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anulithots · 5 months

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Anuli gets an interview. (Very dangerous, do not recommend. )

Let's pretend that @gummybugg tagged me. (Bliar and Elijah will now live in my head rent free)

TW for self-deprecation and suicidal ideation. (Mild and overdramatic <-- the sort of comfortable joking about it)

Anywho, welcome to Trinity Hollow!

You've happened to stumble across flower bushes. A hollow exists underneath, studded with mushrooms. (I cannot find the picture)

Anuli has this expression.

Fae looks like this:

And congrats! Anuli will probably do whatever you ask, because fae doesn't like deviating from others instructions, lest something awful happen. Fae also doesn't like following instructions, because something bad will happen. Good luck!

(The fancier language Anuli uses, the more nervous fae is)

[1.] Are you named after anyone?

.... I- er. Plot holes and darling murders, the possibilities for character depth here! Wonderous questions, pinnacle questioning.

Figures that I do not have an answer for this one, my apologies.

I was just... Anuli, since forever, perhaps past that.

...

Wouldn't it be ironic if there was another being named Anuli and they had a similar arc as mine.... and perhaps one's name governs their fate and that's how Kamari's star-y fates dictate the destiny of all the beings because they just reuse the names over and over and over again.

.... and if the stars lived forever, did they see the same story repeat? Is there a limited number of stories in the world, a limited number of ways lives can play out, and yet we never learn. No one has an arc unless they live through it, no one goes "aha! I have just popped into existence, and I know everything about everything, and life is simple and easy, what are all these buffoons doing?"

.... Revision... most beings are like that. They always seem to go on some arc that makes them a protagonist or a side character or a foil or a mentor, and the ones that don't have that arc... (a pre-existence arc?) are left to scramble and eventually they become villains.

Apparently, ignorance of ignorance is bliss, awareness of ignorance will eat you alive.

... my apologies. I- I did not answer that question.

[2.] When was the last time you cried?

I'm still crying. Without tears.

Symbolic crying.

Metaphorical crying.

From a villain who should not cry.

Why would the proponent of harm cry?

Fae doesn't actually care.

If fae cared, it would've ended better.

... Unsure if disclaimers that sound better will work better. Because if this story repeats ONE MORE TIME I'M GOING TO [redacted]

[3.] Do you have kids?

Younglings? Me?

... that will never happen. That's not fathomable. I'd probably... pass on my antagonistic traits to them and mess everything up or accidently squish them, or I'd start sparking on the inside with those heat-ripple flesh and blood and morbidity thing (Anuli's trying to describe anger) and I'd purposefully squish them. That's... taking care of little things is nowhere in the 'antagonist character bio'.

[4.] Do you use sarcasm a lot?

Sarcasm gives one the power to shroud truth and leave it up to interpretation, making the one interpreting it find whatever meaning they want...

IT'S WONDEROUS AND I WOULD NEVER BE MISUNDERSTOOD AGAIN... but alas, its elusive nature leaves me tragically unfunny.

[5.] What's the first thing you notice about people?

.... I tend to... not notice things about people? I definitely do not notice a 'first thing'. A new character takes time to decipher into their desires, fears, worldviews and purpose in the story after all, but I... well I thought I was good at analyzing them. Was being the imperative word.

Er, suffice it to say that I don't notice anything about anything. My internal world takes first priority... it's the bane of my existence.... my grand villainous trait.

[6.] What's your eye colour?

... That's a wonderous question... Kamari might've told me once.

...

Plot holes and darling murders.

For this VALUABLE PIECE OF EXPOSITION... we shall say yellow. I think Kamari said yellow. Maybe. Possibly. It might fit in with the narrative... actually red.

Red is now my official and metaphorical eye color, for peak villainous disclaimers, symbolic for the blood on my hands (metaphorically).

Anuli's eyes are green. Kamari has told Anuli faer eyes are green at least seventeen separate times.

[7.] Scary movies or happy endings?

.... CONTEXT???? BACKSTORY???? IS THIS A "what do you, Anuli, prefer?" OR A "what type of story do you tell?" QUESTION? THE CONJUNCTION 'or' IMPLIES THAT IT'S ONE OR THE OTHER...

CAN SCARY STORIES NOT HAVE HAPPY ENDINGS? I WAS NOT AWARE OF THIS CRITICAL STORYTELLING-

oh.

'Scary stories cannot have happy endings'.

.....

I HAVEN'T ANSWERED ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS, THIS ONE IS STORY-RELATED, MY SAVING GRACE, I SHOULD BE ABLE TO SHALVAGE THIS, BUT ALAS, OBSTICALS.

.... plot holes and darling murders.

... LET'S DO BOTH QUESTIONS.

*Ahem, Anuli what types of stories do you prefer?*

'Why thank you for the question Anuli! I liked Kamari's stories, they were...simpler than mine, all with happy endings. I don't know- how fae told such happy little stories all the time eludes me.'

*what an insightful answer Anuli! What types of stories do you tell?*

'Yet another wonderous question Anuli, I typically tell stories that spiral into morbid deaths full of blood and flesh that rips off of bones and characters that never get their happy ending no matter how much they wish for it! It's ironic really, how attempting to get that happy ending only makes it spill from their fingertips!

I tried to tell a story with a happy ending once.

.... tried being the imperative word.

[8.] Any special talents?

Ruining every story beat, happy ending, and spiraling into morbid nonsense no one would want to hear.

[9.] Where were you born?

... This must also be valuable exposition, apologies for not containing the answers in this.. needlessly complicated internal world.

My tree is in the wanderer's nest, so I assume I sprouted in the wanderer's nest?

FROM THERE, DEAR AUDIENCE, COMES THE PLIGHT OF THE WANDERER'S NEST AND ITS VILLIANOUS COMPANION - THE PLACE OF TETHERS - TO KEEP ITS VILLIAN SPAWN FROM RUINING THE PROTAGONIST'S HAPPY ENDING INSTEAD OF DYING LIKE IT'S SUPPOSED TO.

[10.] What are your hobbies?

Storytelling! Art once in a while! Overthinking! Daydreaming! Nothing helpful! Messing up everything! Talking to inanimate objects!

[11.] Do you have any pets?

What's a pet?

[12.] What sports do you play/have you played?

What's a sport?

(Anuli is extremely slow and has awful motor control and will trip over faer feet and reach for something and miss it. Fae can't fly nor walk that fast. Anuli's spent most of faer young life tethered to a fence, and fae sat and rolled around for most of that tethered existence. Standing up suddenly will make faer dizzy. Do not get this one in a sport.

Human AU Anuli likes to float in a pool, that's about it.)

[13.] How tall are you?

I can answer this one! HUZZAH!

About a half-Kamari length.

(This is the most accurate height chart you're going to get. And the Anuli doll took three months and is about the size of newborn child. I don't think I'll ever make a Kamari doll because... making that size accurate would be a nightmare and I don't think I would ever finish)

books for size comparison

[14.] Favourite subject in school?

What's school?

(Human AU Anuli would have hyperfixations in musicals and classical literature, along with the occasional high fantasy modern books... as long as they break tropes or have a good sense of storytelling (fae gets bored easily.) That being said, assignments are faer least favorite thing in the world, fae would have the highest grade in literature.... but only when fae gets to analyze stories or write faer own. When this happens, fae will write pages and pages longer than the assigned length.

All other subjects are barely over failing grade, except for art, although Anuli might do something completely opposite of what the instructions where but fae gets a decent grade anyways because it had a lot of effort put into it.

Anuli miiigghhhtttt have a learning disability in math, since cannon Anuli has a hard time counting. Numbers are hard to work with because fae can't see them that well... they are very abstract things.

History would be pretty good... except for the assignments parts. Human Anuli could infodump on ancient history for hours and think they all happened in the past hundred years.

Science is a hit or miss. Anuli's gone on a hyperfixation from time to time (mainly genetics because fae saw this one show where they use DNA to identify a killer), but fae just... doesn't do the assignments.

TL;DR - Literature and a bit of history, has a failing grade in most subjects because school work = executive dysfunction)

[15.] Dream job?

... I get to tell stories to Kamari while fae hums songs and makes windchimes, but that's another story entirely. That's not mine to have.

... I don't daydream about myself in a... positive light that often... so... I'll take suggestions for free lifestyles as long as it doesn't involve anything important or breakable or involving emotions or other beings or consistency.

#original characters #original character #character design #character art #writeblr #creative writing #take care of yourself #fiction #dryads #fairies #fairy #fae #faerie #fairy art #oc story #the land of the fallen fairies #anuli the dryad

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random-jot · 6 months

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The Land Of Faerie: A Musical

A - ***potential**** - musical by yours truly. I was inspired by StarKid to have a crack at writing my own comedy musical a few years ago, and the recent release of NPMD has once more inspired me to blow off the dust and recommence work on this project.

The Land Of Faerie is Quest-Fantasy Comedy set in the magical land of Faerie, where everything is perfectly fine... or is it?

It's not finished yet, but just for shits and gigs I thought it'd be fun to share what I currently have for the prologue/opening number!

Without further ado, here it is!

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PROLOGUE

Lights start low and gradually get brighter. A MAN from the Kingdom of Faerie begins to sing over soft music as a spotlight slowly brings him into view.

SONG – IN THE LAND OF FAERIE

MAN: Have you heard of a land called Faerie?

If you haven’t then won’t you hear me out?

I’ll tell you what it’s about

(MAN moves upstage as lights now begin to fill out the stage, revealing the set. The music steadily grows more upbeat and jaunty. An ELF, a DWARF and an ORC enter the scene.)

If you’ve heard of a land

So wondrous and grand

Where every race is living hand in hand

So merry

ELF, DWARF AND ORC: Then you’ve heard of the land called Faerie

(We hear the sound of a ship docking and a large group of people enter the stage, a mixture of humans, elves, dwarves and Orcs. MAN greets them with glee)

MAN: Ho there! Welcome to Faerie

Watch your step as you get off the ferry

Can I take your case? (He takes a backpack off a weary traveller.)

As you enter the place

Where every race is getting along

ELF AND DWARF: Every Elf and Dwarf

MAN AND ORC: Every Man and Orc are

CHORUS: Singing the same song!

There are no wars between our people

And our lands are always peaceful

There’s no underlying evil

Anywhere, see

In the land of Faerie

ELF: You might think because I’m an Elf

And he’s a Dwarf; he'd wanna to bring harm to me

DWARF: It ain’t so, in the land of Faerie

In fact he’s my bro!

DWARF AND ELF: And we live in harmony

MAN: You might think because I’m a Man

And she’s an Orc she’s gonna start harming me

ORC: It ain’t the case in this place

ORC AND MAN: 'Cause we’re mates, we live in harmony

CHORUS: Yeah, we all live in harmony!

There are no wars between our people

And our lands are always peaceful

There’s no underlying evil

Anywhere, see

So come on down to Faerie (MAN steps forward and the lights focus in on him, the music slowing to a gentler pace.)

MAN: I daren’t take it for granted

You know, we didn’t always have this

There used to be

A Dark Lord, you see

But don’t worry; the Dark Lord’s been vanquished (he reassuringly addresses the audience)

(Spoken) Yeah, we won’t be seeing anymore of that guy, he is long gone

ORC: When he was here we were divided (Singing again, ORC steps forward)

DWARF: To take him down we were united (DWARF steps forward)

ELF: And in a way I think that’s why we’re (ELF steps forward, the four of them forming a line)

CHORUS: Singing the same song!

We’re all just getting along!

There are no wars between our people

And our lands are always peaceful

There’s no underlying evil

Anywhere

There are no wars between our people

And our lands are always peaceful

There’s no underlying evil

Anywhere, see

MAN: So come on down to the land

Oh so wondrous and grand

Where every race is living hand in hand

CHORUS: In the land of Faerie

In the land of Faerie

MAN: So come on down to Faerie

Lights down.

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Thank you to anyone who stayed and read the full thing!

This song serves really as in introduction to the world as opposed to any of the main characters. I want it to almost have the quality of a song that might play in a 'come to DisneyWorld' commercial; fun, upbeat, and inviting. It's not the funniest song in the musical, but I do like the bit of characters reassuring the audience that there's "no underlying evil." Spoiler alert: There is in fact underlying evil. Shh, don't tell anyone.

Hopefully I'll get to actually finish this and be able to share the full thing one day - and hope beyond hope actually get the damn thing produced, but that's a problem for later.

Still, hope folks have enjoyed this little extract!

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faearchived · 6 months

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#nature #fairy tale #fairytales #magical #fairy #forest #fae #faerykin #faekin #faeries #fairylands #fairy lands

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dreamersinthedaylightinspo · 1 year

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The Carolingian Union is a collection of mortal state, which is recognized as one of the Nine Kingdoms of Faerie. The faerie nations here were considered too small or separated, and could not easily join together even after the Wall's construction formally severed their ties from their mortal counterparts. The Kingdoms of Rask and Montessere, for example, both straddle the Wall as Prythian does, and contain both faerie and mortal lands.

The union contains at least a dozen individually recognized nations and states, as well as twice as many small fiefdoms and city-states. The union was created during the War, as human populations recognized the need to band together to throw off the threat of faeries. Faerie allies who incorporated themselves into the Confederation now enjoy the rights of free travel and trade, easily passing over the Wall. This stipulation is covered in the Treaty of Merovinge was hammered out separately, and binds these separate nations together in a unique international union. More faeries add their names to this stipulation of the Treaty with each passing decade, resulting in the continuous growth of the union.

At least five of the so-called "Mortal Queens" (the descendants of prominent human women who led efforts in the war) make their home in this union and still rule small nations of their own, but the Carolingian Confederation is ruled by a High King and/or Queen, who is nominated and elected to the Free Throne every twenty-five years. The current High King is Carloman, a Raskian prince who served in the legislature, known as the Diet, for twenty-five years.

Human children can spend a lifetime studying and trying to understand the web of Carolingian politics; the union is often volatile and the Diet's politics are subject to the whims of its current leadership, whomever that may be. Small-scale land wars and bids for increased territory are common despite long periods of peace and cooperation between fae- and humankind.

However, there is no denying that the Carolingian Union is on the cutting edge of modern politics. Never before in history have so distinct cultures and kingdoms attempted to work together for a common good. Technology including clockwork and steam-powered tools are a flourishing industry, and recent explosions in art and theater have made local productions into household names around the world. They have centrally located banks which are used to store gold and silver from every part of the known world, and have pioneered such philosophical and ethical concepts as "inalienable rights."

While this is all excellent news for humankind, faeries are largely repelled by these advances in technology and are retreating north to the Wall in large numbers. Fears of resentment and renewed conflict are not yet on the horizon; many humans are even sad to see their long-time friends and allies disappear into the wild forests of the north from which they came.

#my fic writing #acotar #world of acotar #i think its Weird to make a bunch of Obvi European faerie lands and then be like uhhhhh fantasy india and china also exist #anyway the holy Roman empire is now a thing and fantasy can be whatever i want #sjm wont worldbuild so i fucking have to

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