#canon facts. || FELIX ABRAHAM

[themusiichouse]

Felix for What does your character believe will happen to them after they die? Does this belief scare them? - @theload​ 

(Throwing in his sister too bc I felt like it owo)

In the real world, there’s no one image that Judaism puts forth for the afterlife. In my fictional world, though, where afterlives are a confirmed thing, for the Eldish afterlife I kinda have no choice but to pick what I like from those images and stick to it. Felix and his sister Fanny would have gone through the Eldish afterlife before reincarnating, and the experience left a deep impression on them that they still think about to this day.

Fun fact about the historical Mendelssohns--they were actually Christian by religion, though Jewish by ethnicity. In my original setting, that means they were Narsean by religion though they were Eldonai by ethnicity. However, since Narseism is literally a violent genocidal cult whose sole purpose is to convert everyone to it and wipe out anyone who chooses not to follow its creed, El often intervenes in Narsean afterlives, especially those who are inherently spiritually connected to him like Elds. (It’s something personal for him, because he is the deity that Narseus tries to impersonate.) Such was the case with Felix and Fanny, who were sent to the Narsean Hell simply because they failed to follow Narseus’ biggest rule: the only way to get into Heaven is to “spread My holy word,” aka try to convert other people to the violent genocidal death cult. Felix and Fanny did not really do that, since they were wrapped up in their music. (Many Narseans are normal people who are seriously misguided about the nature and purpose of their religion because Narseus never actually wrote in his scriptures he wanted people to commit genocide in his name, he just kept it vague so he would have plausible deniability while secretly instructing his leaders that genocide was what he wanted; Felix and Fanny were some of those misguided people.) So, in spite of the fact they were good people who really did nothing wrong, they were condemned.

When El fished them out of Narsean Hell, he gave them a choice. He could either let them go to an afterlife for those who were not tied to any gods, or they could rejoin their ancestors in the Eldish afterlife. Both chose to go to the Eldish afterlife, though they were told of one hurdle that they’d have to pass through: a purification process. There is a line of Jewish thought in which to access the afterlife, everyone except the most righteous souls would have to be purified. To do so, the souls would be made to look back at their actions in life--which is painful for any soul who has done something wrong in their lives, but the pain is necessary so that they can understand what they have done wrong and move on. Well, Felix and Fanny were good people, so it wasn’t too awful for them…But one thing did cause them a great deal of pain, and it was when they were shown the truth about the Narsean religion their father had converted to, shown that everything they had lived for religiously in their lives was a lie. I mean, they had already started thinking that there was something seriously wrong with Narseism when they were in Narsean Hell, but the experience being purified made them fully come to terms with it on a much spiritually deeper level. It’s still something they think about that guides their actions in day-to-day life, to live their lives in a virtuous and healthily skeptical way so that when they pass into the void again, they don’t experience once more the agony of that reckoning.

[themusiichouse]

5, 33 and 39 from the hard mode meme for Liszt and Felix - @purplepianoman 

Doing these without answering the ask directly because it won’t let me do small text in the new editor (sob emojis)

5: Your character is partial to people who _____? (Are tall, have blue eyes, tend to be rowdy, etc)

Both Franzi and Felix are partial to intellectuals and people of culture. However, Franzi prefers people of a much higher level of energy and extroversion than Felix does. Felix, being a highly cultivated gentleman, is rather more reserved in his tastes than she is; Franzi tries to meet people from all sorts of fresh perspectives whereas Felix likes those with a taste for the old-fashioned. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, then, that Franzi tends to hang out with more young people, true to her physical age (she’s like 50+ but appears around mid-early 20s), whereas Felix prefers people who are around his actual age (also 50+).

also I just realized I answered this from the wrong meme but since it’s a good answer I’m going to keep it and start filling out the rest of the actual meme.

On an average day, what can be found in your character’s pockets?

This is such a cop-out answer but I feel like they wouldn’t have anything interesting in their pockets. Both are tidy people who don’t like a lot of clutter, though Franzi is a little less organized than Felix so you might find her with her keys in her pockets for example, or a pen from her compositions, or her credit card, or her ID--though usually her pockets are clean. What does end up going in her pockets more though is her cell phone, which she’s on a lot of the time and which she can’t live without.

In the face of criticism, is your character defensive, self-deprecating, or willing to improve?

Both can take criticism very well. Felix accepts it like the gentleman he is, and is usually willing to listen--but one criticism he does not listen to is people telling him he needs to get with the times. As a painter, you can see some flavors of modernity in some of his work, though he much prefers his hyperrealistic colored pencil drawings and his expertise in Romantic styles of painting. But musically he was always more of a revivalist than an experimentalist, and things are no different in his current life. Even if you question it though, he’ll just be polite about it, and tell you calmly why he believes in drawing or composing in a certain way.

Franzi also takes critiques pretty well in terms of responding to them. But sometimes, she doesn’t take it well on the inside. Much like the historical Liszt sometimes she has huge insecurities about her more experimental work, so even though it’s always groundbreaking and innovative and pushing boundaries, she hears some of the criticisms that have been rained down on her and feels bad about it secretly. It’s never enough to get her to stop doing what she does, but it does make her pause for a moment and feel depressed sometimes--not least because she feels like her “late Liszt” experimental style and some of the new things she’s doing now will never be widely accepted.

Has your character ever been bitten by an animal? How were they affected (or unaffected)?

As a small child, Felix was bitten by a large hellhound on his left cheek and had to get stitches. If you look closely enough at his face, you can still see a faint circular scar, and sometimes (though quite rarely nowadays), the place where his face was bitten still flares up with pain--as hellhound bites can do even decades after an injury. He’s been terrified of large dogs--especially hellhounds--ever since. Sadly for him, he lives with a dire kitsune named Wolfie Aiflos who, in his kitsune form, is basically a nine-tailed wolf that’s as tall at the shoulder as a T-rex. And on top of that, Wil has Richard Wagner’s two old hellhounds Robber and Russ hanging around and so every time Felix sees them he freaks out a little. LMFAO. Wolfie is somewhat less terrifying than Robber and Russ because even though he’s much bigger, Felix knows that the big T-rex wolf is sapient and thus isn’t going to just randomly attack him. But given that Wolfie is that size while also having the energy and exuberance of an untrained 1-year-old lab, Felix’s first instinct when he sees a 750+ pound dog sprinting toward him is still to run the fuck away--even if that dog just wants to have fun!

Though Franzi hasn’t experienced any bites of her own, she had a brush with a werewolf stalker that had the same vibes as Olga Janina. Given that she’s so hot, lots of sexist guys can’t accept the fact that she’s lesbian, so one day one of those guys decided to have the worst possible response to it. When he flirted with her on Twitter and she was like “sorry I’m lesbian,” he got pushy about it to the point she blocked him. He took it personally because he thought the only reason why she was rejecting him was because he was a werewolf (which she couldn’t have possibly known because it wasn’t prominently on his social media page--but which he assumed because he was a social outcast due to being a werewolf). So he waited outside her house on the night of the full moon so that when he transformed, he would be able to attack her and bite her. But what do you do when a dog attacks you? You get a bigger dog, that’s what. Little did he know, the aforementioned nine-tailed wolf that’s as big as a T-rex was living in Franzi’s house at the time, and he was able to intercept the guy before he managed to hurt anyone. 

Franzi woke to the commotion and came downstairs to see kitsune!Wolfie pinning this random werewolf dude to the ground with his teeth in his neck (though not in a deadly way, sometimes animals do bite each others’ throats without it being deadly). She grinned and patted one of Wolfie’s tails, telling him, “Good doggy. Now shall we show our guest outside?” To which Wolfie picked up the dude in his jaws, dragged him out back and threw him in a river, where he barely had enough strength left to fight the swift current and clamber back to shore. When dawn broke, they found him lying passed out naked on the riverbank post-transformation, and were able to take him to the police station.