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Main protagonist of Underneath The Skin of Amnesia

Smajuzhoktrine Zeliphojandus-Mnelohaviktus Gomeszukiva is an Äylcephomus who fell from grace for reasons currently unbeknownst to her. Many see and describe her as the true definition of unpredictable and whimsical. She can be merciless and defiant, but is also capable of being compassionate and nurturing. She possesses strong motherly instincts and will protect those she deeply cares about from potential harm and unnecessary criticism. She treats those who give off a good impression with a sense of respect and appreciation. Smajuzhoktrine is fully capable of being considerate and trying to comfort people during times of hardship. Through her acts and words of encouragement, cunningness, and understanding, she possesses an unstoppable charisma. She enjoys meaningful fun and spending time with family and friends, ensuring that they feel comfortable and happy. She's grateful for all of the good in her life, and she doesn't view herself as something of high importance, usually putting others before her. Smajuzhoktrine consistently utilises her logical thinking, active listening, and interpersonal skills as well as photographic memory. She prefers interacting with people on the basis of kind-heartedness and genuine tenderness.

She’s an autonomous woman who clearly knows what she wants and will do anything to achieve such things in order to satisfy her needs. She has a rebellious spirit who adores indulging in her hedonistic desires and she often finds a sense of gratifying freedom within the company of those she truly cares about. She’s undeniably a thrill-seeking sadist that’s willing to do anything for the right amount of entertainment. She has a powerful libido and enjoys a variety of delectable pleasures that she'll happily indulge in for the right price. She has no apparent qualms about obliterating countless beings for the sake of joyous fun and/or enacting divine judgement. Smajuzhoktrine has no loyalty to anyone or anything, but is willing to help people if they follow the rules of equivalent exchange or she’s feeling particularly generous that day. She can be fairly competitive with other Æylphitus, especially in regards to feats of strength, usefulness, and bravery. Whenever she experiences happiness, she feels deep satisfaction, harmonious confidence, and inner tranquillity to the point where she’s unnaturally carefree and isn’t easily worried. She's extremely wise and has extraordinary intelligence, which helps her to make firm decisions and good judgements based on previous experiences. However, she’s also naturally inquisitive, closely observing, and possibly engaging with those that catch her attention. She has a clear interest in humanity, finding them to be a multi-faceted, perplexing, and weirdly humorous species.

She may not show it, but she’s secretly afraid of succumbing to her newfound infernal instincts and becoming disconnected from herself and others. When she relies on her infernal instincts, Smajuzhoktrine is more prone to becoming overly aggressive, disturbingly concupiscent, and emotionally distant. It’s personally frustrating for her as it creates a further disconnect from her current footing in reality and it hinders her journey on retrieving her former self. She’s desperate to retrieve her memories and true identity that has been stolen from her by the divine council. She sometimes feels numb to both positive and negative emotions, and doesn’t have the bandwidth to engage with others as she normally would. Smajuzhoktrine can feel quite detached from her current surroundings, people close to her, and herself as though she’s slowly losing what truly defines her as a living creature. There are occasional instances where she is unable to engage with the feelings and emotions of others and herself. She inconsistently feels uncertain about her identity, and is overwhelmed by her emotions and the lack of purposeful meaning.

Smajuzhoktrine is noticeably much taller than the average height of a human woman, clocking in at about 6’ 2” (187.96 cm). She has an endomorphic, pear-shaped body with prominent hips and a slightly round belly, carrying some weight in her upper arms and thighs. Her smooth skin is as gorgeously white as a common daisy and her mouth is filled with canine teeth. She has a purplish long, forked tongue that’s connected to the larynx opening, which offers better tongue movement. Like all Lorvaztekiphus, she has a noticeable split from the back of where her tongue begins to the lower lip to the middle of her collarbone. Her face, neck, and hands are adorned with greyish freckles that almost replicate the starry sky. Her left eye is a dreamy magenta haze, while the right eye is a gleaming verdigris. She has two striking facial moles: one on the left side of her lower lip and the other below her right eye. Smajuzhoktrine has a tousled layered bob that’s finely chopped and it’s the astonishing gradient of medium light autumn gold, bright orange, medium salmon, cornflower blue, and dark violet. She has razor-sharp claws that are usually painted with silver nail polish or a shimmering sapphire blue. She has six fairly large wings of blackness as though they have been scorched by the sun and they shine with an unearthly lustre. Her secret bodily weakness or physical Achilles’ heel are the lymph nodes, which are found in many parts of her body including the neck, armpits, chest, and groin.

As a fallen angel, she has been given an alternative form that represents her fall from grace and the sins she has committed. This alternative form has a slimmer body, genitalia that's covered in serpentine tentacles, four sagging breasts, elongated limbs, a more prominent belly, and three different heads: her original face (front), a lion (right), and a rooster (left). While in this manifestation, she’s approximately 12’ 4” (381 cm) and her skin is that of a sunbeam snake. Smajuzhoktrine has a thick blade-tipped, segmented tail that is shaped similarly to a human spine and is twice her height. A luminous sun disk made from gilt-brass with an engraved all-seeing eye is right behind her three heads. She has digitigrade legs with silvery lavender pamprodactyl feet as well as sharp claws and talons of polished bronze. It has six wings: two upper wings of turquoise; two middle wings of lavender; the two other middle wings are coral tree; and the two lower wings are old gold. She tries not to stay in this form for too long as she’s afraid that she might lose her sense of self.

After her fall from grace, she wears a rose gold sequined mermaid dress with a ruffled lavender bodice and glossy sapphire lining. She dons an oversized coat of African lion fur, a forsythia yellow himiana of dried Asian bleeding-hearts, eggplant purple fishnet leggings, and bronze-hued rope sandals. She has a shawl with silver tassels and a gradient of greenish-black, gold-brown, yellow-orange, salmon pink, and bright red. She wears a pair of coral tree feather-shaped earrings, a chrysocolla signet on her right middle finger, and a golden dome on her right index finger. When she’s not wearing her Nifjazroghetus attire, she has three T-shirts that she wears most often: a black T-shirt depicting an image that’s a combination between the alchemical symbol of bismuth and black sulphur; a thistle T-shirt depicting an angel’s trumpet with a golden alchemical symbol of the Sun behind it; and a T-shirt depicting a light sea green symbol of phlogiston and the Latin phrase “dulce periculum” (danger is sweet). Smajuzhoktrine wears a pair of high-waisted, burnt umber jeans and eerie black mid-calf combat boots with spikes. However, there are instances where she wears a pair of traditional low-cut, dirty white sneakers. She wears her favourite leather biker jacket of neon orange brilliance and it’s made from expensive cowhide. The inside of her jacket is made from soft sheepskin dyed a deep crimson and it has hidden pockets as well as two straps. One strap holds her trusty shotgun and the other one holds a dirk, while the hidden pockets contain a pack of blueberry-flavoured cigarettes, illicit drugs only taken by other Æylphitus like herself, and a couple of magazines that piqued her interest. On the back of her jacket, it depicts the ouroboros being consumed by flames with the Latin phrase “MORS VINCIT OMNIA” (death conquers all or death always wins) encircling the serpent.

She commonly wields a triple-barrelled, semi-automatic shotgun called the Z-058B Venom Striker that appears to be a combination between the Black Aces Peacekeeper and the Benelli Supernova. It has an ivory grip and has three expensive, yet heavy duty barrels made from an unknownable metal. The special ammunition for this highly dangerous and illegal shotgun is infused with her magical flesh. There are times where she wields a weighty throwing spear made of a blood-red metal that is similar to pure tungsten. Despite her fall from grace, she still carries around her old shield, claymore, and cat-o’-nine-tails. Smajuzhoktrine’s wedge top shield is made from impenetrable bronze, depicting an amazonite basilisk with a sardonyx lion head that’s spewing sunstone fire. The rim of the shield appears to be something akin to pyrite, but is actually made from her golden ichor that she has solidified. Her flaming claymore is made from solidified space dust and dead star remnants that were smelted and forged into what’s now her blade. Lastly, her spiked cat-o’-nine-tails is made from gold-plated leather and it’s believed to embody the supreme authority of Cosmos.

It should be noted that these abilities consume large amounts of her life energy and she needs to consider how much of their overall power she wants to utilise. If she doesn’t perform these precautions, she’ll most likely die from metaphysical exhaustion. She is capable of projecting her own spirit from her material body through entering a trance. While using astral projection, she has complete control over her spirit, being able to move outside the limit of space and time. Absorption allows her to consume the memories, emotions, powers, and life energy of any living creature through physical contact. In regards to absorbing abilities, she'll temporarily gain such things and has full control of them for about 2-3 hours. Her transformation abilities consist of metamorphosing into a basilisk and a phoenix, shifting between her known forms, and “hiding” her wings. Through the utterance of ancient words, she can create new life by utilising her flesh, golden ichor, and/or breath. She can even create maces, polearms, blades, spears, and ammunition out of her ichor. By manipulating her organic mass, she is able to heal any injuries that have been inflicted upon her. She can also use her organic mass to create far-reaching tendrils and temporary barriers. Like all Äylcephomus, she can only use her ichor and organic mass by harming herself, which explains why she has a dirk. She used to have saliva that can burn naturally sinful things, but has been replaced by an acidic venom after her fall.

As an avatar of Zekwaboruchni, she can manipulate balance, the sky, air, weather, and shadows. She can create a magical door that appears out of thin air or materialises on certain solid surfaces (e.g. a ceiling) and it transports her to different universes. It can be quite frustrating to utilise because she has to travel to another universe and back to the one she was before in order to arrive at her desired place. Æylphitus who have the ability to create a magical door are personally unique to them and this can be applied to her as well. Her magical door is an arch top with chipped cascade paint that has an eerie wisteria and hibiscus sheen. It has two intricate gilt-brass door handles: one depicts the head of a lion and the other is a rooster's head. She possesses omniscience, but she's able to mentally filter what she wants to know and focus her knowledge on what interests her. She can also speak, understand, and decipher all languages, and handle every situation with considerable efficiency. Through the use of telepathy, she can receive and transmit specific information with her mind. She can even perceive the thoughts of other people and detect their presence nearby. She has psychokinesis, being able to manipulate matter and energy with mental effort alone. She has supernatural strength and is capable of moving continents, star clusters, planetary systems, and supermassive galaxies amongst a few others. She’s able to survive the elimination of a galaxy, highly destructive universal events such as supernovae, and objects that travel at the speed of light. She can also endure all kinds of temperatures such as ones that are near kelvin and below negatives worth. Her sense of sight, taste, hearing, touch, and smell are far more acute compared to humans, Ufrajozlens, and some Æylphitus. She is able to perceive all known energies that bind the multiverse together, observing everything in her heightened field of vision. Like all Äylcephomus as well as some fallen angels and Lorvaztekiphus, she can use her massive wings to fly.

FAMILY:

Eytnozubiwa Semulokriah (adoptive mother)

Verthanogzimus Ehloktarpius (adoptive father)

Camusoziel (ex-lover)

Sandezlophim (son)

Mewhatron (daughter)

Gunasomedi (daughter)

Rhadezomintus (son)

Joluszeniah (lover)

Zorsjahlen (daughter)

ALIASES/NICKNAMES:

Smajuzho (by most of her friends and acquaintances)

Zhoktrina (by Samunokhiel and Zurachoniel)

Zelipho (by most of her friends and acquaintances)

Mnelovakius (by a few of her friends and acquaintances)

Mom (by her children)

Mother (by her children)

She Who Was Blest By The Union of Chaos and Mist

Bear of Golden Dew and Weeping Ichor

Blade Made From A Cerulean Warbler’s Plume

The Great Magnificence of Crying Stars

Hen of the Sanctified Bismuth

Lady of Sun-Kissed Ashes

The Fiery Wings of Zekwaboruchni

Overthrower of Decaying Blissfulness

Her Fox-Tongued Protectress

Our Basilisk Pulchritude

Cow-Eyed Destroyer

Three-Formed Key

The Moon-Venom

His Dog-Star

Bleeding Prophet

Roaring Dragoness

Nectar-giver

Lance-bringer

Wind-eater

FUN FACTS/EXTRA INFORMATION:

Her sexuality is fluid

It’s unknown when her exact birthday is due to being quadrillion years older than Earth and when the Gregorian calendar was made. However, she jokingly likes to believe that her birthday is October 13th (Libra).

As an Æylphitus, the different parts of her name have special meanings: Smajuzhoktrine means “he warned me or treasure of life”, Zeliphojandus means “shadow of fear and reverence or first rupture”, Mnelohaviktus means “in the lunar mansion of her barker”, and Gomeszukiva means “bleary-eyed one or lucky star of the high-minded”.

She smells like bergamot orange and balsam poplar

She has a high-performing motorcycle that was originally used for racing and it has a reverse function as well as a ceramic, double-rotor, two-wheel disk drive. It has electronically controlled anti-lock brakes and a visible crank and gearbox case on the right side of her motorcycle. It has slightly worn turquoise paint, a red-violet seat, and six motorcycle decals. It’s more of a souvenir from her perspective, but she does occasionally drive it.

A recurring dream she has revolves around her younger self who’s half-dressed in lavish robes and wearing a pair of golden sandals. She’s walking over a pile of flayed corpses writhing in eternal agony and towards something. This something appears to be a massive orb of restrained flames that pulsate with each footstep. Her peculiar dream ends just before she can fully reach out and touch this object.

She likes the feeling of wax on her skin, mixing different soda beverages together, raindrops on a window, frozen lakes, labyrinthine cave systems, internal organs, animal teeth, bird plumage, natural phenomenon, and familial bonds.

She dislikes arrogance, blissful ignorance, being rudely dismissed, psychological warfare, inaccurate information, taxidermy bugs and insects, vomit, optical illusions, all forms of abuse, and loneliness.

Her hobbies consist of watching over humanity, wreath-making, writing poetry and celestial hymns, painting rocks, playing chess. She also enjoys collecting religious memorabilia, kitschy artwork, ceramics, vintage mason jars, bird-themed items, seashells, and figurines.

She loves all animals that are present throughout the multiverse and finds them to be as fascinating as humanity. Like humans, she sees them as a well-needed gift to help keep the equilibrium of the multiverse stable. If she did have to choose, it would either be the thylacine, coelacanth, bearded vulture, scimitar oryx, cerulean warbler or Lady Amherst’s pheasant.

Similar to how Smajuzhoktrine views animals, she loves all flowers and their intriguing beauty. If she did have to choose, it would most likely be the common foxglove, Asian bleeding-heart or Miltoniopsis phalaenopsis.

Her favourite comfort foods are homemade potato and cheese perogies, turkey enchiladas with authentic Mexican spices, beer-battered fish, toasted ravioli, gnocchi, macarons, banana split, and molten chocolate pudding.

Even though Smajuzhoktrine does enjoy sweets, she rarely eats such foods.

Smajuzhoktrine's favourite colours are saffron, blue-green, and the hues of her eyes and the sky.

Her biggest pet peeves are lack of boundaries in general, interrupting during a conversation, repetitive tapping, scraping silverware, unsolicited advice and recommendations, the feeling of chalk, the sound of styrofoam rubbing together, know-it-alls, humble-bragging, and using words the wrong way.

She possesses a heirloom that’s a lute carved from animal bone gilded with pristine gold and its strings are of indestructible silk. She finds the melodies that this lute is capable of playing to be quite mesmerising and even peaceful.

Despite having omnilingualism, it can be difficult to learn a language that was originally lost, but was recently found. It takes a fair amount of time to perfectly decipher and understand the language, but it’s a worthwhile effort in her eyes.

She sees crying as a way to relieve stress, believing that people don’t always need a reason to weep. She thinks that sometimes people need a different outlet to let out their pent-up emotions.

An oddity is that she becomes ravenous after using her organic mass to heal herself

She feels melancholic when something becomes lost media because a part of her wishes that she could have found, especially if she knows that it’s going to be impossible to bring back.

Due to her habit of talking to herself, she uses Zorsjahlen’s rosy-scaled, golden-bellied lóng plushie for emotional support, telling it all of her daily problems.

She's quite the adrenaline junkie

She usually likes to root for the underdogs

Smajuzhoktrine has nicknames for almost everyone

She looks in every mirror

She’s a chain smoker

She usually scarfs down her food and belches loudly after eating.

She enjoys humming to herself

Smajuzhoktrine's guilty pleasure is rating strangers based on how fucked up their childhood is and how sexually appealing their physical appearance is.

#writerscorner #writing #creative writing #fifth original character has been shared #protagonist #female protagonist #original character #personality #physical appearance #outfit #abilities #power #angel #fallen angel #she was inspired by kei from akira and makoto from ghost in the shell #fun facts #extra information #part 5/10

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hanjisungs-bigtittyg0thgf · 5 months

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name: alura position: part-part time porn author, aspiring milf pronouns: she/her birthday: july 31, 1999 zodiac: leo height: 165cm/5'5" blood type: o mbti: infp/enfp ult groups: stray kids, ateez ult biases: han jisung, song mingi

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•non-standard kinks are okay but do understand i reserve the right not to answer if what you're asking of me makes me uncomfortable.

•i will write for any group after doing a little research on them but ateez and stray kids are my comfort zone.

•spam liking will get you blocked cause i’m not looking for a shadow ban

i write any genre but please remember this blog was started for me to share my smut and be horny so there will be far more of that than anything else.

my dms are always open!!! send a chat, i'd love to get to know you ❤️

i'm not as funny as i like to think i am so please bear with me lmao

i promise i get your asks, it just takes me a while to get to them. we're all adults with busy lives and trying to find balance can be difficult.

oh also i’m bi.

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#about the author #blog rules #extra information

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sampilled · 2 months

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i loveeeeee oversharing on tumblrrrrrrrr

#i love over sharing in general #and i love <3 putting things in the tags #extra information

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mytestosterone · 3 months

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My experience on Testosterone so far

1st Month:

-STARTED WITH A DOSE OF 1.0 ML (INJECTIONS) (09/04/22)

-First change is that I noticed my hands were more clammy.

-My mother claimed to have noticed my face getting more narrow.

-Small bottom growth

2nd month:

-Bottom growth pains started this month. Keep in mind pain levels (or if any at all) is different for every person. For me it just randomly would start up for a few minutes once in a while. Like someone punched me in the junk.

-Noticed slight strength changes. Mainly because I kept breaking necklace chains that I had not had issues with previously.

-Took note of having more frequent heat flashes

3rd month:

-I figured out that I was no longer bisexual and now only had attraction to men.

-First experience of slight voice cracks

4th month:

-Noticed that I had been needing to take more frequent showers. I used to only have to shower 2-3 times a week, now it's closer to 4-6.

8th month:

-DOSE CHANGE TO 1.5 ML (04/06/23)

-After my change in dosage, my voice cracks quickly became more frequent.

-Acne became much more frequent and developed in more places besides my face.

-DOSE CHANGE TO 2.0 ML (04/26/23)

-I did not write this down so I'm not positive it occurred this month but it was around this time that I noticed my period becoming shorter, less predictable, and less heavy.

9th month:

-More hair! Especially on my stomach. I started developing a happy trail.

-Even worse voice cracks. Made it difficult to sing. I can sing better now but I still crack sometimes.

-According to my voice pitch app (Voice Pitch Analyzer), my voice went up and down A LOT with a rough range of 260 Hz to 140 Hz (loosely)

-Noticed my eyebrows getting thicker.

10th month:

-My eyebrow hairs are significantly greater in numbers and length. I used to never have to worry about taking care of my eyebrows, now I have to make sure to smooth them down or they look funky.

-According to Voice Pitch Analyzer, I have a range closer to 160 Hz - 130 Hz

-I noticed my feet getting larger, which was a huge surprise as I'm not even getting taller. Keep in mind this change in feet size may be due to something else that I am not aware of.

12th month:

-Voice range closer to 140 Hz to 120 Hz

-So sweaty. Everywhere. Even from doing nothing. Keep in mind this has been a very hot month, though.

14th month:

-Have been off of it for nearly a month due to insurance issues.

-Noticed more defined dimples

16th month:

-Dose upped to 2.5 ML

-Will be switching to gel soon

#extra information #minor #american #medicaid #that's it #trans #transgender #trans ftm #ftm #hrt #trans hrt #transman #transmasc #transgender ftm #lgbt #testosterone #hermone replacement therapy

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raes-writing-space · 9 months

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Guidelines/DNI’s/Extra Information

Guidelines:

I do not take requests, however I do take suggestions!

If I feel like writing about it, then I will also post the ask it came from!

Please check out the masterlists/fandoms tag for any of my past writings.

While I try my best to add community labels when I can, I will also put SEVERAL different kinds of warnings for any content that is mature in any way. Not only will I have a "MDNI/Ageless Blog DNI" label on it, but I will also be more specific under the "warnings" tab on most writings I do.

Minors Please DO NOT INTERACT on writings labeled "MDNI" and Ageless Blogs, Please either state your age, or DO NOT INTERACT on writings labeled "Ageless Blogs DNI". If I look at your blog and see that you are either ageless or a minor, you will be BLOCKED.

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Do Not Interact If:

You're a bigot of some kind (TERF, Racist, Anti-Semitic, Homophobic, Aphobic, or Transphobic, etc)

You don't have anything nice to say about my writings, you'll be blocked.

Think that any of these fandoms I'm in or talk about are "cringe", I will do what makes me happy, and in the end that's all that matters to me.

Just plain and simple an asshole, your asks/replies will be deleted, and you will be blocked.

Please make sure you have the proper blacklisting for any warnings I put on my writings.

Tags I Use For Mature Writings Are: "Lemon", "NSFW", "NSFT", or "Smut" blacklist if necessary. (Especially anyone under 18)

Topics I will NOT write about or engage in conversation about:

Anything non-consensual

Specific power dynamics, for instance: - Teacher/student (even if student is of legal age) - Boss/employee (unless both adults are consenting) - Huge human age gaps like... 6+ years or more... This is dependent on how old the characters are, 30/36 is okay, but I will not talk about 17/23 or even 19/25 or even 21/27. (Monster age gaps however, are kinda different in my brain don’t ask me why.)

DDLG (Just.... can’t do it...)

Fandom Ships, I refuse to get into ship discourse when I legitimately could not care.

Incest, Pedophilia, etc.

(Possibly More Will Be Added)

NOTES ABOUT MY WRITING:

I want to remind everyone that these characters are fictional/fake, and so while I WILL NOT write about characters who are portrayed as very childish or mentally of more child-like age (For instance, like Ortho from TWST, or Luke from Obey Me) in mature things, and their prompts will ONLY be PLATONIC. I WILL write about the other characters in mature themes. Whether you want to imagine the characters/readers in the story are the same age, or of legal age is up to you. I WILL NEVER condone ever writing about pedophilia in any capacity, so, for instance, I've seen people who intentionally have the reader be of legal age, with a younger character, or vice versa. I will NEVER do that.

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asexxxualauthor · 1 month

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I think the best part of finishing Burrow's End is the moment about six or so hours later, where you're chilling in the shower or in the middle of dinner, and you suddenly realize that the tape—you know, that tape—wasn't all five of the Firsts dog-piling and murdering Dr. Winnebago, but literally just Phoebe. And just that one stoat was enough to cause the carnage the kids found in the store room and turn the doctor into a Meat Dave when she didn't even know how to speak human yet.

#dimension 20 #burrow's end #d20 spoilers #burrows end spoilers #hey aabria what the fuck? like what the actual fuck?#I am all for grizzly death and body horror in my D&D campaigns but that is absolutely fucked up #like when I first heard that recording it was horrifying as hell #I'm right there with Brennan being #nope no thanks I'm out #but once you get the extra information from Silence's notes and we find out that it was just Phoebe who went into the store room #like it's so obvious but holy fuck aabria!#that was fucked up!

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crypticmillipede · 5 months

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stardew valley hot(?) take:: if you pick anything besides “experimental noise rock” for sam’s 2-heart event where you decide his band’s sound, you are simply wrong and non-canonical argue with the wall

like i’m sorry, you really think the town’s resident grunge/emo trio would play “cheerful pop” “hi-energy dance” or “honky-tonk country”?? these guys look like they feed off the souls of dying Hot Topics

#lol i’m mostly just being silly it’s okay if you have a different opinion #but i’m right!! right???#if you picked country music i’m sorry to inform you you’re EXTRA wrong #stardew valley #sdv #stardew valley sam #stardew sam #sdv sam #sdv sebastian #sdv abigail #stardew

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fizzytoo · 5 months

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fizzytoo’s cowfolk roundup !

hi hi!!! i'm looking for sims— lovers, enemies, friends, etc. !!

this isn't a bachelor challenge, more like stardew valley?? where there's townies that populate chestnut ridge and have the potential to form relationships with amaya and karlee!

rules under the cut! :D

please be aware that i will change some skin details to match my style (mainly default skin and eyes. i also use 2D lashes).

cc is allowed; maxis-mix/match (no alpha hair), 1 outfit per category.

i use the 5 traits mod so you're welcome to choose 5 traits.

your submissions can be a family, single parent, or just one sim. they could have pets/horses. they could have likes/dislikes, and jobs too! (or made up ones for storytelling purposes).

no occults please

if you're submitting a sim as a prospective partner, i'd prefer if they were young adults.

amaya (she/they) is nonbinary and pansexual, karlee (she/her) is demisexual.

private or public download, whichever you prefer :D tag me if you decide to submit a sim

as of right now, there is no deadline for this or limit to the number of sims i'll take, but this could change.

#ts4 #ts4 gameplay #sims 4 gameplay #postcard legacy challenge #postcard: gen4 #plc extras #give me sims im literally on my hands and knees #if you have any questions please let me know bc idk if i included enough information #ANYWAY the banner (?) i made for this is cute and i’m proud of it 🫵🏽#fizzys roundup

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autoacafiles · 3 months

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The Tale of the Dark Ages

"It has been twenty stellarcycles. More than two vorns since the Thirteen Primes, the Firstforged, turned arms against each other. Nobody has seen the Primes in years, and there has been a generation or two who earnestly believe them to be figures of myth. The realm of Iacon, the great towers, has become naught but a ruin, covered in ash and snow, roads that once led across the world now cracked and broken due to lack of maintenance, towers collapsing under the weight of our sins. We have ruined Cybertron, our home, for the sake of personal glory. Though we, the people of Iacon, persist and maintain our cultural balance, there's not much for us to claim as home but a broken temple and cracked ground. And every day, we get reports of Darklanders encroaching on our territory, Flockers stalking in the shadows of our city, and the Demons have claimed most of the ruin for their own barbarism.

If the rumors are true, an order of knights led by a Darklander, claiming to be the granddaughter of two of the Firstforged, have taken to fighting against the darkness. They shed the icons of their gods, coat their armors in sheens of silver and gold, and strike back with weapons glowing with power none have seen before... power erupting from their very sparks. Desperate measures have been taken by those that follow this so-called Septimus Prime, and other warlords have been waiting for them to slip up.

We cannot wait long enough. So we have taken desperate measures of our own. Young sparklings who have yet to truly live have been kidnapped in the night, lowborn kindlings sold so their scions can afford more energon for themselves, and drifters in need of purpose coerced into our service. And when the time comes and Septimus asks for our cooperation against the demon hordes, we will stand against them with our own knights. No need for glowing weaponry. No need for spark energy. They will stand with their old allegiances stamped boldly on their armor, their eyes aglow with the energy they need, and they will bring this world to order... Our warriors. The Primal Guardians. Our heroes." - Reforgis of Iacon, text recovered from an ancient ruin found in the depths of Lower Iacon.

What the people of Cybertron know of the Dark Ages that followed the Age of the Firstforged is a shadowy picture that you'd have to squint at to make anything out. A lot of old stories distorted by myth and legend, some artifacts that remain intact only by sheer luck, and very rarely a body that hadn't been eaten from the inside out by desperate scavengers or rusted to dust by the ages. As a result, the exact series of events that led to the fall of the Firstforged are not well known, nor anything from between their fall and the rise of modern Iacon and the establishment of the Age calendar. The cynical might say that the Iaconian government at the time would likely have either neglected to fully preserve the history of the Firstforged and Dark Ages from then due to personal ambitions, with some even going so far as to claim that they opted to bury the information outright in hopes to legitimize their perceived legacy as the stewards of the new world. As a result, scholars had to piece together what information they have or are able to glean from what few accounts remain.

The most commonly accepted idea is that Megatronus, Prime of Destruction, struck down fellow Firstforged member Solus, Prime of Technology, and caused the rift between all the different members of the Firstforged, and thus the Schism is all Megatronus's fault. However, if you look closely at the details of this, then the chronology starts to look a little janky. Many accounts paint Solus and Megatronus as being close allies prior to this event and some even claim that the two often got intimately personal, so the change that would lead to Solus's death is kinda hard to track down. There are even some accounts of members of the Radiant Forges, Solus's tribesmen, fighting alongside the Darklanders against troops from the House of Light, even though most historical records recount them either allying with the House of Light or outright abandoning Cybertron. Some even say that while Solus is confirmed to have died before the Schism happened, the two events might not even be remotely connected.

Even more radical historians like to point out this discrepancy and claim that the Schism might've marked an end to the Age of the Firstforged, no event like it legitimately occurred that would justify calling something a new Age - not even the passing of the Matrix of Light, which these historians claim was never a legitimate claim to the seat of power that Prima himself once held. These historians boldly claim that the age of darkness that followed the Schism never truly ended, and it'd only be a matter of time before one of them revealed themselves to the population of Cybertron and usher in a new Golden Age for the commonwealth.

But this is considered naught but the ramblings of madmen who fail to recognize progress. Aside from Amalgus's involvement with the Combatron War, there has not been any evidence to suggest that any member of the Firstforged would make any return...

#Extra Information #Cybertronian History

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Main protagonist of As The Weaving Fate Beckons

POTENTIAL TRIGGER WARNING: Mental health issues and a brief mention of self-harm, alcohol, and discrimination.

Hirmenogaldus Zuntaheldi L’Patenozudi-Gilebozrath is a 31-year-old vigorous, often serious-minded woman and is the last known holy knight from Rioghachd a’ Choin Neamhaidh (“Kingdom of the Heavenly Dog” in Scottish Gaelic). She’s referred to as the Knight of Beasts due to being known as Europe’s most famous and recognizable slayer and tamer of animalistic creatures. She originally worked with the Praying House of Älkechirnobus, but later abandoned them and their cause after a few unfortunate incidents. She upholds the many characteristics associated with chivalry such as honesty, loyalty, courage, respect, prowess, and a readiness to help the weak. She’s well-versed on a multitude of subjects such as philosophy, theology, history, military strategies, and even occultism. Despite being stoically aloof and wise, her tangible thirst for knowledge and maintaining healthy relationships lends her to being inquisitive and compassionate. However, there are those occasional moments where Hirmenogaldus can be quite clumsy, gullible, and/or naive. She has desirable leadership skills with the right dose of determination, knowing when to continue or retreat, and extrudes a sense of captivating charisma. She has strong motherly instincts and it’s always an honour for her to protect those she deems worthy of help. She isn’t afraid to properly utilise her emotional intelligence in order to ensure someone’s welfare and build a meaningful connection with them. She will even deliberately put herself in harm’s way when her loved ones, friends, and/or the weak are being threatened. She has a palpable sense of justice and despises those who mistreat others for their own personal gain.

She can be quite vindictive and will even go as far to mercilessly kill the perpetrator who either harmed her, her friends, her family, and/or the weak. When slaying certain beasts or beings that are considered to be a threat, she has no qualms of violently slaughtering them, not showing any compassion, mercy, and/or remorse during the process. Despite being sociable, Hirmenogaldus sometimes intentionally isolates herself from other people because of her trust issues. Her stoic nature results in pushing away people, not showing her true emotions, and not properly dealing with and addressing the issues that’s plaguing her mind. She has horrible self-esteem issues and believes that she has to make up for that by protecting the weak, ensuring the welfare of her friends and family, and enacting justice when necessary. Whenever she fails to do so or it becomes too much for her, she gaslights and guilt trips herself, sowing more seeds of doubt into her. Hirmenogaldus is also afraid of being abandoned and forgotten by those she deeply cares about without being warned of their absence. She often engages in contemplative thought, trying to sort out her sorrows and find an ounce of true peace, hope, and happiness.

She’s prone to sudden emotional outbursts, panic attacks, mood swings, and even mental breakdowns as a result of her depression, PTSD, anorexia nervosa, and generalised anxiety disorder. The inconsiderable amount of expectations placed on her due to being a holy knight also contributes to this. She has inconsistent suicidal thoughts and desperately tries to suppress them by harming herself. She usually wants to disappear into nothingness, not having to worry about recurrent, unwanted memories and being afraid of making the wrong decision. She has a tendency to overthink various plans and solutions to all possible worse outcomes in order to avoid making the wrong decision. There are instances where she loses a lot of interest and pleasure in most of her normal activities, making her feel bored and weirdly uneasy. She feels a certain detachedness from those close to her and her mind struggles to concentrate on what’s happening. She often has a pessimistic view on the future as she’s partially fixated on past failures and reliving traumatic events. Hirmenogaldus has a tendency to place heavy restrictions on her eating patterns, having an intense fear of gaining weight. She frequently checks in reflective surfaces for perceived flaws as she’s somewhat relentlessly pursuing thinness. Her perceived body weight negatively influences her self-esteem, and she occasionally complains about being fat. She usually makes excuses for not eating as she doesn’t want to ruin her already distorted body image. There are instances where she perceives certain harmless situations and events as potential threats. She has difficulty handling uncertainty and letting go of her most troubling worries. As a result of all these issues, she tends to feel a sense of looming hopelessness, overwhelming guilt, restlessness, and agitation.

Compared to most medieval folk, Hirmenogaldus is considered to be a giant due to her impressive stature, clocking in at about 6’ 5” (195.5 cm). She has a pear-shaped mesomorphic body type with slightly broad shoulders, a fairly defined waist, and prominent thighs. Her face and neck are adorned with a myriad of reddish-brown freckles, and she has silvery stretch marks on her upper arms, belly, and hips. Her eyes are almost parallel to the stunning sky-blue bill of a male ruddy duck during breeding season. Her skin is a creamy white and she has hair that is an absolutely beautiful golden copper blonde. She has messy, bowl-cut style bangs with the rest of her curly hair being tied into a thick ponytail. She has four recognizable moles: one on the right side of her upper lip; one directly above the left side of her collarbone; the second is located on her belly; and the last mole is on her right mid-thigh. A blatant scar pierces the left side of her forehead, snaking down and over her nose bridge to the middle of her right cheek. She has a couple of other ones: four slightly horizontal scars from her left trapezius to her right deltoid and a blotchy patch of scarred skin near her left kidney. Her breasts have been cut off, there are five healed stab wounds on the backside of her right upper arm, and she carved four Nordic runes onto her belly: ᛊ (sun), ᚨ (god), ᛉ (elk), and ᚱ (ride/journey). The underside of her forearms are covered in healed and fresh lacerations. Her back hides her most brutal scars, seeming to be a mixture of cuts, puncture wounds, and burns.

Hirmenogaldus is commonly seen wearing a full suit of plate armour and her cursed, gilt-brass helmet is shaped similarly to the head of a Western dragon. She has two differently designed golden pauldrons: on the left, it has an engraved blazing sun with a humanoid face; and on the right, it’s shaped like the head of a tarasque without the lower jaw. Her vambraces and greaves were masterfully crafted to mimic the scales of a serpent and the fingers of her armoured gloves are sharp. Her cuirass is decorated with the golden depiction of the Ellén Trechend, which is a three-headed, draconic vulture that can breathe fire. Its main head is in the centre, two heads looking in their designated direction, their legs and wings are spread out on each side, and a partially wavy, serpentine tail. There are other pieces that make up her armour in order to minimise potential life-threatening harm. Hirmenogaldus has a gilt-brass gorget surrounding her neck, two couters for her elbows, and tassets hanging from her cuirass. She has a pair of sabatons with four draconic claws that cover her feet and cuisses surrounding her thighs. She also has two circular besagews that are part of the harness of her plate armour and help to protect her armpits. Her armour is slightly battle-worn, but its vibrancy has surprisingly remained untouched for years. The colour of her plate armour is a reddish-black with a blue-green sheen. Underneath her armour, she wears a quilted green tunic, padded brown legs, white braies, and a wide belt of leather.

Whenever Hirmenogaldus isn’t donning her iconic armour, she’s wearing a full-length ball gown made from fine silk and a tight-fitted, paprika bodice. For both her noblewoman and armoured outfits, she occasionally dons a royal mantle of faded jade with white fur trim that has black leopard spots. Her blackberry silk gown appears to be voluminous due to an ample skirt underneath. Her silk gown covers half of her shoulders and flows down into a fancy, modest semi-sweetheart neckline with a bow of cosmic purple. Around her neck is a velvet choker of cosmic purple with a cardinal pink ruffled top. She has Juliet sleeves and the wrists have turned back cardinal pink cuffs, and the ball gown is decorated with rich golden embroidery. Underneath her gown is a linen chemise and hose that’s held with a garter just below her knee. For jewellery, she’s adorned with a gold and enamel brooch in the form of a dragon’s head, a dark golden pearl necklace, a gilt bronze sapphire ring on the right index finger, and a table cut ruby ring on the left middle finger. She carries a two engrailed top shield that depicts a one-horned dragon with a jousting lance piercing its heart. Hirmenogaldus wields a blood-letting dagger in a serpentine shape made from polished brass. She also wields a 7 ft (213.36 cm) battle-strong claymore forged from an unknowable metal akin to black steel. Its most noticeable feature is that of three raised, eye-like markings right above the cross-guard in a vertical row. When she activates the sword with her own blood, those markings open to reveal fully functional purple jasper eyes and the blade is consumed by blue holy flames. She possesses a traveller’s backpack, one where she stores her collected souvenirs, camping equipment, basic medicinal items, and books that contain a variety of knowledge as well as a cittern that Odeschuna gave her.

Like all holy knights trained under the Praying House of Älkechirnobus, she’s considered to be a psychic. Hirmenogaldus isn’t entirely familiar with her psychic abilities because she doesn’t heavily rely on them like the other holy knights before her. Without her knowing, she has precognition, but it’s in the form of cryptic dreams that vaguely predict future events. She can perceive and read the auras of other individuals, being able to clearly understand their emotions and moral alignment. She can also detect the emotions of those she mentally focuses on, but this can result in blood seeping out of her eyes, ears, and/or mouth (e.g. she’ll cry blood if she senses someone’s melancholy). As a result of dermo-optical perception, she can perceive unusual sensory stimuli such as colour and varying brightnesses through her own skin. She is fully capable of surviving without any water or food intake, and not having to worry about starvation and dehydration. Hirmenogaldus has telekinetic abilities, being able to move and manipulate matter at a distance without physical interaction. She can perfectly mimic the sounds of animalistic beasts as well as talk to them and understand their unique interactions. She’s able to tap into a feral mind, allowing her to perform extraordinary feats of strength and agility that’s beyond normal for her. She’s a master at taming animals by reading, understanding, and staying in tune to their body language. She’s also able to solve many of their behavioural problems and possess unique insight into their psychology. Lastly, Hirmenogaldus has enhanced strength and stamina, being able to engage in physically strenuous activity as well as lift and/or strike objects that are tens of thousands more than her body weight. Due to her draconic helmet being cursed, it seems to intensify her negative emotions and strengthen her psychic abilities. This is one of the reasons why she tries not to heavily rely on her abilities because she’s afraid that she’ll become an irredeemable monster.

FAMILY:

Broghalenius L’Patenozudi-Gilebozrath (father)

Lobaszewinth (mother)

Unnamed older sister

Two unnamed older brothers

Dersabhol Echtagloprinus-Pimbezurta (ex-lover)

Ungelohram Shakjelovi (ex-boyfriend)

Sedulomaith (daughter)

Chaidozluben (son)

Ayrmezhonius Brejzuktophina (adoptive daughter)

ALIASES/NICKNAMES:

Dame Hirmenogaldus

The Accursed Daughter of Duke Broghalenius (by those aware of her psychic abilities)

Knight of Beasts

Fish-catcher

Bread-stealer

Trophy-bearer

Lady of Speedy Visitation

Saint of the Billowing Crusade and Dragon’s Ferocity

Mommy (by her children)

Mother (by her children)

Doll-face (by Mutseloniah)

Zarabaaneh ghalbam (“my heartbeat” in Persian) (by Mutseloniah)

Nafasam (“my breath” in Persian) (by Mutseloniah)

Duvshanit (“honey” in Hebrew) (by Mutseloniah)

Capara (“my blessing” in Hebrew) (by Mutseloniah)

Otzar shely (“my treasure” in Hebrew) (by Mutseloniah)

Vile devourer of mages (by Ikarondelus)

Lying bitch (by Ikarondelus)

Foul whore of barbarity (by Ikarondelus)

Bastard with a devil’s silver tongue (by Ikarondelus)

Fucking idiotic drunkard (by Ikarondelus)

Elskan mín (“my darling” in Norse) (by Raskovulde)

Ástvinur (“love friend” in Norse) (by Raskovulde)

Haustmyrkr (“autumn dusk” in Norse) (by Raskovulde)

She Who Dared To Cross Bifröst (by Raskovulde)

Executioner of the World Serpent (by Raskovulde)

The Burning Gladiolus (by Odeschuna)

The Enraged Wyvern (by Odeschuna)

Destroyer of Tainted Pride (by Odeschuna)

A bhuanchara (“my eternal friend” in Irish) (by Nikmuvolefja)

My greatest rival (by Pelmazodius)

Gladiatorial beast (by Pelmazodius)

Vögelchen (“little bird” in German) (by Regnazoldus)

Herzensbrecher (“heartbreaker” in German) (by Regnazoldus)

The Scorching Blade of Älkechirnobus (By Uhteszoga)

Slayer of Cold Hearts (by Uhteszoga)

Liberator of Anguish (by Uhteszoga)

The Draconic Maiden (by L’Ayncezosud)

Mistress With The Coppery Locks (by L’Ayncezosud)

My scarred mademoiselle (by L’Ayncezosud)

Ma tigresse (“my tiger” in French) (by L’Ayncezosud)

Mon ciel étoilé (“my starry sky” in French) (by L’Ayncezosud)

Mon rayon de soleil (“my ray of sunshine” in French) (by L’Ayncezosud)

Hirmageld (by Perszufoval)

Hirmena (by Bheszawulf)

Sunteholda (by Hulcekrando)

Hellebore of Rosy Blackness (by Hulcekrando)

Soft hyacinth (by Hulcekrando)

Creeping baby’s breath (by Hulcekrando)

Chrysanthemum of a Thousand Winters (by Hulcekrando)

Autumn crocus (by Hulcekrando)

My delicate edelweiss (by Hulcekrando)

Slithering pansy (by Hulcekrando)

FUN FACTS/EXTRA INFORMATION:

She was originally a closeted lesbian, but later became bisexual.

Her birthday is August 26th (Virgo)

Her blood type is B-

She’s allergic to cats, shellfish, egg white, and balsam of Peru.

In regards to her ethnicity, she’s 37.5% Scottish, 25% British, 12.5% French, 12.5% German, and 12.5% Spanish.

Her father believed that her psychic abilities are a result of a “family curse” that reigned from his bloodline. It usually affects every third generation of females, but that’s more of an estimate than actual biological fact.

She originally had an older sister, but Broghalenius killed her after she turned 2-years-old in fear of her possessing the “family curse”.

She calls her draconic helmet the wyvern’s cursed helm.

Her claymore is called Kigamozertus, which means “stiffness of death” in the Æylphitus language. It's named that due to causing swift decay to a living being once slain. It's believed that the sword absorbs the soul of those truly sinful blood touches it.

It's believed that her claymore belonged to a destroyer angel. Only people who have a suitable mind and a full paranormal psyche can handle such a blade. When a regular being tries to wield it, the claymore transfers its desire to kill sinful and absolutely vile creatures to them. It’ll put them into a bloodthirsty and destructive frenzy until they stop using it.

She likes cute and exotic animals, seal fur, cleanliness, young children, the sound of string instruments, drinking booze with her friends and comrades, daybreak, swampy environments, burning embers, and intricate tapestry.

She dislikes singing, physical and psychological torture, being touched without permission, the feeling of “shallow accomplishment”, muddy puddles, dissatisfaction, impenetrable darkness, treading through snow, pestilence, and famine.

Her hobbies consist of jousting, horseback riding, making flower crowns, slaying monsters, reading, cloud- and star-gazing, and playing her cittern. She also enjoys collecting porcelain ceramics, tea flavours and spices from around the world, rare swords, souvenirs from her travels, and exotic animal skins.

Out of all tea flavours and spices, she likes black tea and asafoetida.

She finds all animals quite fascinating in regards to their behaviours and biology. If she had to choose a favourite, it would either be the western capercaillie, great spotted woodpecker, garden tiger moth, red deer, great tit, or Atlantic puffin.

Her favourite flowers are the bluebell, peony, cowslip, dog-rose, and early-purple orchid.

Her favourite comfort foods are tayberries, cranachan, rumbledethumps, cullen skink, Forfar bridie, tattie scone, and Flies’ graveyard.

Her favourite colours are the blue dye that woad leaves produce and the orange-yellow petals of a pot marigold.

Her biggest pet peeves consist of people who purposely ignore boundaries, rudeness in general, bad personal hygiene, losing things, loud noises, and one-uppers.

She used to have an actual curly bowl cut before she decided to let her hair grow out as a way for her to separate herself from her traumatic past.

For a short period of her life, she was quite racist and discriminatory against mages due to her religious and white supremacist upbringing. However, that drastically changed after experiencing a fair share of abuse, gaining a better understanding of their struggles. She deeply regrets the verbal and physical harm she was tasked and socially expected to do against minorities and mages.

Hirmenogaldus always carries around bandages with her at all times because she’s weary that she’ll get attacked out of nowhere.

She’s obsessed with her own personal hygiene

She has a tendency to judge other people too quickly

She is always looking for new adventures

Hirmenogaldus can be somewhat forgetful and doesn’t like to be reminded of things from her past.

She bites her lower lip and the inside of her left cheek a lot.

She has fairly quick reflexes

She has an unusually high tolerance for physical pain

Hirmenogaldus’ guilty pleasure is daydreaming about sinking her bare feet in white sand and looking out to the clear blue ocean, what it would be like to become one with a full-blooded titan, and bathing in a sacred waterfall.

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Prompt 80

So Dan knows that there’s heroes that have gone back in time, he’s aware of that fact. But he doesn’t exactly care and has more important things to worry about. Like the fact that Danny and Ellie are now three years old, right when he’s moving, though maybe that’s a blessing in disguise seeing as the GIW are searching for them in Amity.

But still, he has more important things to worry about than the speedster vibrating five feet away from him. Like making sure Ellie and Danny are alright to visit (ugh) Peepaw Clocky while he goes to work.

Ms. Mercy is not messing around, which he appreciates in a workspace, but he has to wait for another opening in the daycare before he can bring his, as far as everyone else is aware, siblings who he got emergency custody of.

What with how Jazz is interning in Gotham, they figured Metropolis would be safer. Now if the speedster would stop following him, he would really appreciate it. He’s literally just an intern under Ms Mercy as an assistant, not even one of the scientists, and it’s not like his timeline of the end of the world exists anymore!

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #de aged danny #dan works at lexcorp so mercy can have a break some days #Lex sees this as extra useful because dan can double as intimidation and a bodyguard #Oh he's a meta? Oh that's fine- Immune to mind control?! Well seeing as the alien in the city gets mind controlled every week heck yeah #Bart is fuckin terrified when he sees Dan & calls Tim because *holy fuck* it's the thing behind his nightmares #W-with a pair of kids? Fussing over the pair of kids???#Double checking that they have their things to spend the day with their grandpa????#Luthor: If I hire a meta I will have diversity and it's good for PR #Mercy: Yeah I just need to train someone to not take his shit y'know how it is #Dan: I just need enough money to not ask for cash from Vlad I am not dealing with his motherhenning #Dan: I moved away to not be fussed over and I am not dealing with him #Vlad on the phone: Son why am I hearing about being a grandpa why was I not informed :C #Clockwork: Ah yes more time with my grandchildren :) A perfect timeline

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Les Mis French History Timeline: all the context you need to know to understand Les Mis

Here is a simple timeline of French history as it relates to events in Les Miserables, and to the context of Les Mis's publication! A post like this would’ve really helped me four years ago, when I knew very little about 1830s France or the goals of Les Amis, so I’m making it now that I have the information to share! ^_^

This post will be split into 4 sections: a quick overview of important terms, the history before the novel that’s important to the character's backstories, the history during the novel, and then the history relevant to the 1848-onward circumstances of Hugo’s life and the novel’s publication.

Part 1: Overview

The novel takes place in the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo, during a period called the Restoration.

The ancient monarchy was overthrown during the French Revolution. After a series of political struggles the revolutionary government was eventually replaced by an empire under Napoleon. Then Napoleon was defeated and sent into exile— but then he briefly came back and seized power for one hundred days—! and then he was defeated yet again for good at the battle of Waterloo in 1815.

After all that political turmoil, kings have been "restored" to the throne of France. The novel begins right as this Restoration begins.

The major political parties important to generally understanding Les Mis (Wildly Oversimplified) are Republicans, Liberals, Bonapartists, and Royalists. It’s worth noting that all these ‘party terms’ changed in meaning/goals over time depending on which type of government was in power. In general though, and just for the sake of reading Les Mis:

Republicans want a Republic, where people elect their leaders democratically— they’re the very left wing progressive ones, and are heavily outcast/censored/policed. Les Amis are Republicans.

Liberals are (iirc) actually the most powerful “leftist” group at the time; they generally want limits on monarchical power but don’t go as far as Republicans.

Bonapartists are followers of Napoleon Bonaparte I, who led the Empire. Many viewed the Emperor as more favorable or progressive to them than a king would be. Georges Pontmercy is a Bonapartist, as is Pere Fauchelevent.

Royalists believe in the divine right of Kings; they’re conservative. Someone who is extremely royalist to the point of wanting basically no limits on the king’s power at all are called “Ultraroyalists” or “ultra.” Marius’s conservative grandfather Gillenromand is an ultra royalist. Hugo is also very concerned with criticizing the "Great Man of History," the view that history is pushed forward by the actions of a handful of special great men like kings and emperors. Les Mis aims to focus on the common masses of people who push history forward instead.

Part 2: Timeline of History involved in characters’ Backstories

1789– the March on the bastille/ the beginning of the original French Revolution. A young Myriel, who is then a shallow married aristocrat, flees the country. His family is badly hurt by the Revolution. His wife dies in exile.

1793– Louis XVI is found guilty of committing treason and sentenced to death. The Conventionist G—, the old revolutionary who Myriel talks to, votes against the death of the king.

1795: the Directory rules France. Throughout much of the revolution, including this period, the country is undergoing “dechristianization” policies. Fantine is born at this time. Because the church is not in power as a result of dechristianization, Fantine is unbaptized and has no record of a legal given name.

1795: The Revolutionary government becomes more conservative. Jean Valjean is arrested.

1804: Napoleon officially crowns himself Emperor of France. the Revolution’s dream of a Republic is dead for a bit. At this time, Myriel returns from his exile and settles down in the provinces of France to work as a humble priest. Then he visits Paris and makes a snarky comment to Napoleon, and Napoleon finds him so witty that he appoints him Bishop.

Part 3: the novel actually begins

1815: Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by the allied nations of Britain and Prussia. Read Hugo’s take on that in the Waterloo Digression! He gets a lot of facts wrong, but that’s Hugo for you.

Marius’s father, Baron Pontmercy, nearly dies on the battlefield. Thenardier steals his belongings.

After Napoleon is defeated, a king is restored to the throne— Louis XVIII, of the House of Bourbon, the ancient royal house that ruled France before the Revolution. In order to ensure that Louis XVIII stays on the throne, the nations of Britian, Prussia, and Russia, send soldiers occupy France. So France is, during the early events of the novel, being occupied by foreign soldiers. This is part of why there are so many references to soldiers on the streets and garrisons and barracks throughout the early portions of the novel. The occupation officially ended in 1818.

1815 (a few months later): Jean Valjean is released from prison and walks down the road to Digne, the very same road Napoleon charged down during his last attempt to seize power. Many of the inns he passes by are run by people advertising their connections to Napoleon. Symbolically Valjean is the poor man returning from exile into France, just as Napoleon was the Great Man briefly returning from exile during the 100 days, or King Louis XVIII is the Great King returning from exile to a restored throne.

1817: The Year 1817, which Hugo has a whole chapter-digression about. Louis XVIII of the House of Bourbon is on the throne. Fantine, “the nameless child of the Directory,” is abandoned by Tholomyes.

1821: Napoleon dies in exile.

1825: King Louis XVIII dies. Charles X takes the throne. While Louis XVIII was willing to compromise, Charles X is a far more conservative ultra-royalist. He attempts to bring back the Pre-Revolution style of monarchy.

Underground resistance groups, including Republican groups like Les Amis, plot against him.

1827-1828: Georges Pontmercy, bonapartist veteran of Waterloo, dies. Marius, who has been growing up with his abusive Ultra-royalist grandfather and mindlessly repeating his ultra-royalist politics, learns how much his father loved him. He becomes a democratic Bonapartist.

Marius is a little bit late to everything though. He shouts “long live the Emperor!” Even though Napoleon died in 1821 and insults his grandfather by telling him “down with that hog Louis XVIII” even though Louis XVIII has been dead since 1825. He’s a little confused but he’s got the spirit.

Marius leaves his grandfather to live on his own.

1830: “The July Revolution,” also known as the “Three Glorious Days” or “the Second French Revolution.” Rebels built barricades and successfully forced Charles X out of power.

Unfortunately, TL;DR moderate politicians prevented the creation of a Republic and instead installed another more politically progressive king — Louis-Philippe, of the house of Orleans.

Louis-Philippe was a relative of the royal family, had lived in poverty for a time, and described himself as “the citizen-king.” Hugo’s take on him is that he was a good man, but being a king is inherently evil; monarchy is a bad system even if a “good” dictator is on the throne.

The shadow of 1830 is important to Les Mis, and there’s even a whole digression about it in “A Few Pages of History,” a digression most people adapting the novel have clearly skipped. Les Amis would’ve probably been involved in it....though interestingly, only Gavroche and maybe Enjolras are explicitly confirmed to have been there, Gavroche telling Enjolras he participated “when we had that dispute with Charles X.”

Sadly we're following Marius (not Les Amis) in 1830. Hugo mentions that Marius is always too busy thinking to actually participate in political movements. He notes that Marius was pleased by 1830 because he thinks it is a sign of progress, but that he was too dreamy to be involved in it.

1831: in “A Few Pages of History” Hugo describes the various ways Republican groups were plotting what what would later become the June Rebellion– the way resistance groups had underground meetings, spread propaganda with pamphlets, smuggled in gunpowder, etc.

Spring of 1832: there is a massive pandemic of cholera in Paris that exacerbates existing tensions. Marius is described as too distracted by love to notice all the people dying of cholera.

June 1st, 1832: General Lamarque, a member of parliament often critical of the monarchy, dies of cholera.

June 5th and 6th, 1832: the June Rebellion of 1832:

Republicans, students, and workers attempt to overthrow the monarchy, and finally get a democratic Republic For Real This Time. The rebellion is violently crushed by the National Guard.

Enjolras was partially inspired by Charles Jeanne, who led the barricades at Saint-Merry.

Part 4: the context of Les Mis’s publication

February 1848: a successful revolution finally overthrows King Louis Philippe. A younger Victor Hugo, who was appointed a peer of France by Louis-Philippe, is then elected as a representative of Paris in the provisional revolutionary government.

June 1848: This is a lot, and it’s a thing even Hugo’s biographers often gloss over, because it’s a horrific moral failure/complexity of Hugo’s that is completely at odds with the sort of politics he later became known for. The short summary is that in June 1848 there was a working-class rebellion against new unjust labor laws/forced conscription, and Victor Hugo was on the “wrong side of the barricades” working with the government to violently suppress the rebels. To quote from this source:

Much to the disappointment of his supporters, in [Victor Hugo’s] first speech in the national assembly he went after the ateliers or national workshops, which had been a major demand of the workers. Two days later the workshops were closed, workers under twenty-five were conscripted and the rest sent to the countryside. It was a “political purge” and a declaration of war on the Parisian working class that set into motion the June Days, or the second revolution of 1848—an uprising lauded by Marx as one of the first workers’ revolutions. As the barricades went up in Paris, Hugo was tragically on the wrong side. On June 24 the national assembly declared a state of siege with Hugo’s support. Hugo would then sink to a new political low. He was chosen as one of sixty representatives “to go and inform the insurgents that a state of siege existed and that Cavaignac [the officer who had led the suppression of the June revolt] was in control.” With an express mission “to stop the spilling of blood,” Hugo took up arms against the workers of Paris. Thus, Hugo, voice of the voiceless and hero of workers, helped to violently suppress a rebellion led by people whom he in many ways supported—and many of whom supported him. With twisted logic and an even more twisted conscience, Hugo fought and risked his life to crush the June insurrection.

There is an otherwise baffling chapter in Les Mis titled "The Charybdis of the Faubourg Saint Antoine and the Scylla of the Fauborg Du Temple," where Hugo goes on a digression about June of 1848. Hugo contrasts June of 1848 with other rebellions, and insists that the June 1848 Rebellion was Wrong and Different. It is a strangely anti-rebellion classist chapter that feels discordant with the rest of the book. This is because it is Hugo's effort to (indirectly) address criticisms people had of his own involvement in June 1848, and to justify why he believed crushing that rebellion with so much force was necessary. The chapter is often misused to say that Hugo was "anti-violent-rebellion all the time" (which he wasn't) or that "rebellion is bad” is the message of Les Mis (which it isn't) ........but in reality the chapter is about Hugo attempting to justify his own past actions to the reader and to himself, actions which many people on his side of the political spectrum considered a horrible betrayal. He couldn't really have written a novel about the politics of barricades without addressing his actions in June 1848, and he addressed them by attempting to justify them, and he attempted to justify them with a lot of deeply questionable rhetoric. 1848 is a lot, and I don't fully understand all the context yet-- but that general context is necessary to understand why the chapter is even in the novel. Late 1848/1849: Quoting from the earlier source again:

In the wake of the revolution, Hugo tried to make sense of the events of 1848. He tried to straddle the growing polarization between, on the one hand, “the party of order,” which coalesced around Napoleon’s nephew Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, who in December 1848 had been elected France’s president under a new constitution, and the “party of movement” (or radical Left) that, in the aftermath of 1848, had made considerable advances. In this climate, as Hugo increasingly spoke out, and faced opposition and repression himself, he was radicalized and turned to the Left for support against the tyranny and “barbarism” he saw in the government of Louis Napoleon. The “point of no return” came in 1849. Hugo became one of the loudest and most prominent voices of opposition to Louis Napoleon. In his final and most famous insult to Napoleon, he asked: “Just because we had Napoleon le Grand [Napoleon the Great], do we have to have Napoleon le petit [Napoleon the small]?” Immune from punishment because of his role in the government, Bonaparte retaliated by shutting down Hugo’s newspaper and arresting both his sons.

Thenardier is likely meant to be Hugo’s caricature of Louis-Napoleon/Napoleon III. He is “Napoleon the small,” an opportunistic scumbag leeching off the legacy of Waterloo and Napoleon to give himself some respectability. He is a metaphorical ‘graverobber of Waterloo’ who has all of Napoleon’s dictatorial pettiness without any of his redeeming qualities.

It’s also worth noting that Marius is Victor “Marie” Hugo’s self-insert. Hugo’s politics changed wildly over time. Like Marius he was a royalist when was young. And like Marius, he looked up to Napoleon and to Napoleon III, before his views of them were shattered. This is reflected in the way Marius had complicated feelings of loyalty to his father (who’s very connected to the original Napoleon I) and to Thenardier (who’s arguably an analogue for Napoleon IiI.)

1851:

On December 2, 1851, Louis Napoleon launched his coup, suspending the republic’s constitution he had sworn to uphold. The National Assembly was occupied by troops. Hugo responded by trying to rally people to the barricades to defend Paris against Napoleon’s seizure of power. Protesters were met with brutal repression. Under increasing threat to his own life, with both of his sons in jail and his death falsely announced, Hugo finally left Paris. He ultimately ended up on the island of Guernsey where he spent much of the next eighteen years and where he would write the bulk of Les Misérables. It was from here that his most radical and political work was smuggled into France.

Hugo arguably did his most important political work after being exiled. In Guernsey, he aided with resistance against the regime of Napoleon III. Hugo’s popularity with the masses also meant that his exile was massive news, and a thing all readers of Les Miserables would’ve been deeply familiar with.

This is why there are so many bits of Les Mis where the narrator nostalgically reflects on how much they wish they were in Paris again —these parts are very political; readers would’ve picked up that this was Victor Hugo reflecting on he cruelty of his own exile.

1862-1863: Les Mis is published. It is a barely-veiled call to action against the government of Napoleon III, written about the June Rebellion instead of the current regime partially in order to dodge the censorship laws at the time.

Conservatives despise the book and call it the death of civilization and a dangerous rebellious evil godless text that encourages them to feel bad for the stupid evil criminal rebel poors and etc etc etc– (see @psalm22-6 ‘s excellent translations of the ancient conservative reviews)-- but the novel sells very well. Expressing approval or disapproval of the book is considered inherently political, but fortunately it remains unbanned.

…And that’s it! An ocean of basic historical context about Les Mis!

If anyone has any corrections or additions they would like to make, feel free to add them! I have researched to the best of my ability, but I don’t pretend to be perfect. I also recommend listening to the Siecle podcast, which covers the events of the Bourbon Restoration starting at the Battle of Waterloo, if you're interested in learning more about the period!

#les mis #someone in a discord server asked about this a while back #so i put it together!#it’s basically what I told them in the discord server but as a tumblr post #and with some extra stuff I forgot to say #but yeAH maybe if more historical information gets spread #we’ll get more canon era fanfics >:3333 #which are always fun

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When Summoned: Lights dimmed, tension building up… Are you ready to feel our rhythm? Summon Line: Playing music with friends is fun, I’m glad to be here even though I’m starting to feel a bit nervous.

Groooovy!!: We’d be delighted to see you at our next show. Spotting a familiar face among the crowd is always nice. Home: “Let’s rock and roll”, as some would say. Home Idle 1: I joined the Pop Music Club on my second year. Perhaps it’s quite a drastic change from my previous club but… it’d be a lie to say I’m not enjoying my time here. Home Idle 2: Most of the time I’m the one suggesting we should practice, but somehow Lilia, Cater and Kalim always distract me with all these unknown snacks and gadgets. Sometimes I have the feeling they do it on purpose… Home Idle 3: I need to warm my hands, it’s hard playing an instrument when they’re cold. Home Idle – Login: *humming Piece of My World* Ah- sorry, I didn’t see you there. Can I help you with something? Home Idle – Groovy: I’ve been playing violin and other instruments since I was a kid. My family has always had a connection with music and I’ll gladly continue this legacy. Conveying your thoughts and feelings through sounds is quite satisfactory. Home Tap 1: My first concert with them? Since it was the first time I’d be playing in front of many people, I knew I’d have a hard time trying to look at the audience. Cater noticed and told me to look at him so I could feel less overwhelmed… Let’s say I didn’t expect him to be so literal. His clones substituted the audience because no one came to see us. Home Tap 2: Hm, my violin? Indeed, it’s not the same one I use at Mostro Lounge. An electric violin is more suitable for the club’s activities. I’m surprised you noticed it. That means someone’s been paying too much attention to the musician playing ambience music… That was a joke. Home Tap 3: Kalim and I joined the club in the same year so I got to see how much he’s improved his drumming technique. It’s impressive. Certainly, Lilia’s been an excellent teacher to him. Home Tap 4: I like the idea of having customized masks for our performances. Maybe I should mention it once we have enough funds. Home Tap 5: I recently accepted to do some vocals just for our club sessions. You can come see us, but please refrain from telling everyone else. At the moment, I only feel comfortable singing for a few people. Home Tap – Groovy: When it comes to a band like this many wouldn’t think of a violinist, but that actually gives songs an interesting feeling, don’t you think? Duo: [DEEVA]: Ready for a shocking performance, Cater? [CATER]: Ready as ever, Dee-chan!

#To any violinist in the room: I tried :']#I can probably get away with some details since she's not actually playing here #more like positioning her violin/posing #but yeah. An attempt was made #I actually had to redo the whole card because I didn't like how the old one looked #and if it reminds you of something it's probably because I kind of borrowed Lilia's face shape #it was my last resort after drawing 20 heads and not being fully convinced by any of them HDSGSH #the rest is obviously brought to you by my own suffering #Oh and some extra info about Home Tap 1:#Deeva actually kept looking at Cater on stage out of habit even after they gained some listeners #sometimes the poor guy thinks she's glancing at him because he made a mistake or something lmao #Talking about Cater. One of the reason she joined this club was because she promised it to him #when they were first years she didn't know there was a music club like that #and Mr CayCay here informed her a little bit too late of the existence of the PMC #Also unrelated to what I was saying #but please imagine she says “let's rock and roll” with the most monotonous voice ever #zero spirit in those words #until she picks up her violin and the rock and roll starts rock-and-rolling #it's funnier that way #The need I feel to talk a lot under my art posts needs to be studied #twisted wonderland #twst #twisted wonderland oc #twst oc #Deeva twst #my art

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