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acaciapines · 5 months

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Your nanowrimo pieces are soooo goooood they hit so hard fr fr. I’m especially LOVING today’s one with the owl & the collector even tho I don’t rlly know that much abt toh bc I haven’t watched it but I can tell that u LOVE IT & I can’t wait to learn more thru osmosis once the fic is poooosteeeed✨ (i WILL read it i PROMISE i SWEAR)

Anyways give us the thoughts, the tea, tell us how you make the words do that✨ anything u wanna give in regards to today’s bit!! We’re not picky!

Hope y’all are doing okay! Gal says hi :) Remember to eat and drink something, take breaks, and look after yourselves and each other! We love you! This has been a Daily Interaction Ask <3

he he :3 im glad youre enjoying!! its been really fun to pick out my favorite bits even when usually those are the ones w/out context lol. look at my owl and weep boy. firefly <3

YOU WILL LEARN SO MUCH VIA OSMOSIS....literally now that im also doing something for s1 its like. why watch owl house we have owl house at home (the owl house at home is a 1 million word daemon au) (<- 1 mil is not a joke btw idk if it'll hit it but itll at least come very close. no idk why i did this.)

as for today! hmmm...

its truly so fun to write the collector. like im not joking about him being my favorite owl house character despite his maybe twenty total minutes of screentime, so its been such a JOY to expand his role in this series!!

bc like. god. actually i think i wrote a whole like. bit of flash fiction/prose poetry type thing for them a while ago. probably in my files somewhere. but just. youre an immortal eight year old. you are in these years where you need to interact with other people for your own mental stability and health. to figure out the whole Being A Person thing. and you are trapped for like, centuries. trapped away from everyone and everything and DUST, which, in universe, in literally connection personified. you're cut off from all of this.

and you are, let me say again, eight years old.

truly the collector is just. hes had everyone he ever cares about leave him--his siblings the other archivists left him behind not out of any sense of cruelty, really, but because caring about people just isnt really a thing they do. quite frankly they live so long they didnt even notice. theyre far-away stars. not far because they're mean. just because thats what stars do.

and then king's dad (who um. doesnt have a name <3 this is why the collector calls him 'the big bully' its literally bc i never gave him a name--) was an adult the collector actually trusted and looked up to (he meshed REALLY WELL into titan society until the archivists started Doing A Murder since titans are the only beings that match them in power and they have very very different ideas about dust). like ive said before the collector is owlbeastkin but before that they never had a super stable sense of identity--in another world where they stayed w/ the titans they wouldve ended up a titan.

and then king's dad just. trapped him in a tablet forever.

and like, to be fair to king's dad he was reacting out of fear and the best knowledge he had (he assumed the collector led the archivists to the titans, and like, he did, but its not like he knew he was doing that, and, you know, poor guy had seen a huge chuck of his fellow titans killed including babies and eggs of which he had an egg to consider), but it still TRAPPED THEM. and then he died and so did all the rest of the titans so nobody could free the collector even if they wanted to.

and then BELOS, who manipulated and lied to the collector for so long and was also literally his only friend after being alone forever, so like, of course the collector just blindly went along with whatever he said. he was gonna free them!! he listened to them when they talked about stardust which nobody else ever did! he had no idea what the fuck a witch was! he just liked being able to see the stardust sometimes, and belos brought him to places with a lot of stardust. to destroy it, but like--you know. it was THERE.

but all these people were just USING them, and they never really understand that until king comes around. and king's also a scared eight year old!! but like. king's also not wrong. the collector did aid belos in destroying the entire isles. like no joke belos SUCCEEDS here. like not long-term obvi this has a happy ending but at the point we're in at for the future? it doesnt matter that the draining spell failed. all the palistrom trees are dead. witch society Cannot come back from that even if they did end up beating the collector. theyre doomed.

anyways what was i saying. collector. right.

so like, then they meet firefly/grr-click-growl/wings-across-night/the owl beast (king of having so many names i love her <3) and shes like, the first person who cares for them and ISNT using them. even king is using them!! but firefly has seen Some Shit. she sees the collector as a hatchling who was kicked out of his nest and is doing her best to be some sort of stable figure for him, but she doesnt Not see the stuff he's done.

the collector took over the world bc he's scared--all he's ever known is being used and trapped so he doesnt exactly trust most people easily. firefly would Love to not be in this world anymore. shes also got a loyalty to eda and king and luzmari. and, like, cool motive, still trapping an entire society of people.

but like. shes the one who is here right now and nobody else is trying to help this kid.

but the collector just. hes just an eight year old. a very, very old eight year old. but he doesnt understand things like "you can make the wrong choices and still choose to do better later" and "im mad at what you did but that doesnt mean i dont care about you."

he just sees someone upset with him. just sees another person who used him and doesnt care and is going to leave bc everyone leaves him and in a world where EVERY SINGLE PERSON comes in pairs, hes the only one who stands alone.

basically tl;dr: collector my beloved <3

#ask #daily interaction ask #toh #collector my beloved #yes this goes in the blog. hi wyn <3333333333 #me every time someone asks me about my fic: (forgets literally everything ive ever written)#also me: heres too many words about the collector lol #I JUST. LOVE THEM. LOVE TALKING ABOUT THEM #THANK U FOR ENABLING ME <333333 #i will never be free until 2-3 years from now when i post the final chapter of this fic <3 #get ready for the LONG. HAUL.#and a grove of palistrom to you

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cheemken · 8 months

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More toh au stuff bc this au got me on a chokehold now omf

Ah bu anyways hahah

Augustine and Cynthia's dynamic tho. Cause like, prior to his death, these two were really close, and yknow she probs knows about all the other failed grimwalkers before this current Augustine they have, the Golden Guard. And like,, he's so different from her friend.

The Golden Guard was arrogant and critical and is honestly such a suck up. A prodigy and one of the faces of the Empress' Coven, he makes sure everyone knows that, that he will always be above them, that the empress will always favour him at the end of the day, not them. And that time when Cynthia and Geeta came back from that mission, Augustine already told Diantha of what happened.

After that confrontation w Diantha, Cyn immediately went to her chambers, only for Augustine to be waiting for her outside the throne room. His mask was off, he was smirking at her, his eyes almost glowing like Diantha's. At first, looking at the Golden Guard somewhat gave Cynthia some sort of closure, but as the years passed, she grew to hate him. He wasn't Augustine. He looked a decade younger than her, in his 20s, the age when he died, the age he forever will be; his eyes are now a shade of red, shining like gemstones, she always loved his sky blue eyes back then; he became obsessed with power, the Augustine she knows was the most humble witch in the Isles. Cynthia wanted nothing more than to get rid of the Golden Guard.

"greetings, Cynthia." He smiled, hands behind his back as he started walking around her, "I see you've made my dearest sister mad again."

"what do you want?"

"oh, nothing, really," he chuckled, "just that... I wonder how many more failed missions before you get petrified too." He was swaying around now too, almost taunting her, a toothy grin on his face, "Dia could only take so much, of course. And in the Empress' Coven, there's no room for failures."

"we got the key, didn't we? That mission wasn't a failure."

"no, it was Geeta who got the key, while you were busy being pathetic, crying after the human left."

And that caught her off guard. How did he know?

He laughed again, "oh, Cynthia, you're so funny," he then took his mask from his belt, "but did you really think I'd let you and the others ruin more of our plans? Granted, they're doing a better job than you." He scoffed, rolling his eyes, "I don't know why Dia still keeps you around, but maybe that's something I won't ever know." He shrugged, finally he placed his mask over his face, within the dark abyss of mask, she could see his bright red eyes. She could just feel his grin from beneath the mask, "well, I'll be off now. Au revoir, Cynthia!" And so he left in a blur of blue, his laugh echoing within the hall.

Cynthia could only fear for her own life now, as what the Golden Guard said was true, there is no room for failure in the Empress' Coven, and she'd rather not disappoint Diantha. Ofc she won't, she promised herself she'll be better, and the next time she comes across that human again, she won't fall for those lies anymore. After all, Diantha said those humans will only try to make them feel bad and to lower their guards to get the upper hand, and Titan she was right, that human got to her, but not anymore. Ofc, she'll be better, next time she'll win their battle, she'll make sure of it.

#idk but i like the thought of gg augustine being a lil shit hahaha #he deserves it i think hahaha #but yeah their dynamic is just sooooooo bdnfbnd #cause theyre moirails in my hcs too and writing them like this is jsut👌#anyways yeah hahah #toh au

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