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skriblee-ksk · 5 months ago

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Cynthia Rydell

Summary:

[A girl with an bright and sociable personality who got accepted to both NRC and RSA (she attends the latter). Surprisingly an intelligent and hardworking girl, she spends her days balancing her schoolwork with sneaking out to NRC for occasional chaos (as there’s always chaos in NRC).]

[She has a passion for discovering hidden truths, but has the much-needed sense of self-preservation. All-in-all, she tries her best to make sure her future is on the right tracks since it’s in her hands this time…?]

General Info!

Name: Cynthia Rydell

Birthday: May 27th

Pronouns: She/her

Sexuality: AroAce (romance favorable + non-partnering)

Dominant Hand: Right

Hobbies: Writing, Doodling, Procrastinating as much as possible, Hanging out with friends, Reading Manhwas, and Pestering Adelia.

Likes: Dressing up, Hearing interesting gossip, Solving mysteries, Debating, and Learning about wack laws and rules.

Dislikes: Getting nagged, Being looked down upon (because she does try hard to be a good person), and The concept of fate.

Fears: Being alone and Being forgotten.

Traits: Getting invested into the weirdest things, Having a strong urge to find the truth, Being calculating and nimble enough to escape certain situations, and Having an eye for cute and fun things.

Extra Information: She has a sibling-like close friend who attends NRC. She frequently sneaks out to visit her with help from Che’nya. While she accepted the letter to RSA, she got permission for a gap year as to earn money that the scholarship wouldn’t cover. Her hair is dyed pink. Her natural hair is a beige brown seen in her lashes. Call her pigtails childish and she’ll deck you. Her favorite colors are pink and orange. She like orange flavored things!

"Dividing the planes of reality, I claim one for my own." Spirit Realm Split: Cynthia's unique magic that can place objects in a separate plane that only she can access. It doesn't work like a game inventory system. Instead, the objects float around in her vicinity, invisible and untouchable to others. Number of objects that can be switched to the plane varies with size (10 small objects at most), and it can only stay there for 24 hours, with a cooldown of 1 hour. The bigger and longer the object stays, the more blot accumulates. It's unknown if this power can used on a person, but Cynthia's not against trying if she finds viable candidates.

More of her story and author’s notes under cut!

Backstory:

Cynthia grew up in the Shaftlands with only her mother. Neighbors to a decently wealthy family, Cynthia frequently spent time at their household while her mother went out to work. The neighbors, the Ordelia family, had two daughters. A girl named Adeline (who Cynthia calls Adelia), the younger of the two, was about to become Cynthia’s lifelong friend.

To help her mother and also be able to follow her dreams of entering the law field, Cynthia received Adelia’s help with her studies to try to get into the two most prestigious schools on Sage Island. Through Adelia’s crazily strict yet admittedly useful studying regime, she was able to proudly show off the two acceptance letters, a sign that she had truly worked as hard as she could.

Cynthia spent days mulling over which school she would enter. She even did a mandatory coin toss just in case she still hadn’t decided by the due date. Adelia wouldn’t say a single word on where she would go, but since Cynthia knew of Adelia’s competence, she believed Adelia would be able follow Cynthia, no matter which school she would choose.

Oh, so how tragic the betrayal is~! How traitorous for Adelia to abandon Cynthia and enter her school’s ultimate rival. The pain, the misery—

“Cynthia, stop being dramatic. Just because I could follow you never meant I would have. And didn’t you say being rivals was, quote, ‘actually pretty fun’ last week?”

A silky voice with an certain sharpness arrives from her phone. Cynthia laughs at the vivid annoyance she can imagine on her best friend’s face.

“Alright, fine! Sometimes it’s fun to complain for the sake of it, you know.”

“You’re not doing it for the sake of it, you’re doing it to annoy me—“

“Well, keep me updated on any NRC drama! Such as the one with your Dormleader… which is frankly cu-ray-zee!! A Spelldrive Tournament between our schools is coming up soon, apparently, so maybe we can meet up then. I’ll tell you what I’ve learned about overblots, and then you—“

“Oh my, class is about to start, I’ll talk to you later.”

“Wait, huh? I’m not done talkin—“

*Beeep*

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A/N: It’s my daughter! Cynthia!! She’s actually from an OC story I made with my friend @kathxrat-01 called Your Artificial Image. We have an entire webnovel about it (in progress, we’re rewriting and editing it right now), and it’s what i used to be fixated on before i got into twst. But i missed her SOOOOOO BAD that i just. i just had to add her in. I MISS HER. I MISS HER AND HER TRAGEDY OF A STORY. I WANT TO BE FIXATED ON HER AGAIN UUUEUUEUUE but i like talking ab Kiyuu so idk man.

She’s so beloved to me actually!! I’ve made several edits of her bc i have enough art to edit her to some 4/4 beat music. Tmi, you don’t know what I’m talking about probably. THE POINT IS THAT I LOVE HER. Sometimes I forget that she’s actually smart though because she acts like someone who gets straight Bs and possibly Cs, but she’s a straight A student!! Say thanks to Adelia who taught her studying methods that actually suited her!!!

Her role in twst is. It’s mostly based around as a sort of helper to Adelia, who’s trying to piece together everything wrong with NRC (because justice. Cynthia just wants to know because she likes knowing things). Her best friend in RSA is Che’nya, who she just followed out of RSA for funsies and realized it was a good way to talk to Adelia and actually experience the weird NRC experience. Usually, though, most information comes from phone calls to each other, which they do nearly every day.

Below are some non-YAI spoiler doodles I drew of her. I do have some others but they have Adelia in it, so I can’t drop them just yet. IF U WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT YAI!! General gist is it has imaginary friend-like beings called spirits (what TWST!Cynthia’s unique magic is based on) and isekai/going back in time and it’s ALSO about going back home vs adapting here (like most otome isekais are). We have a tumblr blog called @dek0rin. So go check it out. (We haven’t rlly posted anything yet. BUT WE WILL.)

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tempesttz · 2 months ago

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oh yeah, for the sake of any wanderers that may be concerned about this and want to keep certain info safe i offer you a very long explanation of how pluralkit's privacy system works and how to use it to keep yourself more safe on the internet! - first off and most important, you can check how something looks publicly by adding -pub to the end of your command in almost every situation. this does not work for lists like member lists and i would assume group lists, but most commands (like pk;s, pk;m, or other commands that pull up actual pages where you can see what others can see) support this. if needed, you can have a friend attempt more specific commands to make sure things are properly private, as there isn't a close friends system or anything like simply plural, it's either public or private. use this to test out profiles to make sure none of the more sensitive information can be pulled up by others, if you for some reason feel the need to put it there. - people can pull up your pk;s if they have your pluralkit system id, one of your member ids (which usually will give them your system id), and your discord user id (pk;s [user id here]). additionally, pk;s [ping user here] also works if you're in a server together. please keep all of these in mind! you also cannot private your system id or your member ids on any profiles relevant to them, they will always be present. - there are three categories of privacy: system, members, and groups. they all work somewhat separately from each other.

1. pk;s privacy brings up system privacy options. you can private your system name, your system avatar, description, pronouns, member list, group list, current fronters, and front/switch history. all of these are public by default, and i do recommend tweaking these settings yourself. breaking it up further, - name, avatar, description, and pronouns are all aesthetic options that are pretty self explanatory. you can't private banners however, so please keep this in mind. (i'm not sure why) - member list is the most important thing here. i recommend you private this. this gives people access to see exactly how many members are in your system, and the ability to pull up your pk;l or pk;list. by privating this, you are denying them the ability to see who is in your system, how many, and their ids. that being said, if you proxy in a server with them they can use the question emoji feature or go to the apps options to pull up that member's profile (and gain their id!), the latter of which is completely invisible to you, so please keep this in mind. member profiles cannot be mass-privated, you have to individually change the privacy settings on each one. imo mass privating should be an option and i'm not sure why it isn't. - group list is pretty important if you have any important groups, but if they're all aesthetic or formatted for public viewing it can basically be ignored. note that even if your group list is private, groups will still show up on your public profiles unless you individually private them. no, i'm not sure why this doesn't have a mass privating option either. - current fronters and front/switch history can be grouped together, they're both related to pk's fronting system. if you don't log your fronts on pluralkit, you can ignore these, but if you do, i would consider if you want them to be public or not. current fronters displays who's set as who's currently fronting on pluralkit (i am unsure if this is properly synced with simply plural, i think it depends, but i would not take the risk!) on your pk;s. this can be used publicly and responsibly, but if you don't want to take the risk or just don't feel like anyone needs to know that info, private them. - you cannot private your linked accounts, creation date, system tag, id or color on your pk;s. please keep this in mind! your timezone is also public, whenever you pull up a pk;s profile it gives you the time it was created at the bottom in your timezone, no matter who's profile you may be pulling up. other people can see that, so be wary! they can't find out your timezone by pulling up your profile though, to my knowledge. this can be thwarted on member and group profiles, as you can disable the time it was created through the metadata option.

2. member privacy is also important, and brings up privacy options specific to each member. unfortunately there is no mass privating as i mentioned, you have to do it individually. the command for this is pk;m [name or id] privacy, and it gives you the options of name, description, avatar, birthday, pronouns, proxy tags, meta, and visibility. that being said, you can use pk;config private member [on/off] to set it so that any new member you create's privacy options are all private by default. that being said, pluralkit also removes members with their visibility set to private from your list when you pull up pk;l, so keep this in mind. you can thwart this by adding -all or -a to the end of your pk;l command so it pulls up all hidden members as well. members being hidden from lists also doesn't stop people from pulling up a profile from an id, so keep this in mind as well. it does not hide anything other than your name in the member list.

- name, description, avatar, birthday, and pronouns are all aesthetic functions that are self-explanatory. still can't private banners, for some reason.

- proxy tags privates your proxies, removing them from your profile when someone uses pk;m [your member id], or in other words pulls up your member profile. i usually keep this disabled, but it's up to you as most proxies tend to not involve any specific sensitive information. you can use the shorthand "proxies" for this command instead of writing proxy tags each time. or proxy, apparently. didn't know that, i'm testing out all these commands as i write to make sure the info is accurate.

- metadata is pretty important, and i would keep this private. this includes when the member was created, how many messages that have been sent from the proxy, the last time they fronted, and allegedly their last message, something i just learned about. i assume this refers to the command addition -with-last-message or -wlm, which you add to the end of pk;l (pk;l -wlm) which tells you when the last time a message was sent from each specific proxy.

- visibility i went through at the end of the opening message for member privacy.

3. groups, a privacy setting i personally neglect as i don't use them (other than sometimes to host images for my simplyplural. lol.) groups function similarly to members, where there are no global group privacy options, you have to individually private them all yourself. if you want your groups to be private by default on creation, use the command pk;config private group [on/off]. keep in mind this affects visibility as well, however the same visibility command applies here as it does for members. they work functionally the same. your options are name, description, icon, member list, metadata, and visibility. all of these are pretty subjective to how you're using groups, so use your own discretion to figure out what should be public and what should be private.

- name, description and icon are all aesthetic functions. rinse and repeat previous categories.

- member list dictates if others can use the command pk;g [group] list, from what i know. this will not remove them from your profiles though, that command would be visibility.

- metadata functions quite similarly

- visibility dictates if the groups show up when you query them in pk;g l, and also if they show up on public member profiles, at least from my experiments. the entire groups system is frustrating to me, so use your own discretion here.

4. for some additional advice: - check every member, system or group profile with the pk;[m,s,g] -pub command in order to make sure it displays information you are okay with having public when you are creating them. - don't put sensitive information (like triggers, personal info, etc) anywhere on pluralkit. that's not where it belongs. - if you have a high headcount (me too)... good luck. - using pk;s or any of the different category variations without using -pub at the end will bring up a profile with all of your private information. if you are pulling up your profiles somewhere (for example, a server) remember to add -pub to the end so people only see what you want them to see! - banners have no optimization and i still have no clue why - if you need to for some reason specifically use discord for your logging purposes (god i feel ya), consider creating a private discord server! that's how i do most pk work and keep my private stuff there too - you can use pk dms to work on pk as well! it works the same as if you had pk in a server.

- for other places to put your information, consider notion (app and website, there are a couple plural logging templates on the internet you can use), obsidian (app and website, it's got a learning curve, but it has tons of features), writelighthouse (website, created as a plural logging software, has tons of helpful system-centric features), simply plural (the one and only), or a good old fashioned notebook! - before you post anything on the internet, consider: "could people use this to impact me maliciously?" if the answer is yes, consider not posting it. it's not worth the risk. private conversations between friends are one thing, but public discord servers or tumblr posts are a whole different ball game. you can never truly get that stuff off the internet, it will haunt you forever. be sure to create a path on the internet you're proud of creating. - if you have to question if something should be private or not, nine times out of ten it should be private. - don't post your triggers or talk about your trauma on the internet, especially if you are under the age of 18. - being a more private individual is a good thing. most people nowadays leave giant digital paper trails, and minimizing that is one of the best things you can do for yourself. i'm not saying you can't open up to people, i'm just saying to treat sites like tumblr like a public park or a convention. there are certain things you wouldn't talk about in those places, cause you wouldn't want people you don't know to hear and use that maliciously, and the internet is no different.

that's all for now! i'm only human and thus will make some mistakes and most of this information is subject to change on pluralkit's part, but i hope it helps you pave a safer, more secure pluralkit experience for yourself! if you need any help with anything, feel free to contact me and i will do my best to assist you, though i only check tumblr once a week or so so it might take a while. be sure to check out the pluralkit forums and command lists and the pluralkit official discord server in order to learn more about the bot! learning proficiency in any tool is a good thing, and knowing these little tips and tricks can be really helpful! now if only i could get this kind of motivation to learn about excel or spreadsheet.

*sigh* just a friendly reminder that PluralKit attaches a unique code to your system that allows anyone to look up your system - and if you look up a system on discord using pk;system [code], gives a link to all of their public system data on PKs website, which for some of you includes information on triggers, sexuality, and other things that cyberbullies may misuse.

I have been messing around with the settings as much as possible and I cannot find a way to avoid this beyond privating all alters and all system info, which many users don't do.

Even with information privated, it still seems that PK will link your discord handle with your Pluralkit user if the unique code is plugged in.

Sharing as this seems to me like a breach of privacy at best, and dangerous at worst.

#pluralkit resources #pluralkit #pk help #pk rambles #pk resources #please private things on your pk!#it can only be good for you #i do think that communication on pk's privacy settings should be more readily available #the fact people can use the app without knowing the extent of what is or isnt public is frankly worrying #treat it kind of like a rentry. you wouldnt post your credit card on a rentry #you wouldn't pirate a rentry /ref #actually #maybe you would #i don't know you #you probably shouldn't though #those are the works of individual creators and not the works of corporate figures after all #seriously though please be mindful of what you put out on the internet #once its there its basically impossible to get rid of it #i have my own regrets regarding how flippant i was about internet safety when i was younger #stay safe out there #especially you minors #please #use your noggin

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