You know what I've decided that Lucius was dirt fucking poor like the rest of them and then he became a marginally successful hooker and used that money to pay for a tutor or go to a university or whatever. It gives his little "Do we look like prostitutes" "Not terribly successful ones" line new depth, it explains why he's working for Stede (he ran out of money but now he has qualifications to dabble in other occupations, ones that might allow him to travel), and it explains why his go to ways to get out of any given problem are sex and blackmail. I'll bet it's why he's so good at relationships. We like to project relationship councilor onto him, but a relationship councilor would never yell at a client like that. But you know who does yell at clients like that. Prostitutes dealing with entitled Johns. Also that boy has saved multiple Johns' failing marriages through pillow talk. When somebody is paying you to fuck them and then you finish fucking early but he's still got 30 minutes, you might get a guy's life story and he might ask you for some advice, just saying.
He's hooker coded you guys. My third eye just opened. Like he can't be rich because he was "a bit of a pickpocket back in the day" i.e. stealing for an occupation, but he had to get his hands on books somehow to learn to read and that's how. Lucius isn't middle class he's a prostitute. I'm betting that the progression of Lucius's life goes like this:
under 18 - pickpocket street urchin
18- 29 - hooker
29+ - pirate but in a way where he doesn't have to get his hands too dirty.
Also hot take but it might explain why he's not intimidated by Ed. Like the culture of piracy is to respect the captain or get hit, and to look up to these very successful pirates, but that's definitely not the culture of sex work. There was that high profile madam bust in hollywood where Charlie Sheen testified and I can't remember exactly what it was he said but basically it boiled down to "I'm famous. I'm not paying the girls to have sex with me I'm paying them to leave me alone after we have sex." And Ed is rock star coded. What I'm saying is that if Lucius was hooking in the Caribbean he knows at least somebody who has fucked a very famous pirate captain and he knows exactly what embarrassing shit that famous pirate captain asked them to do. He knows about Calico Jack's piss kink and he knows that Charles Vane has a foot fetish, and he has it on very good authority that Captain Kidd likes getting pegged. Blackbeard wouldn't come off so hot if you had all that information in your back pocket is what I'm saying. Like the other guys are looking at Ed like "Oh wow it's pirate Beyonce. he's like a god he's the top of his game he's everything I could ever hope to be." and Lucius is looking at him like "I bet your into pain play, aren't you" And he's right.
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Speaking of crossover ships between different Soulsborne games, which one(s) do you guys like if any? There are some more apparent ones like shipping iconic female bosses together, and iirc Malenia x Gwynevere became popular, stuff like this! Or some characters in a crossover ship being a similar trope? Or maybe you have a completely obscure ones? Or based not on similarities but on personal headcanons? Or even a joke/crack ship? Everything would be interesting and I'd like to know!
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been writing again. i miss writing for fun aha. pain why is this guy so repressed and fucked up.
this one's about lightning n plants n blah blah symbolism stuff and i stopped writing it over two years ago but now i'm back ig. mako is having a terrible time post-canon and it's great! (for me) i dumped out some stuff that i find unusable and am hoping the rest holds up to a reasonable extent
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WE THOUGHT FUUGA COULDN'T BE HOTARO'S DAD BC HE WOULD RECOGNIZE HIM BUT NOT IF HIS BRAIN'S BEEN COOKED BY THE ACADEMY FOR YEARS!!!!!!!!!!!
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I feel like I'm the Kool-laid guy in every fandom :/
Everyone else goes:
"No, not that ship"
"No, let's not focus on found family, poly, etc."
"No omega verse"
"No having this character on top/bottom"
And then I burst through the wall with my fanfics and my posts like, "OH YEAH!!" to all of it.
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I have to see a snippet of It Was Bound to Happen (if you want to share it, if not all g lol)!! Your writing is literally the reason I’ve joined Sabezra nation! 🩵
hi One Of My Favorite Readers Ever, thank you for the ask :)
to preface this snippet, i accidentally had "fake dating" previously written on the ask game--it was way past my bedtime when i made it--but it's actually secret dating. i ended up working on it for a lot more than five minutes, so here's your snippet!
He laughed nervously. “Yeah. . .” He realized he’d gone halfway onto the bed in his attempt to shut her up and that everyone was, indeed, still staring at him. At them. Ezra looked down as he began to move off, but at Hera’s uttered, “Oh,” he chanced a glance back up and—
“Sabine!” he exclaimed, falling backward because she’d seemingly leaned forward to kiss him, their faces less than inches apart and that was definitely out of bounds for Just Friends and he could not believe this was happening.
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I think its incredibly funny how many people seem to think Lucius is this therapist™ and like really great at reading people when in reality he's a fucking dumbass. Like, his response to watching the most outrageously fake no tears crying from Calico Jack is to call Stede bitchy for calling him out. This man is gay and stupid as fuck and I have no idea what y'all are talking about lol
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you know what. something ELSE about the last herald-mage adaptation that may or may not ever happen is that I wouldn't mind if they didn't actually adapt the books word for word. Not in a "they follow the loose story of the books but change things around for x reason" way, but in a "we're exploring different avenues or facets of Vanyels' life we never got to see in the books" way. like if they made a series filling in the gaps between the three books and covering those huge time skips that expands on the world, and gives us developments on the part of Vanyel's character that we never got to see, I think I would be satisfied with that as long as it's well done. Also, big opportunity for world development when possible, since places outside Valdemar like Karse didn't really get any genuine attention until much later on in the overarching Valdemar series.
There's so much of his story that we never saw because of the time skips! And I feel like there's plenty of room to do something original that way (because of course they're going to want to do something original) while ALSO staying more or less true to the source material without eviscerating it, especially since there's so much in the original books that I think will be very hard to adapt well or even respectfully. I feel like this is something that can totally be done without alienating people who aren't familiar with the original books, while also creating something new and interesting that can stand on its own.
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