#marvina

[forbescaroline]

11k celebration: top 50 m/f friendships (as voted by my followers) #40. marcel gerard and davina claire - the originals

[dissoluterp]

Dios, que nos falta un tema reciente con estos dos

11k celebration: top 50 m/f friendships (as voted by my followers) #40. marcel gerard and davina claire - the originals

[dissoluterp]

AAAAAAAAA

[mashleverse]

"Graduate with everyone... Graduate with everyone..." "Mash Burnedead. You've been nothing but rebellious toward this school and its methods." "I... didn't mean to..." "And your grades are always awful. I'd say you won't be here for much longer. But I see you can put in the effort on occasion. Your grades are not what I call praiseworthy, however." "You scraped by!" "Well, that was easy peasy." "Watch it, you." "Yeah, watch it!"

Mashle: Magic and Muscles Second Season Final Episode - Mash Burnedead and the Challenge to End All Challenges

[madame-mongoose]

I LOVE OC X CANON IF YOU DONT LOVE OC X CANON EXPLODE!!!!!!!!!

💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

[crystalmarred]

Here we two are, in this place we now call home...

[yusume-the-writer]

𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐡 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝

ʀᴇǫᴜᴇsᴛ ᴍᴀᴅᴇ ʙʏ @fellow-anime-weeb927 . ᴛʜᴀɴᴋ ʏᴏᴜ sᴏ ᴍᴜᴄʜ ғᴏʀ ᴀsᴋɪɴɢ, ᴀɴᴅ ɪ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴛᴏ ᴀɢʀᴇᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴍᴀsʜ ɴᴇᴇᴅs ᴍᴏʀᴇ ʀᴇᴄᴏɢɴɪᴛɪᴏɴ, ɪ ʜᴏᴘᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀʀʀɪᴠᴀʟ ᴏғ sᴇᴀsᴏɴ 2 ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴘᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ ᴊᴏɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ғᴀɴᴅᴏᴍ.

ɪ ᴅᴇᴄɪᴅᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴘᴏsᴛ ᴛʜɪs ᴏɴ ᴍʏ ʙɪʀᴛʜᴅᴀʏ, sᴏ ɪ'ᴍ sᴏʀʀʏ ɪғ ɪᴛ's ɴᴏᴛ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ʟɪᴋɪɴɢ.

(ᴇɴɢʟɪsʜ ɪs ɴᴏᴛ ᴍʏ ɴᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ ʟᴀɴɢᴜᴀɢᴇ, sᴏ ɪ'ᴍ sᴏʀʀʏ ɪғ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ᴀʀᴇ ᴀɴʏ ɢʀᴀᴍᴍᴀᴛɪᴄᴀʟ ᴇʀʀᴏʀs ᴀɴᴅ ɪғ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ɪs ᴏɴᴇ, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ ᴛᴇʟʟ ᴍᴇ, ɪ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ʙᴇ ɢʀᴀᴛᴇғᴜʟ ᴛᴏ ɪᴍᴘʀᴏᴠᴇ ᴍʏ ᴇɴɢʟɪsʜ ᴀɴᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴜsᴇ ᴀ ᴛʀᴀɴsʟᴀᴛᴏʀ)

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Mash's love language and mostly quality time

↑ If you are in the same room, it will be a comfortable atmosphere while you do completely different things or do something together.

You and Mash will often make profiteroles or other types of desserts together in the kitchen.

↑ Well you will do the other desserts while Mash helps you by delivering the items, since everything he cooks becomes a profiterole

↑ After that you sometimes eat together in the kitchen or have a picnic in an isolated area of the forest while talking about your day or random things

You try to make sure the owls don't hate the mash, but it typically doesn't work out… but at least they don't attack you when you're together when you enter their area.

Your relationship is a secret for most people in the school. Well, that's because you don't act much like a couple in front of people, since you show mutually out of sight of people.

↑ So it was a surprise for the group that you and Mash were dating

↑ And when they found out, oh… boy, prepares to receive a trillion questions from Dot and Lemon, Finn will congratulate them, Lance won't care at all and Tom will wish them your relationship lasting just like a bamboo.

As I mentioned before, he doesn't do much PDA just hold his hands, when it's just the two of you there and a different story.

↑ As I said before, you and Mash may be doing different things, but in the same room, but you also have your moments of affection sessions

↑ A habit you have and Mash lies on top of you with your head buried in the curve of your neck while you read a book, or you lie on top of the mash while the two of you take a nap

↑ If you play with his hair while he's on top of you, he'll fall asleep quickly and when that happens he holds you really tight making you get stuck underneath him, but on the positive side you can see how cute he is when he's sleeping

↑ Another habit too and that every time you want to reward him for something you always give him a kiss on the cheek (often he wants it to be on his lips)

↑ But if you want to see him a blushing mess, just make a kiss attack all over his face except his lips, and at the end of a big breathy kiss on his lip as soon as you get out of the kiss, so you can get air, Mash will have his eyes wide and his face will be a red that can rival Daut's hair tone

There was a time when you were making profiteroles and you were waiting for them to bake, you suggested dancing as a way to pass the time and of course Mash ended up saying he didn't know, but you said you could teach him, so you started dancing and it was a surprise that he actually was good

↑ Without you realizing it, it has become a habit for you to do this when you are bored and alone.

Study meeting. The reason? He needs.

↑ As we know, Mash is not great at things that don't have to do with using his muscles, and he also breaks down when he receives too much information at once without rest, sooooo you guys have a study meeting on the weekends so that he can better understand the Subjects

↑ Is easy? No, it's not. It is worth it? Yes. Because surprisingly he managed to get an 80/100!!!! (Isn't there the time when Marvina got mad at Mash and her eyes went bulging? She made the same expression while correcting Mash's test and seeing that he got 80/100) When he showed you that, he was looking like a child showing his parents a drawing he made.

↑ Please tell him that you are proud of him and that you give him a lot of attention and affection, he doesn't show it, but he is very happy and grateful that you helped him and had a lot of patience to endure and teach him

Please teach him how to open a door correctly (the doors will be grateful for this gesture)

When Mash writes letters to Pops, he mentions you in almost every letter (Pops was surprised when Mash wrote to him that he got a good grade with your help).

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[kathrynalicemc]

Second reblog cuz I just remembered that she could interact with a few of my American hpfb OCs! Their stories are more around WW2 but they would still be around in the 20-30s just younger.

I’ve got the two King siblings: Isadora King and Leandros King. They have a tiny apartment in New York where they shelter the homeless or persecuted. They are inspired by the Statue of Liberty motto and also the two lion statues outside the library in New York, Patience and Fortitude. Leandros is patience and he’s very soft and cares for the people and he loves sculpting. Isadora is fortitude and she looks after her brother and keeps their apartment safe. She’s also an Auror. They do a bit more during WW2 as they join forces with some other of my OCs to bring refugees from Europe across to New York.

My second pair is husband and wife Mathias Bane and Marvina Bane. They are the grandparents of my first ever oc Kathryn Alice. One of them is American and the other is British but I still haven’t worked out which one. I’m thinking Marvina is American?? Their whole thing is that they are brilliant and invent spells and magic and later are recruited to help the magical WW2 war to invent weapons 🤡 they are very morally grey although they are not death eaters or believe in it. Also debating having Marvina maybe go into spywork or code breaking?? Mathias is a pilot.

My third and last oc is actually one I’m still working on and haven’t officially introduced yet so it’s all subject to change. However his name is Edward Calcifer and my idea is that he’s in a magical circus and the entrance to their equivalent of diagon alley (where they live and maybe have tents and shows) is in the Carousel in Central Park in New York. Haven’t decided an era but FB would be a vibe.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them OC: Adela "Della" Everhart

Della is an American witch, working for the MACUSA during the 1920s and 30s. She investigated Grindlewald's actions during his rise to power. She spent some time undercover as a singer in a speakeasy frequented by Grindlelwald's followers. In Ilvermony, Della was sorted into Thunderbird. She enjoys singing and a stiff drink.

More info to follow...

[milolovesbmc]

Poll time!! Because me and @understance can't seem to decide...

[sunroseart]

Name: Marvina Rosa

Kingdom of Anaphalia universe

[ansbobcar]

EP 1 - Introducing trouble

WORD COUNT. 3280

Link to overview

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"Aww... I can't believe Alexa Ivona’s postponing her charity concert," a boy sighed with discontent after reading the local newspaper, he tossed it across the desk to his friend.

"The Voice Cane’s still performing?" It was a bit absurd. "I thought she would stop since she became a Divine Visionary this April,” he quipped causing the fanboy to point his finger in defence.

“That’s why it’s a charity concert! It was to raise funds for the regions widely affected by the dragons!” However, it was still a mystery for the reason she had postponed in the first place. The Bureau had nothing to comment regarding the matter.

“Being a Divine Visionary must be tough work…”

With a high ceiling made of stone, quietly walking into the classroom were 2 students amidst a sea of clashing conversations. Only a few delusional fangirls would have bothered to pay attention when the stern-faced prefect in the classic navy blue robe with an eagle emblem and a red tie had entered with a one liner of a girl, auburn hair fluffily tied into some low pigtails while still reaching her back. She seemed to sneer at the boy much to their displeasure as she cracked open a cooked mussel shell and even sat right beside him on the 2nd front row seats.

Who was she? Why was a one liner sitting beside a two-liner who clearly hated everyone apart from Max Land? She didn't seem to resemble anyone important either to have earned the privilege to sit next to him.

It couldn't be...

"Alright, settle down," their teacher, Marvina Mevitable, sounded with her clipboard. "We'll begin attendance."

As everyone's names were being called, the few girls most peeved by the sight had started to trade inked messages with each other quietly in order to avoid suspicion. If she was new, then they would put her into place.

"Darren Randel?"

The ginger brunette raised her hand and everyone's eyes glanced at her. It wasn't an elite family's name, it wasn't related to anything noteworthy.

“A new girl? But we’re nearly halfway through the term…” Someone at the back whispered out loud as the professor continued calling out names.

_ _ _

Typical intrigue filled the hall at the sudden appearance of the transfer student as they begun their lecture. 

“As a starter, I would like everyone to use magic to try solve what’s in the box,” flicking her wand to float their first exercise without a hitch onto their desks. 

Darren watched as everyone else took out their wands and began to cast spells, since the wooden box she held in her hands was practically a clean and smooth surface on all sides. Like a die. 

‘I think I’m supposed to forcefully open it,’ she told herself. ‘What was the spell called again?’

“Make sure you don’t make a mess either,” the woman added as she watched people violently chant their spells out to chipping success. “You’ll have cleaning duty if you do.”

“Absolutum… Opti Ars.”

The box clacked open to reveal a jack in the box with a bucket. It giggled before hurling water in her face which brought up an uproar of laughter and snickers around her. The new girl didn’t use Venetris to check the contents of the box? ‘How absurd!’

Even the teacher sighed at the sight of her, dumbfounded by this reaction, “Apologies, Miss Randel. I forgot to ask what your current knowledge of advanced spells were.”

‘If she knew the basic spells then we shouldn’t have a problem doing some catch up sessions,’ the teacher told herself as she awaited a response.

“Mostly offensive and lethal spells.”

‘Huh?’ The class was puzzled by her response as she took out a face towel from her robe to pat herself dry. ‘We haven’t even learnt lethal spells yet but she doesn’t know Venetris?’

'Also where did that towel come from?' Watching as she swiftly wiped clean the affected areas with ease. Her deskmate' forehead seemed to crease more at this situation.

“Is that so?” Immediately the teacher brought back their attention away from their starter, the brunette glanced towards Rayne who had managed to seamlessly receive a silver bit for solving the box. “Today, all of you will be practising your use of spells. I expect all of you to be able to complete 12 of these by the end of the lesson,” bringing forth even more boxes alongside some miscellaneous possibly easier ones which landed infront of the transfer student instead. 

Focusing only on the brunette, the woman took a deep breath. “I’ll bring you up to speed then. In order to execute the spell, channel your magic through your wand and aim your wand at the point you would like to see through before you chant Venetris,” demonstrating the use of the spell infront of her which showed a glimpse of a red fabric inside. “Now you try. Take your wand,” only to watch the girl with blue dipped tips aim her index finger at a point with concentration. “Your wand,” the lecturer repeated sternly. “Miss-”

“Venetris,” she executed the spell with ease onto the same box. She had successfully managed to cast a newly learnt spell. Baffled by this successful moment, “Miss Randel, do you have a wand?”

“I do not.”

Everyone behind her scoffed or hid their reactions at the absurd answer.

‘But she executed the spell beautifully,’ the woman told herself as murmurs flew across the room. ‘There hasn’t been any case of wandless casting like that in years with such precision too.’ Recollecting herself, as she coughed to stop the snickers.

“Let’s go through the other spells then.”

She simply agreed to her words as she was exempted from cleaning much to a girl’s fury.

_ _ _

“You’re actually wandless?” the Adler Prefect reiterated as they headed towards their next lesson. She hummed as she snacked on some more mussels from her pocket. 

“They kept breaking so my family stopped providing any funds for them after my last wand 6 years ago nearly broke,” she shrugged off. “I broke that wand quite recently though,” peeved by the memory. “Even though I used it sparingly,” she muttered under her breath.

"How many did you go through?"

"... four...?" She slowly muttered under her breath. 

"Just 4?" Watching as she just muttered words without sound before she just nodded before they entered their Potionology class.

"Welcome back everyone!" The man dressed in a white apron greeted them. The classroom was equipped with stovetops and cabinets filled with equipment. His face lit up at the sight of the new face. "Welcome, Miss Randel, I'm Professor Caul," he took out his hand which she shook as a few more students waddled inside. "Please wear some protective equipment"—his eyes smiled instead—"Thank you, Mister Ames for helping out," gesturing to the latter for the girl to take.

Eyes stared at her lack of reluctance and manners towards the pretty frowning boy, watching her follow him to their station without uttering another word as class would begin shortly.

“And as you can see,” the professor dropped the oozing broth liquid into the clear flask; “that’s how you make a simple lethargy potion.” She watched as her desk partner got the same results as well, she furrowed her brows at the ingredients in front of her. Already diced perfectly.

Raising up her hand, she asked her question, “Professor, what does a lethargy potion do? Is it that important to know?”

This was her 3rd time asking a question, the class was irked by her participation.

Smiling at her, she was given a thorough response. “Good question, Miss Randel. It reduces the energy of the subject that has ingested the concoction,” the professor explained. “It’s one of the fundamental potions you must know, variations that are possibly more familiar to you but aren’t limited to include sleeping potions and calming potions.”

“So,” carefully eyeing the ingredients. “Which ingredient makes it more deadly?” She pointed, clearly wondering the details. “Assuming it can reduce the subject's energy, does that mean until 'the subject can die' type of levels or…”

'SHUT UP!!!’

“Overall, there is no ingredient which makes it more deadly if it’s done in any wrong proportions. The key to making it more deadly is by adding certain herbs outside of the base formula ingredients,” the professor smiled brightly. 

“Then why do we have to follow the measurements?”

“So resources don’t go to waste," he promptly replied. "Moreover, this recipe follows the minimum quantities."

'Resources that go to waste,' she echoed to herself, with a sceptical face before she coughed to hide a scoff. "Thanks for the information," following his instructions. The room was more dusty than the others too.

"Feel free to use them for a good night's rest."

The school day continued, almost as normal if it wasn't for the new girl flanking the teachers with random and often dumb questions left and right.

By the time lunch rolled around, she was immediately left alone, placing her robe down on the desk. "Getting lunch," he had excused himself and she simply waved him away. 

What a convenient time to strike, the girls thought.

"Hi, Darren," a blonde girl slammed her hands on the desk Darren was at. "Do you have plans for lunch?"

"Other than eating my lunch, nope!" She promptly replied.

'This girl wants to pick a fight with me.'

She cracked open another mussel, as she stared at her blue eyed with no sense of dread. "What about you?" She could sense more girls entering the room following by someone locking the door to the class.

"Giving my advice to you," Chloe's nails dug into her shoulder. "Stay. Away. From. Rayne. Will. You?" She gritted with a smile on her face.

Breaking another mussel open. "And why should I do that?" Her eyes calmly testing her. "What are you gonna do? Dump a bucket of water on me? Kick me down the stairs? Make me get caught with illegal drugs?" Carefully she firmly held onto her delicate fingers and stood up from her seat. Her rough hand, seemed to bring some discomfort to the taller girl. 

"You are a one-liner... like... me," she stressed watching as terror slowly encroached upon the blonde's face. "If any of you were in my first lesson... I can ruin your pretty faces if that's what makes you filled with vain," raising her other hand to trace her line on her cheek. "Why do you think I transferred in the first place?"

Another girl readied her wand, her voice cracked at the two. "Darren... Lady Chloe... please stop it."

The brunette looked at her with a grin that stretched from ear to ear. Slowly she removed the rich girl's hand from her shoulder and dropped her other hand. 

"Are you girls happy now? Got the delusional expectations and words out of your system?" She pivoted her heel with a less haunting smile. As if she didn't just lace a death threat to the daughter of a mayor.

There was considerable distance between the two and the spectators, some even slipped out of the room from the mere glance of the shorter girl towards them.

"What if I haven't had my fill yet?"

"Well..."

The door slammed open startling the taller girl to turn her heel and bear a friendly facade.

The Adler Prefect, the girl's saviour, had arrived. With a silencing glare aimed towards the others, the brunette rolled her eyes as she quickly picked up her robe before she was harshly yanked by her wrist elsewhere.

After walking a considerable block of classrooms away, his grip released her. "A bit harsh, you know."

He continued to judge her with his eyes.

"I could've handled that on my own," she mirrored him, crossing her arms at his lack of words."It doesn't matter if they're rich or powerful either. I can deal with them all."

Finally, with a massive sigh, he seethed with some annoyance, "The old man said to keep you out of trouble."

"And you didn't fail yet," she added.

_ _ _

“Ohohoh! That’s quite the spectacle you’ve done for yourself, Darren,” the revered old man, Wahlberg Baigan, was humoured by the girl’s appearance amidst the sickly smoke, sporting a simple black blouse slightly tucked into her pants with a suitcase in hand. She seemed peeved by this visit to say the least, it was just the middle of May after all, as she tapped her finger. “I can see why you’re a favourite for the upcoming year’s selection,” he commented, to which she didn’t utter a reply. 

“Your principal said you were stubborn and expects you to be back in a few days.”

She scoffed at this, “He really hates me doesn’t he?” The respected wizard flicked his wand, zipping a map and a key for her with a tag on it. 

“You’ll be staying in that room for the duration of your stay. Breakfast will be provided at 8 and Dinner at 6 to your doorstep.”

Her eyes looked back towards Easton’s principal with scepticism. “You want me to avoid the student population?”

“I doubt they would take kindly to your intrusion as a visitor and you wouldn’t want to cause a ruckus either.” Which was correct. 

“What about the itinerary then?”

“We’ll begin with a tour of our facilities away from the castle once you’ve settled in,” he began before checking the time. “It’s getting late, I’ll escort you for the time being.”

For her to be here, the principal must’ve wanted to expel her, she told herself once the old bearded man left. 

_ _ _

It was 5 in the morning, and the girl had begun her morning run within the forest surrounding the campus. It felt refreshing to run even though her thoughts found this whole thing useless.

She wouldn’t change schools.

There was no point to it, having reluctantly accepted this visit after being threatened with receiving failing grades as the semester continued.

‘The abuse of power in that school is crazy but that’s how this world worked. This messed up world which continuously relies on these marks to indicate your power and therefore your position in life.’

To many, she was a one-liner. A really really annoying one. Like a pesky weed. But what else could she be if she wasn't such a thing? 

An unnaturally sharp rustle of leaves were heard towards her left. Stopping her tracks. She couldn’t sense anything unusual?

'Maybe someone was training their magic? No, that wouldn’t make sense, don’t they have practice rooms to do that in?' It wasn’t an offensive spell either, as the rustling continued. 'A squirrel?'

A rabbit, she slowly lowered herself to her knees as she took out a piece of cloth with some celery. Placing it infront of her, she patiently anticipated its next move. It took the bait! She cheered to herself as it viciously destroyed the food and looked towards her expectedly.

“Sorry, I’ve got no more,” she whispered as it jumped towards her lap and curled itself to rest. Gently, she caressed its forehead and back. “Fluffy,” enamoured by it’s fur. “Who’s your owner? Your fur’s well groomed,” she complimented the small mammal.

“Impart Zero,” she chanted, dispelling the large and bright sword ramming towards her as she cradled the fluffy creature in her arms to turn towards the source. It was a boy, his hair parted between yellow and black with a sour pair of eyes, who held out his wand apprehensively. “The owner?” 

“Who are you?” He nearly hissed, wand aimed at her still. She didn’t resemble a student from his school and dispelled the large blade, keeping his guard up.

“Darren. Is this yours?” She slightly lifted the bunny pressed against her chest peacefully. It leaned to her touch.

'Why is...'

“Yeah."

'As long as she's safe.'

"Follow me.” He pocketed his wand as the sky was coloured cornflower. His cautiousness around her was an overreaction, “Sorry about earlier.”

“It’s fine. I’m kind of used to it,” she replied back as they arrived at a quaint house which only revealed more bunnies jumping around including the one in her arms which startled her a bit. 

“You have a lot of them,” assessing the area while the rabbit owner continued about his own routine. “Have you fed them yet?”

“About to.”

“I’ll help out.”

‘She’s good at this,’ he commented as she became engrossed in taking care of his bunnies, brushing through their fur as he simply observed with some tea in hand. ‘But she’s not a student at Easton either.’

He checked the time, it was nearly 7 as he stood up. “I’ve got class soon.”

“I’ll finish brushing them in a bit,” she chimed back as he left.

It'll be fine to leave the stranger with them, right? He couldn't afford to skip classes anymore.

_ _ _

“Mr. Wahlberg!” The curly gingerhead cried. “I haven’t been able to get a hold of Darren Randel since breakfast! As the one overseeing her stay at Easton before her transfer, this is bad,” overwhelmed at her disappearance. “They might kick me out of my job! What if it’s actually true!”

The principal ran his fingers through his beard, “Please calm down, Nerey. I’m sure she didn’t go far.”

The girl in question groggily noticed a figure right above her who sighed, “I thought you died.”

Without hesitation, her heart leaped dramatically as she chanted a lethal offensive spell. “Rupturas!” Barely registering with her eyes for her target to be the boy from earlier, enough to dispel it before it had taken effect. ‘Why was that the first spell I thought of?’ She grimaced to herself as she pulled herself up to stand. “Sorry about that."

“How was class—actually what time is it?”

“It’s 6 o’clock.”

“So it’s been…” she left her room at 5, and he left at 7 to go to class, she quickly added up the hours and her face paled. “13 hours since I left my room…” she snapped her head towards him; “Can you take me to Mr. Wahlberg’s office?”

Slightly weirded out, he agreed to guide her, locking the door to the rabbit house as they left. No words were spoken, finding it unnecessary.

Once they reached the doors, they weren’t just greeted by the principal but also a Divine Visionary, based on the red emblem on his trench coat's back. “Miss Randel, we’ve been trying to find you.”

“I dozed off so I asked,” she pointed towards the boy, realising too late that she didn’t get his name, “to bring me back.”

“For 13 hours?”

“Yeah.”

“What’s going on?” Rayne interrupted the man’s questioning. Firstly, this girl was very clearly not a student from Easton yet is in the school campus, and her disappearance caused The Flame Cane of all people, to be involved. He was missing a significant portion of the context to be completely composed by the situation they were in.

“Simply put, she's caused a lot of trouble for her school and the Bureau,” the white haired man explained which puzzled the boy even more. “We can’t force her to transfer, but we highly encourage it hence her stay for 3 nights instead.” The auburn brunette sighed at his words. 

“I just arrived recently but it seems my involvement wasn’t needed,” adjusting his gloves. “I’ll take my leave then,” abruptly destroying the mood of the room.

Looking over towards the old man as if the scenario wasn’t perplexing enough, she asked, “So… do you think 2 days is enough to do everything on schedule?”

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This changed a lot from the initial version which would be more chronological but where's the fun in that? Also Chloe Bourgeois reference I'm sorry guys. Don't summon that fandom down my doorstep.

Originally, I had this descriptor that Darren was average looking but uh... nah I doubt that. Also she's kinda tanned/sunkissed skin? It's briefly mentioned in one of the next episodes but I don't fully develop it.

Might publish on ao3 becuz of how big the wordcount is as a just in case. Would do weekly updates but with these chonky chapters being 2-3 typical chapters length wise, it'll be every other week prolly.

[sunrose-oc]

Reiga x Lily Intro

☆☆☆☆☆

🔖𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏 𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒🔖

☆𝑃𝑅𝐸-𝑅𝐸𝐿𝐴𝑇𝐼𝑂𝑁𝑆𝐻𝐼𝑃☆

How did they first meet?

Pertemuan pertama mereka adalah "tabrakan ala shoujo manga" tapi bukan dengan cara romantis karena Lily marah dan menyalahkan Reiga (yang waktu itu belum dia kenal) sebagai penyebab barangnya jatuh. Dia sedang mengantar "paket spesial" ada kemungkinan rugi dan berpotensi ngasih kompensasi ke klien seandainya ada yang rusak dalam isinya nanti.

Reiga sudah minta maaf dan membantunya mengambil barang tapi diabaikan oleh Lily. Waktu itu Reiga sedang dalam perjalanan mencari "Service Shop" yang tekenal, yang adalah toko layanan milik Lily dan kawan-kawan.

Pertemuan berikutnya Reiga datang di toko Lily menjadi klien. Lily masih ingat si "cowok penabrak" waktu itu dan sedikit dongkol tapi dia berusaha bersikap profesional.

Cerita berikutnya berlanjut jadi petualangan mereka. Yang mana adalah misi pribadi Reiga.

Misi Reiga: dia sebagai klien meminta Lily mencari "Tiga Batu Ajaib" untuk menyelamatkan negeri. Misi pribadi yang tidak dia ungkapkan: mencari sang Putri Yang Hilang untuk mengembalikan takhta kerajaan Anaphalia kepada pewaris sah (dia sudah tahu jatidiri Lily entah bagaimana, penulis belum kepikiran😂)

Dari sisi Lily: itu misi yang aneh dan nggak masuk akal. Dia mau menolaknya, tapi Reiga menjanjikan bayaran besar. Sebetulnya memang sudah ditolak kali pertama tapi kemudian besoknya Reiga datang lagi dan tidak menyerah. Misi ini kemudian melibatkan huru-hara dalam negeri yang mana Reiga ikut menyertainya.

What was their first impression of each other?

Lily kepada Reiga: "cowok penabrak yang aneh. Ada apa dengan bajunya? Mencolok dan norak. Sok-sokan seperti bangsawan."

Reiga kepada Lily: "manis dan gigih. Seharusnya mereka bisa bertemu lagi dan dia bisa mengenalnya lebih lanjut."

Saat bertemu kali kedua: "Takdir! Pertemuan pertama itu kebetulan. Pertemuan kedua takdir. Dan selanjutnya harus direncanakan!"

Did any of their friends or family want them to get together?

Teman-teman Lily, Alice dan Marvina bisa melihat cara Reiga saat menatap Lily dan bersikap terhadapnya. Jadi yes☺

Ayah angkat Lily melihat Reiga bisa dipercaya untuk "menjaga dan membimbing" Lily dalam perjalanan.

Who felt romantic feelings first?

Reiga jelas yang terpesona duluan :D

Did either of them try to resist their feelings?

Mulanya Reiga tidak ingin mengembangkan perasaannya. Pertama dia takut kalau ditolak. Kedua rasanya nggak etis kalau dia jatuh ❤ kepada calon Ratu negerinya sementara posisinya adalah sebagai "Knight" yang melindungi dan mendampingi (calon) Ratu baik saat perjalanan maupun nanti saat berada di takhta sampai akhir hayat.

If you had told one of them that the other would be their soulmate, what would they think?

Lily, versi setelah mengenal Reiga: "Tidak keberatan. Orang seperti dia pantas mendapatkan yang terbaik. Dan kalau itu adalah aku, maka aku akan mengusahakan yang terbaik juga."

Reiga: "Adalah suatu kehormatan. Aku akan melindunginya dan hanya memberikan yang terbaik untuknya." (Literally he's crying happy).

What would their lives be like if they had never met?

Lily bakal tetap menjalankan bisnis "Service Shop"nya, mendedikasikan separuh waktunya yang lain jadi volunteer untuk yang membutuhkan, menekuni hobi dan jadi kolektor lukisan.

Reiga bakal jadi Perdana Menteri selanjutnya sebagai "The Guardian of Throne" tapi itu hanya sementara karena dia menjaga yang bukan miliknya. Jadi gak mungkin karena dia bakal tetap mencari Lily alias pewaris sah kerajaan sampai ke ujung dunia.

[thursdayisbetterthanfriday]

Baby Steps - Creating A Walking Robot

More to come on this as it progresses, but I've been constructing a robotics project heavily based upon work by the Max Planck Institute robot called Bird Bot. This leg design is biologically inspired, using bird legs (such as the Emu) as inspiration. The design has been found to be very energy efficient, which is one of the motivations for my own use over a Boston Dynamics style spot robot dog design choice. Here is an image from the researcher's own paper to show the general design.

Below is the robot that the Max Planck Institute Researchers created. The researchers do have their own 3D print files for anyone to use if they want to re-create this exact design.

For my own purposes, I'm using my own leg designs created from scratch, but taking heavy inspiration from the above. The mechanism has been taken directly from this research paper.

Early stages of prototyping in progress using the 3D printer, with round 2 on the way. I'm definitely more of a software person, than an electronics/robot person, so I'm not attempting anything completely experimental and new!

With the MARVINA AI system, I think this platform will be far better suited to actually interacting with people than the Roomba (as sweet as the Roomba is) .

References: - BirdBot achieves energy-efficient gait with minimal control using avian-inspired leg clutching | Science Robotics

[thursdayisbetterthanfriday]

Applied AI - Integrating AI With a Roomba

AKA. What have I been doing for the past month and a half

Everyone loves Roombas. Cats. People. Cat-people. There have been a number of Roomba hacks posted online over the years, but an often overlooked point is how very easy it is to use Roombas for cheap applied robotics projects.

Continuing on from a project done for academic purposes, today's showcase is a work in progress for a real-world application of Speech-to-text, actionable, transformer based AI models. MARVINA (Multimodal Artificial Robotics Verification Intelligence Network Application) is being applied, in this case, to this Roomba, modified with a Raspberry Pi 3B, a 1080p camera, and a combined mic and speaker system.

The hardware specifics have been a fun challenge over the past couple of months, especially relating to the construction of the 3D mounts for the camera and audio input/output system.

Roomba models are particularly well suited to tinkering - the serial connector allows the interface of external hardware - with iRobot (the provider company) having a full manual for commands that can be sent to the Roomba itself. It can even play entire songs! (Highly recommend)

Scope:

Current:

The aim of this project is to, initially, replicate the verbal command system which powers the current virtual environment based system.

This has been achieved with the custom MARVINA AI system, which is interfaced with both the Pocket Sphinx Speech-To-Text (SpeechRecognition · PyPI) and Piper-TTS Text-To-Speech (GitHub - rhasspy/piper: A fast, local neural text to speech system) AI systems. This gives the AI the ability to do one of 8 commands, give verbal output, and use a limited-training version of the emotional-empathy system.

This has mostly been achieved. Now that I know it's functional I can now justify spending money on a better microphone/speaker system so I don't have to shout at the poor thing!

The latency time for the Raspberry PI 3B for each output is a very spritely 75ms! This allows for plenty of time between the current AI input "framerate" of 500ms.

Future - Software:

Subsequent testing will imbue the Roomba with a greater sense of abstracted "emotion" - the AI having a ground set of emotional state variables which decide how it, and the interacting person, are "feeling" at any given point in time.

This, ideally, is to give the AI system a sense of motivation. The AI is essentially being given separate drives for social connection, curiosity and other emotional states. The programming will be designed to optimise for those, while the emotional model will regulate this on a seperate, biologically based, system of under and over stimulation.

In other words, a motivational system that incentivises only up to a point.

The current system does have a system implemented, but this only has very limited testing data. One of the key parts of this project's success will be to generatively create a training data set which will allow for high-quality interactions.

The future of MARVINA-R will be relating to expanding the abstracted equivalent of "Theory-of-Mind". - In other words, having MARVINA-R "imagine" a future which could exist in order to consider it's choices, and what actions it wishes to take.

This system is based, in part, upon the Dyna-lang model created by Lin et al. 2023 at UC Berkley ([2308.01399] Learning to Model the World with Language (arxiv.org)) but with a key difference - MARVINA-R will be running with two neural networks - one based on short-term memory and the second based on long-term memory. Decisions will be made based on which is most appropriate, and on how similar the current input data is to the generated world-model of each model.

Once at rest, MARVINA-R will effectively "sleep", essentially keeping the most important memories, and consolidating them into the long-term network if they lead to better outcomes.

This will allow the system to be tailored beyond its current limitations - where it can be designed to be motivated by multiple emotional "pulls" for its attention.

This does, however, also increase the number of AI outputs required per action (by a magnitude of about 10 to 100) so this will need to be carefully considered in terms of the software and hardware requirements.

Results So Far:

Here is the current prototyping setup for MARVINA-R. As of a couple of weeks ago, I was able to run the entire RaspberryPi and applied hardware setup and successfully interface with the robot with the components disconnected.

I'll upload a video of the final stage of initial testing in the near future - it's great fun!

The main issues really do come down to hardware limitations. The microphone is a cheap ~$6 thing from Amazon and requires you to shout at the poor robot to get it to do anything! The second limitation currently comes from outputting the text-to-speech, which does have a time lag from speaking to output of around 4 seconds. Not terrible, but also can be improved.

To my mind, the proof of concept has been created - this is possible. Now I can justify further time, and investment, for better parts and for more software engineering!

[crystalmarred]

What can completely break your muse?

Does your muse have any pets?

In what ways does your muse express their love to someone else (platonic, familial, romantic, sexual or otherwise)? — for any muses 👀👀👀 open to any, gimme gimme

MEME ( accepting! ) ⇢ @diademreigned

What can completely break your muse? Not only what can, but what already has. A'atahni hasn't never had many relationships, be they platonic, familial or romantic. His sort-of mother unveiled she had no parental sentiment towards him and that he was little more than an annoying obligation, so he built up walls in the aftermath of her departure.

Thus, the few people he does let in are very dear to him. It absolutely broke him to lose his last—and first, as far as romance is concerned—partner. It would break him again to lose another or to lose Tsuru, for that matter.

Does your muse have any pets? Yes! He has Persimmon, his chocobo, though the purple-blue of his feathers certainly don't resemble a Persimmon. There's also Marvina, a dodo he specifically went and got as a companion to Data's dodo, Marv. Unfortunately, Marv and Marvina got on a little too well and now he has a few other dodos for pets, though he and Data joke that they're more their grandchildren than anything.

In what ways does your muse express their love to someone else (platonic, familial, romantic, sexual or otherwise)? X'kijin is an acts of service kinda guy. If he loves you, in any way, you can count on him doing things like repairing your weapons and armor, patching your clothes, restocking your potions, cooking you dinner, packing snacks. If he's willing to stay awake for it, it's even more a signal that he adores you. If he does all that and more, with any consistency and without being prompted, he's probably in love with you. If he does your laundry, he's definitely in love with you.

[oasisofgalaxies]

The difference in tone between Encoreverse!Marvina and pkmnirl!Marvin is outstanding . One guy is currently stuffing his face with scones while the other is grimly plotting the demise of an entire building.