#livia murder au

[meekmedea]

Livia Cardew First Lady of Panem Future President of Panem?

Upon her husband's sudden death at the hands of Panem's infamous serial killer, the Knave of Hearts, she would dazzle the country with her skill as she stepped into the late President Snow's role until a new President was sworn in.

But behind closed doors, there were some who suggested that alongside filling in her late husband's role as President, she took on his lover for her own as well.

Fancast: Lucy Boynton

Context:

Knave of Hearts -> Androcles Anderson. This identity is unknown to the public. (his alter ego is a WIP, may change)

Coriolanus' lover -> Clemensia Dovecote. Alleged lover as it is one-sided and it isn't Clemensia who's pining.

animals + their counterpart: snake -> Coriolanus, lion -> Livia, dove -> Clemmie

Bonus - Livia before Coriolanus' death

"The future President's wife does not parade herself as some sort of entertainment for others to gawk at." - Mr. Cardew to his daughter

Prior to her marriage, it was widely speculated Miss Livia Cardew would have been made the next prima ballerina at the prestigious Capitol Ballet. However, with her marriage, she would retire from the ballet scene.

[liviavanrouge]

Murdered Livia AU: Secret

Livia(Ghost): Got a secret?

???: Can you keep it?

??? And Livia: Swear this one I'll save

Livia(Ghost): Better lock it in your pocket

???: *Looks down* Taking this one to the grave...

???: If I show you then I know you

Livia(Ghost): Won't tell what I said

???: Cause two can keep a secret

Livia(Ghost): If one of them is dead...

???: *Looks at her* Can you burn all their evidence, sis....?

Livia(Ghost): *Nods and vanishes into thin air*

~~~~

Kiara: *Stands with Cal* That's the last of our evidence!

Cal: *Nods to her, holding Livias stuffed bunny*

Lilia: Kids, come on out, we should head back!!

Kiara: *Turns and walks away, holding Cal's hand* Coming, Father!

Livia(Ghost): *Grabs the candle, knocking over a can of gasoline with her tail and dropping the candle head first*

Kiara: *Turns around, her eyes wide at the sight of a fire* WHAT-

Cal: Ah! The evidence!

Lilia: *Stares with wide eyes*

???: *Stares silently, standing halfway behind a tree then turns and walks away*

???: Good job, Liv...

@queen-of-twisted @yukii0nna @zexal-club

[daenysthedreamersblog]

NOTHING MATTERS

And you can hold me like he held her

And I will fuck you like nothing matters

little AU!!! of my strangers fic inspired by link & link

summary: president snow takes reproductive matters into his own hands

pairings: president!snow x district6! reader

warnings: MDNI!! BLOOD!, smut, p in v sex, infertility, lil period sex (saltburn possessed me for a sec), breeding kink, lil breastfeeding kink (who made me do that??), pregnancy kink, murder

notes: WHO MADE ME WRITE THIS!! i hate pregnancy tropes 🫢 ... anywho enjoy tho. 'nothing matters' - the last dinner party

President Snow had your cycles down to a tee. With whatever birth control he shoved in your arm it had somewhere along the way regulated them to be able to track, to predict, to control.

You didn't mind; you enjoyed the formalization he had established for your life. You stopped worrying about them coming sporadically and without warning because he always knew. He would have supplies dropped off with a vase of white roses and it would come soon after like the floral scent triggered it to start.

It didn't stop him from fucking you.

No, of course not.

He would feast on you, blood coating his chin and chest before sliding inside of you savoring the extra lubrication. You yearned for it.

Time had gone by and your life was easy. He took care of everything, you, your body, sucked the rot right out of you, as long as you were good, you were safe.

Livia was still there, somewhere deep in the house, sometimes listening. She stopped having dinner with the two of you and you chalked it up to maybe he had finally gotten her pregnant; her purpose served.

But you never heard a baby cry.

You would wait and listen to hear something of that sort, but the house was still so quiet. He must have moved her, moved them away, somewhere else where they couldn't find you. He could keep up his public image and you would live out your days here in a routine.

Then one day, while pruning roses in his garden, you heard the door open. You heart skidded, wetness seeped out of you, so you knew it was him. He was home earlier than usual. You waited, waited for him to come for you and soon enough his hands trailed down your arms. He brushed your hair to the side kissing up your neck, "My good little bluebell," He murmured into your skin. "I need you to do something for me." You blinked upward staring at the rows of pretty white flowers some rock forming in your chest. "You can do that can't you?" You found yourself nodding, not even knowing what you were agreeing to, but that's how things were between the two of you; blind obedience. "That's my good girl." He reached down, pulled something from his pocket. "Open." You obeyed feeling him pour a liquid into your mouth. Before you could even turn blackness engulfed you.

It was blurry, and painful as someone scratched at your skin. There was blood and voices, and he was there staring down at you, you felt yourself reaching for him. Then you felt him between your legs that blissful pleasure ricocheting through you. It was all that mattered.

You woke up next to him naked and sore.

You curled into his warm skin feeling his fingers twitch against you and you closed your eyes, safe and normal once more. Life was easy, he made sure of that, as long as nothing changed.

Months went by and he seemed more aggressive than ever fucking into you wildly. He even began to come home mid day to fuck you and then go back to work. You didn't mind as his tongue lapped you up, as he pushed into you, cumming hard and deep never letting a single drop spill out of you. He would sit there for a while between your legs staring at his cum oozing from you and then he would shove it all back in and leave.

You didn't think anything of it until one day supplies showed up for your impending cycle, the sweet scent of roses filled your nose, but blood never leaked out of you.

Maybe it was the wrong day, he seemed distracted, frustrated with work no doubt. You did often hear him yelling at someone far off in the house some days. You ran your fingers across the soft petals and took the supplies in the bathroom to leave there.

But another week had passed and nothing came.

Unopened boxes sat in your hands as panic erupted in your chest. The implant must be malfunctioning or expired to cause the tardiness of your cycle, but the feeling dragged in your bones. You glanced up in the mirror, blurry eyes going to your stomach. It wasn't possible, it wasn't right. Your body had betrayed you again. He would be so angry with you, this wasn't supposed to happen, you had done something wrong. You fought the urge to dig your claws into yourself to tear it out, rip it from your stomach. It was an abomination, an antichrist that would butcher you.

Instead you stood there and cried.

You flinched when he opened the door, "You're late."

Your eyes quivered as you looked at him through the mirror, "I'm sorry." Don't stutter. "Mr. President, sir."

He shook his head a satisfied smile in his face where you expected cold rage, "Such a good girl." He walked forward, "I knew you could do it." You watched him, his eyes trained on your womb and you wanted to ask him to get rid of it so you could return to your never changing routine, but that thought nagged at you, clamping your lips shut. Your mind had betrayed you as well. His hand was pulling up the dress you wore slowly turning your body as his hand laid across your stomach.

He kissed your shoulder before bending you over the bathroom sink to plunge his cock into you. Your unused supplies got knocked to the floor with each brutal thrust of him and you gripped the cold counter moaning his name like you always would. You watched him in the mirror, watched that little stray curl fall into his face as his hands reached around to cup your sore breast. And even knowing the consequences it had caused you, you still loved his cum inside you.

"This shouldn't..." You chewed on your tongue as he walked you to bed. "I did something wrong. Won't people be mad at me?"

He stroked a hand down your head, "Nobody will know."

"Are you mad at me?"

"No." He shook his head tucking a piece of hair behind your ear, "You've been so good to me."

You blinked up at him. "Your wife..."

His eyes narrowed in anger and you looked down. "No longer a concern."

But wasn't she? This wasn't supposed to happen with you. Livia was his wife, Livia had to give him children, Livia...

Livia was infertile.

You learned that when he brought the doctor to confirm what beast was growing inside you. They had tried for two years, and never were able to conceive. So, he drugged you, ripped the implant out of your arm, and now you sat staring at the small gestational sac flickering on the screen. You had agreed to let him do this, remembered nodding your head without question because that was what was expected of you. You belonged to him, your mind and body, it wouldn't have matter if you had willingly agreed or not, the choice was an illusion. Tears welled in your eyes, bile rising in your throat and you flew forward reaching for the trash can to throw up into.

A hand rubbed your back. You threw up again.

"Are you happy?" He asked while the two of you sat in that empty room the sound of its vicious strong heart beat echoing in your head.

You didn't know what to feel. You felt ashamed, you felt wrong. You had been content fucking him, hating him, being fed and watered like a pretty flower in his greenhouse. You wanted to beg him to take it out, it made your insides roil and burn, it changed what you had been comfortable knowing. But you had always wanted Coriolanus Snow to live inside you, and now it always would be, growing within you, altering your DNA.

"Yes Mr. President, sir." Was the only answer you knew he would take.

He kissed your shoulder, "I knew you would be." A hand splayed on your belly, "My darling bluebell."

So, a few months later you found yourself once again pruning the roses half-way through an uneventful pregnancy. President Snow doted on you more than usual, bringing you flowers everyday, supplying you with more food once you were able to keep it down. He changed your wardrobe to accommodate your growing womb, he loved seeing how big you were getting each passing week, loved fucking you even more. Sometimes he would make you stand there naked just so he could look at you and you round stomach.

It would be over soon, you looked forward to that day, when they would take the baby from you and you would never have to see what tore its way out of you. You could return to normalcy, relishing in the predictably of your life with him.

The greenhouse door opened, shut and locked. Something was off, you knew by the way your body failed to react. "He finally did it." Her cold voice stilled your corrupted heart.

You turned slowly to see her, her red eyes going to your bump. She looked unwell, gaunt, exhausted and sad. "Mrs. Snow." You responded. You thought she was dead, maybe she was.

"I kept telling him if we could just try I would be able to give him children." She took a step closer and the hair stood up on your arm. "But he insisted on artificial insemination." Livia sneered, "Because of you. He wouldn't fuck me because of you." Your eyes darted around the room looking for an escape. "He married me, he chose me."

"Mrs. Snow..."

She slapped you across the face, "Don't even dare. You think you're so special, winning the games, letting him fuck you like the whore you are. You disgust me." She was seething your eyes finally catching on the long steak knife in her pale hands. "That's my baby." She pushed you back, your back hitting the table holding your tender flowers.

You braced for the pain, braced for the sharp edge cutting through you.

But all you felt was a kick.

Time stilled, your mind narrowing in on the feeling of it rolling and twisting inside of you, clawing at your organs, punching your ribs. It's small little foot kicked you again, your heart stuttered with the abuse adoration refilling disgust. It wasn't an abomination at all, it was everything you had ever idolized, once hated, once loved. It was just like it's father, stealing your body, blood, and bone; your heart beat for it.

You were a victor, you were his victor.

Warmth spilled down your hand and you met Livia's wide eyes. You both looked down at the shears you buried deep in her stomach.

Then you were running for the door yanking at the locked handle as her hand wrapped into your hair pulling you back. Your back slammed into the table once more glass shattering around you as red oozed out of her.

"If I can't have it neither can you."

Another reassuring kick in tandem with your heart beat and you were moving as you picked up the nearest potted plant to throw at her watching her stumble forward, a rage driving her movements.

She tackled you to the ground hands ripping out the shears to hold over your head.

"You're nothing but a savage." She was crying her tears and blood dripping onto you.

The greenhouse door flew open. "Livia." He was coming to save you once more and the little thing inside you somersaulted.

She looked back at him, "Coryo! This isn't fair! If we could just try! I can give you children please! We can be happy...I know it."

"Get off of her. Now." He gritted out.

She shook her head, "We can grow to love each other too...if you just try...with me, not her."

You wanted to tell her, explain, there was no love between the two of you. It was raw possession and starvation and hatred that kept you glued beside him. It was insanity and corruption that burned through your souls intwining them together in a pretty blood stained ribbon.

He glared, "Enough."

"No! No!" She screamed as you lie stagnant under her. "I'll tell everyone! Leak it to the news what you keep here, who your children really belong to. You'll be ruined." Her rage melted into sadness. "It's supposed to be me." She looked back down at you, "Why would he want you."

You heard the click of guns, but your hand had wrapped around the knife's handle your lips pulling back to bare your teeth, a snake poised to strike.

"Because I'm his good girl."

You slashed the knife across her throat a warm red river spurting over you from the open wound. Her body collapsing on top of you instantly, blood soaking into you, and this time you didn't wait for him to move it, you shoved her to the side hands going to caress your stomach as that little life rolled within you.

He came forward staring down at you covered in his dead wife's blood. He bent down holding your chin with two fingers, "You are." A stroke of his thumb, "My darling girl."

You surged forward to kiss him feeling him pull your drenched body to him, wrapping your legs around him as he went to the nearest table. In one swift swipe of his hand plants clattered to the floor as he laid your body down in a bed of ruined white roses. He was ripping down the middle of your dress to tear the fabric off your body as you did the same to his feeling him climb onto the table above you.

His hand went between your thighs, fingers shoving into you, stretching you open, palm pressed against your clit, hips bucking to meet his thrust. You stare at him as he watches his hand disappear inside your needy cunt. His mouth goes to your breast, sucking and nipping at the swollen flesh watching as milk slowly starts to leak from the tips.

He stares down at it for a moment, blood and milk covering your chest, before running his tongue along it again. His mouth wraps around it sucking harshly and you moan fingers running through his hair. His hand moves faster pressing down on your clit more and soon enough your clenching down around his fingers as he throws you over your peak.

You tilt your hips up to let him slide in deeper whining out when he's fully seated inside you clawing at him as he thrust in and out of you viciously. His teeth graze against your jaw as he rolls his body along you, hands sliding down to rest against his side. You nip at his ear feeling his pants growing louder near your face. You feel conjoined, connected between bodies and soul and you find yourself running a soft hand down the back of his head.

"Do you still hate me?" He breaths out grinding his body hard into yours.

You can't answer.

He smirks, "I want you to give me more," He hooks an arm under you thrusting into you faster. "I want a little litter, breed that good little obedience into them hmm?" Your toes curl against him, "You want to give me that right? Give me however many I want?"

"Please," You whine against his throat.

He slides his hand between your bodies, skin slick with drying blood, running circles around your clit as his dick hits every good spot within you. Your body alights with pleasure as he brings your closer to the edge. "That's my good girl."

You squeeze your eyes and cum, pussy clamping down around him. His fingers grip your scalp as his thrust quicken, his grunts getting faster until he finally spills inside of you.

He stays within you as you whisper into his skin, "Coriolanus." He goes stiller above you, "It's a boy."

"A boy." His lips twitched against you, it almost feels involuntary.

He glances down at you a certain lightness to his blue eyes. He's everything. Him. This consumption, this primal need and obsession, this hatred and worship. He's everything. He's given you everything, even a darling baby boy.

He's got your eyes and Coriolanus's curly blond hair. He's precious and all you ever needed, but you still wanted more, craved more. You watched him play with a toy train set as you bobbed your daughter against your knee.

"Dada," She cooed watching as he stepped into the room two white roses in his hand.

He bent down to hand one to her the small little smile on his face as the sweet scent filled the room. Then he tucks the other behind your ear, "One for each of my favorite girls." He asked a hand reaching out to splay against your ever-growing womb. "How are you?"

"Hungry." Your eyes darkened as you meet his.

You set your daughter down sending the nanny in to watch over them as Coriolanus pressed a hand to your back leading you back to your room.

You can barely keep your clothes on before the door closes, greedily pressing your self against him, mouths heavy and hot with teeth and tongues.

This is everything. He's everything. He's all consuming. Nothing else matters.

Even when the cold comes crashing through

I'm putting all my bets on you

I hope they never understand us

I put my heart inside your palms

My home in your arms

Now we know nothing matters

notes: hope you enjoyed! im not super thrilled with this snow ended up being WAY too nice lmaoo but i remembered him being rly sweet (well his version of it) to his granddaughter in THG and i was like ya know what hes a psycho but he would adore his kids lmao

but yea this is such an AU snow and reader would never have children in my OG story :)

[moreespressoformydepresso]

I promise I’m still alive and writing but I’ve been working a lot, I’m planning a vacation and I’m still not over the person that showed me how shitty people can be who I recently realized may have actually been cyberstalking me so it’s taking me longer than usual to do anything.

It did give me this AU tho:

The tributes are saved because they’ve been through so much shit it made them become expert therapists.

It all started when Lysistrata confided in Jessup about a bad friendship breakup she had and he not only reassured her that she dodged a massive bullet, but he ended up giving her some pretty good advice. When she told Coriolanus about this, he hesitantly opens up to Lucy Gray about his struggles and her compassion and good suggestions snowball (ha) into him getting his ass hauled to actual therapy. All hail his therapist, who works overtime to fix the mess that is Coriolanus Snow and is tipped generously once Tigris gets her fashion business off the ground.

Livia complains about the general mean girl/boy-ness of her friend group and Facet hesitantly but kindly informs her that she’s been gossiping about them behind their backs too and maybe she should try to work on herself so the better friend groups will want to hang out with her. Lo and behold once she shows her real self she gains a less toxic circle of people around her. Not even she knows when she started considering Facet part of it, but damn it all if she won’t use her mom’s bank connections to make sure she won’t lose the person who singlehandedly managed to change her life for the better.

Palmyra doesn’t think she’s mean, but Velvereen opens her eyes to the idea of passive meanness. Actions can be bad, but sometimes inaction is worse. Not telling her friends to stop insulting some poor kid isn’t being ‘neutral’, because silence is taking the side of the agressor. Velvereen only said it in regards to Palmyra’s social life, but it doesn’t take the mentor long to take a step back and apply that logic to the games. She doesn’t like them, but she sure as heck never did anything to stop them, did she? Maybe it was time to change that, and maybe it was time to share her newfound wisdom with her classmates.

Marcus doesn’t like Sejanus. Not at all. But he deserves better than this. So he points out all the ways in which Sejanus’s friends… kinda suck? Because they’re not as mean to him as other Capitol people but that doesn’t make them good. So he suggests owning the title of District Scum more than he already does and no longer doing anything for them so they realize how much he’s done for them despite their snotty attitudes. Sejanus tries it, and several people’s weeks are ruined because of how many nice guy things Sejanus was doing. He gains a lot more respect, and his voice suddenly has a whole lot more impact. Marcus didn’t foresee a sudden pushback to the games thanks to his little comment, but he’s not complaining. Not in the slightest.

Festus saw himself as a good individual. He had some less “savory” tastes like dog fighting, sure, but that didn’t make him a bad person. He was even feeding his tribute, because not doing so would be heartless. He’s a good person! Well, Coral rips that fantasy apart and enjoys his resulting metaphorical tears for breakfast when she breaks it to him after he asks her why she hates him so much: feeding her is less than the bare minimum, and he’s doing it with massive ulterior motives too. She lays out all the shitty things he’s done and wow does that force him to reflect. She may not have intended it, she was merely blowing off steam, but… that truly changes him. Because he suggested executing any District citizen that doesn’t watch the games… the games where their children are being murdered. Then he starts seeing, actually seeing the tributes instead of looking at them like circus animals, and he realizes they’re not being murdered by each other because none of them have a choice. They’re being murdered by the Capitol and everyone in it who only see the barbaric death and ignore the cause of it. Then he sees how close the tributes from 7 are, the kids from the district that brings his family money. The reason for his own wealth and status… maybe there’s more that Festus had been unable or unwilling to see, and while he’s working on figuring out how to end the games, maybe it’s worth asking about the conditions of the people who suffer for his comfort.

Pup Harrington knows about war. His dad’s a general, how could he not? But talking to Lamina gives him some insights he’d never had before. From the other side. War’s cruel, but he’d never wanted to realize it’s cruel for all sides. Even the one he doesn’t like. And when he sees her crying, he sees his own friends and family all those years ago. At first it annoyed him, but then when he confided in her in a moment of frustration, she opened up to him and showed her she understood him. Then he realized her tears annoyed him because they made it harder to distance himself from her. They made it harder to see her as an animal. From that moment on, he vows to get her out of these games. It only takes one more conversation with her for him to realize that if the most surefire way of achieving that goal is getting all the tributes out and stopping the games as a whole just to make her happy and ensure her safety, then the consequences be damned he’s gonna make it happen!

Arachne was happy with her tribute. She’s big and muscular and has a pretty good chance of winning. Not as good as Livia or Lysistrata or Clemensia, maybe, but good enough. But Brandy is district, so of course she’s gonna tease a little. At first the girl steals a knife and lunges for her throat, but she stops. For some reason, she has mercy. And then she talks. About home, about her troubles, her insecurities, all the things Arachne had never even thought district people would have because they weren’t human. When she’s done, Brandy turns to Arachne and sits down cross legged. “So, which one of these made you think bullying a starving child with food would make you better? How did you think this was a good idea in any way?” And Arachne has no answer because she hadn’t thought about it. She was Capitol and this girl was District, they both deserved what they’d gotten right? Arachne just did these things to people below her because… because why? Because that’s all she’s ever been taught to do. It’s how things were. And in a way it felt good to remind others (and herself) of her status. But this girl shared so many problems that Arachne could relate to… maybe it was worth asking a few more questions. And maybe it’s time for her to use her Crane status for a selfless goal for once.

Vipsania is competitive. Very competitive. Since a big part of her victory is going to be performance, she tries to figure out a way to exploit her tribute’s clear affinity for entertainment. It starts by forcing him go perform for food in the zoo, and things go according to plan for a while. That is until she gets into another fight with her parents about her plans for the future. They just don’t get it! When she rants about it to her classmates in the zoo, her tribute overhears and calls her over. She wasn’t here for him, she was just going along with her friends since they had plans for after this, and she hasn’t talked to her tribute since the interviews where he’d been chained to the table. Vipsania doesn’t know what made her decide to waste her time on this, but she does. He asks her why she’s so against the career paths her parents want for her, and it’s so stupid because isn’t it obvious?! She’s not them! But the boy, Treech, isn’t satisfied. He looks at her with stupidly soft sympathetic eyes as he asks her why she’d think going into those careers isn’t “her”. It’s stupid and it’s none of his business and he’s just a tool for her victory and she knows he knows that so why does he care? But she indulges him, if only to get it off her chest, and he listens. He listens to her rant and rave just quietly enough to not disturb anyone and by the end of it he’s far more understanding than anyone else she’s ever talked to. He doesn’t belittle her or try to get her to “see her parents’ perspective” like others have done, he validates her feelings instead. He tells her what she wanted to hear: she’s right to feel this way. But then he tells her what she needs to hear: “have you ever told them this? Have you explained to them why you feel this way instead of just stating that you do?” She hasn’t. Treech suggests she try, so she humors him. It works. Once she sits down with her parents and lays it all out the way Treech helped her figure out, they actually listen and change their minds. The whole situation gets her thinking about her view of her tribute. She hadn’t been subtle about how she views him, and still he went out of his way to help her. To be kind and supportive and helpful to someone who treated him badly. What did that say about what she’d been taught? What did that say about her? It doesn’t take her long to realize what she has to do. Vipsania is competitive, and she refused to lose Treech’s life to the Capitol’s (and her own) cruelty. She would repay his kindness no matter what.

And the list goes on. I’ll type out the other possible problems and give more depth at some point in the future but I need to go to bed lmao (also the tag limit is 30). Either way, the mentors get free therapy and a conscience for the lowly price of staging a coup. They sabotage the pre-game program to buy time and when Gaul orders the games to start her lab is suspiciously bombed, giving Felix the time to drop trying to convince the president to withdraw his support for the games and go full blackmail instead. The president is annoyed until he’s forced to meet Dill and starts making arrangements to get the tributes checked over in the hospital before sending them home with communicuffs to stay in contact with their mentors if they wish.

[liviacardew]

deaths explained + time travelling kids au

so, when achilles crane-cardew, plutarch heavensbee, aelia ravinstill and athena creed are fourteen, all their parents die.

after their parents’ death, the kids were extremely distraught and were full of grief (athena more so than the others).

and when they’re eighteen, they finally find out how and who killed their parents. they’re all revengeful when they find out it was the same person that killed their parents. coriolanus snow.

here’s how they died

felix and clemensia were killed in a car accident. festus and persephone died due to food poisoning. hilarius and vipsania had a posca overdose. livia and arachne both had a sudden cardiac arrest.

felix and clemensia had been the first couple to die. they were both on the way home to their fourteen-year-old daughter from a social event. then, they got into a mysterious car accident. all the cctv footages of the car accident were gone. they all mysteriously disappeared. no one was able to figure it out until their own daughter, aelia ravinstill did the day she turned eighteen.

festus and persephone had passed a week after felix and clemensia. similarly, they were both in an event. coriolanus offered them food, and they both simply started choking and death came for them. the cctv cameras were broken that night. later when flavius was sixteen, he’d then take his own life. athena was the only price-creed left.

(help i lowkey do not know how to explain livia & arachne’s and hilarius & vipsania’s…like it just happened. or maybe that’s what coriolanus said what happened…who knows?)

time travelling kids au (scenario one)

in this au, the kids create a time travelling machine with the help of io jasper and urban canville’s son: albert canville (much to aelia’s dismay). they’re not technically sure about this whole time travelling thing, but they decided it’s the only way they could get their parents back and make sure coriolanus doesn’t end up a total prick like he is now.

they test out the time travelling machine, and the group of four actually did it. albert canville actually did it. they were now in the beginning of their parents’ senior year.

since they were wearing the academy uniform, professor demigloss/dean highbottom thinks they’re new students and tells them to go to the orientation. the four of them see each of their parents there + coriolanus and they just panic.

this is the first time they’ve seen their parents & co. in four years and when professor demigloss tells them to introduce themselves, all four of them would go like: “uh, um, well�� for a few moments until arachne raises an eyebrow and give them that look.

they just make fake last names similar (in a way?) to their actual last names. so now, they’re achilles byrd-shaw, athena cress, aelia heron, and plutarch whimslou. (i actually do not know.)

coriolanus is suspicious of them immediately. when he asked them “why did you guys just enroll in the academy when we’re about to graduate?” and “i don’t think i’ve ever seen you around before?”, but they always dodge the topic somehow.

they’re a few days in and then all of a sudden, albert canville and june ruby snow show up. though, this one was by accident due to june ruby accidentally stumbling across the time travel machine and albert just tries to hide it, and they hit the button by accident.

them being there creates more chaos and albert and aelia get into an argument in front of everybody and they’re all like: hey, they remind me of felix and urban?

and to top it all off, albert literally says: “well, at least coriolanus snow didn’t murder my parents!” in front of coriolanus snow himself.

everyone is just shocked.

the kids explain everything to them- except for the part whrre they’re some of their children.

coriolanus is now terrified and doesn’t murder his friends in the future.

everyone’s happy and well in the future and june ruby still exists!

i was going to add scenario two in here but the post was already long enough (also, i haven’t thought fully about scenario two at all😭), so it’ll be in another post coming soon!

[catindabag]

TBOSAS on Crack ✨Character Info✨😌 (part 2)

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If you haven’t caught up on my TBOSAS Crack!AU yet, read [this] first. AND for those who want part 1, you can read [this].

Felix “Class Pres” Ravinstill🎖️(AKA: Panem’s President If The Academy Was Running The Government)

He honestly won the position of ✨Class President✨ because of pure nepotism. And because nobody really wanted to run against him at that time. At least he’s very competent with his job, and everybody genuinely likes him.

His granduncle is the current ✨President of Panem✨. That’s why he uses the excuse of “My granduncle runs this country! I can do whatever I want” card if he gets in trouble.

Speech writing, dancing, throwing parties, and acting are his favorite hobbies.

Drunk!Casca Highbottom mistakenly calls him “Philip Raven’s Bill” than “Felix” every class roll call. Luckily, he doesn’t really care.

He and Festus Creed are the ones in charge of choosing a ✨Class Team Building Game✨ every week.

His favorite banned song is ✨This is What Makes Us Girls✨💅.

He loves to collect rare and banned ✨Hello Kitty✨ merch for some reason.

He is the richest student next to Sejanus Plinth and Livia Cardew.

Half of his relatives are rich AF politicians, and the other half are a bunch of shady business tycoons.

He is aware that his family is corrupt AF. However, he was forced by his parents to ignore that issue if he wants to receive his weekly allowance from his Bichon Frisé puppy loving granduncle.

He has eight crazy uncles who are trying to assassinate/arrest one another.

Half of his uncles are a bunch of criminals, and the other half are in charge of the Capitol’s Peacekeepers.

His family reunions are known to be dangerously wild and deadly. Last year’s ✨Ravinstill Family Reunion✨ included two disastrous weddings, three failed murder attempts, and five funerals in less than a week.

He has a tendency to accidentally share his family’s secrets for free.

He was genuinely ashamed to introduce himself in front of the Tributes because of his family’s infamy and shady crimes against the Districts. He even pretended to be “Philip Raven’s Bill” when he first met Dill.

After being embarrassingly outed as a “Ravinstill” in front of the Tributes, he and the other Mentors decided to make an elaborate plan to delay and ultimately postpone the 10th Hunger Games (forever), just because he didn’t want Dill to hate him.

He always brings a red megaphone every class outing because half of his classmates (according to Livia Cardew) are a bunch of babies who can’t follow basic instructions.

He teasingly considers Lysistrata Vickers as his personal physician because her parents are currently working under his family.

He once ordered Androcles Anderson to steal one of his family’s prized Bichon Frisé puppies that were illegally bred by one of his criminal uncles.

Livia “Liv” Cardew 💅 (AKA: The Capitol’s Very Own Regina George)

Everyone is afraid of her family. Heck. Even D. Gaul is afraid of her powerful parents.

Her scary mother (Mama Cardew) literally runs and rules the largest and most politically powerful bank in the country.

Her proud father (Papa Cardew) is a glorified stay-at-home househusband.

Her mama once threatened President Ravinstill to legalize customizing one’s school and job uniforms. In truth, Mama Cardew just wanted her favorite employees to wear a dazzling gold and pink suit for the summer holidays.

Mama Cardew is the only living entity that Dr. Gaul doesn’t want to meet, intimidate, or argue with.

Livia will literally and economically ruin anyone’s life and reputation forever if they wear the same outfit as her.

Dean Highbottom is not allowed to give her a demerit because her mama will literally strangle him to death with his tax papers.

Livia is one of the richest students next to Felix Ravinstill and Sejanus Plinth. However, she openly brags that she is richer than those two idiots because their families are technically using her mama’s bank.

Drunk!Casca Highbottom mistakenly calls her “Liver Cardew” than “Livia” every class roll call. She told her mama about this issue, but no deadly threats could stop the Dean from calling her “Liver” in front of everyone.

Her private car’s color is a blinding ✨Hot Pink✨ that sparkles under the sun. It is the only one of its kind because she promised to sue anyone who will try to replicate her idea.

Shoe shopping, gossiping, and collecting secrets for blackmail purposes are her favorite hobbies.

She has her own secret “burn book” that could destroy the reputations and careers of many high ranking government officials if they ever try to threaten her family with money.

Her favorite banned song is ✨7 Rings✨.

Livia once threatened a School Board Official that she will personally destroy Panem’s economy if they refuse to let her class have a ✨Pink & Pearls✨ theme party after their midterm exams.

She is the ✨mean girl✨ that her loser classmates fear, but ultimately need if they want their ✨TGIF Costume Parties✨ to happen.

Arachne Crane is the only classmate that Livia half-heartedly considers a true friend of hers.

Livia, Felix, Coryo, and Sejanus were the ones who petitioned to let the Mentors give their Tributes a private tour around the Capitol after the failed Arena Explosion Incident. And because she needed Facet to carry her diamond encrusted handbag when she goes shopping with him.

She genuinely bonded with her Tribute through gossiping and shopping.

She tried to hire Facet to be her official fashionista assistant because he claimed that he was an expert in jewelry and apparel designs.😌💅

She is the one who suggested to recreate/revamp the Hunger Games into a reality TV show called ✨Love Island✨😘. However, this only ultimately motivated everyone to create their own version of the Hunger Games with a “no killing” policy.

She and Arachne Crane also proposed to create another reality TV show called ✨The Real Housewives of Corso✨💅, which will feature the secret lives of the richest women of the most opulent neighborhood in The Capitol.

Palmyra “Palm” Monty ☠️ (AKA: The Academy’s Food Harbinger of Death)

Her family can hardcore survive almost any poisonous substances and are even frighteningly immune to cyanide poisoning.

Her mother, Mama Monty has been feeding her children expired foodstuffs since forever.

She likes to bring her mother’s accursed expired pies to school and feed them to her friends as a sign of ✨solidarity✨🥰.

In order to escape the inevitable death sentence of being unintentionally poisoned by Monty, her friends just pretended to be full all the time. Even the malnourish looking Coryo Snow and Festus Creed (the Foodie) have to lie in order to avoid eating “Monty’s Poison”🤢.

She was ultimately banned from feeding her classmates and teachers by the school after the infamous ✨End of The Year Class Party Incident✨that horrifyingly hospitalized half of the school because of her family’s deadly apple pies.

Cooking, baking, and feeding people are her favorite hobbies.

Her favorite banned song is ✨Cooking By The Book✨😂.

Her family only survived The 2 year Capitol Siege by the rebels because Mama Monty fed their enemies her notoriously deadly apple pies when they broke into Monty’s Mansion. However, the Monty children (plus Florus) all got war trauma after witnessing the rebels (censored) and die from food poisoning.

She is somewhat aware of her crazy “psycho” tendencies because of her childhood war traumas. However, nobody has the guts to arrest her or her unhinged mother. Even the powerful Ravinstills and wealthy Cardews refuse to mess with her “borderline insane” family.

Drunk!Casca Highbottom mistakenly calls her “Palmolive Monthly” than “Palmyra” every class roll call. She was quite annoyed by it. So she took revenge by feeding the Dean expired crackers that hospitalized him for two weeks and a half.

She was the sole reason why both the Mentors and Tributes of the 10th Hunger Games survived and avoided the ✨Arena Explosion Incident✨.

After Felix and the rest of the Mentors notified The Academy of Palmyra’s shenanigans, she is now officially banned from entering the school kitchen or any public kitchen for that matter.

Unsurprisingly, it took 5 Mentors and 3 very confused Tributes to force her out of the school kitchen without getting poisoned or stabbed by her precious cooking knife.

Florus Friend is deathly afraid of her because of the infamous cheesy roll incident that almost killed him and his dignity.

Persephone Price is the only entity that Palmyra considers a “true danger to humanity’s existence” because of the ✨Maid Stew Incident✨.

She used to have a small crush on Festus Creed until Persephone Price heard the news and threatened to cook her.

Her District 1 Tribute, Velvereen was considered a real “walking miracle” by many people, just because she had the courage to eat “Monty’s Poison” without getting sick.

She was the one who proposed ✨The Hunger Games: Fear Factor✨ idea with a “no killing” policy. Unsurprisingly, Treech, Jessup, Brandy, and Coral were the only Tributes who supported her proposal.

Androcles “Andie” Anderson 🚨 (AKA: Panem’s Professional Kleptomaniac News Anchor Wannabe)

Most of his family are either on-site news reporters or news anchors. However, they all mutually dislike Lucky Flickerman and his annoying talking bird, Jubilee.

He is quite the successful kleptomaniac of his class. Fortunately, only Felix, Coryo, Iphigenia, Sejanus, and Lysistrata knew of his impulse control disorder because of the infamous ✨Cabbage & Pills Incident✨ that everybody refused to talk about.

He wants to become a famous investigative reporter like his mother in the future. However, Dean Highbottom and a few government officials would rather burn Panem to the ground before that happens.

Disguising, acting, reporting, and pickpocketing (stealing) the Dean’s morphling bottles to sell them later at the Capitol Black Market are his favorite hobbies.😈

His favorite banned song is ✨Stand Up by 1D✨😎.

Drunk!Casca Highbottom mistakenly call him “Andrew Keys Under Sun” than “Androcles” every class roll call. He just laughs at the Dean’s expense.

His mother is always up to date with every saucy Capitol gossip. And as a reporter, she is a danger to anyone and everyone’s reputation.

His scheming family only got filthy rich because his scary mama blackmails a bunch of rich government officials every other week for a living.

Urban Canville has an ongoing grudge against Andie because the klepto once stole his lucky scientific calculator.

He also once stole Livia Cardew’s very expensive ✨red apocalypse colored lipstick✨ and melted it down in the school kitchen to make fake blood in order to skip “boring” classes.

Dr. Gaul hates Andie in a more personal level because he once stole her pet rabbit mutt’s genetically enhanced carrots and fed them to his starving Tribute (Sheaf).

Coryo and Sejanus are responsible for listing every item Andie stole from his fellow classmates. Unsurprisingly, they are now adding and extending the available pages.

Felix Ravinstill greatly considers Andie as his right hand man who is not afraid to get his hands dirty. That’s why he was given the task to secretly steal a prized Bichon Frisé puppy from the President of Panem himself.

Andie and Felix have a long-standing ✨Bromantic Bros For Life Relationship✨ and everybody knows it (except for the Ravinstills).

His greatest accomplishment as a “professional kleptomaniac” was when he successfully stole President Ravinstill’s ✨presidential house keys✨ without anyone noticing.

He supports Coryo’s talent show idea with a “no killing, no gore, no cannibalism” policy because his Tribute (Sheaf) is good at dancing and acrobatics.

He, along with Coryo, Festus, Apollo, and Diana, were shamelessly responsible for emptying the school’s food pantry to feed their Tributes without further depleting their already depleted class funds.

He and Festus Creed should’ve already been expelled from school a long time ago because of their non-stop shenanigans. However, the Dean was too afraid to meet Andie’s mommy and her camera crew.

He and Sheaf genuinely became good friends after he got her a custom made rabid raccoon plushie to play with Wovey.

[mx-pokirby]

Genshin AU where Layla's headmate solos all of Teyvat before the Traveler even meets Paimon

Y'all already know the Wisdom Seelie could've single-handedly rescued Nahida, and gone total Rules of Nature/Attack on Titan/Some 3rd Example on Scaramouche's ass without even needing a timeloop buff.

The Stars' Blessing would've deduced the truth of Rex Lapis' murder faster than anyone else, and then Nothing Personell Kid a certain Childe into next Lantern Rite before he could even try & fail to steal the gnosis or summon Osial.

Admittedly the other 3 Nations (typing this before Natlan's full story is complete) are a bit trickier. Monstadt was helped in part by the Traveler's immunity to the abyss in purifying Dvalin's tears, and Fontaine was helped by the Traveler being good enough at socializing to unite everyone, while Other Layla tends to avoid being perceived. Though how much one could argue were necessary steps towards being the only way to resolve things, I'm unsure.

As for Inazuma, we could see it going either way. The Traveler definitely had the advantage in their power not coming from a Vision, thus catching Ei's ire and being granted access to the Plane of Euthymia.

However, Nightlight Layla's superhuman(/elf) abilities, intelligence, and preference for operating in the shadows, we think would make her an even more exceptional ally who gets roped into joining the resistance, and may even be able to see through the Raiden Shogun not being the "true Archon" of legend.

In fact, despite absolutely lacking in raw power output comparatively, we think Livia is still more than capable of holding her own against the Shogun, if not being quick & cunning enough to get the drop on her. And perhaps, just maybe, being another person familiar with what it's like to maintain existence inside the mind of another, could perhaps be enough of an Exception from the norm to catch Ei's eye as well.

So we conclude she can easily solo at least like 2.5 of the Archon Quests. The rest don't feel impossible, but admittedly a good deal tougher without help. But of course compared to the entire rest of the playable cast, excluding Archons & Harbingers, that's still like top of the chart. The Traveler gets cheaty protagonist powers; the Sleepwalker is (allegedly) just a college student with a dissociative disorder.

[mr-nauseam]

MASTER POST: My Snowjanus AU's

I. Suffocation Timeline

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It all starts when Coriolanus murders Livia Cardew and Sejanus, who had tried to commit suicide, allows himself to be fucked by his first love to give him an alibi and the necessary funds to cover up suspicions.

Then it never end.

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Divergence of the canon. Coriolanus Snow becomes President Snow. What if I drew a lot of parallels between Sejanus Plinth and Casca Highbottom. Coriolanus think he is Butternut Master of Pyschological Manipulation. Corruption Arc. I can make them worse. Snowjanus and their toxic love bring about the fall of the Capitol.

For now:

AO3 - Suffocation

Tumblr - Practice 10 & Practice 11

II. Chained and shackled

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Sejanus and Billy Taupe manage to flee to the north and find District 13, which is as horrible as ever but they have another option?

Coriolanus believes Sejanus is dead and becomes obsessed with his ghost, until he discovers that Sejanus is alive in the guts of the earth like the lost fortune of the Snow's.

Their fall down will began.

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What if I make Coriolanus Snow lose his mind. Billy Taupe gets character development or something like that. District 13 is less oppressive than it is in THG but you can see the seeds of the monster it will become. Billy Taupe / Sejanus it is a thing here. Sejanus is a heartbreaker and he collects moral grey boyfriends.

For now:

AO3 - Chained and shackled

-Run Away

-Fugitives in the clouds

III. Knockoff

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Coriolanus born omega became an alpha to beat his own weakness with Dr. Gaul help. He also believe that Sejanus born an alpha is unhappy for it and forced him to become omega.

Sejanus realized when it's too late that Coriolanus loves him.

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Omegaverse. Playing with laboratories and Capitol science. Coriolanus can be a lab rat as a treat. Possible mpreg. Snow lands on top. Making Sejanus suffer (sorry he is my favorite character). Divergence of the Canon about 10th Games. Roleswap Sejarcus and Snowbaird. Vowed to update soon. Just have to edit.

For now:

AO3 - Knockoff

IV. The condemned

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His hands are stained with blood, and his father's business flourishes to his regret, thanks to his impeccable work. When Strabo finally leaves this world, Sejanus knows his soul is doomed and in the shadows a hunter stalks him.

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Very loosely based on IWTV - Vampire Chronicles | Vampire AU | Snowbairdplinth | I'll have to open an American history book | Sejanus is Louis, Coriolanus is Lestat and I'll let you guess who Lucy Gray is | Maude Ivory will show up (sorry) | I just wanted them to be immortal and beautiful.

For now:

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[flastar13]

In an au where Coriolanus is president and looking for his ex-girlfriend:

Coriolanus running to hug Lucy Gray: Lucy Gray❤️ my love, where were you?

Lucy Gray tied to a chair after being taken from her idyllic home in the woods by violent peacekeepers: What do you want now, you narcissistic, murderous asshole🤬?

Coriolanus😭: Why do you treat me like this my singing bird, I just want you to love me?

Lucy Gray😡: You tried to hunt me in that forest as if I were an animal, you betrayed your best friend causing his execution and let's not forget the countless atrocities your government commits.

Coriolanus😧😃: That was because you dared to end me through snake mail🐍, Sejanus was for the welfare of the nation😇, the same as the other sacrifices I had to make, so as your president 😎 I demand your gratitude and affection.

Lucy Gray 🤬: Fuck you Coriolanus, I would never share a zoo cage with you again.

Coriolanus 🥺: You're rejecting me, well I'll have to send multicolored adult snakes the size of a person to the next tributes of district 12 again. Do you remember them are the same ones that I threw your handkerchief to so that they would become familiar with your sweet scent? That's why I had to be a peacemaker in that horrible district.

Lucy Gray😰: Coryo... They're just kids... You can't do that...

Coriolanus🤔: What would sweet Maude Ivory be if she were harvested? Or Del Covey if a mysterious bomb went off in her house?

Lucy Gray😡: Don't mess around like my family, BITCH.

Coriolanus😌: What if all the mines in the 12th district are closed along with the black market? After all we count on District 5 for power.

Lucy Gray😭: Coriolanus please stop, they are innocent people and the 12th district was never my home, I was just trapped there by the war.

Coriolanus😈: And do not think that I will allow you to abandon me again, I will throw you in a cell in the prison of the presidential mansion in front of a huge television screen where you will see how people suffer because of you, until you are begging to be my girlfriend again.

Lucy Gray: You're married!

Coriolanus😒: Yes with Livia but I haven't seen her since our arranged wedding. So if you come back with me I'll give you all the first lady rooms and let you sing in the Pluribus culb, but if you need more time to think about it I respect that and I'll cut the food budget for District 12.

Lucy Gray 😭: It's okay Coriolanus I'll do what you want but don't hurt anyone.

Coriolanus👿: Is that all you have to tell me after so many years? After I send my best men away from the cover of civilization? After poisoning the entire cabinet to find you? After putting aside my busy schedule to see you? Officer execute order 66 in the district...!

Lucy Gray 😭🥺: Wait Coryo my love, I love you, you are a sweet cake with cream and as pure as freshly fallen snow Do you want to be my boyfriend again?

Coriolanus 😢: That was so sweet but it's not enough 👿 officer execute...

Lucy Gray 😫: I'm yours, only yours!

Coriolanus 😳: Really? I own you?

Lucy Gray 😭😫: If Coryo you are my owner, I belong to you just as you belong to me, it is written in the stars. Do you remember?

Coriolanus😍: Yes! 😏 Prove it.

Lucy Gray gives him the most passionate kiss of her life.

Coriolanus😍: Perfect my love (He proceeds to untie her but places a golden slave collar around her neck that will warn her if she leaves the presidential mansion without permission) now let's take a bath together like in the old days and then we go to my room to get catch up on my bed, then you have to prepare for your interview with Lucky Flickerman for your return and your duties as a mentor to the District 12 tributes.

Lucy Gray proceeds to cry uncontrollably as Coriolanus hugs her, comforts her, and inadvertently injects her with some kind of aphrodisiac.

[felixravinstills]

Livia Murders Snow AU so she can have a Lucrezia de Dormentaire (B!) era.

For some context, read the Personality section of the linked wiki

Spoilers for B! Vol. 17 if anyone cares (this warning is honestly just for Bel)

also know Lucrezia faked her death because she wanted to see her lovers’ reaction to that (well, her female bodyguard isn’t canonically her lover but the fandom knows…) also note that Lucrezia’s loser boyfriend stowed away on a ship to try to avenge her, found out from someone else she was alive, sailed to America (without seeing her), he became immortal and she got shipped the immortality elixir (by someone else), it’s been nearly 3 centuries and he doesn’t know she’s also immortal. She takes strolls near him waiting to see his reaction to her being alive

[franzias-cave]

the volturi daemon au

Continuing on from Vinelle’s post re: the inevitable daemon!au, here are my takes on what the Volturi’s daemons would be. This is a beast, so I’ve popped it under a cut. Citations and paintings included!

Aro: Haast’s Eagle

A very big, very extinct bird. The Haast’s eagle preyed mainly on the giant, flightless Moa (230 kg). They were driven extinct when early human settlers on New Zealand over hunted the moa, but the Māori still have legend of enormous birds known as Pouakai, Hokioi, or Hakawai that would eat people.

Aro is a conceptual, farsighted person with very lofty goals, so I think a bird would suit. He’s the HBIC of the vampire world, so a terrifying, deeply intimidating bird is my first choice.

(Image credit John Megahan)

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Caius: Aurochs

Caius, the most belligerent member of the Volturi! Obviously we’re going with a predator, right?

No.

We’re sticking with something much scarier: a great big fuckoff cow.

Specifically, the aurochs - the terror of Pleistocene Europe. Not only would they happily gore just about anyone, but the bulls would also fight each other to the death. Violent, angry, aggressive, and a second away from murder at any given time. While juvenile aurochs could face predation by wolves, mature and healthy bulls were nigh on invulnerable.

(image credit: Gesner Woodcut,  "Icones Animalium" 1560, reproduced from 1551.)

Marcus: Scarlet Macaw

Like Aro, Marcus has a unique perspective on humanity that would lend itself well to having a bird daemon. I can see Marcus as a type of parrot, specifically a scarlet macaw - profoundly intelligent, very social, and adventurous. Another thing -  many birds are monogamous, but scarlet macaws mate for life.

There is plenty of apocryphal evidence to suggest that parrots grieve - they scream, pluck their feathers, and generally become inconsolable.

The tragicomic potential is immense. To paraphrase @therealvinelle: “You have Aro saying "talk, birdie. C'mon. Come on, let's say "Caius stupid" together! Let's go! And the parrot just never talks back

Aro insists the parrot can talk, used to be the chattiest parrot around. No one believes him.”

Didyme: Sonoran Desert Toad

I thought about choosing a cuddly, oxytocin-inducing animal, I really did, but the lure of the sonoran desert toad proved too strong.

These toads are frequently hunted down and licked by adventurous psychonauts because their parotid glands produce 5-MeO-DMT and 5-HO-DMT (aka bufotenin),  powerful psychoactive chemicals that produces a profound sense of mystical euphoria. Also super poisonous, so that’s a fun vampire adjacent thing.

What else would do for Didyme?

(frogge)

Athenodora: Grass Snake

A common snake in Greece that mostly wants to chill out in nice warm patches, but will kill if necessary. We know very little about Athenodora from canon, but we do know that she chooses to get blazed off Corin constantly.

Sulpicia: Domesticated pigeon

Aro famously searched high and low for a woman suitable for the position of his wife. Per Vinelle and the Muffin, I think Sulpicia is most likely loyal, kind, unambitious, pleasant, and maybe a little stupid.

Since it’s Aro’s chosen life partner, I went with a bird. She’s happy being a companion, so I went with a commonly kept bird.

Parrots are too smart for captivity and will go insane (don’t keep parrots as pets!). Geese and ducks are friendly, but there are also capable of violence. Chickens are charming and stupid, but also evil.

Domesticated pigeons (Columbia livia domestica) are thee bird companion. They’re friendly, just the right amount of stupid, and cute. They like hanging out! You can pick them up like a little hamburger!

They also mate for life.

I think it would be a very beautiful pigeon. Sulpicia is upwards of 3000 years old, so I don’t think it would make sense for her to be a modern pigeon breed, but I’m including an image of the Damascene pigeon for reference.

Jane: Bullet Ant

I thought about going with something cute and English like a badger before realising that Jane needed something more insidiously terrifying.

The inventor of the Schmidt Sting Pain Index considers the bullet ant to have the most painful sting of any animal, bar the tarantula hawk wasp. He described the sting of the bullet ant as  "pure, intense, brilliant pain...like walking over flaming charcoal with a three-inch nail embedded in your heel."

The sting causes immediate, excruciating pain. The effects eventually wear off without leaving lasting (physical) damage, similar to Jane’s power.

I don’t like looking at ants so you’ll have to look an image up yourself.

Alec: Blue Ringed Octopus

Tetrodotoxin is a hell of a drug. It interferes with the transmission of signals from the nerves to the muscles. It causes loss of sensation and muscle paralysis, which is spot on for Alec. Just imagine this poor 11 year old swimming around in the Roman baths in the Volterra basement with a rubber duckie and his small, poisonous daemon.

(Image credit me - I painted this)

Demetri: Polar bear

Polar bears are magnificent trackers, and one of the only animals that actively (and enthusiastically) hunt humans. There are plenty of examples of polar bears stalking their unwitting victims for weeks at a time, going so far as to learn their potential victim’s schedule. You’re a scientist on Svalbard? Better change up when you have your cigarette break.

(she knows where you live)

Felix: dung beetle (specifically Onthophagus taurus)

These little dudes can pull up to 1141 times their own body weight. That’s like a 70kg person effortlessly lifting a small submarine. Also it would give him a complex and I think that’s funny.

(use your imagination to picture bug)

Corin: Bohemian Waxwing

Bohemian waxwings famously love to get fucked up on fermenting berries. They’re often seen flying around erratically after overindulging. I don’t know what Corin was like in life that her vampire power is getting other vampires metaphysically polluted, but she might have been a little like the bohemian waxwing.

(shots shots shots shots)

Chelsea: chimpanzee

Chimps have complex, intricate social lives with ever-evolving hierarchies. There is evidence of social manipulation and coercive social control in chimpanzee groups (super interesting paper linked). Chimpanzee groups will also go to war with each other, famously in the Gombe Chimpanzee War. Chelsea’s power is based on the manipulation of interpersonal attachment, so it makes sense to me that her daemon would have sophisticated social structures.

Heidi: Bolas spider

Heidi uses her powers to lure unsuspecting victims to their deaths. The bolas spider (Mastophora hutchinsoni), attracts moth males by mimicking the female moth sex pheromones. And then eats them. Pretty self-explanatory.

You’re gonna have to look this one up yourself, I hate looking at spiders.

[meekmedea]

It was not until she returned to the privacy of her rooms that Livia pinpointed what exactly that feeling was. And why exactly she felt a twisted sense of satisfaction upon seeing Clemensia gently push him away. 

She was jealous. 

Not for the attention her wretched husband had given Clemensia, but for the position the man had been in – and oh what she might have given to have been in his place. 

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Even now, Livia could recall the scene ever so vividly - the enamoured way her husband had leaned in, just to be rebuffed. 

Unlike her husband, she would have succeeded where he had failed. Livia just knows it. In her mind’s eye, she can already picture the dark-haired beauty underneath her, gazing up at Livia with those eyes.

[liviavanrouge]

Murdered Livia AU: Culprit Confession

Lilia: What...

???: I did it, I killed her...I didn't mean to, she told me to and...I did it

???: She told me to run in her final moments and I did, I ran so fast back home

???: Old Man, I've been living with this guilt for a long time now

Lilia: *Stares coldly at them* Good....you killed your sister...

???: *Stares with wide eyes, tears falling down their cheeks*

@queen-of-twisted @yukii0nna @zexal-club

[daenysthedreamersblog]

What would Coriolanus do if in a fit of rage Livia hurts reader for like being his lover? (Stangers au)

honestly? murder her lmao

but like let's say she slapped reader...he'd probs like burn her hand or cut it off 😌

he views reader as his 'property' / belonging to him, so that's a high offense and so either he'd have her executed, kill her himself, imprison her(but he thinks that would be too kind), my fav version is sending livia running and having reader chase her down to kill her like the games bc they are SICK AND TWISTED!!

also we have this lovely(maybe mediocre) au in which that topic is brought up :)

[moreespressoformydepresso]

Okay so @crazycriter pointed out Urban said out loud he believed Teslee was “his” and now I have a fix-it AU where all the mentors think like this and because they’re spoiled (aside from Snow who’s just a fuckhead with psychopathic tendencies) and not used to whatever’s “theirs” being taken from them they openly oppose the games. It’s a fucked up reason to wanna stop the games but hey whatever keeps the tributes alive is good so they don’t complain. They just seethe internally at being seen as possessions rather than people. Since this gives the mentors more time to interact with their tributes they start to slowly see them as people rather than property. Some, like Lysistrata, earlier than others, but they all get there (except maybe Snow unless they get him into therapy because there is a lot more than propaganda and trauma wrong with him to be honest). By the time the games actually end up being cancelled after a few weeks of postponing for deliberations, the mentors genuinely see their tributes as at least sort-of friends or possibly as younger siblings for tributes like Dill, Wovey, and Mizzen.

I think it’s important for people to remember that the mentors aren’t evil, even if they treat their tributes horribly/have disgusting opinions. They were taught their whole lives that the people in the districts are wild animals who are beneath basic respect. The Capitol is civilized and superior, the districts deserve to rot. Their children being murdered in a yearly death game isn’t morally abhorrent because the districts aren’t people, you see. And you saw what they did with the capitol siege! You lived through it! Clearly they’re savages that need to be taught a lesson to keep them in check!

That’s how things are, it’s what the mentors have grown up with. And they’ve never met anyone from the capitol aside from Sejanus, who they clearly don’t really like specifically because he’s district. These opinions don’t exist in a vacuum, they’re created by a lifetime of never being told or shown anything else. There will always be people who genuinely don’t have empathy (like Arachne and her stupid damn sandwich) but the people laughing at Lamina’s tears during the reaping? They probably don’t know any better. They’ve been taught since birth to hate the districts. They’ve been told the people of the districts are enemies who deserve to be punished, so they don’t see a scared child. They see an enemy getting what they deserve, so in their eyes there’s nothing wrong with their reaction. I think Livia Cardew, who reacted like an exited child getting fancy new toy to play with when she was assigned to mentor Facet, could have started to care for him if he hadn’t died so soon. I think Festus Creed could have befriended Coral if he’d seen how much she cared for Mizzen, proving the districts aren’t just wild animals, and realized she wasn’t a heartless killer.

That’s why I chose to go with the mentors getting more time for selfish reasons, which gives them a chance to see all the ways in which the capitol propaganda they grew up with was bullshit. And that ends up making them fight to not just postpone the games, but fully cancel them. Because they, after a few weeks of getting to know their tributes, genuinely just want them to be safe and happy.

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Yume x Cid Ship Timeline

I just realized now that I never wrote out the timeline of events of my ship within canonverse! I have fics that I tried to put in chronological order on my pinned post, and I now have the timeline for the Imperial Cid AU, but not within Yume’s canon. So here you go, enjoy!

Ancient Times

* Back in Amaurot, Athena and Daedalus (Yume and Cid’s past selves) were in love but never confessed to each other until right before they died together when Amaurot was being destroyed. Athena and Daedalus were able to erect a barrier that stayed the creatures for a time, but they ultimately were struck down. They both vowed to find each other again in each subsequent reincarnation.

Pre-Calamity

* Sometime before the Calamity, while traveling on the Enterprise, Cid sees a vision of an Auri woman made of light who gives him his trademark goggles. He has no idea who the woman is, but he consistently has dreams about her ever since.

* At the same time, Yume was banished from her home by her father. Shamed and dishonored, she took on missions as a ronin and mercenary in Kugane. It is during this time that Yume found a pair of goggles from a Garlean merchant, and mysteriously she has a dream that night where she gives the goggles to a young Garlean man on an airship. Yume wakes up the next morning and the goggles are gone.

* After spending a few years in Kugane as a mercenary, Yume decided that she wanted a better life for herself and to see the wider world. She decides to go to Eorzea, but unfortunately for her, it is shortly before the events of 1.0 and she gets wrapped up in trying to prevent the Calamity.

* Yume soon meets a Garlean engineer who defected from Garlemald, Cid Garlond. They grow close as they work together to stop Nael van Darnus and the VIIth Legion. Cid and Yume soon fall in love and Cid decides that he will fight Nael van Darnus on his own, in order to protect Yume.

* Yume arrives at the airship landing in Gridania before Cid takes off and tells him that she won't let him go alone. She runs to him and hugs him, saying that she is going with him no matter what he says. Then they share their first kiss, and agree that they will go together. Cid promises that there will be an "us" after this is all over.

* After Nael van Darnus' defeat but before Yume helps the Archons with their preparations in summoning the Twelve, Yume and Cid confess their love for each other and make love for the first time, with Yume losing her virginity.

*Yume and Cid participate in the Battle of Carteneau. Unfortunately Dalamud falls and Bahamut is unleashed, causing the Seventh Umbral Calamity. Archon Louisoix is able to save the Warriors of Light by sending them five years into the future so that they are able to protect the realm in the aftermath of the Calamity. Cid is severely injured during the Calamity and awakens to having complete amnesia, forgetting not only his time with Yume but his entire life and identity.

A Realm Reborn

* Five years after the calamity, Yume awakens in Eorzea, having completely forgotten all of the events of the Calamity, including forgetting Cid. She becomes an adventurer and eventually joins the Scions of the Seventh Dawn. It is during her first mission as a Scion that she meets a man named Marques at the Church of St. Adama Landama in Drybone that, unbeknownst to her, is in fact Cid Garlond, the man she had loved and forgotten.

* Some time later, after the Scions’ subsequent victories over Ifrit and Titan, Yume goes back to the Waking Sands and discovers that the majority of the Scions have been murdered in an attack led by Livia sas Junius, Tribunus Angusticlavius of the XIV Imperial Legion.

* Yume doesn’t have anywhere else to go, so she goes to the Church of St. Adama Landama and tells Father Iliud what happened. Father Iliud asks Marques to look after Yume and to take care of her, to which he gladly agrees to.

* Yume spends a lot of quality time with Marques at the church, and she finds him really easy to talk to and he’s so funny, kind, and hard working. Yume is shocked at how easy she grows to trust him. She soon finds out that he was severely injured during the Battle of Carteneau and he has amnesia, not remembering anything about who he was before the calamity.

* Though Marques doesn’t remember, he somehow has a feeling that he knows Yume from somewhere. He desperately wants to remember who he was, and discover why he always dreams about an Auri woman made of light, who suspiciously looks like Yume, even before he meets her.

* Weeks pass, and Alphinaud shows up at the church, declaring that he wants to rebuild the Scions and tells Marques that he is really Cid Garlond, the famed Garlean engineer who founded Garlond Ironworks. Though he still doesn’t regain his memories, after being given his belongings, he knows it feels right.

* In the search for the Enterprise, Yume and Alphinaud accompany Cid to Coerthas, and it is during that time that Yume and Cid grow even closer, shamelessly flirting with each other as much as they can. They both soon realize that they are very sexually and romantically attracted to one another, yet they do not think the other has those same feelings.

* Once they find the Enterprise and embark for the barrier surrounding Garuda, Yume and Cid end up sharing an echo vision of their memories. Cid regains most of his memories and finally remembers who he is; in so doing, he remembers that the Auri woman in light that gifted him the goggles was in fact Yume. In turn, Yume realizes that it was Cid that she saw on the airship all those years ago, but she finally realizes that it wasn't a dream but the Echo.

* Immediately afterwards, they both relive Yume's past, seeing the violence she witnessed and was a part of growing up as a samurai and daughter of the daimyo Lord Aino, including her attempted seppuku. Yume is devastated that Cid saw her shame and her dishonor, and is afraid that he will distance himself from her. Cid instead pulls her into a tight hug, telling her that she has a second chance at life. He tells her that she is "a bird that has been freed of her gilded cage", and that he couldn't be prouder of her for her courage.

* What they both still don't remember at this point is that Yume was with Cid during the Calamity. Cid remembers that there were Warriors of Light but doesn't remember that one of them was Yume, while Yume thinks she has just arrived in Eorzea a few months ago and doesn't remember that she is a Warrior of Light.

* Yume fights and defeats Garuda, but she is injured in the battle. She keeps this to herself and hopes that she can get cured back in Ul'dah without Cid and Alphinaud finding out. After disembarking the Enterprise in Ul'dah, Yume collapses from internal bleeding around her scar from her attempted seppuku.

* While in the Chirurgeons' care, Cid is distraught at the thought that Yume might die, but Yume pulls through. Cid scolds her for not telling him that she needed help, almost confessing that he is in love with her, but he is able to stop himself. He instead tells her he cares about her and he doesn't know what he would do if she were to die. Yume apologizes for her carelessness and the two, along with Alphinaud, make for the Waking Sands.

* Soon, the Scions are back together and the Eorzean Alliance commences Operation Archon. While Yume, Cid, and the other adventurers infiltrate the Praetorium, Cid tells Yume jokingly, "Don't even think about dying. You're too bloody useful." Though Yume is well aware that this was a mere jest, she thinks that it was a clear sign that Cid did not feel the same for her as she does for him.

* A few days pass, and Yume finally realizes that she has fallen in love with Cid, and she is heartbroken that he must not feel the same way. She can’t stop crying so she tries to avoid Cid, though he keeps trying to contact her.

*Cid finds Yume in Mor Dhona and he asks her why she keeps avoiding him and won’t even look at him, wondering if he did something wrong. Yume blows up at him and blurts out that his joke hurt her, especially after she had been led to believe that he wanted to be more than friends. Cid tries to stop her, but Yume teleports away, leaving Cid to cry to himself and regretting not confessing his feelings sooner.

* Cid instinctively knows that Yume would be at the church, where they first met. He apologizes for hurting her with his joke and confesses that he loves her. Yume responds that she also loves him and the two share a deep, passionate kiss. It is during their kiss that they both are struck with another Echo vision and they finally remember everything. Yume asks if he could spend the night with her, to which he quickly agrees, remarking that they need to make up for lost time.

Post ARR and HW

* Yume and Cid are officially a couple after this and the events of the Crystal Tower, Post ARR, and HW serve to bring them even closer together. It doesn't take long before Cid asks Yume to just move in with him in his apartment above the Ironworks Workshop in Revenants Toll, as Yume doesn't own a lot of personal possessions and she was staying over at his place all the time anyway.

* During the investigation of the Crystal Tower, Cid confesses to Yume that he has been in a polyamorous relationship in the past, and when Yume wonders why he brings it up, Cid tells her that he has seen how close she has gotten with G’raha Tia, and speculates that she must have feelings for him. Yume realizes then that she has fallen for G’raha, even though she’s still in love with Cid. Before the guilt settles in, Cid tells her that he understands and just wants her to be happy. Cid encourages Yume to talk to G’raha about it, but G’raha decides to seal himself away in the Crystal Tower before she is able to confess her feelings to him.

* In the aftermath of the Bloody Banquet, when Yume must stay away from Revenants Toll, Cid goes and stays with her in Camp Dragonhead and in Ishgard as much as he can, until it is safe for her to return to their apartment.

Stormblood

* During the events of Stormblood, Yume returns to Kugane, and misses Cid terribly. She realizes that though she may always be Hingan and still loves the city of Kugane, her home is now in Eorzea and with Cid.

* While in Kugane, Yume spots some of her father's samurai and she grows paranoid that they will find her. When Yume checks in at the Bokairo Inn, she gives her name as "Garlond". Yume feels guilty for using Cid's name without his permission, but she feared that she would either be taken captive or killed if found out that she had returned to Hingashi.

* When Yume returns to Eorzea, she goes to Rhalgr's Reach and is reunited with Cid. She tells him that she is sorry that she had to use his name in Kugane, but that all she thought about was to be able to return to him. Cid just laughs and tells her that she can always use his name.

* It is then that Cid gets down on one knee, asking Yume if she would take his name and to make him the happiest man in the world, asking her to marry him. Yume, of course, enthusiastically says yes.

* Sometime around the events of 4.2, Cid and Yume are married at the Church of St. Adama Landama in Drybone in a quaint ceremony attended only by their close friends, with the ceremony officiated by Father Iiliud, the man who graciously took in Cid after the Calamity.

Shadowbringers

* During the events of Shadowbringers, Yume is summoned to the First by the Crystal Exarch, later revealed to be G'raha Tia, the man she fell in love with back during the investigation of the Crystal Tower.

* Soon afterwards, Yume finds out that Cid, Nero, and the Garlond Ironworks' descendants were the ones who ultimately spent lifetimes researching a way to reverse the Eighth Umbral Calamity. She also finds out that not only did all of the Warriors of Light, Yume included, died during the Eighth Umbral Calamity from Black Rose but that Yume was pregnant with her and Cid's unborn child at the time, so the growing life in her womb died with her.

* Yume is distraught at the revelation, but the news gives her resolve to defeat Emet-Selch, rescue G’raha from the Ascian, and to save the Source and the First with her fellow Scions and Warriors of Light.

* Between 5.0 and 5.1, Yume finally is able to confess her feelings to G’raha, and once he is sure that Cid has already given his blessing, Yume and G’raha officially get together.

* Once G’raha is back in the source after the events of 5.3, Cid, Yume, and G’raha become an exclusive polyamorous throuple, with G’raha moving into Yume and Cid’s apartment in Revenants Toll.

Endwalker and Post 6.0

*Around the events of 5.5 and into 6.0, Yume and Cid conceive a child, and Yume goes with the Scions and the Warriors of Light to save the world from Zenos and Fandaniel, not knowing that she is pregnant. It is not until after the final battle that Yume finds out that she will soon welcome a child into the world.

* Based on the timing, and the fact that G’raha has insisted that Yume and Cid must conceive the child that they were supposed to have but had died in the Eighth Calamity in the other timeline, that it must be Cid’s child.

* A few months later, Yume gives birth to a half Raen half Garlean girl, confirming that it is indeed Cid’s child and not G’raha’s. Cid asks Yume what the Hingan word for "future" is, to which she responds "Mirai". They both agree that it's the perfect name for their daughter.

* Not too long after Mirai’s birth, Yume finds out that she is pregnant once again, and no one is certain if it is Cid’s or Graha’s child until Yume gives birth.

* While Yume is in labor, she has complications with severe internal bleeding, a remnant of the internal damage suffered from her attempted seppuku all those years ago. The half Raen half Miqo’te baby girl is delivered safely, and is perfectly healthy. G’raha holds his daughter while trying to hold it together, as Yume is fighting for her life.

* Soon, Yume comes back from the brink of death and fully recovers in time, though the chirurgeons had to perform a hysterectomy and she can never have another biological child. G’raha and Yume decide to name their daughter “Hikari”, the Hingan word for “light”.

*After Hikari is born and Yume fully recovers, she retires from the Scions in order to be home with her daughters. She also begins helping Cid with the Ironworks part-time.

* Yume, Cid, G’raha, and the children then live long and happy lives together, with Cid, Yume, and G’raha going into full retirement decades later. Mirai takes over as President of Garlond Ironworks, while Hikari becomes an Archon and takes over as the protector of the Crystal Tower.

Whew, if you have gotten this far, thank you so much for taking the time of reading all of this. Let me know if you have any further questions about my ship or if you want me to talk about any more of my headcanons for them!