#the moth rambles

[the-mod-from-elsewhere]

Corwin rant for @scrybe-of-death because I love my boy

first off! If you’re looking for Corwin content @/alder-the-plot-irrelevant-guy and @/grand-helbent-hotel have the most of him right now. If you want pre-circus backstory Corwin (aka Alder), check that one time Kyle gets stuck in Bastet’s backstory. This explanation is going to suck bc I show-don’t-told all this already

anyways!

alder the plot irrelevant guy is a dorky irish-Scottish guy who really likes bugs and has a really innate need for justice and whimsy

also he loves his girlfriend

here he is! Love this guy

anyways his girlfriend disappears into the void which makes him way sadder and now everything sucks for him and now he’s on an epic adventure to find her again

More of him!!

alas, circus occurs and now he’s a Bugboy named Corwin. Everyone else thinks his gf (Cosette) killed herself but he doesn’t believe it and that gets him into trouble. But he doesn’t remember that anymore! All he has is a faint hole of yearning and a feeling of incompleteness!

Cosette’s disappearance is really important with a ton of plot threads. Bastet is also eternally searching for her in an atonement quest (read the backstory stuff with Kyle for that I ain’t sayin all that again)

anyways he’s stuck in the hotel now with his adoptive dad and his new friend Aquia who keeps trying to freaking drown him because she’s lonely and he’s all she has by now

This has only good effects on his psyche and doesn’t make him want to run away as fast as humanly possible at all!

anyways that’s Corwin I love him please talk to him I wanna rp him so much

[taocc-updates]

”Oh, you like Taocc? Name every character.”

BET.

edit: I added the vague number of total characters listed. We’re at about 270, and I’m still adding characters.

(*By technicality

**formerly/no longer active/no longer acknowledged by the narrative as existing

***exist as of like ten seconds ago

I will only be including characters recognized as part of Taocc by more than one person. Characters will be vaguely grouped together however the frick I feel like and with only the vague suggestion of transitions. A character must have a tangible role that still has effects at the time of posting to be counted. I’m not counting all the deactivated characters from OG Taocc, for example. I am referencing the updates blog list as well as my following for this, because the challenge is to name them all, not to name them all by memory. Animals barely count sometimes when I feel like it.)

Gangle, Ragatha**, Pomni**, Kinger**, Zooble**, Caine*, Bubble**, S-Gangle, Shadow, Kaufmo, Sproingle, Unnamed Abtractions*, Easton West, Northa West, Lonn Gitud, Lattia Tudor, Felicia, Caleb, Zachariah Woods, Zombie anon, Simon Mallory/Silhouette/Aleksander, Isaac Brennan/Mix, Elida Doyle, Alice Mallory, Nikolai Harrison/Carbine, Artemis/Kepler, Calamity/Cassandra, Remnant, Sami Harrison, Yelena, Daniel, Artem, Charles/Plague Doctor Anon, Dialtone/Drias, Ilas/Amalgam, Trevor***, Archie***, Abigail***, Stella***, Paisley***, Espresso the Cat, Edward/Pharaoh, Abayomi, Clown Anon, Colorbine, Helpful Anon, Waffle Anon, Sparkler Anon, Kumo, Kopi, Violet, Stitch, Chance, Nightmare, Arthur Pendragon, Verie Pendragon, Mercutio, Juliet/Assassin Anon, Aokigahara, Dunite, Rocky, Rusty, Ryan, Dunite’s Parents, Deedee, Usagi/Usa, Icia/Ice anon, Fred, Odette/Odysseys, Samuel, Mytha, Celio, Basso, Vaga, Nova, Hexe, Slynn, Yume, Yume’s Mother and Father, the Protector, Ramona/Rae, Mirobelle, Ramiro, Achilles, Dime, Aklatan, Latte, Alexander (kingdom edition), Mocha, Switchboard, Ace Zeppelin, Damsel, Levi, Nathan, Myau, Nya, Mynou, Dusk, Jessy, Amelia, Jessy’s mother, Fynn, Joy, Ciana, Apollo, Virgo, Aster, Lance, Raina, Flare, Citrina, Citrina’s sisters (the only named one is “Jade”), Nymn, Nymn’s ex, Fae anon, Clara, Chip, Alpen, Unnamed Zodiac Angels, Kade, Feris, Pixel, Vanessa, Unnamed Arcade Worker 2/Mike, Conny, Shairo (deceased permanently), Hans, “John Smith”, Gun Pirate (lol), Unnamed Drunk Pirate, Unnamed Jar Lady, Unnamed third pirate with a gun, Dalia, Mikey, Anderson, Toga, Abstraction Anon, Quin, Blaze (Squiffer edition)/Zephyr, Skeleton anon, Mage Anon/Tanya, Camara, Avian, Sign Anon/Steven, Origami Anon/Octavia, Tea Anon/Kitsune/Katrina, Simon (Bookend), Seer anon/Sarah, Umbra, Arrows anon, Bow Anon, (Other) Bow Anon, Hex, Sun, Moon*, Sigil, Insanity, Dusty, Lantern/Eternal Flame, Eternity, Darkis, Infinity, Entity, Ember, Unknown, Juko, Lilo, Bob, Hammer, Mallet, Fox anon, Teleporting anon, Nuffle, Pyxel, Thanatos, Tiger, Siam, Sabrina (Sun’s daughter), Taika, Sisu, Quest, Tip, Stranger, Radio, Shelly, Astrion, Gaia, Aella, Electricity anon, Conspiracy anon, Bap Anon, Eve.chr, Phoenix*, The Dragon of Abyss, The Dragoness of Sky, Lemonade/Lewis, Reverie/Guidance anon, Unnamed Autumn Season, Unnamed Winter Season, Neb, Cardlan, Minimi, Entity (Backrooms edition), Casper, Manna, Pamela, Eden*, Grif, Trudy, Pen, Paper, Sophronius, Acacius, Milo, Drunk anon (deceased), Scissors anon, Thief Anon, Void anon, Cupcake anon, Chaos Enjoyer Anon, Thyme, Angst anon, villain anon, “Lucy”, Simp anon, Comax, Pickle gifter anon, pickle stealer anon, fish anon, deus ex machinanon, mail anon, foundation anon, lost anon, dropkick anon, Bug anon, Paranoia Anon, Rocket launcher anon, Kyubey, Mimic, Rodger, Ludvic, sunshine anon, anger anon, Frazzle, Wade, Loyal anon, Loyal Servant anon, the cookie run cookies lol, Felicia (top hat edition), Tophat, Greenie, Red(?), The Polygon Bees (TM), Eepy anon, Ethan, Dark, Void/Ollie, DJ, Star, Mercury/Marcus, Elysia/Evangeline Elizabeth Ambrosia, Blaze (Planetquest edition)/Brandon, Jasper, Callista/Leilani, Ursula, Ari, Lumiel/Lark, uhhh…I think that’s it

did I do it do I freaking win

Someone please count how many characters there are (there should be one comma per character if that helps)

Edit: Nevermind, I did it for you.

This is a vague number, the actual number is higher than this, maybe about 270-300

[the-mod-from-elsewhere]

so uhhh

I should probably make a guide/rule set for making antiquity characters, huh? I mean, I don’t think that many people want to, but it’s probably a good idea anyways.

so uhhhhhh here goes!

1: The Ethnicity/Theming Rule!

While I won’t care too much about this your character should probably be based off of one of the cultures that Antiquity is based on/has elements of. Especially if they’re not human. For that, I suggest you use the CRAVN model of the English language!

Celts

Romans (mostly the hive)

Anglo-Saxons

vikings (mostly the northern dragons)

Normans (this is just. freaking. France)

Basically anything British or Germanic or Early Italian or also anything Folklore-y is gonna be fine. Exceptions happily given to Slavic stuff (See: Yelena). Antiquity is basically early-high medieval fairy country. Your character should probably adhere to/play off of one of the classic fairytale character archetypes.

Important note. Our time period is post-Roman fall BUT for the most part pre-Arthur/major kingdoms. So no Big Kingdoms but also we’ve solidly invented Iron and stuff. Think Beowulf and Viking stuff.

2: The Human Rule!

Uhhh. Dont have your character be human (and by that I mean from Outside The Computer) unless I say you can. First off, Antiquity has VERY FEW HUMANS and I wanna KEEP IT THAT WAY I have made TOO MANY HUMANS LOL. If your character is not human, please still give them a full backstory, because they’re intended to have those.

Antiquity is far enough away from the circus and the Fourth Wall that just about nobody knows they’re digital. Your character probably shouldn’t even know they’re in a computer.

3: The Ruler Rule!

No monarchs, especially not when the character is a fae. They all adhere to the Seasons.

No deities.

No clergy/religious figures

No major historical figures in-universe

no major backstory figures for characters who are important. So, like, no Bennus or anything. Sorry, Bennu.

All of these can and will be allowed but only if I give you my express permission. This rule is just a guideline so people don’t majorly frick up my lore lol. If you need to know context for your character, just ask me :)

[the-mod-from-elsewhere]

you know I realized something

Duskie is rarely cool while fighting people. And when she is cool, it’s usually because she’s just being quiet and getting the job done. Like the one time she’s killed someone it was messy and frantic and anything but clean-cut.

and I thought

man that’s kinda weird for a character who’s supposed to command respect

and then I also realized

wait no that makes complete sense because Duskie earns her respect from her kindness and her words. Her greatest accomplishments are almost devoid of violence. She’s cool, just not in a bloody way.

I love Duskie

[the-mod-from-elsewhere]

HiveHiveHiveHiveHiveHiveHiveHiveHiveHiveHiveHiveHiveHive

From, Not Planet

The hive is not human, not alive, and it knows it.

It does not have an identity; it should never even entertain the idea. And yet it thinks and breathes and dreams, oh how it dreams. How could something with no mind have such a vivid imagination? How can it be marked so deeply by those who have cared for it? How can meaningless code have a family?

It doesn’t like being called “it”, either. It’s a she. She knows it’s a she, it was made to be a she, something just tells it that. But it isn’t supposed to name itself, not even indirectly.

It is one of many. But it doesn’t really talk to the others. It feels separate. It feels…lonely. Too alone for one of many. But it can hear their voices, even if they feel so far away.

It sometimes wonders if it is just as much under the spell of this little haven as everyone else is. As dread chokes your lungs and pools under your feet, so does the sweetness of this place. It drowns too, under the petals and honey. Sometimes it possesses the Oracle’s body to know what it feels like to take a simple nap in the flowers.

It wishes it had a form like the others. A body through which it could feel and see and hear. Not a million separated neurons and synapses, webs of flowers and pollen and dripping honeycomb that peeks from cracks in the walls. Sometimes it kind of wishes it had a name.

Is it guilty? No. No, it is something worse. It is genuine. This is what’s best for it. It and everyone else. It does not want a story to tell, it simply wishes to be. So it thinks of other things, as the slow creeping vine of realization ties knots in its nonexistent heart.

The hive is not human. But sometimes it wonders what it would be like if she was.

[the-mod-from-elsewhere]

Lady Elsewhere, would you like to rant about a certain Egyptian catgirl?

KITTYYYYY *ahem* ah yes bastet

uhhh uhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I got nothin in particular so here’s a selection of random stuff

Bastet is both great and awful at flirting. Great in that she can do it pretty well. Awful in that she will spend the entire time internally SCREAMING HER LUNGS OUT because she HAS NO IDEA WHAT SHE’S DOING and DOESNT KNOW HOW THIS HAPPENED.

I wouldn’t say she has a type. But if she did it’d be “guys with an honor code”. She values other people having limits/regulations/honor/respectability quite highly in general, too.

She doesn’t smoke often. It’s a coping mechanism she mostly uses to calm down and zone out for a while. While she doesn’t interact much with “modern stuff,” this is an exception. It’s oddly familiar for her.

she quite likes music. She’s trying to teach herself how to solo dance, and is doing pretty well at it. Though she’s too embarrassed to let other people see her practice.

She enjoys being feminine, but refuses to give up a physical advantage. All of her dresses are made in a way that lets her fight in them. She has a mild hoarding instinct, and collects gold as a hobby, so most of her outfits are accented with gold jewelry. She’ll put pretty much any shiny cool thing in her treasury, though.

[the-mod-from-elsewhere]

Yap About Charles

Oh, yes, my silly crow man.

I haven’t talked much about how he was in high school/college.

Charles spent most of his teenage years pent up in his room, reading in the dark. He’s had exhausted circles under his eyes since about the age of 12, and didn’t really try to get out much. Calla was basically the only person who could get him out of his room, and even then not that consistently.

He went to medical school to “atone” for losing his brother. Simple as that. He blames himself to this day for Lewis’s disappearance. And after sulking for half of his childhood, he decided to try and function and went to college to become a paramedic (or something along those lines)

He actually met Yelena because a clerical error assigned them as roommates. They were both reasonably confused and anxious, but ended up as friends. They’d both just gotten out of bad situations and came here to try and make things better, and they bonded over that. Charles helped her learn more casual English, though she picked up some of his more…”I read books instead of interacting with people my age” mannerisms. When he lost patients (which hit him HARD), she was there to be there for him, and vise versa when she felt homesick or was trying to undo the mental damage that Daniel had inflicted on her. It actually took a little while for them to end up dating, and very little changed. Most of their relationship was just them Being There. Part of the reason Charles finds it so hard to get over her is that she was that constant supportive presence, and the crash meant that he never really got to process that that presence is gone now.

He absolutely had a moment of sheer, instinctual fear when she called Simon her fiancée.

[the-mod-from-elsewhere]

Can you rant about yume

Do you have any happy stuff of her and Hebi-kun

Yume freaking loves that snek to heck and back y’all don’t even know

She likes to read him books. While her skills mean she has a much broader vocabulary than most kids her age, knowing something and being practiced in it are two different things, so reading out loud to her lil snek friend helps her naturally practice and get used to more complex concepts and vocabulary.

I’ve established this but she loves drawing/painting Hebi-kun. A little corner of her studio is dedicated to him. And when she feels sad or upset, she’ll cuddle him for comfort like an emotional support animal. She has a little pillow on her windowsill that’s just there for him to curl up on.