#DQAU

[xx-whiterose]

DQ version 4 designs! Weiss got a bit of a clean up! The others will be coming soon enough as well

#rwby #weiss schnee #weiss #schnee #dust queen #dust queen au #DQAU

[im-a-ramblr]

Blinks

Did I really make two separate post about explaining the same AU idea, with completely different levels of details because it hunted me so much and I had forgotten about the original? Apparently, yes. Guess I really should get around to doing something with the Dain and Faith are real AU.

#deltora quest #DQAU #dain of tora #faith needs a tag but idk how

[duckapus]

Jim Pianta Headcanons

(edited to undo my undoing)

Main Timeline

A young purple Pianta who somehow has thick black eyebrows despite Piantas normally having no eyebrows at all

His mother is Don Pianta's sister. She's not involved with the Pianta Mafia so Jim and his uncle aren't really that close

They are at least close enough that Jim was able to meet Lily once or twice via Don's "business meetings" with the Estrellas before she ran away

A sensitive soul, though a bit dim. That dimness and his uncle's influence is why he goes along with Zack and Larry's pranks

Has always wanted to be a Chuckster and was very happy to get to keep the Suplex copy ability that GG gave him

Very creative with a keen eye for fashion, which is being bolstered by GG's ongoing experiments with acting like a "normal" girl. May end up becoming a fashion designer when he grows up

Tends to call Zack "boss" for some reason. Zack did not ask him to do that

Dim Quadrants Timeline

During the fall of the Mushrom Kingdom's original government, his mom had to turn to her brother for safety

This led to Jim being far more heavily influenced by his uncle, and eventually being named his heir

Despite that influence he can't bring himself to be anywhere near as ruthless as the Don was, since he is still Jim at the end of the day

Misses Zack and Larry terribly

Still isn't too bright, but being raised as the Don's replacement and getting practical experience as both a member and leader of a crime syndicate has forced him to wise up in some areas

Has a soft spot for kids and is as close with Poppy as he can get away with

Because of this he's the source of pretty much anything good and true Poppy has heard about her sister...which admittedly isn't much since they weren't exactly close

Never did manage to develop the kind of arm strength necessary to be a Chuckster

Has heard rumors of a hidden city in the Pipe Network (the brick chambers connected by warp pipes that make up most Underground Levels) founded by a blue and white catwoman to give people refuge from the quadrants above, and is working himself and his men to the stem trying to find it alongside their regular duties. Officially it's a mission from the bosses, but Jim's actually doing it for himself. Because that description fits Karen and Katie, which means it's a potential lead on reuniting with his real Boss.

Little does he know, this is actually a much more direct lead than he thinks...

#smg4 ocs #oc lore #jim pianta #don pianta #smg4 zack #larry koopa #lily #the gamer girl #the estrellas #dim quadrants au #poppy estrella #smg4 karen #smg4 katie #as to what that last entree's hinting to... #remember how the tags of my first zackxgg stuff said i might decide to do Gender Stuff with zack's dressup stuff down the line? #well i've finally decided that yes. yes i will. but it's still pretty far off in the main au so the dqau gives me a good excuse for a revea #jim's just a little buddy boy #free him #UNDOING UNDONE! POST RESTORED!

[gremlin2]

57 for the spotify thingy

"is it okay if i call you mine?" by paul mccrane

#this is bc its on the viquill playlist LOL #or maybe just the dqau playlist i dont remember

[tumblezwei]

Drawing again, and maybe y'all could help me with this

I'm designing the Grimm Guards for the DQAU and I need to figure out a balance between Grimm and Grey Guard, in terms of how animalistic they should be

#rwby #sure I'll tag this why not #rambling #deltora quest au

[nerice]

-roa jumie (extremely unkempt hair, just pulled back out of her face, PONYTAIL!!!!) hairpin pinned to her clothes, never worn -romance novel territory (wears her hair open again, also wears the hairpin) most gorgeous/heartbreakingly beautiful -early palace/rabbit recovery (tired and kind of messy, 100% mom wear. buns, always. the hairpin finds a way to somewhere) -lhnh (business casual only, also full war get-up gets dusted off. wrist bracers and archer gloves and battle ready armor (padded/leather)) -dream game (half business casual, half mom wear; scarf to cover up the throat scars) -dnd au (LONGER HAIR!!!!! breastplate, archer/half gloves, THE MOST INTRICATE DESIGN YET) -dqau (barely shoulder length hair bc of. yknow ;))

#on one hand im making this post to yell abt dnd au designs bc im At It again #otoh im here bc i remembered dqau is a thing and why her design is the way it is in there :) (naughty reasons) #tired: when will i make a book chart / wired: when will i make a full across the board character design oc chart #hhhhhhhhhhhhh #shadowblogging #words will have to suffice for now i have to sleep soon >:(

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[11:06] Axwell Λ Ingrosso ft. Vargas & Lagola – Sun Is Shining (Da Tweekaz Bootleg) [FREE/VIRGIN]

[13:05] Da Tweekaz & Refuzion – Because Of You (Kick Edit) [DIRTY WORKZ]

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[31:20] Scooter – Nessaja (Da Tweekaz Edit) [SHEFFIELD TUNES]

[32:34] Gammer – The Drop [MONSTERCAT]

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[artistic-writer]

Between Now and Nether :: Ch 13 :: A CS AU

Title: Between Now and Nether by @artistic-writer [full res fanart]

Summary: On their way to a Nolan Charity Gala, tragedy befalls Emma and Killian who is given just seven days to set things right.  Can he make Emma believe and escape the Nether before he is lost forever?

Rating: T+

AO3 Chapters: [1] - [2] - [3] - [4] - [5] - [6] - [7] - [8] - [9] - [10] - [11] - [12] -[13] Fanart Full Resolution: [1] - [2] - [3] - [4] - [5] - [6] - [7] - [8] - [9] - [10] - [11] - [12] - [13]

A/N: I am really sorry this post is late guys, but I have only just finished the fanart.  This week has been very busy for me and I could have left this until my next day off, but that is Wednesday and i didn’t want to let you guys down!  You are all so lovely for liking this story, and i promise you will not be disappointed in the ending.  And just a little clarification:  The ring will come up again.  Emma will be put into an interrogation room with Gold.  Leroy will get his just desserts for murdering our lovely Liam.  There will be a very CS-centric heart to heart love filled fluffy-angst chapter - you just have to stick with me a few more.  Also, as predicted, this story has AGAIN been extended, so even more, yay!

I hope you appreciate that this chapter took me over 8 days to complete because it took me 7 days to fabricate a code lol  Legit dedicated. ;)

Future updates will be Sundays AND Thursdays! (providing I can get the art made in time)

Forever thanks to @kmomof4 for beta’ing the shit out of this thing!  You are seriously the best!  And a massive thank you to @hollyethecurious who i very often whine to and for making me go do that thing last night...it made me feel so much better :)

Taglist: @mariakov81 @rouhn @hollyethecurious @kmomof4 @resident-of-storybrooke@hookedonapirate @galadriel26 @aye-captn @the-captains-ayebrows @yayimallamaagain @i-nvr-wrote-it @officerrogerss @kiwistreetswan @wellhellotragic @depechemode75 @distant-rose @yrellow-bugs-and-pirate-ships @courtorderedcake  @wellhellotragic

If you would like to be added please let me know for ch 14!

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Emma had to hand it to Liam, even if she had only known him for a short while, he was exceedingly clever.  The code was one that he knew only his brother could break, never risking it falling into the hands of anybody else.  A pang of sadness had hit Emma as she took notes of the dots and dashes, realising just how engrossed in catching his parents’ killer Liam actually had been.  He had been in so deep, living a life behind what the world saw and it explained why he had never had a serious relationship or was social with anyone except his brother.

Graham had long since left the house, a mixture of tiredness and unsettledness overcoming him when Emma sat across from him, mainly talking with herself, but hastily scribbling notes.  The pages had been scrambled but they had managed to work out that they needed to be in reverse order for the code to work.  Killian had told them that much through Emma, and it gave them a good starting point to work out the rest.

Killian had, through constant contact with Emma’s belly, managed to tell them about the time they were kids when he and Liam were sent to live with distant relatives in England.  Newly orphaned, the boys were living with the family that they had never met before and it was clear from the way they were treated, that the family didn’t want them.  They took them in under obligation and the promise of an inheritance from Brennan’s estate, only the money never came and the brothers suffered for it.

In order to keep themselves sane, and to stop their communication from falling into the wrong hands and possibly earning them more abuse, Liam had devised a code.  It was a secret code, their form of communication, and to the casual observer, it would seem to be Morse Code.  Liam had always loved reading about the Navy and wanted to one day join, but at the time he was young, with a bleak outlook, so his imagination was all he had.  He devised an entire language for them, reversing the standard Morse Code and scrambling the messages into anagrams, just to make sure nobody but Killian would understand them.

Once Liam had taught Killian, it seemed they had suddenly become bilingual, talking in their own hidden language that Killian could still read as clear as day.  Emma had assured Graham she wouldn’t rest until they had worked out what the code meant so when he had departed for the evening, she retired to the bedroom with her notes.

It had also become very apparent as the evening had progressed, that Emma now believed so firmly in Killian being with her that he no longer needed to be touching her for her to hear him.  Just being close to her was enough and when Emma had shuffled her legs under the comforter, sitting crossed legged with her notepad resting on her knee, all Killian had to do was mirror her position on the bed in front of her for her to hear him.

“So it’s like Morse Code?” Emma asked excitedly, narrowing her eyes at the dots and dashes on her page.

“Yes!” Killian exclaimed, shuffling his body forward and watching Emma go wide eyed at the movement of the duvet.  “Except it’s reversed,” Killian nodded to the page.  

“So reversed like the words or the dits and dahs?” Emma smirked, poking her tongue out playfully.

Killian matched her smirked and made a noise deep in his throat.  “Dits and dahs?” He quirked his eyebrow and was a little disappointed when Emma didn’t respond.

“Oh, you know,” Emma shrugged.  “I may have been doing a little research.”

“Into Naval Morse Code?” Killian frowned suspiciously.  

“Your interests are my interests,” She beamed at nobody, watching the ripple in the covers shift again.

“Well, maybe we should get that boat,” Killian teased.  “So you can put your research into practice.”  They had been toying with the idea for a while, but Emma had always assumed he was joking, especially when he had declared the vessel would be known as The Jolly Roger and she was to refer to him whilst onboard as Captain.  She knew Killian had inherited his love of the ocean and ships from his brother, and while neither of them made it into the Navy, they had always dreamed of becoming sailors.

Emma rolled her eyes.  “At ease, Captain,” she looked back down to the page in front of her, trying to force the grin from her face but failing when the corners of her mouth twitched into a telling smile.

“As you wish,” Killian purred.

“So, it’s reversed,” Emma tapped her pen to the notepad and looked up again.  “Anything else?”

Killian nodded but quickly remembered she couldn’t see him.  “Aye, it’s also anagrammed.”

“Are you kidding me?” Emma huffed, falling back against the pillows with an oomph.  She exhaled hard and rubbed the side of her temples.  “And Liam made this up?”

“Aye,” Killian chuckled, watching her frustration.  Emma hadn’t known Liam for as long as he had, so her brief time with the second Jones brother obviously gave her no indication of his abilities to create and master any code.  “He was a genius.”

“Clearly,” Emma puffed, a strand of hair that had fallen over her brow flying upwards with her sigh.

“He wanted to captain a ship in the Navy,” Killian told her proudly.  “He spent so long trying to master everything he would need from a young age.”

“And he got into codes,” Emma finished Killian’s story with a roll of her eyes.  He always was one with a flair for the dramatic, including telling a story he really had no time to tell.  “So we work out the anagrams, then the words?”

“Aye,” Killian nodded again with his words, his voice a little unsure.  If Liam really did not want anyone to find this code but him, this wasn’t going to be easy.

It was well into the early hours of the morning before they had really put a dent in Liam’s code.  Working out the letters was easy.  Killian remembered it like it was yesterday and they were boys back in England, reversing the dots and dashes so that the words made sense.  Of sorts.  Killian distinctly remembered that when they were boys, with him being younger, Liam had taken pity on him and made the codes much easier to crack.

Liam must have been more lenient because as they sat in the dimly lit warmth of their bedroom, the small piles of paper in between them seemed to be much more daunting than they had first anticipated.  Each pile was a single phrase, that much they had worked out, but solving the anagrams with little in the way of clues was proving more difficult.

“So, let’s try this again…” Killian began, watching Emma stifle yet another yawn and blink away the watery haze in her reddened eyes.  “What did the first one say again?”

Emma blinked hard and pinched the bridge of her nose, wiping away at her eyes before reaching for her glasses.  She pushed the black rimmed frames up her nose and they immediately started to slide back down from the weight of the lenses, her nose wrinkling to catch them.  Killian smiled, watching her with a warmth in his chest he had missed feeling.

“hpme cbs ebe sfdsvju ljmmjbo - Shift by the brother,” Emma sighed, the words sounded just as ridiculous in a sentence now as when they had started.

“And the second?” Killian prompted.

“Umm…” Emma scanned her page again, tapping her pen down the curling edge.  “fcf iqnf ngcxg dqau - Shift by the sons.”

“I think they are instructions,” Killian said with a frown that Emma couldn’t see.  He tapped his finger to his lips and hummed to himself.

“To what?” Emma’s own brow knitted in confusion and she pushed the glasses up her nose again.

“To solving the messages,” Killian laughed a little when Emma huffed and headbutted the notepad in her hand.  “I think it's something called the shifted alphabet.”

“Are you kidding? You’re telling me Liam created a message, turned it into an anagram, then reverse morse code and then, after all that, he encoded it with a cipher?”  Emma nearly ran out of breath, gasping after her final word as her lungs emptied.

“Aye,” Killian giggled.  “But the anagram is probably redundant,” he beamed, much more confident than a few moments ago.  “Liam used to encode the messages to me in shifted alphabet in case I was unable to solve the anagram.”

Emma looked down to the slightly smudged writing once more and drew a thick, black line under the nonsensical letters in front of her.  “So, this mess of random letters is the original code but in a shifted alphabet pattern?”

“Aye, love, that’s it.”

“So why bother with the anagram!” Emma screeched.

Killian chuckled and rocked back, uncrossing his legs and shuffling forward towards her.  “A diversion,” he grinned, eyes flicking over the page on her lap.  It was just like Liam to create a decoy message, something that would send would be code crackers off in the wrong direction.  It was how they fooled their caregivers back in England and Liam had clearly hoped Killian would recognise his ruse.  “We just have to work out the number of times each message was shifted using the clues he provided.”

“The non anagrammed messages….” Emma clarified.

“Aye, what was that first one again?” Killian asked eagerly, his eagerness to solve this puzzle and get home to his family more prevalent than ever now that he felt they were actually getting somewhere.

“hpme cbs ebe sfdsvju ljmmjbo - Shift by the brother,” Emma yawned again, her eyes screwing closed behind her fingerprint covered glasses.

“Well, I’m the brother,” Killian scratched his scuff littered jaw.

“But it has to be a number, right?” Emma reminded him, half a statement, half a question.  She knew far less about this sort of thing than Killian, but damn if she wasn’t going to learn after this.

“Of course,” Killian agreed, shaking his head.  “It’s one.  I am his brother, of which he only has one.  It’s shifted by one.”  Killian grinned excitedly.  “If you take the jumbled letters and turn them into the previous one, it decodes them, so what does it say now?”

Emma’s pen went to work on the page, the almost silent, smooth sound of the pen filling her ears as it marked the page.  Killian watched her intently, smiling at the way her tongue poked out when she was thinking and the way she tucked her hair behind her ears so it didn’t obscure her view.  She was a vision, even in her sorrow, and he almost forgot himself as he reached for her face, quickly retracting his see through hand when he noticed and remembered his current state.

“Oh,” Emma said sadly, sitting back a little and lifting her head once more.

“Oh?” Killian repeated her words.  “Swan, what does it say?”

“Gold bar dad recruit Killian.”  Emma looked as though a light bulb had gone off in her head, the sudden realisation of the random words hitting her.  “Your dad owned a bar, right?”  Emma shuffled through some more of the papers in beside her, finding what she wanted and holding the deeds aloft so Killian could see.  “Did Gold go there?”

“Not that I remember,” Killian shrugged.  “You said the second one said ‘shift by the sons’, right?”

“Yeah,” Emma scrambled over her notes again.  “fcf iqnf ngcxg dqau - shift by the sons.”

“Well, my father had two sons,” Killian oozed confidence in his words.  “Shift that one by two.”

Again Emma set to work, quicker this time having got the hang of it already.  “Ok, that one says ‘dad gold leave boys’.  What does that mean?  Killian this doesn’t make sense!” Emma growled, throwing her notes aside and crossing her arms.  “We are getting nowhere!”

No, no,” Killian soothed.  “We are!  Liam always told me that Gold tried to get him to do things for him.  Illegal things.  Maybe he tried with both of us and my father found out.”

“That’s a reach,” Emma sighed.

“Please, Emma, just keep an open mind here.  I’m trying.”

A silence fell between them as Emma picked up the notepad once more.  She took a deep breath, closing her eyes and tilting her head back, stretching her neck muscles as she did so.  Killian watched, helpless to comfort her.  He knew she was hurting, her frustration evident through every fiber of her body. Each cell in every muscle screaming out for the touch he couldn’t provide.

“Emma?” He called softly, watching her look up but then the sadness invaded her features for the umpteenth time that night.  It seemed hearing his voice but not being able to see Killian was really starting to affect Emma, and each time she smiled weakly in his direction, Killian felt his heart crack a little more.

“Hmm?” She hummed, resting the tip of her pen to the paper as her eyes flicked around the space in front of her.

“Just making sure you can still hear me,” he smiled, but she did not see him.

Emma’s eyes fluttered closed as if she was imagining Killian there with her.  “I can hear you,” she smiled, head rolling sideways so her head rested on her shoulder.  “We can hear you.”

Killian watched as Emma flattened her palm over her stomach, scrunching the material of the comforter in her hands and grinning from ear to ear.  The burst of anger he had witnessed moments ago was gone and Emma was calmed by the thoughts of the little one growing inside of her.

“You look happy, love,” Killian said softly.  “Radiant even.”

“Yeah right,” Emma scoffed playfully, rolling her eyes.  “I’ve been crying for days, my skin is blotchy and puffy and I’m sitting in my bed trying to decipher the notes of your dead brother with my spirit boyfriend.”  

Killian’s lips twitched into a knowing smile and he laughed a little, the sound sending a welcome shiver through Emma’s entire body.  “Well, you should see me, I am actually glowing,”  Killian laughed and looked down at her hands in front of him, the faintest white grey outline to his fingers blurring the area around them.  “It’s surreal.”

Emma’s laughter faded with his and she stared directly at where he would be sitting.  “This whole week has been just that,” she said, a more serious tone to her voice.  “I’m not sure I can handle much more.”  

A silence fell between them as they both inadvertently diverted their gaze from each other.  Killian lifted his hand and rubbed the skin behind his ear, extending his fingers around the back of his neck and roughly brushing the hair there.  At the same time, Emma sucked in a huge breath, rolling her bottom lip between her teeth and scribbling a doodle on the page in front of her.

“I’m sorry….” Killian whispered, bowing his head.

“I miss you…” Emma murmured at the same time, lifting her head and sucking in a huge breath.  “Killian!” She gasped.

“Yes, love?” Killian’s head snapped up to meet her gaze but the pale faced look of confusion on Emma’s face stopped him dead.  “Emma, what is it?”  he asked concerned, clenching his fists because he couldn’t comfort her.

“Killian…” Emma gasped, her breathing becoming rapid and irregular as she swallowed a hard lump that had formed in her throat.  “...I can see you.”

#cs ff #cs fic #cs fanfiction #cs au #cs halloweek #between now and nether #ch13 #angst #mystery #captain swan #artistic-writer #fanart for fanfic

[xx-whiterose]

Maaaan, it has been a while. Sorry about that oopsies

from Dust Queen AU

#rwby #weissschnee #dustqueen #dqau #fanffic #fanfic fanart #concept art then i guess? #might delete later #how yall beeen

[xx-whiterose]

The Dust Beasts AU (Based upon the Dust Queen AU, available here https://archiveofourown.org/works/24223450/chapters/58360168)

All it took was one mission to go wrong. One wrong misstep, a missed bullet, a faulty glyph.

But that's all it takes, doesn't it? One wrong move.

The experiments they'd been through were relentless. Less than a few hours kidnapped and they could hear each other's screams through the padded walls, could feel each other's pain and hurt as their very DNA was tampered with. Dust, the very thing they'd been trained to weaponize, fused and bonded to bones and muscle, absorbed to become one with their aura. Test after test, injection after injection. It was the equivalent to hell on Earth. Nobody was coming for them.

'Dust Beasts' Roman had called them. Oh, they'd show him what a beast could do.

They escaped in the destruction, testing and releasing their newfound powers in rage. They all saw blood, felt the pure energy flowing through them as they wielded abilities akin to magic. Nobody stood a chance, and it wasn't until the building fell into shambles and rubble that they'd realised what they became.

Monsters.

#rwby #rwby au #dust queen #dust queen au #DQAU #they all have dust in them #blake is meant to have dust whiskers #and yangs supposed to look like a dragon #ruby is just ruby #most her dust is on her cape #im not writing this out but have fun with your imaginations

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Chapter 16 update!! 

Chapters: 16/? Fandom: RWBY Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Ruby Rose/Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna/Yang Xiao Long Characters: Ruby Rose (RWBY), Weiss Schnee, Blake Belladonna, Yang Xiao Long, Pyrrha Nikos, The White Fang (RWBY), Roman Torchwick, Neopolitan (RWBY), Team CFVY, Glynda Goodwitch, Winter Schnee (RWBY) Additional Tags: AU, Whiterose, Post-Volume 2, soft, Angst, Emotional Trauma, Kissing, Slow Burn, suggestive scenes, Ruby Rose/Weiss Schnee-centric, Human Experimentation in early chapters, Platonic Monochrome/Checkmate, White Fang are a lot rougher, Platonic Ladybug, Dust Queen AU, Canon Divergence, Injury Recovery, blake has a sixth sense on peoples emotional state, ruby hiding her emotions, henceforward inspired, Weiss is very depressed for the first half, PTSD, there will be breakdowns and panic attacks im warning you, best big sister winter, by slowburn i mean it, we're gonna be here awhile Summary:

After an attack led by Roman Torchwick and the White Fang interrupts Weiss and Ruby's date, Weiss is left with scars that will impact her for the rest of her life. Team RWBY tries to help their traumatised teammate recover, but things turn out to be a lot more difficult than they first assumed.

Meanwhile, Ruby tries to fix the broken bond between her and her partner before it's too late.

  (Chapter revisions done: 2 out of 11) (Art posted on x.xwhiterose on Twitter)

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Chapter 14 Update

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Summary:

After an attack led by Roman Torchwick and the White Fang interrupts Weiss and Ruby's date, Weiss is left with scars that will impact her for the rest of her life. Team RWBY tries to help their traumatised teammate recover, but things turn out to be a lot more difficult than they first assumed.

Meanwhile, Ruby tries to fix the broken bond between her and her partner before it's too late.

  CHAPTER 13 UP

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tired: sweetness au is the dark!reina au bc she f*cks **** which is tbf the lowest low point my writing could ever reach

lit: dqau is the superior answer bc reina is actually evil (tm) in that one but it nevertheless is still a romance @ jumie and that is all matters

#shadowblogging #i've been finding my way back into dqau and having so much fun!!!!

[nerice]

Ok bc I‘m obsessed with them: Jumie and Reina

anon i am obsessed with YOU. kissing u on the mouth rn 💖💖💖💖

they're not ranked as high on the problematic ocs scale but we can have a bingo if we squint a little. note the notes under the cut

war crimes. for one, reina expressly refused to become a tool of war in nerice, but her inaction let to a lot of suffering. after the fall of her world, she n azra might have leveled a few villages in their clashes + reina def is guilty of friendly fire bc it was the other people's job to stay out of her way not for her to be careful. oops

very pretty. both of them OFC OFC. queens of all time <3333 reina leaning more traditional regal beauty and jumie rough around the edges yet drop-dead gorgeous warrior woman. :3c

unhealthy family dynamics. minor but. jumie/sky absolute codependency that jumie recognizes as a problem but does nothing about bc she clings to having a daughter again +++ even after sky, her general. slight obsession w/ daughters bc while nothing cld replace emi&ai, in jumie's mind she needs to have a daughter who will live or she will never move on. :(

angry at god. jumie at reina!!!!!!!!!! their beginning. the unfairness of war & reina who is responsible for it all tm

corruption arc. not canonical but there is a setting (dqau) which is covers this for both of them :D! reina who ends all war on nerice by becoming an absolute tyrant & jumie who is sent to assassinate her but joins her instead. qs deserves to be a little evil together, as a treat <3

self-centered but self-loathing. reinacoreeee :( tragic god who knows she doomed her own world & will never forgive herself or get over it, but it's also nobody's business & everyone in sei3 should be glad she is holding azra at bay for their her own sake only :) still absolute martyr-complex on main.

inability to connect emotionally. same boat, reina always sees herself as other, apart from mortals. they cannot understand her and she has given up on trying to understand them. takes jumie to rly break her out of that <3

sharp humor. if you piss jumie off she can get very mean, that's all. reina esp gets a lot of that from her early on & she deserves it tbh

philosophical dilemma. minor but again, the core problem on nerice was that reina refused to aid any of the warlords who desired her for her immortality & all she wanted was peace & could not come to a conclusion on how 2 achieve that thru war, which led to grand allround suffering, including her own. jumie has a similar problem on a smaller scale as she tries to come to terms w/ all the death and destruction that fighting azra incurs, including the casualty of her own family :(

trauma. you know it baby!!! they actually share the exact same core trauma which is losing their world (literally for reina/figuratively for jumie) n both of them coming to understand the other is what ultimately helps them move on, too & is why they are sooo good h. reina who thinks she shld have died with her world, jumie who thinks she should have died with her family. survivor's guilt all the way down. they both obsess over remnants of what they have left and are actively hostile whenever these painful topics are brought up. reina who never knew family but relates to jumie's hurt bc it looks so much like her own, jumie who antagonized & othered reina for years until it sinks in that reina cared for her world like jumie cared for her wife and daughters. they are the saaame your honor & they ruin me bc they heal one another. ;____________________;

god complex + power-hungry. combining these for a new angle that is. reina who is a God ofc but all that set her apart on nerice is slowly fading as she loses her immortality n while the loss of power is only rly a problem vs. azra, being able to feel pain and sustain injury is terrible for her. she only knows how to be a god, and she clings to every shred of power with desperation as it slips thru her hands :')

refined aesthetic. not that jumie doesn't have a vibe but she doesn't cultivate hers as actively as reina. beggar's goddess in simple gowns and bare feet but always baring the power mark on her stomach, impractical hair length that i refuse to elaborate on<3

willpower as weapon. jumie is stubborn as heck but the specific niche application here is dm where she powers thru excessive injury on pure will alone to inflict as much damage as possible on gray. showdown of all tiiimeeeee. she knows reina wasn't able to kill him but she believes she can push thru soulless immortality just bc she wants him dead so badly & i'm always tempted to just Let Her Have That :D

ruthless to the point of borderline sadism. CAVEATS HERE. jumie is ruthless but (shadows aside) it never borders on sadism. reina is never ruthless (outside of the mostly accidental friendly fire mentioned earlier, which she gets more careful of with time) but ABSOLUTELY key point of her flaying gray in lhnh is that she loses herself in the torture to the point where it stops being abt sky & he can absolutely tell & taunts her abt it, which haunts both her and me forever. hh

complicated relationship with the concept of death. aforementioned martyr-complex. even jumie can never fully break reina out of this :(( even as she becomes mortal and fears death and battling azra bc every time could be her last !! the need to atone never leaves her & she does get to sacrifice herself at the end of dream game and turns statue, the destined end for all true rulers. dead but it's ok there's a loophole i promise!!! :')))))))))!!!!!!

#happy qs essay halfway thru this i am insane over them thank u for enabling me anon #both their trauma is also explicitly tied to fire. bc nerice ended in fire & jumie's last memory of her family is the blue angel fire :)) #which makes reina sustaining those burn scars in lhnh & all of dream game angel hell so. :) death #fuck all my other ocs. only them <3333333 #oc asks #askbox #anonbox #qs info #i never rmbr to use these tags consistently but for good measure i'm making an attempt