#there were a lot of questions and i am a chronic yapper.

[vigilskept]

1, 2, 5, 9, 11, 12, 17, 19, 21, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38 and 39 for diya (mia) because every time i see her mentioned she fascinates me!

1. What is the Warden's name? Does it have a meaning behind it? How do they feel about their name?

answered over here!

2. How would you describe the Warden's personality before and after the prologue? Did it change much or did they remain the same?

during the prologue, her whole personality is a front. she knows she's being watched, so she tries to present an image of herself (pious, dutiful, meek) that's really far from what she's actually like (analytical, dry, a little mean, passionate abt selective interests & people she cares about). once she clocks how badly they need mages down at ostagar, she dials it up even further. "please don't conscript me duncan, i should rly face the consequences of my actions :(" *

on the other hand even if she is putting up a front here, her choosing to help jowan & knowingly putting herself at risk is the first step towards that pious girl scout mask falling away for good.

*idk if everyone's tried this particular dialogue yet, so i just need to let u know that if you do, knight commander greagoir says he's "glad you still know your place" killing the kinloch templars with hammers :))

putting the rest under the cut bc this is a LONG post

5. What are their thoughts on Duncan? How did they feel about his actions during the Joining?

she can't get a read on him which stresses her out.

she clocks that he's eyeing her as a recruit, but she's not actually interested in becoming a warden until jowan shares his plans with her and she realises she'll need a way out of the circle asap. duncan plays into her hands more or less, mostly because it also works for him. he needs a mage. he definitely picks up on what's going on towards the end though, and i think in this worldstate diya probably isn't entirely wrong that duncan has alistair watching over her to keep his shady new warden mage under templar supervision....

as for the joining, she thinks killing jory was pretty brutal and feels like there probably was a way of talking the guy into it. he didn't seem overly bright. she does make a note of duncan being pretty ruthless, but it moreso raises the question for her of if he got the position of warden-commander because he was ruthless, or became that ruthless because of the position. she never really gets to find out!

9. If the Warden was trapped in a nightmare, what would it be like?

getting trapped in a nightmare is a regular occurrence for diya, rip. i talked about this a bit here, but thus is the fate of somniari.

pre-blight, the worst of her recurring nightmares features a demon of rage that often takes the shape of an elven woman, burning in the fires of the alienage purge she witnessed as a child. post-broken circle most of her non-warden nightmares feature her friend qadir amell, turned into an abomination despite his tranquility. post-blight, most of her nightmares feature alistair & the archdemon :)))

really evil, because demons ultimately pull from your own memories. you can remind yourself you're not there anymore, but you can't always defend yourself by telling yourself it isn't real.

11. How did the Warden react to the truth of the werewolf curse?

she's devastated tbh...... but she also gets it. she's not sure she wouldn't have done the same, if not worse. she's honestly a little impressed at how skillfully he's crafted the curse, given her recent experiences in the circle. uldred was a good blood mage. zathrian is clearly much better.

12. Did the warden end Zathrian's curse?

she did. she's kind of gutted, because she'd honestly rather have had his mentorship than lose him to end the curse. she just can't justify it when the curse already has and inevitably will effect more than its intended targets. he could probably have talked her around on it if it were, but it's not a shems-only curse.... sorry zathrian :(

17. What was the Warden's reaction to seeing [insert character] in the Temple of Sacred Ashes?

i bent canon on this one. mostly to make it worse, but also because diya had already conscripted jowan. he's right there at the temple with her, and actually arguing they shouldn't fuck with the ashes (he is still sad abt lily....)

instead, she sees qadir at this temple, who is dead at this point. it fucks her up bad when he tells her she should forgive herself for what happened to him and that he'd forgiven her a long time ago. she does not take this advice :)

the whole thing is really upsetting to her, and it doesn't feel like a spiritual experience at all. it's the exact same feeling as when demons or spirits take the shapes of certain loved ones either to mess with her or to help. whatever their intent, it's intrusive and painful to have those memories dredged up.

19. Who are the people in camp that the Warden is closest with and why?

she's closest with gavin cousland bc out of everyone he's the most empathetic towards her when it comes out that she's been lying the whole time. as an apostate.... he knows something abt what that's like :) this could also have been the case with leliana, but diya's been so hurt by the chantry that leliana sharing her own religious experience (without any intent to influence her) feels hostile to her. this doesn't change until they see each other again during the events of inquisition.

she's actually pretty wary of morrigan at the start bc she thinks she's out to manipulate gavin (and she kind of is.... at first). their relationship warms up later on as she clocks morrigan's whole "oh shit what if i actually like him" mental breakdown.

she gets along swimmingly with zev right from the jump :) she thinks he's really funny, and the two of them are (recreationally) flirting with each other constantly. they're having the time of their lives exhausting their arsenal of pickup lines against eachother. zevran almost sounds like he means it, but diya's just deadpan the whole time which baffles everyone. morrigan's even more alarmed when gavin decides to get in on this bit.

alistair's understandably pretty wary of her for a while after the mask falls. i mean. she blackmails his uncle to pull a maleficar (who poisoned his other uncle!) out of prison. she bribes & pulls backroom deals with unscrupulous templars!!! then it turns out she's a blood mage herself!!!!!! it's really after the brecilian forest where he actually gets to see her real personality come out that he gradually stops seeing her as a dangerous unknown and starts actually liking her.

it's similar on her end with her starting off really wary of her "supervising templar" only to warm up to him as she stops seeing him as a danger to herself and starts seeing him as just... some guy. who's kinda funny. who she might be fond of. but like. just a little. it's not serious or anything.

21. Did the Warden romance anyone from their group? If so, what attracted them to their partner?

well. i don't know that you could call it a romance, with alistair. they were never together. they did both know the feelings were mutual though, i think.

diya never acts on them bc she knows he wouldn't be open to anything not serious & she doesn't think getting involved in sth serious makes sense when either of them could die soon. + what future could they even manage to have if they do manage to live?? she's had devastating crushes on straight girls and survived, she can get over this too. (alistair on the other hand just has the kingship that he's already sort-of accepted he'll have to step up to looming over him. why start something he knows he can't see through?)

they kiss exactly once, atop fort drakon.

that might be a little unfair on alistair's part, but he's about to die. dying men are allowed to be a little selfish, aren't they?

27. How does the Warden feel about what is happening in the Alienage? How do they feel about how elves are treated?

mad doesn't really cover it. she's from the alienage in denerim and had to live through a purge that still haunts her before she got taken to the circle. walking through the alienage when the gates are finally open again is like stepping into an old, familiar nightmare that's no less painful now than it was the first time.

she tears the slavers to shreds, and would have done the same to loghain if she knew it wouldn't have gotten the wardens banned from ferelden for good.

28. During the Landsmeet, who did the Warden choose to rule Ferelden and why? How did they come to that decision?

alistair, because she genuinely does think he'd try to do right by ferelden (elves and mages included). she can't say the same for anora. she knows he'll probably be miserable as king, but she's hoping that she & gavin would be able to support him through it.

she does try to broker a marriage between him and anora, but when it comes time to pick someone to duel loghain, she has to pick alistair. it's the best way to make his case for the crown, and the rest of them are either foreigners or mages. there's no way that wouldn't undermine his rule down the line. after alistair kills loghain, that agreement is dust, and selfishly (stupidly) she's a little glad for it.

31. How does the Warden feel about being a Grey Warden and the sacrifices that entails?

she'd take it over being in the tower, any day. she does see this is a sigh of how bad things are for mages that a slow death sentence is preferable to their normal state of existence though. it's part of what motivates her to leverage her status at the end of the blight to have anora declare the fereldan circle's independence. as for the sacrifices... more on that later.

32. If they could leave the Wardens, would they?

no. never. she wouldn't accept a cure for the calling, even if you handed it to her on a silver platter. she will see this through to the end, even if it means a miserable, ugly death in the deep roads.

33. Who killed the Archdemon and are they still alive?

alistair insisted on being the one to do it because he felt it was his duty to the wardens he outlived, to ferelden, and because he wouldn't have been able to live with it being either diya or gavin instead........ and no, he is not alive.

34. How does the Warden feel about becoming the Hero of Ferelden?

feels sick to her stomach every time someone calls her that. the response is always the same: "the only one who deserves that title died killing the archdemon."

she doesn't like to talk about the blight, not even to reminisce about the better days of it with old friends.

35. How is the Warden's personality like after the events of DAO? Did they change or are they still the same?

it's pretty drastic. she's a hollow shell of a person for the next few months, it's really bad. she stays in denerim for the funeral, the coronation and the arrival of the orlesian wardens, but she can barely take care of herself.

everyone has a little chat about how the hell they're meant to help her, and in the end they decide she should probably get out of ferelden for a while. and it does help! a little! she's never the same and that grief always stays with her, but she's able to function with a little distance from ferelden & the wardens where the reminders were constant.

it's a lot harder when she returns, and her coping mechanisms aren't necessarily the healthiest. one of them does happen to be overworking herself though, and she gets a hell of a lot done. lots of people and places are better off for it, even if she isn't :')

37. Is the Warden still in contact with anyone after the game's events? Are they still with their love interest, if they have one?

ough. well she's not with alistair, unless u count the various spirits and demons taking his shape, either to make it better or worse :(

she does stay in contact with many of the others though. with wynne it's only the occasional letter or two, but gavin's a regular pen-pal. they write as often as they can, and diya tries to plan ahead with leaving him addresses he'll be able to to reach her (and he returns the favour by leaving some hints on how to reach him & morrigan after he goes AWOL from the wardens)

her first trip out of ferelden is to antiva with zevran, partially because it's the closest, but also because everyone thinks having a goal will be good for her. and it is :) killing crows is a great reason to get out of bed :)

after they've done a pretty terrific job of cleaning house in antiva, she finally accepts sten's invitation to come see seheron. she's a little wary of qunari still, but she can't really resist the temptation to see her parents birthplace, and anyway she misses her friend. she ends up finding seheron really interesting (albeit stressful to exist in as a bas-saarebas). it takes her months before she can get any kind of response from her parents' clan after reaching out (because they think she's ben hassrath...) but she does eventually succeed at that too!

leliana and her don't contact each other at all between the temple of sacred ashes & the events of inquisition but diya does surprise her by responding to her missive to the fereldan wardens by showing up there herself. it's a bit wary on both sides to begin with, but they do manage to mend fences while she's there. i don't know if that helps or make things worse when diya does choose to stay in the fade to buy time for the inquisitor.

38. Is there any decision that the Warden regrets? If so, which is it and why? How would they change it?

answered here! to add onto that though, i think she does come to regret killing genitivi a little bit. she let bitterness drive her a bit when it came to the ashes, but with genitivi she was really just trying to stop him from getting the word out. evidently, that didn't work :/

39. Do the events of the Fifth Blight haunt the Warden or have they moved past it completely?

also answered here! (she will be haunted forever)

[cruel-as-sin]

get to know your mutuals

thank you so much @flowersforbucky for tagging me!

what’s the origin of your blog title? it’s two of my favorite taylor swift songs put together! cruel summer (my all time favorite song ever) + guilty as sin? (one of my favs from ttpd) = cruel-as-sin aka cas!

favorite fandoms? i only write for x-men right now but some of my other fandoms include star wars, marvel, critical role, six of crows/shadow and bone, genshin impact (don’t look at me), once upon a time, anything hugh jackman is in, and taylor swift!

favorite color? blue! specifically a darker blue but im not picky

favorite game? on the basis of it being top tier i have to say minecraft, but also- jedi fallen order and jedi survivor, starfield, skyrim, genshin impact, and a way out

song stuck in your head? disease by lady gaga

weirdest habit/trait? i talk too much. get me going and i will not stop. i talk to myself all the time too

hobbies? writing of course, reading when i find the energy (which is not often), video games!! dnd (as a player and a dm), tv and movies, music, editing, and i’ve been trying to get into some more artsy stuff lately as well

if you work, what’s your profession? i’m a full time college student majoring in creative writing- but on breaks, i work as an office assistant at a university

if you could have any job, what would it be? a fantasy author! (shocking i know)

something you’re good at? supporting others- i try really hard to be there for the people i care about. buying them treats to make them feel better, seeking out videos that i think will make them smile, being a shoulder to cry on, taking care of tasks for them, etc

something you’re bad at? anything requiring physical strength/exertion. you’ve got the wrong guy

something you love? the beauty of life. making someone smile, laughter, babies/newborn animals, watching different species connect with one another, nature, gently falling snow… i could go on

something you could talk about for hours? anything, and i mean anything. i am a serial yapper and everyone who knows me is a victim of this. please ask about my life i will never shut up about anything

something you hate? oh god so many things. i mean the obvious in todays society but more specific to me, people who are insincere. if you’re a hater just say that, don’t be fucking fake about it, don’t act like someone you’re not. pisses me off fr. oh and also loud people. i’m talking like no respect for others, banging on doors for shits and giggles, yelling and screaming while throwing parties, blasting music… all that stuff. that loud ass car won’t make your dick any bigger

something you collect? mementos! ticket stubs, receipts, little drawings, notes my friends and i passed back and forth during class, cards, letters, etc :)

what’s your love language? big fan of all of them but quality time is my number one

favorite movie/show? logan is my fav x-men movie but x1 is my comfort film for sure, tv show would probably be the mandalorian

favorite food? pasta is my go to, but i go CRAZY for some chicken and rice

favorite animal? cats :3

are you musical? yes! i’ve played guitar and ukulele for a few years now, and i also sing!

what were you like as a child? autistic. and no i am not exaggerating.. i spent a lot of time playing by myself as opposed to with others, had very few friends, and got bullied for seemingly no reason bc i was the weird kid 😭

favorite subject in school? english (no surprises here)

least favorite subject in school? math. no question

what’s your best character trait? loyalty. i am ride or die for the people i care about and i will go to WAR to defend them

worst character trait? i’m a chronic procrastinator… like, it’s BAD y’all. i’ve vowed to never have planned release dates for my chapters/fics for this exact reason

if you could time travel, who would you like to meet? david bowie! absolute icon

no pressure tags: @logansbaby @dilfverines @wlwloverwrites @thinkinonsense and anyone else who wants to join in!

[oraclekleo]

And I also pulled some cards for you this time! The interpretation might not be the most professional, but I gave it my best 🤭

What does Kleo give to the world?

IX of Swords, The Sun, 7 of Cups

So, as I was mixing the cards, a card suddenly was all alone at the corner, away from the pile. I flipped it over and it was the IX of swords. I kept mixing the cards, and then the sun violently flipped over. Then, I thought two cards is kind of a weird pull, so I mixed them again to see if I should get another one, and the VII of Cups flipped over. I usually mix the cards for a while and then form them into deck shape again to pull the cards, so it was odd that I didn't get to do that with any of the pulls this time 😂

Not going to lie, at first I was confused about the cards... Like, "Kleo gives the world anxiety" definitely doesn't sound right 💀

But seeing all the cards together I thought about you giving people advice. I think, because you're such a pragmatic person, you might be really good at giving people different perspectives when facing an issue, and making them think about it. Sure, seeing things as they are might definitely stress people out, especially if they've been avoidant about the situation, but it's necessary to wake up and look around us so we can work things out, right? And when we look around we can see all the different possibilities and opportunities that we might've been ignoring or not realising they were there. The VI of Cups is the card I pulled when I interviewed my deck and asked about the readings that suit it best, and since then I associate it with guidance a lot. Finally, The Sun makes me think that, through giving people good advice you might be a source of positivity for the ones around you. Sure, your approach could be a little tough and no-nonsense, but sometimes that's exactly what people need, even if they don't want it. This is a personal impression but you also seem like a cool and fun person, in a mature, grounded way... Even if you don't feel like you're a "Sun" kind of person, that doesn't mean others can't find warmth in you, right? After all, it's all about perspective.

(side note, but when I saw the sun card I immediately thought about Dachi and Easy. It's not exactly related to the reading as a whole? but I felt so warm, like "oh, they must definitely think Kleo is their Sun lol")

That's it! Thank you for giving me the opportunity to do a reading today it felt so fun 🤭

Also PLEASE don't feel forced to write more if you pull a card for me... Like I got carried away and pulled more cards, but also I'm a chronic yapper and can't summarise for the life of me 🙏

I always appreciate your readings 💕

Hello!

Thank you so much for participating in my tiny game!

OMG!!

Thank you so much for the reading! 💖💖💖💖💖

"Kleo gives the world anxiety" YES! Yes! That's true! 🤣 I mean... I'm kinda a no-sugarcoating person so it's true people sometimes think I'm pretty harsh with my inputs. And I can break hearts with it. When people try to deal with something, they might ignore some significant aspects, the uncomfortable ones and I have the habit of bringing those unpleasant things to the light because... ignoring a problem won't make it go away, right? But yeah, there are things I say that can be really hard to digest and give people anxiety. I try to be softer now. Probably reflects in the more emotional 7 of Cups, I try to highligh both the troubling but also positive aspects now. For better balance. 😁 LOL! I probably am a Sun for my dogs. I mean, I keep them warm, happy and fed. I'm basically their deity. 🤣

I love your interpretation. And I'm really happy you gave it a try and I'm proud of your results. ✨

Now! To your shorter reading! 😂

Question: What do you give to the world?

Deck: Everyday Witch Tarot

Card: 5 of Cups

(Feedback is highly appreciated but not mandatory)

When others only see the negatives, you look around and see all the blessings. Sure, sometimes things go the wrong way, shit happens, plans get ruined and tears flow. That's not a reason to lose hope for you. You know very well that if your plan doesn't work out, it probably wasn't a good plan in the first place. You make new better plan, you try again, you push through, you focus on the prize. You know spilling a glass doesn't ruin the feast. There's still plenty to delight. Obstacles, challenges and setbacks are not the end of the world for you. They are simply there to empower you, to teach you new skills and lessons, to help you grow as a person. You might be standing on a top of a shit pile but you are still on top and closer to sky, right? 😉

[theposhperyton]

Frick yeah! TBH, I kinda wanna collaborate with @isfd (i still can't believe that MFer got that handle, lucky duck) and make a bunch of larger posts about it, especially considering I've seen several new people show interest in it recently.

Also, those are both really good questions! I can't believe I didn't address either of those on my own in my first reply, I really just went right to infodumping huh 😭😭 sorry mate, but it's unfortunately not gonna get any more concise the second time. I'm so sorry, but I am a chronic yapper 🫡 Also, my deepest apologies for the lateness of my reply, I have barely been on tumblr this past month and only just started trying to be active again this past week. The money that comes with employment is nice, but then there are the horrors :[

First off - ISFD doesn't actually stand for anything as far as I know? It was the primary/original creator's username back on the old site and adjoining forum too (riiip). It might have a larger meaning, but tbh, I don't know what it is. It was what they signed all their original works, and all the collaborative stuff or stuff by other creators always credited ISFD as the original source. I think it was actually the fans who made calling the collective media ISFD the norm, but whatever the case, it works.

As a continuation of that last question, ISFD the media was a collection of mixed media works posted on the creators' site. It was just one main author making stuff about their OCs at first, but they brought in more authors/artists and were doing a co-creator/multi-creator thing later on. I think it was a group of their friends that they got involved in it? That's how they acted anyway.

As for the media itself, it was mixed media - some comics, some written fics, a couple of really simple point-and-click games, and there was even a dating sim in the works towards the end of things. They all took place within the same fictional continent, and even though the different media would focus on different places or groups or characters within the world, there was a sort of interconnectivity and cohesiveness that was really cool? And while the individual stories were mostly smaller and self-contained within their own narrative or character group, there were shared themes throughout a lot of them, and it kinda seemed like they were all hinting at a larger story. I think it would've been really cool to be able to see what they were leading up to with everything.

After a while, the creators started posting new content less consistently and even less frequently, and their activity and presence on the site and forum eventually dried up completely.

Tbh, while the lack of official content did suck, the fandom was pretty chill with a creator break, just because of how rare it was for new creator content to get added to the site anyway. The creators would go through phases of consistent posting, and phases of content drought, so we were kinda used to it. We were all pretty self-sufficient, lmao - Fanart, fanfic, and forum shenanigans were like, a good 40% of the content anyways, so we stayed winning. (I remember vividly doing ISFD RP 😭 Thorn was my go-to for RP, I love that girl. I also had a couple of OCs that I will **not** be bringing back to tumblr. I'm okay with those dying with the old forums.)

Speaking of dying! (Terribly segway, I know) - yeah, the creators' distance turned out to be a little more than a simple hiatus or break. One day, I tried to get back on the old site and forum, and oops! They were no longer there. The creator(s) kept their personal life pretty far removed from the ISFD page, so there wasn't any warning or explanation on the site before it exploded, or anywhere else.

We still don't know if the creators just decided they were done with this project, or if something happened irl, or what.

Which absolutely sucks, as it was really one heck of a microinterest for me and a lot of people, but there's enough stragglers on Tumblr that I know the fandom isn't completely dead.

I think the suckiest part is that all the media went down with the ship. As far as I know, the canon comics, fics, and minigames weren't posted anywhere else, so it's as good as lost media, short of tracking down the MIA creators or whatever any fans may have saved on their own devices. (Speaking of! I actually have a couple of pieces of official character art and some comic panels I saved as reference when I was making fanart back in the day. They're all on my parent's home computer, though, becuz I didn't think about saving any of them to my own devices before I moved last year :[ I'm hopeful that I can get ahold of them next time I'm out at my parent's house tho🤞My mom is really bad about deleting other people's stuff when she "cleans" the computer, but she **usually** leaves what's in my personal files well enough alone, lmao)

Several of my friends and I are still terribly obsessed with this stupid niche fandom, so nowadays, I fuel my need for ISFD by talking about it with them and making fanart, as well as chilling with the mini ISFD crowd on here :]

It's more than a little bit of a pipe dream, but I would love to keep a piece of ISFD alive with my fan content. ISFD was a big inspiration to my own art journey and really intensified my interest in making comics. I've actually made several short ISFD comics already, and it's been a big dream of mine for a while (pre the nuking of the site) to illustrate some of the old RPs and fics from the heyday of the website. Bring em to life graphic novel style, ya know?

That's part of why it's been so exciting reaching new people here on tumblr. Part of me is hopeful that if I keep plugging away at it, maybe we'll even reach some of the old creators. I really wish I could go back in time and let them know how special their work is to us, but because that's not possible, maybe there'll come a day sometime down the road that they'll get to see how their work continues to inspire and excite us few fans :]

Lmao, I hope they'd get a kick out of their characters basically being the fandoms OCs at this point. ISFD was always such a sandbox type media, and I'm pretty sure the creators of ISFD know that better than anybody.

(I'm nicer to Kepri than they were anyway. 🙄 My man don't deserve none of this )

If you've made it to the end, again, I am so, so sorry for the absolute length of this one. But hopefully this answers some of your generalized questions about the media itself! If you have more questions about character or story specifics, I'd love to ramble about absolutely any or all of it :)

if you have the time could you tell me literally everything you know about isfd?

I found your blog through the one piece posts and now need to learn anything I can about this obscure fandom

An ISFD ask from someone who isn't already lost in the sauce? (<-Self call-out) O glorious day!

Gosh, there's so much, I don't really know where to start. I've been following this micro-fandom for YEARS now, and it's one of those things that just keeps on giving. The amount of lost/missing content and the frickin nuked forum (I'm a survivor, baebee!!) really does sometimes make it feel like the universe is trying to wipe us out, but hey. ISFD fans are basically cockroaches. Killable in theory, but surprisingly hearty in an actual life or death of a fandom scenario.

As for the actual content of ISFD that I engage in, I'm a rare(?) case where I kinda dabble in everything. I can confidently say I'm a member of the ** original ** gen of fans, so I've been around for the noteable eras, and have obsessed over every major character group at one time or another, as well as some niche characters (Cyan and his 2 other fans, rise up 🔥🔥)

I gotta say though, I am currently obsessed with the mafia portion of the universe (and, tbh, by extension, the Marama family. They are to me what the Kardashians are to some)

In particular, Phillip Varic has been my consistent blorbo since last September. It is not an exaggeration to say I've averaged about 40 drawings of him a month since then (my friends and I have counted. I should be on my strange addiction at this point, tbh. Or seeking other professional insight)

Here's some of the doodles in question! I am not terribly good at finishing art of him, I just sketch him loosely and rotate him rapidly in my head

I just think he's so neat. And I think his stupid, codependant, and mildly dysfunctional mafia found-family are so neat. And I think his husband (seraphine) and wife (abram) are so neat. And all his kids, both the legal kids and the ones whom he mostly just pays college tuition for, they're neat to. And the echos of Magnolia throughout his life and the larger narrative, even decades later. That's also very neat (my heart doesn't hurt at all!)

I realize I kinda derailed from answering your original ask because the mafia brainrot is debilitating and chronic, but I'm not entirely sure how I'd go about answering it anyway because there is just. So, so much world and lore to glean from ISFD, and none of it in any easy or direct way. Honestly though? The mafia might not be a bad place to start? If you want, I can tell you as much as I know about the cast and dynamics of the mafia, because I feel like a lot of the mafia character's lore and backgrounds act as a good segway to other noteable aspects of the larger ISFD narratives and the in-world political climate as a whole (Especially Mask and Howard. Not to single those poor souls out, but genuinely. How are they both gonna be so afflicted by the narrative like that)

If you're still interested after I practically talked your ear off, I could totally make a larger post about the whole mafia :3 They're my special blorbos ❤️ I would not feel safe around them IRL, but trapped within the confines of fiction, they're all free for me to babygirlify with almost no consequences

[pani-slunce]

Step right up

I will bring you the finest of all entertainment

I am pleased to be your humblest of servants

Accept my hospitality and indulge in abnormality

Please step right up

We've something here for everyone's enjoyment

I do this as a gift for I have no need of employment

My poetry of insanity approached with a lack of humanity

Come see our girls we have broken girls

If you're willing to be thrilled then this is a hell of a ride

They're hot, they're nuts and like me they're suicidal

Tickets cheap

So cheap it's a crime

And they're half price at 12am on the dot so toss us a dime

To see these lovely freaks of nature for a limited time

Some of them are really quite attractive as you'll see

Some are truly hideous, they can’t all be pretty I’m sure you agree

While others still look quite a lot like you and me

But you mustn't let them fool you there’s a lot of rules

You shouldn't look this one too long in the eye

And that one we are gonna keep walking by

These ain't no ordinary girls but we've a steady supply

Grab your fucking cup of tea, and follow me

Now before we start, has anybody have clever questions for your guide

For a dollar or more go on and ask, we have nothing here to hide

Quiet down

You sir

Man: Insanity's primarily a femininish malady

And no one's doubting that for it's a scientific fact

Then according to the medics, do you all have faultier genetics

Are you ladies born with this disease, or is it something you contract

Eszti: AHA

It all lies with reproductive organs

Which are naturally unstable in a dame

You see from lunar we have lunacy and a lunatic acting loony

And they're always ovulating with my cycle making me gloomy

Man: I have a question

Eszti: Shoot

Man: Has any of your patients ever been released

Would she be sent home if her bizarre behavior were to decrease

Eszti: For the good of our dying society, they aren't to reproduce

They may pretend they have propriety but we'll never let them loose

Some are born mad

Some achieve madness

Some have madness thrusted upon them

This is the real thing my friends, guaranteed, 100 percent authentic, mentally ill

We accept no imitations

For a little extra on the side we can arrange

For a slightly more intimate encounter

wink wink

For a tuppence, yes just a tuppence will land you a handful of pills to feed the inmates

We've got pills for the standard depression, obsession, aggression, possession and indiscretion

There's a damn pill for everything nowadays

Man: How big is a lady's brain

Eszti: It's actually very very small, a simple thought is quite a strain

Man: This seems just a bit inhumane

Eszti: It's just a simple little shock, it doesn't cause her any pain

Think of them more like animals than people

We can’t prove the mentally ill have any souls at all

The only bits that aren't inferior is their bosom and posterior

But these are only useful in a ‘seedy’ music hall

They don't bite

Ok they might

Watch out for which one looks hungry tonight

You can get your picture with a patient

But do be sure she's locked up tight

They're practically wild, sir

Please protect your child, sir

They don't recall the taste of freedom

Honestly they're just happy if we feed them

So point and laugh it isn't bad

They oughtn't mind because they're mad

If you haven't got a dime give me your wives pearls

Ok well

I've got a lot more words to say, but for the life of me I can't make them rhyme

So ladies reading let this be a lesson to you, keep your hair uncut

Your corsets tight, and morals high

Your knitting neat with your fucking yappers shut

This is what comes from over educating

Mentally over stimulating

We have too much serious conversating

And organized religion hating

Sinful over copulating

Marriage without pro creating

Girl on girl caught lesbiating

I was caught many times masturbating

Trauma mind manipulating

Chronically hallucinating

Certainly there's no debating

Some of us are just fascinating

Women's rights facilitating

Independent thought creating

Some girls are complicating

Take your money while you’re waiting

Some feel their flesh is fading

Nothing that can’t be helped with pacing

Corrupted ideal of Satan saving

Some take their kids for a shaking

Staying in the kitchen slaving

Some just need better raising

Being degraded for the ratings

Some just can’t stop complaining

No sense of decision making

My demons feel like escaping

In this mortal plane they invaded

Only to start the undertaking

Of my shattered mind that keeps forsaking

The ones that in their waking will do the erasing