most tragic thing about wanting to see more stuff of your oc is that the c is o and YOU have to make the stuff. devastating. why can’t art of my beautiful baby just appear in my hands. just materialize under my pillow, like from the tooth fairy
What time period does the "ars poetica" story take place in? I just imagined a medieval-style fantasy world, but I must have been very wrong 🥹
I remember you wrote some details about the manga universe, but I don't remember anything and I can't find those posts anymore...
I'm also curious about how their "magic" works. I don't quite understand that either, but I want to know
(My Tumblr is frozen and I'm trying to send this a second time. I hope it sent once and I don't look stupid.)
Hi! So, Ars Poetica is set in the equivalent of the modern era, but the vast majority of the action takes place in a more historical setting, as the stronghold of the Order of the Muses exists somewhat outside of time. They bring in the trappings of modernity with them (manga, Cheetos, energy drinks, so on) but there's not phone or internet access. So it's sort of a mix of the two!
Each of the Poetesses is a daughter of one of the Nine Muses, and they each represent a specific poetic form -- like a sonnet, a sestina, a villanelle, a madrigal, etc. As for how their magic works, I've got some stuff about that from my planning doc which I'll add under the cut. tl;dr, they each share a set of foundational skills that help them with basic hand-to-hand combat and weaponry usage, then specific magical or powered-up moves related to their individual poetic form.
Powers:
Meter is the foundation of all poetic forms and therefore it’s a power that all Poetesses share (and the first thing they train). They master four types (Iambic, Trochaic, Anapestic, and Dactylic), as well as the various syllable subdivisions (tetrameter, pentameter, etc).
In their working life, though, they tend to only use the one that suits their poetic form the best
this relates to how they move and sets the pace and rhythm of a fight
Each Poetess also has a moveset linked specifically to her poetic form. If there are multiple variations on a form, then that results in multiple movesets. Think of these like charged attacks or ultimate moves.
Power scaling results either from the number of variations a form has or on the complexity of the form:
Multiple variations = more raw power and versatility
Complex form = harder to master and much harder to defeat
To access their full powers, Poetesses typically have to shift into their true form (think a magical girl transformation)
In this form they have unique armor as well as unique weapons
This is what they do most of their fighting from and it’s rare for a Poetess to a) not use their ascended form and b) use conventional weapons at all
Once fully trained this form should be easy for a Poetess to ascend to and maintain, although it does require recovery time afterwards
my dream as a fanfic writer is for one day, one of my fics to be someones comfort fic. like the fic that they reread when they don't feel good and want to be happy. i want my words to comfort someone one day
