#rp continues to fuel my creative desire

[neksart]

Designed a few keyblades for Elrena, Strelitzia, and Skuld respectively. I've been meaning to do this for a while, and the stars finally aligned.

[vulpesse-arc]

THE POSITIVE & NEGATIVE; Mun & Muse - Meme.

fill out & repost ♥ This meme definitely favors canons more, but I hope OC’s still can make it somehow work with their own lore, and lil’ fandom of friends & mutuals. Multi-Muses pick the muse you are the most invested in atm.

tagged by:   stolen :) tagging:    @scendant​ , @verumking​ , @sunszenith​ , @blackedsun​ , @saigeonmain​ , @quartlet​ , @shadowhelmed​ , @hotman​ , @devilglow​ , @drivenchaos​ , @re-no​ , @ladyfortunes​ , @cchilyoja​ , @quartlet​ , @deathboundinautumn​ , @ioniacriminal​ , anyone else who might like to do this :)

MY MUSE IS:   canon / oc / au / slightly canon-divergent / fandomless / complicated.

IS YOUR CHARACTER POPULAR IN THE FANDOM?   YES / NO. [ She is mayhap one of the most famous characters in the entire franchise as well as one of the oldest and who has suffered the most because of the fandom’s misconceptions. ]

IS YOUR CHARACTER CONSIDERED HOT™ IN THE FANDOM?   YES / NO / IDK. [ Once more, yes, she’s definitely seen as one of the hottest characters in the game. I suppose that this has both good sides and bad sides? Especially when you encounter people who refuse to see past her physique. ]

IS YOUR CHARACTER CONSIDERED STRONG IN THE FANDOM?   YES / NO / IDK. [ Ahri might not be the strongest character in the fandom but she’s certainly not weak either. What she cannot accomplish with mere physical strength alone, she can accomplish thanks to her charming abilities so she’s definitely a strong and dangerous opponent to face. ]

ARE THEY UNDERRATED?   YES / NO / IDK. [ Yes and no at the same time? People love and hate her in equal measure but, after writing as her for so many years, I have also come to realize that few are the ones who actually pay attention to her lore and to her depth as a character. I’d say that her fame has made people blind towards who she really is and this is very sad. ]

WERE THEY RELEVANT FOR THE MAIN STORY?   YES / NO, she’s more on the neutral side.

WERE THEY RELEVANT FOR THE MAIN CHARACTER?    YES / NO / THEY’RE THE PROTAG. [ LOL doesn’t really have a main character or someone who’s inherently more important than others: everyone is the main character of their own specific story. This is why she is relevant to those who encounter her and those who have come to become part of her tale ; for the rest of the world, however, she’s nothing more than a vulpine vastaya with a pretty face. ]

ARE THEY WIDELY KNOWN IN THEIR WORLD?   YES / NO. [ Ahri is well known in Ionia due to her past as a vicious man-eater. However, such tales and legends belong to ages long passed and no one would be capable of discerning her true identity by simply looking at her ; this is why even fellow vastayas and ionians are usually unaware of her relation to the beast that devoured entire villages. As far as the whole world is concerned, no, she’s definitely not known by the majority. ]

HOW’S THEIR REPUTATION?   GOOD / BAD / NEUTRAL. [ I’d say that her reputation is definitely bad. As previously mentioned, she carved her name in the legends of Ionia with her undying hunger and through the unfair massacre of many innocent souls ; although such legends do not carry her name, you can still find visual depictions of the vixen who spread chaos and havoc through the holy lands. In the present days, she is still considered as someone who should not be trusted: rumors about what she is capable of have spread and only fools are willing to consciously approach someone who might easily dine on their souls and hearts. ]

HOW STRICTLY DO YOU FOLLOW CANON?   —   I began writing as Ahri many years ago, which means that her lore has been twisted and modified quite some times from the very beginning. Although I do follow her present canon and I do adore every little detail that has been shared in pursuance of giving her more depth, I cannot really leave behind everything that I have developed in the past years. An easy example is the fact that my Ahri is still loosely based on the Korean myth of the “Gumiho”, which is a detail that plays an extremely important part in my portrayal: Ahri is, in fact, more beast than woman, is someone whose morals will always linger in the darkest shades of gray, is someone who adores violence and who has yet to properly harbor any type of guilt for everything that she has done thus far ; another detail is the fact that she devours souls as much as she can indulge in the flavor of hearts and livers as well. So, I would say that my Ahri is canon but with her own little twists?

SELL YOUR MUSE! Aka try to list everything, which makes your muse interesting in your opinion to make them spicy for your mutuals.   —   Ahri is an incredibly complex creature, someone whose very existence is quite paradoxical for she represents both death and the maiden at the same exact time. She can be cruel and heartless as much as she can be gentle and dulcet, she is always greedy for knowledge and there is nothing that she adores as much as listening to someone’s stories or learning new facts about a world that is still oh so foreign to her. She’s beautiful, elegant, has the fluffiest tails you will ever see and she’s definitely the best cuddle buddy! Despite her murderous nature, there is something oddly soothing about her company that will naturally lure you closer. 

Now the OPPOSITE, list everything why your muse could not be so interesting (even if you may not agree, what does the fandom perhaps think?).   —  Ahri is not a good person, not even a good animal. She’s incredibly instinctive and easily becomes victim to her own whims and desires and feelings: if she decides that she wants something, she will not stop in front of anything in pursuance of quenching her thirst. Because of this, she’s a huge liar, she’s manipulative and sly and dishonest, she knows the weaknesses of those around her and does not hesitate to exploit them in pursuance of elevating herself to a higher plane. She’s not easy to deal with because she will rarely say the truth and will rarely allow others to come close to her ; it doesn’t matter who the other person is, her first instinct will always be that of hunting them.

WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO RP YOUR MUSE?   —   I was asked to write as this muse many years ago by a friend of mine. I didn’t even like her at first... I thought that she was nothing more than some easy fanservice for the game but I am so glad that I changed my mind because she has ultimately become my favorite muse and someone I always come back to, no matter how many years have passed. 

WHAT KEEPS YOUR INSPIRATION GOING?   —   Poetry is perhaps my strongest inspiration when it comes to Ahri! Poetry and visuals of idyllic landscapes, of flowers in bloom, of porcelain marred by blood. Music might sometimes help too (for example I do tend to listen to the OST of “Memoirs of a Geisha” whilst writing replies) but I’d say that poetry is indeed my strongest inspiration, it’s the one thing that makes me think of other aspects of her and that continues to fuel my motivation to be here.

Some more personal questions for the mun.

Give your mutuals some insight about the way you are in some matters, which could lead them to get more comfortable with you or perhaps not.

DO YOU THINK YOU GIVE YOUR CHARACTER JUSTICE?   YES / NO / I SINCERELY HOPE I DO? [ I’m extremely hesitant and nervous about my portrayal, so... I do hope that the people I write with might eventually begin to enjoy my portrayal of Ahri. ]

DO YOU FREQUENTLY WRITE HEADCANONS?   YES / NO / SORT OF? [ I think of headcanons very often but I must say that I haven’t posted too much on this blog lately. Some of them got stolen, others got ignored and... That lowkey killed my motivation to openly post the ideas I have about my muse. This is however something that I plan on changing soon! ]

DO YOU SOMETIMES WRITE DRABBLES?   YES / NO [ It depends on my inspiration or on the prompt I am given. ]

DO YOU THINK A LOT ABOUT YOUR MUSE DURING THE DAY?   YES / NO

ARE YOU CONFIDENT IN YOUR PORTRAYAL?   YES / NO / SORT OF? [ Not really... I love my Ahri, I love the headcanons that I have developed for her and I adore the interactions that she has had during this time, but... I’m always scared of people’s bad judgement, of being seen as uninteresting or as not talented enough to portray such a complex character. ]

ARE YOU CONFIDENT IN YOUR WRITING?   YES / NO / A LITTLE BIT. [ I believe that I can still improve, especially considering that my writing style is constantly changing. But I am not too sad about it! ]

ARE YOU A SENSITIVE PERSON?   YES / NO. / SORTA.

DO YOU ACCEPT CRITICISM WELL ABOUT YOUR PORTRAYAL?   —   As long as the criticism comes with the intent of helping me to improve my portrayal, then yes, I do accept it well because it would allow me to look at things from a different point of view and thus help me to realize in which fields I am currently lacking. Due to the fact that the LOL characters can be quite ‘loose’ when it comes to their canons (especially in the case of those who weren’t given much material to work with in the first place), I do believe that everyone can take quite a large amount of creative freedom when portraying them ; however, I do realize that some of my headcanons might sound weird to someone else and I have absolutely nothing against explaining my side of things, the reasons that have motivated me to make Ahri behave in a certain way instead of another. Criticism is always good, as long as it’s not accompanied by free hatred. 

DO YOU LIKE QUESTIONS, WHICH HELP YOU TO EXPLORE YOUR CHARACTER?   —  Absolutely yes! I love it when people come and ask for more information about Ahri or when I receive really curious anons about the most mundane aspects of her life.

IF SOMEONE DISAGREES TO A HEADCANON OF YOURS, DO YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY?   —  Why not? I might not drop the headcanon since I’m still certain that I am the person who knows my muse the most but I’m not against discussing things with another person, especially if our points of view are really that different. 

IF SOMEONE DISAGREES WITH YOUR PORTRAYAL, HOW WOULD YOU TAKE IT?   —  I admit that I’d be sad over it since I’m well aware of how much passion and effort I am constantly pouring in my portrayal. However, that wouldn’t be the end of the world! There are so many beautiful Ahris out there who have taken a different path from me and thus developed their muses in a different manner, so I’d just suggest to the person to try and interact with them instead. 

IF SOMEONE REALLY HATES YOUR CHARACTER, HOW DO YOU TAKE IT?   —  Ah, you would be surprised to know how many people hate Ahri in the fandom! What saddens me is the fact that such hatred usually stems from really useless and dumb reasons, such as her being more famous than another champion or her receiving more skins than their fave... Even in the roleplay community, I sometimes encountered people who hated her simply because she was “too famous” and that really annoyed me because it’s groundless bashing with no roots to support it. However, I can understand why someone might dislike a character who’s so manipulative and dishonest! Obviously, I wish that people saw more than just this one side of her, but... We can’t have everything in life, sadly.

ARE YOU OKAY WITH PEOPLE POINTING OUT YOUR GRAMMATICAL ERRORS?   —   Of course, as long as the person is not rude about it! I am Italian so English is my second language and grammatical errors can and will indeed happen. 

DO YOU THINK YOU ARE EASY GOING AS A MUN?   —  I think I am easy going although I am incredibly shy and this... This is a huge problem when it comes to interacting with others since it might take me a while to respond to messages and open up to someone else. This is a side of myself that I truly wish to change and I’m working really hard on abandoning my comfort zone, but... It takes time, a lot of time. However! Despite my shyness, I can assure you that I’m the softest person you will ever meet and that if you manage to make me feel comfy around you, I will not stop speaking about Ahri and about music and about videogames and anything else that we might have in common! Once I do grow close to someone, I love to talk and meme and share things and... I think I also become slightly clingy? But I always mean good, I swear... I’m just a shy bun who wants to have fun and love you :(

[ladymcria]

⇢ Introducing MARIA MORETTI, the 24 year old CIS-FEMALE, LADY of MORETTI. SHE is known for being PIOUS, LOYAL, CEREBRAL, and PERTINACIOUS. MARIA bears an uncanny resemblance to FLORENCE PUGH and is playing ( CH 3 ).  

Hi, friends! I’m Christiana, this is Maria, and I’m super hyped to get this party started. I haven’t written much historical rp but learning is part of the fun! This is a bit long, and I’m still trying to get to know her admittedly, but that’s just how it be sometimes ya know ? Also I used lines from Christopher Smart’s Jubilate Agno in the bio, for the little title things. It’s an astounding work from the 18th century, if you’re a poetry nerd!

Quick summary: girl who lost her childhood loves God more than anything and fears she can’t trust anyone so she trusts very few, is a very scared baby, bites her tongue but boy is she ready to let her voice be heard, actually cares a lot about everything and that’s why she’s a wreck, 

Basics

Name: Maria Moretti

Title: Lady (Eldest daughter)

Age: twenty-four

Place of Birth: Florence, Italy

Gender: Female

Social Class: Nobility

Sexuality: Unexplored/straight

Height: 5'6

Personality/Attributes

Hobbies: Reading/study, prayer, supporting the fine arts, horseback riding, needlework

Religion: Roman Catholic. Maria is incredibly pious. She’s completely devoted to God and her entire worldview is formed within that lens. Every opinion she has, from marriage to political practices, are formed by her devotion to God.

Strengths: Polite, strong-willed, observant, cerebral, loyal, creative

Weaknesses: Pertinacious, sensitive, judgmental, kinda naive

Education: Maria is quite educated, being proficient in mathematics, in reading and writing in Latin, English, as well as Italian, and in many household responsibilities. She particularly took a liking to needlework, which continues to be a soothing task in her adulthood.

Allegiance: her familial allegiance is to the Giordano family, but Maria struggles to feel any loyalty to them. Maria hadn’t concerned herself with the rivalry as a child, but she is older now and unable to ignore such things. That undoubtedly includes showing unwavering loyalty when it is due. Greed certainly is no grounds for wavering, in her eyes.

Biography

For the flowers are great blessings — Maria was a vibrant child. She loved to laugh and play, loved to spend time with the horses and to lay in the flowers imagining she was like the soft petals, loved to bother her older brothers, loved to dance. She would paint with the juice of berries on any surface that would take it and not quite understand why she would be reprimanded for such a thing. She was rowdy and maybe a bit impolite. But in her education, as her childhood whims were beaten from her sensibilities, she learned she could be nothing like the flowers. Not so soft, nor so breakable.

Rejoice in God, O ye Tongues — The only true loyalty Maria knows to be in her heart is to God. For God is in every flower, every brick, every heart of Man, every weave and every stitch, for all creatures were created to be in his image. Because of God, she knows mercy and the deepest love in the universe. A pious woman, Maria grew up with a scripture-based education. She learned to read and write, to do mathematics, to sew and stitch, all skills needed to eventually take care of a home the way a wife should, all she needed to know to become a good Catholic woman. The messages of the gospel reached the deepest crevices of her heart, and she has taken it upon herself to decipher scripture. Heresy, some would say, but her heart is with God and while she loves the church, there is too much disagreement among the men of it for her to trust someone else to tell her what it means. Sometimes her beliefs cause her to judge others, for it is in the nature of humanity to ignore the branch within their own eye while pointing out the twig in another’s.

For all good words are from GOD — Maria observed her environment as a girl. She saw the way she was treated as a lady, the way her brother ruled their house, the way friends would turn on one another, the way her own people treated those below them. She saw deceit in the eyes of those she was meant to trust, pity, not kindness, for the loss of their parents, and she saw evil in those of men who were meant to be like pillars to her community.  There are few she does trust, for her eyes are not oblivious.

For it was taken away all at once from all of them — Maria was young when her parents died, and the memories have faded into each other, now nothing more than seemingly a conjured picture of grief. She did not remember them enough to miss them, but she missed the idea of security, and she longed for a time when her duties as the eldest daughter were not magnified by their absence. The pressures that truly settled on her shoulders as a young girl tore her childhood from her, and every so often there is a glimmer of desire for a life far more free than her own.

For the more the light is defective — Maria has become excellent at biting her tongue. When her brother decided to switch allegiance to the Giordano's, Maria was outraged in his surprising lack of loyalty. She became conflicted. Her brother was the ruler of her household, and her fate was in his hands. She had very little choice but to at least not speak so blatantly against his decision. But how could she support it when his actions, allowing their loyalty to be bought, were so far from what she believed to be right? She feared for what this decision meant for their name and their reputation, for the genuine friendships she had made, and for the consequences of the greed. But she bit her tongue. She knew it wasn't her place. As much as the words, fueled by anger and betrayal, threatened to spill out, they stayed, waiting, behind her gritted teeth.

For the TRUMPET of God is a blessed intelligence — Maria was always attracted to music and the arts, admiring the artistry and the passion. She spent free time among artists, musicians and poets, listening and learning. She continues to this day, when she can afford it. It it a bit of a guilty pleasure.

Lil headcanons

Maria adores stitching, and sees it as a form of relaxation and creativity. She is quite skilled with her hands in this sense, and has the artist’s eye for it. 

some would see her as naive for some of her stances and tbh she kind of is, a bit

is highkey afraid of marriage for so many reasons

click here for my wc page!  

and please come plot with me i wanna love all your characters!!