#alterfall calliope

[alterfall]

CALLIOPE & CALIBORN

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CALLIOPE

Imaginative, but uncompromising

97.80% chance to be a rules lawyer when playing tabletop games.

Self-proclaimed loneliest girl in the world.

Muse of Space, wielder of Penkind and Scepterkind

CALIBORN

A philistine, does what he wants

7-in-10 chance to deface your stupid girly crap.

Self-proclaimed thriving socialite.

Lord of Time, wielder of Eraserkind and Ironkind

Together, the cherub siblings CALLIOPE and CALIBORN attend CADUCEUS ACADEMY, a dark and wretched establishment staffed by a lone woman known only as THE HEADMISTRESS. Here, she has spent their entire lives educating them on subjects including architecture, time management, self-defense and the quirks of various cultures. Though they share a single body, the cherub twins are of two minds, destined to one day fight for single control over their vessel by consuming the soul of their sibling. CALIBORN is fairly confident he's got this whole thing in the bag, but CALLIOPE's mind has grown twisted over these long years, and there is not a creature she hates in this world more than her brother...

Not one.

[hydro-city-zone]

JANE WINDSOR

Lore under the cut

The rest of the au (and some bonus images) can be found here.

Dark princess of New York from the year 2436, Granddaughter of The Queen of England.

Was once an airheaded frolicker with no care for politics, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚜𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚐𝚛𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚞𝚙 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚒𝚜 𝚎𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚛 𝚝𝚘 𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚞𝚖𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚕 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚞𝚛𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝙴𝚖𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝚐𝚘𝚘𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝙴𝚊𝚛𝚝𝚑'𝚜 𝚙𝚎𝚘𝚙𝚕𝚎.

Happily engaged to her 𝚜𝚞𝚒𝚝𝚘𝚛.

Met him for the first time after following a paper trail left by a long-dead mystery solver.

Yes, he IS. Real. You just don't know him. He goes to another school.

Page of Life, wielder of Sceptrekind.

[alterfall]

How does the altered meteor fall change which cherub comes out on top?

The same as it ever was: Nature vs Nurture.

To be fully transparent, there are some things in ALTERFALL that *can't* be traced purely back to swapping the meteor landings spots - if we were 100% purist about that, there wouldn't be any bloodswaps. *Those* came about because to swap a troll's Lusus with another, they'd obviously need to match blood colours, and it helps to be able to use the term 'bloodswap' for tags :P

But I'm getting off track. If you look back at the original post, you'll notice The Headmistress, who is teaching them all sorts of things in one of the most hostile, health-degrading environments of them all: School. Worse still, a boarding school where they have no true freedom and are subject to constant pressure to learn seemingly inane subjects to please their Guardian.

Cross-reference this with that final point in the original post about how Calliope's mind has been 'twisted' by her experiences at Caduceus Academy and that there is nobody she hates more than her brother - who is confidently complacent regarding the matter of predomination. Clearly, something has gone very, *very* wrong in the cherubs' development for things to have turned out this way.

Putting all that aside, one of the most important things to bear in mind about ALTERFALL's deviations from canon is that no event or person exists in a vacuum, so one change can cascade into a million more increasingly grandiose alterations. Lord English does not exist as we know him in ALTERFALL, which means that events that might seem to have been messed with at random could very well have been manipulated by forces beyond Space and Time.