KAFKA S//LVIA

have you ever heard a blade speak?

i can talk about sin.
i can tell you what it feels like
to be the boy left behind by god,
picking his share of the
damned to save.

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THIS IS HOW TO BUILD A WEAPON.

tw. domestic abuse

the aspects of kafka's life detailed below are somewhat integral to understanding how he functions !! he has always been somewhat detached and capable of great cruelty, but his emotional profile has been challenged or hardened by the following things:

BOY /
FATHER

kafka's relationship with the man he grew up thinking is his father has always felt like... breathing, to kafka. he and his father worked like a person and their shadow. like a blade in someone's familiar hand. his father's love language was order and physical discipline,( the imprint of his father's signet ring across kafka's cheekbone )but kafka never viewed this as abuse. no, these were simply necessary measures, and he would have done the same. there aren't words to describe how like his father kafka was, in all the ways that a human could be an apex predator. his father was a military mastermind, and kafka's mind was a steel trap to him too. there was love there, but it was a dead thing without a heartbeat.when kafka returned from exile with a thousand werewolf heads and his sword at his father's throat, there was pride and understanding in his father's eyes. despite being a hybrid, his father couldn't help but recognize how much like him kafka is. kafka knew then and there that a part of his father knew, perhaps hoped even, that kafka would be the one to come home.

BOY /
FATHER

kafka's real father is a werewolf that kafka's mother had an affair with during the annual hunting trips powerful military families from all four nations would take in the earth nation. he's raised as the field marshal's son, and he was so alike his father no one thought to question it. after his real father kills his mother, he attempts to build a bridge with kafka, only to be killed at his hands. kafka may or may not have half siblings; if they tried to connect with him, he would have killed them. the only children that kafka would kill, actually.kafka is a hybrid, but this is only something his brother and father know. the rest of the world may speculate from the way he fights and thinks, but it is more an… attempt to explain what exactly about him makes people fear him so. he does not transform.

BOY /
BROTHER

deimos and kafka have an... interesting relationship. despite being raised the way they were, there was no animosity between the two. regardless of kafka's affection (or lack there of) towards deimos, his little brother knows, somewhere, that he will always pick him.deimos provides kafka with a vital element: the urge to protect, to keep guard, to hold something close. he humanizes kafka in the ten years of exile and isolation he goes through, by keeping his reason for returning to be the heir of his father's inheritance from being selfish, or pure spite.these two are working together to overthrow their father and assume his position together.

BOY /
ONCEKING

kafka and the original heir to the throne, roman (ilya's older brother) shared many years together. right after kafka's exile is when roman dies, and it's a death he never knows who to blame for. his father, himself, his brother... the knot is tight in his chest. to this day, kafka considers himself loyal to roman.before kafka was exiled, his father took his sword from him, since then, kafka has used roman's sword. roman's dragon, elohim, shares a unique relationship with kafka as a result of roman's death as well.when it comes to dragons, kafka has never bonded with one despite them taking quite a liking to him. there's a dragon that kafka refers to as bug that routinely fucks with him, but kafka refuses to claim him. tch.

ACE OF
SP♠D//.S

.♠aaaaaaaaPOSITIVE //
aaaaaaaaa.loyal, intelligent,
aaaaaaaaa.quick-witted, focused

.♠aaaaaaaaNEUTRAL //
aaaaaaaaa.black&white, blunt

.♠aaaaaaaaNEGATIVE //
aaaaaaaaa.vengeful, cruel,
aaaaaaaaa.disconnected

PLAYLIST.
PINTEREST.

CR//W

a codename used by his brother to communicate with him under their father's nose.

THUNDERBIRD

the title given to him by the people of sirius. electricity is the aspect of his fire abilities that kafka focuses on; his blue lightning is almost trademark. his flames look like blackbody radiation; a hollow blackness tipped in orange. kafka's abilities are incredibly in tune with his emotional profile; that is to say, hollow like a singularity & haloed like a event horizon in the emotion that comes through, notably anger or bloodthirst.

BLADE

the title given to him by his father, an ode to the way that kafka's mind and matter functioned. to him, kafka was an extension of himself, a weapon to extend and retract at will.

F//.CE

black hair / hazel-grey eyes / 178 - 180 cm / double ear piercings. right daith & industrial. left rook. tattoo of a thunderbird stretching over his upper back, beak curling around the corner of the left side of his neck & ending near the back of his ear. probs more but idk him that well :/

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FIRE //

your muse would know him by his title before they would know him by name. either due to him being the THUNDERBIRD; that is, the prevalence of the silvia name, kafka's presence in the background when ilya's older brother was seen ( prior to his death ) as the heir to the throne's personal right-hand man, or his record for performing the dragon dance at fourteen. but more likely because of the infamy, drama, and MYSTERY surrounding his exile.rip lol i wasnt sure how to be fancy and integrate these next ones so list form it is:MENTOR // if your muse is a noble or involved in the military's inner court, it's possible they trained together, or knew of the field marshal's offspring. bonus points if they consider kafka a nepotism baby :) ohh man that has potential to piss him the fuck off in very specific situationsTHRONELINES // any muse that knows either ilya or his late brother, roman, would have known of, seen, or been somewhat used to of kafka before his exile.DISPOSITION // kafka has a neutral opinion of those from the fire nation. he is more likely to mentor those from his own nation that remember him, or seek his counsel.

EARTH //

RUMOR // echoes of his exile may be more prominent in the earth nation due to the werewolves bordering their nation. a challenge to kill a thousand werewolves is no small thing, and news of werewolf deaths climbing, perhaps even sightings of the hunter himself, and the small talk that he was part werewolf are all probable roots for the general idea your muse has of him.NOMAD // kafka spent quite a bit of his time in the cities within the nation, so there's space for him and your muse to have interacted in small doses here and there here. kafka would frequent underground fight rings and places where encounters with fear are quite common.ACQUAINTANCE // a fellow earth military noble that would've spent the annual hunting trips with kafka's family and the other powerhouse families that were invited.NAME IN PASSING // following this, kafka or his story might ring familiar in a fairly dim way if your muse was new rich/noble, since the likelihood of your muse knowing more about the events is higher!DISPOSITION // kafka has a gentle opinion of those from the earth nation.

AIR //

NOMAD // kafka visited the air nation once or twice while taking a break from hunting for the escape, so there's space for him and your muse to have interacted in small doses here and there here. he fucking loves sweets tho. there are these . these fuckin . pineapple doughnut thingies from the air nation that could probs make him cry, lol. 11/10 has been in the air nation just to snag a couple bags of these and leave.NAME IN PASSING // kafka or his story might ring familiar in a fairly dim way.DISPOSITION // kafka is quite wary of those from the air nation due to their telepathic abilities. he is inclined to stay away from them, or keep them at a distance.

WATER //

NOMAD // kafka visited the water nation's islands once or twice while taking a break from hunting for the escape, so there's space for him and your muse to have interacted in small doses here and there here. i think he like, has a thing for seafood too so. idk LOL ig he visits the air and water nations for their food ksjd.NAME IN PASSING // kafka or his story might ring familiar in a fairly dim way.DISPOSITION // ho my god kafka is insanely wary of those from the water nation due to their memory manipulation abilities. he is inclined to stay far away from them, or keep them at a... well, far distance.

these are relationships/plots that i had visceral imagery for while i was piecing kafka together. writing chemistry is really important for them to work, so i'd prefer for these to be organic !! if our muses are headed in this direction, i'll bring it up !! if we're plotting and you think your muse would fit well, definitely let me know !! you can see them HERE.

DYNAMICS. /////////////////

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MOTH TO FLAME.

FIRE NATION PREFERRED, BUT OPEN TO ANYONE :)kafka has a thing for candy. your muse and him meet at a gas station when both of your hands latch onto the last pack, and before your muse can open their mouth to claim them, he rips it open and tips nearly half back into his mouth. has to audacity to grin at your muse, even. the thunderbird has never been accessible; and yet here he is, smackin on some fuggin... idk . ... mini mms right in front of your muse.

PLEIADES.

TAKEN.kafka & your muse are both alone in the observatory. your muse has been fiddling with the telescope for ages now, and since kafka is only here for the quiet, he soon grows annoyed of the stupid sounds your muse's tinkering is making."what is it you're trying to find?"

CITY OF LIGHTHOUSES.

this is darker && far lovelier than what words can name; it hangs like a pearl, thick and round in the nest of kafka's throat. your muse has the thunderbird by the throat, and they do not even know it.pipe dreams. hopelessness. lotus eating.kafka tells them about a city of lighthouses one night, a bedtime story to let them sleep: ( 'what is the future?' kafka's heart breaks. )( 'there is a city of lighthouses, and peace lays patiently in wait for you, her arms folded over her lap.' )watching me is like watching a fire take your eyes from you / when the night falls, and the light dawns / off each other's bodies now you see ( you're in me ) / i look at you, i'm seeing that you're just as lost as i /

(in arcadia) ;
shorelines. salt water. kafka with his hand on their chin &&
his lips against their forehead

PLAYLIST // here.
MIDAS; skott
SINEW; purity ring
WHEN GINNY KISSED HARRY;
nicholas hooper
A PRINCESS; javier navarette
REPETITION; purity ring
MOVEMENT III; robot koch
TABLE FOR TWO; abel korzeniowski
SHRIKE; hozier

; — meeting
; — kafka leaving a note in your muse's shoes to remind themselves he's real each time they feel the paper when they step.
; — your muse, broken past what his hands can bandage, asking him of the future
; — kafka dumping your muse in the bathtub to drench them in cold water. perhaps to shock them back to reality. this feels like either their meeting or their meeting + a recurring theme.
; — introducing him to candy; alternatively, if your muse has never had candy, he discovers it && shares it with yours.
; — nightmares; and your hand on his chest, sinking deep into his psyche.
; — kafka's gentle shock, fingertip to your muse's arm & the electrical current that follows when they get too close.
; — asking him difficult questions
; — treating him as a home, ( perhaps before he realizes he's allowed that )
; — hanging daydreams from the ceiling

TONE // this is a dynamic that would've formed between the years 2013 - 2023, while kafka comes into himself && fills the space inside his own body. it's a... twisted sort of tangled, far more nuanced than a simple label can grasp. i think kafka makes webs in his mind a lot, and your muse is someone he chose to make a home for. regardless, i think youth at that age, confused and fucked up as they are, will try and find places to hold amongst one another before they realize what they're doing, and that is such a delightful sweet spot to give kafka an emotional .... sort of, tether (?) someone he malfunctions around in the present, because these emotions are from a younger kafka; potent in a way he no longer can build them. this city of lighthouses is something your muse holds on to, and kafka finds himself holding onto it as well.PAST CONNECTION // this is someone kafka met during his exile, but was possibly aware of before (if your muse is a noble). your muse is a lost thing, potentially really quite mentally ill and kafka, lost as ever, finds himself stuck to them for one reason or another. in some ways they feel like a phantom to one another; and maybe that's where the safety lays. tangible enough to be a sweet dream. there are themes of running away in this plot, but i really would like it to be about dissonant psyches that fall silent and gentle in the presence of the other. i think they meet in a liminal space itself, with a tired kafka, young and prey as much as he is predator.the dynamic comes to an end when your muse asks him to run away, and he considers it. the shock to himself brings him back to his purpose, and he would leave very early the next morning.PRESENT // since the majority of this dynamic is located in avani, the above imagery is more for... a guide, perhaps. of what the present looks like for them. of what the distance does, and of what tangibility feels like for them. kafka does not know where to place your muse.OOC // im super duper willin to fuck around w the details & let this fall into smth else, allow it to like... add body to something that's alrdy growing nicely between our muses, or provide undertones for how they interact with each other !! i'm somewhat attached to the imagery in this dynamic, but if you think your muse could use a presence like kafka, like this, let me know & we can tear it up to make something beautiful for them !!ngl this was entirely unintentional and very like, Not What I Was Expecting From This Child, i was playing another muse's playlist while writing for him and all of a sudden kafka was in my brain with hands that could wax poetry and i ... didn't know what to do with it, so :') this is what came from me tugging at those strings && getting them to unravel. while it is super remedial / choppy, i think it communicates the feelings, which is what i rlly want to hit :)i'm open to nsfw exploration in this dynamic, whether brutal/fighting or themes of sex and exploration if these aspects seem to fit kafka and your muse !!