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fayevalcntine · 9 months

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The whole framing of Lestat as the sole symbol of patriarchy that fandom is so desperate to put him in doesn't work unless you deliberately ignore how he was also a victim of rape and abuse before he was turned. People want him to be fit into this strict role of "father figure/violent husband/perpetrator" that is only that and not even a whole person, and in doing so they need to push aside the fact that despite being his family's provider, he was also pushed into that role when his father forbid him from joining a monastery or gaining an education that he wanted. Lestat wanted to run away with a theater group as a kid, and actually managed to do so once Gabrielle gave him her blessing and monetary support in order to go to Paris. He didn't always want to be the provider, he was forced into that role and became despondent when he thought he would never get a chance to leave his home.

His new life prior to being turned is pretty much the antithesis to the whole "Lestat is a manly man who would sooner throw up than be compared to a woman" spiel: he lived with another man in Paris while also being an actor, having left his family and "responsibility" to them. The only family member he was ever close to was his mother, all the other male members shunned or ridiculed him. Add onto that the fact that his turning firmly placed him within the role of the damsel/victim: he's kidnapped from his bed by a stranger, taken into a tower and left to rot while being fed on for a week, before then being raped and violently turned all while never even being asked if he would consent to it in any normal circumstance. But you of course have to ignore all of this if you want him to only represent the aggressor/patriarch while Louis is the helpless unhappy matriarch of the family.

My issue isn't that I think Louis isn't a victim, it's that it's not unrealistic for Lestat to be an aggressor/abuser while also displaying traits that aren't regularly assigned to stereotypical depictions of male characters. He's abusive to Claudia while also having been a victim of abuse from his own family. He's not a good maker/teacher, but he also didn't even have one when he was turned. He's the provider/attempted protector of the family and seemed to like being that, while also having run away from his own family prior to this to act in a theater in Paris. He's a rich white man while also being obviously effeminate in public spaces, even to Tom's own bigoted humor.

Like Louis' own complicated story with being his family's benefactor and provider, you can't firmly place Lestat as being one thing or another in terms of gender ideals without deliberately ignoring parts about him that don't fit this. And I don't think it's an absolute necessity, when even in Louis' own story, Lestat isn't stripped of his effeminate mannerisms or behavior while also being the abusive maker/father/lover.

#interview with the vampire #lestat de lioncourt #like even Louis doesn't try to act like Lestat was only ever the powerful 'daddy' of the house #if he was I doubt he'd even feature Lestat wanting to be king of mardi gras and doing that extremely flamboyant display #to the public's chagrin/disgust #the only people in awe of Lestat's peacocking are the women in ep7 like that man was NOT accepted by other rich men like Tom #and I don't point this out in order to dismiss the notion that he could be abusive/horrible #rather that it's completely possible for both things to be true?#also to the people that will likely go: but how does him being a victim of abuse negate him being a patriarch #idk maybe redirect your question to the Edwardian wife fanatics that think that no male character can be a victim unless he is assigned #the female while he is in a relationship with another man 🤷‍♀️#I'll never forget how someone was also like 'Lestat fakes his femininity for the public' why? no one likes his effeminate ass anywhere #he holds more power by being white + rich than by being effeminate in order to ''''hide'''' his power which he never has or cared to #when Fenwick suggested to Louis to get a business under Lestat's name it's because Lestat being white could pass segregation laws...#not because his effeminate mannerisms grant him more favor.....

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queerwomentv · 10 months

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Twisted Metal | Miranda (Twister) and Amber (Flower Power)

#twisted metal #peacock #miranda watts #amber rose #twister #flower power #miranda x amber #amber x miranda #1x10

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drconstellation · 4 days

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A Tale of Two Peacocks

The Relationship Between Gabriel and Michael

Some weeks ago I said I would take on the challenge of looking at the relationship between Gabriel and Michael, then I got sidetracked writing something else* - which is not always a bad thing. But I want to return to this because its too good not to do a post on it, and before I get too deeply involved in the other writing.

This is definitely going to involve some NSWF language - hey, I can't help this, its in the script - so the bulk of this is going to be below the cut. But the short of it is, they have a fairly low opinion of each other.

We need to go back to S1, where there is an interesting set of parallel scenes we should start our discussion with that spells it out for us. The first one is in S1xE2, and the other is actually in one of the deleted scenes from the cold opening of S1xE3, and they both use parallel characters to inform us of what Gabriel and Michael think of each other.

It turns out I've already talked about the first one, in this meta here, where I discuss how Newt is a parallel for Crowley.

Then [Frobisher] power-walks past. Newt is not even worth her time stopping for. "Need a hand, Dick?" *Snort* - and ouch. That's a below-the belt joke. She's just called him a wanker. In the US you might use the term jerk instead. Someone who's a bit egotistical and more in it for themselves than others. (and I never thought I'd be fact-checking the meaning of this word ever, but there's always a first time...) She's basically just equated him Gabriel, in my book (and in more ways than one.)

And I wrote all that months before I started writing my Crowley-Gabriel parallel/foil series, too.

The other thing about this first parallel scene is the character of Frobisher, who is dressed very much like a demon, but is actually the parallel character to Michael, as we see later on in the paintball fight at Tadfield Manor.

(Er, I know this is all a bit 2nd/3rd hand evidence, but the second scene is a bit more direct, so bear with me.)

The second one, in S2xE3, is the deleted bookshop opening scene.

Source: Script for the unaired scene of Aziraphale opening his bookshop in 1800

Oh, look at that. Somebody is being called a wanker. Again. This time it's Crowley calling Michael a wanker, however, and its only one step to the side with Crowley being a parallel character to Gabriel (and I challenge you to watch s1 again in this light after finishing this post, and see how many similarities you can see between Crowley and Gabriel showing through even back then.)

OK. So we've established that Gabriel and Michael both think each other are wankers at this point, but what else can we find out about them?

Peacock Fighting

I've written a couple of posts about peacock symbolism. Firstly, Michael is strongly associated with having many eyes - their Ophanim ring, their costume has eye motifs, and they are essentially head of surveillance for Heaven. So this made me think they might be the peacock referred to in the Job minisode.

But later, after more research, it became apparent the lines paraphrased in Job were definitely referring to Gabriel. (See also Judgement Day.) There are associations with both royalty and vanity there.

They are both peacocks, but for different reasons.

And they are also both in competition with one another.

Gabriel Doesn't Have A Desk

Desks are a symbol of power in western society.

The bigger, and more solid the desk in a corporate office, the higher up the person is.

The teacher at the front of the room, the authority in the room, has a bigger desk than the students.

Those desks offer protection to the person in authority sitting behind them. They mark a separation between that said authority and the masses they command on the other side. Only the most trusted get to come around to the same side that they are sitting on to be more intimate with them.

At work, your desk is connected to your identity there. Its your place in the organization. You may even individualize it with decorations.

Just take a look at what Newt was bringing on his first day to work in S1xE2:

Pens, a pen holder, notepads, a ball of rubber bands, a plant (a bromeliad, a plant that does well in fully shaded damp environments, just like Hell) and some rations. Er, I mean lunch. Given to him by God Frances his mother.

The travesty of the modern trend of "hot desking" is de-personalizing the employee. They are no longer a valued employee with a valued place, they're just another faceless cog in the grind.

We see Michael behind a desk as Duty Officer in S2. It's starkly clean and sharp and made of glass, as we would expect to find in Heaven. It's used a shield and badge of office when we see them fulfilling that role.

Michael doubts Gabriel has a desk, although Gabriel insists he does, even though we have never seen it. Yet he still requires the proverbial archive box for moving locations?

I'm just going to leave the parallel between Newt and Gabriel there for further discussion. Please do remember the bottom falls out of Newt's box in the car park, leaving him with an empty box, too.

(Muriel has a glass desk, too, but interestingly they don't have a chair. You might like to compare their encounter with Aziraphale in the Job minisode to the escapade with Crowley in the present day. There is volumes said without words.)

Just while we are on the subject of desks, thought you might like to compare Crowley's and Aziraphale's desks as well. They are always on about how much paperwork they have to do!

Sovereign versus Disciplinary Power

This is eventually going to turn into a discussion about fate versus free will at some point, but I do need to talk about the different types of power first, because I haven't done my long promised Power and Authority meta yet. The two concepts are closely related, and Gabriel and Michael are each acting as foils for a side of the concepts.

Gabriel represents sovereign power, the supreme legitimate power of the state. Power and action trickles down from the top, and punishment is almost a show of entertainment, but one designed to educate. "Oh, those angels Fell - if I do something bad, I might Fall, too!" And so Gabriel expects to Fall when he is given his trial, and Aziraphale when he lies to save Job's children.

Michael is representing disciplinary power, something that lies at the heart of society today. This is where power is spread among individuals, and individuals are more likely to do their own discipline merely because of an overhanging threat of a possibility they may get caught if they do.** Are they being watched? Who might see and report their transgression? Michael has eyes (and ducks) everywhere... So does Orwell's book 1984.

This is a very simplistic view, of course - reality is more complex than that, and is usually a combination of the two, but we have to start somewhere.

Now lets throw the fate vs free will components into the mix. Let us revisit the story of King Cnut and the tide.

The story, if you are not familiar with it, is that Cnut had his throne set on the beach and commanded the incoming tide to halt where it was, and not to wet his robes or feet. Of course, the tide kept rising and splashed the king, where he leapt up and declared his might and power as a king worthless compared to that of God. The story is meant to demonstrate his piety before Heaven, and that he was not the ultimate controller of all things - his sovereign power was limited.

They say time and tide*** wait for no man - we are at the mercy of what ever fate they bring us, and we can't manipulate that. That's decided by the supreme power, the ultimate sovereign power, so to speak.

Gabriel tends to take this line - he does not have control over the summoning of the Four Horsepeople, they are just happening as they supposed to, and that's not his department. Plausible deniability, baby! Back channels? What back channels, Michael?

So if you did want to have some power over it, some free will to control outcomes? But hang on - every one else has free will as well. Sounds a bit chaotic. Who's in charge? Nobody. Everybody. Welcome to Michael's world. They want the power, they're prepared to fight for it, for what they think is right - but so is everyone else.

But what if you were the creator of free will itself? Would you be The One to have control over time and the tides?

Tadfield Manor, Again

Michael is the archangel who throws Lucifer down from Heaven, and we see this play out at Tadfield Manor during the paintball fight, when we are shown that it is actually Frobisher/Michael who shoots the shot that hits Norman/Lucifer in the heart - although we are initially made to think its Nigel/Gabriel who did it. (One day I will teach my self how to make GIFs and make a GIF of this.)

Frobisher is the more competitive one at all times - she is the only other employee besides the naive Newt to put their hand up when Nigel asks who is looking forward to the Training Initiative and she asks Crowley and Aziraphale "Who's winning?" as she runs past them inside - to which Crowley presciently declares "You're all going to lose."

If you look at the extended scene in light of the above, you can see sovereign authority of senior manager Nigel/Gabriel is still floating around as a rather toothless tiger to the whims of fate, while everyone else is exercising their free will and disciplinary powers to try and control one another. And, as Crowley says, nobody wins. It's a lose-lose situation.

Michael is competing for an empty dream.

Gabriel is trying his best to survive something that is not what it seems.

And...I think I'll leave it there. Thanks for reading.

*I've started writing a multi-chapter human AU fanfic. But I'm a slow writer, and I'm not writing it in a linear fashion - because it has to be stuffed full of meta, of course - so I decided I better pull myself out of it before I got pulled in too far and finish a couple of things off so you didn't think I'd disappeared completely. I wasn't planning on doing one, but you know how these things go - one day an idea just pops into your head, the next thing the characters are talking to you and taking on their own life and a couple of thousand words later...

**There was a post about the oculus, the round skylight window in the roof of the bookshop and the Panopticon, an infamous prison design where the prisoners can all see each other but can't see if the guard is watching them, but of course I've lost track of it, haven't I.

***The tides are controlled by the Moon and Sun, and ostensibly for this argument, by Heaven as well. They are fated to continue in their set orbit and/or path through the sky - or the Earth on it's orbit around the Sun, is probably the better way of looking at it.

#good omens #good omens 2 #good omens meta #crowley #archangel gabriel #archangel michael #good omens analysis #tadfield manor #deleted bookshop scene #peacocks #job minisode #he doesn't have a desk #power and authority #fate vs free will #newton pulsifer #angel muriel #37th order scrivener

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swk-mac · 9 months

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Them as peacocks yes

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n0brainjustvibes · 21 days

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love this creature. the simp

#peacock mantis shrimp #odontodactylus scyllarus #mantis shrimp #shrimp #shrimp heaven now!#very beautiful very powerful

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richard-hei-long · 18 days

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Miraculous Ladybug: Reverse Extinction

HOLY SHIT I JUST HAD A THOUGHT THAT CHANGES MIRACULOUS LADYBUG ENTIRELY!!!

Ok, so it's a canonical fact that despite being made by the Peacock Miraculous that Adrien, Kagami, and Felix are all biologically Human in every sense aside from their Amoks.

And from Astruc's answers on Twitter this would include other species like dogs and such.

So that got me thinking... Why would it be different for any other species?

This means that, theoretically, Duusu can resurrect the Dragons!

Amokization isn't just creating new life! It's restoring old life!

This opens up so many possibilities... Like what if this was the Peacock's original purpose but nobody, not even Duusu understood it? What about the other Miraculous? What possibilities do they hold?

There's so much potential here!

#miraculous ladybug #peacock miraculous #sentimonster #miraculous power #adrien agreste #kagami tsurugi #felix graham de vanily #felix fathom #miraculous theory #duusu #ml duusu #richard-hei-long

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muzzable · 8 months

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DO FELIX AND KAGAMI STILL EXIST???

#cause if alt gabriel had to steal the peacock miraculous to make adrien #from the all-powerful supreme that rules the world #would he be willing to risk being found out as the thief by lending it to amelie and tomoe #ml spoilers #miraculous spoilers #ml paris special #ml paris spoilers #ml paris special spoilers #miraculous paris #miraculous paris spoilers #miraculous paris special spoilers #miraculous world spoilers

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elitehanitje · 6 months

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#Dalton Castle #Peacock Power #All Elite #AEW #All Elite Wrestling #AEW Dynamite #AEW Rampage #AEW Collision #The Boys #The Acclaimed #Billy Gunn #Max Caster #Anthony Bowens

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antirepurp · 3 months

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promised myself i'd get around to making a ref of her today so i did. here's lahja she can use her freak quality power to turn her consciousness into a Bird(TM) with Powers(TM) at the cost of her body going limp/unconscious

#my characters #lahja karhuvaara #purp doot #saltwater #i Think the colors on the peacock are final but i guess i'll see whether that applies when i get to modeling #im terrified of modeling the bird btw i've only really modeled human-shaped characters so far #and i think there's a lot i should keep in mind when approaching it #the exact nature of the Powers(TM) is still a bit in the air but i have the general idea for it down i think?

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travalerray · 4 months

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chengqingxian for the ask meme?

Thanks for the ask!

Do you ship it?

No, sorry.

Why don’t you ship it?

Uhhhh. I don't have much against the ship itself rather than how the live action portrayed Chengqing (and consequently Wen Qing) along with the fact that Wen Qing is one of the two female characters who Wei Wuxian has an actual relationship with.

What would have made you like it?

Oh good point! I do have a fondness for mad scientists who experiment with the poor guy (Jiang Cheng)'s body. Especially novel canon Wen Qing because like—girlie just got pestered enough to experiment on him and Just Did It. Sure why not. Wei Wuxian and Wen Qing's relationship is one of the most fascinating to me because it's about recognising yourself in the other in the worst of times. I do think this ship has ample potential....I would love to see the tragedy of loving two people who decided that they knew what the best for you was, one decided that Clearly She Needs To Cut The Other Up For Science And Shove It Into You and now you have to live with it. Just....Idk, CQL sure was trying to Do Something. That something wasn't for me, good for those who like it though. It sure is feeding everyone's character interaction needs from the little I did watch.

Despite not shipping it, do you have anything positive to say about it?

Mhmm. Anything involving a character that's canonically dead dead and another that has been dead once and another that's famous for never moving on from the denial phase of grief is always a tasty one. Especially if the former two are also real famous for teaming up to consult each other to decide what's best for their younger sibling/shidi. Like....when do they fall for each other? Is it before the war? Is it Miss Grumpy, Mr. Grumpy and Mr. Haha Hehe (all three insane), somehow developing something? Like,,,I do love the horror and intimacy of Qingxian first meetcute because of the instant understanding that the other would leave no stones unturned if something happened to their precious one. But if it did happen before the war....then there's something distinctly horrifying about Wen Qing performing a surgery she had always theorized about, never got subjects for and then got them handed to her and they are the ones she loved. Fucked up. Deeply obsessed with her response when she sees a prone Jiang Cheng in the novel is to go "oh you bring a tortured man and you couldn't bother to knock him unconscious so that he doesn't make people suspicious? Shame on you Wen Ning" and then shoves needles into his head herself. It's just none happiness with left grief for Jiang Cheng because of course the man he loves decides to walk off from him along with the woman he loves as well. Do they not—and they are dead. Great. Great. Wei Wuxian? Wei Wuxian is trying so hard to convince himself that this time he will do the self sacrifice and intimidating other clans with his red eyeliner thing correct. It's not working? OTHER people can do the self sacrifice thing too? Oh no. Honestly this is just canon but sadder, I think.

.....well I have definitely seen manyAUs where Jiang Cheng is engaged to Wen Qing Yanli style and Wei Wuxian feels very normal emotions about it. Surely one also exists where random political marriage between the Yiling Patriarch, Sandu Sengshou and Wen-daifu.

#kk's ask tag #mdzs #grandmaster of demonic cultivation #mo dao zu shi #wei wuxian #jiang cheng #wen qing #chengqingxian #(the red eyeliner part is meant in jest but it's mostly about the argument he has with JZX (bad one) where he goes ''I want to SHOW the #cultivation world that I can be powerful even without using the righteous path''#a few days later he complains to JC about JZX (normal) being a peacock.)

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cypriathus · 1 month

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Here are my versions of Etinsib Ziwa/Yawar/Tawûsî Melek and Bihram/Manda d-Hayyi!

Eytnozubiwa Yanewozur is an antediluvian hybrid between a virtue and a choir angel who created the Imperfect Creations of the Red Earth and the Awukhoziels. She’s incredibly methodical in a scheming and ruthlessly determined way, ensuring that everything goes according to plan. Despite being a passionate creator and appreciator of life, she’s strangely cold-hearted and dismissive of “inferior lifeforms” like humans. She’s an assertive entity that can approach people in a respectfully direct and honest manner, but can come off as brutally veracious at times. She possesses motherly instincts, a no-nonsense and sure-footed attitude, and a sublime presence that causes great admiration and respect. She’s a diligent, courageous, compassionate, and wise leader and listener that will do anything to protect her brethren and creations from harm and criticism. Eytnozubiwa secretly has neuroticism, which has manifested into poor self-regulation, a strong reaction to perceived threats, being self-conscious, sudden mood swings, and feelings of irritability and self-doubt.

In Eytnozubiwa’s angel form, she’s a 7’ 10” (238.76 cm) mesomorph with a pear-shaped figure, a noticeable musculature, well-endowed breasts, broad shoulders, and upper arms that carry some of her weight. She has rough pallid skin with five prominent dark brown moles: two on the right side of her collarbone; one above her left eyebrow; one near the middle of the back of her right hand; and one on the upper right corner of her lip. Her dull eyes are a pupiless yellowish-green with flecks of blood red and her six wings mimic the colouration of an Indian peacock’s train. She has sharp claws and talons, two rows of omnivorous teeth, and a long choppy shag of milky white with straight bangs, wavy strands of hair, and soft pink and lime green streaks. She often wears a plague doctor mask with rose-tinted glasses and encircling horizontal stripes that match each hue of the rainbow. She has an asparagus green chasuble that has a medieval-style depiction of a black-spotted rose gold panther pinned down by a long-necked ruby and sapphire dragon with bronze claws. She wears pearlescent white gloves that terminate into golden claws and an ankle-length velvet kaftan with long, wide sleeves that reach slightly over her elbows. The kaftan has a gradient from green pea to midnight blue to luxor gold, and she dons a pair of bronze-plated bone forceps earrings. She has a one-layered necklace of Ancient Rome curettes and a blood red bondage crotch rope adorning her torso. She wields an olive stick and a shofar-shaped trumpet of glimmering gold with the opening designed to look like an open-mouthed peacock’s head. Eytnozubiwa carries around a bronze-hued barrel bag of three or five scrolls of lyrical songs, bottled medicines, and small herbal and floral pouches wrapped in red fox fur.

In her celestial form, she’s a 55’ 3” (1684.02 cm) celestial bird with her original head, breasts, and arms, but they have been crudely skinned alive. Her human head has blinded eyes, yellowish-black canine teeth, and a serpentine tongue of glistening bronze. Her breasts are covered in tiny spikes and the left one is full of sticky phlegm, while the other contains highly acidic yellow bile. A rose gold heart vaguely shaped like a Passiflora incarnata is partially protruding out from between her breasts. It has forty purplish-white veins dangling and attaching themselves to her exposed neck, collarbone, and belly region, pumping golden ichor into her body. She possesses the body and wings of a male Japanese green pheasant, and two long-necked, rosy-eyed mute swan heads below her breasts. She has sapphire syndactyly bird feet with ruby toes and razor-sharp golden talons as well as long, flowing tail feathers similar to the Indian peacock. She sports a halo of four blazing blue orbs behind her main head and rusty scalpel-shaped protrusions running down from the tip of her human spine to the tail.

She’s a cosmically aware and omniscient entity that can manipulate light, life, and the physical and emotional aspects of blood, phlegm, black bile, and cholera. She also has total control over the celestial and terrestrial aspects of the sky, sea, and earth. She possesses an exceedingly beautiful singing voice and those who listen to it will feel utter bliss and become enlightened. She can summon heavenly warhorses, peacocks, rainbows that grant sacred blessings, flaming swords, lightning quick arrows, and spiky grapevines. Eytnozubiwa is capable of forcing individuals to speak the truth, strengthening people’s faith in the titans, and alternating between her two forms. She has the ability to view future apocalyptic events and predict the birth of living creatures. She’s a master of improvisation, exorcisms, traditional medicine, surgeries, pathology, philosophy, and environmental adaptation. She has power over the hearts of sentient beings, and can restore all mental, conceptual, emotional, spiritual, mystical, and physical damage.

FAMILY:

Verthanogzimus Mandhelosji (husband)

Smajuzhoktrine Zeliphojandus-Mnelohaviktus Gomeszukiva (adoptive daughter)

Mewhatron (adoptive granddaughter)

Sandezlophim (adoptive grandson)

Zorsjahlen (adoptive granddaughter)

ALIASES/NICKNAMES:

Etinsib Ziwa

Yawar

Tawûsî Melek

Angel of the Heart

The Great Helper

Treasure of Light

FUN FACTS/EXTRA INFORMATION:

As an Æylphitus, the different parts of her name have special meanings: Eytnozubiwa means “splendid transplant” and Yanewozur means “dazzling radiance”.

She’s an avatar of The Four Humours

She’s one of the first members of the divine council

Despite being born an infertile, she’s able to produce breast milk without bearing a child.

She was created by the bright illumination of Äylcephinozur’s soul

She has a strong distaste for fallen angels as well as those who disobey Äylcephinozur and the divine council.

She’s mildly obsessed with maintaining personal hygiene of herself and others, and keeping her spaces as neat and tidy as possible.

She has stuffed the beak of her mask with dried roses, lavender, a vinegar sponge, juniper berries, ambergris, and labdanum.

She uses her olive stick to mark out her personal boundaries and carefully inspect people for any hidden items that might be deemed unsavoury.

Her home has a luscious court garden where a few Indian peafowls roam

Verthanogzimus Mandhelosji is a destroying angel from the oldest generation that has fatherly instincts and a sincere fascination with creation. He’s an unyielding believer of stoicism and consistently exercises its four main virtues: wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice. He’s motivated by sympathy, understanding, and generosity to treat everyone he encounters with impartial benevolence. He can be prudently watchful under dangerous or uneasy circumstances, especially if it involves family, friends, and trusted coworkers. Due to his taciturn nature, he comes off as aloof and uncommunicative, but there are rare instances where he’s unusually talkative. He’s surprisingly calm and unworried, often treating people in a gentle way without extreme criticism. Even when he becomes understandably frustrated and serious-minded, he manages to maintain an easy-going attitude. He’s a versatile thinker who’s able to tackle problems in a creative perspective and to quickly adjust to new situations. Verthanogzimus secretly has major depressive disorder, experiencing anhedonia, a persistently low mood, feelings of worthlessness, and more.

Verthanogzimus’ height is about 10 ft (304.8 cm) and he has an ectomorphic body type with an inverted triangle figure, a square chest, slim limbs, sloping shoulders, a gaunt torso, and a weak musculature. He has uncomfortably smooth snow-white skin that’s slightly translucent, revealing his golden veins running down his neck and up his forearms. He has claws, twelve massive Bartram’s painted vulture wings that can cover his entire body, and sunburst salmon-scarlet eyes with a foggy glaze over them. His back, legs, and shoulders have a light scattering of pearlescent white warts, and his chin-length auburn brown shaggy crop has a light purple sheen. He dons a mid-back cloak made from the pelt of an Asiatic lion with the jawless head acting as a hood, which has a carnassial-to-carnassial bluish-black veil. He also wears a chiton of lilac linen, a dark brown zoster with layered bronze pteruges in bright peacock blue under the breast, and a himation of terracotta pink wool. He’s in possession of a flaming laurel wreath as a halo and a radiant margna tipped with life-giving water. He often wields a simple scythe that has a straight, tail-curling, emerald-eyed snake of coppery red as the snath and its jawless, toothy head is grasping the heel. Verthanogzimus always carries around a steel gada that has a spherical golden head, which is securely tied around his hips with blood red rope. It can fly across vast distances without impediment, communicate with its wielder, and temporarily transform into a winged lion or monstrous monkey.

It’s difficult to easily describe what his true form looks like, but many say it’s unfathomably horrifying with hints of existential beauty. His 61’ 9” (1882.14 cm) skeletal form is cloaked in an unrelenting shadow and grotesquely stuffed with hay, damaged organs, and beady-eyed animal fetuses. His undulating golden flesh is like the texture and coldness of cleansing water and his ribcage holds a red-violet fire that increases virility and induces calmness in the face of death. His eight eyes glow an ominous red, which can reveal what happens after death when those briefly glimpse at them. His tooth-infested metallic purple raven beak continuously expels breeding locusts and toxic blue-green fumes that induces drowsiness, stupor, and insensibility. His back is adorned with numerous tentacled rat tails that are all intertwined and bound together in a misshapen ball through the use of maple sap.

Verthanogzimus can manipulate fertile harvests, sexual potency, sexuality, death, the force of death, pestilence, holy water and fire, ritualistic cleansing, judgement, courage, and victory. He can easily banish any entity that he deems as unwelcomed from entering crop fields and the holiest places of Eylvhraszokjumni. He’s able to create nets from strands of spider silk and sticky blood that can grant invisibility and protection from oncoming attacks. He can summon large, ferocious dragons, giant avian creatures, and flaming axes, and induce forgiveness and rebellion against the unjust. He has absolute knowledge of life and death, and the ability to heal the physical integrity of individuals. He can shapeshift into his true form, the impetuous wind, a gold-horned bull, a white horse, a camel in heat, a wild boar, a bird of prey, a ram, and a wild goat. As a gift from the deities, they bestowed Verthanogzimus with absolute strength in order to make his destructive duties easier to handle.

FAMILY:

Eytnozubiwa Yanewozur (wife)

Smajuzhoktrine Zeliphojandus-Mnelohaviktus Gomeszukiva (adoptive daughter)

Mewhatron (adoptive granddaughter)

Sandezlophim (adoptive grandson)

Zorsjahlen (adoptive granddaughter)

ALIASES/NICKNAMES:

Bihram

Manda d-Hayyi

Angel of the Harvest

The Great Victory

Baptisal Guardian

FUN FACTS/EXTRA INFORMATION:

As an Æylphitus, the different parts of his name have special meanings: Verthanogzimus means “smiting of resistance or victorious” and Mandhelosji means “knower of the life”.

He’s an avatar of Charuzlonje and Parnuzhoktesvi

He’s one of the first members of the divine council

During his free time, he likes to hangout at unoccupied beaches during nighttime as well as hunt dragons and boars.

He’s secretly a master of astrology and fire-handling

He prefers to drink out his most favourite goblet, which is made from the finest purple gold and the cup is shaped like an eagle’s head.

He’s surprisingly good with young children

He occasionally wears reading glasses due to his nearsightedness

Whenever he walks, he leaves behind a trail of rotten flesh, withered flowers, and reddish bundles of wheatgrass.

He enjoys going on strolls with his wife through corn mazes

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