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trans-queen-administrator · 2 years ago
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During the talk with Phir Sē, it comes up that he has a daughter when he tells Taylor about how keenly aware he is of what he could be sacrificing to kill Behemoth.
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And it's very odd to me that she's a hero, when her father is one of the men so monstrous that he's used as evidence for why the PRT should stick around. It's almost like the stereotypical superhero show plot where the plucky protagonist hero learns their dad is Doctor Evilman or whatever, but this is Worm. Later in the conversation Phir Sē reveals that he sacrificed family before in a similar scenario
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And I can't help but feel that him sacrificing his wife and sons is connected to his daughter being a hero? Like imagine being her, and seeing your dad refuse to save the rest of your family because of the greater good. He could effortlessly step backwards in time but he stands there while their corpses cool instead. That could definitely crack a rift between them and cause his daughter to join the heroes in a desperate attempt to prove that you can save everyone. Hell, I could even see her dad letting her family die being a trigger event. And she's specifically one of the bright and popular heroes, one of the campy flashy ones like Mouse Protector. How much of that is because she can't bear to let herself be anything less than the ideal of a hero, because she can't stomach the thought of being someone who has to make a sacrifice like her father? Phir Sē says he'll live the rest of his life down in his bunker mourning her if he fails, but I think he's already been doing that. He's been consumed by the guilt of who he left in the past and how that ruined his only tie left, and he wants to do something that justifies his existence. If he kills Behemoth, the world celebrates, people are saved, and maybe his daughter will talk to him again. If not, he keeps living as he always has, alone and crippled by the weight of his actions.
I wonder how he felt, in his last moments. The bomb didn't kill the Endbringer, and Behemoth hunted down his bunker and killed him. He had to have seen that it survived, and while maybe he didn't fail so hard he vaporized the country, he didn't redeem himself, he didn't save anyone. He'll never know that his actions weakened Behemoth enough for Scion to finish the job, from his perspective he lost. I wonder if his daughter survived, and if she knows what he did to tip the scales of the battle. Would she even mourn him, assuming he caused her trigger and she knows he let her family die?
He liked Weaver because she reminded him of himself with her ruthless pragmatism and ability to make the hard choices, while also reminding him of his daughter with her idealistic nature. I think he saw a version of himself in her, one that didn't end up isolated in a bunker with no family left. One that has hope and still kept the humanity he feels he lost. She talks to him about working together with others, communicating, and he doesn't think it's something that's possible, he thinks humanity is a "wretched, petty species" and that infighting and lack of coordination would prevail even against an Endbringer. And I think he's right in thinking Taylor is like a younger version of him, because that's exactly what happens during Gold Morning until she makes them work together. He would feel vindicated, seeing Khepri.
Honestly I really wish he survived, he's such an interesting character and I would love to see more of him beyond a single random Tohu face. Most of this is headcanon but like, I think it fits pretty well, so who knows maybe it's the intended subtext.
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erinwantstowrite · 7 months ago
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jason is lashing out at bruce because he can't come to terms with his mother being the reason for his (their) death. she died in the warehouse too and when jason came back he latched all that anger onto the one parent figure he had left even though a part of him knows it wasn't bruce's fault, but sheila's. he's angry at sheila. he's angry at sheila. but she died and placing that anger at a dead woman has nothing to hold on to so it's just bruce. which if it was written better would mean that jason was acting out against a parent he knows cares about him and he feels safe with, and would be recognized in the story. he wants to die but he's scared to do it alone so he's being reckless and making bruce watch him and be there. he wants to die but he wants bruce to be there with him so he's not alone. because he died knowing bruce wouldn't make it. and he's angry at sheila for being the parent that was there. the one that didn't love him. if sheila hadn't sold him up to the joker, bruce would have met up with jason. it's sheila and joker's fault.
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smal5504 · 3 months ago
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bleeesuashuhfg im still not over it can you tell
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yapping down beloe :>
as a wise kikuo once said "search!!! search!!! where are you enemies!!! search!!! search!!!" (in reference to la la la rasen no naka RHSFJSKGDHCFJ)
la la laaaaa so first of all many elements of this are based off of my cool cool bfdia pin imaginings animated series the link takes you to the tumblr upload of part 6 to the series!!! because it best pertains to this episode and drawing YAY YAY YAY i dont know what else to yap im jus really really REALLY proud of this ♡♡♡ /vvvvvpos /silly red pushpin attempts to counter debiliating anxiety and self hatred by putting on a whole show affirming that shes utterly unlovable, lives to regret it
also pleek obserb my bin beefydie-yay hyperanalysis video presentation it would be quites the appreciating
okay goobeye eid mubarak
#i made this while reallr really close to sobbing#see the thing is that (i think ive already said this one squilliam times already (/silly) but) everything and anything that anyone says#about my pin beefydie#everything about my livelihood and being revolves around this girl#so when someone says something my mind and brain registers it as that person saying this about ***ME*** /gen#whether negative or positive#this is both why everytime someone understands her i go bonkers!!!!!!!!!!!!#and when someone DOESNT!!!!!!!!!! then i go OPPOSITE BONKERS!!!!!! LIKE SAD BONKERS!!!!!!!!!!! REALLY SAD BONKERS#this is why i havent been feeling so good as i roam the osc /vneg#the episode itself bfdia 18 made me so joyous and happy and ecstatic beyond relief and then i hopped on the wifi and then#and then ALL and even MOR E of my self esteem and confidence just kind of. dooooooooooooowwwwwnnnnnnnnn#eueueueueueueue#anywhooo in order to cope i drew this (and made that hyperanalysis video essay presentation that i HOPE!!! waz good ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹)#i need to see her murder again i heart burder that was so awesome sauce#and in general im NOT NORMAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#thank you thank you thank yu pin beefydie yay for existing greatest girl ever ten out of tnen#battle for dream island#bfdi#osc#osc art#pin bfdi#tpot#bfdi pin#bfdia#bfdia pin#pin bfdia#bfdia 18#one more thing if anyone here mentions the incident of february 24 2025 alL HELL WILL BREAK LOOSE(/silly but please pleek pretty plek donr)#tw blood#cw blood
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sweetsylus · 3 months ago
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idk how to feel about Caleb’s myth coming out…
the problem here is that
i want it.
but sylus’s birthday event is literally up next..
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yanderethorne · 2 months ago
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käärijä returning to esc after last year’s absolute shitshow is choice. i’ll say that. extremely choice.
#choices.. they were made#i shouldn’t be surprised but it just doesn’t make sense in any way#and i’m well within my right to be disappointed but not surprised#i’m not bullying him by saying this these are choices not beyond criticism#i don’t believe in tearing some one down but that doesn’t mean we aren’t allowed to say when we don’t agree with their collaborations and#appearances#like who is this appeasing exactly#esc bosses who want to milk him for all he is worth ig#why return to where ur friend experienced a very traumatising thing#??????#i have a lot of questions#well ofc it is money motivated lmao when is it not when is anything#but like there is no finesse#why this why#why this collab as well like dear god#not many käärijä fans including myself are very warm towards lasgnass#as mentioned when they were compared last year they’re not even that musically similar they just both like rammstein lmao#the visuals of rimmyass song were very inspired but the song was shite and not similar sounding#my disappointment is immeasurable my day is ruined etc#hope this period will pass and we move on#like king i’m rly tryna enjoy ur new music coming up and have something to look forward to but so far these choices are distancing myself#i’m hoping different upcoming collaborations can be things to look forward to#rly hope the new music is something special bc ofc this one is a messy cash grab bc they’re not musically similar and as far as i can tell#not friends#so what is there for me to support here? it’s for a messy competition that is losing its way#käärijä#don’t lose ur way too#pls
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rickybaby · 1 year ago
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Daniel on what his 3 ins currently are, the sexiest coolest driver in F1 and his favourite Mario Kart character
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cosmogyros · 3 months ago
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That moment when you have to let people be wrong about you because correcting them would make you seem like an unbearable show-off
I was at a bookstore with a friend the other day and I was looking at a book in German that I was interested in buying, but then I saw that it was a translation and had originally been written in French
I commented idly to my friend "Sometimes I don't buy a book because it's a translation and I always prefer to read in the original language when possible" and she said in an agreeing-with-me way, "Yeah it would make more sense to read it in English"
and I realized she assumed I meant English when I said "original language"
but I couldn't bring myself to say "Yeah, or French or Dutch or Spanish or Italian or Portuguese or one of the other languages I read..." because like. who says that kind of thing.
#it's odd but i've suddenly been noticing a lot of people underestimating me lately#like i told a friend i was studying compsci/programming#and she started sending me like... links to absolute beginner 'how to start learning to code' resources#which of course is very sweet and i really appreciate her supportiveness!#so i certainly don't want to say 'lol i passed that point 10 years ago but thanks'#or my friends know perfectly well that i'm a language professional and have spent time studying many languages#but somehow they don't seem to make the connection that that translates into having actual abilities?#like i can piece together the meaning of a sentence in russian or chinese and they'll go 'wtf' like i'm a wizard or something#or i've mentioned a few times that i read for fun in various languages but that seems to just go in one ear and out the other for most folk#and they still can't conceive that i would read a WHOLE BOOK in a language that's not german or english#these are just two examples but i've seen it happen with several other things too#and i'm just... not sure how normal people handle this sort of thing?#how do you let your friends know what you're capable of without coming across as an arrogant prick#i'm not seeking approbation and so i don't tend to boast#but i think maybe i err too hard in the opposite direction?#maybe i've been accidentally implying all these years that i'm Very Amateur in all my interests/hobbies#i don't know how to strike a reasonable balance#but it does feel kind of. weirdly alienating. to suddenly realize most of my friends really don't Know me in this way#cosmo gyres#personal#tag rant#i guess what annoys me is that i'm very careful not to do this to others#if someone tells me about a certain interest or hobby of theirs i assume by default that they must know So Much about it#and if i dare to send them or suggest them anything i always preface it with 'you probably already know this but...'#or 'this may well be something that's painfully obvious to someone with your expertise but...'#and i would try to never make any statement or suggestion that implies i think they're at a low level in [whatever that thing is]#so it bothers me a bit when other people don't take the same consideration. i guess.#(not enough to do anything about it beyond blogging with mild annoyance. but hey)
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xxplastic-cubexx · 7 months ago
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Just found out that Charles not being an alcoholic is not canon. I’m devastated.
im so sorry for alcohlism anon
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angstics · 21 days ago
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Robert definitely had a hard time in prison and that already distresses me but if it had anything to do with being gay I will shoot myself
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northern-passage · 8 months ago
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Hello! I was curious... Do the coins in TNP have designs, or are they completely smooth? :0
they do! the gold Adranian coins (which is what Clementine has) have the symbol of the king/king's house which is the swooping hawk that we'll see Duncan wearing later. that's basically the royal sigil of Adrania, and we'll see wardens, soldiers, and other high-ranking politicians or wealthy Adranian families wearing it throughout the game.
silver coins have a merchant ship on them, and bronze coins have the moon on one side, and the sun on the other side (to represent the Wolfmother's children, but to avoid directly printing the image of a god on money). Gael is different in that their gold coin actually has a whale on it, since whaling and fishing is their main source of income (versus Adrania, which in the south has decent farming and functions as a massive trade hub between/with Gael and Yulan). their silver coins have a wolf on one side, sun and moon on the other (same reason as Adranian's have it on their bronze) and then Gaelish bronze coins just have a silhouette of the southern mountain range and sea stacks.
Gael also has whale bone coins and Yulan has shell coins, but those don't get traded with Adrania. only the metal coins, and that's just because gold is gold; it doesn't change much of the value, it's only aesthetics, and the flow of coins between Gael, Adrania, and Yulan (Adrania's main international trade partner) is vital for all three countries.
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allastoredeer · 29 days ago
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Is it true that you have two other fic ideas based on Beyond the Eight Ball Vox? Because if so, I would eat it up!
Who told you that O.o
Hahah yes, actually! Sort of. The fics themselves aren't set in the Eight Ball universe, but the Vox's in them are very similar to Eight Ball Vox and the Pentagram City he owns.
One of them is essentially taking "Beyond the Eight Ball" in the complete opposite direction where Alt!Vox is transported to Alastor's universe. He isn't Eight Ball Vox, to clarify. This one actually does recognize Alastor. and much like Alastor in the Eight Ball fic, he still has access to all of his power from his universe (it also helps that he can sync himself up to canon!Vox's network and has access to every little thing he has stored in his servers.
As for the other fic, let's just say that one has a more feral, insane, completely unhinged Vox who is just as obsessive, if not more, than our Vox and I'll leave it at that. I'm sure you're imagination can do the rest >:3
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ragnar0c · 1 year ago
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I love how the anime adapts the expressions so fluidly. These brief moments were my favorite bits of the manga, a character reacting and they take time to show it…. The anime does it so much justice I pause to stare at each longer.
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majoris · 10 months ago
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hi 🌚
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sodapopcurtis-dx-asks · 2 months ago
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I was hanging around with Tim and we were in his room, and he wasn’t in there and I saw a bunch of letters sticking out of his dresser so I was like ‘let’s read them!’ Love letters. Tim and Dallas Winston. Old. Love. Letters. Did you know this??
Soda raises an eyebrow at the note, not really sure of what to make of it.
I ain't got a lick of an idea of what yer on about, to be quite frank.
But hey! Whatever happened between Dal n' Tim when Dallas was still kickin' ain't none of my business!
(Although... hearing of Tim Shepard n' THE Dallas Winston writing love letters to each other sure does sound funny.)
Soda giggled, trying to imagine the scene. Picturing Tim and Dallas being cutesy and writing each other love notes was something that tickled Soda.
He shook his head and kept laughing as he wrote.
If that's so, then good on 'em, I suppose? Haha!
I don't really know what's most appropriate to say! A bit odd to think about. And be told.
Kind of an invasion on privacy, don'tcha think? Tsk tsk...
Soda draws a winky face underneath his writings and laughs to himself a little more before putting the note back in the jar.
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w-40-k · 1 month ago
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On the subject of names in regards to the Titus x Graia posts (also Graia's appearance)
So, for this we'll first start out with the names I have used thus far and then move onto Graia itself.
- Tigerius' representative is named *Tiresias*
Now I was thinking 'hey wouldn't it be funny if the liberian (magic man) is named after the roman version of Merlin'
Like, either it was going to be that, or whatever the male version of the name Belinda is (witch who beings the Christmas gifts in Italy).
When looking it up (anchient/roman version of merlin) one site proposed both the name of a real person who lived during that time Diogenes), and the myth that might've actually inspired the merlin myth itself, who happened to be a guy named *Tiresias*.
I was originally thinking of combining both of those names for a full given and family name, but decided against it.
Though if the Tiresias in our discussions ever happens to become a reoccurring figure, then I'll definitely give him a given name.
- Next up is our dear bother chaplin Leandros himself.
The decision to name him Telamon stems from the fact that @mellennia compared him and his character to the myth of the titan Atlas (I'd reccomend you'd read that portion of the post itself, for yourself bc he put it very well) during our discussions at some point.
I was originally going to just keep the name Atlas as Leandros given name but it didn't role of the tounge all that well, unlike your typical 40k name.
So i asked the Internet (anchient roman version of atlas) and one site:
https://study.com/academy/lesson/atlas-in-greek-mythology-story-facts.html#:~:text=Therefore%2C%20Atlas%20was%20condemned%20to,pillars%20used%20to%20support%20buildings.
Gave said that the Romans called Atlas, Atlas *Telamon*.
Telamon apparently is a builder term and translates to 'pillar'.
That *fit* for several reasons.
1. Leandros as a chaplin, plays a vital part in his brotherhood, being one of the pillars of his community
2. Leandros as @mellennia pointed out very much fits the myth of Atlas in how he is burdened by his past (current stuggle).
3. However, part of the *why* and *how* that happened is bc he treated the codex as a ruleset or even a texts of *law* (past stuggle,[expanded upon in the discussions])
4. Laws which are a fundamental part of the three pillars of the separation of powers, which divide and control state power in a democracy. Which Leandros in his duties as a chaplin deals with every day.
Also Guilliman's eventual plan, for after the astartes would run out of things to fight, was to turn the UM into statesmen, administrators and the like.
(Got to put all of that trans-human smarts and durability to use for the good of humanity, whilst also giving them smth to do, you know? Birds and stones and all that)
On a somewhat related note, I've also decided that if Leandros given name translates to pillar, his parents might've been builders, stone masons or some other type of artisan who builds things
(roman inspired legion means on Macragge there's going to be alot of aqueducts, briges and other big structures that need building and maintaining)
- Now we come to Titus who in his flashback was briefly referred to as *Subject 20*
'T' is the twentieth number of the alphabet. Also i wanted to demonstrate how Thorax views Titus not as a person and individual, but just another case. Dehumanisation is merely another one of his tools to get the results he wants
The numbering also has conotations with inmates, prisoners and prisons in general.
And it occurred to me that *Nullus* is also a number. 'vīgintī' is the Latin term for twenty.
But that would still sounds like a *name*, as oposed to a hard, cold *number*, (clinical and impersonal). It also very much looks different on page.
*20* vs *vīgintī*
Next up we've got
- *The Ones without the Spark of Life*
Graia as a warp entity can see souls and since every living thing (humanoids and animals, no idea about orcs though, since those are mushrooms, but mushrooms are also not plants) tends to have a soul.
Necrons (with few exceptions) don't have souls, ergo to Graia they appear as though they have no life or are dead.
Also, as it has been sourced (literally) from a time prior to the birth of Slanesh, it is far more akin to just another force of nature (as oposed to modern deamons who are *angry* forces of nature). Thus it sees souls a something akin to sparks and the warp in general akin to an electric current (what with the whole *Sea* of Souls thing, since both electric currents and liquids tend to be described as *flowing*)
Finally we've got the Master of Mankind
- *Light Maker*
The Astronomicon has many times been described as a light. Then there's how astropaths during their binding to the emperor loose their eye sight.
The emperor is the souce of the Astronomicon and thus Graia equates that to him *making* the light.
So, before we can get to Graia's *name*(s),
[note the plural, bc there are infact *several* names Graia has been and will be given over the course of our discussion]
We first need to take something of a detour discussing the inspirations for it's character appearance before we can properly discuss the matter of it's name(s).
For it's appearance, I was originally inspired by a post containing a gifset of some kind of c-drama, with the focus on the nail guards the women depicted in them were wearing.
This gave me the idea that the population of the people who would eventually settle Graia, might've been descended from the region on terra of what was at some point China
(china itself doesn't seem to have a 40k equivalent from what i could find, though during the unification wars that general region seemed to be controlled mostly by other factions.)
Secondly there was a post depicting the eldar as propper *aliens*, (as oposed to canon were the eldar mostly fall into the elfs, but with some of that fun uncanny Valley range), captioned 'make the eldar weirder'
With this I realised that bc Graia is a fundamentally *alien* entity, and some might argue a *thought construct*, i can make it look *weird*.
So, the initial idea was that bc it had been nurted by and made from the collective population of Graia there would've been some degree of that culture
(i *do* recognise that a whole planet wouldn't *just* be a single culture and ethnicity, especially after several thousand years and spread across an entire planet)
influencing it's general appearance.
Then after it spends some time on the roman inspired chapter wold of the UM, the culture and perception of it's people would then also begin to slowly influence it's appearance.
(Also bc anchient rome and anchient china actally knew of off and did trade with each other, so that was just kind of fitting)
In general I imagined that Graia would have a more public facing appearance, that would disguise some of it's more obviously deamonic and alien features, so to better interact with and be less frightening to look at by mortals and non-deamons.
Specifically i imagined that
- the nail guards on it's hands would disguise, that those *are* in fact just it's actual *very* sharp and pointy claws, it could rip you to shreds with.
- what appears to be just some very pointy and long ear decorations (think fake elf ears), to hide it's actally alien looking ears
- a line of colourful dots underneath both eyes, which are actually *eyes* that open once it drops the public face and takes a more traditionally deamonic form.
(There was this post about the difference in eye position betwixt prey and predator animals, and if graia has *both*, it very much hints about how at it's sheer alien nature, and has characteristics of both predator and prey bc the warp is very much running on perception)
- on the subject of eyes. It's eyes are dark enough to look black, but depending on how the light hits them, they can turn any shade of the visible and invisible (bc astartes apparently can see ultraviolet light?) light spectrum
- a constant regardless of the form it takes, are the green necron glyphs that originate from how the necrons turned it into a battery. Those same markings might become a lot more intricate and elaborate once it drops the public face however.
Though even in it's public facing form, it's skin is the colour of freshly turned soil, but in it's more deamonic form, texture wise it starts to look a lot more like mother soil and red clay.
- it's 'hair' is a thick curtain of willow branches, with tiny berries growing from them (bit like the berries of the olive plant bc ancient roman inspired chapter world).
As it spends time on macragge, they eventually get turned into one of those sown hairstyles, but since it's hair is made from actual branches it also looks kind of like a woven basket. (50/50 on if there would be an actual fruit basket or no)
(I remered the title of some danmei fic, iirc the title was 'the mouring of the willow tree' or some such and when i turned to the internet, willow branches seem to hold quite a bit of significance in Chinese culture.
Amongst them is that, since many people lived on coasts and rivers that had willows, the willow tree became pretty important and eventually would lead to the praxis of a willow branch being given as a parting gift for safe travels.
Also, both the Romans and Chinese valued the willow for its medical purposes, with the willow apparently being native to China.)
- clothes wise it would rock something similar to calgar in that one comic, akin to a toga but without a tunic beneath, and a belt, who's end trails down behind it and behaves a lot like a tail (fun bit of shape language).
The tunic-less look is bc I imagine it wouldn't have nipples (bc deamon so why would it) until it has a conversation with smb about that
(my low level blank, grox herder oc in this case, who basically goes 'huh, haven't seen smb without nipples before, then again I've seen weirder' graia notices and aproches him to ask about that, both conclude that it is unusual and then it makes itself some nipples, much to the bafflement of it's companions)
[Also, i might as well include it here, but i was thinking of how some people include specific information from their jobs in their fics.
So i was thinking of ways to do that and then i had that vivid image of Graia whilst accompanying squad damocles on some mission or another, kneeling down next to a body of water or even a canal, touching the water and going 'i know where it is', basically beeing able to track that thing all the way from across half the planet.
Bc there's a *ton* of things living in water, such as bacteria, small animals and other things.
Also water doesn't just have the general, water gives life connotation.
Like, there's the fact most things need water to surrive, as well as the spiritual connotation of water as life giving (think the sping of youth and the holy grail). Such as the drinking of wine as a substitute for the blood of christ in Christian mythology, or the literal worship of bodys of water as the actual body of a deity. Or how Chinese dragons have water breath. I also stumbled on the roman god janus who has a lot of conotations to water and a theme of past, present and future]
Then I was thinking I might be focusing to much on the god/animal aspect and got to thinking on that bit about willows and people living next to rivers. I was thinking of how a child might make a crude clay puppet and give it willow branches for hair.
Then I remembered that many cultures have myths about golems or/and hymoculi and i remembered how in Greek mythology humans were originally created from clay. Also many cultures have traditions in some form or another about 'from the earth you came, to the earth you shall return'. What with the dead things fertilise the soil, which in turn nurishes them.
That's how we ended up with Graia during it's introducion taking the shape of a humanoid, featureless clay puppet with willow branches for hair (i was going to add that at some point, during the course of the conversation, it would make itself a pair of eyes that basically look like dark river stones [bit like the coal eyes of a snow man], so people don't feel as unnerved by it, but that part went on for so long i forgot about addding it)
Now that we got Graia's appearance out of the way, we can actually discuss it's *names*.
- We've got the name it introduced itself with
'Shaduf'ankh pr niwt'kemet'
Which translates to 'Source of the Planet' in high gothic (bc the necrons knew, what we now know as Graia, by a very different name)
Let's break that down into it's different components (in ancient egyptian bc necrons)
Source - water well [Shaduf] + life [ankh]
(A souce is in our case a regenerating resouce that gives life.
I imagined water, a natural spring, but looking up the word for sping gave me the season spring, so i went with a water well instead, for that life giving angle.
I then wanted to include vitality, but life is more of a concreate concept that is easier to translate. 'ankh' is also called 'the key of life' and that is rather fitting for a source of water, no?)
of - belonging to (property) -> House [pr]
(Nuf said, of can in many languages be translated as belonging to, or originating from a certain place. As 'belonging to' can also mean 'property of'. Though in our case it's more so the former then the latter)
Graia (planet) - population center (city) [niwt] + soil [Kemet]
(Graia for our purposes gets simplified as planet, bc graia only ever heard it's name in the context of 'x thing happens bc of the souce of the planet' so graia thinks that that is it's name, though it would probably also know whatever name the necrons referred to the planet with.
[Then again whatever dynasty made graia into a souce only used the planet graia as a mining outpost]
People live on a planet, generally in groups, and soil is another term for earth, bc farming has been an important part for much of human history. In our case im specifically referring to the black, nutient rich soil that gets left by the river nile after the flooding season)
Put it together and you get that *very* fun name. (If we end up involving the necrons into our discussions, then i might do more of this)
Then there's the name Titus will begin to call it at some point (after graia stops being quite so much of a constant reminder of Titus trauma, and began to be seen as an actual *companion*)
- Graia
Now Graia at the beginning is going to be refered to mostly as some variation of 'Source of Planet Graia' or even just energy source in official reports and such. Bc as far as the warp is concerned, giving things names, gives them power in turn.
Now, after Graia receives it's official status as an imperial deamon and is deemed a relative non-threat (though graia is very much still the equivalent of a force of nature, just one that doesn’t *actively* try to kill you)
people might begin to bond with it. That's still going to take time though before smb. actally gives it a propper *name*. In our case that is going to be Titus and will signify quite how close they have become.
Then there is it's *true name*.
Now, from my understanding a true name is generally the name you are called with plus number of different titles attached.
For Graia who spent much of it's early existence as a source, it would at that point maby have only one or two titles, however after if begins following titus that number would slowly expand over the years until it's true name becomes the lengths of that of one of the adepts custodes.
For the sake of argument, say we are dealing with the Graia who accompanys Titus after the test trial phase. At that point it's s true name could look something like:
- (insert necron name for graia), the source of (insert necron name for graia), (insert number x of however many more deamons got turned into an energy source beyond Graia)
- Little Old One
Fun affectionate name the astartes of the 2nd company will eventually begin to call Graia once they actually have begun to build a rapport and bonded with it.
It's a play on how graia is simulation several billion years old, but in terms of lived experience it is at most only going to have a fraction of that. For example as of gaining It's official stamp of approval, it has a total sum of five, but at most only a decade of lived experience.
At that point it's also very much still trying to figure out how to person (that is to say learning how to person from the perspective of a non-mortal, non-human entity). Which is what the 'little' part of the name referrs to.
Also whilst it generally could take a form to make itself *larger*, a smaller size (small in this case would still be pretty tall baseline though) certainly has it's advantages
(such as talking to baselines and getting into places you shouldn't, [even though it probably *could* turn intangible, but then, were would be the fun in that])
Finally a note on true names in general.
I imagine that deamons can probably see each others true names, but generally you'd think twice about invoking or misappropriating the true name of a deamon more powerful then yourself.
Now, since Graia itself wasn't actally 'raised' in deamonic society and thus it wouldn't know any etiquette or generally agreed upon conduct, beyond the instincual knowledge all deamons posess.
This leads Graia to view everyone (mortal) but especially astartes (bc their geneseed originates from creatues made partially out of warpstuff, and to a degree that get's passed onto their genesons) as a very much lesser
(in terms of connection to the warp and not that humans in it's eyes are of more or less value then deamons)
deamons.
It instinctively knows a true name is *important* (the why and how of titus knowing it's true name are discussed in our posts to a degree) and it has observed how humans rarely if ever use their true names (all titles + full name), except for rare, very important occasions, so it acts accordingly and calls people either by all of their titles or their full name
Depending on what it referrs to you with (names or titels), you can generally tell where you stand in it's regard.
However, I'm undecided on if it would be funnier if, bc 40k places such a heavy emphasis on titles, it fucks with people it doesn't like by calling them by their full name only (insted of their titles like they are used to [inquisitiors and the like]).
Or if it calls only the people it *likes* by their full names (i like and respect you as a person so I'm calling you by your full name to show how close we are [Leandros, calgar, the 2nd company])
Now, Titus himself, it refers to as 'Companion' (vey much after titus named it Graia). It does this both to protect titus by giving him a title (bit of that fey, 'if i have your name nobody can steal it'), and also because the bond between them is very much that of Companions.
(Companion is also affectionate enough, whist at the same time being just ambiguous enough to reflect the nature of their deep bond itself [deamon and astartes, like, you'll be hard pressed to apply any of our M3 labels to what they have going, though baseline is that they both care *deeply* for the other])
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romance-rambles · 1 year ago
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HOW THE BOYS PLAY LUDO WITH EACH OTHER AND YOU
rules of the game: the goal is to have your four tokens inside the your columns. your opponents can impede your progress by stepping onto the same square as you and sending you back to the homebase ("blocking"). in some variations, two dices may be used, and rules can differ even between related families—for example, getting another turn after blocking a token or after getting your own to homebase. it can accomodate only four solo players.
— pairing: [mostly platonic] modern-day love interests & little painter/you
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— author's note: it brings me great joy that ludo is an actual activity in the itinerary. for me, ludo has always been what monopoly is to other people—breaker of bonds, with at least one person liable to flip over the board. i have no idea if someone else has done this before, but enjoy!
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would not harm anyone unless backed into a corner; alkaid
Alkaid is perhaps the most civilized player at the table. Even as the rest of his companions holler for him to block someone's advance, he will always choose the less bloody option, unless it is the only move he can make or if someone's win [not you] is all but guaranteed and everyone else is indisposed of at the moment.
He will always apologize as he offers the loser their token back, and gracefully accepts his own losses with a smile. His preference for teaming up is with you, and his second most common team up is Clarence. He believes yellow is his lucky color, as he often ends up on the board before his peers—though he usually sabotages the wins that are handed to him on a platter.
Most often, he lets Clarence explain his options for a turn and decides his choice based on what is most beneficial for you. This often results in Lars having to physically restrain himself from bashing his head into the table, since Alkaid's playstyle is in direct opposition of his.
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knows which tokens are on the chopping block, only makes use of that knowledge if it can earn him another roll; ayn
Ayn is a very competitive player. He has his next moves decided before the dice are handed over to him, and can quickly recalculate his next actions if the roll is suboptimal. Mercy is not a word present in his vocabulary—if he notices an opening, he will make use of it, especially if it's against you, often resulting in almost everyone banding against him. However, he's already against everyone, so it doesn't bother him.
He doesn't like teaming up with people, but he does demand a game of having you on his team on occasion for "fairness". He also often complains about how long you and Alkaid take in terms of deciding how to move due to his own speed—and he's absolutely a sore loser, particularly if first place went to Lars.
His preferred color is red, and he often has some of the best luck—and often the worst, as he remains the only person to successfully get three rolls of double sixes more than once, which constitutes the end of his turn without any movement on his part.
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self-sufficient and absolutely ruthless, often goes easy on you; cael
Cael can be accurately described as a mix of Alkaid and Ayn. He enjoys blocking tokens whenever he can, but unlike Ayn, he enjoys taunting his opponents and he refuses to touch your team whenever possible. Often times, like Alkaid, he has to be consoled if he ends up going against you—though his intentions are decidedly less pure.
His preference is to be paired with you whenever possible, but he often ends up paired with Lars—which you find morbidly funny. Like Godheim, they often clash due to their opposing stances. If the token in their way belongs to you, Ayn often adds them to his hitlist because they take up quite a bit of time in bickering over their next move.
His preferred color is blue. He is usually never the first person to come onto the board, but he is also never the last part—which is a distinction that usually falls on you. However, he often has bouts of bad luck where he ends up with suboptimal rolls at the start and end of the game.
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often takes the time to help other players [mostly you and Alkaid], just happy to hang out with friends; clarence
Clarence is an absolute sweetheart and actually a decent player. He could absolutely take the troublesome trio [Ayn, Cael, Lars] on, and does so whenever you and Alkaid hang back. But he often encourages you and Alkaid to block his tokens and often hands out the best moves without requiring anything in return—and Lars often teases him for it.
He's most often left with the color green, as all the other choices are always taken. Often, he pairs up with you or Alkaid, which Ayn encourages as it greatly speeds up the game. Among the group, he also has the distinction of being the only one who gets sad if he doesn't end up in a team, so Lars will sometimes give up his favorite spot to hang out with him.
The first time everyone played together, there were a few minor arguments about the ruleset since everyone grew up playing it differently. As he was the one who led them all to create a rulebook that still gets periodically updated, he's often the referee during any minor disputes—often caused by Ayn or Cael, who are quick to roll their dice on their turn, even if someone else has just barely finished their move. He values Lars' counsel during these moments.
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self-sufficient, but enjoys pointing out the many ways in which someone can block a token; lars
Lars is chaos incarnate. If the table is yelling and screaming, he's having the time of his life. He's aware of the tokens on the board at all times and often uses that information to inform others of an optimal move—which often puts him on Ayn's hitlist since he ends up ruining Ayn's plans. Like Ayn, he always has his next moves prepared ahead of time and he often bargains when he is either asked to show mercy or offers it himself [usually to you, but sometimes, he takes pity on Alkaid and Clarence too].
He has the most variable luck among everyone. Sometimes, his run will be smooth sailing, and other times, he will have to carefully claw his way to victory with ones and twos. Despite that, he's often competing with Ayn and Cael for first, while everyone else prepares themselves for a poor showing. Very often, he's the one to suggest continuing the game until everyone has their own placements as he just enjoys the chaos.
His preferred color is also blue, hence why he often ends up paired with Cael. He rarely pairs up with you, mostly because he's the only person on the table capable of inciting a true competitive response from you—as opposed to a desire to merely keep up, like with Ayn or Cael.
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