#yrvin heshatani

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The second major family is the Heshatanis:

The most 'heroic' of these two are Vishori and Agati, a super-soldier made to destroy planets and the setting's equivalent of Frankenstein's monster as an artificial lifeform (and green, to boot!) and the equivalent of the head of the KGB or director of the FBI. That tells you something about the rest.

The first of them to really be focused on the story at any chronological level is Darshandrin Heshatani, a master of the electromagnetic force and one of the Four Lords of the Architects of Fear. Also the master of the Four Lords of his time. Darshandrin is an oversized Roes'in for his species who has a stout frame that even without the rest of his powers would qualify him as an extremely dangerous individual and with them means that he's got raw physical abilities and the power to command the electromagnetic spectrum (meaning among other things he can hijack communications and unleash gamma ray bursts). Darshandrin was dedicated to a classical Lovecraft villain's goal of encountering the eldritch powers that sustained the universe, and did exactly what he wanted and he and his wife are now ever-living and ever-tormented inhabitants of the empire-entity of Azarath.

They have three children, the eldest of whom is Shandrin Heshatani, the master of the Weak Nuclear Force. He happens to in other words be a very literal walking atom bomb and a WMD analogy, which is why his own sons have this same quality as well in different fashions. Shandrin is the Imperial greater-scope villain of the story, who made a bargain with a terrible Daemon and willingly allowed it into the Empire and the consequences of this are what set off the setting proper. He's a dour murderous fanatic deeply beholden to the Architects' own codes, one of the most powerful metahumans to ever exist, and fully aware of it.

He has two sons, one is Yrvin Heshatani, who is a telepath and telekinetic to Dark Phoenix proportions (who is the Lex Luthor to Xaderavcal's Superman, he, not she, would have been the greatest power if she didn't exist and the same petty envies that drive Luthor drive him). He's also a brutish thug who uses portal tech to cross dimensions and indulge in a lengthy and protracted rape and murder spree whenever it suits him. He is one of the most morally repugnant characters I've written and his main flaw, like that of the character that inspired him, is a monstrous arrogance leavened by complacency.

His brother Landro wields plasma, and is in relative terms the weakest of the family in metanormal terms if one of the most dangerous in other ways. He's essentially the Architects' equivalent of Internal Affairs, the Watcher of the Watchmen and accordingly an inventor and a master of super-tech that makes him feared even by entities who are much mightier than he. And relative to Yrvin he's the Mycroft to Yrvin's Sherlock, Yrvin is more social and more open with his loutish thuggery but Landro is much more sinister and takes even greater joy in what he does.

His younger sister Keshri commands the strong nuclear force and is called the Star-Kindler, as she can literally....kindle stars. Complete with the gravitational distortions as well as heat. Even with the Architects the legacy of the Age of Legends means identifying with a body of starlight is the equivalent of Xipe Totec cults or the generic Hollywood Satanist. She also has ASPD, or its equivalent in an alien species and it's very much not a superpower but she's so absurdly powerful that the Architects are caught in a trap of their own making with no way to get out of it.

She has three children in turn, two daughters and a son. The two daughters are Etashri and Kaartshahin, and both of them inherited their mother's powers and are in a perpetual spiral of competition. The son, Arzhandzhir, is a reality-warper who's the least sadistic of that branch of the family but is perfectly callous and monstrous in his own way, as the power behind the throne manipulating his sisters and his mother with his own powers making him one of the few who'd dare.

And then there's the youngest, Agati Heshatani, who's got his own powers that have a WMD analogue. When he gets angry he gains four feet and a thousand pounds in mass, becoming a colossal muscled force where the madder he gets, the stronger he gets. He transforms in a flash of light and due to mastering the idea of a tranquil rather than a berserker rage (though at times this can slip and when it does it's very much AGATI SMASH PUNY EMPIRE) and is fond of using his transformed state to 'interrogate' people with the idea of facing a colossus who's an unstoppable force and an immovable object all in one.

He's the equivalent of the head of the KGB, his rival Azazteti Kavtrulin is the equivalent of the head of the GRU.

His daughter is Vishori Heshatani, the aforementioned Frankenstein's Monster equivalent and a femme lesbian. Who happens to have her own shadowy secrets and among all of them is that she, Xaderavcar, an agent and relatively normal fellow of her father's named Vuhl H'ven Dugara who didn't sign up for this shit and is stuck in it anyway, and a seer who's a hybrid of the Khair and Trarh-Khanir, Meremi, are all tied to the God on the Gilded Throne as her Oversoul. Occasionally someone too clever by half tries to take one of them as a hostage to bargain with the Urhalzantrani walking virus.

It goes messily if she's deranged and it goes much more horrifically if she's lucid.

The Heshatanis are in their own way a dynasty and a mirror of the Empire and of its imperialism, the raw architects that helped to create it and those who took that technology and pioneering spirit down its darkest and most unhallowed corners.

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Then I would have expected the Thanos jokes with the whole Death smut thing. *snorts* Evidently on Tumblr all you have to do to be a simp for a character is write them as a human being and not a walking plot device.

Nichya, it looks like everyone's favorite busybody confession blog is attacking you and the Frenchie again (post/682208216828018688/honestly-why-should-we-care-about-the-opinions-of#notes).

Christ, so much bullshit in one single post.

Gotta love how they’re still insisting that we support rape just because we know the difference between kink and abuse. It’s almost as fun as when they say I was raped/abused even after I repeatedly said that shit didn’t happen.

And how in the fuck are all of these people suddenly endorsing everything I do just because they like some of the posts I make about Azula? And for fucks sake I’m pretty sure half of them never even talked to dragomer or interacted with him in any way - how are they “excusing his behavior”? They’ve interacted with me and the frenchie interacted with me therefore we’re all the best of friends? How old is this anon, five?

Saying “Don’t make shit up” (be it refering to the canon events of a cartoon or about real people) means “Don’t ever disagree with me” now? Since when?

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A scene from the Fire Sage Azula AU:

Azula was surprised when the stranger walked up to her boldly. Her visits to Capital Island and Caldera were moments she treasured, when she could forget the burden of her knowledge and of what it was that she knew. Of what her family had done and was doing. What fate portended for her. He was a man who seemed both somewhat short and immensely broad, his skin as dark as the Water Tribes.

What surprised her was that his eyes were more golden than the standard eyes of the Fire Nation. She heard for a moment what seemed to be an inhumanly deep voice speaking in an alien tongue and then a cultured voice speaking in an accent worthy of the finest royals and high noble castes of Capital Island spoke.

"Fire Sage, may I ask of you a question?"

It was nice to hear people speak her title in reverence, though she spoke truthfully.

"I'm only a novitiate very early in my training. I'm not sure what help I could-"

The man moved a hand that was astonishingly strong to put his grip on her shoulder. Again the strange sounds of a supremely beautiful language in a low tone and then her people's speech.

"I insist." The grip did not allow her to leave and she did not see the six Eyes and Ears in plain clothes that began to follow them, though the stranger did. Had they, or she, seen the nature of the stranger's grin things would have accelerated sooner than they did. He directed her to a house that was unoccupied, mostly.

And then she found an invisible power holding her in the seat as the stranger moved a hand in front of his face and she was staring at something that wasn't even close to human. Stout and broad, fingers that were like great slabs. The face was uncannily like that of a man minus the pointed ears save that the forehead was low and the brow ridge sloped. The most surprising part was that the skin was darker than any human skin tone allowed, the eyes as intensely golden as they had been.

The main raised an artificial hand next, one made of metal and shining with hues that drew her gaze as much as she could move in horrified fascination.

I am Yrvin Heshatani, the voice that spoke in her head was not a voice at all. It was a boulder slamming into her from an Earthbender, the great tides called by Waterbenders.

Your mind is unguarded, Baranik. You've seen them. The Deathless, the Oathkeepers. The creatures that call themselves Urhalzantrani. You are the only one to do so on this world and to have survived the experience minus the creature that calls itself Avatar.

The inhuman entity sat into a chair that creaked with his weight, steepling his fingers.

It was then that the Eyes and Ears burst in and she saw something more terrifying than anything she had imagined minus the encounters with the horrors that walked on the twin solstices. One of the Eyes and Ears hurled a fire-whip clean at the inhuman entity. A sensation of Power rippling out that could not be seen followed and then he and his companions were frozen in mid-motion, the fire-whip likewise frozen, strangely beautiful.

There, spoke the inhumanly powerful voice (her nose was starting to bleed and her head ached from proximity to it). Now that that unpleasantness is over.....

He leaned forward.

Let us see how a priest from a backwards world survived an encounter intact with something powerful enough to eradicate your entire universe in an eyeblink.

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At the same token this is also what makes Yeneli one of Death's two 'villains' in the Cycle

Yeneli is another case of 'creation surpasses vision of creator.' Under an old mystical law, like attracts like. She grasps not only that Death of the Endless cannot die but that she's a straight up walking magic field taking person form. Every single one of her actions follows from these two discoveries and how she goes about acting upon them.

It also both plays straight and subverts one of the running themes of Sandman of cruelty to supernatural creatures from captors. In The Sandman series it's human beings who do this, in this series it's a world-destroyer from mythology who's found Achilles Heels that very few other entities would have the audacity to seek and then proceeds to willfully and mercilessly exploit them to the hilt for fun and profit.

Yeneli also exemplifies an element that 'monster and mentally ill are not synonyms.' She is indisputably in my eyes one of the vilest character concepts I've created, with Yrvin Heshatani a close second in terms of his deeds. She is not mentally ill, she's superhumanly intelligent by the standards of a species made of magic and follows the whole 'the Endless are neither truly people nor living beings' logic to a logical conclusion.

And in the process the increasing power and sliding down the slippery slope on magma turns her into the DC Universe's very first Crisis Villain for its first cycle of heroes to face (much of which happens ultimately off-screen though the buildup to it is the backdrop of Changes Within Changes as applied to Krypton, Oa, the Fourth World, Vega, and the like).

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A basic rule that applies most directly in the Avatar setting but in all of them, my own stories included, with superpowered individuals

Is that raising kids with superpowers is a hazardous enterprise even when the parents have powers themselves. If they don't it turns into 'the ruler salutes you for your service sir and ma'am and/or any other gender'. Kids are kids, regardless of species, and willful and impulsive and destructive enough without powers. With them they can magnify normal kid behavior down paths that other people would neither anticipate nor welcome, but simply represents regular kid things scaled way way up.

Few kids have the potential elements to be truly evil as far as superpowers go, though the ones that do tend to have a disproportionate subset of telepaths because the ability to control powers increases with age and experience. And the more powerful the telepath, the more the kid grows up with some very unchildlike behavior from constant bombardment with unfiltered thoughts and the more this tends to most likely shape the ones that go down the paths of say, Yrvin Heshatani.

Doesn't excuse their actions a bit, but it does reflect an overall callous and stupid way of raising a kid with powers that inevitably bites the people who do it and everyone around them in the ass.

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Intending to get back into the Children of the Stars verse:

I deliberately left the last of the Daimon equivalents around, given the Senshi fought that one, to set up the ultimate 'twist' with the appearance of the Thousand Sons. This last Daimon is a case of Gone Horribly Right where Yrvin Heshatani, Lord Pharaoh 90's equivalent in this universe, more or less partially cloned his arch-nemesis and gave her power on par with his own.

Power plenty sufficient to let her don the guise in appearing to the Thousand Sons as Magnus the Red, Sorcerer-King of the Planet of Sorcerers and former Primarch of the loyal Legions of the Emperor of Mankind.

This next arc is the most directly 40K-ish of the entire bunch including elements that set up the distant backstory of the Imperium and providing its shadows over the duels of the Senshi with the elements of the Everchosen bearing down on Earth.

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In the Bizjarran Empire scale setting the most sufficiently advanced of the sufficiently advanced aliens are the Architects of Fear

They are the Bene Gesserit equivalent relative to the Dune setting, as well as the Mentats. More precisely they're the Bene Gesserit and the Tleilaxu in an unholy hybrid to a Dune purist. They have the most advanced tech of any faction, dwarfing that of the Empire mainly because they manufacture it for a smaller number of people. Where the Empire has that same luxury it has the resources of entire galaxies to cal upon where the Architects have to invade other universes and hide from the Empire's pursuit, meaning their technology is innately biased to military pursuits over civilian by necessity and because even the evils of the Bizjarran Empire consider the Architects to be going way too far.

The Architects are one of the two elements along with the Urhalzantrani that unite my stories and provide that element of where both the fanfiction and the original fiction have elements of that unity that leads to it feeling like a coherent mythos. And of the two the omniversal eldritch abominations are the nicer bunch to have running around.

They are distant and detached and in that Lovecraftian tier of 'too powerful to give a damn about most sadism.' The Architects, on the other hand, are very much not this.

Their practical governing structure takes that leaf from the Bene Gesserit as well of having a religious aspect (and to their own members they speak of their organization as their Order, though sometimes using the formal name and the hubristic first name of 'Architects of Fate'.) They have four leaders, empowered by the Four Fundamental forces, Electromagnetism, Gravitation, and the Strong and Weak nuclear forces. Meaning that they literally have people walking around who can command gamma ray bursts and ignite stars by willpower and who represent among the most powerful metanormals and the most amoral.

In the version of it set in the age I tell the stories in the most powerful family associated with the Architects of Fear are the Heshatanis, a lineage that produces some of the most powerful metanormals in the setting. Yrvin Heshatani, the most powerful Psionic known until Xaderavcal and company came along, and his brother Landro, who commands power drawn directly from stars and thus is just as much a potential planet-wrecker as hi brother, are the son of Shandrin Heshatani, the master of the Weak Nuclear Force (and thus a walking atom bomb) and his sister Keshri, Master of the Strong Nuclear Force and called 'Starmaker' because she literally.....creates actual starlight.

Against even the Urhalzantrani short of the Lightdancer, who is invincible in the most truthful sense, the Architects of Fear *can and do* hurt them, though this invariably backfires as it draws the full weight of the entity against them and it leads to massive destruction following.

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X) Misread it.

As far as characters I like to make suffer? It depends on the fandom. In She-Ra Shadow Weaver is going to be in for a bad time. In my Avatar works Ozai invariably snuffs it where he doesn't have a bad time, and Zhao insofar as he exists will be a cosmic chew toy.

My Death of the Endless cycle has Death stuck in a Groundhog Day Loop of a sort not much better than the one in the movie, so.....even the ones I like the most get it in fandom terms.

In terms of my original fiction? Yrvin Heshatani and his dad come in for it the worst because I wrote them as people easy to hate who deserve it the worst.

B S T X for the ask game

B) No, I don't really use personal experience as a guide to my writing, as far as lived experiences. My academic education I do use in war stories and my overall education in history and historiography shapes aspects of my writing beyond that, but I'm not sure where 'personal experience' is drawn as a line. If that, yes. If 'do I make stories semi-autobiographical,' no.

S) Honestly, if I write about a particular fandom that's got superpowers or giant monsters and as such is never meant to be realistic I like to go straight for keeping it as fantasy as possible. I don't understand people who go into stories trying to take all the fun out of them. If you're going to write about people with superpowers, or what have you, let them keep the powers as it's the entire point of why people get into this in the first place.

T) Everything to do with "Madness is a superpower," "Women cannot into great power without going stark raving mad" (I can rant for days on the Dark Phoenix Saga and how DC Comics treats Raven as two of the worst examples of this), "Let's take characters who are meant to be Good with the capital G and make them edgy because I am an overgrown child high off the smell of my own farts who thinks Rick and Morty is clever"......and due to my academic education "War stories that magically handwave logistics when there's so much you can do with that for humor or other things."

Z) Answered in a previous ask already but I will repeat the gist.

For shock value or pathos, no.

In war stories I do tend to ultimately use aspects of it to preserve the power of war to kill off people regardless of side or moral value, and I do also see the merit of giving the occasional General Sedgwick moment for gallows humor.

As far as writing it, I would, aside from the aforementioned elements in war, also have a more nuanced aspect with it because my favorite character of all time is Death of the Endless. Who represents death the concept in a more nuanced fashion that tilts to the grimmer and sadder aspects even as she has this perky smile in the midst of it all.

So I don't exactly shy away from writing death when my favorite character of all time is a version of the Reaper.

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Yrvin Heshatani, the Outside Context Problem for the Sailor Senshi who essentially replaces both Pharaoh 90 and Doctor Tomoe. A Psi-Class Metanormal and future Architect of Fear in training, his telepathy can master entire planetary populations without straining itself. His telekinesis can make suns go red giant or supernova without warning.

In the regular Omniverse Tales, he is the Lex Luthor to Xaderavcal the Unifier’s Superman, the being who would be *the* Superman of the setting had not the Omega-class entities come along. And for the Senshi, he is nothing of Chaos nor of the Youma, a dreadful super-scientist with highly advanced technology and a power set entirely well, Outside Context.

Children of the Stars is essentially his grand debut as a supervillain in a story in a stealth form, and he both ‘subverts’ elements of the Death Busters arc and essentially interweaves himself so neatly that it works not all that differently from the rest and his Outside Context power *creates* the two crises after him, awakening the Circus and drawing Galaxia and Chaos’s ravenous gaze to a singular planetary system among the infinite stars of the Milky Way.

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Working on a multiverse linking a set of fandoms, including two Kaiju and two Sailor Moon series, and soon enough a DCU universe with a more heavy connection to the Endless reliant on the question of if Burgess had trapped Death instead of Dream and the kind of chaos that would have resulted if he did.

This Phoenix Multiverse will ultimately have some multiversal interaction, with the monster Gamera as one of the linking factors between them.

One universe is the one most directly connected to my OCs mainly because I elected to spare Hotaru the fate of being dicked around by Master Pharaoh 90 and thought my replacement would be more monstrous and instead Yrvin Heshatani ends up less so than canonical Pharaoh 90. But Hotaru doesn’t get Terminator Salvationed by her own father, and she’s a precious cinnamon roll that deserves better, so....