#just to clarify that yes. trauma can have a permanent bearing on a person's identity

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They grew to gain their semblances. This matters indefinitely because it can’t definitely alter how the character can be perceived. As you mentioned, the personality can be defined by experiences. How I perceive it is that the Branwen tribe is known for being murderous bandits meaning they aren’t inherently good people. Emotional abuse could likely inform the personality and thus the semblance. In a setting where strength is needed for survival, emotions are likely~

Considered a weakness and thus showing them could lead to potential emotional abuse. If one is constantly berated and treated like they can’t do anything right, they develope later on to believe that to be fact, that they can’t do anything right and they will always screw up. Now imagine having a semblance informed around that. A semblance that often messes everything up for the user and everyone around them. Sounds a lot like what Qrow has. Vol. 4-6 is great at~

At portraying Qrow constantly berating himself. He might do good things but he still feels like he is a burden. He very clearly has self esteem issues. Now the potential backstory isn’t confirmed canon, but it goes to show that there are other possible explanations as to why a semblance might take a form and that it might not be the best to settle on one specific concept especially when it’s acknowledged that the potential concept is contradictory.

I think this is going to be a case of agree-to-disagree, but I’d like to answer all the same.

I would like to mention as this was not addressed in the blog, Semblances can evolve.

For the record, I have talked about it before—in this post, to be exact—but I haven’t really gone into overly great depth on the topic. And you’re right, I didn’t mention it here.

The reason why I didn’t is because [1] it wasn’t inherently relevant to the initial question, and [2] because I think the idea of Semblances “evolving” is dumb. Sorry for the bluntness. But really, I loathe its inclusion in the canon. And I am eternally baffled by the mental gymnastics that the fandom does to justify plotholes, by wielding Semblance evolution as a criticism-proof shield.

As far as I can tell, the idea is very much a late-game addition to the show apropos of nothing. There’s either no evidence for its existence prior to V7; or, very flaky, unsubstantial evidence based on subjective, personal interpretations.

For example, nowhere in World of Remnant, V2.E4 - “Aura” is the idea of Semblance evolution mentioned. And given that this is the episode that defines what Semblances are, it’s a little weird that the transcript doesn’t talk about this “integral” concept.

To make my point even more salient, Miles Luna states in the V2 commentary that the entire premise of World of Remnant is to clarify its worldbuilding and lore:

Miles Luna: We have the World of Remnant videos to kinda get, uh, some exposition across as best as we could.

Let’s not mince words here: Either this means that Semblance evolution (something that’s allegedly important to the show) was somehow omitted from the mini series whose sole purpose is to convey its lore (which means that the people writing the show suck at their job).

Or,

it means that Semblance evolution was a last-second addition to the show, and its inclusion ultimately causes more problems than it fixes because it muddies the established canon.

It also doesn’t help that as the series progressed, and we watched characters have conversations about Semblances, they didn’t mention it either. When Winter is talking to Weiss about their Semblances in V3.E4, we get this exchange:

Winter: We Schnees are unique. Unlike many, our Semblance is hereditary. But that doesn't mean it will come easily. Your Semblance is like a muscle. The more you practice with it, the stronger it will become. But if you only focus on one aspect of it—if you fail to test the limits of what you think is possible—then you'll never truly grow.

When I first saw this episode, I took Winter’s analogy to be fairly literal. Let’s say, for example, I worked out my leg muscles every day by long jumping. If I keep practicing, my jumping ability isn’t going to evolve into jump-propelled flight. I’m just going to get more efficient at long jumping (the thing I was already capable of doing), and I’ll be able to cover greater distances with each leap.

Let’s extend the analogy to Glyphs. Weiss, who initially struggled to use her Semblance, is currently limited to summoning one Grimm at a time.

By contrast, her older sister, who is clearly more experienced, can summon multiple Grimm at once.

Winter summoning multiple Beowolves in a sparring match with Weiss. | Source: RWBY Wiki contributor user:ChishioKunrin.

Winter summoning a flock of Nevermores in her duel with Qrow. | Source: RWBY Wiki contributor user:ChishioKunrin.

This was my takeaway from that scene—that as Weiss practices, she’ll not only get faster at summoning, but she’ll be able to summon several at a time. The same goes for other characters: that as they practice their Semblances, their powers aren’t going to change into something tangentially related or altogether new. Rather, the characters would get more proficient at their skill, and demonstrate their mastery through refinement.

Ruby, whose Semblance was originally superspeed, wouldn’t get that weird quantum mechanics bullshit from later volumes. Instead, she would have demonstrated her mastery over her Semblance by smoothing out any kinks that she initially struggled with—like braking suddenly, or turning on a dime, or weaving between tightly-packed obstacles without losing velocity. Things that would make sense for her to struggle with based on the premise of her Semblance.

For comparison, look at how Avatar: The Last Airbender demonstrates proficiency with its characters. Katara’s waterbending doesn’t “evolve” into something different. Instead, we watch her struggle from the onset at manipulating water and doing something as basic as creating a wave. By the end of the series, she learns how to do the following:

Manipulating water vapor in the air to reshape clouds.

Freely transitioning her element between a liquid water state and a solid ice state.

Shaping water into tendrils or whips.

Harnessing the water in living tissue to control people.

Extracting water from unconventional sources, like plants.

Creating platforms of ice to surf upon by manipulating the surrounding water.

Freezing water into sharp projectiles and firing them at opponents.

These are all believable skills that Katara could learn, based on the conventions of her powers. The show doesn’t change her bending, or make the element she bends something other than water. It stays the same. All of the things that I listed involve manipulating water, the fundamental basis of her power.

What changes is how she waterbends, and how skilled she is at doing so.

These are also powers that we see other adept benders use—like Hama bloodbending, and Huu controlling vines—which only reinforces the image of what mastery looks like among waterbenders.

Consistency and clarity of lore are what make stories with superpowers work. Something which RWBY lacks, as evidenced by the quote from Miles, and the out-of-nowhere introduction of Semblance evolution.

Besides, what would Semblance evolution even look like for Weiss? Her glyphs were already a ridiculously-overpowered Swiss army knife of miscellaneous skills, like summoning, shielding, and Dust manipulation. Giving her even more powers on top of those would make her Semblance even more broken than it already is.

In the interest of having mercy on my followers’ dashboards, the rest is going under a readmore.

The characters you’re using as an example aren’t exactly the best because, more specifically Qrow and James, we have no clue how as characters they grew to gain their semblances.

On the contrary, I’d argue that James is a good example because it doesn’t matter what his backstory is. It literally doesn’t matter what excuse the show provides to explain why James acquired Mettle as his Semblance. What matters is that they coded a disabled character as autistic and then used his autistic-coded trait to justify turning him into an irredeemable antagonist who commits genocide. No in-universe explanation can undo the real-world harm that their writing decisions caused.

And even after multiple fans approached the company and said, “Hey, you might not have intended for this to be the case, but your disabled neurodivergent-coded character depicts a marginalized community in a harmful way, and is leaning into extremely negative stereotypes,” the writers shrugged them off and stood by their decision.

Fiction doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

As far as I’m concerned, the writers could come up with the world’s best alibi for James’ Semblance, and I still wouldn’t condone it. Because at this point, Rooster Teeth has a consistent track record when it comes to depicting minorities and marginalized groups. Penny, who is autistic-coded, has now been killed twice—the first time she was sliced in half on live television, and the second time she was “mercy killed” shortly after her disability (being a synthetic person) was “cured.”

If Rooster Teeth really wanted to have a ND-coded antagonist, then it needed to (at the barest minimum) have a large number of ND-coded protagonists.

Clyde does a great job explaining why here, when she talks about Ilia being the series’ first openly-queer character.

Let’s start with the acknowledgment that yes, no matter who Rooster Teeth chose as their first LBGTQIA character, some people were going to be disappointed. Either because the choice doesn’t fit their ship or because of the dichotomy we’re seeing now: the Good vs. Evil gay character divide. It’s a simple disagreement on the surface that nevertheless houses a lot of important questions and concerns: should you make your gay character one of the Good Guys in order provide positive representation, or should you make them one of the Bad Guys in order to provide diverse representation? Do you send the message that being gay is wonderful by associating it with the heroes, or something that’s natural by associating it with the villains - making a statement that anyone can be LGBTQIA, not just the ones you’re rooting for?

The answer to this dilemma is that you do both. You provide variety in order to likewise provide true, diverse representation. However, the reality is that we haven’t reached a point in most media where you get lots and lots of gay characters to provide lots and lots of diversity… so therefore I feel rather strongly that the first character should be a positive portrayal.

Why? Because we’re not living in a positive world. Because we’re still a part of societies where LGBTQIA people are ridiculed, discriminated, and murdered. Because the idea that it’s not just okay, but fantastic to be gay is FAR from universal.

(Emphasis mine.)

Swap out queer with neurodivergent and it’s the same principle. So far, the show has had no explicitly confirmed characters that are ND. Which means that the representation we’ve gotten so far is [1] coding, and [2] offensive and harmful.

James’ Semblance is therefore a good example of my initial point, because my initial point was this is bad writing, and we deserve better.

As you mentioned, the personality can be defined by experiences. How I perceive it is that the Branwen tribe is known for being murderous bandits meaning they aren’t inherently good people. Emotional abuse could likely inform the personality and thus the semblance.

Just to be clear—your argument is that Qrow’s Semblance, Misfortune, does represent his personality, because his personality was shaped by his traumatic, abusive childhood environment.

And just to reiterate, a personality-based Semblance is a reflection of an immutable part of your core identity.

And in Qrow’s case, that core part of his identity is his trauma. Something that is permanent, destructive, and only capable of causing him inconvenience or harm.

Yeah, no. I’m sorry, but I can’t agree with that. If that is in fact intentional on the writers’ part (and that’s a pretty big if, given that the writing is deliberately vague), then what that means is they were comfortable conflating a person’s abuse with their personality.

You grew up in a toxic environment? Too bad. Your superpower is now weaponized trauma. Have fun going to therapy! It totally won’t do you any good because Semblances can’t change. Enjoy being reminded of your trauma for the rest of your life every time your Semblance nearly kills one of your nieces!

I’m saying this as someone who did grow up in a toxic, traumatic, abusive home environment. By the time I was 15, I had anxiety, depression, an eating disorder, and suicidal ideation because of my manipulative, gaslighting, drug-addict, alcoholic, physically-violent father.

Imagine how 15-year-old me would have reacted had I been watching RWBY at the time, and was told that Qrow’s personality was permanently shaped by his childhood trauma. And that no matter what Qrow did, no matter how much he tried to heal, he could never escape it.

That doesn’t exactly make for a good message to your audience, now does it?

And in case it bears repeating, this is the sort of upbringing that Qrow was subjected to on a daily basis:

The destruction of Shion. | Source: RWBY Wiki contributor user:ChishioKunrin.

From World of Remnant, Volume 4, Episode 5: “Between Kingdoms.”

“Unfortunately, it's not just the Grimm runnin' around ruining towns. Wandering bandits are another threat. These groups of usually fairly-skilled fighters travel the lands, never settling in one place. They often prey on convoys sending goods between kingdoms.

That's not all. These raiders will often wait for a town to be at its weakest—maybe after a Grimm attack or while its fighters are out hunting—before finally moving in at night and striking.

And you can't exactly have bandits raid your town without at least a few negative emotions. This is also why bandits never stay in the towns they conquer. With attitudes like the ones they have, Grimm tend to be pretty interested in them as well.”

From Volume 4, Episode 4: “Family.”

Raven: You're the one who left. The tribe raised us, and you turned your back on them.

Qrow: They were killers and thieves.

Raven: They were your family.

Qrow: You have a very skewed perception of that word.

Raven: I lead our people now. And as leader, I will do everything in my power to ensure our survival.

Qrow: I saw. The people of Shion saw, too.

Raven: The weak die, the strong live. Those are the rules.

And from Volume 5, Episode 3: “Unforeseen Complications.”

Vernal: Straight to the point. I like it. We don't normally deal in trafficking people—not really worth our time. But, once we realized we had a Schnee, that changed.

To summarize:

The Branwen Tribe was under 24/7 threat of Grimm attack.

They ambushed supply convoys and stole resources.

They raided villages and killed the people living there.

They at least sometimes engaged in human trafficking.

And those are just the things that we’re aware of.

Even if the worldbuilding managed to “justify” Qrow’s Semblance, that doesn’t make the takeaway any less uncomfortable. You have to look beyond the lore and in-world premise, and focus on the ramifications and greater impact that message can have on the audience.

For me, the potential to cause real harm, to real people, is more important than giving a fictional character a bad luck superpower, and using his trauma to justify it. Especially when that superpower (and by association, the inciting trauma) are permanent.

If the show absolutely had to have Qrow’s Semblance be shaped by his upbringing, then it should have made it possible for Semblances to change. That way, as Qrow heals, his Semblance reflects his recovery, and embodies the progress he’s made.

As I said at the beginning, this is going to have to be a case of agree-to-disagree. For my own peace of mind—and in the interest of not getting into an argument—this will be the first, and last, time I reply to this particular topic.

TL;DR - If personality = Semblance, and Qrow’s traumatic childhood = Semblance, then his personality = his trauma.

People are not their trauma.

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* natalia dyer, nonbinary + she/they | you know philomena carmichael, right? they’re twenty, and they’ve lived in irving for, like, a day? well, their spotify wrapped says they listened to the leanover by life without buildings like, a million times this year, which makes sense ‘cause they’ve got that whole wind whipping around your hair, the gentleness of decomposition, a naked blur dancing around the flames of an everlasting fire thing going on. i just checked and their birthday is april 20th, so they’re a taurus, which is unsurprising, all things considered. ( james, 22, est, they/them )

hi thank u all fr being so patient w me as i rapidly switch out muses n figure out wht the fuck im doing atm <3 also sry fr my rare presence work hs been kicking my ass like lets jst say i deserve 2 b smbdy’s housewife (misogny wins this time sry) so i nvr hv to work in my life <3 DFSLKSDHKGLFSHLKAGHLKAHLKSG this is a joke 2 clarify. anyways. this is philly she’s old bt she’s one of my very favorites ever. this intro is also old sry its nt in my usual. style. LKDFKHGLKGF

CANCER, TRAUMA, DEPERSONALIZATION / DEREALIZATION, DEATH, GRAPHIC MENTION OF DECAY, INSECTS MENTION TW.

mini playlist.

the girl who stole my tamagotchi ;; hot sugar / i dropped out ;; and the kids / pork soda ;; glass animals / wonderfully bizarre ;; bendigo fletcher / (dream) ;; salvia palth / alien blues ;; yundabar / dust in your pocket ;; glass animals / warm honey ;; willow / bela lugosi’s dead ;; bauhaus / gecgecgec ;; 100 gecs / blinding ;; florence and the machine / nantes ;; beirut / cherry-coloured funk ;; cocteau twins / not allowed ;; tv girl / oblivion ;; grimes / space song ;; beach house / dog food ;; 100 gecs / the leanover life ;; life without buildings.

statistics.

full name: philomena brontë carmichael

nickname(s): philly, phil, mena, etc.

birthday: april 20th, 2000. 

zodiac: taurus sun, scorpio moon, aries ascending.

mbti & temperament: infp & improvisor / phlegmatic. 

label: the halycon.

sexuality: demisexual.

pinterest.

biography.

a middle child belonging to christopher and imogen carmichael - two stanford professors. christopher specialized in british literature whilst imogen specialized in the classics. hence the name.

the order of siblings goes as such: lysander, elektra, juno, philomena, and twins orion & valora. the deal was that everybody had a greek (or in juno’s case, roman) first name and a middle name inspired by a piece of british literature circa 1800s and under. a family of nerds, if you will.

so, clearly - right off the bat, their parents are … eccentric. they’re both in love with their respected topic, and with each other, and with their kids. the carmichael family is a happy family.

they each have their own quirks and whatnot - though philly’s always been particularly dreamy - even as a child, she’d spend hours watching clouds or caterpillars or the leaves blow in the wind rather than play with other kids. she wasn’t a shy kid - she just had her own interests.

hardship doesn’t hit the family until philomena is five and starts having splitting headaches. they’re slow at first - but as soon as she’s seeing spots and unable to walk in a straight line, doctor appointments are made.

cancer tw // it doesn’t take long for them to discover the tumor, though the official diagnosis of malignant ependymoma comes a month later.

it’s grade ii but slow-moving, small enough to not be as much of a threat as worried, but big enough where removal is necessary. philomena earns a scar and brings it in for show-and-tell. for two months afterwards, philly’s at radiotherapy monday through friday.

they’re lucky - philomena’s considered cancer-free by the next year. she’s babied at first - handled delicately, as if she could break if touched - but with five other children … it doesn’t last for too long. end of cancer tw //

and life continues as normal.

her personality doesn’t shift much over the next few years - she’s awfully independent for a kid, and awfully quiet - when she speaks it’s about faeries and bigfoot, about how the sky is so blue and if you listen quietly, you can hear the leaves whisper their secrets to each other. this is not odd.

she’s close to all her siblings, but she idolizes her older sister - elektra. elektra’s six years older and dyes her hair whatever colors she wants. elektra bought a knife off a seedy guy downtown. elektra threw away all of her heels and renounced god. elektra is god. her music is loud but it’s not heavy - it’s florence and the machine.

they’re opposites - elektra’s boisterous and feels loudly, philomena’s softer and feels…less. when elektra sneaks out, philomena keeps watch. they are a duo.

philomena is smart - but she’s fifteen and hates school. hates sitting inside all day. hates the same routine - day after day - it’s all the same. her parents’ routine is the same, philly feels contained and she wants to live.

elektra’s twenty-one and just bought a brand new spanking (used but not falling apart) 19-something volkswagen … van - using her entire savings account. she says she’s tired of routine, she’s leaving the next day.

naturally, philomena stows away in the back and isn’t discovered until they’re two states away and she’s got to pee. elektra nearly crashes the van in shock.

it’s an argument - philomena vs. elektra, then them vs. their parents, then their parents vs. the school, the state - it’s an ordeal. philomena switches to an online program in the end.

it hurts christopher and imogen - lysander’s not having any of their nonsense, juno’s betrayed and alone - the twins are twins. in the end, it’s alright. the carmichael family is a happy family.

philomena and elektra take their time - it’s not a road trip, it’s their new life, permanently on the road. they stop and explore often - they do odd jobs in whatever town they settle in. they dine-n-dash, they shoplift. they survive in their own way.

during particularly desperate times, they two resorted to identity theft & credit fraud - getting away with it only by ditching the cards once they’ve made it out of state.

she drops out of high school officially when she’s seventeen - they have to drive all the way back to california to deal with the wrath of their parents and to deal with paperwork, but it’s done. philomena doesn’t know what path she wants in life - but it’s not that.

depersonalization / derealization tw // it’s during this time that the episodes occur - philomena’s outside her body, philomena’s wrapped in cotton, her memories are not her own. she’s looking in the mirror and she doesn’t recognize herself. they take shelter in a city for six months, long enough for her brand spankin’ new therapist to figure out what’s wrong with her. she’s diagnosed with depersonalization / derealization disorder - they think it’s stress. philomena doesn’t get stressed. they think it’s trauma. she laughs - she never laughs. depersonalization / derealization end of tw //

death, decay. maggots tw // there is trauma though, deep-rooted but somewhere inside - you just have to look for it.

you. just. have. to. look. for. it. look for it. look for it. look for it look for it look -

you were ten and she was thirteen, an off-trail hike in familiar woods in a familiar town, safe and familiar. it was your idea, to stray from the carved out paths, down creeks and up hills and round, and round again. you’re the one who spotted the scarf first, sticking up from the dirt and dancing in the wind like the beginning of reincarnation. it was not reincarnation, it was discovery. it was ruin. with curiosity drawn, you skidded down - with compliance, followed juno, followed your sister - clumsy in her steps and tumbling down quicker than you. you saw the corpse, but juno felt it. decaying flesh and maggot. end of death, decay, maggots tw //

and she left juno, just like that - just five years later, when juno had finally gone to the end of her wits. philly up and left. abandoned her.

philomena and elektra leave the city after that therapy session. they do not return. she’s always been good at hiding her secrets.

after ending up with warrants from their arrest in florida (after running from the law in texas), philly and elektra have wound up at irving <3 partially hiding from the law and partially bcos their trusty van’s broken down and they haven’t got the money to fix her up yet. 

personality & facts.

she’s quiet but she’s confident - her voice sounds like rustling leaves, if leaves smoked a pack of cigarettes a day.

often underestimated - philly’s petite and looks like she’d fall over if a plastic bag blew too close to her. she’s independent - for the most part. elektra is the only person philly takes orders from.

has always been considered odd - weird, strange. still talks about the trees as if they’re listening, as if they’re old friends. she’s vague and doesn’t elaborate on the things she says.

believes in pretty much any superstition you throw her way. luck is very important to her. if you ask her if the earth is flat, she’ll say probably. believes strongly in bigfoot and the lochness monster. has personally seen aliens, and loves ghosts almost more than herself.

she can be amusing - whether you ‘get’ her or not, her outlook is often bright - she talks about the negatives the same way she talks about the positives. can be seen as naive or gullible, but she’s plenty smart. even if half of her education has come directly from google.

philly doesn’t laugh. a smile, yes - often, in fact - not always reaching her ears, or bearing teeth - but these are not indicators of her happiness. philly is consistently content. she thinks many things are funny - she still will not laugh.

her voice is often monotonous - she doesn’t sound dreary, she sounds far-away. her voice carries. her emotions are often unknown to others.

is apathetic in most situations. she’s hard to bother - she’s incredibly patient and enjoys the company of most - tolerates them at the very least. it’s hard for her to express her emotions, because she feels them so little that it’s very nearly not worth it. her affection is not verbal - it’s small touches and gestures of kindness, love in her own way.

is a fan of knock-knock jokes and bad puns. she won’t crack a smile while telling you them, nor does she expect you to laugh. she just enjoys them.

she owns a motorola razr covered in puffy stickers - hasn’t ever had a smartphone. she’s a fan of emoticons. her favorite is :o)

has a lot of bruises and scratches and scars - she’s often getting herself into pickles. there are always, at the very minimum, three bandaids on each hand.

she has insomnia, so she’s awake often. is often seen wandering town - even when she shouldn’t be, even when it might be dangerous. her intuition is delayed. when she does sleep - her dreams are vivid and fantastical.

keeps a box of memories - sentimental bits and pieces she’s picked up over the last few years. there are a lot of buttons and postcards, but any teeny tiny object will do.

her style changes every week - most, if not all, of her clothes are thrifted. one week she’s baby spice and the next she’s lydia deetz. she combines pieces from different styles often - she looks like a barbie clothed by a child. she feels most comfortable like this.

will either patch-up the clothes that get too worn or reuse them in some way. sometimes donates the clothes she gets tired off - isn’t minimalistic, but she’s learned to keep only a small amount of possessions.

the only consistency is her lucky ribbon - it’s pastel yellow and silky and as thin as a shoelace. she ties it onto her outfit of the day, everyday. if she loses it, she’s lost. elektra has a matching ribbon.

has no problem with minor theft - she only takes bare minimum, puts herself and elektra first and that’s how it’s always been.

currently living in florence, their van, with her sister elektra <3 currently residing in lilac ridge.

they used to live in motels on the occasion, the cheapest room, and more often than not they’d both go home with strangers for a comfier bed and a hotter shower.

it was a common occurrence - she didn’t sleep with them - but somehow, she weaseled her way into their homes anyway. has come out mostly unscathed, on most occasions. this has been a practice ever since they’ve been on the road.

really, truly - has not slept with anybody, had her first kiss at thirteen with a frog. this doesn’t bother her. (smirks at leo)

will consume anything you put in front of her - isn’t picky.

listens to whatever they’ve picked up along the way but she likes instrumentals the best. her second favorite genre is 1990′s and 2000′s top hits. they’re nostalgic for her. third favorites? florence, of course. fleetwood mac. the bird and the bee.

loves storms - will go out in the rain and will risk her life for it.

owns a pair of roller-skates and is often skating rather than walking. unless she’s on grass - then she’s walking barefoot.

has many hobbies, and gets bored of them often. her favorite hobby is welding. she’s not certified.

also, juggling.

also, accordion.

the kind of girl who’ll do any job you give her. odd jobs are her favorite jobs. babysitting is her least favorite - but she does it anyway. has lost children before. have they ever been found? not by philly.

dyes her hair blonde often and cuts her own hair - bangs included - finds it cathartic, likes the itchiness of bleach.

everything she does is often in pursuit of feeling free, alive, and meaningful.

( like her frequent visits to the woods, late at night when the moon is high and full. it’s freeing to dance around a fire, stark naked in the cold. builds immunity )

comes and goes wherever she pleases, nothing & nobody can stop her (besides elektra).

has a certain knack for getting animals to like her. has too many ‘pet’ rats that reside with her, alongside a baby raccoon & a few crow pals. has a new animal companion everyday, but she doesn’t contain them or force them to stay.

wanted plots.

speaking through my third eye ... ;; philly is new in town n shes very strange. constantly lives in a state in which she does not exist (at least on the same plane). this is her harassing the locals. this is her slipping thru their fingertips as they attempt 2 understand her. they get close smtms bt philly jst. whisks herself away.

hollows of our eyelids ... ;; perhaps there is smbdy jst as strange as philly. i’m out here calling fr all the weirdos. lets be friends. lets hv philly n co go on adventures n discover horrible sites n uncover ancient secrets tht lie deep below irving. mayb nt tht. bt im jst saying. this is fr the dreamers. da weirdos. the jugheads. LHKDSHFSADLKGFHLSKADG fr those who also feel as if they r not real.

bills n aches n blues... ;; ya this is my call fr all negative plots. bills (catching philly be a thief and a fraud), aches (mayb heartache? unrecruited feelings or w/e theyre called?), n blues (ooooh so sad... so sad ... angst ...) obviously i am a genius. i wldnt say tht philly is here 2 make enemies bc philly doesnt care much abt ppl bt perhaps tht cld b an issue. tht she doesnt care much abt others. mayb ur muse is jst like. cn u pls care. n philly is like. i am incapable. sry. sucks.

n also ,, ;; like. anything i’ll. take anything. philly is weird lets come up w surreal plots tht verge on the edge of like. nt being correct fr this verse. suddenly theres vampires? or so they think ... smirks. anyways. shes been 2 jail n been in the circus (shoutout 2 kirby) n dances naked in the woods n hoards animals n treasures. we hv a lot to work with here obv.