#brackets writes

[brackets-gift-anon]

[while i was in exclamania the amount i could remember was around 1.5~ percent] [in quests's world its closer to a baseline of 2%]

[now whats interesting is that when im drunk that goes to around 50%] [although im able to properly communicate 10~12% of it because] [horrors] [and language barriers]

[and if id managed to get drink while in exclamania (unlikely to impossible) it would go up to around 34~36%] [with a properly communicated rate of around 12-15% (of the prior percent, not total like the last one)]

[it would have made everyone's opinion of some of the people i worked with, what those would call "against" drop to nil] [because who the fuck beats the living shit out of someone who looks like a preteen (or an optionally younger, teen)] [even if they're not actually one]

[brackets-gift-anon]

*a memory floated through the portal

*brackets what are you doing

["memory of double cross"]

*... decreases base defense until a party member is downed for the first time in a loop, causes leathal damage to the current state of the enemy that caused a party member to be downed, with a 15% chance that enemy is "fixed" and changes sides, and a sharp buff to all healing craft that will last the whole loop

[brackets what are you doing]

*lets not let gift touch this

*they're probably still compatible with it

*italics gently nods along

[brackets-gift-anon]

[there isn't a timeline where an even somewhat canon typical me would be ok with a "affection of the gods is being granted on you" type plotline]

[-without someone doing something fucked up and evil to that me]

[if its an "affection of a god who is so beyond you because of them not being trapped" its even less likely to be ok with any me]

[and if its in a coded role the god starting it is going to be treated with the same dignity and respect of some asshole who's sexually or romantically harassing a waiter] [because if im in a coded role i have the same level of ability to leave and to consent as one]

[brackets-gift-anon]

[i am brackets]

[we are here for one last walk in our home]

[you cannot change the script for this]

@character-profiles @character-selecton @status-updates

[this is a mostly unconnected blog]

[scarf isnt on this blog dont look for it here]

[brackets-gift-anon]

[+ 1 blood tea parties tea pot for every drop of blood tea the host of the festivities pours an equivalent amount of the guests blood is drained]

[the host / holder of the item is granted the ability to designate the guests and the scale of the festivities]

[often used as an assassins weapon in olden times]

[brackets-gift-anon]

*a photo fell from the sky- from somewhere

*landing at gift's feet, the anon gently cradling the photograph

[photograph of false memory : its a photograph of sel and nef's wedding that couldn't have happened]

[among other details, both brackets and john are sitting in the row for family in person, brackets in their own body looking particularly radiant and john having prettied his body up at their request, with gift sitting in the back]

[a few members of the party are... gone, almost like they never existed, and the knight anon sitting near the back with its lady like the knight hadn't wept so hard at not being able to help their body vanished entirely]

[strangest of all the two halves of a dead poet, neither able to write, sit at the very back, stealing from the punch and snacks before anyone else can get at them]

[...]

*gift tucks the photograph of a dream away for later blackmail, entirely unaware that this wont do anything other than make brackets cry from raw sorrow, at a life they know they could never have had

[brackets-gift-anon]

the odyssian bullshit i seam to attract with gusto is reflected in quests as their blessing, their curse, and their responsibility

they have to put themselves into a situation often or else they literally attract angry magical creatures (not a modification of their world, the creatures already exist), unfortunately that also seas me as a more than half decent way to put them in a situation

its not wrong, their blessing from their god is as much a curse as a responsibility as a blessing, their god doesn't understand me, their curse seas what i was branded as in my code, everyone other than random cultists doesn't see me as other than a person, and occasionally a sobbing drunk (← the reason im banned from drink with some caveats)

- brackets

[brackets-gift-anon]

gotta love my initial ship name effectively being "the most healthy (and sane) relationship in (the setting)"

and even after all the fucked up shit that happened to me before being there is revealed, its still true (not to the pride of the setting)

the relationship directly after under the same naming scheme is "repressed idiots (brackets x quests)" which shifted to "beloved to eachother (quests x John the Redeemed* x brackets)",

*he's the only one who has enough honor to capitalize her own name, also the one that initialized the (current state of the) relationship, on account of me and quests being repressed about it

(in system there was slightly less repression, but only slightly because we were both being weird about our respective other partners not being here(me) or not being properly formed in system(quests))