#lowborn demon

[idjits-areus]

Sam and Dean Winchester's song right here.

[elf-kid2]

The thing about *Mastermind,* is that it's true that Blitzo broke demon law. The truth is, he DID try to steal a valuable Goetia-owned Grimoire. The truth is, he DID lead I.M.P in illegal, off-the-books trips to Earth.

((And those trips lead to skirmishes with Heavenly forces, Demon Hunters getting enough credibility for "Holy Crusade" type funding, and a cult of demon-cursed goats. This is illegal for a REASON!))

But you have to remember that the Trial wasn't ABOUT Truth or Justice. This was about Law and Order, and maintaining the status quo.

Prince Andrealphus started by accusing them of things they had actually done-- then went on to accuse Blitzo of forcing himself on Stolas: a transparent bid to public ally insult & humiliate his Ex-Brother In Law.

The Sins weighed in on the matter-- but they were clearly more focused on their own rivalries and alliances. Asmodeus spoiling for a fight with Mammon for largely unrelated reasons, and Gluttony aligning herself with Lust-- and also, the thing with the imps is probably not a big deal; Blitzo is entertaining enough to keep around, right?

Vassago pushes back against Andrealphus, but it's not because he cares one way or another about the imps who are on trial. He cares about Prince Stolas being slandered before the Court, and demands that he be allowed to speak for HIMSELF, instead of being ""represented"" by his Ex-Wife's Brother, who hates him.

The truth is, none of them care about the truth about what the lowborns did or did not do. The Trial is an excuse to play politics, to try and push up their own factions or push down their rivals in court. The worst thing they did was try to rise above their station.

This is about Law and ORDER.

To maintain the status quo, to preserve the social order, to get this tedious political squabbling over with so they could all go to lunch-- they decided to skip the "evidence" rigmarole, and go straight to the Public Execution.

2/3rds of the Deadly Sins present, and a landslide majority of the Goetia Nobles voted in favor of going straight to Public Execution, and neither King Asmodeus nor Queen Bee were going to go against Law, Order, and the Majority Vote to put their necks out for a bunch of yokels who definitely did SOME of the crimes they'd been accused of.

When Stolas stepped in and "was so overcome by hubris that he just HAD to tell everybody about his Brilliant Master Plan to use the Grimoire for undocumented personal use in the Mortal Realm and let his Impish minions take the fall," it saved Blitzo's life.

Instead of showing Impkind what happens when an imp steps out of line and makes an attempt at upward mobility, Satan decided to make an example out of Stolas.

Toe the Party Line, sing with the Goetia Chorus, and keep your personal vices, affairs, and Evil Plans DISCREET at a BARE MINIMUM, or else you'll have your privileges taken away and your rivals will be allowed to ascend.

.

Truth didn't matter. Justice didn't matter. The deaths of the imps & hellhound who'd been accused of variously plausible crimes... Didn't matter.

Maintaining Law and Order, and keeping us the status quo by making an example out of SOMEBODY? That was what mattered, to Satan and the Court.

How long do you think it took//will take, to realize that those plebian nobodies walking out ALIVE is something that MATTERS A LOT?

How long before they notice the ripple effects?

[into-the-feniverse]

TriMax Vash 🌪️ || Character Playlist

Songs (youtube links):

Sigh on a Hurricane | HIMALAYAS

Castaway | Barns Courtney

Demons and Angels | LOWBORN

Villain (Take the Shot) | VALORANT

Milk & Honey | Crowder

Brighter Than the Sun | Brick + Mortar

Typhoons | Royal Blood

Follow My Feet | The Unlikely Candidates

Dead | Truslow

Hopefully | The Royal Foundry

Honorary Mention: Amen (Feat. London Contemporary Voices) | Amber Run

[greenapplespider]

Blood in Moderation (world building)

The lands Vanberg are extremely mountainous both to the west and the north. With old forests blanketing the ranges and cave networks intermixed with the ruins of ancient man. Some area’s still largely untamed, as these wilds have proven difficult to master; the vestiges of Abufan men still roam.

The Vangnese of these regions are a mixed lot of poor stock, often times adhering towards the ways and traditions of the Abufan parts of their blood. A superstitious and backwards people of low worth and intellect; the lowest of lowborn men.

Legends of demons made flesh proliferate their beliefs. Of creatures that mimic the human form, starving and merciless.

These men, more the most, due well to hide those among them gifted with magics; viewing mages as sacred. Their only way of communing with the weather and to ward against these ‘demons.’

Removing magic touched children from these secluded villages and towns has always proven a difficult costly venture for law-men. Mages often times going unknown of well into adulthood. Most posses illegal guns and are not afraid to use them.

Goal for this year is to not shy away from backgrounds and landscapes as I improve me character illustrations. Forcing myself outside my illustrations comfort zone.

[jouste]

Kingmauler! The slaughterer of the sovereign and the masher of majesty! This horrific demon demolishes despots and anyone doing a lousy job at leading in general. Only annihilating those in the highest standings, this monstrous murderer leaves the lowborn alone!

[mooredanxieties]

So we know that Stolas was able to transform himself to look like a human, and while his powers have been stripped, we don't know how powerless that leaves him.

We also know that even Hellhounds are able to make human disguises for themselves despite being one of the least powerful demons, so there's a possibility that he can still change his appearance.

We know that Stolas is now hated by pretty much all of hell at the moment, and he'll be in serious danger now that lowborn demons have the chance to kill a royal who's been stripped of their powers, so it makes me wonder if Stolas would be able to disguise himself as a different kind of demon (like an Imp, perhaps) and gain a unique perspective on the discrimination they go through.

He'll experience some of that regardless because of the nature of his punishment, but it would add an extra bit of understanding between him and Blitz if he could truly experience the life of an Imp.

[dailyadventureprompts]

Mystery: Daughters of the Drossyard Pact

Originally intended to be sacrifices n a fiendish ritual , three orphan sisters managed to outsmart the warlock who’d adopted them and managed to offer him in their stead, Inadvertently becoming the beneficiaries of his profane dealings. Decades later, with the renewal of the pact looming one of the sisters has gone missing, leaving the other two in a lurch fearing the other had something to do with it. One sister desperately wishes to be free of the deal,  while the other may be willing to do anything to hold on to the power it has granted her. Neither trusts the other but both want the party’s aid in discovering the fate or whereabouts of their missing sibling.

Adventure Hooks: 

A pious noblewoman by the name of Lia Rolland initially hires our heroes to investigate the disappearance of a local playwright she serves as patron to as well as look into the strange occurrences around the theater which have only seemed to escalate since. Sleuthing around turns up a gaggle of disgruntled actors and stagehands stretched to the breaking point by an endless series of accidents and mishaps and delays. On top of everything else, prior to her disappearance Mecona, the playwright,  kept insisting on revising the piece over and over again and was prone to bringing production to a halt for days at a time while she buried herself in rewrites, which is why no one initially noticed that she was gone.  If the party are careful with their questions they may just discover that lowborn Mecona and highborn Lia are apparently sisters, a truth discovered by a snooping costumer looking in on one of their meetings. 

As it turns out, the strange occurrences are the fault of a host of dark spirits that have taken up residence in the forgotten corners of the theater, who’ve been amusing themselves by causing all kinds of minor chaos. Inevitably the party will be victim to a few of their cruel pranks or sabotauge, escilating until have to fight an entire possessed prompts department and worse as the demons boil out like a kicked hornet’s nest. 

 Into the chaoic (and potentially burning) theater strides Doc Briar, a scarred and swaggering practitioner of dark magic who aids the party in putting down the fiendish threat before warning them not to trust their employer and portaling out.  Briar will be shadowing them for the rest of the adventure just in case they get into any more scrapes, though it appears she has a motive of her own. 

Background: Once there were three orphan sisters, Rose, Camellia, and Poesy, their parents and last name taken from them by an awful war that saw them bourne from the smouldering remains of village to the big city. For years they were overlooked in the crowds of other refugees, falling ever deeper through the cracks until they were atlast taken in by a cold-eyed man who saw them brought up as servants in his great an empty house. Warry Camellia suspected the man had torrid plans for them, but ever-practical Rose was willing to put up with anything if it meant the  younger two would be saved from the street.

The cold-eyed man did have designs on the sisters, but they were far more sinister than what cruel old men usually do to those who are dependant on them. The man was an occultist of great ambition, and had spent his life seeking the means of summoning a fiend capable of granting his desire for power. After much dark dealing he’d found one, Calceinatis the profaner, but her summoning ritual required betrayal on the part of the summoner. Thinking himself clever he brought the three sisters into his home, taught them the basics of his magic,  and claimed that he’d take the most promising of the girls not only as his apprentice, but as rightfully acknowledged heir to all his wealth and holdings.  Over the next few years the cold-eyed man moved his favor from one girl to the next, hoping to stoke resentment and envy between the sisters, laying the groundwork for that most nessisary betrayal.

It was reticent Cammellia was his eventual selection, passing over Rose who wanted it most and young impressionable Posey to whom he was most like an actual father.  He passed the middle sister off to his peers as his bastard,  an indiscretion from years back that he had sheltered out of shame and only now worked up the courage to admit. Society applauded him for it, and he grinned as he introduced his “daughter” to polite society, thinking of how the other two must have watched their sister from the back rooms with covetous hatred. 

It would take a fool not to notice that the sisters had been on to his game for years, but the cold-eyed man was not just a fool, he was hollow hearted and narrow minded, ignorant of the bonds of love and convinced that all people were as motivated by the promise of power and station as he was.  While the sisters couldn’t know exactly what he had planned, they’d swore to stick by eachother no matter what, and so when their benefactor took them out to the great ash dusted badlands at the foot of the mountains as part of Cammellia’s “ascension ritual” they knew they had to act soon.   The rite had barely begun before the cold-eyed man tossed the sacrificial knife between the girls, claiming that he needed only one blood offering and the other two would be greatly rewarded if they did the deed. He drew close as the girls squabbled over the blade, unwilling to deny himself the violence that would lead him to everything he wanted, the oft imagined vision of young veins sliced open and spilling forth everything he could have wanted. 

The Cold-eyed man never could have imagined that his girls, his pawns, his wretched little orphans, would drive the knife into his belly with all the stregth their little arms could muster. That three little sets of hands would pull as one to tear open his fine suit and spill his guts into the ashen earth. 

He was still alive when the demon loomed over him, two sets skulls grinning, he was still alive when the sharp bear fangs started in on his flesh while the goat congratulated the girls on their marvelous betrayal and the boons they would be granted for this fine offering, he was still alive when the blunt goat teeth started in on his bones while the bear intoned that if the sisters wanted to keep these gifts they would need to return to this spot every sixth year and use the same knife to spill a few drops of their own blood or else… The demon did not finish what it was saying, the cold eyed man had finally died and so the meal was done. It disapeared, leaving Rose, Camellia, and Poesy to drag their father/employer’s body back to civilization, claiming to have been the victim of some savage animal attack. 

Motivations & Complications: 

Lia Rolland  (Cammellia): Forced to maintain the deception that she was the illgotten daughter of the man she helped murder has put Lia in a bind. She would like nothing more than to abandon his legacy and the pact but the resources granted to her but necessity has forced her time and again to rely on both. Wealth allowed her to support her sisters into adulthood, and the few supernatural abilities she’s allowed herself have seen her through hard times as she’s made a family and become a patron of the arts. She’d never break the pact on her own, fearing that all the good things in her life would be stripped away, but she’s terrified Briar has given in to her powerhungry nature and hurt or even killed Mecona to strike a new bargin with the demon of the drossyard.

Doc Briar (Rose):  A life spent looking out for two younger sisters convinced Briar that she need to do whatever it took to gain control of her life, which led to her fully embracing the gifts of the pact. She suspects Lia has done something with Mecona to ensure the pact cannot be restruck, and has hired the party as cover. Knowing she’s on a deadline for the next renewal of the ritual, she aims to track down both her sisters and convince them to return to the drossyard. Failing that, steal the knife and get a bit of Lia’s blood which she can hopefully use to stave off the demon for another half-decade. 

Mecona (Poppy):  Barely old enough to remember her parents before she and her sisters were taken in by the cold-eyed man, Poppy was the only one he seemed to show actual parental affection for, if only out of an attmept to make the other two resent their most innocent sibling. This gaslighting seeded her mind with confusion and guilt as to whether the cold-eyed man really meant them any harm, and if they were really without blame for killing their abuser.  These troubled feelings led her to the arts and later to the stage writing under an assumed name, having developed a real talent for portraying complicated relationships that resonated with  audiences.  As the sixth anniversary of the pact rolled around her guilt over the mater came to a boil (were they really any better than the old man if they benefited from the same dark magic as he intended to use them for?), she decided to isolate herself, let the pact end, and see just what her sisters would do with the matter. 

Calceinatis: What the daughters of the drossyard do not yet realize is that they are once again being manipulated, this time by the fiend whispering in their minds and stoking their darker impulses. Sometime while devouring the old warlock’s soul the profaner realized that the three young women could be useful tools in feeding it again, but realized it would have to play the long game if it wanted them to truely turn the knife on eachother.  By feeding Rose’s ambition, Camellia’s fear, and Poppy’s regret, the Drossyard demon has separated the sisters and set them against eachother just as the cold-eyed man once did, Now all she has to do is sit back, wait, and let momentum carry one of the three past the point of no return. 

If you want to use this in your game, why not take a look at my How to run mysteries for d&d post. 

[almacambiondaughterofsaleos]

Even if the show was well written and would still want to give Stolas a semi-spotlight every now and then I would still want Stolas to suffer major consequences for lending out an extremely valuable book to a species that is considered disposable trash by every Hellborn and Sinner within Hell. Send him to Bee so, after each regenerative potion given after each Shis-cu-bob session, that she can serve Goatian Bird Meals made out of Stolas's flesh and organs to middle and lowborn demons within Gluttony. Send Stolas to a torture chamber were he is force fed different numerous prisoner's blood so that he can feel every type of torture that they are going through there. Turn him secretly into a weak Wrath Imp without his powers and throw him out into the Wrath wilds where he is not allowed to go or be in any type of communities unless he wants to go through worser punishments. Stolas's probations would at least last 5-10 millenia at least because that's just the type of lession he deserves.

Let the hate seeth.

[wth-if]

Humans have made their peace with the supernatural a long time ago.. all of them, except the demons.

Ten years ago Archangel Michael swooped down from the Heavens to give humans a new salvation, a solution to their pest problem, a little thing they called H.E.L.L. - Heaven's Eradication of Lethal Lowborns.

Ever since then the demons have been under control. Until recently -unexpected, right?- after a series of kidnappings conducted by a cult calling themselves The Morningstar's Children. Ever since, H.E.L.L. has been cracking down hard on the lowborns.

And well, Lucifer Morningstar (The President of Hell Themself and Michael's sibling) is having none of that.

In retaliation, she sends you, a demon, to infiltrate H.E.L.L., and take it down.. from the inside!

OR, a celestial sibling rivalry goes a bit too far.

FEATURES (May Change!):

Play as a lowborn/demon! Male, female or nonbinary (including cis/trans options); gay, straight or aro/ace; be the vessel for Lucifer’s revenge against her sibling by.. hunting your own kind? What?

In-depth character customization! Hair color & style, skin color, body type, markings, piercings, etc!

Choose how you got chosen for the job! Are you a demonic assassin or are you just an average joe who happened to be walking by?

Romance one out of four unique romance options! Your demonic co-worker, a demon hunter and TWO archangels (that’s right!)

Cause chaos and shenanigans! Get Michael’s coffee wrong, mess up an investigation and let demons escape H.E.L.L.’s grasp! It’s what you’re here for!

Discover the mystery behind the disappearances, and who's really behind The Morningstar's Children!

Help Lucifer Morningstar win her election against her son Satan, or sabotage it!

Levithan (He/Him): Demonic Overlord, Son of Lucifer, Sin of Envy. You'd expect a guy with that description to be pretty full of himself, but instead he seems pretty tired and over-worked. He's been tasked by Lucifer to infiltrate H.E.L.L. alongside you- why? It's anyone's guess at this point. (Possible Tropes: bickering couple, tired x energetic, tol x smol)

Yavhi Gupta (They/Them): Stubborn, rude and cold-hearted. They've been working for H.E.L.L. since they were able to join, and they're one of the toughest, roughest demon hunters around. They don't joke or play around, they go straight for the kill each time. Unlucky for you then, that you've been assigned to train underneath them for the foreseeable future. (Possible Tropes: enemies to lovers, opposites attract, black cat x golden retriever)

Raquel (She/Her): Fierce, witty and loyal to the end. When her best friend left Heaven, she followed right after. Now, she works as a detective alongside him and they've been hired by an outside source to investigate The Morningstar's Children, as H.E.L.L. can't seem to do anything right, and she'll do anything to find out the truth; even if it means teaming up with a lowborn like you. (Possible Tropes: fwbs to lovers, smart x dumbass)

Gabriel (He/Him): Quiet, yet lethal and dangerous. He left Heaven for a reason, but now works alongside his friend as a detective. He's the brawn of the operation, but just as willing to do anything to get the truth... even if you get the feeling he knows more than it seems. (Male MCs only. Possible Tropes: Mutual pining, star-crossed lovers, quiet x loud)

Lucifer Morningstar (She/They): As the Sin of Greed, she's the father (mother?) of all the other deadly sins, and the current President of Hell- though with reelections soon, and her subjects looking in their son's, Satan's, favor, that might change soon. Which is why they sent you on the quest to take down H.E.L.L., so her rep would get a serious boost. She's conniving, scheming and pantsuit wearing, and will stop at nothing to keep her spot on top. (And I love her.)

Michael (They/Them): The most powerful Archangel of them all, it was obvious that one day, they'd become the humans savior, their saving grace.. uh, not really, but they love the praise. Recently however they've been under fire from the human media after a slip-up resulted in the deaths of six people, but they managed to save grace by capturing and promptly executing a few lowborns connected to The Morningstar's Children. (Which, In Raquel's professional opinion, puts them right at the top of her list of suspects.)

Shae (She/Her): A vampire and the one who hired Raquel and Gabriel after the kidnapping of her son Damien at the hands of The Morningstar's Children.

LINKS :

DEMO POST (TBA) R/O INTROS (TBA)

Asks about the R/Os, the characters or the story in general are always welcomed!

[ominous-faechild]

WIP INTRO:

THE EXISTENTIAL WAR

(AKA: AVATAR NONSENSE)

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The Existential War spans the millennia that separates the many, many titles i will be writing for the next several years... and hopefully even beyond that.

Unlike other wips, the Existential War is something closer to a setting than a story—it is the game the Existential Gods are playing with the world. Through their immortal avatars, they manipulate all of humanity along their whims, trying to see who between them can take over the entire world.

... while falling in-line with their majority-agreed-upon 'rules'.

probably.

Zenebe: [vaguely waves a hand in the air, his elbow in the other's hand, and rolls his eyes as he paces and dismissively explains) "Well! Long story short, there's a bunch of gods called the Existentials—they're the Existences of stuff, yadda yadda yadda, {Water} is Water. A long time ago, the Existentials put their heads together and decided it would be a really great idea for them to play chess with a bunch of us lowly, lowly mortals. So!"

Zenebe: [stops, turning to face Louise with a wide grin and a clap of his hands, which he then points at her. With hints of anger underlying his expression and in his otherwise-amused voice:) "They play a game of 'who has how much, and if I have the most, I'm the best' by having us lowly mortals fight each other to claim them territory, and get them even more lowly mortals—"

Mitzie: [has been standing off to the side, listening silently with a scowl and her arms crossed. Finally, turns a sharp look onto him and interrupts:) "Zenebe, cut to the chase."

Mitzie: [turns to meet Louise's eyes instead; voice harsh, but matter-of-fact) "we're avatars. That means, basically, we have to do what a god says. Since we're {Water's} avatars, we have to listen to {Water}."

Mitzie: [and turns a slight snarl onto Zenebe; sharply) "that. simple."

Zenebe: [offers her a smirk, but turns a much more serious look onto Louise]

Zenebe: (dryly, hints of tension in his voice) "right. What she said."

THEME SONG:

I'm still living in a knife fight Living like a bad guy Can't stand what I look like I keep praying like a saint Believing it'll change me But the voices won't leave I see the tunnel full of light again I never reach it and it's getting dim I feel the darkness try to pull me in It just won't end It's sinking in my skin I'm stuck in a war I️ am broken and torn Dividing my head and my heart Between the good and the evil God and the devil Demons and angels They're tearing me apart (...) I keep begging for these bad things Living out my dark dreams Don't you try to save me I'm just looking for forgiveness Someone who can end this Can I get a witness It's good for my flesh It ain't good for my soul I want it to stop But I got no control

KEY PLAYERS:

♝ Quinn (Fate) ♝ Nova (Magic) ♝ Eugene (Magic) ♝ Abdiel (Order) ♝ {REDACTED} (Order) ♛ Genesis (???) ♜ Mistral (???) ♜ Cassandra (herself) ♜ Raun (Fate) ♜ Rahim (Death) ♙ Victor (Order) ♙ Malachi (Storm) ♙ Zylis (Storm) ♙ Alanza (Fire) ♙ Caron (Fate) ♙ Wither (Air)

(reminder: these characters are spread across many stories, each with variable relevance between them. their roles are significant within the war itself. in other words, only a few of them exist per named story—maximum.)

TRAINER AVATARS:

♙ Zylis (Storm) ♙ Zuriel (Order) ♙ Abdiel (Order) ♙ Victor (Order) ♙ Ansgar (Fire) ♙ Alanza (Fire) ♙ Raun (Fate) ♙ Shura (Air) ♙ Tarian (Air/Magic) ♙ Millicent (Cold) ♙ Nikolai (Cold) ♙ Lenore (Dark) ♙ Paltiel (Dark) ♙ Charaka (Dark) ♙ Shamara (Earth) ♙ Valentine (Earth) ♙ Zenebe (Water)

(the trainer avatars are those tasked to train many of the other avatars owned by the same god. due to this role, they often have a lot of influence over their mentees... whether positive or negative.)

EXISTENTIAL RANKINGS:

THE "TOP DOGS":

♛ Order ♛ Storm ♛ Fire

THE "SLEEPING BEARS":

♝ Fate ♝ Magic ♜ Air ♜ Cold

THE UNDERDOGS:

♞ Dark ♞ Earth ♞ Water

NONCONTENDERS:

♚ Death ♚ Chaos (comatose)

ADDITIONAL INFO:

♙ this is not a singular story. it is a collection of many stories, mostly disconnected besides following the individual characters. there will be individual "novellas" pulled out of the existential war/avatar nonsense most often encapsulating their early years or certain important events

♙ there are many HEAVY subjects within these stories, with miscellaneous content warnings varying across each. while i will be listing all of them (i can think of) here, they are not necessarily universal across the novellas

♙ there WILL be deaths. this is magic-war. ♙ most are concentrated in the early existiwar ♙ the early years are especially brutal ♙ avatars from different gods aren't... kind to one another.

♙ despite the deep trauma involved in all this, there IS a planned (and never-going-to-change) ending to the existential war. those who know of the ending say it is a good ending ♙ what that means will not be shared at this time :>

♙ some of the oldest avatars are alive from 20 AA to the very end of the existential war (approx 1000 AA). by nature of the progression of humanity, this will see a variable level of "technology" (read: magitech) across the stories.

♙ being as the avatars are all immortals, they inherently run on a MUCH longer time scale than us. 3 years might feel closer to 5 months, for example ♙ timelines will be displayed along with scenes

♙ HIGH HIGH HIGH AF FANTASY ♙ sometimes even WITH the weed! ♙ i mean wut ♙ MAJORLY action-filled ♙ i mean they're literally at magic-war

♙ includes: ♙ allegories. SO MANY allegories ♙ ex: 90% of avatars are bio kids of the god ♙ like it ain't even subtle ♙ gays. so many gays. ♙ they're all queer ♙ neurodiversity ♙ especially: ♙ autism & ADHD ♙ PTSD ♙ anxiety, depression, &— ♙ racial/cultural diversity ♙ gods exist across the whole world ♙ avatars are born within or adopt cultures ♙ also most are POC. ♙ like over 50% ♙ 25% of the rest aren't even human

CONTENT WARNINGS:

♙ parental issues ♙ as i said, it's allegorical ♙ avatars are LITERALLY slaves ♙ and most are the bio kids of the god(s) ♙ i don't think it's hard lol ♙ neglect, abuse, exploitation, parentification

♙ general abuse, exploitation, and struggles ♙ again, the avatars are literal glorified slaves

♙ addiction ♙ drugs ♙ both "normal" (alcohol, weed) and "hard" ♙ gambling ♙ sex

♙ sex is openly talked about and implied, but will never be shown. fade to black in this hizzouse! ♙ sexual themes will be included in cws ♙ (both in tags and prior to scene)

♙ SA implied and mentioned ♙ NEVER openly displayed

THEMES:

♙ trauma.

♙ parental issues

♙ found family! :D

PLAYLIST:

NAVIGATION:

♙ actual masterlist (pending) ♙ genebe (pending)

TAGS:

(to be added)

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dividers by @saradika

[saey707]

Imagine you're new to Noxus... very obviously unaware and unused to the brutality of this culture. Like a sheep to the slaughter, all doe-eyed and innocent. Which yandere would this catch the eye of? Someone who wants to protect you, or perhaps someone who wants to mold you to their liking?

(Not a request for anyone in particular, just a concept idea wanted to share and curious who you would picture for this certain scenario. Congrats on surviving the dreaded finals btw!)

✿ Prompt: Which Yandere? Scenario ✿

♡ champion focus: swain ♡ tw: yandere, manipulation ♡ Gender-neutral reader

Author’s Note: Thanks so much for submitting this concept, anon! Even though it isn't a request, I did want to get some of my ideas out for this particular idea! (๑>◡<๑) Hope you enjoy! ( ˘͈ ᵕ ˘͈♡)

ALSO! Fun side quest I came up with: Count the number of ravens (headcanons) and view the old English rhyme under the section titled "Astral Travel" here to see Swain's omen attached to you... ♡✧( •⌄• )

From the description you gave me, Swain was my immediate thought on your best bet for who is most likely to protect and shelter you, but also mold your potential to his liking!

Swain wants to test your limits, but he also wants to assure you won't get hurt in the process. In Noxus, you have to be strong... But the General isn't opposed to having a pretty little thing at his hip, or better yet, on his lap~

It's a rare find for someone to be so innocent and unaware of the bloodshed, brutality, and war that came with Noxus- An innocent sheep to the slaughter as one would say. And that's exactly what makes you all the more appealing to Swain.

Given how much power and influence he has over the people of Noxus, there would never come a time when anyone would question his judgment for why he keeps a pathetic, little thing like you around. And should someone dare to question his judgment, then they'll be sure to meet his demonic hand...

Even if you make a mistake or two, Swain will always forgive you. While your knowledge is still limited, he will graciously be your guiding light in shaping you into the perfect lover.

Even when you seek a fresh start, Swain will always drag you right back down to where you need to be: At his side, as his pretty, little lover.

Even if your heart longs for power and prestige, Swain will gladly give you that and more. He would give you a throne, even if it must be built atop bloodshed.

Even if you attempt to leave him all alone, Swain always knows the proper words and whispers of the demon to lure you right back into his arms.

Even when you are miles or even leagues away from him, Swain is always watching. Now, it wasn't because he didn't trust you... It was more because he cared for your well-being for lack of better terms! He can't have a lowborn Noxian or assassin laying a filthy finger on you! It is the entire reason why there isn't a raven out there that isn't reporting back to the General about your status!

Doe eyes and an innocent heart can get you quite far, but never enough from the longing General who wants nothing more than for your eyes to be on him... Even when he has an entire unkindness of ravens keeping their eyes on you.

There will never come a day that you will be unhappy with Swain. You can have anything and everything you ever wanted if you just stay by his side... Don't you see? The possibilities are endless!

[chrkrose]

I know Team Green hates Daemon, and I agree there are 172838 reasons for him to be hated. But Nettles is one of the only things that make him somewhat likable because even though the green side keeps going on and on about the grooming, let’s be real: the public wouldn’t care as long as Matt Smith had chemistry with the other actress. People didn’t care even when his scenes with young rhaneyra were framed as grooming.

And I’m sorry, a lot of y’all takes is always framed through the lenses of “how can I make Daemon look even worse than the scumbag he is” which fair, but then don’t pretend Nettles is in the center of those thoughts because she’s not. If she was, the first point in any meta would be to determine that Rhaenyra is the true villain of Nettles story and just because Rhaenyra was a victim of Daemon, that doesn’t make her worthy of being “sisters in pain” with Nettles when 1) Rhaenyra was racist against her and 2) Daemon was the one to actually save nettles; if it was up to Rhaenyra, Nettles would be another head decorating the gates of the red keep. It’s hard to take any of those metas seriously when y’all weaponize Nettles arc against Daemon and use her just the same as Team Black does, just for a different purpose. It’s still all about victimizing Rhaenyra, and Nettles is just an means to an end. So in the end, are y’all that much different from Team Black or Rhaenyra stans when it comes to Nettles?

George loves daemon; he never wrote his arc with nettles as a commentary on his pedo tendencies. He wrote that arc in spite of his pedo tendencies. He wrote that arc as a way to show “look, Daemon killed a bunch of people, groomed a few others, did terrible things his entire life and is cheating on his queen with a way too young girl, but look how cool and badass she is and how much she suffered in her life, and this time around Daemon really likes this girl and is willing to do selfless acts for her and protect her, a lowborn girl nobody else cares about, so here, he’s light too, see how gray and complex he is?”. And the truth is that public would eat that up because even with Daemon choking Rhaenyra, killing his ex wife, laughing at his second wife’s funeral and ignoring his third wife screams while she gives birth to a demon baby, he still has tons of people who think he’s awesome. That’s just the reality of it. Now, we can argue about the problematics of the storyline, we can argue about how George wants Daemon to get away scot-free, all of this are valid points and tbh I agree with many. But it doesn’t change the story.

I can’t actually engage with team green discourse when it comes to Nettles because y’all don’t see her as a character of her own. If y’all did, y’all would see she’s way more interesting than Rhaenyra and Daemon combined. That her arc is so much more than her relationship with either of them. That she disrupts the status quo, she comes bringing with her a pletora of questions about what it means to be a dragon rider, what it means to have dragon blood. She brings the perspective of the small folk, of the ones forgotten and not cared about when the royals are destroying each other. She survives. She becomes a legend. She is sooo much more than all of this.

The reason why I want Nettles in the show has nothing to do with Daemon, Rhaenyra and whatever takes y’all have on that relationship when it comes to them both. Nettles is not the “new Rhaenyra”, she has nothing to with that character. She’s not a folder to her story, she’s doesn’t exist solely to prove a point or to be used as a weapon to help in her victimhood. Rhaenyra is not the “new Rhea Royce”. Rhaenyra is Rhaenyra, a victim of Daemon as much as a villain in Nettles story. Nettles character doesn’t exist solely to villainize or whitewash Daemon, or to play a role in his story as a folder of his previous relationships. She’s her own character, with her own arc, with her own importance, with her own role, with her own message. Her romance is her own. Her importance is her own. The sacrifices made in her name were made because she was worthy of them. Stop using her just to make your point when the point you want to make is not about her, you are not sounding any better than the ones who dismiss her as just Daemon’s bastard or want her cut off entirely from the show. Your noise is sounding very similar to theirs if I’m being honest.

[thevelaryons]

The king’s admiral, Alyn Velaryon, had a very unique bond with the pirate king, Racallio Ryndoon. It is left ambiguous whether the two of them were friends, enemies or even lovers. Maybe all of the above or none of the above. Ultimately, I don’t think it matters. What is far more fascinating are the contrast and similarities between them.

Racallio is explicitly shown to have a curious relationship with gender. He exists in contradictions. The pirate king escaped his literal chains and now lives life on his own terms. The text presents Racallio as a person who is as free as the sea whereas Alyn’s association with the sea is depicted through the chains he is made to wear. Alyn has to live a life he never truly wanted but must do so anyways for the sake of fulfilling his duty. His transgender identity can only be assumed but there is no confirmation regardless. Racallio is always on the outskirts of society unlike Alyn who holds a central position of great importance. Racallio is both highborn and lowborn at the same time, just like Alyn. Racallio loves pregnant women but not children. Alyn leaves home while his wife is pregnant but is there to help her raise the children. Neither men are bothered by the idea of their wives having relationships with other men. Racallio is described as a large man, a demon, grotesque, mad. Alyn is short boy, a mouse or a snake depending on who you ask, handsome, strategic. Their men are willing to fight and die for them. Racallio wields the title of king but that’s not something Alyn has ever desired for himself. They both gain and lose fortunes. Alyn follows the same religion as everyone else he knows but Racallio honors all gods, everywhere. They laugh at the most unexpected times.

[goddamnmuses]

put your "on repeat" playlist on shuffle, list the first 10 songs and tag 10 people to do the same

Migos - Stir Fry

Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush (Metal Cover by RichaadEB & ‪@annapantsu‬)

Stacked Like Pancakes - Money Sucks

T.I. - Whatever You Like

Biffy Clyro - Black Chandelier

Amasic - 4 Chords Songs Mashup

LOWBORN // DEMONS AND ANGELS

Halsey - Nightmare

Falling In Reverse - "Fashionably Late"

Keane - Somewhere Only We Know

tagged by @fierylittleniece and @missmargomuse616

tagging: anyone who wants to do it.

[blightedcrow]

20 for your Rook?

20. What song plays for the "ending credits" of your Rook's adventures?

I am SO glad you asked this one cuz that specific question being added to the list was 100% inspired by this song, this feels like an ending credits song to a high action movie and I felt it worked with his overall adventures vibe the most. Forever dealing with internal conflicts about being good enough of a leader, wishing someone else took the lead, if he made the right decision, knowing he needs to be more confident in his decisions, etc.

[Songs for Rook]

[isa-ghost]

Hi! So aside from Nightmare and Every Breath You Take being two big musical forces for amfmn, what other songs would you say help influence you and how you've been writing? I know you have a Q!Phil playlist (which is spot on by the way) but I was wondering if there was a handful of specific songs on top of the two namesakes you attribute to scenes or themes in the fic as a whole?

Yep, all on the Phil playlist! Here's the ones I usually play besides Nightmare and EBYT:

I also of course loop Weirdest Year of Your Life and Floating Dream since those are canon lore songs.