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Okay alright so... I've been curious for A LONG ASS TIME. Did you have some character/person in mind when you were creating Neikea???
Well helloooow ~ :DAAAHAAA!! I’m so glad you’re curious about my baby!! And yes, I did have some characters, as well as tropes in mind while I was writing down her story. There are two in particular that inspired me greatly:
Morgana Pendragon : The Vengeful One
When I was writing down Neikea’s story, I had in mind a young girl who had had her childlike joy and innocence ripped from her and who, due to betrayal of her trust and love, became a cunning woman who wasn’t afraid of tearing down any person that would dare threaten her or the ones she calls her own. A woman who would watch every person’s moves, silently observing before taking any actions.
Morgana was the main inspiration for Neikea’s development. When you first discover her character, she’s this kind, caring young woman who tries her best to do what she thinks is fair. She is loved and cherished. Then you see how ruthless she becomes once her trust was betrayed, once her friends have turned foes. Vengeance becomes the only thing that drives her.
Daenerys Targaryen : The Chosen One
As I was going further into Neikea’s backstory, the fact that she would be a “gifted” child of Eris appeared naturally and I decided to explore it a bit further. Despite having a twin brother, despite being of the younger generation, she was the Heir of Eris. She was an “Adelfí” before being her own person. Her fate had already been decided since her birth.
Daenerys came imediately in mind. While Daenerys only has her name and the history of her house behind her when you first meet her, she grows into this woman who chose her Destiny for herself as soon as she could. She was an heir, she decided to follow what she thought was her fate. Her family word’s became her own and she crowned herself Queen.
a manip i forgot to post!!
huggie bff times with the lovely @seawiiiitch ‘s beautiful neikea!
@lightofheze Basically Filia everytime she sees Neikea do something heroic yet stupidly suicidal.
My Favourite Trope
Person A: *does something incredibly stupid*
Person B: *has a sudden realisation of attraction towards person a*
Person B: Well fuck.
AU! The Oracle of Sparta
Basically, this came out out of an headcanon of mine: how Neikea would have looked if she had been raised outside the village.
It also came to be because of the ideas I had concerning her “mortal” family background, and how it would have played in her development. More especially, what would have happened if her mother’s family had been the one in charge of raising her.
Quick headcanons to better explain this AU of sort:
Her mother’s family was part of the Spartan nobility and thus, occupied a very important position of power within the city.
Due to her “astonishing” abilities that manifested at quite a young age, her grandparents separated her from her parents and younger twin brother as to have a better influence on her education.
To them, she was a prodigeous way of influencing the fate of rival cities and rulers, as well as getting rid of potential rivals of the family.
Her encounters with her parents and sibling were rare and always under the supervision of her grandparents.
Once a teenager, she was presented to the two Kings of Sparta, who decided to appoint her as their “Oracle” due to her incredible intuitions and input on court matters.
She gained far more power than her family ever did, and finally escaped the tyranny of her grandparents.
The Kings always consulted her before taking a decision, as she could easily aid them in resolving potential conflict.
She was considered to be a rare beauty, with some members of the court whispering that maybe... Maybe she was a goddess in disguise, silently helping their city becoming more powerful.
Her bond with Eris was incredibly profound. The two sharing an almost constant connection, with the Goddess constantly watching over her daughter.
Neikea became the most powerful person within Sparta after the two Kings, sitting to their right when court or judgement was held or important decisions taken.
Despite all of this, she felt incredibly lonely as she didn’t share closeness with her parents and sibling, no matter how hard she tried.
She thus dedicated herself entirely to her position as “Oracle” and to her city, silently praying to Eris to send her a companion to soften her life of solitude.
Maybe at some point, a certain daughter of Zeus walked inside the palace and Neikea’s heart finally started to beat again? Who knows?
And so, The Demigod’s Trial is coming to an end.
What can I say. I’m shamelessly rewatching all auditions and entries we’ve gotten submitted since almost a year ago when the contest was open on 15th July 2018 and I’m an emotional mess.
Choosing the contestants was incredibly hard, and we even allowed more people than originally planned to join because we couldn’t possibly leave that talent out.
Apart from the beautiful work the contestants submitted, which as an host makes me beyond grateful and happy, I’ve gotten the opportunity to connect and build friendships with so many loving people, some of them I didn’t really know until TDT, and that is by far the best part of these roleplays. Meeting new people you’ll be calling friends later on <3
Thank you all:
Cojudges, for being incredibly supportive and commited.
Contestants, for believing in my world and story and enriching it with your marvelous ideas and plots.
Audience, for supporting it with your views and lovely comments.
This month of April the final round shall be posted.
My body is ready.
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May I present you my beloved Neikea, as I imagined her when I joined The Demigod's Trial.
She's an healthy young woman in her mid-twenties, athletic and considered to be one of the most beautiful women within the Village.
Careful about how she presents herself due to her status, she's always perfectly dressed, though not in an outstanding way. Though, she does always appears in public with a flirty smile painted on her lips.
She oozes confidence and a certain enigmatic charisma that caused just as many swoonings as some Aphrodite's children do. Her inclinations however, tend to lean towards other women but more specifically, towards a certain daughter of Zeus.
LOOK AT MY GORGEOUS DAUGHTER IN LAW ❤ MY WIFEY IS SO TALENTED IT'S INSANE
here is my vision of how baby Filia should look like… a woman with a ton of scars in her body due to training, depression and with messy hair, she is not girly at all soooo she doesn’t know how to stylish her long hair (my excuse for the bad hair I did while I was drawing her :c) she says she is bisexual but she has only slept with girls and will never sleep with boys because she has Neikea now wink wink
Finally joined the Tumblr Non/Disney wagon!
Hi everyone! Here's your favourite Seawitch! I decided that having a Tumblr might be easier if any of you wanted to talk with me or ask me any question 💛
This blog will be dedicated to my Non/Disney edits, videos and headcanons. Feel free to pass by anytime!
PS: the right username wasn't valid anymore so, @seawiiiitch is the way to find me
Some of my favourite media rn are The Raven Cycle, The Dreamer trilogy and also the Revolutionary Girl Utena anime and I came to the conclusion that I just really love media that bases it magic system and worldbuilding and general storytelling on the characters and their development. Like, the magic most of the time doesn't really make any sense (or only if you don't pay attention) and sometimes random new things will just happen, except it's actually not that random, it's just that the character needed to be in a specific situation and/or make a specific decision, and so they were put in that situation, or it was for symbolism. Like, I have so much respect for authors that put a lot of effort and thought intomaking the worldbuilding or magic make sense and all, but personally i love stories for the characters, and I can't care less for stories with great magic systems that don't mean anything because the characters only exist for the exposition. Like, I love love love thinking back to when some teens went into a cave and made a bunch of animal skeletons come to life and then contemplating how they came out of the cave changed as people and we never talk about the skeletons again and it never happens again (TRC), or how some teens were dueling with swords on top of a tower in the backyard of their school and then some teens just drove cars around the duel (RGU) and contemplating on the symbolism of the scene.
I don't know if this makes sense but these are peak character driven storylines to me. I eat them up and dream about them when I finally manage to go to sleep.
If anyone knows any more stories told like this please comment I need more
there are two wolves inside of me and they are blue sargent and declan lynch
More Jordan and Hennessy, Jordan Hennessy fanart I made. Feeling v artblocky lately but we persist
i need more art of these two together
he loves his younger brothers so deeply he can't function without them. his entire sense of self is predicated on service to his family. he is everyone's least favorite family member. he hates his brothers. he needs to be needed by them because he's never felt wanted. he has the shape of Matthew's forehead and the texture of his curls memorized. goodbye to whatever Declan Lynch would have grown up to be. his mother isn't real and maybe that's why he doesn't love her like he should. keeps an attic full of paintings that make him feel things tucked out of sight where no one can ever see him do it. he drives a 4 hour round trip every sunday to worship a god he no longer believes in because it's the only time Ronan concedes to spend with him. he dates three girls all with the same name and knocks his mother's wedding ring down the garbage disposal. he is a perpetual motion machine, never alone but always lonely. coffee and antacids and sleeping pills so he won't dream. he misses his father so much it hurts. he curses his father's name with every breath. trained so thoroughly to lie that telling even innocuous truths feels like giving something away. "fuck, do not fall in love with this girl." he's his father's only natural-born child. his father doesn't remember his birth. he was the first to love Ronan and so Ronan lived. off the rack suits and italian leather shoes. he wakes up every day wishing he didn't have to. goes to work, goes to school, takes Matthew to organ practice. his mother isn't his mother but his mother left him behind so maybe that's for the best. he gets beaten bloody by the hitman that killed their father and neither of his brothers pick up the phone when he calls to make sure they're alive. he still drives 4 hours to share a pew with them.
curator!declan art thief!jordan au where declan procures pieces for private collections which are always promptly stolen (by the girls)
Inktober day 1: Ley Lines
I really hope I can actually do all the days of inktober this year, though if last year is any indication I probably won’t be able to.
she’s Blue da ba dee da ba daa
Adam and Declan finally put aside their differences to focus on their true enemy:
Handcat
Blue and Ronan 💙🖤
their friendship means the world to me btw . if you even care
I feel like we forget sometimes how insane Ronan's crush on Adam was. Like, oh my god? They weren't even dating for most of these... The longing, the yearning, the devotion, the lovesick pining - 10/10, *chef's kiss*, nobody is doing it like him. He loves Adam - lonesome, unknowable Adam - like it's breathing. They make me violently ill.
i have a problem BECAUSE HEARTBREAK HIGH X THE RAVEN CYCLE CROSSOVERS ARE MAKING ME GO FUCKING CRAZY AND I HAVE NO ONE TO TALK TO ABOUT THIS (this shit is full of shit and long, but hmo)
I am talking about Cash & Chook = Ronan & Kavinsky parallels, you see
Chook & Kavinsky are pretty obvious, i think. Both are from fucked up families, we can assume both are from families with drug problems and overall substance abuse. They both were kids whose fate was pretty much laid infront of them to follow.
Ronan and Ca$h, also pretty fucked up families, parents gone, not many people from family to lean on, choosing found families, choosing to get better. (word of the day) Also both, are connected to self harming in a way or another.
We also have the scene in HBH where Woodsy calls Chook by his real name (Michael Cooper) and Chook shouts
"That's not my name!"
I am aware this is very subtle and on the border of overanalyzing (and might just be the characters whose pov Kavinsky was told from) but not a single character in trc has called Kavinsky only by his first name (hear me out now)
Later on when Chook and Cash are stuck in the middle of the lake we get to know how Ca$h got his name, Chook saying that he gave Ca$h his name. So I can only assume Chook also gave himself a name. Maybe to be separated as a person from the person he was before.
How we get to Kavinsky is that maybe Kavinsky is all the same, separating his own persona from him by only using his family name.
Getting to other parallels, (now remember Ronan = Cash)
We don't know shit about details (whats that? never heard?) but we can assume.
Chook was the one who helped Ca$h before Nan was in the picture, gave Ca$h a name, a place, a family (more or less), a place to belong
Kavinsky offered all the same, obviously we know that there was some sexual attraction and tension and just Kavinsky pining. But Kavinsky asked Ronan to be one of his, offered Ronan a place to belong, where Ronan could shamelessly be himself. Kavinsky saw all of Ronan what Gansey didn't want to know and acknowledge, that Ronan could be the same as Kavinsky and is the same as Kavinsky, dangerous, destructive, the list goes on.
Ca$h, young Ca$h didn't have anyone else than Chook, but then he did. Then he did have Darren, Harper, Quinni, Amerie, all of them. There isnt such a difference. Kavinsky doesn't have anything else (worth staying for, it seems) but Ronan has Gansey, has Gangsey.
Chook had chosen his lifestyle, Cash even offered Chook that he could change too, Chook declined and said that its his shit. He chose his future.
Kavinsky, too, had chosen his lifestyle, or maybe either of them couldn't think that they could get away from it. He chose his fate, by not getting down and getting killed by his own demon. It was his shit.
So back to the lake scene, now paralleling the last dreaming day and 4th of July.
Let me put these two scenes here, first from TRC
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The difference between us and Kavinsky, Gansey whispered in Ronan’s head, is we matter.
“You don’t fucking need him,” Kavinsky said.
Ronan released the parking brake.
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Chook: Look can we stop fucking about please. You're one of us. So why don't we just cut the shit and get back to how things were?
Cash: You don't get it, I can't.
Both, at the end refused to get back to whatever it was they had, they chose to get better.
While Chook & Kavinsky didn't. (yes im repeating this because theres so so so so so many times Ronan offered a possibility to Kavinsky and Kavinsky didn't take it because he couldn't have Ronan anyway (Cash wasn't that hopeful and asked only once))
Now, there's (still the lake) scene where Chook talks about how it was "me, who took care of you, me who.. , me me me." and theres Kavinsky, who taught Ronan how to dream.
More lines !
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Cash: I haven't been taken in by some other world. I just saw ours for what it was. And it made me sick.
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Going to how Cash and Ronan both, realised that the world they lived/could've chosen is not good. Is the wrong way and leads to more harm than good.
To the last part.
Cash telling Chook that he'd rather be dead than come back to Chook, go back to the world he now despises, (or always has.)
There's the way that Chook breaks when he hears that. The blinks his tears away, nods, gulps, sniffs, turns away and grunts, spits, acting fine. Tries the boat again and says, "Guess I just needed to show it a bit of love."
Now I haven't been able to actually get full sense of that line yet, but theres a deeper meaning to that (which rlly fucking annoys me that i dont know) But theres also Kavinsky when Ronan leaves the new dreamt up Camaro, hitting air, turning around, threatening, his voice shifting, expressing his feelings with rage but still hiding them. Like Chook did.
I'm aware there's probably many stories like this with character's like these, but their actions too, their personalities (not Ronan and Cash so much but I can see a (canon) Kavinsky variant in Chook, both running around with their pack of dogs.)
Anyway if you're as fucked as me and read this through, lmk what you think, (i repeated the same things over and over again but spare me)
It was so hard to be a Ronan Lynch defender while reading Mister Impossible like what the fuck was that man doing