#muse: maria barcelito

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@empiriical ( tick jefferson ) / my-pick starter call. ( maria barcelito )

"Heeeey, amigo!"

Maria pokes the torturer in the back of the head, finger lingering for a second too long to not be a little annoying. "You'll never guess what!"

It probably doesn't matter if Tick guesses correctly; Maria is generally known to get a little impatient about this sort of thing and spoil it anyway. Still, she seems to be in a relatively good mood, which isn't altogether uncommon, but it's a sign that whatever she's doing or has done hasn't been run by Luck just yet.

"Okay, you're really never going to guess, you know. So I'll tell you everything. I made you something!" It's an odd declaration from a person whose most defining trait is destroying things in a particularly violent way, but Maria seems very proud of herself. "So, you're not busy, right? Right? Hey, you're free right now, aren't you? Because I worked pretty hard on it, amigo, and you have to come see."

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“I’ll go anywhere you want.” ( for maria ! )

It's an incredibly touching sentiment, so naturally, Maria's first reaction is not to react at all.

It's not as if this would be their first time walking the Path together. However, Maria grows increasingly more aware of the fact that they've never planned to travel together before, not really---every other time, it's been circumstance and convenience. Delightful circumstance, in Maria's eyes, but still circumstance. It wasn't ever an arrangement she'd had any complaints about, not minding the abrupt meetings and departures as much as another might have in her situation.

Unfortunately, while her first instinct is to freeze, her second instinct is to continue talking as normal, which never generally yields results that actually fit the tone of these kinds of conversations, which Maria doesn't really know how to have.

"Well, it's not really about where I want to go, right?" Maria registers shortly after speaking that it sounds a little bit too hash in response to what Ciri had actually said, so she doubles back, a move which is completely unlike her. "Still, I wouldn't mind something like that. Obviously I'd never turn you away!"

atlas I. / accepting.

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"Isn't it neat? It's super neat, right?!"

Complimenting her swords seems to have dangerously boosted Maria's ego---she's all smiles in response to the curiosity, not sensing anything off about it at all. Really, she'd been the exact same way about swords and stabbing things as a kid, so there's no reason to question it!

"I have another one, but I found someone reeeeally good to sharpen it a little, so I left it behind today. But you know what, amiga? I do stab a lot of people, with both of them!" It's an incredibly direct answer to give anyone, let alone a child, but Maria's not really concerned by this either. "And it's really fun, so you should definitely keep asking about swords! If you want, I could even teach you a couple things!"

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“  corvo always tells me he’s going to teach me how to use a sword ,  but he never does .  ”   a pout ,  followed by the crossing of her arms .  emily says such like everyone she speaks to knows who corvo is .   when it was simply the fact that she liked the strangers’ sword ,  and thought it was neat .  that she had approached the other .

 “  i like your sword ,  do you stab a lot of people  ? ”   a strange question for a child to ask ,  but one could chock it up to a youth’s curiosity .  the little one might be strange ,  but she was definitely genuine ,  showing great interest in the art of the blade  (  and stabbing people with it  ) .  

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hey!! it’s been a while since i’ve done something like this, so here’s a serious shipping call. this is for specifically romantic relationsips! if you’re interested in shipping with any of my muses, it’d be really nice if you could like this post, but please have some muses in mind before you do!

under the cut, for convenience, i’ll be listing off my muses based on age and how available for shipping they are. if you’re curious about a certain muse but don’t want to ask where they fall on this list, just ask!

not available for romantic shipping/singleship and taken: topaz/karma, dogra magra, rayscent crazyrabbit, lan wangji, a-qing, yumeno kyusaku, ookura teruko, victor frankenstein, the watcher, nice holystone, isaac dian, esperanza c. boronal, czeslaw meyer, rail

CURRENTLY closed for shipping, but willing given proper development: huckleberry finn, amelie lacroix, berga gandor, roy maddock

conditional: jacuzzi’s gang (ask about individual members!)

singleship and not taken: maiza avaro

minor muses (will only have ships with muses close to their age): fukidashi manga, sendagaya tetsu, minami kenjirou, yuzu, amajiki tamaki, fukase, jack frost, yuri beletsky, KT, lizzie hearts, ootori kyoya, kagami tsurugi, nathaniel kurtzberg, luka couffaine, tsukishima kei (pre timeskip), miyazawa kenji, darling charming, charon walken, 

highly selective (requires a lot of plotting, may be slow burn, the muses are VERY picky as to who they ship with): andre gide, dazai osamu, jack frost, KT, lua klein, ladd russo, huey laforet, victor talbot, sham, charon walken, maiza avaro, kalia gandor

selective/semi-selective (muses are picky with who they ship with, but may or may not require plotting): suehiro tetcho, natsume souseki, edgar allan poe, lena oxton, niccolo carpediem, nie mingjue, fukase, claire stanfield, miyazawa kenji, gabriel barsotti, sonja bake, melvi dormentaire

open (muses aren’t very picky and won’t necessarily require plotting): mark twain, margaret mitchell, nikolai gogol, edogawa ranpo, mushitaro oguri, ayatsuji yukito, motojirou kajii, howard phillips lovecraft, tayama katai, shibusawa tatsuhiko, agatha christie, lucy maud montgomery, ochi fukuchi, akutagawa ryunosuke, shimada genji, kanou momiji, tobita danjurou, tsuchikawa ryuko, fukidashi manga, roland fortis, all of love, the mother, kamiya tsurugi, belkia, sendagaya tetsu, neugear hatifelt, minami kenjirou, lee seung-gil, shirogane kei, marie sakamoto, tatara, haruhito kijima, aizawa cecila, KR, soujiro seta, kinjo, alibaba saluja, ren koumei, jin zixuan, john steinbeck, elizabeth ashe, amajiki tamaki, tsukimitsu iori, mo xuanyu, monika, yuri beletsky, lizzie hearts, ootori kyoya, kagami tsurugi, nathaniel kurtzberg, luka couffaine, herbert george wells, george eliot, maria barcelito, donatello abbate, dallas genoard, rachel, christopher shaldred, cassandra, tsukishima kei, francis scott key fitzgerald, jae-eun kwon, sergei kazarin, darling charming, chaini, luck gandor, graham specter, maiza avaro, ronny schiatto, jacuzzi splot, daishou suguru, ramona royale, james patrick march, percival king, tinker bell, silvermist, nemesis sudou, RGB, gary goldstein

taken in mainverse but still open to ships in other verses/polyamorous: mark twain, suehiro tetcho, kamiya tsurugi, marie sakamoto, alibaba saluja, lena oxton, nathaniel kurtzberg, claire stanfield, maria barcelito, lua klein, francis scott key fitzgerald, sergei kazarin, ladd russo, jacuzzi splot, kalia gandor, daishou suguru, james patrick march

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Muse Influences

Attack on Titan: Carly Stratmann

Baccano: Maria Barcelito

Bungo Stray Dogs: Akiko Yosano

Castlevania: Sypha Belnades, Lenore

Innocent: Lord Marie-Josephe Sanson

Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress: Yukina

Karneval: Iva

Trauma Team: Maria Torres, Naomi Kimishima

Live Action: Ruby Rose, Antonia Thomas, Stefania Ferrario, Tempest Storm, Jhene Aiko, Christina Hendricks, Desmond Doss, P!nk

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What is Maria's favorite season?

that's a good question! thank you for asking it!

i'm personally going to have to say maria's favorite season is fall, and it's honestly just a process of elimination.

winter is too cold for her liking, and cold temperatures can really mess up a sword + scabbard especially if it's below freezing. as someone who takes her katanas everywhere, maria is the sort of person to get disgruntled enough about the inconvenience to dislike winter on principle.

spring is nice, but she has allergies.

summer's just a little too hot. given maria's preferred getup, which is mostly black and made of very thick material, she tends to get winded and overheated easily in fights during the daytime, which is annoying.

and that leaves fall! it's not only the perfect temperature, but it's the lead-in to a lot of holidays that she gets to badger luck into helping her decorate for. not only that, but she likes fall colors the best out of other colors.

unprompted. / accepting.

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"The kitchen!" Maria exclaims, like it's obvious. She has been known to spend some time with Berga in the kitchen, of course, but her involvement generally ends in disaster and a mess. That she's not covered head-to-toe in whatever she was making is something of a miracle. "Come on!!"

She grabs his hand, pulling him behind her because she knows she's the faster one. Some of the Gandor men used to rib Tick about this sort of thing happening, but she'd dealt with that a little, so it should be fine.

"It's a little messy in there, but Berga made me clean most of it up while I was waiting for it to cook and stuff. Ugh. It was really boring! I almost died of boredom! But, you know, it's worth it for my mejor amigo, right?"

to tick's credit, he does consider that maybe this isn't a good idea. it's definitely something she shouldn't be doing, or he shouldn't be doing, or something like that... but it's hard to deny maria even when he wants to, && right now, his curiosity is... somewhat piqued.

his tongue stalls as he tries to guess. "ummmmmm...."

luckily, she rushes right in with the answer, so he's not kept waiting for too long. he pauses, scissors stalling in their methodical snipping of the pile of paper in front of him. ( keith had placed them in front of him without a word, which luck had later elaborated on — these particular documents needed to be completely destroyed, && 'it'll keep you busy for a while, i imagine' ).

"okay! sure, maria, let's goooo." he stands up, happy to allow himself to be led along. ".....where exactly are we going?"

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❛  if we're discussing jails, i've been in one for several millennia already.  ❜

"Well, that's no good. You're out though, right? Hey, right? Well, you'd have to be out if you're talking to me, hahaha!"

Laughing a little childishly, Maria plops her head down into her hands, which in turn lend most of their weight to her elbows on the table. "In any case, that's why you just have to be super-strong, you know? For example, if they ever did put me in jail for anything, I would just cut through the bars with my katana, you know?"

Describing something impossible, Maria doesn't even seem to bat an eye at her own audacity. Of course, considering some of her other ambitions, it's likely that Maria actually does think she could cut through prison bars with an ordinary sword. Considering some things she has managed to cut through, it's not really that much of a stretch to assume.

"Things like that are just too boring. It'd be a little more bearable if you got to do fun things in there," even if her definition of 'fun' is a little warped, "but there's just really nothing good about it at all."

the slash! / accepting.

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maria barcelito is literally the best baccano character like you dont understand she literally is the best one. yes gunmeister smith is my personal favorite but maria is everything that is good about baccano all in one package. sorry

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OPEN STARTER : MARIA BARCELITO

"Heeeeey, amigo!!"

The woman calls out excitedly, using her free hand to cup her mouth so the sound carries further, though she'd shouted plenty loud to begin with. In her other hand, she holds a well-kept katana, though she doesn't seem to be ready to attack with it.

"Yeah, you!! Wanna see something really neat?"

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@destructivour / general starter call --- maria barcelito ( randomly generated ).

"Wow!! That's impressive!!"

The innocent tone to Maria's voice is one that suggests she might not fully grasp the extent of the violent spectacle she'd witnessed. In fact, it wouldn't be inaccurate to call her way of speaking just a little childish---if her exclamation had resulted from anything else, it might even be a little cute.

As it stands, though, Maria knows exactly what she'd been watching. Of course, the only part of her appearance that betrays her familiarity with violent affairs is the swords strapped to her waist, but even those are enough.

"I'll bet you'd be really tough to slash through, amigo." Addressing someone she doesn't know far too familiarly, Maria grins brightly. "But I've met some super tough people, so I think I could do it if I wanted. You know?"

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" you broke my door! " | tO MARIA.

"Well---you locked it!!"

Completely unaware of what the phrase 'invasion of privacy' means, Maria huffs, giving her indignant mix of protest and explanation.

"I wouldn't have broken it if you didn't lock it. I was trying to get in, amigo. You know, the normal way! And then it was locked, so I opened it!" She gestures to the obliterated locking mechanism on the door, which looks as though it had been hit several times with a heavy, sharp object.

There's really no question when it comes to her method of 'opening' the lock.

"I didn't have time to knock because I was going to tell you something really important. It's okay, you can get a new door, right?"

misc. sentences. / accepting.

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What does Maria notice first in the mirror versus what most people first notice looking at her?

maria notices her hair first! she puts a lot of effort into it and likes to have it up the same way every time, and it's always what gets the most messed-up after a fight, so her eyes naturally gravitate there.

most other people either look pretty hard at her outfit (to her delight) or her face (to her chagrin). she likes people looking at her outfit because she wears it to be funny and she thinks it looks really good on her. even if they're judging her, it's always the right kind of people to be judged by, you know?

on the other hand, when people linger too long on her face it's normally because they think she's really pretty, and while she is really pretty and definitely isn't ashamed of that or anything, they usually JUST care about the fact that she has a pretty face.

weirdly specific. / accepting.

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meechi put me in a baccano mood so like this for a starter from one of my baccano! muses. i'll list them under the cut but there's a lot so you don't have to specify; i'll just pick one for you if you don't. multis still specify on your end please!

claire stanfield

melvi dormentaire

luchino b. campanella

maria barcelito

laz smith

huey laforet

ronny schiatto

nader schasschule

graham specter

christopher shaldred

keith gandor

victor talbot

nile

sham

dallas genoard

gretto avaro

ladd russo

dune

pamela mccall

lana sutton

sonia bake

rachel jones

roy maddock

edith carmine

renee parmedes branvillier

connor torra

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psst ... like this for a starter from one of my baccano! muses !! i will adapt them to any verse necessary and if you don't specify which one i will pick the one i think works best !! ( easy list of baccano muses with short summaries under the cut. muses marked with * may require some additional explanation and/or warnings. ).

claire stanfield*

melvi dormentaire*

luchino b. campanella

maria barcelito

laz smith

huey laforet*

ronny schiatto*

nader schasschule

graham specter

christopher shaldred

keith gandor

victor talbot

nile

sham*

dallas genoard*

gretto avaro

ladd russo*

dune

pamela mccall

lana sutton

sonia bake

rachel jones

roy maddock*

edith carmine

renee parmedes branvillier*

connor torra*

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muse-specific content warnings

NOTE: not all of these apply to what i plan to write with these characters, but they very well might come up in general discussion. if you feel writing with or seeing content for any given muse might make you uncomfortable, this is where i am listing down their content warnings so you can blacklist specific muse tags! note that aside from violence and unreality, i will be tagging all of these separately as well.

as a general rule, most discussion of my muses will involve mafia or gang violence. if you do not like that. you probably should not be here. sorry.

every muse tag is formatted like ' muse: character name '. for simplicity's sake, characters' names will be listed in the manner in which i tag them, so characters for whom i have made up last names will only be listed with their first name in this post as i only tag those characters using their first names.

claire stanfield: graphic depictions of violence, solipsism and mild unreality.

maria barcelito: graphic depictions of violence.

graham specter: graphic depictions of violence (specifically of the broken bones and joints variety).

jacuzzi splot: detailed descriptions of panic attacks. mild violence.

nice holystone: graphic depictions of violence (of the bombing variety), self-injury and scarring, eye trauma.

huey laforet: parental abuse of the manipulative variety, arson, parental death, graphic depictions of violence, human experimentation, student-teacher relationships, eye trauma.

melvi dormentaire: parental abuse and grooming, graphic depictions of violence, identity theft, terrorism.

luchino b. campanella: descriptions of vomiting, mild violence.

luck gandor: graphic descriptions of violence, apathy due to depression.

sham: identity theft, manipulation, hivemind themes.

ronny schiatto: mild unreality.

christopher shaldred: graphic descriptions of violence, major self-hatred, mild themes of the extinction of humanity, occasional discussion of bugs.

isaac dian: N/A.

ladd russo: graphic depictions of violence, the US prison system.

maiza avaro: graphic depictions of violence, general recklessness in cars.

upham: terrorism.

chané laforet: terrorism, parental grooming and mild abuse, self mutilation by way of willingly having her vocal cords removed.

gabriel & juliano: graphic depictions of violence.

pamela: kidnapping, gun violence.

lana: kidnapping, gun violence.

sonja bake: kidnapping, gun violence, human weapons.

rachel: N/A.

molsa martillo: graphic depictions of violence.

victor talbot: graphic depictions of violence, the US government and lawmaking systems, gratuitous cursing, national corruption.

keith gandor: graphic depictions of violence.

berga gandor: graphic depictions of violence.

kate gandor: N/A.

kalia gandor: N/A.

laz smith: not necessarily gun violence but a lot of mentions of guns specifically.

mark wilmens: graphic depictions of violence, suicidal thoughts.

roy maddock: past drug addiction and frequent drug mentions, self-harm, suicide attempts, graphic depictions of violence.

edith: frequent drug mentions in relation to roy.

nicola casetti: graphic depictions of violence.

tick jefferson: GRAPHIC depictions of violence and torture.

tim: grooming in the nonsexual way, human experimentation, graphic depictions of violence.

elmer c. albatross: cult activity and related abuse, religious trauma, suicide mentions, graphic depictions of violence.

dallas genoard: graphic depictions of violence, intense descriptions of drowning, severe ptsd symptoms, mild internalized homophobia.

rail: graphic violence of the bombing variety, human experimentation.

lua klein: graphic depictions of violence, suicidal idealation.

charon walken: the US child actor industry.

claudia walken: solipsism and mild unreality, the US child actor industry.

aging: graphic depictions of violence.

sylvie lumiere: human trafficking, abuse, mild violence.

gretto avaro: parental abuse, arson, mild violence, major character death.

monica campanella: past sexual assault, graphic depictions of violence, major character death.

esperanza c. boroñal: past sexual assault in reference to monica's past.

begg garrott: heavy drug use creation & addiction.

nile: graphic depictions of violence.

hong chi-mei: graphic depictions of violence.

renee parmedes branvillier: graphic depictions of violence, human experimentation, student-teacher relationships, eye trauma.

nader schasschule: terrorism, manipulation.

gustav st. germain: N/A.

carol: N/A.

carzelio runorata: graphic depictions of violence, bears.

leeza laforet: parental abuse, human experimentation, identity theft, hivemind themes, graphic depictions of violence, eye trauma.

adele: graphic depictions of violence, human experimentation.

ricardo russo: identity theft, graphic depictions of violence, apathy due to depression.

ennis: human experimentation, mild violence.

mark twain: parental abuse, graphic depictions of violence, mild unreality, cult mentions, past suicide attempts, survivor's guilt.

roger zelazny: graphic depictions of violence.

cahir mawr dyffryn aep ceallach: war, graphic depictions of violence, attempted kidnapping, inprisonment, major character death.

cyran azerrad kapral: graphic depictions of violence.

camille renaudin: living dolls, mild unreality.

yuri briar: borderline siscon, corrupt government operations.

puss in boots: general themes of death and mortality, graphic descriptions of violence.

hatsune miku: mild unreality, AI technology.

ice pick joe: graphic depictions of violence.

yemevon: graphic depictions of violence and sickness.