#rime is Serious Jock

[poisonouswritings]

No. Sorry. Okay. Sorry. Last Legacy Evangelion AU. Um. Not very well thought out I'm in the "washing machine spray" section of the hyperfixation cycle. Just. Uh. Roll with me for a second. I'll probably make changes later because I know some of these are wrong.

Hm. Uh. I'm gonna say Rei is MC. Not really from their world, has weird knowledge, etc etc. Just roll with me on that one.

Felix is Shinji. Coping with loss and struggling with self-hatred brought on (at least in part) by his father's neglect. Has a lot of powers but is not always the best at using them. Breaks down and goes comatose in times of great emotional turmoil (Anisa said that's what happened to Fe after Rime died, which is why she had to kill LoS herself).

Uuuum. Um. Anisa as Asuka. Obviously not as aggressively cocky but suffering from the loss of a parent and acting brave/powerful/confident to hide the fact that she's actually very insecure. And maybe Anisa was a little more cocky as a teenager? Idk. It's there somewhere.

Sage. As. Um. Maybe Toji? Jocks who don't follow the rules but have big hearts. He would definitely agree to be the Fourth Child if it meant Tulsi got the medical attention she needed. Maybe I just wanna see him in the black suit but with red instead of blue.

Breaking a leg is better than losing an eye at least. Also Tulsi would be Sakura. Especially in the Rebuilds where she actually got to be a part of WILLE. Balsam would be Kensuke.

Uuuum. Um. Thinking. Kaworu would be. I guess Rime. Mysterious and in love with Shinji/Felix and dies as part of a necessary chain of events. Going from helping SEELE (LoS) to helping Shinji (Starsworn). Idk.

Misato would be. Um. If we ignore the weird sexual context between Shinji and Misato, then she could be Scylla. Drinks a lot, puts on a serious work face, is brutal and efficient when needed, has father issues. I honestly did not have a better alternative.

If we ignore the sexual/romantic (one-sided) thing between Ritsuko and Gendo, I could see Elowen as Ritsu. Blonde and smokes and has a love/hate relationship with a dead family member (personal HC that Elowen obviously loves Lucan dearly but also resents him for dying and leaving her alone). Has a strong sense of revenge and despises being used. Incredibly intelligent. Lucan would therefore be MAGI. Again we're ignoring the. The ages and stuff. I'm doing my best here okay.

Escell is Gendo for,, obvious reasons. Fuyutsuki would be. Maybe Withers? That means Florian would be Yui. Florian is trying to help humanity and build a better future for their son and Escell will do whatever it takes to be reunited with him (keep in mind he started working with LoS to necromance Felix when he was a child). Also the. Uh. Emotional child neglect.

SEELE would be LoS and the cultists.

Anyways that's all I got rn

#last legacy #fictif last legacy #neon genesis evangelion #evangelion #felix iskandar escellun #anisa anka #sage lesath #rime solano varela #scylla anguis #florian anguis #escell mirun #lord of shadows #elowen de bhaldraithe #lucan de bhaldraithe #fictif balsam #ozzy daydreams

[sedge-and-sanctuary]

Sanctuary Pack Stories: The Hunt [Part Three]

Back at it again w my dog lore. Previously, Rime was separated from her hunting party & ran into a whitetail buck. Her friend Dace wanted to go looking for Rime, but was forced to return to camp by a blizzard.

Part One Part Two

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Seven looks up when the hunting party returns, but doesn't stand. Too tired, Dace figures. Her and Rover have been scouting non-stop, looking for scent-trails and carrion.

Judging by everyone’s hopeful expressions, though, they didn't find anything. Their last shot at a meal is down to the hunters. Again.

Well. Sorry to disappoint.

Dace straggles in behind the other two hunters, her tail drooping. She can feel Seven’s eyes on her.

“Leader Seven.” Hoot ducks low, and Grackle takes a subtle step backwards-- out of the limelight.

“Hoot, there’s no need for that! You--” Seven looks them over. Frowns. “Is Rime coming behind you? Is she bringing-- I mean, did you catch something?”

Hoot ducks even lower, practically crouching. It’s not submission, Dace doesn’t think. Just-- what? Guilt? 

Dace snorts. If she really felt that bad, she could’ve let us stay and search.

Rover makes her way out of the den, walking a little stiff. “Everything alright?” She catches sight of Hoot; straightens up. “Well, and what have you--”

“Rime’s missing,” Hoot says, low, but her voice is clear. It carries. 

Dace flinches. 

“What?” Seven struggles to her feet.

“What?” Rover’s voice carries, too. 

“She fell behind. We lost track of her.”

“You lost track? Are you a hunter or not?” Rover’s bristling up like a porcupine; Dace wonders if she’ll actually jump at Hoot, in a second or two. “Well-- for shot’s sake, look for her!”

Dace can’t hold it back any longer. “That’s what I said!” Everyone turns to stare at her-- Dace forces herself to stand up straight. “That’s what I said, and she made us come back.”

Rover growls; The Pack murmurs. 

Seven’s voice cuts through the noise: “Hoot is new to Sanctuary. But she’s been nothing but a good, helpful packmate so far. I don’t believe she would have left--” and then her voice falters, and dies away.

Outside their sheltered camp, the wind howls. 

“Our daughter?” Rover says, a low growl in her voice. “Not yet grown? Out in the winter’s worst storm? Alone?”

She takes a step towards Hoot, lips curling back from her teeth. She really is going to attack Hoot. Right here in front of everyone.

Hoot ducks away from her, eyes flashing white.

“Well?” Rover stalks closer. “We-- should leave right now. You come with me, since you got her lost--”

Hoot looks up, startled, and then remembers, and ducks her head again. 

“Rover,” she says, voice low, “the storm--”

“I don’t care two scats about the storm! My kid is out there-- Seven?”

Rover turns a desperate look on her mate. Seven doesn’t say anything, for a moment. 

Oh, if she would only agree-- “I’d go!” Dace calls. “I’ll go with you! I’ll search!”

“You won’t,” someone says; Saturn, the healer (and, ok, Dace’s mother), emerging from her den. “Hunters come see me when they get back. You all know that. I don’t have many rules--”

She’s not looking at Dace-- she’s talking to the whole group, like Dace hadn’t said a thing at all. 

“Saturn!” Rover turns on her. “Make an exception! Someone’s missing! My daughter is missing!”

Dace snorts. Like that argument would work on Saturn. She’d probably be thrilled if Dace and her brother went missing, let alone someone else’s kid.

Saturn ducks her head. “I am sorry, Rover. But I’m having enough trouble keeping up as it is. With frostbite, cracked paw pads-- if I let them go today, we won’t have hunters to send out tomorrow.”

“But--”

Hoot clears her throat. “Rover. You can’t see a thing out there-- snow’s too thick. It’s why we came back.” 

“I’m-- sure Rime wouldn’t want--” Saturn offers.

“Don’t tell me what my daughter would want!” Rover hesitates, bristling-- and then turns in a burst, running back for her den-- for a few steps, anyway. Then she slows to a trot, a walk, limping a little; cracked paw pads, Dace thinks. Her own paws are sore and raw. But-- 

“Seven?” She peers up at her leader. “Please--”

Seven sighs. Looks up at the clouds, heavy with snow. Even during their short meeting, it’s fallen so thickly on her back that her dark fur has turned almost entirely white.

“Listen to your healer,” she says, eventually, her voice heavy. “Believe me, I want to search for her too. But I can’t-- I can’t risk the rest of the pack, hunting for one wolf.”

And then she turns, before Dace can respond, and finally droops out of the postures of a leader, padding back to the den with her tail dragging in the snow.

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In some stupid, soil-forsaken twist of fortune, the buck is easier to track than Rinme’s packmates are.

She plods after him, cold to the bone, shivering so badly her back cramps and complains, muscles all knotted up with it, but she can’t just-- lie down and wait.

Or-- she can. It would be so easy, to stop sniffing out the buck’s sweat, stop looking for the places where he’d gouged bark and broken branches, to just find a sheltered place and rest, but--

She won’t. She won’t listen to that creeping, convincing voice in the back of her head, saying come, listen, lie down-- she won't. The buck had thrown her into a tree, had tried to gore her with his antlers, and to let him just walk away--

she won’t. 

The snow falls. The wind blows. Rime pauses to sniff at another oak, its lower branches bent all askew. The wood is fragrant, bleeding sap where the buck had scored it with his antlers.

It's like he wants her to follow. It’s like-- a dare. 

Well-- she will follow. And then she will kill the buck, and she will eat him. Dung to the winter and the snow and the hunger in her belly; Rime will find him. She will feast.

No stupid storm would get the better of her.

#wolvden #wolvden lore #the sanctuary pack #once again it is baby hours #the only thing i can say about these two is that #rime is Serious Jock #and dace is Goofy Jock #thats it. thats their personalities #dace #seven #rover #saturn #rime #winter one #year one #the hunt #pack stories #so many wolf thoughts rattling around in my empty head

[sedge-and-sanctuary]

The Wolves of The Pack at Sanctuary

View Family Tree View Former Pack Members:

Main:

Dace 👑Leader | 🧡Eight

Saturn x Finch. She/her. Born in the pack's first year. Struggles with jealousy and ambition. Clever, friendly, hardworking.

Radun🍖 Hunter | 🧡Chicory

Not of Pack lineage. She/her. Joined in the pack's third year. From a strict, cruel pack. Wary, formal, serious.

Verand 🍁Lead Scout | 🧡Uno 🧡Kit

Not of Pack lineage. She/her. Joined in the pack's third year. From a strict, cruel pack. Carefree, friendly.

Catfish (Kit) 🍖 Hunter | 🧡Verand 🧡Uno

Perch x Loner. He/They. Born in the pack's third year. Felt smothered by his family. Charismatic, friendly.

Chicory 🍂 Lead Herbalist | 🧡 Radun

Not of Pack lineage. She/her. Joined in the pack's fourth year. Left her birth back for unknown reasons. Grouchy, cynical.

Maize 🐾 Retired

Finch x Hayseed [Sired by Chicory]. She/her. Born in the pack's fifth year. Struggles with a lung condition. Curious, outgoing, often frustrated.

Uno 🍖 Lead Hunter | 🧡Verand 🧡Kit

Seven x Rover [Sired by Loner]. He/Him. Born in the pack's fourth year. Got into trouble as a teenager. Cautious, Reserved.

Jumps For Clouds🍖Apprentice Hunter

Not of Pack lineage. He/Him. Joined in the pack's sixth year. A scholar from a pack that fell to civil war. Clever, soft-spoken.

Farrier🐾 Pupsitter

Finch x Hayseed [Sired by Chicory]. He/Him. Born in the pack's sixth year. Inspired by his father's pacifism. Thoughtful, Curious.

Harvests Honey 🍖 Hunter

Chicory x Radun. She/her. Born in the pack's ninth year. Loyal, stubborn, kind.

Side:

Hoarfrost 🍖 Hunter

Rime x Loner. She/her. Made shy and anxious by her litter-mate's untimely death.

Lenok 🍁 Scout

Dace x Eight (sired by a lone wolf). She/her. Strong and stubborn. Takes after Dace.

Ympe 🐾 Pupsitter | 🧡 Daisy

Not of Pack lineage. He/Him. Joined in the pack's eighth year. An odd wolf who claims to speak for the sprites.

Tends To Daisies 🍂 Herbalist | 🧡 Ympe

Not of Pack lineage. He/they. Joined in the pack's tenth year. A solemn, quiet wolf who tends to the dead.

More 🍖 Hunter

Cairn x Ceda. He/him. Born in the pack's ninth year. Sweet, likes to make his friends laugh.

Rathlow 🍖 Hunter

Chicory x Radun. She/her. Born in the pack's ninth year. Taciturn, a 'tough guy'.

Carnassial 🍖 Hunter

Not of Pack lineage. She/they. Joined in the pack's second year. Has a frightening reputation. Mysterious, a prankster.

Shiloh 🐾 Pupsitter

Rover x Seven [Sired by Loner]. He/him. Born in the pack's fifth year. Uncomfortable with violence. A know-it-all.

Cairn🍖 Hunter | 🧡Ceda

Grayling x Loner. She/her. Born in the pack's fifth year. Unwanted by her mother. Superstitious, jumpy.

Ceda 🍖 Hunter | 🧡Cairn

Eight x Loner. They/them. Born in the pack's third year. Curious, lively.

Setter 🍖 Hunter

Rover x Seven [Sired by Finch]. She/her. Born in the pack's second year. An outgoing jock made serious by her brother's death.

Perch🍖 Hunter

Dace x Loner. She/her. Born in the pack's second year. Has a tense relationship with her mother. Introverted, Kind.

Tanager🐾 Lead Pupsitter

Grackle x Loner. She/her. Closer with her mother than her peers. Self-conscious, moody, serious.

Daedon🍖 Hunter

Carnassial x Loner. He/him. Born in the pack's sixth year. Sires strange pups. Has a menacing reputation. Blunt, observant.

Holiday 🐾 Pupsitter

Finch x Hayseed [Sired by Chicory]. She/her. Born in the pack's sixth year. Close with her siblings. Stoic, hard to read.

Slough Creek 🍁 Scout

Hoot x Hat Trick [Sired by Chicory]. He/him. Born in the pack's sixth year. Rankles at orderly pack life. Independent and headstrong.

Former Pack Members

#the sanctuary pack #this used to be a blog page but posts are easier to edit so here u go. will come back & edit this as needed #i was gonna wait to post this but actually #i want it to get kinda 'buried' to the back of my blog since its supposed to be just like. #a page not a real post? IDK #jesus H this is a LOT of wolves. #might split this into 'current' and 'former' pages bcos this #this is a long fucking post. #long post

[sedge-and-sanctuary]

The Sanctuary Pack: Names

Like I said in that ask, I’ve been workin on Wolf Names!

Seeing everyone actually “doing worldbuilding” for their packs instead of just having them lie in a ditch & cuss like humans has inspired me lmao so. Baby’s First Wolf Worldbuilding: How do the wolves of Sanctuary get their names?

If anyone wants to use any of the names or conventions I mention here, please go right ahead!

[this ended up extremely long so. it’s under the cut]

Naming Rights:

Typically, the mother of a litter names the pups. 

Usually, the breeding male only contributes his genetics, and doesn’t raise a litter himself. Mothers are therefore considered closer to the pups, and get naming dibs. 

This rule isn’t set in stone, however! A breeding male who does help raise the pups may sometimes get naming rights, or an especially strict pack-leader might demand to name all pups born into their pack (this is a pretty huge infringement in wolf society, and would point to an unjust or even tyrannical leader).

For litters with no mothers or multiple mothers, naming rights go to the birth parent(s), if applicable, and/or are split between the parents. For instance, Harvey, Eight, and Bella’s litter had two moms (they were adopted by Rover and Seven), and they split naming rights! Rover named Harvey and Bella, and Seven named Eight.

As a sign of goodwill, the mother may grant naming rights to another animal.

This right is almost exclusively given to animal that was important to the pup’s birth or early survival. For instance: Seven let Finch name her pup, Rime, because he agreed to be a surrogate for her and Rover. 

This contribution doesn’t have to be so direct, however! If a cougar shared its kill with a pregnant wolf, or a lone-wolf shared their den to shelter a whelping mother, the mother might choose to grant naming rights to the animal involved. Between wolves, this is considered a pretty big deal: In a way, it’s like welcoming the namer into your family, or at least your pack.

Other animals don’t always understand the Naming Right, and frequently decline (very offensive in the wolf world), or else name the pups something that’s normal to their species, but strange by wolf standards (for instance, owls are usually named in short, soft sounds that a wolf would find nearly impossible to produce).

Wild vs Captive Names

Captive Names

Because many of the wolves in The Sanctuary Pack were born & raised in captivity, they have names a wild wolf would probably consider pretty strange! Captive names follow no strict convention; whatever the humans (or other captive animals) around decided the wolf should be named- that’s what it is!

For example:

-Seven’s litter were all named in birth order; "Wolf One, Wolf Two” etc by the wildlife conservationists who raised them. She was Wolf Seven out of eight.

-Rover claims to have been nameless until adolescence, when she escaped captivity and was given a name by a feral dog in the human settlement she lived in afterwards. Honestly, who knows if that’s true.

-Hat Trick was named by the human who reared her: she was the third in a litter of three (a hat trick is when a player scores three goals in a single hockey game) (Hat Trick definitely doesn’t know this. She does not know what hockey is).

Wild Names

Wild names, on the other hand, are names wolves might typically have if they were born & raised in the wild. Broadly, wild wolves are named after things that exist in the natural environment, but I think this varies a lot from pack-to-pack! Different packs packs will follow different naming conventions, and some packs may follow multiple of these conventions, or none at all!

If names are passed down family or legacy names, the name almost always passes matrilineally. 

Some different wild naming conventions include:

-Pups are named after their appearance (Dacite is a grayish wolf; she was named for a type of grayish rock).

-Pups are named following the same theme as their mothers-- lineage can be traced back through these names. 

For example: Oriole named her daughter Grackle: both of these are species of blackbird. 

-Pups are named for a trait/virtue their mother wants them to have.

 For example: Dace is boisterous and confident; a bit of a bully. Her mother Saturn wanted her to be a less of a jock, so named her after something small and unassuming

-Pups are named after some element of the time & place they were born. Many packs also give each pup a nickname, derived from the birth name, that shares a common sound across a family. This gives the otherwise random birth names an element of connection/legacy.

 For example: sisters Vulture, Carrion and Incisor might be nicknamed Renvul, Orion and Sorin, with the ‘rin’ sound being universal across the family group.

-Pups are given multi-part names. This is especially common in larger and older packs, where many shorter, common names have already been used. Parts of these names are usually ‘legacy’ names, passed on like human surnames, or shared pack names. These wolves may go by their full names, or just a nickname. you’ve read warrior cats, you know whats up w this one

For example: in a pack called the White Pines pack, a wolf might be White Hawk’s Claw (they likely go just by “Hawk”), where ‘Hawk’ is unique, “White” is shared between pack members, and “Claw” is shared between family members. A sibling could be named White Sharp Claw, and an unrelated pack member might be called White River Rapids.

Wolves may also only have a two-part name, usually consisting of a unique name combined with either a pack or family name. Like-- Squirrel Flight, or Yellow Fang, for two completely random examples.

-Pups aren’t named until adolescence or adulthood, and are named for a feat they have performed, or trait they’ve proven to posses. Rarely, these names are changed later in a wolf’s life, as a mark of either great shame or great honor.

Trait names can be simple or more complex, and may list traits directly or metaphorically (eg, by comparing to an object or animal with a certain trait). Wolves with these usually don’t go by a nickname.

For example: Keen-Eye, Swift, Light-Step, Valor, Lark-Tongue, Headlong

Feat names are usually compound, and vary in length. Wolves with these mostly go by nicknames. There’s some power-play here, however: high-ranking wolves are more likely to be called their full name, uptight/prideful wolves might insist on being called their full name, and wolves named after an impressive feat- or horrible crime- might be called their full name as a mark of respect or shame. 

For Example: Brings-Down-Bears (likely called by full name, honorable) Bone-Carver (”Bone”), Flood-Swimmer (”Flood”), Mends-Wounds (”Mend”), Flees-The-Fight (likely called by full name, shameful).

Significance

Wolf-names signal more than just who an individual is.

 At a minimum, both wild and captive names say a lot about where a wolf comes from; a captive wolf’s name obviously betrays their background, but a wild wolf’s name also says something about them! 

Even setting aside differences in naming convention and pack culture, a desert wolf might be named Dune, Saguaro, or Fennec, and if they travelled to the mountains would stand out among wolves named Trout, Lichen, and Cedar. 

Names can also, as mentioned above, signal who a wolf’s family is (legacy names), the circumstances of their birth (gifting name-rights), and the culture of their birth pack. There’s a lot of history wrapped up in them!

On a meta note, this is why I have a rule never to change the names of wolves I get in trades (if they’ve been named). Their names tell a story about the packs they come from, even if their previous owners didn’t write them lore!

Changing Names

Wolves sometimes change their names, or the naming schemes they follow, after a serious life event. This is a pretty big deal; as discussed above, wolf names have a deeper significance than just as identifiers. As a wolf, changing your name- or even just the things you name your pups-  essentially represents cutting yourself off from your family or your past and declaring a new affiliation.

For example:

-Finch hated his time in captivity. He changed his name from Fincher when he escaped to the wild. While only a small variation, this switch between what was clearly a captive name to a plausible wild name was Finch’s way of declaring himself free of human control. This is also why, when he was given the change to name Seven’s pup, he gave her a wild-sounding name: Rime. He doesn’t want to pass on the legacy of his captivity.

-Saturn and her siblings were all named after celestial bodies. While she kept her own name, she parted with her birth pack on ugly terms, and no longer considers herself a part of that family, so doesn’t use their naming conventions. She named her own pups, Dace and Grayling, after fish.

#the sanctuary back #wolvden lore #wolvden #worldbuilding #like. I think it was vagueshapes that has made. a little conlang for their pack? #to come up with names? thats so neat #Also! #in the 'naming rights' section I did say mother #& father #but trans wolf rights obviously. the birthing wolf is not always going to be a mother #& the sire won't always be a father! #sorry this came out long I was like 'oh write a little snippet for fun' and then it turns out i had a lot of thoughts #I do LIKE thinking thru worldbuilding stuff! I just am like... unaccustomed to animal-only stories lol! so new ground here #all my worldbuilding attn rn is focused on my nuzlocke. no room for dogs #yes thats right if my Active Wolvden Lore Blog didn't tip you off. #I am Extremely Cool #And therefore have a fuckin. novel length pokemon while nuzlocke ive been working on for #uh a year and a half now. i guess. jeez #do i have a ton of free time? NOPE I just don't do the things i am supposed to be doing #anyway thats enough tag talk lol. #read the tags get lore about me the human person #thats not what this blog is for. dog lore only on this blog.