ojibwa // kaveh akbar, “the miracle” // eric roux-fontaine, “a country in your eyes” // clarice lispector, “água viva” // gérard schlosser, “la fenêtre de derrière” // linn meyers // frank bidart, the third hour of the night”
for the character asks HITS YOU WITH MY ANEMONE BEAM ‼️‼️‼️‼️
AHHH NEM BEAM!!! THE NEM BEAM!!!! AHHH
favorite thing about them
honestly i love her whole character!!! nem might even be my fave iwatex character.. i love her design (her big big hair and the big switch between her teen self to a helios soldier and her star freckles) and i love her attitude !! and i love that she always, always turns to the helios, its such a cool thing - it sucks for her, but like, thematically its awesome.. i love her growth and i love her soo much.
but . to be totally honest. i love her big hair. its awesome
least favorite thing about them
unsure.. it sucks she always turns to the helios and becomes a soldier, but thats !! cool thematically !! mm. not silly enough
favorite line
I FORGOR !! ANY OF HER LINES... i rlly like the scene where you save her from the 'dog' though!!! i love that shes still got it in her to cry. after going through so much, kom dying, dating vace, being a soldier, she still has it in her to cry for sol when they get seriously wounded, might die. its rlly neat.
ohh i also like it when she runs up to koms dead body 👍and cries and wails. OH i also love her rightful insistance that her scales are cool and how she wants cool scars... and i also love her event where you get matching tattoos!!!! i love her whole get-better arc...
brOTP
VIC 👍👍👍VICTORY MY GOOD FRIEND VICTORY!!! they'd get along i think.. vics like. lived their whole life (well, until they land) with the helios !! i think they'd get along:) enemies to friends i think maybe bc vic could be mean
OTP
oh mannn.. who knows ?!? (forgets everything about exocolonist ever) ... mm .. uhh . .. umm .. synth x nem is cute but not a true pair .. umm . uhh .. umm.. sol i suppose!! idk 👍👍
nOTP
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random headcanon
like every fave character of mine shes on the aro spectrum 💪💪💪aroace maybe even. who knowx... i dont rlly have any like. thoughts on how or where on the spectrum she'd fall.
wait ok this lets me talk about an interesting iwatex thing to me
like !! so, they have information on earth - i love iwatex worldbuilding btw - but not everyone is all that interested in it. like, sol doesnt study up on it, anemone (iirc) finds learning about it lame and stuff, you know? its like, theres cool stuff in thsi world (like, past civilisations) that i dont learn about !! you know? like umm . i find it all cool!! awesome!!! but its like. lik.e. gouhh. ok onto my point.
can you imagine like, the new gender and sexuality and who knows what spectrums they made on vertumna? theyre making whole new genders there!!! how many of queer words and stuff did they take with them?? you know !! how much remained !! i dont know . anemone probs wouldnt know the words to describe her sexuality in words we know, right?? if she was aro . but she'd still be it to me !! or maybe something else? like. goddd man. theyre making whole new genders and sexualities on vertumna.
shes also TRANS of course.dont ask me how. and lesbianl.and everything ever. shes QUEER she doesnt know the words!! shes just queer dude shes just queerrrr
unpopular opinion
i dont know what the popular opinions surrounding nem are:( uukkmm... :(( sorry
song i associate with them
OH DUDE i was just thinking about how this song
is nemcore the other day!!! almost messaged you about it.. almost drew redrew some parts of this as her.. the songs about shutting out grief, that its just something you have to accept, nothing you can do about it, people will die and youre stupid for being sad about it. when the helios arrive and the vertumna celebration happens, nem says "we should be grieving, not celebrating", give or take..
so i think this is a very. post helios arrival nem. when they teach her to fight about it n stuff.
"something about this doesn't seem okay/i hear my voice as if its really far away/my shadow darkens under the sun" "i'm ready to be blinded by the breaking day/you'd think by now the chains come undone, but i'm afraid of breaking into a run" "i chose to shut my eyes, you (vace) chose to bare your teeth"
but nem doesnt have such a "whats the point in pushing back against the mill that grinds the world to dust" mindset, does she? shes fighty. she believes shes on the right side of things.WAIT I KNOW!!! I KNOW A SONG!!!
maybe??? oughhh man youre getting a BIG POST... if anyhting this is a solcore song. to me. ive wanted to send it to u for some time but i was scawed youd think im cringe .. like a LOSER!!! its SWAG its a COOL SONG and i LIKE IT
favorite picture of them
i love this one. shes happy. its def post her breakup with vace. shes HAPPY shes HANGING OUT shes AUNT NEM!!! sjes SILLY!!! shes HAPPY i want the best for her
I like to ask this whenever people post those character question lists:
Who was your earliest OC? Who is the most recent? Randomly select two questions to answer for each of them.
OOO how interesting!! I have OCs that date back to my preteens that are permanently archived, so I'm going to go off of my current main cohort of characters. In that case, Victor (a depressed demigod of void from ATWCI) is the earliest -- technically it's a toss-up between Victor and Jude, but I thiiiiink Vic just edges Jude out -- and Ro (a dragonfly dancer from &Lav) is the most recent!
I rolled for questions randomly, and got 9/6 for Victor and 41/1 for Ro. Let's do this (answers below the cut)!
(I'm also gonna link to some various playlists for each character because I can, I want to, and I think the vibes will help contextualize each character :3)
VICTOR
(character playlist) (misc. playlist) (in-character mixtape)
Do they consider laws flexible, or immovable?
Depends on which laws! Laws created to govern human society largely aren't relevant to him anymore, just because he can magic his way around most of them with eldritch fuckery. He's a lot more aware of social rules and his own personal ethical rules, which he follows more strictly. At the most immovable, though, are the 'laws of the universe' -- as perceived by him, at least. He has an extra peek behind the curtain of reality because of his status as a splinter of the eldritch god of Void, and that absolutely colors how he moves through the world.
Do they swear? Do they remember their first swear word?
He does! He's not the most excessive swearer, but that's mostly due to the fact that he's not the most excessive speaker in general. He prefers a well-timed swear word to punctuate a sentence, and is a little more thoughtful about when and where he'll use them. He's a bit more strategic about it than, say, Cara, who will just use them as filler words, but he's not so prudish as Jude who barely ever swears at all.
RO
(character playlist) (story playlist)
What’s the maximum amount of time your character can sit still with nothing to do?
Ro is a fairly antsy/active person, which is why dancing works out so well for her as a profession. She doesn't like sitting still, and if she's still for too long it can get actively uncomfortable (especially if she has her wings tucked in to hide them). If she had to sit still for longer than 30 minutes with nothing to do, she'd find something to do. Probably some weird yoga or calisthenics.
How do they feel about children?
Children are... weird for fairies, both human children and their own. The fae have a reputation for stealing away human children, but that was mostly because they would mine a natural resource from them that they've since figured out how to derive more efficiently. Thus, they treat human children like they treat humans; weird, but necessary. Fae children, on the other hand, are raised communally and emerge in the tens, so most don't have a strong reaction to children unless they are in the child-rearing role.
TEE HEE thank u for askin :3c I'm gonna answer each question for the main four, answers below the cut!!
7: What triggers nostalgia for them, most often? Do they enjoy that feeling?
Cara: There was a point before some very big life events happened in her childhood where everything felt 'perfect' -- her grandmother was alive, she was close to her rabbi, and she felt connected to her community as a whole. She has a tendency to look back at those times with rose-colored glasses. Hey, if you can't romanticize the present, at least you can romanticize the past...
Victor: Reconnecting with his ex-husband, Jude. They share a lot of history together, and as bad as they are for each other, spending time with him reminds Vic of how much fun he used to have when he was younger. He was confident, hot-blooded, strong, energetic... things he's not sure if he'll ever be again. Maybe that's why they're still each other's sneaky link after so many centuries.
Saoirse: Interacting with Cara, funnily enough. They remember when they were new to this world, how confused she was and how blindly they followed people like Victor. Seeing Cara repeat some of her same mistakes is both painful and vindicating. They like to think that they're so experienced now, but Cara makes them confront the fact that she still has no idea what she's doing. It's confusing, and it sucks... but it's also a comfort, in a weird way.
Jude: His human partners tend to trigger nostalgia for him. Usually it's when they're discovering something he loves for the first time -- a movie, a play, an old poem -- and watching their reaction anew makes him fall in love with being human all over again. It classifies as nostalgia because he hasn't been human in a long, long time... but he still looks at it fondly (and holds it in a vice grip).
15: How do they speak? Is what they say usually thought of on the spot, or do they rehearse it in their mind first?
Cara: She has zero filter, and tends to say exactly what's on her mind (with plenty of dry sarcasm and swearing peppered in). Cara is one who has big feelings, and those feelings absolutely come out in speech (as much as she tries to bury them). She comes off as kind of a cunt to people who aren't prepared for it, but what she actually is is bracingly honest... with everyone except for herself.
Victor: He's a soft-spoken guy in spite of his size; he tends to speak in fragments instead of full sentences, and won't use five words when three would do. It makes him a bit hard to read, but it's less because he's genuinely aloof and more because he's pretty introverted. The one time he does get flowery is when he's flirting.
Saoirse: Saoirse has a flair for the dramatic, even when it comes to casual conversation. Plenty of metaphors and figures of speech pepper their way of speaking, and they always manage a conspiratorial tone -- as if you two are the only ones in the world sharing a hilarious secret. She does have a fairly chill vibe, though, like they're perpetually running on 1.5 hours of sleep.
Jude: He tends to speak very formally, even among friends. He has a specific cadence that feels 'vintage,' even for the setting -- like you're watching an old Golden Age film instead of someone genuinely speaking their mind. It can get especially annoying when you're arguing with him -- like, who are you even trying to impress? There aren't any cameras here!! Give it a rest Lawrence Olivier!
19: What is their favorite number?
Cara: Cara likes 12; 12 months in a year, 12 years old to become an adult in the eyes of her religion, and all the nice ways it divides (by two! by three! by four! by six!). It's easy to find, and thus is a constant comfort in the mundane parts of life. It feels like a whole number, for lack of a better term. I'm sure that's not reflective of any kind of envy or yearning at all.
Victor: If you asked him, he'd probably chuckle and say he hasn't thought about it that much. Push him, and he'd say something lame like "infinity," even thought it's not a real number. It's a nice thought, though, right? That things don't always need to end? That something could go on forever, in spite of everything?
Saoirse: Something so obnoxiously indie and/or specific that you kinda wanna groan when they give you their answer, like the Euler-Mascheroni constant or ~zero.~ It's clear she's trying to casually outdo everyone in the room creatively when the question is asked. But beyond the posturing is a genuine appreciation of anything undefinable or mutable -- they like finding where definitional systems fail and get weird.
Jude: Two! It's the only even prime, and everything is better in pairs :) It's the basis of a lot of mathematical functions (even numbers are defined by two, for example), and he identifies with the sense of responsibility, yet isolation, that two must feel. He WILL get a little weepy about it if he thinks about it for too long.
4. Does your oc have a defining physical trait? What makes this feature unique?
5. Does your oc have a defining personality trait? Why does this trait define them?
u can do ocs of ur choice 👍
4. hmm... vic has sharp teef:3 dog style... its not That unique, as rex has thenm, too, but !! theyre umm swaggy teeth . very durable.n more durable than any others on the colony.
5. nons defining personality trait is its swaggg ... and umm . devotion to the gardeners. only falters if sol is rlly niceys to them (in the way that they betray the colony and agree to try n kill it). if sol does not agree, and says killing is WRONG, non is like lol ok. and you have a frienemy:) funny banter haha it rlly does try to kill them tho
1.Do they have any crafting hobbies?
depends what you define as crafting! but in general, arts and crafts,... well, i was gonna say No.. but perhaps it draws in the dirt sometimes:) and such...
3.Do they enjoy cooking?
twirls hair . ummm . what if I. told You. that umm. non no eat? call it nona the way it does not like eating! i imagine it just photosynthesises... tho, the question is 'do they enjoy cooking', not 'do they like eating'... depends, i suppose! would only like chopping veggies i think.
7.Do they have any unusual fears?
all their fears are normal for gardeners 👍
gonna put the next ones under cut:)
34.How well do they deal with grief?
hmm... vic, surpesses all their emotions! so its like uhh. yea. yea they'd just pretend they never knew the person.
42.Can they speak multiple languages? If yes which all do they speak and why?
non can speak every language i htink djue to being a gardener
43.Can they handle stressful situations?
to keep the score even. synth, can! yes she can:) shes good at handling it. for a period of time. if he has a good outlet he can keep going for some time but if its like. constant. he can have a giant explosion moments