Thinking About The Voice Call I Had W/ Some Friends Where We Debated Two Of Them Breaking Into The Library

thinking about the voice call I had w/ some friends where we debated two of them breaking into the library while two of us desperately tried to convince them why their plan wouldn’t work. low key want to try and do something more with that but one of them isn’t active online that much anymore.

GIANT rain world x ruina commission for the dearest @impassivedevil! thank you so much for your support again! this clocked in at about 12 hours of work!

and the approved thumbnail for comparison lol

"average City dweller has a lot of trauma" factoid actualy just statistical error. average City dweller has 1 trauma (living in the City). Trauma Robot and Friends, who live in library & have over 10,000 trauma, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

fandoms where the blorbos are named after historical figures/classic literature/etc are so funny.

my roommate was like “imagine you’re an English major hearing us right now”

and I was like “‘why are these people talking about wuthering heights and moby dick!? what do you mean people ship wuthering heights man and moby dick man.’ ‘Why does that one talk about how much they love the sold soul to demon man!?’ ‘haha yeah the stranger guy is autistic’”. (pretending to be the hypothetical English major btw)

and YES it WAS about limbus but I just read a post talking about a character named nikola tesla and I assumed it was HI3 but no it was FGO (I think? I don’t follow either) and honestly it has the same energy as Miku binder.

Hm. Perhaps i should make a tag specific for Elpis (my limbus self insert) so that if i get followers they can filter out my cringe.

If anyone is interested in them:

This is them ^_^ their name is Elpis and they’re based off of Pandora’s box since i tend to go for names that start with E for my self inserts (E and S names, for Evora and Sora lol)

Their whole deal is that they had a class (its either a class or an orphanage, haven’t decided) where they spent most of their time w/ the vices in the box until the Bad Things Happened (tm) and Elpis is the only one left :(

They love faust. they are very sweet together and it is very autistic.

They're very much nonbinary and use they/them but they’re often referred to as a girl/by feminine terms (for an example in a oneshot i wrote of them, they are called "faust's girl").

Elpis is a character outside of the fact that theyre a self insert/self ship oc!! Their whole thing is flower language and that’s the a big thing in the way they express their (platonic!!) feelings towards the other sinners.

One of the little flower language things they do is at the end of a sinner’s canto is give them a flower that has a meaning relevant to them… i have a small list and reasons on my Elpis google doc but i dont have that available atm because mobile tumblr is weird lol.

Their little icon is meant to be both a flower and a butterfly! I didn’t want to just go with butterflies since butterflies mean hope BUT butterflies are already kinda taken by *checks notes* ryoshu’s icon, and every single ardor moth and other butterfly/moth themed abnormality.

Also the skirt is very much not super efficient in battle but hey. It works for them. and also they refuse to get rid of it.

Their primary weapon is an olive branch type thing with a lantern at the end. Like the SINGLE most stereotypical staff lantern thing. it also has a branch that they weave medicinal herbs onto :3

The lantern has easy break glass panes, though there is no door. The way the lantern works is they have to reset the Greek fire like substance (half a copout on what it actually is composed, half because Greek fire is interesting, and also half because she's from greek mythology), relight the candle carefully, and then put the panes back in. Her Big Attack(tm) lore wise is them smacking the enemy with their staff and the lantern shatters onto the enemy. I guess combat wise it would be a one time use inflict bleed & burn. like

[on hit] inflict x burn, inflict y bleed (can only occur once an encounter)

They still do damage just no burn/bleed :3 this is for balance purposes (and gameplay/lore integration because DAMN the PMVerse is great at that shit keep it UP /pos)

However because theyre really easily startled if you approach them from behind and they don’t see you, they have a really nasty habit of “swing first, ask questions later”. It’s to the point on the Elpis google doc i literally have a table of how many times they’ve set a sinner on fire by accident (as well as how many on purpose). It’s a source of comedy until it’s Not.

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