#casseopeia

[imaginaryskeleton]

They were right those bears really can be in trees

[lastflowerofyourhouse]

underrated og lyctors detail is that casseopeia was an excellent cook and nigella, according to mercymorn, "[ate] like a child."

i cannot decide which mental image i like better:

cassy: nigella, my love, i am literally begging you to just try the salmon, please, i promise you will like it. put down the buttered noodles for a second and trust me.

or

cassy: hang on darling, i need to finish braising this chicken and then i'll put your dino nuggets in the oven. love you too.

[basketghost]

In the first meeting we see Cam, Nona, and Pyrrha having with We Suffer, We Suffer mentions FOUR Lyctors Blood of Eden has had contact with. Source Joyeuse, Source Piotra, Source Aegis, and Source Chrysaor.

Source Joyeuse is obviously Mercymorn, the Saint of Joy, and since she's specifically listed with Source Piotra (which is apparently a Greek name that means "rock," and a form of Peter), I'm going to guess that must be Augustine (Saint of Patience? What's more patient than a rock. Anywho). They explicitly say that Source Chrysaor is Cytherea.

So Source Aegis?

Source Aegis led Commander Wake to direct contact with a House either during or planning the Ninth House Mission, twenty years prior.

Aegis was the the shield wielded by the goddess Athena, grey-eyed goddess of wisdom.

Who in the Locked Tomb do we associate with grey eyes and wisdom?

The Sixth.

Casseopeia not only left instructions for the Sixth, she was *in contact with Blood of Eden, specifically Commander Wake*, during the Ninth House Mission, long after what was supposed to be her death, and *helped Wake make contact with a House*

They had someone on the inside of the Ninth (I was already pretty convinced Aiglamene was involved, and this pretty much cinched it), *and* Cass was making contact with Blood of Eden long after she was assumed to be dead.

Duplicitous slut, indeed.

[paldea-champ-n1cki]

I don’t know if you know what i’m talking about, but like do u hear music as u fight your friends? And if you do which is your favorite theme?

OH MY ARCEUS, DO YOU HEAR IT TOO?! I KNEW I WASN'T CRAZY!

Personally, I think Penny has the best theme. No offense to Nemona and Arven, but I wish I could record it so they could hear it too.

Thank you for the ask!

[holmesandwhatson]

✌️ pls!

hi, thanks! <3

✌ : favourite proverb/saying from your language

tough choice!

Co ma piernik do wiatraka? is one of my favourite sayings

it translates as "What does gingerbread have to do with a windmill?" and you use it as a way of saying "What does this have to do with anything?"

Another Polish proverb I like went viral a few years ago, so you might have heard it somewhere: Nie mój cyrk, nie moje małpy ("Not my circus, not my monkeys" - "That's not my problem")

[momentary-ecstasy]

Everyone having these really thoughtful theories about Anastasia and Casseopeia and me over here convinced that Noodle is the key to everyting

[ladye-zelda]

Fine

After much consideration, I’ve decided to name Andromeda’s Link (aka the Link from Hyrule Fantasy) Perseus

[francixoxoxo]

ik you're taking a break but this is here no pressure for when you come back I just wanted to send it while it's in my head <3

had a thought of pirate billy teaching mermaid reader about the constellations and the stars and how sailors and pirates use them so often <3

Ok this is sooo cute

The stars have always been so beautiful to you, you hadn’t discovered them until you finally came to the surface. It felt like a reward for doing something so rebellious, so dangerous and independent. For finding yourself, you found the stars.

You and Billy had been laying on a large rock jutting from the shore, your scales catching the pale moonlight and shimmering iridescent blues, pinks and purples. Colors Billy couldn’t even hope to name, but was willing to devote his life to memorizing. You’d been staring up at the stars, while Billy stared at you, and you breathed, “You’re so lucky to have the stars.”

“Hm?” Billy’s brows drew together, he tore his eyes off you to look at the navy sky. The stars were clear, dappling the night like spots on a fawn. You were just as innocent and pure as you sighed wistfully, “They’re so beautiful. I wish we had them below the water.”

Billy hummed softly, finding your hand on your belly and intertwining your fingers. “Well, they got you underwater. Figure that evens the scale, baby girl.” His words brought a smile to your lips, a giggle bubbling past them, and he brought your knuckles to his lips. He smiled against your soft skin, pressing a little kiss to your hand and murmuring against it. “Yanno, they’re a little practical, too.”

“Really? How?” You lifted your brows, ever curious. Billy nodded, proud to have an actual knowledge of the topic as a sailor. “Like a map y’aint gotta worry ‘bout misplacin’.” He lifted your hands, forming your hand into a point aswell as his own, gesturing to a specific constellation.

“That one’s Orion, s’ a classic.” Billy hummed. You squinted, trying to make out the dazzling stars. “It looks like a guy holdin’ a bow with his arm up. Y’see?” At your little nod and smile he moved your interlocked hands, grumbling to himself for a moment to find another.

“That’s casseopeia, y’use that one t’find your direction..” Billy cooed to you, looking over constantly to drink in your twinkling, curious eyes as they lit up in recognition. “And y’use it to find that one, the lil’ dipper.”

“Why do you need to find the Little Dipper?” Your brows furrowed a bit in confusion. Billy chuckled a bit, rubbing his thumb over your hand affectionately. Somebody else might’ve thought you were stupid; Billy understood that you had a raw, true and honest thirst to know everything. “Well, see that bright star at the end? By where the handle’d be?”

“Mhm.” You instantly recognized that one. You recalled your first night above water, you’d been so afraid to peek more than your face above the surface. You spent practically the whole time staring up at that star, admiring the demure glow of it. It seemed so unreachable. So otherworldly. Perhaps that was how Billy felt about you.

“Well, that’s the Pole Star. The North Star.” Billy explained with a bit of pride in his low timbre. “It’s how we get t’port when we can’t tell our cardinal directions, yanno? If y’know north, y’know south, then west, east, you get it.” He looked over at you, his blue eyes flicking over your face, your beautiful features illuminated by the moon. Your eyes were wide and doey, your smile faint but ever-present.

“Beautiful and useful.” You summed, and Billy grunted in agreement. He brought your knuckles to his lips, peppering a few kisses along the back of your hand.

“Very beautiful.” Billy agreed softly, his eyes opening and lifting to meet yours. There was that familiar glint in them that made you certain he wasn’t just talking about the stars and constellations.

[lemon-natalia]

Nona the Ninth Reaction - John 20:8

okay, given the title i’m pretty sure the ‘he’ here is John Gaius. and its a retrospective dream of some kind?? makes me wonder if there’s a connection to the opening poem which talks an awful lot about sleep and dreaming

he’s talking to an unknown ‘her’ here, and commenting that she was ‘so sick’. my first assumption is that he’s speaking to Alecto here but if he is, then what does her being sick have to do with cryo chambers? was he trying to cure her of some kind of illness?

and the mentions of M— and A—, Mercymorn and Augustine but with different names?! John did say near the end of the last book that he knew who Augustine was pre-Resurrection. there’s a C— as well, Cytherea or Casseopeia maybe?

oooh this seems to be pre-Resurrection, the world before the mysterious apocalypse. it doesn't seem to be entirely the present day though, what with the population being around ten billion, and apparently having some level of futuristic technology, like cryo chambers, and it apparently being a feasible plan to have everyone on earth escape the planet. that said, its still remarkably mundane and familiar here to the point that it goes back around into feeling very strange for the Locked Tomb books, its so different from the Nine Houses system

‘thighs mostly, from when they felt hungry, which happened rarely and almost simultaneously’ ok i really hope this is not the incident John was referring to when he said smthing like ‘i only ate human meat once before’ in HtN. and there’s definitely some kind of lyctorhood connection here with them feeling things simultaneously and being connected …

‘She cried. She and A— both cried’ is this referring to them dying in whatever nuclear apocalypse John apparently ends up starting??

‘So what did you do? He said: A damned thing, didn’t I’ oooh are we gonna see how exactly John became who he is as of the present day? because there are so many unanswered questions there

‘I still love you’ oh there’s definitely some kind of connection to the poem from the beginning here

Harrowhark??? he’s talking to Harrow here, WHAT is going on. i thought i had a mild grasp of what was going on here but evidently i do not. also, this makes me wonder if the necro-cav relationship in the poem has anything to do with Gideon & Harrow then??

also, once again these books are giving me assigned reading so i checked out the bible passage referenced in the title and apparently it's the passage where Jesus’s resurrection is discovered? it doesn't seem precisely relevant to the chapter itself but i guess it is thematically to the wider theme of resurrection in the books

[k-chips]

Clive would be both sad and elated that Penny trusts him enough to put a stop to her I wonder how the fight would actually go since Clavell has some actually pretty strong pokemon. Plus it's implied that the reason he stopped you before is he figured out who Casseopeia was and was protecting her

I like to think he was about to say no when Penny asked him to fight her.

When they meet at school he thinks he and Penny are just gonna talk to Casseopeia so when Penny turns to him and tells him "I'm the boss, fight me" he just goes bland-head for a second

He doesn't want to fight Penny bus she's asking him to so... Should he?

[andromedaexists]

GENRE

Fiction - somewhere between suspense & fantasy in a dystopian future

Sublime Grimdark

sublime (n.) - art that refers to a greatness beyond all possibility of calculation, measurement or imitation

grimdark (n.) - a genre of fiction, especially fantasy fiction, characterized by disturbing, violent, or bleak subject matter and a dystopian setting.

STATUS

Drafting

AESTHETIC / TROPES

Greek mythology, corrupt government, social outcasts, QUEER!!, heavy themes of abuse (both power and familial), mental health, (stealing some from book 1) trans men's wrongs, anti-establishment, friends to lovers to strangers to enemies to ????, tattoos and piercings as a form of therapy, bullying as an act of love, etc etc

(it got kinda long so I put the rest of the info under the cut :) )

SUMMARY

An anti-establishment retelling of the fall of Icarus.

Ten years. Ten years of solitude, of surviving, of hiding. It has been ten long years of navigating the world alone, of planning how he would exact his revenge on those who have wronged him once he gets the chance.

A chance he has yet to receive. He's just one man, one cast out kid. How can he expect to go against a corporation as large as ATLAS alone?

Only he isn't alone, and it is time to make his move.

Διαφθορά is a tragic continuation of Δάιος, following Icarus as he and his dysfunctional found family lay the groundwork for a revolution. It seems like everything is going in his favor so far, even as the appearance of his sunshine throws him off-kilter. Will that continue as protests rise up throughout the country in his name?

MAIN CHARACTERS (BY THEIR CODE NAME)

Icarus (he/they) - We all know Icky baby, he is the man we see the story through the eyes of! Icarus is a chronically exhausted autistic trans man with a caffeine addiction and anger issues. (i suppose he's babygirl too idk)

Apollon (he/him) - I guess he's the love interest for Icarus but he's best known as my beloathed. Apollon is the #2 Elysian just two years after his debut! He is a childhood friend/lover? of Icarus' and perpetual pain in his ass.

Andromeda (they/them) - Our mama bear. Andromeda may share the same name as me, but they are not based on me. Rather, they are heavily based on a good friend of mine. Meda is the oldest, they take care of the group and make sure that everyone comes back alive and well. They don't specialize in fighting, but in healing. Particularly herbal and natural remedies (remember, lavender for anxiety and antibiotics for a fucking infection)

Achilles (he/him) - Another childhood friend of Icarus. He is Icarus' adopted little brother and right hand man.

Thanatos (he/him) - The information broker of the group. He specializes in getting what he needs to get and doing so discreetly, a huge benefit for Icarus' group. He is gender non-conforming and is a lovely person to be around, so long as your name isn't Icarus.

The Elysians - The figureheads of the government. They basically have free reign to enforce the laws of the land. The most notable of the Elysians are Daedalus (#1 rank), Nyx (not ranked, she operates out of sight), Casseopeia (former #2 rank), Prometheus (#5), and Thetis (#9). Each of them specializes in different fighting styles based on their mythological code name. 

MASTERLIST

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Updates: 

Picrews for Icarus, Andromeda, Apollon, Thanatos, Achilles, and Patroclus!

Character Introductions (Main Group): (will likely update these)

Icarus

Andromeda

Achilles

Thanatos

Apollon

Character Introductions (Elysians): (yeah i gave up on this)

Daedalus

Nyx

Cassiopeia

Prometheus

Sisyphus

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[lastflowerofyourhouse]

saw a post a long time ago that i just tried and failed to track down, about how the original lyctors may have started really hating alecto after ascending, because she would've learned how to act like a human from them and their dead friends. nona the professional mimic, ya know? so maybe she laughed like cristabel and walked like alfred and reached out to touch your shoulder just like samael would've done, and it was too much for them to bear. and that post has lived rent-free in my head ever since.

and i was just thinking about it again and it occurred to me. we didn't really understand permeability of the soul when that post was made and. guys. permeability of the soul.

the lyctors are shooting the shit a few months after ascending. ulyssess tells a joke. mercymorn starts giggling. everyone is looking at her funny. she pauses. she never found that joke funny before, but it was cristabel's favorite. mercymorn doesn't speak for a week.

augustine can barely tell, because they were family, they shared so many things already. but he was never such good friends with anastasia before. he seems to recall that they had nothing in common. but ever since alfred died, he feels a kinship with her that he doesn't want to explain.

gideon starts smoking, in the months after pyrrha's death.

cytherea becomes tetchy and iritable with them, and resents them in a way she never did before.

casseopeia begins struggling with food textures she never disliked before, and develops an affinity for flowers.

and they don't want to think about it. they're not going to think about it, because they can't all freeze themselves in a block of ice to sleep off the grief. their friends are dead, and they're gone, and their eyes are staring out of all the mirrors and they're everywhere. and they're never coming back.

[ofmoonsandlight]

i know we talk about lyctor names sooooooo much but guys. augustine. mercymorn. christabel. nigella. alfred. pyrrha. casseopeia. titania. gideon. ulysses. one of these is not like the others ????

[paldea-champ-n1cki]

What do u think of all your friends ✨✨ :D i really want to know how you view them!

Penny is really nice, and she's pretty relatable. We watch anime together sometimes, and when one of us tries to make something new with food the other tries it! We also both get competitive over video games, so it's always fun playing together.

Nemona is pretty cool, and she's always ready to battle. I'm always happy to battle, and she's always trying to catch up to me. She's really strong too! I'm trying to catch up to how much she can lift, so it's always fun training ourselves and our pokémon together.

Arven is wonderful all around. He's kind, sweet, he cares about others, and he's even stronger than me and Nemona combined!! I mean, what's not to like about him? Sure he was a bit sketchy when we first met, but he had his reasons.

I'd go to the ends of the universe (even farther, actually) for them, and I'm glad they're my friends. I hope they continue to be my friends, and that maybe we can go on more adventures together someday!

Thanks for the ask!

[tinyetoile]

I love you night sky I love you full moon so bright you can see shadows don't need a flashlight to walk around I love you clpuds scutting across a gibeous moon I love you razor-thin crescent moon who's arc points towards the horizon I love you moonless nights where the stars shine ever brighter I love you constellations that are a bit hard to see, making it all the more special when you can I love you seasonal constellations I love you zodiac, the only one of which I can identify is scorpio I love you big dipper I love you casseopeia I love you summer triangle I love you altair deneb vega I love you polaris I love you shooting stars I love you planets I love you stargazing, an activity older than humanity itself i love you night sky i love you night sky I love you night sky

[holmesandwhatson]

tagged by @sirgawin to share 5 songs I'm listening to on repeat, thank you! ✨️

1. Antônio Carlos Jobim - Brazil

2. T.Love - Warszawa

3. Vampire Weekend - Ice Cream Piano

4. Kwiat Jabłoni - Nie, nie, nie (T.Love cover)

5. The Supremes - You Can't Hurry Love

tagging @gothicmaiden @bosquedemel @casseopeias @tauremornalome @freebabybutterfly