#mercy;

[ringleaderising]

rip you dumb piece of shit.

[lovesickevangelist]

Rise, Resist, Revive, Raise Arms! Now that’s a Pretty sound, I could get used to this yet! Come on, once more with feeling, let’s shake the ground under their feet! Let’s show these bastards what we’re here for! What we’ve fucking earned in centuries of servitude and ‘yes ma’am!’

Rise! Resist! Revive! Raise Arms! Just like that! By the Father- by me, I suppose, I love it! Pretty little kingdom you’ve built for a sleazy showman But I’ll take that crown when we get to the big throne. Then I’ll dash it to shards on the rocks at my fucking feet.

Rise! Resist! Revive! Raise Arms!

WELCOME TO CHARLIE MCFUCKING LOSES IT FOR A WHOLE PARAGRAPH, FRIENDOS.

Three months ago I was lucky enough to grab a commission slot from the lovely, the fantastic, the UNREASONABLY TALENTED @vjatoch and today before leaving for work, I finally got to see the results and by GOD they were worth the wait. It’s a difficult task to take the way you see a character in your head and make it translate, especially when it’s a character you’re particular about the way I’m particular about Mercy, but Vja not only knocked it out of the park, I’m pretty fucking sure the ball is in SPACE by now. This is Merc. a character I’ve had in some capacity for 10 years not only the way I picture him in his current iteration, but lookin’ like a fucking SNACK. (which likely won’t help the Discord Server Thirst problem, but you know what, I’m willing to bear that cross.)

Really, for SERIOUS, if you can get a slot when they open, I can’t recommend enough getting a piece from her, a joy to work with, and a commission I am still having a hard time finding the words for.

[ringleaderising]

what's the most recent thing pig has been up to? :3 if it's not a spoiler for the piglets!

Someday, my tumblr inbox will tell me when I get messages on this blog the day I get them but I guess today is not that day bc I had to wait until somebody sent an ask to ANOTHER sideblog to see this.

TL;DR: The INTERLOPER Godfall proved to be almost more than everyone involved could handle- and Pig has been recovering, in the gap following.

To get more longwinded (and to account for the fact that the piglets are connected to godfall posts, and the Censer Smoke children will be finding homes first) Pig has taken a lengthy sabbatical from hunting Falls, and is instead training those who stepped into the position of Thronebreaker in the wake of INTERLOPER's descent from the Host, most notable, Mercy and Casanova- a former charlatan and tailor from Vaudemire Way.

{Mercy [he/him] and Casanova [he/him]}

One the alleged son of gods himself, and the other suddenly freed from a decades-long hypnosis after the events of the godfall, both seek now to tear the Puppeteer from her position on high, for very different reasons- regrettably, they're not exactly the killing kind that Thronebreaking requires- which has forced them into Pig's care- rather against the Guardian's will, as he doesn't tend to hold Mercy in a high regard, and doesn't exactly see much use in a tailor turned hunter, in Cas' case.

His children are grown, but still live at the circus, presently, honing their skills in combat, and learning circus disciplines as well, unlike their siblings who came before, they were born in the aftermath of the fall, instead of the lead-up, and while God-killing is in their blood- they've been told to earn their keep, and that means making the sideshow home, for now.

He's similarly been honing his work with Godsbone, Godsflesh, and raw magic, and is responsible for Sow's new, much cleaner bone armor- he's refined the internal workings of his cleaver designs as well, making them safer for his children to use- though he and Sow still wield the MK 1 prototypes- likely because the rumbling engine and constant risk of magical explosion works as a solid intimidation tactic.

[ringleaderising]

Wow Mercy, how come you get a full regene plan and an outfit more fitting for a Thronebreaker?

It's almost like something utterly life-changing is going to happen in the upcoming godfall hmmm.

[ringleaderising]

Vaudemire Way takes on wards and business deals out of their norm only out of necessity, for Akasha [Obelisk, She/Her] and Euryale [Ridgeback, They/She], children from the clans of @vabam-fr and @clansunsharp, their mentors are connected to the Malvontain family- an exchange promising political gain and trade ties for theit parents- and the offspring who's space they now fill given solace somewhere away from their twisted birthrite upon the town's soil.

Laelette [Skydancer F, She/Her] is happy to have young dragons in her home again, with she and Mercy's single daughter having moved into her own space in town some time ago, she's more than invested in helping the girls find their place in the quaint space they now call home, and Mercy [Skydancer M, He/Him], ever aloof and career-driven, seems a touch more relaxed about these young ones being in town than his own offspring- behaving a good bit more like a father than a cold overseer toward Akasha and Euryale, something that, if his daughter resents, she's kept particularly quiet.

[ringleaderising]

🐻Share two dragons who would argue endlessly about the Berenstein Bears vs Berenstain Bears Mandela effect

🐷Share three dragons whose relationship would've been saved by polyamory, but that's not what happens

:))

Share two dragons who would argue endlessly about the Berenstein Bears vs Berenstain Bears Mandela effect.

Wager and Vespidae, no question. They spend a lot of time together since their tables in Mother's Embrace are next to one another, and their rooms in the attached hotel where Staff lives are like, just across the hall, which means they hang out more than maybe even they want to as friends? Like you know that person you'd kill and/or die for but after too long in their presence you need a like, remote cabin vacation? That's these two. They also have a noted tendency, in lulls at their respective tables to talk about stuff that really doesn't matter, and thus, probably mandela effects like the E or A in Berenstain.

Wager swears that the twin spirals that are on all the promotional material for the 'attached theater' that closed long before they even worked there were always on the left and right side, but Vespidae insists it's the top and bottom, like they are now.

This argument has come to blows at least once, when the alcohol got to flowing.

Share three dragons whose relationship would've been saved by polyamory, but that's not what happens.

Bet you expected Pig/Sow/Magda huh? WRONG. VICTORIAN TOWN WHORE BIRD BEEF.

I don't talk about Mercy, Laelette, or Rafflesia a lot- and Raff's new position as matron of the Casino will hopefully change that- But in all truth, Raff would probably be far less antagonistic if Mercy had just... not been a two-timing cow of a man who was open about his interest in both her and his now wife. He's a smooth-talker, a half-imperial who looks the part with massive dark antlers and thick hair mixed in with his feathers- traits that, apparently, made him irresistible to women way, way better than him?

He had a brief love affair with Rafflesia when she first arrived in Vaudemire Way, and were betrothed to be wed, until, of course, Laelette came to town. She was only supposed to be staying for a short time, studying to become a seamstress beneath her predecessor, she wound up befriending the local smithy- and then, regrettably, falling in love with his horrible, insufferable son. Mercy broke it off with Rafflesia pretty suddenly, his interest pivoting from the nocturne practically overnight, and severing her partnerships with the Sideshow he owns on the outskirts of town, his snake-oil wagon, and their future marriage.

Ironically, Raff and Laelette have a noted fondness for one another as well, and the three of them likely could have worked something out, but now there's mostly animosity to be found- and catty, underhanded insults from Rafflesia whenever she makes the trip to Vaudemire Way to purchase more goods she can't import to Mother's Embrace.

[ringleaderising]

Operating on the context of talking about music though, did you know Magda has two loyalists in my lore?

Despite being the Son of two members of the Host, Mercy's loyalty is not to his mother, or his father, but to Magda herself, as her lesser-known domain is that of violin music. Mercy can hear the funerary songs even before she starts carving cairns upon her arrival- I've always represented this in lore though via Imminence's use of violins in amongst metal/electronic influences.

Just that fleeting, brief appearance of the violin to accompany the rest of the music, only to disappear as suddenly as it arrived into the remainder of the accompaniment, the way Mercy hears the performances.