#The two apprentices

[bobellafofella]

it's not fair. you should have been mine.

#tired of being popular im going back to posting fanart for books published 30 years ago #PATIENCE CALLS FITZ MY BOY/MY SON AND/OR FITZ CRIES IN HER ARMS IN BOOK TWO PETITION!!! #assassin's apprentice #farseer trilogy #my art #forgor to sign this one. i never really know whether or not to sign like does it really matter. is anyone stealing this. who gives a shit.

[corxoran]

haunted

#asoryuu #asogi kazuma #asougi kazuma #kazuma asogi #kazuma asougi #naruhodo ryunosuke #naruhodou ryuunosuke #ryunosuke naruhodo #ryuunosuke naruhodou #cork art #don’t ask what this is supposed to be #idk #i personally like to see this as a kazuma md two different people au #masked disciple #masked apprentice #both kazuma and md would be in love with ryu obv #kazuma looks away for one minute and that weirdo is talking to his best friend again #enjoy #^^ #“the long weekend is over so i'm gonna take a break from drawing” i'm a dirty fucking liar #i couldn't NOT draw this

[valentronic]

SAVE AS I SAVE! JUDGE AS I JUDGE!

Saw X? Never heard of her can I interest you in fanart that is somehow simultaneously for Saw IV and Saw VI? How I managed to forget about my all time favorite murder man I have no idea

#not gonna get to see saw x for probably months so i’m coping by rewatching the old ones multiple times #unfortunately for everyone ever my mark hoffman hyperfixation is back #robo art #saw #saw iv #mark hoffman #daniel rigg #shockshipping #hoffrigg #not Necessarily ship art but you can totally read it that way if you want to #love these two as a duo #rigg apprentice au lives rent free in my head

[jennilah]

Amanda Young & Mark Hoffman parallels

#jenna thinks shes some kind of gifmaker again #bc i think they have more in common than they would ever admit to each other #anyway i have so many feelings abt these two i could probably scrounge up more but theyre either a stretch or this post will stretch #if u kno what i mean har har anyway it would get too long yeah. anyway if its not clear. from top to bottom: #remorse when kidnapping. self harming/substance abuse. waking up in a game theyre a part of. making sure rules are followed. #getting thrown in a thing filled with pointy stuff. sabotaging traps. and winning the reverse bear traps #mark hoffman #amanda young #saw gifs #movie gifs #horror gifs #saw #saw franchise #self harm cw #alcoholism cw #needles cw #gore cw #blood cw #horror movies #my gifs #jigsaw apprentices

[keirientez]

Pokemon trainer AU, Reborn is the champion meanwhile Tsuna is his apprentice. Tsuna’s design belongs to my friend @Cloud_Knee (Twt or X)

#katekyo hitman reborn #r27 #sawada tsunayoshi #reborn #my friend and i discussed about which pokemon would be in their team. eevee and umbreon was ther for their similar looks to r27 lol #flygon is a good candidate bc yk. leon. and for tsuna suprisingly we liked the idea of meloetta (bc meloetta has two forms like how tsuna- #-has his normal vibe and his dying will mode) #for reborn we thought of him having a liking for bug types bc of his bug communication skills. like his seasonal bug thing #we also thought of lore for a whole game which was heavily based on pokemon mystery dungeon bc we wanted death (future arc spoilers oof) #but general beginning plot is: tsuna dislikes having pokemon battles so all his pokemons are non-combat #- somehow he meets reborn (? idk maybe bro trips and got silly and he now owes reborn something). and reborn then seeing how close-minded- #tsuna is he decided to accept tsuna as his apprentice so he finally gets it #we discussed about tsuna also seeing reborn often at a lot of places but never got in contact (bc we thought of him living on a mountain idk #like how everyone cant see through reborn’s disguises but he can. so he’ll just see him around (bc reborn is hiding himself from the public) #as a champion. yeah #yeah thats about it i think. ive forgotten most of our ideas dkdgkgfhfhfj maybe another time

[clanborn]

have already had 4 murders in my current clangen game and i’m only on moon 65. these cats hate each other

#all different murderers too #two were apprentices #these apprentices are out for blood

[cart-a-hearts]

Au where Gabriela survives and completely ignores her girlfriend's murder day job

#saw #gabriela saw x #saw x #amanda young #amanda your dad lets you have two girlfriends?! #gabriela wouldnt become an apprentice but she would show up once in a while to spend time with amanda #avoids john like the plague but john thinks shes neat #amanda: I NEED TO STUDY JOHNS TEACHINGS HES A WISE MAN gabriela: lets go for a walk the stars are so pretty 2night #my art #mandy monday

[mylordshesacactus]

God though the fight choreography in Ahsoka really is next fucking level.

Like. Every so often I think fondly about the lightsaber duels in the OT because, bluntly, there weren't lightsaber duels in the OT. There were a handful of scenes in which two characters who didn't like each other much both happened to be holding lightsabers, and on some occasions they tapped the lightsabers together to make very satisfying noises. But we've now come far enough in the star war that we're getting detailed attention to genuine fighting styles, and fighting styles as character essays in themselves.

I just love it.

This show does SO MUCH characterization through physicality in combat; there's a whole meta-dialogue happening just through the portrayal of lightsaber forms and it has SO MUCH heavy lifting to do and does it WELL.

Like, for example, all the little character details that have to be PERFECT in the first two confrontations. I'm just gonna do the tower fight at the moment because the forest battle is its own whole thing and the wolfwren meetcute tower fight illustrates it just fine on its own.

Things that had to be established with little to no exposition in those two fights:

Sabine and Shin are pretty much equals, overall, in combat; BUT

Shin has her VASTLY outmatched as a duellist specifically, because she's been training in solely lightsaber combat more intensely and for longer; BUT

Shin doesn't KNOW that, because she's never fought Sabine before and all she knows is that she's facing an unfamiliar opponent who was Jedi-trained; AND

Sabine DOES know she's outmatched in this fight--she's unarmored, not a small deal for a Mandalorian, and armed only with a lightsaber that while she has trained with it pretty extensively she explicitly hasn't touched in years; BUT

Sabine is ALSO, separately, a highly skilled martial artist and hand-to-hand fighter even with the disadvantage of not being in armor. She's not a pushover or a flailing idiot.

Like it's obvious before Shin even draws that Sabine is not going to win this fight--and Sabine at least is visibly aware of it.

It's clear from their stances alone. Sabine stands and moves like a novice--not untrained, mind, but a novice. She's very cautious, very aware of her footwork, and while that's a good ready position it's extremely hesitant, she's not comfortable in it. She wastes more movement. Shin on the other hand is solid, confident, and grounded.

But not arrogant. Sabine is moving like someone with experience in combat, and Shin doesn't know her or her abilities, so she doesn't rush in at the first sign of weakness. Shin might be more immediately confident with saber combat, but she is also proceeding with extreme caution.

She lets Sabine come to her, ceding the first move in favor of giving herself a chance to read her opponent before committing to anything. And when they do start exchanging blows:

Don't get me wrong--Sabine is NOT a flailing idiot, for all this specific shot makes it look like she's leaving herself open. She's just....not fluid with her lightsaber. She drops her guard when she runs, because running with a plasma sword without burning yourself is actually extremely difficult and she's keeping that thing away from her body while moving at speed.

Her strikes are decent, but her technique is sloppy and she wastes movement--again, not in a way that suggests she doesn't know what she's doing, but in a way that highlights the gap between knowing what a technique is supposed to look like and actually being able to pull it off in a live-combat scenario.

Shin, meanwhile, is fluid, deliberate, efficient, fully in control of every movement--but, frankly, she mostly looks like an impressive threat in this fight because it's an apprentice-level skirmish between two evenly-matched opponents, and Sabine is at a stark disadvantage.

Don't get me wrong, Shin's doing very well--but in a way that highlights her main strength as being extremely solid on her fundamentals. None of these are high-level moves, almost all of them would show up in a youngling kata, and the few that wouldn't are mostly flair like this dramatic-ass battle pose.

We do see some signals that Shin's saber training is at a meaningfully higher level than Sabine's, though--she's had time to develop some of her own technique! I love the way she uses her cape as a combat asset; that's not something Baylan would have taught her, he doesn't have her highly-mobile fighting style (to put it lightly) and it feels just practical enough.

So they feel like viable rivals, Shin feels like a viable threat, and there's still a visceral awareness in the kind of choreography they're given that if Sabine fought Baylan, or Shin tried to 1v1 Ahsoka, they would not last ten goddamn seconds.

#ahsoka show #sabine wren #shin hati #it's like massively important that we don't just get like #Sick-Ass Acrobatic Awesome Lightsaber Combat at the comm tower #that would make no sense #the whole core of this series is the deep connection and delicate balance of the padawan bond #it's absolutely essential that Shin and Sabine start this series feeling like APPRENTICES #like students #it's...important. that both of them still very much NEED their master #Baylan and Ahsoka duel like two masters #Shin and Sabine don't

[shima-draws]

PMD Sky where everything’s the same except Pip is live tweeting while she and Chimchar are stuck in the future. Somehow these tweets are crossing the boundaries of time and space to end up on the guild members’ feed and it’s just shit like this with no context

#Pokemon #PMD #Pip #Piplup #Grovyle #Dusknoir #Celebi #PMD Sky #Pokemon Mystery Dungeon #PMD Grovyle #Chimchar #I don't use the t word I don't know if this is how hashtags work over there. Whatever #Shima speaks #JUST IMAGINE. The guild is in a total uproar bc their top two apprentices vanished into a portal #The next day. Sunflora screams bc she's still getting updates from Pip on her feed. #Pip is tweeting with barely any context and everyone is SO confused #Also slight hints to Pip catching Honey Nut Feelios for Grovy. #LMAO

[horrorknife]

babe, this wouldn't be the first time it will not be the last time there's no parasol that could shelter this weather

#chainshipping #saw #adam faulkner stanheight #lawrence gordon #saw 2004 #saw franchise #saw movie #song is oil and water by incubus #'chainshipping is a healthy relationship' EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER #post bathroom theywould be the most dysfunctional and horrible couple and i think thats awesome and sexy of them. #adam is spiteful and angry and lawrence is obstinate and bitchy. they live in two extremely different worlds #i just wish more ppl would willingly explore the wildly antagonistic nature of their relationship bc its intoxicating to me #to me they are like insanely possessive of each other but they have these idealized versions of one another that dont fully live up to the #person in their head #they are riddled with problems and issues but at the root of it all they care for each other and understand each other in a way no one else #ever will #so they cling to each other and learn to love each other and learn to grow together. but it takes a long time #and akgdmfglf i have such a Specific Vision for apprentice adam in my head like . most of my chainshipping ideas involve apprentice adam bc #i just love the concept too much #anyway apprentice chainshipping goes absolutely crazy. you should try it sometime #if youve read all these tags im kissing you with tongue. #my art

[ladysiryna]

Maidservant and witch enjoying their free time. *one of them is going to steal a boat this afternoon, and second one is going to hanging out with ghost* Portia Devorak belongs to The Arcana game, and other character is mine.

#The Arcana #the arcana game #the arcana mc #the arcana portia #portia devorak #the arcana apprentice #fantasy illustration #actually I imagine this two being quite good friends before one of them decided that trying to bring back to life dead person is normal #but I'm going to romance Portia next either way so... #I feel like my MC just have interest only in potential partners in crime #Siryna's art

[narsh-poptarts]

Do people like wips? idk, i like my wips. have some wips <3

they're all for class but it's an excuse to work on my oc stories <333

#wip #my art #wips #so many projects so many comics so much character design so many illustrations #all of these are for class #and im going to lose my mind over it all #the first set of 3 is for a 16 page comic #mr cowboy man is just going to be illustration #im gonna add vultures and blinding light and it'll be very fun i hope #last two are for a 2 page comic #and then i also have a 3 page comic im working on but uhhh i don't have any sketches so you can't see any sketches sorry #Jack Argyle Cassidy #wizard and apprentice #Barnes #Andromedus #robots story #The Robot #robot story #The Calamity #skull #horse skull #creepy #< cw tags #the Calamity is one creepy guy #and just to think!! there's technically more of them out there!! #Jack Cassidy #OCs #my ocs

[iwanttobepersephone]

Ok but I think I think we all forgot how Will literally SLAPPED AN ARROW OUT OF IT'S PATH AT THE LAST MOMENT ON PURE INSTINCT and Halt literally forgot that he was in an active battle for a moment just to gawk at the fact that his son just performed a miracle??????

#Everytime I remember that happened I just sit there in stunned silence for a moment or two #funny #rangers apprentice #will treaty #halt o'carrick #ra memes #ranger's apprentice #the emperor of nihon ja

[raventrigonsdaughter]

How does that song play in the Fallout season 1 finale?

My Echo

My shadow

And me

#im so ready for the season 2 of fallout #and these two dynamic #cooper howard #lucy maclean #fallout on time #fallout #the ghoul #the vault dweller #arya stark #sandor clegane #haymitch abernathy #katniss everdeen #not a ship post at all im gonna hunt u if u turn into it #mentors and their unlikely and unwilling apprentices

[artsysurvivor]

It's soo telling that Halt (a prince-become-ranger who will die if he's alone for 2 minutes) saw Will having a hard time with the death of Alyss and Maddie being a little snotty/bratty and immediately thought "you know what would work?

Ranger training"

#halt o'carrick #will treaty #madelyn altman #ranger's apprentice #rangers apprentice #he didn't immediately think that if I recall #and he certainly doesn't die in two minutes #but whatever you get the point #I still kind of headcanon that he gets the whole “I can't be alone or I'll murder someone” from being a twin but that's another can of worm #And I know some people will be like “well he only was extra grumpy because Will was gone” #Which #yeah #true #But also??? #Canonically he joined up with Crowley a couple months after nearly being drowned by his brother #like #even if he could logically say “oh he's trustworthy” #his feelings would be totally different with that #idk I'd have to read TEY/the main series to make a post about that #but that's not the point here so IDK why... my brain... went to that. .

[monboyfs-seesaw]

Sawtober Day 20 "Family"

To pretend / time will mend our pain ("A Tight-Knit Family / Love Is Blind" from Falsettos)

#sawtober #saw franchise #monsterboyf back at it shoving together two medias that have no right existing together #john kramer #amanda young #lawrence gordon #logan nelson #mark hoffman #jigsaw apprentices #billy the puppet #jill tuck