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qu-oi · 6 months

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WELCOME!!! :)

This is my first roleplay blog, I was inspired after seeing many other amazing ones like it! Don't worry though, I'm an excellent writer! ...when I'm not braindead, anyway. Don't think twice about sending an ask or a dm to me! I love talking to anyone! <3

More about me!

Hello! You can call me Chae.

Hey, hey, hey! Come and talk to me! I won't turn you down. I would love to have more Genshin friends, and maybe even join a roleplay group! ^^

If you want to friend me on Genshin or something like PlayStation or Nintendo just dm me because I'm way over the friend list limit, haha!

I'm a total nerd, geek, weeb, whatever you wanna call it. I am and have been in too many fandoms to name, so if you wanna talk about stuff other than Genshin, let's! That goes for any sorta media, video games, animanga, shows, music, animation, or random stuff, the list goes on.

Hm, I can't think of much else. I like to cook, bake, read, and draw among other things. Playing and/or watching sports is NOT one of them. I don't like shrimp. I walk a lot, but I just started driving recently. School always has me on a tight leash, aaand I get flustered pretty easily.

I think that does it for an introduction!

Rules, I guess?

I'm not that picky, but there are some boundaries.

1.) I'm not 18+, so suggestive and borderline stuff is okay but keep it reasonable alright? I'm a sucker for romance.

2.) On the topic of romance, I LOVE SHIPPING! So go wild! Especially with Lumine. Here are some of my favorites: Scaralumi, Lynlumi, Xiaolumi, Venlumi, Heilumi, Kazulumi + others (with and without Lumine).

3.) I don't really know how roleplay etiquette on Tumblr works, so please try to be patient as I learn, haha (any guidance would be super appreciated)!

4.) Depending on who you are, you either have the 100% right to rush me in a response or not LOL- if I get any friends here don't hesitate to push me for a reply.

5.) C'mon just don't be shy and have fun! I want to be involved in many creative things for this fandom and maybe help some people here smile.

6.) If you give me a super cute RP idea or scenario I'l will like, totally draw it. I'm going to include some of my own art on here.

Stuff to know:

Although I've been playing since version 1.0 basically, I'm not past the Liyue Archon quest. ^^; Horrible, terrible, unforgivable! I know...

I don't have Inazuma or Sumeru unlocked, so I know close to nothing about any of those regions outside of Kazuha and Scaramouche back stories (yeah, I have favorites, perhaps even a type. Can you tell lol?). But I have been playing through Fontaine's Archon quest, so hooray! 🎉

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I'll try to not let it affect any of Lumine's responses, but I am clueless so inevitably so is she, teehee.

Tags are as follows!

#. ooc = Out of character, not an answer from Lumine.

#. lumine = Lumine's answers!

#. star art = The art I'll make of cute scenes, eventually.

#. retrace = Reblogs yeaaa. B-)

Well, I hope I didn't miss anything. If you ever have questions you want to ask about me or roleplay just let me know! ✩

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retvenkos · 2 years

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hello my lovely Olive. how are you? I miss talking to you and screaming about our fandoms and turbulent lives. I'm sorry I haven't been very active these past months! I think I'm going to binge a few of your fics, because I miss your writing so very much and nothing on the internet brings me as much joy. also - your theme is as beautiful as ever, please teach me how you color coordinate and always find the prettiest quotes because? you are an otherworldly being and I will build a shrine to your radiance. sending you all my warmest hugs from my cold and dark parisian days💜

clara my beloved!!!

i'm doing alright for myself, but i think the real question is how are you? i hope you're well! i saw you're doing a drabble event, and i'm deliberating right now what to send in..... perhaps game of thrones? but all of those characters were done so dirty, i don't know if i can.....

but omg, i'm so glad you dropped this in my inbox! it feels like eons since i've talked to you properly, and for that i am very sorry. terrible of me. i need to put some respect on my name and drop out of college 😤😤 if professors don't give me time to talk to my tumblr they don't deserve my radiance 😤😤 .

but you're going to binge read some of my fics 🥺🥺🥺 ??? my writing gets to be blessed with your lovely image??? i hope you like them, and that they bring you some semblance of warm joy <3. (also, i have this kaz brekker long fic/series in progress, and every time i start to work on it i just go,,,,,,,, god bless clara. if it weren't for her, i wouldn't have fallen down the hole that is this fandom. but also pLEASE explain how to write kaz brekker. he is impossible to pin down,,,,,,,)

and you like my theme?? coming from you, miss clara, that means the world (i mean, have you seen your profile, recently? it is gorgeous, ma'am. we're not deserving of it.). and lol, doing my themes takes forever, so if it looks nice.... know that i cried over it for at least an hour before it turned out that way. (and complementing my quotes? as though i haven't been reusing the same like 8 quotes for years? pLeAsE.)

and clara, i don't think i have to reiterate this, but you are a goddess from above. my every waking moment is spent praising your existence. you will build me a shrine, but i will build you civilizations in hopes of gaining your favor. i am sending you all of my awe and all of my humble blessings.

oh! but i have a story for you that's wack as hell. it was a dream i had last night, and i only mention it because you were in it.

okay, so in the dream i'm at Very-Stereotypical-Romantic-Teen-Drama house party, and at one point Selena Gomez walks up to me (but like, Selena Gomez circa 2014 with this specific hairstyle) — and it's very clear in my dream that she's the mean girl™ in high school — and she claims in front of everyone that i stole her boyfriend.

i was very confused and like ????? we're just next door neighbors ????? but the high school had already turned on me, and for some reason, i was canceled on twitter? i don't even have a twitter? neither did dream me? anyway, that's when you came over to Dramatically Take Me Away From The Party, while showing me all of the twitter accusations for my canceling (there was accusations of witchcraft on there? and that i ship the twincest of jaime and cersei? i think there was also something about how i assaulted harry potter?).

at some point in exiting the party, i slapped Selena Gomez by the way (i'm so sorry selena gomez. you don't deserve such treatment).

anyway, after that you took me to get shakes and fries, and i remember just eating in your car, which was sweet. it is also at this point in the dream, however, that it's revealed that the boyfriend i "stole" was actually Bruno Mars.

and before i woke up, the dream shifted or something and i was in the woods at night (and you were still with me) and we were helping to cover up a murder, and i'm like 90% sure it was Bruno Mars, because you were asking "what do we do with the hat?" and it was the hat from the just the way you are music video.

anyway, i'm a murderer and a boyfriend stealer now, but you're my biggest enabler, so if we get arrested, i think it's pretty clear that this is on the bOTH of us.

#asks #clara — 🌙#so yeah. i hope you're not in love with bruno mars......

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scarletjedi · 6 years

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You said that you don't have to choose a Ray in Due South, because both Rays are wonderful for different reasons. Can you talk about those reasons? I love RayV, but I've had a hard time liking Kowalski. There's something about his personality that irritates me.

Sure!

Remember, that all of this is my opinion, and one that has been shaped and polished by 20 years of fanfic. This is also long, hence it’s under the cut :D

I wanna begin by saying that I loved Ray V first. When I started watching Due South (because I read a .rtf fic names XDS - a crossover between X-Files, Due South, and Star Wars that I came to though Star Wars and read because I knew X-Files and figured I could learn enough about Due South to make it work), the show was playing on TNT in the afternoons, and may have actually been *before* Ray Kowalski made an appearance.

I watched the first two seasons, I started reading Due South fic alongside Star Wars fic. I discovered Slash, and read a few Ray V/Fraser stories with my Luke/Wedge and Luke/Biggs fic, but at the time I was mostly reading Fraser/Frannie or Fraser/Thatcher.

I didn’t dislike Fraser/Ray V, but I was young -- young enough that I worried about my parents finding the one slash fic that I dared print out (my dad had the internet, my mom didn’t. So, I’d print out stories on the weekend and read them over the week).

Then I found out about Ray K and I stopped watching Due South. I was pissed! You can’t just replace one half of the duo! It doesn’t work like that! But, eventually, I came back. I missed Fraser, and figured I’d give Ray K a shot - and I loved him. They knew not to make him try and fill the same niche - and, when they finally met, the clash between them was perfectly done to highlight the different roles they filled. I dived headfirst into Fraser/Ray K fic (partially because I was older and had lost my hesitation around slash fic, and partially because my mom had finally gotten the internet).

And that, I think, is the crux of the issue. Ray V and Ray K offer Fraser a different relationship because they’re different people and satisfy different needs - thus telling a different story.

Let’s begin with Ray V.

When you look at the beginning of the series, Fraser, like the protagonist of any fantasy story, is orphaned (literally, the first scene is Bob Fraser’s death) and alone- he’s the odd duck, the isolated character to facilitate his travel. it’s hard to go off and be a hero when you have responsibilities at home (hence why in Star Wars Luke doesn’t leave Tatooine until Owen and Beru are killed, or why Harry Potter is hated by the Dursleys). With no siblings (yet), and his mother and grandparents dead before the series, Fraser has no family.

The driving force of the series is thus born, Fraser is looking for the killers of his father - the last of his family (even if he was a terrible father). The family relationships in the show are all very important, and are highlighted in different ways, thus giving us the theme of the Ray V seasons - the importance of family.

Because, Ray V is *lousy* with family in a way that most Italian-American families are - you don’t always like your family, but you *all* gather for dinner when Ma makes her Sunday Gravy. And, in the *pilot* when he’s known this crazy mountie for less than 12 hours, he invites Ben HOME to his FAMILY for FOOD. (Ben is clearly uncomfortable, and it’s played for comedy, but it’s also heartbreaking. Ben is not used to effusive emotion --or any emotion-- and he is certainly not used to so many people acting like such a family.) Ray, in a sense, adopts Fraser.

Now, you can say that taking Fraser home could be a “meeting the family” moment, like bringing home a new girlfriend. Ray is defensive of Fraser’s honor when Frannie hits on him, after all.

But, there’s something about it that smacks more of *family* to me - he brought Ben home to be his *brother* and give Ben the surrogate family he has missed. (hence why Frannie throws herself at him - and also why Fraser keeps turning her down. Textually it’s because she’s his best friend’s sister, but thematically, she’s his new sister as well)

Further, Ray V doesn’t react with jealousy when Victoria blows into down on her ill wind - he’s proud, and supportive, and then defensive when he realizes how terrible she is for Ben.

I mean, yeah, Mrs. Fraser does dance with Ray V, but it’s because Ray V is the “safe” option. Now, if you want to say that’s because Ray V and Fraser are lovers? I can see why! It was certainly important in the few fics I have read, and I see it.

I think, ultimately, Ray V as Fraser’s New Family was the intent of the writers, and the writing on this show is *tight*. It makes sense that, with a plot focused on finding what ended your old family, you find new family.

But then came the brief hiatus, Paul Gross taking over more creative control, and Collum Keith Rennie. PG said in an interview that they’d taking Ray K in a new direction, “very homoerotic, the fans will love it”

And...they did. Ray V’s telephone call - the ache in his voice because he knows that he’s not gonna be able to say goodbye (like Bob) is palpable, and feels almost like a breakup, signaling a shift in tone. This is no longer a show about the search for family - Ben found his family. Even with Ray V off screen, there’s no doubt that Fraser is a Vecchio -- but about finding a *parter*

There’s red ships and green ships but no ships like partnerships.

This half of the show gives us not only this line, but highlights the relationship between Buck and Bob (that was began in Ray V’s season), and focuses more than ever on pairing Fraser off (with more female love interests than Victoria, even though none of them pan out) and on Ray K’s divorce.

Textually, they are two bachelors lonely for love. Thematically, the focus is on romantic parings, not brotherhood.

“A partnership is like a marriage, son”

Ray K comes in, and he doesn’t try to be Fraser’s brother. Fraser has a brother, and wouldn’t welcome Ray K to try and fill Ray V’s shoes. They spend an entire episode showing all the way Ray K would never wear Ray V’s shoes (and not just because Ray K wears boots like Steve McQueen and Ray V wears Italian Leather), and also showing us that Ray K *is there for Fraser anyway*, symbolically taking a bullet the way Ray V did.

(We also see Ray K fall hard for Fraser’s sister in a way that’s dropped, showing the audience, thematically and sub-textually, what they can’t textually because of the censors)

This new Ray, he’s sharp, he’s prickly, he’s “d-u-m, dumb” the way Vecchio was slick, as a way to disarm and play off of the straight forward image of Fraser’s serge. He’s a paradox - a crack shot who wears glasses, a vulnerable tough guy, a romantic punk. He gets under Fraser’s skin in such a way that Fraser begins to relax around him as well. I admit, I have an existing fondness for the tough-guy-with-a-heart-of-gold, and Ray K is that to a T. He’s not perfect (stalking his X, hello), but he tries to be better, and that I appreciate. It makes him a dynamic character. He has a temper, but he flashes quickly and then cools - it’s a good foil to Fraser’s simmering anger.

Remember, Fraser told Ray V about Victoria, and Ray V was sleeping.

Fraser tells Ray K about Gerrard. and Muldoon. and Bob.

Ray K tells Fraser about Stella. and the Bank. and Beth Botrelle.

The audience gets more of Fraser underneath his serge as a result of his relationship with Ray K - who is, himself, an “orphan” (estranged and living at a distance, his closest “family” is his ex-wife) can connect with Fraser on that level because he gets it in a way that Ray V, who has never not had his family, can’t fully.

All of this comes to a head in the finale, when the Rays meet, and we see them clash - this is the “bringing the boyfriend home” moment. Ray K, the “boyfriend” meets Ray V, the “brother”, and the Brother wants to know if the boyfriend is good enough. They tense, and then they both go after Fraser because Fraser draws people in his wake like he walked through a line of streamers.

They go north, and Ray K steps up as Fraser’s parter, taking an interest in the North in a way that Ray V never did (Ray K goes on the quest, Ray V tried to install modern plumbing). An that quest? The closest to “ride off together into the sunset” that I’ve seen outside of Disney.

Ultimately, Ray V sees Fraser like his family: He doesn’t need to understand him, because he loves him and that’s what families do.

Ray K sees Fraser like his spouse: What he doesn’t already understand, he tries to because it’s important to Fraser to be understood.

Both are amazing partners for Fraser to have. Both fill different niches. Both are telling different stories.

#due south #meta #Benton Fraser #Ray Vecchio #Ray Kowalski #Anonymous

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