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Rebellion Through Imagination

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✨🌿🍄river - he/they - late 20s - writer, artist and punk-ass piskie witch🍄🌿✨

[ID: a gif of a group of forest spirits from the film Princess Mononoke running over a mossy tree branch in a dark forest. /END ID]

Hi! You can call me River, and my pronouns are he/they.

I'm a queer and neurodivergent artist, writer & cunning man with a special interest in folklore and the occult. I'm especially knowledgable about the Good Neighbours, and I practise Westcountry folk magic. If you're interested in that and divination, poetry, fantasy art, ttrpgs and writing tips & resources, you're in the right place. Who knows, I might even post something original now and then, lol.

You can find a masterlist of the characters from my current WIP here if you're interested :)

Asks are usually open but anon is always off. Bigots, arseholes and the like will be fed to the kelpies ✨

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yay oc ask games! 2, 5, 15 for Ennis and/or Melinda? :)

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Hi Skylar! 🖤💚Double witches, let's go >:)

2. what sort of music would they like? have you thought about what genres or bands do they lean towards? do they have a favorite song?

I haven't got much of an idea about what, if anything, Melinda listens to at this point, but Ennis is still fully emo in their 30s and has the taste in music to match: MCR, Fall Out Boy, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Secondhand Serenade, Nevershoutnever, Paramore, Mayday Parade, and some metalcore like Motionless on White, INK and Bring Me the Horizon too. I'm not sure if it's their favourite song, but of the parts of our music taste that overlap I'd say the song Ennis would like the most is probably Kick Me by Sleeping With Sirens.

5. how do they typically dress? does their wardrobe lean more towards practicality or aesthetics?

Possibly the only thing these two have in common is that they lean heavily into aesthetics for their wardrobes.

Ennis's taste in clothes is like a mix of emo and pastel goth. They like black and pastel purpe, have a lot of band shirts and big comfy hoodies, Converse and Docs for shoes, fishnets, arm warmers, silicone wristbands and kandi bracelets, and one wide-brimmed black "witch" hat. They glamour their hair pastel purple, and their school bag was originally a purple teddy bear that they gutted out, covered in "piercings" and stitches, and then added a pin window in its stomach like the sort from ita bags.

A few choice pictures from their pinterest board:

Melinda isn't a part of the subculture, but if someone looked at her they'd probably label her style as "goth girl". She only wears black with maybe the occasional bit of red. She likes fitted cothes, leather, spikes and sometimes lace. I don't think she owns a single pair of shoes that aren't heels or platforms, and nothing shorter than three inches. She likes headbands and halos, and crowns and cloaks for special occasionas. Usually has her midriff and/or a lot of leg on show.

Some pictures from her board:

15. how big or small is their family? who did they live with growing up? do they live with anyone now?

Ennis has a pretty average sized family on the whole. Their parents had the most kids out of all their siblings at 4, Ennis being the second oldest. They grew up with both Mom and Dad around, as well as the two younger siblings. Their elder sister is significantly older than them, so she was away at uni and then moved out by their mid teens. Their relationship with their parents is... difficult... but they get on well with their siblings.

They live in the student housing at Avalon Academy of the Arcane for the time being, and Brooks is their only housemate.

I can't get into the specifics of Mellie's family situation without giving away some pretty major spoilers, but here's what I can tell you:

She doesn't know most of her family, she has mom trauma, and she grew up in a very cut-throat environment. She's also spent a lot of time as a teenager and young adult around powerful faerie women who feed on human men, like Baobhan Sith and Leanan Sidhe. She is the way she is for a reason.

She has private accomadation at the school. She would not tolerate being randomly paired up with housemates.

Ask game here, OC intros masterpost here :)

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Wanted to add a quick clarification here incase I worded the original response badly: I think it's based as fuck of Ennis to still be emo in their 30s, actually. I only mentioned their age in connection with it because so many people treat emo like it's only teens who are part of the subcuture at all (it's not).

people might think creating OC lore involves a lot of thinking & planning, but in my personal experience, OC development is more like a divine vision from a god slamming you over the head with a mallet while ur doing the fuckin dishes or folding laundry

sorry boss can't come in today i was on my way to work and then a gentle spring breeze kissed my cheek and reminded me it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world

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