Muses

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Luci/Lucy (NB but referred to "she" here since they're all female atm, also doesn't care enough) - Kitschy - Trash Muse - Fan of fandom, notoriously being the most vocal when you want to be doing your professional work, but can't get certain very stupid ideas out of your head. LEAST highly regarded, and therefore the shortest. Loves cosplay, videogames, but has a pretty surly personality, extremely introverted. SECRETLY the oldest! Literally since the first humans started developing concepts of identity, personality, (spirits) and object permanence. "Mine." Obviously not very discriminating on quality, but she doesn't like obvious cash-grab corporate schlock. It must have soul, passion, inspiration, even if it's pretty trashy. Favorite materials are the 5 minute cardboard Gundam cosplay, fanfiction, joke memes, things artists work on instead of their real/commissioned/paying work, actual trash art, and things most people would be too embarrassed to show others. Anything that becomes a "cult classic" is hers. Rocky Horror Picture Show, Mystery Science Theater 3000, etc.
Animals: Raccoon, rats, vultures, tanuki.
Fantasy creatures: goblins, gremlins, sprites, rock golems, zombies
Pokemon: Trubbish, grimer, bidoof, rattata, geodude, zubat
Music: Improv, scat, literal trash rock, GRUNGE
Anime: yes.
Videogames: All. The trashier the better. But she doesn't want them to just be cash-grab knockoffs. Just cheap and with HEART. Flappy bird and meme shit are totally loved though.
Collab: Not if she can avoid it, but often will let Eros talk her into it, because even trash goblin tanukis can get kind of lonley. Mostly she just likes to "borrow" works of everyone else, revamp it in a jokey shittier image and reap the meme benefits lmfao.
Food: Literal junk food. Carnival food. Nothing healthy. Candy. But low quality candy. Soda. Calliope occasionally (when Faith begs her) tries to make Luci brush her teeth and eat vegetables, but it's a struggle. Only veggies are highly processed and not so strong tasting.
Nickname: No one knows her true face/appearance/default clothing preference. It changes 24/7 and is almost a running joke that she has different identities, except she doesn't, she just doesn't know or care. -- Nickname Kitsch since "Trash" is a bit too abusive, and Sumi (Elegance muse) like antiques, so Kitsch works perfectly.
Note: **LOVES cosplay though. For obvious reasons.
Satan Note: He basically had this view of humanity from dawn to "Now." Trash gremlin hoarding dumb monkeys who don't like even each other enough [to stop fighting and learn to do better.] As such she's basically immune to him, but it's really more just like... he didn't/doesn't WANT to be around her. The muses couldn't initially sin, so she doesn't have pride, but not really humility either. Basically the side effect of not having ANY pride = Luci. (And yes, the naming is related is to Lucifer.) Which is why she's *so* difficult to ignore, she will do just about ANYTHING (not immoral, and within her capacity) to get what she wants.
*** Wabi Sabi is her secret MILDLY less goblin aesthetic pleasure. It is accepting the flaws in nature and appreciating it for the lack of symmetry. Again bounces off Satan like oil & water, but he concedes it's a good thing about her/humanity that he hadn't ever considered. Proof of free will.
**** Pure chaos. ADHD. Insane. Likes it that way. ((archangels are all about law and order typically so this is another reason Satan believing she was a product purely of humanity's "vibes" [spirits of nature picking up on humanity's influence] detested everything she is *nearly.* He doesn't have a problem with video games. In part because it's just technology, in part because it wasn't created until SO FAR after humanity's evolution and development he also was starting to come around to the idea that he might be wrong, but definitely KNEW humans weren't *right* either. And the more the fundies/politically motivated types suggested video games were the problem, the more he believed the opposite. Also he could tell when God was trying to send him messages through videogames (the whole Diablo series -- because again, it was easiest for him to hear/pick up on/be pinged when he's specifically mentioned/referred to) which God wouldn't do, if they were bad and/or part of Satan's Fall.

Calliope - Epics Muse - Has the biggest boobs on account of vast volumes per any single piece of art/literature/inspired offspring. She's 2nd shortest however. Gets along with everyone and is consequently the "leader" even though she's secretly the youngest! She starts off as management for the project, but hands it off to Luci on account of her being the most familiar with video games, social media, etc. Clothing style is extremely form fitting and "epic" often yoga pants, valkyrie/women armor, Red Carpet dresses (emmy awards style), or cosplay from her series. Favorite artworks include: Odyssey, Star Wars, Marvel blockbusters, Freddie Mercury, Thomas Cole's Course of the Roman Empire. Almost none of her stuff is ever a one-off, nor brief. Shakespeare.
Nickname: Cali.
Animals: Wolves, tigers, sea turtles, bears, whales
Fantasy creatures: Hydra, griffin, leviathan, kraken
Pokemon: Charizard, Pikachu, most starters, legendaries & mythics,
Anime: JojoBA, One Piece, InuYasha
Movies: Star Wars, anything with 3+ parts, PotC, Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, etc. RELUCTANTLY adding: Marvel Cinematic Universe, though that has a LOT more Luci influence as time goes unless it's obvious cash grab (and then it's just missing muse influence whatsoever)
Music: John Williams, Hans Zimmer, (derp derp soundtracks for her movies duh) "Legendary," Story-telling connected pieces, Ride of the Valkyries. Full orchestral OTT dramatic to the max, intense. There is no chill, only biding time! Jim Steinman. I was previously reluctant to say so without confirmation, but I've had it now lol.
Collab: literally she collabs the easiest and is best at making the others work together, hence her "leader" status. The more she gets the others to collab with her, the more they all do better.
Food: French, FUSION, very "extreme" foods, like maximum spiciness, or things that take a very long time to make (hence the French), but also sandwiches, because they're ubiquitous and combine things.
Games: Sid Meier's anything, but especially Pirates, Civilization, Elder Scrolls, Heroes of Might & Magic, Blizzard: including Diablo, Warcraft, and Starcraft, Riot: all
Satan Note: Cali obviously was able to use Satan in her works, though tries to focus more on MORAL themes, if she couldn't get permission for likeness either from Satan or by proxy: archangels/God. Externally; Satan simply assumed she was the heaviest influence on me and Moosey (she is our go-to after all) it wasn't until I took over his parole sentence he realized it was vice versa. So she's the biggest reason he realized my role before me. He also had no reason to try to control her directly, she was already bombastic, and he didn't meet her until he was in solitary (unlike Emily & Faith below)

Eros - Erotic/Porn Muse - 3rd shortest, medium busty (by which we might mean G-cup lmfao) all about the porn. She gets along best with trash muse (though Cali doesn't dislike trash muse at all, Eros actively gets along really really well with her despite her prickly/iffy personality) and doesn't get along with Religious Muse at all, even though they have worked together on some things, like the Kama Sutra etc. But even then, they didn't get along well and generally try to avoid working together, at minimum alone. If it's erotic, she's all in on it. ALL smut, porn, and anything extremely sexual, but she actually is very sweet and kind, and believes 100% in true love, self-sacrifice, and Disney romance. ROMANCE!!! Wears basically Jessica Rabbit dress, Playboy bunny outfit, and porn clothes. Loves stripper dances, has a collection of stripper poles, OTT cliche red filmy everything in her room, is definitely a furry. Also does a lot of BDSM which contrasts hard to the Disney aesthetic (or does it????).
Nickname: Vivica Volupine for her literal Furry porn name. yeah.
Animals: Rabbit, fox, duck, dolphin, cow
Pokemon: Trash muse stops you right there; "Please no." But it's too late. Eros: "Jynx, ditto-" Trash muse glares at you both. Eros: "Flabebe" Kitschy: "Oh that's not so bad." Eros: "Vulpix, delphox, and incineroar" Kitschy double facepalms. "And there it is." Option for player to be confused and ask why this reaction, but Trash muse will just say "It's one thing to be a furry, it's another to flaunt it."
Fantasy monsters: Swanmay, succubus, fairy, "tapeworm" cue: journalist mode Clio: "Tapeworms are real.... But they are monsters, sure." Eros: "They have the most reproductive power ♥"
Anime: Just hentai. La Blue Girl, Bible Black was during her most "fuck you" moment to religious muse (Faith)
Music: Porn soundtracks, stripper music. Sexy saxophone and "let's fuck" songs.
Collab: Doesn't with religious muse (Faith) easily/well, doesn't with elegance/classic (Sumi) muse, or Truth/Reality (Clio) journalist, is the most likely to poke Luci and is her BFF.
Food: Aphrodisiacs. Oysters, lobsters, asparagus, chocolate covered strawberries, pocky, fondue, figs, artichokes, truffles
-- Satan note: Not a fan. He was meant to instinctively veer off from her (oil/water) so she was both able to be in parts of Hell he didn't, and actually able to "hide" from him the most, so she's able to help the other muses avoid corruption with LOVE. Ironically. Consequently how/why he also had an aversion to even FLUFF/wholesome things. And why he didn't know what to do with it until getting to know Lilith better.

Rhythm - Music Muse - secretly 2nd oldest, dark skinned, tomboy dancer R&B, ALL MUSIC, dance, and poetry. She gets along and collabs with EVERYONE. She's very extraverted, and happiest when others around are also happy. There are no instruments she doesn't love. She's blind.
Collab: EVERYONE. She cannot do album covers/music videos, and has limited fashion sense, so she gets everyone else's help as often as possible, but likewise, they all see her power and everyone needs her a LOT. Truth needs her the "least," but still does for documentaries, and in general Rhythm's basically in everything.
Movies: Musicals, Step It Up, Glee
Anime: Beck, Cowboy Bebop, K-On, Nodome Cantabile
Animals: Bat, Shark, moose, parrot, elephants
Fantasy creatures: Basilisk, Siren, mermaid, gorgon
Pokemon: Loudred, chatot, meloetta, noibat, jigglypuff
Music: Lol.
Food: Pop rocks, watermelon, pasta, sports drinks

Faith - Religious Muse - The tallest, very busty (because Gaia/mother Earth/fertility), and has "childhood memories" of others being older than her. Mentored Truth heavily on "canon." She doesn't have a specific bias to one religion or another, she believes they all intersect somewhere on truth. She's extremely idealist and her gullibility is why she started setting up foundation on canon. Fashion is sundresses, all white, very flowy. She's not forced to be modest, but certainly has no desire to do anything "club wear." And even at the beach is all giant hats, and sarongs and shawls. She loves sunlight. Gardening, knitting, all bibles, etc. Lawful to the point of exasperating. A little bit hippie. The reason she doesn't get along with Eros is because she thinks Eros often twists true god worship for a more lusty/mistakenly physical essence and leads people accidentally away from spirituality towards the physical/material realm. Her room is a zen rock garden. Should look "Mesopotamian." Yes.
Collab: she wants to collab more, but everyone is always busy, and she's very very strict. She would even collab with Luci, but Luci is very shy and is difficult to redirect. She does collab with classical ballerina, music, goth, and Truth, but worries constantly she's not spreading the Gospel (good word) nearly enough.
Movies: Sound of Music, Good Omens, Prince of Egypt, Jesus Christ Superstar
Animals: Lions, doves, lambs
Fantasy monsters: Dragon, phoenix, unicorn
Pokemon: Arceus (lol), Shaymin, solrock
Anime: Saint Young Men, Chrono Crusade, Buddha, Superbook
Music: Gospel, country, church
Food: Bread, rice, tea, soup.
Satan Note: Until working off his penance for redemption; she was his obvious favorite and generally his mental image of what the ideal feminity should be. While she has some insight to Truth (the cosmic idea of it), until humanity also know definitively, neither COULD Faith (hence why Satan also doubted Clio could, in fact, tell the difference without possiblity of being tainted.) She was the first to meet him and lead him back towards not hating/distrusting/fearing humanity. As such, she knew him even in his darkest hours (like humanity), but also didn't know the "true religion" because while she can say if something is wrong; being super gullible, she always posits everything could be true; and then has to work from there to prove whether something falls apart under pressure testing etc. Also Satan literally couldn't tell whether or not he was capable of overpowering her. **
** Because demons/devils have been so confused by their own lies they can't tell what's real anymore. They can only tell via outcomes. So if they try to possess someone, it's possible God/angels/humans literally intercept and block it, they only assume if people are "super devastated" that they succeeded. But if the person acts like nothing happened, then they assume they failed.
*** For obvious reasons demons/devils/HELL shuns her and she usually can help anyone find their way out of Hell. But as her name is literally "Faith," this is an obvious truth hidden in plain sight. And yes, Satan very definitely tried to corrupt her, but she was already strong enough to fend off most attempts to corrupt her. Was religion corrupted? Yes. But if you want to know why/how you have to do the work to understand that yourself. No shortcuts! ((That was Satan's sin, after all))

Sumi (Japanese for Elegance) - Elegance Muse - Ballerina - The ultimate in "discerning"/discriminating but as far as quality. Trash muse's antithesis (nearly.) Everything about her is diamonds and purity, antiquity, and top-tier perfectionism. She is the hardest to work with consequently, because of her exacting standards. She loves Opera, ballet, elite sciences, archaeology, and is definitely on the "snobbish" side. If it wouldn't go in a museum, she doesn't care. As a result, she can frequently miss new untested things, and she's very reluctant to even look at anything that hasn't been tested by intense centuries of scrutiny and quality control. She doesn't do pop culture. She does do yoga though. And intense realism-style paintings/art, etc, photgraphy manipulation, etc. Likes to wear ballerina or safari/archaeology outfit, but she will go full southern belle extravagant or lolita. Fond of top hats. She actually is an Olympic athlete, and does fencing, volleyball, and swimming.
Collab: The RAREST collaborator! She mostly just lets everyone else work and then sift to her. "Diamond in the rough" is her motto, and only when that carbon reaches the point will she even NOTICE. She gets along best with Clio & Faith, but is almost completely incapable of working solo with Luci.
Movies: Fantasia, Snow White, Phantom of the Opera, high quality documentaries
Music: Taichovsky, Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Beethoven, Chopin, Camille Saint Saens // Instrumental flute, piano, violin. She hates banjos, spoons, and harmonicas. ((kazoos are forbidden from mentioning to her!))
Animals: Swan, crane, Oar fish, secretary bird, eels, gazelles
Fantasy monsters: Yuki-onna, wendigo, thunderbird, naga
Pokemon: Swanna, Bellossom, oricorio
Food: Salad, hors d'oeuvres, tart, tea, refined "Instagram pic" worthy things. Arguably malnourished.
Anime: Princess Tutu, Sailor Moon, Kaleido Star, Genshiken
Satan Note: Third favorite before his penance completed. Satan hates dirty/grunge so very much, so he appreciates that she does too, and tries to get humanity to FUCKING CLEAN UP. And he does admire the intense scrutiny to quality (an aspect of his own personality) even if he couldn't quite figure out where it came from other than humans finally learning the grunge was a divine punishment. (That wasn't where Sumi got it from lol -- she did get it from the other archangels, actually. So in that sense I MEAN I GUESS, KIND OF -- but not really.)

Clio - Truth / Reality / Journalism / History - The super secret instigator of this project to connect humans to the muses and vice versa. She studied under Faith and became very strict about canon consequently. Documents history *religiously.* (Herp.) This isn't to say she hates fiction, but can get a bit testy about subjective opinions vs. objective reality, especially in documenting it. She hates anything that purposely obfuscates or confuses (propaganda!!!) and is extremely Democractically minded on nearly everything. She does photography, documentaries, protests, journalism, and true crime. She has a very blunt, abrupt, and nearly monotone way of speaking.
Collab: Collabs best with goth, 2nd best with Faith (because she mentored under her), but has the toughest time, ironically NOT with trash muse, but with Eros, because Eros is definitely willing to let facts slide in the face of sexy, which Clio will never ever allow. That said, she will still do things like History of the World, or Doctor Who, as long as the jokes are nowhere near subtle enough to get confused.
Movies: Documentaries, historical accounts, news/journalism. Night at the Museum.
Music: Protest/Political music, things telling objective truth, We Didn't Start the Fire, history, schoolhouse Rock,
Animals: Platypus, giraffe, horse, dog
Fantasy creatures: - Give her a long long minute on this. She actually has to leave, get some water, and come back.- "BigFoot, Chupacabra, Nessie, oni." She holds up a hand before anyone can interrupt her. "Not because they're real or cool, but because the reported stories went a long way towards furthering human's understanding of fact-checking, photorealism, and the importance of understanding chain of sources." Naturally.
Pokemon: Smeargle. *The long silence indicates she should say more like everyone else did. It stretches to the point that it looks like one of the others are about to rescue her before she adds* Mr. Rime. *It'd be best not to press the issue further.*
Food: Yeah. Something. Whatever. Tacos. Nutrition bars.
Anime: No. She doesn't do animation. "What about the historically inspired-" You can't even finish the question before she *flinches*. No. Just no. "Not even-?" *No.*
Satan Note: While he was allowed to talk to her all he wanted while in solitary confinement, he STILL couldn't *100%* determine truth from fiction from her, because that was literally part of his punishment, and while she could teach him ALL the ways of re-discovering (determining) truth she knew, she was still an influence in humanity so as long as he thought humanity was flawed at inception (the environment/Earth not the spirits by angels) he refused to believe that Clio was accurate/truly objective and not just misled into THINKING she was accurate, but "maybe wasn't." (All muses are spirits ofc. Hence why Satan likes them in spite of himself.) You can lead a horse to water, but not make it drink or even trying you'll drown it and corrupt the purpose of trying to get it water.

Emily - Raven - Goth - Horror - Smallest boobs, quintessential "goth" girl. All things horror, Halloween, and goth. Mystery novels started with her, but even just campfire ghost stories. Personality: she loves to say things just to get a freaked out reaction. Terrorizing Luci is her favorite victim, probably because the others aren't as easy, and Luci is usually kind of emo, so terrifying her into hiding for a bit makes everyone (Even Luci?!) happy. She's been around since humans had a concept of death. So 3rd oldest. She likes super pithy 1-liners, and very very very short stories. 6-word stories even. She finds it all quite dramatic but importantly: funny. Always black. She will die if you make her wear anything else. ONE EXCEPTION: bloody wedding gown. Still will wear a black veil with it. And a bloody cleaver.
Collab: Yes. "Gets along best with Rhythm" is practically meaningless. But she mostly gets along with everyone, even if Luci is easily scared by her, Eros has a harder time with her simply because their goals are never going to be in true alignment. She can be a little rigid even to Faith (trauma and her way of being able to define herself), but her rigidity in many ways makes her get along best with Sumi -- and surprisingly even Luci, as Emily is the only one who can sort of keep Luci on topic; if just to speed up the process so she can flee. Emily & Luci do costumes together, and Sumi/Faith/Eros hint that it might just be Emily's only known way of being nice to Luci - but this is not true. It's just Emily feels like because she "let" herself be tricked/controlled by Satan, she has to work harder than the others to define herself. She really admires Luci & Eros for having different coping techniques, but she's coming around now to understanding WHY/HOW it was in no way bad of her. When collabing with Clio is all horror stuff, genocide, serial killers, mass tragedy, etc.
Movies: Horror. All things goth. Dracula, dark, batman, etc. Wednesday Addams intensifies.
Music: Goth metal horror music intensifies. CRAWLING IN MY SKIN THESE WOUNDS THEY WILL NOT HEAL
- She trained under Sumi in Opera. And loves rock/goth opera. (Michael the archangel's influence on her!)
Animals: raven, crow, komodo dragon, snakes, Indonesian black chickens, melaninistic porcupines
Fantasy monsters: Vampires, axolotl, serial killers. "But axolotl and serial killers are real?" Trash muse whispers fervently, "NO ONE TELL HER."
Pokemon: Gengar, Gothitelle, Trevanent, Pumpkaboo
Food: "Human meat pies like Sweeny Todd." Trash muse: /screams into both fists/ "Oh, and squid ink pasta. Maybe pumpkin pie. But it should be dyed with blood oranges. Or just blood. :)"
Anime: Aggretsuko, Parasyte, Boogiepop Phantom, Higurashi: When they Cry, Shiki, Paranoia Agent, Ghost Hunter, Monster, Gantz
Satan Note: 2nd favorite (iRoNiCaLlY -- but this is true both before and AFTER penance, Faith went from 1 to 3, but that's fine 3 is a magic number). He actually could and did "corrupt" / control the fuck out of Emily, (see above: "trauma" - all the muses have my "don't control me" streak, but hers was the least strong [now, actually the STRONGEST!!!], all muses are also more used to influencing humanity, and hadn't been taught that they could be corrupted/controlled, so it really shocked her; but also made her and the others realize they needed to help humanity use art and horror to heal from trauma. Yes, including Satan.) because there was no depths he could corrupt her to that wouldn't work to help undo the damage he wrought lmfao. She carried ALL his musical inspirations to heavy metal, and helped inspire Aggretsuko & Otome Kaiju Carmelize and then bring them back to me roundabout. He was able to convince her constantly to get WAAAAAAAAY more over the top and dramatic *as fuck.*
** Her height will get bigger when humanity respects her more. Her breasts aren't small because of her lack of femininity (Satan isn't wrong, but his idea of feminity is flawed!) but because she's the smartest at understanding the importance of brevity. Short and to the point. Is this a coping technique? (the more things are long, the more wiggle room there might be to corrupt!) Nope! It's because I desperately begged the muses for help with this. And Emily is the one I had the most hand in helping inspire/create myself both right after I was withdrawn from the Garden of Eden, and when humanity was still so very young and didn't understand what was going on and was deathly terrified of the dark -- Lilith's original goal was to help understand darkness is necessary (Remember: Lilith means night), good, and even why fear is important, and not something to shun, but simply understand ((Obviously a lesson Satan needed too)). As well as how to stop others from controlling you, but you can still let them influence you and vice versa. (See also: Adam & Eve didn't have this hmmmmmmm)
*** More than anything, Emily understands pain, fear, horror (duh) and while she was born alongside early humanity -- she was also wandering the labyrinth of time & Hell with Lilith and thus made a more DRAMATIC AS FUCK return to humanity with a bang in the 1800s with Frankenstein & murder mysteries & Edgar Allen Poe etc. As Lilith gets stronger, Emily gets more confident. As humanity comes closer to understanding how to use art, poetry, dark humor, etc. to recover from trauma, the more influence she has etc.

Estella - Star - Faith's twin sister, but instead pure white hair. Sci-Fi, constellations, knows beyond Earth. May or may not be an extraterrestial herself. Celestial = HOW she's Faith's twin. She MIGHT be the same height as Faith, but she's never willing to stand on the ground, if in group photos, she's always hanging upside down "from her observatory." Is definitely the same age as Faith, and encourages humanity to question things so that when they DO take things on faith, it's more of a choice and not blindly. **When** astrology is taken as an art form, NOT religious substitute (an argument with Faith that Faith conceded is possible) then it's Estella helping as much as possible to protect people from demons/corruption. Ditto: Tarot, and inkblots. Basically wherever anything COULD be, just can't be disproven because humanity hasn't reached far enough yet. NEVER EVER lies because of this, she just can't prove nearly ANYTHING she says about extremely distant truths, because you have to take it on FAITH. That was her compromise with her twin.
Collab: Obviously gets along really well with Faith, Clio is second closest. As such her encouragements are towards looking up at the sky and beyond. *Wondering* and asking questions about what might or might not be possible. Collabs with Luci for all Isekai.
TV Shows: Doctor Who, Farscape, Star Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, 3rd Rock From the Sun
Pokemon: Clefairy, Cresslia, Lunatone, elgyem, Deoxys
Favorite fairy tale: Kaguya of the Moon (duh) / Randomly fond of Peach Boy too though.
Food: Tang, dehydrated ice cream, seaweed, anything astronauts eat lol
Music: Spaceman by Killers, Doctor Who, Star Wars, UY soundtrack, soft spot for Lupin III jazz because it helped inspire Cowboy Bebop so much, David Bowie (especially Space Oddity), https://www.musicindustryhowto.com/songs-about-space/
Anime: Space Dandy, Cowboy Bebop, Tenchi Muyo, Urusei Yatsura, Galaxy Express 999, Re: Zero
- Personal notes: * she was unable to contact Satan while he was imprisoned, because he needed to not be confused with extra possibilities for the future ((Now his favorite of the muses & genres (scifi) because he hasn't been able to binge/see most of it))
** AND she knows the secrets to time travel and wormholes which would be an obvious CHEAT CODE to him that he had to FULLY 100% understand why he should *not fucking do that.*
*** And she is definitely able to talk to aliens, but needs humanity to learn how to do it to keep things flowing correctly duh.


1 word drabbles

Cutting

Cutting things is the hardest part for Calliope. Cutting it down to size. Reining in the desire to go on endlessly, to turn something infinite into finite, to accept its brief fleeting mortality. To be precise, but moreso: concise. To resist the urge to make a two minute song an entire two-day length full opera. To make a 100-word drabble NOT a sprawling epic encompassing all the other muses' help, and incorporating endless legends , mores, metaphors, lessons, and turn anything casual into a timeless *epic.*

Lucy helps with it sometimes, but even she can get caught up in Calliope's pace. "Just let it be its own thing," Lucy can tell her, but that's just so hard to do. Every time it comes to the cutting floor, editing, removing things for size, for precision, Calliope feels like it's cutting HERSELF. A strange anguish as if it's cutting her soul.

"I can't do it!" she cries again, a long-repeated mantra in the saga of her existence. Calliope is not the muse of editors. She'd like to be, but it's just not going to happen.


Inspiration

Inspiration for the muses could come from any source, based on each of their own personalities. Calliope was obsessed with connections. Faith obviously was inspired by religious events. Rhythm seemed to derive most of her own inspiration from boredom and a desire to add cadence to everything and anything. Inspiration for the muses was never the hard part for them. It was giving it to the others. Finding means to communicate it to the artists who could then make the most use of it. Inspiration without an artist was just an unfilfilled idea, after all.


Relationship

The relationship between one muse and another was deceptively simple. They got along, or they didn't, and the reasons were always the same. But the more of them that collaborated, the more complex it got. Everyone got along with Rhythm and Calliope the best, that was why Calliope was the leader, despite being the youngest.

Faith had the highest human respect, but her relationship with the other muses could be very strained. It was the worst with Eros, whom she felt was lewd for the sake of it, and Eros in turn felt Faith was a prude for the sake of it.

Eros and Sumi didn't get along fantastically, but Sumi was the strictest of all the muses, and it was hard for anyone other Raven and Faith to get along with her, even Clio usually struggled. Eros and Kitschy had a fantastic relationship, except for the part where Kitschy usually wanted to run away and hide from everyone, and Eros couldn't contain her erotic amorous affections.

Calliope had the least ease working with Raven, they were such opposites. Calliope couldn't contain her length of works, but Raven could convey volumes without using any words. Calliope was instantly popular with humans, and Raven seemed to revel in unnerving or frightening more than seeking acclaim.

Everyone was able to collaborate with Rhythm quite easily, she was always busy, so no one had a better relationship with her than any of the others.


Overview

Because of Calliope's inability to narrow her focus in on the small picture, or edit things down, she required help in this manner, and the other muses were all able to oblige at least in some extant or another. Likewise, because her forte was a grand arching overview, she had a way of seeing stories and the whole of existence that was not true for the rest of them. This made her a natural at being able to give an overhead view, a large encompassing cohesion the rest of them did not possess; though ironically she was incapable of the overview summary to any of her stories, or indeed; anyone else's for that matter.