kintsugi IN SPACE

i got bored in math class so here have a notebook cover in which my character features prominently

Spoiler: sorry for the shitty quality

 

ohhh maybe I can worldbuild ramble a bit on Ivy lemme try
So Ivy is what humans dubbed a 'Fae'. Since the fae's language never had a word for 'us-sentient-beings' as opposed to 'generally-sentient-beings' the Fae stole the word, what with entering into the fun part of deep space travel shortly after the human race.
Fae are generally group oriented in their identity but bad at stuff like nationalism and individualism. Like they get the CONCEPT of national identity and us-vs-them thinking they just have like zero sense of boundary about joining groups and identifying by group affiliation without the rivalry parts. Like imagine a pirate war in space and one of the crews had one or more fae? Those fae might get captured, then identify as crew members of both their original ship and the ship that captured them and suddenly attempt to reconcile the crews and make them ONE BIG CREW. Fae are kinda big on harmony and getting along.
They don't really have gender as older fae return to their homeworld and undergo a process of morphing into a tree-like-immobile shape that is the reproductively mature form of the species. The reproductively immature Fae form close social bonds with one or several others, called Clusters, that will usually become Groves upon maturity, aka poly tree reproductive tangle thing.
Thing is, Fae society doesn't really distinguish between different sentient species so it's perfectly a ok to have non-fae in your clusters even though they are (usually) very impractical to incorporate in a grove. Good thing that fae have an estimated infancy and adolescence phase of 200 standard space time years (coincidentally (lawl) being exactly equal to earth years because fuck maths)
Ivy came to Kintsugi because coincidence and stayed because Kite was there and CLUSTERS HAVE TO STICK TOGETHER! also Kintsugi is a nice group to be affiliated with. And they need someone to sew and mend clothes for them!!!
(Also if you want someone very cuddly and kind of clumsy and tiny to be a romantic-platonic super close buddy, Ivy!Kintsugi is pretty unanxious about romance stuff (unlike me hurr) so the Cluster around them can be pretty sprawling probably)

 

See, I had a sudden revelation while playing a thing.

Most of my blatant self-inserts are demonic. (Those who read my intro in the wix thread might have a clue why.) For some reason Space!Sidhe!Laz isn't. Probably because it's a blatant combination of Aine and Ailill who I really miss playing. And now I really want an old-woodcut-style demon, all horns and goat legs and leathery wings and glowing eyes and intimidating as all hell... and be an absolute sweetheart.

And now I'm torn because Space!Sidhe!Me! is such a nice look, very purple and soft and friendly and tricksy and only a little angry, sometimes, when my core is threatened. But... super loyal defy-all-expectations ace fuckyoubus cuddle monster? And I just noticed how fucking weird it is not being a demon/demonic.

 

dropping in (I really gotta read this thread cover to cover again) to add a note for @Snitchanon: i did mention in the ep that the Great Wall of Nope is being strengthened by the resident wix. perhaps in the future, magic has made a resurgence, and we have discovered that practitioners happen to be able to interface to a certain degree with the ancient tech?

 

granola. good god i love you, snitch.

(and i legit swear i'm gonna chime in on all this worldbuilding with more than eensy notes here and there, because everything here is just so good and i can't wait to keep playing in this world. i just kinda exploded yesterday and i'm still piecing myself back together so yeah.)

 

Fuck I am laughing too hard at the granola comment

 

Soul comes from far far away or maybe possibly very close. Who knows, they exist only through sheer will anyhow. Some technology they take to quite naturally and some is a complete mystery to them. As a spiritual being Soul has magical properties but does not differentiate between magic and science.

 

I mean technically because I was a demon, I'm sort of magic, but I was also a star so you could probably use me to power things idk

a humanoid solar power. something. i can't words right now.

 

One day, Kite went out from wherever it came from, and got lost in the Night Forest. The next time it came out of the Night Forest, it ended up in the great hub city of Qhor. Now, Qhor's attitude is "I'll take them all", so Kite was set up with a small flat in the labyrinthine wrinkles and corners of the city, and started interning under their head librarian. That's where the first jacks were installed in its skull.
At that point, Kite was still trying to figure out where its people were, and since not even Qhor's library or its masses of different races had a clue, it left again, and somehow ended up on a spaceship, where it worked as an assistant helmsman. That's where more of the jacks, and an additional horn happened.
Years passed, drifting, searching, living, but Kite never found its people - and then it realized, that that was because it had passed through the Night Forest - a phenomenon native to its home planet, where different planes of existence layer over each other, but that happened nowhere else. And also, that no one knew where its home planet was. It was on no map. Its name was in no information system. The ships it had flown with were unfindable.
Kite realized that it was well and truly lost.
That was not a good day. That wasn't even a good month.

Kite came to Kintsugi because it had heard whispers of a welcoming place, and because it had talked to seebs on occassion, and, when you're stuck in a strange place with no way back home, why not pick the part of the strange place that is welcoming?

Kite also has a weird key, large, old-fashioned, tarnished, that it knows has some sort of use and is connected to a place it knows, but it's not transdimensional, and so, of little use.
it's a key to the cornerhouse

(Information about its connection to Ivy forthcoming as soon as Ivy is online to hash out details)

 

@sicknastyspades thanks! you're right about the shirt. :D
and all the detail and stuff is really good. and yep, the crown is very cute. and the wings! it's awesome, having all those fop influences in there!

sorry if i took a while to comment! thursday is the most stressful day of the week for me this "summer," 'cause of the course i'm taking at university.

also, @TwoBrokenMirrors, i'm kinda tempted to see my true soul, too, though yeah... i can definitely see how that wouldn't work out well.

 

@unknownanonymous
Mirrors says you can join in the 'catch Mirrors and look into their eyes' game if you like, so long as you abide by the safewords. xP

 

@TwoBrokenMirrors i think i can abide by them, yes. :D

 

Shapeshifting maybe?
@Snitchanon granola. yes perfect XD
I feel like Em just sorta showed up one day in the library, sleeping in a pile of sweaters and surrounded by mice.

 

adds this to the thread:

 

Maybe we can feed our rogue triangle robot to them? The diamond edge saw blade just adds flavor!

 

@emythos the one robot it'd be awesome if they ate. which probably means it's the one robot that'd give them indigestion, since irony is like that (in the alanis morrisette song, anyway, haha).