Krad Og Srats

KS | 18+ main @kayessence uoy fo yenom hsac yrev ton

[kradogsrats]

I go by “ks” broadly, but “kradog” or variants thereof are fine here if your brain prefers that, and I use she/her pronouns. I come from a fandom background of primarily Star Wars and Dragon Age, meaning I've been conditioned to energetically hate everything since before the internet existed.

I am 30 or 40 years old and way too tired to take follows/unfollows personally, so so please feel okay about unfollowing for any reason, because I will literally never notice.

Fanworks

Sometimes I draw shit and sometimes I write shit. I might even put it on AO3, particularly if it's deeply weird and uncomfortable porn.

I have two extremely self-indulgent AUs I won’t shut up about:

Neither Crows Nor Eagles (active): a Lissa-centric canon divergence where Viren dies healing Soren’s childhood illness, and subsequent issues have to be tag-teamed by her, Sarai, and Kpp'Ar in his absence.

Ouroboros (on hold): a (mostly) Claudia-centric canon divergence where Harrow and Viren swap bodies pre-assassination and then everyone has a bad time.

There's a secret, third AU occasionally mentioned that is literally just 100% disgusting Kpp'Ar/Viren fluff. They're married and nothing bad ever happens. I have like eight WIPs for this and exactly none of them will likely ever see the light of day.

Meta

I have, at long last, made a general meta tag, since I somehow became a person who occasionally says actually coherent things.

Some personal favs/greatest hits:

Allhaven and Evrkynd: An Aanya (and Ezran) Meta

One Truth: The Nature of the True Heart

Terry's s4-s7 Slow-Build Arc

Rayla, the Moon, and Love as Presence

Schrödinger’s King in the Bird Box

Viren's dark magic dream time loop

Is Primal Magic not Native to Xadia?

Cursed knowledge: Soren was conceived during birthday sex

Why Viren is Such a Petty Bitch

Aaravos, Leola, and the Entire History of Human Magic: Original and Post-s6 Revisit

Aaravos and the Purpose of Dark Magic

Other Blogs

@xadianglyphs, my project to collect, categorize, and occasionally analyze visible runes and writing-like symbols

@dragonprincedrabbles, a fanfic prompt generator bot

[kradogsrats]

claudia's dark shiruakh form should have claws, as a treat (for me)

[kradogsrats]

and then she should have another hair-pulling head-butting eye-gouging desperate physical fight like with Ibis in s4, but with soren or rayla

[kradogsrats]

#she could also caress ezran's cheek with them. as a treat

god you're so right give me some of that, too

[xadianglyphs]

Devin Rosychuk

[its-leethee]

ooh doesn't that middle row spell glyph look JUST like the vortex constellation from the star map

[kradogsrats]

sadly that one wound up being "fireball"

[kradogsrats]

claudia's dark shiruakh form should have claws, as a treat (for me)

[kradogsrats]

and then she should have another hair-pulling head-butting eye-gouging desperate physical fight like with Ibis in s4, but with soren or rayla

[kradogsrats]

claudia's dark shiruakh form should have claws, as a treat (for me)

[typebeanie]

[konmaao3]

Can anyone use a primal stone?

Anyone can use a primal stone without problems

Only people with some kind of innate mage-ness can use a primal stone

Anyone can, but some have to learn/discover some kind of mage-ness first

Remaining time: 6 days 9 hours

I have seen different opinions on this.

Edit: "mage-ness" as in the third option is more than just reproducing runes and Draconic incantations, but something going deeper

[kradogsrats]

Interesting question! Canon dances around the idea that there's at least a particular temperament that mages are likely to have, but also places a curious amount of emphasis on "destiny" regarding Callum becoming a mage. Personally, I think it undermines the story direction if everyone doesn't have the same innate capability for magic, but it also makes sense for it to be like any other skill in that some people find it more intuitive/easier. So while I firmly believe Soren could use a primal stone, he probably wouldn't get it on the first try like Callum does.

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"What," Viren demanded stiffly, "is that?"

Kpp'Ar looked around curiously, then blinked at him in a perfect show of innocent confusion. "What is what?"

"You know what I mean. That, on your hands."

They both turned their attention to the extremities in question. As usual, Kpp'Ar's hands rested loosely on the handle of his ostentatious cane. Significantly less usual was the glossy, near-black plum color of his short fingernails.

"Oh, that." Kpp'Ar raised one hand to examine his fingertips, first close to his face, then at arms' length. "Your daughter's handiwork. She insisted the color would be 'so pretty,' and I certainly wasn't going to attempt debating the point with her. Would you?"

Viren chose to interpret the question as rhetorical. The polish was indeed a color he recalled seeing Lissa wear a time or two, and applied in a wobbly, haphazard manner that suggested an abundance of enthusiasm compensating for a distinct lack of expertise. It seemed Claudia, in her typical fashion, had picked up a new hobby and was eager to practice on anyone and everyone she could convince to allow it. Unfortunately, she could be very persuasive.

"Are you going to meet with the Council like that?" he asked, already dreading the answer.

"I don't see why not. After all, she was right: it is pretty."

"It's ridiculous. You're high mage, for heavens' sake."

"For now." A thin, knowing smile crossed Kpp'Ar's lips. "I'm sure Claudia will be thrilled to paint your nails in whatever color you like, once the title passes to you."

"I doubt I'll get much choice in the matter." Viren sighed, half in exasperation and half in defeat. "At least she has some time to master the art, first."

"Don't worry, she's a quick study."

[typebeanie]

This scene is so funny to me. That fourteen year old thought he was about to be kissed breathless by his crush and then BAM! Letter From His Dead Dad.

[typebeanie]

[raayllum]

"i will return for her" and how it can refer to both leola and claudia. "i miss him" and how it can refer to both viren and aaravos.

[kradogsrats]

feeling unwell about this

[kradogsrats]

like technically the text low-key allows the reading "in the most orthodox interpretation of the Cosmic Order, any kind of disability is anathema" in that nothing clearly and explicitly contradicts that, but it would be an absolutely insane thing to suddenly drop as a worldbuilding plot point 3/4 of the way through a story like "oh yeah by the way"

[raayllum]

like this really is one of The most important scenes/lines in all of TDP. like, top 10 at least, if not top 5

[raayllum]

it's like. i don't personally think they're going to go with the "remove all (primal and dark) magic" endgame, nor would it be my personal preference, but if they did. it's all stored in the ellis and ava of it all in 1x07 & 1x09 tbh

[raayllum]

something something Rayla being The Last Dragonguard being way more about her duty to the world ("there's too much at stake" and "for all of Xadia") with Zym as an extension of it ("I let the world down") than about Zym himself, which is ironically the issue

[raayllum]

remembers rayla and zym's weird symbolic fuckery. like Whatever

[raayllum]

[kradogsrats]

probably I am old and insufficiently plugged in to the contemporary tumblr zeitgeist but my understanding of "tumblr sexyman" has always been a character who basically no one outside of the tumblr ecosystem would ever call sexy, except by extremely tame non-tumblr "hear me out" standards: Aaravos is genuinely sexy enough that he caused a disproportionate number of reddit dudes to question their sexuality, but no one who isn't at least an honorary tumblr user is going around saying "so would anyone else go gay for Sans Undertale or...?"

like it's not even necessarily "man considered sexy on tumblr," there's a bizarre je ne sais quoi about it where idk the narrator from Stanley Parable could win and everyone would be like "oh yeah that checks out"