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MANAGERIAL NOTE
Eating an assorted lunch brought back from the cafeteria, you page through another file.
The twins walk through a park with their arms interlaced together. They speak about everything and nothing, from one conversation to the other. They dress in matching outfits, a mirror of each other with every step.
“Are you hungry, Lyly?” Viscaria asks, glancing around just in case she was. “I think there’s that café we liked around here.”
She smiles at her brother, “I am. Let’s go, then, if you’re hungry too.” And they do, the fellow Citygoers around them glancing at them in slight awe—how often do you see someone twice? Lychnis doesn’t worry about the others around them as much or how her brother does—instead she watches him, watches the people he looks at, the ones he keeps in his line of sight.
She follows his lead in their dance.
“What are you looking at, Lyly~?” Viscaria asks, with an affectionate smile. Lychnis, again, moves in tune to their synchronicity—and laughs, smiling too. “Hey! Don’t laugh. I’m just curious to know what’s making you smile like that.”
“I’m happy you’re so thoughtful, that’s all.” She replies.
Viscaria stares for a moment, like he’s shocked she’s shocked or relieved or happy—she’s actually not sure how to read his expression when he gets like this—as if there’s some script he’s reading from that she doesn’t have and yet tries to meet her marks on the heights chart—and then his face softens, and she recognizes him again.
For the merest of moments, she remembers something else; a different version of her brother flashing through her mind like booming fireworks—or were they gunshots, she could never be sure—it was love all the same, and it was ethereal in how short and long it lasted—
“Of course I am,” He says, and the Viscaria of now overlaps with the one from the past, wearing her smile instead of his own, bloody and bruised—the blood wasn’t hers, but their wounds looked just the same—“I’ll always protect you, Lychnis.”
She takes his hand in hers, and they take their box steps forward together.
When they return home, Viscaria carrying their leftovers in a bag, their parents greet them with curious expressions on their faces. The walls are lined with photos of the twins throughout the years, identical, wearing matching clothes and matching smiles.
“Lychnis, Viscaria,” Their father says. He’s holding a letter. Just one. “A letter came for you.”
They look at each other.
“Both of us?”
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You wonder if there's something faintly dangerous about conflating two existences as one. For a reason you can't place, it feels familiar.
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62647.01 Lychnis flos-cuculi by horticultural art https://flic.kr/p/2nVaCyo
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On Lychnis
— Bobby J. Ward, A Contemplation Upon Flowers: Garden Plants in Myth and Literature, 1999. Pgs. 255-258.
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@lychnis ° • * ⁀ ➷ ˎˊ˗
for this small starter call.
❝ once we were not afraid of the night... ❞
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♡ (pretend i sent this form @withinchains for kayn cause giggles)
Send ♡ to see what my muse thinks of yours // @lychnis && @withinchains (kayn)
●○○○○ | ATTRACTION
●○○○○ | AFFECTION
●●○○○ | INTEREST
●●●●● | LOYALTY
●●●○○ | TRUST
LOW | ●●●●● | HIGH
aphelios finds kayn quite the character. even if aphelios may tease kayn for being noisy while he and ezreal bicker, he actually finds it amusing deep down and kind of appreciates the noise. he would never admit he likes hearing the ruckus, but sometimes it helps him know he's lively and in decent spirits. he also still greatly appreciates getting a valentine's gift from him. one of the few valentine's day gifts he enjoyed in his lifetime.
#lychnis#withinchains#● ☾ ⭑ 𝗠ᵒᵒᶰˡᶤᵍʰᵗ ᵛᶤᵍᶤˡ ( ask )#● ☾ ⭑ 𝗠ᵒᵒᶰˡᶤᵍʰᵗ ᵛᶤᵍᶤˡ ( ask meme: answered )#● ☾ ⭑ 𝗠ᵒᵒᶰˡᶤᵍʰᵗ ᵛᶤᵍᶤˡ ( v : heartsteel )#// he'll give a grumpy face when he's roudy and noisy but he lowkey appreciates it
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Flower of the Week, 9th July.
Rose campion, or in Latin lychnis coronaria, is one of my favourite garden plants. My wife and I “borrowed” some seed heads from a garden on our way back from seeing a total eclipse of the sun in 1999. They were the bright scarlet form at the top of the page. Later we acquired, by legitimate means, the white variety below.
This year we’ve found for the first time a cross between the 2 colours.…
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Character Card: Lychnis, ft. Balsam
Name: Lychnis
Role: Councillor/Kitsitter of the Skulk
Description: A short silver lynx point molly with amber eyes. She has metallic blue scales and wears a leather belt with a sheathed knife. She holds a small cub, her son Balsam, in her arms.
Age: 8 cycles, roughly 40 human years.
Orientation/Gender: Polyamorous lesbian trans molly (she/they)
Personality: Stoic, Quiet, Affectionate
#xenofiction#original work#worldbuilding#fantasy world#fantasy writing#xenomog#xenomoggy#my art#original art#character card#felinia: lychnis#felinia: balsam
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MANAGERIAL NOTE: [Q&A #2]
A variety of questions and answers from my CuriousCat.
Q1: why does viscaria have a fanclub? did any of your ocs have any crushes on him?
A1: He's just so ikemen, and the other employees need something to latch onto. On the outside, Viscaria is caring, intelligent, and handsome. His true personality just leaves a lot to be desired. It isn't the first time he's had people fawning over him, so he's pretty used to it. He doesn't care if people like him, as long as they don't mistreat Lychnis, or like her too much.
Ivy would most likely have a crush on Viscaria, before Narcissus drops the other shoe directly on her head.
Rather than having no interest in sex or romance, Viscaria just has better things to focus on. I'll explore this eventually. He's too caught up with his obsession in protecting his sister to consider his other relationships. The last time he had a very close friend, they betrayed him by attempting to hurt his sister. As a result, he's hyper-protective over her, and blames himself and feels he still deserves to be punished for it.
But if you pointed out how he and Forge were genuinely close friends, he'd make a joke about it, but think quietly to himself for a long time, and be a little bit happy about it. He'd tease her about them being the best of friends~, but if Forge ever seriously called Viscaria her friend…
…he'd probably be embarrassed, and attempt to run away from the conversation. It's game over for him if Forge ever realizes this, since her snarkiness extends to bullying him whenever possible. She's just not playful enough to do so yet.
Q2: how religious is valerian, and how obsessed is it with forge?
A2: Rather than being particularly religious, Valerian is simply obsessed with finding an answer and meaning to its existence. Whether or not obsession without the drive to interact or engage in anyway could still be called obsession is up to debate, but Valerian thinks about Forge on average twenty times per day. Once Narcissus asked Valerian about Forge, and as a result, Valerian was curious about how often it actually thought of her.
A week later, Valerian came to Narcissus to say that on average, it thought about her twenty times a day. Narcissus replied that she didn't ask, and that it was a freak for spending time figuring that out. She's right.
Q3: How does Lychnis feel about her brother's overprotectiveness?
A3: She's used to it, and because of what happened in their childhood, she doesn't feel negatively about it. She's not very much of a social person, so in all actuality, it's rarely a problem. It helps that she's particularly clueless about it. If she were more honest with herself, she'd admit she likes it, because she's dependent on him, and can't cull the idea that he and their parents are right--she's something fragile to be protected. It also helps that Viscaria isn't particularly overt about it. He just watches from a distance, and interferes when he deems it necessary. Anem's ToPF is a good example of this.
Lychnis wouldn't know how to react if her brother got violent while protecting her again. Most likely, she would curl up as small as she can, avert her eyes, and help patch up his wounds afterwards.
She's used to being coddled, and used to not challenging his opinion. If he thinks someone is dangerous, they probably are. If he thinks something is a bad idea, it probably is. If he thinks something isn't good for Lychnis, well, it probably isn't…
…or so she thinks of it.
Q4: Do you have any fun Ivy and/or Narcissus facts? How would you describe the relationship those two have? I’m dying to know.
A4: A fun fact about Narcissus is that she can't sing to save her life, and it's a sore spot. Her past partner really liked her singing voice, though, because of how happy she was while doing it. She also really likes reading, particularly poetry.
In a modern AU, Ivy would run a well-maintained Tumblr or Blogspot, with a respectable amount of followers. Narcissus would send her hate, even though they're mutuals and Narcissus has post notifications on for Ivy. Even she doesn't know the thought process behind this one--or she's not willing to accept it.
I would describe their relationship as strained, but they do eventually get along really well together. In their downtime, they sit in the lounge or their dormroom talking about nothing in particular. Narcissus just has a terrible personality, and Ivy has a full-time job as a doormat. In some manner of speaking, they're a match made in hell. This'll come up in Ivy and Narcissus' First Day Events, but no matter the universe, they always end up crossing paths and forming some sort of relationship.
Q5: when valerian thinks about forge, what is it thinking?
A5: When Valerian sees Forge, it'll wonder when it can get the chance to talk to her. When Valerian thinks about religion, it'll eventually think about Forge.
It wonders what sort of answers she might have, and actually kept the pamphlet for her religion that it went out of its way to get. It looks at it before it sleeps, and knows what's written on it by heart. It also wonders what she's thinking about, or what she's doing.
Q6: are you planning on exploring press's "lover" as well, or just press?
A6: Press doesn’t love them because of who they are. Not really, at least. Thus, it’ll just be Press, but her ToPF does lend to what I’ll be getting at when I explore her story further.
Q7: ooo.. does valerian want to be friends with forge as a person, then? would it be disappointed if it found out that forge is a human, not an idol? or would it be honored to know that side of her?
A7: Valerian isn’t at that point yet, emotionally, to consider Forge as anything other than an object of worship. Rather than being disappointed in her for who she was, it would think “oh, so you can’t guide me” and seek out someone else.
Once it is at that point, though, its reaction would be much different. Valerian is very sympathetic towards others while maintaining an unintentional sense of apathy, even as it is now. It can be caring without really caring, moreso going through the motions, like with fixing Ivy’s torn poems.
It isn’t doing it to be nice or thoughtful, it just knew what happened and felt Ivy would prefer to have her works not ripped into pieces.
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Ragged Robin by Oliver Andrews
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Ragged robin flowering in a clearing in Short Wood.
#canon#canonuk#flora#flower#flowers#lychnis flos-cuculi#nature#nature reserve#northamptonshire#northants#outdoors#pink#plant#plants#ragged-robin#short wood and southwick wood#silene flos-cuculi#wildlife#wildlife trust#wildlife trusts#woodland#woods#Peterborough#England#United Kingdom#flickr
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Language of Flowers: Rose Campion
In the language of flowers, the flower for today, October 20, is Rose Campion, which signifies gentleness.
Image from Wikipedia.
Silene coronaria, still sometimes called Lychnis coronaria in the UK, is a short-lived perennial of the pinks family that originally came from southwestern Europe but has been so long grown in gardens it is found in most temperate climates around the world.
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#birthday#coronaria#De Materia medica#Dioscorides#herbalism#Language of flowers#lychnis coronaria#lychnos#october#pinks#Rose Campion#scorpion bites#silene coronaria
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Natural Stone Pavers Front Yard Le Havre
Photo of a large farmhouse drought-tolerant and full sun front yard stone retaining wall landscape in summer.
#front yard#paysagiste concepteur#lychnis flos-coculi#paysagiste nantes#paysagiste#paysagiste44#duvaletbossennec
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Lamp Flower 🍬
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n19_w1150 by Biodiversity Heritage Library
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Paxton's magazine of botany London;Orr and Smith [etc.]. biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48265378
#Botany#Periodicals#Smithsonian Libraries#bhl:page=48265378#dc:identifier=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48265378#Flowers#Stems#Leaves#flickr#Lychnis grandiflora#Lychnis coronata#Silene banksia#Silene coronaria#rose campion#dusty miller#mullein-pink#bloody william#Lychnis coronaria#botanical illustration#scientific illustration
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