#muse; it's a twin thing.

[aparticularbandit]

you know in undertale, how there are the two mirrors, and when the player character looks in the first mirror, it says, it's you! and then what is said in the second mirror depends on which route you take?

i need ryoko looking into a mirror all happy with it's you! and then a second picture beneath that with jumpscare spooky junko and it's me.

[pattrat]

[hells-fvry]

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[aroaceleovaldez]

Hi this is a very random question with probs no answer but I wanted to see your opinions on it. Who do you think is castor and pollux’s mother/other parent? (Mr D’s kids not the actual mythological figures lol) Cause the main options that me and my friends came up with is that either they were someone who some how came to the camp (specifically not a camper but idk how’d they’d get there) Or they were a camper. Either way Mr D isn’t supposed to leave the camp, so how can he have kids?

(I’m not asking if you think they’re a specific character more so who would their other parent be if that makes sense lol)

So one of the established things in the canon of how deities work - at least the Greco-Roman deities - in PJO is that they can inhabit multiple spaces at once, which is very interesting. We’ve seen this a couple of times in varying forms (less so as the series goes on), in fact primarily from Dionysus. The best moment I can think of off the top of my head in-series that explains this is in TLO, where Percy talks to Dionysus while Dionysus is at a party and he explains how he can manifest at least partially present in either a physical or non-physical form in places relevant to his aspects - in this case, revelry. Mr. D, as camp director, is almost entirely present and locked to CHB, but he is capable of also partially not being there, because he does still have godly duties to attend to in bits and pieces in places where his aspects are present. So, theoretically, we can presume a situation such as that is how Dionysus had Pollux and Castor. (This also plays into my personal headcanons about demigods being primarily born of specific epithets of their parents - as presumably the partial-presence thing would result in only specific aspects of that deity being present to specific things - resulting in a specific range of potential powers depending on which epithet they’re born from, i.e.: Meg being born from an older form of Demeter.)

Though I do also like your idea of Castor and Pollux’s mortal parent potentially being a mortal who visited camp, because we actually have a couple of different routes you could go with that. First is obviously, parent of an existing demigod at CHB, which is kind of a really funny option to me because this means Castor and Pollux potentially have (or had) an older half-sibling with a different godly parent. That also actually fits the myth of the original Castor and Pollux well because depending on the version of the myth they actually had separate fathers despite being twins (or, also depending on myth, actually quadruplets with twin sisters Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra). Heck, if we want to go more in on the myth paralleling, maybe Castor and Pollux are quadruplets and have or had twin sisters in camp in a different cabin, and their parent had come to camp before actually having their kids to get advice beforehand from Chiron. I actually really like that headcanon now. Dang.

Other options are the “mortal ended up in camp not knowing anything about demigods” routes - and we have two potential routes I can see for this. One being the Lost Pizza Guy™ route of “A deity purposefully summoned a random mortal to camp for Reasons and let them in,” second is actually acknowledging that CHB is, to mortals who cannot see through the mist, disguised as a strawberry farm that is publicly known and theoretically occasionally receives mortal visitors (by accident or on purpose) which is also interesting because in TOA we’re actually told that CHB is surrounded by other farms. Maybe it was people from a neighboring farm visiting, or mortals who wanted to tour and/or go strawberry picking, both of which do actually align with Dionysus’ aspects as an agricultural deity, which is also potentially pretty cute cause that implies Castor and Pollux’s mortal family is most likely local and that Castor and Pollux might have grown up around camp if not actually lived right next to it.

Anyways, options abound! Thank you for leading me down this train of thought because now I have significantly more Castor & Pollux thoughts and they’re all very cute. These are all delightful options.

[missallanea-a]

If I had a nickel for every time Mal and I played a set of dysfunctional fraternal twins where the sister was more "powerful" and domineering and the brother met a perceived tragic fate, I'd have...

...I'd actually have a lot of nickels.

[protect-namine]

I put up a poll on which events will likely happen first in genshin and someone actually said that we'll get venti's second story quest before exploring natlan, and I'm like. oh buddy. I soooo badly want that to happen, but at this point I think the fatui will gather all the gnosis before we even get that story quest lmao

for context: the fatui has all the gnosis except natlan's (presumably). the archons' second story quest usually introduces interesting Fundamental™ lore and a new weekly boss. zhongli introduced the idea of erosion and traveler being a witness; ei showed chaotic spacetime dimensions and just... the weird flow of time using the sakura tree, nahida and apep gave us dragon lore and the idea of memories being convertible to energy.

I guess it's up in the air what fontaine's will be. 'cause from what I understand, technicallyyyy... there is no hydro archon anymore. the divine seat was destroyed so the authority is back with the hydro dragon sovereign instead (the gnosis is more like an elemental amplifier, but it's not really the source of elemental "authority"). so I guess it could be neuvillette's second story quest that will introduce something new, but it could also still be furina's. idk.

anyway. so like. regardless when venti's second story quest will appear, what is he gonna reveal this late into the game? it can't be about preserving history through songs, because zhongli already covered erosion and we also already saw in wanderer's interlude quest that fiction may contain more truth than memories and historical records. it can't be about time travel and dimensional pockets (domains) where spacetime is chaotic, because ei already showed us that (plus... everything that happened in that interlude quest with xiao and yelan).

so, this late into the game, what information is he gatekeeping from us that we can't discover through others? natlan will probably drop more dragon lore, so that can't be it. alchemy is albedo and rhinedottir's whole thing; astronomy/hydromancy is mona's and barbeloth's; fates and the fake sky might even be wanderer's, 'cause I guess his vahumana thesis is gonna be his future story quest and he introduced the idea of the sky being fake. or, I guess nicole's too. structure of teyvat might be alice's thing (since she takes care of teyvat's borders). dainsleif always reveals new khaenri'ah and abyss order lore. surlatogi and skirk probably covers the abyss stuff.

so that leaves us with... descenders and celestia? omg can venti give us descender lore pleaseeee I think he should actually be the one to clear that up for us, especially since it's possible he was the one that summoned the twins to teyvat in the first place. but I guess celestia would work too. the statue of barbatos is engraved with "gateway of celestia" after all.

[glamrockrabbit]

Some More Glamrock Bonnie! Rocking out with his bass and also taking a "smoke break" with a birthday candle. I love that imagery lol

I couldn't decide what color his shades would be so I decided to give him all that I thought of. lol

[dutybcrne]

Was Kaeya and Diluc’s whole Confrontation before or after he left the Knights? Bc if it took place AFTER…

It wouldn’t have been fire from Diluc’s Vision that hurt Kaeya, now would it?

[corcnaiism]

;-- im gonna be playing the newest zzz update once i get home from work, so much more slower replies until im done with it.

[thundertide]

It's blog update time y'all~! <3

Two new muses have been added! Kyros, a Fatuus under the command of both Kagota and Childe ( @yoroiis ) who has some heavy ties to @waltzofphoenix's Diluc and Kaeya, and Rosalee, a frequently ill Fontanian girl with a particular fascination for magic and the things it could do to change her world.

Rules have been updated to add notes about Rosalee and Kyros to the triggers section, as well as recieved some minor tweaks here and there, like noting that while I'm caught up on the current plot, I like to take the game slowly and there's still much I don't know, having started playing only a year ago. I can't even consider myself a newbie anymore so time that changed-

Saiki's about has gotten a tiny update while it's in line for its major one: Her mother now has the name Adria, and is a woman who has heavy ties to a lot of things waiting in the wings for upcoming plots, much to Saiki's dismay and Adria's pure delight-

Kagota's about is now deemed an ongoing Work In Progress. It's been updated to reflect current plots, upcoming things, and general plotting going on, including her promotion to Operative shortly before the Fontaine chapter's start as well as her gaining a cryo delusion alongside it, her working with Childe under the Tartaglia name, carrying his vision rather than the Traveler, and the addition of a family section in her about to list out the members of her massive family, be they adopted, found family, in-laws, or blood, and her pregnancy during the Fontaine chapter with their firstborns. However, because of her closeness to Childe and how incredibly intertwined they are, something @yoroiis and I are constantly discussing and working with, and my outright refusal to step on the toes of canon if I can avoid doing so, she's also heavily impacted by the current archon quest events and with said quests as their own ongoing thing right now, I'm leaving her about as a WIP and will be tweaking and updating it as updates come in game, which also will leave her as very much still pregnant with her twins for the time being for anything set in the current point of the game's storyline due to an inability to pinpoint when their births occur. Please pardon the dust as things change and work themselves out over time regarding Fontaine, as future blog update posts like this will likely have more information on them regarding this.

Information on Kagota's abilities and fighting style with her cryo delusion will be added in future tweaks as a result of the previous point. I want to take this slow and think it out in full carefully, and use everything the game gives to work this out.

I think that's everything for this update round - I am still working heavily on things behind the scenes and there's a lot still upcoming being plotted and decided on pretty much every day, but I also don't like updating things without making posts like this to make them known, either! Even if it IS mentioning how much is staying as a WIP because agh, I have one mighty FONTAINE WHY waiting in the background for a LOT of the lore we're getting! XD

~Pom

[aparticularbandit]

Another story I think about but don't know that I'll write - AU where Ryoko never tells Mukuro that they're sisters.

Beneath a cut because this relies on me changing one thing re: twins' backstory as I plan to use it in the trilogy and then following the major event changes that come as a result of that singular AU change.

Basically, spoilers for that, so don't read if you don't want those.

Mukuro confesses, but Ryoko says no.

Ryoko doesn't go on the family trip because Mukuro doesn't stand up to her dad on behalf of their being sisters.

Ikusaba-sensei doesn't have Fenrir try to kill Ryoko when they come for Mukuro (because he doesn't see their relationship as a threat and because Ryoko isn't there).

Ryoko doesn't run away and change her name or start Junk Co. and subsequently never becomes a fashionista.

Mukuro spends her time super devoted to Fenrir. Thinks she has moved on.

Comes back to Hope's Peak as the Ultimate Soldier in the same class as Ryoko Otonashi the Ultimate Analyst.

Sudden onslaught of feelings because she didn't move on she just suppressed them.

Shenanigans ensue wherein:

1) Ryoko and Yasuke are very dating. Everyone knows this.

2) SOMEBODY tries to get Mukuro to confess again anyway (Ryoko will still say no. She is consist on this front).

3) Real ship is Mukuro with whoever thought she should go confess to someone who is ALREADY IN A RELATIONSHIP.

4) Also Ryoko has glasses because let her be a nerd girl.

5) Also Izuru Kamukura is still a thing and so are the Reserve Course riots because Junko didn't start either of those, she just used them for her own Ultimate Despair benefit. (It is debatable if Ryoko is still Ultimate Despair here or not. I took away the things I used for her catalyst. I don't know.)

The last one really just means examining maybe what the Steering Committee planned to do about all of this. There's no mass murder of the student council (probably?), but Chisa and Munakata and Sakakura are still investigating.

...and Kyoko would be, too, if she knew there was something to investigate without Jin literally telling her.

So like.

Not Despaircest, because Mukuro would endgame ship with someone else (and Ryoko is all in on Yasuke).

But more of a. what if. for my very specific TTLT headcanon backstory for the twins.

[kurthorton-moving]

anyone else feel like screaming

[nomaishuttle]

like currently i rly truly donot want kids i am not ready i would not be able to take care of them mentally or financially. but i still rly rly love imagining a future if/when i am able to take care of children. bc id rly rly rly love to be like.a healthy parent and give my kids a good life yk. like o think thats just somrthjng j rly strive for

[coreofgold]

@tragcdysewn for Lan Wangji

"Didi ? Are you home?" Xichen called through he closed door as he knocks. He lost his brother twice already and if he loses him a third time then that's it for him. "Are you safe ?" Wait if he didn't answer that yet then why would he answer if he's safe ?

[seaseren]

I suppose if I want to Make Orion I have to figure out the, like, actual WoL she's helping but also. I am considering "Orion dedicated herself to becoming a mysterious mentor/assistant to the hero and then the 'real' hero just fucking dies and she's left along." Unsure how that would work w the Azem rock tho

[beinfriends-a]

( tell me why i’m thinking about coming back to this blog. tell me why. )