#reshki

[maritimemelancholy]

“Looking for a Sign” - Art post

Thank you @warrentrolls for a GREAT rp!!!

[everchased]

maybe i do... depends on who’s asking.......

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Hey tell us about your Ocs. Like what got Reshki involved with two powers?

cracks my knuckles, Reshki’s lore is the most likely subject-to-change out of my avatars because fuck if i know how the spiral works but HERE WE GO ANYWAY

Reshki’s an avatar of the Hunt, employed under the Spiral. Like an attack dog in a kennel, he wanders its corridors until he’s needed and when a door appears he walks through and tracks and kills whatever is on the other side. He helps keep the playing field even. Avatars that seem to tip the scale out of the Distortion’s favor but are too “boring” for the Spiral to destroy itself are dealt with by the hunter in its halls. 

This all comes to be because Reshki is obsessed with hunting with a purpose. Even if that purpose changes on some eldritch monster’s whim, he convinces himself it’s better than random killing. Reshki feeds the Spiral by searching for a direction it never clearly gives him, and it feeds him with the rush of blood.

The Distortion gave him an additional “gift” in exchange for his service, although it’s really just a sign that he’s been permanently marked by the fear. His face is impossible to describe in any real detail. He’s definitely got all of the expected facial features and he’s not uncanny like the Stranger might be. He’s just so generic-looking and yet… you’re sure you could still pick him out in a line up.

Especially with those tattoos. Those tattoos can be recalled clear as day, funny enough.

[random-tsuchan]

[part 1]

Tokyo Babylon (c) CLAMP

[random-tsuchan]

First one of the yonkoma series, based on THIS

Tokyo Babylon © CLAMP

Read right to left.

[part 2] [part 3] [part 4] [part 5] [part 6] [part 7] [part 8] [part 9] [part 10] [part 11] [part 11.5] [part 12] [part 13] [part 14 & 15]

[kurogabae]

!!!!! OK BUT IMAGINE kurogane & fai are at some sort of?? formal event or smth on some world & kurogane is highly respected but there's prejudice against magic users or smth WHO KNOWS but imagine kurogane being interrogated as to why he chose to marry 'someone like that' by scandalised aristocrats & he just brushes them off with this flat unconcerned 'i married him bc i love him' like it's obvious & fai overhears & has to go out into the garden & sob for literally fifteen minutes straight

No wait you’re supposed to be crying not me!!

No but for real just, Kurogane being the lord of some vast estate and being so smitten with Fai and the people closest to him don’t really try to stop the courting and the marriage but some of his advisers try very hard to dissuade him with things like “What would the other lords and ladies think of you marrying a lowly magician? People will talk!” and “He’ll never fit in, you’ll be dooming him to a half life, forced to the fringes of high society he’s better off as he was!” or “Wouldn’t you rather marry Lady So-and-So or Lord McFancyname? They’re available and they’ve had their eyes on you for years!” and nothing works because he’s so in love and they’re only making him more insistent that Fai will be his husband if he’ll also have Kurogane. Andd of course things are difficult, plenty of people try to get in their way, try to tear them apart, but no force in this world or any can keep these two from each other and they wed happily and only slightly delayed. Fai adjusts, it’s not easy to win over those with pedigrees but some of the younger folk, the ones Kurogane’s age and younger still, are far more open minded than their elders and take to his charm and wit and smiles. Because if this man’s won the difficult heart of Lord Kurogane he must be something special indeed. 

It’s not easy though, as courts and balls and pageants are fraught with disapproving glares and nasty half whispers and for all their money some people will never have a scrap of tact. Fai doesn’t doubt Kurogane’s love, not of a second it’s never even a thought, but actually hearing it? And it’s said with such conviction and frankness and Fai knows how private a man Kurogane is and he just lays his love for Fai out there in the open for the world to hear and see and the set of his shoulders and the tone of his voice make it clear he’ll defend his love and Fai’s honor to the last and it’s too much, far too much, and Fai all but sprints from the room because crying and making a public spectacle of himself is the last thing he needs or wants, so he ducks behind the rose bushes and mins his suit and just weeps into his hands as quietly as he can manage and his so happy and filled with love he doesn’t know what to do with himself. Eventually Kurogane comes out and finds him an there are sweet nothings exchanged and even sweeter kisses and they go back inside after tidying Fai up a bit arm in arm and really someone ought to start speaking up on behalf of those magic folk because really the way they’re treated is so unfair.