Thread:ThisIsXenon/@comment-32273133-20181231004208

Figured I should make a thread like this so I can keep track of what I post and what i don’t post because sometimes I forget. Also if there’s anything you guys want to ask, I’ll do what I can to answer.

Now that I’ve unofficially introduced Percy, here’s a bunch of random stuff about him:

—is one of five elemental sorcerers that live on the edges of Forengard

—his official title/name is Percival Thamus, Sorcerer of the South, and he’s the fire sorcerer

—his morals are debatable

—he used to be a client of the KGA, which is how he met Trin and fell in love with them

—but then once the KGA disintegrated and Trin disappeared, Percy went off the deep end

—now he goes to bars and picks up drunk people to take home and do what he wants with

—he may or may not be partially based on Howl from Howl’s moving castle

—I'm trying to recruit my irls to hate him but all of them keep spiritually adopting him and I don't get it

—he’s contracted to a fire demon named Virali

—The two act like they hate each other and Percy’s a little quite careless with water

—but if it came down to it they’d die for each other several times over

Notes on other sorcerers:

—Each sorcerer protects an area and represents an element

—they’re all contracted to elemental demons

—currently Percy is the only one with a last name and a full personality but the others have names at least

Fire:  Percival Thamus, South, contracted to Virali

Water:  Oliver [lastname], North, Contracted to Elohel

Earth:  Autumn [lastname], East, contracted to Taargon [may or may not have gotten Taargon from random letters in a periodic table word search]

Air:  Lilah [lastname], West, contracted to Qrs [pronounced KYUR-is]

Aether:  Sycorax [lastname], Center, contracted to Absidi

—Percy and Oliver hate each other with a passion

—Actually, Percy hates Oliver with a passion and Oliver just tries to get a reaction out of Percy

—They send each other insults in the form of paper airplanes across the continent on the daily

—like one time Oliver just sent "bitch" and Percy set half Oliver's tower on fire in rage

—Sycorax sits in their tower in the center and watches the insults go back and forth across the sky like “smh get a room”

—While Percy is more "protect my section? hm yeah okay sure," Oliver is very serious about his job

—He and Elohel patrol a lot and take down a lot of monsters and bad things

—He's not in his tower sometimes for days on end so he has a whole bunch of premade insults to send to Percy

—He's the only one with an apprentice and her name is Kaelia

—more on her later

—Elohel always looks like he’s crying because his eyes leak water

—and when he blinks his lower lid pulls up

—He's a sassy little bastard but everyone likes him

—Taargon has a weird obsession with cheese so Autumn makes sure she has lots of it at all times

—Sycorax and Absidi are nerds

—Sycorax is an awkward human being so they stay in their tower a lot unless absolutely necessary.

—Autumn and Lilah visit them a lot and always bring food because Sycorax oft forgets to eat

—Absidi doesn't need to eat but always claims to be hungry

—Sycorax is skilled enough to cut their own hair and they've got a great mullet

—Virali’s hair is fire

—so he stays in a fireplace at all times as not to set Percy’s tower on fire

—all the fireplaces in the tower are connected to a small room under the fireplace grate so Virali can move between them easily

—Percy’s not very good at holding on to things when he’s hungover so he drops a lot of coffee mugs and spills things, usually around Virali’s fireplace

—Virali doesn’t do well in the presence of liquids so he almost dies every time

can’t remember if I’ve explained the essentials, so here’s some ennead and KGA backstory stuff:

—Hester changed her name and ran away from home when she was fifteen

—she had a run in with an assassin who saw “talent” in her and trained her for two years

—once she became a threat to him, he tried to kill her; that backfired and she killed him instead and started planning her own assassin company

—she decided to put potential employees through a literal “trial by fire” by setting their villages on fire

—anyone who survived was qualified to begin training with her

—the first village she comes across and decides to destroy is Asnarox, Micah’s birthplace

—Micah and his mother Melody have been living there relatively peacefully for the last ten years

—Melody sells flower wreaths and herbs she gathers in the surrounding forest, Micah helps her and scavenges for food

—At this point Micah is still a full shapeshifter so he has feathers behind his ears, as does his mother

—The village doesn’t like magic whatsoever so the two keep their hair long to cover the feathers, and generally stay away from the village people

—A couple of weeks before Hester comes to burn everything down, slavehunters infiltrate the village, looking for orphan children to capture and sell as slaves

—Micah’s usually by himself during the day so they assume he won’t be missed and target him

—Therefore instead of scavenging, Micah spends these weeks running away from people chasing him

—Meanwhile some of the upper-class villagers begin to wonder about Melody and her son

—They’re already suspicious that something’s different/wrong about them because a) Micah’s eyes are purple and b) Melody was a teen mother without a husband

—eventually they find out that the Jakarta duo are shapeshifters and begin calling Melody a witch

—They blame bad things on her:  crops rotting, bug swarms destroying thatching on everyone’s rooves, women dying in childbirth, etc.

—One day Micah almost gets caught by a slavehunter and dislocates his shoulder trying to get free

—Melody leaves the market early to patch him up, and that’s when the village people come with pitchforks and torches to arrest her.

—Micah manages to escape but Melody doesn’t, and she’s put in prison overnight with plans to burn her at the stake the next morning

—Micah goes that night to try and bust her out but neither of them know how.

—That’s when she gives him her knife and jacket and tells him to hide at a certain landmark with promises that she’ll see him again

—he goes there and waits until he smells smoke

—the time now is just after midnight and Micah freaks out because the village people changed the burning time, so he shifts into a bird and flies over the village

—to his horror, the entire village is on fire, because Hester has chosen now to do her first trial

—He flies down to the prison and tries to get his mother out again but the smoke is too thick and he can’t pick the lock and Melody just tells him to go

—Eventually he does, and ends up back at the landmark and waits

—He doesn’t eat or sleep, he just waits and watches for her

—Hester finds him two days later,  starving and still coughing from the smoke

—He’s a crow but she knows how to identify shapeshifters so she coaxes him down with food and then captures him

—"Join or die"

— Micah joins and becomes the first member of the KGA

—A month later, Hester returns to her home town of Krement and burns it to the ground

—She waits a day or so before examining the wreckage

—The only survivor is Clay, who somehow survived because of the way his house collapsed around him

—He's trapped there and calls for help until Micah hears him and manages to move the debris and frees him

—he's kept his scarf over his mouth as a filter and that's the only reason the smoke didn't kill him

—Micah's the first live person he's seen for hours so Clay hug-tackles him and breaks down

—Micah is startled but he gets how Clay feels so he lets it happen while Hester shakes her head in the background like "weaklings"

—she doesn't understand that he's only nine and he just lost his entire family

—she recognises her nephew but doesn't try to connect with him

—[who she thought was her niece and she's confused] [she was always distant in the family. no one really talked to her and it was awkward around her other siblings because they're like 18-25 years apart and it's obvious she was an oops baby] [so she never really learned about Clay's transition but she infers it over the years and files it away as something to use against him later]

—Clay's basically imprinted on Micah at this point and Micah's like "why me" but also if anyone else hurts this smol boy Micah will Attack them

—Neither of them had siblings before so they're just like "ok we're brothers now"

—Hanoi and Korin are next

—Hester and Co. find them on the road to another village

—Hanoi and Korin ran away from their village because of an actual disaster, not something Heater created

—short version is that a someone broke a contract with a particularly malevolent demon and said demon destroyed the village out of spite

—when they tell Hester their story [aka when she yanks it out of them] [once again disregarding the fact that they're also nine] she's like "tragic backstory and no home? you're hired"

—next village is Cyrus's [Xereia] and Hester sets it on fire

—Cyrus thinks it's her fault because she's a pyro so she lives with that guilt for years until the ennead uncover what Hester actually did

—She's eleven but refuses to take the "oldest sibling" role from Micah and just gives him hell instead

—Next is Xerxes

—Hester is tired of burning things so she breaks the dam in the village and floods the place

—Xerxes stays in the attic of his house with his little sister

—they don't have much air left so they try to find some way to get out

—Xerxes can't swim well but Kaelia can so she tries to find some way under the water for them to get out

—One time she goes down and doesn't come back up

—No matter how many dives he does Xerxes can't find her

—spoiler alert Kaelia was swept downstream and rescued by Oliver so she's not actually dead

—eventually he gives up and decides he'll just die when the air runs out

—Hester finds him right as he passes out and barely gets him before he drowns

—he's thirteen and Micah's like "Please be the leader" but he's too torn up about Kaelia to function so Cyrus says she'll take care of him

—Next is Midori

—his situation is the weirdest

—he was born in Bolivar, the oldest of three siblings

—[interestingly enough that's the village where Melody grew up, and he has a few hazy memories of her because his father worked for her mother at her tavern]

—after Melody disappeared from Bolivar when Midori was three and her mother went berserk about it, Midori's dad moved him and his siblings to the modern sect

—his mom isn't around

—He ends up in the city where Clay will eventually spend two years of his life and meets Sappho, Aziza, and Chester, aka the Modern Trio

—they grow up together until nine years later Midori's dad decides to move them back to the medieval sector for financial reasons and Midori has to leave them

—On the way to find work, Midori's dad runs into Hester

—she offers to buy Midori from him and he accepts

—thus Midori is sold into the KGA, and he's pissed about it

—this event reshapes his entire personality and makes him bitter and uncaring

—leads to bad events that happen later

—Bex and Trin are last

—they're twin genderfluid  illusionists and they try to run from Hester when she tries to get them

—but she's had experience with illusionists and manages to capture them

—they're the youngest at 8, and they don't really trust the septet

—rephrase:  Bex doesn't trust the septet but Trin's too captivated by Cyrus's aggressive friendliness to care

—and Hester has her ennead. She begins the KGA

—on “ennead”:  I actually googled “group of nine“ because calling the Nine the “nonagon” sounded weird and “ennead” was the first thing that came up

—however I never actually googled the pronunciation of “ennead” so I’m thinking it sorta sounds like the Aeneid but I have a looooooong history of pronouncing things incorrectly

—[un-NEE-ud]?

—after further research, it’s [EN-nee-add]

—wrong again

— ;-;

—it’s like i need to take pronunciation classes

—I’ve spoken English all my life plus bits and pieces of other languages but English is the hardest

—Random holiday headcanon where the assassin squad minus Micah decide to wrap Damian in a giant box

—the morning they exchange gifts and give the box to Micah like "here's your gift from all of us"

—Micah's hella confused but he opens it anyway

—Damian l e a p s out of the box and scares Micah so badly he punches Damian in the face

—this becomes a Christmas story that, to Micah's chagrin, Damian tells every year

—if Damian grew his hair long Micah would freak the fuck out

—idk if it'd be a good freak or a bad freak but he'd freak nonetheless and probably wouldn't like it at first

—but he wouldn't be able to stop touching it so if that's what Damian was going for-

—Every time Korin got a new tally mark tattoo she brought Cyrus with her

—Scalp tattoos hurt! so Korin just strangled Cyrus's hand the whole time and Cyrus gave silent encouragement

—everyone else thinks that the tally marks are a "don't mess with me" thing

—but actually they're to a) cover up the scar on her head and b) remind her of all the people to apologise to in whatever afterlife she ends up in

—Cyrus lost her eye when she was thirteen

—That eye already had issues [bad eye infection when she was younger made it hard for her to see out of it] and Hester noticed it was messing up her depth perception

—Hester dug it out and forced Cyrus to use her pyrokinesis to cauterise the socket

—Korin and Clay helped her adjust and Korin embroidered her first eye patch with a winking face

—later in life, once Korin and Cyrus started dating, Cyrus asked for a new one with Korin's crossed—swords insignia on it

—that's the one she has now

—Micah and Clay used to go up to the Keep roof and stargaze

—Clay made up constellations and asked Micah to tell stories about them

—Micah learned the art of storytelling from his mother so he obliged

—Clay always fell asleep during the stories so Micah had to carry him back inside

—this stopped once Hester started sleep-training

—Micah is sort of a bookworm

—sort of only because of time constraints

—his mom read to him a lot when he was a kid and he learned how to read pretty quickly

—once Hester kidnapped recruited him her training became the top priority so he didn’t have as much time to read

—once he got out and began working for Icarus and Tidepool he suddenly had a whole bunch of extra time, since his training was self-regulated and decidedly less intense

—he didn’t know what else to do with himself so he started reading again

—he has a book collection that started at Base Camp, then it moved to Xenon’s lab, then to the Keep

—Clay was perpetually shorter than Micah until after the Incident

—then he had a growth spurt

—It's still jarring to both of them that Clay is now the tall one

—Clay's trying to change his sleeping habits

—sleeping sitting up is really bad for his neck and doesn't give his spine time to decompress, plus he's got insomnia issues for reasons the ggad fic will get to around chapter 19 [I think? document takes forever and a half to load and I'm too lazy to pull it up and scroll all the way down to find out]. [EDIT: Yeah chapter 19]

—basically he's tired of feeling like an old man when he gets up but sleeping laying down is so comfortable it's uncomfortable, if that makes sense

—So he asks Calidi to stay with him one night to see if that helps at all

—Calidi's reply is something along the lines of "yes?!?!?!?!?!?!"

—The first few times it doesn't work but Calidi is the embodiment of a cuddle and it's nice and warm and he's so cute that Clay is internally crying

—Then one day he dozes off and when he wakes up he's like "Cali you're magic"

—so now he can't sleep unless Calidi is with him

—Damian teases them a lot because he thinks Something is Happening

—Clay protests and says that they’re literally just sleeping but no one believes him so he gives up

—if/when Calidi finds out that Clay's trans he pesters him about sleeping in his binder

—"you're gonna permanently hurt your ribs"

—Clay's super self-conscious and sometimes he just forgets so it's been happening for a while now

—Clay swears he's fine but he's got bruises and one day when Calidi hugs him it hurts

—Clay tries to hide it but Calidi feels him tense up and confronts him about it

—he's been doing research so he hits Clay with all these facts and Clay's suddenly smiling because Calidi cares enough to do research and not even his med school friends did that

—So he breaks that habit and it actually helps him sleep better

—Calidi's all "I told you so"

—Clay : Skittles :: Hanoi : Marshmallows

—Whenever he goes to the modern sect to replenish his supply, he tries to find candy that Micah will like

—"because candy makes people happy!"

—Micah doesn't like sweet stuff all that much plus he just really hates eating

—Clay's tried everything he can think of and he's frustrated so half out of spite he gives Micah licorice

—To both of their surprise, Micah loves it

—so now any gifts to Micah involving food are licorice

—if he’s had a bad day it’s the only thing anyone can get him to eat

Some stuff about the mortem doors:

—theyre underground somewhere

—Oganesson hears about them and goes to look for them

—he wants to dig them up and activate them early to raise an army of vengeance-hungry entities

—that's why he's disappeared for so long

—If he does end up finding and activating them then good old Cassian Ioannou will be the first out

—That's going to catch Oganesson very much off guard, because he feels like he knows this guy from somewhere

—Xenon is still somewhat sentient in Oganesson's head or wherever he is so he sends over a whole bunch of memories like "Yeah this guy isn't good"

—Once Oganesson goes through the memories [mostly of Cassian being abusive and very-anti freedom] he realises he has two choices

—One is to kill Cassian and send him back to whatever hellhole in the Pit he'd been in

—The other is to recruit Cassian to his cause and effectively shut Xenon up because there's no way Xenon wants to be around Cassian

—Cassian doesn't know Oganesson or recognise any aspects of Xenon with him [he always saw Xenon as an unimportant scrawny nerd kid, and Oganesson looks big and powerful]

—Oganesson chooses option two and says that he's Cassian's saviour, helping him escape the Pit and have his shot at revenge

—He makes Cassian prove his loyalty by making him stand guard over the doors and not letting anyone out while Oganesson goes back to the rest of the world to find all the other corrupted deities and tell of his triumph

—to his surprise they're mostly gone and irrelevant

—he begins a plot to make himself known again.

—the first thing I thought of when I saw Billie Eilish’s “when the party’s over” music video was “holy shiitakes it’s Oganesson”

—Hanoi has wanted to be a drag queen ever since he learned about them

—he says his single greatest achievement was figuring out how to use a marshmallow as a beauty blender

—Hester once helped him pick out a dress for one of her parties and threatened to literally bite off the face of anyone who teased him about it

—so yeah she's a bit of a psycho but don't mess with her Nine or she'll delete you

—it’s almost a “no one else is allowed to beat you up but me” sibling mentality

—Cyrus taught Korin how to braid her hair

Random stuff about Novaspawn:

—Created by the god Nova

—Delphi was v1, and reactions to her were mixed so Nova reworked their design to make v2, which are the current ones

—They look more like Nova than Delphi --> Black skin with star freckles, pastel eye and hair  usually of the same colour, no distinct irises or pupils just a vertical bar that acts as both?

—They're a tribal group and function a lot like Indigenous Americans

—They live in groups in both the Starry Realm and parts of Forengard

—They come together once a year for a tournament and it's a huge weeklong celebration

—the tournament only takes two to three days but there are events before and some after to celebrate the winner

—their powers could include the innate ability to use runes, illusory magic, and slight foresight

—They sleep one day a week and almost everyone sleeps at once

—a few people sleep the day before or the day after, mainly the guards and scouts, so the territories aren't completely defenceless

—they are monotheistic and believe only in the divinity of Nova, though they recognise the power of other gods

—the other gods are like angels or Warriors of God or something

—they also believe in star spirits--equivalent of nature spirits

—Andromeda, Orion, Pegasus, etc.

—Some people name their kids after the spirits--> how Orion and Polaris were named

—They also have a mythology and stories about these star spirits

—Orion was a trickster spirit [kinda like the Cherokee Coyote] and the character Orion reflects that

—Likewise, Polaris was a leader/guardian spirit and the character Polaris reflects that

—Novapawn age really slowly

—not as slowly as Delphi does but slow compared to humans

—kids usually start training and schooling at the usual 4-6 years but once they hit fifteen, their aging process slows to a crawl

—most 75 year olds look like they’re in their teens or early twenties

—average life span is about 800 years, some can push it to a thousand if they’re really healthy

—oldest recorded novaspawn was thirteen hundred years old

—since Delphi’s like a million years old she’s ancient to them, but she still looks like she’s eleven

—Because they live so long, their population would be ginormous if they had a normal birthrate

—however

—novaspawn are lucky to have kids within their first few centuries

—average time to have kids is around 400

—whether their reproduction works like human reproduction works I don’t know, I haven’t thought that far yet and don’t plan to

Some stuff about Orion and Polaris:

—enchanted said something about me throwing them into the void and I felt guilty so they’re back, but different

—they’re not KGA members, and tbh I can’t see Hester recruiting any nonhumans

—Polaris is 70, Orion is 74–> translating to around 15 and 18 in human years

—there’s zero math in that, even though I should make some

—They’re cousins, and it’s super rare that they’re so close in age

—thus they have a very strong bond

—They’re two members of the tribe that hosts the yearly duel tournament and, like most members of the tribe, they’ve dedicated their lives to training for that tournament

—rephrase:  Polaris dedicated her life to the tournament, Orion dedicated his life to getting disqualified from the tournament by injuring players so badly they can’t continue

—Polaris has won the tournament for the past three decades, which is huge because she’s so young

—she’s accoladed for it and is almost like a sports star to the tribe

—however she’s not as fabulous as people make her out to be

— the gag is she and Orion use their little bit of foresight power to look ahead and stack the tournament brackets in Polaris’s favour

—Orion is a fallback—> if they can’t control all the variables, they’ll put Orion in somewhere to take out a competitor, which usually makes the rest of the tournament fall into place like Polaris wants it

—Polaris is actually very skilled at Dueling! She wouldn’t win even by cheating otherwise, but she’s determined to win every year for the glory and recognition of it

—Orion’s just happy to wreak havoc

—I have a running headcanon for all fandoms that dad pairs always end up with twin kids

—So, sometime in the future, Micah and Damian with twins

—also Calidi and Clay with twins

—the assassin squad with kids of their own is an all-time favourite of mine

—everyone calls the kids “Next gen assassin squad” but Micah and clay at least are adamant that their kids do not become assassins

—mostly because of their experiences with the KGA and knowing how assassin guilds work

—but also because killing people is Bad

—Micah stresses about being a good parent because he barely had his mom ten years before she died and he doesn’t think he knows how to parent

—Clay’s also worried but he’s always been good with kids so it’s a different worry

—headcanon is a work in progress so this is all I’ve got coherent at this point.  