#misfortune's children ‖ Vincent.

[jacksintention]

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[thegirlking]

Gilbert and Vincent's fate is so interesting and ironic.

They were doomed. Their relationship was doomed in the same way Oswald and Lacie's was. Gil was supposed to become Glen and execute Vincent, they were going to become yet another victim of the whole cruel cycle of the Glens and the Children of Misfortune.

And then they escaped that fate solely because of the Tragedy. Something so awful and devastating that almost destroyed the world and yet, in a horribly ironic way, removed two children from that cycle and resulted in them getting a second chance at living and being together.

Of course, I'm not saying the Tragedy was somehow a good thing for anyone. And of course, it's not like getting that second chance was enough to save Gil and Vincent - in fact, they only ended up even more messed up (especially Vincent with how he was manipulated in the events of the Tragedy and how much he wanted to destroy himself). And their relationship suffered because of it too - boy, was it unhealthy at times! But having the chance to both live, they also had the chance to save themselves and save their relationship. Which they eventually did.

It's just all so messed up and ironic, and such a fascinating take on what it means to be doomed by the narrative and to escape the narrative.

[fivekrystalpetals]

Core of the Abyss and 'her' Children of "Misfortune"

(aka I can't stop thinking how the Core always welcomed and reached out to the Children of "Ill-Omen"— just some observations)

So, once again quoting Lacie's words from Retrace 101:

Yes, always alone and lonely...without even knowing what loneliness is. Still, 'she' kept yearning.. for someone to push through the cold darkness and reach her. —'She' longed for 'someone' who could do that.

[Anyway I am ignoring everything the Glen(s) and the Jury ever said about the Core of the Abyss or the Children of Misfortune (because I don't trust them at all) —and taking only Lacie's theory here to be the truth,]

so, a few theories:

1] Break would have been drawn into the Core of the Abyss whether or not the Intention wanted his eyes

When his illegal seal finished a full turn, Break reached the Core of the Abyss unlike other illegal contractors who fall into the Abyss.

I had assumed this was possible only because the Intention of the Abyss herself summoned Break there so she could pluck out his red eyes for her blind Cheshire before he turns into a chain.

Even the other dolls mention this situation as unusual. The Intention never lets a human/illegal contractor into her room.

You don't usually bring humans here when they drop into the Abyss.

Meaning, the other illegal contractors on completing their contracts get dropped into the abyss and turn into chains without ever meeting the Intention for whatever they wished of her. So much for going through all this trouble lol

So, I imagined that only those whom the Intention permits could enter the Core of the Abyss (that is, her lovely toy room);

But.

Vincent does "waltz" into her "room" without any problem???

Now, I don't think Vince entered her room to purposely antagonize her as he usually did, because he was pretty shaken by all the bloodshed and massacre he just witnessed at Sablier. It was a coincidence and even he seemed shocked he was meeting White Alice in her "other" room when he was sure "Alice" had died in the real world. In fact, he wonders if there being another Alice and all the madness going on in the toy room was his fault as well...

Secondly, this is a feat none of the other older and more experienced Baskervilles could achieve, right?

All the surviving Baskervilles got swept into the Abyss during the Tragedy of Sablier. Yet not one of them came in contact with the Intention. They were only able to traverse the Abyss and come out at various points of time. They did not know what the Intention looked like; neither do any of them talk about actually having met her. They merely repeat what Xai or Glen told them that it was the sudden appearance of the Intention that changed the very configuration of the Abyss as they knew it before.

That's why I think the Intention's words are only partially true (but I don't think she realized this either).

That is, she does have complete control over who enters the Core of the Abyss/her room—

Except for the Children of Ill-Omen.

Because the Children of Ill-Omen are specifically birthed by the Core and are very precious to 'her', the Core wants them to reach out to 'her' at the very depth. So that whenever a Child of Ill-Omen falls into the Abyss willingly*, they are directly led to the Core that used to be a dark shapeless form during Lacie's time, but took on the form of a toy room after the Intention became its vessel.

Lacie insisted that she could see "someone" at the depth of the Abyss and that the "someone" couldn't answer her—

but of course, the Glens and Jury only regard the Core as something not to be touched or approached unless "a serious crisis occurs"

and every time the Core produces another Child of Ill-Omen, hoping, waiting, over and over again that they will reach out to 'her' at the very abyssal depth... instead, they are meted out the punishment of being dragged down by Black Chains and left to die in the very Abyss that wanted to cherish their company. They are being "returned" to the Core because of the misinformation/falsehood that the presence of a Red-Eyed child is an accidental distortion created by the Core and pose danger to the integrity of the world

whereas the actual reason is that Core just wants someone to help her not be lonely anymore.

See:

How sweet is it that the Core loved her toy so much that 'she' gave it a tiny spark of life and trembled in grief when 'she' hears that Lacie will never visit her again? ;_;

The Core never asked for the "ill-omened" children to be punished for being born; on the contrary, they are the ones most precious to her.

That's why I think they inevitably end up in the Core to keep 'her' company, whatever be the reason they fell into the Abyss in the first place, whether the completion of an illegal contract or being swept into the Abyss.

(willingly*: I mean, when the Child of Ill-Omen falls into the Abyss by any other means than being held down by the Black Winged Chains. Because Lacie could descend into the Core by herself but held down by the Black Chains, she could only wait out her permanent death.)

(Since Gil was with Vince, he too winded up in the Core, but he was not cognizant of his surroundings so that's a moot point anyway.)

2] That Break listens and commits himself to the one and only request of the Intention of the Abyss

This is in continuation to the first point; hence, kind of a paradoxical situation—

Because only a Child of Ill-Omen could have ever reached to the depth of the Abyss; and so, only a Child of Ill-Omen could have ever got to listen to her request at all.

But by the end of the story, (thanks to Lady Shelly, by the way, because if not for her, would Break have lived on to pass the Intention's desire to the kids? I don't think so), everyone came to know what the Intention really wanted and worked towards the goal.

So that, knowingly or otherwise, Break did fulfill his role as the bridge between the living world and the Core of the Abyss before his death.

As Leo asked of Vince in Retrace 104:

[ahhvernin]

My brain is so full of Vanitas no Carte and Pandora Hearts that it just wants to write a whole god damn essay supporting the idea that the two series are connected and that Babel Incident also triggered a slight error and destabilization of the inter dimension that is known as a the Abyss, where all other time lines stem from. ie the rewrite attempted to created a favorable observable outcome for Paracelsus but in doing so but lead to the destruction of a city and many other cataclysmic events and an unseen almost genetic like processing error to the Abyss. The creation of vampires could've been "contemporary" to when Children of misfortune appeared in the PH world as they too are outside the original formula and the Jury's tale.

But I haven't read PH in years and I'm in the process of reading Vanitas. So no essay for me ..... Yet..maybe.

But there feels like there's so many potential world linkages and similar themes that it would be fun to. Like how Xai and Jack seem to carry many similarities to the Shapeless one. And how, I know its an Easter Egg to PH fans, but the names "Vincent and Gilbert" reappear in Vanitas and Vanitas is as bombastic as Vincent and stoic and Gilbert.

And if we learned anything from PH is that history tends to repeat itself in different ways.

[kitxkatrp]

[White Rabbit to Vincent] "Sure. I'll be your friend." Once more she'd pat him on the head, ruffling his hair just a smidgen. Always.... It was always the children labeled as misfortune.... Though she didn't mind. It set her consciousness at ease to be able to be there for them in some capacity.

"In that case, Miss Rabbit--" He beamed and then suddenly--

Held his arms out for her. "Up!"

...He wanted to be picked up.

[ask-mtbg]

FNaF Characters!

This post is meant to detail my FNaF Characters you may ask! There's about 8 of them so go feral!

Name: Mike Schmidt [1993]

Birthday: August 8th, 1975

Voice: New York™ Incarnate

Job: Security Guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza

Traits: Snarky, go-getter and overconfident.

likes: His days off, coffee, and keeping things simple.

dislikes: Complexities, The Missing Children, (and ofcourse) his job.

closest with: Phone Guy

hatred of: Vincent

story: An 18-year-old Mike Schmidt took up the Autumn Opening job spot as a guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza to make money as a new College Freshman, what he couldn't guess is what spiral it would lead him down. Due to losing his ID Card a while back, Micheal Afton had long made his way under his name. Otherwise, he's what you'd expect from a nightguard - Grumpy!

Name: Jeremy Fitzgerald [1987]

Birthday: November 11th, 1971

Voice: Childish and Kiddie

Job: Nightguard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza

Traits: Childish, naïve, happy-go-lucky.

closest with: Phone Guy and Vincent!

hatred of: Nobody!

weaknesses/fears: Short-term memory loss.

story: This was thee victim from The Bite of '87. He's still a nightguard, albiet without the capability to plan ahead, alongside having to relearn how to speak and walk again. The only thing keeping him from being paralyzed is the fact that his frontal lobe has been replaced by a "Robotic Substitute Lobe", and yet he's still slowly dying to the injury. He was just a High School Sophomore trying to make money after running from his argumentative parents who argued so much, they actually forgot to take care of their own child. Atleast some form of a happy ending is rooted as although he now only has 14 years to live, Phone Guy and Vincent adopted him as a type of child.

Name: Luke [2017]

Birthday: March 2nd, 2000

Voice: Raspy and deep

Job: Nightguard at Fazbear's Fright.

Traits: Straightforward, laidback and basic.

closest with: Mike Schmidt [2017]

hatred of: Fritz Smith [2017]

weaknesses/fears: Phantoms / Ghosts

story: He's the nightguard of the Fazbear's Fright attraction, being a High School Senior, it was a mix of being dared to do it and also wanting a quick cash grab, he's known to smoke on the job and do other things he's not supposed to, but what are YOU gonna do? Tell William? He's dead! He's pretty chill, and doesn't often pay too much attention to his job, but he seriously is creeped out by the place sometimes.

Name: Fritz Smith [1983 / 1987]

Birthday: July 23rd, 1963.

Voice: Steve Harvey

Job: Nightguard at Fredbear's Family Diner.

Traits: Investigative, Curious and Just.

likes: Justice and Investigation.

closest with: Jeremy Fitzgerald

hatred of: William Afton

story: Also known as "The Guy who got fired on the First Day", he's known to be mysterious yet investigative, nobody truly knows why he got fired on the spot, but what is known is that he's probably digging deeper than he should be. Truth have it, he's been investigating the mystery of the Missing Five, and each night, he slowly gets closer to learning - and exposing - the truth.

Name: Eggs Benedict [1983]

Birthday: October 7th, 1968(?)

Voice: Ellis from L4D2.

Job: Nightguard and Mechanic at Circus Baby's Pizza World.

Traits: Extremely independent.

closest with: Ennard

hatred of: Ennard

abilities: Contains Ennard and isn't exactly human.

story: Eggs is pretty independent for someone his age, considering he's ageless, besides having the misfortune of sharing his name with an alias of Micheal Afton He still proves to be a good nightguard, however his position as someone with experience in mechanics and engineering mean he often is face to face with the animatronics - up close and personal! As the Nightguard and Mechanic of Circus Baby's Pizza World, he shares the alias of Micheal Afton, yet is NOT Micheal Afton, infact - he's claims to be a Highschool Freshman! His name comes from the fact that his organs are comprised mainly of Scrambled Eggs, Eggshells and Egg Yolk despite appearing to be a human. Otherwise he has quite the expertise in Mechanics and Engineering and will gladly repair any animatronic during the dayshift!

Name: Manager Wink [2017] Birthday: December 4th, 1993 Voice: Mr. Krabs Job: Manager of Freddy's Pizzeria and Diner in Hurricane, Flordia and "Heir" to the Afton fortune, and therefore Fazbear Entertainment. Alongside managing Fazbear's Frights horror attraction (which, co-exists with Freddy's Pizzeria and Diner as it also exists in Hurricane, Flordia.) Traits: Greedy, bossy and demanding. likes: Money. Any kind. Euros, Yen, Yuan, bust most especially United States Dollars. dislikes: Anyone who dares to question him. closest with: Nobody! hatred of: Vincent in specific. abilities: Random Human Combustion followed by Regeneration. story: Since William's out of town, this guy has taken the lead, nobody knows if William even gave him permisson, but what is known is that he LOVES money. What's also known is that he's the manager of Fazbear's Frights, he's also opposing Micheal Afton whilst still being a greedy grouch.

Reports say that Manager Wink is NOT a human, but rather some form of an anomaly, apparently, with Micheal Afton's death, he's taken charge, an issue being that he and his restaurant will always randomly combust every 5 days.

Name: Phone Guy! Voice: No duh, the Phone Guy from FNaF? Job: Phone Guy and Nightguard for Fazbear Entertainment. Traits: Timid, composed and (cowardly) instructional. closest with: The Nightguards! (really, anyone but Manager Wink!) hatred of: Vincent. abilities: His phonehead is acctually toggable! weaknesses/fears: His job. story: Hello? Hello? Despite "dying" to Cassidy, he's back! He now wears a phonehead to trick her into thinking he's already dead, in reality, this phonehead can come off and on, but try this - it works as an actual phone too!

Name: Phone Dude! Voice: Phone Dude from FNaF3. (no duh.) Job: Phone Guy and Co-Founder of Fazbear's Fright. Traits: Laidback, non-serious, horny. likes: Flirting, video-games, anything horror-related. dislikes: The consequences of his actions. closest with: Manager Wink hatred of: Nobody! story: PD is like if PG was a hip dude. He literally has the nickname "Cool Dude". Unfortunately, he's 19, and a hopeless romantic. Constantly flirty towards anyone he finds hot enough. Otherwise, he's chill as fuck.

Name: VR Man Voice: Timid, I'd say Tweek from South Park? Job: Beta tester for Fazbear Entertainment Traits: Timid, cowardly, on the lamb. likes: Video-games, coding, "GETTING THIS THING OFF ME?!" closest with: Nobody! hatred of: Glitchtrap abilities: That VR Headset is stuck on him. weaknesses/fears: That VR Headset is stuck on him. Also Glitchtrap's looking for him. story: One of Glitchtrap's Victims, this poor soul was able to escape, yet the VR Headset has become stuck to his head - try to take it off, and both you and him get electrocuted! - besides that, he's just some poor beta tester who is now probably hunted by both Glitchtrap and possibly Vanny.

Name: Vincent (no full name, although he often signs as "Vincent A. Orwells") Voice: Intimidative, and clearly threatining. Job: Security guard at Fazbear Entertainment's many locations... fired in 2016. Traits: Mischevious, flirty, and overall a troublemaker. likes: Not remorsing over the fact he chopped up and buried 5 children, baking and Phone Guy's 15-inch-monst- WHAT THE FUCK dislikes: The material known as "Agony" and "Remnant", William winning the "Child Murdering Spree Contest", and William Afton. closest with: Phone Guy (yeah, Vincent, what the fuck was that comment.) hatred of: Fritz Smith abilities: He can paint his skin purple...? weaknesses/fears: The 5 Children he murdered coming back to haunt him. (luckily he isn't William so...) story: Often confused for William Afton, Vincent actually opposes William by keeping score of who has committed more gruesome murders. Besides that, he's quite the fan of toast, is constantly hunted by his fangirls, and most importantly - has been fired as of 2016!

THANK YOU FOR READING.

[aweslasharc]

more or less random ph stuff i drew recently

[dhamcestor]

Children of Ill Omen

[thevessaliuz]

So much to do when starting up a new rp-blog... I'm exhausted Still got to do the promo

[sun-warmth]

Two important PH characters; Core of the Abyss and Jack, were too obsessive over Lacie Baskerville... because she gave them the will to live for her sake... I felt that Lacie was underrated in PH fans community... because I see that they only praised her rarely. She’s my favorite character in PH! She’s the most important person because without her, there would be no trigger for the Tragedy of Sablier.

[jacksintention]

I can't with the previous post. It's just so good applied to Levi, Lacie, Oswald and even Jack.

Levi has his hands tied by the Baskerville system that is a sort of scam by the Jurors‚ like every Glen. But he says "let's just create a change" and gives a will to the Core. And he does so with the full intention of changing the narrative, if just to avoid the boredom of spending eternity watching the same thing happen over and over again from a sit in someone else's mind.

Lacie goes along with it because of her desire to ease the Core's loneliness, but in her idea of the children of misfortune being a consequence of this loneliness and her feelings of doubt or reservations, perhaps, revealed even before the tree scene in the scene in which she talks about this with Oswald, we could interpret this as her desire to end the existence of the children of misfortune and thus the cycle.

Jack plays into this in his attempt to take the "real" world to the "Abyss" world, but when he most consciously twists the narrative the Jurors had settled was when he intently made the decision to take the power from the Baskervilles. And I do think it has to do with ending the very system that doomed Lacie and Oswald and he deemed cruel and like torture, but mainly it is so that no one would interfere with him in the future.

Oswald tries to destroy the new narrative Jack has or is creating first by trying to stop him, but later on by trying to stop Levi's schemes before everything happened, resettling the narrative he was controlled and doomed by, serving still as their tool. And then he literally faces the truth, in the most explicitly way no one ever has been told this in that "real" world before, and threatens to kill the instigators of that narrative. And then just renounces, in a lack of action that is him at his most active ("not with a bang but a whimper", how fitting is that?!!!).

Ultimately there is a middle ground but the narrative is changed for good. For better or worse. With uncertain future consequences. But it is changed, and it feels kinder. And as a thank you the source of every narrative, the ink and paper of the narrative, lulls someone who shouldn't have existed but changed the world to sleep by telling him a different story. Because that's it. They're stories, and Oz deserved to go with a kinder one, because the ink and paper of the narrative loves him. And it's so interesting how that works metanarratively too. The author tells the story, but the author tells the reader a story about the stroy telling a softer version of the story, so that the reader too will get it alongside Oz. That works on several levels and it's so so interesting.

[fivekrystalpetals]

Glen, Children of Misfortune, Juries and the Baskervilles

[When I say Glen, I am referring all Glens- past and present: Levi, Oswald, Gil and Leo. Hella lot of lore is here that I wanna write about ;-; so I might divide this into different posts let's see. Also fair warning: I might criticize Oswald's actions-past and present- a bit, since I love looking at characters from an unbiased pov. Also, maybe some characters' past actions in order to point to their character development so that too.]

[ Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 ]

4] Oswald and Lacie

Truth be told, Oswald has always been “passive”. He doesn’t know what he really wants. He had already been training to become the next Glen (ref: Part 1) and it was drilled into his mind that he was to cast Lacie into the Abyss right from the beginning. He doesn’t question this rule.

Not even when Lacie hints that the purpose of the existence of a Child of Ill-Omen might not be what it is said to be (Retrace 101):

And his answer to this theory of hers is:

You are not crazy. If that’s the answer you came to, it is doubtlessly the truth for you.

That’s… that’s not the right response to it!!!

“The truth for you,” he says, basically responding: “Oh if what you say makes you happy, then so be it. But the truth is different.” (No! It is not!)

Why won’t he grasp at straws to save her if he loved her and cared about her? Why won’t he even try to research the possible truth of her words? Why won’t he at least make an attempt to stop the needless execution of his dear sister? Lacie has grown up beside him; what great ‘threat’ did she cause to the condition of the Abyss in all those years she was alive? But he doesn’t dare question any of it; he simply, quietly, “passively” goes ahead with what was asked of him.

[Whereas, in Retrace 91/92, it’s proven Lacie had been right all along. Nothing like Child of “Ill-Omen” exists and all of those lies had been set down as “rules” for the Juries’ selfish purposes.]

Again, I’d also, well not exactly excuse him, but, as Oz and Break say, there is always the chance that he couldn’t have known the truth about the Child of Ill-Omen. Not until after Lacie had died and perhaps, during his short stint as Glen, he must have come to realize that the Jury had more to do with this affair than met the eye, the reason why he brought along Vincent to the final Gate in the last Arc.

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Okay, but this aside, his response to her every word is always so... resigned?

See, Retrace 72:

Why does Lacie have to be the one to do this? She is the sinner here, your prisoner due to be executed in five days; why would you ask something like this of her? If Oswald truly wanted Lacie to survive, he should have been the one to tell Jack everything and ask him to take her away with him if he can't protect her anymore. But he keeps quiet.

(He does regret this, in Retrace 101.)

I chose being the head of Baskervilles over being Lacie's older brother. And yet I did not drive Jack away, even after I realized how twisted he had become.

He is ruthless in some places, soft in some. Like if he was ruthless to Lacie, he'd have been the same to Jack as well. The reason he was not, because that was the only way he could be soft on himself and lessen his own guilt.

Continuing from there, (Retrace 73), Lacie is the one to apologize for being "too harsh on him" and then goes on to tell how she has never regretted being born with red eyes or living in this world. "I love this world," she says.

Okay, this is a panel of so many contradictions, you know. Oswald says Lacie is strong, but she disagrees and says she is "ten times more cynical than other people."

Both of them are wrong.

Lacie was neither strong nor cynical. She was scared. Yes, scared. Terrified. Lacie was terrified of dying, of being cast into the Abyss, so terrified that she woke herself up from nightmares of their first day at the Baskerville estate, of learning her fate from the Jury and Glen...

....just mere days before her execution: (Retrace 67/68)

I am going off a tangent to do a quick character analysis of Lacie (I will do a longer one later, but just this one aspect of her characterization) that both Oswald and Jack had the wrong impression of Lacie. Oswald assumed her to be so strong that she could shoulder the burden of loneliness and death all by herself. He assumed she didn't want to live any longer, that she had already seen so much and experienced all that the world has to offer that she no longer had any more worldly desires. In short, he saw her as some sort of motherly saint.

As for Jack, she is his Dream Girl to put it simply. At the most depressing and most vulnerable point of his life, when he chanced to meet such a vibrant girl like Lacie, he latched onto her for his life, absorbed every word she uttered, learnt the song she sang once on a whim and sang nothing but that for the next eight years. The casual advice she gave him as a turbulent, rebellious and frivolous teenager... okay, but, let's be real here. Lacie was simply spouting whatever came to her mouth atm in the name of 'advice'. She was passing time till her brother apologized to her and she'd be brought back home. She most probably didn't think Jack, being one of a kind, would accept her words so literally that he obeys them verbatim, even if he was disgusted by what he was forcing himself to do. He put her on a sky high pedestal that he was scared to even touch her lest she loses her "magic" in his mind. That's also the reason why he never questions her lie (her lie about the Succession Ceremony) because he was scared whatever image he had of her might shatter if he pressed on. (Yeah, I gotta write a longer post about Jack's and Lacie's relationship, bc it's one of the most fucked-up yet tragic, most hollow yet sincere relationships if ever there was one)

I guess, of all people, as sad as it is, only Levi got to see her at her most vulnerable? (Retrace 68):

Neither Oswald nor Jack have seen her like this—a scared girl, full of loneliness and regrets of not being able to live longer. And yet, when Levi casually mentions about her death in another five days, she grins as if she's looking forward to it. Which, in reality, is just a mask to cover her terror.

Why I am saying this is—as context for Oswald's line "I shall be lonely if you disappear" and her midnight walk later to the tree where the three of them used to hang out. Lacie says big things like I love this world, I love the Abyss, even when Levi asked her to assist his 'experiment', her only query was if the Abyss won't be lonely anymore,,, but she doesn't let her own loneliness or regrets to surface. She bottles up all of it. Why? Because she has to be strong for Oswald and pretend like she is taking all of this in stride to lessen his guilt.

Whereas Oswald does not ask her if she is alright. If she is lonely. If she is scared of being cast into the Abyss. If she wants to run away.

(In fact, if you see the hug, it's Lacie who is hugging Oswald in a comforting, motherly hug as if he's in greater need of comfort than her, because, of course, she must be completely, totally at terms with her Fate, right?)

In that regard, I am sure Jack would definitely have inquired after her if only he didn't place her on an otherworldly pedestal and realized things might go wrong with his Dream Girl too. Moreover and most importantly, Jack was kept in dark about most things connected to the Baskervilles and he had also promised not to dig too much if he was only allowed to meet Lacie. So I won't blame him for not pressing when she lied. He must have assumed it's Something Baskerville Ritual, not that it'd be something that'd directly affect his Lacie.

But Oswald is her big brother. Oswald knows everything about the Baskervilles. He is going to become the next Glen. Yet... he does nothing, asks nothing. Almost like Oswald had long given her up for dead. Like he can't do anything for her anymore whereas she is still alive and chatting right there with him.

He is always thinking of the days after she'd be gone, and never ever gives any thought to their present.

Remember Rufus Barma's words from Retrace 86 and I must agree:

You speak as if you've already given up.

Exactly. As I said in Part 1 of this long essay, Oswald was the full-fledged Glen when he cast Lacie into the Abyss. With the title of Glen, even if he simply brushes aside the rules and sets new ones for his reign, who could possibly question him? He had five black-winged chains of the Abyss in his possession. The Juries might protest,, but if Lacie is there, they can't do anything. They are scared of the Child of Misfortune.

Even Leo points this out correctly:

He is always waiting for someone with a stronger will to come help him out of problems he needs to solve on his own.

In his penultimate appearance, he finally, finally, takes a decision and drops his sword. He decides to not kill his sister a second time. And, immediately, people who have always cared for him (if only he ever gave them a chance) gather around him to assure him that he had done well, done enough.

Well, tl;dr, what I am trying to say is that Oswald should have stuck firmly to his decision whatever it was. If he had cast Lacie into the Abyss, then he should have dealt with the consequences appropriately. If he had stopped her execution, then he should have been strong enough to face off the Juries. Whatever his decision, he should have been thorough with it instead of being half-hearted, passive and resigned about everything.

Ending this loooong essay (;_;) on a funny yet interesting note (this omake from Vol. 19) which presents the kind of Oswald I actually wanted to see. The premise might be absurd but he, for once, drops his air of resignation and faces off the Glen himself for his sister, going to the extent of dropping formality and addressing him by his name lol

[ Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 ]

[sinclair-wax-fan]

I have this headcanon that Bo actually doesn’t smoke that often. He most actively does it when he’s at the church visiting his mothers corpse.

(There’s a little pile of cigarette butts on the church steps that can be seen when he creeps quietly up the steps after Carly.)

I have this idea that it’s like…a weird ritual he’s been carrying on for a long time.

Bo’s parents were blatantly abusive and his mother almost certainly cared for more for Vincent than Bo—who was aggressive and defiant and clearly had a lot of emotional/behavioral problems from pretty much the start of his life that he should have received professional help for but simply never did.

I believe Trudy’s never had a strong desire to have children. I strongly suspect she spent a lot of time in artist salons while Victor was a big city surgeon, partying it up and schmoozing and chasing fame with her sculptures but never quite managing it.

When they move to Ambrose in disgrace, reputation in tatters, she thinks “well more time for my art, I’ll reinvent myself, I’ll become a true artist and everyone who laughed at our misfortune will eat their words.”

And when she gets pregnant at 32 on accident, she decided to keep it this time. It’s a new her, a new life, and motherhood sounds nice, respectable, right?

Unfortunately she is not as good a mother as she is an artist.

And Bo hates his mother for a multitude of unkindness towards him—but also is constantly burned by her lack of love for him.

No matter what he does as a small child he can’t seem to please her, if she’s not angry with him she’s outright ignoring him; through his rage he both fears and craves her attention in equal measure.

Eventually he comes to accept he’ll never be as good as Vincent in her eyes and decides if he can’t have her love he’ll find ways to steal her attention—no matter the pain that results from it.

So he steals her cigarettes. And does many, many other uglier things that get worse and worse as he gets older—but the theft of the cigarettes are a constant, regular action. So predictable it actually becomes almost a game for them.

Bo steals a pack, smoking them on the sly and leaving the butts scattered in the wax around her work station to gloat, and Trudy yells and curses at him for his theft and smoking as a teenager and how many times have I told you not to touch my fucking cigarettes?—but eventually she stops bothering to hit him for taking them, and when she’s through yelling at him she shakes her head and rolls her eyes, an annoyed but resigned smile on her face.

One time, when he’s 17 and comes back from a bar fight with a man years older and 30 pounds heavier, face bloody and eyes bruised, she doesn’t even yell at him for stumbling in drunk. She just shakes her head from where she sits at the kitchen table and passes him a cigarette.

She’s dead a year later.

And then there’s no real reason for smoking the cigarettes anymore—he never even really liked them to start with, they were a means to an end—but it’s a habit by then and he’s never been one to eschew cravings.

So when he’s in the mood, he sits on the church steps and smokes a cigarette for the both of them.

[kitxkatrp]

"Aha~ So you're interested in the so called 'children of misfortune' are you? I regret to inform you that despite being one, I've never been able to show any supernatural powers linked to it, so I am probably not the best test subject. May I direct you to Vincent Nightray?"

He was mostly joking.

Mostly.

But he was also lying. The Core of the Abyss had been in direct contact with him multiple times in his childhood and it had in fact, resulted in some deaths.

But....

Xerxes was never one to cower in the face of danger.

[theravenkinhelp]

“Once upon a midnight dreary…”

hello! this is a kin/introject/irl help blog, currently ran by a single mod! i'm host raven/sage, and i will be taking your requests! pronouns are he/it/they/echo.

i am your local reaper sans kin with adhd (and some other kintypes). i'm a singlet and aroace&genderqueer, so i ask you PLEASE do not ask me to engage on discourse that i can't speak up on.

i am a minor, so please don't bring up anything NSFW and DON'T EVEN THINK about interacting if you run a NSFW account. i don't promise that this blog is 100% children safe due to my habit of cussing.

this blog follows the basic DNI criteria! all systems are welcome here, i won't do factkin requests... and “dear” TERFs/FARTs, i will growl at you, bite you and block you /srs.

★ dividers used are here and here

What I can do:

• stimboards

• icons/pride icons

• pronouns/name suggestions

• timeline questions

• headcanons/stim headcanons

• positivity

• playlists

• shufflemancies

• kin assignments

• interest assignments

• kin/source calls

• kinfessions

★ stimboards may be available in near future!

★ due to English not being my first language, i am not yet comfortable with writing requests such as letters and drabbles. i love them tho, so those also may be available eventually.

Source list:

• DSMP (cc! for factives and irls only)

• Undertale, Deltarune and AUs

• Analog Horror Series

• Horror rpg maker games

• Annapurna Interactives games

• FNaF (no books, maybe fangames)

• Before Your Eyes (game)

• Fran Bow & Little Misfortune

• Sally Face

• Inscryption

• Rusty Lake/Cube Escape series

• Therapy With Dr. Albert Krueger

• Vincent: The Secret of Myers

• Morfosi

• Magisterium (book series)

• Kiznaiver

• Death Note

• Wonder Egg Priority

• Gakkougurashi

• Another

• Given

• Ao Haru Ride/Blue Spring Ride

• Lovely Complex

• Otherkins & Terians

• Songkin

★ bold are sources i am confident with, italic are ones i'd like a bit of information before getting into your request! regular text are ones i don't think i'll have trouble, but am not not an expert either.

★ i can try anything that is not here! even if considered problematic, i guess. as long as information is provided, it's fine! some things may be harder to figure out (and, well... i don't think i really could kin assign you a character from a source i don't know.)

Blacklist:

• zombie-related requests

• imagery of spider or needles

• illegal/imoral themes (yes this is right at poppytwt and proshipper/comshippers. fuck off.)

• irl gore/violence

★ letting aside the obvious one, these are blacklisted due to personal discomfort. please don't think i have anything against you!! /nm /lh

★ warn me if you need anything tagged! non listed sources viewed as problematic will be tagged, but i won't tag the ones in my source list since you already have it clear that they may be posted here. i recommend blocking '[source] kin' in tags/content if needed!

Tagging:

• [the raven‚ edgar allan poe] host raven

• [is there balm in Gilead? - tell me] asks

• [this is it‚ and nothing more] + anon tag

• [quoth the raven‚ nevermore] chatting

• [nameless here forevermore] promos

• [then the bird said‚ ‘nevermore’] request accepted!

• [meant in croaking‚ ‘nevermore’] request declined!

• [with such name as ‘nevermore’] need more info!

[scalpelandrose]

🌙The Dream Princess & Her Homunculus Knight🌙

A/N: Heyo, so this is an AU I (JTA/@jazminetoad) have been working on for quite a while as a gift for Michelle. I originally planned to write a full story but... I'm not good at writing romance for the life of me 😅 so I sorta just wrote the history of events that'd lead up to the main story and the summary of the plot. I hope you enjoy this AU, Michelle, you are a great friend and have been wonderful & kind so I wanted to make this just for you 😊 Happy Birthday 🎉

Inspirations: The Revolutionary Princess Eve, Kill the Villainess, Fullmetal Alchemist, Once Upon A Time, and (of course) One Piece

AU Concept and Summary-

For years, the royal families across the kingdom practice magic and alchemy for their benefit. Each one specialized in their own unique talent, from weather creation to element control, and the royal families were always the most powerful in their kingdom's field. Two kingdoms often allied with one another if they needed such talent from the other. A war between two kingdoms brought much misfortune among the citizen when magic and alchemy were used in the crossfire, from famine to floods, there were always greater losses in the end. So it became an unspoken rule for the royal families to turn a blind eye to what goes on in other kingdoms to never begin war.

The Falsomya kingdom specialized in illusion magic. They weren't the wealthiest kingdom since not many kingdoms needed said talent so they rarely got to export and had to pay higher prices of gold for imports. Yet, even so, many love to visit Falsomya. Most say the kingdom is like being in a paradise that can only exist in a dream. Lots of the citizens became entertainers, and adventurers from far places would travel there to see the wonderful shows Falsomya would display. The king was always welcoming new illusionists that had special skills to come and join the ranks, so festivals were often held for the citizens to show off.

King Vincent, the ruler of Falsomya, was never able to have children of his own so he brought in orphans to be his royal children. Each one specialized in different types of illusions that were unique. He helped them master their illusion magic, giving them the books and resources needed. 

Rumours of the youngest princess, To Hong Michelle, say she's been blessed with the ability to warp people's dreams, a special gift that has never been granted before. She discovered this magic talent at the age of five. As the sweet innocent child Michelle was, she tried to create blissful dreams for the servants of the palace, because of this, the servants made sure to take great care of the princess as a show of their gratitude. However, Michelle had one more talent people weren't aware of, she could enter people's dreams.

Discovered by accident, Michelle was creating a nice dream for the king. Upon entering by mistake, both were confused until Vincent connected the dots. This ability was amazing, but it also may cause harm if not done carefully. The king advised the princess to not use this magic on people for there is too much unknown about this, if she does wish to use it she must train this ability until she fully understands.

The rumours of Falsomya's youngest princess being able to warp people's dreams reach the Dressrosa kingdom, right to the palace for Donquixote Doflamingo, the king himself, to hear. Now it was a known fact for the Donquixote family that their king has night terrors. When they received the news that this child is capable of warping dreams this piqued their interest, they were willing to give the Falsomya kingdom their greatest resources in exchange for their king to have pleasant dreams. Everyone across the land knew the Dressrosa kingdom was the most powerful kingdom of all, having no need to trade with other kingdoms and no one dared wage war with Dressrosa, knowing they would lose. A few kingdoms have tried but in the end, all fell to ruin and no one knew what came of the people who used to live in those forgotten kingdoms. So for the Donquixote family to want to ally with a kingdom is big news.

Now, around this time, the Falsomya kingdom had been facing problems with monsters and other hostile creatures near their borders. Their citizens were growing scared to leave, many having already been injured, and the kingdom only had enough guards to keep the beasts out of the kingdom. Even at that, a third of their soldiers only knew how to create illusions to intimate the enemy and weren't skilled enough to fight strong foes. Illusions were no good when the enemy is a mindless creature that is unable to be frightened. So when Doflamingo himself requested an audience with King Vincent it was considered a miracle.

Doflamingo offered to supply the Falsomya kingdom with all the soldiers they'd ever need if King Vincent agreed to let the youngest princess live in the Donquixote palace. Now King Vincent wasn't going to make this deal without Michelle having a say in the matter so he brought the princess to the court for her to know the situation and let her decide to go or not. The kingdom would be saved, and she would be using her magic to help someone in need, so Michelle agreed to live in the Donquixote palace.

Entering the palace felt strange, there were multiple guards around. Every doorway, window, following closely behind others (those must've been personal knights, something Michelle had only ever heard about from other kingdoms). Michelle wondered how so many guards could exist in one kingdom. Were there that many children that wished to be knights when they grew up? Perhaps their magic/alchemy was more fit to be a guard, or maybe they had no magic/alchemy so they could only be a guard. Then it was explained to her. The special talent Dressrosa's kingdom had is puppeteer magic and alchemy.

Dressrosa's magic users could control outside monsters to keep them away or puppeteer animals & toys for their amusement. Their alchemy created homunculi who were practically human puppets. Over half of the royal guards in Dressrosa were homunculi, trained from the moment they were created. Some of those homunculi had the privilege to be a personal knight for a member of the royal family. Other homunculi were placed in the mines or did jobs no one else wanted to do, and not one person treated them as humans, just puppets.

After telling the princess how the kingdom is, Doflamingo informs Michelle that if she performs well that she will be considered a part of the family and receive her own personal knight at her coming of age ceremony. Michelle asks what if she doesn't want one. Doflamingo strongly advised against the idea of denying it, saying it's taboo. He mentions that she doesn't have to do anything with it but every member gets one to at least be protected at all times.

For the next few years, Michelle grows up in the Donquixote palace, learning their customs and way of life. Attending their balls and social gatherings (which really showed how homunculi were just objects since they were required to wear a tag with their owner's name as an earring) but only going when required after the first few times since she didn't like seeing the objectification homunculi were given. With her intelligence and the pleasant dreams she gives the king, Michelle quickly rose through the ranks, becoming Doflamingo's second favourite, only unable to surpass the king's dear brother.

When Michelle's coming age ceremony arrives, Doflamingo gives her his most valued knight: Law.

Now Law is a homunculus yet because he is favoured by Doflamingo, he has received the highest possible rank in the Dressrosa army. A few of the human knights have their doubts that their superior is a homunculus, only believing a human should be given a high position. Those who voice it out loud have been killed for questioning his majesty's decisions.

Unfair? Injustice? Doflamingo doesn't care. He had created the homunculus Law from his own alchemy abilities since it was the only way to save the boy who reminded Doflamingo of his younger self. 

Law didn't care either. All he wanted was to see the world burn for what they had done to his family and the forgotten Flevance. Being used as a tool for war didn't matter, being human didn't matter, and Law loyally served for his highness. Doflamingo gave him life so he could have the chance for revenge.

It's a surprise to many, including Law and Michelle, that Doflamingo would present the princess with his most valuable knight. Doffy on the other hand knew this to be the only correct choice. Since Michelle dislikes the mistreatment of homunculi, she should receive one who is not allowed to be discriminated against, and he knows the princess wouldn't misuse Law so she is the only one who may have the homunculus as her personal knight. Law's undying loyalty and the lengths he goes to achieve the impossible for Doflamingo makes him the only trusted person to keep Michelle safe. They are both in good hands.

Both had to take time to get used to being around each other, both foreign to the other's nature. As days passed the two grow closer and inseparable, the only time they were not in the same room is when the princess was using her dream magic.

All seemed well in the kingdom of Dressrosa, and Michelle found herself enjoying life here. Occupied by her duties and distracted by the new arising feelings for her personal knight, she didn't visit the Falsomya kingdom and is unaware of how much control Dressrosa has secretly grasped. 

A large number of the native knights of Falsomya have been turned into homunculi, even a few citizens. Toys and animals that were among its people all came from puppeteers that still had control over them. Worst of it all, the monsters that had originally attacked the kingdom were once the beasts that bordered the Dressrosa kingdom but now have strings attached.

Michelle had stumbled upon a few pieces from the king's dreams, though only once or twice, and some from a few export documents she discovered. It wasn't until the princess and her homunculus had run into a "ghost" in the forest's trees did they get informed of the whole situation. 

Now it's up to Michelle to save her kingdom, but with the help of some "ghosts", and her knight by her side, Michelle will be able to take back her home.

M's reaction: I wonder if my happy outburst could be heard all the way from Canada Jaz, because I am in love with this AU lore & may hyper-fixate on it along with the many I have. You 100% made my day even happier. The moodboard and graphics are astounding (you know me so well by now) and the ghost in the forest seems like a particularly interesting figure--we'll have to discuss this. I honestly cannot thank you enough for the time, effort, and creativity you took to make this for me & even a thousand words of gratitude would not be enough. I am very grateful to have gotten to know you this year & call you a good friend, and I hope we can keep creating so long as we're able. Thank you for being with me since the beginning and here's to many more!