#tourmaline fleury

[rvchelking]

—OCS as OBSCURE ASSOCIATIONS, pt. 2

I was tagged by @perpetuagf in this fun little game. thank you! i thought i would explore my two (recently) new ocs: Samantha Hill (House of Ashes) and Scarlet (Baldur's Gate III) so there we go! I'll tag @stacispratt and @strafethesesinners

ANIMAL: otter. a butterfly. maybe a sand cat.

COLORS: red and white!

MONTH: late september.

SONGS: brave new world by kalandra; sound of war by tommee profitt x fleurie; breath of life by florence and the machine

NUMBER: either 2 or 13

PLANTS: red rose with occasional thorns, tulips and dried herbs

SMELLS: raspberry; the smell of the forest after the rain

GEMSTONE: red obisdian.

TIME OF DAY: sunset.

SEASON: autumn.

PLACES: deep deep forest, desert island, balcony with vines

FOOD: apple pie with cinnamon, red juicy apple, sugar cubes

DRINKS: cherry wine

ELEMENT: water.

ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: libra; virgo; cancer

SEASONINGS: anise and saffron.

SKY: red skies at dusk, dark blue before the storm.

WEATHER: cloudy and misty.

MAGICAL POWER: mindcontrol.

WEAPONS: the magic that runs in her blood.

SOCIAL MEDIA. probably none.

MAKEUP PRODUCT: lipstick.

CANDY: cotton candy.

METHOD OF LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL: teleporting.

ART STYLE: light and space.

FEAR: becoming a mind flayer.

MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE: well, since she's an elf, that would be forest elf! but like, a cunning and quiet one, not a rascal.

PIECE OF STATIONARY: bookmark.

THREE EMOJIS: 🧚🏻‍♀️🎲🌿

CELESTIAL BODY: the moon.

ANIMAL: puma; capra genus (since she's an archaelogoist and she can climb )

COLORS: grey, dark brown, beige

MONTH: either april or november.

SONGS: sacrifice by zella day; phoenix by league of legends ft cailin russo, chrissy costanza; another reason by fifth dawn

NUMBER: 7

PLANTS: vines

SMELLS: old books, the smell of sand, freshly baked bread

GEMSTONE: black tourmaline.

TIME OF DAY: right after midnight.

SEASON: early winter.

PLACES: abandoned buildings, archaelogical sites, egypt and iraq

FOOD: steak and fries, chicken broth

DRINKS: craft beer, earl grey tea

ELEMENT: fire and earth.

ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: scorpio, gemini, virgo

SEASONINGS: chili powder.

SKY: clear blue skies.

WEATHER: the storm.

MAGICAL POWER: speaking dead languages.

WEAPONS: an ice pick :P

SOCIAL MEDIA. instagram or blogspot.

MAKEUP PRODUCT: perfume.

CANDY: sour candy.

METHOD OF LONG DISTANCE TRAVEL: helicopters.

ART STYLE: Egyptian Revival! also does sumerian cuniform count?

FEAR: losing jason kolchek.

MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURE: tbh not to be a hater (I love you Sam), but i'd say demon. but not like, destructive. she'd be extremly smart and tactical. she'd make pacts with others and always win.

PIECE OF STATIONARY: a pen.

THREE EMOJIS: ⛰🌑⛏

CELESTIAL BODY: 50% mars 50% venus.

[jjsanguine]

I have fake names that I use for my siblings whenever I mention is watching a film together or something. It follows the pattern of my handle J sanguine, J + a two syllable adjective that is vaguely associated with a colour.

So I came up with J Aqua, J Verdant and J Florid. For fun I was like what if I translated those names?

In French, it's basically the same:

J Sanguine, J Aqua, J Verdâtre, J Fleurie.

In Chinese, I was really set on the 2 syllables + colour theme so I landed on the theme being 傑 jié (a surname) + gemstones:

傑寶藍 jié bǎolán (sapphire)，傑藍晶 jié lán jīng (blue topaz)，傑翠綠 jié cuìlǜ， (emerald green)，傑碧璽 jié bìxǐ (tourmaline)

(杰宝蓝，杰蓝晶，杰翠绿，杰碧玺 in simplified)

For Yorùbá I am struggling a bit to think of a theme because the dictionaries I have access to are just kind of basic. So I was just looking through the phrasebook in one dictionary and saw that cake was translated as "àkàrà òyìnbó", which literally translates to white people àkàrà.

This amused me enough to write this whole post because àkàrà is this. It's more similar to a funnel cake than the stuff they cut at birthday parties. I suppose it's the most similar Yorùbá food to a cake texturally, but like. The words for bread is just búrẹ́dì so like, why wouldn't you just also loan the word for cake?

[tsarinatorment]

Mightith I inquire about your One Piece OC? Just any information you are willing to share?

I have a few OCs, all belonging in a Marine!Luffy AU I dreamed up a while ago and have yet to write much of at all. I'm not sure which one in particular you're asking about, so I'll give a little bit of an overview on all of them! If there's any more detail you're interested in for any of them, ask away - I'm still developing them so questions are useful :D

Barring Sala (who I've listed last), they're all pirates in the same pirate crew, which is basically the AU verse's replacement for the Strawhats. Some of the canon Strawhats are in the crew (Usopp is the Captain, while Sanji, Chopper and Brook still all end up in the crew, alongside Hachi), but I needed a few more characters to give Usopp a fully-functioning crew! It's not the powerhouse sort of crew the Strawhats are, though...

(All names are given in the Japanese way with family name, where present, listed first)

Howa Akati

Aged 22 years old, Akati is the first mate and the first person to join Usopp at Syrup Island. For the most part, he likes to enjoy life and can usually be seen grinning, but he's also the crew's maturity core and keeps them on-track when they get a little immature. While he's not one for open leadership, he's certainly the type to have ideas and influence on actual leaders.

In combat, he specialises in long-range sniping, much like Usopp, although his preferred weapon is the more traditional rifle. He does also have some pistols for use in closer combat if necessary. While he's not consciously aware of it to begin with, he also has latent observation haki, which was forced out of necessity after he lost the use of his left eye and therefore most of his depth perception and peripheral vision.

Yamishima

At 4'11", Yamishima is the shortest human member of the crew, and is destined to stay that way because he's 19 and fully grown (he has a tendency to pull an Ed from FMA and wear platformed heels to appear slightly taller than he is). He's not a fan of being short, and definitely not a fan of being picked up and carried around for fun by his crewmates (if Akati picks him up one more time...)

Originally a street urchin the crew picked up off the streets in an East Blue island, he primarily focuses on infiltration and thievery. His devil fruit helps with this - the only devil fruit user amongst my OCs, he has the Nagi Nagi no Mi, which is going to give Law all sorts of Feelings when the two of them meet. His primary weapons are knives, which he dual-wields.

(Honestly I just saw the abilities of that fruit and figured there were probably other ways to use it and wanted to play around with that, but I'm also always here for anything that gives Law angsty times)

Pansio Rae

The shipwright of the crew, Rae is also the oldest not-dead member at 25. The crew pick him up at Loguetown, where he barters passage by promising to keep the Going Merry seaworthy until they reach Water 7, which he has an Eternal Pose for. He actually traded away everything he owned except for the clothes on his back and his basic tools for said Eternal Pose, which might not have been the smartest trade in the world, but Rae made it anyway. No-one said Rae necessarily makes rational decisions.

The scar on his left cheek is an example of this - he once antagonised a pirate crew in a pub, and came away with a very raw face courtesy of aggressively rough floorboards. If his twin hadn't saved him, that scar could well have been the least of his worries. That being said, his twin is also a Marine, so after Rae joins a pirate ship family reunions become rather more... interesting. His weapon of choice is a hammer (unlike Sanji, he has no moral hangups about using the tools of his trade as a weapon).

Maikes

Joining the crew in Paradise, shortly after Reverse Mountain, is 22 year old fishman, Maikes. Based on a steelhead salmon, Maikes becomes the crew's much-needed navigator. He idolises Fisher Tiger and the Sun Pirates, but was too young to join them and ended up striking out on his own several years later.

Maikes is also physically disabled; his right arm is mostly paralysed after an accident in his youth and is only capable of the simplest of motions, so while he's still at least as strong a swimmer as the strongest human, he's unable to keep up with his fishmen brethren in the water. Despite, or perhaps because of this, he's a very proud individual and doesn't always think before he speaks, which can result in some needlessly antagonised situations. Fishman karate is also still his combat method of choice, despite being down one arm.

Tourmaline Fleury

The final OC addition to the crew, Fleury is the joint-youngest at 15 years old (although he's still taller than Yamishima!). Mostly quietly-spoken, he has an appreciation for living things that most people his age simply don't have - unfortunately, this is because he's terminally ill and knows he only has a few years left, at most. His family were very reluctant to let him leave home and go exploring, but in the end they were persuaded to let him go. Chopper has made finding a cure for his condition one of his top priorities.

His role on the ship is the helmsman; physical activity can drain him, especially on bad days, and it's not unusual for him to have dizzy spells, but he loves being at the helm of the ship, and it's not usually a taxing responsibility. In terms of combat, Fleury mostly tries to hide and avoid it, but he is a practioneer of kyudo (archery) so as long as he's not too weak to draw his bow he helps with ranged support.

Pansio Sala

The sole non-pirate OC, Sala is Rae's (younger) twin and is currently a Captain in the Marines. Once upon a time he and Rae were close, but after Rae went and joined a pirate crew, their relationship has become very strained on Sala's side of things - he views Rae's current allegiance as a personal betrayal, and can't understand why he did it.

As a Captain, Sala is straight-laced and sticks to the rules as much as possible, although he does care for those under his command and does his best to look after them within the constrains of said rules. Maybe once he would have been willing to stick his neck out a little further, but with his twin now being a known pirate, he's well aware that certain officers higher-up are watching him like a hawk, and he's smart enough to not want to get on Akainu's bad side. His weapon of choice is a hand-and-a-half Carolingian sword, although he isn't a terrible shot with a gun if he has to fight at range.

[laracnalady]

Fleury + Tourmaline

Carnival Row

[vignettestcnemcss-blog]

random starter for @rycroft-philo

Carnival Row had been turned into a fucking holding pen for the Faerish. Not that anyone needed to be told that. Figuring out where people could go and what it meant had not been easy, and Vignette had somehow ended up near the center of that, the training she’d gained from being a Sparrowhawk pushing her to help, and knowing how to settle disputes with unhappy people, though sometimes it did really take punching someone to get them to shut the hell up. Between that, dealing with Afissa finding her in a panic, and hoping Fleury would be alright after getting shot, it felt like she’d not had time to breathe. 

No one really knew why this had happened, but as news spread that the Chancellor had died, and his son, Jonah, was calling the shots, as well as how the man had died (or at least supposedly) it became clear that the Faerish were just waiting to be slaughtered. Good at hiding her rage when dealing with people, Vignette had pushed her thoughts on that aside. She was going to have to find ways for them to get out of the Burge. All that work, and all to be locked up with her wings essentially clipped! 

It was late when she finally returned to the Tatterby, turned into a sort of hub, it seemed. She hadn’t been approached by The Black Raven, but she expected Dahlia to find her at some point. Technically she knew she should go find her boss, but she didn’t have the energy, this was a different thing than taking lots and outrunning leggers. She’d been here before, only never at the heart of a city, never where she didn’t know the way out. The Black Raven might be their only way to survive this, but she didn’t think they’d be doing more than bunkering down and battening the hatches until tomorrow. 

She found Tourmaline’s room quite empty, not really a surprise when taken into account her friend was hurt. She paused to eye the door a moment before sighing and moving towards a corner of the room, deciding that if she was needed, someone would find her. She pulled out a small object wrapped in silver, fingers exhaustedly playing over it as she tucked herself against the wall under a window. Things always seemed to change so quickly, she had hoped there would be some semblance of... peace here in the Burge. Apparently not.

[kajaono]

I really hope we will get an Afissa, Philo, Vignette, Tourmaline team up in season 2. Took me to the second rewatch to notice that Afissa was standing over Fleury’s body in the end, so it would be possible

[tsarinatorment]

Back again for ArtFight 2020!  Team Sugar this year, my username remains TsarinaTorment!  Most of this motley crew are also up on ToyHouse (again, TsarinaTorment there), if you want to grab their refs while the site is down.

I’m more likely to be active later in the month this time because I’m still ploughing through comms, but if you hit me I’ll hit back (almost guaranteed for Spice, less so for Sugar because I do like points...)

[tsarinatorment]

All ready to go for ArtFight 2019!  I’m TsarinaTorment on there (team Nightmare if that’s important to you), and these are my ocs.

I’ll only be active for the first half because rl commitments at the end of the month, but I’ll do my best to revenge attacks in the time I have.  I’ll follow anyone who follows me!