#wheezes and dies

[nerdydowntherabbithole]

Soo uhhhh was babysitting all today and didn't get a chance 2 write sooo. Posting this and then writing to avoid concequences but

Yeah made an iterator oc a while ago and here they are. Wishing on Falling Stars aka the king of cats. Long rambling lore under cut lmao

So! Star is a pretty young iterator who has,,,kinda abandoned their former purpose out of anger and spite. Star and her two brothers, Lands Unknown and Swiftly Rising Waters were built on VERY risky and unstable ground. The three are built next to (And INTO, in the case of Star) a mountain right next to the ocean. LU and SRW needed constant upkeep and adjustment. Due to this, shortly after the ascension, they both just completely collapsed from their own rains. Star, upon this happening, PANICKED. They adore their brothers, and was terrified of loosing them. So pretty quick, she started a breeding program for a ton of things to perform maintenance on the two. Which was the start of a...VERY slippery slope into crazy cat lady. Star is, generally, a VERY kind iterator. Helpful to a fault and far too caring. However, this made for some problems after ascension, because man she got lonely QUICK. Her brothers were the closest thing they had, and even while the two are similarly caring, it was tough. So when they started genetic engineering, they got. ATTACHED. So they bred more. And more. And uhhh woops! Suddenly Star's city is literally just full of creatures. Star is in no way unhappy with this. It was in their period of loneliness, however, that she got BITTER over the ancients abandoning them and leaving them to rot. INCREDIBLY so. In a fit of rage, she promised to never work on the Great Problem again, and has thus far stuck to it. Nowadays, she's still keeping busy! Realizing the whole thing with iterators slowly breaking down, she actually started a little program to send special units out to perform maintenance on iterators who request it, or scout out problems anybody thinks they may have. These units get around pretty much everywhere by using a smaller, faster, domesticated breed of vulture. NOW MORE RANDOM FACTS. -One of the smallest cans out there! Very tiny, in comparison. As such, their creators thought it funny to give them just a MASSIVE puppet. No specific height now but it could be anywhere from 10 feet or higher -Occasional fits of anger. She'll get masks to break nowadays since she already had all the art of the ancients torn down long ago. Never lets anyone see these. -Always has an overseer with their brothers at all times. -No less than 5 scugs in their chamber at all times. Occasionally babysits pups. -Has domesticated everything from aforementioned vultures to scavs to lizards to, well, most things. All too happy to send people blueprints and stuff of their process -Completely functional city! They grow and process food, make art, go about various jobs, it's kinda like it was before but with creatures. -Doesn't need payment for maintenance requests, but always appreciates whatever anybody gives. -Absolutely IMMACULATE can compared to a lot of iterators. Their creatures have learned to do their jobs well. -Trying to work on things to help the rot but it's slow going since she will NOT let any actual rot near her can, has to work with iterators who do have it remotely. -Sadder than you might think

[cantankerouscatfish]

mowing the lawn is a fun exercise in 'eyes get so gooped up that I can hardly see but after like 20 minutes it's fine'

[khytal]

anywhere is good enough as long as it’s with you

[suntails]

governance

[casualavocados]

What are you proud of?

KISEKI: DEAR TO ME Ep. 03 / Ep. 06

Bonus:

[mr-orion]

WHAT

Icarus is so full of angst... wet pizza roll of a man when hes not putting up a front tbh...

[toomanywatchers]

my new roman empire.

[biomic]

[daintydoilypon]

Do you remember?~

Unfortunately, yes.

[golswia]

MY STYLE GETS 🐱🐱🐱

[radaverse]

leaves this and dies

[icebrooding]

I was replaying What Lies Beneath (I had reasons. For a project).

And man, I'm not sure if it was a power specific to that Kryptis or not (perhaps not, since another Kryptis could use voice mimicry as seen in that one event in Bastion of the Obscure), but there is such an wealth I haven't yet tapped into of 'messed up things we can do here' regarding the ability to delude people into thinking they're seeing/hearing things that aren't there.

Like, it obviously has some limitations. The one in Gyala couldn't 'make' the visions say anything the Commander hadn't already heard; only 'repurpose and remix' things Comm already heard those people say. But let's face it, even if they were comforting and loving words, hearing those voices again saying things Comm hasn't heard in years in the exact same way could probably mentally destroy them just as badly as any kind of hatred a Kryptis could come up with.

[justalittlebluetiefling]

I’m going to try to plinko him down.

[feroluce]

Wooooooooo. God. Just imagining Gep sitting there and having all those feelings flood right through him as he reads, knowing that Sampo's gone for good but still kinda hoping it's all a mistake.

Can't even begin to imagine how he'd feel gettin the next dream from him. Probably still thinking it false, that it's just his hopes influencing his subconscious. He's probs on duty when the day comes, somehow gravitating towards the shipyard not knowing what to think.

Then he sees him, on top of some wall he's not meant to be anywhere near - don't think Sampo's capable of making a normal entrance.

Dude would probably feel 10x lighter, not realising the weight of the new's burden until it was gone, soft smile on his face as he turns around - having seen nothing at all.

N in the next few chases, if he's a little slower than usual, takes safer patrols when he notices he'sbeing followed, then he's merely out of practice.

((The context: Lucid Dreamer ficlet part 1, part 2, and an ask))

AAAAAAA ANON YOU'RE SO SMART. I have thought the same thing about Gepard's reaction to the dream; I think he'd be wary. He would be worried it was just a regular dream and not a Dream-dream, and I don't think he would tell anyone about it, because he doesn't want to break anyone's heart all over again with false hopes.

The part of this that's really killing me though is GEPARD NOTICING SAMPO IS STALKING HIM and TAKING SAFER ROUTES TO PROTECT HIM, THAT'S SO FUCKING GOOD. Gepard feeling eyes on the back of his neck in a way he hasn't felt in so long, and instead of being alarmed like a normal person, he just feels at peace. Like ah, he missed this feeling, and he didn't realize how badly he did until just now...

Absolute freaks, the both of them. I adore them.

[kittykalliarts]

⚖️Fontaine's Iudex⚖️

[crunchycrystals]

my top 4 episodes of very important people have guests that have either killed people or have dead parents