#hrokr

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what if elisif was a pervert ✂️

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thinking about how when hrokr becomes a flesh dragon no kind of loincloth fits them so theyre just forced to freebleed every month

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padomay (the final form of the last dragonborn) and anu scroll. they band together to defeat alduin as the only two beings superior over akatosh...

anu manifests on nirn as a sentient elder scroll to guide hrokr through climbing the prolix tower to be able to mantle padomay. after padomay-hrokr kills alduin and prevents the heat-death of the kalpa under anu's supervision, anu has to kill padomay again to exert control over them and re-coalesce aurbis.

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actually i spent the rest of my shift wracking my brain over whether or not hrokr and the ysmirists are truly skyrim nationalists...

if you go off their short-term goal of

liberating skyrim from the imperial empire,

establishing the ysmirist military in replacement,

re-establishing the high-king(s) as the leader of skyrim rather than a mere figurehead, and

unifying their holds

all of which they eventually succeeded with in the coup of solitude, then yes, they were ideologically nationalists in that they were enforcing their self-sovereignty and self-determination.

but at the same time, their enemies were the stormcloaks— and it wasn't just because they were a threat to skyrim unification, but because they were aggressive ethnonationalists (including their terrorizing of the true natives to southwestern skyrim, the reachmen). ysmirists were hostile towards any idea of racial, religious, or cultural supremacy.

we can argue all day on whether or not nationalism inherently implies perceived supremacy and prejudice; in my opinion when nationalism is utilized for the sake of resistance and liberation against persecution, it is not inherently negative. but, at the same time, for ysmirists to self-identify with skyrim nationalism would conflict with their longer term goals, which were to expand their endeavors past skyrim and dismantle the imperial empire entirely (and considering alduin's army had now under hrokr's rule become a subsection of the ysmirist military, it was sort of like a redemption arc for them). this means ysmirism doesn't end within skyrim's borders at all and therefore can't really be described as nationalism.

fwiw, this is about the time hrokr dropped out of the ysmirists, not because they wanted to stay within skyrim's borders, but because they had achieved godhood through the voice and for philosophical reasons believed that to continue to spearhead any political endeavor was now a moral dilemma. this is something them and the ysmirist leader, farahan, get into debates about constantly (and hrokr of course enjoys this since dragons love to argue).

the closest real life ideology that matches the ysmirist flavor of nationalism is "liberation nationalism" where nationalism begins and ends with the liberation of their nation from the imperial empire, where the 'nation of skyrim' or 'people of skyrim' is defined simply by who has made their home in skyrim and is currently suffering under the corrupt imperial empire's rule. this applies to literally everyone. for it to mean anything otherwise, for the 'nation' to be defined even by just culture or religion, would conflict with hrokr's very upbringing, as their grandparents were literally refugees from morrowind.

so basically the short answer is that ideologically ysmirism is engaging in skyrim nationalism in the form of liberation nationalism, but once those short-term goals were met in the form of the coup of solitude, it didn't really fit that definition any more

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hrokr's technique of relief!!!!!!

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phantom behavior each hero would regress into to comfort themselves during delirium

jerome

plucking mane, unbraiding and braiding hair, picking beneath fur for acne or scabs

kneading soft surfaces, stress purring, hiding in enclosed spaces to feel unseen (khajiit specific regression)

airplane or swiveling ears, twitching and flicking tail

sweeping, cleaning tabletops, pouring drink and leaving it, preparing bed, organizing bottles (innkeeping)

picking at scars, undoing and redoing bandages (corprus)

surie

clasping hands at chest (raised in a chapel)

wringing blood out of hair, licking around lips, removing flesh from teeth and nails (pelinal)

putting on, adjusting, cleaning, and taking off reading glasses

consuming potion, casting spell, crushing or otherwise preparing alchemy ingredients

miradane

playing with and brushing hair, moving hair out of eyesight, smoothing down body hair, cleaning or filing nails, adjusting clothes

plucking facial hair (when menopausal)

pouring from wine bottle or drinking from wine glass

flapping wings to loosen shed feathers, reaching around to pull out feathers (morihaus)

partially disrobing to breastfeed, entering and exiting lonia's room to repeatedly check on her, rocking and comforting lonia

hrokr

picking at facial and body hair, picking at acne or scabs, chewing lips or inner mouth

pulling clothes over face, rubbing hands together and blowing on them, hovering hands over fire (basic regression mixed with brain possibly misattributing shaking to cold shivers)

pinning, twitching and swiveling ears

patting and grooming arvesman, hitching and unhitching arvesman

putting on or adjusting hat or bandana

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no no you dont seem to understand. love is a VERB. love is a DOING word.

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dragon hrokr still being a lesbian is one of my favorite fucking things it fulfills the need for romantic monster/human dynamics so bad. i'd like to think elisif and hrokr developed feelings for each other only after getting politically married... yadda yadda high-king nord marrying dunmer being a political message and all that but then actually falling in love with them because of how disparate they are