July Prompts

July 2024 Prompt: Entanglements

7/1/24 - 8/31/24 11:59pm ET

"Why are you doing this?"
"Well, of course, it's fun. Don't forget, you've agreed to everything. You can leave at any time."
"..."
"Haha. I thought as much. Until you're able to cast me aside and stand on your own two feet - for as long as you need me to become yourself - I'll use you, and you'll use me."

Self and Liam, one of Self's "collected" people who self "helps." 

Edeia may encounter all sorts of individuals throughout their lives. What kinds of significant relationships have they had with mundane individuals and other non-Edeia? 

In this prompt's context, a "significant" relationship involves a longer-term connection as opposed to just one or a few meetings, with one or both of them having a notable impact on the other's life. The connection does not need to be positive and can be unbalanced, though there should be some kind of effort to create and/or maintain the relationship on both sides.  

If your Edeia has a significant relationship with a non-Edeia who later becomes an Edeia, that is permissible to use for this prompt, but you should focus on the relationship while one of them is not an Edeia. 

Design Prompt:
Design a non-Edeia, or a previous form of an Edeia who had a significant relationship with an Edeia before their Actualization. Please briefly explain the relationship. 

Art Prompt:
Create artwork featuring your Edeia interacting with a non-Edeia with whom they have some kind of significant relationship. Please include a blurb that indicates what kind of relationship they have. 

Writing Prompt:
Create writing featuring your Edeia interacting with a non-Edeia with whom they have some kind of significant relationship.

July 2023 Prompt: Limitations

7/10/23 - 8/10/23 11:59pm ET

I am a weary thing. Before Actualization, I was a feeble thing in body and, perhaps by extension, mind. There were things I wished to do that my body would not let me... but that was alright. My weariness made me rest when I needed it. And once I had rested, I could try to press onwards. I could never accomplish everything I wanted when I wanted, but, yes - that was alright. And now... I rest when I need it, and I help others as well. Weariness reminds us of our limits, and neither are such terrible things. So, then... would you like to join me? There is a peace to be found in a moment of rest.

Raein, Edeia of Weariness

Edeia are beings who are exactly who they want to be. However, they are not limitless beings - many, consciously or subconsciously, choose not to be. Perhaps it is simply a part of who they are; perhaps it was shaped by experiences in their previous form with their own limitations - be they limitations of the body or mind, be they minor or extreme - or the limitations of others. 

It is Disability Pride Month! A disability is a physical or mental condition that limits a person's movements, senses, or activities. Depict your character accepting and/or embracing a disability, perhaps by adjusting their situation to accommodate themself or another, or showing how they have incorporated it into their identity after Actualization. It does not need to be a disability formally recognized by law. 

Design Prompt:
Design your Edeia's previous form, including some indication or discussion of a disability/limitation they have experienced. Have they lost a limb, and did they get a prosthetic (could be modern prosthetics or advanced ones in the Age of Reunion)? Do they experience chronic pain or fatigue? Have they lost vision or hearing? Did they have issues with learning, memory, and/or socialization? How did they learn to accommodate it? It does not need to be a disability formally recognized by law, and you do not need to formally define it. 

Art Prompt:
Create artwork depicting an Edeia accepting and/or embracing a disability, whether in their previous form or current Edeia form. If the relevance to the prompt is unclear in the artwork, please be sure it is clear in the blurb.

Writing Prompt:
Write a scene depicting an Edeia accepting and/or embracing a disability, whether in their previous form or current Edeia form.

July 2022 Prompt: For Another

7/10/22 - 8/10/22 11:59pm ET

In the spirit of Art Fight this month, I thought I'd make a prompt where you draw others' Edeia! However, please note that using a piece for both this prompt and Art Fight goes against the spirit of Art Fight, and is not permitted. 

Art Prompt:
Create artwork of someone else's Edeia! 

Writing Prompt:
Create writing involving someone else's Edeia! 

July 2021 Prompt: Meetings

6/9/21 - 6/30/21 11:59pm PT

Our first general prompt! Draw/write the first meeting between two Edeia (or their previous forms) - perhaps between two of yours, yours and one other's, or others' Edeia entirely. Please make sure to ask the owner's permission to use them in a prompt. You can also use more than two characters if you wish.

You may make two submissions for this prompt, one art and one writing. The art and writing can be for the same scene, and that will count as the two prompts.