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Be still, my beating heart💓💓💓

Nora is going to kill me one day and this pairing will trample over my corpse on their merry way to a happily ever after✨💚✨

El payaso misterioso y la Extraña chica que luce como un Toons antiguo le pertenece a @monabysss

La Spinel con cabello de flor y la Nora con los labios pintados es de @pinkstevenflower

Bueno esto me resuelve algunas dudas

Hi! How are you? I've been reading your Au for a long time and I like it! You handle it well and I find the relationship between Nora and Steven as siblings beautiful, I really like Nora's design as it is a kind of union of Greg, Rose and Pearl! Which can be identified well but I have a question, I have been reading another Au and in this case it is a bit confusing but let's say that Steven is Pearl's son (which I know is not Greg's but the mystery girl's) and there is a fact in which Steven cannot say what the pearl should not say, in this case Rose is Pink Diamond, so here it is almost the same? Is Nora able to say what the pearl couldn't, or is she speechless and reflexively covers her mouth without knowing why?

(Sorry for my English but I'm someone who speaks Spanish)

Thank you very much for all your praises! I'm aware of the AU you're talking about, it's a good one so far.

I'm mostly responding to this to let everyone know that I'm not ready to discuss what limitations Nora may or may not have as a result of having Pearl's Gem. I feel if I answer one way or another, it could be spoilery, and I don't want to do that. So, for now, I just want Nora's skills, abilities, and limitations to be secret until they're revealed in the story. :) Thank you for the question, too!

spare no ear to his lies

cute dead kids turned into divine swords for a jack-of-all-trades former god of calamity, what a premise

----------------------THE FALL OF A GIANT----------------------

Nora by @my-mayckenoragami

@my-mayckenoragami

@kurolini909

Ask my Goosebumps OC's!

Marilith; The robot puppet Naga. She was created to spark fear into children as a gimmick yet seems to not want to harm them at all. The three snakes on her head seem to be sentiant. Martin, Barton, and Lazarus

Serephina the fairy princess marionette. She was created by an old puppeteer to cheer up his granddaughter; she was designed for a play were she is a fairy princess. So she dedicates herself to fulfill her role.

Nora, the porcelain doll; she works with cosmic and moon magic ✨ yet oddly...she's stuck in a bird form...and I don't know where she is at the moment but I get notes on her replies

Briar Vinter; a vampire countess from the 1600 hundreds. She has immense amount of blood on her hands. She is a truly cruel temptress of the night

Danny and Mr.freeze

So Danny's going to college in gothem U for engineering, but... he also doubles because he's learning things to be ghost king

Frostbite and undergrowth are teaching him about medical hearbs and proper medical information, and because their amazing doctors they dont know when to stop the medical information because theres always better ways to treat something

He's also getting combat lessons from fright knight and skuller

Johnny 13 is helping him with engineering

And ember convinced (threatoned Convinced whats the difference?) Danny to do some music lessone

That on top of human school, bills, his job and the daily stress of gothem he's more sleep deprived then he was in his teens

So one day after he just finished with frostbite, he opened a portal to go home but...

He miscalculated

Rather then his apartment he ended up in Mr.Freeze's hideout...the same one noras being held in

Mr.freeze is,obviously, freaked out by the teenager that opened a portal into his lab

It took him a good few moments to figure out this kid is so sleep deprived he must have missed his mark and ended up here, he dosent trust him, but he understands now

Danny on the other have is still in the medical mindset so when he sees and recognises nora is sick he immediately goes to help without really knowing whats going on

Mr.freeze when he saw the kid was about to touch nora was about to get rid of the kid...

But then he started mummbleing

About medical knowledge, mr.freeze watched as this sleep deprived kid figured out and cured nora in the span of 6 hours

And since danny kept "sleep talking" mr.freeze followed what he did and he was...shocked this teenager knew how to figure out she was sick and cured her...

After danny was done he did what he intended to do at the far frozen and opened a portal back home

As soon as he left dr.freeze tested and ...she was cured, after all this time and energy...she was cured.

And he didnt know who to thank

.

.

.

It was about a month later that danny opened his apartment to see a man in a walking freezer and a pretty woman in a red dress outside his apartment

Danny sighed and cursed his sleeping habits

Ohhh, the LIs are hot

Introducing: 

🐺Ezra The Big Bad Wolf🐺   

🧹Nora The Witch🧹 

And our first main character! She’s a free spirit who always believed magic was real. She will be able to romance either Ezra or Nora!

✨Nora will debut on 6/6 and Ezra on 7/17!✨ 

CHEKA & NORA || TWST

Art made by @yaoyaobae! If you see this and want it down, I’ll try to take it down

Danny and Mr.freeze

So Danny's going to college in gothem U for engineering, but... he also doubles because he's learning things to be ghost king

Frostbite and undergrowth are teaching him about medical hearbs and proper medical information, and because their amazing doctors they dont know when to stop the medical information because theres always better ways to treat something

He's also getting combat lessons from fright knight and skuller

Johnny 13 is helping him with engineering

And ember convinced (threatoned Convinced whats the difference?) Danny to do some music lessone

That on top of human school, bills, his job and the daily stress of gothem he's more sleep deprived then he was in his teens

So one day after he just finished with frostbite, he opened a portal to go home but...

He miscalculated

Rather then his apartment he ended up in Mr.Freeze's hideout...the same one noras being held in

Mr.freeze is,obviously, freaked out by the teenager that opened a portal into his lab

It took him a good few moments to figure out this kid is so sleep deprived he must have missed his mark and ended up here, he dosent trust him, but he understands now

Danny on the other have is still in the medical mindset so when he sees and recognises nora is sick he immediately goes to help without really knowing whats going on

Mr.freeze when he saw the kid was about to touch nora was about to get rid of the kid...

But then he started mummbleing

About medical knowledge, mr.freeze watched as this sleep deprived kid figured out and cured nora in the span of 6 hours

And since danny kept "sleep talking" mr.freeze followed what he did and he was...shocked this teenager knew how to figure out she was sick and cured her...

After danny was done he did what he intended to do at the far frozen and opened a portal back home

As soon as he left dr.freeze tested and ...she was cured, after all this time and energy...she was cured.

And he didnt know who to thank

.

.

.

It was about a month later that danny opened his apartment to see a man in a walking freezer and a pretty woman in a red dress outside his apartment

Danny sighed and cursed his sleeping habits

So, what’s the deal with Nora?

Norasquad, how are we doing? Whew.

My thoughts are everywhere but I’m gonna try to make this as cohesive as possible. Thanks Nana at @hellanoragami​ for brainstorming with me! TW for discussions about miscarriage and stillbirth and all that it entails, disease, death, very brief mention of abortion, one potentially upsetting photo of starving children, all that not-so-good stuff. 

I believe that Nora is the spirit of a baby that was miscarried or stillborn. Some more thoughts and theories, as scattered as they may be, under the cut since it’s gonna be a little image-heavy.

Right off the bat, here are some things that make Nora’s state pretty clear:

Her words that she’s just a “fake little girl” (aka, she’s not actually, physically a child but a baby who died before she could really even live and be a “person” in the loosest sense of the words), her apparent jealousy that Hiyori was born “normal”, Nora expressing how she “wanted to be a girl” just like Hiyori (she uses onna no ko here, "little girl”, like in the previous sentences), her squished, bug-eyed, distinctly baby features...

Nora’s tail coming out of where her umbilical cord should have been...

...And her turning into a literal baby curled into fetal position before falling into a circular pond full of water, which just... wow, not even subtle there, just smacks of womb imagery. (And here we thought Nora was associated with water because she was drowned as a child, not because of its association with embryonic fluid!)

And, of course: the “memories” Yato saw when he first named her. Darkness (of the womb), a heartbeat (her mother’s), and muffled sounds (from outside the womb, as fetuses can hear sounds from around 18 weeks). Father likely didn’t tamper with her memories - she had no memories other than that in the first place.

So, Nora’s a baby. What now? How can she even be a shinki?

Well, my friends, in Buddhist mythology (yes, it always comes back to Buddhism when it comes to Trash “I was a Buddhist priest probably” Dad), everyone has a soul - and by that, I mean everyone. That includes the souls of aborted, miscarried, and stillborn babies, who are sentenced to stack stones on the shores of the mythical Sanzu River as penance since they have not acquired enough good deeds to cross to the other side and pass over.

(On the far right.)

Since the Sanzu River doesn’t seem to be a thing (unless Adachitoka is giving us a double-meaning here, with Nora having to be close to water metaphorically representing the Sanzu River that the souls of departed children must stack stones by) in Noragami, I’m guessing that the souls of all these children stay on the Near Shore and take the form of older children once named, if not already corrupted (but that’s not a problem for Father). Since even the souls of those who have passed on before they could really “live” have enough agency and innate identity to stack stones in the first place, they would easily have enough identity - a requirement for something to be named correctly - to be named and used as shinki.

Side note: Nora’s chest in her ayakashi form looks a lot like that of a child who has been starving.

Which brings me to my next point!

Why the Fuck Did Father Name A Random Stillborn Baby Spirit

It’s one thing to see a baby god born out of your wish and be like “Oh yeah, I’ll tell this little kid to slaughter a bunch of people when he grows a little older” but it’s another thing entirely to see the corrupted spirit of some random stillborn baby and think “Oh yeah, this will make a great shinki.” It’s insanity, even for Father.

.... Unless Nora wasn’t just a “random stillborn baby spirit.”

Let’s backpedal a little bit to Chapter 60.

As @invertedgoogle​ pointed out in a mutual Discord server we’re in, the scenery looks dead, dry, as if in the middle of a drought. Of course, droughts mean less food for an already usually-hungry populace of commoners, which means malnutrition, which means disease... conditions terrible for carrying a baby and both mother and child making it out alive.

And even if there was no drought, commoners had hard lives in the Heian period - they depended on good harvests for food (fun fact: malnutrition can cause stillbirths and miscarriages) and entire communities were devastated by diseases such as smallpox.

Smallpox, which can leave pockmarks, even on the face. I know a lot of people read the translation that mentioned her as a “freckled woman” but it is in fact specifically “girl with a pockmarked face.” Father’s “precious person”, who Izanami took the form of when he entered the Underworld.

I’m suspecting that Nora was, indeed, not some random corrupted baby wandering around but his own stillborn daughter with Pockmarks who might’ve died in childbirth as well since childbirth was pretty dangerous to even a healthy, fed woman before modern medicine but idk it’s a theory, who died in the womb before she could be born and named. Disease, malnutrition, and severe deformities/defects are all legit reasons for a stillbirth.

Why Father even calls himself “Father” (it seems like his ayakashi innately know to call him that), why he might’ve gotten the Brush, what pushed him to hate Heaven so much, why he bothers to have this patchwork “family” and“play house” in the first place with Nora and Yato, why he’s so emotionally unavailable towards Nora - all things that start to make a lot more sense once I started thinking about this theory.

I’ll just leave you guys with an excerpt from @echodrops​‘s Chapter 78 analysis:

The concept of “playing house” in Noragami is very interesting. It only comes up in the context of gods and humans; we’ve seen it three now in the context of (what is likely) a god playing house with a human: Kofuku hurt Daikoku by trying to “play house” and raise a child; Bishamon hurt her shinki (and was hurt by her shinki) for trying to foster a motherly relationship with them; and Father pretended at kindness and care for his “children” while they were all aware of the real truth.

You could argue that one of these things is not like the other–both Kofuku and Bishamon did what they did out of love, while Father is evil–but I wonder if the third case is really that much different than the first two. Why did Father raise Mizuchi and Yato like his children? Was this a one-sided endeavor in which he bought their loyalty with occasional moments of kindness? Is that all there is to it? Or is there something else going on here?

How much of Father’s “playing house” was pure cruelty… and how much of it might stem for a desire for the very thing Heaven denied him?

Anyway, I’m #1 Clown, signing out and dying on this probably-crack hill.

Edit: I’m stupid and forgot to mention how Pockmarks’ death could be tied to Heaven. Remember, when there is chaos in the Far Shore and between gods, upheaval on the Near Shore follows... chaos, failed harvests, disease, and the chain continues... I’ll leave it at that.

Hiiro and Amaterasu is like baby on baby violence, Yukine is having mental breakdown after mental breakdown, and Baby Father internalised his self-defence as "sin" and decided to be the meanest fish in the pond. But at least Yato is "the necessary one", even if I'm not sure whether he would like to be that or not. (...If you have some comforting/soothing Hiiro fic recs, could you spare some?) Also, do you think Amaterasu can remove names that were written by Kotonoha?

Yeah, if one of the babies in question had a significant and unfair advantage over the other! I know we probably don't have the full story yet but I am currently a little bit pissed at Amaterasu for her dismissive attitude so I cannot see her as baby, I gotta get through wanting to squish her like a bug first LOL.

Well, nothing new about Yukine there, he's been having one long continuous breakdown for the last (checks chapter release schedule) year worth of chapters?

Baby Father internalised his self-defence as "sin" and decided to be the meanest fish in the pond

Ooh, can you elaborate on Baby Father internalizing self-defense as "sin"? I don't think I've picked up on that reading. Man, Father's behavior still reminds me so much of early manga Yukine... like, yeah, he absolutely decided to be the meanest fish in the pond. Be on the defensive all the time to protect yourself, get them before they can ever get you. Trauma is a bitch.

Unfortunately, I don't have any Hiiro fics to recommend, sorry! I'm not much of a fic reader, except when the brain rot gets really bad. I usually just check the Fujisaki Kouto tag for fics and call it a day lol/

As for the Koto no Ha names... I would say no? Perhaps the names are also in the "realm" of Izanami where the sun doesn't reach so she has no control over it. I really hope so, because otherwise... Yukine, Father, AND Nora are all toast.

Father, please pull through and kick Amaterasu's ass lol...

Father looking like he was about to give up and just let Yato kill him, Nora telling Father that she loves him, and those words echoing on the second page... after which Chiki/Father block the incoming blow.

I am so not okay right now.

Noragami Volume 26 insert art + omakes

I like them lots💚

jaybnow.hr: Passed out...

Dad is mine but... ? Is there a problem..?

@jaybnow_hr: Why were you nervous...?

It's too intense... it hurts... no...

It's so cute I can't stand it...

my situation now

I want to make Nora plus sized, because she's meant to be Thor and have a huge appetite. But I'm hesitant, because I don't want to make her seem like a fat joke, any tips on how to balance that? I mean, other than the obvious have other plus sized characters, but that doesn't change the issue of having the fat character within the core teams as the one who loves pancakes, ya know?

no that's completely understandable, especially considering how the mcu treated thor's weight gain as a "morality flaw" & that he'd "let himself go" instead of dealing with the underlying depression & trauma.

the fact that you're self aware of the harmful tropes that can follow is good! honestly nora is varied & nuanced enough as a character in theory that her being plus sized shouldn't come off as a stereotype or like it's "troping" her: & you're aware of tying her appetite to being a "fat joke" as harmful.

there would be a basis behind nora being plus sized anyways due to her food insecurity because of her history of homelessness & lack of food: humanizing that trait & not making it a joke at her expense but rather just an endearing trait avoids this issue i think. kind of like choji / chocho from naruto!