#elise : main verse.

[badnikbreaker]

@antimetathesis liked! / kaien & elise!

Odd.

Not Elise — not now, at least. She looks like a perfectly normal young woman at present, and even amongst the handful of her citizens who have gotten proper glimpses of their king's face, none would be able to identify the scruffy young woman wandering the streets as King Elise. No. Today, Elise is nearly normal. What's odd is ———

Every moment, every blink, she sees worldlines knitting and unraveling. She can pluck timelines like threads, and her godhood reacts to others who are more than human, defensive, almost jealous. She looks at the stranger and sees reality all but cave in around him. Fascinating. She wants to study him.

She's so focused — so fascinated — that she misses sight of worldline where she trips over a crack in the sidewalk and propels directly into his chest, face first. Because she misses that glimpse of a worldline, she doesn't correct, and she — well, does just that. Propels into his chest, face first. This is the worst day of her life, including when a malevolent god got sealed inside her ribs at age seven.

"Oh my goodness." It's a breathless gasp as she pushes away, face as red as her hair. Forget studying him, she needs to disappear, NOW. ( if she could do so without outing herself as god, she would. ) "I'm so — so sorry. I wasn't watching where I was going." If she hadn't spent her first life learning not to feel anything, she'd have lit herself on fire purely out of embarrassment.

[galaxy-0f-muses]

@diverse-hearts-ocs asked: "Hmm? Were you looking for me?" - Sabriel / Elise Unprompted

"Oh, yeah! I was. . ." It doesn't matter how far things had gone, or will go. She was still a being with her own emotions and thoughts. She hated this woman, the simple fact of her existence was a risk. The fact that she just wormed her way in the way she did and is just. . . Thriving was worse.

One of these days, she was going to kill this woman. She just wanted that reminder of why she hated her so much. One look at her face did it well enough for her.

"But someone else came by and helped me out. Everything's fine now."

[sanguineweave]

@evelicious prayed : 💅 : your muse paints my muse’s nails .

❝ Ah-ah-ah, ❞ Elise tutted, casting a skeptical glance towards the bottle of nail polish beneath Evelynn's hovering hand as her lips pursed together a tad. Only once said hand found the exact shade she desired did Elise give her hum of approval. Admittedly, it probably wasn't the easiest task in the world ━ her collection was made up of mostly black, greys, reds and plums, and navy blue tones. She owned no small number of shades of each color.

Presenting her hand and her newly filed nails, two short and three long, Elise simply waited for Evelynn to begin painting them with the dark plum she had picked out. It would compliment her outfit rather well, of course, the black was a given, but parts of her dress had a slight purple sheen that would go best with purplish details, such as the color of her nails.

Not to mention the amethyst that rested securely atop her breast on a silver pendant. She may have even put together her attire of the day based around this item.

❝ Your hands are remarkably steady, dear. Not a stroke out of place ━ were I to guess, I would assume you have done a fair bit of this over the years. ❞

Elise noted, though her attention shifted slightly towards the end of the last sentence, as she felt a tingle on her right shoulder leading up to her neck. Her free hand reached up to slowly guide the stray Anaya onto it. The spider, radiating magic to those with keen eyes and roughly the size of a tarantula, perched atop Elise's hand with beady eyes watching Evelynn.

Elise's own crimson gaze shifted between her companions in a slow manner, back and forth, before finally settling on Evelynn, as well.

❝ I agree. Breathtaking, isn't she just? ❞

Between the way she said it and the intensity of her eyes upon the other woman, it should be pretty clear who she was talking about.

[fctedivided]

Unprompted ask. - @eternalbxtterfly sent:

"Oh it's...you.Why are you here all of a sudden exactly?" {{For the chairwoman}}

“Dear, oh dear, how rude. Is this how you treat your mother, daughter?” Bright green eyes were intensively staring at Elise, her smirk never faltered.

[infinitexmuses-archive]

@kitxkatrp p l o t (PM verse)

Elise, being the childish being she was, had happily spent her day running from Mori in the worst place possible. The very building the Port ran in. That meant she came across people and places she shouldn't be at, but they were forced to entertain her anyways. From Chuuya to Akutagawa, to any in between, they saw her that day, whether they wanted to or not.

She got a lot of cake today.

But then she got to the very last place she should be; the basement. The place where they kept people either to interrogate, kill, or simply keep. It was there she had come across someone she never knew was in there before today.

She looked a lot like her.

Eventually, Elise convinced the girl to start talking, and the two of them talked for a good while until Mori finally found her.

The moment the girl heard anyone coming, she refused to speak.

Elise, however, looked over at Mori with an innocent face, smiling as if she did nothing wrong all day- "Hi, Mori!"

[diverse-hearts]

@smol-sirens-garden asked for a Starter

"You promised that we'd be able to go out today and yet we're still inside this stinky office!", Elise was currently throwing one of her famous tantrums, even stomping her feet in frustration as she tried to regain Mori's attention. He seemed fixed on whatever he was doing on his computer, but Elise did not have the patience for this! She needed out of this tower before she lost her mind!

"Rintaro hates me after all!". With a dramatic sigh, she fell back on the nearby chair, groaning in defeat as she kicked her legs up in the air, "I'm bored! Let's go! I won't shut up till I get my cake!"

[ahogedetective]

"Aww you are the cute little detective are you not sweetie?Even pretty for a man if i do say so myself.How about a small feast.You do not need to worry it is not drugged,after all why would i want to kill somebody who i just met hm?" A soft smirk it never left her lips and it would be very much unfortunate if her new toy happened to die oh so quickly.Her blue eyes staring directly into his right afterwards.{{Shuichi meeting mafia boss Elise for the very first time.}}

".................." He ignores her sweet talking in regards to his looks, the silent, but cold glare never leaving his face. Even if she says the food is not drugged, Shuichi does not trust it for a minute. The mafia boss that has terrified the city for so long... even the highest of police forces have been unable to take her down. Mostly with how untouchable she was; it felt like it would be impossible to catch her.

At this point, it would likely take desperate measures to even be able to speak to her. That's when Shuichi proposed the crazy idea.. of willingly going to her headquarters. And so, he lets her men take him away and bring her here, most likely being stripped of any weapons he was carrying.

He knows the great risk he was taking... not even sure if there was a 100% chance if he was even coming out of this alive. But he felt that, if he didn't do this: then he and the precinct, will never get the opportunity to learn more about this mafia boss. And so, he would play along, and be careful not to say anything that could get him hurt or killed. So as much as he doesn't want to eat that food; he needed to stay on her good side for now.

"...Fine." He mutters. "...Shuichi Saihara. That is my name. You.. are the boss of this organization, correct? It seems like you already know about me, too.." To his honest surprise. He was jut a 'mere detective' that came all the way from Japan, after all... but then again, she probably recieved intel from all over the world, including all the detectives and police officers who are trying to track her down.

"Then...you probably already know why I'm here. I just want to talk. Your men have already confiscated any weapons or possible attack items I had on me. If that will further prove I have nothing up my sleeve."

[diiistcntlcnds]

Elise just stares at Pim's mother.

[wishfulmuses]

tag dump

[infinitexmuses-archive]

The longer it took to find her, the more of an odd feeling she had in her gut. Something was off, and she wasn't sure what it was. She couldn't tell if it was the idea she was in danger, or if it was just going to be... Awkward when they find her. She didn't dare say that, though. It'd only cause Mori more anxiety and that was the last thing they needed right now-

"I'll order one when we get back." Not getting her one immediately had been a huge oversight on his part. It was easy to tell he was distracted by everything going on.....and he didn't like how many stupid mistakes he was making.

The first restaurant turned up no leads. She clearly hadn't been here.

[badnikbreaker]

@prsstrt : “ i had a dream about you. ” ( for elise )

What a selfish girl she is, that she's so happy.

There was a long time when she wanted nothing more than to be selfish and was not allowed; years and years and years the prisoner and the cage both, rusting but not allowed to break with as simple a selfishness as falling tears. Now that she is free, or should be — thanks to him, thanks to him — the selfishness she'd craved so long stings, acidic, guilt against her spine.

I had a dream about you, he says. I feel like we met in a past life, he jokes. Sometimes he looks at her in a way she doesn't understand.

She knows how the story goes. Gods have longer memories, but mortals forget the stories that never were. Sonic can't remember, but he might have pieces — broken bits, half - recollections, ghosts of memories. It should be impossible, but Sonic has always done the impossible. He freed her, hadn't he? And if he has pieces, he might, eventually, rebuild the puzzle. He might remember the princess who loved him. He might remember their whirlwind adventure, the laughter they shared.

She may vomit.

"Oh," the girl says, finally. The idea that he might remember her makes her so happy that, for one awful, selfish moment, she's almost willing to risk him remembering the rest of the story, too. Isn't she the most awful kind of god there is?

Elise is grateful — for the words, the moments, the memories. For the happiness he gave her. She's grateful she got to know him. She wants — he gave her that, too. The ability to want. She tries to remember that; that this selfishness is a gift from Sonic, so it can't be bad. Tries to tell herself that it's okay for her to want him to remember, just like it was okay that she didn't want to blow out the flame. It's okay to want the selfish thing, so long as you do the selfless one.

"It's not real," she says simply, shifting where she sits in the grass beside him. "It was just a dream. They don't mean anything."

He might remember Elise's smile, or the way she'd tended to his arm. He might remember her scream when he died. He might remember the kind of hurt that killed him. Her love isn't worth that. How cruel would she be, to harm the boy who saved her life in more ways than she can count, chasing a story he chose to have her erase? To risk him remembering his death for something as simple and stupid as her heart? The heart that can't even break now, deathless and forever.

It hurts, but she's felt worse. Sonic saved her from worse. How can she do anything less than save him from worse, too? "You have to remember that...it's not real."

He's looking at her with an expression she can't decipher. She tries to be more grateful than grieving. "It's almost sunrise. I should get back to the castle."

[fctedivided]

Send "Icons only" and something for my muse to react to. - @eternalbxtterfly sent:

"Icons only" {{The chairwoman meeting little Elise for the very first time.}}

Bonus, in reality:

[infinitexmuses-archive]

@kitxkatrp asked: you are evil. like a hobbit. Chuuya to Elise chaotic unhinged lines from 2022-2023 (prompt edition)

"Would you like to say that again?" Mori trusted her enough to not use her actual capabilities unless needed, but sometimes it was overly tempting to shove something up this lil shit's ass-

"I'll tell on you. Mori doesn't like people calling me names. He'll let me do whatever I want to you-" Which, yes, mainly meant drawing on his face, but still...

[infinitexmuses-archive]

"That makes sense." The more she thought about it, the more sense it made, in hindsight. To be able to tell everything about a partner would make life a bit too predictable. A hint of unpredictability would be needed for a healthy relationship. At least, that was her mindset on it, herself. Perhaps it was wrong, but she wasn't too concerned about that.

"I agree, having someone to care for makes it all the better." She admitted, quietly chucking for just a moment, "It makes the light easier to see, for those that might not exactly be able to embrace it themselves. Even for those that are forced in the dark, for whatever reason. . . For them to have someone they wish to keep in the light, it makes their own world just a little brighter."

However, after stating that, she was in thought for a moment, before feeling comfortable enough to answer a bit more truthfully than usual. She highly doubted her stalker was related to someone like this, given that he seemed sane in most senses. "I do. . . My daughter is the brightest light in my world I could ever have." Closing her eyes for just a moment, she let out a quiet breath. "I would. . . Do anything for her."

Fyodor didn't even know she had a child, but as long as the woman didn't do anything to bother the demon, both her and her child would be safe. They didn't actively go after every single person they met. Just people who were against them.

"Yes, in most relationships, I can imagine both parties can read each other. I can read Koyla to an extent, but he's hard to read sometimes.. Which makes it pleasant for me. Things get boring when I read everything about a person..." Most people were boring to the rat. Most people were just tools to further their goals or just toys. Not everyone, but the enemies of theirs.. Some people they didn't bother reading to have a conversation with them..

Fyodor nodded their head in agreement. "Yes, it's nice to see some happiness in this world. Because a lot of times, things are rather dark and bleak. But seeing someone you care about being happy-- it can really change how you feel about the world around you. I try to keep my boyfriend happy, because he's the only one I care about, and he's the light of my world~," they chuckle as they watched her sketch out her piece.

"Do you have anyone who is the light of your world?"

[jeezusthecreator]

Troye Sivan & Charli XCX for i-D Magazine.

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The full remix album 'brat and it's completely different but also still brat' will be available on 11 October. ¿Ya estás sudando?

Photographer: Eli Russell Linnetz

Creative Director: Jamie Reid

Writer: Molly Lambert

Fashion: Claudia Sinclair

Makeup Artist: Sam Visser

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i-D Production: Elise Lebrun & Kasia Williams

Casting: Greg Krelenstein

Retouching: Kushtrim Kunushevc

[randomnameless]

I mean… fire emblem shouldn't be taking in consideration when making points about representing real world issues or using it as a crutch for sociopolitical arguments irl. One of the best examples in this franchise of "culture bias" and "covet bigotry" is Fates, where Hoshido is too pure, too good, and Nohr is the bad, bad, evil barbaric nation. And this goes so far as to make birthright's story a more watered down version of blue units vs red units story from shadow dragon.

In 3H now the good, pure nation is Fodlan, and those who surround it are either filler to make the worldmap look prettier, or barbarians that like to hunt the good guys for sport (Almyra and Sreng, and possibly Dagda), with Brigid being a repetition of the noble savage trope. Just bc there's a poc guy that wants to unite people and get rid of prejudice in story, doesn't mean that the developpers agree to that or support that.

(Also, let's not talk about Hopes and how Claude's altruistic dream turns out to be unifying two different nations and make the cohabit by force with him as sole leader of both. AKA the typical fire emblem trope of uniting different countries under one ruler, something that's not progressive in the slightest)

Mmh,

Speaking on eggshells here because Fates isn't really my area of expertise, but basically, iirc you can thank Pat for scrubbing the worst of Hoshido!

Fates' best route is Revelation (rip izana) where both countries accept to set aside their differences to work together, meaning that, obviously, Hoshido wasn't only "blue unit land" against Nohr's "red units".

Even through Birthrout, you can catch here'n'there, even in the Pat version!, how Hoshido isn't roses'n'daisies, it's the land where Mikoto takes her niece "hostage" ffs as a measure against Corn's kidnapping (you can't tell me she never guessed Azura was Arete's kid!), where Ryoma (idk if you were the same anon as back then?) as the crown prince ignores the plight of the nohrians and why they were attacking Hoshido because life in Nohr sucks and they're starving (idk if, much like the Leonster/Thracia conflict, Hoshido refused to trade with them and let them starve instead), the fuckery with Mokushu and Shura's backstory, or Hoshido being Misogyny Land (tm).

Heck Birthrout has you march on Nohr's capital city iirc, and fight in the streets - it's in Birthrout that Corn's obsession with taking revenge/defeating Garon leads to Elise' death - so it's not the the "blue unit waltz on red unit lands, routs the enemy and calls a day".

So I don't think the Fates writers really wanted to push the "pure unproblematic land" card with Hoshido compared to Nohr, but rather depict them as both flawed - in different ways - and needing to work together.

Now, I wouldn't say the nations of Fodlan are good compared to the rest of the filler nations that make up this verse's world - after all it's Adrestia who starts hostilities against Dagda'n'Brigid and Adrestia who most recently flattened Brigid and made it its vassal! - but in a sense you're right calling them filler, the FE series in general don't spend a lot of time to depict nations in general, they're just "the place character X is from" and for all of its, hm, reknown writting, Fodlan is following the trend, Albinea is no less different than Cheve (wait, we have one map set in Cheve! kill that) so bar flavor text, they're effectively just "filler".

I disagree about Sreng and Almyra being filler though, if Sreng could be seen as a ref to the Thracia situation or Norh/Hoshido fight for ressources, Almyra?

Is basically Verdane all over again - with the dubious honor of having a Verdanite Lord who, unlike Jamke has some relevance to the plot bar his introduction, but most important, seems to appreciate and want to emulate/import the values/methods of his country to the cast/main plot.

Can you imagine FE4 where Jamke suggests to kidnap Deevtar to seduce lure Andrei in a trap and rekt him?

Of course not.

Just bc there's a poc guy that wants to unite people and get rid of prejudice in story, doesn't mean that the developpers agree to that or support that.

I guess they agreed with the "get rid of prejudice without dealing with the dragon in the room" idea, but the main issue I mentionned and talked about in the other anon reply was the how, and what, doylist wise, it conveys.

"I'll unite people and get rid of prejudice by busting open your country to my people who are as prejudiced as you supposedly are, and I will bring you new values"

That's... not a good way to bring people together lol.

Even in FE16 I found Claude and Almyra's writing a bit odd : why asking Timmy first to stop shunning Bob when Timmy started to avoid Bob because Bob keeps on stealing his lunch money? Shouldn't you ask Bob first to, uh, not be an ass?

In Nopes?

Bob ruins Timmy's house, hits Timmy's toddler sister in the face and still steals his lunch money - but now, Bob has the nerve to tell Timmy that he's doing this to "help" him.

Also, let's not talk about Hopes and how Claude's altruistic dream turns out to be unifying two different nations and make the cohabit by force with him as sole leader of both. AKA the typical fire emblem trope of uniting different countries under one ruler, something that's not progressive in the slightest

Hmmm,

I don't know if you played the older games (FE1 to FE10), but as far as I remember, bar Archanea verse, we have different rulers for each countries and the world is never an unified entity -

And even then, Marth doesn't unify the world by making people "cohabit by force", as forced as it is, everyone gives him their crown.

Sanaki doesn't tell Elincia to suck it as she annexes Crimea in FE10, ditto with Innes and Joshua, or Ced and Ares in Jugdral... I can see Leif's unification of Thracia falling under that criteria, but even then, it's not so much by force than Travant making suicide by cop because he wanted the peninsula to be united and understood he couldn't be the one to do it.

Uniting the continent by force is, on the contrary, what red emperors do, and in traditional FE games, red emperors are defeated.

To return to your main point :

I mean… fire emblem shouldn't be taking in consideration when making points about representing real world issues or using it as a crutch for sociopolitical arguments irl.

Of course, and I totally agree!

The FE series has always been, as its core, a series where a "rightful ruler" returns home to rule "rightfuly" and better than its predecessors, by acknowledging what they did wrong and what they can do now.

That being said, a game is never written in a vacuum : that's the doylist side of various discussions : "What were the devs thinking, was what their reasoning when they decided to make the game this way?"

In 2004, real world persons believed that putting Devdan in their game was okay.

You can give them some flak because different cultural references between Japan and the US world (hell, western world at this rate because damn if Devdan hit "international" racist stereotypes boxes!) - and yet, can you really suppose the devs wouldn't have known, in 2004, that those stereotypes are harmful to real life people and Devdan was basically an insult?

But Devdan was just a living (as much as a fictional character can be alive, but you catch my drift lol) stereotype, the issue was just with Devdan existing.

It was 2004, 15 years later, we expect of IS - not your backwater company! - to never ever fall in the same pits, right?

(well, we had FE13 with the Feroxi main characters who love to fight being dark skinned... so the Devdan dev might still have been there :/ )

FE Fodlan, let it be for design or even names, took some inspiration from RL (it was funny upon release to catch all those links and nods!), and while i appreciated the aesthetic, it was bound to create another "Devdan" issue.

You have Almyra, designed with several RL inspirations (they weren't being subtle with Claude's battalion called the Immortals lol), from design (Claude's clothes and braids!) to units (mounted archers!) to, well, names.

Okay, in itself, it's nothing as insulting as Devdan's existence. But taken with the context?

The devs wrote that Fodlan's aesthetic was supposed to be the Age of Discoveries (1500s and onwards?) so yes, during that Age, you had people who were prejudiced as fuck against people from other lands/different cultures.

But in 2019, we know that those prejudices were full of shit, and either fueled by ignorance, or just, the need to find a good "excuse" to get new lands/manpower/ressources.

Maybe the devs wanted to showcase this part of history : depict the characters being prejudiced against "foreigners" and have them later learn that their prejudice was unfounded !

But... they took the inverse path

Hilda's racist stereotypes? They're shown to be....

True through both games!

As you put it, Almyra are the "barbarians" who : attack the land the characters are from when they're at their weakest, for no reason than to get a good fight - even if it means dying which in turns create several orphans they don't give a fuck about - pillage and "rampage" in cities, let their allies die after accepting a "mutual support" alliance with them, and ultimately rave and scream at their "outdated" values and how you're going to bring them yours.

"You see those people who were derided as savages and barbarians back then in RL - and still are in some parts of the world because the early 2000s happened and in general because racism exists? - Well I'm going to base my fantasy "token barbarian country who is untrustworthy and backstabs everyone" based on them!"

:/

I know you can't compare tomatoes to watermelons, but the Baten Kaitos franchise also has a nation who's, more or less, full of assholes, racists and imperialist pieces of shit. But the devs in those games designed each island/country from scratch, there is no nation that immediately calls back to "RL country X or culture Y"!

you can make a farfetched point about the people wearing ceremonial masks and having totems being a mix of several RL inspirations or at least being a call back to them... but they're part of the most OP people of that universe!

So why? Why, doylist wise, FE Fodlan designed with care - you can't tell me those costumes and outfits were designed in 10 minutes! - Almyra and its characters... only to have them act out as what an english book from the 1780s depicted "oriental" people ?

Unlike Devdan, the racism doesn't ooze out from the way the characters/country was designed, but what role they fit in the story.

It's not a sociopolitical commentary or representing real world but more like another jab at IS for being as prejudiced against non western/japanese cultures and civilisations as they were when FE4 was released, which is problematic in 2019/2022.

(and then you have Square Enix giving us Hyzante in Triangle Strategy, which is even more in your face with the dubious parallels)