#me making a new shard is literally just throwing shit from every movie i've ever watched at a board and seeing what sticks

[yloiseconeillants]

Fellow "OC from a doomed shard not properly featured in canon" haver! Tell me about them, they're giving odette/odile vibes 👀 (wyrmwinds)

THIS IS VERY VERY VERY RECENT (as in i started waffling today in the discord for the shared canon i have with friends) so there's not a ton of detail as yet aside from VIBES but the general gist of it is based in the description for the heaven and hell of lightning:

In the Heaven of Lightning, one will find a towering clockwork spire built by Byregot with metal forged from a comet and powered by Rhalgr's levin bolts. Here rest engineers and architects, revolutionaries and conquerors of evil. Levin-charged fragments of the comet plummet to the Pit to form the Hell of Lightning—a place of damnation for vandals, slumlords, and warmongers.

which pinged Metropolis and the tower of Babel and Frankenstein and resurrection and automatons and mad scientists and we spiraled from there?

Galatea is an automaton, part clockwork, part flesh, an attempt at reviving the dead which only partly succeeds. Her creator attempts to teach her how to process emotions by watching old movies. She falls in love with him. There may be conflicting emotions about how she is and isn't alive, or is and isn't human. There may also be extant memories of her past life, which manifest in impulsive, violent behavior. She's at least partly responsible for the shard's rejoining (which presumably occurs with the fall of the Clockwork Tower). There's shades of silent film actresses and the False Maria from Metropolis.

she normally looks like this when i'm not doing a metaphoric photoshoot about marionettes with her:

or like this when she starts sneaking out of the tower