Beware A friend Shaped like an Enemy 91

Sighs. I've had to rewrite this so many times, I was supposed to have this out hours earlier, but anyway! Let's get right into it!

Fuchsia Purple (chapter `16) - the title is obviously a play on fuchsia pink, but the words and the colors clash, because I made it fuchsia purple. Clash. Get it? Wink wink nudge nudge wink wonk. Pink fights purple.

The Heir (Presumptive) (chapter 17) / The Heir (Apparent) (chapter 18) - well, we have been having a lot of heirs around here so...

Three-Dimensional Chess (chapter 19) - a type of chess later discussed by Aradia and the stranger in chapter 25

Oh Captain, My Captain (chapter 21) - this one is bit more of a stretch but - there's two captains in the title, and two Captain Americas in the chapter. Who's the real one? Who knows. 

Also notice how I write one of them in Steve's POV, so I can clearly address him as 'Steve', while the other is written in Roxy's POV, so I can only refer to him as 'the man', effectively hiding his identity and making people question if it is Steve (as Roxy, unfamiliar with Steve Rogers/Captain America, only describes what he looks like and the description is similar to what Cap should look like, so that's who the readers immediately think he is). 

This is what's fun about writing Lullaby. There's a lot of POVs I can play on, and thus I can show so many things while still hiding them in plain sight easily. Every character has different perceptions, and depending on what is happening to them or what they know and feel, it affects that perception.

I should have seriously put 'unreliable narrator' in the tags. Hm.

A voidlight, Avoid light (chapter 25) - the beginning of the chapter opens with something from Aradia's POV, and she is interacting with a Light player (all evidence points to him being a Light player - descriptions of warmth about him and his home, bright color scheme composing usually of yellow/orange/white/peach, pulling weapons/objects in a flash of light) in the middle of the Void (thus voidlight), but she's also incredibly wary of this character (thus Avoid light). It's just me trying to be clever, but, well.

From the Ground Up (chapter 26) - it's mostly just a reference to how much everyone has grown since the first chapter, but mostly for Loki, seeing as he's willing to break his story out to them (of course, the reactions aren't what he expected because everyone is just...okay relatable but also not because we don't really know Asgard's customs) when in the first chapter he hadn't reacted well to them reading Norse myths, not that it stopped them, although they were respectful about it.

Parks and Recollections (chapter 27) - an obvious reference to Parks and Recreation, but also literally refers to parks and recollections, because if you remember the earlier chapters, Steve Rogers used to go to the park to wind down, and he saw John there and painted him one day. This is that painting, coming back to serve its purpose and reveal to the Wizards of Islandy Place that yes, John Egbert is on earth and Steve knows him.

The One-Eyed Man is King (chapter 28) - In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is King. This chapter is littered with Seers. The first part, we have Rose Lalonde talking about her improved Sight (hmm wonder why that is), James Barnes talks about seeing in twos (...honestly if you haven't caught on that he's a seer yet...wyd...), and Cecil Palmer has a vision that's straining him so much he's hemorrhaging while trying to remember a number cipher.

Basically, the title refers to how the rest of the characters are 'blind' to the events that's going on in the background, while the Seers have the advantage because they can see past that. 

However, we also have to take into advantage that whoever's in the background is very actively pulling strings (personally, I call them Team Chaos because, well, they set fire to this plot more than I do), so we can't be too sure these Seers are seeing what they need to see or what Team Chaos wants them to see ;)

BASE 91

The hint for the first codes I've given is very simple, as you only have to look at the letters capitalized and lined up:

Beware 

A friend

Shaped like an

Enemy

9

1

and it gives you BASE 91. You can input that into Google and find a decoder, input the codes, and have your decoded ciphers. 

e.g: 

777angeles (7:12 PM):
o h
well i
xo(gp@ce*Tc64^jLarLg1]F1s!9/k^;m
[ intercepting communication ]

autotestifieus (7:12 PM):
Angel?

'Beware a friend shaped like an enemy' is also a hint, and is...well, exactly what it says. Beware a friend shaped like an enemy. While I've said that it's best not to trust anything until the sides have been clearly defined, well. Beware a friend shaped like an enemy.

Oh, and a hint on the upcoming number cipher. It's not binary.