#vivisec

[virginia-werewolf]

a tardigrade in time lord robes and a collar... IN SPACE

[eighthdoctor]

"Maria, I know you said this was a masquerade but did you see those two?"

Maria flinches. Alexandra is a good friend, and, more importantly in the Tsar's court, a friend with money, but her voice sounds like an out of tune violin. "Yes, I saw them."

Alexandra flutters over, dress flapping like wings. "They're wearing," her voice drops dramatically, "skulls."

"Yes," Maria says, clinging on to her patience. "I saw them."

Her friend digs her fingernails into Maria's arm. "Skulls, Maria," she hisses. "At Diana's party. We must warn her!"

"But Maria," Alexandra starts before Maria gets a finger over her lips.

"They're coming over here."

Alexandra makes a noise reminiscent of a small bird being choked. "They're wearing skulls are you sure they have invitations?"

Maria ignores this in favour of flicking her eyes over the two.

Both are wearing low cut dresses on the edge of fashion, although one is suspiciously flat chested to be wholly female. That one has something that probably sort of should be a ram's skull on its head, although the skull has a faint fuzziness around the edges that indicate it might not have originally come from a sheep. The other's skull looks more like a giant rodent of some sort, if the rodent's incisors had been replaced by teeth far longer and sharper than normal.

"Maria," rodent-skull says quietly. "Is she around?"

Alexandra clenches her hand on Maria's arm again. "You know them?"

Maria ignores her and her sharp fingernails. "I heard she was, but no visual. Cousins, if I may introduce my friend Alexandra?"

Ram-skull gives off the impression of smiling. "Charmed."

Rodent-skull shifts weight just enough to look uneasy. "Is Alexandra one of your contacts?"

"If she was, I would have said so," Maria says, frowning. "She is a friend, Cousins, nothing more." Maria is just a Little Sister, not even high enough to know the Cousins' names, but she already knows how dangerous this game is.

Ram-skull's shadow moves, and Alexandra flinches. "I thought so," ram-skull says with a quiet, tense pleasure. "You know us."

"I do not!" Alexandra backs away, though, and her voice is trembling.

Rodent-skull makes a gesture with the hand that's holding an open fan. "Oh this shall be a fun trip after all."

Shadow drawing a slim rapier, ram-skull laughs quietly. "Were you ever worried?"

"She'll be missed," Maria says sharply. "I need her, she has money and connections and I--"

Rodent-skull waves the fan, shadow posturing for the benefit of no one. "You can find another contact. If you want to keep it, make sure it isn't expendable."

Ram-skull's shadow darts forward, ram-skull's empty arm following a moment after, and even that fast the shadow hits nothing, because Alexandra has already moved and is holding a gun that absolutely has to be anachronistic.

"Even better," rodent-skull purrs. "And who do you work for, pet?"

Alexandra straightens, looking nothing like the vapid girl Maria thought she had befriended. "No one I should be sharing with you." Her gun is pointed straight for ram-skull.

Rodent-skull has two daggers out and is giving the impression of smirking. "The Celestis, of course. Not so expendable, but oh, we might even get a promotion from this."

The ram-skull is shaking back and forth, and ram-skull's shadow has sheathed the sword. "Not here, Cousin. Not here and now."

"And why not?" Somehow rodent-skull's shadow moved before Alexandra could, and a shadow dagger is running up and down her throat.

Maria shivers, and tries not to attract anyone's attention.

Ram-skull grabs rodent-skull's arm. "Anastasia," the Cousin hisses in an undertone that Maria is absolutely sure she was not supposed to hear and suspects she would probably be dead for hearing if anyone found out.

Rodent-skull hisses. "It's a Celestis agent."

Alexandra grumbles; the dagger slips a little closer to her jugular and she quiets instantly.

"In a few years," ram-skull mutters quietly. "Then you'll have all the Celestis agents you can eat, but now is too chaotic even for us."

The rodent-skull twists, seeming to glare at ram-skull. "Nothing is too chaotic for us."

Ram-skull straightens, and even more of it fuzzes out of Maria's vision. "Take our agent if you want, but we shouldn't confront the Celestis until..."

Alexandra ducks away from rodent-skull and curtsies. "Thank you," she says, rolling her eyes. "As if we don't all know."

Coughing ostentatiously, ram-skull says, "Best to keep up appearances."

Alexandra smiles. "Should I go keep an eye on the princess?"

"Are you asking us for options?" rodent-skull asks, filing shadow fingernails with the point of a shadow dagger.

"I think not." With that, Alexandra turns, walks briskly down the hall, and disappears into the main ballroom.

Maria moves to follow her but ram-skull suddenly has a hand on her arm.

"I think not," rodent-skull says quietly. "I am still hungry, and you just sent away my lunch."

The world twists and Maria screams.

[eighthdoctor]

3, 23, 24

3. when did your character first come into existence in your mind?

Kaydiz: Okay so I started with a setting, which was this desert so hot humans can't live in it in the daytime, but we're absolutely bonkers as a species and so we live there anyway, so we've adapted into a colony species. And my immediate next question was, well, how do I break this? The answer was, an asexual agender queen (since queens are "always" female and are supposed to have lots and lots of children). And that's where Kaydiz started.

Belor: grew out of the desire to break the mold by having two MCs, and then I wanted her to be a foil to Kaydiz. So Belor is a worker who's really good at leading, who desperately wants a family of her own, who's social, who's in a romantic relationship...

23. is your character part of a social minority? how does this impact their lives on a day to day basis?

Kaydiz: all of the minorities. ALL OF THEM. Ve's an agender individual in a binary society, a queen when the odds of that are about 1 in 150, and after ve's captured, ve's a racial minority as well--outside of the desert, the only Koratha you see are slaves. How this affects ver? Well vis race gets ver enslaved, and then there's the pronoun issue, and then vis entire plot is built around whether or not to take a colony. On a smaller scale, microaggressions, misgendering, trying to conceal that ve isn't a slave, getting pressured into taking a colony....... Vis live sucks.

Belor: Much fewer problems, tbh. She faces the same race problem, where the Koratha are enslaved by the yet-unnamed-sedentary-group, and as an escaped slave, she's risking everything, but she grew up in and out of slavery, she's used to working the streets, to living in this grey area of you-aren't-legal-but-we-can't-afford-to-hunt-you-down, to how live works. And being charismatic helps. (I mean, she has a bucketload of other problems. But they aren't connected to her status as a social minority, other than the race thing.)

24. is your character spiritual? religious? devout? or do they lean more towards atheism? is that unusual for characters in that universe?

I'm not answering this because I don't have any religions yet, and I'm not going to haphazardly come up with one on the fly.

[virginia-werewolf]

z, a, g, r, e, u, s

(yesssss)

Z- already answered!

A- already answered!

G. Would you rather burn or freeze to death?- burn probably, it would be a lot quicker

R- already answered!

E. If you could live and be healthy without sleeping or eating/drinking, which would you cut out of your life?- sleep, it takes up so much time that could be used to do better things

U. If you were old enough and not in a situation where it would be inappropriate, would you sleep with one of your (past) school --teachers/professors?- no

S. Would you rather be the only person in the world that can read minds or have everyone else in the world be able to read minds except for your own?- definitely be the only one able to read minds, it would be really interesting to be able to do (although probably really problematic too) and being the only one who couldn't read minds would be a huge disadvantage

[rhysgore]

vivisec replied to your post “vivisec replied to your post “the deca” oh dr who”

fUKC THAT'S' BEAUTIFUL

JST IMAGINE THEM ACTUALLY WEARING THAT SHIRT

[pacificarts-blog]

vivisec said: 

!!!! THAT’S GREAT

I KNOW!!!!! im happy