#was it romantic when he raped her husband and killed her best friend and children to force her to come to him?

[fukiyadevil]

OK my last thought is that the csa/ rape theme is obvious in nosferatu but the ‘gothic lit’ / monsterfucker people’s preconceived notions don’t allow them to accept it

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My brain fogs usually end with me babbling.

This morning @delicatelygloriousphoenix allowed me to babble to them about a thought I had.

And then... It just kept going.

I’m still tired. Here’s a cut version of that conversation.

I had a thought before bed last night 'cause I'm finishing up the extras to SVSSS.

What if someone was reborn into Mo Dao Zu Shi and had to save everyone?

What if Jiang Cheng was the person they were born into? I can't remember the scene properly from the novel, but right before WWX interrupts the summit meeting on Koi/Carp tower, drinks LWJ's booze and accuses Jin Zixun of his labor camp is when this person becomes the new Jiang Cheng. He himself interrupts WWX's rant that nearly falls into a fight and demands that he/Lotus Pier are allowed to keep the rest of the Wens because they burned the place to the ground and therefore have a right to them to rebuild the place.

The argument is quick, and JC is like "I'm taking them" and drags WWX out in surprise. But he turns to LWJ and is like "You comin'?" so of course LWJ comes when he's actually invited to do so. They run off to the camp. JC tries to hurry to get there before Wen Ning is stabbed. They do get there earlier than in the show/novel, but WN is already stabbed (but not dead).

They drag the Wens and an unconscious WN out of the camp. WWX doesn’t go nuts because WN isn’t dead yet and JC is there to lay down some tsundere harshness in his stead.

They have to stop at a village before they get there where Wen Qing can work on her brother and the Wens can rest. JC buys them all rando threadbare robes so they don't stand out as Wens anymore.

Lan Xichen shows up at some point to see if he can't... not so much help as his position won't allow him to take sides on this, but there to 'check on his brother.’ When he gets there, he’s pushed to the inn room where he sees JC focused at WN’s side. He’s giving him spiritual energy while WQ rests nearby. That's LXC’s first little spark of  "Ah, JC is nicer than he first appears."

The Wens are supposed to be 'laborers' to help rebuild Lotus Pier, but JC's really just wanting to make sure that WWX isn't forced off to Burial Mounds and becomes an icon of hatred like the show/novel. And he doesn't have to remove him from the sect entirely.

However, he tells a distracted WWX that he obviously has ideas with his new powers and gives him leave to seclude himself to practice/create/invent but in a safe environment. Jiang Yanli is happy that her brothers are not alone yet able to pursue their separate interests/areas of need.

LXC suggests Gusu taking the Wens as well as 'laborers' since Cloud Recesses was also burned down by the Wens. In reality, they have more safe space for the Wens, it's harder to ambush the 'labor camp' when it's on a mountain peak.

This is where the ALIVE yet healing Wen Ning and Wen Qing ask the Lans to take care of A-Yuan as they are not in the best situation to take care of a child at their camp. This is where LWJ and the frequently visiting WWX basically adopt him.

I mean, if the Wens aren't in danger, WWX has no reason to go back to the burial mounds so of course he’d come to check up on the Wens a lot. Which just means hanging out with A-Yuan and the bunnies often. If LWJ happens to be there with him all the time... well... who’s to say what that means?!

Meanwhile, JC is trying to handle his sect with only a bit of help from WWX here and there, although Wen Qing shows up a lot, as does LXC as a gesture of goodwill and to help the young new sect leader.

JC enjoys being a leader and the System provided him with knowledge and ability to train his new sect. He used to be a salaryman when he was alive, this is far more exciting and much more stimulating.

JC is pretty oblivious that both WQ and LXC are absently crushing on this confident and warmly grumpy JC. He just thinks they like visiting him to talk sect leader stuff or night hunt or... maybe he even thinks they’re his friends.

BUT JC knows his mission is not done, as the System keeps reminding him.

He needs to make sure Jin Guangyao doesn't marry his sister but he can't break OOC or share his knowledge of knowing that JGY and Qin Su are siblings... so he subtly courts Qin Su instead to basically cock block JGY.

Which surprises all but whatever. JC has changed since becoming sect leader, or so they say (really, JC is a different person entirely but ya know).

JC is okay with it, saying Qin Su is a decent woman and pretty enough. He'd be okay if they'd end up marrying, although he's very aware that JGY might try to murder him for taking the girl he likes but he's got his defenses up.

The courting goes on for awhile and JC keeps blocking JGY’s advances where he can but doesn’t go further with his own.

A few years later, JC hosts a birthday party of four year old Jin Ling, with little Lan Sizhui, Lan Jingyi, Ouyang Zizhen among others... so it's a mini sect leader party, too. All of this without going OOC, he's still a grumpy sect leader but he's less feared (like, in the novel, JC was a friggen murderer! He tortured and killed anyone he thought was using WWX's methods or was his incarnation!). People actually seem to like him!

Late night at the party WWX, JC, LWJ, and LXC were hanging out. They suggest going on a boat together because a lot of lanterns were going to be let off in the lakes for JL’s birthday.

JC 'accidentally' spills tea on LXC's robes so he has to excuse himself to change. The others wait by the boat and JC is like "Oop, I changed my mind. I'm going to do something else" and kicks the boat off with LWJ and WWX in it and walks away. He chills in a pavilion a little bit later, watching the lanterns on the water and a few boats out there when LXC comes back. He doesn't even ask when happened and joins him, watching the boat that their brothers are in. LXC and JC haven't talked about it, but they both low key ship LWJ and WWX so they're of agreement.

This event triggers the Wangxian relationship quest. JC is pretty happy that they don’t have to wait 13-16 years before they get to enjoy each other’s company.

And that's when JC himself starts to admire LXC. Not that he hadn't before, they had become friends of sorts from both rebuilding their sects, passing advice to each other, and generally get to complain to each other as young sect leaders. JC kept distance though, knowing LXC’s sworn brothers are his confidants but now and again LXC even lets on a bit of that drama (realizing how much NMJ and JGY are at odds) when JC mentions "they just gotta fuck and get it out of their system"

But yeah, it's during that conversation that JC is like "LXC is actually really attractive and fun to talk to..." crush style.

Then a new mission starts! JC has to team up with LXC to get JGY and NMJ together. All the while JC is loosely courting Qin Su still. Wen Qing has since moved on with her affections (WQ is fast realizing that everyone is gay and instead goes to make out with Mianmian because yes lesbians!).

So LXC realizes that he likes JC but doesn't think he'd be interested because of Qin Su and Wen Qing.

Meanwhile, JC is like "The author said the only gay couple in this novel was WWX and LWJ but!!!?!?!?!??!?!? everyone is gay!?”

At WWX and LWJ's wedding, LXC and JC spy on JGY and NMJ who end up kissing behind a tree. They're tipsy but success! JC gives LXC a high five which amuses LXC because 'wtf is a high five? that's so cute, what a grumpy dork'

JC outright stops courting Qin Su then, which pisses off her sect, that is in close ties with the Jins, which turn their anger towards the Jiang sect. So JC has to fight with the Jins in a political battle, and his sister is preggers with her third kid so she can't help much.

But it's finally JGY that stands up to his father to stop bulling smaller sects. No hard feelings for stealing Qin Su then dumping her, apparently.

It's about this time when Mo Xuanyu shows up and is like "you're my daddy" Lady Jin already hates her husband's illegitimate children but now she's furious, especially after her friend tells her that Jin Guangshan raped her and Qin Su is ALSO an illegitimate child (another reason JGY decides he doesn’t hate JC for cock blocking him).

All this combined, Jin Guangshan is shamed off his throne. Jin ZiXuan takes up a lead and JGY (now renamed Jin Ziyao as is the proper generational name) decides he's happy with not being an asshole (since he's getting good dickings with his boyfriend NMJ and Lady Jin has finally stopped bullying him) and decides that he'd be content, even happy, being his brother's advisor rather than dethroning him for sect leadership.

But of course there's gotta be drama. Shi Su and Jin Zixun are not the smartest of people but they've teamed up with Xue Yang who has a bit of the Iron. Together, they start to plot against the sects to overrule them, because they're dumb idiots with a semblance of power.

That's about as far as my brain went when I fell asleep and then this morning when the brain fog focused on that instead of on work while I was waking up.

Just something about 13 years later, JC and LXC are pretty close but not lovers yet, when something-something adventure and JC and LXC become a thing in a similar manner that WWX and LWJ did in the novel. RANDOM CONFESSION TIME that other people have to point out to them!

The following is related conversation but I don’t want to put my friend’s part so... it’s disjointed. Sorry not sorry I’m tired.

Continued conversation about wangxian being together:

because JC already knew they'd be together from the show/novel, and LXC shipped them, so they teamed up to get them to confess

That's what I meant when JC forced them onto a romantic boat ride together.

They weren't parted from the Wen fight stuff so instead of fighting at Nightless City, they had time to realize their feelings and not die instead of confess. ;p

Conversation... conversation...

So for so long JC doesn't know he's into guys (LXC in particular, kinda like SQQ in SVSSS) but just like JC in the novel, he gets himself blacklisted from the matchmakers. Meanwhile, this whole time his very close friend, LXC (they're really close now since JGY and NMJ are a couple so he doesn't like to third wheel it and instead spend his time with JC) things that JC is straight and lowkey crushes on him for 13-16 years before WWX and LWJ have to spell it out to them.

but Lan have a-yuan as adopted heir

He'd (JC) probably ask Jinli if one of her kids could be heir

What if Jin Zixun tries to take the sect leader throne or something. He'd be next in line if jin Zixuan didn't die and JGY didn't step up.

[heartscfvalor]

Introducing: Dehari Tabris

Coyote came and spoke to me he says "Get used to your destiny" Every moment is a mystery to me Getting pretty good at listening

Dehari Tabris is the daughter of Adaia and Cyrion, two city elves of an Alienage in Denerim, and their only child. As a youngest, Adaia managed to train her daughter in martial arts and rogue training in order to prepare her for anything that life threw her way, due to the world being so hostile towards elves in general, because Adaia was captured by humans and eventually killed. Cyrion took to raising Dehari to the best of his abilities, alongside extended family with her cousins, Soris and Shianni, the latter of whom had moved in with Cyrion and Dehari after her mother died of a plague when the two girls were extremely small.

Despite her rogue training and her distrust of humans, Dehari lived a rather happy live in the Alienage. Money was scarce, though Cyrion was able to get jobs that allowed him to keep his small family more afloat than the rest, and Dehari tended to work with the children to allow their parents to work too. When she was a teenager, Cyrion started looking for a match for an arranged marriage for his daughter, and Dehari let her head fill with daydreams about her future with a husband who would treat her well and give her the family she dreamed to have.

Cyrion was able to find a match for Dehari named Nelaros, a blacksmith elf from the Alienage in Highever. Described as kind, handsome and good with his hands, he was a wonderful match for Dehari, who was excited for their future wedding day. At nineteen, the wedding day was brought up early one day when Nelaros and Valora, Soris’ match made by the Alienage’s elder, arrived earlier than expected, and Cyrion, having heard that Duncan, the Grey Warden, had come looking for recruits, sped things along in hopes of saving Dehari from Duncan’s recruitment by marrying her off as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, what should have been a happy wedding day -- especially when Dehari saw how absolutely handsome Nelaros was when they finally met, and his general kindness as he promised to do what he could to keep her happy -- turned into a nightmare. The arl’s son, Vaughan, crashed the celebration, first to declare he was looking for “beautiful women” to accompany him back to the palace for a “party” he was throwing, but Shianni crashed a vase into his head in a reckless move to get him to leave, only to make the man return in a rage. He kidnapped Shianni, Valora, and Dehari, including several other elven women, and he had them dragged back to the palace kicking and screaming. One of the women, unfortunately, ends up dead from this encounter, her throat slit when the guards come to force the women to Vaughan’s quarters, before they were taken, leaving Dehari as the last one.

Thankfully, Soris and Nelaros broke into the palace via a servant’s tunnel to try and free the women, giving Dehari a weapon to fight back against the guards. Nelaros died trying to protect her, and Dehari, mourning his loss, took the wedding ring he had intended to give her during their wedding from his pocket, sliding it onto her finger and continuing the bloodbath with Soris at her side to save the other women. When they finally reached Vaughan’s quarters, Shianni had just been raped by Vaughan and his friends, who tried to bribe Dehari into leaving the palace. Undeterred and filled with rage, Dehari instead killed all three of the men, before helping Soris take Shianni and the rest of the women home.

When the city guards came looking for the “murderers” responsible for the blood covering the palace, Dehari took full responsibility, and Duncan conscripted her into the Grey Wardens to save her from arrest. She was given time to say goodbye to her family before she left, swearing to do everything she could possible to destroy this Blight and find a way back home.

Dehari continues to hold onto her more romantic and daydream like personality, whilst juggling the responsibilities as a Grey Warden after Duncan’s death. She tries to see the good in people, though the harsh realities of the Blight and everything around them did not deter her. Her favored romances are with Alistair or Zevran, though it depends on who manages to woo her first.

[aegor-bamfsteel]

Why do people say that Aegor raped Calla when she was a child? Daemon betrothing his oldest daughter to Aegor does not mean the marriage was consummated when she was a child. Sadly, Daemon himself was betrothed as a child. His grandmother Daenaera was married when she was 6 and his grandfather Viserys II was 12 when he wed and 13 when he had his first child, only a year younger than Daemon when he had his. Usually, it is custom to wait to consummate if the bride is a child.

Furthermore, the people who hate the Blackfyres try to frame it as Daemon selling his daughter to be raped, but I doubt that is why he betrothed her to Aegor since he already has Aegor’s unconditional support. Calla and Aegor never had children, per GRRM, so Aegor championed his nephews and nieces, essentially dedicating his life to his brother and his family. Daemon didn’t need to sell his daughter to Aegor for support, so that was not the reason for the betrothal. (2/3)

My point is that GRRM is wildly inconsistent with his child brides (and grooms). He uses Unwin Peake’s nameless daughter dying in childbirth at the age of 12 as a reason for why he is so despicable (and that is despicable). But then has Aemma Arryn consummate her marriage at age 13 and paints her father, grandparents, uncle, and husband as decent people. Daenaera is then married at age 6 but doesn’t consummate until age 15 or 16. It’s due to Aegon’s depression instead of custom. (3/3)

Thank you for the very thorough ask, tiger. I hope that I have successfully responded to all of your questions. Calla, as with all Blackfyres (and many non-Targaryen women), has certainly gotten a raw deal when it comes to page time/character depth; her only mention is in twoiaf: “Whatever the case may be (for Aegor’s anger at the Targaryens and Bl00draven), Aegor Rivers soon began to press Daemon Blackfyre to proclaim for the throne, and all the more so after Daemon agreed to wed his eldest daughter, Calla, to Aegor.” As Yandel doesn’t make any further comments, I assume the people who believe Calla was raped as a child exist in fandom rather than on page. Rape is a very sensitive subject, and I’m trying to keep the fanwank a bit quieter, so my response will be under the cut.

Why do people say Aegor raped Calla as a child? This actually involves several leaps in logic I don’t find convincing, so I’ll try to break it down:

We are first introduced to Aegor in the Dunk and Egg novellas via mention by some Blackfyre supporters, who are the natural antagonists of the Targaryens; the protagonist, Dunk, is best friends with the Targaryen prince Egg. Many of the Blackfyre supporters are minor antagonists to Dunk, especially in The Mystery Knight when they attempt to kill him (Alyn Cockshaw) or kidnap Egg (Tommard Heddle). Meanwhile, Bittersteel is a legendary hero to Blackfyre admirers (such as Osgrey), at least an important hoped-for ally to the Whitewalls conspirators (Gormon Peake needed some quick victories so Aegor would have faith in his and Daemon II’s rebellion), and a threat Bl00draven takes as seriously as the Blackfyre sons themselves. As an important member of a faction which has members that tried to harm the protagonist Dunk, people see Aegor as a villain. 

The problem with seeing him as a villain (as opposed to simply an antagonist, which he undoubtedly is if you consider the Targaryens protagonists of the story) is that, due to lack of page-time and because he’s not that bad, he never actually does anything too villainous. Urging someone to rebel is at the end of the day just words. He took Bl00draven eye out in battle, but that appears to be an accident and doesn’t seem to have slowed him down. Leading the Golden Company to sack Qohor for failing to honor a contract is severe, but its only mention is in a non-canonical app that few people read. When his chief rival Bl00draven is a canonical child-murderer, child-crippler, kinslayer, deserter, head of a secret police organization, tyrannical overlord, etc...Aegor’s “evil deeds” don’t appear to add up to much. He might even seem more sympathetic than Bl00draven! But that cannot be, so fandom has to headcanon villainous behavior for him, because he must be a villain antagonist.

But what sort of villainous behavior should he do? In order to root for Bl00draven against him, it must be something terrible. GRRM often uses rape to signal how terrible a male character is (and how awful Westeros can be). The most evil villains in the main series are serial rapists: Gregor Clegane, Ramsay Bolton, Euron Greyjoy, Craster; even Tywin Lannister, Roose Bolton, and Petyr Baelish have raped or enabled the rape of young women and girls. When the age of the victim is specified, she is often a preteen/young teenager to make her rape even more evil. The lone exception is Joffrey Baratheon, and that is only because he is 12 (he still molests Sansa repeatedly). Fandom rightly criticizes GRRM using sexualized violence against women as shorthand for “irredeemably evil” or window dressing for a dark fantasy. Yet when Aegor, a character who shows no sign of being a sexual predator (look at Shiera’s SSM, the Dunk and Egg books, and Yandel’s commentary on Aegor’s anger at Bl00draven: one-sided Aegor/Shiera has even less evidence of being real than Daemon/Daenerys), needs to commit villainous actions, some in fandom fall into the same trap as GRRM and imagine him raping women.

Then Yandel tells us that Daemon “agreed to wed his eldest daughter Calla” to Aegor shortly before the Rebellion. As Calla was not a triplet of his eldest sons Aegon and Aemon, the oldest she could possibly be was 11, still a child even by later GRRM standards. The phrase “agreed to wed” is at most a promise; it’s not an official betrothal, it’s certainly not an actual wedding, and it’s absolutely not a consummation. If it had been a consummation, that certainly would have been mentioned, as Yandel has repeatedly recorded rumors just for the purpose of making Daemon look bad (the 14 year old newly acknowledged landless natural son petitioned the king for a polygamous marriage with a princess and an Essosi noblewoman? sure...) Considering Daemon died at the end of the Rebellion and Aegor was now a landless, penniless rebel dependent on his goodsister Rohanne’s mercy, and how the Blackfyres needed to find more allies, I think any talks of marrying Calla was silenced. She married someone else, whereas he remained a bachelor for life and championed the cause of Haegon and his son Daemon III (not necessarily the others, as seen with Daemon II and Aenys, and he did not crown any of Daemon III’s brothers). 

Whatever I headcanon, 2018 GRRM’s comment that he doesn’t think Aegor had any offspring pretty much puts the nail in the coffin of Aegor having consummated any wedded relationship, let alone with Calla. If a male character is promiscuous, GRRM raises the possibility of them having sired natural children; with Aerion Brightflame in Lys, and Brandon Stark in the North, and even Tywin Lannister, he says, “I suppose they could’ve sired bastards” (or in Tywin’s case, gives a non-answer). That he gave a straightforward NO regarding Aegor’s potential children indicates that he feels it would be out of character for Aegor to have a sexual relationship, whether in marriage or outside of it. I hope that when people headcanon Aegor as a serial rapist, they take GRRM’s comments and fandom criticism of sexual violence to heart.

My point is that GRRM is wildly inconsistent with the ages of his child brides (and grooms): I would disagree to the point that in his earlier works, underaged girls forced to wed old men was universally portrayed as terrible and a feature of a corrupt character. Hoster regretted his actions toward Lysa on his deathbed, but it led to their estrangement and her susceptibility to Littlefinger’s manipulation; Sansa Stark’s marriage to Tyrion showed the breakdown of societal norms under Lannister rule; Jeyne’s forced marriage and immediate consummation to Ramsay moves Theon to try to rescue her. Although the marriage wasn’t consummated, GRRM found it difficult to write the Tyrion/Sansa scene because of her horrific abuse. But then The World of Ice and Fire and Fire and Blood are published and older man/younger woman marriages and relationships are outright romanticized by the authors themselves (Elio Garcia said 37 year old Daemon Targaryen’s relationship with the 16 year old Nettles was a true romance; GRRM said that 56-year-old Alyn Velaryon was the great love of 21-year-old Elaena Targaryen’s life) Perhaps the lack of PoV in these works distanced the male writers from the female characters’ emotions and allowed them to envision Rhaenys (16)/Corlys (37), Corlys (61)/Marilda (17), Thaddeus (56)/Floris (14), and Aemma (11-13)/Viserys (16-18) as mutually romantic couples with sympathetic men; but then in the same works the authors use forced relationships with young girls to villainize other men Unwin Peake (daughter died in childbirth at age 12) and Aegon II (was receiving a blowjob from a 12 year old when his father died). The double standard seems to imply that a teenage girl can consent to a relationship with a man old enough to be her father/grandfather if she is genuinely in love with him, which is disturbingly close to real-life defenses of statutory rape. I hate the way that the supplemental material has suddenly decided to defend these couples with “the girls wanted it”, and I can only hope this doesn’t start appearing in the main series that people actually care about.

One type of underaged pairing seems to have a consistent portrayal: child grooms don’t seem to be granted the same mutually happy relationship as child brides. Both Viserys (12) and Larra’s (19) and Androw (17) and Rhaena’s (25) marriages ended in tragedy (and death, in the case of the latter). This makes me...unsettled when thinking about how the authors will write Daemon (14)/Rohanne (older). But to stay within the bounds of your question, I don’t think they will depict an Aegor/Calla marriage due to it making little political or characterization-based sense; so fortunately it will neither villainize nor romanticize Aegor. Although an antagonist to the Targaryens, he has consistently took the higher road over Bl00draven and has the potential to be a tragic and multifaceted character.

[chicagocityfclanspromoblog]

Kudzai Rinker→ Gugu Mbatha-Raw → Warlock

→ Basic Information

Age: 1349

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Straight

Powers: Biokinesis

Birthday: Nov 12th

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Religion: Luciferianism

Mark: Rinker

Generation: 1st

→ Her Personality

Kudzai is fierce, mature, and resilient, with an endless capacity for hatred. Kudzai is a strong independent woman who has been hurt countless times. She has been beaten by those she thought loved her, has had her heart stomped on, and made sacrifices for many who were undersevering. This turned her into the closed off, emotionally guarded and secretive person she is today. Kudzai is not easily offended, however, when she is, she hides it well. She will always be straight no matter how long she has known the person she’s addressing. She communicates honestly and openly. It’s because she knows what she wants and she is done with wasting her time. In fact, she’s ready to handle any conflict if it arises. She just won’t let anyone push her around, undermine her or treat her like a doormat.

→ Her Personal Facts

Occupation: General Surgeon/Biokinesis Specialist

Scars: Multiple. Mostly unseen/underneath clothing. (Specifics Are Up To Player)

Tattoos: Kudzai used lasers to remove an old slave tattoo from her arm.

Two Likes: Wine/Beer Tasting and Law TV Shows

Two Dislikes: Children and Halloween

Two Fears: Commitments/Intimate Relationships and Self Injections

Two Hobbies: Continuous Learning and Making/Selling Salves

Three Positive Traits: Persuasive, Responsible, Diligent

Three Negative Traits: Workaholic, Verbose, Hypercritical

→ Her Connections

Parent Names:

Georgina Laclysis (Morther): Kudzia was taken from her mother and sold at a young age. She tried looking for her mother but found no trace of her.

Sibling Names:

Unknown/None

Children Names:

Lee Cyto Rinker Jr (Son): Kudzai’s oldest son who is 1018 years old. Kudzai has a strained relationship with her eldest due to how similar he is to his father. A wild telekinetic, Lee makes foolish decisions and Kudzai thinks it is pure dumb luck he is not 6 feet under like his father.

Cristae Zephyr Rinker (Daughter): Kudzai’s oldest daughter who is 980 years old and the reason why she refuses to train anyone under her mark. She has made many of the same mistakes Kudzai has and is a strong source of frustration for her. They are just too much alike.

Krebs Jay Rinker (Son): Kudzai’s middle son who is 364 years old. He is Kudzai and James Thomas’ son. Kerbs is Kudzai’s least favorite child but she could not bring herself to get rid of him in her womb. Kerbs grew to be like his grandfather.

Hondria Edison Rinker (Daughter): Kudzai’s youngest daughter who is 119 years old. She is a talented Projector and was trained by her father, Minsky. She and her mother often fight about Jamie and she left Chicago for New York to train in her advanced away from her parents.

Jamie Edison Rinker (Son): Kudzai’s youngest son who was 17 when he died. He was Kudzai’s pride and joy, and she thought he had the potential to be the best Rinker yet. Unfortunately he inherited his father’s powers and randomly died in his sleep. Minsky and Kudzai were devastated equally and separated soon after.

Romantic Connections:

Lee Rinker (Ex-Husband): They were married under the stars in her wild teen years. Lee, a warlock, died during a freak training accident with his mentor. Leaving Kudzai behind with their first born son and daughter, Lee Jr and Cristae.

James Thomas (Revenge Lay): James was the only son of the slave owner that beat and raped Kudzai daughter. She stole him away, made him fall in love with her, took his virginity and then killed him. The Thomas family was shamed, neighbors believing that James ran off with a slave girl. Months later Kudzai found out she was carrying his child.

Roman Cleirigh (Unwanted Attraction): Roman is asexual but Kudzai has tried more than once to get the insane Cleirigh into her bed.

Mu’ba (Ex-Boyfriend): He was a strong and handsome man that Kudzai met in passing. Mu’ba found a way to weaken her powers. Causing their fun loving relationship to take a turn for the worst. It took Kudzai over 34 years to break away from the abusive relationship. It took another 135 years for Kudzai to kill Mu’ba, all within his lineage and associates that knew what he was doing to her..

Minsky Edison (Husband/Separated): Kudzai was smitten when Minsky chose to pursue her romantically. She held out because of the notion that Neuromancers die randomly and the dark cloud of her past relationships. However, he eventually won her over and Kudzai finally found true love and settled down. When their son Jamie passed away, nearly 60 years ago, it put a strain on their relationship and they eventually separated. Since then Minsky and Kudzai have been off and on again; they are currently on again and planning to rekindle their marriage for good this time. Kudzai knows Minsky is it for her but needs to heal on her own.

Platonic Connections:

Sid Velanica (Great Something Grandson): Kudzai hated Sid when they first met. It took decades before she saw his talents and was able to detach him from his mark. Sid is clever and has a good heart, despite being descended from her children. Kudzai neither approves or disapproves of Sid’s relationship with Sada.

Cassia Trelawny (Mentee): Kudzai had originally thought Cassia was from her family line. Cassia fought to prove that while she does not know her parents she was not from the Rinker lineage. Kudzai does not know exactly why she accepted Cassia as her mentee. Kudzai saw something in Cassia that she could not put her hands on. They have a strong mentor and mentee relationship but nothing more.

Tristan Lawton (Mentee): In all her years Kudzai has never met someone with such passion for magic and the willing ability to use it but is an absolute disaster at it; Tristan has the drive but he does not have the telent. Her hands are full and tied with him. She is too afraid for mankind and the entire universe to let him train under anyone else. She believes they are slowly making progress.

Sada Warren (Ex-Mentee): Sada and Kudzai have a surprising relationship. Kudzai is certain it started around the same time she lost her son, Jamie. Sada will never replace her boy but she means more to Kudzai then most of her children. Kudzai neither approves or disapproves of Sada’s relationship with Sid.

Ronan Cleirigh (Council Member): Ronan believes Kudzai purposely goes against him on Council decisions. Kuzai is constantly competing with him.

Jace Cicero (Council Member): Jace and Kudzai are both very closed off and relaxed compared to others their age and who are on the local Council. This makes being friends easy. They are both able to leave Council business in the Council Room and continue about their day without taking it out on others.

Rhiannon Draga (Council Member): Rhiannon, Minsky, and Kudzai are all close friends outside of the Council. Rhiannon and her husband, Vladimir would often join Minsky and Kudzai for couples night. Rhiannon was a big comfort when Jamie died and helped Kudzai through her grieving process.  

Kaylor Genesis (Best Friend): Kaylor is one of the other older females in Chicago beside Rhiannon and Kudzai. They have formed an unlikely friendship due to their strikingly different personalities. Kaylor has the ability to bring out the best in Kudzai and Kudzai’s happiest memories are usually shared with Kaylor.

Clarisse ‘Clara’ Fields (Associate): Clara is a part of the Animal Shifter Council. They rarely talk and Kudzai has nothing to say to her besides pleasantries.

Chris Bialar (Associate): Chris is a part of the Animal Shifter Council. They recently started speaking about a possible supernatural schooling system.

Ellis Watts (Associate): Ellis is a part of the Animal Shifter Council. They rarely talk and only share pleasantries. Kudzai knew Ellis’ father and felt the same.

Juliette Willott (Associate): Juliette is a part of the Animal Shifter Council. They rarely talk and Kudzai has no respect or patience in regards to her.

Percy McCormick III (Associate): Percy is a part of the Animal Shifter Council. They rarely talk and Kudzai has nothing to say to him besides pleasantries.

Isaac Baker (Associate): is a part of the Animal Shifter Council. Kudzai has been unsure about Isaac as of lately, especially after he took Deucalion into his pack.

Scorpius Getta (Associate): Getta is the vampire clan master. She finds him annoying and scheming but productive and a better clan master then the previous one. He is easier to work with than the animal shifters but She will never admit it.

Sirius Cobic (Associate): Sirius is the human shifter leader and chief of police. They are the closest out of the clan leaders and council members. She considers him a friend on her good days and they coordinate magical coverups together  

Emmett Wilhelm (Acquaintance): Emmett is the liaison for magical users and they have a basic understanding. She wants him to join the Council as a Wilhelm.

Hostile Connections:

Nick Hamelin (Associate): Nick is a part of the Animal Shifter Council. Kudzai knew Nick back when he was rumored to be the Pied Piper. She heard how much he has grown but she would never let her guard down around him, his brother, his mate or his pack.

Deucalion Thornton (Hate): Kudzai’s hatred for Duke also extends to his twin brother, Aries. They both were menace to the warlock society. Duke has recently tried to break a curse that could have exposed the entire supernatural community.

Pets:

None

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[peculiarwem]

Asexual Fairy Tales

By Elizabeth Hopkinson Illistrated by Anna Hopkinson

So I have a lot of feelings about this book. Most of them not positive so I'm going to say that I gave it a 1/5 stars because it's problems are worse than it's good parts. The reason I say that now is because this review will contain spoilers but also will cover some triggering topics. I'm sorry, I don't know how to do read more posts on mobile I will try and edit it on a computer tomorrow.

Let's start out with my only positives.

There's two original stories in this book, and I liked them both more than the other stories. They're still not the best but they were better.

Those were: The Ice Queen and the Mer-King and The Ivory Maid.

My favorite story was The Lost Children of Lorenwald which was the last story. It was sweet and adventurous. The character of the Story singer was my favorite and it was just nice.

Now my problems.

Let's start with Pygmalion and Galatea

This is a retelling of a classic Greek myth. Pygmalion doesn't enjoy the company of people and so he creates the perfect companion out of marble, one of the gods sees this and makes his companion human and so Pygmalion loses interest in her. Typically people see this as problematic as it is portrayed as if Pygmalion only wanted a doll and when he got a person who talked and had opinions his 'perfect companion' was ruined. Hopkinson rewrites this as Pygmalion not liking the carnal desires of Cyprus and so asks Venus to help him find his perfect companion and he does in a marble statue who comes to life. They become friends and live happily ever after. My main problem with this is that it completely disregards the original myth. It's not the worst problem, but saying that Pygmalion made a companion because he was Ace and not because he was a shitty person kinda sucks.

The Ice Queen and the Mer-King and The Man Without Desire

While I did enjoy TIQATMK story more than others, both of these stories feature characters (however vague it is portrayed) being assaulted and abused by their partners. It's a negative of the story but I don't want sexual assault in my Ace book. Duh.

This is a criticism of a couple of the stories but it's best displayed in The Half Marble Prince. The half marble prince is a character who is married to a woman who he can't have sex with. This causes the woman to go out and cheat on her husband, drugging him so that he doesn't awake to find her cheating. When the prince finds out, he's furious that his wife - who belongs to him - is cheating and harms the wife's lover. She's the Villain. He's the damsel. While I believe the wife's character to be problematic I believe that the prince's is just as problematic, but he gets the reward in the end and the wife is killed. Sus.

As a side note, some of these stories are not romantic which is nice but of the ones that are the relationships portrayed are all m/f relationships. Asexuality is not something that is inherently straight passing and while I do understand that most of these are portrayals of already existing myths, there are stories written here that are original and there are 12 stories, none of which are any other form of queer. Again, sus.

My final problem with this story is with the story of Zellandibe and Troyus.

This story is the sleeping beauty story and if you know how fucked the sleeping beauty story can get well... You know why I don't like this but to summerize, Zellandibe falls asleep and Troyus, in order to wake her, is told by the goddess venus that he needs to get her pregnant. So he does. This is portrayed by the girl wanting this by the goddess but never does Zellandibe in any form give her explicit consent. She does get pregnant and have a kid and the kid sucks a splinter out of her finger and so she wakes. The biggest problem I have with this, aside from the blatant rape apology, is that the story is prefaced with 'For asexuals, reconciling a desire for parenthood with a lack of desire - or even repulsion - for the sexual act can be a difficult stuggle' Adopt. If you don't want to have sex. Adopt. So many kids need homes and the protrayal of Zellandibe having to be in a coma so her partner can get her pregnant is gross. I know it's set before science but it really is as simple as just not telling that story. It was gross and uncomfortable.

[reconditarmonia]

Dear Rule 63 Author

(It’s finally happening! Thank you so much for signing up!)

I’m reconditarmonia here and on AO3 (and have been since LJ days, but my LJ is locked down and I only have a DW to see locked things). I have anon messaging off, but, er, I can answer any questions you might have about my requests in my mod capacity if you contact the exchange email ;)

Fullmetal Alchemist | History Boys | Pride and Prejudice | Robin Hood | Spinning Silver

General likes:

– Relationships that aren’t built on romance or attraction. They can be romantic or sexual as well, but my favorite ships are all ones where it would still be interesting or compelling if the romantic component never materialized.

– Loyalty kink! Trust, affectionate or loving use of titles, gestures of loyalty, replacing one's situational or ethical judgment with someone else's, risking oneself (physically or otherwise) for someone else, not doing so on their orders. Can be commander-subordinate or comrades-in-arms.

– Heists, or other stories where there’s a lot of planning and then we see how the plan goes.

– Femslash, complicated or intense relationships between women, and female-centric gen. Women doing “male” stuff (possibly while crossdressing).

– Stories whose emotional climax or resolution isn’t the sex scene, if there is one.

– Uniforms/costumes/clothing.

– Stories, history, and performance. What gets told and how, what doesn’t get told or written down, behavior in a society where everyone’s consuming media and aware of its tropes, how people create their personas and script their own lines.

General DNW: rape/dubcon, torture, other creative gore; unrequested AUs, including “same setting, different rules” AUs such as soulmates/soulbonds; PWP; food sex; embarrassment; focus on pregnancy; Christmas/Christian themes; focus on unrequested canon or non-canon ships.

A note: I'm generally fine with "/" ships where the fic doesn't contain a kiss, overt declaration of love, etc. I'll trust that you wrote it with shippy intent and don't expect you to force in something that wouldn't fit the story.

About Rule 63 Exchange specifically: I have no strong preference for character names, with a slight preference for sticking with their canon names; it's up to you whether you want to justify any resulting names that would be unusual for women or just gloss over it. As far as characters' personalities and gender expression are concerned, you can tell from my requests that part of what interests me in most of the characters I requested is the question of what they and/or their relationships would be like in a world where they grew up as women, but I tend to want to see them as similar to their canon selves, just female. I'm probably fine with unrequested characters also being swapped to female, but feel free to check if you're not sure; please don't swap any female characters to male.

For this exchange, I've requested only fanfiction and only Always a 63, and with the exception of FMA, have requested non-smut (for FMA both smut and non-smut are good).

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Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist

Ship(s): F!Roy Mustang/Riza Hawkeye, F!Roy Mustang/F!Maes Hughes, F!Roy Mustang & Riza Hawkeye & F!Maes Hughes, F!Roy Mustang & F!Maes Hughes

I only recently started watching FMA:Brotherhood and I love it a lot. My fannish interests run towards military contexts, loyalty kink, idealistic/noble characters, and ambitious/pragmatic characters, so I'd love to read more about any of these combinations of people trusting one another to be the best person to do the job, or to know what to do, and risking a lot on that - whether that's on campaign in the war, when trying to get Roy up the chain of command, during the conflict with the homunculi... (I'm not yet up to the bit where Roy tells Riza he trusts her to shoot him in the back if he steps off the path, but it's been mentioned to me and it is my JAM.)

(My requests are fairly unspecific because as I write this I'm only about a quarter of the way through the anime. DO NOT worry about avoiding spoilers in the fic; I'm getting through the canon and can't wait to read whatever you want to write. Although I should specifically say, feel free to either have Hughes continue to be alive or stick to canon in this regard.)

Smut Likes: clothing, sexual tension, breasts, oral sex, grinding, informal d/s elements, intensity

Fandom-Specific DNW: please avoid canon-typical loss of body parts. If writing Roy/Maes in a period when Maes would canonically be married to Gracia, please don’t kill her off or get into either infidelity angst or poly negotiation; an AU where they never married or the assumption of an open relationship are both fine.

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Fandom: History Boys

Ship(s): F!Stuart Dakin/F!Tom Irwin, F!Entire Class & F!Tom Irwin, F!Entire Class & F!Douglas Hector

I'm dying to know what the cultural touchstones would be if this plot were about lesbians instead of gay men. Auden, for instance, keeps coming up in the play - Hector loves him, Dakin and the other students bring him up to feel out Irwin - Housman, Bette Davis in Now Voyager...so what's acceptable and/or eccentric Culture for lesbians to cling to, or to signal (or flirt, or come-on) with? Who are the writers and the icons? During canon(/pre-, if applicable with Hector) or post-canon Oxbridge-slash-TV-historian life, it's all great. I, like most of the fandom, do like the idea that Dakin and Irwin do make it work at some point, post-canon.

Although I acknowledge that female versions of these characters feeling shut out of the historical and literary Canon is a valid place to go with the concept (I mean, that's Mrs. Lintott's speech), I'm more interested in following through on the way that the canon (little-c) characters relate historical or literary figures and events to their own lives - whether that's using more female figures, or finding things to seize on and relate to in the male figures of the Canon (in a fuck-you women-are-like-this-too way or a gay way rather than a Great-Men-are-universally-relatable way, I suppose).

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Fandom: Pride and Prejudice

Ship(s): Elizabeth Bennet/F!Fitzwilliam Darcy, Jane Bennet/F!Charles Bingley

I would love to see how the basic narrative of P&P, or scenes from it, could play out, with period setting and some level of period attitudes, if either (or both) of the two main men are women looking for a "companion" or being pursued as a "companion," rather than as a husband. (Yes, I've been watching Gentleman Jack, but I've wanted this sort of thing for longer than that.)

To be clear, period attitudes can be "meh" rather than wall-to-wall homophobia; I'd just prefer to explore the implications of this change rather than supposing that same-sex marriage is accepted and everything about the plot is the same. If Jane, the eldest daughter to marry off, isn't interested in a heterosexual marriage? If Elizabeth turns down Collins without any expectation that a more suitable man could exist? (Having characters be bi rather than lesbian works too, I'm just throwing out some examples.) The significance of dancing, when in a formal dance context you'd encounter another woman in the dance but wouldn't be able to have her as a partner? Jane and Bingley being adorable, or Elizabeth and Darcy coming to revise their initial ill opinions of each other in this new context? Are the men a hot ticket for the women of Hertfordshire in the same way if they're women instead?

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Fandom: Robin Hood (Traditional)

Ship(s): F!Robin Hood/F!Little John, F!Robin Hood & F!Merry Men, F!Robin Hood & Merry Men, F!Robin Hood & F!Little John, F!Robin Hood & Little John

Tell me about these people! A female outlaw commanding the loyalty of a mixed or male group -- or an all-female group of outlaws, how they live, what might have led them to choose that life. I'm also here for Robin Hood's relationship with her right-hand man/woman specifically, because I love loyalty kink -- people willing to go into danger for one another, the leader knowing how best to use her right hand's skills and strengths, what elements of formality might appear in, well, a very ad-hoc group. (And f!Little John would probably be hot.) If you're writing the Little John pairings, feel free to make the Merry Men either their canon versions or female versions.

I'd totally be into any of the f!characters crossdressing as men vis-à-vis the world at large, although if you go this route I'd rather have them not be in disguise to each other/to their own allies (so no Merry Men thinking they're being led by another man when it's crossdressing Robin, for instance - preferring masculine clothing/appearance even among friends is fine, though).

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Fandom: Spinning Silver

Ship(s): F!Staryk Lord/Miryem Mandelstam

I love Miryem, and I'm so interested in the ways that making the Staryk Lord a woman would change Miryem's entry into the Staryk world and the romance that eventually develops between them. Maybe same-sex marriage is common among the Staryk, and that's one of the customs that are new and unfamiliar to Miryem in this new world. Would this be a Miryem who had never imagined being attracted to a woman before but comes to fall for the Staryk Lady, or one who simply couldn't have imagined being able to marry one and have that be a normal life? (For values of "normal" that include ice lands and gold magic!) How does the fact of the marriage being same-sex affect Miryem's initial understanding of it as a business arrangement, or for that matter, affect her understanding of the offer of queenship as a marriage at all? What makes them fall for each other?

Canon Miryem wonders what her role as queen is, thinking that she'd know about managing a household and having children and sewing if she were married to a human lord - is it the same if she has a fairy wife instead of a fairy husband, more so because there's not even the hope of a gendered complementarian aspect to fall back on, less so because the Staryk Lady is there as an example of what a female monarch in the Staryk lands does? Does Miryem try to be more like her, or to find her own accounting-powers-and-personal-bonds niche?

It's so important to canon Miryem to have a Jewish wedding with the Staryk Lord - what would that look like here? What happens when she comes back to the human world not only the queen of a magic country, but married to a woman (and in love with her, depending on when you set it)?

[shctteredillusions]

Personal Information:

NAME: Shiori (Akiyama, Nishimora, now Minori, and eventually Vindicta) NICKNAME[S]: Shi, Kiddo ALIAS: The Violent Whirlwind DATE OF BIRTH: December 11th 1951 AGE: 67 GENDER: Female (She / Her) SPECIES:  Changed Vampire SPOKEN LANGUAGES: Japanese, English, French, and Spanish SEXUAL PREFERENCE: Demisexual / romantic RELATIONSHIP STATUS: It’s complicated but taken

General Information:

HAIR COLOR: Black EYE COLOR: Dark brown HEIGHT:  5′5 TATTOOS: None CHILDREN:  Rikiya Vindicta (future son) LIKE[S]:   Coffee, her boyfriend Ren, pranks, teasing, throwing things, reading, music, poetry, cooking, more to be added DISLIKE[S]:   Vampires, betrayers, cheaters, liars, filth, most men and women who aren’t in her close circle of friends, people who dare to stare at Ren and more. SIBLING[S]:

PARENTS:

Misc. Information:

FACECLAIM: Sakurako Kujou VOICECLAIM: Eleana Coates she begins about one minute in IRLCLAIM: Erica Nagashima

Bio: (Under cut for triggers and length)

Shiori lived a hard life from the day she was born into the powerfully wealthy Akiyama family. The expectations placed on her were far greater than that of her older brothers who could never seem do any wrong. She was expected to be the perfect little girl, to do exactly as told when she was told. To not speak unless spoken to, to be on her best behavior and to never forget her manners or her place among the family. If ever she didn’t live up to these expectations the punishment was severe and she never did manage to be good enough for them.

At the age of 8, her father for the first time in her life took her on a business trip with him. She was excited, it was always her brothers getting to go and for once she thought she had finally done something right and was finally good enough to gain her fathers love and attention. She had no clue just what was in store for her. The business meeting was about her, her father had begun to “loan” her out to those who paid handsomely to do whatever they wished with her so long as no permanent damage was sustained and no one took the only thing she had of value to her family. Her virginity. To them, so long as her innocence remained, once she became of age she’d be even more valuable and sold off to marry whoever the highest bidder was.

This continued for years, the amount physical, mental and emotional abuse she endured was immense, the things they did to her and forced her to do is something she’d never be able to forget. Even to this day she still has nightmares and a multitude of issues that stem from it. But it didn’t stop there. At the age of 14, one of the clients that she had been sent to got out of control. He broke the one rule and stole that innocence from her and even almost killed her by suffocation. She managed to escape and was taken to the hospital by an officer who had found her in her beaten, bloodied and bruised state. The officer had been so kind and gentle that he had become her first love/crush.

Right after, her parents showed up and she was threatened into silence about what had happened between her and her rapist, a story concocted that she had been taken from their home by him. They used this affection she held for the cop against her, threatening to have him “disappear” just as one of her nannies had when she had tried to take her away from her horrible parents. Shiori, not wanting the only person who was ever truly nice to her to get hurt, she went along with everything her parents had said and the man was arrested for rape and attempted murder charges and soon after was given the death penalty.

Though her father was still angered by what happened, he was happy that the man’s sons who had taken over the company felt bad and kept the relations between them strong but that still didn’t stop the punishment that came her way once she left the hospital. Two years later, thankfully her father hadn’t “loaned” her out any further though he claimed there was no point when she was worthless now without her innocence, she was taken with him once more to yet another business meeting. 

Frightened 16-year-old Shiori didn’t know what to expect, worried that he was starting it all over again biting at the back of her head she still did exactly as told, being the good little girl she was expected to be. It was during this meeting she met a man named Kaito Nishimora and his family. Two years after that, for the exchange of a strong business relationship and a deal of turning her two older brothers into vampires, she was married into the Pureblood family and turned by her husband himself.

It was a long and hard road from there, their marriage life was awful, at this point the only thing Shiori wanted was for a swift and painless death but every method she tried didn’t work. She either healed too quickly or the ones who were capable wouldn’t do it. At some point, her husband cheated on her and the following weeks were the hardest yet before finally they came to an agreement to separate but keep it hidden from the clans. They’d keep their home together, wear the rings and appear still married were they both summoned to the main house but otherwise, they were free to do as they wished so long as they were careful. Shiori began to travel, going all over the world but one of her favorites was always America. 

One visit, she ran into the man she now knows as Ren. Shiori and he formed an intriguing sort of friendship built on sass, pranks, competitions. Slowly but surely, feelings formed between the two of them though neither were so willing to come open about it. When Ren pieces together that she liked him, he confessed he felt the same but they agreed to remain just friends for neither of them wanted to risk putting Solomon (a father figure she met through Ren) in danger. Months go by and the tension continued to grow until it eventually came out why they weren’t together and with some convincing, Shiori gave in and they began dating. They were happy, extremely so and eventually fell in love but they weren’t careful enough.

The clans found out and Ren, Solomon, and everyone else who knew about Shiori had their memories erased. Her husband Kaito died during her retrieval and the clan leader decided it was best to erase her memories as well, to turn her into the perfect little housewife and marry her to his own nephew to watch over her. But for Ren’s best friend Samir, the memory wipe didn’t quite work and eventually with his own memories fixed, he helped Ren get some of his back before they flew off to Japan to save her, taking her ex-sister in law Asame with them in the process.

[kyratihuntress]

Cr: @fossaed

- the loan has been given; this person's posts will be attached with credit. -

[ Aysla Abhaadur ]

•Aysla studied medicine, human psychology, biology, chemistry.

•She although she is well-mannered, she can give it to the face:)))

•As a child, almost raped by her own father.

•In one of her assignments, she was a cook at Pagan Min's palace.

•She left for America to study and live at the age of 18, because when she was 6 she went to school and in America she went to college.

𝓕𝓐𝓜𝓘𝓛𝓨.

{𝐅𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄���}

Name: Amad Abhaadur.

DOB: 5 May 1964.

Age: 53.

Nationality: Kyrati.

Temporary location? : Singapore.

Profession: Tea factory worker.

Status: Alive.

Children(s): Irene Abhaadur, Aysla Abhaadur.

Ex-wife: Avani Abhaadur.

{𝐌𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑}

Name: Avani Abhaadur.

DOB: 9 February 1966.

Age: 47.

Nationality: Kyrati.

Profession: Seamstress.

Status: Alive.

Children: Irene Abhaadur, Aysla Abhaadur.

Ex-husband: Amad Abhaadur.

{𝐒𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑}

Name: Irene(Irenikaya) Abhaadur.

DOB: 3 February 1989.

Age: 26.

Nationality: Kyrati.

Profession: School teacher.

Status: Alive.

Parents: Amad Abhaadur, Avani Abhaadur.

Sister: Aysla Abhaadur.

Nephew: Lakshman Wang.

{𝐒𝐎𝐍}

Name: Lakshman Wang.

DOB: 27 January 2013.

Age: 7.(presently).

Nationality: Kyrati.

Eye: Brown.

Status: Alive.

Parents: Ayshla Abhaadur & Ren Rai.

Aunt: Irene Abhaadur.

Sisters/brothers: No.

{𝐁𝐎𝐘𝐅𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐃}

Name: George Wang.

DOB: 15 December 1987.

Ex-girlfriend: Gerpa Abhader.

New girlfriend: Aysla Abhaadur.

Age: 29 (at the time of death).

Profession: Cargo supplier.

Kid(s): Lakshman Wang; no more.

Parents: Both are dead.

Older sister: Yuanida Wang (37).

Cause of death: Arteliria.

Parents Aisley and Irene met when he was 18 and she was 12,Avani was a seamstress and her husband was a worker in a tea factory. They got married at such an early age (such is the custom); at the age of 19 Avani became pregnant and gave birth to her first daughter, at the age of 23 gave birth to her youngest daughter named Irene (this happened two days after the death of the daughter of Pagan and Ishwari).At first everything was fine, but after a while Amad changed completely and decided to join Pagan Min's army.Avani found out and decided to kill him, but did not do it for the sake of her daughters, she just divorced her husband.

In 2012 Amad leaves Kyrat leaving for another country, leaving his ex-wife with two daughters.When Avani's eldest daughter grew up, Avani herself fell ill with a serious heart disease, but the youngest daughter cured her.In 2010, Aysla met her boyfriend (they did not marry); in the summer of 2014, her boyfriend died under arterial disease then his son was a year.

Avani was Ishwari Ghale's best friend; Avani did not have any romantic sympathy for Pagan, he was very disgusted with her.When Ishwari left the country, Pagan came to Avani's house and wanted to kill her, but Aysla saved her ( that's when Aysla began to hate him.)

Amad hated Mohan and dreamed of killing him, thereby taking his place.Aisla is no less dangerous opponent, but she can "lead" the enemy in stoas.

[silkygoldmilkweed]

Wine, Inhibitions, drunky Lannisters, Sansa Stark and the Hound

So. I continue to convince myself firmly that alcohol, particularly red wine, is crucial to understanding WTF is the deal with Sansa and Sandor in King’s Landing.

I’ll go over some details herein, but suffice it to say, I think that one or, “worse,” both of them being wine-drunk does what it does with all horny drunk kids everywhere throughout history: disinhibits behavior. (I believe that Sansa’s “outreach” is also amplified by fear and in her dreams when she’s unconscious--unconscious is really Bran is showing us when his eyes go white--but let’s focus on wine herein.) In the specific circumstance of Sansa and Sandor in King’s Landing, with the added aspect of Sansa’s First Men blood and her constantly agitated fight-or-flight response and both of their drinking (him heavily and her infrequently but enough to have an effect), her ad hoc skinchanger connection to the Hound, Sandor Clegane, is strongly amplified.

Very very few skinchangers can do humans, and from what we know it takes tremendous natural talent or great practice or both. Sansa must have some of the first, because she has none of the second. I think the reason Sandor’s consciousness doesn’t outright reject her or go instantly mad or just die, is because (a) he wants/likes/loves her duh (b) his consciousness is that of a fully formed powerful adult male, whereas hers is a confused but also ultimately very good, very kind and very gentle young girl. His consciousness doesn’t perceive it as an attack, as such. I imagine that your mental-emotional soul in this world might be not unlike an immune system: it’s highly evolved to distinguish between like and unlike, friend and stranger. For whatever reason, presumably that the big Hound has unwholesome feelings for the pretty little dire wolf, Sandor’s consciousness does not attack Sansa’s as an invading pathogen, but rather allows her to colonize his mind rather elaborately. She’s a virus, but the genetic material she’s transmitting into his cells is a beneficial mutation. And I suspect that it might be a two-way exchange, but TBD.

ANYWAY WINE:

“Is Joffrey going to kill Sansa’s brother?” “He might.” 

In ep 2x03 “What Is Dead Can Never Die,” Sansa drinks her way through dinner with Cersei and the kids because it’s all lies and next-level imprisonment and abuse etc. She’s wearing a blue dress with a dragonfly necklace.

Awful deleted #SanSan scene? Same dress. She’s crying, just as she should be after Cersei said Joff was going to kill Robb and Sansa would “do her duty.”

She was just thinking about how she’s going to have to fuck Joff. And well, well, well, look who manifests in her hallway: the Hound, and his number one concern? How Joffrey “will be having you soon” and just for good measure, this is where they were going to emphasize that he’s a dog (DOGS ARE THE EASIEST ANIMALS TO WARG, GUYS) and the reason he calls her Little Bird is...because she’s trapped in a cage? IDK IDK they didn’t do so good with the name explanation, but whatever, we know it’s, above all, because he loves her and because she’s his bird.

SUFFICE IT TO SAY, I think he shows up here with the particular concern about Joff’s forthcoming rape of Sansa, because she was drunk and he probably was too, and everything she was afraid of when drunk went straight into his mind. 

The barrier is thin between them to start with, but when she’s drunk she doesn’t withhold and she sends him everything she is feeling. He probably drinks extra when she’s “transmitting” to him, just to try to get the extra voice out of his head. I mean, that sounds like a reasonable plan for self-medication if you ask me.

Their next three interactions are all mostly sober (throne room cloaking, bread riots, “dog doesn’t need courage to chase off rats,”) but I will repeat that the music that plays during the rape rescue sequence in the tunnel is the same music that plays in season one when unconscious Bran is attacked by the cutthroat and Summer appears from nowhere to kill him and save Cat. I think, yes, the Hound’s a basically good guy who cares about her wants to save her, but also she’s screaming in fear in his head and he knows exactly what’s happening and saving her is going to help him as much as her because if he doesn’t stop it, he’ll experience all of her suffering in his head anyway.

“Well done, Clegane.” “I didn’t do it for you.”

And then after that, she dreams of the Bread Riot attack the night before she gets her first period, and lo and behold, who shows up? Sandor Clegane, who is either there on behalf of Cersei, or was summoned to Sansa’s chamber by the overwhelming feeling that she was mortal peril, because when she’s unconscious she can’t even begin to control broadcasting her fears and he has the only satellite receiver tuned to the Sansa Channel.

Which brings us to “Blackwater,” and Cersei’s drunk ass pouring cup after cup after cup of red wine for Sansa, who has no tolerance for alcohol whatsoever, while scaring the shit out of her about the outcome of the war, rape generally and the horrifying truth about her forthcoming marriage to Joffrey in particular.

Sandor begins the night of the battle already sauced. “Oh, there’s women in the ground. Put some there myself.” I’ve never understood this scene and it’s always bothered me as “off” in some way that I can’t put my finger on, but one interpretation is that they are illustrating the transition between Sandor early in the battle, who gives zero fucks about anyone, women and children included, to Sandor after a long of night of fire, drinking, killing, and above all, feeling a little girl’s fears about everything, transitioning to being like “Hey you wanna get out of here? We could go somewhere quiet, maybe have a coffee or something?”

Look, enter “the King,” a cunt who names his sword, and the Warrior personified, who ends the night covered in blood because he’s single-handedly fighting Joff’s war for him. Sansa knows what’s up. 

ANYWAY, this whole scene is a riot. We see Joff for the sniveling empty talker that he is, and Sansa is at her very sassiest. She’s starts out pretty strong and so does Sandor. 

But anyway, I think the whole point of this scene in the throne room and the Hound’s presence therein is so we compare the Hound and Joffrey side-by-side, again. Because why? Because it’s love triangle ripped right out of the pages of the most romantic/tragic love story in Westerosi history: the legend of Queen Naerys, her horrible brother-husband King Aegon the Unworthy and her other brother, the great and honorable and self-sacrificing Aemon the Dragonknight. See also Gwenivere, Arthur and Lancelot, but eh. 

“Your king rides forth to battle.” LOL. I bet Sandor was dying inside.

DRINK 1 feat. SER ILYN, who executed Ned Stark and has frightened Sansa from the first. What’s he doing here? “He’s here to defend us...guards we pay. Should the city fall, they’ll be the first ones out of the doors.” Sansa’s internally monologue would be: Gosh I sure which I had someone on my side who’s even stronger than Ser Ilyn and would fight for me without being paid. Or maybe it would be I wonder if paid guard Sandor Clegane would leave King’s Landing if the city fell. Maybe I could leave too? (I know we have Sansa’s inner monologue of this scene in the books, but books and show are different beasts.)

“Here. Sit. Drink...no, not like that. Drink girl.”

DRINK 2 feat. “Tears aren’t a woman’s only weapon. The best one’s between your legs. Learn to use it. Drink...if the city falls, these fine women should be in for a bit of a rape. Half of them will have bastards in their bellies come the morning.”

She’s just plain frightened.

And then the line that I think is the direct reason she refuses Sandor’s offer of rescue in favor of waiting for Stannis. “When a man’s blood is up, anything with tits looks good. A precious thing like you will look very, very good. A slice of cake just waiting to be eaten.” (Well, this and Shae literally saying, “Stannis won’t hurt you.”)

Meanwhile, the Hound is out at the war, cutting people in two (literally) and generally fighting like the beast that he is and then shortly thereafter having a total nervous breakdown because (a) fire, (b) Sansa’s fucking his head.

What’s the cure? "Fuck the water, bring me wine.” Wine, I think, just serves to make him even more emo and less able to deny his feelings for Sansa and their inexplicable connection.

“Dog, I command you to go out there and fight!” Sandor, totally defeated already, would be having this sort of internal monologue: “But why? So you can stay king and start raping my soulmate, your prisoner whose father you already killed for no reason? 

“Fuck the Kingsguard.” (they’re mean to Sansa)

“Fuck the city.” (the people of this city were mean to Sansa)

“Fuck the King.” (mean to Sansa and not good enough for her anyway)

This part, where she stands a little taller and says, “You won’t hurt me.” She is 100 percent inside his head at that moment, reading his feelings as easily you read these words right here.

BUT WAIT, there’s more. I think this scene is a little bit about the writers, at least, tipping that there’s something we need to know about Sansa and alcohol, and maybe skinchanging or enchanting men, too? Maybe she’s even starting to intuit that inebriated men are even more susceptible to her than usual? 

“Ale?” “I’ll have some.” “Do you like the taste?” “I don’t see what all the fuss is about. Why do men love it so much?” “It gives some men courage.” “Does it give you courage?” (5x02, “The House of Black and White”)

And then here. She’s drinking and he’s drinking AND there’s the touching. She convinces him to fight for Winterfell. He does not want to, but she convinces him. I’m not saying that this is magic because the dire wolf and wolf-dragon connection is very likely just normal human kinship, but it might be, at least in part. 

IN CONCLUSION, IF SANSA AND SANDOR ARE NEAR EACH OTHER AND DRINKING IN SEASON 8, WATCH OUT.

[dweemeister]

Braveheart (1995)

The summer of 1995 provided moviegoing audiences with a third Die Hard movie, Casper, batnipples, Disney’s problematic Pocahontas, Apollo 13, Waterworld, and one of the most understanding children’s films of all time in Babe. That is a busy summer to say the least. Amid that clutter, one of the most successful movies of that period could not possibly have been made now, let alone find the audience it did twenty-three years ago. Released by Paramount in North America and 20th Century Fox internationally, that film is Mel Gibson’s Braveheart, a thirteenth-century war epic about Scottish knight William Wallace (played by Gibson) taking arms against King Edward I of England in the First War of Scottish Independence. Braveheart was Gibson’s second directorial work after more than a decade as a figurehead for 1980s Australian cinema and presence in the Lethal Weapon series. This is a visually striking, technically accomplished film rife with homophobia, misogyny, and historical howlers that continues to sharply polarize viewers about its cinematic merits. Through the fires of these controversies, the extremely violent Braveheart has bludgeoned its way to becoming an iconic fixture of 1990s Hollywood.

It is 1280 in Scotland. As a child, William Wallace survives King Edward “Longshanks” (Patrick McGoohan) invasion of Scotland. Following Scottish defeat, Wallace is taken on a European journey by his uncle Argyle (Brian Cox). Years later, Wallace (Gibson as an adult; James Robinson as a child) will return to his village and marry childhood friend Murron MacClannough (Catherine McCormack as an adult; Mhari Calvey as a child). But Longshanks has granted his English nobles in Scotland right of the first night, and Wallace’s successful attempt to save Murron from rape eventually ends in her execution. Enraged, Wallace – assisted by his fellow villagers – massacres the English forces sent to his hometown and drives the remaining English military from Scotland. Longshanks will not take military defeat without response, ordering Prince Edward (Peter Hanly) to quash the rebellion. War and royal intrigue breaks out, leading to Edward’s wife, Isabella of France (Sophie Marceau), being sent to negotiate with Wallace and the two falling for each other far too quickly.

With that plot in mind, viewers should understand that the only historically accurate aspects of Braveheart are the names of the historical figures involved and place names – really, that’s it. The Scots wear kilts, despite the fact kilts would not be invented for another several hundred years. If one wants to understand the First Scottish War for Independence and the history surrounding this era, read a book instead. Screenwriter Randall Wallace admitted that his script was based less on history than on the epic poem The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, written by Blind Harry in the fifteenth century.

In its medieval swordplay, Braveheart has more to do with Spartacus (1960) than anything in a 1930s-40s 20th Century Fox or Warner Bros. swashbuckler. The film’s enormous battle scenes – shot in Ireland with over 1,500 members of the Irish Army Reserve participating on both sides of this cinematic conflict – are excellent collaborations in deploying men on foot and horseback smashing into each other on a grassy plain with a frantic camera attempting to make sense of the scrum. The use of 200-pound mechanical horses running on nitrogen cylinders even fooled an animal welfare organization that decided to investigate the film because of the effect’s realism. When not indulging in ill-advised slow-motion, these battles, perhaps too frequently placed into the film to the point they becoming fatiguing, are spectacular in their choreography. The collaborative effort between Gibson, cinematographer John Toll (1994′s Legends of the Fall, 1998′s The Thin Red Line), editor Steven Rosenblum (1989′s Glory, Legends of the Fall) and second unit crew members contributes to a blood-soaked, crashing symphony of mangled limbs and human brutality that no other film depicting medieval warfare has since equaled – especially the Battle of Stirling Bridge, which is horrifying in its impact despite the absence of the crucial, eponymous bridge. Many films since Braveheart portraying contemporary war likewise pale in comparison.

Braveheart would be a disastrous film without John Toll’s cinematography, whether in action sequences or peaceful moments. The use of natural lighting and the on-location shooting in Ireland and Scotland appeals to Toll’s strengths for exterior shots, lending Braveheart a near-mythical angle amid large landscape shots blessed with eerie cloud covers and looming, verdant mountains. Toll makes Scotland a place of dreams – especially in the blue of twilight when the sun’s reds have retreated westward, welcoming the cool and comfort of the evening. This suits the film, as Gibson is not filming a historical drama. No computerized flourishes or too many swooping helicopter-aided vistas pry the viewer from the film. Toll’s camera for these landscapes and shots of the village (reportedly built by the production crew to Toll’s specifications) remain still or are gently heightened or lowered by crane shots. Close-ups are mercifully spare, reserved almost entirely for violent scenes.

The word “freedom” is tossed around with such promiscuity and depthlessness that Braveheart’s 178 minutes cannot be justified. Wallace’s screenplay touches lightly on the era’s politics, Wallace’s love life, and the ideas why Scotland should be independent from England. Political philosophy this is not. Look elsewhere for films of military leaders with a wracked conscience, psychologically impacted by the slaughter they have initiated. Instead, we are presented with anachronistic dialogue like this: 

WILLIAM WALLACE: Before we let you leave, your commander must cross that field, present himself before this army, put his head between his legs, and kiss his own arse.

Sure, dude. If possible, maybe that commander might have a future as a contortionist.

Braveheart presents William Wallace as a man on a revenge-fueled mission who will consider all possible means to liberate his people – he has an irreverent sense of humor that makes given scenes a tonal mishmash. Wallace’s romantic interludes with Murron and Isabella? Gibson, McCormack, and Marceau, respectively, are all unconvincing – despite an enormous assist from Toll in these passionate scenes.

Casual homophobia is directed toward Prince Edward (later King Edward II), the son of Edward Longshanks (Edward I; who was a bellicose monarch, but becomes a cartoonish archetype in this film). Prince Edward is depicted as effeminate and gay, and his lover Philip (Stephen Billington) is killed by defenestration. The film further compounds this depiction by associating the Prince’s homosexuality to his ineffectual character – Longshanks constantly chastises his son’s lack of masculinity and Princess Isabella also disapproves of her husband for those qualities. This is not to say homophobia did not exist in the late thirteenth century, but that Gibson and Wallace are doubling down on the Prince, making him a punchline puppet of a leader because of who he is. Aggressive masculinity and sexual expressions inundate the battle scenes, too – swinging swords should be interpreted as one might think.

Women have almost zero agency in Braveheart, as they are depicted as sexual vessels to remain pure and chaste while the men fraternize and fornicate all they wish. Wallace’s campaign of violence begins not because the English lords have invoked right of the first night (prima noctis) for other women, but because prima noctis has been invoked for Murron (whose sexual faithfulness is idealized after her death in a pair of visions Wallace – who, by sleeping with Isabella, does not return that same faith – has). One of the few topics that women speak of throughout the film is sexual interest/satisfaction or lack thereof – Isabella’s only purpose in the film is to bang Wallace so that she can deliver an inflammatory piece of news to Longshanks on his deathbed.

Other than Toll, another craftsperson showcases their mastery in this film. That master is composer James Horner (Glory, 1997′s Titanic). 1995 proved to be a career year for Horner, having composed the scores for Apollo 13, Balto, and Casper. His second-best score of the year behind Apollo 13, Braveheart’s score is mostly devoid of the wanking masculinity described above, combining cultural elements that might seem inappropriate for a film about Scottish warriors – given the use of Japanese woodwinds in Legends of the Fall (a generational epic drama about a Montana ranching family), Horner’s instrumental appropriation knows no bounds, for good and ill. Along with the requisite bagpipes (rather than the Great Highland bagpipes that are generally associated to be “bagpipes”, Horner utilizes Uilleann pipes – Irish in origin, Uilleann pipes are softer and considered to produce a less harsh sound than Great Highland Bagpipes), this heavily orchestral score also benefits from a boys’ choir reminiscent of Casper, Horner’s affinity for Irish music, and quena (an Andean flute) for “The Secret Wedding”.

Three major motifs exist in Horner’s score: for Wallace, Murron, and Isabella. Wallace’s motif is first in the main title through the Uilleann pipes and will be the most-repeated theme in the film, fragmented up by percussion in the battle scenes, and often accompanied by strings in melodic unison (most heroically at 6:05 in “Freedom/The Execution Bannockburn”). Murron’s motif assumes melodramatic, (and very quickly afterwards) tragic connotations upon its most memorable appearance on quena in “The Secret Wedding”, chorally reprised at 3:10 in the “End Credits”. Dominating the final third of the film is Isabella’s motif, best outlined in “For the Love of a Princess” by the entire orchestra, and containing echoes of “The Ludlows” from Legends of the Fall. Credit the London Symphony Orchestra for providing a gorgeous recording, even if Horner’s score to Braveheart is not the most musically interesting effort of his career.

Producers Bruce Davey (Gibson’s longtime producer) and Alan Ladd, Jr. (son of legendary Paramount contracted actor Alan Ladd) navigated numerous obstacles at 20th Century Fox and Paramount to complete the film. This enormous, nearly three-hour production of a time period unfamiliar to North American moviegoers could not be produced at this scope today. A 2018 Braveheart would require even more major studios from various nations to finance the project, as epic films have all but disappeared from the multiplex because of their forbidding costs and lack of action star/superhero connections. Gibson’s ambition is staggering here. Yet Braveheart is let down by Gibson’s hypermasculinity and homophobia – reflective of his troublesome political dimensions.

The film’s cultural importance when it was released is unquestionable, but it remains to be seen how time will treat Gibson’s directorial breakout work. By being released in the mid-1990s, it is among the last Hollywood epic films largely untouched by excessive CGI – the effects are gruesome because they are practical. Though the characterizations are simplistic, Braveheart is an effective character piece for many, if not for this writer. Caught between the praises of fanboys of a certain demographic and those who loathe Gibson and/or Braveheart, I can neither adulate nor dismiss this movie outright. Bring on the insults on my manhood, but say it with a Scottish accent, would you kindly?

My rating: 6.5/10

^ Based on my personal imdb rating. Half-points are always rounded down. My interpretation of that ratings system can be found here.

[noctispostmortem-blog]

Personal Information:

NAME: Shiori Nishimora NICKNAME[S]: Shi, She-devil, Shi-devil DATE OF BIRTH: December 11th 1951 AGE: 66 GENDER: Female (She / Her) SPECIES: Changed Vampire SPOKEN LANGUAGES: English, Spanish, Japanese, and French SEXUAL PREFERENCE: Demisexual / Demiromantic RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Married to Kaito Nishimora

General Information:

HAIR COLOR: Black EYE COLOR: Brown HEIGHT:  5′5 TATTOOS: None SIBLING[S]: Kazumi and Masahiro (Two brothers who are both vampires) PARENT[S]:  Ryouta and Utano Akiyama (Both deceased) CHILDREN: None  LIKE[S]: Coffee, reading, quiet places, coffee and yes, more coffee DISLIKE[S]: Most men. Well, most people in general.

Misc. Information:

FACECLAIM: Sakurako Kujou VOICECLAIM: Elena Coates (she starts at 1:20) IRLCLAIM: TBD

Bio: (Trigger warning; placed under a read more for content)

Shiori is the wife of Kaito Nishimora though their marriage is nothing but a sham. They were forced to marry for the sake of keeping the ties between the clans and one of the most powerful families in Japan strong. This had a very bad effect on Shiori and brought out a darkness that had been lurking just under the surface because of her very tragic childhood. Once they were married, she was never the same. She never smiled, she barely talked. She mostly stuck to herself and locked herself in her bedroom, which she and Kaito did not share.

Upon turning 18, directly on her birthday, she was changed into the vampire she is today for the sake of marrying Kaito and they were married three months later. This is the reason that not only does she hate everyone within the clans but she hates vampires in general including herself. She would have rather died than become what she is. At some point, Kaito had ended up cheating on her, even if their marriage wasn't good, they were still married and Shiori felt betrayed anyway by it. After several arguments, her making several threats, they came to an agreement to live their life however they wish to so long as they kept things quiet.

Now she basically just travels, everywhere and anywhere that she feels like it to avoid going home as much as she can. Her past is very dark when it comes to her family and men, it's full of multiple triggers so she holds quite a grudge against most people in general. She doesn't take well to flirting, typically she will make an attempt at shutting it down before the one ever really started but if they pressed on, there is likely to be quite a bit of property damage as well as bodily harm to the one trying to flirt with her. And never get in the way of her and her coffee.

Now, Shiori can come off as very polite and sweet but that is, in fact, nothing more than an act. She was raised to be on her best behavior, to speak when only spoken to and such very old school things. But some of those teachings are so engraved within her that first meetings, as long as they didn't involve flirting or messing with her coffee, she tends to be rather polite. How things go from there, really depends on the situation but the closer she gets to someone, the more they will see just how truly dark and damaged she is. She's sassy, sarcastic, and she can be a real bitch sometimes. But she also has this maternal side to her that she tries to keep hidden. She's also dressed in the most expensive and classiest clothes she can find, elegance is something that she feels in necessary. Good luck trying to get close to her for anything really, but even more so when it comes to romantic or sexual relationships.

TRIGGER WARNING: MANY MANY TRIGGERS MENTIONED! DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU ARE TRIGGERED BY RAPE, MOLESTATION, CHILD ABUSE, PEDOPHILIA, VIOLENCE AND MORE.

From the young age of 8, her father would loan her out to his business associates for large sums of money. The only rule was that they could do whatever they wanted with her so long as they left no marks and there was no penetration because her father believed that he wouldn't be able to marry her off into another prominent family if she wasn't 'pure'. This continued for years and then when she turned 14, she was loaned out to one particular man who changed everything. He beat her, molested then even raped her. She was almost killed because of how badly he had beat her but she had managed to escape, knocking him over the head with a very large vase and running off. When the police showed up first, they arrested the man but one cop, in particular, took care of her.

This cop rode with her in the ambulance to the hospital, visited her every day until she was completely healed, kept in touch with her for years after and made sure that the man responsible was punished to the furthest extent possible. This man, for how much he cared for her, watched out for her and protected her, had been her first love and thus making one of the few people she still has respect for being those of law enforcement. That was her first and only love. This dark past is why she has never once had sexual relations that were consensual, why she had only dated once and that was with Kaito. But even when they were 'dating' she had never kissed him. The first and only time she ever kissed her husband was on their wedding day. Other than that, the most she's ever done was hold hands. So again, I shall repeat that not only does she not handle flirting well, the likelihood of her falling in love, getting into a relationship or having any sort of intimate moments with anyone is almost impossible. There are a few instances where someone has broken through, but even then, so far they are nothing more than friends and even then, she isn't really willing to admit that she considers them friends.

If you have read her dark history and have been affected negatively by it, do not complain to me about it. I gave fair warning, you chose to read it. But, I do welcome anyone who wishes to talk about it, just so long as you're not upset because of the past she has and how you don't like it.

[chicagocityofclans]

Kudzai Rinker→ Gugu Mbatha-Raw → Warlock

→ Basic Information 

Age: 1349

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Straight 

Powers: Biokinesis 

Birthday: Nov 12th

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 

Religion: Luciferianism

Mark: Rinker

Generation: 1st

→ Her Personality

Kudzai is fierce, mature, and resilient, with an endless capacity for hatred. Kudzai is a strong independent woman who has been hurt countless times. She has been beaten by those she thought loved her, has had her heart stomped on, and made sacrifices for many who were undersevering. This turned her into the closed off, emotionally guarded and secretive person she is today. Kudzai is not easily offended, however, when she is, she hides it well. She will always be straight no matter how long she has known the person she’s addressing. She communicates honestly and openly. It’s because she knows what she wants and she is done with wasting her time. In fact, she’s ready to handle any conflict if it arises. She just won’t let anyone push her around, undermine her or treat her like a doormat.

→ Her Personal Facts

Occupation: General Surgeon/Biokinesis Specialist 

Scars: Multiple. Mostly unseen/underneath clothing. (Specifics Are Up To Player)

Tattoos: Kudzai used lasers to remove an old slave tattoo from her arm. 

Two Likes: Wine/Beer Tasting and Law TV Shows 

Two Dislikes: Children and Halloween

Two Fears: Commitments/Intimate Relationships and Self Injections

Two Hobbies: Continuous Learning and Making/Selling Salves

Three Positive Traits: Persuasive, Responsible, Diligent

Three Negative Traits: Workaholic, Verbose, Hypercritical

→ Her Connections

Parent Names:

Georgina Laclysis (Morther): Kudzia was taken from her mother and sold at a young age. She tried looking for her mother but found no trace of her.

Sibling Names:

Unknown/None

Children Names:

Lee Cyto Rinker Jr (Son): Kudzai's oldest son who is 1018 years old. Kudzai has a strained relationship with her eldest due to how similar he is to his father. A wild telekinetic, Lee makes foolish decisions and Kudzai thinks it is pure dumb luck he is not 6 feet under like his father.

Cristae Zephyr Rinker (Daughter): Kudzai's oldest daughter who is 980 years old and the reason why she refuses to train anyone under her mark. She has made many of the same mistakes Kudzai has and is a strong source of frustration for her. They are just too much alike.

Krebs Jay Rinker (Son): Kudzai's middle son who is 364 years old. He is Kudzai and James Thomas' son. Kerbs is Kudzai's least favorite child but she could not bring herself to get rid of him in her womb. Kerbs grew to be like his grandfather.

Hondria Edison Rinker (Daughter): Kudzai's youngest daughter who is 119 years old. She is a talented Projector and was trained by her father, Minsky. She and her mother often fight about Jamie and she left Chicago for New York to train in her advanced away from her parents.

Jamie Edison Rinker (Son): Kudzai's youngest son who was 17 when he died. He was Kudzai’s pride and joy, and she thought he had the potential to be the best Rinker yet. Unfortunately he inherited his father’s powers and randomly died in his sleep. Minsky and Kudzai were devastated equally and separated soon after.

Romantic Connections:

Lee Rinker (Ex-Husband): They were married under the stars in her wild teen years. Lee, a warlock, died during a freak training accident with his mentor. Leaving Kudzai behind with their first born son and daughter, Lee Jr and Cristae.

James Thomas (Revenge Lay): James was the only son of the slave owner that beat and raped Kudzai daughter. She stole him away, made him fall in love with her, took his virginity and then killed him. The Thomas family was shamed, neighbors believing that James ran off with a slave girl. Months later Kudzai found out she was carrying his child.

Roman Cleirigh (Unwanted Attraction): Roman is asexual but Kudzai has tried more than once to get the insane Cleirigh into her bed.

Mu’ba (Ex-Boyfriend): He was a strong and handsome man that Kudzai met in passing. Mu’ba found a way to weaken her powers. Causing their fun loving relationship to take a turn for the worst. It took Kudzai over 34 years to break away from the abusive relationship. It took another 135 years for Kudzai to kill Mu’ba, all within his lineage and associates that knew what he was doing to her.. 

Minsky Edison (Husband/Separated): Kudzai was smitten when Minsky chose to pursue her romantically. She held out because of the notion that Neuromancers die randomly and the dark cloud of her past relationships. However, he eventually won her over and Kudzai finally found true love and settled down. When their son Jamie passed away, nearly 60 years ago, it put a strain on their relationship and they eventually separated. Since then Minsky and Kudzai have been off and on again; they are currently on again and planning to rekindle their marriage for good this time. Kudzai knows Minsky is it for her but needs to heal on her own.

Platonic Connections:

Sid Velanica (Great Something Grandson): Kudzai hated Sid when they first met. It took decades before she saw his talents and was able to detach him from his mark. Sid is clever and has a good heart, despite being descended from her children. Kudzai neither approves or disapproves of Sid's relationship with Sada.

Cassia Trelawny (Mentee): Kudzai had originally thought Cassia was from her family line. Cassia fought to prove that while she does not know her parents she was not from the Rinker lineage. Kudzai does not know exactly why she accepted Cassia as her mentee. Kudzai saw something in Cassia that she could not put her hands on. They have a strong mentor and mentee relationship but nothing more.

Tristan Lawton (Mentee): In all her years Kudzai has never met someone with such passion for magic and the willing ability to use it but is an absolute disaster at it; Tristan has the drive but he does not have the telent. Her hands are full and tied with him. She is too afraid for mankind and the entire universe to let him train under anyone else. She believes they are slowly making progress. 

Sada Warren (Ex-Mentee): Sada and Kudzai have a surprising relationship. Kudzai is certain it started around the same time she lost her son, Jamie. Sada will never replace her boy but she means more to Kudzai then most of her children. Kudzai neither approves or disapproves of Sada’s relationship with Sid.

Ronan Cleirigh (Council Member): Ronan believes Kudzai purposely goes against him on Council decisions. Kuzai is constantly competing with him.

Jace Cicero (Council Member): Jace and Kudzai are both very closed off and relaxed compared to others their age and who are on the local Council. This makes being friends easy. They are both able to leave Council business in the Council Room and continue about their day without taking it out on others.

Rhiannon Draga (Council Member): Rhiannon, Minsky, and Kudzai are all close friends outside of the Council. Rhiannon and her husband, Vladimir would often join Minsky and Kudzai for couples night. Rhiannon was a big comfort when Jamie died and helped Kudzai through her grieving process.  

Kaylor Genesis (Best Friend): Kaylor is one of the other older females in Chicago beside Rhiannon and Kudzai. They have formed an unlikely friendship due to their strikingly different personalities. Kaylor has the ability to bring out the best in Kudzai and Kudzai’s happiest memories are usually shared with Kaylor. 

Clarisse ‘Clara’ Fields (Associate): Clara is a part of the Animal Shifter Council. They rarely talk and Kudzai has nothing to say to her besides pleasantries.

Chris Bialar (Associate): Chris is a part of the Animal Shifter Council. They recently started speaking about a possible supernatural schooling system.

Ellis Watts (Associate): Ellis is a part of the Animal Shifter Council. They rarely talk and only share pleasantries. Kudzai knew Ellis' father and felt the same. 

Juliette Willott (Associate): Juliette is a part of the Animal Shifter Council. They rarely talk and Kudzai has no respect or patience in regards to her.

Percy McCormick III (Associate): Percy is a part of the Animal Shifter Council. They rarely talk and Kudzai has nothing to say to him besides pleasantries.

Isaac Baker (Associate): is a part of the Animal Shifter Council. Kudzai has been unsure about Isaac as of lately, especially after he took Deucalion into his pack.

Scorpius Getta (Associate): Getta is the vampire clan master. She finds him annoying and scheming but productive and a better clan master then the previous one. He is easier to work with than the animal shifters but She will never admit it. 

Sirius Cobic (Associate): Sirius is the human shifter leader and chief of police. They are the closest out of the clan leaders and council members. She considers him a friend on her good days and they coordinate magical coverups together  

Emmett Wilhelm (Acquaintance): Emmett is the liaison for magical users and they have a basic understanding. She wants him to join the Council as a Wilhelm.

Hostile Connections:

Nick Hamelin (Associate): Nick is a part of the Animal Shifter Council. Kudzai knew Nick back when he was rumored to be the Pied Piper. She heard how much he has grown but she would never let her guard down around him, his brother, his mate or his pack.

Deucalion Thornton (Hate): Kudzai's hatred for Duke also extends to his twin brother, Aries. They both were menace to the warlock society. Duke has recently tried to break a curse that could have exposed the entire supernatural community.

Pets:

None

History

Unlike most warlocks in the 1000-2000 years old range, Kudzai has retained a great deal about her early life. Her mother, Georgina, had her while in exile. Georgina was exiled and deemed nefarious because she believed had slept with the devil and was carrying his spawn. Their mother-daughter relationship was rough at times because Georgina had never let Kudzai forget she was a demon spawn but they both loved each other and depended on one another. Besides her shaking hands, Kudzai and Georgina had not seen any other proof of Kudzai being a demon spawn until Kudzai was about four years old. Kudzai was playing with a street dog which eventually bit her. Crying and in pain, Kudzai had covered the bleeding dog bite and ran home. However, once she reached the house, Kudzai noticed the pain, and the bite was gone. She had nothing to show her mother beside the blood that was still covering her hand and arm. 

At the age of 10, Kudzai was taken from her mother and sold to the Head Chieftain of a nearby village. She was trained and forced to become the Chieftain son’s concubine. Kudzai endured abuse at the hands of the Chieftain son, his father, mother, siblings, and his wife. It took a few years but Kudzai was able to sneak away once she had proven to be broken and loyal. They become lax with her, therefore, Kudzai was able to free herself and the other concubines. Kudzai found herself hungry and alone when she stumbled across an older lady. She was hurt and Kudzai felt a strong sense to help her. Kudzai knew she was special, having helped the other concubines before, she reached out and healed her. It was the best decision of Kudzai’s life. The lady was named Mana and she was a witch. She sparked Kudzai's interest and taught her about the supernatural world. Mana educated Kudzai on what it meant to be a magic-user. Mana taught her both magical and human means of medicine. 

That is how she met her first husband, Lee Rinker. Lee came in injured from practicing a curse gone wrong. They fell in love while Kudzai healed him and were married within a few months. Lee called her a ‘fellow hell-raiser to travel with for eternity’ as a part of their vows. He was her love and protector. They traveled to Africa and the Middle East, living as most wild warlock teens. They made love, smoked, and drank themselves into bliss. They learned magic together under Mana’s watchful eyes or at least when she wasn’t sending them away because of their scandalous ways. Lee had never told Kudzai about his family and kept his mark hidden from her but he always talked about having a big family once they were ready. 

When starting on their Advanced magic, Lee and Kudzai left Mana to look for other mentors and sources of guidance for Lee’s curse craftsmanship. Given his personality and his status as a male, Lee always found mentors far easier than Kudzai. He never let her down, teaching her what he learned and finding ways to incorporate it into her own powers; especially when it came to controlling the emotional aspect of their powers. It was while they were living and training in Egypt that Kudzai gave birth to their first child, Lee jr. Lee was a proud father and was over the moon that Junior shared his powers and his love for curses. Things were no different when they had their second child, Cristae. She, like Junior, had Lee wrapped around her little fingers. It felt like the end of the world when Lee’s mentor brought his dead body home on the eve of Cristae's fourth birthday. No amount of healing and begging the Gods brought back her love. With a broken heart and enough tears to form an ocean, Kudzai focused on her children and powers.

Kudzai and her children's powers were no match for the slave trade. She was grateful that she was able to stay with Junior and Cristae since no one knew they were connected. Kudzai and Cristae worked as maids while Junior worked in the fields. It was in their masters' house that Cristae was violated and Kudzai plotted her revenge. It was the first time since Lee that Kudzai felt unprotected with a burning red hot rage within her. Killing James Thomas would have been a mercy and Kudzai wanted his family to suffer. She had heard about other slave owners being ridiculed or losing status because of mulatto’s babies. She knew that would be the best fitting reaction for her masters' only son. When Kudzai gave birth to Krebs, the Thomas family was shamed, neighbors believing that James ran off with and impregnated a slave girl but Kudzai had already killed James. 

After escaping the Thomas farm, Kudzai, and Krebs, Junior and Cristae went their separate ways. Mu’ba found Kudzai in hiding with Krebs. He was a charmer and seemed willing to care for a child that wasn’t his. Kudzai was dead wrong. On his good days, Mu’ba would only beat her and Krebs within an inch of their lives. She is sure this is where Krebs' hatred and similarities to the Thomas family stemmed from. Making an escape and torturing him is still one of the top five favorite moments of her life. She fed him to his own pigs and sold the pigs for money that brought her and Krebs land. On that land, she practiced and became a known biokinetic healer. 

When she heard about an open spot on the council in the newly founded Chicago, Kudzai leaped at the opportunity. It was a chance to start fresh and have a blank slate. There she found a community to thrive in. She was highly respected among her peers, and found fast friends in Rhiannon and eventually Jace. And then there was Minsky. The attraction was magnetic from the moment they met. He was arrogant, cocky of his abilities, but never cruel or violent. He could stand up to her opinions and respected her as an equal. They had a long, lively courtship that lasted 10 years before they married. Their marriage was a breath of fresh air and Kudzai finally had a place where she belonged. Minsky and Kudzai were both skittish around the topic of children. Minsky yearned for them but had always worried about abandoning his child, while Kudzai deemed her first three children's parenting fails. Eventually, they both took the leap together and had Hondria at the turn of the century. She was a projector and the light of her father’s life. While Hondria and Kudzai frequently butted heads, she saw her potential and was happy. A few decades later, she and Minsky tried again for a child. Jamie was born and in him, she finally found the one child with who she felt an instant connection. Maybe it was because he was so well behaved, or because he reminded her so much of Minsky. All Kudzai knew was that he was her special one. 

Kudzai and Minsky waited eagerly for his powers to show, but once they did, concern filled them. He was a Neuromancer like his father. They tried to keep a positive attitude, but the ticking time bomb felt like it was always hovering over them. Kudzai forged on, however, pouring all of her attention into her son, blatantly ignoring Hondria. Their relationship turned colder, however, Kudzai didn’t care much. It was in his 17th year that Kudzai’s greatest nightmare occurred. She went to wake her son in the morning and found him still. She rushed over and shook him and tried to jump-start his heart but he was past saving. Minsky and Hondria found her hours later, still hovering over his body. Minsky was finally able to pull her away. They tried everything, and even Ronan could not bring him back. It was at this moment that they realized what had happened. Jamie, despite his father being alive for over a millennia, passed away from his power. Kudzai was distraught and angry at everyone; Minsky for cursing him with his power, Hondria for acting callously about his death, all of her previous children for being the ones who survived, herself for not being able to save him. She could not contain her rage and in her grief ended things with Minsky. Minsky and Hondria moved out and she was all alone. It was during this painful time that Kudzai began pouring everything into her work. She focused on her mentees and began looking into various studies by fellow warlocks to help with the hand tremors that plagued Biokinetics. She maintained her steady work with the council, despite the awkwardness and hurt between her and Minsky. 

Present

 Kudzai is primarily focused on her work. She is a general surgeon and was just offered the position of Chief of Surgery at the hospital. It took ten years to get back to her old position when she moved into a new hospital and she feels like she’s earned it. Another major focus in her life has been with her mentees. Cassia is following in her footsteps and despite not being emotionally close with the younger woman, she is proud of her actions in and outside of the hospital. She is incredibly competent and is working on finding a cure for the trembling of their hands. Tristan is much more of a project, and she isn’t quite sure she believes that he is a biokinetic. Kudzai believes Tristan wants to help people, but he’s a danger to himself and others. Because of this, he has become a puzzle that she wants to figure out.

On a personal level, Kudzai is working on her mental health and subsequently her relationship with Minsky. They have been on and off for years, falling into one another’s beds and then running at the first sign of a real relationship. After decades of being miserable and heartbroken over Jamie, Kudzai wants to start again. She has taken to seeing Nathan Cleirigh as her therapist and is working on those issues that have caused her so much pain. She and Minsky have also started marriage counseling to try and resolve the hurt feelings between them. Kudzai genuinely wants her marriage to work and is trying, for the first time, to be truly open with herself and those around her.

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rules - I bolded the most important bits in case you can't read long text

hello everyone, this is a mutuals only and canon divergent side-blog that will likely only follow back a few people because it’s created to fix things I didn’t like in canon and/or try other canon divergent plots that didn’t happen. It’s important you read the rules because there are characters I don’t interact with (due to how I think Emma would realistically react to some things outside of a tvshow and its limitations) and some changes in Emma’s feelings. Also because of triggers, because Emma has been abused in many ways.

My name is Ele and I’m 30+, pronouns she/her, super friendly but chronically ill. I follow back from butwearefamilymain. If I follow you with my other main blog thecharmingknightemma you are not required to follow it back. I may follow you with that Emma and not this one because I’m extra selective about the plots I want to explore with Emma Swan but can see things happening with my au one.

If we are mutuals and you want to specify the season/context/verse when you send a meme or reply to something, I welcome it. If you don’t, I’ll pick randomly. 

I’m primarily interested in roleplaying with her parents, son, and especially her husband, but I’m open to other friends too, au ships and so on; at the moment I’m not confident enough to write crossovers but I’m open to do that in the future when I have fully developed this canon divergent Emma. Here to plot for Elsa or Anna or other people to become best friends with her through the seasons. I like prolonging seasons as needed to give everyone time to grow and develop, especially the first half of season 3 by ‘trapping’ Pan for real and having him escape and curse everyone only later. Opens and memes and starter calls are always open, no expiration date, and if you worry about me considering you too pushy: if you request something from my wishlist I’ll be super happy, I’m a rper who loves when people read her stuff.

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Now here’s where the more controversial positions I have come into play, and while I don’t mean to offend anyone and I do rp with these characters in other au Emma blogs and respect the fact that you like them, I don’t want to do it here where Emma won’t be friendly due to what happens in canon: I will not write threads with Regina, Gold (after season 3) and Neal in this blog. An exception can be made for interactions with Gold: since her feelings depend on what the others have done in the past and present, if you write an au version of him that didn’t do anything to harm Emma&co. starting in season 4 (basically if he doesn’t rip Killian’s heart out/tries to kill Emma in 4a, and everything after that), Emma has no particular problems with him. 

She will never consider or call Regina a friend, but she will try to keep things civil between them for the sake of everyone in town, even if sometimes she has to bite her tongue (while not accepting any criticism over rescuing Marian and not being okay with being scolded for her ‘stupidity’ or having her loved ones insulted). With Neal she was more forceful about not wanting to date him and realized that she only loved her idealized memory of him, not the man he is now and that she doesn’t know.

If for any reason we decide Neal is alive in the background, they are simply co-parenting and he comes over to pick Henry up, she’s polite, but they don’t spend time together as friends because it hurts.

If you love one of those three canon characters or have a multi and write some of them too we can just avoid the subject, just let me know or otherwise her negative comments about canon events might happen.    Also I’m sorry but the only child of Emma I’ll write with is Henry, not because I don’t love the idea of Hope but because I have too many ideas of how she’d raise her and other children, I find it too godmod-y from both sides.

Also,  Emma’s relationship with Belle depends on whether she’s supportive of her husband/ex husband unless we write an au, regardless of whether she and Killian are friends. 

Other divergences: unless we plot a different name she’s not happy about her baby brother being named after Neal for several reasons; she will call him ‘baby bro’ and ‘little brother’ and any other possible variation of petnames. To be clear she wouldn’t be happy about another sibling being called Killian either, even if Killian had stayed dead. Just no.

I ignore the idea that Emma being good comes from her parents taking away the ‘evil potential’ for several reasons, including logic, but I’m okay with the ‘author’ having made her parents believe it/having written their actions and thoughts to force the story in that direction. I am also okay with Emma ‘reverting’ to hiding things from people in season 6 whether she’s called out for it or not, since a couple of years with a family (and more tragedies during these years) will not undo a lifetime of trauma but people have a right to get frustrated. For every step forward, if she feels rejected or betrayed she’ll take ten back.  Very interested in au Dark Swan plots, you can find examples here X.

It’s not necessary for you to read more details, you can guess some plot changes because for example she would tell Regina she can’t enslave a man and put him in a mirror as she pleases, but I’ll still write them in case you want/need to know more: they’ll be in the about page.

Just keep in mind that Emma is an incredibly traumatized woman who never had a ‘normal’ life, and before turning 28 believed to have never been loved and to always have been maliciously betrayed if she tried to hope it would work, with plenty abuse in her past (including literal physical and emotional abuse in her childhood as I state in the triggers section): a few months of having a family while also living through more tragedies certainly didn’t fix all of it nor taught her how to be perfectly functional and nice and reasonable at all times. She always tried to do her best and she has good instincts, and many wounds will heal but scars will stay. 

here the other standard rules:

-nobody here should get stressed out about replies. They happen when we can write and feel like it, if you need to drop a thread do it, be slow, give priority to what your mood tells you. I’m here for both of us to have fun, or we stop and do something else, that’s all. 

-nsfw is tagged and under read more if it happens.

-I try to tag everything but if you have special triggers do tell me. One exception is threads that involve a ship. I can’t tag every single thread with a Killian ‘captain swan’ especially if the other mun hasn’t given the okay for a ship, and by then it’d be quicker for you to just block the other rper name anyway. 

-triggers (to be read even if not all bolded so you don’t get surprised later): I don’t want to write rape or toxic relationships between our muses, in the backstory is fine (and canon, for many). No miscarriage. Please tag your gore images, daddy kink and nsfw in general or I can’t follow back. In this blog there will be talk of child abuse (Emma being the victim), abuse in general (especially since she will interact with abuse victims), PTSD, violence. Specifically, Emma was physically abused by some guardians, emotionally neglected or abused by others, and while for several reasons I don’t write her as a victim of sexual abuse, for some time she was canonically a homeless child and was aware she was at great risk of it, likely had to run to protect herself more than once. However she felt used by Neal for years, when it seemed that he had just been a conman, until finding him in Manhattan (and it helped a lot, though it doesn’t erase that for years she thought that was the truth), and she is NOT comfortable thinking about the romantic and sexual aspects of her relationship with Walsh, who turned out to be manipulating her and lying the entire time about everything, and was ready to kill her as well. 

-I can ship lots of things: Wooden Swan, Gremma and Mad Swan too? Even Frankenswan in more au ways and ScarletSwan, and crossover ships and others, but they require lots of plotting. Captain Swan is still OTP though and the default. If we are writing together and you sorta see a ship, this is your permission to ask. I don’t forceship, ever. 

-I adore Mary Margaret and David, if Emma is ever a bit unfair to them in threads or they made mistakes it can be solved in universe, you don’t have to worry about me disliking them. If anything this blog is also so that they can have a better and deeper relationship. 

-very okay with aus, other ways the show could have gone, other ways for her and Killian to fall in love, threads where one of her parents got to raise her, different ships, stronger friendships, and so on.

-I don’t want to hurt anyone, if I’m ever accidentally rude or hurt your feelings you can totally tell me! I’ll be happy to fix things and clear anything up if language barriers are what led to the misunderstanding. Just don’t be passive aggressive. Every time someone has told me ‘Ele, explain to me this thing because I’m feeling upset’ I ran to fix it, and it’s usually just a misunderstanding. Every time someone is passive-aggressive they stop existing for me. 

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30 Day Fandom Challenge

Welcome to day 6 Ladies and Gentlemen. As always I am gonna tag the amazingly talented @domsberto and then head back over into the world of the spooky and supernatural for this next one.

Day 6- True Blood

1) Favorite Character: Lafayette Reynolds

Reason: Lafayette was freaking hilarious and a badass boss bitch. He had the funniest lines in the show and was savage at times. He was a very flamboyant character and I adore those types of characters. He trusted only a few people but was loyal as hell to the select few he let in his circle. When he actually had lover he was faithful and devoted to them, even in death in the case of Jesus. He had his demons but he handled them with grace and a sense of humor, not to mention lots of alcohol and weed. He was a medium which was pretty cool but it also lead to some disastrous situations (like stealing babies and killing the love of his life). I adore his relationship with his cousin, Tara, that borders more on that of siblings than cousins. He has no tolerance for ignorance or bullying, as seen when he put a table full of rednecks in their place for their gay slurs, and he backs up what he says. He is fully capable of handling himself in a fight and is just an all around amazing person.

Rest in Peace Nelsan Ellis! You are missed still to this day! ❤❤❤

2) Most Relatable Character: Hoyt Fortenberry

Reason: Hoyt reminds me alot of Matt from Vampire Diaries, honestly. He is sweet and kind-hearted and according to Sookie, who can read minds, his thoughts are consistently kind and open compared to everyone else around her. He is also remarkably progressive toward vampires and other social outcasts. This is in stark contrast to his mother, Maxine, who was extremely prejudiced and judgmental of most people, humans and vampires alike. His lack of experience with, and high respect for, women makes him extremely shy around them. Unlike his best friend Jason Stackhouse, he has no desire for frivolous hook-ups, and remains a virgin until he meets and falls in love with the vampire Jessica Hamby. Whem we first meet Hoyt in the first season, he is bossed around by his mother, but begins to assert his independence as the show progressed. Throughout the series, his character development shifts from happy-go-lucky to a much more serious and emotional young man. I can relate to Hoyt because I tend to he shy around men and women I am attracted to because despite having been married for the past 13 years, I didn't really have much experience before I met my husband and I was really self conscious. I also get what it's like to have an overbearing mother and having to eventually put my foot down with her. Hoyt is also one of the most genuine and "normal" of all the characters in the show. This is why he is the most relatable.

3) Most Underrated Character: Godric

Reason: Godric was only alive for one season and the fans grew to love him so much that after his suicide on the show, they wrote him into the show in later seasons as hallucinations and dreams that Eric, Sookie and sometimes Nora had. He is one of my favorite characters, quite possibly tied with Lafayette honestly. During his time on the show, Godric (who happens to be the maker of Eric Northman) was the Sheriff of the Dallas vampires and one of the oldest living vampires to date. He was a badass, as seen when he saves Sookie when she was almost raped and when he comes in to put an end to the fighting between vampires and the Fellowship of the sun. He was ruthless and a very capable leader, putting people in their place when need be (as seen when he banished Lorena from Dallas for causing trouble). He once lived by a moral code of "There is no right or wrong, only survival or death.", seeing humans as disposable and caring very little for human life. Humans were a means to an end until he grew older and began to relate more to humans. He came to realize that the human race's fear and hatred of vampires was well founded, and that he had contributed to it. He evolved over time and his wisdom and compassion grew. He is perhaps the best-natured vampire seen on the show.

He cared deeply for his progenies, Eric and Nora, and he was one of the few people who could turn Eric into an emotional mess (as seen when Godric decided to end his life). Godric was compassionate and kind but if you crossed him, he could snap your neck without even blinking or thinking twice. He was such an underrated character but I adored him so much.

4 & 5) Most Overrated Character & Least Favorite Character: Sookie Stackhouse

Reason: So Sookie is the main character and honestly she annoys the hell out of me. She acts like your stereotypical trailer trash, you know the type. The kind of girl that gives us Southern girls a bad name? Yes that type. She had every guy in the show that wasn't gay or family chomping at the bit to try to get in her pants. She constantly found herself knee deep in trouble at every turn, "Must be a Thursday." to quote her. She toys with the boys who fall in love with her unintentionally and honestly she isn't the most attractive on the show to warrant so many male suitors. For a fairy with special powers, she has no idea what she is doing half the time and like Elena in Vampire Diaries, she often makes things worse and ends up having to be saved by someone who knows what they are doing. She is overrated and my least favorite character in the series, despite being the main character. While she has a few good qualities and some decent scenes sometimes, I really can't stand her.

Pam made a comment once that stands out “I am so over Sookie and her precious fairy vagina and her unbelievably stupid name! F*ck Sookie!”

6) Favorite Canon Pairing: Hoyt Fortenberry & Jessica Hamby [Close 2nd Honorable Mention- Lafayette Reynolds & Jesus Velasquez]

Reason: Jessica and Hoyt were perfect for each other plain and simple. They both lost their virginity to each other (granted since Jessica was a virgin when she turned she never truly loses her virginity because her hymen keeps growing back) and had a sweet and loving relationship. When they ended things and she slept with his best friend, Jason, Hoyt was so distraught that he asked Jessica to glamor him into forgetting they had ever met and fallen in love before leaving town. They found their way back to each other in the final season and fell in love all over again as if they had never fallen apart to begin with and eventually got married before Jessica's maker, Bill, died. They had a beautiful and pure love that surpassed even memory wipes and I love them so much together.

7) Favorite Non-Canon Pairing: Eric Northman & Pamela "Pam" Swynford de Beaufont

Reason: While Pam tended to lean more toward women most of the time it was implied time and time again that she and Eric had a romantic or sexual history together prior to him turning her into a vampire. The chemistry between Eric and Pam is amazing and goes well beyond that of the typical sire/progeny bond. They loved each other on a deep level, one could possibly consider the love that Eric and Pam had for each other agape which is the highest form of love that surpasses traditional romantic and sexual feelings toward a person. They had an unbreakable bond and even when Eric released her as his progeny, Pam still stayed at Eric's side no matter what the cost. I wish that they could have been a romantic couple in the canon universe but sadly that never happened. Their love for one another still lives on in the hearts of us fans to this day.

8) Least Favorite Pairing: Sookie Stackhouse & Bill Compton

Reason: Besides the fact that I really can't stand Sookie, I loathed Sookie and Bill as a couple on the show. They were back and forth so much with their relationship that it made my head spin half the time and when they actually stayed together, the relationship itself was pretty boring compared to some of the other relationships on the show. Sookie could never make up her mind on exactly who it was she wanted to be with and that left her juggling Bill, Eric, Sam and Alcide before ending up with a faceless and nameless man by the end of the show. They had their good moments, don't get me wrong, that made me actually like them but then one of them would do or say something stupid and I would go back to loathing the ship as a whole. Though I will admit it was both heartbreaking and poetic when Sookie ended Bill's suffering in the end. I still feel like there are better couples on the show.

I will admit though that outside of the show I think Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer have a beautiful marriage and beautiful children so my opinion doesn't reflect on the actors personally but rather their characters on the show.

9) Favorote Part/Moment: The Aids Burger Incident AKA Lafayette Vs The Ignorant Rednecks

Reason: This scene is my favorite scene because first of all Lafayette was a savage and proved that he will not tolerate ignorance from anyone. He put the rednecks in their place when one of them sent back their food because they refused to eat it because "The burger might have Aids.", directly referencing Lafayette who was cooking that night who is openly gay. In that scene he took the burger back out to the customers and confronted them for their gay slur in one of the most epic manners possibly before shoving the "Aids Burger" in the man's face. He proved that he could handle himself in a fight when he kicked his friends' asses before delivering a final quip of "Tip Your Waitress" before walking away like the boss ass bitch he was, fist bumping and impressed Jason Stackhouse on his way back to the kitchen to finish his job. Lafayette was amazing in this scene and I have to give the late Nelsan Ellis credit for such an epic performance. I post a video of this once a year during Pride Month to show one of the most epic scenes of an openly gay man standing up for himself and fellow gay men against ignorant bigots. It was amazing. I will post the video directly following this post.

10) Least Favorite Part/Moment: The Entire F***ed up Billith Situation [Honorable Mentions: Godric's suicide- it was sad as hell but hauntingly beautiful, The Witches induce Amnesia on Eric, Marnie Possesses Lafayette and makes him kill the love of his life Jesus, Tommy Dies to Save Sam]

Reason: My least favorite part was when Bill merged with the mother of all vampires, Lilith, to become this super powerful and equally psychotic vampire deemed "Billith". The entire situation was just stupid and you could tell that during that season the writers ran out of ideas for what to add into the show. It was far-fetched and pretty OP and that's why I consider this one of the worst parts of True Blood.

Back at you soon with today's post since I'm behind by a day.

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30 Days of Dragon Age OC Challenge Day 30!

Day 30: Free Day!: Is there anything about your character you wanted to say but didn’t? Their favorite outfit? What their Pokemon team would be? Which Hogwarts house they’d be in? Tell everyone about it! (Can be anything at all, serious or not!)

I didn't know what to do with this but I decided to just talk a bit about my three favourite moments for them all. Or three of my favourites, it was very hard to pick. Many of which I've already talked about before, oops. But it felt like a nice thing to finish the meme off with.

Isaline

The start of the Zevran romance; when she feels suicidal and goes off to pick herbs with him alone, hoping he'll kill her and thinks she's being subtle but Zev is Well Aware this is a suicide attempt. When Zev isn't sure he wants to live himself, but he doesn't want to see someone else feeling as terrible and worthless and self hating as he is, and just finds himself trying to make her feel better. And they talk and begin to open up to each other and just really enjoy being in each other's company and they both make a real friend when they've both alone for so long, and both end up wanting to be alive right now. It's a lovely moment that begins their relationship, and both of their recovery arcs and I just love these two damaged, hopeless people saving each other. I love them.

The end of DA2. Isaline's in the Gallows for months before then, secretly working to destabilise the templars and teach mages to fight them, but appearing powerless to the templars and not feeling as if she has much more than she's showing. If she fights back too early, that could backfire and have a negative affect on every mage in the Circle. And then the Chantry blows up, and the templars run round in panic, and she smiles and fucking destroys them and calmly walks through the Gallows tossing aside every templar who tries to stop her and is a terrifying unstoppable force. And then as the fight against Meredith begins, and Cullen has a Convenient Last Minute Change Of Heart, she turns to him in a wave of magic and tells him to run and he does. And she follows, blasting countless spells at him as she calmly lists his crimes, and all the mages he's hurt. She tells him this is justice for all of them, for every mage, but most of all, it's for her. And she kills him. And I love that she's able to put herself first there and to finish him for every time he's hurt her and finally be free of him. And I just really like mages fucking killing that noodle.

When she comes back from Here Lies the Abyss and her daughter Sindony runs to her in such excitement to show her that look she can do magic now. It feels like the final part of her recovery; it no longer hurts so much to think of when she developed her magic herself, and her fear and shame about it, and the way her parents abused her. How can that memory have a hold over her now, when her  own daughter's here showing off her own magic, so proud and happy? Now that she has children to raise and love and give a better life than the one she had. Maybe magic's still not fully accepted in Thedas, but they've come so far from her own childhood, and there's a world where her daughters are able to grow up loving themselves and loving their magic. And that is so, soimportant.

Corinne

It's maybe not as serious as Isaline's (I mean. It's really not as serious as Isaline's) but one of my favourite Corinne moments is the scene in Mark of the Assassin, when Hawke and Tallis are trying to get into the Chateau and Hawke can give a funny overdramatic speech about how they saw someone wearing the same outfit as them, and it is the most terrible thing that could possibly happen, and they simply must get inside at once. Except that when Corinne does it, she is 100% deadly serious. There's someone wearing the same dress as her and it is the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to her and could ruin her reputation. The jewel is nothing compared to this. I'm really proud of how I made Corinne so unlike how Hawke is "supposed" to be, and this scene I feel kind of sums up the difference really well.

The Chantry Boom. When Sebastian tells her Anders needs to die and she breaks up with the love of her life. I just adore the moment when she realises romantic love is not the most important thing ever, when she realises she has to stand up for something for herself, when she chooses her friend over her partner. It is such a big deal for the girl who's written a dozen novels where people sacrifice everything for true love, who wants to be a fairy tale princess and live a happy ending with her handsome prince. I'm so, so proud of her. And she's able to wipe the tears from her eyes and hug her friends, who are still here, who still love her, who are still important, and go and fight for what she believes is right. Because she's not just the prince's princess anymore, so it's time to take control of her own destiny at last.

Crashing Josie's wedding. It's not the most deadly serious scene, it's a Terrible cliche, but it's so Corinne. She knows it's a cliche, she loves the drama of it, the fact that she's realised there are things more important than romance doesn't mean she's not still an utter romantic who wants to kiss in the rain and ride off into the sunset with her love or, you know, crash a wedding to declare her love. But doing that is still brave and important and how she feels is still serious. Corinne's never made the first move in a relationship before and she thinks it's awfully rude to actually interrupt a wedding and she's only just fully come to terms with the fact that she's into women and her last relationship ended with her and her husband ignoring ways in which they clashed For Love until they ended up declaring war on each other's cities, and now she's approaching love with a wiser, less rose-tinted perspective and she's scared of what that means for the relationship. But she knows she loves Josie, and even if there are things more important than that, her love is more important than her fear. And she gives the most sweet and sincere declaration of love to Josie and Josie runs to her and kisses her and they do the -pick-josie-up-and-twirl-her-round thing, and Otranto tells everyone to clap because he's great and it is Best Romance Scene. It just makes me really happy.

Estella

Being cured of Tranquility. She goes to the Conclave with the group of templars that she's been a slave to for the past three years, just because it's useful to have a slave around. One of them decides he wants a quick fuck before the Conclave starts and leads her off to find a back room. He hears a commotion, and the Divine calling for help, and bursts in to see what's going on with his Tranquil behind him. He pulls out his sword, instructs his Tranquil to grab the thing the Darkspawn just dropped. And Estella picks up a ball of Fade and it reopens her connection to it and everything she's ever felt comes rushing back and she's standing there staring at one of the men who's spent the last several years abusing her and raping her and treating her like a thing and she can do magic again. The templar hears the noise she makes as she grabs the orb, part yell of shock, part gasp of amazement, part snarl of anger, part shout of joy, and turns in confusion. He sees her face full of an overwhelming amount of emotion, and lightning sparkling at her fingertips and has a moment to feel terrified before she kills him.

Later on, Vivienne tracks down the two templars from the group that weren't at the Conclave when it exploded, and ran in the chaos. She has them brought to Skyhold's dungeons to await Estella's judgement. Estella is surprised and suspicious, because Vivienne talks like Circles are good and tells Estella she's wrong about everything and steals her furniture and snaps at Estella when Estella sets her furniture on fire in retaliation. But Vivienne says they should face justice for abusing their power, and Estella wants to look the templars in the eye and watch them squirm, and she wants them to not be alive any longer. She goes to see them alone, with Bull waiting outside the dungeon so she can call if she needs help. The first sneers at her, reminds her of all the abuse and degradation she suffered, however well she's doing now. People may see her as a Herald, but she's a mage, she'll always be nothing, is she really pretending to forget that before she was a Herald, she was a slave, a pet, an object? But whatever he says, he has no power now, and he still screams as she kills him. The next one is terrified, and begs her to forgive him, to spare him, tells her he's sorry. But he was never sorry before. Estella watches him beg, tells him to do it more. Kills him anyway. She comes out of the dungeons shaking, she hugs Bull, and runs to find Amelia and holds her tight and reminds herself she's safe now. She goes to Vivienne later, and tells her what happened and thanks her. Vivienne is disappointed she didn't put them on trial, let the world know their crimes, that templars like this will not be tolerated any longer. Estella understands, but she couldn't have dealt with a public trial, with seeing them again in front of other people. Vivienne understands that. They sit together for a while, and try not to talk about things they'll fight over today, and start to wonder if maybe they could be friends.

When the Breach in the sky seals up, and whatever disaster people wanted zir to solve this time is apparently averted, Hawke decides that maybe it's time ze and her husband and kid stopped hiding out in the Anderfels and finally reply to the letters saying The Inquisition requests their presence. So Hawke and Anders and a child they rescued from the Gallows go South, and are escorted up to the main hall, and Anders is almost knocked over being suddenly and enthusiastically hugged by someone he last saw standing in the Gallows courtyard with no expression on her face, unable to feel anything near enthusiasm. They talk about what they've been doing the last seven years, and about mage rights, and Estella eagerly tells Anders everything she's been doing, and how they're going to have a mage Divine now, and Anders is amazed and delighted that the Herald of Andraste everyone in awe of is a mage. The people in power finally care, and there are mages in power who can change things. It's really important and meaningful to Estella to have Anders there at the end; he inspired her to fight, and was the first one to really change things. Her hopeless crush is gone by now - and she tells him about it and they laugh about it - but he's still one of her oldest friends, and her hero. And Inquisition ends with the two of them happy and hopeful for the future, and yelling "For mage rights!" off the top of Estella's balcony for all of Skyhold to hear, and it's a really good ending.