#but finally it's done

[runawaycatwalker]

Part 25. Best Friend Erasure (Oni-Chan 2.0, part B)

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Catwalker approaches Ladybug as she stands on a roof.  She points off in a far away direction.

Catwalker: Ladybug!  Oni-Chan is back, and this time her powers are—

Ladybug: I need you to go to one of the rooftops way over there and stay right there.

Catwalker: Are you sure?  I could do more here if I—

Ladybug: Just.  Go.

Catwalker: ...Yes, Ladybug.

Ladybug swings towards a rooftop where the other heroes have congregated near a Find Adrien billboard.  Viperion looks up at Ladybug.

Viperion: Ladybug!  Why isn't Catwalker with you?  Did you talk to him about... that thing I told you?

Ladybug: We talked.  He wasn't hiding what you thought he was.

Viperion: Oh.

Ladybug stands in a ‘take charge’ pose right in front of the billboard with Adrien’s face.  Most of the heroes gather in to look towards her, but Carapace looks off towards the direction Catwalker took instead.

Ladybug: And everybody, gather around! You should all know this.  Catwalker is on probation until further notice.

Viperion: Probation?  Isn't that kind of extreme?

Ladybug: I have my reasons.  He's keeping his miraculous, but you're the people I'm going to rely on to beat the akumas.  For now, consider him an observer and just ignore him.

Carapace starts using his shield as a phone to text his girlfriend.

Carapace (texting): Rena, why is Catwalker allowed to keep his miraculous?  We *have* to stop him from causing more damage.

Rena Furtive (texting): I'm watching him, don't worry.

Cut to Rena hiding on a rooftop as she uses her flute simultaneously as a telescope to spy on Catwalker and a phone to tap out a reply to her boyfriend.

Rena Furtive (texting): But if you want to try to get more info out of him as Carapace...?  I'm sure Ladybug wouldn't mind...

Carapace leaps towards Catwalker, who looks at him suspiciously.

Catwalker: Carapace?  What are you doing here?

Carapace: Ladybug said you were alone, and I thought you shouldn't be.

Catwalker: You should go back.  Ladybug needs every hero she can get.

Catwalker perches himself on the ledge of the building he’s atop of.

Carapace: Then why did Ladybug send you all the way out here?

Catwalker: She needs me.  I just... need to wait here.  Until she comes up with a plan for how she can use me.

Carapace: If you want to help, we can always work to protect Adrien Agreste.

Carapace opens his arms wide and tries to give a disarming smile, but he can’t help but show his underlying malice.

Carapace: If you know anything at all, I'm all ears!  Even if it's something you need to keep on the down low, I can be your confidant.  I'm a hero, after all!  You can trust me to keep secrets.

Catwalker, completely uninterested in going through another round of ‘my best friend pretends to like me when I know he’s secretly mad at me’ points his finger in accusation.

Catwalker: I see what you're trying to do and I'm not going to fall for it.

Carapace: Whaaat?  I'm not trying anything!

Catwalker: Nino.

Carapace: How did—I mean, who's Nino?

Catwalker: You forgot to tell Adrien that he shouldn't reveal secret identities to anyone.

Carapace, completely off put, tries to make this new bit of information add up.

Carapace: He told you about me?  Why would that even come up?  Unless...  Did he tell you he had a superhero for a best friend to try and convince you he didn't need you?

Carapace points an accusatory finger at Catwalker. Catwalker tries to placate, but he’s distracted by a burst of red light in the distance in the direction of the other heroes.

Carapace: And then you forced him to leave when he didn't want to and—

Catwalker: You have it all wr—Oh no.

Oni-Chan rapidly teleports between temporary heroes (all of whom had just been staring towards the giant face of Adrien) and hits them with her sword in quick succession: Vesperia, Viperion, King Monkey, Purple Tigress, Polymouse, Pegasus, and Pigella are all frozen before they can do anything to fight back.

Oni-Chan: You!  Won't!  Get!  In!  My!  Way!  Anymore!

Oni-Chan lunges for Ladybug, but she manages to swing out of the way with her yo-yo and escape, unable to be tracked because she was the only member of the group who hadn’t been staring at Adrien’s face.

Catwalker: Come on!  Ladybug needs our hel—

Catwalker leaps into the sky to follow Ladybug, but as he is in midair, a green sphere forms around him.

Carapace: Shell-ter!

After the sphere hits the ground, Catwalker looks up at Carapace, who stands at the edge on top of the nearest building tauntingly.

Catwalker: I don't want to fight you.

Carapace: Good!  Because you won't be able to fight anyone!

Catwalker: Look, we're both heroes right now.  We need to be able to work together to help Ladybug.

Inside the sphere, Catwalker kneels and looks down dejectedly.

Carapace: Ladybug doesn't want your help!

Catwalker: Maybe not right now, but—

Carapace: Why did you think she sent you so far out of her way?  She can't even stand to look at you!  No one needs you.  No one wants you.  You should just give up your miraculous and save us the troub—

Carapace’s attention is caught by something happening across the skyline of Paris: with the Agreste mansion at the epicenter, a flurry of black ribbons launches into the sky, each one racing toward a Find Adrien billboard.  Where each ribbon touches, the place where Adrien’s picture should be has been replaced by an empty white void.

Carapace (to himself): What the...?  ...the Adrien billboards...  All the pictures of Adrien...  He's gone.

Carapace points down at Catwalker accusingly and brings his shield in close.

Carapace: Why couldn't you have just done nothing and let his real friends help him?  Some magic ribbons just wiped Adrien from existence!

Catwalker: That's impossible.  A sentimonster probably just got rid of the Adrien ads.

Carapace: You don't get it!  He exists nowhere!  And I'll prove it!

Carapace uses his shield to navigate to the pictures on his phone.  His hand touches at the shield when it displays a picture of Nino and Adrien smiling together, nothing erased.

Carapace: I'll show you how this picture of the two of us is—

Catwalker: Wait.  Carapace, you need to drop it.  Now.

Carapace (to himself): Huh...?

Catwalker: Adrien is alive, I promise—

Carapace (to himself): He's still here with me...?

Catwalker: —but she's going to find you if you keep looking—

Oni-Chan pops in and out of existence just long enough to stab Carapace in the back, sending his body off the edge of the building.  Below them, Catwalker looks up and destroys the sphere around him.

Oni-Chan: Begone!

Carapace: Ack!

Catwalker: No!  Cataclysm!

Catwalker leaps into the air, arms reaching towards Carapace’s petrified body, all while the shield Carapace dropped in the commotion falls next to them.

Catwalker: I've got you!

Catwalker tearfully embraces the frozen Carapace from behind.

Catwalker: I am so sorry.  For everything.

Catwalker continues to hug Carapace tight as a flood of emotions spews forth.

Catwalker: I never wanted to hide behind a mask, especially not with you, Nino.  You've always encouraged me to be myself.  Even though I've never been able to fully show you everything I am, you accepted the 'me' I could give.  It meant so much to know that you cared, not just about the idea of me, but the real me.  And now I'm less 'me' than I've ever been.  Maybe it would have been better if I did nothing. But when she tried to kill me, I just... ran.  Ran and insisted I was fine like I always do.  And now you're the one paying for my rash decisions and I feel so powerless to stop it.  I hope one day you'll forgive me.

Catwalker places Carapace’s body upright and touches his back in a gesture of farewell.

Catwalker: I wish I could talk to you for real.  But I can't.  I can't leave when I might be needed.  Even if everyone hates that I'm here, I've got to help however I can.

Catwalker gives Carapace a fist bump in one final promise of their friendship.

Catwalker: I'll come home as soon as it's safe again.  I don't know how long it'll take, but I promise I will come back.

Below is the same image as above, only without text:

#runaway catwalker #catwalker #carapace #oni-chan #akuma #ladybug #viperion #happy new year y'all #you have no idea how many obstacles got in the way of finishing this page #but finally it's done #now onto the *next* part of this akuma fight...

[unexpectedstormy]

I cannot tell you how much brain happy juice it gives me to click this button on AO3:

Literally the best feeling 👌

#geez that was a struggle to edit #but finally it's done #and I was actually getting excited about a certain scene by the time I was done rewriting it #Hyrule and Wild have a hard time

[books-are-my-life-stuff]

Thank fucking God.

(Karen was there merely to debuff special attack, to help with everyone's survival. Adding her into the team was suggested by a Pokemas player on twitter)

#personal #pokemon masters #i've been stuck with this extreme battle for far too long #especially because i've given up on getting the johto master fairs #my suffering is finally over #i was this close to skipping it #just like what i did at anniversary with lance's extreme battle #but by the grace of gods silver finally dodged something #AFTER 25+ ATTEMPTS!! #my goodness the rng is so rigged against me #with mpr not proc silver missing crits everyone missing crits and silver not dodging ANYTHING #even with +4 to +6 evasion (+6 was when I tried with OG Misty) #this is just...ridiculous #but finally it's done #no this doesn't worth 300 fucking gems at all i'm just incredibly persistent because i was always so close #oh god what a nightmare #turns out if silver can dodge something JUST ONCE he can win #literally just need to dodge once and he only could did it after 25+ attempts #my goodness what the hell is wrong with my luck since last two months it's been abysmal #anyway i'm done with this shit

[lokh]

DO YOU SEE MY VISION... DO YOU SEE WHAT THEY COULD BECOME

#laishuro #shuro #nakamoto toshiro #laios touden #dungeon meshi #delicious in dungeon #art #dungeon meshi spoilers #PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE #ok. i can already see that the colors may be. Different. becos it was worked entirely on my tablet #hopefully its still ok 💀 #namari #I FORGOT TO TAG NAMARI #ITS FINALLY DONE IVE HAD THE IDEA IN MY DRAFTS FOR LITERAL MONTHS

[onefey]

you're going about your normal day when, suddenly, surprise! you've been pokémon mystery dungeon'd!

unfortunately, due to budget cuts, the pokémon assigning quiz has been canceled. instead, you must spin THE WHEEL, assigning you a random, unevolved, non-legendary and non-mythical pokémon. you must now go on some sort of world-saving adventure as this pokémon. good luck!

tell me in the tags what you rolled, and how you feel about it - for bonus points, you can spin the wheel again for (or just take your pick of) a pokémon to be your partner.

bonus rules:

you're not shiny unless the wheel tells you you're shiny

take your pick of regional forms and evolutions (for example, if you roll vulpix, it's up to you whether that means normal or alolan vulpix)

apply whatever logic you like with regards to gender

have fun and be yourself!

#pokemon #pkmn #pokemon mystery dungeon #pmd #tag games #someone might've done this concept already but i had a worm in my brain you know. #i thought itd be fun to list all the unevolved pokemon... now i know there's only around 400 evolution lines total! #.. not counting mythicals legendaries ultra beasts or paradoxes #by the way! alongside the shiny result there are two other bonus results: an obligatory pikachu and... a surprise!!! #finally feel free to let me know if i misspelled something or accidentally included an evolved mon (other than pikachu) #sorry long tags ha 😅 i'm done now

[heart-locket-musicboxless]

•. A visit in a dream .•

#the owl house #toh #my art #cw fatphobia #toh comic #amity blight #amity toh #toh amity #green haired amity #time skip amity #time skip Luz #luz noceda #lumity #angst #toh angst #it's finally done omg #idk why it took me so long to make this but it's a great improvement from my last comic imo

[hansoeii]

this one's for you, edwin paine

#charles said he misses kissing so I did what had to be done #these two won't leave my brain #which is bad cos I REALLY need to focus on my final #but oh well #what can I do #dead boy detectives #DBD #dead boy detectives fanart #painland fanart #chedwin #chedwin fanart #my art #digital art #fanart #my fanart

[indigonite]

The image of Astarion as flamboyant Dracula was too much to ignore. So have this.

Audio from the Dracula: a Comedy of Terrors play

Nice to meet you | Baldur’s Gate 3 | Animatic

#baldurs gate 3 #bg3 #astarion #gale of waterdeep #wyll ravengard #animatic #animation #indigoniteart #so it is done im finally free

[tizzymcwizzy]

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!! i hope you get to eat a lot of candy and watch a scary movie if you celebrate :D

#idr if ive ever done a halloween themed mlb drawing #my art #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #ml #mlb #chat noir #marinette dupain cheng #marichat #halloween #happy halloween #i dressed up as ellie from tlou2 for my school's halloween party this past weekend #my hair was the perfect length :D its grown out a lot #i had a lot of fun doing that cosplay cause I just used stuff from my closet #also! it snowed today!! winter is finally here

[girlatrocity]

it's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever

inspo credits to "Veil" by @/_K0TTERl_

ochako ver

#omggg she's finally done #literally my favorite ochako I've ever drawn #love these two forever and ever and ev #pour one out for jeff buckley #bnha #togachako #mha #bnha fanart #boko no hero academia #toga himiko #my hero academia #toga #togaraka #uraraka ochako #himiko toga #ochako uraraka #mine !!

[ewwww-what]

Ugh. Literally just let her go home???

#‘can we be done now?’ in the middle of the final battle is the best thing ever #I love her so much #Ruben does actually have a juice on him for this #btw #not jace though #that fucking dick. #mary ann skuttle #best character ever made #jace stardiamond #the rat grinders #d20 #fantasy high #d20 fantasy high #dimension 20 #d20 fanart #fh #fantasy high fanart #fhjy #d20 fhjy #fhjy spoilers #not really spoilers but like #being safe about it #fhjy fanart #fantasy high junior year #finals are kicking my ASS. this is all I’ve got. #undescribed #my art

[bitemarx]

[never coming out, never coming clean]

so is baron just in the briefcase now.

#riz gukgak #baron from the baronies #baron fantasy high #to be clear: #aroace riz #my aro stuff often gets misinterpreted but ​this is abt coming out as aspec #would’ve rather done this concept more justice but its finals #d20 fantasy high #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #dimension 20 #d20 #fanart #digital art #drawing

[thekaiserroll]

Zosan comic inspired by videos of otters holding hands so they won't float away from each other.

#roronoa zoro #sanji #black leg sanji #zosan #zoro x sanji #one piece #I have finally finished it! #I posted a rough sketch of this on discord server about 9 months ago and then I just abandoned it ;-; #this psd file has been staring at me for so long and now this comic is finally done!!! #I'm so happy but also now I know I can't post my WIPs because that's what happens to them XD

[lovewritteninthestrands]

chasing clouds over rubicon

#rusty ac6 #v.iv rusty #ac6 #armored core #steel haze ortus #animation #2d animation #it’s finally done #thank god #my art <3

[kathaynesart]

REPLICA PLAYLIST

MUSIC UNDER CUT

I have been receiving requests for any songs that inspired Replica, so here, have my personal playlist. Sorry it’s not Spotify/Soundcloud but they don’t have some of these songs available so uh… guess you’re stuck with YouTube vids. For fun I'll include my personal titles for them (which might give a few hints of what to expect in the future/end).

Replica Main Theme - “Die for You” by Grabbitz Like Father Like Son Like Brother (Omega and Shelldon) - "As Above So Below" by Alistair Lindsay Mikey's Theme / The 1st Vision - "Suzume no Tojimari" by Nanoka Hara Military (Mad) Dogs / Central Park Colony - "Imperium" by Madeon Shanghai - "Icarus" by Madeon Boom Goes the Donnie-mite (Mikey/Donnie vs the Sweeper) - "The Red Zone" by Mitsuoto Suzuki The Day the Sky Bled Red - "7 Seconds Till the End" by Nobuo Uematsu Going Out Like a Boss (Raph and Leo) - "Agape" by Nicholas Britell Remembering the Right Way (Mikey and Leo) - "The Souls of Many" - by Alistair Lindsay Mystic Hands / The 2nd Vision - "Am I Dreaming" by Metro Boomin x A$AP Book 2 Trailer - "Sea Dragon" by Covet 7 Years Later - "Iron" by Woodkid Leo's Theme / Attack on the Labor Camp - "Ego Death" by Polyphia Omega's Theme - "Touch" by Daft Punk Flat Lines (Omega Alone) - "Die Toteninsel Emptiness" by 1000 Eyes Spear - "Monsters" by Tommee Profitt Final Protocol - "The Kraken" by Katie Dey Rise / Epilogue - "Close in the Distance" by Masayoshi Soken & Tom Mills

I will admit, it's a little embarrassing since you can easily see the patterns of what I've been listening to for the past year or two. I swear I listen to more than just videogame OSTs, these songs just jive well with the story and I often find lyrics distracting when brainstorming scenes. Regardless, the music I listen to is such an important part of my creative process and some of these songs really defined the scenes I now have locked in my head. So I figured it was only fair to give them the credit they're due.

I will continue to add to this playlist, and will note in comic updates when one of these songs is applicable!

#lofi Donnie anyone? #also sort of celebration for 19k followers wow #should I do something else for it? #I particularly like Leo's theme being titled Ego Death #very fitting #Also the final song makes me cry because the lyrics are just too dang perfect #I'd like to do an animatic with the song when this story is all done #check out the lyrics if you get the chance #in fact I'd like to do an animatic trailer for the Book 2 Teaser #we'll see though #i can't allow myself to get too distracted from the comic itself haha #replica #rottmnt replica #kathaynesart #playlist #music #spoilers? but like... you know how it ends in the movie so not really? #kind of? #did you see the rise movie? #then you’ve been spoiled sorry #posting again at an ungodly hour #I am tired #save rottmnt #rottmnt #TMNT #Donatello #casey jones

[tibby-art]

Win Secret Life.

#its finally done... #secret life #traffic smp #life series #trafficblr #goodtimeswithscar #pearlescentmoon #geminitay #impulsesv #scott smajor #bdoubleo100 #joel smallishbeans #martyn inthelittlewood #mumbo jumbo #ldshadowlady #jimmy solidaritygaming #bigbst4tz2 #skizzleman #tangotek #ethoslab #zombiecleo #grian #mcyt #1k