Ascendance Of A Bookworm - Blog Posts

You can bet that once this goes into reprint, I will be sending Oniku-san my money.

(English translation to be posted, once I review it with someone more reliable than Google Translate, with French translation to follow.)

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Happy Valentines day! A good excuse for chocolate (for any relationship), and for me to talk about my partner, Coding Dino https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@codingdino. Not to gush, but she’s the smartest person I know, full of passion for her craft, and keeps pushing herself to improve.

I’ve learned a lot from her over the 11 or so years we’ve been together, and I’d be a far worse person without her. <3

She's been obsessed with Ascendance of a Bookworm for the last couple weeks, so here's some Rozemyne.

Adelheide Tochter Kirschnereit

Age 15

I imagine her hair is kept in a loose ponytail, with fringe similar to Matthias'. It's a darker sea-green color.

Her eyes would be sharper, but colored light pink.

She's a trans girl

In a modern setting I imagine she goes with the dress shirt with rolled up sleeves + pants with suspenders fit. Something classy but practical enough.

Her patron deity would be Verdrenna, Goddess of Thunder and Lightning and subordinate to Flutrane.

Nobles have to keep up facades, but if she's being allowed to show emotion she would definitely be on the more intense side. Girl is full of generational anger towards Hauchletzte and would show it if she could.

On the tall side.

Her favored weapon is a halberd, and prefers to meet opponents either on even ground or with mana blasts. She's not a bad rider, she just enjoys the benefits of footwork and body-enhancing magic. She enjoys cartography, Gewinnen, and playing the pipe organ. She prefers her tea sweet and accompanied with many cookies. She is the fourth in a set of five siblings, and strives to become a Knight Commander to support the next Aub. Or if they all spontaneously combust, become an Aub with no fear of war. She wears a twisted silver and gold bracelet with a green feystone embedded in the center, a family heirloom.

To confess my sins, I had actually deleted her bio with the intention to rewrite it... a couple of months ago. So this was actually a good motivator to really think about what's going on with her. Apologies if I yapped too close to the sun.

I just had an idea to add to my most current Ascendance of a bookworm project. So if you have a OC in the aob universe, I can add them into the project as a personal Easter egg.

If you want to join, here's what I need (*required):

Name

Age (max. 17, you can just alter it)

Haircut + hair colour (dark/light)*

Eye shape + eye color (dark/light)*

Gender*

Dress (modern style)*

Patron Deity (eternal/subordinate god/goddess) [please don't use the 2 supreme gods]*

Expression (looks angry, confused, happy, ...)*

Height (tall/short)*

Hobbies/accessories/fav weaponry

You can either DM me or reblog this.

The well of OC fanfiction for AoB is nearly dry so for the betterment of society I will be thinking about trans Archnoble girls for the conceivable future.

I feel bad for kinda derailing your "trans in Yurgenschmidt" post with my knee-jerk reaction, so I want to actually talk about it! Ignoring the transphobic possibilities, looking at some of the canon information means that it could actually be cool!

In a fanbook, Kazuki-sensei clarified that gay relationships aren't discriminated against, it's just that gay marriage isn't a thing because in Yurgenschmidt, marriage is a purely political and child-focused thing. So theoretically, as long as the union could produce a child and be beneficial to the families involved, it should be allowed. It would just mean that all straight marriages with trans people would need to be T4T (honestly pretty awesome). It also technically unlocks certain gay marriages.

Also considering that there are rituals to bring about spring and whatnot, I think Flutrane and her subordinates could definitely have a ritual to trans your gender 🤔

All good thoughts :3

I think potions made using ingredients that align with water could definitely be out there to help with it. If being trans needs to be kept in secrecy, they could do some identity laundering and undergo adoption with a close member of the family/fake a childhood death and later be re-added to the family as an "adopted" child. Though it would be cool if trans people could just exist openly, taking potions and praying to the Gods. If Flutrane was so gracious as to help her trans children, it could even mark trans people as favored in a way. Though given everyone's reactions to a later event, those kinds of blessings probably aren't given commonly. Could chalk that up to nobody praying anymore though, if we wanna have generous headcanons...

Drewanchel and Dunkelfelger are probably the two duchies (that we know of) that would be the most accepting to trans people. ("Woah.... We should research how you were able to do this!" And "Woah.... Can we play Ditter now?")

I wonder how trans people are treated in Yurgenschmidt's noble society sometimes. The core identity of being a noble is having a lot of mana, so there's a bit of me that hopes and prays that they wouldn't care as long as they kept doing their job. Maybe Flutrane would help the trans mortals who prayed to her, embracing change and healing. Though on the other hand, Noble society is so ruthlessly conservative and status-based that I fear for those who don't have the protection of someone with actual power. Worst case scenario, the Temple is always an option I guess...