#thank you so much for the ask!!!!

[justabeewithapen]

(no art needed) ((I actually forgot to say that last question)) You said Bella and Lucas like to dance, but does Doey ever join them? I can see him clapping and smiling but rarely if ever joining. He's far too self-conscious; less a 'two left feet' situation and more a 'one wrong step and I've crushed my only friend with this body I can barely control'

Bang on the money there! If he was even half the size he is I think he would be more willing, but as it stands his footsteps can be heard from halfway across the prison and when he runs both Bella and Lucas bounce into the air slightly. When Doey plays it is from a very stationary position. He plops himself on the floor and uses his stretching to be involved in activities. IF! If he was able to dance along (and he wasn’t so afraid of hurting his friends) I think he would be a jumper like Lucas, purposefully bouncing Lucas up and down with the force. He really doesn’t have very much leg, little nubby stumps, so really dancing is inaccessible to him <:[ (This is definitely something I want to doodle later when it isn’t cold and rainy).

[emry-stars]

What kind of job positions are available in your oc world??

Honestly it's pretty basic! Since it's a low fantasy setting, I don't have a ton of stuff (beyond the occasional witch or priest/ess) that you wouldn't find in any other medieval setting :) cobblers, coopers, bakers, artisans, all of the above!

There is one job that a named character has that isn't as common though, and that is bug (specifically beetle) farmer 😌

Lolo loves bugs and keeps them as a hobby and a business gig, because beetles and other bugs have some uses! You can get poisons/sedatives and some medications from them as well as silk and dye, and some are raised as snack foods lol. Since medicine is a huge practice and industry in these sister cities, the medicinal qualities are very handy. Periodically Lolo saves up enough silk to sell, which is a nice little payday for her and her partners 💕 but she isn't a full farm, she's one person with a side gig and a little help, so the dyes and food products are the most common selling points for her bugs!

Though she does have favorites and some of them are just her pets :)

[mintytealfox]

If the Da Capo cast were a dnd adventuring party?

👀👀

AWWWW HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECK YEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

MKAY MKAY HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Norton: (closet)Sorcerer/Rogue //Half-Elf (the elf half being Drow)

Was born with an affinity for magic but was constantly told to suppress it and hide it. Being taught that magic is BAD, EVIL even, and was treated like this cursed child (His parents tried to protect him but his parents were killed cause of people trying to remove 'the devil child' from their village) ((There was already some stigma against them with Norton's father and family friend Benny being escaped Drow from the Under-Dark)) Benny was able to escape the village with a young Norton ((around 8 years old by this point, (he had magic that reacted to danger as an explosion to protect Norton but this of course sending the village into a riot)). He ends up hiding away his magic deep within himself and took to the shadows for survival as an apprentice to Benny.

Benny puts together a thieves guild, that Norton grows up in and preferring to work alone and do his own thing, much to Benny's frustration.

He ends up jumping at the opportunity when he gets a letter to join an adventuring party. Finally able to escape his current life and wanting to travel.

Norton never uses magic, even when lives are on the line, UNTIL he allows himself to bond with the members of this Da Capo Adventuring Group and ends up caring so much that he cannot hold his magic back from protecting them.

I went the Half-Elf//Drow route cause that further shows how Norton doesn't particularly belong to one place or another, he just exists as this rarity alone. ;; Doesn't belong underground, doesn't belong above ground, doesn't really have a place to call home with his parents gone, the one tether he had.

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Frederick: Bard/Fighter //Elf (High Elf to be specific)

So Frederick is a bard in name, but in practice? He has zero magic, absolutely ZERO ability to use magic, which peeves him off. So he is literally just a musician and composer and has to rely on physical weapons to protect himself. Like using his mandolin as a literal club in melee situations PFFF He can usually be found with his guns though. Like every pocket and bag that he has, there is a gun of some sort in there PFF

He came from a family of magic users so his complete and utter lack of magic ability was like a stain on the family name and he had to be hidden away from sight all his life. So he turned to music in hopes that he could become a bard and have access to magic through music but even that didn't work. He ended up keeping up with the music as it provided peace and comfort and extra cash when he would sneak out into town.

Along with learning music he also spent all those left over hours constantly working on his aim and and enjoying the loud BANGs that his gun provided. So he is significantly skilled marksman. So he could technically be a ranger, but I thought a fighter fit best cause its just him and whatever he can turn in to a weapon.

Always Wanting to find a way to access magic, so he won't have to be hidden away by his family anymore, he accepts the invitation to join this party.

High-Elf because of his family's vibe. Well to do, cream of society. All that jazz.

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Melly: Druid //Drow

I feel like this one is a given lol But she escaped the Under-Dark after being banished for her 'crimes' she was simply protecting herself. It was hell down there anyway so it was a win-win for her.

The first people who are kind to her end up being particular druids from a special grove that was more open to teach and share their beliefs and practices unconditionally. She ends up appreciated the wild life and insects of the surface world, like she did in the under dark. The creatures of the under dark were her only true allies when she lived down there, so she was glad to find she could have that companionship up here as well. Then with the training she received, she could now become these creatures.

She isn't particularly fond of spiders due to the connection to Lolth, but she will gladly turn into one if that means she can freak out Norton LOL

When she gets the letter to join an Adventuring party she is extremely confused lol cause who even knows her?? But when she reads the fine print her eyes widen, because by this point she is being hunted by those who had banished her, after hearing she is thriving they decide that banishment wasn't a punishment for her and now seek to kill her (she finds this out after finding the grove that took her in destroyed). So, agreeing to go with this party, she was promised that the hunt for her will end and she can finally live in peace.

I am not sure why I went with Drow but I felt like it fit her for some reason, and why she would always be wearing a veil due to the sun being so darn bright and seeking to hide that she is in fact a Drow.

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Orpheus: Cleric/Warlock //Human

I think its interesting my brain went this direction, but the idea that he is OBSESSED with his deity 'the Nightingale' (that no one has ever heard of 👀) It isn't until much later that he will realize that he isn't serving his goddess (which is what he believes happened to Alice, that she didn't die after the raid, but actually became divine! and he has vowed to always serve her), but he is actually serving a Great Old One pretending to be 'His Nightingale'. Playing with Orpheus's fantasies and stories, making them 'real' for him.

Orpheus constantly following the whisperings of his believed deity, puts together this group of individuals that the Old One prompts him to reach out to, that these are the people needed to go about this 'great' task so they all can achieve their greatest wishes.

Human? just because, honestly lol He is just some dude that causes way too many problems for being 'just some dude' PFF

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Alice: Ranger //Human Werewolf

When Alice narrowly escaped the raids that destroyed her home city and family. she was taken by a wizard that knew no one would miss her since they are all gone. He did experiments on her for years. She ended up being his favorite subject due to her high vitality levels. So he was cautious to keep her alive for as long as possible. Leaving the potentially deadly experiments on others.

One day the wizard brings a werewolf to the lab and Alice finds a fast friend in him. They begin quietly plotting how to get him out which led to a plan to 'accidently' leave the chains loose on a full moon night. He breaks out and in his rabid craze he takes out the wizard and every other living thing in the place except for Alice. He just stares at her, for an uncomfortable amount of time as Alice is pressed up into a corner unsure of what is about to happen. He sniffs at her, then meticulously gives her a wound, across her chest just under her collarbones, just big enough for her to contract lycanthropy. Then he runs off to find his freedom, leaving Alice stun locked and mortified what he just did to her. Was this his idea of a gift??

Alice ends up living in the wilderness and exploring the world, leading her to be a Ranger. Able to live off the land, hunt, track, and comradery with animals that assist her. And of course, to stay out of the way of most humanoids as to not put them in harms way when the full moon comes. ;;

Alice ends up joining the Adventure Party because of her curiosity, and the promise of having her 'Curse' lifted (the Old One didn't specify to Orpheus what the curse was pff) But Alice would do just about anything to get this lycanthropy lifted so she can explore civilization and live in towns and cities without worry.

Human because of where her and Orpheus were from.

[rrat-king]

offers u a kristen song rec in these trying times <3 https://open.spotify.com/track/7FlXNopcNBHuTcMmR7DSxB?si=yxvmekI_S_u3iOR9w3D7qQ

... this as sophmore year kristen in the nightmare forest. this as junior year kristen in the farhaven woods. i. this is beautiful thank you this song it's going straight on the playlist.

[yournormalidiot]

random question but what is your favourite memory?

OoooOOOoo this is a good question loll idrk my memories shit.

I'd day either a) one time I was talking with my dad in the kitchen, and I was going on about mental health (like depression, anxiety ect) and after I'd done yapping he said "and sometimes we just need a hug" and gave me a hug. (It wqs really sweet cause I don't see him/spend time with him alot cause he's always working lamooo)

Or b) the one and only time I had a bf me and my friend met up and for once in my life I was able to talk about boys and be all excited. I felt normal for once and it was just very comferting lmaoo

Ik this is 2 so sorry loll, What about you though?

[paranoid-spotlight-everest]

Favorite thing about Reylo?:)

THEY'RE FATED

They're written in the stars! They're connected across space, across their sides and the conflict!! Fucking SOULMATES!!!!!! CANON SOULMATES!!!!!

[honeydudedraws]

Can you tell us about the three moon dragons…….. I wanna know more………

HAHA youve fallen for my trap card!!! now i get to info dump about my ocs!!! sorry this is gonna be long and have a lot of images (only a little sorry)

hehehe so the moons came about via a convo with @zoo650 that started. not about the actual moons. we got on the topic of darkstalker and how its sad his canonical design is, to say, quite lacking in icewing traits. they mentioned he could've been a chimera and how cool that would've been, and we traded moonpaw (warrior cat) and darkstalker designs until they brought a funny thought to the table

and that IMMEDIATELY got my brain moving!!! i dont now a lot about systems and we dont end up giving darkstalker specifically a system but they will be mentioned later!

despite it being way too early in the morning i needed to get the image i had on paper, but that meant getting actual designs for the moons

we decided it would be funnier if the moons weren't nightwings, and we slowly cooked on the specific tribes as i started drawing them all

we was cookin!

but we're getting distracted already arent we? heres the initial piece i drew of them all! (side note i draw silkwings like centaurs because bugs :D) i wanted the moons to look like their tribe but still *other* yknow? they have 4 horns and 4 ears, moon patterns on their bodies, (and in the final designs) otherworldly glowing markings on their scales. and they *terrorize* darkstalker. we dont know of another dragonets born on brightest nights so he might have been the first! theyre so happy to spend their time with someone who can hear them (even if they made it happen) but man if these three arnet bad with kids. darkstalker is a weird case, hes narcissistic and egotistical, and who can blame him! HE CAN HEAR THE MOONS!!!! yeah they definitionally wouldn't be helpful with day to day activities that *mortal* dragons deal with. but!! still the actual moons!!

from this point on we kinda. forget about darkstalker. oops there are other dragons that might have fun with moons! like moon!

for a girl with an mostly absent mother and a dad we dont talk about, she *should* have a cool moon guardian (while this is fun to think about, the hoops we have to jump though with the loose lore we have would be plenty to justify her seeing imperial)

also we decide that Oracle is making Cottonmouths life even more of a living hell (for the jokes)

we pick up our convo again the next day with one last darkstalker! the moons with darkstalker vs the moons with peacemaker:

now more on the moon piece systems!

while my fixation on the moons didnt get me far enough to design the the 6 moon pieces (3 for whiteout and 3 for sunny, fatespeaker, and starflight) this is when i started designing the actual moons! so back to those three

(unused Oracle design with jumping spider inspo!)

some Perception headcanons! and then some general ideas

But lore time now!!!

also we start talking about hope,,,

and then unfortunately, the last time we mention the moons is this (aside from me finishing the refs)

and theres probably a lot that we both never wrote down or wasnt mentioned here! a few things that never went anywhere: starflight and fatespeaker trying to research the phenomenon they are experiencing and the only one knowing anything being hope. the three² groups skywing maybe being a crow. mentions of clearsight knowing of the moons (didnt go anywhere cause i forgot shes a future seer and not a mind reader), whiteouts headmates all having diffrent painting styles (mudwing: loves pottery and sculptures skywing: FINGER PAINTING, a beast at landscapes silkwing: knitting and crochet obviously (or smth else), the three² groups silkwing discovering silkwings are real, the reason why perception is a dove, SO MANY THINGS!!!!

thank you for making it through all that text! we kinda went hard on these guys and im sad i never drew any of the things we talked about. but just thinking of these guys again was fun!

[readingismyhobby24]

Who outta the chain dyou think would be most likely to have a motorcycle? Because every time I think I have the answer I’m like “no… actually-“

Like first I thought Time, that absolutely fits his vibe, but then I remembered Wild LITERALLY has one, but then I thought about Legend-

-crazylittlejester

Ooooh! This is a good question... A really hard one too...

Not gonna lie, as soon as I read the question my mind went to Legend 😂 I just feel like he'd have one. And he would take VERY good care of it.

But then I also see literally any of them having one. Like, imagine if Wind had a motorcycle lol 😂 Yeah, he's a little too young to have one, but depending on where you live, he's not really far from being able to have one. And I could see Warriors with one too. And Time...

But yeah, all of them having a motorcycle makes so much since 😂

@crazylittlejester

[abyssal-ilk]

For the Inquisitor meme - 18 & 33!

(for this ask game!)

18. is there anyone in their inner circle that they can't stand/don't like? why?

taashath holds a lot of affection for her entire inner circle! which is odd for my inquisitors, since usually there is at least a handful that they don't mesh well with. this,, doesn't exactly translate into her getting along with all of them all of the time, though. a lot of the inner-circle dynamics end up flipping throughout the game for her; she started off close with blackwall and solas and by the end of it they were painfully strained, she started off wary around the iron bull and they ended up being extremely close friends, she couldn't stand dorian at first and then grew to dote over him, she and sera started off crushing on each other and THAT ended awfully, ect.

i do think the most painful of these dynamic flips is her situationship with solas, though. they bonded over being outcasts during the early days of the inquisiton, with them both being mages and neither being human while they are surrounded by holy followers of a religious origination who would normally put them both to the sword. after the fall of haven (and taashath breaking things off with sera after watching her die in the corrupted future), solas was someone taashath leaned heavily on. there was a lot of unsaid back-and-forth between them on if it was platonic, romantic, or something else altogether, but solas ends up pulling away after an impulsive hook-up and their relationship– whatever it was– never really recovered after that.

33. who drinks from the well of sorrows? how does the inquisitor come up with that decision?

taashath drinks from the well!! it was a mix of "can i really trust morrigan?" and "can i really trust this well not to hurt whoever drinks from it?" and the answer to both questions was no. it wasn't anything against morrigan personally– taashath just couldn't put an unknown amount of power into someone's hands if she didn't know exactly what they were planning on doing with it. that, plus she figures if she's dying from the anchor already, then she can spare morrigan from whatever danger the well holds. it's not something she fully thought out, tho. she knew they didn't have a lot of time to decide and she went mostly on first-impulse/quick reasoning. she does end up regretting it, but considering what happens after with flemeth/mythal,, she wouldn't change it (also she turns into a wyvern through the power of the well rather than getting to summon a dragon. bc i said so)

[genesstankycodpiece]

12 and 21 for ask please 💜

For 12. Yes I have a little poodle named Yoshi

For 21. as silly as it sounds it's overtime by cash cash and shelter by Porter Robinson they are old childhood songs that I've had good memories to

[shaperaverse-brainrot]

@lekreb thank you so much for the procrastination support

First impression

I loved her. I didn't know how to say her name properly and was trying very hard to ramble about her to one of my friends the morning after the postie war act two premiere. My first impression can basically be summed up by:

Impression Now

Tbh I've only grown to love her more. I wish I could say more but I've rambled so much about her on this blog I'd be repeating the same things for a hundred times.

Favourite moment

Am I allowed to say postie war acts 2-6 or is that too broad?

A New Dream in postie war act three is so precious to me. Marjolein learning how being a postie works, being curious yet also completely confused, HOW AWKWARD SHE IS WHEN SHE MEETS SARAH like "hi I'm Marjolein" when Raven then goes on about what posties are I cringe so hard oh Marjolein I love you-

Favourite oddly specific moment is her meeting Mucklepuck for the first time. I don't think I need to explain why.

Idea for a story

I am going to cheat a little and combine idea for a story and favourite headcanons into one answer I really apologise :(

Unpopular Opinion

I have to admit i am not the biggest fan of Marjolein forgetting Lloyd during her time in the hellscape. I rambled a lot about how I wasn't the biggest fan of how much the cabaret brought in linear time in a Raven ask I just finished writing, but this was just the icing on the top for me tbh.

Like!! I think she should have interesting feelings about Lloyd!! He viewed her as a daughter and only voiced that opinion when she offered to sacrifice herself for them and "was of use"!!! Talk about generational cycles of shitty parenting!! But the idea that she's just... Forgotten almost entirely? That it's almost as if the relationship she built with them in postie war didn't matter?? That the thing she remembers isn't the advice or the time spent or even the adventures, but vague recollections of what he looks like?

And then of course there's Lloyd wanting to rekindle their relationship only to turn around and say he's leaving in a year I do not like that either

Favourite relationship

I know I ramble about Marjolein and Sarah a lot, but I think it has to be Marjolein and Jill. The way Jill feeds into Marjolein's gaining confidence storyline and Marjolein feeds into Jill yearning for people to see her as her and not a "manic pixie dreamgirl" larger than life person? Yeah. Just yeah. I will cut myself off here so I don't ramble for paragraphs upon paragraphs.

Favourite headcanons/Idea for a story

Demon queen Marjolein. I've rambled about this on discord before but the idea that Marjolein accidentally became a demon queen while she was in the hellscape, either through a weird situationship with Mistress or because the demons looked at her and thought "yup. We want her to lead us now." And then when they're all rescued she just drops "oh yeah I'm officially a demon queen btw" on the rest of the posties-

As for idea for a story, a kinda rewrite of postie cabaret. Marjolein is in her whole demon queen thing, Jill also helps out a lot with magic and advising and stuff, and they get approached by Crispy and Toasty and Mistress panicked because "there's a bunch of people out to attack us and try and take you away!!". And it's a big comedy of errors where Jill and Marjolein help defend the hellscape from the postie "invaders" who are trying to rescue them from the hellscape.

[deprivedmusicaljunkie]

5 and 8 for the book asks!!

ask game

5. crowd pleaser: a book you would recommend to almost everyone

HAS to be my favorite read of the year (+ possibly all time): and then? and then? what else? it’s a memoir slash series of essays slash literature appreciation moment written by daniel handler (pen name lemony snicket). i’ve read it twice already and i just love his brilliant mind—he’s truly so subversive and intelligent and funny—you can tell that he really views the world with an entirely different filter. love him.

8. blorbo of the year: perhaps not your favorite of the year, but contains Your Character

i don’t have a literary blorbo (anymore), but i’ll say everyone in my family has killed someone because ernest cunningham, the main character, is SO pathetic and SUCH a loser. i’m honestly surprised that the series isn’t more popular because ernest is everything: he’s short. he’s unemployed. he’s completely socially inadequate. he’s divorced. he’s australian. everyone he meets hates him to some degree. he’s sad, wet, hopeless, un-charming, uncharismatic, stupid sometimes, and well he’s my silly rabbit. hope that helps.

[iobsesswaytoomuch]

The mad dogs in joying hot coco also the aftermath of the movie hope this helps

AJTYFEDYFTWDUQDW THANK YOU

I didn’t have time to do the aftermath, but here’s the turtles +April enjoying some hot cocoa! :)

[sasakisniko]

Molly!!

Hello my darling, my faithful notifs buddy. I hope you’ve been enjoying your weekend. I just wanted to say hi and spread some love. Seeing you pop up in my notifs is always such a highlight. Your love for both of our cancelled (SOB) shows is such an inspiration and I hope to one day see the hard work pay off. I will be right there with you, fighting to see our lovely detectives and pirates again! In the meantime, I look forward to seeing more of your lovely gifs!

Also, Justice for Niko, because wwwhhhyyyy you do my girl like that 😭😭😭

PIPER!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SENDING ME THIS!!!

I'm so happy that I didn't get around to reading this until today because today has been a day™.

You are so kind and such a positive light in fandom, so I'm always so happy to see you on my dash!!! I can't believe you spent so much time all weekend sending love to people on tumblr and in the comments of fic, even though I know you had a tough time. We need more people like you in fandom, people who put their energy into making the space kinder and more welcoming! I know I've felt that from you as someone who kinda stayed on the outskirts of the ofmd fandom until semi-recently.

I hope that one day we're squealing over new episodes of OFMD and DBDA together! And celebrating the return of Niko!

[masked-disciple]

*me not walking into a trap* Tell me about Hyacinthe and Iris! :) (genuinely though!)

So the actual chance tumblr would literally murder the quality of this is 50/50, but you should be able to view it in a new tab at proper resolution?? If that's not the case I'll rebagel with them broken-up so tumblr doesn't resize it.

Left to right we've got Iris, Hyacinthe, Katsuhito, and Yumiko! Iris obviously not an OC, the other three are. All of them are shown at roughly nine or ten years of age, although not at once: Iris is about twelve years older than Katsu, and about fourteen-fifteen older than Yumiko.

Under the cut, so I may ramble a bit!

Iris is Klint's daughter, born June 17, 1889. Hyacinthe is Barok's daughter, born February 6 1890. They're not twins, but they'll let you believe they are, because they act like it. They're sisters in every way that matters, and they refer to each other as such, and referring to them as anything else gets you shot.

They didn't meet until Iris was seven and Hyacinthe was six. Iris was living with Fionn, aware that he wasn't her father but not of anything about her blood family. Until one day, she went to look in her bedroom mirror, only to see a girl that wasn't her staring back at her, trees on the other side, as though the girl was looking through a pool of water to Iris.

Hyacinthe van Zieks died July 15 1891, a year and a few months' after her birth. She suffered from Magical Energy Waning Syndrome, the same condition that would have killed her Uncle Moriarty if the van Zieks forest hadn't killed him first. She died in her sleep, peacefully, resting against Barok's chest. Klint took her spirit away, and raised her in his brother's place, refusing to change into human form but doing what he could to be there for her anyway.

Two years and one day after Hyacinthe's death, Barok's life would be shattered again by the death of the woman who he called sister himself: Angharad Gingerson, Beatrice's eldest daughter. But theirs is another story. For now, Iris is seven years old, and the girl who is her dead sister is looking back at her through her mirror.

Hyacinthe knows how to talk: she learned from Beatrice and Osian and Ariadne, the latter of which who will tolerate her but makes no effort to conceal the fact she hates Hyacinthe's guts. She can talk well enough that the two can introduce themselves, and Hyacinthe can explain that they're sisters without disclosing who their family actually is.

The truth is, Hyacinthe doesn't know who her other parent is: she is the daughter of Barok van Zieks the Chainbreaker, for all they call him now the Reaper of the Bailey. She has been raised by a great white wolf of a ghost, who swears to her that she is family, that she will not be alone. She is the sister of Iris Wilson, and she wants to be friends.

They have tea together every day that they can. They talk about their days and brush their hair, they puzzle through inventions and magical theory together. Iris is not the resurrectionist her uncle is, not yet. She can't call the animals of the forest back to life by singing to them. She can't step through the mirror and hold her sister tight.

But she's an inventor, and she'll find a way. Hyacinthe likes reading theory, likes studying, wants to be a part of the hot, fast world her sister lives in. There's no mirrors in the van Zieks estate to watch Barok from, she doesn't know how he's coping with her death. She wants to take her sister's hand and meet him, hold onto the man who must be parent to them both.

They are determined, and they know better than to tell any adult of their relationship to each other, they know better than to admit what sort of magics they're willing to study if it means neither of them ever has to be lonely ever again.

By the time Barok is accused of murdering Inspector Gregson, they've managed it. Iris can pass through the mirror, sit in the ghostly forest of the twilight with her sister and have a tea party. It takes much more work, and much more power, to bring Hyacinthe into the daylight. They manage it anyway, just in time for Barok to be arrested, just in time for a homecoming a decade in the making to be sidelined by tragedy.

Hyacinthe runs in the daylight in the form of a wolf puppy, ribbons tied to the fur by her ears, Iris running beside her. They do not want to split up, but someone needs to tell the Queen, and someone needs to stay by Barok's side.

Iris goes. Hyacinthe stays. Barok recognizes his daughter, as he would in any form she took, and does not let go of her even as he watches the two men he loves more than he knows how to deal with argue over whether or not he will join his daughter in death. At this point, he might have said he no longer cared. At this point, he can see Klint's eyes in his daughter and in Iris and in the great white, ghostly wolf that flanks Kazuma even as Barok watches him fall apart. At this point, he is no longer thinking of what mercy the world could even still grant him, but what he can save before he goes.

After the trial, Susato and Gina are held up at the Old Bailey, being interrogated for their roles in the aftermath. The boys are holding fast to each other, Ryunosuke suggesting a nice pub to get blackout drunk at so that maybe come morning they'll remember how to hold to each other. Yuujin and Fionn are handling the fallout that they can, but they won't be home until late, either.

Klint van Zieks, the great white wolf that has raised Hyacinthe in his brother's stead, who allowed through no choice of his own for someone else to raise his eldest daughter, takes the two girls home, and explains to Iris who he is, and who, thus, she must also be.

It takes the two girls six months to build a life-sized balljoint doll for Hyacinthe to haunt, so she may be as close to alive as a dead girl may get. Mary Shelley's methods are, alas, some years' away from being viable.

Decades later, they can be found in Greece as tenured professors at Saint Shion's University, one as a pioneer of necromagy and artificing, and the other a magical theoretician who studies whatever catches her fancy. They'll argue with everyone and each other, send letters to their younger siblings and occasionally be cajoled into telling the story of Ryunosuke Naruhodo and the Time He Blew Up Iris' Invention Of An Electric Toaster.

They cannot, tragically, be cajoled into playing themselves when The Adventure of Ryunosuke Naruhodo, directed by Katsuhito Naruhodo, hits theatres in late 2000. But they do show up on set a few times for pictures and autographs, despite being over a hundred years old and looking like they're in their early seventies at best.

Hyacinthe, however, can still be cajoled into doing her best impression of Barok, and can pitch a chalice accurately at thirty yards behind her without looking. Because she's Hyacinthe van Zieks and she can do that.

[symbiotic-slime]

3, 13, 16 for the fandom ask!

3. nOTP?

I don’t have any big ships that are nOTPs, but the one ship that I cannot stand in the Venom fandom is any variation of Carlton Drake/Eddie. there’s like less than 50 fics for it so it’s funny for me to get so mad about it but yeah. it just gives me such the ick

13. What’s a character/ship you haven’t written/drawn yet but you would like to some day?

For both writing and drawing, I really want to make symflash content!! I don’t know why I haven’t drawn them, but with writing I get so scared of messing up Flash’s character that my fic ideas just collect dust in my Google docs 😭 I redrew a TikTok screenshot for symbiot3 (inspired by @kitausuret ‘s incredible fic Careless of the Consequence go read it you won’t regret it) so I’ve technically made content for them but again I haven’t written it because of the mischaracterization fear 😭

16. Do people irl know you participate in fandom?

yes!! all of my irl besties are my mutuals on here! I frequently torment my lovely friends @fist-of-vengeance, @cyborg-empress, and @depresseddm-thedndkind with my fic ideas and frankly nonstop yapping about Venom— it’s gotten so bad that whenever someone in the friend group talks about their new obsession they refer to it as their Venom lmaoo. they all know im a weird little freak /pos