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Engagement Party (Fic)
Sep. 23rd, 2022 10:05 pmGreta Age 20
"I could have made you love me. It would have been easy. Start slow, build up the dose so it feels like it's something natural. I have half a dozen recipes. The right one and it would feel like getting to know me had actually gotten past the emotional barriers you built up over time and left you more vulnerable and open to connection."
Her words are soft and crawl along his skin like spider legs. He didn't know she could be this type of quiet. Dangerous and yet somehow still soft as they continue to dance. The fact that anyone around them might hear her is terrifying.
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"I could have made you love me. It would have been easy. Start slow, build up the dose so it feels like it's something natural. I have half a dozen recipes. The right one and it would feel like getting to know me had actually gotten past the emotional barriers you built up over time and left you more vulnerable and open to connection."
Her words are soft and crawl along his skin like spider legs. He didn't know she could be this type of quiet. Dangerous and yet somehow still soft as they continue to dance. The fact that anyone around them might hear her is terrifying.
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RP Wishlist
Sep. 11th, 2022 12:34 amGeneral:
- Friends!!!!!!! Greta is a mess and has internalized so much the ways she falls short of expectation and people who actually like her who are not family or clients could make all the difference. Plus exploring how open she is with the realities of her practice on platonic relationships + exploring how people who care about her react to the fact that she's kind of wicked witch would be like aces. Also, can totally stay light and fluffy because she is that friendly person most of the time
- Clients - people who found out about her apothecary from a friend of a friend because they need to be extra appealing or help with anti-aging or want to dominate a situation without anyone realizing why or they have a magical illness or whatever the hell you want to throw at her. There are so many fun possibilities.
- Minions-er-Apprentices. Who doesn't want to learn a little magic, right?
- Magical folks! Are they enemies, allies, colleagues, super confused by the necromantic energy around a person who should be a pretty boring green witch? IDK, but I want to explore it
- Other! I genuinely love general threads and if you have an alternative option, throw it at me.
- Primarily? One sided crushes that she internalizes but gently slide into more or less comfortable friendships because it is utterly inconceivable to her that mutual interest is something she can achieve without it being a trap of some kind.
- Sweet shipping with Greta would take time and patience. She would need space and time to process sincere romantic/sexual interest and be able to get to a place where she would be able to trust it. Partially for good reasons (someday I will write more of those fics instead of staring at my computer willing tags to appear,) partially because of the messages she's taken on about her body and general self as undesirable. This could be confusing because she will flirt up a storm at a distance because it doesn't hit the mental panic button. A partner would have to be willing to work through that shit with her, but extra bonus points for a partner that comes through wanting to protect her.
- Messed up shipping - Greta is the weak link in her family chain and it wouldn't be the first time someone tried to appeal to her either to cause harm to her clan or to gain access to the social status/power that comes with that much money and influence. Fastest way would be for someone to be just honest about their intentions with her. Loneliness and a desire to be seen/valued are huge motivators, and it might be interesting to see if she'd be willing to compromise because it feels better than being alone.
Name: Greta Horn
Age: 33
Species: Human/hereditary witch
Occupation: Herbalist who runs her own apothecary.
Build: Short side of average, solid/round.
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Voice/Mode of Speaking: Defaults to a soft speaking voice when she's unsure or around more charismatic people that can get bright and highly expressive when she feels free to be herself. When she gets going, she can fill the space and get highly emotive.
Canon: Original
Family: Greta is part of a family of hereditary witches who specialize in necromancy. This winds up being a surprisingly diverse field of magical study, but for the most part they work with human dead and their remains. Generations of being ruthless, brutal, and highly capable have allowed them to accrue considerable generational wealth. They are known within the magical community of their world and have a reputation for being an impressive gothic bastion that occasionally terrorizes but often helps to uphold the secrets that allow the mundane and supernatural worlds to co-exist. They are, after all, highly effective at dealing with dead bodies and sorting out the secrets of the dead and have a surprisingly stable reputation.
There are, however, occasional outliers that pop up every so many generations with either limited or missing abilities. It was a family secret and shame that Greta's continued existence brings to light.
The current family network exists more as a clan than a formal family structure with members being referred to as grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, and nieces and nephews based on generation rather than literal relationships. Her mother and father are still alive and vaguely disappointed but shockingly loving. Her cousin Jasper is a dick.
Abilities: TBA
History: TBA
Age: 33
Species: Human/hereditary witch
Occupation: Herbalist who runs her own apothecary.
Build: Short side of average, solid/round.
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Voice/Mode of Speaking: Defaults to a soft speaking voice when she's unsure or around more charismatic people that can get bright and highly expressive when she feels free to be herself. When she gets going, she can fill the space and get highly emotive.
Canon: Original
Family: Greta is part of a family of hereditary witches who specialize in necromancy. This winds up being a surprisingly diverse field of magical study, but for the most part they work with human dead and their remains. Generations of being ruthless, brutal, and highly capable have allowed them to accrue considerable generational wealth. They are known within the magical community of their world and have a reputation for being an impressive gothic bastion that occasionally terrorizes but often helps to uphold the secrets that allow the mundane and supernatural worlds to co-exist. They are, after all, highly effective at dealing with dead bodies and sorting out the secrets of the dead and have a surprisingly stable reputation.
There are, however, occasional outliers that pop up every so many generations with either limited or missing abilities. It was a family secret and shame that Greta's continued existence brings to light.
The current family network exists more as a clan than a formal family structure with members being referred to as grandparents, aunts and uncles, cousins, and nieces and nephews based on generation rather than literal relationships. Her mother and father are still alive and vaguely disappointed but shockingly loving. Her cousin Jasper is a dick.
Abilities: TBA
History: TBA
Permissions / Content Warning
Aug. 1st, 2022 11:41 pmPermissions:
OOC:
Content Warning:
Necromancy is a huge part of Greta's story, so bodies, gore, violence, ect will all be potentially involved. The way other people and her own perception of her body has shaped her life will be, too, so especially in fic be prepared for some discussion of fat bodies, the stigma around them, and the ways that can impact mental health.
If any of this is something you want to opt out of for any reason, please feel free to respond here or through a PM. All responses to this post are screened.
OOC:
- Backtagging: Please do! I certainly do
- Fourthwalling: Not from her, and open to it from other characters.
- Threadhopping: Where appropriate, but better to check in.
- Smut: Yes, if you can manage to get her to that point.
- Offensive Subjects: I'm pretty game for exploring most things in context as long as they're clearly IC
- Hugging, kissing, and other physical contact: Expect a character reaction, but go for it!
- Flirting: As long as you're ready for her to flirt back until she feels awkward and fumbles.
- Fighting: She's terrible at it, but sure.
- Injuring: There will be a character reaction, but sure!
- Killing: Not right now, thanks.
- Telepathy: Greta is pretty heavily magically guarded against magic assaults, but no protection is perfect and other power sets could definitely hit her. Check if unsure!
- Magic: Yes! She's super sensitive to death based magic, even, and feel free to check if unsure
Content Warning:
Necromancy is a huge part of Greta's story, so bodies, gore, violence, ect will all be potentially involved. The way other people and her own perception of her body has shaped her life will be, too, so especially in fic be prepared for some discussion of fat bodies, the stigma around them, and the ways that can impact mental health.
If any of this is something you want to opt out of for any reason, please feel free to respond here or through a PM. All responses to this post are screened.
First Breaking Point [Fic]
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