Welcome To Our Archive

POV You are a small creature or perhaps person who's been removed from stasis and is questioning your captors. Currently in the Archive: The Coordinator, The Charmer, The Cartographer, and The Curator Ran by: @InsanelyADD

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Ask The Archivists

An ask blog where you can ask questions to The Archivists from The Owl House.

Meet the Archivists:

Penumbra (She/Her, feminine titles only)

The Eldest

Code name The Coordinator

Orange Ringed Planet Archivist

Tries to be level headed, ball of stress, permanently busy, and distracted, her job involves evaluating the planets discovered by The Cartographer, directing Collection missions for the Charmer, and acquiring the Collected to be handed off to the Curator, she is frustrated by Solari and Satellite but gets along with Crescent

Crescent (She/He, no neutral titles)

Second Eldest

Code name The Charmer (The Grand Huntsman to some mortals)

Blue Moon Archivist

Control freak, charisma level 100, things normally come easy to him so she gets frustrated when challenged, his job involves the most interaction with mortals and as such she is the most experienced socially, does not get along with the twins but is fine with Penumbra

Solari (She/They, neutral and feminine titles)

One of the Twins

Code name The Curator

Red Star Archivist

Cold, sarcastic, rebellious, organized, their job keeps them busy cataloguing the Archives, does not get along with Crescent or Penumbra, closest with Satellite

Satellite (They/Them, neutral titles only)

One of the Twins

Code name The Cartographer

Yellow Star Archivist

Emotionally constipated, non-reactive, holds in all their emotions until they explode at people, hates being alone but their job involves being alone for long periods of time, afraid of Crescent and Penumbra, closest with Solari

Premise:

The askers are Collected individuals that have been removed from stasis to be observed by the Archivists. You do not know their True Names because they are closely guarded secrets (knowing their names gives you power over them so they would never tell you their names) so please try to refer to them solely by their code names in asks.

There will be an ongoing story, responses will be in text and not the images for accessibility, images will primarily be the faces of the Archivists, images will have IDs in alt text. The character profiles for the Meteor Shower Event are in This Link

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HAPPY THIRD BIRTHDAY/ANNIVERSARY OF ME POSTING MY ARCHIVIST DESIGNS. Here's a piece I conceptualized a while back, might have even started this as a digital painting in a stream on my youtube channel, but I didn't feel like completing it as one. So here we observe the cycle of work on the Archivists perform. Penumbra sends out the orders to explore a solar system, Satellite charts the solar system, Crescent charms the mortals into assisting with the mission and being Collected, and Solari sorts the mortals that Penumbra also makes notes on.

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Today is the day, merry birthoween to my Menaces.

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Happy anniversary to them. I'm hoping I'll be done with a few things so I can return to regularly posting here soon. Just need to finish a few commissions, finish a few scripts, and finalize a few sprites for the blog and everything should be good to go. :>

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so, where is charmer going? can we know?

The Coordinator: Oh, she went down to start her next mission on a new planet. This does remind me, I should go check in on him to see how it has been going so far. The Coordinator has left for now.

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//ooc i just realised it's already been a whole ass year since i last read your blog so i cannot WAIT to read everything you posted from this past year when i have the time... I AM SO GLAD YOU'RE STILL POSTING WOW

Yee, I haven't been posting as much but like. Okay this image is me:

Drowning in WIPs and the holidays are beating me to death with a gift wrapping tube (number of WIPs is actually far greater than illustrated here). I will get back to the blog, I have made some progress with prepping for the next event (and the mini event that will happen before that) so I hope once I get done sewing this quilt for my niece I can start to get back into the habit of answering questions here.

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do you guys know why Charmer supposedly dislikes mortal children?

The Coordinator: I do not recall that being said. The only reason I could imagine you think that, is because she will not allow herself to be around mortal children long. She does not want to grow close to them since she knows that they will always eventually die. It had happened once before, a mortal child always loved to be around him, and he got too attached. The child passed away from an accident, and it hurt him so terribly. Now she refuses to allow mortal children to be near her for too long, as she does not want to care for mortals like that.

The Curator: It's easier to kill when you aren't emotionally attached.

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Hi my favourite sigmas, let's sing Happy birthday to the best star(me)

The Coordinator: There are many songs by approximately that name. Which one would you like to hear?

The Cartographer: I don't remember this one's planet having those at all. Maybe they mean the Collector Maturation Celebration? Though I don't think they would be able to understand it.

The Curator: Sure, let's sing, it will be fun!

The three of them get in formation, floating side by side, before the start to sing a song in their strange language that you can never remember the words for. They start to spin counter-clockwise, and circle each other, clockwise, before flying apart in an explosion of sparkling stars and glowing ribbons.

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wait so how would archivist gender reveals go for you guys? Would it be you guess the moon phase? And also would you ultrasound the magic? Like ah yes the non stop existent magic baby is fully healthy???? I need answers!

(btw this is a joke)

The Coordinator: Huh? What do you mean? It is hard to understand what you are saying. I think what you just tried to say to us is too specific of a mortal concept to be translated.

The Cartographer: How does revealing a gender work? Isn't that just self-discovery? Is this in reference to a mortal culture where someone may only reveal their gender to people they trust? What do you mean by guessing moon phases? They come in a specific order?

The Curator: Yeah, I don't think we can give you an answer for this one.

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Archivists... what is the meaning of life

The Coordinator: The meaning of life is to make your life meaningful.

The Curator: Life is meant to be lived, to have excitement and make memories with the people around you.

The Cartographer: The meaning of life is to make life better for those around you and those that will come after you.

The Charmer returns, wearing her work cloak with her face obscured in shadows with a glowing blue crescent moon symbol.

The Charmer: The meaning of life is to create. Memories, craft, a better world. Anyways, I'm going off on my next mission. I shall keep you updated, Coordinator.

The Charmer has left the Archive for now.

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ok let’s try thinking of something else! Like if you really wanted to would you be able to go to the beach during a mission to just chill?

The Coordinator: Ah, yes, I do very much enjoy the beach, especially the beaches of geothermal lakes. Mortals are typically unable to withstand the heat of many such lakes, but I personally enjoy the hottest ones, especially if they get at or close to boiling.

The Curator: Oooh, boiling water is soooo nice. Sometimes magma really feels nice though, but the cleanup after lounging in it a bit is such a pain, especially with my hair texture.

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Coordinator, if the Collector asked would you allow the last Titan to live?

The Coordinator: I...I do not want to hurt them, I would never want them to feel pain ever again, especially not because it is my fault. I know that he will most certainly befriend the titan that frees him, he loved playing with them before...

The Coordinator: But I am not sure if we have any other choice, this is what we are supposed to do.

The Cartographer: We could fucking lie, for one, and say we did it and then don't do it.

The Curator: Yeah, if it's just going to make our baby brother miserable to kill his friend, then why would we do it? Hasn't he been through enough?

The Coordinator: ...

The Coordinator: But what if the others find out?

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Coordinator, what do you plan to do once the Collector has returned to the Archive and the Titan Planet has been dealt with? Do you think things will just go back to the way they were before?

The Coordinator: Well, from what you all have said of his imprisonment, I will have to adjust my plans some. My original intention was to give them a break from their studies and a temporary block from participating in planetary missions so they can recover. I was thinking of holding on those duties for about 50 orbits, but because of what you have said, I will put those on pause for maybe 150 orbits, possibly longer.

The Coordinator: I am also going to read up on some child psychology literature I have Collected over the past few thousand orbits, so that I can best assist them with their traumas and fears. Some of our extended family would find a large pause like that unacceptable, as there are certain expectations and milestones that must be reached at a specific time. But I cannot ignore his suffering so callously for something so trivial.

The Curator: Oh, that's...a good idea.

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How does a normal/routine day look for each of you? Is there even something like a routine for you?

The Coordinator: Well, before this experiment I would spend my days writing encyclopedias for the worlds we would visit, in addition to directing Charmer's missions, approving additions to the Archive made by the Curator, assigning new areas to the Cartographer to explore, and a few other things. In my free time I would listen to music from other worlds, or read books that I have gotten from them.

The Cartographer: I alternate every moon between being here and assisting with various tasks or bugging my sisters, and being out, alone, in space, charting star systems. Which is so time consuming and I'm soo happy that it is a job I enjoy and have no issues with at all. When I have free time here I build houses and furniture in my room.

The Curator: I organize things in the Archive, new mortals needing to be catalogued, new wings needing to be added. When I have free time I make clothes for myself. I have so many cute outfits.

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HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!! ᴳᵃʸˢ..

The Coordinator: Gay? Oh, that is is right, you were not here when the Curator and I discussed sexuality. We are all what your species would consider omnisexual.

The Curator: Really no other word for thinking all kinds of alien mortals are cute~

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couldn’t you shapeshift cloths on?

The Cartographer: I know, I'm just easily embarrassed even if there's no reason to be.

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i adore this blog and i love the expansion youve given the concept of the collectors

Thank you I'm glad you like it. <3 I really like expansive world building. One of the recurring themes in my writing is "What if I explained this. And that. And this too" I have an original story that's literally just a planet where every country is based on a holiday so the laws, aesthetics, and history are based on the holiday. It focuses on Halloween because that's the one I know the most about. :>

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you know like LGBTQIA+? That kind of pride month?

The Coordinator: Are we expected to understand that acronym?

The Curator: I can try to figure out what it means maybe?

The Cartographer: Like Gamma Behaves Through Quasars Impacting Atmosphere and more? Is it a scientific study?

The Curator: Oh that was good, let me try! Light Gives Before Taking Quantum Inquiries Absolute in addition. Could it maybe be about the mortal cyclical nature of life and death?

The Coordinator: Oh, how interesting, I simply must try. Lunar Gravity Brings True Quiet In Absence once more. Perhaps it is a story about the theme of peace and contemplation found alone in space?

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Do you have any book recommendations coordinator? Also I feel like you’d love something called ao3

The Coordinator: I have many books that I enjoy, but they are all in languages that you do not understand.

The Curator: That's just an excuse, I can go get one and read it for them.

The Coordinator: I am actually going to kill you.

The Cartographer: I do not want to hear that at all.