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== <font color=#ce58db>Playlists</font> == | == <font color=#ce58db>Playlists</font> == | ||
− | '''(Below are the dedicated playlists of songs associated with Arahk'ne.''' Each playlist corresponds to a specific event or the relationship a character has with Arahk'ne. The music chosen has been carefully selected by me over the years to best fit the situation or relationship | + | '''(Below are the dedicated playlists of songs associated with Arahk'ne.''' Each playlist corresponds to a specific event or the relationship a character has with Arahk'ne. The music chosen has been carefully selected by me over the years to best fit the situation or relationship. Playlists may update at any given time. If interested in reading and listening to playlist options at the same time, scroll through and open the links in a new tab. <font color=#cf1100>Some of the tracks are considered explicit.</font>) |
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+ | ====<div style="color: #ce58db; text-align: left; width:400px; border: 3px solid #730071; border-right: 0; border-top: 0; font-size: 97%;">Arahk'ne's Playlists</div>==== | ||
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{{LiathTheme | {{LiathTheme | ||
| artist = Arahk'ne | | artist = Arahk'ne | ||
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| tracklink = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBmDgtJyc1U&list=PLQARhru9pCXWTlz-o0Hy6Pyi9OBTAAipz | | tracklink = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBmDgtJyc1U&list=PLQARhru9pCXWTlz-o0Hy6Pyi9OBTAAipz | ||
|trackimage = Liath_MusicPurple.png | |trackimage = Liath_MusicPurple.png | ||
− | | artistcolor = white | trackcolor = #CCCCCC | bordercolor = # | + | | artistcolor = white | trackcolor = #CCCCCC | bordercolor = #7a5e8a | borderwidth = 2 | backcolor = #250e30|}}{{LiathTheme |
| artist = Arahk'ne | | artist = Arahk'ne | ||
| track = Photon's Gaming Playlist | | track = Photon's Gaming Playlist | ||
| tracklink = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-N4Hw2iBKY&list=PLQARhru9pCXUS4h7AUOBQVF4jUUOfHQvA | | tracklink = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-N4Hw2iBKY&list=PLQARhru9pCXUS4h7AUOBQVF4jUUOfHQvA | ||
|trackimage = Liath_MusicPurple.png | |trackimage = Liath_MusicPurple.png | ||
− | | artistcolor = white | trackcolor = #CCCCCC | bordercolor = # | + | | artistcolor = white | trackcolor = #CCCCCC | bordercolor = #7a5e8a | borderwidth = 2 | backcolor = #250e30|}} |
+ | ====<div style="color: #ce58db; text-align: left; width:400px; border: 3px solid #730071; border-right: 0; border-top: 0; font-size: 97%;">Character Playlists</div>==== | ||
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+ | {{LiathTheme | ||
+ | | artist = Loh'kar | ||
+ | | track = Main Playlist | ||
+ | | tracklink = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h9V94b4R2g&list=PLQARhru9pCXWdUNgaNfS6av3n-OOs8902 | ||
+ | |trackimage = Liath_Music.png | ||
+ | | artistcolor = white | trackcolor = #CCCCCC | bordercolor = #7a5e8a | borderwidth = 2 | backcolor = #250e30|}}{{LiathTheme | ||
+ | | artist = Blood Frenzy | ||
+ | | track = Myx'ulas | ||
+ | | tracklink = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMt00eqovlU&list=PLQARhru9pCXU5QKWcoVufyNqWt-bgziGG | ||
+ | |trackimage = Liath_MusicGreen.png | ||
+ | | artistcolor = white | trackcolor = #CCCCCC | bordercolor = #7a5e8a | borderwidth = 2 | backcolor = #250e30|}} | ||
+ | ====<div style="color: #ce58db; text-align: left; width:400px; border: 3px solid #730071; border-right: 0; border-top: 0; font-size: 97%;">Duo Playlists</div>==== | ||
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+ | {{LiathTheme | ||
| artist = Sinoatrial Host | | artist = Sinoatrial Host | ||
| track = Arahk'ne and Loh'kar | | track = Arahk'ne and Loh'kar | ||
| tracklink = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdnLhxlDYDQ&list=PLQARhru9pCXUmxG9CB20ZApHgkFSaXaNb | | tracklink = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdnLhxlDYDQ&list=PLQARhru9pCXUmxG9CB20ZApHgkFSaXaNb | ||
|trackimage = Liath_Music.png | |trackimage = Liath_Music.png | ||
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+ | ====<div style="color: #ce58db; text-align: left; width:400px; border: 3px solid #730071; border-right: 0; border-top: 0; font-size: 97%;">Arc/Event Playlists</div>==== | ||
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+ | {{LiathTheme | ||
| artist = Project: MARIGOLD + Athena Massacre | | artist = Project: MARIGOLD + Athena Massacre | ||
| track = Arc Playlist | | track = Arc Playlist | ||
| tracklink = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qjJmBX0c6A&list=PLQARhru9pCXXH6H99AaCde1R-rzVVoa-u | | tracklink = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qjJmBX0c6A&list=PLQARhru9pCXXH6H99AaCde1R-rzVVoa-u | ||
− | |trackimage = Liath_MusicRed.png | + | | trackimage = Liath_MusicRed.png |
| artistcolor = #ff5e42 | trackcolor = #ff8a75 | bordercolor = #cf1100 | borderwidth = 2 | backcolor = #c9c7c6|}}{{LiathTheme | | artistcolor = #ff5e42 | trackcolor = #ff8a75 | bordercolor = #cf1100 | borderwidth = 2 | backcolor = #c9c7c6|}}{{LiathTheme | ||
| artist = MARIGOLD: Night Terror | | artist = MARIGOLD: Night Terror | ||
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| tracklink = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrQ1vq_Osaw&list=PLQARhru9pCXVtlF-mRJDD2oKn50pHtV_Z | | tracklink = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrQ1vq_Osaw&list=PLQARhru9pCXVtlF-mRJDD2oKn50pHtV_Z | ||
|trackimage = Liath_MusicRed.png | |trackimage = Liath_MusicRed.png | ||
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− | + | | artist = Elegy of War | |
+ | | track = Arc Playlist | ||
+ | | tracklink = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sb6z-O6U6Q&list=PLQARhru9pCXVvGEa5GiOxDnc3RYeBuxzu | ||
+ | |trackimage = Liath_MusicRed.png | ||
+ | | artistcolor = #ff5e42 | trackcolor = #ff8a75 | bordercolor = #cf1100 | borderwidth = 2 | backcolor = #c9c7c6|}}{{LiathTheme | ||
+ | | artist = Opalescent Valentine | ||
+ | | track = Event Playlist | ||
+ | | tracklink = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKFzKIa_pIM&list=PLQARhru9pCXVUftQMQgdQJoyaa6sBC90Q | ||
+ | |trackimage = Liath_MusicRed.png | ||
+ | | artistcolor = #ff5e42 | trackcolor = #ff8a75 | bordercolor = #cf1100 | borderwidth = 2 | backcolor = #c9c7c6|}} | ||
+ | </div></div> | ||
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| identity = Deceased/Unknown | | identity = Deceased/Unknown | ||
| years_active = Unrelated | | years_active = Unrelated | ||
− | | citizenship = | + | | citizenship = Mariian, Guardian. Nohva'tusl, Guardian. |
| occupation = Assassin | | occupation = Assassin | ||
| education = Advanced private schooling | | education = Advanced private schooling | ||
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===<div style="background: #3D003D; color: #FFF0F5; text-align: center; width:300px; margin: 0 auto 0 auto; border: 3px solid #730071; font-size: 100%;">'''The Beginning'''</div>=== | ===<div style="background: #3D003D; color: #FFF0F5; text-align: center; width:300px; margin: 0 auto 0 auto; border: 3px solid #730071; font-size: 100%;">'''The Beginning'''</div>=== | ||
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− | Her mother was a | + | Her mother was a mute artist, and her father was a deaf fictional author. '''Sonnet Elaine Baxter''' was born into a home structured around sheer artistry. This home offered her love and care, easels, occupied writing spaces, paintings on the walls, sculptures in the halls, and excessively-stocked shelves. '''Sylvia Baxter''' endearingly called her daughter "Snow White" for her Albinism, which gave Sonnet wispy white hair, very pale skin, and sky-blue eyes. '''Mason Baxter''' was hoping to inspire his young daughter to be a writer, but his efforts fell futile, as tiny Sonnet was more drawn to the image of her mother toiling away on a canvas, creating colorful images on a sheet of white. |
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+ | Often lost in an imaginative world, Sonnet was a very quiet girl, homeschooled and living on a strict set of boundaries and privileges. Both parents worked together to teach Sonnet English and basic sign language. Sonnet was given few "typical" toys to play with--she spent her time practicing the piano, or drawing, or finger-painting, or playing in the front yard. She rarely cried, and if she did, her mother told her to do so quietly, in order to not disturb the peace. She was ultimately excluded from a harsher reality--her home became a safe haven she rarely ventured out of, which her parents didn't seem to mind in all of their coddling. Unfortunately, because of this, she developed a poor set of social skills. She was too shy to uphold conversations, to the point that she was only able to speak to her parents; if she was forced to speak to a stranger, it would only bring averting gaze and her frustrated tears. In spite of their coddling, Sylvia and Mason did their best to encourage Sonnet to interact with people, in an attempt to put to ease her Selective Mutism. Despite their efforts, Sonnet readily refused to speak to strangers or family friends she had recently met, when the rare chance occurred. By the age of five, Sonnet was most often hidden away in a comfortable head space. | ||
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====<font color=#ce58db>The Web's History</font>==== | ====<font color=#ce58db>The Web's History</font>==== | ||
− | [[File:Web hallway depiction.png|400px|thumb|left]] A | + | [[File:Web hallway depiction.png|400px|thumb|left]]A few years before Sonnet's birth, a five-year-old girl by the name of '''Marigold Chase''' was found to be taking on strange mutations. The cause was never specified, but Marigold began to sprout extra limbs, form more optics, and have fits of minor illness, slowly mutating into some sort of arachnid metahuman. Her parents, devastated by their daughter's mutating, found themselves out of options after doctors told them that there was no reversing the effects--the mutation was entirely natural for Marigold. '''Jeremy Chase,''' Marigold's uncle and her father's brother, was a geneticist studying the process of cell mutation. Unbeknownst to most of his relatives, his methods of study were considered unethical, although successful. Marigold's mother demanded to her husband that they seek his brother's help, and void of all other options, Marigold was taken to Jeremy. |
− | + | Jeremy claimed he could find a way to reverse the metahuman mutating. He gathered a team of trusted--and equally shady--scientists. Among the prominent team members were '''Misty Shore''' and the fraternal twins '''Sophia''' and '''Barry Smith.''' Receiving payment from Marigold's parents and gathering enough funds to spark the project, intense experiments and hardships befell Marigold, as she was left to the mercy of her dedicated uncle. | |
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+ | While keeping Marigold's parents at bay with sugarcoated lies and false updates on their daughter's condition, Jeremy studied the child under a new light. The information they had collected on Marigold indicated superhuman properties--something which, if developed into a blood-based serum, would make he and his team very rich. If they were able to create supersoldiers with the serum, then they would be able to not only bring in millions of dollars, but also take a huge step for the world of science. With this plan in mind, Jeremy Chase settled with the name '''Project: MARIGOLD''' and introduced himself as the founder of '''"The Web."''' Marigold was replaced with an icon dubbed as "Athena," with the intent to call her supersoldiers "Athena's Poisons." | ||
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+ | Using blood samples drawn out of Marigold, The Web developed their '''Marigold Serum.''' It would supposedly provide superpowers not unlike the powers Marigold was developing. However, the serum itself was heavily tweaked to allow other traits of specified arachnids to affect the host, as well. | ||
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+ | The testing of a serum would take volunteers. The most prominent member to volunteer for Project: MARIGOLD was a middle-aged homeless man, known simply as "Vernon," who was unaware of a locked superhuman potential he, too, possessed. He met Marigold and quickly befriended her during his time in the facility, establishing a grandfather-granddaughter relationship with her. This was sadly not something which would last. Vernon was administered the tweaked Marigold Serum and separated from sweet little Marigold, in order to be studied under surveillance. | ||
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+ | In short, the Marigold Serum was unsuccessful with all volunteers--Only Vernon seemed to come closest to the desired results. The concoctions, though successful in administering superhuman abilities, also had major negative side effects, including monstrous mutations, mental and physical degradation, and even death in certain cases. The serum seemed to react on a person-by-person basis, which made it extremely difficult to perfect. Project: MARIGOLD only began to, more or less, "recreate" horrible versions of Marigold's mutations--mindless, murderous arachnid mutants of different subspecies. | ||
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+ | Marigold's personal study took a dark turn. Bodily mutilations and other horrors caused Marigold to begin falling apart. In realizing the amputations and chemical therapies were not reversing the mutating cells, Chase became even more hard-pressed to not let their months of effort go to waste. Marigold was a cash cow to him, and he was dedicated to the serum itself over his niece. This hardheaded attitude and apathetic nature drove the project too far, and Marigold passed due to neglect and physical trauma. Upon his discovery, Vernon snapped, and Chase bore witness to the true nature of the '''Araneoids''' he had created. Several of his team members were torn apart by their ''Phoneutria nigriventer'' Poison, '''"The Wanderer,"''' Vernon himself. | ||
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+ | Vernon took a couple elephant tranquilizers to go down. Jeremy made the executive decision to use anything left of Marigold that they could, and study the behavior of one superhuman's blood mixed with another. Using samples drawn from their ''Phoneutria nigriventer'' Poison, a secondary version of the Serum was produced. Once Marigold's body was returned to her parents, the funeral came and went, and once grievances and threats passed, Jeremy was ready to tackle his ambitions. | ||
===<div style="background: #3D003D; color: #FFF0F5; text-align: center; width:300px; margin: 0 auto 0 auto; border: 3px solid #730071; font-size: 100%;">'''Misty's Mistake'''</div>=== | ===<div style="background: #3D003D; color: #FFF0F5; text-align: center; width:300px; margin: 0 auto 0 auto; border: 3px solid #730071; font-size: 100%;">'''Misty's Mistake'''</div>=== | ||
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+ | Sylvia Baxter was familiar with Misty Shore, as they had originally been college roommates. A dynamic duo, although the two butted heads on the practicality of science and the formless ways of art, their friendship had outlasted their young adult years. In the years after college, Shore was a strict albeit sociable woman, and when allowed, she would visit the Baxter household anytime she was off work. Mason was against smoking and alcohol in the home, and neither parent wanted it near their child, so cigarette breaks had to be taken outside. Misty had attempted to interact with Sonnet ever since she was a baby, and with years of exposure, she was eventually able to draw out small conversations with the girl by the time Sonnet was five. | ||
− | + | Misty was deeply involved with The Web. She was the head scientist of Project: MARIGOLD, second only to the founder, Jeremy Chase, whom she had been recently engaged to. Misty knew how to separate work from her time with Sylvia, though The Web had a habit of infecting the lives of those around it. Misty never disclosed information about her workplace to Sylvia's family in detail--All the Baxter family knew was that Misty was in a high position within her company, and that she and her team were working on a confidential study. | |
− | + | The art profession can often result in poverty. Sylvia and Mason got a taste of this during a financial crisis. When the threat of losing their house came up, Misty became very concerned for her friend's family's well-being. She took on the obligation to draw funds from The Web's vault and provide it to the Baxter family. So long as they would agree to pay it back in due time, Misty saw no issue. Of course, Jeremy wasn't pleased, which caused the beginning of his and Misty's disputes. Jeremy let Misty get away with it, but on the grounds that she would let the Baxter family know they needed to pay some compensation in addition to the lost funds. | |
− | + | Sylvia was compliant to the change of agreement, but it gave Mason pause. He was unwilling to give more money than what was agreed upon, especially given their recent financial struggles. Misty highly advised he conform, which only caused Mason to resist even more. Sylvia did not get in his way when he opted to withhold repaying The Web, demanding that the terms be changed back to the way they were. | |
− | ===<div style="background: #3D003D; color: #FFF0F5; text-align: center; width:300px; margin: 0 auto 0 auto; border: 3px solid #730071; font-size: 100%;">'''Project MARIGOLD: Part I'''</div>=== | + | Warning after warning, Misty urged the Baxter family to pay up, but soon she found that Sylvia was agreeing with Mason. Crestfallen, Misty began to realize the mistake she had made. When the final demands were not met, Misty was rendered powerless. She carried the intent to try talking Jeremy into changing the terms, but she would never receive that chance. |
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+ | One late evening, a team of hired mercs invaded the Baxter home. Misty was informed by Chase that such a team had been dispatched, and that he wanted her to stay out of it. Naturally, she refused. Rushing to the scene, Misty found Sylvia's and Mason's body, but not Sonnet's. Grieving, she became hellbent to find Sonnet before the mercs could, not wanting the guilt of her best friend's child's murder on her shoulders. It was understood that the mercs had no intention of killing the child, though they had no idea what to do with her. Misty took it upon herself to retrieve Sonnet, who was sound asleep in her bedroom. She took Sonnet back to her apartment, distancing herself as far as possible from the scene. Shortly after the incident, the agents apprehended the money and tossed the bodies of the parents into a lake, located in the deep forest which surrounded their city. This lake had been cut off from the main river, resulting in a swarm of sea lamprey, which had become trapped after traveling upstream to spawn. There, the bodies of Sonnet's parents were reduced to bones and buried in the muck. | ||
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+ | Misty knew about Sonnet's upbringing and Selective Mutism. It was too difficult for Sonnet to live among complete strangers. As penance for the deaths she had inadvertently caused, she elected to take care of Sonnet herself. When Sonnet woke the next morning, many questions and crying ensued, but after a few hours of Misty trying and failing to be a decent parental figure, something clicked. Misty got Sonnet to calm down, feeding her simple white lies about how her parents "had to take a trip and said that Sonnet could stay with her for a while." | ||
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+ | These days, The Web had begun accepting younger volunteers for the Marigold Serum, under the theory that the Serum was more likely to take to a younger host. As a result, Chase looked to foster homes, orphans, and more of the homeless. He researched an education program; one which would both bring in money and subjects. He hired '''Rebecca Orchid,''' a child psychologist, to the team, though he kept her oblivious and separate from The Web's ploys. Rebecca received a scholarship from the city, which would allow her to study the psychological effects an alternative schooling method would have on a child without certain parental reinforcement present. It was the perfect disguise for Chase to use. | ||
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+ | Shore tried her best to provide for Sonnet. Unable to leave her with a babysitter, she was forced to bring the child to work. Sonnet was kept safe in Misty's office, excluded from the Araneoid horrors of The Web's facility. She was taken home at night to sleep on the couch in Misty's apartment. Noticing Misty's efforts, although oblivious to the ties she had with Sonnet, the rest of the team--including their newest member, Rebecca--pitched in, growing fond of the adorable child. They helped where they could to look after Sonnet, even opting to babysit for Misty or let Sonnet have "sleepovers" at their homes. Rebecca even helped Sonnet with her social skills and used spare material from The Web's education program to teach her some basics. Of course, Jeremy ignored the child altogether, even insisting Misty find a way to get rid of her. | ||
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+ | All the while, Sonnet was confused, and not at all sure what had become of her parents. This was not where she was meant to be. Still, Misty took her in like her own daughter, and each scientist involved brought something important and helpful to the table. | ||
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+ | ===<div style="background: #3D003D; color: #FFF0F5; text-align: center; width:300px; margin: 0 auto 0 auto; border: 3px solid #730071; font-size: 100%;">'''Project: MARIGOLD: Part I'''</div>=== | ||
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+ | Utilizing the scholarship she had been granted, Orchid visited foster homes and institutes to offer access to the program. Any children of the ages 7-15 qualified for the experiment. Once Orchid had the go-ahead from the overseers of the establishments, she opened up the opportunity to the children, a completely voluntary offer. A new wave of children were escorted to The Web's campus. To accommodate for this program, the first sector of The Web's facility had been upgraded to allow dorms, an eating area, a play area, restrooms, and other basic needs for the children. All research and the unspeakable were located in the second sector, barricaded and preventing children any access. Orchid was extremely pleased to have such a large area to herself, and looked after the children with genuine care. | ||
− | + | Misty spotted an opportunity and moved Sonnet in with the children. This eased up her burden and, by Rebecca's suggestion, gave Sonnet a chance to interact with the "big kids." Sonnet was excluded from the typical education program, still taken home at night, and had less strict rules than the other children, but her burden remained heavy; she was expected to stay with these big kids and socialize outside of her comfort zone. As a result, Sonnet stayed as close to Rebecca as possible, more willing to talk to her sweet babysitter than a swarm of rowdy kids. Rebecca allowed this, though she would make efforts to usher Sonnet towards any onlookers. For being so sweet, insecure, and bizarre in appearance, Sonnet attracted the attention of many children initially, but when she would refuse to speak to them or exclude herself from play, the children gave up trying to interact with her. | |
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− | ====<font color=#ce58db>Meeting Aaron and Leon</font>==== | + | ====<font color=#ce58db>Meeting Aaron</font>==== |
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+ | [[File:Aaron.png|200px|thumb|left|Aaron Lister]] | ||
+ | Orchid had set up a system which would rotate through a list of chores for specified children to do. One of the more willing preteens by the name '''Aaron Lister''' seemed to enjoy the tasks he was given, especially if it involved him assisting Rebecca. He was naturally fond of an adult's praise, and Rebecca was never one to withhold such. Because of his eagerness to help, he started to assist Orchid outside of the chore list, carrying books and papers between the study rooms and Orchid's office. It was here that he met Sonnet, and he attempted to interact with her, but Sonnet was put off by the tics of his Tourette Syndrome. Rebecca communicated Sonnet's severe shyness to Aaron, and Aaron decided that he would find a way to make Sonnet his friend. | ||
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+ | So began a process which took three weeks of consistent exposure to Aaron. Aaron would practically have conversations with himself, though they were always directed to little Sonnet. He made attempts to educate her about his disorder, even trying to make her laugh at his tics so she wouldn't be scared of him. This was occasionally successful. With some time, when Aaron was busy pretending to have forgotten Sonnet's name, he finally got an answer out of her. Overjoyed, Aaron reacted positively to this, which encouraged Sonnet to continue responding. Sonnet clung to this newfound security, and began to follow Aaron about wherever he went. He became like a big brother to her, and she, his duckling. | ||
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+ | ====<font color=#ce58db>Meeting Leon</font>==== | ||
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+ | [[File:Kid_Leon.png|200px|thumb|left|Leon Jou (10 yrs.)]] Among a number of the children in the facility, a sort of "ring leader" had been established. A ten-year-old ornery troublemaker had made himself a name within the community's social circle.This was [http://primusdatabase.com/index.php?title=Ebon_Carcass '''Leon Jou],''' a young boy of mixed Hispanic-Korean race. It turned out that the brains to his brawn was Aaron himself, though Aaron was a more peaceful sort, and constantly tried persuading Leon out of being a big bully to others. Given Leon's nature and the hardships he'd endured through childhood, this powerful position was addictive. The ultimate test of the metaphorical leash Aaron had on Leon was to come when Leon found out about Aaron's little duckling. | ||
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+ | Aaron had done his best to keep Sonnet secluded from the other children and Leon's eyes, but just when Sonnet was getting comfortable with him, Aaron slipped up. Leon was growing suspicious of Aaron's distance from him and followed him one afternoon to confront him. Leon found Aaron and Sonnet gathering some art supplies for Sonnet to play with, and Aaron spilled the beans. Immediately, Leon began bullying Sonnet into a corner, tormenting her with the social pressure until she cried. Sonnet fled, leaving Aaron to bicker with Leon over the situation. Leon was against Aaron taking Sonnet under his wing, but Aaron refused to listen and demanded they let Sonnet tag along with them wherever they went. In the end, Aaron won out, to Leon's dismay. | ||
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+ | Sonnet was pulled into the boys' social circle. Protected by Aaron, Sonnet didn't necessarily come out of her shell, but she stayed close to his side. Leon found her Selective Mutism to be an easy source to vent on, and continued to execute creative pranks on the child until either Sonnet grew upset or brotherly Aaron stepped in the way. Leon's bullying didn't help her shyness on the surface, but the constant challenge was slowly building up this resisting force within. It would be some time before this resistance came out. Leon was due to get a taste of his own medicine. | ||
− | + | Within the next few months, Sonnet was able to start thriving among the children and scientists. Coupled with the special attention from Shore, Orchid, and the other scientists, the friendship of Aaron was irreplaceable. | |
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− | ====<font color=#ce58db>The | + | ====<font color=#ce58db>The Price of Human Greed</font>==== |
+ | <font color=#cf1100>'''!!WARNING!!''' '''DATABASE IS BEING REWRITTEN. Information beyond this point has not yet been updated to match info found above!'''</font> | ||
A new order was issued by The Web about three months later. The Web was ready to test the Marigold Serum among the older children. A few of the braver souls took the first step and crossed over to the second sector of the laboratory, but were mysteriously never seen or heard from again. The scientists insisted that they were doing well in the line of work, but among the wiser children, there was dismayed conversation. Soon the scientists began to ''push'' for children to step up. The world began to grow darker and darker around Sonnet, as in-fighting between Misty and her fiance ended in a break-up, which turned Misty to be a more spiteful spirit. She and the others began to visit Sonnet much and much less. Soon, children were being forced into the experiments, and after a few more months had passed, the children officially knew that they were no longer orphans in housing, but slaves in housing. | A new order was issued by The Web about three months later. The Web was ready to test the Marigold Serum among the older children. A few of the braver souls took the first step and crossed over to the second sector of the laboratory, but were mysteriously never seen or heard from again. The scientists insisted that they were doing well in the line of work, but among the wiser children, there was dismayed conversation. Soon the scientists began to ''push'' for children to step up. The world began to grow darker and darker around Sonnet, as in-fighting between Misty and her fiance ended in a break-up, which turned Misty to be a more spiteful spirit. She and the others began to visit Sonnet much and much less. Soon, children were being forced into the experiments, and after a few more months had passed, the children officially knew that they were no longer orphans in housing, but slaves in housing. | ||
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='''<div style="font-size:11px;color:#3D003D; background-color: #3D003D; line-height:3.0em; letter-spacing:0.5ex">Social Aspect[[File:Arahk'ne social2.png|left]]<br><br></div>'''= | ='''<div style="font-size:11px;color:#3D003D; background-color: #3D003D; line-height:3.0em; letter-spacing:0.5ex">Social Aspect[[File:Arahk'ne social2.png|left]]<br><br></div>'''= | ||
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*'''Web Bed''' - Even out-of-web spiders need at least one web to come back to. Arahk'ne cannot sleep well or even comfortably on any surface unless it is her own web. Her body cannot be fooled by a hammock made to mimic her web. The imprint of her web is significant. The structure of her web mimics a funnel. | *'''Web Bed''' - Even out-of-web spiders need at least one web to come back to. Arahk'ne cannot sleep well or even comfortably on any surface unless it is her own web. Her body cannot be fooled by a hammock made to mimic her web. The imprint of her web is significant. The structure of her web mimics a funnel. | ||
*'''Phobia Amalgamate''' - Arahk'ne's character concept plays upon different phobias, such as arachnophobia, aquaphobia, hemophobia, and ophthalmophobia. | *'''Phobia Amalgamate''' - Arahk'ne's character concept plays upon different phobias, such as arachnophobia, aquaphobia, hemophobia, and ophthalmophobia. | ||
+ | *'''Broodmother''' - Arahk'ne has been given a Broodmother necklace by her Host. Her necklace has the toothless skull of a male Syren whom Loh'kar defeated, with precious jet in its eye sockets. Along the cord of the necklace runs shapes like teeth, which are cast in gold. Emerald shards are fastened to and wound about the cord. Clear quartz is strategically adorning areas where dangling, pure marble resides with bone-like shapes. | ||
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+ | | quotation = "Can dis one have cat?" "No. Put it back." | ||
+ | | author = Myx'ulas and Arahk'ne | ||
+ | | source = Casual Roleplay | ||
+ | | date = Champions Online, 2014 | ||
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+ | | quotation = "Boh." "No." "Why do you say no to my love?" | ||
+ | | author = Loh'kar and Arahk'ne | ||
+ | | source = Casual Roleplay | ||
+ | | date = Champions Online, 2014 | ||
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+ | | quotation = "Seven minutes in heaven with you all to myself doesn't sound like a bad idea." "Don't touch me." | ||
+ | | author = Leon/Loh'kar and Sonnet/Arahk'ne | ||
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+ | | quotation = "What are you talking about? I'm absolutely beautiful." "Is this't why you feel the need to compensskate for the sskize of your chest?" | ||
+ | | author = Peridot and Arahk'ne | ||
+ | | source = Casual Roleplay | ||
+ | | date = Champions Online, 2016 | ||
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+ | | quotation = "She's just mad because she couldn't stay in and knit with the ladies." | ||
+ | | author = Loh'kar | ||
+ | | source = Casual Roleplay | ||
+ | | date = Discord, 2017 | ||
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+ | | quotation = "Thank you." "Shit, Mary, that wasn't a compliment." "I appreciate it." "Fuck." | ||
+ | | author = Sonnet/Arahk'ne and Cher | ||
+ | | source = Casual Roleplay | ||
+ | | date = Discord, 2017 | ||
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+ | | quotation = "Haha, I got a DUC" "Why would you do that in front of me? When I'm on my spider? She's run this over 300 times now" | ||
+ | | author = @nbkxs and @ph0toncann0n | ||
+ | | source = Out of Character | ||
+ | | date = Champions Online, 2017 | ||
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| source = Storywriting, "MARIGOLD: Night Terror" story arc; ''Pins and Needles'' chapter | | source = Storywriting, "MARIGOLD: Night Terror" story arc; ''Pins and Needles'' chapter | ||
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*'''<font color=#ce58db>Opalescent Valentine:</font>''' Haunted by memories of Aaron's death, the deaths of several children, and Sonnet's suicide, Leon found it especially difficult facing Valentine's Day. On top of these things came the guilt he felt over having slain several of the males in Cori'beaux's brood during the "Elegy of War" arc. In a desperate attempt to hold himself together, he ventured out with By'zlis to the amazon, where he gathered natural clay, and attempted to craft something, in memory of Mr. Youn. After leaving the figurine he made of himself and Arahk'ne at Aria's altar, Loh'kar further succumbed to the Opal, and this time, did not come back out. Alert to Leon's presence in absence, Arahk'ne followed the Opal's pulsations all the way to South Korea--and found herself outside of Mr. Youn's shop. Pursuing the sound of Leon's terrorized, half-sleepwalking wails, Arahk'ne came face-to-face with a new form of Loh'kar's--one which the Opal had generated, when it seized the reigns of control, as Loh'kar had been trying to tear his heart from his body moments before. With the Amethyst's assistance, Arahk'ne coaxed Leon to wake from his self-destructive PTSD episode, and put the Opal back in check. Arahk'ne apologized for the first time for trying to kill herself as a child, and Leon exploded, piling all blame onto himself, including the Athena Massacre. When he began to weep over the carnage he had created in Cori'beaux's brood, Arahk'ne asked him the most important thing he needed to answer - "Do you regret your need to protect me?" To this, Leon admitted that he did not, and reminded of the good he did in protecting Sonnet all of this time, consoled in his Amethyst. The two of them slept overnight in the shop, before returning to Aria's Temple the next morning. | *'''<font color=#ce58db>Opalescent Valentine:</font>''' Haunted by memories of Aaron's death, the deaths of several children, and Sonnet's suicide, Leon found it especially difficult facing Valentine's Day. On top of these things came the guilt he felt over having slain several of the males in Cori'beaux's brood during the "Elegy of War" arc. In a desperate attempt to hold himself together, he ventured out with By'zlis to the amazon, where he gathered natural clay, and attempted to craft something, in memory of Mr. Youn. After leaving the figurine he made of himself and Arahk'ne at Aria's altar, Loh'kar further succumbed to the Opal, and this time, did not come back out. Alert to Leon's presence in absence, Arahk'ne followed the Opal's pulsations all the way to South Korea--and found herself outside of Mr. Youn's shop. Pursuing the sound of Leon's terrorized, half-sleepwalking wails, Arahk'ne came face-to-face with a new form of Loh'kar's--one which the Opal had generated, when it seized the reigns of control, as Loh'kar had been trying to tear his heart from his body moments before. With the Amethyst's assistance, Arahk'ne coaxed Leon to wake from his self-destructive PTSD episode, and put the Opal back in check. Arahk'ne apologized for the first time for trying to kill herself as a child, and Leon exploded, piling all blame onto himself, including the Athena Massacre. When he began to weep over the carnage he had created in Cori'beaux's brood, Arahk'ne asked him the most important thing he needed to answer - "Do you regret your need to protect me?" To this, Leon admitted that he did not, and reminded of the good he did in protecting Sonnet all of this time, consoled in his Amethyst. The two of them slept overnight in the shop, before returning to Aria's Temple the next morning. | ||
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+ | *'''<font color=#ce58db>Opal Integration:</font>''' Over the course of a month following the ''Opalescent Valentine'' event, Arahk'ne was finding Loh'kar to be growing even more distant. Although he was not afraid to be around her, his own self-hate and cowardice brewed on the surface, and it had begun to impact their relationship. Driven desperate to avoid uniting with the monster that the Opal made him, and desperate to protect Sonnet from himself, Leon became unable to hold intimacy with Arahk'ne. This, and the way she understood his suffering so easily, drove him mad. Arahk'ne knew that healing could never begin until he was forced to change, and so she invited him into her quarters one late evening and locked him inside. With this, she began to pressure him; challenge his cowardice, inquiring why he was afraid to unite with the Opal, why he "didn't feel like himself in his own body." Tormented with mental and emotional pain as she bore down on him, Loh'kar lashed out--Something which he would later deeply regret, but Arahk'ne had seen coming. A madness overcame them both; Arahk'ne desiring anything and everything that would make Leon utilize the Opal and bond that much more with the Crystal. Loh'kar's madness was driven by sheer love and rage; the Amethyst brought to surface memories of his father abusing his mother in front of him, while he verbally and physically pummeled Arahk'ne, roaring out a twisted tale of her life until that point, while also demanding to know why she wasn't afraid of him, why she adored him. In the moment that Loh'kar had Arahk'ne on her stomach in a dominant display, the sight of tears in her eyes and blue rings within the sea of black brought him away from this toxicity. He grieved, violently, once more trying to rip the Opal out, right in front of her. However, she began to sing to him, forcing him to stop the suicidal display. Arahk'ne stopped the Broodmother's song immediately, and urged Loh'kar to "come to be who he is on his own," giving him the reigns of control. And...Loh'kar used self-control. Loh'kar shapeshifted, evolving, becoming physically healthier and allowing the Opal to sit within his flesh, where it dimmed in peace. Immediately following this, Loh'kar sought out Myx'ulas to help heal Arahk'ne. Within the next twenty-four hours, he followed Arahk'ne back to her living space, making up with her for his unforgivable behavior. Arahk'ne accepted his profuse apologies, also offering her own. | ||
===<div style="background: #3D003D; color: #FFF0F5; text-align: center; width:300px; margin: 0 auto 0 auto; border: 3px solid #730071; font-size: 100%;">'''Developments, Retcons'''</div>=== | ===<div style="background: #3D003D; color: #FFF0F5; text-align: center; width:300px; margin: 0 auto 0 auto; border: 3px solid #730071; font-size: 100%;">'''Developments, Retcons'''</div>=== | ||
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*'''''March 5th, 2019''''' - The Deep Sea Trench region is officially introduced in RP; a couple more Broodmothers--specifically Bori'cyn and Cyr'nakna, as well as their broods--are introduced to Raakorahn. | *'''''March 5th, 2019''''' - The Deep Sea Trench region is officially introduced in RP; a couple more Broodmothers--specifically Bori'cyn and Cyr'nakna, as well as their broods--are introduced to Raakorahn. | ||
*'''''March 6th, 2019''''' - [RETCON] New story arc name for the modern-day Project: MARIGOLD incident has been renamed to "MARIGOLD: Night Terror" to separate the incidents more clearly. | *'''''March 6th, 2019''''' - [RETCON] New story arc name for the modern-day Project: MARIGOLD incident has been renamed to "MARIGOLD: Night Terror" to separate the incidents more clearly. | ||
+ | *'''''March 12, 2019''''' - Loh'kar becomes united with the Opal following an intense fight between him and Arahk'ne. Arahk'ne's bond with the Amethyst strengthens even further and new potentials are unlocked with the Opal's official integration. | ||
+ | *'''''March 31st, 2019''''' - Arahk'ne follows Loh'kar into Mariian and the Trench, as he seeks Blood Coral for his new body, attempting to and failing to stop him. Several Broodmothers are officially introduced in RP, including Nevai'rux, Ju'brixas, and Kohr'nasys. | ||
+ | *'''''April 15th, 2019''''' - Arahk'ne receives her Broodmother's necklace from Loh'kar. Progression is made within their relationship. | ||
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File:Arahk'ne sketch.png|Drawn by @ph0toncann0n (unprofessionally) | File:Arahk'ne sketch.png|Drawn by @ph0toncann0n (unprofessionally) | ||
+ | File:Arahk'ne.png|Commission done by Gaingator | ||
File:Idiot_sandwich_meme.png|Arahk'ne and Loh'kar meme | File:Idiot_sandwich_meme.png|Arahk'ne and Loh'kar meme | ||
File:Sonnet and Oracle chibis.png|Arahk'ne and Oracle@ultrarankgrunt | File:Sonnet and Oracle chibis.png|Arahk'ne and Oracle@ultrarankgrunt | ||
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