#mother artifice

[wardensantoineandevka]

Merlin and Artifice's dynamic is legitimately so funny and the best. Just kind of clown-to-clown communication (enthusiastic science version) at all hours.

[disasterpurplebois]

I am content with myself. Not all improvements are necessary and not all afflictions are harmful.

[ariadne-mouse]

For the serious poll, go here.

[bookshopsbizarreblog]

I'm not on Beacon and so am two weeks behind the best info on UnEnd, but here are my predictions for the series! I'm excited to come back to this and see which were right or wrong.

1) The Granddaughter gets given a name by Cleophee, or chooses one for themself

2) The Granddaughter doesn't understand how things work outside of the synobium, and becomes adorably bad at/uncomfortable with certain basic things

3) The Granddaughter is revealed to have been either an orphan raised by the Mothers, or possibly immaculately conceived (there is a prophecy) (I think this is less likely) (except for the prophecy)

4) The Granddaughter strays from the path of realization, which causes emotional issues and external dangers. Cleophee has to comfort them

4.1) A number of their dangers will be related to people's emotional states, trauma, and interpersonal drama. Often this will be cosmic, with the Foldlight manifesting their feelings. But more mundane issues will also arise from those sources. Especially for the Granddaughter's religious trauma, and whatever deeeeply repressed stuff Cleophee is hiding

5) Cleophee's pet does shenans. This is a repeated theme

6) Cleophee gets in trouble with wildlife and needs to be rescued

7) Cleophee shopping episode, with Granddaughter unhappily in tow (they enjoy it by the end)

8) Everyone named thus far except for Artifice becomes found family

9) One of the cool adventure lesbian wives (Everett or Micky) dies in the other's arm. It will somehow involve the Granddaughter, who will feel crippling guilt about it. If Micky dies, Everett will have even more problems with them. If Everett dies, they will forgive/reconcile/abandon their beef with the Granddaughter right before dying

9.1) It's also possible that Everett was scowling in their direction for "Oh this poor kid" reasons and will become a mentor character, making their death that much more tragic. Whatever the case, it will help the Granddaughter become more human

9.2) The bocular horse is very sad

10) A tearror happens, and the bocular man becomes real to some extent. He and the granddaughter bond.

11) Professor Merlin gets cut in half by a mica shard. It's very sad and tragic

11.1) Someone is getting cut in half by mica. It can't not happen

12) Artifice gets in an argument with the more mechanically minded parts of the crew over some problem, and his emotions revert him from being a Mother. It kind of breaks him, possibly into a puddle of goo

13) Mechanical issues with the carriage make an escape incredibly tense

[karikokito]

Happy Mothers Day!

May Artificer see her kids in Rubicon :3

[sleepyc63]

art / info dump of an au i've been thinking about for a whiiile

essentially, artificer and gourmand meet and have a pup! his name is the gatherer, named after hunter (hunter-gatherer -- get it?) as a way to honor them after gourmand found them... yknow. anyway, gatherer meets the mother and they have pups of their own: monk, survivor, and wanderer!

wanderer is an oc i made based off of the green sibling in the intro cutscene and "the wanderer" passage. he's spent his adult life searching for the siblings he lost as a pup, which earned him the title "the wanderer" :) i like to think if he existed as a campaign, he would follow a similar story to monk and survivor; either led to the depths and seeing his family in his last moments before ascension, or reuniting with them in outer expanse!

i have more ideas for this au but i’m gonna save that for another post cause it is 4am and i have places to be in the morning lmao

[kalivasquezart]

a change in you

part 1 // part 2 // [part 3]

[essektheylyss]

Mother Artifice like "I'M CONTENT WITH MYSELF AND MY FLAWS BUT YOU SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR RANCID MANNERS [immediately dissolves into the floor]"

[kerosene-in-a-blender]

I'm going to need 5-10 business days to mull over the fact that humans in the Midst cosmos have Fold infused into their very bodies and that this Fold is essential for life. Given that having it siphoned out of them resulted in the Granddaughter feeling an unnatural state of tranquility and emotionlessness the presence of Fold in a person seems to be related to that in some way. Which does track with Dark Sonia in Moonward claiming she exists in the deepest fears and most emotionally painful memories of all people, if emotion itself is inexorably linked to the presence of Fold in a person. Much to consider.

[garvalhaminho]

i unfortunately have to disagree w the "will herondale makes history as first present father figure [relating to the protagonist(s)] in tsc". have we not seen julian blackthorn in action. he was acting like a full-on dad at 12yo

[sarascamander]

When I say MOTHER 🛐, I mean him, actually

[wardensantoineandevka]

advice that I'm so confident nobody on the Ship will ever be need ever, not with the way people in this cosmos seem to be constantly falling from things at deadly heights

[wikitpowers]

I have this very specific vision that book 2 of TWP ends with Kit taking the fall for the necromancy and being imprisoned in the Silent City, after which Ty and Dru tell the rest of the Blackthorns + the NY institute + Jem and Tessa everything, but when they try to get Kit out they just find this empty torn apart room because Mother Hawthorn got there first...

and that, my friends would (quite literally) be the cause of my death. like no lie. i would fall apart like so badly. and the fact that ik that at least one of the twp is gonna end on some sort of cliffhanger does not make it better. like cassie is famous for that shit. and if she hurts either of my twp baby leads, i will BAWL!

[ariadne-mouse]

If you think more than one option is correct, pick which one you think is MOST influential. For instance, if you think the cause is the Mysterious Ringing Noise but it's also channeled by the Foldlight when he communes with it, pick the Mysterious Ringing Noise

"distance from the Fold" is meant to specifically refer to something essential about the Fold which is not present in the Un. For instance this could mean being separated from a "hivemind" of Mothers if such a thing exists, separation from the grounding network of the Fold itself, both, etc. Is the Fold a fundamentally critical environment to Motherhood, and prolonged distance and separation have an effect like a fish out of water or a human at high altitude? etc

If you already know the answer or have leading information from early access to episodes after 1x06, please choose the last option.

Per usual, the UNserious version is coming separately!

[helenofblackthorns]

sometimes I see people talk about Kieran being in the same boat as Tessa and Magnus when it comes to being destined to out live those they love (etc etc) but correct me if I'm wrong... Faeries aren't immortal. they're long lived (which basically just means they live however long they feel like it) like isn't the main way Faeries die them just going "I've seen enough" and laying down for an eternal nap 😭

[artseeivyhoshi]

When I played as Artificer in Rain world I saw two rainbows appear in her campaign. It had me wonder if her pups ever spotted one. I think if they did they would have loved pointing it out. Happy Mother’s Day to all mothers out there, whether they’re having a good or bad day.