#//Appearance; plans and all

[dutybcrne]

The first time Kaeya had donned Diluc's old cavalry captain uniform, he had thrown up. Seeing himself in it had felt so wrong, it repulsed him immensely. It was too big, shoulders too broad. Moving in it felt like wearing lead weights, the fabric was all wrong, too stiff, his face didn't match it the way the Pride of the Favonian Knights and Ragnvindr heir's had.

It stank horribly of old blood and rain-soaked grass.

A part of him wonders to this day if the stench he thought he'd smelled on it was in fact all in his head. If it had been lingering guilt over Diluc's disappearance and being allowed to take his place that had affected his perception of it and his appearance in the role. Though considering the harrowing sight he'd witnessed that fateful day, he wouldn't be surprised if the smell would forever remain imprinted within the fabrics, the way that final moment would lay seared into his mind for as long as he’d live.

#hc; kaeya #//Deffo had a more conservative custom outfit at first; when he’d asked Varka if he could have one #//Wanted to wear his usual (bluer) one; but also wanted smth more Distinct bc the resemblance was still too close #//So he originally opted to want smth closer to what Jean wore at the time; also served to highlight how much closer they got at the time #//Almost hurled from the sheer nerves of that alone; then had to lie down for an hour from the RELIEF when Varka agreed #//Then the more he realized how he himself could be a bargaining chip or even use his appearance to sway an outcome/get him what he wanted #//Which wasn’t pleasant at first ofc; but he pushed to get used to it for his goals. how self-destructive he was at the time helped w that #//Then he started adjusting it more and more until it became the fit he has in present day #//Felt so strange adjustingwith each change; but he was ultimately Very happy with the end result #//Regardless of the original intention he had in making it more revealing/tight-fitting #//Made him feel good abt himself and much more confident; compliments on his clothes will ALWAYS make him happy #//He can take vulgar comments or leers a lot better now than he could back then; they don’t bother him in the least anymore #//He could take disparaging remarks & hushed whispers just as easy too (even at times shoving down the gnawing feeling they caused) #//All that matters to him was that the fit ultimately helped his gender presentation in a way he liked compared to its predecessors #//And that it certainly was a FAR cry from what Diluc had once worn as Cavalry Captain—that was the most important thing of all #//And exactly what gave him the confidence to start making those changes in the first place #//If he was to be Cavalry Captain; he would be a MUCH different one/person than Luc in the role was #//Appearance; plans and all #//If only it were just as eeasy to shrug off certain memories of That day; he’d be a happy man indeed

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Bonus 9: So that's where the turtle came from!

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#poorly drawn mdzs #mdzs #bonus comic #tulu xuanwu #lan sizhui #Thank you Stackedbirds for the inspiration behind this comic! #The original plan was that they would kill the turtle - only for it to be revealed there was little baby turtles she was protecting #and those turtles left the cave to then be chilling in a river by yi-city 20 years later. #This version has less turtle death and is way more straightforward. #But yes; A-Qing's turtle was always supposed to be linked to the tulu xuanwu. I enjoy call-backs and set-ups immensely. #What other creatures does LSZ have in his sleeve pockets? What other endangered beasts have been accidently translocated? #Will the turtle ever make an appearance again? So many questions. Which I will now answer: #1) At least one rabbit and a few songbirds have made a permanent home in there. #2) I like to think all the cultivators leaving baoshan sanren's mountain are accidently translocated endangered creatures. #3) Yes. The tulu xuanwu will be pivotal presence in the climax of the story. Dare I say - the hero of the darkest hour.

[nelkcats]

Lover Fight (Or Not)

Danny didn't know why he was in Gotham. Honestly, Clockwork just pointed him the way to see something "interesting" that would help him to "calm down", so he had no further clues as to what was going to happen next.

He continued to fly over the city without a care, until he saw one of his biggest nightmares walking. A fucking clown. The halfa scrunched up his face before realizing that the clown had a weapon? What the fuck Clockwork? Incredulous, Danny continued to follow the clown.

A man in a red helmet and a woman with a large hammer seemed to be waiting for him in the middle of the street. The halfa raised an eyebrow doubtfully, before he could wonder what was happening, the woman tried to smash the clown with the hammer saying that her "darling" had betrayed her. Maybe it was a lovers' quarrel?

Still curious, Danny approached the man in the red helmet and after becoming visible he asked him if he was dating the clown too. The man had an extreme reaction and yelled something similar to "What the fuck? He killed me!"

That didn't answer Danny's question, of course, both his parents and most of his ex's had wanted to kill him. But maybe his scale was just broken. He asked the boy in the red helmet if he needed help.

Jason, still confused by the situation, agreed. A few seconds later (after Harley managed to hit him with her hammer, apparently) the Joker had turned into a block of ice. Jason stared in disbelief at the boy next to him, who had a mischievous smile on his face.

Danny really hated clowns.

#dpxdc #How to deal with stress #a Danny Fenton guide #Clockwork knew that punching a clown would help #or trap him in ice in this case #dp x dc #dc x dp #Jason and Harley just wanted to punch the Joker #they planned it for weeks #Batman was out of town and all #it was perfect #And then Danny appeared #they can't complain because Joker is trapped now #and they can still punch him #Danny tough that Jason was the Joker's ex #Jason is going to have nightmares about that #Danny would apologize #maybe #deadonmain #it depends if they bond over their mutual hate for clowns #Danny would stay in Gotham a couple of days just to make Joker's week a nightmare #after let him out of the ice prison #sadly he needs to do it because of a bat man or something

[rabbitprincessthief]

gog i still can't get over minish cap vaati's Everything. He is So Fucking Stupid (affectionate)

Like. This guy's establishing character moment is, in order:

he's introduced as having won an entire tournament to get to touch a magic chest and get a cool sword, which was the prize for said tournament

turns around and does a goddamn evil soliloquy TEN FEET AWAY FROM THE GUARDS who were about to hand him his macguffin on a platter

(like this man fucks up his own horribly planned daylight heist because he cannot keep a lid on the dramatics for FIVE FUCKING MINUTES, IN PUBLIC)

(THE BAR WAS ON THE FLOOR VAATI, FUCKING GANONDORF PLAYS THE PIPE ORGAN FOR HIS OWN BOSS INTRO AND HE STILL KNOWS BETTER THAN THIS SHIT)

proceeds to fight the guards (it is, admittedly, a curbstomp for him, but it still clearly wasn't his plan, because otherwise why bother with the tournament)

gloats evilly

opens chest, unleashing a whole bunch of monsters

exposits out loud about Zelda's powers like a nerd while she is actively charging up her magic powers to kick his ass

RECOGNIZES and IDENTIFIES said magic as the special power carried by the female royal line

completely fails to recognize it as the light force he is currently trying to get his hands on (he spends like 99% of the game not figuring this out.)

petrifies her

(i have no idea if link could have deflected this spell if he had managed to get the right angle with his shield but i like to think somewhere there is a very short and very funny alternate timeline where it happens)

(more importantly: no part of vaati's original presumed plan would have involved doing this. he 100% created this situation for himself by being an dramatic idiot and picking a fight for no good reason.)

looks in the chest

there's no light force

considering his stated goals he might be as confused as you are about the monsters tbh

uhhh

evil laugh

teleports the fuck out

He then proceeds to spend the rest of the game trying to figure out where the light force is and ends up having to wait for Ezlo and Link to figure it out first because he was, as far as I can tell, GENUINELY stuck on this part. He fucking kidnaps and impersonates the King, not for access to Zelda, but to… send guards to go look for the Light Force, presumably because he was either running out of ideas or genuinely thought that would work.

None of the guards even had any idea what he was talking about. He's not even good at impersonating the King. He's already sent like twenty people to the dungeon by the time you get there and it hasn't even been a week. Somehow the game spins this as a cunning plan and clever manipulation or something.

(Meanwhile the guards are just. Poking around in random bushes and shit hoping to find the light force. One of them asks you what you think it might look like.)

Zelda is literally right next to the throne and Vaati does not figure it out until you find an actual honest-to-goodness LORE TABLET spelling out that the Light Force is Stored in the Zelda, at which point he's like "ahahaha you've done my work for me this was definitely my plan all along" and takes over the castle and throws a bunch of monsters at you to stall for time while he figures out how to extract the force from her. Somehow he still doesn't think to actually lock the fucking door.

#vaati #minish cap #loz #mc #he's my stupid little squeak squeak and i love him #meta #op #sorry this got long but i have So Many Words about this little bastard #i think he's a really fun foil to ganondorf tbh - #ganondorf looks like a brute force guy but in practice tends largely toward manipulating and long cons and cunning #the appearance of dumb muscle but is actually refined and clever and skilled while also still being built like a brick wall #vaati looks like a classic scheming squishy wizard guy but actually is just cheating and does almost all his nonsense very directly #and his plans tend to be either Do X / ??? / Profit stuff or barely exist at all #to the point where og four swords is gated primarily by your ability to convince great fairies to help you rather than vaati stopping you #ganondorf is a guy given power who wants a magic wish granting artefact #vaati is a guy given a magic wish-granting artefact who decides he wants more power now actually #vaati has had a significant minion approximately once (shadow link) and that was in shared custody with ganon

[goldensunset]

literally don’t talk to me don’t touch me

#IF THIS IS PLAYER’S HEART. because they don’t have a canon appearance #so they made do by including just everyone player is close to… #i understand from a game design pov it’s bc well they did what they could y’know #but i want to look at things from an in-universe meta pov. the idea that player doesn’t have their own identity #but is just composed of the love of other people who have touched their life and made them someone #something something that thing about how player starts out as a silent blank slate #but by the end of the story has the agency and wit required to think of a plan and pull it off all on their own #something something player being a type of replica theory #kingdom hearts #khml #mine: kh #IT’S GORGEOUS MAN

[granlance]

"'Twas long ago he earned the name 'hero'...

"He led his retinue, ten Pokémon, against the almighty unknowable.

"In battle did his valiance proclaim at last the strength of humble humankind.

"The great unknowable approved this feat, and to its domain of no place returned."

#artober #pokemon artober #poketober #pokemon #pokemon fanart #pkmn #pkmn fanart #pokemon legends arceus #pokemon legends arceus fanart #pokemon giratina #giratina #pokemon legends arceus hero #the noble pokemon make a tiny appearance in the hero's cape #can you tell what is going on in this drawing? Cause I lost track of it ten times while making it #started making it had (10) breakdowns bon appetit #this october has been really stressful and I could not even begin to try to complete even half the challenge #still plan to continue these until I finish the 31 so I hope you all still look forward to it #happy halloween have a giratina #rambling in the tags #as usual

[icejello]

Me after reading The S Class That I Raised immediately after reading TCF: i love you main characters that keeps putting yourself in situations despite saying you only want to live a peaceful life (thinks about orv) oh... Not you tho Kim Dokja, you always planned to kill yourself and i love you for that but PLEASE stop

#orv #tcf #the s classes that i raised #kim dokja #cale henituse #han yoojin #look i love all three of them #but everytime i start thinking they are similar #i just get slapped with the fact that dokja had every single intention to remove himself from everyone #just bcs he's a selfish little idiot that wants a specific ending so bad that he was willing to kill himself so he doesn't appear in it #but was still too selfish to actually let the other part of him to go and WANTED desperately to be the one that knows his team best #compared to the other two where they do want their own endings too and would do it their way at any cost #but at least they're not planning to remove themselves from said ending just bcs they think that's better

[starkspi]

#larian can patch it all they want and say that the MC will be more likely to appear in the cutscenes #astarion WANTS to be in the cutscene and he WILL be in every cutscene while the MC just stands behind him #IN MY HONOUR MODE RUN I PLAYED A PALADIN WITH ALL THE CHARISMA IN THE WORLD #AND I WAS SO PREPARED TO TALK YURGIR TO DEATH #YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED #OH YES #ASTARION IS THE ONE IN THE CUTSCENE AND NOT MY PALADIN! #“STAND ASIDE PEOPLE; LET MY 10 CHARISMA SHINE!” #i was so stressed in that moment #because i hadnt planned for a fight #who reads this anyway #bg3 #astarion #astarion ancunin #bg3 astarion #baldur's gate 3 gifs #baldur's gate 3 astarion #baldurs gate 3 #bg3 gifs #baldur's gate 3 #my edits

[baylee-doodle]

Ever since we met, I haven't stopped thinking of you!

#MHA #BNHA #Togachako #Himiko Toga #Uraraka Ochako #Ochatoga #TGCK #Uravity #my hero academy #boku no my hero academia #Fan Art #I finally drew them!! I've been wanting to forEVER but recently they've been rattling around in my brain extra hard so I finally did it #Like there's no way they don't at LEAST kiss by the end of things right? Like they've GOTTA share blood again #but can we get it through a kiss this time? pretty please I just think Toga deserves it #Anyway the background on this killed me #not because it was hard to do but because I didn't know WHAT to do and I didn't plan this piece at all before just going for it #I was simply possessed by raw lesbian power and this appeared before me

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Worry not for the Nameless Red Disciple, they just went down to the river to chill with the river turtles!

#poorly drawn mdzs #nameless red disciple #tulu xuanwu #Not calling this mdzs as it *barely* counts #I will have this character appear in the story again but for now they are going on a personal journey to find themselves #and also hang with turtles #are they spiritual turtles? no they are just the normal variety of wise and beautiful semi-aquatic creatures #LSZ really just found one off to the side and picked it up. Once again I must bring up the consequences of disturbing wildlife #In this fictional setting its fun but don't actually pick wild animals up and hide them in your sleeves. #but it does hold true that girls LOVE turtles. Boys too. People who aren't either also love turtles #turtle is a universally loved entity #and now NRD is learning their secrets! They will be unstoppable! #meta note: This is part of my slow plan to dig myself out of my deep pit of inbox backlog. #I love all the messages but oh man I have been in survival mode for 2 months

[exocynraku]

for the genetically accurate warriors, perhaps ebonyclaw? I think shes very lovely and it would be nice to see her get some attention! no pressure tho!!

ebonyclaw LL, XoXo, BB, DD, dmdm, aa, II, ww wanna request a cat? see here: link

#you may notice she is not pure black #that's because to make this a LITTLE bit more interesting every so often i plan to throw in some random gene to these guys #it'll probably mostly appear on cats that dont have any family #but who knows maybe i'll mess around with cats that have more kin #it's just cuz if more people start doing genetically accurate cats and don't have a little bit of fun they're all going to look the same #which is boring #okay i'll shut up now #ebonyclaw #warrior cats #wc #wc designs #ray's genetically accurate designs

[thatonecrookedsmile]

I would say that, considering his history, he's not that wrong, but even I have doubts as to whether that would be right. But at the end of the day, this is just a joke that's been in my head for a while, sooooo…eh.

Oh hey, an attempt at a comic? Made by me? That I didn't give up during the process or lost all motivation? What was my only attempt at this, 2019? Damn, it's been a long time.

I thought about leaving this here without editing or any colors, just the natural ones from the paper and pencil. But something in my head said "HAHAHA, no" so I went back to work. I had to put this idea down on paper this time (literally). If another year passes without me being able to execute this idea, I would lose my mind.

This scenario was inspired by this video by Jehtt, inspired by the original meme by Windii. Credits to both of them.

For a long time I wanted to joke - especially on the anniversary - that I wanted Sammy to only have less than 5 seconds in the next game (or in other words, take his screen time in DR, and shorten it even more). You know, just for the funnies (unless..?) But,thanks to the news released at the beginning of January this year about The Cage, I legally can't do this joke anymore…this year. Don't worry, after that comes out (and finally gives Sam the screen time he wants,hopefully) and we start to crawl into the Bendy 3 production era, I'll make this joke when I can.

Anyway, happy birthday Sammy Lawrence. You may not be my favorite character in this franchise, but there are some things I can actually appreciate about you. Plus, you made me laugh a few moments before (you know what I'm talking about) so there's that.

And happy 7 years to Chapter 2, and by extension, Susie, Norman, Alice, the Searchers, (Johnny????), and Beta Ink Bendy. (I would mention Jack too, but he was only introduced with the release of CH4, so technically it's not his birthday yet, but I'll consider him here).

And now? May I be able to do something for CH4's anniversary. Wish me luck,cus I'll need it.

(it might be really late now, but it's still the 18th where I live, so it's still his birthday, so I still won)

#bendy and the ink machine #batim #bendy and the dark revival #batdr #sammy lawrence #porter batdr #batdr porter #crookedsmileart #another fun fact: I thought of this comic with Wally in mind instead of Porter #Problem is I don't have any designs at the moment of Wally as his ink counterpart;and I didn't want to have to think of a design for him no #So I switched to Porter;I think it still fits #my relationship with Sammy is complicated #Sammy; as the human director of the music department? He is ok. He's not my favorite of the human cast; but I don't dislike him. He's fine #Sammy; the prophet? Eehhh. I prefer the human. #Like there are things I can actually appreciate about him. #Certain details that I find interesting. And his appearance in CH2; for what it is; it's not bad at all. #But in general? I'm not very interested in this guy (at least;this version of him) And his post-CH2 appearances don't really help his cause #I still believe they had no plan to bring Sammy back later in the story #but because of his popularity they decided “yep;let's bring him back”; problem is: I don't think they knew what to do with him after CH2 #and one might argue that they still don't know #Hopefully;The Cage will finally give Sammy the screen time he so desperately needs. #and maybe; then; I can finally start to like him a little more (okay; let's not go that far now) #Maybe his deaths in the franchise aren't his happiest moments; but they were definitely mine #HAHAHAHAAHHA (/j.....unless)

[trashcanwithsprinkles]

Someone uncovers the rabbit hole and is terrified of the implications, of all the power this man has.

Ajax meanwhile is cheering at the news of an appearance of a hot pink fox in Inazuma

the more i think about it the more i realize ajax would end up having to occupy a whole wall on guizhong's workshop to track linneages like a lunatic. like- the one image of the guy loosing his mind pointing at the wall full of papers and red strings? that. every time guizhong goes up to tinker with her things she tries not to look at that wall too much. ajax wrote it all in russian so that nobody would be able to read it and get even more confused/creeped out, but the fact that the wall exists and is so full of papers and shit and it just keeps growing isn't helping guizhong's peace of mind at all.

and like- yeah, like you said, catch him randomly cheering and celebrating whenever one of the blorbos appears without him having to do anything. like at some point i'm pretty sure he'd sit down and very seriously consider the possibility that, with things being so different, the butterfly effect might make most of the characters just- not exist. since people would go different ways, different people would survive – different pairs might arise and that would lead to different children. so at some point ajax would definitely decide that- is it morally questionable to try and push people together in the hopes that at the very least the original pairings that resulted in the blorbos would still work out? yes. is he going to do it anyway? absolutely.

so whenever someone pops into existence without him having to do much work, he'd throw an entire party.

(how he figured out who was whose ancestors i think is another topic entirely. he probably vanished from public presence for a full month of hyerfocus trying to logic it out before giving up halfway and going up to celestia to beg basileios, istaroth, and pheynix to help him out w it)

#makoto and ei: *appear* #ajax: omg hi!!!!! i heard you have foxes in inazuma!! we should see if those and ours have anything in common ^^ #some decades down the line; yae: *appears* #ajax having already set up friendly relationships between the inazuma yokai and the zvezdochoty: all according to keikaku #whoever uncovered the rabbit hole and is trying not to lose their mind about it from afar: what is he planning.............

[familyofpaladins]

Here it is!!! Here's my giant board of things that make me go "HHMMMM"

There's just a lot of things that happened this season (season 4) that could connect back to LBD.

more and close ups of the board below

Main things here:

There's several times where LBD refers to playing "a game" and that people and other things are "pieces" of that game

The Jade Emperor tells Azure that he is just a piece in a game. What is this game? Who are the players? LBD and the Emperor? Someone else? The mystery person with the scroll? The Mayor? Where is he???

LBD also tells Monkey King, Macaque and Mk at different points that she will rip/undo/erase the memories of them. How was she planning on doing that? Oh hello Ancient Scroll of Memory that is in the Underworld.

Oh underworld you say? Ya know, I wonder if that was the "beyond" the Mayor was referring to when he said that LBD would use the Samadhi fire to cleanse the celestial realm and beyond. I mean, the fire IS an Inter-dimensional weapon after all.

There is twice that LBD refers to MK as a monkey. Does she know? Did she know that MK was a stone monkey all along??? Does that have anything to do with the weird blue wisps during MK's transformation?

I'm now realizing that I forgot to add a piece of info, but its over all not super important. But she tells Macaque at one point that he "refused the Path of Destiny, and so there will be Pain". But she tells MK that the pursuit of what you think is right will only lead to pain.

She also tells Mei (which MK overhears) while possessing Monkey King, that they (Mei and the other Heroes) are Agents of Chaos, which LBD wants to eradicate, and that in doing so will get rid of disorder and Destruction. Meanwhile the ink curse tells MK that he's nothing but a Harbinger of Chaos who will cause nothing but Chaos and Destruction. Is it simply using LBD's words to get in his head or is there something more there?

also the symbols on the scroll are the same symbols that LBD uses and which surrounded her when she was locked away. Does that mean anything? Is it just the language of the underworld? Is it just a language the animation crew uses on repeat because they have it? or is LBD connected to the scroll?

hhmmmmmmmmm

#this started as a joke to make fun of myself #but it's also actually serious #there's connections but idk if its anything more than shallow comparisons #is it foreshadowing or is it just the writers using similar language/motifs #i DO genuinely think that LBD planned to use the scroll to erase the past once she took the samadhi fire #but she never got that far because the monkie crew beat her before that #but that's also why the scroll appeared at the end of season 3 #MAYBE IDK #but there you go. you all have a glimpse of my mind #lmk #lmk season 4 #lmk season 3 #lego monkie kid #theories #lmk theories #monkie kid #conspiracy boards #analysis #i've connected the dots! you didn't connect shit! #lmk lbd #the lady bone demon #white bone spirit #mystic mayor #lmk not mayor #lmk mk #lmk monkey king #lmk sun wukong #lmk macaque #lmk spider queen #lmk jade emperor

[cracklewink]

some small refs I made for my oc, Despair's End Terminal Namicha! (pronounced with a hard ch). I couldn't decide whether the black or blue outline was better

edit: I FORGOT THE I IN TERMINAL

#character design #magical girl #robot oc #robot girl #android oc #original character #im planning a one shot comic for her but i have to work on my portfolio like the next two months so who knows when thatll happen #but yeah she is like a robot who is sentient but has no free will and she wanders the universe seeking to end all despair for robots. which #so she appears to like dying or despairing AI/robots/androids/drones/whatever to grant their wishes #she grants wishes using magic that lets her just edit the laws of the universe as if shes editing code or a computer program #i have alot of feelings about robots

[shepherds-of-haven]

I'm probably the only one who braves enough to come to the surface and ask this in public, but I have to. For the sake of my fellow Prihine-romancers.

"More Prihine content, when?"

Idk man, she's dead in a lot of people's playthroughs so it's not like I can really engineer a ton of more content for her!! 😭

#Shepherds of Haven #she'll make an appearance in chapter 9 though! #*grumbling begrudgingly* #I never planned for her to have such a big part in the story at all to be honest lol! #but I didn't expect Caine or Chandry to either... #this is how scope creep happens haha!! #anyway yes a little scene in chapter 9 makes sense for her but that's all I'll concede to for now! #Prihine #Prihine Naveen