#obsessed w the way he clings to her like that one meme

[cattoru]

he's looking a bit too happy and smug being in ran's arms

[palms-upturned]

Uhhhh ur misogynistic gay man whose name I can’t remember for that character ask meme

DJSTEJDH HELP… saionji…

character ask meme

What I love about them

love is a strong word when it comes to saionji 💀 but ill admit i enjoy watching his clownery djsgdjxb in the end i found him p compelling, i think the way the show handles both his and touga’s positions as simultaneous victims and perpetuators of the system is rlly interesting… something something about how oftentimes we cling to systems that actively harm us because they also give us some degree of power over others and tempt us w the promise of even more 😔 err anyway, the point is i love that saionji’s queerness and legitimate struggles that come w that don’t exempt him from being taken to task for the ways he abuses what privileges he has, also it’s very funny to watch him get owned 💙 that being said tho i do get like 😔 over his part in the final duel… oh god oh fuck saionji we’re really in it now

What I hate about them

what’s not to hate about this guy… every time he even exists in the same space as anthy i want to rip him limb from limb… but in all seriousness i think the most damning thing about saionji is that he proves that he’s perfectly capable of understanding the abusive dynamic between akio and his victims and even goes to weirdly touching lengths to forgive touga and help him escape, and yet he does not extend any of that kindness or effort toward anthy and actively heaps on more abuse… i do appreciate that a lot about the show, portraying abusers not necessarily as like fundamentally evil people™️ who are somehow different from everyone else and easily identifiable, but people who make the active choice to leverage their power over others, whatever the circumstances may be 😔

Favorite moment/quote

im obsessed with the entire verdant hopes light novel like it’s maybe the funniest thing ive ever read, there’s a scene where saionji runs into wakaba at a department store and drops a bottle of salad oil, which he then asks a store clerk to wrap in a pretty bow bc it’s a gift for a girl, and wakaba is like WHAT. and saionji is genuinely shocked that she thinks it’s a stupid present. second funniest moment is when touga comes to talk to him at the dojo and says “i came to invite you on a date” and saionji pauses before tentatively saying, “me? 😳” and touga is like “haha a double date, i mean. don’t get me wrong, i don’t swing that way” and the narrator is like “this was obviously a lie but saionji didn’t need to know that” LIKE. GOD DHXGSJXBXBC

What I would like to see more focus on

im haunted over saionji being literally homeless after he gets expelled, like… “i have no family or friends to turn to” WHAT? the friends part i can believe but dhgsjdbxbx what?!!?? i just think it’s kind of hilarious that we know a little about each of the stuco members’ families but nothing about saionji’s even tho he seems to be in the most dire situation of them all 😭 but maybe what he meant was that he got disowned after his expulsion… who knows… legit hysterical that no one cared enough to explain that plot beat

What I would like to see less focus on

🤔🤔🤔 again i have no answer for this, i think his storyline was fine

Favorite pairing with

im not immune to tousai… in spite of [gestures broadly]… explaining why would get a little too personal ksbsjdnxbc but let’s say unfortunately i relate to some issues between those two

Favorite friendship

i think it’s p funny that nanami calls him kyouichi, i like to think she bossed him around mercilessly when they were kids

NOTP

errr idk, do ppl really ship him with anthy or wakaba? i hope not 😭

Favorite headcanon

hmmmm… well for some reason when i picture him and nanami as kids i always imagine her just fucking biting him when she gets mad KSSHSGDH so ig just that nanami put the fear of teething toddlers in him

[artemissoteira]

6, 7, 9, 10, 16, 17 for medea ;)

thaaaaanks luka :3 (dnd char ask meme here)

6. what quality do they like the most about themselves?

Self-reliance, I would say. Medea knows she's powerful, and I think she values that a lot for what it gets her. Being able to take care of herself, manipulate situations towards her own ends, command the power owed her station. She's very secure in who she is and knows she will turn heads and be able to control a room. I don't think she's a person who feels a lot of fear or insecurity. Even with the Sphinx when they first met and were feeling things out as two HBICs, she wasn't ever actually threatened. She likes that she can have that certainty and control regardless of the situation.

7. what quality do they like the least about themselves?

Hmmmm. I don't think Medea loves using her power the ways she has to, even though she appreciates what it gets her. Her power comes from manipulation and control and trickery; hardly the most regal of traits, at least to admit out loud. She knows people will see her as the monstrous woman she's accused of being, and I think clings to that image as much for self-flagellation as for armor.

But I think what she likes least about herself right now is that it still rankles, deep down. She portrays a very outward acceptance of being that monster, but it's not actually coming from a place of peace. It's defensive and pessimistic because she doesn't think she has any other choice, after what she's done. She wishes she could embrace it the way she acts like she does.

@agentcalliope and I talked a bit about something similar w/r/t like, myth!Medea being very much the figure of the foreign woman who knew she would never be accepted in Greek society without the protection of being attached to a Greek man, and so had to fight and strategize to arrange a safe place for herself at every turn. She's more or less come to terms with having to do it and she doesn't really care that they hate her, but she does hate that she still wants their approval & wishes she could have the peaceful life she once believed she could.

9. who do they admire? why?

This one's easy given where our campaign went lol, it's Hecuba. Casey and I yelled about this a lot -- the way Hecuba in myth is this epitome of the perfect, loyal wife & queen. And her role as the matriarch is doubly sacred to Medea given her own, uh, shortcomings in that arena. Medea idolizes Hecuba as everything she once thought she could be but now can't (incl. for the reasons above). She was a princess, in Colchis; when she left with Jason it was on the condition that he marry her. She was always going to be a queen, had always angled towards it and planned around it to secure a place for herself, until it was ripped away from her. While she rightly blames Jason for that, it also feels like her fault that she couldn't be enough to prevent him running off with a younger princess. Medea couldn't command the loyalty and dignity Hecuba seems to breathe like air; she has to grasp at the same power by manipulation and sorcery.

Despite the fact that Hecuba feels almost the same, opposite way towards Medea for that very ability to grasp her own power and take control of her fate. I'm obsessed with Casey's galaxy brain in bringing them together like this.

10. who do they hate? why?

she doesn't hate jason, especially now. she's furious, of course, but it's very much a situation of "I sat with my anger long enough until she told me her real name was grief." I do think she's gonna kill him, still, but y'know. she's mostly just sad.

the closer thing to hate she's felt, at least in our game, is for achilles. she really hated him being such a dick, it caught me off guard lmao. I think she got very used to bantering with the sphnix, and also in general with politicans. she's good at verbal sparring. but there's a specific kind of etiquette for how you do that in political circles, and achilles wasn't doing that; he was bitter and hateful towards us, and it kind of slapped her in the face with the worst of these so-called heroes. it was so raw, the rage of achilles. she knows jason wronged her, but I think even now she can't conceptualize him like that. what if jason looks at her that way, now? easier to port all those feelings onto achilles who, to be fair, did kind of deserve it. rest in obscurity, hero.

PLUS he was mean to orthrus, specifically, which is enough to earn death for anyone but the sphinx. and even she's on thin ice.

16. which member of their family are they the most fond of, if any?

I think Killa (her gold dragonet, named diminutively after the Kolkhian dragon as well as for killing) is the only one Medea still considers immediate family at this point. They're her emotional support dragon and I am SO glad Casey let me have a dragonet literally just for fun.

I don't think she feels she has the right to be fond of her children.

Hm, I haven't thought too much about this Medea's Circe before... Circe is family and Medea does love her, but I think that relationship is more akin to the Sphinx -- to be fond with Circe you need to be always aware of how dangerous she is. There's a lot of layers there. I don't think they're threatened by each other, per se, but there's a territoriality that comes with powerful witches of that caliber that Medea is careful to avoid provoking. She invokes "my dear aunt Circe" more as a political namedrop than a genuine familial affection; Circe is more proud of that, anyway. They understand each other in the way of being powerful woman manipulating their way to a place in the world, but I think Circe delights in it more than Medea does, so there's always a little bit of distance there where Medea slips into her more ruthless persona.

And Ariadne! She's fond of Ariadne certainly, immediately extending "cousin" to her, but doesn't really know how to connect with her given their different places in healing. Especially after what Ariadne did for her children -- even just her seeing Medea be that vulnerable was going to change their relationship, but to have intervened in that way... I don't think she knows what to do with it, yet, and certainly not how to bring it up. But there's nothing she wouldn't do for Ariadne, now.

17. when were they the most angry that they’ve ever been?

ohhh babygirl. it's gotta be when she found out about Jason and Glauce, right? I think she knew in an instant that it meant everything had been fucked up for her - Euripides has this whole monologue where she's debating what specifically to do about the children, but there's no choice left for her. everything is ruined. her plans, her sacrifices, her choice in following Jason; the murders committed, the enemies made, the life thrown away in Colchis. all for naught. I think that moment calcified something in her. I think, for all she was shocked and betrayed and furious, she wasn't surprised. of course it would turn out like this; she had been foolish and complacent and naive to think anything good would last for her, even Jason. she was most angry at herself for having believed things would be different, with him. she wouldn't make that mistake again.

[lorainemoreno]

━━ ˟ ⊰ ✰ ( sofia carson, she/her ) is that LORAINE MORENO i just spotted in blackfalls? i hear they’re a 24 / 118 year-old VAMPIRE studying ART. i’ve heard that they’re ADVENTUROUS & DETERMINED but can also be SELF-DESTRUCTIVE & SECRETIVE. ( annie, 19, gmt+2, she/her )

Hello friends!! I’m Annie, a certified dumbass and a college student, though clearly my professors aren’t giving me enough work... (jk i’m drowning in assignments, i just pretend i do not see it) and this is Loraine who I adore but who is also a big meanie

TWs: mentions of death and murder!! Please proceed with caution!!

B A S I C S

𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄 : Loraine Moreno 𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐒 : vampire 𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐊𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄𝐒 : Lo, Lori, Raine 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 & 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐒 : cis woman & she/her 𝐃𝐎𝐁 & 𝐀𝐆𝐄 : december 25th 1901 at 6:11 am & twenty-four / hundred and eighteen 𝐙𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐂 : capricorn sun, cancer moon & leo ascendant  𝐒𝐄𝐗𝐔𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘 : pansexual & panromantic 𝐑𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐈𝐎𝐍 : atheist 𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐔𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐒 𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐊𝐄𝐍 : english, spanish, greek 𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘 : + adventurous, supportive, focused, resilient - explosive, vengeful, self-destructive, grumpy   𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 : chaotic neutral 𝐌𝐁𝐓𝐈 :  isfp 𝐄𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐀𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌 : type 8, the challenger

T R A G I C   B A C K S T O R Y

   𝟏. 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐓𝐇 𝐁𝐄 𝐓𝐎𝐋𝐃, Loraine doesn’t remember much of her early life. At this point, most of her memories are bare flashes through her mind. It was all good - that she’s certain of - up until her mom died in an accident. Her father wasn’t the same ever since, his eyes were vacant and he barely spoke. He left one day and Lori never saw him, after that. She moved to stay with her aunt and although she took care of Loraine it was pretty clear that it was something she did out of pure obligation.

   𝟐. 𝐋𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐇𝐀𝐒 𝐀𝐋𝐖𝐀𝐘𝐒 been really easy to provoke but instead of growing out of it, she actually embraced it. If the word and the people who inhabited it were pure shit, why should she try to be anything different? She was mean and she started fights over the smallest of things, though she was terrible at finishing them. No matter, she got up and dusted herself off.

   𝟑. 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐀𝐔𝐍𝐓 was no exception and the two of them fought pretty often. At the end of the day, Loraine rely on herself and herself only and she simply couldn’t wait until she moved out. She did, eventually, and she quite enjoyed living on her own. But you know, her temper had still not calmed down and eventually, when she was twenty-four, she messed with the wrong kinds of people. Though, they weren’t even people, were they? The vampires drank most of her blood and left her to die like that. That’s when another vampire (see wanted connections) noticed her and took pity on the dying girl, making sure she had some of their blood so she wouldn’t actually die.

   𝟒. 𝐒𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐖𝐎𝐊𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐃𝐀𝐘 even more messed up than before. The faces of the vampires that did that to her were ingrained in her mind and the desire for revenge was what fueled her for a long time. Loraine was obsessed with finding them, desperately clinging to any and all clue of their whereabouts. It took many years but she did manage to track them down and kill them. 

  𝟓. 𝐍𝐄𝐄𝐃𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐀𝐘 she had no idea what to do with herself after that. Her goal was finished. She traveled throghouht Europe for a few years before settling in Greece for a bit over the past decade. She’s worked night shifts as a bartender and treated it all as a creative break. The mundanity of it all was starting to grow too boring and calm for Loraine so the news of the mixed school piqued her interest and now here she is, looking to spice up her days.

  𝐓𝐋𝐃𝐑 ; Loraine is a shit-stirrer with a short-fuse, despite the fact that she couldn’t fight for shit. It eventually got her killed and she spent a good bunch of her life chasing after the people who left her to die to get her revenge. She’s been pretty lost and confused afterwards and is subconsciouslly looking for a new purpose in life.

S O M E T H I N G   E X T R A

  𝐈. To elaborate on her self-destructive tendencies, Lori runs on self-hate a lot of the time. She likes to push herself to her limits by doing dumb shit i.e. trying to see how much time she can really go without blood.

  𝐈𝐈. Loraine can be pretty flirty but she avoids actual relationships like the plague. It’s not hard for her to get attached to people but as soon as someone says they like (or God forbid love) her, she shuts down and pushes them away.

  𝐈𝐈𝐈. Despite that she can be pretty caring when she genuinely likes someone. She’d do the occasional check up and remind them to take care of themselves in her own special (read: lowkey agressive) way.

  𝐈𝐕. Her favorite color is plum and she hates red ever since she was turned. Surprisingly she really likes cutesy, animated movies and The fox and the hound is her all time favorie. ALSO!! She really loves jazz and she is a huge Frank Sinatra fan.

  𝐕. Grumpy cat embodied and she doesn’t quite understand memes. If you tell her a pun she will punch you in the face. 

  𝐕𝐈 . If you click here you will be redirected to her pinterest board !! There are TWs in the description so, again, please proceed with caution.

W A N T E D   C O N N E C T I O N S

I am such a sucker for strong platonic bonds!! Loraine is really unfriednly but if for some reason your character has decided to put up with that, I’d love for her to have some friends (especially if they have been friends for a long time)

fHFH any familial relationships, too!!

Also,, I would really love to have the vampire that saved her all those years back. She’s got a lot of respect and admiration for them and, tbh, she would probably follow them to the ends of the world? It can go a lot of ways so yeah!

ENEMIES. Please! She’s horrible so I need some people who dislike her.

Another classic one: friend(s?) with benefits mayhaps.

Maybe some people who she’s decided to take under her wing and decided to adopt a big sister sort of role with them?