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Birthday Spotlight - Ohlo Ohlo Temsen

[17th April - Aries]

Ohlo Ohlo Temsen, or just 'Temsen', is an incredibly overpowered vench in the Fae Tales alternate universe story The Nascent Diplomat. There, he is introduced first as a stern but compassionate healer, and later as a spokesperson, diplomat, member of royalty and someone so adept at magic that he would happily take on the Raven Prince and likely win.

Taking on the job of Gwyn's healer, becoming Augus' friend, Temsen guides both through the growth of their relationship and the mending of Gwyn's magic in the underground caves of Aethelwaters, deepening their understanding of intimacy, and needing a great deal of it himself to survive.

Temsen is often quite opaque, especially as we've gotten to know him more as a peak alpha in the Underline the Rainbow universe. He's cheerful and steady but also unafraid to be strict and commanding. He can be unexpectedly flexible, or very rigid. What's clear is his dedication to helping those less fortunate (and less powerful) than him, and his dedication to becoming a healer in every story we've seen him in.

'You have been so alone, and I do not think you are like the to-ahl, as some of the others say. You were not meant to be alone.'

The Nascent Diplomat

The Nascent Diplomat: Temsen first appears as a healer from the Ohlo Ohlo clan who comes to take care of Gwyn after he kills the to'ahl, gets poisoned, and wounds Kithkalkith Kimerrin. It becomes clear quickly that Temsen holds a significant amount of power and negotiating weight among his people, however, his weakness is that he cannot be away from his clan or from touch for long at all, forcing Gwyn and Augus to have frequent physical contact with him for his own health.

The Nascent Diplomat: Temsen really helps the rest of the story to continue coming alive. He heals Gwyn's magic, but more importantly serves as a healing compass to both Augus and Gwyn. He is accommodating but firm enough to make sure that Gwyn never strays from the path of growth, and it's clear that he has affection in his heart for these fae from the above, even if he has zero respect for other aspects of their lives, including the School of the Staff.

Also he point blank said he would fight the Raven Prince and even go to war with him due to his abuse and neglect of Gwyn, so you know...

Underline the Black: Appearing as the head doctor at Hillview Rehabilitation Facility, Temsen is a peak alpha who lives his best life as someone who doesn't need a relationship because he's responsible for the health of about twenty five omegas at any one time. He comes in clutch to assist Efnisien repeatedly during some rough gender issues, and also acts as a firm father figure, reminding him that young alphas do not disrespect or abuse other people just because they can.

Underline the Blue: We see Temsen at his most fallible here, as both Janusz' supervisor at Hillview, and Nate's doctor, we see the gaps in Hillview's ability to match alphas and omegas, and also in how they handle early heats and difficult situations. Temsen misses that Nate is an atypical omega, and ends up with an alpha who develops PTSD due to the methods he used to try and get Nate to bond with him.

Underline the Gold: Temsen becomes extremely involve with Flitmouse's care in Underline the Gold when he realises the extent of his Anorexia Nervosa, and later when Flitmouse undergoes corrupted heats. Flitmouse and Temsen don't always see eye-to-eye, especially on certain invasive exams. Temsen isn't afraid to manipulate Flitmouse to get what he wants, but in the face of a firm withdrawal of consent, he shows that he has the ability to concede and let the omega guide the way.

Underline the Red: While only mentioned so far, Temsen eventually becomes Faber's interim boss, changing their connection forever.

Among the vench, Temsen is a member of the Ohlo Ohlo clan and they all look the same (and indeed all vench look quite similar). But in the Underline universe where he spends more of his time these days, Temsen is African-Australian, his mother is a Kenyan immigrant and a doctor, and his father is Australian, and a doctor. He's multilingual, and can speak Kiswahili, Elgeyo, English, Indonesian, and Mandarin. He's semi-lingual in Vietnamese.

Temsen deliberately wears clothing that makes him seem less threatening, in the same way that he deliberately makes himself seem less threatening in the Nascent Diplomat as well.

Temsen can have a slightly formal intonation. In TND it sounds like he's still discovering how to translate his language into Gwyn's and Augus' language, and in Underline he's more likely to say things like 'goodness!' and be very direct and not prevaricate.

Temsen is always kind of overpowered in whatever he's doing, as a healer, as an alpha, as a doctor, he's just always at the top of his game.

Temsen is someone who can be physically intimate with a lot of people, but isn't inclined to have a very special 'someone' in his life.

Temsen taking on the Raven Prince and threatening to go to war over his treatment of Gwyn, and the Raven Prince essentially bowing to that and admitting he was right, was a pretty stellar moment actually.

In Underline the Black Temsen sailed in as the white knight to save Efnisien from his fear of being forced into the shape of an omega, and in a single conversation in front of a projector, managed to solve a lot of problems for Gary and Efnisien in one fell swoop. For that reason, I couldn't have him in the story for quite a few chapters lol. He's too powerful!

Always extremely competent and well-educated, but also willing to admit to his faults and apologise.

Relatively open to other's experiences, but you always get the sense that he holds back some of his counsel and that you're never quite seeing all of him, despite his direct way of speaking.

Despite having the power and status to act refined, arrogant and pompous, Temsen prefers to come across as humble and receptive, but sometimes it's clear that he's doing this in a calculating manner.

Temsen is always a healer!

Temsen is always a leader

Temsen started as a throwaway character. Even with all of my worldbuilding and character creation, I found myself suddenly needing a healer and I very quickly cobbled together a bunch of traits and made Temsen. We were only supposed to see him a few times, and he was never supposed to be as powerful as he became. He was a breakaway hit, and ends up becoming more prominent in the story as a result!

I think Temsen has outrageous chemistry with everyone, honestly.

I initially shipped Temsen and Gwyn together in Underline and I also ship them together in TND, but in a very low key way. If I think about very porny AU oneshots, Temsen/Gwyn has come up for me a few times. I don't think I'll write it, because I think they'll be intense/depressing.

Temsen's anger is one of my favourite things to write, so I may be looking for more opportunities to make that happen!

'In vench society, we measure our worth by how we treat those we care for. Not by our magical achievement, not by our individual jobs, not by the different aspects of our personalities. All of those things only matter in connection to how we treat those we care for. It is how we value other societies, though we find many in the above sorely lacking by our standards. We know our standards are unique, and we do not seek to press them upon anyone else. But Gwyn is my ward, his healing is under my domain and therefore the domain of all the vench, and it disturbs me as a healer to release him to someone who would do this to him. There is nothing to stop you from doing untold damage to him in the future. I can heal what we did to him. I should not have to heal what you did to him.'

The Nascent Diplomat

#birthday spotlight #ohlo ohlo temsen #the nascent diplomat #underline the black #underline the blue #underline the gold #fae tales au #fae tales #original writing #original work #mm romance #fantasy #hurt/comfort #i think he'd be an interesting romantic lead #but he's pretty aromantic so it's like #ehhh will probably never happen #i adore temsen i am actually pretty ride or die for him lmao

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suis0u · 9 months

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Illustrations for @not-poignant's story 'Underline the Blue' and his characters Janusz and Nate, who I just love!

#my art #illustrations #Underline the blue #Nate Prince #Janusz Bodanowicz #notpoignant #omegaverse #underline the rainbow #because there is a whole series of stories to read!#Actually I just wanted to sketch these guys and then I couldn't resist to put those sketches together to something and suddenly #I was working on this here #artworks #artist on tumblr

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autumngracy · 2 months

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Not me creeping up to the wordcount of the fourth longest book ever written

#A Reflection of Starlight #AROS #valvert #fanfic #writing #Hey I switched back to LibreOffice again after setting up my new computer #(RIP my old computer's installation of MS Office 2009)#And also my old computer in general as it is now giving me the blue screen of death upon boot #but ANYWAY #does anybody know how to make LibreOffice stop highlighting formatted areas? BC with Dark Mode it's highlighting white text #which makes it impossible to read my footnote and page numbers #Also I CANNOT believe this program was coded to be so that 'Ignore' and 'Ignore All' options only do so for the CURRENT SESSION ONLY #Like what in god's name???#I spent 3-4 hours reformatting AROS after converting it only to learn that all the 'errors' I told it to ignore just popped back #the second I reopened the document like jesus christ #Why even offer those options if it doesn't do it permanently for that document file #HHHHHHHhhhhhhHHHHHH #I then spent another several hours being forced to change the language formatting to French for all the French bits #JUST so it would stop underlining all of them in red #And there's no way for me to get rid of the underlining on things like cut off bits of dialogue #bc they are NOT proper words and I refuse to add them to my Dictionary (thus polluting it) just to get rid of them #Ugh #So anyway remember years ago how I joked about what if I accidentally wrote a fanfic longer than the source material itself #That being one of the longest books ever written (technically THE longest book ever written #if we're counting the FRENCH version of it and not the English translation #And yeah I know I technically split AROS into 3 books but that was only for reader convenience #It's still one book in my heart #And also because I think it would be REALLY funny to surpass Hugo's wordcount #Which is entirely plausible bc in English it was only about 531k so I only a little over 100k off and I think I can easily make that #with the material I have left to write but is already mostly plotted out

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stardustdiver · 5 months

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do you like the colour of the sky?

#sky #aesthetic #clouds #cloud #sunset #pink #blue #purple #orange #iunno what tags #OH THE UNDERLINES DONT SHOW ON THE PUBLISHED POST good

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ye-olde-gaylord · 1 year

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SHUT UP I am so SO NORMAL about this book you have NO IDEA

#red white and royal blue #rwrb #i just finished reading it in like 3 days and i just want to read it again help #currently fighting the urge to pick it up and underline a bunch of quotes like a fucking maniac

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bagel-with-creamcheese · 9 months

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loaned my friend my annotated copy of rwrb she is… in for it

#a lot of it is just me calling alex various slurs #thirsting over ellen claremont #making sad scene sadder #underlining the poetic shut henry writes #bullying them for thinking they’re being causal #rwrb #rwrb movie #rwrb book #red white and royal blue #red white and royal blue movie #alex claremont diaz #ellen claremont #henry fox mountchristen windsor #hejgfmw #hejghsf #.

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allthethoughtsandstuff · 10 months

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fUck im rewatching rwrb and I just realized they don’t say y’all in this movie like not even once ?????

#girl I underlined it every time they said it in the book it’s one of my favorite things #damn I will never forget what they took from us with this #you can’t tell me you don’t want to see tzp and uma thurman saying y’all #rwrb #rwrb spoilers #rwrb film #rwrb prime #red white and royal blue fanart #red white and royal blue

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saintpallis · 5 months

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🧊 ❄️ 🧊 | ❄️ 🧊 ❄️ | 🧊 ❄️ 🧊

#finishing the credits for a stimboard is so satisfying... i love seeing all the emojis with their little underlines #winter stim #winter stimboard #winter stim board #stim #stimboard #stim board #ice #snow #ice skating #blue #green #white

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deesi-academia · 1 year

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@ people who design their notes cutely: HOW

#literally mine are such skdkdkjssjwkje #one blue pen throughout #underlined some words #thats it sjdkdkjds UGHH #i want prettier notes 😭#chaotic academia #humor #academia #memes

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handthattakes · 3 months

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in Tooth, in Claw

#this is how you lose the time war #tihylttw #this is not the last time I’ve drawn Red #I underlined every place with a description of her appearance it’s important to me #on my next read I’ll do the same to Blue #but first look at my red #fanart #my art #red

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my-name-is-daniel-yes · 2 months

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forgot i committed fraud in the docs

#anyways did you know you can change the colour of linked posts in docs?#it's such a neat feature that i totally didn't try out #don't go clicking on underlined words in the docs that aren't blue i tooootally didn't link a very specific word and change their colours #the rtcu title totally has nothing linked to it #...#okay enough faking go click the rtcu title's hyperlink

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not-poignant · 3 months

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Daily excerpt from chapter 14 of Underline the Blue:

Christian laughed. 'You've convinced them you have trauma? Oh my god. Nate. Anyway. Apparently your bond is so strong I have to repudiate it.' Nate realised that's why Temsen had called Christian earlier. They'd explained it to him, they'd all agreed to it, and that's why Temsen had looked so disappointed when Nate had agreed to the call. He knew with a strange, horrible clarity, that Temsen - as weird as he was for a peak alpha - didn't want to put him through this. That's why Temsen was so angry. Nate was scared for the moment when he'd realise it was all Nate's fault. 'Please,' Nate whispered. 'Are you stupid? I don't want you. Do you want to know how much I don't want you? Kaden, come here for a moment, I need you to speak to someone.' Nate was going to be sick. He was going to be sick. He couldn't see. The sound of Christian's voice muffled over the speaker, and then: 'You're so lucky you get to go somewhere so fancy.' A soft young man's voice, an omega's voice. 'He could've just broken up with you. This is a really nice way to do it.'

#daily excerpt #underline the blue #underline the rainbow #nate prince #janusz bodanowicz #omegaverse #mm romance #queer romance #angst with a happy ending #whump #hurt/comfort #god nate i'm so sorry for putting you through this #you're just a complete whump magnet

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naffeclipse · 2 years

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Heyo! Is it possible to get a small crumb from chapter 4 of Crypid Sightings plz? 🙏 Your writing has me in a chokehold 🥺

Lucky for you, I just began editing this bad boy! *blows you a kiss*