A monster is not such a terrible thing to be. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once.
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"Coke flavored Oreos and... Oreo flavored Coke. Oookay, are they that desperate for something new? It's like those Funyun flavored Ruffles that came out a few months ago."
@doedsdans || X
Well, she'd been asked that before. It was an understandable question to have.
"It's chicken egg, don't worry."
Also the hunters Senja is familiar with have very, very little to do with any sort of religion. Some are religious, yes, but hunting monsters isn't a matter of "ridding the world of evil godless creatures, etc etc", it's more a matter of pest control/dealing with problem animals who pose too big of a threat to humans.
Pie - what's your favorite type of pie?
Autumn Asks || Accepting!
"Blackberry and apple. Not one or the other, I mean both in the same pie~"
🍁Autumn Asks🍂
Amber - what's something you do every day?
Blankets - sweaters or fuzzy blankets?
Boo - ghosts or witches?
Bundled - describe your ideal date.
Camping - do you like s'mores?
Candy Corn - what's your favorite candy?
Cardigans - favorite autumn colors?
Crow - what's an unpopular opinion you have on autumn?
Creature Comforts - cats or dogs (or other)?
Comfy - plaid shirts or demin jackets?
Costume - do you like to dress up for Halloween? Do you have a go to costume?
Cold Hands - are you single or in a relationship?
Cozy - describe your ideal fall day.
Dream - describe your perfect au.
Evergreen - do you like Christmas trees?
Fireplace - do you decorate for fall?
Fresh Air - what's something you're thankful right now?
Frost- anything you're looking forward to?
Giving - do like giving or receiving gifts more?
Halloween - what's your favorite Halloween tradition?
Handmade - do you like making presents?
Harvest - do you like going to autumn festivals?
Hearth - ideal home?
Holidays - do you prefer Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas?
Intricate - what's a subject you have random knowledge about?
Joking - favorite silly joke?
Kids - do you like trick or treating?
Laces - knee high boots or fuzzy boots?
Leaves - favorite candle scent?
Maze - apple picking or pumpkin patch?
Macabre - you have peculiar interests?
Novel - favorite book?
Oven - what's your favorite holiday thing to bake?
Pie - what's your favorite type of pie?
Pinecone - are you crafty?
Potpourri - tell us something random about you.
Pumpkins - do you like to carve pumpkins? Any favorite designs?
Pumpkin Spice - favorite seasonal drink?
Quiet - how do you relax?
Rain - favorite type of weather?
Sweaters - what's your go to fall outfit?
Spooky - do you believe in the supernatural?
Scary - what's your favorite scary movie?
Socks - do you wear socks to bed?
Syrup - waffles or pancakes?
Tasty - do you have a comfort food?
Tea - what's something that soothes you?
Trees - are you in school? What do you study?
Trains - if you could spend the fall anywhere, where would you go?
Thanksgiving - do you celebrate Thanksgiving? What traditions so you have?
Ultimate - describe your best holiday experience.
Vintage - favorite decade?
Warmth - bonfires or indoor fires?
Yule - what's one wish you have for this holiday season?
Zeal - what is something you go all out for?
"I've seen it all now! First gods, then demigods, then jackals...what's next? Slimes!?" -Jasper #to old for this shit
Senja was… slightly perplexed at this outburst. Grateful that it wasn't a violent reaction, but for someone who'd apparently seen gods getting exasperated over a harpy? …maybe he'd been having a rough day and the wings and talons were just THAT unexpected.
“If this is too much, I can turn into something a little more… normal looking? Like a human or a bird?”
Merch + a tiny toy harpy that seems to have her features.
Send "Merch" for my muse to find out there's a merchandise dedicated to them being on sale. || Accepting!
Oh.
This–
Why did this make her nervous? If it had been made and given to her by a friend, maybe the reaction would be less so... but right now all she wanted to do was throw the tiny thing as far away from her as possible.
What is something you care desperately about? Something that you just couldn't live without? + Are there any certain scents, sounds, or textures that you like? What about ones that you dislike?
Questions the Muse can answer || NOT Accepting!
Senja gave a quiet huff.
“Is it too sappy to say my friends? The people I've come to love and care for after I got here? They mean the world to me.”
And they were a big reason she hadn't dropped everything and gone back to the mountains, no matter how tempting it was after a bad day. Harpies, according to the books her dad had, are a very social species.
Answered!
Are you happy in your own skin? If you could change something about yourself, would you, and what would it be?
Questions the Muse can answer || NOT Accepting!
Senja thought for a moment.
“I'm… pretty content in my own skin, I think.”
“It'd be nice if I could change into something bigger, though. I can think of a few times where being able to carry certain things or people more easily would have been useful…”
Now it was Senja's turn to laugh. “Thank you!! You build a house in the wilderness of any sort and then you're surprised to find the wildlife hasn't gone anywhere?” Bears were something they dealt with occasionally when she was still living with her parents. The general rule was to stay inside with the doors locked and they'd leave eventually. Hopefully.
They were right, though– it was probably for the best she'd never gotten a closer look on the chance it WAS a bunch of men. “Oh! I've seen a show like that, it explored a couple different spooky locations in a given area, like the Caribbean or some big city in the US.”
Her eyebrows rose at the revelation of what Duendes were, but it rang a familiar bell. “I know if I heard that story as a kid, I'd be terrified to leave my toenails unclipped. I have enough of a problem with mice in the walls, I'd hate to have something like that running around,” she shook her head. “When I was a kid, I misunderstood the concept of the tooth fairy. I thought she came around to steal your teeth if you were bad, and I'd wake up in a panic in the middle of the night and check my teeth to make sure she hadn't gotten me.”
Cackling, Coyote rubbed their cheek, "Can always count on somebody to make it everybody's problem that they can't get laid. Jesus Christ. Bears though. You know there are more bears in the Los Angeles hills than you'd think. Rich people will flip their shit about bears being in their backyards. Bitch? You're in the bear's backyard."
"Maybe it was for the best that you never got a closer look. Best scenario, it's a bunch of ghosts. Worst scenario, it's a bunch of men. Still, it's kinda fun to speculate, isn't it? There was this tabloid show called El Extremo. There was this segment about a 'witch' shooting 'fireballs' at people. That sort of thing scared the fuck out of us but we were always curious." Though reality had proven to be stranger than that so far. They wondered if many Masquerade breaches had been broadcasted on shows like that.
"Duendes are lil' gnome dudes. They kinda vary region to region. Some stories are kinda your run-of-the-mill fairy type stuff. They come around to steal kids. Other versions go that they live in the walls of houses and trim the toenails of children who don't clip their own often enough. Sometimes accidentally cutting their toes off. That spin's probably to scare the kids into clipping their toenails."
This batch of mead had been fermenting for the past three months. She'd picked additives that would be very specifically "fall", like cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice. The result would (hopefully) be a sweet spiced wine, perfect for having warm in the cooler months-- she had another batch still in the works with cranberries and mulling spices for the winter months.
She took an experimental sip and couldn't help the grin and delighted giggle that escaped her. Perfect!