Elliott Carter

Ramblings and art

[elliottcarter]

Seeing so much New Vegas content on my feed only days after starting my first playthrough of Nuclear Sunset is making me lowkey start to think a FBI agent is watching me through my cameras

[xbiblically-accurate-angelx]

My own magic anon list for any of my muses:

Send 🐾 to turn them into a animal

Send 🍼 to turn them into a baby

Send 👿 to make them possessed

Send 🖍 to send them into a drawing

Send 🌸 to give them Hanahaki disease

Send 🪨 to turn them to stone

Send 😍 to put a love serum on them

Send 🤒 to make them sick

Send ⚡️ to swap there personalities

Send 🧸 to make them a young child again

Send ❄ to freeze them

Send 🧪 to give them truth serum

Send ❔️ to hypnotize them

Send 🔇 to mute them

Send 🎎 to turn them into a doll or marketable plushie

Send ❌️ to make them lose memory

Send ❗️ to swap there genders

Send 👁 to make them blind

Send ⁉️ to make them into a random au version of themselves

Send ✨ to do something random

[elliottcarter]

[wonderful-rp-resources]

Reblog if it's OK for other artists to draw your OCs

[elliottcarter]

[lookingforroleplayers]

Dying Light RP Masterlist!

Reblog this post and add in the tags

your URL

if you’re a single muse or a multimuse

if they're canon or an OC

your muse’s name

EXAMPLE: scrunklyrpblog, single muse, animal crossing verse, Scrunkly the Mighty

to be added in the list!

NOTE: if you have a multimuse blog, write as many muses as you have; if you’d like, feel free to give your muse a “title” to describe them!

Characters in alphabetical order can be found HERE

[vrillopurpura]

Cayde: He changed my phone's background to a photo of spilled ramen! This psychopath has to get out of our home!

Ellis: I only did it because you changed my phone's background to a chicken!

Cayde: A chicken? That's Colonel who you're talking about, she's *The* Chicken! You disrespectful brat!

Ellis: I don't care! You know I'm scared of chickens!

Cayde: I asked you if wanted a pic of my cock and you said yes.

Ellis: You know that was not what I expected.

Crow: (listening to music to ignore the other two) What's the worst that I can saaaay? Things are better if I staaay!

[elliottcarter]

Eclipse: Not all Exos have cocks, Ellis. We aren’t designed with that in mind.

…Usually…

[elliottcarter]

This series had been with me since the summer of 2016, and had the largest impact on my life than any other series of games I’ve ever played. But now it’s time to say goodbye.

I’ll never forget you, Destiny. And I’ll miss both you and the characters and OCs that you’ve given me and had me make.

[mira-the-infinite-storm]

Another redeemed angel, in a modestly antiquated dress styled after a noblewoman’s attire, unknowingly almost walking into the other woman

Oh… shit, I’m sorry. I wasn’t paying attention-

*she then notices Mira’s clawed, prosthetic legs*

Mira had already sprung out of the other angel's way. She noticed that the angel was dressed in rather noble attire. Immediately, Mira found herself intimidated. She essentially only wore tank tops and cargo pants. Tank tops were one of the only things that could contain her large, bulky, stormy grey wings.

"It's fine." Mira sounded a little more flat than usual. She looked at the other angel. Mira had seen some of the redeemed Sinners since her time in Heaven started. What she noticed more was the staring at her prosthetic legs.

"Can I... help you?" Thankfully, the only Hell she'd ever seen was on Earth itself.

[mira-the-infinite-storm]

... @lady-joanette

Mira eventually wore herself out enough that she could slip back into the mask she so carefully crafted. She'd made the other woman uncomfortable, probably permanently souring their relationship. Yet, to Mira's shock, she felt a sort of relief in knowing that she'd actually told someone what had happened to her. As the tears cleared, slipping quietly into that soldier's mask, she noticed the wine on the table.

She never had much wine. Vodka was the most abundant choice because of the Soviets.

I'm sorry. I should not have lost my composure.

At least Mira had the manners to know not to refuse the gift, though she had such a high alcohol tolerance that she could drink a glass of vodka and not feel it much at all. The wine itself was quite interesting in taste, though Mira lacked the "class" to really understand it. It gave Mira time to think about what she should say to the other woman.

I hadn't told anyone that before, so, thank you for listening to it. It... isn't your fault. Certain things like that are like a pot of water, ready to boil over. That pot had been boiling for a long time, water and a lid added constantly. It doesn't stay in the pot forever. To not feel that constant simmer is a relief, Joanette. It's a weight lifted that someone, at least, knows what I've seen. Understands what a profound impact it had on me.

[lady-joanette]

Alright… I still feel like shit for being the one to cause you to have that episode though… but at least the dam was broken… even if I shot a metaphorical cannon at it.

She takes a sip from her glass, still pensive and feeling guilty over it

[mira-the-infinite-storm]

Mira shook her head. The pensive and guilty look on Joanette's face bothered Mira.

It would be different if you intentionally did it, knowing what was in my head. You didn't know what horrors I saw in the military. Why would I blame you for it? You... when you're a soldier, you learn to box away your feelings in the moment to get the job done. It's also impossible to... to feel like a person again if you hold onto those horrors. It was wrong of me to say it all to you without preparing you. But, I have to thank you many times over for giving me the space where I felt I could speak on it, to cry the tears of grief I trapped away to survive. It's isolating. Today, I feel a little less isolated than before.

Mira took another sip of the wine. Teasingly, she continued.

The wine is very good. Can't say I'm accustomed to anything other than vodka. I'm still able to drink vodka by the glass.

[lady-joanette]

It was his duty. He didn’t want to go, but he had to follow into the war against Edward… just as all others sworn to The True King did. There were a good number of soldiers guarding the castle, and we were sure that The House of York wouldn’t attack it… but no one was expecting The Burgundians to do so… and thus they weren’t prepared. I suppose his path to hell was paved after our deaths…

She hummed in understand of Mira’s explanation, taking another sip

Commoners never have access to the actual quality goods, that’s something that seems to never have changed regardless of the age. When I was alive, they resorted to ale and beer and the like.

[mira-the-infinite-storm]

It's better to die than to give yourself up to tyranny. You know, those cowards, some of the guards said that they didn't have a choice. They would be killed if they didn't, their families, as well, perhaps. When I look at what they took part in, I think it's better to shoot yourself in the back of the skull than to participate in something you believe is wrong. Running away is a better option than the cowardice of carrying out horrific acts.

Mira spat every word, impassioned from horrific personal experience.

Regardless, never once should you underestimate the enemy. You must always be prepared. Surprise attacks can happen at any time. It's an oversight that costed you your life. You're more than allowed to be angry about it. Hell, I was recruited because they taught us the basics of military combat early in secondary school.

Granted, it was probably true that compared to Joanette, Mira had come up in an environment where anger wasn't just acceptable, but encouraged.

Beer is very good. It was plentiful and people in my country loved it almost as much as vodka. I drank kavass as a child - much less alcohol comparatively to beer. I think it was... more the trauma that drove us to get cheap spirits to get drunk. Beer has far too little alcohol when you drank alcohol most of your life.

[lady-joanette]

What you speak of is two different forms of sin. Taking one’s life is immediate damnation, after all, as is a lack of forbearance. Well, granted, depending on the severity, it leads to placement in The Inconstant Sphere, but my point still stands. As I said, it’s wrath that sent my husband to Hell, while my adherence to the virtues sent me here.

[mira-the-infinite-storm]

If you don't mind me asking, Joanette, how many people do you think I have killed? Certainly, that number is more than one, is it not? God's word is "thou shalt not kill." I'll tell you something, Joanette.

Mira lightened her tone. She couldn't sound hateful and intense for this part. In fact, she sounded quite guilty.

A sniper's job is precision killings. From a good vantage point, I could target the head of my target over five hundred yards away. A body from greater than that. Sometimes, I looked them straight in the eyes before shooting the brow. I couldn't tell you the number of people I killed. I stopped at around two hundred, two hundred fifty? If God's word is "thou shalt not kill" but I have killed more than I can count, then why am I here?

Mira picked a little at her fingers, not actually taking any off.

I've spoken with Michael, the Archangel, about it. I'm a killer through and through. What he told me was interesting. I didn't kill with malice. I killed because it was strictly necessary to defeat a greater evil. It wasn't a choice, in other words, that same way it was for one of the camp guards. I've met soldiers up here who took cyanide pills when caught. Sometimes, to break the virtues of God is your only choice, and it is always better to choose what is least sinful. In my case, being a bystander and keeping my God-given skill to myself in a time where I saved several comrades' lives, not to mention the ones I helped to save in Germany and its conquered territories. The world is not so simple as adherence to a strict list. It is much more fluid than that. The situation I described gave you three options: you run away, you die, or you fight. All are sin, but it is better to run away or to die than to fight for something inherently evil, is it not?

[lady-joanette]

…I have no way of knowing how many lives you’d taken, however there’s more nuance to The Sixth Commandment than was written upon the slab. Killing one who is innocent, or if killing isn’t necessary, is what actually is a violation of the commandment. So no, you killing those people wasn’t a sin, if anything you were doing The Lord’s work. The same is with taking one’s life, if it isn’t out of selfishness or other vices. Many men had sacrificed themselves or brought about their deaths out of virtue rather than sin, and in doing so were honored or even canonized. It is the same for those that took their own lives in defiance of such heretics and depraved sinners in that way.

She then pauses at Mira’s mention of having spoken to Micheal

You spoke with Saint Michael, The Archangel? To speak with any of the saints is quite the privilege, let alone one of The Lord’s flesh and blood. The only greater honor would be to talk to Christ himself. Though surely none but God’s family and closest allies are permitted to so much as bear witness to his glory.

She’s clearly astonished. She’s never met someone who’d ever met with one of the archangels, let alone The Holy Regent

[mira-the-infinite-storm]

And it is as I said, that in some cases, to love is better than to go to war. That is my belief, but I cannot force you into thinking in any particular manner.

Mira gazed at the astonishment on Joanette's face quietly. She'd understood the honor when she met Michael, but he wasn't so above her in her mind anymore.

The reason why is rather embarrassing. Emily, the Seraphim, had taken notice that I was avoiding anywhere with children. She's been trying to "crack my case" for a while now. She is correct that I am not a happy person, and it is her job to make me happy, but she doesn't always know how to handle a soldier. I probably gave her the wrong answer, telling her that I can only see dead bodies when I see or hear children. I got summoned to see Saint Michael, and now I think I've become his pet case instead of Emily's. Granted, someone so well-versed in the happenings of war is probably better. We're still working on making sure I can walk the streets of Heaven and not the roofs of Heaven.

[lady-joanette]

I mean, clearly it is preferable to do the opposite of war whenever possible, but oftentimes it isn’t.

Oh. I see. Well, surely The Archangel of War had more important things to do than aid you regardless… he’s not omniscient after all… apparently.

[mira-the-infinite-storm]

Mira decided that she wasn't going to be told that war was sometimes necessary or to continue to try to convince that woman that her husband did an evil thing. Instead, she looked at Joanette, her gaze, marred by the scar of a knife, warned Joanette not to lecture her on the necessity of war.

I would have thought so, too, if I wasn't being invited places with him and a couple of the other war-adjacent Archangels. Emily and Michael are close. Emily got really worked up about the dead child comment. I wonder if Michael might be trying to take me off of her hands until I'm... better adjusted.

Mira placed the wine glass down. She hadn't finished the wine, but knew it was impolite to drink fine spirits all at once.

The newer arrivals in Heaven were... mostly foot soldiers and the innocent dead when I arrived. Heaven had set itself up, rightfully so, to help them before someone like me, who fought in specialized forces and for so many years. I must've fallen through the cracks, especially considering I needed to learn to walk again.

She shrugged.

[lady-joanette]

Micheal’s young daughter isn’t suited for such things. He is. I suppose it makes sense.

It also makes sense that those souls would be the most common among those who were granted salvation when you got here though. They certainly were less sinful than you, however your virtues in life must have outweighed your sins, which is why you’re here and not… there.

[mira-the-infinite-storm]

Mira gazed upon Joanette for a moment. She was quite obsessed with the idea of Mira's sin and the form she'd taken in Heaven.

And what of you? Now you know why I am such an isolated person here in Heaven. It is difficult to form bonds with others when your body never left the battlefield. You seem to have been quite religious, are you not? How was religion in your times? I mean no offense as I say this, but you seem very concerned with sin and the like, even if you've earned eternal happiness and rest. Is that not your experience here in Heaven?

[lady-joanette]

The Faith was even more important than The Crown. Any decent European was to follow it diligently, and minimize their sins. I since have realized that it was only one way to achieve salvation, as adherence to The Holy Book wasn’t a requirement, judging by how many who’d have been deemed heretics in my time also have ended up here.

[mira-the-infinite-storm]

Mira hummed.

My whole country would've been heretics then. Religion wasn't encountered as such. Have you... considered that now, after having been allowed in Heaven, you aren't required to redeem yourself more? I'm not saying to go wild and commit every sin in the book. I guess I'm saying that if God is the Heavenly Father like you say, maybe he wants to see you live happily, like any good father would. To grow and change, to not stick to the rules you learned oh so long ago. Father's forgive. Good ones, at least. We all have free will. Is that not an amazing gift? Why use the free will you have to restrict yourself to a life that causes you to stay in the past? Everything is said and done. You're a Winner now. Your husband is not. Maybe you can be more free. If you are a person of virtue, you will not go astray. It was my virtue that led me here. Take me as living proof that virtue outweighs mistakes made. Even in Heaven, you're human. You'll make mistakes. Living life trying not to make any... well. I can't imagine that as a good one.

[lady-joanette]

Do you not understand that it was his traitor of a son, The Devil himself, that corrupted us by placing the capacity for evil and depravity within our hearts, as a declaration of himself being greater than his father? Only by avoiding and resisting his temptations can anyone earn salvation, and a life of virtue would thus reasonably need to be maintained in order to not receive damnation. For God isn’t the one who forgives people of their sins, Christ is. And in case you haven’t noticed… Christ is nowhere to be found here…

The last sentence is said with great trepidation and concern. Why would God’s Earthly Son, the one The Faith was even named after, not seen or heard of even by The Archangels?

[mira-the-infinite-storm]

Mira looked a little alarmed. How had Joanette gotten eternal damnation from what she had said?

I don't concern myself with the working that are communicated to us through the Speaker of God. Isn't Christ also... part of God? Like the Trinity? He's just a piece of God? Like I said, religion was discouraged in my country. My parents were ardent Soviet revolutionaries, so I never learned myself. What I know is from the Allies in the West of Europe.

Mira shrugged.

You aren't saying you're greater than God by enjoying the gifts he gave you. Our free will can be beautiful, you know? It gives us our drive to help others, to love. It allows us to create, to invent. In my age, we just discovered how to inoculate against disease. We could prevent yellow fever. The Americans didn't catch influenza because they took a mild form of the disease that prevented the full-blown illness. Now, I hear that there is not a single child in the world of the living that dies of smallpox. Completely eradicated. In my home country, no child is paralyzed because of polio. It exists, but nobody is left injured for life.

Our minds aren't always to be feared. Free will is amazing. It is your virtue that guides it the right way. If we only ever focused on avoiding temptations and minimizing, could we have missed the discoveries of Pasteur that led to all of that? I think that faith should augment our lives, not be the point of them. If not, then why have intelligence? Free will? Hands that are made to create?

[elliottcarter]

Your country rounded up anyone of any faith and killed them in camps, just as The Germans did… I’m not saying you did that, but that’s what your nation stood for. One form of tyranny traded for an even worse one… it’s been like that since the beginning. But no, Christ is God’s Son, but isn’t God himself… at least, that’s how I remember it… but there’s many things about The Holy Book that clearly were wrong, as much as I hate to admit it…

She then glares at Mira for complimenting the one whom her entire world had seen and been assured of as the purest incarnation of evil.

You have quite the audacity, to praise The Devil himself for corrupting us, God’s children, in complete defiance and deluded superiority over his father’s image. We were never meant to have free will. That was his will, not The Lord’s. And it is the very reason for sin, for all of the horrors and depravity man is capable of. And for the hundreds of billions of souls damned because of his influence, his sedition and corruption.

Even now, after nearly a half a millennium, she clearly holds steadfast to her faith, to the perception of Heaven and Hell she was raised to believe, even if there are some differences she’s adapted to.

[elliottcarter]

Everard’s experience with The Eternal War vs The Nephalem’s

[mira-the-infinite-storm]

Another redeemed angel, in a modestly antiquated dress styled after a noblewoman’s attire, unknowingly almost walking into the other woman

Oh… shit, I’m sorry. I wasn’t paying attention-

*she then notices Mira’s clawed, prosthetic legs*

Mira had already sprung out of the other angel's way. She noticed that the angel was dressed in rather noble attire. Immediately, Mira found herself intimidated. She essentially only wore tank tops and cargo pants. Tank tops were one of the only things that could contain her large, bulky, stormy grey wings.

"It's fine." Mira sounded a little more flat than usual. She looked at the other angel. Mira had seen some of the redeemed Sinners since her time in Heaven started. What she noticed more was the staring at her prosthetic legs.

"Can I... help you?" Thankfully, the only Hell she'd ever seen was on Earth itself.

[mira-the-infinite-storm]

... @lady-joanette

Mira eventually wore herself out enough that she could slip back into the mask she so carefully crafted. She'd made the other woman uncomfortable, probably permanently souring their relationship. Yet, to Mira's shock, she felt a sort of relief in knowing that she'd actually told someone what had happened to her. As the tears cleared, slipping quietly into that soldier's mask, she noticed the wine on the table.

She never had much wine. Vodka was the most abundant choice because of the Soviets.

I'm sorry. I should not have lost my composure.

At least Mira had the manners to know not to refuse the gift, though she had such a high alcohol tolerance that she could drink a glass of vodka and not feel it much at all. The wine itself was quite interesting in taste, though Mira lacked the "class" to really understand it. It gave Mira time to think about what she should say to the other woman.

I hadn't told anyone that before, so, thank you for listening to it. It... isn't your fault. Certain things like that are like a pot of water, ready to boil over. That pot had been boiling for a long time, water and a lid added constantly. It doesn't stay in the pot forever. To not feel that constant simmer is a relief, Joanette. It's a weight lifted that someone, at least, knows what I've seen. Understands what a profound impact it had on me.

[lady-joanette]

Alright… I still feel like shit for being the one to cause you to have that episode though… but at least the dam was broken… even if I shot a metaphorical cannon at it.

She takes a sip from her glass, still pensive and feeling guilty over it

[mira-the-infinite-storm]

Mira shook her head. The pensive and guilty look on Joanette's face bothered Mira.

It would be different if you intentionally did it, knowing what was in my head. You didn't know what horrors I saw in the military. Why would I blame you for it? You... when you're a soldier, you learn to box away your feelings in the moment to get the job done. It's also impossible to... to feel like a person again if you hold onto those horrors. It was wrong of me to say it all to you without preparing you. But, I have to thank you many times over for giving me the space where I felt I could speak on it, to cry the tears of grief I trapped away to survive. It's isolating. Today, I feel a little less isolated than before.

Mira took another sip of the wine. Teasingly, she continued.

The wine is very good. Can't say I'm accustomed to anything other than vodka. I'm still able to drink vodka by the glass.

[elliottcarter]

Uh… alright. Glad you didn’t take it personally… many others certainly would. I’ve heard of many horrors in my time here, all from the victims of them… so I know very well what people bereft of all morals and decency are capable of.

It’s an exact copy of a vintage from the castle I moved into with my husband… refined in quality to match with contemporary wines on earth, so it obviously has a more improved taste compared to what it would’ve tasted like had I tried it before it was surely destroyed along with the castle.

She glances at Mira, mild distaste in her eyes

Practically a rectified spirit compared to what was drank in my time… doubt I’d have any tolerance for it.

[elliottcarter]

Finally got FFXIV working again

[elliottcarter]

This video is old enough to drink btw

[elliottcarter]

This is the moment Christopher Nolan became Ridley Scott

[eye-of-the-tunnel-minimum-wage]

So… can I stay in these tunnels as shelter when I’m not searching for a town or village then?

I guess?

[elliottcarter]

Thanks, Demoness… it’s very dangerous up there after sunfall, so I’d rather take my chances down here with you.

*he walks up to her carefully, knowing that she could easily kill him if given a reason to*

You know these tunnels better than me, so it’s probably better if I stick with you for now.

[eta-volantis]

One complaint about LoH. Blizzard, pleaseeee dial the leveling back in base game campaign if we select that. All the boss has become jokes and there are a lot of dialogue that gets cut off for it. It also takes away that feeling of desperation we used to get playing through campaigns and fighting hard bosses which match our situation. Lilith should not be that easy to kill. When I first play, it took some effort and focus now she barely scratches my rogue it was crazy.

[autistic-sun]

Are you saying it wasn’t originally that easy? Cause dang… fr I only died once in my whole play through (by me making a stupid mistake) and I just thought it was cause I was in normal mode.

Hell at times the base enemies where giving me more issues then the bosses.

[elliottcarter]

THATS EXACTLY WHAT IM SAYING

I only struggled a handful of times throughout the Age of Hatred saga, and chocked it up to Normal mode being easy mode. Then I switched to hard mode and it still was barely any more challenging. Only like, the early torment difficulties (Torment 3 was my original, Necromancer OC’s difficulty setting) were adequately challenging to me.

[stp-minimum-wage-den]

*While lost within a dense forest, he meets her during one of her days off, and stops in his tracks, his helm hiding any perceivable emotion*

Um… greetings. Do you by chance know where the nearest settlement is?

[ She pauses, tail lashing behind her with enough force to tear a bush. Her patrols outside were few, and to be disturbed during one of them was an invitation to be tracked at the very least. However, the stranger didn't smell of fear, nor did she hear a hunter's pounding heart drumming against his chest. ]

[ Given how she's just left her lair, the only 'settlement' nearby she knew of was her own burrow. But she wouldn't give him her home for no reason. All she gives him is a ruff as a response, eyes squinting slightly with no bother to elaborate on it. ]

[elliottcarter]

Oh… can’t talk? Alright then…

Well, I’ve been searching for days, and haven’t found any towns or villages, so I suppose I was hoping to find someone who could give me directions to one…

Perhaps you could… lead me to one, if you aren’t able to speak?