Ask Lord Chamberlain

Ask blog for SkekSil the Chamberlain from TDC (sideblog, follows from @reikiajakoiranruohoja) AU/OC/Multi friendly.

[herecomesthetaco]

Some watercolor request I did on Insta lol

[quocamerarium]

FINALLY I got that clan conflict sorted out. Skreesh,took me... WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S BEEN TWO TRINE!?

[skekfuckingli]

Oh, you just got back, too? Excuse me, I'm going to just uh...sneak past you here and go quietly to my quarters. Please don't let anyone know I'm back, it's very embarrassing..

[quocamerarium]

How were the Grottans? And the mushroom?

[quocamerarium]

FINALLY I got that clan conflict sorted out. Skreesh,took me... WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S BEEN TWO TRINE!?

[scroll-keeper]

"Must you be so loud, Chamberlain? Your cretinous caterwaul awoke me from my nap."

[quocamerarium]

Caterwaul?! I'm trying to project an image of competence here, Scroll-Keeper. Two trines of absence is HIGHLY unprofessional.

[scroll-keeper]

“I’ve been in my library taking important inventory and making certain my writings are up to date. And you? Apparently playing babysitter with two Gelfling clans who can’t share their toys.”

[quocamerarium]

I babysit them, so you can keep your books safe and gain new ones. Or that you and your friends can eat fresh meat at all.

[quocamerarium]

FINALLY I got that clan conflict sorted out. Skreesh,took me... WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S BEEN TWO TRINE!?

[scroll-keeper]

"Must you be so loud, Chamberlain? Your cretinous caterwaul awoke me from my nap."

[quocamerarium]

Caterwaul?! I'm trying to project an image of competence here, Scroll-Keeper. Two trines of absence is HIGHLY unprofessional.

[quocamerarium]

FINALLY I got that clan conflict sorted out. Skreesh,took me... WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S BEEN TWO TRINE!?

[unboy]

you motherfuckers better be lifting with your legs and not your back

[petits--oiseaux]

Because I never knew what that really meant until my back already hurt:

[simplyspider]

[rubymemes]

𝐑𝐏 𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐐𝐔𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐄: 𝐑𝐔𝐋𝐄𝐒 & 𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓

A little PSA about some RPC basics that can be important to know, especially if you’re new to the RPC.

Having a page for your rules and your muses is the best way to ensure people will feel comfortable following you back. A lot of people will avoid following someone without rules & about. 

Rules are not only there to establish your boundaries (which is very important) but they also allow people to quickly know if you’d be a good match or not. Sometimes, rules are not going to be compatible, and that’s ok! Some people don’t like trimming posts, some people don’t like untrimmed posts. Some people prefer icons, other prefer iconless, others don’t mind either way, etc etc…

That’s also why it’s very important to read someone’s rules before following them. If you are 18 but follow a 21+ RP blog, all it shows that person is that you either didn’t read their rules, or that you chose to ignore them, which isn’t very respectful. 

It’s the same thing with about pages. It will allow people looking at your blog to know your muses (even basic info can go a long way) and decide if they want to follow back or not. And if having an about page is particularly important for OCs (after all, how can people know your muse otherwise?) it’s also important for canon muses! Everyone can have a different HC with different portrayals, and an about page is the place to put all these details. Plus, people might not be familiar with the canon of your muse, or might not remember all the info!

And just like with the rules, it’s very important to read the about pages before following and interacting with a blog! Even with canon muses! Some people can have canon-divergent muses, or HC-based muses.

[designcr]

reblog if you’re 25+ and still roleplay; or if you believe older muns have a place in the rpc and shouldn’t be told to give it up when they turn 30. 

i received this anon & i just want to make a point. 

[quocamerarium]

☹ ☣ ♣ ◯

☹ Name one person they would kill for.

Aside from his dead friend, Sunny. Sil might be a cruel and tactical skeksis, but his kids are off-limits. Sil would tear guts if the skelfling was hurt. This goes for any of his kids.

☣ Would they kill someone close to them if they had to?

Sil might say no, it is illegal and honestly it would take a lot to make him kill another skeksis.

But Sil does not just live with other skeksis. He has his podling and gelfling assistants, his spies and his contacts. If one of those has to go prematurely? Shame but that is the name of the game.

Unlike the Mariner, Sil is not truly attached to the gelfling around him. But that does not mean he cannot like them when they are alive.

♣ Do they believe the world is made up of good and evil?

(The show kind of addressed it, but let's try XD)

To Sil, good and evil are a matter of perspective. What one sees as evil, another might see as a way to survive. Sure, z'nid birds suck nurlocs dry while they are still alive, but that is how it lives. Sil is cynical enough to see people the same way, everyone is just trying to eke out a living.

In his actions, Sil tries to go for the least harm unless greater harm is more advantageous. Since you can (in his mind) never truly do anything without hurting someone, the best is to make sure things can be easily repaired.

What Sil believes in instead of good and evil are order and chaos. Society only runs if everyone is willing to put effort into it. The society he thrives in only runs if the game has rules to twist and turn. Sil would not do well in pure anarchy.

◯ Do they believe in ghosts?

Sil is the least religious skeksis you can find, earthly matters are his domain. But he sometimes does hope that the spirit of his friend would still exist in some form. The idea that the soul of skeksis is just gone is too horrid to think of.

[quocamerarium]

▼ △ ☼

▼ What is their greatest fear?

SkekSil has your typical skeksis thanatophobia (fear of death), but for him it takes the form of losing control. Sil fears the loss of control, because control is the only thing he has going for him. Strip his status and his networks of contacts and he is nothing.

△ Name one thing from their past that they regret.

No matter how stubborn and tunnel-visioned Sil is, he is far from ignorant. Though it is all to serve his quest for the throne, Sil is starting to regret breaking so many friendships for it. After all, his goal is somewhere in the distant future, right now he barely can discuss things with other skeksis at all.

☼ If they had the choice to be immortal with one other person, who would they choose?

Sil sees immortality a little different from how we would. As he has by default existed way beyond a human lifespan both as an urskek and as a skeksis, living long is not really a dream. It is the default.

How Sil sees immortality is living long and remaining young and healthy.

As for with whom he would share it? Hak is dead and he has basically driven all his friends away. Sadly skekUng is literally the only one he could see it working with.

[horrificmemes]

Horrific Headcanons

Send a symbol for a headcanon about my muse. All horror/angst/scifi related.

✘ Have they ever committed a murder? ▼ What is their greatest fear? ✿ Would they ever trust dark or wicked magic? △ Name one thing from their past that they regret. ✂ If they had to choose one weapon to carry forever, what would it be? ☣ Would they kill someone close to them if they had to? ☢ Would they survive an apocalyptic situation? ❣ If someone had the power to bring them back after death, would they want them to? ☠ Do they fear death? ♱ What do they think awaits them after death? ¿ Are they easily frightened? ╳ How would they react to seeing a loved one become possessed? ☹ Name one person they would kill for. ☼ If they had the choice to be immortal with one other person, who would they choose? ☎ How would they react to receiving a phone call from a deceased love one? ★ Do they have a favorite scary movie? Book? Show? ♣ Do they believe the world is made up of good and evil? ♥ Have they ever acting out of heartlessness? ☾ What is their favorite and least favorite thing about the night? ψ Do they think they deserve punishment for their wrongdoings? ϟ Have they ever gotten pleasure from causing others pain? ♚ Do they consider themselves to be evil? ♒ If they could choose how to die, how would they want to go? ™ Are they possessive? ✔ Are they holding a grudge against anyone? ◯ Do they believe in ghosts? ✦ Who is their favorite villain? ☄ While watching a scary movie, are they the one clinging to a friend or being clung to? 웃 Do they believe in aliens?

[quocamerarium]

You make better points than the General, it's called planning ahead.

Why thank you. It is a pity that the General does not see beyond a single battle. Especially in a time of peace such as this. But I suppose when you make your life's mission to fight, you have to expect boredom.

[givemeangstymemes]

Tell my muse everything you ever wanted to tell them! No limits! No consequences!

[kaiju-crimson-storyandask]

(For SilSol, @quocamerarium) Ah, I see one of the many realities has found its methods to unite. Greetings, progenitor of mine. How do you fare? Is there anything left of... well, me?

The reformed UrSkek canted his head to one side. He was curious and a tad confused that this other version of his vile, corrupted half managed to remember being part of a whole. Not even SilSol could remember everything between the two halves he was reformed from.

His glowing white eyes slowly blinked then dimmed to reveal the faintest yellow hue. He attempted a toothy smile but, despite his muzzle appearing more like UrSol’s, he still retained SkekSil’s wretched teeth and the tip of his beak. Two hands held onto the merged scepter like it was his sole defining feature, while the other two calmly crossed at the wrist.

“Well, I never thought I would meet another version of one of my halves,” he mused, lowering his head to properly look the chamberlain in the eye. “I’m doing alright. Yes, there’s still quite a bit left. And how do you fare, Chamberlain? I see your grammar his back to how it should have been.”

@quocamerarium

[quocamerarium]

The skeksis watched the urskek carefully, body language neutral and tail curled just out of the way enough so the purble skeksis could scram off if the urskek tried anything. The toothy smile was returned with a nervous one, including Sil licking the front of his beak. As the urskek tried to look him in the eye, skekSil quickly averted his gaze to avoid giving a threat signal. You could not lie to your mirror, even if it was taped back together from parts. "Is good there is. Though Chamberlain not want test it, too risky" Sil stated with a headtilt of his own. "Grammar is... easy, if written. But if spoken" The skeksis begins and rubs his throat. "Broken, torn. Can't speak long" he explains and adds a tail wag to offer easing gestures. The red-clad skeksis circled the urskek, sniffing like a hound. "Stitched together, taped together, yet not among the bright stars. Guilt? Or like Thra more?" he asked, that smarmy grin returning to his jaws as he tested his limits.

[oculi-mechanica]

You know you're getting old when the sentence "the younger generation tires me" crosses your mind.

[quocamerarium]

For us, it is even worse, since that younger generation is soon the older generation. Then even sooner THEIR younger generation is now the grandparent generation to a MUCH younger generation. And this is how you end up asking after a contact 300 trines after their passing.

[oculi-mechanica]

Oh I was talking about my inbox. Theres some kind of deranged podling going off and they're not giving up. It's a little scary even.

[quocamerarium]

Hrrm, do you want me to handle it, Scientist?

[oculi-mechanica]

You know you're getting old when the sentence "the younger generation tires me" crosses your mind.

[quocamerarium]

For us, it is even worse, since that younger generation is soon the older generation. Then even sooner THEIR younger generation is now the grandparent generation to a MUCH younger generation. And this is how you end up asking after a contact 300 trines after their passing.

[skekfuckingli]

I'm a bit worried about skekSru, they already show an immense musical talent, but they play and sing like a--I don't know, like a machine? Perfect pitch, picked up sheet music instantly, never needed a metronome, but it's all so...without soul?

[quocamerarium]

Be glad you have -two- who can. I have one top budy being like me to try and the other is a ghost.

[skekfuckingli]

But surely you're pleased with your children as they are, Lord Chamberlain? I can't imagine you'd in any way regret your dalliance with the Assassin, being that all your choices are of course calculated and clever.

[quocamerarium]

...Hrrm, both are good as they are, of course. Simply a sad reality that neither is musical at all. Maybe Sunny still has hope.