#verse information.

[orchidmurderess]

Verse Information: Shadows House

Overview:

Kyoka Izumi comes from a family of assassins. A branch of Shadows House exists in Japan, and after getting chosen to serve the Shadows Family, she is brainwashed and assigned a Shadow Master. Izumi is the Living Doll, while Kyoka is the Shadow.

More Elaborate Explanation:

As a member of a well-known family of assassins, Kyoka was both revered and feared by her peers at school. However, she worked hard to get chosen by Shadows House to make her family proud, not realizing what it truly meant to serve the Shadows Family. Like the rest of the Living Dolls, she is brainwashed by the soot coffee and now, going by Izumi as named by her Shadow Master, serves Kyoka with the highest loyalty, even if it means threatening or even harming her peers.

Kyoka and Izumi could not be more opposite if they tried. While Kyoka is warm and fascinated by the world, viewing her role as a noble through the lens of a curious, ignorant child, Izumi's training as an assassin is ingrained into her very being, and no amount of soot coffee can undo that sort of bone-deep instinct. Izumi is willing to protect her master by any means necessary, while Kyoka tries to steer her in the opposite direction, diffusing situations without any use of violence.

Kyoka's Soot Power, Controller, allows her to command others through her soot, controlling their actions or emotions through a trigger word. She doesn't like using it, however, since she does not like having to use violence to solve her problems. The only person she has used it on has been Izumi herself, in order to rein her in when she goes too far.

[orchidmurderess]

Verse Information: MILGRAM

Overview:

Hailing from a family of assassins, Kyoka Izumi has 35 victims in total. However, the one she feels the most guilt for is the death of her mother, who ordered Kyoka to kill her to end her suffering.

Prisoner 4 in a non-canon MILGRAM setting, Prisoner 12 in a setting with the canon prisoners.

Guilty Trial One, Innocent Trial Two, uncertain for Trial Three.

Her behavior is similar yet different to Amane.

In Trial Two, since she was voted Innocent, she would likely attempt to harm either one of the other prisoners or the warden. This is because she doesn't understand how they could change their mind so easily, and she lashes out towards her fellow prisoners.

[polychromae]

verse details. go tonight.

tl;dr: the night at the bar, kaveh does not go with alhaitham. he becomes involved with the sabzeruz festival and is killed, both as a warning to kaveh to stop digging and as a lesson to those of sumeru who wish to worship lesser lord kusanali so openly. ill dottore revives him as part of his experiments with the akashic terminals. this is a success, though kaveh retains little to no memory of his life in sumeru. he is given a new name and a new purpose - yahya of the fatui, sworn to serve the tsaritsa and her goals. he re-enters the story at the same point, after the crisis in sumeru has ended. he remains behind as the eyes and ears of the doctor and one of the only holders of a functioning akasha terminal.

history: that night at the bar, at his very lowest, kaveh refuses the invitation to stay in alhaitham's home. it feels too much like giving up. too much like accepting that he was wrong, that his beliefs are wrong - not the way he went about enacting them. to accept the invitation feels like co-signing onto alhaitham's view of the world as he understands it, and that is so grim and bleak he declares he would rather die than live in a world where people live only for themselves.

he has no idea how prophetic the words are to be.

that night, camping in the wilderness, lesser lord kusanali meets kaveh in his dreams. he does not recall most of the dream, only that she is a warm and comforting presence. everything he believes knowledge should be. a light in the dark, the tools to give the suffering some sense of peace. the people of sumeru are lost, he declares, and the akasha terminals have ruined their capacity to think for themselves. to see the world beyond puzzles that must be solved, and people are hurdles rather than assets.

and when he wakes, he no longer feels as aimless. there is a path forward that he sees all too clearly, and all he grown tired of in sumeru is the akademiya and it's overreach.

the efforts to revive the sabzeruz festival gain much more traction when the light of kshahrewar himself joins in. the actual festival is months away, but the fact that it being planned - that a famous scholar has joined in on the efforts - immediately gets traction.

people who hadn't previously seen kaveh's vision now see it at his hip, and rumors start to spread. he has been chosen by lesser lord kusanali to bring them into a new age of wisdom. kaveh had never minded the whispers of others much, as the only expectations he had ever worried about failing were his own and his client's - but if he'd heeded those warnings, he may have been better prepared for what happened.

when word came from the akademiya that his proposal had been approved, he has confused. what proposal? he had been funding this work on his own and with the aid of the desert folk - who were more eager to assist an endeavor for kusanali if her people were kinder than that of rukkadevata. still, he goes to the meeting place that the head of his darshan asks. they have a pleasant dinner, a few drinks - the taste of which is off - and kaveh grows concerned that questions about his supposed proposal are dodged.

they walk the docks of port ormos afterwards, though kaveh insists that he is not feeling well after that meal and wants to go home. thjat kind nature is taken advantage of, as the man says he wishes to discuss something important. he has been carrying a heavy weight and wishes to share it.

they stop short and stare at the water, and the man laments that kaveh has thrown away a bright future in pursuit of fruitless dreams. he was always a dreamer, that's what made his work stand out, but he does not care for or respect the spirit of knowledge. it brings him no joy to do this to the most promising alumni in centuries.

what he says is truly upsetting is that in the end, kaveh hadn't even earned this through his own merits. it had been his friendship with the scribe that sealed his fate. he would be a message to all.

there's no room for elaboration. kaveh can't even process what he's being told, uncertain if alhaitham ordered this or - if this is meant ot harm him.

regardless, there in the docks on a dark summer night, kaveh meets his end.

he flings mehrak as far from himself as he can once it takes too much damage to pull his sword free. they deliver death unto him brutally, and staged to look like angry debt collectors. and as he lay dying, the doctor steps from the shadows and asks if they have any further use for him once the message has been sent.

he's found in the morning, laying haphazardly on the shores. a dumped body that resurfaced. those lovely hands smashed and broken.

the details of the architect's ruined financials filter out, that he was less a light and more a bringer of ruin. it looks cut and dry. a debt collector had come to collect.

rumors of non-existent fundraisers slip into the conversation, leaving people to assume him nothing more than a charlatan and a fraud. destroying the budding reputation that the festival had.

before an autopsy can be performed, the body goes missing. those dedicated to recreating the sabzeru festival do not give up, and they are determined to see it through. not believing for a second that kaveh was taking them for a ride, and determined to not let his death be in vain.

elsewhere, the doctor carries on with his work.

a broken bird of paradise awakens in his laboratory. the glittering green vision resting atop his chest no longer gives off a glow, but the light at his temple does. this akashic terminal glows with the blue of cryo. all the information that could possibly exist within it has been downloaded into his mind, most of it partitioned away so it doe snot overwhelm him. this process, and the modifications to the terminal itself, makes up for the parts of his brain too damaged to continue to function on their own. the terminal regulates the processes his body should know how to do, allowing him to breathe, his heart to beat, his body to move when he wants it.

the drug slipped into his drink done a decent job of keeping him in a death-like state without actually crossing that threshold into death, but the damage was extensive. recovery, too, would be a nightmare. impossible were it not for this little gift.

when the bird is finally well enough to take wing, Il Dottore bestows upon it a new name, yahya and the codename uccello del paradiso. and with this name, a new mission - to serve the tsaritsa and burn away the world.

yahya does not know what happened to him, only that the cruelty of the existing world is what caused his suffering. he knows that he would have died, were it not for Il Dottore intervention. he is grateful to have been saved, though he remembers so little about his life before he feels he may as well be a new being.

his hands are strong enough to hold a sword, but the fine motor control necessary to write or paint has been lost due to a mixture of the damage to his mind and hands. he is still deceptively strong despite that willowy frame. even more so than before, as the modifications to his body and brain allow him to use more strength than what a normal person should be capable of without harming themselves.

his mind is sharp as ever, and the modifications to the akashic terminal allow him to more directly interface with ancient technology. most of his work has been in the investigation of king deshret's ruins and the so-called 'forbidden knowledge'.

he is most often seen in a modified version of a fatui agent's outfit, though the colors mirror that of ill dottore's harbinger uniform. he is also most often seen with a mask, meant to cover up the altered color of his akashic terminal and to hide his face from any who would recognize it in these lands. though there is light scarring across his face, he still looks like himself... though his eyes have changed. they're flat and lifeless.

the most concerning feature of his new existence is that at any point, his eyes can be looked through. his ears lsistened through. his voice used to say another's words. his autonomy hijacked and used used for the fatui's goal's. and he won't remember anything about it.

personality: yahya is still kind, though no longer the sort of person who burns himself alive just to warm others for a second. he is still compassionate to the deserving, but far more willing to lash out at those who throw their weight around to punish the unworthy. in many ways, he is the version of himself alhaitham wanted him to be. he priortizes himself and his safety above all others, though that leaves a coldness to him that is difficult to ignore and hard to witness to those who knew him before.

he is far more quick to violence. pacifism obviously did him no good in the past. and what good is doing good if the evil are still there to reap it's benefits? there is a greedier, hungier edge to him - all to fill the void of loneliness and grief for a life that was robbed of him. yahya can't remember anything about who or what he was. he was told that he was killed for debts owed, and that he should blame the gods for it. as if the god he so loved had helped him, this could have been avoided. thanks to the modifications to the akasha terminal keeping him alive, nahida can't even enter his mind to set the record straight.

he can't pursue the softer things that brought him joy due to the damage he sustained before his death and revival. he collects mora as some holdover of the stress he used to have around it, though he has little to spend it on. nothing really sparks that joy and passion beyond the idea of creating, and he finds his new limitations too frustrating to deal with to pursue that.

while he is far from hostile to most people, he holds little love for sumeru. what he can recall - the phantoms of memories, nothing concrete - does not speak of a life filled with joy. but of loneliness, abandonment, and an untimely end at the hands of people he had trusted. he doesn't think he was much mourned, and doesn't realize that his death set both alhaitham and cyno on a path that ultimately lead to the changes in sumeru he had long desired.

[ofrevival]

❛  pacific rim au.

F I L E  -

NAME://         todd,  jason  peter AGE://             twenty  four JAEGER://     currently  unassigned HEIGHT://       six  foot  zero  inches WEIGHT://      one  seventy  five

SUMMARY://     born  to  willis  and  catherine  todd  in  gotham  city.  jason  was  on  his  own  for  most  of  his  childhood  and  learned  to  take  care  of  himself  at  far  too  early  an  age.  with  his  father  in  and  out  of  prison  almost  constantly,  it  was  up  to  jason  to  look  after  his  mother  and  keep  her  safe  -  both  from  outside  threats  and  from  her  own  drug  habit.  and  when  jason  is  thirteen  years  old,  willis  is  killed  in  a  prison  riot,  leaving  the  two  of  them  on  their  own.

jason  supported  his  mother  for  a  time  with  petty  theft,  stealing  and  selling  whatever  he  could  to  buy  food  and  medicine  for  her.  when  he  reached  fifteen,  he  started  lying  about  his  age  in  order  to  work  whatever  jobs  he  could  find  -  it  helped  that  he  looked  older  than  he  was.

it’s  at  the  age  of  seventeen  that  the  first  kaiju  attack  comes,  and  later  in  the  year  the  pan  pacific  defense  corps  is  established,  searching  for  pilots  and  trainees  for  the  jaeger  academy.  jason  considers  enlisting,  but  knows  there  would  be  no  one  to  look  after  catherine,  who  was  finally  starting  to  improve  some.  so  he  doesn’t,  until  -  when  jason  is  twenty  two  years  of  age  -  catherine  regresses  badly  and  jason  finds  himself  woefully  unprepared  for  the  medical  costs  her  condition  accrues.  it’s  at  this  time  that  jason  finally  enlists,  with  the  promise  that  catherine  will  be  taken  care  of  and  her  medical  care  paid  for,  so  long  as  jason  does  well  in  the  academy.

about  three  months  into  the  program,  jason  gets  a  call  that  catherine  has  run  away  from  the  rehab  center  she’d  been  staying  at,  just  as  sirens  warning  of  an  incoming  kaiju  attack  start  to  sound.  jason  leaves  to  search  in  desperation  for  his  mother,  but  by  the  time  he  manages  to  find  her  at  their  ( now abandoned )  old  family  home,  it’s  too  late  to  make  it  to  a  shelter.  the  city  is  ravaged,  and  their  home  destroyed.  catherine  is  killed  in  the  subsequent  collapse,  and  an  ensuing  fire  nearly  claims  jason.  he’s  found  by  the  relief  effort  and  recovers  eventually,  but  his  chest  and  back  are  left  with  severe  burn  scars.

as  soon  as  he  recovers,  jason  re - enlists  at  the  academy  shortly  after  his  twenty  fourth  birthday,  unsure  of  where  else  to  go  and  determined  to  make  a  difference  so  that  no one  else  has  to  lose  family  the  way  he  did.  his  test  scores  &  combat  skills  put  him  at  the  very  top  of  his  classes,  but  the  memories  of  his  mother’s  death  and  the  fire  which  nearly  took  him  keep  him  from  successfully  drifting  -  one  classmate  who  tries  to  drift  with  him  is  unable  to  handle  jason’s  trauma  and  becomes  unresponsive  for  several  weeks  following,  leading  to  all  sorts  of  rumors  and  vitriol.

after  a  poor  strategic  call  combined  with  one  of  the  worst  kaiju  attacks  to  date  wipes  out  nearly  half  of  the  PPDC’s  pilots,  they  start  bringing  in  anyone  they  can  to  fill  the  ranks  out  again  -  including  rookies  like  jason  and  retired  pilots  like  steve  rogers. 

needless  to  say,  they’ve  got  the  world  looking  over  their  shoulders.

[sagaiisms]

𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐍   𝐒𝐇𝐄   𝐓𝐎𝐎𝐊   𝐓𝐇𝐄   𝐓𝐄𝐒𝐓   𝐀𝐒   𝐀   𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐋𝐃   𝐓𝐎   𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐃   𝐎𝐔𝐓   𝐇𝐄𝐑   𝐅𝐔𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐄   𝐎𝐂𝐂𝐔𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍   ,   𝐆𝐀𝐄𝐀   𝐋𝐘𝐒𝐈𝐌𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐈𝐀   𝐑𝐄𝐂𝐄𝐈𝐕𝐄𝐃   𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐑.   it   made   sense.   even   with   being   a   child   herself   ,      she   loved   babies   ,      politely   asking   parents   if   she   could   get   closer   ,      cooing   over   them.   she   was   one   of   those   children   ,      that   cut   out   pictures   from   magazines   that   aligned   with   her   idea   of   her   future   wedding.   she   knew   how   big   she   wanted   her   family   to   be.   had   an   idea   of   what   her   future   husband   would   look   like.   and   her   mother   humored   her   ,      told   her   they   would   see   once   the   big   day   came.   she   didn’t   live   past   gaea’s   ninth   birthday.   that   imagination   was   used   for   other   things:   a   world   where   she   had   a   living   mother   &   a   father   who   cared.   and   that   imagination   helped   her   survive   ,      coupled   with   books   &   after-school   activities.   eventually   ,      her   father   died   as   well.   and   she   fled   the   big   city   ,      collecting   the   money   that   usually   only   comes   from   loss   &   running   away. she   received   teacher   as   her   future   occupation.   she   became   a   reserve   deputy.   the   entire   reason   she   even   chose   hope   county   was   for   how   welcome   everyone   was   ,      treating   her   like   she   was   already   one   of   them   when   she   was   just   passing   through.   it   was   a   small   thing   ,      to   her.   gaea’s   main   occupation   became   the   herbs   she   grew   in   her   backyard   ,      the   natural   beauty   items   she   sold   for   so   much   less   than   corporations.   she   had   a   kiosk   at   the   farmer’s   market   &   it   was   enough   for   her.   becoming   a   reserve   deputy   was   about   seeing   a   need   &   filling   it.   hell   ,      it   may   have   even   been   because   she   remembers   trying   to   settle   a   dispute   between   two   people   &   being   told   she   should   join   ‘   so   she   could   get   paid   for   butting   into   people’s   businesses   ,      rather   than   just   doing   it.’   the   picture   painted   was   that   there   would   be   little   violence   &   a   lot   of   false   calls.   only   working   120   hours   a   year   meant   that   the   stresses   of   the   job   could   be   washed   away   with   her   usual   daily   living. 𝐀𝐓   𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐒𝐓   𝐔𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐋   𝐓𝐇𝐄   𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐋   𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐄. she   knew   things   were   getting   bad   in   hope   county.   she   was   a   civilian   when   the   shit   started   hitting   the   fan   ,      seeing   businesses   occupied   by   peggies   rather   than   the   people   she   had   come   to   love.   gaea   forced   herself   to   believe   that   ,      small   as   they   were   ,      the   police   force   would   be   able   to   do   something.   and   she   was   admittedly   elated   when   she   got   the   call.   people   tended   to   listen   so   much   more   when   they   saw   a   badge   (   or   at   least   the   logical   ones   were   ).   she’s   not   expecting   for   eli   to   ask   for   her   help   in   the   marshall’s   quest.   knows   they   wouldn’t   have   the   reserve   help   unless   things   were   dire   &   everyone   else   is   spread   too   thin   (   it’s   only   later   she   finds   out   many   are   dead   at   the   time   of   the   call   ).   the   name   seed   is   spoken   with   either   reverence   or   hate;   the   project   viewed   as   salvation   or   complete   bullshit.   she   just   wants   to   do   her   part.   she’s   come   to   know   the   seeds   as   well   as   any   other   neighbor   so   slapping   handcuffs   on   joseph   feels   ...   wrong. especially   considering   how   he   looks   at   her.

𝐓𝐋; 𝐃𝐑: gaea is a reserve deputy in hope county & the lucky dep that gets to slap cuffs on joseph seed. considering her hate for violence & desire for peace ,  the following events will threaten to rip her apart. and just may succeed.

𝐖𝐄𝐀𝐏𝐎𝐍𝐒: gaea prefers stealth over anything else. she usually uses her compound bow ,  outfitted with a red dot scope. she is also equip with a 308 carbine ,  that has a long range scope & a supressor cylinder ,  as well as her assigned p226. despite herself ,  she was tickled pink by the shovel launcher big farma but immediately dropped it the moment she impaled a peggie into a cilo with a shovel. she leans towards remote explosives more so than anything else & usually to break into safes.

𝐒𝐏𝐄𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐒: with boomer’s knack of alerting her to enemies nearby & jess’ own stealth ,  gaea tends to travel with them more often than not. though she absolutely adores cheeseburger & is at least friendly with a good number of the other specialists ,  it’s usually only when she liberates cult outposts that she changes things up. and when she does and peace doesn’t seem to be an option? she has cheeseburger and nick to watch her back.

𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐊𝐒: survivalist: king of the jungle ,  reduced animal attack damage. predators outside of judges prioritize nearby prey over you. prey animals flee less from you. black market ,  craftable remote explosives ,  proximity explosives ,  molotovs ,  pipe bombs ,  sticky upgrades & special ammo are available at all shops. renegade: parachute. saboteur ,  can approach a vehicle’s hood and set it on fire to make it explode ten seconds later. assassin: grapple.  

( a lot of the perks have to do with storage or skills gaea does or doesn’t have. i basically wanted to concentrate on extra things she has ,  like the parachute & grapple ,  and things she learned such as saboteur. when it comes to being able to reload faster ,  being extra stealthy ,  things like that ,  the former isn’t feasible because she’s not a fighter like that & the latter is just going to be a given ,  i think. )

[oftheheadcanons]

RAISED BY BEX.

Hope Andrea Mikaelson was given to Rebekah Mikaelson shortly after her birth. Raised to be more like Rebekah in terms of what she likes.  This version of Hope likes clothes,  shoes,  jewelry,  etc.  Never really knew her parents in this verse aside from an odd letter / gift sent to her with a fake name.  She grew up hearing stories about them and knew that one day she would be home.  Hope KNEW that see was a PRINCESS in her own right and that never scared her.  At fifteen,  the threat was thought to be gone and Hope was able to lay eyes on her parents for the first time for real.  She gets a small window of time to be happy before it comes crumbling down.  Hope triggers her werewolf curse,  her parents die for her, and Rebekah is once again left standing to pick up the pieces of a broken girl that has to forgive herself for something she didn’t do.

Private with @mikaelsonsister​ ‘s version of REBEKAH MIKAELSON.

[rosethroat]

VERSE INFORMATION the tragedy

the only good thing to come out of the apocalypse is that no one really questions why a BABYSITTER of all people knows how to use a variety of guns or how to wield a knife.  no one has time to.  not when death lurks around every corner,  not when every person has been soaked in terrible despair.  people are just glad when harukawa isn’t pointing her weapons at them.

when the tragedy first started to leak out of hope’s peak academy and onto the streets -- when the parade began to grow so loud it was overwhelming -- harukawa was one of the first people to leave the school.  many thought it was a bad idea.  many begged her to stay,  thinking that it wouldn’t last,  that this was all just a temporary issue.  harukawa knew better.  she could see the cold flames behind the eyes of those reserve course students.

a week after she left,  the reserve course broke in and killed as many ultimate students as they could get their hands on before committing mass suicide.

harukawa’s first and only priority is keeping her children safe.  it doesn’t matter how many people she has to kill,  or how many wounds she inflicts on her body.  as long as she stays standing,  she will ensure that the orphanage remains untouched by the effects of the tragedy.  so even when one of the caretakers goes mad with despair and harukawa has to kill her before she can hurt anyone else in the home,  even when riots shake the walls of the home and terrify the children inside,  harukawa will stand strong.

some tidbits: - harukawa is the only “caretaker” left in the orphanage.  all the others fled to be with their families when the riots broke out,  or they went mad with despair and she had to...  get rid of them. - she frequently has to run out for supplies.  whenever she does,  she piles all the children into the home’s basement and barricades the doors as best she can.  it’s on these supply runs that threads with other people are most likely to happen. - while on these runs,  if harukawa finds any lost children or anything,  she is taking them back to the orphanage with her. - anyone that gets too close to the orphanage is getting taken out. harukawa spends most of her time staring out the window,  protecting from the riots.  it doesn’t matter what you are:  robot,  human,  remnant of despair.  as long as you’re not a child or someone she recognizes,  you’re getting dispatched.

[kaionace]

VERSE INFORMATION - && YOU CANNOT WIN A WAR WITH JUST FANGS AND ANGER. ( v. golden deer. )

since i’m still on my fe/3h braincell. and since i haven’t posted this yet. mario vc: here we go!

Lev hails from the Leicester Alliance, content with his time spent in plains and mountains. He is in Golden Deer and is unrecruitable. While he is considered a commoner due to his mother, his father is a noble from the Holy Kingdom of Faerghus who discarded his title to marry a woman he had fallen in love with. While Lev does not particularly discuss this branch of his family, he will not disclose any information if someone asks. His father has left the life of a noble behind, and Lev respects that!

He is open to all chatter and will talk to anyone he finds, even if they give him little room to make conversation. That being said, a lot of the teachers find him to be a little... disruptive, so he’s more popular among the students than he is the teachers.

LOST ITEMS: Unfinished Notes Sheet, Used Wooden Sword, Battle Tactics Guide PLACES FREQUENTED: Training Grounds (pre-timeskip), Dining Hall, Fishing Pond STRENGTHS: Sword, Lance, Brawl WEAKNESSES: Authority, Reason, Flying* * budding talent. Can be used to promote Lev to Falcon Master.

While originally extremely weak as a unit and his overall skills due to his enthusiasm and excitement, Lev is perfectly capable of becoming a strong unit. He has a slow start to picking up new weapons and attacks recklessly, but there’s force and drive behind every strike. Eventually, when you get him up to such ranks, he is best suited in grappler or hero.