#novae my beloved <3

[maulie-dyke]

Precious Novae scenes but it’s all my wife, Cyrille (+ my comments, for substance)

+ Elouan, because they are THE duo

(Spoilers for up to halfway through chapter 13)

first sighting! I thought she was pretty when they first showed up, and now, years later, she’s even prettier

‘why did I let Elouan talk me into this’

(Under the cut because things got long)

I just think this shot is so funny. She’s so annoyed lmao

She!!! Is so pretty!

Annoyed Cyrille 2.0

She <3 I wonder if everyone in universe thinks she’s wearing a wig because of how fabulous her hair is

This scene is so short but SHE IS SIMPLY STUNNING (Their dynamic in one shot)

MOTHER (mommy?)

Back at it again when you’re supposed to be having fun, cyrILLE

Making people uncomfy at balls since the late 1600s (more proof for my autistic Cyrille headcanon?!?!)

She’s so pretty <3

The most majestic hair in France, by Cyrille Le Valois

I’ve always thought they look like they were going to have a fistfight over that brooch (personally, I think Sulvain would win in the end but Cyrille could hold her own)

Her running shots in these few pages are hilarious. Does she like running? or is she going ‘sir, why am I running, I am a respectable woman and ladies do not run’

The one who will cuss you out while still managing to look better than you, even in a crisis

#/let Cyrille have a whole sword fighting scene 2k23 PLEASE

The detail of her eyes in this shot (’I am literally dying and you’re trying to steal my sword? Make me die faster? What?) >

MA’AM?!?! She straight up disarmed him with her scabbard, while actively dying, and caught the sword before it fell. AN ICON I STAN FOREVER

As this chapter goes on the little detail of her face going grey/bluer is such a nice touch. So when she actually passes out you realise ‘oh shit she’s literally blue in the face’

HOW does she have the skill to be so pretty while dying? I don’t know if I want her or want to be her

CYRILLE IN A DRESS when I tell you I lost it when this cover page came out I lost it

Brb busy SOBBING I love her, I’m so proud of her

‘I am at my LIMIT with this weird magic shit’

Elouan and Cyrille HE LOVES HER SO MUCH A KING If I liked men I’d want an Elouan

This is deadass my favourite shot of them they’re so cute

I love her dumb expressions so much

Cyrille’s really out here being a nerd about the magic room while Elouan is busy being Elouan

She has such a nice profile, like I want her nose

Elouan: ‘I know you’re trying to debrief me on everything that went on but I’m busy making an engagement ring’

SHE SAID YES THEY’RE GETTING ENGAGED I LOVE THEM YOUR HONOUR

#novae #novae comic #cyrille #elouan #novae my beloved <3

[cosmic-muses]

Y'all it turns out I am Hot

Self confidence is through the roof :3

#nova posting #aaaaaaaa :3 #hrt my beloved

[onewingedsparrow]

Six Sentence Sunday

Tagged by @novafire-is-thinking! Thank you! <3 I know this was a tag from a while ago, but here it is, finally, lol Rise of the Beasts has inspired me greatly, so I wanted to write something for it ✨ ~ Optimus stared intently at the projection Arcee’s visor was generating. Such a curious hologram it was—some sort of oblong, hunched-over being, with narrow but chunky appendages, and transparent protrusions on its back, boasting a fuzzy frame splashed with bold markings of black and yellow. “B,” said Optimus Prime, “what is this creature that you are showing me?” As the knobby horns of his helmet perked, the young bot straightened his back; his optics seemed to shine brighter as a soft, shy voice answered from his radio, “Bumblebee.” So this is what you spoke of, Optimus realized, as even this small piece of new knowledge transformed his entire perspective towards the name he had never before understood. He then touched a hand to his friend’s shoulder, fully aware of how his voice became huskier as he replied, “Your human friend chose aptly...’Bee.” ~ Tagging (only if you want!) @louwhose @maqiisan @afaroffsong @flutefemme @zelzenik and anybody else who wants to join ;) Also tagging @novafire-is-thinking in case you wanted to do this again! :D

#maccadam #optimus prime #bumblebee #charlie watson #rise of the beasts #nova tag #six sentence ficlet #fanfic #transformers fanfic #sparrow nerds about transformers #rotb optimus my beloved #don't mind me i'm just crying over the fact that optimus calls him 'bee' in the movie #like to him bumblebee has always been b-127 so he is having a hard time adjusting to the name change #but he tries! so he comes up with the compromise 'bee' and bumblebee loves it and rolls with it #that's my headcanon anyway #and i tried to convey that perspective change here :) i hope it comes across by the two different spellings <3 #i'm so sad we never got to hear him use this recording of charlie's voice in rotb #i know we heard it already at the end of the bumblebee movie. that was beautiful. but it wouldn't have lessed the impact to hear it again <3

[novakaiserart]

Rebirth Broke Me

i jusr finished rebirth and oh man i fucking love this game, it embellished the relationships between every character to well. worked on the plot so naturally and beautifully. i especially love how much they portrayed aerith and tifa, gave yuffie more of a connection to the group. i also adore how they explored the gi story and made it so much more relevant. i love how they worked out barret's struggles. absolutely in love with vincent, but i always did so lol. i saw some people complaining about cid, but imo i think he's putting up a good guy front just so he doesn't lose any business after his attempt at being a shinra pilot failed. i fully expect them to cover his story in part 3 and explore it more like they did with everyone else. im soooo happy we got to see cissnei, but so sad aerith and her didnt speak of zack :(. it's also cool we got to see some midgarian faces again even after the crew left. the trials had me actually crying, it was stunning. they really cooked

i was very confused with chapter 14 until I reached the end, but it makes sense to me. spoiler warning ahead ofc i believe aerith died. i also believe cloud is incapable of coping with the fact that she's dead, so he sees her still present with them. but i also believe she won't stay dead either, i think she was really there with cloud when they fought sephiroth. her line of "i'll pray to stop the meteor" tells me she'll come back. being a cetra and all, i think she'll find a way to return to the earth through the lifestream

my leading theory for the trajectory of the games currently goes as following; i believe that sephiroth went back in time to when it all started (crisis core time) in the hopes of changing how events played out, my biggest proof of this is his attempt at killing barret in remake and tifa in rebirth. he underestimated them in the og timeline and only took out aerith as he viewed her as the only threat, but he needs the others out the picture too sooner than later. especially tifa. hence why he constantly gaslights cloud about her being a fake or not being trustable; she's the only one that can help him put his mind back together. without her, cloud will always view the world through clouded lenses. but one thing changed about my theory with the whispers now being white and black; aerith followed him to stop him. she sacrificed her memory and recollections of events to make it back. the whispers were sephiroth and aerith's will fighting to keep the timeline intact, but they evolved and split into two factions. i also think aerith's white materia being hollowed out has something to do with that. i think she saw what he was up to from the lifestream (since shes dead in og timeline), sacrificed her memories to stop him once and for all. for a while i thought aerith was the one going back, but it wouldnt make much sense for her to undo what they did just to save herself and zack. it's possible this is an entirely different sephiroth, but i believe it's the one from the og timeline trying to reunite every world possible to make sure he wins everywhere.

it's hard to say for sure whats going on and we're only going to know once part 3 drops, but i know one thing for sure. neither cloud nor sephiroth are relliable narrators and their interpretation cannot be trusted. cloud's mind is still scattered, he's divided between denial and obedience to sephiroth. anything he says cannot be trusted. sephiroth is bad shit insane, he only accepts his view of the world. his vision is the only valid one, therefore what he says cannot be taken as matter of fact.

one final footnote i want to comment on is the "date" aerith and cloud had. yes, im a big cloti and aerti fan. also believe zack is the only right person for aerith, so maybe im coping but idc lol. i think it was all a dream or at least an altered vision of events. i firmly believe aerith still loves zack. she wrote to him for 4 years while he was taking a mako bath, waited for him endlessly day and night. she loved him dearly. but aerith is also one hell of a loyal person. i doubt she would ever be able to brush off zack like that. she also doesn't know if he died in the remake timeline. i think she projected her love for zack onto cloud; to relive the happiness she found with him one last time. she's been holding on to her grief for years, she still thinks about him. he dropped in one day into her life so suddenly and changed it for the better. as did she for him. he vanished the same way she found him. so when another soldier falls into her life the same way, carries the same sword as him, has similar mannerisms, reminds her so much of the man who she fell in love with; can we really blame her for wanting an escape of how much sadness she felt from zack being gone? i also dont believe for a second she used cloud to feel better about herself, i think she just wanted to feel the love he showed her again before she had to pass on. but cloud isn't zack, cloud could never love her the way zack did. aerith grew up without any real friends, no one that accepted her for being her. everyone viewed her as different or weird; but not zack. he was the first person to show her genuine care (besides her mothers). she misses him, as much as she's happy with all her new friends who also accept her for her; she wishes he was there too. i also don't believe that the real cloud has any romantic feelings for aerith. again, he took on the life of zack in his head. he feels drawn to her because of how much zack loved her.

it's really such a tragic story full of nuance and hurt. i noticed that zack and tifa are great parallels; both of them are the only ones truly capable of reaching inwards towards their respective partner. zack understood aerith much better than cloud ever could. tifa can touch cloud in a way no one could. but that doesn't negate the fact that cloud cares for all of them just as much. they all mean a lot to him and he means a lot to them.

also really appreciate how the devs still kept the canonity of tifa and cloud, but also gave the chance to fans of other pairings to be happy with the outcome and choose their path. its always been a divisive thing in the ff7 fandom, so its cool of them to try and make everyone happy

overall, im super excited for part 3 and i think i might recover from this by the time it comes out

#ff7 rebirth #ff7 tifa #ff7 cloud #ff7 aerith #ff7 barret #ff7 cid #ff7 vincent #ff7 cait sith #ff7 remake #ff7 zack #ff7 yuffie #nova rambles #aerti #cloti #zerith #also dont come for me im too old to argue over whats canon lmao #this ff7 shit really got me yapping my ass off #aerith my beloved #tifa my beloved #i think part 3 should end with tifa and aerith kissing after they kill sephiroth

[catlady5001]

i found someone to carry me home - we are young, fun.

for @starcloud-nova. inspired by that ask where you talked about kazuki and sachi sharing headphones! it gave me such a vivid mental image and i wanted to draw a little thing for you.

#cat's art #nova ily #i hope you like this lol i promise i did my best <3 your OCs my beloved! #fun. #i thought the lyrics kinda fit them (i made sure to pick from one of the songs you said they both liked. and listened to the album on loop) #also kazuki has a knee brace!!

[allthecastlesonclouds]

castles pls ramble about your wips /is there anything you're working on and/or excited to share????

omgggg yes i have been STRUGGLING this past two weeks because i. uh. sprained my right wrist (my dominant hand) and doing Anything At All hurts so i have SO MANY thoughts in my head and nothing's going to come out of it until i'm healed

fight or flight has been a really interesting fic for me to write specifically bc i. didn't grow up religious? my mom's atheist and my dad's catholic and i've never gone to church, but religion is really interesting to me, and the topic of fate and God is really intriguing. i like looking into faith and fate and learning about the different ways people see things, and i wanted to write a fic that felt. A Lot. like my dad's Catholic Childhood ExperienceTM and where he and his siblings are now in life, since all of them fell to different religions different ways and still keep in contact. i also wanted to touch on suburban family relationships in general bc goddamn those are fucked up.

fight or flight was originally going to be a lot more Kristen Vs Mac and Donna– the document title's still a pun based on that– but the more i thought about it the little it fit with her character: as much as kristen is bold, she's much more of a say something and run character– she doesn't quite know what'll happen after she says anything, does she? and she doesn't think before she speaks, so if anything goes wrong, she's likely to flee.

i've also started revamping my Coffe AU! it was, essentially, a modern coffeeshop au where different characters were in slightly different scenarios and the bad kids didn't quite become a friendgroup until after college, where adaine and ayda ran a coffee shop and the sig figs were Vibing and riz? worked five million jobs? and aelwyn actually gets therapy. the pacing of the fic was bad, though, and it was overall unrealistic, so i'm planning out a slightly different fic– they're all going to the same excessively large college, and keep meeting up at the coffee shop Ayda and Adaine run for said college. goldenhoard was the main villain in the first one; kalina was fully a housecat; cass didn't even EXIST because i wrote it before i got a dropout account and i only could watch up to ep3 of sophomore year! that's all changing, though; the gukgaks still have a cat named kalina but she Is Named After Someone

the "fic", if i ever get around to writing it, would be an actual longfic, written from one person's perspective, and a series of oneshots for a buncha other characters. the longfic was originally from adaine's perspective, but i might go fig this time around bc my girl adaine is Hard and i want the challenge of writing from the perspective of someone who isn't the Main Character of the story.

(also. coffe!aelwyn my beloved. she's trying so hard.)

i had a riz + mordred fic in the works, but since it seems mordred is going to be in jy a lot, that one's on hold until the season goes. i wanted to write it because the premise made me laugh: it was riz really sweetly bonding with different members of mordred and then him and zayn. awkwardly staring at each other as they realize their adaine's-best-friend title will never belong to either of them again and will forever be ayda's.

i wrote a drawtectives fic recently, which i know you're not in the fanbase for but i started a second one, from york's perspective, which cycles around rosé going back to college and york learning how The City is different and what family is to him (and also learning to cook bc grandma is the Only Competent One) AND i want to round out the trio, since the first was a rosé fic and this ones a york and so the third would be a grendan one, which is about getting york to his fashion shoots, i think? that one's a lot more up in the air, because. i want them to be Mostly Separate and so i want to see where york takes me.

and, in the drawtectives vein, i'm working on episode transcripts! pre-sprain, i could do 10 pages per hour, but now i'm down to 4-6, depending on the complexity. it's the only thing i don't struggle to do bc it's mostly writing names and correcting (or messing up) some grammar. i finished s1 on the... 18th? 19th? and i'm about 25 minutes into s2ep1 so. it's gonna take a while. but GOD i'm becoming a lore keeper for this. and also my vocal recognition for These Four People Specifically is. so good now. i can recognize their hums, it's insane.

and my friend (the most lovely and also basically inactive @mug-fullof-roses) and i are making plushies! just four drawtectives (the guys and also eugene), and we're still in the fabric buying but i think i'm going to try to find some good patterns over break because. clothing??? help??

and!! bringing it around again!! i've sketched out the dumbest comic for dance au bc something happened in my dance class that had me going "bad kids right here" the entire week. my hiphop teacher started playing that billie eilish song from the barbie movie, stared at the computer for a solid five seconds, then went 'sorry this isn't it' and tapped the computer once to change it to whatcha know bout me by nicki minaj. god. wild. love her dearly.

i have So Many Quotes from dance i might just make a danceau incorrect quotes post bc. we wild.

#bird :D #and i'm talking i guess #no maintagging today #questionnn! #mug my beloved go look at her art she's so cool and talented and amazing and she made our other lovely mutual nova a doll and he's FABULOUS #like. on fight or flight. religion is so interesting to me and how it affects family relationships. #i don't think i'm atheist or religious exactly. i guess agnostic would be the best label? #maybe that makes me unqualified to write this fic but idk. family relationships can be Fucked Up by religion but also they Do Not Have To B #and coffe!aelwyn my beloved! she and fabian are such friends who slept together for months to me <3 she's Going To Therapy. good for her. #and coffe!kristen!! creates an Egg Corner!! that's one thing forever constant <3 <3 falls over the stools at least twice per visit #coffe au #i've been debating posting s1 of the transcripts now or waiting until i have s2 done #the issue is i get back from break and immediately go into Midterms Mode #and i won't have the brace off until midterms or midterms are over so. progress will be Slow #the struggles 😔 /j

[explodingstarlight]

could i interest you in some... nova doodles? *opens my ratty coat to reveal various files in a neat row*

#the discord has been going wild actually /pos #so while i cannot share anything with potential spoilers (if any of it ever ends up being shared as a coherent story) #i would like to share cute lil AU doodles #because i love the STEM fam very much #(also: you all would get to see young nova 👀) #oc-posting my beloved <3 #stars speaks #.txt

[storyofaromance]

💌

how was your day btw? <3

dear nova,

‘are you sun or moon coded?’ they ask. but when i look at you, i think of stars. shining bright in the night sky. never stopping for anyone. you’re kind but you know your worth. you never bring yourself down to bring other up. you pull them up with you.

you’re bold. you’re gorgeous. you’re out of this world.

that’s what i love about you:

your beloved,

yasmin

#nova <3 #my beloved mutuals #my asks

[pinkfey]

THE WALKING DEAD -> NOVA JANE EMORY

♡ inspired by @trvelyans

#this is the last time i’m posting an edit and then i’m going to be on a week long edit sobriety journey kdjdhsjd #anyway hiiiiii everyone say thank u maia bc her gorjus edit of miss carrie inspired me !! mwah mwah !! #but yes this is them <3 my beloved nova baby <3 there is so much lore here #perhaps i shall info dump about her !! if anyone would like that !! #glenn is on the roster because he used to deliver pizzas to their dorm fjdhsjfk #edit* #the walking dead #twd #ch: nova jane emory #and yes i’m reusing daisy day wiseman she’s been rebranded <33

[whimsicalcotton]

have i ever mentioned that i love them. bc i Love Them

#melon soda yuri my beloved <3 #her lil face while she's calling kuran a rat. iconic #nova reads

[givethetwinkaflamethrower]

NEW MEME TEMPLATE JUST DROPPED

#x:in cat line my beloved <3 #x:in #nova #aria

[patchworkedrainbow]

Hellooo good morning :3

hii! you asked this when it was morning but i didn't see it until now but good morning spooky!! :D How are you doing? I'm doing well cause I have a bunch of free time so i've been doing some drawings (and also baking but i ate all of the cookies I made very fast), uhh heres a thing i drew!

#i have no idea how to respond to the ask! #so i just used it as an opportunity to show off this drawing lol #have u done any art recently? have cool cat images? idk #thank u for the ask :3 #mutuals my beloved <3 #nova lore

[akagamiko]

@ncmvds​ [NOVA] :  "Shanks!!!" Nova looked uncharacteristically furious as she approached him, "You cut off a child's arm??" || Misunderstandings are always fun. Also hello!!! 👀 ❤️❤️

Oh, that was not a good look to be on the other end of.

Shanks shuffled beneath it, trying to gauge what exactly it was that had made her so angry.  So angry at him specifically. His eyes were still wide from the way she had yelled out his name and he fidgeted as she approached. He had been hoping for a happy reunion, instead he found himself lowering his gaze as though he were being punished.

 Her question, however, gave him pause.

“...A child…?” Lips pursed and Shanks tilted his head. Where had she heard that? The public’s views of pirates were often harsh and, often, understandably so. It had become normal to him over the years. Being an Emperor had only intensified that to civilians outside of his own territories. Pirates were seen as cruel and known for their merciless pillaging and he had never been an exception to that. Even so, he’d never cut off the arm of some kid–.

Wait.

Shanks raised his head to look at her, giving her a small smile even as she continued to fume at him. He lifted his hand in hopes of calming her. Or perhaps it was more in hopes of defending himself. “Nova…” His voice was calm, soothing, even. “I didn’t cut off a child’s arm–it was a rookie. His name is Kid, he’s not actually a child.”

He let out a nervous chuckle, arm still raised. Hopefully that would clear it up right? He wouldn’t chop off an actual child’s arm! They’d have to be a huge asshole for him to do that.

#fjalskdjfal #hi ily i'm glad you're back!! #nova my beloved #ANSWERED. #ncmvds #this is hilarious though #shanks vc: the rookie started it babe i just had to finish it <3

[catlady5001]

24 + 40!

nova beloved!!

24. How much prep work do you put into your stories? What does that look like for you? Do you enjoy this part or do you just want to get on with it?

I only have 2 fics where I prepped at all before I started writing (my time travel fic, Hellspawn, and another one I haven’t started posting yet (because I haven’t written much for it)), and I have one that I started making an outline for halfway through because I got a solid idea of how I want to end it and didn’t want to forget (that was my fakeQuirkless!hitoshi AU). for all of these, the “prep” is really just a basic outline. for one of them it’s broken down into an idea of what the chapter by chapter will look like, but otherwise just a basic outline.

for all of my oneshots I don’t really prep anything. I’ll maybe consider an ending point beforehand but that’s about it. although I forgot about the various pieces I’ve written for Big Bangs/zines, and for those ones I do jot down a basic outline both so I can track how much I need to get done before each deadline and so that whatever artist I’m paired with has something to go off of!

40. Please share a poem with me, I need it.

okok this one is long but I love it sm

in another string of the multiverse by Franny Choi

There are only so many parallel universes that concern us.     In one, he isn’t dead. In another, you drink light with your hands all winter. There is a universe in which no one is lying emptied in the street as the gas station burns, a universe in which our mothers haven’t learned to wrap their bones in each small grief they’ve found. There is a universe in which there is no difference between the past and the ground. Another where the oceans pull the moon.      And so on. This is an incomplete list.  It has been abridged for your comfort.       I could tell you about the many universes in which bad things happen to people other than the people you love. Yes, in another life, it’s someone else’s sister who climbs to the roof that night. In another life, the boys rise darkly from the asphalt to choke the engines of cruisers, and no one gives birth chained to a hospital bed, and no one’s child washes blue, ashore. Sure. You can have these worlds. You can warm them in your hands at night. But know: by signing, you agree also to be responsible for the universe where the oceans glow red, the universe where what we call shadow is pulsing with the musk of hooves, and especially the one in which humans exist, but only in the nightmares of small children. Will you hold that one too? The version of the story that never learned to consider sound? and the one where sound is only the opposite of metal? and the one where the sound of metal is never enough to quiet the dead?

#ask game #asks #my writing #thank you for the ask nova beloved!! <3 #I hope you also enjoy this poem lol

[girlartemisia]

Obsessed with this whole passage.

And after I had somewhat soothed my tears, I went to my room, where I could lament without being heard; and here, invoking mercy to the woman of courtesy and saying «Love, help your faithful», I fell asleep weeping like a dejected little child. It happened almost halfway through my sleep that I seemed to see, sitting in the room near me, a young man dressed in exceptionally white clothes, and thinking a lot about his appearance, he carefully observed me lying there; and when he had looked at me for a long time, it seemed to me that, sighing, he was calling me and he was telling me these words: «Fili mi, tempus est ut pretermictantur simulacra nostra*». Then I seemed to recognize him because he called me in the same way he had already frequently called me in my dreams: and looking better at him, it seemed to me that he was pitifully crying, and looked as though he was expecting some words from me, so, gathering courage, I started talking to him this way: «Lord of nobility, and why are you crying?». And he told me these words: «Ego tanquam centrum circuli, cui simil modo se habent circumferentie partes; tu autem non sic**».

*My child, it's time to abandon our fabrications.

**I am like the centre of the circle from which all parts of the circumference are equidistant; but you are not this way.

#Vita Nova #dante #forgive my clumsy translation #it's not easy going from medieval italian to english #anyway #so dramatic #and THAT. LAST. LINE. hhjjjhhg I love it #medieval symbolism my beloved >3

[purple-dahlias]

okay this is rlly random but I need to know: what’s your favourite lily kershaw song?

you are literally evil for making me choose but. now&then makes me especially insane. so does darker things

how about you nova, what’s your favourite? i will happily talk to you about lily kershaw all day <3

#tbh the whole of the arcadia album is !!! #also as it seems my beloved <3 #and her cover of forever young never fails to make me cry #ask #nova tag