#carcer laedre

[guyofthing]

Everyone should read my webcomic when it comes out it's very normal

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I swear if and when I post Fragments there's gonna be people who unironically completely believe everything Reptir says. They're gonna believe that Tintoa is lying or hallucinating and that Carcer cannot live independently due to his disability. The latter is an insult to my writing ability, because I have an actual character who CAN'T live independently due to his disability and you bet your ass I do NOT infantilize her the way Reptir does Carcer. The former is just a really, really fucked up thing to say about a victim of gaslighting.

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I DID IT I WROTE THE PROMISED CARCER ANGST RAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

(TW: he talks about death and dying in, like, uncomfortable detail? Like it's happening to him (it kinda is). Also, like beforus culling and implied abuse. it's nothing that bad.)

Quirked version:

Unquirked:

You are Something, to me Something. Someone. I’m always asking someone something- Is it your fault? Or do I blame you? You’ve become a convenient excuse to me. A worn out coat behind which I can hide the rot that was there long before you arrived. The water is cold, killing cold, and I don’t care. I died once, and now I’m forever cycling, forever dying. I owe that to you. I owe it to you and I resent you for it in equal part. At least now I can stay out as long as I like. You are A cure, so you say. Just another symptom, I mutter. If you’re told something long enough you begin to believe it, and I don’t know how long I’ve been told- I need you I think, at least. I don’t want to, I go here to leave you behind, but I do. I can feel the numbness setting in. The frost and freeze is familiar to me. An antidote, the paradox of pain Is that it can soothe the aching. You soothe nothing but the guilt of a crowd. She is Coming here, to my planet My island in the sky. Tomorrow she will pluck me from the sea and hold me tight against her while you watch, unreadable, unreadable and- Cold, I feel cold to my core. I die again, it means nothing anymore. To die, I mean. I have known her. Known what she calls caring. She seems as cold as you, but her home is the only hearth I know. I am a creature of cold, but I tear myself from your frigidity for hearth and home and heat whenever I can manage. I wonder if it will drive you away from me. I know it never will.

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I FOUND THE ORIGINAL GIRLCARCER

[guyofthing]

While writing conciliatory relationships, I like to switch it up between "one party is the concilliated and one party is the concilliator" (as in canon) and "both concilliate and are concilliated", though the former is never quite as strict as canon.

For example, in Eldred, Leusse, and Mentis's auspisticism, the concilliator is pretty clearly Eldred, but Leusse and Mentis do also have to auspitize between the other two from time to time, especially towards the end of their relationship when things are falling apart. This is especially interesting considering how badly their ashen relationship is failing, honestly. Eldred tries his best to be a good auspitice while dealing with growing feelings of dissatisfaction with the relationship and the knowledge that there's something else going on that he doesn't understand, which over time make maintaining the relationship increasingly daunting. Mentis will occasionally try to more overtly control Eldred like she does with Leusse, and Leusse "auspitizes" them to keep her off him. Mentis' attempts at auspisticism are also fake, even more so than Leusse's, because when their relationship starts failing it's Leusse that tries to fix it, mostly by talking to Eldred, and Mentis finds excuses to "mediate" as a way of getting between them before they realize just how much of a problem she is or try to break up.

Meanwhile, in every single instance of Laedre/Cuimia moirallegiance (they're the meowrails of Fragments sheerly in the sense that every Laedre is in a moirallegiance with their respective Cuimia. Which, funnily enough, was an accident.) it's a situation where they're both concilliating. Both Peleme and Pasque, despite being generally very nice people, can be exceptionally violent at times, Peleme because of how she was socialized and Pasque because he's used to being powerless and living in fear. Leusse helps reroute Peleme's more aggressive urges into the relatively non-dangerous and objectively funny outlet of cartoon villainy. Carcer handles Pasque's issues at the source: he and Pasque have been through a lot of shit that, while very different, has a lot of similarities, and they've both got some similar feelings about it. He's got a sort of "if we're backed into a corner, at least we're in it together" that works wonders on Pasque's feelings of powerlessness in a way that a less pessimistic form of comfort just can't. On the other hand, you've got Leusse and Carcer, queen and king of self-destructive behavior. I'll elaborate on this part another time, but the long and short of it is that Peleme keeps Leusse out of trouble because she's one of the few people whose advice Leusse respects; meanwhile Pasque does his moirail duties the way they're more typically portrayed, in that he comforts the bullshit out of Carcer.

None of this is to say, of course, that the first type of conciliatory relationship is bad and the second is good. I picked the examples I picked because they're the most prominent examples of conciliatory romance in Fragments.

[guyofthing]

I thought for a second that Carcer looked like a loser version of Rufioh and got annoyed about it (because one I don't ljke him and two I try not to make any of my characters look too similar to canon characters, particularly ones with the same blood color) and then I looked up a picture of Rufioh and realized I was misremembering. Embarrassing and awful!

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RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THEY ALL FINALLY HAVE NAMES AND CHUMHANDLES

most of the names will probably be changed but the chumhandles are almost all permanent and good. you should totally ask me about them.

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This Carcer drawing was good but I don't know if I'll ever finish it so you guys can just have it like this I guess

He does have another hand I just erased it and didn't get around to redrawing it

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considering the way that mind as an aspect is, I think it's extremely worrying that the two mind players fragments has are a girl that wants to be team rocket irl and a guy who drowns in subarctic waters as a hobby

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Okay here's the promised friendship post

Surprise! It's not about the major friendships in fragments, it's about the friendships I either have to be careful with or prevent because they'd be so good for each other that they'd get character development too soon.

Roonei Cannel and Genetz Anttio: aspects do matter in fragments and Roonei, a light player, is really drawn to both void players and I think you can do with that what you will. Also this friendship happens.

Tiixit Matsya and Mentis Consil: there is surely an alternate universe whete Mentis sought advice from Tiixit instead of Reptir and it is a much happier world for everyone. This one doesn't happen.

Roonei Cannel and Vireni Cannel: guys stop fighting :(

Carcer Laedre and Tintoa Priepe: the hating Reptir Priepe club is now in session. But in all seriousness I think Tintoa would help Carcer stand up for himself and Carcer would teach her ways of resistance that don't involve excessive violence. This one doesn't happen.

Vireni Cannel and Eldred Anttio: the Cannels and Anttios have interesting relationships. Anyways these two have the sibling relationship with each other they wish they could have with their own dancestors.

Roonei Cannel and unnamed Alternian ceruleanblood: physical illness and mental illness solidarity lmfaooooo. anyway they understand each other. Roonei is on here a lot because fragments Roonei is desperately lonely and I think having close friends would fix her.

I'll add onto this because there were others I forgot

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Okay I'm making a romance list for fragments because I was talking about it so now I'm thinking about it and also I'm making a post about friendships later so here's the big ones

Leusse Laedre <3< Mentis Consil c3< Eldred Anttio: world's most dysfunctional ashen relationship in multiple ways. I desperately need them to break up.

Protse Consil <3</<3 unnamed beforan ceruleanblood <3 Genetz Anttio <3/<> Tiixit Matsya: the less functional of the two Beforan polycules. Ship name for Protse and the ceruleanblood is Snakebite. Ship name for Genetz and the ceruleanblood is Bro Code. They're not really a polycule so much as they fell prey to what I can imagine is a common occurrence with quadrant romance, which is that they fell into a dating chain by accident. Also I think it's funny that Genetz is nominally gay but is not ever seen dating a man. His matesprit is bigender and his moisprit is non binary. Speaking of said bigender matesprit this player really managed to pull a gay man AND a lesbian huh? That's wild bro.

Protse Consil <> Reptir Priepe: sure gay marriage is cool and all but have you ever heard of lesbian divorce?

Roonei Cannel <3< Tintoa Priepe: they r playing gay chicken and Tintoa is losing. BADLY. I figure this story deserved one cheesy unproblematic teen romance amid all the drama and toxicity but I went with a blackrom couple to fill that niche because I get bored of red.

Carcer Laedre, Vereni Cannel, unnamed beforan oliveblood, and unnamed beforan mutantblood's <3</<> (and occasionally c3<) polycule: ship name make war not love. never underestimate the power of a complicated, mostly asexual anarchist polycule. Also some of them are firmly stuck in either pitch or pale, some of them are vacillated, but somehow they're all pitch or pale except for the occasional foray into auspitism. Do not separate them. We're not making it out of troll Portland with this one (except not actually because grumblr already has a troll Portland polycule I think)

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sorry i literally can't stop talking about fragments to save my life but tbh i think i did good on Carcer's classpect

"bard of mind" okay? slay?

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Fun fact Leusse's Trollian handle was initially campyVillain instead of spunkyVillain and I had to change it because of fUCKING CARCER, THAT DUMB SLUT

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I drew girl Carcer at school today and she literally looks exactly like regular Carcer but with a bucket hat

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Drawing Carcer rn and he looked so badass until I put the fishin vest on him lmao

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Carcer is funny as fuck because he will give people the most unhinged ass nicknames and Not Explain who he is fucking talking about and I just

LEUSSE: s2 y2u h1te 1ll 2f these pe2ple

CARCER: NO ACT3ALLY ME AND SHIRTS ARE CHILL

LEUSSE: ...c22l. 1wes2me.

LEUSSE, INTERNALLY: wh2 the FUCK is shirts