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Genuinely curious if y'all would want a Chzo Mythos Community on Tumblr
(This is what a Community is btw)
Chzo Mythos Community?
I like the Chzo Mythos and I would join
I like the Chzo Mythos and I would NOT join
Infinitely more nuanced answer that I will put in a comment
I don't know what the Chzo Mythos is and I want to click a button
Reblog for more exposure pls
Extremely specific and insane ask but I hope Fisk gives Alison Arkin a gun and teaches her how to shoot it and she's deeply uncomfortable about it all. But then in a moment where all hope seems lost she pulls it out and shoots a bad guy dead and saves his life. Then carefully gives him the gun back before promptly vomiting all over their shoes.
Not to be a huge sucker for age gaps or anything but thinking about how Fisk was committing war crimes in the middle east while Alison was like, starting middle school. She was 9-10 years old watching tv and playing scrabble while he was fighting an evil, unknown, ancient, hostile god with nothing but a gun and a cell phone. Elizabeth Lawrence was interrogating his broken mind and making Diablerie do missions for the Ministry while Alison went to high school. The picture of a younger Fisk that Lawrence showed Alison was probably taken before Alison was even born.
His entire life was full of violence and death and she's only existed for about half of it, but now they're working together. He wants her to be a double agent for him. He didn't used to have a cell phone but now he does so he can text her. They're together so much that she carries his ID and has his car key on her ring. They went out for drinks once. She's so strange that she weirded him out on their first assignment together. He spends more time and effort insulting her than anyone else spends thinking about her at all.
Damn, Alison Arkin is really shaping up to become a really fucking powerful and influential person, isn't she? 19 years old and she already has a job working with a government agency that just got catapulted into the public eye. She's got a perfect memory, which has already gotten her recruited by Elizabeth Lawrence as a spy, and she's been so good at it that the Thief wants to recruit her as a double agent within months of knowing her. Her best friends are 'human dronestrike' Casin and 'his targeting system' Hesketh. She studied at the school so she has an extensive knowledge of magic, and she's starting to figure out runes with Diablerie.
She's not great at it yet but she's okay with manipulating people and going behind her superior's backs to do what is right, regardless of the cost. She's made headlines already - granted, it's for wiping someone's personality lol, but it's much easier to be infamous and flip her reputation later than to try to build a reputation on nothing. Depending on how conniving she decides to be, she could simultaneously have dirt on Trilby and Elizabeth at the same time, and end up controlling his organization and her entire government department. Jesuuuuus.
God I need to get my brain together and write some just absolutely pathetic Alison/Diablerie. Just an absolutely awful relationship with the funniest interactions on the planet. I could not imagine a worse experience for either party than an eccentric 35~ year old dating a neurotic 19 year old.
Do you think that the guy who has no qualms about asking a coworker for her virginal menstrual fluids would believe in the female orgasm? Do you think he would have serious doubts about fucking her because he'd lose his easy access to a virgin? Alison having to hide the relationship from the entire office because if anyone finds out she has no idea how she's going to explain herself. And she's technically supposed to be spying on him so Elizabeth will probably kill her.
Re-losten to Existentially Challenged then Differently Morphous recently and geeeeeeez, man. Adam and Victor's relationship is so fucking good every single time.
Like, in the first book, Adam and Victor fight constantly. Their every conversation is somewhat hostile even when they're not even angry or nervous. Rising tensions about shoggoths and possessed people in the world around them slowly up the stakes of their arguments - the first few conversations we see are pretty low-stakes, almost bantering (if Victor wasn't such a prickly mean-spirited cunt). It's just how they communicate. But as the book goes on, their conversations hit more and more towards the heart of their philosophical disagreements and the contradictions in their outlook on life. To the point where Victor and Adam end up fighting in the woods and captured and tied to a barrel full of gasoline. (Their conversations after this go back to being less explosive, and also Victor doesn't even blink when it comes to saving Adam's life multiple times + Adam trusts him completely during that final fight, so their fundamental differences doesn't make them any less effective as a team.)
But before the petrol barrel, Adam essentially asks Victor, "Aren't you sick of this? Always being together? Always being the mindless destructive fireball? Everyone we work with knows that we are useless apart from each other and no one respects us."
And Victor just says No, this is fine. Because of course he would! The man who is actively being crushed and hampered and put down in the co-dependent relationship is begging to be allowed some sliver of freedom away from Victor's overwhelming power. Victor needs Adam to compare himself to, to see how pathetic he could be, to prop up his ego.
But when you re-read EC before DM, you see how much Victor really truly hates himself and his power and what he has to be. His callous response to Adam's bid for freedom is clearly and obviously a sort of lie he's telling himself. He's already resigned himself to being the living weapon! He doesn't want to be trapped as a DEDA employee with Adam, he doesn't want to be in that partnership, he resents being forced into the box and told what to do. But he's in the box now and he's not gonna leave. But it takes Leslie-Ifrig, of all people, the one who put him in this box, to shake him up and make him realize, very briefly, that he could be something else. Adam could never offer him that hope even when he asked Victor to be someone else. (Of course, Leslie-Ifrig wanted to use him for their own purposes, but that's a different conversation lol.)
We can also see that Adam's bid for freedom is something he is also not truly, completely sincere about. Or at least, he isn't committed to freedom once it happens. Because Victor is the one who wouldn't let Adam feel free, but Victor was the first to drop their relationship and quick to sever it when he felt like it hurt him too much. Adam was the one who ended up chasing Victor down, begging him to return, trying to get back to the status quo when it was ripped away from them. Without Victor there, Adam goes from a stabilizing force to a chaotic force all by himself - disobeying orders, mindlessly chasing leads, getting pointed in a direction by his superiors and running it until far past the point of usefulness. Victor represents a lot of Adam's own bad traits, they have similar faults, but Victor actually expresses his bad behavior and Adam gets satisfaction and a sense of purpose from being the one to reign him in.
Anyway, if their toxic co-dependency gets thrown away to make them both heterosexual I am going to fucking lose it.
Had a dream last night that Alison and Diablerie had to pretend to be a student/a staff member at a weird, luxurious private school in the middle of the English countryside. There was some kind of weird student organization that was performing rituals, and the school administrator that reported it wanted to figure out if it was actual magic that was cursing their school after a string of terrible events happened that led to a student dying.
Highlights include Diablerie being forced to wear different clothing + no top hat, Alison despising the girl's uniform so much that she leads a student revolt to let girls wear pants, Alison having to pretend that she and Diablerie are dating as an excuse for why she sneaks out of her dorm at night to discuss her findings with him, Alison having to figure out how to be popular and well-liked at school so she can get into the student organization, and also her semi-regressing to teenage emotions and mindset briefly before Diablerie gets pissed at her for being more annoying than usual.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
(Woops realized I forgot to link this fic here lmaooooo)
Victor Casin is living the plot of the average sickfic, while Adam Hesketh is suffering through all of Casin's emotional constipation. Can he make a breakthrough and get his stupid partner to admit that he's in love already?
Meanwhile Alison and Doctor Diablerie are sent to do an exorcism in the woods - and Diablerie is actually taking the time to teach her things? But things go a little sideways when he forgets to tell her that she could get possessed by a murder-ghost before exposing her to getting possessed by murder-ghosts. So now Alison has to deal with both her crush on Diablerie, and possibly, maybe, getting possessed by a murder-ghost. Fun!
Sequel to my previous Casketh fic, go read em both!
