#;masha rambles

[aintitfierce]

some of the gods heard that the vanya creature had accidentally given birth to a living thing of some kind and had a good laugh at his misfortune but then got Extremely Confused when they later heard he'd actually taken up the dubious mantle of Parent and for all intents and purposes appeared to be having a ball with it. not to mention seemed to be genuinely fond of his child (as genuinely fond as vanya could ever manage, anyway)

[aintitfierce]

it wouldn't be entirely Inaccurate to say that vanya doesn't ever stay dead just bc he's too stubborn to

he's generally a pretty flighty, finicky thing but he has a long memory for insults and wounds, and while his grudge against the wandering hero amounts to basically Nothing nowadays other than a sense of wounded pride or ego and an indignant miss piggy 'hmph!' whenever he's reminded of them, i think it's worth pointing out still that there's definitely the potential for obsession in him despite his tendency towards a more mercurial disposition

[aintitfierce]

so uhhhh to be completely Honest i know it's like a thing that vanya is so old no one seems to remember just what he was ever truly The God Of, a group which potentially includes vanya himself, and that's going to continue but i. also. have never really decided on an arena for him, either, just like for my private notes or something

but i do think maybe i should, just so i can sprinkle in some references to that old role/dominion

which he must still have, btw. he's just been either purposefully ignoring it or neglecting it due to having no memory of what it even was lmao

vanya, who was once in charge of the life cycle* and technically still is but doesn't remember: pretty vanya wonders why his neighbors are living so much longly

[aintitfierce]

the line 'harpy hare where have you buried all your children' when i first heard it had me thinking 'OH NO' like they were killing their own children but then after a few listens it occurred to me that maybe it was an outside source that keeps Getting To Them and this is more of a mourning parent the narrator is talking to

and then it Occurred to me. idk. uh. how many may have picked up on the fact that sirree is not the first child vanya has swiped adopted, or if i at one point just explicitly said so. and none of the others were immortal like he is either. so where has he buried them all

tuna was immortal, but only biologically so chinhands

[aintitfierce]

i like the idea that oostal has a lot of Empty space in it. there's very large swathes of landscape that can be quite pretty but which can also read or register as kind of Lifeless. there's lots of old, crumbling, and abandoned places scattered about with only rumors for how they got that way, a lot of things that the current oostali inhabitants just take for granted that don't have a known cause (like the carriage that just wanders aimlessly on its own over all of oostal or the foundry which was abruptly abandoned one day a long, long time ago)

there are things in oostal that were not made for the current inhabitants-- they're like houses with ceilings and doors that are tellingly Too Big for anyone still there now and it's not just a case of overwrought opulence. something used to be here that isn't anymore

there's echoes of ancient magic and gods and other creatures in its scenery and various locations, but no one really knows the history of those things anymore, not outside of rumors and myths that have inevitably been warped by time

[aintitfierce]

on the drive home from work today i was thinking about introducing another fellow god of oostal but i really only have a vague concept for them and not much else

i was thinking of one based on trickery, kind of a sultry, languid little thing that has definitely led pretty vanya down the wrong path at least a handful of times

also i was thinking more on that one headcanon i've mentioned but not really solidified that while the Land of oostal is quite fluid and mutable, the inhabitants are not so much

i like the idea that all the Ancient inhabitants, those like vanya and the other gods, and grandmother, and the wolf, etc etc are all somewhat Bound to the roles they were nebulously created to fill. some of their traits and behaviors are inherent and they are literally Incapable of growing out of them or learning from their mistakes

oostal originally was introduced as a mirror underworld to the cat kingdom, itself already tenuously tied to the real world, and part of it is that it was kind of intended to be an opposite-- where the cat kingdom is unchanging, its inhabitants are changed and molded by living there. oostal as a location is constantly shifting in appearance and time and size but the same is not true of its oldest inhabitants

but i haven't really settled on Why it's like this or even if i will stick to the idea quite so stringently

[aintitfierce]

i don't have access to my icons rn but i wrote this little ramble at work earlier today so just setting it down here real quick

sirree’s name basically amounts to the word ‘very’ or ‘especially’ or similar words, and i think vanya’s logic in choosing that for her name is so that he could pair it with other words and make it Important

it’s not exactly a one-to-one Thing— it’s that the word sirree is used to add emphasis to words that are surrounding it or paired with it in some way. thus, vanya referring to her as virtuous sirree becomes something like ‘this person is Extremely Virtuous.’ he’s done this with other words, as well. past ‘nicknames’ he’s used for sirree include golden, little, and ill unfortunately enough 

it’s not a very subtle trick he’s trying to play, but he hasn’t given it up yet smh

also yes i am also not clever, and if you Understand where i got all this from in english, i apologize lghfioe

[sunandsatellite]

i have been thinking about natori lately and kinda shifting my perception of him as The Voice Of Reason in the cat kingdom around. i feel like i've gone too far in a direction with him, i feel like i've thought of his character with the very faint layer of 'practically human' shrouding him, if that makes sense

i think i've been forgetting that it's only in comparison to the cat king that he seems so much more reasonable and competent. he is also still a cat himself, and one who is ostensibly shown to find the cat kindgom and all its Quirks tolerable, if not outright preferable

the key part of this i think i've been overlooking is that for a cat he is responsible and hard-working. comparatively, when stacked up against the company he keeps, he must seem quite sane and relatable to a human trapped in the cat kingdom lmao

but that doesn't necessarily mean by human standards he actually is thinking emoji

after all, as i've brought up in the past, he never catches on to the fact that haru Doesn't Want To Be There, even with her (admittedly vague) prompting in an attempt to lead him and the king to the conclusion

he likes the eternal noontime, the sunshine, the lack of a real schedule thanks to there literally being no way to measure time lmao he likes the chaos of the place, tho he probably doesn't realize he does, bc he's never really known anything different. i think on some inherent level the cat kingdom makes sense to him, and that he does really feel that it's comparable to a human kingdom But Better bc they excised all the Silly Human Things

i'm very amused by the idea of haru trying to appeal to his logical side, if she had some inkling that he seemed more reasonable than a lot of other cats in the kingdom, only to realize 'oh nvm he's just as delusional as the rest of them rip'