#wicked muse

[clayanddust]

AU Mina Harker (Muse)

“Mina Harker” from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, reimagined as a vampire slayer in art by  Magali Villeneuve.

From ’Innistrad: Crimson Vow’, released November 2021 by Magic: The Gathering.

[walker-journal]

They say before you start a war You better know what you're fighting for

lyrics by The Cab

[hackysackace]

White Crest Children’s Songs: The Ragman (Headcanon)

This is just meant to be a random example of one of the cheerful kid freindlsy songs Sam and other White Crest born citizens would’ve heard growing up. I don’t pretend to be a poet, this is just meant for vibe more than anything else. 

This song refers to the  Rag And Bone Man

Your skin he’ll take to hide his face 

Your hair he’ll take for straw 

Tendons make for fine lace

The Ragman comes.

They gave him bones for handles

Scraps leftover from their meal

Sold him grease to make our soap

Wood to mend a broken wheel

Till they offered him a length of rope

Strung him up that long dark night

Swaying dead amongst the corn

A lonely sight come the morning light

But still the Ragman comes

[walker-journal]

Tapir’s Bois as DnD Characters  (Rerolled for Newest Season)

Adam Walker

Class: Paladin (Even after essentially losing his faith and powers for a time, Adam is still primarily motivated by the concept of oaths and fighting for a  something greater than himself) 

Alignment: Lawful Neutral leaning towards Lawful Good (was a loooooooong road to get here, as Adam started this rp teetering on the edge of fallen paladin going towards murder hobo, but there’ve been alot of player characters who’ve positively intervened) 

Bond: “Searching for Something to Believe in.” (In his most recent arc Adam has finally moved past atonement )

Flaw: Brazeness 

Highest Stats: Strength and Charisma.   

Dump Stat: Wisdom (Reading the room? What’s that?) 

Luis Martinez

Class: Barbarian (Luis isn’t super dangerous until he loses control of his emotions and then the om nom nom murder starts. There’s no elegance or tactics, just instinct and sheer brutality) 

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (Luis started out in the Yeehaw flashback as Neutral Good but is now just trying not to fully succumb to chaotic evil) 

Bond: “Hope for a Cure” 

Luis is basically Bon Jovi’s Livin on a Prayer: the Cannibal Redux 

Flaw: In Denial (Alcher and Ariana are gradually chipping away at those walls) 

Highest Stats: Strength and Constitution 

Dump Stat: Intelligence (Always blazed to hell) 

Sai Chandra

Class: Wizard  (Sai is about brains over brawn. His magic is the result of intense study and deliberation rather than something based on emotion and instinct. His focus school is Divination, naturally) 

Alignment: True Neutral (Sai doesn’t harm others on purpose, but is so completely consumed by his idiosyncratic studies and assumptions about fate that it makes him apathetic to other’s wellbeing) 

Bond: "I want to feel like I matter” (Sai’s fatalistic outlook and general insularity leads him to be alienated from those around him, but recently his started to timidly reach out to others. This could cause an alignment shift with time) 

Flaw: Bitterness 

Highest Stats: Intelligence and Dexterity

Dump Stat: Charisma (Conversations are train wrecks and Sai can’t swerve to save his life) 

[walker-journal]

Light in the Hallway, Pentatonix

Haven’t done one of these music things before, but this song is on my playlist stuff for Adam because the lyrics take on a darker meaning if it’s a Hunter singing to their kid. The monsters are very literal in this case, and “even me my dear” part speaks to the constantly facing nightmarish creatures doesn’t get much easier with time. Overall it hints at the very morbid aspects of Adam/Hunters’ childhoods and how fast they have to grow up. 

[walker-journal]

The Lilitu: Birth of the Fae  (Hunter mythology )

((This is merely a Headcanon of the beliefs of a specific sect of Hunter thought that Adam’s family ascribes to. Its not meant to be taken as truthful))

Know initiate, that our reality is merely one of many. Time, linear causation, gravity, matter, space, and light are merely illusions specific to our tiny fleck of cosmos. There exist entirely separate realities in which these concepts have no meaning, universes that are governed by alien laws that our senses cannot comprehend nor our language express. 

But in antediluvian prehistory, entities of these other dimensions crossed the void into our plane of existence. Fanciful parables refer to Demons as ‘fallen angels’ or ‘evil spirits’, we know them to be merely profoundly alien beings, the truest Other. They came in madness inducing forms that defied the evolutionary order of our planet and could alter the equilibrium of reality through pure intent, an art crudely referred to as “magic.” 

 In their ignorance, primitive mankind called these aliens “gods.” 

Before our kind arose by means yet unknown, humanity was defenseless against these monstrous false deities, and entire civilizations lived and died according to their unknowable whims. With some favored slaves and overseers, Demonkind shared eldritch sciences and secrets underpinning the cosmos, creating the first witches. But the masses were merely a rich banquet of life and souls to feed the gods’ insatiable appetites. Great were the unrivaled achievements of this lost age, but greater still were depths of horror and brutality that have mercifully faded into myth. 

But a creature known as Lilith saw greater potential in this slave species and sought to blur the line between Demon and mortal. All previous attempts at intermingling human and demon blood had resulted in brutish aberrations without sentience that we now know as ‘monsters.’ But such was Lilith’s mastery over the secrets of life itself that she succeeded where others had failed, creating beings with true mortal souls and demonic magic coursing through their veins. 

Over the millennia these human-alien hybrids were called many things: “Cambion” “Anunnaki” “Mazikeen”. But as their bloodlines stabilized and they slowly gained a more terrestrial semblance, one overarching term came to describe many disparate kinds of dual-natured beings. 

Fae

[clayanddust]

If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

John Steinbeck

[clayanddust]

“I am a handmaiden of Death. I walk in His dark shadow

R.L. LaFevers