#powder verse: tbd

[allourinsides]

Powder thinks that what Grayson's saying makes a lot of sense, but she's still huffing and puffing and pouting as she fidgets with her gadget. She's supposed to be a distraction and play loud music and she does do that, but it also likes to throw sparks when it's turned on. Sparks that hurt and she doesn't know how to fix it. "DJ-"She interrupts herself, grin taking over her face as a new, better name hits her. "DJ Electra!" she exclaims, bursting from her seat. "I can use her as a distraction AND a weapon!"

Her eyes fall to the floor as she thinks of all the ways she could use her. "I could put her in a puddle of water and she'd draw them right to her and bzzz!" She shakes her body violently with exaggerated screams of 'pain' and giggles, entirely thrilled with the realization. "You're a genius!"

@strxngertogether asked: “if it works, why is it bad?” (grayson & powder) // still accepting this meme

the older woman nodded at the contraption that powder still insisted 'didn't work right.' grayson wasn't really sure what it was supposed to do. however, the fact that it didn't work for it's intended purpose seemed to bother the child quite a bit. "ah little one. it works for something. the fact that you created it should give you pride." grayson said with a soft voice. she'd never had any children of her own. never wanted them but she did have a soft heart for them. "let me tell you a secret..." she leaned in a little closer and stroked some blue hair back from powder's face. "sometimes things in life. anything in life takes much trial and error until you get it right." would this offer the sad child any peace? she wasn't sure but she'd at least tried. "now what did you say her name is?" she looked at the little 'toy' in her hand.

[vandrs]

the man slouches his shoulders as me makes it down the streets of zaun, attempting to appear less threatening in size. his head is tucked, face hidden beneath a hood as he walks. while his path may seem aimless, he has a destination in mind. his wrists sting from the tightness of the cuffs that had been used in transport, but he easily i g n o r e s the pain. his mind only focused on one thing. finding his daughters.

vander had been in stillwater for the last 6 years. or at least was his best estimate. and now that he finally walked free, the years behind bars f a d e d in memory. the physical evidence would live on, but as far as he was concerned that was no longer mattered. he didn't know WHY he'd been released, and he wasn't about to look a gift horse in the mouth.

pale eyes raise as he approaches a familiar building, a scowl pulling at his lips in response to what it had become. hands curl into heavy fists, preparing to venture in before he notices a form slip down an alley nearby. the shock of blue hair catches his attention briefly, freezing him in his tracks. without thinking, he's following.

he pauses in the mouth of the alley, brows pulled together. the name leaves his lips as a q u e s t i o n before he can think anything else, “ powder ? ”

@forzaun liked for a starter.

[buriedyou]

𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐀𝐍 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐍𝐁𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐑.

This characterization of Cardan is generally canon compliant following the TFOTA trilogy and the sequel duology with some personal deviations and is as always headcanon-heavy in terms of interpretation. He is the High King of Elfhame, an enchanting and hidden world coinciding with the current modern world wherein faeries and their ilk are well aware of mortals but mortals very rarely are aware of the true existence of faeries. There is a healthy mix of Holly Black's own faerie lore from Cardan's original canon, as well as various folklore, fairytale, and mythological creature lore from various media. I have a deep love of fairytales, particularly dark fairytales, and this is very present in this interpretation. Cardan is being written post-canon and as such, everything written should be considered original writing with the exception of any references to the TFOTA source material.

FULL NAME: Cardan Greenbriar TITLES: High King GENDER: Non-binary (he/they) SPECIES: Faerie AGE: 28 years old

HAIR: Black as pitch. Shaggy, curly, and almost always unruly and falling over his brow and ears, particularly when accompanied by his crown. EYES: Black with a ring of gold around his pupils. Always adorned with kohl, very thick and long lashes. SKIN TONE: Cool toned, pale. Translucent. Always accented by varying glittering powders and creams along their cheekbones, collarbones, and whatever bit of skin he so chooses to reveal depending on his outfit for the day. BODY TYPE: Lean and lithe. Thin, but strong muscle in the limbs. Very tall. VOICE: Low and smooth. There's a musical quality to it. Bewitching and enticing. Capable of frightening those stupid enough to go against him, but just as able to command a room full of faeries and enchant just as many mortals with a mere whisper. POSTURE: Impeccable when they so choose, which is rarely. Most often, they are perfectly content to lounge as much as they'd like and slouch even more, but it does not detract from the very obvious touch of easy decadence to their every movement. SCARS: Terrible, terrible scars all along his back from years of abuse at the hands of one of his brothers. NOTABLE FEATURE(S): His pointed ears. His long, thin tail which has a tuft of black hair on the end and is often decorated with gold or silver and jeweled cuffs. His extravagant taste in attire. The near constant presence of a glass of faerie wine in their hand. The sheer amount of jewelry they wear on a day to day basis, particularly rings and earrings.

MENTAL ILLNESSES: Depression. Alcoholism. ALIGNMENT: Chaotic Good VULNERABILITIES: Though fae have much longer life expectancies than humans, they can be injured and even killed. There are many ways to kill them, but a simple blade can do the job fairly well. Despite having grown up in court and amongst nobility, Cardan is a poor swordsman. He is clever, cunning in mind and in magic, but his physical prowess is certainly lacking. POWERS: TBD...

CURRENTLY.

the high queen and her king consort. PRESENT DAY. TBD...

IMPORTANT: Cardan shares his throne with his mortal wife, Jude Duarte. He is wretchedly devoted and deferential to her. As such, Cardan is decidedly single ship in their main verse.

ALT VERSES TBD...

[bijoupreciieux]

◤‧₊˚🌈🐶˚₊‧⁺˖◢  the  fragrant  smell  of  onions  and  garlic  being  sautéed  in  butter  fills  the  kitchen,  dorothy  sets  it  aside  to  retrieve  a  blender.  she  already  has  various  ingredients  set  out.  ❝  alright  so  first  we’re  gonna  put  in  this  homemade  fire-roasted  tomato  sauce,  then  ketchup…brown  sugar…apple  cider  vinegar  &&  molasses.  ❞ she  pauses  to  give  them  a  moment  to  write  down  the  ingredients.  ❝  and  of  course  spices  —-  paprika,  black  pepper,  chili  powder,  red  pepper  flakes  &&  mustard.  there’s  no  measurement  for  these  just  do  whatever  feels  right.  can  you  grab  the  pot  on  the  stove  and  pour  it  in?  ❞  she  waits  for  them  to  do  this  before  she  puts  the  lid  on  the  blender  and  hits  a  button.  dorothy  throws  a  pinch  of  salt  in  halfway  through  but  lets  it  mix  some  more  until  it’s  nice  and  smooth.

❝  i’m  gonna  transfer  this  back  into  the  pot  and  bring  it  to  a  rolling  boil  then  let  it  simmer  for  an  hour  mixing  occasionally.  &&  that’s  how  you  make  kansas  city  style  bbq  sauce.  i’m  gonna  make  pulled  pork  with  this  batch  but  sadly  we  have  to  wait  ‘til  tomorrow  ‘cause  the  meat  has  to  marinate  in  the  sauce  overnight.  ❞

open starter for dorothy gale | verse tbd. multi’s pls specify muse. ( reminder: you don’t have to match length ! )

[smarti-at-smogwarts]

Theo Abbott Profile

Identity

Name: Theodosia -Theo- Jane Abott

Gender: ....-throws peruvian powder bomb-  gender neutral tho she doesn't have the label for it.

*She goes by she/her pronouns though

Age: varies depending on when I’m writing her. 

Birth Date: January 11th XXXX

Species: Human

Blood Status: Half-Blood.

Sexuality: Queer af. Bisexual. Arospec. 

Alignment: Chaotic Good. 

Ethnicity: Mixed. 

Nationality: English

Residence: Godrics Hollow. Abbott home. 

Myer Briggs Personality Type: ENFP-T [ Turbulent Campaigner ] 

The Mage

Wand: Ebony. Dragon heartstring. 13 inches. Quite Flexible.

This jet-black wand wood has an impressive appearance and reputation, being highly suited to all manner of combative magic, and to Transfiguration. Ebony is happiest in the hand of those with the courage to be themselves. Frequently non-conformist, highly individual or comfortable with the status of outsider, ebony wand owners have been found both among the ranks of the Order of the Phoenix and among the Death Eaters. In my experience the ebony wand’s perfect match is one who will hold fast to his or her beliefs, no matter what the external pressure, and will not be swayed lightly from their purpose.

As a rule, dragon heartstrings produce wands with the most power, and which are capable of the most flamboyant spells. Dragon wands tend to learn more quickly than other types. While they can change allegiance if won from their original master, they always bond strongly with the current owner.The dragon wand tends to be easiest to turn to the Dark Arts, though it will not incline that way of its own accord. It is also the most prone of the three cores to accidents, being somewhat temperamental.

Animagus: Pine Marten

Misc Magical Abilities: Unknown undecided magical ability. ( will be edited when I figure what i want her hphl ability to be) Animagus. 

Boggart Form: Theo is terrified of being forced to be something she’s not or being trapped. This shows itself by a square room with no windows popping up in front of her. The walls the start closing in on her. 

Riddikulus Form: The walls collapse like the sides of a carboard box. 

Amortentia ( what she smells like) :  Parchment and ink. Crisp night air. Cinnamon cloves Pine trees.

Amortentia ( what she smells) : Misc smells that represent different people from the Taghd Lynch Defense Squad/her closest friends. Firewood burning. Lemon cakes. Fresh cut grass ( from the quidtich pitch) 

Patronus Memory: She’s at the Hogwarts common room goofing around with her housemates and friends. Basically her realizing she’s found a place to be herself and accepted as she is.

Mirror of Erised: Her happy and content and herself in her own home with her writing and her cat and her friends and the fuck away from Godric’s Hollow. 

Specialized/Favourite Spells: 

At Hogwarts_ Anything you can use on a prank. Some defensive spells as while Hogwarts was fairly accepting of her she did get a bit hassled ( there’s always that one occasional asshole) about both being a girl in the quidditch team and how she chooses to dress out of uniform. Some offensive spells from when she got into fights/duels in the halls along Taghd and Teddy. Her best spells are the ones used to sneak around her mother and grandmother. 

Out Of Hogwarts_ While not a spell, apparition becomes her most used magical feat as she likes to visit her friends as they all settle into her adult lives. She also learns a bit of healing spells from either Adelia or Teddy ( and at both their insistence that if she’s going to be getting into trouble out there she should be able to patch herself up a bit. ) 

*In the Taghd Dies Verse where she becomes an auror she adds a lot of offensive spells to her arsenal “best defense is a good offense right?” Theo no.

Appearance

Faceclaim: Saoirce Ronan 

Game Appearance: N/A 

Height: 5′6′’ by year 7.

Weight: Average weight for her height. 

Physique: On the thin side. Somewhere between rectangle and hourglass boy shape wise. Has muscle on her due to Quiditch. Strong facial features.

Eye Colour: Light blue 

Hair Colour: Dirty Blonde as a child. Darkens with age.  Often untidy from running or flying and held up/back.

Skin Tone: Fair

Body Modifications: None

Scarring:  Has a set of diagonal scars on her leg from when she tried to play with a splintered bat during a quidditch match. A few random scars from scrapes from school that got a little too rough before being broken up. 

Inventory: parchment. Quill. Ink. A Claddagh ring from Taghd. Random and assorted books. Notes from her friends. Her wand. Hair pins. ( she keep forgetting she has them there so she just stuffs more in her bag. No one knows how many she has in there by now, not even her)

Fashion: https://www.pinterest.com/xhowling/theo-jane-abbott/#fashion

*Theo tends to prefer Hogwarts robes and wizard fashion in general more as they’re more gender neutral. ( as in both genders wear robes though they differ in style and in Hogwarts case they do not differ at all from one gender to the other) so she wears them more.

 When it comes to muggle clothing she’s most comfortable on cable knit sweaters and plaid ( though she favors the former a lot more)  because she used to steal Taghd’s though if she has to “dress up” she’ll wear more  masc fashion. She’s influenced by Teddy’s fashion sense a bit for that. She also wears her Gryffindor tie even after leaving Hogwarts but with dress robes/a shirt and vest instead.

She tends to prefer more muted colors with like accents of one color or one point of color (i know nothing about fashion please bear with me. Hopefully the pinterest helps)

Allegiances

Hogwarts House: Gryffindor. 

Ilvermorny House: N/A 

Affiliations/Organizations: Gryffindor Quidditch Team. Taghd Lynch Protection Squad. Gryffindor house. 

Professions: Student. Writer/Anthologist. Becomes an auror in the Taghd Dies Verse.

Hogwarts Information

Class Proficiencies:

Astronomy:   ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆☆☆☆

Charms:  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆☆☆☆

DADA:  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆☆

Flying:  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Herbology:  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆☆☆☆☆

History of Magic:  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆☆☆

Potions:  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★☆☆☆☆☆☆

Transfiguration:  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆☆☆☆

Electives:

Apparition

Muggle Studies 

Study of Ancient Runes

Quidditch: Plays as Chaser and Beater reserve. 

Extra Curricular: Does writing count?

Favourite Professors: I think she’d like both  Atticus Irwin Grimsley ( @cursebreakerfarrier ) and Toby Moore ( @unfortunate-arrow ) 

*Will probably add teachers as more details of the games are release

Least Favourite Professors: Pretty much any teachers that have issues with how she dresses or are of the snobby pureblood category are a safe bet. 

*Will probably add teachers as more details of the games are release

Relationships

Misc Siblings: None. Theo is an only child. 

Father: Unknown atm. All Theo knows is he was a muggleborn wizard.

Mother: Emily Abbott 

Love Interest: N/A  

*arospec but might have fwb/flings as she figures things out and possibly a platonic life partner/partners in the future. Most likely will end up living with friends as family either way. ( the friends she lives with may even have spouses of their own just...a bunch of friends living in a house as family) 

Best Friends:  Taghd Lynch ( @unfortunate-arrow ) Lu Morrison ( @rosievixen )  Arthur -Teddy- Elllsion ( @cursebreakerfarrier ) Adelia Selwyn ( @that-ravenpuff-witch)

Rival: She hates Cillian Lynch ( @unfortunate-arrow) and Ernest Ellson ( @cursebreakerfarrier​) bc they are unkind to her boys/two of her closest friends. I can imagine they do not like her that much ( seeing as Theo’s about as secretive and sublte about not liking people as a wrecking ball through the wall) 

Enemy: tbd 

Dormmates: Lu Morrison ( @rosievixen) 3rd and 4rth room mates unknown atm. 

Pets: Theo adopts a niffler in the future once she’s out of Hogwarts. Her family has very strict rules about owning pets though at some point in Hogwarts she adopts a stray cat and somehow manages to keep it a secret even when/if she has to go back home for Holidays. 

Closest Canon Friends: tbd

Closest MC Friends:  Taghd Lynch ( @unfortunate-arrow ) Lu Morrison ( @rosievixen )  Arthur -Teddy- Elllsion ( @cursebreakerfarrier ) Adelia Selwyn ( @that-ravenpuff-witch ) Fred Morrigan ( @ljthebard1​) Gabriel Sapieha ( @lizzieparkerhphm ​) Danny Gibbson ( @catohphm ​ )

Background/History

Pre Hogwarts: Theo was an “indiscretion” born to Emily Abott and an unknown ( to most) muggleborn wizard. The family  kept her, fed her, made sure she knew the proper way for an Abott to act, but there was no affection to this and Theo sometimes wondered if it wasn’t only out of duty that her family did all this. After it becomes obvious that Theo who dresses in boy’s clothes, never keeps a comment inside her mind, and buckles against the propriety forced upon her more and more as the years pass is not going to be changing to fit what her family thinks she should be; it’s decided to send her to Hogwarts where she’ll at least be kept out of sight.

4th Year: Was sent to Hogwarts by her family to be kept out of sight and hopefully shape up ( with the added sentiment that if she does not, at the very least she’ll be out of sight) Met Taghd Lynch, Lu Morrison, Teddy Ellison and Adelia Selwyn. 

5th Year: tba

6th Year: tba

7th Year: tba. Graduates with her friends. Though she undoubtedly has to leave some behind as I can see her befriending underclassmen.

Out of school: At some point she moves back closer to Teddy either because she received the news that Taghd died or that Taghd almost died. ( depending on the “canon” or “Taghd Lives AU”)

At some point she might adopt a daughter who is as chaotic as she was and then some ( though much more open and less angry/defensive because Theo’s a better parent than her mother ) 

In the Universe where Tagdh dies she becomes an Auror alongside Teddy.

At some point she cuts her parents off Completely ( no letters, no firecalls, nothing absolutely nothing) whether this happens because they did something that just got to her too much or it was more a case of her getting away and going “wooow they’re actually horrible to me” remains to be seen but she’ll come to rely on her friends for moral support and also to figure out how to live on her own without their monetary support.  

Spoils her friends’ kids so so much ohmygosh she loves them.

Old Age & Death: tbd

Personality

 Temperamental and impulsive ‘’jump now, think later’’/’’it looked like a good idea at the time’’ sort of person. Disaster Bisexual. Gets angry quick but it fades just as quickly. Frank, warm, empathetic. Honest-sometimes too honest- The one in a friend group to try to make people laugh. Will encourage you to hex someone who hurts you ‘’hell I’ll help you/cover for you’’ (That Friend) the opposite of the common sense friend. ( ‘’sounds illegal, I’m in.’’ )

Theo’s general status is defensive which to her can often be loud and assertive ( and a bit abrasive though she’s usually sorry about that last one when it happens) due to insecurities that took root during her time with her mother and her family To wit, she believes she needs to defend the way she is subconsciously since it was often the case at home and this leaks into her personality. When she met all her friends her first setting was “im like this and Deal with it” expecting resistance but when she met none ( as her friends all accepted her for who she is) she became a lot less so. ( shes still loud and chaotic as that's also part of who she is but she’s a lot less defensive afterwards.)

Has a really loud laugh. When she’s goofing with her friends or talking to them and laughing with them you can hear it echo through the halls.

Is sort of...a loud person in general.

Theo’s a passionate individual and incredibly stubborn when she sets her mind to something.

Skips the sad/crying phase and goes straight to angry. Might or might not have “/don’t cry/show weakness” complex. Her other emotions however are expressed be they annoyance, happiness ( her laughter Echoes through the corridors when she’s happy about something) excitement ect ect ad infinitum.

Her poker face is  shit though. She couldn’t keep her opinions through herself if she tried. Her face will say them for her.

She’s fiercely fiercely protective of her friends and found family. ( see: “would happily hit Teddy’s dad with a blugger if she finds out about him being abusive  ‘’curses out ppl who say mean things to Adelia or Lu and half the time will wind up throwing down for it” and of course “I’m actually going to Kill Cillian” circa Taghd’s duel in the Taghd lives AU as examples)

Misc:

Theo’s animagus form is a Pine Marten. She learned it specifically so she could get out of the house which she often found overbearing due to her mother, grandmother, and aunts attitudes towards her.

While her family kept her, fed her and clothed her it was done out of combination of duty and not wanting to waste magical blood. They might have love for her but it’s very clearly overridden by ( if not outright contingent on) their need forTheo being the kind of child they think she ought to be which she is very much not and only grows to stray more and more from it as she grows up) 

Theo sometimes does suspect they did it more out of duty than any love but tries not to think about it deeply or think about them at all if she can help it ( and with an entire castle to explore with friends and mischief to manage with those same friends it becomes quite easy) 

She has a fascination for the muggle world because it was her father’s world and the part of her her family shuns and kept her from knowing about.

She’s often in trouble with either Taghd or Teddy ( or both) or Lu ( or all three) and the teachers might or might not have a running tally of which combination causes the most chaos. 

Theo learns Gaelic from Taghd-they start with the swear words and then she just really wants to learn the language. 

Whereas Taghd tends to complain about getting dragged into fights by Teddy and her but does it Theo’s more like you feel the air shift next to you and...yup. Yup she’s there.

If her friends are in a fight nine out ten times she’s there too. That one of ten times she’s not there, she’s going to be soon.

Theo’s a night owl and can often be found the last in the common room reading or writing or talking to Taghd or Teddy or Lu. Sometimes she’ll sneak out to fly. ( specially on really clear nights)

She’s perfected the art of wolfing down breakfast in the last minutes before going to class or even just grabbing a piece of bread and running off to class because of this. As it'll lead to her oversleeping.

Adelia’s her mom friend and possibly one of the few people that can tell her what to do without her going ‘how bout i do anyways.png’

She writes a lot and can be seen talking animatedly about it mostly to fellow writer friend Teddy Ellison. 

She’s bit Taghd’s brother Cillian in her animagus form at least once. It was the subject of laughter in the Gryffindor table for a good week after. Theo, ( who keeps her animagus form a secret aside from her closest friends because its a way she has to get away from people or hide or cause trouble when she wants to) becomes very interested in whatever’s in front of her  and trying not to laugh when it gets brought up. 

She gets really attached to Teddy’s mom ( and is a bit jealous of how nice a mother her friend has)  as she both from her experience and what she gathers from Tagdh and other friends of hers she didn’t...think parents could be nice? Like empirical evidence just overall does not seem to be in their favor tbh (specially mothers) and she’s mystified by her and overall thinks she’s wonderful.

This also means she dislikes Teddy’s dad that much more ( though she keeps it to herself around Teddy’s mother ) because as far as she’s concerned he doesn’t deserve her or Teddy with what some of  his actions are. 

Tends to be physical with her close friends ( bumping shoulders, linking arms as they walk hand on shoulder) though on different levels depending on the different dynamics and how comfortable they themselves are with it.

She hates all the propriety she was brought up with ( one of the bonding things she Taghd had was their shared lack of decorum) but one of the things she enjoyed to learn back in Godric Hollow was calligraphy. She stills practices it as a hobby, keeping multiple colors of ink in her room at Hogwarts and later in life. She likes making calligraphy for her friends and also when they’re adults makes calligraphy for each of their children with their favorite stories. 

Finally did a proper profile for Theo.

I’m hoping to get back to doing more content ( including other profiles for mcs I’ve mentioned and going back to my hphm kiddo Marti and writing out gameplay now that I have more spoons. Figured this was a good place to start.

Profile skeleton by @hogwartsmysterystory​

[swanwinged-princess]

hsdf idk how to start this off but basically i’m gonna do some worldbuilding and also some editing to my main verse

i’m gonna separate it into two main offshoot-timelines, one taking place within the events of the prince & the raven, where she is adopted and raised by siegfried’s family, and another one where she’s.. not.

generally speaking, the difference between these two timelines is, in the first one (the main-main verse, i guess you could say), Schwanensee only consists of the sacred island in the center of the Swan King’s lake, and is really only a ‘kingdom’ in name because the inhabitants are all only the royal family (extended up to like 3rd cousins). 

(the ‘royal family’ was originally more of a sacred priest/sage bloodline, but evolved over the years into more of a leadership role, so they started calling them royal.)

in the other one, Schwanensee consists of the lake, the island and a good portion of the land around the lake- not a very big kingdom, but enough to be counted as a kingdom. 

In this verse, the actual royal family had retreated to the sacred island for several generations, leaving the nth-time-removed cousins who didn’t inherit the holy bloodline powers to run the actual kingdom. this decision was probably made to protect the empowered members of the royal family from got/tudors-style royal murder intrigue, or something like that.

However, that probably backfired because within like, one-and-a-half generations the regent side of the family started to abuse their powers- under the table, of course, but basically they became the actual kings/queens in all but name, and kept the distant concept of the actual royals on the sacred island over the heads of the citizens as sort of a threat, like ‘oh you think we’re not fit to manage this country? would you say that to the royal family’s face?’ or ‘oh the harvest has been poor this year and maybe there might not be enough food for all of you this year but just keep a stiff upper lip and think of the royal family, they’re praying for us or something’

this is also going into OC territory here but in Tutu’s time, the main-- magistrate, minister, regent, what-have-you-- is her several-times-removed cousin who is the perfect golden child on the surface; all glasses-pushing-up and theatrically clumsy and bookish and all smiles and etc., etc., but- of course- you can’t judge a book by its cover. 

When Tutu was rescued from the wreckage of the sacred island, he was somewhere in the 12-14 age range, while Tutu was 5, and his father was actually the magistrate/regent/whatever-the-fuck. 

The aforementioned father was almost CARTOONISHLY corrupt- like, not subtle about it at ALL, there were crying children in the streets while he was eating 3 whole roasted pheasants at a time up in the castle and all that stuff. You know how it be. 

He made a big show about having rescued the princess, who is ALSO the daughter of this kingdom’s like LITERAL GOD, and how he was going to raise her and protect her as if she was his own, this was a miracle, etc. etc. but really his plan was to raise her and spoil her absolutely rotten to make her more of a figurehead to wave from balconies and for all intents and purposes be under his thumb/so vapid she has no thoughts of her own. 

It worked out pretty well for the first few years because she was a traumatized child, but she started having her own thoughts and opinions at about 7 years old, which also coincided with when the current magistrate started coming down with a case of Ye Olde Consumption or something like that- after a long, painful illness he- of course- died, and his son, Name TBD, became the next one. Almost immediately, he basically turned the kingdom from cartoonishly-poor-and-obviously-run-by-a-villain to actually-an-okay-place-to-live. 

Not because he actually wanted to help or anything, but the peasants had been getting restless and there was a high probability that they would have actually staged a revolution sooner rather than later. That obviously gave him points from the citizens, and it was a lot easier to continue doing his corrupt activities under the table when starving people weren’t pounding on the castle walls yelling. 

He was actively a lot nicer to Tutu- for one, actually talking to her like she was a person, and letting her do things she wanted, to a reasonable degree, because, like, she’s only a little kid and anyway it’d be a lot easier to control her/get her to do things YOU want from her if she likes you. 

He only started getting worried when most of the things SHE wanted to do were to actively help the citizens, and then of course the entire kingdom basically started falling in love with her in a ‘our princess is also our literal messiah and she’s so kind and beautiful i can’t wait for her to be queen’-type sense, and that only grew when she started using LITERAL HOLY MAGIC to heal sick children or cure blight on a field of crops. At first he was like ‘okay i can work with this’ but as she got older she also started getting more involved in the kingdom’s actual politics and managing, and undoing literal generations of corrupt money-funneling and keeping-the-masses-ignorant and so on and so forth, completely unaware the whole time that they were anything more than clerical errors in the contracts and paperwork. 

So at this point he’s like ‘...ah fuck, this kid is actually smart and altruistic and literally beloved by all, this could ruin EVERYTHING and what’s gonna happen to my side of the family when she gets married and/or becomes queen, which is eventually gonna happen because she’s beautiful and every half-bit noble from lords to full-on emperors are probably gonna want to marry THE CHILD OF AN ACTUAL GOD at the very least for bragging points if nothing else.

So for one he changes the age of her coronation from 18 to 21, but that’s not gonna solve the problem forever, so I’m not saying he started actively conspiring against her- extremely low-key, of course- but that’s basically exactly what I’m saying. 

For one, he only arranges meetings with, like, the most obnoxious possible suitors- the French-royal, powdered-wig types, or the dickhead playboy pinches-girls’-butts types, or the straight-up just like actual marauding Viking kings or something- the ones that she would NEVER even give the time of DAY to, and disguises his actual intent in having her reject all of them by ‘of course i would never FORCE my dear cousin to marry against her will, women- even princesses- are PEOPLE, you know’ like. wow. so progressive. 

Also, while it’s true that some of the perils she faces are naturally borne from being a) a princess in a fantasy setting and b) the only child of an evil deity’s sworn enemy, who has powers that actively destroy his powers and minions, approximately, like, a FOURTH of them were probably more like ‘somebody got slipped a bag of gold to try and get the princess’s horse to run off a cliff’ or ‘hey coachman why don’t we take a detour through these woods known to be the territory of violent bandits/dangerous magical beasts/etc., it’s probably fine if we go fast’

They’ve all failed up to this point because. Hey. Heroine plot armor, dawg. That shit be TOUGH. 

They also probably won’t- or wouldn’t- turn into literal assassination attempts until she starts getting closer to her 21st birthday, but they do probably slowly ramp up in intensity the older she gets. There’s also a high probability that Name TBD would actually ally himself with the Monster Raven, or at least some of his human cultists and/or his horrible children to either kill Tutu or get her out of the way somehow (coughcough COR cough. absolutely irredeemable creep REALLY wants to ‘have’ her. Gross on so many levels.)

.....yeah man that’s basically all i have *dabs*

[allourinsides]

@stonesunk || Continued from here

It's only been a few days, but Powder isn't settling in well. The first day had felt like a weird, cool adventure despite how sudden and unexpected it all was, going from stealing a cool, rich inventor's stuff to suddenly being in another Piltie's pristine home. The second had been worse after not getting a single second of sleep. She always falls asleep with Connor or her moms or even sometimes Vander. Sleeping alone wasn't ever something she had done and she was falling apart at the seams.

She had pretended to sleep every night, but she'd spent the last two quietly crying under silken sheets that felt nothing like her and Connor's bed. But now the lack of sleep is catching up to her and wrong versions of her family poke and prod at her every insecurity, head buzzing strangely. She'd yanked off her hearing aids and set them on the bedside table, but the attempt to block out the harmful voices is just that, an attempt. It's one of the tricks Connor had taught her. If you can still hear them without your hearing aids, what they're saying is bullshit and you shouldn't listen to them. There's still that sticky, heavy feeling of it being real though, so she said it out loud.

And then the bedroom door is pushing open and panic stabs through the blue haired girl and she screams. The darkness of the hall seeps in and Caitlyn's words might as well not have even been spoken without Powder's hearing aids. Instinct takes over and she grabs the lamp on the bedside table, throwing it in the vague direction of the door before diving under silk sheets, sobbing.

[allourinsides]

@onebigerror

All Powder remembers is running out with Vi after their mom and dad had left in a panic and then a loud noise that had made the world shake violently beneath her like a big, slimy, toothy monster was gonna come up from the ground and eat her whole. Everyone had been fighting on the bridge and so Vi had told her to cover her eyes and sing that song mama always sings. Of course she'd peeked through her fingers before quickly shutting them again, the monstrous faces of the enforcers scaring her enough to not want to open her eyes ever again. But as she wakes up next to a pile of rubble, of course she opens them and the first thing she sees is her mama's face. Instead of the usual comfort she would feel waking up next to her mother, there's a deep unsettling feeling. The way her head lulled back, her mouth gaped, and her eyes so dull and unmoving. Her head hurts and the space around her is quieter than it should be with her hearing aids, but none of that registers with the intensity of the sight before her.

She sits up, reaching out for her mom and shaking her, a high pitched, distressed yell pushing from her as everything wrong sets in. Her eyes fall to the right and she can see a glimpse of her dad buried underneath her mama. She scrambles back, breath falling heavily as she starts to really cry. She looks around frantically to try to find her sister, but she can't see Vi and that's when she really, truly breaks. Hyperventilating and wailing, she starts smashing her tiny fists into her head. Wrong, wrong, wrong, everything's wrong and bad!

[allourinsides]

@jynxd

Powder is sitting at her and her mom's desk, screwdriver in hand as she unscrews the back of their newest project. She's incredibly curious about what adding her weird new rocks will do to it. They always seem to spark in her hands and when they get jostled around a little too much, so maybe they could be a power source! Once the back is pulled off and set to the side, she gets to work on pulling out the corroded battery, tossing it behind her and hopefully getting it in the nearby trashcan. She could probably repurpose the lithium for something cool later, but that's not on her agenda right now.

Grabbing one of the glowing blue rocks, she set it where the battery used to lay and, after applying some flux, she grabs the soldering iron that she plugged in several minutes ago. Tongue sticking out as she concentrates, she carefully solders the wires to her cool rock. The thing is extra sparky and she has to use her safety squints to see what she's doing, but it all goes to plan and while her solder work is a bit messy, she's pretty impressed with herself for being able to solder to something so bumpy. She sits back to admire her handywork with a grin.

Reaching around to the front, Powder finds the power button and flips it on. Before she can even react, her vision goes blue and she feels as if she's being thrown back and she feels as if somehow the world is flipping in on itself, doing backflips and somersaults. Then she hits the ground with a solid thud. Head spinning, she has to regain her bearings, blinking heavily as she sits on the... oddly cold ground. Her hands immediately go to her hearing aids, making sure they didn't break in the blast or the fall. "Great," she murmurs pessimistically as she sulks, slightly comforted that her own voice isn't muffled. "Good job, Powder," she signs to herself, rolling her eyes. "Idiot..."

She's expecting a mess, maybe a completely fried circuit board or her own skin being burned, but nothing hurts and when she stands, her project's gone. Her eyebrows furrow. She fully takes in her surroundings now. The lights are dim and they flicker. Her desk... isn't her desk and deep, unsettled feeling blossoms within her. Her breath quickens just a bit, still preoccupied with figuring out what's going on. She looks around. This is definitely not her home.

"Um... hello?" she calls out hesitantly. "I-Is anyone there? Con?"

[allourinsides]

Powder still doesn't really know how she ended up here with this lunatic. She'd been playing with those weird blue rocks she'd found on a recent heist. Sometimes they sparked in her hands, so she'd been trying to figure out what they do, even going so far as to bring out her various projects and trying to splice them together to see if they made something new and weird. On the latest test when she'd hooked a few wires up to it, it had sparked brighter than ever before and she was thrown back with a strange feeling of vertigo and the world violently twisting itself into a pretzel before unraveling and spitting her back out again.

With the rough landing, she'd grabbed at her hearing aids, instinct telling her to protect those above all else. Confusion and panic filled her and after trying to talk to the unstable, blue haired woman in front of her in hopes of getting some answers, she quickly found herself at gun point instead. Eyes wide, she scootches further back until she hits a desk, whimpering. "What are you talking about?" she asks, sounding as if she's on the edge of tears and also majorly confused. "I don't know how I got here! I don't know you!" Something about the woman's face feels familiar to her though. Maybe it's the blue hair. She doesn't know a lot of people with blue hair like her, but she has seen a few. That's not the important thing here though.

"What's wrong with you?! I'm sorry! I just wanna go home! The question comes off as hostile, but the rest is just panicked. She can't help it, she gets bite-y when she's cornered sometimes. Other times, it's like she doesn't know how to fight at all... She doesn't really know how to fight at all actually, but everyone knows how mouthy she can get when she's upset.

@strxngertogether asked: “get me out of here! please!” (jinx & powder) // still accepting this meme

that voice. it was hers. but it wasn't hers. not anymore! no, no. she couldn't turn around if she did she'd be right back there. weak, helpless, a fuck up in the eyes of the only person that had mattered to her in that lifetime! and it would all turn out the same. it always had and always would. palms sweat, pink eyes squeezed shut. she grabbed for pow pow and her pale, shaky fingers wrapped around cold steel. she would shoot the memory away. she'd put it back where it belonged. how she intended to do that, jinx didn't know. but she would if she had to.

"you're not real. you're not...real." slowly she turned to face what she believed was the demon of her past. herself. but not herself. she wasn't powder. powder was dead. she was gone. it wouldn't be the first time or the last that jinx had faced demons. every day was a new mental hell fighting the voices and faces of those she'd lost. of herself before she 'fractured' and 'split right in two' - and not in a nice even seamless line. one that was jagged as hell just as her mental state was. the tiny sad face of powder - of herself - was there as she had been many times before. "i can't do shit for ya kid! can't even help myself." jinx had no idea that powder was real. not her but still her. just the her from another timeline. one where she might have been vastly different. different parents. different everything. never adopted and turned into a 'jinxed up crime lords daughter.'

"i'd run...fuckin' run and never come back. you don't want any part of this shit show. you don't want to be me! i don't even want to be me!" there was still some shimmer coating the gun and she felt it against her fingers, fusing with her skin giving her strength just like silco told her it would. it always did. "this is what you'll become! this is what you'll be!" she cried out wildly. "and it ain't no damn picnic!"

[vandrs]

“ when people don’t tell the truth, it always ends badly. ”

“ that's right, ” he replies, certainty in his voice, in the way any parent tries to reinforce the importance of honesty. which was often paired with it's own secrets in effort to shield or protect kids that just don't need to experience certain hardships. not when you can avoid it. and in the undercity, well, most hardships were unavoidable.

vander watches her face, squinting slightly at the look on her face, unsure if her m u s i n g was coming from a secret she was desperately trying to keep ... or if she was testing to see if he was holding some kind of secret. “ something you want to tell me, powder? ”

@gnpwder / the expanse prompts.

[vandrs]

“ i don't care about that, ” he says, urgency in his voice as he tries to catch her scattering gaze. large hands cup around her face as he forces her to meet his eyes. pale blue bores into her eyes as he models a deep breath prompting his daughter to do the same. and only when she d o e s , does he speaks again. “ are you alright ? ” he asks. “ that's ALL that matters to me. ”

@5ystemic liked for a starter.

[allourinsides]

Powder flinches when she's snapped at, a bubbling undercurrent of anxiety suddenly simmering inside of her, but it doesn't stop her from reaching out again. Can Sevika blame her? They look weird! She loves everything weird, especially when it's mechanical related. Maybe she could use them for something. If Sevika had extras, maybe Powder could ask reeeeally nicely and she'd give her some. "I was just looking!" she snaps back when her hand's slapped away, yanking her hand away as her voice wobbles with oncoming tears. She was going to grab them, but she wouldn't have lost them! She's not that stupid.

But then Sevika's tactics change and she's being nice and it throws the girl off. Anxiety and anger bubble up inside of her and they finally boil over. Before she can think or try to stop herself, she surges forward to prove Sevika right and her arms violently slide across the table, effectively scattering the small screws across the floor with an ear piercing screech of "I hate you!". She quickly flinches, the feedback from her hearing aids sharp and the expectation of being hit even sharper. She cowers, eyes wide as she grips her ears.

@strxngertogether asked: ❛ what does that do? ❜ (sevika & powder) // still accepting this meme

it was just her rotten luck. silco took this child in, got busy and she was left to deal with them. sevika was not a child friendly person. never had any and never wanted any. kids got on her last nerve. they were in everything and asked too many damned questions. just like what was happening now. "don't touch it!" she snapped. "it's a fucking screw, kid. they hold the arm together. see screws." she pointed to the array of them on the table in front of her. she was making some adjustments to her mechanical arm and of course the child had to be there in the way wanting to know how everything worked. she'd rather silco send her to the lanes to run collections instead of watching his acquired orphan. powder's small hand reached out again for the screws and sevika swatted it away. "i said don't touch them. you'll lose them." or steal them for one of her little projects. "don't you have anything to do? like kid stuff?" she sighed after realizing how harsh she was being. powder was just a child. she remembered her old man and how he spoke to her with fists instead of words. "look. do you want to help me?" she popped the screw into one of the holes and took the screwdriver to turn it. "you look like you could use some muscles." she flexed playfully hoping to get a laugh out of the kid. "want to try tightening some of these for me?" the child looked so sad all the time. a little kindness wouldn't hurt anything.

[allourinsides]

Powder whimpers and cries harder when the blankets are pulled down, hands flying to her face, so she doesn't have to see the incoming threat. She waits to be grabbed or yelled at, but it doesn't come. Still sobbing just as much, she carefully peaks through her hands. For just a moment, she's relieved, but then she remembers she'd thrown Caitlyn's lamp at her and she probably made such a mess... A panicked noise pushes out of her and she scrambles away from Caitlyn.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! Don't be mad, please! Don't be mad, I'll fix it! Please, I'll fix it!" The girl starts choking on her sobs, coughing on her own mucus and hyperventilating.

The  Pilties  eyes  widen  as  the  lamp  is  hurdled  towards  her  ,  taking  a  step  back  -  flinching  -  as  the  bulb  smashes  at  her  feet  ,  ❝  shit  ❞ a  spoken  huff  -  but  that  wasn't  her  priority  ,  Powder  was.  She  could  barely  see  the  small  frame  under  the  sheets  ,  dark  filling  the  room  ,  Caitlyn  reaches  over  to  switch  on  the  big  light.  Needs  to  see  where  she  can  step  ,  needs  Powder  to  be  able  to  see  that  it's  just  her. 

Maybe  Caitlyn  should  have  been  doing  more  for  Powder  -  asking  more  questions  ,  but  she  didn't  want  to  overwhelm  her  ,  especially  with  her  lack  of  knowledge  on  how  she  was  even  able  to  be  here.  Caitlyn  feared  Vi's  reaction  to  keeping  Powder  a  secret  ,  wasn't  a  malicious  thing  she  was  doing  though  ,  she  just  needed  all  of  the  facts. 

Crossing  the  room  now  she  could  see  ,  tip  toeing  around  broken  glass  ,  spotting  Powder's  hearing  aids  on  the  nightstand.  Caitlyn  was  an  intruder  -  until  she  could  prove  that  she  wasn't.  Kneeing  at  the  side  of  the  bed  where  Powder  was  curled  up  ,  her  sobs  louder  now  she  was  up  close  ,  Caitlyn  attempts  to  pull  back  the  cover  ,  not  wanting  to  touch  the  child  or  climb  into  the  bed  ,  just  needed  Powder  to  look  at  her  -  to  see  it  was  only  her.