#unprepared casters quinn

[leasdoodles]

Here's some more fanart because I watched the Battle Royale the other day and it made me gayer

[incorrectunpreparedcasters]

Aster: Hey Quinn, can a person breathe inside a washing machine while it’s on? Quinn: … Quinn: Where’s Ace?

[libsreese]

Out of context Quinn Nolastname quotes I love 💙

“I love your friends. They’re so nice. I love conversing with them”.

“I’m so glad you came over, Bixel, and brought all of your great ideas with you”.

“No that’s no… no, that’s my cousin. He’s always doing this. I hate him too”.

“That was F***ing gross”.

“Well we’re not frogs, soooo I think we’re gonna be fine”.

“No but I don’t kill people a lot either, so I think we are all trying new things today”.

“Yeah I think you should eat the protein hay. I think that’ll make you feel better”.

“Are we having a competition?”.

“So we’ve all had shi**y days*

[yarn-dragon]

last chapter! We find Quinn

[whipped-peaches]

Im bored so random UC characters as shit my dnd party has said

Queen Luminessa :"Trans-fishes, robots in disguise"

Sybilla Eirik : "I find that Limb-phobic"

Omen Haxolpenny : "Your royal bitchiness i fucked your mother" (idk i just feel like he would say this)

Bombyx Mori (to Annie) : "Question, Professor Sir"

Quinn [REDACTED] : "My dad taught me how to open a bottle by saying I was weak because I was female"

Beryl Hatebad : "WE. WILL. UNPACK. THIS. LATER."

Serenity sapphire : "Children can murder!"

[uc-fan-polls]

I saved the most difficult poll for last have fun (I wanna bonk my head against the wall this is difficult!!!)

Short disclaimer:

If stuff get rough with the ships, I WILL CANCEL THIS IS YOUR WARNING.

If your ship hasn’t/won’t be in the polls, consider messaging me in my askbox for it OR even better, filling out this google form to have your ship be in the WILDCARD round(s). It’s appreciated! The deadline for these is 2/17 at 11:59 pm EST.

To see the google form:

To see the ships I plan on hosting:

[uc-beepboop]

10 more days till the next episode! How tragic! I lament the lack of UC episode (even tho it’s good for UC in the long run!) how must I cope?

I really like polls…

Ill keep track of these don’t you worry! and feel free to check that out on the excel spreadsheet I’ll make SOON.

In the next 10 days before the next episode (arc 11 episode 6 airing on 2/6) imma run this poll in order for me to get used to the new UC schedule. Each day I’ll have one of these run. I thought of this in a hazy afternoon daze today, so it’ll go for a bit longer, but otherwise I’m going to set up pills that’ll each last like 24 hours and then a final one determining the best of the top of each like 10 of these polls.

^you don’t need to care about number crunching. Simply give me ur opinion haha.

Also like heads up? I definitely got this idea from a lot of famous manga authors/magazines that often host yearly/seasonal polls to pick the top ten of the characters in their series. So I thought I’d do that, but unofficially.

I tried to not have PCs players and arcs clash! It took way more time than I’d like to admit. Enjoy the chaos for the next few days it’ll be me bombing the UC tag with this shit. Thank you.

[igniting-quill]

for the writing meme thing

“This will sound weird, but you’ve got…” Quinn’s eyes darted over to Ace’s cracked skin. “Magic flowing out of the cracks on your arms. It’s like your’re an orbula orb or something.”

Magic always flowed out of Ace. But back during their orbula days, Ace used to bandage the cracks in their skin up every time they occurred. But then their skin became more brittle, and more cracks showed up regardless of what they did.

“Why, I would be cheering with delight if you had told me that during my time with the Winster White Claws.”

She brushed some of her hair behind her shoulder. “Are you taking care of yourself? Is there anything I can do to help? Any way to reverse this? Or…”

“No.”

She bit her lip. “Well, I got your request a few weeks back.”

“Ah yes. How much would that cost?”

“I mean, renting out an entire bar? Harley and I have never done that before. But we agreed on this: drinks will be on the house.”

“Your bar, The House?”

Quinn grinned at the pun. “It’s the least I can do.”

from The World Orbula Cup

This ask is from the writing meme here.

I have so so so much to say about this! To spare people looking at my blog from scrolling forever, I’ve kept this to a Read More. Click to find out what I have to say.

I had this great one shot idea back in 2022 during the World Cup, like the real world event in Qatar and everything. And as we all know, beloved Ace from Unprepared Casters has this thing with really wanting to compete in the equivalent of the World Cup and for it to be their last and final moments before they pass away.

I struggled, and am still struggling haha I promise I haven’t ditched this fic (yet), to describe how to show this incoming death. How Ace would handle telling their friends, or maybe they wouldn’t even do that. Sometimes I look back at ch 2, which is where you quoted this from, and I find some pieces too rough/ not handled for a topic like death. But, sometimes the other part of my inner voice is just like, yeah. Death doesn’t ever have a nice streamlined process. It’s tradition and it’s agony. 

^Don’t quite have the words to describe this. Yet. 

Alright with my kind of “behind the scenes” out of the way, I don’t want to reveal too much because my fic isn’t over (yet!!!! Future Quill hold yourself accountable dammit YES I KNOW YOU’RE IN COLLEGE), let’s talk about the passage itself.

I mentioned the cracks in Ace’s body, because it was a sort of flavor thing that Bri (who plays Ace in canon) added onto her character. For example, they have this crack in their ear from Aster’s attempt at piercing their ear. Russ is also sometimes pretty carefully with the typical contact-filled celebrations sports teams usually share (hugging, chest bumps, etc.). I thought it would be a cool visual to show that Ace is being whittled down physically instead of just disappearing into the unknown. Like, if I was a Dungeon Master of this scene instead of a writer, I’d have Ace run these constitution checks to last longer. Bri had the intention of Ace dying during the awards ceremony during the World Orb Cup (not canon btw! Everything about this is my creation and Bri hoping to have an equivalent of our world’s World Cup in Hyranor), so I thought that by that point Ace would already be kind of in their last moments. 

“This will sound weird, but you’ve got…” Quinn’s eyes darted over to Ace’s cracked skin. 

So, as Ace meets all their friends, they are too nice to bring it up to their face, especially during Arc 4. But I think Quinn’s the most caretaker-y (literally one of two in this party with access to healing spells), and would care about Ace’s physical breaking skin. It’s awkward, and she feels it when she brings up the injuries Ace has.

This magic bit is also a bit of flavor. Like, Ace is made of magic. The idea of cracked skin is kind of morbid, and blood flowing from them is even more so. That’s kind of what the magic is in place of honestly: Ace’s life is slowly being drained away from them.

She brushed some of her hair behind her shoulder. “Are you taking care of yourself? Is there anything I can do to help? Any way to reverse this? Or…”

“No.”

I still kind of worry that this fic sounds too much like a suicide note, and maybe that’s why it’s taking me so long to write the next few chapters because it’s been hard to walk that fine line between. Otherwise, in every scenario, if someone is on the verge of death people keep pushing for you to stay alive. Quinn, as I said earlier, would also try. As I said earlier, out of the good of her heart, she sees this scenario sort of like a sickness to be cured, or something to fight against. She doesn’t see Ace’s close death as inevitable.

Ace’s abrupt response, just a simple “No” is enough to get Quinn to stop. They might have been friends for a short time (not for Ace, but for Quinn), but their friendship ran deep. Like if I actually wanted to revamp chapter 2, I’d add a bit more to Ace’s response. (I’m not going to as of now I want to focus on completion instead of perfection) But Bri played Ace as a very straightforward, sometimes even rude or cruel without meaning to, character. I tried to incorporate the sort of Aetherborn philosophy of not being sad that their lifespans are short, but rather being fearful that they haven’t truly lived while being alive. Ace is pretty fulfilled at this point. (in all honesty, I don’t think they are satisfied, but at least on a surface level with what they could do with their time alive, it was pretty impressive). What’s the point of extending their life a few more days if there’s nothing to do, truly live for, with all those moments alive? 

She bit her lip. “Well, I got your request a few weeks back.”

“Ah yes. How much would that cost?”

“I mean, renting out an entire bar? Harley and I have never done that before. But we agreed on this: drinks will be on the house.”

I researched Aetherbornes a little bit before writing this fic. Before they die, usually they host a party. Since Quinn opens a bar, no proof of this in canon but Grace (who plays Quinn) really likes the idea and has brought it up in the Verbal Component + the Battle Royale livestream. So yeah, I thought it’d be a cute idea if she just opened it up as Ace visits. I had the idea of not-that-interested in orbula Quinn and Aster to be in Tyle, the capital, for less travel distance. The drinks being on the house is kind of a continuation of Quinn feeling horrible. She’s the least ready for Ace to leave I think. (They’re all not ready to be honest, but she’s in this space of some denial about it.)

“Your bar, The House?”

Quinn grinned at the pun. “It’s the least I can do.”

It started to get really sad here, and I felt like Ace would never let it get that dark with their death. Of course they bring up the pun, as Quinn established earlier it was named the House. The reason why it’s called the House is directly from Grace’s idea of Quinn establishing a bar called the House of Aces. I planned the kind of outline for this fic before I realized… hey if she names the bar the House of Aces after her friend Ace, that’s a little weird if they’re still alive. So, you know she’s young and such, so maybe it didn’t used to be called that. Going from a bar called “The House” to “The House of Aces” is not that big of a stretch.

Thanks for letting me info dump this was so fun! I also wrote this all in one go, so apologies for any typos/grammar issues. If you have more questions (both you heather and anyone else reading this), feel free to ask. My inbox is open!

[eraelias]

some unprepared casters art for the tumblr fandom (if I posted some of these already whoops ignore it)

[asofterhyranor]

[bridgetserdocksketches]

love a good propeller hat

[leasdoodles]

She's ready to help her brother kick your ass

[incorrectunpreparedcasters]

Quinn: Wake me up…

Ace: Before you go go!

Russ: When September ends…

Aster: WAKE ME UP INSIDE-

[libsreese]

The sheer amount of sarcasm that seeps from the mouth of Quinn [REDACTED] really resonates with me as a person.

[yarn-dragon]

New fic! Aster comes home to find Quinn missing

[neptune-nereid]

completely forgot I have a tumblr whoopsies… anywho here’s Quinn in a Wanda Maximoff fit!!!