#the mariana lore

[cephalopodyuri]

Three of Hearts!

the freshest first-wave Octopunk band!! they only made music for 5 years but have had decades long impacts on both music and the world around them. shaping the Octopunk subculture, and the way octolings approach protesting against oppression.

Pacifica is the eldest sister, she is the heart of the band. she plays bass and does the community work.

Calypso is the second oldest, she is the body of the band. she sings, plays tambourine, dances, and hypes the crowd up

Abyssa is the youngest sister, she is the mind of the band. she write lyrics, plays drums, and manages finances/promotion.

aside from their high energy punk sound that makes you want to get up and jump around, their most famous or infamous legacy came from the way they would organize music festivals with fellow bands to educate the masses. they had ton of these Octopunk festivals and they were a massive success, unfortunately the most well known festivals ended in tragedy when the venue was raided by octarian army. no more festivals, just safe basement shows where nothing on that scale could ever happen again.

their lasting influence is the new wave of Octopunk, lead by the generation who was raised on the first wave. they now live in a better world that the OG Octopunks worked hard for, and still there is much room for improvement. the new wave has influences from other alternative genres such as Batfish and Seamo for a new generation with new problems

rock on as always

[alienssstufff]

haven't drawn them in a hot minute they'll be back TRUST

[nezhanetwork]

family reunion

[malichev]

Things I've discovered so far: Roier and Cellbit are on the server playing other characters (a janitor and a ghost). qQuackity released a spoiler talking to qElMariana, he said that this month there will be more Brazilians added. qPhilza almost escaped, he found a way while mining, but was teleported to the solitary cell.

[elgrandebonemeal]

now that the qsmp is apparently over and slime has been MIA for god knows how long how about we all try to like gaslight ourselves into believing he got an actual proper ending to his arc. for example i am personally choosing to believe that after purgatory he stole that fuckass boat, found and picked up BOTH Flippas, and now sails around with them and Mariana free from The Horrors forever and ever

[zooliminology]

Which areas connect to which areas?

There is not enough research to say for sure how interconnected or unconnected areas are to each other. Due to the Far Plane’s disregard for standard laws of space, it is difficult if not impossible to have a proper layout of even small areas.

However, there are some connections that remain constant and are known to researchers. Brutalia connects to the Greenhouses, and Mariana connects to the Rain Lot.

[handbarfs]

ghosts in mari's home

I was thinking about how q!mariana locked himself in his house after juanaflippa's death, and started seeing her everywhere in his house

[mzarb]

Just missclicks!

[call-me-strega]

Ghost Selkie AU Tidbit: Abuela Soliña

I’m still playing with my Ghost Selkie Au, tossing it around like a cat toy trying to decide if and how to write it and one figure that I’ve kinda developed a backstory for is Abuela Soliña. Now said backstory may never see the light of day in the the main story so I thought this’d be a fun tidbit to throw out while I’m still considering the main story overall.

Okay so my inspo for Abuela Soliña, or Señora Mariana Soliña, actually came from a couple of different sources. I took some of the general headcanon from the DCU; Crime Alley has a large population of people of color, specifically Hispanic in the area Jason lived; that Jason has Hispanic heritage; that some of the older women in the alley occasionally feed street kids; and took them to create a person that would be a maternal figure for Jason bc I’m all for giving him Good Adult Influences.

She functions a bit as a plot device taking up the role of Jason’s magical mentor and helps move the story along. However, I wanted to give her more depth so I based her off an actual figure in Spanish history. Once I had decided a witch was the best magical figure to live in Gotham and guide Jason I actually did a bit of research on famous Brujas in folklore and came across María Soliña/Soliño a famous witch from Galicia who inspired the women of her village to fend off Ottoman raiders and survived the Spanish Inquisition without being burned at the stake. She was the main inspiration and namesake of Abuela Mariana Soliña. She did have children, though not much is known about them, so I wanted it to be implied that Mariana was a descendant of María. I wanna say I’m placing her around age 50 when she first met Jason and 65-ish(?) when he returned to Gotham.

Anyways, like I said I didn’t want her to remain a plot device and actually have depth so I kinda started building a backstory for her. Her grandparents or parents were likely immigrants who moved to Gotham from Galicia, Spain back when the city was younger. Back then the different magical communities were a bit more segregated. Vampires stayed clans with vamp doctors and leaders, gargoyles in their own community, fae in their courts, etc., but she did let that stop her. She was always deeply involved in the inter-magical community and was a central figure due to her interest in learning other supernatural cultures of the city.

She eventually grew up to be a full-fledged bruja who sold her magical remedies, charms, potions, etc to any supernatural being willing to pay her. This actually helped her amass a large amount of wealth quickly, especially when her charms, totems, and remedies caught the eyes of superstitious crime bosses across the city. She always insisted to cover her face with a shawl to protect her anonymity and had several mob bosses sign magical contracts agreeing to protect her and her rights to do business thus making her virtually untouchable in the Alley.

I wanted her to be a very strong influence on Jason. She is very strong, sassy, confident, clever, and street smart and taught Jason some of those traits. She actually meets Jason through Catherine. Mariana had many close friends with children though she herself never married. Catherine was actually the daughter of one of her close friends and Mariana was like an aunt to her. When her friend died and Catherine was left on the streets Mariana did what she could but her fear and unreadiness for motherhood held her back.

Catherine was taken in by her uncle’s family and the two were estranged for a time. In that time she falls into addiction due to her uncles on involvement in drug running as well as bad peer influences. She reunites with her Tía Mariana when she marries Willis and reaches out to invite her to the wedding. Even though they are no longer very close, after Catherine becomes pregnant Mariana offers to help out when she can. She lives in a different (read: magical) part of the Alley so she only sees Jason occasionally but makes a point to feed him, and when he discovers her secret, to teach him some basics of the supernatural world to help him get by.

After Catherine’s death Abuela Soliña is distraught. She offers Jason a hot meal and some money she had set aside (Catherine’s old college fund she never got a chance to use) but hesitated to offer a place in her home so soon after the loss. Jason sees her grief and hesitation, mistakenly assuming it’s unwillingness to deal with him full time and runs off. She tries to invite him back a couple of times but he mistakes it as one off events and remains a street kid until Bruce adopts him.

He still occasionally goes back to the Alley to visit her after that, usually as Robin. The first time he went to let her know he was okay she immediately clocked him as Jason but wished him well with Bruce. When he visits she still feeds him and gives him luck and protection charms to help with crime fighting. (Side Note: on one of his visits Jason finds out the Alfred and Mariana know each other and Have Met Before™️. Neither explains how or why)

When Jason dies Mariana grieves him deeply. When he comes back as a revenant she is both relieved and guilty. She’s happy to have the boy back but a revenant’s existence is not a peaceful one. When he searches her up and comes to see her he looks like he’s survived hell and back and he probably has. He seek out her guidance and help and this time Abuela Soliña is more than willing to pass on her vast wealth of knowledge of the supernatural community and its cultures to Jason.

One of the biggest two regrets Mariana holds with her is not adopting Catherine or Jason when they were at their lowest and she had the chance. That’s why as Jason’s rage cools and he begins looking to return to a (semi-)normal life she offers to adopt him as her grandson for real this time. She has a friend who owes her a favor and can fabricate the paper work to turn Jason Peter Todd into Jason “Pedro” Solina (and his mother posthumously Catherine Soliña-Todd). She offers to officially make him her little witchling and he emotionally accepts.

Mariana is still an active and well-known figure in Gotham’s underworld and supernatural community so having her backing gives Red Hood a lot of pull and credibility. Plus his revenant titles increase his claim to fame in the magical community. Red Hood is well loved and “Pedro” is well accepted with in the community. He’s kind of a public figure, bordering minor celebrity due to his connection to famous Bruja and witch doctor, Mariana Soliña. Not that he is aware of that fact.

Lastly I’m gonna tack on some nicknames Jason receives pertaining to his connection with Señora Soliña:

Soliña’s boy (el chico de Soliña)

Little witchling

Pequeño niño brujo or pequeño brujo (little witch boy)

Young brujo

El neito guapo (the handsome grandson)

Alborotador (troublemaker)

Heredero (heir/inheritor, referring to Mariana’s kowledge, wealth, and position in the community)

(P.S I tried my hand at drawing what I think Abuela Soliña would look like but I’m not super confident in it. I think I’m a better writer than drawer, but if you guys actually wanna see the drawing anyway let me know and I’ll make another post with it)

[lfromlasnevadas]

I'm just thinking how hard it is gonna be to Pepito. He is the son of 5 Hispanics, Roier, Rivers, Carre, Mariana, and Quackity.

He has just been born and already has four absent parents. From them, two are news on the island. They are still learning how the island works and, in the view of the others, are similar to eggs.

And the last three... them are the most Olds on the island. They have lived a lot of shit, they already had eggs, they have fight, they have win and lost, they have experienced the dead of their sons.

Pepito isn't just the son of the hispanics. He isnt just the son of Roier, Mariana, and Quackity.

He is also the shadow of Bobby, Juana, and Tilin.

[tu-es-gegg]

birds when stressed, can sometimes lose too much of their feathers during moult and leave bare patches beforet they can grow back. sometimes they can get so stresssed they excessively pluck out the feathers themselves

[ruby-the-bunger]

Me: *shows a meme of slime and mariana to my brother*

My brother: ya’ know, if you’re calling them your bitch wife I think you should get a divorce

Me: I- ….they’ve tried-

[fridgrave]

i headcanon what q!charlie's face sometimes glitches (especially in the dark) like in the end of the stream with satan

and imagine mariana wakes up in the middle of the night to drink some water, forgets he's living with charlie now and sees this at kitchen bc his wife was drinking too

[izyuumi]

Getting this out of my brain before this evening, so here's how the teams are looking right now as of Day 1:

Green People are the ones who were present for the event (or logged on recently), and although they don't stream as often as some of the others (- Pac), there is some hope of them logging in more often for the duration of it.

Orange People are the ones who were present for the event (or logged on recently), but they haven't been on for a while or have some special lore going on.

Red People were the ones absent for the event, and have been absent for a while now in general.

(Disclaimer: this is my own analysis, I don't watch that many POVs so some of these might be a miss!)

I wanted to get it out here to explain my thinking, with how many active members each team has (active as in, they log on rather regularly): 8 on Green, 8* on Blue, and then 5 people on Red.

*I counted Pac and Missa here since Missa has been getting on more lately, and Pac will probably be back soon (?)

Now I'm not saying picking one person off Green and one person off Blue and adding them to Red would even out the teams, but...

[atthebell]

ElMariana: Que increíble, que lo tiene en la cabeza, Roier? [How incredible, what does he have on his head, Roier?] Roier: Tiene un casco, un casco. Oh, calabaza! [He has a helmet, a helmet. Oh, a pumpkin!] ElMariana: Você fala espanhol? [You speak Spanish?] [Richas nods] ElMariana: And English? And portugués? [Richas nods to both as well.] ElMariana: Increíble. [Incredible.] Roier: Y tu no sabes nada. [And you don't know anything.] ElMariana: Soy un pendejo. [I'm an idiot.] Roier: Exacto, y eres un chingón. [Exactly, and you're a badass (talking to Richas)]

[malichev]

BTW...I just noticed that all the couples were separated for this event.

Guapoduo,Deathduo,4Halo,Slimariana,Teaduo,Hideduo...The only one on the same team is Fooligeta, but qVegetta doesn't join, so it's tragically comical.

Even BFFS were separated (qPac and qMike)