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Nothing is as it Seems

@conclave-of-knives

Stories for a collection of nefarious killers and their organizations interconnected by a conclave council. [ WRA ]
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I love the "came back wrong" trope but from the opposite side.

Imagine you are dead. And then you are RIPPED from the embrace of decay into the world of the living again. Your memories are hazy and you don't recognize any of these people, but they act like they're close to you? Like they love you? So you try to get your memories back, to act like you belong here, but everybody tries to forget you died. And you can't. It is omnipresent. And just trying to grapple with that fact pushes the people who "love" you away, and they're incapable of understanding, and they're so confused, what's wrong N̶̄̀O̶͛͗T̷̉́ ̷͋͝Y̴̎̌Ȍ̴̈U̸̓R NÄM̴̃͑E̵̾̇? And you just need them to understand, you aren't that person! You aren't! You don't know who that person is! You don't know why any of this is happening, but they're unwilling to bend, they keep insisting you are that person, your memories will come back, everything will be normal again, and you want to scream and cry and claw yourself open to show them you're different. Your existence as a being wholly separate from whoever you "used to be" is a sin unto itself. All you can do is scrabble for life and to them, you're killing whoever they loved to do it.

just. lots of fun in that concept, you know?

My dearest mutual you will not hide this in the tags

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Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Despite being a bird of prey, falcons are actually more closely related to parrots than they are to hawks or eagles. In 2008 it was discovered that falcons and kestrels– now classified in the order Falconiformes– share a more recent common ancestor with parrots than they do with other birds of prey, which fall under the order Accipitriformes.

(Images: A rainbow lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) by Richard Taylor via Wikimedia Commons, and an American Kestrel (Falco sparverius) by Yeray Seminario)

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The best character development is when the antagonist doesn't even really change or redeem himself. Like no, he still sucks, he's just on our side now.

fantastic post op. may i add when a previous antagonist has the same personality traits as before but framed as good things now that theyre on your side? "cold and calculating" becomes "unflichingly practical" when you need someone to push the big red button, "hair-trigger temper" is now "takes no shit", and no one is more dependable for chasing the big bad to the ends of the earth than that spiteful, unforgiving bastard who was hunting you down last season

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November 1 Snack, 5x5 inches, acryla gouache

My Halloween painting for this year’s Art Ghoullery exhibition at The Rourke Art Gallery + Museum in Moorhead, MN. The theme this year is Staying Alive~

The pumpkin doesn't like what is being done to it by the adorable possum.

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