#aelium things

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ok cuz i said i would. if these characters were gods what would b their domains??? im gonna try and do ones i think would not be super obvious

demuye soleah weasel reid styx

oh and aelium :) for me

sports teams

knowledge

also knowledge but to the left

weird thirteen year olds at the cusp of learning themselves

war

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aelium god of the wayward souls

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💫 AELIUM!!!

he really really likes ducks

not quite his favorite but very up there

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aelium ofc... 🍩☕️🙈🙉✏️☁️🌠💗

🍩 DONUT - favourite sweet treat?’

I think Aelium might just have a sweet tooth in general! If you catch him around the office he’s probably grazing on a handful of Starbursts here or some ginger snaps there.

I think since because the emoji that is used for this question is a donut I feel the need to tell you his favorite thing to get from a donut place and I am absolutely certain that it is a maple bar. He likes to have a maple bar.

☕️ HOT BEVERAGE - do they prefer hot or cold drinks? what is their favourite drink?

Again… I think as long as it’s sweet he really doesn’t care that much. With the caveat of… If he is having a maple bar I promise you that he is having it with black coffee.

He would insist to you that the black coffee brings out the sweetness of the maple bar and makes it even better!!

His favorite drink… Hmm… He likes creme based things perhaps. A cute little strawberry something.

Actually now that I’m thinking about it this man probably goes nuts for a good strawberry milkshake.

🙈 SEE-NO-EVIL - whats a side of your oc that they don't want to show other people?

Hm. I think Aelium has an anger that is so well hidden that even Treader and Thuein haven’t seen it. His anger is really ugly, and as I’m typing this I’m imagining an Aelium angry enough to like punch a mirror but he’s only punching it because he hates how much his anger makes him look like

Well, you know who he looks like in that state. Or who he would be comparing himself to.

I think his anger has only ever boiled over like maybe three times in his life. There are drabbles in my head cooking about this. Oh dear.

🙉 HEAR-NO-EVIL - what is the worse thing your oc could hear from someone?

“You’re just like him, aren’t you?”

But SPECIFICALLY it has to be from someone that was directly effected by the him in question.

It won’t work from just anyone.

✏️ PENCIL - is there a particular quote / lyric that you associate with them?

Yeah. Too many actually.

“I wrote a poem in the palm of my hand, To eliminate the chance of me forgetting where I’m at If you cant read this, you’re awake We can get through another day”

[Made It Out Alive - Seb Adams]

☁️ CLOUD - a soft headcanon

Aelium… Half asleep. DEFINITELY goes MRRRPPP if you like tap on him or startle him. Little ear twitch. Looks at you all squinty…

Mrrrp?

🌠 SHOOTING STAR - if they could make any wish with no repercussions, what wish would they make?

I think he would wish for a greater capacity to help people. He just doesn’t want to see people suffer, which I imagine is an awful thing when you’re on Alternia.

💗 GROWING HEART - if they have a crush, is it noticable? what changes when they're in love?

Uhm. I mean I guess it depends on the quadrant but it also doesn’t really matter at all? At least as far as how he treats the person goes, because he likes to treat people with the same compassion and love pretty much consistently.

I imagine like

Matesprit - Uh… I’m gonna be honest with you. I don’t have an answer for this one. I think he just stumbles into this quad the same way I feel about ashen lmao

Moirail - He becomes a little bit more touchy. Touch his fingers to the tops of your hands, pats your shoulder as he passes by, any excuse to just.. Feel you.

Kismesis - This one is kind of funny because I’m pretty sure he would like… Start to pinpoint the things that annoy you a bit and then like.. Make it his business to bring them up in casual conversation but not in a way to piss you off like explicitly.. But like… Just to watch your reaction. I don’t mean like things that would like MAJORLY piss you off but like

Okay for example I used to know someone who HATED when people typed “yea” instead of “yeah”. It used to make him soooo mad. FOR NO REASON?

Aelium flirting with someone in pitch that feels so strongly about something like that would just add it into their text based conversations just to see…

Because he likes to see… People come alive? You know??

He would find the frustration cute… FUCK

(I am not leaving ashen out because I don’t recognize it as a quadrant, I just feel like it’s one you stumble into as opposed to actively look to fill so it’s pretty seamless)

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♪♫ Umm how abt Aelium

I answered the Cylion first to make you look like a Cylion fan how does that feel

Angels || Owl City I keep my knees black and blue 'Cause they often hit the hard wood floor (Wake me if you're out there) And I believe So I'm not praying to the ceiling anymore Turn the Lights Off || Tally Hall Everybody likes to get taken for turns To see how bright the fire inside of us burns And everybody wants to get evil tonight But all good devils masquerade under the light

This Bird has Flown || The Ghost Club So let these fools run free To be the ones they want to be These chains, they're falling off all over me My friends, I hope you get to see That I don't need your pleas And empty, cold apologies The Hero, the Saint, the Tyrant and the Terrorist || The Reign of Kindo Well I kindly asked them why - I must have caught them by surprise But I know they'll think of something I know they'll think of something They always think of something I know they'll think of something You can feel it in your soul, what no one ever knows Send me these music notes (♪♫) and a troll and I’ll give you four songs that I relate to them!

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👿 MAKE IT DIFFICULT... Aelium.

👿 Something you and your muse strongly disagree on?

Uhm.

Lets see here. I see think we both believe in second chances to a fault, but you know. I'm at a point in my life where just because you deserve a second chance doesn't mean that I'm the one that has to give it to you.

Aelium, on the other hand, would feel bad if he thinks that you could be better and his not forgiving you is preventing you from going through that change.

There's one exemption to that feeling, btw.

Mun vs. Muse

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what does aelium my friend aelium drop

"Elixir of life!" - Cranberry pomegranate juice, it actually replenishes quite a bit of health. "What ya makin'?" - A thimble, needle, and some sewing thread. "A friend!!!!" - A very small cat plushy that looks like it was sewn from the same fabric as his favorite set of scrubs. Equip for an added advantage. (Added advantage is unclear)

We’re in an RPG now! What do my muses drop when you beat them?

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Another one for that one ask meme.

As Always a Link to the Google Docs if themes make your brain sad.

The Hero, The Saint, The Tyrant, and The Terrorist  ||  The Reign of Kindo

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There are certain inevitable meetings that, try as one might, the fates will demand come to fruition. Now, for all intents and purposes, Aelium was never the superstitious type; One of those that expect the stars to have all of the answers to their questions or being the root of his struggles.

He’d seen the truth with his own two eyes and knew all about what type of being pulled the strings. The proverbial, perhaps literal, man behind the proverbial curtain. If you’d asked him what he met that night he wouldn’t know what to tell you, perhaps a more well read person would consider it a “God”. He preferred not to think about it at all, and largely he didn’t think that that supposed God would orchestrate a meeting quite like this one.

Though, there were very little explanations for how he ended up in the same room as a troll who not only knew his ancestor on a first name basis, but worked quite closely with his estranged twin brother. Aelium briefly remembered Persep describing him as a “mentor of sorts.” The thought sent a jolt up his spine. And yet, there he stood, large and imposing as he occupied most of Aeliums field of view in the observation suite, he couldn’t even see the surgery in the theatre below.

He dared not ask him to move, having heard enough about Dr. Lycias Argoli, and knowing better than to interrupt his viewing. 

Sawbones. That was his title. He always thought it was a bit bizarre, to have a title that was just another way of saying their occupation, though, Embalmer was one thing. Sawbones had certain connotations. The connotation was this here is a man that saws bones. Tread with caution.

Deep in thought and entangled in his own nerves, Aelium didn’t even notice the clicking of his pen as the sound filled the suite, not until it was too late, at least. 

See, the thing about Dr. Argoli was that he always had a smile on his face; Fin to fin, a slight smirk, a grin. Something that would signify he was in good spirits. Approachable even. It was terribly unsettling for all of those involved. The only thing more unsettling than his smile was his frown or any neutral look -- They didn’t sit well on his face, lookied something akin to an awful scowl.

Aelium knew this first hand now, as he stared at the reflection in the glass. Dr. Argoli’s looked fit to saw some bones.

The clicking stopped abruptly, but that did not change the scowl back into a smile. That would have been far too easy. 

“Lycaon,” though Dr. Argoli’s gaze never left the large bay glass in front of them, it was obvious that he was focused only on what little of Aelium he could see behind his own reflection. Aelium felt the icy chill of an older fuchsias gaze boring into him, it all but froze him in place. “What’s your angle?” When Aelium opened his mouth to respond, he was met with a raised hand. One that told him it was not his turn to speak.

“I’ve read all about you. I find it hard to believe that a Lycaon has no… Ulterior motives.” Lycias spoke his surname as though it were filled with poison -- Like he’d rather be spitting on it than speaking it. It made his stomach lurch. Persep must have really pissed him off during his mentorship.

“Altruistic trolls do not exist, let alone one with his blood in your veins.” The hand dropped, and it was Aelium’s turn to talk.

Unsure of what to do with his hands, much less what to say, he just stood there. Stockstill, eyes scanning the reflection of the fuchsia for a hint of a smile. He never thought he’d miss his smile.

“Have you lost your gumption?”

He swallowed down a thick lump. “But Thanat -- “

“Thanat Lycaon. The Embalmer. Have you a different view of your ancestor, then?” Lycias’ lips parted in what Aelium can now confidently say was a extra mean spirited scowl. “How kind, altruistic, pure, or whatever kind adjective you were going to say, could a man who tested an experimental and highly volatile unknown substance on his own poor Matesprit really be in the end?”

It looked like his gaze was fixed again on the procedure beneath them, his smile once again returning to his face. “Is it not, after all, his blood that runs through your veins?”

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Visitation of the Ghost

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There is a beat of silence, Perseps words linger in the air and send a chill up Aelium’s spine. What even does that mean? He was having so much trouble understanding any of the conversation happening in front of him. There was so much happening, it was so much to swallow. Having just come to terms with his brother's death, to have him just walk into his life again and -- Well, he might as well be having this conversation in tongues! Aelium just could not wrap his mind around whatever this was.

He chances another glance at their ancestor, who from where Aelium is sitting, appears to be having a time of processing the information just the same as he.

Then Thanat bursts into laughter, it is the sort of laugh you hear when someone says the dumbest thing in the world and it very quickly replaces the silence. Now, Aelium wouldn’t liken this to the full of soul laughter that he’d heard just minutes prior -- No, this one had an emptiness to it, and it had an edge of contempt.

He decided that he didn’t like this laugh, and from the feel of the sharp nails piercing into his flesh, neither did Persep. If it were not abundantly clear to him before that this was not all just a bad daymare, the pain only made it more so.

“Who even talks like that?” His laughter ebbs off and he rises to his feet, there is something to the sound of his voice that slices through the air in a way that makes the hairs on Aelium’s neck stand, he wondered briefly if Persep’s reaction matched his own. It probably did not. “Actually, while we are on the subject. Just who do you think you are?”

An uncomfortable coldness settles in the room, just between Aelium and Thanat, it’s almost palpable.

“You barge in here, uninvited when you were living, much less so as a member of the undead. You make these threats. You make a -- ”  Though his voice remains level, he tosses a hand in the air, as if trying to pull the word he is looking for out from it. “A mockery of my line. “

Thanat takes slow calculated steps around the desk that separates him from his descendants as he speaks. Aelium found it a little alarming that he never raised his voice, just the steady tone of a man with centuries worth of patience instilled in him. Even in his anger, there was this wave of calm that cascaded off of him and crashed onto Aelium, doing its best to wash away his panic.

When Thanat finally gets to Persep, Aelium finally feels the nails retract from his skin, as the specter, (is he a specter?), retreats a few steps.

He takes this time, with his shoulder newly freed of his loving brothers grasp, to skitter his way out of his chair and to the other end of the office. He really didn’t want to be too close to whatever the hell this was, he decided, as he pressed his back up against the wall behind him.

From his new vantage point, the handful of inches that separate them in height really comes into stark focus -- Maybe Thanat was almost a foot taller and well within his rights to call anyone he wanted to ‘little one’. Aelium makes a mental note to never contest that again. If he, y’know, ever recovers from whatever the hell this ids.

“What does a man have to do to get rid of you once and for all?”

“Kill me!” Persep lets out a  laugh that not only betrays every mannerism he’s ever been known to have, but one that betrays the current posture he held as he slinks back a bit and tucks his chin in ever so slightly.

“Tempting.”

“Tempting?”

“Incredibly so.”

“Thanat,” Aelium could swear he heard the sickening sound of the stretch of fabric as Persep bares sharp teeth in the form of a lopsided grin. “I’m not going anywhere. You do not scare me.”

Suddenly, Thanat’s hand is in the air again, which leads to Persep recoiling back another half step. It is a small, subtle move, but a monumental one to Aelium -- He’d never seen Persep so much as flinch before.

The elder Lycaon barks out another laugh.

“No, I would call that a funny way of showing it.” He took several steps forward, effectively backing Persep all the way into the corner and blocking what little view Aelium had of him with his shoulder.

Though Aelium could not see the expression on his brothers face, he couldn’t imagine that it was a good one.

“Here is what is going to happen, Mr. Friends in High Places. You are going to walk out of this clinic, if we are lucky, you will keep walking until you walk back into the hole you crawled out of.” He shrugs. “If not, well, I do not care where you go. But, if you come back here --”  He brings that clawed hand back up to trace the edge of Perseps face, and says in the softest voice.

“I will make you wish that you stayed in hell.”