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justassorted · 7 months

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Details: Ithadel

Anglicized gargoyle name: Ithadel

Anglicized Greek name: Iphidamas

Greek name: Ἰφιδάμας

(Brought to you by: Forever ago @archerwhiterp encouraged me to think about what Ithadel’s less-made-up actual Greek name might be, and I just now realized that I never actually posted it slskdjfhf)

#Ithadel #details: Ithadel #(Part of the delay is that I am indecisive af)#(with that in mind runner ups are Eleftherios and Isidore/Isídōros)#(I’m *still* on the fence because Isidore would be uh. Fitting. Coming from his family xD And it looks closer in shape silhouette)#(…I will not make a poll about it. I will *not* make a poll about it)#details

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krtart · 11 months

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Ithadel Vitalis | June 2023

Abilities: Preternatural place-sense, life-sense, stoneform, paralytic venom.

Skills: Medicine, basic sewing & tailoring, cooking, hunting & outdoor survival, basic hand-to-hand.

Hobbies: …work. Medical research. Maybe gardening.

Yet more Art Fight prep! A mix of new art and reused old art. It’s been fun to let myself get sucked into focusing on some speculative biology again. ^_^

Extra details below the cut!

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Abilities

Place-sense:

Ithadel receives a preternatural impression of the vibes & history of a location. This is not foolproof, and is not always clear; but a place where people have frequently found safety and support will feel welcoming, a place where someone recently died will feel the echoes of that, a place of misery will feel sickening, etc. (Examples to be linked!)

Life-sense:

Ithadel can sense a vague impression of the life-force of living creatures. This generally requires physical contact and is even less precise than his place-sense, but he’s likely to notice if someone is very magically powerful, or if someone is close to death.

Stoneform:

Ithadel can shift to living, immobile stone at will (with some effort). He can shift his entire body or individual portions, though doing the latter is bad for his circulation; better than a tourniquet, but still not healthy in the long term. He can remain conscious or fall asleep, and he retains some vision, though it’s altered. He does not need air.

He has some remaining circulation in the form of lymph movement through the stone’s pores; if he is injured, the wound will ‘bleed’ in a very slow black seepage, and he will heal over time.

He can remain in stoneform indefinitely if he is in contact with the earth and receives at least some sunlight; otherwise, he will eventually run out of energy.

Paralytic venom:

Ithadel’s tail is venomous. The paralysis is not conveniently nonlethal; it will stop the heart and lungs if administered in a high enough dose for full-body paralysis.

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Clothing:

Ithadel’s wing membranes attach in an unbroken line from his back down through his tail. As a result, the waistbands of his pants and loincloths take the form of a semi-rigid, padded hoop that clasps his waist while leaving the nape of his back open.

Ithadel can wear specialized shirts, with a buttoning strap across the back of his neck and either a loose-hanging front or an attachment to the same waist hoop. But he generally chooses not to. He is resilient to a fairly wide range of temperatures; his wings, feet, and tail all have counter-current blood exchange, and his innate magic provides him with some additional protection.

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Disguise:

Ithadel’s human disguise is essentially a polymorph with a few clothing presets included. While disguised, his physical & tactile presence is that of a human.

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Issues:

Right arm:

Ithadel was once right-handed. Following his injury he lost a lot of his fine motor dexterity and strength in that arm, and he now uses his left arm much more often than he used to. Long practice and physical therapy mean that he can now write slightly better with his left hand than his right. The old injury is occasionally painful.

Insomnia:

Ithadel has severe chronic insomnia. Most of the time, it’s managed well enough for him to be functional courtesy of medication and/or charms. During bad periods — namely, when his mental health interferes with whether or not he’s even attempting to sleep — he’ll sometimes become sleep-deprived enough to experience mild hallucinations (e.g. movement in the corner of his eyes) and increased paranoid thoughts. He is well-practiced at ignoring both.

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Ithadel Vitalis

Principled | Irritable | Resolute | Anxious | Reticent

He/him | 5 ft 8 in (i.e. 173 cm) | Middle-aged | Demisexual

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Touch-starved medic who will devote himself to any job that is in front of him, however small. Frequently caught between shame and self-righteousness. Grew up in a cult in the early 1300s until he was excommunicated, then became a physician during the plague of the Black Death in Europe. Chronically sleep deprived and just a bit paranoid.

Ithadel wears an enchanted necklace that provides a human disguise. His wings can be used as grasping limbs just as a bat can, and hang downwards at rest. His feet have opposable toes and retractable claws.

His right arm was shattered while he was in stoneform, then reattached. The resulting scars resemble very deep stretch marks in the pattern of cracked stone.

In human AUs, Ithadel is still a cult survivor and physician. His right arm bears the scars of several deep defensive wounds, but was not severed.

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[Backup image description: A character sheet for Ithadel Vitalis. Ithadel is a gargoyle with a purple-gray skin, glowing yellow eyes, black horns, and a crest of spines in place of hair. He has large bat wings, prehensile feet with retractable claws, and a long thin tail with a venomous stinger at the end. He has dark purple-black blood. In human disguise and in human AUs, he is a thin man with light brown skin and long wavy black hair, going gray. Transcript for text content below the cut. End ID.]

#art #character design #gargoyle #fantasy creature #original character #demisexual character #digital art #krtart #finished art #Ithadel #character bios #characters #spined gargoyles

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justashadetalkative · 4 years

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🔴 Red & 🟤 Brown

From this munday ask prompt list!

🔴 Red - Do you have a dream AU you haven’t written in yet?

Nothing that I’ve been actively longing for, really, no!

I enjoy threads with Diamond where he doesn’t have access to as much magic & tech as he does at the Spire, but that’s not very specific and is kind of already covered with the Fallout thread. ^_^

And I guess I do vaguely consider Star Trek AUs sometimes--for Ithadel ( @justassorted ) in particular. Imagining him as a ship or space station medic is fun for me, heh. I really like the shift of him actually being a part of something, and the established relationship frameworks that an AU like that might provide.

🟤 Brown - What is a headcanon you are particularly proud of?

Hmm. Maybe that Diamond is physically affectionate and genuinely playful with the people he likes, as simple as that is? It’s not necessarily the first thing you’d expect from the general character archetype of “cynical old mage,” heh. But it’s important to me.

#ooc #blind--magic #blind magic #(about the mun)#munday #Diamond #Ithadel #answers #details #details: Diamond

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grumpyoldsnake · 4 years

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Pride 2020 | 6-30-2020

[Image description: A digital illustration of a large group of people in various LGBTQ+ pride regalia and Black Lives Matter symbols. They are mostly humans of a mix of genders and races, though there are also two non-human individuals. Represented identities include trans, gay, lesbian, bi, pan, ace- and aro-spectrum, nonbinary, genderqueer, and intersex individuals. Links to detailed image descriptions can be found below the cut. End ID.]

Here we are at the end of the month; happy Pride!

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Design credits + political action:

The neurodiversity shirt is a ThinkGeek design that is no longer available.

Black Lives Matter Lapel Pin | ACLU “No Body is Illegal” shirt

NAACP Legal Defense Fund | Southern Poverty Law Center | Black & Pink | Anti-racist literature & resources | Other actions to take

[Image description: The image described above depicts eleven individuals standing outdoors in bright sunlight. More detailed image descriptions of these individuals can be found at the following links:

Imperfect Science Polycule

Mirian

Trulani

Piper

Ithadel

Valien & Diamond

Askay

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#artists on tumblr #pride month #original characters #art #Pride 2020 #my ocs #my art #my stuff #ensemble cast #mmmmm I might tag all the characters and stories later #all the individual illustrations are tagged at least

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justassorted · 1 year

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[Image description: A chart of character inspirations for Ithadel. The inspirations are: Granny Weatherwax and Tiffany Aching from the Discworld series; Odo from Star Trek DS9; Goliath from Gargoyles; Tal Monteblanc from the webcomic Harbourmaster; and a blank spot with a “maybe” for Murderbot as a possible recent, subconscious influence. End ID.]

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I have watched maybe 4 episodes of Gargoyles in my life and remember next to nothing, but I am also 100% certain that seeing Goliath in commercials at a young age is what shaped my mental image of “gargoyle.” 😂

Snagged from @archerwhiterp ! Feel free to snag it and tag me in turn, these are fun to see. I’ll put the template under the cut. :)

#(the Discworld witches and the Tiffany books’ musings on the responsibilities and isolating experience of being a witch in particular)#(were a *massive* and for once fully conscious/intentional inspiration)#character inspirations #Ithadel #details: Ithadel #ooc #writing flails #queue

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justassorted · 9 months

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Tagged by: @archerwhiterp

Tagging: @magicmonstersandmischief, @zodiac--muses, @stellafortunae, @stcrmborne, @scxrytxles, @needleandstory, @matrixs-treasuryofmuses, @lichbrarian, @writedisaster. Anyone I've forgotten, steal it if you like! And tag me so I can see :)

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bold = always/most verses ; italic = verse dependent ; strikethrough = never

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#tag tames #ooc #Ithadel #details: Ithadel #queue

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justassorted · 10 months

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A huge chunk of Ithadel’s reticence about socialization tends to boil down to a) his core assumption that he is not [genuinely, meaningfully] welcome or that his [non-professional] presence is in some way fundamentally detrimental, b) his paranoia about being fooled/manipulated, and c) the lovely intersection of the two.

With that in mind… I think if he ever wound up with someone where they were very upfront that they weren’t emotionally attached & about what they were getting out of the relationship instead, in a way that didn’t directly conflict with his morals, he… might actually feel a lot more relaxed about the situation. It would fit into his worldview; it would feel less like waiting for the other shoe to drop. He might take what he could get.

He might be grateful.

#(alright posting to the right blog this time fff)#(this isn’t *specifically* about romance. for example it technically covers why he’s more comfortable with professional relationships)#(but it certainly COULD be about romance.)#Ithadel #details: Ithadel #details #shipping #shipping: Ithadel

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justassorted · 11 months

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…So Ithadel’s double-standard is this:

In the context of his job, ensuring other people’s safety, or dealing with someone who is Actively Unpleasant, Ithadel is perfectly willing to request assistance, order people about, and in general be pretty unapologetic about life. (…to a certain degree. He does struggle more with authority figures.)

At the same time, this is a man who, for example, will be deadly ill and know full-well that he does in fact need help to get to a hospital, but will have to fight through an anxiety attack just in the process of talking himself into deciding to ask for said help.

Let alone, uh. Actually making the out-loud request. 🙃

#(Ithadel has one (1) coping skill and it is ‘take care of [other] people’)#(luckily for him that can cover a heck of a lot of ground when he arranges his life accordingly)#(unluckily for him there are in fact still gaps :’D)#Ithadel #details #details: Ithadel #(it’s the difference between being in charge or at least independent vs. being a supplicant. he does *not* make the transition well)

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justassorted · 11 months

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The methods and reasons for Ithadel’s social self-isolation are many, but some of them are:

1. Ithadel literally does not ever assume that a social overture is made towards him out of anything more than obligation, politeness, or perhaps generic kindness at best.

2. Ithadel is terrified of overstepping boundaries (unless he’s pissed or concerned enough to decide that it’s objectively necessary), and so will never make friendly overtures beyond the generic expectations of polite interactions.

3. Ithadel finds it nearly a physical struggle to ask for anything that might even slightly inconvenience someone outside of his job (or other structured scenarios).

All of these are deeply steeped in trauma and/or anxiety, but because Ithadel tends to just structure his life so as to avoid the triggers for said anxiety and is good at faking calm otherwise, the net result is that he just comes across as thoroughly withdrawn and standoffish. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#(does Ithadel like company? yes. theoretically.)#(in fact unless someone’s attitude actively annoys him he kind of basks in any scraps of company he gets)#(does Ithadel ever trust the motivations behind said company or feel like he’s doing anything other than imposing?)#(NOPE)#(anyway. making a proper post out of an old tag ramble slkdfhgds)#details #details: Ithadel #Ithadel

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justassorted · 1 year

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Ithadel’s troupe was a cult; both in the social dynamics, and in that they had a very specific creation myth and strong beliefs about gargoyle’s responsibilities in relation to humans and other supernatural creatures.

#Ithadel #details #details: Ithadel #(Still deciding how to adapt this in human AUs)#(whether I should pick something existing and research it or make something fictional)#(depends on the setting too. Like. Fantasy settings—and especially if I decide to have Ithadel still have some magic—)#(I can keep some details the same)#(…y’know I’m realizing that his background would adapt surprisingly well to a Witcher AU)#queue

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justassorted · 2 years

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BOLD ALL THAT APPLIES TO YOUR MUSE ; FEELINGS.

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HAPPINESS. — being unable to stop smiling. laughter. bear hugs. happy tears (rare af but does happen). waving arms around. dancing. contently sighing. eyes twinkling. laugh lines. childlike playfulness. skipping. talking more. affection. cracking more jokes than usual. gesturing more when talking. higher pitched voice. squealing. jumping around. clapping.

SADNESS. — tearing up. self hugging. one-arm cross. an aching chest. scratchy throat. a runny nose. turning away. deep breaths. quivery smiles. crying. infantile sobbing. hands gripping each other or an object. covering mouth. puffy eyes. eyes appear red. voice breaking. a distant or empty stare. monotone voice. asking for comfort. faking a smile. crumbling. shaking. whimpering. depression. abusing an unhealthy habit (overworking). withdrawing from others. big teary eyes. doing something even if it could hurt them.

ANGER. — furrowed brows. baring teeth. passive-aggressive comments. avoiding eye contact. sarcasm. headache. sore muscles. hiding clenched fists. irritability. jumping to conclusions. raising voice. going silent. demanding immediate action. keeping it all in until exploding. body tensing. making risky decisions. middle finger.

FEAR. — wanting to flee or hide. what-ifs. images of what-could-be flashing in mind. uncontrollable trembling. rapid breathing. screaming. a skewed sense of time. irritability. keeping silent. denying fear. turning away from the cause. pretending to be brave. nail-biting. lip-biting. scratching skin. a joking tone but a voice that cracks. fainting. insomnia. panic attacks. exhaustion. substance abuse. tics. rushing adrenaline. face draining of colour. hair lifting on the back of the neck. feeling rooted to the spot. making body as small as possible. staring but not seeing. crying. a shrill voice. whispering. gripping something or someone. stuttering. flinching at noises. pleading.

EXHAUSTION. — constantly yawning. blurring words together. dark circles or lines under eyes. mood swings. hallucinations. calling people by the wrong name. dizziness. denying they’re tired. slow blinking. trouble concentrating. stumbling. leaning on a doorframe for support. sluggish movements. falling asleep someplace that isn’t a bed. becoming irritated by the smallest things. “i’m awake, i’m fine.” shaking so bad they spill their drink. fall asleep in their clothes. lay their head on the table because they’re so tired. passing out.

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Tagged by: Stolen from @scxrytxles:)

Tagging: @batteredoptimist , @archerwhiterp -- only if you want to, of course!

#(Ithadel's insomnia is bad enough that sleep-deprivation hallucinations are... not a *rare* occurrence for him)#(though usually they aren't quite full-blown hallucinations or are at least fairly mild:)#(visual distortions or movement in the corners of his eyes type of thing)#(also paranoia but y'know :') )#ooc #tag games #Ithadel #details: Ithadel #details #musings #musings: Ithadel #queue

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justassorted · 5 months

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🎖- Ithadel

Inspiration ask meme

send 🎖 (or “bingo!”) + a character name for receiver to list off any random thing that inspires their writing of that character!

Discworld witchcraft! Especially Tiffany’s journey of learning the importance of doing the work, even the mundane and gross work, even for crappy people. Also the theme in Tiffany's books of extraordinary purpose via different emotions than the usual ones stories often tell us should define ‘good’ people.

Medusa! This one’s very nebulous and not at all germane to anything real, but like. My brain went “stone creatures = Greece” and that is how that went. xD Especially since in early iterations Ithadel did once have a lifedrain ability that turned people to stone.

Also sort of where the stinger came from, and why his venom is a paralytic. “Stone creature = medusa = snakes = venom.” (…Honestly I really do need to read more deeply into ancient Greek stories. I suspect there might be plenty of sources of inspiration that’d be much more meaningful than the surface level connections my brain already tries to draw!)

Urban fantasy just as like. A genre. Once again, I'm a sucker for anything that juxtaposes the fantastical with the recognizable. <3 Though most of my exposure to urban fantasy consists of the Mercy Thompson series, the Dresden Files, and Buffy, so... my view of the genre is admittedly through a fairly narrow window. ^_^;

My own social hangups about “Do Not Intrude Where You Have Not Been Actively & Firmly Invited (and even then, are you sure they weren’t just being polite?)” except turned up to 11. Sorry Ithadel. :'D

#(also obv 'doctor for the supernatural' combines medical research AND speculative biology and is thoroughly my jam)#(but that's more of a personal interest thing than an *inspiration* xD)#(also: thanks again for the asks! they've been v fun to answer ^_^)#scxrytxles #answers #details #details: Ithadel #Ithadel

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justassorted · 7 months

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So I have played Ithadel in DnD one (1) time.

By the end of the campaign, he had taken the vows and co-opted the powers of a dying angel and was well on his way to establishing a significant power base in the literal Abyss, doing everything in his power to give hundreds of damned and/or lost souls a second chance at living a good (after)life.

(He nominally started as a paladin, but considering this was back in 4e and he punched his own [fallen] god in the face when the opportunity was presented to him...)

I’m not saying the guy is perfectly moral. And there’s a lot to be said for the influence of that particular GM’s storytelling and worldbuilding styles.

But I am saying that Ithadel is genuinely and wholeheartedly devoted to finding ways to help people, no matter how daunting or surreal the circumstances might be.

(…once he’s had a chance to collect himself. 😂)

#(Ithadel got a heck of a rep in that campaign for shutting down and just staring blankly at the floor after any bigish event slkdfhdg)#(though part of it was just Me as a player having to get fucking creative to figure out how the heck to craft a course of action)#(that Ithadel would actually be willing to take? Given the. Again. Literal Abyss setting.)#(so I made the stall out in-character so that everyone else could go on playing while I thought fffff)#details #details: Ithadel #Ithadel #dnd verse #dnd verse: Ithadel #queue

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justassorted · 1 year

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Main verse: Spined gargoyles are very rare, and the only reason they’ve lasted as long as they have is due to their long life spans & the fact that they can have children with humans.

To Ithadel’s knowledge, based on contact with other troupes when he was still part of his own, there may be fewer than 5,000 in the world. And if their history can be trusted, that’s actually a much larger population than in past millennia.

#(His troupe’s dogma is that there were 25 first-borns but it’s too specific for Ithadel to believe sldjfhf)#details #details: Ithadel #details: gargoyles

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justassorted · 1 year

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Ithadel’s tail holds relatively still most of the time. He uses it for balance, and since it’s mildly prehensile he’ll use it to help grip things sometimes. But he’s been trained not to let it react to emotions; it doesn’t flick or lash much unless he’s distracted or overwhelmed.

Among other more cultural things, this is because it’s a weapon. While he’s hardly going to envenomate someone from just a chance collision, it’s still important to be mindful.

#Ithadel #details #details: Ithadel #(Doylist explanation: this man has 7 fucking limbs for me to keep track of slskdjfhf)#(And every last one of them is prehensile to at least some degree. Can’t even ignore his feet xD)

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justassorted · 1 year

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The type of medical practice that Ithadel does depends on the demographics of his area. If there aren’t many supernatural folk, he’ll often join a human practice or hospital and just see supernatural folk on the side.

On the occasions when Ithadel does run a dedicated solo supernatural practice, he tends to have clinic hours from 3pm to midnight or so, and makes house calls by arrangement in the mornings and on the weekends.

He makes sure that he can be contacted during emergencies at any time of day.

#Ithadel #details #details: Ithadel #(Obvs. this is for main verse)

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