Turtlenecks, trench coats and thin woolen scarves. Not in a hipster way, but rather the style of that one middle-aged Ancient Christianity professor I had on my first year of uni.
15. What's your favorite ship for this character? (Doesn't matter if it's canon or not.)
Asher/Ikora! There's such potential for angst and tension there, and I think it'd be easy to see then as narrative foils to each other, especially in Red War times. Two fools coping with loss and stress in the most unhealthy of ways.
16. What's your least favorite ship for this character?
I don't think I have a least favorite ship for him, probably because I rarely see him being shipped with anyone.
For the ikoris prompts - ikora helping hive!eris clean / take care of her chitin? :0
tumblr wont let me post for some reason so here have an ao3 link:
rituals (2.2k words)
what if, in juxtaposition with the sword logic, the Hive were actually really big on social grooming just like irl hive insects? and the rituals were intricate
Eris was not interested in transforming back to remove the muck. The black Hive blood was slightly caustic. Her human skin already had enough scars.
Well. Patience and tedium it was, then. Her old friends.
That was how Ikora found her an hour later, still scraping dried blood out of each groove of each plate one by one with a single claw.
Been thinking about your Eris & Asher piece since I saw it this morning. Care to share your AU where they see each other again, if you want? 🥺
first i feel like i need to say that AU is a strong word for it. this is just me being insane over asher mir because they really just made him Like That and did nothing with him ever until they felt like going down the list of old characters that they forgot about and killing them so they don’t have to bother with them anymore. pour one out for my man rasputin
nothing here really makes sense or is in character but i needed a way to keep asher around so i can think about him and osiris murdering each other after they experience self-recognition through the other (derogatory) 💖
we diverge from canon at the end of arrivals. asher still descends into the pyramidion, bringing the lake down, etc. but he retains his physical body this time. he spends the next couple of years hiding in the network, using his connection to the vex to help him run simulations, study the darkness, and slow the progression of his body’s corruption (he does not starve to death because he hacks harpies and uses them to gather supplies 👍we do not question logistics here because i am in denial)
from the guardian’s POV, not a lot changes until after avalon, aside from the occasional vex behaving oddly (the grocery runs and occasional message delivery). these sightings increase over time, until we have vex forces helping us fight the witness’ armies. bolstered by this new asher vex cult, we are able to hold our own for a while longer.
here we enter a period of frantic handwaving because i have no idea what’s going to happen between now and the final shape, and i haven’t plotted out an itinerary for the next 2 years of story. But that’s not important. what really matters here is thinking about winning(?) or at least not dying in the war so once we no longer need a vex army asher can come out of his hole and come back to the tower where we piss him off by fretting over him after his time in the network👍
i just have a lot of thoughts about him spending that much time alone with the thing thats killing him. i mentioned previously that i decided that he would be able to slow the spread of the corruption in his body, but i don’t think he would waste time trying to find a cure here. he instead keeps snoozing the update (please schedule a time to restart) and dedicates his limited time to helping us fight the witness. he’s been stuck on the sidelines watching for so long and this is a way for him to feel like a guardian again and like his inevitable death will actually mean something
unfortunately this also means that once he is no longer in the network his condition will continue to deteriorate (perhaps faster than before, like when windows restarts your computer without telling you about it because it Really just wanted to install the update) but fortunately eris will be there. i still don’t know if i want to cure him somehow, but at least he will be loved and have the opportunity to cat fight with osiris. if i’m feeling especially deranged, i imagine that one of my guardians downloaded rasputin on a usb stick last season and uploaded him into an exo body (for real this time) because i want to see asher fight with him too. I also would like to see the clovis vs asher fight. and asher making friends with failsafe. i wish we got to see asher interact with more characters in canon
ultimately this is just a lot of coping and denial but it gives me an excuse to draw him more🙏 i'm sorry i don't have anything more substantial on hand currently but i have a lot of feelings for him and i'm about to make it everyone elses problem
If you're taking drabble prompts: Eris/Toland, library? 👀📚
There’s a sanctity here, a sort of reverent silence they can’t bear to break. The stolen touch of hands as they pass each other by with a new book or map or index to study feels like rebellion.
It excites and incites and Eris looks over her book at the hard planes of Toland’s face, the fall of his hair over a shoulder, and wonders how destructive it would feel to take his cheeks between her hands.
She wonders if she could drown in the dark secrets hiding beneath his teeth. If he would hold her through it.
It feels like a sin, when he looks up and sees her looking at him across the library. A sharp smile crosses his face and he closes his book, carries it under his arm and closes in.
His hand is cold around her clammy one as he leads her out into the dark room and into a darker hallway.
And if the darkness cares for the slide of dry lips over her own, it does not tell.
hive moths are, like most of the creatures in hive spaces, not small creatures that just happened to move in and develop a niche but fauna carried on from the fundament or discovered through the long millennia of conquest that were integrated as useful symbiotes
they’re not as dull in colour to hive eyes and actually tend to have location-specific patterning on their wings. they always cluster around new sources of life, warmth and light, making them useful markers for disoriented young hive, and acolytes with aspirations to greater magics will keep a few to practice spells on before testing them out in battle
"if i was a character how would the fandom treat me?" Maybe it's b/c we've not been mutuals as long and not interacted as much as some of the other folks here, but I feel like you'd be the character who goes offscreen for awhile, and the fandom goes wild over when they pop up in the narrative again.
Aw thank you! The fandom goes wild in a good way, right? I hope so! :D
Here’s to interacting more in the future, by the way! (So long as I remember how to be a human being with relationships most of the time)
