hi ! my name's lughaidh (pronounced lou-ie), i'm an aro lesbian, my pronouns are xe/it and this is my wof sideblog.
this is mostly for me to reblog art and such that I like without having to put it on my main, lol. I also intend to post thoughts and art and stuff here.
I don't really care for discourse, so please don't pick a fight in my inbox. disagreeing is fine for the most part (excluding stuff like bigotry, etc.) obviously, just like... don't come trying to argue with me. I block people who make me uncomfortable, easy as pie.
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i'll list specific tags here once i have a proper organization system in place;
I tag character names for all posts involving that character. I try to tag by arc, but sometimes I forget!
# art - for reblogs
# analysis - as it says on the tin. sometimes i accidentally tag these as meta instead. dw about it i'm trying lol
# my art - specifically things I've drawn and posted
# wktd au - this one's my special princess, and gets to be picked out specifically because of it ♥ au derived from we know the devil, a visual novel by worst girl games. qinterwatcher focused
# misc - where i put all my general nonsense. related thoughts, shitposts, etc.
[ID: Stylised, digital art centering Peril and Glory from Wings of Fire. They’re both shown from shoulders up, mirroring each other. Glory is placed upside down in the upper part, facing away from Peril, both frown with eyes closed. Kestrel can be seen above Peril, gently cupping her face, while snarling at Glory. Mirroring this, Scarlet is snarling at Peril, while cupping Glory’s face. Both their talons look ghostly and reach from offscreen. Particles of light, like sparks or fireflies, are all around them. The background is dark green, brightening in the center, where Peril and Glory almost touch. A light star outline can be seen there. Swirling clouds are drawn on the left, behind Kestrel and Peril, while tropical leaves are seen on the opposite side. Glory’s and Peril’s color palettes are almost identical, both using reds and teals, with their accent colors matching each others main colors. End ID]
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posting on my dead blog to talk about what WOF characters I think are good at driving. anddddd send. (i'll add arc 3 guys later when I've actually read it. maybe. or I might not remember this post exists. oh well!) Technically this is just book POVs except for Kinkajou who has to be here because I love Kinkajou.
Clay - A very mundanely, responsible driver and takes great pride in it. Proudly displays every bumper sticker gifted to him on the back of his car, even if it is describing things that are factually inaccurate about him. He owns a second-hand, scratched up sedan and he loves it.
Tsunami - Prone to extreme road rage but she's being so brave about it. Rolls down the window to cuss people out at stoplights but merges responsibly on the highway. Probably owns like. A pickup truck. She makes it a part of her personality too.
Glory - Definitely has her license but is usually just borrowing somebody else's vehicle when going somewhere. Mostly has it to be able to swap out with whoever else is driving if a trip is long. If the navigation app is on, you MUST be quiet or you are liable to be told to get out of the car.
Starflight - Before losing his vision, he was able to drive but would refuse to go anywhere farther than 15 minutes away because he conceptualizes road laws very literally and so like... One guy cutting him off a little too unsafely would have him gritting his teeth the rest of the day. He was built for sitting in the passenger seat and listening to an audiobook to tune out the sound of somebody honking at Glory for going the speed limit on a residential road.
Sunny - Very safe driver... Big driving instructor energy too actually. Super good at making the really nervous students feel safer, but also firm enough that the really blasé kids don't dare fuck around. Makes eye contact with people who pass her while she's in the passing lane so they KNOW they've done something wrong.
Moon - Very anxious driver but decisive so she ends up not overthinking things too terribly. Cannot drive at night for the life of her because people with those nightmarish bright LEDs give her migraines so bad she wants to burst into tears. Will risk night-driving is somebody else is behind the wheel.
Winter - I firmly believe that, if anywhere in Pyrrhia, the Ice Kingdom would drive most like Boston. Skills for working around aggressive drivers forged in hell. Winter drives like he's on a war path because he fundamentally does not trust a single other car on this road. He is GETTING everyone to the destination and that is a THREAT.
Peril - Presuming the car is explosion proof in this scenario, she hates it. She considers the car a type of animal she is taming and she does not LIKE IT. Every time the car sputters a little too long starting or has a warning light come on or makes a particularly loud bump when on the road, she feels personally betrayed by it.
Kinkajou - Really hates normal driving but she would LOVE off-roading. It's convincing anyone to go with her that's the problem. It's an adventure!!! It's fun!!! There are basically no other cars around so it SHOULD be significantly less scary!!!
Turtle - Enjoys driving only when there aren't a ton of other people around. He will go on the highway or rotaries if he HAS to but he will take the longer way around if it is within his power to do so. Gorilla grips the steering wheel even when he doesn't have to so his shoulders always hurt if the trip takes too long.
Qibli - Claims to have been "born to be a passenger princess", which is true, because he is very good at giving directions and will get you somewhere faster than the GPS will. This is also to cover for the fact that I think his shot nerves are so not built for driving. Thorn gave him One lesson in which he hit a pole and he can now no longer sit behind the wheel because he's still thinking about the dent he put in her trunk.
Falls to my knees. Qiblijou. Kinkabli. Whatever you want to call it. Does anyone understand. Does anyone understand.
Now, as a certified AroAce, I am not the type to pedal that every dynamic ever has to be romantic. But also. I think they're cute as a couple. But ALSO also, even if you do not care for them as a couple, I need more people to discuss and write about and draw their dynamic. I need more if it like, yesterday.
Having to put this under the cut because it got crazy fucking long but like trust me. Trust me okay.
The element I find so compelling about them is that they read very much as similar characters at first-boiling down largely to "silly and kind". They diverge from this shared center point largely in how they react to trauma; They both are survivors, persistently... Goofy in the face of hardship. Kinkajou's seems to act as a natural element of her personality, rising up in face of being a generally lonely and somewhat disliked child. It's interesting how her impulsive nature and cheery demeanor overlaps with the genuine emotional intelligence she seems to hold. In moments of low-tension, where her head's clear and she's not immediately tunneling down something else, she seems fully able to process the fact that her trauma DOES effect her and often at least somewhat how. She doesn't have any big feelings on it, but she can still recognize her knee-jerk reaction to a Nightwing roommate being due to her trauma. Later conclusions about Moonwatcher being an exception due to some general difference from Nightwings as a whole, while not fully "correct", does still show her own ability to recognize these knee-jerk feelings as irrational-At least when faced with significant proof of that being the case, rather than doubling down on her own internal logic that's been shaped by her traumas. Her impulsivity and general hyperactivity tends to push this understanding to the side however, leaving a lot of her trauma something she's working past but not necessarily resolved. It isn't that Kinkajou is purposefully trying to avoid her pain to an unhealthy degree, so much as I think she largely doesn't think about it until she's forced to.
Meanwhile, Qibli's goofy exterior seems to largely be a mask; Or, at the very least, somewhat purposefully curated. He lives almost entirely in his fight or flight response, and seems to interpret his own overthinking and anxiety responses as a boon rather than an effect of his trauma. He likes his scar, but can't reconcile how he got it; Can't reconcile the part of him that loves his mother and wants to believe she loves him back with the fact that she hurt him, repeatedly, through pretty much every avenue one can neglect or abuse a child. This makes his optimistic veneer a lot more purposeful, an attempt to earn people's love because there was never any guarantee of receiving it from anyone. I don't believe that being this silly, playful person is necessarily fully disingenuous of Qibli, so much as I think he forces himself to amount to ONLY this. Shoves himself into a box which is used largely to ignore his trauma, as opposed to cope with it. He can't acknowledge everything that's happened to him affecting him because its incongruous with his image-both to others and himself. Despite being perceived as traditionally intelligent, Qibli's honestly incredibly lacking in the realm of emotional intelligence.
I think that ultimately, this leads them to having a very interesting balance and chemistry that's effective in getting me invested in them even though they have very little one-on-one time during the arc. They don't have any particularly "deep" moments together, but there's this implicit understanding and trust in a lot of their interactions. They match each other on a level that the rest of the Jade Winglet doesn't quite hit due to the vastly different levels they're coming from. While Qibli's not lacking his own impulsivity issues, his tendency to scrutinize and overplan becomes much more effective when it's actively curbing Kinkajou's tendency to fling into danger head-first, while Kinkajou's high-energy and quickness to action forces Qibli out of his own head in order to keep up with her.
Beyond the way they balance each other out, there's a strongly showcased, implicit trust between the two of them. Kinkajou and Qibli are co-conspirators, and them dealing with Chameleon in Book 10 (for all the gripes I hold against this book) showcase this perfectly. Qibli keeps Kinkajou from immediately jumping to action, but he doesn't talk over her, and Kinkajou's information is both pivotal to their planning and prompts Qibli to act. An important element too is that Qibli's trust in Kinkajou doesn't result in excessive idolization, like it does with Moon-Not to say that Moonbli is bad, but rather, it's an element of the relationship that makes Kinkajou and Qibli mesh much easier while Moonbli, I wholeheartedly believe, requires a lot more work to make work than canon would suggest. I think this trust is particularly important due to Qibli's issues with control, which he still easily puts aside for Kinkajou when he lets her simply keep the scrolls from Chameleon, instead of doubling down on them destroying them. Kinkajou opts to keep the scrolls at that's the end of it; even if Qibli's worried over Chameleon coming after them, he simply trusts Kinkajou to take care of them, and that's the end of it.
The way they match each other's energy is also just incredibly sweet. The Vase SceneTM comes immediately after it, so nobody ever talks about it, but they literally greet each other like 2000s scene kids who just found out what a "glomp" is.
My ultimate point is I think Kinkajou and Qibli's personalities bounce off each other in a very compelling way already as friends, and find the idea of them as a romance interesting largely because I don't think it would change much of their chemistry. I think they already feel very natural from what we're shown of them (although a lot of the non-ship dynamics in arc 2 are vastly underutilized due to how fractured everyone in the winglet is through the series to begin with) and I think they're sweet due to how much I think they can understand each other. They're interesting parallels that doesn't really get to shine in a lot of books due to the pacing of Arc 2 nor in fan works due to how people don't really read much into Kinkajou and choose to take her as just sort of a flat comic relief.
Falls to my knees. Qiblijou. Kinkabli. Whatever you want to call it. Does anyone understand. Does anyone understand.
Now, as a certified AroAce, I am not the type to pedal that every dynamic ever has to be romantic. But also. I think they're cute as a couple. But ALSO also, even if you do not care for them as a couple, I need more people to discuss and write about and draw their dynamic. I need more if it like, yesterday.
Having to put this under the cut because it got crazy fucking long but like trust me. Trust me okay.
The element I find so compelling about them is that they read very much as similar characters at first-boiling down largely to "silly and kind". They diverge from this shared center point largely in how they react to trauma; They both are survivors, persistently... Goofy in the face of hardship. Kinkajou's seems to act as a natural element of her personality, rising up in face of being a generally lonely and somewhat disliked child. It's interesting how her impulsive nature and cheery demeanor overlaps with the genuine emotional intelligence she seems to hold. In moments of low-tension, where her head's clear and she's not immediately tunneling down something else, she seems fully able to process the fact that her trauma DOES effect her and often at least somewhat how. She doesn't have any big feelings on it, but she can still recognize her knee-jerk reaction to a Nightwing roommate being due to her trauma. Later conclusions about Moonwatcher being an exception due to some general difference from Nightwings as a whole, while not fully "correct", does still show her own ability to recognize these knee-jerk feelings as irrational-At least when faced with significant proof of that being the case, rather than doubling down on her own internal logic that's been shaped by her traumas. Her impulsivity and general hyperactivity tends to push this understanding to the side however, leaving a lot of her trauma something she's working past but not necessarily resolved. It isn't that Kinkajou is purposefully trying to avoid her pain to an unhealthy degree, so much as I think she largely doesn't think about it until she's forced to.
Meanwhile, Qibli's goofy exterior seems to largely be a mask; Or, at the very least, somewhat purposefully curated. He lives almost entirely in his fight or flight response, and seems to interpret his own overthinking and anxiety responses as a boon rather than an effect of his trauma. He likes his scar, but can't reconcile how he got it; Can't reconcile the part of him that loves his mother and wants to believe she loves him back with the fact that she hurt him, repeatedly, through pretty much every avenue one can neglect or abuse a child. This makes his optimistic veneer a lot more purposeful, an attempt to earn people's love because there was never any guarantee of receiving it from anyone. I don't believe that being this silly, playful person is necessarily fully disingenuous of Qibli, so much as I think he forces himself to amount to ONLY this. Shoves himself into a box which is used largely to ignore his trauma, as opposed to cope with it. He can't acknowledge everything that's happened to him affecting him because its incongruous with his image-both to others and himself. Despite being perceived as traditionally intelligent, Qibli's honestly incredibly lacking in the realm of emotional intelligence.
I think that ultimately, this leads them to having a very interesting balance and chemistry that's effective in getting me invested in them even though they have very little one-on-one time during the arc. They don't have any particularly "deep" moments together, but there's this implicit understanding and trust in a lot of their interactions. They match each other on a level that the rest of the Jade Winglet doesn't quite hit due to the vastly different levels they're coming from. While Qibli's not lacking his own impulsivity issues, his tendency to scrutinize and overplan becomes much more effective when it's actively curbing Kinkajou's tendency to fling into danger head-first, while Kinkajou's high-energy and quickness to action forces Qibli out of his own head in order to keep up with her.
Beyond the way they balance each other out, there's a strongly showcased, implicit trust between the two of them. Kinkajou and Qibli are co-conspirators, and them dealing with Chameleon in Book 10 (for all the gripes I hold against this book) showcase this perfectly. Qibli keeps Kinkajou from immediately jumping to action, but he doesn't talk over her, and Kinkajou's information is both pivotal to their planning and prompts Qibli to act. An important element too is that Qibli's trust in Kinkajou doesn't result in excessive idolization, like it does with Moon-Not to say that Moonbli is bad, but rather, it's an element of the relationship that makes Kinkajou and Qibli mesh much easier while Moonbli, I wholeheartedly believe, requires a lot more work to make work than canon would suggest. I think this trust is particularly important due to Qibli's issues with control, which he still easily puts aside for Kinkajou when he lets her simply keep the scrolls from Chameleon, instead of doubling down on them destroying them. Kinkajou opts to keep the scrolls at that's the end of it; even if Qibli's worried over Chameleon coming after them, he simply trusts Kinkajou to take care of them, and that's the end of it.
The way they match each other's energy is also just incredibly sweet. The Vase SceneTM comes immediately after it, so nobody ever talks about it, but they literally greet each other like 2000s scene kids who just found out what a "glomp" is.
My ultimate point is I think Kinkajou and Qibli's personalities bounce off each other in a very compelling way already as friends, and find the idea of them as a romance interesting largely because I don't think it would change much of their chemistry. I think they already feel very natural from what we're shown of them (although a lot of the non-ship dynamics in arc 2 are vastly underutilized due to how fractured everyone in the winglet is through the series to begin with) and I think they're sweet due to how much I think they can understand each other. They're interesting parallels that doesn't really get to shine in a lot of books due to the pacing of Arc 2 nor in fan works due to how people don't really read much into Kinkajou and choose to take her as just sort of a flat comic relief.
The scene of Qibli and Darkstalker in book 10 animatic to “Say My Name” from the Beetlejuice Musical. Send post. I’m not gonna do it but somebody should
day 201824 of me forgetting my wof blog exists until i think about arc 2 too hard and go ough i miss wof. i like arc 1 vastly better in terms of actual content for be clear i just have a disease where i latch onto media i think i could fix
@eyesanddragons on main to inform you I have become Iyowa's biggest fan and would like to know if you think Actress is a Qibli song
Fights are breaking out to the point where we can't have a constructive discussion, and this short film is falling apart.
"You weren't this boring of a person before, you know."
Looking at the junior who announced that, my heart was violently scooped out, and I could go no further.
Ohhhhh this is such a fun thought for Qibli... Yeah I absolutely see it !!
#you weren't this boring of a person before....#also oh my god I love this use of chifuyu??? sorry I feel like I never hear her used for anything original tags by @butchriptide
I'M CONVERTING SOMEONE TO IYOWAISM LETS GO!!!!
I feel like Adipocere is a Darkstalker/Clearsight song and it also has a counterpart in the form of Urapocere which is also one.
I think DANDELION is a Hailstorm song there's no sub so here's the lyrics
Soon, the lion will hasten its pace
and create a sky past the clouds
Tell me how I can protect
what's important to me
Probably Over is Probably Someone in the Jade Winglet, my instincts say Winter but I'm not too sure.
