a_cute_batata: (keep you by my side)
I guess before any of this can make sense, if any of it does, I ought to tell you about her.

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This is Aubrey. I met her several months ago, before you got here. At the time, I guess you could say I was minding my own business, still helping to fight in Somnius, figuring out the things I wanted to do to get stronger. One of those times we have one of these crazy situations, and I come across this frantic girl, still getting her bearings, and you know me. I go to help.

Aubrey. Man. I sometimes don't know if I have enough words to describe the kind of person that she is. She was fierce. She was confused. She was trying to piece together things about this place, about herself and her friend Sunny, figuring out her place here. I reached out to help, like I normally do and...at one point, she spurned me away, and I stubbornly refused to go.

Stupid, right? If someone wants you to leave, you should go, especially if they're insulting you. Which she was. But at the time, I remember feeling like if I did it, I'd be confirming to her how weak the bonds she made here would be, that she was right to push things away. I didn't want that, so I stubbornly stayed and wore her out. I wanted her to know I'd be there for her, that I'd lend a hand if she needed me.

It seemed like a chance meeting, but. I think I started to feel something then.

I didn't know what to call it at the time. I've been strangely stupid about stuff like that. I could see it in other people, but definitely not in myself. When I saw her, when I helped her, I started to see if I ever liked anyone again after you, if I couldn't ever see you here...that I could fall for someone like her.

And that was the dumb thing. "Like" her. There's no one I met like Aubrey. She comes at you like an angry storm, then calms and suddenly the sea is at rest, and the tempest is gone. You see in this person the things that made you remember why could like anyone.

You see brilliance. You see reserved affection. You see a hardened shell that was made over time, that the person you are makes to protect those closest to you.

And then you arrived, and I panicked. I couldn't like her when you were here, obviously! I must have been mistaken, I thought. Now that you were here, I was in a good place, and the idea of being with anyone else was just a passing thing.

But I never stopped hanging out with Aubrey when I had the chance. If she were near me, we went on an adventure. If she was having a time, I'd come by and try to help her. A few times, she even saved me. She was a friend, but closer than I had ever expected her to be.

She has a boyfriend. Two, actually. I know them. One of them has his own secrets, but I can see in his eyes that he loved her deeply. It's an intense love that I think he shows her and the people he cares most about. The other boy, he has secrets. He's from Aubrey's world. He's a friend (they both are), and there's still so much about him I want to help, but no one knows him better than Aubrey.

What they have, what she and the other boy have, I respect. They care about her in ways that only they can, and talk to her as only they could.

So where do I fit in there?

Sometimes I doubt it, I doubt ME. I look in Aubrey's eyes and get lost sometimes. I flail. And somehow, she's seen through me when I do that. She realized my feelings, me REAL feelings, before I did. When I figured it out myself, I panicked a little. I made mistakes, I wondered if I replaced you in those months we weren't together with some fantasy.

I wasn't being honest to myself in that moment. I was thinking of things in the way of being faithful, as if you meant less somehow, and for a moment, I hated me. I hated knowing I could hurt you, because I was somehow being selfish and greedy.

That's the thing about love though. It will take you to places you never thought you'd go, make you understand things you never thought possible. You find that thing that you would never have agreed to before, it's something you now see so many sides to, that has its own beauty that you overlooked.

Aubrey is like that. I see her bravery, her faults, things she's still figuring out, and I love those things. They make her HER, unflinching, strong. Sweet.

Precious.

I write this part, and I know it will hurt, because you think I'm comparing her to you. But the truth is nothing about you dimmed because I realized I love Aubrey. I wouldn't know love like that if I never met you. I couldn't come to terms with my feelings, then go seek out help if you hadn't first taken your hand and held mine, been there for me at my darkest hours, turned on the light for me.

I love two people. You were the one who made love like that possible, and I'll never forget it. It's why I'm writing his now, so you can understand what I'm feeling. I don't know if you'll want to be with this person that is me after this: I have no way of knowing that now.

But I wrote this for you, to understand. I wrote this for me, so I could concretely recall what made me chose this path.

And I wrote this for her, because she inspired me to do so.
a_cute_batata: (my confessions)
I've had a hard few days, and I don't know if you're coming back.

I know you had a hard time trying to get used to this place. I saw it, and I hoped you would get used to it, but I didn't see it happen. For my part, I feel like I could have done more, introduce you to more people, but I thought it would be easier if you found people on your own that you could connect to.

You know that was never a problem for me, and I told you that when you came here. You'd see me gone for long amounts of time, because I was at work or at the library, or I was with friends that I know here. I never meant to exclude you! It was just how this place is, especially if you've been here a long time: you forge likes, you find people you stay away from, and sometimes you find yourself fighting alongside someone you didn't know you'd have things in common with.

And that brings me to the thing I have to talk to you about, and why I'm doing this. I wouldn't hide anything from you Amity. You've given me support that no one else could, and I've thought about you nonstop before you even arrived here. It was never a question that I was devoted, but being here that long, there was no was to know if you would be here. There was the suggestion that I might find someone here too, but I figured that was impossible. Who was you? Who was Amity Blight, the girl that stood up to her parents, who fought the Golden Guard and won, who helped me fight the Emperor of the Isles, fake that he was, so we could help each other heal later? No one could take your place, and no one ever will.

But that didn't mean I wouldn't find someone that I cared about in a different way.

Please understand. I didn't see you for months, and while I had hope you would show up, every time you didn't it was still sad for me. So I figured that was it. I'd be by myself, and I'd work on my magic and still help Somnius at large.

Around that time, I met someone. Her name is Aubrey, and it happened sometime in February, where we were dealing with some crazy Somnius nonsense. She was freaked out and I helped her, fighting off stuff that she wasn't equipped to deal with. She was wilder back then: we fought a little, and I basically friended her so hard that I sort of wore her down to submission in being her friend.

Mentioning that now, I see there is some similarity there.

Anyway, that time and when we'd talk later, I began to realize that if I were to have feelings for anyone, it would be her. She was angry, but hurting, strong but weak in places she tried to guard, and something about that made me want to help her, to see her smile a little more. That should have tipped me off then, but you arrived, and I shelved those feelings. After all, you were here, and I figured that meant the impossible was possible now! I tried to explain away those feelings as something that was just passing, that whatever they were, YOU were here now, and what I'd been thinking about then was just a crazy idea in my head.

But you and I both know that's not how feelings worked. Remember, WE tried to do this before, explain
away what we were feeling because it was easier to pretend they didn't exist. It was easier not to get hurt.

In this case, you could say it was easier not to find out I would hurt someone I care about very much. Because I will never stop caring about you, Amity. I want you to know that.

And you have to know this: I do care about her. I do LIKE her. She's strong and sweet and takes on burdens no one sees. She's gruff. She's caring. Heck, she has a boyfriend herself, one that has a husband.

Crazy? Not really. Their worlds aren't ours: things happens that endanger them, and they feel death stalking them, so they've learned to make their connections where they can find them, and they don't limit their love. It's not a thing they contain: they let it happen with the person they make that connection to, and they extend that care to their lovers even if they never get involved with each other or even see them.

Love is a thing they protect and cherish when they have it, because it can go away at any time.

And whatever happens Amity, I'm not replacing you. You might come back tomorrow, read this and decide you will never want to see me again. I'd understand. I wouldn't want to do anything to hurt you.

It's partly why I'm writing this. I want you to know that there will always be a part of me that cries out for you, even when I'm doing better and life isn't feeling like I got dragged through it to come here. I'll always miss you, and I'll always want to know you are happy and healthy. If you decide you don't want me around for this, it'll hurt, but you need to do the thing that feels best for you.

I'm trying to do that now. This way of love is unfamiliar to me. It isn't a fic, or a fantasy situation, or some kind of harem anime. These are real people with real feelings, and right now I'm one of them.

I am in love with two girls, different as night and day, but both precious and amazing to me. I am missing one of them with every bone in my body, and the other loves more than just me, and I don't care. If I have her, a part of her, that doesn't matter, and I know she feels that way about me too.

I'll tell you more about her in these, and more about me. This is just the start of these, because there's still a lot that I need to find out about me, and her, and her friends, who are becoming my friends too.

Until then, you will always be my Batata. Te amo.

Luz
a_cute_batata: (luzstaff)
Character Name: Luz Noceda

Species: Human

Canon: The Owl House

Canon Point: Season 3 of the series “Watching and Dreaming,” when she is “dead,” wishing she had thanked Eda and King.

Character Age: 15.

Character Appearance: Luz is a Dominican-American-Afro-Latina fourteen-year-old girl with tan skin, short, dark brown hair, and hazel-brown eyes. Her clothing consists of a pair of black earrings, a white-and-violet hoodie with cat ears attached to the hood, jean-shorts, dark gray leggings, and a pair of white slip-on shoes. Her nightwear consists of a light gray sleeveless top, purple shorts with an amber trim, moon and star, and white-and-indigo socks.

When attending Hexside School of Magic and Demonics, she wears the standard uniform, but with multi-colored sleeves and leggings as she is studying all the tracks in the school.
Later on, Luz starts wearing Eda's old Grudgby jacket, a gray undershirt, lighter brown pants and dark brown boots, and has put her hair into a ponytail. In "King's Tide", Luz gets a scar on her left eyebrow, while battling Belos.

In season three, Luz's hair is longer, and she's wearing a beanie with two pins — an eye, and a bisexual pride flag. She is also sporting her pilot shirt underneath Eda's Hexside Varsity Jacket, capped off with green sweatpants and red & white sneakers. She has worn other outfits as well.
-Luz Noceda Wiki

Powers and Abilities: Luz was the second human to discover glyphs, a way of using magic that did not rely on her having a “bile sac” like everyone else in the Boiling Isles. She can use light, ice, fire and plant glyphs when she draws and activates them. She knows how to combine the glyphs to unleash other types of magic in addition to making the elemental magic stronger. She knows how to use a Palisman staff to fly and can cast glyphs from a distance by using a staff. She also has obtained (and hatched) her own Palisman, Stringbean, who is a snake shifter and able to change into different animals as well as becoming a staff for Luz to cast magic with.

What Did Your Character Wish For? Luz thinks that her wish was to “thank them,” meaning that she can thank Eda and King, before she died. In actuality, by canon, the wish she’d hoped for was that the Collector put a stop to Bellos becoming the titan and destroying the Boiling Isles. Neither of these are ideal as the former, in Luz’s mind, means when her wish is granted she’ll die, and the latter will make her think she’s as murderous as Bellos.

What Potion Did They Receive? Animal potion.

Did They Drink It? Of course! It’s Luz. She famously does not think these things through.
a_cute_batata: (sweet)
This is Luz! Leave me a message and I'll get back to you!

Permissions

Oct. 5th, 2023 02:00 am
a_cute_batata: (I see her)
Permissions
Walk-credits
⇓in character⇓

PHYSICAL AFFECTION: Luz is fairly affectionate and loves hugs and pats and stuff, provided they aren't weird. Most of the time, they should be fine.

PHYSICAL VIOLENCE: This is bound to happen due to story shenanigans. If it's going to be something pretty hardcore, likely best to be talked about player to player.

ROMANCE/FLIRTING: Luz will respond to that as per her character, but since this is mostly current Luz, that's gonna be a nope. She's got a big old crush on a certain batata and that's not going away anytime soon.

SEXUAL CONTENT: Luz is 15 so out of the question.

PSYCHIC ABILITIES: Due to the nature of the game, one character's abilities is bound to be able to come into play. That's also one of those things that should be discussed player to player.

MAGIC/POWERS: As how the characters have their powers, but I imagine will be something discussed player to player.

MEDICAL INFORMATION: Last I checked, Luz is lactose intolerant, so she definitely can't have that dairy.

OFFENSIVE SUBJECTS OR TRIGGERS: I'd say she wouldn't like overly gross stuff? I mean, throw it at her anyway, she's slowly getting desensitized.

⇓out of character⇓

BACKTAGGING: Definitely done a fair share of it with other players!

FOURTH WALLING: Fine with it.

THREADHOPPING: I'd like warning, but I'm cool with it!

CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR, BUT CAN STILL PLAY: N/A

CONTENT I ABSOLUTELY NEED WARNINGS FOR AND THAT I CAN'T PLAY: N/A

ANYTHING ELSE: luzsmooch
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