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[belovedcorvidarchive2024]

Smallest reminder that you can add me on Disco if we're mutuals if you'd like to shout at me about threads and character dynamics things - especially during the working week as I'm mobile only in hospital. I love this! It just takes me a bit to get comfy.

I am, in general, really bad at remembering if I've answered things or not - just like I'm bad at telling if it's my turn during a board game or not - but I do a little better over there! OTL

[belovedcorvidarchive2024]

I'm such a disorganised guy - maybe I have enough things going now that I would benefit from a thread tracker of some sort, so I don't lose anything? I have a terrible time maintaining them usually, but it still may be a good idea.

Cora's inbox is empty though! no longer empty, I just want to keep using this as a drafts progress tracker. OTL And I have roughly six things outstanding, I think ? This list is mostly for me so I don't lose anything, but if you're not on it and you should be please shout at me because I lost it. OTL

Drafts for:

eritvita

heavens-sin

chillin-at-partys-bar

ladyxamalthea

todesgeduld

intothewildsea (x2)

New plotted thing for:

sleeplesswork

Additionally, if we're not writing presently and you'd like to be, also give me a shout and I will attack your comms (affectionately).

Additionally Additionally, if you've sent me something recently or planned a thing with me in the last week or two and you haven't seen it, etc., give me a shout about that as well - I'm not wholly convinced my notifications and IMs are working properly.

[bothfeetinthegrave]

Gentlest of reminders that I answer my Disco messages around %80 of the time, which is wildly more likely than me being able to see IMs here. Feel free to add me if you like, just let me know who you are!

[belovedcorvidarchive2024]

❣ | Mobile Friendly Navigation :: Verses |

These are the same verse write-ups as on my blog proper, I just wanted a mobile friendly version to add to my pinned post as well since I've had people ask for it. As mentioned elsewhere, I'm always making these and love to make smaller / closed verses so if you'd like to build something that's not here send me a message.

❣ | V :: observe and report |

This is the verse I use for canon things, and is set during Rocinante’s travels with the Donquixote Pirates as an undercover informant. He doesn’t talk much, but is still fairly social and willing to interact with others if he can steer them away from his brother. I tend to use this as my default verse if we’ve never interacted, but it doesn’t have to be!

❣ | V :: i’ll hold on just a bit more |

This is one of my main fix-it verses for if you’d like to interact with Cora at some point after he would have died. If this is something you’re interested in from a mechanics standpoint, shoot me a message and we can iron out precisely how survival happened in a given interaction. I tend to lean on ‘stubbornly clung to life until scraped up by Tsuru and the rest of the Marines’, but it’s also fun to come up with other ones. In this one, Rocinante wakes up in a Marine hospital following the events on Minion Island and spends the next few years recovering from what probably should have been fatal injuries. Once he’s able to walk again, he spends the next several years in remote, keep-your-head-down sorts of assignments as punishment for his previous botched mission. That is, until he finds out - via wanted poster, unfortunately - that the boy he thought was dead very much wasn’t. Now he considers throwing his life and career away a second time.

❣ | V :: let’s see the world together - you and me ( hearts ) |

This is my other primary fix-it verse for if you’d like to interact with Cora at some point after he would have died.  This is my verse where Rocinante leaves / is let go by the marines after the failure of his mission and travels with Law and the Heart Pirates instead. Cutting back on smoking is hard, but he’s much less stressed this way over all.

❣ | V :: silent as the grave |

As much as I love a fix-it, I also love a spooky ghost with unresolved concerns and trauma. In this verse, Rocinante succumbs to repeated severe injuries and uses the last of his strength to help Law escape Doflamingo. Then, he can’t leave. Ask for this verse to be haunted by ghost Corazón.

[bothfeetinthegrave]

| v :: you're there on the shoreline throwing stones at my back |

I've been meaning to do a write-up for an OP verse for ages, so this is that. I like to try to make verses open-ended and flexible so I can write reactively with them / place Eden anywhere without breaking anything important, so nothing I write here is going to be completely detailed or fleshed out. If you end up writing in this with me and want to adjust anything or make a more specific / closed verse that works for your character, shoot me a message.

One single night on a cold island in the north, Eden Muir lived and died at the hands of another without ever having seen beyond the place he grew up. As his short life passed before his eyes, right up to the end when everything was swallowed up by darkness, he really didn't expect for that to eventually clear - to wake up whilst in the process of dragging himself out of the ocean, back up the shore.

In this verse, Eden is the last of thirteen victims killed by the same roving criminal across thirteen islands. Because he was targeted randomly and he doesn't remember much of the encounter beyond its brutality, his attacker's intentions were not yet clear to him - clues to these intentions are few and far between, beyond the extensive but seemingly intentional scars he woke up with and the fact that he no longer seems to need to eat, or sleep, or breathe.

Eden now travels from island to island in search of the man who killed him, currently unsure if his purpose is to exact revenge or to find answers. He holds few long term connections with the living, and since he cannot see or sail on his own he barters passage on vessels that will have him by offering a hand with work, basic field medicine, and - for those willing to entertain it - a kind of weird sightless navigation he can do that's based on the way the waves pitch the ship. Seafaring voyages are not something he's used to or even something he really enjoys, so it takes him a long time to get used to it and to learn to work effectively even though he's afraid.

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Mechanically, I'm going to run Eden's weird ghost abilities more or less like I usually do. Devil fruit powers are fun, but I'm also tempted to make him just ~like that~. There are already zombies in this series, but I don't want to tie him to that particular arc and I imagine the circumstances of the way he exists are a little different than the corpses animated by the shadows of others.

While what happened to him was possibly also an experiment related to achieving life after death, his actual creation wasn't so intentional. He's not really controlled by a greater power here, and is simply a vengeful spirit powered by the anger of all thirteen victims. That being said, he was still a kind and gentle person in life and that tension between compassion and vengeance can make his existence somewhat uncomfortable.

[belovedcorvidarchive2024]

Do you have any cora lives aus?

❣ | Intel :: Anon Questions |

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I do - I haven't gotten to play around a whole lot with them yet, but I do have a few where he hangs on long enough to be scraped up by the marines. They involve a lot of themes around: recovering from debilitating injury, feeling very much like a failure, and having to navigate a now even more complicated relationship between his family/background and his work with the marines and what he feels he owes the kid he was trying to protect.

When I make verses and AUs (unless they're closed) I try to keep them fairly open ended so I can write reactively with them, so I don't set a lot of what he's been up to in stone. I'll probably make more specific ones as I go if the people I interact with want them.

Additionally: This isn't what you asked, but I also have one where Cora doesn't live and instead haunts people as a ghost that I keep around in hopes that I will someday get to use it to inflict either sadness, spooky shit, or both on someone.

[bothfeetinthegrave]

| Interest Tracker |

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Game ran late, but I made a thing.

Not required by any stretch of the imagination, I just think they're neat. It's technically for Cora's blog too - might reblog this over there as well. Sorry if you follow both of them, I get perhaps unreasonably self-conscious about stuff like that.