#cihrp

What a time to be alive.

CIH staff and contributors have made such amazing progress this month on the site and its lore, we’re finally confident enough to give you all a SOFT OPEN DATE! We want to thank everyone for their support, hype, telling their friends, and all the kindness and patience with us through this entire process. Honestly, your encouragement and excitement really amped everything up, and we could not be looking more forward to writing with you all VERY SOON.

That said, our SOFT OPEN DATE is WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST. A week from today!

We will open our discord up for everyone to join at that time, as well as our site so everyone can start working on their characters.

We do not have a time in mind of when this will happen, but it will likely be around afternoon time PST, provided there are no unforeseen hiccups.

This date is subject to change due to those unruly aforementioned bumps, but we will keep everyone updated!

Please also keep in mind:

There may be stuff added to the site as we move things around that are not on the tumblr or haven’t been revealed. We try to get content out as much as we are able, but we want to ensure most time is spent getting everything together for our soft launch date. This shouldn’t impact anyone’s plotting so far, and if it does, we will update before then.

WANTED: Characters in an Anastasia inspired plot

This is a wanted ad loosely inspired by the plot of the 1997 animated masterpiece, Anastasia, but you don’t have to have seen it or really know too much about it to participate. Just bring the right vibes and off we go~ 

Anyway, to sum up, the basic premise is that our Anastasia (Esme Harlow) is currently an essential part of a con-job involving the Dimitri and the Vlad with the Dowager Empress as their target. The DE is the last living member of a prestigous witch family (the Lombard’s who are throughly embedded in the current regime and were/are important figures in witch society) or so many have assumed. The real story is that the DE’s niece also survived the tragic attack on their family during the revolt but was believed drowned following a difficult escape. That niece just so happens to be our Anastasia, not that authenticity was ever a concern for the Dimitri or the Vlad who were prepared simply to find a good lookalike and go. Now the aim of their con is to take the DE’s reward money (something that she’s been offering on and off for several years in the hopes of finding her niece who she swears didn’t actually drown) but perhaps there might be something more valuable at stake... 

In any case the Anastasia is surprisingly unaware of the true depravities of her fellow conmen, fully taken in by the promise of adventure and simply ‘exploring the possibility of an identity’. Or is she? She’s not quite as naive as they think and has an idea of the prize that’s at stake, not to mention the risk that she personally will be taking in the con. So anything goes... I mean there might be cause for a rift between the trio at some point.

Now, on the other side of things, is the Rasputin who was part of the group of individuals who murdered the Lombards during the revolt. They had something of a personal grudge against them and happily took part in a largely political plot organized against the witch family by another group. They were supposed to take the DE and the Anastasia hostage but suceeded only in capturing the Anastasia on a hazardous crossing of the sea. Nearly drowning her, they were forcibly stopped by the group before yet more hell broke loose and they lost track of her completely. Flash forward fourteen years and the Rasputin is in a very different state indeed, but who should come waltzing in to Salem but the little girl they almost killed all those years ago? Man, are they pissed.

THE ANASTASIA: (Taken by Bex)

(Witch) - Here for a good time and to find herself; unaware of her true family and all that history.

THE DIMITRI: (Open)

(Shifter/Ex-Familiar or Open) - A conman out to make their fortune and possibly assuage a guilty conscience. They might also have something of a past with the Lombards...

THE VLAD: (Open)

(Witch) - Cast out of the fold for illegal practices, they’re part of the con in the hopes of regaining their place in witch society. Currently functioning as a familial figure to the Dimitri and surprisingly cheery for an outcast.

THE RASPUTIN: (Open)

(Human/Fae/Vampire) - Here to wreak havoc and get their own personal revenge, whether they still have contact with the original group out to get the Lombards is another matter... The years have not been kind.

THE DOWAGER EMPRESS: (Open)

(Witch) - The last surviving member of the Lombards who still wields power in Salem. Of French origin, they might just be tiring of a hopeless search for a lost niece, assumed dead by everyone else.

OTHERS:

If you fancy bringing a Bartok or a Sophie in to the plot, I wouldn’t say no 👀 Also all genders, names, and some species are open! Feel free to message me here or on discord @let them grumble#8859 if you’re interested! Can definitely be combined with other ads and existing characters.

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red - adjective - /red/

red is for vee is for jager

nothing ever ends poetically. it ends and we turn it into poetry. all that blood was never once beautiful. it was just red.

                                   -kait rokowski

pronouns: she/her

timezone: est

favorite tropes in writing: forever weak for enemies-to-lovers, found family, villains/selfish characters finding someone they care about more than themselves (in any sort of relationship), friendly rivals (especially rivals that need to rely on one another during a crisis), unlikely friendships (ie: jock 🤝 nerd solidarity)......there are a lot more but i can't think of them all right now, but i have an "elmo before the flames dot gif" tag on my blog for other examples (a lot of shippy stuff's in there but i'm always excited for plotting non shippy things too!)

if you had to pick a writing genre, which genre: fantasy, sci-fi, and supernatural drama are my Big Three

three spices that describe your writing and why:

cinnamon, because there's something warm and comforting about it, but it can still be a bit spicy, so there's a good variety in its presence, but you can still recognize it right away when it's in stuff (aka: i'm pretty sure that i have a recognizable writing style? idk, i just like cinnamon :') )

salt, because doing things out of spite is just a lot of fun (aka: oh, that overused trope? let's take that and make it fun again!)

garlic powder, because garlic is just. so good all the time. (aka: i hope people enjoy writing with me....and also garlic has that silly association with vampires and i just love those bloodsuckers. so.)

anything you’d like to see on cih: a welcoming, fun community, with lots of opportunities for plotting and developing a variety of characters and relationships.

anything else you’d like to add: i'm looking forward to meeting everyone and plotting a lot of different things with a lot of different characters! i'm also very weak when it comes to want ads, so the odds of me making a small army of characters eventually is. very high. :')

gabriel byun , 26, witch , assassin

aesthetics ;

dark eyes // lingering smoke // heeled boots // the sound of crunching gravel // the thrill of the chase // hiding in the shadows // the feeling of uncertainty // holding hands so tight // chaste kisses // whispers under the stars // broken promises

wanted connections ;

fellow witch friends // those who work for the black market // enemies // flings // exes // his familiar (request coming!)

cillian barlowe by kim : dev challenge : colors

The name green earth is applied to several different minerals, but most importantly in medieval painting is the light, cold green of celadonite, a natural mineral found chiefly in small deposits in rock in the area of Verona, Italy. The mass tone of green earth is an unexciting, dull green. The color varies according to its origin, ranging from a light bluish gray with a greenish cast to a dark, brownish olive.

Often confused with a pale brown, green earth sits between green and yellow. It is an earthy color that transmits a sense of peacefulness, yet it is cold rather than warm.

Medieval artists used green earth pigment extensively as a preparatory underpainting for the representation of flesh tones. The green earth which now dominates many of the paintings of the period is the result of the lighter flesh tones which have faded.  It is a color to build upon, but far stronger and longer lasting than those painted upon it.

It is calm, resilient, and evokes a sense of peaceful solitude.

The Sjöberg Family

A generation that has been spoken about for eons in the Sjöberg family, a generation that the elders have been waiting for or so they think. A Father obsessed with the end of the world, or better yet the world as it has been known for years before the revolution. A chance to truly end all of those who are not worthy of living amongst the witches. Hardly given a chance for a childhood they were raised to be hunters like no one else has seen before, to tear down the lesser beings and leave nothing behind. 

They are supposed to be great.. They are expected to be perfect.

Death (Astrid) - 32 - Oldest - Taken By Nat

War - Late 20′s Early 30′s - Oldest Brother

Pestilence - 25 - Twin Brother to Eira

Conquest (Eira) - 25 - Taken by Themis