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[kid-az]

Cutie patootie

Since in Mogdir they can't have pets or livestock except for bugs can they have service animals or guard animals or stuff like that?

Good question! The Mogdiri are allowed to have "pets" as long as the animal in question is their companion by choice. Mogdiri are not allowed to pen, trap, or otherwise confine an animal unless it's for self-defense. They also can't legally "own" an animal, there are no registries for pets. Buying and selling animals is illegal. They may not be treated as goods/commodities in this kingdom. (Bugs are the exception)

So, if a dog decides it likes you and wants to stay in your house, that's allowed. But grabbing a random dog off the street and keeping it on a chain is a no-no. If the dog wants out, you must set it free by law. And if that dog attacks someone and gets killed in self-defense, there is no legal action you can take because it never "belonged" to you to begin with.

All of this applies to service animals as well. Mogdiri people may not legally keep an animal to serve them, it's considered slavery. But if the animal chooses to serve by its own free will, that's fine.

Mogdiri actually have service bugs instead! Giant Arcadian isopods are a popular choice because they're so docile and trainable. They are strong enough that crippled peoples can ride on their backs, they are smart enough to lead the blind, and they are obedient enough to learn many commands.

They are actually exceptional service critters, so why do you rarely find them outside Mogdir Kingdom? Well, the Mogdiri have a special relationship with bugs. Most foreigners find them too gross and creepy...

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@loominggaia niiverse: Some info on Yue's monsters

The Divine of Creechers (yeah that’s probably not her official athenaeum title) has created a lot of different monsters over the years. Here’s some info about a few notable ones. The athenaeum probably gave some of them different names, Yue isn’t that creative with naming

Fake green slime & pink slime (PPL category 2)

One of Yue’s first monster attempts. It may look like green slime (though it’s a slightly different shade of green) but actually it’s corrosive like red slime. But it’s way weaker than red, for a human or similar it just causes your skin to get really itchy for a while and for some species like trolls and ogres it basically does nothing. These are almost extinct except sometimes it’s randomly found in Zareen mostly

Pink slime works the exact same, except this time Yue added some coloring to make it pink so you can tell it apart from green slime. These are way more common nowadays, some trolls eat it for dessert

Xamsters (category 3)

Another early monster. They look and act like edgy reskins of hamsters and are pretty harmless if you handle them with care, but if they collide with something with enough force such as somebody kicking them, they die in a violent explosion. If it’s only one xamster, the explosion is small and only knocks you back a little and gets your face cartoonishly sooty, but if there’s several, it can actually be dangerous and destroy something. They also have a defense mechanism where if they get squeezed really hard, their body heats up, so if you’re holding them you gotta let go and hope you weren’t holding them too high.

PPL drove them almost extinct centuries ago but small amounts of them survived and multiplied. There’s a few randomly running around in Zareen, and a few have made it to Mogdir where there’s surprisingly large populations of them since they look like animals and kicking animals is illegal there and all. But sometimes they still get attacked by animals or a tree falls on them or something. They can live a lot longer than hamsters if they don’t explode, and if they die from anything else, the corpse loses its explosive properties.

Hattifatteners (category 2)

Yep I literally just stole these from the moomins. This actually is their official name, but Yue didn’t name them, she just calls them the milky fishies or ghosty condoms or whatever they look like today. They’re basically like glowing mobile mushrooms that electrocute anything they touch. Most of the time the electricity is quite mild and not very dangerous unless there’s been a thunderstorm recently, which charges them, or if there's a large amount of them electrocuting you at once. They have no ears but sense vibrations on the ground like snakes, and their eyes change color according to ambient weather conditions, so you can use them to predict the weather a little. They also make little boats and sail around, and have their own island somewhere on the Northern Sea with a centuries-old barometer that Yue gave them long ago hanging on a pole that they sort of worship. Don’t take it or they will come for you in a big swarm and probably zap you to death. They occasionally shed spores that grow into new hattifatteners, but they only grow on one specific day in midsummer (the anniversary of when they were created)

Fizzy (category 1)

There’s only one of these and it’s owned by the current rulers of Redfox, Unseelie. It’s a 5 feet long fuzzy pink worm with a bunch of eyes and a sideways mouth with sharp teeth. It talks in gibberish like a furby (its voice sounds like Matt Rose lmao) and has a tendency to babble in the middle of the night. It’s carnivorous and will eat your hand or a small animal if it’s close enough and Fizzy is hungry enough, but it doesn’t actively hunt because it’s very lazy and spoiled and mostly just eats meat from its bowl. So it’s pretty harmless unless you put your hand in its mouth or something. The people of Redfox are required by law to worship it, there’s even a holiday that’s like groundhog day where when Fizzy comes out of its den in the morning, if it sees its shadow, the people of Redfox aren’t allowed to do spring cleaning, wear nice clothes or have fun in public for another month. Ster and Loren like carrying it on their shoulders like a feather boa. Penhoven was scared of it when she was little but now they’re besties

Broccoli (category 0)

This thing is actually Yue’s most intelligent monster. She made it to have someone who talks to her since she’s alone a lot of the time aside from animals and monsters, and tried to make it only able to tell the truth like fae to make talking to it easier. But magic being magic it instead ended up only able to tell lies. She thinks it’s funny anyway and still keeps it around as a little mascot. Its fur clings on stuff like a burdock and it mostly clings on her hair with it. It gets stuck on stuff a lot

There’s actually been several of them, Yue forges a new one whenever it dies (sometimes she electrocutes them to death for fun), but she doesn’t like having multiple of them at once because if two of them ever see each other, they both get so shocked that they never speak again. (This doesn’t happen with pictures and mirrors, but those will still cause it to get confused and stare at them for a while) Broccoli mostly eats small fish and cut up pieces of vegetables, and only drinks dirty water, preferably muddy. If it drinks too clean water it will vomit. It doesn’t use its big mouth to speak but does some sort of a magic voice projection because there’s not much space for organs in its body. Also it glows in the dark sometimes.

Sinistrosneks (Category 4)

These things used to be Yue’s pet snake until it died and she used its corpse to make monsters that are way cooler than snakes anyway. They’re very fast for snakes and can jump quite high, have a tendency to cling onto stuff with their mouth for no reason and it’s hard to get them off. They spit green goop that tastes like sour lime candy. Before Yue became a divine she got bitten by someone else’s acid-spitting monster and decided she wanted to make one too, but it didn’t quite work out. But it’s okay because the spit is tasty and their bite is pretty painful anyway. It can break little animals’ spines to paralyze them like a polecat and stores them to eat later, and even does it to gnomes sometimes. That’s the biggest reason it’s category 4 but bigger species can also get nasty wounds and infections from it, and they absolutely cannot be tamed.

Also they have babies like surinam toads where they put the eggs in their back and the babies burst out, and have jingly bell antennas for no reason lol. If you hear the jingle it's probably already too late

Grumbo (category 1)

It’s a big 6 legged bunny elephant pegasus thing that Yue made to use as a mount but it ended up too fat to fly with its tiny wings and too slow at walking. So she just left it in a cave somewhere in Mogdir where it still sleeps most of the time. It will roar if you disturb it but it’s just to scare people, it never attacks anyone. Really it’s a big softie and people can just go sleep on its tummy if they’re nice. Some have even managed to get it to carry them somewhere but it walks very slowly and will go right back to its cave afterwards. Thankfully nobody has tried to kill it yet so it’s just chilling in a cave and the people in a nearby village bring it food and stuff. It only becomes dangerous if it runs out of food and comes out to eat nearby trees. But it tries not to eat treehouses or big animals since it can’t digest that stuff well, it’s mostly herbivorous, also it’s distressed by screaming

Bonuses as usual because idk where else to put all this random stuff

I did some research on what species most people’s LG fan ocs are for funsies. This definitely doesn’t have everyone and I got a bit confused on what counts as a looming gaia oc but anyway:

Basically each class has a clear fan favorite species that has a lot more examples than others (humans for commoners, elves for fae, centaurs for gaians, and drau for monsters)

Speaking of drau, they’re very fun

Yue’s shirt randomly changes expression sometimes because it's funny. Especially if it’s more expressive than she is. Maybe it’s cursed or something

Also her bat thing form has some kinda monster hand wings, something like this. Not sure how the rest of her body changes, but she doesn't always change her whole body and might just get the wings to have extra hands

Also these random dumb memes i already posted on discord

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Some of My Ideas for @loominggaia peoples

So, after seeing @kid-az post a thing about a new class of people, I decided to invent my OWN class of people for my AU, although this will NOT be happening in a WHILE.

Essentially, after I do the alt endings for my fic, I have a list of fics to post:

Unnamed fic about Saraia killing the Evangeline siege dragons with Skylie, and introduces the leviathans.

Ascendance: Fic where monsters in my AU gain souls and form a kingdom for themselves

Unnamed fic to help set up Ascendance and a couple other fics. Basically, Saraia and Skylie are vibing in Zareen when Project Starlight fails spectacularly, turning Damijana into the world's biggest creeper crater and forcing the two and King to survive the storm of ejecta in Zareen. Casualties are basically Damijana and like half of Zareen from the ejecta. Swiped this idea from kid-az's thing.

New fics introducing the new classes of people (Yes, multiple: Three, to be exact). Each fic is for each of the new classes encountering the Great Kingdoms (Including the Slegelse Damijani), in small multi chapter arcs. I'm talking like 2-4 chapters per Kingdom arc. Ascendance gets arcs too.

An unnamed Cobalt Evangeline X Sirene (I decided to ship Cobalt with a sirene lmao) where Cobalt, inspired by his big titty sirene GF (Yes, his GF WILL be a busty sirene, prolly with some nice hips too), tries to make slavery less legal in Evangeline. It helps he has trauma from Saraia attacking the Capital and realizing Skylie and Cyana are still alive (His parents said they died some time after they dipped). Skylie shows up to help him while in a disguise

Oneshot with Saraia attacking Evangeline Capital once she makes a mask for Cobalt.

Fic about Cyana and Angeline adopting and caring for a baby sirene

New Royal Gala oneshot set about 25 years after CAIL, with the new High Rulers (Winnie Mogdir, Cobalt Evangeline, Rustafi Fanaka (Yes, he gets to be king), Jaq Yerim-Mor, and whoever's first in line for Etios). May be during the time of the Cobalt fic.

Here's a link to a Google Docs about the species I added.

To add to the disaster that turned Damijana into Slegelse, it basically goes like this (And it gets called The Starblast):

Project Starlight fails so spectacularly Serafeen gets a stupid prize for her stupid game: Big ole fireworks, in the way of Damijana, and Iron Tower to be more precise, being turned into the world's first nuke since the Ancients made Gaia go Titanomachy.

Damijana, obviously, is no more after that, with Serafeen and the Council being right at Ground Zero and thus instantly vaporized, and almost all of Damijana was killed of or turned into ejecta that blasted much of the surrounding area, taking out Driza and Viersen and killing a LOT of people in Slegelse and areas beyond just Driza and Viersen.

Outside of an area like 30 miles away from Driza or Viersen, it didn't really do much beyond that (Saraia and Skylie would be about 15 miles away from Driza, likely going to deliver an environmentalist speech) when it goes off.

As for how it sets up Ascendance, the event is so full of magical energy it gives all monsters souls as Gaia needs to burn off the magic by making new souls. But not enough babies can be born to burn it off fast enough, so she emergency gives all monsters souls for Christmas. And now all monsters get souls now.

The monster soul thingy becomes known as Ascendance.

The portals to summon the new peoples becomes known as the Aftershocks, as many, especially in the World Athenaeum, think it was a sort of recursive ripple after the Starblast happened.

Overall, the whole disaster becomes known as the Ascendant Starblast

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Special thanks to the LG fandom for giving their input on this one!

DRAU

Name: Drau [DROW]

Class: Monster, Faery, Midweight

PPL Category: 1 - Generally passive, dangerous only when provoked

OVERVIEW

Drau were Queen Titania’s third attempt at monster-forging. Her skills had improved by that time, which is apparent by the drau’s impressive powers. Titania considers them “almost perfect”, though their sensitivity to light is their most notorious weakness.

Most of the world’s drau live in the Unseelie Court. They are not quite as intelligent as adhene, but are far more intelligent than the other faerys (kobolds and pixies). Drau are naturally nocturnal, meaning they are most active at night.

BIOLOGY

Drau look fairly similar to elves, as they were in fact forged using many parts of dead elves. Titania claims she also used spiders, amethysts, coal, and volcanic ash to create them, among other things. 

They have slender, skeletal builds and stand a couple heads taller than elves. All drau have jet-black complexions, soulless purple eyes, and white, straight hair. While the species can appear quite androgynous, males can be identified by their whisker-like facial and body hair. Both sexes can secrete a sticky substance from their palms that allows them to scale almost any surface.

They can also turn their heads around almost 360 degrees, similar to an owl. This, combined with their large ears and sensitive hearing, makes them difficult to sneak up on. Drau are excellent at sneaking up on others, however, as their black skin helps them blend in with the darkness and their long limbs allow them to move more quietly. While these long limbs give them an impressive reach in combat situations, they have very little muscle and rely mostly on raising undead thralls to defend themselves.

Like all faerys, drau are born with an innate magical power. Their power lies in necromancy, able to reanimate corpses of peoples, beasts, and even other monsters to do their bidding. When they are young, they can only reanimate small creatures. But as they grow older and develop their skills, they are able to control powerful battalions of undead.

Drau have poor vision in daylight, so they are most active during night time hours. If they must be out during the day, they protect their eyes with dark glasses or face veils. For some reason, all drau are repulsed by the smell and taste of citrus.

The average drau lifespan is around 50 years. Their life stages are infant (0-1), toddler (2-4), child (5-9), adolescent (10-19), adult (20-39), and elder (40+).

CULTURE

The draus’ affinity for necromancy gives them a bad reputation just about everywhere on Gaia. Other peoples are also put off by their “creepy” appearance, swiveling heads, and wall-climbing behaviors. They are feared and even prohibited from many territories, and even when they are allowed to exist, they are prohibited from using their necromancy powers.

Only the Unseelie Court welcomes them with open arms, as it was founded by a famous drau named Queen Morgause, specifically as a haven where her kind could practice necromancy freely. Because of this, the vast majority of the world’s drau are Unseelie.

This was not always the case, however. At one time, most drau called the Seelie Court their home. It was after the Seelie queen, Titania, outlawed necromancy that most of them migrated to the Unseelie Court, as they felt stifled by her restrictions. Small tribes of drau also live in Mogdir Kingdom, mostly in its rural eastern territories, where they practice their dark magic in secrecy. They are known to keep close company with vampires.

In the Seelie Court, drau have their own special district called Undercity. This is a dark subterranean city built by and for drau, and it is not very welcoming to other species. Undercity has its own exclusive police force, hospitals, and other services for drau only. Light is prohibited in Undercity and many buildings are only accessible to those who can climb walls, making it very hard for most non-drau to navigate.

While drau have some subterranean neighborhoods in the Unseelie Court, they are more well-integrated with other species there, and many drau can be living topside as well. However, they tend to only leave their houses at night.

Culturally, drau have a bit of a sibling rivalry with adhene, as they often compete for the same high-ranking positions in the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. Drau are widely stereotyped as necromancers, cannibals, serial killers, and bullies. In reality, drau are not evil by nature, and are in fact quite reasonable and intelligent creatures. But peoples tend to react poorly to them at first sight, which pushes these faerys into dark and desperate corners of society. They often mingle with vampire clans and malicious cults in search of safety and community.

SEE ALSO

Adhene

Magic

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Oberon Mogdir - Marghan Matuzu - Hethor Etios - Chua Lamai

Indiga Evangeline - Gultopp Folkvar - Sovereign of Aquaria - Qara Zareen

just sayin’

Ladiesssss do this 🥴😳😜

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Been rereading a bunch of your Looming Gaia nation cuisine articles lately (I love how much thought you've put into what is usually such as underutilized worldbuilding topic in other settings), which made me wonder: if you could travel to Looming Gaia and had the opportunity to sample the cuisine, which dish from each nation would you most like to have? Let's assume for the sake of this ask that price and availability aren't an issue.

Thank you, I'm so happy to hear you're enjoying them! I enjoy making them because they tell a lot about a culture, its people, and the region they live in. Cuisine is a very effective aspect of worldbuilding, but I agree with you, I think it's underutilized.

Assuming I had infinite funds and none of my shitty digestive issues...

Folkvar: The fudge. I freaking love fudge, all flavors. I imagine Folkvaran fudge is uniquely rich and salty.

Matuzu: Rodangi burger (oops, my American is showing...)

Lamai: Zest roll, because zestberries don't exist IRL and I'd like to know how they taste.

Yerim-Mor: Candy pears. I've never had them. And thanks to my stupid bowel issues, I never will. :(

Zareen: Sweetpork burger (My American ass can't stop lmao)

Evangeline: I would crash a bus full of orphans for a caramel butter bar right now ngl

Mogdir: The honey wine. I'm drinking this strictly to experience the glow-in-the-dark piss later.

Etios: Fuck me up with that lamsaka!

Seelie: This might be messed up, but I gotta know what those monster-bonemeal cookies taste like...

Unseelie: Cheesy rockyams. Another thing that doesn't exist in the real world, so of course I have to try it.

Damijana: If I could tolerate it, I would want to know what gosopli tastes like. I'm assuming it's godawful, but the satisfaction comes from finding out.

Bormek: I will do it. I will consume the dragon balls. (Maybe I'll go super saiyan?)

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Miscellaneous NiiVerse stuff

Here’s my guys at some kinda party or something. Idk I just wanted to draw everyone in nicer clothes (that i’m not sure some of them could realistically afford but whatever) and reference some of their old designs from before loominggaiaization a little.

More under the cut because it's long

Dr. Awesomeness’ bag isn’t very festive, it’s an utility bag for carrying a bunch of very banned weapons and she’s hoping the sparkly dress will distract people from it. It’s not working on Pakila.

And Nor and Satara are crossdressing just to annoy any Lindists or similar in the room, and also pretending they’re in the mafia or something. Don’t worry, that’s just a fox plushie.

Also, some random stuff I did earlier that I should put here too probably:

When Mr. Garnet was a kid, he got bullied by some kids for his comically large bowtie, which is of course what inspired him to join an evil science organization. Leila and Sebastian (no relation to Alaine’s dad, they’re named that because I used to be bullied by kids named Leila and Sebastian, they’re not otherwise based on real people though) are also my old characters that I’m loominggaiaizing, and in the present they’re adults with their own families. Leila is a pharmacist and Sebastian works in a car factory.

Sebastian is a lot nicer guy nowadays, married to an athlete lady named Pallas and they have 4 kids. Here’s more old drawings, except in LG everyone’s ears are less pointy and the ones with blue hair would have black hair instead:

Though I’m also thinking that Wilba was captured by an undine like Sineriina & Akamia and shortly rescued because the hair is fabulous, but Glimmer can probably just be a regular kid. Also Wilba is mute because of a birth defect so the whole family knows sign language, and also they’re all vegan and wholesome n shit. Estrada is besties with Sineriina, and Stjern is a boy but wears a skirt because it’s comfy and I don’t know how to draw a masculine looking dude (as you can probably tell from a lot of stuff on this post)

Leila is still kind of an asshole, basically an annoying soccer mom type. She was married to an elven dude but they divorced and she took his kid, so she’s now living with her step-son Ignatius who you might remember if you’ve seen my deviantart.

Old drawing of him (shitty but very iconic to me):

Yeah this constantly pissed-off teenage femboy (but lazy about it) who lost his arm by shoving it in his dad’s woodchipper is actually one of my favorite old ocs and I HAD to include him, even though my old stuff with him was a bit more ridiculous. Maleena tries to bond with him over having one arm which would go well if she didn’t shoot him with a water gun every time he got rude (which might actually be dangerous with Zareenite water), so he gets pissed off and tries to beat her up with a shovel and that ends their relationship. At least Pakila is a bit more chill. Mostly Ignatius just hangs out with this dworf kid Jussufiina whose dad is an evil cult leader but that’s a different story.

Here’s Yue as a kid with her parents, and little sister Curlinita who still has living descendants around. One of them is Helena, the old hermit lady writing controversial books with drawn out torture scene-porn in Mogdir who I mentioned once.

And a fact about Yue: She does so much electromancy that she unconsciously emits static electricity. If you shake her hand you’ll probably get a zap, and when she’s asleep, getting close to her is actually dangerous.

Idk recreating stuff with random things you have is fun

Divinity day is the anniversary of when you first find out you're a divine. I imagine it's mostly a thing for younger divines, as the older ones would likely get tired of having it every year like a lot of old people do with birthdays, or have gotten tired of immortality and don't want to celebrate it, and a lot of them probably don't know the exact date

And finally, this cinematic masterpiece. 🅱️itchy: 🅱️amazing 🅱️ales.

And yeah I’ll do the funny chromight tech video later. I’m not used to the stories coming out this fast you guys

[loominggaia]

¿Cuáles son las plantas y rocas nacionales de los reinos?

(Translated with Google Translator)

"What are the national plants and rocks of the kingdoms?"

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That's a very good question! I had to think about this one for a while. I don't know enough about geology to talk about national rocks, but I do know a little about plants.

Here are the most fitting plants I can think of for each kingdom...

Folkvar: Houseleek (thrives in cold, hard to kill)

Matuzu: Matuzan Lily (represents romance and fertility)

Lamai: Flytrap (unassuming yet dangerous)

Yerim-Mor: Optunia (symbolizes hope and endurance)

Zareen: Dandelion (symbolizes adaptability)

Evangeline: Wheat (staple crop, symbolizes Evangeline as the world's "breadbasket")

Mogdir: Candleroot (staple crop, symbolizes magic)

Etios: Grapevine (symbolizes satyr wine, a popular Etiosi export)

Damijana: Lotus (symbolizes intelligence and rising above poor conditions)

Seelie: Rose (beautiful yet thorny)

Unseelie: Bleeding Heart (symbolizes grief and gore)

Alliance: Kelp (staple crop, symbolizes rapid growth)

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@loominggaia OC: Yue Rolek, Divine of Creechers

So here’s another thing I decided to loominggaiaize.

Yue’s dad was a red elf who escaped from Damijana to Mogdir, and had Yue with a green elf. She inherited mostly red elf DNA, so she has good iron resistance but can’t really communicate with animals. But she has green eyes from her mom, and wears red contacts here to look cool. She’s usually looking grumpy and doesn’t talk much, but is often having more fun than she looks.

Yue grew up in Mogdir and specialized in transmutation magic, and often tried it on insects. And also electromancy because it was cool, hence the magnet staff (it's not iron, it's made of cobalt, nickel, and magic crystal). She liked animals, especially dangerous or “weird” ones, and wanted to try creating animal hybrids and giving animals new traits, just to see how it would work. But since harming animals was illegal in Mogdir, she decide to leave the kingdom. Also, she wanted to try non-insect meat for once. She at first settled for Zareen, since she heard Zareenites test products on animals all the time. 

So Yue moved to Zareen and did her thing, but one day while trying to turn a feral mangemonster green and fluffy, it bit her and she ended up dying from an illness contracted from it. But then she came back to life, and realized she had became a divine. Of course, she immediately started trying to make monsters. She didn’t want in trouble with the law and killed most of them for being too dangerous or useless, but some of her prototypes (like knock-off slimes that don’t act like their color suggests, or black hamster-things that explode if you touch them) can still be found running around Zareen.

And since she was so good at transmutation, she also wanted to see if someone other than Karenza could turn a maenad into a minervae. So she took in a homeless maenad named Zigzag she found and tried it on her, and we know how that turned out.

As thanks for being a successful(ish) test subject and getting her some money, Yue also got her enrolled in an university and eventually a job for the Zareenite government. Isn’t that nice.

Yue herself doesn’t work for the government, she’s still doing her own thing and making monsters. She doesn’t spend much time in Zareen anymore, but mostly goes to other kingdoms to get material and ideas for monsters, and to get people who want to buy her monsters. She tries to keep them not too dangerous to keep PPL off her back, but if someone gives her enough money, she can also make killing machines or just throw whatever crap the client wants in a monster-making pot and see what happens.

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Niiverse: Yue's family & other relations

I continue my attempts at putting all my old ass ocs in the LG universe, this time with Yue’s old family. They lived in the 5100s or so and most of them are dead now of course.

Yue as a kid. She’s around a preteen or young teen here, and already taller than her mother, wowie. She never was very social, just spent a lot of her time dicking around the woods and doing magic on bugs and animals. She even got arrested a few times for getting caught engaging in animal cruelty which is pretty serious in Mogdir. I think she had some degree of selective mutism and actually couldn’t talk to people in many situations and often just got violent instead (she got better with that as an adult but still doesn’t talk much, especially to people she doesn't know or like). Didn’t have a very good relationship with her parents, they were too sad or pissed half the time. Yue didn’t actively bully Curlinita, but would hit or zap her if she got slightly in her way so they didn’t really get along either.

Goria: Yue and Curlinita’s mummy (since they’re Mogdiri they talk like bri’sh) who worked in a hair salon. Sad most of the time and sometimes hit her kids with a hairbrush but that’s not considered very serious around here at this time. Nicer than their dad though. Died falling in a river when the kids were young teens

Zepio: The dad, a red elf who escaped from Damijana because it was too damn dark and crowded. How did he do it? Well you see he RAN VERY FAST, HE’S FAST AS FUCK BOI yeeah I might be running out of reasonable backstory juice. Anyway he was more pissed than sad and pulled his kids from the hair if they were too loud. He liked casting little curses on people if he felt they deserved it, and this is very important: He put a curse on both Yue and Curlinita's entire bloodline where whenever they wear clothing or accessories that have a face, the face sometimes changes, mostly according to the wearer's mood but sometimes totally opposite. Why did he do this? Well I guess he got tired of everyone in the family always being sad or pissed, himself included.

He made dinner sauce once a week and if someone in the family annoyed him during the week he’d add a little chili powder to the sauce and many weeks it was so spicy that he was the only one who could eat it. Yeah he wasn’t a very nice guy but he did care about his family and all

Curlinita: Yue’s little sister. Didn’t like her family much as you can probably guess. Pretty goffik and angsty, liked making little spooky dolls and sometimes burning them. The cut on her cheek is from when Yue had a bad day once and stabbed her for going in her room. Well later Yue would get cut on her cheek herself by some big clawed bug so I guess that’s karma.

Curlinita didn’t get the fire resistance gene which is unfortunate because one time her evil ex Sirius tried to kill her by blowing her up with magic and she got pretty severe burns and lost a leg and eye. She wore a stupid pirate eyepatch that barely even covered anything specifically because she thought the skull changing faces because of the curse was funny. That plasma ball axe staff thing may not be very practical but it is cool. Could do some sick galemancy and electromancy. Anyway she eventually died from drinking too much wine

Perkoill and Sirius: Perkoill was Curlinita’s hippie husband and Sirius was his sister and Curly’s evil ex. They broke up because Sirius got angry and jealous whenever Curlinita slightly interacted with someone else. Of course Sirius got very pissed about her dating her idiot brother who failed magic school and can only turn stuff into frogs and play his jouhikko or whatever similar they have while Sirius graduated from big fancy impressive kaboom school. So she tried to murder Curlinita with fiery explosion magic but Curly survived and Perkoill turned Sirius into a frog and squished her and they lived happily efter after.

Btw Sirius always wore those gloves because she got so powerful that she had a tendency to set things on fire or blow stuff up by accident so she used them to be careful. The gloves stay on during sex but come off during murder

And since Curlinita got so badly burned that she couldn't grow hair on half of her head anymore, Perkoill started shaving his head like that so they would match.

Wysteria: Curlinita and Perkoill’s daughter who was pretty gloomy and lonery because that runs in the family at this point. She was an archivist and didn’t like being around people or loud stuff, mostly just organized and read stuff. Had a husband named Cluster who was also mostly like that, and a couple of kids. Anyway, Curlinita was pretty estranged from Yue but Wysteria reconnected with her eventually because she liked family tree studying and made sure her descendants had contacts to her. It’s been working out so far, though some lines of the family have escaped a little and have no idea where the clothing curse comes from.

Beetles: Yue’s husband around the time Wysteria had found her. He was a demon because why would Yue marry a person like a normie. They got married in Unseelie because I imagine that’s possible at least somewhere there. Anyway he was pretty dizzy and clumsy, he was born from a sirene and grew up mostly underwater, and never quite got used to living on land and walking on legs or flying. Broke one horn and got a little scar on his forehead from hitting his head on the bed while having sex which of course made him a gillion times hotter to yue. He was really into bugs for some reason and often came along with Yue to look at and touch the bugs while she took stuff to make monsters. (No he didn’t have a bug fetish he just thought they were neat) Of course Yue didn’t have time to fuck him every day so she let him feed on others of course. And he was surprisingly good with kids and Wysteria sometimes let him babysit hers. They were pretty happy until one day he got too old and suddenly burned to death :(

Okay maybe he had a slight bug fetish

Also

Ohto and Ignatius are also Curlinita's descendants because I guess all the grumpy elves are related, but their side of the family doesn't have much interaction with Yue and have no idea where the clothing curse came from. Strata & Helena and Ster's sides do know, Casio probably didn’t. 

The curse also applies to Yue’s monsters if they ever wear clothes, though most of them don’t, and any other way the cursed create life. One time for the lulzies, Yue intentionally got impregnated and killed by a skorpius just to go back to her kid and force him to wear a smiley shirt. Instantly got killed again, but the skorpius couldn’t take the shirt off with his claws and went fighting in it so it's all worth it. He went on to make more skorpius, so now a fraction of the skorpius in the world are slightly cursed and will never know because they don’t wear clothes.

Yeah and I guess Cresti and Valerie are Sirius’ descendants because I might as well make all my elf ocs related. Idk where Josefrollop and Vindia go

Bonus

I drew these a while ago but I don’t think i posted them here. I had this old manga drawing instruction book and tried to draw my ocs in some of the cool poses. They look a little silly

I accidentally drew Maleena’s nose wrong here so I’ll say that in-universe she drew this herself and gave herself a cool manga nose because she thinks that her nose looks too silly hahah

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@loominggaia ocs (kinda)

I have some Looming Gaia OCs, though I should note that most of these are actually old characters created for other stuff that I just started imagining in the LG universe. I don’t have much of a story for them, they’re just a couple families living in Drifter’s Hollow.

Firstly the Vrinsa family, a blended roshava-elf family.

i know i accidentally gave Cresti and Valerie human eyes just ignore that pls

Molsa Vrinsa, roshava woman whose family moved here from Serkel. She’s smart and pretty serious and doesn’t like nonsense, and not as athletic as roshava usually are. She has twin kids, Noros and Satara, a little younger than Isaac appears to be. She’s divorced from their dad because they just didn’t get along.

Noros, Molsa’s son. He’s kind of a dumbass and is willing to do pretty much anything you dare him to do, to the point that Satara jokes that he’s a goblin whose true name is “I dare you”. He’s got a few scars and injuries from doing stupid things, like when a girl he had a crush on told him to kiss a wild raccoon (or something similar they have in the area, not sure) or when Satara dared him to hold the knife towards himself while whittling (very serious issue) and when he meets someone new, he always tries to impress them by talking about how he got in a knife fight with evil bandits or something. Which is hard because the whole village knows what a dumbass he is and are likely to correct him. Is trying hard to be less stupid now.

Satara, Noros’ twin sister. She’s pretty grumpy and cynical and not very sociable. Most of the time she just helps Valma and Lijen’s family with farming, reads the like 3 books they have at home for the gillionth time, or watches her brother’s shenanigans. But she’s a pretty good singer and sometimes sings in Lahja’s band (see below), though not much because she doesn’t like being around a lot of people. One time the audience started clapping to the song and she got angry and stopped singing to tell them to stop, so now they have to make posters (drawn by Noros, who’s pretty good at drawing actually) with DON’T CLAP DURING PERFORMANCE in big letters

Cresti, Molsa’s new elven husband. He’s from Mogdir, his wife died from illness when Valeria was little, but he’s gotten over it pretty well and is happy with Molsa. He’s almost annoyingly friendly and cheerful. Likes painting and painted big flowers and stuff on Molsa’s house. Noros and Satara at first were annoyed by him, but now they like him more since they realized that he’s a lot nicer than their bio dad.

Valerie, Cresti’s daughter, around the same age as Azadora. Besties with Aino (see below), and similarly annoyingly friendly as her dad. She loves animals but not the “gross” or “mean” ones like rats or snakes, and since her dad is Mogdiri, he tells her that bugs aren’t animals, and she doesn’t like those either. Satara sometimes tells her gross animal facts to freak her out, but she gets along well enough with her new siblings. Despite what the image says her name ends with E because i remembered that i have another old oc named Valeria

There’s also a family of centaurs. I don’t have accurate drawings for them yet and it might take a while, but here’s some info:

Valma and Lijen, a centaur couple living in the hollow. They’re vegetable farmers and have a bunch of chickens too, and a lot of kids. They’ve lived in the Hollow for quite long, before most of the others moved in.

Valma is magical and knows curative and botanical magic, she’s kinda inspired by Easter witches that are a thing in some countries. She’s albino but wears colorful clothing to compensate. She hates violence and kinda wishes the FGG would move out because they keep attracting enemies.

Lijen also dislikes unnecessary violence, but is willing to rough someone up if he needs to, and often goes hunting too.

They have seven kids:

Taru, their oldest daughter. She brews mild alcoholic drinks and sells them, and is kinda passive-aggressive towards Itchy’s whiskey, like “our drinks are totally legal and won’t kill you unlike some people’s drinks!!” She also likes sports and often plays with others.

Emilia, second daughter. She’s helping her parents with farming and is good with textile work. She’s a bit harder to adapt to new concepts than most of the family, like the foreigner's clothes or Jeimos’ gender identity, but is trying to get better with that.

Lahja, around the same age as Noros and Satara. She likes fishing, and has a girlfriend named Vindia in Woodborne, they have sort of a band along with Satara. Thinks Satara is cool and had a crush on her at one point, but gave up when Satara made it clear she doesn’t want a relationship.

Veeti, around Frederick’s age. When he was younger, he thought Freddie was a cool kid and tried to bully the other kids too, but couldn’t bring himself to get nearly as bad as him and eventually gave up on that. He likes baking and runs a mini bakery.

Miska, around Tomato’s age. He’s albino like his mom, and also hates violence, but he’s more of a scaredy-cat. He doesn’t do well with new people and finds the mercenaries a bit scary, but is better with younger kids and animals. Frederick bullied him a lot so he’s not good with older kids either.

Aino, second youngest daughter. She’s a girly girl and having a princess phase. She hangs out with Valerie a lot, and likes music and often hangs around the musical FGGs (Alaine, Glenvar, Jeimos, and Mr. Ocean) hoping they’ll teach her to play something.

Marja, their youngest daughter. She’s a cheery kid and thinks vampires are cool. Stalks Zeffer a little because she suspects he’s still a vampire, but her family tries to keep her away from him.

Bonus facts about Dr. Awesomeness (A bit sillier and not that “realistic” OC but I still like her)

-She was born from a rock concert in an unusually iron-free area in Zareen. She had her amphora turned into a sick guitar too instead of lyre

-She’s around 6’11” ft tall, shorter than normal minervae, and is self-conscious about it. Not that anybody else cares because she’s probably never met a “real” minervae in person and she’s taller than most people anyway. Also she’s around 600 years younger than Yue, who was born sometime in the early 5th age, so Awesomeness is from the mid-5th age (this is a reference to how I came up with her around 6 years after coming up with the original version of Yue)

-She has a doctorate in evil raygun-colorliquidology

-She doesn’t have a Tome of Infinity, and just writes stuff down in a bunch of notebooks she has laying around. It makes her harder to kill tho.

-She’s alloaro (feels sexual attraction but not romantic). It doesn’t have anything to do with the fact she’s evil, she's perfectly capable of being a loving (platonic) partner to somebody, as long as they don’t worry about the Zareenite prisoners that she keeps in the basement for testing chemical weapons on.

The goggles stay on during sex

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@loominggaia OCs: Mr. Garnet's family

Like I said, Mr. Garnet has an ex-wife and two kids, so here’s some info about them. Also made these for something else

Vanella, Garnet’s ex-wife. She’s an elementary school teacher and pretty nice. Has a habit of using made-up words for things and always comes up with nicknames for people, which some people find annoying. She tries to be a fun mom and fun teacher and makes silly snacks on holidays and gives the kids funny activities. Is also a soft magie and interested in fae culture, which the kids think is a bit cringe. Kind of a hippie too. Seriously considering getting transmutated into an elf and moving to Mogdir once the kids move out.

Pakila: Their older daughter. Grumpy loner tween who finds most other kids lame and annoying. Wants to study hard and get a good scholarship, even though it stresses her out, but she doesn’t want to admit that because she doesn’t want to be seen as lazy. Is also interested in stage magic and does it on her free time. Takes it very seriously and gets pissed every time some popular kid wins the school talent show by singing some lame pop song. Also thinks that real magic is overrated.

She’s autistic, but was undiagnosed for a long time and had to go to a normal class and work herself harder than most kids, and now she doesn’t want to go on any special classes because she doesn't want people to think she’s lazy, even though it would be a lot easier on her.

Blera: Pakila’s 5 years younger sister. She’s also autistic, but was diagnosed a lot younger and goes to special class. Pakila is just a little jealous of that and is often telling her off for being lazy. But they do actually love each other, even if they’re not very friendly.

Blera likes botany and cartoons, and spends most of her time reading picture books about plants and watching cartoons. She’s happy that way and doesn’t care about her sister telling her that she’s wasting her time. But Blera is actually pretty lazy with anything she doesn’t find fun and doesn’t do well in school, so her parents are a bit concerned.

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Question Time! Are there any extinct animals from the past still alive in Looming Gaia? Like, say, trilobites, ammonites, Ice Age megafauna, or pterosaurs? Just askin'.

There are wooly mammoths still hanging out in the Shrieking Mountains, but not as many as there were in prehistoric times (in this case meaning before the 1st Age). Folkvarans herd them across the tundra like cattle. It's dangerous work, but every dead mammoth provides a huge amount of resources, and the cold climate makes it easy to transport the meat long distances before it goes bad.

There are plenty of megafaunas like sharks, squids, giant sloths, and giant insects. (Most of the giant bugs are in Umory-Ond and eastern Evik. They used to be plentiful in western Evik too, until Zareen Empire killed them all with pesticides.)

Mr. Ocean and Solveig had a pet giant ground sloth called King Kaiva. He was supposedly the last of his kind on Redwood Island.

There are gigantic isopods in Mogdir Kingdom which are used as busses. They have not evolved in millions of years.

There are straight-up velociraptors in Lorrowey.

Most of Looming Gaia's dragons are "dinosaurs" that have not changed much from their ancient forms, especially the Evangelite and Matuzan war dragons, and the Redwings. They're basically perfect predators as-is.

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Would you say the reason that Mogdir’s animal rights laws not applying to insects is simply because the native elves cannot effectively communicate with them?

I'd say that's definitely a big part of it! Every animal has their own way of communicating, and some elves connect with certain beasts better than others. There are some weirdo elves who naturally connect with bugs and understand them, but generally elves have an easier time understanding more intelligent and relatable creatures like primates, dogs, dolphins, etc.

Less intelligent or more "alien" animals take more effort to understand. Many elves don't even bother.

According to the Mogdiri, anything without a brain is not a beast. So, bugs and some other critters like starfish and jellyfish are not considered animals by Mogdiri law.

(In reality, bugs do have "brains", they just don't look like what we think of as a traditional brain. It's more like a bunch of scattered nerves. This does not count as a brain to the Mogdiri.)

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Niiverse guys from around LG

I’m taking a little break from the guys in Zareen and putting some ocs in different kingdoms too. And yeah it’s more elves and similar, those are easy to draw and all

Strata and Helena grew up in Mogdir and are descendants of Yue’s little sister Curlinita. They don’t really care about being related to a divine, though their mother Esmeralda used to go on adventures with Yue but she’s dead now. They’re half-sisters half cousins, because after Strata’s father died, his brother comforted Esmeralda a little too hard which led to her getting pregnant with Helena. Strata was born with 13 fingers and weird double-pointed ears and Helena with 6 toes on each foot. Their fathers both had their own extra digits removed as kids but Esmeralda insisted on keeping Strata and Helena's because she believed they were lucky, and they think they’re pretty cool too.

Strata moved to Matuzu for higher education and is now a linguist working for the World Athenaeum specializing in dead and unknown languages from before Universa was created. Also is a demigirl and she/they because yes. Strata also likes embroidery and puzzle toys like rubik's cubes or burr puzzles or whatever they’re called here, and has a pet jungle gryphon named Umbra who they let stand on their head. I like to think jungle gryphons come in different breeds so they’re probably not all colorful.

And judging by the chest symbol she’s a Middayist, that was just from her old designs but I guess that would explain it. Most of her family aren’t though.

Helena still lives in Mogdir, she’s an adult book writer and her books are infamous for their long and imaginative torture scenes. Of course that makes them pretty controversial and Helena has been accused of being a nasty freak for decades, which is why she’s now a hermit living in the woods not interacting much with people and never reads her fan mail. She does definitely have a sadism fetish but doesn’t really mutilate people or anything, even if she thinks about it all the time. She and Strata haven’t talked in years either but that’s because they dislike each other in general.

Saku is a faun working in a cafe near where Helena lives and basically the only one she likes interacting with. He’s a total doormat, especially towards Helena who he has the big hots for and will pretty much agree to anything for her. So they’re friends with benefits (Helena doesn’t want to commit to a bigger relationship) and Saku is kind of a masochist so of course they do some freaky shit on his break. Don’t worry it’s totally consensual but sometimes she hits him a little hard and he can’t complain.

And yeah his antlers go through his cloak. In mogdir there’s a cloak guy making cloaks that have hidden little slits just for people with horns/antlers who want to wear cloaks

Ster & Loren & Penhoven: Ster and Loren are the king and queen of Redfox, Unseelie and Penhoven is their adopted drau daughter because they needed to have an heir. They married for pragmatic reasons (because they found each other hot basically) and burned down the house of the previous rulers and forcibly took their land cuz that’s all you need to gain power in Unseelie. Morgause hasn’t felt like killing any of them yet so it’s all fine and dandy.

Ster is an elf and is yet another constantly grumpy all the time guy and is hella powerful at tele magics, he will telepathically scream at you until you go insane or just teleport your organs out of your body if you don’t call him your majesty. He might also be related to Yue I'm not sure. Loren is an adhene with fire magic and will shoot a fireball at you if you piss her off, which is pretty easy. Penhoven is less mad than her parents, she likes having fun times and dog blood parties with zombies (tea parties are for Seelie sissies), and they spoil her a lot. There’s also Fizzy, their pet pink fuzzy worm monster forged by Yue when she visited them once. It looks silly but they love it (as much as monsters can) and declared it the national animal of Redfox even though there’s only one because the previous ruler’s pet fox bit Loren and now they outlawed foxes. They would try to change the city’s name to Pinkworm if they weren’t scared of annoying Morgause.

They even have a holiday similar to Groundhog Day in Ster & Loren's Redfox. When Fizzy comes out of its den on this day, if it sees its shadow, nobody is allowed to do spring cleaning or wear colorful clothes for another month. Nobody disrespects The Worm, it's the law

Ruukku is a rich maenad living in Matuzu who is a Model Citizen™, only drinks her wine at mealtime and doesn’t slut around. She’s a kids book author & illustrator, they’re like those old wholesome kids books with pretty painted illustrations of cute kids and animals like little golden books or something. Ruukku only likes classical music and grows roses in her garden, and she’s not royalty, but just wears a crown because she’s rich. She’s basically the anti-Helena, in fact a few decades ago when Helena still read her fan mail, Ruukku sent her an angry letter talking about how her books are highly inappropriate and she needs to stop making them this instant and be ashamed. Helena’s petty ass sent her back a long fanfic of some critters from Ruukku’s sappiest books getting gruesomely tortured to death. Of course that didn’t go well and Ruukku sent an evil angrier letter, and now they’re basically angry pen-non-pals. Helena actually looks forward to Ruukku’s letters because she thinks it’s hilarious so those are the only ones she won’t throw away. Ruukku probably knows by now that Helena won’t change, but she finds it an interesting relationship anyway. Basically writing to Helena is a guilty pleasure for her now since she has her reputation as a wholesome child friendly writer.

Yeah and her dress looks similar to Josefrollop’s robe, that’s just because he commits art theft

Obligatory bonus thingies because idk where else to put these

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What would the great leaders do if they had illegitimate children

Some of them actually do!

Hethor Etios secretly sent her illegitimate son to Folkvar Kingdom and told everyone he died at birth. He is being raised by her friend and doesn't know he's technically royalty...but I think one day his caregiver or perhaps his real father (Hethor's brother-in-law) will spill the beans.

Morgause of the Unseelie ignores all her kids, legitimate or not. Sometimes she kills them out of paranoia, fearing they will try to usurp her throne one day. They're scared shitless of her and try to stay out of her way.

Oberon Mogdir has had a few "oops babies" in his time, but he has both the child and mother assassinated by the mafia to protect his image.

Gultopp Folkvar's daughter Sygbarne is not exactly "illegitimate", but she is not eligible for the throne and he doesn't want his people to know about her, so he locked her away in a tower for the rest of her life.

Roz Yerim-Mor would love all of his children, regardless of their circumstances.

Serafeen of Damijana secretly aborted an illegitimate baby.

Chua Lamai is supposed to be celibate, so they'd pull a Hethor and send their kid away to a foreign land. Indiga Evangeline would do the same.

Marghan Matuzu completely ignores his bastard kids and denies fatherhood to them.

Qara Zareen would also send hers away, not to save face but because she doesn't want to deal with them. One kid is already too much responsibility for her.

Sovereign of Aquaria banishes his "defective" children from his kingdom, and most of them go live in a special colony populated by their unwanted siblings.

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