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tryingtimi · 5 months

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Angels by Avenged Sevenfold. It was a nice, and which for I itched to write something. It's really small, more like a warm-up than anything else.

EXPLORATION | PINCH OF ANGST | WC: 543

“What are you watching?” Auva asked, joining Dane standing by the large window.

The glass tapped the ground, reaching to the ceiling even. It framed the office, like a one-way wall — showing everything from the outside world to anyone who stepped inside the room, yet hiding even the fact they’re being watched from those under. Dane put his hand into his pockets, the fine textile rustling ever so quietly.

“A tragedy.”

People gathered around the small abode in the foot of the Astin Crops’ main building. The line was perfect, if long. No-one tried to shove the other to get before them, no. They waited for their turn, curiously examining those who already earned their rations.

Adran walked beside the abode, carrying inside all the boxes they filled up from their recent dive.

Auva audibly shifted, leaning just a touch closer to the glass.

“Why you call this a tragedy?” Her voice was soft, eager. “The units found a lot of edibles recently, it makes the people excited. Does it not?”

Many faces bled into expectant expression, smiles and hands clapsed together with their loved ones colouring the grey landscape of mundanity. If Dane would have shared any poetic vein with his friend, he’d say he saw sparks in their eyes alight. The line wasn’t from the Aquor Sector, however divers the crowd seemed to be. Clearly, there was no-one from the lowests.

“It does, yes. But with this, people forget the world. They see the goods they get, and turn from the depths. They look forward, and never glance below. What comes from there isn’t stopped. It catches up to us, very soon, yet no-one worries. No-one prepares. They forget everything; from where they from, who they lost, what was sacrifised to reach the point where we are now.”

He followed the slowly brightening line. The crowd did not thinned, even though most of them picked up their rations. They circled around the side of the abode, slumped shoulders evenly straightening as they spoke to Adran. He accepted the hands that reached for him, gently similing to them as he spoke. The sparks brightened, the depths floating father away.

“Are you mad because they do not grieve their losses?” Auva asked, genuine curiousity in her voice.

Dane set his jaw, stealing a glance from his left leg. His weight sit on the mechanical leg uncomfortably unnatural.

“Grief is an amputation, Auva.” Water flooded his mind, the trashing waves and crashing screaming filling his mind. He glanced at Adran, and the solid platform under him that did not let them see below. “But hope is incurable. And it is a disease that should not be taken lightly.”

“Hope is what makes these people going, until you save them, Dane.”

Not a single muscle in Dane’s face moved as he turned to her. His expression hardned into stone, reaching down to his chest, turning it heavy and full. Full of dead weight that expanded with every smiling word from Adran’s muted mouth.

“I can’t save them. I am not an angel, or a hero. I am just a man,” he said, tone even. His eyes wandered back at Adran. ”We all are.”

#IQRUS snippet #Project IQRUS #Dane Cohren #Auva Knox #sci-fi #writing community #writeblr #spotify wrapped 2022 #lmao

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tryingtimi · 1 year

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A Wishing God

To break my absence, I leave here a possible ending of IQRUS. It's fun to explore all the things I was just contemplating yet. This piece also started as an attempt for one of the Flash Fiction Friday prompts, Expanding Horizons, but it ended up more.

DANE AND AUVA | ANGST | IQRUS ENDING EXPLORATION | WC: 2,476

Water rumbled quietly. The waves had reached out as enormous fingers, stretching forward in the distance. They licked the solid metal, swallowing more and more of it, almost touching Dane’s feet as he sat on the ground. It wouldn’t have mattered, though. He was wet already, anyway.

The Aquor Sector’s ankle high water level’s surface let him see the solid floor under him.

He couldn’t move his muscles as he sat in the liquid. Mind filled up, overflowed with everything he wanted to keep it in the pit of his existence. He came here for a reason, yet he wasn’t able to get further than tiptoeing to the edge of the Trashland and finally let his legs to give up under him. All the turquoise, slightly translucent hell surrounded him in the moment he reached the ground. His pants soaked through immediately, his mechanic leg getting tighter around his thighs as liquid terror seeped into the fittings. He knew he should have been afraid of the mutation.

But he couldn’t care less about that.

The day of him getting the Caelus Sector offered modifications burnt into his mind. All the serums, plays with his genes, protection he got. Immunity for the top of humanity, they dared to say.

All the people playing God up there.

He tried to think about pulling his pulled-up legs closer to his chest, but he wasn’t able to do that. His body wasn’t under his control now. Fright ruled his blood flow, all of his big and little muscles, his mind. There was nothing he could do about it, only acknowledge it. He was paralyzed. By shock or trauma, he couldn’t tell anymore.

The waves pulled back, slowly making space between Dane and them. The touch of the liquid swayed around his lower body. Every tiny movement of it made something twitch inside him, building up a feeling he didn’t know how to control now or ever.

He wasn’t planning to move, however.

Even if he could have, he was sure he would have been just sitting in the water, watching the far horizon of endless waves and light. There was nothing at the other end. No land, no building, nothing.

Tender swaying and quiet splashing signaled Auva’s arrival.

She didn’t say a thing, only stood beside him for a second, then slowly sat down. He lowered his head, letting it drop between his shoulders. He couldn’t bear the sight of that infinite horizon anymore.

“What now?”, he asked eventually. He wanted to squeeze his eyes together, but he couldn’t. Dane wanted to stay aware of Auva’s presence by his peripheral vision.

After everything had been done, he wasn’t ready to just drown in his darkness, alone.

Because he was like that. Alone. Finally, and completely. No Adran, no Eran, not even Icharo. So much good for one evil to fall. And so, their most dire problem hasn’t been solved by the sacrifices. Was it really worth it then?

Auva shifted, and Dane could see her hand reaching over to touch the waves that came back to them again.

“Now, you must become a Guardian. Properly.” She tenderly caressed the surface, her fingers parting the water ever so slightly. It didn’t leave a mark, only its echo on the froth. “That would be the ideal. That would be the end of my task. But you must choose it willingly. “ She paused for a moment. “And I am not forcing anything.”

Dane exhaled. A long, stretched out breath. Then, after closing his eyes for a second, he opened them again and looked at Auva.

She didn’t force him to choose. She should have, yet she didn’t. A strange, heavy weight loomed over Dane, as he sat under the open sky and watched this figure beside him who he still couldn’t fully fit into his mind. Into his heart, yes, but not into his mind.

Dane wasn’t sure if he wanted to be something like her. He had no idea what that would mean. Icharo… Lero was her kind too. Whatever they were truly, they had powers he didn’t know he wanted to deal with.

He still felt his mind numbing ever so slightly, only just thinking about what he went through and saw.

Save them.

Adran’s last words bubbled up from his tensed muscles into his mind, showing him the memory of their last moments. His brother. His savior.

Everyone’s savior.

Dane’s left eye twitched a little. He wasn’t the one who should be a Guardian of people. Ionera should be safe after Adran’s sacrifice. They won, didn't they?

He snorted at this thought.

Winning. There was no winner in matters like these, was there? And whatever he was ready to do, one question still remained unanswered: if he was ever ready to take up the burden of making things right so his brother’s death won’t be for vain?

“So be it,” he said, his voice even. “How does it work?”

Auva nodded ever so slightly, an almost reluctant acknowledgement. Then, she pulled out a little glass bottle from the tiny case attached to her belt.

Something gold swayed within.

“You need to drink this first. Everything else is up to you after then.”

“What’s this?”, Dane asked as she handed him the bottle. He hasn't taken it yet.

“A substance that flows in my body and keeps it moving.”

His eyelids fluttered closed for a moment as he gulped.

“So, it’s your blood.”

Auva glanced at the far horizon beside them, lost in thought, before she guided her gaze back at Dane and the liquid.

“That’s an accurate conclusion, yes.”

“And you want me to drink it?” He heard it the first time too, but he needed to make sure. And if Auva didn’t quite understand why he needed this confirmation, she hid it well. As well as any human would have.

“It’s not about what I want, Dane. The world depends on it. Your world.”

The water reached for them again, swaying closer and closer, almost reaching his legs. And the gold swayed with it in the bottle. Auva didn’t move her hands, yet the liquid twirled and twisted. Its metallic shine absorbed the light around itself.

Dane could feel the faintest unease in his mind.

A familiar feeling at this point. Something that made him sick.

He forced his gaze at Auva.

At her, who was the bearer of this thing. This something that changed his world at its core. This thing that those carried in their physical bodies too that killed his loved ones and doomed humanity.

Dane curled up his toes in his fully soaked shoes. His hands were white from all the force he was gripping them together.

Auva was one of them, yet she was so much different. She was here to help. She did not ask anything from him. She let him choose.

Choose something he always strived to reach. Saving everyone. Saving Ionera. Protecting the ruins of their world.

Dane wasn’t the right one for this responsibility, but he was the only one left for this world. So, with heavy hands, he slowly took the bottle, closed his eyes and snapped his head back so he could swallow everything.

Then, he let his hands fall back down and nervously waited.

Waited.

And waited.

Nothing has felt different. The water still licked his sides, he might not have been as cold as before, but other than that; nothing.

“How long does it take to begin?”

Auva smiled. He didn’t know how he could know this with his eyes closed, but he did. For certain.

“ᴏᴘᴇɴ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴇʏᴇs,” she murmured, her voice sounding like a… prism. It belonged to her yet echoed on a thousand other.

He slowly lifted his eyelids, seeing nothing different over the horizon then before. A touch of early morning mist, endless water and small waves… in a room.

An intricate, vast room that contained everything he called his world. A room made of a prism. The walls reflected the sky, expanded horizons before Dane. All the layers of the images he’d seen opened up for him; the clouds’, the sky’s, the water’s and everything’s outlines splitted into hundreds of their own reflection, into shapes and colors he’d never seen before. Dane could see, feel and hear everything around himself. His vision, hearing and ability to feel erupted and expanded into something that made him be aware of all the happenings of the world. To feel every person and every living thing as if they were a part of him too.

Dane became the beating heart of Aetherius.

And with that, his core fright from before — that was so deeply a part of him he couldn’t acknowledge it fully — towards death evaporated into nothing. He knew he won’t die anymore. That he can’t die. Fear and death turned into mere concepts in his mind.

Then, he turned to Auva.

It wasn’t her true name. That wasn’t something that could have been spoken out loud. Dane stick with it, though.

The air wobbled around her figure that did not wore the features he was used to seeing on her. Golden bronze skin without a face, although Dane knew it wasn’t a skin exactly since it flowed in her physical form as well. Quills cascaded around her shoulders, blanketing her upper body, a featherless wing-like extension growing out of her back as a cape would.

He could use only mortal words to describe her, even though she was so much beyond that comprehension.

“ɪ ᴡɪsʜ ɪ ʜᴀᴅ sᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ʙᴇᴀᴜᴛɪꜰᴜʟ ᴛᴏ sᴀʏ,” whispered Dane. His voice similarly echoing in a thousand other as well. He wasn’t sure if he was capable of feeling anything at all, yet he knew he would feel awe if he would be his self from before.

Auva smiled. Dane could tell she was, no matter her faceless form.

“ʏᴏᴜ ʜᴀᴅ.” Her voice still ethereal, the language they spoke celestial, if it was a language at all.

“Is ᴛʜɪs ʜᴏᴡ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʟᴡᴀʏs sᴇɴsᴇᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅ ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ?” Dane needed to ask. There were things that did not ease with his ascension.

“ɪ ᴄᴀɴɴᴏᴛ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ᴛʜᴀᴛ Gᴜᴀʀᴅɪᴀɴ. ʏᴏᴜ ᴀʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰɪʀsᴛ ᴡʜᴏ’ᴅ ʙᴇᴇɴ Mᴀᴅᴇ, ᴡʜɪᴄʜ ᴍᴀᴋᴇs ᴍᴇ ʙᴇʟɪᴇᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ᴘᴇʀᴄᴇɪᴠᴇ ᴛʜɪɴɢs ᴅɪꜰꜰᴇʀᴇɴᴛʟʏ ᴛʜᴀɴ ᴍᴏsᴛ ᴏꜰ ᴜs. sᴏ, ᴛᴇʟʟ ᴍᴇ, ᴘʟᴇᴀsᴇ, ᴡʜᴀᴛ ɪs ɪᴛ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜ sᴇɴsᴇ?”

What was he sensing? How could he describe it? He should have been overwhelmed, but he could not experience life as before. Eternal things laid before him, more than his world only. He won a glimpse of the other worlds that had burnt into his mind; people with pointy ears, monster-like creatures, black suns, violet moons and so, so much more. He’d seen a fraction of all the different sides of that infinite prism that his world reflected it too. He couldn’t be sure what he sensed actually.

He knew what he should have reacted to, though.

“ᴇᴍᴘᴛɪɴᴇss.” That wasn’t it exactly. “ꜰᴜʟʟɴᴇss ᴀɴᴅ ᴇᴍᴘᴛɪɴᴇss ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ sᴀᴍᴇ ᴛɪᴍᴇ. ɪ ᴄᴀɴ sᴇᴇ ᴡᴏʀʟᴅs ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴛʜɪs ᴏɴᴇ. sᴛʀᴀɴɢᴇ ᴏɴᴇs. ᴜɴᴋɴᴏᴡɴ ᴏɴᴇs. ʙᴜᴛ ɪ ᴄᴀɴɴᴏᴛ sᴇɴsᴇ ᴍʏ ɢʀɪᴇꜰ ᴛᴏᴡᴀʀᴅs Aᴅʀᴀɴ ᴀɴᴅ Eʀᴀɴ’s ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ. ɪ ᴄᴀɴɴᴏᴛ ᴍᴏᴜʀɴ ᴛʜᴇᴍ ᴀɴʏᴍᴏʀᴇ, Aᴜᴠᴀ. ɪ ᴅᴏ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴏɴᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ. ɪ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ʙᴇʏᴏɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇᴍ. ʙᴜᴛ ɪ ᴄᴀɴɴᴏᴛ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ᴍᴇ.”

Some kind of wrongness nested in his core also. A plague, a reversed black hole. Aetherius’ doom, the dimensional tear that let the terrors pour into his world.

It had been hidden from him, but now he could sense it. The calling of the ocean, deep under all the monsters and darkness; the portal slumbered there, out of the reach of any mortal. But not his, not anymore. And so he could have a chance to extinguish it. Or begin to do that.

Auva nodded, excitement reflecting in the vibration of her magnetic field around her.

“ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ʀᴀᴛʜᴇʀ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ᴀs ᴀ ʜᴜᴍᴀɴ, ᴇᴠᴇɴ ɪꜰ ɪᴛ’s ᴛʀᴀɢɪᴄ, ᴛʜᴀɴ sᴛᴀʏɪɴɢ ᴅɪᴠɪɴᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀʟᴍɪɢʜᴛʏ.”

“ɪ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ.”

“ᴡᴇʟʟ ᴛʜᴇɴ,” She extended her hand. “ɪᴛ’s ꜰᴏʀᴛᴜɴᴀᴛᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ sᴛᴀᴛᴇ ɪs ᴛᴇᴍᴘᴏʀᴀʀʏ” And with that, Dane’s senses began to shrink. Whatever he experienced, it did not leave him, only made him more and more anxious. He couldn’t put his finger on what he’d seen in the next second, when he stopped feeling everything.

Minute by minute, he gained back that core terror of death and the dreadful woe that nested in his bones. He got back his grief and his mourning. His ability to remember and love. His focus wasn’t on all living things anymore, he wasn’t everywhere all at once. And he saw Auva only as a woman sitting waist deep in the water.

“How could this happen? I thought being a Guardian is a permanent task.”

Auva smiled and glanced at the bottle in Dane’s hand. He mirrored her movement, realizing he wasn’t paralyzed anymore, even though all his grave emotions only multiplied in his chest.

He furrowed his brows when he saw the golden blood still sway in the bottle. He could have sworn that he swallowed all.

“It was. Before you’ve changed the rules of turning into one. What I’ve said previously was something I only came to know the moment you made up your mind. And so now the rules are letting Guardians choose after they experience what it's like to be one. You’ve created a new concept. A new era. Change is never immediate from now on. It needs time and so you could have only one drop to begin with.”

Dane tightened his hand around the bottle.

“It sounds like I’ve modified space and time in a blink of an eye. That is something only…” God should be able to do, Auva. He stopped himself before he could finish his sentence like that. He couldn’t deny it anymore. He was one of them for a short period of time. If it was a short period of time at all, since time itself lost its meaning for him in that state. Or that’s how he could describe it if he attempted to put it into words.

A soft touch on his hand made Dane shiver slightly. He glanced at Auva’s tender gaze that was full of comfort, yet reflected something deep that he couldn’t really grasp. As if the cosmos itself had been captured in those eyes.

“It must be a lot.”

It was. Dane couldn’t deny that either. But there was also one thing that stayed with him the most after the experience. Something that made him confident enough to hold Auva’s eyes.

“I’ll take the role temporarily. I’ve seen the tear, so I need the power to unravel it, to find it again and close it. But as soon as we’ve reached that, I’ll find someone who’s worth enough to take this role properly,” he said and with that, he flipped his hand to took Auva’s in his too.

#IQRUS snippet #Auva Knox #Dane Cohren #Project IQRUS #writeblr #sci fi #i'll read and answer everything this week since i got a week off #but i wanted to share this first #tho i'm anxious about this piece but which one i'm not #so just #enjoy <3 #pics from pinterest btw #i always use photos from pinterest #except when i say otherwise

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tryingtimi · 2 years

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Not sure if I’ve done this yet, but Trick or Treat! 💖

Sweetpea, thank you for this! I'll go for a little treat 🍬 then, so I can share every funny little stuffed-into-the-corner-of-my-notion-pages pieces now. Since I'm trying to get myself in the mood for IQRUS, here's a kind of incorrect quote-like dialogue exercise out of context. It's old and I don't think it's gonna be canon because it's too funny for a sci-fi eldritch horror story lmao.

Dane: Whats’s that?

Auva: A subtance that flows in my body and keeps it moving.

Dane: So, it’s your blood.

Auva: That’s an accurate conclusion.

Dane: And you want me to drink it?

Auva: It’s not about what I want. The world depends on it.

IQRUS taglist (because it's fun) 🌌: @bloodlessheirbyjacques, @jess-p-edits, @circa-specturgia, @moonscribbler, @blind-the-winds, @odysseywritings

#writeblr trick or treat #writeblr event #Project IQRUS #Dane Cohren #Auva Knox #it's not an inccorect quote tho #they have a convo like this #i might keep it and make it sound ver angsty and grotesque #but without context it's just fun #sorry for the lot of tags guys #i'll stop for today i swear

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tryingtimi · 2 years

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I know I'm late bbuuuuut...

🦇Trick or Treat!!!🦇

Legend, you’re so in time! You can always pop in for anything 🧡 Thank you, and then I'll go for a treat then, because you're always feeding my excitement by indulging my asks. Therefore, here's a pretty old and not really canon Dava scene because I know you love them. 🍬

Lil' summary: Dane and Auva are talking about what is magic and hope. I used this as a dialogue exercise, so there is not much detail about who speaks, either way, Auva starts the convo.

“At some point, technology will feel like magic.”

“Perhaps, but that doesn’t make it magic.”

“Depends on your definition of magic, Dane. What is it really? Lightning shooting from a robed figure’s fingers? A wonder that can cure and save everyone and everything? Or a generated phenomena beyond mortal understanding and logic?”

“Neither, it is just the cruel deception of the desperate. People getting advantage over those who lost hope.”

“I see. And what is hope then?”

“Hope is… well, it’s a feeling. A stupid one, might I add. It makes people vulnerable enough to override logic and reality in their head. There’s some useful aspect of it, I admit, but I wouldn’t say the overall feeling is something that rational people need. Why, though? Don’t you zaphrin hope too?”

“I... no, we actually don't.”

“Really? Haven’t you hoped to find me?”

“That’s not how we work. I had a task to come here and find someone capable of working with me against Lero. We knew there was someone, so I only needed to wait. It was either success or failure.”

“But you couldn’t know for truly certain there is someone who's capable enough. That’s not possible, only if you know the future. Which you stated you don’t. So you zaphrin didn’t know there is someone, but hoped. In fact, hoped enough to believe that it is a fact. You’re much more of a believer than we humans, as it seems.”

Auva didn’t respond. She seemed lost in thought as she stared at her hands in her lap. Maybe Dane shouldn’t have said that. He basically shattered her whole understanding over her species. Unintentionally yes, but still. He felt awful.

Dane was ready to apologize when an ever so gentle smile creeped onto Auva’s lips.

“Yes, yes it seems we are.” She looked up at Dane and her eyes sparkled. “Isn’t it magical?”

IQRUS taglist 🌌: @bloodlessheirbyjacques, @jess-p-edits, @circa-specturgia, @moonscribbler, @blind-the-winds, @odysseywritings

#writeblr trick or treat #writeblr event #Project IQRUS #IQRUS snippet #Auva Knox #Dane Cohren #slowly tune in to nano and IQRUS #Dava ship

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tryingtimi · 2 years

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Picrew OC portraits

Now, here’s the IQRUS cast, where Dane also got two different portraits. But we start with the others. (link for the picrew)

Auva Knox and Eran Kodyn

Adran Cohren and Thaddeus Holtz (made in a different picrew)

pre-Council member Dane Cohren, Council member Dane Cohren

I was worried that Auva and Dane would look like siblings, but, to be fair, everyone looks like this in the Caelus Sector, so.

Anyway, since I still can upload photos, here’s a chibi couple pic of Council member Dane and Auva.

Some tags if you guys might want to try it (also putting the taglist lovelies here too): @jess-p-edits, @bloodlessheirbyjacques, @circa-specturgia, @friendlyneighborhood-writer, @approximately20blorbos, @aalinaaaaaa, @aschlindartroom

#IQRUS #IQRUS picrew #Adran Cohren #Dane Cohren #Auva Knox #Eran Kodyn #Thaddeus Holtz #i love this website a lot #too much fun i tell you #for those who can’t draw that well #writing community

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tryingtimi · 2 years

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FOR DANE AND AUVA! 3, 5, 7, 13, 18, 21, 22 😈

HAHAHA LOVE THAT LITTLE DEVIL! Now, crack those knuckles.

You see both of them sitting beside the nicely shaped, wide table, when you enter the room. They stand up to greet you; calmly shaking your hand, then taking their seat again. Auva's face seems rigid, yet somehow excited, while Dane is a little unreadable. He offers you a smile that is questionably genuine. "Shall we?" he asks, extending a hand towards your holo screen with the questions. You start without hesitation.

"What is your favorite childhood memory?"

You catch a glimps of Dane fidgeting with his tumbs, his hands intertwined in his lap. "It is a quite great question. Hard to answer though, I have so many." He flashes you a smile that feels more forced than the previous one. "In the past I was the one to make food at home, because Adran, my brother was still under training in the Corps. One time, however, when I got home from school, I found our kitchen blanketed with some gross, greenish gelatin-like thing, while my brother was on his knees cleaning the floor. His face, clothes and hair was full of that gelatin too. It also smelled awful. Turned out, Adran had a day off, so he tried to make me dinner from a plant he found in the water which was known to be explosive around heat. Or, well, known to me and most of us. Either way, we had a great laugh and I appriciated the intention."

Auva's lips curve up hearing that. She is beaming. When you turn to her, however, she pauses for a minute. "Hm, when my brother..." She looks at Dane, then back at you. "Sister rather, tried to make me food, but wasn't educated enough to recognise the explosive ingredient. It was funny but wholesome."

Dane shrugs and his face reminds you of someone who tries very hard no to facpalm in front of everyone.

"What is your favorite thing to do in your free time"

Dane relaxes. "Runing tests on the newly collected organisms."

"Watching him do that. But I also very much enjoy books and the television," Auva adds to it.

"Who do you look up to?"

"Eran, as a Corps member researcher, also Auva. They are both very capable people on their own field."

A smile tugs at Auva’s lips, while she continues with her calm professionalism. "He left out Adran, but he also quite fascinated by his brother's perseverance." Dane gives her a side-eye, and you have a feeling that he tries to not show how right she is. "As for me, I look up at Norel, Thaddeus' daughter. I admire how thoroughly she can examine others around her in a very short time. She can understand people easily and express herself in an equally clear way. I do like to train under her in the future."

Dane puts his elbows on the chair and he scratch his eyebrow with the back of one of his thumbs, looking at you. "She's eight."

“You’re given an unlimited budget to build anything you want! What do you build and where do you build it?”

You swear you can see Dane's intrest perking up the first time the meeting has started. As if he heard something that suits him, finally. "More platforms in the Caelus Sector, so we can transfer everyone there. It would require a lot of rearrangement and the people up there would complain, but that's something I would be willing to take on myself."

"I would invest into building a durable submarine that can transfer us deep enough to take a look at the dimensional tear..." Dane clears his throat. She looks at him, head tilting to the side, and her lips parting in recognition after a few seconds. Then she turns back to you and smiles as if nothing happened. "Another Tower. That would give us a lot more space."

"What’s the best way to cheer you up?"

"Well, that's... a great question. It feels good when someone backs one of my ideas, so I would say that is one way." His tone and wandering eyes suggest you that he might has another, less neutral answer. He doesn't share more, however.

Auva leans a little closer to the desk, her features giving away the strange mix of indecipherableness and visible excitement. "I like to receive explanations on emotions and people."

"Describe your ideal partner."

Dane crosses his legs, leaning just a little closer to Auva by the motion. "Someone honest, intelligent and open-minded. With a strong opinion and a capacity to argue about our views." He picks up the glass of water from the table to drink it.

"Someone like Dane," says Auva without hesitation.

You see as the mentioned tenses up from the slight choking that causes him to put down the water. He doesn't cough, but he punches his chest once, his face painted with a nice shade of red.

"What’s the easiest way to flirt with you?"

When Dane collects himself, clearing his throat again, he takes a deep breath. He clearly doesn't know where to stand with this. "I might not be the best one to ask this. People tell me that I'm straight up blind when the conversation comes to this. My past relationships, however, started with us making fun of some ridiculous results of an experiment, so." He starts adjusting his button on one of his sleeve, but he steals a glance from Auva, as she gives the question some thought.

"Complimenting my reactions or showing me new things, probably."

You see the faintest half-smile finding Dane's lips, as if she have said something only they can understand fully.

#okay i went into a little humorous way lmao #Auva has no childhood heh she still counts a toddler among her kinds so #yeah she sounds a little dumb there #but she just doesn't know how to answer to that without giving herself out #I HAD TOO MUCH FUN WITH THIS BTW LMAO #oc interview #IQRUS #Dane Cohren #Auva Knox

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tryingtimi · 2 years

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Happy Blorbo Blursday! You asked me about one of my ships, so tell me about one of yours! What is one of your favorite WIP ships? How did they meet? How do others see them?

It took me a little while, but here it is. Thanks for this question! <3

One of my fav is probably Dane Cohren x Auva Knox in IQRUS.

Tiny worldbuilding detail for better understanding. Water flooded the world a long time ago, and since then the water level is constantly increasing. People live on platforms that attached to one gigantic tower that can transfer these platforms higher, when a flooding comes again. It’s necessery because monsters appeared in it and touching the liquid results in mutation. Not necessarily major mutation, but their skin becomes slimy, or scaly, or membrane sarts to grow between their fingers etc. Lovecraftian deep water creature mutation you know. Depends on how much time the person spent touching the water. So, the lowest plaform (they call these sectors) is basically in constant danger and most of his people got some mutation from previous flooding, when the trasfer of the platform was too slow or something. The population drastically decreased, and the highest platform almost reached the top of the tower, so very soon, there’s gonna be nowhere to go.

Dane is one of the main characters, who freshly got his PhD, and is applying to be the representative of his and the lowest sector in the Divum Council. Auva will be his supervisor, and kind of his partner in their department. They both want to solve this water problem and raise some awerness in the highest sector, so they can change the lower sector’s life into a better one and, well, keep life up at all. Their start is pretty good, because they have the same goal and they try to achive that in the best possible way. They’re great at working together. But, as they begin to getting to know each other, they realize how much they differ and everything gets a little bumpy. Dane is a very down-to-earth person with a lot of emotional baggage and trauma. He likes to focus on his goal, and he’s a man of science and logic. Unlike him, Auva is a very open-minden personality with the itch to understand human nature, so she’s more focused on people. She also loves to question Dane’s stubborn resentment towards belief. They’re debating constantly, but never argue actually. Which is an important aspect, because Dane talks about these stuff only with his brother and it never ends peacfully from his side. They also always question each other, keeping the other one checked on the right motivation, morals and everything.

Oh and she also has an aspect that messes with Dane’s morals, ideals, his head in general, but that is a huge spoiler (but I mentioned in one wbw already I think lol), so I’ll just leave here under a cut.

How do other’s see them is a veeery good question and I really love it! Most of the people see them as two equally competent person who can work together efficently. But those who know Dane will think it’s weird how long Auva can stay by his side without either a rejection or getting frustrated by his comments on scientific stuff and straight up just quit. Those who know Auva will be only very interested in Dane, beacuse they will see the changes on Auva – this one’s explanation is under the cut too!

She’s not human. She is literally a kind of “higher” being, but not a god. So, how she percieves the world is very different than any other character’s and actually that’s why she is that interested in human nature. Also this is one of the reason why she and Dane works. She geniuenly wants to understand Dane, and by questioning a lot of things, she forces him to think outside his bubble. In the end, they kind of help each other become more human, I guess.

And those who know Auva are similar beings too, so they are fascinated or threatend by Dane. But they collectively amazed, how more human Auva gets to act by getting close to him, so they just stand around him and basically start to study him, when she introduces him. They throw some random questions at him, try to figure out how his influence works etc.

#blorbo blursday #writing community #Project Icarus #IQRUS #i love them #Auva Knox #Dane Cohren #IQRUS dynamics #Dava ship

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tryingtimi · 2 years

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HEY HAPPY WBW :3

tell me all about a character from metalsea, and a character from iqarus that you think people will absolutely fall in love with. Perhaps because of their moral greyness, or just being a good parent, or their ideals / motivations- anything c:

@bloodlessheirbyjacques ✨(:

Hahaha happy WBW @bloodlessheirbyjacques ! ❤️ You lovely soul was so done yesterday that you sent me two WBW ask 😂 But I love both so I’ll answer them anyway because it’s definitely not late. Not at all. It’s still Wednesday in my heart.

So, this a very interesting one! I think readers fall in love the most with those characters that we writers loved to write the most too (because be real, favoritism shows lmao), so I'll go with those I really look forward to write if I didn't already wrote something in their POV.

Fair warning is that I can’t talk about my stories without spoilers so ugh but I try to be as vague as I can without making it completely incomprehensible lol.

Metalsea

Darmon Strotagor. The antagonist to hero human sourcerer, who I didn’t get a chance to really talk about yet. Which is a shame since he’s gonna be one of the main POV characters and one of my favs too.

Little world history to understand him. Magic got released into the world a long time ago and it changed most of the humans into magical creatures. Elf-like and monster-like (only their appearance) folk. It also moves in a cycle, so if something dies, the magic that lived in it gets released into the world again and change something further. So the world is constantly changing and a lot of new stuff starts to turn into very dangerous things.

He’s the direct right hand of the main villain – call him Troghrun until I get a better name for him – since the day this man decided that the new races and this new alien world needs to be changed back to it’s normal state. This world and these people needs to be saved. And Darmon agreed with this wholeheartedly. He wanted to help the poor humans who got their mind and soul transformed because of a foolish conflict between gods and humans years ago. He wanted to free them and save them. And so, he followed Troghrun when he basically banished himself from their human community, agreed to do horrible things, justified every aspect of their plan in his head and even became a very skillful magic user despite his distaste for everything magical. He was ready to do and indeed did everything for their cause, because he was promised that every terrible step is reversible and will be reversed when they cleansed everything from magic. He was promised a better world. And he believed in this promise.

Until, some prisoner from the new race asked the right questions to shake him logically and morally. From that point, he starts to question Troghrun and for a time, they can talk it through, even tho Darmon stays alert. But when he finds out what they did is not reversable, and the plan is no longer what they agreed on back then, then this shakes him to his core. He realizes he’s part of the wrongness of the world and what he did through thousands of years has served the worst outcome. So, he frees the prisoners (whom among is our another main POV character who also will be Darmon’s love intrest later on), helps everyone to be prepared to everything that is yet to come, swears never to use his dark magic again, gets to know everyone, falls in love, won’t every ask for forgiveness because he knows there’s nothing that can absolve his sins, will almost die because he’s ready to sacrifice his life to save everyone and just becomes a very important pillar of the team. He’s a man who won’t do anything half-heartedly and will acknowledge if he was wrong. And instead of justification or apologizing, he’s going to do everything to make things right.

But he can be fun too tho lol. He might lived too long and done too much questionable things to have a light sense of humour, so his jokes might be pretty dark. He also can speak in a superior way because he used to that when he was with Troghrun, but his love intrest makes him aware of that very soon, very harshly and blatantly, so he will work on not being that way anymore. He also loves a good debate.

Omg this became so long and I don't even know if he sounds likeable :') I just personally love him and think people will love him because recently everyone got into antagonists, plus I want to write him to be likeable so bad. But idk aw. Jump into the next one instead.

IQRUS

Auva Knox. Main love interest of one of the POV characters. She’s a very fun one because, well, she’s not human. And no, this is not common knowledge. Her mindset is very different, but she really wants to figure out how and why humans work as they do. So she’s asking very lovely questions sometimes (besides those that gives everyone an existential crisis lmao) about the most mundane things.

I'll stop here for now, but thank you so much for this question! ❤️❤️ It was very fun to answer, even tho Darmon got an incredible length! 😂

#world building wednesday #writeblr #writing community #Project Metalsea #Darmon Strotagor #Auva Knox #Project Icarus #IQRUS #bloodlessheirbyjacques

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