Asteria

"I'd pin up your paintings all over town, if my love could be a thing you could never put down..." — Always the Artist by Ella Red

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Introduction

Posted: 3/19/2026 Updated: 4/13/2026

Hello and welcome. I am Asteria, but you may also call me Reverie if you prefer. I am an admittedly amateur writer of both fanfics and original works alike, however it is the joy of the artistic process that keeps me going, even if I leave most of my work unfinished in the end.

I do photography as a hobby and might end up posting some of the various flower and mushroom pictures I have taken over the years here and there every great once in a while.

I'm also an artist, but do not expect me to post any of my completed paintings or sculptures for a long while due to my supplies being in storage. If I do end up posting my art, it will be rare and with long wait times between each. Consider it a rare treat.

While I will plan to not post much mature content on my page, I still wish to discourage minors from interacting with me or messaging me directly and strongly advise minors to not engage in any of the posted mature content. I will add a warning for mature content on my posts if it is present.

As I slowly post my writings, I will make a masterlist post, but do not expect that for a long while as well. Until then, here is a list of all the games, shows, and movies I love and might post about in the future so you can see if you wish to interact. I may eventually include books in this list as well, either if requested or if I ever feel like it.

This list will be updated in the future.

Games:

Elden Ring

Dark Souls

Bloodborne

Hollow Knight & Silksong

Skul: The Hero Slayer

Armored Core 6

Tales of Berseria

Twisted Wonderland

Iron Lung

Monster Hunter Wilds

Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights

The Freak Circus

Ultrakill

Skyrim

Cookie Run: Kingdom

Shows/Movies:

Frieren: Beyond Journeys End

Violet Evergarden

Howl's Moving Castle

Iron Lung

Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms

Kiki's Delivery Service

Twisted Wonderland

The Cat Returns

Pride and Prejudice

My Happy Marriage

Mary and the Witch's Flower

The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity

The Summer Hikaru Died

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The narrator of a slowburn, desperately wanting the two main characters to finally get together and gets increasingly annoyed over the course of the story that the love interests haven't done anything yet.

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Need job ideas that aren't waiter or fast food employee or factory worker (mostly due to my deathly airborne food allergies and chronic illnesses) but there just doesn't seem to be any that are sustainable without second jobs.

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Miss playing Elden Ring, but can't afford to buy it right now, so playing Dark Souls instead for the immaculate, perfection that is Gwyndolin.

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Hummingbird Hawk-Moth

A hummingbird hawk-moth I decided to photograph to ID later while it was drinking nectar from some potted flowers. I spotted it outside the flower shop located in my hometown while I am visiting family. Sadly, I don't remember the flowers' name...

Also, sorry if the pictures are unsteady or unfocused. I was currently blinded by the mid-day sun when I took these. I couldn't quite see where I was aiming and couldn't tell if I was focused in on the moth due to the glare on my screen, so I was simply pointing and guessing.

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"Artists/Writers should finish what their working on before starting on a new project!"

Me, with my 11 unfinished armored core 6 fanfics alone, sitting in the corner:

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I'm personally all for a mage using a weapon as a staff, preferably a long stick of a weapon with a blade on the end, like a spear, glave, scythe, etc.

I like the idea of seeing a magic wielder on the battlefield, casting spells left and right with only brief pauses in-between when mana runs low or someone gets to close to go full melee on the enemy for a few moments before going back to the spells.

In a world full of glass cannon spellcasters, you should fear the one that can fight hand to hand if they must do so. It makes them just that much more of a threat to everyone against them.

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I've always been a fan of the trope (I guess that's what you would call it) where someone just lugs around a coffin everywhere on their back, sometimes used for combat, with something mysterious and unspoken inside that they won't tell anyone about.

Could be a ton of weapons, an eldritch abomination, their deceased spouse, a god in mortal flesh that the person is helping to regain their complete divine powers.

It can work really well for a lot of DnD backstories too with how customizable it is and I can think of a bunch of prompts right off the dome.

A warlock keeping their patron close for one reason or another due to their deal in exchange for their magic, perhaps to deliver their patron to some secret destination.

A necromancer keeping their long deceased spouse or someone else close with them as they travel to try and learn a way to properly bring them back completely.

A paladin/cleric keeping their divine patron close as they try to help them regain their godly status back. In return, the god gives them divine blessings with the little power they have and are slowly gaining.

A warrior carrying around a cursed weapon with them that they keep sealed away within the coffin and can only use briefly in times of hardship before sealing it away again, lest the cursed whispers taint their mind beyond the point of return.

Whatever way you spin it, they are never getting past security with a giant coffin on their back they refuse to have searched for contraband.

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A story about a young princess who dreams of a knight in shining armor to marry like in fairytales and makes it everyone else's problem in the kingdom that she is trying her hardest to get kidnapped so the knight she likes can save her proper so they can (hopefully) get married. Both her assigned knight and the king are very exhausted and just wish she would stay in the palace, reading her books and not trying to get criminals or magical creatures to steal her away.

Yes, I am writing this.

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I find it very difficult to believe that some sort of relationship, whether it be platonic or romantic, was not implied between Rusty and 621 purely through the symbolism of the wolf and raven, implying a mutually beneficial relationship between the two in someway.

That could not have been a coincidence. If it was, then it was an insane coincidence, but I wouldn't put it past Fromsoft to have purposefully put in those tiny implications of what sort of relationship could be between two characters through obscure animal symbolism that could fly right over some people's heads at first glance.

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Alternatively, they are also represented as a wolf and dog instead, which just adds more of a doomed aspect to their relationship.

Wolves and hounds, while able to coexist and even breed together in some cases, will most often than not attack eachother to protect their territory, seeing the other as a threat to what they care about despite their innate kinship to one another.

They have the ability to live together peacefully, but will bare their fangs to one another at the threat they both have to eachothers "pack." One of the wild and the other domesticated, tamed and leashed yet just as loyal and ferocious as the other. Nearly the same, yet so very different and torn apart because of the worlds they belong to...

Maybe I'm just overanalyzing though.

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I find it very difficult to believe that some sort of relationship, whether it be platonic or romantic, was not implied between Rusty and 621 purely through the symbolism of the wolf and raven, implying a mutually beneficial relationship between the two in someway.

That could not have been a coincidence. If it was, then it was an insane coincidence, but I wouldn't put it past Fromsoft to have purposefully put in those tiny implications of what sort of relationship could be between two characters through obscure animal symbolism that could fly right over some people's heads at first glance.