#Ira answer

[ira-hydrangea]

Replaced Au? Not really.... Final Part

That night, Eva disappear. The only one that knows what happened to her is only a few students.

Mc cure has been healed and now they try to heal after that terrible illness while also learning about magic.

No one talks about Eva and Mc is too busy trying magic and getting fascinated by their power. The boys watched in the background with a fond smile.

"You know... I never see Eva again. Where did she go?" Mc, asks suddenly. The first-year group stay silent before they look at Mc in confusion.

"Eva? Who is that?"

"Eh? you know that another magicless student beside me? You guys are the ones that introduced her to me." Mc explains while looking equally confused.

Deuce smiled awkwardly, "Um... We never accepted any new student."

"Yep. Besides, who wants to transfer in the middle of the semester?" ask Epel.

Ace smirk at Mc, "perhaps that long sleep really messed with your memory, Mc~. Did you need to go back to sleep to retrieve the memory?"

Mc pout before huffing, "...maybe. Ah! Just forget it."

"I once heard that anyone tends to confuse reality and dreams after a long illness. Maybe we should get you checked with Malleus or Lilia just to make sure." said Jack.

Mc then agree and followed them to get checked with Malleus. After that, they try to ask others and the answer they got is the same as their first-year group. So they decide to drop it and just accept that they just dreaming about that Eva person.

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A mysterious girl starts to wander around aimlessly in some town. When she got evacuated and get questioned, she can't even remember anything. And the only thing, she mumbles is the loss of heart. The investigation team tried to discover anything about the girl but there not a single piece of data appeared. No one knows her identity and her case created so much conspiracy.

The close piece of information they can closely match is the lost girl file that come 100 years ago. While their characteristics match each other, there is no way the lost girl can survive that long without aging. And so, the case is deemed as Unsolved Case.

The girl then gets put in so kind of mental institution for further investigation and observation while the police try everything they could to figure out her identity and what happen to her.

The end.

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Okay. This series has finally finished. It's short, I know. But I didn't want to make a long fiction about this one or I can easily lose interest 😅.

I like to say that the 'rest of the story can be imagined later.' You guys can send a brain rot about this chapter and I can answer them while enjoying my holiday trip. Just don't expect me to answer it every day.

I will continue the event later after the new year. Thank you so much for you that have requested it. Now I'm officially closing the event for 1.100 followers!

I see you guys in the next piece of writing. Byee~

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[ira-dendrobium]

Can I ask for 🍂 with God of eternal wisdom Scaramouche/Wanderer with🌷 and🍦?

Hello, anon! I did your request so you can check it here! Thank you for requesting 😊

#ira answer

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DOES DR. KUROSAKI NEED AN ASSISTANT?? BECAUSE I'VE NEVER WANTED ANYTHING MORE THAN THIS!!!! PLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASEPLEASE 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️ I HAVE MY RESUME AND RECOMMENDATION LETTERS READY, PLEASE JUST GIBE ME THE POSITION PLEASE!!!!

mr. 'good doctor' needs to stop being a menace. Sorry for the ugly drawing artblock is kicking my ass-

#also I'm starting to reply to old asks #LIKE VERY OLD #This one is two months old... sorry anon #male yandere #yandere oc #yandere #dies irae vn #dies irae kurosaki #kurisaki ask #the code answers #anon ask

[bunnygirllover45]

wait… so obvs seth is jesus, so are the other characters’ positions inspired by the 12 apostles in the og painting by da vinci? i’m guessing it’s his rendition, mostly based on the hand gestures and facial expression from seth and kurosaki and yotatsuya’s poses mimicking john and peter in the painting (there’s no judas parallel in the sketch which is really interesting;;), however the other two don’t seem to resemble any of the right side of the painting so maybe i’m wrong? nyway - does it mean anything? or am i overthinking it (<- probably this one tbh ldjd)

Holy shit you're so spot on anon. Yeah! it's inspired by the Last Supper. The Judas parallel thing is interesting, because yeah that's missing, maybe someone else was meant to represent him but he's gone now, who knows. (?) The drawing is already done and posted in my Patreon, but here's a small portion of the finished thing :)

#I shouldn't lore dump abt my vn on my second acc #but who cares #love when you guys make little theories with my art #so lovely #chrona... answers things? #dies irae vn

[wombywoo]

How is my favourite most talented artist doing????

Hope you may stumble upon mountains of chocolate 🎀❤️.

-🌺 anon

#asks #robalove image courtesy of ira <333 #he is the moment 💅 #to answer your question #I'm doing ok :) <3

[sentience-if]

okay I'm soooooo curious. If seriously interested in the MC, how would the ROs try to flirt/woo them?? I can just imagine Connie spontaneously combusting at the thought of having to do any sort of pick-up line ieoerhofer

lmao Connie would rather give Val $100 than use a pick up line. I think they'd go for the more subtle approach of making themself needed. a long con(nie). it's not even active flirting it's being helpful and protective until one day you realize actually you can't live without them. does it work? idk you tell me

klaus: same idea as Connie, but in a way that borders on pathological. he said something strange and whoops now you're thinking about it at 3 AM and that's when you've officially lost the game. now he's in ur head and you've got this weird need to impress him. RIP klaus you would have loved Pavlov

ira: fully aware of how pretty and sweet they can be and is willing to turn the charm up to 11. master of grazed hands and fleeting smiles. I can definitely see them pretending to be oblivious to what they're doing but they know. they know.

val: normally they're overt, playful, and bold with flirting- making little comments and invading personal space. but Io's a different matter entirely that makes everything wildly complicated and tbh its probably better to just see it in game 🤷

kat: I'm torn between whether she'd be completely blunt about it or draw it out in the most cryptic way possible. so probably a demented combination of both. her hard-to-get game is impeccable, especially when she keeps openly complimenting Io. God this is just klaus again isn't it

#sorry this took so long to answer idk what flirting is #ask #sentience if #val #constantine #klaus #ira #kat

[iraprince]

Hi, you're a very admirable artist, I was doing some art and I was wondering if you could help. Do you have any tips for making people look Grungy? I need to draw a person who has like, real awfully maintained greasy hair for a story about a miserable detective and you're very good at drawing hair, so, i figured I'd see if you had any tips.

I'm sorry if this is like, imposing on you or anything.

thank you!! and yeah, sure, let's check it out!

so, a lot of this is massively going to depend on how you stylize hair in your own art style; but i've tried to collect some observations about how clean and dirty hair behave differently that i hope can help broadly.

some other notes: - light colored hair may seem darker when dirty; dark or black hair might have more dramatic shine. - greasy hair can clump together to the point where the scalp is more visible between the sections; depending on your art style this might be something pretty cool to render. this also happens even to very short hair! (my sides are shaved, but if it's been a while since a trim, i know i definitely need a shower when the "fluff" on the sides starts making little points). - the traits of greasy hair will be most prominent where grease/oils will collect: at the top/crown of the head, with bangs/fringe that touch the forehead frequently, around the ears, etc. - in addition to being dependent on your art style/how you specifically stylize hair, depicting stuff like this will also be relative between characters. you're going to want to make sure the character looks greasy Compared To Other Characters. like, check this out:

here's a character i drew out really fast using a bunch of the same cues i listed in the top example: the hair is limp, it clings to itself and to the head and is kind of stringy, shiny around the top, etc. but in isolation, based on how this character is styled and posed (and also because they are not placed next to a different version of themself labeled "CLEAN HAIR"), they probably wouldn't be immediately read as unkempt!

especially in comic/narrative/story-based work, any time you want small details about a character's appearance to be noteworthy and to communicate something specific about them, you have to make sure those details are reinforced/contrasted by what's going on around them. you can draw your detective greasy and miserable and unkempt, but it's not going to have as much impact if all the other characters are drawn mostly the same way; they gotta look greasiER and MORE miserable and MORE unkempt than the average character for that to really land. (this is why my first instinct in showing how greasy hair might look was to contrast it with how clean hair can be drawn instead!)

hope this helps!!

#tutorials #resources #ira answers

[soulsilversprings]

saw a headcanon ask and now you get one too. favorite blorbo headcanons?

ooh yay thank you!! i'm just gonna do the first 10 i can think of, here we go:

drew stans weezer unironically. he has a reddit account solely for debating whether the blue album or pinkerton is better. i stand by this

in my timeline of events for my fics, zoey's done contests before DP. her first circuit was actually in johto, because she wanted to challenge herself by going somewhere entirely new. that's where she got misdreavus from! daisy oak was her mentor figure, and she also competed alongside marina and became good friends with them both

another zoey hc - i think it would be really funny if her type was extroverted blue-haired coordinators. dawn, obviously but also marina and lisia

ash has synesthesia. and perfect pitch, even though he's never played an instrument. cilan is jealous and outraged at the latter

gary had a poetry/journaling phase when he was around 15 in sinnoh. he was inspired by his grandpa's poetry and proverbs he heard around the region like "when every life meets another, something will be born." so he kept a journal of original poems for a bit, but he abandoned it after a year or so, and nowadays he cringes at his cliches when he looks back. there's probably a few poems unraveling his feelings for ash in there

goh does 80% of his shopping at uniqlo. look at him and tell me he doesn't

chloe pushed herself to be social when she was young, especially because she saw how goh got treated for being antisocial, but as she grows up she comes to realize that she has a lower social battery than she would like. if she has two (2) packed social days in a row she will lose her mind

serena and chloe were obsessed with cimorelli's youtube covers when they were in their early teens. they grow out of it but it comes up as a big "wait, what? you actually know what i'm talking about?" moment when they become friends in their 20s

social media hcs: misty was a myspace girlie, gary knows that twitter is now (regrettably) X but he draws the line at knowing what tiktok is, dawn and may thrived during the vine era but only dawn actively uses tiktok, serena was all about that 2014 instagram christian girl autumn aesthetic, lana streams on twitch, brock was the first of his friends to join facebook and that's where he peaked, iris only created her social media accounts once she became unova champion, zoey's accounts are managed by a PR specialist so that she can just relax and play words with friends, ash plays among us but forgets his actual SM accounts exist, and paul is ride or die with his nokia flip phone

ash is the shortest among shigesatogou, but he can still sling both goh and gary over his shoulder no problem (we stan a short athletic king)

#thank you for the ask!! #i love asks like this. this one made me so happy #ira answers

[howtofightwrite]

Do you have any cites for your statement in the "war crimes" post, about the IRA being an unusual case where the more moderate faction was able to dominate and cut out the more ruthless factions? Not doubting you, I'd just like to know more about it and how this happened to buck the trend.

Not without digging much deeper into the IRA than than I have in the past.

It's worth noting that during The Troubles (the conflict in Northern Ireland), even the moderate paramilitary elements on both sides were pretty brutal. That said, I think this might be as simple as the IRA was able to negotiate a resolution to the conflict.

Ireland regained its independence from the UK in 1922, however six of the nation's thirty-two counties chose to remain in the UK at that time. The status quo deteriorated in the late-'60s, with sectarian violence following. Again, there's more to unpack here than I can do justice to in a quick overview. For one thing, the IRA did have continuity from the IRA of the Irish War of Independence (1919-21.)

This leads to some interesting anomalies regarding the IRA. For one thing, they had a relatively achievable goal. They wanted the return of self-rule to those six counties in Northern Ireland. This wasn't a situation where they were trying to overthrow their entire country, most of the time. (At various points in time the IRA did have a goal of overthrowing the Irish government as well, and unifying all 32 counties under a single rule. But, there was a lot less movement in that direction.)

Another factor that's almost unique, was the negotiated resolution. You basically never see that in situations like this because the insurgent elements almost always have a goal of eliminating the existing government. However, the IRA wasn't trying to overthrow the UK (even if they did launch a mortar attack on 10 Downing St. in 1991.)

Ironically, an extremist branch of the IRA (referred to as the “Real IRA”) staged a particularly bloody bombing while the Good Friday/Belfast Accords were being negotiated in 1998. This is something I warned about derailing negotiations like this, however, in this case the Real IRA apologized for the bombing, claiming that it was not intended to kill civilians. (When the Real IRA sent their bomb threats, there was a miscommunication about where it had been placed, and caused the police to evacuate civilians towards the bomb.) The Real IRA proceeded join the ceasefire that they'd previously ignored.

This highlights a weird anomaly, in this specific case even the extremists had a “unity of purpose,” and I can't say exactly why.

So, in a lot of cases where you're dealing with rebel groups, they have a unified goal of overthrowing their oppressors and ruling their nation. However, it is much easier to say you want to rule a nation than it is to actually organize a government to do so. Especially when there are ideological differences within your organization. In the the case of the IRA, there was a legitimate government already in place with the capacity to take over those counties. And even the negotiated result saw the return of existing political parties.

So, without spending a lot of time digging deeper into this, and looking at all of the IRA's schism groups and what became of them, the short citation would be that the Good Friday/Belfast Accord happened. That Northern Ireland exists today in a state of, relative, peace. That's not how these stories tend to end.

-Starke

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[mexipoopy]

Detail Character Sheet: Ira

Thank you for the tag @kazuaru! I'll tag @veone @mattodore @madfeary @dejasenti99 and @lucidicer!!

[ PERSONAL ]

$ Financial: Wealthy | Moderate | Poor | Impoverished | He lives in a dimension where money doesn't exist

✚ Medical: Fit | Moderate | Sickly | Disabled | Disadvantaged | Not Applicable

✪ Class or Caste: Upper | Middle | Working | Unsure | Other

✔ Education: Qualified | Unqualified | Studying | Other

✖ Criminal Records: Yes, for major crimes. | Yes, for minor crimes. (speeding/reckless driving) | No | Has committed crimes, but not caught yet. | Yes, but charges were dismissed.

[ TRAITS + TENDENCIES ]

extroverted | introverted | in between

disorganized | organized | in between

close minded | open-minded| in between

calm | anxious | in between

disagreeable | agreeable | in between

cautious | reckless | in between

patient | impatient | in between

outspoken | reserved | in between

leader | follower | in between

empathetic | vicious bastard |in between

optimistic | pessimistic | in between

traditional | modern | in between

hard-working | lazy | in between

cultured | uncultured | in between

loyal | disloyal | unknown

faithful | unfaithful | unknown

[ ABILITIES ]

☠ Combat Skills: Excellent | Good | Moderate | Poor | None

 ≡ Literacy Skills: Excellent| Good | Moderate | Poor | None

✍ Artistic Skills: Excellent | Good | Moderate | Poor | None

 ✂ Technical Skills: Excellent | Good | Moderate | Poor | None

[ HABITS ]

☕ Drinking Alcohol: Never | Special Occasion | Sometimes | Frequently | Alcoholic

☁ Smoking: Tried It | Trying To Quit | Quit | Never | Rarely | Sometimes | Frequently | Chain-Smoker

✿ Recreational Drugs: Never | Special Occasions | Sometimes | Frequently | Addict

✌ Medicinal Drugs: Never | No Longer Needs Medication | Some Medication Needed | Frequently | To Excess 

☻ Unhealthy Food: Never | Special Occasions | Sometimes | Frequently | Binge Eater 

$ Splurge Spending: Never | Sometimes | Frequently | Shopaholic 

 ♣ Gambling: Never | Rarely | Sometimes | Frequently | Compulsive Gambler

[ BELIEFS ]

★ Faith: Monotheist | Polytheist | Atheist | Agnostic

☆ Belief in Ghosts or Spirits: Yes | No | Don’t Know | Don’t Care

✮ Belief in an Afterlife: Yes | No | Don’t Know | Don’t Care

✯ Belief in Reincarnation: Yes | No | Don’t Know | Don’t Care

❃ Belief in Aliens: Yes | No | Don’t Know | Don’t Care

✧ Religious: Orthodox | Liberal | In Between | Not Religious

❀ Philosophical: Yes | No

[ FAMILY ]

◒ Children: Had a child or children. | Has no children. | Wants children.

◑ Relationship with Family: Close with sibling(s). | Not close with sibling(s). | Has no siblings. | Sibling(s) is deceased.

◔ Affiliation: Orphaned / Adopted / Disowned / Raised By Birth Parents / Not Applicable

[ SEXUALITY & ROMANTIC INCLINATION ]

❤ Sexuality: Heterosexual | Homosexual | Bisexual | Asexual | Pansexual

❥ Sex: Sex repulsed | Sex neutral | Sex Favorable | Naive and Clueless

♥ Romance: Romance Repulsed | Romance Neutral | Romance Favorable | Naive and Clueless | Romance Suspicious

❣ Sexually: Adventurous | Experienced | Naive | Inexperienced | Curious 

⚧ Potential Sexual Partners: Male | Female | Agender | Other | None | All

⚧ Potential Romantic Partners: Male | Female | Agender | Other | None | All

#sim: ira #i should really change that sim tag to an oc tag but im lazy #also i realized a lot of these were hard to answer bc his story is heavily based in surrealism #also also im so behind on a lot of interactive stuff here and I FEEL AWFUL ABOUT it u_u

[ithseem]

Ooh! For your event, can you do HC's of Lance and reader taking Chris to build a bear? I just want my son to be happy 🥺 and to be spoiled 😁

Congrats btw! I'm so so happy for you!!!!

But of course! Christoph also gets ice cream as a bonus

(warnings: none unless you're allergic to fluff, some slight mention of angst (if you squint), or a lack of a beta reader)

(GN reader)

Lance and You taking Christoph to Build-A-Bear

Christoph has been counting down the days to this day, almost losing a lot of sleep in the process for the past week

You told him that you put aside some money for him to go to a build-a-bear on the weekend and get some ice cream, and wow was he excited

Lance was also having a bout of cabin fever for the past few days, and he would not object to a little outing with his paramour and his surrogate child

When the day came Christoph was practically skipping to the Build-A-Bear

You told him he can choose whatever design he likes so he went for a bunny design

The sheer joy in Christoph's eyes nearly made you forget all the things he went through

Growing up as fast as he did cannot have been easy, so seeing him just being a kid just fills you with immeasurable joy. It's enough to make you tear up a little

A quick glance in Lance's direction told you he seemed to be thinking the same thing

Lance cannot thank you enough for making the time to do this

Once Christoph had his plushie finished, he came back to you, looking quite pleased with the result. So you go to the nearest ice cream shop afterwards

There were too many flavours to choose from, so Chris asks for your opinion

You choose one you think he'd like and instantly falls in love

You and Lance each chose your flavours and sat down at a table

As you watched Chris happily eat his ice cream and talked with him and Lance, you thought to yourself how wonderful life could be

#court of darkness #ithseem answers #150 followers #150 followers event #lance ira #lance ira x reader #court of darkness christoph #court of darkness x reader

[ira-hydrangea]

Hey, super sorry if this seems rude but I just found your replaced au and I was wondering why the mc stays in Diasomnia? I understand that the boys want mc to interact with Eva as little as possible, which is why they're being placed into a different dorm, but considering Eva's goal (to marry a prince and become queen) wouldn't that be made a little harder because of Malleus? If I remember correctly only him and Leona are princes, but Malleus is the only one whose wife will become queen (since Leona's brother is king) so wouldn't that make him the main person Eva's trying to get closer to, and therefore cause her to hang around Diasomnia more? Of course that is a pretty minor detail and I still really love the story and your writing regardless, was just curious if there was a reason for that. Again, really sorry if this is rude and I still love your writing! I hope you're doing well despite how busy you are!

I try to answer this as fast as possible because this week has been very hectic and busy. And I'm in the middle of my break.

I got your point and don't worry, you didn't do anything rude by asking about this detail. Because the time has been short, I didn't have time to explain all the detail yet and your question help a lot with this.

Okay, first, why has MC been put in Diasomnia? Diasomnia is a pretty closed dorm. Beside Ignihyde. And that place has the most powerful students. To be honest, the vibes in Diasomnia are not exactly magical.

Malleus is quite hard to find. Mc can meet with him because of luck. Eva wants to become a queen and she did try to get close to Malleus by searching for him. But by the time, they meet, Eva is not that brave. Malleus is a king for a reason.

Remember when he said that most humans are afraid of him? That is Eva. She has ambition but isn't brave enough to pursue it.

She did try another tactic, by getting closer to his caretaker, Lilia, and his guards (Sebek and Silver). But most of them are busy. Sebek and Silver protecting Malleus. Meanwhile, Lilia and Malleus are trying to monitor MC's health and make sure nothing goes off.

Hope that answers the question, dear~

#twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland x reader #ira answer #twisted wonderland replaced mc au

[codemiracle]

u had no reason to make such a fine character and then say “yeah he’s dead” 😭😭

Oh yeah? watch me He's not going to see it coming

#sorry I was feeling like a menace today #yandere oc #male yandere #yandere boy #dies irae vn #the code answers #∀ʎɐʇo ask

[thisis-elijah]

⸻ ST. UBALD ORPHANAGE; JULY 30, 1933.  //  @phasmophobie

Brütende Hitze suchte das Big Sky Country heim. Elijah lag unbekümmert in der neuen Hängematte, die seit zwei Wochen neuer Bestandteil des St. Ubald Waisenhauses war. Pavel hatte sich in den Schatten gesetzt, lehnte am festen Stamm der großen Eiche und las ein Buch. Beide genossen die Stille und auch, wenn sie nicht miteinander redeten, fühlte sich keiner von ihnen allein. Es war unüblich, dass sich nur zwei der insgesamt vierzig Burschen im Innenhof befanden, doch bis auf die beiden waren alle ausgeflogen. Als Strafe, dass sie sich am Vorabend rausgeschlichen hatten, durften sie an dem Ausflug in die Stadt nicht teilhaben, doch der Ältere der beiden konnte sich Schlimmeres vorstellen. Welch ein Hochgenuss es war, inmitten all der Geräusche in der warmen Sommersonne in den Himmel zu schauen, während die Blätter der großen Eiche über ihm Schattenspiele auf ihn warfen, den Wind im Gesicht zu spüren und die Augen geschlossen zu haben. Das Leben hatte nicht sonderlich viel zu bieten, aber Momente wie diese erinnerten ihn stets daran, wie schön die Banalitäten des Alltags sein konnten. Das Adoptiert werden war für beide Jungs in die Ferne gerückt. Solange sie einander hatten konnte es sogar unter der vermeintlichen Tyrannei von Mother Penguin schön sein. Zwei andere Nonnen und ein Priester waren ebenfalls hier geblieben, um ein Auge auf die Jungs zu haben, doch keiner von ihnen hatte sich innerhalb der letzten Stunden blicken lassen. Es war ein ungewöhnlich ruhiger Sonntagnachmittag.

"Your time's up", meldete sich Pavel irgendwann und Elijah öffnete ein Auge, sah zu dem Jüngeren hoch, der ihm in der Sonne stand. Er gähnte ausgiebig und kratzte sich verschlafen am Hinterkopf. In seinen Augenwinkeln klebte Schlaf, was grotesk wirkte, wenn man die Uhrzeit beachtete. All seine Bewegungen waren träge, aber das machte die Sonne nunmal. Er sah sich um und bettete seinen Kopf wieder auf seinen Arm, beide Augen wieder geschlossen. "They must've taken down the sign with the 10 minute rule", erwiderte er und konnte sich ein Lächeln nicht verkneifen. Einen Teufel würde er tun und diesen Komfort aufgeben. "There was never a sign in the first place. We've had a verbal agreement, Eli, there's no need for a sign." "Hm, can't remember I agreed on anything. I'm more of a sign guy." "We made a deal. 10 minutes each! That's why you went first!" Elijah sah zu wortlos zu Pavel hoch und machte sich einen Spaß daraus ihn zu ärgern. Kurzerhand stieg der Jüngere ebenfalls in die Hängematte und Elijah zog die Augenbrauen zusammen. "Don't?!" "Just move your fat ass!" Elijah hielt ihm einen Fuß ins Gesicht, woraufhin sich Pavels Mimik änderte und er das Gesicht verzog. "Take a shower, you stink like you died!" Der Brünette grinste breiter und musterte Pavel, der Mühe hatte eine angenehme Position in der Hängematte zu finden. In einem Moment der Unaufmerksamkeit nahm Elijah das Buch an sich und lehnte sich wieder zurück. "Give that back!" Elijah las die Zeilen des Buches quer, ehe er breiter auflächelte und zu seinem Gegenüber sah, den er mit seinem Fuß von sich weghielt. "If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. What is that? Was that book written before fun was invested? You like in love or something?" "No..." "Damn, Pavel! I'm impressed, thought you gonna end up with one of the nuns here", stellte Elijah mit größtem Amüsement fest und sein Grinsen ging über beide Ohren. "Just give me the damn book back!", stritt der Jüngere vehement ab und schüttelte den Kopf, während er sich herüber beugte und dem Älteren das Buch wieder abnahm. "Now move!" Pavels Gesicht wurde rot, während er sich mühselig in der Hängematte arrangierte und weiterlas.

Auch, wenn keiner von ihnen in einer wirklich angenehmen Position lag, wurde es langsam wieder still zwischen den beiden. Irgendwann ging ein Mädchen im Alter der beiden durch den Innenhof. Sie folgte ihren Eltern, die von dem Priester über das Gelände geführt wurden. Vermutlich Sponsoren, denn sie sahen nicht so aus, als würden sie hier nach einem Kind suchen, was eine gute Partie für ihre Familie darstellte. Elijah musterte sie und trat Pavel leicht, dass auch er seine Aufmerksamkeit ihr widmete. Dann verschwanden sie wieder im Haus. Wäre der Ältere aufgestanden, um ihr hinterher zu gehen, hätte er seinen Platz in der Hängematte verloren. Die Damenwelt musste also noch warten. Er bettete seinen Kopf wieder auf seine Arme und schloss die Augen erneut.  Dann schwiegen sie wieder. Für die Bedeutung und den Wert, den Elijah der Zeit beimaß war es nicht wichtig, ob die beiden still waren, sich kabbelten, oder ob sie ernstere Gespräche miteinander führten. Die Stunden und Minuten hatten für Elijah stets die gleiche Bedeutung, denn die Erinnerungen bewahrte er sich stets und schrieb sie abends nieder. Er söhnte sich mit der Zeit aus, die den beiden blieb. Das war das Wichtigste.

"You wanna get married someday?", brach Pavel dann irgendwann die Stille zwischen den beiden, ließ das Buch sinken und sah zu seinem Gegenüber, der seine Augen wieder geschlossen hatte. "I'm more into girls, sorry Pavel", lächelte Elijah auf und sah zu seinem einzigen Freund, der ihm gegen den Arm trat und seinen Kopf schüttelte. "I'm serious..." "Never really gave it a thought, but I think so? Everyone gets married, would be weird to deliberately not get married. You?" "Hm, I don't know... Do you think I'd be weird if I didn't get married?" "What, to like a woman?" Jetzt öffnete Elijah die Augen und sah zu Pavel gegenüber, neigte seinen Kopf leicht seitlich und zog seine Augenbrauen zusammen. Er ärgerte Pavel gerne, weil es kaum jemanden gab, der ihm fantastische Comebacks lieferte, wie er es tat, aber jetzt war er still geblieben. Irgendwas hatte sich im Blick seines Gegenübers geändert und er konnte nicht wirklich benennen was. Er wusste nicht, ob es Unsicherheit war, oder ob ihn da wirklich etwas Tieferes bewegte. Um den Jüngeren nicht zu verunsichern, antwortete Eli recht gelassen, lehnte sich wieder zurück und schloss seine Augen. "I'm kidding. I don't think you'd be weird. It's probably for the better. Heard most people are pretty unhappy in marriage." "Really?" "Yeah. Imagine having to share a bed for the rest of your life, or having some girl telling you, you have to shower because you smell like you died." Elijah schüttelte sich. "Nah. Now that you mention it, maybe you're my wife and I'm yours, because you too smell like you died and you should take a shower, too." Beide lächelten still und schwiegen kurz, ehe der Blick des Brünetten in Richtung der Tür ging. Eine der Nonnen betrat den Innenhof, ging auf die beiden Jungs zu und tadelte sie sogleich, dass die Hängematte nicht darauf ausgelegt war, dass sie zwei Halbstarke aushalten würde. "Elijah, come with me, please. There's someone who wants to see you."

Seine Wange schmerzte. Könne er sich selbst betrachten hätte er die roten Striemen gesehen, die die strenge Hand des Priesters hinterlassen hatten. Ein älteres Paar hatte das Waisenhaus aufgesucht. Sie arbeiteten in einem Zirkus, der die Sommer über durch die Lande zog. We wanted to have children for years, hatten sie gesagt, We'd love an active boy for our little family. Zu Anfang hatte Elijah aufrecht und in präsentabler Haltung auf dem Stuhl gesessen, während er den Erwachsenen zuhörte, wie sie miteinander redeten. So sehr er sich wünschte, er könne endlich weg von hier, umso mehr betrübte ihn der Gedanke, dass er mit diesen Menschen nach Hause gehen solle. Er ertrug den Gedanken nicht Pavel hier alleine zu lassen, insbesondere nicht im Sommer. So könne er ihn nicht einmal besuchen. "You've put shame upon this orphanage, Elijah. You're never going to find a family if you're behaving like that", hatte Father Gregory den Jungen ermahnt. Er kam aus dem Kopfschütteln gar nicht mehr heraus, woraufhin Elijah ihn still mit dem Straßenhund verglich, der sich oftmals auf dem Gelände herum trieb und  immer so seltsam mit seinem Kopf wackelte. "You think this is funny?!", fuhr der Erwachsene den Jungen an und Elijah schwieg. Wer weiß welche Bestrafung ihm, bis auf die Tracht Prügel und keinem Abendessen, noch blühen würde.  "Hey loser", rief Elijah über den Platz des Innenhofes. Auch, wenn Elijah die Worte des Priesters getroffen hatten, so kämpfte sich der Schein, den er Pavel gegenüber wahren wollte, immer wieder nach oben, so wie Öl in Wasser. Wenn er eine Disziplin beherrschte, dann war es gute Miene zum bösen Spiel zu machen.  Der Jüngere hatte es sich in der Hängematte bequem gemacht, das Buch mit dem Buchrücken nach oben auf seinen Brustkorb gelegt, der sich hob und sank. Er öffnete ein Auge, schloss es dann aber wieder, als der Ältere über ihm stand. "Your time's up." "They must've taken down the sign with the 10 minute rule", erwiderte Pavel nonchalant und grinste selbstgefällig. Elijah musterte ihn, ehe er den Kopf amüsiert schüttelte und den Stoff der Hängematte griff, auf seiner Seite anhob, sodass der Jüngere recht unsanft auf den Boden fiel, ehe sich der Ältere wieder in die Hängematte legte, seine Arme unter seinen Kopf bettete und seine Augen schloss. "I was never much of a sign guy anyway."

#had this in my mind for two days now and i needed to write it down to function again #bb pavel and bb eli before everything went to shit :( #dies irae ⸻ »there are infinite universes waiting to be explored.« / * 𝐩𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥 #chapter ix ⸻ »all hope abandon ye who enter here.« / * 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐬 & 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐬 #me writing this instead of answering texts; STAY STRONG PLEASE #writingsfakevz

[pocketgalaxies]

Let me be the party pooper. There's no way this solstice day is gonna be easy, there's now way no one's gonna die. And as much as I hope all our babies will survive, I'm SCARED

this is true. one fear

it def feels like they are not ready for this dkfjskdf the stakes are SO high for a level 8 party idk wtf they're gonna do. because ludinus HAS to be there right? it's like his big day or whatever. but the guy is an archmage which does not instill confidence

i'm not tooooo scared bc i trust matt to create a balanced encounter (or a meaningfully imbalanced one), but i am rly curious to see what he decides to do w keyleth and the ashari. it feels v unlikely to me that she'll be part of the initiative order, but if they go head-to-head with otohan AND ludinus then maybe she has to be...but wouldn't that just turn into "hey watch the archdruid and archmage fight each other and we'll deal with the smaller fish"?? like that doesn't feel great either. on the other hand ira feels like he'll probably be part of the initiative order and we honestly haven't seen the vast majority of his abilities yet, so he could be a game-changer in some unexpected ways. idk! but i'm sure matt has come up with at least one, if not several, options for how it could go so i'm excited!!

#esp with morri and the grim verity and ryn (and kiki???) things could get VERY funky and fun with plane hopping if matt wants to get crazy #this is as far as i can extend myself when it comes to theorizing about things #i'm just strapping myself in! ready to suffer! ready to celebrate! ready to have fun!!! #anonymous #ask #answered #critical role #cr3 #cr spoilers #r: bells hells #ludinus da'leth #otohan thull #keyleth cr #ira wendagoth

[sentience-if]

How would a Valentine’s Day date with the RO go?

kat: sitting on a rooftop and jeering/booing couples as they pass by

ira: getting violently ill off pink food dye

klaus: oops! the 200 year old wine made everyone very very sleepy

val: dine n dash appetizers at like 6 different restaurants and then val makes dinner out of the spoils

connie: what if it was over by 9 PM and we just went to bed early

bonus: connie, because ira asked very nicely:

#sorry 4 the unserious answer #ask #sentience if #val #constantine #klaus #ira #kat