#zamiel 6

[pleiadescrown]

also some centaur designs for zamiel....if aksis can be one why can't we (?

[xfreischutz]

halloween costumes for the guardians! the weather, a werewolf, a ghost, and watson (and tiny sherlock)

[remington-zero]

would you believe that i’ve sketched like. three times the amount i sketched over november-december so far. being away from toxic workplace will do that for you!

mostly ardens, a couple of other stuff here and there, but most important is Dri Fiery

[duhragonball]

Hellsing Liveblog Afterward

So, this is just a place for me to toss in some other Hellsing stuff I wanted to talk about outside the reading of Hellsing itself.

Okay so first off, I wanted to document this cool trivia I noticed about Rip van Winkle, the werewolf(?) with the musket that fires magic bullets.   Her weapon is based on the 19th Century German opera Der Freischütz. The opera is based on a  story published by Johann August Apel in 1811, and this writing was based on German folklore.    The legend involves a marksman who makes a contract with the devil and receives seven magic bullets.   Six will hit whatever the marksman wants, but the seventh is at the sole discretion of the devil himself.   In Hellsing, the Major speaks to Rip about her own musket and reminds her that the opera ends with Zamiel, the devil, coming to claim his due.  This is intended to foreshadow Alucard counterattack on the H.M.S. Eagle, where he plows through Rip’s defenses and kills her in gruesome fashion.

So I went back and counted all the times Rip van Winkle shoots her musket, just to see if there was any special significant to it.    The first was when the old Nazi officers complain to the Major, and Rip shoots the Colonel’s cane before he can strike the Major with it.     At least, I’m pretty sure that was the idea here.  The cane breaks and everyone looks around and Zorin points to the lady with the gun to indicate who just did that.   So that’s one bullet.

After assuming control of the H.M.S. Eagle, Rip van Winkle meets with the Eagle’s first officer, who betrayed the crew to Millennium in exchange for vampire powers.    She then betrays him and his fellow traitors, killing them all with a single shot from her musket.    This is where we first find out what her ability is.   So that’s two.

The British Navy tries to take back the ship by sending a helicopter full of SEALs, but Rip destroys the entire team with another shot from her musket.   So that’s three shots fired.

While Hellsing prepares their own response, the Navy tries again, this time sending a fighter plane to sink the Eagle with missiles, but Rip shoots down the missiles and the plane with one bullet.   Four.

This is where I started to wonder if there was a particular pattern to Rip’s use of the musket.  I’m pretty sure she just uses one bullet and can fire it as many times as she pleases, but she was literally singing songs from the opera and it seemed kind of superfluous to have her foil two separate attack by the Navy.  The first one showed us that conventional forces wouldn’t get the job done, so the second one only makes sense if Kouta Hirano was just trying to add to the count.

Then Alucard arrives aboard a modified SR-71 Blackbird.   At 85,000 ft in the air, he’s out of range, but then he nosedives onto the deck of the ship.    Rip fires again to destroy the Blackbird before it crashes into them.    Five.

Alucard survives the crash and wipes out all of Rip’s soldiers while she has a panic attack.   Cornered, she finally gathers her wits and attacks Alucard.  Her bullet hurts him, but he eventually catches it in his teeth, neutralizing her weapon and leaving her at his mercy.  That’s shot number six.

I was hoping this shot would be the seventh, since the seventh bullet in Der Freischütz belongs to the devil, and Alucard caught this one in his teeth, but no.   Then I remembered that the musket gets fired one last time...

... in London, when Alucard releases the familiars of all the victims he’s consumed over the centuries, including Rip Van Winkle.  She fires the musket once more, but this time it’s Alucard directing the shot into the helicopters of the Ninth Crusade.   Shot number seven is at the discretion of the devil himself, and “Dracula” is a diminutive of “Dracul”, a Romanian word for “devil”.   Neat stuff.

Okay, so now let’s talk about Seras, because that’s kind of my jam.   What’s the deal with this line?  “Her existence is somewhat of a marvel.  You could say it’s somewhat of a joke.  Perhaps she herself has not even noticed yet!!”

That’s the Major discussing Sir Integra and Seras in Volume 5.   He stresses that neither is to be underestimates, and I think he makes a good case for Integra, but with Seras he never actually comes to the point.   So what’s up with that? 

Of course, there’s the truth we saw in the final battle.  Once she finally drank blood of her own volition, Seras became a full-on vampire and one of the most powerful warriors on the field.   She destroyed the Captain quite handily, and he was the strongest guy Millennium had.   But this seems a tad obvious?   Why not just spell it out for Zorin.  “Hey, our intel says she’s weaker than expected because she won’t drink blood, but that could change at a moment’s notice, and she’s still strong enough to take down a lot of our soldiers, so proceed with caution.” 

I’m not saying the Major is wrong.   He told Zorin not to engage, and he made the right call.    I’m just wondering what the “joke” is exactly.  

I think it might be one of two things.   By the end of Hellsing, Seras demonstrates a similar level of ability to Alucard.  Sunlight appears to have no effect on her, she can summon familiars like Alucard, and regenerate her wounds with great alacrity.   I’m pretty sure she’d be about as hard to kill as Alucard himself, which Integra said was a product of Hellsing “enhancements”, rather than natural vampire power.   Except Seras was never “enhanced”, she seems to have just inherited these “super-vampire” powers from Alucard when he turned her.   The Major and Doctor may have anticipated this, and the “joke” was that Seras could completely upset the balance of their plans, except she’s too squeamish to drink the blood that would make this possible.  

Or, the joke might be that Alucard turned Seras at all.   He just sort of did this out of nowhere, and I’m pretty sure no one saw that coming.   Millennium and Walter had been keeping tabs on Hellsing for decades, and not much changed until Alucard decided to add Seras to the group.   The vampires in Millennium’s Last Battalion were all produced through the Doctor’s artificial vampire research, which was based upon intense study of Mina Harker, the last person Alucard turned into a vampire before he met Seras.   

So from that standpoint, Seras represents a superior version of Mina, who represents the ideal that the Doctor was trying to achieve.  At best, his finest artificial vampires could only be as strong as Mina Harker, and Seras got that way in one night by a twist of fate.  

I guess there’s no way to be sure what the Major meant.  I checked the OVA subs and dubs and they basically repeat the same line, so there’s nothing for me to triangulate there.  And maybe it only refers to Seras being a joke in the sense that she was mostly comic relief up to that point.   Even that badass moment she had against Jan Valentine’s ghouls probably didn’t impress anyone at the Millennium office.   

Finally, I checked out Hellsing: The Dawn, and it really wasn’t worth the trouble.   I couldn’t find any official English release, so I sort of gave up on it, but I finally ran across it last week and decided to check it out.   

Basically, it’s only six chapters, and very little actually gets done in those six chapters.   I’m not sure if Kouta Hirano is just running super late on the thing, of if he abandoned it completely, but my guess is he got this far in and decided there really wasn’t any point in continuing.   

Let me break it down for you.

Chapter 1: Walter is sent to the Major’s facility in Warsaw, to destroy the vampire research.   He jumps out of a plane with Alucard’s coffin.

Chapter 2: The Doctor reports on his progress to the Major, and they briefly discuss “She” aka Mina Harker.  From what I gather, Mina is still alive/undead in 1944.   Then Walter crashes into their facility and declares his intentions to kill them all.

Chapter 3: The Major is impressed with Walter’s power and offers him a place in his command.  Walter refuses and the Major leaves him to die at the hands of the Captain.

Chapter 4: Walter fights the Captain, and Alucard finally emerges from his coffin in Girlycard form.

Chapter 5: Walter and Alucard fight the Captain, who now stands revealed as a werewolf.   The Major somehow recognizes Alucard on sight and takes an interest in observing the battle.

Chapter 6: Alucard leaves to go hunt down the Captain’s superiors, leaving Walter to fight alone.  Alucard then encounters Rip van Winkle and defeats her with ease.    He seems like he’s about to kill her when some menacing figures approach from the shadows...

In other words, not a whole lot actually happens that we couldn’t have guessed from the original Hellsing manga.    At the rate he was going, it would have taken Hirano maybe 30 or 40 chapters to actually get to anything truly juicy, and I’m not sure the audience would have wanted to wait around for that.    The main problem is that we already know how this ends.   None of the good guys or bad guys die, because they all show up in Hellsing 55 years later.  The Major will lose badly enough that he has to evacuate the whole operation to Brazil, and that interests me because somehow he has to lose this battle, but not so badly that he can’t escape.  

What disappoints me is that there’s really only three things of interest about this part of the Hellsing mythos: Walter’s decision to betray England, Alucard’s relationship with Walter, and the Major’s relocation from Euope to South America.    The Dawn appears to gloss over all of these.   The Major asks Walter to switch sides in their very first encounter.   Walter refuses, but we know he’ll say yes later, so there doesn’t feel like there’s any conflict to this.  So far, Walter comes off like a little shithead, so if he changes his mind at the end of this story it’ll seem completely capricious.   I’d like to think the Major could say something persuasive to convince him, or Alucard could piss Walter off enough to push him into the Major’s arms, but none of that seems to be happening.  

The Girlycard form is taken completely for granted.   Al shows up and Walter immediately takes offense.  He knows Alucard doesn’t normally look like this and he sees no reason for this new look.   Al just says the same thing he says about it in 1999, that form and appearance mean nothing to him.   Well if it doesn’t mean anything to Alucard or Walter, what’s the point?

The way I always imagined it, the Girlycard form had a lot of emotional baggage for Walter.   I figured he met Alucard in this form, and they spent some time together hunting down the Major.    Walter fell in love with Girlycard, even though he should have known better, and when Alucard finally abandoned the form, he knew that there was no way his feelings would ever be returned.   And this would build resentment within Walter, making him more interested in joining the Major.  

Instead, none of that seems to be happening.    This is just one big long fight in one building.   Hirano already threw his biggest gun at Walter, so there’s no buildup to the Captain.   Alucard won’t fight the Captain, but it’s unclear what else he’s supposed to do instead.  There might be a good story in all of this, but these first six chapters don’t encourage me.    Also, they keep jumping over to check in on Arthur Hellsing in London.   I don’t think this guy is Integra’s father, but maybe her grandfather had the same first name?    He looks cool, but he has nothing to do.   He’s like thousands of miles removed from the action, so anything he says or does just comes back to him talking about how tough and cool Walter is.   So yeah, I think The Dawn is a huge waste of time, and maybe Kouta Hirano reached the same conclusion.  

And... yeah, that’s all I’ve got.   In May, I’ll be liveblogging another comic.   Will it be as successful?   Only time will tell...

[nemossubmarine]

Warhammer 40k: Wrath & Glory RP #26

We played this final session of our Elysium adventures before Christmas but I was without computer for most of Christmas, so I’m only writing this up now. Good thing I have 6 pages of detailed notes to work with. Let’s see how the revolution went.

We start with checking how our heroes have prepared for the assassination of the tech-priest few days before the moment of truth. 

Gimlet’s, Saef’s and Zamiel’s booze run goes well. 

Vivek and Saef join Zamiel in some drinking and while on it, find out that Zamiel’s father was also not Enlightened. 

In the sector a search for three bearded men is conducted, with lots of servo skulls around, so our heroes hole in in Malika’s basement. 

Some of the resistance fighters try to smuggle gun parts out of the factories. 

Our total is 8 guns, that Zamiel and Gimlet put together (well Gimlet mostly, but he attempts to teach Zamiel), but two people never make it back. 

Gimlet brings up the fact that he’s hoping to get information out of the tech priest, as well as possibly the servitors and the lenses. 

Vivek is of the opinion that the tech priest isn’t going to be a very talkative fellow, so best wait until after he’s dead to do that. 

Gimlet apparently has a 12-part questionnaire about Inquisitor Fane and his dealings he wants answers to. 

Saef sneaks back to our perma-invisible ship to get more weapons. 

On his way back, he has to divert into the sewers to avoid being caught and loses his bludgeon in the sewers. 

He returns for it, but a servo skull is guarding the place. Saef smites the servo skull, grabs his bludgeon and bolts. 

Back at base, Vivek and Malika teach some of the resistance fighters shooting. 

Someone tells Vivek that he should be a teacher for real, which flusters the man somewhat. 

Saef teaches melee combat, mostly defensive stances to the revolutionaries. 

Zamiel explains to us how the proceedings usually go on the day of Enlightening; The tech-priest arrives in the elevator, makes a speech and makes his way to the factory where some Space Marines are standing guard. 

We decide it’s probably best to attack him when he steps out of the elevator. 

It is decided that Saef will take the lenses that will turn him into an Ultramarine to get him close enough to the Smith to do some psyker stuff, and that will be our cue to go. 

Saef goes out and hides his weapons in a house close to the elevator. 

At some point, Vivek pulls Saef and Gimlet aside and tells them that there’s a chance that the tech-priest may be able to take over Vivek in some way, and if that happens, well, take him out or something. 

Usually skitarii are only connected to their own tech-priests, but this is a rogue tech-priest so who even knows. 

Thus arrives the big day of the Enlightening ceremony. Saef is hiding near the elevator while Gimlet and Zamiel, and Vivek and Malika have positioned themselves in the houses nearby. 

First thing our heroes notice is that the Space Marines are missing, which is a bit of a concern. 

People have gathered to wait for the Smith to arrive, and they are happy, it’s a whole celebration. The people to be Enlightened have lined up and they appear to be rather proud of themselves. 

In the house, Malika has a hard time containing her tears, and Vivek puts a comforting hand on her shoulder. 

Then the elevator starts coming down. In it is the Smith, a huge tech-priest that looks quite unlike usual tech-priests (his head is completely blank aside from the few points of lights, his eyes, and the wire starting from the back of his head and going all the way up the elevator shaft), a hoard of servo skulls and five faux-Ultramarines. 

The Smith starts making a speech, stepping out of the elevator, talking about the safety of Elysium against outsiders and stuff like that. 

While he speaks, a strange hum starts emitting from him, and a blinding blue light takes over the area for a moment. 

Every native of Elysium goes blank eyed. 

The servitors (or the Enlightened ones) stand to attention, their eyes glowing, and they start muttering some sort of a pledge. 

From his vantage point, Gimlet can see that Vivek’s eye starts to glow as well, and Vivek starts to repeat the same lines the servitors are. 

Meanwhile, Vivek feels a connection to all of Elysium, he is the Smith, and the presence of the Savior is all around him. 

And then Malika knocks him the fuck out. 

A servo skull has however noticed something going on and is closing in to investigate. 

Gimlet orders Malika to shoot the skull down and she does so. 

Meanwhile, Saef, oblivious to all this, feels warp energy all around him, and he feels it powering up the Smith. 

Vivek attempts to get up, and Malika knocks him out again and voxes Gimlet, saying something is up with Vivek, and should she shoot him. 

Gimlet says don’t shoot, just tie him up. 

Malika says she’ll improvise and drags Vivek out of sight. 

Saef, in the guise of an Ultramarine approaches the Smith and the other Space Marines, and jams the mechanism of the blue wire with his psyker powers. 

Suddenly the Smith collapses. 

The lights all around start dimming, revealing the Ultramarines as Red Corsairs, and people in the crowd look more malnourished than they previously have. 

Gimlet notices that Zamiel next to him appears quite a bit more alien than he had previously. 

Vivek wakes up, back in his senses, though clearly not feeling well. 

Malika approaches him to knock him out again, but he stops her. 

Malika orders him back to shooting and they do so, Malika fires at the Smith’s body, Vivek takes a shot at the Red Corsairs, as do Zamiel and Gimlet. 

Saef, who can sense that the warp energy is somehow blocked in the pipe, throws a smite at the pipe, and that causes a huge explosion, which fries the Smith and blows the Red Corsairs away. 

The explosion opens up a portal of some sort, through which demons step out. 

One of them closes in on towards the civilians, Vivek shoots at that one (and his gun blows up, so just imagine him slightly fried for the rest of this session :P). 

Gimlet shoots at the one which is closing in on Saef, who is attempting to retrieve his weapons.  

One of the demons takes a potshot at Zamiel, doesn’t hit and falls prone (poor baby?). Combat over!

Saef makes his way to the elevator. People have noticed him and are shouting that he’s the one that killed the Smith. 

Saef closes the doors of the elevator, making some kind of alarm go off. 

People swarm the outside of the elevator shouting about killing him. 

Saef attempts to get the elevator to work, but can’t. 

The aftermath of the explosion has caused all of the servitors to bug out in some way, and Vivek’s not doing very hot either. 

He stumbles backwards, dropping his gun and falling to his knees. 

Malika attempts to approach him, but he tells her to get away, and then he starts making a static noise.

 Malika calls Gimlet and Zamiel over, and while they look over Vivek, Malika is going to attempt to get the people away from Saef. 

Gimlet notices that Vivek appears to be having some kind of a panic attack, and also that somehow the pipe is affecting him, so he and Zamiel drag Vivek away from the city’s center. 

At some point Vivek comes to, and asks what he has done. 

After a moment, he says he can go back, and if he starts acting weird… Gimlet says he can ask Malika to knock him out again. 

Saef manages to get the elevator to work with psychic energy and starts going up. 

While going up, he notices the others in the distance and gives them a thumbs up (Gimlet thinks he’s flipping him the bird). 

Saef rides all the way up to the top of the elevator shaft, through many more sectors. 

There he comes across some metal doors, with a psychic barrier around. 

He knocks on them and gets told (psychically) to go away. 

Saef attempts to respond, but he gets dizzy as it feels like the air is running out of the elevator. 

Meanwhile down at the others, Vivek pretends to be an extra-Enlightened™ person to get the people to go home, which they mostly do. 

The pipe having gone up with the elevator, the lenses have stopped working and Vivek also seems to be feeling better. 

They recall the elevator with a remote Gimlet loots from a Red Corsair. 

Malika and Zamiel join our trio and up they go to the metal doors. 

Saef weakens the barrier, though it weakens him in turn, so that Vivek can lockpick the doors. 

They step through the doors into a metallic room in the middle of which is a blue tank filled with liquid and a dude floating in the middle in golden armor. 

It’s Fane. 

Gimlet steps out to talk to the man, asking if he indeed is the Inquisitor Fane. 

Supreme Inquisitor Fane, Fane corrects, in Gimlet’s mind. 

Gimlet wants to know why Fane is doing this. 

Fane seems to be of the opinion, he’s doing a good thing, saying that the people of Elysium have everything they need. 

He asks then why Gimlet is no longer with the Inquisition, to which Gimlet says it’s none of Fane’s fucking business. 

Fane says that he could be Gimlet’s new boss.

 He asks Gimlet to think through this logically, Gimlet knows deep down that Fane is doing good. 

He then turns to Saef, noting that Saef is quite insecure about not being as smart as others, but Fane could teach Saef. 

Saef declines, saying he already has a teacher, to which Fane says he teaches because he doesn’t know any better. 

Then he turns to Vivek, telling that he’s in the market for a replacement Smith, and maybe Vivek could be the one; with Fane’s help Vivek could become as good as, even better than his brother. 

Vivek also declines, saying he has no interest in being anything like his brother, to which Fane says that yeah, perhaps someone like Eden would work better, anyway. 

Vivek asks him to keep his hands off Eden. 

Gimlet asks what Fane is exactly getting out of all this (Intense sexual gratification, pipes Vivek). 

Happiness, answers Fane. He took over the business when he got here, and runs it quite successfully. 

Gimlet says he has had enough. Saef goes and breaks the tank with his bludgeon. 

There’s some spooky laughter (that spooks everyone but Saef). 

The tank is full of psychic energy that explodes into a demon. 

Gimlet shoots Fane with one of his special anti-psyker arrows. 

Fane falls down and turns into a rotten corpse. 

Saef smites the demon, and approaches Fane’s corpse. 

The demon charges Saef with an axe. 

Vivek shoots at it. 

Saef grabs something from Fane’s hand, and smites the demon which vanishes, although there are some apparitions around. 

It appears that Fane’s golden armor look was as much an illusion as everything else around. But hey, he’s dead now yay? 

Epilogue time. 

We find out that Fane has been selling weapons not only to gangers, but to the Inquisition as well. 

So Zamiel’s an alien and he’s not the only one. 

Gimlet knows what he is, part of a species called athal’anites who were mostly wiped out by Imperium, the rest being enslaved by Red Corsairs. Zamiel is thankful for the information. 

Clearly they cannot stay in Elysium (some have already been killed by humans), but rogue traders can deal with xenos, so for the moment athal’anites will come aboard Santa Maria and from there will be spread around other Pepper ships. 

The humans are confused and many are not happy to be free of the savior, but most come to the conclusion that this would be for the best. 

They are staying in Elysium for the moment, they’ll manage a bit with food aid given by the Peppers, and at some point they better clear out and see what the great Imperium has to offer to them. 

Malika’s been busy organizing things for the humans, attempting to reach the hiding athal’anites to get them off Elysium. Vivek comes to visit her, wanting to talk about Malika’s sons who have been sold as servitors somewhere. 

Vivek doesn’t discourage her from finding out what happened to her sons, but tells her that she shouldn’t be too hopeful about fixing them, because the only person who can fix them as far Vivek knows, Eden, is basically awaiting execution, and Vivek’s probably next in line after that. 

Malika asks if there’s anything she can do. 

Vivek admits he has some fancies in hiding in Malika’s cellar, but he has people to look after, who may yet escape their fate. 

And besides, it’s the nominally ”good guys” who are planning on executing them. 

Vivek admits that he did some bad things, and he’s not exactly making his mother proud with his life choices, but hey, that’s the sinking ship he has tied himself up to. 

Malika tells Vivek that she may not be his mother, but she is proud of him. 

To which he says that now she is just making him feel weird about being attracted to her. 

Malika laughs and says he’s not half bad either. 

Vivek says he suspects he knows which half, but apparently Malika doesn’t mind the cybernetics. 

Malika asks if Vivek has a place to stay the night, if he would like to stay at her place? 

He says sure, if she’s sure he isn’t going to make it awkward, what with being attracted to her and all that. 

Malika laughs, and says, somewhat exasperated, ”come on!”. (and then they make out, idk)

And that’s all for that little adventure! That was a blast and a half. Next week we will be jumping back to our regular roles of me running the campaign and Gorm returning to the table. Looking forward to that.

[definitelyyessnakedemons]

basic plans for some of my in-progress fics:

Legacy

- has 2 major plot points remaining:

Alucard bonding with Integra’s daughter 

Some Bad Things Happen But It Turns Out Alright (i don’t want to spoil the fic ending ok, so that’s all i’m saying)

In the Grey of the Morning

part 4: Walter is knighted and takes over running the Hellsing Organization. He plans to hunt down and kill Alucard, but can’t actively pursue that course of action at this point.

part 5: 12 year old Seras meets our vampires and befriends Integra.

part 6: Yeah, that doesn’t end well for Seras.

part 7: Integra gets her first familiar.

part 8: Walter and Penwood finally catch up with Alucard and Integra. 

an as-yet undecided number of parts: domestic fluff in which Integra and her two gay dads adjust to their lives back at the Hellsing mansion (oh hey did i mention this is gonna be Alucard/Walter because yeah, that’s gonna be a thing)

and after that we’ll have reached the canon timeline, in which Things Will Go Differently in this AU due to the changes I’ve made (of which I’ve not thought through in detail yet)

Puella Magi Integra Magica

Grief Seed: some rambling about Seras and Walter being in on the secret due to necessity (no i am not going into detail about Seras’s turning, it’s unaffected by the AU and went the same as it did in canon), anyway the point of this one is the Valentine Brothers’ attack... during which Alucard must Try Very Hard not to reveal his identity to the Round Table (and almost fails), Integra nearly reaches the breaking point which would turn her into a witch

??? probably need 1 or 2 things about how interactions with Iscariot changed due to Alucard having to impersonate Integra in public (i don’t have a solid plan for that part, though XD)

Da Kommt Zamiel Angerannt: Battle of London - Integra vs Rip Van Winkle

Hält eine Sichel in der Hand: Battle of London - Seras & Wild Geese (with long-distance support from Alucard) vs Zorin Blitz. It goes differently from canon because Alucard is still in London and can advise/assist, he just can’t physically be there because he is impersonating Integra at the Round Table meeting while that goes down. (And yeah the titles of this one and the previous one are taken from a Rammstein lyric.)

Where the Wolves and the Soulless Will Rise: Battle of London - Walter & Alucard vs The Captain. (Captain dies at this point, not much really changes because of that, but hey it’s my AU i do what i want and we’re having a Walter whose loyalty to Hellsing was never in question here, ok) ((yes this title is also a lyric and no i don’t care that i’ve used this particular lyric as a title for something else already, it fits too well and i’m keeping it))

??? stuff with Iscariot is different during the Battle of London (you can see how much thought I’ve given to the Iscariot side of things for this, lmao... )

Phylactery: Battle of London - [spoiler] kills the Major, Alucard disappears, and (as you may have guessed from the title), Integra finally turns into a witch

final part (title undecided): Time loop hell as Alucard uses Schrodinger’s powers to try and create a future in which Integra both 1) doesn’t accept Kyubey’s contract and 2) lives to adulthood

[veryfineday]

Saturday 9 April 1825

10 50/60

2 1/4

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incurred a cross just before getting up – Breakfast at 12 1/4 – RepacKed my basKet-trunK, etc. went out at 1 50/60 – Put into the sort of general Post-office in Jermyn Street (at the end of the Street, near Regent street – at a hatter’s shop) – my letter to ‘madame, madame Barlow, Quai Voltaire No.15, Paris’ – began on monday –

then called on Squibb ( at the end of Saville row), and saw mr. S-[Squibb] junior for a few minutes – land 30 per cent advanced since the estate was put up to auction – money commonly lent in the neighbourhood of London on landed security at 4 per cent, and as low, mr. S-[Squibb] had heard, as 3 1/2 per cent – If he could get £10,000 at 3 1/2 per cent begged him to wrote to me, and let me Know – § He having several such things for sale at his auction room, asKed what was marqueterie de buhl, and Knee-hole tables – the first, wood very much inlaid with brass – wood inlaid with different woods called marqueterie de (I thinK he said) Rispah – Knee-hole tables liKe our library-tables only with holes for the Knees –

From Saville row, went to 7 upper Grosvenor street – tooK one of my French gayters as a pattern, and ordered, and paid 10/6 for (to Hutton) a pair of blacK Kerseymere ditto made the same only to lace instead of button – no.49 upper Grosvenor street (the Ouseley’s house) is next to the square, on the south side of the street – a nice looKing corner house – sauntered all along old and new Bond street, to Oxford street, and then along Piccadilly as far as ParK street – Switch tails seem all the fashion for carriage horses § –

at a shop in new Bond street, - asKed the price of chrisophraes [chrysophrase] – one bracelet, gold chain liKe a horse’s curb chain, with only one stone (large) at the Clasp, 20 guineas – a necKlace would be 40 guineas, with, I suppose, 2 large stones in front, and chain to suit the bracelet – they had not a complete set then, but had one maKing, and could shew it on monday – this was enough – I saw that the set for M-[Mariana] could not be too dear – Came in at 4 3/4 – Paid Professor Coleman’s man for the booK – three and a half guineas – pacKed my great caisse – saw my luggage sent off in a hacKney coach, under the care of our porter, to the Blue Boar Holborn – Dinner at 6 –

at 6 40/60, tooK mr. webbe, and set off in a hacKney coach to Drury lane to see Freischütz – we got the 2nd bench of the right hand box next the front box, just above the dress-boxes, and saw remarKably well – these boxes, the dress ditto, and the next tier above us all 7/.[shillings] – the music certainly very singular and fine – the overture encored, and played twice – the 1st appearance of ‘Zamiel’, the devil, in his darK bricK red flowing mantle, hiding all the figure – has curling himself up into in it, and sinKing thro’ a trap-door was so inimitably done, it really seemed as if the evil one had first gradually shrunK to nothing and thus vanished one Knew not how – Caspar’s sitting the circle and forging the bullets, all hell let loose, and, at the close of the piece, his falling down, and Zamiels dragging him away to hell, horribly well represented, is altogether the most singularly terrific spectacle I ever saw, or heard of as introduced upon a stage – to this succeeded the musical drama of ‘Abou [Abu] Hasssan’, the music also by von weber – the story taKen from the Arabian nights’entertainments, and made a pretty spectacle – grand ballet in the 1st act – the dancing or the grace of the dancers far inferior to that in Paris – the dresses good – the house looKed clean and handsome – the large glass chandelier suspended from the top over the pit, and lighted with gas, magnificent –

on coming away, tooK a turn up and down the saloon – a very handsome and long room – recesses at each end, and tea to be had at both – mirrors between the pilasters on each side of the saloon – none but femmes galantes there – the room full of these and gentlemans – the ladies very civil – much quieter and more decorous than formerly – not many in the house tonight, but 1 or 2 very near us – § not to be Known but by the volumes spoKen by their eyes when met by those of gentlemans, and by their smile – In walKing the streets, the great sign is a white handkerchief peeping out a little from the top of a reticule – the old men much the worst – men of 60 or 70 do things young men would shudder at – when French men are asKed their opinion, said Mr. w-[Webbe], of our country women abroad, they shrug their shoulders, and say they seem what they are not – I owned there was often too much reason for this remarK – too many did abroad what they would not home – this is too true – witness the stories miss Harvey told me – from Mr Decussy and what I heard from Mrs B[arlow] etc.  

walKed bacK, and got home at 12 10/60 – Paid my bill and the servants – I had taken my fur cap to walk home in and Cordingleys crimson cloth shawl to wear over my merinos – a good deal of discharge today – Very fine day – Quite warm in London –

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I was tagged by @babylavenderwitch 1. nicknames: Kay, Turtle 2. gender: Nonbinary 3. star sign: Taurus 4. height: 5′5″ 5. time: 5:34 pm 6. bday: 05-15 7. fav band: The broadway cast of Be More Chill currently.  8. fav solo artist: Jonathan Coulton or Bo Burnham. 9. song stuck in my head rn: Devil’s Backbone - Civil Wars 10. last movie i watched: Moana 11. last show i watched: My Cat from Hell 12. when did i create my blog: Well, my main blog (@modernhypocrite) is 6 years old, and this one is like... what, a few weeks old?  13. what do I post: witchy/aesthetic/cats/self-love/socially political feminism sometimes. 14. last thing i googled: Substitution for spiced rum in cooking 15. do i have any other blogs: My main, @modernhypocrite 16. do i get asks: I don’t, but I would really like to! 17. why i chose my url: So, my original url for this blog was ‘kitchenywitcheny’ because I couldn’t think of anything more clever when creating my blog, but I have a friend who calls me ‘adonis’ and I kinda ran with it, and added Hestia to it because it was ‘hearthy’. 18. following: 297 19. followers: 123!! WOW~! 21. average hours of sleep: I rare;y ever fuckin sleep less than 7 hours. Ever. I refuse.  22. lucky number: 5 and 15 23. instruments: Flute, keyboard and guitar 24. what am i wearing: black leggings, a full face of makeup, and a bell-sleeved, floral dress 25. (There was no question here. Breathe and take a breath!)  26. dream job: Broadway, on stage.  27. dream trip: To visit New Zealand and also the catacombes of paris 28. fav food: Baked Chicken Parmesan or Pad Thai 29. nationality: American. 30. fav song: Pitiful Children from Be More Chill, right. 

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maybe a final look for one of my warlock’s outfits but i’m going to let it sit and decide later

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finally painted for the first time in a long time and it!!!!! was great very relaxing

some jaw armour for exos, one strapped on and one welded on, ft my exo warlock zamiel-6 and exo titan nights-17

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i found out cyclamen are very dramatic plants (mine will literally flop down like it’s throwing a tantrum if it gets dry but once i water it it perks right back up) so i’m naming one of the pots zamiel

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more sketch

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formal guardians + some detailing i guess

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cozy warlock, ghost community theatre presents: ante-pre-ante-pre-pre-classical tragedy, attack on sight for crimes against food, upsies and a Good Boy

hello i am crawling in!! i have a full time day job now!! i am very tired

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two flavours of warlock

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some zamiel sketches