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Let's continue 😊

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anyway, good morning, i have to go feed her royal majesty queen clove, first of her name, and do a lil adulting before i setting down, but friendly reminder i put out a plotting call and a shipping call last night and you should consider liking them.

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anon - how about dorian and emmrich?

dorian falls in the former student category; like i know the age gap - with them both as mature adults - is like practically negligible it's, what, a decade, give or take a year or three?  but dorian was one of emmrich's students and he still remembers dorian as a student.  honestly, dean kind of summed it up perfectly, in that i'm pretty sure emmrich was the first actual real emotionally available grown ass adult to ever give dorian his undivided attention at that point in his life.

what i won't say is that it's impossible?  just not probable, at least for me.  emmrich would have to overwrite dorian as a student with the adult version of dorian, which may not actually be possible, tbh.  i know it's a hot ticket ship for both of them at the moment, but the work it would require to make it function in a way that wouldn't feel gross to me - because there is a former power imbalance there, and do people ever really see their teachers as whole ass adults with whole ass lives outside of an academic setting? - is more than 99% of rpers would be willing to put in.

and to be honest i don't know that dorian himself would ever see emmrich that way, either.

i do think, at the least, they'd be funny as hell besties, though.  i'm sure their discussions about magic would be hilariously incomprehensible and fascinating, and i've talked about it, but emmrich - as unhinged as he can be - could be a horrifying angel of death for the magisterium.  eat the rich, and all that.

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anon - Is there a pairing you're not interested in?

my caveats to shipping someone with emmrich is that they not be super young, and they not be a former student (mostly for my comfort and also because i feel like that'd be a definite line he'd draw). otherwise i'm open to at least discussing anything to see if there's an argument to be made for it.

(i mean i absolutely ship emmrich/neve, how many people are out there doing that. exactly.)

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SHIPPING CALL — primarily i mean mostly romantic type ships, but i do enjoy a good ride or die bestie-ship.  second verse, same as the first:  give this a like, i'll slide into your dms and we'll see what we shake out.  this is speed dating where we see if your blorbo in any way meshes well with my weirdo tree.  this isn't the romance lockdown, this is the…slow deep scene of rp where we gauge interest and go from there.

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PLOTTING CALL — what it says on the tin:  give this a like, and i'll come bother you in ims or on disco about slapping together some kind of plot for our blorbos.  if you want, you can fill out the interest tracker, to make it a little easier.  so gather your notes, your powerpoints, your spreadsheets, or your drawings in crayon to present your case.

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or i could, you know, get sucked into watching that dmc netflix show.

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Mood

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actually, while we're at it, can we throw guilty for being horny emmrich in the trash, too.

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journal entry - 8.17.22 

“what is something that is always true?” 

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sidenote, because i'm thinking about it again: emmrich's not edgy, he's not saying and doing unsettling shit because he's trying to, that's just who he is as a person, like he still does not have an edgy bone in his entirely too tall body. he's still genuinely exceedingly kind and empathetic.

but.

he was besties with johanna hezenkoss. it's not like johanna woke up one day and was like i'm evil and mean now, no, all the evidence points to the fact that she's always been Like That, and we even get that through emmrich himself who, unfortunately, does tend to wear rose colored glasses concerning people. especially johanna. she's a fucking skull on a table and he's still trying to get her to reach for redemption despite the fact that she's metaphorically flipping him the double bird.

so my point is, they do match each other's freak (platonically). if you think johanna's unhinged (she is), you have to realize emmrich is just as unhinged. i bring up that damn charms seller a lot but that is not rational escalation. the mad science, somewhat wobbly morality is literally baked in, he just covers it better.

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things i know i'm right on that fandom disagrees with, #465478 and #465479:

+ it's not eyeliner, that's just the way the game renders eyelashes. funny as the smokey eye jokes are, emmrich's just making me two for two on maybe he's born with it, maybe it's maybelline and i'm mad about it.

+ i sincerely do believe that emmrich and johanna are 100% platonic. and the reason i believe this is because emmrich's hissyfit about johanna telling him he looks old and him stomping his foot about her only being two years younger is absolutely giving siblings.

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the fact that i am constantly saying strange and unpleasant things is just part of my charm

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Afterlife Goals:

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my mission today, should i choose to accept it:

+ workout (i woke up late again let me live) + water garden (my roma tomatoes finally fucking sprouted now if my peppers could get their shit together-) + drafts (gonna start at the bottom and work my way up and get what i can in the queue) + plotting call (because i, once again, need more long term interconnecting plots) + shipping call (an official one i can keep up with, i'll make a list) + random all sorts of adulting (have i told y'all how much i hate washing dishes or-)

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emmrich's an inbetweener on the belly button front because i said so and make the rules here, by the way.