Evil wizard tasteful pin-up magazine but it's all photos of like, skinny old goths coyly fingering cursed amulets, long-bearded sorcerers doing the 'oopsie' pose as their corrosive destruction spell destroys enough of their own robes to show some skin, naked desiccated lich king positioning his staff of human skulls just so it leaves something to the imagination, dark knights in full armor just holding their soul-eating blades out in front of their codpieces, orc chieftain who did not understand the assignment and is posing with a monster he killed like one of those guys-with-fish photos. Or maybe he DID understand the assignment. Hmm.
I'm getting really into this trio, whatever was the Templar's name. At first I thought that he would be annoying "light safe you" guy, but he is just a slightly awkward dude, admiring Silash and trying to bond with Leah.
Sometimes a family is an alcoholic demon hunter, a slightly autistic templar and just as much if not more slightly autistic girl with mysterious powers.
I'm getting really into this trio, whatever was the Templar's name. At first I thought that he would be annoying "light safe you" guy, but he is just a slightly awkward dude, admiring Silash and trying to bond with Leah.
4. Who's the group baby? Who has to be protected at all costs?
Kaiori for sure. She's considered the most naive and innocent out of everyone and the 'child' that has to be protected at all costs. She's the youngest and one of the shortest in the group, and with her ADHD is hyperactive and always tinkering with her creations/new ideas all the time. Everyone looks out for her which she appreciates, but she also doesn't like being treated like a child because she is an adult, she's 20 she can take care of herself. (oh yeah everyone in the Class is 20-22, when they first joined, they were 16-18)
11. Has there been ever group drama? If so, what happened?
Plenty. Obviously Fu's contingency plan PROJECT: Forever is a massive piece of drama because everyone went wtf Fu, you were planning to kill us to [preserve] us if we ever wanted to leave?? And finding out he has been behind the scenes manipulating them for who knows how long was peak horror for a lot of people, there was a bunch of mistrust towards Fu after the Project got leaked. Fu was considered the glue of the group and when this came out, everyone confronted him about it and Fu almost acted on the plan because he recognised they were potentially going to [leave].
But when he was going to follow PROJECT: Forever's containment protocol aka kill them, he realised that he couldn't put a number on everyone's value anymore, the maths just didn't make sense anymore and crashed out. And realised how close he had come to losing them for real. He fr realised he cared about everyone but just couldn't handle them leaving, and ultimately didn't want to hurt them despite writing the plans down.
Other instances of drama I'd say would be a lot of stuff including trivial matters since this is eleven very different people living in the same dorm, examples:
Kin streaming too loud at night keeping everyone up
Too many people in the lounge area at once affecting each other
Everybody blaming Kin first in every situation because he is the known 'shithead' and 'guy who gets into trouble'
Kiri getting angry because nobody asked for her opinion since she's always quiet and it became an assumption that she wouldn't have anything to add
"Who touched my stuff" and so on, there's lots of drama because these kids all have issues and honestly there's lots of people with unspoken beef against other and contain for the sake of group peace
17. Who is the best cook in the group?
Havrius. Everybody except him, Fu, Enath, Kiri, Achane are cooking failure in the sense they will blow up kitchens or eat unhealthy food non-stop if nobody cooks. Hav has four younger siblings and lost his parents as collateral damage to a turf war between Rings (basically states in a country in the CW universe) so he is great at taking care of people and cooking good homemade-meals that fr make people emotional.
24. What has brought your friends closer? What might push them apart?
Ironically the PROJECT: Forever incident did both bc it made everyone realise okay yeah they all have a bunch of secrets they kept from each other, and there was a bunch of mistrust for a while until they realised they're stuck with each other; so they might as well be honest and accept each other for who they are.
In general for bringing closer, probably any argument/disagreement/altercation they've had with each other and resolved together, in addition to any bonding activities everyone decides to do together. They have their differences and conflicts but work together very well as a team when it's needed.
But pushing them apart is also suprisingly easy. Like the little dramas? It can get extreme to an absurd degree sometimes bc we have 2 major groups:
Group 1- Fu's "Inner Circle": Furona, Kinarus, Nyrus*, Emerith*
Group 2- The "Others": Achane, Zelan, Enath, Kinari, Siora, Kaiori, Havrius
Nyri and Em depends on whether Fu wants to get them involved. Most of the time he does but if it's some shady business then it's just him and Kin.
And sometimes the groups have war with each other; in general Group 2 people listen and respect Group 1 members bc they have higher ranks in the class (Class Leader, Vice Leader, Third-in-Command, with Kin being an exception), however they do have conflict sometimes in the sense of trust issues and isolation. Like of course there isn't a limit of interaction and the two groups aren't officially named in the Class, but it's a subtle web of relationships.
We also have little subgroups that are close with each other not counting the ships;
Fu, Kin
Fu, Nyri, Em
Achane, Zelan, Havrius
Enath, Siora
Em, Kaiori, Kiri
And honestly these have issues too; e.g. you have a more serious group of Achane, Zelan and Havrius who want to relax with a documentary, and then a relaxed group of Em, Kaiori and Kiri who want to organise a big sleepover party in the same lounge area.
Of course they have issues because everyone tries to keep a lounge timetable + housekeeping rules for noise/limits, but often times it gets disregarded/forgotten. Like Kin would be walking out just to grab his pillow left out in the lounge and unfortunately get caught in an argument crossfire of "Kin who's more valid here"
I didn't want to make the message ace-specific because I wanted to make a point of how all of the above include aspec people, but I tried to use an ace colour palette for the background :) I also think the message applies especially (even if not exclusively) to the ace community!
Image 1: (in white text, on a background of rainbow watercolors) Gatekeeping hurts queer people who are questioning.
Image 2: (in white text, on a background of rainbow paint strokes) Gatekeeping hurts more queer people than it protects.
Image 3: (in white text, on a background of pastel watercolors) How about you let people question their gender and sexuality in peace.
Image 4: (in white text, on a photo of the rainbow pride flag flying in a blue sky) People don’t owe you a chronicle of their life experiences and feelings for you to decide whether they belong in their own community.
Image 5: (in white text, on a marbled pink background) I don’t know how to tell you this, but you are not the queer police.
Image 6: (in white text, on a background of multicolored textile) Stop siding with our oppressors.
Image 7: (in white text, on a photo of pieces of chalk arranged in a rainbow on asphalt) Not every queer person’s experiences need to be like yours.
Image 8: (in white text, on a background of shiny, rainbow chunks of metal (?)) Mind your own damn business.
Image 9: (in white text, on a mottled black & rainbow background) Let people change labels.
Image 10: (in white text, on a photo of a full moon in a dark sky) There’s no such thing as not being queer enough.
Image 11: (in white text, on a background of paint strokes in pink, white, magenta, purple and dark blue, the colors of the genderfluid pride flag) Vocabulary is designed to be constantly reinvented as human societies evolve, and labels aren’t the exception.
Image 12: (in white text, on a background of pink, purple, and turquoise) Gatekeeping is a product of privilege.
Here's one more addition per @secretlycrazyhummingbird's suggestion:
[Image description: (in white text, over a black background with trees decorated with multi-colored lights) Queer people don't have to make themselves palatable to deserve respect. End ID]
And another one, per @mixed-bag-of-tricks's suggestion!
[Image description: (in white text, over a wooden background with curved boards the colours of the rainbow) It's okay to use a label even if it doesn't fit perfectly. End ID]
...you know what, I think the message of this post really boils down to this:
[ID: (in white text, over a black background with striking rainbow lights) gatekeepers are nothing but bullies. End ID]
And I'm really glad this post has helped so many people feel a bit less alone in their struggles. Bullies have made a LOT of damage in this community—have made so many of us feel like impostors, like trenders, like maybe we were making up the things we were feeling—and it makes me so happy we're all pushing back against their hateful, narrow-minded, queerphobic rhetoric.
Lysonia did make him release his pride that's why when Adrestes picked up his broken body he was like 'Hey it might just be the blood in my eyes but you're kinda cute are you free sometime this week?'
And Adrestes in denial was like 'By the Archon he's lost too much blood. '
