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A little height chart of my LoZ muses on this blog, featuring Link/Valor from @dutifulsilence
#muse ∆ GANONDORF [ Info ]#muse ∆ WARS [ Info ]#muse ∆ TWILIGHT [ Info ]#muse ∆ FIERCE DEITY [ Info ]#The Author's Notes [ OOC ] ;;#Valor is placed in the middle for a reason.#that reason being Gan and Wars are fighting with him pressed between; Twi is trying to get him out of there; FD is just watching
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ooc. oh yeah. it's all coming together.
#elderly woman behind the counter in a small town | ( ooc )#i still need to get some screen caps for my rook my quizzie and my tav to make their headers.#but i think these look neato? right? god i am so insecure.#i'm updating the carrd too so that it has correct info and everything for the new muses.#yippie!#also talia and selene are old republic/high republic era star wars OCs (smuggler and jedi master respectively).#screw it i'll pick fcs for those now that i think about it.
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Tanya the Evil always gives me Emotions when I try to read it, which does make it harder to get thru each book despite how much I love it, but I think I've made a Mistake by trying to read it while listening to Sabaton's "The War to End All Wars" album.
Y'all, I hit the song Versailles while reading Tanya's internal monologue about the cost of war while she was in the mop up of Operation Lock Pick. Y'ALL, when I say I had Too Many Emotions to continue reading, especially while on an airplane surrounded by strangers, I mean I had SO MANY EMOTIONS.
#there's always so much going on in the Tanya books#like I'll literally laugh out loud at something and then three pages later i'm having FEELINGS and need to put the book down to process#like.. objectively Tanya's protagonist halo letting her trigger coincidence after coincidence which makes the Commonwealth foam at the mouth#hunting for the mole/traitor that doesn't exist#and then you'll just get straight up gut punched with the most straightforward “hi yes war is hell and glorifying it is terrible” shit ever#combined with musings about a soldier's duty and the tightrope of survival as a soldier with limited options#and then the gut punch random reminders that Tanya is a super decorated war veteran with a Reputation and she's tiny! she's a child!#and after a point most everyone starts ignoring that outwardly she's a CHILD!#no one knows she's a transmigrator! no one knows she has an entire other life in her head!#they're just running with war genius child mage! she enlisted herself at NINE YEARS OLD! THIS WAS ALLOWED!#She saw her first action at like TEN!#(objectively she IS actively a bit of a war genius tho u know?)#(like she brushes it off as remembering essentially the history of war in our world but y'all..)#(y'all she's pulling memories of war tactics and maneuvers from her mind WITHOUT ABILITY TO REFERENCE ANYTHING)#(she's starting with what little she's being given as orders and what little she knows about the state of the war and the area terrain--#--and repeatedly putting these clues together into the Correct Answer to the point where she startles several superior officers)#(like yes she's not coming up with any of this on her own but she's remembering things she learned about and adding--#--the dimension of magecraft and repeatedly producing the same plan as her superiors without nearly as much current info)#(the amount of memory she needs to have for all those tactics/maneuvers/etc is incredible and shouldn't be discounted)#.... i had Feelings Again whoops#look she's not innocent or kind or good or even a RELIABLE NARRATOR but i love her so much
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🌙 Transgressor Yuri moodboard. 🌙
#{ muse info + headcanons }#/ i think abt him. a lot. so if any of u have a crestoria verse. please. write with me.#let him free. release him into the world.#i am also keeping the lower quarter in this verse generally speaking hence its place here#aaaand also to be clear on the exact weapon in the bottom left it's his Second Star#versus the implication of getting a blood sin weapon on the right#both placed on the sides of the respective relationships bc Second Star#canonically relates to his relationship with flynn and blood sins can only be acquired through vicious#which is perfect bc i intend for yuri to be working with vicious (and kanata and co) indirectly#it all fell together very nicely n_n#and aside from any threads with any vicious-muns since it's not my place to determine how they write their muse with my muse#(and they can do this with me too if agreed upon!) i do plan to have vicious heavily integrated into yuri's story#will also be chaotic and beautiful bc two emotionally intelligent fuck-alls who are here to cause problems on purpose#while also calling themselves the worst possible things ever while continuing to be awesome stand up ppl#also you can't tell me flynn and vicious don't have this lawful versus lawless thing going on here#you don't even need tug o' war when you have tug o' yuri#believe me if i had enough energy to write a damn fic for this verse for yuri and those two i WOULD#feat aegis. bc. the lawless chaotics require their knightly boyfriends for a double date. lots of double dates#the rest of their fucking LIVES will be double dates and they're going to LIKE it. probably. mostly.#anyway namco threw this perfectly wonderful opportunity away and it's mine now im not giving it back >:/
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I grow weary of home and it's tedious politics. It is time I journey from Dathomir, if only for a day, to prove to myself that I can. That I am not trapped here, sheltering from my own visions.
My destination is Serenno. It is but one sector away, a few hours travel, and there I will do... something. I know not what, as of yet.
Perhaps I will try something new. An activity I have never attempted. For... fun.
#darth maul#maul's musings#star wars roleplay#check the pinned post for rp info#open door rp#chat with Darth Maul#dathomir#star wars#nightbrothers#sith#nightsisters#star wars role play
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// I thought I had put this lore into writing already, but it seems I had not. Per my post about Commodore Fordo's Raider-class Corvette, The Impetuous, one of its earliest tasks was serving as a mothership and testing base for prototypes of the TIE Advanced X1, with Fordo himself serving as one of the test-pilots.
Fordo made and suggested many adjustments for the craft based on his findings, and his fighter's roomier cockpit arrangement would be used as the basis for the model delivered to Darth Vader himself, given their similar statures. As development of the fighter progressed, the prototype X1s evolved into the limited production TIE/ad Starfighter, better known as the TIE Avenger.
A thoroughly-customized TIE Avenger would serve as Fordo's primary starfighter for the course of the Galactic Civil War. He considered it a superior fighter to the TIE Defender in spite of its marginally weaker performance, citing its smaller profile, more robust central fuselage, and cheaper per-unit flyway cost. Fordo's Avenger would be kept flight-ready in The Impetuous' hangar at all times, and Fordo would frequently use its hyperdrive systems to jump directly into space battles alongside his corvette.
As a Dark Trooper, Fordo made for an incredibly bold TIE pilot, even amongst the most daring the Imperial Navy had to offer. His cybernetically-enhanced physiology enabled him to withstand much greater forces than the average pilot and for far longer, giving him the reputation of a relentless and highly-maneuverable pursuer. Thanks to his nigh-indestructible armor, he was confident he could survive virtually any crash or shoot-down, rendering him unburdened by fear. Finally, his neural interface allowed him to "jack in" to the starfighter's systems, feeding sensor readings and other information directly into his brain. This was not without substantial risk however, as direct hits with ion weaponry on unshielded hull could damage (if not outright fry) his nervous system.
He's a menace on land or air, just don't expect him to ever go underwater. He received SCUBA Trooper training and he never intends to use it again, less he's trapped in a watery prison.
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So wait, is the Mon Calamari prince supposed to be descended from Lee-Char? And the ancestor of Ech-Char?
#star wars thoughts#jacen watches the mandalorian#the mandalorian spoilers /#star wars spoilers /#except not really watching just musing#as can be divined from my url i have more info about the solo-djo-skywalker dynasty than any other in the SWG lol#so trying to decipher mon cala is hard
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new oc- michael walker (fallout 4 sole survivor oc)
Michael Walker had it all. A loving wife, a brand new baby boy he loved more than anything. A good paying job, respect for his service to his country. But of course, everything changed when the atom bomb fell, and he was sent down into Vault 111 with his little family. Nora was shot in the middle of their cryo-sleep. Michael could only watch as men stole away his baby boy, Shaun, and left Michael in frozen sleep for decades more.
His home was changed. All of the Commonwealth had spawned from the ashes, and Michael has made it his purpose to find Shaun again and avenge his wife's death.
A study in grief, post-apocalyptic worlds, the fall of consumerism, culture, and how love can corrupt.
Based on the mun's second playthrough of FO4, this time using the Infiltrator build.
fc: p.edro pascal as j.oel in t.lou on hbo
;war never changes (michael the sole survivor/oc)
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@agloryofuniicorns sent: “ If you wake up haunted its not my fault. “ dark to... any of the links? or ganondorf
"Oh please, I'll be fine!" Wars laughed, turning to the doorway of the abandoned hospital. The outside looked creepy, and just what he could see shining a flashlight into the building looked even worse.
A few cautious steps forward, and he'd cast a glance over his shoulder. "Are you coming or not?" The blonde asked, tone playful as he took another step.
#agloryofuniicorns#muse ∆ WARS [ Answered Asks ]#// sitting this in Modern because... well#modern!Wars is the most likely of my LoZ muses to do something stupid for Halloween and possibly get haunted //#// this reminds me I need to write verse stuff in some of the finished info sheets and make verse tags-//#muse ∆ WARS ( V ; Pictures and Coffee[modern])
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Raphael defeated Ketheric by using Yurgir
idk if this is common knowledge or not, but I puzzled it together only yesterday because I always missed a crucial NPC to see the whole picture. So here it is:
From the architect of Moonrise towers - the Infernal Mason you encounter in the House of Hope - you learn that:
Ketheric at some point, after the death of his wife, forsook Selûne and became a Shar worshipper. He had an army that he sent to war, to spread the darkness.
The architect saw his master's evil and made a deal with Raphael: His soul, for the destruction of Ketheric's army.
Raphael kept his word, and Ketheric's forces were destroyed by fiends.
Now, from the Elder Rothé near the Grymforge waypoint you learn that:
Ketheric's army consisted of Dark Justiciars.
A "hellbeast came with the mask-men" and destroyed the army.
And of course we know that Yurgir is trapped in the temple of Shar because his contract forces him to kill all Dark Justiciars.
So now, you know why:
The Architect made a deal with Raphael to stop Ketheric's army of Dark Justiciars.
Raphael contracted Yurgir (who brought his Merigons) to fulfil his own side of the contract.
Yurgir destroyed the army, but because one Dark Justiciar escaped with Raphael's help, he got trapped.
Why trap Yurgir?
We don't really know - unless I've yet to find it. We do know Raphael considers Yurgir dangerous, so it could be simply security. Trapping a dangerous asset, until it's needed again. He clearly had plans, since he makes Yurgir commander for presumably the conquest of the hells.
Why help Lyrthindor hide?
To trap Yurgir, but also
Yurgir claims that Raphael mentioned an aasimar
Theory: Raphael might have known, that only a Sharran/Dark Justiciar can kill the Nightsong. So he kept one alive, in case he ever has to kill her.
Why though? He probably knew Ketheric was kept immortal by the Nightsong, so the question would be: Why did Raphael want to keep Ketheric alive? Did he see this entire dead three plot coming? I wouldn't put it past him.
I shall keep investigating, and update this post as I learn more. If anyone has more info, please lmk!
Additional musings:
Why does Yurgir have Raphael's boots??
👉 more on Raphael being a bard
#bg3#raphael#baldur's gate 3#yurgir#ketheric#raphael has been playing 4D lanceboard for a LONG time#bg3 raphael#raphael the cambion#rds
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You are a Warrior of the Mind...
Don't disappoint me
More on the AU under cut!
I've finally more or less figured out how Epic Falls is gonna go! Everything I make for this au is probably not gonna be a fully finished piece, I just had an itch thinking about Ford and Bill in this AU
In this AU, Ford, Stan and Shermie are all sent to fight in the war, through a series of misunderstandings and accidents and more than a little intervention by a certain demon to get Ford out of Ithaca
Shermie was the heir, being the oldest, but he figured Ford would be a better ruler than him anyway, Stan was actually sent to war by King Filbrick in order to ensure Ford would be next in line after Shermie, and Ford got a very odd dream that convinced him he needed to prove himself to his kingdom by winning the war for Ithaca. Little did he know Shermie was also leaving... (for more info you could look at the epic falls tag!!)
ANYWAY, Ford and Bill. Wow are these guys interesting.
Ford basically treated Bill as one of his only friends, his muse, and Bill convinced him that he needed Bills help to win the war. It's only once he break the deal with Bill and properly lets his brothers in on the warplanning that they pull a Trojan Horse and win the war. (The actual reasoning for the war in this au is... under progress)
Bill, angered by Ford's insolence and him breaking the deal, acts as nearly all the gods in this AU, taking the place of Athena, Zeus in Thunder Bringer, and Posiedon (Bills goal in this AU is to rid Ithaca of all of its heirs, and he has his own ulterior motives for that. Getting into his character is gonna be a blast guys, trust) (all of which has IMPLICATIONS for 'We'll be Fine')
#gravity falls#gravity falls au#epic falls au#stanford pines#Ford pines#Bill cipher#epic the musical#young ford pines#Epic the musical x gravity falls#Gravity falls x epic the musical#Let's make it a tag guys cmon#I'm hoping to make some comics character sheets and even animate some Epic songs for this AU eventually#billford#???#it was something#Bill broke Ford's heart and soul that's all I know#my art
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Ok SO! Reading the journal pages in TBOB I wanted to line them up with journal 3, and they line up SUPER well! (I mean, why wouldn’t they!)
Some lineups/ things I noticed while looking at them together:
‘My Assistant’ page Fidd’s photos of loved ones keeping him grounded- the picture of he and Ford in his desk!!
Journal starts on June 18, next dated page is August 3rd. He mentions the hide behind but doesn’t chronicle it until well into July. This furthers the thinking I’ve had that Ford doesn’t always write chronologically, or rather has different things in different journals (he just doesn’t always write in actual page order I think)- esp considering that he puts portal info in 1 & 2.
‘Cipher Speaks lines up with being written before “My Muse” as he names Bill directly, but ‘My Muse’ being written after as a re-do, hence the note to self to keep secret, and burn the page. This is in spring/ summer of 1981
Next, my muse and me, which is brings us to 1982, as “it has been a year since I met my muse” this page puts context to the next 40ish pages of J3, which chronically various cryptids. While the ghost pages are at toward the end, we can assume that perhaps he had the coordinates when writing but did the chronicle-ing after. Here’s where it gets confusing- the next page in TBOB is June 15, which helps because after August, we get July 18th in J3. So, we can conclude that August is August of 1981, and there’s a year skip to July of 1982. My Muse and Me is placed before the august 3rd page, but not too close to My Muse.
The Birthday page of TBOB is of 1982, and happens sometime probably after the ghost pages? Definitely before “My Muse has Spoken” (I think bill def settled in on ford being his portal guy after their night out)
Then Fidds joins. They go on their trips, the bunker, etc! We hit “An Encounter” and we get “we have nearly completed the portal and will soon be ready to test” This lines up with “A voice from the past” , as Ford is adjusting the TV for F’s first portal test.
The next dates page is Jan 17, testing day. So, of course, the Winter Break section happens before this. I think it goes before the page on them being super tired (the one directly after ‘an encounter’) so my guess is, an encounter, a voice from the past, then the page across from an encounter, then winter break, then the page about being tired, if that makes sense? (It’s the positioning of the blueprint style pages that say “the time has come to test” that put them after)
This also lines up for me with his convo with bill about his homeworld, and then mentioning bill being distant on ‘a winter break’
We get ‘snowed in’, and I think the disappearing child footprints are definitely a reference to Dipper and Mabel time traveling!
Some chronological pages next!
I think ‘My muse returns’ happens right after the final winter page, my reasoning being that Bill plants the idea that Fidds isn’t fully invested, and this lines up with Ford being “worried about his resolve” on the blueprint page. “Despite his concerns”
The childhood photo pages next, with “perhaps my muse was right that F is getting too close” (bill was def jealous of their holiday)
“Dream, or Warning?” Daytime of Jan 17, “F has invited me to dinner at Greasy’s tonight to toast to tomorrow’s test”
Jan 17th page happens next, an hour after their dinner, including the “it was just as my muse had warned me” Bill has succeeded in convincing ford to isolate himself from Fidds.
The J3 “No!!! curse the world” page and TBOB’s “I was wrong about everything” seem similar at first, but I think “No!!!” Was first- it details what happened in the portal test, and has very fresh anger to it.
It’s a bit tough to place the next pages, but I think the pages before TBOB’s “The war in my mind” happen before the page of all the codes, where he writes “he is taking advantage while I sleep” in “the war in my mind” he is already worried about burning the journals, which is a concern presented previously on “hiding places” him getting kicked out the library pairs well with his lack of sleeping and freak out in the diner.
I do think the zom-bills page happens after the incident at the diner, as he is surprised that Bill calls him Sixer, but then doesn’t mention it when he calls him that again on the zom-bills page.
Everything “a war in my mind” and after takes place after the codes page, but before the “Trust No One” page. Bill definitely wrote the ‘blank’ blacklight page about being summoned while he was possessing Ford.
On the diner page, he mentions there being only one person left to trust, giving fodder for bill to prank him by trying to call Stanley. He’s given the 72 hours. He finishes that entry realizing he can’t contact Fidds, and makes his pro/con list. He writes his final journal entry, saying “all that there is left to do is wait for S”
And that concludes my hopefully sense-making idea of what pages go where!! If you have both books, I definitely recommend looking at them together!
I’d love to hear any thoughts on this! It was really fun to go through the pages. It got a little tricky at the end, but it’s definitely likely that Ford wasn’t writing in page order anyways, being paranoid and sleep deprived.
I’m so glad we got these pages, as they really beef up the lead up to the end of Ford’s first section of journal 3! And of course, give us lots more about Ford and Bill’s relationship and how they talked to eachother. The notion of bill being able to still enter ford’s mind after Ford learned the truth was always so compelling, and I’m so glad we got to see how that actually played out!
#gravity falls#ford pines#the book of bill#book of bill#book of bill spoilers#bill cipher#stanley pines#journal 3#the author of the journals... my brother#stanford pines#fiddleford mcgucket#pines family#dipper pines#mabel pines
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│↳ . ABOUT ME
-> jacqueline / jackie
basic info -> she/her.19. intj.slytherin.law student. coffee addict.cat lover. sarcasm + dark humour.film buff.music elitist.killjoy.resting bitch face.cabin 13
interests -> true crime. piano. chess. cinema. drawing. reading. puzzles. badminton. petting animals. gaming
fav cases -> jeffery dahmer. ted kaczynski. ed kemper. jodi arias. the menendez brothers. richard ramirez. charles manson. jim jones. (there’s more but erm let’s keep it confidential)
fav actors/actresses/models -> johnny depp. evan peters. kevin bacon. ezra miller. jesse eisenberg. woody harrelson. christian bale. anya taylor joy. natalie portman. christina ricci. helena bonham carter. eva green. winona ryder. kate moss. shelley duvall. audrey hepburn
fav artists/bands -> mcr. p!atd. lana del rey. ethel cain. kurt cobain. marilyn manson. eminem. the 1975. melanie martinez. nirvana. the cure. queen. rammstein + more
fav movies/shows -> corpse bride. we need to talk about kevin. edward scissorhands. joker. fight club. carrie. it. v for vendetta. coraline. spirited away. the shawshank redemption. american psycho. the green mile. emma (2020). gone girl. buffalo 66. star wars. ahs. harry potter.
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My Starlight will Guide Me Home🌠💫
Summary: "Marcus Acacius is know as many things, but if you were to ask the man himself I'm sure that he would want nothing but to be known as the father to his beloved daughter who was born out of the love between him and his precious starlight. Historians have often debated over the identity of the mysterious starlight. Edward Gibbon once famously claimed in his magnum opus that Acacius' starlight was a vagabond princess from one of the Eastern kingdoms, but there is no concrete evidence to back his claim."
- Dr. C.C. Philip. 'The Roman Conquest of Numidia'.
A/N: No warning as such (not beta read). I have no idea what I just wrote but it was fun to do so. I hope that you guys will enjoy it as well🥰
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Letters of General Marcus Acacius
I just finished reading R. Dike's "Epistles from the Past", which is basically a collection of translations of personal letters from various individuals across civilizations; I kid you not I sobbed and swooned so ugly when I read the part featuring the letters of Marcus Acacius (a 3rd century CE Roman general) to his daughter which were written when he was out on a military campaign to Numidia.
The man is so Girl Dad coded. That one letter where he is worried about her favourite dolly getting misplaced, while he is out there pillaging entire cities and colonizing the eastern frontiers in the name of Rome😭
Edit 2: I thought the person he is referring to as "starlight" was his wife Lucilla. Is there any extra info on the General's starlight?
Edit 2: I found a copy of Professor Philip's book in the college library. Thanks for the recommendation!
ptolemysiswife .5 days ago.
Omg yesss! The letters are so sweet. We had it on our reading list (it was a different book tho!) this semester and I kid you not I giggled like a school girl in love while reading the General's letters. Poor guy was missing his kid so much, you can't help but feel for him haha
SadguyRumi . 5 days ago.
Did you know that his daughter was born from a slave from the Orient and not his lawful wife?
ptolemysiswife .5 days ago.
Ah yes! The famous starlight. The way he describes her in the letters is so endearing. The man is outright simping for his starlight haha. It's so romantic😩🤌🏻
SadguyRumi . 4 days ago.
It's so funny that a hardened war general was down bad for the mother of his child.
BanksofVaranasi .4 days ago.
I think the OP will enjoy C.C. Philip's "The Dawn and Downfall of an Empire: A War General's Musings". It dives deep into the celebrated General's personal life, and even gives us some clues about his beloved starlight (I'm actively refraining from calling her a slave out of respect for the general who seemed to hate it when others referred to her and their daughter as such) which is backed by actual archaeological findings and not hearsay that other contemporary historians of the time would have us believe.
Hamurabishabibi .3 days ago.
This sounds so interesting. I'm a sucker for feel good stories from the ancient world. Can anyone please upload some of his letters or few wholesome excerpts? I tried looking for the books that OP and u/BanksofVaranasi mentioned but they cost a really pretty penny in my country (damn you conversion rate!)😀 I really wanna know about this starlight person as well😆😅
citethysources .2 days ago.
You're in luck cause some museum (I forgot which) recently uploaded a bunch of N. Maurice's translations of the General's letters (along with some other excerpts related to his life and times) under the section which they titled "Star Guided Letters to Home" on their website. You can check it out, they've curated all the letters in a nice chronological order
Hamurabishabibi .2 days ago.
omg the title!! I'm feeling violently sick ughhh! thanks a lot, I just found the museum's website and yes the section is curated so nicely. I think I'm in love with the web designer haha
Title: Star Guided Letters to Home: the letters of Marcus Acacius and other related documents from the 3rd century CE.
Translator: Dr. Nestor Maurice, MA, MPhil, PhD
Overview: The celebrated Roman general Marcus Acacius was once considered the darling of the Roman populi. Feared by the enemies of Rome, much of history knows him for his infamous exploits in the eastern frontiers of the Roman Empire, and for his brave defiance against the infamous co-emperors- Geta and Caracalla. The following letters were addressed by the general during his year long expedition to Numidia (in present day Algeria) to his only child and daughter Marcia (known fondly amongst the scholarly circles as "Marcia de la Stella"- Marcia of the Stars), and are a testament to a parent's love for their child, which transcends the temporal and spatial limitations imposed upon us by the natural flow of the Universe. Given the age of Marcia de la Stella at the time that these letters were penned, there is a high probability that they were read out to the child by her adopted mother Lucilla, the daughter of Emperor Marcus Aurelius and the legal wife of Marcus Acacius.
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Document 1
"The general had a surprisingly soft corner for his "slave" daughter, who was also his only known and acknowledged progeny. He could often be seen holding the wee babe in his arms within the confines of his domus.
It is rumoured that he had her manumitted in the early hours of her birth, and that there was an undertone of fear amongst the General's personal physicians that the otherwise healthy infant would inherit some of her slave mother's more peculiar cognitive functioning.
Nevertheless, it was evident to much of the Roman public that the child had the General wrapped around her tiny little finger; and anyone who dared to call her a bastard or a child of a slave would have to face the wrath of the otherwise austere and good-natured General"
- Cassius Dio, contemporary Roman historian
Letter 1: A Father's Prayer
"Marcus Acacius to his Moonbeam greetings. My dear moonbeam, a few moments ago I received a correspondence from fair lady Lucilla. She seemed worried that you haven't been keeping well. Oh how I wish I could be there for you my little duckling. But alas, your failure of a father must fulfil his duty to Rome first.
May our household gods inflict all your pain and suffering onto me! Give my salutations to lady Lucilla, and to my starlight. As always, my days are filled with your worry, and my nights are spent praying for you. Farewell, my moonbeam, may the stars and starlight guide this letter home to you."
Document 2
"Lucilla to her Attia greetings. Dearest friend, I received your invitation. I would be more than delighted to attend the wedding of your daughter Julia. I still cannot fathom the fact that little Julia is now ready to manage her own household. It saddens me to think that soon enough my little Marcia too shall come of age and become someone's bride. The child is the light in my otherwise dreary existence. Blessed be her sweet mother who brought her into this world!
I fear that my lord Marcus Acacius will be the most agitated when such a time shall come. But above all, I fear for the sake of the man who will come and ask for Marcia's hand in marriage. Give my greetings to your Julia. You shall see me and little Marcia soon. Farewell, my dearest and most longed for friend."
- Lucilla, wife of Marcus Acacius in a letter to her friend Attia dated 215 CE
Letter 2: Birthday
"Marcus Acacius to his Moonbeam greetings. My sweetheart, may you be showered with all the blessings that the world has to offer. Every year, on the day of your birth, I've taken the liberty to spoil you to my heart's content. Dearest, my good wishes are always upon you, but what has a father to offer to his dearest child from a battlefield?
Moonbeam, since the day that you were born to me and my starlight as our daughter, I've considered myself the luckiest man in all of Rome; but now, here in Numidia, I've started to appreciate the fact that I'm a daughter's father even more. May you never have to step foot in a battlefield, and may your dreams be decorated with happiness. Farewell, my dearest star child, may the stars and starlight guide this letter home to you."
Document 3
"Once at a party hosted by Senator Thraex, Lord [name erased due to erosion] made the mistake of mocking Marcus Acacius' paramour whom he decried as a whorish slave from the east.
Acacius in all his fury beat the unfortunate fool in unmitigated rage, and warned the onlookers that he wouldn't hesitate to do the same to anyone who dared to humiliate the mother of his child.
It was reported that the two co-Emperors, who were present at the gathering, had a good laugh over the misery of the man who had been the target of the general's wrath, and even offered the general to execute the "bumbling fool" as a gift to the general"
-Anonymous writer, 5th century AD
Letter 3: Dolly
"Marcus Acacius to his Moonbeam greetings. My precious star child, who is dear to the sight, but dearer still when the sight is denied, I was informed of your melancholy by dearest Lady Lucilla! I know just how precious the dolly was to you. My starlight had made it for you when you were smaller than a fig in her womb. I too, cannot help but lament the loss of your dolly. I wish I could be there to assuage your grief and mine.
Moonbeam, I promise to help you look for your dolly once I'm back there with you. The very thought of seeing you again fills my heart with joy in these difficult times. You are always in my prayers my dearest. Farewell, my sweet, may the stars and starlight guide this letter home to you"
Document 4
"Lucilla to her husband Marcus Acacius greetings. Dearest confidant and husband , you've always been considerate of me and my feelings since the day the late Emperor Septimius Severus had us betrothed. You've been respectful of my feelings for him, and I've always admired you greatly for that. As such, I was elated when you found your love in the form of [name erased due to erosion]. She brought such joy and light to you; and even bore you the most precious of daughters! Little Marcia has helped me get over my grief for my own dear Lucius, and watching her grow swells my heart with happiness and a sense of pride.
But dearest of friends, I must confide in you that the sweet child has been asking some very curious questions about her own identity, some of which I find myself unable to answer. If you could, please help her quench her curiosity. I pray for the safe passage of your campaign. Farewell, my husband and dearest of confidants.
- Lucilla, in a letter to Marcus Acacius dated 216 CE
Letter 4: Starlight
"Marcus Acacius to his Moonbeam greetings. My little Marcia, your poor father is troubled! I don't know how to begin this letter. I can start by describing the auspicious moment when I met my starlight or maybe I should start by describing her. Your mother, my starlight, hailed from a land somewhere in the far East of Rome. Her people called her [name erased due to erosion] but she was known in Rome as Macrina, for she worked in the household of Macrinus. You may know him as the man with the colouring of dawn who once came over, accompanied by his two adopted daughters, to offer you sweets. But you are too young to remember all that.
My starlight would sometimes play the lute at parties organised by Macrinus. She was so good at playing her instrument that you could swear that she had been blessed by the very gods of music. My starlight had a penchant for singing in her native tongue, but she would only so in private, and oh! how blessed was I to have been privy to her mellifluous voice. She would then try to translate them for me using her adorably weak command over the language that you and I are now conversing in. I'll tell you more about my starlight when I get back home to you. For now, I'm writing down a line from a song which my starlight once sung for me.
There’s a desire, there’s a prayer
Both of them have touched the soul of love
Read it from the left or from the right
From the earth till the sky, only love is written
My little cup of honey, you remind me of my starlight so much! Farewell, my Moonbeam, may the stars and starlight guide this letter home to you"
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Footnote: Hoii! I had so much fun writing this aiyaaaa! (totally not due on finishing my assignments and finishing my own reading list hahahah). I think the fic is pretty open ended (is it though?). I also chose the Orient cause it truly is a microcosm of the entire world (you get all shapes, colours and almost all race combinations)!! So the reader can customise the appearance of our dear starlight as per their likes and preferences. The orient part could also be my bias speaking cause I'm an aspiring historian whose field of interest lies in countries of the "Orient" (I'm also using the term Orient very veryyy loosely here). I took a lot of inspiration from various historical sources and epistles, so if you come across some of them then do tell!
Anyways, I hope that you guys will enjoy the fic as much as I did writing it huh (It's my first time writing one so I'm sorry if it comes across as cringe)!! Do tell if I should continue this and make it into a series hehe and sorry for any mistakes that I make in advance😽
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That one line is from this song at the 2:35 minute mark
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