#mun: xanthe

[xaracosmia]

ꕥ — WELCOME TO EXO COSMIA, AINEN ROSSO. 🌑

ꕥ  — OOC INFORMATION;

name / alias: Xanthe age: 23 pronouns: none ooc contact: architectureteam @ tumblr other characters in xc: Noah Ebalon (Nyx Pieta)

ꕥ  — IC INFORMATION;

name: Ainen Rosso age: 43 pronouns: they/he series: Elsword canon point: Monaterra app triggers: human/child experimentation, eye horror/trauma, character death, imprisonment

personality: Rosso, the El Master of Fire, perfectly encapsulates his element on the surface. He's hot-headed, stubborn and arrogant, with an explosive temper to boot; he gets easily tunnel-visioned on his own ideas, refusing to acknowledge other people's viewpoints (he's used to getting what he wants, or else). Ruthless and vicious, his entire demeanor screams you'd best not get in his way; he'll burn you to ashes if you try.

Deeper down, past his fiery personality is a heart of gold. He's incredibly emotional, but opts to hide most of his feelings instead. He cares deeply about the people he knows, even if he displays said worry in his own hostile, roundabout way. He's a loner at heart, and has trouble openly displaying any affection, instead lashing out to stop people from getting close to him. He doesn't like to talk, either, preferring to just sit in silence whenever possible, shying away from any conversation or small talk. Contrary to how he behaves, he doesn't hold himself in high regard. He dehumanizes himself often, and tends to beat himself up for not living up to his own unrealistic goals, pushing himself to extreme ends to cover up for his weaknesses - often he can be found training until the brink of collapse.

He threatens others habitually, seeing intimidation and violence as a way to exert control, but even though he doesn't shy away from threats, he doesn't want to actually hurt others, so it's pretty easy to call his bluff when you get to know him. Don't push him too far, though: he will if he deems the situation extreme enough to. He's gone through his own world of suffering, and he doesn't want anyone else to suffer the same way he did.

Good luck getting him to admit he doesn't actually hate you, though.

something your muse struggles with: Putting himself before the greater good. He's definitely a very selfish person when it comes to personal matters, but only then. When it comes down to the world at large, Rosso will be one of, if not the very first to offer himself up, usually to the detriment of himself and those around him.

your muse’s greatest strength: He's stubborn and nigh unable to dissuade. This could also be seen as a bad thing, but it means he's impossible to demoralize, whether because things are going bad or through mental manipulation. He's seen it all before, he'll keep going no matter what you throw at him.

history / background: The city of Elrianode, capital of Elrios. At its heart lied the El - an enormous blue crystal that gave life to the land. The El was protected by seven people - the El Lady, a woman chosen directly by a goddess, and six El Masters of different elements who helped the El Lady protect the El. Being an El Master was a title of great prestige, granted only to the most adept users of a certain element; much conflict came to be in the struggle to become El Master.

Not everyone in Elrianode was capable of magic, though. There were those who couldn't control the El, and so couldn't use magic - Debrians they were called, and they turned to science in order to make a name for themselves. One of these Debrians was the Rosso family, who, despite their lack of magical attunement, desperately wished to bring forth a Fire Master with perfect control over fire. The El Master didn't just bring glory to themselves - their family would obtain great privileges as well.

They went to inhumane lengths to do so. Being unable to control El energy on their own, they instead turned to human experimentation to try and create the ultimate Fire Master - but as fire was the most dangerous element of all, time after time after time, the people they worked with burned themselves out. Any progress they made was scarce.

That is, until they got their hands on subject B-99, formerly named Ainen. Ainen was born a half-demon - and this power of demons inside of it allowed it to subdue the fire energy, allowing it to control it more reliably. This still wasn't enough, however. They wanted it to have even more power.

So they took out its right eye, replacing it with the Crimson Eye - an eye that belonged to a powerful demon lord named Stirbargen - which infused its body with incredible levels of demonic energy that perfected its control over fire. This unique mastery of fire quickly found it seated as the Fire Master of its generation, and from that point on, it was no longer B-99, but instead Ainen Rosso, El Master of Fire.

As powerful as it made him, this harmony of fire and demonic energy created a perilous balance within his body. If one were to be disturbed, the other would spiral out of control. Rosso knew this, and he knew it would become a problem sooner rather than later, so he devoted much of his time to intense training, hoping he could gain the power to control both elements for when things would inevitably go wrong.

Which didn't take too long. One day, the El exploded, wiping Elrianode off the map and throwing the land into darkness. The El Masters decided to pour their elemental energy into fragments of El scattered across the lands in order to create elemental El shards that could make its surrounding environment inhabitable. For most of them this was no issue, and not worth a second thought… save for Rosso. After traveling out far, eventually finding a sufficient El Shard, he poured most of his fire energy into it, disrupting the harmony within his body and causing his demonic energy to start overtaking him and making him go berserk. With his final moments of clarity, he escaped into a dimensional rift formed by the El's explosion, retreated to another world, and sealed himself away in a tower for many, many years, in order to stop himself from going on a rampage in an already wounded Elrios.

Eventually, the El ended up restored. The El's restoration caused a surge of energy to spread throughout the land - even in this other world, Rosso could feel this energy, and started stirring. The restoration of the El also reawakened the fire energy that was originally inside the separated El Shard, which started finding its way back to him. Because of the tower imprisoning him, said power of fire couldn't return to his body, and started going out of control without the demonic energy to keep it in check, creating a blazing aura that destroyed the surrounding area and caused catastrophic damage.

The El Search Party made its way to the demon realm not long after - the same world Rosso was in. They were asked (read: tricked) by Stirbargen to go deal with this blazing aura, and ended up freeing him from his imprisonment, who had lost all sanity and was out solely to destroy. While fighting him, he managed to burn off his excess demonic energy, allowing him to regain control, and with the help of the party and the Wind Master, made his way back to Elrianode.

Now, Rosso just spends his time tending to the El as the El Master of Fire… but more importantly, he's always training, trying to make up for all the power he lost after losing the Crimson Eye. Though he still has the demonic energy from being a half-demon, he has lost much of it, and now has to control the element of fire through willpower and training alone.

It's an incredibly risky and dangerous occupation, being the El Master of Fire - but he wouldn't want anyone else to do it. He's the only one fit for the job.

powers / abilities: 

Fire manipulation:Rosso can expertly control fire El energy, allowing him to create fire out of thin air and manipulate already existing fire, whether magical or natural. He can use said fire powers to create objects out of fire as well, eventually solidifying them into something permanent if he wishes. Armed with the Crimson Eye, his fire manipulation has no limit, but without the demonic energy emanated by the eye, he has to show far more restraint: misuse of it could very well cause the fire energy to spiral out of control and kill him, after all.

Demonic energy manipulation:Though he usually doesn't use it, instead only letting the demonic energy in his body work as a restraint for his fire energy, he can weaponize it. Demonic energy usually materializes as evil, darkness-esque energy, allowing him to make bursts of demonic energy, fire it like beams, and control it like it's a physical substance. His control over it is incredibly limited though, as he's never properly trained with it. He can, however, manipulate it in such a way that it works as an empowerment by resonating with his demonic energy, accessing a special state where he temporarily grows horns and a tail and embraces his half-demon side. This empowerment further increases his physical capabilities and fire powers. Using the powers of the Crimson Eye, he can also willingly make himself go berserk, but...

Teleportation: Rosso can teleport! It's only short-range teleportation, though, and he can't take anyone with him. There's no other limits or cooldown on it.

inherent abilities:

Half-demon physiology: As a half-demon, Rosso is physically superior over normal humans. He's stronger, faster, has heightened endurance and reflexes, and has some cool little features like claws, slit pupils, fangs and pointy ears. Furthermore, he comes with heightened senses, and he possesses a strong darkvision. He can't see perfectly in pitch blackness, but no matter the light level, he can find his way around comfortably and reliably. Yes, this also means he has eye shine.

Immunity to fire and heat: As a natural effect of being so attuned with the Fire El, Rosso has grown to resist the element of fire to an unnatural degree. He can withstand extremely high temperatures without any injury or discomfort, and can even catch fire without actually burning up. Anyone trying to attack him with fire is going to be incredibly disappointed, as he is essentially immune. He could stand inside of a raging inferno without any problems. (Except for that he still needs oxygen.)

Resistance to poisons: Rosso is naturally resistant to all different sorts of poisons as a virtue of being a half-demon. It's not an immunity, a strong enough poison or high enough dose can still mess him up, but it takes quite a bit to take him down. He's also resistant to sedatives of any kind along with this, and requires far higher doses of most modern medicine to get them to work. Things like painkillers work by disrupting your bodily functions, after all.

Energy sensing:As an El Master, Rosso's natural ability to sense all sorts of types of energy emanated by people is vastly superior to that of normal people in his universe. He can feel energy in a large radius around him, allowing him to 'feel' things and people even when he cannot see them, allowing him to use this sense as a radar. He is mostly attuned to sensing different kinds of El energy and derivatives of it (like elemental El energy or Henir energy), and demonic energy by virtue of being a half-demon. This means that, for example, he can tell if a person is attuned to a specific element, if they're part of the Elsword universe, and if they are a demon or not. He could learn to identify people by the very specific energy pattern they emit, but that would take a long time.

items / weapons: 

Scythe: It's a big, decorated fiery scythe of fire. The scythe's blade is normally a basic light grey metal, but he can set the blade on fire, giving it its unique fiery white and pink look. (1) (2). When transformed, the flames on his scythe turn black instead of white, and pink starts running through the handle. (3) (4). Rosso can also use his fire manipulation to summon and unsummon his scythe at will, and even attack remotely with it if he wants. It's a big chunky weapon and it'd be tiring to carry it around everywhere.

Crimson Eye: Stirbargen's Crimson Eye, and the wellspring of most of Rosso's demonic power. It's a bright red eye (the sclera are red as well) with a bright cyan pupil and another bright cyan ring around the pupil. It goes inside Rosso's right eye socket. Incredibly powerful, it augments Rosso's powers to unbelievable heights… but all the demonic energy could backfire on him just as easily. In his current state in canon, he's lost the Eye, but it'd be pretty funny if he got it back, huh.

starting ability: Fire manipulation starting item: Scythe

would you like this character to be housed upon arrival?: yes!

extra: 

The fire Rosso creates is unique in every way: it is a bright pink with a white-hot center, requires no oxygen or fuel to burn and creates no smoke due to being magical, and burns eternally unless doused by magical means or via his own volition - it cannot be doused by mundane means. It can, however, be controlled by those who can control fire, as it is just fire at its core. Mind you, however, that if he wills it so, his fire can physically burn objects. It just doesn't have to.

His pink fire burns both body and soul - draining one's mental and magical power as it destroys the body. When people are set alight, Rosso's fire weaves themselves into their attacks whenever possible, adding a fiery edge to their attacks that empowers them further.

Strengthening his enemy's attacks could be considered counterproductive, but this process causes the fire to spread without his active interference, and furthermore, because of his unique connection to fire, any attacks empowered by his fire is incapable of hurting him, healing him instead. This does not apply to normal fire attacks of any other kind, which he is simply immune to - it has to very specifically be his fire. The fire in the attack shields him, completely nullifying the impact of magical attacks and causing physical attacks to harmlessly bounce off him, and is then absorbed, healing his own injuries. The stronger the attack, the more potent the heal is.

Because of the way his fire burns the soul, those with sufficient willpower can douse themselves through sheer strength of spirit if they are caught on fire, but this takes time, and more importantly, one's undivided attention, rendering them vulnerable to other threats. This also results in his fire powers bypassing any immunities or resistances to fire.

Rosso is 4'11", 5'1" with his heels. He hates it.

The El Search Party of his canon is the main, canonical one.

discord id: cradleofsin.

[melodiaemfrp]

this is a notice to xanthe that chip's app has been updated, as well as your age and pronouns!

- SCRIBE ANIMA

[crestlecovehq]

CHARACTER INFORMATION

CHARACTER NAME: Xanthe Hayes AGE: 26 SPECIES: Witch (is hiding it) OCCUPATION: Archaelogist and researcher at Stearne Research Facility GENDER: cis woman PRONOUNS: she/her POWERS: Affinity for water PACK/COVEN: The Order (Is hoping to become part of the Crestle Coven) FACE CLAIM: Sabrina Carpenter LINK TO INTRO: [X]

mun information under the read more

OOC INFORMATION: NAME/ALIAS: Soph AGE: 33 TIME ZONE: BST/GMT (who knows) PRONOUNS: SHE/HER

[aaravos-answers]

Not all of them. I have some.... *disappears into library* Aha, here is one. It is primarily an adventure; though there is a small romantic subplot it is easily ignored for nearly the entire book. It is called A Spell for Chameleon.

[mun says: that's a real book! I first read it when I was, idk, 6? (It was NOT written for 6yos; don't give it to yours. I was a precocious reader.) It popped into my head, and I realized it's kind of fitting, actually? Some aspects anyway. Because Bink and Chameleon keep running into each other, and have a couple fights, but mostly they like each other, except when other people interfere. Chameleon is an unconscious shapeshifter-- she can't control it-- and Bink falls in love with all her forms (sound familiar?). Bink himself has quite powerful, and remarkably subtle magic. The focus is on his quest to not be banished/defeat the Evil Magician Trent. There are problems with writing and world, and it's admittedly pretty sexist, but I still love it.]

Is there any literature you genuinely enjoy and would possibly like to share with Aaravos?

Also, I'm happy to hear you are fond of corvids ;)

- Crow

I enjoy most fiction, but it should be well-written before I can enjoy it. Also, I suppose I am not a fan of anything that centers a romantic relationship above all else.

I enjoy heist stories, in which a band of diverse people become a team and accomplish a goal. I also enjoy reading tales of real people, narrative nonfiction and the like. So long as the characters are interesting and sympathetic, and there is no unnecessary or forced romance, I will enjoy it.

@aaravosanswers are all your fiction books romance oriented? If so, this will certainly be a tedious imprisonment.

Crows are very fun and clever creatures. Is it any wonder you named yourself after them and that I enjoy them?

[emeritusroyalty-a]

Talk about carelessadventurer, not me

Send me your URL and I'll talk about your blog. | Accepting.

@carelessadventurer

Thoughts on the character(s): From all our “behind the scenes” talks on Discord, they’re all fascinating. We’ve talked about Xanthe at length and everything she’s been through, Malquis is a character we both enjoy, and Otto... we talk about him and spitball ideas for him occasionally.

Have you interacted before: Multiple times. Multiple times and across multiple blogs.

Favorite part of portrayal: How chaotic and rebellious Xanthe can be.

One piece of advice: Take your time to get back to handling threads, bud. No rush. And maybe add some commas here and there with the big paragraph writing.

A verse (mine or theirs) I want a thread in: Anything works.

Thoughts on the mun: She’s a good friend of mine I made over in another fandom that we’ve both left behind. I think she brought up maybe making a blog for her D&D characters back then and I encouraged her to do it, which is why she made carelessadventurer. Because I wanted to goof around with fantasy plots for once rather than stick to rigid fandoms with set rules, I wound up making Izren and his blog not long after.

 The two of us talk almost daily over DMs and we goof around over Genshin whenever we have the time.

[thecarelessadventurer]

Have a horrible picture of Vix and Xanthe.

@peace-love-and-vixie-dust

[caesurabywriting]

MUN VS. FAVORITE MUSE CHALLENGE

the mun + the main rp squeezes she suffers through; ya girl, alyona, zosia, eden, diana, harmony, tasya, kasey, lucienne, thomas, flora, theodora, lysandra, alchemy, xanthe.

tagged by — @ncrthernlights passing this invitation on to — @yagirlbrit-writes , @spacelionwrites​ , @toziesque , @lavenderrpages , the girl reading this...

[eidetic187]

NAME: Veronica

MUN FC: biv from Monsterkind and Maka from Soul Eater

GENDER: Female

HEIGHT: 5′1

HAIR COLOR: blonde/blue

EYE COLOR: blue

RELATIONSHIP STATUS: long term relationship

SEXUALITY: queer asexual

BIRTHDAY: october 5th

ZODIAC SIGN: libra

NATIONALITY: American

TIMEZONE: CST

HOBBIES: Writing, Reading, video games, diamond painting, cross stitching, adult coloring, etc....

# OF SIBLINGS: 4

# OF PETS: 3

CURRENTLY HAVE A JOB: Yep

FAVORITE COLOR: black, blue, purple

FAVORITE SINGER/BAND: yeah i have a too varied music taste

LAST SONG LISTENED TO:  Love me less by MAX

CURRENTLY LISTENING TO : the game grumps playing Sonic Boom lkjfla;ksjdf

LAST MOVIE WATCHED: idek

FAVORITE BOOK: Beautiful Music for Ugly Children by Kristin Cronn-Mills

LAST BOOK READ: Fate of the Fallen by Kel Kade

CURRENTLY READING: the first Xanth book my Piers Anthony

BEST SCHOOL SUBJECT: English 

MAC OR PC: PC

DAY OR NIGHT: Night

SUMMER OR WINTER: fall

MOST-VISITED WEBSITE: Tumblr, facebook

TAGGED BY: @magicandmayhcm

TAGGING: do it and say i tagged u

[eikyuuxparadise-archive]

💋- How good is your muse at kissing - 🍰- What does your muses kisses taste like - from Xanthe to Tomohisa

A Shipping meme for muse told by the mun &&. @renas-rp-universe + Xanthe

💋- How good is your muse at kissing 

Despite his looks and supposed innocence. Tomohisa is surprisingly well experienced when it comes to kissing. He may be a natural as well but it isn’t certain as he only been in one relationship before that he had kept completely underwraps

🍰- What does your muses kisses taste like   

Tomohisa would know doubt taste sweet, probably like vanilla and a little bit caramel.

[wowrpgamer]

“Mun” as in “Mundane” from Piers Anthony’s Xanth series.

But, yeah, I think it’s a reference to the “keyboard monkey” as we used to call ourselves, too.

I don't know what 'Mun' means, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.

A lil surprised and confused to get this ask as I haven’t reblogged a ‘mun’ ask in awhile, but big same. I don’t know where the word came from or why, but I’ve figured out that it means the ‘writer’ of the character. 

At least, I’m fairly sure that’s what it means.

[amourete-blog1]

(( felide isn’t an especially political muse so i won’t use sel’s post, but considering the nature of her character, her ties to xanthe (a rather political muse) and the core elements of her story, she will talk about things like hemoism more than your average joe muse. it’s an inseparable part of her story and i try to pay that its proper respects.

however, that story comes with a lot more touchy subjects. quoted from my about page:

This blog will contain mentions of: trauma (past), torture (past), slavery (past), self-destructive behaviors (recovering), grief (recovering), death, violence, blood, caste-based oppression, fire

in addition to the fact that the story of the signless mirrors the story of jesus in the christian bible.

each rper is responsible for their own health and well-being. i tag content, i warn muns before i drop heavy topics, but it will still be here, so make your own judgements about what you can and can’t handle, please.

[xaracosmia]

hiii moddies this is revvington. but not for long. can i have my name changed in server to Xanthe? I PROMISE THISLL BE THE LAST TIME I CHANGE MY NAME OKAY I PROMISE

yay woo yay name changes woo yippee yay

you can change your name as many times as u want to, ur now officially our shining xanthe

with love, ☆ mod kyle

[melodiaemfrp]

hi this is xanthe i put ayin in chat so im letting you know im ending my hiatus for ayin lobocorp early. its jan 17 byeeee

hi xanthe. i let ayin out of the hiatus basement so he can run free again! go little scienceguy go.

- scribe tutti

[mafiashq]

This might be a dumb question, but would Xanthe's (Nina Dobrev) mun ever want her ex-fiance around. I know she doesn't have a wanted connection up for him, but I'm interested in it. Sorry for the inconvenience.

not a dumb question at all, perhaps shooting samiya a message over at @xanthcs if not, i’m sure she’ll reply to this when she see the tag !!

[emeritusroyalty-a]

*punts URL and runs*

Send me your URL and I’ll hit you with my opinions. | Accepting.

Thoughts on the character(s): We talk about them at length every time we hop into a Discord call. And I’ll never get tired of hearing more about them or talking about them. Otto, Xanthe, and Malquis all are incredibly interesting with wild pasts and interesting characteristics that you don’t exactly see often, which makes discussions all the more interesting.

Have you interacted before: Plenty of times. Though I kinda drop the ball a lot...

Favorite part of portrayal: What isn’t there to like? They’re all good.

One piece of advice: Again, none needed.

A verse (mine or theirs) I want a thread in: Doesn’t matter, since our muses can either goof around in their main fantasy-themed verses or in their Genshin verses.

Thoughts on the mun: Another friend of mine that I appreciate the absolute heck out of. Go follow.

[thecarelessadventurer]

Here have some of my failed attempts at drawing my character in thief gear.