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Please ask me about Moth Wizard. You want to hear all about Moth Wizard and its lore. You wanna know soooo bad. You wanna send me one hundred asks about it. And follow up questions. You wanna hear about my little guys and also the horrors.
who are we to deny a man his orb
Anybody want post-apocalyptic Jewish wizards? Anyone? Post-apocalyptic wizards who are Jews? They're wizards and being Jewish in the post-apocalypse? Perspective character is an autistic Jew who controls moths? Anyone want my Moth Wizard?
What's up with the moth wizard?
He's my OC living in my post-apocalyptic fantasy setting :3
Lately I'm being more unapologetically annoying about him and it's paying off so I'm not stopping. Gonna infect everyone with my little guys. (Unless you really don't wanna in which case you can block the tags "Moth Wizard" and "Toothy reruns" and never have to hear about them again.) If you'd be interested in a little ramble:
The titular Moth Wizard is an autistic Jewish wizard hundreds of years in the future. He specializes in controlling moths and his wizard staff is basically a rusty pipe with a light bulb at the end. He goes about his life trying to help people where he can with his powers (which are more useful than one might think), usually ending up aiding in some hero's epic quest.
When he's not off wizard questing, he's usually being autistic about moths. A lot of information was lost in the collapse of civilization in the mid-21st century, along with some dramatic changes to ecosystems worldwide, so there's a lot of room for hobby scientists to help rebuild humanity's understanding of moths as well as making entirely new discoveries and observations! And it certainly helps if you can tell the moth to pose for a sketch and let you examine it.
Hate just calling my characters literally "Pathetic Woman 1" and "Pathetic Woman 2" it sounds like I don't think they're worthy of names and possibly misogynistic but no I love Pathetic Women 1 and 2 and they're pathetic in a feminist way where they're women who suck the way male characters are allowed to suck! And they're not pathetic in the same way at all either, I see them as two separate interesting characters who will be fun to explore.
The reason they don't have names is particularly because I suck at names and most of my characters don't have proper names, but mostly because I'm undecided on their cultural backgrounds which of course inform what kind of names they'd probably have. And I take that decision very seriously, especially with less conventionally likeable characters like Pathetic Woman 1, in order to minimize playing into stereotypes or otherwise ending up with an offensive portrayal. And I'm having trouble making up my mind what would really be good for them.
With Pathetic Woman 1 especially, I need to make sure she's not the only representation any group gets. You'd think this means I could just make her Jewish like everyone else, but the issue then is that I cannot imagine her particularly observant. She would be very loosely connected to her Jewishness, if at all. And this would make her the only Jewish character (so far) who isn't very observant, which means it's still a problem.
The only solution is to make more characters with diverse backgrounds and connections to their heritage, but then that means they'll remain unnamed for quite a while...
I need to make another NPD character and I need them to manipulate someone they like in a mutually destructive obsessive spiral that's also really cool and awesome
5 facts about Moth Wizard that you find important? or your top 5 characters? 👀
Hi sorry this took a while, keeping it within a reasonable length and on topic was a challenge but I'm really happy with how it turned out and it was a lot of fun! Thank you for the ask!!
5 Moth Wizard Facts:
1. The General Setting
Moth Wizard takes place hundreds of years in the future and the setting is a mix of optimism, dreams to help me cope with the present, and justification for the post-apocalyptic fantasy aesthetic. This includes "mildly utopian" settlements being common globally, prehistoric dinosaurs roaming the Earth, and a lot of overgrown ruins of the modern world. The rotting corpse of capitalism itself. One day all the concrete will be dust and even plastic will learn to decay, but we will still be here, building something better.
2. A Precious "Detail"
The most important (to me and to the characters) and self-indulgent piece of dreaming a better future is not actually going to be plot relevant much. The Third Temple stands in Jerusalem. Despite everything, after more than two thousand years of persecution in exile, the Jews survived, made it home, and thrived. Opinions differ on whether to finish painting your house.
3. The Apocalypse
If it's "post-apocalyptic" there must have been an apocalypse to be post. Looking at what's become of the world in recent years I'd say it's already started in our time. Ours will hopefully somehow change course but theirs didn't. Things only escalated until the flames burned out. And the world would never see such horrors again. But importantly, it was not worth it. Billions of people died, countless ecosystems destroyed and species lost, many large parts of the world rendered uninhabitable to most life. It didn't have to go this way. A rainbow above the ashes. This was not justice. Everything we built in the ruins was built in spite of what happened.
4. Magic
The magic system is designed such that, in theory, anyone could use it to do almost anything. In practice, it requires a very specific mindset, focus, and (if one wants to do it with any consistency and accuracy) a lot of practice. The most important factor, in what actually happens when attempting to do magic, is expectation. Trying to cast a fireball will never result in ice cubes, but it can result in nothing happening except embarrassment of the caster, if they are not fully convinced that they will, in fact, cast a fireball. Even considering what to do in case a spell fails can cause the spell to fail. This is why most wizards tend to specialize, really knowing what your Thing is and that it always works really helps make it always work.
5. Moth Wizard in the Narrative
The titular Moth Wizard himself is an autistic Jew and his role in the story, as I plan to tell it, doesn't easily fit into categories like "protagonist". Moth Wizard is supposed to be sort of like an anthology. A collection of almost unrelated stories, which, if analyzed in isolation and purely as a series of events rather than a specific narrative, would each have different main characters. The thing they would have in common is that Moth Wizard would be there as a side character, someone helping the protagonist with their goal. But the way I plan to tell these stories with clear main characters is following Moth Wizard's perspective. But not entirely taking his perspective either. It is not a story we see through his eyes. You can think of it like a nature documentary, with David Attenborough following the side character life of this peculiar moth... wizard.
Thanks again for the ask!! :3
What is the role of the Bus restored and maintained by the bus driver and her wife?
Their child; they brought it to life and care for its needs with love
Their third in the polycule; they are intimate and work with it as a team
It's just a bus (wrong)
It's something else (tell me!)
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