#nihil hunters

[nacricissa]

WIP Re-Intro: The Forever Project

Tried this once here and none of that is strictly wrong, but I just wrote a killer blurb so we’re going again.

How would you fare if you became omnipotent on your fourteenth birthday? I imagine you might be able to figure something out given some time to get a handle on your newfound powers, but Hera Elizabeth Rider’s deicidal brother and waking up to the discovery that she’s transported herself out of her body and into a new world are not giving her that luxury. It takes her a deal with the devil, unwitting service to a vampire hunter, the creation of several gods, and one eccentric genius before she’s able to do anything with her powers on purpose, and by then it’s really not clear what the right thing to do even is.

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Forever project: all tag games, short stories, random thoughts, and if I ever do them character intros for this work are tagged with this tag. It’s the one to block if you are mainly here for Twilight content.

Elise Godslayer: This is the tag for the MC, Hera Elizabeth Rider. She goes by Elise because there’s too many Hera’s in her family (in her world Mary goes by her syncretized Greek name, and so most European historical figures that in our world are named Mary are named Hera there) and Elizabeth is too long for her tastes. The godslayer part is arguably a spoiler, but it happens in chapter three so I’m not too worried. Elise is a fairly normal fourteen-year old, outside of her godlike powers. She likes music (she can play violin and fiddle), was just starting to figure out she might like some girls as more than friends, is wary of responsibility, and has a crushing need to be liked.

Davriel Godslayer: This is Elise’s birth brother, though they were raised separately: Davriel was never human. He started out with their theoretical mythological purpose: killing the Greater Demons, but when the gods separated Elise from his at birth out of fear, he began to expand his horizons; were they really so different from the forces they pretended to oppose? Davriel was given far too much time alone growing to stew in his own mind, and has convinced himself there could be no greater solution than him as god-emperor of everything. This is not to say, unfortunately, that he wouldn’t make a terrifyingly competent and entirely benevolent god-king, it is simply that his understanding of what he’s working with (the world) is a scoche incomplete.

Eric Melior: This is the blurb’s vampire hunter! What the blurb does not mention is that he is also a vampire and was born in 1892. I recently decided he would be a Lithuanian aristocrat, so his name is likely to change, but he is not. He’s a very steadfast type, committed to his ideals and those he was raised with. He was raised by a pro-Tzarist father and a mother who joined a cult upon her husband’s death, however.

Sorceress: Here we have our eccentric genius. The only person (human, centaur or siren) to discover how to use magic on a sentient creature! She used this power to give herself a pair of legs, having been born a siren but being too curious about the world to confine herself to the water. Even though Elise created her world, Sorceress is likely its most consequential figure.

Mlle Nefara: The most recent character to get a tag, Mlle Nefara is just trying to get rich. Unfortunately, honest means are not particularly available to her as a black woman in 1890s Europe, and so she has chosen the slightly easier route of lying to a bunch of rich people, telling them all about the supernatural threats only she can teach them how to defend themselves against. Her charisma and talent are serving her well in this endeavor until 1897, when a plague of monsters begins to creep through the land. They’re similar enough to the ones she’d made up for her sect to become increasingly popular, but she can’t be so lucky that the techniques she made up would actually defeat them.

Siren’s meet nada: Nada is the word for city among the most magically reckless group of humans on Globe, Sorceress’s world. They call the city that has built up around Sorceress’s first home on land Siren’s Meet, not because they really ever meet Sorceress (and very few know she was ever a siren regardless), but because the estuary has collected extremists and eccentrics from human and siren communities. While it was Sorceress’s presence (and her geologic engineering) that drew the first few citizens to the place, it continued to thrive long after she went to Nadalitas. I use this tag mainly for short stories and worldbuilding facts that take place in the city.

Nihil hunters: A nihil is the most dangerous of the monsters that have begun to infect Eric’s and Mlle Nefara’s world. They are at once vampire and wraith, and so lose many of the vulnerabilities of both. The tag is nihil hunters for their whole world, because vampire hunters, what they call themselves, is simply too generic.

Southern dragons: These are mostly a world building project, as their interaction with the magic system and spatial/temporal laws I’ve built for this project is generally quite illustrative. While they originated in the southern continent of Sorceress’s world, hence their name, they have since spread to other worlds, moving through space and reality with a degree of mysterious ease I think is suitable for dragons.

Spacewhaling: It may not be correct to include this tag with this project; in fact, it started as an independent concept. If it does intersect with Elise’s story, it would only be in the third or maybe even fourth book.

[mini-nightmares]

GHESTIES TONIGHT IS THE NIGHT

ITS A HUNTERS MOON !!

[rexonalapis]

Blade is truly one of the girlies.

[finisnihil]

The difference between the Stellaron Hunters and the Godslayer Protocol squad is so funny to me.

The Stellaron Hunters are a ragtag found family who are beloved by the Finality and using what's probably a cat's ability to see futures and timelines to save and doom worlds for the sustainability of the universe after they've all suffered horribly. They're wanted by the IPC and their bounties could fun your entire bloodline.

Meanwhile the Godslayer Protocol are just having like. A sleepover in jail. They're painting their nails and carrying around a bug god's body which they're gonna use to kill another god. They've all committed crimes against nature.

Truly the duality of man

[honkaiedit]

HONKAI: STAR RAIL (2023) • SILVER WOLF dev. hoyoverse

[allxorxnothing]

I'm thinking abt something...

Some fanfiction writers, when they mention Killua drinking alcohol, say he's immune to its effect and stuff, but that's actually not very realistic

Because yes, it is possible to build a tolerance to alcohol. However, you can’t build a tolerance to the damage it does to your liver.

Consequently, i don’t think Killua's family made him build a tolerance to it because the inability to get drunk isn’t worth the liver damage

[venti-death-watch]

thinking opposite hsr au dynamics out and accidentally recreated the stellaron hunters with dr ratio, aventurine, robin, acheron, and potentially feixiao, but like leverage edition this time

[baeshijima]

i am predicting that sunday will be a nihility character to contrast robin's harmony (hoyo PLEASEEE make him a dot buffer 🙏 i really want him but if he won't synergize well with kafka then i fear i'll have to skip...)

honestly at this point i just want sunday to be drip marketed and released and in my account ��😭 like i will be pulling him and his lc no matter what his synergy with the charas in my account are bc i need him. carnally. and desperately.

[nacricissa]

Wraith nests are paradoxically doubly hazardous to vampires.

It is very rare for wraiths to continue to function after being infected. While people with loving communities may persist for days, or even years, they usually fall prey to their condition, losing all sense of self and folding into nothing but darkness eventually. These pools of darkness are extremely hazardous, as they suck at faith like nothing else, and can turn onlookers to wraiths in an instant if no one else is thinking of them at that moment.

This overflow of darkness, presumably with extra meaning imparted by the overwhelming sense of danger, is intoxicating to vampires. However, since no one can spend any significant amount of time looking at the darkness while maintaining a sense of self, the meaning in the darkness depletes faster than they might expect. If they are weak, without a surplus of darkness to maintain their sense of self, they too will join the nest, their body overtaken by meaningless darkness.

However, a strong vampire can allow their faith to be eroded, while keeping a reserve of darkness ready, and if there is someone thinking of them in the moment the lose their last vestige of native self-knowledge, they can pull the darkness to them, metabolizing it into the classic vampire self-assuredness, and fully absorb the entire nest, becoming a nihil in the process. As of July 1, 1912, only two vampires have ever achieved this feat, but one of them was Rasputin.

[ancientforgcd]

So the flowers Kiana has on her Finality Battlesuit are black pansies that symbolize Love and Remembrance.

It would be very funny if the HSR version of Kiana showed up with them on her outfit too. Either being Remembrance or prolly Finality in this case

[demonologistfucker]

BOOTHILL’S GETTING DRIP BEFORE SUNDAY?!?! Fuck I’m doomed

I don’t need another dps I need good supports @~@ but he’s perfect

Cyborg cowboy?? Brash and caring?? Screwed

Doomed

My team comps Suck

[deankinningdyke]

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[xruiningth3sh0wx]

Is this what you wanted,

Do you feel superior?

 

That forbidden lust of yours,

Quenched, art thou murderous

Passions? Or doth thy throbbing

Not cease to be just yet?

 

Sickening, spiteful bastard,

O’, how I wish to

Cleave you in two.

 

Butcher and skewer you in

Much the same manner as those

Trophies hanging from meat-hooks,

Probably to arouse thy fiendish

Cravings.

 

Insatiable, you cannot seem to

Get enough of the sensation.

 

“Unholy forefathers of man,

Deliver me unto temptation”,

You giddily sing.

 

But your ancestors are nor

Here tonight; but I am,

I’ve come; it is your

Neck I wish to wring.

 

 

[honkaiedit]

— as for missions... i can do this in my sleep. whatever. let’s get this over with.

HONKAI: STAR RAIL (2023) silver wolf trailer • got a date? dev. hoyoverse

[allxorxnothing]

*turns Gon into a witch*

[lwieserce]

can we stop with imaginary men