#aria dolce

[muse-whimsy]

The Lesbians are hungry!

Vocals- Alvarina

Guitar- Rhona, Aria

Bass Guitar- Octavia

Drums- Luana

Backup Dancers- Nagisa, Celestine

[lagunablu1]

Hai l'aria dolce. E i tuoi occhi sono stupendi. Sono folli, selvaggi, come quelli di un animale minacciato dall'incendio della foresta.

C. Bukowski

[muse-whimsy]

So I wrote some sort of essay all about Octavia. It gets weird at the end. At the end, it becomes less about her and more about the Whimsica series itself? But it’s also about how she pertains to it.

Stuff about Octavia

Octavia Scherzando is a middle school teacher who teaches 6th grade with a supporting yet important role in the Whimsica series. Due to her long last name, she is called Ms. S by her students. During the start of the story she is 27 years old. Octavia‘s ethnicity is half Indian and half Korean, but she had been adopted by a white Italian family. She is quite tall at five feet and ten inches.

She teaches the subjects of math, music, social studies, geography, and PE.

At first, the students in her class think she might be a vampire because she likes bats and black cats, wears all black (usually trench coats), loves gloomy weather, and is a bit eccentric. Eventually they find out this isn’t true and she’s just a very nice teacher. They grow to trust her immensely.

Octavia is non-binary demigirl, usually presents as feminine and goes by she/her pronouns. She doesn’t mind being called “they/them” however, and sometimes even “he/him”. She enjoys dressing masculine sometimes. As a drag king, she has another persona named Octavian, who is a male. Octavian can be described as a stylish and dapper man who loves the ladies, and is suave and outgoing.

Octavia is a lesbian. At one point, she is prejudiced against due to her sexuality and is told she is not suitable to be teaching young students. However, she is a well loved teacher due to her kindness and her entire class stands up to her in that moment. One student who looks up to her a lot is Joy Smiley, a shy girl with confidence issues. She helps her students with many situations, including personal and emotional problems along with academic ones.

Octavia is very protective over her students and anyone in need. As a teacher, she however isn’t afraid to put her foot down when needed. She wants more than anything for all her students to succeed and be treated fairly.

Octavia likes music and likes to perform. She is able to play cello, bass guitar, and piano. She is also a contralto vocalist whose trademark is her “booming bass voice”. Octavia previously had a complex about her voice, which she thought was too deep. Before, she tried to fake a higher tone when singing and resulted in damaging her voice. Eventually however, she began to embrace her uniqueness. She can also make her voice even deeper when performing as Octavian, her masculine persona.

When Octavia was in high school, she struggled with severe depression and confidence issues. At the time, she was a quiet girl with long hair. She hadn’t found her true personal style yet.

In her final year of high school at the age of 17, Octavia met a friend named Hibiki who helped her with a lot of her problems. Hibiki was a wild child. Her approach to life was to live it to its fullest and not care what others think. She was a masculine goth girl, who ended up influencing Octavia’s style a lot. Hibiki was also in a band called Crescendo who happened to have needed one more member. Octavia had taken singing lessons for 3 years. She also always wanted to learn to play bass guitar, and wanted to start now so she could join Hibiki’s band.

Octavia eventually discovered that her lower voice range was much more powerful and began to sing in a way that made her seem very confident during her performances. Eventually, her confidence did build up. She hacked off her long hair, began dressing in dapper, all-black men’s wear, and became a new Octavia. It just made her feel alive.

In a short time, Octavia’s demeanor went from a that of a meek little lamb to a loud, wild cougar.

She calmed down a bit after high school and college in order to become a teacher, but still retains her wild passion within.

Octavia was in love with Hibiki and they dated for three years after high school. However, they broke up, still remaining close friends. Hibiki, along with the other members of the band Crescendo, Ursula, Santana, and Ruya, remain as Octavia’s group of friends into adulthood.

Octavia eventually does find romance again when she meets Aria. At the time, Octavia is 26 and Aria is 27. Aria had already been a middle school teacher for a year. Octavia was new teacher looking to follow in her footsteps. She cares for the younger generation and wants to work with students.

Octavia then realized Aria was somewhat cold and strict. However, Octavia reckoned that Aria must have a soft spot because she chose to work with students. Octavia was then determined to figure out Aria and get her to smile more and be happier. She one day found out Aria had been abused by an ex-boyfriend, which is why she acts like she can’t let anyone in her heart. Octavia confronts Aria about this who keeps running away. Eventually she breaks down and tells Octavia that she wants to be someone more like her, who doesn’t seem to let anything get in her way.

Octavia then says “Actually, I’m a lot like you...” and tells Aria about her own insecurities from her past, and how she still struggles every now and then, but learned to be optimistic. The two then become close friends, and eventually start dating and overcoming obstacles together. They keep their love a secret at first.

A year later, starting in September, the story of Whimsy Quartet begins to take place. Octavia and Aria are about to have their first experiences in their entire life with the magical world of Whimsica.

Whimsy Quartet is about Joy, Vivi, Maia, and Bonnie, all students of the school, becoming magical girls who are able to freely warp to and from Whimsica. Usually, only Whimsica’s High Royals would be able to do this, but it turns out that the middle school is blessed with a certain power that allows the people who go there to be able to warp back and forth freely from Whimsica.

(By the way, Bianca and Camille (of the other story, Whimsica Saga), go to the high school across the road, which is why they are unable to go back home once their in Whimsica, and why it’s such a big plot point.)

It turns out villains and enemies are escaping from Whimsica into Earth and brainwashing and attacking the people in Joy’s class. It’s the Quartet’s job to stop the enemies. It also results in a lot of their classmates finding about the magical world. Octavia and Aria eventually find out about the girls’ magic and what is happening. They then are allowed to enter Whimsica as long as they try to keep it as secret as possible.

Octavia and Aria then find out they have connections with the land of Whimsica. Octavia’s original parents actually were Whimsicans, but they decided to put her in an Earth orphanage because the Whimsica-Monochrome war was getting bad at the time and didn’t want a child who would get caught up in the calamity.

Aria, who was adopted as well, also had Whimsican parents.

Therefore, Aria and Octavia have powers. Actually, everyone does have powers, only visiting Whimsica is how to unlock them. But Aria and Octavia might have inherited their powers from their birth parents. At times, they actually begin to follow the Whimsy Quartet as their support, and to make sure they’re okay.

To make it even more like they’re companions, Octavia gains the power to turn into a bat. Aria gains the power to turn into a mink.

In December of the same year, Whimsica Saga begins to take place. This story is about Bianca Luna, a 9th grader in high school, who ends up in Whimsica and cannot get home. Throughout the story she has a long adventure where she meets a lot of friends.

Around January, Bianca and the others end up meeting Octavia in Whimsica. Octavia therefore makes her debut in her second chronological story, Whimsica Saga.

[muse-whimsy]

wip

[muse-whimsy]

I drew Octavia and Aria’s animal forms.

Octavia is the bat, Aria is the mink.

[muse-whimsy]

Octavia’s voice has been such a running gag that I actually decided to canonize it.

She now has voice-related powers as a magical girl. She can move stuff with her voice and make things shake, maybe even cause a volcano to erupt or something.

Aria on the other hand, she’s a soprano so she could probably vocalize in such a high pitched frequency that she can break glass and generate heat (?)

[muse-whimsy]

OC pick up lines

“My love for you goes down immeasurable octaves.” -Octavia

“Let’s combine our lives and become a duet. I’ll take the high part, because you make me feel like I can soar.” -Aria

“A whale’s heart is so big you can swim through its arteries. You’ve swam through mine, right into my heart.” -Rhona

“I love you from the bottom of my heart, the Marianas Trench, you could say.” -Nagisa

“I’ve found the finest treasure trove in all the world! Now show me the booty!” -Luana

“Like a leaf in autumn, I turned red and fell for you when you came into my life.” -Alvarina

“You are an impressive work of art. We could be a masterpiece together.” -Celestine

“Are you a musician? You’re pretty skilled at making chords in my heart.” -Hibiki

“I’ve never met poetry in the form of another human being before.” -Santana

“The ice in my eyes melted when I saw you.” -Ursula

“You make the bass drop in my heart. Can’t you hear it? Ba-dump, ba-dump...” -Ruya

[muse-whimsy]

how do you pronounce Octavia's last name? :0

Haha well uh

I’m pretty sure it’s Sher-zan-doe? 

Also you should know that many, many of my OCs have weird and unusual last names that wouldn’t be names in real life

“Scherzando” is actually an Italian musical term used in music to mean “playfully” or with zest (I believe…)

Her girlfriend Aria’s last name is Dolce which is another musical term, meaning “sweetly”

Octavia’s first name alludes to the word octave and Aria’s name is a kind of opera I believe

Well

Even though Octavia is Indian, I have it so she was adopted by a white family, like how Camille was. (Because even though Scherzando isn’t a name, it would make more sense for it to be an Italian last name than an… Indian one)

Her family still let her experience her culture and celebrate Indian holidays and such, even though they couldn’t really provide it for her first-hand