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I’m like, half sure that half of the bastards actually used the warp beacon beads that belong to Jules, Ace, and Persephone to wind up in Insomnia because fuck the consequences that’s their sister.

And that’s how Regis et co. walk into Jules’ room to see seven people sprawled out across the room and also Ardor and Persephone crowded onto Jules bed because it’s their turn to cuddle damn it.
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LOL. I can just picture Mercury wearing sunglasses and seriously considering just. Flooring it through the checkpoint, and indulging in a high-speed chase through the city, ending only when they pull up at the Citadel Medical Wing -

Jupiter: *sees expression on her face.* Mercury. No.
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Now I’m curious! How did Ardyn sneak into the palace, and talk to Regis without having Regis scream for the guards? Or - do they meet up in Regis’ favorite coffee shop or something, the one he goes to when he’s incognito?

It’s Regis’ favourite coffee shop, the one next to a kid’s play area that he takes Noctis to, sometimes.

Regis is drinking a double espresso, or something else ridiculous after the day he’d had, while Noctis plays, unknowing the shift in his destiny - or maybe this was always meant to happen?

So when a man starts talking to him he thinks nothing of it.

(Regis has just found out his son is going to die young and horribly, let him rest and have a minutes peace.)

@luxroyalty I now cannot stop imagining Regis’ expression the first time he gets a briefing regarding the Niflheimr High Command - complete with photos thereof. 

And Regis recognizes the purple-haired man with the stubble and self-amused smirk. He’s kissed said smirk before - just soft, quiet kisses, more for comfort then for passion - it’s the only time that Ardyn actually loses said smirk and just. Looks at Regis, as though the man were a puzzle he had no hope of understanding, and there’s something achingly vulnerable in his expression.

On the one hand: Niflheim’s High Chancellor has been sneaking into Insomnia, wtf? (Although he does have truly excellent taste in coffee.)

On the other hand. Has - Regis been accidentally seducing said High Chancellor over to their side? They talk. A lot. about duty and prophecy and philosophy and fate, about the ethics of morality and mortality, and Ardyn ‘Man of No Consequence’ No-Last-Name (though, to be fair, Regis ‘call me Reggie’ never gave a last name either) has look - increasingly thoughtful and has actually been conceding points to Regis during their talks.

…Regis feels very much like the heroine in those novels he absolutely has never seen Clarus read, nope. (Look, Gladio had to get it from somewhere.)

@hamelin-born

Regis covers his mouth but the “Excuse me what the fuck” expression is one for the ages. It’s a good thing that he went through the notes before the start of the briefing and no one was there to witness it.

That pretty smirk that pulls into a soft smile for a moment whenever Regis gently pulls him into a kiss. The man who kneeled on the floor and and listened to Noct as he talked about his favourite flowers. Ardyn, who just ever so slowly relaxed into this.

Regis should be worried but he wants to tighten up the gates after he gives Ardyn a pass so. So.

Regis has been knowingly seducing the Immortal Accused, and he though he couldn’t be surprised. Ardyn knew he is the King, and Regis knew he was a King, once. They know such personal stuff about each other - this seems less important that it should be. (But Regis wants to know if he can blurt it out and take Ardyn by surprise. The man would look so funny, surprised, he thinks.)

All it needed was a love-triangle for Regis’ hand. No thank you.

@luxroyalty

It’s true; in comparison, the fact that Ardyn is the actual Immortal Accursed probably outweighs the fact that he’s Niflheim’s High Chancellor. Even so, the realization draws the most fascinating expression on Regis’ face - although, after a long moment of reflection, Regis realizes that yes, he should have put the pieces together. If you both hate the Draconian and have a long-standing grudge against the Lucis Caelum line (Ardyn has never denied the fact that he is a petty, petty man who is perhaps 63% Spite at this point in time) where else would you go but the Empire?

Regis has literally been seducing this man - pretty much the Empire’s second-in-command - to his side. He IS the protagonist in one of Clarus’ books; the King of Insomnia takes a long moment to reflect on the WTF-ness that is somehow his life. Regis somehow managed to convince Ardyn to go up against the prophecy, against the Astrals with him; in comparison - well. Regis knows that convincing him to go up against the Empire probably won’t be much of a stretch.

And if he frames it in terms of how many heart attacks the Niflheimr High Chancellor making a Big Dramatic Scene of publicly defecting to the Lucian side - well. Regis likes to think he knows Ardyn well enough to know that the man will gleefully jump at the chance.

Plus, this means that Ardyn can smooch him. In public; Iedolas will probably suffer a case of spontaneous self-combustion.

No, no love-triangles for Regis’ hand. Perhaps a foursome, somewhere down the line? With a particularly deadpan Marshal and a dashing Glaive?
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Ok, I’m gonna have to get into some of the details of Cor’s Crownsguard career here first, so bear with me.

I’m thinking Mors was really the only witness to what Cor did to save him, since everyone else’s attention was on the remaining attackers.  Mors keeps the knowledge of Cor’s magic close to his chest—the upper ranks of the Crownsguard know Cor has a natural talent for magic, but not what he can do, nor that he came to them already knowing how to use it, since Cor is in the habit of hiding his magic himself.

So only Mors suspects that Cor is related to the royal line.  And Cor is sent with Regis on the journey to Altissia because Mors wants an added security measure, and who better than the kid who knows more magic than Crownsguards twice his age?

Cor himself knows that he can use something he terms as ‘like the Armiger’ but doesn’t think is the Armiger, because clearly he’s not royalty, he doesn’t look a thing like them!

(When he voices this to the Chocobros 1.0 on the road after it becomes clear that yes, that is the Armiger, Clarus squints and looks between Regis and Cor.  “You kind of do, actually,” Clarus says, “In the nose and jawline.”)

And Cor tells his traveling companions upfront that ‘hey, I have a natural talent for magic, don’t be surprised if I warp and I don’t have access to the King’s Armiger because I can do something similar on my own.’

Then they get in a battle that requires an additional ranged weapon (maybe something they really don’t want to get close to, or something with a tough enough exterior that aiming for the eyes is the only way they’re gonna bring it down, but I can’t think of what at the moment) and Cor pulls a crossbow out of an Armiger of his own, ‘similar’ my ass.

When they’re finished, they have to convince Cor that yes, they’re entirely certain that was actually the Armiger and he’s probably related to the Lucis Caelums somehow.

And Cor’s making some mental connections between the stories his Ama told, his parent’s own use of magic, and how Ardyn impressed on him that he must keep the magic a secret.  So he says something along the lines of “I think my line may have branched off from the line of succession longer than a few generations ago, and we might be some sort of secret?  I don’t know, but my Ama probably does.”

That is how Weskham ends up with a ton of subscriptions to newspapers outside of Insomnia, including Niflheimr journals—they’re looking for any clue as to where Cor’s Ama might be.

They don’t find out until right before Regis’ coronation, when they’re handed a bunch of security briefings they didn’t previously have need of seeing, and the picture of Niflheim’s new chancellor makes Cor go pale.  They had been looking for the wrong surname.
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Dragon Eclipse:

Karakura Crew Part 9 - Sado Yasutora (Tiger Cubs Ch10)

Meeting Ryuuken Part 1

Meeting Ryuuken Part 2

Tatsuki Requests Training Part 1

Tatsuki Requests Training Part 2

DE Side Story: Shiro Sews

Post DE: Relaxing Together Part 4

The ability to ‘see’ the heart of the enemy during combat

Kaito’s survivor’s guilt and consequences

Kaito and Ichigo both suffer from depression

Kaito AND Ichigo have issues, this is no surprise

There are times when Kaito Just Can’t, and that’s okay

Kaito learns to have fun, and Kisuke’s thoughts on seeing Kaito begin to mimic him

Ichigo specifically doesn’t want to front around Tatsuki

Ichigo doesn’t front around the other teens until a lot later

What if the teens get confirmation that Kurosaki is like Kaito’s dead best friend

World-hopper Kaito in a canon-style universe

Kaito enjoys the chance to be silly and explore himself

Shining Eclipse:

Kaito treads carefully with AU!Urahara, and tries to pull the teens into the man’s orbit more firmly

The first night of Kaito’s arrival is a bit… murdery

Lilacs from the Dead Land:

Lilacs basic concept (why muse, why)

Lilacs Fragment 1

Lilacs Fragment 2 (potential future fragment)

Lilacs Fragment 3 (potential future fragment)

First Spar between Erich and Kisuke

Kisuke realizes Erich can Actually Fly

On memory loss and Soul Society in general

On how Erich survived four decades in the Rukongai as a Quincy

Erich stays on the move during the first weeks in the Living World

‘Hide in Plain Sight’ is part of that survival

Erich thinks the teens are criminally undertrained and is completely unimpressed by nearly everyone in Karakura except the teens

Erich is absolutely unimpressed with people, and believes that dirty fighting is 100% fair play

Erich is an old fashioned mage, but “old fashioned” actually means “experienced war mage” here

Uryuu is almost entirely self-taught, and Erich sets out to fix that

Erich is wary of Kisuke, and Kisuke is fascinated by Erich

Kisuke learns how to mix magecraft and Shinigami arts, and Erich is… wary

On Erich relearning how to use a computational orb, modern version

Erich and his chosen weapons

Erich and Zanpakutou

Zanpakutou are PART of their wielder? Erich isn’t sure he likes this implication

Erich has experience with over-powered individuals with Unique Personalities

Erich is Not Impressed By Much

Erich accepts that Kisuke is worthy of some respect, and is utterly Done with the ‘undercover’ Shinigami

Erich trolls the Shinigami

As a military man, Seireitei offends Erich so badly

If Erich wanted to be, he would be a terrifying enemy for Seireitei

Erich is also So Done with everything to do with Shinigami, the Wandenreich, and would-be conquerors in general

Erich is Completely Unimpressed with the Wandenreich

You really think Mayuri is surviving this story?

Of course, this has consequences

Still, the best revenge is living well

“Erich vs the eldest shinigami 4: fight! -w”

Erich doesn’t particularly like the Vizard, either

Erich on the Vizards

Erich and Ryuuken and how little they get along

Ryuuken really doesn’t appreciate Erich’s presence

Quincy uniform? No thanks. (He’ll wear it for the Impact if he has to)

On why no one before Erich combined magecraft and spiritual energy manipulation

Family relationships and the loss of the Quincy Mage skill tree

Uryuu discovers his relation to Erich

Uryuu learns German to feel closer to Erich

Uryuu makes Erich his emergency contact

The teens track down images of WW1 Erich

Uryuu makes a photo album for Erich

Erich is Uryuu’s role model, and proof that Quincy abilities aren’t lesser or worthless

Erich and Uryuu form very similar friendship groups

Erich is dangerous when he cuts loose

The very start of Erich and Kisuke’s friendship, and Erich’s opinions on Quincy Pride

Erich and Kisuke are surprised by friendship

Erich has his Dark moments, and many regrets about his life

Erich trusts Kisuke enough to be drunk in front of him

The Evolution of Erich and Kisuke’s Relationship

Yoruichi squirms her way into Erich’s regard as well

Kisuke likes to troll, and Erich really can’t imagine himself in a relationship with the blond (yet)

Lilacs From the Dead Land: A Revelation

Erich and Kisuke’s relationship (Orihime thinks it’s AMAZING, the Shinigami disagree)

The Shinigami are NOT HAPPY with this romance, and Erich takes working with Kisuke easily in stride

Kisuke and consent issues

Kisuke Doesn’t Get People

Erich and relationships

Kisuke is a Troll to the teens re: his relationship with Erich

Erich hopes Tanya isn’t still hanging around as a spirit

Erich will eat basically anything edible, Yuzu isn’t okay with this and invites him and Uryuu to dinner all the time

Erich prefers tea to coffee

Discovery of Ichigo’s Quincy heritage

Uryuu finds out he’s related to Ichigo

Ichigo, Karin, and Yuzu consider Erich a parent

Erich doesn’t like how under-trained everyone is

(He is absolutely not adopting the kids. He is not.)

Orihime also like Erich as a parental figure

Things Erich likes about the Living World

Erich gets a job? Idk frankly

Erich does not like remaining idle

Potential hobbies Erich might have

Erich picks up clockwork as a hobby

Erich finds a hobby (fic version)

Erich likes to gift people things he’s worked on with his own hands

Disney movies are an unexpected interest of Erich’s

Erich’s favorite Disney movie

Culture shock isn’t unexpected, after coming back from the dead four decades later

Uryuu also experiences a version of culture shock, and Erich teaches the teens war

Modern magecraft and why mages aren’t as well known in Bleach

Further thoughts on magecraft in the modern era

Maybe this Uryuu has secretly wavy hair

On what the European Continent looks like to a spiritually active person after two world wars

Seeing Europe doesn’t do good things to the teens

Urahara does what he can in Europe, but it’s precious little

Erich forged his self-control in the crucible of war, and even now it’s difficult to let go

Minor Crack: Quincy enablers – Ryuuken

Minor Crack: Quincy enablers – Byakuya interacting with Ryuuken

Evil by Neglect verse:

The main theme of We’re Listening is Healing

As Worlds Overlap (Bleach/Log Horizon):

On potential guilds and whether the teens know each other ingame

Oneshots:

Bleach/Madoka crossover: Tatsuki contracts with Kyuubi

About the Bleach/Madoka crossover

Meta:

On Tanya and how she perceives the world

Tatsuki and Powers

Tatsuki and Powers 2 (maybe I’ll use these ideas? Still undecided)

Tatsuki and Powers 3

Opinion: Isshin is a worse parent than Ryuuken, but they both suck (cw: abuse, alcohol, bad parenting)

Opinion: fanon trope of Isshin urging the other teens to avoid Ichigo has a basis in real life actions of actual abusers (and I’m always salty about how that gap time is portrayed)

On non-shitty redemption arcs and Ryuuken

Original Fiction:

Luminous Flame verse: Defining Characters

Luminous Flame verse: Primary Setting

Luminous Flame verse/Selverat’s Story: Rat’s story is canon bc I’m a crossover geek, and Nekir has a shit family life too (but not as bad)

Selverat’s Story: genders, self-crossovers, and why do I always write shitty home lives for my chars, ugh

Selverat’s Story: elemental characters, bad home lives (WHY), cw: death, attempted murder of a child, death via being set on fire

Selverat’s Story: elemental characters with bad home lives

Selverat’s Story: traumatized kid becomes living torch via elemental powers because MIGHT AS WELL

Selverat’s Story: Learning from the Myrsilk

Selverat’s Story: No, his mother didn’t know who she was having an affair with

Selverat’s Story: Bad as his home life is, Selverat does love his mother and she does her best by him

Selverat’s Story: And I’m serious, his home life is Bad, cw: brief discussion of various ways Selverat’s ‘father’ tries to kill him

Selverat’s Story: Selverat doesn’t make many friends, but his best one does survive
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“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.”

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Forget-Me-Nots
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i don’t “make characters”, i break myself into pieces and then give the pieces names
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Jules feels like such a fraud whenever she wears pretty/expensive robes.

(This Jules will not say: She actually loves wearing them. They’re pretty.)

(This Jules will not comprehend: She looks stunning in them).
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none of you can say shit to me once i get my dirty little hands wrapped around the hilt of an odachi

go ahead and say something to me fool

go ahead and say something bitch im listening

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What's the first hint Regis et al have that Cor is/actually/ a LC? When he uses the Armiger? And - u

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Ok, I’m gonna have to get into some of the details of Cor’s Crownsguard career here first, so bear with me.

I’m thinking Mors was really the only witness to what Cor did to save him, since everyone else’s attention was on the remaining attackers.  Mors keeps the knowledge of Cor’s magic close to his chest—the upper ranks of the Crownsguard know Cor has a natural talent for magic, but not what he can do, nor that he came to them already knowing how to use it, since Cor is in the habit of hiding his magic himself.

So only Mors suspects that Cor is related to the royal line.  And Cor is sent with Regis on the journey to Altissia because Mors wants an added security measure, and who better than the kid who knows more magic than Crownsguards twice his age?

Cor himself knows that he can use something he terms as ‘like the Armiger’ but doesn’t think is the Armiger, because clearly he’s not royalty, he doesn’t look a thing like them!

(When he voices this to the Chocobros 1.0 on the road after it becomes clear that yes, that is the Armiger, Clarus squints and looks between Regis and Cor.  “You kind of do, actually,” Clarus says, “In the nose and jawline.”)

And Cor tells his traveling companions upfront that ‘hey, I have a natural talent for magic, don’t be surprised if I warp and I don’t have access to the King’s Armiger because I can do something similar on my own.’

Then they get in a battle that requires an additional ranged weapon (maybe something they really don’t want to get close to, or something with a tough enough exterior that aiming for the eyes is the only way they’re gonna bring it down, but I can’t think of what at the moment) and Cor pulls a crossbow out of an Armiger of his own, ‘similar’ my ass.

When they’re finished, they have to convince Cor that yes, they’re entirely certain that was actually the Armiger and he’s probably related to the Lucis Caelums somehow.

And Cor’s making some mental connections between the stories his Ama told, his parent’s own use of magic, and how Ardyn impressed on him that he must keep the magic a secret.  So he says something along the lines of “I think my line may have branched off from the line of succession longer than a few generations ago, and we might be some sort of secret?  I don’t know, but my Ama probably does.”

That is how Weskham ends up with a ton of subscriptions to newspapers outside of Insomnia, including Niflheimr journals—they’re looking for any clue as to where Cor’s Ama might be.

They don’t find out until right before Regis’ coronation, when they’re handed a bunch of security briefings they didn’t previously have need of seeing, and the picture of Niflheim’s new chancellor makes Cor go pale.  They had been looking for the wrong surname.
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Well, it’s already the Defiance ‘verse in my notes, so go ahead!

And Ardyn definitely is comparing Regis to Somnus all the time at first.  It’s part of the reason why he’s continually surprised by Regis’ kindness, even after it becomes reasonably clear that it’s just the way Regis is—Ardyn can see a few similarities between them, mostly in how they present themselves in public, and is terrified that he’ll be turned upon just as suddenly as Somnus’ cruelty was.  So the continued kindness is startling, and makes Ardyn wary at first.

But it won’t ever be seen through Ardyn’s eyes in the main fic (although I may write a few short side fics from his POV) since I’m writing just from Regis’ POV.  So if it ever gets brought up, it’ll be in a conversation Regis is either a part of or witness to.
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All of them do that to some extent—the switching from typical child to adult trapped in a child’s body—but Prompto’s is the most dramatic because he is so happy and good-natured under normal circumstances (I wouldn’t say easy-going necessarily, because Salvius had just as many issues with anxiety and self-esteem as canon!Prompto, and even Ardyn’s good parenting won’t make that just vanish—mental habit is so hard to break—but he at least copes with it well).

And he will not put up with the Council trying to pull him into politics before he is ready—or any of his siblings or Ardyn for that matter.

Prompto can be very terrifying when he puts his mind to it.
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Female Characters Appreciation, Villains: Part 1

“Isn’t it time to acknowledge the ugly side? I’ve grown quite weary of the spunky heroines, brave rape victims, soul-searching fashionistas that stock so many books. I particularly mourn the lack of female villains — good, potent female villains. Not ill-tempered women who scheme about landing good men and better shoes (as if we had nothing more interesting to war over), not chilly WASP mothers (emotionally distant isn’t necessarily evil), not soapy vixens (merely bitchy doesn’t qualify either). I’m talking violent, wicked women. Scary women. Don’t tell me you don’t know some. The point is, women have spent so many years girl-powering ourselves — to the point of almost parodic encouragement — we’ve left no room to acknowledge our dark side. Dark sides are important. They should be nurtured like nasty black orchids.”
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Let the punishment fit the crime.
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“(…) a burnt child loves the fire.”

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“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones.”

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“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that Dragons exist, but because they tell us that Dragons can be beaten”

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salvation comes at a price.

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quote lockscreens for dragon age origin’s cullen rutherford, by request ^^

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“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

Bruce Lee

@charlottedabookworm Cor and Ardyn.
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“A conspiracy to murder me? Why, I’m flattered!”

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As you can see, I’m very upset.

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I had a duty of care.

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30 days of Doctor Who | 18 day. Favourite Christmas episode

The Husbands of River Song “ When you love the Doctor, it’s like loving the stars themselves. You don’t expect a sunset to admire you back. And if I happen to find myself in danger, let me tell you, the Doctor is not stupid enough, or sentimental enough, and he is certainly not in love enough to find himself standing in it with me! “

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…why do I suddenly see Ardyn and Cor?
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I CLAIM THAT SHIT

AMEN

Can’t afford not to reblog this. Hope it works for all of us!
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“I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.
When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire a-flame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And someone called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.
Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done,
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.”

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The Song of Wandering Aengus :

W. B. Yeats   

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“Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!” - W.B.Yeats

[Painting by Henry Asencio]

@distressedherbalist Oh, Ardyn and Cor would do this and so much more to their Nyx.
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“When I miss you, it’s like every song I listen too is about you.”

- (via love-diaries)
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Opal + Moon Moodboard requested by @childoflavenderandmoonlight 💿📀💿📀💿📀💿

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• Set of Gold Jewelry.

Date: ca. 1840

Place of origin: Germany

Medium: Gold and jewels
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My favorite part of Mercury being half Nif? It means Regis has at least one kid from every nation on

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I mean

You’re not wrong.

He has a kid from Altissia (Jupiter) which I believe is in Accordo and a kid from Niflheim (Mercury) and a kid from Galahd (Ace).

Regis has fucked his way around the world.
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I am not a puzzle piece created to complete him. I am the finished product. I am my own piece of art!
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Art by Rocío Espín Piñar

Ancient Cities:

◆ Atlantis
◆ London: The Great Fire
◆ Constantinople 360 AD 
◆ Atlantis City (for the book “Plato’s Caribbean Atlantis”)
◆ Carthago
◆ Londinium
◆ Hattusa
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Babys first fender bender! Crowdfunding post.

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theotherguysride:

theotherguysride:

First of all: AN UPDATE:

I HAVE MY DRIVERS LICENSE.

I am now a licensed driver. That is so huge guys. SO huge. Aaaaah.

But on the way home from the DMV in Warrenton, which is 30 miles from my house but the only place that had an appointment available: we got hit from behind because some fuckwad in front of me slammed on his brakes.

Fuck that dude, we were at the bottom of a steep hill going 55.

NOBODY was injured! WE ARE ALL FINE. Me, my driving instructor, and the two dudes behind us in the big truck. It was a fender bender, but above the bumper damage to my instructors car means that she has to get it fixed asap and we’re coordinating with her commercial insurance.

So I went and paid her for the pickup/dropoff service as well as what I had liquid in my bank account to help start covering damages. It’s not my fault, it’s not her fault, it’s just the way it is. And I felt SO bad.

So WITH THAT: I have 75$ to last me to next Friday payday. That means I don’t have enough to get to/from work, let alone to/from school :( And I have to get the car I DO have insured. And eating is gonna be canned soup but I can live with that.

Anything helps get me on the road. I need transportation money to/from work or school, or I need enough to cover the insurance and the inspection on the car I do have access to. ANYTHING helps guys.

AND A MASSIVE THANK YOU TO MY ANGELS WHO HAVE GOTTEN ME THIS FAR. I love each and every one of you and you’ve gotten me out of a shitty shitty situation and into a better one. Home stretch, I keep reminding myself that this is the home stretch.

https://www.paypal.me/theotherguysride

THANK YOU! You continue to be my angels.

Signal boosting again.

Sunday morning signal boost!

THANK YOU GUYS! But I’m at the point where I can’t afford to *get* to school this week :(

Fucknuggets.
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All of them do that to some extent—the switching from typical child to adult trapped in a child’s body—but Prompto’s is the most dramatic because he is so happy and good-natured under normal circumstances (I wouldn’t say easy-going necessarily, because Salvius had just as many issues with anxiety and self-esteem as canon!Prompto, and even Ardyn’s good parenting won’t make that just vanish—mental habit is so hard to break—but he at least copes with it well).

And he will not put up with the Council trying to pull him into politics before he is ready—or any of his siblings or Ardyn for that matter.

Prompto can be very terrifying when he puts his mind to it.
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He was a young artist employed by the Disney studio, but tasked with the entry-level job of finishing off the work of the animators and crafting the “in-between” animations that completed the characters’ movements. Wong had learned that studio executives were creating a film from the new novel, Bambi, A Life in the Woods by Felix Salten. Tom says the young artist read the book and without consulting his supervisor, “took the script and painted some visual concepts to set the mood, color and the design.” 

His sketches recalled the lush mountain and forest scenes of Sung dynasty landscape paintings. His initiative paid off. Walt Disney, who was looking for something new for the film, was captivated and personally directed that Wong be promoted. Today, top animators and illustrators revere Wong’s work. Children today are as enchanted by the misty, lyrical brushstrokes of Wong’s colorful nature scenes, inspired by his training at Otis College of Art and self-study of Sung Dynasty art 

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HE’S STILL ALIVEHE’S 105 YEARS OLD AND HE’S *STILL FUCKING ALIVE*THIS GUY HELPED MAKE THE FILM THAT MADE ME WANT TO BE A FILMMAKER AND *HE IS STILL ALIVE*AAAAAAAAAAAAAH

I met him at a gallery event a number of years ago and, UGH HE IS SO TALENTED AND SO KIND AND ENCOURAGING THERE IS A REASON WE ALL LOVE HIM. Also, my alma.

GUYS WTF IS THIS CRAZY TALENTED GUY- HE MAKES KITES TO WOW JUST WOW

OMG  PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW
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Here they are! About a month before Rose City Comicon this year, I frantically thought “Shit, I need something new to sell,” and thankfully this idea has been rolling around for awhile now (though executed another way that will definitely still be happening later).

Say hello to the current Fantasy Fluffle group, a bunch of buns, ready to adventure away. Don’t worry, I’ll be getting Monk, Wizard, and Fighter done sometime soon (plus Gunslinger because I love a certain white haired disaster boy).

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Hm. I just - in the 'Defiance of Our Times 'verse' (okay, I'm shortening it to defiance!verse to sav

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Well, it’s already the Defiance ‘verse in my notes, so go ahead!

And Ardyn definitely is comparing Regis to Somnus all the time at first.  It’s part of the reason why he’s continually surprised by Regis’ kindness, even after it becomes reasonably clear that it’s just the way Regis is—Ardyn can see a few similarities between them, mostly in how they present themselves in public, and is terrified that he’ll be turned upon just as suddenly as Somnus’ cruelty was.  So the continued kindness is startling, and makes Ardyn wary at first.

But it won’t ever be seen through Ardyn’s eyes in the main fic (although I may write a few short side fics from his POV) since I’m writing just from Regis’ POV.  So if it ever gets brought up, it’ll be in a conversation Regis is either a part of or witness to.
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Thank you!
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I’d assume it’s rather like physical energy - you can’t borrow from the future, but you can overstrain yourself. There are all those stories of people who, due to adrenaline etc, just step beyond what anyone thinks they are capable of; I’d like to think that something similar applies here.

But yes. If you push your physical capabilities too hard, you’re going to collapse. Similarly, if a Lucis Caelum pushes their magic too hard, spends it recklessly and ruthlessly, they’re going to collapse in a Very Big Way. (See: Jules’ stay in the Citadel Medical Wing.) @sparklecryptid
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Nyx’s Mom was very, very wild. And she and Ramuh might have been very, very drunk. They made a solumn vow to NEVER speak of it again.

  Nyx DOESN’T want to know. 

Also, he might also be in the same boat as Ardynson!Nyx re: hiding out from the Astrals, because noone’s quite certain as to whether or not he’d be taken for an ‘abomination’ by the rest. 

(I have the headcanon that this is how the Lucis Caelum and Nox Fleuret bloodlines started - Bahamut got very, VERY drunk with his favorite priestess and one thing led to another; Shiva was lonely after Ifrit Fell and - well.) 

@hamelin-born

Nyx just, does not want to know how he came to be – his mother is his mother and his father is his father and as far as he’s concerned he sprang from the earth as a fully formed baby and will never believe otherwise.

Anyone who tries to talk to him about it or who mentions his mother being pregnant with him is quickly drowned out by Nyx’s “Nonononononononononononononono…” and silenced by a stare that is both panicked and dead – people are in awe of this stare.

(Alya and Ramuh very much get that. They were way to drunk and remember nothing of that evening and they do not want to. They would never have even thought of it again if not for Nyx, and then they make a mutual agreement to just, pretend that it didn’t happen and not talk about it.

Nyx just appeared one day. Maybe he sprung forth like Athena or was left on the doorstep or something, the story changes a lot over the years. But Nyx just appeared one day. There was no pregnancy and no birth and certainly no… sex.

That is their story and they’re sticking too it)

But yeah, Nyx hides who he is as best as he can – all of Galahd knows because one, he feels like Ramuh, two, children don’t have the best control over their powers and it was pretty obvious tbh, and three, well they’re his people – from Lucis and the Astrals because there are stories about his kind.

Half-breeds, they call them. Godtouched, Astral-Childe, Abomination.

Humans aren’t fond of his kind – too much power contained in fragile mortal flesh, people who are just a bit off, who need years of experience just to be able to pass for human (and Nyx is so lucky in that. He grew up in Galahd, surrounded by his father’s people, and they taught him to be human. Any lingering oddities, when Nyx just can’t keep the mask all the way up anymore and gets tired of pretending – because he isn’t human, doesn’t want to be human, and it is so tiring to pretend all the time – get written off as him being Galahdian), weapons of mass destruction. His kind are weapons and monsters and outcasts, never trusted or loved except by a few.

And most Astrals are worse. Because these children, these God-Blessed, have the powers of their parents – even if to a lesser extent – and a connection to the world, but they are mortal. And mortals can change things.

They aren’t bound by prophecy or by the world, and they are free to make their own choices and fates. They’re Wild Cards, and the Astrals – especially Bahamut – don’t like that.

Nyx wasn’t meant to be born and he knows that, just as surely as he knows that his parents love him.

(Which, honestly, does nothing for his recklessness and suicidal tendencies)

(Also, I love that idea, that the Lucis Caelum and Nox Fleuret lines were spawned in a similar way and that most people have forgotten that. But that is why the Astrals are so cautious of them, because even generations later – when the blood is so diluted it may as well not be there – these lines still carry traces of that power, far more than any ordinary human. Bahamut and Shiva wouldn’t kill their children, but their lines stand as a warning to the other Astrals – ‘we made this mistake’ they say ‘and this is how we’ve limited it’ points at the general tragedy and prophecy that follows and binds both of those lines.

Ramuh is just like, fuck that. My kid is going to live his own life and be Happy and fuck all of you if you try to interfere)

@charlottedabookworm

This is really just - lovely. Lyrical and poetic, and I think I’m just going to type up my accumulated thoughts about this most recent verse here instead of spreading them out of the rest of the posts you’ve put up so far.

I like - I like the idea of Nyx being just. Half-human. It’s reminiscent of something I read once a Dragonlance book, where one character, who was a half-breed, was seriously questioned as to why his nickname was ‘half-elven’ and not ‘half-man’. (Paraphrased: the answer was, to humans, being half-man was to be seen as less then whole, whereas half-elven was seen as - something added extra on.) Nyx is half-human, half-Astral, and the combination is volatile and - very, very much Other occasionally. (Sometimes, Libertus looks into Nyx’s eyes and swears that his friend is literally a walking, talking thunderstorm.)

And yes. Yes, Nyx was so, so incredibly lucky. Lucky to be born, lucky to be born in the heart of his father’s power, where Ramuh could shield him from detection by the rest of the Six, lucky to be raised among people who knew what he was and didn’t care. Lucky that his father is Ramuh, who does not see his son, his son as an abomination, who loves him with the same fierce fervor that he loves all of his children - and who does not think to shackle him to a fate, a destiny.

Nyx is the Unbinder of Fate, the Breaker of Prophecies - or at least, that’s what he could grow to become. And because of that, Shiva and Bahamut would stop at nothing to destroy him, should his presence ever become known. Because Nyx - Nyx can change things. (And oh, but there are some people who are so very, very frightened of change.)

Sometimes, Nyx has to sit down for a moment when the realizations that 1) He has an aunt who is a fish 2) He has an Uncle who is a dragon 3) He has an aunt who is a walking snowman dressed like a fetish dream (put some clothes on, aunt Shiva!) crash down on him. (Uncle Titan is cool. Nyx doesn’t have anything to say about him, and he’d rather pretend that Uncle Ifrit (the petulant brat!) doesn’t exist)

And - ‘the weather of the islands depended on his moods’? …okay, now I have the mental image of Libertus just. Looking at a foggy sky and sighing, because Nyx is in a mood again, and Libertus and Pelna had better go and drag him out of his teenage angst before it starts raining. (Libertus has always cherished the times when rainbows fill the sky, because that’s when his friend is happiest.)

Also, drunk!glaives totally make fun of Nyx’s ears. They’re so pointy! (Nyx pouts).

And yes, I love Ramuh saying ‘FUCK THAT’ to the thought of trying to bind his son, trying to limit him, trying to chain him to a role and a responsibility. All Ramuh wants is for his people, for his son, to be happy - he’s a good dad. He’s enjoying being a dad.

…and just. Well. If the word got out somehow that there was an Unbinder of Fate running around Eos (I’m seeing Carbunkle doing it, for some reason, because the fuzzball means well but I don’t think he can keep his mouth shut, and perhaps he notices the influence of a Godborn on the dreamscape) - well. They don’t know who it is, and Ramuh has the best poker face of his entire existence when word begins to spread.

Very few people know what it means when Bahamut and Shiva throw temper tantrums (because Nyx may be half-Astral, but he is of age and he is mortal; by their own oaths and actions they cannot blatantly interfere with humans!). And fewer still understand their rants about Unbinders and Fatebreakers, understand what they mean. (There is a Godborn. A godborn, walking on the skin of Eos. A Third Bloodline, the Founding of something new.)

Can you imagine how desperate Regis et al would be to find a Fatebreaker? Because this - this is a way to negate the prophecy, this could be a way for Noctis to live. 

And Ardyn. Ardyn knows exactly what a Fatebreaker is. And he is - curiously neutral on the subject. Ardyn has - somewhat accepted his role in the prophecy, mainly because it caries the certainty of his death. He’s not sure whether he dares hope that a godborn might shatter this destiny or curse that his death is now uncertain. He’s mainly - curious. Because, in an odd fashion, Ardyn is the closest thing to an equal, a peer, a counterpart that Nyx has - they’re both human-shaped but unmistakably Other, they’re both close descendants of an Astral bloodline (no, Ardyn isn’t Bahamut’s son, but unlike the Ruling Line of Lucis, he remembers where his bloodline came from and grew up venerating his Divine Ancestor - he’s also considerably closer to Bahamut in terms of descent then the Ruling Line is), they both know what it’s like to live in the middle of the humans and just. Not quite fit.
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Well, it’s already the Defiance ‘verse in my notes, so go ahead!

And Ardyn definitely is comparing Regis to Somnus all the time at first.  It’s part of the reason why he’s continually surprised by Regis’ kindness, even after it becomes reasonably clear that it’s just the way Regis is—Ardyn can see a few similarities between them, mostly in how they present themselves in public, and is terrified that he’ll be turned upon just as suddenly as Somnus’ cruelty was.  So the continued kindness is startling, and makes Ardyn wary at first.

But it won’t ever be seen through Ardyn’s eyes in the main fic (although I may write a few short side fics from his POV) since I’m writing just from Regis’ POV.  So if it ever gets brought up, it’ll be in a conversation Regis is either a part of or witness to.
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Hm. I just - in the 'Defiance of Our Times 'verse' (okay, I'm shortening it to defiance!verse to sav

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Well, it’s already the Defiance ‘verse in my notes, so go ahead!

And Ardyn definitely is comparing Regis to Somnus all the time at first.  It’s part of the reason why he’s continually surprised by Regis’ kindness, even after it becomes reasonably clear that it’s just the way Regis is—Ardyn can see a few similarities between them, mostly in how they present themselves in public, and is terrified that he’ll be turned upon just as suddenly as Somnus’ cruelty was.  So the continued kindness is startling, and makes Ardyn wary at first.

But it won’t ever be seen through Ardyn’s eyes in the main fic (although I may write a few short side fics from his POV) since I’m writing just from Regis’ POV.  So if it ever gets brought up, it’ll be in a conversation Regis is either a part of or witness to.
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It occurs to me that in the not-a-jerk!Somnus AU - well. Mixing it with the 'standard' Ardynson AU?

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Why do you keep doing this to me?

Why?

But. Imagine a Nyx who looks up to his uncle nearly as much as he does his father – because that sort of loyalty is something that Nyx respects. Imagine a Nyx who is so terrified of Bahamut that he shakes – because his father has told what Bahamut had done to his Uncle, and that is Nyx’s worst fear; to be forced to kill his father, unable to do anything to stop himself, the idea terrifies him. Imagine a Nyx who places flowers at Somnus’ tomb secretly, who whispers prayers in Old Sol under his breath as he walks through the walls of the Citadel.

Imagine a Nyx who bows his head to the statues of Somnus that scatter Insomnia, who can feel the faint traces of his uncles magic emanating from the very walls around him and it comforts him as much as it sets him on edge – because, even millennia later, he can taste the iron tang of grief and the bitter regret and the sharp fear and the taint of Bahamut in magic that feels so much like Ardyn’s does, on the days when the daemons are quiet.

Imagine Nyx, learning more and more about his uncle the longer he lives in Insomnia, and struggling to reconcile this cold, broken man with the laughing and carefree and dopey brother that his father had described. Imagine a Nyx who stares at his uncles’ throne, day in and day out, and wants desperately to say something – to reveal who he is and thank the man for everything that he had done and tell him that Ardyn loved him and didn’t blame him.

(Because, once, years ago, Ardyn had told Nyx that that was his greatest regret. That Somnus had believed, even for a second, that Ardyn blamed him for Bahamut’s actions. That he went to his grave – young, too young – believing that Ardyn was dead. That he never had the chance to tell his brother that he loved him, for fear of what Bahamut would do to Somnus if he tried)

And imagine when he just can’t hide it anymore.

Maybe Nyx is pushed into a corner, maybe it’s necessary to win a fight, maybe they find out that his father is Niflheim’s Chancellor and he’s trying to correct them, or maybe he just doesn’t want to hide who he is anymore. But Nyx stands tall and straight, chin raised and eyes proud – because he has never been ashamed of who his father was, had only kept it hidden for safety and because the man himself insisted, and he wouldn’t have these people believe that he was – and he speaks his father’s name loudly and clearly.

“My father is Ardyn Lucis Caelum.” He says, golden gaze locked steadily on that of his uncles oldest surviving descendant, and then Somnus shimmers into existence between them. The room falls into silence.

For a moment, the spectral figure just stares at Nyx – and he can feel his magic trying to reach out and connect with a man who was long dead, and that hurt, because his uncle, his fathers brother, stood right in front of him but Nyx couldn’t feel him and this was so wrong – as though frozen, before he seems to swallow. “You look like him.”

There’s a wealth of loss and heartbreak and desperately clawing hope in his tone and Nyx wants to close his eyes against it, but he won’t. He can’t disrespect the man in front of him like that.

Instead, he smiles – small and sad and respectful and a little bitter but understanding all the same – and his voice is gentle when he speaks.

“Hello, Uncle. It is very, very nice to meet you.”
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hamelin-born replied to your quote “A conspiracy to murder me? Why, I’m flattered!”

Ardyn is just. So perky and happy when people try and assasinate him, it really gives his would-be killers pause.

Which is half the point, of course.  The other half is that Ardyn is so, so bored all the time, and an assassination attempt is actually interesting.

@charlottedabookworm

It’s like a puzzle! He’s always intrigued with the holes in his security that his would-be killers exploit, their reasoning behind choosing this or that weapon, the sheer innovation they display in trying to end him.

(Someone get this man a rubik’s cube. Or a puzzle of an unclouded sky. Seriously.)
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So, I just had my annual nervous breakdown/crying fit.

I hate this. So, so much.
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