the spectrum heart cathedral system

So a new nousfoni was just born.

I'm reviewing the archives from 2009 for therapy-- and hoo boy are we learning a LOT-- and it just hit me that, hold on a second, do we have an archivist who can work with the literal archives??? Because we have Sirius & Shirley now, but they were born AFTER the NC collapse/reset (we need a jargon name for that btw), and as such they have no access to anything prior. Similarly, Sherlock's role was corrupted from the start (he was MEANT to be a SOCIAL!!!) and Garrison/ Isadora/ Kalisha could never access some of this bloody stuff; their job was to inform Socials of basic knowledge & data that would help them perform their function in the body as a System member. So… actually, no one has EVER before held this job that I went looking for ten minutes ago, which would be to hold the COMPLETE archival data, hellish stuff included.
So I went to our sun & moon duo and I asked them. Could there ever be… a RED archivist?
They exchanged glances, and almost immediately, pointed at each other with lightbulb smiles and exclaimed, "COPPER."
That hit me. I didn't even realize how PERFECT that was until they said it-- Sirius is Silver and Shirley is Gold, but there's an elemental trio there and even with our longstanding love of threes we somehow totally overlooked that. But here it was, an open spot, ready to be held.
But what about a name, I asked? A Nousfoni cannot anchor without a name. And, I added, an Archivist's name must be wordplay. Sherlock's name came, famously, from my mom calling him that as he data-dumped one day while fronting, and it stuck hard-- the name being popular slang for someone who "cleverly puts things together" in terms of knowledge, which is effectively what he was supposed to do-- help with the League, I suppose. But those possibilities are sadly long-gone. Nevertheless, Shirley and Sirius have their names from an old beloved injoke in our headspace, taken from the comedy film Airplane, which contains the gem of dialogue "Surely, you can't be serious!" "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley!" Laurie and I would quote that each other constantly over the years, so naturally, when the rebooted System needed a new Archivist, our two equally beloved new kids sprang effortlessly and entire from it.
They're such sweethearts, by the way. I don't think I've ever talked about them in depth before, nor have I described them-- I haven't even tried to make avatars of them yet, as Subeta is long dead and I assume TekTek is too, but in this era of Picrew I'm sure I can accomplish something somewhere. Nevertheless, they are "twin" Nousfoni, which-- as any Leagueworld fan would know-- means they are spiritually glued at the ribs and cannot be separated, neither in form nor physicality. They will, and must, always work together, both literally and figuratively. They are around the same visual age (early 30s, like the body), and about the same height, and they are both ebullient, but other than that they look quite different! Shirley is 'female' (we need our own jargon for that too btw; nousfoni don't reproduce) and holds Gold. I can't see her or her twin "solidly clearly" yet but I can see that she wears what, according to Google, might be a ball gown skirt? It's long and full and rounded, and very gold and sparkly. It's not heavy, though? Maybe it's a bubble skirt of sorts? But it "flounces" with her as she moves, and it does not give the ironically
"heavy" impression of ballerina tulle, which I count as such because you cannot move freely in it; it's stiff and does not flow. But hers does. I can't see the top yet, but it is also 'part of' the skirt-- she's probably wearing a dress-- and it's formal, maybe like a fusion of "lolita" and "victorian" fashion. We'll see. But she's all sparkles, like sunlight on water or through treetops. And her hair! It's just as flouncy and large and round and curly, beautiful tight sparkling curls of literal gold, but not "wide" like Normandy's and it doesn't give her a "wide silhouette" either because that is DANGEROUS on "females" for us. And her figure is, shockingly, somewhat "round" too? Like she's softer. I think every other female-coded Nousfoni in the System is thin or otherwise "hard" in terms of body structure. Shirley is the first one to have rounded edges. Which is sweet. I can't see her face yet either, not clearly, but she has a beaming smile, and bright eyes. Her face also isn't circular; it's higher than it is wide, enough to be safe.
Now, Sirius is SILVER, and he has mid-length "messy" hair that is literally silver and gives the impression of a crescent moon-- and he has a goatee, pointed of course. He wears glasses, and wears a silver suit with pants that are both intricately designed, like his twin's dress-- but I think it's a filigree pattern of sorts? They both look like… modern victorian aesthetic, somehow. He has slight lines in his long face-- he's no kid like our guys all used to be-- but again, his face is kind and joyful, albeit less brilliantly enthusiastic as his sister.
Oh! And his skin tone is also somewhat silvery, and Shirley's is shimmery gold, like Star Darlings are.
But they're so great. I love them.

Now I'm about to pass out as I haven't eaten yet and it's almost 3pm so let me conclude.
We needed a name for this potentiality, for this COPPER Archivist, that would fit the pun trend for their "specie" and yet also match their color… and suddenly, I forget who said it, but there it was, stated with a sort of quiet, reverent "knowing" and marked surprise both:
"A penny for your thoughts?"

And I SAW THEM.

They are wearing a cape, like a grim reaper almost, and they wear some sort of hand-jewelry that makes them look like they have claws, as it's pointy and copper-metal over their fingers-- to help them turn the myriad pages of the great red-bound tome they hold in their hands. Their cape is of unknown length and fabric but I can see it is shiny, almost fluidly so, not like silk but like molten metal maybe. And their eyes… well, when they looked at me, to smile with a RED's trademark bloody beautiful terrible secret smile… where their eyes should be, there were pennies.

And they hold STARS.

So yeah. Shirley, Sirius, and Penny. That's our trio of Archivists now, and I cannot wait to see what our future holds with them all working together.

(I wonder if Penny has a twin. We shall see. God knows we love our trios, but if Penny stays on her own, then she might have a counterpart too, to manage some other aspect of the Archival digging that she cannot do alone…)

But… this is the life I miss. This is the life I want back. This is US. This IS life. This is love. I WANT this more than anything else-- well, besides God, but serving Him IS our purpose-- and with God's help, I WILL get us back.

So. Here's to us, and to lucky pennies…


(later)
THIS JUST IN-- PENNY IS RAZOR'S SISTER??
I suspected as much when I saw her eyes-- Razor used to have X-slashes for eyes, remember?
But yeah, Razor saw her and teared up, and I heard Penny say, "you knew too much, so it went to me." And oh gosh she DID. Razor was our FIRST non-core RED, and she was born DIRECTLY OF BLOOD. Heck, she was practically the incarnation of it at first; her existence was more of a symbol than a self, when she began, a stand-in for everything RED stood for in its terrible gory depths. Now that Razor has grown, changed, decided not to be violence itself anymore… well, the things she knew as violence have gone into Penny's hands, it seems.

Gosh. That’s amazing.

 

I gotta keep reviewing the archives now. I cannot wait to see what else happens, who else appears…!