#moirail-mate

[shanastoryteller]

It’s been a while since you’ve talked about it, but I’m worried about visiting LA this year. I don’t live in a city that big, I can’t really investigate it online, and I have no idea where it’s safe to hotel there. Where do you (did you? You may have moved on?) feel safe in the city? Where would you recommend to people visiting to stay? You don’t have to answer if you don’t want to! You’re just one of the very few people I know that has lived there. Thank you, regardless of your answer, you didn’t have to read this at all❤️

hi! answering publicly in case anyone has advice they want to add :)

i'm a little worried this might come off as dismissive, but honestly i just don't find cities to be that dangerous. i've lived in LA for almost eight years, lived in another city for 3 years before that, and have visited about a dozen major cities outside of america

homeless people, by and large, aren't going to bother you. if you have a couple bucks to spare, give it with a smile and look them in the eye, and move on, or if you have nothing it's fine to say that you just don't have cash. if there's an encampment, which happens all over the city and just not on skid row, then they're definitely not going to bother you because they don't want to cause trouble and get kicked out of where they've managed to find a consistent place to sleep

the truth is if you get assaulted, statistically it's going to be by someone you know rather than a rando on the street. if you do get assaulted in LA by a stranger, it is WAY more likely to by an out of work background actor named josh who picks up shifts at a tiki bar than a homeless person or gang member

that being said, i actually have no idea what neighborhoods are considered dangerous in LA these days? i guess the flip side of finding nowhere in LA particularly dangerous is that it's all dangerous, but really you're more likely to get taken out jaywalking in dtla than anything else

as for locations, it's important to remember: los angeles is huge

it's more like a bunch of small towns next to one another than one cohesive city. the town i grew up in is smaller than the neighborhood i currently live in. if you're visiting, i HIGHLY suggest you rent a car. the public transport in LA is shit

i've only been to east LA to visit friends and eats burgers. both were enjoyable, but you're relatively far from the coast. they also built a stadium in inglewood, which multiple friends have informed me has fucked up the housing in the area, but i don't know if that would make it better or worse to stay in

anywhere in the valley is going to be cheaper than the city proper. north hollywood and studio city are good for that. the garland in noho is really cute and right next to the highway. sherman oaks and van nuys are decent too and they're literally right next to each other. i personally think encino is one large strip mall and so is panorama city, but panorama city at least has the saving grace of good filipino food

if you get to northridge, you've gone too far north. malibu beaches are definitely worth a visit, but it's such an expensive area and so far from everything that i wouldn't stay there

hollywood proper, venice beach, and santa monica are probably the most quintessentially LA places, but I would only stay in santa monica out of them. not for safety reasons, but because the other two are filled with tourists. which, i know you'll technically be a tourist, but still

koreatown has great food, but terrible parking. it's also a cheapish place to stay. downtown LA is something I avoid because it just reminds me of the financial district of every city i've ever been to. the dtla library and the last bookstore are the only things worth going there for, personally, and it's also a very expensive place to stay.

little tokyo is very cute and manages to feel separate from city while being surrounded by it. i admittedly only go to chinatown for bakery runs, but it's all delicious and vey beautiful, especially if you've never been to a chinatown in a major city before

west hollywood is expensive, and i wouldn't stay there myself, but it has great brunch places and devastating parking rules. the most expensive parking ticked i ever got was in weho. burbank is the land of animation studios and also porto's. it's a really cute area. beverly hills exists and taking a walk on melrose is fun but i wouldn't linger. again, not safety, just terrible vibes.

i know this probably seems like a lot but i've actually only listed the more popular neighborhoods that i'm personally familiar with. los angeles is HUGE.

i hope this helps somewhat! and sorry to anyone who's neighborhood i've disparaged T_T

[splickedylit]

Anonymous asked: Hello!! For art requests, perhaps some zolu? (Zoro and Luffy)

b0yskylark asked: Splickedy!! Maybe you can draw your favorite One Piece ship?? Personally I think if Zoro and Sanji kissed a lil they'd calm tf down lol

I do find Zosan pretty delightful--LOVE a rivals-to-rival/lovers pairing--and for that matter, Franky/Robin is GREAT and whips ass and both pairings were on the candidate list. But lbr I'm a huge sucker for that captain/first mate intense loyalty "til death do us part and you're not allowed to die" shit. plus Luffy being all but canonically ace means I can bring my no-holds-barred-all-romance-no-sex moirail agenda to yet another pairing which is GREAT for me emotionally. eue

What I'm saying is yo ho yo ho a pirates little late afternoon nap holding hands like otters so I don't drift away for me yar har

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

you think kankri and cronus

like all the dancestors, kankri and cronus mirror their counterparts (and as we all know, karkat and eridan are soul mates), but the brief interaction we do see of them makes them seem pretty toxic for each other. i think it's funny for that reason though!

Karkat and Kankri both love going on long, endless rants and walls of text, but where Karkat fills his spiels with self-loathing, Kankri fills his with incredible smugness and self-satisfaction (often calling his spiels "sermons" or "lectures" before catching himself and correcting them to "discussions" or "conversations," which have a less one-sided "i'm right and you're wrong" connotation). Moreover, where Karkat loves all his friends, and masks that under disdainful insults and screaming obscenities, Kankri tends to hold his friends in contempt, masking that under kind language and politeness.

KANKRI: And really, it's every9ne's 6usiness t9 examine their privilege, even 6urgundies, wh9 may 6e su6ject t9 the pitfall 9f 6elieving inc9rrectly there are n9ne 9n the scale 6eneath them wh9m they enj9y certain privileges 9ver, which 9ff-spectrum tr9lls will never kn9w, such as th9se identifying as 9ther6l99ds 9r caste-multiples, "p9ly6l99ded", any wh9 hem9gl96ically ID as having a caste which manifests n9where (as yet kn9wn) in any9ne physically, 9r f9r that matter 9ffspecs wh9 physically d9 p9ssess such a 6l99d type, 9r "mutants" (VERY pr96lematic term, highly triggering t9 s9me, 6e warned), such as y9u and I, Karkat.

Translation: lowbloods think they have it SO HARD, try being a mutant 🙄

KANKRI: I just think there is inherent danger in muddying the waters 9f disc9urse 6y intr9ducing s9cial issues which are suspect at 6est, thus c9nsuming crucial res9urces fr9m the limited cache 9f rhet9ric which pr9pels these narratives. And furtherm9re, 9ne c9uld argue it's m9re than a little pr96lematic, 9ffensive even, f9r y9u t9 6e appr9priating the lexic9n 9f sensitivity used t9 advance awareness 9f maj9r issues, thus reducing it t9 the level 6uzzspeak and pseud9science. It makes it m9re difficult f9r th9se 9f us wh9 are genuinely f9cused 9n p9sitive change t9 6e taken seri9usly, that's all. PORRIM: Appro+priating?? #That's no+t #what that even #means? PORRIM: PSEUDOSCIENCE??? #Yo+u did no+t just… KANKRI: I'm s9rry, I just d9n't think there's much there. We aren't like humans, wh9se species 6izarrely en9ugh includes highly specialized r9les f9r 69th sexes in the pr9cess 9f repr9ducti9n, and s9 this naturally had s9cial ramificati9ns f9r the way their civilizati9n ev9lved. 6ut that's n9t h9w it w9rks f9r us, s9 I fail t9 see h9w gender fact9rs int9 the discussi9n in a way that can 6e effectively and rati9nally pr96lematized. Where is the r99m f9r unexamined privilege in the dich9t9my? I d9n't see it. And appr9priating the talking p9ints and awareness-raising tactics f9r du6i9us issues like this is, frankly, fr9wned up9n, t9 put it p9litely. Such appr9priative gestures 9nly serve t9 marginalize and invalidate th9se su6ject t9 seri9us, real life struggles and 9ppressi9n, and I guess I'm a little disapp9inted t9 see y9u 6eing s9 6lithely and inappr9priately appr9priat9ry. #Fr9wned up9n #Fr9wns all ar9und #Welc9me t9 fr9wn t9wn PORRIM: Kanny, I'm starting to+ feel just a little bit triggered by all this "appro+priatio+n" bullshit. #Trigger warning: #Abo+ut to+ kick yo+ur tall pantsed ass KANKRI: 9h! My sincere ap9l9gies. I sh9uld have d9ne a 6etter j96 tagging my statements, 6ut f9r future reference, it's helpful t9 alert y9ur c9nversati9nal partners t9 y9ur triggers well in advance. Sh9uld I g9 fetch y9ur m9irail t9 help settle y9u d9wn? And if s9, wh9 exactly w9uld 6e filling that quadrant t9day? #It's the may9r, right? #G9tta 6e the may9r

Translation: Stop trying to steal my spotlight by bringing up your own social justice pursuits. Shut the fuck up. Oh, are you offended? Maybe you should go cry to your moirail. Slut. God I hate women.

KANKRI: 9n the 9ther hand, if I'm 6eing h9nest, I've f9und Mituna's entire existence t9 6e a pretty pr96lematic impediment t9 the advancement and 9verall awareness 9f a6leism and its painful manif9ld c9nsequences f9r una6ilitied pers9ns. The speech impediment, frankly, I c9uld d9 with9ut, and I'm 6y n9 means ecstatic 9ver his t9rrential 6ig9try and h9stility. 9n the 9ne hand, I want t9 6e sensitive t9 him as a pers9n and as a friend, 6ut 9n the 9ther, what kind 9f message d9es his 6ehavi9r send? And frankly, I'm n9t crazy a69ut the helmet, either. MITUNA: W4LT5 WR00NG W17H MY H4ML37 8( KANKRI: N9thing, friend, it's a really c99l helmet and it's a g99d l99k f9r y9u. 6ut are we n9w t9 assume that all th9se wh9 are stricken with y9ur particular disadvantage9n will 6e similarly pr9ne t9 require such headgear, due t9 falling d9wn and hitting their heads frequently? MITUNA: 8U7H 1 D0 F4LL D0WN 4ND H157 MY H34D FR3QUN3UN74NY KANKRI: 9h, I kn9w y9u d9, and I think y9u sh9uld c9ntinue wearing it f9r y9ur safety, particularly if y9u c9ntinue t9 insist 9n fl9undering a69ut 9n y9ur danger9us t9y. It's m9re a69ut the unf9rtunate message y9u are sending 9verall, with certain aspects 9f y9ur pers9nality and existence, that's all. MITUNA: 1M 50RRY KANKRI: As a friend, I w9uldn't want t9 change anything a69ut y9u, well, n9t m9st things. I just think y9u may n9t 6e d9ing y9urself 9r th9se wh9 are similarly disadvantaged any fav9rs with, what I'm h9ping, is a perfectly inn9cent array 9f traits and mannerisms. 8ut again, I say this with all due sensitivity. MEENAH: vantas youre being a shit dont talk about him like that

Translation: Mituna, you're such a goddamn embarrassment, I wish everything about you was completely different.

The big difference between Beforus and Alternia is also the definition of "culling," which on one meant killing and the other meant coddling. Naturally, this is its own form of oppression, as the longer-lived highbloods still hold great power over the lives and fates of those deemed cull-worthy, which includes a lot of lowbloods, and definitely mutants like Kankri who didn't have a lusus. However, it creates a different kind of mindset from that of more standard abuse, like what Karkat suffered for his off-spectrum nature - where Karkat spent every day fearing for his life and cursing himself:

Your name is KARKAT VANTAS. As was previously mentioned, it is your WRIGGLING DAY, which is barely even worth mentioning. It is an anniversary, if anything, to lament the faults of your existence, of which there are assuredly plenty.

Kankri was experiencing the opposite: being told that his mutation made him exceptional, made him special, made him MORE worthy of attention and praise than other people. At the same time, his agency was taken away from him, but the thing is, being 13 when he started the game, I don't necessarily think he'd have missed that - around the age of 13 is when kids START to crave agency, and he got it by playing the game. Kankri's dialogue suggests to me that he genuinely believes in his superiority to the people around him, more in line with being spoilt.

This is why, although he talks a big game about how bad casteism is, and how you shouldn't say slurs because they're offensive, he still unironically uses the term "Royal-V" to refer to violet bloods and chastises Mituna for calling Meenah a wader, which is an anti-seadweller (and anti-seadweller apologist) insult. Sure, he acknowledges within that chastisement that because Meenah and Royal-V's DO have privilege, the weight of the insult is not exactly the same, but then he follows up by saying that he wishes everything about Mituna was different, to the point MEENAH feels the need to defend him.

This is because Kankri is a fucking wader.

If you'll notice, he's actually quite agreeable and sympathetic to Meenah (despite Meenah being a confirmed bully, especially to the team rustblood):

KANKRI: Wh9a, Meenah. I didn't see y9u c9me in. Y9u sh9uld have c9me say hell9. ... KANKRI: I've als9 heard y9u're recruiting mem6ers f9r a militia? An9ther 69ld endeav9r. N9t surprising, th9ugh. 6ef9re y9u em6ark, I d9 h9pe y9u'll set aside at least several sweeps t9 listen t9 s9me 9f my…

KANKRI: And Meenah, while I can understand y9ur frustrati9n 9ver 6eing ver6ally assaulted under any circumstance, it is incum6ent 9n me t9 remind y9u that Mituna requires a certain am9unt 9f special c9nsiderati9n and m9re than a little patience. Please try t9 resist taking his 6ait, which I'm guessing is m9stly well intended(?), 6ef9re its c9ntenti9us undert9w pulls y9u further int9 an exchange laden with deeply pr96lematic expressi9ns 9f a6leism, a6leist slurs, and 9ther such manifestati9ns 9f unc9nsci9na6ly unchecked a6ility privilege.  #a6leism #a6ility privilege #6ait #undert9w #are the aquatic terms helping?

... And he's nice to Cronus. I just don't think it's a coincidence that Kankri is super mean and shitty to land dwellers, while being super kind to the two sea dwellers on the team, the caste he was presumably culled (raised) by - to the point of emulating their aquatic terms to try and ingratiate himself to them (something Karkat thinks is stupid and cringe.).

KARKAT: (not really.) #SHELLF IMPORTANT ABALONEY? #GODDAMN SEADWELLERS

And that brings us to Cronus. Now, I've written extensively about how Eridan is not actually casteist, but the TL;DR is that Eridan genuinely doesn't treat people differently based on their caste, but it's societally expected of him and he has an overwhelming amount of anxiety about living up to those expectations, so he will say a lot of slurs. He and Feferi are actually the only two highbloods that never say anything disparaging about Karkat's blood color.

In contrast, Cronus is a casteist; where Eridan tries to play up how casteist he is while secretly not being so, Cronus does the opposite and tries to play down how casteist he is while secretly being so.

CRONUS: nowv, please don't tell anyone i said so, but you and i both knowv pretty much all these people should feel honored to go out vwith a guy like me. CRONUS: vwhat being royalty and all, and not evwen slightly put off by dating dowvn on the spectrum. i mean, really, howv much more evwident can i make it to evweryone that im really a cool, progressivwe, easy going dude, vwho doesnt take the social order seriously or buy into any of the stereotypes? first of all, as if the hemospectrum scene isnt 8EYOND played out. #you should be sticking your fork in THAT CRONUS: i barely EVWER evwen bring up my high social status. it couldnt be LESS of a big deal to me, but i think people maybe are still intimidated by it? theyre probably putting me on a pedestal, in spite of all my easy going assurances that my royal lineage is something i nevwer evwen think about. like, no friend, i am just like you. vwe laugh at the same jokes, listen to, vwell, to some extent, the same music… #i at least USED to listen to music you like #does that count? CRONUS: all these cats and kittens, im telling you. theyre alvways drawvn to the freaks and rejects. you havwe to be 8ROKEN in some vway to get a little concupiscent attention. #cats #kittens #freaks #rejects #broken

You got a whole bunch of SEA DWELLER BLING! It's pretty obvious this all belongs to Cronus over there. He's just not wearing it right now so he can convince everyone he doesn't feel like his royalty status is a big deal, even though he does.

Moreover, we get a direct parallel to Eridan's final conversation between him, Feferi, and Sollux, with the interaction Cronus has with Meenah and Mituna - in both cases, the violet-blood has a crush on their fuchsia, while probably having some sort of blackrom thing with the mustard (ashen for Eridan, pitch for Cronus). The differences really highlight how different the two are.

First, Eridan doesn't actually mean all the casteist things he says to Sollux - we know this because he's actually mentioned Sollux twice before, and both times, felt no need to comment on Sollux's lowblood status at all. Eridan is so transparently full of shit that even his own teammates don't think he's actually being casteist, and instead take it as ashenflirting:

ERIDAN: hey finless this doesnt concern those wwith mustard sludge slippin through their vveins ERIDAN: its a matter for royalty only ERIDAN: so keep your mouth closed or ill slit you open ovver my next meal SOLLUX: w/e bro, not iintere2ted. FEFERI: -Eridan, please! I don't want to see any more dueling. FEFERI: Don't try to provoke )(im. It's not like I don't know w)( you're doing! You keep trying to spark a rivalry wit)( )(im to get me to auspiticize between you two, and pull us out of your quadrant! FEFERI: It is t)(e oldest and lamest trick in t)(e book. It didn't work t)(en and it won't work now!

But while Eridan leads with casteism he doesn't mean, after being rejected by his fuchsia blood, Cronus rounds on Mituna to vent his frustration, revealing HIS real feelings:

CRONUS: i said shut up. do you havwe any idea vwhat a man of my class vwould do if a mustard blood like you spoke to me this vway on alternia? honestly, sometimes i think i vwas hatched in the vwrong univwerse, let ALONE the vwrong body. CRONUS: i am so sick of havwing to pretend to treat you vwith the dignity you vwouldnt deservwe evwen if you COULD count the scars on my forehead. you couldnt tell me the ansvwer if i asked vwhat your favworite number vwas. ... CRONUS: you are a brain damaged reject on a team full of rejects. a rejects reject. i vwould havwe culled you myself if that vword meant vwhat it should havwe on our planet.

Moreover, Eridan is genuinely wracked with emotional anguish basically 24/7, but he refuses to allow anyone else to provide him with emotional support, lashing out at Feferi when she insinuates that she's been taking care of him up to that point.

CC: I can’t look after you anymore. CA: I DIDNT EVER NEED ANYONE TO LOOK AFTER ME CA: i was totally fuckin fine my ambitions were noble

On the other hand, Cronus outright admits that his constant talk of being a "sensitivwe soul" is bullshit he uses to attract the ladies:

MITUNA: 1M 50RRY CRONUS: no youre not. youre lying. CRONUS: your vwhole bifurcated demeanor is such an act. half the time you are noxious and incomprehensible, and the other half you are mild and contrite? sure, "PAL." CRONUS: as if im not SO on to you. you only pretend to say youre sorry to get girls to like you more. sure seems like pyropes a sucker for the ruse. like im not familiar vwith THOSE tactics. vwho do you think vwrote the book on that??

CRONUS: guess ill attempt ghost suicide YET AGAIN. CRONUS: of course by vwhich i mean, tell people i did, to vwin sympathy points. MITUNA: D0357H H47 W0RK CRONUS: not really.

This isn't to say that Cronus doesn't have legitimate emotional issues - just that they aren't the ones he says that they are. When Aranea is expositing on Cronus to Meenah, she winds up explaining that Cronus used to believe in a prophecy where he was Harry Potter and LE was Voldemort, and that it was his destiny to destroy this evil wizard, but that his team basically bullied that belief out of him:

ARANEA: The 8ard of Hope may seem a little jaded these days, 8ut he once had a deeply a8iding faith in magic, and dedicated himself to 8ecoming a great wizard. He 8ecame convinced he was hatched to defeat an extraordinarily evil magician, one he swore the angels foretold of. [...] I'm unsure why he suffered this crisis of faith, aside from the o8vious reasons having to do with an overall lack of character, or any other redeeming qualities. Perhaps someone talked him out of his 8eliefs. May8e a friend close to him. Or, if one is to 8elieve his fantasy held any water, perhaps someone who was in league with the evil magician. Whatever the case, it was pro8a8ly for the 8est, since pretty much everyone who had half a think pan thought it was all a 8unch of ridiculous nonsense.

Which, you know, given that he was their HOPE player, was probably a not-good thing that they did. Put a pin in this conversation, we'll return to it in a bit.

His humankin stuff is mostly treated as a joke, but it's also a symptom of this - we know that it's actually a portal to something Cronus genuinely feels bad about, because despite complaining about how you need to have something wrong with you to get concupiscent action, he's uncomfortable bringing it up to Meenah.

MEENAH: i heard a rumor you think youre a human now MEENAH: that true CRONUS: its a privwate matter. i dont see vwhy i should havwe to talk about it vwith you, and open myself up to more of your judgmental scorn.

He's a Hope player who lost what he believes in - so his actual emotional problems stem from directionlessness, exacerbated by the fact that he's generally untalented, feels entitled due to his high caste and resentful that it's not being respected, and doesn't seem to have any real goals aside from sleeping with other people (and now he's dead). As a result, he's clung onto this idea that maybe the reason he feels so empty inside is because he's not actually a troll - not wanting to be himself, he tries to be something else.

So let's go back to the pin we put into Aranea talking about how he was talked out of his beliefs. Cronus very nearly reaches self-awareness about how being humankin is just a cover for his actual emotional problems... and then "a friend close to him" - maybe the only friend close to him that he has - talked him out of that epiphany.

KANKRI: Listen, I was d9ing y9u a fav9r. Y9u d9n't need t9 6e dating any9ne wh9 can't appreciate y9u f9r wh9 y9u really are, 9r m9re imp9rtantly, which fantasy versi9n 9f y9urself y9u m9st str9ngly identify with. CRONUS: yeah, youre probably right. she doesnt appreciate me. so fevw of you cats do, really. #evwen the ones vwho literally identify as cats CRONUS: to be honest, she might be right. sometimes i think i might only be saying im a human to get attention. maybe i should givwe it up. KANKRI: I'd 6e extremely disapp9inted t9 hear that, if it were true. That w9uld 6e such a slap in the face t9 all th9se wh9 kn9w themselves t9 6e an alien while trapped in the pedestrian 69dy 9f their 9wn race. It w9uld 6e unspeaka6ly invalidating 9f their struggles and massively triggering t9 their em9ti9ns. #TW #invalidated struggles #triggered em9ti9ns KANKRI: 6ut f9rtunately, I kn9w y9u w9uld never st99p as l9w as that. Y9u understanda6ly have d9u6ts a69ut y9ur feelings and pr96a6ly d9wnplay them as a defense mechanism, since s9 few are prepared t9 rec9gnize the legitimacy 9f y9ur plight. 6ut I am, and I just wanted y9u t9 kn9w that I'm here f9r y9u, and am prepared t9 lecture t9 y9u extensively, I mean, listen t9 y9u extensively, a69ut y9ur ultra-imp9rtant pr96lem. CRONUS: vwowv. thanks, pal. CRONUS: youre right. my feelings really are real. not fake, like the huge disappointing fraud that magic turned out to be. CRONUS: i guess the truth is, deep dowvn i alvways knewv i vwas a 1950s-style human greaser. CRONUS: i just needed to finally be introduced to human culture to make sense of those feelings. KANKRI: W9nderful. I'm s9 happy y9u have f9und the light 9f truth within y9urself. N9w j9in me in tagging 9ur discussi9n with righte9us warnings, as we c9nsecrate y9ur disadvantage in the h9ly annals 9f Pr96lematics.

She also mentions it might have been someone "in league with the evil wizard," which would indicate Damara or Kurloz, but he never mentions Damara even once, and he actually seems to be on neutral terms with Kurloz:

and i vwouldnt dare to intrude on your longstanding moirallegiance vwith kurloz, and not because he scares the shit out of me either. that just really seems to vwork, you and him, doesnt it? i dont get a peep out of him of course, not evwen if im super nice and compliment his hideous hair[.]

So since we literally see Kankri exacerbating Cronus's problem by not only insisting that he not introspect, but expresses that he would be extremely disappointed in Cronus if Cronus did, I'm inclined to believe that the one who talked the Hope player into giving up his Hope beliefs was Kankri.

So what I'm saying is, if Karkat and Eridan are beautiful soul mates who make each other better in basically every way, Kankri and Cronus are incredibly toxic for each other and are in desperate need of a fucking auspice. Somebody please middle leaf these two, they cannot be left alone. Kankri's wader tendencies validate Cronus's entitlement and stagnation, and Kankri loves manipulating Cronus into believing whatever BS Kankri is espousing, because that's how Kankri gets his validation.

Kankri and Cronus means love loses.

Thank you for reading.

[thewertsearch]

We're playing as Kanaya, right after Terezi watched Dave die. I guess we're about to see the immediate aftermath, as Karkat tries to figure out what he did wrong.

KANAYA: That Sounds Nice KANAYA: But It Really Doesnt Look Like There Is Much Room In That Pile Of Horns At All And I Should Get Going Anyway SOLLUX: yeah, of cour2e there'2 no room, iit wa2 kiind of a moroniic iinviitatiion two be hone2t. FEFERI: )(-EY, S)(UT YOUR MOP-EY BLOW )(OL-E!!! I was just s)(owing a little bassic courtesea. FEFERI: Really, you are just t)(e grouc)(iest dude sometimes. FEFERI: (And it's really cute!)

I was initially surprised that Feferi found Sollux’s grouchiness cute, since she's had to deal with Eridan's bad-tempered bullshit for who knows how long. However, I think Sollux's 'temper' is fundamentally different to Eridan's, in a way that Feferi would appreciate.

See, Sollux may be a little grumpy, but he's also basically harmless. His only violent moments are the result of manipul8tion or self-defense, and when left to his own devices, he'd rather tinker with his computers than hurt anyone.

Compare and contrast with Feferi's former moirail. He's already complicit in mass-murder, and his jealousy over Sollux 'stealing his girl' has already led him to try and vaporize the guy.

Eridan's a danger to himself and others, and his bad moods are threatening, but Sollux is just a slightly sullen nerd. Feferi can relax around him, and that alone is probably a breath of fresh air.

SOLLUX: you are 2o riidiiculou2ly optiimii2tiic iit'2 kiind of 2iickeniing, why do you even put up wiith me?

Just like our other Witch, Feferi is optimistic to the point of frustration – and, like the Jade of earlier acts, her optimism is based on evidence that that her audience isn’t privy to.

Unlike early Jade, though, my guesses about Feferi's sources can be a lot more educated. Her information generally comes from the Horrorterrors, so if she knows Aradia's alive, her God Tier self has probably made it to the Furthest Ring.

That's honestly pretty cute. We haven't seem much of these two as a couple, but they're starting to win me over.

Oh, you can fuck off, mate. Your guardianship of Kanaya ended on Alternia.

[conceptofjoy]

your post about the fanfic it's actually something I've thought about for a while kskdjslsj like, I'm probably tripping rn but like, ig to a troll the role of a wife rly would be closer to moiraillegiance???? Aside from mating ofc, but like, taking care of your moirail (who's above you) in exchange for protection and shit idkk also its kinda funny when you think of how royal/political marriage worked back then lol get a wife to run ur household and shit and a woman you're actually into on the side

YES EXACTLY. i was thinking about how the monogamous and amatonormative society we live in today has societal loneliness as a feature. friendships or queer love are often seen as lesser or degen because its those ideals that keep up the status quo. patriarchy, capitalism, religion (christianity), colonialism, they all benefit from the nuclear family idea. same w alternia’s romantic roles.

[tempest-teacup]

solkat.....

For me Solkat works best platonically. Probably not even “moirails” really, because I don’t think they level each other out very effectively… but best friends for sure. These guys are ride-or-die BROS. I mean the two of them NEED to be a very specific flavor of best friends for everything in canon to go down in the first place, so I’m not saying anything new there.

Like so many troll ships, I CAN see them dating/ being flush for a while, but not end game. Just in the way that teenagers in close friend circles DO tend to all date each other while they’re figuring their shit out. And the way teenagers tend to be WRONG about a lot of stuff when they’re figuring their shit out.

If we wanna try mining “””¿canon?””” for insight, their interactions in HS^2 feel pretty accurate to me, tbh. I think as he gets older Sollux has a kind of “revenge childhood”/failure to launch because his entire life experience up to the Credits was pretty much hot garbage. And Sollux has always very stubbornly resisted dealing with his personal problems, or at least dealing with them in healthy ways. So I can see him reaching 9, 12 sweeps and still being a greasy, shitty gamer bro with no motivation to improve himself.

Karkat on the other hand has an urgent need to be involved in things, to be Doing Something. And given his habit of catching some variety of Feelings for pretty much everyone in his life, this could totally manifest into an unhealthy romantic relationship. Maybe Kar even goes into it looking for a moirallegiance but it ends up going flushed.

Still— I just don’t see it working out in the end, happily ever after soulmate style. Which doesn’t make it a bad ship! But they just have too different of priorities IMHO, and would find themselves bringing out the worst in each other rather than the best. They’d end up having a very low-key breakup and just continue being best bros/room mates/whatever.

[en8y]

[IMAGE ID: four horizontal flags with nine stripes. the middle stripe is twice as large as the rest of them, which are equally sized. the first flag has these top three colors: dark red, light red, and bright red. the second flag has these top three colors: light red, cream, and warm pink. the third flag has these top three colors: black, warm purple, and dull purple. the fourth flag has these top three colors: dark grey, light grey, and medium grey. each flag has these bottom six stripes: dark grey, off-white, dark grey, medium-dark grey, light grey and medium-light grey. END ID.]

matesprit + moirail + kismesis + auspistice systems

colors based on @mx-princey and @felonsgenders quadrant attraction flags!

matesprit system (mate- matespr- or -sprit): a gender connected to being a/an [xyz] matesprit; this gender is connected to [xyz], [xyz] aesthetics, being a matesprit, matespritship, red romance, and flushed romance!

moirail system (moi- moira- or -legience): a gender connected to being a/an [xyz] moirail; this gender is connected to [xyz], [xyz] aesthetics, being a moirail, moirallegience, red romance, and pale romance!

kismesis system (kis- kisme- or -issitude): a gender connected to being a/an [xyz] kismesis; this gender is connected to [xyz], [xyz] aesthetics, being a kismesis, kismesissitude, black romance, and pitch romance!

auspistice system (auspis- auspist- or -pistice): a gender connected to being a/an [xyz] auspistice; this gender is connected to [xyz], [xyz] aesthetics, being an auspistice, auspisticism, black romance, and ashen romance!

@radiomogai @liom-archive @obscurian @drowntowns @electrosaccharine @revenant-coining @honey-makes-mogai @gendersystems @role-systems

[song-system]

Holy shit Another Hs Quad Miscecanis

Unironically I'd be over the moon if I could be kismeisis with a beta,,,, betas I love ya'll now try to fight me

[contrastparadoxx]

Unseen Dominos

If you haven't read @cloudbattrolls recent plot I would suggest doing so before reading this so you have the needed context

Mentions of Thrixe (Cloud's) and Karell ( @ase-trollplays) and (not by name) Elzika ( @damistrolls )

Many things could be said to be virtues of Pidgen Nyxxus, but patience was probably stretching it. He had woken up one night with a the most horrible feeling in the pit of his stomach, one that had led him to immediately trying to contact Thrixe. And not getting an answer. Okay, that’s fine, hopefully, maybe he’s just planning a surprise! He paced, the scales now covering his tail glinting in the dim light.

But then Karell had shown up, asking after their mutual boyfriend. He had tried to remain calm during that interaction, but it had resulted in him spending more and more time in the pocket dimension, hoping he would find his mate, or at least his sister. Neither had ever ended up showing up, this was fine. It wasn’t fine, and his fear and nerves kept building more and more, finally coming to a head one day when he found himself unable to reenter.

And then suddenly, it was like a dam burst within him, flooding everything with a feeling of Wrongness and Pain unlike anything before. He gasped, dropping to his knees and clutching the starfish shaped pillow he so often slept with now tightly. He fought against the rising feeling, shudders wracking his body as he did, before a new voice cut through the red fog enveloping his brain, one far too gleeful for the circumstances.

“Well, it’s about time you kicked this off!”

——————

Not many things scared Azra, though it was the first emotion she learned to identify, it still did not come up often. Now was one such occurrence. She could not explain what it was that frightened her so badly, what was wrong, because at that moment it felt like everything was. For just a split second, but it was enough for every inch of her being to be on high alert. Part of her said it was time to settle down defensively, protect, but that’s not the part that won out.

Which is why she was as she was now, in possibly her smallest dragon form and wrapped tightly around her moirails neck. Her claws were digging in, she might even be drawing blood but the red alert screaming in her brain prevented noticing such things. She went from looking around wildly, to hiding her face in his neck. Safety, perhaps, or at least comfort.

——————

Pidge looked up at the being who seemed to have simply… appeared. She was perched on a rock, in such a manner than it made the lump of stone seem almost like a throne. It seemed like the moons were causing her to glow, as her butterfly wing fins tilted down in what could only be described as disgust. Something about her felt familiar to him, but he probably would not have been able to put his finger on it even if he was totally clear headed.

“Woooow, you do look particularly pathetic like this. I knew all you deepdweller mutts were, but you always did take the cake, didn’t you.”

She practically floated down off the rock, and Pidge had just enough time to notice that not only did the glow come with her, but he was pretty sure he could see the background behind her, before a swift- and powerful- kick sent him skidding. He wheezed, the pain amplifying rather than receding as he was used to. She walked closer.

“You can’t fight this, so stop trying. Give in, not that you have a choice I can see it’s already starting” she smirked.

And she was not wrong. The feeling of Wrongness, of Pain increased, and Pidge let out a singular wail even as something started to break through his skin.

——————

Izzy had been having a relatively normal day, all things considered. A lonely one, sure, as his pitch was out of the house, but that's fine. He just heated up a frozen meal and flopped down to watch TV for the next several hours. Perfectly normal things. But then it was as if someone put an ice cube down his back. He shivered, and tensed up, glancing around trying to figure out what caused this spike of adrenaline, but not seeing any cause.

And then he did see a cause.

Well, see was maybe a bit of a stretch. He felt it, heard it, and it made its name known to him. I’m your father, it said, and now you’re going to do me the favor you were born to do.

And then Izzy knew just darkness as control of his own body was yanked away from him.

——————

The glowing fuchsia watched as Pidge’s body seemed to ripple, before it started to grow. She never did grow tired of watching the first transformation, or the second, or any really! Well, Eizzil’s were boring to watch now, she had far too much control. There was something Wrong with this one, however. It wasn’t clear at first, but once he was finished, she could see. He had legs, for one, none of the others had legs! At least not that she had noticed, how interesting. Something seemed wrong with his scales too, they were causing him pain; ah, well, that worked better for her.

The aquatic dragon now in front of her wailed, a noise somewhere between pain and sorrow, tears and blood dripping onto the ground. The look in his eyes was a wild one, only a hint of the original troll held in those fuchsia spheres. He lunged, but she had no problem summoning her weapon and letting him stab himself through the roof of his mouth. He screamed and backed up, shaking his head violently to dislodged it. It didn’t get very deep, pity, maybe he could have ended this.

She let the tail coming at her simply phase through, no need to bother avoiding it, too much work really. But she slammed a replica of the first weapon into it, in the gap between scales. This was too easy, really, so many gaps to take advantage of, and he had so little to do in return. It really didn’t take long for him to retreat, she could only be hit when she wanted to, after all. Now that her fun was done, she simply vanished, as if never there.

He fled, retreating into a somewhat nearby cave to lick his wounds as his body attempted to stabilize. Hunger would drive him out soon, but for now he would rest, and heal.

Back where the fight took place, the ripped apart remains of a singular starfish plush soaked in blood quickly became engulfed by rapidly growing plant life.

——————

Two ancient entities began to stir, one causing the very ground to ripple like water, the other much calmer but no less dangerous.

[trashshouldnt]

Hello, [insert term for the kismesis of my moirail here]. ‘:]

On an unrelated note, do you know of a term for someone who is the quad mate of your quadmate?

-teneth

hallo ^_^/ that's a tricky question, id say either metamour [human term for a partner's partner], or i guess if you wanted you could change it to metamate? metaquad..? you get the idea, messing around with mashing words together till you have smth cool :]

[snarkmodeactivate]

interrogatormentors warrior cats au

tigerr kalwuh the mindscourge dopes his fellow interrogatormentor instructor rheddt tallea with mind honey and has him beaten to death during a training exercise. his trainee ravenh pwhaau hacks into the files and finds footage of tigerr doing this.

tigerr starts trying to have ravenh killed but luckily an asteroid homesteader named The Barleigh takes ravenh in and rehabilitates him. they're matesprits endgame

meanwhile the young mutant fyeiya harret has to grapple with the fact he is leading a rebellion against his ex-moirail, Her Imperial Blasphemy, (The Hereticc) Bluwen Stahrr who has gone insane and genocidal.

Starpaw (sollux, because when he ascends to the position of leader like fireheart does his name will be starstar... two star... sollux is named after the pollux and castor constellation twins [and warrior cats are only named after things they can find in nature]) is a kitten trapped in sburbia, until one day a feral cat named Waveroll (Gafera Ritoly) lures him to the woods and indoctrinates him into shadowclan. he serves in Minnowstar's (The Condesce)'s child army of apprentices. Minnowstar's kit, Featherwhisker (Feferi Peixes) is medicine cat and planning on poisoning Minnowstar to end her reign of terror with starpaw's help after he escapes to thunderclan. Featherwhisker's ex, the exiled warrior from thunderclan named Pondhunter (eridan ampora), is now Minnowstar's mate. it's awkward.

[alli-bby]

@leijonlegion

Nepeta, I just wanted to say. I love you so much. I mean, I like my head mates, sure, but being able to talk to you about anything makes existing like this so much more bearable.

You are the sweetest, most passionate moirail anyone could ask for. I am truly honored to have you in my life.

Your diamond,

-Alli <>

[caligvlasaqvarivm]

Just read your eridan essay. I left a lot of words in the tags (sorry about that btw. I'm @kitkat-not-karkat, those were my tags) and I just. Holy fucking shit man.

THANK YOU FOR PUTTING IT INTO WORDS. Like. Genuinely. Thank you.

That said, do you have any ideas on why Eridan might specifically flirt as a sort of default response sometimes? (I really hope I'm not misremembering that, the fandom bastardizes the poor guy to be Cronus 2.0-)

I have my own personal speculation here, but I'd love to see your take on it!

I think it's a few things all working in tandem, and I think you definitely nailed at least most of it! I do agree that a huge part of his fixation on romance is the fact that a romantic partner is "supposed" to stick around, and Eridan is simply desperate for attention and friendship.

There are a lot of people who idealize relationships and believe that they're the "fix" or "solution" to their emotional problems, and Eridan's obsession with blackrom in particular (where the caligulas part of his trolltag comes from) definitely has shades of that. A kismesistude is an outlet for violent urges, as well as a romantic interest who ideally doesn't ghost you or leave you alone (cough Vriska cough), and one of the two concupiscent quadrants that needs to be filled so you don't get culled.

An interesting thing is constantly being implied within the comic, which is that moirallegiance is actually kind of the most important quadrant for trolls, but their culture has de-emphasized it in favor of the two breeding-related quads. After all, since adult trolls don't have to raise their own young, what Karkat calls "mating fondness" is biologically much less imperative to their species compared to the quadrant that keeps volatile trolls from going berserk and killing people.

Moirallegiance is always treated with a sort of mysticism - it's called "magical" by the narration in relation to Kanaya and Vriska's moirallegiance while that's still extant, it's the only quadrant described as "soul mates," and in contrast to "mating fondness," Karkat mentions the "mystical forces governing moirallegiance." Moirails - Equius and Nepeta being confirmed, but I genuinely believe that that's what Feferi and Sollux would have resolved to in that hypothetical golden ending - are also the quad that spends the most time together, rather than the two concupiscents. The initial description of the pale quadrant even outright says that the attraction is "instinctive." There's something magical and destiny-laden in a moirallegiance that just isn't there to the same extent in the other three quads.

But in Alternian society, kindness, guilt, and the other kinds of things you'd share with a moirail are considered weakness, especially for highbloods. When Feferi is breaking up with him, Eridan flips out the hardest at the implication that she felt the need to take care of him, insisting that he was perfectly fine. I think this is the reason, in addition to the painful breakup, that Eridan never pursues pale relationships, even though a moirail is what he desperately needs. Instead, he pursues the much more societally acceptible pitch quadrant, which can serve a similar purpose of discharging some of his pent-up aggression.

Moreover, his flirting isn't nearly as relentless as people think it is, although he IS both really stubborn AND really socially inept, which makes it difficult both to get a "no" through his brain, AND to make it stick. Another part of it is that he's operating at very little self-awareness, which means he'll often be doing something without consciously realizing it. Also, he's desperate as hell, and has basically no ability to differentiate good and bad attention. This leads to a pretty messy cocktail that basically means:

He'll hit on anyone at least once (desperation), with the exception of people it would be really weird to hit on, for example, their dancestors, who are way older than them.

If a rejection is not made excruciatingly clear, he probably won't register it as a rejection (dumbassery).

Nearly any attention he gets might be misinterpreted as flirting, even after a rejection is made (desperation, also, can't differentiate between good and bad attention).

Even after a rejection is made and he logically understands it and outright says he respects it, he might still act in a flirtatious way unconsciously (zero self awareness).

Because he will hit on anyone at least once, and is constantly making things weird and leaping to "romance?" even when there's no flirtatious intent, people kind of assume he's always hitting on them, even when he isn't.

His emotions always running at a fever pitch, and the lack of self-awareness he cultivates in order to help deal with his horrible cognitive dissonance, mean that even HE'S not sure about his real feelings. He's always feeling SOMETHING very, very intensely (it's the trauma and anxiety), which he mistakes for true caliginous hatred, or fevered flushed intent. Unlike Cronus, who's basically just trying to get some action, Eridan genuinely feels something for people, and his extreme lack of emotional intelligence means he has no idea how to parse his own tempestuous emotions. He always leaps to feverish concupiscent attraction because that's just how intense his emotions run at any given moment.

#4 is happening to Feferi and Sollux, IMO, while Rose never properly rejected him, so he still thinks they have a chance, and the same happened with Vriska when she started ghosting him post-kismesistude. #5 can be seen in his last memo with Karkat, where Karkat starts to wonder if past!Eridan was redflirting with him by inviting him to LOWAA, even as Eridan himself has no idea what the fuck Karkat is talking about.

Thing is, he DOES actually accept rejections once he gets them through his thick skull, which sets him apart from Cronus, who gets rejected, knows it, and keeps going. It's just... Eridan's messy. His emotions are all over the place, and too big for his stupid body, so he's always making things weird and intense.

I blame his lusus, personally. In a previous post, I talk about how a huge factor in his inability to identify negative attention is because he's basically being emotionally neglected. This has also led to his desperation for attention in general. When combined with the trauma from all the murdering and the pressure society puts on him to fit into a certain mold, it leads to some pretty explosive emotional ourbursts, of which his intense, insistent, and downright uncomfortable flirting is a major facet, but also, only a facet.

[bully-shipping]

"You do know that you are allowed to be jealous, right? Just don't be a bone bulge about it." Zestil eyed his friend as they had their legs dangled over the ledge of a high cliff on his own planet. The new landscape was a lot nicer than it had been before he completed his quest line, but it didn’t hold his attention the same way Aarvus’ new look did. He had never seen the other troll’s eyes before; it was oddly vulnerable for him and he was well aware.

"N0, I'm n0t j=al0u$. I tru$t my Mat=$prit=." Aarvus sighed, glad that his friend was on the side he couldn’t even see from. He was overly aware of his presence, due to never having been able to see from that eye any way, but it felt more like a comfort than an irritant at the moment. The sound of his Matsprite’s snarl still rung in his ears; he didn’t even know humans could make sounds like that…. And when had she learned so much about troll mating culture?

"You can trust your partner and be jealous. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. Really, the only time where jealousy becomes an issue is when the jealous one lets it overwhelm them."

Aarvus turned quickly to face Zestil head on and just gaped fully aghast at him, confused how he could be seen as the party in the wrong in this whole debacle. Honestly, the shifting of colors in the water below was starting to make him queasy any way.

“$inc= wh=n ar= y0u Mr. Phili$0phical?” he snapped, feeling verbally backed into a corner. “H0w wa$ thi$ my fault?”

Zestil barked out laughter until he ended up falling onto his back and shoved his hands behind his head to create a barrier between his scull and the stone beneath since grass hadn’t quite taken a hold yet on this world.

“I didn’t say it was anyone’s fault, man. Just that you didn’t really need to attack Mez like that. You kinda brought it on yourself.” He clarified, his eyes closed casually as he enjoyed the breeze.

Aarvus scowled down at his casual demeanor in the face of his own plight. Sure, his emotions got out of control and he probably did over react, but Mezzie could have taken him himself instead, it wouldn’t have bruised his ego so much at least. He had thought she was weaker than him by default, with her squishy body and lower blood caste…. At least if Mezzie had been the one to crack his horn, he would have had a good reason behind it, and it would have made sense. Astra wasn’t even a troll, and really wasn’t that much stronger than him in the first place, her doing it just felt so emasculating. Sure Nag rewound it for him, it was like it never happened, but still… everyone he knew knew about it. Saw it happen.

The image of her face looking back at him with fear and shock when she realized what happened flashed behind his eye but he dismissed it just as quickly as in came to mind. An annoyed clicking sound whirred to life from somewhere deep in his throat. Zestil snickered at the noise and grinned, but still refused to see the irritation in question,

“She did what she was supposed to as a good Moirail. You can’t even fault her for it; she acts more troll than you do.” That pissed him off even more, not because it was inaccurate, but because he was right.

“Wh0 =v=n t0ld h=r ab0ut that $hit? Wh=n did I $t0p b=ing =n0ugh?” Aarvus snapped, then immediately looked away from the other man and busied himself with the scenery once more, embarrassed that he still couldn’t control himself.

“She might have just grubled it man. And you still have your head up your dung shoot. It wasn’t even about you- and even if it was, you already have two quadrants with her. You’re acting like a wriggler.”

Aarvus scowled at Zestil and considered just punching him for his efforts, but decided one fight and two losses of friends was enough for one day and decided to choke down the slight.

“$h=’$ n0t a tr0ll th0ugh… $h= =v=n $aid h=r$=lf that human$ d0n’t d0 quadrant$.” He pointed out, his tone sufficiently calm, enough so he might have pat himself on the back for it if it were any other less serious situation.

“Yeah… but she cared enough to figure it out any way. Just give them some space man, you can go grovel later. I’m sure shes not gunna stay mad; not if her face was anything to go by.”

Back on Alternia, none of them had lived close enough to get a real feel on each other more than video calls would allow- that should have been some sort of red flag for them about Mezzie now that he thought about it, but retrospection was 2020. Now that they could hop between worlds thanks to Sburb, everything was pretty up in the air and unstable relationship-wise… platonic or otherwise.

“It’s not even like she was trying to replace you-” He peeked an eye open to stop Aarvus’ interjection before he could make it, “You never had that quadrant with her, don’t act like its the same. I don’t get why you’re so upset about it in the first place. Like, yeah, fight for what ya want, never gunna oppose that stand, but what is it you were fighting for?”

Aarvus sighed and ran his hand through his hair again, it was so weird having it pushed back like this, but honestly he didn’t care about It so much any more. It wasn’t like he was going to get culled over his eyes any more so he didn’t see the point in pulling it back down… actually, maybe he would since Zestil was giving him a look for rolling his eyes. Apparently he couldn’t openly do that anymore.

“I dunn0 man…. What if $h= lik=$ M=z m0r=?” He scowled at the thought of losing the only relationship he’d ever had to a high blood of all people. A high blood douche bag who couldn’t even fight him himself.

“It’s not the same. You know that. Try again.”

“N0, n0 it i$ th0ugh. I m=an, what if $h= =nd$ up liking him m0r= than a M0irail n0w?”

“Well, a territorial fight probably wasn’t the best move if you wanted to prevent that… Doubt it though… she likes fighting with you too much.” Zestil grinned up at his friend, confident that he knew Astra well enough to know she wasn’t about to drop quadrants with him even if she did end up filling a completely separate one. Aarvus was less convinced though, and frowned down at him.

“I d0n’t wanna ju$t b= a Ki$m=$i$ th0ugh…. And $h= $tart=d it!”

Zestil shrugged at the statement, “Then tell’er that. Also, don’t lie man, I was there too. You charged Mezzie first, her reacting to it isn’t her starting anything.”

Aarvus just frowned harder for a moment before relenting and his whole body drooped in response, letting out an exaggerated huff.

“Tell her in a few days. Yall need space right now. Cmon.” Zestil finished off, grunting as he got up from his spot on the stone cliff and started heading back to the denizen’s town, letting Aarvus follow him in his own time.

[diescm]

LILITH LANTIS

Age : 53 yrs [26.5 sweeps] (-> slotted into Ancestors)

Ancestor Title : Queen of the Undertow

Caste: Dual Caste - Gold & Fushia

Sign: The Unconfined Pilot

Mutations :

Eel tail with fushia to gold fringe

1½ sets of eyes (sets two and three, under her first set, are fused at the inner corner)

Psionics (Gold and Pink) with a maximum output of 400,000 watts

Pharyngeal jaw

Earfins connected to land dweller ears that morph into her first set of throat gills

Grubscar gills

External limbs (Head, hands, legs, tail, bulge) are typical gold temperatures (mid 70°F-80°F) Torso is slightly warmer than Fushia (30°F)

Typing Style :

$₽hIIInx of b£ack quartz, judg€ m¥ v<>₩.

S, E, L, Y, W, P -> $, €, £, ¥, ₩, ₽

All i's are trIIIpled and capIIItalIIIzed.

O's are replaced with <>

Full punctuation

Pirate grammar (my -> me, you -> ye, ya, to -> ta, cuttin' off the ing, adding Aye ta most sentences.)

Relationships:

Multaosa - Bottomless Jaw Eel Lusus

Klause Nyxura - Matesprit ♡

Saturo Nautil - Matesprit ♡

Davent Yensis - Moirail ◇

Trivia:

Lilith's mother was a Gold psionics user that powered a coastal fleet city, her father is a Fushia Admiral in the fleet that Lilith is hunting down.

Lilith killed her first high ranking fleet personnel at 17 yrs. She wore his badge on her belt as a trophy, and she's continued to do so 18 more times. Her belt is a well known symbol of power amongst other pirates.

Her sign is a fusion of The Unconfined for her father and The Pilot for her mother. The sign for a leader that paves their own path and commands their own fate.

Lilith has many connections to several different people, towns, businesses, and other ships. But the connections she values most of all, aside from her quadrants, are the ones she has to mertroll pods around the reefs she frequently swims in when The Revenge' route is near them.

Despite being a reefdweller and all her other mutations, Lilith didn't get color changing markings for lightspeak. But with some of her crew and her mate being deep seadwellers, and all the mertroll pods shes friendly with, she understands a large range of lightspeech from many different levels of the ocean.

Before she was a Captain, or part of a crew, or even an adult- the majority of Lilith's early memories are of being the star of a freakshow carnival. While she is typically open minded to all trolls of all different walks of life- most Painted Purples are on site targets until proven otherwise beforehand.

♤♡◇♧♤♡◇♧♤♡◇♧♤♡◇♧♤♡◇♧♤♡◇♧♤♡◇♧

Klause Nyxura, Saturo Nautil, and Davent Yensis belong to @jaybird-trolls ♡

[ducktheverb]

His dilf-ness is too much that i stayed awake till 2am drawing this (unwise, should go to horny jail)

In this AU, Roger is a mutant rustblood:

Roger is a rustblood but with seadweller characteristics (gills, fins, pointy fish teeth). He both has strong psionic abilities (rust telekinesis + the Voice of all thing) and has superior physical strength like highbloods.

He died at 53 canon, which is equivalent to about 24 sweeps, right about the lifespan of rusts. The unknown illness is a result of Roger’s biology being a fucked up combination of rust and fuchsia. The perk is he‘s an adept swimmer.

Though he knows he’s a rust mutant, Roger dresses in fuchsia because it’s pirate intimidation tactic. Imagine sailing in the dark tumultuous sea and just fucking see an unknown heir to the throne captaining a ship heading straight toward you.

Very few people know his real blood status (namely the closest in his crew and his quadrant mates). Enemies who see his blood color don’t live very long to tell.

As a grub in the brooding cavern he was of course gonna be culled but Rayleigh, a jade blood, saved him before other jades notices him. Rayleigh used his connections to find a lusus that would be willing to take on the treasonous task of raising a mutant and gave Roger away to it (basically he saves as many grubs from infanticide as possible).

When Roger was 8 sweeps old, he set out to find Rayleigh and started the Roger pirates.

His quadrants are: Rayleigh - moirail, Rouge - matesprit, Garp - kismesis, Sengoku - auspistice