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Bandages on Broken Souls: A Nostramo Culture/Lore Post
Sometimes I think about the wee lower-deck people that were all covered in bandages in the Night Lords Trilogy. Why so bandagey? (Bandagepilled wrapmaxxers, not beating the bandage allegations, etc)
She glanced at the wretch, who was unhealthily tall and sexless in its overcloak, keeping its face behind stained bandages. Several others lurked close to the door, whispering amongst themselves. It was impossible not to smell their sweat, their stinking, bloodstained bandages, and the rancid oil-blood of their bionics.
Those ones. The attendants providing for Octavia's needs as a Navigator. Octavia's attendants.
It turns out ADB does tell us a bit later on:
The chlorine reek of them offended his senses, the way it rose in a miasma from their antiseptic-soaked bandages, as if such trivial protections could ward against the changes of the warp.
This is very interesting to me for a few reasons since it can lead to various interpretations about Nostraman culture, even though it's important to bear in mind that what we're seeing is the degraded situation after however-many thousand subjective years of dicking about in the Warp, Eye of Terror etc.
They believe, or at least Ruven the POV character here thinks they believe, that warp mutation can be defended against with purely physical items i.e. bandages and disinfectant. While it's easy to point to examples of people from all kinds of cultures in the setting using spiritual or metaphysical ways to protect themselves from the warp, I find it interesting that this doesn't seem to occur to the Nostramans.
In fact, unless I'm remembering it wrong (always a possibility tbh) other than a small mention in one of the Gendor Skraivok short stories about there being a secret Lectitio Divinitatus cult among the serfs, there seems to be very little spiritual/religious belief organic to Nostramo itself.
That makes some sense, I think. It is after all Space Gotham, a world of armoured groundcars and looming starscrapers where everyone is living under some form or another of very high pressure just to survive whether that means getting their next meal or keeping their position in high level gang politics. Whatever beliefs the original settlers brought with them to the Sunless World were, I imagine, ground away over time as generations passed and people had other, more visceral concerns.
There are a few scenes in the 1984 nuclear war TV movie Threads that take place in the period about 10-20 years after the bombs have fallen. It's clear that the by now rapidly deteriorating survivors of the pre-war world are trying as best they can to provide some kind of education for their post-war descendants, but this is extremely limited and relies on what they can gather together from whatever books, VHS tapes etc happened to survive the war:
"The skeleton of a cat! A cat's skeleton!"
And we can see that it simply means nothing to the children and young adults whose entire existence revolves around basic survival - mostly food and the things they have to do in order to get it.
This, in a way, is what I think happened to whatever beliefs in anything beyond the material that may have ever existed on Nostramo by the time we see it in the Crusade/Heresy era. It's a sad, stunted little world and I feel immensely sorry for the nasty, skeevy people it produced.
Another factor affecting this would of course be the Night Haunter. You don't really need to have a spiritual/metaphorical figure or system dispensing rules and justice when Konrad is actually real and inside your home making it brutally clear what his views on law-breaking are.
So, in my usual roundabout way, we come back to the bandages again. My view, as I've expressed before in my ramblings, is that Konrad didn't truly eradicate crime on Nostramo so much as eradicate the appearance of it.
There's a legend from Ancient Greece about a Spartan boy training to be a warrior which I'll post as a screenshot below since I think we could all do with a break from my writing style for a bit:
"He could steal and suffer and die rather than be found out" is the relevant part here I think. Much like the idea that snitches get stitches or the mafia code of omertĆ where one's value in society and life itself hinge on a mutual keeping of silence against any and all authority figures.
We know that even before Konrad arrived, Nostraman society functioned on a gang allegiance basis, so already fertile ground for a very insular and secretive type of culture. But then we add the Night Haunter to the mix and the numbers spell disaster for you at Sacrifice the social pressure in this direction ramps up massively.
It's also made very clear pretty much everywhere that Nostramo is a vicious, predatory society. There's a description in one of the Skraivok stories of Phy Orlon, the canonical smallest saddest uwu-iest Night Lord:
It astounded Skraivok how such a vulpine little thing had made it through the selection process. Even bulked by legionary gifts, Orlon still managed to convey the impression of feebleness. Towards the end, Nostramo had been providing only the dregs of the dregs. No wonder Curze had levelled the place.
Weakness was like the scent of blood in the water to the Night Lords. Legionaries like Orlon would always attach themselves to those they deemed powerful, for protection. That explained the ridiculous batwings welded to the top of his helm in emulation of Sevatar, and why he had appointed himself as Skraivokās adjutant.
It's like prison or high school. Even the transhuman supersoldier Nostramans still function this way. What hope do ordinary people have?
Not much at all, I think. Just in order to survive day to day it'd be necessary to conceal any injury, weakness or deformity at the risk of having it being ruthlessly used against you by just about everyone.
So we come back to the bandages again. Told you I'd get there eventually. We see that the attendants are in fact completely covered in bandages Joshua Graham style:
āLord,ā they hissed through slits in their faces that were once lips. Their bloodstained bandages rustled as they shifted and lowered their weapons.
[...]
She raised a bandaged hand, as if she could possibly bar the warriorās passage with a demand, let alone with her physical presence.
I can imagine the impulse to cover up and conceal any weakness applies very strongly to warp mutations of any sort. Curdled and degraded over millennia roaming the immaterium in the bowels of a ship with the changes becoming worse and worse the longer they go on, it would be plausible for this to develop into a need to cover up and disinfect every inch of oneself in order to maintain some pretence, however flimsy, of being a capable human being.
The saddest part of it for me, though, is that all of the attendants are like this. It's a situation where everyone is quite literally in the same boat, undergoing the same suffering, and yet they still retain this deeply-ingrained need to hide and conceal themselves from each other. It feels like even here, ten thousand years after its destruction, Nostramo's poison is still influencing them, still flowing through their veins to keep them separated, afraid, and deeply alone.
Oh wow, a few paragraphs from ADB somehow led to a great long wall of text. Congratulations if you've made it this far!
PS: This being ADB I feel obliged to consider the possibility of Ruven either lying or being mistaken. I don't think this is likely since he is a) also Nostraman and b) a sorcerer meaning that if there was any spiritual aspect going on he would more than likely have the requisite cultural/magical knowledge or experience to be aware of it or otherwise detect it. Ruven is a conniving goth thot but he has no reason to lie in that particular bit of his own thoughts.
#night lords#lore#nostraman culture#lore post#wh40k#warhammer 40000#warhammer 40k#horus heresy#nostramo#warhammer lore#in this house we respect Hound who deserved far better than what he got#nightlordposting#is this domestic lore? i feel like it is#domestic lore#this will be the 327th post in which i have mentioned Threads (1984) and i have become exceedingly good at it#neves loreposts
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Event spoilers but Sebek mentions how Lilia and Silver once spilled sauce on their curtains. When the stain didn't come out after washing, they decided to redye the curtains together, even after Malleus offered to just buy them new ones. They're so cute I'm going to blow up thinking about this for the rest of the day oh my god
#twst#twisted wonderland#silver twisted wonderland#twst silver#silver vanrouge#lilia vanrouge#twst event spoilers#event spoilers#you CANNOT give me any diasomnia lore and expect me to be normal about it I LOVE THEM#it's ssooo domestic?? I know it sounds so tame but ugh#you know lilia was treating it like this big arts and crafts project and silver was taking it super seriously#CUTE
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Iāve written a little drabble along with this below, because I just- I just needed this
(āMarry me, Archieā by Flyte, sets the scene)
Arthur wakes to a crackling sound followed by a baby fussing and blinks himself awake.
He takes a deep inhale through his nose, turning his head towards the baby monitor then further to the alarm clock.
He sighs, lifting both hands to rub at his face, the skin of his palms dry and his face even more so.
4 hours.
Definitely a step forward, a new record.
"Quāl heureā¦"
The fussing from the monitor continues, small cries taking on in volume. Heāll have to go in before Matthew wakes up as well.
āIāve got it. Go back to sleep.ā
Arthur mumbles groggily, pushing himself up reluctantly and pulling the duvet aside.
A warm hand brushes at his back and he pauses to sit at the edge of the bed. He eyes the monitor, then the open door ahead of him.
The house is cold and he shivers, counting to three then reaches behind him to give Francisā hand a squeeze and a lazy kiss, before heaving himself to stand with a grunt.
The shirt he wore yesterday is the closest at hand and he pulls it on to ward off the chills until he can get back to bed and steps into the pair of slippers that stand by the door when he finally drags himself out of the bedroom and down along the corridor.
He runs a flat hand across his hair, brushing it out of his face and closing his eyes while he walks.
He refuses to turn the lights on, the house isnāt that dark and itās maneuverable. The light always seems to disturb Alfred more than help him anyway, especially sick, he seems particularly light sensitive after waking.
His slippers drag against the wooden flooring and leads him to the room next door.
The door is ajar, a point they make to keep everything open and easy to access. He steps into the doorway, giving the door a gentle push.
Heās greeted by the softest of light from a winnie-the-pooh night light sitting in the outlet at the end of the room and Arthur thanks the heavens itās as dull and old as it is, to shine so softly.
The first crib he sees is with Matthew. Itās silent, and he can glimpse him still sleeping, while a step further in allows him to spot Alfred.
Arthur looks at him squirming and making a rocus. He huffs exasperatedly.
āHello.ā He sighs, as he drags himself to the cribās edge.
Alfredās managed to wrap himself up in his blankets, lying on his back, he looks at the verge of a fit.
Upon seeing him approach, the fussing becomes the beginnings of sobbing and Arthur leans down. Outstretching his arms to begin freeing him from the blanket-prison heās gotten himself trapped in.Ā
āOh, I know. I know. You make some compelling arguments, sire.ā
Alfred hiccups at that, binky lying abandoned in the array of teddies Francisā showered him with after his last recovery and he seems like heās missed it when Arthur places it back into his greedy little hands.
He probably couldnāt find it in his frantic attempt to unwind himself.
Arthur places both hands under his arms, lifting him up with a playful heave and a ho and places the lad on his hip.
He gives him a once over, checking his face and skin for anything out of the ordinary, but heās just teary eyed and snot faced and really thatās not so bad, is it.
He gets a hitched breath and decides to get moving to warm up a bottle. A babbling of discontentment following him as he begins to walk.
āThat right? Surely not, love, surely not. I bet youāre as tired as I am.ā
Alfred babbles some more and Arthur nods in agreement, directing his gaze at his feet, to watch his step down the stairs.Ā
āYes, yes, I donāt like sleeping hungry either. Here we go, downstairs.ā
The last step creaks obnoxiously and Arthur reminds himself for the hundredth time that he should probably take a look at that.
Alfred continues to fuss and Arthur continues to humor him, jumping him up and down a few times, he goes to turn on the radiators in the living room before making the journey to the kitchen.
He turns on the light from the air vent, the yellow bulb flickers a few times before it comes on and he starts his nightly Alfred-routine.
He finds a pot, fills it with water and sets it to heat up.
Francis already prepared a bottle a few hours ago, ready to heat up and all Arthur has to do now is wait, as he places it carefully into the water to warm it.
The steam rises and begins to melt in with the air around it, and Arthur absentmindedly turns on the vent. It whirrs to life in a gradual ascent and Arthur sits Alfred down onto the counter and crouches down to be at face level with him.
Alfredās stopped crying, but is still hiccupping and fussy, and he stares teary eyed into Arthurās own, small scars from the pox still left over near his hairline.
āYou must be nocturnal.ā Arthur says, reaching his hands up to grab Alfredās smaller ones and drive them around in circles playfully.Ā
āYou sleep more during the day than you do during the night. Whatās that about, ay?āĀ
He says, smiling in an attempt to get Alfred to as well.
āAre you sneaking out to dance in the moonlight while your pa and I are sleeping?ā
Alfred continues to suck at his binky, but he does briefly smile and Arthur continues off of that.
āYou do?ā He makes an exaggeratedly surprised expression, and Alfred laughs through a hiccup.
āI didnāt take you much for a dancer, but I stand corrected. But as your father, I have to say youāre rather young for such nightly escapades, young man.ā
Alfred does laugh for real this time and Arthur grins at him. About to say something else when a sizzling from the pot boiling over catches his attention and he springs up to turn the heat off.Ā
He keeps one hand supporting Alfred, the other mindlessly grabbing the hot part of the pot and eliciting a yelp at the burn.Ā
Alfred seems to find his distress funny, because he laughs at the way Arthur flaps his hand then fumbles to pull the pot away by the handle.
A little sadist, the lad.
āYou little devil.ā He says incredulously. āLaughing at your own dad being an idiot, Iām perfectly capable of laughing at myself, thank you.ā
Alfred laughs, ironically, at that as well and Arthur figures it canāt be helped.
Heās just happy the boy isnāt crying anymore - God knows, heās done too much of that.
Arthur picks him back up and grabs a tea towel for the bottle to dry it off and to hold it without dropping it.
Heās going to let it sit for a minute or two, to cool to bearable temperatures, so he can test it and finally let Alfred have it.
Heās being surprisingly cooperative, looking down at the pot, with his hand fiddling with his binky.
āAre you excited to eat something?ā Arthur asks, resettling him to hold him with both arms.
Alfred keeps staring at the pot, but does move his hand and slaps it against Arthurās mouth.
He closes an eye at it, leaning his head back and sideways, but itās such commonplace itās barely surprising.
āAlright! Alright, cheers, Iām done talking.ā
They wait for the bottle with Arthur jumping Alfred and Alfred eventually abandoning the pot in favor of leaning his head to rest under Arthurās chin.
He begins to fuss again when Arthur tests the temperature of the milk on his arm and when he brings them out of the kitchen to sit down by the dinner table.
The light from the kitchen mixes with the blue hue of the night and Arthur situates Alfred to lie down in one arm and positions the bottle with the other.
Alfred spits the binky out himself, reaching greedily for his nighttime meal.
Arthur leans back in the chair for the following minutes, moving his head side to side in an attempt to loosen out a knick and closes his eyes tiredly for just a few moments.
He doesnāt know how heās gotten through the past 6 months.
First it was a lung infection, then the pox, then right back to another lung infection.
The doctors said heās predisposed to illness, something about being too small at birth, they donāt anticipate heāll make it much more than a year.
āIt just is that way at times with twins.ā
Arthur opens his eyes and looks down at his son tiredly and misty eyed.
He is small, lying there in the crook of his arm with his eyes closed, falling asleep while eating.
All babies are small. Theyāre supposed to be small, thatās the whole point of growing. And Alfredās been growing fine, heās smaller than Matthew is, but heās only half a year, he has plenty of time to catch up.
Arthur sniffs, turning his head towards his shoulder to wipe his face in it.Ā
Heāll catch up.
To hell with what the doctors say, heāll catch up and heāll make it past a year. Of course he will.Ā
A child doesnāt go out on nightly moonlight-raves at 6 months old, if they arenāt going to make it past one year.
Alfred will make it, and heāll get to grow up and go to actual raves and Arthurās going to support the hell out of it, because if Alfred wants to, then thatās reason enough to support it.
Alfred stops drinking with the tiniest bit left over and spits it out and Arthur sets it on the table quietly.
Alfredās eyes are closed, and heās breathing audibly, clearly half-asleep.
āAlrighty-o, lad.ā He says, sniffing and wiping at his nose briefly to situate Alfred upwards. āSorry to interrupt you, but youāre going to regret falling asleep without trying to throw up on me first, so letās get that over with, shall we?ā
Alfred stares at him sleepily in response and Arthur brings them back to the kitchen to get a small towel to put over his shoulder.
He sets the bottle to soak for the night and pats Alfredās back.
He does burp a few times, but to Arthurās relief, there is no reflux along with it.
He just lies there, and Arthur stands with him until he falls asleep, falling heavy and limp against his shoulder and thatās that for tonight then.
He turns the vent and the light off and stands for a moment to adjust to the dark.
He skips the creaky step on the stairs as he goes up and returns as quietly as he can to the nursery to set Alfred down.
The lad fusses briefly as heās laid down, but settles just as quickly and Arthur watches him with the light from the nightlight for a time. Perhaps too long.
They shouldāve waited with giving them their own room, it wouldāve been easier to hear them from their own and Arthur wouldnāt have to feel so on edge he barely even sleeps anymore.
He runs his fingers softly across Alfredās cheek. Stroking across the babyfuss and the drool and the stray streaks of milk that he wipes away, unbothered.
He begins to hum, ever so quietly.
āClose your eyes,ā He mutters, voice terrible and definitely not made for singing. āHave no fear.ā
He tries to think about the future where Alfred is bigger. Where heās walking and running and biking, where heās using the swingset right alongside Matthew out in their backyard, and tumbling and getting scrapes and bruises that wonāt have the looming fear of being fatal.
āThe monsterās gone, heās on the run, and your daddyās here.ā
He begins to tear up, stroking Alfredās hair back, he pulls the blanket over him to tug him in properly.
āBeautiful, beautiful, beautiful,ā
Alfred stirs and Arthur retracts his hands. āBeautiful boy.āĀ
He hums the remaining tunes, letting them trail off to hear both boys breathing into the early morning.
He doesnāt bother drying his eyes this time, he doesnāt even know if he wants to go back to bed. Heās tired, exhausted, but he canāt stop worrying.
He wants to stop, but he canāt.
He crosses the room to check Matthew, finding him equally as asleep as Alfred, although instead of being wrapped in his blanket, heās kicked it off entirely.
Arthur replaces it over him and runs his hand across his hair the same way, before standing back and rubbing the heels of his hands into his eyes and deciding heās really going to be no help if he doesnāt sleep at all.
He casts a final look down at Matthew, lingering by both boys, before fighting himself back out into the hallway and creeping himself back into bed.
It dips softly and he falls onto the pillow with a sigh. He doesnāt bother taking the shirt off again and his side of the bed isnāt warm anymore either, so itās just as well.
Francis moves beside him as heās settled in, turning to face him and scooting closer to envelope him with the duvet.
It crinkles and warms him, Francisā arm snakes over and around and heās pressing a lazy, prickly kiss to his mouth that he doesnāt have the energy to return at all.
āI'll take the next one.ā Francis whispers.
āYou have not slept in days.ā
āNonsense.ā Arthur mutters.
Francis half-heartedly slaps his back.Ā
āItās like Iām taking care of three children, instead of 2.ā
Arthur scoffs. āO, ye of little faith.ā
Francis presses in for another kiss and Arthur returns it this time, albeit barely.
They settle down; At the verge of sleep.
The monitor goes off, and Francis groans.Ā
Arthur laughs.
#Hetalia#hws face family#hws england#hws france#hws canada#hws america#hws fruk#Human au#hetalia fruk#hetalia fanfiction#north american brothers#They're domestic and they're fucking healthy#and I have more fucking lore and I WILL drop it after this#Domestic FACE au#Art tag
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i adore selfshippers who have such a deep lore story for their s/i & ship because to be honest mine is filled with domestic lovey dovey stuff like us being emotional at our son's first day at the daycare or him telling me to take a bath together ... āļøš»... š
#š mayochatters#ive been thinking about nothing but domestic stuff like this š i want a loving family....#jimmy being so emotional seeing tommy going to the daycare š„¹š„¹š„¹#of course there r some important lore as well but its like . just a small part of our ship cus sunflawyer is mostly jimmy and abby being so+#+in love with each other šš#mostly jimmy being so head over heels over the mountain#like he practically kisses the ground abby stood on#sees her like a goddess too ... he's so dramatic...
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Still cannot believe warrior nun writers went full 'omg they were roommates and there is only one bed' coffeeshop bar au fanfic with avatrice absolutely zero fucks given. Like. The OCS is a top-secret organization that's literally funded by the catholic church, mother superion has the freaking pope on her speed dial, they have the artillery of a small army, secret codes, military-grade tech and weapons, presumably enough money at their disposal to travel the world should the need arise, etc. And then avatrice is like. scrubbing bar floors and sharing a dingy studio apartment in Switzerland to "keep a low profile" or whatever. We don't even know how they got there. It doesn't even matter. s1 ended on a pretty intense cliffhanger with all of our characters in a sticky situation. Whatever, we're skipping ALL of that. "I bet you want to know what happened. Yeah, idk, I'm still figuring it out myself" ā fade to black and cut to 2 months time jump with no explanation whatsoever. Ava is mixing cocktails and Beatrice is her boss. They're in love but they're also idiots. Zero exposition, zero fucks, just fanfic and vibes.
#there are two wolves inside me#one of them wants the lore. the exposition. pls explain things to me#the other would watch 10 hours of avatrice domestic fluff and dumbassary no questions asked#warrior nun#avatrice
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oh to be alhaitham and kaveh's third roommate. less of a stray, more of a tax-paying citizen of sumeru city who mellows the two of them out. mediates by your nature.
you listen to kaveh's rants and ravings, let him show you his blueprints and new inspirations, and inspire him in kind with casual beauties you bring him. a padisarah in full bloom you found by the market. a seashell, found on the shores of yazahada pool, carried in from the ocean by the rivers current.
you sit quiet with alhaitham. you pet his hair after long days, lean against his side during the kinder ones. he likes when you read over his shoulder or have your nose in your own book. you start keeping a book of crossword puzzles on the coffee table, topped with a black ink pen, and you'll ask alhaitham to do one with you when the mood strikes.
(nsfw)
you cow them both into being a bit more... reasonable with one and other. they're oil and water, sun and moon, sky and sea. you remind alhaitham that antagonizing kaveh with staunch logic isn't the best way to resolve a conflict. you remind kaveh that not everything he feels is a personal slight is intended to be taken in such a way.
you are the jar that hold the oil and water. the star bed that carries the sun and moon. solid earth that keeps the sky tethered and the sea close.
alhaitham takes your recommendation for books seriously-- dives into fiction at your request. his assistant at the akademiya catches him reading what could only be called a "smut novel" between meetings. kaveh drags you into the study and kisses you breathless on the comfy chaise lounge in the corner, pushing you into the cushions and telling you sweetly-- "stay just like that." sketches you. paints you. memorizes the contours and curves of you.
when you tumble into bed, it's a dance.
kaveh maps out the curves of you with soft, long-fingered hands. leaves scratches and opened-mouthed kisses in his wake. kaveh wants to feel you. the rush of heat that comes when he sucks a bruise into your neck. the breath that rushes from your lungs when you let out a pretty keen.
alhaitham wants to know you. wants to learn you in the most intimate way. he wants to know the best angles to crook his finger inside you, the positions that make your eyes roll back in your skull. there's something about rendering you-- someone so horribly intentional, kind, present-- into a puddle, at his hand, that alhaitham quietly adores. shows you, more than tells you. you never leave bed without a limp, or a drooling web of slick and spunk stickying your thighs.
you drag them close. glut yourself on them. watch starry eyes when they kiss, whimper at the way they both go weak for teasing. you spit in your palms and tug at them both, watch with a split smile when kaveh has to duck his head into alhaitham's neck. overcome with just a little touch.
it's all reciprocal. you trade teeth marks (and in alhaitham's case, chomps) and have a schedule for who cooks dinner each night. you link arms with kaveh on the way to the market and steal sips of alhaithams tea before bed. you all attempt to steal the duvet during the night, so you propose to invest in another to keep folded at the end of your shared mattress.
you're grateful, to have fallen into step with them
#lore writes#alhaitham x reader#kaveh x reader#alhaitham x reader x kaveh#drabbles#i love these two#their dynamic#oh to be squished between them#lovely and domestic :'^)
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...so you just threw this beautiful idea of Fyuuture kid, and left me with a brainrot? Especially after you answered one ask with i quote "he loves his parent so much and was really fighting it to keep it together when he saw them alive again" end of the quote. WHAT DO YOU MEAN AGAIN? WHAT? HOW?
ask 1 and ask 2
Oh šš? I wasn't expecting to get an ask about this au ever again actually, but I am so glad you did, I like it a lot. I mentioned Fire Emblem Awakening in the first ask I got about it but for those of you who haven't played the game, the plot features the children of your army traveling back in time to try and prevent the end of the world. That's more or less what happened in the fyuuture kid au, at least in my first draft... I always end up associating the "future kid meets their parents" trope with either FE: Awakening or I guess Golden Sun? Which I think is the name of the jrpg where something similar happens idk I just like there being a reason for the kid to need to meet their parents.
In my original draft of the au, Yuu was told by Crowley there was no way home for them, so they settled down with Yutu's father and started building a life together. This turned out to not be true, as the Magical Marshall's office began investigating the overblots that happened while Yuu was in school and came to the conclusion Yuu had something to do with them; so they were secretly arrested, cursed to forget everything about Twisted Wonderland, and sent home. The curse was meant to trigger every time Yuu vaguely remembered their time in the otherworld, with the idea their brain would prevent them from thinking about it after a while. They would have justified it, if anyone had been there to ask, by saying Yuu wouldn't know they were missing anything and would be able to live a happy life. When Yutu was born that made that outcome impossible, but the Marshal's office didn't think to check if Yuu was pregnant...
Shortly after they did that though strange things started happening. Monster attacks got more frequent, blot levels started rising, not to extremes immediately but still enough to be concerning. Reports of a strange, abyssal magic using beast, started pouring in to S.T.Y.X. suspiciously close to Grim's description. While Yuu was busy trying to put their life back together in their world, Twisted Wonderland slowly began to fall apart drowning under an ink colored sky. The overblot phantoms they fought come back and begin hunting in their respective homelands, and rumor has it they can turn certain mages into their thralls...
The curse slowly eats away at Yuu's brain, every time they see something that reminds them of their friends, their time at NRC, every time Yutu does something that would make them think about how much he takes after his dad, they feel a great deal of physical pain and temporarily lose the ability to function. It's killing them, and no doctor or specialist can figure out the cause, so Yutu just has to sit there and watch his parent slowly die and not be able to do anything about it. I was uncertain of where exactly I wanted Yuu to die in the story, but it always was around when Yutu gets isekaid to NRC, either before and he had to leave them behind or after when they both get to go home finally! But Yuu doesn't completely make it, they're able to have one moment of peace with their son and Professor Crewel before passing on.
Yutu's dad changes depending on who you want it to be of course, as does whether they met before he and his friends decided to go back in time to prevent this version of the future from ever happening, but his feelings about Yuu never changes. Yutu really admires his parent, he did even before he learned about them facing down overblots! They were really close and the more he learned about their curse, the more responsible he felt for their death. He's very determined to keep Yuu alive and safe in Twisted Wonderland in this timeline, even if it costs him his life.
His opinion on his dad really changes depending on who it is and what he learns about them. Like can you imagine learning your dad was known for being obsessed with teeth and no he had no intention of being a dentist? Clown behavior ššš His friends were all ocs I made but never really developed... I do remember that one was a younger sibling of Kalim's (who could be his aunt if you like Kalim and absolutely embraces that role), her retainer, Crewel's son who also sees himself as Yutu's uncle (the feeling isn't mutual) because he is old enough to sort of remember Yuu and thinks of them as a sibling, and a random oc I based off of the kid from Up for no reason other than I like the movie. They also came back in time, but only Yutu ended up in the right place, just like fire emblem awakening.
idk I should probably do something with it. like writing the reactions for the other dorms...
#<3 asks#twisted wonderland x reader#twst x reader#future kid au#i am so sorry if you wanted more domestic moments w yuu and yutu and got a lore dump instead#if you want those feel free to ask i need a distraction from the long fic i am writing ha
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Night Terrors
#lore? in my soft domestic au? more likely than youād think#post parable au#.png#stanley tsp#Timekeeper tsp#the stanley parable#tsp#the stanley parable ultra deluxe#tspud#also hi Iām alive for the most part#I love random depressive episodes
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shoutout to whatever L and Light had going on in Time Speaks
#and they had A LOT going on#death note#l lawliet#light yagami#death note fanfiction#lawlight#been thinking about rereading it. overwhelmed with emotion simply at the thought#god that fic is so. so.....#if you've read the fic please....... please talk to me#it's a time loop fic it's a fix-it fic it's got angst it's got lore it's got good misa writing it's got domesticity it's got mind games#it has everything like EVERYTHINGGG#I've never been so engaged with death note lore before#the world building is crazy the build-up to the reveal is crazy#almost every character shows up at least once and I cheered every time#if it weren't 400k words long I'd almost say it should be required reading I love it a lot#I know the author is on tumblr I follow them#if they see this hello thank you I owe you everything actually
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why are they so comfortable hating on us tumblrinas :-(((((( donāt forget your origins
#idk what dan thinks goes on over here#youāre the yaoi boy you tell us#while we just cry about heart eyes and domestic lore#dnp#dan and phil#phan
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If domestic cats exist in your furryverse WHO domesticated them.
Trick question cats already domesticated themselves
#its the dogs we should be worried about#just kidding idk i donāt care to develop any lore for domestic animals they just exist its fine. thatās a subject where if you touch it too#much you start making racism and slavery allegories#too risky. i world build with a healthy amount of cartoon logic and suspended disbelief#quarshton
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time for a change!
astrophilip -> fryday š«¶āØļø
in honour of dnp's "sacred" tradition of saturday fries :'))
(if you feel like reblogging this post to spread the word i would appreciate it!)
#i cannot believe this url was available!!!#i love it so much#i LOVE anything domestic and i love dnp and this is one of the MOST domestic pieces of dnp lore ever#fyi: second pic is from the kiswe wad livestream & third pic is from wdapteo 4 around 14:20#dan and phil#dnp#rambles#url change#url#fryday#astrophilip#astrophilip -> fryday
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(other q&a answers that i wanna save. personally interested in the chance of going to sydney's house.)
#i can't think of how it'll advance the plot for now but i really like. domesticityā¦#also could get us a closer look on syd and sirris' relationship#maybe?#dol lore#sydney the fallen#sydney the faithful#jordan the pious#sirris the science teacher#ivory wraith the forlorn#ivory wraith#whitney the bully#river the maths teacher#ok i think that's all? checking it later#robin the orphan#robin#kylar the loner#degrees of lewdity#ayan para di na ko mahirapan
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Iām a huge fan of the idea of dropping a single Affini into a setting and see how much they can accomplish on their own. Affini can hit like a truck and can survive re-entry into the atmosphere when a full strength. They ārebloomā making them functionally immortal depending on the fic. But like. Chuck a single Affini onto modern day earth. Does it have the ability to domesticate a whole planet itself? My guess is no, butā¦ isnāt it a fun idea???
#this is also how may warhammer 40k lore is working out#single Affini in the whole setting#see what happens#human domestication guide#hdg
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VENOM WAR #1 Spoilers
Eddie: WDYM YOU LOST MY OTHER?! HE/YOU HAD ONE JOB!!!
Dylan: DAD I'M HOMELESS + LITERALLY DIED, CAN YOU GIVE A DAMN FR!!!?
Bren and Normie in the bg:
Sleeper:
#Flexo: Ā°_Ā°#// at this point Sleeper's just glad They aren't biologically related to Eddie#//only Dylan has that baggage to carry#eddie brock#(did every other writer just ignore Costa's lore that Sleeper was raised that mf?)#dylan brock#sleeper symbiote#āi only want what's best for youā#āyou're like a brother to meā#// they areeee: they've both called the same man dad!!!#venom war 1#(focusing on the good we have going on rn - high on copium)#(i believe we can still achieve domestic Symbrock </3)#(that after the upcoming run Dylan tracks down his parent who - after fucking around with Luke Cage or whomever - returns home)#ššš#Venom Posting#venom war#my art#text post#my not art#venom comics#marvel art#venom art
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Leonard the Turtle?????
Alex calling HIMSELF some rare woodland creature skshshs so tru bbgirl
TLSP interviews, the gift that never stops giving
#when youre tired š why r u so domestic#turtle lore#miles kane#alex turner#tlsp#the last shadow puppets#WHO IS LEONARD
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