#I mean infodumping is sexy to begin with

[bawkrya]

infodump. now !!

WEEEEEEEEEEEE

ok so im going to keep this singular ask topical (the others r goign to b unrelated) and talk about my bitch Norve & co. Note, im following my own lore and taking what i like from canon and doing what i want with it. not following canon strictly WHATsoever

This is the Great King Norve, or most commonly known The Holy Flail/Jhortanas Holy Flail. have his sexy gijinka wip too

as his title implies, he belongs to the Plaguebringer! Norve is said to be among one of the first followers of the Plaguebringer, but he wasn’t quite a dragon when he was born. He was more of a bundle of untamed magic that managed to gain enough sentience to begin trailing after a god, which happened to be a really young Plaguebringer. The Plaguebringer saw just how fucking Potent his magic was at the time and was like wow, that could be useful, and snapped up this ball of magic and forged him into a Flail to be used during battle.

Any time this mf struck something, it would basically be an insta kill. His spikes were always coated in Plaguebringers most dangerous shit, like wyrmwound soup type shit, on top of being coated in “perfumes”, so even breathing too close to him could get someone very sick very fast.

After the war between Plague and Nature settles slightly from the beginning, he gains a physical dragon form, which ideally would be an imperial but i dont see that happening for me anytime soon, but also like he wasnt really a modern dragon breed ofc. He was like, a REALLY really proto-type plague breed that never saw the light of day for a good while, but eventually he would be pushed into other forms because of how unstable it was, on top of his already fucky magic.

Norve. LOVED the plaguebringer. VERY passionately. he had no basis of what is considered modern romance, so for us in the present time, he would seem near obsessive of her. He was at her side at basically all times, if he wasnt in dragon form he would be a flail latched onto her in some way, etc etc etc, she did Not leave his site, and vice versa. This dedication to her became pretty well known, so he’s documented in a view historical texts as a Worshipper & Weapon of the Plaguebringer.

so, BECAUSE of how much he adored her, a lot of mfs are confused as to like. why the hell he’s against her now. After a more “recent” aka 2000 years ago war between Plague & Nature yet again, Norve very Very suddenly pulled away from the Plaguebringer with little to no stated reason why. He was still a dragon, he had his Own following under the plaguebringer and was responsible for a lot of shit, he was event connected to the sprites and goblins and shit so its like. Hello? but he was like. Fuck you guys. and dug a hole in the ground as far as he could. which is how he meets Pentes!

Pentes is the Lord Alluvium! He was quite literally mud when King Norve found him, and norve only realized he was even there bc he tried digging into him and pentes was like Hey. Kill Yourself. and norve was like wow. ok?

So norve puts this mf in a JAR and carries this sprite bitch around until Pentes eventually gains a “Dragon” form by pure exposure from Norve. Norve, again, is a very potent magical guy, so its stupid easy to just gain magic if you cant die from poison from him. which is what happens with Pentes! Pentes had his own magic tbf considering he had sentience, he just didnt have enough cultivated to take on a proper form that wasnt Mud. 

But he does take that form! They become besties, and Pentes eventually takes over an old Plague civilization and becomes the Eternal King, which is how he ends up marrying Xanthia, and he gets his own mess of drama because Pentes is for a lack of better words a cunt

anyways while Pentes is stirring shit, norve heads over to Old Light Area and finds Trolen!

trolen is a Proto-Imperial, meaning he was one of the very first made, and is absolutely RIDDEN in shade-muck, so much so that he can technically be considered an Emperor due to accidentally absorbing some mfs. It’s only really apparent in his horns though

so instead of just suibaiting norve, Trolen actually tries to kill him when they first meet.

Im still hashing out the details of their first meeting bc its supposed to be really intense, but these guys are gay. they end up just infatuated with each other. its supposed to be “downlow” but deity esque beings really dont know how to be downlow, so one of Trolens titles is literally King’s Wife. She’s old as hell, makes emperors bc she thinks its funny, and eventually moves down to the giant fucking hole that Norve dug and turns it into a literal castle that has the same vibe as the Lord Darkness’ castle from Legend 1985 LOL

slightly before they met though, Trolen created Anura

anura this sexy bastard is a problem child. to Trolens standard. hes also very much a “YOURE NOT MY DAD” kid to Norve, so while Norve claims him as his son when it comes to religious shit surrounding him on top of political, they dont really talk. LOL. so norve doesnt rlly care about whats going on between anura and trolen in the present, he only rlly cares if trolen starts to get like, actually upset by whats happening, but trolen doesnt take anura seriously enough rn to be mad abt him rebelling LMFAO.

more recently tho, Anura got a baby Emperor sister named Marigold

and this one norve DOES claim to be his little baby daughter that he loves so much and spoils to death because HE helped make her      (he chose the imperials trolen used)

Marigold is really obedient, but Anura is like 90% sure its because of how young she is (shes 50~ yrs vs Anura being a couple thousand), so hes holding out on her starting to turn on Trolen, which is when he’ll take her in. She doesnt really like Anura rn tho. but she LOVES norve and if she isnt hanging out w her mom she is hanging out with her dad. No one knows why Trolen made her tho bc he was pretty blatant that it wasnt for any sort of “family” thing, he wouldve just revived a singular one instead of using a lot of energy for a triple head, so its made a lot of dragons anxious bc whoops another holy war might happen heehee!!!

which that fear is only worsened bc norve is having gay sex with the harvest god.

So. Norve created the dragons of vermin right like theyre the vermin thats what all of these guys are apart of, and as of 100 years ago, Locust joined the dragons of vermin. he is one of the twins that make up the Insecta Kings, and they are the gods responsible for Harvest and etc. Right. so theyre the opposite of the vermin! So why the fuck is one of the harvest gods in the vermin gang and banging the leader.

thats something trolen also wants to know, but many are speculating its because of Norves recent call to murk the fucking Grand Deities (aka Plaguebringer/Gladekeeper/etc.). Locust is a very sleazy/greedy bitch and he wants NOTHING more than to gain as much power as he genuinely can. Hes unfortunately a very polar opposite of his brother Mantis, and just does Not give a proper shit for the people who worship him, and its mostly because hes had no genuine exposure to “human” (dragon rather) mortality or in general experience. Basically he cant bring himself to have empathy for something he knows nothing about personally

anyways so hes been striking deals with Norve in order to push for the killing of the Grand deities, and in the mean time norve accidentally informed him hes gay, which really sucks for the last two wives that Locust killed bc he panicked when he started talking to women. like you couldve told him that sooner?

ok thats all i have for my brain right now. my Lorekeeper Adrasteia holds a current wip that goes into a bit more detail of the individual vermin bitches, on top of the lads having tidbit information in their bios themselves except for like, Norve and Marigold.

#Asks #bakugames #if this doesnt post properly or at all im going to end it all

[umberandmochaagate]

Real talk though

But this does shine another light at the point where my attractiveness and personality aren't taken together. Like ofc ppl who have gotten to know me over months or even weeks are like "Wow, you should be in a relationship!" (Leaving out all the inherent issues with that for now). It doesn't translate over to the fact that even my attractiveness is gauged by others more on a "sexy" factor than the true acknowledgement of me being attractive. It's "you should wear makeup all the time you look so good with it" until I ask for money for all that product, time, and effort. It's "you're a bad bitch you should dress like it more" until I bring up the prices of my actual wardrobes. It's "your eyes/lips are so pretty" without reasons that don't go into sexuality (like my eyes can't ever be warm like color of fresh cafecito, always gotta be weird about it). Can't leave out jealousy when I'm hit on by other people as if I was gonna stop being attractive.

It also leaves out the fact that my personality is often taken at a very flat dimensional level. So while I'm a full human being, it's too many who have filtered me through a lens as a spark in their lives that will ultimately give them the strength to "be more" (manic pixie dream girl-esque, but also is the fate of a culture that expects those perceived as women and who are "quirky" to become). This self-inflicted—and I do mean self-inflicted, cuz I'm very direct and clear about where I stand in the absolute beginning—illusion ends up getting destroyed by natural complexities. I'm "super cool" until I'm being really intellectual—then I'm doing too much. I'm "exciting" until I'm infodumping on a topic that they don't care about or I have "too much" energy. I'm a good support until I push their potential—that or I'm suddenly intimidating because of my credentials and goals.

#so while I get what they mean #it's like... there's a reason #really multiple #with the primary being that I'm fr just vibin in life #but also that I do get tired of what I keep having to face #and also this self improvement journey???? is like major??? #we can't even add all the intersections without being here past the forever we've already been here

[drspencerweed]

when I say I wanna work at the BAU I really just mean that I want to sit around, look pretty, and watch Spencer Reid solve crimes

#and more specifically watch him ramble #about anything he wants #but it’s even better when his rambling saves people’s lives #I mean infodumping is sexy to begin with #infodumping to save the world? #🥵🥵 #hold me back #my post

[bittercoldbrew]

PLEASE tell me about the alien plant girls im so gay for anthropomorphic fem plants

omg thank you SO MUCH for asking and i apologize in advance for the infodump because i have been thinking about these alien plant people for literal years now, i love them so much. I first started thinking about these guys a little after TFA, because of an oc i was working on for a lil star wars fic that i have mostly abandoned by now--so sorry to the like 3 people who were reading my sidon ithano fic but tlj/tros really killed whatever passion i had for the franchise for a good long time :/ but Mando is great so i've been thinking about them'st again...

anyway i am sticking this under a cut because a) im very attached to these characters and if someone steals my shit i will kermit and b) sweet jesus this got so long, i am so sorry

in the SW universe at least, these plant people (that i still for the life of me cannot settle on an actual name for) were the primary inhabitants of a dwarf planet way out in wild space; they had a pretty symbiotic relationship with a race of sentient insectoid people (basically human-sized bees) who could travel between the planet and their home on one of its three moons (affectionately called the Honey Moon). what the plants didn’t know was that the bees were also able to travel to different planets, and had been doing so for a couple centuries before everything went to shit--but we’ll get to that in a bit.

the plant people weren’t particularly interested in the galaxy around them--they had a decent understanding of astronomy and cosmology, but little cultural interest in journeying to the stars. since the planet was pretty small and distant from the galactic core, it was pretty rare that a visiting ship would even pass them by, and scanners didn’t register them as genuine life-forms separate from the natural flora, so even if someone happened to end up out there it’s not the sort of place anyone would really choose to land. on rare occasions, a pirate or smuggler would try to hide out on what they thought to be an unoccupied planet, and would return to the Outer Rim with tales of mobile, sentient trees and bizarre, organic cities found on some uncharted world; likewise, occasionally a plant person would turn up at the local bar with tales of crashed space-ships and strange aliens that seemed almost like people. neither would ever be taken seriously.

the plants aren’t a particularly verbal people. they understand spoken language (a somewhat-modified Basic, at least, which is what the bees speak hmm i wonder where they picked that up from) and many can talk, but most don’t really bother learning to do so. mostly they rely on an ESP-like combo of pheromones and body language, highly attuned to the point that it’s essentially a kind of telepathy. i think i mentioned in the tags on that post that my character Antheia is sorta kinda a jedi? for these people, force sensitivity tends to manifest as an extra-extra-sensory-perception that causes you to be hyperaware of every living thing in your environment, not just the other sentient ones.

this made her uhhh extremely off-putting as a youth, easily distractable and often disinterested in the other people in the small community she grew up in, where she was already pretty disliked to begin with. there’s quite a lot of diversity among the plant people (a wide variety of skin tones/textures and body types, though few if any secondary sex characteristics; four limbs are most common, though occasionally some have two or more sets of arms; different types of leaves/vines/blossoms/etc in lieu of hair), and though they have a barter-based economy there’s still a lot of classism that’s mostly based around lineage (and thus evinced by one’s appearance and the traits one manifests). to protect (or attempt to bolster) those lineages, prospective parents can apply for a spot in a nursery, where their offspring are propagated and tended--mostly just through infancy before going to live with parents, though sometimes longer, and the very high class have private nurseries that will do all the rearing so they don’t have to.

But, on very rare occasions, certain wild plants will spontaneously develop sentience, and even more rarely will survive on their own long enough to find their way to a community. Hundreds of years ago (or “before the bees could speak”, which is their version of “once upon a time”), these spontaneous growths were revered and cherished, and whoever was first to encounter one would see it as a great honor to be responsible for their care and upbringing. now, with a much more striated society, these “weeds” (derogatory) are considered inferior, feral, dangerous. fortunately for Antheia, the man who found her, tangled in marsh reeds under the light of the Honey Moon, didn’t buy into any of that bullshit. he was a really sweet dad, very attentive and doting on his increasingly-strange adopted daughter; they were very close. but the older she got, the more her unusual ability developed, and the more he realized he was well out of his depth to help her understand that part of herself. eventually, she’s sent away to a kind of temple/convent for other people like her, where she’s trained to hone and control her extra senses, rather than be overwhelmed by them.

many years later, the sudden appearance of several large starships in their atmosphere turns their society on its head. it turns out, the bee-people have been traveling to other planets, forging alliances, brokering deals; they claim they just want to facilitate inter-planetary trade. Antheia is among the first to mistrust these invading aliens and their fleet of well-armed droids who seem hell-bent on mining their planet (which is, apparently, rich with cortosis, which--thank you wookiepedia--is apparently capable of repelling lightsabers and blasterfire alike). She flees her convent, joins up with an underground network of resistance fighters, discovers that her hyperawareness makes her a truly formidable force on the battlefield, and helps lead her people in defending the sovereignty of their home. And then things take a turn for the worse...but we don’t need to get into that right now.

ANYWAY.

my other oc, Shoal, is from the same planet but not even remotely star-warsy; either from a different time period well before the droid incursion, or just like an AU of my own stuff, idk. but she’s great, i love her deeply even though i dont really know what i even want to do with her yet. i mostly just was thinking about what a normal, average person in this world would be like, but then i got too attached. she’s also one of the spontaneous “weeds”, a semi-aquatic plant girl that washed up on a sandbar that occasionally connects a small island with the mainland when the tide is out. she was sort of “found” by multiple people at the same time, since they were making their way across to go trade goods at the mainland market, so to avoid the confusion of who should be responsible for her, she’s just sort of raised by the village as a whole. they name her Shoal, since that’s where they found her (it started as a joke, but then no one could agree on anything else to call her so it just sort of...stuck).

she grows up without realizing that it’s a pretty unusual upbringing. as a teen, she gains the reputation for the island’s best fisher (it helps that she can breathe as well underwater as above, and she’s always been a good swimmer). one thing that’s pretty consistent among all the plant people are their teeth--they all have long, sharp incisors and canines because sexy and also as more of a defense mechanism than a dietary one. they don’t eat much, typically absorbing nutrients from the sun/water/air/soil (mud baths are such a beloved experience, like for the most part they are very dignified people but find them some good mud and they will wallow for days) but when they do it’s pretty meat-heavy. they don’t really enjoy the process of eating very much, especially because they don’t have much gut bacteria so they typically have to swallow some stones to break up their food and nobody wants to do all that. but, at least in the coastal towns near where Shoal grew up, fresh-caught fish is considered a delicacy, and they can trade for quite a lot in return.

as she gets older, though, she starts getting restless. she loves her village, but it’s all she’s ever really known. also, it is so hard to even consider dating when literally everyone your age is practically your sibling, i mean, yeesh. so one day she just packs her bags and says her goodbyes and waits for low tide, then sets off to find her own way in the great wide world. she stops wherever she can, sees everything she can, but eventually settles down working at a tavern in a medium-sized town that’s mostly acclaimed for being a crossroads between bigger and better places. she likes it there, likes getting to know lots of new people and hearing about someone else’s travels more than she actually liked traveling herself. after a few years, the tavern-keeper retires and decides to leave the place to her, and she finds she’s become a permanent fixture in this new community. that’s really all i have for her so far, and i have no idea whether i’ll ever actually do anything with this character lol, but still she is very precious to me so i hope i find a story she’d be a good match for sometime soon.

#my ocs #oh my god this is...way too much i am so sorry #the sad thing is this is me trying to restrain myself there was more i wanted to talk about for both #and still i somehow wrote like 1500 words of backstory orz #but yeah i am hoping to have a bit about antheia and mando written up soonish if anyone is interested?? 👀👀 #and wow i really wanna write something with shoal i just. dont know what that something is yet #ugh #thedragonagelesbian #thank you so much for indulging me anthropomorphic plant girls are SUCH an underutilized monster girl its so sad #but i am doing my part to rectify that injustice

[loving-jack-kelly]

pls infodump about ur ocs and their universe‽!

I made myself wait until I’d submitted my last assignment of the night before even Starting to answer this ajhgsjhfgjs but! i’m gonna focus on the OCs for the project i think i’m gonna use NaNoWriMo to work on bc....i love them!

so there’s Barn! full name Barnard Quinn, he looks like a rat but it’s okay because he’s funny and cool and his boyfriend thinks he’s sexy so

and his boyfriend is Chrysanthemum Heath! he goes by Chrys (pronounced Chris but spelled like his name) and has pink hair to match the fact that he’s named after a flower.

and Cassiopeia, who ends up as their friend but first she’s their rival bc she’s better at their sport than they are lmao

but their universe! my friend now you’ve unleashed a can of worms bc while i love character building, world building is literally my favorite part of writing it’s so fun.

so the concept of their world is that it used to be a grand high fantasy land. think kind of like onward, if you’ve seen that, like the culture still kind of reflects wizards and dragons and quests and everything, but it isn’t like that anymore. unlike in onward, though, it isn’t bc technology advanced, it’s bc magic became so common that it isn’t anything special anymore. magic is literally everything, like it has a physical substance and everything is made of it, and why bother controlling it to do fancy things when there’s no need for it? it already turns on the lights, and flicking a switch is much easier than casting a spell.

but! some people still do learn to control magic to do fancy things, because there’s always gonna be people who love to learn how to do things the old-fashioned way. you know, like how people today still do things like hand spinning or weaving, even though there’s an easier way to do things, because it’s not about efficiency, it’s about the art and the process. it’s the same with magic.

now, because magic makes up everything and has physical substance, controlling it is weird. there’s p much (at the beginning of the story but shh no spoilers for the actual plot) three ways controlling it: weaving, pulling, and knotting. it’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like. magic makes up everything, so it weaves through everything in threads. it can be woven into things, threads can be pulled out of it, and knots can be tied or untied into it. essentially, the entire world is a tapestry that some people can access the threads to.

since i have an actual idea of plot lmao i’m not gonna get into the next bit of magic-stuff but rest assured i have cool idea for something special

anyway! magic controllers (not users bc everyone uses magic but few people control it) are called savants. they have to study, usually for a pretty long time, one specific way of controlling magic. it’s hard work, and you have to find either a master or have access to a tome, which are essentially like the books wizards of old would have used to learn new magic. there are also different types of magic you can do, so you’re a “savant of [blank] and [blank],” with the first blank being how you control magic and the second being what you can do with it.

so! Barn and Chrys are both young savants. Barn is a Savant of Knots and Prophecy. he attaches threads to pencils and paintbrushes, and the picture that results from untying the knot he chooses to untie paints a prophecy. they aren’t necessarily pictures of the future, just the future most likely to happen at the time the knot is undone. they can always be changed.

Chrys is a Savant of Pulling and [Insert cool name for matter manipulation here], meaning he pulls a thread and something like the earth moving or somebody’s shoelace coming untied happens.

Cassiopeia isn’t a savant, but she has the ability to see the threads. this is important, because most magic controllers don’t see the threads, they just feel them.

anyway, Barn makes a prophecy, they have to go on a quest, and the answer is something special that I won’t share unless you ask really really nicely in a dm ajgsjhfgjshfs

#i actually wanna write this like as a novel maybe #so i don't just wanna come out and say what the main conflict #or resolution is #but i think it Slaps and so does my gf #who ive talked this through with thanks em! #the-pending-king

[apothecarywormcrud]

Boy howdy would I love to know more about your s/i and kubuto!

shit aight it’s been a while since i’ve talked about kawato (which is a very similar name and which was very accidental lmao.)

i’m just gonna skip right to the shippuden stuff bc that’s where the brunt of the Drama (tm) happens, but the buildup to that point is basically tfw ur childhood bff vanishes without warning and then shows up several years later at the chuunin exams but oops he’s also evil now. 

so tsunade decides she wants to send someone to spy on orochimaru. kawato is an ideal candidate despite only being a chuunin for two reasons: 

given that they were a child runaway from the mist, their loyalty to konoha has been on shaky ground since the beginning, so it’s not out-of-character for them to suddenly switch allegiances

they have a personal connection to someone in oto, which means they don’t need to come up with some convoluted lie about how they want power. it’s literally just “yeah i’m here because of kabuto” which is like. at least 25% true. 

at some point kabuto figures out what they’re up to, and he’s like, well, i should kill you and inform orochimaru, but as long as tsunade doesn’t know you’ve been compromised, we can use you to send misleading information. do that for me, and i won’t do either of those other things. and kawato, who wants to live and also is gay, is like, yeah, ok. 

and then there’s like. so much medical infodumping it’s fucking unbelievable. lil bit of sexy surgery. maybe they make out a bit idk everybody’s too busy having depression and being traumatized to get involved in romance. orochimaru eats shit nd then everybody goes on a fun lil field trip to ryuchi cave. kawato has to watch as kabuto slowly loses his marbles. i have a Very Cursed Timeline where they die and then get reanimated by edo tensei nd now this bastardous lil romance is happening between a snake bitch and a zombie. if im remembering right the Good Timeline is th one where kawato bails to join the war effort nd then has the final showdown vs. kabuto instead of itachi and sasuke bc that fight fucking sucked. therapy no jutsu eat my fucking ass. instead we get snake vs. stag beetle sage mode smackdown. fun times for the whole family. 

and uh. thats th gist of it really. 

#this is very much Just Plot so i apologize if u were hoping for smth more romance-oriented haha #i don't have a lot of romance-heavy stuff for this bc it's an INCREDIBLY slow burn #involving a lot of very complicated feelings #nd people working through trauma #nd if im being honest its really more of a character study than anything else #and also kabuto is #Like That #so #yknow #asks #kawato hagane #helmet idiot #shinobishiba