I’m reminded of that post about how goths and people who wear only lots of pink are actually the same because “wearing only one color” is a specific choice in opposition to just looking Normal
I’m flying to a friend’s wedding today, and I recently acquired from my neighborhood free page a very pretty vintage suitcase in like a brocade upholstery texture in all of my good colors, so of course I needed a coordinated airport outfit à la Midge Maisel. You guys don’t know me, but I usually dress very put together, in what my sister calls Outfits, with a capital O to distinguish it from just wearing clothes. And since getting a full time job I’ve been slowly adding to my collection of vintage and 50’s-vibes clothes, because I just really like that aesthetic (my bridesmaid dress for the wedding is a vintage tea dress I got from Etsy. The fabric is in great condition but I had to reinforce pretty much every seam with my sewing machine, because the structural integrity of the original thread was breaking down, so that was an interesting learning experience).
All of which is to say that I Dressed Up for the airport in a vintage-y outfit that coordinates perfectly with some of the colors of my suitcase, and my hair is curled, and I have a vintage leather purse that my grandma gave me that matches her watch that I’m wearing and the shoes she bought me last summer at the same vintage store that my skirt came from, and a teenage-ish girl with whatever you call the 2023 teenage equivalent of emo/punk vibes, like the dark maroon mullet and not a lot of makeup and dark comfy clothes but like, very on purpose, told me I look cool when I walked past on the way to security
And like, she Gets It! We have different fashion goals but I think we put a similar degree of intention into the way we look compared to just wearing regular clothes. Which is cool! It’s validating. Not that I really need validation, but it’s always nice to get compliments, of course. And the way I dress is really not terribly distinctive most of the time, other than being Outfits and a little dressier than maybe the norm is, like I think most people who see me one time in passing would see that I look Nice but not necessarily see it as a cultivated Look. But punk mullet girl gets it.
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i promised context for this post, so here it is!!
major tws today folks: hard vore mention, unnamed character death, vore, digestion, in that order. Don’t read if you aren’t ok with these things!!
Y’know how there are animals that are genetically modified to help get rid of another overpopulated animal?
In this au there’s an overpopulation of borrowers, so scientists genetically engineer the first predatory borrower. They bred and raised borrowers in their labs, and began experimenting on them to make them look like normal borrowers, but have the capacity to grow bigger, stronger, all around more animalistic and predatory, though no two borrowers were experimented on exactly the same. They were tortured in the labs to make them as strong as possible, and forcibly modified when they messed up (think Nebula from Guardians of the Galaxy but less tech fuckery and more genetic fuckery). They then raised these special borrowers with the mentality that they were the superior species, and that borrowers were nothing more than pests, and they were fed live borrowers for years. And then, after all that, the scientists tested their effectiveness.
One borrower-creature was far more effective than the others. So effective, in fact, that it managed to break out of the facility, killing and eating most of the other creatures (and a few scientists’ fingers) before leaving. The experiment all around was deemed a failure and there have been no further attempts to make more borrower-creatures.
Meanwhile Tommy has no idea what he’s doing now that he’s broken out. He’d always had food handed to him, he doesn’t know how to hunt. He spends a bit of time in the woods alone failing to find food before he stumbles upon a human walking through a trail. He quickly latches onto this human and plays victim, and the human, Wilbur, one of the few who think of borrowers as people, takes pity on him and takes him home.
Once home, Tommy somewhat drops the act, still pretending he’s innocent but now telling Wil that he’s a bit different from other borrowers, and is fully carnivorous. Wilbur agrees to help feed him, but it doesn’t take long for the gaslighting to start.
After a few months, Tommy begins guilting Wilbur into believing that he’s not getting him enough food, and Wil, who’s very attached to Tommy at this point and who views him as a little brother, does his best to get Tommy what he needs. It starts with raw meats from the stores but quickly turns to buying insects and then small rodents and lizards, and Wilbur never watches him eat (Tommy had made it very clear that he never wanted Wilbur to see him eat for whatever reason), but nothing was enough for him. Tommy always says that he needs something more, something better.
It all just gets worse and worse until a borrower finds its way into Wilbur’s house, and Wil takes pity on him, too. He tries to introduce him to Tommy, who’s friendly at first, but the second Wilbur turns his back, the other borrower is trapped in Tommy’s stomach, nothing but a panicked, wriggling lump under his skin. This is the first time Wilbur has ever seen Tom’s creature form. He is scared, betrayed, appalled, but above all else, furious. He demands Tommy spit them out, but he refuses. Tommy laments how he’s glad that after all this time, he finally got a fulfilling meal, and that maybe if Wilbur continued to get him meals like this, meals that he was made to eat instead of measly animals or bugs, they could get along like brothers, like Wilbur wants. Wilbur eventually realizes how he’s been manipulated by the very person he adopted and treated like family, and he breaks. He notices the thrashing bulge in Tom’s stomach getting slower and slower and eventually, when he sees it stop moving, he grabs Tommy by the throat and holds a knife up to him, saying that if he doesn’t spit the borrower out he’d cut him out.
Tommy, who’s not stupid and who was also physically tormented by the scientists who created him, leaving a bit of fear for humans left in his instincts, finally spits the borrower out. He’s still breathing, barely, and is heavily burned. Wil sticks Tommy in a jar for the time being and begins to help the mangled borrower as much as he can.
Wilbur calls up one of his friends who agrees with his beliefs on borrowers, and they agree to take the borrower and help him. The borrower soon wakes up, and Wilbur apologizes profusely, and says that he has a place for him to stay where he’s safe and away from Tommy.
Wilbur’s friend gets there to take the borrower and the two hit it off right away, the human introducing himself as Ranboo and the borrower introducing himself as Tubbo.
Once they’re all sorted out and on their way back to Ranboo’s house, Wilbur deals with Tommy. And as upset as Wilbur is at him, and as much as the murder threat scared Tommy, Tommy has no remorse, and is frankly pissed that Wilbur took away the only decent meal he’d had in forever. Turns out that the reason Tommy had been dissatisfied with his meals was that he wanted to hunt things with intelligence, like he’d been taught to. Like he been made to do. When he explains that to Wilbur, he’s actually slightly heartbroken. Someone at a lab had taken a baby borrower, fucked him up, and told him that he only had one purpose in life. And whether Tommy realizes is or not, and no matter how much he hates the scientists who did this to him, he’s been trying to do exactly what they wanted. He’s never tried to be anything other than the monster they told him to be.
Wil decides then and there that it’s gonna be his mission to fix Tommy. To unteach all of the bullshit that he learned at the lab, and make him realize that borrowers are people, too. But with a while childhood of corruption and a society where borrowers really are seen as pests, he’s got a long way to go before Tommy sees differently.
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Juniper Timeline
Wanted to give a basic rundown of the events in my hypothetical story for Juniper. If at any point canon gives us new information that clashes with anything I’ve come up with, things will change but for now buckle up and enjoy the ride.
It’s a bit long.
Starting at St Epiderm! Juniper was studying under the bard track with Scooter Crane, who was teaching there at the time. While they weren’t any good with most instruments, they had a strong singing voice. Scooter’s daughter (who was in the healing track) was Juniper’s best friend at the time. Juniper was very involved with the school’s drama club that Scooter also oversaw. Adrian (in the illusion track of course) was also going to St Ep and in the same graduating class as June. As another theatre kid, he was also very involved with the drama club and sparked a rivalry between them after fighting over the title of club president. That rivalry went strong their entire school life, competing for lead roles and the attention of their classmates. At some point during these school years, Juniper carved Pearl. They had access to palistrom wood then, and had been eagerly waiting to bring her to life, as they had been practicing carving normal wood so that they could eventually make the perfect palisman.
Not too long after Juniper graduated, Scooter was appointed head witch and became their mentor. Juniper during these years stayed active in the theatre scene, joining the Drama Coven and even becoming head witch there. He got quite a lot of attention from all this and a bit of a following as well. Because of that, they felt the need to please those people and give them everything they want. How could he do that? Be better than their best self. But even then, they aren’t their best self, there’s something holding him back. He’s not as pretty or alluring as their fellow covenmates, and while their voice has been the reason for all their success thus far, it still wasn’t enough. Their magic wasn’t strong enough, they needed more if they wanted to impress people. During this whole identity crisis of theirs, they came to the decision to join the Illusion Coven. He thought that he could dazzle more audiences this way, and possibly open a door for greater opportunities. And they were right. With the increase of love and attention from this, Juniper was offered the job as Head Witch of the Illusion Coven. How could they ever turn that down? The popularity got to his head, and filled that void of insecurity deep inside him. They needed this kind of recognition to feed his ego. And so, they accepted the offer.
But before being officially declared head witch, Belos needs to know who he’s appointing will be loyal and stay in line. He’s looking for someone who would be too scared to try anything funny. And as he does with every head witch and their palisman, he took Pearl’s life right before Juniper’s eyes. Done as a sort of threat to put them in their place, it’s important for anyone working in the castle to give up any attachments they had because their line of work is not for the weak. This action was not something Juniper was warned about. If they had known, Juniper would’ve dropped their status, their fame, everything if it meant Pearl’s survival. But it was too late, there was no bringing her back now. And just as Belos had hoped, this triggered something in Juniper’s mind and turned them into another one of his lapdogs. As terrified of Belos they became after this, Juniper did everything they could to their best of their abilities to be good at their job. Pearl was killed for a reason. They were not about to let her sacrifice go to waste. They didn’t want to risk ever disappointing the Emperor. Lucky enough for them, they were good at their job. With their large following, they managed to convince more witches to join the Illusion Coven over any of the other covens during their run. He always did everything he was assigned, and overall got along well with others. He was practically the perfect head witch.
At the start of when they became a coven head, he and Darius instantly clicked when they met and a relationship between them bloomed. It lasted for a bit, but eventually Juniper’s selfish mindset and loyalty to the Emperor would pull them apart. June loved Darius, but loved himself more. Instead of allowing himself to be vulnerable and love in an honest manner, they only put effort in trying to impress Darius and in doing so made their relationship more about themself than the both of them. But also during this time, Darius would start to distance himself from the other heads (except Eber of course), Juniper included. Once June figured out his future plans for rebellion, they would end things between them. Juniper’s personal hatred for Belos wasn’t enough to get them to join sides with Darius and Eber. Their love for Pearl and fear of Belos kept them licking his boots.
Sometime after these events, Juniper would be getting lonely, needed a distraction, and needed to improve their magic to do their job better. Impersonating is his greatest skill, and comes in handy when he needs to replace certain people as an “understudy” at special functions they can’t make it to. This only works if their performance is convincing though, so studying a person’s character became a bit of a hobby of their’s. The next victim of Juniper’s character studies as it would seem would be Vitimir. Quiet, reserved, and hard to read, Juniper needed to get up close and personal to understand him more. While initially offering to gather ingredients and taste test potions, the two of them grew close. Genuinely. Vit would begin to teach June the basics of potion making, and June would inspire Vit to open themself up more and be more creative with his magic. And before they knew it, the two fell for each other. While their feelings were very obviously mutual, Juniper’s past relationship with Darius prevented him from doing anything to further their relationship with Vit. They’re aware that they’ve never been a good partner. They believe Vitimir deserves better, but they don’t realize that loving Vit has made them a better person.
After a confession from Vitimir, and before their relationship could develop any further, Belos announces Juniper’s sudden replacement. Without warning or reason, Juniper is immediately let go as head witch and nobody knows why. Because of this, Juniper’s whole world comes crashing down. Their life’s work? Pearl’s death? All of it was for nothing. All of it meant nothing to Belos. They had no idea if they did something wrong to get them cast out like that without even getting a chance to defend themself. A flawless star like Juniper being replaced out of the blue without explanation? Sounds scandalous, the media would be ruthless about it, there’s no way June could make a public appearance after that. He needed somewhere to hide, and fast. And so, Juniper takes refuge in the family home of the witches they trust the more than anyone else - the Cranes.
With how fast everything has happened, Juniper is left in such a state of shock, they feel stripped of everything they worked so hard for. In this, he finally lets his grief for Pearl set in. So much time has passed since her death, he should be over it but they’re not. Juniper coops himself up in the house after this and becomes a hermit. But during one of the rare instances they left the house, they come across a broken palisman. Its interlock is broken, it can’t fit on its staff anymore, it’s essentially useless. June decides to take the palisman in and care for it. The two of them bond and relate to one another, giving the other a purpose again. They’re both starting to heal. Eventually, Scooter retires and joins Juniper and his kids at their house, welcoming the palisman as the newest member of the family. Life is calm and considerably normal.
Time passes, and the Day of Unity is almost here. Scooter is called as an emergency replacement for the Head Bard, so he and his kids leave. Juniper stays as they believe Belos doesn’t want them involved with any of his plans. June is alone with their palisman, until suddenly someone shows up at their door. It’s Gus and Matt, both in a panic but also seem starstruck at the sight of Juniper. THE Juniper Jazz that was said to have gone missing after Graye stepped in their place. Letting the excitement wear off, the two of them explain Belos’ plan and the events that went down at Hexside with Adrian, and his strange fascination for the Galdorstones. Gus believed that after Adrian saw the Looking Glass Ruins in his mind, it would not be safe to keep them there, so he asks Juniper if they could be the next guardian of the stones. After some convincing, Juniper agrees and takes the Galdorstones. Gus and Matt leave and June is left alone again. Things stay this way up to when the draining spell activates.
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okay soooo since it’s basically been confirmed that all 12 WoT heroes will be available in the game at some point
i wanna propose the idea that i think heroes are getting banners in order of story appearance,, but if the hero up next is someone who Died,, then that specific character will be skipped & they’ll go to the next one who Survived
so like for reference right. syphfride was the first person we met back in chapter 1,, and she was Also a hero who survived the war,, so she was the first person to get a banner. ondal was supposed to be next,, but since he’s someone who’s supposed to die,, he got skipped and they went straight to brandon
after brandon’s banner ended a few days ago,, raligon would’ve been next,, but since y’know. he died at the end. he got skipped,, and now dragon knight helga is up and running
i’m assuming that young walther & aslan will be coming after helga leaves,, and then arkanath will probably be skipped after those two since She Dies,, and then we’ll see whoever else gets introduced after her
the thing is…i don’t know how they’re gonna do banners for the people who died. i’m guessing that after all the people who Survived are finished,, they’ll introduce the remaining heroes at the very end. maybe it’ll be a special kind of link across timelines since they’re no longer living,, like we link to them when they’re still alive?? there’s a lot of possibilities with this but i think it’ll be interesting regardless
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I know the post was made more than 2 weeks ago, but...please tell us more about Lady Dom 😳
Omg yes of course!!!
Lady Dom, her actual name being Domella, is roughly 6’11” and ??? years old. She is special in which she has the power to know everything. It’s transferred through touch, so she gets her information from people by handshakes, hugs, pats on the back, etc.
Before when the story takes place, she works under the king for a good portion of time. All of her family had died not too long prior, so she took the job in order to have a place to stay and what not. She works as his informant and uses her power to get information for his gain so the kingdom can do stronger.
It’s at the castle where she meets Cilla, who later becomes her closest friend (and maybe some more? 👀). They grow close quickly purely because Cilla is the only person to treat Lady Dom more or less as a human rather than a tool. Cilla is the person who ends up telling her that the king is the person who killed her family. As a result, Lady Dom starts fucking with him and gives him the wrong information. Before she could get punished, her and Cilla run away from the kingdom together.
They end up going somewhere deep in the woods and making their own little village of sorts. During their travels, they end up picking up people who’ve lost homes in one way or another. These people really see mainly Lady Dom as a mother figure of sorts since she really does care about them. The only times that she really resorts to violence is either towards the guards or to people who threaten to ruin what her and Cilla worked so hard to build.
She has good intentions, but just doesn’t execute them in the right way.
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