#darrow tag

I was about to say “I like to put them all into situations” but actually, it’s more like I am a captive stenographer to which Sadren is dictating (unprompted) his travails in love and causing international turmoil. So I have to sit down and think about who I actually go out of my way to bother.

I guess Old Mora is one of my throughlines for Moribund. I drag her into every story I can. I don’t know how to express the function of her very well… But if Moribund were a video game, she would be the giant watchful death bird hidden in random corners of the world whose presence is never explained, really, but is constantly felt after you find her... if you find her... like, sometimes you just want to see what’s over the next hill. It could be anything. Giant Bird

She's not very personable and doesn’t like to reveal her interior world to me though. It takes a lot of time to figure out what she does or says, but it usually ends up expanding the world in an interesting way. I figured out the other day that she might have a part in keeping the East and West cardinal stars from falling out of conjunction. This also makes her an annoyance in the far South, because she brings the light out into the polar night when the Sun hasn’t yet returned. Catching sight of Mora dragging false suns through the sky is a brief reprieve from the polar dark, but also an awful omen. Everything she does to “help” (if at all she thinks she’s helping) seems to cause commensurate mayhem.

As for a more traditional blorbo… I think it might have to be Sinuk… Like, yes, this is the woman who I wrote into a black hole and annihilated. And her way of dealing with being written out of the story was to write herself back into the story, but imperfectly, like she had to cut and paste each letter by hand with safety scissors.

But more than that, I just think it’s fun to report on her post-post-doc activities. What’s she up to these days! She is good at taking up enough space to cause friction, but not so much that she steals everyone else’s thunder (not if it isn’t funny, at least.) I like to send her to distant corners of the world and introduce her to random characters and see what happens. My favorite kind of post-script daydreaming is goofy or mundane scenarios that are forever colored by the fact that these people went through hell to be able to have something as simple as this. I want Sinuk to have lots of those! … because of the black hole… and also because she’s a fun surface for other characters to bounce off of.

OK. I was collecting pictures of Sinuk bothering people but I lost the plot a little and so basically this is a Sinuk post now.

look at herrrrrrrrrrrrr

(feat. Coin - Talk Too Much)

Anyway, here’s Sinuk going over that next hill.

@funnyball BULLYING him

anyway here's darrow but a bird ^^^ and by darrow i mean some kind of darrow-sinuk fusion. my first little guy i made :)

my most recent one ^^^ shibi. ambiguous lion dragon fever dream roof ornament.

middlest make is katakalathmah. named after the eponymous pakaquoia for no discernible reason

[Image: Darrow wearing a huge black overcoat with asymmetrical zippers all over the front. He leans over, flourishing some tarot-like qans between his knuckles dourly.]

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February 10, 2019

Divorce Man. He’s wearing the coat from this Placebo music vid

I use he/him pronouns with some of these Darrows because he transitions after the events of the story, and this was a realization I did not have until midway through the story, so I’ve been using whatever pronouns match the time scale. Anyway, just clarifying because Brun’s a lesbian and he’s ~trans masc post-Mercasor, he just did the gender a few years after they broke up.