#nyx lore

[bongbubbles]

What does your OC's Dream Visitor look like, and why?

Thank you for the tag @spillingteanotpermitted! I don't have a solid answer for all of my ocs tbh, but Cyril and Nyx both have solid answers, and for almost the same reason. I am going to pass it on to @onlytavs @malicedragoness @citruskushh @mein-liebling @mogruith @irondeficienttav and @optimisticgrey . No pressure! I honestly have no idea who has all done this one already either, so apologies if I double tagged you by accident.

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Cyril has had four different dream guardians in various runs, starting with Adin. My first run as Cyril he wasn't fully modded yet nor was he fully fleshed out yet. It was an honor run where I had no body tattoos yet and I wore the wrong wings for half of it, but I had thought it would be fun to make it Adin. I think even Nyx's first run was Adin as well. For a while he's all I did.

The next couple of runs I made the dream guardian either a rip off of Cyric (I don't have a picture of this) or Jaheria. Both of these were after I got the tattoos and wings, and both were done with the same idea in mind. The dream guardian wants someone Cyril will trust, and there are very few people who he would. Unfortunately for the Emperor, Cyril isn't falling for those games.

Finally I realized what I want to real answer to be: Minsc. He believes Minsc is dead or lost to him forever so of course a part of him is going to hope that somehow, some way, Minsc is back and helping him. Except this dream is wrong. Minsc is wrong. And even when Cyril wakes up, Boo would know something is wrong. And Cyril would know deep down whatever that was, it wasn't his ranger.

And of course... No matter who the Emperor decides to take the shape of, Cyril ultimately would still be aware that it is really just mind flayer fuckery.

That being said... Power is power... And if he's doomed to be a mind flayer anyways... Why not take any advantage he can get?

𝐍𝐲𝐱, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐔𝐫𝐠𝐞

I didn't have the Notable Guardians mod at the time of taking this, but Nyx's Dream Guardian is the only person she cares about (other than Orin) at the start of the game: Enver Gortash. She doesn't remember him, at least not when the Dream Guardian uses his face, but it feels familiar... Safe. So for a while, Nyx trusts the Dream Guardian...

Then you cut to where she sees the real Gortash with Ketheric and Orin, and she realizes she's been tricked. The Dream Guardian isn't on her side at all, and has been using the face of someone she once knew.

So after that, she stops listening to the Emperor. Though I am not sure listening to Gale's ambitions or the tyrant himself is better... But at least it's what she actually wants to do for once.

[nocturnal-phantom]

Behold, my son

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get to know the blogger

tagged by @m00neroni :D

3 ships I like: wolfstar and stucky ofc all-time OTPs and now also jayvik

First ship ever: percabeth <3 my children 😭 theyre so!! 🥹

Favourite childhood book: The Six Bullerby Children by Astrid Lindgren. I had an audiobook and I would listen to it the whole day every day and somehow never got bored

Currently reading: 1984 by Orwell and The Peasants by Reymont but im very slow. so slow like you cant even imagine and all those academic papers 😔

Currently watching: ... nothing?... Ive seen Arcane in February and didnt really have time for anything else since then I guess.. 😔

Currently consuming: carrots with yoghurt dip <3

Currently craving: not sleep this time bc i just woke up after pulling an all-nighter 🙃

Pets: none :c

no pressure tagging: @puuvillaa @forestdeath1 @plecotusauritus @polaroidcats @hiddenmoonbeam

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tumblr name tag

tagged by @plecotusauritus to tell the origins of my tumblr name, thank you Bat!!

Nocturnal Phantom was the second (or technically the third?) username I came up with when I entered the fandom/internet in general and wanted to stay anonymous bc I was taught how to stay safe on the world wide web :p

the very first username I came up with referenced the moon and I believe I only used it on the wikis (now called fandom.com lol); everywhere else I used it I later changed it to my second username: Nocna Zjawa

zjawa is an apparition, spectre, phantom and nocna means (in this context) nocturnal, so nocna zjawa means "an entity that appears at night" one of the synonymous names for a nocna zjawa is zmora or mare in english which you can read on wikipedia is "a malicious entity in Germanic and Slavic folklore that walks on people's chests while they sleep, bringing on nightmares" "nocna zjawa" was quite a common nickname at least at the time I was joining anonymous/fandom spaces on the internet

now as I was joining tumblr/other mainly english speaking fandom spaces I wanted to anonymize myself further (as in: not reveal where Im from) and also use a username that would be understandable to others (english speakers) so I roughly translated it into english; hence: nocturnal phantom

this fandom sideblog was the first sideblog I made with the intention of keeping fandom stuff here, as opposed to everything else I kept on my main, hence: nocturnal phantom's fandoms

and I added the nick Nyx in my bio bc I saw others use a short name for themselves and I wanted people to have a short and easy to remember name they could refer to me (instead of "phantom" or "nocturnal phantom" which is kind of a mouthful). Nyx is the greek goddess of the night and her name literally means "night" and I found that very fitting

no pressure tagging: @hiddenmoonbeam (lol) @neege @aeligsido @lilacella @m00neroni @caslyra if you havent been tagged already! and ofc @polaroidcats even tho I know where your username is from

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there is a course at my uni that could help me with a fic Im writing. should I--

should I sign up for a course at my uni for fanfic research?

yes

no

Voting ended onFeb 23, 2025

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Today marks the anniversary of my and @hiddenmoonbeam's first interaction!!🥰

I wanted to celebrate that day with a small little something. The potion is brewing but it needs a little more time. Stay tuned!

Tho I do love that Dec 6th is 'calling out Nyx* for horny posting in the tags' day

*adding her tags to the post

yes, it happens rarely enough for it to be a big deal, sue me

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🎄DECO MY TREE🎄

Decorate Friend's Tree for Christmas🎅

oh I also made a tree. forgot to post it