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Independent RP blog for Lord Viren from TDP (multiship, muse/mun 18+, hover below title for links)

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babe. baby.

[youareaservant]

Leaving your Christmas icon up this long is kind of like the RPC equivalent of leaving up your Christmas decor out of season isn’t it

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For as much as I’ve always believed Viren’s personality shift from the Magma Titan to now was fueled in part by unaddressed guilt about Sarai’s death, it’s cool to get that from the official show’s social media.

[dragonprinceofficial]

Hey tdptumblr, I'm feeling a bit down at the moment so I was wondering if you could pretty please tell us some little trivias or headcanons about the world? :)

Aww, okay! Headcanon: Rayla helped Zym learn to hunt bugs and small critters for food. It was one of the strangest but most fulfilling uses of her assassin training ever.Headcanon: Viren’s guilt over Sarai’s death on the mission he’d advocated led to a deepening of his obsession with dark magic, because he longed to “fix it” for Harrow in some way. 

Headcanon: Ethari deeply, deeply prefers making jewelry and pretty things to making weapons. 

Trivia: Ezran was very briefly named “Finlay” (FIN-lee, it’s a scottish name!) in early development 

[kishi07]

Keep your hands off my “little-bug-pal" 

[youareaservant]

madefate replied to your post “What happened to Soren's birthday post, Viren?”

he's still wearing it !!

“... You really don’t have to do that, son.” 

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I’m not saying I’m definitely making a Ziard blog but theoretically what would be a good title for a Ziard blog. 

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What happened to Soren's birthday post, Viren?

“I saw to Soren’s birthday gift. Just because I didn’t feel the need to go sharing it here for the masses doesn’t mean I forgot.” 

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I will--actually be off in Mexico on January 19 but you can best believe I will at least be queueing up a post.

This garbage man is never forgetting his son’s birthday again. 

[spacymuses]

I have to tell you a secret that will see you through

                 all the trials life has to offer.

                               “Have Courage, and Be Kind.” 

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Favorite thing about writing the muse?

Mun talks about the muse || Accepting!

Viren is such a passionate character, and it makes him such a joy to write! Even if he’s doing absolutely horrific things, there’s just this sense of raw, determined purpose to him. He knows what’s right (in his perspective), and he doesn’t half-ass pursuing what he feels he needs to. The flipside of this is that he has that tunnel vision hard, and is so committed to what he feels is “necessary” that he’s unwilling to consider other options. He does what he does with unwavering conviction, and yeah--eventually his high-minded goals and earnest wish for humanity to prosper to get twisted and corrupted with time.

But that’s the tragedy of Viren, and it’s something that makes him compelling to me as a writer. This person put everything on the line, up to and including his own humanity, and it all went so horribly, nightmarishly wrong. It’s cost him family. It cost him his best friend. It cost him his reputation. It literally has cost him his life. There’s something almost Shakespearean in that, and there’s just–ugh damn there’s just so much there to chew on. 

[youareaservant]

Happy New Years Eve! I’m so immeasurably grateful for all the cool people I met while writing this absolute garbage man this year, and I hope all’a y’all have a real swell holiday! 🎉

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URL SONG CHALLENGE!

RULES: spell out your URL with song titles and tag people to make it more fun!

Y ( Your Obedient Servant - Hamilton ) O ( On Now and Then - Woodkid ft. Jennifer Connolly ) U ( Unshaken - D’Angelo ) A ( All Things Must Come - Darkest Dungeon: The Color of Madness ) R ( Rains of Castomere - The National ) E ( Everybody Knows - Rufus Wainwright ) A ( Andante in F Major, WoO 57, “Andante Favori” - Ludwig van Beethoven ) S ( Satisfied - Hamilton ) E ( Exquisite Corpse - Hedwig and the Angry Inch ) R ( Run - AWOLNATION ) V ( Victory - Bond ) A ( Air on the G String - Johannes Bach ) N ( Not Tomorrow - Daniel Tidwell ) T ( Take a Break - Hamilton )

TAGGED BY: stolen from @godtoyed TAGGING: ya mum

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😩 & ⌨

Mun talks about the muse || Accepting!

😩 Hardest thing about writing the muse? 

I think this one’s honestly just “the universal Viren RPer experience”? But damn like every time I have to write a post of Viren being a Bad Dad (so like, most times he’s interacting with Soren in the current canon timeline?) I have to write it through clenched teeth. It’s one of those things you don’t want to shy away from, because like it or not that is his character? 

I find that as a writer, I really have to come at it from the perspective of “he was a good father, once,” and that there was a point in his life where his foremost motivation in his work was an earnest and genuine love for his kids, wanting to build a bright and happy future for them. But one of that tragedies of Viren is that over years of compromising morals and “creative solutions,” the worst parts of him killed the best parts of him. Maybe they’ll come back and maybe they won’t, and even if they do, he may never fully be able to make amends to his family. 

⌨ What’s a situation you’ve always wanted to RP with the muse?

ON THAT NOTE I do want to write Viren trying--probably very clumsily, and debatably with any success--to make amends with his family. Even if we don’t get that redemption arc in canon (and I’m still fairly certain we will! “Crazy and really really moving journey” says redemption arc to me!), I’d love to write that redemption arc here. I’d love to write Viren grappling with the sense of hopelessness that comes from realizing all your efforts to make things better only made things immeasurably worse, that he drove away or damaged everyone he started out wanting to protect, and that it’s his fault. 

And then I want him to drag himself out of that hopelessness and improve, gradually working towards some sense of peace. I want the despair (because who doesn’t love writing despair???), and then I want the triumph of rising past the person you were and the things you did and making something meaningful of it. 

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💡 What inspires you to write the muse?

Mun talks about the muse || Accepting!

If this is about like, what gets me in the headspace of writing a character, I guess one thing is that I really rely on music for inspiration? I have playlists for every character I write that I just shuffle to get myself in the Mood.

Viren’s is exclusively Broadway power ballads and really intense villain songs, so um... I guess that? 

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