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planets-and-prose · 5 months

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Siren's Song (20k Excerpt from Continuing Education)

Hi all, here's the snippet! As usual this is written for NaNo, so, entirely unedited and a hot mess, so please no critique about how I write. If I get caught up editing this, I'll just get stuck :( )

Context: The squad suspects that the lead of a play that Achaemenes is helping with tech in is a siren, and that she's using her singing to manipulate everyone into loving her. Briar and Kay are trying to get her one-on-one to confirm their suspicions.

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“So…is it going to be ready in time for the show?” Marina asked Briar, looking a little worried. Briar took out an earplug to hear her better, making a calculated choice that it probably wouldn’t be too bad.

“Should be. Usually these things aren’t hard to fix. Thanks for helping.”

“Anytime. I’m just…so flattered that everyone said my voice was that good.” She gave a smile that, to Kay reeked of a phenomenon that he learned was called ‘the pick me girl.’ This girl was angling for compliments like a starving fisherman trying to find his next meal. Briar, however, didn’t bite, just looking busy, and Marina looked visibly disappointed. It took every ounce of restraint Kay had (which, to be fair, wasn’t much, but at least he was using it) to not laugh. “Have you gotten to hear me sing?” she asked Kay with a small, hopeful smile.

“I have, I’m usually running lights,” he said, noting the expression on Marina’s face. She was doing a long series of invisible calculations to figure out why this random person was not treating her like the goddess that everyone else did.

It didn’t take long to get to the sound room, and once they made it, Briar immediately found a reason to leave them alone together. “I’ve gotta grab one of the faulty mics from the stage manager, be right back,” they said, and suddenly the awkwardness in the sound room was palpable.

“So…” Kay tried to begin, but Marina just started humming to herself, first softly then a little louder. At first Kay considered pretending, trying to act like he was falling over himself for this girl, but he was so tired of her antics at this point that he was basically done. He just watched her for a minute. “The mics don’t need to be tested yet,” he said, curious how she’d react.

“So you aren’t human,” she said, voice accusing. Kay paused.

“Okay, so first of all I am human, second of all that’s kind of rude right off the bat—“

“Don’t lie to me,” Marina hissed, suddenly looking more terrifying than ever before. Her eyes almost seemed to glow with rage.

“So being fey-touched actually makes it so I really can’t do that, and also, uh, it makes it so that I’m not as vulnerable to siren shit apparently. Listen, I didn’t even fully realize I was immune to this till I noticed something was going on.”

“What are you doing here? The stage manager’s like you. She doesn’t listen to my songs.”

“Uh…I honestly don’t know about that. She just…doesn’t listen I think. She’s just kind of a mess.”

“Whatever. Why are you here?” Marina demanded, her glare deepening.

“Man, I just want to put off getting my last pre-med credit,” Kay sighed. “I’m here to run lights since they look pretty and be sad that I’m not in the spotlight since I really didn’t want anyone noticing me and getting some idea about being nonhuman. But someone’s going to notice something’s up with you.”

“And why shouldn’t they?” Marina’s glare turned into a smug smile. “If I’m able to wrap people around my finger, then why shouldn’t I?”

“It’s…dishonest!” Kay tried, feeling weird preaching about honesty. They tried again to more clearly articulate what made them uncomfortable with what Marina was doing. “You’re basically hypnotizing people. They don’t know what they’re doing.”

“So?” she asked rhetorically. “Humans are cruel creatures. They can lie and manipulate and make feel things you never wanted to feel. They can string you along and use you and then throw you away like you’re trash. If I can get the upper hand, I deserve to have the upper hand after everything that humans have put me through.” She grinned. “I’m sure you can relate, if you’re so scared of being noticed that you stick into the dark, gross tech areas instead of being the star.”

Kay took a minute. His instinct was to be snarky, but he had to think of something else. Something that wouldn’t piss this girl off, because honestly he didn’t know what sirens could do and if he wasn’t on her side, she’d convince every human in the area that he was the villain. So, he thought about Semira. About how she acted when she was around. “I thought that too, at first,” he said, calmly. “But I met humans who aren’t half bad. Sure, they’re kind of annoying and weird, but they’re not bad.”

“They’re not bad yet. They haven’t done anything to you yet. All humans are going to do something. Are you really trusting a human not to kill you just because they feel like it? Because you don’t know anything about what they feel!” Marina was clearly starting to get agitated.

“I don’t. But I trust myself enough to know that I’ll be fine.”

“You don’t know the pain that humans will put you through. And you brought a human in, and told them what I am. But it’s fine. They’ll forget about it soon enough. And I’ll get what I want.” Marina started to head for the door. Kay started to move, but Marina turned back. “Ah ah ah, don’t even bother trying to stop me. Because the second you lay a hand on me, everyone who I’ve sang to is going to know that you assaulted me without being provoked, that you tried to trap me in the sound room on false pretenses. So if you want to keep not being noticed, you’ll shut your mouth and keep working with your little lights.” She gave Kay a small smile and waved gently, before heading out of the room and closing the door calmly.

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#continuing ed sots #my writing #oc: kay #oc: achaemenes #writing #siren #fey #paranormal #writeblr

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ameliachaemenes · 3 years

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Garden of Souls #10, painting by Ameli Achaemenes 1991, iranian feminist and artist.

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banamaak · 2 years

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nobody: Darius I: I am Darius, the great king, king of kings, the king of Persia, the king of countries, the son of Hystaspes, the grandson of Arsames, the Achaemenid. King Darius says: My father is Hystaspes; the father of Hystaspes was Arsames; the father of Arsames was Ariaramnes; the father of Ariaramnes was Teispes; the father of Teispes was Achaemenes […] ind. oc for the islamic republic of iran / written by jassy / rules & bio

#here's my joke promo #i wanted to find a cuneiform translation of the behistun inscription but all i could find were pictures rip

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protoindoeuropean · 5 years

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nobody:

Darius I: I am Darius, the great king, king of kings, the king of Persia, the king of countries, the son of Hystaspes, the grandson of Arsames, the Achaemenid. King Darius says: My father is Hystaspes; the father of Hystaspes was Arsames; the father of Arsames was Ariaramnes; the father of Ariaramnes was Teispes; the father of Teispes was Achaemenes [...]

#i was translating the behistun inscription for literally 8 hours altogether today #persian #old persian #babyonian #elamite #j #g #pop

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tsukishima-tadashi · 7 years

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Haikyuu/Persona AU Masterpost

My original notes for this Unnecessary Wankery are a mess as evidenced by the fact that it took me forever to dig up the posts I needed to make this post

So I am making this post. So I can shove the link somewhere where I won’t lose it.

I might also be hoping to take advantage of the fact that I am now seeing Haikyuu blogs post Persona as a result of P5 to rope them both into this au and also, the Persona fandom itself

Anyways:

Karasuno uses Norse themed personae. Why? Odin had some pet ravens and that’s really all I’ve got.

Aoba Johsai has personae themed off of flower language, except for oikawa, who has Narcissus. (Listen, you try finding something better of Seijoh! I can’t exactly name them after famous gardeners. I mean, I could, but I can’t think of anything more boring. Harvest gods could work I guess but eh. They don’t really get much character?)

Nekoma (and Nohebi) have Egyptian personae. Why? Because when you think of Egypt, you think of cats.

Fukurodani has Greek personae, solely because they are the only group directly working for the Shadow Operatives.

Date Tech is based off of historical figures from China. Cause. The Great Wall of China.

Johzenji is assorted revelry gods from various cultures.

Shiratorizawa’s personas are prominent figures from the Achaemenid Empire of ancient Persia, given that it was the largest empire of ancient history and had an eagle on it’s standard.

The coaches and Takeda are actually deities that are using human forms. Takeda explains this as them having taken the form of humans who once embodied the same traits they as deities do.

Anyways, the individual personae + arcana of the characters under here:

KARASUNO

Takeda IS Freyja - representing the collective human desire to find what is missing.

Daichi - Odin - The Emperor

Sugawara - Frigg - The Empress (Navigator)

Asahi - Thor - Strength (or maybe the Hanged Man?)

Kiyoko - Hnoss - The Priestess

Tanaka - Freki - The Chariot

Noya - Geri - The Chariot

Ennoshita - Vithar - The Hanged Man? Death? Strength?

Kinoshita - Mothi - The Magician

Narita - Magni - I got no clue my man

Hinata - Alsvior - The Sun (ultimate persona: Sol)

Kageyama - Arvakr - The Tower (ultimate persona: Jorth? Nott?) (has both battle and navigational abilities)

Yamaguchi - Munin - The Star (ultimate persona: Aurvandil)

Tsukishima - Hugin - The Moon (ultimate persona: Mani)

Yachi - Eir - The Lovers (Navigator)

Saeko - Kara - The Chariot

(non active users:)

Akiteru - Baldr - The Moon (or maybe Temperance?)

The Little Giant - Ullr - The World?

Ukai - Oor - Death

Notes:

Odin - All-Father of the nordic gods slash god of lots of fancy stuff blah blah

Frigg - ODin’s wife, has the power of prophecy

Thor - y’all know who thor is get the hell outta here

Freki and Geri are two wolves that guard Odin

Hugin and Munin are the ravens I mentioned earlier, who travel the world to gather information and news for Odin. It’s said that Odin worries for them both, but worries for Munin more.

Eir and Kara are both Valkyries - Eir was associated with medicine, while Kara would choose who would die.

Vithar/Vidar, Mothi, and Magni are all sons of Odin. Vithar is notably the one to avenge Odin after he loses to Fenrir, which I felt fit the “next captain” bit for whatever reason.

Alsvior (”very quick”) and Arvakr (”early awake”) were the horses that pulled the chariot of the sun.

Hnoss was supposed to be so beautiful that the norse word for treasure came from her.

Ullr is associated with glory.

Baldr’s death is pretty much the death of innocence, which, yeah.

Oor is Freyja’s husband, who she is constantly searching for because he ran away or something.

Sol = personification of the Sun, Mani = personification of the moon, Aurvandil is likely the personification of a star or the morning star, Jorth = earth and Nott = night.

Everything else explains itself, yeah?

AOBA JOHSAI

Oikawa - Narcissus - The Magician (has both battle and navigational abilities)

Iwaizumi - Galega - Judgement

Hanamaki - Sparaxis - ?

Matsukawa - Saffron (Crocus) - ?

Yahaba - Blue Bell - The Empress (Navigator)

Kyoutani - Aconite - The Emperor

Watari - Cress - ?

Kindaichi - Trefoil - The Chariot

Kunimi - Azalea - Temperance

I haven’t decided on deities for the coaches yet.

Narcissus - greek myth said to have fallen in love with his own reflection and drowned, becoming a flower after his death

Galega means “reason”. Oikawa is his reason for fighting, Iwaizumi was once his, and now Iwaizumi is trying to make Oikawa see reason.

Sparaxis, also referred to as harlequin, means “laugh at trouble”.

Saffron crocus means “mirth”

Blue Bells are associated with humility, gratitude, constancy, and fairies.

Aconite, also referred to as wolf’s bane, means misanthropy.

Cress = stability.

Trefoil = revenge.

Azalea in japanese flower language, hanakotoba, means patient.

NEKOMA

Kuroo - Horus - The Sun

Kai - Shu - The Hierophant (or maybe Temperance?)

Yaku - Bastet - I CAN’T DECIDE ON THE EMPRESS OR THE EMPEROR

Kenma - Medjed - The Hermit (Navigator)

Fukunaga - Gengen-Wer - The Moon?

Yamamoto - Mafdet - Strength

Inuoka - Maahes - The Sun

Shibayama - Bes - The Star

Lev - Sekhmet - The Magician

Alisa - Hathor - M8 I literally included her because the connection with Hathor and Sekhmet was too good to pass up don’t push me

Nekomata is Ra, and Other Nekoma Coach is Amun. They represent the human desire for the power to preserve and protect that which is dear.

Horus = god of the sky and king of Egypt

Shu was the personification of air and seen as a calming force

Bastet = protector goddess (started out as a war goddess, Bast, but later became the protector goddess named Bastet, after her similarities to Sekhmet resulted in a need to differentiate them)

Medjed = obscure deity from the Book of the Dead who “shoots with his eye, yet is unseen”

Gengen-Wer = a god in the form of a goose associated with artistic expression and said to be sensitive. And in some recent novels he was portrayed as senile.

Mafdet - protector goddess, particularly against SNAKES.

Maahes - a god of war

Bes - dwarf sized protector god (particularly of family/children). again, particularly against snakes. Egyptians really didn’t like snakes.

Sekhmet - goddess of war

NOHEBI

Daishou - Apep - The Devil

Takachiha - Babi

Kazuma - Shezmu

Hiroo - Nehebkau

Sakijima - Kauket

Akama - Taweret

Seguro - Meretseger

Kuguri - Kherty

don’t. don’t ask me their arcana.

Coach Oomizuki is the human form of Shai, the Egyptian god of fate. Here, he represents the human fear that what you want isn’t meant to be.

DATE TECH

Coach Oiwake is a deity bearing the name of Qin Shi Huang, the emperor who first ordered the construction of the wall, and Futakuchi and Aone’s personas are Prince Fusu and General Meng Tian (respectively), the two people who oversaw the construction of the wall for him.

Coach Oiwake - Qin Shi Huang

Moniwa - Zhou Tong

Sasaya - Wang Jian

Kamisaki - Gao Su

Aone - Meng Tian

Futakuchi - Fusu

Obara - Zhang Han

Onagawa - Li Guang

Fukiage - Han Xin

Sakunami - Han Shizhong

Kogane - Wumu

Nametsu (Manager) - Huang Guigu

FUKURODANI

Bokuto - Icarus* - Temperance Akaashi - Initial: Minerva | Evolved: Alcestis - Temperance Konoha - Theseus Sarukui - Melanippus Komi - Hector Washio - Memnon Onaga - Antaeus Shirofuku - Atlanta Suzumeda - Iphigenia

*While better known as a warning on hubris, Icarus was also warned to not fly too low. Since highs and lows are kind of Bokuto’s thing… yeah.

Alcestis only fits Akaashi in this au given his motivations and backstory. If not for that he’d probably be fine with just Minerva.

JOHZENJI

Coach Anabara is the human form of the manifestation of the human ideal of contentment - Hotei.

Terushima - Bacchus - The Devil/The Sun

Bobata - Silenus

Futamata - Raugupatis

Higashiyama - Soma

Numajiri - Rudegast

Izaka - Sucellus

Tsuchiya - Liber

Hana - Ninkasi

Runa - Mbaba Mwana Waresa

SHIRATORIZAWA

Coach Washijou is the human form of Achaemenes, the (possibly mythological) ancestor of the empire’s royal family. In this AU, he’s the corrupted manifestation of humanity’s fixation on insurmountable obstacles OR the human desire to eliminate threats to their ideals.

Ushijima - Cyrus the Great - Judgement

Tendou - Tissapherenes - The Devil

Leon - Ariabignes

Semi - Gaumata

Shirabu - Darius

Goshiki - Cambyses - The Chariot

Yamagata - Zapyrus

Kawanishi - Pherendatis

#crows squawking loudly

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ameliachaemenes · 3 years

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