#solar-born

Skyler froze up as his face was pressed against Blaine’s chest without warning. It wasn’t that the Titan didn’t enjoy such closeness, but he was still new to the whole bed-sharing situation. Not to mention, he’d rarely seen Blaine so distraught.

“H-hey, don’t apologize, Big Guy,” Skyler whispered as he shifted to free his arm. Reaching up, he made sure Blaine was wearing his hearing aids before running his fingers through the Sunbreaker’s hair. “We’ve got a couple of hours. Try to get some more sleep.”

“Mute,” Blaine sighs dragging out the hunter’s name as long as he can before falling into the bed face first beside him.

He hadn’t even bothered to take off his armor yet and any dust or sand or grime has probably already made a mess of everything. It’s a good minute before Blaine finally turns his head to look at him, soft flush on his cheeks and forehead from fever. 

“Stupid and gross Venus weather.” The Titan pouts before turning his head away to cough. 

Normally, he’d keep to himself for fear of getting anyone else sick, but he can’t seem to make himself do that. It’s too cold, and he feels exhausted.

Mute looked up from the book he had been reading to watch Blaine flop next to him. At first he frowned because Blaine was filthy and laying in the bed in full armor. Normally if hunter did that he would get scolded.

It wasn’t until the bigger man turned his head that Mute became concerned.

Gently, not wanting to seem worried, he reached out to feel Blaine’s forehead and rub his cheeks. His hunch was right it would seem as the other man’s skin felt overly warm.

Okay, so, I hit up destinypedia for the first time since d2 dropped for the new lore on the cabal. I’ll break this ask up into sections.

Firstly, the Cabal and Psions aren’t the only two races in the empire. The number of species in the empire is supposedly “beyond reckoning” but the reference link doesn’t exist so oof. We know there are the Cabal, Psions, then a third race that got mentioned briefly in passing once in flavour text and never again because Bungie are cowards and weak.

Secondly, I hate that we haven’t been given the cabal’s proper name. Am I the only one to be annoyed with this? They cannot call themselves the Cabal, they simple cannot. And if Bungies tries to tell me they are, they are objectively wrong and are welcome to fuck right off with that shit.

Thirdly, to get to the ask, these are all canon unless I state otherwise because Bungie couldn’t write good the Cabal well if they were given the writing on those sheets you give children to trace over letters.

Psions originally didn’t have much in the way of any religious beliefs. Some societies may have had some superstitions but nothing really in the form of organised religions. In their early days, sure maybe they had some religious beliefs, but I think  those would have been shrugged off with the creation of the OXA machine, a clairvoyant device.

The Cabal themselves, many deities. Lots of them. Maybe not as many as ancient Rome but still, more than one. Destiny Lore states that in Cabal mythology the first Emperor allegedly took the sun, his name is Acrius by the way.

Since this is mythology in Destiny lore, something that is accurate until it is inconvenient, I’ll do you a favour and say this is fact. This is Cabal Mythology. The story got embellished, I don’t know how, but the myths around Acrius are based to some extent on true historical events. He is their big daddy god.

Acrius would be the god of prosperity for the empire as a whole. There’d be separate deities for things like childbirth, war, crops, etc. With the introduction of more species in the Empire, there are likely more religious beliefs which have mingled and changed Cabal religion itself.

Much like we have multiple religions, the Cabal Empire has the same with some funky fusions of their religions where things seem to fit.

Guess what? Because you’re awesome and put up with me bitching about Bungie and mostly seriously talking about claiming the Cabal as my own, you get some extra good shit.

The Tusking Ceremonies. What are they? Nobody knows.

Syke!

I’ll tell you what they are!

Much like christmas it’s origins were religious but has since grown into more of a celebration than a purely religious affair. Unlike christmas it’s not the birthday of a man who was nailed to a cross for talking about how nice it would be if people weren’t dicks to each other.

The Tusking Ceremonies were originally a celebration of the Cabal’s strongest women and this was done by a sort of gladiatorial combat where contenders would fight without weapons. These fights would normally be non-fatal, but injuries weren’t uncommon. Women could also challenge women to fights to the death if they felt it was necessary. E.G. A woman thinking they could do a better job than Umun'arath could challenge her to a fight to the death over it.

The Ceremony was not only a celebration of strength, and sometimes a bloody way of settling disputes (if the Emperor allowed the fight), but a celebration in honour of whichever deity(ies) the Empire believes gives them strength, or possibly even to Acrius himself. But yes, the Tusking Ceremonies are specifically for women since they’re the only ones who have tusks and it would be silly for the tuskless men to participate in the Tusking Ceremonies.

aftercare; what’re they like after sex

Cherry doesn’t have any lovers and doesn’t actively seek out bed partners, so if he’s craving contact it’s typically by himself with either a toy or his hands. He has a lot of work to do in general so personal-time is limited and typically quick and to the point to get the desire out of the way so he can go wash up and get back to whatever task is at hand. Basically bump and back to work

Kink; what’s a kink of theirs?

being wanted, sure would like to experience that one day (if only he wasn’t such a cold sonofabitch LOL)

Zzz; How quickly they fall asleep afterwards?

Wow this one is amazingly hard to describe but I’m going to try my best here….

Diego’s voice sounds just about how you’d expect. It’s deepened over the years both from training it and his transition, but it’s never grown to be super deep at all. Since he’s small and thin, though, it still suits him and doesn’t seem out of place.

Oz took off his helmet and sighed, running a hand through his hair as he touched ground at the Farm. The subtle chirping of birds and the idle chatter of other Guardians who had found their light again was a welcome sound. He looked around the area as best he could, his eyesight having gotten worse since the light had been stripped from him. 

He’d had to start relying on sensing Light himself to figure out what was in his way and it was proving hard to truly master. Especially when he didn’t notice the small collection of rocks on the ground that caused him to stumble and drop him to his knees and caused his helmet to roll on the ground. 

Answered the first two already but the third is a very interesting one and I’m excited to answer it.

♻Any advice on improving Tumblr RP experience?

HERE WE GO

drama isn’t worth it. if someone on your dash doesn’t impact you positively then there’s no shame at all in unfollowing them, or even blocking them if you have to. you don’t have to justify making your hobby a safe place for you, and if anyone tries to tell you otherwise.... kick ‘em out too.

if YOU feel confident in your own character, then other people will be interested. now i struggle with doubts a lot myself so I hope this doesn’t come off as sounding pretentious or anything -- but one of my biggest pet peeves is when people’s characters aren’t getting the attention they want and they proceed to guilt trip people into interacting with them instead of making their character interesting enough that people want to interact with them.

the best way to get people to want to interact with your character is to try and make them worth interacting with. when you’re obviously confident and know your own oc, people will come to you in time -- at least from my experience.

have fun. don’t forget that roleplaying is a hobby and to have fun with it. this is kind of related to the first one, but in general -- if you feel like you need a break, take one. if you feel overwhelmed and can’t reply to a few threads, say so and start something fresh. do whatever you have to to make this a good experience!!

and i’ll stop rambling now lmao