flag id: four flags with 7 stripes. the top left flag's stripes are near-black, dark teal, light golden brown, pale silver, golden yellow, purple, and dark cool purple. the top right flag's stripes are near-black, dark teal, light golden brown, pale silver, light cyan, medium light cool purple, and bright cool purple. the bottom left flag's stripes are near-black, dark teal, light golden brown, pale silver, yellow, soft cool green, and faded purple. the bottom right flag's stripes are near-black, dark teal, light golden brown, pale silver, light silver, soft purple, and dark cool green. end id.

banner id: a 1600x200 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting. those on my / dni may still use my terms, so do not recoin them.’ in large white text in the center. the text takes up two lines, split at the slash. end id.

frierenmagyckric | frierenaurethic frierenfantasic | frierensylvaenic

frierenmagyckric: being magyckraft/a dwim in the way frieren from ‘frieren: beyond journey's end’ is magyckraft/a dwim

frierenaurethic: being aurethesia/a reth in the way frieren from ‘frieren: beyond journey's end’ is aurethesia/a reth

frierenfantasic: being fantasium/an imagin in the way frieren from ‘frieren: beyond journey's end’ is fantasium/an imagin

frierensylvaenic: being sylvaencan/a sylv in the way frieren from ‘frieren: beyond journey's end’ is sylvaencan/a sylv

[pt: frierenmagyckric: being magyckraft/a dwim in the way frieren from ‘frieren: beyond journey's end’ is magyckraft/a dwim

frierenaurethic: being aurethesia/a reth in the way frieren from ‘frieren: beyond journey's end’ is aurethesia/a reth

frierenfantasic: being fantasium/an imagin in the way frieren from ‘frieren: beyond journey's end’ is fantasium/an imagin

frierensylvaenic: being sylvaencan/a sylv in the way frieren from ‘frieren: beyond journey's end’ is sylvaencan/a sylv. end pt]

for myself! linking magyckraft, aurethesia, fantasium (+ faingender, colors taken from that flag), and sylvaencan.

tags: @radiomogai, @liom-archive, @macchiane, @genderstarbucks

tags cont: @p-rtyboy, @dragonpride17

Fain! My bloodhunter shifter that I built for a very weird curse of strahd oneshot! She was an absolute delight to RP, and I would honestly love to get to play her again sometime.

To be completely fair, I also forget about her (or at least did for a while), and I never truly proclaimed her as canon.

———

Note:

Baron de Menneval (1778-1850), the former secretary of Napoleon who had accompanied him in the retreat from Russia; author of a book of memories of the Empire.

Baron Fain (1778-1837), one of the secretaries of the Emperor, published historical memories of the Empire.

———

From Delacroix’s journal. Monday, 23 July 1849:

In the evening M. Menneval told me of the frightful conduct of the generals and marshals toward the Emperor, at Arcis-sur-Seine or sur-Aube. M. Fain, lodging in another house than that of the Emperor, and crossing a square in order to join his master, came on a group of generals, among them Marshal Ney, who were deliberating among themselves as to whether they should not mete out to their benefactor the fate of Romulus: to kill him and to bury him there seemed to them as good a means as any other of getting rid of him and of getting back to their hotel, where they could enjoy themselves; he was, so they said, the scourge of France, etc. The Emperor, to whom M. Fain related the affair with emotion that will be imagined, contented himself with saying that they were mad.

Marshal Ney’s greatest impropriety toward him occurred after the battle of the Moscova, when he complained that by sparing the guard, the Emperor had deprived him of the fruits of a more complete victory. Marshal Ney was the cruelest at Fontainebleau; he went to the point of threatening him with physical injury if he did not abdicate.

In the course of the Russian campaign, Berthier did not fear to tell him how terrible it was to see oneself endlessly dragged into new enterprises: “What good does it do,” said he, “to have wealth, houses, and lands, if one has to go to war eternally and compromise everything?”

To their reproaches, which often were odious, Napoleon’s only answer was patience; despite their ingratitude, he loved them as old comrades.

Before the last years, M. Menneval told me no one had dared to permit himself an observation when he gave an order. Confidence had partially abandoned him, but the sureness and firmness of his genius not at all, as the French campaign so well proved. If, at Waterloo, at the end of the battle, there had been at his disposal that reserve of the guard which he refused to engage at the Moscova, he would still have won the battle, despite the arrival of the Prussians.

I asked M. Menneval whether he had not been completely indisposed at the Moscova, according to generally accredited opinion. This is correct: he was sick, and attacked with a loss of voice, especially after the battle, so that it was impossible for him to give a spoken order.

He was obliged to scribble his orders on bits of paper. Notwithstanding, he was completely master of his ideas. But after the battle of Dresden, the sudden indisposition with which he was seized paralyzed all the operations, carried with it the defeat of Vandamme, etc.

During the Consulate, he was very sick with malignant mange. which he had contracted at the siege of Toulon. He would lean against his table, pressing his side with his hand during crises of violent suffering. His paleness and his thinness, at this period, are explained by this sickly condition. Corvisart got him rid of his disease, at least in appearance; but it is probable that the disease of which he died had its original cause in this cruel malady.

“Buffy says she’s got it covered,” Dawn says as she hangs up the phone.