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if Fyodor's ability is to transfer into bodies through blood does that mean he killed Kyoka's parents? they seemed like important agents of something with the fighting skills they had. I wonder if they were an in for fyodor to get an opportunity to work with Fukuchi. I guess I also have questions on how Shibusawa was brought back to life i would have figured it had to do with Fyodor's ability but if it's the blood thing it makes me wonder if he could have been brought back with the book like Fukuchi likely is with that fight between him and shin soukoku.

#bungo stray dogs #fyodor dostoevsky #bsd #bsd fyodor

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ok I've lied i got a bit of fancied up batman illustrations. I drew them when i was stressing over an exam that was set really late in the finals period and had no proper study materials. That class was god awful but I make batman art when i feel terrible, it's my comfort thing...so yeah.

#dc comics #dc #batman #batman villians #dcu #batman rogues #harvey dent #two face #pamela isley #poison ivy #bane #catwoman #selina wayne #babydoll #ventriloquist

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Monsters

I've got a friend that's putting together a ttrpg and I decided to draw some of his monsters. I had fun throwing these togethers and I think they came out really well.

I don't have his description for the fire dog but the stain glass dragon is known as the brilliant ruin. My friend's ttrpg goes for more emphasis on roleplay than typical Dnd and he wrote all this up as a decription for the creature. I just drew the picture. Even though it's technically not dnd I can imagine that this could still be useful. Brilliant Ruin

This large duskborn appears to be a dragon composed of countless shards of mosaic glass with a wire frame holding it together. Although it has massive wings of crystalline glass with each piece secured by minute wires, it is flightless and spends its time roaming the ground. It has a mane of fine glass fibers that reach all the way down to its tail. Its shoulder measures approximately 6 meters from the ground, and it is about 18 meters long. While it does not heal in a conventional sense, its magic ensures that it slowly mends itself with nearby glass at a rate comparable to most living things.

Dawnstrumming: Every day at dawn, Brilliant ruin sets up a web of small golden strands over a massive area (about a city block in size) made from the rays of the sun. While these strands are ethereal, any living creature that touches them is overwhelmed by the sounds of morning amplified to an unbearable degree. These strands disintegrate when they enter a shadow or night comes. Iridescent Scales: Whenever someone makes blood contact with or inhales the butterflylike scales of Brilliant Ruin, they are mesmerized by the colors around them that appear to have suddenly been amplified to a neon-like appearance. Reactive Dust: When Brilliant Ruin is injured, it loses some of its scales to the wind. These scales create a cloud of reflective dust that retains the properties of the scales. If any fire is lit in the dust cloud or the dust cloud comes in contact with a strand from Dawnstrumming, the scales all detonate in a flashbang-like explosion, briefly blinding and deafening everyone nearby. The dust can be dissipated by wind, rain, or by waiting for it to settle. Secret Pursuit: Brilliant Ruin will attempt to ambush the person it has encountered with the most secrets (this it knows instinctively) to feed off of their words. When someone tells a secret aloud near Brilliant Ruin, Brilliant Ruin will pay attention to them over everything else and cease its aggression temporarily unless it is endangered or defending itself. Shared Pain: Whenever someone inhales the scales of Brilliant Ruin, they experience the same pain that Brilliant Ruin is currently experiencing. This doesn’t cause physical injury, but it grants Brilliant Ruin an opening to act. If severely injured, Brilliant Ruin will always attempt to flee rather than continue to confront a foe.

#dnd monster #dnd art #dnd5e

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Clayface!

Some story "Are you sure this kind of thing is necessary?" Basil looks apprehensive at the jar of Clayrity. This was a major role, his first major breakthrough in a big budget film. A role in which he's being asked to play another actor to playing this part. The actor who was playing the character before him had disagreements with the studio about them owning his image among other things. Carlo didn’t get much on the specifics. His agent said he stormed off in the middle of production when they refused to pay the guy extra for re-shoots costing him extra for all the scheduling conflicts and not to worry too much about it. The agent insisted on the weird make up. The man kept going on about how its the future and everyone uses it. As much as he got the feeling that his agent was trying to make it seem alright to wear someone else's face to finish the movie, it still didn't really sit all that well with him. 

"It's this or cg, either way you ain't gonna look like you." Basil’s face scrunches at the contents of the jar that’s about to be smeared all over his face. 

 "Yeah yeah I know...I just, I'll wear the damn stuff." Basil concedes as he allows the agent to rub the high tech cream on his face. 

The producer boasted about how it replaced the need for makeup artists while the director pouted about nothing getting to be real anymore taking the life out of the performance and the craft. They argued back and forth about the cost of art, the craft and the literal cost.

 All Basil could think of is the other actor as he watches him start to take shape in the mirror in front of him. This is a role like any other, he's playing the way that actor would have played that character. No pressure, no problem.  He started as the stunt double on set, wearing the costume for the intense action scenes while trying to figure out his in to a bigger role in some other films. He was able to get his foot in the door with some minor roles in some indie productions but has yet to catch a serious lead role.

This role he’s taking on is probably more than what he expected his first major role would have been. Scratch that probably, maybe, because the character he’s playing is THE pop culture icon... /// alright I got more in mind for this character. I think I want to make a video about it if I ever get into making videos about my version of batman I want to write. I'm thinking of either throwing together a bunch of scripts to work on when I finish my own comic or to write fanfiction about it. I still haven't quite worked it out yet.

#clayface #basil carlo #batman #batman villians #dc comics fanart #dcu #batman rogues

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My own original comic! that's why I've been away from drawing stuff on my blog.

Ok admittedly I haven't been super active because I've been trying to focus on only working on my comic. I'm quite pleased with how it's been coming along though a little annoyed that this is taking longer than I thought it would as well as the way that I've taken kind of long hiatuses from working on it. I want to share a bit of the doodle sketches that I've done on the side for this project. The comic I'm working on is about a schizophrenic detective dealing with a literal mental fog that brings nightmares into reality. fun stuff.

some initial main character doodles for the comic

thumbnails for the first handful of pages :P

they're pretty much thumbnails because I had to start over like 3 times I drew these over the summer and this year I switched over to drawing on a new ipad i got because my tablet was being uncooperative. Even drawing normally was a huge pain in the ass with my wacom tablets (yes I had two and neither of them were working properly) so yeah this comic has been a regular battle with my first time putting in the work to make a proper story. I had a good amount of staring blankly at a screen not knowing how to proceed.

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Power scaling I wonder if it just gets hard to impossible with really long running action stuff. That you've always got to up the stakes.

I think the ultimate enemy of batman should be court of owls and the joker. Because philosophically they can challenge the biggest question of what defines billionaire Bruce Wayne as a hero. Of course there's great power that comes with great responsibility and I think it should really explore where that puts someone like Bruce Wayne, as someone the poor resents for not ever doing enough to help them or really understand them and what he looks like in the eyes of his rich peers.

Joker representing the hopeless souls that get senselessly screwed by a system that isn't made to give two shits about who they are and what they think and what they need to do to survive

The court of owls representing the layers of obfuscation of truth and distancing from direct responsibility that the rich get to do, with all the levels of middle men and people under orders of someone working for someone who is always watching.

When Bruce is able to come up with an answer to the institution of the court of owls and tear them down and give joker an answer to why he shouldn't give into nihilism that gives up on the concept of hope and thrives on the hatred of others and scoffs at the concept of healing. Then I think the character can reach a really good conclusion. Then batman can truly become what the city needs.

I think if story aims to answer themes then it might not be so necessary to just make batman punch everything to near death all the time. Maybe batman can still be just a guy and be interesting.

#dc comics #dc #batman #dcu #batman villians #batman rogues

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I love this I will always stand by the idea that stories should have a happy ending or end in a place better than the start. I'm bored of the "what if the world only ever got worse" endlessly facinated with "even when things get worse how do we persist and grow in spite of it"

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I've revisited some of my old batman art seeing if I can improve both on style and design. I had this idea that Ivy should start off as a politician like Dent and I really liked the idea of her and Harvey being together, with eachother being a big part of the other's spiral into villainy. /// So here's the thought...Pam and Harvey are politicians who both want to see Gotham prosper though have different ideas of what that looks like, Pam thinks that by building more parks and public gardens they could start to pave a better future by making the city nicer for children as well as wanting to put out policies to control pollution. Harvey's approach to improving the city is by funding better education and social services to better empower the poor and put laws in place to protect workers. Both looking to tax the rich to fund these projects which get's the court of owl's attention. Both of them pay dearly for their views as Harvey gets kidnapped and tortured (half of his face is cut off) and he's given an options of either running away with Pam or doing exactly what they say if he doesn't want Pam hurt. Harvey tries to convince Pam to leave Gotham to drop it all and get away when they can. Pamela refuses after everything they've worked for and with Bruce backing them they're going to make Gotham a better place. Harvey tells her what really happened to him and why half his face is gone and why he thinks Gotham is a lost cause, hoping that it might be able to change her mind. Though the owls are watching and they take out Pamela for being too stubborn to leave and for knowing about them. When they take Pamela they murder her and dispose of her body in a swamp. Harvey knows Pam is missing though he's not sure if she dead or held hostage by the owls, all he knows is that it was likely his fault that she's gone. His paranoia of owls gets worse in her absence, without any way of communicating with them he has no way of knowing if he's doing right by them or if Pam can be saved if she's being kept as a bargaining chip. Harvey hates being made a pawn of the owls he wants to quit the political race but Bruce tells him he needs to keep at it, though he's not sure if he could trust Bruce or anyone for the possibility they might be an owl. So he choses to lock up a government building with a bunch of people trapped inside and set it on fire to eliminate any owls that might be there and to maybe see Pam again if she's already dead. When Pam is killed she is resurrected by swamp thing from there she's left confused, months (maybe little more than a year? idk) have passed since she was killed. She returns lost and confused and she goes to Bruce to figure out what happened since she was gone and Bruce turns her away at the door, so she's left to piece it all together herself.

She's heartbroken at the news that Harvey died in a fire and she makes it her goal to wipe out the people who hurt Harvey and killed her. She resents Bruce for being a bad friend and not looking out for Harvey when he needed him, believing that if he'd turn his back on her he must've done the same to Harvey while she was gone. /// I'm a big fan of the idea of villains starting off as normal to good people and then bad circumstances changing them. I don't like redeemable at all but resentful? vengeful? good stuff. I always felt like Harvey is kind of aimless after the transformation like the multipersonality bpd mr hyde takes over and that's it and Ivy just never had a legit evil motive other than "nature's great and men are trash" and her being paired with Quinn doesn't really do much for her character than making her "Harley's cute supportive not abusive lesbian girlfriend" Which no hate on gays but Ivy is really just an accessory to Harley's "men are trash I date girls now".

#poison ivy #pamela isley #dc comics #dc #batman #batman villians #dcu #batman rogues #two face #harvey dent

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upon someone wanting someone's jayrose request I drew a little jayrose. I enjoy big brother night wing being concerned with his little brother's monogamous choice of beau. Even as they get older Dick still being ??? on why Jason despite being raised by known playboy womanizer Bruce Wayne and being given love advice by himself truly still has heart eyes for the completely insane daughter of his archenemy. lately my drawing tablet has been fighting me.

#dc comics #batman #art #dcu #robin dc #robin jason todd #jason todd #jason x rose #jayrose #rose wilson #ravager #nightwing #dick grayson #discowing #richard grayson

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Alright I came up with an idea for probably the saddest and funniest relationship dynamic ever. So you know how Damian's shtick is that he's a product of assassin brainwashing and being so rich and out of touch that his dad and brothers need to teach him how to be a normal boy? I like the idea of an assassin child that asks too many questions and talks too much, gets punished harshly for it and thinks that's how the real world works so that when they escape they think the outside world is a fantasy, heaven, that's too good to be real. They think the normal world where they're not under threat of violence or death all the time, made to perform torture regularly, and can get snackie treats for being good instead of not punished for underperforming is the best thing ever. And the unfortunate suddenly made babysitter of this silly assassin child is being held hostage by murder child in question. Basically a "I'm kill you and your family if you don't be nice to me and do as I say" and then the kid asks for more apple juice, fluffy blankets, and to read him a bedtime story while he recovers from multiple stab wounds. Teenage babysitter notes that weird kid is afraid to set foot outside because they can be anywhere still looking for him, but casually talks to himself about killing him and (babysitter's) mom and going back to his abusers. Because them dying to a swift death from him is nicer than leaving them to be found and tortured by them for being nice to him. The kid thinks that nice people deserve a nicer death than being tortured to death.

#dc comics #dc #batman #batman villians #batman rogues #dcu #riddler

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I think it would be interesting for batman villains to display different responses to extreme trauma. Not just insanity, make them less insane insane as they are just making sense of what happened to them in the most reasonable way they feel works.

Ivy in my world is a politician until she's assaulted and dumped into bog to never be seen again. Reborn as a spirit of nature, not particularly human, and by the way she was gotten rid of; it's made clear that she's unwanted. She gets back at those who wronged her and slander her by eating them alive as a monster that may wear the face of a woman but is no longer human at all.

Riddler doesn't even conceptualise that his way of growing up isn't normal. Watching peers get trapped and killed in training trials isn't normal. Being ordered to regularly kill your friends isn't normal. Which is why he sees it to be acceptable to put other people in his killer escape rooms and sometimes the answer to getting out is to kill the other person trapped with you to get through.

Scarecrow is a guy that is scared of lashing out, under near constant stress of a demon that follows him around as a protector. He's afraid of it lashing out to a percieved threat and getting him into serious trouble. So he hides away absolutely terrified of the world and of the demon that will slaughter anybody who may threaten him.

Two-face is not split personality he's a man trying to reconcile the personality he puts out to the public, good and reliable Harvey and the absolute pain of having half of his face disfigured (cut off and burned) trying to play off the incident as nothing that can keep him down but knowing that getting into office and not complying with those who hurt him will result in him getting the other half agonisingly ripped off, if he makes THEM unhappy.

Joker...I prefer him as a plot device that other people have opinions on than an actual character. I like the idea of joker's son wanting to kill joker, to be ashamed of being related to him. Joker's son looking at batman and asking him what does blood mean when they've killed someone you care about, and saying that there's no amount of redemption or justification in the world that could make him forgive joker for killing his best friend (practically brother) so the guy needs to die.

I want insanity to come as a result of something, to have it be the most functional response to the most horrible incident. It's not one bad day, it's an upbringing that tried to wipe out a person to turn you into a tool, a purposeful attempt to dehumanize you erase you and everything you sought to build, it's a life time of terror and not being capable of asking for help for something that's beyond anyone's understanding, it's alienating the people you thought were your friend's because they don't have anything to offer when you're in the worst position of your life, it's being told to not be angry to be quiet and let it be and trust the adult who's already failed you in the one thing that's ever mattered to you and watching as they continue to to fail you and still ask you to not get mad.

I'd like a batman that asks what's more crazy? To keep pushing people and expecting nothing to ever give or to believe that people who have no basis of understanding of what proper kindness or mercy is to begin with because they've never received it in the acceptable means to know how to be good correctly.

#dc comics #dc #batman villians #batman #riddler #batman rogues #dcu #lonnie machin #joker #poison ivy #pamela isley #harvey dent #two face #ed nygma #edward nygma #scarecrow #jonathan crane

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Riddler is my favorite because I think he has the potential to be the funniest and most powerful villain in ability to coordinate other villains into a plan. I can believe that Eddie when it comes down to brass tax is able to get people on his side and coordinate a devastating blow to Gotham when he has a really detailed idea on how to harass the Batman. I especially like the idea that Riddler actually wins at his plans, that his careful planning is always able to go further than Bruce's but he purposefully builds them in ways for Batman to prevail and defeat him because he likes having a playmate that can survive long enough to see his games. Sometimes he's surprised by Batman and Robin's problem solving but for the most part if they get out it's because Riddler made it so. Oswald knows this about him, so he tries to manipulate Ed's plans a little in the hopes that they're more likely to succeed in getting rid of batman. The only thing is that he doesn't really know what parts are most likely to actually ruin Batman and what parts are supposed to give him an opportunity to win. Eitherway Ed lets him collaborate on the plan. He's friends with Penguin who can bankroll however many goons he wants hitmen and a certain burglar, he could strike a deal with ivy let her take over the city with plants, because why not, put a hit out on the clown, ask Clayface to impersonate Alfred or Lucius, and send Croc and Grundy into residential areas and rich people neighborhoods to force Bruce to decide which people are more worth saving and if he's willing to throw his kids alone at the problem when he can't be at two places at once.

#batman #batman villians #dc #dc comics #riddler #dc penguin #oswald cobblepot #edward nygma #ed nygma

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i'm feeling pretty proud of this one I think he's looking pretty neat. Escaped talon kid. Alright so I have this story in mind in which Riddler is formerly a talon from the court of Owls, he escaped them and finds refuge with Penguin and his mother. The kid escaped because he's too chatty for an assassin so he leaves to be free to find friends he's not going to be forced to kill.

I also have it in mind that the talon's eyes glow gold when they're injured. So Riddler when he grows up wears purple glasses to hide the color while he's running around as a supervillain. He also gets grouchy when he's gold eyed because the stuff that makes talons is derived/altered version of lazarus pit stuff. So as an adult Ed gets massively bitchy about getting wounded for any reason.

#batman villians #dc comics #dc #art #batman #court of owls #talon #edward nygma #ed nygma

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I think hush is not that good of a batman storyline, and I think people are just really fond of it because Jim Lee's art is super good and it was one of the few times that all the batman rogues at once were mobilized to ruin batman's day. All the villains going off at once is cool, hush playing them all for fools is sick, but the story fails Hush as a character trying to convince you obvious red herrings are not red herrings and then slap you in the face with the most petty and stupid villain motivation ever with Tommy eliot's whiny ass complaining that he wasn't able to kill both of his parents bc Bruce's dad saved his mom and made that Bruce's fault. Hush Tommy elliot should have been able to join the rogues gallery but instead they make him penguin in telltale and riddler in The Batman.

Hush is a cool idea in concept a villain that steps up saying "your parents don't deserve to be put on a pedestal they were flawed people with terrible secrets" a villain that says "I was personally and directly hurt by your family's actions" even better "your money is bled from the people you claim to protect" yes!?!?! This plot should be Tommy Eliot but hush did him so dirty that the plotline gets stitched onto other villains instead of him.

#riddler #dc #dc comics #batman #batman villians #hush #tommy elliot

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A little bit of the comic I'm working on...or at least the first page hehe. I guess I could post some plans and ideas in the works if you guys are interested in this. the first page page with the grey and texture was just a prototype page playing with style and then I gave it extra thought and got really excited about the kind of characters and story I could tell. there's more in the works just wanted to show off a little.

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Ok I've been leaving the blog a bit to the wayside as far as fandom art goes. I still love batman, persona 5, and currently Bungo stray dogs. However I've been putting together a comic of my own that has little aspects of the things I like so the well of new art has been slowww. whoops.

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found a fun straydogs wan comic where Dazai shows up outta nowhere to bug Chuuya and try to ruin the pillow bought himself. I was inspired to draw something really cute.

here's a bonus young soukoku sleepover stupidity.

#bsd #bsd dazai #bsd chuuya #bungo stray dogs #soukoku #double black #dazai and chuuya #gravity boy sleepfloats because I say so #dumbass Dazai was hoping midget falls on his own face not on top of him #he holds onto Chuuya so he doesn't float away with the pillow #chuuya has his own coat but whatever