a_cute_batata

Proof 1 10
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Proof 3 54
Proof 4 10
Proof 5 14
Proof 6 32
Proof 7 2
Proof 8 11
Proof 9 8
Proof 10 2
Proof 11 10
Proof 12 3
Proof 13 9
Proof 14 4
Proof 15 19
Proof 16 4
Proof 17 17
Proof 18 11
Proof 19 3
Proof 20 24
Proof 211
Proof 22 3
Proof 23 9
Proof 24 5
Proof 25 31
Proof 26 9
Proof 27 3
Proof 28 13
Proof 29 4
Proof 30 10
Proof 31 2
Proof 32 7
Proof 33 8
Proof 34 4
Proof 35 8
Proof 36 26
Proof 37 8

Total= 370

I guess before any of this can make sense, if any of it does, I ought to tell you about her.



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.

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

Proof 1 -14
Proof 2- 9
Proof 3- 6
Proof 4- 36
Proof 5-17
Proof 6-9
Proof 7- 14
Proof 8- 28
Proof 9- 10
Proof 10-25
Proof 11- 4
Proof 12- 19
Proof 13- 8
Proof 14-6
Proof 15-11
Proof 16 -4
Proof 17 -9
Proof 18- 6
Proof 19 -18
Proof 20- 10
Proof 212
Proof 2221
Proof 23-3
Proof 24 -10
Proof 25-16
Proof 26-18
Proof 27-26
Proof 28-6
Proof 29-6

Proof 30-6
Proof 31 5

Proof 32 -21
Proof 33-11
Proof 34 23
Proof 35- 2
Proof 36- 25
Proof 37- 3
Proof 38-33
Proof 39-20
Proof 40 -11
Proof 41- 9
Proof 42- 5

Proof 1- 6

Proof 2- 10

Proof 3- 41

Proof 4- 7

Proof 5- 3

Proof 6- 12

Proof 7- 5

Proof 8- 8

Proof 9- 34

Proof 10- 2

Proof 11- 6

Proof 12- 6

Proof 13- 10

Proof 14- 3

Proof 15- 9

Proof 16-4

Proof 17- 41

Proof 18- 9

Proof 19 - 8

Proof 20- 18

Proof 21- 5

Proof 22- 6

Proof 23- 1

Proof 24 - 5

Total: 258

Proof 1- 11
Proof 2- 3
Proof 3- 17
Proof 4- 8
Proof 5- 5
Proof 6- 13
Proof 7 -2
Proof 8- 9
Proof 9- 2
Proof 10 - 4
Proof 11-6
Proof 12-4
Proof 13-9
Proof 14-14
Proof 15-3
Proof 16-16
Proof 17-14
Proof 18 -28
Proof 19-4
Proof 20- 9
Proof 21 16
Proof 22-11
Proof 23-9
Proof 24-8
Proof 25-24
Proof 26-38
Proof 27-5
Proof 28-12
Proof 29 17

Total: 324

Proof 1- 14

Proof #2- 3

Proof #3-7

Proof #4- 17


Proof #5 - 19

Proof #6 - 29

Proof #7 - 13

Proof #8- 5

Proof#9 - 2

Proof #10- 27

Proof #11 - 4

Proof #12- 9

Proof #13 - 14

Proof #14- 10

Proof #15 - 8

Proof #16 - 6

Proof #17 - 26

Proof #18 - 13

Proof #19 - 29

Proof #20 - 3

Proof #21 - 7


Proof #22 - 25

Proof #23 - 24

Proof #24 - 22

Proof #25 - 12

Proof #26 - 28

Proof #27 - 12

Proof #28 - 24

Proof #29 - 5

Proof #30 - 20

Total: 437

OOC INFORMATION
Player Name: Pedro

Pronoun Preferences: He/Him

Contact: elpedrososama@gmail.com, [plurk.com profile] elpedrososama

Are you over the age of 18?: Yes

Invitation Link: Here!

Current Characters: N/A

Link to Permissions: Permissions.



IC INFORMATION

Character Name: Luz Noceda

Species: Human

Canon: The Owl House

Canon Point: Returning from her showdown with Belos, just as she learns she no longer can perform magic.

Character Age: If Luz is accepted back, I am planning to keep her at the age of eighteen she reached over time.

CRAU: This is the Luz that's been in Labyrinth since the events of Bellos' fight, so it is now a CRAU.

CRAU Explanation: Luz has been through a lot since coming to Labyrinth. She's cared about people, lost a lot of them, and similarly has talked to and gotten to know a lot of different people. As a result, she'd come to understand things are not so black and white when it comes to people's actions, and is more sympathetic to people who come from awful circumstances. it's helped her to understand herself a lot better, and how far she'd go to protect those she cares about.

She also sees love as a fluid, unpredictable thing she follows when it calls to her. This has brought about several different relationships in Labyrinth, ending with her dating both Kenma, the local arcade boy, and Catra, the devil-may-care villanness by random circumstance. She treasures her relationships with both of them while understanding that the people back home are the ones they are bound to, should they ever leave and stay gone.

Luz has also opted to get stronger physically, something she was not known to care as much about back home but has become essential for her now.

Character Appearance: Luz is about medium height with brown skin, and short scruffy hair. She tends to fluctuate with her clothing but wears baggy pants and loose fitting shirts. Notably, she also has a scar on her right eye from a previous skirmish with Belos. Seen here!

Powers and Abilities: Luz gotten fairly adept with sword fighting through arduous training, and has also gotten fairly physically fit.

The downside to her defeating Belos, however, is what happened directly after. With the titan of the Boiling Isles gone for good, Luz can no longer use her glyph magic. Luz is essentially starting from scratch, although I am still going to shoot for her getting Stringbean back, since she is unattached to Luz’s loss of magic.

What Did Your Character Wish For? Luz is hoping to find a way to make herself useful, even without powers. Now she knows whatever she wants to do, it involves helping people: she’s just at a loss as to how she's do this anymore.

What Potion Did They Receive? Blue

Did They Drink It? Yes!


Character Questions:
1. Who is the person your character is most bonded with from their canon, or who is someone they miss the most and why?
Luz has seen several people from her world, from Amity to Willow to King and Eda, her mentor. Each of these people mean a lot to her, and she cherishes and cares for all of them, though there is still one person that she misses most, who she has never seen, and that is her mother. The two of them are very close, and Luz has lost just about every single parental figure she’s had, in one way or another. It is going to be a blow to come back and realize she doesn’t have anyone quite like that around anymore.


2. What are they most afraid of and why?
Luz is afraid of making the wrong decision and not knowing it until it’s too late.

When she makes the decision to pursue Owlbert, she didn’t realize it would take her to a new world, and how much it would hurt her mother to know she willingly chose to stay there. When she decides to pursue the time regression and meet Philip. She never knew his true intentions and what those would mean for so many on the Boiling Isles. When she and the others flee the Isles when the Day of Unity goes awry, she did not know she’d be trapping herself and her friend out of Isles indefinitely.
These are all situations that have consequences she could not have foreseen, and by the beginning to season three, she blames herself and her lack being able to make good decisions, opting instead to believe she bring calamity wherever she goes.

3. What are their emotional, mental, and physical weaknesses and why?
Emotionally, Luz feels very hard. When she hears someone is in a bad place or has had a bad time, she wants to understand and cares with her whole heart. This can be to her own detriment, as feelings don’t necessarily give you the clearest picture of a situation, something Luz struggles with.

Mentally, Luz’s enemy is her own self deception. There are times where, despite herself, she will see her worst decision as THE worst decision and therefore blame herself for things she ought not to. This line of thinking tends causes her to make a poor decision bigger in her mind, and she’ll continue to think that until she has someone help her listen to reason on some circumstances are simply not her fault.

Physically, she is a lot stronger than when she first arrived, though just as much as an above average eighteen year old girl. Without her glyph magic, there are feats she can be bested at by someone with superior strength. Even if she obtains Stringbean again, she’ll still just be a human with some strength and good reactionary movement.

4. What discrepancies are there between their inner self (who they feel they are) and their outer self (how they present themselves to others)?

Luz can be far more fragile than she makes herself out to be. She puts on a brave face a lot of the time, but there have been situations where Luz will remove herself from her place of comfort to refocus. Its her way of attempting to recover, and when she doesn’t have this, she tends to mull over her own feelings and they get the best of her. This is why, even in Labyrinth, there have been times where Luz had to leave the place she calls home so she can reassess herself.

When she feels weak, it puts her in a bad headspace, and she needs assurances from others to get out of that frame of mind.


5. What would make them happiest and why?
Luz is at a canon point where she can take comfort in knowing there is a life waiting for her. It is the reason why her returning now is different from when she arrived the first time. She no longer fears death, but not being able to be of use.

Luz strives to find a way to make others happy, and for herself, she'd happiest being around people she cares about and protecting them, but she also wouldn't say no to a long afternoon working on an art project!

6. What characteristics does someone need to have to be your character's ideal significant other?

Luz has actually had several partners. She is, despite herself, a bit of an extrovert, and all of the partners she’d had tended to be very much the opposite of this. Further, after being with them, Luz’s personality has helped them to change a little of themselves and vice versa: Luz found out things about herself that she never knew until they dated.

Ultimately, Luz might say she “likes a challenge,” to relate it to ship terminology, but in reality, she prefers someone she can help change a little, and have that person help her to do the same.


7. Would your character make a sacrifice to save someone else and why or why not?

This answer is an easy YES. Luz’s true brush with death came about because she made the choice sacrifice herself to prevent a being she'd just met from dying. She had no protection or assurance she would be all right in this situation: she just did it. If there is one thing Luz can be counted on doing, its fighting for the little guy, no matter the consequences.


8. What is one thing they would tell their younger self if they had the chance, or if your character is young, what is one thing they would want their older self to remember?

For her younger self, Luz would tell her to that things would get better despite how bad things were turning out. Between her father passing away and moving somewhere new, Luz has had to shoulder quiet isolation and feel like she was different from her peer group. Over time, Luz learns being somewhere else with people who also were accepting of her was not as impossible as it seemed since the day she stumbled into the Isles.

9. When in dire circumstances does your character fight, flee, freeze or fawn and how does that look?

In canon, Luz tends to opt for fight, whether she has the ability to make it happen at the time or she’s ill equipped. She is very reactionary that way, and will most times make the decision to stand her ground on what she’s doing.

There are, however, also times where Luz CAN freeze up. She is still human, and when her emotions are overwhelming her, it will come about involuntarily, like her legs giving out from under her when she's at a period of duress.


10. Why did your character make the wish they did?

For Luz, her way of showing people she cares is to be performative. If there’s an obstacle she needs to overcome or a challenge to face, she opts to take it on without question. However, her having magic connected her to the Isles and the friends she made there. It made her feel like she belonged, and in Labyrinth it helped her protect people. Without that, Luz will now wonder if she can be of any use anymore. In game she has actually voiced this opinion a few times, feeling that on Earth she felt more like she was just living a life that let things happen around her without feeling like she had much say in the matter.

Permissions

⇓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: