#porcelain lore

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I found this gorgeous piece by artist Qi Sheng Luo and it reminded me so much of my blue and white porcelain MC, whose appearance is based off of Hirado porcelain ware from Japan. It was such a perfect inspo to randomly stumble across! Link: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/q9Jd5L.

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Is it possible for porcelains to have bad eyesight and need glasses? Or is wearing glasses purely an aesthetic choice for them?

You know... I don’t think so?

Because a porcelain sees literally through their soul (brings a different meaning to that whole saying ‘eyes are the window to the soul’ huh?) so there are two things that could happen.

Either their glass eyes have gotten foggy and need cleaning--easy to do, not threatening, take your head in for a clean and call it good.

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A serious medical problem. I think the only other way a porcelain would get bad eyesight is if their soulstuff goes foggy which is usually a symptom of a number of other maladies ranging from staleness to corruption of the soul (but aren’t necessarily 100% symptoms of any one thing)

So if a porcelain develops bad eyesight it's either a physical body thing or a serious medical issue that needs to be addressed lol--a bit more serious than when an organic develops bad eyesight hmm?

That being said, if a porcelain wants to wear glasses for the aesthetic, go for it! Just make sure to have rubber nose and ear bits or else they’ll slide right off the clay.

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Sorry if this has been answered before (I looked but couldn't find it), but do porcelains have any other organs? I know a porcelain mc sort of has a stomach to help them get energy from food

Not really no! There are glands for tears and saliva but other than that no real ‘organs’ so to speak.

That being said, one could make a very strong argument that their glamours are their organs--they help them function, they can be damaged, and can fail over time if not taken care of.

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I know you've talked abt porcelains and alcohol before, but I was curious about porcelains and drugs, if drugs work similarly to alcohol or not, or if theres certain paraphernalia that affects their soulstuff differently

Hmmmm I feel like drugs have the potential to be more reactive than alcohol? The premise is the same but I feel like certain drugs, especially those already mixed with magic or those designed specifically for porcelains, tend to cause a chain reaction in the soulstuff of just frenetic distraction, allowing the drug to do it’s thing while the soul focuses on breaking down the magic substance/dealing with what it considers an intrusion (think more like the immune response, the soul immediately reacts to something in the drug it sees as an imposter and so ‘attacks’ it while the actual drug substance slips on by to wreck the place)

funsies drugs have been designed for porcelains using this know how, medical drugs have actually developed using this technique as well bc before someone in the funsies drug industry cracked it medical drugs didn’t work as well on porcelains. Not that they need much in terms of medical drugs but there have been needs, sedation, and aids for certain ephemeral illnesses.

And I just laughed at the idea of a ghost being taken in for some kind of medical treatment because you wouldn’t need to find a vein to introduce the drug into their system just throw it at them XDDD

So, in short, I think drugs are a trickier and more volatile substance for ephemerals than alcohol is, depending on the composite of that particular drug.

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So, my older brother collects "unique"/(odd as balls) porcelain dolls and I told him about S&V and Porcelains. Long story short, he got so excited it triggered his asma and gave the poor workers at Five Guys a panic attack. Anyway, I'm not sure if it's been asked before but he had a question; does the type of magic/soulstuff absorbed by a Porcelain affect it's personality? Or do they naturally/gradually gain individuality like any other person as time goes on?

LOL Oh no!! I hope he’s okay!! So, yes and no, bc porcelains can wake up with some memories from the souls they’ve absorbed but they’re never very clear but can influence how a porcelain develops, especially if there’s a dominant soul that has made them like if a doll was owned by one child for years and years and years they’d have most of that child’s soulstuff to account for their creation.

so porcelains who have much more different souls interacting with them will be less likely to hold onto any memories at all let alone flavor.

For the most part though, porcelains are born as blank slates though personality ofc develops very quickly based on their experiences in the world.

A porcelain with a dominant soul influence is no more likely to be influenced by it than a porcelain with no dominant soul influence unless they choose to listen to its influence and allow it to shape who they are.

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hypothetically speaking, could a porcelain have cutout images and then like, increase their inner glow to project the image? maybe if it was carved out and then patched with glass? porcelains with star maps and glowing "freckles" and "bitch" cut into their palm to project over inspectors lol

I’m all about that lol and would say it’s totally possible!

The cut-outs would cause structurally vulnerability of course but glowing freckles would be so cute ;a;

Technically a porcelain could project images from their glass by putting film over it, like a projector, but to glow brighter means consuming more stored up magic so it’s useful for, like, a party trick, not a sustained thing.

I can definitely see, as porcelains are more supported and have access to materials and magic earlier on in their development, would dive into how to decorate and change their bodies. Modern porcelains would have all kinds of differences and attachments and carvings like this, they can definitely do so in these times too! It’s just more difficult and a vanity project that is a bit hefty on the wallet in the long run bc all of those changes cause magic to be lost quicker. But it’s entirely up them and is totally possible :)

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been thinking about modern porcelains and was wondering if they’d own like a lot of daycares that way kids are always rotating through and they could teach them how to care and play with porcelains dolls in preparation of any bab porcelains that might form (i’m obsessed with porcelains as a concept tysm for this game)

Ooooh see that’d be a great idea?? Porcelain daycares would be a great way to help bolster the species because its not about length of time for a porcelain soul to form, its about amount of soulstuff.

If you’ve got all different kinds of children handling  doll carefully, learning how to play with it and take care of it, it really wouldn’t be too terribly long before a porcelain would form!

And then the children get to meet the person they helped create ;A;

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I'm now imagining a porcelain doing the whole "fight people/catch things with a blindfold on" to impress someone when really they're just looking through a "window" in their, like, pinky finger or something

Tbh I could totally see, like, a hustler in those traditional western films where they somehow catch a thrown knife or pull a gun on someone behind them but it being a porcelain and it has absolutely nothing to do with skill just the fact that they have a little glass window on the back of their neck, like, try sneaking up on me now >:)