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Out of curiosity, what is your icon?

(wow omg thank you for the ask!)

my icon is a picture of two statues embracing:

mostly for the aesthetic but also because it reminds me a lot of my skyrim ldb and miraak! :^)

Hi! Once you get this you have to say 5 things you like about yourself, publicly, then feel free to send this to a few of your favourite followers. SPREAD POSITIVITY💌😘

oh jeez...self-love? unheard of

i like the color of my hair--my hair is naturally very dark brown, with both blonde and medium brown highlights which i think are super cool! it's also curly which is nice.

hmm...i'm glad that i like to make people smile and laugh and feel good. it also makes me feel good.

i have a good talent for writing. i have been writing all my life but very often don't give myself much credit for it.

i like the color of my eyes. i have my dad's eyes so they're a very nice shade of blue-grey, and someone once described them as silver.

i'm proud that i enjoy and invest myself in learning through any means possible.

thank you @soft-ris for tagging me in this!!! 💌

RULES: List 1-3 things you notice about your own writing or writing style, and tag your friends to find out theirs :>

i like to think i have some pretty cool and creative ideas. anyone who knows me knows i basically made up the entirety of my own lore for my skyrim fics (sorry lore people) and i've had some interesting plots along the way.

i never seem to nail dialogue down. i always think that there's too much in one go and often try to split it up with different sentence structures and bits of narration between, but i feel like that messes it up even further.

i'm awkward with descriptions. i think i've definitely gotten better over the years, but still sometimes i can't find the proper way to craft an accurate description that doesn't totally ruin the flow or drag on forever.

@elventhief @skyrim-drabbles-n-stuff @wisteriashouse i am tagging you to join me in this hell because that's what mutuals are for :) and also anyone else who sees this and wants to do it, feel free! please tag me in it so i can see all your cool replies!

Hello, dear! You've been visited by the random character question fairy! :D ~☆

How jumpy is your character? Do they get upset when startled?

this is a good question 👀 we'll branch out to my DA oc this time too!

tharya, my ldb is pretty jumpy - loud or sudden noises when she isn't paying attention (or even sometimes when she is) make her flinch or jump. not because she's actually scared of them, but because her brain is so used to hearing loud noises and immediately needing to get up and run or defend herself, they make her body jump into action. she very rarely gets upset by it, but it definitely ups her heartbeat. (being easily startled is a small symptom of PTSD iirc)

bhijirio, another skyrim oc, is somewhat similar to tharya. he's khajiit and a bounty hunter, so he's accustomed to listening for small noises and paying close attention to his surroundings. that way he doesn't really flinch, per se, (though his ears almost always flick in some way when he hears odd noises), but usually he will look up & look around to see if he can pinpoint the source of said noise. he never really is upset by it.

miraak, though, is pretty hard to ruffle. he usually jumps "internally", lets himself be startled by things on the inside, but never lets it show on the outside. sometimes his eyebrow or shoulder will jump if he's less alert - and specific noises will always make him leap away (i.e. anything that sounds like something falling behind him, explosions, or even whispering close by, most are reminders of herma-mora). miraak gets grumpy about it and will gripe if he feels it necessary.

azriel, my inquisitor, is a healthy, normal amount of jumpy. she will flinch at unexpected loud sounds, etc, mostly out of habit or a natural reflex. most things don't scare her, but she'll still react to them anyway. as a warrior she's very accustomed to taking constant survey of the land around her and reacting immediately, both in fights and to noises around her. she doesn't bother to hide it and usually gets a good chuckle out of it.

sebastian, though technically not an oc, i felt right to include bc of some personal headcanons. his hearing in his left ear had been damaged by the chantry explosion, so on his left side he can't hear small noises, etc. things like explosions will obv come through, but the sound of a glass dropping and breaking will likely be distant enough that he won't jump, just look around to see what it was. that aside, he jumps at very big, unexpected noises and explosions especially - he's somewhat paranoid of being caught in another since the chantry. he rarely gets upset and instead will want to know what happened and if everyone/thing is okay.

I'm terrified because I accidentally in my enthusiasm sent the miraak starter to the person who made the post but there's no take backsies. But the "in the mortal realm, I'm under your power" is such a powerful thing to sAY

LMAOOO please i don't think they'll mind teehee. and YOU'RE SO RIGHT THAT ONE IS LITERALLY CRAZY- my mind took a bit to get the idea for it but in the end it came up w this ehhe

i hope you enjoy! it's not exactly the most evident(?) thing you would expect from that prompt but tbh they're all so amazing....feel free to ask for others bc i NEED to write them all😩

how do we feel about meatrack with cats (asking for myself)

MIRAAK IS A CAT GUY. i don't think he likes dogs very much at ALL, but he enjoys cats (and possibly other farm animals, esp sheep, which surprises him! i think he occasionally likes to stop and pet animals on the farms they pass while traveling). i actually gave tharya & miraak a vale sabre cat from gelebor during their own timeskip, her name is runa and she is the best🥰 she's huge and has massive teeth so she's good to have around for protection, but also for a long time she was very very tiny kitten and miraak would let her sit in the neckline of his robes while they traveled so she could stay warm and comfy, with just her lil head peeking out. tharya would put a glove or kerchief or something to wrap her & carry her in the bandolier she has so runa could peek out and watch too. she was small for a long while, but then grew very quickly, so now she's large but still young and still wants miraak to carry her around (he tries occasionally).

(edit: i think he also just enjoys little Animals in general. i have a headcanon that while he was a priest on solstheim he had two little sugar-glider-esque pets (native critters to atmora) with him that morokei gifted to him :3)

WAIT I have another. Miraak is the kinda person to use those toddler leashes if the LDB has any kids

HONESTLY. i want to say yes but also no but also....like YEAH😭

for me, my army of OCs largely never have (biological) kids because i personally don't want kids and tbqh i don't.....REALLY like them a lot? tho some OCs adopt or gain found-family children (i.e. my inquisitor & sebastian vael, who adopt meghan vael when she reappears in the city after seb takes the throne).

miraak & tharya never have kids of their own (there's lore), but miraak really loves kids. so i remedied this by making tharya's family have a ton of kids; you have sofie, who they unofficially adopt, and then tharya's brother adopts her, and then tharya's OTHER brother and his wife have 3 kids (there's a very tender scene of him getting their youngest cozied up for a midday nap in my upcoming fic). miraak also occasionally teaches local whiterun kids at the temple of kynareth. he enjoys letting them climb all over him and is happy that his presence makes them feel safe, and gladly holds them or holds their hand when they want, and is VERY protective of them when he has them. BUT i cant help but think some days he would wish to live in a world w the backpack leashes when they're all especially rowdy🗿 but this is all just me teehee i wanna hear other miraak crowd's thoughts 👀👀👀

i wanted to get into sebastian for a long time, but im always unsure what am i supposed to see as bad writing choice and what's his actual character + apparently he has 0 reactions to many of the quests?? they just didn't write/code anything for those. they really did him dirty

i don't hate him though & open to learning more. he doesn't deserve half the things people say about him

no you're SO RIGHT😭 i mean. i kinda always forget he's a DLC character so ig in some sense it's excusable to not have a lot of stuff for him but also like ?? on the flip side i feel your DLC character should be uber fleshed out and well done to make them interesting and just as interactive, if not more, than the non-DLC ppl!

i also have problems wrapping my head entirely around sebastian's character, as much as i love him. (my DA hyperfixation days are also behind me, but i try) i read other people's incredibly detailed psychoanalysis or headcanons and such and they're always SO COOL😩 i just have a hard time really nailing sebastian's characterization when i write him, but ALSO figuring out a way to write his relationship with the chantry both in and post-kirkwall that isn't a total giving up on it (as easy as that would be to write).

but yeah so many ppl are unnecessarily mean to sebastian 🤡 and also really hate on his chaste romance for some reason??? like idk grow up

Literally so glad you have a tumblr I’ve been rereading some of your fics !

SO EXCITING OMG‼️‼️‼️ THANK YOU FOR READING & REREADING I'M SO HAPPY TO HEAR YOU'RE ENJOYING STUFF 🥺

which ones have you been rereading, what do you like so far??👀👀 i'm so nosey when ppl tell me they're reading my stuff LMAO