Fun With Fanar 2.0: The Revenge: The Surprise Sequel 2017
Orca!Sauron returns to the blog, now with reliable buoyancy and propulsion! It’s been over a year since he was thrown into a cliff and banned from Sea World, let’s see how well things go this time.
It had been a beautiful day. He had been enjoying a very nice swim, racing with some dolphins who had chased a ship for a time before growing bored of the easy pace. One moment he’d been darting between them, flickering around them, then the next–
The next his fins were gone, tail traded for legs, and the water was freezing. His eyes burned, and his chest felt strange, like a hammer was pounding inside and a fire in his lungs. Realization dawned swiftly and he flailed, kicking and twisting to find the surface and get to it.
His damned swan had made him mortal. Surfacing, he tried to gasp a breath only to be knocked back under with a wave in the confused, choppy sea, and fury made him kick harder to the surface. He was not about to drown.
He’d forgiven Cousin Ossë for taking advantage of him during his magic-addled state; it had all been harmless fun for those involved, which was as much as one could hope for when it came to Swan wishes. He’d been grateful nothing worse had happened– but that was no reason to forget the matter.
Turnabout was fair play after all, and with the Terror missing from the sea, there was no one forbidding him from using a particular, experimental shape he’d kept in storage since a particular incident involving a cliff face and his spine.
He took a great deal of pleasure in the sight of his Cousin with his cheeks puffed out absurdly, frog-kicking his way clumsily towards the surface. A few pulses of his tail brought him face-to-face with the mortal Maia, his long teeth bared in a grin that said simply revenge is sweet.
He swam lazily around his Cousin for a few deliciously prolonged seconds, laughing a deep rolling laugh that carried through the water. “You do look silly, Cousin,” he clicked using the strange aquatic syllables of the sea-maiar. “I never thought I’d see you on the receiving end of your pet’s mischief. I have to say, it’s immensely satisfying.” Sauron wasted no more time, but slipped an arm around Ossë’s waist and brought them both to the surface with a few sinuous motions.
It enjoyed all these people feeding it lately. And this one was familiar. She looked sort of like the one who made it, somehow. It ate the bread happily, but wondered why nobody had told this one about saying wish around it.
Wish granted! For the duration of the swan’s magic, Uinen is now once again the Lady of the Seas, all her powers open to her. May she find happiness in knowing the ocean once more. But life demands balance. For there to still be a child, there must be one mortal to create life with the Ainu. So while Uinen is an Ainu once more, Ossë is now trapped in a mortal, Elven shell.
“Tolkien believes in his world and in all those who inhabit it… this failure of belief on an author’s part is, I think, what turns so many books that mean to deal with the real things of life that really happen to the real souls and bodies of real people in the real world into the cramped little stages where varyingly fashionable marionettes jiggle and sing. But I believe Tolkien has wandered Middle-Earth, which exists nowhere but in himself, and I understand the sadness of the elves, and have seen Mordor.” -Peter S. Beagle
These pseudomorphs were formed when a mineral crystal of glauberite (or ikalite) was first replaced by calcite and then opalized. They are very rare and only found in White Cliffs, Australia
☁: Favorite part of RPing: OH HANDS DOWN it is getting to see how other people have fleshed out characters that I haven’t put as much thought into, and also getting to interact with a bunch of super cute, experienced, creative writers and developing collaborative stories that one person alone couldn’t come up with. Makes me so happy~ u3u
✉: Any RPers the Mun admires: I feel like being a good RPer is a different skill-set from being a good writer; like, I’ve met very talented writers who struggled with the give-and-take nature of RP, and some very talented RPers who aren’t necessarily the most polished writers, but DANG can they play ball and keep a thread moving. There are different kinds of roleplaying that people are good at too, like people who are just extraordinarily in-character, or very good at provoking responses from other muses, or seeding the ground for plots. I’ve met so many great RPers on here with their own specialities and unique approaches, and everyone has something different to offer; there is no way I can do justice to everyone I’ve played with here. XD I’m not just saying that to cop out– genuinely, this is a vast, nebulous, and very personal topic that would require several pages. I’m going to limit myself here to a very biased top-ten:
@masteroftheseas and I have a long, wacky, beloved relationship between a network of muses that is just about my favorite thing ever. They sit squarely in the center of the venn diagram of “great at writing”, “great at RP”, “great at characterization” and “great at human being”. There is no muse so minor nor sideblog so obscure that you can hide from me, I will follow you everywhere.
@salmaganto A+ best original Salgant interpretation and clean, tight, expressive writing that makes me giddy. NEED MORE.
@forgemaiar MAN, BUDDY, I DON’T KNOW WHY IT TOOK ME FOUR YEARS TO FOLLOW YOU, BECAUSE HOO DOGGY, I WAS MISSING OUT. Mitsa-mun plays a mean game of RP ball, it always feels like a fun, energetic game with just the right amount of competition and curveballs. You are always surprising and delighting me with the ways you deploy your muses.
@elf-and-iron We’ve been fandom buddies since The Dark Ages of DeviantArt. You know more than you should. You’ve seen things that cannot be unseen. And somehow we’re just now RPing with each other and you??? are really?? really good????? Like???? I want approximately 4 more years of blog time to get to know your Thranduil.
@tulkasastaldo I MISS YOU BUDDY ;A; DORMANT, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. You’re such a good musemaster, your Tulkas was such an insufferable delight whose very presence created plot and shenanigans. You’re also responsible for finally dragging me kicking and screaming into becoming an RP blog in the first place, so this is technically all your fault.
@curufinwefeanaro YOU KNOW WHY. For like four years we’ve been swapping spit and headcanons, your command of Finwëan characterization is unparalleled and you’re the only person whose lured me away to sideblogs specifically and only to RP with you. Glacially. At least once a year. Each thread aging like fine wine. Or exploding into skype accidentally like a dropped champagne bottle.
@valiantfindekano-archived ARCHIVED BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. Again, another fantastic mun and a muse who generated plot wherever they appeared. STupid, hot, dragon-stabbing, hair-shouting jockstrap…
@thebreathofarda You have such an incredible grasp of your muse and his philosophy. Manwë is a very difficult character to understand fully and relate to, and you write him with such intuition and polish. RPing with you gave me an understanding of him that I don’t think I’d have reached on my own. Best Manwë, most infuriatingly brother.
@theironcrown ANOTHER mun I miss very much seeing on my dash; an irreplaceable presence, a unique set of fully developed headcanons, and a snappy, believable, poignant play style that was a joy to interact with in any capacity. I feel like I just got in on the tail end of that train, and during a time when I hadn’t fully fleshed out my own muses, but DAMN did we get some incredible threads out of it.
@nerdanel-istarnie BABE WITH NERD CANONS; you utterly convinced me that Nerdanel should come to Beleriand and I am now furious that that isn’t canon because your version of events was so good and so emotional. There are very few people who I trust to write my characters’ actions for me in posts and you’re one of them; your grasp of the narrative and characterizations was so flawless, it was a joy to thread with you. I absolutely would follow your Nerdanel into hell and back, and attend gallery showings for her sculptures and let her spank me with a hairbrush.
@admirable-mairon NO ONE GETS UNDER MY SAURON’S SKIN QUITE LIKE HIS HIGH-FEMME ASSHOLE BROTHER
shit shit shit shit I said I’d keep this to ten FUCK–
Hey, if you and I have had any kind of prolonged interaction, you’re doing something that intrigues me and interests me and I find valuable in some way. Stay awesome ❤
▶: A talent of the Mun’s: forgetting i have water boiling on the stove
Any time either of them has dialogue, it is My Favorite Thing. *v*
I’ve answered variations of this question before on this blog somewhere, but in summary, a lot of my favorite Sauron moments are in the Lay of Leithian, and a lot of my favorite Melkor moments are in the Children Of Hurin– in other words, stuff that never made it into the published Silmarillion :’D Chris, why
♦: Relationship with your Muses: They’re both driven by wild over-identification, wishful thinking, self-projection, and an iron-clad belief in my own perception of Tolkien’s piecemeal continuity, even when it directly contradicts the author’s stated views on his own characters.
♥: One thing you love about your Muses:
From a practical standpoint, I love that Sauron’s timeline spans the entire legendarium, because it means he usually has known whereabouts and goals during each era, canonical interactions with a huge number of characters, and hypothetically possible interactions with even more. It’s fun to extrapolate what he must have been doing behind the scenes in any given storyline.
I love Melkor because he is simultaneously profound and deeply ridiculous. His characterization in canon creates a lot of cognitive dissonance, because on the one hand he’s this powerful, terrifying force of anarchy, chaos, and entropy, and on the other hand he gets his hands caught in the cookie jar so, so often… He screams at a spider. He skips giddily down a mountain because his evil scheme is going well. He gets his ass handed to him literally every time he goes out of doors, and then sulks about it. He’s the hottest demigod mess since Loki. And when the pieces come together and you get just the right balance of eldritch horror, petulance, existential fear, and Wile E Coyote levels of success, he is deliciously satisfying.
♣: Any headcanons about your muses?: I am absurdly inundated with headcanons, so as an overarching example, I’ll say that both muses have distinct characterizations between different epochs of their timeline. Sauron in Utumno is different from Sauron in in the Isle of Werewolves, who is different from Sauron in Numenor, who is different from Sauron in Mordor. Melkor during the First Music is different from the Melkor that destroyed the Lamps, who is different from Melkor serving time in Valinor, who is different from Melkor in Angband. They both change over time, and their views and interpersonal relationships evolve as they encounter more challenges, learn more about the Eruhini, and lose things they cannot get back.
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