#saudade wizards

[unexpected-possibilities]

Here’s an assorted headcanons list for fun.

Douxie was gifted a weighted blanket by Zoe and you can bet he uses it anytime she’s not there or if he’s having a particularly rough time (sleeping or just in general), or needs a hug, etc.

Zoe tried teaching Douxie the drums once and he nearly stabbed both his eyes out in under five minutes.

You know those couples shirts? I’ll do you one better: Archie with a shirt that says “if found please return to punk” and Douxie’s shirt says “I’m punk”

Nari is the only one allowed to carry Archie around like a ragdoll. He even seems happy about it.

Zoe has a Polaroid and still makes scrapbooks and has for years. She has photos of them dating all the way back to the 1800′s.

Douxie and Zoe’s lockscreens are identical and it wasn’t on purpose. It’s an image of them and Archie at a concert. (post-Nari, their lockscreens are that Halloween photo they took.)

Zoe bought a cat harness for Archie for when they have to go places pets need to be leashed. It has little dragon wings on it and Archie can’t decide if he should be humiliated or not.

Archie hates having to be bathed, but the only person he won’t fight whilst doing it is Nari.

[unexpected-possibilities]

Róta, a valkyrie whose name means “goddess who sends for sleet and storms,” was the original owner of this atgeir. She just so happens to look favorably on Zoe one night her reckless streak gets the best of her and is bestowed a newfound gift the likes of which hasn’t been seen in centuries...

So, because this will be very relevant in upcoming installments of Saudade, here is a look at my design for Zoe’s atgeir (or, more commonly, spear or mail-piercer, call it what you will) that will coincide in appearance with her wings.

Yes, it’s rather...tall for Zoe. She’ll get used to it. I added the glow on the edge of the blade for Zoe’s magic, and the runes for Sowilō (Norse lightning rune) are found on the staff and a few runes of magical origin on the ribbons, telling Hregg-dynja’s history.

Much, much more to come on this in the form of fics, but here’s a passage of Chapter 15 of Saudade because it’s almost completely pieced together already and I’m so excited to share it with you all, lol:

Zoe bites down hard on her tongue, doing her best not to breathe. The stone floor is freezing beneath her, the chill biting through her thin leggings. A long hiss fills the room, setting her nerves abuzz with adrenaline. 

There’s not a lot of Zoe’s plans that don’t backfire at least a little bit. But it’s the hazard she is prepared for. She expected something more like a nighttime security guard, or more cameras than she’d thought there were. 

Zoe was not banking on a giant snake coming alive on its display pedestals and chasing her through the museum.