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[royalphantompain]

GANG

MY NEURODIVERGENT ASEXUAL LESBIAN SQUAD I LOVE THEM SO MUCH MY GIRLS-

[cryptid-creepture]

What would be your OC's reaction to a butterfly landing on their noses.

Another Anon has blessed me tonight by giving me another ask about my OCs! Thank you!

Probably for asks like these, I will just focus on my main four, but feel free to ask me about certain characters for asks like that!

Orpheus would be absolutely delighted, probably squealing with joy, but in the process, accidentally scaring it away, then she would beg for it to come back and get very sad.

Vedas would probably freak out at first, and when it flies away, she would be a bit relieved to see it was just a butterfly, but she would think how cool it was neat how a butterfly decided to land on her nose.

Charming would honesyly act negatively about it, instantly swatting at it with her paws and rubbing where it landed. She doesn't hate buuterflies, but she just gets annoyed by random stuff touching her.

Maskky would just stand completely still or move extremely slowly, making it some kind of game of how long she can go without making the butterfly fly off.

[aaronstveit]

"if i was orpheus i would simply not turn around" yes you would. if you were orpheus and you loved eurydice, you would. to love someone is to turn around. to love someone is to look at them. whichever version of the myth — he hears her stumble, he can't hear her at all, he thinks he's been tricked — he turns around because he loves her. that's why it's a tragedy. because he loves her enough to save her. because he loves her so much he can't save her. because he will always, always turn around. "if i was orpheus i would simply —" you wouldn't be orpheus. you wouldn't be brave enough to walk into the underworld and save the person you love. be serious

[amajorsystem]

[metamorphesque]

― Ovid, Metamorphoses

[hermesmoly]

Why is it always about Orpheus turning back foolishly and never about Eurydice following him out of the Underworld, likely knowing she was doomed. That Orpheus went all this way, singing the story of their love, hopeful that he will return her to the surface and finally build their life together— but they will not. She knows her Orpheus will turn back. And yet she still follows him, all the way to the top, because the simple pleasure of seeing his back again is enough for her. Isn’t that a foolish thing to do for love?

[wolfythewitch]

Hadestown au perchance

[lunamonchtuna]

[royalphantompain]

I think before I only said that Orpheus had ADHD and I wasn't too sure to make her also autistic but now, I absolutely want to make her both autistic and ADHD.

[cryptid-creepture]

OCS FAV PLACES OR AESTHETICS?

It always makes me so happy whenever I see another ask for my girls! Thank you!

Favorite places will be a bit hard to answer because of the kind of world they live in (and I am still world building stuff, so i'm very sorry) but I can answer their favorite aesthetics!

For Orpheus, her favorite aesthetic is autumn! The candles, pumpkins, drinks, and everything else like that give her a very nice and cozy feel, but she especially loves the scenes of forests with their colorful leaves. Another aesthetic is nature, and she's really fond of walking paths (I'm sorry, I don't know if these have a name or not). Just the thought of what the destination excits her! Her least favorite aesthetic is city core because society is yucky.

Vedas' favorite aesthetic is plain and simple. Carnival aesthetics. Though if she saw a picture of some sort of ride she never saw before, she will spend hours and hours trying to look up what it is. She just needs to know absolutely everything there is about this ride. She also loves sunsets and anything pink, red, or blue, but she goes crazy over any aesthetic with a heart in it. Her least favorite aesthetic are liminal spaces, how dare they try to make these fun looking places creepy.

Charming will always have a soft spot for theater aesthetic, and they are a favorite of her's, but she absolutely loves rain/rainy aesthetic so much. While she does like the ones in the ones that take place in the day as well, she adores the rainy night ones. Also actually another aesthetic she likes is liminal spaces. The creepy vibe is just something she appreciates, but also the places that have that take place in areas for kids. She wishes she could have experienced something like that in her childhood. Speaking of childhood, she despises the royal aesthetic.

Maskky does enjoy space aesthetic, but she prefers the night skies aesthetics and also fantasy aesthetic. She also is a fan of masquerade aesthetic, which she didn't expect because at first she thought they made mask boring but no, those mask are spectacular. Her least favorite aesthetic is anything that involves the day sky. Eww.

[mishoru]

It's an old tale

[ashes-in-a-jar]

Okay but what if I actually screamed

[kermit-coded]

there's something about the fact that charles said he never finished reading the myth of orpheus and eurydice. he references it and yet he never finished it. he looked back, not out of fear but because edwin needed to be seen. he got edwin back. they made it out of hell. he never finished the story. he is not orpheus and edwin is not eurydice.

[orpheus-has-lyreizz]

I want to return this court musician to his wife

[aaloosshitposting]

"If I were orpheus I wouldn't look back"

But we look back everyday- rechecking emails, making sure a friend is still behind you, checking to see if you remebered to pick up your keys. It's second nature, a habit of care.

It was second nature for him too. He looked back, not out of weakness, but love. For what is love, if not to look back?