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simply-yelly2 · 3 years

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Here we have yet another doomed child, and gosh darn why do I make them so adorable? that just makes it very bittersweet.

@opal-tea (because her full outfit might have been inspired by your one doodle of little Hai from a Sketch Dump *whistles innocently*) and @justawfulxmenart for your brilliant picture of the Cobriana family as a whole, because I did some thinking while finding the colors for her. I kind of want to try designing my version of Sisal at some point because gosh darn do I love her, even if we never see her in person. I like to think that Sisal had planned to name her daughter Hai and shared this with her family and Anjay happened to mention it to Darien. Then when both Sisal, the baby, and Anjay are killed, Darien honors them by naming her daughter Hai.

Okay, canon-verse aside. Let's get into Kala's Rewrite AU.

This is Hatia (lose, to lose, lost, loser, losing in ha'Dasi), the daughter of Anjay Cobriana and Darien. She is basically my replacement for Hai since I had revamped Hai as the daughter of Oliza and Nicias. Unlike her canon counterpart, Hatia is not going to have a lucky break and that makes her quite tragic.

I really must question why Cjarsa took such an interest in Hai, given that her conception was against the rules and then Darien tried to commit treason of the highest form (attempted murder of Araceli, the Heir to the White Lady). Maya herself confirms the fate of most children born from forbidden circumstances, though now I wonder if they would stoop so low as to kill unwanted children...I feel like falcons would approach this from the same standpoint that you use when breeding animals with lethal genes. The ka'jaes (falcons without magic) are worthless in a place where the inhabitants breathe power, but yet purebred falcons struggle to reproduce because the magic that gives them power beyond all imagination, is also poisonous to new life. So while the ka'jaes are seen as lower-class citizens, they are critical to ensure the continued survival of the falcon race. Because while it may be hard to kill a falcon, I kind of imagine that living for a thousand years can get tiresome...maybe instead of death, some falcons fall to Ecl in an almost death. Heck, they probably gather their friends and loved ones and have some kind of party before they go, and then they are taken to the shm'Ecl and left under the care of Servos. Their family and friends can come to visit them whenever they want and...yeah, you need to replace them somehow. I feel the rule instead is that a ka'jaes is not allowed to have a child with a fellow ka'jaes. Because they are needed to create proper magical falcon babies, not ones without magic. Maya probably had her child sired by a ka'jaes man and thus her baby was born pure ka'jaes. The baby was taken away and its parents were both tortured by the Mercy as punishment for breaking the law. I kind of imagine that Araceli did not kill this baby, though Maya thinks she did and maybe that is the idea. The child was given to "proper" parents who would hopefully raise it to better understand and obey the Empress's laws. An even more bittersweet idea I have now is that Maya was forced to admit that her partner had raped her (even if it was done with consent from both parties) and that is what saved her life...but it cost the man his life.

Okay, I got really off-topic here. But you get the idea of what I am trying to say I hope.

Scanning through Wyvernhail, it seems like getting Hai on the throne was Cjarsa's plan all along. And the Empress seems miffed that Hai is not grateful for what she has done. I am not sure what Cjarsa planned to gain from this unless her plan was to ensure that Keyi would be born and Wyvern's Court would fall to destruction and chaos and then the world would be saved once again, thanks to the Falcons.

On second thought, that is just it. I do believe the falcons felt threatened by the ending of the Avian-Serpiente War (because Anhamirak's magic could be combined and that is very, very, very bad) and sought to destroy the peace in any way they could. Why else would Syfka use her magic to convince an innocent Avian woman to attack Danica in such a way that she would be unable to have any more children aside from Oliza? And reading that part of Snakecharm, I really do believe the would-be assassin was in fact innocent, she is so full of remorse for what had happened that her Avian Reserve broke and she was crying with tears running down her face. So the bad guys in the Kiesha'ra series are the falcons, though they believe themselves to be the good guys, and this makes Hai being able to get them to leave her people alone quite amazing?

But enough about other stuff, we really must get back to discussing this poor little chick.

Hatia is born to Darien a few months after Anjay's death. Despite her feelings towards Araceli, Darien is immediately in love with her little girl and plans to raise her with Kel (Darien and Kel were on-again, off-again girlfriends, and a recent falling out was what led Darien to seek attention from another source). But sadly, this would not come to be.

Araceli, with two of her Mercy members, came to Darien's room. The two guards restrained Darien while the Heir took the crying baby away. Due to the bond between mother and child, Darien knew the moment when Hatia took her last break and the Mercy can feel her torment.

Deciding that Araceli has gone too far, Darien plots to avenge Anjay and Hatia and tries to kill Araceli when she is vulnerable. It fails, and Darien escapes to Ecl while Kel flees the island because she is unable to execute her best friend and lover. (Spoiler): Lilian is the one who falls to Ecl while her brother Mer survives that day with a scar.

A ka'jaes child could be excused as they are useful to the falcon population in other ways. But a quemak like Hatia and canon Hai? I do not see it. Hatia would have had magic, but it is unpredictable and the stigma of her mixed blood can't easily be ignored. The hair and eyes and her feathers being black with red gyrfalcon markings.

RIP little baby wyvern girl.

#kiesha'ra

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fyrapartnersearch · 6 years

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Worms and Tribals

BASIC SETTING

The far flung distant future. Earth has been rendered a wasteland on the surface, with junkyards the size of countries marring the skin of it and polluting the ocean. Tribes of animalistic hybrids populate the junkyards and the last ruins of ancient cities, fighting to eke out a lean existence in proud and primal warfare. Unrelated tribe members know each other by tattoos on the face or hands, and nearly everyone is related by adoption. Carnivores last longer than herbivores, and no-one is quite the same breed.

You can try to breed, but there’s no real guarantee that you’ll birth or hatch a live one. Most children come from Below, already at least weaned. If you find one, then you have to look after it, or at least find someone who will. If you don’t look after anyone, who’s gonna look after you?

Winter is bitter cold with feet of snow, and summer scorches the world to mirage-heat and red-hot metal. You have to be tough to live here, and what’s evolved from the wildlife is just as tough as you.

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That’s the surface, but underground is quite a different story. Go down a few miles and you’ll find vast caverns filled with sleek, futuristic cities populated by beautiful people, a utopia where no human will ever go without food, comfort or care. A world built on genetic modification, and where all the trash goes upwards. Only the very stupid or very curious would ever dream of going to the surface, and why would you ever want to?

You can explore the caverns, travel the entire world if you want. The caverns are so huge that you could not see from one end to the other with binoculars. There’s enough light and food and entertainment down here, and humans have lived down here for so long that surface life is like looking into prehistory.

There’s no weather down here, and all food is grown in hydroponic vats. I suppose you could eat meat, if you really wanted to, but humans have largely grown past that. It’s…distasteful.

Only animals live on the surface and eat other animals, especially the animals that walk and sometimes even talk like humans. It makes people uneasy, of course, but people were born to complain. It’s not like society would be able to survive without all the tests and experiments on cloned eggs and foetuses, and no great advancements in science could be made without them.

You can’t test real human medicines on animals with no human tissue, after all. It’s just easier to clone and grow hybrids this way.

When they’re old enough, if they’re docile and quiet enough, they might be sold as exotic pets, but this is very, very rare in creatures with more than 30% human DNA. The ability to learn and talk like a human is unnerving to most people, and even the ones that can’t may grow aggressive in later life. Bestiality is still a taboo, thankyou.

If they’re not suitable to be sold, they go upstairs with the rest of the refuse. Everyone knows that animals will more likely eat them than care for them, after all.

META

The title of this setting comes from the Tribals – namely, they call themselves that and the subterranean ‘purebred’ humans 'Worms’. They don’t know a huge amount about Below, only what’s gleaned from old magazines and ripped books, the occasional unfortunate pet hybrid thrown out when they started talking. They hold that 'Worms’ made the world the shitty place it is today, then hid underground when their soft selves could no longer stand what they had wrought.

Which is kind of the truth, but not quite – the original plan was for the populace to go underground while teams of specialists worked on cleaning up the mess, but things got much worse faster than expected and it was decided that it would be better to stay down there until Mother Nature fixed herself. Even if it took a few millennia. They’re about a thousand years in right now, and going to the surface has more or less been forgotten. Massive UV lamps replace the sun, so it’s not like they’re suffering from vitamin D deficiency down there.

The Tribals fear, hate, and scorn the Worms – if one came up to the surface without a disguise, at the very best no-one would help him and at the worst they’d kill and eat him. They think Worms are worthless and irresponsible, and no-one would dream of ever trying to actually breed with one or talk to it.

Worms just simply, on the whole, don’t see the Tribals as human. At best, they admit they’re genetically close and fairly intelligent, but it’s much the way we consider chimpanzees nowadays – violent, stupid, and not in the least good as pets or as a part of human society. At worst, they’re scum.

If an adult Tribal came down the vents, they would be treated the same way as a large wild predator loose in a densely populated area – at best, tranqed and captured for testing, at worst, shot on sight.

No Tribal is exactly the same mix of animal and human as his fellows – and that mix usually includes two or three creatures besides homo sapiens. It makes their genetic code easier to manipulate, and makes them more monstrous-looking to the 'pure’ humans.

Tribals usually practice 'pragmatic’ cannibalism, too – they eat their dead, with the loved ones of the deceased having the most right to the food provided.

Gender differentiation is not really a thing in either society. You are what you are, and it matters about as much to the people around you as the colour of your hair or eyes.

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If you got this far and you’re interested, congratulations, you are already one of my favourite people! To myself, my name’s Mal, I’m a 28 year old transdude living in the UK (GMT time).

I’ve been having a hard time with both mental and physical health issues recently that have made it difficult for me to RP. I really want to get back into it, but I feel like anyone who contacts me should be aware of how low my spoons are and – well, be gentle, okay? I’m trying to ease back into it. Trying being the operative word ^^;;;

I have several Tribal characters for this setting, and ideally I’d want you playing a Worm – whether you’re sympathetic and willing to learn, or cynical and Part of the System. I have a couple of vague plot ideas – tribal wanders down the vent and is caught by someone and then shenanigans, pet is caught and sent upstairs against the wishes of their owner, a few other things. I hate slavery as a concept, and would prefer to keep everything as dub-con free as possible. (ALSO – I’m not looking for smut. Like, at all. If you are then I am not the partner for you friendo, sorry ^^;;;)

Anyway, if all that hasn’t turned you off, you can contact me on -

My email – [email protected]

Or tumblr IM – lilacsofthedead

I have skype and discord as well, and I prefer to talk to my prospectives via IM even though I only RP on email or gdocs, but because of my recent health issues I’m more on my tablet or phone during the day, and tumblr seems to be the only app that outright yells so I’ll notice when someone pings me on it. We can move to the other ones once I know you’re actually around :)

Hope to hear from you soon! Good hunting!

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