@anonymous : What D&D classes do you think your muses would be?

VIBRATES !!!

I'm a huge D&D nerd ( I'm actually writing this surrounded by all my dice right now ) so this is absolutely my kind of ask. UNDER A CUT BECAUSE I RAMBLE :

CARMILLA CARMINE : BLADESINGER. This is a wizard subclass, focused on incorporating swordplay and dance. Originally I was leaning toward College of Swords Bard, but Mal reminded me about Bladesinging and that's just too perfect. Bladesinging is as beautiful as it is deadly, which is truly reminscent of the way Carmilla fights. Bladesong also grants you a speed boost, advantage on acrobatics checks, and an AC bonus.

ELSIE MAE CASEY : ALCHEMIST ARTIFICER. Elsie Mae has big NPC energy, but if she was a playable character, I think this is where I'd lean. She has such a passion for mixing things up and figuring out how to make tinctures and infusions. Add in a dash of magic, and she'd be an absolute chaos bomb. The idea of her using Experimental Elixer and just turning to Johnny and going "Quick, drink this!" is absolutely a situation that would happen.

KASUMI : ARCANE TRICKSTER ROGUE. Kasumi is already as two-faced as they come. Add in a little magic? Pure chaos. Arcane Tricksters double as sneaky fuckers and mischevious miscreants. I can absolutely see her having Spell Thief ( girl is old enough to be a level 20 adventurer ) and using it to just be a huge pain in the ass. Arcane Tricksters can be played as more serious characters... but where's the fun in that? ( fun fact : my first PC was an Arcane Trickster rogue! )

MILLIE : PATH OF THE BATTLERAGER BARBARIAN. Hear me out : I know this subclass is just for dwarves. But... Imps are small creatures. I feel like they can qualify. Battleragers, also known in Dwarvish as Kuldjargh are known for throwing themselves headfirst into battle and using their physical bodies, decked out in spiked armor, to attack. They fight with Reckless Abandon, but without going into the full rage of a Berserker.

OCTAVIA : LUNAR ORIGIN SORCERER. This one was pretty obvious, given Stolas' ( and by extension, Octavia's ) connection to the moon within his powers. Lunar Sorcery spells change based on the phase of the moon you are choosing to embody, New Moon, Full Moon, or Crescent Moon. Your Lunar Embodiment also affects your metamagic. This is a difficult subclass to master, as it requires a lot of forethought... but it feels deep enough to embody the power of the Ars Goetia.

ROSIE : COLLEGE OF WHISPERS BARD. I haven't written Rosie a lot, but there's no denying there's more to her than what appears on the surface. A woman who deals in gossip and rumors, and does it all with a charming smile. The wolf in sheep's clothing nature of the College of Whispers seems a good fit, at least for my interpretation.

SERAFINE LAVEAUX : GUNSLINGER. I have a hard time envisioning Serafine without her guns : I think she'd be more than willing to play her hand with luck in order to keep them in a fantasy setting. What's the worst that could happen? Serafine has little regard for safety, so this would make her an insanely volatile party member, but the damage she does might be worth it.

VAGGIE : OATH OF REDEMPTION PALADIN. The easiest one, in my opinion. Oath of Redemption paladins prefer not to fight when possible, which is perhaps not entirely fitting of Vaggie, but at the core of this subclass is the belief that any person can be redeemed. And, to quote WOTC, "While redeemers are idealists, they are no fools." When she must fight, she will do so with her whole being, and put her life on the line to protect those she cares about.

unprompted !!

@madefate : “you’re allowed to need help sometimes.” / charlie @ vaggie!

She's only been there for two weeks at best ( time was fuzzy in her mind from the painkillers she'd taken to try and numb the ache in her very soul ) but that was more than enough time spent leaning on this girl. Charlie had taken her in following the Extermination, had shown her nothing but kindness, and she had no way to repay her.

So, Vaggie had tried to slip out of the old building unnoticed, had planned on finding some way to earn money in this damned place to try and pay her back, even if it wouldn't have been enough, nothing could have been enough.

What she hadn't accounted for was that last creaky floorboard, enough to garner Charlie's attention. Lying had never come naturally to her, whatever babbled explanation she had tried to muster up quickly melting away into the truth.

You're allowed to need help.

Fingers grip at the edges of the borrowed skirt she wears, seeking something to keep her grounded. She had always been strong. She had never needed the help of others. But that person was long gone, now, wasn't she? Perhaps it was time for something new.

❝ I'm not... ❞ Her thought trails off, before she exhales forcefully, ❝ ...good at accepting help. ❞

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@fizzarollitm / @hlylight : 🎵 for a song that reminds me of my muse & 🎼 a song that reminds me of both of our muses

🎵 for a song that reminds me of my muse

Legacy - Lost Stars

This is one of my newer Vaggie songs but it just. MM. The questioning nature of wondering if she was making the right choices, but choosing to do what felt right regardless of the truth. Accepting you might be wrong but living with your choices and whatever they make you into.

I feel it in my bones / This pressure rocks me to my core / All these eyes on me are so stone-cold / I'm so scared of what I can't control, can't control / I want to feel like I'm strong enough to reach the peak / But this mountain only gets more steep / Yeah, it's already so hard to breathe, hard to breathe / Thinking 'bout the time I've wasted / Thinking that I'm too complacent / Everything's so complicated, I can't take it / I'm fading / I'm tryna find my way, before I leave this place / Wondering if I'll be more than a memory / If I go down in flames, and I fall from grace / Is that all you'll see, when you remember me? / Wanna believe that I can find my light / But maybe I will never get it right / So when I reach the gates, will I be ashamed? / Is this my legacy?

🎼 a song that reminds me of both of our muses

hear me out : Angel Inside from Magic: the Gathering and yes this is my nerd showing. There's such a cold power to it that just vibes with Sera to me.

They call it family / But they're just trying to use you / Living so happily / As if they won't abuse you / As they drink to borrowed time / They'll commit some silent crime / Bring a calamity / If they were to lose you / When everybody wants to be your friend / When you're on top of it all / These smiling faces all pretend / Out of from the streets they'll crawl / To lock the angel inside their walls / Sinking in quicksand / They won't let you say "no" / Clipping your wings and selling your halo

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@madefate : Charlie is so careful when she examines Vaggie's wings, admiring them with adoration and reverence in equal measure, barely breathing on them, let alone touching them. ❝ You are just so, so beautiful, Vaggie. Is it okay - can I ask - how you got them back? ❞

Vaggie sits with her back to Charlie, her face turning a light pink shade at the adoration in her love's voice. Feathers ruffle, the only outward show of her flustering, as she glances over her shoulder to where Charlie sits : so careful, her hands seemingly pinned to her sides to keep from touching.

"How? I..." I don't know. It wasn't entirely true, she supposed, and her face turns forward after a moment. "...I got a wake up call. About what's really important. I spent so long living with... hate, and shame, and fear. But an angel's wings are an extension of ourselves : they can never really be taken. They were always there. Waiting for me to get my ass kicked and figure some things out."

Exhaling a soft laugh, she leans back slightly, tone returning to something more playful than the serious one she'd had only moment earlier. "You can touch them, Charlie. I know it's taking everything in you to resist."

unprompted

what form of love do you embody ?

love as a choice [ love is beautiful because it's built deliberately ] when casey mcquinston wrote "that's the choice. i love him, with all that, because of all that, on purpose. i love him on purpose" and when jenny slate tweeted "i just want someone to grab my little face and scream on purpose, on purpose i am going to care about you" and when jodi picoult wrote "after fifteen years, love isn't just a feeling. it's a choice" and when the good place said "if soulmates do exist, they're not found they're made"

love as tenderness [ love as gentleness after a lifetime of cruelty ] when ocean vuong said "sometimes being offered tenderness feels like the very proof that you've been ruined" and when pablo neruda said "like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar" and when anais mitchell wrote "all i've ever known is how to hold my own, and now i wanna hold you, too”

tagged by : @fizzarollitm && @helldustedstories thank you uwu tagging : I'm late to this so whoever hasn't been tagged, consider this me tagging you !!

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I WAS ENCOURAGED, SO : SHIPPING TIER LISTS.

For Carmilla, Octavia, Vaggie, and Kasumi only, with the potential to add Rosie and Millie's later on.

First up, Carmilla ( compulsory heterosexual / closeted bisexual )

Octavia ( bisexual, no matter what this tier list might imply )

Vaggie ( sapphic )

Kasumi ( pansexual )

AS A NOTE : a character not being on these lists doesn't mean I don't ship it, it probably just means I haven't really thought about it. Anything that isn't in the "absolutely not" category could absolutely move up and down the list through experimenting! Even most of the absolutely nots are just based on sexualities not matching up.