"It is I... Jacques. [clears throat] Jacques."
//Ok, the last of my insane Yellowjackets crafting weekend is over (for now...) with Seance Shauna and her favorite little knife! The figure used as her body base had some imbalance issues (which were not aided by the shirt sculpt needing to cover the place where a backpack used to be) so I had to glue her to a base disk for stability -- which I spruced up with cabin floor details for some extra spice. I had to paint the symbol backwards to get it right (after some trial and error) but I think it really adds to the scene.
ICYMI: My Dead Jackie custom Pop-sicle and my Video Store Van Palmer
If you have ideas for other characters you'd like to see me try in the future, let me know! I'd love to draft up other concepts and already have 2 different characters planned for my second wave.
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beau and yasha 😌 (i'm already sorry but i believe you'll make the right choice)
send in two names and make my muse choose which one they would kill.
so , here’s the thing , she looks between the two of them , beau would never forgive her . she’d never look at her the same if she chose yasha to die . they’d never have the friendship they had , ever again . even if she brought her back . but yasha would never , ever forgive her if she made her watch the person she loves the most die , no matter how quicky she could bring beau back . wouldn’t it be better ? wouldn’t it be easier if it was yasha ? how terrible was that to even think ? yasha’s been through this before so she should die ? beau has a whole life ahead of her as if yasha doesn’t ? she’s crying as she looks between the two of them , she can’t lose either of them ( losing them is inevitable after this , isn’t it ? ) . she’s selfish , in the end , unable to watch the light leave beau’s eyes . ❛ beau , please , don’t hate me . ❜ she says & closes her eyes as the spell hits yasha . i’ll bring her back , i promise .
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@survivher said :
❝ well, how do i look? ”
was that really even a question? betty turns onto her stomach on veronica’s bed, brows raised as she gives her best friend a long look from top to bottom. she looks gorgeous; what else is new? ❝ you really want my opinion, ronnie? ❞ betty squints, looking for any flaws and finding precious little. ❝ maybe... don’t forget to put on sunblock? ❞ she chuckles when veronica gives her an unamused glare and sits up, hands in the air to appease her. ❝ kidding, kidding! no, you look great. I don’t think you need to change anything. but, maybe consider taking a change of clothes just in case? I hear it’s supposed to rain and that dress looks like it drags. ❞
the flash of a bright idea has her snapping her fingers in excitement. ❝ wait! I have my sewing kit in my back pack. do you want me to make you a little wrist thing that attaches to the train? that way it’s not getting all mucky? ❞
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* WHERE DO YOU CARRY YOUR PAIN ?
( your arms ) you have tried to hold onto what is dear to you, only for it to be wrenched from your hands . . .
tagged by: @70th ( we got the same result, rip odesta )
tagging: @questsy ( vex’ahlia ), @deniesmercy, @melnchly ( hazelle ), @survivher ( katniss ), @emptyher, and any other mutual can say i tagged you !
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the second the second piece of bark snaps off in her hand her heart plummets into her stomach as she starts to plummet to the ground . her arms outstretched , she barely has time to process fjord launching himself after her . he’ll catch her . of course , he’ll catch her . what happens when he catches her ? they both die ? she feels her weight shift as something slows her down when fjord grabs her hand tightly & they both disappear .
❝ fjord ! ❞ she exclaims as soon as they reappear , out of breath and clinging to the bark , a little higher than they’d been , once again .
❝ hang on , will ya ? ❞ he teases & the butterflies in her stomach , butterflies she’d firmly tried to leave behind , kick up .
❝ you . . . ❞ almost died for me . . . saved my life . . . are my hero . . . except she doesn’t say any of that . she presses her forehead against the tree as her fingers grip the bark tightly trying to get some of her confidence to make the rest of the climb & calm her racing heart . fjord had saved her again . she had to remember that they were just friends . he would’ve done it if beau had fallen , just as he’d done for her . & she’s glad ! she’s glad that there’s no doubt in her mind he’d have done it for beau too because she cherishes this family . but it doesn’t mean she hates the realization that he’d kissed her all those weeks ago because she’d been dying , not because he’d wanted to . he’d kissed her cheek the day before because she’d saved him & he’d been grateful , not because he meant anything more by it . & he’d jumped off a tree to save her because he didn’t want her to die . they were just friends . she could handle being just friends . if only the butterflies would get the message , she thinks , & starts to move up the tree again .
@survivher asked : hey ... hey ... write me some details on how jester felt after the tree jump. you know the one. ;)
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A LOOK INSIDE FRED’S PHONE : DAPHNE BLAKE.
↳ @survivher said : ☎ | ringtone.
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* @survivher — [ REUNITE ] HAVING BEEN APART FOR SOME TIME, VEX, UPON SEEING VAX FOR THE FIRST TIME, SPRINTS TO GIVE HIM A HUG.
THERE ARE FIELDS AROUND HIM, FLOWERS FALLING IN THE BREEZE FROM UNSEEN TREES, AND HE IS LOOKING FOR HER. he pushes through the tall grasses, white petals brushing against his cheeks and dappling his hair, as he runs. his voice catches in his throat, so he cannot call her name. he removes the mask, letting it fall where it may. he reaches a crystal river, and he stops. for those are steps behind him that he recognizes.
vax’ildan has only a moment to blink in the brightness and the tears down his cheeks, before his sister leaps into his arms. he’s only just left her world — her plane — to see her off. to bring her here, to their home, to this new and good place with all those they love who’ve come before and crossed already. he loses her in the shift, in the journey, but she’s found him — she always finds him. and they are the same again as they hold onto one another, her gray hair fading back to the dark brown curls, the wrinkles from a life well and lengthily lived melting back to the face she wears when last he holds her when they are both living.
“ i . . . have missed you so, ” he weeps into her shoulder, feeling her tears soak his neck and hair. champion of the raven queen, escort from death, black shroud of his goddess — he is only vax here and now, stubby in his arms. and they’ve an eternity to be whole again together.
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@survivher sent : “ i trusted you! / from raven ” / accepting.
her hands were still shaking , blue eyes fixed on the crimson water in a bucket between her feet. breathe in , breathe out. repeat. again and again. clarke knows she did the right thing ; ending finn's life before lexa and the rest of the earthborns could get hold of him had been for the best. he would've suffered before the commander finally decided to kill him. a small knife to the heart had been merciful , but clarke knows better than to expect her own people to agree. especially raven. oh , raven . . . she'd heard the girl's screams all the way across the clearing and they just kept repeating themselves in her head over and over again. guilt threatened to pull her under like vicious waves. this was all her fault. someone pushes back the flap of the tent clarke is in , startling her out of her own messy thoughts. her eyes zero in on the person making their way into the tent and she presses her lips together , blinking back the tears that immediately spring to her eyes at raven's venomous tone. the hatred is to be expected , clarke thinks absentmindedly. she'd just killed the boy raven loved. she'd killed the only family she had left. ❝ i know , ❞ she whispers after a moment of making sure the brunette is done speaking. the tension in the room is thick , all traces of the tentative friendliness between the two are gone. ❝ i'm sorry. ❞ clarke drops her gaze to the water again , busying herself with washing her hands. ❝ she wasn't going to change her mind. i - i had to do something— ❞ a choked up sob flies past her lips and she squeezes her eyes shut , head shaking as furiously as the way she scrubs her hands , feeling her skin of her palms go raw with each pass. ❝ i couldn't let him suffer. ❞
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* @survivher — DOES ANYONE ELSE SEE THIS GUY, OR AM I LOSING MY MIND?
HE KNOWS BETTER THAN TO LOOK UP IMMEDIATELY AT BEAUREGARD’S WHISPER. she may not be subtle — very few in their little family are — but caleb knows to be when possible. only slowly does he takes the chance to turn towards her query from the fruit stand, feigning nonchalance as best he can, not looking too long before he returns to shopping for their lunch — for the extra supplies yasha needs for her fruit salad. “ no, i see him, ” he replies quietly, giving the shopkeep a nod and payment while placing their purchases in a basket from home. “ and more importantly, it is clear that he sees us. do you recognize him? ” at first glance, from said distance, caleb does not, and he is not sure whether that is better or worse.
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@survivher asked: “did i just miss something?” from velma? :)
↳ the fall ( 2006 ) sentence starters.
𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙯𝙞𝙣𝙚 , attention only partially given to the other before her. & partially basically just means . . . not at all. ❛ what , huh ? ❜ she briefly looks up at velma , annoyance written on her features , before she redirects her vision back to the very captivating fashion magazine within her hold. her words register , & carol just shrugs , simply not caring too much at all. she pops her bubblegum. ❛ how the hell am i supposed to know ? i’m busy. can’t you tell ? ❜
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supernatural/monster au character backgrounds
v: it's not evil - just hungry, available for shauna/jackie/misty/nat
note: full background/social and timeframe setting for verse/threads is flexible dependent on plotting with partner
Cast: Shauna the psychopomp, Jackie the siren, Natalie the dhampir, Misty the hag-touched.
Shauna Shipman: Psychopomp
A psychopomp, or in essence, a reaper, is a melancholy and misunderstood figure. Associated with death but never the cause of it, Shauna is feared all the same. She arrives at the site of death and quietly begins the work of preparing the soul for its next stage of being. She does not judge or condemn the dead, but simply makes the transition to the afterlife a little easier, perhaps a little kinder. Her hunter's knife is the scythe by which she severs the threads to the mortal plane, whether or not there is a body left to carve. It is somber, solitary work to clean up the place where a life once was, but she dutifully does her work no matter how many believe her to be a butcher.
Shauna often does not know those she is tasked with ferrying, but if she learns anything of them, she writes down details of who they once were in her journal. Much of a life is lost to time, but she tries to remember the ones she helps.
She sometimes takes the form of her young self, and sometimes she is older, but Shauna exists outside of linear time and most frequently appears to be her teenage self (even if she never really was a teenager). She can also manifest in animal forms, occasionally a deer or a flock of birds waiting just beyond the body.
Shauna doesn't appear naturally to the living, unless they have some connection to the otherworldly -- the killers, those who have had near-death experiences, and others who have witnessed a lot of death may be included in this, but there isn't an exact science to it.
Jackie Taylor: Siren
What she lacks in skill and acuity she makes up for in influence. Sirens have that sort of hold on people, after all. For the longest time, Jackie never really understood why she always got what she wanted -- she just knew the universe conspired to make it happen. It wasn't until she told a guy in high school to "go fuck himself" that she finally realized there was something more to her words and her voice. That said, not everything she says is compelling -- Jackie has learned to hone "the voice" she uses to influence and beguile. In the meantime, it doesn't hurt she's gorgeous and well-liked. And that wasn't because she forced anyone to believe it... right?
Contrary to popular belief, she's not the type of siren that people think should be related to mermaids. They're more classically bird-women, but Jackie doesn't manifest any avian traits (apart from sometimes getting really sharp manicures, but that's purely aesthetic).
Jackie is skilled in vocal mimicry and even if she's not the world's best singer, her influencing abilities can be dangerous to weak-minded individuals. If she's swapped spit with you too, she's likely to have a stronger hold. If she's silenced, gagged, made to bite her own tongue, or deafened, her powers lose their effect.
Jackie also has synesthesia and can clearly see and distinguish the source of sounds (granted that they're not overpowering -- she can be prone to overstimulation).
Natalie Scatorccio: Dhampir
A cursed child often born of a vampiric father and a human mother. A mix of both worlds, belonging to neither. Natalie has always been an outcast in every sense of the word, right down to her very biology. And as she slowly learned the truth about her parentage, things began to become clearer. As vampiric offspring are wont to do, Nat was responsible for the death of her father, but it didn't do anything to solve her own affliction. It did, however, free her mother from his thrall -- but her mother still resents her daughter for what she did, even if it was ultimately a good thing.
As a dhampir, she has a weakened mix of the strengths and vulnerabilities as a vampire (though of course, stakes to the heart and decapitation will do the trick). Natalie is prone to sunburns and is sensitive to light, but is slightly stronger, faster, and more durable than humans. Religious iconography does still impact her, though she does not need invitation over thresholds and is not weak to running water.
Her blood and bile are toxic to full-blooded vampires, and her own appetite for carnage can mostly be suppressed, but she does still need to drink blood every so often, especially when injured or weak. (This is a mix of dhampir lore sources, I don't love when they're just All Vampire Awesomeness with No Weaknesses.)
Natalie will stop aging on a human timescale when she hits adulthood, if she lives that long. In the meantime, she indulges in nightlife, intoxicants, and other experiences to try to numb the pain and distract from the fact there's nowhere she truly belongs.
Misty Quigley: Hag-touched
She wasn't born a witch, and she's not innately magical. But Misty saw the sorts of powers that existed just beyond the fingertips of most normal lives and wanted some of it for herself. For those who aren't lucky enough to have natural magic, well, there's always a hag coven. Misty found a gathering of powerful women who were willing to make a bargain and bring the blonde into their society. And Misty prefers this type of wicked handiwork to simply waving fingers and casting spells. Just... don't leave strands of hair or fingernail clippings where she can find them for her "experiments".
Inspired by various hag folklore and D&D depictions, Misty's magic is based in exchange and component value -- she excels in curses, inconveniences, and changes in fortune, but she's not entire malevolent. She isn't wholly benevolent either, extracting some sort of price from those who seek her aid. And if they don't, she just has fun making whatever mischief she can -- often targeting individuals to whom she later proposes the solution to their woes.
Also, not all hags are old and ugly -- Misty resents that idea, thank you!
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there’s a bowl of strawberries & sugar settled on top of her belly , his head in her lap & she’s running her fingers through @survivher’s hair , her nails scratching his scalp softly . it takes some real talent to keep the bowl from tipping onto fjord’s head , she thinks as the rain makes the ship rock them slowly back & forth . & she’s thankful , they don’t have to worry about uk’otoa ( uk’otoa ) sending anymore creepy guys now that they’ve sealed him away but honestly ? she’s starting to get a little bit nervous . that they’re not going to make it home to nicodranas , to her mama & caduceus , before their little cupcake pops out . & , like , she’s totally fine just having fjord there when she does have the baby , she’d kind of been hoping to have caduceus with them . . . just in case . as she takes a nervous bite of a strawberry she feels the movement in her lower stomach before fjord asks , ❛ was that a kick? ❜ & she smiles brightly . even though she’s already used to the feeling , she never gets tired of the look on fjord’s face when he feels their baby move in her belly . she moves the bowl of strawberries off of her stomach & shifts so she can see him . ❛ they’re , like , super excited to see you , fjord . as their mama , i can tell . they’re definitely like ‘ oh , that’s my dad , i know he’s there , i’m going to kick around so he knows i love him ! i hope i get to see him soon , i can’t wait for him to be my dad ! ’ you know ? ❜ she says , in a high pitched voice , her accent exceptionally thick as she does before her mouth drops open & she hits him lightly on the shoulder excitedly . ❛ and , and , and i just remembered my mama told me that she used to talk & sing to me when i was in her stomach , you know & that i could hear her & that’s how i knew she was my mama when i was born . so , like , they probably hear us talking & sometimes i sing you know & so that’s , like , definitely how they know that we’re they’re mama & papa ! you should talk to them , to my belly & maybe they’ll kick more ! ❜
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@survivher 💬 ‘ i learned a secret : there is no without . i am not gone . i am scattered into so many pieces , sprinkled on your life like new snow . ’
DESPITE SOME INHERENTLY HUMAN FLAWS, there are a handful of admirable traits to note in Joe Goldberg. Charm, humour and being the only well read man in all of the City of Angels, are only to name a few. Amongst them is his attraction to stubborn women; admittedly, myself included. A confident man is a man that can look a hard headed woman in the eye and bear their soul open and as raw as a fresh wound. A naive man is a man who doesn’t know how to pick his battles nor how to end them. But I can’t fault him, he has a lot going on, what with the baby and the move. In the words of Shaman Kevin: let bygones be bye and gone.
Who I can fault is the redhead who had just stormed into the store. It takes seconds that feel like hours to blink the vision of fury into clarity. A woman looks me straight in the eyes, wielding her sharp words and fearless bravado. A woman who was supposed to be dead. Joe, is your ex girlfriend fucking immortal ? Woman risen from the dead, not once, but twice, still doesn’t seem to understand that she’s no longer dealing with a Goldberg. The Quinn’s don’t go down as easy. And apparently a Stone doesn’t stay buried six feet under. ❝ Candace, ❞ the name comes slowly as the stomach churning realization sinks in. Her presence is a startling reminder of a snowball that has spiralled into something so much bigger than it ever needed to be and growing ever still into an avalanche. I never wanted to hurt her, not like that. So why don’t I feel any sign of relief to see her alive ? Why do I desperately want her dead ? Why is she not dead ?
I know I’m gaping, wide eyed and white knuckled. Composure doesn’t come easy, and when it does I can hear the uncertainty in my voice, just a whisper over the ringing in my ears. ❝ How did you find me ? ❞ Not the question I wanted to ask, but it’s hard to think when the walking dead stands right before me.
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she barely hears him as she drifts , the swaying of the hammock sending her further into unconsciousness . it’s fuzzy , the way the words make their way into her brain & present themselves to what’s left of her consciousness unbelievably . she must have imagined him murmuring the words as he kissed the top of her head sweetly , it’s what she wants him to say , what she’s wanted to ask for the longest time . briefly , the first time she said i love you drifts through her mind , she’d been so nervous . when he’d asked her to move in with him to their first apartment , will he be nervous when he actually asks ? she burrows deeper into his side , into his warmth & it takes a full sixty seconds for violet eyes to pop open . she sits up , her hair falling over her face as she plants her hands on his chest , a wide , surprised grin on her face . ❝ you want me to what ?! ❞ she leans down to press a quick , happy kiss to his lips before she’s hovering over him again . ❝ fjord !! did you just say what i think you said ?! because if you did , you know , obviously i want to do that !! not that i’m going to be bummed or anything if you didn’t because i don’t need to married i just think it would be kind of , like , a brand new adventure , you know ? & i want every adventure with you , fjord . ❞
@survivher asked : “ i want you to marry me. “ from fjord
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* @survivher — DON’T MAKE THIS WEIRD . . . BUT I SAW THIS IN THE STORE. FIGURED YOU’D LIKE IT.
THIS SEEMS LIKE ONE OF THE TIMES FIG PRETENDS SHE’S NOT AN OPEN PERSON. like she’s not one of the most affectionate people gorgug has ever known, like she doesn’t make it clear with every word and deed that she loves and supports her friends. “ fig . . . you bought this for me? ” gorgug tilts his head to the side, slouching down so it’s a little easier to look in her eyes and smile. “ that’s just so nice, you know? ” he pulls the cool, new drumsticks from the gift bag, all green and black and awesome. “ these are . . . just perfect. and i can use them at the gig tonight! ”
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* @survivher — SOMEONE HAS TO LEAVE FIRST.
HE PUTS HIS HAND ON BEAUREGARD’S SHOULDER, GIVING A SQUEEZE. it begins as habit, when he steps into frumpkin’s eyes. it is something more now — it is their way, usually for him when he is falling to pieces. today, it is for her. “ and it will not be you, ” he says firmly. “ not like this. not unless it is what you want. you leave like this, and i will follow you. ” he leans down to make her look him in the face, with her downturned, teary gaze. “ you think i cannot find you? hmm? you are not the only smart one in this group, beauregard. and i am just as stubborn as you. ” he gives her shoulder another squeeze. if they were less broken, he might pull her into a hug — he wants to pull her into a hug. but this is their way.
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