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NAME: Isobel Devane (sim made by @amuhav)
NICKNAME: Iz, sometimes.
GENDER: Female
STAR SIGN: Sagittarius
HEIGHT: 5ft 6.5in
ORIENTATION: Heterosexual
NATIONALITY/ETHNICITY: American
FAVOURITE FRUIT: Oranges
FAVOURITE SEASON: No favorite season, but anything except fall is ok, honestly. She gets terrible hay fever in autumn.
FAVOURITE FLOWER: Hibiscus. Pretty and hibiscus tea is delicious.
FAVOURITE SCENT: Anything citrus,
COFFEE, TEA, or HOT CHOCOLATE: Tea!
AVERAGE HOURS OF SLEEP: Around 7. 8 is the goal, but life gets in the way.
DOGS or CATS: Cats. She can't ever say no to their cute little faces.
DREAM TRIP: She'd like to go to Spain or France for a bit. Maybe bring Marcus along if he can close the bar. But finding the time to go is a pain.
NUMBER OF BLANKETS: One, but warm and soft. And it can't be too light in weight, because she needs to be weighted down a bit to sleep.
RANDOM FACT: She's been feeling weird about her work lately. She enjoys what she does and she's good at it (she works in real estate), but lately there's been this feeling of "am I even in the right place?" "should I maybe be doing something else?" Maybe it's a sign of getting older and everyone feels it, though?
Tagging @amuhav @pink-chevalier @bool-prop @igglemouse
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Bracket E Round 1
Poll 16
Bad Idea Trio (@therainbowvaquero) vs. Devan Arkhiem (@winterpinetrees)
No readmore we die like men <3
287. Caleb Hirn & Cassius Netherson & Nemo Relity aka the Bad Idea Trio (@therainbowvaquero)
All three are he/him
Everyone needs a little guy to cheer on. Everyone needs a little blurbo to love. Everyone needs a little champion to watch life attack them vigorously. Everyone needs a little hero to watch suffer and struggle through the attacks. Everyone needs a little masterpiece to watch grow and overcome.
That is what the Bad Idea Trio is to me. Three people from different backgrounds, childhoods, and traumas that came together to survive and to learn how to love. Their world is based on the Origins mod for Minecraft, with Caleb being a human (later he discovers he’s a Witch), Nemo an Elytrian, and Cassius a Blazeborn.
Nemo is introduced in the story first. At the beginning of the story, he's found in a floating ship in a dimension called the End with no recollection of who he was or how he got there. He made his way with a friend to the Overworld. For the most part he was seen by everyone else as a blumbering idiot due to his daily memory loss and child-like nature. Despite this, he still kept doing his best to be helpful to everyone and prove himself as capable and intelligent.
Through old journals and meeting Caleb, he begins to collect pieces of his life and what he had done. He had been a hybrid hunter back when he looked human. He grew up in the guild with Caleb, but Nemo had deserted much earlier and helped a group of Enderians travel to the End where they were attacked by a dragon. During his fight with the dragon, Nemo had touched a magical artifact that unlocked his hybrid traits and grew his wings, though his mind suffered for it and he lost his ability to retain memories normally.
Despite not being able to stop the daily memory loss, he found ways to work with it. He had support from people and he met Cassius, who despite their rocky first encounters, eventually became his partner and later alterous husband (Nemo being greyaroace). Caleb found him after searching for Nemo for five years, and together they helped each other to survive and heal from the future traumas that awaited them. They became inseparable no matter what life (I the writer) threw at them.
Cassius started off as the embodiment of apathy and assery. He grew up alone in the Nether, claiming to have survived by his own strength and wits. Though the truth is up until he was a young teen, he was raised by a Piglin clan which he later betrayed and killed to gain free access to their bastion remnant and their riches.
Cassius’ story is one of learning how to be apathetic in a healthy way. He starts off caring only about himself, believing that other people are in charge of their own emotions and that it’s not his fault if they react negatively to him. He isn’t afraid to take up space, but he does fear other things. Namely connection. Because having connection to people makes you vulnerable in that area.
Cassius is a tank. He conquered different mobs as he grew up. His fatal flaw is he believes has to always be strong. He has to have power, he has to be able to hold his own. Alone. He can’t be weak, he can’t show vulnerability in any form.
But from the moment he pisses off one of the main characters, he has to begin to wrestle with how to get what he needs. If he pisses off certain people, he will loose the ability to function in society. He needs people as much as he hates it. But this journey doesn’t change him completely, and it shouldn’t. Whereas all the other main characters- including Caleb and Nemo- rub off on Cassius and teach him how to be compassionate and show his affection more openly, to recognize other’s reactions as an effect of what he does; Cassius also rubs off on everyone else.
Cassius is stubborn. Cassius is strong willed. Cassius doesn’t bow to forces stronger than him (he has fought gods for crying out loud). Cassius, despite learning that he has a hand in how people react to him, never lets go of his personal truth. That other people are responsible for themselves, for their own emotions. Because of that, when bullies come at him, when anyone tries to harm his chosen people, he doesn’t remorse over the consequences that befall them. Because their consequence is him.
Cassius teaches the people around him to be stronger, physically or emotionally. He teaches them to not put up with people who don’t value them or treat them with respect. Cassius fights for them when they feel like they don’t deserve it. He learns how to do what Caleb asked of him when they first met. “You’re a survivor. Help [the others] survive.”
Cassius is immovable by pressure, but easily led by gentleness. All this to say, Cassius is unashamed to be himself. He’s passion and fury wrapped up in one. He’s cockiness and intuition. He’s strength and vulnerability. Is he always a good person? Absolutely not. Is he always smart? Most of the time he’s an idiot. But he taught me how to love myself the way he loves the Bad Idea Trio. And I treasure him for it.
Caleb is the last to be introduced, but arguably the character that most drastically changes the whole world in the story. And it started with Nemo.
Caleb’s dream when he was a kid was to become a hunter, to rid the land of the dangerous hybrids and protect people. He joined at 14, and met a shy 12 year old Nemo. Nemo was often bullied by the older hunters, so Caleb befriended him and made it his mission to not let Nemo be left behind, to protect him. They had each other’s backs all up until Nemo began to withdraw from everyone.
One night, when Caleb was almost 18, Nemo asked him a hypothetical. “What if I was a hybrid? What would you do?” Caleb’s answer was, “We’d have to wait and see.” Not comforted with that answer, Nemo committed to carrying out his plan alone, blowing up the bases’ supplies and deserting to join the Enderians he had met. In the aftermath, Caleb found Nemo’s journal and discovered he was a low generation Elytrian with recessive genes that made him look completely human. And thus began the four year journey of wrestling as Caleb went off to college to study Hybridology and compete in hunting tournaments.
When Caleb graduated college, he put his hunting career to rest (although a lot less dramatically than Nemo) and began building a place called the Haven. An island for hybrids to come be safe from the hunters and scientists of the mainland, a place to live in peace. Caleb began stealthily raiding hunter bases, freeing captured hybrids and shepherding them to the Haven. All the while he searched for his long lost best friend, hoping Nemo wasn’t dead.
After five years, Caleb finally found him with Cassius and the rest of the cast, just in time to save them from hunters. Caleb brought them to the Haven, but Cassius and Nemo continued to follow him on his expeditions. Up until Caleb is captured by the hunters, presumed dead by the rest of the world. Nemo and Cassius mourn while in reality, Caleb is hidden in a secret base being brutally interrogated for the location of the Haven.
For three months, Caleb endures. During that time, 26 hybrids are killed in front of him in an effort to get him to talk. But he refuses to endanger the hundreds of lives on the island. Finally, his allies rescue him, but he comes back a shattered and guilt ridden man scared of endangering everyone around him. The work he’s done for the Haven has always been fueled by his need to make up for what he did as a hunter, but after being captured, he can’t hide his fears anymore.
Thus begins the years long healing process, relying on Nemo’s gentleness and Cassius’ strength to protect him and help him relearn trusting himself. He becomes a champion of the God of Music and Diplomacy, granting him the power to turn invisible, phase through almost anything, and control minds with his singing and guitar. He, Cassius, and Nemo get married and eventually have two sons, Achilles and Icarus, and an adopted daughter, Artemis. Caleb eventually steps up when war begins brewing, becoming the leader of a resistance of 600 volunteers against the Hunters’ Guild, training them and leading them into victory.
Caleb continues to struggle with PTSD for the rest of his life, manifesting itself in panic attacks and vivid nightmares. But he keeps fighting. He finds a purpose for himself once again. His whole journey is about learning to be at peace with his life, to be able to die proud of what he’s done.
Caleb is the character closest to my heart. He has many of my personal struggles, from questions about morals to trauma to carrying guilt. But he never truly gave up. In the times when I hopelessly questioned my purpose, he questioned and found an answer for both of us. “To do what’s right. For the sake of love. That’s the point.”
TLDR:
The Bad Idea Trio has taught me to love myself. They taught me loyalty. They taught me strength. They taught me vulnerability. They taught me trust. They taught me perseverance. They taught me purpose. I have been writing them for two years now, and I have watched them grow and their stories unfold. And I’m so proud of how far the silly little blurbos in my head have come.
“And the universe said I love you
And the universe said you played the game well
And the universe said everything you need is within you
And the universe said you are stronger than you know”
More reasons to love B.I.T.:
(art of the three of them together is a commission by ellipuukangas)
288. Devan Arkhiem (@winterpinetrees)
He/Him
Devan Arkhiem is a (elf, D&D inspired world) supervillain I made when I was far younger who I got so emotionally attached to that he stopped being a villain and the entire story shifted to make him a tragic hero of a revolution that betrayed its ideals.
As a teen, he was the face of a revolution, was betrayed, and nearly killed his ‘brother’. As an adult, he’s a sad wet cat of a man, the strongest wizard on earth, deeply traumatized, and trying to hold back an even greater evil. (the greater evil is inspired by lord Byron)
Here’s more details.
During his time as a teenage protagonist, he was a magical prodigy in an urban fantasy setting based on the early 2010s. He had two friends who were basically his brothers, one of whom was murdered, kicking off said revolution. The other, a fire mage named Markus who broke things first and asked questions later, joined Devan on his quest for revenge/elf rights. Devan became the hero of the revolution and fought a world war alongside a bunch of friends. Unfortunately, one of those friends was a literal devil inspired by Lord Byron. Byron took control of the revolution, and turned it into a global dictatorship. Devan felt he was too deep in the revolution to change his ways. Markus thought that evil needed to be stopped. They had a big fight and Devan won and was permanently traumatized. Hundreds of millions of other people died too. Whoops! War crimes!
Now, a full seventy years later, Devan Arkhiem is the president of a little piece of the empire that is less evil. He is married to a different friend from the revolution, and has two kids, one of whom wants to follow in Devan’s destructive/heroic footsteps. Devan hates this, but I mean, what can he do. He knows the horrors of war and will do anything to prevent another one. He will also do anything to protect the elven species, and his family. Unfortunately, the world is super messed up and another revolution is happening. So…he’s having a bad time. He survives the main story, but is executed for his war crimes afterwards.
If you think my blorbo is neat, I invite you to reach out. There is so much lore inside my brain.
Devan Arkhiem is a middle aged (looks 40ish) dark elf/drow, with long white hair and medium brown skin instead of purple. He has mirrored silver pupils, and three straight scars on the back of his left hand. Has a wedding ring on that hand too. Dresses like a pretty normal politician at this point in his life.
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