🝤 unfortunate mage ◐

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celebrating the cold embrace of death today in a far more thrilling, erotic, and loving way than what fate usually allows.

#verrotlore verrot is content because in his view, he sets the conditions. any shortcoming would be a reflection on himself. he does not suffer anything less than what he wants. even when he wants more, he treats the dry spells between as form of intrigue, foreplay. it's rest in a composition.

#walkelinlore walkelin treats sex as a routine. he reaps enjoyment out of it, even when he finds the partner lacking. he has more private, involved fantasies for what he wants, but they're (his). his attraction to men (is) their faultiness, which makes them usually unreliable in providing.

#marionlore , #verrotlore marion does not dream, but he has aspirations of power and pride. he longs to be fawned over, to control swathes of attention. he wants to cheat death and command the soul, to have a never-ending audience. if this sounds similar to verrot, it's by design.

situations that would lead to coming again of death, or some iteration of their chosen messiah. in this mission, there have been many shadows of what would become verrot. poor approximates, some eerily close. marion is a near-miss. and a particularly rotten failure of one. but childishly similar.

#marionlore , #verrotlore marion does not dream, but he has aspirations of power and pride. he longs to be fawned over, to control swathes of attention. he wants to cheat death and command the soul, to have a never-ending audience. if this sounds similar to verrot, it's by design.

#verrotlore though he has many scars, many question his concealed left arm. when time began to unravel, the illsvalian quarter that housed the first known gateways to the otherwhere : verrot had discovered one inside an orchestrion. when he pushed his hand inside, it enmeshed with an outcome.

whether it was the future, or the past, he does not know. the orchestrion's passage was not open long, the gate only opening in accordance to a few out of tune lines it played before dying irreparably. as these portals (usually paintings and mirrors) became more popular in the kingdom, especially as

and if today I did the unspeakable

I mean lose myself to post after post of character and worldbuild questions. it’s been months since I’ve trapped myself and everyone else in a room with verrot (& co.)

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from madonna's "sex," 1992