#yippee yippee i get to lore dump again!!

[bluegiragi]

sorry if you’ve been asked this before but what actually is ghost if he’s not a hybrid? like is there a classification for things that go from human -> monster, or is it a case of just existing!

Well...i'd call him a monster! He is fully a wraith now, so he's no longer in the human camp anymore. And I might change this later, but right now wraiths are the only way humans can achieve monster-hood themselves (besides becoming thralls from a vampire bite, see: Graves and his whole posse).

I think in the past, humans could be turned by werewolf bites too, but i think they were always a gamble on whether they killed the human or successfully turned them. and then as time went on and werewolves became a more insular community, they lost that ability. In any case, unless they were turned at birth, human-turned-werewolves would always be 'runts' of the pack just because they started off stunted (human).

[justanotherfanartist]

heeey guys little social help here? (poll at the end)

get ready for a rare real life lore dump (yippee) because I have a social scenario I’m not sure how to handle. this is your chance to have input on my life like some sort of rpg (if you’re into that kind of thing lmfao)

(I really really hate outing my age range like this but I feel like it might impact peoples choices so. just know I’m on the older end alright)

So, I went to this nearby jazz festival on Saturday. Basically, it’s an event that pulls a bunch of local highschools and their upper and lower level jazz bands together (I’m in my schools lower level group) to compete for awards and finalist placements and stuff like that (very fun very cool experience every time) and something that’s become a habit of mine is scanning each group for anyone interesting and it just happened that there was this guy from another school’s upper band that really stood out to me.

He is genuinely one of the prettiest guys I’ve ever laid eyes on, bro is GORGEOUS and also an amazing trombone player with super clean tone (and was part of a killer trombone soli) so naturally I’m pretty smitten. For real as soon as you start playing an instrument yourself “being good at an instrument” is immediately something added to your type which makes going to these things an interesting experience.

Anyways, I thought he was attractive enough to try and shoot my shot (I do this kinda thing every so often especially if I think I’ll get rejected just as a confidence booster. works like a charm btw) so I made up my mind that hey, we all stash our instruments in the same place, so after the finalists concert when everybody goes to grab their gear and pack up I’ll go up to him and ask him if he wants my number before we all have to leave for the night. Pretty non instrusive introduction that guarantees a short conversation and an excuse for him to leave if I happen to make him uncomfortable, that sort of thing. (I love planning out social interactions in my head before I have them)

(also this is fr the strat bc a) “hey do you want my number?” gives the person a choice and b) if they do say yes awkwardly in the moment but regret it they can always just decide not to text you; it puts the ball more in their court rather than you getting their number and texting them first, that sort of thing)

so that’s exactly what I did. I tapped him on the shoulder, he turned around, and the interaction went like this:

“Hey, you’re one of the trombone players from (insert local highschool’s upper band) right?”

“Yeah?”

“I was just wondering, would you want my phone number? :D”

“Oh, I’m actually not looking for anything right now.”

“Hey, no problem.”

“Thanks though. :)”

“Yeah ‘course!”

and then we split ways.

As of today I found their jazz group’s page on instagram (basically, I’m going around and following all the ones that I thought were really good, including his who placed first just ahead of my school’s upper band in second)(we were psyched btw cus their group is known for crushing everyone so being up there second only to them felt pretty good) and I realized he’s probably following them and I actually did manage to find his page, which is privated (oddly enough he happens to be followed by someone who I very loosely know) so it’s request to follow only.

My question is would it be weird to request to follow him? Based on my instagram page and what I have up he might not be able to recognize me but I’m guessing he’ll know it’s me just because of our interaction and the follow request, but I’m not sure if I’d be breaking a social boundary if I did that.

I don’t intend to hit on him or push him for romance or anything like that— I got a clear and polite “no thanks” and I’m not going to infringe on that full stop (boundaries are to be respected always). Blanket statement I think this guy is cool and an impressively good player, I’d legitimately want to see him perform again or possibly be friends (I’m starved for jazz friends) but I’m just reallllyyy worried it’s gonna come off as creepy or boundary breaking to request a follow so I’m not sure if I should or not.

(my logic is that he already rejected a request for communication so requesting to follow him is essentially doing the same thing again and might come off as creepy or pushing it and the last thing I want is to make this guy uncomfortable. on the other hand it could be seen as completely harmless or even flattering depending on the person but I’m really not sure.)

mutuals give me opinions bc I’m curious what you think (also I’d really appreciate it if you picked something other than maybe lmao or left me a comment of your thoughts or smthn like that. I may be overthinking this)

(asterisk is for extra info for the first poll option)

*regardless of your intentions, which he is unable to truly discern, but will probably assume is still romantic pursuit

[valfeathers]

hiiiiii i was catching up and saw the Soldedad drawing you posted a little while ago and 🥺 so so excited to have more magi scura lore if you're up for it !!

what are retainers, is the name from a power / object they'd have or a function ? would they hunt down Sol because of their use of magic, their potential crimes, or because of something linked to the scorch maybe ? are Cyril and Lucius retainers ? (based mostly on their "bad guy" status elknr but also because Cyril studies arcane magic... possibly scorch related ?)

reading back a little i realised Odette has the same markings on her hands as Agnis, is she also affected by the scorch ? what does it do ? Corvid is the only one wearing full gloves from what i can find, is he hiding scorched hands, did he die from it ?

if i could read correctly the letter is from Junipero, did he leave it somewhere only Sol would find because he trusts they're not dead ? does that mean he wasn't implicated in the incident and potential death cause, or is he on the run ? (is he ok ? u_u i hope so)

i'll stop now bc i could go on All Night XD you draw such stunning pieces and i feel so so many emotions each time, thank you so much once again for sharing your wonderful art !!!! take care <33

more questions!!!! yippee!!!! I listened to my sol & jun playlists the entire time i drafted these to really get the vibes i was after lol

i’m unapologetically using this post to dump some worldbuilding content and some redesigns for a couple of characters (cough cough odie) plus i get to share some june & sol tidbits which… i love them… i think of them always,, they are my pride and joy honestly 

as i wrote this i realised that i’ve barely touched on how the magic system works,, so as a brief preface for this post all you guys need to know is that

magic and magic use are extremely taboo in this world. the laws surrounding magic use are… extremely convoluted and ever-changing, but being an open magic user in this world is an experience, leading most magic users to go out of their way to hide away their abilities. 

 while it is most common for mages to be born with their powers,, people born powerless can strike a deal with one of the world’s gods to gain certain abilities. this is incredibly rare, though, as seen above, most people born without powers would really like to remain that way. only six known people in the main story have made one of these deals. Those who have succeeded in making these deals are known as ‘patrons’. 

oh! and it’s theorised in-universe that every mage is descended from a patron in one way or another. people have been making these deals for thousands of years so at this point, being born with or without magic is left entirely up to chance. how exactly this inheritance works is still heavily debated, and some of the more controversial scholars (ie cyril) dedicated years of research to figuring out the origins of magic, to little success. 

now onto the questions!! art + lore below <3

what are retainers?

retainers are essentially a large and elite group of soldiers in this story’s world, hailing from the nation’s capital. as the story progresses they gain more and more power and influence to the point where, at the point in the story when this piece would take place, they could be considered the main enforcers of the law. which… guys. they suck. needless to say they are the worst, and one of the main groups of antagonists. 

i specifically named this group “the retainers” because of the group’s almost pathological collective desire to keep possession of their own power and influence. opinions on these guys in-universe are… very different depending on who you ask. if you were to ask sol their opinion on the retainers their blood would boil on instinct. needless to say they aren’t a fan, and hell, i wouldn’t be either! 

would they hunt down sol because of their use of magic? their potential crimes?

both! they do NOT like sol!!! partly due to sol’s status as a social contrarian and open magic user, and partly because their continuous survival makes a complete mockery of the group’s authority. sol has been in trouble with the law since they were a young teen, although they didn’t get mixed up with the retainers until falling in with the corviday gang. regardless, by the climax of the story the retainers are desperate to finally capture them and put an end to the chase, but no such luck. believe me though, sol’s name is on file somewhere in the capital and their face is plastered onto many a town’s notice boards and lamp-posts. not to mention the massive bounty on their head, or the ‘wanted dead or alive’ disclaimer written in bold on each and every poster… they’ll be fine. totes. i could talk about bounty culture in this world forever but i’ll spare you for the moment!!

so, about sol’s magic… remember earlier i mentioned those patron guys? and how in the modern main timeline there are only six? …yeah, sol is one of them. to go on about sol’s godly sponsor would extend this post even further so all i’ll say is that (on brand) they managed to strike a deal with this world’s god of the sun & the hearth, which was a whole thing since their late family worshipped that god (something something ‘sol reconnecting to and embracing the past they tried to bury after returning to their chosen family and realising they don’t have to be alone anymore’) but i digress anyways!!!! (i love sol) (i think of them constantly) anyways!! though!!! 

at this point in the story magic is not technically illegal, but using any magic abilities to attack capital officials and retainers very much is. which… sol totally did that. they did that, with several witnesses, out of necessity mind you, but this already biased military only used the incident to further turn the public against them. 

are cyril and lucius retainers?

the short answer is no for cyril and (technically) yes for luci!!

cyril is an elite academic scholar who works closely with high ranking officials in the capital city, which means he comes into contact with the retainers’ commanding officers often. their jobs do not overlap much though, since cyril is moreso focused on well, academics as opposed to the more hands on tasks that the retainers are subject to. 

as a side note, you’re right about cyril having some connection to the scorch! he isn’t afflicted with it, don’t worry, he’s collaborating with the chief alchemist and the city’s doctors to investigate both a cause for the disease as well as possible treatments & cures. 

luci, however, is both a high-ranking city official and the adoptive son of the big bad™. So he has quite the influence over the officers, should he choose to use it. although technically a retainer on paper, he often is only assigned to smaller, covert missions, the mortality rate of which is honestly impressive. rumours abound when it comes to luci, some soldiers claim he posesses a rare and deadly kind of magic. 

odette & agnis’ hands?

funny story actually! odie’s hands have since been un-blackened and her ears un-lynxed. I decided against lynx people being a thing in this story i’m afraid,, nowadays her hands are just permanently stained with either charcoal or paint from her various projects! not scorched (good for her!!) (cyril nags her constantly about ‘just buying gloves! it isn’t that hard!’ but odie refuses to suffocate her hands like that.)

corvid, luckily, isn’t scorched either! he’s fighting fit, he dies from just… good old fashioned murder, poor guy :( 

as for agnis, though… i think it’s time i talked about the scorch a little bit. 

so the scorch is sort of a big long love letter to various bits of zombie media that i was obsessed with as a kid, coupled with the sharp teeth and bloodlust of vampires, with the treelike markings of a being that is intrinsically linked with nature itself. how? hmmm… we shall see. 

rumour has it that the scorch first originated centuries ago deep underground, miners accidentally disturbing a strange root system deep beneath the earth. it’s a disease that is highly unpredictable, capable of turning anybody into an unrecognisable and feral monster. 

the disease is spread through the bite of a turned scorched one, patients, after turning, are afflicted with the uncontrollable urge to attack and maul those unaffected. those who survive such attacks have about a one in ten chance of turning. some recover, albeit scarred, and others succumb later to the poisonous effects of the bite. unfortunately the third option is the most common.. as the years passed, the problem persisted until it reached the capital, then and only then did research begin in earnest. 

the disease normally spreads slowly, once again the speed of the disease’s progression once a person is turned seems to be, well, random. some lose all control in mere weeks, others, like agnis, get years.

the research on the condition is still in its early stages, although the retainers and their employers seem to be very interested in just how this ancient affliction works. that doesn’t bode well. 

junipero’s letter?

you read correctly, the letter is from him! you’ve hit the nail right on the head i fear,,, i couldn’t have said it better myself! They did leave the letter for sol to find,, and in the letter is a gentle reminder that junipero has faith in sol’s ability to not get themself killed, and reassurance that he isn’t worried. 

the incident that leads to sol’s Extra Wanted status happens pretty much right after they get their new powers, they are confronted by, well, the head retainer. their boss, if you will. his name is tempest. and a group of his men. he does this for reasons honestly unrelated to anything sol actually did, tempest has unfinished business and the person he is looking for, corvid, has been dead for like two years at that point. the encounter goes south quickly and sol escapes after injuring some of their attackers and lays low for a couple weeks. this whole encounter makes sol’s life quite a bit harder for a loooong while, considering they end up having to work with tempest’s wife later on but that’s another story for another day. at this point in the plot, doing what sol did is practically a death sentence, and if they weren’t in danger before they definitely are now. 

one thing i want to mention, though, is that june was sort of implicated in sol’s ‘cause of death’ since the retainer ambush & sol’s fake death are two different events, one of which (the fake death) happening before the story starts and the other (retainer attack) happening closer to the end of the story. 

the absolute shortest retelling of sol (& june’s) false death is that they (and also pandora) kind of destroyed a dam, caused a fair bit of damage in an attempt to flee a crime scene and the public, after hearing about that whole debacle, accepted that the two probably drowned together. needless to say the retainers get the shock of their lives when they get word that nope, sol still isn’t dead yet. this isn’t the last time they ‘die’ in this story either, but i’m getting way ahead of myself.and that story is how june winds up on the retainers’ radar, not for his work as a literal hitman, but for being in the area when pandora broke a dam. he didn’t even break the thing! he was just an accomplice. injustice, honestly.

speaking of june!! sol and june have been through a lot together, this isn’t their first brush with death, alarmingly enough. and although the two weren’t together when sol was confronted by the retainers, these two have experience escaping dangerous situations and he knows, in his bones, that sol is fine. that they have to be fine. sol returns to june (also the protags) shortly after the piece and they get to reunite again and all is well (briefly)! give them a break, i say, like i’m not the writer.

a final cliffhangy note is that… june is on the run, but not just from the retainers.

aand that’s it!!! the dystopian aspects of mgsc really jumped out this time,, i think it goes without saying this story can get DARK. thank you for the kind words at the end there, that my work evokes anything at all is all i could hope for hehe! i’m so glad people like sol & junipero,,, i love them so so much i can’t even find a proper english phrase to describe it.

[strawberryspotsstuff]

HELLO C AN YUO WRITE A BOBBY CULT X READER WHERE READER IS AUTISTIC AND IS ENERGETIC AND RANTS/INFO DUMPS 24/7 BECAUSE NOBODY WILL LISTEN TO THEM N BOBBY IS JUST ALLOWING IT AND SLOWLY WARMING UP TO THEM,,,,,,,,, (READER IS TOTALLY NOT ME)

-yippee anon

LMFAOOOOOO DAWWWWWW <33333

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Bobby Cult x Reader

Bobby laughed softly, titling his head as he watched in amusement as you energetically raised your hands in the air, ranting about a new hyperfixation you were into. Bobby smiled softly, a soft blush stretched across his cheeks.

He subtly asked you a question about it, as he watched your eyes light up, probably at the fact he were listening to you. You happily answered his question, which slowly turned into another whole energetic spill about it's lore, characters. This was happening for quiet some time now, every day you would hang out with Bobby, at the start, he was alittle cold towards you, but as days turned to weeks, Bobby felt more engaged, asking more questions, his tone even seeming more cheery.

It became a habit, to spill every hyperfixation you had onto him, really he was the only one who talked you or even engaged with you.

You did think he was doing it to be polite, but he reassured you that he was having a good time, and really did enjoy your company. Bobby even, embarrassingly shared some of his hyperfixations, happily being told that you were also into his crazes.

Both of you sat together on couch, a platter of sweets arranged on the coffee table, the soft buzzing of a radio subtly playing background music and the flicker of strawberry scented candles, lit the room as both of you were lost in your own world. Giggling and chatting about anything and everything you were both obsessed with.

"Aw damn, it's already midnight." You laughed shyly, stuffing more sweets in your mouth.

Bobby blinked in surprise, moving his gaze to the clock which hung by the tv. "Ah. Yes, it does seem that we spent a lot of time talking."

You stood up stretching, grinning at your new friend. "Well, I better get goin' ey?"

He nodded softly, following your lead, opening the door for you as you both in toe went to the driveway. The cold air nipped at your skin, ruffling the old newspapers and littered trash scattered across the dark pavement. The buzzing and flickering of old street lights and the distance howling and barking or dogs.

Hopping into your car you waved to Bobby, smiling to yourself. You felt a warm feeling in your stomach, you couldn't wait to talk to him again.

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[tzawa-1y]

Why is pirate au hoshi immortal?

because mermaids <3

I was gonna do a whole little fun to read, fic like lore dump,,, but,,, i feel like that would both take too long and also be too long, and not even get everything across, so bullet points yippee...

A trusted & close friend sent him on a veeryy urgent, super important delivery!! It had to be completed quickly, as he needed it sent before two nights had passed.

This was in another town, just a trek along a rocky coast that should take but a day.

Hoshizawa agreed to the terms and payment, he didn't suspect his friend to pull anything, of course.

But, his friend did, of course, wanted Hoshizawa's position -- promotions and money n all. That would be easy if they just went suddenly missing.

The parcel was filled only with rocks and junk, and the area was supposed to be hit by a storm by midday.

And, soon enough, it was. There wasn't many good paths to take that would still be timely, and they were already most of the way there.

By dusk, the storm made it much more hazardous, and the soaked environment was frail.

Hoshizawa continued on, figuring that the town had to be nearby, and they couldn't just stop now.

...Leading of course to falling off the cliff because of a landslide.

He was cast into the rocky waters below, and after being swept into a deeper part of the sea, his leg was trapped, rendering him unable to escape, and left to drown to death.

End of*

(*=not really)

Suddenly a great merfolk, a leviathan in size, rescued him.

He was but moments from death, and with no other method of reviving the human, blessed him with immortality.

("blessed". sure.)

The great merfolk Naga saved him from death, and brought them to a safer shore, wounds stably managed.

A tale of youthful irresponsibility, leading to decades, soon a full century and going of stagnation for Hoshizawa.

Already afraid of the sea, worsened by the incident, and maximally increased on learning the ins and outs of his own immortality.

(basically, they can still feel pain and be hurt by any and everything, but they cannot die.)

Over the years he's learned, he's lost, he's wisened and he's moved. But never have they aged.

They're currently a barkeep, as they have been for several years now. But as time moves forward, and more ill intended people catch onto his lack of aging, they might have to move on again soon.

Lest, of course, someone didn't like that.

bonus; pic above no filters or wtv

forgot to tag her like an idiot: oc is naga <3 @murasaki-naga