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Its that time of year once more where we gather round and prep for the holidays! We're doing applications a bit differently and like last year, your giftee/Santa matches are 100% random. We hope that by doing so, it provides a clean slate for our fandom. We're also giving everyone a chance to participate this year, even if you didn't deliver your gift last year. 2020 has been very harsh, so let's make this season a good one. Don't be shy if you don't celebrate the same holidays, everyone is welcomed!

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🕎 All holidays welcomed. Please don't argue over religion or personal beliefs.

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Applications close November 21st, 2020 @ 11:59 PST.

It's November! Secret Santa will be our last event of 2020!

And with that, #talistoweek2020 has come to an end🥳🎉🎆! I'm super overwhelmed by the enthusiasm this year, and I'm happy to find new faces and friends! This week was tough for me emotionally and yall helped me through it! Thank you so much! 💚🥺💙

Please continue to support me in my work, and continue to love talisto and lolirock! Commissions will open this week, and I'll be working on the animatic on the down low lol

My favorite eps in RomCom animes were the festival ones! They're always interesting and I've always wanted to attend a festival myself! American schools have similar events but they aren't as culturally invested. I also wanted to try out @chihirohowe 's kimono tutorial! It's not perfect but I did my best! It was rly helpful. Meph gets stuck with Class President Talia who is actually kind of cute? She enjoyed the Crystalline Lights Festival back in Xeris so I wanted to mirror that ^_^

Talisto Day 6: 🎁 Giving 🎁

I'm finally going to share this one publicly. I including this wedding photo as part of my raffle around last year and sold it on etsy! Now that the year is up, I'm finally going to share this. If you notice in Tales of Ephedia, Talia wears a unique necklace. She's been wearing it for so long, people recognize it as Princess Talia's immediately.

The story behind the necklace is that it first debuted at Talia and Mephisto's wedding. Its created from Ydinoran crystals and was crafted in Zaterra as a special order and was designed by Zack's father. He wanted to incorporate her life story into it. Its a necklace of memories. It represents her past and future. Praxina presented it to her before the wedding was to start as a gift from Zaterra. Its Talia's symbol of dedication and promise to their people and the twins' thank you for their new beginning through her. Mephisto first saw it when she walked down the aisle and she's worn it ever since.

~♪ Rhythm of Your Heart ♪~ (Days 3-7)

Summary: A series of compilation  stories set in my College Alternate Universe, where the  Lolirock cast are just normal  teenagers heading off to college trying to figure out life while settling into adulthood. Musically set to the tunes of Marianas Trench. 

Ships: Talisto, Levyna, NatIris,ZackPrax, Rorissa and MattAuri a few others sprinkled in there. 

*If it’s not your cup of Tea that’s 100% fair, go enjoy  all the other awesome content from the fandom ~

**If you are here for Talisto week 2020, welcome! Hope you like  the stories!

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Talisto week Day 6 - Gift Giving

I wish I could of done more art this year but my job is determined to suck away all my free time. So I decided to let my Talisto dolls do a prompt for me!

💙Talisto Week 2020 💙

Give 'er the ol' razzle dazzle~☆

Day 4: Retro Fashion

He thinks his B+ is impressive but she's a straight A student with the highest test scores and GPA. Schools have only been desegregated a hot minute but Talia isn't going to let Principal Gramorr stop her from showing how intelligent and capable a colored woman can be. His nephew seems quite impressed by her. The highest votes went to the 50s so I went for 1950s -60s, the Civil Rights Movement. Izira I picture as a professor at a black university and outspoken civil rights activist.

TALISTO WEEK 2020

Theme of Day 3: First Kiss

For those who have read "Like Fire," you know where this is going! Its also on AO3 too. Its about an unfortunate collision leading to a first kiss and how Talia and Mephisto handle it. I'm working on an animatic for it and already have the VAs ready to go so I'm excited. I'm not that great but I hope it'll turn out alright.

Talisto Week 2020 - Day 2: Genderbend

Not my favorite prompt in the world tbh but here it is lol but I did my best? i don't think I did that great

Basically, it's a trade: the medallion for Marina, but Marina starts to wonder if her twin brother, Phoenix, would really show up, especially with the Voltan prince, Artemis, talking about his troublesome brothers. However, Prince Tulio reassures her that regardless of what Phoenix may want, Marina was the most important thing to him and that family is more valuable.

Talisto Week Day 1: Music makes us better

I love anime boys playing violin and I love the thought of Mephisto with a secret talent.

Won’t be able to participate as much this year but I have a couple things ready!

~♪ Rhythm of Your Heart ♪~

Summary: A series of compilation  stories set in my College Alternate Universe, where the  Lolirock cast are just normal  teenagers heading off to college trying to figure out life while settling into adulthood. Musically set to the tunes of Marianas Trench. Ships: Talisto, Levyna, NatIris,ZackPrax, Rorissa and MattAuri a few others sprinkled in there. *If it’s not your cup of Tea that’s 100% fair, go enjoy  all the other awesome content from the fandom ~ **If you are here for Talisto week 2020, welcome! Hope you like  the stories!

Day 2: Gender Swap

Trevyn would never admit to himself but he was regretting coming to this charity event. Sure, donating to a good cause was important to him and this would be great P.R. for the band but it really wasn’t the scholar’s scene. He would much rather be home with his books. Amber colored eyes wandered to the woman on his right chattering up a storm, he quickly got the idea that she wasn’t really looking to hear his option on anything in particular but rather her own voice. “ Ah huh” He said politely praying someone would put him out of his misery, relief came in the form of a pixie hair burgundy colored woman in an emerald dress.

“Oh! Hey, sorry to interrupt but I got to ask, are you Trevyn from Star☆Rise, could I get a selfie for my sister?” the young woman asked politely looking between him and the woman. The woman was going to dismiss her but Trevyn didn’t hesitate in taking the escape.

“I am, I’m sorry miss, I don’t want to disappoint my fans. It was nice meeting you” He politely excused himself from the conversation offering his arm to the young lady as they walked away  making a comment about better lighting over there. She coyly glanced back after they were a good distance away “ And you’re in the clear, sorry about that you looked like you were having a really tough time there.” She whispers patting his shoulder. “ You don’t come to these things often huh?” He looks down at her genuinely surprised but smiles softly in thanks “ That obvious?” She grins “ Yes, but that’s okay handsome. Stick with me. I’ll give you Myra’s party survival guide. I’m Myra by the way.“ "Myra, it’s a lovely name” he chuckles. “Thanks, so can I call you Trev?” He grins and gives a soft shrug “After that save, I suppose so” he smiles “so what’s the first step of this survival guide?” “ First off, grab a drink.” She took two glasses of champagne and handed one to him “ Secondly cheers, you’ll need it.” Trevyn taps their glasses together and takes a sip “ Cheers.” As the evening continued he found himself delighted by the company of the charming young woman. They spend their time talking about each other’s lives and interests, from his books to her love of theater. His music and lastly how she was invited to this party. Her Mother was the politician running for Mayor Moria Gray, Myra was acting as her mother’s plus one. "I’m hoping to convince her to donate to save the reptile house in the Sunny Bay. I work there every summer. I’m hoping that my pitch of “Ma, it will be good for your image, everyone loves snakes” will sell her on it. So far no luck” “The reptile house in the park, no way. We used to perform in the open theater in the park.” He smile “ Back when we were just starting out” “I know” She grins as she hums a familiar tune. “So meet me in the dark, Kiss me in the shadows of every spark~” She winks singing one of their first songs. He doubts those songs ever made it onto albums. He couldn’t help but smile and blush “ You really are a fan?” “You can definitely say that, not as much as the blonde chick who runs your fan blog but You guys are catchy and cute. It’s no surprise you got big.” Trevyn walked with her to his table pulling out her chair for her. “Thanks” She smiles “ You know you are surprisingly easy to talk to for a pop star” “I’m normally the antisocial one, you’re kinda making it easy to socialize by being so easy to talk to.” She blushes and laughs “Aw, dork. I like you. Come over to the reptile house if I manage to save it. I’ll give you the free tour” she noticed her mother calling her from across the room “ Oh boy, mom’s on a schmoozing spree, I gotta run. Later Handsome” “Bye Myra” He smiled as the thought entered his head. Arin was hoping to donate to an animal charity and Iain loves nostalgia. Perhaps he would also do it for himself, his heart did seem to speed up a bit when Myra’s eyes light up and smile at him. He blushes a bit writing down his donation and in the bonus space he added a Fundraiser concert hosted by Star☆Rise. He deposited the slip of paper in the donation box and took a seat slyly stealing a glance at Myra. Trying to convince himself that he wasn’t smitten and failing greatly when his blush spread to his ears.

~♪ Rhythm of Your Heart ♪~

Summary: A series of compilation  stories set in my College Alternate Universe, where the  Lolirock cast are just normal  teenagers heading off to college trying to figure out life while settling into adulthood. Musically set to the tunes of Marianas Trench. 

Ships: Talisto, Levyna, NatIris,ZackPrax, Rorissa and MattAuri a few others sprinkled in there. 

*If it’s not your cup of Tea that’s 100% fair, go enjoy  all the other awesome content from the fandom ~

**If you are here for Talisto Week 2020, welcome! Hope you like  the stories!

Day 1:  Music Makes Us Better~

Mephisto never felt he was musically inclined, which was odd considering he was a theater major.  Music should be by all means his bread and butter, where have you heard of a theater kid who didn’t want to break out their singing chops? Heck half of his movie heroes had done musicals, this was something he had to master. Yet here he was sitting in the plush red seat of the theater looking at the script he was handed. Nervous emerald eyes followed the bickering theater club co-presidents, Lev and Lyna as they carried on explaining the musical they had planned for the  fall  play to the excitement of the rest of the club but to him they might as well close the curtains on his performances for the fall season.  He groans, messing with hair as he left the theater heading to his dorm room.  He unlocks the door, the  sight that  greeted him lifts his spirits. “ Hey Beautiful.”  He smiles at his  girlfriend. She was sitting  cozily on the couch, her hair tied up in a bun, wearing a large sweater and leggings, reading a huge Egyptian Mythology book while petting their kitten Roku, who was napping on her lap. 

Talia  glances up from her book, her hand lifting from Roku’s head. “ Hey Handsome, you look like a man with a million thoughts. What’s up?” She hands the kitten over to  Mephisto who instantly scoops him up after tossing his backpack on the  chair and closing the door behind him. She uncurls from her spot picking up her  teacup walking to the kitchen to make more tea. “ We’re  doing a musical.” Mephisto answers, laying on the couch with the kitten on his chest playing with his tiny paws.

“Why do you say it like that?” Talia giggles mimicking his tone of  dread. 

“Like what?” He chuckles egging her on his gaze following her as she walks around the  kitchen making her tea.  “ We’re doing a Musical”  She emphasizes the word, quickly dipping back out of the kitchen so he could see her clearly placing the back of her hand over her forehead and faking a swoon. “ As if someone just  dashed your  dreams of  the Oscars, Leonardo DeCaprio.” 

Mephisto laughs “ I still stand by the  fact that he was  robbed! Damn you Academy!” He smiled at her and sat up “ Babe, when have you ever heard me sing?”

Talia muses for a moment as she got a tin of cookies from the cupboard. “ I don’t think I’ve heard you sing”  She walks over to the couch with cookies letting him pick some for himself. “ Oh thank you” He hums taking a chocolate coated orange cookie, before continuing “ Because, I  don’t sing.”

Talia froze  for a moment looking at her  boyfriend in surprise “ You don’t sing? Because you can’t? Or Because you don’t know how to?”

Mephisto gave a small laugh biting the cookie as he thought about it.  “ I guess the  latter, I never learned to sing… I never  felt the inclination”

Talia giggles softly before shyly admitting to him “… I was in a band”

“ No! You?!” He gasped looking at her in shock, his  serious, history major  girlfriend was in a band!  What!  

Could his eyes get any bigger from  excitement? No they clearly  couldn’t. 

Talia rolled her eyes and blushed as she muttered softly “ Hush, I have  hobbies. You know.”  Her lips formed into a smile “ and I can  teach you how to sing.”  He grins and kisses her “ Thank you! Okay  but you gotta tell me about the band! Who was in it?!”  He was never going to let that go now.

Talia laughs as she tells him about the band, the fun times Iris and Auriana and herself had in Lolirock.  Talia confessed she had a box of musical items she played with in her room. A midi Controller, guitar, microphone and headphones. She would on occasion write a song for fun.

The more of her secret passion she  shared the more eager Mephisto was to learn about this world of musical  sheets and notes. Slowly but surely music lessons began.

A  few weeks later Talia was sitting at her  desk  tapping her pencil to a beat she  didn’t realize had been playing  outside her door for the past hour. “Huh…”  She rose from her desk wandering out to the living room.

Mephisto was sitting at the kitchen table tapping on the midi controller as he was singing the notes she had written for his singing lessons.  He had the beginning of a  great song but what really made her smile was the  fact he was having fun with music. Talia smiles leaning on the door watching him play and experiment on his own even if the notes weren’t originally meant to be a song he was making work.

“Pop music 101: Some simple instructions, for a good first impression. Now let’s start with verse one. A minor chord, tensions grow. Fade in the bass like so…Now with momentum go… Stop! And bring the beat back It’s called four on the floor A beat you can’t ignore I bring sexy back once more, they love that for sho”

He glances up at her blushing as Talia giggles “Somehow I don’t think the last line is mine but hey it’s sounding great”  He chuckles.

“The chords are 1-4-6-4, Now I’m talking familiar Harmony in thirds not fourths. We’ll take you into the pre-Real quick now don’t you bore us. Hurry up and get to the Dumbed down, they won’t ignore us…Get to the floor! And here’s the words you should know Like “DJ never let me go” Or “shots and then we’ll lose control” Or “baby, baby, baby, baby, baby” How ‘bout one more last word like: “Hey girl we’ve only got tonight” Some things just go together like Higher, desire, and fire~”  

He laughs  “ Hey Talia, let’s  write a song together sometime”  

“ I would love to.”

Talisto Week Day 1:

I love that one of the first things Talia wants to tell her sister is that she's in a band. I think Izira loves music as well and would probably think Lolirock is very cool. So when Talia feels homesick, or misses her sister, she makes music. Mephisto doesn't know much about it, but his mother use to sing to him and Praxina so he finds himself listening to the girls play more often than he likes to admit. Izira's birthday gift to Talia is a piece from home, a Xerin piano small enough to fit in her room. The girls find him listening to Talia play it and convince her to give him lessons.

Her voice reminds me a lot of Tori Kelly's and @carmtoons helped me pick out a lovely piano unrehearsed performance she did with Jon Batiste of her song "Language."

I wanted them to be completely unaware of their feelings changing in this one. Perhaps it turned out right? Checking it out! ♡

💎 TALISTO WEEK 2020 🐍

It's that time of year again!

Talisto Week begins August 2 - August 8, 2020! Thank you all for the lovely prompt recommendations you all sent in. I tried to keep in what I thought would be fun for everyone, especially those we've been getting asks for consistently throughout the year. Of course, these are optional and we'd love anything you can come up with to celebrate! I hope everyone has a lot of fun this year, and thank you for an exciting 5 years!

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That's about it! Be sure to use the hashtag #talisto2020 so we can find your posts there too! Here's to another week! Can't wait to see what everyone creates! Be sure to find the calendar on Instagram as well!

Happy Shipping~!

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Day 3 - crush

We all been knowin they had crushes on one another 👀✨🧡💚✨