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Spotify Wrapped Number Roulette:

#5 & #55‼️

5:

55:

i hope you know just how close i was to making wilson my senior song because tbh as a student that HATED my classmates about to make some real expensive mistakes it kinda hits in retrospect

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🐗Whole hog Naomi‼️🐈‍⬛

finally i can talk about my beloved. the sweetie

Autumn & Vernon | Cy & Newton | Winter | Yule

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✨- How did you come up with the OC’s name?

Naomi (and Ruth) I came up with at the same time during Inktober. I was doing a prompt where basically Naomi was left alive while Ruth bravely went off to fight to defend her, and the names came from vaguely parallel names from the Bible story. Rozwell was a bit pulled out of a hat, though, partly as a reference to my friend Roz and partly as just a small but significant small town in the middle of nowhere.

🌼 - How old are they? (Or approximate age range)

Same age as Autumn, 15.

Yes! At the beginning of the story she is in a relationship with Olivia Hart. I've never really given her another love interest but I think she would be the kind of person to have lots of girls crushing on her without her aware of it. And boys as well, they exist.

🌺- Do they have any love interest(s)?

Fruit! Naomi loves oranges, peaches, strawberries, and making all these things into pies. Huge sweet tooth.

🍕 - What is their favorite food?

💼 - What do they do for a living?

🎹 - Do they have any hobbies?

Currently she's a magic student, a general healer/support type. She feels pretty pressured into taking up adventuring because of all the cool women in her life, and because she doesn't want to just farm her whole life. But she also doesn't really have the temperament for it. Outside of her setting and given several years to find herself postgrad I think she would bounce between a few trades before settling eventually as a stylist/influencer/counselor.

She is in every club at school because she feels bad for the little ones having to close because they don't have enough members. She's semi-active in all of them, so she's always got some meeting she has to get to.

🎯 -What do they do best?

Overworking herself. But also she's very good at bouncing off ideas and listening to others, making them feel welcome and cared for, that sort of thing.

She loves cheering people on! She loves being cheered on! She also is kind of uncomfortable with direct praise. She also gets very anxious when she has nothing to do or if nobody needs her.

🥊 -What do they love to do? What do they hate to do?

✂️ - What is one of your OC’s worst memories?

❤️ - What is one of your OC’s best memories?

When Olivia asked her to be her girlfriend, which was the first time she felt so loved as an individual.

Watching her sister die, extremely selflessly, and because of the Circumstances and where her mind was at and Ozymandias's manipulation, thinking "Thank God". And then feeling awful about feeling like that.

It's pretty close, like all my designs lol. Her clothes are decidedly way more fantasy than they were originally.

🧊 - Is their current design the first one?

🍀 - What originally inspired the OC?

The Inktober prompt mostly, but I was taking in a lot of twin-oriented media at the time and wanted to try and do some interesting things with it. Kind of my take on the Lup/Taako dynamic or a story where there's clearly a greater/lesser twin and the favored sibling is the one that dies first. Heroes and fools both die young ect.

Fantasy is solid. Like everyone else in Animus Vitrum she's got a lot of family issues but in another world she would be the main character of it by virtue of me coming up with her first as opposed to like 4th in this cast. She also kind of lends herself to a more grounded realistic world with magic, like High Spirits Neoma or Muted, but we take what we can.

🌂 - What genre do they belong in?

💚 - What is your OC’s gender identity and sexuality?

🙌 - How many sibling does your OC have?

Cis lesbian, she/her

Quite a few! She's a middle child in a big pseudo-Christian family. The most notable of her siblings though is her twin sister Ruth. I came up with a list at one point but I lost track of it.

🍎 - What is the OC’s relationship w/their parents like?

It's distant but generally caring. Her father is busy running the farm with her brothers and her mother is always away at the edge of the Feywild maintaining the border. She admires them greatly but often feels like they don't know she exists.

I like how she's got these two very conflicting sides to her, the sweet and the corrupt, the supportive and the jealous, the dependant sidekick and the yearning for self-actualization. It's great. I love duality.

🧠 - What do you like most about the OC?

Not very frequently honestly. She's the kind of character I really want to get right but both she and Olivia I more just daydream about.

✏️ - How often do you draw/write about the OC?

💎 - Do you ever see yourself killing off the OC?

I'd considered it and in kind of a roundabout way she does kind of kill the old her. But that's not the same thing.

She's deathly afraid of failure and of accidentally making someone upset to the point that she keeps everyone at arm's length.

💀 - Does your OC have any phobias?

Ruth is her ultimate rival, even though she loves her dearly, but she's always going to be in her shadow. Ozymandias is somewhat of an arch-nemesis in that he preys on this feeling in her to keep her dependant. Cy is kind of a foil for her in this way.

🍩 -Who is your OC’s arch-nemesis or rival?

🎓 - How long have you had the OC?

Since October 2019! So a little over 4 years.

🍥 - What age were you when you created the OC?

I would've been 19.

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🐖 for Newt & Cy!! What do they look like now??

holy moly, a double whammy! heads up, a lot's different, and the art is a little outdated.

✨- How did you come up with the OC’s name?

Newt: Newt's name was intended to be as generic and boring as possible. Kind of ho-hum. Newton Daley feels pretty successful at it.

Cy: Honestly Cy is a huge placeholder name that kind of stuck. First and foremost it just sounds cool, but it's technically short for Cyclops, because when I first drew them, they had their face obscured by shadow save for their grin and one anime eye. This is the kind of thing that could honestly be revised, haha.

🌼 - How old are they? (Or approximate age range)

Newt: Originally in the story he was the same age as everyone else (15-16) but I'm toying with the concept of having him be a teacher instead because I liked him so much in the prophecy au! Additionally it feels like the cast is like of desperate for positive adult role models so he can kind of step up here. This puts him in his late-40s.

Cy: Cy was created from a scrap of Vernon's husk during the events of the story, making them throughout it only a few weeks to a few months old, as the whole thing takes place over the course of a year.

🌺- Do they have any love interest(s)?

Newt: Nope! He's ace. When he was a student earlier in development he had a platonic-sort-of thing for Cy but as he is now it's purely just fatherly.

Cy: Not currently. In the prophecy au they had a thing for Amanita but we'll just have to see what happens to them in development.

🍕 - What is their favorite food?

Newt: He's been eating bran and prunes and plain oatmeal gleefully since he was a wee tyke.

Cy: They've never had the pleasure of eating food where they are in development but they would enjoy the process of eating. It's fun and an excuse to be messy, even if they don't get anything out of it nutritionally or taste-wise. They'd be super into those styrofoam blocks that hold machined parts in place during transit.

💼 - What do they do for a living?

Newt: He's basically the magic school equivalent of a kindly gym teacher. Specifically focuses on swords. In a modern au coaches girl's volleyball.

Cy: Currently their job is assassin. Their dream job is unemployed.

🎹 - Do they have any hobbies?

Newt: Newt likes to keep busy so he has a lot of homesteading kinds of hobbies. Some textile work, some wood, lots of gardening and animal husbandry (especially beekeeping).

Cy: Not yet in canon, but after the story they hang out a lot with Newt and figure out what they like. They'd probably like camping honestly. Something about being out in nature, dissociating between spirit and body surrounded by life.

🎯 -What do they do best?

Newt: Genuinely, he doesn't especially excel in one particular area, but he is a reasonably talented swordsman to the point that they put him in change of training in that area. He's also incredibly kind.

Cy: They don't have any particular skills. Even as an assassin, which they're trained for, most of what they can do is because of cheap tricks and magical items they've been given. But so far, theoretically, it's murder.

🥊 -What do they love to do? What do they hate to do?

Newt: He hates having to yell. Nobody likes it when he does either, because he's not even brooding beforehand or afterwards, so it always just takes people completely by surprise every time. As for things he loves to do, he gets a lot of joy from tutoring someone one-on-one.

Cy: Cy hates people telling them what to do, which is basically their entire existence so far. It'll only get worse as it goes on because they value their freedom so much. Consequently their favorite thing to do is the opposite of what they're told... even if that's what you wanted all along. They're not smart enough to know what reverse psychology is yet.

❤️ - What is one of your OC’s best memories?

Newt: He's lived a pretty full life with a lot of happy memories. It's hard to pick just one, but it's probably one where he's teaching.

Cy: Later on in the story, Newt chooses to spare their life at great personal cost (he partially turns to gold). It's the first time someone treated them as valuable and worthy of grace despite the circumstances, and they hold this memory in high regard.

✂️ - What is one of your OC’s worst memories?

Newt: There was a disaster that happened at his sister's workplace and she was missing for a long time. This is a plot thread that kind of goes nowhere but he was up all night worried out of his mind for her.

Cy: Like Vernon, they're subject to the nightmares that come as a result of their amalgam nature, though due to their dissociative abilities with As Above/So Below they can avoid a lot of these thoughts, but at some point when they're whole and merged they need to rest, and they hate it every time.

🧊 - Is their current design the first one?

Newt: Not even a little bit. Newt's initial gimmick was that he was supposed to be an incidentally faceless character, then his face changed to be modeled after Jon Duckdotcom, then I made him a dilf, and now we're here.

Cy: Yes and no. I'm in the process of redesigning them to follow more of a rogue clone kind of arc, but haven't put this to paper yet. As for the design in most of the art I have of them, it's basically identical to the first drawing I made of them all those years ago.

🍀 - What originally inspired the OC?

Newt: The Boy Scouts of America.

Cy: Damien Wayne. And one of the prompts during Inktober.

🌂 - What genre do they belong in?

Newt: Honestly? He started as joke pastiche character riffing on a certain kind of non-threataning blandman that exists a lot as a buffer in the cast. He still is kind of a buffer, but now I think he'd be perfect in a comedy.

Cy: They're peak sci-fi honestly. Love an evil clone with sick swords and an edgy hood.

💚 - What is your OC’s gender identity and sexuality?

Newt: Cis male aroace

Cy: Agender, still figuring the rest out.

🙌 - How many sibling does your OC have?

Newt: Several. He's the oldest of 6. Most of them aren't super important but had established dynamics when he was a teen character that just don't fit well now. They're all named after Earth scientists, canonically wizards of antiquity from humanity's distant past. The most important one is Rosalind Daley, investigative journalist. She's the one that went missing. Pascal, Joules, Darwin are the rest of the kids.

Cy: Technically Vernon is like a brother to them, and probably the closest time they have to a sibling. But there's also all the failed clones that are basically just mindless blobs of matter. If they count.

🍎 - What is the OC’s relationship w/their parents like?

Newt: They're long dead at this point but good! They challenged him and were generally very supportive and proud of all their kids.

Cy: They were brought into this world by Ozymandias and hated him so much they joined the party trying to kill him. And turned the tide, allowing them to succeed. So bad.

🧠 - What do you like most about the OC?

Newt: Newt surprises me because I didn't expect his character to touch on something genuine and heartfelt in the planning phase. Hopefully it follows us to the page as well.

Cy: Cy has a special place in my heart because of how fucked up their given circumstances were, but how much they tried to do something about it. Not gonna lie they really do kind of suck as a person even by the end of the story because they're only just starting to grow and change, but you hopefully get kind of a sense that it's not the end for them. And hopefully they're fun to watch despite it all.

✏️ - How often do you draw/write about the OC?

Newt: Not often these days though technically his art is newer because of his prophecy au cameo. In it, he had fancy prosthetic arms and served as a plot hook for the party finding the engineer that made them.

Cy: I haven't drawn them in a hot minute but I used to love doodling them. However I have written them a bit in the prophecy au. Unfortunately because I needed an antagonist for Yule's arc and I was operating under the assumption that this was an alternate timeline where they didn't get the kind of help when they needed it and things were very different for them, so I ended up kind of character assassinating them in front of the squad. Even now this is their impression of Cy which is a crying shame :/

💎 - Do you ever see yourself killing off the OC?

Newt: I could see it but it wouldn't make sense within the scope of Animus Vitrum really. However he will die at some point of old age.

Cy: I think a good death would probably fix them. Or make them worse. I dunno. Regardless they're also sticking around, being a menace, ect.

💀 - Does your OC have any phobias?

Newt: Nope!

Cy: That they know of.

🍩 -Who is your OC’s arch-nemesis or rival?

Newt: He's much too normal to have one of these.

Cy: Their "brother" Vernon. And Olivia Hart (self declared)

🎓 - How long have you had the OC?

Newt: I think I must've made him in late 2018-early 2019. So about 5-6 years.

Cy: I made them in October of 2018 I think? So 5 years.

🍥 - What age were you when you created the OC?

Newt: 18-19. Though the refresh occurred in like 2021, when I was 20.

Cy: 18.

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🍀 - Autumn & Vernon!!

Answered!

any desiccated ladies trying to get by?

The whole 🐖 for vernautumn 😏 i'll be answering the clover ask first and then put the rest behind a readmore, haha send me emoji asks about

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The whole 🐖 for vernautumn 😏

i'll be answering the clover ask first and then put the rest behind a readmore, haha

send me emoji asks about my ocs!

🍀 - What originally inspired the OC?

Autumn: At the time, I was getting into Webtoons for the first time (though after a lifetime of being into webcomics as a whole) and as an experiment, I tried to engineer the most generic female lead from the tropes I currently liked reading. That basically culminated as three main influences:

Shin-Ae Yoo from I Love You. I wanted to make a story with a protagonist that was spunky, but not bubbly, despite all the hardships she had to deal with in her life. A lot of Autumn's voice in my head is very much like Shin-Ae's still.

Amy from Space Boy. I wanted to make a story about an outsider, a fish out of water, slowly finding her place in the world while at the same time finding common ground with a fellow outsider. Both my approach and the source material took a very different route eventually.

Ava Ire from Ava's Demon. This is another influence that stuck around more closely, though originally Wrathia's dynamic with Ava was originally intended to be a parallel with Autumn and Winter, who later became cousins rather than haunted soul-evil tulpa.

Vernon: Like Autumn, I made Vernon originally as a way to try and engineer a comic I'd want to read. He wasn't originally a homunculus, just a cringe little witch. But here are his top three:

Kody from LUMINE. I originally wanted to do something with a witch that couldn't do magic conventionally, a theme that I ended up splitting in half with Autumn as well.

Winter from Winter Woods. This was the first true Frankenstein romance Webtoon I'd read, and despite everything I've got a really special place in my heart for it. You can thank Winter for Vernon's eyebrows.

Oliver from Space Boy. This one was primarily to complete the set with Amy as Autumn, but his arc actually has stayed pretty close to the way Vernon developed as a character! Or at least, it feels that way to me.

✨- How did you come up with the OC’s name?

Autumn: Both Autumn and Vernon are relics from when the project was named "Seasonal Depression", which was an early version of the project where Autumn was being haunted by Winter and Summer, a left-right brain pastiche. Her family name of Saffworth refers to both her hair, the exorbitant price of saffron the spice, and the little purple flowers on the saffron plant. Flaxsong, her adoptive family's surname after she runs away, is intended to evoke both their fiber business and history of bardic storytelling.

Vernon: Vernon was designed as Autumn's foil, so he had to be named a spring name. Simple as. Helfeather was mostly just the edgiest dark-witch name I could come up with. (He was originally supposed to be Vernon Helfeather-Cravitz--Cravitz was the surname of his nonmagical deadbeat dad. He now doesn't have a dad at all!)

🌼 - How old are they? (Or approximate age range)

Autumn: She starts the story at 15, but she was 12 when she officially ran away from home. I have aus where she's in her 30s as well, as I also have a few stories dedicated to their eventual children.

Vernon: Vernon is a weird one. He only has about 14 years worth of consistent memory and maturation at the beginning of the story, but he's been around for a few thousand years, rebooting and resetting like a bad computer. He'll eventually get to grow up a bit, and could be around indefinitely.

🌺- Do they have any love interest(s)?

They are each other's love interests! Autumn also has a lingering crush on her childhood friend, Olivia, but when they meet in the story Olivia already has a girlfriend. Vernon has never gotten close to people before Autumn in that way.

🍕 - What is their favorite food?

Autumn: She's famously very picky as for most of her life before the Bloodmaker woke up, she couldn't eat most things without getting sick. During this phase of her life, it was probably bread and butter, not toasted. After the Bloodmaker wakes up and she grows comfortable with trying new things, she finds she really likes spicy foods. She'd love a sichuan hot pot broth or a classic tteokbokki.

Vernon: He physically has no tastebuds or need to eat. It's sticks.

💼 - What do they do for a living?

Autumn: After the events of the story she actively turns away from the medical field and dives into the Flaxsong family business. She manages sales and helps manufacture fabric. She especially enjoys dyeing thread and coming up with cool skeins.

Vernon: Vernon has always wanted to have a very public-facing magical research career, giving Nobel Prize speeches and whatnot. However after he's finally allowed to go to school and graduate he realizes he's way too socially awkward for that. Now he just tinkers in his garage and stays at home with the kids.

🎹 - Do they have any hobbies?

Autumn: Autumn likes watching horror movies (which don't exist in her setting, but, y'know, a girl can dream) and making shitty little dolls (either with fabric or, y'know, flesh). She also would LOVE a violent video game....

Vernon: Vernon enjoys people-watching, drawing, and reading. Although he craves being with people, he's also probably one of my more introverted characters.

🎯🥊 - What do they do best? What do they love to do? What do they hate to do?

Autumn: Autumn has an innate sense for both her and other peoples' physical bodies and anatomy both per the Bloodmaker and her time as a Saffworth having it drilled into her head. She hates engaging with that kind of magic except on her own terms, though. She's adept at but doesn't enjoy magical healing because she's aware of its capacity to harm. She learned to enjoy working with textiles and has gotten pretty good at it over the years, though.

Vernon: Vernon has a lot of very small talents that he doesn't even know about fully, stored in his muscle memory. He's also a very fast reader and usually had pretty good information retention despite his memory issues. He loves learning new things and trying to come up with creative ways to approach problems that accommodate his needs better. However, he hates putting himself in even minorly risky situations, because he hates the threat of losing all of his progress every time he gets a small injury.

❤️ - What is one of your OC’s best memories?

Autumn: Sometime midway into the story, possibly offscreen, there's some kind of mundane luncheon where both her adoptive guardians, Vernon and his family, and some of her friends are all spending a lazy afternoon together decompressing after a stressful week. Everyone is happy and lively and chatting together and well-fed.

Vernon: In one of Vernon's lingering first memories from when her resets in front of Autumn, and instead of recoiling in fear and disgust or a similar reaction, she instead helps cut him free of his husk and gives him a big hug.

✂️ - What is one of your OC’s worst memories?

Autumn: This one's tough but it's probably something from her childhood. I haven't fully ironed out all the Horrors but it was probably at the hands of her cousin, Winter, and it probably was what gave her the inertia to finally leave. She's got a lot of educational, medical, and familial trauma in general.

Vernon: The benefit of having chronic memory issues is he does tend to lose a lot of the bad memories, but one that lingers is an especially nasty one from a couple dozen years ago where he got injured, reset, freaked out whichever peers he was with, and that event started a chain reaction where he almost melted down. (read: went thermonuclear and exploded like a bomb)

🧊 - Is their current design the first one?

Autumn's outfit changed from being very preppy to just being cold at all times, but her hair has stayed pretty consistent. Vernon has always worn the same thing but the hoodie pattern/colors changed. He used to have longer, blue hair, and the specific hue of purple used shifts, but he's also pretty similar to his original form in ways.

🌂 - What genre do they belong in?

Autumn: Honestly, she lends herself a little better to a political noble family drama story than what Animus Vitrum actually is, which is an adventure fantasy, but she also does pretty well in a modern setting.

Vernon: Vernon is PEAK sci-fantasy. Rogue alchemist's spawn. If anything, Tela is too mundane for his ass.

💚 - What is your OC’s gender identity and sexuality?

Autumn is a bisexual cis girl. As for Vernon, honestly , he's probably aspec to a degree, but he loves Autumn wholly. He's also physically speaking basically...intersex? Kind of? He doesn't have a lot of the built-in sexual characteristics to the degree of it causing him some discomfort. It's complicated.

🙌 - How many siblings does your OC have?

Autumn: No blood siblings, but she was raised alongside her cousin Winter. She's got a lot of cousins in general.

Vernon: Cy is an imperfect clone made from one of Vernon's old husks by Ozymandias to try and kill him. After they chill out a bit they're kind of like a sibling, sorta.

🍎 - What is the OC’s relationship w/their parents like?

Autumn: BAD! Autumn's father was mostly neglectful of her and she only tended to interact with him when he was asking about her magical potential, and when he didn't receive the answer he wanted, he'd simply dismiss her. Her mother was more hands-on abusive, and had a penchant for pitting her against Winter constantly.

Vernon: He's got two moms and like, two not-dads. His moms are very sweet and they look out for him, but they have a tendency to be a little bit protective of him given his overall history and needs. Amelli in particular is also very concerned with the fact that Vernon's existence is technically a national security concern, where Clove is more worried about his emotional well-being. Vernon was technically created by a sorcerer a few thousand years ago and has kind of conflicting feelings about that. And then Ozymandias featured strongly enough in his more recent life to cause him a lot of problems, to say he doesn't like him is kind of an understatement.

🧠 - What do you like most about the OC?

Autumn: Autumn's managed to really worm her way into my friends' hearts with her pre-story quiet and shy demeanor. It's going to be exciting once I finally get around to writing her coming out of her shell. I'm looking forward to it.

Vernon: I'm very proud of Vernon's personal cocktail of gender issues, chronic physical/mental disability issues, and of the way he hatches from his own skin like a cicada. He just exudes such potent narrative vibes and I'm always a little in awe of it.

✏️ - How often do you draw/write about the OC?

Not as frequently as I have in years past, if I'm being honest. I did rp both Autumn and Vernon a few years back with @the-goblin-cat's Cherise and Neville to try and figure out their voices and I vastly enjoyed doing that. I've mostly just been both too busy with commercial projects and writing Exordium, but also too intimidated by the project to make solid headway into it.

💎 - Do you ever see yourself killing off the OC?

Autumn: Not really, except as a fakeout with the Bloodmaker. She's textually immortal due to it, and I have too many plans for her going forward in the story.

Vernon: Also not really, though if we're splitting hairs, he's kind of dying every few arcs and is also textually immortal, if not coming back changed.

💀 - Does your OC have any phobias?

Autumn: She's actually pretty fearless despite everything! She isn't very fond of pristine environments or disturbing imagery, but while she's able to easily avoid the first thing by allowing herself to take up space, the second she's actually been able to acclimate to it to a degree through the Bloodmaker and a burgeoning fascinating with horror media.

Vernon: He's rather squeamish. He has a tendency to be very careful whenever doing anything and will take any available precautions, as he's got a bad history with injury. He also tends to be very guarded and reserved emotionally, even with his friends, though it tends to just look like his normal bubbly self.

🍩 -Who is your OC’s arch-nemesis or rival?

Autumn: Her cousin Winter is an early antagonist and hurdle for Autumn to overcome. While Winter does have her own cluster of problems from her upbringing, she and Autumn's dynamic is bad for both of them, and Autumn finally being able to beat Winter at something sets Winter on a path towards getting her shit together. She and Vernon also share her other cousin, Emrys, as a nemesis, as he's kind of the antithesis to her "puppet of the family bloodline" narrative.

Vernon: Vernon has TWO arch-nemeses, their clone/sibling Cy, a fellow homunculus, and Autumn's cousin Emrys, who has pretty similar aspirations to him.

🎓🍥 - How long have you had the OC? What age were you when you created the OC?

I made both of these guys close to the same time, in roughly late high school, probably something like 18. (I'm currently 24, as of writing this, which makes this project 6 years old.) I was in the throes of teenaged hormones and this was a great way for me to vent in the moment, but I've since matured out of/moved away from the issues that incited a lot of the edgier subject matter central to this story. In the time since, I've also begun to reapproach teenagedom from the perspective a teacher working with this age-group, so this kind of change in perspective is also what's contributing to all the changes I've made to these characters.

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What's Gone to Seed??

Gone to Seed is my Hades fanfic that's on the backburner for now (getting that nice smoky flavor) but is living in my mind rent free.

Basically it's a Persephone and Hades role-swap, with the Titonomachy gods deciding that Tartarus was too dangerous and too occupied to claim as a domain so soon after a major war, and Hades ended up in Demeter's domain of the mortal plane as the God of Decay and Things Abandoned. Meanwhile, Persephone, who I'm interpreting here as being a goddess of new beginnings, follows her impulses to make her way down to Tartarus and contracts with the various Cthonic powers for the authority to build a kingdom, but she lacks the organizational acumen that Hades does, resulting in something much more haphazard and chaotic, more prone to reincarnation, more prone to escaping souls, and more of a headache for all the House to deal with.

Zagreus, on the surface, is a foundling that ended up in Hades's house as many foundings do, and when his foster-sister Atalanta is taken by one of the Furies, he and his foster-brother Asterius join up with Thanatos to try and get her back, learning more about his heritage as the son of the Queen of the Underworld, and uncovering a plot trying to keep Erebus sated so that he doesn't rise up and rip out the foundations of the House and the Underworld itself.

GtS is a HUGE canon and mythological departure, honestly becoming more of an original fantasy at parts, but it's a lot of fun for me to imagine the divergent elements. I've toyed with introducing a Hephaestus-themed industrial revolution into the setting, which I think is really cool, but might be a touch too far even for canon-divergence enjoyers. I haven't really touched it since last year during my Hades phase but honestly the first few chapters are sitting at like, 80% completion, so I just need to get around to it.