#self‑insert: world's last vestige (linaria)

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1 - 5 from the f/ovember useless info ask meme for Aqua and/or Clio! ( @dzvagabond )

Aqua: “I can take these ones, if that’s fine with you!”

(question source: "F/Ovember ask meme: useless info version" by simonlynch)

what’s the weirdest petname Aria has ever called you? what’s the weirdest petname you’ve ever called her? - "Weirdest? Hmm.. Oh! There was one time on a mission when she stumbled in the middle of saying “darling”, so it instead came out as “darkling”, which- even if she hadn’t been in the middle of falling over, I think would’ve made us both stop and be confused! From what she’s told me of what Darklings are, she’s the one who’s closer to them anyway, so it really wouldn’t fit me at all..! We laughed about that a lot together, hehe. Then, for the other way around, uh.. I didn’t think it was that weird, but I used the phrase “oh, you’re a star” once about her when she did something, and- she just looked at me like it made no sense to her for a moment. Or that it was wrong to say for some reason. I know that stars are worlds and not people, but even then, it stood out a lot at the time.. I wonder.. Could it have had something to do with Lina?”

how easy is it for you to get her to laugh? - "Well.. that depends on the type of laugh, I would say. She’ll often use a little one to react to something or lead in to what she’s saying, especially if she has her mask on. But it’s rare for her to really burst out laughing - it’s only really when we’re talking together that I’ve heard her do it, especially about something funny rather than when she's taking down a villain. She’s just not really the type of person to be so.. overzealous? With her emotions. But they are in there, somewhere!”

who folds the laundry and who unloads the dishwasher? - "Oh, we do those things together! To use your examples, I fold the clothes once they’re out of the dryer, but then I pile them up next to me so that Aria can put them all away as I’m folding them. Then, I’m the one who takes things out of the dishwasher because sometimes they drip, but then I just put them on a towel on the countertop next to me, so she goes back and forth between that and wherever things live. I don’t mind doing that kind of thing all by myself, but Aria finds it more of a chore, so.. whenever I realise things need doing, she makes an effort to help me out “to make up for that”, in her own words.”

what’s your second favourite memory of Aria? - "My second-favourite instead of my favourite.. Hmm.. I think that would have to be her bequeathing. You see, after Aria was able to move into her Replica body, she wasn't sure whether she'd still be able to wield a Keyblade. It was.. also rather broken by that point in time, anyway. So, instead, we realised I could hold a bequeathing ceremony for her, since I'm a Keyblade Master and she also never went through one back in the past. I said the words a little differently to how they're meant to go, but that part didn't matter - making it something special to the both of us, and seeing the apprehension on her face turn into pride as she called forth a brand-new Keyblade that was truly hers.. It was really so special."

what’s Aria’s pet peeve and does it apply to you? - "Oh, uh, she has quite a few of them, to be honest. She has a lot less patience with people than I do, for instance.. And she also gets more annoyed by sounds, even if there are some I find annoying too. I think the main pet peeve I can think of for her, though, would be when people put themselves in charge without having earned their position properly. Aria is not the type of person to automatically listen to someone just because they have a certain role or title - they need to have demonstrated that they actually know what they're talking about, otherwise she won't take demands from them at all. She said it used to get her in trouble with her party leader back in the age of fairytales.. but, whether because there aren't those kinds of authority figures around us as much now or what, it at least isn't something that comes up too much!

I hope that all those answers were okay - thank you so much for sending them all in!"

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For some reason I kind of find it fitting that it's my Kingdom Hearts self-insert who has the most different appearances, out of all of the self-inserts I have

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I was inspired to do some playing around with this picrew ^-^

From left to right - assuming the formatting stays as it should - we’ve got Aria (in her current Fatebreakers appearance), Linaria, and then Xiara! All three serve as Kingdom Hearts self-inserts~

It’s fun getting to include subtle differences in things like expressions, hairstyles, and wing structure when doing things like these. I wasn’t super sure which iteration/appearance to make for Lina, so this is kind of an amalgamation of all four of them.

I did make two more from the same picrew, but one of them is Fatebreakers spoilers, so I’m putting them under the readmore. I think only Simon follows me here out of everyone who’s in that, but still.

Firstly, on the left is my attempt at Ehrynoa! She is not actually my character; she belongs to @ephemxras. However, I designed her - and as you may be able to see, they resemble both Aria and Lina in a lot of ways, courtesy of their nature as an almost-perfect reflection.

The other one, which is the spoilers one, is this design I’ve had for.. over a month despite Aria’s chapter being fifth and we’re currently only in the second .w. I got overexcited by concepts okay

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..So I had an idea for a crossover of sorts

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[for the hate meme] for someone with a cat theme of SEVERAL self inserts you sure act nothing like the 'typical' cat. how dare you be nice and warm instead of STOIC and DISTANT and- and now zoey is crying for attention at my feet, zoey youre RUINING MY HATE

(source: this post by coolguycy)

send me “hate” anons and i’ll rate them out of ten - HAHAHA, HELLO ZOEY

You pointed out my cat theme, it's no wonder she arrived! Ah, but, even aside from that, this is brilliant Sealey, thank you for this - it was extremely kind hate (that's probably not a phrase many people have said before, haha). A lot of my self-inserts do indeed have catlike traits, some more than others (Carmine comes to mind as the most catlike), and yes, perhaps for ones like Sapphire it’s more of an appearance thing than a personality one. You got me.

But, ah, also, if I may-

Are you sure I can’t be stoic and distant and cold and cruel as well?~

(Calypso and Sol are Zagreus’ and Rika’s, respectively. The Discord exchanges come from the “anything goes” channel of the Fatebreakers server, so they aren’t technically canon but they still get the point across.)

Thank you again for sending this, friend ^-^