#my inmortal soul

[itsme493]

Heartbeat (415 words) by Freak_Writer Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, Xiaolin Showdown (Cartoon) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: First Ninja (Randy Cunningham)/Chase Young (Xiaolin Showdown) Characters: First Ninja (Randy Cunningham), Chase Young (Xiaolin Showdown) Additional Tags: No Dialogue, Gay, Romantic Tension, Resolved Romantic Tension, Sexual Tension, Resolved Sexual Tension, but its not explicit, The Author Regrets Everything, i hate how i write Summary: I can feel your heartbeat heartbeat heartbeat You hate it that you love me love me love me

@drawnfamiliarfaces here is my fanfic lol

[elbiotipo]

"We address you, those who don't know what war is."

[eternallog]

No fairytale ending for the night Just death and life

Frederick my D&D 5e warlock to an Undying, who may or may not be willing to abandon and sacrifice anyone to get what he wants (riches, power and filling the unending void inside) ((:

the guy himself

[lady-quen]

Places this in the sea of "Trahearne survives" AUs. Presenting Trahearne Inmorte, resident seething Firstborn plant bonded to a frankenstein bug. Alternatively, Trahearne if he picked ferocity in the character creator.

Anyway, finally posting about my version of the good ole Marshal, lovingly dubbed Crankhearne - aka Risen Lich Trahearne, revived immediately post-getting to know his sword too closely, courtesy of Morivitae, ( @commanderteag ) the Pact's pet Scion of Zhaitan. Having kept a dragon of dubious morals on a metaphorical leash, Trahy promptly gets UNO reversed. These two start toxic but get better over time, creating a fun contrast to the Commander of the verse, Aestus, who belongs to @mithosis.

Similarly to my own Commander, Mael, he keeps his condition as a lich secret from everyone aside from his closest circle. I swear I'm not collecting undead plants, the Zhaitan Scion Champion opportunity was just far too good to pass up. Have some more screenshots, and more (a lot more) lore ranting below the cut.

The very last thing the Pact Marshal expected when waging war against Zhaitan was to strike a bargain with Zhaitan's child. Information against his master and aid in cleansing Orr - in exchange for freedom once the Elder Dragon was slain. But, still, keeping a beast of that caliber on a leash proved a challenge, even when he could shapeshift more or less into mortal shape. After all, an ancient beast that subsisted on eating life force and grafting foreign body parts to itself did not take to Tyrian morals immediately. It wasn't a partnership by any means - a monster was a monster, but so was a promise. As long as the creature called "Morivitae" behaved, he could prove an asset against the other Dragons. A weapon. A wildcard. But then, awakened Mordremoth. The Maguuma disaster. His greatest failure, and, ultimately, his end. A final request for the Commander to take Caladbolg from his shaking hands and strike. But something within the Death Scion stirred at the sorrow. At the Commander's cries. An inkling of emotion, a faint flicker of something unfathomable. And gold eyes opened again. Welcome, O Champion of Shadow and Death. And now, the Marshal was on a leash of his own.

Trahearne went to the Domain of the Lost when he died, and time flowed differently there. So he spent "days" wandering and fighting the phantoms that took his name and face, just like the Commander. He met the Judge but there was no crisis in the Mists, so no offer to come back like during PoF, just gotta accept death but also have to process it first. Poor Trahearne was dissociated the whole time, thinking he was Mordremoth. He had to be given a second name to latch onto until he found his real one - and then he was ripped out of the Mists by Mori just before he could claim his rightful rest. Needless to say, waking back up a Risen of all things and cut off from the Dream did not do his mental health any favors.

"I don't remember my name but I was something horrible. You mustn't let me into the afterlife. I can't destroy it, too..." "You must find your name before you continue onward, wherever your final destination lies. If you fail, your soul will fade." "Good. I want to fade. I need to." "No, you must find the truth. That is the law of this place. Your spirit is noble, there is no malice in you. But there is suffering, and this isn't your final punishment." "I'm fading. I can't tell how - why - I can't move anymore. I need to... what am I..." "You are.. Inmorte, The Lost Wanderer. This name I give you now so you may continue. Hold onto it tightly and find your purpose. Your real name." "...I... I will."

Following his resurrection, he continues to lead the Pact as its Marshal, and is adamant on never using a mask nor mesmer illusions to cover his face - wearing his disfigurement openly in solidarity with all the other sylvari mutilated by Mordremoth's influence. There are questions as to why the Marshal was torn from the Dream and his glow changed to a necromantic green, but not many dare seek the truth of their own accord. Trahearne becomes a much more fearsome, decisive leader - going from scholar to truly formidable strategic mastermind, wanting nothing more than to ensure the tragedy of Maguuma never repeats.

"It's not mere confidence, it's pathological. As though everything stopped mattering back in that jungle, and yet I am ever more determined to see things through til the end. It's the only reason I can justify existing in this state."

The only instance where he does use illusions (excluding stealth missions, of course) is over his hands - due to an unfortunate incident where Caladbolg completely burned off the flesh from his fingers. As a result, his real hands are skeletal. This is due to his obsession with the sword, practically never letting it go, to the point he once fell asleep holding it. Since he no longer feels pain correctly, the damage was done before he woke back up - and Mori does not seem to possess the ability to mend, only animate that which should already be dead.

Trahearne's obsession with Caladbolg stems from the fact he initially believes the weapon to be the only thing keeping his soul from being fully corrupted by the Dragon he is bound to - clinging to a hope that the Thorn could purify the death magic in him just like it had once purified Orr. Alas, that is not the case, but also he eventually finds he is not as doomed as he had once believed - growing into a Champion of Death and Rebirth under his Scion patron as they both find their greater purpose - a balance to Aestus and Aurene's light. Still, his destiny remains irrevocably tied to the very land that haunted his Dream and cursed him with a seemingly impossible task.

"You're the First of the First, born in the garden of Eden and destined to purify a sunken hell risen from the depths on the other side of the sea. A task thought impossible, especially as your siblings begin to rise around you with destinies that seem more achievable. Compelled, you spend over twenty years studying the land of the walking dead, so much that the stench of it all is all but branded into your flesh. It's all you see when you sleep. The neverending expanse of bleak, gray-brown rock and twisting anemone and tide-torn ruins. Nothing living grows in Orr. It's all absolute desolation. There are none of your siblings there and you're so terribly lonely. ...In all your years, you never thought this could happen. With the Commander at your side and the son of Zhaitan mutinying against his father, Orr blooms again. The Artesian waters run clear, and life wanders slowly back into the land. It will take years, many more years than you'll be alive for, but the weight is lifted. You can leave. It's over. With hope in your heart, you feel like whatever comes next will only be easier. It's not. You die. And you rise. You never left Orr, because Orr never had the intention of leaving you."

Perhaps, just perhaps - one day, when the sunken kingdom heals completely, his soul will be allowed its due rest. Until then, he has some work to do.

[immediatebreakfast]

I found that my landlord had got a letter from the Count, directing him to secure the best place on the coach for me; but on making inquiries as to details he seemed somewhat reticent, and pretended that he could not understand my German.

The reaction, and following actions of the old romanian couple after learning that the Count placed the responsability of securing Jonathan's travel to the castle on them is a true testament on the horror limbo that these people have been living for god knows how long.

An inmortal, and monstruos man lives inside the countryside in luxury untouched by time itself orders you to secure transportation for this young man, barely an adult in what matters who has traveled so far, to meet what you know will be his death. A being that should be a myth is forcing your hand to guide the son of another mother to an early grave, an end that is waiting for him outside of the walls of your inn.

He and his wife, the old lady who had received me, looked at each other in a frightened sort of way... When I asked him if he knew Count Dracula, and could tell me anything of his castle, both he and his wife crossed themselves, and, saying that they knew nothing at all, simply refused to speak further. 

How many times has this happened? How many young people have dissapeared one day without leaving a single trace while everyone has to force ignorance within their brains less the terror makes them unable to keep going. Worse, even if the young english man, all bright eyed and full of life, says That Name out loud you can't chastice him for such mistake because he simply doesn't know what he is calling, and the only thing that you can do is close your eyes to pray for his soul.

However, sometimes the horror is so overwhelming that another answer comes out, a last ray of hope that could change the course of what seems to be written in stone. A simple hand extending in frightened kindness for a fellow human being.

"Must you go? Oh! young Herr, must you go?"

This old woman, this old lady who has and still lives under the terror of the Count decides to try. She tries, and tries to convince Jonathan to not go, to not leave to walk to the jaws of the beast, or to at least wait for a day or two because everything is pointing to what seems to be the inevitable. Moreover, when her pleads are futile at the end, she still dares to gift Jonathan a rosary, a small protection against that cursed being who laughs at the face of everything that makes her human.

She saw, I suppose, the doubt in my face, for she put the rosary round my neck, and said, "For your mother's sake," and went out of the room.

This old lady not only sees Jonathan the young man who is just starting his life, she sees a mother waiting for any news of her son coming home. She sees a poor woman trying to find anything that could tell her an answer of whenever her son is alive or dead, while being unable to both live and grieve.

The old lady doesn't know if Jonathan will survive his duty. In fact I could pressume how her guilt of knowing that the rosary on itself is still not enough to ward off the Count made her leave the room, but she still tried to hold on the hope that this time, maybe this time, there won't be another young soul buried in the soil.

[saltsongwc]

That Reedshine post made me think... Does Mapleshade have any sway with either Tiger or Spotted, like with Tiger in his book? How does the DarkForest work in your AU actually? I love how you portray the afterlives!

-🐻

We start the year with another Sal yap session about Starclan and the Dark Forest (yippie) (no art I need a while to put my headcanons into art)

No training in the dark forest (imagine blaming your antagonists action on "The Devil made me do it" (boring implementation in Warrior cats tbh)).

First and foremost question to answer: Is Starclan omnipresent AND omniscient or just omnipresent? The answer: Omnipresent, meaning they can see everything everywhere but don't know everything (they are after all ancestors limited to what they knew in life and the collective experience of each other, which gives the air but they are unpredictable in actually being able to tell the consequences of the future)

I see them working a lot like a buroucracy, meaning that while it works, it's not necessarely efficient, or good, but it is simple.

I also imagine that their appearance changes over time, a bit of the "When a cat is forgetten they fade away" except I like my other wordly presence to contain just a bit of horror in its eternaty, cats that are forgotten become another one with the stars, another whisper in the amalgamation that is the Starclan conciousness, the omens you receive, that too intelligent mouse you catch, the fox that spared you, they are everywhere and it is as natural as your body returning to the earth.

They can separate themselves from the amalgamation when they wish, they just look very, unpersonal for the average newly deceased cat, all starry pelt, hazened eyes, they ignore the passage of time because a day has become a second, so they seem cruel to many but are just, apathetic (they are the cloudy effect that is described in Spottedstar's 9 lives ceremony, when a Starclan cat is being whispered to they connect for a moment to the amalgamate)

So what does that mean for the Dark Forest?

In my mind, the way the Dark Forest works is as another part of Starclan, not a separation. Dark Forest cats are sent there because they have committed horrible crimes in the eyes of Starclan, would actively have done damage to the clans, or chose to walk the starless path for self punishment.

They cannot harm living cats, but they can go into their dreams, though this takes significant skill and time to learn AND use so must don't do it. Spottedstar is the only one that does it a lot. It's more often they escape the forest and wander among the living, but they are not like Starclan cats, so the common cat can't see them even if they try and they can't make themselves known. Medicine cats however can, and yes it is terrifying for them (often they confuse the visage of a Dark Forest cat for an actual warning from Starclan).

Cats in the Dark Forest can't die, but it certainly comes a time where they can't be considered ghosts anymore, be it they become forgotten and never repented, or they fade into the amalgamate if they do (they enter the rivers and drown), when they are forgotten, they become another tree in the forest, interwinded into its trunk, a final rest to their wandering souls (who walk alone the starless skies). But they still whisper, in your dreams they craawl, the nightmares you forget, is their rest truly a rest? You can never forget them.

And now a tangent about legendary cats (aka Inmortalized warriors just by word of mouth (they are not necessarily all good, but they are))

Mapleshade is very old by even Starclan standards, she's the tale you tale the kits so they never play by the river, she's the horrible story you share in apprentice dens before you go to sleep, she's a legend in the clans and she remains between the forests, so old the trees bow around her (she's even witnesssed many of them form from first appearing to their final rest). She's become so engrained in clan culture even her tale is being debated, actions by others questioned, many claiming she never actually existed and it's just a tall tale to get restless kits to behave (and a funny warning to scare cheating mates "Look out or Mapleshade will get you"). Every so often, you'll feel eyes piercing you by the corner of your gaze, the calico she-cat a ghost behind you.

Mapleshade appears in the forest as large, carrying her wet pelt and muddied, bloody, she cannot enter the river to rest (she has survived the currents of life), she's aggressive, she's explosive, she weeps and cries and curses the stars and everyone but her, she cannot see the storm for what is only the drops of tears in her eyes.

Shadowstar is ancient, older than the trees, than the two-legs, she and the founders manifest like separation from the amalgamation, like a living shadow, her stars are not hers but of thousand of clanmates before and after her, she is the swamp and pines, green-leaf season, she appears tall and eternal overlooking Starclan in the nightsky.

Moth Flight is thousand of wings, they hide her and she floats, only a visible eye. The wings are crystals, and she shines, she's separated from others, she is the prophecies and dreams, the hopeful, the fool.

Spottedstar, despite being young in the forest, is bones and pelts, her heart bleeds down on her paws, she's tied to her kin in the way a curse is, she's the remainder and the dreams that she enters are her kin's, because she'll never be gone to them, never can abandon her though must wish, she's cunning, planning, she's plotting her return, the trees laughs but she'll show them, she'll show them all.

Tangent over.

Have I thought about how this impacts PO3 and OTA? Nope! But I hope you enjoy my thoughts

[cocoswap]

COCOSWAP MASTERLIST

MAIN STORY

Cocoswap is an Undertale / Storyswap AU about Cocoswap Chara or Coco for short. After their strange, glitchy timeline ends up disappearing, Coco ends up in the Doodle Sphere, waiting for someone to help them.

CHAPTER LIST

0.1

The history gets updated as the creator updates the content and answers asks.

ALTERNATE ROUTES

Weird Route: Coco finds a strange man who convinces them to find the soul of a boss monster. THIS ROUTE HASN’T BEEN CHOSEN YET.

Genocide / Rampage Route: Coco convinces Core!Frisk to allow them to enter the Omega Timeline. Core grants them said thing, seeing how nice they are and how much they suffered. However, Coco’s will changes, and they decide to go on a rampage. THIS ROUTE HASN’T BEEN CHOSEN YET.

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@deputyclover - Deputy Clover and their friends.

@skitswap - Juliet.

@ask-wanderer-au - Wanderer!Sans.

@bokzbandeet - Quill!Sans.

@anetdummy - Anet.

[Updated as Coco gets more allies.]

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Chara goes by She/They. They’re non-binary.

DO NOT tag/reblog posts with SHIP TAGS. IT WILL RESULT IN A TEMPORARY BLOCK (some extreme cases PERMANENT BLOCK.)

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DON’T HARASS COCO’S TEAMMATES / ENEMIES / FRIENDS (texting, DMing, spamming hate to a blog). MOST OF THEM ARE PEOPLE I KNOW OR MY FRIENDS. IF YOU DO SO IT WILL RESULT ON A PERMANENT BLOCK.

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Boss 1 - Vs. Inmortal Hydrangea

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COCO REF.

Extra: Deltarune Battle Sprite (used in the boss fight sections)

[Cocoswap Chara's design is inconsistent, they change and swap clothes every second...]

[rottenangel2]

hey could you an omen x reader relationships headcanons with someone who's a radiant with plant power who can control the nature around them

hello, this is almost my first request so im kinda exited. i dont wnt to risk messing it up so imma do hc for this. Hope you like it. Honestly i dont have any more words bc of tummy hurts.

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NATURE AND ANTINATURAL

(Before relationship)

First of all, you gotta know that Omen see hismelf as something against nature and its own process, this all due that he is not human and even since he transformed into radiant, no one has see him as a human, a product of something natural and mean to be.

He see himself as a violation of the human anatomy and evolution, thinking that he is a disgrace. And by this, he gonna mostly think that a person that control and live protecting the nature, is gonna hate him for who he is. and this person is you.

But the little and more relevants interactions he realize that is not that bad, that you are not some kind of lorax, just a person than meant to be to have a strong bond to plants and some interesing informacion about botany, but bno that you could or want to rip him apart for not being a human one.

Even with this, the bond among you both is his dear bonsai. A tree he have been taking care of for relaxing benefits, learning patience and admiration towards his plant.

You, as a radiant with a control for plants, helped him with his task on the tree, helping him with some tips and even, when his bonsai was dying while he was out, control the plant so it would be amazing as if a perfect care taker was the owner of it. THing that of course he didn´t knew.

After you both had already a good friend base, where you both helped and admired each others habilities, he would get some trust and confident towards you. His time with his bonsai for him was sacred, a moment of peace between him and his adopted son, but since you knew a lot about it, he would spend his alone time with you.

With this little alone time among both of you, the secrets, vent, jokes, confesions and trust starting blooming.

(Relationship development)

He was a radiant, not anything, his habilities where persued on killing and dying, he was used to it, even if its purpose was heal, as could be with sage, he knew something twisted was on it, it was breaking up the circle of life itself, something he tough he did a lot of times by being a inmortal.

But with you, this cicle was safe, not on risk, you werent reviving plants, you managed them as you pleased, trying to understand their living and even, had a bond with nature itself. (he swears you talk with trees)

This power, the habilitie of peace with something as wild and beautifull as nature made him admire and have so many ask about you, when did you realize? how was like? could you have the same relationships with plants with animals?

And between this questions he realized he wasnt just admiring you. he felt warm inside, which was weird because he was always cold.

And it was diferent, everytime he hold or taked care of the bonsai, he felt as if, in a way, he was taking care of you. And that made his inside soul even more warm.

Sorry for not doing it as IN the relationship, just didnt tough as if that would be the big big deal, i just think that this kind of conections are really special at the time of link two persons togheter, annwss, Hope y´ll liked it!!

[universe-xlll]

This is Nogrety, Lamb's first spouse they're from my first playthrough of the game. (I still miss them :[[ )

Some basic info/lore that you might wanna know about them under the cut!

-Nogrety confessed first then after a while Lamb asked their hand in marriage, Nogrety wasn't sure at first because they thought the Lamb just asked as something political when it wasn't.

-Nogrety is a cow, but prefers the male/neutral terms, Lamb would call him "husband" in private and "spouse" in public.

-One of the first generations from the cult, saw Lamb as an equal, tho they respected the cult's leader role.

-Helped build the first farms and loved to work in the field.

-Nogrety was loved among the cult but also respected as a second in command when Lamb wasn't there. (He was close to being the first disiple too but died before Lamb could give them the role)

-Died with sickness waiting for the Lamb to return from a crusade in Anura, they still feel guilty about leaving their husband alone.

-Lamb spent over three decades mourning Nogrety, Narinder had to poses their body in order for the cult to not fall apart. Lamb doesn't remember anything from that period.

-Lamb married other followers but only when they asked only to keep the cult happy even if it made them sad.

-Only marriage that was done for love, until Lamb Married Narinder several decades later after "getting over" their first love, tho Narinder knows he cannot compete with such thing, so he just helps him through the bad days.

-Sometimes Narinder would summon Nogrety's soul to the cult grounds so they would keep the Lamb in check, Nogrety became a servant of The one who waits until Lamb ascended.

-Lamb refuses to revive Nogrety because they don't want to burden them with inmortality now that he has the Inmortality necklaces.

-The cult knows Lamb is always mourning because Nogrety's tomb is still intact and clean with new flowers everyday at the graveyard.

Hope you like my character and well a bit of lore about my lamb and their spouse hehehe.

Nogrety is from my actual game file, so yeah, I still miss them, tho I changed a bit of things because I actually wanted to make a fic with a bit of my take on the game events, and what better to give my Lamb their story with things that happened to me in game?

Anyways hope it wasn't too boring or long to read. Later!

[confess-for-botw-totk]

At the end of TotK, Mineru can finally rest assured that Hyrule is in good hands... since she's in heaven now, would that mean that there's now a vacant for the sage of Spirit? If Zelda somehow stayed with Mineru's secret stone, would that mean that the new sage of Spirit would be Purah? I mean, she is a vital part of your adventure, always helping.

She was the one who, along Robbie, perfected the Sheikah slate that Mineru examines in the distant past, manages to recreate acient technology and Purah's arc of rejuvenating herself would go in par with Mineru's acient research and secret stone powers... Mineru's ability allow her to leave her body and thus, being inmortal via her soul, but if she had Purah's de-aging machine Mineru would've been physically inmortal... and since Purah managed that... and Purah is along all of the sages plus Link and Zelda when they're saying goodbye to Mineru, sooo, maybe Purah's now the sage of Spirit! It makes sense in my honest opinion...

_*_

[xjulixred45x]

I Saw Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2) yesterday, and Even thoug i LOVED the movie, i personally have a problem i'm how they managed the character of Delores. Bc GOD she has potential to be the ACTUAL MAIN VILLIAN OF THE MOVIE.

Why i Say "actual Main VILLIAN"? Bc the trailer of the Movie show her LIKE THE MAIN VILLIAN, but we BARELY SEE HER and Worst, we see other minor antagonists (the "Romantic interest" of Astrid/ Rory) MORE THAN HER.

And normally this SHOULDN'T have to be Bad perse, but we got something totally different from what we spected in the Bad sense. And from a Character VERY IMPORTANT TO THE PLOT(A SOUL SUCKER, A PERSON FROM THE PAST OF BEETLEJUICE AND WHOM WE USE TO KNOW HIS BACKSTORY!) so, i came up with how I would handle Delores without changing ALMOST NOTHING of the Movie.

Instead of the guy, Dolores could have make her way into the living wolrd, both to stalk Lydia, and to make the arrengments to make the ritual to archive inmortality. But in the proccess she needs to 1- get the soul of Beetlejuice and 2- have her own life Back. And how does she do it?

Easy! She manipules Astrid into becoming her friend(maybe using a máscara?) and make the pact they do in the movie. Going for "migration", getting a soul, being temporally stoped by Beetlejuice, and then the secuence of the weeding.

The rest of the movie? The exact same. But with the participation of Delores instead of the "Romantic interest"(it would be funny if Delores ends up obsesed over Astrid like Beetlejuice with Lydia thoug). And FIN!

It was that hard? I mean WHY WAS THERE TYE ROMANTIC INTEREST IN THE FIRST PLACE?? IDK. Hope You at least enjoy My rant.

[itsme493]

spoiler of the fanfic I'm writing about my immortal soul

(I use a translator because English is not my first language)

@drawnfamiliarfaces

[epicnightm]

Wave is here guys!!

Meet Wave, a sans made of water, He goes by He/Him, he is demiromantic and lives in the sea.

Originally Wave was going to be a swap-like version of Fireflame, but when I was finishing his design i descarted it, so he´s not a Swap!Fireflame or something like that.

Because he´s made of water, a liquid, he can change his form at his will, like Nightmare does

This is an example of what I´m saying.

Oh, and he´s going to appear in my animated series NightVerse, so that´s cool.

Wave doesn´t have a soul, because he´s a liquid, and he´s also inmortal by the same reason, so he would be a deadly enemy, but luckily he isn´t strong or anything, he can´t hurt you even if he tried to.

He has a counterpart called Lava, I´ll reveal his design another day, this is the future link for Lava.

Go ask questions about him in my askbox!!!!

You can use him on drawings, comics, animations... without asking me, just make sure to credit me, and this is optional but please tag me ´cause I want to see your work!! Thank you.

Wave belongs to EpicNightM (Me)

Undertale belongs to Toby Fox

[mistic-turtle]

Aiko (me): Vash, I was thinking... You will become a plant when you die. What am I going to do?

Vash: *ruffles her hair* You will take care of that plant if you want to. I will be there. Inmortality is possible. My body will die but my soul won't. I'll be in that little plant. You will breath the oxygen I give to your lungs, I'll give you what you need to keep living. I will be that company you need. I'll give you that fruit you love so much, or that flower you love to look at when you wake up. You'll know I'll be there because every time you see that plant, you'll know it's me looking at you.

Aiko: *starts crying* Such a beautiful thought... Mf my make up...

Vash: *hugs her* Aiko, don't cry. You won't be alone if I die first... I will always be with you. Even if you can't see me... *kisses her forehead*

[lady-quen]

The Dark Souls joke with my undead scion of Zhaitan's Champion Trahearne Inmorte and @mithosis ' Commander Aestus is so funny when you consider there is also a Destroyer boss in Draconis Mons named Aestus so all I can think of is some Vigil soldiers being like, "Commander, your fire magic is so badass we named this cataclysmic fire entity after you" and Aestus, the kindest sunshine sweetheart imaginable, just goes ???????

[alex-leweird]

Okay, I'm curious. Convince me of the truth of the asenath-cawl ship. I don't know this character and my cawl books are trapped in a warehouse in billings so assume I know nothing ever.

(this is genuine curiosity and interest, you seem so enamoured with these two. I want to see what you see in the ship, since it clearly makes you happy.)

Hey Anon, thanks for asking!

AsanethAyu appears in two media, one indirectly in the "To speak as one" short-story and other in the "Genefather" book by the same author. She has a very detailed description of how she is (something that even in necron books are rare).

Cawl wants to use her knowledge to know better about necron technology (He stole her from an Inquisitor prision), but he tries his ways by talking with her, playing a board game. In their conversations he repeats how fascinating she is.

AsanethAyu is very prideful (even tried to kill him once, but Cawl keeps talking and let her decide what to do), but she acknowledge how similar are they.

It's a ship very adaptable to explore themes and tropes:

A classic "enemies to lovers"

Two very prideful scientists working together

Angst developement and maybe comfort or not

Exploring inmortality and the meaning of time, soul and life.

Also, Himedere/Kamidere necron gf x Charismatic but prideful admech bf

They have a lot of chemistry.

(From Genefather)