Akimikoisthecutest

17 minutes ago, AceBassMan said:

1. This character is Invested, but not heavily Invested

2. This character is part of a small group/team/order

3. This character can give and take Investiture

4. This character is an excellent shot

5. This character is very particular about using the color black for their appearance.

Mraize?

48 minutes ago, AceBassMan said:

1. This character is invested, but not heavily invested

2. This character is part of a small group/team/order

Twinsoul?

Much food

Lemon Meringue Pie

2 minutes ago, Aeoryi said:

Utah has... An interesting reputation lol. specifically it has associations with mormonism which many people have mixed opinions on. I won't get into it much here but yeah

That's not to say everyone in Utah sucks or anything in fact the opposite can be true 

Judging an entire state and by extension everyone who comes from it in a superficial way is not beneficial to anyone

That's true! There are some really cool parts of Utah, but there are some not so great parts too.

52 minutes ago, SpartanBrigade said:

Why are all the coolest people in Utah

Idk, Utah has some not great people who live there. I have family who lives there, and some are super religious and hate LGBTQ+ people.

There is no airport

26 minutes ago, Factor said:

You arrive 6 hours early

You arrive 80 hours early

On 4/4/2026 at 9:39 PM, Usseewa said:

ok i'ma try to take a break from shard for whatever amount of time or at least spend less time on it because i stormin hate it because it's distracting me from work and such and i just use it to make myself depressed and act like a ... person

anyway maybe i'll try to block it or something too and make it so i gotta enter a 128-digit passcode to unlock it or something idk

sayonaraaaaa

hopefully

or i could just turn off password autocomplete/saving and making my password long and log out after each use like i kinda do already

anyway i just wasted a few minutes typing this by bye.

but yeah pls dont worry about me because i might still look on shard as a guest even if i dont want to and then ill see something and

oh wait no that makes it sound like your fault

uh well basically uhm do whatever you want bye

Bye! We'll miss you!

2 hours ago, Hmmm lies said:

This is all the first step to me revealing that I'm dating @certifiedcranedriver

Yay! That's amazing for you

2 hours ago, Hmmm lies said:

I'm not exactly 'out' as aromantic, but I'm also not exactly closeted, because I don't really care if anyone knows. The only reason I don't tell people is that I don't think my particular brand of aromantic will be easily understood by non-queer people, and so it seems like a hassle to dispel a bunch of misconceptions they have.

Same lol. I get that a lot.

Just now, Usseewa said:

Oh yay!

Have you ever done that? Idk, I just got a vibe from them and asked him, and he said yes.

Just now, Aeoryi said:

A lot of my trans friends are puppies ^^

Speaking of trans friends, I found another trans person and came out to them within like 2 minutes of meeting them.

4 minutes ago, Usseewa said:

i like the cake one best, tbh

(pfp)

but they're all nice :3

damn where are u getting all these..

so cute

 

(Oh also welcome back! Missed ya!)

I know, there are so many of them, but I like the tea one, the cake one, and this current one. 

Literally just this link, idk.

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If anyone is currently not doing anything, I'd love to try to jump back in

On 3/31/2026 at 3:20 PM, Koloss17 said:

@Akimikoisthecutest if you’re available, I’d love this character approved. If not, I can possibly recruit some older folks.

Updated Clotho (no idea why it’s so big):

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Name: Clotho

Appearance: late-40s looking Scadrian, with blonde hair tied up in a high ponytail. She has a distinctly early 1900s (our time) dressing choice, which is more or less era 2 fashion, though her dressing choice would probably be seen as too masculine for them. She always seems to have a suit and tie on, wearing some sort of hat, with each depending on the day or occasion. She is generally self confident, but everything about her personality seems to be in flux. Her mannerisms do change day to day, and her actions are erratic at times, which is indicative of something…off with her.

Affiliations: Many law-enforcing agencies have some familiarity with her, but she may or may not know of them. Has most recently assisted with giving crucial information about UFO and was an invaluable asset to the New Hallandren government, giving her near unrestricted access to the recovering district. Has a bunch of sources around the city, though does not always remember them.

Personality: Clotho knows what she’s worth and isn’t willing to back down from hurdles that come her way. She keeps copious notes and is a very inquisitive and astute person. However, her personality is quite fluid in nature, as her memories are unreliable and her personality is deeply affected by the constantly shifting roster gold shadows.

Concept: A-gold savant that has, due to her savantism, lost most of her past memories. She has recently gained an F-copper medallion that she can use to assist her affliction, but can only help her so much. In the past two years, she has become a fairly accomplished private investigator.

Motivation (Short & long term goal): Well, given her nature, she can’t really afford to have long-term goals. She largely just keeps doing what she’s doing, growing her business and becoming better at controlling her nature. She largely takes things one day at a time and puts her most recent case above anything else. 

Merits:

Major: Is technically able to do nearly anything, as her gold shadows can give her knowledge and skills. Main drawback is that she can’t choose the skills, and the shadows themselves have amnesia from savantism. The abilities also have to be within reason, as the alternate selves have to be a realistic branch of her history.

Normal: If given the opportunity, can take incredibly meticulous notes. Her F-Copper medallion has allowed her to create a memory archive, as well as an archive of written down information, but they are only useful if she remembers that they are there.

Minor: clever, well connected (in a sense), attentive when possible. 

Flaws:

A-Gold savantism has caused her to forget anything that has happened a few days ago, with the only saving grace being her vast memory archive, both in her copperminds and in her journals. She knows who she is, what her job is, but only vaguely knows her own past. She knows she was a Scadrian noble, and has records of what her past life was like, but doesn’t really know anything beyond what was written down/stored. If she stops burning gold, she loses her memories much quicker, in addition to the typical withdrawal effects.

Quite volatile, with her conflicting memories and personalities making her life ever difficult. She has learned how to separate her personalities, so they do not mix as easily, but things still slip through the cracks.

Relationships (Eg. Family and Friends): Struggles to have friends, as she forgets any memories that they had with them one way or another. Closest she has to friends is her alternate selves, which can’t really communicate to her. She thinks and acts like they would, and can see through their eyes (a trick that she uses to see and notice things that she normally would be unable to do) but her shadows are more extensions of her rather than separate people.

Home Planet: Second Era Scadrian Nobility

Current Residence: Alleycity, in a mansion in Mistkeep. 

Backstory: I have an unhealthy amount of backstory for this character. Clotho of course doesn’t remember much of it, but I have info covering her life up to this point.

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Birth:

 

 

Clotho, born to a rich Elendel family, was the youngest of four. Her eldest sister was 12 years older than her, with her two brothers 9 and 6 years older than her respectively. All three were quite accomplished, and she had big shoes to fill. Her parents were kind to her, with her mother being the gentler one, and her father expecting much of her.

 

 

Realizes Augur:

 

Age: 8

 

 

 

At age 8, expectations started being piled on. Private tutors came to teach Clotho all manners of things, and free time was limited. She rarely saw her siblings, with her sister always enveloped in politics, her eldest brother off in the Elendel military, and her youngest brother pursuing his own studies. One day, however, her father decided to test her for metals. It was an uncomfortable experience for her, but she learned that she was an augur. Even as a child, she was quite astute, and after the initial shock of the experience of an augur, she caught a glimpse of her father’s disappointment on his face. He had expected something useful, and he got nothing.

 

Begin experimenting:

 

Age: 12

 

At age 12, she began tampering with her abilities. She was always expected to be doing something productive, but she could choose what. She was soon to be off to university, but until then, she experimented. In a fit of rebellion, she began to turn to her alternate selves for answers. She would prove to her father that her gold was not a useless talent. At first she was disoriented, but she quickly got the hang of it. Determined, she learned. She took notes on what realities she could conjure, and began to note the differences. Clotho eventually grew to deeply know her strengths and weaknesses, and began planning for the future.

 

Go to university:

 

Age: 16

 

Upon entering an Elendel university, the same that her siblings went to, she was caught off guard by the atmosphere. She had expected a group of like-minded, studious individuals. What she found instead were groups of rich fools that partied and slacked off. There were a few that didn’t mingle, but they were not going to want to socialize with Clotho either. Everyone there was equally entitled, in their own way. 

 

Clotho sought her studies to seek refuge, studying the history of the Final Empire and all that was lost. She didn’t need company; she had herself, and her alternate selves. She couldn’t communicate with them, but she knew what they would do in her stead, which was much like having friends, she assumed. Occasionally, she interacted with others, either with her professors or with the staff. Never with students, however. She completed everything diligently and on time, spending most of her time pursuing her personal interests. Little did she know, her gold would soon get the better of her. 

 

Becomes Savant:

 

Age: 19

 

As the university years continued, Clotho’s talent in gold grew, but her other studies faltered. She was now able to call onto shadows at any age of her life, yet she could not choose which shadows she calls back. Her shadows think with her, and she can easily process two people’s worth of thoughts and reactions. She has had many recurring shadows, something few thought possible. Clotho assumed few had burned gold for as long as she had. With two people’s worth of knowledge, she assumed that her studies would be a breeze, but she soon began to struggle.

 

Clotho was forgetting things. Simple things, like what teachers she had the year before. Then it became more serious. She began forgetting she was enrolled in classes; she even forgot her eldest brother’s name. She knew he was in the military, and that she hadn’t seen him since….when did she last see him? 

 

Drops out of college:

 

Age: 20

 

Her condition eventually got worse. So bad, in fact, that she had to drop out of the university a year before she earned her degree. She had completed most of the courses required, and with her noble heritage, she managed to still get the diploma. Clotho was grateful, but feared for her future. 

 

Moves to separate estate:

 

Age: 22

 

As time went on, her condition got to the point that her family gave up on her. They had no faith that she could have a career, and she certainly couldn’t get a spouse. She was moved to a separate estate, a smaller and more remote area of Elendel, where she didn’t put shame to her family. She wasn’t even mad at them, not really. She understood, in a way. She had forgotten her parent’s names multiple times, and had forgotten that she has even went to university, once. 

 

Yet with everything going wrong, she still had her selves. 

 

Seclusion grows:

 

Age: 26

 

Four years had passed, and her condition had worsened still. She had created journals upon journals, detailing information about her past, and about her life. She had forgotten most of it, now. But with the help of the journals, she still knew most of it. She had been a promising graduate, to her noble house, until everything went wrong. She knew, deep down, that it was her obsession with her abilities that was causing it. But she couldn’t let them go. Her alternate lives gave her comfort, and let her continue on. They gave her advice, in their own way, and let her remember more than she could without them, even if their pasts weren’t exactly hers. She needed them.

 

Tragedy Strikes Family:

 

Age: 28

 

At a noble’s ball, Clotho’s family was murdered, along with a few other influential nobility. At the time, Clotho was off in her manor, oblivious of it all.

 

A letter was sent about the event, but Clotho forgot it existed. 6 months later, Clotho read the letter. Her family was dead, and she inherited their various riches. Distraught and heartbroken, Clotho sought vengeance. She called upon various people that were connected with her house, and took over her dormant house. With the help of outside contacts and her alternative selves, she got closer and closer to the truth. Her father had gotten too deep with a rival organization, and had gotten himself and his family killed because of it. Clotho had a suspicion she wasn’t supposed to be alive either, but whoever had done this seems to have moved on.

 

Begin journey to Alleyverse:

 

Age: 29

 

After heavy research, as well as furious record keeping, Clotho made a breakthrough. The killer, whoever they were, had moved to Alleycity, wherever that was. Through careful questioning, she found a way to get there.

 

She left on her own, with nearly the entirety of her wealth with her, to the Cognitive Realm. Her house had practically fallen, and her absence would not be noticed. There was still much she did not know, and much that she couldn’t remember, but cataloguing her experiences and memories in her journals would help with both. 

 

The next step was to travel to Alleycity.

 

Disaster Strikes:

 

Age: 30

 

After close to a year of traveling, and expenses paid, she had nearly arrived at the Alleyverse. A few months out from her destination, her guide struck, stealing some of her journals and damaging others. Years of her life, along with most of her notes about the case, were taken from her in an instant.

 

Arrives at Alleyverse:

 

Age: 31

 

She carried on, with the loss affecting her greatly. Eventually, she forgot exactly why she was traveling, but she knew that she needed to reach the Alleyverse. Eventually, she did. 

 

Upon arrival, she sought a place to live, and an area to get knowledge about herself. As she was traveling, she had learned how to use her selves to gain abilities that she didn’t have, but now she used her abilities to learn more about herself, and what she used to be. She wanted to learn why she was here, and who she was.  

 

She kept more journals, and tried to decipher what remained of her notes. She was meticulous in her note taking, but everything added on to what she had took before. While missing initial chunks, she could only decipher so much. Her newer journals made sure to restate what had already been said, in case some pages were lost. She learned some, but very little. 

 

Over the years, she lost pages, and lost notes. Fire burned some, water damaged others. She didn’t create backups, as she had sparingly little time and no one to help her. She kept her journals close, and learned what she could, as the world outside faded into irrelevance.

 

The forgery (era 5):

 

Age: 35

 

One day, something happened. Her selves acted erratic, and her memories merged further than they ever did. She lost sight of what she was doing, and details about the world around her didn’t line up. She lost trust in herself, and lost trust in her entries. She was confused, and so, so lonely. She knew something needed to change. She couldn’t do this on her own. She needed help.

 

Era 6:

 

Age: 36

 

As the world healed, her abilities healed. She began trusting her entries, but discarded what she took during the Forgery, as none of it could be trusted. She still kept them around, somewhere. She just didn’t use them. She knew things about herself, like that she had a family, and that she was born of nobility. She knew when she was born, but she didn’t know how old she was, as the Alleyverse exists outside the Cosmere’s time. She knew she came here for a reason, but she didn’t quite know why. She suspects someone died, and that she was here for justice, but she didn’t know who died, or why she cared. 

 

She realized her memories flowed easier when she was not secluded, and she intended to use that. She needed help, but she also needed a reputation to get that help. The only reputation she had thus far acquired was as a spinster that never left her mansion. She needed that to change, and she needed her selves to help her.

 

As time went on, she gathered friends and began the journey to find out the mysteries of her past. Her journeys eventually led her to get a nicrobursted trip to the spiritual realm, where she learned of her true self. Frantic to keep those memories, she stowed them away in her journal. Now knowing her purpose, she continued her journey. Eventually, she realized her parents’ killers was the man she had been working with this whole time, a man named Tsyan. In her rage, she killed him. With her vengeance enacted, what life did she have left?

 

Era 7:

 

Age: 37

 

In the following year, Clotho spent time bettering herself. Keeping improved records, developing her own shorthand, and ensuring that she held on to the memories that allowed her to access those catalogues. Unfortunately, her vast inheritance was quickly dwindling, and she could not sustain her addiction for long. She had wondered if she could heal it, perhaps through the help of radiants, but she decided against it. This was who she was now, and she had to learn to live with it, not destroy it. 

 

And so, that’s exactly what she did. She spent the remaining amount of her money on an F-copper medallion, and with her inheritance all but gone, she began her own investigation agency. It took a bit to get going, but once people discovered how valuable she was, her business boomed. She began getting her name out there, and began having an actual career, for the first time in her life.

 

Era 8

 

Age: 38

 

During the invasion of New Hallandren, Clotho was immediately interested in it. She wasn’t hired to investigate, but her curiosity got the better of her. Through careful snooping, she located multiple UFO hideouts as well as valuable information on some of its head members. Thanks to her help, she gained many awakened safety measures for her archive, along with unimpeded access to the district and its resources, if she so chose. 

 

Modern day (era 9)

 

Age: 39

 

As her business has continued, her reputation and skills have grown. After 3 years of her work, she has developed quite the reputation for herself, along with obtaining a web of connections. She’s a bit awkward to work with, as she almost certainly won’t remember any past meetings. But her reputation and amicable personality helps relations, so her informants are fairly loyal and trustworthy, especially given she only asks for information if she’s requested it.

 

 

Hey, sorry I've been offline for most of spring break, but I'd say it looks great to me!

I'm back!

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Wouldn't you like a taste of the power?

Wouldn't you like to use more than words?

23 hours ago, SpartanBrigade said:

Yeah exactly 
I’m not like the Hulk or something but I think that’s a little far lol

You know what they should do?
Tinder but for book people
On your profile you put your favorite genre, type of tea, type of coffee, etc

I guarantee you’d have a 100% satisfaction rate 

That should exist

You can be hurt or you can beat her

Wouldn't you like a taste of the power?

She can conjure up a monster that'll grind you to the bones

She can turn you into an animal that'll end up on her plate

Deep in the night the fight can be tragic

Wouldn't you like to have some of the magic?