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The twin Aspects

Had to take some more pics of their future Galaxa-selfs

Mum appeared and wanted a pic too

Wild to think she's going to become the Goddess who creates Galaxa, and Nemerites' and Neptunae's souls get reborn through her to become Neptune and Nemesis 🥹 She's like a mother to them already in the ancient times 💜 Hellion and Seirye are the oldest of the Aspects.

I've actually made quite a big change character-wise with Neptune. So when I first began writing the story of the Aspects, I wanted Neptune to be the Aspect of water, since her main element in my stories has always been water. But I also had so many cool ideas for Nemesis/Nemerites, so I then made the decision for Neptune to become Hiraani, the Aspect of Wind.

But I've now decided, there's actually two water Aspects. This change has fixed some issues I had with some plot lines. One of them being; Hiraani originally was supposed to be with Ivrakk in the ancient timeline, but then on Galaxa timeline, Neptune/Hiraani would choose Revan/Anuvan, instead of Ivrakk/Ivran.

But I never liked this plot since I love Hiraani and Ivrakk so much. And I also love Revan and Neptune, they're my oldest couple really. So I'm excited that problem is solved now! Also I was struggling with Neptune being wind, since like I said, she has always been water. This change has also brought so many new ideas, I'm so excited! So, a very long story short: Neptunae and Nemerites are the twin aspects of Water, and Hiraani has been separated from Neptune as a character! 💧

Ok so again I'll paste some lines from the story and summarize a bit what's going on in the pics!

In the previous post, Nemerites saw Nemeeri fill up a keg by summoning water from nothing, and that's not something a Draeki should be able to do. That power belongs only to the Aspect, so of course, Nemerites is extremely puzzled and needs to know more.

The evening turns into night, and eventually, the Tavern is closed and it's time for Nemeeri to head home. She's the last one to leave and closes the door behind her, locking it. Only to turn around to a pair of eyes focused on her.

Locking the door behind her, she turned around expecting to see the view of the empty seashore, and the ancient willow trees swaying in the gentle breeze. But instead, she gasped as a pair of aquamarine eyes stared back at her, and the strikingly beautiful face of the Aspect of Water - Nemerites, greeted her. He was leaning onto the wooden wall of the tavern, arms folded loosely in front of him. He looked as if he was waiting on something…or someone. For a moment, they just stood there in silence. She didn't know what to do or say, but each second as the silence went on, she felt more and more desperate for him to speak. He kept looking at her with a slight narrow in his eyes and a tilt of his head, like he was trying to solve some secret puzzle. "How long have you been able to summon water like that?" He pushed himself off the wall and took a few steady steps towards her. Immediately, she realised what he meant, and that she'd made a big mistake. They'd always managed to keep their unique abilities a secret with Lethelin, but now, the Aspect of water himself had seen her do it. She began searching the depths of her mind for some believable explanation, but as she did, he blinked slowly, his face morphing into one expecting her to lie, brows rising ever so slightly. He looked almost…amused. Sighing in defeat, she whispered. "Ever since I can remember."

He seemed to be analysing her response, holding onto his chin as if in deep thought. "Are you able to do it whenever and wherever you wish?" She nodded. "What's your first memory of it?" She tried to remember the first time she'd summoned water from nothing, but realised it would mean she'd have to tell him of Lethelin, and decided to lie instead. "I…I don't remember." Again, as if sensing her lie, he narrowed his eyes at her, glancing down at her hands. "And how does it feel?" Being interrogated by the Aspect himself, Nemeeri knew she should answer truthfully and without question. But something in the way he was speaking to her, like he was entitled to hear her entire life story, was beginning to annoy her. "Shouldn't you be the expert on that?" His brows rose at her tone, clearly taken back by her outburst. Nemeeri mentally cursed herself and was about to beg for forgiveness, when the Aspect chuckled, the sound pleasant and warm. "I apologize if my questions seem intrusive. I am merely curious, since in all the ages past, I have never met a Draeki with such power." His gentle tone only made her more embarrassed of the attitude she'd given him, and she found it hard to meet his eyes again. So she occupied herself by brushing off invisible dust off her dress, instead. "…Oh?" "Because there shouldn't be one." Her eyes shot up at him, looking for any hint of a threat in his words. But there was no sign of malice on his face, only a deep calmness, that somehow seemed to reach her as she observed him. "Can you show me?" For a moment, she hesitated. It felt as if she'd be breaking some sort of promise they had with Lethelin, to always have each others backs and to never reveal what they're able to do. But she'd broken that promise the moment she'd made the mistake of refilling that keg with her waters. The Aspect already knew. So, taking a deep breath to calm her nerves, she held up her hand and focused on her magic. Cool sparkling waters manifested in her palm and slowly drifted up in the air, forming small shapes that didn't really resemble anything at all. Just blobs of water. Nemerites immediately leaned in, inspecting them as closely as possible from different angles, the furrow in his brow carving in deeper the longer he observed the floating droplets. "Interesting." Just as he was about the reach out and poke one, she put down her hand and the waters dissipated into a sparkling mist. Annoyance flashed across his face for a split second, but then it was gone and replaced by the amused expression that seemed to be his favourite, at least around her. He chuckled. "I suppose I should've asked first." Nemeeri gave him a smile that didn't quite reach her eyes, then dipped her head in respect and in goodbye, hoping the Aspect's curiosity had been sated by her display. The moment she made to turn away and leave however, he spoke again. "Did you have a mentor?"

I'll summarize the last part! So the conversation moves to Nemerites offering Nemeeri his assistance in mentoring. Nemeeri and Lethelin have spend their entire lives trying to keep their abilities a secret, so they never really learned what would be considered as "basics" of bending water. Like I mentioned before, bending water is normal for a water Draeki born with the gift, but summoning water from nothing isn't.

Nemeeri has filled the keg with her water before, but to a normal Draeki watching, they'd assume/think there was a water source nearby or in the back rooms she's summoning from. But Nemerites being the Aspect - he's literally the element of water in the world, he of course sensed/saw what happened.

So long story short, he offers to mentor Nemeeri. He's incredibly curious about her abilities, and by becoming her mentor, he might be able to find the source of her unusual power. Nemeeri first is a bit sceptical, saying that she's just a Tavern worker and a painter, she has no need to learn powerful bending. To which Nemerites says; well you could do this, and summons a bunch of sea creatures shaped by his waters.

I mentioned before, Nemerites is an artist, and one of the art forms of the water Draeki is water sculpting. So using water to create different kinds of shapes, often creatures from the sea. And no one shapes water like Nemerites does, his sculptures are incredibly life like and move around. He summons a massive whale that jumps over them, and Nemeeri can see them reflected in it's surface as she looks up. He's basically showing off a bit lmao because he knows she's also an artist from the talk they had in the Tavern, and this might actually get her to be interested to learn.

Well it does, and Nemeeri realises she really has no choice but to mention Lethelin, her twin brother. This starts a whole new conversation, since Nemerites realises there's not just one Draeki with the powers that only the Aspect should have, but two. He offers to mentor him as well, and Nemeeri basically tells him she needs to talk to Lethelin about it. They eventually agree to meet in front of the Tavern next morning to talk, and she'll bring Lethe with her. Oh yea and he realises he never even asked her name. 😂

He begins to walk away, but suddenly stops and turns around. "I don't believe I got your name." "I don't believe you asked." "Well…I'm asking now." "…It's Nemeeri."

Thank you so much for reading! 💜

I've been taking a lot of clips/pics of scenes from the story, and I plan on editing them into little videos for fun, and sharing the written story chapters with it. But before I get to the clips, I want to post some pics! In this one, Nemerites - The Aspect of water, visits one of the taverns in his lands. He loves doing this, visiting little towns with charming markets and taverns while admiring the culture of his people; the water Draeki. This is a lil snippet of what ive written of Nemerites on his doc:

Nemerites has the soul of an artist. He goes through life seeing art - and the potential for it, everywhere he goes. One of his biggest passions in life is to listen to all of the stories his people tell from their travels or daily lives, and to use them as inspiration to create art. By doing so, he freezes those stories and memories forever in time, to be seen and remembered by all. His art is like a love poem for his people, and it's scattered around everywhere in his lands in the form of paintings, sculptures, jewellery, little trinkets and even music.

I want to make a post with all of the Aspects, talking a bit of each of them in detail, and the world they live in and the different Draeki cultures! But now; I'm going to do a small summary of this Nemerites chapter in a very simplified form! (and maybe paste a few lines)

So as he enterns the tavern, he's very much appreciating the artistry inside. Someone has painted the walls with ocean critters, and hung glimmering pieces of sea glass from the ceiling.

He then meets one of his old friends; Riven, a traveling merchant. (Who makes a remark on how he looks like a fish out of fresh water standing by the door, in his shimmering fit)

Oh I also want to point out, the Aspects are seen almost as gods to the Draeki, and being in the precense of one of the Aspects is a great honour. Nemerites however, has always preferred to be treated like he's one of the Draeki, and not the high oh mighty Aspect of Water. He always makes it his priority to go to people and start conversations, making sure they feel they can approach him with anything. Though, try as he might, most of his people still gawk and gasp when they see him, and feel incredibly nervous when he's near. Not from fear, but from the knowledge of what he is to them, and to their world. So when he enters the tavern, the athmosphere immediatley changes. The owner of the tavern - Rowena, freaks out and rushes Nemeeri into the back rooms with a tray of dirty dishes. (You may remember her as Sednael, but I've since renamed her Nemeeri in the Ancient timeline. Her name remains Sednael in the Medieval timeline.) Heres a lil snippet of what she thinks when she sees him;

...when suddenly, the usually loud tavern got really quiet. The change in the atmosphere made her stop what she was doing and look around. That's when she saw him. The Aspect of water ~ Nemerites, standing at the entrance, deep in conversation with a local. She'd only ever seen him in paintings and books, but nothing could have prepared her for the sight of him in person. She found herself unable to look away from his otherworldly beauty. The way his scales glistened in the light of the candles like dozens of little droplets of water. The sparkling glow of his eyes, visible to her from the back of the tavern ~ the most mesmerizing shade of aquamarine blue. She could feel and smell the pure magic of his element oozing off of him in waves. It reminded her of fresh rainfall on a summer's evening ~ the soothing feeling of the drops sinking into your skin. Of standing at the seashore, with the waves brushing against your legs in a gentle but powerful caress. She was still staring when Rowena appeared next to her and gasped. "By the Aspects, is that THE Aspect?." She half turned to look at Nemeeri and noticed her mouth was wide open. Rowena smacked her shoulder, freeing her from whatever spell she was under and whispered in a hurried tone. "Stop your gawking and take these to the back rooms." She handed over the set of dirty mugs she'd been holding, then quickly wiped her hands on the blue apron around her waist, and approached the front of the bar, ready to serve the Aspect. Nemeeri did as she was told and disappeared to the back rooms, her heart beating fast.

Nemeeri is still freaking out in the back rooms, because she just saw the most beautiful male - that happens to be the Aspect, walk into their tavern lmao. Rowena is mixing the waveblenders (a traditional drink of the Riverlands) with slightly trembling hands, which Nemerites takes note of and immidiately begins a conversation with her, complimenting the art and the athmosphere of the tavern. Rowena is a bit taken back by him talking to her, but quickly recovers and explains how the tavern's interior was completely remade by her cousin. All of the artistic choices and art were made by her.

He watched as she reached under the table to take out two glasses made out of green sea glass, and began mixing their drinks, her hands having the slightest tremor as she worked. In an attempt to put her at ease, Nemerites made a show of looking around at all of the little trinkets and paintings on the walls of the tavern. "Someone with a very artistic eye must've been in charge of decorating here." Surprised to have been spoken to by the Aspect, she made a high pitched sound that turned into a nervous giggle. "That would be my cousin. When she started working here, she completely remade the place." She kept her gaze down while crushing herbs using a stone mortar and pestle. "Before her, there wasn't a trinket or painting to be found. A huge improvement, if you ask me. Twice the customers, as well!" She let out another giggle, much quieter this time, and dared to take a glance at him, but quickly averted her eyes and went back to focusing on mixing the drinks. Nemerites let out a pleasant hum in agreement.

"Such artistic talent ought to be praised. She's done the place wonders, it seems." She smiled and nodded a few times. "Well, it just so happens that she's working the night shift with me today. So, if you wish, you may give praise to the artist herself." She clinked the spoon on the rim of the glass a few times, done with mixing in all of the ingredients. Then, with much more steady hands, grabbed both of the drinks and set them down on the table in front of the pair. They nodded in thanks, and watched as she moved on to the next customer, waiting to be served.

Of course the cousin is none other than Nemeeri, who finally decides to leave the back rooms and get back to serving people.

Nemeeri could hear the chatter and laughter coming from the bar, as she carefully washed off the dried out wine and beer from the mugs. She couldn't quite make out what was being said, most of it drowned out by Rowena's high pitched giggling. After finishing her task, she knew that she needed to go back and serve the customers, but hoped that Rowena had already managed to serve the Aspect. Before leaving however, she pushed the door ajar and took a quick little peek to monitor the situation. He was sitting at the bar with a drink in his hands, his body facing her way, but deep in conversation with someone next to him. Realizing how silly she was being, she left the back rooms with a huff of amusement at her own reaction, and told herself; it was just another normal evening at the tavern, and she would continue with her routine, as such. As if one of the most powerful beings in their world wasn't sitting two feet across from her, watching.

Heheheeee, I'm not going to paste the whole scene here but:

Nemerites was listening with interest at Riven's tale, when suddenly ~ a deep shiver went through his chest. The sensation was so strange, he found himself unable to focus on what his friend was saying, instead, all of his attention was on the fluttering feeling and…a sound. Humming. So faint he could barely hear it, but it was there. After a quick glance around, it seemed that whatever he was experiencing at the moment, no one else was having the sensations. Could it be that the waitress had put something in his drink? Surely not, she'd been pleasant and welcoming. Riven kept going on about his tale, completely unaware of his friend's inner turmoil. He was absentmindedly touching his chest, when the door to the back rooms opened and someone ~ a female, walked in. From the first sight of her, that feeling inside imploded and spread out, knocking the breath out of his lungs. At the sound of gasping, Riven at last noticed that Nemerites wasn't quite himself, and placed a firm hand on his shoulder. "Hey…everything alright? You look a bit…peaky." Peaky wasn't a strong enough word for the storm that was brewing inside of him.

Again, leaving some lines/parts out, but:

Nemerites felt unable to answer his friend and instead, was completely enthralled by the Draeki in front of him. Her shimmering indigo scales were unlike anything he'd ever seen in his long life. And her hair, a shade of deep dark blue, reminded him of the darkest depths of the sea. She was standing in the dimmest part of the bar and not facing him, focusing on wiping one of the glasses with a piece of cloth. He found himself as if by instinct, leaning in closer, unable to bear the wait a moment longer to see her features in full. And when her gaze at last found his, it was as if time had stopped, and it was just him ~ and her sparkling sapphire eyes, with the sound of waves, and the melody of that otherworldly hum in his ears.

When I was writing this scene, I kept imagining him hearing something like this: 🎵 (link to yt, song at 2:35 timestamp)

Why oh why could the Aspect of Water be having such a strange and strong reaction to seeing her 👀

Nemeeri's heart was beating so fast, it was threatening to burst out of her chest and explode. She had tried her best to avoid looking at the Aspect, tried her hardest to focus on her task and serve the customers, but something…something had taken hold of her and dared her to look. Just once ~ look. And that had turned out to be a mistake, since the moment she had, his striking gaze had slid to her and their eyes had met. She'd frozen on the spot for what had felt like an eternity, the aquamarine blue of his eyes piercing a hole through her soul. Only when the liquid she'd been mixing had poured over the edge of the glass and dripped on her toes, had she snapped out of her trance. She apologized, and hastily grabbed a cloth from under the table to clean out her mess. But she couldn't focus, couldn't hear through the rushing of waves in her ears. Rowena could see her struggling and swooped in to help her clean up, while she finished mixing the drink.

Meeri isn't doing much better!

I'd actually shit my pants if he was lookin at me like that

It had taken him a moment to be able to avert his gaze from her sapphire eyes and finally answer Riven's question. He'd looked quite concerned, holding onto his shoulder while giving his back a few strong pats, urging him to let out the air he'd been holding in his lungs. When Riven kept on patting his back, he coughed. "I'm okay, just…inhaled my drink." He didn't look too convinced by his performance, but accepted his answer nevertheless, and continued his story. But Nemerites was focusing on the little snippets he'd gotten of her voice, the melody so soothing and soft. Halfway through his talking, Riven finally took notice of how Nemerites' attention was focused wholly elsewhere. Curious, he followed his gaze and understood immediately the cause of his distraction. "Oooh." Riven's teasing tone managed to grasp Nemerites' attention, and he turned around to see him grinning though his drink. "What is it?" Riven shrugged. "You tell me. Though, I think the answer is quite obvious to anyone with a pair or eyes."

Love how I said I'd do a short summary and I just keep pasting snippets of the story 😂 Okok but, for the last part I'll summarize. So Nemerites does actually start a converstaion with her, after mustering up the courage. A snippet from Nemeeri´s pov:

...so she accepted her fate and took over at the bar, which at the moment wasn't busy at all. A few customers came for a refill, but most of the time, she was pretending to be cleaning or organizing cups, anything to avoid looking at his direction. When the tavern got more quiet, she could hear the male next to the Aspect say something about the rainbow jellyfish festival and market stalls. She realized she'd not yet heard the Aspect utter a single word, simply listening to his companions tales. Just as she came to that realization, he finally spoke. But it wasn't directed at his companion, no. He was speaking…to her.

And Nemerites:

...Why was he having these reactions? He didn't even know the female, hadn't even spoken one word to her, yet the strong pull he felt towards her…it was as magnetic as the pull of the sea. Never in his life had he felt this strong of a need to talk to someone, and to hear them talk back. Which made him realize something even more strange; he was nervous to speak to her. The Tavern around them got a bit quieter, and Riven had changed the subject to the yearly rainbow jellyfish festival, which was taking place in two full moons. Apparently he'd be there with his stall, like every year before. Nemerites nodded with approval, but in his mind, he was planning his next words very carefully; "You must be the cousin responsible for the art around the place."

I again left quite a bit of the scenes out, but hgftrhgrhg I just love how he's realizing and confused at how nervous he's feeling. THE Aspect of water, nervous to talk to the waitress. Delicious.

So they do chat a bit but I'm not gonna talk about that part in this post! After, a customer comes over to the bar to let Nemeeri know that the keg holding the water has ran out, and requesting for it to be refilled. Without thinking, she uses her own water bending power to fill in the keg. Now this is a big deal, since the water Draeki - while being able to bend water to their will, they cannot summon it from thin air. Only the Aspect of water is supposed to have that power. Nemerites watches as she reaches out and summons water from nothing to fill the keg. This immideately catches his attention even MORE and........to be continued!

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