#Once a Serpent?

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 137

 What happens after a Halfa dies? What happens when their bodies of flesh can no longer hold the power of their soul? What happens when they’re no longer alive despite the fact they can never truly die?

 What happens when their soul finishes incubating in its cocoon of meat and bone that’s warped and twisted over an immeasurable amount of time? When the soul leaves a body that refuses to stay down because death is not an option? 

 What happens when a Halfa finishes incubating in their first form, and splits? What happens when mortals not understanding what they’re doing in their hubris, causes one to do so early? 

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #I mean could also be just Danny Phantom #But can you imagine a mind-reader being Slammed with the twisting emotions of something that was One but is now Two calling for its parents #Eldritch danny #Eldritch halfas #Halfas naturally split once they reach their limit #There was a reason Danny found it so easy to split himself temporarily after all #There are other Halfas out there and they have awoken #They had heard the scream #like others long sleeping amidst Infinity #But the realms are Infinite and slow to travel even with their great size #The GIW aren’t going to just be dealing with a newborn pair of Godeaters #but also several adult ones circling the world like sharks #Most ghosts are the equivalent of fish in the ocean #Gods are the sharks and seals #Halfas are a mixture of whales and serpents #It takes Hundreds of years for them to even get ready to split #Danny isn't even a newborn he's a fetus and was just torn in two by the GIW trying to separate the ghost and the human halves #They got what they wanted but it was a Mistake #Neither is human #They created monsters and now they must face the consequences of their hubris #One body of flesh and bone ripped asunder no longer alive yet not dead either #One body of spirit and soul bloomed anew with life yet never able to walk among the living #Also could potentially have halfa batfam members or other once familiar faces from different timelines and realms

[deimcs]

☙ TARIEL VASS OF THE SERPENT TEMPLE (insp.)

The contract is clear, guildmaster. Malachi Vass needs to die, our client wants him away from the Waterdeep political scene for good. Send the boy to do the job but tell him nothing of the target's real identity, I think it'd be fun to watch the circle finally come to a close after all these years. Poetic justice and all of that. We should've never saved the man in the first place, after all, it brought us nothing but trouble.

#bg3edit #gamingedit #tavedit #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #tav bg3 #tariel of the serpent temple #edits #i love this type of edits and i wanted to make something for another one of my boys #since i've been giffing mostly my girls until now #slowly but surely i will spam you guys with everyone #in the meantime gotta love the fact that i'm in my monk era #tfw your dad leaves you as payment to the guys who saved his life once #middle children lore enjoyers make some noiseee

[artist-rat]

my old and new tes character Saima <3 she’s a combination of a couple of my prev. ocs!

#elder scrolls #tes #khajiit #oc: saima #i play / will be playing her in both eso and skyrim bc the 'worldstate' my sister our friend and i have... we just stopped caring lol #probably if asked to take time seriously it would/will be all happening around skyrim times but #we just have such great time running around together in eso building the stories #:') #she's from dragonstar craglorn originally #. traveled... met a pirate captain and fell in love w/ her and became a pirate as well... #is besties with a daedric cat creature literally called 'lockpick' <3 (collects mint for them) #... always keeps a diary and loves collecting books and tomes.. #once got to peek into an elder scroll (but only lost vision from one eye bc kept the other one closed <3) (shh i know it doesn't work like #that in canon but i thought it was silly and awesome for her lol) #...her birthsign is the serpent. most blessed and cursed <3 #BOW GAL! both crossbows and uh. the usual ones? #in eso her class is nightblade. i once did another version as a necromancer and it was rly cool too but decided to keep the nightblade #THANK YOU FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK of my gal <3 it's over now #oh. one more thing.! she/they #💗

[julescarstairs]

“Who got you smiling like that?” The book I just finished. I can’t stop thinking about it.

#booklr #novel #sword catcher #the shadowhunter chronicles #the dark artifices #the mortal instruments #romance #fantasy #romantasy #writing #so this is ever after #serpent and dove #the scarlet veil #once upon a broken heart #shadow and bone #six of crows #caraval

[aquietanarchy]

it's just it's just

pious devoted knight slowly becoming disillusioned with the church because the local abbot is literally manufacturing demons in order to side with the bourgeoisie against the revolution but he's trying his best to cling to his ideals and his christian faith regardless and also there's the inevitable tension of being queer in a predominately homophobic religion

x

indigenous vampire who literally eats the rich and may or may not be the avatar of or at least connected in some way with quetzalcoatl a specifically non-christian god

is literally THE ship dynamic of all time. i cannot stop thinking about them. god. and that last devastating scene between them. they're both so flawed. olrox sweetie you cannot control your lover's actions you need to stop being so manipulative and selfish. mizrak you cannot call an aztec man "an animal who lost his soul long ago" what the fuck that's not okay. it doesn't matter that he's a vampire and therefore "soulless" according to your worldview because according to your worldview you're not supposed to fuck let alone fuck "soulless" creatures of the night let alone fuck "soulless" creatures of the night who happen to be other men. get the plank out of your own eye buddy. i love them both so much

#castlevania #castlevania nocturne #castlevania netflix #mizrak #olrox #mizrak x olrox #mizrox #okay filing tags aside here's some more half baked thoughts!! #i am DYING for them to explore olrox's feathered serpent form and all the quetzalcoatl imagery further in season 2 #like HELLO? you cant just casually drop that #i was fully expecting it to be another varney situation where he's more than your typical vampire #but it seems olrox is actually afraid of erszebet once she goes full sekhmet-mode?? im not entirely buying it. i want him to kill her #um also. if erzsebet drank sekhmet's blood to gain her divinity. #and ive heard speculation that maybe olrox did the same with quetzalcoatl. #so are we establishing that drinking god's blood makes you god in this universe? and what does this mean for christians #wrt to the whole Eucharist thing #i am so not normal about this cartoon. sorry #yarrow speaks into the void

[nyaskitten]

So considering what we know about Chima and the Wyldness and all that blah blah blah, I wonder if after the Merge, a group of Serpentine, maybe a few hundred, would've ventured to the Wyldness to try reconnect with their ancient roots (given the hypothesized idea of the FSM bringing the Serpentine from Chima/the Wyldness.)

I can imagine maybe they find the ancient remains of Serpentine lands, maybe there exists modern day Serpentine in the Wyldness who evolved differently from the ones we know due to conditions, and thus work in different ways from OUR Serpentine.

Maybe the reason Ninjago Serpentine are divided as Tribes has something to do with the Ancient Ways once spoken of centuries ago by their ancient ancestors, back when the Tribes were different animal species, not Serpentine species.

#I have many ideas on this idea now #which can lead to a TON of new Serpent guys #i also think u could do a rlly neat allegory #smth smth being taken from your land centuries ago and getting to reunite with it and live a life your ancient ancestors once did. #idkkkk i think theres some meaningful stories to be told here #maybe modern ninjago serpentine have a hard time with chi because they developed their own powers based on the magic essence of ninjago #and thus chi which is moreso the accidental essence of the wyldness #works weirdly for them #whether its weaker #or just doesnt work #idk #i feel like chi would likely only work on those exposed to its essence for a long enough time #like a species evolved to withstand it #so like the ninja? they cant use chi bc ninjago doesnt carry the essence of chi #i have great ideas btw #ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #raine's rambles #legends of chima #lego legends of chima

[redknave]

#ouatedit #ouatiwedit #ouatiw #once upon a time in wonderland #anastasia tremaine #red queen #jafar #emma rigby #naveen andrews #red sorcerer #1.04 the serpent

[hey-hamlet]

If you still have free prompts:

Izuku rediscovers magic and uses it to become hero

Izuku was falling.

Not metaphorically, but very literally falling from a terrifying height. Mizuchi had said it was tradition for a dragon's first flight but Mizuchi had been laughing at the way his face had paled when he'd plucked him off his back with his too-large teeth. Izuku was never trusting the river dragon again.

Against his better instincts, he closed his eyes, reaching inwards to his magic. It was about as panicked as he was, bubbling like a pot about to boil over. He didn't bother trying to calm it, he was kind of on a time crunch. Mizuchi didn't mean to kill him, but the dragon had a terrible idea of what killed a mortal and Izuku wasn't sure he'd ever covered 'falling from the cloud layer to the very hard ground below'.

The air whipping past him lashed at his clothes and sting his bare skin. A very harsh reminder he needed to figure this out before the ground hit him a whole lot harder.

Forcibly clearing his mind, Izuku focused on Mizuchi's instructions. He siphoned some of the bubbling panic in his chest through his system, twisting it's shape from panic-terror-annoyance to control-light-air. It was a weird shape, Izuku's magic naturally sat quite happily in what Kiyohime had described as sunlight-steady-growth, a much more earth natured leaning than anything that should be able to fly.

He'd never been fond of doing what he was meant to.

He wind felt softer, the sinking feeling in his bones was less, but izuku wasn't in control yet. He was still falling. He plastered an All Might grin on his cheeks, took that borrowed joy and pushed.

He cracked open an eye. The noise of jibbering panic that left his mouth as he reached out and touched a leaf of the tree he'd almost crashed into was something he wasn't proud of, but felt was understandable, given the circumstances.

Mizuchi's snort of laugher from above him had him narrowing his eyes. "Not bad for a mortal, I was worried I'd need to drop you again."

"Mizuchi!" Izuku wailed, flexing the magic that was granted him the ability to not die via horrific blunt force impact. "This kills humans! You wouldn't have dropped me twice because I could have been a pancake!" He dragon huffed a laugh as Izuku rained whaled on his massive snout, thick scales stopping his smacks from feeling like anything more than love taps.

"It worked didn't it?"

Izuku's eyes narrowed. "I'm telling Kiyohime."

A dragon couldn't pale in fear but Izuku discovered it could get pretty close.

#mizuchi is a water spirit dragon #well the dragon part is actually debated mythologically but #hes a dragon here #asks #bnha au #birthday prompts #my fic #magic core au #kiyohime is a serpent-dragon-thing who was once a woman who got stiffed by a guy and studied magic to go eat him #which slaps

[captainlaurence]

Hashtag let Temeraire swear

#just once #I think he would have on a few occasions in Tongues of Serpents alone #would have been appropriate given the title #Temeraire

[mylordshesacactus]

The Feathered Serpent

The Suncrest party needed help desperately.

They're stranded in the Faewild now. Their first tentative allies betrayed them; the unicorn they were sent here to meet has been missing for what appears to have been years, by Fae time. They have a powerful ally in Eleaea, gynosphinx Queen of the Wild Court of Wummer; but even she is not a true archfae, and she can offer them only guidance and general wisdom.

Guidance and general wisdom are more precious than diamonds in the Faewild...but what the party needs is the kind of knowledge that really is power. The kind of knowledge that can kill a god.

That kind of knowledge is far beyond Eleaea's ability. It's not something she can give them.....but she knows who can. And in her own words, riddle games are behind them now. That crossroads is in the past.

There is a true archfae. In many ways, the true Archfae. A great serpent, as old as the Faewild or older, possibly as old as time itself. They have no name and need no name, and know no politics, for even the Summer Court is the blink of a child's eye compared to the life she has lived. She will not be cheated, cannot be decieved, and will not share her great knowledge for nothing; but likewise they are too ancient for cruelty or petty tricks.

The Serpent will have her payment or you will have nothing; but the bargain is fair. True knowledge, whole and complete, without deception--in exchange for what that knowledge is worth. No less....but no more.

It is the closest thing the fae know to benevolence. It is by far the best offer the party is going to get.

So she gives them instructions, and her mate Shasta the androsphinx lioness to guide them partway. They fight a gorgon and some stonecursed adventurers, Andromeda the paladin pulls excalibur from its corpse, the ranger Nimbus rescues and tames a pegasus stallion that was turned to stone, all in a day's work, Shasta finds them at the border to the deep wilds, all is well.

The woods start to get deeper. Richer colors, more vibrant hues, but also closer. Denser. Less forgiving. Little to no visibility beyond the path--easier to lose your way by accident.

They begin to see...shapes, glimpses of forest between tossing leaves that don't match the reality and are gone when they look again. The impression of beings or animals out of the corner of the eye, or directly in front of them, impossible to tell if it is real or was real or has never been real.

And then, slowly and yet all at once, they begin to notice the leaves in the tree canopies surrounding them. The rich, green iridescent leaves, dense and beautiful and glimmering and closely packed together, and...shifting....like in a breeze, or...

Or great, slow breaths, with minutes between each inhale....

Shasta leaves them. They enter a clearing that they now recognize as the coils of a great feathered serpent, and the trees shiver as an impossibly massive head, the size of a building in itself, rises from the trees and lowers itself to look them in the eyes.

And says, in a soft, echo-whisper, earth-shattering voice:

Hail, wanderers of the world beyond.

#suncrest #d&d #NEW ARCHFEY PATRON JUST DROPPED #honestly I.....could do a writeup of the Feathered Serpent as a warlock patron #once summer school is out for the week #is that a thing people would be interested in?

[robo-dino-puppy]

strange serpents

#horizon forbidden west #hfw #aloy #hfw dunehollow #morlund actually said 'strange winged serpents' #but uh #these dragons don't have wings...? #anyway i got up here - this is the highest dragon - using the jump glitch #(rip jump glitch) #it was *complicated* due to overhanging roofs but i persevered #glad i was able to do it once at least :D #i feel like i've written tags like this before #but i can't find any of these shots in my archive so #oh well lol

[gavillain]

Jafar/Hook moodboard

#Jafar #Hook #Captain Serpent #Killian Jones #Captain Hook #Disney villains #Disney slash #Aladdin #Once Upon a Time

[doodleodds]

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN..... WE GOTTEM!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so SO much to everyone who commissioned (read: enabled) me!!

Now that I've reached my goal of +10ing my boy, and since my time is (unfortunately) still quite limited due to work, I'm going to be closing comms tomorrow! So, if you have an idea and haven't decided if you want to commit or not yet, now's your last chance for the time being! ;) And to all those who have already paid, I know I do still have quite a few to get through- I was a FOOL to think I could just bang these out in 24 hours, lol, but please rest assured they will be coming within the next few days!! I'll get through them slowly but surely. Admittedly I did take a break to draw this guy because I was so pleased to get him, but I'll get right back on the horse tomorrow lol. Thank you so much again everyone!! ^O^

Ferdinand went to a tea party and came back Different

#if you're wondering why I drew him with gullveig's serpents its bc i immediately fed my free gullveig to him xD flare sparrow + oath 4 yum #and then gave him her accessory for forging bonds so i can use him to grind bonus affection & sp lmaooooo #and while i wish they'd given us gullveig/seidr's floatie rocks as an accessory i love the broken halo-y look of the one they did. its neat #anyway i just love the idea that when you inherit a skill to a hero they gain a little bit of the sacrificed units traits. :) #Oops! Gained a little more than you bargained for there! Everything good comes at a cost- but the Order doesn't tell you until its too late #It's absolutely eating at him btw. he is now Experiencing Visions. a human's mind is not meant to interpret gullveig's cyclical nature #and i think its difficult for him to tell the present/what once was apart from what has yet to be/never was. #like watching two movies at once on the same screen! :) + hc that he gets the little floatie crystals when he's having strong visions #also lmao ferdie now sets EVERYTHING on fire. flame emperor who? #you can tell he's been somewhere bc he leaves singed footprints behind if he's not careful :) #GOD ANYWAY IM SORRY LOL too much random info. i'm done i promise. thank you so so much again if you supported me!!! <3 #i hope you have a fantastic rest of your day/evening!!! & keep an eye out if you're still waiting on art :)

[slavicafire]

the very visual definition of 'unimpressed'

#beware the serpent at the gate #bg3 #not much thought in yarrah's head as always. she's thinking about what food she'll ask gale to cook in cam #in camp once they've through with this nonsense

[imperiuswrecked]

“It wasn’t really Namor’s fault that Ramonda died” IT WAS. IT WAS. WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO TAKE THIS AWAY? I’M SORRY IF YOU CAN’T STOMACH NAMOR NOT BEING PERFECT BUT PLEASE STOP. For fucks sake, it was by HIS HAND the queen died! Yeah there were outside factors pushing Wakanda and Talokan towards conflict but stop trying to erase the fact he has and would kill people!

#i hate you mcu fandom i hate your stupid namor is a symbol for a wet dick bc he is a serpent and serpents are one eyed snake symbols #i hate your stupid apologism for actions that were clearly done in character just bc you wanna ship the main leads #i hate your hades and persephone attachment to this or making namor the beast to shuri's beauty #i hate every single time you compare namor to mcu wendy and i hate when namor/shuri is compared to reylo #i hate your x reader fics where namor is used as a dick on legs and constantly sexualized for the white fans in the grossest way #i hate your cold as fuck takes on my beloved characters that makes me want to spit in disgust!!! #I am slamming the doors on fandom and locking it behind me because I do not want to interact with any mcu namor fans who act this way #rant has been building up slowly these last few months i just hate that my once fun space is filled with absolutely tone deaf morons #anti mcu fandom

[redknave]

jafar + matching the color inside his robes to the color of his partner’s outfit

#ouatedit #ouatiwedit #once upon a time in wonderland #ouatiw #jafar #naveen andrews #1.03 forget me not #1.04 the serpent #it’s fun because 1.03 seems like a coincidence until he does it again in 1.04 #to the person responsible for this detail thank you so much i love you #the costuming choices on this show were so big brained i could talk about it for days