S E L E N E (ap)

she is BEAUTIFUL, full of FIRE and thorned with ICE, and beholden only to HERSELF.est. june 2012

[xprodigium]

Underworld Wishlist tbh:

Death Dealer dynamics: -Rookie death dealers learning the ropes & veterans taunting them for it -Veteran death dealers taking bets on how long the recruits last -Non-warfare related missions ( working security at a garden party; taking patrol in dead hours ) -sparring -off duty shenanigans

Elder Dynamics: -what they say vs. what they do -secret keepers and eyes in the walls -what sort role each has decided to play

Civilian Dynamics: -social ladder-climbing. -Reputation smearing, murder, affairs -getting away with it (or not) -intra-Coven relations and cultural differences -vampire youths slipping out to blend in among humans and returning without any real damage being done unto the unsuspecting population

ALL THE UW THINGs

[xprodigium]

Wow as I sit here and rewatch the first movie in the iconic ( and underappreciated ) Goth as fuck series that is Underworld, I’m just incredibly awed and moved by how soft-spoken Selene is.

Also on another note, as I try to bring her back, please be patient because I am dreadfully, dreadfully out of practice. 

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Everything is vulnerable at sunrise.

Elma Mitchell, from People Etcetera: Selected Poems; “Vulnerable,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[victoryrifle]

Underworld (2003)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

“She exists, but only at midnight,”

— Paul Éluard, tr. by Mary Ann Caws, ftom “She Exists,” written c. 1933

[xprodigium]

❛ Look, I understand what you did. I’m grateful. You saved my life. ❜

   “I do not require gratitude, only your common sense.” They could brand her for a traitor if news of this came back around to the Coven; severe a punishment though it sounded, centuries of no love lost between herself and the civilians were well-documented. But if such a punishment were deemed too petty for a soldier of her calibre, then the certainty of a new reputation awaited her: that of a Death Dealer gone soft for humans, willing to swoop down to fight their battles like some dark hero from one of their idealistic Hollywood movies.

  So many uncertain variables to be accounted for,  and all because she’d found herself unwilling to keep out of troubling affairs that concerned no one but the direct parties involved. “Go home. Rid yourself of those clothes in a way that cannot be traced back to you.” Or to me.  If the Death Dealer’s tone failed to properly convince the boy of taking her advice, perhaps the way her gun punched itself back into its holster—with a hollow, sound of metal on leather, uncompromising—would finish the job for her. “Keep the details of this evening to yourself. I suspect no one would believe the story, anyway.” @suiciidalprettyboy 

[horrrifiction]

[xprodigium]

Underworld was released 15 years ago. Fifteen years honestly tastes like an eternity---another lifetime, really---and I sincerely haven’t the faintest clue how Selene could have lasted and survived on sheer will and love of warfare for forty-five times that amount. 

Don’t mind me, I’m just being emotional about this woman.  What a goddess. What a warrior. What a queen.  I miss this blog, and I miss this muse. Someone tell me you’ve missed me too!! 

[other-wordly]

pronunciation | ta-‘chen-da

[xprodigium]

I LOVE YOUR NEW PROMO FOR THE NEW GUY! and his lovely theme!

THANK YOU. The theme was definitely not born out of my skill and labor, but I appreciate the love for my boy. <3

[deceptionfed]

                                                   ‘Let them not play you for the fool.’

                                  Engel Varga of the Underworld franchise

[vaememes]

*    UNDERWORLD     FILM     FRANCHISE     PROMPTS   .

UNDERWORLD   :

❛ The war had all but ground to a halt in the blink of an eye. ❜

❛ Victory, it seemed, was in our grasp, the very birthright of the Vampires. ❜

❛ Like the weapons of the previous century, we too would become obsolete. ❜

❛ Please forgive me, but I desperately need your guidance. ❜

❛ I apologise for breaking the Chain and awakening you ahead of schedule. ❜

❛ I fear we may all be in grave danger. ❜

❛ Differences will be set aside. Allegiances will be made. ❜

❛ I tried to swerve, but he hit us anyway. ❜

❛ Even took a Vampire for my bride. It was forbidden.   ❜

❛ His own daughter… Burnt alive for loving me. ❜

❛ You may have killed me, cousin, but my will is done, regardless! ❜

❛ You’re acting like a pack of rabid DOGS!!! ❜

❛ He’s the one that killed your family, not the Lycans. ❜

❛ I did what was necessary to protect the species, as I am forced to do yet again! ❜

❛ That night, he made me a Vampire. ❜

❛ He gave me the strength to avenge my family. Since then, I’ve never looked back.. ❜

❛ It’s a ridiculous legend, nothing more! ❜

❛ That may be, but our species do share a common ancestor. ❜

❛ The war had spilled into our house. ❜

❛ The next thing I knew, I was in his arms. ❜

❛ But the abomination growing in her womb was a betrayal of me, and of the Coven! ❜

❛ The Chain has never been broken, not once, not in fourteen centuries. ❜

❛ One awake, two asleep; that’s the way of it.  ❜

❛ He just couldn’t bear the thought of draining you dry. ❜

EVOLUTION   :    

❛ For six-centuries, I was a loyal soldier of the Vampire clan.  ❜

❛ This one’s been given a serum to stop regression so it can be studied. ❜

❛ I just killed them. I didn’t pay much attention to their anatomy. ❜

❛ Right now, you’ll be killed on sight. I’m not prepared to risk it. ❜

❛ Your not as strong as you might think. ❜

❛ There’s never been a Hybrid before. ❜

❛ But you depend on blood. You need to feed. ❜

❛ Without it, you’ll be growing weaker by the second. ❜

❛ If you don’t anticcipate your cravings, you will attack Humans…. ❜

❛ There really is no going back, [name]. I’m sorry. ❜

❛ Your exile seems a bit more comfortable that I remember. ❜

❛ Oh. Well, then, perhaps I’m mistaken and there’s no use for you at all. ❜

❛ So, the legend is true? ❜

❛ He’s not brave enough to set me up. ❜

❛ Shit. Please. Please. Come on. Come on. Fuck! ❜

❛ How does a Vampire have Lycan bodyguards? ❜

❛ You’ve got to get away from me! ❜

❛ Look, I understand what you did. I’m grateful. You saved my life. ❜

❛ I wasn’t ready to die. I don’t know. Everything’s changed. ❜

❛ Look, go. I’ll be here. You just make sure you come back.. ❜

❛ I will stay and fight, you need my help! ❜

❛ What am I supposed to do, sit here and wait for you? ❜

❛ I thought Lycans went back to their Human form when they die. ❜

❛ There’s only about an hour ‘till daylight. ❜

RISE  OF  THE  LYCANS   :

❛ If I were to leave from this place, would you come with me? ❜

❛ I made it myself, this will be my freedom. ❜

❛ You will not come with me, so you want me to stay here for you? ❜

❛ I will leave this place. But I can never be without you. ❜

❛ Get your men out there, now.. ❜

❛ I saw what you did out there. Very brave for a human.  ❜

❛ Have you come across them before? ❜

❛ Are you afraid of me? ❜

❛ Well, do not be. I will not bite… much. ❜

❛ Those you fought with tonight were animals. ❜

❛ Come sunrise, I leave this place. ❜

❛ I’ve lived by their rules my entire life. I’ve protected them. ❜

❛ There are other demands of my time, as you know. ❜

❛ Do not say that. Do not even think it. ❜

❛ My father would have you hunted down. You would be marked for death. ❜

❛ I hoped you enjoyed your little moonlight ride. ❜

❛ I told you to stay within these walls. ❜

❛ Our we not protected by an Army of Immortals? ❜

❛ And how would you ‘Project’ Strength? ❜

❛ Would anyone else like to be heard? ❜

❛ You were like a son to me. I gave you your life. ❜

❛ Do you not realize this is a gift I am giving you? ❜

❛ I am quite capable of looking after myself. ❜

❛ Last night, after I left you, I… Just let someone else go. ❜

AWAKENING   :

❛ We must resist the humans wherever and whenever possible. ❜

❛ Against the prudence of their elders, their calls for violent action carried the day. ❜

❛ The result? The werewolves are nearly extinct. ❜

❛ Is that what you wish for us? Extinction? ❜

❛ It arrived two days after he was found hanging from his own ceiling fan. ❜

❛ Every case was investigated.  ❜

❛ I felt you, saw images through your eyes. ❜

❛ But as they grow stronger, so will we. ❜

❛ They risked showing themselves after more than a decade in hiding because of her. ❜

❛ She’s more powerful than any of us, and they fear the day she discovers it! ❜

❛ We have become the enemy they’ve been waiting for. ❜

❛ The Vampire Coven will not only survive this world; we will reclaim it. ❜

❛ They told me that I had no mother, that she died when I was born. ❜

❛ I used to be married to a nurse. One day at work, she was bitten. ❜

❛ Nobody knew but us. We lived like that for a few years. ❜

❛ I awoke the next day, I learned that, over night, twelve years had passed. ❜

❛ Your son died because he was fighting for all of you. ❜

❛ But then, a new darkness arose… The Purge. ❜

❛ Human beings no longer kill each other. ❜

❛ Escape has become our only chance of survival. ❜

❛ Though the world has changed, our enemy remains the same. ❜

❛ My heart is not cold, it’s broken. ❜

❛ If we continue to live as we do now, then we disgrace the past. ❜

❛ A human, who was turned to neither Vampire or Lycan, but a Hybrid. ❜

[sasorikigai]

He’s an incarnation of god of night and vengeance; wild-haired, split-lipped, voracious for calloused fists and blood. Wanting compensation and deliverance, with love like the Monarch, which will remain intense and tragic.

Indie, highly selective and private Nigel from (The Necessary Death of) Charlie Countryman

Dossier || Rules || Video || Headcanon

OC / crossover friendly, multiverse, multiship 

Multi-para and novella heavy, canon divergent, heavily headcanon based 

Established in March 2015, Rebooted Dec 2017

Loved and cherished (written by) Kathy 

[xprodigium]

❤

[straiightfromtheheart-archive]

warblossomed:

I think everyone should make a post with just a ❤ and let mutuals comment on the post with nice things :’)

[xprodigium]

Major Events Timeline

This list is not all-inclusive and will be added to where seen fit. I apologize for the length in advance. Includes canon and headcanon-based details. **denotes canon divergence in regards to main verse plotted with xprogenitor.

1383 – 1402: Born the second daughter of an up-and-coming architect, Selene lives the life of any mortal farm girl: adventurous and mischievous and always daydreaming.

1386-1389: Selene’s father, Peter Kowacz, is commissioned to construct an elaborate dungeon beneath one of Viktor’s many fortresses. This dungeon, intended for William’s eventual imprisonment, serves as a playground for Selene and her older sister, Cecilia.  

Winter, 1402: Lucian’s escape with Sonja’s pendant, one half of the secret key to William’s cell, leads to Viktor’s paranoia regarding all those who know the fortress’s location and layout. Viktor, Soren, and Kraven, under the veil of night, invade the Kowacz farm and butcher everyone on site. Selene becomes last surviving member of the Kowacz family and becomes a Vampire.

1402-1566:  The power of the Vampire Nation rises at an all-time high under the steady, merciless policy of Viktor’s command. Vampires engage in strong relations with their Human counterparts, offering protection in wartime against not only the forces of Lycan hoards, but also the Ottoman usurpers. Selene leads the charge in most things Lycan-related, not at all often concerned with affairs of human politics. However, disputes over territory and taxes often led to conflict with Ottomans anyway. The Vampires help to arm, train, and protect humans under their rule, extending so far a hand for assistance all the way to Wallachia, where notorious Vlad the Impaler beats back the Turkish army.

1888 – 1891: Engaged in a cat-and-mouse game against one of history’s most notorious and elusive serial killers–and lost. After the murder of countless more women than the media called and the death of a rookie Death Dealer, Selene and The Ripper met for their final showdown in an abandoned factory along the Thames; though both words and blows were exchanged, Jack the Ripper escaped with his life, leaving Selene to scramble from the burning building. Blown from a high window and landing on a pile of scrap metal, Selene nearly died. It was Nathaniel who found her, impaled through the chest and hypovolemic. Selene still bears the scar where the rusted pipe grazed her heart.

1944:  Pauses the already dwindling war on Lycans in order to participate in several covert guerrilla operations against Axis powers, teaming up with vampire patriarch Wladislaus Dragwlya on multiple occasions.

Turn of the Century, 2000: Once again comes head-to-head against the surviving Jack the Ripper in Las Vegas. Selene travels to the modern world feigning interest in Amelia’s plans to unite the New and Old World Covens, seeking vengeance and justice for former victims. Selene finally emerges victorious at the deaths of several allies and moves to finally put the killer to death but is intercepted by Amelia. Jack is named a criminal against the Vampire Nation on dozens of counts and allegedly executed.

October 2001: Selene learns the truth about her family, about the war between Lycans and Vampires and Viktor’s role within it. Subsequently lays to waste any party involved, determined to punish and subdue those who try to target newfound ally Michael Corvin and herself. Becomes the first Vampire-Corvinus hybrid.

November 2001: News of the Coven stronghold’s dismantling sends subsequent branches of the Vampire nation into disarray. Battle for power and leadership is causation for vampires to split off and attempt independence. The Immortal Underworld was a fragile veneer, one meant to prevent human contact. Without the Cleaners and proper leadership, and without constraints dictating proper behavior, many vampires act with few moral qualms, feed openly, and care little for assimilation into society. Selene and Michael Corvin take action only in times of danger or obvious conflict; ousted by both Lycan and vampire society, neither feel particularly inclined to help.

Spring 2002: Unlawful and exposed activity of inner (vampire) and outer (Lycan) conflict come to a peak, spilling out into Human attention for the final time. The Hungarian government, with the approval of the UN, declares martial law and begins a series of mass killings seeking to eradicate the inhuman species. Antigen, an alleged biotech pharmaceutical company suggests that a second Purge targeting only Vampires is necessary. Selene and Michael Corvin are apprehended by Antigen forces and suspended by cryogenic means.

Winter 2002: Subject 2, whose zygote was incubated in a false womb, is born.

Winter 2014**: Selene is awakened from slumber by Subject 2 and escapes into a world she no longer recognizes. Her own research, collaboration with Detective Sebastian, and the poor excuse for a surviving Coven leads her to realize Michael is still captive in the Lycan stronghold. Selene launches an all-out assault against Antigen in order to rescue her family. With Eve and David close in tow, Selene tracks Michael to the borders of Hungary. She is intercepted by Lucian before she can further pursue the hybrid; in exchange for discretion, Lucian offers sanctuary in a Lycan monastery hidden in the German countryside.

2014-2022**: Selene spends the next eight years in the safety of the monastery. Although she agrees to begrudging civility with Lucian’s following, she does it only with the sole intent of keeping the children safe while continuing the search for Michael. Her goals, after a time, do not remain so clear and unmarred — and Lucian, for all of his painstaking sentimentality, provides her with an offer, with an idea, a philosophy: tentative coexistence among the Immortal species, if not alliance. 

2022-2024**: After yet another manhunt for Michael fails and leaves everyone more than disturbed, Eve flees the protection that the monastery and the fellowship that her mother, Lucian, David, and the Lycans have offer. Angry and grieving for the daughter she never asked for, Selene besmirches the entirety of the efforts and strides made in the last decade. She spends the next two years on the run from both friend and foe alike. This is a dark period for her, as she contemplates death, loneliness, and her identity without a war to rage. Marius subsequently rises to power and begins the hunt for blood. 

Winter 2024: The Great Battle sees the war finally come to an end. Selene is elected as Grand Elder of the what remains of the Vampire Nation. She grieves quietly for Michael, grieves what she has lost within herself and longs to learn what a second life has yet to grant her. For a number of months, Selene remains in Var Dohr, where she meditates on her newfound gifts and abilities and comes to terms with the duties that now lay upon her shoulders.  

[themusewhomuses]

I can see crimson staining my sight I can taste iron on my lips I can smell death surrounding us all