#lightkeeper posts

[ask-everafteracademy]

Sooo Lavinia? Thoughts? And if you could, is there anything you'd change about how they handled her character?

Ooh. Hm. Alright, full transparency, not the biggest Lavinia fan. And it's a shame really, because her route and her character did have a lot of great potential to it. My main issues were how the general plot with the flower charm felt recycled from Ezra's route (not the writer's fault, it likely wasn't planned for her to have a route at the time it was written), but it still felt kind of cheap. Also wasn't a fan of the way the lore and underlying plot of the series was glossed over. Yes, I'm aware that the purpose of Lovestruck was romance first, but when the rest of the routes focus a lot on the plot, having one that doesn't really makes it stand out in all the wrong ways. That and the way Lavinia was characterized left a lot to be desired. As an immortal powerful queen, you'd expect her personality to reflect that. However, throughout the route, she felt more like a whiny teenager going through a rebellious phase. Which sucks because again, she had so much potential. Still, I mean no disrespect towards Lavinia fans, she's clearly very popular so maybe it's just an us thing. But I'd much rather read Ezra's route, and I'm saying that as a lesbian lol

-Lightkeeper

I can appreciate how positioning a "villainous" character like Lavinia as a love interest helps us see the main cast from an opposing point of view, to showcase their flaws and a contrasting side to them, likely poising to make a statement on morality. It often was very entertaining to see everyone butt heads! I was really curious to see how she would have grown from villainous to perhaps virtuous, so I'm disappointed we'll never know now.

I have to agree with Lightkeeper in that a lot of Lavinia's route seems to borrow from Ezra's. Their relationship dynamics certainly resemble each other. Both began adversarial and argumentative, and through those arguments the LI warmed up once FMC earned their respect. Though Lavinia's feelings for FMC shift from respect into devotion when FMC proves she's a rare individual who extends her compassion and benefit of the doubt, and even faith in her ability to become a better person. EAA's overall theme of the transformative power of love rears its beautiful head once again. (At least, I hope I'm remembering their dynamic correctly.) Maybe upon closer reading, and a long overdue reread, of both routes, I'll be able to better appreciate the differences between Ezra's and Lavinia's romances.

Taken by itself, Lavinia's characterization was fun, as your sort of archetypal delinquent/bad girl hiding heartbreak this time with a fairytale twist, but it was sadly that—just sort of archetypal. Considering she's a centuries-old entity with fairy blood lacking a piece of her heart, I think it would've been really cool to see that reflect in the way she relates to and is seen by humans. Ethereal, whimsical, dangerous? Creepy and unsettling, imposing and mysterious and utterly alien. A force of nature rather than a petulant, brooding rebel without a cause. Anything to justify her fearsome reputation and the main cast's prejudice against her? (Unless that was based off nothing but hearsay, as it was with Ezra, which could have been the entire point! but that would undermine the theme of her story as outlined by her route summary)

Put simply, I wanted to see her character concept taken further, particularly her fae heritage, which would have made the route more fun for me in a few ways. This would have 1) more heavily foreshadowed the Titania twist and made the reveal more satisfying; 2) raised questions about nature vs nurture (after all, what is Lavinia's major?); 3) distinguished it more from Ezra's story, which is about a fundamentally good person whose reputation is smeared by a third party, and made it about someone whose bad reputation is deserved and who must earn her redemption; and 4) allowed us to witness a struggle to reconcile who Lavinia initially is with the image (FMC's image?) of an ideal partner, and from that starting point, watch her become that more suitable partner.

But this is a university setting, and a fluffy romance story. If molding the Ice Queen into a figure you'd be more likely to meet at university was the goal, then I would've liked to see some clearer justification for or exploration of why she's this emotionally stunted for an ancient queen. Something to do with her missing heart shard? Maybe that was coming down the pipe. Again, we'll never know.

Overall, I wasn't terribly fond, since I do have pretty specific tastes and I readily admit that I have my own strong biases. I'm sorry to disappoint anyone looking for a more wholly positive viewpoint! But I'm glad there are people who do love her.

– Pathfinder

[nedlittle]

so i work for a small regional museum. remotely, i should add. the museum itself is about 2000km west, so i've never actually been there but i research and write articles about local history for them. and because the town was only formally settled in the 1920s and a lot of the museum's supporters are older, the majority of the history i write about is within, or just outside of living memory. this means that people will comment on our posts with memories or connections of their own. they'll tag their friends and family and say 'remember this?'

a few week ago, i wrote a week's worth of posts about immigration, largely displaced persons in the aftermath of the second world war. there was an outpouring of memories and people tagging their family members and sharing them. our notifications were blowing up with people saying "thanks for writing about my uncle" and "i knew them when i was young, but i never knew their story" and "she looks so beautiful here" and "our families used to get together for dinners, i'm still friends with his daughter."

regular people, non-historians, are inclined to think of history as a monolithic past leading up to the present; an easy timeline of textbook names and events. and we think of museums largely the same way. you have the louvre and you have the smithsonian and maybe a modern art museum or a niche museum for skeletons or canoes or one specific guy. museums are reserved for the big things, but they're also for the little things and people that will never be in textbooks.

and i'm thinking about the way people responded to those posts, seeing their own history remembered with the same reverence as the big stuff. maybe you never knew the people being written about, or maybe you did, and for a few days, they are alive again, and your neighbours and your classmates and your councilmen are remembering your family, and they are alive.

[petrichorium]

❝ sail away with me ❞ ❝ ask me again in the morning ❞

— a lightkeeper and her emperor of the sea {pluvi x shanks}

[sideblogdotjpeg]

have been thinking about professor sol even. professor bufo with no clearly discernable lesson plan. sol bufo ostensibly martial arts professor who spent two weeks running a yoga and meditation program and shows up to the next class with crochet hooks for everyone. professor bufo who is technically supposed to be assigning grades to students but hasnt given anyone less than an A because "i think they worked really hard and they did a great job :)" (referring to the ugliest and most malformed pot holder anyone has laid eyes upon in their life). professor bufo who is on his way to cluelessly kickstart the sexual awakening of about half the cohort of the academys new students. sol bufo adjunct professor who is gone half the year and his first class back is so immediately and easily baited into going into a long tangent about how cool his friends are. sol who is pretty sure hes easily the most useless professor on campus and almost cries when he sees his little desk overflowing with thank you notes at the end of the year. professor bufo absolutely fucking gloriously hot in the tightest little sweater vest because there were faculty complaints when he wore a crop top to class.

[smilestrawbunny]

Amidst the darkness, your light shines new possibilities… Lightkeeper, our queer horror/romance, has gotten updated! The new update includes:

-3 new CGs, 1 new sprite

-Edited writing

-Added the Lightkeeper Art Book, a PDF of concept art and doodles from the team!

-Added “Story Mode,” which removes the button mash segments for people who want more of a classic VN experience.

-Added different difficulties for the button mash segments.

-Added a web browser version!

[miscgallery]

swapkeeper ellie

[telleroftime]

He's bald! He's bald and he's bullying people that have hair!

AKA, It's 3.20 am and I'm experimenting. At the moment I like his face shape and the marking, but the starfish thingies? Yeah, I'm not set. I have an idea though. I could make clumps of the lionfish thingies so they look relatively star-shaped.

[elsewhereuniversity]

Hello again Archivist!

I swear, I'm going to start charging for delivery. I'm not really sure how, given that I don't know what the person who keeps giving these to me looks like, but I'll figure it out. Here's another letter from our mysterious individual.

A piece of heavy cream paper, slightly rough at the edges like it was handmade rather than mass produced. The writing is in an elegant, loopy cursive, written in midnight blue ink that shimmers slightly when it catches the light. Also, the student offering you the note has a bit of dark blue ink on their left hand. It could have come from the note being wet when they got it, but none of the letters are smudged.

For Lorn, formerly Lightkeeper Lorn,

A sign found in the warped images produced by trying to to play a disc which was once a home movie of a family's ocean vacation. One of the Spring Court Gentry ran their fingers over the disk in contemplation of its silvery surface, and now the original sunny Pacific Ocean has been replaced by fog and restless, roiling water, with only a single light to guide the watcher from the depths.

Your vigil did not go unnoticed, nor did your departure go unmourned. The one for whom you waited gave everything to get back to you, and lost who they were in the process. Their body rests now, in a peaceful grave on foreign shores, purchased by their earring. They were not entirely unmade by the brine. Take comfort in that.

Though many things are too far gone to ever be mended, and what the Unsea takes does not return, there are those whose feet can walk from the foam-flecked beaches with some of themself intact. We advise a course or two in chemistry, while you're re-acquainting yourself with the rest of the world.

Oh, and Archivist, the faint form of a grey wanderer in the mist behind the Lightkeeper whispers to us of words yet to come. Lord Ceranes is no particular friend of ours, so we offer this free of charge: his time will come, and your wait will end. Take heart from the end of Lorn's vigil. All good things to those who wait.

Fondly,

The Council of Heralds

P.S. To those who have inquired; Unfortunately, unless the electronic in question is particularly sentimentally linked to you, AND it was touched as part of a Deal, we cannot ensure that any resulting fortune will be about anything in particular. It's really not that direct, guys, we're sorry.

[softboyscully]

ptown my beloved. nothing better than being in a lovely seaside town surrounded by gay people

[liighthouse]

@terrafound // continued from x

A ship crash. Meredith’s eyes widened, and her mouth went dry. Did he mean… the boat sort of ship? But… no boats were meant to crash on these shores. The lighthouse was supposed to protect them. She was supposed to protect them. It was her duty. And yet, here this stranger stood, still damp and clearly disoriented, because his ship had crashed.

Had she failed?

Meredith had faltered, caught in thought, but only a moment passed before she regained her composure and her instincts took over. “Oh, of course — come in, come in!” She ushered him inside, closed the door behind him, and gestured to the chairs beside the kitchen table. “You can take a seat, if you’d like. I’ll fetch you something warm to drink. You’re welcome to a blueberry muffin as well, I’ve just made them.” They sat on a dish on the table. “Are you cold?”

[rou-luxe]

Ikevil AU - Elbert mermay + Alfons lighthouse keeper

it's awfully cramped in there.

◇ lighthouse keeper alfons + another elbie doodle

rumor has it that the lightkeeper is more alluring than the siren he harbors... (i'm sorry could you blame me)

I put more mer traits on here than the first one 😭 BLORB!!

◇ really bad quick lighthouse keeper alfons doodle (when I say quick, I mean quick.)

◇ he got caught in oil ☹

◇ give him all your shells. right now. 👁

◇ tags

everyone who wanted to be tagged. I'm considering the likes on that post too. hope I didn't miss anyone...

@ynkfva @bakersgrief @consumeroflemoans @forever-untrusting @mxrmaid-poet

@pinnacle-pixel @xc092000 @floydsteeth @jhannasworld-blog @aqxxla09

@anonymousnamedhera

aaaand

@silkkorchid you already saw all of this but yk 😇

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happy mermay everyone

(uh oh what do I do for pride month do I draw them kissing...)

good luck with your exam season if you have them. have elbie and alfons for good luck. exam season is not stopping me in the slightest

[quinn-of-aebradore]

Since I've seen some folks being interested and the fic itself is still a work-in-progress, I thought I'd give a little introduction for the Essek and Caleb in my Candela Obscura AU! The above are their designs as I put together in Hero Forge and of course, here is them drawn by Maddy!

Essek in this world is an occultist who was raised in a very devout Ascendancy worshipping family in Briar Green. While he attended Briar Bank College, he was contacted by EONS and began doing work for them. As that connection went on its course and eventually came to a disastrous ending, Candela made contact with him as a way of damage control, with Lightkeeper Yussa Errenis taking him in as a ward, sort of, which led to Essek meeting—and eventually joining—the Circle of the Nein. He is currently retired from field work and serves as Lightkeeper to the Circle of Pearl.

Caleb, on the other hand, was born outside Newfaire in Tottergrass but grew up in South Soffit after his family lost their farm and moved to the city to find work. In his teens, he was offered an internship at EONS and spent time assisting in their labs in more ways than one, leading to his first exposure to The Flare and bleed. While on track to receiving a scholarship to Briar Bank College, he suffered a breakdown—the circumstances of which EONS has burned from the record and even Candela is unsure of—and spent several years in Greyslate. Whilst a Circle was in process of an investigation at the Sanatorium, Caleb escaped and soon found his way to Candela, becoming part of the Circle of the Nein as a professor soon after. He is currently retired from field work and serves as Lightkeeper to the Circle of Amber.

The fic I'm currently working on takes place after their retirements, though I have plenty of ideas about the events before that and of their backstories that I may turn into their own fics down the road. Which is why certain details are omitted here. If I remember to, I'll maybe post a snippet for WIP Wednesday this week :3

[simplegeneral]

So folks, to anyone who cares anyway, I suppose, I am rebooting the entire Smiling Red Wyrm story, transferring much of it to Eberron, with this first post being part of it.

Phlaurath: Status: Deceased Gender: Male Race: Red Dragon Alignment: Lawful Good Personality Traits:

- Humble:A rather simple dragon, Phlaurath was extremely devoted to the dragon cause and the prophecy, enlisting in the Soldiers of the Light to prove himself worth where his studies couldn't. - Protective: Phlaurath believed he had to fight so that his wyrmlings had not. - Kindness: In the draconic world, kindness does not lead to kindness, but it has never stopped those of truly good-hearted nature. - Paranoic: I feel like something or someone is after me... Background:

Phlaurath was the father of Launairk and his siblings, and husband of Throdigasyx for more than a hundred years as they both joined the Light of Siberys in the same flight, at the time an unusual young love mocked by most everyone, but it had come to last longer than those who mocked them.

He never had the smarts of Throdigasyx, but what he failed to achieve by studying the prophecy, he believed he could brute force it to the Lightkeeper, becoming a most devoted paladin of Bahamut and justice. A rather hulking dragon, however, with a golden heart not commonly seem in Argonnessen, for his love for his wife and his intense devotion to the good nature of dragonkind built the dragon he was in the army.

As time came, Launairk and his siblings were not his first clutch of eggs with Throdigasyx, but never prevented him from loving them any less than those before. Rising them in the Light of Siberys, Phlaurath intended them to become soldiers too, but tragedy would hit his family.

Although details are unknown, Phlaurath was seem chasing a mysterious figure in the sky alone, had he believed it was a troublemaker or a far worse influence, it released an eldritch blast so powerful on him that killed the dragon maybe instantly. He fell into the rock cliffs near the western beaches of Light of Siberys and was found and recovered days later.

His death deeply affected his family, especially Throdigasyx, who's intense belief, shared with him, of dragonkind dissipated as her growing anger just made her more volatile. After a draconic funeral, his soul and essence gave his family one last look before being released from his duty to Eberron.

While for his remaining family, things would only get worse as the unsolved murder would be shelved and ignored by the Conclave as "one more unfortunate casualty this year".

[randomperson0k]

HORRIBLE FITS🔥🔥🔥WIPE THEM IMMEDIATELY 🔥🔥

also tumblr please stop eating from my inbox you are of glutton and greed give me my asks back

these are just some of my deepwoken ocs or deepwoken versions of existing ocs

i was gonna post this last night but i accidently fell asleep sorry guys

extremely bad summarys of my characters time

drakkard - they take down 'bad guys' and have a hero complex. theyre not good at morally ambiguous situations and they prefer to see things in black and white. trys to act really intimidating, almost always fails. theyre quite young compared to most in their profession

hero garino - scam artist and thief sphynx felinor that pretends to have a water attunement by using flamecaller and frostdraw to 'create water' and using visionshaper to enhance the illusion of it. gets into brawls too often to be normal. what is wrong with this cat.

fien dise - lightkeeper ganymede that was touched by the deep at birth [they have a angler light on their head] that died to a attunement user and got sent to the depths for a really long time. they went insane there and came out a entirely different person. refuses to use their ability as a lightkeeper anymore. they went on a huge killing spree of attunement users awhile back and now they just sleep all day in a busted up lighthouse on a random island in the middle of nowhere

THE SMITH - a deepowl that left the nestmind [dont ask how that works] to become their own person and live their own life. theyre much larger than most deepowls and lack black feathers due to having leucism. enjoys a good fight but is passive if unprovoked. lives on top of a very tall mountain constantly creating weapons and armour. they love their job and will sell their wares to anybody that brings them valuable ores or materials. also their weapon is sentient and has a mouth yes

Mina - a bloodrend user that uses their ability to control monsters by taking control of the blood in their body. threshers are their favourite. their main thresher is one theyve dubbed as Princess. its a baby. they used to have a oath but removed it because they no longer wanted to be associated with it and the people connected to it. they are heavily scarred from said people. they are extremely hard working and rarely give themselves a break.

henry jekyll - deepwoken lightborn contractor that serves the ministry with extreme loyalty. also was extremely brainwashed since they grew up in the ministry since they were a kid. yeah. anyways. their connection to the song is kind of glitchy after splitting their soul in half so they no longer have access to any non-oath attunements they used to have. they dont have a lightborn halo because they destroyed it and they dont have cross pupils due to being a contractor + even if they werent one becoming a deepwoken would of removed their cross pupils. the deep god they ate to become a deepwoken was yun'shul. in story jekyll no longer shows up and hyde is usually the identity being used 24/7

edward hyde - henry jekyll but 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 . anyways uhh they have a better connection to the song than their identity as jekyll and they are much more visibly a deepwoken than jekyll. and they have a different oath than their identity as jekyll because. their soul was split in half. and surely that counts as a seperate soul enough to be able to swear it to a seperate oath than the other half of the soul has right hahaahahahha. loopholes yay. anyways yeah so theyre a saltchemist because henry jekyll if they werent uber repressed and brainwashed since day 1 would of probably chosen that oath instead of becoming a contractor.

the worm warder (steve) - black diver that 'got betrayed' for being too silly and thrown into the second layer of the depths by the divers. they spend their days there mostly studying the parasites and guiding others [less so divers though. they dont like helping divers all that much] has modified their black diver armour to be better fit for the second layer. they also dual wield heavy weapons because uhhh they have two sets of arms it just works ok

[stormbreaker101]

making a new post to record the things I have and haven't tested.

Things I have successfully tested.

Individual tiers of Daybreaker and Nightbringer stack on regular cards, and do NOT stack for B path spells.

Item Card variants of B path spells stack with their regular variants

Lightkeeper's Beam from a Blade school (Storm, Life, Death) and from a Trap school (Myth, Ice, Fire) stack. Lightkeeper's Beams from 2 Blade schools (e.g., Storm and Life) don't stack

The B Path hanging effects from the Same Spell but of DIFFERENT TIERS Stack. This isn't just for the Arc 1 and 2 spells.

B Path Spells that do what they say they do

Sirens B (+ TC)

Storm Lord B (+ TC)

Blood Bat B

Minotaur B (Not tested tonight, but tested in a raid accidentally LMAO)

Cyclops B

Keeper of the Flame (IC)

Zand the Bandit

Grimzilla

Count Croakula

B Path Spells that do NOT do what they say they do

Medusa B (+ IC) (gambit 4 traps for 4 Universal +45% Traps) (UPDATE: THIS IS ONLY GLITCHED FOR FIRE WIZARDS LMAO) (I didn't test this but someone in official Wizcord did)

Things I want to test

Every B Path/Fused spell I have mentioned on the sheet but not yet tested

- Gravestorm

- Blizzotaur (I WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TEST THIS)

Lightkeeper's Beam (Do the Balance Effects stack with the D/S/L and the F/M/I Effects?) (CAN'T TEST THIS YET. NEED TO FARM MITHRAYA LMFAO)

SUPERCHARGE (Stacking rules, enchanting rules, Daybreaker/Nightbringer shenanigans)

BACKFIRE (same as supercharge) (this is Fire. I can do this later)

Things deemed null and void and why.

Glimpse of Infinity (it CLEARS shields for traps. We cannot get shields onto the Balance Krokosphinx)

[crimetimesteadicam]

ok @morporkian-cryptid tagged me to do this fic author interview so here we go...

if you would like to do this, i am officially tagging you, yes you, right now. tag me back so i can see your answers

1 How many works do you have on AO3?

i got 40

2. What’s your total AO3 word count?

1,044,749

3. What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

sorry like none of these are lupin iii. a blight on my lupin iii blog

Wabisabi (991 kudos) - Spirited Away. idk it's short and cute, read it

BONES OF BLACK MARROW (952 kudos) - Homestuck. the infamous cyoa cannibalism sex fic. scrolling through the things people say about it in the bookmarks is always so funny

Cum mortuis in lingua mortua (925 kudos) - Homestuck. no clue why it has so many kudos lol it was like the first long thing i've ever wrote (a whole decade ago??? jesus). it's a d&d/discworld joke

Vanitas vanitatum (914 kudos) - Homestuck. the same d&d/discworld joke except the LI is turbo depressed. notable for being the only fic i ever outlined and edited and that's why it whips

Supermassive Retinol Overdose! (677 kudos) - hey look, a lupin fic made it on here!

4. Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

i do when i have something meaningful to say besides "thank you!" i don't have a lot of thoughts about my own work so therefore i tend to not respond if there's not a direct question :( my head is empty. i always respond to every single comment on the last chapter of longfics though because i'm always impressed people read that far lol. genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for reading all that

5. What’s the fic you’ve written with the angstiest ending?

idk uhhhh i wrote a series once where two of the main couples break up at the end, but it wasn't really angsty

6. What’s the fic you’ve written with the happiest ending?

they all end pretty happily

7. Do you write crossovers?

if i did it was so long ago i don't remember it

8. Have you ever received hate on a fic?

no but people used to send passive aggressive hate about my art in fics once in a while. hasn't happened in like 2+ years

9. Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

yes. every kind. EVERY KIND

10. Have you ever had a fic stolen?

a bot will sometimes scrape my high kudos homestuck fics and plant them on a junk ebook site

11. Have you ever had a fic translated?

yeah i think like 7 of them got translated into russian and do numbers on ficbook.net

12. Have you ever co-written a fic before?

in the past me and my friend would sit around a laptop and scream laugh write our way through crack fics

13. What’s your all-time favorite ship?

right now it's jiglup and fujilup

14. What’s a WIP that you want to finish but don’t think you ever will?

i finish almost all my WIPs because i'm a freak. if i don't finish a WIP it's because some dramatic life event happened. this has only occurred two times

15. What are your writing strengths?

im a funny binch

16. What are your writing weaknesses?

i don't outline or edit or re-read any of my fanfic. i just type it and then eyeball it for typos and then post it. i COULD outline and such to really make the narrative nice and tight, but i don't find it very fun to do (for fanfic) and this is like, my relaxing wind down hobby. i just wanna have fun haha. the only reason my fics like, make sense, is because i write at least one ending scene first thing and always aim for that, and also i write out of order so i kinda know the route of the story

17. What are your thoughts on writing dialogue in other languages in a fic?

it's fine if it makes sense to do it there as a narrative device

18. What was the first fandom you wrote for?

h-hetalia crack fic.....

19. What’s a fandom/ship you haven’t written for yet but want to?

once i figure out how to draw zenigata it's over for you bitches. luzeni hours on da clock

20. What’s your favorite fic you’ve written?

for lupin iii fic, i like Lightkeepers the best