drabble request (all of these you can use if you want, or not. Don’t feel pressured to do all of them I just have a lot of ideas) - Nadia route, y/n has self esteem issues and is very anxious about appearing at the Masquerade as Nadia’s partner. This comes to a head when they’re trying to practice the special dance, and get overwhelmed because this dance is for the count and the countess, they’re just some peasant from the city. They’re not special why are they doing this. Cue anxiety, slight freakout, etc. Nadia’s sisters (Nahara and Navra), who were teaching the dance, help reassure them and/or help them frame it in a better way so that when it’s time to practice with Nadia they’re feeling well enough to do it and enjoy it
i hope you like it, i sadly didn’t have much time to write it but hope you all enjoy !
⋆ 𐙚 ˚࣪𓏲 ᥫ᭡ ₊ ⊹ ˑ ִ ֶ 𓂃
- whille practicing for the dance, the chamberlain enters the ballroom, ushering Nadia away to quickly discuss something before she gets the chance to practice with you
- Nahara has just shown you the steps, she and Navra are standing on either of your sides
- Navra, noticing you watching Nadia and fidgeting with the hem of your shirt, shares a glance with Nahara
- Nahara nods, so Navra takes your hand, pulling you to the dance floor once more
- under the pretense of practicing again, this time with her instead of her sister, she tries her best to distract you
- sadly, it doesn’t quite work
- you keep sneaking glances at Nadia, who’s the most ethereal being you’ve ever seen…
- … even now, while scrunching up her nose or pinching it between her fingers because of how many decisions she still has to make for the masquerade
- “countess, lavender or violet curtains?" - "countess, lilies or roses?" - "countess, at this point you should probably do everything yourself"
- ok, no one actually says that last part to her out loud, but they might just as well
- it hits you again that she’s Nadia Satrinava, the countess of Vesuvia and princess of Prakra, and you’re... you. A random nobody.
- how is it possible that you’re dating her? Why does she even look at you?
- Navra notices how distracted you are and pulls you to the side, back to Nahara, to softly ask you what’s wrong
- hesitantly, you open up a little: "What if I mess up the dance? I’ll just embarrass Nadia in front of the whole city"
- the sisters look right through your half-truth and exchange a knowing look
- “Don’t worry, you won’t embarrass her! All three of us can help you practice until you feel confident enough", Navra smiles
- Nahara adds: "Besides... there’s no one Dia would rather dance with anyway, so unless you wanna be the one to burst her little bubble..."
- "Really?"
- "Yeah. Just... look at her." Nahara barely suppresses a grin and nods over to Nadia, who no longer looks agitated...
- ... but has the most genuine smile on her face, her eyes basically sparkle with little hearts
- and she’s looking directly at you, as if you were the most beautiful and precious thing she’d ever seen (because to her, you are)
- “She adores you", Navra chuckles
- you blush as Nadia walks over (the chamberlain has disappeared by now) and offers you her hand
- “May I?", she smiles, her eyes not leaving yours
- still blushing, you nod, taking her hand
- she guides you to the dance floor and starts the steps, confidently leading you through them
- it’s like no one and nothing else is there, just the two of you
- she leans in and gives you a soft kiss
- “I cannot wait to do this dance with you.”
- “Really?"
- Nadia smiles again as she twirls you before pulling you close. “Of course! You will do great, I know it.”
- maybe Navra and Nahara had a point
- you smile back and this time, you’re the one kissing her
- “I can’t wait, either."
- Nahara and Navra grin at each other before quietly leaving the ballroom to let the two of you dance together.
so my partner (who is reading Animorphs at my recommendation/rambling) pointed out something from the first book that somehow escaped my notice:
how many species are in the yeerk pool cavern?
(Image description: “And there were creatures everywhere. Taxxons, Hork-Bajir, and other things I couldn’t even begin to guess at. But mostly, there were humans. A lot of them.” End description)
— Jake, The Invasion
so bae read this, and upon returning the book to me asked “so what species are there, aside from the Hork-Bajir and Taxxons?” Presumably to get a better mental picture
and I realised the only ones I could physically describe were the Gedds (Leerans not being there yet)
then there’s this quote:
(Image description: “Through the window, we could see Yeerk crewmen - Hork-Bajir, Taxxons, and two or three other alien species, in simple red or dark brown uniforms. And there were humans, too. My first reaction was hope. Humans!” End description)
— Marco, The Predator
(granted this is on the pool ship, but still)
two or three other alien species, huh? We know from the following book that one was the Gedds, but that leaves one or two other species left unidentified. We know from the same book that the Mak and the Ssstram are infested and a few books later the Nahara.
(Image description: “ Two piers were built out over the lake. One was where the Controllers - human, Hork-Bajir, Taxxon, and other species - disgorged the Yeerks from their heads. Hork-Bajir guards would watch carefully as each Controller knelt at the far end of the pier, and held his head down close to the surface of the lake.” End description)
— Rachel, The Stranger
Rachel mentions “other species” in The Stranger and “some poor creature” in The Underground, so again, implied to be more than just Gedds down there.
I haven’t read the later yeerk pool books in a while so I can’t provide evidence from them.
but to summarise: we get multiple accounts, from at least half of the Animorphs, every time they are in a yeerk pool space, that there are multiple host species other than the Hork-Bajir and Taxxons present, and yet we NEVER GET A DESCRIPTION OF ANY OF THEM
WERE THERE EVER NAHARA ON EARTH? What were they used for? What do they look like? Whats their societal structure? Mak? Ssstram? Hell, Ongachic?
I wanna know! Bae wants to know! WE WANNA KNOW DAMMIT
characters: nafizah | nazali | navra | nahara | nasmira | natiqa
summary: the details of your first meeting with your future mate.
warnings:
rating: sfw
a/n: this took a surprisingly long time to make, mostly because i was vacationing in italy for a short bit in the middle, but here it is! the last of the arcana first meetings! i have no idea why i chose to do this to myself, but i will admit that i have come to adore this batch of characters as i've written them. looking forward to writing more about them in the future.
~🎕
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≿━━━━༺❀ nafizah ❀༻━━━━≾
✿ you were a travelling magician, having just arrived in prakra for the first time in your young life. you were researching the terrains and ecosystems of the world with your familiar, a baby alligator named ameena.
✿ you were a silly teen, as was nafizah. all of her siblings hadn't even been born yet, and you were still a fledgling magician just starting your journey.
✿ you were surveying a little pond in the middle of the prakran capital when ameena happened to find a friend, a small turtle that she took a liking to immediately. and no sooner than you managed to get acquainted with him, the prettiest girl you'd ever seen came running, looking for your new friend. nafizah barely noticed you over her relief at finding daarude.
✿ nafizah offered to show you around prakra in thanks for finding daarude. you gladly took up her offer, and you two spent time together for your whole stay. and even after you left, you continued to exchange letters together.
✿ nafizah liked that you didn't mind her sometimes odd behaviour, and that you adored daarude as much as she did. not to mention all your fun ideas that never ended in her boredom. she almost asked you to stay, but couldn't possibly chain down your spirit.
you were certain that nafizah was the prettiest person you'd ever met, especially when you managed to get her to pay attention to you. to some extent, her attention was addicting, and you were heartbroken to leave and never feel it again.
≿━━━━༺❀ nazali ❀༻━━━━≾
✿ you were travelling with your new familiar, a spiny mouse named ayman, as a newly minted magician. you'd just started on your long journey, still searching for your own touch with magic and trying to form a bond with ayman.
✿ you were in your late teens, about 18? and nazali was around the same age, still an apprenticing doctor working with older and more experienced people in the field.
✿ you'd gotten your leg hurt while foraging in an ancient forest, and ayman had scampered off a while ago leaving you to try and treat it yourself. you were failing miserably, when ayman came back with help; nazali. upon seeing your injury they started immediately treating you, way better than you could ever hope to have on your own.
✿ nazali helps you get back to civilization, where they take you under their wing for a time. you kept insisting that you were fine, and then subsequently getting more hurt, so nazali was most reluctant to let you eventually leave.
✿ nazali at first just thought you kind of unfortunate, getting hurt like that, but after spending some time with you they became very confused on how you survived on your own. they spent most of their time worried about you.
you thought of nazali as your personal guardian angel, appearing out of nothing to help you. even if their nagging sometimes got to you, you couldn't help but appreciate all the worry they showed you. especially the next time you got hurt without them there.
≿━━━━༺❀ navra ❀༻━━━━≾
✿ you were travelling around, setting up booths in different cities to offer your services as a magician and relationship expert, alongside your familiar, a hare named olya. at the time you happened to be doing that in prakra.
✿ you were rather young, barely an adult. navra was a few years younger, still learning about her powers and the world. sometimes even far too curious for her own good.
✿ you were running your booth, giving love readings to people and handing out some charms, when navra stopped at your booth out of curiosity. you weren't aware of her status, and proceeded to tease her while doing her reading, leading to you getting extremely flustered when one of her guards found her and called for her.
✿ navra kept finding your booth during your stay in prakra, no matter where you decided to set up that day. you were absolutely embarrassed still, which navra found extremely endearing and was probably the thing bringing her back.
✿ navra found you to be charming, and cute, and so absolutely delightful while flustered. not to mention her curiosity over your craft and all the little charms you kept around. she really just wanted to spend all her time learning everything about you.
you originally thought her to be just cute, someone to flirt with playfully, and after the revelation of her status, you wanted to bury yourself into the ground. but she was still just so charming, and maybe you didn't mind her showing up every day.
≿━━━━༺❀ nahara ❀༻━━━━≾
✿ you were a travelling magician, seeing the sights of the world with your familiar, an alpine marmot named mardi who'd just recently joined your company. you were at the borders of prakra at the time, not even looking to go into the country properly.
✿ you were well into your twenties, a respectable adult by anyone's standards, and nahara, while a few years younger, was already considered respectable in her own right.
✿ you were passing by the border to prakra, whistling a soft tune while mardi explores the nature around you. your whistling seemed to have attracted the border patrol, lead by a beautiful blonde, nahara. they didn't bother you for long, only coming to check the strange noises, but you were already absolutely enamored by the strong woman.
✿ you decided to stop by prakra after all, wanting to see nahara again. every once in a while you'd come across her during your touring, and while originally you'd just admire her from afar eventually she started chatting with you.
✿ nahara thought that you were strange, and far too carefree for a traveller. but your strangeness was refreshing, and seeing you around always managed to brighten up her day, especially once she managed to get the courage to actually talk to you.
you thought nahara to be the most beautiful omega and woman, so strong and bright. her presence alone would've been enough to bring you to your knees if you'd been any less weak willed. you wondered how she didn't constantly have someone hounding for her undivided attention.
≿━━━━༺❀ nasmira ❀༻━━━━≾
✿ you were travelling with your familiar, a porcupine named saad, foraging for living to find your ways as a magician. you were staying on the grounds that would eventually become the wildlife refuge and resort.
✿ you were technically still a child, a small fourteen year old with lots of unexplored feelings. nasmira was a fourteen year old with a lot of explored feelings and grand ideas.
✿ you were camping in the woods, setting up your dinner with saad eagerly waiting by your side. nasmira, lured by the smell of the spices and herbs, wanders to your campsite from the rest of her family who are there to see the natural hotsprings. initially bit put off by the sudden visitor, you eventually decide to invite her to eat with you.
✿ she spent the rest of the day with you, until her family finally found the two of you and they left the area. you didn't get to see her much after that, not for a long time at least, but the both of you had fond memories of that day for years to come.
✿ you were a little prickly for nasmira's usual tastes, but after you invited her to sit down she could see that you weren't such a bad person after all. just someone who had all sorts of spikes on the outside, that she was glad to overlook.
nasmira was... well, she was bubbly, she was smart, she was a lot of things. and also a lot, especially for someone so used to solitude. but you liked her quite a bit still, even if at the time you thought that you couldn't possibly spend more than a couple of hours with her.
≿━━━━༺❀ natiqa ❀༻━━━━≾
✿ you were running your shop in vesuvia, having settled down a few years prior after meeting asra and company. you still travelled on occasion with your familiar, an armadillo named neymar, but for the most part you were busy upkeeping the shop.
✿ you were well into your twenties, an established member of the vesuvian city-nation. natiqa was just a few years younger than you, not yet in her role as the ambassador and wouldn't be for a few years.
✿ you were asked to help with some of the magical defences at the palace, where natiqa was visiting her sister with some of her other siblings. it was only by change that she happened upon you working, and decided that you were a prime target for a prank. it didn't end up working, but seeing the look on her face made the extra shield spell worth it.
✿ natiqa became determined to prank you in some way during her stay, and would almost constantly follow you around looking for an opportunity. eventually you just started talking to her to pass the time, and by the time she had to leave you were pretty good friends.
✿ natiqa was instantly intrigued by you, especially once she discovered how easily frightened you were in actuality. just because she couldn't manage to traditionally prank you, didn't mean that she couldn't find amusement in your reactions to them.
to you, natiqa was... a lot. you enjoyed your peace, and natiqa was the furthest thing from that. but you couldn't not admit how fun it was watching her confuse and befuddle everyone else in the palace, even if you had to constantly keep extra shields around you.
