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wish i'd gotten to finish this before the final (that I'll watch tomorrow) but uni life doing internships will leave ya exhausted so enjoy sketche
This was like the beginning and first death versions of the gang and man its really fun to try drawing a more fucked up version of each character. I will def draw loads more once the semester is over and I rewatch the whole thing ~ I looove neverafter ~
#milla's art#d20 neverafter#d20#dimension 20#neverafter spoilers#neverafter#ylfa snorgelsson#rosamund du prix#prince gerard of greenleigh#pib#neverafter pib#d20 pinocchio#mother timothy goose#i gotta draw the new forms too and the baba yaga and the princesses and the faries and and and#and maybe an oc from a H C Anderson story or something#aaaaaaaaaaaaahh!!
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Inktober but it's dimension 20 and mystery hunters, 2 things that simply cannot leave my head
#my art#traditional art#inktober#artists on tumblr#inktober 2024#moxysfantober#moxysfantober2024#ocartober#ocartober2024#dimension 20#dimension 20 fanart#d20 fanart#fantasy high#dimension 20 fantasy high#fhsy#kristen applebees#neverafter#dimension 20 neverafter#ylfa snorgelsson#my oc#oc art#christyverse#mystery hunters#robin spencer#theo castor#sanrina marigold#pinocchio neverafter#mother timothy goose#gerard of greenleigh#rosamund du prix
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I love my little red riding hood, axe wielding, wolf girls 🥰
#pearlescentmoon#but also#ylfa snorgelsson#and even#my oc#I’ve come to realise I have a very specific niche character type I love
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THE woman of all time
#shes the reason ambroses hand got cut off. if you even care#ylfa bloodfang#shes so fucking cool and so dear to my heart and yet. when do i even talk about her#dios ocs#guild wars 2#gw2#gw2 norn
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WIP Whenever
I don’t think I’ve done one of these in a while, but I was tagged by @isayashai and I do have so many wips laying around.
I am terribly anxious about tagging people, so if anyone sees this and wants to do this, consider yourself tagged by me!
Here’s a WIP of a piece with Majexatli I’ve been writing. Set in act 1, so a while before the piece I just posted (which I really like ppl should give it a read and let me know their thoughts). Also I think this is the first thing from Majexatli’s POV I’ve shared.
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Sitting down on the rock, they began unlacing their boots, watching Wyll out of the corner of their eye. Wyll took a few cautious steps forward.
“I just wanted to make sure you were alright, as soon as we got to camp, I turned around and you were already gone.”
“It’s been a long day,” Majexatli said, leaning back on their hands, now stripped down to their breeches and laced tunic, stained with blood and ash, “I’m just… not used to… this. People. Before the Nautiloid I would go weeks without dealing with people, now there’s countless every day.”
“You’ve been doing quite well, if you ask me,” Wyll smiled, stepping a bit closer, “Genuinely, you’ve gone out of your way time and time again just to help people with no promise of reward. Today was no exception.”
Majexatli nodded. They could still taste gnoll blood in their mouth, the adrenaline buzzing in their veins.
Did you see? Did you watch me snap the neck of that hyena? You were horrified by the sight of the gnoll transformation, by the mindless consuming hunger. Did you condemn that hunger and praise mine? Do you just tolerate it? Did you not watch me tear out throats with my teeth? Rip open flesh and stain my maw red? When I lifted that burning beam of that man in Waukeen’s Rest, did you know I still had raw flesh between my teeth? In my stomach?
“It hardly seemed a choice, it was the right thing to do,” Majexatli shrugged.
“Not everyone would see it that way,” Wyll smiled, “But I didn’t mean to intrude, I can let you be,”
Wyll bowed slightly, stepping back. It shouldn’t bother them, like they said, they were used to being alone, they didn’t like being around people, they had come this far from camp to get away from everyone. So why did their stomach drop, blood run cold as Wyll moved away?
“It’s alright, I was just going to clean myself up in the river, I’m sure you could use a dip, I’m hardly standoffish about something as trivial as nudity,”
It wasn’t entirely a lie.
#eldritch it speaks#oc: Majexatli#wip whenever#i think Malar is a good god for a circle of the moon druid tbh#anyways I’m reminded of how I said I couldn’t bring myself to play a durge but Majexatli is Diet Durge which is just. Having Issues(tm) lmao#also I’ve been rewatching Neverafter and thinking about Ylfa that might show in my stuff#such a cool and fun and horror way of having levels in druid
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OC RELATIONSHIPS: Bunny | The White Rabbit & Ylfa Snorgelsson | Little Red Riding Hood
Bunny: You often use humor to deflect trauma ...
Ylfa: Thank you
Bunny: I didn't say that was a good thing
Ylfa: What I'm hearing is, you think I'm funny
TAGGING: @witchofinterest @fiercefray @sweetenemyfire @eddysocs @arrthurpendragon @waterloou @villanele @bookstorebunny @roseygirl203 @valdrinors
#bunny | the white rabbit#ylfa snorgelsson#ylfa snorgelsson | little red riding hood#the white rabbit and the wolf#neverafter oc#neverafter fic#oc relationship#oc relationship moodboard#my oc stuff#ocappreciation#oc community#edits#fanfic#aesthetic#fanfic aesthetic#we stan#my babies#moodboard
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Updated Actual Play OC Classes!
#the d20 ones have the most changes#not including my potential ravening war oc#but cinna went from being a paladin/warlock to being a fighter/warlock#hazel's now a druid/barbarian instead of just a barbarian#pearl is now charisma based instead of intelligence based#argent is a druid/fighter instead of ranger/druid#i also was thinking of basically giving her the same classes as ylfa - making her a barb/druid but beast barb instead of totem barb#and removing rose red's ability to heal in favor of making her codependency to her sister INCREDIBLY literal#caps tw#also i picked rune knight for argent bc a giant fuck you bear is the scariest thing i can think of lol#like the reason i didnt give her any barb levels is bc a giant fuck you bear with boosted hp from being a shifter#and advantage on strength checks from being large and raging (idk if they both cancel each other out)#would make brennan immediately kill argent and then argent's player irl :')#oh and rose's form of dread takes the form of turning her body into glass with shards popping out of her skin#and a lot of apple motifs bc of her sister snow white
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Ahoy-hoy! 25, she/her, looking to do some roleplays based in various fandoms. I’m an advanced-lit writer who writes 4 paragraphs at the minimum (and very often maxes out the word limit on discord rip) looking for a writing partner with a similar writing length!! (And one who has the same obsession with hurt/comfort as I do aaah) Looking for long-term roleplays with writers who are 21+. I love plotting, coming up with headcanons, sharing edits and art and music that relates to our muses and just gushing over our characters and threads. I prefer to write on discord and will make us servers to write, plot, etc! Here’s the dynamics I’d like to write (italicized names are the characters I prefer playing!) I am also totally down to roleplay OC based plot lines and things in any of these fandoms as well! However I don’t double. If interested please like this and I’ll reach out!
x = romantic dynamics
& = platonic, friends / family dynamics
Critical Role:
Imogen Temult x Laudna , Campaign 3
Imogen Temult & Fearne Calloway, Campaign 3
Fearne Calloway & Orym, Campaign 3
Laudna & Ylfa Snorglesson (Dimension 20 crossover AU!!)
Imogen Temult & Ylfa Snorglesson (Dimension 20 crossover AU!!)
Keyleth & Imogen Temult (AU idea!!)
Vex’ahlia & Laudna (AU idea!!)
The Legend Of Vox Machina:
Keyleth x Vax’ildan
Keyleth x Vex’ahlia,
Vax’ildan & Vex’ahlia
Dimension 20:
Aelwyn Abernant & Adaine Abernant, Fantasy High
Figueroth Faeth & Adaine Abernant, Fantasy High
Ayda Aguefort x Figueroth Faeth, Fantasy High
Ylfa Snorglesson & Princess Rosamund du Prix, Neverafter
Timothy Goose & Ylfa Snorglesson, Neverafter
Ruby Rocks & Jet Rocks, A Crown of Candy
Scream:
Sam & Tara
Sam & Billy
Sam x Danny
The Haunting Anthology:
Dani Clayton x Jamie Taylor
Eleanor Crain & Theo Crain
Pokémon, New Horizons:
Liko & Amethio
Dot x Liko
Liko & Friede
OC & OC
OC x OC
The Walten Files:
Sophie Walten x Jenny Letterson
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#twenty-one and over#critical role#critical role roleplay#critical role rp#the legend of vox machina#the legend of vox machina roleplay#the legend of vox machina rp#dimension 20#dimension 20 roleplay#dimension 20 rp#scream#the haunting anthology#pokemon#twf#oc
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muse roundup : remember when i said i was gonna try really hard not to add anyone else? that i needed to focus on the muses i already had? yeah me either so here's some folks who aren't on my doc.
added / readded ✿ allan : barbie : michael cera : ken's buddy who fits into his clothes ✿ donna pinciotti : 70's show : luca hollestelle : the redhead who is just a likely to kick you ass as anyone else. ✿ eleanor crain : thohh : alison brie : the youngest of all the crain siblings, believes the house is haunted. prev. @ecrain ✿ gale weathers : scream : courtney cox : she's a journalist who has had several encounters with ghostface ✿ gregor aries aka glitch : oc / sci-fi roots : algee smith : brother to cam / working for an authoritarian government, trying to find a way out. ✿ gloria : barbie : america ferrera : she's a human. ✿ jackie burkhart: 70's show : camila morrone : the youngest in the group and the one who will find your soft spot. ✿ leia trinh : oc / sci-fi roots : chloe bailey : in a world of metal she is looking for the helpers. holding on hope something new can grow. ✿ madge abernathy : oc / sci-fi roots : madison pettis : even if the world goes to shit it doesn't matter if you're rich. and actress with a kind heart who is divorced from reality. ✿ monica geller : friends : giovana cordeiro : she's a chef. her brother's probably annoying. ✿ ripley trace : oc / sci-fi roots : rami malek : a bit of a mad scientist with some shifted morals. keeps closer to the underground / shadows. ✿ weird barbie : barbie : kate mckinnon : a barbie that's been played with too hard. she's stuck in the splits. ✿ ylfa snorgelson : dimension 20: never after : isis hainsworth : death wanted her to live. retelling of red riding hood. @y1fa test muses ✿ edgar frog : lost boys : evan mock : he's down to hunt some vampires. ✿ paul : lost boys : damiano david : he's a vampire. ✿ sam emmerson : lost boys : caleb mclaughlin : he's human. ✿ sue snell : carrie : eva noblezada : trying to do better than she's done. ✿ tommy ross : carrie : joel oulette : the h in the himbo stands for heart. unfortunately not immune to electrocution.
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Why hi! I’m a twenty-five year old gal who’s looking to do some roleplays based in various fandoms. I’m an advanced-lit writer who writes 4 paragraphs at the minimum (and very often maxes out the word limit on discord rip) looking for a writing partner with a similar writing length!! (And one who has the same obsession with hurt/comfort as I do omg) Looking for long-term roleplays with writers who are 21+. I prefer to write on discord and will make us servers to write, plot, etc! Here are the dynamics I’d like to write (italicized names are the characters I prefer playing!) I am also totally down to roleplay OC based plot lines within any of these fandoms as well! If interested please like this post and I’ll reach out!
x = romantic dynamics
& = platonic, friends / family dynamics
Barbie:
Barbie x Gloria
Dimension 20:
Aelwyn Abernant & Adaine Abernant, Fantasy High
Figueroth Faeth & Adaine Abernant, Fantasy High
Ayda Aguefort x Figueroth Faeth, Fantasy High
Ylfa Snorglesson & Princess Rosamund du Prix, Neverafter
Timothy Goose & Ylfa Snorglesson, Neverafter
Ruby Rocks & Jet Rocks, A Crown of Candy
Critical Role:
Imogen Temult x Laudna , Campaign 3
Fearne Calloway & Orym, Campaign 3
Laudna & Ylfa Snorglesson (crossover AU!!)
Imogen Temult & Ylfa Snorglesson (crossover AU!!)
Keyleth x Vax’ildan, Campaign 1/TLOVM (AU based!)
Keyleth x Vex’ahlia, Campaign 1/TLOVM (AU based!)
Vax’ildan & Vex’ahlia, Campaign 1/TLOVM (AU based!)
Scream:
Sam & Tara
Sam & Billy
Sam x Danny
Stu & Sam
Stranger Things:
Nancy Wheeler x Robin Buckley
Chrissy Cunningham x Eddie Munson
Jonathan Byers x Nancy Wheeler
Nancy Wheeler x Steve Harrington
The Haunting Anthology:
Dani Clayton x Jamie Taylor
Eleanor Crain & Theo Crain
Pokémon New Horizons:
Liko & Amethio
Dot x Liko
Liko & Friede
OC & OC
OC X OC
The Walten Files:
Sophie Walten x Jenny Letterson
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#roleplay#rp#barbie rp#dimension 20 rp#critical role rp#scream rp#stranger things rp#the haunting anthology rp#pokémon rp#the walten files rp
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Ive had these two neverafter ocs for a while but I never really planned on sharing them because despite having watched all episodes intently until now I am just a Girl with Half the Facts and idk how I could fit one of my ocs into the story in a technical/magical sense. Especially my second OC bc she has that Main Character energy peppered into her story and idk if Neverafter's rules can be aligned with her story
Theyre basically a duo of kids around ylfa and pinocchio's ages. The older one (who's probably like, a few years older than ylfa, around the 15-16 yr age range) is the youngest of the twelve dancing princesses who ran away from her controlling, emotionally-gray, father. She harbors extreme resentment against him and her brother-in-law for banning them from entering and essentially destroying the one true place she and her sisters had felt joy. Ofc in their eyes, they are protecting these girls, they're just going about it in such a Horrible Bad way... They feel guilty, but they're not in regret, y'know? Overall, it's a messy situation, and I feel like out of the two of the kids, she's more susceptible to the princesses' agenda, and it's one of those situations where Destiny's Children need to convince her to be on their side or else the princesses will swoop in.
My second OC is an iteration of the ugly duckling who doubles as the secret love child of Odette and Odile, a little younger than Pinocchio. So it goes like this: in the multitude of versions of the Swan Lake that exists, there's a version where Odette and Odile were enemies until they were Awakened. They became friends, then something more, until one day one of them lays an egg. Odile is a sorcerer's daughter, and I feel like she knows that this egg is a symbol of her and Odette's love for each other, and this symbol is an error to their story. She also knows that in this particular world, there are forces that will try to elimate any and every error to the best of its possibilities, like cells in a body that attack any invaders that could compromise the body's health. It's either 1) Odile managed to gain or has always had access to power as great as Baba Yaga's (or the Stepmother's) and managed to pushed this egg into a story where its deemed as an element to be allowed existence not unlike Pinocchio being shazam'd into another random Pinnochio's husk? 2) Odile knows the Baba Yaga, and the offer of such a power made to the Stepmother wasn't the first of its kind made by the Baba Yaga, Odile is just more... err??? let's say level-headed when it comes to using said power. That or the Baba Yaga only gave her a sliver of that power, just enough to push that "tumor" of an egg into a more accomodating host/story. The "duckling"'s whole schtick or arc is that she's tired of her worth being tied to her appearance and/or the anticipation of her appearance, but it's expressed in the way that only a 7-ish year old can.
They are a party of two, and the dancing princess is basically the guardian of the "duckling". Their own mission is to basically stay put in this world, and maybe find the duckling's parents. The duckling herself is ambivalent to finding her parents, but the dancing princess has been having visions of two women, in black and white tutus, calling out in the woods for the duckling's name ever since she took the duckling under her wing.
Idk what happens after I just know that Odette and Odile are like the wlw version of Henry and Timothy and they're looking to adopt this angsty teen with parental hurt.
They're both precious to me because I too have daddy issues, and if you know me and my blog, I love everything wlw and I have a soft spot for kids (CHIRP FEATHERFOWL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY WILL ALWAYS HAVE A PLACE IN MY HEART) I also really dig the vibes and themes of "we are the children this system was supposed to protect, but didn't" that Neverafter has going on because it just SPEAKS to me
#neverafter#neverafter spoilers#neverafter oc#ALSO THE JUXTAPOSITION BETWEEN THESE TWO AND THE CHOICES THEIR PARENTS MAKE#both the king and the swans had the same intentions which was to protect their daughters#yet the lasting impact their choices had on these kids is INSANELY different
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like for a starter from one of my iwtv/s.upernatural genre muses! no need to pick if you don't want, but multis please tell who it's for.
(behind the cut for reference)
amalia braganza, vampire, turned 1808. secretly the murderer of her cruel maker, after engineering things to become his heir. information broker, wants to stop extremely cruel vampires (and humans). lover of the arts, particularly dance and theatre, keen gardener. calculating, cunning, compassionate where it counts. has long since forgotten how to be human, but she's an excellent liar. iwtv oc (any era).
claudia, vampire, turned 1917. an adult stuck forever in the body of a 14 year old girl. intelligent, vicious, and desperate to find other vampires (especially women) to prove to herself that they're not all awful people. revels in the kill. iwtv canon (1910s-1940s).
jo h.arvelle, human, monster hunter. grew up in the hunting world, her family owns the roadhouse, a bar & community hub for american hunters. desperate to prove that she can be a hunter as well, that she's not a child anymore. spn canon (modern era).
ylfa s.norgelsson, werewolf, little red riding hood. 12 year old barbarian who considers herself the protector of the group. convinced she's a monster, and trying to come to terms with it. aware that she is a storybook character, aware that the multiverse exists, trying to save her world from the times of shadow. neverafter canon (primarily fantasy/dnd/bg3).
#watched the newest iwtv. fully lost my mind and can't think of anything else#i haven't read the books re: claudia so. show only#jo also works w iwtv universe. basically exactly the same with more focus on vamps#i also have isra but i don't have a huge amount of muse for her atm so 🤷♀️#OOC / starter call.
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some characters from my NA account that i dont talk about a lot here:
DAEONNA - she/he, mesmer, detective
YLFA BLOODFANG - she/her, deadeye, vampire hunter
MERRYDAN - he/him, necromancer, mean little guy??
CYNORION - he/they, ranger, former mentor, a lost voice
LUNA MONTENERO - they/she, firebrand, research assistant and scientist, ambroses favourite cousin
LORELEI CELESTIA - she/her, catalyst, bad bitch with a hammer and a love for pathetic little guys (ambrose)
LIANG HAOYU - he/him, scrapper, artist, instrument maker, vampire, totally young guy that has only been alive for 25 years please dont worry about it
JUNO SPIRITSHATTER - they/she, mesmer, paranormal investigator and ghost puncher
ARACHNOLOGIST KIKO - they/them, druid, ex inquest, worst person on planet tyria
#dios ocs#daeonna#ylfa bloodfang#merrydan#cynorion#luna montenero#lorelei celestia#liang haoyu#juno spiritshatter#arachnologist kiko#gw2#guild wars 2
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kai faebriel would be so obsessed with ylfa snorgelsson i just know it in my heart of hearts
danny you don't understand. i LOVE fairytale based characters. i HAVE fairytale inspired ocs. and red riding hoods are always my fave. i literally have my own little red riding hood blorbo with the little red coat and braids and themes about becoming the wolf/consuming before you are consumed etc. i would fucking love that kid
#i simply know d20 listener kai would draw little oc insert/crossover fanart simply because. well. look at em#i would love yifa so much it's not even funny#asks
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ocs?/paras i have alot at once and alot fo stroylines and uh change everyday
d20 or whatever ttrpg show ive watched? i havent played any tho sadly but i will talk to you about how gerard and ylfa are the only dynamic ever
books my love
historyyyyyyyy HISTORYYYYYYYY (i did a history subject in yr 12 and even if i didnt study study i know SO MUCH ABOUT HOW STUPID PEOPLE ARE also avid horrible history fan what can you expect
idk uh complaining i can complain about anything
no pressure tags: @everchanging-encyclopedia @shdwycupcake
@literallymahir @monochrome-anomaly @mossy-stormcloud @witchyamethyst. and anyone else is free to join
tagged by @spineless-lobster to do this tag game:
List 5 topics you can talk on for an hour without preparing any material.
tudor history
doctor who
twelfth-century jerusalem and england and you know what? the twelfth century as a whole
linguistics but especially etymology and phonology
my ocs. of which there are many
tagging the dash!
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All the Js for Euffie, WW, and Ylfa
Joy
1. what makes them happy?
Eustacia: Painting and filing her nails, pink gala apples, wind just as it starts to rain in the near-distance, the color black, the color teal, waves chopping off the gray ocean, beaches white as bone, the sunlight hitting asra’s shoulders, rice pudding, big dogs, the glint of gold jewelry in firelight, catching sight of her big teeth in the mirror, singing the old-heart-of-the-people hymns with a hundred other voices, little pewter bells, jumping through fire, water against her skin, asra, and asra, and asra, and asra, ad nauseum.
Ylfa: Jokeri her pet Schipperke dog and constant companion, the pull of a bowstring, flying on her bat so high the landscape looks like a map, her hair when the curl is good and tight, red velvet clothing, the smell of the ink that colors her orders’ fingers, her mother, her mother’s smile, her mother’s voice, comparing hand sizes, taqtu’s get-in-trouble grin and broad chest, halle’s moonstone chip eyes and the spaces between his fingers, snow, the midwinter thaw, spring, dancing festivals, congregation with the gods, a good hard fuck in a warm bed on a cold night.
Wildwood: leather and soap oil smell, cordite, a fresh box of brass shells in the summer sun, the back of arthur’s neck and the chip in his tooth, well-maintained horse hooves, her horse abaddon and the wonderful curve of her ears, trumpet music, playing the violin and autoharp, flatfoot dancing, pretty chains for pocketwatches, silk neck ties, red embroidery thread, kissing and holding hands, shakespeare, dumas, speaking french, lanterns at night, rifles finished in rosewood, pistols with pearl grips.
2. who makes them happy?
Eustacia: her answers are cyclical and they all focus in on the same things in her little, little world. Her hyena familiar, Gaire, makes her happy. Asra, always-always Asra, makes her happy.
Ylfa: Her mother, Xandria, and her fast speech and flittering thoughts and endless curiosity. Mukondi, and her kindness and humor and goodwill and concern. Taqtu, and his loudness and boldness and strength and grounding. Halle, and his quiet nature and knowledge of the wild world and nervousness and sad eyes.
Wildwood: Her fledgling group of lost boys (and girls). Any kindly soul she finds herself envying. Her horses–Abaddon, saved from a river and bottle-fed from the time she was a baby, soft in the mouth and always listening–Orobas, a beast built for flight, that fought for fun, he who ate meat and enjoyed it. They who are lost to her, lingering warm and eternally young in her memories–her brother Remus, her mother Alouette, Annabelle, and Dee (when the times were good and sweet to them as they allowed). Hosea, who is neat and trim and wily and a goddamn demon when the mood strikes. Dutch, who is the mirror she fights to cover at every turn. Arthur, her Arthur, who came to her with quiet and empty hands, again and again and again through the years, a twenty-year slow-turn bedded deep down in the soul.
3. are there any songs that bring them joy?
Eustacia: Krigsgaldr - (trans.) Coexistence, Conflict, combat / Devastation, regeneration, transformation / That is the best I can do for you
Ylfa: Odal - (trans.) It will not leave / Heavy it weighs / Remember, do not take more than you can carry
Wildwood: I’ll Twine Mid the Ringlets - Oh, I’ll dance, I will sing and my laugh shall be gay / I will charm ev'ry heart, in his crown I will sway
4. are they happy often?
Eustacia: No, but she had found her happiness, and she will find it again and leave clawmarks in it for the wretched tightness of her grip. And when the source of it's come and gone, she'll be able to stare down the far horizon of forever-and-ever and remember the devouring importance of it.
Ylfa: She can be. Between the hellish forgetfulness of her experiences and the evaporating threat of an unfulfilling life, she can be explosively, indescribably happy.
Wildwood: There isn't much cause for happiness in the lives of her and hers. Tragedy, however, they are rich in. But she is at peace in the uncertainty. She's content, at times. But after everything goes straight to hell and there is nothing left for the world to know she was ever alive, she will be the happiest she's ever, ever been.
5. what brings them the most joy in the world?
Eustacia: Finally having her undeniable, unrepenetant freedom and being Asra’s wife. She’s no longer under anyone’s control but her absolute own and she gets to share her life with someone wonderful and weird and fantastical that loves her as much as she loves him. Someone that would go to hell and back for her, someone she’d gladly serve her entire eternal life while never ever being obligated to do so.
Ylfa: Belonging and being beloved and being necessary. Being someone’s first thought when something she might like comes up. Being a person someone else can come to for help. Being missed when she is gone, being lauded when she arrives. Being part of a family. Being a heart, and bringing others together.
Wildwood: Reconciling and being at peace with her nature and history, helping and nurturing people to grow, become what they have the potential to someday be, give them the room to be greater than what they came from.
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