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easy to pronounce, even for children (though kids 4 & younger may pronounce it more like "mayd" or "maygh")

ONE SYLLABLE!!! ("individual" is too goddamn LONG.) you have to be able to say it quickly and casually

ends in a soft consonant sound, so it'll flow right into the next word ("ind" halts the whole sentence)

fits neatly into the existing structure as a relative of master/mistress that can be abbreviated down to an m and one other letter

distinct enough that it can't be mistaken for either gendered term (if you call me mix I'll kill you. it sounds like miss with extra steps)

wizard.

drawbacks:

there aren't any

🔮 Who has existed the longest?

🛍️ Who’s the newest?

🧬 Who’s in front right now?

🧼 If you have fictives, what source do you have the most from?

💿 What’s your current (approximate) headcount?

🎆 Whats a plural joke you find funny? (Or stupid)

🎲 An out-of-context thing you’ve heard in-sys recently

🎟️ How long have you known? How long have you suspected?

🫐 Do you have different art styles? Writing styles? Tones of voice?

💐 Is there anything you all collectively like? Collectively dislike?

🐬 What’s the most common color that appears in your system?

we have no memory of getting this ask from April, but I'm seeing it now and thought I'd answer it.

Tsila is possibly our oldest named oc, from our oldest named story, The Story of Lady Beginning, later renamed Aeris Domina.

She begins her story as a "human" in a world that has had most of it's magic locked away. Magical species appear as non magical species with minor traits indicating their heritage, such as the patterning of scale-like freckles on Tsila's face, and heir sharp canines.

(another example would be a horse with an unusual bump of bone under the skin where it's horn would be if it were a unicorn)

This world of lost magic had three main types of innate magic, with a Guardian responsible for protecting those gifted with each. In modern times they are referred to as Drakes, Magica, and Humanities. Currently, there is an imbalance, with only a single Guardian of Magica being alive. The late Guardian of Drakes having died when the world's magic was sealed, and the Guardian of Humanities having been the eldest, and dying of old age a few centuries before the story begins.

Now Tsila, hey happen to have the misfortunate fortune of freeing the magic of the world on accident when hey stumble across the vase which was acting as a seal. With the Drakish Guardian magic having gotten sealed along with the rest, and with Tsila being the modern form of a dracling*, the guardian magic rushes her, pouring through and burning her veins as it forcibly changes her into a proper Guardian, at least in species and magical compatibility.

*Draclings are a human/dragon hybrid species made for this story, and are a whole other rant. We've long lost our notes for them, but the summary is that they can have a large variety of draconic traits, with more visibility equalling more social status, traditionally. The whole "oh shit what the fuck just happened to the human population" thing kinda fucks with that for a few centuries before balancing back out.

I'm glad you find it cool!! This is our pride and joy that we started in 2015 and have been refining ever since andhdhshs

and yes, Tsila goes through it, though she also gains a lifespan numbering in the 10ks, so. Not much proportionally.

Fun fact! You now get an infodump on Guardian magic and what it does to a motherfucker!

No one is born a Guardian, or with any particularly special affinity for the magic, beyond potentially belonging to a species with an association for it, ie. dragon = Drake, vampire = Humanities, griffin = Magica. Compatibility is dependent mostly on species, but also the person's personal affinities for magic.

Basic magic affinities are like skills (ie. woodwork, drawing, singing, numberwork), you might have a natural inclination towards, say, water magic, but you could get to expert levels of teleportation if you put the effort into it. This means you could have a species-based affinity for one guardian magic, but a personal affinity for a different one.

The Guardian magics themselves are semi-sentient, and find a new host on their own when the previous one dies, barring unique situations, like when the Drake and Humanities magics were sealed away with the rest of the world's magic. The longer it takes to find a host, the more agitated they become.

This is why it was so painful for Tsila to become a Guardian, the Drake Guardian magic became extremely agitated, and went with the first compatible person.

Tsila is species-compatible with the Drake Guardian magic, but has shadow light and luck magic, with a hidden affinity for shapeshifting magic.

I haven't thought of every magic that works like that, but here's some:

Magica: time/space/celestial/water

Humanities: shapeshifting/potionwork/creation/buffing

Drakes: size shifting/luck/fire/electricity

Person on screen: needs a couple pats of butter, a splash of olive oil, simmered on low with a bay leaf and a cinnamon stick. What?! You never seen a boy who knows his way around the kitchen? 

Yeah my mom always wanted a little girl but she got stuck with me instead. That wasn’t gonna stop her though so all my friends were opening up nerf guns and bmx bikes on their birthday, I was getting crockpots. 

(scene changes to the person dressed in a nice black suit jacket, bright pink dress shirt, and black tie) Yeah laugh it up! Take a picture while you’re at it 'cause this is the last time you’ll ever see me in a suit! How do boys wear these things??

One of its main features about it is that it could run stupidly fast, like, a solid 100 MPH (at least thats my best guess from a dream) but more impressively or eerily is that it could go from 100 to 0 almost immediately, stopping in a stance where it stood up straight and at attention

I assume this is for artists so sure thing

I imagine that this dog is very tall and sleek (like a good five feet tall), with a sickly pale (with just a hint of light blue hue). Its eyes are a pure empty (yet still piercing somehow) white. Along its front half across the back and its legs are pale green sets of stripes, almost like racing stripes.

As for how the ghostly “back legs” worked, they looked sort of like this

with his physical form slowly transitioning into an pale blue ectoplasm, and there were amorphous hints of what could have possibly once been legs. Despite completely missing his back half, the posture seen here is still its regular posture, standing straight up, as if a soldier at attention.

SO TRUE BOOZOI

Despite making this post in August, this post spikes in brief periods throughout the year, depending on when folks like to start.

Reading all the cool costume projects people are working on

Based off this image ⬇️