#my homunculuses

[weirdo-in-the-dark]

So, I recently did a redraw of an old picture that I made back in 2018 and l was really proud of the work I did. But, after awhile, I realized it wasn’t my best work and decided on doing a redraw of that redraw and this is the result; I’m way more happier with this version to be honest.

#tw bones #tw bl0od #tw guts #tw g0r3 #tw trypophobia #tw eyestrain #tw eyeballs #my homunculuses #oc artwork #oc #oc art #creature #creature character #original art #weirdcore #digital illustration #digital art

[fullofmetalalchemist]

My mom, watching Selim interact with his “family”: y’know what i bet this kid is one of them homunculuses. I bet this family isn’t even REAL

Me:

#she was joking but god damn did she call it #fma #fullmetal alchemist #fma liveblog #selim bradley

[mossfvcker]

the teslafication of cars has to stop. they're like homunculuses of screens now. we're stunting the growth of insane 300 physical button dashboards by making it all one huge touchscreen. I want it to look like im running a pilots console in the front of my car

[sealsorceress]

how do i deal with homunculi infestation in my attic

you must place the big pot of soup in your home. homunculuses will smell delicious soup and jump in. put a lid on the pot. now you have beasts soup for free

[dayurno]

I just read your kevjean fic and

wow. It was so freaking good.

I’m going to need you to write more kevjean (particularly some nsfw)

you are amazing and I hope you have a good day

hehe im glad you liked it!!!!! :3 I REALLY well to be honest i didnt even mean to write nsfw as my kevjean debut its just that to me its very sad that every fic we have for them is such a sob fest... and of course i love those but i believe in diversity :) i understand they are tragic but they can fuck while theyre at it......... at least its as i see it. you dont have to agree with me but its my story and im sticking to it!

ill think of more kevjeans to write for sure ! on god kevin day we're getting you a 6'5 boyfriend to make up for all the homunculuses you hang around

#asks #as kevins momanager theres no one id want him to end up with more than jean #my personal biases aside its literally the best optics for him. the good ending if you will #and also of course jean is my sweet cream cheese boy..... #lately i am wide awake at night crawling up my walls thinking of kevin calling jean sweet boy actually....... #jean moreau when it comes to service topping it seems this will be your destiny forever #<- actually on such a topic i really am so into this dynamic. i dont know #cause i like jean a lot and i want kevin to give him validation..... #and i also want him to get his shit slonked silly style. etc #anyway its something to consider :)

[kitschbash]

my homunculuses.....

#medium:clay #wip #cotton sculpture ornaments

[brown-little-robin]

“Yes! YES! The Tiger Is Out” and/or “Honey Badger / Envy Becomes Human” for the wip tag!

Hey, thank you for the ask!

"The Tiger Is Out" is a little comic illustrating the first ten chapters of my fanfiction about Thad Thawne! He's a clone created to be a weapon, and I've been building in a lot of repeated imagery of Thad as a tiger, so I started drawing a comic overlaid with the entire poem. I like the whole layout of it and the way that the vicious joy of the poem contrasts with Thad's slow, uncertain journey to feeling like a real person rather than a weapon. But I took a break from working on it a while back because I accidentally lost a huge chunk of my progress and it discouraged me 😭😭😭

I don't know if I'll ever finish it—but I might. Coming back to it here reminded me that I still really like it!

Honey Badger / Envy Becomes Human is a story idea in its earliest inception. I included it as a WIP because I actually think I might finish it in college. I don't have any writing to share from it (still in the daydream/plot outline phase) but I'll tell you about it!

The idea came from watching an anime called Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (spoilers ahead), which features seven main antagonists named after (and representing) the seven deadly sins. They're known as "homonculuses": artificially created humans. And as we all know, I'm a giant sucker for artificially created beings.

So, in FMA:B, the homunculuses are mostly horrible and evil. But at least two of them, Greed and Pride, show tiny glimpses of redeemability. So of course I latched onto that like a pit bull. It doesn't and shouldn't happen in the show, but... what if...? What if there were seven siblings, monsters, created by a faulty Father, and a couple of them ran away? I mean, I'm too Calvinist to say that just because you're predisposed to horrible sins you're irredeemable.

I already had a couple of monstrous OCs, including Honey Badger, a shapeshifter who could be a girl OR a giant golden honey badger as big as a large dog. She was created as a kind of luxury guard dog, but she refused to... well... DO anything. I came to the delighted realization that Honey Badger fits in perfectly as Sloth. That was why she didn't fit with my other stories: not enough impetus. But if I threw in a couple more OCs with, say, a vicious and bone-deep rage (Wrath / a street rat turned royal vampire), a deceptively sharp tongue (Envy / a lizard-person spy), and an insatiable desire for more possessions (Greed / a gladiator were-snow-leopard)... I'd have a story.

accepting: WIP ask game

#ask game

[twitchyeyess]

I decided to make my own rendition of homunculuses a while back cuz the other ones are all gross, and I had a brilliant idea!

what if the combination of human and avian dna was so unstable it just collapsed and stabilized into something completely different from its origins, IE: a sentient block of flesh.

#clay art #homunculus

[kakathain]

donya mariposa's still around? i'm also curious about eden and elysian being twins while also homunculuses (kat rambles doesnt have anon on, btw)

Yes! She's still around~ I'm just focused on the new Eden + friends story, so I haven't ventured that much on By the Bay lately. She is also Mutya's adoptive mother (for formal papers) and still being a hot beautiful ghost in Hasyenda.

As for Eden and Elysian, I do need to research more. For now, my answer to that is them being made at the same time! Think like... those egg sac things. Eden woke up on time unlike Elysian who woke up super late. I was thinking that their "father" only used his DNA and then something else to make them? Also, I turned on anon for kat-rambles now hehe

#kat rambles #OC talk after this will now just be in kat-rambles strictly!!!

[ncfan-1]

The likely fact that the vessels were homunculuses seems to be more acceptable to some fans because they’re not seen on the same level as humans even though Rhea could create artificial life with the same level of sentience as humans. And the fact that Byleth’s mom seems to have had a fairly normal life is considered a big point in Rhea’s favor even though she allows that only after the vessels fail to manifest Sothis.

(For the record, anon, if I sound angry, it’s not at you.)

Yeah, and maybe that flies for some people, but not for me. These were real people, regardless of the manner by which they entered life, and they deserved better than to be created for the express purpose of killing them later so that another person’s soul could pilot their corpse; that’s just depraved. And treating Rhea’s allowing them to live out their full lifespans as anything other than the barest minimum of common decency is... Yeah, I don’t get that. They were, in one sense of the word or another, her children*, which makes all of this even more fucked up than it already was. And either way, allowing these people to live out their full lives instead of killing them and harvesting the Crest Stone as soon as she realized they couldn’t be a vessel for Sothis was not some grand, magnanimous gesture. It was literally the least she could do.

That said, while I don’t go out of my way to look for posts like that, I haven’t thus far come across anyone expressing the opinion that Rhea allowing these twelve people to live out their full lifespans was some grand, magnanimous gesture that she should be praised for, or anything like that. So, for now, I’ll maintain some level of faith in this fandom.

* I keep calling them that even though I am, now, willing to accept that they weren’t her biological children, because if we’re following a method anything like the existing folklore surrounding the creation of homunculi, Rhea likely needed to use her blood or other bodily material of hers to create them--and it would likely seem to her to her that a pseudo-Nabatean would be the most likely to be a suitable host for Sothis.

#Fire Emblem Three Houses #Fe16 #Rhea Fe16 #Anonymous

[weirdo-in-the-dark]

Redraw: 2018 vs 2022 vs 2023

#oc artwork #my homunculuses #oc #ocs #creature #my ocs #oc art #creature character #original art #original character #redraw #2018 #2022 #2023

[flockofdoves]

hxh and/or fma (for the anime ask meme)

hxh

haven’t heard of it | absolutely never watching| might watch | currently watching| dropped| hated it | meh| a positive okay| liked it| liked it a lot!| loved it| a favorite

don’t watch period| drop if not interested within 2-3 episodes| give it a go, could be your thing| 5 star recommendation

fav characters: i love all the main 4 but definitely gravitate a lot to kurapika!! for more minor characters theres so many but i love knuckle bine a lot dfkjghdfk. also i love alluka and nanika so much my daughters

least fav characters: hisoka, also palm like while i want hisoka to die i Guess i can appreciate his aesthetic far away from gon and killua and also like . i guess he can be an example of how unaccommodating towards kids hxh’s freak ancap society can be but palm just being a pedophile but played for laughs but also theres weird misogyny and ableism in her characterization and then all of a sudden we’re just gonna forget all that and she’s cool now?????? hewwo??????? i would prefer hxh if she did not exist or if a palm siberia that looked similar (again a nice aesthetic) but was entirely not the same character. like . what was gained from this oh my god.

fav relationship: gon and killua!!!!! ofc i love leorio and kurapika too but killua and gon is so blatant and i feel it could literally happen or at least just . they just Are each others first loves and they make me emotional in so many ways. non romantically just the found family in the main 4 and also killua and alluka and then killua coming to love and understand nanika too through alluka caring for her…. oh my god…. Siblings….

fav moment: omg uhhhh theres a lot?? a big one that immediately comes to mind tho is killua pulling out illumis needle ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!

headcanons/theories: i think we should find a way to synthesize both the fantheory that gon was born as some . homunculus thing from the greed island pregnancy stone and the one that pariston and ging fucked and pariston is gon’s other parent for the most distressing gon origin story

unpopular opinion: i know i have some but i don’t remember atm i’ve already rambled way too much rn

how’d you find it: i literally don’t remember i gotta think about this tbh i’ve been into hxh since i was like 14?? like yeah everyone whos ever been into anime has at least heard of hxh in passing but i feel like there wass some specific prompting for me getting into it that i can’t remember anymore. almost don’t want to remember because theres a high chance it was bc of some people i get sad thinking about now but out of all the people i was around back then fortunately i think it seems most likely i got into it bc of one of the few people i still care for among the people i hung out around as a young teen

random thoughts: i’m a fake fan i’m still not caught up with the manga i love it so much but i’ve barely read any manga i care about these past couple years i just know what people are talking about through osmosis nowadays i REALLY wanna legit catch up !!!!!

fma

haven’t heard of it | absolutely never watching| might watch | currently watching| dropped| hated it | meh| a positive okay| liked it| liked it a lot!| loved it| a favorite

don’t watch period| drop if not interested within 2-3 episodes| give it a go, could be your thing| 5 star recommendation

my bolds make no sense on this one and thats because i’m a fake!!!!! i was absolutely obsessed with fmab as a tween and watched almost all of it but then netflix didnt have the last season and that was when i was dumb and the only thing i ever pirated was glee on megavideo so me and my brother watched the last season by recording it when it was airing on adult swim and i know i got so close to the end but like somewhere towards the last few episodes i’m assuming (??) my brother watched it when i wasn’t home and then my parents deleted the recording before i could watch it and then i just???????? never watched it??????

so tl;dr i watched the vast majority of fmab (and started the manga) as a tween but like. never finished it and i was in love with it then but its been so long now i don’t trust my opinions to be very accurate about it.

i really really want to actually finish it some day!!! but at this point i feel like i should just restart so thats why i keep putting it off bc thats gonna take some dedication when i barely finish shorter things even anymore

so. disclaimer the following is very much filtered through me as a 13 year old and my memories from that plus how friends who love it have influenced me since fdjkghdfkj

fav characters: back then al was my favorite character and i had a crush on izumi curtis dkfjghkdf and then i always loved scar but now i feel he’d def be my fav

least fav characters: i had dumb opinions about this back then i’m sure. i think now i’d probably dislike roy even tho i used to like him. i dont remember enough to say more

fav relationship: i wasn’t big on ships watching it as a kid but i appreciated winry and ed idk. in retrospect and from fanwork friends share i think ed and ling seems like a lot of fun?? oh wait who was that one other mechanic girl i think i shipped her with winry very casually back then??? (edit: ig she wasnt a mechanic i got confused bc she showed winry who made her automail but i meant paninya!!!) but in retrospect i stayed away from fanworks bc they made me uncomfortable with all the gross shit but i didn’t think i was justified in feeling like that :(

fav moment: back then i thought the reveal of some of the people who ended up being homunculuses was so Epic but idk now

headcanons/theories: idk enough!!!!

unpopular opinion: idk probably like ……. going in being conscious of imperialism stuff now i’m sure i’ll have more contrary opinions than i used to but idk enough yet

how’d you find it: i literally just was going through netflix like ‘oh this is a popular anime’ and put it on on a whim

random thoughts: this whole ask took me so long to answer why am i so rambly djfkghjkdfgh also god. my terrible pattern of never finishing media for the smallest of reasons. one day i will actually consume media that takes brain power to process again…… i mostly just read like. romance webcomics and fanfic nowadays rip

thank you for this!!!!

#cpost #asks #galarianlucario #hxh blogging

[theoscout]

So, here’s my take on BATIM, just because I thought it would be fun to share. 

Before I begin, I would like to let everyone know that this isn’t exactly what you’d expect from other AUs. The only chapter which is over 90% canon to this AU is the first one, after Henry’s fall it starts to go off in completely different directions. I could go on and on about what it’s really about, but this post is probably going to be long as it is. 

To put it simply, this is not exactly my Alternate BATIM. It’s a re imagining of almost the entire game. Keep in mind that just in case you find this confusing, I based a bit of the backstory off actual paranormal investigations that have taken place, especially Buzzfeed Unsolved. 

With that being said, have a good read! 

Henry and Joey are cousins, but because of the artists on tumblr doing their own interpretations I don't want to get mixed up so they have the middle names Dashiell and Cirrus. Because the cousins have been living in the same town since they were young, they are so close it's like they're brothers. Dash was a bit shyer than his younger cousin Cirrus, because his parents were a bit abusive and his father pressured him to behave in all kinds of things a 'man' might behave. Dash is actually gender fluid, but doesn't learn that until he's an adult.

To be able to get away from the adults, the kids would often run out into the woods outside of town to play. They learned that Cirrus had psychic abilities. Cirrus liked to play tricks. He could move things with his eyes if he watched them really closely, and in some cases he said that he could hear ghosts talking to him. The boys weren't afraid of whatever was out lurking though, they liked to go far away so that they could do what they liked.

One day, they came across an ancient house in the woods that had seemingly been abandoned for centuries. They, along with other children, had seen the house from a distance before, but this was their first time being so close. Cirrus, who was not afraid, said that he was going to go inside and see whatever was in there. The rest of the kids went back and told their parents about the house, and the adults warned them that many years ago it was rumoured that a witch had lived in that house. In the medieval times, it was rumored that she used her powers to curse people and was capable of bringing scarecrows and statues to life, and that she would order them to attack people if she didn't like them. Because it was the medieval era, people were very afraid of witches and supposedly ended up killing her. The adults warned that the house was supposed to have been cursed so that no one dared to disturb it.

 Cirrus, who was about 12 at the time and very interested in the supernatural, said that he was going to explore the house at night and see if he could talk to the witch who used to live there. It took weeks of convincing before Dash agrees to accompany him.

They managed to go through the entire house and much to Cirrus's disappointment, they didn't find any ghosts. Much of the furniture had been destroyed by vandals, and some unknown people had graffitied over the walls. However, they did find one thing that would change their lives forever. Although they certainly didn't know it at the time.

There was an ancient book hidden under some loose floorboards, it was one of the ones you see in museums, the cousins knew it was old because the cover was made of leather, the pages made of cloth and it was all handwritten. It appeared to be a spellbook of some sort, with all kinds of runes and diagrams.

Dashiell was reluctant to take the book, but Cirrus reassured him that if the ghost of the witch was nearby, she would have warned him not to in some way. Cirrus said that he felt an urge to study it, so without wanting to stay in the house any longer, they ran back home.

The pages were mostly about alchemy, and how to make homunculuses, something that the boys did not understand. They left it under Cirrus's bed and forgot about it later on.

Years later, as the boys had grown into young men by now, they were looking for employment. Dash moved out of his parent's house to escape their pessimism when he was 16, vowing to never return. Cirrus, on the other hand, was looking for a way to tell stories more than to make money. Of course, they had to find a way to earn a living. Ever since Dash was young, he had a love for drawing. It was only because of his parents that stopped him from truly following the art career, but now that he was on his own he felt free to do what he wanted.

Seeing as back then cartoons were becoming really popular, the cousins decided to work together and form an animation company on their own. Cirrus decided that they could make it supernatural based, seeing as very few cartoons in the beginning had touched on that genre and he had ideas and thought it was full of potential. With these themes in mind, they decided to come up with the character of Bendy. Bendy wasn't originally meant to be a devil, Cirrus didn't know what a spirit looked like because he had never seen one appear to him, so he just went with whatever looked good on the screen. Bendy's lack of a neck was supposed to indicate he wasn't an ordinary animal. Eventually people started calling him a 'little devil' and the company they had begun decided to run along with it.

There are several cartoons which are non canon to this Alternate Universe interpretation, such as Snowy Sillies and Haunted Hijinks. Reason: Cirrus didn't want to have to leave the endings like that, with Boris getting the food all the time. I imagine that the episodes were most likely like Courage the cowardly dog than like the other 1930s cartoons, with lots of style switching, horror, life messages and philosophy hiding behind the childish content.

Dashiell was happy about his choices in life, but as the business began to grow and thrive he was aware of the fact that Cirrus didn't need him as much as he once did. Cirrus appeared to be thriving in the attention that the studio was getting, and that was perfectly fine with him.

The truth was, Dash was getting a little tired out by drawing cartoons all the time, frame by frame. He felt that even though he was talented, there were already more animators who had been hired who could draw even faster than he could. Dash preferred to create large and detailed pieces of artwork, but this was the animation industry he was working in, and his eye for detail wasn't as important. Cirrus somehow managed to sense that his friend was getting tired, but Dash was a little too withdrawn to speak about it in the beginning. Then one day, there was an employment opportunity in the newspaper from overseas. Whatever it was, it caught Dash's interest. His self-esteem had grown a little since his childhood, and he asked Cirrus if it was ok if he travelled there for a bit to see if the job suited him.

Cirrus didn't seem to mind, and even encouraged him to do what he wanted. Secretly, he didn't want his cousin to leave him but didn't say anything because he didn't think it was that big of a matter. Besides, it was only for a couple of years, and they would write to each other during that time.

Cirrus had actually been interested in the supernatural for some time. His abilities weren't a secret to his staff, sometimes at parties he would perform simple things like moving things with his mind and reading people's thoughts. The majority of his staff thought he was a talented magician, but Cirrus never fully understood his power himself. He wanted to prove to the world that magic was real after having the ability all his life, but he wasn't powerful enough to do anything other than tricks.

One holiday, before Dash left the country, he had gone to his childhood home to relieve some memories when he discovered the ancient book that he and his cousin had found in the house in the woods all those years back. Curious, he went back and flipped though the pages. In the past, his vocabulary and ability to read difficult writing was a fair bit mediocre than his knowledge now, but he began to read the old book with new eyes.

It was a book on magic, just like he had known before. But more specifically, it was a medieval alchemist's guide on how to use special energies and auras in the world to do things such as changing one material to another, and in some cases even create life. Cirrus was amazed at how detailed the drawings were and how deep they went. If it was a prank left there by some teenagers who were a little too attached to urban legends, it certainly didn't look like it. He tried a couple of simple tests, over the course of a few weeks he discovered much to his amazement that his psychic skills were increasing. They had gone down a little since he was a child, but now they had suddenly jumped foreword to the point where it was a little less like a party trick and more like he would be able to use them in his job to help him to some degree.

Cirrus felt a certain attachment to his cartoons, and occasionally applied the knowledge he had learned from the book to the episodes. He told no one of his plans though, he wanted it to be a happy surprise.

Eventually, the passage of time wore down on a bit on his anticipation, and he quietly asked Dashiell one day what he would think of using magic to bring some of their characters to life, although he acted casual about it as if it were a rhetorical question.

Dash reacted with concern. He said that even though he loved the characters, they were shown doing some rather dangerous things during the cartoons and may cause some trouble when outside. Besides, it wasn't a good idea to meddle with unknown forces, especially without a guide.

Cirrus still wanted to perform the spells, but he decided to keep them small under Dash's advice.

Cirrus noticed that his psychic powers, which had been declining since his childhood, had begun to grow stronger. He used time away from Dashiell to gradually make his experiments bigger as he became more accustomed to using magic. However, everything was done in complete secrecy, Cirrus would never want anyone to get hurt if they ever tried it out for themselves, he was an extremely soft hearted man who would not forgive himself for it.

The magic did not appear quickly, but very slowly. One day, Cirrus felt like he had come to a roadblock in his work. The most wanted pages of his book was the part on how to contact ghosts. He hadn't had too much of a problem when he was young, but now he wanted to do more, and the lack of knowledge was stopping him. Much to his frustration, there were several pages that appeared to have been defaced or torn out of this section.

It was around this time that Britain, where Dashiell had gone for his job, went to war in the 1940s. The war had gone out for a couple of years, in previous letters Dashiell had expressed his desire to return home before it became too dangerous for work, but all the ships and planes home had been used.

Dashiell wrote in his final few letters that he had been drafted into the ranks by the government and that refusing to fight would be illegal. He had been given the role of a medic though, he wasn't fit enough to be given a rank but the government was becoming desperate as time went on.

Cirrus was in great distress and overcome with concern about Dash's situation, especially as time went on, as the country was more focused on fighting Nazis than on carrying letters. He would rush to the letterbox as often as he could, eagerly checking to see if it was from Dash only to sink back into a state of constant paranoia and anxiety if it wasn’t. He had nightmares about his best friend being injured on the job, and was so distraught about the situation that it began to impact how well he could run the company.

It was during this time that his attempts to communicate with spirits were increased. He had read from what little remained of the torn out section that if ever a magician summoned a spirit, they could achieve great things if they worked together. However, as the rest of the pages were missing, he was unable to do anything and seemingly came to an immovable roadblock in his discovery trip.

Then, there was a strange creature who began to visit him in his dreams.

The creature spoke to him and claimed to be a guide who could make up for the knowledge lost from the book. The Guide told him that it would be his friend and ally through times like this. It started by teaching him about levels of energy, types of energy, what kind of psychic powers there were and how to develop them. In exchange, Cirrus agreed to strengthen the Guide's power by drawing all kinds of symbols on bits of paper and hiding them in unusual places and allowing his Guide to possess him whenever it wished.

Gradually, the Guide started making some unusual requests. The Guide requested he do things such as take things from his employee's desks and destroy them to strengthen its power. Cirrus was reluctant to do this, but then the Guide began to ask him to do things that gradually increased in cruelty, such as killing animals and self-harming for rituals.

Despite how he had not learned everything, Cirrus informed his so called 'Guide' that he no longer wished to have anything to do with it and attempted to break contact.

This was when things took a turn for the deadly.

The Guide refused to leave, for a while it was quiet but with time Cirrus realized that... he was wrong. The Guide had not left at all, if anything it was growing stronger and its grip on his life growing stronger.

Now before we go on, there is something about demons that you might be interested in knowing. Demons are incorporeal creatures from another dimension similar to ghosts, that are drawn to negative feelings such as fear, anger, sadness and anxiety. The average ghost hunter and mediums are trained not to go out looking for ghosts to talk to when they're having negative feelings, or risk the possibility of attracting a demon. In fact, most Ouija boards have warnings on the back about not using the board when the user is unhappy, else they summon bad spirits into their home. As the spirits are relatively unaffected by physical objects, it can be extremely difficult to get rid of one once it has established itself somewhere.

Cirrus, while wanting to do good things with his powers, was suffering from depression from a result of his failing company and anxiety for his beloved cousin. More than that, the entire town he lived in was caught in a state of constant panic as the effects of war were setting in.

So it was with this disastrously bad timing and lack of knowledge that Cirrus unintentionally summoned a very powerful demon into the studio. The effects of this mistake were becoming clearer with time.

Cirrus talked to people about conversations that he had never had in the first place, they accused him of things he could not remember doing. Sometimes he would wake up in the basement of the studio with his hands soaking in blood with no memory of how he got there, mysterious scars appeared in his skin and pentagrams appeared on the walls of the studio in full view of his uneased workers, and would not come off no matter how hard they were scrubbed.

Cirrus thought in his failing moments that it couldn't get any worse. But then- a day came when the names of the dead were being called, and much to his horror his beloved cousin was on the list. His worst fears were confirmed. Dashiell was dead- or so he thought. Although he never spoke about his grief and tried to cover it up whenever possible to his employees, it became quite apparent as the number of unanswered letters in his letterbox slowly piled in number. The Guide drew off Cirrus's despair and grief to make itself even more powerful, draining the young man of energy and making the possessions even more powerful.

Cirrus was aware of The Guide's lust for blood, and attempted to stall the need for a living sacrifice through a mountain of object sacrifices. The ink machine, originally part of his plan to bring cartoons into the real world, became a massive part of the Guide’s increasing demands.

Similar to how Sarah Winchester had been forced by vengeful spirits to construct the famous Winchester Mystery House, earlier on The Guide had instructed him on how to build the machine. It was originally planned as nothing more than something similar to a 3D printer, except for bringing life to his creations without any kind of sacrifice to be made. Later on as the machine expanded, the Guide's requests became more aggressive and began to drain the studio of income. The pipes expanded into the walls and had such a high maintenance that at times the workers were more focused on making sure the pipes didn't break than on finishing the animations. By now, Cirrus's company was almost bankrupt. Most of his employees, being unnerved by the paranormal activity that frequently occurred and realising that their financial positions had become unstable, left the company to find better jobs. Cirrus did not try to stop anyone from leaving, he understood perfectly why and did not want to be selfish. Besides, staying was becoming very dangerous to those who were involved. Turns out that The Guide was not the only demon to have settled in the studio. The Guide seemingly had been attracting more of the spirits, although lesser, were latching into the studio and refusing to leave. Cirrus was aware that some of them were attacking his employees, and searched frantically for a way to get rid of them and his Guide.

Time went on and he became more desperate. By now there were very few letters he had been receiving, eventually he did not check the letterbox at all.

Then in a moment of clarity, he remembered years and years ago how some spirits and demons had weaknesses to fire, which was why candles which were set in circles could be used to trap some demons as they were summoned, to prevent them from lashing out and harming the summoner. Realizing that he could possibly use this to expel the demons from the studio, he quickly decided to discourage the spirits from settling by making sure all the hallways were well lit with lanterns. Mostly oil lamps, especially the areas where the ink machine was present. He had learned partially that the Guide’s intent was most likely to use the machine to give itself and whatever other spirits it had brought with it more power, and fully prepared himself to stall that for as long as possible.

He locked himself in a room with bricks and cement, pouring oil in places to fuel whatever fire was needed. Halfway through, the demon realized he was trying to rid of it and attacked him. The original exorcism only needed a couple of candles, but due to the Guide’s strength Cirrus set fire to the room and was left with burns to his arms and legs.

The following morning he woke up in hospital after one of the workers had smelled smoke coming from under the door and pulled him out of the blaze while he was unconscious. Cirrus had attempted to wear protective clothing during the exorcism, but during that time the Guide tore off bits of it which was how he got burned. Cirrus had to wear bandages and lived in constant pain after the incident, but in a way he was satisfied with the result. He knew that the Guide no longer had any kind of control him, especially when he went to clean some up some of the demon circles around the studio and they didn’t come back.

With that being done with, he should have been able to focus on getting his business back. Turning off the ink machine and going back to what he could do was his first decision, if only he could do that.

He didn’t learn this until later- turns out that the Guide had never left. If anything, the paranormal activity had only gotten much worse. The Guide wasn’t in control of him, but it was in control of the studio now. What’s worse: the spirits that had slowly gathered in the area weren’t keen on leaving either. It was then he realized what the ink machine was really for. 

Cirrus remembered how the Guide had originally instructed him to build the machine if he wanted to make his cartoon characters a reality, as the magical ink would provide a physical body for any cartoons he wanted to bring to life. The demons and the Guide must have been trying to use it as a way to bring themselves into the human world. They wouldn’t leave now, he couldn’t do anything about it.

What was worse, people had begun to see… things running around the studio. Creatures that were not human or animal, dashing between rooms and melting into the walls. Cirrus had been able to see demons and spirits for years before now and had always known they were there, but now that even his employees had gone to talk to him about it- it had begun to seriously concern him. The fact that they were now capable of moving freely in the real world using physical forms was an area of great concern for him, and he did not know what would happen should they extend their territory beyond the studio.

That night, he had a terrible nightmare. The demon that tricked him into releasing it into the studio and puppeteered his body into killing people and animals came and spoke to him. It taunted him by threatening to hunt down all of his family and his remaining friends, killing everyone he held close. It mocked him for how naïve and gullible he had been, berating him for being so fixated on his dreams that he had failed to make the studio safe and ultimately failed everyone else in the process. His perspective then switched to Dashiell’s hospital ship and it’s fiery demise.

Upon the dawn of the next morning, Cirrus struggled back to the studio, emotionally tattered through the years of abuse the ‘Guide’ had forced him through and so overcome with guilt at his own actions he was surprised he still had the will to live.

By then, there were only a few people who wanted to work in the studio. Cirrus explained that he would be shutting it down for everyone’s safety, then split whatever savings remained between them and began to clean the place out.

Resolving to rid the world of all the demons that had taken residence in the studio, he lit some lanterns at various points in the studio’s basement. Then reaching the top floor where the ink machine was located, he proceeded to force all the ink in the pipes into the bottom to the studio until they burst and flooded the area like a lagoon.

Ink is highly flammable, and so within a few minutes the entire area the basement was an inferno and the floors were beginning to collapse one by one. Cirrus ran for the exit as fast as he could, intending to leave that part of his life behind forever if he had the chance. But the demons, enraged at what he had done to their residence, materialized and attacked him in droves.

Realising that he had far underestimated the power of the demons that had settled in the studio, he abandoned his exorcism and fled for his life. His burn wounds and their rage meant he only made it about halfway to the exit before collapsing from his injuries.

The building wasn’t that big, but it was made primarily of wood and other flammable materials. Cirrus had not been outside for so long that most of the neighbors believed that he had already moved out of the country. Somehow, the last few workers who had left before the place went up in flames leaked to the local council that- as farfetched as it may seem- the fire had been intentional but it’s aftermath most likely wasn’t.

To discourage people from visiting the remains of the studio, they told the public that the blaze had been started by an electrical failure and that they should steer clear of the building to avoid injury through it’s unstable foundation. One mystery remained, however, was the way how even as the walls crumbled and the roof caved in, the surrounding buildings were not so much as singed. Even more mysterious was how even though it was thought that Cirrus had never left the building, they never found a trace of where he had gone. It was as if he had vanished from existence.

Maybe this would remain a mystery for many years to come.

Meanwhile in London, Dash sits at a desk making plans to move back to America as soon as the war was over. The Allies talked a lot about how they were going to win, and from the amount of POW victims the hospitals had been receiving instead of soldiers who had been wounded in fights, he trusted they knew what they were talking about. There was one thing that bothered him though. He has written to his cousin multiple times about the mistake the officials had made about the ship he was on, asking him if they sent him a second letter correcting themselves.

The truth was… Dash was never hurt in the bombs that destroyed the place he worked. In fact, he had never been on the doomed ship the begin with. His allergies, which had been with him since his early childhood, were ironically the thing that saved his life in the end. The night before, he suffered a particularly bad bought and was excused from work. Survivors of the sunken ship were counted as they were picked up by rescuer boats, so when Dash wasn’t counted no one remembered right away that he hadn’t been on the ship in the first place. Despite the fact that almost everyone survived, the people were so busy recovering that word spread slowly and no one had the time to inform the officials that he was most definitely not dead.

He explains this in his letters to Cirrus, but is increasingly worried about the fact that his cousin has not been replying. Dash wondered if the planes used to deliver the letters had been used up in the war effort, although it was nearing the end of the war so when he checked with the post office, they informed him that the letters all sent out perfectly.

As time passed and his letterbox remained void of reply, he becomes increasingly desperate to check on the welfare of his cousin. Believing that Cirrus must have been ill, he rushed home the first chance he gets without stopping to update himself on the situation back home.

So when the studio appears mysteriously intact and undamaged by the fire, Dashiell is not suspicious at all and instead pushes on in as fast as he can.

 Then everything goes awry.

 So, that’s a rough plan of my AU. Chapter 5 has confirmed beyond a doubt that this AU is absolutely *not* what happened, in fact, this has changed so much that it doesn’t seem that related to BATIM. But that doesn’t matter to me. This is still somewhat in development and I’ve already fucked up the storyline (lol?) so if anyone wants their OC to be in it or something I can find a way to write them in! OH and Cirrus isn’t dead. He’s still here, but he’s not exactly the man we read about earlier. Wonder what happened to him…?

#batim #Bendy and the Ink Machine #batim au #my writing #my stuff #tw: suicide

[otomebubble]

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Yes. A week in and I finally finished this game. That’s what happens when you have too much free time and you skip 7-ish episodes of common route per every guy - minus certain scenes where you bond with the ikeman you’re pursuing 

I’ve come to two conclusions since I finished it. One, I think I just fucking played the otome version of full metal alchemist. Two, why the eff did it take me this long to find this gem? I was finally able to buy myself a vita and of course, the first thing I did was buy Code Realize along with it. I wanted to see what the hype was about because I’ve seen so.many.good.reviews and I wanted to read the original storyline before it gets potentially butchered by the anime adaptation bc I’m prickly about adaptions. Needless to say, the game did not disappoint. 

Good, solid storyline, absolutely likeable ikemens, and a strong heroine who takes a proactive role in solving her problems? I love how she’s portrayed/drawn like a lifeless doll who looks like she can’t even hold a weapon when she’s anything but???helpless??? I mean in the beginning, she was a lifeless doll but she grows and it’s so amazing?? She knows how vulnerable she is and she doesn’t hesitate to let the guys train her to fight, and it’s just azahkjahdjahkfjs. She saves, helps, and protects them when they need her. Like I said, I just love how super proactive she is in solving her problems when most otome heroines would just wait for their mans to come get them. And the story line. OH MY GO D. I feel like this was inspired by fma with the philosopher’s stone, alchemy, and homunculuses but like in a steampunk England setting with characters from mostly Western fiction and with its own twist. If you love fma and otome like me, I think this will be highly enjoyable. For a visual novel, the game’s pretty heavy on plot though which i like; but the romance doesn’t take a complete back seat, it’s not just the main focus of the game. Honestly, if you love yourself, buy a vita and play this game. Or if you can’t, wait for the 2018 release on PS4. 

I loved every single route and I can’t help but ship Cardia with everyone. Impey - someone already said this - he’s like 100% sunshine distilled in one person and he absolutely is, Saint-Germain, as with every true white haired boy, his route pure angst and hirarin’s voice made everything 10x worse during those angsty parts, Van’s route is the darkest but also my favorite because erm, his backstory is my type of story I guess? Dark, actiony, and a bit angsty. My only gripe is that I didn’t get a kiss cg, although with Cardia’s situation, it’s understandable but I mean...look at the other guys. THEy hAve MULTIPLE KISS CGS. Victor/Fran’s route made me want to love/protect him at all costs, and Lupin’s route tied everything in the game together, bringing it to an amazing conclusion, and he’s just so perf for Cardia - I - asjhkasjchfljdnfckajn. I love all of em. 

Overall, I really enjoyed this game. I havent gotten all the endings and I have to go back, but I needed to get this off my chest bc no one irl would listen to me and I felt the need to get this out into the void. I don’t think i made any sense here but yeah, I just love this game. 

And I’m a little unsure how the anime will tackle all of this. 

#bellona's otome diary #shh #let me gush #i neglected my mobile apps for this #a bit spoilery so it's undercut

[pumpkins-s]

Who are your favorite / least favorite homunculuses? homunculi?

SDKJFGHFKJG HOOOO BOY

And ye-- It’s Homunculi. 

Faves are a solid tie between Envy & Pride, honestly. I adore Envy for multiple reasons (grey morality and complex inner psyches r my Shit. Also nonbinary character h e l l o), and Pride is just... great. They’ve got such a cool narrative and they’re the kind of character I’d love to write one day (Also yeah I headcanon em as nb too lmao), like... esp their dynamic towards the end of the series with Kimblee (another Big Fave) and how that plays out. It’s Good Shit. 

Least favorite... Probably Sloth just because he’s got the least discernible personality outside of what you’d expect from his “sin”, and also the fact that all his scenes are easily outshadowed by fukin Olivier Mira Armstrong, who I want to step on me killing me instantly pls and thank.

#Fullmetal Alchemist #basically all the fan faves r my own faves honestly #tho I do have a soft spot for Gluttony too #Anonymous #asks #questions for Nik

[eileen-crys]

I'd love to introduce you my Marvel OC Sidney P. Poe! I hope you like her and you're free to ask me anything! ☆

She wants to be called only "Poe", like the writer E. A. Poe, and not Sidney ~ Poe is a mutant, but her extremely solitary nature avoided her to join the X-Men, so she started fighting alone. She's colorblind and really good at singing. Her power consists in darkness-bending (a bit as Raven from the TeenTitans or FMA's Homunculuses) though she can control it well only while listening to music or some kind of rythm. She's afraid herself of her power and to injure her beloved, that's why she prefers to stay alone and she always has an earphone to use music while fighting. If there isn't music, she could panic and loose control. Since she's a "dark" creature, she usually fights demons or shadow monsters, from other dimensions too. Once she passed through a portal and got to the Dark Dimension, where she met Clea and joined her in battle for a few time, but then she preferred to get back on earth. She sometimes meets Doctor Strange as well, mostly they find each other while fighting demons or aliens XD Strange helped her a lot with the power self-control, so she's always happy to help him when he's in need. Poe has a huge crush on Magik, but Magik doesn't even know about it. [Need to add more later]

#Oc #ocs #art #original characters #drawing #marvel #marvel oc #mutant #darkness #doctor strange #original character #mutant oc