#serabellyms

[downs1de]

If Rust’s threat level is 7, what does he think Kat’s would be 🤔

An 11 probably… she’s galactically dangerous! (and he likes that)

[bloodiedbiotic]

📐 + Liss is 5’0” and packs a punch ok skslsjdksjjd

Send 📐 + your character's height to compare with one or more of mine!

Smol.

[blitzbefallen]

"I trust you … but I don't trust them with you." — @serabellyms

Concern flickers in Shepard's meadow hues, taking a moment to truly process the meaning behind Ashley's words. She had no reason to be aboard this ship if it was anyone but her commanding it. Together, they had seen what Cerberus was capable of—the atrocities they committed in the pursuit of the greater good for humanity. Enslaving Thorian creepers and rachni, killing an Alliance Admiral, having a hand in the Akuze tragedy... Ashley had every right to be suspicious. Hell, even Astrid was suspicious when it was first revealed to her that Miranda and Jacob were both Cerberus.

"Well... at least they brought me back from the dead? They also gave me a ship, a crew, and a mission that I can get on board with." If only Ashley had been there when she and Joker saw the Normandy reborn; Astrid's tears were enough to even warrant a side-hug from her pilot.

Wrapping her arms around herself, the Commander—if she can even still be referred to as such—averts her gaze, taking the time to think about what to say next. Knowing that the Alliance was at least investigating the disappearing human colonies was reassuring, but what was going to be their next move? Would they truly listen to Ashley and take action, or would they quietly dismiss her claims and evidence just as they had her own? Was being aboard the Normandy SR-2, which flew Cerberus colors, going to diminish her credibility?

"Ash, is it safe for you to be aboard? I– you've told me how the Alliance has treated you and your family. What if—" a sharp inhale followed by a pause, a realization that she's winding herself up, concern for her friend abundant in her voice. Her eyes meet once again with Ashley's, taking a moment to see what they held before she continued.

"...I don't want you to be negatively impacted by this–by me..."

[etruatcaelum]

[ @serabellyms | salem // glynda ]

The elevator to the top of Beacon Tower had always taken longer than Glynda liked, but she found herself appreciating it now. One hand pressed flat to the cool metal paneling, she watched the floor number tick higher and tried to impose some order upon her thoughts. No small task. They kept flying away from her, scattered like leaves driven by the wind.

Summer’s gone. Why Taiyang had chosen to call her first, Glynda didn’t know—perhaps grief had stricken every practical consideration from his mind, and he’d turned to her as a friend more than colleague—but she was glad. Better for Salem to hear it from someone calm, first.

The elevator glided to a halt, and Glynda released her breath sharply. Calm wasn’t the right word for what she felt as she stepped into the headmistress’s office; she didn’t feel much of anything at all, as though every emotion had been blasted out of her and left only a charred suggestion of feeling behind. She supposed she might call it shock.

���Professor Witchhazel,” she said, with a little too much formality. Stilted. Clearing her throat, she moved to stand at a more comfortable distance from the desk. “I–”

The words have bad news dried up, inadequate somehow. Glynda was no stranger to death. Gods knew Salem wasn’t either. Familiarity did little to soften the blow, or ease the burden of sharing it.

Better to just say it. Salem didn’t need to be told that Glynda had come to deliver bad news: a single glance would have sufficed even if the lateness of the hour and the unannounced intrusion had somehow escaped her notice. Glynda took a deep breath as she lifted her head to look the headmistress in the eye.

“Summer Rose is dead,” she said, stripped of inflection. “I’m not sure of the details: Taiyang called about ten minutes ago, and all he could tell me was that Raven’s bond to her has been severed. He’s on his way here from Patch now.” Her gaze flickered down. “I gather he wants to know where you sent her. He was… very nearly hysterical over scroll; I thought it best to inform you before he arrives.”

[smokedanced]

@serabellyms said: [COMFORT]: sender cups a distressed receiver's face in their hands and steadies them by resting their foreheads together. + reverse - kat & garrus 🥺

REASONS TO CUP A FACE    /    ACCEPTING ↷

❝ Shepard? ❞    His uninjured mandible twitches, pressing tight against his face in concern & tension. What does one do with a visibly distressed commanding officer?

Garrus is not sure she even hears him. His subvocals emit a stress-chirp, beyond human hearing range. What does one do? It doesn’t feel appropriate to touch her; he’s not sure where their boundaries lie.

What does one do with a visibly distressed close friend? Spirits, that’s what he should have asked himself to begin with.  That is easier.  How is it, that after all this time, even with how easy their camaraderie and banter is, even after all the sincere talks they’ve had, it’s so hard for him to know when to be a friend, when a squad member? This isn’t the Hierarchy, where rules & customs are clear, where one’s place in society is one’s rank. This is a friendship... and this is deep care, such that, for him, has long since ventured beyond friendship alone. The way he grieved her. They way he loves her, from afar yet from right by her side.

❝ Look at me, ❞    he says, voice low and steady. He rests his hands at her face, gently guiding her head.    ❝ I’m right here. ❞    He can’t promise her that it will all be OK.

So he does the only thing he thinks to do; leaning down to meet her, he touches his forehead to hers. The gesture is one of profound intimacy, yet he feels comfortable, natural, offering it; he loves her, yes, but... It is not over the line? He’s wanting to tell her she’s not alone. Turian parents and children do it, turian friends do it; just because he’s in love with her... doesn’t make this inappropriate? No. Of course not. Silly, feeling such a need to justify it to himself. Her skin is cool against his. And oh so alive.

[stardustedstories]

Munday asks! // Accepting!

@serabellyms asked:🤗 — are there any rpc mutuals that you’d like to meet irl? 🎁 — what have you accomplished in the rpc that you’re proud of? ✈️ — ever traveled anywhere interesting?

🤗 — are there any rpc mutuals that you’d like to meet irl?

Oh sure! I've met a few IRL, and most of the time, it's been pretty okay, but I am a little bit more wary after a particularly bad experience with one of them becoming my roommate and it.....not ending well (it's a long story). But just meeting people is definitely different, and I always enjoy making new friends.

🎁 — what have you accomplished in the rpc that you’re proud of?

UH, when I first joined a super long time ago, I was in the T.ron fandom, and I wrote a fic and posted it, and C.indy M.organ, who plays L.ora B.aines and Y.ori in the original film liked it. Which is pretty damn cool (but I guess technically isn't really the RPC?)

So, uh, in that case, I took the time to create a timeline for the G.od of W.ar games, since there are quite a few more than just the core five, and it can be confusing where they all fall.

✈️ — ever traveled anywhere interesting?

I've been pretty privileged to do some traveling when I was still living at home with my parents. I've been to London, Paris, Prague, quite a few different places in Germany, went to dinner in Austria, a few different places in Ireland, to name a few. I've also been to a fair number of places in the States, too, since I've driven up and down the East Coast, and Missa and I drove across the country so I could move out here where I am now.

[dutyworn]

@serabellyms said: 🦊 What is the ambiance like, where you are? Are there any sounds, or sights that might be distinctive? 🐸 Something that makes you smile for fandom reasons? 🦚 Last moment you felt proud? Or, any moment you have! 🍼Do you have a comfort food?

In Depth and Personal Munday meme / ACCEPTING ↷

🦊 What is the ambiance like, where you are? Are there any sounds, or sights that might be distinctive? :: This moment - neighbours have been loud for several hours for whatever reason now? I live in an apartment building with three outdoor access points, so while the building has a lot more units, my stairwell only has nine. I have a family with a couple? a few? kids downstairs, and a studio nextdoor and share wall/floor with nobody else (I am on the top floor). So I don't know WHOM I am hearing. I've never seen the studio neighbour nor do I hear them almost at all; I hear the downstairs kids often but it's like regular 70s house "you hear everything from your downstairs neighbour's bathroom as if it was happening in your bathroom" kind of a thing, not something that often bothers me at all. (Thankfully the first time I heard TODDLERS GIGGLING AS IF IN MY BATHROOM I already knew they were the actual real life non ghost kids of downstairs in their own unit, and I was not being haunted lolol.)

Hearing like, adult noises for hours now, though. Maybe they're having a party? On a Monday evening? Or someone's having a gathering in the stairwell, who knows...

As for sights, I'm just sitting at my desk in my bedroom with a blank wall in front of me. If I'm on the PC, I usually don't have any noise on purpose, and I often keep my headphones on to muffle any possible hallway noises from neighbours, without playing anything from the headphones (can't focus if there's music; if I listen to music I am likely ONLY doing that and nothing else).

I do have some fairy lights next to me, and more fairy lighs in the living room and kitchen, etc. I live alone, so generally it's quiet unless I am the one making the noise. We have less than six hours of daylight currently with the sun setting before 3pm so fairy lights are a must every winter even if I usually store them away during the lighter times.

🐸 Something that makes you smile for fandom reasons? :: When new people play Mass Effect for the first time and liveblog it. You get to observe them going insane. The cycle must continue.

🦚 Last moment you felt proud? Or, any moment you have! :: Uhh. Maybe when I cleaned the bathroom last? It's one of my least favourite chores and I have over a decade of history with executive dysfunction and hygiene OCD both making keeping the house clean really hard, so I usually feel pleased with myself anytime I clean.

🍼 Do you have a comfort food? :: Not in a wholesome sense, really. In a binge eating sense, yeah, but that's behaviour learned in foster care to comfort myself with food when I had no safe adults around me. So I binge eat, and it's specific types of foods, but I don't think I am capable of having true comfort foods since my eating behaviours are so disordered. Like it's OK, and I genuinely love food, not a big deal, but I think it disqualifies everything as true comfort foods.

[tenebriism]

what do you think about OC x canon ships? would you play any?

what do you think about crossover ships? would you play any?

is there a ship you wanted to play, but couldn’t yet?

what’s something that immediately turns you off from shipping with someone?

Shipping Asks - [ ACCEPTING ] ;;

7. Answered here!

9. Answered here!

20. Is there a ship you wanted to play, but couldn’t yet?

I'll name a few, just to give variety.

Ganondorf x Zelda. Midna x Zelda. Shad x Link. Cyno x Alhaitham. Howl x Sophie (it's literally canon. T_T Where are my Sophies?) Aymeric x Estinien. Any ship with my Astarion (I'm still playing through BG3, but I'm all the way in Act III and have done Astarion's personal quest. Mr. Pale Vamp is rarin' to go.)

21. What’s something that immediately turns you off from shipping with someone?

I've had this happen before, but... when 'Duplicate Anxiety' turns into what feels like pure, borderline toxic ownership. When I'm getting policed and made to feel bad because I found another iteration of a character to interact with. We all get doubtful of our writing and interpretations sometimes, that's normal and okay. However, everyone is free to interact with whomever they want to, and if you're feeling bad about YOURSELF, don't take it out on your partners. I am not A Shiny (Insert Character Name) Rper on a shelf to be obsessed over and claimed. :/ I'm just here to vibe.

[hopegained]

@serabellyms: headcanon + cooking! // accepting

he's decent at it, i'd say. won't burn anything (not on purpose at least), and will make something filling with whatever he finds in the fridge. or at least tries to. it has to do with his upbringing and home; he just doesn't care much what he eats as long as it's edible and doesn't taste too horrible for human consumption lol. this is true across most of his verses, because he's always moving from one place to another so he can't be picky about the choices presented to him. whenever he's with the resistance/alliance/normandy crew, it's rations or whatever they have at the mess. that is, if he remembers to eat in the first place.

but when he does get the chance to cook, he always keeps his space clean. there aren't really any specifics to his method, tbh. they're rather simple: he gathers his ingredients in one spot on the counter or whichever clean surface available, preps them, throws all the trash right away after he's done so there's not a lot to deal with later, then gets to cooking. sometimes he hums a tune or two or sings a snippet of a song under his breath. he's more comfortable doing everything alone though since that's how it's been for him for a long time.

and if anyone thinks they want him to impress them through cooking, they have sooo many other options to pick from. he'd only disappoint them lmao.

[sailingtempest]

{Starter from s.c. for: @serabellyms}

❖

❝Much to Sid's amazement towards you, Shepard, I highly recommend you to not get her involved in anything. Even if she probably sent you a few things to look into.❞

There's a disapproval sound rumbling from the back of Vetra's throat.

Although she may not know every single thing her sister is doing - and hopefully nothing bad - she knew Sid. It only made Vetra want to step in and keep Sid from this type of lifestyle. The combat, the consequences that came with the action, the horror of going through it all. She didn't want her sister to suffer the same thing as she did or grow up in a similar lifestyle, even if these mere thoughts kept tucked away from being put into words.

Vetra's gaze shifted away from the food supplies the Normandy held within towards Amelia. If Turians held eyebrows, she would have risen her eyebrow.

[waywardfeathered]

@serabellyms said: ❝ you've actually made me feel like a person again, like i'm ... normal. ... thank you. ❞ - from Kat, maybe ME3?

in case you didn't know    /    ACCEPTING ↷

A wry smile tugs at his lips. There’s an irony to it: he’s never felt normal, himself. A person, though? Yes, he thinks she’s helped him feel the same, in that. People, actively, made him not a person for years, after they took him from Akuze. For his rescue to be brought on by someone who had gone through the same initial mission gone wrong, both of them having assumed the other dead... and, now, to have been a part of her team through the Collectors, the Omega 4 Relay, and, here, in the height of the war...

The galaxy is going to hell, but he does feel like a person.

❝ You’ve done no less for me, ❞    he says. She’s come so far, since being that 23-year-old on Akuze. He touches her arm, eyes softening. ❝ I know everything is messed up, out there, but... I’m glad you’re the one leading us. It can’t be easy... but I have hope in our chances, because it’s you, at the frontlines. You’ve accomplished incredible things, Kat. I have absolute faith in you. ❞

[downs1de]

♡ for kat & rust ofc

●●●●● | ATTRACTION ●●●●● | AFFECTION ●●●●● | INTEREST ●●●●● | LOYALTY ●●●●○ | TRUST

SEND ♡ TO SEE WHAT MY MUSE THINKS OF YOURS

[soulcluster]

❤️ - crackship/rarepair thoughts time: zaveid and magilou?

Send '❤️❔' if you'd be interested in discussing a potential ship between our muses!

ahaha I haven't actually played all of berseria and I don't think I got far enough to recruit magilou so it's....hard for me to say lol sorry :'') I love me some crackships/rarepairs tho

[blitzbefallen]

📐 + Gabby is 4’11” LESGO

Send 📐 + your character's height to compare with one or more of mine! @serabellyms (my dumbass forgot to mention you in the first one skjfghf)

Not a bad height difference given that... that Gabby is a month older than Astrid, holy shit. But still not a bad height difference, sfjkhgdg.

[etruatcaelum]

[ @serabellyms | salem // winter ]

“i’m the type you want to go to war aside - not against.”

Winter paused before answering, her face composed and scrupulously neutral. Viewed from a certain angle, that might be taken for a veiled threat; or else meant to reassure, tilted in another direction. Holographic, she thought.

Of course, the headmistress of Beacon Academy had a certain reputation for… eccentricity, and although Winter didn’t yet know the details, General Ironwood had hinted that Salem was more than she appeared. It seemed unwise to presume she had spoken without care or consideration of the present circumstances. Winter–

She respected General Ironwood a great deal. No one could doubt his good intentions, his heart, his resolve. Winter would never hesitate to say he was a good man.

But the General was also, in her private estimation, a poor politician. His indifference to optics and the fickle tides of public opinion could be admirable, in the right moment, but to sail incautiously into treacherous waters was not a virtue. They were all fortunate that the Valean Council had declined to treat this brazen transgression of their airspace as an infringement on Vale’s sovereignty. They would be fortunate again if the nervous, excitable press did not seize upon Qrow’s drunken slander and her own unbecoming outburst to inflame the situation further, in the minds of Vale’s people if not in reality.

Winter held Salem’s gaze steadily; all of this ran through her mind in the course of a single second, automatic. Her father’s daughter.

Perhaps the headmistress intended it as a test. General Ironwood summoned her here to recommend her for some purpose, she knew, although she couldn’t fathom what. But if this conversation was to be a proving, let her pass or fail with honesty.

She exhaled, inclining her head a fraction. “Whether aside you or against, ma’am, I don’t want to go to war,” she said. “But if war should come to me, I will fight for the principles that have always guided me; for justice, and the defense of life and dignity. That is what matters to me. I… fell short of that, and I take full responsibility for the altercation between myself and Qrow Branwen yesterday evening.”

Even if he had started it. Winter felt a muscle spasm in her jaw as she quelled that twinge of childish outrage.

“I have already,” she said, unable to quite wring dislike out of her tone, “communicated an apology to him. I will keep my—feelings—about his alcohol consumption private, in the future. From what little I’ve been privileged to know, I understand the stakes are too high for petty internecine squabbles; I don’t wish to cause further disruption.”

[seeasunset]

do you listen to music while your write?

what do you do after you see a person has replied? do you read it immediately, or do you wait for it to show up on the dash? do you like it, draft it immediately, etc?

To be roped in!

❖

Do you listen to music while you write?

☆ It depends.

I don't always because I get distracted by the song and want to create scenarios in my head involving that song. So, I usually don't.

The only exception to this is ambience noises, given those help me focus. Even more if a setting is brought up. Being near a harbor, on the sea, in a bar, these kind of stuff.

What do you do after you see a person has replied? Do you read it immediately, or do you wait for it to show up on the dash? Do you like it, draft it immediately, etc?

☆ I usually read it first and like it. I do try my best to draft it asap but I don't. It sucks because it takes two seconds for me to draft it and yet I don't up until a certain point.

Sometimes the thread pops up on my dash before the notification comes in. So, sometimes when it does that, I stop to read.