#ivo canon

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Remade the monstrosity.

Their portrait rows are how they feel about people, their columns are how people feel about them. So Archie's opinion on Sid is 🤬 while Sid's of Archie is 😈

The stupid eggplant just means they've had sex at some point. Big red question means they don't know each other, and angled red question means they've met but don't remember it.

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What Ivo would see from other muses

Because his whole sees death thing, I wanted to give some examples and expand on it. He can see past near death experiences, moments where they could've died even if they have no idea how close it came to happening. Can see actual deaths if they're a muse who has died, and can see all future potentials (even if those potentials end up with nothing happening.)

He sees it all when they first meet. He'll only see new things if they change their future or circumstance. If Ivo wants to, he can also revisit shit, but rarely does.

These are not complete lists, it's all their past experiences, but only one or two future potentials for each cause there'd be too many.

This is a post about death. It's going to have Bad Shit in it. Nothing is described in detail, it's more bullet point 'this happened' style, no context or anything. That said, to be safe, TWs for: Child abuse, assault, overdose, murder, suicide.

Tory - Pushed down the stairs as a small child. Falling while climbing out his window as a preteen. A full beer can to the head and then the floor and boots, arm still broken from the last time. Saw his death. Knows what happened. Also saw every individual slaugh made up of his shredded spirit when they were taken from a collection and brought back together. Each one died to make him again. Since Tory is already dead, he sees no future.

Eddie - A car crash when he was a teenager. A ringing in his ears and blood, someone dead in front of him, Tessa and some man he didn't recognize grabbing Eddie and pulling him up. Throwing up in a club stall, clammy skin and racing heart. A man with his hands around Eddie's throat. The bright lights of an emergency room, Tessa crying. A frequent flier of the shelter following him home was the most recent. Grabbing Cassie out of the road. Another hospital, but so much more blood.

Fetch - Him as a cub eating the wrong berries because they were pretty. The day he died, the panic and fear. The slaugh being destroyed to make him. Nothing more.

Orion - Falling off an ATV he shouldn't have been driving as a child. Teeth against his throat, too tired to fight back. A shock of vertigo from a rail bridge, canyon floor far below was the last NDE. Knocked from his board unable to surface. Gravity and industrial farming equipment.

Laurie - Bleeding out, shaky hands still holding the damn tools but the leg was gone. Washing up on the beach in Jersey. A man in a pastel blue suit with a gun in the back of a town car was the last past experience. That same man with a chain tightening around Laurie's neck. A burst of fur, blood and pain his mind lost and body unrepairable.

Archie - Falling into a pool as a small child. That first fight, when the wolf decided it wanted to live, the world spinning, the taste of blood. Nauseous and weak, so many teeth, tearing, rending, breaking, a jeering crowd, a loud end to his past NDEs A dropped match at the wrong place. Agonizing and slow liver failure. Shot by a hunter while in wolf form.

Kaz - Face held down into the mud, breathing in murky puddle water, only a child. Falling off a horse, riding way too fast without a helmet. Throat hoarse from screaming in the trunk of a car, a sharply taken turn. Three against one behind the store where he worked, hard to breathe, only sixteen. Dragged across tarmac and gravel, skin scraped raw, streetlight caught on gun muzzle. His last NDE. Falling off some skateboard going stupidly fast downhill. Hands bound and a clean single gunshot from behind.

Sid - Took a jump at speed, handles slammed up into his jaw as the bike skidded out in the mud. Teaching his youngest sister to shoot. Archie, blood, a fear he hadn't felt in a long time. And in the future: A capricious fae and a single snap of magic. A bodyguard pushed too far, without the restraint that Archie showed.

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Goes By: Ivo. It's not his name. It's just what he's using.

Age: Unimportant

Height: 5ft10

Pronouns and Gender: Any are welcome, doesn't strongly feel any connection to human gender, but accepts the labels typically used.

What they are: Psychopomp. Guardian of horizons and boundaries.

Personality: Chatty. Good listener. Confident. Most people find him easy to talk to. Can come across as intense. Optimistic with people, patient. For people paying attention they might see him as detached, cold, or fake.

Style and Appearance: Semi-casual workplace appropriate. Mostly button up shirts and pants. Occasionally jeans. Very rarely, but not unheard of, a tshirt if they're cleaning or he's running group where informality works better.Jaw length wavy dark hair.

Piercings and Tattoos: None.

Scars and Distinguishing Marks: None.

Sexuality: Demi-romantic and pansexual. He's unlikely to get romantically interested in any mortal characters. Don't take that as disincentive. Prove him wrong. A very true neutral verse/switch. Whatever will be, will be.

Abilities: Ageless. Guide souls where they're supposed to be. Create passage between life and afterlife. See ghosts and spirits. When meeting someone, and at will later, he 'sees the death' in a person. All past near death, the actual death if they've had one, and all future possibilities. All at once. Can transform into a golden jackal, including partial jackal headed appearance. Can move through shadows.

Weaknesses: Very little. Basically nothing besides some specific ancient magic.

Links: Canon - Media - Aesthetic - Music - Threads

Bits and Pieces:

Runs a homeless shelter and community outreach. They specifically are made to target and cater to the inhuman who might do badly elsewhere, however, it's not like they can do that outright, so get humans around as well. Has been doing it since the early 80s. Also runs group and one on one counselling groups for addiction support and other recovery. (Not a therapist. A counsellor. Distinction.)

Doesn't tell people about future deaths he sees, and doesn't interfere, even if he likes them. Knows there's no real changing. If it's going to happen, it will.

Isn't surprised by much. Any violence. Any chaos. Anything. Will remain steady and himself among it all, and wont balk even if faced by someone who has done so much harm.

That said. It's not like he can't be annoyed by those who specifically set out to target others. While he and Sid have never met. They know of each other, and he finds Sid annoying, a buzzing little pest who makes life worse for others. Still, Ivo does nothing about it besides provide a way out to many of Sid's lower level inhuman workers.

Fascinated by people. He mostly wants to talk to them to hear stories, to hear about the 'human experience' of being mortal and the highs and lows it comes with. It's wonderful how consistent and yet ever changing it is. He's had thousands of years of observing and existing.

Claims to be very 'what is meant to be, will be', but will just shrug and smile if someone points out that by the nature of his work, he is helping change things for others. He got tired of watching suffering after so long. While he can't change big things. He can do something. So he is. So maybe he's not as anti-intervention as he seems and testing that with a muse he gets close to and sees a future death for could be fun. Who knows.

Lives in a very neat and tidy row house. Cycles to work.

The shelter has overnight space for those who need it, cold lunches and hot dinners, offers dry and climate controlled spaces for people to get out of the street throughout the day both just to socialize as well as to access any number of things. They aid in getting medical help, housing, employment, more targeted mental health help, as well as offering in-community services like group and individual counselling. Don't ask how it's funded. Ivo gets to have secrets.

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I am v much still planning to add Eddie and Ivo, but I want to get gifs of them made up first, and laptop can get hot while making gifs so I don't like doing it when it's above 30. Even though i have en external additional fan tray under it, and i know the internal temp never gets to 50 cause that's when it alerts me, but i am paranoid and broke.

But I love their dynamics so I'm going to ramble about it a bit.

Ivo has this way of focusing on people where it makes them feel like the only person in the room. He manages to be both so calm and very intense. Like the eye contact and attention is A Lot but he's talking so calmly and being so deliberate. It freaks people out when they first meet him.

Tory doesn't like it. Doesn't like that level of scrutiny and attention. And really has started bucking up against Ivo's 'what'll be will be' approach to things since Ivo saw a potential death for Eddie that was due to happen that night and did NOTHING about it. It got him punched and Tory chasing Eddie down to make sure it didn't happen.

Meanwhile Eddie is So Cool with how Ivo is. He loves it. A boss who seems to have no expectations of him because no matter what, it's what happened so who cares? PERFECT. He can slack off. He can show up hungover. But on a more genuine level, he appreciates that mentality. On an individual level, Eddie finds it comforting to be reminded it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. What happens, happens, and the world will keep going as always. Not a healthy mentality for Eddie, specifically, to be absorbing. But 🤷‍♂️

Ivo sees the two of them very differently. For one, his general perspective on mortals is detached but interested. Like a human studying some kind of animal. They wont live long. They're fascinating.

Tory is silence because he's already dead. There's nothing more for Ivo to see in him. The curiosity and challenge to figure out what he was, and get him some level of freedom was there at first, but that's done now. He's just fine letting Tory hang around, but that's it. They get along okay. Ivo doesn't fully see the resentment there, but it's fine. Tory isn't grateful to him, which does surprise him, most people are, but oh well, humans are weird. They can be like that. Even the dead ones. He's getting used to the idea that Tory lacks the ambition most humans have, so will likely just follow him on forward as the rest of the world changes and ages around them.

Meanwhile Eddie is so loud. The pure mess of past near death experiences, and the flood of future ones was intense when they first met. It takes a lot to surprise Ivo, and Eddie got close. By no means a record for him, but maybe top twenty, and that's over thousands and thousands of years. Eddie also cares, and smiles at him, and talks at him so much. It's sweet. He's nice. One of his favorite humans at the moment.

And the other two with each other?

Tory hated Eddie when they first met. Fucking hated him. It was so much jealousy and anger over how open and expressive Eddie was. Bitterly thinking about how stupid, childish, naive, how it makes him a target. Then he found some shit out. He saw that Eddie is who he is through refusal to break. All of that mixed with the level of sincere kindness shown, and the way Eddie constantly included him in things. It started to work.

Eddie immediately liked Tory. That was a challenge. Someone so prickly and walls up who obviously hated him. That was going to be his friend. He succeeded. He usually does when it's something that no one else considers important.

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Omegaverse bits and pieces

None of this canon by default, and will only exist in specific verses, threads, or interactions with those who want it to be at play. Also I don't feel super strict about any muse's designation so can roll with others if and when wanted.

Alpha - Archie, Eddie, Fetch,

Beta - Ivo, Sid

Omega - Tory, Laurie, Orion

A special case for Kaz. I like the idea that fox shifters, ever adaptable, react to the people around them rather than having something set. So around an omega who goes into heat? Can trigger rut and alpha behavior. Around an alpha in rut? Uhoh omega boy.

In case it isn't clear from how they've landed in this vs their other parts of their sexuality as listed here, I don't at all see omegaverse designations as having inherit connection to position or dynamic or being telling of any personality traits or behaviors. More as a fun established horny writing mechanic for playing with.

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other test muses I'm kicking about so might get added or not

Ivo

Psychopomp of a defunct belief system. Jackal. An opener of ways, guard of horizons and thresholds, sunsets and sunrises. Well. That's what he was known for. Now he helps the lost, regardless of denomination or belief. Gets ghosts and spirits to where they need to be, if they want, he's not got some great hard on against the concept of the undead like Snuff does.

Sees the death in the people he meets. Near death experiences they've already had and potential ends for the future. Nothing really gets to him anymore.

Runs an outreach and homeless shelter that specifically focuses on inhuman beings, but they can't advertize that so just care for anyone who passes through. Does this because often people bring lingering ghosts, figurative or literal, or might even be the undead themselves and want a hand in changing that.

Calm and rooted, with a confidence earned through millennia of always being. Knows he can't be harmed, so has endless patience for those who try, but that doesn't mean he lets them just do that shit. Master of clear boundaries and professionalism. Lets people make their own mistakes instead of trying to prevent them.

(I keep changing my mind on a potential fc, cause either older with some air of gentle authority, or even someone younger who doesn't look like they should have that control, that power, it all works)

Eddie Baek

Shadowless, fae-touched, werewolf. Because this fucking idiot keeps getting himself in more and more trouble. Tessa's brother, Orion's friend. Most likely to join a high control group and insist it's not a cult.

Remains stupid as hell, but fun. Was working the night shift at a shitty diner when a real asshole customer came in. A demanding and entitled dbag who expected service employees to kiss his ass and bend over backwards. Did not appreciate being talked back to and then trespassed. Decided to teach the brat a lesson. Took his shadow. A threat/curse that Eddie mocked openly and still, to this day, doesn't think did anything. It absolutely did.

When he is unconscious, through sleep or otherwise, the shadow becomes real. Eddie can't dream anymore, anything he thinks is a dream is the shared awareness of his shadow, wherever it is being passed around from owner to owner. A shadow is a great little tool and toy for the magically inclined.

Deeply unserious party boy chasing a rapidly vanishing youth. In fact, many would say it's already passed him since he's thirty now and still acting 21. Lives with his sister and his niece. Occasionally contributes to bills, but since he works at the shelter Ivo runs, and that doesn't pay great, Tessa tells him to save his money to get his own place. Instead he spends it all, almost instantly.

(Couldn't find gifs from a more age appropriate bit of media, so he's older in this than the character.)

Tory Petrosino

Dead as fuck. Actually the first muse I ever did the slaugh host turned familiar thing with, so v much being brought back to add an extra data point to Fetch and show Ivo's approach and connection to the dead. Could easily just be an NPC, but he's an old oc from the same era as when I first made Kaz and Sid so there's some nostalgia to him.

A nobody. Someone who wasn't missed or mourned. Tory, at least, has a clean break in memories. None of his past, but he can hold onto what he's built since being reconstructed. Only reason he knows his name, or that there was no obituary, was a medical alert bracelet he must've been wearing when he died. Penicillin. Not that it mattered anymore.

Has the same shattered scar pattern, in the same silver-blue. Made by the same fae. Tory's chest, around where his heart should be, is almost all the fill-in material silver.

Loud and made of bravado and overcompensating performative masculinity. Comp het in formerly human form. Closeted and miserable until death, not that he remembers that, he just holds onto that baggage. Even alive he felt like he was rotting from the inside. A shallow useless nothing that failed and ruined everything he touched. At least now he gets to blame that on whoever he was bound to. Or used to be able to. Until Ivo fucking freed him. Asshole. Now it's all on him again.

Has a little bird form that has a patch of silver-blue feathers in a trail across its breast. (look up a rose-breasted grosbeak for a visual)