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elliot ⋆ he/him ⋆ @palinoiahart ༝ @oros-ash3s

Hello and welcome to our blog!! This is a personal passion project of ours that we’ve been working on and developing for the past two years.

Chrysalis is an in-progress hurt/comfort web series, with act I currently in process. It will be co-written by the both of us, and aims to update at least twice a month. All writings, meta, and art will be posted to this blog. If anything seems of interest of you, feel free to check out some of our writing below, or send us an ask. We love interacting with people.

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WRITINGS.

THE GARDEN OF EDEN ⭑⭒ Atlas Zieliński is a child soldier that has served Eden, an all-powerful governmental organization, all his life. But when he discovers that everything he thought he knew of the company was a lie, he does the only thing he can think of. He runs. [Incomplete]

EXTRAS.

BACKSTORIES ⭑⭒ An assortment of pre-canon pieces. Can be read separately. Updates as we get the inspiration for it.

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i like the way you think.

little drabble that takes place while atlas was still in eden. he was about fifteen here !! ft. cato of course :)

CW › Minor whump, corporal punishment, humiliation, multiple whumpers, living weapon whumpee, carewhumper, institutional abuse, grooming, kneeling, intimate whumper

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“Sorry.” He chokes out. “I’m sorry.” 

He’s on his knees. Keeled over, nails digging into his thighs. Typically, they would tie him up. If he were anyone else, he already would be. But he knows better than to fight. Take the hit, swallow the blood. Kneeling feels good, natural. He would never dare resist it. He’s meant to be down here. He understands. It calls, something within him, a buried, deep-rooted desire. Beneath them, bent over. He knows, with long standing clarity; it’s only right. 

“I’m sorry,” he repeats. 

Blood drips from his nose. Steady, persistent. His front has been spotted by it, a smattering of dark red, fresh. He can feel it drying upon his face, cracking along the curves of his lips, the dip of his chin. Itchy, stretched thin when his expression twitches and the mask slips. He blinks back the waves of emotion, swallows away the sudden urge to reach up, swipe the wet from his face, dare look them in the eyes. He doesn’t. He only swallows, adams apple bobbing, lines drawn between his brows. A minute change, enough they cannot punish him for it. Head bowed, a dull pulsing through his skull, where fist met skin, he reckons with it. This beating. Blood on his clothes, pooling steadily along the traces of his hands, curving around the black ink etched against the skin. Dipping in the ridges between vein. He bit down on his tongue when the first hit came. It’ll ache later, with the bruises around his eyes. Red, blue, green, then yellow. He’ll apply concealer to them in the morning with tense fingers, pretend that none of it ever happened. 

wowieee a question about cato !!

this is long overdue. we’ve both been thinking about this for a few months but here’s an actual in-depth post explaining appearances and mutations. wren and atlas initially looked more humanoid but we’ve leaned into the “alien” thing that is supposed to be fairly prominent. just focusing on primary characters here (atlas, wren, alastair, jeremiah, ira) but others will be explained later :)

anomaly / metamorph. metamorph is a name these creatures have been dubbed, officially, within eden’s records, though most who are aware of their existence know them as “anomalies”. their origins have not yet been determined by scientists and it is unknown when they came into existence. more info on this will be revealed later. their population is small in comparison to that of humans but their numbers grow steadily. as their existence is kept secret by the world governments, most anomalies are taken by eden when they develop their mutations and/or special abilities before they reach adulthood. though certain other organizations also keep close watch on anomaly appearances and remove them from human society as well. there’s a large market on the import & export of them.

ATLAS ZIELINSKI type // aura-based. mutations // sharp upper canines, resembling fangs. large, round eyes, that are similar to something like an owl’s. violet irises as well as violet veins. brown markings around the eyes. pointed ears. x the mutations manifested at birth.

talked about atlas’s mutations a while ago and have drawn him a few times like this!! basic description would be to say atlas’s eyes look similar to an owl’s. i don’t know fully how to describe the vision i have in my head.. his eyes to me are mainly very uncanny valley. it’s off-putting to look at. specifically i think he has very large pupils and they kind of focus and defocus like a camera lens. also his eyes are glow in the dark. his pupils appear red at night.

his ears are sharp and very pointy though i don’t think they would fully look “elvish” at this point; in the sense that i think they’re very noticeable but not as large. i’m very inconsistent about this when i draw them but i imagine they were much larger when he was younger and he kind of “grew into them” in a sense.

his right ear has been cut and reshaped to look very blunt and almost human-like in appearance but immediately from looking at him you can tell its scarred. it’s kind of mutilated and the cut was very jagged and lopsided. while at eden he wore a kind of silver covering on it to give the allusion of symmetry.

WREN CHUA type // illusionist mutations // silver antennae. large, round eyes; resembling a bug. a formation of “gills” directly behind their ears. raised skin, in swirling patterns, along arms and legs. x the mutations manifested both at birth and throughout puberty. x hides mutations behind illusions. these illusions are passive and subconsciously done to blend in with humans but can come undone if they’re not careful.

wren has gone through their biggest changes recently!! their mutations are meant to resemble bugs the most. their antennae, which are silver & white protrude from their forehead. they glow when their powers are in use and are flexible and move frequently. i imagine they tense up when they’re scared or excited !! they’re very expressive. similar to a mantis antennae though a bit more alien-like in appearance. they started developing these when they were probably 10-11 but i imagine if you felt around on their head before that there was a very miniscule bump before they came in.

and their gills, which i can’t really describe as anything other than gills but wouldn’t classify as an aquatic type. there’s these slits behind their ears that kind of expand out and have a furry texture to it, like a moth’s antennae. but fanning directly out of their skin if that makes sense. i think these feelers there could also look similar to a maybug’s. kind of these spindly fuzzy antennae-looking texture. these also serve as an air filter than cleanses polluted air as they breathe. and these gills can act as a conductor to heighten their senses, namely hearing and smell.

ALASTAIR CADWALADER type // [redacted] mutations // elongated fingers. translucent skin. darker blood, glows. feather growth around wrists. [redacted]. x the mutations manifested at birth and in early childhood.

alastair's skin is not entirely unordinary looking but it is faintly translucent. movement under the skin is more noticeable as well as his veins which are colored by a significantly darker shade of blood. this lucent effect is made stronger by direct moonlight. also enhanced by the moonlight is his faint glow. in dark or still places, alastair has a faint, blurred glow around him. it is not colored but rather enhanced by the natural colors around him. this is barely noticeable unless he is directly under the night sky. alastair's fingers are also longer than expected from the average human. long enough that it is noticeable and slightly uncanny but not incredibly abnormally so.

he has small clusters of feather growth along the interiors of his wrists. sometimes they grow slightly onto the heel of his palm as well. he has also found sparse, stray feathers in other places on his body. alastair plucks all feathers he finds regularly.

JEREMIAH CADWALADER type // elemental. mutations // extra bones. x the mutation manifested at birth.

jeremiah has developed no visible abnormalities. his only mutation is a small system of bones and joints in his shoulder. where his shoulder connects to his back, rather than a broad, flat scapula, like a person would normally have, he has an extended system of bones in his back, connecting to a smaller, bird-like scapula. below his clavicle, taking the space of where a normal scapula would be, is a working set of joints and bones built like that of a bird's wing. because of this, his range of motion is broadly more flexible. he also has an extended reach with these extra parts. this mutation does not prevent any kind of muscle growth in that area.

disclaimer: his bones are not the size and density of a bird's, they are regular people-sized bones, proportionate to the rest of him.

IRA MAWAR type // elemental mutations // a metallic growth within their body. takes on a more alien form when their powers are in effect. x the mutations developed mostly around childhood and later puberty.

ira is fairly humanoid, and especially was when they were younger. most of their mutations developed around the age of 13-15 and levelled out beyond that. they have a metallic coating to parts of their skin, specifically their nails and fingers, which they were born with. their eyelashes are silver, and of a thicker texture, kind of like snowflakes have formed along them. places around their cheeks and eyes has begun to turn metallic as well, and they have metallic shards sticking from their eyebrows and the bridge of their nose. the best way i can describe this is looking similar to body modifications, but actually being a part of the make-up of their face, kind of like a bone. i imagine their bones themselves are much much harder to break and they would have to be significantly weakened to inflict easy damage on them in that sense. she also cries a more metallic substance!! related, i think her blood would be red, just much much darker.

when actually activating her powers she can tap into what i can simply describe as a “final form”. she looks more alien here, and i think the bone structure of her skull would be subtly more prominent if this makes sense. when in this state her skin takes on a purely silver form, and she is left indestructible. she cannot be cut nor can she bleed, though i believe things like her eyesight would be more easily distorted and blurry.

hiii. this is mainly in relation to arc i but especially the first half (as up to ambrus, which is what i consider to be the transition point, was written entirely in 2023). a lot of things have become outdated as result. this is by way of having an ever-changing project !! anyways.

☆ first thing i felt was worth mentioning was designs. more detailed post coming later but very slowly we’ve been committing more & more to the “non-human” concept. lol. should’ve talked about this more in depth from the very start but it’s better late than never. i feel like emphasizing the alien thing more and more as its so absent!!!! aaaaa. ohagi and i will make an more descriptive post on atlas and wren’s actual appearances as they’re the two redesigns we’ve been working on the most lately. probably coming next, maybe even later today. don’t know & not making any promises. important thing to note here is that wren frequently uses illusions throughout early arc i when atlas & them are more integrated with regular society and not on the run. they have human disguises, basically. this will be more relevant later.

☆ another note about appearances. atlas and ira are significantly less alt now. i made their designs firstly before consideration of their environment and it just makes the worldbuilding and immersion suffer in consequence. atlas doesn’t have dyed hair anymore!! his hair is much neater and tidier and just much much longer. it has a kind of wavy texture and a purple hue to it. ira has messed around with it before so i imagine he’d have a few layers to it but it’s mostly unnoticeable. in eden, he wears it in a long braid and its kept out of his face. i imagine he still has tattoos as that’s just something part of the culture in eden but i think they’re more specific to eden than himself. the ones that are designed by himself are definitely more easy to hide. ira has a few piercings but atlas does not. ira’s hair has always been cut very military style. buzzed. it hasn’t changed since she first arrived at eden.

☆ relating to eden, atlas’s overall freedom is left vague. amending that here! overall he was monitored very closely despite having a softer control over his actions + lesser punishments than ira. when wren meets him in arc i, he has been relieved of most of his regular duties due to gearing up for evaluations, where he was meant to meet with the other higher-ups of eden. he wasn’t going on missions and had a looser schedule, though i think some of the others in his rank had much stricter regulations. he was allowed out in the halls without a handler watching over him at all times etc. he had more control over his own training hours but had to be making insane hours pretty much every day. there was a lot of studying on his own time and again, training. both of which he neglects badly. (related, i’ve been outlining a fic which will go more into his punishments in general. severe physical punishment was very rare for him at this stafe. he gets off from cato very easily for this reason & at the start of chrysalis it has been nearly 3 years since he was last whipped.)

the actual politics inside the universe here actually haven’t been too prevalent and aren't really for the entirety of the first act. surprisingly. the plot is by nature more focused on the world within eden and god’s chosen that the actual complications between humans vs anomalies isn’t spoken to. atlas and wren are both pretty deeply immersed within this side of their world so by nature it’s not something that comes up a lot. i keep wanting to make a joke post about this but wren is a commie and atlas is surprisingly not very politically attached lol?? but he was a fascist. is he still a fascist. everyone discuss.

anyway despite wren being a rebel the politics attached to their actions aren’t as relevant currently. this is of course due to them 1) being extremely naive & underprepared for the actual weight that is attached to their actions and 2) atlas’s involvement in their cause. their initial goal was to infiltrate eden and immediately begin leaking information to other informants with an overall higher audience + better connections than they had but with the sudden target on their back this kind of becomes delayed. their new plan is to stack up as much info and take down as many eden bastards as they can before leaking it all #yolo. back to my initial point. atlas has had a very isolated experience and isn’t attuned to the political structure of their society outside of eden. he has been basically hand-fed an idea of how the world exists and works and just. believes this. he’s really really sheltered and it doesn’t help that his experiences beyond eden were also very very isolated and cruel

segue !! anomalies are not widely known/understood. best way i can classify them is alien (descended from aliens) but i don’t really want to go too deeply into that. there is a lot of media intervention to hide the existence of anomalies and keep them out of the public’s eye. a lot of this is of course in relation to eden. human vs anomaly politics are a huge driving force for many characters main motivations and of course what led to the existence of both eden and the congregation of the chosen. i think jeremiah is the character with the most in depth understanding of this currently but his own perspective is also the most skewed. anomalies have essentially been forced into underground spaces/hiding for hundreds of years (their population was sparse and isn’t as massive compared to overall human populations) and trafficking is very very common. anomalies specifically are a large source of profit for the government and keeping them hidden from the public’s eye benefits them very much.