Shaking esmp!Pearl around she’s the blorbo ever
In life, Pearl is the farmer queen, responsible for much of the server’s food supply. She is quietly powerful in this sense; no one thinks about the farmers in the field but their absence is felt in every rumble of an empty stomach.
She is a warrior, protecting her kingdom with a grin as sharp as her blade. She held her own against a demon with practically limitless power; he had to essentially blind and freeze her to finally kill her. Those who are her allies are grateful for her, those who are not know not to go against her.
Her very lifeblood is intertwined with the fields of wheat and crops she so carefully tended over. When her empire went up in flames, her body, too, burned; the queen and kingdom died alike. Her soul was not lost, and she rose as a saint.
Santa Pearla is a warrior goddess, her name one blacksmiths whisper over their blades and archers ask to land their arrow true. Her spirit can be felt on battlefields and in spars, both in the wild celebration of a win and the courage to get back up, draw your weapon once more, and try again after being knocked down.
She is a goddess of crop, often hailed as the patron goddess of farmers, and by extension all those who work thankless jobs that society would ultimately collapse at the loss of. Sunflowers are often planted at the edges of fields as tribute to Pearl.
She is a goddess of light after death, offering a strong, steady hand to those who need it. She knows when someone has played the game well, and greets soldiers with a warrior’s camaraderie, workers with solidarity, lost children with comfort. She is proud of the fighters and the resolute, admires the preservering glint in a player’s eyes. Strength in many different forms.
Also she’s very silly and a little murderous. And I love her
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Encountering Ethan Winters (Lady Dimitrescu x FemReader) Angst
Warnings: Gun reference, major character death(s), big sad
Summary: The reader and Lady Dimitrescu are married and have been living a pleasantly domestic life for years. Takes place during the story, specifically, during the Castle Dimitrescu section.
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Alcina had been particularly frustrated lately. A strange man had been seen spotted in the village since Rose took residency here. He was a mere man, how could he cause Alcina such distress?
You were sitting on the sofa in your and Alcina’s room when she entered. She looked burdened.
“Is there something wrong?” You peered from your book to look at her.
“Nothing, dragă.” She gave you a half-hearted smile and sat down beside you with poise. Her hand found its way to you as she ran it through your hair soothingly. “Do you remember that man sighted in the village?” You nodded in confirmation. “He’s found his way here. The girls have him chained to the ceiling in the guest room. I don’t know how to deal with him.” She exhaled in confliction.
“He’s here? Isn’t that dangerous?”
“We’ll be fine, my love.” She stood up and bent over to kiss your forehead before leaving the room. “I have to attend to our…. unwanted guest. I’ll return later, little one.”
Hours later, she burst into the room. An infuriated aura encompassed her even more than before.
“Alcina, what’s wrong?” You asked for the second time today. She was distraught and barely responding.
“Y/N,” she began, kneeling to your height. You can tell that it’s bad by her expression. “I’ve underestimated this threat… this man-thing. He’s…. defeated Bela.”
“Defeated? She’s dead?” You whispered as if it were a sin to be heard. You felt the tears welling up in your eyes. Bela was as much your daughter as a your wife’s.
“You can’t stay here; it’s not safe.” She spoke sharply. “I’ll call Donna and let her know that you’ll be staying there until I’m finished purging this scum from our sanctuary.”
“Just me? What are you going to do? You four—You three are just as unsafe as I am.”
“My love, my sweet, little dragă. Today, I’ve lost a daughter: I cannot lose you, too. Cassandra and Daniela have abilities to defend themselves with. You’re not weak, I’m well aware. But I need you to comply and stay safe.”
“You aren’t invincible, though. The dagger, I could take it with me and you’d have the upper hand.”
“Absolutely not. I’m not giving him a reason to go after you.”
You nodded your head in understanding and began the walk to Donna and Angie’s house.
Satchel containing a small amount of personal items in hand, you traversed through the snow-covered courtyard. It was serene, but only temporarily. The engraved door leading to the opera hall caught your attention. You might as well head to the library and grab the novel you had planned to start today before your departure.
Entering the vast hall, you were greeted with the horrifying, exasperated wail of Daniela. A pang of fear and uncertainty spread from your heart, to your core, to your legs. He’s here.
You were frozen in your steps as the muted clink of his boots hit the carpeted stairs. Compared to the figures you’re used to seeing in your day-to-day life, he was minuscule. However, in comparison to your own stature, his height was dominating. He made silent eye-contact with you and all dignity eluded you as you cowered to the ground.
“Don’t hurt me, please!” You whimpered feebly.
“What are you doing here? Who are you?” He asked, furrowing his brow. “You don’t look like one of them. Are you a captive?”
You remained silent.
“My daughter was stolen by these monsters, too. I can help you escape if we work together.” He extended a hand to you, welcoming your cooperation. Still silent, you shook your head violently in rejection. “Fine, stay if you like. But you look like you need protection. I’ll take her down, trust me.”
“What? No, you can’t.” A jolt of courage sent you to grab his dominant arm. Before he could react, the pair of wooden doors opened abruptly behind you.
“You filthy rat!” Alcina exclaimed as she set eyes on the armed man. He quickly turned away from you and ran as she unsheathed her claws. When he had gained distance, he fired two shots from his handgun at her. It’s all for naught, but a firearm being shot at your wife still causes a feeling of perturbation in your stomach.
The man escaped her grasp and she redirected her attention to you.
“Y/N,” She exhaled your name in relief, holding the skirt of her dress as she walks over to you. “Are you harmed? How dare that grotesque, filthy man-thing lay a finger on you! I’ll have his head if he even comes near you again.” She studied your features, kneeling to your height once again. Despite your apparent wellness, she was still searching for signs of injury on you.
“Alcina, I don’t want to look, but I think he got Daniela.”
“I know, dragă me, I know. Cassandra, as well.”
You couldn’t stand it. The despair was overwhelming. She held you in the center of the opera hall as you sobbed, your face buried against her neck.
“I’ll take care of him, Y/N. I won’t let him get away with this. He can’t.” You had no response to her vow. “I love you.” She whispered.
“I love you too.”
She stood up and placed a warm kiss on your quivering lips before leaving. She left to finish him as he’d finished off your bloodline.
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Ending and Beginning
[An Immortal Among Stars Masterlist]
Not really whumpy, takes place after Abandoned.
contents: character death, terminal illnesss, lady whump, immortal whumpee, redeemed whumper.
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“You can leave soon, dear. When I’m gone.”
Karita nodded, staring out the window, her gaze blank, as it had been for the last several years. She flinched when Iris was sent into a coughing fit, which sounded even worse and more strained than the previous ones. Time was running out, Karita’s freedom was drawing near, and yet she didn’t know how she felt about it.
Yes, Iris had tortured her at first, used her as a test subject, a power source, but then… something changed. They were both lonely, and Karita was still in mourning after being betrayed by the people she considered her friends at one point. Iris needed someone to spend time with, and Karita didn’t need anything - and so she stayed, even when she was allowed to leave the tower.
There was something therapeutic about being away from everyone, lost in a new routine, tending to Iris’s small garden, gathering herbs around the island, sitting in the tall grass and looking at the wild sea. In the evenings, curled up in a very old and very comfortable armchair in front of the fireplace, she made use of Iris’s extensive library, and once Iris was no longer able to read on her own, Karita started reading the books to her. She still felt empty, numb, but it was a lighter kind of emptiness, one that brought her relief.
“Karita?”
“Yes?” She looked away from the window, at Iris. The old mage was pale, her eyes had a sickly gleam to them. She was wasting away, but she had made her peace with it long ago.
“I wanted to apologize,” she said, her voice raspy and forced.
“You already have,” Karita reminded her with a smile that didn’t reach her eyes, and she couldn’t remember the last time it did.
“I know,” Iris sighed. “But it doesn’t change the fact that I hurt you.”
“It’s okay. It’s never permanent.”
Iris frowned in concern and shook her head.
“That doesn’t make it right. Immortal or not, you don’t deserve to be in pain.”
It was a simple statement, yet it felt like a punch to the gut. It wasn’t something Karita heard… well, ever. She was always fine, eventually. She always persevered, escaped or outlived her tormentors, and there were no scars to remind her of any of it. She was fine, she could handle pain, and it became inevitable the moment she woke up on the battlefield centuries ago, surrounded by dead bodies, having been one herself mere moments before.
“You poor girl,” Iris said softly, reaching out to her. “You’re crying.”
She was, and she tried to laugh it off, but all it did was force some of the tears out of her eyes. She wiped at her cheek, cleared her throat, and took Iris’s hand.
“It’s okay,” she repeated. “I’m used to it.”
“You shouldn’t be, though. No-one should. I am sorry I contributed to your pain.”
A shaky exhale, even more tears, a suffocating lump in her throat.
“Can we stop talking about it? It’s…” okay. She ended up only shaking her head. “Yes, you hurt me, but you stopped, and you’ve been kind to me ever since. I really appreciate that. It’s been a… more peaceful few years.”
Iris smiled at her and squeezed her hand, and hers felt so frail, so small, as if she wouldn’t be able to gesticulate enough to cast even the simplest spell.
“It was the least I could do. And now the least I can do is give you something I’ve been working on for a while.” She nodded towards the nightstand by her bed. “Open the drawer, dear.”
Karita frowned, but followed the request, not letting go of Iris’s hand. The only thing in the drawer was a bracelet made of small translucent gray beads. She took it out and held it up.
“It’s beautiful,” she said, and Iris laughed, which immediately turned into another bout of coughing.
“It’s not mere jewelry,” she explained once she could speak again, though her breathing remained strained. “It’s imbued with my magic.”
Karita hummed and cupped the bracelet in her palm. With a bit of concentration she could sense the magic coursing within; it was subtle, but undeniable.
“What does it do?”
“It lets you alter your appearance.”
Karita’s eyes widened and snapped to Iris as the implication made her heart skip a beat.
“So I can…?”
“Yes. It’s not a strong spell, sadly. When I tried to make it more powerful, the beads shattered, and I didn’t want the vessel to be anything more obvious than this bracelet. Trust me, I wanted to make it as small as a ring or an earring. Regardless, it should let you create an illusion of aging.” As Karita exhaled shakily, Iris continued. “I remember you telling me that your not aging forces you to move all the time. I hope that with this little trinket you can stay in one place for longer. Make a life for yourself, at least for a few decades. My magic isn’t what it used to be, so the spell won’t work for more than half a day, I believe, but-”
“No, no, it’s wonderful. Really. I… I don’t really know what to say, no-one…” No, she was getting choked up, so she shook her head. She teared up again, and she hated crying, she hated showing weakness, but this was different, she wasn’t weak and didn’t have to act tough, and no-one was going to mock her for crying. Iris smiled at her with sympathy, and gave her hand another gentle squeeze.
“You deserve a good life, Karita,” she said softly. “You really, really do. I hope you can find it when I’m gone.”
“Y-yeah,” Karita choked out, nodding. “Yeah. I’ll try. Thank you, Iris. For everything.”
“You’re welcome, dear. Besides, I should be the one thanking you.”
They stayed like this until Karita stopped crying; then she fetched Iris’s favorite book to read a few chapters to her, looking up from the pages every now and then to make sure Iris was still awake and listening. She continued reading for hours, only taking breaks to drink some water when her throat went dry, until Iris let out a relieved sigh, closed her eyes, and faded.
Karita fell silent, and watched as the mage’s body was engulfed in bright light, which then dispersed, clung to the walls and ran through them in the form of thin veins. The body was gone, but Iris’s life essence had become one with the tower, her beloved home. It would eventually turn back into ruin, just as she had found it, but a part of her would still be here, on the island she’d found solace on.
Sitting on the front steps, Karita looked up at the stars and exhaled. Despite Iris’s death, she felt light. It was a good death after a long life, and she was glad to have helped make the last few years more bearable. But now she was alone, and she had to find a new place, a new life.
She spent a while listening to the rustling of grass and the crashing waves, and for a moment she considered staying here. It was a good place, a place she knew well, isolated enough that she shouldn’t be found for some time. She could continue living in the tower, existing without worrying about anything, but… she would be completely alone, and despite Iris’s repeated claims that people like them were doomed to live a lonely existence, she couldn’t and didn’t want to agree. Besides, the bracelet was proof enough that Iris wanted her to be able to live like a normal person, among others.
She returned to the tower, where she lit the fireplace and spent one last night in the armchair, which felt way less comfortable now, and in the morning she descended the stairs to the basement, where she ignored the tools that were used to torture her once upon a time. She headed for the teleportation device, a circular spot that used to glow with a much brighter, steady light, but now was pulsating weakly.
“It won’t work forever. I put most of my magic into it, so even when I’m gone it should stay active for a few days, but you should act quickly. I don’t want you to be stuck here on your own.”
She didn’t want that either, despite everything.
Where did she want to go, though? She wasn’t sure. She could go anywhere, there weren’t many places she had strong connections to, and she didn’t want to go back to any of them. She was starting anew.
Just take me somewhere safe, with other people, she commanded as she stood on the device, looking around one last time, taking in the familiar walls of the tower. Right before nothingness surrounded her, she looked down at the bracelet on her wrist, and couldn’t help but smile. She had more of a chance than ever before, and she was… excited.
If the spell worked, she could live her new life for several decades, and she was going to make the most of it.
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I dont have enough space in my room for a single altar to Santa Muerte.
So what I decided to do? Put my side cabinet (which has been Her altar for the better part of 3 years) next to my big altar.
I'm a english-Folk Magic practitioner (i do the "magic" of the "cunning folk". I practice the old ways i guess? I don't see it as "magic", i just see it as a fact of life?) i grew up Catholic, taught Buddhism, got into Norse Paganism, Greek Paganism (Hellenism)/Greco-Roman. Got into (P)IE gods.
Im a mix. A whole mix. Like someone picked up a "religion" book n i absorbed every religion!
But Santa Muerte and Mary are just... different. They just are.
They're like sisters to me, which is why i have my altar part to The Goddess (/Mary) next to Holy Death's altar.
She is life- She is Death.
She is the be all and end all, She is everything.
And my Lady Holy Death, my Rose, deserves a whole massive altar just to Her but i cant give Her it!
So for the time being im heavily decorating Her altar (it's separate and not actually conjoined with my big altar)
I love Santa Muerte, my Rose ❤️. Im very devoted to Her. I love Her, i respect Her....She is Death.
She's not like Hades, who rules over the dead- no She Is Death.
This is how I view Her, but yes She has Her own altar, just next to my usual one.i even have skull lights to act as a "Barrier".
I dont honestly think She has a problem with sharing a space/altar- but its my own personal thing. Her... vibe? Energy? Is so strong, i dont like it mixing in with my usual prayers to Our Lady Mary.
I have autism + adhd so i jump a lot in terms of what i pray to on a specific day. But My Rose has always comforted me, regardless of if im praying to Her that day! :)
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