#kotlc froster

[todayisclaudyyy]

WDYM FROSTER IS NOT AN ELEMENTAL ABILITY ??!?

MY WHOLE LIFE IS A LIE

HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO MAKE JULINE DIZZNEE ANGST NOW

hope the 7th element is ice/snow-

[bookwyrminspiration]

given the amount of times it’s come up I think we just need to accept that elf heat is real at this point

wow the idea of elf heat really just keeps coming back. it's almost like...it's almost like...some kind of cycle...a cycle of heat--

[kale-of-the-forbidden-cities]

KotLC OC tournament info post - 7/24

Daphne Evergreen

Name: Daphne Evergreen

Species: Elf

Gender/Pronouns: she/her

Creator: Mystic @mysticarts (she/her)

Short desc: A 5'5 fourteen year old girl with an adrenaline addiction, planning to make the whole world smile!

Backstory: Growing up as the youngest of her family, Daphne has always struggled to try and fit in with her family who is famous for their abilities as Frosters. Especially since she was a flasher, so she was even more of a outcast. However, this doesn't stop Daphne's long living dream to bring smile and joy to others faces by singing music to dancing to it. And maybe one day, she can make a whole concert of people smile with her performances.

If you would like me to edit anything on this post, let me know!

[lezabeththetheodoraimposter]

“no one can know I can tell what people will manifest as!!” why not? ability detecting is basically torture. u could save sooo many elves so much wasted time. and just how do u think the neverseen will use this against u?? it’s literally useless to them. but it is useful to the elves. like SUPER useful. people can spend their whole lives training w their abilities before they even manifest. like omg keefe cmon

edit (I put this in a reblog but don’t feel like reexplaining it so I’m putting it here)

I get what ur saying about Keefe not wanting the council to exploit him and that having all those ppl go to him but I really think that’s the only good reason which is still a very good one bc it’s about what HE wants (but also think of terik who did it for a bit then stopped but occasionally does it for some people) tbh the only good reasons are Keefe just not wanting to and that’s fair. but honestly I’m talking about the use of the ability and how in the grand scheme and when Keefe is in a better mental place that it can be SOOOOOO useful and like when he’s past all this and is happy and healthy then I would say he should tell ppl about it even if he doesn’t open up to “readings”

with a ability training thing that was one of my main points (tho I did put it in the tags and those go away when u reblog 😒) but ability training is literally TORTURE. like they put these like 11 year old kids in burning hot rooms for hours hoping to trigger a froster… like that’s soooo unethical idk what the councils reasoning for that is. it’s literal child abuse and I’m not even kidding. its brushed off but omg wtf. and imagine going through all that only to discover you were talentless and all that was for nothing. like that would suck

and for the talentless. keefe not wanting to tell ppl they are talentless is a very valid and good reason, but aside from that I think his talent would be more helpful. bc it would give talentless ppl more time to grow up and adjust to the predugist (hate bc I can’t spell 😭) against the talentless. bc even though they would have to deal w it from birth, isn’t that better than living a normal life w friends then BAM one day ur talentless and all of ur friends stop hanging out w u. like ur WHOLE world would be flipped and it’s better to give the talentless more time to adjust to it imo.

also the schooling thing u meantioned is another reason knowing ur talentless form the start would be helpful. BECAUSE THE TALENTLESS ARE PULLED OUT IF FOXFIRE WHICH IS SOOOOO MESSED UPP. like they go to foxfire for like 3 years then the council is like “haha no ability? sucks for u lol! go off to a different school where u know no one and make different friends yk just forget ur whole life up to now haha” like WTF. (honestly the bigger problem here is how the talentless are treated but we already know that has to change so this is about how keefe can help).

also it could give “bad match” couples where one of them is talentless (like Kesler and juline) comfort to know their kid isn’t talentless. And if their kid is talentless then it saves them years from worrying over it and the suspense of it all. Also I just think knowing ur ability from childhood and being able to train for it before u even manifested would be soooo helpful

but in the end of the day yeah, keefe just not wanting to is the biggest thing. and I might be remembering incorrectly bc I haven’t read the book in forever but I remember something about keefe thinking he accidentally triggered the triplets abilities which would be more problematic but idk if I’m remembering it wrong. but I do think like years after kotlc ends (or when ever he feels ready) keefe should defo start using his ability for good. like it doesn’t have to be everybody. it can just be kids of q talentless parent(s) to help their parents out yk bc if two telepaths have a kid then it’s obvi going to be a telepath u don’t need keefe to tell u that

also the main point of the pre-editted post was about how he doesn’t want the NEVERSEEN to know bc he thinks they might be able to use it against his friends. like how. literally how? what use is it going to do them.

[toastisnervous]

I can only have 12 options 😔 so I’m gonna make another pill and if you vote there just click the last option

POLL 2 HERE

[mysticarts]

Human sketch!

soo I'm experiencing art burnout! (Sadly) so to try and get myself back into the swing of drawings legos....I drew a human. Well not really a human, an elf to be specific

This here, is my main Kotlc oc, Daphne Evergreen!

(If you all don't know what kotlc means, it means: Keeper of The Lost Cities. It's a nine book series I've gotten into even though I only read the first book)

I haven't developed much of Daphne yet, I still haven't given her an ability yet (mostly the ones that I know about don't really intruge me yet except Froster) but I have came up with Her personality

If you mix up an Adrenaline Junkie with a passion for song and dance, you basically get Daphne. Daphne is sassy, full of energy, and no matter what, tries to make others smile, no matter how long the process takes. (Also, ik in the picutre of Daphne I drew her is different from the foxfire uniform, but that's because Daphne likes to stylize her uniform, she dosent like too much of one color.)

Aswell as this picture I drew her, she's around 15-17

Feel free to ask questions!

[crippling-pages]

I already reblogged this, but I thought I'd make it a seperate post so more could see.

Anyways, this is (my) explanation post on @fintan-pyren's weird kotlc ship name poll. Too save you time, I (tried) to figure them all out.

*THIS IS COPY AND PASTED* *ALSO MAY NOT BE CORRECT*

Sana: Sophie (S) and Biana (ana).

Fireheart: Marelinh. Fire for Marella, and Linh has a huge heart.

Kie: Keefe (K) and Sophie (ie).

Brainstorm: This is where it gets harder.. I have a feeling its Fitz and Dex. OHH No it's Sophitz! That makes a lot more sense tbh.

Afterthought: Now THIS one is Fedex (Fitz and Dex). Both of them are like the extra parts, kinda. The 'afterthought.' You think of them at the end cuz neither are really there anymore besides to help Sophie. (I may be thinking too deep with this one...)

Quicksilver: I put this one as Tiana (Tam and Biana). Biana is fast af. She's always disappearing and reappearing really fast, hence the 'Quick' part. And the 'Silver' part is obviously Tam because of his (amazing) silver bangs. (I picked this one).

Icebreaker: I feel like this is Kesline (Kesler and Juline). For the Ice bit for Juline cuz she's a Froster, and the breaker bit is similar to 'beaker', talking about Slurps and Burps, aka Kesler's shop.

Sex: Sophie and Dex might've done a bit more than kissing... (IUHYGTFR DONT CANCEL ME IM SORRY)

Tice: This is maybe Tam and... Keefe? Maybe? The T for Tam duh. And when I first read the word Tice, i thought of lice for some reason, and lice is in hair, and Keefe is Lord Hunkyhair so...?

Blondheart: The heart part is Linh, as I said earlier, and we have two blond characters, Sophie and Keefe. Solinh is more popular and Kinh(?) so it's Sophie and Linh.

Goldberry: Kenric and Oralie. Took me a minute, I almost thought it was Sophitz. Gold because of the wealth and high status of the councilors (gold is valuable and important, so are they) and if you look up berry, you get red berries, just like the Everblaze cover. Or the fire Kenric died from. (I might have overthought it again..)

Bumblebee: I don't know why but it's giving Stina and Dex, so there.

YOU'RE WELCOME

[illumonated]

not including the sophie-exclusives because we gotta get this poll shorter

[ohmygoly]

Ooh thats a good point! They might have lost the ability. Also might make them even more strict about matchmaking, because if the elves choose who they procreate with then there's the risk of them by chance destroying the balance of abilities and breeding one out, so to speak.

Honestly, why did elves start over relying on their ability? I guess maybe because it was an easy way to distinguish people but genuinely if the elves are so much better than humans you would think they'd be above that smh. Telekinesis is the craziest skill, and its probably a good thing Shannon didn't dwell on it too much but in that vain, at least it's also not a significant tool or plot point so those holes don't ruin the story as a whole necessarily. Also just remembered they can literally explode things and destroy them if they only think hard enough. That was a plot point. Maybe in an alternate universe, we keep the skills to a minimum. Maybe there's a cap on how strong a skill can be so telekinesis and combustion and levitation, etc, can't do too much damage no matter how hard an elf tries. Unless, of course, you are gentically mutated or ancient, potentially.

Using the Wuxing could also be an interesting alternate idea. I'll be honest, I'm not Chinese so I don't know a lot about the elements and zodiacs besides the fact that there are separate destruction and "creation" (?) cycles (water suffocates fire but wood fuels it, as I recall?) and that I'm a fire pig. Side point, the elves system treats them like they're not immortal which is so weird. How do they have money for their whole lives if they live an indefinite and eternal length of time? And why are they only in school from the ages of 11 to 19? I think that could be pushed to, like, a century if I'm being honest but at least make it twenty-five years or something? Fifty? Idk. Okay but actually: Wood = gnome, Metal = dwarf?, Fire = , Earth = ogre?, and Water = ...Okay I don't know where I was gonna go with that ngl.

Thank you! Lol if I didn't like the characters so much, I probably would've stopped reading the book just because the plot and worldbuilding has gotten out of hand (Please please please give me other characters besides Sokeefe tho!) I've also tried splitting the rest of the abilities into categories, one of manipulation (ex: beguiler, vociferator, mesmer, inflictor, telepath, enhancer) and one of reading (ex: empath, telepath, technopath?, descryer, etc) was one of my initial ideas. There just doesn't seem to be too much order to what abilities she chose, which I guess is fair but I like order lol.

That actually makes sense, like where the air might be thinnest? My thought upon rereading the post was gusters: the ultimate air purifiers. Shannon has used gusters simply as wind controllers. Like, tornadoes and such, from what I remember. After all, imagine a guster just decides to suffocate you where you stand. The series would be a lot shorter fr. I like that between sky and space thing though, because there is a lot of air contamination on Earth so maybe you have to reach the edges of the atmosphere to find pure air. Don't those trees also do something similar? Hmmm... She has this whole YA series about the winds I'm pretty sure, which probably wouldn't be too helpful in this KotLC quest. But then again, maybe it would be. In an epic fantasy world where this was delved into deeper because the series is already an ungodly length anyways, maybe the ability being inspired by the greek winds or some other mythology might be pretty cool. Maybe there are established Guster families that use heavy bird symbolism (I love my bird symbolism and I do have an OC guster/froster family lol).

Now I'm just spiraling into other topics lol, so I'll shut up now. But the nature of abilities in KotLC has always been a point of interest for me, especially the elemental ones

Okay I have this whole philosophy thing on the elements. You have the six, which are Water, Earth, Air, Fire, Light, and Shadow. These get split into two categories I call Celestial and Terrestial. Fire, Light, and Shadow are Celestial Elements. Fire belongs to the sun, Shadow to the moon, and Light to the stars. Terrestial elements belong to specific domains. Water belongs to the Sea, Earth belongs to the land, and Air belongs to the sky. I haven't thought about what the opposing forces must be in this system yet, if there are any. Light and Shadow seem intuitive but then the star and the moon would be opposites. Or, as I have also seen light and dark as the two sides of the moon, two sides of the same coin, thats what light and shadow could be in this framework.

It's actually kinda hard to say any triangle has an opposite, so what would their Terrestial opposites be instead? I consider that Shadow is the opposite of Water considering the push and pull of the moon and sea. That's pretty easy. I'm starting to think the sun should be Light (so that the daylight and the Earth can come together and symbolize land growth) and that the stars should be Fire (to symbolize the need for flame in dark, cold nights as well as to contrast the plasmic flame with lightning, or sky). This bothers me though because sun is so clearly fire to me and the rainbow-esque nature of light lends itself well to the broad range of stars. Anyways, this had something to do with KotLC, naturally.

I will say this again WHY ISN'T THERE AN EARTH ELEMENTAL ABILITY? I have been thinking up an OC that could potentially have more gnomish blood (still an elf) with some sort of Earthsong ability, like the tunneling thing a lot of the other species do or plant polyglot, or some sort of crystalline ability. The problem is, its incorporated into so many of the other species' abilities (gnomes sing to plants, dwarves mine crystals and stones, ogres are experts in biochemistry) that I'm sure its just repetitive and boring to have an elf ability as such but the asymmetry lowkey annoys me. And something interesting could be the case like literally growing things, or something with metal, or transmitting through crystals whether it be communication or travel or harnessing power.

I have considered gnomes are more closely related to elves than other species because of this earth thing. They are basically humanoid plants. Dwarves could be the second runner up of this. This could work if we follow evolutionary theory (which is already wack in this universe) but ALSO the source theory that says that all of their abilities are sourced from the light of the sun, moon, and stars. Maybe gnomes are the balance to elves, maybe the interconnectedness of their peoples as of right now is also symbolic of their biological closeness. Idk, I just want an earth element recognized. Why would elves even think of earth as an element if it's not even recognized? Remember the Greek Gods split the underworld, sky, and sea but kept the land everyone's domain, so this Earth could be less given to the elves as everybody wields this power. Idek.

Technopathy was something I potentially considered because technological inventions of the elves, especially in these primitive yet weirdly sci fi inventions, are closely tied to earthen materials like stone, wood, and metal (a little chinese element action ig lol). Linh reads the water and discovers it in the air. Marella reads the flame. Its heat, its color, its wildness. A technopath reads the materials of the world around them and creates something out of them. Earth is the element that best symbolizes growth, life, and creation in such an obvious way. What better ability to symbolize Earth than one that reads the earth and creates something out of its parts?

What even is this void thing? Before Sophie's teleportation there were conjurers, which have a connection to the void and the strings that connect the universe. I have put them in my own little category named "subelemental" alongside frosters, phasers (matter), vanishers (light-ish), psionipaths (plasma/light?), and chargers, but I think they could be important to Elysian. This whole void thing essentially lays this weird greater connection between everything that Elysian also kinda hints at being. Goodness, Elysian is so vague. They need to stop making seventh elements in fantasy. It's too much. Alas, there is and we must figure out what it is. I think it is closely related to whatever the heck is going on with conjurers and Sophie's teleportation but I'm also kinda making this up.

Each element kind of has an extreme. Flashers have the ability to control quintessence, which is light in its purest form, right? Shades can control shadowflux, a physical shadow that destroys. Pyrokinetics have everblaze, the purest embodiment of the wild and living flame. I figured "Bottles of Youth" are an example of the purest, most life-giving water but that it is simply more commonly used because its beneficial rather than destructive (like the Celestial elements are). So in that vain, what would be the beneficial, purest forms of Air, that Gusters could control, and Earth, which gnomes, dwarves, or technopaths could control, depending on which theory we're running with here? Is there no tainted form of Elysian or is the Elysian that Sophie meets the purest form? Is this "void" tainted or pure? Maybe Elysian is the general, tainted element and Void is the pure form of it.

No one is going to read this, I almost guarantee it, but idk maybe I'll update this myself with my own ideas or something. Figured I'd post it anyways and see what happens.

[rayniscatstatue]

My friends have declared that I would be a Froster because of how cold my hands are. I have determined that they are all Pyrokentics with their warm hands being criminals

[imissjensi]

unlimited money hack!

step one: manifest as a froster

step two: acquire elsa like dress

step three: profit

[obsessedwithsophiefoster]

When elves have the enhancing ability, they can never turn if off. Also, I have a memory that when Dex was encanced, he had a ton of ideas and got super stressed about writing them all down and maybe got a headache.

Sophie’s pretty lucky that she didn’t want to date Dex already, because with her constantly enhancing everyone whenever she touches them, they really couldn’t ever touch, which would make it real hard to date.

Also, I wonder what other abilities this would apply to? If Sophie cuddled with a pyrokinetic, hydrokinetic, or froster while they both slept, would it be possible for them to accidentally use that ability in their sleep?

[lezabeththetheodoraimposter]

idk why I’m sharing my kotlc ocs bc I’m not an oc type of fan but oh well (my ocs are more of just characters I head cannon to exists out there) + drawings I did of them (this is the abridged version dw ur not going to be reading a dissertation on them 💀)

Selma Akhenaten

- She’s a vociferator so she doesn’t speaks much

- her uncle (and favorite relative) is councillor Noland

- her two cousins, aunt and uncle, dad, and younger brothers are all frosters so she really can’t stand them

- the only way she would be “plot relevant” if she was cannon is one time she got paired up with sophie is p.e

- rbf + the fact she doesn’t speak much makes everyone think she is rude and judgmental

- really powerful vociferator but it means she’s destroyed parts of her house on accident

- loves listening to gossip but hates it when people talk bad about the council

- dresses up very nice and elaborately (I just didn’t feel like drawing that

- after fitz and sophie ran off she was the star prodigy at foxfire and was annoyed when they came back

Baldwyn Mowbray

- a mesmer

- was one of the first three councillors

- he was helping out humans with leprosy (for the human aid program) and ended up catching it himself

- because of his leprosy he resigned from the council

- the leprosy affects him similarly but not the same as humans

- he spends most of his time now skulking around and being emo and wearing face coverings

- was a homoerotic baddie before he became a leper

- friends with Bronte and Fallon (was friends with Fintan and talks to him/refuses to accept he is evil) (I told u he was homoerotic)

- lost all of his fingers on one hand

- is barely functioning

- bc of how hard and painful it is for him he doesn’t allow many visitors to see him (other than Fallon or Bronte) (and Fintan)

Odelyn Dizznee

- Dex’s (wine) aunt

- a technopath

- the neverseens technopath

- her code name is “vulcana” like “Vulcan” god of blacksmiths

- loves bright pink and would get along w Biana (if she wasn’t part of neverseen and has been for decades)

- the first time sophie saw her was in her neverseen outfit but Dex wasn’t there so no one recognized her and no one put the pieces together for a long time (like until Dex saw her)

- joined during her time at foxfire after Kesler was forced to go to exilium even though he was smarter than most of the school

- started to hate the council because of how talentless people were treated and it descended into her being a (noble)-blood-thirsty villain

- uses human weapons bc they are more effective

- keeps everyone in the neverseen from dying bc they haven’t slept since the dawn of man

- is good at alchemy and buys stuff from keslers store all the time for them (the neverseen)

- the neverseens cook too bc she’s really good at it (but she has slipped devious elixirs into alvars drinks when he annoyed her)

[kitties-and-milk]

[everliving-everblaze]

So @agentghosts, @linhamon-roll, a few others, and I got into a discussion about how every ability relates to water. (It started as a discussion on Frosters vs. Hydrokinetics.) Here's a list:

Frosters = Solid water

Hydrokinetics = Liquid Water

Telepaths = Mind water

Gusters = Air water

Pyrokinetics = NO water

Technopaths = NO water PLEASE NO WATER

Inflictors = Make the mind water pain water

Descryers = Determine if mind water can become bad water

Shades = Dark water

Flashers = Light water

Vanishers = Invisible water

Chargers = Make water go zap zap

Phasers = Water

Teleporters = Move through the void of life water

Fluctuators = Make it more water, make it less water /  Make water oobleck

Talentless = We drank the water RIP

[rainndropp13-blog]

If Dex was a Froster

Sophie: *Presses panic button*

Dex: *Light Leaps to Sophie and freezes the Neverseen*

Dex: Problem solved.