ACT 0. CHAOS-BORN

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THE WOMB OF PRIMORDIAL CHAOS

VEREAIS. the disorganised archive of muses by trappolia featuring characters from touchstarved, baldur's gate 3, hades, the magnus archive/protocol, and many more to come (...) new to the oc/rp blog scene; open to interactions!

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ADALIA DROINEAU ⸺ velvet songbird

the caged bird sings with fearful trill / of things unknown but longs for still (…) oh, my aching heart; what are you going to do when the chips are down?

ORIGINAL CHARACTER, ARCANE. original character penned in the setting of the league of legends-based show arcane. trigger warning for arcane spoilers, heavy angst, classicism, discrimination, infidelity, etc. loved by lei.

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i’m kind of curious how u think tavyl and aerea will get along :0

actually super interesting dynamic since they both had drastically different upbringings. Aerea probably had good education, and as you've mentioned before spoiled, while Tavyl got killed for saying something wrong.

Similarly Tavyl is a lot more tough due to his living situation (poor boy slept in a haystack for a good 3 years). Despite this Tavyl is so much softer than her personality wise, like girl boss boy failure kind of dynamic right here. "He asked for no pickles" kind of shit right there. I do think they can get along later on in the story once they are able to learn more about each other, but at first I think they might put each other off a bit lmao...

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ough... my babies...

OUR babies u mean

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@trappolia posted to #mikhail #tavyl

MIKHAIL.do the other companions have special comments or reactions upon recruiting your tav?

recruitable only after finding withers within the dank crypt

"chk, a drow? he should prove no more different than the rest of his kind." LAEZEL scoffs tapping her finger against her arm, she made it clear the first night that mikhail is not welcome on her end of camp.

the girl shakes her head, "a follower of myrkul brings nothing but trouble, we must keep our wits about us while he stays." SHADOWHEART proclaims, she didn't deny his use to the party, but she doesn't seem impressed by him at whole, if not a little worried.

ASTARION licks his lips over an intrigued smile, "covered in silver and gold, a ravishing look, no? an angel who acts nothing like one!" he says, eyes trailing over the large wings mikhail easily stretches.

he rolls his eyes, "I can't trust him as far as I can throw him, which isn't far." nodding to himself, GALE continues, "his eyes are so freaky too.. what do you need three eyes for!?"

the skeletons expression is almost unreadable, WITHERS voice is as monotone as usual when he speaks of the boy, "it would be most intelligent to keep the child of myrkul feeling welcomed." he says, glancing over to mikhail who flicks his gold necklace around.

MIKHAIL.what sort of general actions raise or lower their approval?

MIKHAIL likes displays of attitude and power, if you can keep up a tricky facade that is the quickest way to his heart. Traditionally performance and wisdom checks get his attention, but he can appreciate brutally strategies as well.

The player has to be at least a little morally grey if you have hopes to get closer. Condemning his actions, or playing too peaceful will get him bored and slowly lower his approval until its in the negatives.

MIKHAIL.can their path have different branches depending on the choices the Player Character makes?

MIKHAILS STORY focuses on his relationship with death, and loneliness. his character story shines with a durge player character, but even without there are many different easter eggs to stumble across. currently there are 3 endings for him.

1 : ' bad ending . MIKHAIL chooses to not resist MYRKULs call, and takes an act of revenge for killing his lord, one companion who he has never been put in party with will be slaughtered on default. you are forced to kill him in combat. in post game his heart begins beating anew.

2 : ' good ending . MIKHAIL reunites with TAVYL who had been sent to find and return him to the church. in this ending, mikhail has no character progression, and disappears before being mentioned late game.

3 : ' good ending . MIKHAIL kills himself during MYRKULS callings and Jergal takes Mikhails body as a hireling post game.

TAVYL.can their path have different branches depending on the choices the Player Character makes?

TAVYLS STORY focuses on self discovery. he spent most of his life as a lap dog, and now that he's alone he doesn't know what to do with himself. there are currently two paths you can take with him.

1 : ' bad ending . specific choices you pick with raphael can lead to TAVYL being "returned" to MIKHAIL . After achieving this ending, you can not interact with tavyl again.

2 : ' good ending . TAVYL is freed, and decides to go school within candlekeep and pursue world history, and catch up on all the education and knowledge he missed within the cult

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i love the idea of tormenting rhys 🤍 love language

he's a sadomasochist but also just super mikhail- and orin-phobic so he continuously bats them away like flies but they keep coming back

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ketheric in the afterlife after mikhail who he pretty much raised like a son betrayed him for his actual daughter who he literally abandoned because mikhail thought it was what he wanted 🧍‍♀️

ketheric is NEVER winning. return of his ex co-worker / his other co-worker's toxic and annoyingly kinky relationship + the betrayal of his pseudo-son ??? peepaw needs to retire.

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i see the vision omg 😭 mikhail chasing rhys around the temple 💀💀💀 i like to imagine their relationship is quite similar to the song masochism tango from mikhail behalf. mikhail quite literally can’t die from injury, so oftentimes he works to get someone so far gone and manipulate them through guilt (which of course doesn’t work with rhys, but its just as fun to get under his skin) !!!

or death becomes her kind of thing where murder attempts are just a friendly greeting atp . mikhail would send rhys photos (“selfies”) of failed attempts, or letters LMAO 😭😭😭 mikhail my favorite two faced spoiled brat. i love his dynamics with the trio (extension to rhys atp) because he acts so much more immature then he does in front of the cult

I LOVED THE MASOCHISM TANGO and you're so right it really is them . . . obsessed with their cat-dog dynamic; rhys is constantly tearing his hair out trying to find out how mikhail keeps on sending him these little messages. he already has to deal with one annoying half-sibling , now "some rando" is constantly getting on his nerves.

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Beautiful in the Mouth, Keetje Kuipers

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🎤 i want ur thoughts on rhys and mikhail pre plot . childhood frenemies (au?) anyone? 🎤

HMMMM in this au i’d like to think of them as always being so close, yet never knowing of each other’s existence until fate brings them together! rhys was raised as house dothrine’s heir up until the tragedy when he was 10 , so there’s a definite possibility that mikhail had at least heard of him . . . though i don’t imagine them meeting until rhys is reinstated as a significant figure in the temple of bhaal as a young adult.

younger rhys is outrageously impulsive and much more prone to baseless violence than his older counterpart ( think a quieter and less annoying orin ) but he still has the same degree of straightforwardness and natural distaste for the long tortures drawn out by mikhail. they don’t get along any better than they do when they’re older — in fact, they’re even worse as children, with rhys much more prone to falling for mikhail’s tricks and giving into violence.

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this is THE myrkuls apostle mikhail run ever. i modded an order domain for cleric, the scythe of myrkul and the deleted dialogue for cleric of myrkul MY BOY.

ITS HAPPENING OH MY GOD .

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rhys and mikhail as the “guess” trend the sillies ever

u say silly i say i will never be employed again with the comments i will be posting under that video

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hes so pretty when bloody

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something so crazy about rhys’ whole identity being centred around his father (whether it’s aibram or bhaal) and his questline being called ‘the prodigal son’ but in the end the only ending in which he survives and is truly happy is when he forsakes both of his fathers to find forgiveness in his sister for leaving her all those years ago.

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HELP A CUTSCENE YOU GET IS JUST THEM ROUGH HOUSING ON A BLANKET IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT💀💀💀 JUST TAV STARING SO UNIMPRESSED

narrator : “it seems the two are struggling in a fight. perhaps you should try to break them up?”

i adore overworld party banter like when travelling + scene specific dialogue you can get from companions and its just so funny to me to imagine how many possibilities there is for mikhail and rhys 😭

patch 7 update except it’s just rhys cussing mikhail out and calling him an anaemic bitch 😭

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rhys, orin, ketheric, mikhail, gortash quintet would go crazy. the dinners would be actually insane 🙏💀

orin and mikhail r both the spoilt younger siblings (except mikhail is actually cared about by his lord). rhys and ketheric r the older brothers who every time they see their younger siblings it just seems they are worse 😭

nevermind mikhail and rhys being in the same party, mikhail probably would be coded to follow behind specifically rhys if they are in the same overworld party like a king following a soldier or some shit 💀 DIDISJEJ BUT REALLY HE JUST LOOKS LOST 😭 mikhail my favorite puppy appearance wolf strategy guy

never let them get together during dinner please. rhys and mikhail in the same party already leads to so much passive-aggressive banter and secret murder attempts in the middle of the night 😭

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I WAS THINKING SOMETHING LIKE A CAT AND DOG MIKHAIL CHASES RHYS AROUND LIKE A DOG AND RHYS IS JUST TRYING TO NOT CLAW HIS FACE OFF LMAOOO Mikhail is also the younger one between the two in mortal years so 😭 kdksjej he’s also more openly spoiled since he got the douma treatment 💀💀 literally spoiled younger brother . mikhail doesn’t enjoy being openly scary he prefers making people scared using psychology and manipulation .

THE CAT AND DOG IMAGE IS MAKING MY STOMACH HURT FROM LAUGHING STOP. come to think of it, i lowkey see the cat-dog energy in their faces . . . mikhail looks very mischievous to me. also despite being mikhail’s intelligence stats being super low i feel like he does make fun of rhys for not understanding the power of psychology/manipulation; something along the lines of “haha you’re all brawn and no brain lol”.