#lore drop!

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omgggg diolch am y reminder (a'r trauma) - ti'n cofio ffoc ia tylluan wen?

[honeyed-blossom]

In the Shadows of our Secrets

Everyone has a secret or two that they’d like to keep from even the closest people in their lives. The new 5th year - now a 6th year - is no different.

6th year Valeria often sneaks out in the dead of night searching for secrets. Secrets that will give her answers on how to control the raging ancient magic crammed within her. But these secrets can hurt, can haunt. It could compromise the people she loved and held dear.

She insists on undertaking this task in solitude. Every night, she wanders ancient tombs and haunted ruins, swallowing her easiness for the slight chance at controls. Her usual clear eyes are locked away, replaced by a heavy look of foreboding and solemnity.

[em0tionallymotionsick]

fun fact when i was 13 me and my friend bought a couple helium balloons from the dollar store and i inhaled like 3 full balloons back to back and then fully passed out and hit my head on a bench because i had accidentally suffocated myself by only inhaling helium without breathing air inbetween

she got it on video but i made her delete it and that is my biggest regret im so sad she doesn't have the video anymore

[monebula-art]

Hi, Harley and Leo!

How’d you two even meet? And what’s it like knowing giant mutant-humanoid turtles exist and aren’t science-fiction bullshit?

Leo: So… Harley and I met at probably one of the wildest times of my life. About a year and a half ago, I was ambushed by the Foot Clan. The Shredder, who we had thought defeated, returned with a vengeance, with the intent to end us all. Luckily we escaped, but barely. By the time we reached Casey’s Grandma’s old farmhouse, we were battered, broken, and I was very close to death myself. I ended up being in a coma for about three days. And it’s where I got many of the scars I still carry, like the ones on my jaws and over my eye. I think that’s why Harley isn’t fond of telling the story because she helped treat a lot of them when they were new wounds. It wasn’t pretty, let me tell you.

Harley is Casey’s cousin, she lives out at the farm on her own— and suffice to say, she wasn’t expecting our sort of company to show up on her porch midwinter and bleeding all over her couch. Understandably it was a lot to adjust to, for all of us. But Harley took on the role of…. Looking out for us, for me. She didn’t have to be nice to us or cook, or make the beds, but she did. To this day I still don’t know how she took our whole…. situation so calmly. Most humans completely freak…

She woke the earliest out of habit, so when my health finally started improving after those first few days, Harley was the one who took care of me in the early hours when everyone was taking shifts making sure I didn’t…yknow, slip back into a coma and die. She made sure the fire didn’t go out, that I took my medicine, drank water, changed my bandages. I remember a lot of really quiet mornings where her stirring by the hearth to get it going again would wake me and we’d talk a little. It was the briefest shift but looking back…I think I looked forward to the….anonymity of chatting with someone who, at the time, was a stranger. Who I only saw in the few quiet hours before dawn. There wasn’t any heaviness when we spoke.

Leo: “Honestly, I didn’t think she liked me much at first. I know I felt like a burden, but despite how much trouble we’d been by dropping unannounced into her life, she never treated me like a burden. I’d lost my honor, my home, my swords. And I felt like a massive failure at the time. She never made me feel like I’d failed though… she didn’t know me, she barely even seemed like she felt much of anything at all, but she genuinely just wanted me to get better, that was her only expectation.”

Harley: “It’s still my only real expectation; You taking care of yourself.”

Leo: “How did you stay so calm about us and the whole….mutant turtle situation anyway?”

Harley: “I dunno... I like turtles, they’re cute. And you all looked really sad and cold out in the snow.”

Leo: “That’s your reasoning~?”

Harley: “That’s all the reason I needed.”

Leo: “Of course.” 🩵

@tmnt-ocxcanon-comp

[lillikoifish]

Lord Commander Dave Strider of the Kingsguard

Wears blood red armor with the royal crest on his chest

Owns a white sword, made of a gleaming meteorite rock that is stronger than steel.

Does not draw this sword often, he does not speak about it EVER. No one knows where he got it, or what its name is, although the many songs have speculated a great deal of titles.

He has a short sword side arm he uses in the vast majority of cases, and his skill is beyond reproach, easily dispatching a half dozen men by himself.

Has a shield but does not favor it, preferring to rely on agility and winning fast versus tiring his opponents out.

Has been called "Deathknight" because of his favored steed, a white horse, and his many victories. He has slain many hundreds.

Refused the throne of his own free will, trusts Dirk will supply an heir and it will never be his responsibility.

Ser Karkat Vantas of Crimson Hill

Is poor

Like rrrrrreally poor

The only lands his family is entitled to is basically six farms and a tiny pier, they barely collect enough taxes to satisfy the crown.

Karkat spent his childhood tilling the farm alongside his training as a knight, and as such has never felt like a true noble.

He was taught courtesy and courtly manners, but chooses to not use them, finding the rich way of life despicable. Hates that richer houses look down on him.

Is very comfortable with farming equipment, to the point he tried to use a sickle in a fight.

Didn't go well.

Uses a sword, but is much stronger in unarmed melee, a close combat specialist.

His sigil is a bleeding scar, and he wears smoke grey armor with dark, blood red linens and wool.

Thinks Dave Strider was born lucky and hates him instantly, has no idea Dave was the one to suggest his appointment to the Kingsguard, because of his impressive skills in battle that Dave witnessed first hand.

[tenguflooby]

ULTRAKILL: NULL OUROBOROS info (1)

so i’ve mentioned that i have an ultrakill AU called ULTRAKILL: NULL OUROBOROS, but what is the AU actually about? here i will explain the basic plot and important stuff of this AU for those that are curious <3 buckle up, cuz this is kinda a lot.

uk:no is an Earthmover-centric ultrakill AU that puts my takes on how earthmovers were during the Final War, what kinds of earthmovers there were, and how they got to Hell. the AU is split into three sagas: the Final War saga, the Hell saga, and the Revival saga.

starting off with the Final War saga: this is the part of the AU that takes place in the Final War. there are three separate powers involved in the war, which are the Allied Powers, the Axis Powers, and the Pacifist Powers. i won’t go into too much detail on those, but every earthmover is part of one of the three powers (except for one…. exception).

the earthmovers of the Allied and Axis powers are the main ones that fight each other, while the Pacifist earthmovers kinda do their own thing. Both the Allied and Axis earthmovers are mainly herd and combat focused, while Pacifist earthmovers are usually used for experiments or just wander around on their own.

at the end of the Final War saga comes the Long Night, all the earthmovers die yadda yadda, which then begins the Hell saga. But wait a minute, back up. How did the earthmovers get into Hell? well i’m glad u asked (*crickets*)

remember the “exception” that i mentioned when i talked about the three sides of the war? that “exception” is an earthmover known as Draconis. it is an unknown class, does not belong to any one side, and there is barely any info about it.

the thing about Draconis was that it made contact with Hell during the Final War and effectively made a deal with it. Hell wants to find a way to manifest souls in machines, and promises Draconis eternal paradise if they can find out how to do so. Draconis is then granted Hell energy and is sent on their way.

after effectively kidnapping and experimenting on multiple earthmovers as well as making themself a smaller form to do the same for non-earthmovers machines, they find a way to manifest souls into machines through some weird cultish Hell energy ritual.

Hell then tells Draconis to do the soul-manifestation again, but on very specific earthmovers. earthmovers that have committed large amounts of specific sins, which are:

Remedia: a Pacifist striker who tried to promote peace, only to fail miserably and become forcefully placed into a combat herd. they represent Limbo

Boa: a… uhm… an Allied concursus who… was really weird. he represents Lust. no further comment.

Verchlingen: an Axis Gula who specifically ate other earthmovers for fun. it represents Gluttony.

Avere: an Allied Citykeeper who had a huge surplus of supplies that she refused to share, not even with other Citykeepers with populations that were actively dying. she represents Greed

Tiamat: an Axis aquatic Striker who lost her entire herd, eventually becoming a powerhouse and destroying anything relating to the Allied powers. she represents Wrath.

Savior: a Pacifist Unknown that was basically a glorified radio station trying to achieve contact with Heaven, which Heaven obviously did not like at all. it represents Heresy.

Draconis itself represents Violence btw.

Yggdrasil: an Axis Hortus that purposefully poisoned their harvests, then went undercover as part of the Allied powers and giving their poisoned crops to Citykeepers. they represent Fraud.

Machiavellian: an Allied Tyrant that was so paranoid about running low on fuel, he found ways to indirectly kill off all of his herd members. he represents Treachery.

Draconis gathers all of these earthmovers by promising them eternal paradise as well, then doing the soul-manifestation, killing them, and killing itself shortly after.

now that Hell has acquired all of the earthmover souls that it needs, it combines them, attaches them to the Violence layer, and makes this:

this is the Null Ouroboros: Hell’s machine soul harvester and transporter. when a machine dies, the Null Ouroboros will make contact with its corpse and manifest a soul, then bring the soul down to Hell and send it off to its designated layer, where the soul will then form into the physical embodiment of the machine that housed it.

each section of the Ouroboros is connected to each layer, and the center of each section is known as the nucleus, which houses the soul of whatever sinner earthmover represents a layer.

so now Hell can integrate machines into itself as if they were human sinners. confused? good. stay tuned for part 2 where i will go over the Hell saga <3

[sokolversus]

[oc] Ieyasu.

Simplified version and backstory synopsis under cut ↓ tw: suicide mention.

Name: Ieyasu Kazamynov Title(s): The Last of His Name and Blood of Inyr, later known as the Lord of the Ashes

As the last surviving descendant of his bloodline, in his first life Ieyasu stands as the final bearer of the white dragon's cursemark. The dragon soul* bestowed upon Inyr, Ieyasu's ancestor, by Aun Ghoul Arjakhov over a century ago acts as the only anchor to his homeland after it is lost to the ashes. The curse embedded deep within his psyche, his relationship to the white dragon borders that of a personal religion. Seeing apparitions of it within his dreams, he witnesses the dragon's past** as it unraveled while it lived within the body of Aun Ghoul. He believes these fragments of memory to be his future, and they spur much of his decision-making. His first life brought to a cruel end through coercion into suicide by life-long mentor and captor, Ieyasu's soul remains anchored to the living world for a little over a decade, his ghost entwined with the dragon soul bound to his own. Ieyasu's death happens simultaneously as the resurrection of Aun Ghoul, sent back to the living world to retrieve the dragon soul he had borrowed from Azak-Har. Arriving just a moment too late, the dragon's soul follows Ieyasu into death.  Ieyasu's own resurrection occurs through possession of his mentor's son, killing him in the process. His first act in his new flesh is the murder of his mentor, the Riverlord, to finally take his vengeance. Previously appointed as the Riverlord's heir before Ieyasu's death, he assumes his position as lord. Aun Ghoul Arjakhov can now seek him out, both alive again against all odds, to reunite with the dragon at last. Both sharing a bond with the dragon's soul, Aun Ghoul as its first bearer, and Ieyasu Kazamynov as the last, they become inseparable over time. Separated once Ieyasu's city falls under siege, Ieyasu is imprisoned. There, he gets gravely injured, and nearing death the dragon soul abandons him, escaping to the only other soul that is familiar to it - Aun Ghoul. As the bearer of the dragon's soul, Ieyasu couldn't have utilized its power to transform, but now fully entwined with Aun Ghoul again, he is able to assume its shape, and rescue Ieyasu. To heal his wounds, Aun Ghoul transfers a half of his own soul's life energy to Ieyasu, binding them for life. As a price of this act, neither can stay separated from the other for long, lest they begin to suffer sickness, and have to reunite often in order to restore their life energy.

*The dragon soul - a fragment of the divine soul of the god Azak-Har, fallen on the Western Highlands in the form of a star, where gravely injured it binds itself to Aun Ghoul Arjakhov, who discovers it. **Visions of the dragon's past - deities within the New Cosmos(where this story is situated) do not have a linear view of time, but see time as a flat disc. They can see all of the events they have been personally involved in at once. Being a fragment of a divine being in nature, the dragon's soul only allows brief insights into the future and past through dreams as beings who are limited to a linear comprehension of time cannot have full insight. This exchange of dreams through time is reciprocated in the past as well, as during Aun Ghoul's first life, he witnesses visions of Ieyasu in the distant future.

In total, Ieyasu lives through two lives, first ended roughly in his mid-twenties, and in the second he manages to reach old age. I've centered this synopsis of him mainly around his relationship to Aun Ghoul and the dragon soul they share, as it's one of the most important elements in their storyline. It was as much as I could fit on the reference. There's more key moments in his life outside of what I mentioned here, mainly spurred by his need for vengeance and the longing for returning to a home that no longer exists. He's in a constant struggle between doing what is being demanded of him by his superiors and peers and trying to discover who he truly is. As a very private person, he greatly values his solitude. Prone to bottling up emotions and lashing out, usually in a self-destructive manner. As the setting he's in develops more, some details will probably be subject to change.