#death (character)

[uxuec]

Elowen and Death

Elowen and Death have been friends for centuries, their stories intertwined more than once. Death is commonly known by mortals as “The white lady” and it’s no coincidence that the birds call Elowen that too. For their similar appearance, they often have mistaken Elowen for Death and that’s why they think it’s a bad omen to bother the forest spirit.

I’ll explain more about them when I post the comic page I made to explore their relationship! They’re standing in Death’s realm “The Unknown” ✨

[OCs] Elowen (they/them) is a young and naive forest spirit who loves mortals and Death (she/her) is the friend who accompanies you in your last walk before returning your stardust to the land and bidding you farewell.

#characterdesign #illustration #digitalart #originalcharacter #oc #character design #characterart #fantasyart #elf #ocart #comiccharacters #comicartist #artist on tumblr #artistontumblr #death character #death art #lamb art

[acidhydraart]

"I WANT MY EYES BACK, YOU SON OF A BITCH"

based on a brief thought I had regarding a character in my rimworld playthrough, Dek "Drowner" Skary, who came back from death at the cost of her sight

#art #artists on tumblr #my art #original #fantasy #sci fantasy #rimworld #rimworld art #rimworld inspired #grim reaper #death character #skeleton #waster #rimworld waster #sword #greatsword #small artist #digital art

[viridian-forest-collective]

Joe: *what's worse than telling him I'm literally death... OH YEAH!*

Joe: I'm the IRS, now gimme your taxes.

#meet joe black #joe black #joe #death #death character #immortal #immortals #pls somebody #someone get this pls #i need more characters like him #i NEED to consume more characters that are literally death #give me more content somebody pls #i need more immortals #i need the bittersweet endings that immortals with no control of the inevitable have #i need it #pls #give this to me #im crying #please #nothing is worse than death and taxes #bro #bro please #gove polly a cracker and shove this gorgeous sad content down my throat

[deerayled]

Did you ask yourself why Ray calls Death ‘Dee’? Well, now you know why. It’s really just that simple.

She seems happy with it. And Ray still doesn’t know what she needs his help with.

#webcomic #webtoon #death character #deerayled #original story #original work #original characters #comic

[nervousloveheart]

character of death

this is how I imagine other social media platforms and other generations interacting with the character death from puss in boots the last wish: let's talk philosphy.

tumblerites and gen z: *plays with air and giggles* so do you wanna date? kinda nervous.

#puss in boots the last wish #puss in boots last wish wolf #death character #death #character of death #puss in boots

[scorchedhearth]

characters who dig themselves out of their graves (whether literal or metaphorical) are at the top of the list. nothing beats a character who should have died but didn't and comes back to haunt their own life and the world around them, benevolent or violent it doesn't matter, it's enthralling either way

#realizing that many of my ocs follow that pattern #as do other characters i fixate on in a strict or loser definition #its so.... <33 #to live beyond death

[frownyalfred]

It actually makes a lot of sense that Bruce was one of the few people left standing in the crowd at Haly’s Circus when Dick’s parents died.

Watching two innocent people plummet to their deaths is gruesome. It’s shocking. It can be horribly traumatic, depending on the blunt force trauma of hitting the ground. They might not have died right away. They might have bled and made awful noises that were heard even above the sounds of the crowd.

But Bruce is Batman. Bruce saw his parents get murdered right in front of him. And he knows the sounds and sights of someone dying. He’s hardened himself to stay calm in a situation like that, both through trauma and practice.

I think the image of a young Dick Grayson making eye contact with the one unshaken person in the crowd is chilling. A man standing resolute when everyone else is screaming, sadness etched across his face. But not panic. Not confusion. Resignation, maybe.

#yada yada #morning thoughts #saw a comic panel and got carried away #anyway i might write this if anyone wants to hear more #bruce wayne #batman #dc #dick grayson #Robin #flying graysons #haly’s circus #tw injuries #tw character death

[hawkmothdiemotte]

Death and fashion are sisters who thrive on endings

#my stuff #my artwork #my art #death character #fashion character

[prokopetz]

I love that Supergiant's answer to "how can we possibly follow up on the first game's rebellious failson protagonist" is to make the sequel's protagonist an earnestly dorky honour-student-with-impostor-syndrome type whose college major is murder.

#gaming #video games #hades ii #hades #melinoë #supergiant games #character design #violence mention #death mention #hades ii spoilers #hades spoilers #spoilers

[mpekamitzii]

Tfw your shapeshifter friend forgets how to turn back into a human and has a crisis

#Allergies straight up kicking my ass rn but I'm thinking about them #Death strands #original character #art #drawing #Digital art #Comic #Original story

[basketcasemp3]

this doesnt seem like a popular opinion on here but sometimes i like when characters die. sometimes its needed to raise the stakes and sometimes its the end best befitting of the character and sometimes its needed to move the narrative forward and sometimes its the only way a character would believably leave their story behind and sometimes it just spices things up a bit. sometimes its fun to watch characters die . sorry

#text #personal #if death is done badly dont get me wrong. i hate that #but every day i see posts complaining abt characters dying and no offense but. for why

[uxuec]

The Unknown

“The Unknown is outside the mortal realm, but also inside. It is nothing yet it is everything. The spaces unused, the words never said, the darkness of night, the shadows in a summer day, a truth never told. Two sides of the same coin. I made sure it looked beautiful so mortals could feel peace after a life of regrets and worries. To live the present for the first and last time”

[OC] Death (she/her) and Elowen (they/them)

More under the cut! 🌿💚

A little description of “The Unknown” (also called Death’s realm or Death’s garden) taken from a scene I wrote between her and Orris (MC), where Death explains to The Princess how her realm works.

Elowen and Death have been friends for centuries. Mortals call Death “The White Lady” and it is no coincidence that the birds call Elowen that too. For their similar appearance they are often mistaken, that’s why birds think it’s a bad omen to bother the forest spirit.

The Unknown is an evergreen garden as vast as the eye can meet, stuck in an eternal spring. No sunlight can enter but, centuries ago, Life gifted Death the warmth of the sun, the reason why every day is warm like those perfect spring days, with a soft breeze and the aroma of a thousand flowers. The garden is as infinite as nothing can be. On a hill there, between sweet flower bushes and trees, there’s a small cottage where Death lives and where she invites visitors for tea and honey bread.

The Unknown can only be accessed when a mortal dies. There Death takes their stardust and gives it back to the land, where it belongs. After a friendly chat and a walk through the gardens she bids them farewell. Some exceptions have been made where people have gone in and out of The Unknown unharmed (mostly), an unusual thing to happen, but not impossible. Elowen is one of those cases.

Aesthetically, The Unknown looks like an old watercolor or oil painting, with a soft background and more pastel looking colors. There Death has the ability to see, unlike in the mortal realm, where she’s blind.

#characterdesign #illustration #digitalart #oc #originalcharacter #character design #characterart #fantasyart #ocart #elf #forest fairy #fantasystory #fantasy character #fantasy #fantasy art #death character #death art #comiccharacters #comicpanel #comicpage #comicartist #comicart #comic #originalillustration #original ocs #originalstory #artistontumblr #artist on tumblr

[ochibrochi]

🐣 ok we are so back………..

#damian wayne #batman and robin #batman #dc comics #i just found out damian is still the character i have have drawn the most to this very day 🤡 #i just finished replaying arkham asylum #i am playing arkham city #i just spent $81 to finish my B&R n52 collection #when i say we are so back i mean it #but for how long????????????????? #too scared to read the new stuff bc apparently they put damian on trial and sentenced him to character growth DEATH

[viridian-forest-collective]

Just watched the movie Meet Joe Black and it is the most angel/generally nonhuman coded movie on earth (ignore that it literally states that he is Death).

Joe gives '"What are you?" "An angel" "What's your name?" "Satan" ' energy and it's literally perfection.

#It's the gentlest immortal movie with all the hard edges of reality (and also brad pitt) #angel #angel vibes #death #death character #brad pitt #somebody pls watch it i need someone to understand #girl shes so accommodating for his autistic ass #ik hes immortal and doesn't spend a lot of time with humans and he plays that part so well #literally the most realistic portrayal of an immortal that I can imagine #most of the characters are perfect and wholesome

[bixels]

Learning that fans hated Applejack and called her "boring" is crazyyy to me because I genuinely, unironically believe AJ's the most complex character in the main six.

Backstory-wise, she was born into a family of famers/blue collar workers who helped found the town she lives in. She grew up a habitual liar until she had the bad habit traumatized outta her. She lost both her parents and was orphaned at a young age, having to step up as her baby sister's mother figure. She's the only person in the main gang who's experienced this level of loss and grief (A Royal Problem reveals that AJ dreams about memories of being held by her parents as a baby). She moved to Manhattan to live with her wealthy family members, only to realize she'll never fit in or be accepted, even amongst her own family. The earlier seasons imply she and her family had money problems too (In The Ticket Master, AJ wants to go to the gala to earn money to buy new farm equipment and afford hip surgery for her grandma).

Personality-wise, she's a total people-pleaser/steamroller (with an occasional savior complex) who places her self worth on her independence and usefulness for other people, causing her to become a complete workaholic. In Applebuck Season, AJ stops taking care of herself because of her obsessive responsibilities for others and becomes completely dysfunctional. In Apple Family Reunion, AJ has a tearful breakdown because in she thinks she dishonored her family and tarnished her reputation as a potential leader –– an expectation and anxiety that's directly tied to her deceased parents, as shown in the episode's ending scene. In The Last Roundup, AJ abandons her family and friends out of shame because believes she failed them by not earning 1st place in a rodeo competition. She completely spirals emotionally when she isn't able to fulfill her duties toward others. Her need to be the best manifests in intense pride and competitiveness when others challenge her. And when her pride's broken, she cowers and physically hides herself.

Moreover, it's strongly implied that AJ has a deep-seated anger. The comics explore her ranting outbursts more. EQG also obviously has AJ yelling at and insulting Rarity in a jealous fit just to hurt her feelings (with a line that I could write a whole dissection on). And I'm certain I read in a post somewhere that in a Gameloft event, AJ's negative traits are listed as anger.

Subtextually, a lot of these flaws and anxieties can be (retroactively) linked to her parents' death, forcing her to grow up too quickly to become the adult/caregiver of the family (especially after her big brother becomes semiverbal). Notice how throughout the series, she's constantly acting as the "mom friend" of the group (despite everything, she manages to be the most emotionally mature of the bunch). Notice how AJ'll switch to a quieter, calmer tone when her friends are panicking and use soothing prompts and questions to talk them through their emotions/problems; something she'd definitely pick up while raising a child. Same with her stoicism and reluctance at crying or releasing emotions (something Pinkie explicitly points out). She also had a childhood relationship with Rara (which, if you were to give a queer reading, could easy be interpreted as her first 'aha' crush), who eventually left her life. (Interestingly enough, AJ also has an angry outburst with Rara for the same exact reasons as with EQG Rarity; jealous, upset that someone else is using and changing her). It's not hard to imagine an AJ with separation anxiety stemming from her mother and childhood friend/crush leaving. I'm also not above reading into AJ's relationship with her little sister (Y'all ever think about how AB never got to know her parents, even though she shares her father's colors and her mother's curly hair?).

AJ's stubbornness is a symptom of growing up too quickly as well. Who else to play with your baby sister when your brother goes nonverbal (not to discount Big Mac's role in raising AB)? Who else to wake up in the middle of the night to care for your crying baby sister when your grandma needs her rest? When you need to be 100% all the time for your family, you tend to become hard-stuck with a sense of moral superiority. You know what's best because you have to be your best because if you're aren't your best, then everything'll inevitably fall apart and it'll be your fault. And if you don't know what's best –– if you've been wrong the whole time –– that means you haven't been your best, which means you've failed the people who rely on you, which means you can't fulfill your role in the family/society, which makes you worthless . We've seen time and time again how this compulsive need to be right for the sake of others becomes self-destructive (Apple Family Reunion, Sound of Silence, all competitions against RD). We've seen in The Last Roundup how, when no longer at her best, AJ would rather remove herself from her community than confront them because she no longer feels of use to them.

But I guess it is kinda weird that AJ has "masculine" traits and isn't interested in men at all. It's totally justified that an aggressively straight, misogynistic male fandom would characterize her as a "boring background character." /s

At the time of writing this, it's 4:46AM.

#mlp #yeah i wrote this last night during insomnia. #yeah i know an embarrassing amount of crap about this kids show #but whatever it's my hyperfixation i'll store as much useless information as i want!!! #i'm gay and neurodivergent i have an excuse #in case you needed more proof that aj's my favorite character #personal #delete later #unless you like this analysis stuff #i get why they didn't reveal aj's parent's death until way later and why they didn't do much with it but i wish they did #cuz narratively there could've been so much material with aj's grief. like. i feel like we gloss over the fact that she lost her #mother and father as a teenager #i tried keeping my personal hcs out of this to keep it unbiased #but i'll put some in the tags #involving rarijack –– i think aj can be (but not always) very self-conscious about her relationship with rarity #anxieties that she's not the right fit or that rarity will move away and leave her some day or that another woman will take her attention #(like in rollercoaster of friendship?? nudge nudge??). basic seperation anxiety stuff #long post #regarding applebloom whenever i think about her and her parents i think about that scene in steven universe where steven looks up at #a portrait of his mother and openly wonders what kind of sack lunches she would've made for him. that episode still fucks me up

[stromblessed]

Mizu, femininity, and fallen sparrows

In my last post about Mizu and Akemi, I feel like I came across as overly critical of Mizu given that Mizu is a woman who - in her own words - has to live as a man in order to go down the path of revenge.

If she is ever discovered to be female by the wrong person, she will not only be unable to complete her quest, but there's a good chance that she'll be arrested or killed.

So it makes complete sense for Mizu to distance herself as much as possible from any behavior that she feels like would make someone question her sex.

I felt so indignant toward Mizu on my first couple watchthroughs for this moment. Why couldn't Mizu bribe the woman and her child's way into the city too? If Mizu is presenting as a man, couldn't she claim to be the woman's escort?

However, this moment makes things pretty clear. Mizu knows all too well the plight of women in her society. She knows it so well that she cannot risk ever finding herself back in their position again. She helps in what little way she can - without drawing attention to herself.

Mizu is not a hero and she is not one to make of herself a martyr - she will not set herself on fire to keep others warm. There's room to argue that Mizu shouldn't prioritize her quest over people's lives, but given the collateral damage Mizu can live with in almost every episode of season 1, Mizu is simply not operating under that kind of morality at this point. ("You don't know what I've done to reach you," Mizu tells Fowler.)

And while I still feel like Mizu has an obvious and established blind spot when it comes to Akemi because of their differences in station, such that Mizu's judgment of Akemi and actions in episode 5 are the result of prejudice rather than the result of Mizu's caution, I also want to establish that Mizu is just as caged as Akemi is, despite her technically having more freedom while living as a man.

Mizu can hide her mixed race identity some of the time, and she can hide her sex almost all of the time, but being able to operate outside of her society's strict rules for women does not mean she cannot see their plight.

It does not mean she doesn't hurt for them.

Back to Mizu and collateral damage, remember that sparrow?

While Mizu is breaking into Boss Hamata's manse, she gets startled by a bird and kills it on reflex. She then cradles it in her hands - much more tenderly than we've seen Mizu treat almost anything up to this point in the season:

She then puts it in its nest, with its unhatched eggs. Almost like she's trying to make the death look natural. Or like an accident.

You see where I'm going with this.

When Mizu kills Kinuyo, Mizu lingers in the moment, holding the body tenderly:

And btw a lot of stuff about this show hit me hard, but this remains the biggest gut punch of them all for me, Mizu holding that poor girl's body close, GOD

When Mizu arranges the "scene of the crime," Kinuyo's body is delicate, birdlike. And Mizu is so shaken afterward that she gets sloppy. She's horrified at this kill to the point that she can't bring herself to take another innocent life - the boy who rats her out.

MIZU'S ONE MOMENT OF SOFTNESS AND MERCY, COMING ON THE HEELS OF HER NEEDING TO KILL A GIRL TO SPARE HER THE WORST FATE THAT THIS RIGID SOCIETY HAS TO OFFER WOMEN, AND TO SPARE A BROTHEL FULL OF INNOCENT WOMEN WHO ARE THE CASTOFFS OF SOCIETY, NEARLY RESULTS IN ALL OF THEIR DEATHS

No wonder Mizu is as stoic and cold as she is.

And no wonder Mizu has no patience for Akemi whatsoever right before the terrible reveal and the fight breaks out:

Speaking of Akemi - guess who else is compared to a bird!

The plumage is more colorful, a bit flashier. But a bird is a bird.

And, uh

Yeah.

I like to think that Mizu killing the sparrow is not only foreshadowing for what she must do to Kinuyo, but is also a representation of the choice she makes on Akemi's behalf. She decides to cage the bird because she believes the bird is "better off." Better off caged than... dead.

But because Mizu doesn't know Akemi or her situation, she of course doesn't realize that the bird is fated to die if it is caged and sent back home.

Mizu is clearly not happy, or pleased, or satisfied by allowing Akemi to be dragged back to her father:

But softness and mercy haven't gotten Mizu anywhere good, recently.

There is so much tragedy layered into Mizu's character, and it includes the things she has to witness and the choices she makes - or believes she has to make - involving women, when she herself can skirt around a lot of what her society throws at women. Although, I do believe that it comes at the cost of a part of Mizu's soul.

After all, I'm gonna be haunted for the rest of this show by Mizu's very first prayer in episode 1:

"LET" her die. Because as Ringo points out, she doesn't "know how" to die.

Kind of like another bird in this show:

#blue eye samurai #mizu #akemi #kinuyo #bes #women are birds okay they are BIRDS #the let me die line is so SCARY AND SAD like a part of Mizu wants death but she cant? she doesnt know how?? excuse you show??? #when all these other delicate birds are dying all around her #akemis character gets more and more gutwrenching upon subsequent rewatches because whenever she says her life is in danger #NO ONE BELIEVES HER - certainly not other women #because shes rich and pampered and that means shes safe and is worrying about nothing right? right????? #and it turns out that all of akemis instincts were right and she was in danger the ENTIRE TIME #also I need to make a post just for kinuyo because I am sad