If Ashur ever decides he’s tired of hiding and makes his relationship with Tarquin public (with Quin’s permission or course) the Minrathous gossip rags would go nuts. They’re the ultimate Sexy Pope/Some Guy couple, people would be losing it wondering what about that paper-pusher captured the literal Divine’s heart, how this rando (a soporati no less!!) who seems to the average person a solid five on a good day has so thoroughly enjoyed ensnared the Divine that even talking about boring administration gets the Divine making heart eyes. Tarquin might feel ofd about all the attention at first, but I bet he’d get silly with it, maybe actively trying to seem more boring and plain in public to make Ashur look even more deranged for being so down bad for him
“Quin! Where is my mask? WHERE IS MY SUPERSUIT?? Whoever ran that paper is going to get a visit from The Viper so help me… A FIVE??? I’ll show him five! Five fingers right up his-”
Tarquin couldn’t hear the rest as Ashur stormed off into the other room. He was too doubled over in laughter to follow him anyway.
He quickly tucked the leather mask further behind the sofa cushion. He’d squirrelled it away there earlier before casually placing the offending paper on the dining table. Ashur would find it easily of course, but hopefully not until Tarquin had quelled his rage, preferably with a method involving fewer garments instead of armored ones…
Tarquin wiped tears of laughter from his eyes, making a mental note to pay Elek a visit later and drop him a couple extra gold for running the article. Ashur’s reaction had been PRICELESS…
So I assumed The Viper/Ashur was, like, the Archon’s kid or something based on the clues the game dropped
Someone went into the files looking for who he is and
He’s the Black Divine
Just straight up the Black Divine
He put on a mask and chills with his Templar boyfriend in a safe house behind a pawn shop bookcase
The Black Divine
So I have thoughts and questions and I’m just gonna scream into the void and see if something screams back.
So I’ve recently been questioningy gender identity cause while I’m fine with she/her (assigned at birth) my views on gender are not “mainstream”.
I grew up in a house hold were the traditional gender norms where kinda swapped. Mom made the big money as a professor and dad taught elementary school. Mom does the bills and dad does the cooking. But dad also did the yard and mom did the laundry. Dad did martial arts and mom sewed. Dad played video games but would also play pretend with me and play my pretty pretty princess game (clip on earings and all). Mom worked late and went on business trips but also sang me lullabies and tucked me in.
So a lot of the “traditional” binary interests and expectations where learned after by the media and I never put a lot of thought into it. I grew up in a world where girls and boys had different anatomy and that was their only difference (I understand now gender is more than your body now).
Another part of it is that I’m Ace/Aro and if I could change my body I would be like Barbie or Ken and be blank. I also have a small chest and I’m very thankful for that and would hate to have a bigger one. On the other hand I also like the hour glass silhouette which I find hard to fill out. But yet I also like the look of tailored men’s suits and wish I had a body that could pull that off.
In the end I’m fine with being a woman and labeled female, they/them is also fine, he/him I’m opposed to (but that’s mainly because I don’t like the “traditional” male aspects and don’t connect with them, if I was refered to as he/him and made the connection to my dad I don’t think I would care too much). All in all my view on gender is strange because I look at traditional norms and wonder why people put that into boxes. Why can’t we just let people like things and do things and why does gender have to be so strict?
But I also battle with the fact that I do like a lot of the more “feminine” things (which matches with what I identify as now). So I’m just not sure if I am just really comfortable with being female and think gender norms are restrictive or if there’s something more.
the gods are such jackasses. Percy saved the world and he made his demands (which were all pretty reasonable!), but instead of the gods doing it like beings with common sense they did it how a genie would. Take Calypso, for example, Percy told the gods to free her and they did– they just didn’t tell her that like yeah Percy didn’t say to also tell her but I would think that was implied????
Next time, Percy should roll up to Olympus with his lawyers to draw up a legit contract. It’s time to sue the gods.
the suffering never ends
This is the real process
Resources for you!
Character Ideas:
- Character creation masterpost
- Character Alignment Chart
- More character alignment descriptions
- Muslim Character questions
- Characters with magical powers
- Building a new character advice
- How to create a character for an online or tabletop RPG (also a good guide on creating characters in general)
- Royalty/nobility TV Tropes page
- Basic character profile
- OC masterpost
- Random character generators - (1), (2), (3), (4)
- D&D Character Building Tool
Character Design Ideas:
- How clothing affects a character’s personality
- Character Design Inspiration blog
- Concept art, fan art, cool art to be inspired by
- Character design references and inspiration
- Sources for POC character design ideas and models
- Create your own character model using HeroForge
- For horned characters
- Body and hair types guide
- Random outfit generator
Naming Help:
- Amazing site with an endless amount of naming resources
- General advice on avoiding naming appropriation
- Hispanic Surnames
- Gothic Victorian names
- Huge master list for character things in general
- Masterlist of names of all types - including but not limited to ancient/old world names, Celtic, African, Northern European, Southern and Central American Native names, Japanese, Chinese, Mongolian, Polynesian, and more
- Another name masterlist
- How to pick a character name guide
- Yet another names masterlist
Creating Background/backstory:
- Character Sheet/Development Sheet
- Another character development list
- In-depth character personality, motivations and traits sheet
- 320 talents and passions for characters
- On writing likes and dislikes that aren’t frivolous
- Why you should write non-human characters non-conforming to the gender binary
- Stereotypes, tropes, and archetypes
- Random backstory generator
- Assassin and thief character tropes to avoid
Character Interactions and putting your character into your world/story:
- Comparing character height/height references
- Characters who are scientists and writing about them doing science
- Describing what different voices sound like
- Describing skin tones
- Writing friendship interactions that are platonic
- Why having one character knock their friend unconscious to prevent them from doing something is a bad idea
- Advice on shipping OCs with canon characters and what to avoid doing
- Sweet Polly Oliver and Sweet on Polly Oliver situations (think of Disney’s Mulan for an example)
- How to write multiple viewpoints/juggling a main cast of more than 4 to 6 characters
- How to make readers care about your morally gray hero/anti-hero
- On platonic OC and canon character relationships
- How to avoid Godmodding in RPs
- When it’s cheap to kill off a character
- Writing dialogue
- Things you shouldn’t do to canon characters
- Avoiding purple prose in writing and RPs
- Slang resources
- Dialogue tips
- Websites to chart your story/plot/character relationships
BLESS EVERYONE IN THIS POST.
COOL.
I’VE REBLOGGED THIS BEFORE AND I WILL REBLOG IT 20 TIMES MORE
THANK THE STARS I’VE FOUND THIS
OH thank frEAkINg God.
