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loquaciousquark · 20 days
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zero context WIP tag game
If you’re tagged, make a new post and share 1-2 (a few) sentences from your most recent unposted WIP(s) with zero context – Let your followers guess!
I have a WIP! I have something to share here! Ahhhh!!! Let's see, from a couple of places:
A sound pierced the chaos with peculiar clarity. A sigh from Astarion—a gasp. Small, sudden. Afraid. The dizzying whirl receded. She found stone at last, pushed herself up—what she thought was up—and froze. Sarevok had one hand clamped over Astarion’s face, his white hair caught in the riveted joins of the massive gauntlet. Astarion had seized Sarevok’s wrist in both hands, futile struggle against the inexorable lift into the air, against the sudden thrust of Sarevok’s sword-arm— Three feet of bloodied steel burst through Astarion’s lower back.
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Her tadpole lurched. Her own rage swept through her, fiery and impotent—then a white surge of terror from Astarion flung itself back in indiscriminate answer. Karlach swore, startled. A face thrust itself into her mind: black hair, burning red eyes, skin stretched over the cheekbones like a hide drum. It smiled with teeth like knives and Astarion made a noise of blind animal fear. The noise a child made before it was struck; the noise the dog had made in Rivington behind the kennel fence. “No!” Tav almost shouted, and Jaheira’s panther head lifted in alarm. “He’s not here. Astarion, listen to me. He’s not here, I swear it. It’s just me. I’m right here with you.”
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Tav ran her fingers carefully through his hair, rearranging a few curls to lie more neatly alongside their fellows. Without opening his eyes, Astarion gave a tired, throaty hum. “Your hair is so lovely I can’t stand it,” she murmured, threading her fingers through strands like cornsilk. “I’m going to pray tonight for Sune to take it back. Snatch it all right off your head.” “She never noticed me before,” Astarion managed, the words lost in her collarbone. “Somehow I doubt she’d bother about it now.”
Tagging anyone who's reading this! You! Yes, you! Do you have WIPs to share? SHARE THEM AND TAG ME. I DEMAND IT.
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dragons-bones · 11 months
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i am taking that reblogged post as an invitation to ask you about behind the scenes fic facts, so: in the bloodshore cabin, obviously synnove and aymeric were in the master bedroom, but what are the sleeping arrangements like on squad vacations? how many bedrooms are there, actually? do they deathmatch rock-paper-scissors for their favorite rooms? sleepover cuddle puddle on one massive bed? (i mean it DID comfortably sleep an elezen and a highlander, i'm sure all the ladies could fit if they didn't mind getting cozy.) who in the squad is generally responsible for meals on vacation, or do they "order in" from local food vendors? who tries to hog all the hot water, if such a thing is possible?
OKAY SO :D :D :D :D
the Bloodshore cabin has a total of five bedrooms: the master bedroom on the third floor and then four more on the second floor. for Squad vacations when they were younger, Heron and Synnove were typically invited along with Rere's family, and the girls would all just bunk up together and sprawl over one another, though as a note this was mostly pre-Alakhai. (Rerenasu and Shushua would have the master, Rere's younger sisters had a room, Rere's grandma had a room, and Rere's grandma's nurse had the last room). when they get Alakhai (and Galette and Tyr and Ivar) and when they were older and Rere was allowed to rent out the cabin for herself, the Squad rotated who got the master bedroom, though inevitable there'd be another sleeping pile when gossip and card games went late.
Synnove and Heron generally handle meals on Bloodshore vacations, though Alakhai and even Rere help with food prep (they joke Rere could burn water, but she can feed herself out on Twelveswood patrols just fine, she just doesn't like cooking). the cabin's too isolated to make "take out" feasible, and the nearest village, Salt Grove, really isn't cosmopolitan enough for something like that anyway. occasionally they'll head up to Costa del Sol if they want something really fancy to eat, but that's usually part of a day trip.
Rere and Alakhai are probably the top contenders for Most Likely To Try To Wipe Out The Fire Crystals That Heat The Cabin Water. Rere's just a hedonist like that, and Alakhai doesn't admit it, but hot water is her favorite luxury. Aymeric, however, beats them both quite handily. :D
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grumpyoldninja · 7 months
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Mads MamaBear's RainbowBrite Lantern Chibis - 09 > #LIFE
#CSFNation
#TheCSFNation
This is Collab 09 With #MamaBearArtDoll As she had an Inspired Idea some time ago, but it's taken forever to finally get going on it. I'm happy that time is finally here 😁
That idea was The #RainbowBriteLanternCorps which you can see right here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CU-XyTNr7Gw/ & she has let me chibi them :-D
Here's #Chibi #Stormy #Neon #Krys
#Moonglow #WhiteLantern #GreenLantern
#MamaBearDoll #GrumpyOldNinja #RainbowBrite #80sCartoons
BlackestNight #BrightestDay #DC #DCComics #MashUp #CrossOver
Mads will be doing ALL of the Rings on her Insta & I'll chibi them as she completes them, but I love this idea of her's so much I'm gonna keep going with these come back and chibi her's after she's finished.
Keep a close eye on MamaBearDoll's Instagram to see who she will choose for each lantern as she goes through them all 😁
Mads is still working on these and much more On Her Saturday Morning Cartoons Stream 10:30 AM EST Saturdays On Her Channel so Tune In & say hi in the chat 😀
Also, I put lil' Blue & Green Auras Around my "Tag" bcs those are my favorite 2 Lanterns, WILL & HOPE! Armed with those two you're pretty much unstoppable 😉
SUBSCRIBE TO / FOLLOW @mamabeardoll HERE 🔥👇🏾 https://www.youtube.com/c/MadsMamaBear https://www.instagram.com/mamabeardoll/ https://twitter.com/MadsMamaBear
She's got great Art, Poetry, Cooking Videos & delightful posts so Go Click on That SUBSCRBE/FOLLOW!
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アナログ #PhotoShop #2D #Wacom #DigitalColor
Cartoon #FanArt #TraditionalArt #DigitalPaint
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erisenyo · 6 months
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trick or treat!
A carefully selected random line from my current WIP for you :)
“Oh, fuck, that feels good,” Suki sighs as they pull each other into a deep straddle stretch, forearms clasped, Zuko humming in agreement and focusing on the release of tension across training-warm muscles and not the fact that he heard her say that same thing in that same tone in a very different context the last time he slept on her couch on Kyoshi Island.
For this trick or treat ask game!
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lendanovich · 2 years
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Pre-Show Sketch Book Commission - The Black Hand from DC’s Blackest Night Event. Share, Follow, Like, & Comment. If your interested in getting your own artwork commission, DM me. • • #blackhand #blacklanterncorps #blackestnight #WilliamHand #blacklantern #Nekron #greenlantern #dcfanart #dccomics #dc #comics #comicbooks #sketchbook #sketch #sketchs #sketchcovers #sketchcoverart #penandink #comicartist #comicart #ink #marker #copic #art #inkwash #drawing #commissionopen #lendanovich #zappcomics #gscomicfest https://www.instagram.com/p/CfrtpVlPxuk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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daniikinz · 2 years
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i love this shirt! 🥰🥰 #blackestnight #dc #selfie https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce8xovWOZSt/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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argocitycosplay · 2 years
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#nightmareonelmstreet #FreddyKrueger #sinestrocorps #blackestnight #cosplay https://www.instagram.com/p/CdJMBwJLhE6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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windupnamazu · 8 months
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you're the only one i wish would understand
ffxivwrite2023 #11: once bitten, twice shy used to mean that a person who has failed or been hurt when trying to do something is careful or fearful about doing it again
Rhea & Honoka. Post-Endwalker. 1240wc. ⮞ My heart is always filled with unrequited feelings for you.
Rhea clings to her luggage as she steps onto the piers of Kugane, overwhelmed by the fragrance of sea salt and the bustle of the port around her as she navigates toward the grand tower in front of her—the Shiokaze Holstery. She'd been told she couldn't possibly miss it and she really didn't; it's taller than any tree of the Twelveswood and its light pierced the thin fog out at sea. That building will be the starting point and home base of her investigation; a one-woman mission, a mysterious case in an equally mysterious land: a search for a person missing to her and her alone.
Her best friend, Honoka Naeuri.
Rhea listens solemnly as the woman at the Holstery counter gives her a flyer with the directions to the town's best inn, pre-booked for her with her sister's coin. After that, she's on her own: Ahnji (or, she supposes, Tala now, even if she's always going to be Ahnji to her,) knows little about the Far East and the people she knows who do are reluctant to give her information on her target's whereabouts. Even Honoka's own sister, infamously gentle as she is, redirected her to speak with their much irritable cousin instead, who probably would have chased her out of their family home if it wasn't for the presence of her husband.
She's in Kugane, she was told brusquely, and after being pointed in the direction of Isari was told to "get the fuck out."
Rhea presses the back of her hand to her brow to block out the sunlight as she emerges from the other side of the Holstery, eyes wide as she takes in the vista of Kugane's skyline. Was this fear and awe anything like how Honoka felt when she arrived on Eorzea's shores and then Revenant's Toll all those years ago? It's a weird feeling, being impossibly closer and further from Honoka than ever before.
Eyes skimming over the plaza before her, her heart nearly stops as they fall upon a crowd gathered by the aetheryte.
She's here.
There's an Au Ri girl on the steps of the aetheryte plaza, dressed in orange and blue in a style unlike this nation's denizens. Pitch black hair spills over her tear-shaped horns and down her back, longer than when Rhea had seen her last and dyed orange at its ends, but she's very much still Honoka and Rhea's heart starts to ache just at the sight of her. As she sings into a microphone of Garlean design it's with a low voice that makes dread and joy entwined plunge into her stomach; the last time she'd heard that voice it was to awkwardly say goodbye.
Her song is in Hingan, and not for the first time Rhea wishes she asked her sister to accompany her after all. What she would give for the Echo right now.
Before she can even consider pulling out her Eorzean Common-Hingan dictionary and starting to parse the lyrics, the song and the show is over. Most of the crowd departs, but among those who remain are four other youths gathered around Honoka, chattering all the while. There's a dainty-looking Roegadyn girl and a peppy Lalafellin woman and a towering Raen boy and a slender Midlander dressed head to toe in black, and they're completely at ease as they pack away instruments. Rhea summons what little courage she has and steps forward.
"Honoka!" she calls. Her best friend turns, surprised.
"Rhea?" Honoka doesn't look upset to see her, but she doesn't seem happy either. "What are you doing here?"
Before Rhea can explain, the slender and tanned Midlander drapes themselves over Honoka's shoulder, pressing their cheek against Honoka's horn.
"Ugh, Dallie, I'm busy," Honoka whines without any real irritation, playfully pushing her… friend…?—-Matron, she hopes this person is just her friend—away.
"Honohono," says 'Dallie' with a barking laugh and in heavily-accented Othardian Common, lifting their chin at Rhea. "Who's the chick? One of your fans?"
Honoka purses her lips, probably wishing this meeting wasn't happening. "Rhea. From Eorzea. Rhea, this is Dal."
"Rhea from Eorzea," Dal drawls, something like realization and frost in their voice. Behind them, the three others hovering by the aetheryte plaza straighten up. "The idiot who broke your heart?"
Rhea flinches.
"Dal," the Roegadyn girl in green calls, frowning prettily. "People are entitled to their own feelings."
Dal rolls their eyes. Or at least, they give off the impression that they do, with a subtle tilt of their head—they wear shades that completely obscure their whole expression, but their mouth's been twisted with a sneer since they first looked at Rhea.
"Rhea is still my friend, Dal," Honoka reminds them. But is she? Rhea never wrote to her after Honoka returned to Doma. Never even asked Kotone to forward her well wishes or begged Tala to ask for her new linkpearl number. If Rhea is still Honoka's friend she's been a piss poor one. She doesn't feel relief at Honoka's own words, only dread.
"I'm just calling it as I see it," Dal says with a shrug. "Either way, Honoka, we got that next gig in a bell, soooo…"
No, no, no. She just found her. Rhea opens her mouth to ask for just a minute alone or for her linkpearl number or to tell her she's got a room at the Bokairo Inn for the week and to please look for her or to blurt out I'm sorry you confessed to me and I rejected you in the most humiliating and hurtful way possible and I was wrong and I only realized once you went home across the world that I was actually in love with you too and I'm still in love with you even though it's been ages now and you have every right to hate me but please, please don't push me away—
"Ray," Honoka says, smiling at her almost as she did when they were those teenage girls in Mor Dhona following their big sisters around and wishing there was more they could do for them and for each other and for the world. It doesn't reach her eyes today. "It was great seeing you."
She doesn't say see you later or be well or keep in touch. Rhea knows she doesn't deserve that much, but she can't stop herself from watching Honoka's back as she disappears into the city, dawnscale tail and orange ombre hair swaying as she goes, far brighter here than she ever was trapped in Revenant's Toll.
"Hey."
She nearly shrieks when she realizes Dal is still there, though the rest of their friends have followed Honoka out of the plaza.
"Honoka still considers you her friend, for whatever reason," says the Midlander, hip cocked out in an easy confidence Rhea wishes she had an onze of. "So from one of her friends to another, that last song was something she wrote herself. Nearly wrecked herself doing it. Maybe look up its name."
"Its name?"
"Kataomoi," Dal says. They press their pointer and index fingers to their brow and swipe away. "Anyway, ja ne."
As they too disappear into the crowd, Rhea pulls out her dictionary and searches.
Kataomoi. Unrequited love.
"I fucked up," Rhea whispers to herself, alone in a foreign land with nothing but her suitcase and her damned pride all stomped on and muddied. She already knew that though. "I really, really, really fucked up."
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nuclearanomaly · 2 months
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●~●~● Happy Birthday @blackestnight ●~●~●
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slothquisitor · 1 month
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@blackestnight's druid, Hemlock. I did my best to try and capture a bit of a smirk! She was so fun to draw, thank you!
I'm still taking Tav/Durge requests here.
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loquaciousquark · 20 days
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okay but pls to tell me about the horror of hunger
BOY WOULD I LOVE TO okay so, first, it is imperative to understand that it's Tavish's canon that Astarion kills her the first time he feeds. This is because in playing the scene the first time ever, I was in MP with @mystery-moose & @eponymous-rose, and it so happened that the scene triggered on Tav & it so happened that she rolled TWO NATURAL ONES on both those checks & outright died, and it was so hilarious and unexpected that it simply had to become an integral part of her story.
Except of course as I got to know the character over several playthroughs, I was presented with a couple of questions! Why in the world would Tavish (selfish, self-centered, uniquely concerned with her own survival early in the game) firstly allow Astarion to feed on her at all, and secondly, fail so fatally to stop him before he killed her? How can I reconcile the dice with the narrative?
What I realized on the second run, though, was that Tav was a street kid from the age of 14. She had to fend for herself completely, unable to even scrounge up protection from the Thieves' Guild, and I think there were a lot (a lot) of nights where she went to bed hungry, especially the first few years. I think she developed a bone-deep fear of that hunger, and I think recognizing that same hunger in Astarion's eyes on bite night is what pushes her over the edge to allow the feed, even though it's not something she would have ever agreed to in a million years otherwise.
She likes Astarion by now, even if she doesn't like like him, and along with her realization that she doesn't mind helping others altruistically (some of the early tief stuff) comes the same realization about her companions. (It helps that Tav has additional hangups about her worth as a person being tied to her utility, especially surrounded by people she sees as much more competent than herself; if she can make Astarion dependent on her in this way, she can cement her place in the gang and they won't leave her behind. This is why she fails to stop him when she should, and then can't stop him when she must.) (This entire relationship is initially founded on bilateral manipulation and I love it.)
Anyway, the fic will start with an exploration of those events, then hopefully will move into other expressions of hunger & its dangers for both Tav & Astarion. She sees his ostensible hunger for power & recognizes his true hunger for safety & freedom, both from Cazador & the sun; he sees her hunger for gold and understands she's actually after the security of a warm place to sleep with food in her belly & someone who'll notice if she dies.
I have strong ideas for the first half of this fic & more nebulous vibes for the second half, but I think it'd be a really fun investigation of the way their characters mirror each other, & I like the idea of examining what they think "help" looks like, ahaha.
Thank you for asking! <3<3<3
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dragons-bones · 11 months
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happy munday!
what's your go-to reclist for book series? (asking for a friend, i swear)
The number one absolutely top tier DT pick: the Firebringer Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce. Highly formative for tiny me. Non-human characters form the vast, vast majority of the cast, and it tells the story of the unicorns' reclamation of their ancestral lands (and also learn to not be bigots to everyone around them).
Number two pick: the Dragon Chronicles by Susan Fletcher. This was originally just a trilogy when I was a tiny (Dragon's Milk, Flight of the Dragon Kyn, Sign of the Dove), but had a fourth book (Ancient, Strange, and Lovely) written thirteen years ago. Dragons, and the girls who save them.
Book series that came much later for me in life and I think everyone should read:
Machineries of Empire by Yoon Ha Lee; space opera overthrowing a despotic empire, in a nutshell. Calendar math as a way of exerting actual power and technological effects on the world, which is why said despotic empire is in the mess its currently in. Incredible worldbuilding, fascinating characters, including some you will love and some you will loathe and some you will love to loathe. (Get fucked, Nirai Kujen.)
Dune by Frank Herbert; this includes the original novel plus the second two books in the series, Dune Messiah and Children of Dune. These three books are basically the main arc around Paul Atriedes; Dune itself reads a bit like a traditional heroic mighty whitey story, but the end of the novel plus the next two brutally deconstruct that. Huge themes of religion, psychology, ecology, politics, and the messiness of humans trying to harness all these forces for their various competing ends. Do not read from God Emperor onward. ESPECIALLY do not read anything by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, it's all trash.
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien; his writing style is absolutely not for everyone, but his themes of hope and compassion even in the darkest times has resonated with me for decades. Every "traditional" fantasy novel is a poor imitator who completely missed the point.
The Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson; The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages were my introduction to Sanderson and his absolutely godly ability to worldbuild and foreshadow. A post-apocalyptic world where the bad guy won, a bunch of thieves work to overthrow his empire, and the consequences thereof. Highly recommend Sanderson's other stuff, too, but this is the trilogy that started it all for me.
The Nightside series by Simon R. Green, for no other reason than I think they're fun, pulpy novels. The terrible, dark netherworld of London, where noir meets fantasy and scifi. High literature? Absolutely fucking not. Rollicking good time? Very much so! If you are using your brain to read these books you are doing it wrong.
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grumpyoldninja · 1 year
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Mads MamaBear's RainbowBrite Lantern Chibis - 08 > #DEATH #Murky #Lurky #CSFNation #TheCSFNation
This is Collab 08 With #MamaBearArtDoll As she had an Inspired Idea some time ago, but it's taken forever to finally get going on it. I'm happy that time is finally here 😁
That idea was The #RainbowBriteLanternCorps which you can see right here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CU-XyTNr7Gw/ & she has let me chibi them :-D
Here's #Chibi #MurkyDismal / #BlackLantern #GreenLantern
#MamaBearDoll #GrumpyOldNinja #RainbowBrite #80sCartoons #BlackestNight #DC #DCComics #MashUp #CrossOver
Mads will be doing ALL of the Rings on her Insta & I'll chibi them as she completes them, but I love this idea of her's so much I'm gonna keep going with these come back and chibi her's after she's finished.
Keep a close eye on MamaBearDoll's Instagram to see who she will choose for each lantern as she goes through them all 😁
Mads is still working on these and much more On Her Saturday Morning Cartoons Stream 10:30 AM EST Saturdays On Her Channel so Tune In & say hi in the chat 😀
Also, I put lil' Blue & Green Auras Around my "Tag" bcs those are my favorite 2 Lanterns, WILL & HOPE! Armed with those two you're pretty much unstoppable 😉
SUBSCRIBE TO / FOLLOW @mamabeardoll HERE 🔥👇🏾 https://www.youtube.com/c/MadsMamaBear https://www.instagram.com/mamabeardoll/ https://twitter.com/MadsMamaBear
She's got great Art, Poetry, Cooking Videos & delightful posts so Go Click on That SUBSCRBE/FOLLOW!
I'M HERE: 👇🏾 https://linktr.ee/GrumpyOldNinja
@rainbowbriteco #GreenLanternCorps #アナログ #PhotoShop #2D #Wacom #DigitalColor #Cartoon #FanArt #TraditionalArt #DigitalPaint #Digitalpainting #ArtIsAwesome #Pretty #Cute #Kawaii #ArtistOntumblr #ArtistsOntumblr #ArtistOnArtStation #ArtistsOnArtStation #ArtStyle
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staticcolour · 1 year
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Commission for @blackestnight  !
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gatheredfates · 3 days
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QUIZ: VILLIAN TYPE ✧˖°.
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You thought I was going to get tagged in this quiz twice and not do the other bad bitch in my life? You fool. You absolute noodle. I was tagged by the fabulous @starforger!
No Moral Compass
You are cold, analytical, and you strive to be as objective as a person of flesh and blood can be. Either don't understand the concepts of good and evil, or you understand it perfectly and think it's a load of bull. Some may call you selfish, some may call you unfeeling, but you're just doing what you believe will yield the best results, plain and simple. Why bother with petty ideals of right or wrong when you can do what will actively help those you give a fuck about? Your goals may be selfish or noble or anything in between, but you will not let anyone make you feel like garbage for going after them. You couldn't care less about what people brand you as. You just care about getting shit done by any means necessary.
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YEAH? YEAH, OKAY QUIZ. OKAY. I think for Kor it's less that she doesn't care about what people think of her, but more she's been told she's worthless for pretty much half her life so it's not like people's expectations can be any lower. When you're conditioned into being your father's attack dog, even if he doesn't really view you as a hound, you eventually stop caring what other people think if it protects the ones you love.
I think it's something she is slowly unlearning, as most of her 'villainy' is definitely a product of self-preservation and trauma, but it's all too easy for her to lock into that cold, analytical persona if it gets her the results she needs. The world crushes feeling. The world manipulates selflessness. Why look weak and allow someone to think they can take advantage of you? Look strong and have it hurt doubly so when they do it anyway!
Tagging: @clockchimesthirteen, @unbreakable-oaths, @azems-familiar, @sjofn-lofnsdottr, @viiioca
@wandering-the-wyld, @omnifariousness, @unbreakable-oaths, @iron-sparrow, @mrlarkstin
@ishgard, @mmorpg-escapism, @blackestnight, @ungrateful-cyborg, @lilas & you!
Unlike the last post, where I forgot, the link to the quiz is here!
If you'd like a chance of being tagged, you can like my permanent interaction call here!
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sundered-souls · 2 months
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What does your heart look like? Wolfe
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a compass that doesn’t waver
You are someone who is certain of what you want. Maybe you always have been, or maybe you made a discovery that you haven’t been able to tear your eyes away from. Your heart is set and certain. You fight endlessly for your goals. Above all else, you know who you are and what you are trying to achieve. Just be careful not to tear yourself or others apart in pursuit of your ideals.
(Well. This is him, indeed :'D And if he's not certain, he'll fake it anyway.)
Tagged by @under-the-blood-moonlight (ty ty!)
Tagging @elizabethrobertajones @irisopranta @luck-and-larceny @windup-dragoon @yloiseconeillants @mythandral @whatsthisascianbullshit @otherworldseekers @archaiclumina @blackestnight and you!
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