedding episode it blowed we give them a good one. wallah <3

[superncl]

{ charlie murphy, thirty-two, cisfemale, she/her } ** whispers dart through the streets of kærholt. was that ARIADNE HAVEN that was spotted? they’re a BARTENDER in the city and are known for being STRONG and DEMANDING. they DO have magical abilities. the whispers say they are AGAINST the eldrkirk and are AGAINST the laws about magic. may the fire keep them warm. ** { nat, 24, she/her, cst, n/a }

alrighty! hi friends!

i’m nat and this is ariadne. she has literally just been thrown together, so pls hang in there with me while i feel her out over the next week or so. i will be on tonight and maybe a little thursday, but will be gone for a trip over the weekend. but i promise i will be super active next week and on from there! i am hyped to be here, kat has created a work of art and i hope to write w all of u for a long time :)))

but ANYWAY here is a little bit about ariadne! if you would like to plot pls feel free to like this os just message me on discord :)

ariadne haven

32 years old

current occupation: bartender at the gruesome garden

former occupation: escort at the flower hall

ariadne haven hasn’t exactly had a life of luxury or ease

she has never met her mother - the older woman dipped out pretty soon after she was born. reasons unknown to ariadne (could be a possible plot point? maybe she came from a wealthy family and accidentally got knocked up? maybe she was in danger? idk!! always open to ideas)

and when ariadne was young, probably about 12 or 13, her father was murdered. she wasn’t there when he died, but she was the one to find his body. she doesn’t ever talk about his death - literally dont mention it she will lose her shit

after his death she was pretty much all alone in the world

she knew that she was either going to have to lay down and die or fend for herself and fight to live and deal with the hand that she had been dealt

she quickly learned how to steal food/pickpocket/etc. but it was all just barely enough to keep her alive

when she was 16 she met a woman who worked at the flower hall - a woman who quickly became like her older sister. she could see that ariadne was pretty much skin and bone and wanted to offer her refuge and protection

ariadne was welcomed into the flower hall but just as someone to clean and take care of things 

it became her home and when she was 18 she was given a place there - a real job

it was easy for her to fall into the position, after all it was all she had been surrounded by for the past two years

she learned how to be a lady - how to find out secrets, how to fend for herself, how to make people bend to her will 

she’s v v good at getting what she wants - always has been

after a few years of working at the flower hall, about 7, she kind of decided she had had enough. she moved on to bartending at the gruesome garden which is where she has been ever since

she is not fond of men - she doesn’t trust them and never has since her father’s death. it’s always violence and very much use and abuse with them

then again she isn’t fond of anyone really

just a few more fun facts!

she does have magical ability - but she can’t control it, she learned ab it later in life (when she was in her late teens), and she doesn’t want to know how to control it because she knows it can put her in danger - she has the ability to see glimpses of the future, such as a seer, but only in her dreams and only every once in awhile 

she is very close with baz - helps take care of his daughter

those two are pretty much the only family she has 

i like to call her ariadne ‘i hate everyone’ haven or ariadne ‘kill all men’ haven

[goji-pilled]

here's your regularly scheduled installment of Homura's No Good Very Bad Day

There was only one thought in mind when Homura booked it out of her seat and headed to roof at the break.

Find and Kill Mikuni Oriko.

In all honesty she should have seen this coming eventually. No matter the timeline it seemed that the Light Magical Girl would do her damnedest to try and eleminate any possible threats to the entire world. Perhaps in another time, one where the phenomenon of Witch Shifting did not exist, Homura would allow Mikuni to continue to live. But she can not, not when her most cherished person is now being threatened once more at the hands of an idiotic prophet.

This just proved to Homura that no matter the timeline, no matter the circumstances, Mikuni Oriko mudt be eliminated before she ever contracts with the Incubator. Even if the seer were to use her sight and try to save her skin from Homura's wrath, evem if the fear of death were a good enough deterent to prevent her involvement, Mikuni is far too great a threat to ever live.

Especially when now, in the one timeline where everything finally seems right.

Especially when she has brought harm upon Wal--u-gi--a--t!!!

...

...wait...

Wa--u-gi--a---. Wa--u--i------!

W@%×>÷^$*1×^(+!!!

This isn't right. This is wrong! What's happening?! Why can't she remember ◽️◽️◽️◽️◽️◽️?!!?

Stumbling to a halt in the middle of the glass walkway - the same one where she and Madoka became friends for the first time - Homura took a breath, the emotions within her soul threaten to explode amd let out the Demon within her. Halting the flow of time around her the dark magical girl transformed into her uniform in a quarter of a second. Her shield, cold amd ever present on her arm, showed the seconds continue to flow in this stasis within the hourglass. More and more sand flowing down into one side and yet never omce threatened to overflow.

She's had thoughts before, to continue past May and see if her shield could bring her back further than the sixteenth of March, the day she recovered enough to reattend middle scbool. She's been tempted to see if the collective sands of time could bring her further bavk.

But she won't, she can't. Not this time. Temptation wom't be a factor now.

Even if she did want to catch up with Tamura and see if she could offer some insight from her travels.

Shoving her other arm into the ever expansive space between forearm and shield, Homura pulled out a worn notebook from her early excursions in the time loop. With that out she dove her hand back into her hammerspace and pulled out a small box with another notebook and a pen.

Taking a seat on the floor the girl went to work, flipping page after page of frantic words and doodles of the St@&3 P1ay Witch.

...

Shaking herself out of her reverie, Homura opened the other notebook. It was a mostly blank notebook with only a few pages filled with notes and doodles from this current timeline. She went to work commiting herself to etvhing the memory of her friend onto physical form.

First came the Witch's form, that upside-down clockwork puppet. Then came the familiars, like the one she saw fade away in class. Finally the pages became filled with doodles of girls that slowly faded from her memory. When they started to fade ever so faster, Homura opened the box she put aside and took out its contents.

Photos. Postcards. Letters. All copies of their originals back home, tucked away in a small pocket dimension of the combined labyrinths of her friends.

Homura went back to the pages, etching each girl onto the blank and now damp canvases.

With every page sufficiently filled up, the dark magical girl safely tucked her supplies away and vlutched the new log dedicated to her loved one tightly to her chest, shifting out of her uniform and dropping the time stop.

Perhaps... perhaps she was being rash with regard to Mikuni. Something or someone is somehow erasing her memories of her friend, and last she checked she hasn't met or un into any magical girls who had such abilities.

...Maybe she should still hunt down Mikuni. Put the fear of god and a Demon in her. Strong arm her into helping if she refuses to aid her.

All else fails she can guilt trip her into helping by bringing up the crimes alternate timelines of herself has committed.

Plan ramshackled for now, Homura took one more deep breathe and turned to head back to Madoka, no doubt having followed her in when she rushed out of class.

She didn't even take a step before the glass wall completely shattered next to her and was toppled over to thw floor.

...probably Mikuni's fault, go extra threatening her.

sorry fer it bein late, like i said, had thoughts :3

*grabs you by the shoulder* I LOVE IT ALL.

[maddiviner]

Are you a diviner? Don’t get exploited!

Do you know how to protect yourself and your gifts?

I’m not referring to spiritual protections to ward off negative energies or spirits. I’m talking about protecting yourself from other people, who can be exploitative or just plain toxic.

It’s obvious that all people deal with that kind of thing occasionally, but if you’re adept at divination, there’s a whole different dimension to it.

Are you the designated seer?

Almost all witches, mages, and other occultists have at least some familiarity with divination. Little secret, though? You won’t find everyone equally talented at divination.

Some folks might possess innate psychic gifts that make them ideal diviners. Others might hone their (normal) second sight abilities over the years to develop astute gifts.

It’s a bit like art, architecture, writing, or any other talent. We’ve all got some capacity, but some may be unusually good at it from the start - or decide to pursue it zealously and fast-track their skills.

There are magic workers who’ve absolutely no skill in divining, and there are diviners who have little luck with magic.

Often magical groups (as large as a coven or just a handful of people) place the role of diviner on a specific person. A coven might, for example, have a designated reader or scryer.

Similarly, a group preparing for an Enochian working or Goetic evocation might position one member as the seer. In these cases, while others work the magic, the seer watches it unfold and relays information to those performing the working.

This arrangement works perfectly in many cases. I’ve attended rituals powerful rituals with a similar setup. Theoretically, there’s nothing wrong with having a designated seer in ritual.

In practice, problems sometimes develop. Some magic workers, by foisting off the act of seership onto a designated person, inadvertently stunt their own spiritual growth. I realize that second sight won’t be among everyone’s talents, but it’s hard to know without an earnest attempt.

By relying on a designated seer, some group members might be missing out on their own abilities. I prefer situations where positions rotate within ritual, giving everyone a chance to act as seer. I do realize some people get better results than others, but it’s hard to know who your go-to seer ought to be without giving everyone a turn.

Do clients and friends disrespect your boundaries?

If you haven’t acted a seer in ritual often, you might be unaware how stressful it can be. I’ve seen some groups fall apart because they simply put too much pressure on their seer, leading to mental and emotional exhaustion.

In many cases, this was because the people involved didn’t know what they were doing. In other instances, though, it was a sort of “user” mentality where the group members wanted to exploit the seer’s talents, but cared little for the person involved.

Does your group insist you can only work as a seer, even on “off” days? In a healthy group, you should be able to say, “I don’t feel like scrying today - I’d like to do another role instead.”

If the people you’re working with can’t accept that, it might be time to quit.

I had an acquaintance I went to high school with. When she realized I did Tarot, that became the sole focus of our relationship.

She messaged me about once a month, and it was always the same message. “Hey do u still do tarot cards,” followed by a swift, “I need you to ask the cards…” about whatever her current drama was.

I eventually just stopped replying. I don’t mind providing a free reading occasionally, but only to friends. Someone like that, who treated me as if I were their personal divination retainer (and nothing else!) doesn’t count as a friend.

You’re not a vending machine for esoteric information. If you provide free readings for friends, make sure it’s on your terms. If folks start to force the issue and demand free readings, it might be time to lay down some boundaries or cut ties.

Are you pressured to tell them what they want to hear?

Do the people you work with like to “shoot the messenger?” In other words, if your divination or experiences in ritual don’t fit with what’s expected, do they become irate?

In a healthy situation, you should be able to speak about your experiences with honesty, even if they’re unusual or don’t “fit” the magic itself.

A vision or divination session might not reflect expectations for a variety of reasons. While this may occasionally result from a problem with the seer themselves, that’s far from the only possibility.

There’s also situations where the divination session in question brings out bad news. This could be something like a Tarot relationship reading that features the Three of Swords, or a scrying session that presages tough times for a coven.

A diviner should never, ever be blamed for the events they predict. If you believe in divination, and take that belief seriously, you should know that we don’t control outcomes.

It’s true that with magic, outcomes may be avoided or manipulated, but a reading or vision isn’t a causal factor. Seeing something in divination might alter how you approach the future, but it doesn’t mean the diviner is to blame.

If your group, or your querent, tend to use you as a scapegoat in this fashion, you owe it to yourself to leave.

Are people overly-reliant on your gifts?

If someone comes to you repeatedly asking for divination about every single decision in their life, it’s a huge red flag.

Divination can be helpful for many folks. That’s not in question as far as I’m concerned. Nevertheless, becoming obsessed with it gets us (and our querents) nowhere. Nowhere good, anyways. Consulting the Tarot (or any other method) for frivolous reasons will result in frivolous results.

It’s not a decision machine, either. Divination of any sort will show you what’ll likely happen in a situation if the querent makes no major changes.

Yes, it can help tell you what changes you might want to make. That said, it speaks in generalities about this, more than other topics. If you see the Three of Swords in a relationship reading, the cards aren’t telling you to end the relationship.

Instead, they’re telling you something like, “There will be problems, and you must choose how to handle them yourself.” People expecting the Tarot to make decisions for them will eventually find disappointment. It’s never good to enable that kind of tendency.

How many of us constantly have friends asking, over and over, “Does J like me?” or “Does J want to date me? Is J in a relationship?” and so on. If you’re divining on the same topics over and over, expect the system to break a bit, and the results won’t make sense.

This is true even if they’re paying you for it. It may seem like easy money, but it’s not really ethical to continue with this sort of client.

In both cases, there’s a cure. In the case of friends who obsessively come to me for readings, I typically bust out with, “It’s time you learned to do your own readings from now on.”

Then, I shoot them some resources on learning Tarot. For close friends, sometimes I manage to even gift them their own deck. Either way, this is a way to avoid becoming an on-demand reader for friends.

It’s a bit harder with paying clients to do this, but you should still try. If that solution doesn’t work (because the person plain doesn’t want to learn, or just wants you to keep doing it), do your best and set boundaries.

Say no, and mean it. Keep saying no. If the situation persists, and particularly if the person is a paying client, either cut ties or limit interactions.

Diviners, you’re a treasure! Don’t let anyone exploit or abuse you or your gifts. Protect yourself. Blessed be, and stay safe!

[freak60000]

What's seer and loba like together in your sea side au??

i’m glad u asked !!!they are very close with one another. although obi was cursed with merfolk-esque attributes as a child, he has since learned to embrace these flaws and make them beautiful. loba admires that, in a way. her past traumas conflicted them upon their first meeting, but she learned of his curse, and through their shared intrigue in beauty, became closer than friends could be. they often chat together on the shore, and sometimes go out sailing for a few hours to pass the time.

[isolctions]

...........so let’s finally talk abt what the actual fucking fuck is wrong with ai’rina rue castillo, huh gang? :-)

(everyone go thank @armsdealing & @durcgs beating the anxiety out of me in order to post this info-dump.)

...before we get into things, now’s the part where i establish a warning for triggers to be discussed in this lengthy headcanon post. there’s gonna be some talks of mental illness, slight alcohol abuse, & breaking down topics of familial abuse, mental abuse, religious abuse, emotional manipulation, and elements of non-con. be warned.

a’ight, so look. i’ve hinted in between threads & development that rue had a not-so-fantastic upbringing that impacted how she perceives herself, how she interacts with others, (in terms of her career, at least) and how she views personal relationships, but i didn’t realize how........severely her upbringing messed with her mental health until i started working through how i wanted to plot out rue’s behavior for her next album release. at first, i had the idea that she decided to take more time for herself & sort of distance herself from the public / media circus plaguing her life so that she can create much more authentic music. then i actually listened to the EP that i’m basing her album off of and thought “...oh.” THEN, i looked over old meme responses & old threads / mentions of her family and how she grew up and thought, not for the last time since piecing everything together: “....oh. oh fucking boy.”

so, that horrible realization dawning on me, let’s talk about rue’s childhood.

i wrote a thing like, two years ago almost (that upon looking for last night, i realized i didn’t actually share it w/ anyone but alex in our discord server & only mentioned a portion of it in rue’s moodboard that i made) that talked vaguely about how rue felt growing up. and it’s worth noting that...she’s the middle of ten fucking siblings. and that’s just the brothers & sisters she knew of that stayed with their mother. and on top of that, not all of those siblings are the product of rue’s father, or even rue’s mother for that matter. and it’s also worth noting that rue not only grew up in poverty, but she grew up never having any actual space that had solely been her own, or even an article of clothing that had belonged entirely to her. so naturally, as a young child, rue sort of became torn between starved for attention & wanting someone to pay attention to her (whether that be her older siblings including her in something, whatever teacher they had for the next six months to call on her for something, for her mother to miraculously show up with her unknown father in tow one day, & for literally anyone to be her friend, pls god Notice her!!!) and for people to simply leave her the hell alone. obviously, this carried into adulthood.

and branching off from the whole “lack of space” point i made, rue wound up growing up to become increasingly more private as time went on because she literally cannot remember a single moment where she wasn’t squished between a bunch of people. driving around in their minivan? rue’s packed in the middle of the second row. nowhere to sleep while on the road? rue’s smacked between gigantic older brothers & clingy little siblings. need to use to bathroom? lmao, she better off going outside!!! gotta change clothes? yeah, good luck with that. it was to the point where, when rue got her first period, she was humiliated by it — not because ‘omg, am i a woman now?? wtf is this???’, but because she ruined the one good sheet that she slept on with her sisters & they were super pissed at her and her mother withheld pay from her for weeks. >:/

already, rue grew up never having shit to herself until the record deal. but she also dealt with literally...so much abuse from her mother. rue thought this was the norm growing up, because all of her siblings faced their mother’s wrath at some point & all of them eventually learned to just deal with the shit and do what she says if they wanted to avoid it. they all compartmentalized and repressed to varying degrees. there’s a lot in which rue has repressed so deeply, she doesn’t even remember if it seriously happened or if she was just making it up bc it was so fucking bizarre for a parent to act that way towards their child, lol?? (and this behavior of “i’m just going to do what you say bc i don’t want to deal with whatever bullshit you’re up to if i say no” also carried into business / personal relationships, which is...very Yikes it’s amazing she didn’t get scammed or worse!) 

so sure, people have complimented her for her exceptional manners & her cleanliness & how quiet / polite she is & how amazing her posture is, bc seriously, this girl will never experience back problems in her life bc her posture is so on par. but where rue typically smiles / responds bashfully, she can’t exactly just up and say: “oh, yeah, my mom used to slap the shit out of me ‘til i bruised if i spoke out of turn or talked back, and if i reached for anything in the store or put my elbows on the table she’d slap a ruler against my palms ‘til i got welts, and she’d make me read verses all night without sleep if i did anything wrong and make me straighten up and kneel on rice if i slouched or took a nap in church and humiliated me in public if i so much as looked at someone of the opposite sex on the street n oh, did i mention i also cleaned houses for rich millionaire snobs from ages twelve to sixteen and if they said or did literally anything to me i wasn’t allowed to defend myself?? ya i’m real proper :)”

(and normal ppl will go: “...................what the FUCK is WRONG with you????”)

but oh man, babe, we’re not done yet!!! rue, being the product of both a highly religious and a highly exploitative household...had difficulty when she started reaching puberty & noticing her classmates. plural, because it wasn’t just boys that she began to secretly have crushes on / fantasize abt, sexually or domestically. she also realized, oh shit, that she started looking at girls differently too. and that literally put the fear of god into her heart, bc if her mother ever found out that she was having non-platonic feelings for the girls in her classrooms, she wasn’t going to be pissed. her mom might have actually tried to kill her. or have her exorcised or something. she knew the shit would be severe, and she wanted no fucking parts of her mother or her siblings inserting the church into her personal life, thank u very much! so rue started suppressing her romantic feelings for people to the point where if adult rue receives intimacy, she’s like “...is this allowed? is this not illegal??????” while simultaneously being like “i will be a slut. just this once. as a Treat to teenage me. :>” regardless, rue learned to molotov cocktail literally any emotion or thought she had, bc she was paranoid that it would give her mother a vision.

now, onto the perils of exploitation...she should’ve been used to it really, what with her mother forcing herself & siblings to lure customers into their shop with promises of visions and palm readings and the wonders of the cards and overexerting their abilities. same with housekeeping, like being of service to people was normal! but when seventeen year old rue decided to sign a record deal and break from home, she wasn’t thinking critically about what the fuck all of this would entail. and as described in this headcanon post abt her discography, her early music was the product of allowing people much older & powerful than you to influence your work & manipulate your values. so rue was very much parading around as someone she wasn’t, someone much more confident and badass and self-assured than she really was, and she was so impressionable back then that it literally makes her sick to think back on it now. she calls it her puppy phase and phrases the eagerness to please execs as ‘tongue wagging’. homegirl hardly even knew her name anymore, bc all she was and all she would ever be was rue, the star, the vocal temptress. not ai’rina, the help or ai’rina, the seer, ai’rina, the weak little nobody. but later on, the subtle manipulation was less about decision making & how they wanted her to sound, and more about how they wanted to present the latest trophy star — because after all, she was pretty. people liked her. she sung really well. suitors weren’t too far off into the distant future. so why not kill two birds with one stone by having a high ranking label artist keep tabloids talking by being seen in public with a few heart throbs? surely, there’s no harm in manipulating an eighteen/nineteen year old’s love life! under the guise of improving her social skills & relations with fellow artists and the media and the like, rue gave into the pressures and let herself be taken out on dates & seen at awards shows with a few guys. no big deal. it was only for a night or so, she could handle the attention. then, one night appearances turned into week long appearances. pretending to date for only a month! completely innocent, positive exposure. :)

(adult rue, looking back @ younger rue: you stupid fucking BITCH-)

yeah, so once her label/management realized that she was turning into a hot commodity, they lost no sleep at allowing their nineteen year old artist to be seen ‘dating’ 20-24+ year old men occasionally. and whatever happened after their public appearances were none of their business. plus, she was good at pretending and being arm candy — so rue experienced her first kiss, her first dates, and her first times with people who she’s almost certain hardly remember their time with her, and really only got involved with her for a mutual career boost. very few of them does she actually remember in a positive light, and the ones that were positive, still depress her bc lmao all of it was fake, even if they were really nice & made it less like a chore and more like they actually wanted to be with her!! even fewer of them were actual relationships. meaning, said person asked her out of their own volition, not bc their managers thought it’d be a decent match on camera. it was evil, really, what her old label made of her. (like, she makes funny jokes that her first time having sex was awkward bc she had a vision halfway through that bummed her out but in reality it was just...really more of a transaction that made her feel icky n progressively worse abt herself until it happened more often and now she just doesn’t care anymore. sex is just sex, u know?? everything’s fake. why you gotta make it personal.) this whole fiasco took over the larger part of rue’s career from like, age nineteen to age twenty-two or so, and she suffered dramatically from this because what is even a genuine, authentic relationship at this point? what do u mean you want to get to know me? did ur manager tell you to ask so many damn questions & try to get to know me? obviously you want something from me bc that’s why everyone gets into a relationship or has sex with me, stop confessing feelings for me u fucking loser. >:/

like...rue doesn’t even have friends. outside of her relationship with marcelo / @armsdealing​ (which, AGAIN, i think was initially arranged to promote her song be honest, how fucking IRONIC), rue does not have any personal relationships with anyone. i mean, she likes her latest management team since switching labels...her hair stylist is rly cool & her make up artist is fun to vacation with...she met a few other celebrities at events that she occasionally texts & has dinner with...yeah, she’s basically a pretty hermit. her family is more or less out of the question — the few brothers & sisters she does still have a positive relationship with (like, four of them lol), they don’t see each other in person often / mainly communicate via groupchat and facetime calls when all of them have time. she tried visiting with her mother over the years, but the verbal & emotional abuse/curses placed on her/accusations of being an imp of satan for singing to the public/memories of being forced to perform psychic shows & clean for chump change keeps her from trying to mend that relationship. like, being gaslit by ur mother isn’t really the vibe, u know? and bottom line, rue simply is a very shy and socially stunted individual who does not know how to communicate like a normal human being anymore. hell, her life revolves around pretending for strangers at this point!

now, onto how...all of That ties into her behavior / state of mind during this next album. so, after riding the wave of success from her third album & the circus that came with that. rue sort of had a fucking existential crisis. came out of absolutely nowhere. (not nowhere — one of her brothers called her out of the blue and called her ai’rina and she literally went “who the fuck is that?”) told her label that she was taking some time in between albums bc she was creatively zapped or whatever bullshit excuse she came up with that somehow worked bc this new label was a little more understanding than the last. vacationed for a little, did some hot girl shit, bought a house, tried to see her mother again for whatever reason then got the shit slapped out of her and finally screamed at her to never touch her again unless she wanted to Throw Hands. cried and got drunk abt it. that took six months. bullshat to her label again, dropped like two songs to smooth things over, decided to focus on magic for a little to ground her, started partying with label mates then going home shitfaced & hungover every other morning. that took eight months. dropped one last song, promptly deleted her twitter, tried to write songs again, got a call from her mother and panicked and got drunk. that took a year. vacationed some more, got even drunker, was bed ridden for like three months because holy shit i’m having so many visions and if i see One More Thing my brain is going to explode, couldn’t separate the present from the future for weeks after that, told absolutely no one about that, cried every day & had an identity crisis, dyed her hair to appease the identity crisis goblins. that took a year and a half.

now, she just chilling. dyed her hair again. scaring her siblings halfway to death bc she keeps going on benders & sending cryptic texts abt the visions she’s getting but they’re so incomprehensible that they’re seriously considering moving in to get her fucking shit together. had a vision that she was married with kids and had a two week identity crisis appeased only by moving houses. (she was in a neighborhood with families...too much Drama and visions. turned into a really cool song tho.) started calling herself by her birth name of ai’rina in private. reactivated twitter to send cryptic tweets that her album is coming. working on said album. trying to drink less but kinda failing bc how is one simply supposed to make a highly personal dual album without alcohol??? prbly somewhere crying in marcelo’s lap or smthn. just vibes.

like...i feel like, in my head, the Theme of her project is wrapped up in identity. her relationship with fame and whatnot. trying to coax her childhood self out of its’ shell so that she can function like a normal goddamn person for once and re-establish her values. like, if someone went to any of rue’s residences right now, it’s just songbooks everywhere and wine glasses and her crystals and shit, bc she still has people’s futures to read for money. (yes, she never really got out of that portion of her childhood, but hey it pays.) it was all very confusing to experience at once while in bed at four in the morning & even though i tried organizing and debated on this, it’s still a Lot. which is why i am once again asking for plots that would allow her to dissect all these Things

so yeah. album four otw, with a side of confronting our childhood & facing our traumas!

[seoafin]

/&/&@2@3@3 i decided im not opening any socials when im half sleep anymore 😐 BC I JUST NOTICED IT BYE

anyways,,, my thoughts on jjk 146 b4 i log off again // (1)

this chapter just rly sheds a light on why their academic scores are the way they are sjjsjsjsj

on objective judgements of power i have to say i trust maki, who's never rly shown bias, the most among the students ,, when she says yuuta is the strongest, yuuta is the strongest,,, likewise, i sometimes dont trust yuuta, who sometimes doesnt trust in himself 😔

i don't think i have thoughts for this chp that i haven't already considered before ??? *squints* did i miss sth

are non shamans aware of the game tho... they're all just cursed, right, but ,,, do they know it..

i increasingly feel that megumi knows sth and is not spitting it out bc how many times has he very transparently deflected this chapter,, also idk if it was intentional but the way the hokkaido discussion put a bubble right on top of his face

alao how tf do u just casually curse the majority of jpn?? wild,, i hope the ainu do play a significant role down the line tho. i wonder with kurisu hand involvement if we will also see another shaman faction emerge since there's some degree of tieback to religion

and not megumi being blase abt his death! his ‘yeah whatever if i die it'll be fine’ was the least convincing thing ever!!! he’s so casual abt the idea sukuna could use him like,, what are u thinking megumi ,, then again he knows sukuna doesn't want him dead rn

since ppl are talking about nanamis CT,, maybe it's that all CTs belong to a single pool, there can only ever be one holder of the ability at a time so there's a restricted number of abilities and that's what also accounts for the small number of shamans

tengen’s barrier presumably works bc shamans agree it participate voluntarily,, it makes sure CTs remain in the pool. CTs rotate out at certain intervals, checking each other, bc the amount of cursed spirits also rises according to shaman power lvls

which makes me wonder if the golden age was a reaction to sukuna's growth in power, except that his fingers remain, the power is still circulating and kenjaku is out being an asshole. so 10 shadow, 6 eyes, curse manipulation all at the same time is maybe a reaction to kenjaku’s power plays

depends on how many of these super long living shamans there are too,, many of them have elemental powers or powers related to keeping the shaman world in check,, re: techniques and curse manipulation

imo there's also a suggested convergence where at some point a shaman hits critical mass and starts to tip over into cursed spirit territory. like,,, ur cells become so saturated by that cursed energy it starts to eat and replace ur actual mass and cursed spirits with a bunch of cursed energy become more capable of emotional nuance and approach a more "human" feeling ,,, idk. balance is clearly more literal and more relevant than we thought

ainu (irl and probs here too) are an indigenous group that reside in hokkaido. if we’re basing on recent laws and the fact that hokkaido is home to many many sacred sites based on their spiritual belief of gods manifesting as anything from nature,,, so if we look at in from jjk and shaman society perspective, it’s only right that tokyo/kyoto shaman society have no hold on hokkaido.

and based from the tensions in the past due to the government (irl), i doubt ainu shaman tech aren’t as open and prone to control as tokyo or kyoto are

i hope i’m not overlapping my thoughts with phantom seer that i’m catching up to rn bc it also involves shamanism sjsjjeen  - 🐱 (2)

seeing the ainu panel made me excited because I think that that means that the ainu may be getting a special spotlight later on

DON’T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON MEGUMI!!! I WAS SO UPSET!! i know he likely did it to protect yuji and everyone but im still so....like that’s the last thing he wanted. all he wants is to live and protect his friends and tsumiki....

yeah...the last panel had me thinking about nanami’s cursed technique. it would be interesting if CT’s could be traded or smt, but I always thought CT’s were something inherent and unique to the individual but who knows at this point

i want more on the zenin clan politics and how exactly megumi became head. also very very interesting that gojo’s presence was the only thing keeping the “shared” armory stocked. the minute gojo was sealed they took back the weapons and dipped. i wonder why it was created in the first place!!

[diteach]

hi! could u talk more about ur experience joining the Mormon community? I've been considering seeking out more about Mormonism and i'm interested in hearing about how your conversion happened!

I would LOVE to! Thanks for asking!!

I decided to be baptized after hearing President Nelson's talk during the April 2019 General Conference. He was telling the story of John, a police officer who had to deal with the fires that hit California back in 2018, and for personal reasons I felt very touched by the Prophet's words (If you'd like to read or listen to the talk look up "Come, Follow Me", President Russel M. Nelson).

I had been attending various church meetings and activities for three years prior to making that decision and, yes, in the end the Holy Spirit told me it was the right thing to do. I know it's a very basic Mormon thing to say, but it's true lol.

It should be noticed that the stages went from "inactive Catholic who is also culturally Catholic" -> "edgy teenage atheist" -> "tolerant but skeptic young adult" -> Mormon.

The first time I heard about the church was because of the English class the missionaries were offering (I'm from a non-English speaking country). Not that I needed to attend, but it was summer and I was bored out of my mind. It turned out to be a nice pastime and so I kept going. Then I decided to study the history of the church because of a school project, which led me to read A LOT of anti-Mormon material too. Eventually I got to meet the members of my ward and became close friends with some of them (I even found a best friend in there!!) so I would often be around Mormons and I ended up learning an incredible amount of things. In fact, I got to the point of knowing so many things about the church, its culture, the doctrines, and whatnot that, when I announced I was about to join, the members who knew me less were like "hold on whaT Do you MEAN she's NOT a member yet" lol.

Honestly, those three years kinda sucked. I also like to think they strengthened me, but boy were they a pain in the booty. One day I'd be like "the church is true and the book is blue!!! All is well aLL IS WELL WITHIN MY SOUL!!!!!!!! Jesus is SO dope!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and the next I'd be wearing a tinfoil hat explaining to people why I thought it was really just a big conspiracy where everyone pretended to be a member just to mess with me. Not saying I went through an identity crisis, as that would be a little dramatic, but that's what it felt like. I couldn't imagine myself not being hostile towards religion, especially a not-so-traditional one.

I was holding myself back because I was afraid of changing (changing for the better too, imagine not wanting to better yourself lmao what a big dumb dumb I was).

Just realized I have no clue how much you already know so here's a few things:

General Conference - it is uhhh, well, a conference that is held twice, in April and October, every year. It's one of the many ways our leaders address us. They share inspiring stories, uplifting messages, church updates so, like, many nice things. You can watch the conferences on YouTube and you can also check the #generalconference, #genconf, and #ldsconf tags here on Tumblr, if you'd like!

President Nelson - he leads the church here on earth under the guidance of Jesus Christ, who is the actual head of the church. We believe him (and every President) to be called of God and to hold the status of "Prophet, Seer, and Revelator". Also referred to as "living Prophet" as opposed to, you guessed it, the dead ones, or "modern Prophet" as opposed to the biblical ones and those mentioned in the Book of Mormon.

Ward - the congregation, basically.

If anyone reading this would like to get to know the church without necessarily diving immediately into gospel lessons with the missionaries, I highly recommend attending one of our many activities first! The English classes I mentioned (if available), go visit the family history center that's nearest to you and ask the consultant to show you how to start building your family tree, find out if the local ward is hosting a charity lunch/dinner/market and go take a look, there's a ton!!!

I know it's lacking a bit of depth, but I was desperately trying to keep it short and not overshare. If you would like to talk more, feel free to send more asks or to even come off anon and start a chat! ⊂(・ヮ・⊂)

[artemishphm]

ARTEMIS LUNA GREY

IDENTITY

Name: Artemis Luna Grey

Nicknames: Temis, Art, Artie, Mis, Moonie, Pip, Honey, Lunetta

Gender: Female

Age: 11 - 17 (in-game, 1984-1991); 47 (present day 2020)

Birth Date: 31st August 1973

Species: Human

Blood Status: Half-blood

Sexuality: Bisexual

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral

Ethnicity: Caucasian/White

Nationality: Half Italian, Half British

Residence: London, England

Myer Briggs Personality Type: ENFJ-A

THE MAGE

1st Wand: Acacia, Unicorn Hair, 12 inches, pliable

Garrick Ollivander found that wands made from Acacia were difficult to match with a wizard. Acacia wands generally refused to produce magic for anyone but their owners, but conversely, seemed to withhold their full power from all but the most gifted wizards.Owners of Acacia wands were generally subtle wizards, as wands made from this wood were generally unsuitable for what Ollivander termed "bangs-and-smells magic".             

Wands with unicorn hair cores produced the most consistent magic, were least subject to fluctuations and blockages, were most difficult to turn to the Dark Arts, and were the most faithful of wands. However, they do not make the most powerful of wands (unless the wand wood compensates) and are prone to melancholy if mishandled.

2nd Wand: Laurel, Phoenix feather, 12 inches

A laurel wand cannot perform a dishonourable act, although in the quest for glory (a not uncommon goal for those best suited to these wands), laurel wands have been known to perform powerful and sometimes lethal magic. Laurel wands are sometimes called fickle, but this is unfair; the laurel wand is unable to tolerate laziness in a possessor, and it is in such conditions that it is most easily and willingly won away. Otherwise, it will cleave happily to its first match forever, and indeed has the unusual and engaging attribute of issuing a spontaneous lightning strike if another witch or wizard attempts to steal it.

The Phoenix feather his is one of the rarest core types. Phoenix feathers are capable of the greatest range of magic, though they may take longer than either unicorn hair or dragon heartstring cores to reveal this. They show the most initiative, sometimes acting of their own accord, a quality that many witches and wizards dislike.Phoenix feather wands are always the pickiest when it comes to potential owners, for the creature from which they are taken is one of the most independent and detached in the world. These wands are the hardest to tame and to personalise, and their allegiance is usually hard won.

Animagus: American Staffordshire Terrier

(Real footage of Barnaby playing with Artemis, Rowan rec)

Misc Magical Abilities: 

Parselmouth

Just like her brother Jacob, Artemis is a Parselmouth. She realized she was one when learning about Vipera Evanesca in her fifth year, a snake told her all about his life and she talked with him about her friends.

Seer

Artemis can see the future with her inner eye. She rembers giving prophecies since she was born and how she cried when she couldn’t see her brother’s future anymore, she can’t also see her own future. Artemis hates having prophecies at the most random times (example: when Barnaby was about to kiss her for the first time).

Animagus

Artemis can switch to a dog. She learned to do it with Talbott, even though they aren’t really close. She is not registered in the ministry.

Legilimency

Artemis was born with the ability to read other people’s minds.

Wandless and nonverbal magic

Artemis learned to cast nonverbal and windless magic with Rowan during their second year while they got bored during one of their sleepovers.

Boggart Form: Rowan’s dead body waking up and telling Artemis that it was her fault that she was dead.

Riddikulus Form: Rowan laughing with the fun that she bought with with Artemis 

Amortentia: (What do they smell like?) Rain, Cookies, Vanilla and Fire

Amortentia: (What do they smell?) Snow, Shepherd’s pie, Fresh Laundry and a hint of sandalwood

Patronus: Unicorn

Patronus Memory: 

Dancing her heart out at the end of the fourth year with all of her friends in the courtyard thanks to a muggle stereo Jae had managed to smuggle in the castle

Mirror of Erised:

She sees her whole family just being there with her smiling, telling her how much they love her.

Specialized/Favourite Spells:

Flipendo

Episkey

Riddikulus

Depulso

Protego

Colovaria

Arresto Momentum

APPEARANCE

Faceclaim: Amanda Arcuri

Game Appearance:

Height: 5′5 (169 cm)

Weight: 110 lbs

Physique: Slim

Eye Colour: Green

Hair Colour:  Natural: brown, but she changes it every two weeks

Skin Tone: Ivory

Body Modifications: 

Her mother pierced her ears when she was born. During her years at Hogwarts she got a lot of other piercings on her ears.

She got a septum when she was 15

She also has a small sun stick & poke on her wrist. She got it with Rowan when they were 13 & bored. Rowan has a moon in the same place.

Scarring: 

She has small scars on her fingers due to failed spells

She also had a scar on her lower belly but she doesn’t remember how she got it.

Inventory: (what do they carry on them?)

Popcorn (”you always have to be ready to watch Merula fail at duels”), her mother’s necklace, candy, eye-liner, one of Barnaby’s rings and a dugbomb (”just in case”)

Fashion:

Converse are a must, she’s always wearing them (even when she shouldn’t). During the weekdays when she is not wearing her uniform you can find her sporting an old hoodie and some sweats around the castle. When she’s outside or on special occasion she has a 90s style,

I’ll link her Pinterest style board here once I do it.

ALLEGIANCES

Hogwarts House: Gryffindor

Affiliations/Organizations: The Grey family, The circle of Khanna, House of Gryffindor, British Ministry of Magic, Order of the Phoenix

Professions:

Gryffindor prefect (1988-1991)

Auror (1992-present day)

HOGWARTS INFORMATION

Class Proficiencies:

Astronomy: Outstanding

Charms: Outstanding

DADA: Outstanding

Flying: Exceeds Expectations

Herbology: Outstanding

History of Magic: Outstanding

Potions: Outstanding

Transfiguration: Outstanding

Electives:

Care of Magical Creatures: Outstanding

Divination: Outstanding

Muggle Studies: Acceptable

Quidditch: TBD

Extra Curricular:

-Duelling Club

Favourite Professors:

Minerva McGonagall

Severus Snape

Sybilla Trelawney

Silwanus Kettleburn

Least Favourite Professors:

Patricia Rakepick

RELATIONSHIPS

Brother:

Jacob Apollo Grey

He used to be Artemis’ best friend, but after his disappearance she couldn’t help but think that their bond would never be the same

Father: 

Xavier Grey

Xavier left when Artemis was 3. He never came back.

Mother:

Jennifer Bane

A very cold woman, she never know how to show her love to Artemis. After Jacob left she became verbally abusive towards her daughter.

Love Interest:

Barnaby Lee

Penny Haywood (one-sided love, 1985)

Best Friends:

Rowan Khanna

Jae Kim

Nymphadora Tonks

Tulip Karasu

Penny Haywood

Rival:

Merula Snyde

Ismelda Murk

Andre Egwu (friendly bc of quidditch)

Enemy:

Patricia Rakepick

R

Acromantula

Dormmates: (Who’s in your MC’s dorm with them?)

Rowan Khanna

Skye Parkin

Barnaby Lee (when he doesn’t get caught, sneaked in)

Pets:

Niffler named Plato

Abraxan named Achilles

Fairy named Roger

Closest Canon Friends:

Badeea Ali

Charlie Weasley

Bill Weasley

Liz Tuttle

Skye Parkin

Murphy McNully

Closest MC Friends:

Lizzie Parker ( @lizzieparkerhphm​)

Luna Powell (currently 2nd year, one of my MCs)

If u wanna be friends with Artemis just dm me! I’d love to!

PERSONALITY

Artemis is kind, loyal and funny. She’s a bit bossy sometimes but she always everyone’s best interests at heart. She would literally do anything for her friends. She’s really impulsive and that often puts her in very dangerous situations. She’s also really smart.

MISC

Artemis started dying her hair during her second year, after Tonks pulled prank on her and put dye in her shampoo. She loved so much her green hair that she decided to always change her hair color (Colovaria helped, a lot too)

None’s ever seen Artemis with the same hair color for more that three weeks. Her friends often don’t recognize her from behind when she has a new dye

Artemis and Tulip throw the best parties. They got caught only once.

There’s an unwritten rule at Hogwarts, what happens at their parties stays in their parties.

Artemis loves muggle music, especially Queen and David Bowie.

Even though Snape is always pretty harsh, he’s one of her favorite professors (and deep down he has a soft spot for her).

Rowan and Skye found her during OWLs week at three am crying her heart while singing “love of my life” to a piece of paper where she had written “outstanding OWLs” and a bowl of ice-cream, probably stolen from the kitchen. They never talked about it.

Artemis is in love with the moon. She doesn’t know why, but she’s always felt connected to it. That’s why you can often find her in the astronomy tower just staring at the moon.

She ofter sneaks Barnaby in her room because the feeling of his arms around her helps her ease her nightmares and, when she has her visions, he’s able to calm her down almost instantly.

When Rowan died, he slept with her for two months. None of the professors said nothing.

Thanks to @hogwartsmystory​for the template <3