#delilah rambles

[gorgynei]

why was she micromanaging laudna's outfit dont you have a dead husband to worry about

[shrews-art]

I really love how separately Lila, Kell and Holland are literally the most powerful people between all worlds and also smart and resourceful and skilled but. You leave them together in a room for TEN MINUTES and disaster follows

[saintdollyparton]

Cackling gleefully at Imogen and Laudna making innuendos at each other multiple times this episode and Liam basically being like, "Laudna needs to get Delilah taken care of so y'all can take care of each other because clearly y'all need it." Lol.

Also Matt comparing Delilah to herpes is so incredibly apt. She flares up in every campaign.

[lavendarneverlands]

You know me well😂🥹🥰🫶🤣🙃☺️🩵🤎

List 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the ask box of the last 10 people who reblogged something from you! Get to know your mutuals and followers. <3

Thank you🥰 (can this ask be 1 of the 5? Cause it is :-)

My little siblings… literally the ones that makes me happiest in all of the universe🥹

Throne of Glass… these books have meant the world to me; the fandom is also lovely… & I just love stories so much☺️

Taylor Swift music & yes the Taylor Swift Fall list because I am that girlie: scarves, ankle boots, chilly window drawings, pumpkins, cinnamon, baking, maroon & hunter-green & mustard-yellow color combos, cats & pet costumed portraits😹, journaling & fancy pens, & leaves, and FALL!

Puppies (cheesy cliche probably true for most people I know🤣) BUT specifically right now because I’m impatiently/excitedly waiting to get my new fur bb a lil’ golden-retriever & I’m SO excited!!!

Starry nights when the moon is pretty & glowy

& While this isn’t a tag/tag game I can’t help myself cause it’s true: @ladyylesbian is in the 1 of 5 every time cause ily bestie🩵🤎 & of course tags from @mysterylilycheeta are always the best😊🫶

[aria-greenhoodie]

Abigale Blackwing/Northwest - The Lost History of a Troubled Inventress

After a curious underground bunker is discovered in the state of [REDACTED], New historical records are published connected to the Northwest family. The bunker and its contents were dated to have originated from some time in the early 1900s. Atop the entrance, an odd, one-eyed triangular skull with crossbones looms over all who enter, the words "Anti-Cipher Society" engraved in the stone below it. There are rumors that a skeleton (albeit one with two eyes and a decidedly non-triangular skull) was found within, clutching a few of the many documents discovered, but authorities refuse to confirm them...

Contained within this document is a transcript of some of the contents regarding a particularly curious individual mentioned heavily throughout the many letters, journals, and other material uncovered; Abigale Blackwing, later known as Abigale Northwest.

WARNING: Transcript may be out of order, and some words may be too illegible to transcribe. These documents are old, after all.

▲ [PSRK PMZI XLI ERXM-GMTLIV WSGMIXC] ▲

READ MORE?

(THATS RIGHT GUYS IM POSTING MY ABIGALE BLACKWING AND ASSORTED ANTI-CIPHER SOCIETY DRABBLE. GO READ IT!!)

[ofcrystalsandart]

I WAS ABLE TO BUY DELILAH FIELDS AND GABRIELLA ICELY FOR REAL CHEAP FROM ANOTHER COLLECTOR IM GOING FERAL

[defira85]

I don't like this capitalism business. I have OCs I need to draw. And games I need to play. And fics to finish writing. And a garden to tidy! Why must I sit in an office with no sunlight for 9 hours

[gorgynei]

THIS THUMBNAIL?

[edge-lorde]

Good morning! 🙏

Good night! 😴

The first rays of sunshine verses the first stars you see at night....

Is it really possible for an AM girl and a PM girl to be best friends?

They have the same eyes ..... 😭 😭 😭

[saintdollyparton]

I sincerely hope they manage to find a way to separate Delilah from Laudna by the end of the campaign. Surely something as powerful as a wish spell could at least be able to do it? Laudna deserves to have her life back without being shackled to Delilah and to be able to grow old with Imogen.

[luc1d-dr34m5]

Au time fellas

Its a Bedman Lives au (+Lethargy V. an oc) wjjejw the first one looks messier cuz its just doodles i colored

Au explanation under cut

Okay so for now its not too developed but the basis is

Lethargy manages to save Bedman last minute n they both run away ans the crumbling body left in Bedman's place is a fake, but to make Bedman awake Lethargy had to kinda put a piece Bedman's conciousness in the Bedframe. This action wakes up Delilah last minute but due to circumstances she appeared much later on so they couldnt reunite with her.

Current game timeline of the au is the Strive storyline, Bedman is a professor n Lethargy is also a scientist prof at a sort of University/College of sorts. Bedman doesn't use his name "Romeo" there cuz its personal to him so he just goes by Bedman.(Tbh the GG world has seen their fair share of weird name. Ex. Sol Badguy.) Lethargy on the other hand due to some ties with Ariels(Shes basically their older sister) decides to go by their nickname "Lethe" there.

They're basically living out their new life peacefully. Delilah has no idea Romeo is alive *alive* tho so Strive: Another Story still happens.

Will the bed siblings reunite?? yeah

Will i make that comic??? maybe. depends.

But thats the Au for now, its a recent one so the concept is rough around the edges.

[hogletthe2nd]

CBeeduo fankid this CBeeduo fankid that, but what about CTommy fankid

[rose022]

ok here is the cat pics

[goblinbugthing]

please tell me how to beat team slacker I Want That Trophy

[luniviravosshipper]

Over Analyzing and Theorizing Things About Captian Skall

I’m not sure how I feel about making this my first post on this blog (since I haven’t finished setting it up), but I just had too many thoughts on this to not share them. Also, this is going to be a bit of a ramble because it’s late at night and I’m tired so I’m not putting too much effort into making it structurally sound. I’m really just brain dumping my thoughts here.

So firstly, I want to point out Captain Skall’s character introduction because I find it intriguing.

At the very beginning of the poem, it states that she “did scrawl a journey by river and sea��. Scrawl means to write something rapidly and carelessly so that could imply that she was hastily mapping out her plan of travel. It also says that as she began to travel and claim “her legend” she “called herself free”. I wonder if it’s trying to suggest that perhaps she was running away from something. Especially if you take into consideration the middle line, “from the isles without name”.

On the map of Xadia and the Human Kingdoms, there’s the Independent Isles that appear in the bottom left hand corner. Could this maybe be where it’s saying she comes from? If so, I can’t help but to speculate what exactly she was trying to run away from there if she was because we know so little about it. It’s also interesting because as we read on through the rest of the poem, it seems like the themes of freedom and adventure are pretty evident throughout it. I wonder what that says about what we’ll learn about her character in the future.

“Past the uneven towers” is undoubtedly referencing Katolis.

And I’m guessing that the part about the fields is referencing Duren, mainly because they’re known for their farming.

I feel like the last part of this stanza may actually have a deeper meaning to it. The verse’s focus on her not wanting to settle in Duren might be intentional. And I have one idea of why the writers might have included it.

According to TDP wiki, Duren used to have a queen that was considered to be cruel because she banished a lot of people north and she was eventually overthrown by those who banished her.

North of Duren is Skall’s Hook. And we do not know what happened to the queen after she was overthrown.

I’m not sure of it. But it may be possible that she was either this queen or at least associated with her. I mean, again, I’m not set on that idea, but I just think it’s a possibility to consider especially as we read on.

The next part reveals she hungered for glory instead of bread and so she continued on her journey north. This again seems to imply her longing for adventure and freedom. But her not hungering the bread of Duren could be important in itself too. Bread can sometimes be symbolic in writing. Bread is oftentimes associated with things like prosperity, abundance, inner fulfillment, and generosity. And it also notes of how bountiful the supply of Duren was. So I wonder what it could be saying in terms of symbolism. Did she find something in Duren that might have provided her with these things but she refused to accept them into her life? Who knows?

Also, sort of an interesting detail here. The writer’s specify that it’s autumn which comes before winter and she’s heading north where it’s cold. Story wise, they could also be using this to indicate a shift in her story where things take a dark turn when she leaves Duren, again, playing into that idea that she might have left something in Duren that she shouldn’t have.

Now, a lot could be interpreted from this next section and I don’t even know where to start because I have so many ideas of what it could mean. But I’ll attempt to.

It states how she goes on her journey “forgoing a man who’d have made her his bride”, as in she was either running away from a man who proposed to her or is traveling to him to decline him. (The wording here is weird because I don’t know if it’s trying to say she’s traveling away or towards the man.)

Her avoidance of this marriage could be seen as another sign of her valuing her independence over what might be best for her (as it is later on revealed in the poem that she does in fact love the man).

But I think what the bigger question here is who is this man and what is the context of this proposal?

If she’s traveling away from the man, I think the interpretation that she is running away from some sort of arranged marriage as I’ve seen some people suggest makes the most sense here. I think that’d also be very fitting with the theory that she might be the cruel queen of Duren. On the other hand though, if she’s traveling towards the man… I mean, there’s not much else that we know of that's north besides the Frozen Sea, Skall’s Hook, and the Star Scraper. And I can’t really imagine who would really be in that direction.

Unless, of course, it was Aaravos.

Aaron Ehasz stated a long time ago that there was a very important person to Aaravos and that their name would appear on the TDP map. It seems very possible that Skall was the person he was referring to.

Although, I don’t really favor this interpretation of the text. It’s not because I don’t think it’d make sense for her to be the person that Ehasz talked about, but because I’m not sure about Aaravos being the one to propose to her. He could still very much have a connection to her but that doesn’t mean this poem is necessarily talking about him. We know so little about Aaravos as a character or as a Startouch elf and so we have no idea why he would be interested in pursuing her. Still, that doesn’t exempt him from being considered a possible suitor of hers. We'll just have to find out more on this later.

I don’t really know what this part is talking about because we don’t really have an idea of what Skall’s hook actually is yet. Maybe that’s where she attempted to confront Aaravos? But I’m guessing there’s more that she did there as well. If we’re following the theory that she might have been connected to the cruel queen of Duren, maybe she traveled to Skall’s Hook to save the people there that the queen banished.

This seems to be further emphasizing Skall’s longing for travel and exploration, but at this point it seems like it’s trying to portray it as almost like a form of greed. Skall continues to look for more ways to leave an influence on the world when she already did and only ends up getting stuck in the Frozen Sea because she can’t settle for what she already has.

At the very end of it all, she ends up dying there as she contemplates her true feelings for the man and how she wished she could confess them to him.

I want to point out how it states that “she found peace” in her last days there. I think that’s interesting for the writers to note of since the ending of the poem basically suggests that she froze to death and I wouldn’t typically consider that to be a peaceful way of dying. What makes this most odd though is that there’s no comma to indicate a separation in different clauses here. So like instead of saying “and while she found peace, she wished that…” it says “and while she found peace she wished that…” Considering the implied themes of her character, I think this might be saying that as she was dying she was finally given some time to reflect on her life and she began to see things with more clarity. That could be why she finds her last days so peaceful, not because of how she died, but because she finally developed understanding of herself and her faults. I don’t know, maybe I’m way overthinking this. I just find it interesting how they punctuated this sentence since it implies she might have actually found peace while contemplating her feelings for the man instead of finding pain in realizing those feelings, which could say some things. Also, this entire ending really just puts into question why she was going to forgo the man in the first place.

Now, for some other thoughts I have too that don’t necessarily come from the poem directly.

I don’t know when Captain Skall lived specifically, but there’s a couple of other characters that I have a feeling might be associated with her besides Aaravos and the cruel queen of Duren.

Sir Phineas Krist and Delilah Giehl were travelers together and it could be possible that at some point they bumped into each other or even traveled together. The only thing that really makes me doubt this is that they lived during the era of Sol Regem and Captain Skall most likely had to live afterwards. But they were also the writers and publishers of the Lost Secrets of Xadia book which had the excerpt about Aaravos in it that came from the show, so they could just be connected by their shared association with Aaravos.

She might have some connection with Kim’dael too.

Okay, so this inspired by another theory I’m developing based off of Captain Skall and where she’s from. I saw someone on the TDP discord talk about this and I really like the idea so I’m going to share some of mine based off theirs.

Moonshadow elves had a significant role in helping banish the humans to the west. It could be possible that a lot of them got trapped in between the west and the east in the process of this. In fact, it’s even confirmed that some did get stuck on the west side of the continent.

What if some of these elves, perhaps unable to return to the Moonshadow forest and were too fearful of the humans to interact with them, decided to settle on the Independent Isles?

I mean, that does look suspiciously moon shaped if you asked me. It could be hinting to something.

What if Esmeralda felt trapped there by the other Moonshadow elves and wanted to escape from them? That could explain a lot about her need for freedom seen throughout the poem. She could have been a human who was supposed to be exported by the elves but got trapped with them on these isles and was forced to retreat in order to guarantee her safety. Or, alternatively, she could have been a Moonshadow elf herself who didn’t agree with the other elves’s distaste towards humans. (I’d imagine that if she was one she was able to travel the human kingdoms by disguising herself via the use of illusions.)

Now, here’s where her connection to Kim’dael comes in.

Kim’dael and the Order of the Bloodmon reigned during the era of Luna Tenebris. From what I understand, the humans were banished from the east at the beginning of her era. She reigned for 700 years, roughly 300 years before the current timeline of the show.

We have no idea what’s on these isles or what’s happening on them now besides the possibility of Moonshadow elves being located there. 700 years is a long time, like it’s practically the amount of time the human kingdoms existed for, and a lot of events could have taken place during the reign of the Order of the Bloodmoon. And let’s not forget, we know very little about Kim’dael’s origin story. She could have very much had an association with Skall as a Moonshadow elf. What if Kim’dael even came from these Isles like Skall did? I don’t know, this feels like a lot that I’m throwing out there, but overall I think we should consider some of these things. I'll probably make another post elaborating on this theory later.

She also might have had a run in with Akiyu. This isn’t really based off of anything, I just feel like we haven’t seen all of Akiyu yet. She’s probably more involved in Aaravos’s imprisonment and backstory than we have so far learned about, especially since apparently all information on her has vanished in Xadia like all information on Aaravos did. I know that Skall was traveling in the west and Akiyu could have been very far east where the Tidebound Archipelago is at the time she was traveling, but she was traveling by water and we don’t really know much about Akiyu’s backstory so… maybe they met? I don’t know, this might be a bit of a stretch. You might have to just ignore this part lol.

Anyways, that’s all my thoughts for now. I might add onto this more later, but I think that’s essentially all I have to say right now regarding Captain Skall and what we might find out about her.

[gorgynei]

my new fringe delilah take is that delilah genuinely does love laudna. obviously delilahs form of love isnt healthy, so it's not really a positive relationship for laudna, but delilah does care about her, in her way. over the course of the campaign (and maybe because she's been watching laudna go down a dangerous path willingly and her relationship w imogen evolve), delilah has cared more for her over time. she doesn't see laudna as just a phylactery or nuisance anymore. laudna is her daughter