i dont have much more but :) i have this ☝ :) eliah reveal
my favorite pair of dysfunctional sisters amen..... lil bonus trivia under the cut
eliah is 32, ev is 14, giving them an 18 years of difference. eliah was finishing highschool when ev was born
eliah's birthday is on July 27th
and ev's is on May 8th! :)
i had a very specific view for eli im glad i managed to draw it as i'd imagined 🙏 bless pinterest i could find multiple references for the kind of business attire she wears + her haircut. this isnt what she wears to just lounge at home tho. now that i think about it i wonder what it is........
eliah is very cool :) shes like. just cool. she can usually give off a Very charismatic vibe + is a renowed name in the field of like magic research..... sometimes she shows up at the local university to drop some lectures the people love her. professor nuray has like a very good image as an approachable woman and she can act very good with children. her smile is only half fake but it's really really warming, no wonder evangeline loves it. but eli can be pretty cold too
evangeline also usually goes for like, more baggy tomboy-ish vibes but this also fits her style :) i have pinterest boards for ev here and for eliah here
i do think eliah has some kind of master's degree or maybe a doctorate but i have no idea what it is in. also it is worth noting half the brilliant progress she has been able to make in testing her wonderful theories on the way magical energy (teiman) works and how it interacts with non-magical energy etc etc. has mostly been made possible by the whole. unethical experiments on unwilling subjects with cool powers :) she has her whole lab team of course but she's still the boss of all of them
OH OH and im not sure i mentioned it before but in their setting i call magic "teiman" :D i had made it up on the spot some years ago (before i had ev or eliah) but retroactively i decided that, in-universe, it is somehow derived from the greek "thauma", meaning miracle.
omg hi you're so sweet ! skjhdf i mean you could :) it is sfw, the post u liked is actually abt my second story (post tenebras lux) but my current one is amor vincit omnia !! the link there is to my masterpost with the summary and content warnings (and chapters!) so u can look over those before going into it <3
if you do read it i'd love to know what you think! :)
See idk if you’ve posted abt this before (I just went thru nearly all the posts on espa’s worldbuilding and lore) but I’m curious about how they feel about their gender identity and when she began using those pronouns (is it just me or does that sound lowk queerphobic 🥀)
(I SAW <3 IM OVERJOYED RN)
i haven't! espa's relationship with their gender is a bit. odd? it's nothing special. but like
you could call her cisgender. and a girl. and truth be told that's not wrong. but they're a little bit detached from the notion
'coz you see. espa wasn't raised as a girl. it was raised as a weapon
(i like to say they're isogender :) not quite cis but not exactly trans either)
if we were talking in more specific microlabels. if espa knew about them and had to do some introspection to decide a term. it'd be cogender (<- a multigender label sort of like bigender but the genders are a little more interwoven), both nonbinary and a girl. but espa barely knows what "microlabel" is so
pronouns wise: as we see in the escravos de jo drabble :) back then. at least for a while. espa was using solely it/its. when it was even younger, it used she/her, because that was all it knew, but from a while on it was just 'it'
this is partially due to their first handler. i've mentioned cláudio a few times even though i didn't say much about him yet, but he was the guy that espa was assigned to before ann. he was the first to call espa an it. on a daily basis.
it wasn't exactly with the most progressive intent lmao. so yeah. it stuck. even amongst handlers thats a bit uncommon (ann, for example, calls espa a "she" and so do most of them) but he was their primary handler for a while so i think it really shaped how they view themself
once it changed handlers they gradually shifted towards the they/it/she we have today, though
despite that, i don't think the it/its comes solely from a dehumanizing and self-depreciating place for her. to say it has nothing to do with the dehumanization would be a lie, but it goes beyond that. they do genuinely appreciate these pronouns. that first... less-than-ideal situation was their first exposure to them, and maybe espa wouldn't use it/its today if it wasn't by that (maybe they would!), but it does genuinely like them. if espa was a little bit more aware of how fucked up its life is, then maybe it'd feel a bit self-counscious about it, but as things currently are, it's just happy with their three little pronouns
the 'they' came more naturally tho, i think. meeting people. having a vague understanding of nonbinary people from outside. rare instances where someone couldn't gauge its gender and called it a "they" which felt weirdly euphoric. so that's how we get to this :)
so yeah! espa is a girl. but not in a very cisgender way. they're also nonbinary, and having grown up as a 'weapon' shaped a lot of how they view themself. so it's a bit of a mix
