You’re Telling Me A Wren Wrote This Blr?

Wren, fantasy writeblr. My main is @metaphysical-cheese

[goldensunset]

we talk about how surreal it is to befriend really good creatives on here but what’s really surreal is when those really good creatives also have, like, debilitating social anxiety and impostor syndrome. leonardo da vinci is on my dashboard calling the mona lisa cringe. rembrandt thrives off of my deranged tag rambles like a starving college student going after café leftovers

[tankhall]

[worst-roommates-ever]

[writers-solace]

I don't think Tolkien is a good fantasy writer because he scored the highest at some objective Best Fantasy Book Test that every fantasy writer has to take, I think he's a good fantasy writer because he created a world based on things that he was interested in. I feel like a lot of fantasy writers think that they need to create a whole language for their world because Tolkien did and obviously his books are the best so they have to emulate him, but Tolkien did that because he was a linguistics nerd. I think the lesson to be learned from him is not that you have to include elves and deep history and new languages, but that you have to write endlessly about the things you are a huge nerd about and use those things to create your fantasy world

[belovedgamers]

The BEST trope is when a character tells another “let’s run away together, we can leave all of this behind and start a new life somewhere” and gets rejected. And then the rest of the tragedy unfolds

[iphigeniacomplex]

grounding tips for the stressed aspiring tyrant: acknowledge 5 people you can sway to your cause, 4 methods you can use to persuade them (2 violent, 2 nonviolent), 3 people in positions of moderate power you can manipulate and usurp in order to gain access to 2 powerful institutions to destroy, and 1 foundational lie

[utopians]

duuuuuude you have GOT to come out tonight we're enacting cruelty upon those who have transgressed so badly that we can justify any act against them... and you KNOW we're interpreting our delight as moral righteousness... Yeah it's fucking crazyyyyyyy get an Uber

[rad-roche]

writing is a fantastic hobby but the kicker is it's a lot harder to show your friends as it's progressing. with a sketch i can show someone and they'll be like oh that's an apple. you can't do that with words until you get a lot of them down. so i'll just be like damn fuckin. uhh. check this out

that's right. and that's just one of the several words i know

[galaxywarp]

once you realize you don’t actually need to sleep, you can really (stops talking abruptly and stares straight ahead for 4 minutes)

[oeing-oeing-clay]

omg did you seriously invite the torturer 😐

[tortured-griffith]

That is literally my husband?! Have some respect?

[rivers-for-me]

@bloodstainedgauntlet

[rebelculture]

[jan-liliten]

op turned off reblogs but also i respect that they turned them off for a reason but i still want the post here so i removed their name

[amazoogle]

the enemy drank water today. did you?

[ewoly5]

i drank water three days ago. im several steps ahead of the enemy. this is what it takes to win

[mjulianwrites]

also 4 for lexi and 15 for helios

4. Describe three of the most important photographs your OC owns.

oooh i don't have an answer off the top of my head but let me think. lexi photos do become sort of plot relevant because rielle has pics of her getting so gay off that tequila. but lexi also definitely has pics of rielle committing lesbian crimes with her and her fellow weedsmoking girlfriends so there's ammunition on both sides. also honorable mention to the fact that lexi is rielle's go-to camera operator. she's the one filming on her phone when rielle needs video evidence for her schemes.

anyway. to get more specific. 1. i fear there's catholicism afoot. some family photo taken at her confirmation in which lexi is sooooo good catholic girl. ever time she looks at it she feels fine and normal about the reminder that she needs to get her shit together eventually. 2. definitely some photo of her and vivian. perhaps from the trip they took to california that we've concocted in our beautiful minds. not necessarily of them doing anything that scandalous compared to the gay4pay makeouts on main but possibly looking a little in l*ve. in a girl bestie way it's fiiiiiine. 3. there's got to be a shot of rielle and the three gfs. or. there are lots of those but i feel like at least one should go in the category of most important. maybe this one *is* scandalous. lexi in full rielle blanchette's girltoy mode. pics to imitate the sun about.

15. What is your OC's fatal flaw?

well my first thought was his willingness to throw his morals out the window when it comes to his dad. and being ride or die for local war criminal probably *is* his worst trait. but upon reflection it's not quite his fatal flaw. his fatal flaw is how sickeningly much he believes in that old man. he's supposed to be the faithless guy in this household but he has so much faith in his dad it makes him look stupid. the selective amorality mostly hurts the people around him but helios' downfall is being a true believer.

[mjulianwrites]

25, 28, and 48 for renan >:)

25. What is your OC's deepest desire? Would they ever ask for this?

the thing that makes me insane about renan is that for almost 50 slutty slutty years his whole life has revolved around his desperate desire for cyrus to love him but at the same time. he's almost lost the ability to want anything. in the early years post cyrus becoming king he held out hope that maybe things between them could go back to how they were before. but by canon era even if cyrus started acting like he did when they were young (which he almost does. in certain ways) i don't think renan would ever be fully able to enjoy it. he's been too scared for too long of getting thrown away because he's not respectable enough. alexa play forever young by alphaville. he could never bring himself to ask for this beyond admitting he wanted it too if cyrus asked for it first. they make me normal!!!!!

28. What does your OC think others are saying about them behind their back? Is any of this true?

renan lives in constant fear of the gay allegations. which definitely aren't imagined but they're also not nearly as prevelant as he's afraid they are. probably a somewhat common rumor that he and king cyrus *had* a gay thing going on when they were teenagers but then cyrus dawnbrung all over everything and they've both been so heterosexual ever since. i don't think many people suspect that the gay thing never stopped. also he does get hit with double agent allegations but that's sort of deliberate on his part for spy reasons. better on several levels if people don't know where his loyalties lie.

48. What would your OC do if they knew that this was their last day alive?

ough i'm not sure. honestly my instinct is he wouldn't tell anyone. he would probably write darcy (his kid) a letter to give them some last advice to prepare them for becoming lord mercurialis and...possibly tell them some emotionally vulnerable things. what things depends a lot on the era but assuming this is pre-coup i don't think he would validate their gender (sad!) but he might tell them that he does sincerely want them to be happy. and/or apologize for not being cut out to be a father. but he would not have that conversation face to face. mercurialis family you give me every disease.

and then i mean. he would want to spend that last day with cyrus. if cyrus brushed him off at first he might be like 30% less of a pushover and risk asking twice. he might fuck that old man but more than anything he'd just want to be around him. awful. except i don't know that he'd want cyrus to see him die so he might leave before it actually Happened. and then get drunk for the first time in almost 50 slutty slutty years because it's so fucking over.

[wren-is-writing]

21–23 please MWAH MWAH MWAH

HEHEHE THANK YOU >:) im assuming u meant for me to continue with sol so i will bc the hal pill is strong today

21. How does your OC handle criticism?

Honestly this is probably one of the things that’s changed most over his life. When he was in his delinquent prince era, he would either ignore it (if he didn’t care about the person it was coming from) or get extremely defensive and self-righteous about it and dig his heels in further (if it was coming from someone whose opinion he valued). As a new king, though, he was extremely sensitive to any criticism and lived his life largely guided by the principle that he didn’t want to give anyone important a reason to criticize anything he was doing. He was very insecure in his position and recognized that basically no one had any faith in him, and so he needed desperately to prove himself and felt that weight all the time. Now that he’s established as a pretty decent ruler, though, he’s started making some more controversial moves. He’s known as a pretty good head of state (if a little bit passive), so he feels like he has the ability to start fighting with his council and weather anything negative they say about him. By the time we see him, he’s somewhat reverted to simply ignoring criticism and getting rather obstinate about certain things.

22. How good is your OC at apologizing, if they do this at all?

What is the trajectory of Sol’s adult life if not one big apology for doing drugs and gay kissing in his early twenties? On a broad level, he is really really good at apologizing, mostly because he is also really good at fucking up. He was less good at it when he was younger and less guilt-ridden about everything, but by the time we actually see him he’s a D1 apologizer. On an interpersonal level… it depends. He’s pretty good with apologizing to people he cares about, but there are also some shitty things he’s done that he refuses to be sorry for because he believed it had to be done and therefore simply will not apologize. Livia I will avenge you.

23. What is your OC like when they’re angry?

He is, at his core, a diplomat who is very good at hiding what he’s feeling, so when he’s angry he doesn’t tend to show it outright. The biggest sign is clipped responses from him and a general coldness. He doesn’t tend to have angry outbursts or anything because having real emotions is for gay losers and he has to control every response to everything or he’ll die

[wren-is-writing]

6 for sol !!! (said evilly)

6. How comfortable is your OC in their skin? Do they like who they are? What would they want to change about themself?

LOOORDD this IS evil!! For the uninitiated, Sol is the result of me asking myself “what if I made the king of Ovenna Prince Hal/King Henry V (tone tag Shakespeare) and he was turbo gaytrans and his kingification was an explicit re-closeting and he’s been the saddest most miserable man* alive for ten years by the time we see him. And also he was too lame to conquer France”

Sol is extremely uncomfortable in his own skin :( Obviously there’s the physical aspect to this - he went Man Mode when his mom died and he Locked TF In and has been presenting exclusively as a man for a decade at this point. He doesn’t have an issue with looking masc, but the dysphoria he experiences comes from feeling trapped in that one presentation and being unable to explore anything else out of fear. However, there’s also a psychological aspect to it. Even when he was transmaxxing with his lowlife besties who used any pronouns for him he would only use he/him in his own narration. It’s not that he doesn’t know he’s genderweird, he was just too wary to commit with the knowledge in the back of his mind that he would have to king it up one day. So even when he was outwardly allowing himself the kind of self-expression he craved, he was still kind of in mental chains about it and has never fully been able to accept and explore that part of himself.

This also kind of applies to his lack of attraction to women and asexuality, however that one is a little more self-accepted. It’s in a bit of a fatalist way where he understands it’s pointless to try to force attraction but he also will NOT allow himself to have any crushes because that’s gay :/ With the power of his mind he can stop the gay thoughts before anyone realizes and calls him gay again. Surely this repression ability will not start to crumble after ten years and shape geopolitics in any way,

As for the last two questions, those are a bit more complicated. He does not like who he is but moreso because he sees himself as failing in his role as king rather than because he has some inherent issue with his own gay or transness. He thinks being gaytrans is chill and awesome and he is even pushing to legalize gay marriage for everyone else! He just does not think he personally is allowed to do it because he has to be Thee King. He isn’t even a bad administrator, but he has been told pretty much his entire life that he lacks the inherent qualities of a monarch and he’s internalized that to an insane degree so I don’t think he’s ever really been able to like himself. There’s also The Guilt™️ from the heinous shit he does as an adaptation of the end of Henry IV Part 2 but I will be keeping some of that under wraps >:) and that’s complicated because he does truly think he needed to do it and it was the move of a good king but not a good person.

In terms of what he would change about himself… honestly I will have to rotate that one a little further because the precise answer is evading me. He does have a lot of regrets, but barring one large thing he also does believe that everything he did was necessary for The Kingening even if he hated doing it. He feels too duty-bound to the nation and to his mother’s memory to throw that into jeopardy, but he also does truly value the time he spent goofing off with his peasants #hispeasants and wouldn’t want to do away with that either. I think in the end, he would probably just wish the transition to King Mode was easier and came more naturally to him. And also possibly that he didn’t have turbo PTSD from his one (1) experience in combat so he didn’t have to avoid war like the plague