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 Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2024 7:34 am
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2024 7:37 am
Yeah, you get it! Love makes the universe work. Do you know physics?
-- pluto, heaven will be mine
💎🌷💎 Name: Peony Mazie Keo
nickname: Peony is fine, please!
gender/pronoun: She/her, cis girl
age: 16?? She's been sixteen for a long time, does it really count? It's a lot less complicated than any other ways to give her age, but... seventeen or eighteen? It's complicated! She's working on it! She's sorry!
birthday: May 2
sign: Taurus?
gemstone: Emerald? This one's complicated.
blood type: ...she'll get back to you on that one.
favorite food: Rice cooker pancakes
hated food: Not a big fan of seafood sad
school / occupation: Still figuring this out. Does she need to go to school here? She knows she's a child, technically, but that's never stopped Senshi before...
hobbies.
wire-wrapped jewelry: Peony wears a lot of crystal jewelry, and a lot of it is pieces she makes herself with wire and colored stone, or seaglass, or other things held in the metal. She's not a sculptor and she wouldn't call herself a jeweler, but she's pretty good at what she does. She might start selling it online? She's thinking about it. It seems like a lot of trouble to go to when she doesn't really need to, but people like the things she makes, so...?
meditation: There's a lot going on in the world and around her, and Peony is not a particularly complicated girl; she tends to get muddled and bogged down and frustrated and confused. It's understandable, then, that she likes to take time to clear her mind, and focus, and calm herself. She's a lot faster to anger than she'd like -- so it's important to understand how to take a deep breath, and clear her head, and find her balance.
disney movies: For a thousand-year-old alien from a foreign space culture, she's really taken a liking to Disney movies, especially princess ones. She doesn't think they're really complicated stories, they're for kids, but... she still likes them, you know? They're simple. They're sweet. People are rewarded for kindness, and punished for cruelty, and the world is beautiful. She'd like to carry herself with a little more grace and be a little more like those princesses, maybe.
virtues.
the power of friendship: Peony believes in -- not literally the power of friendship, but the idea that caring about other people, and them believing in you back, and doing your best together. The idea that doing that can - and will! - solve a lot of problems. It's her friends that make her strong! And their friends do the same to them, of course. Friendship is magic and power, and love makes the universe work! These are fundamental, unshakeable truths to her, and she will never lose sight of the ideal that what's going to really save everyone -- in a lot of ways -- is their love and care for other people. You have to love other people! You have to fight for it, sometimes! But that's what's going to get her, and you, and everyone through all of this, no matter how scary or hard the world becomes.
affectionate: Peony doesn't hold back on letting people know she cares about them; if she likes her friend, she'll let them know! Her feelings are on display, and she's very honest about where her fondness lies; she's got a warm heart, no matter if she tries to be cold on occasion. She doesn't really know how to be any other way than to care about people, and to share herself with them, and to remind them that they matter. Sometimes it's the subtle things, sometimes it's the overt things, but it's just not in her nature to be closed-off.
protective: You do not ******** with her friends. Hurt the people or things she cares about and she'll be furious -- but ideally she'd like to make it so they don't get hurt in the first place. She'd like to shield them from harm, physical or otherwise; she'll lift heavy objects so they don't get hurt trying, and she'll get in the face of someone trying to belittle them. Their safety is important to her! She just wants to take care of the people she likes, and she'll protect them from as much hurt and pain and harm as she can. There's a reason her magic manifests as shields, mostly, in ways the previous Veritate's didn't -- it's all her. She wants to shield people. To save them. To protect them. It's such a fundamental aspect of her that her magic reflects it, because how could it not?
flaws.
the power of violence: If doing her best and everyone else doing their best isn't going to fix the situation, Peony's other option is extreme violence. Push her too far and she'll snap into it without a second thought: if talking someone down won't stop them from hurting others, then she'll just break their arm, right? There is no 'little' violence: it's to solve a situation. She won't start small. She starts out making big swings, and she goes for being brutal. It's not just about people, either; if she's in a situation and it's not improving, it's not getting better, she's liable to get so stressed out she decides just kicking things is the best solution. Nothing you were doing was helping! If she makes it worse, at least she tried!!
indecisive: Peony hates making decisions. Peony hates, hates, hates making decisions, especially when it comes to decisions that affect other people, but mostly just when the decision has any big, meaningful consequences in any way, shape, or form. She'd rather dither and look away from it, and if 'not choosing' won't explode in her face -- and even if it will -- she'll do nothing. She likes to be heroic, but when it comes to difficult decisions, moral quandaries where there's no good and clean answer -- she'll do her best to ignore it all, and let someone else choose the course of her life for her. She's not a leader. She's really not a leader. She has a good idea of what's right, and what she can do with the course laid in front of her... but she's also not going to diverge from it.
She won't run away, even if she thinks she'd like to, even if she thinks maybe it'd be better. Why would she? That's too hard of a choice to make.
single-minded: Peony takes one thing and focuses on it, and you can't really sidetrack her, not even if it's really important. It's not that she's stubborn, exactly -- it's that she'll just only really think and focus on one thing at a time, and until that's done or it's not as important anymore, she's incredibly hard to redirect or repurpose. She does one thing, and until that thing is done she's not doing anything else! This also means her frustrations and irritations tend to be... blunt, wide-ended things? She's not usually upset about something specifically, she's upset about a range of things that are all collected under one banner. She's not a scalpel, she's a blunt instrument, and she knows it pretty well. There's no point in trying to be something she's really, really not, and just frustrating herself and everybody else.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Eyes: Very pale blue, almost white. Has an epicanthic fold. In anime terms, she'd probably have tareme eyes.
Hair: Dark brown, almost black. Reaches most of the way down her back. 2C/3A texture, wavy/lightly curly, very thick; has a lot of volume. Her bangs have a middle part, and her side hair frames her face towards the bottom of her jaw.
Face: Rounded rectangular nose, large bottom lip, slight dimples.
Skin Tone: Medium brown, yellow undertones.
Body Type: Peony is 5'2" and fat. She has some muscle definition, but it's not super visible. There are strange patches of vitiligo over her heart and on her forearms and lower legs.
Clothes: Muted colors: blues, pinks, peaches, teals, sometimes lighter greens, sometimes creams. White and very pale greys, but no other grayscale colors. She likes boho skirts and maxi skirts and loose sweaters and overalls, and she's almost always in cloth flats or strappy sandals. She's often seen with flowers in her hair, and she's almost never seen without crystal jewelry.🌷💎🌷 I have to get you ready for a future that's terrible.
But it will be the future with the greatest hope.
-- pluto, heaven will be mine
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2024 7:40 am
and it's a long way forward, so trust in me
i'll give them shelter, like you've done for me
and i know, i'm not alone, you'll be watching over us
until you're gone
💎🫶💎 Senshi: Sailor Veritate, Senshi of Refuge
Refuge, n.
................1: shelter or protection from danger or distress
................2: a place that provides shelter or protection
................3: something to which one has recourse in difficulty
Uniform Color:
Main Color: Muted pink; #e696b3, #F08CAE
Secondary Color: Muted teal; #7cc9cd, #abd1cc, #65A1AC
Iridescent sort of diamond white as tertiary.
Uniform:
Main bodice is 'one' piece, empire-waist dress; skirt is knee-length. Lots of Hannah Alexander and art nouveau inspiration. Lots of layers and crystalline motifs. Off-the-shoulder and/or split sleeves?
Specific inspiration: Crystal Savant Outfit, Sylveon, Rose Quartz, this Princess Serenity, Geometric Glitter Warrior, Sailor Moon (3), Sailor Mercury (skirt). Silhouette of base layer is something like this.
Attacks:
Sailor Scout Attack: Take Refuge!
Range: 15 feet (targeting), ~5 foot diameter around the target (after casting)
Lasts: 30 seconds, or until broken
Targets: One character; can be self-targeted
Effect: A crystalline bubble of pink energy manifests around the target in a ~5ft radius and moves with them, protecting them from harm. These can resist all first stage attacks, whether they are physical or magical, before shattering harmlessly. The bubble can partially resist any second stage attack and minimize damage or effects, but it is ineffective against third stage attacks or higher.
Allies can enter this bubble, but enemies will be repelled if they actively attempt to enter it. While in Veritate's Refuge, targets are unable to attack others without breaking the Refuge prematurely.
Uses: Three
Super Sailor Scout Attack: Protected Refuge!
Range: 15 feet (targeting), ~5 foot diameter around the target (after casting)
Lasts: 30 seconds, or until broken
Targets: Up to two characters, can be self-targeted
Effect: Crystalline bubbles of pink energy manifest around the targets in a ~5ft radius and move with them, protecting them from harm. These can resist all second stage attacks, whether they are physical or magical, before shattering harmlessly. The bubble can partially resist any third stage attack and minimize damage or effects, but it is ineffective against fourth stage attacks.
Allies can enter this bubble, but enemies will be repelled if they actively attempt to enter it. While in Veritate's Refuge, targets are unable to attack others without breaking the Refuge prematurely.
Uses: Two
Super Sailor Scout Attack: Seek Sanctuary!
Range: Twenty-five feet
Lasts: Instant cast; no lingering effects
Targets: One target
Effect: Veritate indicates her target within range, and they are magically summoned to her side without otherwise being moved (targets who were sitting will remain sitting, albeit on the ground; targets who were mid-motion will continue the motion; etc.). If there is not a safe location for the target to be placed within a roughly 1-foot radius of Veritate, they may be summoned into her arms for refuge instead, if her arms are free.
Uses: Three
[* This is prewritten because I have unused enhancements and want to use one on Veritate; she would not have access to it until Super.]
Eternal Sailor Attack: Veritate's Safe Haven!
Range: 25 feet (for targeting); manifests as a sphere (10-ft diameter) centered on the target location
Lasts: 40 seconds
Targets: One point within 25 feet to spawn the Refuge on; after, all allies inside the Refuge
Effect: Veritate creates a magical space henceforth called a Refuge, either centering on her or directed in a direction of her choice; this Refuge is delineated by a glowing circle on the ground with light emanating upwards from it. If Veritate loses consciousness, the remaining time of the Refuge is unaffected.
While inside the Refuge, allies' minor wounds begin to heal, and the effects of moderate and major injuries will be temporarily lessened; a large gash will not heal, but it will bleed and hurt less while inside the Refuge, & someone going into shock may temporarily stabilize (but not otherwise improve) until the Refuge ends.
Uses: One🌷🫶🌷 when i'm older, i'll be silent beside you
i know words won't be enough
and they won't need to know the names or our faces
but they will carry on for us
-- porter robinson, shelter
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2024 4:40 pm
I know I want to do this: space is the only place where everyone can be happy. Even if almost no one believes it. I want to keep it safe.
I know what I need to do. I know what I need to do. I know what I need to do.
Now I just have to do it. That’s nothing compared to what it took to learn how.
💎💎💎 Deep Space Senshi
Physical Features:
. Peony has a feature common to Veriteans called a soulstone; an accessory organ that gives her additional senses on her homeworld. She has a thin layer of gemlike 'scales' on her chest around the area of her heart, corresponding to this, which do not add any extra defense. Long ago, these were fully-formed biological crystals emerging from a Veritean's chest; by Peony's generation, they've been physically minimized. Due to the soulstone's proximity to the heart, wounds to it are rarely survived, which has resulted in the belief it's intrinsically linked to a Veritean's lifeforce.
. . As she stopped aging at sixteen and remained this way, Peony's soulstone did not fully develop, and never fully will.
. Peony's irises are a very pale blue, almost a vivid white. Looking closely, her irises have a jewel-like appearance.
. Peony's nails appear crystalline; they're dense and difficult to break, but no more than a tough human nail. They don't have any additional cutting power.
. There are shimmering streaks of iridescent, crystalline hair mixed in rarely with Peony's hair; like tinsel in dolls' hair.
. Peony has faint, desaturated crystalline veins on her extremities. They function as normal flesh, and do not confer additional protection or defense.
Backstory/History:
Peony Mazie Keo was the daughter of an alchemist who brought her up on stories of goodness, of the world having a shape that was inherently kind, and when she was awakened as Sailor Veritate she took that to heart. She might not've struck out into the universe at large without the winds of circumstance taking her there -- but they did, and she found allies, and friends, and a team. They were on the frontlines of disaster, when they could; they used their magic to do things no ordinary person could do, could ever hope to do, and they fought evil. (They were, for all intents and purposes, a pretty standard magical girl team! Fighting evil and monsters, building friendships, foiling evil plots, saving civilians.)
She stopped aging even before Chaos arrived. After a year or two, it was obvious; the girls she'd grown up with were entering adulthood, and she still looked perfectly, inmutably sixteen, like time had just stopped acting on her at all. It was worrying! But she had bigger things to deal with, mostly, really. The universe was growing darker and darker, and heroes were needed more than ever.
And people didn't want their help anymore. They never seemed to be in time, or the people they did save had been twisted by some unknown force, or her and her teammates were hurried away before they could ask any questions. It was tiring. Frustrating. Didn't people want to be helped? Didn't they want to be okay?
And the people of Veritate changed, too. There was no apparent disaster, but they were growing solitary and cold and angry, and something-someone poisoned them against their absent Senshi. Surely she was to blame for something. She was just a girl! Who gave her the right to make decisions of life or death? She needed to be chaperoned. She needed to be tied down to her people instead of going off on flights of fancy, thinking she could save the universe. What was one teenage girl going to do for other people, when, they thought, she could do so little for her own?
When she returned, they wanted to keep her there. At least at first. Seeing her stirred the Chaos infecting their hearts into a frenzy; whatever plans they might have had for her devolved into torches and pitchforks for her and for anyone unlucky enough to be associated with her.
Veritate tried to plead her case, and when that was unsuccessful, she ran. But there was only so far she could run, with spaceports shut down and most of the world's population gunning for her head on one level or another; used to working in a team, on her own she was no match for an entire malicious populace. (She had her suspicions of Chaos - of something at play - but what could she have done? She was no Princess. Her magic didn't burn out evil where it stood. If anything, her magic was slipping away from her every day she spent here now.) She ran to ancient shelter -- to temples now abandoned, to places former Veritates had made sacred -- and she ran to a nexus of leylines. With what little time she had left, she called out to her world with everything in her heart, and she pleaded with it to do what it was fabled to do -- something that had passed into myth, almost. What else could she do? She was afraid, and bleeding, and alone, and the only person she could help was herself.
When they tried to kill her, their blades did not make it to her heart; at the very last second Veritate had encased its senshi in a crystal that seemingly nothing could destroy, but at the cost of putting her into an unwaking stasis. Eventually she was abandoned as nothing but the relic of a now-ended age, and the people moved back to their normal lives, that foreign fire in their hearts quelled... for a time.
There was no communications offworld. There was no travel offworld. Crops began to produce sparingly little. Animals grew ill. Information, valuable information of upkeep, was lost. It took hundreds of years, but eventually everything catalyzed into a plague affecting Veriteans; eventually, they all died, and not a single one of those alive at the end had ever known their sleeping Senshi at all. Some of them had gone to see her. Some of them had named her a saint; their lady of infinite repose, saint of refuge, the girl in the temple. But who would know?
The spires grew over with moss and grass and trees. Nature, once kept in harmony, overtook its bounds; vines shattered bridges and roots broke through floors and walls. It was a beautiful grave, albeit one that nobody was alive to see, but it was still only a grave; and, then, even that died. And, still, she did not wake or breathe.
And one day -- some distant song made Sailor Veritate open her eyes.
Some of her memories are a little scattered, a little faded; a thousand years in stasis, in crystal that wasn't quite the same as hers, has blurred things. Mostly it's things she doesn't know she doesn't remember until someone asks about them.
(Peony has a strong resemblance to Corrupt Sailor Chrysocolla, to the point they appear similar enough to be fraternal twins, or even possibly identical; the latter's past life, Aunè, was Peony's first cousin. Some of that resemblance -- and more -- carried over to her reincarnation.)💎💎💎
My body, my mind, my soul.
They’re all in order.
I just have to do it.
-- pluto, heaven will be mine
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2024 5:09 pm
I have all the answers.
I have a sword made of moonlight
and the means to bury my ghosts;
🫶🫶🫶
roleplay log
(🌷 | regular used towards growth
💎 | battle used towards growth
💬 | solo used towards growth
✨ | used towards growth (substituting for solos)
basic to super
0/8 regulars
0/5 battles
0/8 solos
arrival on earth new friends silver / murikabushisailor senshi RP Title | other participantssuper senshi RP Title | other participantseternal senshi RP Title | other participants🫶🫶🫶smiting the ******** out of you
is still on the table
-- a softer sea
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2024 5:19 pm
There are few things more terrifying than one's own heart, and there is almost nothing more terrifying than sharing it with another.
But the most terrifying thing of all is to leave one's heart unshared.
-- the moment of clarity, slay the princess
💎🌷💎 social log.housemates!yuki tsukiyama:
kiyoshi sakurazawa / sailor murikabushi:
asher wolff / amsvartnir knight:
kyoya sakurazawa / super volterra:
soren blythe / eternal dss daedalus:
elior abulafia / eternal elsa:
kuroi sakurazawa / dss grieve:
🌷💎🌷
To be loved means to be consumed. To love means to radiate with inexhaustible light. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure.
-- rainer maria rilke, journal of my other self
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2024 5:54 pm
What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. ✨✨✨
playlist.
kimya dawson - fire
(as long as i'm burning, i'll keep on yearning / to save the world; not sure how, but i'm learning)
laura shigihara - from the ground up
(are we prepared? / are you there? do you even care? / now i am afraid, but it's okay / the world crumbles around us)
binaria - kami-iro awase (adriana figueroa cover)
(even though this world is fading / there's still a glimpse of the future awaiting)
porter robinson - shelter
(and it's a long way forward, so trust in me / i'll give them shelter, like you've done for me)
get in the car, loser! ost - blood, sorrow, and bile
(transcend and brandish and redefine! / oh, can you not hear our plea? / listen in, don't you feel it ring?)
dove cameron - born ready
(so if it takes forever, we'll save the world together / we were born ready, we were born ready
and if your heart surrenders, we'll hold it up together)
one piece film red - i'm invincible (amalee cover)
(even your weakness is unique / there's no one else like you / you're what we need / shine a light into the dark)
the getaway plan - child of light
(the scenery around me is splitting at the seams / and through the cracks, a light escapes, and shines all over me)
💎💎💎
It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.
-- mike davis
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2024 6:03 pm
You should never lose anything or anyone, ever again.
The world should be like a beautiful garden and only grow around you forever.
I know it can't happen that way, but I don't want to be what you lose next.
-- aurene, guild wars 2: end of dragons
💎💎💎
We promise according to our hopes. We perform according to our fears.
-- vlad the younger, pathologic
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2024 6:07 pm
One cannot level one’s moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are just too many of them.
But you can do something and the difference between doing nothing and doing something is everything.
-- father daniel berrigan
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Courage is neither a shield nor an axe, but the will to wield both in defense of the innocent.
-- dwarfhold champion, magic: the gathering
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2024 6:08 pm
💎💎💎
Still, what I want in my life
is to be willing
to be dazzled --
to cast aside the weight of facts
and maybe even
to float a little
above this difficult world.
I want to believe I am looking
into the white fire of a great mystery.
I want to believe that the imperfections are nothing --
that the light is everything -- that it is more than the sum
of each flawed blossom rising and fading. And I do.
-- mary oliver, the ponds
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2024 6:11 pm
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I want to believe that there's a reason for every sacrifice that was made, and to know that eventually, everything will be okay.
-- tiphereth, lobotomy corporation
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2024 6:13 pm
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Because you were lied to does not mean that everything is a lie.
Do not take the crimes of those who have manipulated us and put them at the feet of the world.
-- cinderella, dimension 20: neverafter
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2024 6:16 pm
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The heart isn't in the wrong. That's what I wanted to prove.
So I will show it.
Even if I'm trampled, snapped, broken, I will stand and speak: that we weren't in the wrong.
That in this place, we did our utmost to live with all our hearts.
To someday unravel what was twisted.
-- taii, wonderlab
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2024 7:14 pm
💎💎💎
We're not done until we've saved each other.
-- caduceus clay, critical role
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Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2024 7:15 pm
💎💎💎
WHAT ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO DO? WHAT ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO TRY?
SHOULD I MAKE EVERYONE COME WITH ME? SHOULD I BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF LOVE?
-- siffrin, in stars and time
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