#petra's diary

[that-one-i-think]

Hey, if any of y'all MCD folks need different body type references might I recommend l9oking at the character models from the game Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West! The games have a large variety of body types and you can even use it for armor inspiration! Also, the characters are hot! Especially Kotallo and Petra

[30-before-30-but-im-27]

Petra, Jordan - One of the 7 Wonders of the World

Entry to Petra is included in the Jordan Pass. There are many hiking trails to explore Petra of varying times and difficulties. We did a combination of the Siq (the Treasury) trail, followed by Jabal Haroun trail, and then the climb up 900 steps Ad-Dier Monastery Hike. To explore most of Petra and its beauty I'd recommend a full day. We had a lovely opportunity to have tea with a couple of Bedouin ladies. We had two Bedouin women, one Brit and me, an Easter European, and it was such a great conversation about our families and tattoos over tea.

[eartht0lei]

how tender with the dew!

[flashlight-smallknife]

Chase Petra rly fucking nailed it with this one ngl

[petrabasil]

damn ok

[farceurfae]

{January 10th, 2025}

//Chase Petra is on a loop in my brain

[aggressivewallflour]

Birthday present <3

[nottragic-stilltoothsome]

Everything I found in Szarr's palace, for all your fanfiction-writting needs. I haven't found any other post like this one, so i hope i m not copying anyone. Posting it here, because editing the official wiki feels intimidating. Feel welcome to add anything I missed.

Astarion's siblings (the other spawn):

Petras - one of the two you meet in the Flophouse.

Dalyria - the other one from the two you meet in the flophouse. Her diary can be found in the "guest room". Before Cazador turned her, she was a doctor, a "Physician General to the Parliament of Baldur's Gate". She thinks vampirism is a disease and plans on curing herself of it by drinking blood of someone young and healthy - other spawn's daughter, Victoria.

Leon Onufrio - before Cazador turned him, Leon was a sorcerer. He is the one whose daughter's (Victoria's) body is found, cursed, in the room where with the Kozakuran dictionary.

Leon put a protective counter-curse on her, to discourage other spawns from attacking her. Despite his efforts, Dalyria bit her, hoping it'd cure her vampirism. Needless to say, it didn't and Victoria died @easterlingwanderer found out that if you use "speak with the dead" on the body, it turns out that it was a random urchin and Leon did get Victoria out of the city on time. After removing the curse inflicting you with necrotic demage, you can loot a letter of her body from her father instructing Victoria to read said dictionary, so she can freely move around the castle.

In the favoured spawn room, you can learn that Leon was the one usualy occupying it (along with his daughter). His diary reveals that he put extra effort to be Cazador's best hunter, so he can keep Victoria away from others and that he came up with a plan with Figaro to disguise and sneak Victoria out of the palace.

He also notes that he doesnt like the way Violet looks at Victoria and Cazador's wicked smile, when Leon asked him what his master was planning to do with his daughter.

Violet - you can find her Diary in the Dormitory of Spawn. She notes that she put garlic in Yousen bed as a prank.

Aurelia - a tiefling

Yousen - @neophytepagan noticed he is a gnome

Other:

The chamberlain of Cazador was Antwun Dufay. In his diary, which can be found under his bed in his room after a successful passive perception check, it says that he had a lover Lurianna (a werewolf, who can be found dead by walking through fake north wall of chamberlain's office, or through another fake wall in Chamberlain's private room). He knew about Cazador's Black Mass enough to fake his death in order to avoid the threat of taking Astarion's place. Unfortunately for him, it seems he confused the actual death potion and fake death potion, and really died. His lover drank the other potion, which melted her guts. The actual fake-death elixir can be found in his desk, which puts the player in 10-turn coma. He ordered the elixir from Bonecloaks', where he also ordered most of the things the palace needed to function (like bloodstain remover, candles and food for "guests").

Godey - Cazador's right hand. Astarion says that while Cazador was the master of the palace, the kennels (the room where the spawn d be tortured, when they did something Cazador didnt approve of) was the domain of Godey. Godey tortured the spawn when Cazador didnt feel like it. Cazador trusted Godey with the key to the sealed ballroom for the duration of the ritual.

Through the palace, fanatic-servants cleaning the palace: Syrin - human, Greenfern - wood half-elf, Vilhelm - human, Varderola - also human. All of them are servants, who Astarion said are devoted to Cazador and came to the palace of their own will, beggining Cazador to turn them into vampires. Vilhelm is most noteable, as you can talk to him and he asks Astarion why isn't he downstairs, that he is late and the ballroom is already locked. If pressed, he informs that Godey has a key and that the Cazador is going to punish Astarion for missing the ritual (and from his expression, he seems to quite like the thought).

Chamberlain Dufay wrote a blooddonnors ledger, instructing the Spawn to favourite the lower class as prey, as too many missing patriars may drow too much attention.

The language Cazador uses is Kozakuran, from a distant land of Kara-Tur. Astarion notes that they were strictly forbidden from learning it. From Cazador's Journal you can learn that Astarion was not an unreliable narrator when he said Cazador liked torturing him the most: Cazador paid the most attention to him in the journal.

In the favoured spawn room, there is a ledger with the list of spawns who have been favoured (its only Leon and one time Violet).

Amanita Szarr - on her 13th birthsday, invited by her Uncle Cazador. She was invited to the ballroom. She became a vampire, but was not happy about it. She rejected her family name Szarr and named herself Lady Incognita. She claims she stays in the attic and writes stories. One of the books written by her can be found on Cazador's desk.

Mrel Alkam - vampire mastress from Athkatla that Cazador wrote a letter to.

[meanbossart]

What is your take on Astarion's relationship with his siblings?

I have put unreasonable amounts of time into thinking about what the dynamics were like during Cazador's reign in that house. I mean, imagine sharing the same tasks, bedrooms, and general experiences of abuse and duress with the same people FOR TWO HUNDRED YEARS. That's absolute madness. If any of you have had experiences with co-living with family under stress for any extensive amount of time, you know very well the levels of emotional 4D chess-ing that tend to take place as a result. You end up distributing so much frustration and anger around and often onto the very same people you will ultimately seek comfort from - this is that situation but blown up to impossible proportions.

So, "strained" doesn't really do justice as a descriptor here. I believe the family had a dynamic, ever-evolving hierarchy within itself, years-worthy of time where the spawn shifted alliances and made "cliques" within themselves - rebels would evolve into pushovers and trusted friends would turn into snitches. You had endless amounts of drama within the group and flies on the walls would witness them cut each other's heads off one day and sob into one another's laps the next.

Naturally I think all of them were resistant to the concept of being a "family" at first, but it's pretty much impossible to not develop family-like ties throughout that long of a period. Following Cazador's death, I believe there would be further splintering within as some want to maintain said ties and others are eager to cut them - seeing both their siblings and the relationships themselves as yet another painful reminder of what Cazador imposed upon them.

I think Astarion falls into the latter category. If he had his way, he would never see, speak, or think of his brothers and sisters again. And while the sibling nomenclature is a deeply-rooted habit, he doesn't think it holds any legitimacy whatsoever (whether or not that's the case in his heart is another matter).

Dalyria (the moon-elf physician, whom I have come up with a story, personality, background and motivations during several long showers that might not necessarily line up with yours, so, if anything of what I'm about to say seems pulled out of a hat, it's because it was) is the opposite. She has grown attached to the constant presence of her siblings and taken a mother-goose role upon herself. With the Exception of Leonard and Violet (more on that later) she has decided they are her responsibility and wishes the group would stick together.

I like to think that there's a lot of history between those two in particular. Obviously, the interactions between Astarion and his siblings are very brief, but It's enough to run with. Dalyria shows a lot of concern and understanding towards him and even pleads when he threatens Petras' life - again, I think she did a lot of trying to pragmatically keep the peace among them and genuinely grew attached to a few - Astarion being the main one of said few. You even get the smallest hint of a on-and-off intimate relationship with the way he derisively calls her by her nickname.

Also, Astarion very occasionally showcases enough emotional maturity that I could see him latching onto the one other person around who seems to have her wits about her, but he's still flawed enough that Dalyria can think of him as a younger sibling that needs her care. Not to mention that, to me, she demonstrates a penchant for moral superiority and a dash of a machiavellian outlook, based on her diary and her completely unapologetic initiative to kill a child on the small chance it would lead her to a cure - not any child either, but Leonard's child. I can totally see Astarion sympathizing and gravitating towards someone like that.

Which brings us to the rest of the siblings - I would wager that, at least by the end of it all, Leonard and Violet were the odd-ones out. As it tends to happen within any tight-knit group, when one succeeds by stepping over the others (even if the reasons for it are justifiable) that brews a lot of resentment and eventual exclusion. Leonard not only did that, but he apparently still held onto hope of future and family outside the Szarr house; wheter or not everybody wanted out, I think a us-versus-them mentality is unavoidable under those circumstances, and Leonard was looked down upon by the others in their respective ways for what he was trying to do.

Violet just seems like she had gone a little cuckoo to me. We get very little about her, but when I think of an adult woman playing childish pranks on her roomates while you are all stuck in what's essentially a human trafficking ring... I think of a person who's either just a very silly breed of evil or who has lost touch with reality, and the latter is more interesting, imo. I think no one liked her, not only because she was a nuisance but also because she became completely emotionally untouchable. I think both Violet and Leonard are spawn who did not survive long after they were all freed.

I'll stop here before I ramble on for another 8 paragraphs about Aurelia, Yousen and Petras (Oh Petras, my beloved), but, yes, suffice to say that I believe it was kind of complicated LOL

EDIT: Not me calling Leon "Leonard" this whole post. Sorry buddy, you look like a Leonard.

[lilacxquartz]

Trouble in Paradis: The Case of a Thief

levi ackerman x f!reader

plot: in a world where there were never any titans to begin with, lived both you and levi. you were the merchant who set out to put bread on the table and levi, who was humanity’s most devoted house husband.

themes: yandere, oblivious reader, domestic, one shot — a/n: this will be a scenario collection :) — w.c: 1.4k • masterlist • ao3

Levi’s daily routine was a simple one, although it was never devoid of purpose.

Every single morning, he would rise from the bed with a slow, measured stretch and begin his day with an intensive sweep of the home of which you both resided in. It was entirely spotless throughout and he took his role as your house husband very seriously, doing whatever he could do in his power to keep you as happy as possible.

The afternoons were a quieter affair, of course. Sometimes, he’d settle for a game of chess with his good friend, Erwin, or reluctantly accept his fate as Hange’s guinea pig. Sometimes, he’d stop by Petra’s floristry to pick you up a bouquet for you to come back home to, and at other times, he’d work out with his beefier friends. He had to keep fit, after all, if he was going to protect you.

You, who worked worked at one of the many stalls, as a curator of many interesting things that you had worked with overseas trailers to bring to little old Paradis. One-of-a-kind trinkets, woven goods, and more. You were always back by the evening though and he would be waiting like the loyal, doting husband that he was, ready to fill your hands with a cup of hot tea or dive to give you a massage to spare your aching soles.

It was the least he could do for you, of course.

Levi Ackerman was content with his role, no matter how simple it all seemed, but sometimes, he’d run into some trouble.

~~~

You came home a little later than usual that day, kicking off your shoes at the front door with less care than usual in your stride. The air inside was warm, and welcoming and the scent of dinner wafted through the air, but you didn’t carry that same sense of joy that you always brought back with you.

Levi, of course, could pick up on this right away.

He knew all of your moods and even kept a diary to properly assess how to address you. If it was something hormonal, he’d be out to the general store, ready to splurge on some imported chocolate, or if it was a cold, he’d be over Hange’s pharmacy in a flash, ready to treat you however best he could. Today though, it seemed to be genuine sadness, with you looking upset from the moment you walked in.

“Did something happen?” he asked you in a tone that was more of a statement than a question. Levi’s voice was flat, accusatory, although, also determined. If you were upset, then he was too.

That’s just how things worked in this household.

You sighed as you sat down over a plush armchair, sinking your body into the cushioning. “It’s nothing, really, just a bad day…”

Levi shook his head softly, taking a step closer to you. “Doesn’t seem like nothing. What happened today?”

Your lips pressed together in a firm line, considering whether or not to involve him in this. Levi was always so patient with you, so gentle, and yet you always had your suspicions that there was something deeper, perhaps even darker brewing beneath the surface. His eyes were sharp and pointed, fixated entirely on you and when you didn’t satisfy his curiosity with an answer, he tried a different approach. Nothing ever damaging—never with you—but he needed answers and soon.

With a steady hand, he cupped your face, bringing your head to a tilt to meet with his soul-piercing glare. “Talk to me.”

You gulped down the unease you felt, and then finally succumbed to the weight of his demand. You knew that deep down, you shouldn’t keep things from your husband, that wasn’t the right way, so maybe he had a point to shake this information from you. It was out of care. It had to be.

“Someone stole from the shop today,” you finally admitted with a weary sigh, “I didn’t notice until it was too late and I didn’t notice until they were already making a break for it. I did try and stop him but… all that resulted was me being pushed back and the thief getting away…”

Levi’s eyes glinted with sudden anger, but he kept his expression calm and measured, not once revealing how he truly felt to further protect your feelings that were already hung by a thread. Poor you, having to deal with a thief, but also, that poor thief—what a sap—not knowing whose wife he dared steal from. Oh, he wasn’t going to let this one slide. Not a chance in hell.

“He pushed you?” he caught on. “Did he… hurt you?”

You shook your head. “No, no… it wasn’t like that,” you assured him, “he just pushed me away and I tripped.”

Levi’s eyes settled over yours as if gauging you for the truth to make sure you didn’t leave a hint of anything out. “Describe him to me.”

Albeit reluctantly, you did just that, from the way his hair curled to the colour of his eyes to what he wore. Once you were done, you spoke up with some hesitation, unsure of what exactly he was planning, “Why?”

“I’m going to file a report,” he lied, “clearly the authorities need to be on the lookout for a thief, right?”

“R-right,” you nodded.

He then smiled before taking a step back, flinging off his apron to drape over a nearby chair. “Dinner’s almost ready, help yourself to a bowl. Stew’s on the menu tonight - your favourite - made just the way you like it.”

“Wait, Levi, before you go—” you tried to catch him before he left, but by the time your voice caught up, he was already gone.

You slowly made your way through a hefty serving of the stew, indeed made the way you liked it, with the meat tender and falling off the bone. By the time he came back, it was significantly darker outside and the edges of his knuckles were raw with some blood clinging to his skin, indicating some sort of struggle.

“Are you okay?” you asked him, focusing on his hands.

“What? Oh,” he replied, realising that his little attempt to resolve the dispute or so to speak wasn’t without some evidence, “I tripped on the way here,” he decided to go with, bringing out a cloth bag filled to the brim with many items, “kind of a given, I suppose, just look what I had to carry back. No wonder, right?”

You got up, leaning over to peer into the contents of the bag, recognising them as your missing items, every single one recovered without a single scratch at all.

“No way, you got everything back?” you gasped, clutching the objects against your chest. “H-how?”

“They changed their mind,” he promised you, “maybe they felt guilty?”

“I thought you said that you were going to the police—”

Oops. Levi did say that, didn’t he? He took a sharp breath, before adopting a calm smile. “Yeah, I did. They were already there though, supposedly they were returning everything.”

You simply blinked. “That doesn’t sound like something a common thief would do…”

“I’m not sure what’s going on in their head either but that’s just the truth,” Levi comforted you, throwing a blanket around your shoulders as he walked you back to the armchair, ready to help make you forget all about the trouble from today, “besides, it’s all settled now, right? So… let’s forget about them.”

You stared at him, unsure how to respond exactly but ultimately settled on the notion that ignorance was truly bliss, offering him the same warm smile that he looked forward to by the end of each day.

“Of course,” you sleepily sighed, “how silly of me to concern myself with something that resolved itself.”

“Exactly,” Levi nodded along with you, “now sit tight, I’m going to fix you a cup of tea and you can tell me all about the rest of your day.”

With that, he left to attend to the matters in the kitchen instead, just a few strides away. He hummed softly as he gradually bought a pot of water to a simmering boil, portioning some tea leaves into a porcelain teapot. Your job lacked sufficient security, it seemed, perhaps he should appoint his good friends Farlan and Isabel to be the lingering, hired muscle. He recalled that they were out looking for work as well, so what a prime opportunity in the making!

Maybe they could even watch over you throughout the day too, perhaps going as far as reporting back to him when something seemed off.

Oh, how perfect it all was.

He wouldn’t let that happen to you again, after all, not for as long as he was around to protect you.

[marbl3-soda]

My MCSM headcanons (Part 5/5 - Last Part)

-Ivor keeps a diary he secretly hides. Sometimes, he would start by saying to people: "back in my day...".

-Harper is a bit sensitive, and always becomes sad when the plants she keeps die.

-Axel gives out pet rocks to people to be generous.

-Petra would punch and kick a vending machine if her snack was stuck.

-Lukas loves to play uno, but always loses.

-Olivia is learning french and loves squirrels.

-Jesse one time ate a poisonous potato by accident.

-Reuben likes to cover his hooves in mud and print them on paper.

-Torquedawg once broke CaptainSparklez's glasses as a joke.

-Captainsparklez is dyslexic.

-Stampy has an intense fear of doctors and dentists.

-Dan bites his nails when he's nervous.

-Lizzie has a mild allergy to almonds.

-Stacy is bad at handling cats.

-Cassie is a great artist.

-Winslow hides inside a trashcan when it's time for a bath.

-Gill constantly sings for no reason and sleeps with a stuffed animal.

-Aiden is a horrible liar, and he doesn't know long division.

-Maya loves to hit the gym. To be rude as always, she places her chewing gum under people's shoes, and sometimes on their hair.

-Whenever people compliment Stella, the first thing she would always say is: "I know right?".

-Xara keeps lava lamps for comfort.

-Romeo doesn't like children. He finds them annoying.

-Isa prefers sweet over spicy.

-Milo is good at tongue twisters.

-Gabriel takes care of stray animals.

-Soren is not a morning person.

-Magnus always gets noise complaints.

-Ellagaard is awkward at trying to comfort people, but does her best.

[shadow-fell]

Notes on Cazador's Spawn

Mostly for my own reference but hey, someone else might find it useful.

Cazador Szarr becomes the Master Vampire of Baldur's Gate in 1276 (list of master vampires) completing the Rite of Perfect Slaughter on his master, Vellioth.

Astarion's gravestone gives his years as 229-268 DR. There are two assumptions we can make here: the first is that this is just being written without the 1, so he's turned in 1268 DR. The second is that it isn't DR, but instead meant to be Northreckoning - which would make the dates 1261-1300 DR.

We have a few choices here: if it is in DR, either the 1276 date is wrong, or Astarion was somehow turned before Vellioth was killed. Because of that, I think it's a bit easier to assume NR, especially since he's "one of the first" and not "the first". But this is a bit nitpicky.

For the rest of the spawn:

Petras is around ~1390 ("one hundred years eating rats and dogs" from the Flophouse convo)

Yousen is around ~1430 ("only sixty years" after Cazador's defeat)

Dalyria was Physician General to the Parliament of Baldur's Gate (journal). The Parliament of Peers was founded in the mid-1400s, so she would have been turned after this point ~1450

Leon is at least from 1486 (6 years of favored spawn) maximum ~1480 (turned while Victoria is alive based on diary)

Violet and Aurelia have nothing that concrete. However, Violet does offer a prayer to Kelemvor after Cazador's defeat, so I'm going to assume she didn't pick up worship of a new god as a vampire, which makes her turning after Kelemvor's ascension in 1358.

This leaves us with like a century gap, with Astarion (and maybe Aurelia) being turned around 1300 and everyone else in the 1400s. But there's an answer to that as well...Jaheira and Astarion have a party banter

Astarion: Cazador always warned us to stay clear of this neighbourhood. Never said why, though. Jaheira: The last spawn who tried was sunk into the cobblestones and left for the sun to find. I had an unfortunate taste for theatrics, in my youth. Astarion: Ah. Yes, that was probably it.

The original BG games are set 1368/69 - so probably around then or shortly after is when Jaheira killed at least one of the spawn; we can assume there's a few more that got killed and replaced in the 1400s to get back up to magic number seven.

(more on the Szarrs below the cut)

The Szarrs were a merchant family. In 1479, they had been wiped out in an attack that destroyed their home in Tumbledown in the Outer City, leaving only Cliffside Cemetery within large caverns, and which were home to strange lights that could be seen from the river. Rumors about the Szarrs being seen as ghosts were commonplace.

The crypts under the Szarr Mansion we see in BG3 are the Tourmaline Depths, discovered by Donnela Szarr the architect - based on the article while she was Master Vampire in 1138-1204, but potentially earlier. I think it is reasonable to assume that the Depths are connected to the Cliffside Cemetery and Szarr family crypts underground (deeper than the Sewers or Undercity).

Amanita Szarr, or Lady Incognita, has a series of journals dated to 1477 recounting her turning.

Alturiak: describes that she was raised near Anga Vled, and rarely visited her 'Uncle' Cazador

Tarsakh: summoned on her thirteenth birthday

Mirtul: references every living (well, vampire) Szarr as Uncle Cazador, Granddam Fistula, Great-Aunt Dralia, and Cousin Blovart.

Kythorn: describes being turned, imprisoned in the attic. for refusing to participate. Then she drank human blood, and at least a year later, sent up a captive.

Flamerule: "succumbed" and declares herself Lady Incognita.

These span over 6 months (skips Ches after Alturiak). Reasonably, I think these were written during the period of the "captive" sent up, which puts her turning proper probably in 1476, born ~1462. We can probably date the death of her parents to be the killing of the Szarrs, while she was very young. About 15 years before 1479 is perfect time for a ghost story to develop while gangs to take over.

(Anga Vled is a gnomish village between Baldur's Gate and Elturel, along the Risen Road - so not far at all from where Act1/2 are set)

If we assume that the relations Amanita describes are accurate, the tree would look like this. Given that they're an elven family (or at least, Cazador is elven) that means we have a lot of space to work with, timeline wise, but the quotes around 'uncle' might mean he's actually Dralia's son or Amanita's great uncle, to give a bit more space.

??? (Donella Szarr?) |-------| Dralia Fistula |-------|--------| Cazador ??? ??? | | Blovart Amanita

The question is: if the Szarr family are all vampires, then what does it mean that they haven't shown up? And that Vellioth was apparently not a Szarr but was still the Master Vampire (and definitely in charge over Cazador?) Who turned them?

My personal theory goes something like this:

Donnela Szarr, wealthy (but not Patriar) elven merchant has at least two children, Dralia and Fistula (probably not real name because come on)

some time from 1019-1138, Donnela Szarr, while investigating the tombs below her family's estate, encounters Hideous Gathwycke and is turned as his spawn.

1138, Donnela Szarr kills him and becomes Master Vampire

Donnela turns Vellioth

Donnela potentially turns her children to grant them immortal life

1204, Vellioth kills Donnela, becomes Master Vampire

Vellioth takes control of the Szarr family (intimidation, magic, or potentially turning Dralia/Fistula, if they're his spawn and not Donnela's)

Cazador is turned by Vellioth (at least 1260, probably earlier)

1276, Cazador completes the Right of Perfect Slaughter

~1460, other Szarrs die; Amanita sent to the countryside.

~1475 Amanita turned

I imagine that Cazador was fairly young when Donnela was killed (young enough to not be turned yet), and knew Vellioth already, even if it might have been some time before he was turned. I'd put him at no more than 100 when Vellioth becomes Master Vampire; their relationship (and "martinet") feels very 'strict teacher' which makes me wonder if he was a tutor beforehand.

The debate is whether the Szarrs were killed for mundane reasons (rival merchants), by vampire hunters, or by Cazador himself. If he killed them, it might be for refusal to let him turn them into vampires (Blovart as the exception), or some level of sibling rivalry? Amanita's parents are presumably not vampires since she was turned, but that doesn't remove the chance of monster hunters.

Based on the timeline, Blovart may have died sometime after Lady Incognita's entries, placing Leon as his replacement for the seven spawn (maybe the Favoured Spawn room was his by default, and became a competition after? The fact it only goes back 6 years is interesting). Perhaps related to how she left or died herself.

Dralia and Fistula's absence might be that they don't live with him, but I could also see if they discovered the Rite of Ascension and tried to usurp him and got killed for it. Cazador is fascinated by the idea of family, and I could see him very much wanting to keep his family intact but also has no qualms about killing his own mother / aunt if they actually posed a threat to his real goals.

All of this + the Lady Incognita stuff is very rough, presumably a lot of it having been cut with the Upper City/shift in direction for Cazador's story. For more links/information, there's also this masterlist.

[eleasis20]

Vampire Spawn Colour Theory

There seems to be bit of symbolism going on with the vampire spawn and what colours they are wearing. For example, Astarion stands out from his siblings, as his siblings all wear red,

but Astarion's outfit is almost entirely blue/purple, with more pink/purple and only a hint of red.

which I think probably shows just how isolated he was as Cazador's favourite, even amongst his own siblings.

the only exception to this rule is possibly Leon, who is always seen shirtless and in blue/purple trousers:

Interestingly, this kind of confirms my theory, as Leon has some evidence to suggest that he was also isolated from the other spawn.

Leon is almost certainly the youngest of the spawn, being a human with a mortal human child basically guarantees that he's only been there for 10 years at most. We know this because in his dairy he says "ever since the master Turned me and forced me to bring Victoria along", proving that Victoria was born prior to his being Turned.

This immediately sets him apart from the others due to his inexperience, his living relatives, and having Victoria move in with him. It's also possible that he's the only human spawn, as Petras is never confirmed to human (to my understanding, he could be half-elven or at a stretch a full elf).

There is also the magic element here, as Leon is confirmed to be a Sorceror (inherent magic) in Dalyria's Journal, and if left to his own devices Astarion picks Arcane Trickster as his subclass of choice, giving him some magic abilities. None of the other spawn have confirmed classes, although there is a theory that Violet is a Bard.

Magic is almost always shown as purple in the game, through Gale's robe, his orb, his magic and Mystra's appearance as well as the ancient sigils.

Which could suggest that the thing that sets Astarion and Leon apart from the other spawn (and Cazador and, in association to the colour red, their bloodlust/vampiric nature) is their magic. Which also ties into the Tadpole being magically altered, and that being what frees Astarion from Cazador in the end.

Leon and Astarion wearing blue/purple sets them apart from the rest of the spawn, visually distinguishing them as the outliers.

It also separates them from Cazador's colour scheme, as he wears red and black.

Cazador wears largely black, with only a red shirt underneath his jacket adding any colour. Perfect for a vampire lord trying to hide his true nature from the masses and nobles - the red is being hidden by the black.

The black could also represent his ties to death, both as someone who is attempting to cause the deaths of 7007 people, and as someone who is undead. It could also represent that he obscures things and keeps secrets, from the public and from his spawn (the Rite of Profane Ascension for example).

Following this line of thought, it's interesting to note that Petras has very little red in his outfit, with more browns and blacks than anything else.

Possibly suggesting that he's (attempting to) following in Cazador's steps by hiding things. Most likely his true feelings more than anything, as he echoes Astarion's Act 1 personality by covering with seduction and false confidence.

Dalyria wears only red trousers, balanced with a white shirt and brown corset.

She's more honest about her vampirism, and more empathetic to both Astarion and Petras. She doesn't fully accept her vampirism and is trying to cure it (by killing Victoria).

Violet wears mostly red, with only a purple/black jacket.

If purple = magic, then perhaps the purple is a link to her possible history as a Bard, and the magic she weilded as one. She seems to have accepted her vampirism and takes little issue with her bloodthirst, wreaking havoc on her siblings with pranks targetting their vampirism in particular. (Her diary says she put garlic in Yousen's bed to give him a rash, and she seems to have scared the hell out of Leon with all the attention she gave Victoria, but despite getting into the Favoured Spawn room, she never hurt Vic.)

Yousen's outift is mostly black, with some brown mixed in.

again, he's likely accepted his vampirism moreso than Astarion, Leon, Petras and Dalyria. But he's still slightly unsure of his place, hence the muddy browns, possibly because he's the only short-race of the 7 spawn (almost certainly a Gnome).

Aurelia has the most red of all of them. Dressing almost exculsively in red.

She's even a red-skinned Tiefling, further matching Cazador's colour scheme. She's the most nervous/openly fearful of the spawn, possibly showing a submission to her vampirism and Cazador by extension.

Leon's lack of any red suggests that he's rejecting his vampirism, and Astarion's sliver of red under his jacket suggests that he's doing the same or is hiding it (he does for most of act 1 to be fair).

The fact that Cazador chose to target people who almost all have white/blonde hair suggests that he targeted innocents (white often represents innocence or purity), or that he targeted vulnerable people (white hair often suggests either significant age and therefore difficulting defending onself, or albinism which often causes blindness which also limits their ability to defend themselves).

Aurelia and Leon having darker hair might suggest that Cazador targeted people who had secrets or could be kept secret, or who were closer to death.

Of course none of this applies to irl, but is instead an analysis of what the character design could represent.

[trulysummersprivate]

"You drew stars around my scars ✨"

I'm Dr Petra Grey-Summers, but you can just call me Petra. I just moved into The Avengers Tower as the official Mutant Therapist, offering my services to our future heroes and current team because I believe even heroes need help sometimes.

I do have a mutation of my own, nothing special but Professor X calls it Chronokinesis, I can pause, rewind and fast forward through time which helps when clients want total privacy in their sessions.

Ask me anything! I will be here posting excerpts from my diary, my thoughts and feelings, answering questions about the Mutant Academy as I was schooled there and anything else you all need! The excerpts will be edited to protect my clients identities of course, Doctor Patient confidentiality but yeah! Happy to be here.

A few things: I do like Taylor Swift (calm down @purpleprincessonfyre) but I also like Dolly Parton, Queen, Florence and The Machine and MARINA.

I am NOT a superhero. I do not handle weapons or fight crime. I sit at my desk and listen to your problems. Only thing I fight is depression, anxiety and inner demons. I don't Don any capes or catsuits unless it's Halloween night.

Yes my folks are Jean Grey and Scott Summers and yes that was tricky but I was mostly raised by my grandparents while they were still X-Men, on their farm in Tennessee so I'm a little country.

I love hot teas and a good cosy night in watching cheesy rom coms with a bucket of buttered popcorn on my lap.

Yes my hair is naturally red, you can thank my Mom for that and yes I do get freckles in the summer.

And finally, I kind of want a pet but I doubt they'd allow that at the Tower? Maybe a teacup poodle would be okay? I love dogs.

Okay that's all, I think. For now 🍂

Come say hi!

@askstevella @ask-missparker @ask-starrk @purpleprincessonfyre @wizzzardofoz @thechoooooosenone @rickb-chaos @luna-d-marsh @marvelsfavoriteuncle @elzabeth-stark @sci-fi-lexcon @jackiequick @blueboirick @gcthvile @cherrysft @meiramel

[murkystarlight]

There's a lot of dynamics. So I have dynamics, headcanons whatever really for the new order as couples or... something close(not doing any with Jesse though... Too many different ones that I got to write if I do Jesse. Srry)(or poly. Again, too many variables to write) and most of these are rare pairs ig

It's just me talking random stuff :]

Don't take them seriously

Uh... who do I start with-

Okay. Olivia and Petra (olivtra?)

I'll start with that.

Yeah, so... it's cute. I like this one quite a bit actually. I can imagine something like.. Olivia needing rescoreses on a project and Petra, without a single thought, runs out and comes back in a few hours(sometimes a day or two) with what she needs. And Petra handing them to Olivia with a proud smile on her face while Olivia also looks at her with a warm smile. But also a bit concerned cause she might be hurt. And if Petra IS hurt, Olivia would probably start tending her wounds while muttering stuff like "you idiot. I could have just gotten them from a store" and Petra just laughs it off.

They would cuddle a lot(+forehead kisses from Petra)(then Olivia chuckles and kisses her back)(oh god- what am I doing). And Petra loves playing with Olivia's hair 😌

They're very open about the relationship from the beginning. Probably starts flirting in the middle of a conversation with a whole crowd watching-

Next combo, Axel and Petra (...wait. hold on-- nvm. I can't find a ship name for this)

They're both a bit chaotic. Right? So they would do each other's interest often. Like Petra going to see Axel in Boomtown and having fun with him off on the side somewhere, or sneaking out together to go on a quick adventure or just talk. Sneaking around the griefers can get a bit difficult, but sometimes they make an appearance and just fight with/against the other griefers too. It's all in good fun.

I personally think Petra is good at cooking(and pretty much every other skill to a... an amount) but she isn't great at baking. And Axel on the other hand, great at baking. But cooking.. not as much(still good at it. Just not as good when it's compared to his baking skills). But he also likes to set the kitchen on fire sometimes so he needs someone watching over him. But Petra isn't great at watching over people(and would probably help him burn the place) so they just live off of raw meat and berries. Take out orders daily👏👏

They have a more... playful and friend-like relationship with each other rather than flirty or lovey-dovey shit. That doesn't mean they aren't lovey-dovey though. These cuties would have so much fluff when put in the right situations. I also think that Axel would hold Petra up in his arms a lot, and she really likes that since- he would probably be the only person that could do it(since she is taller than most people). Sometimes she literally crawls onto his shoulders and sticks there for hours if she doesn't have anything better to do.

Probably plays a lot of pranks together on others

Next ship! Olivia and Lukas (if you were expecting Petra again, you're WRONG.😈 This is completely random. I just picked the names randomly lol)(anyways- ship name- uh... darn it-)

They give each other book recommendations. I just think they would. Plus, Lukas sometimes helps Olivia with her redstone engineering, and since Lukas isn't as great as Olivia, she sometimes gives him small lessons about it. I gotta admit they would be so cute together 😫

Olivia also gives Lukas feedback on his writing, and Lukas insisted Olivia to try writing too. (I think Olivia would have a diary)

Lukas likes making Olivia small treats to eat while she's working. (And bring her back to reality when she gets into the zone too much)

Either they are trying to keep each other on a healthy schedule, or they both are too immersed in their work and both of them stay up to work for days without food or rest. There's no middle! But after a long time of no-rest working they would cuddle up on the couch and sleep under a comfortable blanket together 🥰🥰

Their relationship would mostly be fluff

This... fourth? one is Axel and Lukas (lukxel)

They would definitely do a lot of baking together! They would share recipes, make new ones and taste each others baked goods. Axel is more into baking pastries or cake(like.. bread-ish?), while Lukas is more into cookies or muffins/cupcakes. Goes on picnics a lot with everything they made 🌸

They have this... uh... 'tradition' where they prank each other. Sometimes things get too heated and they fight. But they make up pretty easily and apologizes.

Lukas isn't a big fan of Boomtown. So Axel sneaks out a lot to see him. But Lukas still tries to go meet Axel himself, instead of relying on Axel to always come out to meet him.

Really tight hugs. (They are both very touchy and affectionate people)

They still kind of hold a grudge on each other for the past, but it's mostly solved. (They made it a joke to tease each other about it)

Okay- last two.

Olivia and Axel (axilivia?)

Not gonna lie. I'm pretty sure I shipped this when I was younger(still kinda do?)

They're like a old bickering couple. They're just too comfortable with each other. They found a nice spot between Boomtown and Redstonia where they can meet up. Even built a small house there so they can chill together. I feel like they would've bonded by being

'no screentime buddies'

*sparkle sparkle*

Axel still tries to scare and play pranks on Olivia. But by now, Olivia's more successful at doing pranks on Axel than Axel is at her(she likes to prank his pranks(??))

Last but not least- Lukas and Petra (luktra)

I'll be honest, I ship them so fricking bad- 😭

They're like a... childhood friends to lovers to a married couple who got divorced five times or smth but somehow still in love and gets back together everytime leaving everyone around them confused

Okay. Thank you for listening (I am happy to yap more about any ships you want me to yap about👐)(and I mean anything)

[mlp410nightcore]

Hi everyone!! Here is another painting for my Blossom Love AU. This friend group is not gonna replace the mane 7 group that I've made for my Blossom Love AU but these ponies have been really good friends since they were fillies and I thought it would be an awesome idea to make this painting of them all together.

Parents of each next gen(Left to Right):

Ari-daughter of Petra and Olivia from Minecraft:Story Mode

Christine-daughter of Charlie and Vaggie from Hazbin Hotel

Addison-daughter of Max Caulfield and Chloe Price from Life Is Strange

Akira-son of Zane and Lin Chung from Lego Ninjago:Masters Of Spinjitzu and Hero:108

Ava-daughter of Nikki Maxwell and Brandon Roberts from Dork Diaries

Princess Flurry Heart-daughter of Princess Cadence and Shining Armor from My Little Pony:Friendship Is Magic

Levi-son of Rainbow Dash and Foxtail from My Little Pony:Friendship Is Magic and OK KO Let's Be Heroes

Credit goes to PixieSimm for the base I used and to Telltale Games, Mojang, Vivziepop, Amazon Prime Video, A24, Dontnod Entertainment, Square Enix's External Studios, Michael Hegner, Tommy Andreasen, Yang-Ming Tarng, Cartoon Network, Rachel Renee Russel, Lauren Faust, Hasbro and Ian Jones-Quartey for creating all the shows and parents of my next gens while I only take credit for creating my next gens, art, stories, ships and the Blossom Love AU. I hope you guys like it, have a beautiful day and always believe in yourselves!!!