#flavie the amnesiac

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CHARACTER MOODBOARDS:

WAVES OF MISFORTUNE

INCLUDES: waves's mcs

CHARACTERS: ✦ Zarina Baudelaire ✦ Hugo “Cricket” Tinoco ✦ Flavie (the amnesiac) ✦ Benjamin “Benji” Aikawa ✦ Yesval González

CHARACTER MOODBOARDS:

ZARINA BAUDELAIRE

HUGO “CRICKET” TINOCO

FLAVIE (THE AMNESIAC)

BENJAMIN “BENJI” AIKAWA

YESVAL GONZÁLEZ

OFFICIALLY INTRODUCING THE WAVES OF MISFORTUNE MCS!

(minus poor Tián, lol, but tbf, that man's so important he gets to be part of multiple stories, so he can get over it 😂)

Also, uh... Zhihao technically counts as a MC, as he's Benji's familiar and “other half”, buuuuuut... he's in Benji's moodboard! And there's definitely nothing more to him than being Benji's familiar, haha...

Regardless—if you'd like to stay updated on the Waves cast, their misadventures, and the things I post about them, feel free to ask to be added to their taglist! I'm tagging everyone current-ly ;D in any of my taglists for the first few posts, but will drop off for anyone who doesn't voice their interest!

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SEMICORRECT QUOTES:

RISING FROM MISFORTUNE

(Get it? Because it's kinda a crossover?)

Tián: (cheerfully and jokingly) “ah, looks like we won't be able to mansplain, manipulate, or manwhore our way outta this one, boys!”

Benji: (half-laughs; amusedly) “Seriously!? But I manwhore my way out of everything! What am I going to do now!?”

Tián: [spares a moment to give him an overdramatic wink and draw out a cartoonishly large sword] “manslaughter.”

The Rest of the Crew: [stunned silent]

(Bonus scene beyond "read more")

Cricket: “I... somebody needs to stop this.” :'D

Flavie: (under her breath) “I don't know, that Tián guy is pretty hot...”

Cricket: (sharply, shocked) “What!?”

Flavie: (meets his eyes; deadpan) “What.”

Zarina: (evenly) “first of all, no.”

Cricket & Flavie: [look to her]

Zarina: (continues, not having stopped speaking) “Secondly...”

Zarina: [sighs heavily, putting her head in her hand]

Zarina: (defeatedly) “... I don't even know if I want to step in.”

Cricket: :'D

Flavie: [amused! But not complaining.]

Cricket: [sighs himself, but then shakes his head and pulls out his spellbook]

Cricket: (tiredly) “Don't worry about it, Captain. I'll take care this.”

Zarina: [just sighs again, hesitantly watching between her fingers—]

Cricket: [heading to Tián & Benji to put a stop to their shenanigans]

Flavie: (slightly obnoxiously) “Sooooooo...” ;DDDDD

Zarina: [hesitantly lifts her head from her hand to look up at her]

Flavie: [winks; amusedly) “You're staying up here to get a good view, too, huh?”

Zarina:

Zarina: [face flushes, but stands up straight—and crosses her arms, as she often does—to give Flavie a slight glare]

Zarina: (sharply) “Absolutely not!”

Flavie: [can't help a shit-eating grin]

Flavie: (teasingly) “oh, sure! So, tell me...”

Zarina: [narrows her eyes further in a much more obvious glare]

Flavie: (overdramatically, drawing out and savoring her words) “Is it Benji? Tián? Or, maybe even... Cricket?” >;DDDD

Zarina: [face only flashed in annoyance at Benji's name, disgusted at Tián's, but... goes empty and unreadable at Cricket's]

Flavie: (playfully) “OOOOOOOOO! The Captain and—”

Zarina: [scoffs, simultaneously turning away, heading to the stairs, and un-crossing an arm to wave it dismissively over her shoulder]

Zarina: (talking over Flavie) “Whatever you think is going on, don't say a word of it to Hugo.”

Zarina: [sets her hand on the stairs' handrail and twists on her heel to meet Flavie's eyes with a sharp, serious expression]

Zarina: (voice hard) “Or else. Understood?”

Flavie: [stunned—]

Flavie: [swallows slightly, but forces an awkward grin, stands at attention, and raises her hand in salute]

Flavie: (voice thick and uneven) “aye, aye, Captain. Wouldn't even dream of it.” ;'D

Zarina: [face softens—a flash of guilt crossing it—but quickly just turns away and hurries to help Cricket]

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CHARACTER INTRODUCTIONS:

WAVES OF MISFORTUNE

INCLUDES: mcs and zhihao

VOICELINE: “Nice to meet you, I’m ___.”

CHARACTERS: ✦ Zarina Baudelaire ✦ Hugo “Cricket” Tinoco ✦ Flavie (the Amnesiac) ✦ Benjamin “Benji” Aikawa ✦ Yesval González ✦ Zhihao (the Familiar)

WAVES OF MISFORTUNE

“Nice to meet you, I’m ___.”

ZARINA BAUDELAIRE

[dips her head slightly in acknowledgment in their direction, expression unreadable]

(matter-of-factly) "Zarina. It's a pleasure to meet you."

if it's someone she's trying to appeal to: [dips her head slightly in acknowledgment in the person's direction, face softened]

(gently, but evenly) “Zarina. It's nice to meet you.”

HUGO “CRICKET” TINOCO

[offers a warm smile and puts his hand out to shake or otherwise gives whatever form of greeting is culturally appropriate]

(warmly) “Name's Hugo. Nice to meet you.”

(calls from afar) “He means Cricket! Sorry, he gets a little confused sometimes!”

[pauses, face twitching in frustration as he looks over to meet Benji's eyes]

[grinning widely, gives an obnoxious wink]

[lets out a slow, heavy sigh, putting his face in his hand. Eyes the person off the side of his hand, trying his best to ignore Benji]

(embarrassedly) “Or... you can call me Cricket. Most everyone else on the crew does.”

FLAVIE (THE AMNESIAC)

[clumsily offers her hand for a shake or, otherwise, whatever gesture of greeting is culturally expected]

(awkwardly) “Um, I've been going by 'Flavie'. Nice to meet you?”

BENJAMIN “BENJI” AIKAWA

[offers a cocky grin and the appropriate cultural greeting]

(amusedly) “Benjamin, but you can call me 'Benji'. Nice to meet you.”

[and gives a wink]

(from afar, annoyedly) “You sure it wasn't 'Chris' or something?”

[half laughs, half scoffs, shaking his head. Stands on his tip toes as he leans to better see Cricket and cups his hand around his mouth]

(amusedly calls back) “Nah, what kinda stupid name is 'Chris'!?”

“Well, I'm 'boutta make it 'Sloth' if you don't get back to work!”

[busts out laughing]

YESVAL GONZÁLEZ

[eyeing them with an unimpressed look]

(curtly) “Yesval. If you don't need anything, go away.”

ZHIHAO (THE FAMILIAR)

[has no reason to greet anyone. Is hidden, ominously watching people from the shadows... or invisibly]

[making eye contact, lifts a paw and flops it in imitation of a wave before vanishing]

alternatively: [rolling his eyes, creates an illusion of a heavy, exasperated sigh and gets himself comfortable. Uses another illusion to 'speak']

(voice sharp and annoyed) “Yes, I am a fox. No, you may not pet me. I am a familiar, not a pet, and I will bite you if you put your hand anywhere near me.”

with Benji around: [caught peeking around a corner, from the rafters, or any sort of otherwise-hidden spot. Narrows his eyes on theirs before shrinking back into his spot or completely disappearing]

(awkwardly) “Oh, uh, that's my familiar. You can call him Zhihao, but, uh... he doesn't really talk. Y'know, on account of being a familiar. You can just, yknow... talk to me.”

[forces a laugh and a lopsided grin, awkwardly raising a hand to rub the back of his neck]

with anyone else of the crew around: [caught peeking one way or another, but quickly hides again]

(amusedly) "Oh! Yeah, that's Zhihao, Benjamin's familiar. He's always lurking around. Don't worry about him, we know he's here and he actually helps take care of rats and stuff."

NEW STORY DROP!!!

This, Waves of Misfortune (WoM), and Rising From The Ashes (RFtA) are both getting officially released to my blog soon!

Due to... current events... and the themes contained within these stories—but especially RFtA—I've decided to put my other works on halt while I instead allow myself to focus on them!

On that note, you guys are going to start seeing a lot of content for the two stories and their characters coming up!

If you'd like to be kept updated on these stories, please ask to be added to their respective taglists! I'm going to tag everyone current-ly ;D in any of my taglists for the first few posts for each story, but will drop off for anyone who doesn't voice their interest!

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Please tell me if you want to be added to Waves of Misfortune (WoM)'s permanent taglist! Otherwise you'll miss them in the future!

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NEW “POST GENRE” ANNOUNCEMENT!

As my longtime mutuals/followers fans are probably aware, I have a habit of creating “post genres”—aka, where I create a series of posts along the same themes or using the same system.

For example, we have: #oc questionnaire #oc in three #oc moodboard tag #oc voice tag

WELL GUESS WHAT!

Announcing the arrival of a new “genre”:

OC INTERROGATION!

In these posts, I will select questions that will elicit an interesting answer or reaction from individual characters and interrogate them!

These “OC Interrogations” will be written assuming the character is locked into a room—under magical “truth serum”-esque effects—until they answer the provided questions! They'll be written in a format similarly to my outlines, but they'll be continuous until I get through all the questions!

(Examples provided toward the end of the post)

HERE'S WHERE YOU COME IN!

If you'd like to ask any questions of the characters, feel free to!

(Similarly, you can also ask me any questions about them, lol.)

Either send in an ask with your question(s) and the character(s) they're for, or feel free to comment it here! I will collect the “requests” for each character and eventually post the interrogation alongside a tag for those within their respective taglist... and whoever asked the question(s), lol.

Naturally, I reserve the right to deny any questions that will bring up spoilerific answers, but I will one way or another share those questions with the class for prosperity!

I'd prefer if we focused on RFtA or Waves, but feel free to pull from anything! It'll just take longer for me to get to things outside of them! (Also, I have a special preference for RFtA, as it's my main project rn, but feel free for either or any!)

CHARACTERS AND WIPS:

Rising From The Ashes

Carmin Lévêque Kieva Caron Sammy Bardales - moodboard || crimes Mei Li - moodboard(s) Kieran Caron - moodboard || crimes Sebastián “Tián” Caron Guqayya Latifi - moodboard(s) Roman Lévêque - moodboard Elazi Adlani

Waves of Misfortune

Zarina Baudelaire Hugo “Cricket” Tinoco Flavie (the amnesiac) Benjamin “Benji” Aikawa Yesval González Zhihao (the familiar)

WIP EXAMPLE:

So, we have a few questions for you, Carmin! [face empty beyond the slightest hint of bitterness] (voice hollow, but hoarse from disuse) “... of course you do.” Right, haha. So, if you're ready to begin? (still hoarse and empty) “I don't have a choice in the matter, do I?” I guess not! Well, to begin with: Are you scared of the dark? Why or why not?

[as she spoke, slowly stopped trying to fight the words escaping her. Just stared dead-eyed at the camera by the end] (finally, finishes numbly) “... it's just... easier to let them think that.” Hmm... I see. That looked like it was hard to admit, Carmin. [eyes narrow slightly on the camera, but otherwise looks just as dead inside as before] (flatly) “Fuck you.” She bites! >;D [doesn't react. Just crosses her arms, leans back in her seat again, and shakes her leg impatiently as she waits for the next question]

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What is the big question of your wip?

Like what is the glaring plot hole you have yet to fill?

Or the storyline you don't yet know how to end?

Sum that hole up in a one sentence question.

Depends on the WIP!

Tho I'll begin with: as far as I know, none of my WIPs have plot holes! Any time I notice one, I do my absolute best to find a way to fill it and have it actually make sense!

Although... I have a lot of things that look like plot holes, but are actually signs that Something's Off™ and subtle foreshadowing toward Plot Twists... 👀

RISING FROM THE ASHES

If there's any sort of “big questions” in RFtA, they'd have to be...

“What do people do against seemingly impossible odds? How far will they go for others, even at their own detriment? What could drive them to do that?”

Tho these are more of themes than plots, lol. The “plot questions” are pretty apparent. “Who caused the disaster; how and why?” “What's with all of the disappearances?” “What's Carmin's deal?” “What's Sammy's real backstory, and why is he hiding it? Who is he really?” “Why is Caron so evasive about certain questions? What is he hiding?”

Storyline-wise, I haven't decided the ultimate fates of each of the tertiary (and below) characters. I usually plan a LOT of my stories before I officially “start” them, and I almost always decide the direction I'm going to take a character's arcs before I get too deep into it.

The MCs and secondary characters (who I personally think are very important, lol) all have their arcs pretty planned out, but those beyond that? Not so much lol.

WAVES OF MISFORTUNE

If there's any sort of “big questions” in Waves, they'd have to be...

“What happens if you keep running away from your past? How long can you run away before it catches up to you... emotionally or literally? And is it worth it?”

Tho these are more of themes than plots, haha. The “plot questions” are pretty easy to recognize. “Why's Flavie amnesiac, what's her connection to the disaster, who was she before, and what's with her incredible power?” and “What's Benji hiding? Who is he really?” are the most obvious ones lol.

Most of all of their storylines are still up in the air, it's part of why it's less of a focus than RFtA, lol. Though I have a lot of the first book's plot planned out, and it ties in with both RFtA and SaS!

Guess that's what happens when you're a bunch of sailors, and you're connected with major characters of both stories!

(Caron and Soren)

THE ARCANE RIFTS

*looks at the fact that I have the first 3 books pretty much planned out* *looks back @ the camera*

I wonder! 😳😉

But! If there's any sort of “big questions” in TPC, they'd have to be...

“What gives someone value? Is anyone allowed to answer that question? And, if someone doesn't have value, does that mean they don't deserve help or to live? What is more meaningful: someone's actions or the results? What is strength really, and which kinds matter?”

There's way too many plot questions to even begin to list them here lmao. Most everyone's backstories are slowly revealed and lowkey (if not actually major) plot twists, or explain a LOT of their motives and actions previously taken. Gene himself, the MC, is especially a mystery!

And one of my favorite characters altogether! 👀😂

I'm not sure about a lot of things past book 4 of TPC (the series tAR—the first book—is in), but uh... I'm sure I don't have to explain why I'm not really focusing on them any time soon, haha.

SUN AND SHADOW

If there's any sort of “big questions” in SaS, they'd have to be...

“Are good intentions enough to justify bad actions? Are positive results enough to justify wrongdoings? Who's worthy of forgiveness, and why? Is it wrong to take revenge against those who hurt you? How far can you go in revenge, and how many bystanders can you hurt—or how much can you hurt them—before you become the villain?”

SaS is literally a detective mystery... though RFtA is technically one, too, and tAR has a secondary plotline of one, lol. Point is: there's a LOT of questions in SaS, haha, and I don't think you want me to get started!

I'm uncertain the ultimate paths of all of the characters besides Valyarus!

Val's ultimate fate is sealed. 👀

Besides that, I have all of their paths in Book 1, Sun and Shadow itself, planned, haha.

... aaaaand a lot of how they'll unfold further in Book 2.

I might plan too much.

Hope you enjoyed this, and sorry it took so long!

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