#caius → about

[str1ga]

** IMPORTANT INFO RE: CAIUS

a study in. the mythological creature, darkened heart, bleeding dry, playing with your food, deep love for one, being alive for too long, removed humanity, joy in torture, the beating heart city below, the devil is not born but becomes, living long enough to see yourself become the villain

full name.    patroclus caius also known as.    --- date of birth.    1227 BCE age.    3,250 / looks 23 pronouns.    he / they romantic orientation.    aromantic sexual orientation.    asexual occupation.    leader of the volturi species.    vampire birthplace.    ancient greece current home.    volterra, italy nationality.    greek but basically italian ethnicity.    hellenes language(s).    italian, greek, english, a mix of other languages picked up in many years of living significant other.    achilles as a human, aro for almost 3,000 years and counting ( @agedrot ) faceclaim.    sam reid

biography.

born patroclus to menoetius sometime in the year 1227 bce. yes, he is that patroclus. childhood best friend, confidante, and lover to achilles. after killing another child in a rage, patroclus was sent to live as the squire to achilles -- a child, but already destined to become a great warrior. just as homer suggested, patroclus follows his love to battle, eventually wearing achilles' armor to fight.

and this is where the story gets it wrong.

troy and achilles each want the body of patroclus, but little do they realize there was a man ( his name truly matters not at all ) who wanted it more. patroclus laid dying, but the blade of hector didn't kill the man. instead it was the fangs of a much older battle that took his life. and gave him a new one.

awaking away from the battlefield, patroclus believes this must be the god's realm, only to find out that his warrior's death was pulled away from him with force. he craved the taste of blood from the first moment of his rebirth, and it won't take long for him to become quite vicious.

there was one thing standing in the way of his greatness, and his name was achilles. to truly say goodbye to humanity, patroclus was convinced that his responsibility was to taste the sweetness of the death of love. before he's successful, patroclus does go to achilles in his tent, though it isn't his spirit as they don't have a body. what legend will say is the request for his burial to move on was really patroclus giving himself to achilles one last time.

success would come at the end of the trojan war, in the midst of boisterous celebration. achilles thinks he sees his lost lover in the distance, and follows him off to the woods... where the vampire breaks his perfect skin, and drinks him dry. turns out even a blessing from the river styx couldn't save the greatest warrior man ever knew from something gods should fear.

his maker considered this the moment of rebirth for him and gave him a new name: caius. rejoice.

for the next three hundred years, caius travelled with his maker from place to place, not quite realizing that all his maker had wanted was something vicious to protect him. vicious caius was, but that rage and anger was being used against him. he rattled the bars of his cage loud enough that he was heard by a grotesque angel.

aro came into his life at just the right time. caius was ready to be free of his maker, and aro was there to take his chin between his fingers and tell him that there was beauty waiting for him on the other side. beauty came in the form of rage. rage came in the form of tearing his maker limb from limb as aro stood by watching. covered in blood, caius was glowing with the primal heat of his passion. they kissed and caius has seen no reason to stop since.

there are whispers in the lower ranks of the volturi that caius is just aro's lap dog. he must be under some spell; manipulated into doing aro's biding. but the truth? caius stays at aro's side because it is there he feels most independent. he doesn't power or control -- he just wants to sink his teeth into everything. aro doesn't begrudge his rage, no aro calls it beautiful. for that they earned each other's loyalty.

for nearly three thousand years caius has been by aro's side. bringing out the worst in each other is their best quality. how could aro stay on top if he gave that up? caius maintains the coven and keeps watch over the fledlings. he teaches them how to give in to their nature, and more importantly how to never be someone's lap dog. all they have to do is pledge their loyalty to the coven.

[malinaa]

idk if it's been talked about before but suzanne collins never misses a BEAT when it came to names, specifically coriolanus snow and dr volumnia gaul. just from their first names alone you can already guess what type of role might play between them (well... if you've read shakespeare's coriolanus that is. i do recommend it btw).

a lot of bits were taken from shakespeare's play for tbosas like the motif with scars / wounds / the body as being a microcosm of the nation, the common people fighting up against the government, coriolanus' hatred of the common people wanting to be "equal" to him, the rebel arc etc etc but i'm soooo so so interested in the fact that dr gaul was named volumnia and coriolanus is coriolanus because in the play, coriolanus' mother's name is volumnia!

volumnia is arguably the only female character in the play that has any depth (i am so sorry virgilia). his mother shapes her son into the warrior he is. she reminds him at every turn that he is nothing more than a weapon to be wielded. in fact, she's the one who gets her son to come back from his "revolt" against rome which ultimately lead to his demise. this parallels tbosas in the same way because dr gaul took coriolanus and molded him into the villain you would see in thg trilogy. she brought him back from d12 and then brought about the end of his humanity (a death, so to speak—at the end of the book he said something similar to this to try to save himself from lucy gray's suspicions but he was right because he did kill a part of himself to be where he is)! coriolanus snow's mother is present but off-page. her ghost haunts him, comforts him, but the 'mother' figure is the ever-present, all-knowing dr gaul.

UGH! like with just their names you could map out where they end up at the end of the story and that's literally insane. like the caliber of writing is literally next to none fr

[muscariii]

Part 3, let's go.

(part 1 , part 2)

Ayyy sorry for the huge delay but I finally did it. Well, kind of. Because like I mentioned in that shitpost, I made 14 pages actually. But I'm splitting it because it'll be better that way. So I just gotta finish the rest and yeah. Fun :3

I may have overexaggerated Caius but this was kind of influenced by my first impression of him during my first playthrough.

Rasha isn't very happy about the situation she's currently in. She's currently kind of grumpy about everything but she's going to get more fun soon. I think!!

I'll try to get the rest of the pages done as fast as I can!! And then more and more hopefully. Hope you guys enjoy at least because I'm worried this will be boring.

[friendofesteem]

I’m replaying final fantasy xiii-2 and it’s so sad seeing how optimistic and earnest the characters are when Lightning Returns exists and you know how it’s going to end. Serah is constantly saying “we’ll save the future and stop Chaos from entering our world” and I’m sorry sweetie but you fail. you fail completely and then you die. Noel becomes so overcome with grief at his failure to save her that he falls into depression for 500 years. Hope dedicates his entire life to his new Cocoon project and names it after the God that ends up torturing him and then possessing his body.

[volterran-wine]

I hope this doesn't come across as a headcanon request, and if it does, feel free to ignore it. I just saw that "Volturi and Taylor Swift lyrics" post you made and I was wondering if you think any of the Volturi are Swifties?

• — 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬

No need to fret dear Anonymous, I shall answer your question seeing as though we are only days away from Miss Swift's newest album being released. Personally I am looking forward to the album very much myself.

I have decided to put them all into a couple of categories for you dear Anonymous; I hope they are to your liking.

𝐖𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐣𝐨𝐲𝐞𝐝, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝

Didyme.

𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜:

Jane • Alec • Marcus • Caius

𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬:

Athenodora • Sulpicia • Aro • Felix • Corin • Afton

𝐇𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫 𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭:

Demetri • Heidi • Renata • Chelsea

𝐈𝐬 𝐚𝐧 𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐰𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐓𝐓𝐏𝐃:

Santiago.

[sparklybuildingsdesign88]

If I’m going to be under an old white man’s rule, it’s gonna be 3 of them and they’re gonna be ancient vampires. Who wants to run away and join the Volturi with me? 🙋🏻‍♀️😂

[eldritch-spouse]

I'm so sorry Mother Pinnie. I must confess. When I saw Caius and read about him something felt familiar but I couldn't place my finger on it. Then I realized: the muscular build, the pose showing off said muscles, the way he walks forward with purpose, his dramatic and exaggerated mannerism… he was reminding me of a Jojo character.

This is a compliment in my book.

I don't care what you say, I want to bite Killer Queen like a frothing animal, so Caius being remotely compared to a Jojo character/stand is very dopamine-activating.

[transsexualcoriolanus]

hey can you stop moaning when we fight. i'm trying to be violent and ferocious over here and honestly it's a little off putting

[effervescentpigeon]

If howls moving castle was ever to have a live action remake I want Jamie Campbell Bower to be Howl.

[str1ga]

tag drop one

[uinre]

Happy Father's day to FFXIII dads only: Sazh Katzroy and Caius Ballad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[alilaro]

god damn it, it took like five years and i finally give up. yall were right, aro being a mage does go super fucking hard

[knownsome]

My troupe is gonna do our Mardi Gras parade session this upcoming Tuesday!! This is my blorbo, Caius Lennox/local drag queen, Clover Clarke, prepping his performance, ready to be the Queen of Carnival. I've got a few surprises in store for everyone (even our Storyteller) so I'm super excited to get this rolling when it's showtime. I can't believe I've been playing him for almost 3 years now.

I had like 4 different ideas for his horrid t-shirt, but this was my favorite. (Others I didn't go with were: "Sluttiest Boy in the Morgue", "Fangboy Hooters", "C*nty Dracula" and "Toreador by blood, Bitch by choice." (Feel free to steal, but I take no responsibility for any Serious Talks with the Sheriff one may have about Masquerade breaches; wear at your own peril))

I'll post Clover's dress for the show soon too, there's a big outfit and several layers/reveals mapped out.

(I even have a narrated walkthrough of his lip synchs/choreo; am I too extra? Can you be too extra with a Toreador? Not this one, at least.)

[rats-and-robots]

Hi, two certain mutuals of mine have injected a small dose of Abaddon brain rot directly into my soul and in return I have vomited it onto paper in the form of my Rogue Trader-turned-Daemon Prince meeting Abaddon for the first time.

---

“Ezekyle.”

It won’t get out of his head. How dare this usurper come into this meeting that he had so kindly agreed to attend. And he leads… with that.

A wall shudders and bends under the force of his fist, a roar escaping him.

The daemon had only said his name.

“Ezekyle.”

But he’d said it… in his Father’s voice. In Horus Luprical’s voice.

The audacity of it. The sheer foolishness of the daemon’s choice to mimic his genefather’s voice had rippled through every former wolf at the meeting. His throat had long since healed from the strain of yelling, yet he remembered the burn of it. His fist relaxes and his arm falls back to his side.

The worst of it all… The worst of it all, as hot tears fall down his cheeks and disappear against the heat of his power armor… is that he’d nearly not recognized it. He’d almost forgotten what his genefather sounded like. No, he had forgotten. He’d only been furious at the lack of formality in the first second, the lack of respect, to refer to him with the familiarity none had the right to, not these days. He hadn’t realized until one of his legionnaires had been the one to point it out. And he saw the shift in the daemon’s eyes as it stared at him, watched and tasted his reaction as it changed. From yelling into a silence of naught but rage, mouth gaping in such a deep fury that no words would come. 

… the ice that had speared his heart and had refused to stop spreading until the heat of rage had been sucked dry from him, now.

He wishes he had seen mirth or mockery in the daemon’s eyes. But instead he saw softness. The look of an apothecary about to administer a painful procedure followed by the acceptance of Abaddon’s reaction.

No, perhaps that wasn’t the worst of all.

—

The daemon, Rhu’zrak, is coiled on a balcony, watching the movements of his and Abaddon’s forces in their different and yet so similar ways. Both made up of multiple legions, once full of current purpose and confidence, and the other uncertain and wary of the other. To be honest, Rhu’zrak was also a bit surprised that the Black Legion had not left as angrily as their leader had left the initial meeting. He must have misjudged the Warmaster a touch.

Something curls at the edge of his psychic awareness. His feathers raise up off his neck in curiosity and his head tilts to the side to view his new visitor. Very few would be allowed in his presence…

Ah.

His teeth click, “Warmaster.” His voice is his own. Or, at least, it is the voice his mortal form used. His eyes turn back to the forces below.

“...Beacon.” Abaddon’s voice is low. Quiet.

A few brief beats of silence pass between them. The soft wind of the air sings with the acrid bite of the acidic ocean of the strange planet. It rustles the daemon’s feathers in the same way it rustle’s Abaddon’s hair.

“I will not apologize.”

“I did not come to ask for one. But you knew that.”

“...” The daemon’s head turns to look at him, “I did.”

A slow, measured breath, pale eyes searching the ground below as he approaches the railing of the tiny balcony. Eyes have lifted up. Seeing the two speaking, and calmly, is no doubt a curious sight.

“You want something, Warmaster.”

“If you know that, you know what it is. You read my mind, don’t you?”

“...I am trying not to. But doing so is like trying not to see pale fog on a field.”

Abaddon’s jaw rolls, gnawing on his lip in contemplation. Feathers and silks shift behind him as the Daemon moves, its tall form coming to stand next to him.

“I will not make you ask, but perhaps this is not the place.”

Abaddon’s eyes close… and he nods.

[aberooski]

Listen okay sometimes the villain is really fucking hot and that's all that matters.

[therulerofallpotatos]

Fic Tag Game

Tagged by: @wincestation, @realisticintentions, @realmermaid333, @cosmic-lullaby, @suchaladyy, @beri-allen

1. How many works do you have on Ao3?

149

2. What's your Ao3 word count?

361,707 words.

3. What fandoms do you write for?

Wednesday currently. Teen Wolf for six years. Harry Potter, Hannibal, Thorki, Starker, Twilight (Bella/Carlisle and Bella/Aro), The Umbrella Academy (not that i got very far before getting obsessed with wyler), and Madrigalcest (Primarily Brumira)

4. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

Overall?

Fuck It (Steter, Teen Wolf, 3,396)

When it Needs Fixing (Steter, Teen Wolf, 3,339)

Hostile Takeover (Steter, Teen Wolf, 2,781)

Absolution (Steter, Teen Wolf, 2,691)

Wandering in the Dark (Steter, Teen Wolf, 2,250)

In Wednesday?

Her Monster (Wyler, 708)

Hold Me Close (Wyler, 593)

Revelations (Wyler, 499)

Warning, She Bites (Wyler, 464)

Impressing Wednesday Addams (Wyler, 387)

5. Do you respond to comments?

Sometimes. I reply when I have something meaningful to add. Otherwise it'd get very repetitive and generic and that kind of soulless connection isn't really the point of this kind of thing. I adore my comments nonetheless and I read them a lot.

6. What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

Hold on. I gotta skim my list.

update: i do not remember some of these fics or what happened in them

Maybe Modi the Brave (MCU, Thorki). This was an angsty fanfic of a fanfic. There was a happy ending in the original fic, The Rescue by madwriter223

I'm not counting Absolution because it was immediately followed by a sequel. But technically, it did get me the most angry sobbing comments which i treasure to this day.

The Final Straw was angsty but it was also dumb and half-cocked and the closest thing to an embarrassment on this account. It was literally just a half-thought half-scene of my 18yo self's emotional state in 2018 that is very evident that I wrote this angrily in study hall. I wrote a lot of fic in that high school during classes. Like a lot. It was my school computer. I got plenty of use out of it. There was no structure or coherent plot. I didn't even hint at anything deeper to be explored in your own minds. I didn't want to look at it long enough or think about it long enough. I just wanted it out of my head. If I didn't have a strict no deleting my works policy, or hiding from my past art policy, I would probably have deleted it within the week of posting. I do not understand how it has the kudos, subscriptions, and bookmarks that it has. I guess it resonated. Good for y'all. I mean it.

Literally just the entirety of Tyler's Bad Year is meant to be about a very traumatic time in a young man's life and him surviving it. I'm not going to go through them and try to pick out "the worst" one. That's not really the point and it'd be largely subjective.

I'll Eat You Raw has an angsty ending but angstiest? I'm not sure.

I don't write a lot of bad endings. Open endings? sure. Complicated endings? Absolutely. But unhappy endings? No. I don't often have the desire.

7. What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

Jesus fuck we want to be here all day? Ok lemme look through shit again.

Wandering in the Dark has a whole story behind it. There was actually two versions. Only one was posted to ao3 and is the "canon" version. I wrote this fic for a high school assignment my senior year. We were assigned to pick a chronic disease out of a literal hat, then write a story around it. We had complete creative control so I took that chance to write teen wolf steter fanfic in class and actually have it be on task for once (I got an A in that class btw). The reason my teacher got a dark ending version is because by the time he got back to me on the maximum word count, I'd already finished the canon version and it was way too long. I couldn't trim the fat, so I wrote a different ending to shorten the story. That version is one of the angstier stories I've written. The one posted and linked above, is the very happy by comparison. This fic is also designed to be read by someone who doesn't know shit about teen wolf.

Through Thick and Thin was also extremely happy. As is Her Monster. Benevolent Gods was meant to be very hopeful. The Hale Pack (Undying) was the end to a series that was my baby for a long time . Like long enough you can see my writing evolve as you go. Part one was one of the first things i ever wrote. Like ever. The last part was years later. Jasper was meant to be a very light-hearted, happy story as well. It's extremely sweet and fluffy. You was also very happy and the epilogue cemented that happiness. Warning: She Bites literally had a happy end that unknowingly prevented a main character committing suicide in the near future. Saving lives by being horny. Wednesday Evening, and every installment in that series, is excessively happy as well.

Alright I ran through my list of fics. These were the ones that stood out. There's too many to really commit to one answer tbh. Especially because the way they're happy varies.

8. Do you get hate on fics?

Not really. Or. Well. I'm sure I do. I block antis on sight and I wholly reject purity culture, and I haven't really been the target of a major attack or anything. I don't get as many hateful comments as one might think, and I don't entertain the ones I do get. I've been accused of vile shit of course because of a fic I wrote. I don't remember what fic or even what ship it was for because I don't dwell on them really at all. Aside from that, I get more entitled but probably ignorant to how they come off as entitled comments that aren't really that big a deal. Just a bit of a peeve sometimes. I honestly think the majority of them truly believe it's a kind gesture when they say it.

9. Do you write smut? What kind?

Yeah. You could say that.

What kind? In a word? Intense. I could make a joke or a long elaboration on my niche in hyde sex and whatnot, but at the end of the day, intense. Even my most laid back, domestic, slice of life fics have a sense of intensity to them because otherwise I get bored and it feels soulless and it's just not my writing style.

10. Do you write cross-overs?

When I feel like it. When I have an idea.

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes! I have a steter fic on a russian fic website that was translated years ago. I have no idea which it was or if it's still there. Wait! I might remember. Yeah no. I don't remember. It wasn't the one I thought of.

12. Have you ever cowritten a fic before?

No. I've started to outline one before but it went nowhere and we both forgot about it.

13. What WIP you would like to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Harry Potter and the Night that Changed Everything.

I had a whole novel basically planned for it. Writing Bellatrix and a Harry who was raised by Bellatrix took a lot out of me emotionally, and I lost steam.

Also, a Bella Swan/Marcus Vulturi fic that i also had a novel length plot planned out, wrote three chapters for, and then lost steam when I left the fandom due to getting the life sucked out of me by a bunch of toxic people in the fandom killing my joy. Those chapters are just collecting dust in my files right now. I'd like to go back to it one day and finish it in some form or another. Maybe it's original enough I could actually just write an original novel out of the scraps I already have. Actually, to be honest, it is probably original enough that I could write it as an original story. There is not a lot of Twilight there that is necessary to the story and can easily be written out. Something to think about maybe. Ironically not the first prompt I thought up initially for Twilight that I then realized nothing about Twilight was necessary for the idea I had, and I just wrote it without Bella entirely. This is how my original zombie novel started and then immediately evolved into an entirely different thing that has nothing to do w Twilight. Like literally nothing. I had to work to put the Twilight into that one. Not the other way around.

14. What's your all-time favourite ship?

wyler (steter and tomarry honorary).

15. What are your writing strengths?

Dialogue and characterization

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

pacing. movement heavy scenes. Longer projects if only because I have less practice at them.

17. Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

Yeah. If it fits, I'll write it. I won't pretend to be fluent, but I'll do my best. Probably won't do anything too complicated for the sake of realism of my abilities. Especially if it's not Spanish which I at least have spent time trying to learn.

18. First fandom you wrote for?

Teen Wolf

19. Favourite fic you've ever written?

Listen...

We've established how well I am at picking one end all number one.

Fuck ok. back to the list.

Water of the Womb was one I was planning to write for almost a year and it turned out pretty good I think. Actually no.

No. It's not a fic that's been posted yet.

I think the favorite fic I've ever written is I Bit Him So He's Mine. it's my "Wednesday is a Hyde season one rewrite au". It's my first novel that is more than just a future novel. It's hit 40k and I have to start Act 2 still. It's my first proper murder mystery where the mystery is the primary plot equal to the romance. I've had a lot of fun with it, I've put my heart and soul into it, and I really look forward to calling it ready to post. Once it's done, you guys are getting regular updates for a long time.

20. What fic would you want to rewrite one day?

Out of the Fire haunts me. It was a lesson to learn. I had the desire to write a steter/hannigram crossover and zero plan of any kind outside that. It crashed and burned because I only had a first chapter in me. I recently met a local and successful author who recognized my ao3 username because of this fic and remembered me years later enough to compliment my writing (I cannot express how much that meant to me). Wait no that might have been Mark of an Angel which also haunts me, but I didn't have zero plan. I had almost no plan, and lost steam when I hit a creative block at a bad time. Normally, I'd have just sat down and workshopped a starter outline and wrote myself out of that block, but I lost steam so I never did. Different deal. Not as impactful in my creative journey. Out of the Fire, however, was very important to me because of why it failed, and remains very influential with every new project I start. Actually rewriting/finishing that project would be a defining moment for me as a writer, I think. At least to me personally.

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