Arie's Collection of Characters

Lots of characters to play with, just pick the muse. :3 Muse profiles can be found in the 'About the Muses' link above. The current most active muses include: Kellen (Human Faerie hunter), Rowan (dorky male witch), Fan (cat burglar and tiger shifter), and a handful of Wonderland OCs. There are a ton more, though, so go look!

[otherwindow]

Concept: Angels don’t have to wear their halos on their head. 

Turn the halo into a gold collar. 

Shrink it down into a ring or bracelet. 

Turn it into a gold septum. 

Sacred nipple piercings. 

[otherwindow]

please stop telling me about halo cock rings

[pickamuseanymuse]

Okay, as someone with angel OCs, I love this idea.

competitive angel accessories fashions

figuring out how to make them flash brightly or maybe even somehow change colors, and rave jewelry

‘traditional’ angels scoffing at others experimenting with shapes and designs. (Hey, exist for a few millenia and let’s see how bored you get?)

fabric with halo designs on it?

hipster infinity scarves with one single stripe somehow going through the whole thing and connecting with itself

ponytail holder

really neat belt that everyone tries to figure out how you put on since it seems to be one solid piece with no hook? silly humans will never figure it out, lol

[pickamuseanymuse]

But that aside, I had ideas for RELATIONSHIPS.

Angels who are in relationships with each other who decide to mimic human traditions in bonding and find out they can exchange halo ‘rings’

What if wearing another’s halo like that gives you a surprise bond to them? Like you can kind of sense them or something?

Wanting to protect a dear friend and having them wear your halo as a bracelet so you can always have a feel for how they’re doing.

Then I let the ideas get even more harebrained, because THAT’S WHAT I DO and I kind of made up a whole set of rules for a universe where this is possible for that universe’s angels?

That like, how one angel puts their halo on another person can influence the bond? So, for instance, Angel 1 and Angel 2 decide to do this thang everyone else is doing. Angel 1 shrinks their halo down to a ring and hands it over to Angel 2 to put on their finger. The important thing is that Angel 2 is the one to ACTUALLY put it on their own finger, so they end up like...the primary one in the bond? 

Whereas if Angel 1 is the one to ACTUALLY slip the ‘ring’ onto Angel 2′s finger, Angel 1 is the one who is ‘primary’ in the bond.

And this doesn’t normally matter, except someone realizes that the primary person in this bond can actually influence the other person? And this doesn’t matter for those couples who trade rings and both do it the same way and who don’t take advantage of it like that.

But either for people interested in...ahem...CERTAIN sorts of relationships (and I am sure that there are angel OCs out there who WOULD be interested in that sort of thing), or for evil angels/devils/whatevs, this could then be used to kind of...take control, somehow, of the angel in question? (I rather think collars or other forms would work even better than normal rings at that point. :3 )

BUT WHAT ABOUT FALLEN ANGELS?

What if they have halos, but they’re sorta...turned off. And someone, maybe super zealous warrior angels who want to have a failsafe way to imprison fallen ones if the shit ever hits the fan again, figure out how to sort of...reactivate them, at least enough to take control of them. And you have warrior angels taking it on themselves to run prisons, and they have dark halos on each finger, a whole handful of them. And the really ‘bad’ ones they stick their OWN halo on as an extra control measure.

But then what if a fallen angel fell in love with a regular one? They would have to trust each other so much for the fallen one to wear the regular one’s halo, since there wouldn’t be a way to equalize that.

...

...anyways.

That’s enough rambling from me.

At least for now.

I may have more thoughts another time. xDDD

[otherwindow]

Concept: Angels don’t have to wear their halos on their head. 

Turn the halo into a gold collar. 

Shrink it down into a ring or bracelet. 

Turn it into a gold septum. 

Sacred nipple piercings. 

[otherwindow]

please stop telling me about halo cock rings

[pickamuseanymuse]

Okay, as someone with angel OCs, I love this idea.

competitive angel accessories fashions

figuring out how to make them flash brightly or maybe even somehow change colors, and rave jewelry

‘traditional’ angels scoffing at others experimenting with shapes and designs. (Hey, exist for a few millenia and let’s see how bored you get?)

fabric with halo designs on it?

hipster infinity scarves with one single stripe somehow going through the whole thing and connecting with itself

ponytail holder

really neat belt that everyone tries to figure out how you put on since it seems to be one solid piece with no hook? silly humans will never figure it out, lol

[litefoot13]

I wanted to make a series of questions for my blog, and to hit a handful of friends with it as well! So I will tag a handful of RP blogs for you to answer these questions if you dare.

Tagged By: @candiceirae

~ For the Character ~

Name - Quentin ‘Blaze’ Morgan, Wild Rearing Stallion of the Summer Court. The ‘Bucking Bronco’ of the Bedroom.

Birthday - Sometime in the summer, haven’t figured it out yet. Also, he doesn’t care. Fae, you know. 

Quick Physical Description - When under glamour, he’s nearly 7 feet tall, shaggy platinum blonde with gold highlights cowboy looking dude (faceclaim is Matthew McConaughey, specifically from Magic Mike, for reasons.)

Not glamoured? 9 foot tall equine (specifically Clydesdale) anthropomorphic Fae - digitigrade legs with heavy silver hooves, tail, white fur, golden mane, crystal horn, the whole shebang. 

Prone to wearing as little as possible and able to make it look good.

Favored Weapon - He prefers not to fight, mostly because he’s lazy and prefers partying to throwing punches. 

He’s so big that he doesn’t need a weapon, but if necessary, there does happen to be a foot long dangerously sharp weapon right on his forehead, after all. (He would MUCH rather the other very large weapon that is further down though, if you know what I mean. *eyebrow waggle*)

Biggest Pet Peeve - He’s pretty laidback? I guess people who puff themselves up and try to act like they’re better than him?

Or having to wear clothes?

Proudest Accomplishment - He wore a thong to a Royal Court Event and between that and his snarky comments, he got Titania to laugh.

(He also may have attracted her attention for later, too. ;3 )

Job / Place of Work - The term I like to use is ‘mercenary stripper’. He’s a travelling show, essentially, but his home base is in the Summer Court.

3 Songs They Always Listen to - I am always bad at this part. I honestly have no clue.

Favorite Drink - He is fascinated by those super colorful layered drinks.

Something That Always Makes Them Cry - Nothing that he will admit to. (The rare times his mom visits, after she leaves.)

Good or Evil - Basically good?

~ For the Player~

Birthday - Early January.

Number of Characters - Oh geez. Main ones that I am most likely to use? 50 or so? Total? Couple hundred.

How Long You’ve Been RPing - 18 years or so.

Normal Size of Replies - Couple of paragraphs? Depends a lot on who I’m writing with, but usually at least one good sized paragraph or two medium ones.

What Motivated You to Make Your Character - The shallowest of reasons. I tried to convince a friend she should TOTALLY make a unicorn Fae. Then I got a shadow of an idea (except back then he was more like full Japanese kilin, very cultured and thing and so on, and not so much…huge, crude, Clydesdale hybrid). Later on, unrelated, I was wondering what a Clydesdale-like unicorn would be like, remembered the shadow of a character I had half designed and pictured him as a Clydesdale anthro instead. The final bit fell into place when I was trying to convince a friend about the possibility of Matthew McConaughey as a faceclaim for a character she was pondering, and when she decided against him I joked that I might use him instead, and I remembered this unicorn dude and was like ‘…well fuck.’

Tagging: @l-space @maclordy (I DEMAND YOU DO ANOTHER. xD) @candiceirae (You should also do another!)

[pickamuseanymuse]

I may or may not have a faerie unicorn stripper character now. 

>.>

[pickamuseanymuse]

me, a witch: huh I'm feeling anxious

me, a witch: hey I'm a witch, maybe

I could do something magic-y to help

me: I have a pack of salt, salt is supposed to help protect and it's cleansing

me: but maybe I should put it close to my heart, to help cleanse my emotions

me: but how will I do that?

me:

me:

me:

me, a witch: *puts a packet of salt in my bra*

me: this is magic

[rpmemesyo]

Send 😈 for a starter with an evil version of my muse!

[firaequis-deactivated20141009]

anonymously leave a rumor about my character in my inbox

[alannasroleplaymemes-moved]

Send 🎵 and my Muse will sing in front of yours.

Not necessarily TO them, though.

[skeletonbonesandflowers-deactiv]

Morning altars 💜 Instagram: xtwii

[shadowscapes-stephlaw]

#queenofhearts #wonderland #whiterabbit #aliceinwonderland #lewiscarroll #watercolor

[pickamuseanymuse]

@muse-roulette

[we-are-knight]

Would swords look different if it wasn't for the cross design? Like, would there be a big difference in styles of knights' swords if their base design wasn't cross-shaped? I've been asking myself this question for the past week and wanted to know what your answer was, brainstorming what a "non-religious-world" knight would look like, if they existed.

Well, that’s a bit difficult since this assumes the cross-guard was a design choice based wholly in religion, rather than practicality. See, the crossguard is a natural progression of the earlier viking and Roman swords, as such. See below:

Notice how the guard actually only forms a non-slip wedge for the hand? It’s not really made to protect from coming attacks, but to stop the hand slipping along the blade. This is similar with Roman swords; the lack of handguard was partly because the shorter Roman swords didn’t need much in terms of hand protection, just a way to stop the hand slipping when performing a thrust.

The crossguard is kind of a natural step up from that; by lengthening the guard in two directions, you have a tool that can now protect the hand, AND be used to catch and control an opponent’s blade in the same motion. Since having hands is generally accepted as being useful, and controlling an opponent’s blade is itself helpful in that regard, a crossguard is just the next step along.

Notice the above example is basically similar to the earlier viking samples, but with a crossguard? That’s because early arming swords essentially were just viking blades with added hand protection. Later swords would just get larger versions of this as swords themselves became larger. It’s not entirely true to say religion was the main factor in the design, more that form followed function, which happened to include a religious symbol; a few Masters of fencing draw attention in passing to the cross of the blade being the “salvation” of the user, which is arguably mnemonic description for using it defensively in the mentality of the mediaeval mind, where the cross is associated instantly with Jesus dying for the salvation of mankind.

Now, a variant in this habit of crossguards can be found toward the renaissance, as the development of guards progressed into ring-guards.

Adding protection to the sides of the blade, and more overall cover from blows to the hand, these were useful for dealing with glancing blows, “krumphau” blows, and generally added protection against cutting blows to the hands. All at the low, low cost of less dexterity. Which is not as low as it seems; from personal experience I’d have to say if I’m worried about getting hurt, the ring-guards are great, but for actual handling, the simple crossguard is easier. Even so, it’s hardly noticeable for most practical purposes.

Now the ring-guards are actually a good example of an alternate design that is viable in a fictional setting, as in the same period where zweihander swords using ring/cross-guards existed, we also see the use of the single-handed blades of the landsknecht, “Cat-gutters”, or “Katzbalgers”.

Notice the lack of crossguard, in favour of a circular guard?Keeping in mind these are still sidearms, these swords are useful for close combat, not so divorced from earlier viking and Roman blades; keeping the hand from slipping along the blade, and also offering some cover from savage sword cuts. Notice also that the rings here are a crossguard wrapped around?

If I was to guess what shape a sword guard from a world where the crossguard didn’t develop, actually took? To be perfectly honest, either thin diskguards as in Japanese culture (which are more for beating other blades aside than defence alone)or the viking period blade guards; enough to keep the hand away from the blade. Or, perhaps in a more high-tech situation, maybe the ring-guard?Honestly though, unless you are going for a very anti-religious message, I don’t see any reason to not include the crossguard, as they only make logical sense in terms of blade evolution.

[skullgrunt-audius-deactivated20]

You did exactly what I was hoping. Rather than just google and take the first answer as law, I wanted a more historical backing for an answer to my question. It never occurred to me that thrusting without a guard would cause you to lose your grip. I also didn’t know about the natural progression of the guard, or the idea that religious ideas we imprinted upon the design, instead of the design being applied due to religion.

Thank you very much, this is some good for thought.

[we-are-knight]

No problem, glad to help.

The “non-slip” part of a guard is often overlooked. I can say I will never overlook it after an attempted thrust with a machete, and slipping my hand about halfway along the blade…

Guards on a sword as are much for the user’s personal safety in use, than to stop coming attacks!

[we-are-swashbuckler]

Well, eastern swords provide a few variations when it comes to hilts.

Then we have sabres, which are where the military sword ended up after a while. Many were straight blades, even if they were single edged, so they are closer to ‘knight’ swords (arming swords, at least; many knights liked hammers and maces as their main weapon - good for bashing in plate - and carried a smaller sword if any) than you might think.

As a swashbuckler, I should also mention rapiers, small swords, court swords and the fencing sword which lies at the end of that bloodline, the foil.

[we-are-rogue]

*knife person butts in*

First, here are some scimitar (etc) hilts, because I like them.

Second, here are a few alternate ways to achieve a firm grip that prevents your hand from slipping, found in knives, daggers, and (mostly short) swords around the world.

Captain Obvious at your service: Friction (that’s up to hilt material and maintenance) and training.

A hilt with bumps, like some yatagan swords.

A hilt with finger grooves, a typical knife hilt design.

A ring somewhere on the hilt, like many kurkis.

The falcata hilt design, and similar.

The bichwa hilt design, and similar.

The katar and other push daggers.

The pata sword (aka gauntlet sword).

A hilt with a forefinger ring (modern only, as far as I can tell).

The ice pick grip.

For some knives, thumb on the spine and index finger around the choil.

[weareloremaster]

From experience I can say a lot of the knife variants offered here will do very little to stop your hand from slipping when wet, such as while covered in blood from said fight.

[we-are-dread-commando]

Yeah that last one especially does jack squat for thrusting, except for making it even more likely to slip. As far as I understand it, holding it in a pistol grip like that only gives greater accuracy for cutting and slicing. And yes, modern fencing swords have pistol grips too, but a proper guard as well, which is why the same criticism doesn’t apply. I’m equally divided about that ice pick grip; on the one hand, holding it with the cutting side facing you makes it more likely to damage your opponent because it’s coming towards them during the swing. But at the same time you really should have it pointing away from the veins and tendons in your arm, allowing the fingers to rest comfortably in that right angle formed by heel and bolster. This still allows uppercuts with the sharp edge, and a stabbing point on the downstroke. An ice pick grip is really more suitable for, well, ice picks and stilettos, where there’s no cutting edge to threaten the user. The falcata, and the knife with the forefinger ring, stand to give the firmest grip out of all these IMHO.

[weareloremaster]

The icepick is easily the worst for a variety of reasons.

Mainly being it is INCREDIBLY easy to have your thumb slip or lose grip on the end of the handle and now you’ve cut open your own hand, and are mixing blood with the opponent. You know most likely have a disease. (I have cut my hand this way but it wasn’t fighting someone, it was skinning a pelt).

The finger ring is good so long as it doesn’t get used to break your finger. A gloved opponent can wrench the knife in such a way to break, and perhaps remove, your finger.

[we-are-dread-commando]

Ouch. Yikes. I didn’t consider the finger-breaking aspect, and now I feel dumb because it’s so obvious. From an uninformed, logical, point of view one would think that no sane person would ever grab a knife, gloved hands or otherwise. But in a desperate knife fight, grabbing at the knife hand to control the knife itself, and risking even more injury if you miss, still happens.

And totally agreed on the ice pick, with the caveat that, while it may not be *ideal* for weapon retention, it is safe to use with something that has no edge to cut yourself with. In fact if I were using an ice pick (or other edgeless stabbing weapon) *that had no guard to stop the fingers sliding*, I’d probably use it in a reverse grip with the thumb over the pommel. It *feels* more secure than a forward grip, but I could be wrong, and here is where I defer to your experience.

[weareloremaster]

Something without a guard the thumb over does provide an extra stop, and can make a difference between stabbing your opponent, and cutting your hand open. I’m not saying you should never do it, but I wouldn’t recommend it for every thrust. Personally I’d never carry a blade without a guard, but I’m not going to stop someone from doing so if they feel it’s best for them.

[we-are-knight]

Icepick grip is used in a variety of cultures, and I can testify as a HEMA person that it’s the main way of using a dagger. But we’re using daggers with hands clenched around the rip, not putting a thumb on the butt as if we enjoy losing the one thing that separates us from stab-happy cats.

Mind you, we’re using Rondel daggers, which have wide disks for the hand to be held steadily in place; these are daggers for punching through joints in armour, after all.

Also, going back to guards, I was lazy when I reblogged this, but I should add:

Even though Swashbuckler and Rogue have added a nice variety of blades, notice how the guards are essentially universal? Either cross-guards (some with swept hilt design) or disks. The main exception is the Early Modern swords, the sabre, which has the basket. Hence why to my mind, in relation to the original question - you really only go for crosses or disks for sword guards, unless you remove them altogether.

[we-are-rogue]

@weareloremaster​ (and @we-are-dread-commando​ where applicable), knife fights are NOTHING like sword fights. They’re quick, brutal, and personal. For the slippery blood thing, it’s a non-issue here. If you drew enough blood to cover your hand and hilt in it, you’ve already won. And I’d like an opinion from the HEMA crowd on how detrimental to your grip blood really is, I’m not sure if it’s Hollywood physics or not.*

For the “not enough grip!” issue, enough for what? The primary purpose of knives is to stab, not parry, and to prick soft flesh, not armour. Even a simple, guardless folding-knife can spill your guts, and many guts have been spilled by folding-knives. We’re talking about the classic weapon of the criminal underworld, and often the only weapon allowed to the entire working class. Fancy fencing get all the press, but that’s the majority of the population right there. People DID use it, and took lives with it, and still do. Basically, you don’t NEED anything hi-tech in this context. Skill and blind luck are a thousand times more important than the shape of your hilt and blade.

As for the ice pick grip, the Knight covered me, and good point about the thumb on the pommel. See also these videos, and the dagger section in fencing manuals. The ice pick grip is a thing alright, though there’s some debate on how frequent / widespread a thing it was historically.

@we-are-knight​, I agree that guard shapes are limited (crossguards or disks, what else?), but guard sizes vary a lot, from what I’ve seen, and sometimes I get confused. Like, is that supposed to be a guard?

…or just the shape of the hilt?

Anyway, here are some more guardless swords, because this post isn’t long enough yet. :p

The shashka

the khyber knife

the standard Mandinka sword

the dha sword

the Moro bangkung

the Dayak mandau

and I’ve already mentioned the yatagan, but here’s one more, because pretty:

* To be fair, period blood is excellent lube. But it’s not the same. Ahem.

[ofbowtiesandbolts]

send me ❤ and I will bold all that applies to your muse

I would kill for you. • I would make love to you. • I would fuck you. • I would protect you. • I would hurt you for a selfish cause. • I wish we had more in common. • I want nothing to do with you. • I want to see you cry. • I want a future with you. • I want to destroy your future. • I do not care what you do. • I am indifferent towards you. • I want children with you. • I love you ( platonically ) • I love you ( romantically ) • I love you like family. • You are my family. • I could fall in love with you. • I would lie for you. • I would fight by your side. • I will never let you go. • I would hold you while you cried. • I would hug you. • I want to kiss you. • I would stay by your bedside if you were ill. • I want to fall asleep with you in my arms. • I want to forget you. • I will never forget you. • I only want to make you proud. • I wish I could make you happy. • You deserve nothing. • I will never forgive you. • You confuse me.

[stargazewitch]

[rp-meme-glaceon]

Send 🏠 to find out my muse has no family to go home to for the holidays

[alannasroleplaymemes-moved]

Pirate Themed Plots

Send a symbol for a starter based on the following scenarios!

🌊 - Our muses are from rival pirate crews, but both end up shipwrecked on the same island and need to work together to survive. 🍻 - Our muses meet at a tavern to have a drink and discuss stories from their latest sailing adventures…and end up starting a bar fight. 🍋 - After an unlucky turn of events, our crew is running dangerously low on supplies; some are even going crazy with cabin fever. How will we survive? 🐬 - My Muse’s crew found yours lying on a sandbar in the middle of the sea and decided to pick them up. 🐟 - My muse is a pirate whose ship drifted just a bit too close to a siren(your muse)’s rock, and now they’re enchanted by your voice. 🐳 - Our muses’ ship was swallowed by a gigantic whale and now we’re trapped in its stomach like in Pinocchio. 🏃 - My muse is a pirate on the run from the law that just so happened to commandeer the boat your muse was napping in. 🚩 - Our muses depart on a grand adventure to find pirate treasure that may or may not exist. 🔮 - My muse is a fortune-teller/voodoo practitioner/other magical being that your muse needs to help guide them to a cure for their curse. 👑 - My muse kidnapped your muse to ransom off to your parents for gold! 💎 - Our muses found buried treasure! Now every other pirate out there is trying to kill us while we struggle to make it home safely. 👾 - Our muses are under attack by a giant mythical sea monster that we accidentally pissed off when we ran into it with our ship.

[pickamuseanymuse]

[Anyone having trouble seeing the posts on this blog? I’m getting reports from some people that they’re only seeing the sidebar and background, no posts.]

[kacaesthesiaxkrystal]

Rose Quartz 💓